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Breast reconstruction is a surgical procedure that restores shape to your breast after mastectomy — surgery that removes your breast tissue to treat or prevent breast cancer. Breast reconstruction with flap surgery is a type of breast reconstruction that involves taking a section of tissue from one area of your body and relocating it to create a new breast mound.
Breast reconstruction with flap surgery is a complex procedure performed by a plastic surgeon. Much of the breast reconstruction using your body's own tissue can be accomplished at the time of your mastectomy. However, you'll need a second operation to achieve a correctly positioned, natural-appearing breast or to perform nipple reconstruction.
Breast reconstruction with flap surgery is a major procedure and carries with it the possibility of significant complications, including:
Radiation therapy delivered to the skin and chest wall may pose complications during healing if it's given after breast reconstruction surgery. Your doctor may recommend waiting until you're finished with radiation therapy before proceeding with breast reconstruction.
Before a mastectomy, your doctor may recommend that you meet with a plastic surgeon. Consult a plastic surgeon who's board certified and experienced in breast reconstruction following mastectomy. Ideally, your breast surgeon and the plastic surgeon will work together to develop the best surgical treatment and breast reconstruction strategy in your situation.
Your plastic surgeon will describe your surgical options and may show you photos of women who have had different types of breast reconstruction. Your body type, health status and cancer treatment factor into which type of reconstruction will give you the best result. The plastic surgeon also provides information on anesthesia, where the operation will be performed and what kind of follow-up procedures may be necessary.
Your plastic surgeon may recommend surgery on your opposite breast, even if it's healthy, so that it more closely matches the shape and size of your reconstructed breast.
Before surgery, follow your doctor's instructions on preparing for the procedure. This may include guidelines on eating and drinking, adjusting current medications, and quitting smoking.
Chances are your new breasts won't look exactly like your natural ones did. However, the contour of your new breasts can usually be restored so that your silhouette looks similar to your silhouette before surgery.
Breast reconstruction with flap surgery is the most complex breast reconstructive option. Your surgeon transfers a section of skin, muscle, fat and blood vessels from one part of your body to your chest to create a new breast mound. In some cases, the skin and tissue need to be augmented with a breast implant to achieve the desired breast size.
Autologous tissue breast reconstruction uses one of two surgical methods:
The tissue for reconstructing your breast may come from your abdomen, back or — less commonly — your buttocks. Your surgeon determines which method is best for you based on your body type and your medical and surgical history.
Abdomen (TRAM flap). Your surgeon removes tissue — including muscle — from your abdomen in a procedure known as a transverse rectus abdominal muscle (TRAM) flap. The TRAM flap can be transferred as a free flap or a pedicle flap.
A pedicle TRAM flap uses your whole rectus muscle — one of the four major muscles in your abdomen. For a muscle-sparing free TRAM flap, your surgeon takes only a portion of your rectus abdominal muscle, which may help you retain abdominal strength after surgery.
Abdomen (DIEP flap). A newer procedure, deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap, is similar to muscle-sparing free TRAM flap, but only skin and fat are removed. Minimal abdominal muscle tissue is taken to form the new breast mound. Reattaching blood vessels requires expertise in surgery through a microscope (microsurgery).
An advantage to this type of breast reconstruction is that you'll retain more strength in your abdomen. If your surgeon can't perform a DIEP flap procedure for anatomical reasons, he or she might opt for the muscle-sparing free TRAM flap instead.
A variation of the DIEP flap, the superficial inferior epigastric artery (SIEA) flap, uses the same abdominal tissue but relies on blood vessels that aren't as deep within the abdomen. This provides a less invasive option, but not all women's SIEA blood vessels are adequate for this type of flap surgery.
Because adequate blood supply is critical to the survival of transplanted tissue in flap surgery, your surgeon may prefer not to perform a pedicle flap procedure if you're a smoker or if you have diabetes, vascular disease or a connective tissue disorder. Also, obesity may preclude you from having a pedicle TRAM flap.
In general, flap breast reconstruction surgery is more extensive than is mastectomy or implant reconstruction. Flap procedures result in larger incisions that take longer to heal, so they require a longer recovery period and may require a longer hospital stay.
Breast reconstruction may also entail reconstruction of your nipple, if you choose, including tattooing to define the dark area of skin surrounding your nipple (areola).
You may be tired and sore for a few weeks after your surgery. Your doctor can prescribe medication to control your pain. You may have drainage tubes in place for a short time after your surgery to remove excess fluids that collect in the surgical site.
Wearing an elastic bandage or support bra can help keep swelling down and support your breast while it heals.
You'll also have stitches (sutures) after your surgery. They'll probably be absorbable sutures, though, so you won't need to have them removed. Scarring is permanent, but the scars generally fade over time.
Getting back to normal activities may take up to six weeks or more. Your doctor will let you know of any restrictions to your activities, such as avoiding overhead lifting or strenuous physical activities. Don't be surprised if it seems to take a long time to bounce back from surgery — some women report that it takes as long as a year or two before feeling completely healed and back to normal.
Generally, you'll follow up with your plastic surgeon on a yearly basis to monitor your reconstructed breast. Make an appointment sooner than that, however, if you have concerns.
If you've only had one breast reconstructed, you'll need regular screening mammography on your other breast. Mammography isn't necessary on breasts that have been reconstructed, as the mastectomy removes most of your breast.
You may also choose to perform breast self-exams on your natural breast and the skin and surrounding area of your reconstructed breast. This may help you become familiar with your breast after surgery, so that you can be alert to any new changes.
Keep your expectations realistic about your surgery. Breast reconstruction offers many benefits, but it won't make your breast look or feel exactly like it did before your mastectomy.
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GW Dominates Draws in Victory over George Mason
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WASHINGTON -- Six different players scored as the George Washington lacrosse team defeated local rival George Mason, 10-6, on Wednesday afternoon at the GW Lacrosse Field on the Mount Vernon Campus.
After holding a 3-2 lead at halftime, GW (2-2) out-scored George Mason (0-3) in the second half, 7-4, to secure the victory and even its record. The Colonials controlled possession by winning 15-of-18 draw controls, and they out-shot the Patriots, 25-21, as they forced the visitors to make 11 saves on the day.
Freshman Olivia Boudreau tallied a game-high four goals for GW - including the first of her collegiate career - and junior Jamie Bumgardner (1 g, 2 a) and senior Nicole Lacey (2 g, 1 a) each added three points. Juniors Jordy Bathras and Lindsey DiAntonio and sophomore Rachel Miachipped in one goal apiece and senior goalkeeper Jess Hicks set aside six shots.
"It feels great to get the win with a complete team effort on both the offensive and defensive sides of the field," head coach Tara Hannaford said. "We won draw controls and maintained possession, and I thought we did a good job controlling the game."
The Patriots recorded the first score of the afternoon just 3:15 into action, but the Colonials countered with a three-goal run over a 5:14 span to take a 3-1 lead. Lacey evened the score at 1-1 at the 4:08 mark with an unassisted goal, and Bathras and Boudreau each netted unassisted tallies just 35 seconds apart for a two-goal lead. George Mason scored the final goal of the half with 14:51 remaining on the clock to cut GW's lead to one as the squad's entered halftime with a 3-2 score.
The Colonials opened the second frame with back-to-back goals to extend their lead to 5-2. Bumgardner connected with an open Mia just 33 seconds into the half, and Boudreau scored on a free position shot at 4:40. GMU interrupted GW's run with an unassisted goal at 9:33, but the Colonials answered when Boudreau found the back of the net off of a pass from Lacey to widen the lead to 6-3.
The Patriots added their fourth goal midway through the second half but GW went on a 3-0 run over the next 2:38 and the visitors could not find an answer. DiAntonio scored off a pass from Bumgardner at 12:53, followed by two straight goals 41 seconds apart from Bumgardner and Lacey.
George Mason scored on a free position shot with nine minutes remaining on the clock and Boudreau responded with her fourth goal of the day 1:24 later. GMU chipped in the final score of the afternoon with 3:22 left to play.
GW continues its five-game homestand when the Colonials welcome Bucknell on Sunday, March 3 for a 1 p.m. match-up.
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I arrived in Masaya on Monday evening, and have since been working on a website for the Consumers Defense Association of Masaya (ACODEMA). You can read about their work in earlier entries: Consumer Rights & Their Violation, and Miceofinance: Why it (Sometimes) Just Doesn´t Work.
Roger Lecayo, the President of ACODEMA, met me at the bus and showed me around Masaya. Everyone knew him and greeted him cordially as we passed. When we went to dinner and tried to pay the check, the owner refused to charge him. I got a discount at my hostel for being affiliated with the organization.
Masaya is a lovely city, and has an aesthetic character somewhat like that of Estelí: small and charming, but still a city. It´s charming, friendly, and colorful. However, it isn´t otherwise much like Estelí. In two days here, I´ve met more anti-Sandinistas than I ever could have imagined existed in the whole country, and have seen more street children sniffing glue than there were shoeless kids in all of Estelí.
On Tuesday I arrived at the ACODEMA office preceeded by about twenty citizens seeking help to present their claims against Unión Fenosa, the Spanish company that is the sole distributor of electricity in Nicatagua.
One woman had been billed in June for three times as much electricity as she had used in the preceeding months of this year. She had apparently not acquired any new appliances, nor had she used her existing appliances more than usual.
Another women had arranged a payment schedule with Unión Fenosa previously, but the payment schedule that the company had agreed upon was not honored, and her electricity had been cut. There were as many other complaints as there were poeple in the ACODEMA office, and we all went to Unión Fenosa to get it straightened out.
We waited for 30 minutes before anyone saw us. Roger went into the office with each of the distressed customers individually to give them support and representation in presenting their claim. All were resolved.
¨That seemed easy enough,¨ I said.
¨They respond to ACODEMA representatives,¨ he explained. ¨They know we know our rights and we won´t allow them to be violated. When people contact Unión Fenosa they simply don´t respond. So we go with them and demand a response. And nine out of ten times we win, because their claims are well-founded.¨
I understood, suddenly, why Roger and other ACODEMA staff are so popular in Masaya.
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They're professionals, but extreme skiers on the weekendsBy Erin Mansfield
Correspondent | March 24,2014Anthony Edwards / Staff Photo
Skiers participating in the 3rd Annual Bromley Rando Race use climbing skins to ascend to the peak of the mountain and then descend over the course of multiple laps on Sunday.Rando Racers dont always ski down black diamonds, but when they do, its after skinning their way from the base to the summit.
That was the case on Sunday at Bromley Mountain Ski Resort in southern Vermont, where 20 racers from across the Northeast took to the mountain to participate in the fourth and final event of the New England Rando Race Series.
Skinning is an uphill winter sport that looks like extreme cross-country skiing. Athletes use a special lightweight ski and attach adhesive skins to the bottom that allow them to trek up groomed trails without sliding down. When they reach the top, they remove the skins, adjust a buckle, and ski back down just like traditional alpine skiers.
Organizer Jonathan Shefftz gave athletes a marked course of five laps that totaled 4,150 feet of vertical climbing and a two-hour average workout. Winner Jeremy Arnold finished in one hour and 19 minutes, and had already won the other three races this year.
Administrated by the United States Ski Mountaineering Association, Rando Racing is a competitive way to skin, and it attracts a special niche of winter athletes.
These guys are definitely go-getters, said Michael Van Eyck, director of marketing and sales for Bromley Mountain Ski Resort. They came here with the idea of making (the race) as hard as possible.
Some of the guys in the race are absolutely elite-level athletes, he said. Its never been about the revenue. Its really a grassroots effort.
I started (skinning) in Poland 15 years ago, said Maciek Gluszkowski, 52, of New Jersey. Now, he said, the competitive sport has grown tremendously throughout Europe, especially in alpine countries like Switzerland.
This sport is growing very fast all over the world, even in the United States, he added.
Gluszkowski came to Bromley with his wife, Edyta, who usually spends the day downhill skiing while he races. I think this competition is more for fun, she said.
Participants were almost all middle-aged professionals who said they were looking for a productive winter workout.
Shefftz, the organizer, is by day an economic consultant, while one woman is an orthopedic surgeon, and another a former World Cup athlete.
Its a great way to stay in shape in the winter, said Randolph Randolph, 46, of New York. Its a great way to race in a casual way with a good group.
This was his third race of the year, and Randolph has been racing for several years. Bromley is great for alpine touring, he said.
Katie Vadasdi, 37, of Connecticut, took a day trip up to Vermont with her husband and turned the race into a family day. They both participated in the race and later joined their two young children so they could all alpine ski together.
This is my first year and my second race. Its actually a great way to do combined family skiing, she said. When I was pregnant, I was skinning up with one on my back and one in my belly.
Shefftz estimated that there were seven races total in the Northeast this season. He said he has been running the New England Rando Race Series on a volunteer basis since 2008, but he doesnt expect to add any more next year.
Its pretty big out in Colorado and Utah. Here its pretty low key, he said.
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A woman is trapped in a Kafka-esque nightmare of bureaucracy and spies. This searing Broadway operatic drama won the Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics' Circle Award in 1950. Divas immediately clamored to sing the central character and her sensational and moving aria of freedom.
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The twenty-first century has brought with it an increased need for understanding the role of faith and faith traditions in a rapidly-shrinking world. The Ministry Major is a strong pre-seminary program offered for students headed into the ministry, but who are unsure about moving on into seminary or graduate studies immediately upon graduation. The major allows one to select an emphasis in either pastoral ministries or urban/cross-cultural ministries. Students are encouraged to ask the most basic, fundamental, and important questions and are invited to develop a deep contextualized understanding of their faith.
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~ Saints Crispin and Crispinian, to Emperor Maximianus after he had used threats and bribes in an attempt to persuade them to renounce their faith; their martyrdom gained them heaven; Maximianus, after losing his crown, killed himself in despair.


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A man from Washington possibly drowned while swimming with his wife at Maui's Kamaole Beach Park.
Officials say that the couple from Vancouver, Wash., was swimming Tuesday morning when the wife turned around and saw that her husband was face down in the water. The 50-year-old man was pulled to shore where bystanders began CPR.
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A meeting of great minds: Abhayfest 2009Martin Blood-Forsythe '10 | June 8, 2009
We just got back from a conference at Penn State on Classical and Quantum Gravity. The conference was being held in honor of the 60th birthday of Abhay Ashtekar, one of the founders of loop quantum gravity and the Director of the Institute for Gravitational Physics and Geometry at Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Ashtekar was one of Dr. Alexander's first mentors at Penn State.
At the conference we heard a wide variety of exciting talks ranging on topics from classical general relativity, to schemes for quantizing gravity, to black hole horizons, to numerical treatments of classical GR, to quantum field theory in curved-spacetimes.
While we can't claim to have understood all the talks, it was very exciting to be in the same room with many of the 'big names' in the field, such as Sir Roger Penrose, Abhay Ashtekar, Robert Wald, John Collins, and James Hartle. We ate lunch with Deepak Vaid, Andy Randono, and Ted Jacobson and discussed composite fermions, black holes, and the experience of being a theoretical physicist. Thursday night we attended a public lecture by Sir Roger Penrose called "Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy: How Big is Infinity." He presented a broad look at fundamental questions related to quantum mechanics, string theory, and inflation while maintaining a great deal of lay-person accessibility.


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Painting the map… different.
Some of you have already seen this graphic. It's what the United States woud look like if all 50 had the same population, with a few extra factors taken into account so that the borders still make as much sense as they can.
The extra factors include keeping almost all existing counties whole, aiming for compact shapes and not splitting up metro areas unless really necessary. They also try to keep drainage basins together. Click on the picture if you want to see the whole proposal.
The purpose of this exercise is to solve the perceived problem of unequal representation in the federal government. This way, not only do all U.S. senators represent the same number of people, but so do all members of the House of Representatives. So each person has equal representation in the Electoral College as well, though of course some states would still be more competitive than others. (Oh, and DC gets to drop the "Taxation Without Representation" license plates.)
This isn't intended as a serious proposal, but it mixes two things that I love because they both tug the mind out of its usual grooves of thought:
- altered maps – When you first saw a simple "upside-down" map of the world, didn't it just demand to be stared at for a while?
- visualizations of unusual political/social reform proposals – It's easy to think of the status quo as natural, and easier yet not to think of why things are quite the way they are; illustrating the world in a way markedly different from reality challenges the mind to justify the current order. I suspect this has something to do with my enjoyment of sci-fi and historical what-ifs; instinctually turning toward such questioning may be a common trait among libertarians.
I try not to be too hasty in throwing out the current order; Burke and Hayek had useful insights about the limits of knowledge and reason. So I haven't adopted this reform proposal, but it has been fun thinking about it. I even spent part of today lightly crunching the county-level numbers from the U.S. Senate elections since 2008, just to see how it would affect the balance of power there. (I still haven't gotten around to checking how it would affect recent presidential elections.)
But beyond the electoral reform, you can spin your mind for hours about the economic and cultural consequences of following these simple and (each taken in isolation) sensible algorithms. The artist who created the map asked people to "take it easy with the emails about the sacred soil of Texas" – though I do wonder whether the four senators from Dallas-Fort Worth and the greater Houston area would be very different from the senators Texas usually elects. What else jumps to mind?
- Just try to picture the kind of senators the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York City, and Chicago are likely to elect when they don't have to appeal to a swath of suburban and rural voters. Picture it!
- The first three of those metro areas got more than 75% of the benefit of housing-related tax benefits like the mortgage-interest tax deduction, according to a 2001 study.
- L.A. and NYC would have less influence on the sources of much of their drinking water; that could easily tip the balance and allow landowners upstate to open their land to energy development.
- For that matter, imagine governing the Great State of People Who Commute to Chicago. "Chicagoland Minus Chicago."
- Y'know, if you look at how Susan Collins and Kelly Ayotte did in Casco counties in 2008 and 2010, compared to Elizabeth Warren's margins in her part of the new state, it's not hard to imagine Republican senators representing Boston. Just sayin'.
- Chinati, the rather heavily Hispanic border state, narrowly voted more for Republican senators than Democratic ones in 2012.
- The Black Belt in the South appears to prevent none of the new states from electing Republican senators, including Ozark, Tidewater, and even Atlanta, though it would have been close in 2008.
- Right now, the heaviest dependence on direct government benefits is particularly concentrated in certain places, and mostly not in urban counties.
- Specifically, the Coal Country patch from West Virginia into southern Ohio and eastern Kentucky would be split between more states, while the patch of heavy dependence in the Ozarks (southern Missouri into northern Arkansas) would be concentrated into… Ozark. The most dependent part of Michigan is combined with the most dependent part of Wisconsin. The most dependent parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado would be combined in Shiprock.
- Would the big cities that were disconnected from poorer hinterlands become less tolerant of federal redistribution? Would Boston, now sharing a much larger territory with more people dependent on benefits, take a dimmer view of state-level redistribution?
- Meanwhile, the urban centers of today's Colorado would get to be in the same state as the Bakken shale oil boom: Ogallala, which is also a great beneficiary of…
- Agricultural subsidies! You can already see the representatives of Nodaway wearing their Farm Bill buttons. Then there's Ozark again, straddling both banks of the Mississippi River and getting another dose of federal money. Another notable dependent: Tidewater.
This is going to a lot of trouble to ensure that a voter in Billings has the same level of representation as a voter in Cheyenne, and that a Californian has equal say in the Senate as a Rhode Islander. But maybe all that trouble from such simple rules is why it's so ripe for speculation.


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Festive Brownie Pops
- Prep Time: 30 min
- Cook Time: 30 min
- Ready Time: 180 min
- Yield: 3 dozen
- Crisco® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray
- 1 (18.4 oz.) package Pillsbury™ Family Size Dark Chocolate Brownie Mix
- 2/3 cup Crisco® Pure Vegetable Oil
- 1/4 cup water
- 2 large eggs
- 1/4 cup Pillsbury™ Creamy Supreme® Chocolate Fudge Flavored Frosting
- 36 lollipop sticks
- 3 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1/4 cup Crisco® All-Vegetable Shortening
- Finely chopped nuts or decorator sprinkles (optional)
- White baking chips or peanut butter chips, melted (optional)
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- HEAT oven to 350°F. Coat 13 x 9-inch baking pan with no-stick cooking spray. Prepare brownie mix according to package directions using the oil, water and eggs. Bake in prepared pan according to package ddirections. Cool completely on wire rack. Line tray or baking sheet with wax paper.
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April 25, 2012 —
The Sullivan County Legislature voted five to three with one abstention in favor of granting an additional 7.5%of the county bed tax to the Sullivan County Visitors Association (SCVA), on top of the 85% of the bed tax already guaranteed to them by law, to pay for a local matching grants advertising program. The program, which was funded with 15% of the bed tax last year, subsidized tourism-related businesses in the county with money to advertise in local media outlets, including The River Reporter.
The vote came during a day in which the lawmakers were given a presentation about the county's revenues so far this year, as county officials begin the process of preparing next year's budget, which will likely be even more challenging than the budget for last year. The vote also came two months after the legislature considered not renewing the contract with the SCVA, and instead putting out to bid the operation of tourism promotion in the county to any interested and qualified parties.
At the meeting at the government center on April 19, legislator Gene Benson, who has been the harshest critic of the SCVA, said he could not vote for the resolution because staff of the SCVA had not answered all of his questions regarding the organization's performance.
Legislator Ira Steingart said he supported the resolution because, "I realize how important the local tourism industry is. This money would be spent with local businesses and it would help local businesses."
Legislator Cora Edwards echoed Benson's concern. She said, "What's the return on the investment? So far, nobody has been able to say the multiplier effect will bring us, for instance, $4 million in additional sales tax revenue."
Legislator Kitty Vetter said, "The tourist business is our face in this county, and I think those are dollars well spent. If we give it back to the Sullivan County Visitors Association, we are improving the ability of the small businesses to get their ads and information out there."
Chairman Scott Samuelson noted that, in August, a request for proposals will be going out to organizations to handle the promotion of tourism in 2013. Still, he said, this resolution should go forward because, "These are dollars that go back directly to the tourism-based industry, to the individual owners, the small businesses who are struggling to bring people into their businesses."
Legislator Kathy LaBuda said she preferred that the 7.5% go into the general fund, which would benefit not just the tourism businesses but all 76,000 residents of the county.
Ultimately, Edwards abstained and Bensen, LaBuda and Cindy Gieger voted against the resolution, which will be voted on again at the full board meeting on April 26.
Budget talk
Earlier in the day, the lawmakers discussed county tax revenues and spending, and the beginning of the budget process for 2013. For 2012, the outgoing lawmakers used $6.9 million from reserve funds, or surpluses, to balance the budget.
According to county manager David Fanslau, if lawmakers were to create next year's budget without using any money from reserves, and costs and revenues remain the same as this year, that would require a 14% property tax increase, which is far above the 2% property tax cap which has been mandated by lawmakers in Albany, but which can be overridden by a super-majority vote in the county legislature.
It is too early to know how much surplus or reserve may be available at the end of the year, but it seems possible that the figure will be about $3 million. For various reasons, auditors and accounting professionals believe reserve or surplus funds for the county should be at about $10 million.
Deputy county manager Josh Potosek told lawmakers that there were a few unexpected expenses so far this year, but the general trend is that revenues and spending are within projected ranges for 2012.
Additionally, there was a bit of good news: the county saved about $500,000 this year because of the unusually mild winter, which resulted in much lower costs for the salting and plowing of roads. Also, the county has received about $300,000 more in sales tax so far this year than in the same period last year.


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April 15, 2013
Contests, live animals, and machinery galore. These attractions have made Dordt College's Ag Day an annual destination for many.
The Dordt College agriculture club and agriculture department are hosting Ag Day on Friday, April 26. The event is held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the main parking lot, just north of the Dordt College Campus Center.
This free event is a way to get people in the community engaged with agriculture. This year's event features live animals, machinery that people can view and climb, educational demonstrations, and games including bale rolling, bale stacking, an obstacle course, and crossword puzzles.
Pulled pork and hamburgers will be served by members of the Ag Club between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. The meal is a fundraiser for Ag Club activities, including Ag Day.
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Home List of Titles Microstructural and antibacterial properties of zinc-substituted cobalt ferrite nanopowders synthesized by sol-gel methods
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- Microstructural and antibacterial properties of zinc-substituted cobalt ferrite nanopowders synthesized by sol-gel methods
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- Sanpo, Noppakun; Berndt, C. C.; Wang, James
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- Zinc-substituted cobalt ferrite nanopowders were prepared via a sol-gel route using citric acid as a chelating agent. The influence of zinc concentration on the microstructure, crystal structure, surface wettability, surface roughness, and antibacterial property of zinc-substituted cobalt ferrite nanopowders was investigated systematically. The substitution of zinc influences slightly the microstructure, surface wettability, surface roughness, and crystal structure but strongly affects the antibacterial property of the cobalt ferrite nanopowders.
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- 2012
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- Antibacterial properties; Citric acid; Cobalt ferrite nanopowders; CoFe2O4; Crystal structures; Microstructures; Sol-gel techniques; Surface roughness; Surface wettability; Zinc-substituted cobalt ferrite nanopowders; Zinc concentration
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President Barack Obama on April 10 requested a $28.4 billion Fiscal Year 2014 budget for the Energy Department, including $2.78 billion for the Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). The request is part of the Administration-wide effort to strengthen the U.S. economy with energy that is cleaner, cheaper, and creates sustainable jobs.
As Assistant Energy Secretary Dr. David Danielson explained in an April 10 presentation, the $2.78 billion EERE portion of the request includes $615 million in funding for research and development into sources of renewable electricity generation such as wind, solar, water power, and geothermal energy. The proposed budget also includes $949 million for energy savings programs including the Federal Energy Management Program, Weatherization & Intergovernmental, building technologies, and advanced manufacturing. And the proposed FY 2014 budget includes a $957 million request for sustainable transportation, including research and development of vehicles, bioenergy, and fuel cell technologies. This segment includes $575 million for cutting-edge vehicle technologies research and $282 million in research into next-generation advanced biofuels. See the presentation on the EERE proposed FY 2014 budget.
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The more – and almost certainly even the less – observant amongst you will have noticed that over the last few weeks there have been more than a few tenuous links made between rugby and motoring in this column. And as the biggest match in New Zealand rugby since 1987 is being played out in Auckland's own theatre of dreams this weekend, it would be all too easy to find one more pretty loose tie-in between the unlikely bedfellows that are egg chasing and motoring.
And so, therefore, I will.
But rather than dwelling too heavily on the sport itself, my focus is rather more on one of the participants in Sunday night's encounter – the French. As a previous inhabitant of the Northern shores of La Manche, I learned a long time ago that the only thing that could be expected from the French with any degree of certainty is the unexpected.
Nowhere is this more certain than in the motoring world, where no-one could ever be sure if their next release was going to be a work of beauty, genius, madness or just plain badness. Sometimes, as was the case with the massively opinion polarising 2CV, they managed to do all four at once. Just for the sheer hell of it I suspect.
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Cable news talk shows and sound bites from the internet often paint politicians as rude, cutthroat and uncompromising. Other times, the actions they take back up those perceptions. But Deborah Mower, an expert on civility and conditions of civil disagreement in politics and education, says it doesn't have to be this way.
Mower will explain her philosophy that civility is essential to all aspects of public life, along with the importance of teaching civility to others, during a keynote presentation at the next American Conversations event hosted by Grand Valley State University's Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies and the university's department of philosophy.
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Stebe used DNA from Lieuwe van Gogh, the great-great grandson of Vincent's brother, Theo, to create the ear after failing to to acquire genetic material from the deceased virtuoso.
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On Valentine's Day, American husbands and wives of every age, faith and region shower their beloveds with symbols of undying affection — flowers, chocolates, moonlit dinners, kisses.
The annual lovefest is also a popular time for elaborate engagements, with picturesque proposals and pricey jewelry.
But any link between love and matrimony is relatively recent, said Stephanie Coontz, who teaches history and family studies at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash.
And a radical one at that.
"Through most of human history, love was not at all the point of marriage," Coontz said. " Marriage was about getting families together, which was why there were so many controls."
The notion that a couple would marry for love was considered almost antisocial, even subversive; parents could disown their children for doing it.
"The Greeks thought lovesickness was a type of insanity, a view that was adopted by medieval commentators in Europe," Coontz writes in her 2005 book, Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage.
"In the Middle Ages, the French defined love as a 'derangement of the mind' that could be cured by sexual intercourse, either with the loved one or with a different partner."
Couples wed to make political alliances, to raise capital, to expand the workforce and for a whole array of practical purposes.
"Too much love was thought to be a real threat to the institution of marriage," she said in an interview.
Physical attraction between two people has existed as long as marriage, said Don Herrin, who teaches a course on family belief systems at the University of Utah. But how that is expressed — or controlled — varies from culture to culture.
You could say that the biblical Adam and Eve had an arranged marriage — that is, a spouse they didn't choose for themselves.
The Bible does speak of love matches, of course, but those are not all monogamous. Think Jacob and Rachel, and her older sister, Leah. Kings David and Solomon were said to have scores of wives.
The ideal of love as a primary reason for marriage began to spread in the late 18th century and early 19th century, partly due to the French and American revolutions. Enlightenment thinkers in this era were promoting the "right to personal happiness," Coontz said.
Eventually, the development of a wage-labor economy moved coupling away from economics. Women didn't have to depend on their parents' ability to put up a dowry, and men didn't have to wait for their inheritance. Families moved away from farms into urban settings, so they didn't need so many children. More options opened up.
That created a sea change for marriage in the mid-19th century, including the possibility of unions founded on love, Coontz said.
The most "marrying time in American history" was just after World War II, she said, with rising wages for men and repressive laws and economics for women. "More women could stay at home full time, while their husbands supported them."
That era lasted only until the late 1960s and early '70s, when women began flocking back to the workforce.
If these Father Knows Best marriages represented the ideal, said Herrin, why did so many women flee them in the late 1970s, when no-fault divorce became available?
"Our peak years for divorce were between 1978 and 1980," he said. "Even now, 67 percent of divorces are filed by women. I am sobered by that. For a lot of folks, marriage is a better relationship for guys than women."
Today, Herrin said, romantic unions have become the ideal, but not all of them are between heterosexual, married couples with children. Many prefer cohabiting to marriage and do not plan to produce offspring.
Unlike in earlier eras, these days Cupid's arrow — the ineffable nature of attraction — is considered essential to finding a partner. You don't have to have the approval of family, faith or society. You can write your own promises, make your own money and chart your own future.
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Two of the three men accused of attacking Wisconsin running back Montee Ball were accepted into the first-offenders program during plea and sentencing hearings Wednesday.
Twenty-one-year-old Wendell J. Venerable and 22-year-old Robert A. Wilks were each facing a single count of battery. The felony charge carries a maximum penalty of 18 months in prison and a $10,000 fine.
The two men, along with Deonte Wilson, 21, are accused of attacking Ball in August as he walked behind two friends. They allegedly knocked him to the ground and kicked him in the head and chest. Ball was left unconscious and with a concussion.
Ball has said he doesn't remember the attack and doesn't know why they jumped him.
Ball's father, Montee Ball Sr., testified at the hearing, telling the two men they had been given a huge break and the Ball family holds no malice toward them. He said he hopes the men get the counseling they need.
Police said they're still hoping to find a fourth man involved in the attack.
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Copycat the Ranter Hat, What's up with That?
Rockies take 1 out of 4 at Shea Stadium. If you know the Rockies(if your reading this blog I assume you do), this would be our dreaded August east coast road trip. By past performance this particular road trip has the ability to make or break the Rockies season.
We gave up three games to the Mets at the most crucial time of the season. I'm willing to look past the fact that it was the Mets(I have to), and focus on the word crucial.
These catch phrases come to mind: This is it, the time is now, show me the money, it's now or never, and just do it.
Surprise, Big Papi and Manny Ramirez used PED's in 2003!
I wonder about the other 98 people on that list. Does this bother them? Does the fear of media exposure at any minute nag at them of like a hangnail or canker sore?
Or can they just put it out of their mind and pretend it's business as usual?
The release of these names one or two at a time is killing baseball. At this point I'm desensitized to new reports of steroid use.
I've heard people say that they should release all of the names at once and get it over with.
That might help but I think the players who know they tested positive should all come forward by themselves for themselves.
It's not like the MLB is punishing these fellas. Back in 2003 the policies for random drug testing hadn't been established.
Now is as good a time as any to admit it, apologize to the fans and roll on with a clean conscience.
Do it fellas, clear your mind, save our sport.
Ok I need some help with this. My green floppy hat is part of my trademark Ranter look. August 9th is the Rockies floppy hat day and most years the hat is a beige color.
Here's a picture of the hat the Rockies are giving away:
Here is a picture of my seasoned hat :
I'm sort of flattered and sort of mad.
I can't have 15,000 people running around looking like me. Let me tell you folks it's not always easy being a trendsetter…
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I'll give you my Rockies purple camouflage hat I never wear, I haven't seen any of those around🙂 Dan
Thanks Dan. I had tossed around the idea of a pink cowboy hat, but it seems to me I've seen that somewhere🙂 …D
Hey D,
As soon as I saw that promo I thought about you and how cool is it that they're copying you.
I wonder why the information on the PED users keeps coming out with 1 or 2 names at a time? It would be nice to move past the whole thing and focus on the now but they're keeping it going by only giving out a name or 2.
(Hope you're having a better day)
Wow. Be totally flattered. Hey, the D-Backs will get revenge for the Rox by sweeping the Mets (hopefully), and you totally smashed their winning streak…and you've got a chance to get ahead of Them in the division, and they've lost 4 out of their last 5 so you didn't lose ground.
D- They must've ripped it off you when after seeing you next to Robert catching Spilborghs' homer.
D, Imitation is the best form of flattery.
Maybe after seeing you all these years they decided it was a fashion statement.
Just know within you…you are now a fashion icon.
You can now confidently strut on the catwalk like Right Said Fred.
Seriously, this is purely "put up or shut up time" around baseball. The main dealing is done, but small deals will fly by for about a month.
Always fun this time of the year.
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It's not too late to save Lake ChamplainAugust 24,2014Conservation Law Foundation photo
Algae on Lake Champlain is caused by runoff carrying phosphorus into the shore waters.One sultry evening late last summer, my husband and I ready for a cool swim in Lake Champlain discovered firsthand the sad and maddening presence of blue-green algae in the lake on Burlingtons south shore.
We were two of many unhappy, would-be swimmers and bathers that evening as we went away without a dip. We were all disturbed and disappointed by what we had seen.
For years, we have been following, studying and speaking out on this very issue. The health of our beloved and life-supporting lake is threatened by phosphorus overloading from runoff throughout the watershed. The nutrient-rich water, warmed by the sun, produces blue-green algae.
Advocacy, when it is informed by and charged with a personal, tangible experience, can be galvanizing. It was for us.
And so it was for a father in St. Albans.
Tim Camisa, a St. Albans native, had a similar experience to our encounter with an algae-laden lake. Taking his kids to swim in St. Albans Bay on a summers day in the early 2000s, he was repulsed by the sight of the soupy green mess where the bright sparkling water of his youth used to be. He resolved to do something about it.
He studied nearly 50 Lake Champlain water quality reports commissioned by the state throughout the past few decades. Many of the reports cumulative 10,000 pages pointed to phosphorus-filled agricultural runoff as a prevalent source of bloom-generating pollution.
After a year of study, it dawned on him: Why not remove the phosphorous before it even reaches the runoff?
Several years later, after exhaustive design, research, patent procurement and capital raising, Camisa and his business partner, Mike Rooney, created a new company called Vermont Organics Reclamation Inc.
VOR buys manure from dairy farmers and makes it into a seed-starter mix that they sell through seed catalogues and to nurseries that grow flowers. Camisa said the process takes up to 20 percent of the phosphorus out of circulation and repurposes it. Its a win-win-win. VOR pays the farmer and in turn is paid by its customers, the phosphorus is exported and the lake is a little better for it.
Strategically located on land adjacent to the Ben & Jerrys plant, VOR has the potential to become a significant employer in the St. Albans community. Like the ice cream maker with a social conscience VORs environmentally motivated startup came about with the help of a public-private partnership.
If Camisa and others firsthand encounters with damaged ecosystems could generate more focused entrepreneurial responses to these stresses, there is hope. But the solution wont come without help from the public sector too.
It is one of the important functions of our state and federal governments to support the kind of activity that will take Vermont in the direction we need to go. Surely, we want the services that a healthy Lake Champlain can provide: swimming, fishing, boating, water to drink, tourism dollars and views to lift your spirits in any season.
The state of Vermont has been willing to spend many millions of dollars during the past decades for the Lake Champlain cleanup and what do we have to show for this investment? We have a lake still in deep trouble from phosphorous overloading.
Public money well spent to provide businesses whose products promote public good with a little leg up on the competition could at the same time generate economic activity and create jobs. Its not a new idea, but it is an effective one.
Camisas exciting business venture is a model and a beacon. The outrage at what we are letting happen to our great lake should spur us to take more personal and innovative measures to find lasting solutions. State and federal governments should be beating the bushes to find entrepreneurs and innovators who want to make a difference as well as a profit.
Hope to see you on bright and sparkling waters again soon.
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Rare Watertown Tree Lives On
A rare oak tree on Mill Street will live to bloom another day.
A chinkapin oak tree is on the property of a Stewart's Shops store on Mill street. The company is planning to tear down the building and rebuild on the same location. When Mike Lumbis , the Watertown city planner heard about the plans, he sprang into action to save the tree.
"It's in very good condition and we asked them if they would consider saving it and making a few minor changes to their site plan and they agreed to do so," said Lumbis.
Once Stewart's Shops heard Lumbis's plea, the company agreed to slightly alter its plans to save the tree.
"So at this point we looked into it a little bit more and decided that it was important enough to the city and it was worthwhile to tweak our plans a bit," said Maria D'Amelia, a Stewart's Shops representative.
The oak tree weathered severe weather in the 1990s and survived. It looks now, that the tree has dodged another bullet.
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Chuck Dailey is the former chairman of the department of physical education for men at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore., and has been known as the "ambassador with a basketball." Over the years, Dailey has received many awards and was decorated with the Royal Thai Crown by the king of Thailand for outstanding service to the people of that country. He also received an honorary doctoral degree from the National College of Physical Education in Thailand. Dailey worked through the U.S. Department of State as an American sports specialist during five different tours of duty. He taught basketball in Singapore, Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo in addition to his work in Thailand.


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(Bluefield)—Dr. Steve Bourne, Dean of the School of Business at Bluefield State College, attended the recent John A. Maxwell Scholar-Diplomat Program in Washington, D.C. Organized by the West Virginia Consortium for Faculty and Course Development in International Studies (FACDIS), the program featured an outstanding group of ambassadors, statesmen, diplomats, and international policy experts.
The FACDIS faculty development program attracted 11 academic leaders from West Virginia institutions of higher education. "Our speakers addressed political, economic, and defense-related topics and provided insight and perspective on how China and India view their relationships with the United States," Dr. Bourne observed. "We also heard from representatives of leading 'think tanks' like the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies."
Experts told attendees about the opportunities and challenges faced by India and China. "In China, for example, the urban population is growing at a rate of about 20 million people per month," Dr. Bourne continued. "The Chinese are addressing the challenges involved in building the infrastructure to accommodate this tremendous urban growth."
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In 2009 Sebastian Copeland walked to the geographic North Pole, to honor the 100th anniversary of Admiral Peary's first expedition to the geographic North Pole, and to do this before the Arctic ice became too thin from global warming to make the trip by foot. Since then he has also travelled across the ice in Greenland and Antarctica. In his lecture, Mr. Copeland gave the audience a firsthand description of the enormous changes in the Arctic as the ice disappears, explaining the geopolitical consequences of these changes at the Poles. He also related what he thinks we can do to protect the Poles and the planet.
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