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Travels through German-Jewish History
Click here below for a synopsis of the virtual exhibitions awaiting you in the Rafael Roth Learning Center. The stories embrace a multiplicity of exceptional documents, films, photos and audios. You may read, listen, or watch extracts here on the website as well as experiencing them in full at the museum.
Rural Jewish Cuisine
Rural Jewish cuisine has been influenced by religious dietary law and the recipes of the Jews' Gentile neighbors. In addition to presenting a variety of recipes from southern Germany and Switzerland, this story charts the development of rural Jewry and describes the daily life of traveling merchants. (...)
As the author of the well-known "Nesthäkchen" series (1913–1925), Else Ury (1877–1943), the Berlin-born author of books for youths, still enjoys great popularity. Ury identified with the German middleclass and was at home in the Jewish tradition. Her recognition was systematically surpressed after the Nazi rise to power. Else Ury died in Auschwitz. (...)
The Jewish pharmacist Oscar Troplowitz (1863–1918), born in Gliwice, transformed the Beiersdorf pharmaceutical laboratory in Hamburg—a producer of medicated plasters—into a modern pharmaceutical and cosmetics group. A number of its brands, including Nivea, Hansaplast and Tesa, are still sold all over the world today. (...)
Eastern European Jews in Germany
Between 1880 and 1924 Jews emigrated to Germany from Eastern Europe to escape poverty and persecution in their home countries. Although they met with hostility and discrimination, many were able to create a new life for themselves. Representing the different fates of migrants are the lives of Chaim Weizmann, Cecylie and Heinrich Bien, Alexander Granach, Joseph Budko, the Friedmann and Goldstein families, and the Mandelbaum family. (...)
The Revolution of 1848
During the 1848 Revolution Jews became active in European politics. The progress of Jewish emancipation was dependent on its outcome. However, before the Jews could enjoy the fruits of the revolution, they became victims of anti–Semitic violence in many areas. (...)
Longing for Zion
The desire to return to the land of Israel is as old as Jewish exile, and it is expressed in a wide variety of Jewish festivals, prayers and traditions. Many Jews realized their dream of traveling to the Holy Land and recorded their impressions in travel reports and images. (...)
Transit to America (1881-1914)
Eastern European Jews traveled in their hundreds of thousands on appointed paths through Germany to reach the ships to America in Hamburg and Bremen. Fleeing poverty and pogroms, the "golden country," the USA, promised a better life. (...)
Survival through Music
The Berlin jazz guitarist Coco Schumann (b. 1924) suffered under the repression in Berlin in the 1930s and 1940s before he was deported to Theresienstadt in 1943 and Auschwitz in 1944. Music saved his life in both camps. He is still a highly respected jazz musician today. (...)


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The "Final Fantasy XIII" saga has been an unlucky one for Square Enix. It began with hope and promise. Fans were excited to see what the series could do on hardware that was, at the time, regarded as computational beasts. Would fans get gameplay that matched the lavishly rendered cut-scenes of past releases? Could the developer put out another genre-defining role-playing game?
From initial previews, it looked like "Final Fantasy XIII" would live up to the hype, but something happened along the way: Square Enix forgot how to write. The team came up with a cast of forgettable characters and a plot so confusing that no one cared what happened to them.
If this trilogy is going to be remembered for anything, it won't be for its storytelling. Rather, the "Final Fantasy XIII" entries will be known for their experimentation. The saga comes at a time when the venerable franchise is struggling to remain relevant in a world where it competes with "Mass Effect" and "World of Warcraft."
The final leg of this trilogy, "Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII," is a reward for fans who have stuck with the series and its convoluted storyline. Centuries after being turned into crystal, the title character wakes up a few days before the apocalypse. The god Bhunivelze has decided to end the world after it's gone through about 500 years of stasis, where no one aged and no one was born. It's up to Lightning to save as many souls as she can, so they can be reborn in the new existence.
That's done through quests and errands. For veterans of RPGs, the missions aren't terribly complicated. They're mostly fetch quests or ones where Lightning has to defeat a monster. The time element adds freshness to the campaign, as players must plan out the hero's limited time and use every second to rescue the needy.
The bigger departure in "Lightning Returns" is in the fights. It's another odd setup that tries to combine turn-based combat with hack-and-slash gameplay. It's an unusual mix with a steep learning curve that will punish players for the first few hours. Once they get past that initial hurdle, it becomes intriguing as players control Lightning as she battles monsters and old comrades who have gone to a dark place for one reason or another.
A major reason that the combat scenarios are compelling is that players can mix and match armor pieces to create outfits that bestow a set of commands and power-ups to Lightning. Add in the fact that she can switch out three of the outfits during a single fight, and players can spend hours testing out different combinations.
However, those updates can't redeem a mediocre plot. "Lightning Returns" has its moments, but the impenetrable mythology is a huge obstacle for anyone but the most ardent fans.
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(WOMENSENEWS)--Let the dust accumulate! Don't empty the dishwasher! Stop driving the carpool and get to work!
In her slim, red-jacketed book, "Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World," Linda Hirshman, a retired professor of philosophy at Brandeis University, former trial lawyer and mother, argues that "the real glass ceiling is at home."
It's not the workplace holding women back, she says, it's the family, with "its repetitious, socially invisible, physical tasks."
Hirshman's admonitions have offended many stay-at-home mothers, and, yet, some of the most sustained engagement with her work has come from such women.
Mothers and More, the Elmhurst, Ill., national organization for women taking time off from paid work to care for children, held an Internet dialog with Hirshman during five days in June right after the publication of her book.
"Our perspective is that we know it is not a good choice," said Debra Levy, who spearheaded the conversation with Hirshman for Mothers and More, about women leaving the workplace. "Economically it is not a good choice."
"Yet the majority of us believe strongly in the value of caring for others--even if we were to wind up like Terry Hekker, we'd do it all again," wrote Levy in an introduction to Hirshman for the Internet discussion.
Hekker, who defended her decision to be a stay-at-home mother in her 1980 book "Ever Since Adam and Eve," ended up eligible for food stamps after her 40-year marriage ended in divorce.
Hekker, herself, would do it all over again, too, though this time around a bit differently.
"I would certainly stay home with my children until they are all of school age," Hekker told Women's eNews. "But we live in a society where there is no job security anymore, so just on that level, women have to be prepared to support themselves. And with the divorce rate at 50 percent, you have got to keep in your field for security."
Hekker was elected the deputy mayor of Nyack, N.Y., in 1994, and earned a paycheck for six years in that position. She is now working on a new book, "Disregard First Book."
Reasons to Stay Attached to Work
"I think there are really good reasons for women to stay attached to the work force," Judith Stadtman Tucker, the founder of Mother's Movement Online, a Web resource for progressive mothers, told Women's eNews. Staying attached through part-time work options or through freelance opportunities offers protection, she says. Women don't incur a huge cost penalty once they have children and don't lose that much experience.
Since the publication of books such as Ann Crittenden's 2002 "The Price of Motherhood," about how mothers are financially penalized, women are more aware of the risks involved in quitting work to become full-time mothers.
Mothers working last year, for instance--including women from all socio-economic backgrounds--earned approximately 50 percent of their male-parental counterparts overall, estimates Theresa Funiciello, executive director of TR Rose Associates, a New York-based public policy organization. Funicello bases her estimate on statistics taken from the 2005 American Community Survey provided by the U.S. Census Bureau.
And according to a 2005 study by the Institute for Women's Policy Research, a Washington-based nonprofit, women older than 65 are at a much greater risk of poverty than men.
"Our membership is becoming better educated," Levy told Women's eNews about Mothers and More. "You would do the (caregiving) all over again, but instead you would maintain your CPA certification while doing it."
"Get to Work" is an extension of Hirshman's article, "Homeward Bound," which appeared in the December 2005 issue of The American Prospect, the Washington-based progressive magazine.
For that article Hirshman surveyed 30 women who announced their weddings in the New York Times in January 1996. In her admittedly anecdotal study, she found 85 percent had either bowed out of paid work completely or were working part-time.
Hirshman also interviewed writers such as Judith Stadtman Tucker and Miriam Peskowitz, author of the 2005 "The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars: Who Decides What Makes a Good Mother?" which asks why mothers are constantly pitted against each other.
Stadtman Tucker quickly responded to "Homeward Bound" with an article on the online mothers group's Web site headlined "Everybody Hates Linda" last December. In it she called Hirshman to task for blaming women for the lingering barriers that hinder their success in the workplace and "the mindset that professional achievement is the one true path to full human flourishing."
Raising a Neglected Subject
But Stadtman Tucker did credit Hirshman for raising a topic worthy of discussion and said she agreed that the cultural assumption that women are responsible for child-rearing and homemaking had been largely untouched by "workplace feminism."
Besides working, Hirshman instructs women not to study art in college, to take work seriously, find the money professionally, to have just one child, not two, and to "bargain relentlessly for a just household."
Hirshman devised her one-child recommendation after her interview with Stadtman Tucker. In the original piece for The American Prospect, Hirshman wrote: "Stadtman Tucker reports that women who opt-out for child-care reasons act only after the second child arrives."
Many members of Mothers and More and Stadtman Tucker's online group advocate collective and policy-oriented solutions such as paid maternity and parental leave, paid sick leave, and part-time parity.
But the idea of restructuring the workplace or government is anathema to Hirshman, who finds such attempts futile.
"I believe my prescriptions are a sign of limited hope," Hirshman wrote in the Mothers and More dialogue.
A former union-side labor lawyer, Hirshman wrote that she had been disillusioned with the possibilities of fighting for collective action. When she realized just how "deeply conservative and individualistic" U.S. society had become since 1973, she turned to the proposals she offers in her book.
'A Different Paradigm'
"We need a different paradigm," Hirshman told Women's eNews, saying that public solutions are unlikely. "I am proposing things that could actually happen tomorrow."
Levy says Hirshman, who had a child care provider working at home to help care for her own children, fails to address the emotional needs of mothers.
"Many of us felt we had no other route than to leave the workplace," said Levy, a former legal assistant, who said she felt ambivalent about a part-time work option and full-time day care.
In the April issue of the Congressional Quarterly Researcher, a Washington-based public policy magazine, Hirshman and Peskowitz took "Yes" and "No" positions, respectively, to the question "Are women giving up by opting out?"
"It's not a politically retrograde choice to leave a workplace that squeezes you too tight," Peskowitz wrote. "To refuse to work all day for pay and work all evening at home . . . No, this is called a boycott."
But Hirshman continues to encourage women to adhere to a set of rules that they can personally control.
During her online dialogue with Mothers and More this summer a new dictate occurred to Hirshman after a few women commented that they found it hard to work with men who didn't face caregiving demands at home.
"I'm thinking of a new rule for a future book on women at work," Hirshman mused. "Don't work for a man with a stay-at-home wife."
Jeanine Plant is a freelance writer based in New York.
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New DVD releases range from singing competitions to a sci-fi remake.
"Pitch Perfect": A college student (Anna Kendrick) finds herself hanging with the wrong crowd. This movie about college a cappella groups isn't sharp or flat. The script and cast are in such harmony in "Pitch Perfect." It would have been very easy to tune this film out after so many seasons of "Glee." But from the always dependable acting of Kendrick to the in-sync direction of Jason Moore, this production is a comedy octave higher than any episode of the TV series.
As an added bonus, John Michael Higgins and Elizabeth Banks are hilarious as former a cappella singers who now do the announcing and color commentary for the competition telecasts. Banks is particularly funny with a delivery that's so deadpan it masks just how inappropriate her comments are. There hasn't been such a funny commentary team since "Best in Show."
"Total Recall": A man tries to deal with an identity crisis. Director Len Wiseman, the master of the "Underworld" movies and actress Kate Beckinsale's husband, has shifted the film focus away from the psychological elements for a more physical approach. Once the film starts, it is a white-knuckle thrill ride that doesn't offer too many chances to breathe.
The film has its problems, and it can be nitpicked into obscurity. The main one is the way Wiseman deals with the ambiguity of the story. Fact or fiction? He leans so heavily in one direction that it takes the pop out of the final scenes.
"Total Recall" isn't unforgettable, but it's the kind of movie you won't be sorry to see.
"Trouble with the Curve": An aging scout (Clint Eastwood) battles the new computerized baseball world. It's a by-the-numbers story of an aging professional baseball scout, played with cantankerous splendor by Clint Eastwood, and the daughter he's kept at a distance, played with perfect perkiness by Amy Adams. The movie thrives on the fastball pitches of aging, parenting and baseball, but it could have used a few change-ups to make it more interesting.
"House of Lies: The First Season": The cable series based on the best-selling book by Martin Kihn is a wicked and wonderful behind-the-scenes look at the world of management consultants. Don Cheadle plays the head of the team, a man who can masterfully spin any story.
The second season debuts Jan. 13 on Showtime.
Also new this week
"Blue Lagoon: The Awakening": Indiana Evans stars in this made-for-cable film.
"Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go To War": Take a look at how John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro brought the world to the brink of a nuclear holocaust.
"The Good Doctor": Orlando Bloom stars in this story of what happens when medicine goes wrong.
"Shameless: The Complete Second Season": William H. Macy stars.
"Without a Trace: The Complete Fifth Season": Anthony LaPaglia stars in the crime drama.
"Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days": A middle-school kid gets into more trouble.
"Hermano": Two men -- raised as brothers -- fight to become professional soccer players.
"Can Science Stop Crime?": NOVA takes a look inside the criminal mind with cutting-edge forensic techniques that help investigators.
"The Sarah Silverman Program: Season Three": Sarah Silverman stars in the comedy series.
"Funny or Die Presents: The Complete Second Season": Ben Stiller is featured in the sketch comedy show.
"Californication: The Fifth Season": David Duchovny stars in the cable series about a sex-crazed writer.
"Quincy M.E.: Season 4": Jack Klugman plays the mystery-solving coroner.
"Army Wives: Season Six, Part Two": The cable series looks at military life at home.
"Forced to Fight": Peter Weller and Gary Daniels star in the mixed martial arts film.
"The Hi-Lo Country": Best friends return from the war to face a battle over cattle ranching.
"The Millennium Bug": A family seeks refuge from Y2K hysteria, only to find that the threat of technological shutdown is the least of their worries.
"Sometimes A Great Notion": The Paul Newman film make its Blu-ray debut.
"Gandu": A poor young man dreams of being a rap star.
"Bro' ": A college student gets caught up in the wild lifestyle of professional motocross.
Dec. 24: "The Words"
Dec. 31: "Looper"
Jan. 1: "The Trouble with Biss," "Cosmopolis"
Jan. 8: "House at the End of Street," "The Inbetweeners Movie," "Dredd," "Frankenweenie," "Samsara"
Jan. 15: "Branded, "The Possession," "To Rome With Love," "The Other Dream Team," "17 Girls," "Taken 2," "Won't Back Down"
Jan 22: "End of Watch," "Searching for Sugar Man"
Jan. 29: "The Cold Light of Day," "Hotel Transylvania"
Feb. 5: "Alex Cross," "Celeste and Jesse Forever"
Feb. 12: "Bully," "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," "Robot & Frank"
Feb. 12: "Silent Hill: Revelation"
Feb. 19: "Sinister"


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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a long-term disease that leads to inflammation of the joints and surrounding tissues. It can also affect other organs.
RA; Arthritis - rheumatoid
The cause of RA is unknown. It is an autoimmune disease, which means the body's immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue.
RA can occur at any age, but is more common in middle age. Women get RA more often than men.
Infection, genes, and hormone changes may be linked to the disease.
Most of the time, RA usually affects joints on both sides of the body equally. Wrists, fingers, knees, feet, and ankles are the most commonly affected.
The disease often begins slowly. Early symptoms may include minor joint pain, stiffness, and fatigue.
Joint symptoms may include:
Other symptoms include:
There is no test that can determine for sure whether you have RA. Most people with RA will have some abnormal test results. However, some people will have normal results for all tests.
Two lab tests that often help in the diagnosis are:
Other tests that may be done include:
RA usually requires lifelong treatment, including medications, physical therapy, exercise, education, and possibly surgery. Early, aggressive treatment for RA can delay joint destruction.
Disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs): These are often the drugs that are tried first in people with RA. They are prescribed along with rest, strengthening exercise, and anti-inflammatory drugs.
Anti-inflammatory medications: These include aspirin and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as ibuprofen and naproxen.
Antimalarial medications: This group of medicines includes hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil). They are most often used along with methotrexate. It may be weeks or months before you see any benefit from these drugs.
Corticosteroids: These medicines work very well to reduce joint swelling and inflammation, but they can have long-term side effects. Therefore should be taken only for a short time and in low doses when possible.
Biologic agents: These drugs are designed to affect parts of the immune system that play a role in the disease process of rheumatoid arthritis.
They may be given when other medicines for rheumatoid arthritis have not worked. At times, your doctor will start biologic drugs sooner, along with other rheumatoid arthritis drugs.
Most of them are given either under the skin (subcutaneously) or into a vein (intravenously). There are different types of biologic agents:
Biologic agents can be very helpful in treating rheumatoid arthritis. However, people taking these drugs must be watched very closely because of serious risk factors:
Other drugs:
Surgery may be needed to correct severely damaged joints. Surgery may include:
Range-of-motion exercises and exercise programs prescribed by a physical therapist can delay the loss of joint function and help keep muscles strong.
Sometimes, therapists will use special machines to apply deep heat or electrical stimulation to reduce pain and improve joint movement.
Other therapies that may help ease joint pain include:
Some people with RA may have intolerance or allergies to certain foods. A balanced nutritious diet is recommended. It may be helpful to eat foods rich in fish oils (omega-3 fatty acids).
Some people may benefit from taking part in an arthritis support group.
How well a person does depends on the severity of symptoms.
People with rheumatoid factor, the anti-CCP antibody, or subcutaneous nodules seem to have a more severe form of the disease. People who develop RA at a younger age also seem to get worse more quickly.
Permanent joint damage may occur without proper treatment. Early treatment with a three-drug combination known as "triple therapy" can decrease joint pain and damage. Many of the newer drugs have also shown positive results.
Rheumatoid arthritis can affect nearly every part of the body. Complications may include:
The treatments for RA can also cause serious side effects. Talk to your doctor about the possible side effects of treatment and what to do if they occur.
Call your health care provider if you think you have symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis.
There is no known prevention. Smoking cigarettes appears to worsen RA, so it is important to avoid tobacco. Proper early treatment can help prevent further joint damage.
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Scott DL, Wolfe F, Huizinga TW. Rheumatoid arthritis. Lancet. 2010 Sep 25;376(9746):1094-108.
Firestein GS. Etiology and pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis. In: Firestein GS, Budd RC, Gabriel SE, et al, eds. Kelley's Textbook of Rheumatology. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2012:chap 69.
O'Dell JR, Mikuls TR, Taylor TH, et al. Therapies for active rheumatoid arthritis after methotrexate failure. N Engl J Med. 2013; 369:307.


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May 23, 2006
Back by popular demand: Dumb and Dangerous Driving.
You send the e-mails, News 12 catches the bad driving on camera.
What do you usually do when you see a stop sign?
I'm assuming stop...that's what it says.
But it seems a lot of drivers, including county workers on the dangerous Olive Road, are forgetting that.
And that's just the beginning of our driving debacles.
You'd think after a deadly crash, blinking lights, and dozens of signs, drivers going under the Olive Road railroad bridge would follow the rules.
Think again.
In just 30 minutes, our camera caught dozens of cars rolling through the stop sign.
A Camry rolled right through, then a Lincoln did the same thing.
A string of minivans also avoided the break pedal, and countless other cars shot across.
Then we caught a Richmond County school employee making a left turn in his pickup without bothering to stop.
A few minutes later another school employee in a van does the same thing.
After all this, we really wanted to know why so few people were stopping...but all we got was denial. Here are the reactions from three different drivers:
"Can you tell us why you didn't stop at the stop sign up there?"
"I did."
"Why didn't you stop at the stop sign?"
"I did stop at the stop sign."
"Not all the way."
"Yes I did."
"Why didn't you stop at the stop sign back there?"
"I did."
"You rolled through."
"I came to a short stop."
At least those people answered us...we got a lot of people speeding away the moment we asked the question.
Neighbors on Ramsgate Road also e-mailed us. They're worried about speeders there. The problem is, they don't have any sidewalks, so kids must use the street if they want to ride their bikes or walk. Sheriff's officers aren't allowed to run radar in neighborhoods, but News 12 is.
Laura Beveridge worries about the safety of her three sons.
She's even gone to the Richmond County Commission to get speed bumps on Ramsgate road.
"You just missed the logging truck that came through probably doing 75," she told us. "And this is a 30 mile per hour zone."
Neighbor Pat Sable thinks it's been a problem since Target was built.
"I think a lot of people use it to get to Washington Road from the Exchange area," she says.
So News 12 set up behind some brush to catch the speeders in action.
The first offender: Laura's oldest son's school bus.
It was almost 15 over.
But that's just the beginning.
A teenager whipped by 20 miles over the speed limit.
But a green car won the race...going 61 miles per hour.
That's 31 over the speed limit.
You can see why neighbors plan to plead to commissioners again for speed bumps.
When you need a good parking spot, those expectant mother spaces are awfully tempting.
They're so close.
But taking one just wouldn't be right. And when we spotted two men hanging out the moms-to-be spot, we had to confront them.
"You guys expecting a baby? You pregnant?" we asked.
"Oh no! Don't do that," said one of the men, running around the truck to avoid our camera.
"I thought this spot is for expectant mothers. You know some new science I don't know about?"
"Oh boy," said the other man. "You got us."


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Hit A&E show "Storage Wars" is rigged, former star David Hester says in a lawsuit.
I know -- it's devastating. A reality show isn't really reality. What's next ... singers charging hundreds for tickets, then not really singing?
According to TMZ, Hester says the show deceives viewers by pretending contestants are bidding on unseen items in abandoned storage units, but planting items in the units -- often the best item to be found -- that weren't there originally.
The suit contends Hester was fired when he complained to producers about the alleged practices.
Hester says in one case producers planted a BMW mini car under a pile of trash. In another case, Hester alleges producers planted a pile of old newspapers that announced the death of Elvis. Which for some, is a valuable commodity.
Hester says the show even gave cast members money for plastic surgery to "create more sex appeal."
So his surgery didn't work and he's mad?
So far, there has been no public response from the show or the network.
Contact Tony Hicks at email@example.com or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.TonyHicks.


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Deal should prevent Mobile strike
National union agrees to extend contract for 30 days to continue negotiating deal
Published: Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, December 28, 2012 at 9:49 p.m.
MOBILE | An agreement between union longshoremen and shipping companies on the key contract issue of royalty payments should avoid a strike that could have hurt Alabama's automotive industry, the head of the state port said Friday.
While issues remain to be negotiated on a dock workers' contract covering the East Coast and Gulf Coast, Lyons said they're "not that big" compared with previous topics. The national union agreed Friday to extend its contract for 30 days.
"I don't see anything that would prevent ... an agreement over the next 30 days," Lyons said.
An Alabama-based leader of the International Longshoremen's Association wasn't as optimistic.
"It is too early for people to be saying that the chance for a strike is over. We still have a ton of issues to bargain over nationally, and there is local bargaining for some that has to be achieved," said Mark Bass, president of Local 1410 in Mobile.
The union has about 800 members in Mobile, Bass said.
Lyons estimated union membership in Mobile at around 400 of the roughly 3,000 people whose jobs are tied directly to the port.
The extension agreement Friday averted a possible strike that could have begun Sunday. The protest will likely not take place now that the union and an alliance of port operators and shipping lines resolved a main issue involving royalty payments to longshoremen for each container they unload.
Lyons said a longshoremen's walkout would affect container shipments through Mobile, which handles about 2 million tons of such imports and exports annually.
While container shipments represent less than 10 percent of the total tonnage that moves through the port each year, Lyons said the cargo shipped in the big steel boxes includes important quantities of auto parts, manufacturing items and chemicals.
The docks rely on union members to move the containers on and off ships, and a walkout would cause problems far north of Mobile, Lyons said.
"Hyundai Manufacturing would have a tough time," Lyons said. "We do roughly 400 containers for them a week, so it would have affected them."
The union has five locals in Mobile, and workers had begun preparing for a strike before the extension, Bass said. He said a strike could have a ripple effect through the state.
"It would be a pretty big deal to have Hyundai, Mercedes, other auto companies, the paper industry, have an impact with this," he said.
Bass, a member of one of the union's national negotiating teams, said he hoped the sides can avoid a strike, but he isn't certain.
"There is still some important talking to be done," Bass said.
Lyons said a strike wouldn't hurt Mobile as badly as East Coast ports because the percentage of union members is far less in Alabama than other places.
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VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as for DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It also can be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. The most prominent additions to version 0.8.6 are probably Windows Media Video 9 and Flash Video. Other important changes are improved H.264 decoding, better Windows Unicode support, and a full-screen.
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Simply the most singularly-useful media playing app out there - I think both on Windows and on the Mac.
Some users complain of bugs but personally I have had few issues - all of which were solved using the method listed in the post Below :)
It also has a tonne of extra features that hardly anyone seems to stumble across - i seem to find a new use for VLC every few weeks! (see the Streaming/Exporting Wizard for some ideas)
Thanks VideoLAN!
If any of you get the following error at launch:
"main: You cannot run the MacOS X module as an extra interface. Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file."
you're not alone (there are multiple threads about this on the vlc forums - most of them unanswered).
Well the answer is that the pref files sometimes get corrupted during upgrades/updates (I've had the error ever since I upgraded to 0.8.6.c).
So you have to delete the VLC folder and the org.videolan.vlc.plist from ~/Library/Preferences.
Now it should run as normal...no more error pop-ups on launch (new uncorrupted prefs will be created when run again)
If they could only fix the bugs, it'd be the best.
great app, but I still feel b was more stable than c. Am I alone on this?
Installing the Universal Binary on an Intel Mac breaks the application shortcut for all users who aren't administrators. Download the dedicated Intel verson instead.
Great app, BTW.
This may come as a no-brainer for some, but I also was delighted to know that it allowed my mom to play her store-bought Asian-coded DVDs from the Philippines on her G4/400, with no special steps required - I just fired up VLC and hit Play. Wow.
version 0.8.6c released today.
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OAKLAND — Everybody seems to want Coco Crisp in an A's uniform in 2014.
Manager Bob Melvin does. Crisp does. General manager Billy Beane does, in part because of what he means to the team and in part because he is the favorite of the general manager's 5-year-old twins.
Melvin said Friday he wants his center fielder and leadoff hitter back. Beane left little doubt that the club will pick up the $7.5 million option on Crisp's contract for next year.
Crisp likes the sound of that, but he would like more than a one-year deal. He is hoping for a contract extension beyond 2014.
"I'm hoping it's not just an option," Crisp told the Bay Area News Group. "I'm hoping they see me as a big part of what's happening here for a little while longer.
"But that's out of my hands. Let's go with it and see what happens."
Crisp at least knows he is going to be in Oakland next season. The A's winningest pitcher, Bartolo Colon, and saves leader, Grant Balfour, are free agents and know no such thing.
Both say they want to return, but neither knows what the A's will offer. They also don't know what other teams might be offering.
"It sucks, because you don't know," said Balfour, who saved 38 games. "That's why my last inning (a 1-2-3 ninth in Thursday's loss) was so important to me. If it was my last inning here, I wanted it to be worth remembering."
Like Crisp, outfielders Chris Young, catcher Kurt Suzuki and left-handed pitcher Brett Anderson have contract options that the A's can take or reject. Anderson probably is in the "take'' pile. Young, due $11 million, is almost certainly gone. Suzuki, due $8.5 million, is in limbo, but he probably is gone, too
Beane said Friday "it's pretty apparent" the club wants to pick up Crisp's option. Beane would like Colon back, too, saying "it would be foolish not to" explore that in the next few weeks. The general manager would have to spend $8 million to pick up the option on the oft-injured Anderson, but the club is likely to do that because manager Bob Melvin and Beane like Anderson's talent and potential.
Assuming the A's pick up option on Anderson and can bring back Colon, the club would enter spring training with a deep rotation.
Anderson was the opening day starter. Colon led the team with 18 wins. A.J. Griffin won 14 games. Tommy Milone and Jarrod Parker each won 12. Dan Straily won 10 games, and rookie Sonny Gray pitched eight shutout innings in Game 2 of the A.L. Division Series and got the start, and the loss, in Game 5.
The bullpen is a different matter. It seems unlikely that the A's will bring back Balfour after he made $4.5 million and probably is due for a big payday in free agency.
The club has Ryan Cook, who made the All-Star team in 2011 pitching as the closer for a while, and Sean Doolittle, who also has had considerable success as a late-innings reliever. Dan Otero, who spent the first half of the season as the closer at Triple-A Sacramento before becoming a major player in the A's bullpen the second half, is another closer candidate.
"I'd say Cook and Doolittle are a little ahead of Otero," Melvin said. "But we have some good options if we can't bring Balfour back."
The A's don't have to do too much with their roster. They are loaded in the outfield with starters Yoenis Cespedes, Crisp and Josh Reddick and backup Seth Smith all under club control.
Brandon Moss, Nate Freiman and Daric Barton are back at first base; second baseman Eric Sogard, shortstop Jed Lowrie, third baseman Josh Donaldson and utility man Alberto Callaspo all are set to return; and catchers John Jaso, Derek Norris and Stephen Vogt are under contract.
"I like our core," Melvin said. "We have a good group. We have good depth. This is a good team."
Donaldson said there was no reason the A's couldn't be back in the ALDS next year, "although it would be nice if we didn't have to see Justin Verlander twice.''
"This is a good club," he said. "I like it here. I like the future."
For more on the A's, see John Hickey's Insider at blogs.ibabuzz.com/athletics. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/JHickey3.
The A's have decisions to make on several players:
Free agents
Bartolo Colon, RHP: At 40, led team with 18 wins.
Grant Balfour, closer: Team-high 38 saves.
Club options
Brett Anderson, LHP: Opening day starter has been injury-prone.
Coco Crisp, CF: Club will pick up $7.5 million option.
Kurt Suzuki, C: Team already has three catchers.
Chris Young, OF: Batted only .200.
Mark Purdy: Despite judge's ruling, San Jose's quest for the A's isn't over. Go to: www.mercurynews.com/


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Marietta's Indian Acres Park has it all-boating, swimming, softball, basketball, tennis, a skate park and a playground. Encompassing more than 10 acres, it's one of the city's most-used park areas, and includes the northern entrance to Marietta's 3-mile River Trail.
"The ball fields there are heavily used on a lot of afternoons and almost every night during the summer," said Susan Joyce, recreation clerk for the city of Marietta.
She said the Marietta Softball Association helps maintain both softball fields in the park, Hadley Field 1 and 2.
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Marietta resident Jade Graham walks her friend's dogs, Sarge and Shelby, at Indian Acres Park Monday afternoon. At right is a new Americans with Disabilities Act sidewalk installed by city crews earlier this year. The concrete dome in the background is part of the skate park at Indian Acres.
"The city maintains the building and fences, but the softball association fees pay for the field maintenance and a caretaker," Joyce explained.
North of the ball fields lies the $3.3 million Marietta Aquatic Center that draws tens of thousands of visitors to the park every summer.
"This was our ninth year for the aquatic center," Joyce said, adding that the facility is usually a major revenue source for the city recreation department, but that may not be the case this year due to the rainy summer's impact on attendance.
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The center is a water park with attractions that include a pirate ship, water slide and a lazy river tubing area.
"We eventually want to add more features to the aquatic center, and are still ironing out what those will be," Joyce said. "But a lot will depend on available funding."
The newest addition at Indian Acres is a skate park, complete with a concrete flow bowl and recently-added street course.
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- The main entrance to Indian Acres Park is located along Linwood Avenue, off Muskingum Drive, in Marietta.
- Facilities at the city park include the Marietta Aquatic Center, Hadley softball fields, skate park, a boat ramp and docks, tennis courts, basketball court, playground, restrooms and a few picnic tables.
- Future plans are to increase the number of picnic tables and grills available for picnicking at the park, as well as more facilities at the aquatic center and playground areas.
Source: City of Marietta.
"The street course, with bench and rail obstacles, was completed early this summer," said city development director Andy Coleman. "The city also installed an ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) compliant sidewalk from the skate park to the Indian Acres parking lot as part of the second phase."
The estimated $55,000 project was partially funded through an Ohio Department of Natural Resources Nature Works Grant as well as Community Development Block Grant monies and contributions from the local Skaters United group.
The second phase brought the total amount expended on the skate park to around $175,000.
Joyce said another recent upgrade was made to the park's playground with the addition of a fire engine and police car to the kiddie facilities, compliments of donations from members of the Marietta fire and police departments.
The park restrooms were also renovated within the last few years.
"We'd like to get some new charcoal grills and picnic tables at Indian Acres, too," Joyce said. "People used to like to cook out there a lot."
City law director Paul Bertram III has fond memories of going to the park when he was young.
"When I was a kid the park used to have grills and picnic tables and our family would have picnics there," he said. "My dad and about 10 others used to play tennis on the Indian Acres courts every week. And my friends and I would spend long summer days fishing from the boat dock or riverbanks."
Marietta Councilman Harley Noland, who chairs council's lands, buildings and parks committee, said Indian Acres had its beginnings as part of a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project to install boat ramp facilities along the area rivers.
"And I believe the city's first public tennis courts were built at Indian Acres," he said. "At one time there was also a large picnic area, but I recently did a rough survey and probably 80 percent of the grills and tables are no longer there."
Noland said many of those facilities may have been washed away during past floods as the park is in a low-lying flood-prone area. But he said new grills and metal picnic tables could be installed that would not be as susceptible to flooding.
Coleman said area residents have listed the purchase of more tables and grills for Indian Acres during recent public meetings on how to use the city's annual CDBG entitlement.
As for other needed park improvements, an approximate 4,600-foot paved walking trail, installed several years ago by the Kiwanis Club, winds through the park, but the pathway is narrowed by an overgrowth of grass in several locations and could use some maintenance.
Coleman also said a large mound of topsoil, excavated during construction on the skate park earlier this year, still remains just south of the facility. He said the mound will eventually be removed and used for fill dirt on other city projects.
Noland noted Indian Acres is also the location of a majority of the city's water well fields, which must be protected from uses that could result in pollution of the water source.
"I think parks and well fields go together very well," he said.


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We talked about what should be on there and I came up with some kind of playlist, and some of the tracks I remade from scratch because for things like Pack Animal and Pubic's Tube (and more) there aren't any intstrumentals (same with Centuar, which is a huge end piece finale) so it's very re-edited and re-made/re-structured (and all that mess). I can't believe it happened - he absolutely smashed it, and I am very proud to have been a part of it. I just wish I could have been there to see it.
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This reminds me...what is the deal with the DVD that was talked about awhile back? I remember the stolen footage being recovered and that's the last I've heard. I've seen Buck a handful of times, but the Situation tour was just madness, you could tell he was a man on a misson and he just destroyed.
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by Edward Fraser - February 5, 2009 9:29 AM UTC
U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps' recent slip-up should serve a warning to other athletes... NHL in Europe... and Vanek's trick.
To err is human. To err in front of a camera is just plain stupid. That's an altered-cliché caveat U.S. phenom swimmer Michael Phelps forgot or foolishly ignored after a picture of him smoking marijuana appeared in a British tabloid Sunday.
by Edward Fraser - January 29, 2009 9:52 AM UTC
At the beginning of the season few, if any, thought Jeff Carter would challenge for the Rocket Richard Trophy, but here he is.
One doesn't have to look far down the NHL's goal-scoring list to find an unfamiliar name. Try two spots. One goal in Friday night's game against Tampa will pull Philadelphia's Jeff Carter even with Alex Ovechkin in the battle for the Rocket Richard Trophy with 31; pretty damn good for a guy who entered the season No.
by Edward Fraser - January 22, 2009 11:52 AM UTC
A load of players you may not recognize are making waves this season, so we'll take some time to introduce them to you.
Perhaps it's memory loss due to accumulated sleep deprivation from watching west coast games, but it sure seems like there's more than the usual sum of out-of-the-blue productive NHLers this season; players you wouldn't recognize at a party without the assistance of those sticky red-and-white badges proclaiming… HELLO MY NAME IS… David Krejci, center for the Boston Bruins.
by Edward Fraser - January 15, 2009 12:07 PM UTC
Fanatic Alex Jordan recently completed an adventure most hockey fans only dream about undertaking.
It's a dream every hockey fan has had, in one form or another, but one few have the gumption or wherewithal to achieve. Alex Jordan wanted to do it before he turned 30 and, through diligent planning and Internet flight deals, his fantasy became reality Tuesday night when the Wild and Coyotes clashed at the Xcel Energy Center in Minnesota.
by Edward Fraser - January 8, 2009 10:44 AM UTC
Will Luongo hit 11 shutouts? Will Gaborik play another game? We make a few wagers on the 2009 part of the NHL season.
While hockey will always be my soulmate, I must admit my mistress is the pigskin. And a big part of my not-so-secret affair with football, both U.
by Edward Fraser - January 3, 2009 9:57 AM UTC
In the final edition of this series, we look at the Folignos, Sutters, Geoffrions and more.
After a one week Christmas hiatus, here is the final of a three-part look at some of the NHL's most recent father-son combos. Click HERE to read Parts 1 and 2.
by Edward Fraser - December 25, 2008 8:40 AM UTC
With children everywhere hopefully finding sticks and gloves under the tree, we take a stab at a Christmas classic.
On the first day of Christmas, the Hockey Gods sent to me, a new set of Bobby Orr knees. On the second day of Christmas, the Hockey Gods sent to me, two dropped gloves, and a new set of Bobby Orr knees.
by Edward Fraser - December 18, 2008 12:10 PM UTC
Continuing our look back at some of the NHL's most recent father-son combos, the Stastnys are well represented.
As I did last week and will again on Jan. 3, here are some of the NHL's more recent father-son combos. Some, like the first family listed, are sure to be familiar, while other duos may not be so well known.
by Edward Fraser - December 11, 2008 12:04 PM UTC
The long family lines that have run through the NHL's history has made a large hockey community a rather small world.
The hockey community is a close-knit one and that intimacy is only strengthened by the shared bloodlines that have run through the generations.
by Edward Fraser - December 4, 2008 11:46 AM UTC
We're just passed the first marker of the NHL season, a good place to start awarding players for their early-season play.
Every NHL club has played at least 25 percent of its games, so it's the perfect time to give the NHL's top early-season performers their due (based on the NHL's year-end awards).
by Edward Fraser - November 27, 2008 11:16 AM UTC
To make sure the right call is being made, NHL officials should be allowed to conference after a penalty like other sports allow.
Let me start off by stating this is in no way meant to be a rant against NHL referees and linesmen. For the most part, the men in stripes do an admirable job adjudicating a fast-paced and sometimes frantic sport and should be commended for their work.
by Edward Fraser - November 20, 2008 12:14 PM UTC
We surveyed 25 hockey observers to come up with a top 10 ranking of this year's NHL rookies.
In the Nov. 24 issue of The Hockey News, writer/columnist Adam Proteau looks at Leafs rookie blueliner Luke Schenn and nine other fab freshmen who are in the running for rookie of the year.


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On what he calls "Coloradoans don't shut down tour," Democratic Senator Michael Bennet stepped away from legislating and into Adam's Mountain Café in Manitou Springs to bus tables.
"It's a pretty stark reminder of the hard work people are doing in support of this country," Bennet said.
He also picked up a night shift in Pueblo, going on a ride along with a police officer.
"I actually think it's the folks in Washington that need the reminder and the stories that I gather are the ones that I will be able to speak about on the Senate floor," Bennet said.
Bennet says the jobs and people he meets over his tour will be a sharp contrast between Washington D.C.'s dysfunction and Colorado.
Republican Congressman Doug Lamborn was left scratching his head.
"Yeah I'm not really sure what the point is here," Lamborn said. "I'm kind of perplexed what the message is behind this. People in Colorado want to work and love to work."
Lamborn says he is proud at his fight against Obamacare which caused the shutdown. He says there were bills in the House that would have prevented the shutdown.
"I wish it would have succeeded, but even though we didn't it was a struggle worth having," Lamborn said.
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The physical effects of this bad habit aren't limited to your internal organs -- see how smoking also destroys women's hair, skin and nails (and why you should quit)
One of nicotine's myriad side effects is the darkening of skin tissue. As we now know (thanks to Slide 2), the addictive alkaloid restricts oxygen flow, resulting in a pale, sallow complexion. This restricted flow, coupled with the iron and vitamin D deficiencies that many smokers have, leads to the discoloration of your lips leaving them a darkish blue hue -- permanently. Although there are some methods for trying to restore a rosy, healthy look to your lips, most yield middling results at best.
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I don't know why anyone would start smoking these days, when all of the harmful effects to your appearance and health are known. My mom quit cold-turkey at age 78 after emergency quadruple-bypass surgery. If she can quit, anyone can . . .
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lots of good reasons to quit smoking
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So glad I stopped smoking!
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I have to admit that it is hard to quit. I have been smoking for a while now and I really hate it. I think if anything, it does worse for my anxiety and it makes me feel self-conscious because of the smell. I plan to quit very soon, I just need a lucrative method.
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My grandfather died of lung cancer so I have never been tempted to smoke.
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I wish my vanity could override my brain...I hate smoking...I stink, I have yellow fingers, and my breath is disgusting, not to include the running to my grave part...Smoking is such a taboo (rightfully so) but you can't just snap your fingers and that's it....no more smoker...Tried quitting with the patch and could not sleep, which made me very sick...I tried Chantix and had a really bad reaction...I just got an e-cigarette and my breathing is worse after that...Like I said, any helpful advice would be wonderful!
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I'm so glad I never took up smoking. Besides all of the facts mentioned, smoking can affect your eyes and cause cataracts to form faster too.
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A motorcyclist who was initially clocked traveling 35 mph over the speed limit and then later 55 mph over a higher speed limit was arrested south of Rolla Sunday night.
According to Lt. Rick Williams, of the Rolla Police Department, an officer noticed the motorcyclist identified as Daniel H. Stratman, 29, of Rolla, who was going twice the speed limit on Highway O in Rolla and again twice the speed limit outside the city limits.
Stratman faces two charges of exceeding the posted speed limit — going 70 mph in a 35 mph zone and traveling 110 mph in a 55 mph zone.
The officer, who was traveling the opposite direction of Stratman, turned around and pursued him, Williams said.
Stratman turned onto County Road 5180 and the officer found that he had crashed with the motorcycle, a 2003 Harley Davidson, laying on top of Stratman. A Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP) crash report stated Stratman crashed in a drainage ditch and overturned.
The officer's report stated that Stratman was not hurt.
The MSHP crash report stated that there was moderate damage to the motorcycle.
In addition to the speeding charges, Stratman also has been charged with resisting arrest, a felony; failure to signal; and failure to drive on the right half of the road.
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It was a classic case of preaching to the choir when Eagle County hosted a meeting Tuesday to present the Castle Peak Senior Care Community proposal.
Many of the people in the audience were the living embodiment of the demographics presenters cited to illustrate the need for a senior care facility in Eagle County. They didn't need to be convinced about the project's viability, they needed to hear when construction will start.
But that announcement is a bit further down the road. Tuesday's session had a dual purpose - to give an update about planning efforts for the center and to satisfy a public hearing requirement as the project moves through its financing and certification procedures.
Kathy Kopp of Augustana Care, the Minnesota-based firm Eagle County has partnered with to develop the Castle Peak Senior Care Community, presented some of the program highlights. The county has purchased a site at Eagle Ranch - the large tract located north of Brush Creek Elementary School and the Capitol Street/Sylvan Lake Road T-intersection - to build the care facility.
The first phase of the project will include 64 beds. That breaks down as 22-skilled nursing units, 20 assisted living units, 12 memory care units and 10 transitional care/rehabilitation units.
"The plan we have here is not overly ambitious. It really tries to work with the number we know will be coming," said Linda Venturoni, a research consultant who is working with Augustana to determine the facility's needs.
On that subject, Venturoni noted that overall population in Eagle County is expected to grow by 31 percent between 2010-20. However, the age 60-plus demographic group is expected to grow by 108 percent to a total of 11,502 residents and the age 75-plus demographic group is expected to grow by 222 percent to a total of 2,374 residents.
"These numbers appear to us very much as a call to action," said Venturoni, as a number of heads in the audience nodded. "What we have in the Castle Peak plan is a very conservative number."
The design team for the Castle Peak Senior Care Facility includes architects Gaius Nelson of Minnesota-based Nelson-Tremain Partnership and Pam Hopkins of Vail-based Snowdon Hopkins Architects. Additionally, local landscape architect Sherry Dorwood has been brought on board. During Tuesday's presentation, Nelson outlined the general design, which includes an assisted living wing and a skilled nursing wing.
"One of our goals is to make it not feel like an institution," Nelson said. He noted that the skilled nursing units are divided into 11-bedroom floors called "households."
"You might event envision it as being part of a large, 11-room house," he said.
The memory care units are located on the second floor of the building, which will include a rooftop terrace area. Nelson said that during focus group discussions of the Castle Peak Senior Care Center, participants stressed the desire for access to the outside and that theme has been an important part of the design process.
In addition to skilled nursing and assisted living beds, the proposed center includes a fitness room, large dining area, beauty salon and other amenities identified as priorities.
"I am just very impressed and I have been in a lot of facilities," said Eagle resident Mary Hoza.
While the design group hones in on its work, other issues surrounding the Castle Peak Senior Care Facility will come to the forefront.
Kopp noted that 30 days ago, the project applied for its USDA financing and is currently working with the state of Colorado regarding financing and licensing requirements. Additionally, the land use review process through the town of Eagle has begun.
Right now, the final cost of the facility has not been determined nor has the fee structure for care services. Kopp stressed that the facility is committed to providing a broad base of services for various incomes.
"We are all about how one size does not fit all. We are all about choice," she said.
She urged audience members to check out the new website at www.castlepeak.org to keep up with the project's progress.


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Juvenile Arthritis (cont.)
John Mersch, MD, FAAP
Dr. Mersch received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, San Diego, and prior to entering the University Of Southern California School Of Medicine, was a graduate student (attaining PhD candidate status) in Experimental Pathology at USC. He attended internship and residency at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
Dr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.
In this Article
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)/juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) facts
- What is juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)/juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA)?
- What are causes and risk factors of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)/juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) arthritis?
- What are juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)/juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) symptoms and signs, and how are the different types of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)/juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) diagnosed?
- What is the treatment for juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)/juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA)? What medications treat JIA/JRA?
- What are complications of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)/juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA)?
- What is the prognosis of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)/juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA)?
- Find a local Pediatric Rheumatologist in your town
What is the treatment for juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)/juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA)? What medications treat JIA/JRA?
While there currently is no cure for JIA, an integrated and coordinated approach has been shown to be helpful in lessening the morbidity (nonlethal side effects) of JIA. Goals include lessening pain, joint contractures, and growth disturbances (see above). Monitoring for the development of iritis and aggressive treatment are also paramount. Often patients are best served at a pediatric teaching hospital where access to pediatric rheumatologists, physical and occupational therapists, pharmacologists, and social support providers may allow "one stop shopping."
Therapies for JIA patients include the following:
1. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are commonly used as the first line of therapy due to their positive effect of reducing inflammation in arthritis and relatively few side effects. Medications such as ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), naproxen (Aleve), and indomethacin (Indocin) are examples of this class of therapy.
2. Steroids are another common class of medications for those experiencing moderate to severe arthritis or nonarthritis inflammatory consequences of JIA. These medications may be administered orally (prednisone [Deltasone], prednisolone [Pediapred]), intravenously (methylprednisolone [Solu-Medrol], dexamethasone [Decadron], hydrocortisone [Solu-Cortef]), or injected directly into an involved joint (methylprednisolone [Depo-Medrol], triamcinolone [Kenalog]). Side effects of steroids may be considerable, and pediatric rheumatologists strive to use the lowest possible dosage. Side effects are most commonly seen at dosages over 20 mg/day and may include immune system depression, increased appetite resulting in weight gain, acne, mood changes, osteoporosis, bruising, cataracts, glaucoma, and diabetes.
Learn more about: Decadron | hydrocortisone
3. Antirheumatic medications (also known as disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs or DMARDs) are needed in approximately two-thirds of children to control the joint changes and prevent damage of JIA. These medications are generally considered when the medications previously described are not providing effective control of the illness. Medicines in this category include methotrexate (Trexall), now considered the "gold standard" for JIA, sulfasalazine (Azulfidine), azathioprine (Imuran), cyclosporine (Sandimmune, Neoral), and others. These medications are administered orally or intravenously. Antirheumatic medications are more potent in effect but also can have significant side effects. All of these medications require regular blood testing to monitor for side effects. Problems include immune suppression, which may cause an increased risk of infection, certain cancers, bone marrow toxicity, pulmonary toxicity, liver function abnormalities, abdominal pain, and decrease in appetite.
Learn more about: Azulfidine | Imuran
4. Biologic agents can lessen the morbidity for children with JIA. These agents are administered either by superficial injection under the skin or intravenously. Their general chemical classification is that of "monoclonal antibodies" that work by accurately targeting various mechanisms of the immune system that are overactive and misdirected in JIA. They are associated with an increased risk of infections and (rarely) development of certain malignancies. As such, close clinical monitoring and various laboratory studies are required. Examples of biologics used in the treatment of JIA include etanercept (Enbrel), anakinra (Kineret), adalimumab (Humira), tocilizumab (Actemra), and abatacept (Orencia).
5. Autologous stem cell transplantation is reserved only for those children with JIA who have failed the above therapeutic options. This procedure requires hospitalization and is a two-step process. The initial portion is utilization of high-dose immune suppression medications to remove the patient's lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell) that are attacking the patient's joint(s). Once removed, new stem cells from the patient (autologous) that were previously harvested and treated are introduced back into the patient's body via the bloodstream. This process requires expertise found only in a few pediatric referral centers.
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Body Waxing: 11 Behind the Scenes Salon Secrets
From clients who don't freshen up to staph infections, pro waxers share their (often gross) stories.
Shays says some women are reluctant to get undressed their first time getting a bikini wax and will try to keep their underwear on, but it really isn't necessary. Barshop says when waxers come out of their rooms, they may comment that their clients were so nice/friendly/whatever, but they never talk about what their bodies look like.
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There are some things seriously wrong with this article. Its is not sanitary AT ALL to double dip. if the wax is hot enough to kill ALL bacteria.. it would have to be at abou 300 + degrees, which would obviously burn someone. Secondly, I would never do a Brazilian on someone who had their period, even with a clean tampon. It's usually not recommended to do a bikini wax either, but that's easier to work around. And last, just because a wax hurts, does not mean the person doesn't know what they're doing. You're getting hair ripped out of your body, ITS GOING TO HURT. Really terrible and misleading article.
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Dave Chappelle stormed off a Connecticut stage Thursday night after deciding he was tired of listening to hecklers.
I understand. Sometimes my co-workers stand over me and heckle as I write.
According to TMZ, Chappelle had been on stage for a few minutes when he became frustrated with comments from the crowd.
This is where I think about that scene from "The Nutty Professor," When Eddie Murphy -- in perhaps the last funny scene he ever made -- ripped Chappelle's character from the audience.
Anyway, TMZ says Chappelle stopped his routine and lectured the crowd about heckling, which was probably not the best idea. Then he quietly sat on a stool for the next 25 minutes before finally leaving the stage.
At one point, Chappelle said "I (expletive) up when I left my show, you know why? 'Cause my show only had to be 22 minutes of television. I could've went on television, I could've read the phone book for 22 minutes and I would've got $50 million dollars. I shoulda done that (expletive), but my ego wouldn't let me. Tonight is different. Tonight my contract says 25 minutes and I have 3 minutes left. and when my 3 minutes is up, my (expletive) is gone."
When people started to boo, Chappelle said "You're booing yourself."
That's pretty deep. It makes no sense, but it's deep.
After the show, dozens of fans wanted refunds.
This, of course, was not the first time Chappelle has acted bizarre in public. He reportedly lay down on stage for 10 minutes during a 2010 Oakland show. He stopped his show in Miami in 2011 to check text messages, and in 2010, he "freaked out" on a plane from New Jersey to Ohio
Chappelle, who's trying to mount a career comeback, is scheduled to perform Sept. 20 at Shoreline Amphitheatre, as part of the Funny or Die Presents the Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival.
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Today in History: March 13
Enoch Brooks' Curious Book
A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible
Worcester, Mass.: Isaiah Thomas, 1788.
American Treasures of the Library of Congress
Inside the Library of Congress' copy of a rare children's Bible, someone carefully wrote "Enoch Brooks' Book, Princeton, March 13th, 1789" in permanent ink. The inscription likely refers to Enoch Brooks of Princeton, Massachusetts, though he may have been too young to write it himself. Now a rare artifact of Americana, Brooks' book is one of only a few known copies of A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible, printed in 1788 by Isaiah Thomas in nearby Worcester, Massachusetts. This book was the first American version of a novelty Bible that replaced some words with pictures to encourage children's interest as well as their reading skills. With nearly five hundred woodcuts by American artists, this Bible was also the most ambitious woodcut volume produced in America up to that time.
A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible is one of more than a hundred children's book titles published by Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831). A preeminent early American printer and pioneer publisher of children's literature, Thomas began his apprenticeship as a young boy in Boston, working under Zechariah Fowle. Over the course of a long career, Thomas published more than four hundred titles in many editions, for adults as well as for children, including the first dictionary printed in America. Also a bookseller, he eventually owned more than twenty bookstores in several states.
"A little Boy and Girl reading,"
A Little Pretty Pocket-Book: Intended for the Instruction and Amusement of Little Master Tommy, and Pretty Miss Polly, 78,
Worcester, Mass.: Isaiah Thomas, 1787.
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Masthead and part of front page of The Massachusetts Spy
Paul Revere, engraver,
Boston: Isaiah Thomas, 1774 July 7.
American Women
One of Thomas' most significant ventures was The Massachusetts Spy, a newspaper he founded with Fowle in 1770. Widely read and exceedingly anti-British, his paper so angered Tory authorities that just three days before the battles of Lexington and Concord in April 1775, Thomas was forced to smuggle his press out of Boston. He fled to Worcester, Massachusetts, where he quickly set up shop and remained as a resident for the next fifty-six years.
After the war, Thomas created the highly regarded Massachusetts Magazine, a literary publication and authored A History of Printing in America (1810)—the nation's first such history, and still a significant resource today. His most enduring legacy, however, is the American Antiquarian Society (external link) (AAS), which he established in Worcester in 1812, serving as its president until his death. Thomas willed his considerable library to the AAS. From his original 8,000-item collection, the Society's library has grown to include copies of two-thirds of everything printed in the United States through 1821. It remains one of the most complete collections of early American printed works in existence. By contrast, the Library of Congress holds more than 16,000 U.S. imprints from 1640 to 1800, which is almost half of all that were printed.
- See the full list of Library of Congress holdings of works printed by Isaiah Thomas, as well as those written about him, by searching the Library of Congress online catalog. Search using Isaiah Thomas as a keyword.
- Explore the Library of Congress' extensive holdings of early American printed materials in online collections including An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and other Printed Ephemera and Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789. Early printed works can also be found in the American Treasures of the Library of Congress.
- These collections are only a sample of the unique materials found in the Rare Book and Special Collections Reading Room, now totaling over 800,000 items, including books, broadsides, pamphlets, theater playbills, title pages, prints, posters, photographs, and medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. The cornerstone of these holdings is Thomas Jefferson's book collection, sold to Congress in 1815 after the British burned the United States Capitol.
- Read a variety of fully-digitized children's books, many with elaborate illustrations, as well as The Lewis Carroll Scrapbook, among the Rare Books and Special Collections digitized materials.
- Learn more about significant American Bibles in the Library's collections, including the First Complete Bible Printed in America, Lincoln's Inaugural Bible, The Woman's Bible and The St. John's Bible. View a videocast on The Bible in American Public Life by scholar Mark Noll.


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The Meridian City Council was prepared to vote Tuesday on a new lease for the renovation project for the new police station, but that plan was brought to a screeching halt! Council president, Barbara
Henson, says the issue was taken off Tuesday's agenda because council members had not received a copy of the new proposed lease agreement within enough time to properly review it.
'Our attorneys, the mayor's office, everyone on this end has complete what they recommend and put it in writing, but we have not had the agreement of Mr. Watkins, or any of his proposals. I don't have it and they (other city officials) don't have it either. When they e-mail them or fax them there's a change here and a change there and by the time we get them it's too late for a public meeting.'
Because of a lack of funds and bonding capacity, the renovation effort is the first ever lease to purchase project for the city of Meridian. What this means is that currently the city does not have any direct control over the project. The city will only gain control of what happens at the building when the renovations are finished and it starts paying rent.
Meanwhile, once the project gets the green light, Councilwoman Henson says officials with Watkins Development, which is the consulting firm overseeing the project, say the work should go smoothly.
'From what Mr. Watkins told us, now we have a local contractor and that's going to work out good and of course it's financed by a local bank.'
Stalled since earlier this year, Henson says if the council approves the new lease, when Tuesday's recessed meeting continues Friday, work can resume immediately.
'When I have that paper in my hands, I'll be optimistic.'
The site for the new Meridian Police Department is the old Cowboy Maloney's building on 22nd Avenue. Renovations started a little over a year ago, but were halted due to money woes and a delay in tax credits earlier this year. The project was initially set to be finished by spring of this year.


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HERCULES -- School safety and bond debt topped the list of concerns at a joint public meeting between West Contra Costa school board officials and the Hercules City Council on Tuesday evening.
The meeting, the first in four years between the two groups, was aimed chiefly at helping clear up some long-standing concerns in Hercules about the level of educational costs and services delivered by the district in the community.
Hercules and Pinole have shown the least support among the five cities served by the district for recent tax measures, according to district figures, a source of concern for school board members who look to the taxes to help cover budget shortfalls and fund construction projects.
Among other concerns, city officials have complained that Hercules is the only city with a single district-paid police officer posted to the schools. El Cerrito, Richmond, San Pablo and Pinole each have at least two.
Hercules police Chief Bill Goswick said his department received 161 calls from Hercules High/Middle School, where the lone officer is posted, 45 of them for fights on campus, since the beginning of the school year. His department is down to 20 officers from a high of 28 because of budget cuts.
"We're short-staffed on the streets and in the schools," Goswick said.
School board President Madeline Kronenberg and Superintendent Bruce Harter promised to try to take care of that problem immediately by bringing a vote to approve funding an extra officer at the school board's Feb. 6 meeting.
"It makes sense to have a second officer," said Kronenberg, who joined board members Charles Ramsey and Todd Groves in voicing support.
The school board, in turn, asked for an endorsement from the council for its petition to the state Board of Education to raise its bond debt limit to 5 percent of assessed valuation for 12 years.
Raising the debt limit would enable it to sell school construction bonds authorized under Measure E, the measure passed by district voters Nov. 6.
The El Cerrito, Richmond, San Pablo and Pinole city councils, along with the Kensington Police Protection and Community Services District, have endorsed the waiver application unanimously, but some council members seemed unimpressed.
After listening to a hurried presentation from three of the district's bond finance advisers and exhortations from Ramsey, they asked the advisers to make the presentation again at their Jan. 22 meeting and put off an endorsement vote until Feb. 12.
"These are huge numbers," Councilman Bill Kelly said. "It's a major issue. Very important."
"It's Hercules' turn," said Ramsey, who added that 57 percent of voters in Hercules supported Measure E.
"It would be tragic not to have unanimous support (for the waiver)," he said. "The district wants to make the strongest statement to the state Board of Education."
Council members also heard a presentation about the district's construction program in the city.
West Contra Costa is rebuilding Ohlone Elementary, one of Hercules' three primary schools, with both phases of the project scheduled for completion by 2015. The district is also planning to build a day care center next to the Ohlone campus that the city will operate.
"We're providing the center," Ramsey said. "It's a way to reciprocate."
If the bond debt limit waiver is approved, the district plans to allot $35 million from the sale of Measure E bonds to upgrade technology in the schools, including installing Wi-Fi on campuses.
Earlier, Harter dismissed the idea that the district would build a fourth elementary school in Hercules in the near future.
"Our consultants are telling us that enrollment is going to slip a bit and then go back up," he said. "There's no need for a new facility in the next 10 years."
Kelly and Councilwoman Sherry McCoy questioned Harter's analysis, saying there are plans for more home construction west of Interstate 80.
Harter promised to have district consultants take another look at the trend.


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Justin Bourne discusses the news and events around the NHL and world of hockey
by Justin Bourne - June 21, 2011 11:27 AM UTC
It's difficult for a player to decide when to hang them up and the last thing we want to see from Lidstrom is a decline or, worse, an injury.
My dad is a fortunate man. After 14 NHL seasons and more than 1,000 career games (including playoffs), he still feels pretty physically decent for a 57-year-old gent.
by Justin Bourne - June 6, 2011 4:28 PM UTC
Is the Bruins captain tired, hurt or just not on top of his game? Justin Bourne looks at some things that could be behind Chara's lackluster play.
Zdeno Chara is, by consensus, one of the top five defensemen in the NHL today. Few players in the history of the game have been able to direct traffic the way he can.
by Justin Bourne - May 24, 2011 12:54 PM UTC
The Canucks took it to the Sharks on the man advantage in Game 4 because of constant moving, passing and realignment.
A 5-on-4 power play has some design beyond just passing the puck around and waiting for a chance to shoot: there are some specific shots a team tries to create with puck and player movement.
by Justin Bourne - May 10, 2011 1:30 PM UTC
Diving and embellishing has become a storyline in these playoffs, so how can the NHL and its officials tackle the problem?
So here's an annoying point in the whole discussion on diving in the NHL: it works. That's about the only positive thing I (or anyone else) should have to say about it - and technically, it's not even a positive thing.
by Justin Bourne - April 25, 2011 3:33 PM UTC
Starting Cory Schneider in a pivotal playoff game was risky for the Canucks - and in more ways than one.
A successful NHL coach knows more than how to diagram a power play on a white board. A big part of this job - maybe the biggest - is to be a human resources manager and to find ways to get the best performance of out his people at the right times.
by Justin Bourne - April 12, 2011 1:20 PM UTC
Why do some players excel in the regular season only to see their production drop precipitously come playoff time?
Every year, playoffs bring about a confusing phenomenon: The Case of the Disappearing Goal-Scorer is a mystery even The Hardy Boys would struggle to figure out.
by Justin Bourne - March 28, 2011 3:10 PM UTC
The former AHLer and son of NHLer Bob Bourne writes about the traits and tendencies of strong hockey coaches.
Great coaches operate using different systems and styles and this year's race for the Jack Adams Award is proof of that. No fewer than a dozen names could be rightly considered for nomination, as teams across the board have been impressive given their in-season difficulties - groups such as the New York Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings all thrived despite multiple injuries to key players.
by Justin Bourne - March 14, 2011 4:10 PM UTC
With all the gimmicky products available on the market, it's easy to get caught up in quick-fixes, but the best results come from playing the game itself.
I spent the majority of my weekend at the boys' high school hockey state tournament in Minnesota, which featured an incredible gear expo on the lower floor of the Xcel Energy Center.
by Justin Bourne - March 1, 2011 2:45 PM UTC
The former NCAA, ECHL and AHL player writes about facing your old team and how he felt when it happened to him.
When the sun rose Tuesday morning and brought light to a new day beyond the trade deadline, there were a number of NHL rosters that appeared significantly different than they did just days before.
by Justin Bourne - February 14, 2011 3:55 PM UTC
For some hockey players a physical game is a way of life, but living on the edge isn't effective for everyone.
We often hear hockey people talking about how certain players need to play on "The Edge" to be effective. Guys such as Matt Cooke, Jarkko Ruutu and Sean Avery are all extremely effective players, but if you sanded the grit from their games, their value would be cut in half.
by Justin Bourne - January 31, 2011 3:19 PM UTC
From natural modesty to mutual respect and more, we could have seen more dressing room character that would have made better TV.
I was fairly certain heading into the all-star weekend that we were going to be exposed to more of the players' personalities and a little bit more of the locker room dynamic that exists between most of the guys who play our wonderful game.
by Justin Bourne - January 17, 2011 3:25 PM UTC
In hockey, it's generally accepted that if you shoot from anywhere, anything can happen. Well, that just doesn't work like it used to.
I've long railed against the common coach's mantra "shoot from everywhere," but only because it's a horrible idea.


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With MOOCs, the Strong Get Stronger. But Everybody Else…
What are the opportunities–and risks–in the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) business model?
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER: The MOOC opportunity is to expand access to learning broadly across the world, with great potential societal and economic benefits–e.g., larger numbers of educated people with shared knowledge, building the global community. MOOCs will also build the brands of the best educators. But that's a risk, too. Those best educators work at institutions that might benefit from their courses being sold online, as the competition crowds out all but the stars. MOOCS will help the best extend their reach but could further weaken already-struggling mid- and lower-tier institutions. The other, but smaller, risk, is that MOOCS won't live up to their hype. They will become like the old TV broadcast series, "Sunrise Semester"—a form of entertainment but not serious learning and with disappointed consumers. All that means is that there is still much work to do to perfect the MOOC model. I believe that will happen, but maybe not in exactly the form being talked about today.
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