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These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand, as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life. Here they enter the worlds of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers. Rich with the signature gifts that have established Jhumpa Lahiri as one of our most essential writers, Unaccustomed Earth exquisitely renders the most intricate workings of the heart and mind.
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Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London and raised in Rhode Island. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the author of two previous books. Her debut collection of stories, Interpreter of Maladies, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and The New Yorker Debut of the Year. Her novel, The Namesake, was a New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, and was selected as one of the best books of the year by USA Today and Entertainment Weekly, among other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Unaccustomed Earth
After her mother's death, Ruma's father retired from the pharmaceutical company where he had worked for many decades and began traveling in Europe, a continent he'd never seen. In the past year he had visited France, Holland, and most recently Italy. They were package tours, traveling in the company of strangers, riding by bus through the countryside, each meal and museum and hotel prearranged. He was gone for two, three, sometimes four weeks at a time. When he was away Ruma did not hear from him. Each time, she kept the printout of his flight information behind a magnet on the door of the refrigerator, and on the days he was scheduled to fly she watched the news, to make sure there hadn't been a plane crash anywhere in the world.
Occasionally a postcard would arrive in Seattle, where Ruma and Adam and their son Akash lived. The postcards showed the facades of churches, stone fountains, crowded piazzas, terra-cotta rooftops mellowed by late afternoon sun. Nearly fifteen years had passed since Ruma's only European adventure, a month-long EuroRail holiday she'd taken with two girlfriends after college, with money saved up from her salary as a para- legal. She'd slept in shabby pensions, practicing a frugality that was foreign to her at this stage of her life, buying nothing but variations of the same postcards her father sent now. Her father wrote succinct, impersonal accounts of the things he had seen and done: "Yesterday the Uffizi Gallery. Today a walk to the other side of the Arno. A trip to Siena scheduled tomorrow." Occasionally there was a sentence about the weather. But there was never a sense of her father's presence in those places. Ruma was reminded of the telegrams her parents used to send to their relatives long ago, after visiting Calcutta and safely arriving back in Pennsylvania.
The postcards were the first pieces of mail Ruma had received from her father. In her thirty-eight years he'd never had any reason to write to her. It was a one-sided correspondence; his trips were brief enough so that there was no time for Ruma to write back, and besides, he was not in a position to receive mail on his end. Her father's penmanship was small, precise, slightly feminine; her mother's had been a jumble of capital and lowercase, as though she'd learned to make only one version of each letter. The cards were addressed to Ruma; her father never included Adam's name, or mentioned Akash. It was only in his closing that he acknowledged any personal connection between them. "Be happy, love Baba," he signed them, as if the attainment of happiness were as simple as that.
In August her father would be going away again, to Prague. But first he was coming to spend a week with Ruma and see the house she and Adam had bought on the Eastside of Seattle. They'd moved from Brooklyn in the spring, for Adam's job. It was her father who suggested the visit, calling Ruma as she was making dinner in her new kitchen, surprising her. After her mother's death it was Ruma who assumed the duty of speaking to her father every evening, asking how his day had gone. The calls were less frequent now, normally once a week on Sunday afternoons. "You're always welcome here, Baba," she'd told her father on the phone. "You know you don't have to ask." Her mother would not have asked. "We're coming to see you in July," she would have informed Ruma, the plane tickets already in hand. There had been a time in her life when such presumptuousness would have angered Ruma. She missed it now.
Adam would be away that week, on another business trip. He worked for a hedge fund and since the move had yet to spend two consecutive weeks at home. Tagging along with him wasn't an option. He never went anywhere interesting—usually towns in the Northwest or Canada where there was nothing special for her and Akash to do. In a few months, Adam assured her, the trips would diminish. He hated stranding Ruma with Akash so often, he said, especially now that she was pregnant again. He encouraged her to hire a babysitter, even a live-in if that would be helpful. But Ruma knew no one in Seattle, and the prospect of finding someone to care for her child in a strange place seemed more daunting than looking after him on her own. It was just a matter of getting through the summer—in September, Akash would start at a preschool. Besides, Ruma wasn't working and couldn't justify paying for something she now had the freedom to do.
In New York, after Akash was born, she'd negotiated a part-time schedule at her law firm, spending Thursdays and Fridays at home in Park Slope, and this had seemed like the perfect balance. The firm had been tolerant at first, but it had not been so easy, dealing with her mother's death just as an important case was about to go to trial. She had died on the operating table, of heart failure; anesthesia for routine gallstone surgery had triggered anaphylactic shock.
After the two weeks Ruma received for bereavement, she couldn't face going back. Overseeing her clients' futures, preparing their wills and refinancing their mortgages, felt ridiculous to her, and all she wanted was to stay home with Akash, not just Thursdays and Fridays but every day. And then, miraculously, Adam's new job came through, with a salary generous enough for her to give notice. It was the house that was her work now: leafing through the piles of catalogues that came in the mail, marking them with Post-its, ordering sheets covered with dragons for Akash's room.
"Perfect," Adam said, when Ruma told him about her father's visit. "He'll be able to help you out while I'm gone." But Ruma disagreed. It was her mother who would have been the helpful one, taking over the kitchen, singing songs to Akash and teaching him Bengali nursery rhymes, throwing loads of laundry into the machine. Ruma had never spent a week alone with her father. When her parents visited her in Brooklyn, after Akash was born, her father claimed an armchair in the living room, quietly combing through the Times, occasionally tucking a finger under the baby's chin but behaving as if he were waiting for the time to pass.
Her father lived alone now, made his own meals. She could not picture his surroundings when they spoke on the phone. He'd moved into a one-bedroom condominium in a part of Pennsylvania Ruma did not know well. He had pared down his possessions and sold the house where Ruma and her younger brother Romi had spent their childhood, informing them only after he and the buyer went into contract. It hadn't made a difference to Romi, who'd been living in New Zealand for the past two years, working on the crew of a German documentary filmmaker. Ruma knew that the house, with the rooms her mother had decorated and the bed in which she liked to sit up doing crossword puzzles and the stove on which she'd cooked, was too big for her father now. Still, the news had been shocking, wiping out her mother's presence just as the surgeon had.
She knew her father did not need taking care of, and yet this very fact caused her to feel guilty; in India, there would have been no question of his not moving in with her. Her father had never mentioned the possibility, and after her mother's death it hadn't been feasible; their old apartment was too small. But in Seattle there were rooms to spare, rooms that stood empty and without purpose.
Ruma feared that her father would become a responsibility, an added demand, continuously present in a way she was no longer used to. It would mean an end to the family she'd created on her own: herself and Adam and Akash, and the second child that would come in January, conceived just before the move. She couldn't imagine tending to her father as her mother had, serving the meals her mother used to prepare. Still, not offering him a place in her home made her feel worse. It was a dilemma Adam didn't understand. Whenever she brought up the issue, he pointed out the obvious, that she already had a small child to care for, another on the way. He reminded her that her father was in good health for his age, content where he was. But he didn't object to the idea of her father living with them. His willingness was meant kindly, generously, an example of why she loved Adam, and yet it worried her. Did it not make a difference to him? She knew he was trying to help, but at the same time she sensed that his patience was wearing thin. By allowing her to leave her job, splurging on a beautiful house, agreeing to having a second baby, Adam was doing everything in his power to make Ruma happy. But nothing was making her happy; recently, in the course of conversation, he'd pointed that out, too.
How freeing it was, these days, to travel alone, with only a single suitcase to check. He had never visited the Pacific Northwest, never appreciated the staggering breadth of his adopted land. He had flown across America only once before, the time his wife booked tickets to Calcutta on Royal Thai Airlines, via Los Angeles, rather than traveling east as they normally did. That journey was endless, four seats, he still remembered, among the smokers at the very back of the plane. None of them had the energy to visit any sights in Bangkok during their layover, sleeping instead in the hotel provided by the airline. His wife, who had been most excited to see the Floating Market, slept even through dinner, for he remembered a meal in the hotel with only Romi and Ruma, in a solarium overlooking a garden, tasting the spiciest food he'd ever had in his life as mosquitoes swarmed angrily behind his children's faces. No matter how they went, those trips to India were always epic, and he still recalled the anxiety they provoked in him, having to pack so much luggage and getting it all to the airport, keeping documents in order and ferrying his family safely so many thousands of miles. But his wife had lived for these journeys, and until both his parents died, a part of him lived for them, too. And so they'd gone in spite of the expense, in spite of the sadness and shame he felt each time he returned to Calcutta, in spite of the fact that the older his children grew, the less they wanted to go.
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Carriers based in the Middle East lead all regions for growth in both categories, with an 18 percent increase in passenger demand and a 10.7 percent increase compared to January 2013. In contrast, North American carriers experienced just a 3.5 percent increase in passenger traffic and a 0.7 percent increase in airfreight demand.
"2014 is off to a strong start, with travel demand accelerating over the healthy results achieved in 2013, in line with stronger growth in advanced economies and emerging market regions," said Tony Tyler, director general and CEO of IATA.
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European carriers saw passenger demand climb by a combined 6.4 percent, which IATA attributes to "modest economic improvements in the Eurozone" and "rising consumer and business confidence." Eurocontrol, the European Union's AT management agency is also starting to deploy the initial regionalized Air Traffic Control (ATC) centers as part of its SESAR program to start streamlining AT flows in a more efficient manner as well.
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Hydraulic fracturing will come to Western New York when the state moratorium on it is lifted, according to lawyer Mary Hajdu of Burgett & Robbins of Jamestown.
Hajdu spoke at the Chautauqua County Chamber of Commerce's annual meeting at Shorewood Country Club in Dunkirk about hydraulic fracturing, a method of extracting natural gas which has become controversial due to reports of contaminated water, gas explosions and seismic activity in other states where the method is allowed. The state Department of Environmental Conservation, along with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and others, are working on regulations to allow fracking in the state with regulations Hajdu described as "possibly the toughest in the nation."
She began her talk, titled "Opportunities in the Marcellus/Utica Shale," explaining her role as a lawyer representing landowners.
"We level the playing field between the landowners and the (gas drilling) companies," she said, by putting landowners together in a coalition to negotiate terms of leases favorable to landowners. Among negotiated terms in lease contracts, she said, "The burden is on the (gas drilling) company. If there is a change in the water, it's assumed it's the driller('s fault), and it's their responsibility to provide a permanent source of clean water to the landowner."
She also said landowners would have the right to audit a company's books to know if royalties paid were consistent with extracted amounts of gas.
Hajdu said her firm has also partnered with Morascyzk & Polochak of Pittsburgh, which she explains works strictly with landowners engaging in gas leases.
"That gives you an idea of how big this is," she said.
Hajdu said a single drilling pad requires 160 acres of land, so landowners coalitions are important, but not essential for all to agree to enter into leases with a drilling company. Hajdu explained a bill developed by former Assemblyman Bill Parment, D-North Harmony, only requires 60 percent of landowners in a potential lease to agree to allow drilling, which she called "compulsory integration" for all landowners.
"Holdouts cannot stop it," she said.
She said if 60 percent of landowners in a given potential lease site of 160 acres or more agree, drilling will move forward. Willing lease owners will receive 18.5 percent of gross royalties in addition to upfront money, but holdouts will receive no money up front and only 12 percent of net royalties.
The leases, she explained, are not like old natural gas drilling leases common to the area. Older vertical wells, she said, were leased to companies in a manner that included all land under the landowner's property "extending all the way to the center of the Earth." New leases for the Marcellus and Utica shales would give rights to the company only for the named layer of interest. She explained old vertical drilling lease contracts which extend through all layers limit landowners from allowing another company to begin fracking on the same leased land.
The Utica Shale, Hajdu said, is likely a more lucrative shale layer in this area than the Marcellus Shale, which is only about 50 feet thick in the region.
Hajdu said the regulations New York is developing may prevent problems found in other states. She explained the state will require 10 different layers of casing around each well bore, fracking chemicals must be disclosed, surface ponds for fracking fluid will not be allowed, and wastewater must be reused or treated, and cannot be disposed in rivers or lakes as has happened in other states without regulations. She also said certain minimum drilling distances will be required away from surface water bodies as well as underground aquifers.
Hajdu said fracking sites will also differ significantly from older vertical wells in that gas is under tremendous pressure.
"You won't be able to hook into the well," for home use, she explained. "The pressure will be too great."
High pressure delivery lines for the gas will also be required, and Hajdu said area landowners are also being approached to lease land for the pressurized pipelines.


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- June 4, 2012 Executive Signed
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Legislation - Signed (Executive) - June 4, 2012
Title: Prohibits Food with Trans Fat in Schools
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Title: Prohibits Food with Trans Fat in Schools
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Vote to pass a bill that prohibits industrially produced trans fat in food and beverages provided to students in public schools and charter schools, effective September 1, 2013.
- Prohibits public schools and charter schools from providing or producing on school grounds any food or beverages with "industrially produced trans fat" for student consumption including, but not limited to, food and beverages available in a school cafeteria, school store, or vending machine (Secs. 2 & 3).
- Defines "industrially produced trans fat" as vegetable shortening, margarine, or any type of partially hydrogenated vegetable oil that contains more than 0 grams of trans fat per serving (Secs. 2 & 3).
- Exempts from the provisions of this act any food or beverage made by a meal program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture or that is a part of a fundraising effort conducted by one or more students, parents, or teachers (Secs. 2 & 3).
- Appropriates $6,800 for consulting services of the federal nutrition program in order to implement this act (Sec. 4).
Legislation - Introduced (Senate) - Jan. 13, 2012
Title: Prohibits Food with Trans Fat in Schools
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It started sixty years ago with an exam, known as the Master of Wine examination, aimed for the trade. Now it has become one of the largest and most prestigious organizations linked to the world of wine. Therefore it's an honor to say that Florence will be hosting the next symposium of the Institute, scheduled from May 15th to the 18th. The event, celebrated every four years, is expected to be the largest one ever. Over 400 delegates from more than 30 countries and 124 Masters of Wine will attend. In addition, the symposium is open to all wine professionals interested in the future of the wine industry, so, if you are a connoisseur, you are invited.
From Il Salviatino, your 5 stars hotel in Florence, we happily welcome the event. We are all united for the respect and the love of wine and the wine industry, so we salute all the professionals involved with it.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (Sept. 18, 2009) – The U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team will be in Montes Claros and Uberlandia, Brazil next week for a series of five exhibition matches.
Originally, the two teams were supposed to be competing in the America's Cup tournament, but that was cancelled due to the timing of the NORCECA Men's Continental Championship (Oct. 12-18 in Puerto Rico).
U.S. Head Coach Alan Knipe (Huntington Beach, Calif.) said he and Brazil Head Coach Bernardo "Bernardinho" Rezende discussed the possibility of playing the "friendly" matches while both teams were at the FIVB World League Final Round in July.
Brazil went on to win the 2009 World League title, which the United States had won the year before.
"Brazil has been on top of volleyball for a while except for a few matches," Knipe said. "For us to train and compete with them is really a great opportunity. They play a great system and we play a great system. It will be a learning experience."
The two teams have not faced each other since the championship match at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. However the U.S. team that won the gold medal is very different from the one that will compete this year in Brazil. Only four players from that team are on the roster: middle blocker and team captain Tom Hoff (Park Ridge, Ill.), libero Rich Lambourne (Tustin, Calif.), outside hitter Riley Salmon (League City, Texas) and outside hitter Scott Touzinsky (St. Louis, Mo.).
Many of the U.S. players have already joined their overseas club teams.
"We're going in with guys we hope will greatly benefit from playing Brazil this many times," Knipe said. "You get to reassess the match immediately, make changes and then play again."
Two young U.S. setters – Brian Thornton (San Clemente, Calif.) and Jonathan Winder (Irvine, Calif.) – will pace the team in Brazil.
"It is going to be really interesting for us as far as how they respond," Knipe said. "They are very different in their skill sets and what they bring to the floor.
"They are doing a great job in the gym or they wouldn't be going."
Outside hitter Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.) will be back with the U.S. Men after recovering from a bout of pneumonia that kept him out of the second half of World League.
"Part of regaining your level of play is the reps and the mental part of getting back out there and doing it," Knipe said.
According to a Brazilian press release, the players representing Brazil will be setters Marlon and Sandro, opposites Leandrão, João Paulo and Theo, outside hitters Murilo, Thiago Alves and Maurício, middle blockers Lucas, Éder, Sidão and Tiago Barth and liberos Serginho and Mário Jr.
U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team
Tour of Brazil
U.S. Roster
No. Name (Position, Height, Hometown, College)
1 Matt Anderson (OH, 6-10, West Seneca, N.Y., Penn State)
4 Brian Thornton (S, 6-3, San Clemente, Calif., UC Irvine)
5 Rich Lambourne (L, 6-3, Tustin, Calif., BYU)
6 Paul Lotman (OH, 6-7, Lakewood, Calif., Long Beach State)
7 David Smith (MB, 6-7, Saugus, Calif., UC Irvine)
8 Andy Hein (MB, 611, Carol Stream, Ill., Pepperdine)
9 Jonathan Winder (S, 6-8, Irvine, Calif., Pepperdine)
10 Riley Salmon (OH, 6-6, League City, Texas, Pierce College)
11 Robert Tarr (Opp, 6-6, Cape Canaveral, Fla., Long Beach State)
12 C Tom Hoff (MB, 6-8, Park Ridge, Ill., Long Beach State)
15 Russell Holmes (MB, 6-8, Fountain Valley, Calif., BYU)
16 Jayson Jablonsky (OH, 6-5, Yorba Linda, Calif., UC Irvine)
18 Scott Touzinsky (OH, 6-6, St. Louis, Mo., Long Beach State)
19 Alfee Reft (L, 5-10, Oxnard, Calif., Hawai'i)
Competition Schedule
Sept. 22 in Montes Claros, 7 p.m. local, 3 p.m. PT
Sept. 23 in Montes Claros, 7 p.m. local, 3 p.m. PT
Sept. 25 in Uberlandia, 7 p.m. local, 3 p.m. PT
Sept. 26 in Uberlandia, 5:30 p.m. local, 1:30 p.m. PT
Sept. 27 in Uberlandia, 10 a.m. local, 6 a.m. PT


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|Special Olympics snowboarder Chase Lodder, 25, of Salt Lake City
Next week, there's a super little event down in New Orleans that will occupy thousands of reporters, camera crews and beignet-consuming, bead-throwing party-goers. You won't be able to escape it.
Meanwhile, over on the other side of the world, in Pyeongchang, South Korea, another major sports event will be going on, too. If you read anything about it in your local newspaper, however, it's likely to be buried back in the very back pages. It's unlikely to command a fraction of the television time, if that, that Ray Lewis or Colin Kaepernick will.
Jim and John Harbaugh against one another for Vince Lombardi's trophy makes for a great tale, for sure. But you want a story? On display Thursday night at a Los Angeles hotel were hundreds – literally — of stories of pride, perseverance, dedication, discipline and overcoming the odds.
Indeed, it was all genuine emotion and heartfelt enthusiasm as the 150 Special Olympics athletes made their way down a red-carpet introduction before a send-off dinner.
"To see the joy — it makes me want to cry," said Julie Foudy, the soccer star turned television analyst, who was on hand to help the athletes cruise the carpet.
"And," she said, "scream, 'U-S-A!'"
Some 2,300 Special Olympics athletes from more than 110 nations are due to compete in Pyeongchang in seven sports: alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, short-track speedskating, figure skating, floor hockey and the demonstration sport of floorball.
Organizers expect perhaps 15,000 fans and family to attend.
Just like the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Special Olympics run on a two-year cycle. The 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games will be held in Los Angeles.
In Pyeongchang, International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge is due to attend some of the Special Olympics action while checking out some of the already-built venues for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games; he will be joined by Gunilla Lindberg, head of the IOC coordination commission for the 2018 Games. They are set to be briefed by, among others, Pyeongchang 2018 chief Jin Sun Kim.
Also traveling to Korea with Rogge are the IOC director general, Christophe de Kepper, as well as IOC Games executive director Gilbert Felli and sports director Christophe Dubi.
Rogge is also due Feb. 1 to meet with South Korea's president-elect, Geun Hye Park.
That's obviously big stuff.
But one wonders — bigger, really, than what awaits, say, U.S. snowboarders Daina Shilts, 22, of Neillsville, Wis., or Chase Lodder, 25, of Salt Lake City?
Perhaps more than anything, the Special Olympics is about breaking down stereotypes. Yes, they rip it on snowboards at the Special Olympics World Winter Games, and in disciplines such as slalom, giant slalom and super-G.
"A lot of people don't know that," Lodder, who has been boarding for five years, said.
"When I work at Home Depot and I tell them I am in the Special Olympics," he said, a smile across his face, "they are really supportive. They are really good about it."
Shilts — the others uniformly said she was fastest on the American team — has been snowboarding for six years.
At first, she said of learning to ride, "It was rough. It was hard." She quickly added, "But if a sport is not hard, it's not a sport."
A substitute aide for special-needs children, Shilts said this would be her first trip overseas. "I just say this will be challenging and fun and new and exciting," she said.
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Secretary Clinton Announces New Initiatives Under the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas
The Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA) had its first ministerial-level meeting in Washington, DC on April 15 and 16. Secretary Clinton participated, remarking that "the fundamental purpose of this partnership is to promote sustainable growth that benefits all of our citizens." The State Department teamed up with Scienceblogs.com, the largest online community dedicated to science, to promote the ministerial both via blog and livestream. Please check out this guest post on the ECPA ministerial by Katherine Musgrove, an economic officer in the Office of Economic Policy and Summit Coordination in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs. We welcome your comments and perspectives on efforts to work in the Americas on energy and climate issues.
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Patrick in Maryland writes:
Hi, DipNote people of the states Department.
I liked the video and think this partnership was a great idea. The sharing of information between our coutries, on new clean enery will hopefully help the economy and make new jobs.
I hope everyone is enjoying the great weather we're have here in Maryland .
Have A Great Weekend ...:) Cya
Oyster C. in U.S.A. writes:
I was wondering when all of the meetings will translate into ACTION. Why does it take so long for these new energy technologies to be implemented? Wouldn't it be better to charge ahead with solar and wind and make these changes rather than wait for bigger , more expensive alternatives. As Americans, we can talk until the cows come home but now is the time to act on a grand scale similiar to the WW2 war effort. Let's get busy!
Masood in California writes:
Great initiative! Once is full action will transform the region. Green Diplomacy will also restrict middle eastern oil dependence. The energy diplomacy is the way to go.
Meagan L. in Wisconsin writes:
Though strides toward more sustainable energy are no less than admirable, it is interesting that the promotion is so heavily Latin American when we in the U.S. are the largest polution producer per capita world wide. We developed with pollution producing techniques for a century and then forbid growing nations from doing the same. Globally it makes perfect sense, but locally it is not very economically sensible to install or maintain for these people and their lifestyles. The U.S. needs to make sure that we take a culturally practical and sensible approach to energy and green solutions.


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15/02/10 StrasbourgAfter the second visit within ten months to the lead-contaminated Roma camps of Česmin Lug and Osterode in northern Kosovo, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg, deplored that the situation for the inhabitants remains the same: "The fact that the camps have been inhabited for a full decade is no less than a scandal. The international community has a large part...
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Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (stem cell transplant) in Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (B- and T-cell) (program ID: 273559)
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The Department of Hematology, Oncology at the University Hospital Jena, under the direction of Prof. Dr. med. Andreas Hochhaus, consists of a Division for Hematology and Medical Oncology, as well as Division for Palliative Care. Because of outstanding achievements in treatment of diabetes, the department is strongly recommended by the latest FOCUS list of top German clinics.
At the Department for Hematology and Medical Oncology at the Clinic of Internal Medicine II at the University Hospital Jena, under the direction of Prof. Dr. med. Andreas Hochhaus, a team of 37 physicians, including 20 specialists, and 60 qualified nurses and healthcare workers looks after the well-being of patients. Special additional qualifications lie in fields of hematology/ oncology, hemastaseology and palliative medicine. The highly specialized services focus on out- and in-patient diagnosis and treatment of malignant systematic diseases and solid tumors, including autologous and allogeneic stem cell transplantation. The department works in a close cooperation with other departments at the University Hospital Jena, with referring hospitals and referring specialists in order to ensure the best diagnosis and treatment options possible. Different therapy approaches are considered in the Multidisciplinary Tumor Board. The whole clinic is subject to a strict quality management and is certified according to DIN EN ISO 9001:2008.
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He singled his last axel, but I think he had to so it counted - he'd already done two.
Very disappointing. Hopefully he doesn't lose his world juniors spot.
Yes, so many double jumps, including all the axels.
I think he should work on mental aspect of his programming. He lands a total of 3 triple jumps, and none of the landings were clean. Everyone in his team looked shocked beyond belief. This is Rogozine's Rachael Flatt moment in GPF.
Andrei's LP score is 91.64, total 148.93, currently in 4th place.
Who else is eligible for JW besides Rogozine? Firus and...?
It's early and I'm already nervous for the final flight!
Hi Siberia82 and blue-idealist!
Whereas Ronald Lam just killed it.
Ronald Lam,
3A, awesome
3lutz-3toe, nice
noisy blade,
3lutz, beautiful
3sal, out of nowhere
circular step, again a bit slow,
crawl into 2a, Zhang moment
Crowd on their feet.
19 year old. I like to see more straight back.
117. moved into first.
Okay, does Marc Andre Craig look like Kurt Browning to anyone?
Lum did really well.
I can really see the COP effect as even the mid ranked skaters are doing footwork and packed program compared to the 6.0 era.
Ronald is first for now.


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Intel Corp. confirmed once again that netbooks are taking market share away from fully-fledged notebooks, a trend that should potentially threat makers of personal computers and components for them. However, Intel does enjoy this cannibalization since its Atom processors bring the company higher profits compared to previous-gen Celeron chips.
"We have seen some cannibalization of Celeron by Atom. […] Netbook sales were about 16% of all notebook sales globally, and a little higher in western Europe. […] Intel's profit margins for Atom [are higher than those for the Celeron]," said Christian Morales, chief of sales at Intel Europe, in an interview with Reuters news-agency.
Intel Celeron and Celeron M central processing units typically offer higher performance compared to Intel Atom processors, but since Intel produces its Celeron chips using 65nm fabrication process, whereas Atom chips are made using more advanced 45nm technology. As a result, Atom processors are much more cheaper to make compared to Celeron due to smaller die size as well as more sophisticated manufacturing process.
But the Atom-based netbooks also utilize lower-cost chipsets as well as lower-cost screens and other components. As a result, while Intel may enjoy the growth of netbook popularity, actual manufacturers of those machines may not be that optimistic. While netbooks are good for current economic environment, in the long-term they are likely to negatively affect overall profit margins.
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Renee Rosnes Quartet on JazzSet
March 23, 2012. Posted by Becca Pulliam.Add new comment | Filed under: JazzSet, Renee Rosnes, Rhonda Hamilton
RED is the color of the Village Vanguard from the awning and the door to the velvet drapes. ". . . [T]he red curtains and red carpet, there's a warmth," says pianist Renee Rosnes. And she opens her set with "Rouge" by John Lewis.
Vibraphonist Steve Nelson can throw the blues into anything, says Renee, from "Rouge" to Milton Nascimento's "Travessia;" Walt Weiskopf's "Intuition;" "Up With the Lark" by Jerome Kern, played for Bill Evans who was at home at the Vanguard; and Renee's own "Manhattan Rain."
She reminisces about working here with two great bandleaders. Saxophonist Joe Henderson used to say "Heaven is on the bandstand," and one night during a set, vibraphonist Hutcherson felt the ghost of Dexter Gordon so strongly, he had to sit down on the red leather side bench.
Listen for the set on Sunday, March 25, at 6pm and Wednesday, March 28, at 6:30 .. or at your convenience at wbgo.org/jazzset.
Rhonda Hamilton is our guest host.
Billy Taylor at WBGO
December 31, 2010. Posted by Becca Pulliam.Add new comment | Filed under: Dr Billy Taylor, Great Live Moments, Rhonda Hamilton, toast of the nation
"Dr T" came to try out the station's new Steinway. I think he likes the piano. He runs through the entire keyboard! This comes from the late 1980s.
I hope you can listen to Toast of the Nation at 9pm Fri 12/31 and 3pm Sat 1/1 for a 30-minute remembrance of Dr Billy Taylor (1921-2010), hosted by Rhonda Hamilton. Dr Taylor invited Rhonda to host a live New Year's broadcast on NPR in 1979. She speaks about how much that meant to her, and we hear clips from some of his many NPR shows.


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'Kon-Tiki' frontrunner for best foreign film — at Plano's Wooden Spoon
We bet most of you don't even know what the contenders are for Oscar's best foreign film. But the folks at the Wooden Spoon in Plano do, and they're rooting for their favorite, Norway's Kon-Tiki.
Wooden Spoon, for those of you who don't know your lefse (Norwegian flatbread) from your krumkake (Norwegian waffle cookie), is a Scandinavian oasis in Plano, part store, part community center, the place where you can get your Troentorp clogs special ordered in all sizes and colors, paint with the Uff Da Rosemaling Club (every second Tuesday from 10-12) and take a Kransekage (Danish wreath cake) class (Feb. 23 at 1, all materials included).
Kon-Tiki is the story of Thor Heyerdahl, a Norwegian scientist who could not swim, but sailed across the Pacific Ocean in a balsa raft for 101 days just to prove that people really could make that journey hundreds of years ago.
Good luck to Kon-Tiki, but alas, I think the odds of surviving that voyage which, happily brave Thor did, may have been greater than in prevailing against Amour (much raved about by our Chris Vognar and Robert Wilonsky, among oodles of others).
And, since you were asking, the other nominees for best foreign film (and even longer shots) are A Royal Affair, War Witch and No. We'll find out the winner at the Oscars telecast Sunday, Feb. 24. If it is Kon-Tiki, at least we can look forward to toasting it over a cup of gløgg.


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Thursday, December 30, 2010
HAI to Meet on Public-Use Aircraft
Helicopter Association Intl (HAI) has scheduled a January 20 industry forum in Alexandria, Va. to address questions and issues related to public-use helicopter operations. The meeting comes in response to recent NTSB recommendations to FAA and the U.S. Forest Service as a result of its investigation into the 2008 crash of a Carson Helicopters-operated Sikorsky S-61. As part of its probable cause into the accident, NTSB issued 21 recommendations to FAA, including strengthening oversight of public-use aircraft.
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Dividers & CompassesBeam Compasses
Mechanical and architectural drawings have sometimes required circles with diameters of several feet instead of the several inches possible with a standard drawing compass. A beam compass was usually sold with just the points, which the user attached to the ends of a metal rod or wooden slat the length of the desired radius of the circle. One end was held in place, and the other end was pivoted around that end, maintaining contact with the paper. The patent model in the collection is a beam compass.
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Patent Model for Beam Compass Invented by Morton Toulmin
- Description
- This metal, brass, and ivory U.S. patent model is mounted in a square wooden frame that is painted gold. The trammels are on a 3-1/4" beam that consists of two metal pins and one metal screw. One trammel has a needle point and an ivory handle. The other has an adjustable pen point. Nuts inside the trammels around the screw on the beam set the positions of the trammels. The instrument is supposed to draw lines, circles, concentric circles, and spirals.
- Three paper tags are attached to the frame with a red ribbon. The first tag is marked: 1873 (/) M. Toulmin (/) Beam Drafting Compass (/) Received June 5 (/) Passed Aug 5./7. The second tag is marked: 142,823 (/) 3 (/) M. Toulmin (/) Beam Compasses (/) Patented SEP 16 1873 (/) Dividers 1873. A printed picture of the instrument and a summary of the patent application are pasted to the back of this tag. The third tag is marked: (2–225.) (/) No. 142,823. (/) M. Toulmin (/) Beam Compasses (/) Patented Sept. 16th (/) Dividers 1873. This model was found in the Smithsonian, probably during refurbishing of the textile exhibits between 1953 and 1964.
- The patentee was probably Joshua Morton S. Toulmin (1823–1896), who was born in Alabama to English immigrants. He was a cotton broker in Mobile in the 1850s and then moved to New Orleans, where he received four patents between 1872 and 1874, including the 1873 patent for this object and "Improvement in Marine Camels" (no. 125,352, issued April 2, 1872). He then became a patent agent in Washington, D.C., and received several more patents himself between 1876 and 1887. He then moved to Baltimore, where he established the short-lived Toulmin Electric Railway Gate Company in 1886 and received more patents between 1887 and 1890, including "Pneumatic Street Car Propulsion" (no. 440,666, issued November 18, 1890). He held a total of about 15 patents for a variety of mechanical and mercantile devices, but this beam compass was apparently never manufactured commercially. Toulmin's son, Harry Aubrey Toulmin (1858–1942), was the highly successful attorney for the Wright Brothers of Dayton, Ohio.
- References: Morton Toulmin, "Improvement in Beam Compasses" (U.S. Patent 142,823 issued September 16, 1873); "Descendants of Abraham Toulmin of Chard in Somerset," http://www.toulmin.family.btinternet.co.uk/DescendentsAbrahamChard.htm; U.S. Census Records for 1850 and 1880; The Baltimore Sun (May 26, 1886), 4.
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- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1873
- maker
- Toulmin, Morton
- ID Number
- accession number
- 219305
- catalog number
- 315258
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Great Live Moments - Kevin Eubanks
April 7, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.Add new comment | Filed under: bassist, blazing trails, branford marsalis, cameron brown, guitarist kevin, jay leno, Jazz Alive, jazz forum, jazz guitar, jazz musician, johnny carson, kevin eubanks, Listening Post, Live Music, music director, robin eubanks, sf jazz, solo career, television career, tonight show with jay leno, trombonist, weeknight, wes montgomery
You may know guitarist Kevin Eubanks from the Tonight Show Band. Each weeknight, he sits in front of the band, acting as a comic foil for host Jay Leno. Kevin has actually been the music director for the show since 1995, when Branford Marsalis departed. Eubanks has been on the show since 1992. He even penned the show's closing theme song, "Kevin's Country."
Kevin Eubanks is a jazz musician by calling. In fact, music is genetically programmed into the Eubanks clan. Just ask trombonist Robin Eubanks, who is currently blazing trails with the SF Jazz Collective touring ensemble.
Check out Kevin on "Blues for Wes," a duet tribute to one of the heroes of jazz guitar, Wes Montgomery. This selection is a duet recording with bassist Cameron Brown. WBGO recorded it in 1983 at the Jazz Forum in New York. Johnny Carson was still the host of the Tonight Show. Kevin Eubanks was starting a solo career. His television career was yet to come.


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Hello there. While most of us are concerned and praying for the victims in Japan I found this news: According to mexican media Paul McCartney has confirmed a concert in Ciudad Juárez, a city located in the northern state of Chihuahua, Mexico but in his official web site doesn't say anything. If true, this would be part of a festival for the peace in which other stars like U2 has been invited but only Paul has confirmed, according to this site, but is in spanish:
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by FUDU » Sat Aug 29, 2009 12:27 pm
by aoxo1 » Sat Aug 29, 2009 3:04 pm
FUDU wrote:A big part of this debate is always personal musical preference in regards to each individual guitarist named.Some people like Jimi Hendrix a lot more than Jimmy page b/c they like Hendrix songs more than they like Zeppelin songs. Doesn't make either guitarist truly better (with exception to some technical differences). To comment that SRV or Hendrix creating some moving and awe inspiring music as an argument to their greatness over a Page is being disingenuous and obtuse in not recognizing that Page too was a HUGE part of some incredible awe inspiring music. Page's versatility was sickening, if he went a different route where he was bigger than his band (obviously he wasn't in LZ) then he just might be considered the best without question compared to the others who WERE their bands.If you took personal recognition and overall band success out of the equation a guy like Eddie Van Halen would probably be considered the best more often than he is or more often than most others. But saying EVH is the best some how implies Van Halen the group was the best, albeit while they were not it is not a fair assumption to make if EVH gets thrown into a debate like this.
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by Big Money Player » Wed Sep 02, 2009 10:46 pm
Larvell Blanks wrote:One name that has not been mentioned ye is Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top.Hendrix named him as his favorite guitarist after Gibbon's first band opened for the JHE.
by FUDU » Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:32 am
by Big Money Player » Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:34 pm
by Larvell Blanks » Fri Sep 04, 2009 8:19 am
Big Money Player wrote:Larvell Blanks wrote:One name that has not been mentioned ye is Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top.Hendrix named him as his favorite guitarist after Gibbon's first band opened for the JHE.1. EVH2. Alex Lifeson (yes, I'm a Rush honk)3. John Petrucci4. Eric Johnson5. Buckethead6. Randy Rhodes7. Brad Gillis8. Zakk Wylde9. Slash10. Jimmy Page11. Yngwie Malmsteen12. Dave Mustaine13. Joe Satriani14. Jeff Beck15. SRV16. Gary Moore17. Billy Gibbons18. Steve Vai19. Rik Emmet20. Neil SchonJust saying...
by aoxo1 » Fri Sep 04, 2009 1:10 pm
Big Money Player wrote:I like his music, but for some reason his playing seems to be nothing special to me...
by rebelwithoutaclue » Fri Sep 04, 2009 1:20 pm
aoxo1 wrote:Big Money Player wrote:I like his music, but for some reason his playing seems to be nothing special to me...Seriously. How can Hendrix compete with the genius who composed thisPoignant.
by Mr. MacPhisto » Fri Sep 04, 2009 5:54 pm
rebelwithoutaclue wrote:At least EVH is also considered one of the best. He's got guys I've never even heard of on his list (not that I'm a music professor but I know pop culture pretty well). The guitarist for Dream Theatre is #3 and he's also got the guitarists of both Journey and Triumph as better than Hendrix (I had to look up all their names). Hendrix did stuff that people still can't do today. Hell if it weren't for him half the people on all these lists probably never would have picked up a guitar.
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Today, we honor those who lost their lives on September 11th, 2001.
At 8:46 a.m., the time that the first plane struck the South Tower of the World Trade Center, President Obama was joined by the Vice President, the First Lady, Dr. Biden, and White House staff on the South Lawn to observe a moment of silence.
Later this morning, the President, Defense Secretary Hagel, and other military officials attended the September 11th Observance ceremony at the Pentagon Memorial in Arlington. The President laid a wreath at the Zero Age Line and observed a moment of silence at 9:37 a.m. to honor the victims of the attack at the Pentagon.
President Obama then delivered remarks to families of the victims, also honoring the four Americans who lost their lives a year ago today in Benghazi.
"They left this Earth. They slipped from our grasp. But it was written, 'What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.' What your families lost in the temporal, in the here and now, is now eternal. The pride that you carry in your hearts, the love that will never die, your loved ones' everlasting place in America's heart."
Later this afternoon, President Obama also participated in a service opportunity with Food & Friends, a Washington-area organization that provides freshly-prepared meals to people living with life-challenging illnesses.
Editor's Note: This entry originally appeared on the White House Blog.
For more information:
- Presidential Proclamation -- Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance
- Read the President's full remarks from the September 11th Observance Ceremony.
- Go to serve.gov to learn how you can volunteer in your community.
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Doug Winter: The 1904-O has the second highest mintage of any With Motto eagle from this mint and it is the second most available issue, trailing only the 1903-O. Hundreds of examples have been found in overseas sources in the past decade.
The 1904-O is the second most common With Motto New Orleans eagle. It is not often seen in grades below AU55 and it is easy to locate in grades up to and including MS62. It is scarce in properly graded MS63 and rare in MS64. I am aware of around a half dozen Gems including one possible Proof.
One 1904-O eagle exists which offers a convincing case for its being a Branch Mint proof or, at the very least, a Specimen Strike. This coin is incredibly well struck and it has a rich satiny finish which is actually somewhat similar in appearance and texture to that seen on the 1909 and 1910 Satin Finish proof gold coins. Interestingly, this coin is accompanied by an envelope which reads as follows:
"First Gold Coined 1904, W.J. Brophy, Coiner U.S. Mint, $10.00 and $5.00" (Author's Note: No 1904-O half eagles were struck).
STRIKE: This date is not as well produced as the 1903-O but it still shows a better strike than the New Orleans eagles from the 1890's. Most examples are weak at the central obverse on the curls around the face of Liberty. The stars also may show weakness, especially the fifth through eighth and the final two or three. The reverse is usually very well struck with full detail on the legs and feather tips.
SURFACES: The 1904-O eagle is often seen with very heavily abraded surfaces. There are often clusters of deep, detracting marks seen in the fields. Some pieces exist that show better quality surfaces with fewer severe abrasions noted.
LUSTER: Two types of luster are seen on this date. The type seen more often is frosty and better than average, with a rich mint bloom that is similar to that seen on Philadelphia eagles of this era. A smaller number are known which are prooflike and some of these are quite reflective. Prooflike 1904-O eagles are typically very heavily abraded and have poor eye appeal as a result.
COLORATION: Original uncleaned examples often show very attractive coloration. Hues seen on the 1904-O eagle range from medium orange-gold to deep green-gold and rose. There are still a good number of original pieces available to collectors.
EYE APPEAL: The 1904-O has better eye appeal than most New Orleans eagles of the With Motto type. The typical piece is well struck and lustrous with decent color. Most pieces are abraded but with some patience, the collector should be able to find a pleasing example in the MS61 to MS63 range.
DIE CHARACTERISTICS: There are no important die characteristics seen on either the obverse or the reverse.
MAJOR VARIETIES: There is a single variety known:
Variety One: The date is about midway in the field between the truncation and the denticles. The reverse is the same as on the 1903-O eagle.


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The Santa Cruz weekly newspaper Good Times has an article about MBOSC this week. This article makes it public that the focus of our organization is the promotion of mountain bike tourism as a sustainable economic activity for Santa Cruz County. We have been developing a tourism initiative for a while now among ourselves so we may as well explain our strategy.
Mountain bike tourism is a global market and a sustainable economic activity. Communities from all over the world are recognizing the economic potential of this form of eco-tourism and have been embracing it to revitalize their local economies.
Santa Cruz has so many natural advantages for the development of mountain bike tourism including:
- A tourism based infrastructure already in place
- Nearby greenbelt areas and parks within riding distance of hotels and motels
- Spectacular redwood single track and coastal views
- Alternative activities for non-biking guests and family members
- Supportive bike industry and bike culture
- World-class destinations including San Francisco, Monterey and Silicon Valley less than 2 hours away
We believe that there are a number of benefits of mountain bike tourism which could benefit the community of Santa Cruz County including:
- City of Santa Cruz: More hotel and sales tax revenue.
- Local bike industry: increased sales and opportunities for new businesses.
- Local businesses: hotels, restaurants and tourism.
We wish to engage the local business community, visitors center and city council to recognize the economic potential of mountain bike tourism. These partnerships with civic leaders could help us cut through the red tape and get the resources to open more legitimate trails and promote Santa Cruz County as a destination. More legitimate trails and embracing mountain bike tourism could create opportunities for mountain bike events like 24 hour races, fat tire festivals and the development of new businesses to support mountain bike tourism like shuttle and guide services.
Mountain biking is a healthy, eco-friendly, and fun form of outdoor recreation and it should be encouraged for its low-cost, low impact use of public and private land. Santa Cruz is well known as a mountain biking destination to active mountain bikers in Northern California. The city and county can market Santa Cruz as a world-class mountain bike destination with very little investment and effort.


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Regular exercises to restore your normal hip motion and strength and a gradual return to everyday activities are important for your full recovery. Your orthopaedic surgeon and physical therapist may recommend that you exercise 20 to 30 minutes 2 or 3 times a day during your early recovery. They may suggest some of the following exercises.
These exercises are important for increasing circulation to your legs and feet to prevent blood clots. They also are important to strengthen muscles and to improve your hip movement. You may begin these exercises in the recovery room shortly after surgery. It may feel uncomfortable at first, but these exercises will speed your recovery and reduce your postoperative pain. These exercises should be done as you lie on your back with your legs spread slightly apart.
Slowly push your foot up and down. Do this exercise several times as often as every 5 or 10 minutes. This exercise can begin immediately after surgery and continue until you are fully recovered.
Repeat 5 times in each direction 3 or 4 times a day.
Repeat 10 times 3 or 4 times a day
Repeat 10 times 3 or 4 times a day
Repeat 10 times 3 or 4 times a day
Repeat this exercise 10 times during a 10-minute period.
Continue until your thigh feels fatigued.
Repeat until your thigh feels fatigued.
Soon after your surgery, you will be out of bed and able to stand. You will require help since you may become dizzy the first several times you stand. As you regain your strength, you will be able to stand independently. While doing these standing exercises, make sure you are holding on to a firm surface such as a bar attached to your bed or a wall.
Repeat 10 times 3 or 4 times a day
Repeat 10 times 3 or 4 times a day
Repeat 10 times 3 or 4 times a day
Soon after surgery, you will begin to walk short distances in your hospital room and perform light everyday activities. This early activity helps your recovery by helping your hip muscles regain strength and movement.
Stand comfortably and erect with your weight evenly balanced on your walker or crutches. Move your walker or crutches forward a short distance. Then move forward, lifting your operated leg so that the heel of your foot will touch the floor first. As you move, your knee and ankle will bend and your entire foot will rest evenly on the floor. As you complete the step allow your toe to lift off the floor. Move the walker again and your knee and hip will again reach forward for your next step. Remember, touch your heel first, then flatten your foot, then lift your toes off the floor. Try to walk as smoothly as you can. Don't hurry. As your muscle strength and endurance improve, you may spend more time walking. Gradually, you will put more and more weight on your leg.
A walker is often used for the first several weeks to help your balance and to avoid falls. A cane or a crutch is then used for several more weeks until your full strength and balance skills have returned. Use the cane or crutch in the hand opposite the operated hip. You are ready to use a cane or single crutch when you can stand and balance without your walker, when your weight is placed fully on both feet, and when you are no longer leaning on your hands while using your walker.
A full recovery will take many months. The pain from your problem hip before your surgery and the pain and swelling after surgery have weakened your hip muscles. The following exercises and activities will help your hip muscles recover fully.
These exercises should be done in 10 repetitions four times a day with one end of the tubing around the ankle of your operated leg and the opposite end of the tubing attached to a stationary object such as a locked door or heavy furniture. Hold on to a chair or bar for balance.
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Exercycling is an excellent activity to help you regain muscle strength and hip mobility. Adjust the seat height so that the bottom of your foot just touches the pedal with your knee almost straight. Pedal backwards at first. Pedal forward only after comfortable cycling motion is possible backwards. As you become stronger (at about 4 to 6 weeks) slowly increase the tension on the exercycle. Exercycle forward 10 to 15 minutes twice a day, gradually building up to 20 to 30 minutes 3 to 4 times a week.
Take a cane with you until you have regained your balance skills. In the beginning, walk 5 or 10 minutes 3 or 4 times a day. As your strength and endurance improves, you can walk for 20 or 30 minutes 2 or 3 times a day. Once you have fully recovered, regular walks, 20 or 30 minutes 3 or 4 times a week, will help maintain your strength.
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