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Definition of Hercules beetle in English:
Hercules beetle
A very large tropical American rhinoceros beetle, the male of which has two long curved horns extending from the head and one from the thorax.
- Dynastes hercules, family Scarabaeidae.
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- In size they range from 0.25 to 0.3 mm to over 150 cm for the giant Goliath and Hercules beetles, which in size are the largest living species of insects.
- The largest beetle in the Americas is the Hercules beetle, which can be 4 to 6 inches in length.
- The Coleoptera also includes some of the largest insects, like the living Hercules beetle, Dynastes hercules.
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The Kalido Data Governance Director addresses a high-stakes challenge for highly regulated businesses such as financial services, banks, health care providers and pharmaceutical firms. When stop-gap manual governance approaches fall short, the consequences can range from multi-million-dollar fines and project failures to day-to-day inefficiencies that can be equally damaging to the bottom line.
"Companies typically know what it costs to process an invoice or take a call in a contact center," said Kalido CEO Bill Hewitt. "The Data Governance Director gives them the ability to monitor data quality in a dashboard, know the economic impact of a decline in data quality on accounts receivable, customer service or another process, and then take action accordingly."
Set to debut in the fourth quarter, the Data Governance Director will provide a collaborative environment for setting data policies that can be applied across repositories and data warehouses, master data hubs and data integration infrastructure. These policies will be tied to existing data models, process models, data quality systems and other software by way of an open application programming interface. To operationalize the policies, the product will provide workflows for data policy creation, change management, implementation, issue tracking and remediation. Auditors and regulators will find what they expect to see: a transparent and auditable process for managing policy.
To ensure policy compliance, the Director will monitor, measure and report on adherence to policies. Alerts are available so stakeholders such as process owners and data stewards can be notified when policies are violated or when particular data sets fall out of compliance. When exceptions do occur, the product will prioritize actions based on potential economic impacts and suggest remediation steps through separate data-quality or master-data-management systems.
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Piedra de sol
by Octavio Paz
Symbol Analysis
If water is related to life, then fire, its elemental opposite, is related to death. There are several images of people burning up, which is pretty creepy and violent, and which tells us a lot about the way the speaker feels about death. Think about the purifying effects of fire, too, though, when pondering the rebirth at the end of the poem.
- Line 22: The fire here makes the wind sing, so even though it's destructive it retains some beauty.
- Line 53: The beloved's eyes are aflame and burn a hummingbird, showing the danger among all the beautiful images.
- Line 118: The image of a writing of fire on a piece of jade hints at magical, mystical forces.
- Lines 136-140: The face that the speaker tries to remember is devoured by fire, and the moment that he has forgotten, too, is on fire. This starts to give us the idea that the memory and the person he wants to remember have something to do with death.
- Lines 188-189: The speaker, wounded, compares his pain to fire in a simile.
- Lines 455-464: Here the flames are strongly related to death in this series of metaphors that describe the body being consumed by fire.


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IT departments are faced with budget and resource limitations, and cloud environments must complement existing infrastructure and practices instead of disrupting productivity. A well-executed cloud strategy can provide the foundation for a more agile, productive, and responsive business. The potential for cost savings is significant, but IT managers remain concerned about solution maturity, loss of control, security, and stability. To succeed in the cloud, enterprises need to align themselves with a technology partner that has the depth of expertise and the breadth of capabilities to support their transitions. Dell and Intel have partnered to help businesses implement innovative cloud environments that resolve their concerns and provide the foundation for the most sophisticated cloud applications deployed in both private clouds and hybrid clouds.


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A program for carrying out a routine function.
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BSL Proposed for Youngstown, Oh , AGAIN
August 13, 2007
It is official in that the local 21 news channel reports the BSL is on the table in the new dog ordinance sponcered by the newly elected mayor.
I have tried unsuccessfully to speak to the main parties. I would like to present to them expertise in this field who have successfully worked in the draft of legislation.
The Am Channel 21 News reports today the new dog ordinance the mayor proposed may include a ban on "pit bull type dogs"
We have corresponded before , unfortunately on the same subject. I am no longer a city of Youngstown resident which is not helping me in communication with the parties, though I do live in the area and often frequent within the city.
The mayor of Youngstown is sponsoring a dog ordinance. This ordinance may include breed specific language.
This proposed ordinance is the result of several incidents within the city regarding dogs reported to be of the "pit bull" type. But it appears a recent incident where an off duty Youngstown fireman was bit by an Italian Mastiff while walking a very small mixed breed dog, where both dogs were off leash.
The author of the proposed ordinance is Jay Macejko, who is the city prosecutor. Jay's phone number is 330-742-8791. After draft the ordinance is reviewed by the legal department. Iris Guglucello is the head of this department. Her phone number is 330-742-8874.
The ordinance is to be presented to City council for vote on August 22 2007 at 5:15 PM.
The ordinance was withheld from the July Council meeting as they were waiting on the Ohio Supreme Court Tellilngs ruling. Since the Tellings ruling the ordinance is being revised in lieu of the greater scope of retrictions the Tellings ruling may allow a city to legislate. This can not be good news. I have tried to contact Iris and Jay but so far my calls have not been returned. I am concerned this ordinance is now going to include restrictions or ban on "pit bull type" breeds it may be inclusive of other "mastiff" breeds as well. Several years ago with the help of this group we were successful in preventing a breed ban. The mayor is newly elected and it appears the councilmen have changed since last go around.
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Zina Harrington of Let's Lasso the Moon is taking her family to the Black Hills of South Dakota this summer. Though the trip is still two months away, she's helping her kids prepare with a variety of lessons. For example, South Dakota is known for its fossils, so she's using this as an opportunity to study dinosaurs! Here's a highlight of the seven tips she's sharing today on her blog, and ways that you can make any travel adventure educational – AT HOME!
1) For starters, take a trip to your local library and gather up some "101 resources". For Zina, this meant gathering up over 20 picture books about dinosaurs. Depending on where your travels are taking you this summer, you could explore books about certain types of animals, historical events, climates, and more.
2) Using our Dinosaur Stencils, Zina and her family created educational "reports" – including detailed facts and information about the dinosaurs they were exploring in their reading. Depending on your child's age, this can be an excellent writing activity or simply a set of drawings. Be sure to share some of the fun facts you're learning about your subject matter together, as well.
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First Impressions, Fresh Perspectives
Brundage Snow Blog
March 13, 2013 by April
It's no secret that I have a deep and abiding love for Brundage Mountain.
There's nothing quite like the passion one feels during that initial honeymoon period right after you fall for someone, or something. (We'll get back to my love story in a moment).
I strive to be grateful for the blessings in my life, but I've recently realized that after nine years here, I sometimes take for granted the special things we experience day-in and day-out.
Fortunately, my work puts me square in the path of adventurous and insightful souls who are often experiencing Idaho, McCall and Brundage Mountain for the very first time.
Through their eyes and their published works, I am able to recall the feelings I had when I experienced my first winter at Brundage Mountain. I thought I would share some of those first impressions here and see if it might re-kindle some of your romance with the mountains.
Sandy Ting writes under the byline "Sting" and is from the Seattle area. She publishes stories and videos for a cool website called thesnowtroopers.com, which focuses on backcountry and sidecountry skiing. Short version: these people live to ski freshies!
She came here as part of a tour of Idaho, and I found her first impressions of our snow striking:
"WOW: It was cold smoke, UT light and dry. We ventured into deeper, untracked snow -found everywhere on the mountain (so, ok, this is better than UT where we've seen mountains tracked out in a few hours tops). This was the kind of powder that, face shot after face shot, blows off the goggles like dust in the wind. I was in paradise…"
You can read more about her visit here, and check out this video to see first-hand what she experienced.
We also recently hosted a family of three whose mission is to 'enjoy non-stop outdoor adventures and culinary discoveries in the Pacific Northwest'.
Boy, do they ever!
And it's worth well over five minutes of YOUR time just to enjoy the photography and imagery on their blog: Just 5 More Minutes.
They gave their readers a fresh viewpoint on Brundage Mountain and everything else McCall has to offer:
"In the coming days, Brundage lived up to its reputation of not only the best snow in Idaho but some of the best snow in The Northwest."
"We fell in love with Brundage Mountain and we know that you will too. Brundage Mountain = Heaven on Earth!!"
"As our mid winter vacation in McCall continues, we are completely taken with the areas wonderful outdoor winter activities and one of a kind dining experiences."
I thoroughly enjoyed reading their "McCall Town Guide", as well. When you're heading through town on everyday errands like getting groceries or commuting to work, it's all too easy to take its charms for granted. This beautiful article reminded me how fortunate we are to have so many gifted artisans and kind souls enriching our small community.
"I could probably write a book covering McCall and everything this charming town has to offer. After spending our mid-winter break here, Hubby, B and I had fallen in love with it, the people and the general overall feeling that one gets when visiting here which I try to describe as warm and welcoming."
That sentiment was echoed in a recent article in the Bend Bulletin, where accomplished travel writer John Gottberg Anderson writes, "I have rarely felt more welcome at a hotel than I did at this 77-room inn. From the valets to the receptionists, the restaurant staff to the housekeepers, every individual with whom I crossed paths was helpful and friendly, even warm."
He's talking about the Shore Lodge.
While it wasn't Anderson's first time to Brundage, it was his first winter visit since the installation of the Lakeview Lift and Bear Chair five years ago. The article is beautifully written.
For my part, spending time with these visitors and hearing their impressions of our town and ski area is enormously gratifying. It takes me back to when I was fresh on the scene and thunderstruck by first impressions of my own.
I first came here nine years ago during the 'bad snow year' of 2004/2005. Having grown up on the Cascade peaks and managing to fall in love with skiing despite the crowds and 'concrete', my first weeks at Brundage were jaw-dropping. I remember the thrill of venturing off-trail days after a storm and finding slopes that were not only skiable, but forgiving and often, untracked. If that was a 'bad snow year', then I was determined to experience a good one. The rest, as they say, is history (one that has been documented well on the pages of this blog).
But no matter how many pages of the calendar turn and how many years and snow seasons pass us by, let's not forget why we came to settle here (or chose to never leave) in the first place.
I often hear people saying 'don't tell anyone about it'. But I'm confident that our remote location will prevent us from ever becoming a Vail or a Mammoth Mountain.
And as these recent visits reminded me, when we share a little piece of our world with other like-minded folks, we often get back far more than we give.
– April


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|Moving U.S. Forces: Options for Strategic Mobility
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|February 1997
Of the United States had to fight one or two major regional conflicts today, the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF) would provide as much as 40 percent of the U.S. military's capacity to airlift cargo. Commercial air carriers would also transport most military personnel to those conflicts. Participants in CRAF agree to make a certain number of their planes available to the Department of Defense (DoD) in the event of a crisis in return for preference in bidding on the government's air transportation business. Keeping U.S. carriers involved in CRAF is vitally important because otherwise DoD would need to purchase additional aircraft itself and incur the cost of operating them during peacetime.
CRAF was activated for the first time in the Persian Gulf War. Although considered a success, that activation was not without difficulties.(1) Government-sponsored liability insurance presented one problem: some air carriers feared that gaps in DoD's War Risk Insurance would leave them without coverage for their planes and aircrews. There was also some question about whether, in the event of a wartime accident, DoD's indemnification program would cover CRAF participants for the value of the lost use of their planes. Some carriers feared potential delays in collecting claims against the federal government. Other problems included complications in transporting hazardous materials, delays associated with too few elevator loaders and other equipment to handle cargo, incompatible civil and military communication systems, and lack of chemical-protection gear for civilian aircrews.
Collectively, those issues caused dissatisfaction among
some carriers, who withdrew from the program temporarily. CRAF participation
has fluctuated since then, but DoD is taking measures to address concerns
of the air carriers and provide stronger incentives for them to commit
planes to the program.
Incentives to Participate in CRAF
How do commercial air carriers decide how many of their planes to enroll in CRAF? The answer depends to a large degree on the amount of peacetime business that a carrier might win from the federal government in exchange for participating. But in recent years, DoD has had to look for other incentives as well.
Since the end of the Cold War, the amount of business DoD has offered to CRAF participants has been considerable but has fluctuated over time. Contracts for the Air Force's cargo and passenger business totaled $466 million in 1989 and $659 million in 1990. That value shot up to nearly $1.9 billion in 1991 because of contracts associated with the Gulf War deployment (see Table B-1). Over the next five years, Air Force contracts averaged nearly $620 million annually.
In recent years, the Air Force has chosen to expand peacetime contracts when its airlift needs increased rather than activating a CRAF stage. (See Box 3 on page 15 for details of the various stages of CRAF.) The larger amount of peacetime contracts was perhaps most apparent in 1994, when demand for airlift services was high because of U.S. operations in Somalia, Rwanda, the Persian Gulf, and elsewhere. At the same time, many of the Air Force's C-141s were unavailable because they were undergoing repairs.
In an attempt to broaden the number of carriers in the program, the Air Force has begun working with the General Services Administration (GSA) to tie additional government business to CRAF. In 1995, GSA began requiring eligible carriers to participate in the CRAF program in order to obtain passenger business associated with its City Pairs program. Under City Pairs, GSA awards annual contracts for air passenger transportation services between specific points of origin and destination. The program has an estimated annual value of $1.0 billion to $1.2 billion, substantially more than DoD's peacetime business. Although City Pairs has boosted participation in CRAF, some carriers have complained that the requirement is coercive and have protested various provisions of the program from year to year.
Some smaller airlines participate in City Pairs, but larger scheduled passenger carriers are the main beneficiaries of GSA's business. In contrast, smaller carriers, who tend to run charter operations, rely more heavily on peacetime contracts with the Air Force. Small carriers are also more likely to benefit financially when CRAF is activated, whereas larger scheduled carriers are apt to be more concerned about losing market share to foreign competitors and rivals who are not in the program. Since small carriers often do not operate scheduled routes, CRAF activation represents additional business for them and is not as disruptive as it may be to larger scheduled carriers.
DoD has taken other measures as well to appeal to a larger number of carriers. For example, under certain circumstances, commercial companies can use military airfields. By obtaining a CRAF Alternate Permit, carriers can specify military airfields as alternate landing sites (the locations where they would land in the event of an emergency). Since many of those alternative airfields are closer than the civil ones that carriers would otherwise designate, their planes can carry less fuel and thus incur lower operating costs.
An incentive targeted toward cargo carriers would allow those who participate in CRAF to use military
|Table B-1.
|Value of Air Force Passenger and Cargo Contracts Associated with the Civil Reserve Air Fleet
|(In millions of dollars)
|1991 a
|1997 b
|SOURCE: U.S. Air Force, Air Mobility Command.
|a. Includes contracts associated with Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
|b. Actual as of January 30, 1997.
bases in the continental United States on a rental basis.
Although cargo carriers have expressed some interest, industry officials
argue that DoD has been slow to implement the program.
Amount of Participation in CRAF
The Persian Gulf War was the only time that CRAF has been officially activated, but civil carriers who participate in the program have provided airlift services in support of many other military operations (see Table B-2). During the Vietnam War, for example, CRAF carriers transported more than 11 million passengers and 1.3 million tons of cargo over a 10-year period. During the Persian Gulf War, CRAF planes carried more than 400,000 personnel and 171,000 tons of cargo on more than 3,600 missions. More recently, civil carriers have supported numerous smaller operations on a charter basis.
|Table B-2.
|Participation of Commercial Air Carriers in Military Contingencies, 1964-1996
|Flights by Commercial Carriers
|Number of
|Cargo Delivered
|(In tons)
|Vietnam War a
|Panama (Just Cause)
|Persian Gulf (Desert Shield/Desert Storm)
|Philippines (Fiery Vigil)
|Northern Iraq (Provide Comfort)b
|Former Soviet Union (Provide Hope) b
|Bosnia (Provide Promise)
|Somalia (Restore Hope)
|Rwanda (Support Hope)
|Cuba (Sea Signal V)
|Panama (Panama Haven/South Haven)
|Haiti (Phoenix Shark)
|Cuba (Safe Haven/Safe Passage)
|Persian Gulf (Vigilant Warrior)
|Bosnia (Joint Endeavor) c
|SOURCE: Congressional Budget Office based on information from the U.S. Air Force, Air Mobility Command.
|NOTE: n.a. = not available.
|a. Figures for cargo and passenger transport during the Vietnam War are approximate.
|b. As of August 1995.
|c. As of January 1997.
Passenger Air Carriers
Immediately after the Gulf War, CRAF's passenger airlift capacity declined only modestly because most carriers had signed a nearly three-year contract with the Air Force in 1990 (see Figure B-1). After that contract ran out at the end of 1992, the Air Force was able to secure only a nine-month contract. However, that agreement resulted in nearly a 50 percent increase in Stage I capability, allowing it to provide the same amount of airlift as was used in the Persian Gulf War. Thereafter, the Air Force and CRAF participants signed contracts annually on a fiscal year basis.
Today, all of the major passenger airlines and several smaller regional carriers participate in CRAF (or
Figure B-1.
Participation of Long-Range International Passenger Aircraft in the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, Fiscal Years 1990-1997
SOURCE: Congressional Budget Office based on data from the U.S. Air Force, Air Mobility Command.
NOTE: Passenger planes owned by civil carriers who participate in the Civil Reserve Air Fleet would be called into service in three stages. Defense Department officials would call up the planes enrolled in Stage I first, whereas those in Stage III would be activated only in the event of a national emergency.
receive certificates of technical ineligibility). But that was not the case in the past few years. At the start of fiscal year 1994, United Airlines decided to stop participating in CRAF, which removed 77 out of a total of 253 wide-body passenger planes from Stage III of the program. The following year, after CRAF was tied to the City Pairs program, United recommitted 46 aircraft to Stage III. American Airlines, which also withdrew in 1994, recommitted 39 aircraft in 1995. In fiscal year 1997, American sharply expanded the number of planes included in Stage III to 86 and doubled the number in Stage II.
Although major airlines such as United, Northwest, and American provide most of the wide-body passenger aircraft now committed to Stages II and III of CRAF, smaller carriers provide most of the wide-body passenger planes for Stage I. For example, American Trans Air and Tower Air, both charter and scheduled passenger air carriers, each have seven wide-body passenger planes committed to Stage I. American Airlines is the only major carrier with as many planes enrolled in Stage I.
Cargo Air Carriers
As with passenger airlift, CRAF's long-range cargo capacity remained at relatively constant levels during the contract period from January 1990 through December 1992 (see Figure B-2). In fiscal year 1993, several carriers committed more planes to the program, increasing capacity in all three stages. Federal Express accounted for much of the increase in Stage II by committing an additional 12 cargo aircraft to the program. That trend continued in 1994 as well.
At the start of fiscal year 1997, commitments by Federal Express, one of the nation's largest cargo carriers, represented around 45 percent of the total number of long-range, wide-body cargo aircraft committed to Stage III. By contrast, United Parcel Service (UPS), another leader in the cargo industry, commits just six of its long-range, wide-body fleet to the program. The main reason UPS cites for its more limited participation is that it specializes in delivering small packages rather than heavy or bulk cargo.
Industry officials, particularly those of cargo carriers, have voiced concern about the allocation of the Air
Figure B-2.
Participation of Long-Range International Cargo Aircraft in the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, Fiscal Years 1990-1997
SOURCE: Congressional Budget Office based on data from the U.S. Air Force, Air Mobility Command.
NOTE: Cargo planes owned by civil carriers who participate in the Civil Reserve Air Fleet would be called into service in three stages. Defense Department officials would call up the planes enrolled in Stage I first, whereas those in Stage III would be activated only in the event of a national emergency.
Force's peacetime business. In the past, for example, one carrier has complained of a mismatch between its level of commitment to the CRAF program and the share of total peacetime business it receives. Other carriers are also concerned about losing market share during a CRAF activation. That could occur if a carrier's competitors had a lower CRAF commitment or, in the case of international and some domestic carriers, no commitment at all.
In an effort to encourage broader participation among
cargo carriers, DoD has expanded the amount of peacetime business associated
with CRAF. Under the City Pairs program, GSA now requires a minimum level
of participation in CRAF in order for carriers to win delivery contracts
for express small packages, third-business-day packages, and express cargo.
As of 1996, companies must take part in CRAF to bid on those contracts,
which total about $100 million annually. As a condition of award, contractors
must increase their commitment to CRAF by at least 15 percent of their
long-range international aircraft capacity. By tying new federal business
to CRAF, the Air Force hopes to increase the incentives for carriers to
commit larger portions of their fleet to the program.
The Effect of DoD's Aircraft Purchases on CRAF Participation
A few CRAF participants became involved during the Administration's 1995 review of how many C-17s to buy for the Air Force. One trade association comprising mainly smaller cargo and passenger air carriers argued that if DoD purchased C-33s, the amount of business available to CRAF participants during peacetime could decline. Their line of reasoning was that the Air Force could easily modify C-33s to include passenger seats, which would make them similar to the commercial planes those carriers operate.
Typically, the military would primarily use C-33s for training during peacetime. But with modifications, they could also transport loads that are now delivered by carriers on contract to DoD. If CRAF carriers anticipated less peacetime business from the military, they might reduce the number of planes in their inventory and ultimately lower participation in CRAF.
During the fall of 1995, then Commander in Chief of the U.S. Transportation Command, Gen. Robert Rutherford, noted that if the Air Force purchased C-33s, it would fly each plane only around 600 hours per year--too little to significantly affect DoD's demand for commercial air transportation during peacetime.(2) Moreover, some defense officials argued that since the C-141 fleet will be replaced by a smaller number of planes (with or without C-33s), the Air Force's demand for commercial airlift contracts may even grow over time. Nevertheless, DoD officials cited concern among civil air carriers as one issue that affected their decision to buy C-17s rather than C-33s.
Since the Civil Reserve Air Fleet allows DoD to avoid the cost of buying planes, defense officials asked the Air Force to study whether it might be able to expand the program. The analysis examined whether DoD can provide incentives for commercial carriers to purchase Boeing 747-400 freighters--the most efficient civil-style plane for hauling military cargo during a major conflict. Based on market projections over the next decade, the Air Force found that no carriers plan to buy 747-400s, typically because the plane's extensive range and payload capabilities do not fit into the route system and business strategy of those firms. Eight CRAF participants expressed interest in an enhancement program if DoD covered the added costs of buying 747-400s that are modified to carry military cargo. Since modified 747-400 freighters are heavier than their civil counterpart, commercial carriers could also seek compensation for higher operating costs because the military planes would be less fuel-efficient.
In the late 1980s, the Air Force modified 24 commercial planes that belonged to CRAF carriers at a cost of more than $600 million so those aircraft could accommodate military equipment. DoD also provided operating subsidies to pay for the additional fuel those planes required. But the experience was not considered a success. Pan Am, the carrier with the largest number of planes modified under the program, went bankrupt in 1991, and ultimately the Air Force lost access to many of those aircraft. For that reason, some analysts believe that a similar enhancement program today would be risky. And in the fall of 1995, the Air Force Chief of Staff, Gen. Ronald Fogleman, told reporters that the service would not reenter the business of providing operating subsidies to U.S. air carriers.(3)
1. Mary Chenoweth, The Civil Reserve Air Fleet and Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm: Issues for the Future, MR-298-AF (Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND, 1993).
2. "NDAA Buy Wouldn't Affect CRAF Use, Rutherford Says," Aerospace Daily, September 15, 1995, p. 411B.
3. "USAF Chief Sees Advantages to Low C-17 Buy Rate," Aerospace Daily, November 30, 1995, p. 334.


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Definition of ileostomy in English:
noun (plural ileostomies)
1A surgical operation in which a piece of the ileum is diverted to an artificial opening in the abdominal wall.
Example sentences
- Mucosal atrophy may result when dietary sources of fatty acids are lacking or when the fecal stream is diverted by an ileostomy or colostomy.
- In young children, depending on how much bowel was removed, ileostomy or colostomy is often a temporary condition that can later be reversed with another operation.
- This is more common in patients who have not undergone a temporary diverting ileostomy.
1.1An opening so formed.
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- An ileostomy is a surgically formed opening into the lower part of the small intestine (the ileum), which is then brought out through the abdominal wall creating a mouth or opening known as a stoma.
- Diarrhea is more common in patients with ileostomies and proximal colostomies, and patients may not appreciate that fluid outputs are normal in these cases because of the loss of water absorption from the colon.
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How It All Goes Down
- Pi is making out OK: Richard Parker hasn't attacked him, the sharks haven't lunged at him yet, and the lifeboat hasn't sunk.
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John Fleck and Juan Manuel Ortiz have added to the steady stream of players leaving Ibrox after objecting to the transfer of their contracts from Rangers to Charles Green's newco.
The pair joined Allan McGregor, Steven Davis, Jamie Ness, Kyle Lafferty, Rhys McCabe, Sone Aluko, Steven Naismith and Steven Whittaker to make it 10 leaving the club so far. Fleck spent the second half of last season on loan at Blackpool and was reported to be frustrated over a lack of contact from Green.
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Now I have two places in my left breast of which show to be non cancerous. I have not had another surgery. My oncologist and radiation doctor think it is time to consider a double mastectomy. Does anyone have any advise. The doctors say these places will not go away. I will have to keep having mri's and sonograms. They think life is too short to spend all your time at the doctor's office. And this is the same way things started in the right breast. Thanks for all your advise. SheilaREAD MORE
Sheila, having a prophylactic double mastectomy would definitely lower your risk of a new breast cancer in your left breast, and a recurrence (or new cancer) in your right. Not eliminate it entirely, but cut it back by about 90%.
However, a double mastectomy alone is major surgery; add reconstruction, if you're considering it, and it's even more serious. You may have long-lasting shoulder issues.
What it boils down to is this: how worried are you? If you're really quite stressed, and feel like you simply want to be done with the worry, then consider the bilateral mastectomy seriously. If you're someone who'd rather deal with things as they come along, and have confidence that things will turn out favorably, then continue with the "watchful waiting."
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Like other manufactured products that use sandwich panel construction to achieve a combination of light weight and strength, turbine blades contain carefully arrayed strips of balsa wood from Ecuador, which provides 95 percent of the world's supply.
As turbine makers produce ever-larger blades—the longest now measure 75 meters, almost matching the wingspan of an Airbus A380 jetliner—they must be engineered to operate virtually maintenance-free for decades. In order to meet more demanding specifications for precision, weight, and quality consistency, manufacturers are searching for new sandwich construction material options.
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Next Stop for S&P 500: 1250, With a Rally After That
The market has that deer in the headlights look today. The headlines are flying fast and thick out of Europe. The market has been sliding since the end of May, rallies have been selling opportunities, and the bottom has not been reached.
The ultimate resolution of Europe's debt/economic/political crisis will determine which way stocks go. But until then, Greywolf technical analyst Mark Newton says, the market could be setting up for a slide down to 1250 on the S&P 500.
That would represent a short-term low that could clear the way for a rally into July.
Unless, of course, the eurocrats can come up with a credible Grand Compromise. They haven't been able to in three years, for what it's worth, and today offers a near-smorgasbord of conflicting, convoluted headlines as an object lesson in why. Here are some of the headlines just today:
Spain makes plea for EU aid for troubled banks – Telegraph
German Opposition Chief: Rescue of Spanish Banks is Days Away - Dow Jones (via Fox Business)
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No wonder investors are so confused.
The market remains mainly fixated on the idea that the worse the crisis gets, the closer the eurocrats — or maybe even the U.S. — will ride to the rescue. Tomorrow there will be an ECB announcement from its rate-setting committee. Thursday there's an auction of Spanish bonds. Faith will be tested. But Newton keeps his eyes on the numbers.
"For now, prices did manage to try to bottom out into an area of support which had been mentioned in the past near 1270, before bouncing," Newton wrote in a note this morning. "When considering time factors, however, it remains premature for any sort of meaningful low."
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AbstractGlyphosate, one of the most applied herbicides globally, has been extensively studied for its effects on non-target organisms. In the field, following precipitation, glyphosate runs off into agricultural ditches where it infiltrates into the soil and thus may encounter the roots of vegetation. These edge-of-field ditches share many characteristics with wetlands, including the ability to reduce loads of anthropogenic chemicals through uptake, transformation, and retention. Different species within the ditches may have a differential sensitivity to exposure of the root zone to glyphosate, contributing to patterns of abundance of ruderal species. The present laboratory experiment investigated whether two species commonly found in agricultural ditches in southcentral United States were affected by root zone glyphosate in a dose-dependent manner, with the objective of identifying a sublethal concentration threshold. The root zone of individuals of Polygonum hydropiperoides and Panicum hemitomon were exposed to four concentrations of glyphosate. Leaf chlorophyll content was measured, and the ratio of aboveground biomass to belowground biomass and survival were quantified. The findings from this study showed that root zone glyphosate exposure negatively affected both species including dose-dependent reductions in chlorophyll content. P. hydropiperdoides showed the greatest negative response, with decreased belowground biomass allocation and total mortality at the highest concentrations tested.
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An Online Ad That's Tough To Ignore
Just when you thought companies had run out of places to put ads online, a start-up called Solve Media is bringing them somewhere new — the boxes of letters you sometimes have to type to get access to sites.
Those boxes, called captchas, are intended to block malicious programs from breaking into sites and typically are used to restrict access to things like email accounts. Computers have a tough time reading the text, which in traditional captchas is squiggly, even if humans can decipher it and re-type it.
On Monday, Solve launched what it calls a Type-In ad platform, which puts ads and brand messages in the captcha space and has consumers retype short phrases from the ads.
Solve's ads aren't composed of wavy, hard-to-read lines as in older captchas; they look just like regular graphics, but Solve's program pixelates the image differently every time. This makes them easy for humans to see but difficult for bots to read, said Solve CEO and co-founder Ari Jacoby in an interview with Digits.
Solve Media found that the process of reading and writing also solves a problem that has plagued advertisers online: Web users tend to ignore regular banner ads and have trouble recalling the brand's message.
Type-in ads increased message recall by a factor of 12 when compared with regular static ads, according to research conducted this summer at the Wharton School of Business. More than 40% of people recalled the message in ads they had typed in, versus less than 3% with normal ads.
Solve, which has been testing the service for about nine months, already has a stable of top advertisers on board, including Toyota and Microsoft — a rarity for a young start-up. The company will display the ads on about 300 sites, including AOL, Mr. Jacoby said.
Toyota's ads will be going live this week with a message that asks Web users to type in the phrase "a million dollars an hour" — the amount Toyota spends on safety, said Kim Kyaw, senior media strategist for the company. Other Toyota ads, all designed by Saatchi & Saatchi, will run through December.
"It's based on simple principles of advertising," Ms. Kyaw said. "Be where the audience is … and help them remember the message by having them repeat it."
And Mr. Jacoby says Solve's captchas actually take users about half the time of older captchas because they aren't as difficult to read. He says captchas are filled out about 280 million times a day around the world and typically take about 14 second each. So if every captcha becomes a Type-In ad, "we hope to save the planet 62 years of time per day," he said.
Solve charges a fee of about 25 cents to 50 cents for each form that is filled out using a Type-In ad, Mr. Jacoby said. He said the company splits its fees 50-50 with the websites where the ads are placed. The start-up is is backed by venture-capital firms First Round Capital, New Atlantic Ventures, AOL Ventures and several "angel" investors.


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Boxster model line director Hans-Jurgen Wohler said in the report that a downsized engine in the Boxster would help reduce Porsche's fleet emissions ahead of a 2012 EU deadline.
"A Boxster with a four-cylinder engine, or maybe even a three-cylinder turbo, could produce between 180bhp and 200bhp and emit just 180g/km of CO2," said Wohler. "Given the Boxster's history--that it started with a 200bhp, 2.5-liter engine--I think this is possibly something that customers could accept."
Wohler added that the Boxster sells about 15,000 units globally per year, so the company would likely need additional measures to comply with regulations. That will depend on how the VW-Porsche merger shakes out, among other things.
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• The production of MERCILESS was supervised by famed music man Phil Ramone and industry mogul Charles Koppelman, with sessions handled by the team of David Wolfert and Gary Klein (the team behind The Four Tops' early '80s hit, "When She Was My Girl"). The album included "My Body," a song written especially for Stephanie by Luther Vandross; her ultra-soulful cover of Prince's "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore?" (a US Top 20 R&B hit); and the humour-filled "His Name Is Michael," co-written by the singer and featuring one of her background vocalists at the time, soul singer Peggi Blu.
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Angelina Jolie's 'In the Land of Blood and Honey' to be released in Bosnia's native tongue
Though an English-language trailer for the film was released just last month, it appears U.S. audiences are in for a more "authentic" experience when they sit down to watch Angelina Jolie's directorial debut "In the Land of Blood and Honey" in theaters come December. That's because distributor FilmDistrict has decided to release the film, which is set during the Bosnian War, in the country's native language (now dubbed Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, or BHS) for its Stateside run (i.e. the film will have subtitles).
Though Jolie filmed two versions of the movie, one in English and one in the Bosnian language, the studio ultimately went with the actress/director's preference for the latter.
"I'm honored that FilmDistrict has chosen to release the film in the United States in the original BHS-language version," Jolie said in a statement. "It was always my hope that U.S. audiences would have the opportunity to experience this version."
"In the Land of Blood and Honey" centers on Danijel (Goran Kostic) and Ajla (Zana Marjanovic), a Bosnian couple who end up on opposite sides of the conflict and begin to question their relationship amid the horrors of war.
As noted by Deadline, which broke the story, the English-language version may still see theatrical release in other English-speaking territories outside the U.S., and possibly in the film's Stateside VOD run and on DVD.
What are your thoughts on the studio's decision? Would you prefer to see the English-language version instead, or do you think it will work better in the Bosnian language?
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NEW DELHI — Vyome Biosciences Pvt., a Delhi-based firm focused on developing treatments for common skin conditions such as dandruff, acne and pigmentation disorders, has raised fresh funding of around $3.3 million, the company said on Wednesday.
The investment was led by IndoUS Venture Partners, a venture capital fund co-founded by Vinod Dham, often referred to as the "Father of Pentium" for helping create the chip when he worked at Intel Corp.
Other investors in Vyome included Aarin Capital, an investment firm co-founded by Mohandas Pai, former board member of Infosys Ltd, and Navam Capital, a venture capital firm led by Rajeev Mantri, who co-founded Vyome in 2010. Navam is funded by Mr. Mantri's family-run investment firm GPSK Investment Group in Kolkata.
Vyome's other founders include Rajesh Gokhale, director of the Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology in Delhi, and Shiladitya Sengupta, co-chair at the Center for Regenerative Therapeutics at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston.
Vyome will use the recently raised money to further its research on developing anti- dandruff products and anti-acne products, according to its press release. "Most of the products are still in development stage," Mr. Mantri said in an interview, but added that they hope to launch some products by next year.