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Recent ultrasound found joint issues with my baby. What can they mean?
I am 20 weeks pregnant and have found out that my baby has some severe joint issues in the legs and feet. My doctor is afraid it could be Larsen Syndrome but isn't sure. We will get test results in a month back and will find out it is in fact Larsen. We are not sure what to do if it is or isn't. We are unfortunately looking at the option of termination if the case is severe enough. Do you know anything on joint issues? If the child is born, are these correctable? One leg bends slightly, with a pointed foot. The other leg is straight, possibly hyperextended a bit and will not bend, with a foot that is bent inward. Any assistance on this would be greatly helpful. We are searching and searching for some kind of answer so we know what to do. Thank you.
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Well, I am glad things are going well and I wish you the best of luck!
I totally agree that the tube made the feeding so much less stressful. When I went back to work DS was 14 months old. Though leaving him with a sitter for the first time was hard, it was also nice at the same time. It meant I didn't have to fight with him to eat a lunch time. We had a feeding pump for DS because he couldn't tollerate gravity feeds. The G-tube was much better because his poor little cheeks were getting so raw from the tape. Larsen's does not run in our family, it was a spontaneous mutation at conception. He was our first child. We were nervous about considering a second child, but we felt he deserved a sibling and we aways wanted 2 children. Our daughter is 2 1/2, and no problems at all, and they fight like cats and dogs, and play together like any other siblings would :0)posted 06/07/2012 by m2bjd
I know she CAN eat a bottle. She just doesn't eat it all the time and it's a battle. The G tube has made feedings so far much easier. We are hoping that she will be able to flourish with her not having to work as hard on feeds and making sure she gets the full feed every feed. Doctors still are not sure what's going on with her, but I think (and hope) honestly it's just from her being in such an odd position in utero and she will be able to pull out of it. Once she consistently gets her nutrition for awhile I think that will help development as well. Larsen is so rare. Do you have anyone in your family who has any history of that?
She was in frank breech with barely and lower limb movement and clubbed feet in utero. She was born with her legs hyperextende. She currently is 5 months old. Her legs are down and doing great, but her feet are turned inward and like to point like little ballerina feet. They are not fixed though, they can move into the right position. She just gets some physical therapy and that has been helping. As for feeding, she went awhile with an NG tube, but she grew to hate it as it bothered her from being in too long. She got her G tube just last week. I was the only one who could get her to feed and it would take every bit of 45 minutes. Which means I had to be present at all feedings and couldn't leave her with grandparents, husband or anyone to run errands. I do have someone who comes in the house and she could get her to eat, but battling a feed for that long 5 times a day is horrible for both feeder and baby. She is a slow little gainer which is why I hope the G tube will help.
What made your drs think your daughter had Larsen's in utero? Most drs has never delt or heard of it. Is your daughter able to take anything by mouth? Of all of my son's issues, the feeding was the hardest to deal with. Progress was so slow, especially where eating is something that comes natural to most babies.
We found out at our 17 wk u/s that the baby would have bilateral clubfoot, nothing else was suspected. It wasn't until DS was born that everything else was discovered.
I am so glad to hear your little boy is doing well! I am somewhat familiar with Larsen. I did not know that hypontonia was associated with it. Did you know he had an issue in utero or was it not until he was born?
Congratulations on the birth of your daughter (belated, lol) My son has hypotonia, and was tube fed from birth until just after his 4th birthday. From the research you probably did on Larsen's you get the idea the condidtion. Though he has his issues, he is doing very well. I hope your little girl thrives, and conquers any obstacle that may come her way.
My daughter does not have Larsen. They actually aren't sure what is going on. She has feeding issues and hypotonia. She currently has a G tube. Other than feeding, she's doing great, other than some developmental delays. We keep testing and testing and still can't figure the little one out! Hopefully we will have answers soon. And hopefully with this new G tube she will start gaining weight! She's tiny! She's around ten and a half pounds at 5 months. She was born at 6 pounds. I hope your son (and you) is doing well. My thoughts are with you!
I just joined this group. It's been almost a year since you posted this. Was Larsen's confirmed upon the arrival of your little one? How is he/she doing? My son is 6 years old now, and he has Larsen's.
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What do I know about football? I'd say the answer is "enough". As a child my dad would take me to football matches to see his beloved team - Newcastle United - play. I'd sit there eating my chicken balti pie, an eight year old surrounded my t-shirtless Geordies, their big stomachs wobbling with every cheer. Or groan. (My dad wasn't shirtless, FYI.)
Years later, I still don't understand the off-side rule, but I do get the passion for the sport. It would be foolish of me to mock an avid football fan considering my own Springsteen loving tendencies.
So yes, I'll be embracing the World Cup this year. That's why Waitrose asked me to combine my love of burgers, with my tolerance of football, to create a burger recipe inspired by one of the countries playing. I went for Italy, because as well as obsessing over Italian food and ingredients, it's the one country I'm always planning my next trip to. On the Waitrose football party page you'll find some other very nice burger recipes from other burger and football fans.
As you'll know I eat many many burgers, but living in a city with so many good options, I admit I rarely make them myself. I requested help from friends, and together we created a recipe: rustic (aka messy) Italian burgers. Shockingly, the results were really quite impressive.
Waitrose would like football fans and burger fans to enjoy the World Cup with a home made burger in hand, which sounds like a bright idea. So if you like the look of this Italian Stallion, try it yourself using my recipe below.
1 500g pack of Aberdeen Angus beef mince (as high a fat content as possible)
2 packs of pancetta
1 pack of prosciutto
1 pack of fresh basil
2 packs of good quality mozzarella
One clove of garlic
Waitrose focaccia
1 jar sundried tomatoes
1 packet of rocket
Olive oil
1) Thinly slice two packets of pancetta and mix with the packet of good quality, high fat content beef mince. Chop four basil leaves and add to the mixture with salt and pepper for seasoning.
2) Roll the beef and pancetta mix into balls (somewhere between a golf ball and a tennis ball size). Flatten, and place a few small tears of mozzarella in the middle of the patty. Place a second patty on top, and press together to make one thicker patty, with a hidden mozzarella centre. Seal at the sides as much as possible with your hands.
3) Heat a dash of olive oil and finely chopped garlic in a small saucepan. Once sizzling, add approximately 150ml of passata, a teaspoon of brown sugar and a pinch of salt. Stir continuously on a low heat to reduce down into your home-made Italian ketchup
4) Pre-heat a pan with oil, season both sides of the patties with salt and fry on the first side for a couple of minutes. Flip, and place a layer of mozzarella on the cooked side of the patty. Continue to cook for a couple more minutes until medium rare
5) In a separate pan fry your prosciutto until crispy
6) Use Waitrose focaccia as your "bun" cutting it into large squares. Place in the oven for the time advised on the pack, toasting the inside of the bottom "bun" and "lid"
7) Once warm, spread the inside of the bun with your Italian ketchup. Place the patty onto the bottom bun and top with a slice of crispy prosciutto, a couple of thinly sliced sundried tomatoes and a small handful of rocket. Top with your focaccia lid.
8) Eat and enjoy, watching the World Cup!
Visit the World Cup Football Party Home Inspirations page. Here you'll find loads of other burger recipes, from various countries around the world.


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MINING magnate Gina Rinehart has chosen former foreign minister Alexander Downer as her second representative on the board of oil and gas explorer Lakes Oil.
The deal saw Timeview Enterprises - a subsidiary of Hancock Prospecting - purchase $4.25 million worth of Lakes Oil convertible notes.
If fully converted into shares, Mrs Rinehart would control 18.6 per cent of shares in Lakes Oil, which is seeking to develop unconventional forms of oil and gas in Victoria.
Lakes Oil said on Friday Mr Downer had also been nominated by Hancock Prospecting to join the board as a non-executive director.
Mr Downer was Australia's longest-serving foreign minister, from 1996 to 2007. He also served as opposition leader between 1994 and 1995.
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The perks of being a journalist are few and far between—the closest I'll ever get to my dream Aston Martin is the other side of a velvet rope during the press day of the NY Auto Show. But one plus is that people assume you're an absolute monster of the English language. I can make up words and people are afraid to call my bluff. Vulexinard? It means soft-spoken—don't tell me you didn't know that. Also, did you know I won every spelling bee in middle school? I didn't, but question it and I'll spell onomatopoeia so fast you'll forget what nouns are. And forget about Scrabble—who in their right mind wants to get Triple Word Scored by "NBN"'s poet laureate himself. But here's the thing—I'm not even good at Scrabble, I'm just annoying as all hell to play against. This video presentation by Mehal Shah (a great way to get clear your rack of "h"s) showcases lots of my favorite moves. Go watch it! (*steals your blank tile*)
The Disney movies of the past 40 years or so are a reflection of the way the people that made them were brought up, with strong family values, life lessons and overall wholesome entertainment (except for Snow White—one woman and seven men? So much for monogamy). But kids these days are ungrateful little punks, with their skinny black jeans and garbage emo music and "I hate the world!" attitude. What are those kids going to show their kids? This set of illustrations of reimagined Disney princesses could be the answer. It's like someone mixed the "family" section at Blockbuster with a Hot Topic. And the stories would go along with the characters: "Aladdin was a street rat. He found a magic lamp and made three wishes: A new studded belt, Zoo York hoodie and tickets to see Good Charlotte. But Jasmine wasn't interested. So Aladdin got out his acoustic guitar, swung the hair out of his eyes and said, 'I hate you, world!'" Wholesome entertainment.
Winter is a nice break from the rain heat, but it's not all butterflies and roses (they fly south/die). Snow, people looking at me funny when I wear flip flops, leafless trees—but the biggest problem? Having sex! (Heyyy, mom and dad, I know you love to read my column, and I appreciate it, but this week's isn't worth your time. Seriously, dad, close the Digital Edition now). There must be way less baby-making during cold months. In the summer it's no biggie—if the bed sheets come off it's still like 75 degrees outside. What's the solution in the winter? Bathrobe? I'm not Ferris Bueller. Pea coat? Too many buttons. Poncho? Not that breathable, and I'm not always in the mood for asphyxiation. You can find the best answer at your local "As Seen on TV" retailer, wedged between a Slap Chop and bucket of OxiClean—The Snuggie. Once you've got one, head over to The Snuggie Sutra. It's full of ways to use the sleeved blanket to maximize mid-December love sessions (ShamWow for cleanup not included).
When I first saw the movie Beerfest, I thought it was funny, but unfair—Germans constantly get stereotyped as big alcoholic nutjobs who speek like zey ähr älveyz vith äy stäffed noze. I know how that feels. I'm English and people constantly assume I have horrible teeth, and LET ME TELL YOU, I did not wear a palate expander, braces and a retainer for like 15 years for nothing (other than to be the laughing stock of grade school and make the metal detector at the airport go insane). But unfortunately for the Germans, they're not doing anything to discredit their drinking stigma. In fact, if the pictures from this year's 16-day Oktoberfest are any indication, they love the stigma. Munich's mayor even tapped the first keg, while screaming O'zapft is!, which is probably German for mein führer, zis hängovä vill hürt. Anyway, enjoy these photos and don't forget to book your tickets for the "NßN" Oktoberfest trip next year (it's at Applebee's—twofers!).
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"Superman vs. The Elite" is probably the most adult of all the Superman-related DC Universe Animated Original Movies.
I'll admit that the animation style and character designs do take a little getting used to. A lot has been made across the internet about the size of Superman's chin in this animated movie. His facial appearance does change quite a bit throughout the film depending on the angle and movement. It doesn't detract from the film however, but it does warrant a mention.
However, as I stated at the start of this review, "Superman vs. The Elite" is, in my opinion, the most adult of all the animated Superman films DC Entertainment has released to date. It earns its PG-13 rating. There's language that I've never heard in a Superman movie before (animated or otherwise), and quite a lot of violence. However this is exactly what this story requires. But it was a bit weird hearing Superman use the word "wanker".
The Elite are a brutal bunch. They pull no punches, and therefore the animated movie has to depict them as such. You can't sanitize the Elite and still deliver the story.
While this animated movie does simplify the origin stories of The Elite, and especially Manchester Black and his sister Vera, it loses nothing along the way. The fact that Joe Kelly, who wrote the original comic book this movie is based on, also wrote the screen play, means the story from "Action Comics #775" remains intact and delivers the same emotional punches from that comic book story.
Read the complete "Superman vs. The Elite" review right here at the Superman Homepage.
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January 11,2011
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TC TO ROBERT STORY ; 1 November 1857; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18571100-TC-RS-01; CL 33: 107-108
[November 1857]
Dear Sir,—I have received your beautiful volume, probably the finest bit of typography that ever came before me;1 and have looked over it with interest and pleasure—certainly with hearty good-will to the amiable and worthy brother-man who sketches out in that manner his pilgrimage through this confused world, alongside of me. A certain rustic vigour of life, breezy freshness, as of the Cheviot hills;2 a kindly healthiness of soul breathes every where out of the book. No one that reads it, I should think, but will feel himself the better for its influences. I can honestly wish success to it; and to its author, peace and comfort for the days and years that remain. With many thanks and regards, I remain, yours sincerely, T. CARLYLE.


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Checklist: Indoor air qualityBy Maggie Leslie on 03/22/2010
Ensuring healthy indoor air quality in a home starts with the very foundation. Many simple building techniques, from radon-resistant construction to drainage planes, can prevent unwanted air-quality problems in the future. To prevent unwanted moisture and contaminants from entering, it is very important to build a tight home, but it is also crucial to provide ventilation to the home to facilitate fresh-air exchange. Once the home has been constructed as healthily and durably as possible, consider the interior finishes and the chemicals used in glues, paints and stains. Below is an indoor air quality checklist.
Moisture Management
• A continuous drainage plane is installed behind the exterior cladding.
• A capillary break is installed between foundation and framing.
• Windows, doors and roofing are fully and properly flashed.
• A surface-water management system is installed. Final grade is at least a half-inch per foot sloped away from the house. Gutters are present and functional, and they drain onto a finished grade at a minimum of five feet from the building foundation.
• Crawlspace flooring has 100 percent coverage with a sealed vapor barrier. Consider a sealed, nonvented crawlspace for added durability.
• The home is as tight as possible through proper air sealing.
• Fresh-air ventilation is provided mechanically to the home. The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers requires 7.5 cubic feet of air per minute per person (i.e., per bedroom) plus 7.5 cfm, plus an additional 1 percent of total floor area of fresh-air ventilation.
This isn't as complicated as it sounds. The two most common methods for achieving this are: 1) Run a supply duct from a clean source outside of the home into the return duct of the HVAC system. Then install a controller that will make sure your home gets plenty of fresh air even when the air handler is not running often. 2) Install a balanced system. Commonly known as Heat Recovery Ventilators or Energy Recovery Ventilators, these high-tech systems bring in fresh air while exhausting stale air to the outside. Heat (and moisture, in the case of the ERV) is transferred in the process, making it the most energy-efficient ventilation option.
• A properly sized and sealed HVAC unit is installed (see HVAC checklist). The home needs to maintain less than 60 percent relative humidity.
• All ventilation exhaust fans (bathrooms, range hoods and clothes dryers) are vented outdoors. Kitchen-range hoods do not exhaust more than 350 cfm. Bath fans exhaust at least 50 cfm, so installing a 75- or 90-cfm bath fan is recommended to make up for duct length. Consider installing low-sone fans on a timer or a humidistat.
• Minimum Efficiency Report Value (MERV) 8 or higher HVAC filters are installed and the equipment is designed to accommodate pressure-drop from the filter.
• Ducts are protected from dirt and debris until construction is completed.
Combustion Safety
• Combustion equipment, such as gas furnaces and water heaters, is either sealed combustion, power-vented or installed outside the conditioned spaces. There are no unvented fireplaces installed.
• One hardwired carbon-monoxide detector is installed per 1,000 square feet of living space (minimum one per floor) in all houses where there is an attached garage or where any combustion appliance is used in the structure.
• Common walls to the garage are properly air-sealed, and doors to garages are weather-stripped.
Radon and Pest Resistance
• A radon-mitigation system is installed to depressurize the slab. All penetrations are properly air sealed from the foundation to the home.
• A radon test was performed before moving in. For more information, visit http://www.epa.gov/radon.
• Termite flashings that provide a physical barrier between the foundation and the wood structure are installed.
• Consider nontoxic borate treatment or bait/monitoring systems for termite control.
• Formaldehyde-free building materials are used wherever possible.
• Low-VOC (Volatile Organic Compound) paints are used.
• Low-VOC stains and finishes are used on all wood work.
• Solvent-free adhesives and glues are used.
• No carpet is installed. If carpet is installed, a low-VOC carpet rated by the Carpet and Rug Institute is used.
For more information, review the ENERGY STAR Indoor Air Plus requirements at http://www.EnergyStar.gov.
Sources for this checklist include Advanced Energy System Vision Guidelines, Southface Energy Institute Technical Bulletins, HealthyBuilt Homes program guidelines and Energy Star guidelines for homes and indoor quality.
[Maggie Leslie is program director of the WNC Green Building Council. She can be reached at or at (828) 254-1995.]


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Civil court case claim to spectrum considered
A Maori group fighting for rights to the radio spectrum is considering taking a civil case again the Crown.
A claim to a portion of a broadcasting band that will soon be available has been rejected by the Government, which will instead auction off the technology that will be used for a more efficient generation of mobile phones.
The Maori Spectrum Coalition will ask the Waitangi Tribunal to hear its claim but the group is also assessing whether it should take a case through the courts.
Coalition member Antony Royal said Treaty partners won't settle for a 'no' from the Government.
He said, if the issue is not resolved this generation, there are plenty of people lining up to take on the fight.
Mr Royal said the problem is not being solved by saying no.
Next story in Te Ao Māori: Plight of Maori boarding school revealed
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The president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev addressed the Crans Montana Forum in Brussels today before leaving Brussels at the end of his official visit to European institutions. in his speech the Azerbaijani leader said that his aim was to achieve peace in a modern Azerbaijan.
Yesterday President Aliev met with European Union Council President Herman van Rumpoy, European Commission President, Manuel Barroso, European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek and Enlargement and neighbourhood Policy Commissioner, Stefan Fule.


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Have you ever wondered which fresh produce gets on the dirty dozen or 15 dirtiest foods list and which foods don't really require you to buy them organic? According to the Environmental Working Group's (EWG's) "Dirty Dozen" list, the Environmental Working Group (EVG) lists the amounts of pesticides in fruits and vegetables.
The highlights of EWG's the Highlights of Dirty Dozen™ 2014 list as to the dirtiest vegetables and fruits includes includes apples, strawberries, grapes, celery, peaches, spinach, sweet bell peppers, imported nectarines, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, imported snap peas and potatoes. Each of these foods contained a number of different pesticide residues and showed high concentrations of pesticides relative to other produce items. The message is to buy these foods organic.
There's also a section of particulars on the list That notes facts about certain fruits and vegetables such as every sample of imported nectarines and 99 percent of apple samples tested positive for at least one pesticide residue. That's why it's important to buy organic apples. Unfortunately, in Sacramento, not all supermarkets carry organic apples. Sometimes you have to seek out the organic produce aisles, which may not have too many fruits on them that are organic. This author found when it came to organic cherries and raspberries, at a cost of nearly $8 per pound for a small plastic bag or container of raspberries and cherries, this month, when brought home, the berries were so old that they were mushy, soft, falling apart and tasted moldy. The cherries were smashed, and some tasted moldy.
The slide-shut plastic bag the cherries came in were open so that anyone could have tasted the cherries. When the bag was opened, pieces of cherries were torn out, almost as if someone took a bite out of about half a dozen of the cherries and then put the remaining pieces of cherry back into the plastic bag and zipped it shut. There's no way to know whether the cherries arrived that way from the farmer or whether someone in the store tasted the cherries and spit the pieces back into the bag and then put it on the shelf.
Since there's no way to know what really happened, there's no sense in mentioning the store, only to say the organic cherries were priced about three dollars more than the bag of cherries that are not organic. Since the organic cherries and raspberries cost so much more for so few berries in the container compared to the cheaper prices of the non-organic cherries and raspberries, most people were buying the fresher tasting berries that were not organic and cheaper.
Pesticides on the produce
When you look over the Environmental Working Group's list of the produce tested, the list mentions that the average potato had more pesticides by weight than any other food. Consumers usually have no way of testing produce to see what's contaminated and have to take the store's or farmer's label for granted as to what's organic. The problem for most people is the much higher price for organic food and the chance that the food has remained on the shelf so long that it tastes mushy, moldy, or has chunks taken out of it.
On the Environmental Working Group's list of the dirtiest foods, the list mentions that a single grape sample contained 15 pesticides. Single samples of celery, cherry tomatoes, imported snap peas and strawberries showed 13 different pesticides apiece.
The Clean Fifteen™
Since EWG has tradmarked their list, for example the title, "EWG's Clean Fifteen™ for 2014," it's important that consumers know that the EWG found that the produce least likely to hold pesticide residues - are avocados, sweet corn, pineapples, cabbage, frozen sweet peas, onions, asparagus, mangoes, papayas, kiwis, eggplant, grapefruit, cantaloupe, cauliflower and sweet potatoes. Relatively few pesticides were detected on these foods, and tests found low total concentrations of pesticides.
That means if a piece of fruit or vegetable has a relatively small amount of pesticides, you don't have to pay a lot extra to buy the produce in its organic form. For example, avocados that are priced much higher when marked organic at any given supermarket or food store don't have to be organic. You're going to peel it anyway.
When you check out the EWG list, look for the notable findings section that found avocados were the cleanest. Only one percent of avocado samples showed any detectable pesticides. Pineapples and mangoes so popular this summer also don't have to be organic because EWG found that some 89 percent of pineapples, 82 percent of kiwi, 80 percent of papayas, 88 percent of mango and 61 percent of cantaloupe had no residues.
Another astonishing finding on the EWG list is that no single fruit sample from the Clean Fifteen™ tested positive for more than 4 types of pesticides. And detecting multiple pesticide residues is extremely rare on Clean Fifteen™ vegetables. Only 5.5 percent of Clean Fifteen samples had two or more pesticides.
Which vegetables have too many pesticides?
Remember to check the list for the Dirty Dozen PLUS™ section because, for the third year, EWG has expanded the Dirty Dozen™ with a Plus category to highlight two foods that contain trace levels of highly hazardous pesticides.
What you want to buy organic are those leafy green vegetables, the kind you hide in those smoothies or serve as a side dish or chop up in salads. Leafy greens - kale and collard greens - and hot peppers do not meet traditional Dirty Dozen™ ranking criteria but were frequently contaminated with insecticides that are toxic to the human nervous system.
EWG recommends that people who eat a lot of these foods buy organic instead. It's easy to buy organic if you can afford the market price in stores. Another solution, at least during summer months is to grow your own green leafy vegetables in urban gardens. Check your area to see whether your nearest house of worship has plots of land to rent for you to grow your own vegetables without using pesticides.
One example of Sacramento community garden plots for rent to the public mentioned is the July 5, 2014 Sacramento Bee article by Mozes Zarate, "Church garden cultivates beds, beauty, and community." Redeemer's Field, a community garden on the grounds of Lutheran Church of Our Redeemer, Carmichael. Garden beds are available for rental. The church is located in the Arden Arcade-Carmichael areas of Sacramento.
A garden plot for growing your own produce rent (at the time of the Sacramento Bee article) for $40 a year at Redeemer's Field, a year-old community garden on land owned by the Lutheran Church of Our Redeemer. The church is located at 4641 Marconi Ave., Carmichael. You would contact the church to see whether any plots are available. See the website, "Lutheran Church-Our Redeemer in Sacramento, CA | 4641 Marconi Avenue." Or see, "Redeemer's Field at LCOR makes the news."
If you walk down the block on Marconi Avenue, you see apartment buildings all along Marconi Avenue for miles. If you live in an apartment and have no backyard to grow vegetables, you at least have the chance to rent a plot of land to grow your own produce during the growing season here. For example, a garden plot that's available for rental could be two 8-by-20-foot beds and four raised beds for wheelchair-accessible gardening.
If you contact the church, at least you'll be able to find out what's available. The project broke ground in March 2013. What a community garden has accomplished here is to transform an empty church lot into a source of healthful and affordable food for community members.
Redeemer's Field
At Redeemer's Field, the name of the community garden at the church, there are 20 occupied beds growing anything and everything, from bulbous watermelon and heirloom tomatoes to cinnamon basil and zucchini squash. Red grapevines hug one side of a bordering chain link fence, and a line of burgeoning fruit trees, welcomes visitors near the entrance gate, open at all hours of the day. Available for rental (at the time of the Sacramento Bee article) are two 8-by-20-foot beds and four raised beds for wheelchair-accessible gardening. You might check with the church to see whether any space is still available to rent.
At the center lies a bed of proud sunflowers raised by a member who lives in an apartment across the street, notes the Sacramento Bee article. Find out what you can do in your neck of the city either in the farm-to-fork movement here in Sacramento or as the Sacramento Bee article explains, find out how you can address hunger in the area.
When you look at Marconi Avenue, you can see neat rows of modest private homes along the side streets, most with yards for growing some produce. But did you know (according to the Sacramento Bee article) that only a half-mile from the garden is one of 22 Sacramento "food deserts," neighborhoods whose residents have little access to healthful and affordable food? The Sacramento Bee article explains how community efforts are addressing local hunger.
Genetically engineered crops
Most processed food typically contains one or more ingredients derived from genetically engineered crops. But GE food is not often found in the produce section of American supermarkets. A small percentage of zucchini, yellow squash and sweet corn on grocery store shelves is GE. Most Hawaiian papaya is GE.
Others GE foods are currently being tested and may be approved by the USDA in the future. Since U.S. law does not require labeling of genetically engineered produce, EWG advises people who want to avoid GE crops to purchase organically-grown foods or items bearing the "Non-GMO Project Verified" label. EWG recommends that consumers check EWG's Shopper's Guide To Avoiding GE Food, which is designed to help them identify foods likely to contain genetically engineered ingredients.
Report: Behind the Guide - Contemporary issues in pesticide safety
EWG's Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce is designed to step in where the government falters. It translates an extensive database of pesticide tests conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and federal Food and Drug Administration on food crops into a user-friendly tool that empowers Americans to reduce their exposures to pesticide. This year's guide draws from 32,000 samples tested by USDA and FDA scientists. They detected pesticides on two of every three samples.
EWG's analysis of the government tests has spotlighted sharp differences in the number and concentrations of pesticides measured on various fruits and vegetables. These findings convince us that people have the power to reduce their intake of pesticides by avoiding the Dirty Dozen crops or purchasing organically-produced fruits and vegetables instead.
Why is it so difficult to find organic strawberries in many supermarkets?
Some local stores do carry organic frozen strawberries. But from where do the frozen organic strawberries originate? How long have they been frozen? Celery and strawberries are two of the most highly contaminated plant foods, unless they're organic. Some Sacramento supermarkets carry fresh organic strawberries when they're in season and organic celery more often, usually originating from California farms.
Strawberries and celery (that are not organic) compete for the most contaminated list. On June 3, 2010, the Los Angeles Times blog reported that celery now tops the list of produce most contaminated by pesticides, according to the 2010 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce released early in June 2010 by the Environmental Working Group.
To find local organic produce, check out the local Whole Foods Market in Sacramento and the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op. Sometimes organic strawberries that you see in a variety of Sacramento food stores aren't local, but imported, especially when out of season. Some Sacramento supermarkets do have organic strawberries.
The catch-22 is the strawberries may not be local. For example, in some supermarkets, the organic frozen strawberries may be coming from a foreign country. With blueberries, in some Sacramento supermarkets, the packages are marked with a product from Chile stamps, while other packages that look exactly like the ones stamped as a product of Canada are stamped with signs that read, a product of Chile. Strawberries can come from Mexico or other areas. Part of the issue is seasonal.
If the strawberries aren't organic, they're usually put on the "dirty dozen" list of fruits containing higher amounts of pesticides
Rounding out the "dirty dozen" of 49 fruits and vegetables tested are strawberries, apples, domestically grown blueberries, nectarines, sweet bell peppers, spinach, kale/collard greens, cherries, potatoes and imported grapes. Topping the "clean 15" are onions, avocados, frozen sweet corn, pineapples, mangos and sweet peas.
Check out the article, The 10 Most Important Foods to Buy Organic. That article also notes pertaining to strawberries that, "The fresh, sweet strawberries you buy in the supermarket are the single most heavily contaminated fruit or vegetable in the U.S., according to another 1993 EWG study." The article wasn't referring to local organic strawberries.
That's one more reason to buy organic strawberries or grow them yourself in your backyard. The article reports the following information, "Seventy percent of all strawberries tested contained at least one pesticide, and 36 percent contained two or more. Strawberries are also laced with endocrine disruptors."
Frozen strawberries can be bought organic, but the flavor is sometimes less than you feel on your tongue with fresh strawberries. That same article reports, "According to Consumer Union's Pest Management at the Crossroads, strawberries can receive a dose of 500 pounds of pesticides per acre. Out-of-season strawberries are the most likely to have been imported, possibly from a country with less-stringent pesticide regulations. Organic brands include Golden River Farms, Cascadian Farms and Boulder Fruit Express."
But don't eat too many strawberries. They can stimulate your thyroid too much if you wolf them down in large amounts. Portion size is important. So eat a little at a time.
What's in strawberries that stabilizes resveratrol in your body? How Strawberries Can Help
A rare flavonoid called fisetin is found only in tiny quantities in the world of plants. What fisetin does in your system is to maintain levels of glutathione, which is the primary antioxidant "internal to most cells in the body, in the presence of oxidative stress," according to the article, "You Are Eating More Calories Than You Think – Life Extension," (page 36) published in the July 2010 issue of Life Extension magazine.
Fisetin is a high-ranking flavonoid that prevents DNA damage, being studied as a potentially effective cancer-preventing agent, according to the Life Extension magazine article. Basically, what fisetin does is use its capacity to ward off "age-related cognitive decline."
Studies are being done on how fisetin modulates the brain's nerve cell pathways. Also, fesetin helps to mimic caloric restriction. How fisetin stabilizes resveratrol is by protecting it from your liver. There are metabolic enzymes in your liver and digestive system that break down any supplements you take. But it's the fisetin that shields the resveratrol from being broken down by your liver.
That's how fisetin may increase the amount of resveratrol you get in your bloodstream. Otherwise, resveratrol has a very short half-life in your body, according to the Life Extension magazine article. The strawberries you buy or grow in Sacramento need to be free from pesticide contamination. See the Food News.org article, "The Dirty Dozen" at the website, Methodology | Environmental Working Group.
The site lists the 12 most contaminated foods, mostly fruits, and the 15 cleanest foods, mostly vegetables and some melons. Fewer than 10 percent of pineapple, mango, and avocado samples showed detectable, and fewer than one percent of samples had more than one pesticide residue. Also check out the article, Hepatitis A and Mexican Strawberries.
Foods most affected by pesticides and insecticides
The article, The Foods That Are Most Affected by Pesticides, reports that "strawberries are the most contaminated in the United States. According to a 1995 EWG study, strawberries are the most contaminated fruit in the United States. A single acre of strawberries can receive 500 pounds of pesticides. Worse, in the off-season, strawberries are brought in from outside the country where pesticide restrictions are even more lenient.
Organic is important because children are at a heightened risk from pesticides, because they eat more food relative to their body weight and because their nervous systems are still developing. And according to the National Research Council, children eat more fresh fruit than adults, which can expose them to multiple pesticides.
Strawberries and domestic blueberries each had 13 pesticides detected on a single sample. Peaches and apples were second, with 9 pesticides on one sample. More than 96 percent of peaches tested positive for pesticides, followed by nectarines (95.1 percent) and apples (93.6 percent).
California has the opportunity to prevent release of a new, carcinogenic and highly toxic pesticide into communities and into the environment
California can signal its priority for safe, clean and sustainable strawberry production - a powerful statement from the nation's leading strawberry producing state. If you're worried about commercial (not organic) strawberries being one of the most contaminated berries listed under the dirty dozen of pesticide-laden fruits found in most supermarkets, you should know that 87% of the nation's strawberries came from California in 2007.
California can also preserve scientific integrity and transparency in its regulatory decision-making. The Pesticide Action Network is waiting for the California Department of Pesticide Regulation to signal its commitment to health, the environment and rigorous science with its decision on methyl iodide.
For further information, check out the website of the Fresno-based California Grape & Tree Fruit League. The problem with the vegetable and fruit farmers is that they don't have another commercial product that does the same job. So you might turn to the website of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Ask yourself why has the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved methyl iodide? And why have most of the states approved it? Are they blindsided by not having a substitute that's safer?
The only apparent committee that is not blindsided early on in their research is the eight-member committee reviewing the chemical for use in California. Those experts finally reached the conclusion that the risk of using methyl iodide, a known carcinogen, is too great. They were probably the only group that took into consideration the health issues of the workers whose protections are commonly "inappropriate, inadequate or inaccessible," according to the Sacramento Bee article.
Does anyone care about human to pesticide exposure of the fruit and vegetable pickers?
None of them are going to don space suits or biohazard gear to pick vegetables and fruits, and should they come down with cancer or lung lesions or thyroid issues, where are they going to get money to pay for health care? Do they know the survival rate for thyroid cancers and lung lesions, the human suffering? And who's going to warn them of the potent toxicity of methyl iodide?
The experts who take these issues into consideration usually are found in academic departments of environmental health sciences institutes at universities. The average fruit and vegetable gleaner or picker isn't about to walk into a department of environmental health sciences to ask what pesticides are on the plants being harvested without adequate controls, gear, or protective clothing. Methyl iodide can cause thyroid cancer, respiratory tract lesions and neurological effects in laboratory animals. But who will be telling you about those facts?
Why use fumigants?
Farmers say it's their most effective tool to get rid of bugs, diseases, and weeds in soil. For years, strawberries have been labeled one of the most contaminated berries you can eat (unless they're organic). It's not what's in the fruit as far as the nutrients. It's about what's not in the fruit (pesticides) that you should be concerned with because fumigants are widely used in the strawberry industry, commercial nurseries, and in the planting of vines and new trees.
Unless you grow your own strawberries in your yard, or are sure the fruit you eat is really organic, you can't control what's in your food. But who is going to tell farmers in California they have commercial alternatives if they are not in the burgeoning "green industry renaissance?"
Why are farmers rejecting the alternatives such as telone or metam sodium, if you're talking commercial fumigants. Why is it only methyl bromide that gives the farmers the results they demand? On one side you have scientists and environmentalists saying methyl bromide is too dangerous to put on fruit and vegetables, that is food.
What will the decision be regarding this toxic chemical, to rebuff science? To follow the money? To support the manufacturers? To listen to the average consumer and look for safe, long-term answers? Or the alternative, to go with big industry for the sake of big money?
The community does have one loophole left, to perhaps sue the state if methyl iodide is chosen over the decision to protect California food crops from carcinogenic toxins in certain pesticides. But if you talk to lawyers, where do they go first to get more information? Try the Pesticide Action Network North America. Check out the network's pesticide database.
Look at the website of the California Department of Pesticide Regulation Home Page. There are supporters of the fumigant. The supporters hope the Dept. of Pesticide Regulation will register the chemical so it can be sprayed on vegetables and fruits in California. Sure, there are two sides to every story, current event, or issue.
You'll hear the same story from most of the supporters of the chemical. They'll tell you the usual talk that everything is toxic at some level, that toxicity all depends upon the dosage and concentration--of any chemical, or anything else. Check out the website of the California Association of Nurseries and Garden Centers in Sacramento.
The California Association of Nurseries and Garden Centers is a professional organization dedicated to the promotion and advancement of the nursery industry for its members and the public it serves, according to its website. CANGC is a driving force behind California's lawn an garden industry.
Unlike many other industries, the nursery business is not dominated by a handful of players. It is comprised of hundreds of entrepreneurs, in the business because of horticulture. CANGC is the forum for those in the horticultural field to exchange information and generate support for marketing, research and legislative and regulatory advocacy.
So if you're a consumer of California fruit and vegetables as you find in your local markets, think about who supports the chemical and who doesn't support the chemical you may want banned. They have to make a living too, and you can buy all types of weed killers, fumigants, and pesticides in many different nurseries and garden centers all over the state.
How many various garden centers are organic or sell organic pesticides?
Some do. But does it bring in the money? On a small scale, you can use non-toxic insecticides on your own vegetable garden in your yard. Who's making money? That's the question to ask, here in the midst of this new green industry revolution that's supposed to create a lot of new jobs.
How supporters are thinking of making the toxic chemical safer is by printing on the label directions on how to use soil fumigants. How do you protect farmers or anyone from exceeding the dose of methyl iodide on each piece of fruit or strawberry? Do most farmers even read the labels on fumigants that closely to measure which dosage is correct?
Will farmers use methyl iodide in small quantities? Will they really reduce the amount used in the strawberry fields or other vegetable and fruit-growing areas? And will companies continue to require fumigant applicators to take special training? How many have had training? Do they really always follow the directions?
Why are so many experts ignoring scientific research?
Why has methyl iodide gained registration from the federal EPA back in 2007? The fumigant, which the EPA allows for use with restrictions, also has been approved for use by 47 states. But do farmers or their hired help actually follow those restrictions?
Is this an issue between conservatives and liberals? Or is it just about scientists worrying that farmers or their temporary or hired help won't follow the restrictions on the chemical usage, whether they are trained or not?
Is the issue, rather about environmentalists browbeating farmers? Or is it really that the average consumer hopes farmers will someday be pesticide-free and use other methods of getting rid of bugs on the plants.
So far it's the organic farmers providing the types of foods that consumers demand. But a lot of consumers can't afford organic food unless they grow it themselves. But where can you grow food in a small apartment? Try urban community vegetable and fruit gardens and slow food suggestions.
Will toxic fumigants always be on commercial vegetables? And if so, what can the average consumer on a tight budget do about it? Farmers say they won't be sustainable if they go pesticide-free. Is it about the scale? And what can you legally do to make food safer? Sign petitions? Volunteer for lobbying? Grow your own vegetables? Think about it, and consider the safer choice.
About thirty deaths a year are caused caused by consumption of eggs contaminated with the bacterium Salmonella enteritidis
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced on July 7, 2009 a new regulation that's expected to prevent each year 79,000 cases of foodborne illness. There are numerous online videos related to egg issues and salmonella, including: How Shell Eggs Are Pasteurized, and Dirtiest Foods: Eggs, Melons, Salad Mixes?
The final rule requires preventive measures during the production of shell eggs in poultry houses and requires subsequent refrigeration during storage and transportation. In addition to the new safety measures being taken by industry, consumers can reduce their risk of foodborne illness by following safe egg handling practices. You may wish to check out the Feb. 25, 2009 article, "FDA Needs More Resources To Oversee Food Safety."
The FDA reminds consumers to buy eggs that have been refrigerated, make sure eggs in the carton are clean and not cracked, and cook eggs and foods containing eggs thoroughly. Eggs should be thoroughly cooked. You may wish to check out the article, "FDA Food Safety Action Plan."
Egg-associated illness caused by Salmonella is a serious public health problem. Infected individuals may suffer mild to severe gastrointestinal illness, short term or chronic arthritis, or even death. Implementing the preventive measures would reduce the number of Salmonella enteritidis infections from eggs by nearly 60 percent.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "Egg-associated salmonellosis is an important public health problem in the United States and several European countries. A bacterium, Salmonella enteritidis, can be inside perfectly normal-appearing eggs, and if the eggs are eaten raw or undercooked, the bacterium can cause illness. During the 1980s, illness related to contaminated eggs occurred most frequently in the northeastern United States, but now illness caused by S. enteritidis is increasing in other parts of the country as well. Consumers should be aware of the disease and learn how to minimize the chances of becoming ill."
"Preventing harm to consumers is our first priority," said Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D., Commissioner of Food and Drugs. "Today's action will prevent thousands of serious illnesses from Salmonella in eggs."
Salmonella enteritidis can be found inside eggs that appear perfectly normal. If the eggs are eaten raw or undercooked, the bacterium can cause illness. Eggs in the shell become contaminated on the farm, primarily because of infection in the laying hens.
The rule requires that measures designed to prevent Salmonella enteritidis be adopted by virtually all egg producers with 3,000 or more laying hens whose shell eggs are not processed with a treatment, such as pasteurization, to ensure their safety.
Producers with at least 3,000 but fewer than 50,000 laying hens must comply within 36 months after the rule's publication. Producers with 50,000 or more laying hens must be in compliance with the rule within 12 months after its publication in the Federal Register.
Under the rule, egg producers must:
- Buy chicks and young hens only from suppliers who monitor for Salmonella bacteria
- Establish rodent, pest control, and biosecurity measures to prevent spread of bacteria throughout the farm by people and equipment
- Conduct testing in the poultry house for Salmonella enteritidis. If the tests find the bacterium, a representative sample of the eggs must be tested over an 8 week time period (4 tests at 2 week intervals); If any of the four egg tests is positive, the producer must further process the eggs to destroy the bacteria, or divert the eggs to a non-food use
- Clean and disinfect poultry houses that have tested positive for Salmonella enteritidis
- Refrigerate eggs at 45 degrees Fahrenheit temperature during storage and transportation no later than 36 hours after the eggs are laid.
Egg producers whose eggs receive treatments such as pasteurization still must comply with the refrigeration requirements. Similarly, certain persons such as distributors, packers, or truckers holding or transporting shell eggs also must comply with the refrigeration requirements.
To ensure compliance, egg producers must maintain a written Salmonella enteritidis prevention plan and records documenting their compliance. Producers (except those who have less than 3000 hens or who sell all their eggs directly to consumers) also must register with the FDA. The FDA will develop guidance and enforcement plans to help egg producers comply with the rule.
The FDA estimated that the rule would provide $1.4 billion in annual public health benefits, at an annual cost of $81 million to the regulated industry, or less than 1 cent per dozen eggs produced in the United States.
During the 1990s, the FDA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture implemented a series of post-egg production safety efforts such as refrigeration requirements designed to inhibit the growth of bacteria that may be in an egg. While these steps limited the growth of bacteria, they did not prevent the initial contamination from occurring.
The new rule is part of a coordinated strategy between the FDA and the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The FDA and the FSIS will continue to work closely together to ensure that egg safety measures are consistent, coordinated, and complementary.
Also, according to the NPR site, the July 8th,2009 article, "White House Proposes New Rules For Food Safety," by Joanne Silberner, "The Obama administration has announced plans for aggressive rules aimed at making the nation's food supply safer. The moves come in the wake of a series of serious food outbreaks and concern within the food industry that people fear their food. Reaction so far has been positive, both from industry and consumer groups." One of the biggest problems is the FDA not having "a handle" on imported foods. There are so many coming in, and the FDA doesn't have the staff or resources to test all the imports.
How eggs become contaminated
Unlike eggborne salmonellosis of past decades, the current epidemic is due to intact and disinfected grade A eggs. Salmonella enteritidis silently infects the ovaries of healthy appearing hens and contaminates the eggs before the shells are formed, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Most types of Salmonella live in the intestinal tracts of animals and birds and are transmitted to humans by contaminated foods of animal origin. Stringent procedures for cleaning and inspecting eggs were implemented in the 1970s and have made salmonellosis caused by external fecal contamination of egg shells extremely rare. However, unlike eggborne salmonellosis of past decades, the current epidemic is due to intact and disinfected grade A eggs. The reason for this is that Salmonella enteritidis silently infects the ovaries of healthy appearing hens and contaminates the eggs before the shells are formed.
Although most infected hens have been found in the northeastern United States, the infection also occurs in hens in other areas of the country. In the Northeast, approximately one in 10,000 eggs may be internally contaminated. In other parts of the United States, contaminated eggs appear less common. Only a small number of hens seem to be infected at any given time, and an infected hen can lay many normal eggs while only occasionally laying an egg contaminated with the Salmonella bacterium.
What is the risk?
In affected parts of the United States, the Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that one in 50 average consumers could be exposed to a contaminated egg each year. If that egg is thoroughly cooked, the Salmonella organisms will be destroyed and will not make the person sick. There's a noteworthy older article from back in 2009 to see, "U.S. Considers Overhaul Of Food Safety System."
Many dishes made in restaurants or commercial or institutional kitchens, however, are made from pooled eggs. If 500 eggs are pooled, one batch in 20 will be contaminated and everyone who eats eggs from that batch is at risk. A healthy person's risk for infection by Salmonella enteritidis is low, even in the northeastern United States, if individually prepared eggs are properly cooked, or foods are made from pasteurized eggs. Another noteworthy article to peruse is, "Can a pine tree branch filter the bacteria out of rainwater?"


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Recall Date : 4/5/2011
Manufacturer : KEY BABY
Product : PACIFIERS & ACCESSORIES
Hazard : Choking
Manufactured In : China
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Manufacturer: Tahoe Enterprises, of China
Product: Pampers® Natural Stages Infant Ortho and Bulb Pacifiers
ManufacturedIn: China
Hazard: The pacifiers fail to meet federal safety standards and pose a choking hazard to young children.
Sold At: Retail stores nationwide from April 2010 through February 2011 for about $6.
Importer: Key Baby LLC, of Lutz, Fla. (Note: Pampers® licensed their brand name to Key Baby)
Product Details: In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Key Baby LLC, of Lutz, Fla. (Pampers® licensed their brand name to Key Baby), is voluntarily recalling about 29,000 Pampers® Natural Stages infant Ortho and Bulb pacifiers. The pacifiers fail to meet federal safety standards and pose a choking hazard to young children.
Units: About 29,000
Description: The pacifier comes in yellow, pink or blue colors and is made of silicone. Only "Stage 1" pacifiers are recalled. "Stage 1" and "Ortho" or "Bulb" are printed on the package. The recalled pacifiers have an oval-shaped mouth guard and "Pampers" molded on to the handle side of the mouth guard. The product comes two per package.
Remedy: Consumers should immediately take the recalled pacifiers away from infants and contact Key Baby for instructions on returning the product for a full refund or $10 coupon toward the purchase of any Pampers® Natural Stages products.
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Morobe Provincial Government
EconomyThe economy of Morobe Province is robust, growing
at an average of 2.7 percent per annum. The economy in Morobe is better than it has been for many years related to the
development of new gold mines, new fisheries projects, new agricultural projects like oil palm and new government initiatives
such as district treasuries. The rural Morobe is endowed with rich natural resources and diverse flora and fauna. Traditional
economic activities are coffee, cocoa, cattle, logging, while the emerging activities are; gold, copper, tuna fishing, oil.
Lae being the second biggest city is the industrial centre of Papua New Guinea and is where the largest export port in PNG
is located. Business investments in Lae are mostly controlled by members of the Lae Chamber of
Commerce and Industries. The business activities they engaged in are; mechanizing, wholesale, cartaging, hotel industries,
real estate, food and beverages, pharmaceuticals, banking, legal, accountings and business consultancy, electrical works,
building, shipping, airlines industries, motor vehicle and fuels. The economic prospects for Lae in the
next couple of years will be boasted by the mining activities in the two potential mines in Bulolo district; the Hamata and
Hidden Valley and Wafi Golpu Gold and Copper mines. These mines will be mined by Morobe Mining Joint Ventures Ltd and
the tuna industries by Frabelle (PNG) Ltd. Palm Oil is another potential investment now emerging. Tourism development
is untapped and has great potential for prospects. Lae and Morobe Province contributes immensely to the economy
of Papua New Guinea and will continue in many years ahead. Increase economic activity and population growth makes Lae
the most ideal place in Papua New Guinea to invest.
Morobe Provincial GovernmentP.O. Box 1834, LaePhone: 473-1600 Fax: 472-4745****************


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UH Calendar
August 21 - September 7
UHWOW14 promises to fill the first two weeks of the semester with plenty of programs, giveaways and opportunities to get involved on campus and explore what UH has in store for you over the next four years. The goal of UHWOW14 will is to provide information, while connecting new and returning UH students to student organizations, departm ents, and resources, through the promotion of events and programs on a centralized web-calendar at www.uh.edu/wow.
The full UHWOW 14 calendar is also available for download on Android, Blackberry and iPhones via the Guidebook App. To download the calendar and app follow these instructions below:
1. Install the GUIDEBOOK App Available in the Apple, Google or, Amazon App stores.
2. Search for UHWOW14
3. Enjoy!
Fair Dates
Sept. 4, Opening Reception
Sept 5 - 6, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Sept 6, 12-6 p.m.
Come visit the Blaffer Art Museum booth and check out the new Blaffer Art & Design (BAD) product line.
Blaffer Art Museum has joined forces with the University of Houston's Industrial Design, Graphic Design, and Fine Arts Departments to create BAD (Blaffer Art & Design), a unique line of products displayed and sold at the museum and through a dedicated website. BAD features small and affordable editions of products and artworks designed by students and selected by a jury of experts in order to showcase, promote, and benefit the budding creative talent at the University of Houston.
Register for the Intramural Sports Badminton Doubles tournament! Register at imleagues.com. Registration deadline: September 5th 3-6pm. Tournament: September 5th 6-9th.
Food for Thought Lecture Series
An engaging food studies talk, "Planet Taco" by Dr. Jeffrey M. Pilcher, University of Toronto, on the globalization of Mexican food.


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LSI Analyst Day is wrapping up but media is barred from attending since we have all of the secrets. While the regular cast and crew are entertaining the Wall Street crowd we made a line straight to the goodies room in our plain cloths.
Security thought we were with the display setup crews...cameras and all.
The SSD market has been somewhat stale for the last couple of months but that's about to change over the next few months.
LSI SandForce has several reference designs on hand at AIS.
The SF3700 features both SATA III and PCIe connectivity but we've yet to spy a 2.5" model with a SATA design. Hopefully that will change tomorrow when the conference is setup and we can officially enter the room.


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States Prep for New Banking-Regulation Role
A provision of the federal financial reform law means added cost and workload for state governments.
States are bracing for the added cost and workload of regulating investment advisers due to a provision of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law that shifts responsibility away from the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Under the new law, the regulation of mid-sized financial advisers who manage $25 million to $100 million in assets will shift to states this summer.
The rationale for the move is that the SEC's workload is so high that it only manages to oversee a small fraction of those advisers, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal.
State regulation, at least in theory, means those advisers will get more scrutiny.
The new responsibilities will affect California, Florida, New York and Texas the most, due to the high proportion of financial advisers in those states, according to the Journal.
In Texas, for example, the number of financial advisers overseen by the state is expected to double to 2,400, according to the Journal. In Florida, the number of advisers overseen will increase by more than 60 percent to about 1,800.
Now, states will have to find the resources to handle the extra regulatory burden at a time when they're already struggling with deficits.
Given that struggle, some industry groups are calling for the SEC to instead allow an industry-funded regulator to oversee investment advisers. But that move had come under some scrutiny due to transparency concerns.
It's difficult to estimate how much the switch will cost states, since they are all handling it differently, says Bob Webster, a spokesman for the North American Securities Administrators Association, which represents state securities administrators. But many will, indeed, seek to increase staffing and resources as a result of their new responsibilities, Webster told Governing.
Webster added that all 50 states have entered a memorandum of understanding to work together and share resources as their regulation of investment advisers increases.
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Move over, bulgogi, you are so last decade. A hot new Korean food wave has hit town! Behold the new KFC–Korean fried chicken.
Although a recent phenomenon in Singapore, Korean fried chicken has long been a popular appetizer and accompaniment to beer in Korea. Its evolution began a few decades ago when Western fast-food joints experimented with localised versions of fried chicken. Tender meat, super crispy skin, and a lip-smacking (typically spicy) glaze, it has proved to be a winning formula since its introduction in Singapore.
Riding on this wave of popularity, several Korean fried chicken specialists have set up shop within the last 12 months. We checked out five, and rated them based on their spicy-flavoured chicken. Who sizzled, and who fizzled? Read on to find out!
4 Fingers BonChon Crispy Chicken
#B4-06A, ION Orchard
Opening hours: Daily:11am–10pm
Price: from $7.95 for 6 pieces (flavours: spicy, soy garlic, teriyaki)
Spice-meter: 4.5/5
Rating: 4.5/5
Opened by four friends, hence "4 Fingers", BonChon brings a whole new meaning to "finger-licking good!" First of all, we were blown away by how the skin (not batter) was amazingly crispy. It felt so ethereally light, and best of all, stayed crisp even when we did a take-away.
We also liked how they didn't overdo the glaze; it merely hugged the skin in a light and even layer. At first, it tasted mildly spicy, and even slightly sweet, but you get the full kick of the chilli later.
Only wings and drummettes were available. Both were tender, moist, and flavourful, but the meat was rather skinny. You'll have to eat quite a few to fill up. This is the perfect party food or beer grub, but it's so addictive we'll happily eat this any time of the day!
Chicken Up
#03-42, Stall 12, Kopitiam, Jurong Point Shopping Centre
Opening hours: Daily:10am-10pm
Price: from $5.80 for 2 pieces (flavours: original, mild spicy, curry)
Spice-meter: 3.5/5
Rating: 4/5
Of all the joints in this review, Chicken Up is the least "Korean", because they didn't smother their fried chicken with any sauces. In fact, it looked and tasted identical to KFC's Crispy formula.
However, Chicken Up deserves a big thumbs-up for near faultless execution. The birds they used were very fresh, and the meat was beautifully tender and succulent. Even the breast meat was relatively moist and flavourful.
We were also mighty impressed with the crispy batter, which was thin, fragrant, and delicate. Incredibly, it didn't feel greasy at all. However, the chili powder was boringly simple, and wasn't evenly spread out over the chicken. But overall, Chicken Up scored for excellent quality and value for money.
#B1-04/05, Cathay Cineleisure Orchard
Opening hours: Sun-Thurs & PH: 11am-10.30pm; Fri-Sat & eve of PH: 11am-11.30pm
Price: from $13.90++ for 2 pieces of chicken and 2 side dishes (flavours: Original, Hot Hot Drum)
Spice-meter: 5/5
Rating: 4/5
Warning: Only seasoned chili fiends should attempt this, for the Hot Hot Drum chili glaze will set your mouth on fire! We're not suggesting they should dumb down the spiciness, but perhaps it's a good idea to have more complex flavours rather than just mind-numbing heat.
That said, we really enjoyed the supremely juicy and tender meat of the two chicken drums. The batter was also very crunchy. Although quite thick, it shattered easily. This is supposedly a healthier version of fried chicken, as BBQ Chicken claims to use extra virgin olive oil to cook their chicken. But we're curious how they do it as olive oil is generally not used for deep-frying due to its low smoking point.
Maybe this explains why BBQ Chicken is comparatively more expensive than the rest, since olive oil is many times pricier than other oils. Just be prepared to pay a bit more for fried chicken with less guilt.
57 Tras Street, #01-01
Opening hours: 11am-4am
Price: from $15+ for half a chicken (flavours: original, garlic soy, hot & spicy, sweet & spicy)
Spice-meter: 4/5
Rating: 3.5/5
Kko Kko Nara serves up the most authentic version of Korean fried chicken, complete with side dishes of refreshing pickled radish and coleslaw. We sampled the yang nyum sweet & spicy sauce, a piquant blend of nicely balanced and complex flavours that complemented the fried chicken pieces.
Because this was half a bird, we got a mixture of both white and dark meat. The dark meat parts were definitely more tender than the whites, but on the whole, the chicken was a little over-cooked and on the dry side. The batter was rather hard, but remained crunchy despite the heavy sauce.
19 Lorong Kilat, #01-02
Opening hours: Mon-Sat: 12pm-2.30pm; 5pm-12am; Sun: 5pm-12am
Price: from $13+ for half a chicken, bone-in or boneless (flavours: original, volcano yum yum, soy garlic, yum yum spicy sweet)
Spice-meter: 1/5
Rating: 3/5
We sampled the yum yum spicy sweet version. Well, we detected sweet and sour flavours, but where's the spicy part? In fact, there was an overpowering garlic taste that dominated the sauce, which also got too cloying after a while.
As for the chicken, it was sufficiently tender. We recommend ordering it bone-in, because there are more moist dark meat parts, rather than the dry boneless white meat pieces.
The batter had a nice crunch, but was too heavy and not evenly spread out. Together with the sauce, it all got very overwhelming after a while. If we could offer our humble suggestion to the good folks at Woori Nara: Less is more.


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- Cost: $80
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Clifford Thornton should be one of the best-known figures of the free jazz era. That he has lapsed into relative obscurity stands as a testament to the way that the availability of recordings shapes our sense of history.
Thornton was born in Philadelphia in 1936. In the mid-50s, he went to college at Temple, studied with hard-bop trumpeter Donald Byrd and worked with various players including tuba player Ray Draper. Thornton was in an army band in the late-50s, and he settled in New York City just as it was becoming the epicenter of the free jazz movement. He appears as a sideman on some great records from the period ? Sun Ras Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow, Marzette Watts eponymous ESP record, Sunny Murrays Hommage to Africa ? and hes one of the most frequently cited people in Valerie Wilmers study As Serious As Your Life.
But Thornton was most highly active as a leader ? a composer, musical community builder, teacher (most notably at Wesleyan) and bandleader. A brass player in a world of saxophonists, he recorded a handful of fantastic records under his own name for BYG, America and JCOA (none of which is currently in print). He was an outspokenly political person in a politically charged atmosphere (in 1970, he was barred entry into France on suspicion of being a Black Panther), and he was an independent record company owner. Third World Records, on which he issued Freedom & Unity and later Communications (1972), was his own label.
Freedom & Unity was recorded the day after John Coltranes funeral. Thornton rehearsed his group, the New Art Ensemble, across the hall from Ornette Colemans Trio (with Izenzon and Moffett) on Barrow Street in Greenwich Village. Joe McPhee was a young, wide-eyed member of the band; Freedom & Unity is the first entry in McPhees discography, and he remembers the scene vividly. Coleman in fact invited McPhee to the now-legendary Coltrane ceremony, at which Coleman and Albert Ayler led their groups in performance. Later that night, McPhee heard the Ornette Coleman Trio at the Village Vanguard, where they played a version of Coltranes "Naima".
"I remember the recording being a very pleasant experience," says McPhee. "And I couldnt believe it was Jimmy Garrison on bass ? that was beyond the pale." Indeed, the proximity to Coltranes funeral and the appearance of Garrison, who had not been part of the core ensemble, on the session, clearly gave the July 22 studio date an added dose of potency. That Coleman and Archie Shepp gave the record their blessings in the form of liner notes says all that needs to be said about the significance of the ensuing LP. It should rightly be considered a classic.
Thornton spent most of the last couple of decades of his life in Europe. He died in Geneva, Switzerland, in the mid-80s, completely out of the spotlight and largely forgotten by the creative music community. But his inspiration and his recordings survive him. It is to the persistence of Clifford Thorntons memory that we dedicate this reissue. -JOHN CORBETT, Chicago, July 2001