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Schools Focus on College Preparation
"Every single person knows why they are here—to get our kids into college and ensure that they are successful when they are there," says the principal at YES. This theme is echoed at the majority of these profiled schools, two of which have admission to college as a graduation requirement. Even at TSA, where many students intend to continue in the performing arts rather than go directly to college, and at MNCS, where the emphasis is on preparing students to be successful in whatever post-high school endeavor they choose, teachers, staff, and other adults in the school community are intent on making sure that students have a solid college preparatory experience, including access to higher-level classes.
Rigorous curriculum. In the seven schools that operate with a typical teacher-conceived curriculum (MNCS is the eighth), the curriculum is aligned both to state standards and to college entrance requirements. Some of the schools focus heavily on core academic classes, putting the elective subjects into after-school clubs. TSA, with its arts program, requires that students successfully complete a college preparatory curriculum in addition to their arts classes. In fact, the school has its own version of the longstanding "no pass, no play" rule for high school athletes: If TSA students are not doing well in their core academic classes, they are pulled from arts classes and given tutoring support until their academics improve, at which point they may resume their work in art, music, theater, or dance.
Because it does not have a school curriculum that can be aligned with college entrance requirements, MNCS continues exploring how to make it easier for institutions of higher education to understand how to "translate" MNCS academic credits when considering students for admission. The school's almost exclusive use of project-based learning also puts the onus on teachers to ensure that, collectively, a student's projects throughout his or her years at the school will cover the required state curriculum standards. To that end, MNCS has developed a skills rubric, which is used by students in conceiving and planning their projects; used by teachers and students together in checking that a project encompasses the necessary curriculum standards; and used by teachers in assessing the degree to which students have adequately developed the skills and knowledge required in the standards (see fig. 3).
Fig. 3: Minnesota New Country School Skills Rubric for Students and Teachers
MNCS Skills Rubric
In light of research showing that the highest level of math attained in high school is an important indicator of college completion,13 all of these schools are paying particular attention to this subject. At several schools, students double up on math classes (accelerating learning for those who entered below grade level) and receive other remediation to prepare them for higher-level math courses. At MNCS, mathematics is the only subject area not taught exclusively through project-based learning. While students may, in fact, learn some math through their projects, all students study math through the Accelerated Math program, which allows them to progress at their own pace. Students complete computerized Scantron forms so they can monitor their mastery level; when they have passed the concepts of one unit, they move on to the next set of standards, continuing to work at their own pace.
It can be challenging for these schools with their relatively small populations to offer a wide range of courses. Consequently, several give students the opportunity when they are ready to take higher-level courses at local universities. At MATCH, students are required to pass a course at Boston University during each semester of their senior year, and the school provides tutors to support their learning. The intent is to give students a taste of higher education while they are still in high school. At MNCS, Preuss, and TSA, students are encouraged to enroll in the federally supported Post Secondary Enrollment Option (PSEO) program, which allows them to take courses for credit at area universities and colleges. It is through such partnerships that these schools are able to offer the breadth of curriculum that meets students' needs.
Six of the schools offer Advanced Placement (AP) classes along with relevant support to help students succeed in these more challenging courses. Although the students are generally doing well in the classes, in some schools, the majority of students are not scoring well on the AP exams, a concern the schools are investigating and trying to address. At Preuss, for example, after seeing students struggling with document-based questions (DBQs) on an AP history exam, staff began integrating the use of primary sources and DBQs as early as the sixth grade, to begin better preparing students for this exam. In this, Preuss is one example of how, rather than being demoralized by students' exam performance, staff at these schools seem to take it as an important reminder of the need for teachers themselves to work smarter and better. Moreover, as the principal at more than one school notes, the point of offering AP classes is not solely to have students place out of a subject in college. Equally important is the role of such classes in signaling high expectations to students and helping students understand and prepare for the academic demands of college. Education research analyst Adelman found that the rigor of a student's high school studies, as evidenced by having taken AP courses and higher-level math courses, is a strong predictor of college completion for all students, but even more so for African-American and Hispanic students.14
Real-world experiences. Recognizing that being successful in college and other post-high school endeavors entails more than just having solid academic skills, these school administrators also are working to broaden students' experiences beyond what would otherwise be available to them. Internships and other real-world work, travel learning, and enrichment experiences all provide relevant, engaging learning experiences and, in the process, expand students' understanding of and comfort with the world beyond family and neighborhood. Equally important, these experiences help to build students' "social capital," a term social historian Robert Putnam and others use to refer to "the networks, norms, and social trust that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit."15 In doing so, these schools also help level the playing field for students from low socioeconomic backgrounds.
Last summer, several students at North Star had American Field Service scholarships to study and live with a family abroad; another had a paid internship at Lehman Brothers, allowing him to learn about how the business world works; another attended a journalism program at Princeton University; and 12 students went to New Zealand to learn about Maori culture. Meanwhile, Preuss students participated in a four-week internship at UCSD with the Health Information Partnership where they met with the CEO of the university's medical center, witnessed a kidney transplant, and got a behind-the-scenes look at the medical field. Other Preuss students attended a math and science camp on a different University of California campus. Students at YES College Preparatory School, Southeast campus, engaged in internships, summer school programs, and leadership programs, such as wilderness camps and Outward Bound.
These types of experiences are not limited to off-school months. YES has instituted service learning projects once a month, on Saturdays, with students undertaking such varied work as cleaning public beaches and parks and tutoring local elementary school students. To generate broader learning opportunities for its students to perform or show their work publicly, as well as to be taught or mentored by professional artists, TSA has initiated a series of "ARTnerships" within the community (see fig. 4). For example, one restaurant hosts a TSA chamber music series with student musicians, the local jazz club hosts performances by TSA jazz players, and the Toledo Ballet Association includes TSA students as dancers in its annual production of "The Nutcracker."
Fig. 4: A List of ARTnerships Excerpted From the 2006 Annual Report of Toledo School for the Arts
Arts Commission of Greater Toledo
TSA Development Director David Gierke serves as Director for the ACGT Young Artists at Work program, spearheading an innovative partnership linking ACGT to TARTA in a city-wide moving arts exhibition. TSA painting instructor Andres Orlawski was a YAAW faculty member, and TSA students participates as Young Artists. TSA artistic Director David Saygers serves as ACGT Trustee and liaison. Several TSA students accepted in YAAW program
Manhattan's Restaurant
TSA presented a chamber music series at Manhattan's restaurant during 2004-05, and Manhattan's moved from being a faithful advertiser to the sponsor of the 05-06 First Friday Series.
Mickey Finn's Pub
Host again for TSA Pop Combo concerts, Mickey Finn's Pub also was the site for Artapaloosa, TSA student-driven May arts fair. In recognition of TSA's presence there, new sandwiches named for TSA teachers and students were added to the menu.
Murphy's Jazz Club
Murphy's once again hosted TSA's Jazz Studies concerts, sponsoring four events during the school year. TSA alum Ryan Erard became a regular performer at Murphy's, and TSA instructor Kenneth Zuercher helped in recording jazz...
Owens Community College Center for Fine and Performing Arts
The CFPA at Owens Community College became the TSA Main Stage venue, and provided generously discounted fees and services for the four programs offered there by TSA. CFPA Concert Office Director Barbara Barkan served as TSA board member, and Technical Director Cassie Breitinger designed sets for TSA productions.
Toledo Ballet Association
Over a dozen TSA students were active in the Ballet's production of The Nutcracker and Coppelia, and attended classes at the Ballet School. TSA 6th graders enjoyed a performance of The Nutcracker, and TSA Director Martin Porter served as a board member. TSA shared its Board President, Rob Koenig, with the Ballet.
Toledo Jazz Society
The Jazz Society co-sponsored several programs with TSA, including a joint residency with Gene Parker, a series of Jazz Society music-in-the-schools presentations by the TSA Jazz Combo, and children's programming by TSA at the Art Tatum Jazz Fest. The two organizations teamed to present the first annual presentation of the Harlem Nutcracker. For 2005-06, TSA was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Arts Partnership Grant for programming with the Jazz Society.
Toledo Museum of Art
For the fifth year, TSA students represented one of the largest blocks of students receiving school tours in the Museum Docent Multiple Tour program, which works to create more meaningful museum experience through repeat visits.
Toledo Repertoire Theatre
In addition to TSA staff members Rosie Best, Jamie Dauel, Audra McCabe and David Saygers serving in voluntary roles for the Rep and its production, TSA presented a successful production of The Crucible in the Rep's 10th Street Theater. Many TSA students participated in seversl Rep productions, on and off stage, and TSA students attended the Rep's Christmas Carol school matinee.
Toledo Symphony Orchestra
Over twenty TSA students received music lessons from Toledo Symphony string players this year, through the TSO commnity outreach program. TSA Associate Conductor Chelsea Tipton provided a master class for TSA students for the second year.


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Lopez said Stripes Truck Stop Store manager Mario Hernandez reported to Refugio police what appeared to be the passing of counterfeit $100 bills by an unidentified male on June 29.
"The investigation led by Refugio Police Department Investigator Danny Madrigal unveiled a plot of fraud and trickery," Lopez said.
The suspected male was Johnny Joe Sauceda, 33, of Robstown.
Sauceda was passing the counterfeit money to Stripes store clerk Nichole Viau, 27, who helped Sauceda pass 15 $100 counterfeit bills.
"The scheme would result in Viau issuing a money order to Sauceda, making fake money into good money," Lopez said.
Lopez said the case was forwarded to U.S. Secret Service Agent Dan Morales to be presented to the U.S. federal prosecutor in Corpus Christi for the filing of criminal charges and prosecution of Sauceda and Viau.

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Duquesne Beats GW to Wrap Up A-10 Tourney Berth
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PITTSBURGH - Sophomores Caitlin Prince and
Haley Marafioti each scored four goals and freshmen Amanda Kidder
and Clare Hurley each recorded hat tricks as Duquesne defeated
visiting George Washington, 15-10 to secure a berth in the 2012
Atlantic 10 Championship to be played April 27-29 in Richmond,
The teams exchanged the first four goals before the Dukes rattled off three straight to take an 5-2 lead that they would not relinquish. After GW scored to cut the DU lead to two, the Red and Blue scored four in a row for a 9-3 advantage and took a 10-5 lead into the half.
The Colonials scored the first goal of the half before DU tallied four more consecutive goals to make it 14-6 with a little over 19 minutes left. GW then scored four straight time to cut its deficit to 14-10 with 4:56 left, but DU found the back of the net with 2:09 left for the final score.
Cailin Colegrove was credited with the game-winning goal in the first half and Elise Caldwell assisted on four scores to give her a team-best 24 on the season. Kidder also helped on two goals while Marafioti and Prince each notched assists as well.
With her four goals, Prince has 56 on the season which is two shy of the school record 58 set by Ginger Flocco in 2004.
Liz Walker was steller in goal again making 14 saves with two ground balls. Kidder also added three ground balls, a draw control and four caused turnovers.
The Dukes return to action on Sunday, April 22 for their regular season finale versus Richmond at 1:00 pm. Before the contest, seniors Elise Caldwell, Cailin Colegrove, Amy Gladfelter, Jackie Henke and Liz Walker will be honored.
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BSC Nursing Students Attend "HIV/AIDS Clinical Training Program" (w/photo)
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From left Carolyn Kidd and Jeannette Southerly, representatives from the WV Local Performance Site of the PA/Mid-Atlantic AIDS Education & Training Center, are pictured with Julie Orr, Bluefield State College Assistant Professor of Nursing, during a recent HIV/AIDS Clinical Training Program at BSC.
(Bluefield)—More than 50 Bluefield State College nursing students and faculty participated in an intensive "HIV/AIDS Clinical Training Program" at the College. The program was presented by the WV Local Performance Site of the PA/Mid-Atlantic AIDS Education Center.
Jeannette Southerly, the site coordinator and an HIV educator for the WV Local Performance Site (WV LPS), and Carolyn Kidd, a WV LPS clinical nurse educator, provided the training. "The program provided basic training information on a variety of HIV-related topics," explained Julie Orr, BSC Assistant Professor of Nursing. "The training is particularly timely for our students because it addresses the often-changing treatments of choice, guidelines, and medications in the HIV/AIDS arena."
Sponsored by the WVU School of Medicine/Office of Continuing Medical Education, the program is supported by an educational grant from the Health Resources & Services Administration.


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World News: Embassy bomber was freed terroristFebruary 03,2013
ANKARA, Turkey — The suicide bomber who struck the U.S. Embassy in Ankara spent several years in prison on terrorism charges but was released on probation with a hunger strike-related brain disorder, officials said.
The bomber, identified as 40-year-old leftist militant Ecevit Sanli, killed himself and a Turkish security guard on Friday, in what U.S. officials said was a terrorist attack. Sanli was armed with enough TNT to blow up a two-story building and also detonated a hand grenade, officials said.
Sanli had fled Turkey after he was released from jail in 2001, but managed to come back to the country "illegally," using a fake ID, Interior Muammer Guler said.
Sanli had been a member of the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front, or DHKP-C, which has claimed responsibility for assassinations and bombings since the 1970s.
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BEIJING — A truck that exploded and caused an elevated stretch of highway to collapse in central China, killing 10 people, was loaded with holiday fireworks that were illegally produced and transported, authorities said Saturday.
Local authorities have shut down the company that made the fireworks, Hongsheng Fireworks Manufacturing Co. Ltd., and detained four company officials following Friday's blast, state media reported.
—The Associated Press
The Ministry of Public Security said Hongsheng, based in the neighboring province of Shaanxi, had illegally produced the explosives, packaged them in disguise and contracted with a trucking company unlicensed to handle hazardous commodities.MORE IN Wire NewsUNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. Full StoryTroubling as the details of the McLaren Report were, a news item out of Russia earlier this week... Full Story
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A Sierra Madre couple welcomes the clean and cost-efficient sun into their home
By Christopher Nyerges 01/22/2009
While walking one day near the foothills home of Renee Cossutta and Debbie Ross, I noticed an array of solar panels on the carport. I boldly went up to the door, knocked and began asking questions.
Cossutta told me that she had been interested in conservation — and in localized production — for years, and had always made the effort not to overuse resources. For more than a decade she and her partner wanted their own solar electrical system. She had read about the adverse effects from our way of generating electricity and wanted to be a part of the solution.
Some years ago, she contacted the folks at Real Goods in Hopland, a tiny unincorporated town in Northern California, and asked what it would take to install a solar system. After analyzing the situation, the company determined that it would not be cost-effective to install panels on the roof because there was not enough sunlight there to generate an amount of electricity that would justify the installation costs.
Then, more than two years ago, they realized that an area that had been used for parking received more sun. They once again consulted with the folks at Real Goods and concluded they could create a solar electrical system that would work. An architect friend of theirs, Phillip Collins, designed a combination carport and grape arbor that would also support the solar modules.
Once the structure was built, Tom Robinson and others from the Southern California branch of Real Goods came out to the house and installed the system.
"This was my first opportunity to do something like this," said Cossutta. "It took two days for Real Goods to install our system and we were very impressed with them."
The system chosen for this household was grid-connected, meaning there were no batteries. There are 14 modules, manufactured by Sharp, each rated at 160 watts. The inverter, measuring about 3 feet by 18 inches, is manufactured by Xantrex, and connects to the net meter, sometimes called a "time of use" meter.
During the day — when Ross and Cossutta are away at work — this system feeds electricity into the grid. The monthly electric bills show how much power their system generates and how much electricity they use. Because the Edison Co. places a higher value on the peak-hour electricity from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., they actually get paid more for each peak hour of their generated electricity than they are charged for their off-peak electrical usage.
"The size of our system was designed by Real Goods so it would provide us with as much electricity as we needed," explained Cossutta.
The entire system, including installation, cost about $12,000 and will pay for itself when it is about 10 years old — maybe sooner if the price of electricity continues to rise. They also received tax credits from the government and rebates from Edison.
Did having a solar electrical system change the way they did things?
"Well, we produce our own electricity, and you'd think that we'd no longer worry or think about it. But it has been just the opposite of what I expected," said Cossutta. "We actually are more careful with our electrical usage now. It's like if you grow your own strawberries in the yard. Yes, you have food, and that's good, but you have to watch them to make sure they grow."
Cossutta says that there is practically no maintenance required, except that occasionally during the dry season she gets up on the garage and hoses off accumulated dust. But otherwise, nothing really needs doing.
What advice would she offer to those wanting to get into the solar age?
"Every now and then, someone will come up to the house and ask about our solar panels," said Cossutta. "I tell them to look online and read about solar electricity. Find out what it means to have solar power. Learn how it pays for itself. Do plenty of research first so you know what you're getting into. Ten years ago, it wasn't so easy to find this information, but today there is a lot of information out there. Go and talk to anyone you know who has done this. And look at the Real Goods catalog, and check them out online."
Christopher Nyerges is the editor of Wilderness Way magazine, the author of "How to Survive Anywhere" and an occasional blogger of current events. He can be contacted via this paper or at www.ChristopherNyerges.com.
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To add more: I see grandparents who want to help wind up helping too much. They end up parenting more than they should and the actual parents don't even know what they are missing. I realize that they only want to help and that they want to help ease their own child's burden... It's like the butterfly, if you help them out of the cocoon they will never fly. It's painful to watch, but they will never fly if you help them out. I am not saying you should never help her. Also, take everything I am saying with a grain of salt. I don't know you. I don't live with you and I don't see the actual dynamics in your relationships. I could be way off base.
To be fair to OP, we see lots of new moms who are told that it's a good idea to "delegate" some feedings to their husbands or others. I tend to think it's actually better and easier to just nurse the baby, and not delegate too many feedings. But our society is always telling moms that they need to "take a break," and that other people should have the chance to feed the baby, etc.
So I don't see this as any different. OP wants to help, and she's doing it in a way that is completely in line with a lot of advice out there. We're here to say that actually, we're not sure that's the very best advice for a breastfeeding mom. But OP's heart seems to in the right place.
Some newborns sleep all the time, so it can be a surprise when your newborn doesn't hardly sleep at all! While this is actually pretty normal, in the sense of nothing being wrong, it's not every baby. So maybe OP's babies were more sleepy babies and she's just surprised to see such a wide awake one! I know my baby was WIDE FREAKING AWAKE, whereas my sister's baby slept 22 hours a day - both were breastfed, etc. It can be a bit of a shock if you have sleepy drowsy newborns, and then suddenly a wide awake one comes into your life! (Plus, I think we tend to forget the harder parts of handling even our own newborns!)
So anyway, OP - I think it's great that you've come on here to ask questions! I know you want the best for your daughter. We disagree with some of the ideas about what's "helpful" but that doesn't mean we don't see you wanting to help.
ETA: I think the most helpful thing you can do is help your daughter so that she can take care of her baby. Feed her, dote on her, baby her, etc. Make sure she's getting lots of water and encourage her to take naps. When you have a baby, you realize, no one is going to baby YOU anymore. But, wait! Your mom still will! Because you're still her baby! That's awesome.
You can call me JoMo!
Mom to baby boy Joe, born 5/4/09 and breastfed for more than two and a half years, and baby girl Maggie, born 7/9/12.
Thank you JoMo. Said much more nicely than I said it.
Yeah Thanks JoMo.
To OP if you want some examples of what would/did really help us immediately post partum we would be happy to share. We do want you to be able to help your daughter we just want it to be in a way that supports her breastfeeding.
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- my surprise baby: the one and only D-Man born 3 weeks late (5/5/08) at 9 lbs 14 oz and 21.5 inches, and
- the shock H-Girl born about a week late (10/7/09) at 8lbs 15oz and 20.75 inches.
If I am here I am covered in baby (probably two) and fighting for control of the keyboard.
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I appreciate all the feedback. I took to heart your advice about giving my daughter a 7-hour 'break' to sleep being a mistake. She was letting me get 4 hours of uninterrupted sleep from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., basically being up with him and feeding frequently. I was then responding for the next 7 hours, giving a breastmilk bottle twice. I felt I needed to give her the break because she has a sleep disorder and, prior to this birth, slept 10-15 hours a night. However, as I said, I did listen! We decided her responding to baby's cry, going to get him, nursing him, and taking him to me to burp and settle into bed again would work. She's doing fine on that schedule. We both get about 7 hours of sleep a night, albeit in 2-3 hour segments, between feedings. Sometimes I don't even wake up when she gets up with the baby.
She and he are living with me. When she goes back to work, I'll be taking care of him during the day and it just seemed to make sense, since we don't want to shuffle him back and forth from her house to mine, esp. during the winter. She, he, and her 2 dogs are living with me temporarily. She will probably start going with him and them to her house on the weekends, as he gets older.
He is doing well at night now. He does seem gassy and cries a good deal during the day. As someone mentioned, it may be my memory of how my 3 breastfed babies were. It may be the natural differences among babies; some sleepy, some wide awake.
I do take to heart your advice not to make her feel she's doing something wrong and that's why her baby is fussing. She is very sensitive to any comment like that. He is the love of her life, after all. I just worry. Maybe too much.
Sounds like things are going much much better!!!
I was always told to swaddle baby and put something that smells like mom in the bassinet like a shirt she wore that day or even a used nursing pad. The smell of mom is comforting and can help baby sleep. I sometimes have that issue with my LO and have found that cosleeping is the best solution. It is also good to cosleep for night feedings. Personally I love waking up and nursing without having to get out of bed to get baby! Good luck!
Wow. I have talked to lots of grandmas, (and to moms about their moms & MILs,) & know that some are helpful, some are not, and there are many who want to be helpful and are not sure how to best do that. (I have even talked to new moms whose moms are LLL Leaders. Sometimes those poor moms suffer the worst-the pressure! lol) Anyway, I am really impressed that you came on here, asked for suggestions, listened and tried some to see what would work for your daughter. You are being such a good mom to your daughter, and being lovingly mothered is so very important for the new mother and something we don't see enough of.
I wonder if there is a La Leche League Group with meetings near you. You would be welcome to attend with your daughter if that is something she is interested in. You both deserve the support, it's fun to see all the babies and it's free.


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More than 150 students from Kimball Elementary School (Washington, D.C.), Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community Day School (Pikesville, Md.), and Hebrew Day School (Silver Spring, Md.) joined the more than 50,000 people internationally that are anticipated to have participated in the 2008 WWMD program.
A group of local Girl Scouts gather at an educational exhibit hosted by the U.S. Coast Guard on Sept. 18.
More than 100 participants gathered for this year's WWMD event, which began with a speech by Water Environment Federation (Alexandria, Va.) President Adam Zabinski.
U.S. EPA Assistant Administrator for the Office of Water Benjamin H. Grumbles attended and spoke at the kick-off event.
During the WWMD event, participating children were shown how to test the water for temperature, acidity, clarity, and dissolved oxygen.
Students and adults visited the educational exhibit booths set up by participating organizations such as the Naturalist Audubon Society (Chevy Chase, Md.) and the Potomac Conservancy (Silver Spring, Md).
A boy studies a bug collected from the local waterways as part of one of the exhibits at WWMD in Washington, D.C.
Students visited educational and interactive displays, were asked questions based on presentations at each exhibit, and were given a sticker for their passports with each correctly answered question. A full passport was good for a World Water Monitoring T-shirt at the kick-off event.
A group of students gather around an EnviroScape watershed model at a display hosted by the Girl Scouts of the Nation's Capital.
A group of Kimball Elementary students fill their WWMD testing kit with water from the Potomac River.
Students examine the temperature of the water collected from the Potomac River on Sept. 18.
Students collect samples of water from the Potomac River at Hains Point, Washington, D.C.
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Ryan is now almost 13 months. I introduced solids at ~6months but he didn't really seem very interested till closer to 10 or 11 months. I read that it is best to breastfeed first and then offer solids so that is what I've been doing since he was 6 months. Now is he 13 months.
My experience with this technique shows that he is starting to wean himself. When I am home all day on the weekends, he doesn't want to hold still very long to bf during the day. He happily eats solids, though. At night and right before bed, he does still breastfed.
The tricky thing is that I work 6hrs a day during the week. He is at home with a babysitter. Keeping with the idea of bf before solids, I've been having the babysitter feed him a bottle of breastmilk first, then show him foods. During the weekend when I'm home all day, he doesn't drink much milk when offered. He'd rather get down and run around but then he is happy to eat solids. But, when I'm at work, he drinks a lot of milk and then isn't very interested in solids. I'm betting it is because I'm gone, the milk makes him feel better--like I'm there. But, since he doesn't eat much solids, I'm wondering if maybe we should do something differently while I'm gone. Should the babysitter offer the bottle after solids? Not at all? Maybe it's fine to continue doing what we're doing. If he didn't drink milk during the day, I would be able to wean from the pump soon which would be nice but it's not a big deal. I can keep doing it as long as he wants. What is the right way for a 13month old to get solids and breastmilk while I'm at work?
Thanks for your help! There really isn't much info out there for bf'ing moms regarding solids!


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PHILADELPHIA – A connection between genetic and environmental causes of Parkinson's disease has been discovered by a research team led by Aaron D. Gitler, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. When Gitler was a postdoctoral fellow in Susan Lindquist's laboratory at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he found a genetic interaction between two Parkinson's disease genes (alpha-synuclein and PARK9) and determined that the PARK9 protein can protect cells from manganese poisoning, which is an environmental risk factor for a Parkinson's disease-like syndrome. The findings appear online this week in Nature Genetics.
The Yeast PARK9 protein (Ypk9) is localized to the vacuole membrane. Shown are yeast cells expressing Ypk9 fused to the green fluorescent protein.
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Manganism, or manganese poisoning, is prevalent in such occupations as mining, welding, and steel manufacturing. It is caused by exposure to excessive levels of the metal manganese, which attacks the central nervous system, producing motor and dementia symptoms that resemble Parkinson's disease.
In Parkinson's patients, the alpha-synuclein protein normally found in the brain misfolds, forming clumps. Yeast cells, the model system in which Gitler studies disease proteins, also form clumps and die when this protein is expressed at high levels. These are the same yeast cells that bakers and brewers use to make bread, beer, and wine.
As a postdoctoral fellow in the Lindquist laboratory at Whitehead Institute, Gitler and colleagues started looking for genes that could prevent the cell death caused by mis-folded alpha-synuclein in yeast. Eventually they found a few genes to test in animal models and some were able to protect neurons from the toxic effects of alpha-synuclein. "One of the genes that we found was a previously uncharacterized yeast gene called YOR291W. No one knew what it did back in 2006," he recalls.
Yeast cells missing the YPK9 gene (ypk9∆) grow normally under standard conditions (- Mn2+) but are much more sensitive to manganese (+ Mn2+) than wild-type (WT) cells.
In the meantime, researchers in Europe published studies about a family that had an early-onset form of a type of Parkinson's disease caused by mutations in the PARK9 gene. "When I read about this study, I wondered what the closest yeast gene was to the human PARK9 gene and it turned out to be YOR291W," explains Gitler. "It was one of the genes that could rescue alpha-synuclein toxicity from our yeast screen. That was the big Eureka! and completely unexpected. It suggested that Parkinson's disease genes could interact with each other in previously unexpected ways."
Because of its similarity to the human PARK9 gene, Gitler and colleagues renamed the yeast gene to YPK9 (which stands for Yeast PARK9). Researchers at Purdue University and The University of Alabama teamed up with Gitler and his colleagues to show that the PARK9 gene could also protect neurons from alpha-synuclein's toxic effects.
Next, the team set out to find the function of YPK9. Study co-first authors, Gitler, Gitler lab postdoctoral fellow Alessandra Chesi, PhD, and Melissa Geddie, a postdoctoral fellow in the Lindquist lab, discovered that YPK9 encodes a metal transporter protein. "Its sequence looks like other proteins that we know transport metals," says Chesi.
She deleted the YPK9 gene from yeast and the cells were fine. Then she exposed YPK9-deficient yeast cells to an excess of different metals -- zinc, copper, manganese, iron, etc. -- to determine which metal it might transport. Of all the metals Chesi tested, she found that in the presence of manganese, the YPK9-deficient yeast did not grow as well. They were hypersensitive to manganese.
"This was astonishing, because it was known for years that welders and miners that inhale manganese get a Parkinson's-like disease called manganese poisoning," says Chesi. "The specific neurons that are lost in the miners are from the globus pallidus, a brain motor center. The European parkinsonism patients with the PARK9 mutation also lose neurons in this region."
Gitler then found that the protein made by YPK9, the yeast gene equivalent of PARK9, is localized to the vacuole membrane in the yeast cell. Vacuoles are inner cell components that wall off toxic substances for later disposal. "Our hypothesis is that the vacuole, a bag in the cell that captures toxins, is sitting there and taking in manganese and sequestering it for detoxification, keeping it away from other cell organelles," explains Gitler. "But, having a mutation in the PARK9 gene causes problems for this process in yeast and possibly in humans".
"It's an interesting story that we've discovered in yeast and it will be important to see if it holds up in people. What's new is the connection between genetic and environmental causes of Parkinson's. How does PARK9 protect against alpha-synuclein toxicity and how does PARK9 help prevent manganese poisoning? This is what we will be investigating next."
This work was funded in part by a National Institute of Health Director's New Innovator Award.
Co-authors in addition to Gitler and Chesi are Melissa Geddie and Susan Lindquist of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA, Katherine Strathearn and Jean-Christophe Rochet of Purdue University, Shusei Hamamichi, Kim Caldwell, and Guy Caldwell of the University of Alabama, Kathryn Hill and Antony Cooper, of the Garvan Institute, Sydney, Australia.
Gitler is an inventor on patents and patent applications that have been licensed to FoldRx Pharmaceuticals, a company that investigates drugs to treat protein-folding diseases.
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More than 50 percent of pregnant women experience morning sickness. 10 to 15 percent are so sick their doctor will prescribe medication to help with their symptoms.
For those with concerns about taking medication during pregnancy...a new study suggests that metoclopramide is safe. Researchers analyzed data from more than 1.2 million pregnant women....
Among the nearly 28,500 who were exposed to metoclopramide in the first trimester, 721 had babies with a congenital malformation. That's a rate of 25.3 per 1,000.
The researchers then compared that data to outcomes from more than 113,000 women who were not exposed to the drug. 3-thousand-24 babies were diagnosed with malformations or 26.6 per 1,000.
The bottom line according to the study: no association could be made between taking metoclopramide and any of the 20 specific malformations studied, including neural tube defects, cleft lip, cleft palate and limb reduction. The results also showed no link to stillbirth or miscarriage.
I'm Dr. Cindy Haines of HealthDay TV with the news doctors are reading health news that matters to you.
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Poll: Capito out front in U.S. Senate race
PARKERSBURG – Rep. Shelley Moore Capito is favored over other potential candidates in theoretical contests for the U.S. Senate in 2014, according to a public opinion poll by Harper Polling.
Capito, a Republican from the 2nd Congressional District, last month said she would run for the Senate, ending months of speculation. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., also announced he would not run for re-election.
Among Democrats, Capito's nearest competitor is Rep. Nick Rahall, D-3rd, and leads the Democrat 50.47 percent to 31.59 of respondents in the survey taken after Rockefeller announced. About 18 percent said they were unsure, the poll said.
Former Sen. Carte Goodwin, who served in the interim after Robert C. Byrd died in 2010, lags behind Capito 53.32 to 19.17 percent. Uncertains tallied 27.51 percent.
The Republican-leaning Harper Polling surveyed 1,444 likely voters across the state evenly spread in the three congressional districts. The margin of error is 2.58 percent.
The automated poll was taken Monday night, Brock McCleary, a spokesman for Harper Polling, said.
Against Supreme Court Justice Robin Davis, a Democrat, Capito leads the judge 51 to 24 percent. Twenty-five percent are undecided, the poll said.
"Rahall is clearly the Democrats' best hope against Capito," Harper Polling said. "However, there are few places where you would see numbers like these. One member of Congress holding a substantial lead over another member at the outset of a statewide campaign."
While Rahall appears the Democrats best bet against Capito, in the 3rd District she has only a 46 percent to 45 percent lead over Rahall. In the 2nd District, however, Capito is ahead of Rahall 61 to 27.
Across the state, Capito has a 55 percent favorable rating among state voters. Goodwin was at 50 percent.
President Obama's job performance received a 58.67 percent disapproval rating. Sen. Joe Manchin received a 57 percent favorable rating.
Among Republicans, the poll shows Capito would dust Rep. David McKinley, R-1st. Capito leads the second-term McKinley 70.5 percent to 14.75 percent.
Against Attorney General Pat Morrisey, a Republican who beat Democrat strongman Darrell McGraw, Capito has a favorable rating of 72.94 percent to 9.52 percent for Morrisey.
Several press reports in recent weeks said McKinley was interested in the Senate seat. On Wednesday, McKinley said he spoke with Capito on Tuesday and she will probably get his support.
A conservative, fiscally responsible person is needed, he said.
"More than likely at the end of the day, we're going to back her," McKinley said.
The 2014 Senate race in West Virginia will be a major campaign in the nation, McKinley said. A lot of money is going to go into it, he said.
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RUSH: "George Washington's 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation." Here it is: "Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor -- and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me 'to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.'" So, the first paragraph of Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation is essentially thanking God for the Constitution. (interruption) It was! Don't smirk in there, Dawn. Washington was thanking God for our founding and our Constitution.
"Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be -- That we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks -- for His kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation -- for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of His Providence which we experienced in the tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed -- for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted -- for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which He hath been pleased to confer upon us.
"And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions -- to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually -- to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed -- to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn [sic] kindness onto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord -- To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease [sic] of science among them and us -- and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best. -- Given under my hand at the City of New York, the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789."
The Father of our Country. There you have it. That's the first Thanksgiving Proclamation. There's nothing in there about the pilgrims. There's nothing in there about Native Americans. There's nothing in there about a feast. There's nothing in there about communal living and socialism. There's nothing in there about syphilis and starving. There's nothing in there about anything that you think Thanksgiving is about. George Washington. And the number of references to "the Almighty" and to God? Why if a president read that today the ACLU would file suit! A number of other groups would claim oppression over having to listen to it and having it forced upon them. Also, ladies and gentlemen, I must note (before our obscene profit time out) that on the third day of October 1789 A.D. in New York, George Washington gave out not one Butterball turkey.
Not one!
Zero, zilch, nada Butterball turkeys were given away in New York, including what is now known as Harlem.
RUSH: When you read that first Thanksgiving proclamation, it sure doesn't sound like George Washington believed any "wall of separation," does it, "between church and state"? It doesn't sound like it crossed his mind at all. All those references to God. There's a famous painter I'm reminded of, a famous painter and poet, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Not to be confused with "risotto." This is Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and he said, "The worst moment for the atheist is when he's really thankful and has no one to thank." That's when the atheist wakes up: He's really, really thankful but doesn't have anybody to thank.


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Plainfield petition takes aim at Goddard College wood chip burning plant
PLAINFIELD A petition is being circulated around Plainfield looking to halt the construction of a proposed wood chip burning plant at Goddard College until concerns about emissions of potentially harmful nanoparticles are addressed by the school.
The petition, which needs 50 signatures by Jan. 24 to get on the Town Meeting Day ballot, was created by one of the colleges neighbors, Karen Bouffard.
The question asks if voters oppose construction of a wood chip incinerator until such time the nano particulate pollution dispersed into the atmosphere of Plainfield will be proven not to be a health hazard.
Bouffard said the $2 million plant would be built around 200 feet from her home. She opposes the plant because, among other reasons, she believes it will be a health hazard for her and others who live near the facility, which will be built next to Route 214.
Bouffard said the emissions from the plant will contain nanoparticles that new research has suggested may be toxic, and she wants the issue studied before the school builds the plant.
The plant is already being held up by two appeals being heard by the Environmental Court in Berlin. The first appeal challenges the decision by Plainfields Development Review Board to give the school a permit to build the plant; the second appeal contests the Act 250 permit awarded for the project by the states Environmental Commission.
Bouffard said in order to circumvent the first appeal, Goddard is trying to pull a fast one by saying, in hindsight, that it shouldnt have been granted a light industrial use permit, as originally requested by the school and granted by the town. Bouffard said the college now wants the plant to be evaluated for an accessory use permit.
Bouffard said an accessory use permit is the same kind of permit someone would get if they were putting a dog house on their lawn.
Goddards attorney, Brian Dunkiel, said after the appeal of the zoning permit was filed, his office looked into the matter and decided the plant falls under the accessory use definition because the proposed plant is not a primary, dominant use for the school.
According to Plainfields zoning regulations, accessory use is defined as A building or use clearly incidental or subordinate in size and overall appearance (except for barns) to the main use or building, and customarily in connection with the principal building or use on the same lot.
Light industry is defined by the towns zoning regulations as Any manufacture, processing or fabrication of goods, wares or merchandise, having not more than 15 employees, occupying not more than 6,000 square feet of area including floor area and outdoor storage, and generating an average of not more than 10 large truck trips per day. Such industry should be compatible with a rural residential environment and not cause any air, water or noise pollution.
Dunkiel said if the Environmental Court decided, as the college hopes, that the plant is an accessory use, then the zoning appeal would be moot since the appeal is challenging a light industrial permit.
Rhea Wilson, another neighbor of the school who also opposes the project, is the plaintiff listed on the zoning appeal. She said an accessory use permit for the plant would mean the town would not be able to regulate the plant because accessory use structures dont have to obtain a conditional use permit from the Development Review Board, per the towns zoning regulations.
For the Act 250 appeal, seven residents, including Bouffard and Wilson, are asking the Environmental Court if the Environmental Commission erred in saying the plant will not cause undue air pollution; if the nanoparticles the plant would produce are dangerous to human health; and if the commission erred in saying the plant wont adversely affect the aesthetics of the area, among other questions.
No court dates have been sceduled as yet for either of the two appeals.
Faith Brown, Goddard Colleges chief finance and administration officer, said the nanoparticle issue is settled because emission controls for the plant would meet and exceed the Environmental Protection Agencys standards for nanoparticles.
Brown said the school did look into moving the plant from its current proposed location, but the other sites considered would not be cost effective for the institution and would also present problems for wood chip delivery trucks in terms of proper road grading for driving in the winter.
Brown defended the plant, arguing that it will take the place of 22 oil burning furnaces. That will lessen the schools dependence on foreign oil and help the environment, according to Brown, by converting the colleges energy source from fossil fuels to the renewable clean energy of wood chips.
Brown said Goddard has already tried to address the concerns of the colleges neighbors about the aesthetic ramifications of the project by changing the color of the plant and redesigning the roof to make it look less industrial. She said once the appeals have been heard and the plant is allowed to go forward, construction will begin.
Plainfield Select Board Chairman David Strong said the board will discuss the plant at its meeting tonight at 7 p.m. in the municipal building. He said the discussion will focus on the current status of the project and what residents concerns and feelings are at this point.
Strong said the board had considered holding a presentation in February at which experts might address the issue of nanoparticles, but decided against it. He said the board would support such a presentation, but another organization with more time and resources would have to put it together.
Strong said if there were issues with wood chip burning in general, it wouldnt be just a Goddard problem. The technology is already in use around the state, including just a couple miles down Route 2 at the Twinfield Union School, and at the National Life Group in Montpelier. The district heating project in the works for Montpelier would also be designed around a wood chip burning plant.
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Iowa Powder Atomization Technologies, Inc.
Iowa Powder Atomization Technologies, Inc. (IPAT) aims to become a leading domestic titanium powder producer allowing for a paradigm shift in the cost of titanium powders for metal injection molding (MIM) feedstock. Decreasing this cost will create vast opportunities for aerospace, military, biomedical, and consumer applications. Titanium and its fabrication by MIM can become one of the United States' most advanced processing technologies and help jump-start many corresponding manufacturing sectors, spurring job creation and economic growth throughout the United States.
Titanium is viewed as one of the most strategic metals of our future. Its high-strength, lightweight, and good corrosion resistance makes it superior in many demanding applications, such as aerospace components. Dr. Randall German reported in 2009 that saving 2.2 pounds of weight on an aircraft is valued at $500 dollars in annual fuel savings, so the implementation of titanium into many of its components could contribute to significant fuel savings over time. Titanium is also the material of choice due to its bio-inertness for biomedical implants allowing them to be useful for a much longer period of time than the current standard, stainless steel, thus preventing multiple invasive replacement surgeries.
However, titanium's extreme reactivity with casting mold materials and machining cutting tools makes fabrication of components with a complex final-shape rather expensive and inefficient. Generally, the "buy-to-fly" ratio for titanium aerospace parts is at least 10:1, with 90 percent of the original weight being converted to machining chips and scrap. An attractive solution to these inefficient fabrication methods is to use a powder metallurgy processing route, which has many advantages over other manufacturing methods and is much more energy and material efficient. One of the greenest manufacturing technologies within powder metallurgy is metal injection molding (MIM).
MIM is a series of steps of making large numbers of relatively small, but geometrically complex parts very efficiently. Metal powders are mixed with a low melting plastic and injected into reusable molds, the plastic is then removed and the remaining metallic parts are exposed to high temperatures to densify the parts. Typically the number of parts made by MIM can be from the thousands to millions per year. Since this is a near-net-shape process, very little scrap is generated (nearly a 1:1 "buy-to-fly" ratio). Reducing waste and energy costs have allowed the global MIM market to grow approximately 14 percent annually since 2002. Significant research has been conducted on titanium MIM (Ti-MIM) within the last five years and the technology for production of high quality Ti-MIM products exists in industry. The main hurdle to Ti-MIM is quality MIM powder at an affordable price.
As companies have seen the need for Ti-MIM powder, many technologies have been utilized to produce titanium powder. However, to date all powders are either too expensive or the properties of the powder are not suitable to Ti-MIM. One of the main ways powders of stainless steel are produced for MIM is by close-coupled gas atomization (CCGA). IPAT will utilize the economically viable method of CCGA with advanced processing technologies, unlocking CCGA's potential for titanium powder production. This processing route allows for a tenfold increase in the yields of fine powder suitable for Ti-MIM compared to other atomization routes. Costs are not only reduced by increasing yields of suitable powder, but CCGA also utilizes the most cost-effective starting material.
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Integrated Dynamic Electron Solutions, Inc., based in Belmont, California, uses Dynamic Transmission Electron Microscopes (DTEM) to enable imaging of nanoscale objects, such as proteins, thin films and nanoparticles at unprecedented time scales and frame rates. By utilizing a laser-driven electron source, DTEMs are able to produce short bursts of electrons that can form an image with nanometer resolution in as little as 10 nanoseconds. This enables observation of dynamics in material systems that play an important role in a wide range of energy technologies, including battery electrodes, petroleum catalysts, solar cell materials, and organisms for bio fuel growth. Integrated Dynamic Electron Solutions uses technology developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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He was a quiet man who carried himself with consistency and unflinching stability. He was happiest when he was busy, family members said.
Rufus George Jr. worked a majority of his life as a coach and teacher, spending 23 years at Gattis Junior High School, his wife Barbara George of Portales said.
He died June 29 at age 67.
Few people knew her husband would often take members of his team shopping, wanting to make sure they had the required supplies to run track, she said.
"He'd take his team to eat pizza, and he would buy them shoes and socks — he didn't want any recognition for himself," she said.
During his teaching career, he also served as a driver's education teacher in Clovis, she said. He eventually started driving schools that he ran in Clovis and Portales, she said.
He was unable to sit still in retirement, she said. He stayed busy by running his driving school, being active in his church, helping friends and neighbors fix things, and starting a vending business for fairs. He even eventually returned to education, his wife said.
"He was just so good. He always just fixed everything — he was up on the roof and down in the yard, that's just the way he was," she said.
Barbara George, coordinator of the Portales Maypole celebration, said her husband was a patient man who offered endless support.
"He was an excellent husband. He sat through 25 Maypoles and never complained, never said, 'I've seen five of those or 10 or 15, and I'm not going again.'
"He was always there to support me. He was an encourager of everyone. He was always positive and wanted everyone to do their best," she said.
A father of two, he adored his family and doted on his five grandchildren, she said.
Matt Christensen taught with George at Gattis for several years.
"He was one of those people that don't really say a lot, but when they do speak it's pretty profound. He wasn't into trivial conversation," he said.
George was "solid as a rock," Christensen said. His mood never changed, he said.
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I was there from start to finish, and I did my best to see everything. Great conversations and gripping performances kept me from doing it all, but I did manage to glimpse 27 musical acts (plus three comedians and a crowd dancing barefoot on paint and canvas). Here were my 10 favorite moments — though trust me, there were more.
10. Path/Hafrican (tie): I first encountered both of these rappers in their musical infancy. It was awesome to see them flexing hard-earned maturity.
9. Reverse the Curse: These recent northeast Ohio transplants approached post-hardcore with the requisite fury, offering short, striking bursts of melancholic aggression.
8. The End of the Ocean: So loud, so huge.
7. Petit Mal: Best guitar tones in Columbus, and with such alluring psych-pop songs to deploy them. Bad news: Their singer is moving to Portland. Good news: They're going to make more records long-distance.
6. The Black Swans: Can't think of a better way to ease from afternoon to evening than listening to this band's idiosyncratic folk-rock drifting easily through the alley, bathed in spillage from a basket of light.
5. The Saturday Giant: I was literally screaming for joy watching Phil Cogley unfurl a nonstop musical highlight reel. His album's going to rule.
4. Miranda Sound: Reliving the greatest hits of one of the best Ohio bands of the past decade was a rush.
3. EYE: The only sound more punishing than EYE's psych-metal eruption Saturday...
2. Struck By Lightning: ...was Struck By Lightning's hellish torture-chamber sprints.
1. P Blackk: The young rapper's succinct set was mesmerizing. P. Blackk's talent has been obvious since "Chicken N' Waffles" in 2010, but this was different, like watching somebody stepping into stardom. Even the people waiting for COTA decided to stick around until the next bus. He left us wanting more, but thankfully he doesn't look to be stopping anytime soon.


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The organization said it recently made a presentation to students at All Saints Academy, which is a Catholic elementary and middle school in the Berwick neighborhood on the East Side, and distributed literature in Berwick and in the Cumberland Ridge neighborhood on the Northeast Side.
The efforts are part of the group's urban-outreach initiative and fall under the "broader goal of 'planting the pro-life seed' with minority youth and adults," Right to Life said in a news release.


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Bridesmaid might be the first band that doubles as its own cleaning service.
"When we play out you can tell if the place has had a party in the last year because confetti will start raining down from the rafters right [after we start]," said Bob Brinkman, 33, who joins the trio for a show at Carabar on Friday, Nov. 8. "We played a house show in Athens one time and we all looked like coal miners afterwards because no one had dusted the rafters beforehand. We were caked in the asbestos and whatever else had been building up for 30 years in this basement."
Inadvertent dusting is just one side effect of the band's rafter-rattling, doom-laden sound, which is created by employing the booming low tones of dual bass guitars (Scott Hyatt mans the second) alongside drummer Cory Barnt. It's an effect further heightened by the sheer volume with which the trio plays, and its concerts tend to double as physical experiences.
"When we're playing we're shaking the room and you can feel the vibrations," Brinkman said. "You can feel it when certain frequencies hit."
Though the three have been making music in Bridesmaid for more than four years, they only recently released their debut full-length, Breakfast at Riffany's, an earthy effort that stretches from the midnight rumble of "Jakin' Care of Business" to "Francis with Wolves," a bible-black cut that opens in ominous fashion (the first three minutes could leave children reaching for the night light at bedtime) before giving way to a searing guitar solo courtesy of Pelican's Dallas Thomas — the first time the instrument has been employed on a Bridesmaid track.
Despite the brief flirtation with guitar, the band has largely held to its established template, resisting any urge to add vocals.
"There were [vocals] on the first couple rounds of songs, but it doesn't fit what we're doing now, and I get to yell in my hardcore band so I get it out of my system," Brinkman said. "Being an instrumental band gives us more freedom."
As for that brief guitar cameo? Unless Thomas volunteers his services again in the future, it's a safe bet the six-string appearance will be one-and-done.
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So lately every time 23 mo DS nurses, I feel a sharp constant pain in my breast. The pain occurs only when he nurses. After looking at my breast, the area directly around the nipple is irritated and red. I have no other symptoms.
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If you did mother led weaning, is it easier to wean a younger nursling (around a year old or younger) or an older nursling? I was thinking that while it would be easier to set boundaries on nursing with a toddler who can understand more (tell them 10 seconds or one song), I also thought it would be hard when that toddler can ask for it and make mom feel guilty. I can remember my niece crying "boob!"
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- A number of objects in primitive meteorites have oxygen isotopic compositions that place them on a distinct, mass-independent fractionation line with a slope of one on a three-isotope plot. The most popular model for describing how this fractionation arose assumes that CO self-shielding produced 16O-rich CO and 16O-poor H 2O, where the H 2O subsequently combined with interstellar dust to form relatively 16O-poor solids within the solar nebula. Another model for creating the different reservoirs of 16O-rich gas and 16O-poor solids suggests that these reservoirs were produced by Galactic chemical evolution (GCE) if the solar system dust component was somewhat younger than the gas component and both components were lying on the line of slope one in the O three-isotope plot. We argue that GCE is not the cause of mass-independent fractionation of the oxygen isotopes in the solar system. The GCE scenario is in contradiction with observations of the 18O/ 17O ratios in nearby molecular clouds and young stellar objects. It is very unlikely for GCE to produce a line of slope one when considering the effect of incomplete mixing of stellar ejecta in the interstellar medium. Furthermore, the assumption that the solar system dust was younger than the gas requires unusual timescales or the existence of an important stardust component that is not theoretically expected to occur nor has been identified to date.
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#117373 - 12/10/03 02:21 AM viruses
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I agree 100% it should be viruses, nothing else.
It is an interesting question what it would have been in Latin. Did they ever write aquae, lactes? From the look of it, if it was neuter it would have to have taken -a, and I can't see anything in the stem except vir- (there's an adjective vir-osus meaning slimy), so it would have to be vira if they'd chosen to make one. It's a long i, so it's different from vir = man.
#117374 - 12/10/03 05:43 AM Re: viruses
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it should be viruses, nothing else.
Certainly in English. Max's link raises the question of how to handle it in its new meaning if you are writing a treatise in Latin about viruses. Since it's no longer uncountable you don't have the luxury of ignoring the plural and viruses ain' gone hack it.
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#117375 - 12/10/03 06:27 AM Re: viruses
Registered: 06/28/02
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Oh, as I said in my first response in this thread, in English it should undoubtedly be viruses. Can you imagine a doctor saying "Well, your offspring has come down with one of two or three candidate viri?" I think not ...
But it's an interesting discussion nonetheless.
Bingley, the Notre Dame entry specified virus -i, which means it's (a) second dec and (b) either masculine or feminine. The "n" in their dictionary is the part of speech - noun.
I would imagine that it pretty much fitted into the class of uncountable nouns, although there must have been occasions when a plural was necessary. In that case I would imagine that either the singular form was used in a plural context in the same way we use "sheep" as both singular and plural, or the assumption was made that it was second dec and fitted the "normal" formation for plurals. Or some completely different word was substituted, I suppose.
#117376 - 12/10/03 08:45 AM Re: Virii again
Registered: 11/19/02
Posts: 180
Loc: Atlanta, GA
"The print in our OED has gotten too small for me to read"
I don't know anything about Latin noun declensions, but I can solve this problem for you. Stop washing that thang in hot water. Didn't your mama teach you nothin', girl?
#117377 - 12/10/03 03:22 PM Re: viruses
Registered: 11/22/03
Posts: 81
I felt really silly after dutifully consulting both a pocket paper dictionary and an on-line one and blithely accepting that "n.". After a while I realised I had no idea at all whether it stood for noun or neuter. In my paper dictionary the adjectives are marked a. but some nouns are marked f. -- not n.f. just f. So I think it's saying virus is neuter, not just a noun.
or the assumption was made that it was second dec and fitted the "normal" formation for plurals
But this is the very question at issue. What is the "normal" plural for a subclass where no normal examples are known? There are no normal second declension neuters with plurals! Very careless of them, I must say. It's not as if they're semantically ruled out, is it? If Greek words like whale and sea can fit in, and they have plurals, why shouldn't Latin have had them? Or, on the other hand, what on earth is a 2nd.decl. neuter doing with the ending -us?
But my claim is that he "normal" plural would have to be -a, if it's neuter.
#117378 - 12/10/03 03:28 PM And while we're at it...
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 03/15/00
Posts: 6511
Loc: lower upstate New York
what did the Romans take to be a virus anyway?
#117379 - 12/10/03 03:44 PM Re: Cogitating, er, go somewhere else?
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Registered: 07/20/03
Posts: 3230
Loc: Te Ika a Maui
Would this be a fair summary?
The word "virus", as used in English, is truly an English word, and should therefore be pluralised acording to English rules. Further, the Latin word "virus" had no known plural, therefore any who say that the "real" Latin plural of "virus" (in the modern sense of an individual pathogen) is viri, virii, vriacalifragilisticexpialidoci, or whatever, are in fact, just bloviating._________________________
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#117380 - 12/10/03 05:44 PM Re: Cogitating, er, go somewhere else?
Registered: 06/28/02
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No, no, Faldage suggested that it might be one of the class of Latin nouns which don't take a plural. There's no proof that this is the case, and the Notre Dame dictionary entry suggests that, in fact, it does take a plural and conforms to the regular Latin second declension noun formation rules.
Jenet is suggesting that s/he thinks it's a neuter noun. I'm saying that I don't think it is. I think it's either masculine (most likely if it's second declension) or feminine, but NOT neuter. Since my "big-as-a-house" Latin dictionary is packed away, I can't look it up so I'm not getting dogmatic about it.
Virus, in its Latin sense, has absolutely nothing to do with viruses in English, although the English word comes from the Latin root. It means "poisoned water" or "tainted water" in Latin. You know, what happened when the Federal soldiers threw dead animals down Confederate wells in the 1860s, that kind of thing, presumably. More e.coli than ebola, if you see what I mean!
#117381 - 12/10/03 05:48 PM Re: Cogitating, er, go somewhere else?
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Ah, in my summary, I did say that the word had no known Latin plural, which is a little different to saying it had no plural at all, no?
Anyway, thanks for confirming the core part of my attempted synopsis - "virus" as a noun to describe a biological or computer pathogen is an English word, and should be pluralised accordingly._________________________
noho ora mai
#117382 - 12/10/03 06:09 PM Re: bad water
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Posts: 6511
Loc: lower upstate New York
It means "poisoned water" or "tainted water" in Latin.
Thanks, Pfranz.
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