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Stop being annoying Sakura.
People can lie about their age.
What I find interesting is that she claims to live in canada
But her IP address is one from San Francisco...
Kind of like how it's hard to imagine The Editor being at the most 10 but he claims to be 7 years beyond that!
I'm immature
Lord is too chicken to confirm he is a teenager and a male with a picture. He is an old man. I knew it.
Post a picture of yourself Lord.
post one right now, with you holding a sign saying you are a loser.
"We're Huge Elitist Dicks" typically isn't the impression you want to give new posters...
Better yet, "lolol don't talk 2 this person cuz i h8 them "
I have a job!?
Stepping back a little, who cares if SB's location says she's somewhere she isn't? Mine says I live somewhere in the Spartan city-state
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Suzie Brown spent 11 years in clinical training before she could practice medicine, but it took her even longer to work up the courage to pursue her true passion: music. Now, the 37-year-old cardiologist spends half her week fixing hearts at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia and the other half sharing hers with hungry-for-more audiences. Her achy-breaky lyrics and blues twang have made Brown a local favorite with serious national appeal. Last year, Philadelphia Magazine named Brown "Best of Philly" in musical talent. This month, she signed a deal with Starbucks to have her debut album, "Heartstrings" (self-released, May 2011), played in the company's coffee shops. In the middle of her Northeastern summer tour, the budding singer-songwriter spoke with More about balancing music and medicine — and planning a wedding, too.
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Suzie Brown: My parents are both doctors and they love what they do. Dinner conversation at the Browns' was always like, "Oh honey, I saw the most interesting case today." I was always good at math and science and it just seemed to make sense. I wanted to feel like I was doing something good for other people.
More: Why did you choose cardiology?
SB: Ever since I started med school, cardiology just appealed me. From a scientific standpoint, it's about mechanical physiology — flow and pressure — as opposed to other specialties like infectious disease, where you're thinking about things on a cellular level.
When you go into medicine, you think you're going to see patents and make diagnoses and cure so many people, but then you realize that for so many diseases, there's almost nothing you can do. So practicing medicine becomes about easing your patients' suffering.
With surgery, on the other hand, there are many more cases where you can completely cure someone and send him on his way. For me, cardiology is somewhere in between.
More: At what point did you start pursuing music?
SB: My parents are big Canadian folk music lovers, and I always loved to sing. It was mostly a private thing though, because I was so shy. When we would drive up to Montréal from Boston to see my family, we would have the radio on and I would know every word to all the songs, and my dad would always tell me to sing louder, but then of course I would stop singing…
In college, I was pre-med and I was too shy to try and sing until my very last year of college when, on a whim, I tried out for an a cappella group. I was petrified, shaking like a leaf every single show. But despite that, singing with a group was a magical experience. It completely changed college for me. It was the first time I felt like I truly belonged.
More: What made you decide to go forward professionally with your music, rather than keep it as a hobby?
SB: After college, I was so scared to lose singing. I bought a guitar and a four-track recorder when I graduated, but I was just playing around. I never dreamed that being a professional musician was an option for me.
At the time, I was working in a lab doing my master's degree work and I finally had time for myself. I had made it through all of my clinical training, which was 11 years of working nights and weekends and having very little time. I went to go see live music three or four times a week. One night, I was standing with a friend and he said, "Suzie Brown, why are you not writing songs?"
I was so scared of writing something terrible and cheesy, and he basically told me to get over it. And I needed that — I needed permission to not be perfect at something.
After that, I started carrying a lyrics notebook around. I went to this wedding and a microphone was set up at the rehearsal dinner and all my friends made me go up and play a song. I sang "Angel from Montgomery" and the entire tent went silent. The whole weekend, people asked me if I was a singer and I said, "No, I'm in cardiology."
When I got home from that wedding, I broke up with my boyfriend and I said to myself, "Suzie Brown, if you can't write a song when you're feeling like this, you're never going to be able to write."
My songs were about love and heartbreak and I had never expressed myself in that way before. I went to open mike nights and people gradually asked me to play shows with them. But I was struggling in the lab. I wasn't really that happy and the thought of staying in academic medicine and working 90 hours a week and sacrificing something I loved was terrible. I was so happy playing music — happier than I ever thought I could be! I decided to just finish my degree, work part time and play music.
More: What are your long-term goals for the two fields?
SB: It's a pretty confusing way to live. Practically speaking, I'm too old to live in my car and tour the country. I'm getting married and I have a mortgage and a ridiculous amount of debt to the government for med school. Those are all incentives to keep working as a cardiologist. I also love what I do. Working gives me a freedom in music and that's a real gift. I don't ever have to worry about making money as a musician. It gives me a kind of clean slate when I'm writing songs. I don't have to think about writing for what people will like. I hope people like my music, but I don't need them to.
More: Do medicine and music share any of the same challenges or rewards for you?
SB: The rewards in medicine are all about other people. Medicine is about helping people at the expense of yourself. You sacrifice your 20s and 30s to get the training. Your whole day is about other people. It doesn't matter if you had a bad day, or you have a stomachache, or you didn't sleep well and you're exhausted. You have to keep a poker face. But its extremely fulfilling when you help someone, and especially when you save someone's life. Music is fulfilling in the complete opposite way. For me, its about being 100 percent honest about myself.
In medical school, you work in one-month rotations, so every month you're rotating through different specialties. Every month is a challenge; you constantly say, "I don't know how to do this," or "This is impossible." But you eventually realize that everything seems impossible until you learn how to do it. Having that fearlessness of trying new things has helped me a lot in music.
More: As a doctor, you often have to be emotionally removed from your work. How do you go from that to being emotionally open in your music?
SB: It's very schizophrenic. The hardest transition is when I've had an amazing weekend of music and then I have to go back to work. I also find it hard to write new things when I've been working a lot. It takes me a day or two to unwind, to shed that skin. Especially for big shows, I try to not have to work on that day because I have to take on a whole different mindset.
More: Most of your songs are love songs. Why do you gravitate toward those?
SB: For me, songs are things I can't say in any other way. "Heartstrings" wasn't about just one person; those songs were like 10 years worth of heartache. Heartache is the easiest, most accessible emotion to tap into. I am curious what's going to happen now that I'm happy and in love and getting married. I do want to grow as a songwriter and craftsperson. But there has to be a truth in a song, or it's not a song.
More: What comes next for you?
SB: I'm taking September off to get married, I'm playing shows all summer and I'm really excited to start writing again. You really figure out what's going on in your mind when you're writing. The album was such a labor of love and now I'm excited just to enjoy it and share it with people.
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Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 7:17 pm
Post subject: The villain written today: why always a psychotic killer?
As an offshoot of the thread started by someone who was looking for romantic suspense without killers, I began to ask myself ... why do modern romantic authors find it so hard to write suspense involving any other kind of villains ... or am I wrong?
What about villains who are not pathological ... or not obviously so in finance or business (bilking the system on wall street, polluting or poisoning in business), politics (on the take), the arts and pop culture (men beating up their partners, cheating, overtaken by fame, etc.) sports (cheating or drugs)? There are plenty of examples in our culture and I'm sure this phenomena is not new to society and can be seen in earlier times. So, why the emphasis on the psycho? Is it the easy way out -- requiring little research or build up of the villain's past or his or her work place?
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That's why I rarely read romantic suspense--well, that and the fact that an overwhelming percentage of victims are female killed in disturbing and graphic ways (which is also a reason why I don't enjoy watching procedurals on TV: dead female bodies with blank stares across the screen is a pretty sick message), but I digress. When I think about the penchant for horror films in US society, I think we want to understand the workings of a deranged killer's mind--and maybe we get off on their mindless terror and destruction--but we also feel safer with the thought that someone with no tie to us or with little method to their brutality is the Bad Guy.
It's scarier to read about a villain who could be your spouse, your neighbor, your child's math teacher, etc, and that their menace has nothing to do with breaking into your house to slash your throat. We can compartmentalize a crazed rapist serial killer on the loose--that's a one in a million chance of happening in your life. But you can't compartmentalize something "mundane" like a husband emotionally abusing his wife due to his jealousy, or being beat up by high school bullies, or date rape, etc.
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The psychotic serial killer is one of the main reasons I never really got into some of the big name authors writing romantic suspense. And what's with the narrative
the psychotic killer, really? I'm still amazed that this viewpoint is included in so many novels.
If the villian was motivated my something other than sadism, then go ahead and give a villian's point of view. If their motivation, however, comes down to some sick delusion, then I don't need another play-by-play of what they're planning on doing...we get it, it's sick, demented and scary.
Bring on the everyday villians motivated by something as simple as revenge gone awry.
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Yes, to the everyday villain! Ive always preferred my characters in shades of gray. Even villains deserve that kind of treatment.
I think romantic suspense can still be thrilling, even convey a sense of danger, without the psychopaths, but serial killers (and their cousins, THE TERRORIST hell bent on death and destruction) are to suspense what the Regency is to historical romance. Are publishers insisting on these scenarios? I do miss the more low key crimes with villains who have more relatable motivations and only kill when they are threatened or feel they have no other choice. Even something as mundane as identity theft could be made exciting in the right hands.
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Even something as mundane as identity theft could be made exciting in the right hands.
Thus far, that's the scenerio I'm reading about right now in Marilyn Pappano's
. Someone has stolen the hero's identity, and there are aspects of it that make the hero seem suspect. So, I'm interested in seeing how that is worked through. I'll be deeply disappointed if the impersonator turns into "just a psycho."
It's scarier to read about a villain who could be your spouse, your neighbor, your child's math teacher, etc, and that their menace has nothing to do with breaking into your house to slash your throat. We can compartmentalize a crazed rapist serial killer on the loose--that's a one in a million chance of happening in your life. But you can't compartmentalize something "mundane" like a husband emotionally abusing his wife due to his jealousy, or being beat up by high school bullies, or date rape, etc.
Sometime ago, I had a discussion about this very thing with a friend of mine. It had nothing to do with romance reading, but with movies. She said, she had no problem going to violent films about -- for instance -- the mafia, like Goodfellas or The Godfather because it, in no way, touched her everyday life. It was alien to her and close to fantasy. However, she did have problems with films such as The Accused, where the character Jodie Foster played was raped in a bar because that type of thing could possibly happen to her or any other woman, whether in a bar, on the street, or in your own home.
But to get back to my original post, I do think it's easy to make a villain a psychotic killer. You don't have to even work that hard to set it up or go into motivation. Other types of criminals or villains may take more background and knowledge about a subject matter outside the author's expertise.
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I agree with the posters who said the scariest villains are the ones closest to you- friends or family.
I think the thing that freaked me out the most about Rosemary's Baby was that the husband was involved in it and set his wife up! That gives me chills just thinking of it. Or those horrible real life stories we see too often in the news where someone is murdered by a close friend or neighbor who often joins in the "search" for the missing person.
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For romantic suspense, I suspect that a black-and-white villain helps with a perfect HEA. Lots - I might even say most, although I don't have data - of romantic suspense villains die at the end of their novels. Why? It's cleaner. We don't have to worry about mistrials or debate death penalty ethics or anticipate the heroine testifying at parole hearings for the next forty years 0 or worse, have the villain move right back in next door. But you can't just kill off a villain who is somewhat sympathetic, hence the eeevil psychotics.
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What a great topic and one I agree with. Some killers are on drugs, and some have mental illnesses but there are those out there who kill to protect secrets or mistakes. And you rarely see that.
I don't want to read about a husband or wife killing each other or their kids, but I would like to read a story when there are other reasons for the death.
I think that is one reason I liked The Closer on television. For the most part the people were average people who got caught up in greed or anger and lost control.
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Try Youtube and watch "A Howling In The Woods". It's a thriller about a woman returning to her hometown to visit her father and finding a mystery there. I think it's based on a Velda Johnston book. There are deaths in this movie. It's not supernatural or slasher. It has average people.
It stars Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman - very different from their I Dream Of Jeannie roles.
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Steve Horn, lead physical therapist for Beebe's Rehab Services Department, was honored with the Beebe's Healthcare's You make a Difference Award for October.
Steve's daily motto is, "I will take care of that!" He often volunteers to stay late to complete tasks and he works to give his patients and department staff the best experience possible. Steve completes his work in a professional manner that exemplifies the values and mission of Beebe Healthcare.
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Bright House cable back online after software glitch
Published: Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 8:18 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, January 18, 2013 at 7:08 p.m.
DAYTONA BEACH -- Bright House cable customers who lost their cable to a software problem for 12 hours or more Thursday morning are back online, a company spokesman said.
"The boxes that were taking longer to reboot after the network performance upgrade was complete are now coming back online," said Donald Forbes, senior director of corporate communications for Bright House, in a statement issued at 2:15 p.m.
"We want customers to know we make enhancements to the network during the very early hours of the morning to avoid any negative customer impact and we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience," Forbes wrote.
He added that in limited cases customers may need to reboot their boxes by unplugging them, waiting a few seconds and then plugging them back in.
Some Bright House customers awoke to blackened screens on their televisions or messages saying "initializing software application" Thursday morning because of a software problem.
Representatives helping customers at the counter at the Daytona Beach office of the cable television company said people statewide with Scientific Atlanta or Cisco converter boxes had outages since 1 a.m.
Telephone lines to the cable company were overloaded as customers tried to learn more about the problem. The phone lines at Bright House were inoperable for several hours.
A representative in the Ormond Beach office said customers may request account credits after the problem is fixed.
The Ormond Beach office had 30 people in the lobby at 8 a.m. within a 10-minute span. The Daytona Beach office had about a dozen walk-ins at that time. Numerous customers walked in carrying their cable boxes and were immediately told what the technical issue was and left.
-- Staff writers Jeff Wilen and John Gallas contributed to this report.
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Lightning Energy (Japanese: 雷エネルギー Lightning Energy) is a Basic Energy card which provides one Lightning Energy (). This can be attached to Pokémon cards and used to power moves with Lightning or Colorless Energy requirements.
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Dave McIntire is an Emeritus Professor at Oregon State University. His primary professional interests are aquatic ecology and phycology (the study of algae). Over a period of 40 years, Dave's research projects included studies at Crater Lake and Mount Rainier National Parks, the Columbia River, Oregon estuaries and farm ponds, and controlled experiments with laboratory streams. After his retirement from teaching in 1995, Dave expanded his interest in landscape photography. For the past 20 years, he has photographed the landscape, mostly in black and white film, but more recently in color, as digital imaging and printing have provided photographers with a craft that was unimaginable three decades ago. In his photographs, Dave tries to reveal meaningful patterns in the complexities of our natural environment, so the viewer can connect with the image at different levels of visual resolution.
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There are lots of Christmas carols at this festive time of year. You can hear them on the country channels, the classical, and even on the rock and roll music channels. Some are ecumenical, referencing Jesus Christ and the events surrounding His birth. Others are more secular, discussing the foods, smells, sights and emotions of the entire holiday season. If you listen long enough, you're bound to hear something that appeals to your beliefs or desires.
One particular song that I remember learning very early in my life is still one of my favorites - "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town."
There are some phrases that, in today's world, do seem almost creepy in retrospect. "He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake." I can't say I'm exactly fond of 24/7 surveillance, even if it is Santa doing the observation.
But, there's one line that parents have quoted time and again to their children to keep them in line and behaving well. "He knows when you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake."When you add to that detail the list that Santa keeps of the behavior of all children - naughty or nice - parents had a perfect tool to control behavior.
Adults have a naughty or nice list as well. We talk about the book of judgment which awaits us at the end of our lives. All things we've ever done, good and bad, are recorded in the book, and we must stand in judgment while all the details are recounted.
Unlike children, adults aren't nearly so swayed by the concept of a "naughty and nice" list as are their children. We adults refuse to accept that all of our actions are etched in stone. We seem to believe that our failings and indiscretions are recorded on some type of cosmic Etch-A-Sketch, able to be erased at any time.
We treat someone badly on Monday, then wonder on Tuesday why that person is still upset with us. On Wednesday, we skimp on donations to charities, and on Thursday, we complain about the multitudes that seem to constantly have their hands out for the few coins that are available.
It is a human failing to selectively forget the evil or the harm we have done during our lives. Perhaps it's just a way of emotionally protecting ourselves. If we had to live every moment of every day with our failings, we would probably go insane with guilt and regret. So, we allow ourselves the luxury of forgetting, of letting go of all the bad.
It's not necessary to dwell on the bad in our lives; but, we should never forget. It is very true that we learn from our mistakes, or that we should learn from them. When we see the hurt that some of our actions have caused, we should be able to learn how to modify our behavior so that we don't hurt people again. If we simply forget about our actions, we no longer feel a responsibility to make any changes, and we will continue causing hurt and harm along our path through life.
Those of us who are Christian, believe that we are forgiven of our sins by the death of Jesus Christ. That forgiveness does not mean that we are absolved of future transgressions if we fail to atone. Atonement requires that we accept the consequences of what we have done and strive to eradicate such behavior from our future actions. If we, like the children with Santa, just expect a list that is balanced, good and bad, and that can restart from scratch each year, we never actually change.
This year, rather than expecting a fresh start just because our beliefs tell us we can expect forgiveness, let's try something a bit more long lasting.
This year, let's remember that we are responsible for improving ourselves, and our world. Let's remember that we have to strive every day to be better people if we expect to see a change in the world. Let's make sure that next year, there's only a "Nice List," and that we're on it.
It's all just my opinion.


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I have a web application that will retrieve data from a database. I have specify in the web application web.config file to have the username
sa and password
Data Source=myServerAddress;Initial Catalog=myDataBase;User Id=sa;Password=password;
However, I notice that SQL Profiler will display the LoginName column as
sa and not the actual user if a actual user log into the web application.
Example: Suppose a user WATSON\User1 come to the web application. The SQL Profiler will not record
WATSON\User1 under the LoginName column. Then I will not know who have done something.
So, what should I do in order to have the SQL Profiler to record these user who login to the application from other domain?


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AEI Offers $10K to Scientists Who Dispute Climate Study
An ExxonMobil-funded think tank is offering scientists or economists $10,000 to dispute the international climate report released last week that attributes climate change to human activities, the London Guardian reported. The American Enterprise Institute will also pay for travel expenses and make additional payments in an attempt to undercut the findings of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), whose report is widely regarded as the most comprehensive review of the state of climate change science. AEI has received more than $1.6 million from ExxonMobil, and former ExxonMobil head Lee Raymond serves as vice-chairman of its board of trustees. In the wake of this revelation, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights called on Congress to subpoena ExxonMobil's records and probe the oil giant's funding of organizations involved in disputing global warming.
Meanwhile, another ExxonMobil-funded think tank held a press conference today to release a report attacking the IPCC's findings. The conservative Fraser Institute, which has received $120,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998, claimed the IPCC report released last week was a "negotiated text that is not produced by the scientific community." In fact, the IPCC report was written by some of the world's most respected climate scientists without political interference, while the Fraser report's staff includes about 50 junior and retired scientists, many of whom have connections to the energy industry.
BP Taps Berkeley, Illinois for $500M Biofuels Effort
British oil giant BP announced last week that it has selected the University of California at Berkeley's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Illinois for a $500 million, 10-year research program on green energy. BP will fund an Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) with a mandate to "perform ground-breaking research aimed at the production of new and cleaner energy." It will initially focus on biofuels for cars and trucks. BP said as many as 50 of its employees will be involved in EBI research, and the company will share governance of the EBI and guidance of its research programs with the universities. "The proposal from UC Berkeley and its partners was selected in large part because these institutions have excellent track records of delivering 'Big Science' – large and complex developments predicated on both scientific breakthroughs and engineering applications that can be deployed in the real world," said BP group chief executive John Browne.
EBI is the first public-private research lab dedicated to renewable fuels and clean energy, according to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's (R) office. The governor included $40 million in funding for the institute in the state's budget for 2007 to 2008, a move that was a major factor in BP's grant decision, Schwarzenegger's representatives said in a release.
Although the institutions and BP have not yet signed a contract spelling out the details of their relationship, it is clear that BP will have a very prominent role in the institute. Beth Burnside, Berkeley's vice chancellor for research, said the governing board – which would be split between representatives of BP and the three institutions – would make the final decisions about funding of research projects, which would be proposed by EBI's director, a yet-to-be-named Berkeley faculty member. BP researchers also plan to rent space on Berkeley's campus, where they could conduct proprietary research, and freely interact with other researchers on the project, she said. BP would also have first rights to license intellectual property resulting from the institute's research and publication of research results could be delayed for months to give BP time to review its patentability, the spokeswoman said.
Hearing Airs Attempts to Silence Climate Change Scientists
Officials of the Union of Concerned Scientists told a congressional committee last week that Bush administration efforts to censor government scientists who are investigating climate change is widespread. Nearly half of 300 scientists surveyed at seven federal agencies reported they had perceived or personally experienced pressure to eliminate the words "climate change," "global warming" or similar terms from their communications. Also, Rick Piltz, a former senior associate for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program who now directs the nonprofit public interest group Climate Science Watch, told the Government Reform Committee that Philip Cooney, a former oil industry lobbyist who served as the White House Council on Environmental Quality's chief of staff until taking a job with ExxonMobil last year, personally ordered changes in government documents to inflate uncertainty and cast doubt on scientific findings. The Senate Commerce Committee will take up the issue of political interference in climate science later this week.
Stem Cell Researchers Divided on Cash for Eggs
The International Society for Stem Cell Research, which includes most of the world's leading stem cell researchers, could not agree on taking a strong stance against paying women for donating their eggs for research purposes, which puts it at odds with National Academy of Sciences guidelines issued in 2005. The ISSCR statement, published in the latest Science magazine (subscription required), said the 27 task force members, eight of whom had financial ties to private firms involved in stem cell research, "had varied opinions on what financial accommodations should be allowed for donation of oocytes for research purposes. Some felt that altruism should be the only permissible motivation for research donation; others felt that asking women to bear the significant burden of time, effort, discomfort, and risk of donation without compensation was itself unfair and exploitative." The 2005 NAS guidelines recommended that while women egg donors should be reimbursed for the expense of the procedure, "no cash or in kind payments should be provided for donating oocytes for research purposes."
Journal Failed to Disclose AIDS Researchers' Funding
The editors of the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases have launched an investigation into allegations that some of the authors of its 2004 guidelines on managing HIV failed to disclose their financial ties to AIDS drugs manufacturers. These guidelines later appeared, again with no disclosures, for national distribution at www.guidelines.gov, a Web site run by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The Center for Science in the Public Interest uncovered the undisclosed conflicts of interest and notified CID editor Sherwood L. Gorbach, who responded in an e-mail communication that the journal would "take appropriate actions after a full investigation." The journal shares "a deep concern for full and accurate disclosure of potential conflicts of interest," Gorbach said.
Child Psychiatrist Helped Drug Firm Hide Paxil's Link to Teen Suicides
A University of Pittsburgh child psychiatrist who conducted the biggest company-sponsored clinical trial of the antidepressant Paxil's use in children also conferred with GlaxoSmithKline on how to respond to questions about its safety, the BBC investigative news program "Panorama" reported last week. The psychiatrist, Dr. Neal Ryan, who was paid by GlaxoSmithKline for his work on the trial, sent e-mails to the company in 2002 asking for advice on how he should respond to media inquiries. The e-mails were uncovered as part of a lawsuit against the pharmaceutical company. The Food and Drug Administration issued a warning in 2003 against adolescent use of Paxil after company studies showed the drug actually tripled the risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior in depressed children. GlaxoSmithKline issued a statement denying any wrongdoing.
Bush Order Centralizes Regulatory Power
President Bush signed an order last month that further centralizes regulatory power in the Office of Management and Budget at the expense of federal agencies. The order requires each federal agency to identify a "specific market failure" before promulgating regulations and estimate the "combined aggregate costs and benefits of all its regulations planned for that calendar year." The order also subjects agency guidance documents to the same OMB review process as proposed regulations, a further curtailment of agencies' freedom to operate. "The revised executive order ... is a further threat to public protections from an administration committed to elevating special interests over public interests," Rick Melberth, director of regulatory policy at OMB Watch, said in a statement last month. "It substitutes free market criteria for the public values of health, safety, and environmental protections, and substitutes executive authority for legislative authority."
Cheers and Jeers
Odds and Ends
In the wake of canceling a meeting on neonatal herpes, the National Institutes of Health is reviewing its conflict-of-interest rules for NIH-financed committees that write clinical practice guidelines. ... National Kidney Foundation has released the roster of its anemia management subcommittee, which met Feb. 2 to discuss updating its dialysis treatment guidelines. It includes the 18 members listed on the non-profit's website, 12 of whom have ties to makers of drugs that alleviate anemia. The committee report is due in April. ... The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences plans to have the National Library of Medicine handle the award of a contract outsourcing the publication of the NIEHS journal Environmental Health Perspectives, NIEHS spokeswoman Christine Bruske said last week. ... The Food and Drug Administration reports drug makers have yet to start 899 of 1,259 post-marketing studies ordered by the agency at the time of a drug's approval. FDA officials said last week that the agency needs legislative authority to compel industry to complete the tests. ... Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility released e-mails from several Environmental Protection Agency librarians complaining about difficulties in gathering information from the agency's digital inventories. The Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works will conduct the first legislative hearings on EPA library closures Thursday.
An article in last week's issue incorrectly reported that Daniel W. Coyne of Washington University School of Medicine had conducted the study that was ignored by the National Kidney Foundation's anemia management subcommittee in drafting dialysis guidelines. Though he offered the data from the study to the committee, Coyne did not conduct the research. Integrity in Science Watch regrets the error.


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Battling voter fraud
February 5, 2013
North Dakota laws governing petition fraud are too lenient, according to supporters of a bill introduced at the Legislature last week....
I'm not quite sure how 5 football players illegally signing a petition illustrates the need for tougher voter laws? You may make a case for petitions but how many documented cases of voter fraud have occurred in ND? If there is a need, there should be data to support it. It's an undisputable fact that the Republican party has made a concerted effort to disenfranchise minoritie voters in many states just because they are more likely to vote Democratic than Republican. If you have a case to make for voter fraud, present it otherwise it just sounds like more Republican talking points.
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....if you want to battle voter fraud, I feel you are disenfranchising me. That is my way of moving forword.
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Vote Early, Vote Often......For The Gifts.
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Veritas, I agree.
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The end justifies the means....that is what we always say in the Democrat Party.
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The SpeakerCraft VCR120 is a wall mounted stereo volume control. It connects between the speaker level output of an amplifier, receiver or speaker selector and a pair of speakers. SpeakerCraft's Volume Controls are high quality stereo autoformers designed for wide range frequency response at all volume levels.
Fast removable connectors can be wired ahead of time and the simply attached to the volume control at the time of final installation.
Simple Connect Terminals secures wires in place without the use of a screwdriver. Just place the stripped wire in the opening and depress the lever for a secure connection.
;Side-mounted Multiple Room Switch switch allows easy impedance adjustment when multiple speakers are to be connected to a single amplifier.
VCR120 Volume Control
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INCLUDES: Decora® Style White, Bone, and Almond Faceplates, Inserts & Knobs
NOTE: Black Finish Kit Sold Separately Order Stock # ASM/PLS17000BK: Black
Order Stock # ASM17347
- Resistive, High Power Handling Design, Stereo Volume Control
- New 12-Step "Make Before Break" Switch Design
- Knob Is Guaranteed to Never Come Off Due to New Easy to Assemble Design
- New Screw Down Connector for Secure Wire Connections
- Power Rating: 120 Watts
- Steps: 12 (Make Before Break)
- Frequency Response: 20Hz - 20kHz
- Total Attenuation: 42dB Maximum
- Depth: 21/2" Behind Plate
- Mounting: Fits Nearly All Standard Single-Gang Junction Boxes and Plaster Rings
Master Carton of 24 Individual Standard Boxes, Order Stock #: Order 24 of ASM17347
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This fast-paced course provides the dental team with the latest information on dental infection control, in addition to reviewing the essential elements of the California Dental Practice Act.
Infection Control
Eve Cuny, BA, MS
This two-hour course provides the dental team with the latest information on infection control and meets the Dental Board of California's re-licensure requirements for two units of continuing education in infection control.
California Dental Practice Act
Bruce Peltier, PhD, MBA
This course is a review of the essential elements of the California Dental Practice Act.
The Dental Board of California now requires that all dentists, registered dental hygienists and registered dental assistants take two units of dental law and infection control every two years in order to renew their licenses.
Tuition: $125 (includes continental breakfast)
Program: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Check-in: 8:30 am
Credits: This activity is designated for 4 continuing education credits.
Eve Cuny, BA, MS, is director of environmental health and safety and associate professor at Pacific. She is a nationally recognized expert in infection control in dentistry, publishing and lecturing throughout North America. She was a member of the working group that developed the 2003 CDC Infection Control Guidelines for Dentistry, and was recently appoionted to the National Occupational Research Council.
Bruce Peltier, PhD, MBA, is professor of psychology and ethics at Pacific where he directs the biomedical ethics program. A graduate of West Point, he has a PhD in counseling from Wayne State University and has received training at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Loyola University of Chicago. He is author of The Psychology of Executive Coaching and the hypnosis CD, Relieving Dental Anxiety.
University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry is an ADA CERP recognized provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry designates this activity for 4 continuing education credits.


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New Breathalyzer Kiosks at Bars Could Prevent Drunk Driving
When people drive home after a night of drinking at a bar, they usually gauge their level of drunkenness with a quick glance at the mirror or a simple balancing test. Getting arrested for a DUI is rarely on their minds.
Some enterprising souls carry portable breathalyzer tests, but these are expensive, and sometimes difficult to use. Most drivers, however, simply guess whether they are sober enough to drive home.
In response to this information gap, a company in Buffalo, New York has designed a breathalyzer kiosk that could offer quick blood alcohol readings for bar patrons, allowing them to drive home with the knowledge that they and their passengers are safe.
According to the University of Buffalo Reporter, Ladybug Technologies recently announced the release of their new machine, the SipSmart Network, which allows bar customers to check their blood alcohol levels before they get into their cars.
In addition to the new kiosks, the company also sells a portable breathalyzer test, as well as a smart phone application that helps drinkers keep track of their BAC by entering each drink they consume and their body weight.
The kiosk, however, is the jewel of the company's DUI-preventing fleet of machines. Sources indicate that the SipSmart Network machines contain a police-grade breathalyzer unit, which is covered by a "thin, sleek" kiosk.
The machines also use platinum fuel-cell technology, which allegedly helps the devise obtain accurate data about a user's blood alcohol levels.
A pilot program aimed at studying the usefulness of the machines has started in a bar in New York, as well as a bar in Ontario. These pilot machines require a $5 payment from each customer for a reading.
Each $5 payment entitles a user to three different breath readings throughout the night. Before using the machine, though, customers must also purchase a 50-cent disposable mouthpiece from a nearby dispenser.
While the machine may offer a helpful resource for some potential drunk drivers, it still has its critics. First, some people note that the machine often takes up to 15 minutes to provide an accurate reading, which could dissuade some customers who are leaving a bar in a hurry.
In addition, critics are concerned that people will use the machine to drink until they are right at the legal limit, then immediately get into their cars.
Even though customers may technically be under the legal limit, they may still have reduced reaction times or poorer vision due to their drinking. In other words, just because a person passes a kiosk test, they aren't necessarily in the best shape for driving.
Finally, customers that rely on the kiosk should also be warned that police won't let them go simply because they passed a test a few minutes ago. If a police officer's breathalyzer reaches a different measurement than the kiosk's, the police will always rely on their own reading.
So, much like alcohol, the kiosk might be a fun tool, but it should be used wisely.


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MARVIN MILLS, organist and assistant choral director, is organist at St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Kensington, Maryland. He is also music director of the acclaimed National Spiritual Ensemble. Previous positions include associate minister of music at National City Christian Church, director of music at All Souls Church, Unitarian, and university organist at Howard University, all in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Mills has performed for numerous chapters of The American Guild of Organists, and was a featured recitalist in the Guild's 1992 National and 1996 Centennial National conventions. He opened the 1989 Wendell P. Whalum Concert Series at Morehouse College, performing for the entire student body.
Presented in recital by the Washington National Cathedral in observance of Black History Month 1989, he returned to appear on its 1995 and 2002 Summer Festival Series. As clinician, he has given workshops for the Unitarian-Universalists Musician's Network, the Presbyterian Association of Musicians and at the regional and chapter levels of the American Guild of Organists spanning topics from the Negro Spiritual and organ music of Black composers, to hymn playing, organ accompaniment and organ repertoire.
In a seminar on the Sights and Sounds of the Pipe Organ sponsored by the Smithsonian Institute, he discussed the art of organ transcription using Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition as a model. He has performed in churches, universities and concert halls throughout the United States. In the spring of 1992 Mr. Mills performed the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach in a weekly series of fourteen programs on the 96 Rieger organ at All Souls Church, Unitarian. He made his west coast debut in July 1992 at the Spreckles' Organ Pavilion International Organ Summer Concert Series in Balboa Park, San Diego, his New York City recital debut in July 1993 at the Riverside Church.
Since 1999 Mr. Mills has been a featured artist at the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival. Active as a vocal coach/accompanist, he can be heard as arranger and accompanist on a disc of spirituals with mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, Angels Watching Over Me.


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Vitamins & Minerals
Grazing Oat Pastures
June 26, 2014
Can horses be turned out on an oat pasture if it is dried up and not green?... Read More
Assessing Fiber Quality in Horse Feed
June 23, 2014
Not all fiber is created equal, and different forms can vary widely in terms of quality and digestibility.... Read More
The Importance of Fiber in Horse Diets
June 20, 2014
Fiber the most important ingredient in every equine diet. Learn why your horse needs plenty of this nutrient.... Read More
How Much Protein is Enough?
June 14, 2014
Learn about protein excesses and deficiencies and how to determine how much protein your horse needs each day.... Read More
Assessing Protein Levels in Horse Feeds
June 11, 2014
Crude protein numbers on feed bags can be deceptive. Here's what to understand about assessing protein levels.... Read More
Understanding Protein in Horses' Diets
June 10, 2014
Protein is probably the most misunderstood component of horse diets. Here's what you need to know.... Read More
Managing Feeding Programs on the Road for Show Horses
May 02, 2014
Here are some suggestions to help maintain your show horse's body condition, appearance, and performance.... Read More
Nutrient Deficiencies in Horse Diets
March 22, 2014
If a horse's minimum nutrient requirements are not met, he could show signs of a deficiency. ... Read More
Excessive Cobalt Levels Detected in Meadowlands Racehorses
January 16, 2014
The cobalt was presumably used as a performance-enhancing substance, a statement said. ... Read More
Abnormal Eating Behaviors: Your Horse Ate What?
December 25, 2013
Anytime a horse is consuming unusual material, a thorough review of the diet is a good idea.... Read More
Obsessed with Salt
November 18, 2013
My filly is obsessively licking and biting her salt block. Is it possible for her to eat too much salt?... Read More
Amino Acid Requirements for Horses
September 18, 2013
Learn about the 21 different amino acids your horse needs to build proteins in his body.... Read More
Zinc's Role in Young Horses' Immunity
August 06, 2013
Low serum zinc levels were associated with an impaired immune function in yearlings and 2-year-olds.... Read More
Vitamin E Supplementation for Neurologic Disorders
June 27, 2013
One researcher reviews vitamin E supplementation in horses with neurologic disorders.... Read More
Maintaining Hydration in Horses: The Roles of Water and Salt
June 03, 2013
Learn how to quench your horse's thirst to avoid potentially dangerous scenarios, such as severe dehydration.... Read More
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I have been an unabashed fragrance whore my entire life. My beloved grandmother (Granny) wore Shalimar, and when I used to have once-monthly sleep overs at her house, she'd spritz the inside of my sleeping bag so I could smell it all night long. Delicious. I had a great aunt I worshipped, and she wore Estee Lauder's Youth Dew. To this day I think of her when I get a whiff of the spicy sweet amber-colored liquid, and I love that my nose takes me right down memory lane.
Me, I always wanted to have a signature scent, but I realized early on that I'm far too fickle. I've worn so many different fragrances over the years, and even today I have no fewer than six bottles in regular rotation. The only perfume I've worn on and off my entire life is Chanel No. 19. I don't even remember how or when I first got a bottle—some time in high school—but I have always adored it and I still do (for the record, I'm wearing it at this moment). My love for 19 is many fold (it's not too sweet, it's good any time of year, it works day and night) but what I love best of all is that is was Coco's signature scent (she gave it the number 19 to commemorate her August 19th birthday). And by God, that's about the highest stamp of chic approval on the planet.
News you can use: This May, the Chanel No 19 scent will be available in body lotion and bath gel, as well as in a limited edition body cream. Recently I gave the new products a test run and I'm sold. Perfect individually, perfect for layering. I don't mind telling you that I smell GREAT.
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On Friday, only 67 members of the U.S. House voted against the $9.7 billion in flood insurance aid for Hurricane Sandy victims, and one of them was newly elected Rep. Ron DeSantis, the Republican from Ponte Vedra Beach who represents all of Flagler County and most of Volusia County.
"I sympathize with the victims of Hurricane Sandy and believe that those who purchased flood insurance should have their claims paid," DeSantis said. "At the same time, allowing the program to increase its debt by another $9.7 billion with no plan to offset the spending with cuts elsewhere is not fiscally responsible."
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"Two days ago, Florida families and businesses were dealt a devastating blow with the passage of a fiscal cliff bill that merely kicks our nation's biggest problems down the road," he said.
"Any agreement that raises taxes and allows federal spending to continue ballooning out of control is a bad deal. ... Voters sent me here to stand up for the bold, conservative reforms that are needed to get our fiscal house in order, turn our economy around, keep our military strong and promote and protect the core principles our Constitution was founded on."
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Why a Corporation Got a Religious Exemption, But a Photographer Didn't
After the Supreme Court issued its ruling in the Hobby Lobby case, granting a corporation an exemption to a federal law on the grounds that the law "burdens the exercise of religion" of the company's owners, we wondered: Why did the Supreme Court grant a religions exemption to a corporation, but decline to give a hearing to a New Mexico wedding photographer who refused to photograph a same-sex wedding for religious reasons?
In 2006, Elane Photography of Albuquerque declined to photograph a same-sex wedding ceremony because of owner Elaine Huguenin's religious objections. Elane Photography was found in violation of New Mexico's anti-discrimination law, which explicitly bars discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Elane Photography was ordered to pay more than $6,000 in attorneys fees and costs to Vanessa Willock, who filed the discrimination complaint.
After exhausting her appeals in New Mexico state courts, Huguenin tried to appeal her case to the US Supreme Court, which declined without explanation in April to hear her case. Two months later, on June 30, the Supreme Court ruled that Hobby Lobby was exempt from a requirement under the Affordable Healthcare Act to provide employee health insurance coverage for certain types of contraceptives because the requirement "substantially burdened" the company owners' exercise of religion.
Did Hobby Lobby simply make a better legal argument for a religious exemption than Elaine Huguenin did? Could some other wedding photographer now win an exemption from photographing same-sex weddings for religious reasons by arguing that if Hobby Lobby got a religious exemption, then it's only fair that a small business owner should get one, too?
It turns out that the cases are quite different. Hobby Lobby, a federal case, would have been no help to Elaine Huguenin, who broke a state law. Photographers opposed to shooting same-sex weddings, but who are subject to anti-discrimination laws, can't invoke the Hobby Lobby decision to make religious freedom arguments, at least not in cases involving state laws.
"The Hobby Lobby [decision] doesn't apply to state laws," says Andrew Koppelman, a law professor at Northwestern University who has analyzed the Elane Photography case. He also emphasizes that the Hobby Lobby decision didn't address an issue of constitutional law, which would trump state law. "Hobby Lobby was an interpretation of [federal] statute and it only modifies other federal statutes. It doesn't modify state statutes."
The court reached the Hobby Lobby decision on the grounds of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). That law, passed in 1993, prohibits the federal government from taking any action that substantially burdens the exercise of religion–unless the action is the least restrictive means of serving a compelling government interest. The Supreme Court said there were less burdensome ways to provide the disputed insurance coverage to Hobby Lobby employees than to make Hobby Lobby provide it against the owners' religious beliefs.
In the decision on the final Elane Photography v. Willock appeal, handed down last August, the New Mexico state supreme court upheld lower state court rulings against Elane Photography for discrimination. The court rejected Huguenin's religious freedom and free speech arguments.
She had argued that under the New Mexico Religious Freedom Restoration Act (NMRFRA)–the state's version of the federal law–her religious beliefs should be accommodated. But New Mexico's high court ruled that the NMRFRA doesn't apply to private disputes; a government entity has to be a party to the dispute, and that wasn't the case in Elane Photography v. Willock.
Moreover, the court said, the wording of the NMRFRA bars state government agencies from restricting a person's free exercise of religion; it doesn't bar the New Mexico legislature from passing generally applicable laws, as long as they don't directly discriminate against religion. For instance, a law that applies to everyone, but doesn't interfere with the exercise of religion, is legal under New Mexico state law, even if some people have religious objections to the law.
Koppelman wrote in his analysis of the Elane Photography case, "After the loss in New Mexico…there was no hope of bringing the religious liberty claim to the Supreme Court. Huguenin lost her case under a [state] law that did not target religion, and the [US Supreme] Court has held that the Free Exercise clause does not create an exemption from neutral laws of general applicability."
In other words, Huguenin couldn't appeal to the US Supreme Court on the grounds that her constitutional rights of Free Exercise had been violated by the New Mexico anti-discrimination law; the state law passed muster according to an earlier Supreme Court ruling (Employment Div. v. Smith, 1990).
In response to that 1990 ruling, politicians of all stripes were outraged, so Congress passed the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act [RFRA] to restore protections of individual religious freedom from infringement by other federal laws. But even if Hobby Lobby had successfully invoked the RFRA before New Mexico courts found Huguenin in violation of state anti-discrimination laws, the Hobby Lobby decision wouldn't have helped Huguenin because the RFRA has no effect on state laws.
In addition to rejecting Huguenin's religious freedom claims, the New Mexico supreme court also rejected her free speech claims. The state supreme court said, "The United States Supreme Court has made it clear that the First Amendment permits [anti-discrimination] regulation by states," and that the New Mexico anti-discrimination law didn't deprive Huguenin of her rights to free speech.
Huguenin tried to appeal to the US Supreme Court on Free Speech grounds, not Free Exercise grounds, but the Supreme Court declined without explanation to hear her case. Koppelman asserted in his article that the court rightly rejected the case because the New Mexico anti-discrimination law is "not a serious burden on free speech."
It's worth pointing out that the Elane Photography v. Willock decision applies only in New Mexico. Wedding photographers in about 30 other US states can refuse to photograph same-sex weddings for whatever reason–religious or otherwise–without consequence. That's because federal law doesn't bar providers of goods and services from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation, and those 30 or so states also have no laws barring such discrimination. New Mexico just happens to be one of the 20 or so states where discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is now illegal.
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It was all that I had expected and then some. A week later, I'm still hacking up charcoal briquettes. A lot of you make the trip every day and spend hours working down in the polluted stew. Most of my family live down there, breathing it 24/7. Ugh.
There actually was a little breeze the day I made the trip, and the cloud of crud was crashing over Parleys Summit like waves hitting a rocky shore. It was thick enough that I expected to feel an impact as the car penetrated it. I switched the heater over to "recirculate" and more or less held my breath for the afternoon.
If you are going to have air pollution, you might as well go for the gold, and Utah has clearly done that. We are Number One in the U.S. when it comes to crappy air quality. The five cities topping the list of worst air quality in the nation this last couple of weeks have all been in Utah. Grand Junction, Colorado, has tried to break in there, but for the most part, the five worst in the nation have been Salt Lake, Provo, Logan, Brigham City and Ogden. Whoo-hoo, a clean sweep.
So how dirty is dirty? Beijing, the poster child for polluted cities, had a PM2.
The comparison to Beijing is a little unfair. This is a measure of only the little lung-destroying particulate matter, and China's air is full of all kinds of other chemical toxins in addition to the grit. Our air might be crunchier, but theirs is more flavorful. Los Angeles, the city that invented smog, had readings that ranged from the low 30s to a couple of stations that were over 100, but the general air quality situation in Los Angeles was color-coded "good" on the map. No matter how you look at it, we have world-class air pollution along the Wasatch Front.
For a good part of every winter (and increasingly during the summer), Salt Lake is in violation of EPA air-quality standards. Nobody knows what to do about it. There isn't an obvious fix. Geography makes it difficult to deal with. The mountains surrounding the big cities of Utah block movement of the air. The temperature inversion (which you experienced firsthand if you were up skiing earlier this week) traps the air in the valley, and nothing can get in to mix it up. The winter fog is a completely natural condition. All the crap we pump into it every day is not. But the mountains aren't going anywhere.
The inversions tend to be episodic here rather than constant. The annual average for PM2.5 in the Salt Lake area is a very healthy 10 micrograms. The storm of the last couple of days has cleared the gunk out for a while, though it will rebuild quickly. The state declares "Air Action Days" and we are all supposed to do something, though nobody really knows what. Hold your breath? Park the car and stand out on the curb, where it's thickest, breathing it in while waiting for a bus?
Most of the pollution now comes from cars. Years ago, we used to be able to blame Kennecott Copper and Geneva Steel. But Geneva is gone and Kennecott has enough pollution-control equipment that it now plays kind of a bit part. The starring role is all of our cars, and all of our furnaces, and the coal-fired power plants that run the lights (and the ski lifts and snowmaking equipment that we enjoy in relatively clean air above the toxic stew).
Shutting down modern life to park the cars for the winter isn't realistic. For a hundred years, Western cities were built around the idea of people driving cars, and there isn't a practical mass-transit retrofit that doesn't involve reconstructing Logan to look like Chicago. So the official position seems to be that we suck it up, literally, and hope that there will be storms often enough to stir the pot. Cough.
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.