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In a shootout between Southwest and SkyWest airlines, Southwest wins.
No contest.
But SkyWest has its backers, including Bob Summers.
SkyWest, one of Delta Air Lines' commuter carriers, could provide profitable service to Amarillo and points west if executives would really look into it.
At least, that's the opinion of Summers, a Delta million-mile flyer who regularly travels to Amarillo from the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
"I think Delta or SkyWest should offer service from Amarillo to Salt Lake," Summers said. "A couple of flights would be good."
But his overtures asking for the westbound connection to St. George, Utah-based SkyWest and Delta Air Lines continue to be spurned, he said.
"They're afraid of Southwest Airlines," Summers said.
In a Nov. 2 letter to Summers, Steven Hart, SkyWest's vice president for market development, wrote that Delta Air Lines, based in Atlanta, couldn't "identify sufficient demand" for Amarillo-Salt Lake City or Lubbock-Amarillo-Salt Lake City service.
Because SkyWest contracts with Delta and United, SkyWest doesn't control where it flies, Hart said Thursday.
"They pay us to complete the flights as they direct and so they decide where it is we fly and they determine our flight schedule and so forth."
When Delta "pulled down" Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport as its hub, officials looked at the cities they served and in some cases - as some in Amarillo have suggested - connected to Salt Lake City.
For example, Little Rock, Ark. will have service to Salt Lake, he said.
"Through this process, Delta didn't share with us precisely why they elected to vacate their West Texas service," Hart wrote to Summers. "However, it is fair to assume that with little local Lubbock-Amarillo-Salt Lake City demand combined with high frequency, superior schedule availability and low-fare options to most heavily traveled points beyond Salt Lake (i.e., California) on Southwest, there simply wasn't sufficient revenue to support the Utah nonstops."
Hart made those points again Thursday when he said there isn't enough local demand into Salt Lake for Delta to fly there. Most of the
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Husky earns Pac-10 Northern Division Baseball Player of the Week.
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Washington outfielder Kyle Woods has been named the Pacific-10 Conference Northern Division Baseball Player of the Week, the conference office announced today. The Pac-10 North Pitcher of the Week award went to Oregon State's Chris Pine.
Woods, a sophomore from Marysville, Wash., collected two hits in each of the Huskies' four games last weekend at the San Diego Baseball Classic. For the week, he batted .533 with seven runs, four RBI, four doubles, a triple, a home run and a stolen base.
Woods has hit safely in all seven games this season, getting two hits in six of the seven. For the season, he is batting .500 (14-for-28) with team highs in doubles (4), RBI (11) and slugging (.929).
Washington opens the home season Friday against Gonzaga at 1:00 p.m. The game will mark the first ever at the new Husky Ballpark.

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They looked at me with bright eyes and cheeks flushed with excitement. They couldn't wait to set foot in the "wild" western part of the United Sates. The wilderness was calling them, tugging at their sleeves, blowing in their ears and pulling them back to the primal, in a call of the wild sort of way.
My years of living in United States as a foreigner resulted in frequent trips back to "the old country," which brought me through many European cities. The flights back were long, and usually my seat companion and I would strike up a conversation, during which I would explain that even though I am European, I had taken up residency in California.
I learned to distinguish between the adventurous spirits who embraced the wilderness — the camping types with hiking boots, and then the tourists who loaded up on tons of tax-free stuff. The former usually looked at me with envy at some point, and said something like: "You live in the great Wild West? How wonderful it must be; vast areas of untouched wilderness." And then they would proceeded to tell me how they would cherish every single moment of their vacation. I knew how they felt. I had experienced the pangs of an unknown longing for the wild, which was brought to light one summer in my new country.
Central Europe doesn't have any wild and untouched places left of the magnitude of United States. Smaller, densely populated countries like Holland, Belgium and Denmark have very few. The remaining wildlife may be a lone deer or a couple of squirrels on the neighbor's roof. You can't drive very far without seeing signs of human development and habitation.
I remembered the awe I felt when I first experienced the West Coast up close the very first summer there, on my first camping trip ever.
However, I really didn't think I was the camping type. I liked my daily showers and my fingernails manicured. I liked to wear crisp clean clothes, and I wasn't particularly well coordinated. I stumbled over my own furniture in the dark, and I had no idea how to set up a tent. How was I going to make it in the woods? But I went camping in Yosemite anyway with my husband. We loaded up the car with camping gear and bought food that could be easily prepared. I felt nervous; I didn't know how I was going to deal with the dauntingly uncivilized conditions.
When we arrived in Yosemite it was already dusk, and we hurried to set up camp. Luckily it didn't take long or it would have been too dark. I was stunned to learn about the bears. Put everything — all food, toiletries, and garbage — in a bear safe container that each site had, the signs read. That made it real for me. I was in the wilderness. Wow. This was the real deal, and to my surprise, I felt a growing excitement.
As the darkness blanketed the forest, the camp fire and the thousands of exceptionally bright stars (since there were no large cities anywhere near by) had a peculiarly hypnotic effect on me. I started to regress into a past time, long ago, when the smell of fire and the rustling noises of the forest were very familiar. I felt a growing sense of contentment.
That night I slept better than I had for a long time, breathing oxygen rich air, smelling the moss and the woods, and if the bears came, I didn't care. I was thrilled that they still roamed the wilderness around me.
My connection to the wild deepened with each passing day. I woke up to woodpeckers and hiked for miles of unmarked trails with no people around and no traces of them having been there in the past. The exceptional beauty of the land and the expansive feeling of space and freedom were indescribable. The silence soothed me, and I felt time slow down to a different pace. I even pictured myself as a Native American Indian, sitting by my tepee and watching nature unfold in front of my very eyes. I felt that I had arrived in a place more familiar than any other. I forgot about my fingernails and the dust in my eyes. I was feeling a part of it all.


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Three readers asked me three separate questions on dividend investing. The first one was whether now it was a good time to stick to a dividend investment strategy. The second question was about the amount of money necessary to start dividend investing. The third one was wondering whether it wouldn't be a bad idea to actually maintain an asset allocation that includes bonds whenever investors begin accumulating their dividend portfolio. I personally believe that investors need to take maximum advantage of their early years of savings and put as much as possible in the stock market. Only after they have 15 years or less to retirement would they start contributing to fixed income investments in order to achieve a minimum 25% allocation to bonds at retirement. I believe that answering these three questions together at the same time is the best way to understand my dividend growth strategy.
I seldom discuss personal finance matters on this blog. I do believe however that one needs to have an emergency fund covering at least nine to twelve months worth of living expenses before they become an aspiring dividend investor. This emergency fund is most likely to be invested in fixed income instruments such as Certificates of Deposits, savings accounts or even money market or bond funds. I believe that asset allocation should be viewed in the context of an individual's total net worth, as opposed to only focusing on the brokerage/retirement accounts that one owns. Thus I believe that investors who have more than 15 years before retirement and have an emergency fund covering nine to twelve months would have an above average fixed income allocation if they also held fixed income instruments in their portfolios.
Once you have your emergency fund set up, the next step in your personal finance journey is to take full advantage of any "free money" opportunities available to you including purchasing company stock at a discount or contributing to your company retirement account at least to get the maximum company match to your contributions.
Only after that would I consider investing in dividend stocks. A good amount to start dividend investing is $10,000. If you start with less than $10,000 your expenses would eat up a large portion of your profits. Expenses could range from stock commissions, extra expenses for tax filing since your situation would become a little more complicated. Tracking your cost and dividend income for tax purposes would be a huge burden and not cost effective at all if you have a small amount of funds to invest. Another expense could be an annual expense that some brokers like Zecco or Sharebuilder charge you if you open an individual stock retirement account.
If you plan on contributing several hundred per month however, you could definitely start investing with a smaller amount of initial capital as long as you stick to your schedule. One positive for this type of strategy is that you get to dollar cost average into your favorite dividend stocks which should decrease your risk somewhat.
And to answer the last question, yes I still believe it is a great time to start or keep investing in dividend stocks. Chances are that every dollar that you put in stocks today would generate one dollar in dividend income in three to four decades if you reinvest your dividends. In addition to that I also believe that bear markets are an ideal way to start accumulating assets in many good quality dividend names at bargain prices.
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Just a clarification: ShareBuilder no longer charges an annual maintenance fee for retirement accounts.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the heads up. The other issue with sharebuilder is that it would still charge you $4/trade..
What I would really want to see is a stock broker that lets you open a retirement account without charging you any annual fees or stock commissions.
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These five gentle yoga poses can help you get a good night's sleep
A number of studies say that practicing yoga can help you doze off faster, improve the quality of your ZZZZs and shorten the amount of time it takes to fall back to sleep when you awaken during the night. The likely reason: Gentle yoga poses are great at activating what's known as your parasympathetic system, the part of your nervous system that chills you out and restores you to normal after you've been in high gear.
MaryGrace Naughton, Yoga Specialist at Miraval Resort & Spa in Tucson, Arizona, has come up with a simple series of yoga poses to help you snooze happily through the night. She suggests practicing these poses a few times a week before you go to bed—every night, if you wish. "They will be especially helpful on nights when you're having a difficult time falling asleep," she says.
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Sit down on your knees, big toes touching and the knees wide. Draw your buttocks back toward the heels, or onto the heels if you are more flexible. Move your chest and forehead to the floor (or bed), stretching arms out in front of you. Release into this posture for 5 to 10 slow deep breaths.
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Sit down with one hip close to the wall. Lie on your back, then pivot so your entire buttocks is against the wall as you swing the legs up the wall. If your hamstrings are tight, you may not be able to straighten your legs completely. It is okay to keep the knees bent. Stay in the position for a few minutes maintaining a slow deep breath. To come out of the pose bend the knees and roll over to the right side of the body. Rest here for a few breaths before sitting up. This is a very relaxing and restorative pose.
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Lie down on your back and move your arms out to the sides so your body forms a T. Slowly turn your head to the right and let your knees fall towards the left. Gently draw the right shoulder down. Take 5 full deep breaths here. Repeat on the opposite side.
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Anuva Wines' new tasting room
For a few years now, the Anuva Wines tastings are one of the most talked about in Buenos Aires, with features in Chow, CNNMoney, lonely planet, and other noteworthy publications. Featuring expat wine experts to host their tastings, they are a favorite with travelers not fluent in Spanish. They offer the benefit of English spoken tasting with all the ease in terminology that thier native speakers can provide.
As their popularity has grown, so has their space. I was lucky enough to attend a tasting last month at their new tasting room located in Palermo Soho. A two floor loft with a corner wrap around view serves as an inspiring back drop to their wine selection.
The tastings concentrate on boutique wineries from throughout Arg. Some of the best wines from Mendoza Salta and San Juan can be sampled and purchased at Anuva.
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The relationship between Maria Belle, a black woman, and John Lindsay, a white British Navy captain, would, we like to believe, go unnoticed today. But Maria and John came to know one another in the 1700's. It is not known whether Maria was a slave or a free woman, but it is a fact that they had a child. A girl, named Dido Elizabeth Belle.
When the British captured Havana (Cuba) from the Spanish in 1762, a battle in which the HMS (Her Majesty's Ship) Trent, Lindsay's ship, fought, Maria was allegedly taken from one of the Spaniard's ships before the end of the war and returned with Lindsay to England, where Dido would be born.
Captain Lindsay was the nephew of England's most powerful judge, and the first Earl of Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice, William Murray. The judge and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Finch, raised Dido, together with her cousin, Lady Elizabeth Murray, whose mother, Frederica, died six years after her birth—Elizabeth's father remarried.
In a painting from the 18th century, Dido and Elizabeth Murray are shown as equals. Portraits from this era usually depict black people as being of a lower class. In this painting though, Elizabeth is showing affection toward Dido, and Dido is not, as usually is portrayed by those perceived as lower-class, kneeling at the side of Elizabeth, or in the background with a blank or caricatured expression
.A member of the family, and portrayed as an equal, did not keep Maria and Captain Lindsay's daughter from suffering the anguish of racism. While living at Kenwood House in London, England, Dido received much less of an allowance than her cousin, and was relegated to the guest room while visitors dined at the home.
But after dinner, wrote American guest, and former Governor of the state of Massachusetts, Thomas Hutchinson. "A black came in…and sat with the ladies, and after coffee walked with the company in the gardens, one of the young ladies having her arm within the other."
Belle stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Dido, Matthew Goode (Captain Lindsay), Tom Wilkinson, Lamin Tamba, and Sarah Gadon (Elizabeth).
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The UK's second Marine Energy Park was opened yesterday by energy and climate change minister Greg Barker at Thurso in Caithness, Scotland.
The Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters Marine Energy Park will incorporate the world-leading European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC). Established in 2003, this provides 14 internationally recognised and independently accredited purpose-built, open sea test facilities for wave and tidal energy converters.
"The new designation as a marine energy park will accelerate investment and the industry's ambition for commercialisation of the technologies being tested here," explained Lorne Crerar, chairman of Highlands and Islands Enterprise, at the event.
"It's great to see Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters confirm their place on the marine power map with the launch of the second of the Coalition Government's UK Marine Energy Parks," said Greg Barker.
He said it was "really important for the site to bring together not just the manufacturers, the commercial developers and the entrepreneurs in the right geographic place, to give them the facilities they need to create a future industry, but also the research and academic institutions and government as well, and bring a sense of dynamism to this very important part of the local economy".
Eileen Linklater, speaking for the Marine Energy Centre, said that to bring marine technology to the commercial level, they needed all the people in the whole of the local area to come together. The Centre is having a massive impact on the community. Potentially, it has the capacity to make as much difference to the economy of this part of the UK as the oil and gas industry has in the past.
As well as large-scale testing, EMEC also provides facilities for testing smaller scale wave and tidal devices, a wide range of consultancy and research services, and is at the forefront in the development of industry standards.
The Centre was established with around £30m of funding from the Scottish Government, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, the Carbon Trust, the UK Government, Scottish Enterprise, the European Union and Orkney Islands Council but today EMEC is fully self-sufficient, following a large influx of developers from across the world who have chosen to test their technologies in Orkney waters.
"The test sites of the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney have established it as a world-leading facility in the testing and certification of marine energy devices, allowing a competitive advantage for a new UK industry," said the Convener of Orkney Islands Council, Councillor Steven Heddle.
He said this "has led to the growth of a local supply chain and technical expertise geared towards marine renewables which is second to none. The launch of the Marine Energy Park formalises that leading role," he added.
Niall Stuart, CEO of Scottish Renewables, believes that locally-generated marine energy will reach commercial reality by 2020, around when 1.5GW of power will be coming onstream under existing contractual arrangements.
Greg Barker opened the first UK Marine Energy Park in South West England last January. This one is located at the new state-of-the-art Engineering, Technology & Energy Centre in Thurso. This is close to Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters, which lie between the mainland and the island of Stromness.
Here, tidal currents are extremely fast, amongst the fastest around the UK coast, and the waves can get very strong. Conditions are harsh, to say the least, for complex engineering to survive and operate reliably; an ideal testing ground.
As leader of the Highland Council, Councillor Drew Hendry, pointed out, the waters are already a vital part of the UK's growing marine sector. It is the site of the world's first commercial scale leasing round for marine energy, which is managed by the Crown Estate (TCE).
There are 11 successful bids from developers for sites in Scotland's Pentland Firth and Orkney waters, who propose up to 1.6 GW (600 MW from wave and 1000MW from tidal stream), which could, if developed to full capacity, meet the electricity needs of up to three quarters of a million homes.
Scrabster Harbour in Thurso is already expanding its facilities. Under its "three ports strategy", Orkney Islands Council is investing in new and upgraded pier and quayside facilities at Lyness, Hatston and Stromness, providing support facilities at key strategic locations.
The government estimates that energy from waves and tidal currents has the potential to generate 27GW of power in the UK alone by 2050, equivalent to the power generated from eight coal-fired power stations. Even greater potential lies in exporting British expertise in the area around the world. It provided a £20m Marine Energy Array Demonstration Fund earlier this year to help progress the development of marine devices from the current large scale prototypes to bigger formations.
Later-stage technology development and demonstration funding is provided through bodies such as the Technology Strategy Board, the Carbon Trust and the Energy Technologies Institute. The UK Marine Energy Programme board plays a central role in advising ministers what actions to take to help advance the industry, and comprises energy utilities, industrial companies, technology developers, financiers and Devolved Administrations.
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Things are likely to get worse with the publication of this book. Why didn't you write it under a pseudonym?Because the guy who's right for me will be someone who can handle the fact that I don't want to settle for just any man. I don't need 10 like that, just one.
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The Miami Hurricanes' recent success at home failed to travel to Charlottesville Wednesday night as they fell to the No. 12 Virginia Cavaliers 65-40 in the first of a three-game road trip.
Virginia used a 10-0 run in the second half to blow the doors open and took a 43-25 lead on Anthony Gill's layup with 12:33 remaining during a stretch where Miami failed to score a single point for over four minutes.
It got worse from there for Miami as Virginia later went on a 12-2 run to increase its lead to 26 at 61-35 with 2:31 remaining, its biggest of the night. Virginia made 9-of-16 3-pointers and 16-of-20 free throw attempts for a very efficient night offensively.
The Cavaliers were never threatened in the second half as they cruised to their 12th straight victory. Virginia entered the night ranked first in the country in scoring defense at 55.3 points per game and eighth in field goal percentage at 38.6 percent. Those numbers will only go up after its impressive performance against Miami.
Miami (14-14, 5-10) couldn't find any offensive rhythm the entire night, shooting just 26.1 percent from the field on 12-of-46 shooting while failing to make a single 3-pointer (0-for-12). Forward Erik Swoope (13) and guard Rion Brown (12) were the only players to score in double figures for the Hurricanes.
Virginia (24-5, 15-1) led for the most of the game and never trailed after guard London Perrantes hit a jumper with 11:42 left in the first half that gave the Cavaliers a 10-8 advantage. The Cavaliers led by as many as nine in the first half and took a 27-20 lead into the locker room thanks to a 3-pointer by Perrantes right before halftime, who finished the night with 15 points on a perfect 5-of-5 shooting, including four from beyond the arc.
Guards Malcolm Brogdon (15) and Joe Harris also scored in double figures for the Cavaliers.
Miami's road trip continues Saturday when it travels to Raleigh to face NC State at noon.


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(WSVN) Plans for the latest "All Aboard Florida" station were unveiled Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale.
It's part of the nation's first privately funded passenger rail line.
All Aboard Florida's promised Miami-to-Orlando passenger rail service will initially run only between Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, with trains rolling in late 2016, sunsentinel.com reported. It says the rail line is working out the logistics of building the rest of the line to Orlando.
At least four Treasure Coast cities, as well as the Martin County commissioners, have passed resolutions opposing All Aboard Florida.
St. Lucie County's resolution calls the high-speed passenger train "a threat to the public health, safety and welfare."
All Aboard Florida plans to run 16 daily round trips between Miami and Orlando — along the existing Florida East Coast Railway corridor through the heart of the Treasure Coast — and the twice-hourly road blockages would hinder emergency-service providers from making timely responses on either side of the tracks, according to the resolution.
The Fort Lauderdale station will be built in the city's downtown area.
"All Aboard Florida" says it will spend about $30 million dollars to build the station.
Its main station in Miami comes in at a cast of $150 million.
Service is set to launch in late 2016
Keona Gardner, Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers contributed to this report


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Educated Kachin; Monino. Total EVA Time: 0.96 days. Number of EVAs: 4.
Official NASA Biography
NAME: Valeri Grigorievich Korzun (Colonel, Russian Air Force)
Cosmonaut of Yu.A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
PERSONAL DATA: Born March 5, 1953, in Krasny Sulin. He has a son, Nikita. His father is Korzun Grigori Andreevich, and his mother, Korzun Maria Arsentievna.
EDUCATION: Graduated from Kachin Military Aviation College in 1974; Commander Department of the Gagarin Air Force Academy in 1987.
SPECIAL HONORS: Awarded six Air Force Medals.
EXPERIENCE: After graduation from the Military College in 1974, he served as a pilot, a senior pilot, flight section, commander of air squadron in the Air Force. In 1987, he was selected as a cosmonaut for training at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center after successfully graduating from the Gagarin Military Air-Force Academy.
Starting December 1987 through June 1989, he took the course of General Space Training. Korzun was certified as a Test-Cosmonaut in 1989.
From September 1989 through September 1992, he trained for space flight as part of the test-cosmonauts group. From October 1992 to March 1994, he took a training course for flight onboard the spacecraft "Soyuz TM" as commander of the rescue vehicle. From March 1994 to June 1995, he trained as a group member for flight onboard the orbital complex "Mir".
March 1994 through January 1995, he served as a deputy Director of the 27KC crew training complex flight as supervisor of communication with the crew.
Korzun is a 1st class military pilot. He has logged 1473 hours, and has flown 4 types of aircrafts. He is an Instructor of Parachute Training, and has completed 377 parachute jumps.
June 1995 through August 1996, he completed training as a flight engineer for the Mir-22/ NASA-3 and "Cassiopia" (sponsored by CNES) programs.
August 17, 1996 through March 2, 1997, he completed a 197-day flight onboard the Mir station. The program included joint flights with NASA 2, 3 and 4 astronauts, a French astronaut and a German astronaut. Korzun performed 2 space walks totaling 12 hours and 33 minutes.
Birth Place: Krasny Sulin.
Status: Inactive.
Born: 1953.03.05.
Spaceflights: 2 .
Total time in space: 381.65 days.
On Feb 7 at 16:28:01 GMT the EO-22 crew and American astronaut Linenger undocked the Soyuz TM-24 ferry from the front docking port, flew it around to the far side of the complex and redocked at the rear Kvant port at 16:51:27 GMT. This cleared the forward port for the arrival of the EO-23 crew, who brought with them German astronaut Reinhold Ewald on Feb 12.


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WINDSOR - The formal announcement of a major University of Colorado facilities upgrade that was targeted for this fall might or might not hit that mark. But the proposed multi-million dollar project remains an athletic department priority.
After specifying a timetable at an informal media gathering in April, CU Athletic Director Mike Bohn said Thursday that a late September unveiling of what he termed a "transformational" project in his department "is yet to be determined."
Speaking at a media briefing following the athletic department's annual summer golf outing - the Casotti Classic - Bohn said he was unsure if "we're on pace" to make the announcement at that time.
"I know that we are working extremely hard to be in a position to talk about that," he continued. "There's a lot of moving pieces in that project and there's a lot of different things that are coming together on that.
"But I think that (a late September announcement) is yet to be determined. So I'm not saying yes and I'm not saying no. But I'm thrilled with the collaboration with the campus and all the moving pieces that have been put together. It's an extremely complicated process, but yet it's one we're spending a great deal of time on. We're pleased with our progress but we'll see about that exact timing."
Four months ago Bohn said he viewed the proposed multi-million dollar upgrade as a long-term solution to many of his department's challenges as well as some of those being confronted elsewhere on the Boulder campus. The facilities plan would reconfigure Folsom Field into a bowl and link the complex, including the Dal Ward Athletics Center, with a permanent indoor practice facility atop an underground parking structure.
At the time, Bohn called the project "transformational" and said "campus connectivity" is critical in the plan. CU faces "some significant challenges associated with classroom space, based on the growth of the campus," he said. "We believe the stadium footprint is a potential solution to that, in a big way."
Other topics Bohn touched on Thursday afternoon included:
Football season ticket sales last season approached 25,000-plus - the most since 2003. "We're working our tail off to try and reach that number again," Bohn said.
The current count is approaching 21,000, according to Bohn, "So we recognize that we have some room to go." He said traditionally the opening of Broncos training camp seems to generate football interest in general and can lead to an increase in CU season ticket sales.
"That's why we kept our pricing structure the way it is . . . we're trying to make it affordable and also continue to assure we're in the right bracket associated with our fans based on our peers in the league and across the country," he said.
Although about 4,000 season tickets need to be sold to reach last year's total, Bohn said that was "not abnormal for us. We generally have attrition each year in that range, which is one way is very, very frustrating. But on the other hand it's an opportunity for us to continue to work and try to put that together.
"We'd like to get to a situation where our attrition is not in that range. I don't have answer for exactly why that is, but it's certainly something we continue to scratch at and put together."
CU endured a rare home season in 2011 that included only five home games. The normal six are scheduled this year, along with the opener against Colorado State in Denver on Sept. 1.
CU will induct a dozen new members this fall into its Athletic Hall of Fame. Three of the inductees were present at Thursday's golf gathering, and Bohn said the 2012 class "demonstrates the wonderful heritage of athletes we have here . . . the depth of our wonderful heritage of Buffaloes. It's exciting for us to pull this group together."
The Class of 2012 will be recognized during the weekend of Washington's visit to Folsom Field this fall (Saturday, Nov. 17). The three inductees attending Thursday's event were former football players Matt Russell and Frank Bernardi (he also played baseball) and longtime radio announcer Larry Zimmer.
Steeplechasers Emma Coburn's and Shalaya Kipp's membership on Team USA has made CU proud on numerous fronts, Bohn said. "That's just a huge boost of wind in our sails, with what our university represents. It's consistent with our guiding principles, it's consistent with our commitment to Title IX, it's consistent with all things that are right about intercollegiate athletics.
"We could not be prouder of those two young women and the way they have represented Colorado and now the way they will represent our nation in the Olympics. We have big expectations for them when they get back in the fall, too."
Both student-athletes have a year of eligibility remaining, and both are NCAA steeplechase champs - Coburn in 2011, Kipp in 2012.
New video boards in Folsom Field are "fully installed" but have not yet been tested. However, he said a "premiere event" for the media that will demonstrate the "spectacular impact" the new boards will have is scheduled for Aug. 10. The event is titled "Your Name In Lights."
"It's going to have a huge impact on our fan experience and we're very, very excited and proud of that," Bohn added.
Along with the new boards, Bohn said he was hopeful of football soon experiencing a similar fervor that was present last winter in men's basketball, when Tad Boyle's team made its unexpected push to the Pac-12 Tournament championship and landed in the NCAA Tournament.
"From time to time we do it and it's the best," he said, citing the environments at past home games against Georgia and West Virginia. Bohn's goal is for CU fans to attend home games "because it's the place to be and it's fun and it's exciting. We get to see plays, replays and all the different things in HD quality."
The program, he agreed, still needs to create an "intensity of interest" among fans who will come to watch the Buffs "whether we're a 20-point underdog or a 20-point favorite, and know that Folsom Field is the place to be and be a part of that.
"That's what's we've got to sell and that's some of the expectations I have. I take that on personally and I think our new CMO brings a part of that. I believe our senior staff embraces that as well and that's what we're working on."
New Chief Marketing Officer Matt Biggers joined the athletic department on July 5, an addition Bohn said would help the department "take advantage of the continued interest and excitement in the Pac-12."
The Pac-12 Network is scheduled to launch in mid-August, and Bohn remains hopeful of the network being carried by DirecTV, Comcast and the Dish Network.
Bohn said he was unsure his staffers (he also included himself) and the media present Thursday could comprehend the impact and significance the network will have on CU athletics.
"The league move was obviously significant, but the network is a game-changer for us . . . it's going to dramatically change the exposure that our fans across the world are going to be able to see," he said. "To have every single football game nationally televised, every single home men's basketball game . . . and the ability to feature other Olympic sports is going to dramatically change the ability for us to escalate the intensity of interest from our fan base.
"And that continues to be our number one priority, which is why we hired a chief marketing officer to help us. Because we have got to fuel the intensity of interest in our program."
Bohn said positive results in that area were demonstrated last basketball season and there is a "need to enhance that model in the football program and make progress in the women's basketball program, volleyball and soccer."
The finishing touches have been put on the last fiscal year, which included the transition to the Pac-12. He said he was aware that work remained to be done "on the scoreboard" but noted the "improvement in the academic piece is unprecedented. I've got to salute our coaches and our student-athletes for making that happen. It's historic and we're proud of it."
The 303 student-athletes enrolled for the 2012 spring semester had a term GPA of 2.935, the highest since the department began tracking the information in 1996. The previous high GPA was 2.891, compiled in the spring semester of 2000.
Football's new practice field will be dressed up with a Pac-12 logo as well as Buffaloes in the end zone. "Our old practice field was just generic," Bohn said, adding the "neat thing about this new field is all the (yardage) lines are sewn into the field. We'll never have to paint it, we'll never have to do anything to enhance it. It's all permanently sewn into the field. That's a wonderful addition; it's very efficient."
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Print version ISSN 0021-7557
On-line version ISSN 1678-4782
J. Pediatr. (Rio J.) vol.81 no.5 Porto Alegre Sept./Oct. 2005
Nutritional status of Terena indian children from Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil: follow up of weight and height and current prevalence of anemia
Mauro Batista MoraisI; Gildney Maria dos Santos AlvesII; Ulysses Fagundes-NetoIII
Universidade Federal de São Paulo - Escola Paulista de Medicina (UNIFESP/EPM),
São Paulo, SP, Brazil
IIPhD. Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), Campo Grande, MS
IIIProfessor. Chancellor of Universidade Federal de São Paulo - Escola Paulista de Medicina (UNIFESP/EPM), São Paulo, SP, Brazil
OBJECTIVE: This study of Terena Indian
children less than 10 years old was undertaken in order to compare weight and
height in 1995 and 2002 and to evaluate anemia prevalence in 2002.
METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study of the Limão Verde and Córrego Seco tribes, located in Aquidauana, Mato Gosso do Sul, Brazil. The study enrolled all 253 children who were less than 10 years old in 1995 and 244 who were under 10 in 2002. Their nutritional status was evaluated comparing weight and height with the NCHS (National Center for Health Statistics) reference values (Epi-Info version 6.2). Hemoglobin was assayed using a portable photometer.
RESULTS: The percentages of children with weight for age deficit (z score < -2 standard deviations) were 4 and 2.9% in 1995 and 2002 respectively. Percentages of weight for height deficits were 3.6 and 0.8% respectively. Percentages of height for age deficits were 15 and 11,1% respectively. The median z scores for weight, age and weight, and height showed a statistically significant increase during the period between 1995 and 2002 in infants. Between 24 and 60 months, there were increments in median z scores for weight for age and height for age. There was no statistically significant decrease in any of the anthropometric indicators, with reference to z scores. The prevalence rates of anemia were 86.1% for infants 6 to 24 months old (n = 43), 50.8% for those 24 to 60 months (n = 65) and 40.7% for children aged 60 to 120 months (n = 59).
CONCLUSION: Weight and height both increased during period from 1995 to 2002. Anemia was highly prevalent, calling for immediate corrective measures.
Key words: Child Nutrition, anthropometry, anemia, South American Indians.
Nutritional status is one of the principal indicators of the condition of a population's health, and anthropometry, due to its practicality and low cost, is used in the greater part of studies undertaken within the community,1,2 including those of indigenous groups. In an earlier study,3 it was found that the children of Terenas Indians, from the villages of Limão Verde and Córrego Seco, located in the district of Aquidauana, exhibited a pattern of weight and stature comparable with other groups indigenous to Brazil, characterized by a deficit in height for age and appropriate weight for height.4-10
A study undertaken of the children of Alto Xingu Indians found that from 1980 to 1992, a statistically significant reduction in median height for age z-score had occurred,10 emphasizing the importance of periodic assessments of the nutritional status of indigenous groups since cultural changes over the long term could be associated with alterations to the anthropometric pattern of the child population.4
Iron deficiency anemia presents an elevated prevalence in developing countries, afflicting most often infants, preschool aged children, adolescents and women of a fertile age.11,12 During childhood, the principal causative factors of iron deficiency are an insufficient iron intake and increased demands for iron due to growth.11,12 For the city of São Paulo there is evidence demonstrating an increase in the prevalence of iron deficiency anemia in the child population since the 1970s,13 in contrast with the prevalence of protein-energy malnutrition which reduced over the same period.14 Despite the importance of iron deficiency anemia as a nutritional problem of great significance to the health of the pediatric population, there is little information with respect of the prevalence of anemia among groups of indigenous Brazilians.5,8
The objectives of this study were to compare the weight and stature of Terenas Indian children less than ten years old, sampled at two different times (1995 and 2002) and to verify the presence of anemia in this population in 2002.
Patients and methods
The study was performed at the Terenas villages of Limão Verde and Córrego Seco, located in the district of Aquidauana, in Mato Grosso do Sul state. Based on fieldwork undertaken in 1995, the number of inhabitants of the villages was estimated at 1,500.3 The dwellings in the Limão Verde and Córrego Seco villages have walls made from tree trunks and clay and roofs made from leaves of the aguaje palm (Mauritia flexuosa). They do not have electricity or running water. Terenas Indians cultivate corn, beans, rice, cassava and fruit, with the small quantities that exceed their subsistence needs being sold at market in the towns of Aquidauana or Campo Grande.
This is a cross-sectional study, analyzing the child population inhabiting the Limão Verde and Córrego Seco villages at two different points in time (1995 and 2002). With the single inclusion criterion of attempting to study the largest possible number children less than ten years old. In 1995 it proved possible to include this age group in its entirety, summing 253 children (122 were male and 131 were female). In 2002, based on the same inclusion criterion, 244 children were evaluated (112 were male and 132 were female) which accounted for more than 90% of the children in this age group. All of the children were not studied in 2002 because of the limited time available for fieldwork, i.e. it was not possible to make a return visit to see those children who had been absent on the examination days.
In 2002, hemoglobin in thumb prick blood was assayed for 167 children. The intention had been to assay the hemoglobin of all children aged 6 months to 5 years. In the event, hemoglobin was assayed for 43 (95.6%) of the 45 infants aged 6 to 24 months and for 65 (94.2%) of the 69 children aged 24 to 60 months. The single limiting factor resulting in the non-inclusion of all children in the anemia prevalence assessment was the number of test kits available at the time the fieldwork was carried out. This was the reason that the age group from 60 to 120 months was evaluated with a sample of convenience including approximately half of the study group, specifically 59 (48.9%) of the 121 children aged 60 to 120 months. The presence or absence of clinical signs or symptoms indicating anemia did not influence the choice of which children would undergo hemoglobin assay.
Measurements of weight and stature were taken according to recommendations made by Jelliffe for studies in the community.1 Weight was measured using one of two mechanical scales, one for infants and the other for larger children, both for the survey performed in 1995 and that undertaken in 2002. The children were weighed unclothed or using lightweight underclothes, particularly those in the school age and preschool age groups. Length was measured for children up to 2 years old with the child in decubitus dorsal and, from this age onwards, height was measured standing. Two anthropometers were used for this. For all stature measurements, due precautions were taken to maintain the spine and legs straight. The z-scores and percentages for the match between weight and age, weight and stature and stature and age were calculated using Epi-Info version 6.2,15 based on the reference values in the NCHS (National Center for Health Statistics) table.16 A cutoff of -2 standard deviations was adopted for deficits of weight for stature, weight for age and stature for age, in accordance with World Health Organization recommendations.2
Hemoglobin concentration was determined using a portable photometer (HemoCue, Angelholm, Sweden) and a blood sample collected by thumb prick. Blood was not collected fasting.
The definition used for anemia obeys the cutoff points established in 1999 by the World Health Organization:12 11 g/dl from 6 to 72 months and 11.5 g/dl for children aged 73 to 120 months. For purposes of comparison the prevalence of anemia between 60 and 120 months was also calculated based on the 12 g/dl cutoff point which had been recommended by the World Health Organization for this age group prior to 1999.11
The majority of the variables involved do not present standard deviation and, for this reason, the Mann-Whitney test was used to compare continuous variables for the two independent groups. Calculations were performed using Jandel Sigma Stat for Windows (SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL, USA). Categorical variables were analyzed using the chi-square test or Fisher's exact test using Epi-Info version 6.2.15 The level of statistical significance was defined as 5% (alpha error = 0.05).
The project was approved by the Commission for Ethics in Research at the Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul and the Fundação Nacional do Índio do Mato Grosso do Sul. The phase undertaken in 1995 was also approved by the Ethics Commission at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo - Escola Paulista de Medicina. Informed consent in writing was obtained from the village leaders as laid out in the applicable regulations.
Table 1 presents the percentages of Indian children with deficits in weight for age, weight for stature and stature for age, by study year and age group. A reduction was observed in the percentage of deficit in weight for stature, in the 60 to 120 months age range, but the difference did not reach statistical significance (p = 0.054). A reduction was also observed in the percentage of stature for age deficit among children aged 24 to 60 months, but this difference also failed to reach statistical significance (p = 0.053). The proportion of stature for age deficit oscillated between 5.6 and 9.9%, without statistical significance (p = 0.328). It was only possible to perform a statistical analysis of the percentages of children with anthropometric deficits by age group and for each study phase for stature for age, as detailed in the footnote to Table 1. The chi-square test could not be used for the weight-age and weight-stature indicators because the expected value was below 5 in at least one case. The proportion of stature for age in 1995 was found to be statistically lower between 60 and 120 months.
Taking the individual z-score values as continuous variables, expressed as medians and 25th and 75th percentiles (Table 2), the Mann-Whitney test revealed a statistically significant reduction in median weight for age and weight for stature deficits in the under 24 month age group, when compared with the NCHS reference values. A reduction was confirmed in weight for age and stature for age deficits in the 24 to 60 month age group. No statistically significant variation was observed in the anthropometric parameters of the 60 to 120 month age group.
As was mentioned earlier, priority was given to the hemoglobin assays of children aged 6 to 60 months, with the result that 43 (95.6%) of the 45 infants aged 6 to 24 months, 65 (94.2%) of the 69 children aged 24 to 60 months and 59 (48.9%) of the 121 aged 60 to 120 months were assayed. Table 3 shows the prevalence of anemia in the study population. Anemia prevalence was elevated in all three age groups, being greatest among the infants, as was demonstrated by the statistical study. Taking the cutoff point to be 12 g/dl of hemoglobin 60 to 120 months, the prevalence of anemia was 57.6%.
Table 4 presents medians for weight for age, weight for stature and stature for age z-scores according to the presence or absence of anemia, for the three age groups. The only statistical difference identified by the Mann-Whitney test was between anemic children and children with normal hemoglobin, aged 24 to 60 months, with the anemic children having lower stature for age z-scores.
The weight and stature measurements of the indigenous Terenas children obtained in 2002 confirm the nutritional profile observed in 1995,3 i.e. a predominance of stature for age deficit over weight for stature deficit. The comparison of anthropometric data from 1995 with those from 2002 revealed an increase in the weight of infants, characterized by a statistically significant increase in the median weight for age and weight for stature z-scores (Table 2). This change was not associated with a statistical reduction in the proportion of infants with deficits (z-score < -2 standard deviations) in weight for age and weight for stature (Table 1). There was also a statistically significant increase in the median weight for age and stature for age z-scores for the children aged 24 to 60 months, over the period from 1995 to 2002 (Table 2). The results of the present study, therefore, do not provide evidence of a deterioration in the nutritional condition of the children of the Terenas Indians, since during the study period indicators of improvements in nutritional status have been observed, especially in weight, from 0 to 60 months of life, and stature, from 24 to 60 months. These results, demonstrating an increase in the weight of the children of the Terenas Indians, could, from a speculative perspective, be an indication of the initial phase of a nutritional transition process, along the lines of what is happening in the Brazilian population,14 and which should also be a cause for concern in indigenous populations.17 In synthesis, the results of the present study demonstrate a reduction in nutritional deficits, especially when analyzed using the medians of the z-scores.
Concerning stature, as has been pointed out earlier,3 there is no easy explanation for the greater frequency of stature deficit that was observed for the under 60 months age group in 1995, compared with the 60 to 120 month age group. In 2002, a reduction was observed in the proportion of stature for age deficit in this age group, with a statistically significant tendency for 24 to 60 months (Table 1). Thus, the results of the present study, revealing a stature for age deficit in 15 and 11.1% of the children studied (aged 0 to 120 months) in 1995 and 2002, respectively, are similar to those observed in children living in the Xingu Indigenous Park (19.8% in Alto Xingu tribes6 and 12% in Panará Indians)8. In contrast, other indigenous groups have exhibited much greater proportions of stature for age for the same age group, for example, the Tupi-Mondê (55.4%) in Rondonia and Mato Grosso states4 and the Surui from Rondonia17 and the Ikpeng (37.7%) from the Alto Xingu.18 Taking just the age group from 0 to 60 months, the values found in the present study (22.1% in 1995 and 12.2% in 2002) are comparable to those observed, in 1990, in another Terena village in do Mato Grosso do Sul state (16%)9 and in the Xavantes of Mato Grosso (11.3%).7 Studies undertaken in several different regions worldwide, including Brazil,19,20 have revealed a secular tendency towards increased stature. An absence of this positive secular variation in stature can be interpreted in one of two ways: 1) As a nutritional deterioration in the socio-economic and cultural conditions of a population group, resulting in environmental conditions that are inadequate for growth; or 2) the population groups is living in ideal conditions and in the past has already fully expressed its genetic growth potential.21 The first of these two possibilities is more probable in the case of the Terena community being studied, although consideration must also be given to the possibility that the seven-year interval between 1995 and 2002 may not be long enough to detect a secular stature variation. A study of the children of Alto Xingu Indians did not find evidence of increased stature over a twelve-year period from 1980 to 1992.10 These data underscore the importance of periodical monitoring of the nutritional status of several different population groups, including indigenous groups who are going through a process of changing their cultural characteristics, lifestyle and feeding patterns.
These data also indicate that different indigenous groups exhibit distinct growth patterns, probably as a result of the interaction of heterogeneous genetic and environmental factors. This being so, the interpretation of anthropometric data from different indigenous groups should be performed with extreme caution, whether when comparing with the NCHS values or whether making direct comparisons between different indigenous groups.
The prevalence of anemia among the Terenas children was 86.1% from 6 to 24 months, 50.8% from 24 to 60 months and 40.7% for 60 to 120 month old children. In 1975, when the Panará arrived at the Xingu Indigenous Park, 68% of their children less than 10 years old presented with hemoglobin below 11 g/dl, whereas, in 1998 this figure had dropped to 42%.8 In 1991, a 70% prevalence of anemia was observed among Suruí children under 5 years of age.5 Based on the scarce data that are available, it is possible to state that anemia is a significant health problem among indigenous children in Brazil, in common with what has been observed of our country's child population who live in urban or rural areas, especially from 6 to 24 months of age.22 There is also little information on the prevalence of anemia in schoolchildren and for this age group care must be taken with which cutoff point has been adopted. This is dealt with well by a study23 performed in Alagoas, in which both of the cutoff points recommended by the World Health Organization were used: the 12 g/dl that was traditionally recommended11 and the less rigorous value of 11.5 g/dl that has been adopted since 1999.12 Taking first the 11.5 g/dl cutoff, the prevalence of anemia among the children of the Terenas Indians aged 60 to 120 months was 40.7%, which is above the level found among schoolchildren aged 6 to 12 years from low income families in the state of Paraná (25.7%)24 and around three to four times greater than the 9.9 and 13% that were found for schoolchildren in state-run schools in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Maceió, respectively.23 If the 12 g/dl cutoff is used, 57.6% of the Terenas children would be diagnosed as anemic. This value is comparable to that observed among schoolchildren at state schools in Osasco (51%) and greater than that observed in Aracaju (26.7%).25
In two articles published Brazil anemia and stature deficit were treated as categorical variables and no association was identified.23,26 In our study, taking the z-scores as continuous variables, it was possible to identify a lower median stature for age z-score among children suffering from anemia aged 24 to 60 months. Weight and stature can become compromised when there is an iron deficiency, as demonstrated by studies performed in other countries.27 A study performed in Brazil demonstrated weight gain in anemic children after 8 weeks of oral iron therapy.28 Despite this link between iron deficiency and weight deficit, it is unlikely that the high percentages of stature for age deficits observed among the children of Brazilian Indians has a cause-effect relationship with a deficiency of this mineral. Studies are needed that are specifically designed to investigate this issue.
Concerning the etiology of anemia, it is believed that, in the community the great majority of anemia cases are the result of iron deficiency.11,12 Iron deficiency itself, is basically dependent on insufficient ingestion and assimilation of iron from the diet.11,12 This feature was evaluated with Terena children living in the Córrego do Meio village in Mato Grosso do Sul.9 They observed that,9 based on a 24-hour dietary recall, the mean estimated percentage of recommended iron intake was 14.1% for 6 to 11 months of age, 33% for 12 to 24 months and 60.4% from 24 to 59 months, confirming insufficient iron consumption. In ancylostomiasis there is also the possibility of blood loss caused by intestinal parasites. Tests for parasites performed in the nineties found Giardia lamblia in 30.3%, Hymenolepsis nana in 10.6%, Necator americanus in 3.3%, Strongyloides stercoralis in 3.3% and Ascaris lumbricoides in 1.6% of the children in the villages evaluated.3 The occurrence of ancylostomiasis in 3.3% of the children, cannot therefore explain the high levels of anemia found among the Terenas children. Furthermore, it is unlikely that giardiasis, unassociated with chronic diarrhea, can cause poor intestinal iron intake.29 In other words, everything indicates that the cause of the anemia observed in the Terenas villages studied is iron deficiency.
Concluding, between 1995 and 2002 an improvement was observed in the nutritional indicators weight and stature, together with the maintenance of stature for age deficit as the principal nutritional problem among the children of the Terenas Indians, in common with other indigenous groups in Latin America. The prevalence of anemia was extremely elevated, indicating the need for measures to combat it with alacrity.
The Terenas responsible for the clinics at the Limão Verde and Córrego Seco villages.
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