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Security can see you.
Yes, new cameras positioned throughout the courthouse will make it easier for law enforcement to keep an eye on what's happening both inside and out of the historic building.
Bill Lazenby, who coordinates security at the courthouse, said that the new cameras were installed last week and offer wide-angle views of the grounds.
Sitting at his desk, Lazenby watched his computer monitor.
On it were displayed 16 squares — each a different camera.
He pointed to one showing the north steps of the courthouse.
"Now I can pick up the window, front and the street from here," Lazenby said.
Recently, a window was broken and the front door glass damaged on this side of the building.
The problem was, the antiquated cameras then couldn't see or capture the culprit.
"These give me a broader view," he said.
But there is more to it than that.
It was speculated that the vandalism occurred under the cover of darkness.
That would make the old cameras just about useless — but not these.
John Parkman, information technology department head, said the new cameras have the ability to peer through the darkness.
"It automatically switches over at night," he said. "If that would happen now, you could see those people hitting the windows and the door."
Like the old cameras, these record events in case they are needed later.
Lazenby said that they are currently retaining 30 days worth of recordings.
"At 30 days, it wipes out the last day and keeps going," he said.
This feature has come in handy in the past as they have had to pull captured video because of inmate assaults and accidents.
"We utilize these cameras quite a bit for stuff in the courthouse," Lazenby said.
Another perk, these cameras are able to compensate for bright light and shadows.
"What I saw before was a fog with the light coming in," Lazenby said.
Parkman said that the outside cameras are high dynamic range style, which means they are able to compensate for both shadows and bright lights in the same view.
Lazenby said that at sunset, at least one of the cameras was almost useless because the sun shinning on it washed out the rest of the camera's view.
Not any more.
These can compensate.
Parkman highlighted more various technical features of the new cameras, but for Lazenby, there is one simple feature he loves — the ability to see features.
"If I didn't know who you were or how you walked, I could not tell who you were before," he said.
Cost for the new system was $7,215 from Dynamark Security Centers of Corpus Christi. For those financially minded, this was the lowest bid, with the others coming in at $13K and $39K.
"I was scared of the low bid," Lazenby admitted, but he is happy with the outcome.
Jason Collins is the editor at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 358-2550, ext. 121, or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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PRE-DETERMINE Cohort Study
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Coronary Artery Disease
Left Ventricular Dysfunction
Sudden Cardiac Death
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|PRE-DETERMINE: Biologic Markers and MRI SCD Cohort Study
- To identify a series of genetic markers and biomarkers that specifically predict risk of arrhythmic death as compared to other causes of mortality among CAD patients with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF > 35%). [ Time Frame: Once an adequate number of sudden arrhythmic events (~n=400) has accrued a nested case-cohort design will be utilized to test for associations between biomarkers and sudden arrhythmic events. ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- To determine whether these genetic markers and biomarkers advance SCD risk prediction when combined with advanced substrate imaging by CE-MRI. [ Time Frame: Once an adequate number of sudden arrhythmic events (~n=400) has accrued a nested case-cohort design will be utilized to test for associations between genetic variants and sudden arrhythmic events. ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Biospecimen Retention: Samples With DNA
|Study Start Date:
|June 2007
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|February 2017
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|February 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
There are an estimated 250,000-400,000 sudden cardiac deaths (SCD) annually in the United States constituting approximately 50% of all cardiac deaths. Although clinical trials have demonstrated convincing survival benefits conferred by implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) therapy in selected patients with left ventricular ejection fractions (LVEF) less than 35% and congestive heart failure, the overwhelming majority of patients who suffer a cardiac arrest will have an LVEF> 0.35. The PRE-DETERMINE: Biologic Markers and MRI SCD Cohort Study seeks to identify patients at a substantially higher risk of arrhythmic death among coronary heart disease (CHD) patients with preserved left ventricular ejection fractions (LVEF>35%). If biomarkers or genetic markers are identified that can specifically predict risk of ventricular arrhythmias, then these markers may serve as relatively inexpensive methods to identify those at risk. The public health impact of identifying markers could be quite substantial, leading to more efficient utilization of ICDs and advances in our understanding of mechanisms underlying SCD.
The PRE-DETERMINE Study is a prospective, multi-center study of patients with a history of coronary artery disease (CAD) and documentation of either a prior myocardial infarction (MI) or mild to moderate left ventricular dysfunction (LVEF 35-50%). Patients will be enrolled at about 100 sites where information on baseline demographic, clinical characteristics, pertinent past medical history, lifestyle habits, and medications will be collected. Electrocardiograms along with a blood sample will also be collected at baseline, sent to central laboratories, and stored for future analyses. The participants contact information will be collected and stored in a secure database and all participants will be followed centrally on a 6-month basis via mail/phone to document interim non-fatal arrhythmic events and cause-specific mortality. Study endpoints will be confirmed through review of medical records, interviews with next-of-kin, death certificates, and autopsy reports, if available.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Genders Eligible for Study:
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|Sampling Method:
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Inclusion Criteria
- Evidence of Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) a or documented prior Myocardial Infarction.
- LVEF >35% by any current standard evaluation technique (e.g.,) echocardiogram, MUGA, angiography). 2.1. Patients who have an LVEF between 30-35% and NYHA Class I heart failure who do not have history of ventricular tachyarrhythmias,or inducible ventricular tachycardia during electrophysiological (EP) testing can be enrolled.
- If documented prior MI is not present, evidence of mild-moderate systolic Left Ventricular Dysfunction with an EF >35- ≤50% as measured by any current standard screening technique (e.g.,echocardiogram, MUGA, angiography) must be present.
Patients aged 18 years or above
CAD will be defined as evidence of one of the following two (2) criteria:
- Significant stenosis of a major epicardial vessel (>50% proximal or 70% distal) by coronary angiography
- Prior revascularization (percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary artery bypass surgery)
MI can be documented in the following ways:
From the MI hospitalization: Detection of a rise and fall of cardiac biomarkers > 99th percentile of lab (e.g., CPK elevation or Troponin at least > two times the upper limit of normal) together with myocardial ischemia with at least one of the following:
- Symptoms of Ischemia
- ECG changes indicative of new ischemia (new ST-T changes or new LBBB)
- Development of pathological Q waves
- Imaging evidence of new loss of viable myocardium or new regional wall motion abnormality
If no report from the MI hospitalization is available, prior MI can be met by either of the following:
- Development of pathological Q waves
- Imaging evidence of a region of loss of viable myocardium that is thinned and fails to contract, in the absence of a non-ischaemic cause
Exclusion Criteria
- History of cardiac arrest or spontaneous or inducible sustained VT (15 beats or more at a rate of 120 BPM or greater - the occurrence of cardiac arrest or spontaneous VT in the setting of an acute MI is not considered an exclusion).
- Unexplained syncope
- Current or planned implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD)
- Any condition other than cardiac disease that, in the investigator's judgment, would seriously limit life expectancy (poor survival)
- Metastatic cancer
- Marked valvular heart disease requiring surgical intervention
- Current or planned cardiac, renal or liver transplant
- Current alcohol or drug abuse
- Unwilling or unable to provide informed consent
- LVEF <35% with Class II-III CHF or LVEF <30%
- Participation in a clinical trial where the active treatment arm is testing an agent and/or intervention with known antiarrhythmic properties
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01114269
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|Principal Investigator:
|Christine M Albert, MD, MPH
|Brigham and Women's Hospital
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|Christine M. Albert, MD, MPH, Principal Investigator, Brigham and Women's Hospital
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01114269 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|April 29, 2010
|Last Updated:
|March 30, 2016
|Health Authority:
|United States: Institutional Review Board
Keywords provided by Brigham and Women's Hospital:
Coronary Artery Disease
Sudden Cardiac Death
Myocardial Infarction
Percutaneous coronary intervention
Implantable Cardiac Defibrillator
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Coronary Artery Disease
Myocardial Ischemia
Coronary Disease
Ventricular Dysfunction
Death, Sudden, Cardiac
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left
Heart Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Arterial Occlusive Diseases
Vascular Diseases
Pathologic Processes
Heart Arrest
Death, Sudden
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and yet....another challenge! just when i thought we were working out all our issues and getting into a good b/f pattern my 4 wo is now putting his tongue over my nipple! he started this yesterday on both sides but after repeated tries he seems to be correcting himslef on the right but not on the left. so i am back to one-sided nusring and pumping on the left.
i am wondering if he will just get over this on his own or if there is something i can do to "remind" him how to nurse.
any thoughts?
in 4 weeks i have had more "issues" with this baby then the 4 combined years of nursing my other two - strange.


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The Agricultural Education and Texas FFA Day at the Capitol was held Feb. 26 in Austin. Beeville FFA was one of more than 50 chapters that comprised more than 500 FFA members and advisers across Texas who participated in this event in order to learn more about the legislative process, specifically addressing agriculture and agricultural education through workshops and presentations conducted by key public leaders in Texas.
"We want young people to grow up to be engaged citizens who have a voice in the legislation process, because they understand it," said Texas FFA Executive Director Tom Maynard.
Resolutions regarding the Texas FFA were read in the Texas House of Representatives and Senate. In addition, members participated in workshops facilitated by Reps. Larry Gonzales and Kyle Kacel. The representatives described the roles of legislators, executive offices and lobbyists, as well as expressed the need for bright, young people in public service. Beeville FFA members were able to meet and talk with attorney Wil Galloway, formerly of Beeville, and State Rep. Pat Fallon.
"Day at the Capitol is a great way for our state leaders to see the true impact of agricultural education and the FFA. It also affords our members the opportunity to see firsthand the legislative process, and how they can affect change in their own communities," explained Texas FFA Leadership Development Coordinator Austin Large.
The Texas FFA is one of the nation's largest state FFA Associations with more than 94,000 members and more than 1,000 FFA chapters. FFA gives students the opportunity to apply practical classroom knowledge to real world experiences through local, state and national competitions.


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Bond Basics: An Investor's Guide to the Many Meanings of Yield
Let us assume that you are reading the financial pages of your favorite newspaper. You read that even though stock returns have been dismal for the last two years, bond returns have been very good. In fact, you read that over the past two years, many bond funds returned well over 15%. While the returns look pretty darn good relative to stocks, you may wonder: Does that mean I can expect to earn 15% next year if I buy bonds? If the answer is not obvious, read on.
The direction of interest rates is one of the chief determinants of bond prices. A strong market for bonds is one in which interest rates are declining. That causes bond prices to go up. A weak bond market is one in which interest rates are going up. That causes bond prices to decline. Clearly, then, since changes in interest rate levels affect bond prices, they also affect what you earn from investments in bonds.
But that is only the beginning. In order to understand what you actually earn from bonds, you need to understand two different concepts: yield and total return.
When you buy an individual bond, you can expect to receive coupon payments (usually every six months) for most bonds and the par value of the bond upon maturity. When you buy a bond fund, you can expect a monthly payout of the income earned by the bond fund. That stream of income is variously described as the bond's "yield." But you also have to bear in mind that when you sell or redeem your bond (or bond fund), you may sell at a higher or at a lower price than the price you paid. That difference can be an additional source of earnings, or it may result in a loss. That change in price is one of the main factors that determines a bond's total return.
What may be confusing, however, is that the term yield has a number of different meanings. Even more confusing is the fact that these meanings are not directly comparable for individual bonds and for bond funds. Moreover, individual bonds are usually sold to investors and are discussed primarily in terms of yield, not returns. But discussions of bond funds often focus on total return. This article will try to bring some clarity to this topic.
When you buy an individual bond, you derive income from three different sources:
- Simple interest,
- Interest on interest, and
- Return of principal at maturity, or proceeds from the sale of the bond at an earlier date.
Simple interest consists of the bond's coupons, which are usually paid twice a year. Let us say you invest $10,000 in a four-year bond, paying 8% a year, semiannually. In return, you will receive two coupon (or interest) payments of $400 each, at six-month intervals every year. If you hold the bond until it matures, you will receive eight coupons that total $3,200. Those eight coupons are the simple interest.
If the coupon payments are spent, only the simple interest is earned. But if the coupons are reinvested, they produce additional interest; subsequently, if those earnings are reinvested, you earn interest on that interest, and so on. That entire income stream is called, logically enough, interest-on-interest, or compounded interest. Both interest income, and interest-on-interest, in different combinations, lie behind the different meanings of yield.
Yield appears in a number of phrases: coupon yield, current yield and yield to maturity. Each has a very precise meaning. Let's look at each in turn.
Coupon Yield
Coupon yield is set when a bond is issued. It is the interest rate paid by the bond (for example, 5½%, 7¾%), and it is listed as a percentage of par, or face value, which is the principal amount that will be paid at maturity.
The coupon yield designates a fixed dollar amount that never changes through the life of the bond. If a $1,000 par value bond is described as having a 10% coupon, that coupon will always be $100 for each bond, paid out in two $50 increments for the entire life of the bond—no matter what happens to the price of the bond, or to interest rates. That is the reason bonds are called fixed-income securities.
Current Yield
Almost as soon as a bond starts trading in the secondary market, it ceases to trade at par. A bond's current yield is its annual coupon divided by its market price.
To illustrate, let us assume you purchased three bonds: the first you bought at par, for $1,000; the second you bought at a premium to par, and paid $1,200; the third you bought at a discount to par, for $800. Each bond has a 10% coupon, and so each pays $100 in annual coupons. Dividing the coupon ($100) by the price results in a current yield of 10% for the par bond; 8.33% for the premium bond (100/$1,200); and 12.5% for the discount bond ($100/$800). Thus, the current yield is equal to coupon yield for the par bond; the current yield (8.33%) is lower than the coupon yield (10%) for the premium bond; and the current yield (12.5%) is higher than the coupon yield (10%) for the discount bond. Current yield is quoted for fixed-income securities of any maturity, whether short or long.
Yield to Maturity
You can see from the above description that current yield is based only on the coupon and the current market price. Current yield, therefore, fails to measure two important sources of income that investors earn from bonds: interest-on-interest and changes in the bond price.
Yield to maturity (YTM) is a more comprehensive measure of potential return than "current yield." It estimates the total amount that a bond will earn over the entire life of an individual bond, from all possible sources of income—coupon income, interest-on-interest, and capital gains or losses due to the difference between the price paid when the bond was purchased and par, the return of principal at maturity—based on a number of assumptions regarding the holding period, reinvested income and interest rates over the life of the bond.
Yield to maturity calculations are not easily made using paper and pencil, but they can easily be determined using either a financial calculator, or by using the various calculators available on the Internet.
YTM is the measure most widely quoted by brokers when selling individual bonds. However, it is not a prediction of what you will actually earn on a bond. Your actual return is likely to differ from the YTM, perhaps considerably, because the YTM will only be realized under certain conditions, which are:
- That you hold the bond to maturity;
- That the coupons are reinvested (rather than spent); and that
- Coupons are reinvested at an interest rate equal to the yield-to-maturity.
Let's look briefly at each assumption:
Holding to Maturity
The YTM quote is based on the redemption price of par (that is, $1,000). If you sell a bond before it matures at a price other than par, then the capital gain or loss will alter what you actually earn.
Reinvesting Coupons
YTM calculations are based on the assumption that coupons are never spent; they are always reinvested. If you spend coupons, then you do not earn the interest-on-interest, and your return would be less than the anticipated YTM. How much less depends on how many coupons you spend the assumed reinvestment rate, and on the maturity of the bonds.
Coupons are Reinvested at an Interest Rate Equal to the YTM
This may sound like double talk, but it means that if a bond has a YTM of 7%, it is assumed that each and every coupon is reinvested at a rate of 7%. However, if in reality you reinvest coupons at a higher rate than 7%, you will earn more than the bond's stated YTM, while if you reinvest coupons at lower rates than 7%, you will earn less.
You may think that the interest-on-interest earned from reinvesting the coupons represents only an insignificant source of potential return and that, therefore, this is a minor point. But you would be wrong. Over long periods of time, reinvestment matters enormously. To understand why, you have to understand how compounding works.
Let's assume that you have $10,000 worth of four-year bonds with 8% coupons paid semiannually. Let's also assume you are reinvesting the $400 in semiannual coupons received at 8%. At the end of the first year, interest-on-interest totals will be unexciting and represent only 2% of the total amount of interest earned that year. By the end of the fourth year, interest-on-interest will comprise about 13% of total interest income. If the bonds are allowed to continue to compound semiannually for 30 years at 8%, interest-on-interest will comprise 75% of total interest earned. Compound interest has been called the 8th wonder of the world, and it works for all investments.
Reinvestment Risk
Interest-on-interest from reinvested coupons plays a big role in the earnings of a bond. Yet in the examples above, the reinvestment rate was both known in advance and constant.
In real life, of course, you cannot know at the time you buy an interest bearing bond what the reinvestment rate is going to be, since you don't know where interest rates will be in the future. Moreover, the uncertainty is greater for longer maturities and higher coupons, since the amount represented by the interest-on-interest becomes greater on a percentage basis.
This uncertainty is known as "reinvestment risk"—the risk that coupons may have to be reinvested at a lower interest rate, in which case an investor's actual return would then be lower than the YTM quoted at the time of purchase. On the other hand, the reinvestment risk may work in your favor if coupons are reinvested at a higher rate, and that would increase the actual return above the YTM quoted at the time of purchase.
If YTM does not predict your actual return, what does it tell you? The chief usefulness of YTM quotes is that they allow you to compare different kinds of bonds—those with dissimilar coupons, different market prices relative to par (for instance, bonds selling at premiums or discounts), and different maturities.
Investors in fixed-income securities sometimes make the mistake of equating interest income or advertised yield with return. But this does not take into consideration what is happening to principal.
Total return for bonds consists of whatever you earn in interest income, plus or minus changes in the value of principal. (To be totally accurate, you would also subtract taxes and commission expenses from return.)
For example, let's assume that a year ago, you invested $10,000 in a bond fund, purchasing 1,000 shares at $10.00 each. Assume also that the bond fund was advertising a yield of 10%, or $1.00 per share, which was maintained for the entire year. But suppose that in the meantime, interest rates have risen so that now bond funds with similar maturity and credit quality yield 11%. As a result, your bond fund is now selling for $9.00 per share. What is the total return on that investment for the past year?
You have earned interest income (based on the monthly coupon distributions) of 10%, or $1,000. But, that ignores the fact that your bond fund has now lost approximately $1 per share (10% of its principal value) and that your principal is now worth $9,000.
Add the income earnings of $1,000 to the current value of your fund ($9,000). Your investment is now worth $10,000. (For the sake of simplicity, I am ignoring interest-on-interest and commission costs.) Therefore, the net return is $0, or 0%. That is your total return, to date, even though you have received 10% interest income. Of course, if interest rates had declined, the price of your bond fund would have risen, and your capital gains would have added to the interest income your fund distributed, and your total return would have been higher than the interest income.
The concept of total return applies equally to individual bonds.
Individual bonds and bond funds are often considered interchangeable investments. But there are important differences between the two.
All bond funds quote a yield, and in fact, most bond funds are marketed to individual investors on the basis of yield. But the yield quoted for bond funds is not equivalent to the YTM quoted for individual bonds.
Unlike individual bonds, there is no date at which the entire portfolio of a bond fund matures (with the exception of so-called target funds that invest in zero-coupon bonds). Indeed, most bond funds maintain what is known as a constant maturity. That means, for example, that if a bond fund invests in long-term bonds, then bonds are bought and sold continually to maintain a portfolio long-term maturity of ten years or greater.
Since the entire portfolio of a bond fund does not have a single maturity date, bond funds cannot quote a YTM equivalent to that of individual bonds.
The yield quoted by bond funds is basically a variant of the current yield measure quoted for individual bonds. Technically, the yield quoted for bond funds is known as the 30-day SEC standardized yield. That number is calculated according to a formula determined by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and is primarily a snapshot of the dividend income (that is, the interest distributions) of the fund for the past 30 days. In addition, the 30-day SEC yield includes slight price increases (for discount bonds) or price decreases (for premium bonds) of bonds in the portfolio as they move toward par. But bear in mind, that this number is valid for the past 30 days only.
The price of a bond fund (its net asset value, or NAV) changes continually in response to changes in interest rates. Those changes may be minor for some types of bond funds; but major for many other types of bond funds. As a result, the price of any bond fund at any future date is impossible to predict.
Returns posted by bond funds for prior periods, and listed in the daily pages of newspapers, are total returns, and always include changes in the price of the bond fund (its NAV) due to changes in interest rates. But bear in mind, that these are past returns.
To sum up, when you buy an individual bond, you will be quoted the price of the bond, the coupon yield, its current yield, its years to maturity, and its yield to maturity.
What does this information convey?
The coupon yield will tell you how much income you will receive each year you own the bond.
The current yield will tell you how much interest income you will receive each year relative to the price you are paying for the bond.
You will also know that if you hold the bond to maturity, on that date, you can redeem the bond at par.
The yield to maturity will give you an estimate of the total return of the bond, assuming the bond is held to maturity and all coupons are reinvested at a rate equal to the yield to maturity.
- The YTM will not be your actual return. Your actual total return will be determined by a number of factors, including whether you spend dividend income or reinvest it; the rates at which you reinvest coupons; and the difference between the price you pay and your selling (or redemption) price.
When you buy a bond fund, on the other hand, you will be quoted the fund's 30-day SEC yield. What does that information tell you?
The 30-day SEC yield is a variant of the current yield quoted for individual bonds. It is not comparable to the YTM quoted for individual bonds. However, it will tell you how much interest income you can expect to earn from the fund.
- Future total returns for a bond fund will be determined partly by some of the same factors that determine total return for individual bonds. But you cannot predict the price at which you can sell your bond fund at any future date.
Returning to our initial question, you can now figure out what your newspaper was telling you. If a bond fund posted a total return of 10% for the past year, you can puzzle out how much was due to dividend income and how much was capital gains. If the fund's quoted 30-day SEC yield was approximately 5%, then you now realize that last year, the 10% total return consisted of about 5% interest income and 5% gain in the price (NAV) of the fund. The interest income for next year will be approximately the same. The total return, however, will depend on the direction of interest rates.
|A Guide to Yield and Total Return
Coupon Yield: The simple interest paid by a bond annually. It is set at the time of issue, and expressed as a percentage of par. A $1,000 bond with a 10% coupon will pay $100 per year, generally in two installments of $50.
Current Yield: The coupon paid by a bond divided by the bond's market price. It measures the income from a bond relative to its current cost.
Yield to Maturity: An estimate of the total return of a bond assuming it is held to maturity and that all coupon income is reinvested at a rate equal to the yield to maturity. The yield to maturity takes into consideration all possible sources of income—coupon income, interest-on-interest, and capital gains or losses due to the difference between the price paid when the bond was purchased, and par, the return of principal at maturity.
Total Return: Interest income (simple interest plus interest-on-interest) plus gains or minus losses in principal. To be totally accurate, you should also subtract taxes and commission expenses.
30-Day SEC Yield: A yield quoted by bond mutual funds, calculated according to a formula determined by the SEC—primarily a snapshot of the interest distributions from the fund over the prior 30 days, but also includes slight price increases (for discount bonds) or price decreases (for premium bonds) of bonds in the portfolio as they move toward par. The figure is a reflection of the past 30 days and is not necessarily an indication of future return.


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#811 - 03/21/00 10:53 AM English as a Global Language
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I am a native English speaker living in Montreal, fairly competent in French and Spanish. As a Montreal resident, an employee of a research lab with a staff like a mini United Nations, and an active volunteer leader in a worldwide professional society, I have many occasions to talk with people whose first language is not English. My experience is that it requires a greater attentiveness on my part, not only to language but to references, images etc.
(not everyone knows the same pop singers, TV shows, and sports idols), but brings the great reward of insight into a whole other way of looking at the world. I also find that it engenders a certain humility and compassion (probably both healthy) to be reminded that expressing oneself in English is not as easy for everyone as it is for me. Of course, actually communicating *in* a foreign language, especially when one knows it less than perfectly, provides an even stronger corrective to one's feelings of superiority.
Diana Bouchard
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
#812 - 04/02/00 06:35 PM Re: English as a Global Language
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This may be felt by non-L1 English speakers to be a somewhat dubious point, but for the L1 speaker it is far more difficult to acquire a working knowledge of other languages than it is for speakers of other languages to acquire at least some English: wherever the mother tongue English speaker goes, the probability is that people will have a better command of English than s/he will of the local language. Consequently, communication is more likely to take place in English than in the other language in question. The success of English has a price-tag for English speakers too: the greater likelihood of monolingualism and its attendant cultural myopia.
#813 - 06/29/00 05:35 AM Re: English as a Global Language
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I live in New Zealand. When I was in high school, it was compulsory for us to take French. I thought this was silly, because even then (early 1980s) English was fast becoming "The International Language". Of course, my school took no notice of my opinions and I learned French along with all the other 13 and 14 year olds.[br]
When I was 15, the first year in which we had any real choice of subjects, guess what was among my choices? French! By then I'd grown to love the language.[br]
I now am of the opinion that it's a great pity that English has ended up the default international language. It sure is handy for me personally, but on a purely experiential level, English has got to be one of the bluntest, least-appealing to listen to, languages there is. There are many languages (French among them) which are very soft, rounded, almost musical to listen to. Why couldn't the default language have been one of those......[br]
I am also saddened on a cultural level. Language -- and dialect -- is a huge part of the culture wherein it exists. The specific words, their frequencies, and the idioms, underpin the ideas and ideals which are important in a culture. If, in a hundred years, all the world speaks English and then possibly a second language (although, it is doubtful whether the other languages would survive in anything other than "niche" usage in such a scenario), the world will be a much poorer place. I sincerely hope this does not happen.[br]
I mention dialect above because, even though New Zealand speaks English, our two countries do have different dialects, and our cultures show up strongly even in that seemingly small difference. After all, it's still English.....[br]
Just my two cents.
#814 - 06/30/00 05:39 AM Re: English as a Global Language
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Loc: Jakarta
I remember somebody (I forget who, but perhaps an AWAD member can remind me) as saying something along the lines of Italian speakers must have a completely different experience of opera to the rest of us. Imagine all that high drama and passion and order in the same language as one uses to order a sandwich.
#815 - 06/30/00 02:05 PM Re: English as a Global Language
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Loc: Louisville, Kentucky
Yup, ordering food in Italian can be dramatic, all right: vermicelli means "little worms". Perhaps Emanuela can offer
further tidbits.
#816 - 07/25/00 03:04 PM Re: English as a Global Language
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>Italian speakers must have a completely different
experience of opera to the rest of us.
don't feel too bad; you have the same advantage with Shakespeare.
#817 - 07/26/00 12:57 AM Re: English as a Global Language
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> Italian speakers must have a completely different experience of
opera to the rest of us. Imagine all that high drama and passion and order in the same language
as one uses to order a sandwich.
Well...it is not exactly the same language...In another thread William reminded us "E lucean le stelle" from Tosca: I can understand it, but I would never say it in this way : I would say "E le stelle brillavano" (And stars were shining).
P.S.Jackie, when we say "vermicelli" we forget completely the meaning "little worms", we think just about big spaghetti. Incidentally, do you know that "spaghetti" means (small) strings?
#818 - 07/26/00 01:00 AM Re: English as a Global Language
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Loc: Jakarta
Actually, I was thinking of it more as a disadvantage. Wouldn't the quotidianity of the language for Italians detract from the high drama?
#819 - 07/26/00 01:09 AM Re: English as a Global Language
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Thanks Emanuela. Looks like our posts crossed.
#820 - 07/26/00 10:10 PM Re: English as a Global Language
Carpal Tunnel
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Posts: 11613
Loc: Louisville, Kentucky
Emanuela, Hi!
I fervently hope you don't think of little worms!
Don't think I knew about the small strings.
I am partway through the Mother Tongue book--thanks to all
who lauded it so highly--I am loving it! Mr. Bryson says
there that there really is no "Italian" language as such,
that you-all really have several dialects.
Along the same lines (oh, I know I'm going to stir up the
rattlesnake nest with this one): as far as I am concerned,
Shakespeare did NOT write in English! I can read his words
but have not the foggiest idea of what he was saying.
I hate that! I understood Robbie Burns' Tam O'Shanter a
LOT more than I ever understood Shakespeare--even if I didn't know the exact meaning of every single word, I was
able to follow the action and general thread of the poem.
Shakespeare might as well have written in Greek for all I
understood of his meaning.
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Jose Luis Cuevas (Mexican, b. 1934)
The Marriage of Arnolfini, 1966
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The Painterly Figure: A Monotype Print Workshop
Date: Sunday, October 13, 2013
Time: 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Teacher: Christina Carroll
Type: Art-Making Workshop
Join artist Christina Carroll for a monotype print workshop held in conjunction with the exhibition Breaking Ground: 20th-Century Latin American Art at the Norton Simon Museum. Participants explore all that is—and is not—the human figure using the spontaneous, painterly printmaking technique of monotype. Discover new approaches to line, shape, form, color and texture using water-miscible oil paints, fine printmaking papers, mark-making tools and a hand-cranked etching press.
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There aren't too many of us who can honestly say that our first car was our dream car. Lance Green of Canyon, Texas, is one of the privileged few who can. Before he was legally granted the privilege of driving, even with a permit, he scored this '69 Dodge Charger that was painted Hemi Orange in 1999, and was powered by a 440. "The Charger is and always will be my dream car," he says. Right after he turned 15, the car was on the road with him behind the wheel and his mom in the passenger seat.
He enjoyed the car for a while until the 440 spun a rod bearing. That wasn't all; he found a red puddle underneath the car in the driveway. It was obvious the previous owner didn't take very good care of the Charger by this point. Lance was strapped for cash so he could only afford to do a basic rebuild to get the car back on the road. His mom assisted in the rebuild of the transmission and they installed a shift kit and put it back inside the car. The tribulations weren't over, though. The trunk was home to a fuel cell-recalling this B-Body's drag racing past-and the floor was beginning to rust through. Not wanting the car to burn to the ground when the fuel cell fell out, the Charger had to be retired until the repairs could be made to the trunk.
During this time, he was fortunate enough to locate a '74 Plymouth Duster in a classified add. "I thought it would be a great car to just putt around town in," Lance recalls. It was another former race car, but the powerful 340 was pulled and replaced with a 318 before he purchased it. This didn't bother him one bit because he intended to build a stroker out of it. That was until he did the math and found out the machine work alone would out-price a stroked 360, which would move 408 ci of air and fuel. He sent out the engine and transmission to Dallas and Larry at D & L Machine in Canyon, Texas, to handle the machine work and build.
The Duster has turned into his ongoing project car that sees new parts whenever he can manage it, or he is forced to repair something. To date, Lance has refinished the engine bay, instrument cluster, gauges, and dash. He also installed a new steering wheel along with racing seats, seatbelts, a 16-gallon fuel cell with sump, air shocks, and new disc brakes with painted calipers and drums. The exterior appearance was livened up when he blacked out the grille, headlight and taillight bezels, and both bumpers. The stripes were repainted to help showcase the car's white on black theme. It's a true driver's car and he loves it, even if people always ask him when he's going to repaint it or get carpet in it.
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House Health Care Committee to get updateBy PETER HIRSCHFELD
Vermont Press Bureau | August 06,2013MONTPELIER In a rare off-session meeting of a full standing committee, the House Health Care Committee will convene this week in Winooski for an update on a host of high-level reforms being instituted by the Shumlin administration this summer and fall.
Rep. Mike Fisher, the committees Democratic chairman, said the scope of changes being undertaken in the health care arena this year means that this is not at all like other off-sessions for the Legislature.
We have a lot of moving pieces, between setting up the exchange and the work thats being done on payment reform, Fisher said Monday. And we in the House Health Care Committee felt that it was important for, and asked for permission to, meet during the interim.
Wednesdays meeting is purely informational; no votes are scheduled, and Fisher said the panel wont seek to influence the administrations execution of plans approved by the Legislature earlier this year.
It is more to keep up to speed on the successes and challenges of launching the exchange, and being well-educated and up to date come January when we are back in session, said Fisher, of Lincoln. There has been a tremendous amount of work and collaboration in terms of building that system and I think we need to be updated on all the work thats happened since we left Montpelier.
The exchange, a new online insurance marketplace set to launch Oct. 1, will change the way about 100,000 Vermonters purchase health coverage. Individuals and businesses with 50 or fewer employees will be required to purchase their insurance on the exchange, where theyll be able to pick from among 18 plans with varying deductibles, premiums and out-of-pocket limits.
In the weeks since the Green Mountain Care Board and Department of Vermont Health Access finalized rates and approved insurance products that will be sold in the exchange, Fisher said, hes heard some concerns about cost.
I think the interesting thing is that many Vermonters look at those rates and say, Wow, those are expensive, Fisher said.
He said the rates are comparable to what Vermonters would have been paying for similar coverage last year.
In fact the annual increase is certainly much lower than what weve seen in years past, Fisher said.
The fact that the exchange has prompted a public discussion about the cost of health care, he said, is a good thing.
On no other year has someone come up to me and wanted to talk about how expensive the new rates are, Fisher said. Theres a new kind of attention being paid, a new level of scrutiny being paid to how much health care costs.
With less than 60 days before the exchange is set to open, Fisher said he has some concerns about whether the federal government will be able to fulfill some of the information technology obligations to which it has committed. A report earlier this summer by the Government Accountability Office cast doubt on the federal governments ability to have those IT systems up and running by October; state officials say Vermonts exchange will be operational regardless.
Fisher said he also wants to make sure the transition to the exchange is done without any lapses in coverage for Vermonters and that the public outreach campaign will deliver information about the exchange to any resident who needs it.
Fishers 11-person committee is also scheduled to receive an update on the Vermont Health CO-OP, a government-subsidized health insurance startup whose bid to sell premiums in the state was dashed earlier this summer by state regulators. The would-be insurer is trying to persuade Commissioner of Financial Regulation Susan Donegan to consider a revised application.
Also on the agenda is a meeting with Al Gobeille, the newly sworn-in chairman of the Green Mountain Care Board, who will talk with the committee about his five-person panels work on payment reform.
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Hunt 3536: CWMU Bull elk
Moon Ranch
Season dates
9-1-2014 to 10-31-2014
The Wildlife Board establishes timeframes for hunting on CWMUs. Hunters should expect to hunt at least five days within these timeframes
- Nonresident permits: No
- Resident permits: 1
- Total permits: 1
Type: CWMU
Species: Bull elk
Weapon: Any legal weapon
Moon Ranch
DescriptionThe Moon's Ranch Cooperative Wildlife Management Unit (CWMU) is located west of Hanna,Utah. The highest elevation on the east side starts about 8400 feet and increases to 8800 feet before dropping down into several drainages, but it rises again to 8200 feet on the west side of the Unit. In the north, the West Fork of the Duchesne River, ranging from 7200 feet to 7600 feet, cuts the Unit. In the south, Sand Creek, ranging from 6800 feet to 8000 feet, cuts the Unit. On the west side, Little Sand Creek, ranging from 7500 feet to 8000 feet, cuts the unit. The most common elevation is 8000 feet but ranges from 6700feet to 8800 feet with an elevation difference of 2100 feet. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of the CWMU elevation ranges between 7500 feet and 8100 feet an elevation difference of 600 feet.
Over half of the land cover on the Moon's Ranch CWMU is Inter-Mountain Basins Montane Sagebrush Steppe (62). This cover type is generally distributed over the entire unit. Rocky Mountain Gambel Oak-Mixed Montane Shrubland (41) and Rocky Mountain Aspen Forest and Woodland (22) are the next largest contributors. Several hundred hectares each of Colorado Plateau Pinyon-Juniper Woodland (36) and Inter-Mountain Basins Big Sagebrush Shrubland round out most of the land cover types.
One of the Moons Ranch Cooperative Wildlife Mangement Unit (CWMU) nearest weather stations, HANNA (423624), is 0.5 km east of the east edge of the CWMU. HANNA has forty-two (42) years of records, 1952 - 1994. During the FALL (September, October and November) the average precipitation is 3.35 inches, but it can be as high as 4.43 inches or as low as 2.52 inches. During the 91-day FALL period, 10 days will experience greater than or equal to 0.01 inches of precipitation, 8 days of greater than or equal to 0.10 inches, or 2 days of the greater than or equal to 0.50 inches of prercipitation. Snowfall during the FALL averages 2.2 inches but can be as high as 5.0 inches. FALL temperature at HANNA averages 63.4 degrees F. but can be as high as 78.0 degrees F. or as low as 5.0 degrees F. During the FALL, 23 days will be below freezing (32 degrees F.) and no day above 90 degrees F. This map is provided for general reference only and does not constitute a legal hunt boundary. The Division does not guarantee access to any private or public land. Hunt unit boundaries may include private property or other excluded areas.


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Advanced Micro Devices said that it may support DDR2 PC2-8500 memory standard with its forthcoming quad-core microprocessors for high-performance desktops later this year. The claim means that the company will support DDR2 memory for quite some time from now on with its quad-core chips.
"In the design of our upcoming native quad-core client processors, which we expect will be available in the second half of 2007, AMD is planning for DDR2-1066 memory support in our integrated memory controller with the expectation that it will be compatible with any future JEDEC standard that may be adopted," said Bob Brewer, corporate vice president and general manager of AMD's desktop division.
AMD's quad-core microprocessors for desktops are expected to emerge after the company releases its quad-core server chips. The new central processing units, which feature monolithic, or "native" design, will be built using AMD's 65nm Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) fabrication process. The forthcoming microprocessors will include a broad range of functionality and micro-architectural improvements, including a new ability to dynamically alter the frequency of each core on the chip to match application workloads and thereby reduce overall power consumption, large level-three cache and so on.
"Dependent upon validated platforms and JEDEC support, AMD hopes Micron's innovative DDR2 1066MHz memory modules will provide an exemplary DRAM technology that can extend existing system designs and offer next-generation memory performance at a competitive price point," Mr. Brewer added, commenting Micron's release of PC2-8500 memory chips.
It was rumoured many months ago that AMD was going to support DDR3 in 2007 with its AM2+/AM3 platforms. However, AMD pushed AM3 processor form-factor into 2008, just like DDR3. As a result, the company needed something, which would be on par with Intel's 3-series chipsets that support PC3-8500 (DDR3 1066MHz), but would not compromise stability or compatibility with standards. The new DDR2 speed-bin is a good candidate to provide sufficient bandwidth for AMD's quad-core chips.


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Vietnam veterans, families, loved ones and people who appreciate veterans turned out in great numbers for the event on the Capitol grounds in Austin.
Joe Galloway, author of "We Were Soldiers Once ... And Young," was the keynote speaker. Galloway and his wife, Grace, maintain a home in Bayside, Refugio County, and in North Carolina.
The master of ceremonies, Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson (also a Vietnam veteran) introduced Galloway saying he was awarded the Bronze Star with a V device for valor, the only civilian awarded the medal by the Army during the Vietnam War.
Galloway, as a young journalist, covered some of the hottest, meanest parts of the war, often helping the troops and participating in the fighting.
"There's a lot of stories out of Vietnam ... lots of good ones," Galloway said.
But he commented that Vietnam veterans being called "Baby Killers" was wrong.
"That's not what I saw. That's not them. I know who they are," he said.
Galloway referred to Capt. B.T. Collins, who came back from the war after a second tour without one of his legs and one of his arms.
Galloway said Collins addressed veterans' groups saying "No whining. No crying. We are the fortunate ones."
Galloway noted that the monument was long overdue. He said maybe Vietnam veterans would get a chance to see it before they die.
"I've got to tell you, Vietnam veterans are getting near the end of their string, but we ain't done yet," Galloway said.
He said many of the Vietnam veterans need help. They are homeless, without money or a job and many unstable mentally. He added that the group most likely to help the most are veterans.
"They've always stepped up and should step up now," he said after the event.
During the speech, Galloway, facing the crowd of hundreds, said "Thank you for the memorial. Thanks you for the money. You paid for our fallen brothers."
Patterson, taking the podium again, said, "Thank you ... well said. You must be a writer or something."
Galloway along with several elected officials and Vietnam veterans participated in breaking ground, and afterward families were invited to turn over the sacred ground. Among them was Beeville County Commissioner Eloy Rodriguez, who fought in Vietnam, too.
Rodriguez said he was honored to have participated in the groundbreaking.
Galloway, after the event, said the monument should be dedicated "probably in February or March next year."
"It's been in the works for five or six years. I got involved with a knock on my door in Bayside. It was Pat Nugent," Galloway said.
Nugent, who was married to Luci Baines Johnson, was a Vietnam veteran asking Galloway to help raise money for the monument.
Galloway talked about his co-author Lt. Gen. Hal Moore, who said, "It's all right to hate war but love warriors."
"What happened ... was this country disgraced itself. It's been a long absent 'Welcome back.'" Galloway recognized some of the veterans he was along side of in the war: Vince Cantu of Refugio; Joe Pena of Port Lavaca; and Miguel Hernandez, who was a longtime fire chief at Chase Naval Air Station until it closed.
A model of the monument sat next to the podium where Galloway spoke. When the monument is finished, it will be 14 feet tall and made of granite and bronze. The monument is being sculptured by western artist Duke Sundt and will be placed on the northeast corner of the Capitol grounds.
Currently, the monument is being finished in a foundry in Bastrop.
The monument will honor more than 500,000 Texans who served in the war and the 3,416 who died serving their country. And it depicts five American ethnic groups who fought in the war.
Galloway also talked about his recent hiring by the U.S. Secretary of Defense to head up the promotion of the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War.
"We'll get in gear in late 2014. The event will be over 2015-16-17 and -18.
He said they were signing up partners to participate and finance the commemoration.
"The purpose of the commemoration is really to encourage hometowns across America to go all out to welcome Vietnam veterans – the welcome they didn't get 50 years ago," he said.
In the meantime, Galloway said he would be back for the monument dedication next year.


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Two people familiar with the situation say Michael Vick and the Eagles haven't ruled out the quarterback returning to Philadelphia.
Vick will become a free agent next week, and the four-time Pro Bowl pick has made it clear he'll look for an opportunity to be a starter. One person said that if Vick doesn't find the right fit elsewhere, he would consider staying in Philadelphia.
Both people spoke to the Associated Press yesterday on condition of anonymity because they're not discussing contract negotiations publicly.
Nick Foles replaced an injured Vick last year and led the Eagles to an NFC East title.
Before he was hurt, Vick played well in his first season in coach Chip Kelly's up-tempo offense.