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Surgery is the most common way to treat nonmelanoma skin cancer. There are many methods of surgery than can be used to remove the cancer. The goal is to completely remove the cancer while trying to limit harm to healthy tissue. This is especially important when the cancer is on the face.
This procedure removes the cancer and as little normal tissue as possible. It's done in sensitive areas such as the face. During Mohs surgery, you're given a local anesthetic to numb the area being treated. The cancer is removed from the skin one layer at a time. Each layer is checked under a microscope for cancer. If cancer cells are seen, another layer of skin is removed. Layers are removed until the doctor doesn't see any more cancer. The procedure is done at one time, but it may take several hours, depending on how many layers need to be removed. After this surgery, the cancer is fully removed and the wound can be repaired. Mohs surgery may be a good option if:
Your doctor is not sure of the exact depth and shape of the tumor
The tumor is very large
The tumor is located in a hard-to-treat place
The skin cancer has come back
The skin cancer is on the face
This procedure removes tissue and cauterizes the area. You are given a local anesthetic to numb the area. Your doctor then uses a sharp spoon-shaped instrument called a curette to remove the cancer. This is called curettage. After curettage, your doctor passes an electric needle over the surface of the scraped area to stop bleeding, and destroy any remaining cancer cells. After it heals, a flat, white scar may remain.
This is done to cut the cancer from the skin, along with some of the healthy tissue around it. You are given a local anesthetic. Then, your doctor uses a scalpel to remove the tumor from the skin. The doctor may also remove some of the normal skin around the tumor. This is called a "margin." Depending on the size of the incision, stitches or a sterile bandage strip may be used to close the wound. The tissue that was removed is sent to a pathologist for analysis. If the report reveals that not all the cancer was removed, you'll likely need another procedure to remove the rest of the cancer.
This method is used for cancer that is only in the top layers of the skin. You are given a local anesthetic. Then, your doctor uses a small blade to shave off the tumor. The goal is to remove the tumor at its base.
This method uses cold to destroy the cancer cells. This method is best for very small cancers near the skin's surface. Your doctor uses a device that sprays liquid nitrogen onto the tumor. This freezes the cells and destroys them. The dead skin then falls off. You may have some swelling and blistering in the area after treatment. A white scar is usually left behind. The procedure may need to be repeated.
Laser therapy uses narrow beam of intense light is used to remove cancer cells. Dermabrasion removes the top layer of skin with a rotating wheel or small particles that rub away skin cells. These types of surgery are not as common. It's not possible to see if all the cancer cells were removed with these methods. These kinds of surgery also don't give produce a tissue sample for a pathologist to check.
Temporary pain in the area of the surgery is a common side effect. You may feel pain in the first few days to a week after surgery. You can treat pain with pain medicine as your health care provider advises. Only use approved pain medication.
Any skin surgery leaves scars. The same is true for surgery to remove skin cancer. The size and color of the scar depend on the size of the cancer, its location, the type of surgery, and how well your skin heals. Your doctor will use methods to hide the scar as much as possible.
If stitches were used to hold the wound closed, they are usually removed about a week after surgery. Healing continues over time after that. Early on, the scar may be red or bumpy. It takes about a full year for a scar to fade. Be sure to speak with your doctor about ways to aid healing. Most often, though, your body's natural healing abilities are the best and simply take time.
In some cases, a skin graft may be needed to close an opening in the skin left by surgery and to leave the area looking more like the surrounding skin. To do skin graft surgery, the surgeon numbs and removes a patch of healthy skin from another place on the body. This is called the graft. The graft may be taken from the upper thigh or abdomen. The graft is then used to cover the wound. If you have a skin graft, you will be given special instructions about how to care for it while it heals.
The method of surgery your doctor will advise for you depends on factors such as:
The type of cancer
The size of the tumor
The location of the tumor
If the area of the tumor is visible, such as on your face
If the tumor has spread
Your overall health
Whether cancer is likely to occur again
If the area has been treated before and the cancer has come back
Talk with your doctor about what kind of surgery is an option for you.Ask any questions and address any concerns you may have. You may still need other types of treatment before or after surgery. Surgery is most often in a doctor's office or a hospital's outpatient clinic. You'll be able to go home the same day.


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Fantasy Guru Daily: 6/6/11
We continue to hope lockout talks move in a positive direction after a day in court last Friday, but today we focus on more football, headlined by a prison release in New York and some clarity in the Jets' backfield.
Burress to play left field, hit 7th … Former Giant WR Plaxico Burress was released from prison after nearly two years Monday morning, and since there's nothing else to talk about, HE WAS WEARING A PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES HAT, WHICH MEANS HE'S GOING TO THE EAGLES. There has actually been speculation that the Eagles are a potential landing spot for Burress, and Michael Vick has voiced his support of that move recently, saying:
"I think certainly Plaxico is going to come out with a chip on his shoulder the same way I did, and he'll go out and help this football team to whatever capacity he can. I think the guys would be willing to embrace him and bring him in. If that happens? Who knows? We talking about 'what ifs' now? It would certainly be a good thing."
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Discovery, integration, management, and visualization of geoscience data with the goal of improving our understanding of the processes that have shaped the earth and our environment over time will be highlighted at the Geoinformatics 2008 Conference. Globalization of geoinformatics based research and education in support of meeting societal challenges will be significant for the conference.
The Conference provides an international forum for researchers and educators from earth and planetary sciences, and information technology/computer science to present new data, data analysis or modeling techniques, visualization schemes or technologies as they relate to developing the cyberinfrastructure for the geosciences.
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Exclusive to Scrappin Doodles, our A to Z Line Art / Digital Stamps Collection includes an image for each letter of the alphabet. All the images in this set have been included in other sets that we have done so some of them may look familiar and you may already have a few. This set has been requested over and over so you don't have to buy 26 different sets to get the 26 images included in this one set.Great for craft projects, scrapbooking etc.. Graphics come in JPEG and PNG format. 300 dpi for perfect printing. I created these graphics large so they are suitable for printing and Digital Scrapbooking projects and can be easily resized smaller to suit other needs, graphics measure up to approx 7". Graphics shown at approx 10% of actual size. Original Artwork by Scrappin Doodles.Key words: illustration, clip art, clipart, graphics, line art, digital stamps, apple, butterfly, caterpillar, dog, elephant, fish, grapes, heart, igloo, jar, kite, lion, mouse, nail, octopus, pumpkin, quarter, rainbow, sun, turtle, umbrella, vacume, watermelon, xylophone, fox (for an x alternate), yarn, zebra
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Mercury in Fish: Cause for Concern?
Swordfish and shark taste great--especially grilled or broiled. But reports that these and some other large predatory fish may contain methyl mercury levels in excess of the Food and Drug Administration's 1 part per million (ppm) limit has dampened some fish lovers' appetites.
FDA scientists responsible for seafood safety are also concerned about the safety of eating these types of fish, but they agree that the fish are safe, provided they're eaten infrequently (no more than once a week) as part of a balanced diet.
Mercury Is Everywhere
Mercury occurs naturally in the environment. According to FDA toxicologist Mike Bolger, Ph.D., approximately 2,700 to 6,000 tons of mercury are released annually into the atmosphere naturally by degassing from the Earth's crust and oceans. Another 2,000 to 3,000 tons are released annually into the atmosphere by human activities, primarily from burning household and industrial wastes, and especially from fossil fuels such as coal.
Mercury vapor is easily transported in the atmosphere, deposited on land and water, and then, in part, released again to the atmosphere. Trace amounts of mercury are soluble in bodies of water, where bacteria can cause chemical changes that transform mercury to methyl mercury, a more toxic form.
Fish absorb methyl mercury from water as it passes over their gills and as they feed on aquatic organisms. Larger predator fish are exposed to higher levels of methyl mercury from their prey.
Methyl mercury binds tightly to the proteins in fish tissue, including muscle. Cooking does not appreciably reduce the methyl mercury content of the fish.
Nearly all fish contain trace amounts of methyl mercury, some more than others. In areas where there is industrial mercury pollution, the levels in the fish can be quite elevated. In general, however, methyl mercury levels for most fish range from less than 0.01 ppm to 0.5 ppm. It's only in a few species of fish that methyl mercury levels reach FDA limit for human consumption of 1 ppm. This most frequently occurs in some large predator fish, such as shark and swordfish. Certain species of very large tuna, typically sold as fresh steaks for sushi, can have levels over 1 ppm. (Canned tuna, composed of smaller species of tuna such as skipjack and albacore, have much lower levels of methyl mercury, averaging only about 0.17 ppm.) The average concentration of methyl mercury for commercially important species (mostly marine in origin) is less than 0.3 ppm.
FDA works with state regulators when commercial fish, caught and sold locally, are found to contain methyl mercury levels exceeding 1 ppm. The agency also checks imported fish at ports and refuses entry if methyl mercury levels exceed the FDA limit.
Spot-caught predator fresh-water species like pike and walleye sometimes have methyl mercury levels in the 1 ppm range. Other fresh-water species also have elevated levels, particularly in areas where mercury levels in the local environment are elevated.
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On Wednesday 16th November at 3pm, something strange has happened, a message of tolerance and peace were being spread in the cities of Rome, Milan, Tel Aviv, Paris and New York. Alessandro Benetton presented a new institutional campaign called 'UNHATE' by Unhate Foundation. Hatred exists in our modern society, this global campaign draws an awareness promoting closeness between people, faiths, cultures, and the peaceful understanding of each other's motivations, using a global call to action and the latest communication tools.
"While global love is still a utopia, albeit a worthy one, the invitation 'not to hate', to combat the 'culture of hatred', is an ambitious but realistic objective," explains Alessandro Benetton. "At this moment in history, so full of major upheavals and equally large hopes, we have decided, through this campaign, to give widespread visibility to an ideal notion of tolerance and invite the citizens of every country to reflect on how hatred arises particularly from fear of 'the other' and of what is unfamiliar to us. Ours is a universal campaign, using instruments such as the internet, the world of social media, and artistic imagination, and it is unique, in that it calls the citizens of the world to action. At the same time, it fits perfectly with the values and history of Benetton, which chooses social issues and actively promotes humanitarian causes that could not otherwise have been communicated on a global scale, and in doing so has given a sense and a value to its brand, building a lasting dialogue with the people of the world."
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I'm not a pleasant person to be around. I mean, I'm mostly OK on the outside, but it sometimes seems like the person who lives in my brain and presses the buttons that make me do things is just trying to see how far he can push the envelope before society exiles me to a desert island with nothing but a few years' worth of snacks and a solar-powered laptop so I can play Fallout 2.
I'm basically just like any other sociopathic nerd, and I'm guilty of every one of the behaviors I'm about to explain. What's worse, I don't have even a suggestion of a solution for any of them. So we're going to have to figure it out together, because this whole "nerds are awesome" phase isn't going to last forever. And when it collapses, we're all going to be hanging from flagpoles by our underwear.
4 We Feel Like We're Owed Our Favorite Things ... Forever
Here's an awful truth: We may love the stuff our favorite artists create, but we don't give two shits about them as people. When we're introduced to a new awesome game, or song, or movie, our first impulse isn't to thank the people who created it, it's to demand that they keep doing that forever, no matter the cost.
There's no better example of this than the Star Wars prequels. Objectively, those are some nightmarishly bad movies, provided your nightmares involve cartoon sidekicks and underacting Natalie Portmans, but people got very angry about them, and really, does anyone know why? What was it, exactly, that Lucas did to deserve anger? Short of the prequels being six hours of him having sex with all of our moms, there's no reason for it.
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hastily typed forum posts and a meaningless life.
You get angry when someone does something to hurt you or someone/something you care about, not when someone fails to keep doing something you like. And the prequels don't actually hurt the original films. We didn't love Star Wars because we thought it was the beginning of a six-movie arc; we loved it because George "You're all clear, kid, now let's blow this thing and go home" Lucas was a young, energetic guy who, with a combination of luck and creativity, touched the hearts of literally millions of people across the world -- something that 99.99 percent of people never even come close to accomplishing. And our response is to get angry when he fails to do it a fourth time? What kind of borderline psychopathic bullshit is that? Even porn can't produce a boner every time, and that's basically considered to be a blue chip medium.
Modern cinema as we know it would not exist without him, but on the other hand, he screwed up later.
I'm not above this at all. As a kid I was a Resident Evil fanboy -- so naturally I was horrified when Resident Evil 4 came out and I discovered that they were doing away with the fixed cameras and outdated control schemes in order to make it "just another run-and-gun shooter." I felt betrayed, and probably went online to complain about how Capcom was abandoning their roots or "destroying the series" (the go-to nerd complaint). I'm sure my rage-logic was flawless and Capcom instantly regretted creating the game.
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"I demand two ... no, three acts of seppuku for this bullshit!"
Again, this makes no sense. Video games change with technology more than any other medium, and in 2005 the Resident Evil gameplay was hopelessly outdated and not selling anymore because it had been totally done to death. Also Resident Evil 4 turned out to kick ass. But I didn't care, I wanted more of the same, and I was convinced they had betrayed me, as if I had some personal say in its design. Someone had given me something I liked, and I was mad that they had failed to keep doing that over and over, forever. They owed me, goddammit.
Because I'm an asshole. And then I realized ...
3 We Secretly Hope Our Favorite Artists Aren't Successful
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You're probably just as dismissive of the term "sellout" and the self-important pop-culture junkies who use it as I am -- but what you may not realize is that we're all those self-important junkies. And, no, I'm not talking about the "let's bash hipsters" bandwagon here. I'm talking about normal, everyday people who don't regularly get rocks thrown at them.
As a culture, we feel like our art is ruined if the people creating it make any money. You can see it in every medium, at every level: It's why it's harder for big-budget films to get nominated for Academy Awards. It's why, when Metallica was starting out, they (allegedly) said that they would never make a music video because doing so would compromise their artistry, even though what does that have to do with anything, Metallica, what are you talking about? Is it Lars? Did Lars say that? Because I could totally see him saying that.
Well, they were talking to their fans, and their fans listened:
"Because you admitted you like money, you can't have any of mine!"
What we refuse to accept is that getting paid for doing what you love doesn't always make you suck. Nirvana made their two best albums (MTV Unplugged and In Utero) after it had been made clear that no one in that band would ever need to work again. Yet even during those times, there was still a large group of fans who would have preferred them to have never left their days of surviving on nothing but gas station corn dogs.
Again, I'm not immune. My favorite band is Coheed and Cambria, at least partially because they wrote this song, which is like a standard pop-rock song if you ran it through a wood chipper and Scotch Taped it back together while drunk. But then they had kind of a hit with this track, and they started writing more songs like that, and now more people have heard of them and ... I dunno, I just occasionally catch myself coming up with reasons to be mad about that, like it makes any fucking difference in my life at all. By any sane metric, I should be happy that those guys get to have some financial security in their lives, because they wrote some of my favorite songs. But I'm not. My gut instinct is to say "Fuck their happiness, I just want them to make albums like The Second Stage Turbine Blade again. And I want to touch that big ol' fluffy hair so bad."
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Integrity means only having one jacket to share on rainy days.
Why? What's wrong with me? What's wrong with us? Well, I know at least part of the answer, and it's not pretty ...


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Golf Paradise Surrounding Kulm Hotel St. Moritz
The Engadine has been known for more than 100 years as the golf paradise of the Alps, distinguished by an unequalled panorama and incomparable landscape characteristics. The Kulm Golf course is nestled harmoniously in the high alpine landscape, thus making golfing a unique experience.
At the end of the 18th century, English spa and holiday guests prompted the mowing of a 1,860 metre stretch of mountain meadow to form a fairway. In 1891, the first 9-hole golf course was created next to the Kulm Hotel in St. Moritz. It became today's Kulm Golf Course. This makes it the oldest golf course in the Alps, possibly even of the continent.
The St. Moritz golf architect Mario Verdieri and the Kulm Hotel designed a new concept for the historic greens in 2001 and brought the course up to date for today's needs. Nestled in the captivating Engadine mountain landscape, the new 9-hole golf course is both appealing and demanding. The golf site, with one of the highest altitudes in Europe, now has a course uniting the original landscape with high-tech golf architecture.
The par 27 golf course and its driving range, with 16 teeing off sites and two putting greens, offers both beginners and experts challenges enhanced by the magnificent view of the lake and the beautiful high valley of the Engadine.
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Mr. Carpenter is a Committeeman and has served on the Township Committee since 2006. He has been a resident
of Bernards Township since 1969. He along with wife Laura, have raised three children and he has been active in
the community long before being elected to the Township Committee.
Education: B.S. Computer Science, Union College, Schenectady, NY
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La Casa Senior Center
1120 Cameo St., Clovis
Monday: Daily Activities 9 a.m. .- 4 p.m.
Tuesday: Daily Activities 9 a.m. .- 4 p.m.; 1 p.m. Bingo in Clovis; Sewing class 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in Portales
Wednesday: Daily Activities 9 a.m. .- 4 p.m.; Bingo 1 p.m.
Thursday: Daily Activities 9 a.m. .- 4 p.m.; 1 p.m. Loteria
Friday: Pancake Breakfast with Sausage $2 from 9 a.m.-11 a.m. in Clovis; Clovis Jam 1 p.m.
Daily: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. daily activities: quilting and sewing, coffee and socializing, exercise equipment, 8-ball, 9-ball, computer and Internet, crafts, ceramics, quilting, embroidery, puzzles, card games, board games and massage therapy chairs.
Friendship Senior Center
901 West 13th St.
Monday: 9 a.m.-11 a.m. coffee klatch; 1 p.m. Pinochle
Tuesday: Hobbs Trip Sign up with Belinda; 9 a.m.-11 a.m. coffee klatch; 1 p.m. Dominos
Wednesday: 9 a.m.-2p.m. Garage Sale; 9 a.m.-11 a.m. coffee klatch; 1 p.m.-4 p.m. Mexican Train
Thursday: 9 a.m.-11 a.m. coffee klatch
Friday: Senior Health 12:30 p.m.; 9 a.m.-11 a.m. coffee klatch; 1 p.m.- 3 p.m. Bingo; 1 p.m. Pinochle
Daily: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. ceramics, cards, crafts, 8-ball pool
Baxter Curren Senior Center
908 Hickory, Clovis
Monday: 8:30 Sit & Be Fit; 10 a.m. Jewelry Pals; 1 p.m. Line dance; 5 p.m. Social Night
Tuesday: Hobbs Trip Sign up with Brenda at Baxter-Curren; 8 a.m. Quilting; 1 p.m. pinochle; 6 p.m. Musical
Wednesday: 8:30 Sit & Be Fit; 1 p.m. Crafts
Thursday: Blood Pressure; 8 a.m. Breakfast: Eggs, gravy and biscuits, $4; 8:45 a.m. Board Meeting; 1 p.m. bingo; 1 p.m.; 6 p.m. Line dance
Friday: 8:30 Sit & Be Fit; 10 a.m. Needle Gang; 6 p.m.-10 p.m. Installation of Officers Free Dance
Daily: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Exercise Equipment; 1 p.m.-5 p.m. 8-Ball pool
Community Services Center
1100 Community Way, Portales
Monday: Baked cajun fish, wish rice, cauliflower and carrots, biscuit, low fat yogurt
Tuesday: Roast beef, mashed potatoes with gravy, mixed veggies, fruit, applesauce cake
Wednesday: Baked chicken, sliced tomato, broccoli and cheese, wheat roll, strawberries & bananas
Thursday: Meatloaf, au gratin potatoes, veggies, dinner roll, orange
Friday: Hawaiian pork, salad with ranch dressing, wheat bread, sliced strawberries, vanilla pudding
Daily: Milk, tea, coffee served daily.
Portales Senior Center
421 N. Industrial Dr., Portales
Monday: 8 a.m.-9 a.m. exercise
Tuesday: 9:30 a.m. bridge
Wednesday: 8 a.m.-9 a.m. exercise; 1 p.m. line dancing
Thursday: Noon-potluck – $4 per person or bring a dish
Friday: 8 a.m.-9 a.m. exercise
Saturday: 7 p.m. dance, $5
Daily: Open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday with games (cards, Mexican trains, dominoes, etc.), free high-speed Internet and free library.


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Boston-area residents cheered for police driving down the street after bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev was caught.
A makeshift memorial was started on Friday at the Boston University Martin Luther King Jr. memorial for a BU student killed in Monday's bombing.
A police car makes its way through crowds of Bostonians celebrating the capture of the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect.
Boston-area residents gather near the area in Watertown where the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing engaged in a final standoff with police.
Boston-area residents cheer and hold up signs thanking police for their work capturing Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev.
Boston residents wave American flags to celebrate the capture of bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev.
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St. Joe's Starts Hot, Holds Off Wagner
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Saint Joseph's
women's lacrosse team took an early, 7-0, lead and held on for its
first win of the season in a 12-5 victory over Wagner on Saturday.
Juniors Julie Mineweaser and Jen Peters led the Hawks with three
goals apiece.
Hawks' Meghan McDevitt sparked the 7-0 SJU run, getting the Hawks on the board 2:13 into the game with a pass from junior Grace Dinn. McDevitt then set up Mineweaser for her first goal just over a minute later and scored again at the 23:32 mark off a pass from Mineweaser. Peters notched her first goal, Mineweaser added two, and Dinn netted a free-position shot in the next six minutes.
Wagner retaliated 25 seconds later with a run of their own, 4-0 to get within three, 7-4. But it was the closest the Seahawks would come as Saint Joseph's Elizabeth Fox and Francesca Volpe each scored for a 9-4 Hawk advantage at the break.
In the second half, Dinn added her second goal and while Peters scored two more to make it 12-5 with 11:19 on the clock. The Hawks defense held the Seahawks to just one shot in the remaining minutes of the game.
Saint Joseph's outshot Wagner, 39-16, and tallied 16 caused turnovers on defense. Junior Carly Kindbom had five caused turnovers while goalkeeper Kaitlin LaBarbera made nine saves between the pipes.
The Hawks, now 1-1 on the season, play at Lehigh on Wednesday. Game time is set for 3:30 p.m.
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A DeForest woman was taken to the hospital after she suffered life-threatening injuries in a crash Monday evening, according to the Dane County Sheriff's Department.
Sheriff's deputies responded to an accident on Highway I at Hahn Road in the Town of Vienna at about 6 p.m.
Dane County Sheriff's Department Spokeswoman Elise Schaffer said 77-year-old Marie Lerum was turning right onto Highway I from Hahn Road and turned into the path of an oncoming vehicle.
Lerum was transported to UW Hospital for life-threatening injuries, according to the report.
Schaffer said the driver of the second vehicle, 48-year-old Timothy Thielbar of Arlington, was not injured.
No citations have been issued and the crash remains under investigation, the sheriff's department said
The nature of Lerum's injuries was not identified in the report, but as of about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday she remained hospitalized, Schaffer said.
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Vaccine extremism threatens democracyMay 06,2014
Vaccine extremism threatens democracy
In her commentary of April 28, Why we need vaccinations, Amanda Naprawa goes to great lengths to characterize the Vermont Coalition for Vaccine Choice as a virulently anti-vaccine organization that seeks to scare individuals off from immunization. Not only is this false, as VCVC is pro informed consent, not anti-vaccine, but Ms. Naprawa fails to mention her role as a lawyer who last year wrote extensively about ways to legally scare off those who dissent from current orthodoxy regarding vaccine policy, efficacy or safety. In what is arguably a manual for pro-vaccine extremism, Ms. Naprawa proposes to carve out an exception to freedom of speech in the form of a vaccine disparagement statute aimed at protecting the pecuniary interests of big pharmaceutical corporations. In her view, not only is big pharma entitled to compensation from anti-vaccine speakers for lost profits when a vaccine flops, but it should also have the right to collect punitive damage awards for the purpose of permanently silencing critics. To be fair, in Ms. Naprawas envisioning of democracy, such special punishment is reserved only for those who recklessly disregard the truth of the medical or scientific community. So who precisely are these keepers of the truth by which future vaccine heretics are to be judged?
The vast majority of scientific and medical literature about vaccines is the product of the pharmaceutical industry itself. Parents should understand what this means. This is an industry that routinely engages in criminal behavior. In 2012, GlaxoSmithKline, the maker of at least 25 different vaccines, admitted to bribing doctors and encouraging prescription of an inappropriate anti-depressant to children, for which it paid $3 billion in penalties. In 2009, Pfizer, maker of the vaccine Prevnar, agreed to pay a $2.3 billion criminal fine, the largest in history. Pfizer admitted mislabeling the painkiller Bextra with the intent to defraud or mislead. In 2008, Merck, maker of the controversial HPV vaccine Gardasil, paid $650 million for Medicaid fraud and kickbacks. In 2012, Sanofi-Aventis, maker of at least 18 different vaccines, paid $109 million for illegal sampling arrangements after a former Sanofi sales agent contacted the Justice Department. The list goes on and on, with fines in the hundreds of millions the rule. Yet Ms. Naprawa expects parents to accept as an article of faith that these same corporations are somehow models of integrity and transparency when it comes to their liability-free vaccine products.
In 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth that, since vaccines are by nature unavoidably unsafe, pharmaceutical corporations cannot be sued even if a plaintiff claims that an avoidable design defect had caused injury or death. Since then, there has been a steady increase in vaccine marketing, complete with industry-funded Astroturf groups and an aggressive nationwide campaign to eliminate exemptions. Having secured near complete protection from liability for their industry, mandatory vaccination proponents are now asking whether censorship is the right answer to continuing vaccine controversies. It is not. As Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas succinctly stated, Effective self-government cannot succeed unless the people are immersed in a steady, robust, unimpeded and uncensored flow of opinion and reporting which are continuously subjected to critique, rebuttal and re-examination.
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He probably is, as the comic book artist (not graphic novelist) has been pairing images with words for most of his life. While the characters of his fanciful weekly strips -- now collected into books -- have often been strange, introspective, nostalgic and maudlin figures, his central character has often been the city of New York.
That's why on June 29 at this year's Nextbook Festival taking place at UCLA, Katchor will be featured on the panel, "Larger Than Life: Romancing the Lower East Side," along with filmmaker Joan Micklin Silver in conversation with pop culture scholar Eddy Portnoy. Nextbook's Festival of Ideas focuses this year on "Jewish Geography: Place, Design Memory, Imagination" and includes readings and panel discussions put on by the Jewish cultural organization that produces an online magazine and literary events and publishes a book series.
"As Jews abandoned New York's Lower East Side for sunnier climes or better school districts, the old neighborhood only loomed larger, if not in their daily lives then in their imaginations. Where does the history of the Lower East Side end and the mythology begin? How have filmmakers and writers shaped the legacy of the neighborhood, and how have these works of art influenced Jewish identity?" the program reads.
The Lower East Side first captured Katchor's imagination at a young age. Although he grew up in Brooklyn, he often went to the Jewish immigrant neighborhood with his parents. "My mother had her bank account that she opened as a young woman at Bowery Savings Bank, and for some reason kept it there -- and we'd go shopping on the Lower East Side, and that would be the first stop. I remember going to this great temple of banking at the Bowery and then being dragged off shopping," said Katchor, 57, on the phone from Paris, where he is visiting for the summer. (He lives in New York.)
He also went there with his father to visit hardware supply stores. "I think it was intact as a Jewish business area longer than it was a residential area." The city and its characters fascinated him -- and so did his research. "People wrote about it. This place was established by a succession of immigrant groups -- now it's mainly Asian, but before that it was Jewish and Italian, and before that it was German," he said. "There are a lot of remnants of these groups. It's a rich place, but I think most of my feeling about it is as a historian, not first hand."
But it's not really history, either; the New York in his strips never really existed. "The Jew of New York" collection (which first appeared in the Forward in 1992, then later published as a book in 1998) depicts the Lower East Side of the 1830s, following the failed vision of an actual person, Mordecai Noah, a New York politician and amateur playwright who once tried to summon the lost tribes of Israel to an island near Buffalo in the hope of establishing a Jewish state. The plan failed, but the story inspired Katchor's weekly strips of characters of New York, including a disgraced kosher slaughterer, a latter-day kabbalist and a man with plans to carbonate Lake Erie.
"On a tepid August afternoon in the year, Messrs Pepsin & Shadrach, the current managers of The New World Theater, meet with their artistic employees to finalize the coming season's repertory," begins the absurdist series on an eight-panel page with intricately detailed and finely shaded drawings.
Katchor came to The Forward via another well-known graphic artist, Art Spiegelman, whose work ran in the Forward. "I asked Spiegelman if he had anyone to replace him, and he suggested Ben," said Jonathan Rosen, who was then the cultural editor of the Forward and is now editorial director of Nextbook and general editor of Schocken/Nextbook, where Katchor is working on "The Dairy Restaurant," a graphic book for the Jewish Encounter series.
Katchor's work, Rosen said, "is simultaneously small and large in the same way. It is worked out in intense, specific detail," he said. Katchor's characters, Rosen said, "were almost Becket characters, but there was a larger cosmic meaning inside everything he did and does."
Before "The Jew of New York," Katchor created Julius Knipl, who lived in "a fictitious city, a light industrial neighborhood, not an immigrant neighborhood," Katchor said of "Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer," which first appeared in 1988 in The New York Press, a free independent weekly and later in The Forward.
"It was the kind of strip that a mainstream syndicate would never carry -- and that's where I found my audience," Katchor said. It was an audience who could appreciate oddities, such as a tabloid newspaper that captured people's dreams, a building where someone siphoned off bathroom soap, "a siren query brigade," which monitors all nocturnal misfortunes. "It was an alternative audience -- they weren't comic strip readers," he said.
Katchor knows from comic strip readers. "I grew up reading comics," he said. "All that crap that was on the newsstands. I can't say I ever liked the stories, but I liked the drawings. Those were my first introductions to representational art." He studied painting and writing in college, but his mind kept coming back to his childhood interest of combining words and images.
"I wanted to talk to an adult audience" in the tradition of Jules Feiffer and Edward Gorey. And Katchor's Julius Knipl (named after the Yiddish word for hidden treasure) does just that, in often obtuse and circuitous language.
"Ben teaches you a language," Rosen said. "It's a visual language, and it's a way of listening. Once you're inside of it, it makes perfect sense."
"Mr. Knipl donates 25 cents toward the upkeep of a rural asylum established by 'the drowned men's association," reads a panel in the first strip. "Why save a man from drowning only to let him die of homesickness?"Homesickness is an ongoing theme in the Knipl series. "Every week, in the eight panels of a new installment of 'Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer,' Katchor manages to teleport the reader to a particular urban past -- a rumbling, lunar cityscape of brick and wire that was young and raucous in the heyday of the Yellow Kid," Michael Chabon wrote in the introduction to "Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories" (Little, Brown and Company, 1996.) A sequel, "Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: The Beauty Supply District," was published by Pantheon Books in 2000.
Katchor said he doesn't think there is a message to his comics -- just a model that people can contemplate. "It should send you back into the world looking at the world in some more subtle way," he said. "It's a lesson in how to look at the world."
Where cartoon characters and comics were once mostly relegated to a side note, now the genre is hot -- with Hollywood bombarding the summer Comic-Con festival in San Diego to turn superheroes into complex characters like Spider-man and Iron Man, and book editors clamoring for the next big graphic novel to follow the success of "Persepolis," an Iranian girl's memoir that became an Oscar-nominated film.
But Katchor is nonplussed by the notion of the graphic novel. "Publishers understand how to sell novels, so they promote the idea of a long-form comic strip," he said. But he said he has no plans to write a long-form book (although one of his strips, "The Evening Combinator," continues for 17 pages). "My interest is in the short form. Most long comics are boring -- I think they are just too long," he said. "The power of comics is in their concision.
"It's not a daily newspaper strip; it's not that kind of simple thing."
Ben Katchor will appear on the panel, "Larger Than Life: Romancing the Lower East Side" on Sunday, June 29, at 2:45 p.m. as part of the Nextbook Los Angeles Festival of Ideas at UCLA. The festival on June 29 will run from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. For further information, call the UCLA box office at (310) 825-2101 or visit http://www.nextbook.org/festivals/la2008.html.
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Robinson now takes on his new leadership role in the Karnes City community after recently being named as the new principal for KCHS, where he had previously been the assistant principal.
"I am honored to be selected as the new high school principal," said Robinson. "I feel like my experiences, background, and ties to this community make for a good fit and I am eager to get this new school year under way."
Robinson's ties to the Karnes City community run very deep. Robinson was born and raised in Karnes City and graduated from KCHS in 1990. After graduation, Robinson furthered his education at the University of Texas-San Antonio.
Robinson has also served as a leader in his community as an elected member of the Karnes City City Council since 2005. As a councilman, Robinson has helped to make important decisions regarding the vast changes and challenges the city has experienced in recent years.
Robinson brings twelve years of experience as an educator and administrator to his new position as principal. Throughout that time has served as a teacher (social studies and criminal justice), district at-risk coordinator/truant officer, court liaison officer, assistant principal, and now principal.
Robinson began his education career as the at-risk coordinator/truancy officer for the Floresville ISD. Robinson eventually began worked as a teacher for the Floresville Alternative Center while maintaining my duties as that district's at-risk coordinator/truant officer.
During his first year of teaching, Robinson also went back to school and obtained his Master's degree in Public Administration. In 2009 he began his principal's certification program and became assistant principal at the Floresville Alternative Center.
In 2011, Robinson began working at Roger E. Sides Elementary as an assistant principal, and then became the KCHS assistant principal in 2012. Robinson is now going on his third year with Karnes City ISD.
Robinson now begins a new chapter in his education career in his hometown and in the community and school district where his life's roots have always been deep.
"Some of my best memories are a result of the time that I spent at KCHS – meeting my wife, playing sports, and developing friendships and lasting relationships," recalled Robinson. "This community, its people, the schools are all great and what makes Karnes City what it is. While we as a community have our differences, when the dust settles, Karnes City will come together and support each other like the family that we are. I am proud to be a Badger and looking forward to a great year."


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It's not so much gears and oil anymore as computers and laptops.
King County is working with our regional partners, governments, utilities to push electrical infrastructure out into the community so that we can provide the basis for a new market for electric cars in our region.
Puget Sound took a very regional approach that was unusual and unique but very supportive of a new technology development. And by working together, they have made a lot of progress towards that.
Our EECB grant is being used to put new 240-volt charging stations throughout our region so that people buying the first generation of mass-produced electric vehicles will have access to fast charging wherever they go through at King County.
And the reason the stimulus bill was so critical to this is that we are in a race. We're in a great race with China. They are spending twice as much as we are now in the development of these new manufacturing jobs in clean energy and electric cars, and solar and wind, and you name it. And if we don't start that race now, we're going to be left in the dust, which is not where America belongs.
From the perspective of a medium-sized city, we've been able to do things with the EECBG funds that we could never have done otherwise. We have formed a regional partnership with six other cities that we are leveraging to do home energy reports for the communities. And those are going to result in savings for our residents for years to come.
We've transformed our fleet. We've been able to get 90 cleaner vehicles in the fleet, which is more than 40 percent of our light-duty vehicles. And that's going to have a huge impact for us.
We've been doing a lot of things around climate change and energy conservation, and these dollars were helpful in terms of moving several of our departments forward in reducing energy use.
The Senior City affordable housing complex here in Federal Way, Washington, was one of the places that King County used some if its Energy Efficiency Conservation Block grant funds to help develop a healthier living environment for their residents.
The heating units in 34 of these units were upgraded through the use of the stimulus dollars that were provided by the U.S. Department of Energy through the Energy Efficiency Conservation Block Grant funds. And those units are designed to be up to 40 percent more efficient in heating the units in which they're installed.
It's the next great industrial revolution, and America can lead it in part thanks to stimulus money.


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I focus my research on learning-communities and psychological sense of community within geographical and relational communities, including virtual (online) communities such as social networking via the web. I have developed a research program that addresses some of the following questions: How do individuals and communities interact? What makes someone feel a part of one or more communities? How do communities promote inclusion and participation? I am particularly interested in how learning-communities integrate (or exclude) individuals. For example, some of my studies have examined how communities support the relation between an individual and places of learning such as schools, adult education programs, alternative learning communities, and early childhood development programs such as Better Beginnings, Better Futures " (see other links on my page to print and video resources). Having conducted research in the U.S., Canada, Switzerland and Madagascar, I have published on psychological sense of community, early childhood development, service-learning in education, and related subjects, including self-help groups, gender and power, socioeconomic class, mentoring, and bilingual education (as it relates to the U.S.). In my writing, conducting research, teaching and mentoring, and consulting I facilitate, negotiate, and synthesize understandings among multiple stakeholders often those with diverse backgrounds and views.
My active research program involves two funded projects one in Canada and one in Madagascar. In Canada, my colleagues and I are engaged in a Pan-Canadian knowledge dissemination of the Better Beginnings, Better Futures model of developing, implementing and sustaining an effective, affordable community project for promoting positive child development by working with government and other funders to integrate service provision from all stakeholders serving early childhood care and education. This information draws on 20 years of rigorous research evidence, including costs savings. Two Canadian charitable foundations, the Max Bell Foundation and the Carthy Foudation, provide financial support for this research.
In Madagascar my colleagues and I are conducting a three-year longitudinal study in the project Preschool for All in Madagascar. Preschool is one form of early childhood education (ECE) that has been shown to foster children's cognitive, social, and emotional development and better prepare children for attending school, but much of the research evidence comes from developed countries such as the U.S., Canada, and Germany. Consequently, government, funders and researchers ask the question "is ECE important to child development for children living in impoverished contexts such as India and many African countries?" There is some convincing evidence on human development that has most, if not everyone, convinced that some form of ECE is important universally. So, the question is not "do we need ECE" but rather "how" do we do it for children and families living in impoverished conditions where the state does not care and powerful and influential NGOs (non-government organizations) have an outsider perspective? To respond to this question I am working with researchers from theInternational Dimensions of Educational Research Team at the University of Geneva, Switzerland through a partnership with the organization Aide et Action International to analyze the impact of and the conditions to improve preschool education in Madagascar in the following regions, Diana, Antanarivo, Toliera, and Sakaraha, which includes schools in either urban or rural settings. Using quasi-experimental research methods with both quantitative and qualitative data, field investigations are focusing on three questions:
1. What are the cognitive gains, educational and social benefits realized by the children attending a preschool?
2. What is the added educational value in early elementary school for children who attend preschool?
3. What are the local factors (school, town, community, family) that impact pre-school outcomes (identified above)?
Findings from this study have implications for the international debate on the relevance of early childhood education in the context of poverty and political instability.
We welcome contact from others who are conducting similar research. The UBS Optimus Foundation provides financial support for this research.


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Cogswell College knows what it takes to take your talent from beginner to pro – but here's a helpful article in 3D World Magazine with a few tips to help you decide if animation is the right path for you.
Their 10 tips include: the best use of your time (don't waste time playblasting), how to approach each scene (treat each phrase like it's own shot), dealing with facial expressions (it's about motion not poses) and troubleshooting (bookend trouble spots).
It's a challenge for artists to step back from their work and keep moving forward before each shot is perfect.
Check out the trailer from "Worlds Apart" an award-winning, short animation produced by Cogswell's Project X class.


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Carthage (Latin: Carthago or Karthago, Ancient Greek: Καρχηδών Karkhēdōn, Arabic: قرطاج Qarṭāj, Berber: ⴽⴰⵔⵜⴰⵊⴻⵏ Kartajen, Hebrew: קרתגו kartago, from the Phoenician Qart-ḥadašt קַרְתְּ חַדַשְתְּ meaning New City, implying it was a 'new Tyre') is a major urban centre that has existed for nearly 3,000 years on the Gulf of Tunis, developing from a Phoenician colony of the 1st millennium BC which has given place to the current suburb outside Tunis, Tunisia, with a population (2004 Census) of 20,715.
The first civilization that developed within the city's sphere of influence is referred to as Punic (a form of the word "Phoenician") or Carthaginian. The city of Carthage is located on the eastern side of Lake Tunis across from the centre of Tunis. According to Roman legend it was founded in 814 BC by Phoenician colonists from Tyre under the leadership of Elissa (Queen Dido). It became a large and rich city and thus a major power in the Mediterranean. The resulting rivalry with Syracuse and Rome was accompanied by several wars with respective invasions of each other's homeland. Hannibal's invasion of Italy in the Second Punic War culminated in the Carthaginian victory at Cannae and led to a serious threat to the continuation of Roman rule over Italy; however, Carthage emerged from the conflict at its historical weakest after Hannibal's defeat at the Battle of Zama in 202 BC. After the Third Punic War, the city was destroyed by the Romans in 146 BC. However, the Romans refounded Carthage, which became the Empire's third most important city and the capital of the short-lived Vandal kingdom. It remained one of the most important Roman cities until the Muslim conquest when it was destroyed a second time in 698 AD.


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The GWEF formed at the start of the school year, and with just nine members, they were able to raise more than $75,000 in less than a year.
"We are specifically for education; we are education boosters," GWEF secretary Melaine Martin said.
Concerns about the impact of tax cuts and a smaller school budget led to the formation of the GWEF, according to GWEF President Darlene Rhodes. The group consists of Rhodes, Martin, Sherri Watkins, Mable Humphrey, Michelle Johnston, Scott Carroll, Melissa Troell, Ann Cansino and John Steelhammer.
"We didn't know what to expect; it was only our first year," Rhodes said. "Port Aransas has an education foundation, and they took us under their wing and taught us the ins and outs, and we emulated them with great success. The community is amazing. It really is."
Their first fundraiser was a skeet shoot, dinner and dance in October which raised approximately $50,000, according to Rhodes. Rhodes also said that several corporations have made contributions since then.
The primary school received the largest portion of the grants at $19,585, followed by the high school with $14,579.32, then the junior high school with $11,807.77 and the elementary school with $5,000.
"We had an overwhelming response," Martin said as she explained how their requests were made. "These teachers know their students and we want to think outside the box to reach the kids."
The group had $100,000 worth of requests to review before making their final selections in March.
Each of the requests went through a request process online where the teacher had to explain why they wanted the grant, what the outcome would be from getting it, and if any funding would be needed to sustain it.
Part of this process involved the GWEF verifying there was no other funding available.
"It is very specific. It isn't as simple as saying, 'Hey, can I have a TV for my room?'" Rhodes said.
The remainder of the funds GWEF raised so far this year will be used to keep the foundation going, to award more grants and for hosting another skeet shoot, dinner and dance fundraiser next fall, according to Rhodes.
The following are the grants the GWEF awarded on Wednesday:
• Mia Balko - $1,700 for a laptop computer and 51-inch television for the GWHS Agriculture Department and $1,920 for the GWHS FFA students to attend the Texas FFA Convention.
• Margarita Cantu - $1,500 for the GWHS Spanish Club's cultural trip to attend the Pan American Student Forum of Texas convention.
• Estela Chapa, Sandy Cole, Carolyn Dye, Isabel Hernandez, Winnie Johnson, Sandra Liska and Grace Torres – Seven MIMIO smartboards for the GW primary campus at $1,959 each.
• Linda Clark - $1,392.77 for a flatbed scanner and laser printer with toner.
• Kelan Grimes - $415 for film clips for character education at the GWJHS campus. Grimes said it's a video series that uses popular movies to teach lessons about how students can work together and build self-esteem.
"I'm so excited. It's just a great program," Grimes said.
• Gwen Holt - $5,000 for 100 TI-NSPIRE calculators for the GWHS math department.
• Lori Katzfey - $5,000 for an award-winning author to visit the GWES library.
• Samantha Keadle – $10,000 for 14 notebook computers with Microsoft Office Academic and hardware support for the GWJHS. Keadle actually made two requests for seven notebooks at $5,000 for each request and both were granted.
• Kendra Mergele - $5,000 for library books at the primary school.
• Claire Olsovsky - $3,559.32 for six electronic balances and six Vernier LabQuest2 sets for the high school chemistry and physics department.
• Juan Rodriguez - $900 for the GWHS band's summer clinic.
• Kim Steelhammer - $872.88 for 24 therapy balls at the primary school. Steelhammer said the balls are for energetic students to sit on while they work so they can expel some of that energy through balancing while they study.
For more information on the GWEF, go to gweducationfoundation.org.


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A new SNA (School Nutrition Association) report indicates that most school districts have completed implementation of their nutrition standards for National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and a la carte offerings. The report, From Cupcakes to Carrots: Local Wellness Policies One Year Later, was compiled from a survey of 976 school nutrition directors conducted this past May. The survey shows that 97% of school districts have addressed nutrition standards for NSLP meals in their wellness ...
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25 U.S. Code § 1300i - Short title and definitions
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(b) DefinitionsFor the purposes of this subchapter, the term—
(1) "Escrow funds" means the moneys derived from the joint reservation which are held in trust by the Secretary in the accounts entitled—
"Proceeds of Labor-Hoopa Valley Indians-California 70 percent Fund, account number J52–561–7197";
"Proceeds of Labor-Hoopa Valley Indians-California 30 percent Fund, account number J52–561–7236";
"Proceeds of Labor-Yurok Indians of Lower Klamath River, California, account number J52–562–7153";
"Proceeds of Labor-Yurok Indians of Upper Klamath River, California, account number J52–562–7154";
"Proceeds of Labor-Hoopa Reservation for Hoopa Valley and Yurok Tribes, account number J52–575–7256"; and
"Hoopa Indian blood" means that degree of ancestry derived from an Indian of the Hunstang, Hupa, Miskut, Redwood, Saiaz, Sermalton, Tish-Tang-Atan, South Fork, or Grouse Creek Bands of Indians;
"Hoopa Valley Reservation" means the reservation described in section 1300i–1(b) of this title;
"Hoopa Valley Tribe" means the Hoopa Valley Tribe, organized under the constitution and amendments approved by the Secretary on November 20, 1933, September 4, 1952, August 9, 1963, and August 18, 1972;
"Indian of the Reservation" shall mean any person who meets the criteria to qualify as an Indian of the Reservation as established by the United States Court of Claims in its March 31, 1982, May 17, 1987, and March 1, 1988, decisions in the case of Jesse Short et al. v. United States, (Cl. Ct. No. 102–63);
"Joint reservation" means the area of land defined as the Hoopa Valley Reservation in section 1300i–1(b) of this title and the Yurok Reservation in section 1300i–1(c) of this title.[1]
"Karuk Tribe" means the Karuk Tribe of California, organized under its constitution on April 6, 1985;
"Settlement Fund" means the Hoopa-Yurok Settlement Fund established pursuant to section 1300i–3 of this title;
"Settlement Roll" means the final roll prepared and published in the Federal Register by the Secretary pursuant to section 1300i–4 of this title;
"Short cases" means the cases entitled Jesse Short et al. v. United States, (Cl. Ct. No. 102–63); Charlene Ackley v. United States, (Cl. Ct. No. 460–78); Bret Aanstadt v. United States, (Cl. Ct. No. 146–85L); and Norman Giffen v. United States, (Cl. Ct. No. 746–85L);
"trust land" means an interest in land the title to which is held in trust by the United States for an Indian or Indian tribe, or by an Indian or Indian tribe subject to a restriction by the United States against alienation;
"unallotted trust land, property, resources or rights" means those lands, property, resources, or rights reserved for Indian purposes which have not been allotted to individuals under an allotment Act;
"Yurok Reservation" means the reservation described in section 1300i–1(c) of this title; and
"Yurok Tribe" means the Indian tribe which is recognized and authorized to be organized pursuant to section 1300i–8 of this title.
(Pub. L. 100–580, § 1, Oct. 31, 1988, 102 Stat. 2924.)
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Okay I have been thinking about trying one of these since I've heard a lot of people say good things about them helping to increase supply. I have tried everything I can think of, and so far nothing else has worked. How do these work?
Okay I have been thinking about trying one of these since I've heard a lot of people say good things about them helping to increase supply. I have tried everything I can think of, and so far nothing else has worked. How do these work?
I'm Shannon!
Single, babywearing, barefoot in the grass mama to 3 wonderful babies!
Abby 11-25-03
Terry 9-29-06
Kate 6-12-08
and my Jack 11-17-02, gone to God at 11 weeks
"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about."
"I am going to be happy today, though the skies may be cloudy or gray. No matter what comes my way, I am going to be happy today."
Here is a picture of one. The bag of formula or expressed milk hangs around your neck. A little tube comes out of it, and you position it alongside your nipple when the baby latches on, so that she ends up with both tube and breast in her mouth. The baby feeds from the tube and the breast simultaneously.
I used the SNS for just over a week along with Fenugreek and Blessed Thistle. Its fairly easy to use, just a pain to clean after every feeding. I found DD would stay and stimulate the breast much longer with the SNS since she was actually getting something. My suggestion would be to keep milk flow fairly slow (although not slow enough to frustrate your LO) just to keep them sucking well rather then just getting a ton of milk with very little work. I would let DD finish one breast then towards the "end" of the second breast I would sneak the tube in and then alternate which breast got the SNS each feeding. I'm not sure if it was the SNS that ultimately got my supply to increase, but something did.
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Born: 7lbs 7oz
Month 1: 8lbs
Week 5: 8lbs 6oz
Week 7: 9lbs 5oz
Week 9: 10lbs 2.6oz
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If LO needs supplements, this is a way to give them and provide breast stimulation at the same time. These work best if baby has an effective suck/latch. We are using one now.
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We've had to use one since my LO was born - though most people don't, so don't worry!! It is very helpful, but you have to make sure that you don't "unclip" the milk immediately, or they will get frustrated when your let down doesn't happen immediately. Unfortunately, my LO doesn't take my bare breast w/out it, but that's in part bc I make so little milk. I definitely recommend it, because it has kept us having a breastfeeding relationship. I will add that we use donated (screened) breastmilk and not formula.
An SNS can really help with reducing supplementation. I more than halved supplementation when I completely stopped using bottles (with no other changes). Even though they were slow flow, it was still easier for LO to feed from the bottle so she'd just take more that way.
SNS is fiddly and takes some time to get the hang of but it's well worth it.
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Oh, snap! I didn't quite think that through. You're right, and I'll edit it.
So, to answer your question: stupid.
I'm not sure why we're supposed to love Queen Latifah either. ("She's my trainer! I'm not a lesbian! I'M NOT A LESBIAN!")
Sigh… Madeline Kahn. Miss her.
Okay, noew here, but I've soem casting ideas you all *might* like. Amber Benson as Dolly Parton. Alyson Hannigan as Susan Hayward. Sarah Michelle Gellar as Sunnye Sherman.
Queen Latifah is a terrible actress, not sure who keeps putting her in movies, or why? Did you the Steel Magnolias remake? She was absolutely awful.
I've been saying that about Messing/Loy for a while. I feel vindicated that a) I'm not the only one who thought so and b) I'm not the only weirdo who is out there thinking about this stuff. I also think that Messing could do a convincing Rosalind Russell – especially the physical comedy. (I was beside myself when they remade The Women and cast Messing in something other than the Sylvia Fowler role. But trying to choose one of the crimes committed in that film to complain about is whatever the opposite of a Sophie's Choice is.) Tilda Swinton resembles Australia's Julia Gillard, but unless the Prime Minister is abducted by aliens or has a complete nervous breakdown in public, there's just no there… there. Also, Jennifer Lawrence clearly has it in her to become Jennifer Coolidge someday. Let's hope she chooses the light and not the dark.


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When you're short on religion, as is my family, you have to make your own ceremonies for important occasions. It helps if you have good planning skills. We don't. In spite of all our shortcomings and recent obstacles, like my aunt's stroke, we wanted to have a family memorial for my uncle at the place he loved best, on Fire Island. His cremains had been languishing since May on a marble mantelpiece in the townhouse he shared with his wife for the last 40 years of his life.
As we made plans for my aunt to move into assisted living uptown, it became clear it was also time to honor her husband with an appropriate dispatch. Assembling my family is like herding cats—cats without smartphones. But assemble we did at a borrowed house on the ocean in Seaview, the community in which my cousins spent their childhood, where they learned to ride bikes and windsurf, to swim and sail and seine for sea life. They spent their summers in a big old cedar-shake house anchored between the Great South Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
When they were young, their mother stayed there with them and my uncle came out on the ferry every Friday. He crammed a week's worth of activity into every weekend, taking them sailing in a tiny Styrofoam craft called a Snark, body-surfing at the ocean or swimming in the bay and going into town for ice-cream every Saturday night. There were no cars on the island, only bicycles, and they were not allowed in the town proper. Walking was the dominant mode of transport. It was a good way to spend a childhood.
The ceremony my cousins envisioned for their father's Fire Island send-off included a parade of family members on foot, flanking their mother's wheelchair. It started at the beach house with a review of a selection of a life's worth of photographs that called up spontaneous recollections, and proceeded to the bay beach where we each scooped a clamshell of ashes into the bay. We remembered my uncle spending hours there readying the windsurf-boards for any of us who might want to go out in good weather.
The parade continued to the ferry dock where he would go every weekend, rain or shine, often inventively attired. He always wore UV-blocking clothing, broad-brimmed hats and if a rope would do for a belt, so be it.
At the dock, my cousins had hired a water taxi as an afterthought. The captain had agreed to ignore our nefarious activity—the dumping of human remains is oddly forbidden—and he slowly transported us to a lonely little island in the bay, where my cousins remembered going with their parents to clam in the sandy shallows on the Snark. As the captain cut the engine, my cousin Michael read a poem titled "Farewell" that ends "When you live in the hearts/ Of those you love/ Remember then/ You never die."
Just then, we noticed a small white sailboat pass by with a red and white sail and four passengers leaning against the steady wind. It was the Snark. I turned to my cousin Jennifer, disbelieving my eyes. "It's you," I said, "It's your family." We just stared as the Snark tacked away into the bay.
The last stop on our ceremonial parade was the ocean, where my aunt got up from her wheelchair and walked with us to the edge of the sea. As she flung one last scoop of ashes into the surf, a gust of wind blew it back onto the beach and her. We all gasped, but she began to laugh as her son-in-law dusted the ashes of her husband from her shoes, and finally we were all laughing and crying at once.
And that is how you celebrate a life well-lived with or without religion.


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Visit the OCLC booth to meet with your cooperative colleagues. The theme for this year's conference is "Quality Services and New Paradigms: Revaluation of Institutional and Cultural Heritage of Libraries, Archives and Museums." Join OCLC's Lucia Shelton on Wednesday, 4 September, from 12:00 to 12:30 pm, for a presentation on "WorldShare: Integration of library resources and services."
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Commissioner Carlos Salazar, who was filling in as county judge for Monday's court meeting in David Silva's absence, brought the idea before the three other county leaders to remove the high school diploma or GED requirement to work in the maintenance department of the county.
"Since the Eagle Ford, we have been having issues with maintenance and road and bridge departments keeping people on staff," he said. "There is a great pool of individuals out there in the community — and I have spoken to the judge on this, and he agrees — that for whatever reason, we don't know what goes on in their personal lives growing up that they somehow didn't finish school and didn't get a GED, but they are good, hard-working people.
"I am asking the court to consider waiving the requirement that they have a GED."
Salazar said that the employees would still have to go through the other screening processes, which include a criminal background check.
Commissioner Eloy Rodriguez agreed with the proposal, saying, "Anyone with a clean record and a GED – they are going to be working in the oil field.
"You have a lot of individuals that for whatever reasons don't have a high school diploma or GED.
"We need workers, and this is a good way to get workers."
Salazar added, "This is just for maintenance and custodial positions.
"This is not for the auditor's office."
Commissioner Dennis DeWitt was the first of the commissioners to voice concern.
"That totally restricts their upward mobility in county government," he said. "Every other position we have has a minimum of a GED.
"We need to help. These folks are out there.
"Is there any way we could put something in there that they begin working on their GED? We want to make sure they can read and write."
DeWitt also reminded that being able to read is crucial to knowing what is contained in cleaning bottles that could be dangerous if mixed improperly.
"It is very important they be able to read and understand the chemicals they are using," he said.
Commissioner Ken Haggard, a former Skidmore-Tynan school board member, was concerned about the message this would send to the youth of the community.
"What kind of message are we sending out to these school districts?" he said. "We have students who don't want to try very hard and a teacher tells them, 'You won't be able to get a job unless you graduate.'
"And they say, 'I can work for the county. I don't need an education to work for the county.'"
Rodriguez, a former teacher and principal, said that he didn't feel the proposal would have any effect on students continuing their education.
"I think we should put people on the tax rolls and make them feel good about themselves," he said.
"This is not against education. I am an educator.
"It is about getting workers, good workers who can work."
While the proposal didn't pass on Monday, the proponents of it say they will bring it up again when Silva, who was out at the time because of a death in the family, returns to the court.
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Freeport-McMoRan in a World of Debt
The market's reaction to Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX) announcement that its made an offer to buy Plains Exploration & Production (PXP) for $6.9 billion in cash and stock was not what FCX was hoping for.
(This story sounds good in many ways, as you can hear in this interview with TheStreetDirector of Research Stephanie Link . I'd encourage you to watch it as a good way to get the overview.)
Shares of FCX ended the trading day on Wednesday down 16% at $32.16 while shares of PXP soared 23.44% to close at $44.50.As if that wasn't enough excitement for one day, FCX also said it would spend $2.1 billion for McMoRan Exploraton (MMR) . FCX will also assume $11 billion of the debt of the acquired companies.
According to an Associated Press report released after FCX's press release, "The addition of the two companies will create a natural resources conglomerate with assets ranging from oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico to mines in Indonesia.
"Plains Exploration, based in Houston, produces oil in California, Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, along with natural gas in Louisiana. McMoRan Exploration, based in New Orleans, is developing natural gas resources that lie deep below shallow water regions of the Gulf of Mexico."
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for recapturing past competencies and diversifying into the energy sector. But even analysts like Brian Yu at Citigroup who held fast to his "buy" recommendation were scratching their heads concerning the logic of the acquisitions and the high prices paid.
"We see little if any synergies between the copper mining and oil and gas drilling business to offset the premium valuation paid," Yu wrote. "Investors can get the same diversification in their portfolio at a much lower cost."
FCX, which saw its last quarterly earnings growth drop by almost 22%, moves from being a company with around $3.5 billion in total debt to now having (according to Yu) more than $16 billion. Yu reportedly said this gigantic increase in debt is manageable with some capital spending maneuvers.Jim Cramer's protege, Dave Peltier, finds you Stocks Under $10 picks with explosive upside potential. See what he's trading today with a 14-day FREE pass.
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Without further ado, here is part 2 of what goes on behind the scenes at the annual ICBA conventions.
What kind of hours are you and the team working during convention?
It's not an exaggeration to say from sun up until long after sun down. Usually, our team is ready to go around 6:00 am, or at least an hour prior to the first event of the day. With so many moving parts and events scheduled daily, it's not uncommon for staff to work until later in the evening for several days straight. Of course, finding time to rest is important as well, so you need to find those free moments to sit and catch your breath when you can. My hours at the convention are essentially shortly after I wake up until the last event is done in the evening.
What are some of the strangest requests that you've gotten about Convention?
Thankfully, people are very understanding (for the most part) that there are many moving parts and pieces to the puzzle that need to come together in order to have a successful event, but that doesn't mean we aren't faced with challenges from time to time. Some of the more interesting requests come from very creative people, looking to create a buzz about something related to their company and brand. Recently, one group wanted to provide hot air balloon rides for convention attendees. While a fun idea, there were liability concerns that the hotel and ICBA had with the concept.
What was one of the biggest hurdles you encountered for Convention?
The 2011 Convention in San Diego was a huge challenge. I hope the attendees didn't realize or notice all the obstacles we had to overcome, that's the goal of any meeting/event planner! We were faced with hurdle after hurdle behind the scenes. Everything from electrical outages, freight elevators not working, weather issues that caused high drape in the exhibit hall to sway back and forth and nearly fall over, and flooding inside the exhibit hall overnight due to heavy rains were just a few of the challenges. Just when one thing was resolved, something else would go drastically wrong! There were other hurdles that kept us scrambling, but in the end, as long as the attendees were happy and were not affected, that's all that matters.


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PF Millsap 11
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Smith is what 6 mil?
Felton's 5 should be traded by then.
I'm ballparking the salaries, trying to overestimate so maybe we'll have some extra space, but that puts the knicks at 59. They're well over that now, so who's to say they'll have a problem paying the luxury tax two years from now?
Maybe grab aldridge or love, convince them to take a cut, and find a buyer for smith?
we'll have a pick in 2015, given it's not thrown away by then. Maybe we'll have a few more given that chandler/bargs/stat will have expirings next season. Tyler is a good piece it's looking like, murry too. Maybe grab Hansbrough, Asik as a cheaper alternative to Gasol. Forgot about Shump, but he's gonna be traded by then I'm pretty sure. If not, that's fine, he can be a deshawn stevenson at the worst.
Those are my ideas.