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At the MENA-ICT Forum in Amman
Amman, Jordan
10 October 2010
In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Compassionate,
It is a pleasure to join this extraordinary gathering. Some who are here today, were among the very first to imagine the possibilities for regional ICT. Some are actively working forward, creating tomorrow's industry. More than a few are in both groups: the founders and the future of ICT in Jordan and beyond. It is thanks to all of you that Jordan's ICT sector has come this far and will go so much further.
This forum is part of the success you are creating. I congratulate the leadership of INT@J and the Ministry of Information & Communication Technology and all who are taking part. Ayman, Marwan, I am grateful for your kind tribute. I consider it a tribute to all those who are inspiring, creating and building this industry.
Let me also extend a special welcome to the many friends who are with us from across the region and the world. Partnerships are a powerful resource for ICT development. To all our guests today, thank you for sharing our path.
My friends,
Today and tomorrow your forum will be addressing concerns shared across the region, from the ICT ecosystem to the importance of Arabic content. You will look at strategic business issues, involving new products, services and emerging markets. The organisers want you, the participants, to own the discussions. Because it is all of you who will talk out the solutions and take action forward. I am here to wish you success, and to say a few words about why your success matters.
Only ten years ago, pioneering companies were still putting down roots; many others did not even exist. Today, Jordan has a 2.2 billion-dollar ICT industry, with expanding domestic, regional, and global positions. Yahoo's acquisition of Maktoob is only one sign of the high value placed on the capacity you have created. Across the industry, success is supported by a flow of new talent from our universities and new partnerships at home and abroad. Today, the one percent of our workforce involved in ICT contributes 14 percent of GDP. Just imagine the impact when our ICT workforce grows to five percent.
Your sector stands as a model of enterprise, showing what people can achieve when they work with conviction, passion, focus and ambition. In less than a generation, your sector has helped to alter the cultural perception of entrepreneurship throughout our country and our region. Just ask Oasis 500, Meydan, iPark, and others about the number of applications they are receiving.
My friends,
This industry has achieved what it has, against a backdrop of sharp economic and political challenges to our world. Regional conflict has been a major disrupter of development. We need to break this cycle. While the friends of peace work together for a lasting regional settlement, we must also, together, keep pushing for the region's economic future. That requires a new level of engagement; pooling the resources and expertise of government, business, education, the media and more. To build on strength, we need to keep asking the tough questions:
- Is government doing enough to promote entrepreneurship?
- What more can all our institutions do to support productive risk-taking and innovation?
- What are the most effective ways to create, sustain, and keep industry talent?
- How can we expand access to the opportunities afforded by this sector?
My friends,
I am confident you will find the answers. The ability to create, innovate, and cooperate are longstanding Jordanian strengths and part of the great heritage of the Muslim world. And they are key to our future.
So, to our entrepreneurs and ICT labour force, to developers and product managers, to private and public-sector partners and to the thousands of Jordanian youth who are studying to be tomorrow's ICT leaders: I say:
Unlock the potential. Imagine the future. Lead the way. You have Jordan's full support. And I am proud to count myself among your greatest champions.
Unlock the potential. Imagine the future. Lead the way. You have Jordan's full support. And I am proud to count myself among your greatest champions.
Thank You.


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Now is the time to unite, share your spirit and energy with other veterans for a common cause, for the good of the order. Our camaraderie is very important to us and no veteran will be alone as long as we are here. We are only as strong as our unity in numbers. Today, that is our safety as veterans, our rights and issues.
Join, be active in your veteran organization(s). There are many opportunities provided where your knowledge, temperament and experience are wanted and needed. We are all growing and learning.
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Adamson, Joy
Joy Adamson 1910–1980
(Born Friedrike Victoria Gessner) Austrian nonfiction writer, ethologist, lecturer, photographer, painter, and illustrator.
By sharing with the world the remarkable adventure of her life, Adamson created works that rival fiction for the excitement and drama they convey. Adamson devoted herself to the understanding and preservation of African animal life and tribal culture. It is, however, as chronicler of the amazing relationship she and her husband had with Elsa, a lioness, and Pippa, a cheetah, and their cubs that Adamson is best known.
After marrying George Adamson, the senior game warden of Kenya, Adamson often cared for motherless baby animals. Despite dire predictions and lack of scientific precedent, the Adamsons reared Elsa and then successfully returned her to her natural environment. The story of this venture is documented in Born Free and its sequels Living Free and Forever Free. Adamson's straight forward humorous prose, free of anthropomorphism or sentimentality, caused her books to be hailed as classics. It was generally agreed that the affection Adamson had for her subjects and the perception she used in describing them overruled any literary flaws. All three books were later adapted into film semidocumentaries, as was The Spotted Sphinx; these films, which were supervised by the Adamsons, included scenes between animals and man never before captured cinematically. Born Free was also adapted for television during 1974.
After another successful experiment with Pippa, the subject of The Spotted Sphinx and its sequel, Pippa's Challenge, Adamson began lecturing about Elsa throughout the world, and established the successful Elsa Wild Animal Appeal in the many countries she visited. She continued to draw upon her experiences in books for younger children, and in 1978 published her autobiography, The Searching Spirit. Unfortunately, many critics felt that this anecdotal narrative shed little new light on Adamson and her accomplishments.
As a writer, Adamson preferred to let the facts of her experiences speak for themselves. Her unembellished prose sometimes approached the clinical, but it always reflected the deep concern she brought to her subjects. Although she never considered herself a professional scientist, the documentations of her associations with both the human and animal world have earned her distinction among anthropologists and zoologists. In addition, her work has indisputable value as a persuasive, effective plea for conservation. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 69-72 and 93-96, and Something about the Author, Vol. 11.)
Mrs. Adamson, the wife of a Kenya game warden, describes in this memorable book [Born Free] a difficult, dangerous and illuminating experiment, an experiment in living together. She received from her husband a three-day-old litter of three lion cubs and started to rear them. In due course two of them were sent off into captivity. The Adamsons could not bear to part with Elsa, the weakest third. They decided to let her grow to maturity as one of their family. They would not turn her into a pet; they would not tame her; they could not domesticate her. She was born free….
Mrs. Adamson describes what happened with convincing simplicity and directness. She was withdrawing from Elsa the necessity to learn to kill in order to live, and substituting an artificial regime for the expansion of her tremendous energies…. [Elsa's] growth was a state of increasingly precarious equilibrium between the savage instincts of her kind and something that grew between her and her human household. Mrs. Adamson uses the only words that are available to describe this restraining force—it was, on both sides of the experiment, trust, devotion and love. But ultimately these would not be enough. There was, it seems, no record of a man-reared lioness successfully taking her place with her own pride and her own mate. The crisis of the Adamsons' experiment was to find the right way to let Elsa go…. Mrs. Adamson explains nothing, and much of what she writes needs and merits a lot of explaining; it is her triumph that [her] words ring true.
"Life with a Lioness," in The Times Literary Supplement (© Times Newspapers Ltd. (London) 1960; reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission), No. 3034, April 22, 1960, p. 254.
Charles Paul May
The reader [of Born Free] gets a feeling for nature in Kenya, and, in slight degree, for human life there as well.
It is too bad, tho, that the author does not go into more detail about the training of the lioness. There are instances where Mrs. Adamson speaks of using a stick to teach Elsa the meaning of "No," but usually she tells what her pet did without giving the background leading up to Elsa's achievements. Nor does she dramatize several events that must have been exciting, thereby leaving the reader with a let-down feeling.
The style of writing is fluid and pleasant, and the adventures of Elsa and her owners are amusing, absorbing, or exciting enough to make this a satisfying book for a variety of readers.
Charles Paul May, "She Made African Lioness Her Pet," in Chicago Tribune (© 1960 Chicago Tribune; reprinted by permission of the author), April 24, 1960, p. 4.
Gerald Durrell
There have been many books written by people who have hand-reared wild animals, and then kept them around the house in a state of semi-domestication. But, interesting though these accounts often are, one gets the feeling that there is something lacking. The animal is neither truly domestic nor is it truly wild. Therefore, any observations on its behavior become automatically suspect. The ideal is, of course, to live on intimate terms with a truly wild animal, so that one can observe its behavior without disturbing it in any way. Joy Adamson has achieved the nearest possible approach to this, and has produced a fascinating and remarkable book ["Born Free"]….
Mercifully resisting the impulse to give us just another account of the difficulties of keeping a full-grown lion around the house, Joy Adamson has concentrated instead on giving us a carefully observed and well written account of the animal's life, from the moment she was obtained as a cub a few days old, to the moment, four years later, when she was returned to the wild. It is a moving and incredible story…. (p. 28)
By far the most absorbing part of the book deals with the Adamson's efforts to return Elsa to the wilds; the difficulties of getting rid of a lion are, it appears, almost as great as keeping one…. This must surely be one of the most remarkable cases on record of human association with a wild animal.
Joy Adamson writes well, without excess sentimentality, and with a nice dry humor. (pp. 28-9)
One can only hope that this association continues to prosper, and that in the not too distant future Mrs. Adamson will give us a further account of Elsa as a mother. I am sure that it will be considerably more enjoyable than the average sequel we are treated to these days. (p. 29)
Gerald Durrell, "Living with a Lioness," in The New York Times Book Review (© 1960 by The New York Times Company; reprinted by permission), May 22, 1960, pp. 28-9.
Walter Necker
I cannot recall any animal book which I would recommend to as wide an audience as [Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds, an] unusual and exciting story of a lioness raised among people and then retrained to return to her own kind in the wilds of Kenya…. It has drama and sadness, but above all novelty and happiness. Aside from its pleasurable reading it has much to offer to the animal behaviorist also—much that is thought-provoking and significant. (pp. 2445-46)
Walter Necker, "Natural Science: 'Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds'," in Library Journal (reprinted from Library Journal, June 15, 1960; published by R. R. Bowker Co. (a Xerox company); copyright © 1960 by Xerox Corporation), Vol. 85, No. 12, June 15, 1960, pp. 2445-46.
William Percy
[Born Free is] a unique and illuminating study in animal psychology. (p. 9)
[Elsa's history in Born Free] provides a record of absorbing interest depicting the gradual development of a controlled character which few would have credited as possible in the case of an animal potentially as dangerous as any in the world. That such a creature when in a highly excited state, with her blood up after a long struggle with a bull buffalo, and while still on top of it, should have permitted a man to walk up to her and cut the dying beast's throat to satisfy his religious scruples, and then lend her assistance in pulling the carcass out of a river, is an astonishing tribute no less to her...
(The entire section is 245 words.)
Gerald Durrell
In "Living Free" Mrs. Adamson tells us the whole story of Elsa's mating, the birth of the cubs, their development and of Elsa's unfortunate death, and the story is a fascinating one, not only for anyone interested in animals but for the more serious student of zoology as well. Her style is pleasantly terse and factual, without any of the anthropomorphic frills that usually attend books of this sort. You get the impression that she is a brave and extraordinary person….
Mrs. Adamson is a careful observer; throughout the book you find the most fascinating bits of lion lore. (p. 3)
This is a wonderful and enchanting book that everyone should make a point of reading, for not only does...
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Phoebe-Lou Adams
[Born Free] was such a delight that it is disheartening to have to report that its sequel, Living Free …, is no better than most sequels. The story of Elsa's cubs and her life in the wilds is told by Mrs. Adamson with the same simplicity and affection that characterized the first book …, but circumstance has introduced an element of fraud.
While the orphaned Elsa was being raised by the Adamsons, and later trained to live as a wild lion, the presence of her human companions was right and necessary. Once she had been turned loose, however, and particularly when she had cubs which she wished to keep out of sight, the presence of the Adamsons with their cameras and notebooks inevitably...
(The entire section is 201 words.)
Ted Hughes
There are stories of wild tigers living in the camps of Jungle Indians, fading off when strangers approach, and stories of baboons joining in the games of Kaffir boys—games of a ferocity you would not risk with an Alsatian. All incredible stories. Yet Joy Adamson's story belongs with these. Living Free describes her continued friendship with the lioness, Elsa, while Elsa lived wild, had a wild mate and reared three cubs. During this period Joy Adamson kept a diary of Elsa's comings and goings and took photographs of her regularly, then worked that material up into a book. The diary tone is still evident, and in just glancing at one page you would wonder how this rather abrupt, condensed notation of disparate...
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Julian Huxley
I found [Living Free] an absorbing story. First, because it gives the reader the genuine feeling of the African bush. (p. xxii)
But that, fascinating though it is, is only a background for the story, only the stage on which the protagonists live out their parts. The main interest of the book lies in its account of the psychological development of Elsa and her family. (p. xxiii).
[Most] remarkable of all is … the fact that a human being had succeeded in eliciting in a lioness a psychological organization which basically resembled a human personality. And that in consequence the lioness was enabled to lead a second life, based on friendly human relations, in addition to a...
(The entire section is 179 words.)
John Hughes
In a sense ["Forever Free"] is the saddest of the trio. It tells of Elsa's death and it is an intensely moving, and at times harrowing, story….
Elsa herself dominates only part of the latest book. Much of it is in fact devoted to the Adamsons' rescue of Elsa's three cubs….
Never did the cubs become as tame as Elsa and never, apparently, did Mrs. Adamson achieve exactly the same rapport. But it's a heart-warming account and a fitting conclusion to one of the most moving animal stories ever to come out of Africa.
John Hughes, "The Elsa Era," in The Christian Science Monitor (reprinted by permission from The Christian Science...
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Charles L. Miller
The Peoples of Kenya is much more than a fashion catalogue, and if you overlook the text you will be passing up quite an adventure. Although tribal ways in Kenya today are little more than a tourist floor show, a handful of people still manage to live as they did centuries before the invention of travelers' checks. Mrs. Adamson's word-pictures of their isolated communities—particularly in the cruelly magnificent, measureless crematorium of Kenya's northern region—are no less vivid than her paintings. To read her accounts of how these prehistoric tribes turn their backs on jet-age society and transform grim survival into a rewarding way of life is to enjoy the weird and beautiful experience of a journey...
(The entire section is 151 words.)
Alfred C. Ames
The Spotted Sphinx is the record of a long association, one still very much alive at the end of the book….
A book by Joy Adamson grabs a reader and holds him. It is of course tremendously moving to see a member of our own species establish a relationship of trust and affection with an animal historically viewed as fearfully savage, an absolute threat to life and limb….
Perhaps not everyone can happily surrender himself to Mrs. Adamson's day-by-day account of the search for one to five elusive cheetahs, of a prolonged succession of meals of freshly slaughtered goat meat, of bouts of worry interspersed with moments of happy play with strong animals who mean no harm but...
(The entire section is 545 words.)
Anita Nygaard
Adamson's rare perception and her superb gifts of story-telling are vividly evident [in Pippa's Challenge]. She has a passion for understanding "the fascination of what's difficult" (Yeats); the cheetah, reticent, graceful, and astonishingly beautiful, is a difficult and fascinating creature…. The challenge of Pippa and her cubs is to teach us something essential of ourselves—if we will learn. There is a useful comparison table of members of the cat family. Highly recommended. (pp. 3171-72)
Anita Nygaard, "Natural History & Zoology: 'Pippa's Challenge'," in Library Journal (reprinted from Library Journal, October 1, 1972; published by R. R. Bowker...
(The entire section is 109 words.)
Elspeth Huxley
[The Searching Spirit: An Autobiography] is a unique story, told with the directness and simplicity of all [Joy Adamson's] writings: the story of a generous, creative and artistic person, with a great fund of affection for her fellow creatures, who has devoted her life to observing them as individuals in order to discover how they think, feel and behave, to recording the results with brush and pen, and to pleading their cause in the world at large. But this book is not a treatise, or in any sense a polemic. It is an adventure tale, the personal story of a woman of courage, gaiety and zest for life. 'A day in the bush is never dull,' she remarks. Nor is a page in her autobiography. (p. 15)...
(The entire section is 147 words.)
Harold Hayes
An altogether admirable person, [Joy Adamson] has lived a rambunctious, large-scale, productive life, her own best example of one of the very few introspections to be found in ["The Searching Spirit"]: "… only one thing is certain—people get out of life exactly what they put into it."
Having put more into it than most, Mrs. Adamson has left a lot of her life out of her book…. [The] best that can be said of Mrs. Adamson's narrative is that she reduces things to their essence. Too little is made of too much. Almost at random throughout the Kenya section, within two or three pages, she may be found dashing up one mountainside and down the next, collecting exotic species and surviving a variety of...
(The entire section is 307 words.)
Peggy Crane
Like other women who have fallen in love with Africa—Dame Margery Perham being a superb example—Joy Adamson is a woman of many talents. Unlike Dame Margery, however, she is not a born writer and … [The Searching Spirit] is pedestrian rather than inspired, and we learn very little about Mrs Adamson as a person….
Bereft of the lions,… this book is a little dull. This is not because Mrs Adamson's experiences were dull; they were not….
With so many other talents at her disposal it is perhaps unfair, however, to criticise this author for a lack of writing talent. Her experiment with Elsa attracted the attention of famous scientists and zoologists, and alerted the world...
(The entire section is 146 words.)
John Wanamaker
To one who is familiar with Joy Adamson's tireless fieldwork, her disappointments as well as her achievements in international wildlife conservation, ["The Searching Spirit"] is far from complete. While the facts are there … there is all too little about Joy herself. Yet this autobiography should find an immediate place in the hearts of those who retain a love for Elsa and Pippa….
There is far too little about Joy and George since "Born Free"'s worldwide acclamation. We find little mention of the many honors bestowed upon her, the command visits to and from royalty and heads of state, the long trips to Russia, Japan and Australia at the requests of governments to further conservation education....
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Last week was the end of the annual World Gourmet Summit held in Singapore. The event ran for two weeks and took place at restaurants all over the country. As a lover of food, this is definitely one of my favorite events of the year because it is an opportunity to taste dishes from amazing chefs from all over the world. Capella Singapore's The Knolls was very fortunate to be one of the venue hosts for this event and we had the immense pleasure of hosting two renowned pastry chefs from Spain, a father and son team, Paco and Jacob Torreblanca.
The menus were truly fascinating because it was the first time I saw a full savory menu featuring chocolate. An interesting and unlikely combination of ingredients was my first thought when I saw the menu for the dining events. It included a Venison Pears Terrine with Chocolate Chutney, a Warm Scallop with a Chocolate Crust and Daikon, Japanese radish, and a Roasted Pigeon Breast served with a bitter chocolate sauce and hazelnut cauliflower puree. However my apprehensions were soon put to rest, as Chefs Paco and Jacob's blending of flavors were sublime.
This distinctive dining concept was Chef Paco Torreblanca's idea and the result of his fascination with the possibilities of blending cocoa with Mediterranean ingredients. From this spark of inspiration Chef Paco and his son Jacob have gone on to create a whole new and unique dining experience.
The series of dining events at The Knolls also included a Chocolate High Tea. One of the most notable desserts featured the Cassis Royal, a light raspberry and pistachio layered cake marked with a giant white chocolate "oyster." Chef Paco shared the story behind this dessert, "I had a friend who loved oysters, but unfortunately one day he had some that made him sick. Hearing this, I told my friend that I would create for him an oyster that would not make him sick and that he would love." Talk about a great friendship!
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Instead, the company announced "Knowledge Graph Search," hereinafter known as KGS. It's a graphical method of developing searches on your own Facebook data and that of people you know. The more dependent you become on Facebook, the more friends you make there, the more value this delivers.
Your friends, photos, places and interests can all become searchable with this, so the stocks most hurt by this announcement were those, like LinkedIn (LNKD) and Yelp (YELP) , that specialize in compiling recommendations.
Facebook gave some examples of what can be done. If you want to know where surfers in Laguna Beach go for coffee, what TV shows doctors like, or the music preferences of Mitt Romney's fans, there is now a way to do that. But you have to get in -- you have to "friend" these other accounts -- to get something out.
What this tells me is that suspicion of Facebook, the tendency to seek privacy from sharing of data with other users, is as much a target here as anything. While this doesn't impact Google (GOOG) directly, it does so indirectly by giving Facebook users a feature Google Plus, that company's social network, doesn't have. Yet.
Facebook credited two ex-Googlers, Lars Rasmussen and Tom Stocky, with leading its KGS team, as noted on Techcrunch.
If there is a "Google killer" in all this, it is that searches that don't get answered by KGS will go instead to Microsoft's (MSFT) Bing. The late Steve Jobs used to save his key announcement for the end of a press conference, introducing it as "one more thing." Bing was this announcement's one more thing.
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Hiring last month in goods-producing industries fell by 276,000. Within this group, manufacturing firms cut 168,000 jobs bringing the total since the recession began to 1.3 million.
Construction employment was down 104,000 last month. The unemployment rate in that sector is now 21.4%, almost double where it was this time last year.
Service-sector employment tumbled 375,000. Business and professional services companies shed 180,000 jobs, the fourth-straight six-figure loss, and financial-sector payrolls were down 44,000.
Retail trade cut almost 40,000 jobs, while leisure and hospitality businesses shed 33,000 as households curtail nonessential spending.
Temporary employment, a leading indicator of future job prospects, fell by almost 80,000.
So there, in a nutshell, is the status of the productive sector of the economy – the sector that produces wealth, jobs and growth. The sector that should be the focus of any recovery plans and stimulus money.
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Today I'm pleased to announce that Attorney General Eric Holder and the Department of Justice are making available $2 billion in justice assistance grants from the recovery act. (Applause.) That's funding that will help communities throughout America keep their neighborhoods safer, with more cops, more prosecutors, more probation officers, more radios and equipment, more help for crime victims, and more crime prevention programs for youth.
Cities and states can apply for these funds right away, and as soon as those applications are received, the Justice Department will start getting the money out the door within 15 days. In Savannah, Georgia, the police department would use this funding to hire more crime and intelligence analysts and put more cops on the beat protecting our schools. In Long Beach, California, it will be able to help fund 17,000 hours of overtime for law enforcement officials who are needed in high-crime areas.
West Haven, Connecticut, will be able to restore crime prevention programs that were cut even though they improved the quality of life in the city's most troubled neighborhoods. And the state of Iowa will be able to rehire drug enforcement officers and restart drug prevention programs that have been critical in fighting the crime and violence that plagues too many cities and too many towns.
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More cops, more prosecutors, more parole officers.
Private sector jobs? Nada.
Now I understand we need all of those people he talks about. But they won't help one bit in creating new wealth, new jobs or new opportunities for both, will they? They're a number Obama can point too when he tries to sell is jobs "saved or created" nonsense in a few years. But as far as a stimulus to the economy – huh uh. What they are, however, are precisely what is expected from a big government liberal – government jobs.
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What is cystic fibrosis?
Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disorder resulting from an improper copy of a gene. The gene produces a protein necessary for water and salt transmission in a variety of body tissues.
As a result of the mutation in the gene, mucus produced by the body is thick and sticky instead of thin and slippery. The thick mucus clogs vital air passages, leading to chronic breathing difficulties and susceptibility to lung infection. In the digestive tract, mucus blocks ducts in the pancreas, preventing vital enzymes needed for the digestion of food from reaching the intestinal tract. This incomplete digestive process can result in malnutrition.
Cystic fibrosis is not the same in every patient. It varies in severity and symptoms. Some patients may have serious lung involvement while others suffer primarily from the interruption of the digestive process.
What are the symptoms of cystic fibrosis and how is it diagnosed?
Symptoms considered to be highly suggestive of cystic fibrosis are: very salty-tasting skin; persistent coughing and wheezing or shortness of breath; recurrent colds, pneumonias and sinus infections; excessive appetite but no weight gain; foul-smelling, greasy, bulky stools. Due, in part, to the 1,000 mutations of the CF gene, symptoms vary from person to person.
Early diagnosis of cystic fibrosis is very important because it can minimize the damage done to the body by the disease. The "sweat test" - which measures the amount of salt in sweat - is the standard diagnostic test for those with symptoms. A high salt level indicates CF.
How common is cystic fibrosis?
Cystic fibrosis affects approximately 30,000 children and adults in the United States. One of the most common genetic disorders, it affects one out of every 20, or five percent, of Caucasian Americans who "carry" the gene for CF. The incidence of the disease is about 1 in every 3,200 live babies born. The gene is less common in other ethnic groups with a lesser carrier frequency.
The CF gene is recessive, therefore, any child with CF had to inherit the gene from both parents, even though neither of them may have had any symptoms of the disease.
How is cystic fibrosis treated?
Although there is no known cure for cystic fibrosis, proper therapy started in early childhood and maintained through life can keep the disease under control, minimizing lung damage, maximizing weight gain, and making a productive life possible. CF varies greatly in severity from person to person, so treatment must be tailored to the individual. Therapy is most frequently aimed at reducing bronchial obstruction and lung infection through a regimen of postural drainage, aerosols. and antibiotics. Enzyme therapy is used for digestive inefficiency along with nutritional supplements and extra nutritious foods.
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Bullous impetigo, Nonbullous impetigo, Skin infections, Staph impetigo, Strep impetigo.
Introduction to impetigo:
Healthy skin is remarkably resistant to infection. It is a powerful barrier, keeping the billions of bacteria outside and your child on the inside. The outer layer, called the stratum corneum or horny layer, is a thin, flexible coat of armor made of the same material as a rhinoceros's horn. The stratum corneum is constantly growing and shedding, moving bacteria outwards. The moving barrier is only completely effective when the skin is dry.
This thin armor can be breached by insect bites, by minor cuts and scrapes, by patches of eczema, or by chronically wet skin from hot muggy weather or hot clothes (diapers). Areas of skin that are red and inflamed, perhaps from rubbing, from a runny nose, or from drool, have a disrupted stratum corneum.
When bacteria enter the skin through a chink in this armor, an infection can result.
What is impetigo?
Impetigo is a contagious bacterial infection of the skin. Parents often describe it as a rash.
Two types of bacteria are the main culprits. Most of the time, streptococcus bacteria (the ones also responsible for strep throat and scarlet fever) or staphylococcus (staph) bacteria cause of impetigo.
Who gets impetigo?
Impetigo is by far most common in infants and young children. They have more colds, more fingers in the nose, more small cuts and scrapes, and more insect bites – all allowing the bacteria to get in.
Children with eczema are even more prone to impetigo.
Chickenpox is a classic time to get impetigo. The pox provide a place for the bacteria to enter the skin and the scratching moves the bacteria inside. That's one of the reasons why your mother told you not to scratch!
What are the symptoms of impetigo?
There are two classic forms of impetigo — with blisters (bullous impetigo) and without blisters (nonbullous impetigo).
Fluid-filled blisters can form on the face, trunk, limbs, or in the diaper area. The blisters break and leak easily, leaving a thin rim of dead skin around a raw, moist sore that may form a scab. Staph is almost always the cause of bullous impetigo.
Impetigo without blisters is most common near the nose, mouth, or ears, but it can occur anywhere on the body. It usually begins as a small red patch or a pimple, which spreads to a larger honey-crusted sore. The infection can spread under the skin and pop up at distant sites. It can also spread to other parts of the body by fingers, clothes, or towels.
This type of impetigo sometimes itches. There may be swollen glands nearby. This type of impetigo is also most commonly caused by staph, but strep are a frequent cause.
The staph usually comes from the nose. By contrast, the strep usually arrives on the skin first, causes impetigo, and then may cause strep throat or other strep infections (even kidney disease).
Is impetigo contagious?
Impetigo is quite contagious. It can be spread by touch (contact transmission) and by shared objects, such as towels or washcloths (fomites). Impetigo is teeming with aggressive bacteria, but the bacteria cannot enter someone's intact, healthy skin. Others can easily catch impetigo if the bacteria encounter a break in their stratum corneum.
Impetigo is contagious until the rash has disappeared, or until it has been treated with antibiotics for two days (with obvious improvement).
How long does impetigo last?
Nonbullous impetigo will usually clear on its own within two weeks (with no scarring). Bullous impetigo will typically last much longer. Both respond well to treatment.
Children are no longer contagious after 48 hours of appropriate treatment. Treatment is usually continued for 7-10 days, but most often the rash is no longer visible before then.
How is impetigo diagnosed?
Impetigo is often diagnosed based on the history and physical exam. When there is a question, a culture from one of the sores can reveal the bacteria involved and help to guide treatment.
How is impetigo treated?
Gentle washing can help prevent spread and reoccurrence, but antibiotics are the mainstay of therapy.
Topical antibiotic ointments are very effective for staph impetigo (which is more commonly seen around the nose and on the trunk or arms). Bactroban (Mupirocin) ointment is the most effective topical antibiotic, but failures and relapses are more common. Bacteria live under the yellow-brown scabs. If these are present, removing them helps the topical antibiotic to work. Soaking in warm water with a liquid antibacterial soap is usually effective in removing them, but gentle rubbing is sometimes necessary.
Older children who suffer from frequent cases of impetigo may benefit from once a week baths in a tub filled with water and ¼ cup bleach. This reduces the amount of bacteria on the skin and may prevent recurrences.
Oral antibiotics are a faster and more reliable therapy in stubborn cases of impetigo. They are recommended if the impetigo appears widespread or deep, or if the topical antibiotic is likely to be licked off.
How can impetigo be prevented?
The best ways to prevent impetigo are to keep your child's fingernails clipped and clean, and to teach your child not to scratch.
When cuts and scrapes do occur, wash them with soapy water and perhaps apply a dab of an over-the-counter topical antibacterial ointment.
Avoid contact with other people or objects that are contaminated with the bacteria that cause impetigo.
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Allergies (Allergic Rhinitis), Chickenpox (Varicella), Cold Sores (Herpes simplex), Common Cold, Contact Transmission, Diaper Rash, Diarrhea, Eczema, Exanthems (Childhood rash), Fomites, Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease, Hematuria, Herpangina, Rheumatic Fever, RSV (Respiratory syncytial virus), Scarlet Fever, Seborrhea (Seborrheic dermatitits), Sinusitis, Staph (Staphylococcus aureus), Strep Throat, Streptococcus (Strep), Swimmer's Ear (External otitis), Tonsillitis


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Bacteria convert malic acid excreted by yeast into more pleasant tasting lactic acid, and bacteria are more active than yeast at lower temperatures.... Also, alpha-amylase enzymes, like all enzymes, are almost as inactive in the cold as yeast. If you want to know more specifically how active the enzymes are with any given condition, search for the Arrhenius equation (an equation used in Chemistry to determine reaction kinetics).- red.november
Bacteria convert malic acid excreted by yeast into more pleasant tasting lactic acid, and bacteria are more active than yeast at lower temperatures. Acetic acid bacteria also convert flavorless ethanol to acetic acid. However, if the yeast are not producing these chemicals at a very fast rate because of the cold, the bacteria aren't going to be doing their job as actively as they could. Also, alpha-amylase enzymes, like all enzymes, are almost as inactive in the cold as yeast. If you want to know more specifically how active the enzymes are with any given condition, search for the Arrhenius equation (an equation used in Chemistry to determine reaction kinetics).For maximum flavor the trick is, as most chemistry experiments go, to find the reaction stoichiometry between bacteria, enzyme, and yeast activity. You want the dough at just the right temperature so that they all play their important roles harmoniously. It's not as easy as just putting the dough in an average household refrigerator. How much bacteria you have in your dough, the falling number of your flour, the strain of your yeast, and the micro-nutrients you (purposely or inadvertently) feed your yeast all have more to do with flavor than the temperature itself. Cold fermentation has house odds only because of its near fool-proof procedure. When doughs can go as long as a week in the refrigerator, pulling it out to use a few hours late isn't going to have much effect. The same cannot be said about room temperature dough. One has to be more careful with what goes in the dough, and when to use the dough.- red.november
David,I'm not sure what you mean. Are you talking about blisters? If so, that's been covered in another thread. If you're talking about some other kind of lesion or surface effect, you'll have to explain further.- red.november
November, do you have any insights on the optimal rise temperature (for flavor) for the Ischia and/or Camaldoli starters using Caputo 00 Pizzeria?
One way I recently tried to improve flavor is by attempting to increase lactic acid production. I did this by incubating my starter through several washings at 33C. According to the temperature graphs in Ganzle, et. al. this should shift the population in favor of L. Sanfranciscensis over C. Milleri. Indeed the resultant culture smelled non-yeasty and dull-sour.
Unfortunately dough made with the culture, rising at 25C, showed no improvement in taste and actually lacked flavor. I wonder if the interdependencies between the two organisms, such as the malic acid link you mention, kept the LAB from doing anything in excess of the proportion of yeast and thus defeated my skewing of the population.
I am also vexed by conflicting information in regards to the favorability of lactic vs. acetic acid for improved flavor. Some information says lactic acid is preferable in that its non-volatility means it doesn't evaporate at baking; plus the lactic taste is more appealing than the acetic vinegary taste. Other information points out the tongue is not where the complex tastes are registered; it's actually the nose, and thus the volatile compounds like acetic acid are preferable over lactic acid. What are your thoughts?
You may want to keep your yeast away from your starter when you have the starter at 33 C, or use extremely miniscule amounts.
Thanks for your response, however, it is confusing to me. We may be defining terms differently. I'm defining "starter" (Ischia in this case) as a culture containing both bacteria (L. Sancrancisenis) and yeast (C. Milleri). There is no other yeast involved in my experiment other than the C. Milleri cells present in my starter.
but so will culturing at 33C.
Also I don't agree with your comment that by lowering the temperature from 33C to 25C less lactic acid is produced.
At 25C the bacteria and yeast grow at about the same rate. It is at temps from 25C-40C that the bacteria grow faster.
Plus I read somewhere that no cell division happens in the anaerobic environment of the dough, that oxygen is required for that, though of this I am not very confident.
Wonder why cold pizza tastes so good then?
And yes, your addition of lactic acid saturated foodstuffs to pizza dough is total cheating!
Growth rates don't necessarily translate to metabolic exchange rates. Just because the optimum temperature for C. Milleri is about 27 C, and 33 C for L. Sancrancisenis, it doesn't mean you will achieve a dough with a disproportionately larger quantity of lactic acid. Because of how much more yeast consumes on a per-cell basis, the minor growth rate difference at 33 C will not not be enough to allow the bacteria to thrive as much in the presence of yeast.
Your disagreement is misplaced. I never said less lactic acid is produced; nevertheless, assuming bacteria is less active at 25 C versus 33 C, I don't see from where the source of your disagreement stems.
That is not exactly correct. Yeast budding happens at a greatly decreased rate in an anaerobic environment, but it doesn't stop entirely.
Even if the yeast consume far more on a per-cell basis, shouldn't the lactic acid / acetic acid ratio increase if you get more L. Sanfranciscensis cells?
It seems you are saying even though the L. Sanfranciscenis is growing disproportionately faster at 33C than C. Milleri, we still don't see a higher lactic acid / acetic acid ratio because the yeast cells that are there are much more metabolically efficient at 33C than 25C and thus able to hog the sugars even in the face of increasingly larger numbers of L. Sanfranciscenis.
I have assumed that replication rate changes are proportional to metabolic rate changes. Replication is directly linked to energy availability is directly linked to metabolic rate is directly linked to by-product production.
I do see you agree with me that at some point after enough washings the C. Milleri would just be so numerically overwhelmed by the L. Sanfranciscenis that I could then achieve the higher lactic acid / acetic acid ratio.
I was disagreeing with your statement that "By lowering your temperature to 25 C, you created conditions where comparatively speaking, less acetic acid is produced." Does "comparatively" mean compared to acetic acid at 33C or to compared to lactic acid? I definitely agree with the former. But as I mention above, the latter is very counterintuitive.


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GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Gettysburg College dealt Adrian College a taste of its own medicine, putting up the fifth-highest goal total in NCAA Division III Women's Lacrosse Tournament history in a 25-10 victory in the opening round on Wednesday, May 11, at Clark Field.
Gettysburg (15-4) advances to this weekend's regionals hosted by Salisbury University (17-2) on May 14-15. The Bullets face the winner of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps and Redlands University at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday with Sunday's regional championship slated for 1 p.m.
The host Orange and Blue received big contributions from a number of sources in putting up its highest goal total since a 26-2 romp over the University of Puget Sound University in 2000. Sophomore Lindsey Robinson (Potomac, Md./Holton-Arms) tied Gettysburg's postseason record with eight points on five goals and three assists. Junior Hannah Church (Ellicott City, Md./Mount de Sales) tied a personal mark with six goals and freshman Loren Pruitt (Moorestown, N.J./Moorestown) posted three goals and two assists.
Adrian (16-5) came into the first round of the NCAA Tournament as the nation's leading scorer at 19 goals per game and was riding a 15-game winning streak. The Bulldogs were left panting as the hosts went off for 14 goals in the opening half alone. After the visitors pulled the score to 3-2 on a goal by Olivia Duncan at 25:25, Gettysburg put up 15 of the next 16 scores leading into the second period. Robinson accounted for four goals and an assist as the lead grew to 18-3 with 23:36 to play.
Church's fifth goal at 16:23 put the score at 21-5 before Adrian netted five of the next six goals, including two by Amanda Lambert. But Gettysburg put the bow on the game's outcome with the last three goals to close with the fourth-highest scoring game in school history. Gettysburg also set team playoff records for goals and points (36).
Gettysburg's defense stepped up and held the nation's scoring leader nine goals below its season average and forced Adrian into a season-high 20 turnovers. Senior Becky Lutz (Madison, Conn./Daniel Hand) and sophomore Alex Casey (Jenkintown, Pa./Abington) each posted three caused turnovers, the latter adding three ground balls and three draw controls.
Sophomore Mairead McGuirk (Bel Air, Md./John Carroll School) procured five draw controls as Gettysburg won that battle 23-14. Freshman Kelsey Markiewicz (Salisbury, Conn./Berkshire School (Mass.)) added four draw controls to go with two goals and one assist.
Senior Marnie Commins (Fairfax Station, Va./Robinson), sophomore Lindsay Menton (Ellicott City, Md./Glenelg Country School), and freshman Katie Blumenthal (Malvern, Pa./Academy of Notre Dame) each posted two goals and one assist for the hosts. Junior Maddie Coleman (Lexington, Va./Rockbridge County) made a pair of saves in the victory.
Lambert posted three goals and one assist to lead Adrian. Rachel Johnston and Olivia Duncan each turned in three goals and Cassie Hoyez accumulated five draw controls and two caused turnovers.
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BEIJING, China - Howard Bach (San Francisco, Calif./Orange, Calif.) and Khan "Bob" Malaythong (Rockville, Md./Orange, Calif.), the lone USA Badminton athletes remaining in the 2008 Olympic Games Badminton tournament will finally get into action Tuesday, August 12 at 10:55 at the Beijing University of Technology Gymnasium. Bach and Malaythong will take on brothers Chris Dednam and Roelof Dednam of the Republic of South Africa in their first match of the 2008 OIympic Games.
Coming into the 2008 Olympic Games, Bach and Malaythong were considered the top prospect for the U.S. for advancing into the latter rounds of the tournament. Bach is the only returning Olympian for the U.S. At the 2004 Olympic Game in Athens, Greece, Bach and his partner Kevin Han advanced through the first round of the men's doubles competition when they beat a team from South Africa. Bach and Malaythong enter tomorrow's match with the confidence of recently winning the men's doubles title at the 2008 U.S. Open Badminton Championships at the Orange County Badminton Club in Orange, Calif. Bach also enters these Olympic Games as a World Champion having won the men's doubles World Championships in 2005 with Tony Gunawan, a feat never before accomplished by an American badminton athlete.
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Lee also bowed out early in women's singles on Saturday, August 9, the opening day of the badminton competition, losing to Canada's Anna Rice two games to one (15-21, 21-19, 19-21). A small victory for Lee though was the fact that she became the first U.S. women to win a game in singles competition at the Olympic Games.
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Raju Rai (Atlanta, Ga./Anaheim, Calif.) - Men's Singles
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Free will - God chooses us, not the other way around
We choose to follow God when He calls us, or not. But I was listening to a preacher cite verse after verse in scripture about how God chooses us before we choose Him.
I never knew that, but find that interesting. Jesus chose His disciples, not the other way around.
Anyone have any insight?
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God chooses us because he knows who and who will not accept the free gift. But ultimatily we must have a free will or else one would have ot say God created people doomed ot hell and Jesus' sacrafice was not for all but only those God chose and the rest he chose to send to hell. Because God is soverign he already knows but he is not a puppet master and makes no man follow him who does not want to. I have heard it preach many ways from both sides and it is an issue one is better to make their own personal election sure by living a righteous life and let God decide the result.
Basically I aggree. GOD Knows who makes it and who doesnt, prior to it all. BUT GOD allows those people to either take up or reject the gift, and thus choose for themself
Thats the ballence I reckon...with some slight exceptions...Mary was probably an exception...the Disciples were probably Exceptions...Judus was possibly supernaturally forced into betrayal...because Jesus HAD to end up dead in order to ressurect....
But other then those...and maybe some prophets...I certainly wouldnt use predestiny as a guiding principle in general (if you pardon the pun )
Done a weekend away with church on predestination.
Very very complicated to get my head around - God controls everything and he chooses us but we also have that free will to reject or accept him. But if he is coming for you - he changes your heart to accept him.
He is no puppet master.
Been in john 13-14 and it does make me feel for Judas - same for Pilate and the chief preist. They had to do it to fulfil the Lords divine plan. It throws me but then you see before Judas betrays Jesus that his heart wants to steal the money as well so perhaps he was evil anyway.
Tricky stuff but certainly nothing to make one waiver from faith - just an interesting one to wrestle with.
God is sovereign.
How do I know I am Elect?
When people first begin to learn about the biblical doctrine of election, one question that often occurs to them is, Am I elect? And the more they think about whether or not they are elect, the more uncertain they become. So, if you believe in the doctrine of election, how do you know if you are elect?
The answer is really quite simple: You continue believing in Christ.
But, you reply, you didnt answer my question. I want to know if I am elect.
So I will ask:
* Do you believe that you have offended the all-holy Creator (Rom. 3:10�18; Ps. 51:1�4)?
* Do you believe that your sins cry out to heaven itself for justice, and that you deserve to perish under the wrath of the God you have offended by your sins (Isa. 59:2�3; Ezek. 18:4)?
* Do you believe that you are, in fact, dead in your sins and unable to make yourself alive (Eph. 2:1�3; Rom. 8:5�8)?
* Do you believe that nothing you could ever do�no good deeds, no mighty acts of faith, no church attendance, no niceness of character�will ever be sufficient to appease the wrath of your holy Creator against your sins (Mic. 6:6�7; Isa. 59:12�14)?
* Do you believe that God, the God you have offended by your sins, has himself provided the way of escape through his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ (Titus 3:5�7; Col. 2:13)?
* Have you been united to Christ by faith, a faith you did not earn, but received as a gift from God? Do you believe that, having been savingly joined by faith to the Son of God, your sins are finally and fully paid for, and that you are forgiven and declared righteous, as though you had never sinned (Gal. 2:16, 20; Rom. 8:1�4)?
* Do you believe that, by the grace of God, having turned from your sins and turned to the Son of God to pay for your sins and to give you his own righteousness, you will be received by God as his own dear child, to be loved and blessed by him throughout eternity�that is, that you are saved by Gods unmerited grace (Rom. 3:21�28; 5:1�11)?
If you believe these things, you are exhibiting a key characteristic of the elect: the elect believe the gospel of Jesus Christ and continue in faith. The elect do not focus on their election, but rather on their Savior. The elect are saved from the wrath to come because God has chosen them to salvation through Jesus Christ (1 Thess. 5:9�10; cf. 2 Thess. 2:13). And that is what the gospel promises as well: the one who believes in the Son has eternal life and escapes the wrath of God (John 3:36).
Think back to the day of Pentecost. In Acts 2, we find Peter directing the crowds to consider, not election, but the Lord of glory whom they crucified. The elect will believe the gospel, but the reprobate will turn away from the gospel.
Paul points to the same truth in his great exposition of the blessings of election in Ephesians 1. But note what he says: For he chose us in him [Christ] before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will (vss. 4�5). Paul talks about election with reference to Jesus Christ. And we know Christ through the gospel.
Please consider England in your prayers!
"Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."
--Hugh Latimer, October 16, 1555
One day my son asked me why does God allows people to choose good or evil, heaven or hell. I thought about it for a while because I really didn't know what to say. What I came up with is that God chooses us and shows us love upon our creation. Then He desires for us to love Him back by choosing Him and obeying His commands. God wants us to love Him by choice, not by force.
Here's my take on God's love and an example of how I see it work in peoples lives and I guess how he chooses.
Lately I have been really reflecting on the action of a person hardening his heart toward God and how one softens his heart toward God. I have a easy time seeing how one hardens his own heart since we are sinful, and really cannot see how one softens his heart without Gods direct interaction. The best scenario in the bible to examine this is in Exodus and the account of Pharaoh and Moses. When you read it at first glance and you read passages of God hardening pharaohs heart you wonder how did God harden his heart. It seems like God is turning a switch and one minute Pharaohs heart is hard and than soft and than hard again. So what is really going on here. Really in the end, what hardens Pharaohs heart is Gods love and grace. After Moses first encounter with Pharaoh and his first warnings to him, God could have cut him down right than and there, but he didn't. God gave Pharaoh another chance and than another chance and so forth. God poured his love and grace over pharaoh and it hardened pharaohs heart.
Through the preaching of his word Gods love and grace is proclaimed to the world. His word is living and has power, some when they hear, their hearts are softened and repent and believe(Romans 10:17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.) While others when they hear and experience Gods love and grace, the opposite happens and their hearts are hardened.
That is what I am wrestling with at the moment.
I struggle with the whole irresistible grace issue. Because I have known and witnessed others who have experienced Gods love and grace and have totally rejected it.
Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall 2 Peter 1:10
SO get your facts sure before you try calling me out!!!!!
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