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Birmingham Mayor William Bell and the City Council this morning will hold a work session in hope of forging an agreement to install cleanup plans for storm-ravaged Pratt City.
Three weeks after tornadoes decimated much of the western Birmingham community, there is no agreement on who will clean it up. Both branches of city government blame each other for delays.
The group will discuss Bell's plan to hire four companies and advance $10 million for the project. It also will hear details of a council-favored plan to hire the Army Corps of Engineers to manage the cleanup. To get the work moving, the parties must reach agreement; either is in a position to block the other's plan.
The city's slow movement resulted in a scolding from Gov. Robert Bentley Friday.
"Birmingham needs to get to work," he said at a press conference at the joint federal and state operations headquarters downtown. "We expect to them get along and make some decisions, and go to work and get the debris removed."
A majority of council members this week delayed acting on Bell's plan, saying they favor using the Army Corps of Engineers, which is managing the recovery process in Tuscaloosa and Tuscaloosa County. Bell wants to hire private companies, saying city involvement guarantees local and minority participation.
Among the private contracts for discussion are up to $6 million for Mobile-based DRC for debris removal, a recycling contract with Pensacola-based Southeast Renewables, and a $2.7 million management contract with Malcolm Pirnie Inc. Malcolm Pirnie is a major contractor for the Birmingham Water Works and a company in which Bell has served as a consultant. He ended his work with the company in 2005.
Bell said the city has issued a request for proposals for a fourth company to collect debris on private property.
In the meantime, the mayor on Friday said he would escalate the cleanup, sending 55 public works crews to Pratt City this morning. In a prepared statement, he blamed the council for slow cleanup.
"We don't have time for delay or distraction. We need to get this process moving now," Bell said in the statement. "I had hoped to have a contract in place, but there have been continual delays by the council. I want the residents to know I won't wait on others to move forward."
In an interview Friday, the mayor said, "We can't just sit back and let daylight burn when we need to be helping people."
While city crews have removed tons of debris, Bell said the job is too large for the Public Works Department.
Council President Roderick Royal, who represents Pratt City, said the mayor was pressuring the council to approve companies and funding without providing critical information. "Apparently trying to paint the council in a bad light for trying to do our job is the order of the day for the mayor," he said.
Criticized by council
Several council members have sternly criticized what they called Bell's lack of communication with them in the aftermath of the April 27 tornadoes. Bell has defended his response, saying he provided information as it arrived.
The contracts with DCR and Southeast Renewables mention the city's desire to subcontract with both local and minority businesses. The contract with Southeast also lists a goal, not legally enforceable, of 75 percent local and 35 percent minority participation.
Language in the city's ordinance on the issue is also referenced, encouraging the hiring of women- and minority-owned businesses "to the maximum extent possible."
The Corps has a contract with Phillips & Jordan, Inc., a national company, to manage debris cleanup in areas where it's in charge. Unlike contracts with private companies, the city would not pay upfront money to the Corps and the agency would handle issues of reimbursement for its work, a benefit cited by some council members.
"If the city requests federal assistance then the city does not have to advance any money," said Lance Davis, a Corps spokesman. He said local companies are included in subcontracting "to the maximum extent possible."
Councilman Steven Hoyt said he trusts the Corps to hire locally on the same level as any other company, and the federal team provides a single source for accountability, especially regarding hazardous asbestos and lead removal from old houses.
"The federal government is not going out of business, and therefore we can hold them to task in perpetuity," he said. "Otherwise we'll have a contractor who will blame his subs, and then they get a blame game."
Councilwoman Kim Rafferty said it's more practical to use one organization rather than four private firms. "We should not have been in the business of marketing this disaster," she said.
While a majority of the council favored the Corps this week, critical questions have arisen.
Councilwoman Valerie Abbott, who had said she supported hiring the Corps, said Friday she still has concerns about the disposal process. Abbott asked whether the Corps would burn the refuse, as in other areas, and whether there are any recycling provisions.
"For me that's a major consideration," she said. "Not recycling is stupid, because if our $6 million cell at the landfill is used up, then what do we save? That may negate everything for me."
Abbott said she hoped today's meeting will answer the questions and solidify her support for one plan.
"I want to be able to weigh the facts and see who's got the most pros and then move ahead," she said. "I'm not in a fight with anybody. What we need to be doing is fighting for the citizens who have a big mess out there instead of fighting with each other."
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Why Music Matters
Why Music Matters
In what ways might music enrich the lives of people and of societies? What prevents it from doing so? Why Music Matters explores the role of music in our lives, and investigates the social and political significance of music in modern societies.
In what ways might music enrich the lives of people and of societies? What prevents it from doing so? Why Music Matters explores the role of music in our lives, and investigates the social and political significance of music in modern societies.
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David Hesmondhalgh is Professor of Media and Music Industries at the University of Leeds. He is the author of The Cultural Industries, now in its third edition (2013) and co-author (with Sarah Baker) of a study of working life in three cultural industries, including music, Creative Labour (2011). He is also the editor or co-editor of various collections, including Western Music and its Others (with Georgina Born, 2000) and Popular Music Studies (with Keith Negus, 2002).
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1 Music as Intimate and Social, Private and Public 1
2 Feeling and Flourishing 11
2.1 Music, Affect, Emotion 11
2.2 Emotions, Narrative Play, and Music 14
2.3 Human Flourishing, Aesthetic Experience, and Music 17
2.4 Musical Flourishing Beyond Contemplative Cultivation 20
2.5 Musical Aesthetics and Bodily Experience: Dancing 30
2.6 Approaches to Music and Emotion in Everyday Life: Contributions and Limitations 35
2.7 Problems of Self-realization in Modern Life and Their Relation to Music 42
2.8 Competitive Individualism and Status Competition Through Music 48
2.9 Review: Music's Constrained Enrichment of Lives 53
3 Love and Sex 57
3.1 Sex and Love and Rock and Roll 57
3.2 Two Approaches to Music, Sex, and Sexuality 58
3.3 The Pop-Rock Divide and Rock's Sexual Politics 61
3.4 Post-War Pop's Emotional Resources 65
3.5 Sex and Love on the Dance Floor 68
3.6 Critiques of Countercultural Sexual Freedom 71
3.7 Sex and Love in Punk, Alternative Rock, and Metal 74
3.8 Sexuality in Twenty-First-Century Pop 77
3.9 Black Music and Racialized Sexuality 81
4 Sociability and Place 84
4.1 Ways of Being Together: Forms of Publicness 84
4.2 Celebrations of Musical Participation and Their Limitations 87
4.3 That Syncing Feeling 97
4.4 Ordinary Sociability I: Singing Together 102
4.5 Ordinary Sociability II: Dancing Together 109
4.6 Playing Together: Amateur Musicians 112
4.7 Theorizing Positive Musical Sociality 115
4.8 Spectres of Capitalist Modernity Revisited: Class and Inequality 120
4.9 Uneven Musical Development 123
4.10 Elements of Thriving Musical Places 125
4.11 Quality of Working Life of Professional Musicians 127
5 Commonality and Cosmopolitanism 130
5.1 Mediated Commonality in Modern Societies 130
5.2 Aesthetic Experience and Aspirations to Commonality 131
5.3 Redeeming Aesthetic Experience? 133
5.4 Talk About Music, What It Tells Us, and What It Doesn't 136
5.5 Music, Politics, and Publicness 142
5.6 Communities of Shared Taste? Subcultures, Scenes, and Fans 147
5.7 Nations, Ethnicity, Cosmopolitanism 151
5.8 Rock as Cosmopolitanism? 152
5.9 Complexities of Music and Nation 155
5.10 Strange Journeys: Working-Class and Ethnic Musics Become National Musics 157
5.11 Sentimental Citizenship 162
5.12 Music, the Nation, and the Popular 164
5.13 Music of the African Diaspora: Life-Affirming Collectivity in Decline? 165
5.14 A Critical Defense of Music 170
Acknowledgments 172
References 174
Index 187
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Last month, I talked about my new chosen lifestyle of renting vs. owning my home. My new life as a renter includes learning that you might want to always opt for the top floor (if you can) – sometimes even the smallest person can make a surprising amount of noise. Nevertheless, I am enjoying my new life as a former home owner.
Quite honestly, I don't miss the amount of weekend work that went along with my former home. I don't miss the higher utilities or the ever-increasing real estate taxes. I also don't miss the "politics" that would sometimes play out within our condo association. But there is one thing I do miss – the ability to keep my good credit score high with the reporting of my timely mortgage payments to the three major credit bureaus, Experian, Transunion and Equifax. Renters have never had their rent payments reported like homeowners have, missing the opportunity to build a good credit file and increase your credit score – until now.
In June 2010, Experian acquired RentBureau, and in December Experian became the first credit reporting agency to include positive rental payment histories on its credit profiles. RentBureau is the largest and most widely used credit bureau for the multifamily industry. In my opinion, this is a positive step in the right direction to reward tenants for their good payment history – but not all tenants can take advantage of this. RentBureau is currently making reporting services available only to property managers that have 500 units or higher. I for one am not a tenant of a large professionally managed property. My building has 60 lofts – not small, but not large either. So what about those of us who might be renting from a wonderful, but much smaller landlord?
As I began to research this issue, I discovered that there are "services" that will report your timely rent payments to credit reporting agencies – or do they? The beauty of the internet is that you can find out just about anything you want to know about any subject within a matter of minutes. The downside of the internet is that anyone can launch a website and a "business" that may or may not deliver the promised service. Such rental reporting "companies" do exist and one I discovered had an F rating from the Better Business Bureau as well as several unresolved complaints. All promised to help you raise your credit score by reporting your timely rent payments – for a small fee. Some apparently collected the fees, but did no reporting. Consumers paid, but saw no benefit to their credit file. Does the word scam come to mind?
But through my research I did find an accredited company with the Better Business Bureau with an A- rating called www.williampaid.com .The company offers several levels of service including an automatic online rent payment deducted from your checking or savings account for the small cost of $1.75 per month. For an additional fee of $2.50 per month Williampaid will report your timely rent payments to the credit reporting agency, PRBC. At the end of 2007 Fair Isaac, the creators of the FICO score, formed a partnership with PRBC to deliver the PRBC credit report with the FICO Expansion Score. The FICO Expansion Score enables U.S. lenders to confidently assess the credit risk of nearly 50 million Americans who have little or no credit information at Equifax, Experian and TransUnion – a step in helping non-homeowners build or maintain a good credit file. Williampaid also offers the ability to pay your rent via a credit or debit card, but I feel the 2.45% of the rent amount is too high for that service. A $1,000 rent payment would cost you $24.50 to use your credit or debit card – use your checking or savings instead.
Are you a new college graduate or a young person just entering the adult world for the first time by renting your first apartment? Williampaid also offers a service known as a Roommate Agreement. This document is meant to protect roommates from disagreements and/or legal battles and under this agreement Williampaid will allow each roommate to pay their appropriate share of the rent, but with only one check going to your landlord. This may be a great option for new college graduates that are rent sharing and would like to start building a credit file. Another service offered is Bill Verification, which for a one-time fee will allow you to verify past payment histories so that you can build your credit score faster. If while in college you made timely rent payments to your landlord, but didn't have the opportunity to have them reported, you may wish to take advantage of that service to jump start your credit file.
I am not specifically making a recommendation for Williampaid, or any other comparable service. But having a good Better Business Bureau file is a start. There may be other companies that offer the same services and are reputable as well. Do your research and work with the companies that are willing to put their fees directly on their website. Some did not – what are they trying to hide? Additionally, those companies seemed to be the ones with consumer complaints. Building a good credit file is an important tool in your financial life, but be a smart consumer first.
As for my situation, I contacted my landlord and asked him about the possibility of reporting for his tenants and he was very open to looking into how it might be easily done. Good landlords want to offer tenants a great place to live as well as special offerings and amenities. He could easily see that such a benefit as having timely rent payments reported for his tenants could make his properties more attractive to renters – particularly those that are just starting out and may wish to make a major purchase (maybe a first home) in the future. My landlord already offers rent payments online – reporting may be an easy leap from there.
So, if you are a renter and you would like to build or maintain a good credit file, find out if your property manager or landlord is already reporting – or is willing to explore reporting your timely rent payments. On the other hand, if you are the type of tenant that is a little lax in paying your rent on time, for now you are safe. Only timely payments are currently being reported, with the exception of a derogatory action such as an eviction. But it may only be a matter of time before rent payments become normal in credit reporting. As more individuals and families decide against home ownership, or like me have opted for a lifestyle change, the demand from tenants will grow as consumers become more educated about their credit scores. Treating responsible renters with the same respect as responsible homeowners is long overdue.
Pamela Sandy, CFP®
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For Microsoft, Vista is barely out of the box, and XP is still the operating system of choice for many, but a blog run by two of the computer giant?s senior engineering managers is already talking about Windows 7, even though is not scheduled for release until 2010.
Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky, plan to release in-depth technical specifications in October, first at the Professional Developers Conference and then at Windows Hardware Engineering Conference.
DeVaan and Sinofsky demonstrate that Microsoft has learned from the Vista experience.
"We, as a team, definitely learned some lessons about 'disclosure' and how we can all too easily get ahead of ourselves in talking about features before our understanding of them is solid. Related to disclosure is the idea of how we make sure not to set expectations around the release that end up disappointing you – features that don't make it, claims that don't stick, or support we don't provide," they wrote.
As anyone who was excited about Vista when the first details were emerging will understand, over-promising on features which are abandoned or discarded can?t happen with Windows 7.
Vista needed several significant investments in additional hardware to ensure its smooth running, and took up more system resources than many corporate IT shops had anticipated.
Windows 7 should address the remaining tech issues with Vista, Rob Helm, director of research at Directions on Microsoft, an independent consulting firm, said.
"The worst problems with Vista had to do with hardware performance and capability," he said. Those are being resolved or will be resolved over the next two to three years, he added.
"By the time Windows gets out of the door, the hardware universe will have caught up with the demands that Vista places on it," he said.
Windows 7 is not the ambitious undertaking that Vista was, so it should be a smooth roll out for the product. "It is pretty clear it is supposed to be an incremental improvement to Windows Vista," Helm said.
Areas that Microsoft has said it will improve in Windows 7 include graphics performance, power management and APIs (application programming interfaces) for developers.
The biggest change so far will be the introduction of touch-screen computing ? a feature that will again alienate anyone with a low spec PC.
Nonetheless, Helm said, Microsoft clearly hopes Windows 7 will be able to deliver what people had originally expected from Vista.


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Joseph Morris and Lori Blutfield vie to succeed resident John Papazian, who is the current board president and is not running for another the three-year term.
Morris, a nine-year resident of the township, has been active in Central's football booster club for four years and is currently its president. Morris decided to run for the seat after Coach Matt Perotti suggested he'd do a good job, he said.
"Not unlike my experience with the football boosters," Morris said in an email, "I see less and less people stepping up these days." Morris said he discussed it with his family, fellow booster club board members and other parents. "They showed overwhelming support," he said.
Morris said that he has "absolutely no agenda" to push on the board. "I do not have any affiliation with any community group and have no personal agenda, grievance, or concerns beyond helping to ensure a successful program." He hopes to expand the reputation that he has garnered among booster members, he said, "as a person that will get things done while all along considering all opinions objectively."
He and his wife have three children, including two at Hunterdon Central.
Morris said that he is neither angry with the way things are nor perfectly content. "Yes, I am pleased with what I see from where I stand and I believe that the school does a very good job," he said. "Hunterdon Central school system is one of the better systems in the state.
"With that said, it makes sense to be open-minded and look for new ideas or ways to improve the system as we face new challenges."
Morris said although he hasn't viewed John Painter's Facebook page, I.C. Red. He has read printouts of blogs posted by the photographer-parent and thinks some of the things Painter has written are "questionable."
Painter was recently barred from the field among accusations that he posed a danger to students, which school officials initially denied, but later did not. Painter claims he was barred because of comments posted on the Facebook page that criticized Steffner and Principal Suzanne Cooley.
Morris said he supports the decision to bar nonessential people from the field. "He comes across as a rabble-rouser," Morris said of Painter. "With freedom of speech, there's responsibility," he said.
As for the school board, "I haven't met anyone on the board but I'm looking forward to getting to know them," he said. "These are passionate people who care about the school."
Morris' opponent, Lori Blutfield has appeared before the school board a number of times during the past year, advocating for the district to close school on the Jewish high holy days of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.
Blutfield is one of the creators of an online petition urging the board to reconsider a recent policy that follows state holidays rather than the desires of the school's constituent community.
That doesn't mean she's a single-issue candidate, Blutfield said. "What struck me at those meetings was how ineffective the board is," she said. "The majority of the board just wants to rubberstamp everything. I don't think that's an effective way to run a school."
Blutfield pointed to a Hunterdon Central controversy last spring over a policy that requires prior review by the principal of everything to be published in the Lamp, the school's award-winning student newspaper. Blutfield also decried Steffner's ouster of Painter from the football infield.
"It feels like the school is being run by one person and everybody else is just going along with things," she said. Look at the numbers, she said. "Our school is not doing well." Test scores are less than those of peer schools, she said, "but our spending is on the higher end." Because she has a child who is a seventh-grader, another who is a sophomore and a third who just graduated, she said, "I have a vested interest."
Blutfield is looking beyond the Nov. 5 election."I think there's a lot of people upset about a lot of issues and want change. And I do, too.
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Understanding a Business' Impacts, Dependencies on the Natural World
by Mark Gough, Executive Director, Natural Capital Coalition | September 20, 2016
Last month, the Natural Capital Protocol launched to great fanfare at Chartered Accountants Hall in London. The Protocol is a standardized framework for business to identify, measure, and value their direct and indirect impacts and dependencies on natural capital. That is, the earth's stock of resources (e.g., plants, animals, air, water, soils, and minerals) that combine to yield a flow of benefits to businesses and individuals.


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Certificate in Sustainability Policy and Environmental Management
Society faces three interlocking problems as we move deeper into the twenty-first century - global population that will reach 9-10 billion by 2050, depletion of several key natural resources, and climate change and its likely ecological consequences. The field of sustainability policy and environmental management is designed to systematically address these challenges. It encompasses several foci including environmental science, environmental economics, industrial ecology, sociology, political science, and law. The transition toward more sustainable systems entails the integration of these modes of expertise and the modernization of contemporary science, technology, and governance.
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The Graduate Certificate in Sustainability Policy & Environmental Management aims to train students in relevant areas of science, engineering, industrial design, natural resource management, urban and regional planning, and social policy. The program is intended for environmental professionals, scientists, engineers, and managers with diverse academic backgrounds in physical and biological science, social science, and management.
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- The scientific basis of contemporary global-scale environmental problems and the institutional responses that have evolved to manage them.
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Why study Sustainability Policy and Environmental Management at NJIT?
The faculty who participate in the Graduate Certificate in Sustainability Policy & Environmental Management are internationally recognized experts in their respective fields and integrate their wide-ranging experience into the courses that they teach. From an array of eligible courses, students are able to develop customized study plans and to complete the program exclusively on an online basis if they would like to do so. The Sustainability Policy & Environmental Policy graduate certificate is designed for professionals currently working in the field and for career changers thinking about transitioning into the growing "green economy." A recent article in USA Today highlights the exciting developments taking place in this area across the country. Prospective students may also want to familiarize themselves with the academic journal Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy that is edited at NJIT.
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A court fight has erupted at the former 3B Orthopaedics, which moved to Aria Health from Pennsylvania Hospital in January.
David G. Nazarian, a former 3B surgeon and a stockholder in 3B Orthopaedics P.C. who did not move to Aria, said in a lawsuit filed Monday that 3B had refused to pay him his share of the proceeds from the sale of the nationally prominent practice.
The lawsuit, filed in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, said that the price for the practice was believed to be $4 million, though Nazarian has not been given a copy of the signed sales agreement.


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A new era of fiscal discipline
By: Bobby Jindal
For decades, Louisiana has been subject to out-of-control spending – looking for ways to spend your hard-earned money to create new programs, waste it on pet projects, and dedicate other monies to put a future burden on taxpayers.
Just last year, more than 1,250 state jobs were created in the state's largest ever state budget. This has served to increase our state's bureaucracy without investing in its future. This is not fiscally responsible and is reminiscent of the old Louisiana mindset that has hampered reforms in the past.
In the New Louisiana, we are introducing a new era of fiscal discipline by eliminating wasteful spending that does not address our state's priorities. We must resist the temptation of the past to spend available money immediately, choosing instead to invest and plan wisely for our state's future.
During my time as Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH), we enacted reforms that eliminated hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud and waste from DHH programs, even as outcomes and services improved. We must now do the same throughout state government. If we do not take care of our budget now, future generations will be left with even greater financial problems.
We have focused on six areas of fiscal reform that are getting our state spending under control and giving us more flexibility to invest in priorities for our state's future. As a result, we submitted a budget that reduces spending by $4.2 billion - or 12 percent less - than the current budget, eliminates 1,465 unnecessary state jobs, cuts wasteful spending, and uses surplus dollars to fund necessary one-time spending projects throughout the state. This was all done while still giving teachers a $1,000 pay raise to keep them at the Southern regional average and investing more money on our roads.
The first area of reform is cutting burdensome taxes and giving taxpayers back their hard-earned money.
Taxpayer money is not an open checkbook for government to spend at will, and I am a firm believer people can spend their money better than government. That is why I am getting ready to sign the sixth tax cut we have passed since January. This sixth tax cut is the largest income tax reduction in state history by way of removing the burdensome Stelly Tax.
The second area of fiscal reform is restricting any new construction projects from being added to the state budget until the current projects are completed and investing our money wisely on the state's true priorities. This will aid in ridding the $1 billion plus backlog of projects we inherited and will take four to five years to clear, institute controls and limits to ensure out-of-control spending does not recur in the future and ensure we are spending taxpayer dollars on priority projects.
We have put forth reforms to the Capital Outlay process, otherwise known as the state's construction budget, that will ensure all projects are in line with state priorities.
By reforming this process, we can prevent the type of reckless spending that has been seen at the federal level, where millions of dollars have been allocated to projects such as the $220 million bridge to nowhere. That must end at the federal level and will end here in Louisiana.
The next area of reform puts in place a review process to make sure our money is not being wasted to bankroll non-governmental groups.
Last year, for example, millions of dollars in state surplus were given to non-governmental groups to spend however they like, often with no accountability in place. I have issued strict criteria to the Legislature that any funding for non-government projects that is not openly addressed during a legislative session, does not meet an identified state priority, or fails to fully disclose the origin and purpose will be vetoed.
The fourth area of reform is demanding fiscal discipline in current and future spending by not spending one-time monies on programs with yearly costs, as this is like using your credit card to pay your mortgage.
This is in contrast to last year, when $800 million was spent with one-time monies for projects that had a yearly price tag. And by choosing to save newly-recognized revenues, instead of wasting them on another spending spree, we will completely eliminate this unhealthy reliance on one-time money.
There are several bills currently under consideration before the Legislature that would establish constitutionally mandated expenditures or special legislatively dedicated funds to certain projects. Let me be clear -- I will veto any legislation that forces the state to fund new specific projects on a yearly basis.
We should not be creating any new legislative mandates that lock in state spending for certain projects and in turn lock out choices for budget savings. Too often, politicians in years past have wasted money on these projects only to later threaten drastic budget cuts to critical health and education programs or raise taxes when revenues fall short. We must save and invest for the future; we cannot spend our way toward fiscal responsibility or budget savings.
The importance of fiscal discipline and saving has never been of greater importance to the future of Louisiana. Despite recent increases in state revenue from record oil prices and recovery-related income and expenditures, economists expect these conditions will soon level out, resulting in a projected deficit by the year 2010.
The fifth area of reform involves being responsible for the investments that have already been made by maintaining facilities at universities, paying down debt in the state's pension debt and using money as taxpayers had intended.
By using one-time funds, we have invested $75 million in deferred maintenance at our higher education systems, so teachers and students alike have adequate facilities to learn and do research. We have also used $60 million to start paying down a portion of our state's pension debt, helping to ensure our teachers and state employees are able to retain the pension they have been promised. For every dollar we invest today in paying down this pension debt, the state will save $4.28 in interest in the future. And finally, we have made certain transportation taxes and fees, such as vehicle registration, go towards transportation needs and not into the black hole of the general fund. This will allow us to double our spending on roads and infrastructure without raising taxes.
The final area of reform involves giving taxpayers more transparency on how their money is being used.
We are creating a new online database of state government spending, allowing taxpayers to see how their money is being spent and greatly increasing the transparency and accountability of state government. This promotes greater accountability for how dollars are spent and will help ensure that investments are targeted to those critical areas that aid recovery and bring demonstrated results to all Louisianians.
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Start by tracing a circle the size of the jar lide on a piece of thin cardboard (you can upcycle a cereal box) and on an Aleene's Tacky Double Stick Sheet. Peel the backing off of the sheet and adhere a piece of scrapbook paper and cut the paper so it matched the circle. Glue moss and fairy figurine to the paper using Aleene's Super Thick Tacky Glue. Once you've created your desired landscrape, allow the glue to dry and place the piece inside the jar. Create a second circle using the double stick sheets. Punch a circle through the sheet once paper is attached and insert a piece of microfilament. Glue the lid onto the jar and allow to dry. Display this piece on a table top during a summer gathering or leave a few in your garden.
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"SOTHOC provides submerged submarines with the ability to use unmanned aircraft systems and will increase commanders' situational awareness and provide clarity to a fogged battlespace picture," said Ken Pedersen, Raytheon Missile Systems' vice president of Advanced Programs. "In future demonstrations, we will deploy a UAS from an actual submerged submarine and evaluate its performance in the maritime interdiction mission."
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Trio Solutions (TRIO), a Mount Pleasant-based marketing communications agency, invites Lowcountry-area nonprofits to apply for the 8th annual CreateAthon, scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 23.
CreateAthon is a collaborative, 24-hour creative blitz that changes the impact of nonprofits and the lives of creative thinkers.
TRIO, the official CreateAthon agency for the Lowcountry area, will provide marketing services to nonprofit organizations on a pro-bono basis from 8 a.m. Thursday to 8 a.m. Friday.
The selected nonprofits should have little or no marketing budgets.
The deadline for 2014 CreateAthon applications is Friday, Aug. 15, at 5 p.m. TRIO will select five local organizations and will announce the winners by Sept. 1.
CreateAthon is an innovative way for our team to give back to the Lowcountry and help organizations share their stories, says Caitlin Ramsey, TRIOs CreateAthon coordinator.
Many nonprofits struggle for essential business-related funding and money for marketing is often the first to be overlooked.
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embrace the camera: june 30th
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So glad to hear that things are slowly getting a little easier for everyone. One day at a time =)ReplyDelete
Her smile is too precious!!
I love this picture. She looks like she's lovin' a little love from her mama. I'm glad things are turning around and praise God she has been easy and able to fit right in. What amazing blessings you have.ReplyDelete
Way to be so honest Emily! She is adorable and I'm so glad that the bonds are being formed and she has adjusted to her new fabulous life well! She looks pretty stinkin' happy in the pic :)ReplyDelete
so sweet! i'm sure your little gal feels so loved! what a blessing and a privilege that she now has this great big and wonderful forever family!ReplyDelete
i love that picture of you two and i esp love the color contrast. beautiful. so, so glad you are feeling better, friend!ReplyDelete
This picture is so sweet.. I am glad you are slowly starting to feel better.ReplyDelete
I'm so glad you're feeling better! It's tough being a mom when I have the flu, let alone puking for weeks on end! You're amazing!ReplyDelete
This picture is beautiful! Her smile is adorable!
She looks very happy. I'm glad you are starting to feel better.ReplyDelete
Such an adorable picture! I just did Embrace the Camera for the first time today. I'm glad you're feeling better!ReplyDelete
She looks so happy!ReplyDelete
oh my goodness her smile makes me so happy!ReplyDelete
I just love pictures that scream happy, love, peace. Great photo.ReplyDelete
Thanks for being so transparent. I think your kids will enjoy hearing that their mom was a real person someday.
what a sweet picture! love her beautiful smile.ReplyDelete
that must have been so hard emily!ReplyDelete
I feel bad for you because I am sure you have felt much guilt over it, but when you are sick nothing else really can matter all that much. glad to hear you are feeling better and you and the little cutie can get back to bonding!!!
gorgeous picture!ReplyDelete
Right back atcha! It's gonna be so much fun to see you and the munchkin crew!! :0)ReplyDelete
I love your honesty. I hate reading about (or observing) people's lives where they make everything seem so picture perfect. That just sooo is not life!! I admire you for glimpses of reality. ;)ReplyDelete
I "met" you and started following about the time she came to your lifes. What a journey! What a woman of strenght you are. You are truly an inspiration. She is adorable. And so are you. So happy you are feeling better.ReplyDelete
love your honesty:)ReplyDelete
LOVE it! So glad you're feeling better. She is unbelievably gorgeous!ReplyDelete
didn't get mine done in time to link up... a day late. :/ But here's mine anyway: http://www.poppielane.com/2011/07/embrace-camera-couple-announcements.htmlReplyDelete
such a beautiful picture of mother & daughter :) so glad you're feeling better!ReplyDelete


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Normally, they return to the same colony every year in January or early February to begin mating, and do not disperse until the end of July. But lately, they have not been returning to their colonies the following year.
Though biologists began noticing this growing trend approximately five years ago, they have been unable to determine the cause. The identification of a decline in Puget Sound heron populations is currently based on data collected through individual colony monitoring. However, there has been no systematic monitoring of the entire region.
"The King County Wildlife Program monitors colonies, but we need increased community involvement to enhance our existing data," says Stenberg. "If you live near a heron colony, we'd like to know what you saw last year and what is going on this year--how many nests are there and when were they occupied," she says.
The increased population of the bald eagle, a natural predator of the heron, may be a factor. The eagles may prey on heron eggs and chicks and, once the nest is exposed, it also creates an opportunistic situation for crows, another bird population that is increasing in urban areas.
Urbanization has created a lack of heron habitat, resulting in smaller nesting colonies. Colony abandonment during the nesting season may be due to a decline in food supplies, such as small fish and amphibians, for the herons.
One of the larger local colonies is at the Kenmore Park & Ride lot. People should stay at least 600 feet from a colony; an observer is too close if the birds fly off their nests. Binoculars or a spotting scope are best for observing herons from a distance.
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Eat Local Challenge!
Here are the Locavores' guidelines:
-- Whenever possible, buy, eat and cook local -- i.e. within the foodshed.
-- If not locally produced, then organic. This choice generally protects the environment and your body from chemicals and hormones.
-- If not organic, then family farm. If it comes down to Kraft versus Cabot (a dairy co-op in Vermont), choose Cabot.
-- If not family farm, then local business. Coffee and wheat products may be difficult. At least support a local coffee-roasting house and local bakery.
-- If not a local business, then go for terroir. Purchase foods that express the region they are grown in and support the local agriculture. If you're buying Brie, by it from Brie, France; if Parmesan cheese, from Parma, Italy.
Sarah's Local Food Challenge:
1. What's your definition of local for this challenge?
I am including anything that I get from a family farm around the Chesapeake watershed area. I am going to Michigan next week to get some blueberries, but since I will be there in Michigan and obtaining the berries myself from a locally-owned farm, I figure that this counts.
2. What exemptions will you claim?
Exemptions will include tea and olive oil. I can try to find an alternative, Maryland-grown beverage, though. If I do go out for coffee, then it will be to a local coffee shop and never to Starbuck or some such chain. I do tend to eat out often with friends, so during August we will only go to places that are locally owned and preferrably restuarants that use organic foods. I might be able to get away with using butter instead of olive oil, but that doesn't work so well on salads. Hmmm...
3. What is your personal goal for the month?
My goal is to eat 80% of my diet from local sources. August is a good month to start since there is much to choose from. February will be a bit more challenging! When I am instated at the director of domestic affairs at Lakeside Drive, I will go our grocery shopping at farms or the farmer's markets, so this August will be good practice for us!
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- Jennifer Maiser said...
Sarah - so glad to have you joining the challenge!
- James said...
I understand the basic reasoning behind eating locally, but it's something I can't entirely stand behind. I'm all in favor of supporting sustainable, and fair-labor-produced agriculture, but one thing that I do enjoy about globalization is the distribution of goods. Who could call it a bad thing that Inuits in Alaska have access to oranges and bananas or that Saharan nomads have access to wheat, rice, and corn?
- Sarah said...
One of the things about importing and exporting food-stuffs is the impact on the environment. In order to get the oranges to Inuits one has to box them up, put them in a truck, truck it down to the shipyard, load in on a barge, sail up to Alaska, unload the barge, load up a truck, truck it to a central local and then have a bush plane fly it to the Inuits.
Interestingly enough, Dr. Weston Price did some remarkable research that showed NO cavities or cases of acne, heart disease, cancer, etc. in Inuits eating a native, local diet. As soon as "white man's food" is introduced their teeth were crooked, rotting, and cancer and heart disease became as prevelent as it is in our own culture. He found the same thing among countless "primitive tribes" around the world. It didn't seem to matter the nature of the diet as long as it was hunted and gathered in their own environment and was left unprocessed. As soon as white flour and other "white man's foods" were introduced Price saw the same thing: dental deformities, cavities, cancer, etc.
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- James said...
It's a little vague here. "White man's food" constitutes all sorts of things. White flour being a perfect example. Just because the global food market CAN produce and distribute something doesn't mean it SHOULD. McDonald's and Snickers bars are one thing, navy beans and cherries are quite another. It may very well be that different populations have adapted to their local diets and may adversely react to foreign ingredients. Select individuals in certain populations (I'm not specifically referencing the Inuit), through greater wealth, may have been able to maintain healthy diets, but that may not account for the broad populace of the region living by way of subsistence farming in environments that simply can't provide all the nutrients they require. They may "live," but that doesn't indicate that they'll be particularly healthy. I'd hate to see legislated caps on reproduction just because someone's foodshed can't produce enough Vitamin C for the next generation.
Global availability of goods certainly shouldn't adversely affect local agriculture (European and American farm subsidies have been almost literally killing African farmers for decades), but if a region can't produce the necessary and varied biomass for its population, I say let's load up the trucks and ship out.
- James said...
Another thought: technically, many of the things produced in numerous regions of the States aren't native, and thus are not terroir. Say good-bye to any dairy products, much less raw. Them there cows' great-great-great-great-grandmammy came on a boat from England.
I'm curious, did the Native Americans have goats? Or did they only get their dairy from second base when they were babies?
P.S. Speaking of getting to second base, my Yuliya's visa petition went through!!! We're right on schedule.
- Sarah said...
James, I will concede that some imports are great, which is why my goal is at 80%. I don't think it is necessary for Northerners to eat citrus, for example. That being said, olive oil, coffee and tea are hard to give up! Nonetheless, I try to buy such products from organic, sustainable farms, even if they are overseas. What we need to do is REDUCE our dependency on food transport. For example, Michigan is the #1 producer of blueberries in the world. Why the hell are there New Jersey berries being sold at Michigan supermarkets. Same with Maryland, we grow lovely apples here, why do we need to import them?
Also, it is environmentally irresponsible to have green golf courses in the desert, as well as many water-loving crops. Have an aloe field out in Arizona for goodness sakes!
As with dairy, it is sustainable here. Coffee is impossible to grow in Maryland, as is citrus and many other goods.
Again, 80% is the key!
Reducing our need for shipping also reduces our need for fossil fuels, unless we can send them over on sailboat.
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- Sarah said...
Wow, thanks! That is a very provocative article. It is nice to know that by buying local I am doing a small part to help feed people in Africa as well as protecting the environment. If the government would stop its farm subsidies, then farmers could grow less at a higher quality and sell it for a fair price. You know, I actually think that meat is TOO cheap in this country. Maybe if it were more expensive Americans would eat less of it and farmers could afford to treat livestock in humane and healthy ways!
Excellent article!!
- Jennifer Maiser said...
Wow, Sarah, you have begun quite a debate! This is the really encouraging thing about this challenge - even thinking about these issues and bringing them to the forefront. I look forward to seeing more from you this month.
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he license plate remains a vital, cost-effective, and readily identifiable law enforcement tool. Every U.S. state and Canadian province mandates its display, and information concerning one is accessible to police officers in real time. Noncompliance with a jurisdiction's vehicle registration laws objectively provides probable cause to believe a violation is occurring and has been demonstrated time and again to be a gateway to clearing serious crimes. The basis for choosing this year's Looking Beyond the License Plate grand prize winner is a typical traffic stop for an expired license plate, which blossomed into the arrest of a methamphetamine distributor wanted by the U.S. Marshals Service, and clearly demonstrates the positive value of looking beyond the license plate during traffic stops.
The 3M Traffic Safety Systems Division has recognized the crucial role that license plates play in crime detection and has partnered with the IACP Highway Safety Committee since 1998 to recognize police officers who use license plates to solve serious, non-traffic crimes. Past grand prize winners have been responsible for the capture of one of the Commonwealth of Virginia's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives; the apprehension of one of the U.S. Marshals Service's 15 Most Wanted Fugitives in Canada; the prevention of a third homicide by an individual transporting two corpses in his vehicle's trunk; the arrest of two suspects involved in the armed robbery and attempted first-degree murder of a Maryland restaurant manager; the solution via the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department's license plate reader (LPR) system of six major cases in three months; the prompt arrest of the perpetrator of multiple, vicious abductions in northern Virginia; and the apprehension of Timothy J. McVeigh just 75 minutes after the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
The IACP Highway Safety Committee unanimously selected Trooper Eric Randazzo, of the Pennsylvania State Police's Troop "N"—Swiftwater Station, as the grand prize winner of the 2013 Looking Beyond the License Plate award. On October 7, 2012, at approximately 6:50 p.m., Randazzo observed a motorcycle displaying what he confirmed to be a license plate that had expired in February 2007. Prior to the motorcycle's stopping, the trooper observed a clear plastic bag fall from the operator's person, subsequently recovered it, and believed the bag contained methamphetamine. The driver's license of the operator was determined to be suspended. The motorcyclist was arrested, waived his Miranda rights, and identified the residence at which he had purchased the methamphetamine. Randazzo initiated surveillance of the residence: twice in January 2013 he was able to stop vehicles leaving that residence, to recover methamphetamine on both occasions and a handgun on the first one, and to identify the alleged seller and resident. His investigation developed sufficient probable cause to apply for—and execute—a search and seizure warrant on January 27, 2013, where he seized crack cocaine, methamphetamine, materials used to weigh and package narcotics, and a safe containing $26,000. The resident was apprehended and subsequently was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service on a federal probation violation relating to a possession with intent to deliver charge preferred by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in the 1990s.
Six other police officers on four occasions were recognized by Highway Safety Committee judges to receive honorable mentions for their initiative in solving serious crimes via this fundamental tool, which is divorced from a driver's race, ethnicity, and sex:
Numerous serious crimes, like those highlighted by the Looking Beyond the License Plate award program, are resolved daily by officers doing their utmost to safeguard those they have chosen to serve professionally. It is hoped that the remarkable efforts described here will inspire chiefs and officers alike to avail themselves of this existing resource in their specialized toolboxes to apprehend violent criminals and reduce crime.
Share with 3M and the IACP Highway Safety Committee those arrests based on license plates, and vie to become the 2014 grand prize winner and to be honored at the 121st Annual IACP Conference in Orlando, Florida, October 25–29, 2014.
Applications for 3M's 2014 Looking Beyond the License Plate award program must be based on actions occurring between June 1, 2013, and May 31, 2014. ♦
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Richard J. Ashton, "License Plates Yield Felony Arrests," Highway Safety Initiatives, The Police Chief 80 (September 2013): 68–69.
From The Police Chief, vol. LXXX, no. 9, September 2013. Copyright held by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, 515 North Washington Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 USA.


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From the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California; and Med-Tox Group, Longboat Key, Florida.
Disclaimer: The contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine or the National Institutes of Health.
Grant Support: By grant 1 K08 AT01338-01 from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Dr. Bent). Dr. Shlipak is a Research Career Development Awardee from the Health Research and Development Division of the Veterans Administration.
Potential Financial Conflicts of Interest:Expert Testimony: S. Bent (Livsey vs. Metabolife; Neumann vs. Herbalife), T.N. Tiedt (cases involving Metabolife International, Cytodyne, MuscleTech, Next Nutrition, TwinLabs, Dorsey Labs, Enrich, E'Ola, GNC, Phoenix Labs, Chemins Labs), M.G. Shlipak (Livsey vs. Metabolife; McDonald vs. TwinLabs).
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Author Contributions: Conception and design: S. Bent, T.N. Tiedt, and M.G. Shlipak.
Analysis and interpretation of the data: S. Bent, T.N. Tiedt, M. C. Odden, and M.G. Shlipak.
Drafting of the article: S. Bent and T.N. Tiedt.
Critical revision of the article for important intellectual content: S. Bent, T.N. Tiedt, M. C. Odden, and M.G. Shlipak.
Final approval of the article: S. Bent, T.N. Tiedt, M. C. Odden, and M.G. Shlipak.
Provision of study materials or patients: M. C. Odden.
Statistical expertise: S. Bent, T.N. Tiedt, M. C. Odden, and M.G. Shlipak.
Obtaining of funding: M.G. Shlipak.
Administrative, technical, or logistic support: T.N. Tiedt and M.C. Odden.
Collection and assembly of data: S. Bent, T.N. Tiedt, and M.C. Odden.
Background: Ephedra is widely used in dietary supplements that are marketed to promote weight loss or increase energy; however, the safety of this product has been questioned because of numerous case reports of adverse events.
Objective: To compare the risk for adverse events attributable to ephedra and other herbal products.
Design: Comparative case series.
Setting: American Association of Poison Control Centers Toxic Event Surveillance System Database Annual Report, 2001.
Measurements: The relative risk and 95% confidence interval for experiencing an adverse reaction after ephedra use compared with other herbs. This risk was defined as the ratio of adverse reactions to ephedra versus other products, divided by the ratio of their relative use in the United States.
Results: Products containing ephedra accounted for 64% of all adverse reactions to herbs in the United States, yet these products represented only 0.82% of herbal product sales. The relative risks for an adverse reaction in persons using ephedra compared with other herbs were extremely high, ranging from 100 (95% CI, 83 to 140) for kava to 720 (CI, 520 to 1100) for Ginkgo biloba.
Conclusions: Ephedra use is associated with a greatly increased risk for adverse reactions compared with other herbs, and its use should be restricted.
Ephedra (ma huang) is used in dietary supplements to "promote weight loss and enhance energy." Is it safe?
This study, based on data from U.S. poison control centers and sales information, shows that products containing ephedra accounted for 64% of all reported adverse effects from herbs even though they represented less than 1% of total herbal product sales. The relative risk for an adverse effect from ephedra was 100 (95% CI, 83 to 140) compared with kava and 720 (CI, 520 to 1100) compared with Ginkgo biloba.
Ephedra is associated with greatly increased risk for adverse effects compared with other herbs.
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An Asian ephedra species has been used for thousands of years in Traditional Chinese Medicine herbal formulas designed to treat asthma and other respiratory diseases (1–2). The herb extract is known as ma huang and contains several ephedra alkaloids, including the primary active constituent, ephedrine, as well as smaller amounts of pseudoephedrine, phenylpropanolamine, methylephedrine, methylpseudoephedrine, and norpseudoephedrine (cathine, a controlled substance) (3). These drugs have sympathomimetic activity and lead to various physiologic responses, including vasoconstriction; bronchodilation; and increases in blood pressure, heart rate, cardiac contractile force, and automaticity (4). Ephedra gained widespread medical use in the United States in the 1920s as a nasal decongestant, central nervous system stimulant, and asthma treatment, but use declined substantially in the following decade because of safety concerns and the availability of safer alternatives (5–6).
Recently, ephedra has become a common ingredient in many dietary supplements that are promoted to increase energy or assist with weight loss. Since herbs are regulated as dietary supplements in the United States, these ephedra-containing products can be sold without approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (7).
Numerous case reports have documented adverse effects in persons using ephedra (8–11). In the largest published case series, Haller and Benowitz (8) reviewed 140 adverse event reports involving ephedra that were submitted to the FDA. They concluded that 43 were definitely or probably related to ephedra and another 44 were possibly related. However, there are certain limitations in determining causality from case reports, the foremost of which is the inability to determine relative risk.
The primary obstacle to determining a relative risk is that underreporting of adverse reactions prohibits a calculation of their true incidence. A recent report from the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (12) concluded that current surveillance systems for identifying adverse reactions from dietary supplements probably detect less than 1% of adverse reactions.
One option for estimating the safety of ephedra-containing herbs is to compare the relative frequency of adverse reactions attributable to ephedra with that of other commonly used herbs. Based on the assumption that persons using various herbal products will have a similar tendency to report adverse reactions associated with their use, a comparison of the frequency of adverse reactions per unit sold can help determine their relative safety. This technique is commonly used in postmarketing surveillance of pharmaceutical drugs (13). Using data obtained by the Toxic Event Surveillance System of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, we examined the risk for adverse reactions per unit of ephedra sold compared with the risk among users of other herbal products.
Adverse reactions to ephedra and other herbal products during 2001 were documented by the Toxic Event Surveillance System, a database maintained by the American Association of Poison Control Centers that contains standardized information on approximately 96% of all poison center contacts in the United States (14). For each inquiry to a participating poison control center, a specialist in poison control information determined whether an adverse reaction that could be attributed to a specific agent occurred. An adverse reaction was defined as "an adverse event occurring with normal, prescribed, labeled, or recommended use of the product, as opposed to overdose, misuse, or abuse" (14).
The estimated numbers of units of herbal products sold during 2001 were determined by an independent natural products consulting agency that conducted a probability-based sampling of all natural product retail stores in the United States (SPINS, Inc., San Francisco, California). These include natural product supermarkets and mainstream food, drug, and mass merchandise stores. The total population of natural product stores was divided into cells based on ZIP codes, and sample stores in each cell were selected by using probability-based systematic sampling. Estimates of unit sales for herbal products are reported to have a standard error of ±6%. As an alternative source to our best estimate for ephedra sales, we identified a second sales estimate from an annual natural products survey of retail stores (15).
We calculated the relative risk and 95% CIs for an adverse reaction attributable to ephedra compared with other herbs. Relative risk was defined as the number of adverse reactions per unit sales of ephedra divided by the number of adverse reactions per unit sales of the comparison herb. Confidence intervals were calculated by using the method of Tubert-Bitter and colleagues (13), which assumes a Poisson distribution for the number of adverse reactions observed for a given number of herbal units sold. All analyses were conducted by using Microsoft Excel 2000 (Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Washington).
Since the determination of relative risk for adverse reactions after use of ephedra and other herbs depends heavily on an accurate estimation of their relative sales, we performed a sensitivity analysis around the fraction of all herbal product sales that contained ephedra. Our two best estimates described above were based solely on retail herb sales, which make up approximately 75% of all herb sales (SPINS, Inc.). As an extreme "high-end" estimate for our sensitivity analysis, we assumed that half of all nonretail herb sales were of ephedra-containing products.
The funding sources had no role in the design, conduct, or reporting of the study or in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
The Table shows numbers of adverse reactions adjudicated by poison control centers in the United States in 2001 to be attributable to several commonly used herbal products. Products containing ephedra alone or combined with other herbs or substances accounted for 64% of all adverse reactions, yet these products represented only 0.82% of herbal product sales. The relative risks for an adverse reaction in persons using ephedra compared with other herbs are extremely high (Table), ranging from 100 (95% CI, 83 to 140) for kava to 720 (CI, 520 to 1100) for Ginkgo biloba. The relative risk for ephedra-containing products was markedly elevated in comparison with all other individual herbs and the category of all herbal products.
The markedly elevated relative risks observed with ephedra-containing products were stable over a wide range of estimates of ephedra sales (Figure). Even with an extreme high estimate for ephedra's share of the total herbal market (13.5%), the relative risks for adverse reactions among ephedra users were still 10- to 40-fold greater than the risk among users of other herbal products. Differential reporting of adverse reactions among users of ephedra and other herbs could potentially alter the calculated relative risks. However, to eliminate the observed statistically significant association of ephedra with adverse reactions, the reporting rate for nonephedra herbs would have to be 207-fold less than the adverse reaction reporting rate for ephedra.
0.82% = best estimate from SPINS, Inc., San Francisco, California; 2.20% = Whole Foods Magazine survey estimate; 13.5% = high estimate assuming that ephedra sales represent half of all nonretail sales in addition to 0.82% of retail sales.
Ephedra is a common ingredient in many weight loss and energy-enhancing products but is extremely controversial. Several prominent medical organizations, including the American Medical Association and Health Canada, have recommended banning the sale of the herb (16). Numerous sports organizations, including the National Collegiate Athletics Association, the International Olympic Committee, and the National Football League, prohibit the use of ephedra-containing products. The FDA has issued several warnings regarding possible side effects from ephedra (17).
Some industry experts claim that ephedra is safe and note that the number of adverse reactions reported among users of ephedra may not be greater than the background rate of events in the population (18). This opinion had been difficult to challenge because no previous study had compared the risk for adverse reactions in ephedra users and nonusers.
In this study, we used a technique commonly employed to monitor the relative safety of pharmaceutical drugs to compare the safety of ephedra and other frequently used herbs. We found that the relative risk for an adverse reaction from ephedra was more than 100-fold higher compared with all other herbs. For example, persons using products containing ephedra were 720 times more likely to have an attributable adverse reaction to ephedra than persons using Ginkgo biloba.
Our study has several limitations. The number of adverse reactions used in this analysis is a fraction of all adverse reactions that occur with these herbs, and underreporting of adverse reactions may vary with the severity of the reaction. However, if persons using various herbs have similar likelihoods of reporting adverse reactions, then the relative risks that we generated should be valid. The relative risk calculations also assume that persons using these different herbs have similar general health. Differences in the characteristics of the populations using various herbs can affect both the likelihood of experiencing and reporting an adverse reaction. Whereas differences in the relative numbers of users of ephedra and other herbal products may somewhat affect the magnitude of the relative risks we calculated, we do not believe that characteristics of the users could explain the consistent finding of extreme increased risk of ephedra compared with all other herbs. Rather, these findings are most likely due to the toxicity of ephedra. These findings are consistent with those of a previous randomized, placebo-controlled trial of an ephedra product, in which 8 of 35 participants in the ephedra group (23%) compared with none of 32 participants in the placebo group (0%) abandoned therapy because of side effects (19).
In conclusion, the risk for an adverse reaction after the use of ephedra is substantially greater than with other herbal products. The sale of ephedra as a dietary supplement should be restricted or banned to prevent serious adverse reactions in the general population.
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Hi Steph, where in Scotland are you? There's 2 of us and we manage on a lot less then that (perhaps 2/3 your budget).
Avoid grains, avoid starches, avoid boxed or pre-made things. A head of brocolli 75p, a tin of mackerel £1.50 will do a meal for 2. Poached egg and kale for breakfast. You get the idea.
Buy butter, olive oil, avocados; Tescos are good for frozen wild salmon. Eggs are much cheaper from the farmers market or health food shop. Veg is cheap at Lidl or Aldi, and their nuts are good value too, look for their ground or flaked almonds.
No need to go mad on beef etc. That is the thing that wil blow your budget, that and eating out or buying manufactured boxed items.
It's not only possible, it is easy, but you have to get 'into' it to find the bargains and the mix of items that suits you.
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China Earthquake Update: The President comes to visit Red Cross headquarters
Last Friday morning our headquarters building in DC hosted a roundtable discussion about how the United States is and will continue to support recovery efforts in China following the earthquake there.
President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice came over to address the group of nonprofits, corporations, and governmental agencies assisting China in relief efforts.
Even though the White House is a mere block and a half away from our building, the energy of a POTUS visit changed the air around here for a few hours.
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And corporations who are lending a hand: Business Roundtable, Cisco, Honeywell International, The US-China Business Council, Avon, Procter & Gamble, Merck & Co, Chevron, US Chamber of Commerce, New York Life Insurance Company, Merrill Lynch & Co., Johnson & Johnson, Caterpillar Inc.
We also had Wenzhong Zhou, the Ambassador of China.
Talk about a power packed room!
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• The reported incidence of arytenoid cartilage dislocation is low. This may be due to the wide range and orientation of motion allowed by the cricoarytenoid articulation and the laxity of its joint capsule. In two previously reported instances of arytenoid dislocation, the authors have suggested that endotracheal intubation is generally not sufficient to cause dislocation of an arytenoid cartilage, but that, in their cases, a predisposing factor had set the occasion for dislocation.
In this communication, three cases of arytenoid cartilage dislocation, which each followed a single instance of endotracheal intubation are presented. In all three cases, painful swallowing was the main presenting symptom. Clinical features that differentiate arytenoid cartilage dislocation from vocal cord paresis are summarized. Early reduction of the dislocation, while the patient is under local anesthesia, is recommended, and the techniques are described in detail.
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Being booted off America's Next Top Model last May hasn't harmed Janice Dickinson: The 52-year-old model of self-assurance is about to star in her own reality modeling show on the Oxygen network.
Dickinson, who claims she was the first supermodel – Suzy Parker in the '50s and Lauren Hutton in the '70s are usually credited with that title – was ousted from the UPN show after four seasons in which she proved herself to be the harshest critic on the judging panel. She also thought nothing of quarreling with her fellow judges.
On her new show, tentatively titled The Janice Dickinson Project and set to debut in the spring, she'll select five models from an original pool of 500 and then sign the winning quintet to her own Hollywood modeling agency that she intends to launch, the Associated Press reports.
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