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Nestlé is asking up to half a million Australians to rate how happy and healthy they are in a first-ever study of its kind.
Emphasising its global commitment to Nutrition, Health and Wellness, Nestlé Australia developed the interactive Happily Healthy Project.
It examines key factors that contribute to health and happiness, exploring the complex relationship between the two.
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A web site is now available that provides information, pictures and animation about wireless "webs" of small sensors that have been placed in gardens on Earth by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The site address is http://sensorwebs.jpl.nasa.gov .
Sensor webs will someday help make possible a key NASA goal to establish a virtual presence for exploration throughout the solar system. They are currently being tested at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, Calif.
A sensor web consists of a number of small pods that each house transducers to collect data from the environment and communication chips that move the data around the web to primary pods. The information is then transmitted to the Internet or an overhead satellite. "Hopping" the data in short distance from pod to pod makes the overall data transmission more energy efficient. In addition, the "hopped" data is shared by all of the pods, allowing each one to know what is being collected elsewhere on the web.
The pods that are being tested in the Huntington's Botanical Gardens monitor local temperature, humidity, soil moisture, and light levels. Pods are housed in small plastic containers about the size of a sandwich box. Other sensor web pods look much like a gumball toy, but contain specialized instruments.
Dr. Kevin Delin is leader of the Sensor Webs Project at JPL. Shannon Jackson is lead engineer on the project.
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Photo Miami: Interview with Stephen Cohen and Tim Fleming
AfN: I am Sabine Rieck from Artfacts.Net. Vernissage TV and Artfacts.Net are making an interview with Stephen Cohen (Stephen Cohen Gallery), who has a gallery here on the fair, and Tim Flemming, the director of Photo Miami. Stephen, how did you come to the art - you have a gallery - how did it all happen?
Stephen Cohen I was an art student in college and a film student in graduate school. And I started to sell collectable books, out-of-print-books and small photographs, and that just grew and grew and I wanted to organise a fair in LA because I was travelling so much around the country selling photographs. So I started the fair, and then opened a gallery right afterwards; and the gallery took off, and the fair took off amazingly. This January, it is the 16th year of the photo LA, it is the longest running art fair in Los Angeles. We are very proud of that. It is sold out, and we have a long waiting list. We started to add some other fairs: Photo Santa Fe ran for seven years, then Photo San Francisco, and then Photo New York for three years. I wanted to do Photo Miami a few years ago but then 9/11 happened, and then it just didn't seem timely. When I organized that with Tim for this year, I had no idea that there were going to be six other hotel fairs happening; so there is a lot of competition but we wanted to make something that is unique, that - even though we use the photo with the city as a name - it is going to have a very different identity, and the fair does. It is very contemporary, very fresh, it is a mixture of new media, video, and I am so pleased and happy with the work that Tim and the committee has done in attracting an excellent group of galleries from 13 countries to participate in the fair. People are going to see things here that they haven't seen anywhere else.
AfN: Tim, what were the criteria for your selection of the 40 participating galleries?
Tim Fleming The criteria was essentially quality. We didn't want to come down and appear like we were leaching off this avant-garde weekend. The committee essentially did much more of a job than just saying yes or no to galleries. They really got on the phone; we talked for a long time, and we had a sort of understanding of what the fair might be; and through their recommendations and their recruitment efforts it took on a kind of life of its own.
AfN: Do you think there will be other fairs from Artfairs Incorporated?
Stephen Cohen There are so many fairs happening in the world, and they are so close together now. The Armory Fair in NY has moved up its state to be with the ADAA, and there are three other satellite fairs who are all three weeks after Art LA. which is a fair we organize the end of January, a week after photo LA. All these fairs around the world, and then there is Arco right in between, that it is hard for dealers to do all these fairs, it´s hard for them to have work for the fairs. So we are going to rethink San Francisco and NY to put them in different times of the year, and even Art LA we are going to probably move to later in the year. So we are pulling back a little to concentrate on making the first stronger and better.
Photo Miami now is a huge success, so we have no doubts about it for next December. Photo LA is a huge success, it´s the largest fair, maybe one of the largest. The fair in NY, A-Pad - sometimes they are bigger, sometimes we are, in terms of attendance. Art LA which is in its third year, and it is building and getting stronger and stronger every year, so we are going to concentrate on the those three fairs for now and maybe in 2008 bring back another fair. And we have been asked about doing some things in Europe as well - so we will just keep that in mind. We really want to maintain the quality of this fair and Photo LA.
Tim Fleming I think the main difference with this fair is, when the clients are going around, then the questions being asked to the dealers are quite different. The fair is first and foremost a contemporary art fair, it is not strictly a photo fair. I think the questions that are being asked are not "what type of paper is it printed on?", "what edition is this?" ...
Stephen Cohen What camera did they use
Tim Fleming It is really much more about the ideas and the conceptual process. The galleries aren't strictly photo galleries, they are galleries from the international spectrum. They have strong media based programs. Again there is video, some sound work, interactive work There is a lot of photography here, more than I expected. I think next year, we will see a lot more media based
AfN: I'd like to address my next question to both of you: why is contemporary photography so important today?
Stephen Cohen Well, photography and video is just another tool for artists, just like in other periods there is paint and stone and ink and printing; whenever a new technology comes along, there is a period where people are playing with it, just testing out the medium.
But now video, sound and music is so much a part of our culture - I mean, I don't even know how you can separate it from politics, from society, from economics. What is great about artists who are calling attention to it, is: because it is so pervasive, a lot of it just passes over people when they see it on TV; so when you have artists who then take something and turn it around on people or they make them look at something a little bit differently, I think it's great.
AfN: Yes I think it is quite a challenge in our time, in which we are so flooded with pictures.
Stephen Cohen . If it is good it is good! It doesn't matter if it is an inkjet print or a Xerox print or something else. David Hockney did a whole series of pictures:he faxed them across the world to his gallery in London, and they pieced together the mosaic of faxes that came out of the fax machine. He did things in LA, printing on the cover of "LA weekly"; he considered, every copy of the 150 000 copies was an original work of art. Artists - Matisse - did that years ago, so it was nothing new, but it is just the matter if it's good work, and here it is good work, very innovative, very challenging.
Tim Fleming I think photography spent so long trying to establish itself as a real medium, and it has done that, we have moved on. We have been asked a few times why then separate it out as "photo". We don't see it that way, we see it simply as a concentration of media based works, and there is such variety here in the ideas and the process that there is plenty to see.
Stephen Cohen We represent an artist, an anonymous artist, late 20th Century; it is contemporary work. The artist is working now but the work is made to look like 19th Century work, and the artist has chosen to remain anonymous. Photomechanical images are used with oil paints and collage to make these images that are just surreal but unique - and you might call them oil paintings but they are not. There is some photo imagery in it.
That's what we like, that there are people taking it as far as you can and still have something in there that is photo, but you might not think of it as photography. We want to stretch the boundaries of what people think of as "photography".
Tim Fleming My short phrase what I call the fair is, is that it is a fair about light and time and Stephen agrees with that.
AfN: How do you recognise "good art"? What are your criteria - regardless whether it is photography or another kind of art work...?
Stephen Cohen At some point it is subjective, but when enough people offer their subjective feelings, and five out of six say "thumbs up!", you sense it's good. I respond to work emotionally and visually. So if something hits me - it hits me. I don't necessarily have to know the idea behind it. I don't know who said this - someone very well-known and famous - that if something in art disturbs you, you really have to look further. If you really don't like something you have to look why you don't like it, and you have to challenge yourself. And sometimes I still don't like it but at least I try to look beyond the first impression. And then there are things that have grown on me, things that I did not care for at first, and over time you see more of the body of work and you come to appreciate it. What is great about a fair like this is that somebody can come and see galleries from 13 countries in one spot and hopefully purchase work. So the dealers who have taken a lot of time and money to come out here, from all over the world, we want to make them happy, make their artists happy.
AfN: Thank you very much for the interview.
Interview: Sabine Rieck
You can also watch thi s interview as a video on Vernissage.tv.
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Something Is Cooking At Von King Recreation Center
On Friday, June 26, approximately 200 people, including Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Adrian Benepe, savored the tasty delights prepared by six teens from the Von King Culinary Arts Program. Maya Herdigein, age 16, Tanaria Wiggins, age 16, Shantel Mundah, age 17, Lymel Burton, age 18, Mackenzie St. Louis, age 19, and Ishawn Owens, age 19, cooked a healthy meal for those attending the pool opening at Jackie Robinson. Under the tutelage of Charlotte Jarrell-Mail, they prepared grilled chicken, hamburgers, green salad and vegetable kebabs on grills outside the center.
Preparing a meal for 200 people was a piece of cake for them since they are often called upon to cook for large events such as the Mayor's Cup Cricket Tournament and during Thanksgiving. For them, the best part was the chance to meet Mayor Bloomberg and take pictures with Commissioner Benepe.
The Von King Culinary Arts Program teaches children, teens and adults cooking and food preparation skills. Ms. Jarrell-Mail has been the instructor for ten years and volunteers her time to do so. She works with our Afterschool program, runs a Saturday cooking class, and teaches the teen program, which is offered in partnership with Good Shepherd Services.
During the school year, anywhere from 6 to 15 teens attend the culinary school during the day and take high school or GED classes in the evening. In addition to learning the basics of cooking and baking, the teens learn table etiquette and how to shop for groceries, take trips to farmer's markets, learn about a variety of ethnic cuisines, and how to modify recipes by making substitutions with foods that have better nutritional value. On July 14, the teens were treated to a tour of Gracie Mansion where they had the pleasure of meeting the chef, Feliberto Estevez.
These teens have become the primary "chef" in their families, not only because of the skills they have acquired, but also because what they cook is much better than what is available at fast food restaurants. They have learned many skills and some hope to pursue careers in the culinary arts.
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Effective April 11, 2015, the Herbert Von King Cultural Arts Center will be closed until renovations are complete. Parks will continue to serve the Bed-Stuy community by offering quality activities during the exciting renovations to the Center. As part of this preserved programming, there will be a host of recreational activities on weekdays after school in April and May, weekends in May and June, and weekdays in July and August. The programs will range from fitness classes and arts, to bike riding and games for all ages.
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I had a thread yesterday comparing MX-1 to X20 and RX100 with reference to some studio shots.
I see it's not there anymore!!
If I did something wrong I would like to know so that I won't do it again!
It's still listed Ben. Just scroll down a bit.
Still can't see it Ron! Definitely something wrong this end!
I will check again a bit later!
Very strange indeed. It is listed six threads down form this current thread of yours.
MX-1 compared to X20 and RX100
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A little bit about the area
Across the San Francisco Bay Bridge, the East Bay presents diverse communities and great neighborhoods, such as Emeryville and Albany. Fed by the artistic and intellectual culture of nearby UC Berkeley, the area offers great dining, entertainment, shopping and sports, including the Oakland Coliseum and the waterways of the Delta. The East Bay is also home to seven Sutter Health facilities.
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2007: Started and appeared as goalkeeper in 14 games for the Panthers...finished the season with 64 saves, four shutouts and a 1.65 goals against average in 1200 minutes...concluded the season with a 5-6-1 record...made 34 saves...registered four shutouts on year (Youngstown State, Niagara, Ohio and Villanova)...registered a 2.00 goals against average in Big East play...registered a season high eight saves at Auburn (Sept. 9)...finished with seven saves vs. West Virginia (Sept. 21)...finished with six saves against both Syracuse (Sept. 28) and Cincinnati (Oct. 5)...Big East Academic All-Star selection.
2006: Started 18 of 19 games on the year including 18 consecutive contests...finished season with 81 saves, three shutouts and a 1.59 goals against average in 1751:24 minutes of action...tied school record for most wins in a season with eight...won first four games of the year...finished season with three shutouts (Western Michigan, Kent State and DePaul)...registered a career-high nine saves in two different games...finished with a career-high nine saves at West Virginia (Sept. 15)...registered a career-high tying nine saves at DePaul (Sept. 29)...finished with eight saves in Big East Tournament action at Louisville (Oct. 26).
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Basement flooring choices
Sorry for long post. Thanks in advance!
OK - as part of my basement finishing project (living space, not workshop). I am considering my flooring choices. I want to keep costs down as much as possible yet get decent results. I know those are at odds. Anyway....
Two sections, stairs between. One side will get carpet and pad. The other side SWMBO wants something that is easy spill cleanup (Crafty area).
First question - will it be weird to have two different flooring materials in two different areas of basement? Stairs separate. Stairs will be carpeted as will bottom of stairs.
OK - Now for the crafty area. I think my choices are as follows.
Next question - Am I missing anything?
Laminate - Pros, relatively cheap. cons, looks and feels like crap.
Engineered - Pros, looks good. Cons, most expensive, may feel weak underfoot unless glued down.
Linoleum - pros, durable, green. Cons, finding it, cost.
vinyl - pros, durable, can be cheap. Cons, looks, can be expensive.
paint - pros, quick, easy, cheap. Cons, looks.
stain/sealer - pros, cheap, look. Cons, drywallers spray painted floor, prep, mess.
tile - pros, can be cheap. Cons, time consuming install, not the look we want.
So - I'm a bit undecided. I am leaning toward an engineered wood floor, installed by myself. Maybe glued down to give it a more solid feel. I will not add a sub-floor due to desire to maximize headroom. Moisture is less than 2% (dry).
I guess what has be a bit befuddled is trying to envision how it will look to have a little more than half the space carpeted and the other section with a wood floor. Also, the wood floor will cost 4 to 7 times more than the carpet we picked out. For carpet we are getting a clearance product for 48c /sq ft. Engineered wood, say from lumber liquidators, will be about $2 / sq ft.
Area for engineered floor is about 230 sq ft, carpet is about 600 sq ft including stairs.
I'm not sure the budget will allow for wood floor throughout. If it was only 800 sq ft that would be one thing. I suspect I will pay through the nose for stair treads and the like to match.
I'm rambling. I suppose if the consensus is to put engineered floor throughout then I'll make the case and find the budget. If the consensus is to carpet part and X on part then I suppose that's how I'll go. Or, I may do something entirely different. What would you do?
How about putting eng. flooring in the whole place and then area rugs, where you may want to?
Before you put any flooring down...I'd still recommend sealing the slab. I know it reads dry right now...but trust me, I've seen this problem many times over (below grade flooring in basements causing mold). Typically people put down a vapor barrier which then forces the slab moisture to the sides of the room which then get moldy. The solution is to use a silicate deep sealant on the concrete (ala Kryton). It isn't particularly hard to apply or expensive and is good preventative measure.
As for flooring...the one good argument about carpet is that it is warmer. Unless you have radiant floors. I have a daylight basement in my home and we have carpet in the main area but I installed engineered floors (Kahrs) in my office and in the library. I do have hydronic radiant so my wood floors tend to be a bit warmer. But if I didn't...I'd do carpet.
I would choose laminate with these reasons:
1. there are good looking laminate now and sometimes they are on sale for cost quite low.
2. laminate is not wood, so it is more resistance to water
3. under laminate, you are going to put some pad which is a natural vapour barrier and you don't need another one
As for #2 - This isn't entirely true. The substrate on laminates is something called MDF that has been treated for water resistance. (Some have other substrates but this is most common). MDF will swell when it gets wet. Yes, the plastic surface is very water impervious.
As for #3 - Yes, vapor barrier should be installed as per manufacturers guidelines.
Thanks for your feedback - I am narrowing my choices. I think a trip to lumber liquidators this weekend may be in order. Also, I am looking at concrete polishing with an acid stain.
Wood on basement is not recommended generally
due to potential moisture problem...
I would never choose wood for a basement floor, no matter what precautions you take, it is still below gound. I have nothing against wood, I have 3/4 inch prefinished hardwood flooring throughout all of my house, (2100 square feet of it, in a very dark brown colour and I absolutely love them.)
For me, I am going to play it really safe, and put ceramic tile.
Not exactly the look that I would like but I would rather have the added assurance.
I am hoping to find ceramic tile that looks like slate. That would make me happy. At a good price, of course.
Yummy mummy - If you are anywhere near lancaster county PA I know of a building supply auction that has pallet loads of discontinued tile all the time. Hit and miss on what you will find but I have seen slate looking stuff before. Bad thing is you need to buy the whole lot (Like a pallet load). Good thing is I have seen pallets of the stuff go for like $1 if no one else is interested in bidding on that particular lot. kuiporing - I'll share my secret with you too if a want. I wont post the details publicly because I don't want too much compitition at the next auction!
As for wood in the basement - No I wont use solid wood. I'm looking at "engineered" wood. Its like laminate and finsihed for below grade. Holds up same as laminates in such areas.
I am not located in US. I am from Canada, in Toronto.
We also have some discounted outlets that have inexpensive tiles.
I will check and see if I can get some when the time comes.
I have a stupid question, what are "pallets".
They are used to stack large quantities of materials to allow loading into trucks with fork lifts.
I know what they are now.
We call them "skids" here.
You mean that they charge $1.00 for a "skid" of tiles.
What is Kryton?
Kryton is a concrete waterproofing system. It is used commercially for treating leaking commercial properties, water treatment plants, aquariums and sealing concrete dams (yes...they plug dams with it). A concrete slab or wall in a home treated properly with Kryton will NOT leak or emit water vapor. It also significantly strengthens the concrete. They are based in Vancouver B.C.
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Kew Palace in south-west London is to reopen in the spring following £6.6m of conservation work.
From May, visitors will be able to tour the palace, which is in the grounds of Kew's famous Royal Botanic Gardens.
The palace was a royal residence from 1728 to 1818, and in the early 19th Century was the home of King George III and Queen Charlotte.
A wax life-cast of George, his waistcoat and shirt, will be among the items on display at the palace when it re-opens.
Dutch origin
The king used Kew as a place to convalesce during his bouts of mental illness, which are believed to have been caused by the hereditary disease porphyria.
One of the group of Historic Royal Palaces, the Kew building has been painstakingly restored, with some of the original paint and wallpaper used in Georgian times being reproduced.
The Duchess of Cornwall toured the palace last month to see the restoration work, which has included repairs to the brickwork, gables, parapets, tiles and chimneys.
Kew Palace was begun in 1631 for Dutch merchant Samuel Fortrey and became know as the Dutch House before it was taken on by royalty.
It is the only remaining building of a group that comprised the royal residences of both George II and George III in their gardens at Kew and Richmond.
The newly opened palace will show an exhibition of Georgian life, including literature, music, horticulture, architecture and astronomy.
The second floor of the palace has never been seen before by the public, and has been hardly altered since it was decorated for the Georgian princesses in the early 19th Century.
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At one point, James Blunt was responsible for one of the most overplayed songs on the planet, but six years on (and two albums later) he shows few signs of resting on his laurels.
Having just released new album Moon Landing, featuring summery sing-along Bonfire Heart, he's also announced a tour of Australia and New Zealand.
The acoustic troubadour will be bringing his six-piece band along for the show, which will be the first opportunity to hear live versions of the Moon Landing tunes.
"There's just something romantic, old-school and lonely about the moon landings,' he explains. "A nostalgic memory of something huge that we can hardly believe we once achieved, and for some sad reason, can't achieve again - like first love."
He'll be performing at The Civic on Wednesday May 28, 2014, and tickets go on sale through Ticketmaster on Tuesday October 29.
Also announced this week, were two intimate solo shows from acclaimed Portland singer songwriter M Ward. The modern-folk exponent is also know as one half of She & Him (with Zooey Deschanel), a member of Monsters of Folk, and a collaborator with Neko Case, Cat Power, Gillian Welch, and Conor Oberst.
He released his seventh solo album A Wasteland Companion last year, which was recorded with the help of 18 guest musicians, so it will be intriguing to see how they are presented live when he plays a solo acoustic show at The Tuning Fork in Auckland on Friday November 8, and at Bodega in Wellington on Saturday November 9.
Elsewhere, Australian comedienne Pam Ann will land in Auckland for the first time next February. The frequent flyer alter-ego of Melbourne-born Caroline Reid, Pam Ann gives the ultimate performance in airline satire.
No matter if it's business class or economy, negotiating security, check-in or immigration, Pam Ann has all the insider knowledge, and loves to play up the stereotypes.
She's crewed Elton John's private jet, shared the stage with Cher on a UK stadium tour and counts Madonna among her fans, as well as having a dedicated following on YouTube.
She'll be performing her new show Plane Filthy on February 21 at the ASB Theatre. Tickets available through Ticketmaster on Monday October 28.
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced Friday that it will offer NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden asylum, reports The Washington Post.
Maduro announced the news at a military parade commemorating Venezuela's 202nd anniversary of independence. He said Snowden, who has been hiding from the Obama administration ever since he revealed a secret U.S. surveillance program, could love "in the fatherland of Bolivar and Chávez free of imperial North American persecution."
"I announce to the friendly governments of the world that we have decided to use international humanitarian rights to protect Snowden from the persecution that the world's most powerful empire has unleashed against a young person who has told the truth," Maduro said in a speech in Caracas.
Maduro did not say, however, how Snowden would get to the country. The NSA leaker has been stranded in Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport since landing there from Hong Kong on June 23, but Venezuela has close diplomatic ties to Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, who has shown is willing to go to great lengths to counter U.S. influence.
Not long before Maduro announced the news did Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega also offer asylum to Snowden. The 30-year-old has been denied asylum to 21 countries to which he applied last week.
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Vibramycin Intravenous
The use of drugs of the tetracycline class during tooth development (last half of pregnancy, infancy and childhood to the age of 8 years) may cause permanent discoloration of the teeth (yellow-gray-brown). This adverse reaction is more common during long-term use of the drugs but has been observed following repeated short-term courses. Enamel hypoplasia has also been reported. Tetracycline drugs, therefore, should not be used in this age group, except for anthrax, including inhalational anthrax (post-exposure), unless other drugs are not likely to be effective or are contraindicated.
Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea (CDAD) has been reported with use of nearly all antibacterial agents, including Vibramycin, and may range in severity from mild diarrhea to fatal colitis. Treatment with antibacterial agents alters the normal flora of the colon leading to overgrowth of C. difficile.
C. difficile produces toxins A and B which contribute to the development of CDAD. Hypertoxin producing strains of C. difficile cause increased morbidity and mortality, as these infections can be refractory to antimicrobial therapy and may require colectomy. CDAD must be considered in all patients who present with diarrhea following the use of antibacterial drugs. Careful medical history is necessary since CDAD has been reported to occur over two months after the administration of antibacterial agents.
If CDAD is suspected or confirmed, ongoing use of antibacterial drugs not directed against C. difficile may need to be discontinued. Appropriate fluid and electrolyte management, protein supplementation, antibacterial treatment of C. difficile, and surgical evaluation should be instituted as clinically indicated.
Intracranial hypertension (IH, pseudotumor cerebri) has been associated with the use of tetracyclines including Vibramycin. Clinical manifestations of IH include headache, blurred vision, diplopia, and vision loss; papilledema can be found on fundoscopy. Women of childbearing age who are overweight or have a history of IH are at greater risk for developing tetracycline associated IH. Concomitant use of isotretinoin and Vibramycin should be avoided because isotretinoin is also known to cause pseudotumor cerebri.
Although IH typically resolves after discontinuation of treatment, the possibility for permanent visual loss exists. If visual disturbance occurs during treatment, prompt ophthalmologic evaluation is warranted. Since intracranial pressure can remain elevated for weeks after drug cessation patients should be monitored until they stabilize.
Photosensitivity manifested by an exaggerated sunburn reaction has been observed in some individuals taking tetracyclines. Patients apt to be exposed to direct sunlight or ultraviolet light, should be advised that this reaction can occur with tetracycline drugs, and treatment should be discontinued at the first evidence of skin erythema. The antianabolic action of the tetracyclines may cause an increase in BUN. Studies to date indicate that this does not occur with the use of doxycycline in patients with impaired renal function.
Usage in Pregnancy
(See above WARNINGS about use during tooth development.)
Vibramycin Intravenous has not been studied in pregnant patients. It should not be used in pregnant women unless, in the judgment of the physician, it is essential for the welfare of the patient.
Results of animal studies indicate that tetracyclines cross the placenta, are found in fetal tissues and can have toxic effects on the developing fetus (often related to retardation of skeletal development). Evidence of embryotoxicity has also been noted in animals treated early in pregnancy.
Usage in Children
The use of Vibramycin Intravenous in children under 8 years is not recommended because safe conditions for its use have not been established.
(See above WARNINGS about use during tooth development.)
As with other tetracyclines, doxycycline forms a stable calcium complex in any boneforming tissue. A decrease in the fibula growth rate has been observed in prematures given oral tetracycline in doses of 25 mg/kg every 6 hours. This reaction was shown to be reversible when the drug was discontinued.
Tetracyclines are present in the milk of lactating women who are taking a drug in this class.
As with other antibacterial drugs, use of Vibramycin may result in overgrowth of nonsusceptible organisms, including fungi. If superinfection occurs, Vibramycin should be discontinued and appropriate therapy instituted.
Incision and drainage or other surgical procedures should be performed in conjunction with antibacterial therapy, when indicated.
Prescribing Vibramycin in the absence of proven or strongly suspected bacterial infection or a prophylactic indication is unlikely to provide benefit to the patient and increases the risk of the development of drug-resistant bacteria.
All infections due to group A beta-hemolytic streptococci should be treated for at least 10 days.
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In venereal diseases when coexistent syphilis is suspected, a dark field examination should be done before treatment is started and the blood serology repeated monthly for at least 4 months.
In long-term therapy, periodic laboratory evaluation of organ systems, including hematopoietic, renal, and hepatic studies should be performed.This monograph has been modified to include the generic and brand name in many instances.
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For An Expert, Click Here
They're the Web children of talk radio's investor call-in programs: online sites that offer free or low-cost personalized advice on taxes, investments, and financial planning. If you're financially savvy, these online advisers can help you make decisions without a trip to the accountant, attorney, or broker.
At Quicken.com, free message boards on personal finance are patrolled by prescreened moderators. Paid a nominal hourly rate, they start discussions and offer answers to questions on anything from saving for college to capital-gains taxes. Brian Borawski, a certified public accountant in Detroit who has been a Quicken moderator for a year, says he signed on because he was thinking of starting his own practice and thought he might drum up some business. He has taken a corporate job since joining Quicken. But he says he has stuck with the site because it "keeps me on my toes." In one posting entitled "My granddad is a sugar daddy now," one person asks what could happen to his grandfather's estate now that he's remarried to a woman 25 years his junior. A Quicken moderator with the handle QcomMiriam tells him that as long as his grandfather has not remade his will since his remarriage, his estate most likely will go to his offspring.
If message boards aren't your style, Errold Moody Jr., a financial planner and former University of California professor, has set up a virtual library and free advice service. At www.efmoody.com, you'll find around 1,000 pages of financial information, links, financial quizzes, and investment calculators, sprinkled with heavily opinionated advice to consumers. "There never has been, nor is there currently, any reason for ever buying an investment or insurance at a bank," he writes in one essay. Moody, who says he "doesn't think much of most financial planners," set up the site to "point people in the right direction" and "make them read and think." The ex-professor answers specific e-mailed questions on 401(k)s and other financial topics. But he declines to give specific investment recommendations unless you become a paying customer of his financial-planning practice. "I won't give investment advice to anyone I don't know," he says.
E-mail is also at the heart of Expert-central.com, where nearly 700 finance experts are available, and answers are provided overnight. Users rate the experts' answers on a scale of one to five, and the site has 6,300 more professionals advising on everything from pit bulls to prostate cancer.
Specific questions are answered for free--though responses may differ if you ask more than one expert. I asked three top-rated advisers: "What's a safe five-year investment that can be cashed out at the end for a home downpayment?" One recommended a Janus or Fidelity stock-mutual fund, the second a stock-and-bond fund, and the third suggested savings bonds. And each one provided detailed reasons. If you want more complicated advice, say, on writing a will, Expertcentral's advisers may charge you a fee. But the charge generally will be lower than what they would charge clients in person.
Expertcentral CEO Greg Schmergel, a former Bain & Co. strategy consultant, says some of his online experts have signed up to gain exposure for their businesses. But a "surprising" number sign on for "purely altruistic reasons," such as a retired Internal Revenue Service agent who now gives tax advice. Although the site screens experts' resumes, it doesn't do more thorough background checks.
As with any planner or accountant, there's always a risk that you could get the wrong advice. To reassure questioners that they're talking to a professional, most of the advisers at Expertcentral and Quicken provide real names and a summary of their professional experience. But will sites like these ultimately reduce the need for in-person financial consulting? Not necessarily, says Jeanne A. Robinson, a Doylestown (Pa.) certified financial planner. She says that with "so much information out there," some clients still need help sorting it out. But for anyone who is past the sorting-out stage, these sites can cut down on the need to pick up the phone or get in the car. And they're a lot easier on your wallet.


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|Patricia L. Cummings
My favorite photo of "Mother" (at 21 yrs. old)
A Background
After a long struggle with Vascular Dementia/ Alzheimer's/ Parkinsons Disease, my mother finally succumbed to death during
a (second) heart attack in 2005. The exact names of the disease(s) do not really matter. A diagnostic label cannot capture the
scope of her loss of ability to function in the world and to her, the loss of herself. To call a disease by name results in no less
devastation for the family whose loved one is still living but is not quite "all there," after becoming a faintly recognizable
version, indeed, a shadow of a former self.
Debt a Clue to a Greater Problem
Even though we visited mother frequently, there were no indications that she was using up all of her financial resources and
had begun sinking into debt. Very unlike her at all, she owed back property taxes and had resorted to "charging" her groceries
on a credit card. She spent time watching television and ordering useless items that she felt would become "valuable
collectibles" at some later date.
Little did I know, since I did not oversee the payment of her bills, that only $16 dollars remained in her checking account on
the day of her first heart attack, an event from which she never fully recovered, and that caused her to never again return to
her home. Her dismal financial profile was a reflection of a mind spiraling out of control. Oddly enough, her sense of
desperation over money was not apparent to those closest to her.
Early Morning Call
The first I knew of mother's troubles was the phone ringing early in the morning before sunrise. By the time anyone thought
to call, the paramedics already had brought her from the small town where she resided to the nearest city's emergency room.
There it was determined that she had developed bleeding stomach ulcers that exaggerated a heart problem.
First, she was admitted to a medical hospital and following that she went to a nursing home. In the ensuing years, she moved
many times, going back and forth between nursing homes and hospitals. The worst condition I saw her in was in a
psychiatric ward. She was held to a wheel chair by leather wrist restraints and reported that she had been kidnapped by drug
dealers. She refused to eat.
Surprisingly and in a turn of mood, she told us to bring her wedding gown as she was going to get married the next day "to
the love of her life" (she named a former boyfriend who was long since pushing up daisies. The doctor was convinced that
her condition would not improve unless electro-convulsive shock therapy was administered. Reluctantly, but with seemingly
no other recourse, I agreed to authorize treatment. That decision was a last resort and one that was not reached lightly.
Watching her repeatedly tear intravenous tubes out of her arms was a clear indication that intervention was necessary. I just
wanted my mother "back."
Inability to Adjust to Life in a Nursing Home
Always one to get her own way and a woman who could only take the world to a limited degree, she did not adjust well to
institutional living. Her quarters were too small or she did not like her roommate or the food was lousy. No matter how many
sets of clothes we brought, she would be wearing clothing that belonged to someone else or had shrunk in the laundry or was
just not her size anyhow but a hand-me-down from some deceased resident.
Always, she greeted me with more complaints than Carter has liver pills! She fixated on the idea that she should be brought
home to live with us. She could not fathom the reasons why that plan was not within the realm of possibility. Being unable to
fulfill her wish instilled guilt and sadness in us and made visits with her almost intolerable. For a number of reasons, living
with us (again) would not work out. She could no longer climb stairs to an upstairs bedroom or get in and out of the bathtub
by herself or even with help (we had no shower then). In addition, she had done some strange things during her prior visit
such as lighting matches and throwing them on the bathroom floor after locking herself in that room all day, refusing to come
The "Artist"
When I look back now, her behavior seems to have been generated by frustration and that, in turn, caused her to be angry.
Ultimately, her feelings transformed into a full blown state of depression and despondency. She gave up on life long before life
gave up on her. She broke her glasses. She threw away her hearing aids. She did not take an interest in anything except, for a
short time, using colored pencils to color the nice coloring books I ordered for her from Dover Publications, pretty pictures of
flowers and animals intended for adult use. Everyone at the facility praised her for her "art work" and thus reinforced her
desire to be known as an "artist."
Physically, she began to slip away. After her funds ran out (from the sale of her farm), she was moved to an out-of-the-way
room. This was a decided change from when she was paying top dollar for her former room with a view of a few flowers in
the courtyard. The new room had no windows, was very tiny, and was a distance away from a bathroom, making it hard for
her to get there "in time" using her walker. The staff did not check on her often and there was no way for her to call for help,
in case of an "emergency" or if she needed anything.
Unpleasant Visits
The gist of our visits consisted of "What did you bring me?" and "When are you going to take me home?" She would plead,
argue and cry. It was pitiful. I had no answers for her. I just knew that I could not, in any way, consider caring for her
myself. All things considered, and believe me, we did ponder this topic deeply, she was better off with 24 hour nursing care
available. Fear of her erratic behavior was just too overwhelming to even think of home care.
Almost eight years ago have passed since mother's death. The funeral arrangements had been determined ahead of time,
according to her wishes. She would be laid to rest with her beloved husband who passed to another realm many years before.
She wanted a closed casket, no calling hours, and only a few graveside prayers said by a Catholic priest. A handful of people
arrived to witness the final words said publicly on her behalf.
Pleasant Memories Revisited
I cannot dwell on the last segment of her life, finding it preferable to recall happier times during her 92 years on this earth. She
loved to go camping in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. She liked crossword puzzles, political "news," and reading the
Union Leader newspaper. She enjoyed embroidery, loved to bake cakes and pies, and she relished trying out new recipes. She
was a woman of faith. As time passes, I am able to concentrate on her good qualities, not her personality traits, or habits I
disliked…like her smoking cigarettes, until she was forced by a health condition to give them up.
A Crazy Quilt block to remember "Mother". Photo by James Cummings
Crazy Quilt Memorial Quilt Block
With thoughts of my mother in mind, I made a Crazy Quilt block. The word "Crazy" could aptly describe my mother's ordeal
of mental chaos in a world that had suddenly turned upside down.
Let me explain my design choices. First of all, I made a copy of a note that she handed to me on one visit. Always, she had
prided herself on fine penmanship all of her life. This message was scrawled and featured repeated lines written on both sides
of the small piece of paper. Many of the words were crossed out.
She wanted me to call a certain doctor in Concord for her. On the fabric print-out of part of the note, I have superimposed the
words, "We Will Not Forget You, Mom!" I have added her name and a red Pansy blossom. She so loved Pansies! This one
came from the corner of a vintage white handkerchief to which it had been added as a 3-dimensional element. I removed the
free-standing embroidered pansy and applied it to the background cloth using Buttonhole stitch. To the edge of that
asymmetrical piece of cotton fabric, I added a commercially-made unicorn appliqué to honor the fact that my mother indeed,
was "one-of-a-kind."
A Butterfly of Hope
Butterfly motifs have long served as symbols of hope. The blue butterfly is reminiscent of a day we shared one summer. After
lunch, we took a walk in the flower garden and saw the most beautiful blue butterfly imaginable! I looked for the beautiful
butterfly later but never saw it again.
I added the ceramic button that depicts two doves because it reminds me of my Dad always calling her his "turtle dove." The
bluebird sitting on a nest, offered by way of another button, reminds me of how years ago, we had nesting bluebirds on the
My mother, a convert to Catholicism, often prayed the Rosary and was devoted to the Virgin Mary. I happened to have
purchased an iconic image of the Virgin, in cloth, and decided to add it to the Crazy Quilt block, embellishing it the halo
around her head with beads. Mother loved Christmas and made a lot of fuss, especially over gifts and food. The one
Christmas fabric on the block features gold-trimmed doves, ribbons, and holly and serves as a tribute to all the special
Christmases we spent together.
Good v. Evil
I understand that the devil has been represented by striped fabric since medieval times. I included a striped fabric in the colors
pink, white and black to symbolize how my mother's behavior seemed to be influenced by the "dark" side at times.
The colors black and white are repeated over the surface of the block. The black and white paisley embroidered design is
added to counterbalance the black and white printed fabric used elsewhere, as well as the written words in black, and the
black and white unicorn appliqué.
Remembering how she loved hummingbirds, I sewed on a piece of Aida cloth on which I had embroidered a hummingbird at
rest in cross-stitch using a free Internet design I had found long ago. For good luck and in the tradition of Victorian
needlework, a silver color spider is added atop a lacy circular piece of tatting. A fancy and elaborate shamrock is also added
for "good luck," a wish that mother is now at peace. Just for fun, a replicated cigarette silk premium from NEBO Cigarettes is
sewn onto the quilt block; it says "Tis looking down-ward makes us dizzy."
Crazy Quilts as Emotive Devices of Expression
Perhaps other people who make Crazy Quilts do not put as much emotion into them. I am not sure about that, since I am only
a party of one! I carefully choose all of the fabrics and embellishments. They have to have some meaning to me, personally.
Cloth of varied textures is chosen and I like to repeat colors in some manner to add more cohesiveness and less discordance
to a piece of crazy quilting. In this case, my basis "palette" consists of pink, green, blue, brown and the neutrals of black and
white, a broad range of colors, to be sure.
Just an Exercise
This block is still "only" a singular block. Will it become something larger? I doubt it. This was a cathartic exercise, nothing
more, but one that I had to get out of my system. Is this the best Crazy Quilt I have ever made? Decidedly NOT! Will I make
other Crazy Quilts? Of course, I will! I have already made many small ones as well as clothing, pieced in this fashion.
As always, there are some things I would change. Every textile that one works on becomes part of a learning curve. We
discover what "works" and what could be done better. That is all part of the process of becoming better at what we do.
Learning from our own mistakes really can serve a purpose!
I hope you have enjoyed this brief glimpse into my creative decisions and perhaps you have gained a little bit of an insight into
the final years of my mother's life and can find some empathy for what she (and her family) endured. I am sure that other
"baby-boomers" (or the so-called "sandwich generation") have other stories to tell! We never know what challenges will face
us later, do we? Therefore, we cannot adequately prepare for whatever variables may lie ahead. We have only today to
consider and thankfully we can only make any decisions today!
Copyright 2013. Patricia L. Cummings, Quilter's Muse Publications, Concord, NH. All rights reserved.


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A hydrothermal vent found more than 16,000 feet under the sea could harbor life unlike any other yet found, adapted for conditions so extreme that water gas and liquid no longer have separate states.
The vent is one of three discovered on the Mid-Cayman Rise, part of a vast and largely unexplored ridge of spreading ocean crust. Also discovered was the second known example of a type of vent that may resemble seafloor conditions on Jupiter's moon Europa.
Detected from chemical traces that billow into the ocean like smoke from a smokestack, the vents now await further investigation.
"Every time you get a hydrothermal system, it's wet and hot, and you get water and rocks interacting. Wherever this happens on the seafloor, life takes advantage," said geophysicist Chris German of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. "Every time you find seawater interacting with volcanic rock, there's weird and wonderful life associated with it."
Because it was impractical to look for vents along the the 60-mile-long Mid-Cayman Rise with seafloor vehicles that can see just a few feet into the murk, German's team searched in deep-sea water for telltale chemical traces emitted. Once found, they follow the chemicals' concentration gradient back to their source.
Of the three new vents, described July 19 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, one belonged to a category known only from the so-called Lost City hydrothermal field. These are cooler than other deep-sea vents, rich in organic compounds, and suffused by methane. Something similar to those conditions, which at Lost City support life forms unlike any others seen on Earth, may be found under the seas of Europa, one of Jupiter's four major moons and a prime candidate for non-Earthly life. German's team named the new vent Europa.
The two other vents have chemical profiles more typical of hydrothermal vents, but one — dubbed Piccard, after deep-sea explorer Jacques Piccard — is 16,000 feet down, a full 2,600 feet below the previous deepest-known vent.
At that depth, high temperatures and pressures could push water to its "critical point," at which distinct liquid and gas phases cease to exist, and "the physics change completely," said German. "There's a whole set of theories about what could happen" to life in those conditions, "but nobody has been able to find this in the real world," he said. "There's a whole bunch of questions there."
Deep-sea bacteria isolated from the water samples hint at this life, but closer inspection awaits the refinement of remote-controlled deep-sea submersibles. At such depths, current submersibles are too difficult to control, said German.
Despite the new vents' significance, however, they may not be unique. Scientists have explored only a small fraction of the 50,000-mile-long mid-ocean ridge, of which the Mid-Cayman Rise is just one particularly accessible part. Moreover, the planetary crust sliding beneath the Mid-Cayman Rise moves very slowly; for years, these slow-spreading regions, which account for half of the mid-ocean ridge, were thought to have have no hydrothermal activity at all. They've barely been explored.
"There could be more of these sites, but nobody has searched systematically," said German. "The closer we look, the more we'll find."
Images: 1) Top left, a carbonate formation at the Lost City site; top right, six-foot-long tubeworms from the Rosebud vent field./WHOI. 2) Map of the three new Mid-Cayman vent locations./WHOI.
See Also:
- Deep-Sea Bacteria Form Avatar-Style Electrochemical Networks
- Sea Creatures Travel Far to Colonize After Volcanic Eruptions
- Deep-Sea Snail Shell Could Inspire Better Body Armor
- Life Thrives in Earth's Most Mars-Like Environment
Citation: "Diverse styles of submarine venting on the ultraslow spreading Mid-Cayman Rise." By C. R. German, A. Bowen, M. L. Coleman, D. L. Honig, J. A. Huber, M. V. Jakuba, J. C. Kinsey, M. D. Kurz, S. Leroy, J. M. McDermott, B. Mercier de Lépinay, K. Nakamura, J. S. Seewald, J. L. Smith, S. P. Sylva, C. L. Van Dover, L. L. Whitcomb, D. R. Yoerger. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 107 No. 29, July 20, 2010.
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I've reproduced your problem and compared it with yesterday's solution and can only come up with one suggestion.
When you infile the string and then split it, using the substr function, the right hand component (which I called num in yesterday's post) has leading blanks on it. These are then replaced by leading 0s using the subinstr function.
However, when you infile the string as two strings, Stata possibly strips the leading blanks from it. Even though it has the designation of a str3 type, it may not have the same "contents" as num did (which was also a str3 type) because that latter was created from substr. That
is " 23" and "23" look the same on the screen, but they're not the same data.
This is only a guess, and I can't find an easy way to test it. But it suggests you're better off reading your string in as a full string, then splitting it, rather than as two strings. At least that works (even if the reason is not altogether clear to me why).
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Driving around northeastern Victoria is pretty easy. The Hume Highway, which goes through to New South Wales, is a breeze to negotiate, and the back roads, though occasionally windy and unpaved, are good.
There is one factor, though, that New Zealanders aren't used to, and that's the dangers both from and to the local wildlife.
Loads of signs remind drivers of the kangaroos, koalas and wombats that might cross your path, but I still saw plenty of felled roos as I made my way through the state - and several live ones bounding across the road in front of me. They're big, and if you hit one with your vehicle, it would be a gamble who'd come off best.
One person who works to patch up the creatures hurt by cars, or their orphaned offspring, is Gabbie Mehegan of the Mansfield Wildlife Shelter. This is a private organisation but if you contact Mehegan she's more than happy to show you around. (A donation towards the non-profit, non-funded shelter is an appreciated gesture.)
Mehegan's Barwite property, about a 2.5-hour drive from Melbourne's CBD, is a working farm, but for the past 15 years or so she and her team of volunteers have taken in injured or abandoned animals and nursed them back to health.
On the day I visit, Mehegan has about 50 animals in her care. There's Princess, a sleepy koala who has just started to climb the perch in her enclosure again after suffering a swollen brain following a collision with a car, a galah with many broken bones that had been kept like that in a small cage for years, an eagle with a broken wing from a powerline, a mob of kangaroos with varying injuries, several kookaburras, including an abandoned one too weak to fly, and a lone wombat, Louise - the rest had escaped a couple of nights before - including her pal Thelma.
Louise is a very snuggly baby and nestles in Mehegan's cardigan until I have a cuddle. She curls up in my arms like a kitten. That's very cute and I want to take her home with me, until Mehegan reminds me how big and smelly they get and how they use their backsides as weapons (!), so I reluctantly hand her back.
Mehegan shows me pictures from various bushfires that have affected the area and it's a sombre reminder how vulnerable these animals are and how much risk they face - either at the hands of a human behind the wheel, or at the mercy of Mother Nature.
Getting there: Mansfield Wildlife Shelter and Rescue is at Lochiel Rd, Barwite, Victoria (Ph: +61 3 5776 9678).
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master cylinder for drum/drum or disc/drum
I have a single reservoir manual drum/drum M/C with 7/8 bore now. Want to convert to dual reservoir M/C and maybe manual disc/drum in the future. I found a dual reservoir M/C with a 7/8 bore and 1.10 stroke. Will this M/C support a manual disc/drum system?
It may there are many variables like the fulcrum point of the actuating rod on the pedal to the mc and the pressure ratio to your foot pressure and the size of your calipers.
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I m curious as well because I'm in a similar situation. I do know that a drum/ drum mc will not work for disc/drum setup as it doesn't move enough fluid for calipers. I would like to know if a disc/drum mc would work for drum/drum setup.
I had a 75 corvette power master on my vega drag car. At frist we had it set up with manual drum-drum brakes and it worked ok. Then we went to mustang two front disks and it works perfect, No pulling,stops straight,easy pedal pressure. Rears are 11" chev 1/2 ton drums.
The only difference between a drum/drum, a disc.drum, and a disc/disc master cylinder is the residual valves. Drum brakes have them built in, and disc brakes don't. If you want to run drums with a disc brake master, install external residual valves.
An easy way to check the master for residual valves, try to insert a toothpick in the fitting on the master cylinder.If it goes right in the cylinder bore, there is no residual valve. If it hits something about 1.4" in, it has a residual valve.
If you have a firewall mounted master cylinder, you might get by with a disc master cylinder, with no residual valves, and drum brakes
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Mercury retrograde November 6-26
Mercury retrograde begins on Election Day. Expect delays, issues with the voting machines, scheduling issues, traffic, weather, and mechanical problems, and you are less likely to be surprised or caught off guard. Mercury retrograde begins in philosophical Sagittarius, the sign of travel and education, and moves back into deep, intuitive Scorpio on the 13th, a sign well suited to research and investigation. Our thoughts tend to be darker; our thought process more inclined to ask why and look for deeper meanings.
Saturn-Pluto mutual reception
Saturn is now in mutual reception with Pluto. Pluto is in Saturn's sign, Capricorn, and Scorpio is Pluto's sign. This condition persists until Saturn leaves Scorpio in late 2014. It strengthens both planets and gives them a special common ground that they usually don't have. You can achieve incredible growth and success during this time, in whatever you put your time and energy into. Now, at the very beginning of it, is a great time to think about what you would like to accomplish in the next two years. In your personal life, in your career, what would bring you a sense of fulfillment? Is what you're doing now getting you there?
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Behind the doors, where people sleep,
Knock before you enter with peace
For you might see, what no eye should see,
As lowered gazes take a peak
Beneath the chatter, words do creep,
Of lies and slander up gossip's creek
Before the darkness, there is a light,
But only for those who stand by right
Tafsīr Sūrat'l-Nūr
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'Umar bin al-Khattab (Radiallahu anhu) sent to his governor in Al Kufa instructing him to have the women of the city memorize Sūrat'l-Nūr.
Rumours, Lies & Gossip
In a world filled with overly dramatic reality TV shows and celebrity gossip magazines, we are a people who are obsessed with other people's business!
They heard it through the grapevine, that So and So is going through Such and Such and without even a second thought they have completely dragged someone's name though the dirt.
It's not always easy to think the best of someone, especially when it seems as though the facts are against them.
So how do we as Muslims understand our approach to problems caused by rumors and suspicion?
When it's all about what he says and she says, what does Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala say?
Allah says, "Why, when you heard it, did not the believing men and believing women think good of one another and say, 'This is an obvious falsehood'."
Imagine you are approached and informed that your spouse was having an affair!
The person whom you loved, protected and cherished had gone behind your back and committed the most heinous of crimes. Even the mere thought might cause your blood to boil, never mind the gossip which was quickly spreading throughout your community.
Now place yourself in the position of our noble Prophet Muhammed (salalahu alayhi wa salam) during the incident of the Ifk, where the honour of his beloved wife Aisha (Radiallahu anha) was being called into question.
Why didn't the Prophet (salalahu alayhi wa salam) just end the accusation against Aisha by saying she didn't do it?
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And why didn't her own father Abu bakr (Radiallahu anhu) defend his daughter during the slander?
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Just as when the sun comes out people turn off artificial light sources; when Allah offers His guidance we turn off other sources of guidance. But that doesn't mean we turn off our intellect. Shaykh Kamal El Mekki will teach students to recognize the difference between intellect, which always agrees with the Quran and Sunnah, and personal opinions, or desires.
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The rulings for Hijab change for a woman once she becomes old!
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Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala begins this Sûrah with:
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Verse three says:
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Is all fornication equal?
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What is equality?
"Liberty is equality"
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Some dictionary's will define this as:
The state or quality of being equal.
Not such a useful definition, but we do know, that to be equal, you have to be equal at the lowest level. With people, that is at the individual level.
"No-one is equal to anyone.
-- Thomas Sowell
The state creates inequalities
The state is one of the biggest sources of inequality. State mandated inequalities are everywhere and damaging.
What type of equality?
Equality of opportunity
Equality of opportunity should not mean equality of reward.
Equality of outcomes
Socialist look at distribution at time 0, a horizontal time slice.
"Why are things not equal now, because they should be?"
3 men on Island
The two who work, trade a home for fish, the third complains he has nothing and this is socially unjust
It is known that the bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry, are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good, or that no-one ought to be allowed, through piecework or otherwise, to earn by superior skill or industry, more than others can without it.
-- Stuart Mill
Does equality exist?You can ask yourself this question, just try and think of one place in nature where there is true equality?
Now ask yourself why. The obvious answer is, that there is no equality in nature, and not only that, but nature requires that there there be no equality.
Genuine social equality is a myth, in reality there is a natural inequality of wealth and social position, justified by a corresponding inequality of social responsibility."
-- Andrew Heywood
Not every sperm and egg has the same chance, neither the foetus. Not even when the infant is born, it may have an unequal size family's to another other infant, or be born in better or worse times and places than its ancestors.
No creature naturally seeks equality, it just tries to survive. So in essence equality does not exist.
There is however one way in which all living creatures are equal, they all own themselves. No creature owns another, or can control another actions.
There is an argument, that people are different, we not only survive, but thrive. There is an abundance of resources at our disposal everywhere you look. However these resources are not spread evenly. Although, we cannot make old and young the same age, or the tall and short, or even the thin and the large, we can takes resources from one and give to another. This is the aim of economic equality.
Meritocracy fails to negate inequality, the two concepts are incompatible. Equality requires that there be no merit, if there is, then there is no equality.
Economic equality is only possible at a fixed moment in time.
As soon at the initial redistribution is done differences in peoples spending habits will make people unequal again. To remedy this, the powers that be could reallocate money every minute to make people equal. But that would make money pointless and not even communist governments like North Korea and the former USSR achieved this.
E.g If the powers that be reset money so everyone had the same amount on day 1, David Beckham would be one of the wealthiest men on Day 2 from being in demand to make endorsements and match fees etc.
How would you resolve that?
Equality is an impossible goal, so Government can always get more power trying to acheive it!
"Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it. (individuality is a human trait)"
-- Stuart Mill
"No-ones ideas of excellence in conduct is that people should do absolutely nothing but copy one another."
-- Stuart Mill
Equality quite often results in llevelingdownwards rather than upwards.
"Social equality is injust because it treats unalike individuals alike."
-- Andrew Heywood
Is inequality justice? People are rewarded by the market based on their productivity. Unless it can be shown that the wealth of the rich was stolen, coerced or fraud has been committed then the income distribution is the result of voluntary transactions and it is therefore morally acceptable.
Health equality
And if you wish, give him the following example of the ideal he advocates. It is medically possible to take the corneas of a mans eyes immediately after his death and transplant them to the eyes of a living man who is blind, thus restoring sight. Now according to collectivized ethics, this poses a social problem. Should we wait for the mans death to cut out his eyes, when other men need them? Should we regard everybodys eyes as public property and devise a fair method of distribution? Would you advocate cutting out a living mans eye and giving it to a blind man, so as to "equalise" them? No? Then don't struggle any further with questions about public projects in a free society. You know the answer. The princple is the same.
-- Ayn Rand
Legal equality
Aside from this question of justice, there can be equality of legality. Some laws can apply equality to everyone .
These laws are the ones that apply on an individual basis. These are individual rights.
Olympics is a force for good and at its heart is the idea of Merit.
Educational Equality
Quote 970
"Children might be equally worthy of consideration as individuals; they might be equally entitled to fair treatment. They are done no service, however, if they are taught that a poor performance is the same as an excellent one. Schools which avoid competitive sports or prize-giving ceremonies do their children no favours. The real world outside school is not like that, and they will be ill prepared for it."
Quote 979
"Behind the idea often lurks the doctrine of egalitarianism, and the feeling that children really ought not to be brighter than each other. With this comes the determination that nothing should be done to encourage it. And this involves the rejection of special schools where the bright children can feel the competitive challenge of their peers, and be pushed even further. Not only is the view a malicious one to the children concerned, it is adverse to the betterment of society. It is very often the bright children who go on to become the achievers, and develop the new products and processes, and the new ideas that benefit the rest of society. By holding them back when they are young, we may prevent the development of that ability
Quote 359
Inequality of facilities calls up the idea of merit"
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Does equality take individual circumstances into account.
"No pay system can be fair if it fails to reflect individual performance," Mr Hutton said.
For that matter nothing can be fair if it does not reflect te individual circumstances.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/7133053/Pope-attacks-Labour-laws-on-equality.html "Equality" conflicts with religion
http://www.cityam.com/224843/not-all-measures-inequality-are-equal-city-view Excutive pay equality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3BOg4U1R_I trickledown
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A true 'coast to the coast' today. Finally felt like REAL cyclists. Throughout the day I found myself wondering if this was what cycling was? I had forgotten due to the last several days of pushing and pain. Wind in our hair and km's rolling out behind us, it was a glorious feeling.
On a beautiful day like this that was not to dampen spirits at all and it was off to Flint Castle
We have written some tent sites on a may that I found on www.interhike.com. This website has been quite helpful, but our maps quite vague. Every once in awhile we're guessing.
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