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Studies have shown that one third of women aged 50 to 70 years do not include their age when buying clothes. Some of them choose: free tops, models of trousers, ankle opening, capri pants and tight jeans, knitted cardigans. Others: strict suits, plain shirts, sweaters. Interestingly, one of five members of the fair sex in age from 50 to 60 years wears leggings, and about 20% easily defile on the beach in a swimsuit "bikini".
But, today, we will not stop its attention on leggings that in 50 years can serve rather comfortable in addition to the cardigans, what significant part of the kit. I want to draw attention of this fine old women for most elegant wardrobe part – dress. The dress can be the basis 50 year old woman wardrobe if colors, style, model is correctly selected.
Dress for every day
Women in 50 years of our time watching for her figure carefully enough, so most boasts of taut forms, even if not slim. Therefore, made of the elastic quality knitwear, jersey or stretch fabrics dresses adjacent silhouette perfectly fit the age wardrobe. The dress can also be obtained adjacent or slightly flared, but one thing is important – it is beautifully outlines what to be proud of in 50. This model is enough comfortable to wear it every day and picked up its accessories, jacket, cardigan, maybe change their way, depending on the case.
When choosing everyday models should consider some nuances:
- Dress should be a decent length, such as just below or slightly above knee
- The neutral colors, noble floral textile designs, graphics or abstract prints
- Dresses style should be chosen so as to hide flaws
- Pick a neutral color jersey dress and plays with prominent enhancements
- A right size is main rule when choosing dress stretch fabric, jersey or smooth wool
- The simpler is dress, elegance's image and more options in selection of the accessories
- On 50 years old women it looks great fabrics drapery and flounces
- Excellent choice in the advanced age would case dress, which is perfectly combined with cardigans, jackets, accessories
- Chiffon is also worth a look, just need right colors
Evening dress for women at age 50
It does not matter what form you have, women of all ages or shapes attend evening events.
Choose age worthy dress is not difficult; you just make clear what will make you attractive:
- slim black dress makes image of the mysterious, elegant, and expensive. This especially works complete with expensive gold or silver jewelry
- if you have a beautiful figure, the body-hugging lace fabric dress is the worthy choice in this case
- satin models accentuated silhouette will look very elegant the cocktail party
- case dress one of trendy colors also looks great in the cocktail image
- long model with a simple, elegant neckline is perfect for an evening event.
In keeping with its style, knowing looks dignity, using their wisdom about shortcomings considerably easier to choose a dress for age.
Agree that themselves usually feel when you look ridiculous or is not appropriate in the clothes. This means that you need to look for another model and all. Hopefully, that tips in this article will help you in the dress buying.
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We had fifty-two ladies at luncheon today! I always ask a number of the wives of the Diplomatic Corps, for I think it is pleasant for the American women who are living in Washington temporarily, or coming from other states, to have an opportunity to talk with these women who are representing their countries here and who will interpret American women when they go home to their friends on the basis of those they have had the opportunity to know while here.
The wife of the Argentine Ambassador, Senora de Espil, who is an American, sat on my right, and the wife of the Brazilian Ambassador, Madame Aranha, sat on my left. The latter has two young daughters, twelve and seventeen years old, who are in school here and she bemoans the fact that they have learned English so much faster than she has. One of the advantages of youth!
I started to tell Madame Espil a little about the American women beside the two Cabinet wives, Mrs. Dern and Mrs. Cummings, who were present and grew rather interested myself in giving an account of their various activities. I pointed out Mrs. Nellie Taylor Ross, Director of the Mint; Miss Dorothy Thompson, well known author; Miss Dorothy Straus, a young lawyer from New York City; Mrs. Izetta Jewell Miller, Regional Director for the Women's Division of the Works Progress Administration; Miss Jane Hoey who has recently joined the staff of the Social Security Board and who is well known for her ten years of work with the Welfare Council in New York City; Miss Winifred Mallon, President of the Women's Press Club here; Mrs. Lucille McMillin of the Civil Service Commission; Mrs. Carroll Miller, National Committeewoman from Pennsylvania; Mrs. Annie Dickie Olsen of Minnesota; Mrs. Lawrence McDaniel of Missouri; Mrs. Thomas McAllister of Michigan, all active in work of one kind or another in their states. Added to these were wives of numerous Senators and Congressmen and one member of Congress from Indiana, Mrs. Virginia Jenckes.
I remember some years ago, a man said to my husband that he felt when women took part in politics and business that they would undoubtedly lose some of their feminine charm, but as I looked around the table I decided that this fear was being proved groundless because there seemed to be plenty of good looks and charm and brains as well in evidence!


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LAKE SHORE — Stacks of toys and kid's clothing cover nearly every available space in the downstairs rooms at Katie Wagener's home as though Santa has set up an outlet.
The piles of toys are even more remarkable as Wagener doesn't have children underfoot at the Ideal Township home she shares with her husband Mike. But beginning each fall, her waking — and even perhaps dreaming — hours are engulfed by Christmas toys. The stuff that fills the wish lists of girls and boys. Transformers, Dairy Queen Blizzard making machines, arts and crafts, books, Play-doh, Barbies, Legos, baby dolls, trucks, board games, boots and balls.
"It's endless," said Wagener's friend Linda Rydell as she looked over the tables of toys. "I don't know how she does it."
Each Christmas for the past decade, Wagener has been a mainstay of the effort to gather toys for children. Wagener is president of Christmas for Kids, a community volunteer effort that aims to bring something to children who may not have had a present under the tree without it.
"So Katie has 280 kids," Rydell said.
A neighbor first got Wagener involved. She may never have imagined where that would lead. Christmas for Kids provides presents for children, infants through high school students, who live in the Pequot Lakes, Jenkins, Lake Shore, Merrifield, Breezy Point, Ideal Township and Nisswa communities. Their families — numbering 41 so far this year — also receive a holiday meal including a turkey, five pounds of potatoes, a loaf of bread, butter, cans of vegetables, gravy, stuffing, dessert and a snack, courtesy of Schaefer's Foods in Nisswa.
The nonprofit volunteer effort provides the children with an outfit, a pair of pajamas and three or four items off their Christmas wish list. The community effort touches numerous lives as people pick gift tags off a tree at Schaefer's Foods in Nisswa or bring in toys and donate funds throughout the year. Even in economic times that caused widespread hardships, Wagener said people continue to give. She came home one day to find four large bags of toys at her door, donated anonymously.
"That is one thing that's always amazed me, the generosity of people," Wagener said.
Gifts for children first started as area police officers pooled their money to buy toys or winter boots for families they knew could needed them. Eventually, the volunteer and toy donations outgrew its grass roots effort and a nonprofit organization was formed. Wagener entered that scene 12 years ago.
"This is my world September through January," Wagener said, looking at the piles of toys and racks of clothes that have over taken numerous rooms in her home. Law enforcement personnel from the lakes area, along with DNR and firefighters, continue to dress up as Santa and deliver the presents on Christmas Eve morning with police car escorts. Families sign up for the program in Pequot Lakes and Nisswa and names come from social workers. Care is taken to make sure families are not on duplicate lists with other programs and each year a few families are discovered. But Wagener said a lot of the families on the list have a disabled parent. Children fill out wish lists. A skateboard, football and fishing supplies together for one boy. Princess dress, game and pink winter boots for a girl.
"There are a lot of people who really need it," Wagener said. Wagener said she went out on deliveries in the beginning and remembers entering a home that had a laundry tub for a sink, floor boards worn down to the dirt in the kitchen and few furnishings in the living room. The unadorned little Christmas tree sat in a five-gallon bucket without a present beneath it. That image stuck with her.
"I always had the best Christmas so that's why I feel sorry for a lot of these kids," Wagener said.
She sends out letters asking for donations in September and October. R&D Batteries from Burnsville supplies a case of batteries for the electronic toys. Mills Fleet Farm also provides a donation. But most of the funding comes from community members. Wagener and volunteers then shop in bulk. With the tables and counter tops filled with toys and clothes, Wagener and helpers then take the sheets filled out by the families and pick out the items that fit.
On Dec. 22, volunteers will gather at the Nisswa Community Center to wrap the gifts. Wrapping paper, tape and tags are provided. Pizzas and pop are donated. Wagener said the only time she is really at a loss for help is when the gifts have to be loaded from her home and taken to the community center, which typically happens on a bitterly cold day and requires trip after trip, up and down stairs.
Wagener, 47, grew up in the Twin Cities moved to the lakes area 13 years ago after buying Cold Spring Resort by Nisswa. An animal lover her entire life, she was the one who took in the stray cat and found it a home. She learned to ride on the back of a disagreeable Welsh pony and later earned 4-H ribbons in the show ring. Wagener is close to her family. She grew up with two sisters and a brother and her parents now live next door. The Christmas gifts she enjoys giving the most are ones she's made. Wagener makes salsa, jams and spaghetti sauce.
"It's so good," Rydell said. This year, Wagener is knitting scarves.
Wagener isn't sure who will take Christmas for Kids over when she is done. She established the giving tree for the Christmas program and nurtured the effort as it grew to include the family meal and wider community involvement. Everyone tells her they don't want to step into her shoes.
"I had such a great childhood," she said. "I always looked forward to Christmas."
And that's what drives Wagener to donate so much of her time and effort each year. She can't begin to count how many hours she puts toward Christmas for Kids, but said it continues to be worth it.
"It's the one time of year these kids probably get anything at all," she said. "I'm doing this for the kids."


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Thursday, February 23, 2012
This week's news briefs include: SCS Founders' Day; this weekend's Global Service Jam; upcoming AED/CPR classes; a Student Services Suite Team town hall meeting; a student award program for sustainable ideas; the buggy freeroll practice schedule; new ticket offers from the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust; information sessions covering responsible conduct of research; and a Hadoop Users Group meeting on March 21. MORE
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This week's notables are President Jared L. Cohon, Joe Trotter, Milton Cofield, Franco Sciannameo, Susanne Slavick, Jeannette Wing, Bill Scherlis, Onur Mutlu, Shawn Litster, Erik Ydstie, Larry Biegler, Jim Hoburg, Nich Sahinidis, Mark Kryder, Hyeontaek Lim, Michelle Mazurek and Kate Hamilton. MORE
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The following letter was sent to the global university community by Ray Lane, chairman of Carnegie Mellon's Board of Trustees, announcing a committee that will lead the search for a successor to President Jared L. Cohon. MORE
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This week's news briefs include: CMU begins teaching professional development courses in Rwanda; a grand opening of the SEI Cafe hosted by SEI and Housing and Dining; reservations are due to attend the Carnegie Mellon Women's Association Mardi Gras lunch; a contest in which students could win $20,000 for an innovative and sustainable idea; buggy freeroll practice dates; the Student Employee of the Year Award; discount ticket offers for Pittsburgh Cultural Trust events; and internal communications and media relations awards. MORE
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This week's notables are Fred Gilman, Larry Biegler, Erik Ydstie, Nick Sahinidis, Liz Keller, Jim Daniels, Sivakumar Loganathan, Lenore Blum and Raymond Haynes. MORE
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The Wall Street Journal reported that he lost control of his car while driving on a snowy road and collided with a truck in northern Michigan. He was 53. MORE
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Carnegie Mellon President Jared L. Cohon was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) today (Feb. 9), one of the highest professional distinctions granted to an engineer. Cohon was elected for his contributions to environmental systems analysis and national policy and leadership in higher education. MORE
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How To Fix Scope Parallax Issues
by: Glenn and Danny
Editor's Note: This articles comes directly from gunsmiths who work at Umarex USA.
Whenever we get into a discussion with someone about rifle scopes, inevitably the subject of parallax arises. Scope parallax confuses a lot of people, and there is a great deal of misunderstanding on the subject.
First things first; the term "parallax" is used to describe the difference in angles between objects that are seen up close and those seen far away. When you are driving and look at telephone poles pass by on the side of the road, those closest to your car seem to pass very fast, while the ones far away seem to go very slow. That difference is due to parallax.
In general, it is wise to keep the old phrase in mind, "The better you can see your sights and your target, the more accurately you will shoot." However, that phrase is only true as long as your sights are pointing in the same place from one shot to the next. Telescopic sights allow you to see much further distances, but they create new sighting problems with rifles that never were a problem in the old iron-sighting days.
A scope with parallax issues can wreak havoc on a person's air rifle accuracy as well as sanity! We see this issue frustrate people to no end time and time again in our service and gunsmith departments. If you don't know what's going on and how to check for this problem then you could be wasting hours at the range trying to figure out what is causing the "accuracy" problem.
Many modern day airgun scopes have an adjustable objective (AO) feature, which is located at the forward end of the scope or the turret. There will be an adjustment ring with yardage numbers that can be rotated to coincide with the distance at which you are shooting.
If you are suspicious that there may be parallax issues with a scope then place the gun in a solid rest that totally supports the gun without you holding it. Place a target at a known distance and set the AO ring to coincide with that particular distance. Adjust the gun rest so that the crosshairs are centered on the bull's-eye.
Adjust a gun while on a solid "hands free" rest to correct for parallax.
Now, move your head left and right about 1" in each direction. The crosshairs should remain centered on the bull's-eye as you move your head left and right. If the crosshairs are wandering off the bull's-eye then there is an issue with the parallax at that distance for that scope when you are shooting it.
It should be noted that distances marked on the scope are not necessarily written in stone. A person's own optics of their eye comes in to play for a certain scope at a certain distance. Some scopes do not put markings on the scopes for this very reason, instead saying to use the test (above) to find the point of zero parallax error for each distance and then use a silver or white paint pen to mark the positions. If you do notice an issue with parallax on your gun, you can try rotating the AO incrementally to see if the parallax issue can be eliminated, and then noting the position that the AO is in for that distance. If you are unable to eliminate the parallax, then we suggest replacing the scope with another one.
The parallax issue is a critical one for hunters and target shooters. The crosshair remaining centered on the bull's-eye when moving your head left and right is of utmost importance. The reason being…if you didn't position your cheek at the exact same spot on the stock each time you are shooting then it would be like moving the rear sight, which of course changes your point of impact. By its very nature, parallax is more of an issue at close distances and becomes less of one the further out one aims. Because air rifles are usually aimed at much closer distances than firearms, parallax can be much more of an issue among air rifle shooters.
So, if you find yourself becoming increasingly frustrated with sighting in your rifle, look at parallax as an issue that might need to be eliminated.
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- 5 cups chicken broth
- 1 package (16 ounces) frozen California-blend vegetables
- 1 package (8 ounces) dried cheese tortellini
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) Italian diced tomatoes, undrained
- In a Dutch oven, bring broth to a boil. Stir in vegetables and tortellini. Return to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 10-12 minutes or until vegetables are tender, stirring occasionally. Stir in tomatoes. Cover and cook for 5-6 minutes or until heated through. Yield: 6 servings.
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Electronic Arts has entered into a multi-year endorsement deal with the captain of the U.S. Soccer National Team, Clint Dempsey. As part of the deal, Dempsey will serve as EA Sports Football Ambassador.
Dempsey, attacking midfielder and member of the Seattle Sounders, will make his FIFA franchise debut in a FIFA 14 GameStop commercial. The full 30-second ad spot features Dempsey coaching a fan through various post-goal celebration moves.
Dempsey recently returned to Major League Soccer in the United States after seven seasons in the Barclays Premier League. The 30-year-old forward scored 7 Premier League goals in 29 games during 2012-2013. Dempsey has made 100 appearances for the U.S., and played in the 2006 and 2010 FIFA World Cups. He ranks second on the Americans' all-time scoring chart for international strikes with 36.
"Clint Dempsey is an incredible talent on the field who exudes a palpable excitement and passion for the sport," said Randy Chase, senior director of North America marketing for EA Sports. "His return to the United States marks a tremendous leap forward for soccer in the country and we are thrilled to partner with Clint on many projects that will continue to drive the exploding popularity of the sport in America."
"Having been a longtime fan of the EA Sports FIFA franchise, I am thrilled to join the FIFA team," said Dempsey. "The FIFA games have played an important role in bringing many new fans to soccer in the United States and it's awesome to partner with the team to continue the great work they've already been doing."
FIFA 14 will be available on the Xbox 360 games and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system, PC and other platforms on Sept. 24 in North America and Sept. 27 worldwide. FIFA 14 will also be available later this year with the launch of the Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft, and PlayStation 4. FIFA 14 is available for pre-order now on selected platforms at http://www.origin.com and other retailers.
Electronic Arts delivers games, content and online services for Internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile phones and tablets. EA has more than 300 million registered players and operates in 75 countries.


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Nutrient-rich forests absorb more carbon
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The ability of forests to sequester carbon from the atmosphere depends on nutrients available in the forest soils, shows new research from an international team of researchers, including IIASA.
The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, showed that forests growing in fertile soils with ample nutrients are able to sequester about 30% of the carbon that they take up during photosynthesis. In contrast, forests growing in nutrient-poor soils may retain only 6% of that carbon. The rest is returned to the atmosphere as respiration.
"This paper produces the first evidence that to really understand the carbon cycle, you have to look into issues of nutrient cycling within the soil," says IIASA Ecosystems Services and Management Program Director Michael Obersteiner, who worked on the study as part of a new international research project sponsored by the European Research Council.
Marcos Fernandez-Martinez, first author of the paper and researcher at the Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) says, "In general, nutrient-poor forests spend a lot of energy-carbon-through mechanisms to acquire nutrients from the soil, whereas nutrient-rich forests can use that carbon to enhance biomass production."
Research: Arid areas absorb unexpected amounts of carbon
By Eric Sorensen, WSU science writer
PULLMAN, Wash. – Researchers led by a Washington State University biologist have found that arid areas, among the biggest ecosystems on the planet, take up an unexpectedly large amount of carbon as levels of carbon dioxide increase in the atmosphere. The findings give scientists a better handle on the earth's carbon budget – how much carbon remains in the atmosphere as CO2, contributing to global warming, and how much gets stored in the land or ocean in other carbon-containing forms.
"It has pointed out the importance of these arid ecosystems," said R. Dave Evans, a WSU professor of biological sciences specializing in ecology and global change. "They are a major sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide, so as CO2 levels go up, they'll increase their uptake of CO2 from the atmosphere. They'll help take up some of that excess CO2 going into the atmosphere. They can't take it all up, but they'll help."
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The findings, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, come after a novel 10-year experiment in which researchers exposed plots in the Mojave Desert to elevated carbon-dioxide levels similar to those expected in 2050. The researchers then removed soil and plants down to a meter deep and measured how much carbon was absorbed.
"We just dug up the whole site and measured everything," said Evans.
The idea for the experiment originated with scientists at Nevada's universities in Reno and Las Vegas and the Desert Research Institute. Evans was brought in for his expertise in nutrient cycling and deserts, while researchers at the University of Idaho, Northern Arizona University, Arizona State University and Colorado State University also contributed.
Funding came from the U.S. Department of Energy's Terrestrial Carbon Processes Program and the National Science Foundation's Ecosystem Studies Program.
Vast lands play significant role
The work addresses one of the big unknowns of global warming: the degree to which land-based ecosystems absorb or release carbon dioxide as it increases in the atmosphere.
Receiving less than 10 inches of rain a year, arid areas run in a wide band at 30 degrees north and south latitude. Along with semi-arid areas, which receive less than 20 inches of rain a year, they account for nearly half the earth's land surface.
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New Weapon in Climate Fight?
The degradation of soils from unsustainable agriculture and other development has released billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere. But new research shows how effective land restoration could play a major role in sequestering CO2 and slowing climate change.
In the 19th century, as land-hungry pioneers steered their wagon trains westward across the United States, they encountered a vast landscape of towering grasses that nurtured deep, fertile soils.
Today, just three percent of North America's tallgrass prairie remains. Its disappearance has had a dramatic impact on the landscape and ecology of
The world's cultivated soils have lost 50 to 70 percent of their original carbon stock.
the U.S., but a key consequence of that transformation has largely been overlooked: a massive loss of soil carbon into the atmosphere. The importance of soil carbon — how it is leached from the earth and how that process can be reversed — is the subject of intensifying scientific investigation, with important implications for the effort to slow the rapid rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
According to Rattan Lal, director of Ohio State University's Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, the world's cultivated soils have lost between 50 and 70 percent of their original carbon stock, much of which has oxidized upon exposure to air to become CO2. Now, armed with rapidly expanding knowledge about carbon sequestration in soils, researchers are studying how land restoration programs in places like the
former North American prairie, the North China Plain, and even the parched interior of Australia might help put carbon back into the soil.
Absent carbon and critical microbes, soil becomes mere dirt, a process of deterioration that's been rampant around the globe. Many scientists say that regenerative agricultural practices can turn back the carbon clock, reducing atmospheric CO2 while also boosting soil productivity and increasing resilience to floods and drought. Such regenerative techniques include planting fields year-round in crops or other cover, and agroforestry that combines crops, trees, and animal husbandry.
Recognition of the vital role played by soil carbon could mark an important if subtle shift in the discussion about global warming, which has been
A look at soil brings a sharper focus on potential carbon sinks.
heavily focused on curbing emissions of fossil fuels. But a look at soil brings a sharper focus on potential carbon sinks. Reducing emissions is crucial, but soil carbon sequestration needs to be part of the picture as well, says Lal. The top priorities, he says, are restoring degraded and eroded lands, as well as avoiding deforestation and the farming of peatlands, which are a major reservoir of carbon and are easily decomposed upon drainage and cultivation.
He adds that bringing carbon back into soils has to be done not only to offset fossil fuels, but also to feed our growing global population. "We cannot feed people if soil is degraded," he says.
"Supply-side approaches, centered on CO2 sources, amount to reshuffling the Titanic deck chairs if we overlook demand-side solutions: where that carbon can and should go," says Thomas J. Goreau, a biogeochemist and expert on carbon and nitrogen cycles who now serves as president of the Global Coral Reef Alliance. Goreau says we need to seek opportunities to increase soil carbon in all ecosystems — from tropical forests to pasture to wetlands — by replanting degraded areas, increased mulching of biomass instead of burning, large-scale use of biochar, improved pasture management, effective erosion control, and restoration of mangroves, salt marshes, and sea grasses.
"CO2 cannot be reduced to safe levels in time to avoid serious long-term impacts unless the other side of atmospheric CO2 balance is included," Goreau says.
Scientists say that more carbon resides in soil than in the atmosphere and all plant life combined; there are 2,500 billion tons of carbon in soil, compared with 800 billion tons in the atmosphere and 560 billion tons in plant and animal life. And compared to many proposed geoengineering fixes, storing carbon in soil is simple: It's a matter of returning carbon where it belongs.
Through photosynthesis, a plant draws carbon out of the air to form carbon compounds. What the plant doesn't need for growth is exuded through the roots to feed soil organisms, whereby the carbon is humified, or rendered stable. Carbon is the main component of soil organic matter and helps give soil its water-retention capacity, its structure, and its fertility. According to Lal, some pools of carbon housed in soil aggregates are so stable that they can last thousands of years. This is in contrast to "active" soil carbon,
'If we treat soil carbon as a renewable resource, we can change the dynamics,' says an expert.
which resides in topsoil and is in continual flux between microbial hosts and the atmosphere.
"If we treat soil carbon as a renewable resource, we can change the dynamics," says Goreau. "When we have erosion, we lose soil, which carries with it organic carbon, into waterways. When soil is exposed, it oxidizes, essentially burning the soil carbon. We can take an alternate trajectory."


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It has been a crazy night in the Big Brother house. Not only have we had a huge twist already, Big Brother has just sprung another surprise on the unsuspecting Celebrity Housemates.
Of course, the celebrity housemates will think they're famous in their own special little way, but Big Brother wasn't happy with that and wanted to know which two housemates are the most famous in the house.
After much deliberation, it was decided that Vicky Entwistle and Bruce Jones are the two most famous housemates in the house due to their lengthy stint on Coronation Street.
Charlotte of Geordie Shore wasn't too pleased with the result as she felt that Dustin Diamond and Ron Atkinson should have been voted as the most famous… but I reckon they're glad they weren't when they found out what the 'prize' was.
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CMV is the most common cause of infection of the fetus: about 1 in 100 newborns are infected. Although CMV infection causes no detectable symptoms in immunocompetent adults, about 20% of CMV-infected newborns develop serious symptoms, including cerebral malformations, multiple organ failure, deafness, and mental retardation. It is generally accepted that this increased susceptibility to viral infections is related to the immaturity of the neonatal immune system.
T cells are a part of the cellular immune system that is important to fight viral infections. γδ T cells are unconventional T cells: they do not recognize pieces of pathogen proteins (for example from viruses) as conventional ab T cells do. In fact, it is largely unknown what γδ T cell receptors recognize.
At the Institute for Medical Immunology (Université Libre de Bruxelles), in collaboration with clinicians from Hôpital Erasme and Le Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Saint-Pierre, they have found that human fetal γδ T cells can mount a vigorous response to CMV infection during development in utero. They discovered a novel anti-CMV γδ T cell receptor that was highly expanded in CMV-infected fetuses. Thus γδ T cells can provide an important mechanism by which the fetus fights pathogens and they could be a target for the design of novel vaccination strategies against infection in early life.
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Clinical Services
1. Child and Adolescent Inpatient Unit: Ingalls Memorial Hospital
2. Pediatric Consultation-Liaison: University of Illinois
3. DCFS Adolescent Assessment Unit: University of Illinois
4. Outpatient Clinic: UIC/IJR
5. School Consultation: SEDOL, and Chicago Public Schools
6. Forensic Consultation: Circuit Court of Cook County, Juvenile Division
7. Electives
1. Child and Adolescent Inpatient Unit and Partial Hospital Program: Ingalls Memorial Hospital
Fellows will spend 4 months practicing inpatient psychiatry on the busy 22 bed inpatient child and adolescent psychiatry unit at Ingalls Hospital where they encounter a diverse patient population with problems across the spectrum of psychiatric pathology. While fellows work under an attending physician they are granted a wide berth of independence allowing them to make patient management decisions commensurate with their burgeoning knowledge and skill sets. Fellows will also be working with and at times leading a team of nurses, psychologists and social workers in formulating and implementing treatment protocols specific to each patient and their psychosocial needs. In addition to caring for patients admitted to the hospital the fellow will have responsibility for managing patients in the partial hospital program at Ingalls as well.
2. Pediatric Consultation-Liaison: University of Illinois at Chicago
The child and adolescent psychiatry consultation/liaison service is run by Elizabeth Charney, M.D., a triple boarded child and adolescent psychiatrist and full-time faculty member. First-year fellows rotate through the C/L service for four months. The service provides a combination of inpatient, outpatient, and emergent consultation to pediatric patients who have been referred by other physicians at UIC. Consults to inpatients include medically ill patients hospitalized on the pediatric unit. The pediatric unit consists of 40 general pediatric beds, a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, and a step down unit. Outpatient consultation involves consults to general pediatric patients as well as patients in specialty clinics including pediatric neurology, hematology/oncology, nephrology, endocrinology, surgery, infectious disease, cardiology genetics clinic, and psychosocial clinic. The C/L team provides back up to the social worker and general adult psychiatry residents in the ER for pediatric patients requiring psychiatric consultation. This may involve seeing patients in the ER or arranging for next day outpatient evaluation for these patients. In addition to these roles the fellow on the C/L service will function in the Peds-embedded clinic, a psychiatric evaluation and management clinic within the pediatric clinic, providing direct consultation and evaluation for patients seen within the pediatric clinic. Fellows on this rotation also take phone consultation from primary care providers throughout the state of Illinois as part of the stated funded Doc Assist program, of which UIC IJR is the only consultation site. Rounding out the rotation, fellows rotate in the busy UIC neurology clinic. The goals and objectives of the rotation are: to learn the fundamentals of the neurological history and physical examination, neurological diagnostic tests, report interpretation, when to refer to a neurologist, differential diagnosis, when to suspect an underlying neurological condition in a child with a behavior problem, typical behavioral problems of common neurological conditions, knowledge of basic neurological medications and their side effects. Diagnostic categories include seizure disorders, developmental delay, mental retardation with behavioral dysfunction, learning disability, headaches, gait disorders, post-infectious neurological sequelae, motor disorders, tumors, toxic encephalopathies, prenatal and perinatal trauma sequelae, chromosomal anomalies, and metabolic diseases. The clinic sees children between 0 to 21 years of age, with the majority between 7 and 16 years of age.
3. DCFS Adolescent Assessment Unit: University of Illinois
The Comprehensive Assessment and Treatment Unit (CATU)/Response Training System (CARTS) is an intensive treatment program serving the psychiatric needs of DCFS wards. The Medical Director/Coordinator is Michael Naylor, M.D.. The program is the result of a contract between the Department of Children and Family Services and the University of Illinois at Chicago. The patients treated are adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18 years with severe psychopathology who have failed numerous hospitalizations, residential treatment center placements, or group or foster home placements. The inpatient component of the program, the CATU, strives to provide comprehensive evaluations, crisis stabilization, acute treatment, and linkage to intensive community-based treatment programs, including wrap - around services. The CATU is an 10 bed unit housed in the University of Illinois at Chicago Hospital. Diagnoses represent the full range of psychopathology, with high percentages of post-traumatic stress disorder, affective disorders, disruptive behavior disorders, and learning disabilities. Services offered include psychological, neuropsychological, and educational testing; speech and language evaluation; behavioral analysis and behavioral treatment; individual psychotherapy; pharmacotherapy; milieu and group therapy; case management; occupational therapy; group therapy for adolescents who have been sexually and physically abused; group therapy for offenders; and substance abuse treatment. Given the chronicity and severity of psychopathology in this population, the average length of stay is expected to be approximately 21 days.
The CARTS follows the patients from the hospital into the community, providing direct clinical services and providing consultative and educational services to care-givers involved in the patient's care in the community.
First year fellows rotate for 4 months on the CATU/CARTS. Fellows will be assigned patients at the time of admission to the unit and will be responsible for day to day patient care under the supervision of the attending physician.
4. Outpatient Clinic: University of Illinois at Chicago/Institute for Juvenile Research (UIC/IJR)
The UIC/IJR outpatient clinic maintains an active caseload. The clinic population is approximately 60% male and 40% female. Approximately 60% are black, 20% are white, and 20% are Hispanic. Fifty-five percent are elementary school-age children, 35% are adolescents, and 10% are preschoolers. Typical diagnoses include depressive or anxiety disorders, sexual or physical abuse, family conflict, disruptive disorders, learning disorders, developmental disability/mental retardation, psychotic disorders, and specific symptom disorders such as enuresis and encopresis. Referral sources include schools, community agencies, private practitioners, Department of Children and Family Services, Department of Corrections, the University of Illinois complex, Department of Mental Health inpatient units, City of Chicago Mental Health Clinics, and self-referrals. Services include consultation, diagnostic assessment, and treatment. Treatment provided may be either short- or long-term. Treatment modalities include an overall eclectic biopsychosocial approach, supportive psychotherapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, group therapy, individual and family systems (including occasional larger group therapy and marital therapy), and cognitive-behavioral therapy.
Residents maintain an ongoing outpatient medication management and psychotherapy caseloads throughout the two years of training. Weekly individual supervision of outpatient treatment is provided by several supervisors for each resident, in addition to special group practicum supervision in family work. In keeping with our philosophy of teaching our trainees to become excellent teachers, supervisors, and administrative leaders, we give special responsibilities to our second-year trainees. They become outpatient group leaders, under supervision. They also supervise general psychiatry residents on their outpatient cases and are given supervision in this activity. They give lectures to third-year medical students, and are given feedback on their lecture style. Second-year trainees also rotate in our own Pediatric Mood Disorders clinic, under the supervision of Mani Pavuluri, M.D., and Julie Carbray, Ph.D., DNSc and the Pediatric Stress and Anxiety clinic under the supervision of Meghann Hennelley, M.D. These UIC/IJR subspecialty outpatient clinics use a multidisciplinary team approach to assessment and treatment, and trainees are taught how to run outpatient groups as part of this clinic.
5. School Consultation: Special Education District of Lake County
A Board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist who is on our faculty and in private practice, Henry Gault, M.D., is the rotation coordinator and supervisor. SEDOL (Special Education District of Lake County) is a special education cooperative with a school population base of 67,000 students being served by 40 individual small suburban districts. Of these, 8000 have special education needs, and 2000 are within self-contained classrooms. The Lake County population tends to be middle-class, non-minority, and the school resources are excellent. At SEDOL, we consult to both regular and special education classrooms. Ages seen range from the Parent-Infant Center (0-3 years) to 21-year-old handicapped young adults. Diagnostic categories seen include autism, developmental disability/mental retardation, disruptive disorders, learning disability, physically handicapped, and mood disorders.
Trainees perform client-centered, consultee-centered, and program consultation. They do classroom observation, consult to nursing staff about medication issues, consult to teachers about behavorial techniques, work with classroom groups on selected issues, meet with parents, evaluate individual children, and participate in staffings. They coordinate and perform crisis intervention, and conduct various groups. Supervision occurs on-site at SEDOL for the entire day with Dr. Gault.
Interested trainees may elect to become involved in ongoing research and clinical projects at UIC/IJR involving the Chicago Public Schools. The Chicago Public Schools serve 400,000 students in mainstream education. There is a large proportion of minority, low income, socially disadvantaged students. William McMiller, M.D., MPH, offers an elective working in the community in the Oak Park/River Forest High School.
6. Forensic Consultation: Circuit Court of Cook County, Juvenile Division, Juvenile Detention Center
The rotation at the Juvenile detention center entails completing psychiatric evaluations of adolescents upon admission to the facility and working with a multidisciplinary team to establish treatment plans for them during their stay. Fellows also have the opportunity to observe first hand the process by which youth residents of the facility carry out their term. Under the direct supervision of Dr. Lynelle Thomas, a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, one will also learn about and become part of the necessary careful and structured mental health interventions provided by the facility.
7. Electives
The training director helps each resident entering the second year of training to develop areas of interest into personally designed electives. The trainee's initial ideas are explored and refined. The training director acts as a networking resource to match trainee interests with faculty and sites. The electives are then formalized, with written goals, objectives, methods, time estimates, supervising faculty, end product (paper, presentation, etc.), and evaluation criteria. There are approximately 260 hours available in the second year set aside for the pursuit of elective interests.
Trainees may choose to design or join an ongoing research project with a research mentor within the Division. Some residents choose to expand involvement within the IJR Outpatient Clinic Rotation or other clinical sites listed above, focusing on a particular therapeutic approach, or diagnostic subgroup. Trainees may also spend time involved in learning disability evaluations, infant psychiatry, abuse prevention and intervention, substance abuse treatment, local community mental health projects or literature reviews on specific topics.
Examples of past electives include: working in community mental health at a Hispanic community center, family systems program, doing in-depth school consultation in the Chicago Public Schools and Lake County, doing the medical student teaching within the medication clinic, doing additional consultation-liaison work, working with homosexual adolescents at risk for AIDS at a community organization, preparing a presentation on managed care for AACAP, observing normal development in preschool and school settings, doing psychopharmacological research, co-leading multiple family groups, working with sexually abused children and abusers, working with patients with eating disorders, working on a normal development videotape, differential diagnosis of psychosis in children, running a therapy group for pregnant teenagers, Melanie Klein reading tutorial, advanced psychodynamics' tutorial and clinical work with senior analysts, infant assessment, substance abuse treatment, research in dissociative disorders and PTSD, research in anxiety disorders among music students, abuse prevention and intervention, and administrative psychiatry electives. Topics of book chapters and articles have included gender identity disorder, paraphilia, education and normal development, psychopharmacology of disruptive disorders, emergency child/adolescent psychiatry, normal development of music from birth to six years, and reviewing placebo effects in child and adolescent psychopharmacology.


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Arsène Wenger was unimpressed with Emmanuel Adebayor's goal celebration against Arsenal but wants to leave the FA to deal with it.
The former Gunner scored for Manchester City when he faced Wenger's side at the weekend and ran the length of the Eastlands pitch to celebrate in front of the visiting supporters.
"It doesn't look good but it is down to the FA to deal with it," said Wenger at his pre-match press conference in Liege.
The Arsenal manager was asked if he was surprised by Adebayor's actions but he remained tight-lipped.
"I do not rule anything good or bad out for human beings. I do not want to instruct the case of Adebayor," said Wenger.
"I think we have to focus on our own side, the next game."
'Adebayor case is for the FA to deal with'
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The education secretary, Ruth Kelly, has come under fire after it emerged that the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) has cleared a "small number" of sex offenders to work in schools. The controversy started after the police protested about the appointment of Paul Reeve as a PE teacher at Hewett School, Norwich. The DfES told Norfolk county council last May that Mr Reeve had been approved to work in schools. But he was forced to resign after the police warned that he had been cautioned for accessing child abuse images on the internet and placed on the sex offenders register. Opposition parties argue that ministers have not learned the lessons from the 2002 murders of 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman - killed by Ian Huntley, who gained a job as a caretaker at a college next to their primary school despite a catalogue of sexual allegations made against him.
The Times reported there were about 10. Ms Kelly has refused to give a "ballpark figure" and yesterday ordered a review to find out exactly how many people on the sex offenders register have been cleared to work in the classroom.
Why aren't sex offenders automatically barred from working in schools?
As yet there is no official explanation for this. The sex offenders register was set up in 1997 and contains the details of anyone convicted or cautioned for a sexual offence. An enhanced Criminal Records Bureau check, required for anyone who works with children, would flag up someone's presence on the register to a potential employer. However, child protection experts point out that the register covers all sexual offences and not just those involving children. Derek Green, director of child protection organisation RWA, which treats sex offenders, said the register included people cautioned or convicted of minor sexual offences who did not pose a specific risk to children. He said: "A minor offence might be an indecent exposure, such as a drunken student relieving himself down an alley, or a 15-year-old putting his hand up teenage girls' skirts." He believes that placing all sex offenders on the separate List 99, the blacklist of people banned from working with children, would be a "kneejerk" response and not necessarily reduce risk. Instead, he proposes that only those cautioned or convicted for offences involving children should be automatically barred.
What is the relationship between the sex offenders register and List 99?
The former is maintained by the police while the latter is run by the education department. The final decision on whether someone on the register is placed on List 99 is currently left to the DfES. Mr Green has called for this process to be made more transparent, so ministers and government officials can be held to account for their decisions. Natalie Cronin, of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, said the decision to blacklist someone should be left to independent experts rather than the education secretary.
Weren't checks tightened after the Soham murders?
The Bichard inquiry into how Huntley got a job in a school demanded an overhaul of police intelligence and vetting procedures. Its report, by inquiry chairman Sir Michael Bichard, recommended setting up a new vetting system, including a national IT system for police forces to share intelligence and a single registration scheme for people wishing to work with children. But 18 months after the report's publication, the new vetting system is still not in place and the development of the national police database is behind schedule. Ms Kelly revealed that there are currently seven lists barring people from work with children and vulnerable adults.
What is the government doing to address concerns?
Ms Kelly has ordered a review of all cases since 1997 where any sex offenders had been cleared to work in schools, which would examine whether their behaviour had caused concern. She is also fast-tracking legislation to implement the recommendations of the Bichard inquiry, which will be introduced to parliament next month. But the new system will not be fully operational until 2008.


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Amy Poehler Honored At Variety's Power Of Comedy Event
Comedian-extraordinaire Amy Poehler was honored on Saturday at Variety's Power of Comedy event, to benefit the Noreen Frasier Foundation. This year the public was invited to buy tickets, where they were able to witness some fantastic stand up comedy acts and mingle with celebs. Poehler wore an Elsa Peretti for Tiffany & Co. bottle pendant with Carved Lapis Stopper in sterling silver ($625).
PHOTOS: Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig at the Bridesmaids Premiere
Maya Rudolph performed R. Kelly's hilariously raunchy song 'Sex in the Kitchen' and Nick Kroll cracked up the crowd with a bit about crapping his pants—now that's what I call comedy. Sarah Silverman also did a standup bit and Tina Fey sent in a funny and sincere video tribute (after which Poehler claimed anyone who wasn't there in person was dead to her).
PHOTOS: The Cast of Arrested Development at The New Yorker Festival
The legendary comedians kept the entertainment coming with a video from the brains behind Arrested Development: Mitchell Hurwitz, Will Arnett and David Cross. The Dan Band and Million Dollar Strong performed hilarious renditions of 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' and 'What's It Gonna Be' respectively, and the night came to a close as Will Ferrell introduced Amy Poehler.
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Which were the stories that nabbed the most hits on GayNZ.com in 2012?David Farrier, Maggie Barry, Germaine Greer, Ali Mau and a gay baby Jesus are among the top ten. Find out which the biggest stories of the year were here.
10. TV3 reporter and Am. Cup yachtie's son a couple
"I always thought David was cute," Grayson Coutts, a makeup artist, said. ""He made me laugh, then a few months ago he asked me out. We went to a movie full of bloodlust and gratuitous violence. So romantic."
Farrier was the latest in string of mainstream media reporters and celebrities to come out in recent years, others include Rebecca Singh, Darren McDonald, Colin Mathura-Jeffree, Tamati Coffey, Alison Mau and Alistair Wilkinson.
9. Barry's trans attack labelled ŌĆ£jaw droppingŌĆØ
Claiming the Green Party rarely spoke in Parliament on environmental issues, she asked ŌĆ£What's your favourite Ms Logie? Ahh ŌĆ" sex change people going into prisons. There's been a lot of talk of these ŌĆśfringe' issues.ŌĆØ
Logie said it showed a level of meanness and ignorance that was ŌĆ£jaw droppingŌĆØ.
ŌĆ£To reduce my questions about the state's responsibility to protect transgender prisoners from sexual assault to a ŌĆśfringe issue' is just offensive,ŌĆØ she told us.
8. Mills "extremely anxious" prior to his death
It emerged he was extremely anxious about the publicity surrounding his case, and threats from other inmates, prior to taking his own life in his Auckland prison cell.
Mills was due to appear in court on the day of his death and the inquest heard that during his time in prison he had been ŌĆ£sad and worriedŌĆØ.
An 11 page note was found in his cell, in which he expressed he found prison life challenging, and the public interest in his case to be causing concern and extreme anxiety. Mills also wrote that he found each appearance at court to be particularly stressful due to the public interest.
7. "Gay baby Jesus" billboard makes global waves
Auckland's St-Matthew's know how to make a statement ŌĆō and grab a headline in doing it. Our follow up about the reactions to their ŌĆ£time for Jesus to come outŌĆØ billboard this month was the seventh most-read story this year.
Reverend Clay Nelson said the billboard presented the challenge to think about Jesus as fully human whose growing up would have involved the same range of character possibilities, and even sexuality, as the rest of us.
ŌĆ£Some scholars have tried to make the case that he might have been gay,ŌĆØ Nelson said. ŌĆ£But it is all conjecture. Maybe gay, maybe not. Does it matter?ŌĆØ
6. Germaine Greer glitter-bombed by Queer Avengers
In March those cheeky Queer Avengers glittered bombed a visiting Germaine Greer in Wellington.
She has a history of outing and denouncing transwomen, even describing them as ŌĆ£ghastly parodiesŌĆØ of womanhood.
ŌĆ£Transphobic feminism is so 20th Century,ŌĆØ said Stacey of the Queer Avengers. ŌĆ£It wasn't okay then and it's not okay now. Women's liberation must mean the right to refuse imposed gender roles, to fight for diverse gender expression.ŌĆØ
5. Mr Gay NZ 2012 Andreas Derleth
He told us all about himself and his amazing partner Tom ŌĆō his biggest supporter! And of course we included a few pictures of the buff Mr Gay NZ winner!
"I feel proud to be able to represent the GLBT community in New Zealand," Andy told us. "While running for the title I was humbled by the support and comments I received from friends as well as from total strangers on Facebook where the online vote took place."
4. Care worker allegedly dubbed "dirty homosexual"
Grant White eventually resigned from Health Care New Zealand in Napier in April, after the damage done to his client relationships became unbearable.
While he is gay, he says he always kept his private life quiet, but after being asked told another staff member he was in a happy relationship with a man.
About six months later he discovered another female co-worker had been telling his clients about his sexuality and relationship, describing him as a "dirty homosexual".
3. Odd Future's claws come out in gay cats shirt
It depicted a ginger cat mounting a screeching tabby, with the slogan "two dudes" below it. On the back it reads "Big Gay Out".
The t-shirts were designed by the group's frontman Tyler The Creator, who responded with "New Zealand does not like a nigga," in response to the Big Day Out dropping his act. He has maintained he is not homophobic, saying he uses the word faggot because it "hits and hurts people".
2. Lesbian couple pummels The Rock's contest
The prank was to have someone telling their spouse they were ending their marriage, live on air. The winner, a woman named Sam, told the station things hadnŌĆÖt been good with her husband ŌĆ£AndyŌĆØ.
When they called ŌĆ£AndyŌĆØ a woman answered and said "No, this isn't Andy. It wasn't Andy to start with you f***ing idiots," said a woman who then identified herself as Sam's wife, Amber.
"So how does it feel you two - how does it feel like, being on the other end of something?
"We sabotaged you, you dickheads."
On the 1st of March we brought you the news that Fair Go host Ali Mau and her partner Karleen Edmonds were engaged.
"We're excited to be taking this next step in our lives together, and want to thank all our family and friends for their unanimously positive reaction to our plans, and for all their unwavering support," the pair said in a statement.


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The Vietnam War memorial in Washington is crowded with tourists. Most of them are Americans who stand in front of the stark, black marble wall in silence and read the names, chiselled into the wall in white lettering, of the 58,000 American soldiers who died in Vietnam.
Gouged into parkland on the edge of the Mall, the wall sits unsignposted along a pebbled path that leads to a bridge across the Potomac and on to the Arlington National Cemetery.
While thousands of Americans this week have walked the 100 or so metres of the wall, strewn at its base with single flowers, mostly roses, and fading notes and prayers left by relatives of the dead, the 30th anniversary of Saigon's fall has been largely ignored by much of the US media.
And so far, not a single senior politician, not in the Bush Administration, not in Congress, has even mentioned the anniversary.
Yet the Vietnam War was the longest in US history and its greatest military defeat. More than 3 million US troops served in Vietnam. At the height of the war, there were more than 500,000 soldiers there, many of them conscripts. In 1968 and 1969, they died at the rate of 3000 a month.
Along the wall, reading the names of the dead, some of the people in tears, some unable to speak, the American visitors to Washington mostly seem to feel a mixture of sadness and anger.
Some, such as Darrell Lowdernick, a 75-year-old Korean War veteran from Colorado, says that for him, the Vietnam War memorial is overwhelming, each name a wasted life. "I supported the war," he says. "Yes, I did, but now I think it was not worthwhile and we should have gotten out sooner, admitted defeat. They didn't want us there."
Beside him, two middle-aged women in tears interrupt to say that their husbands are Vietnam veterans who could not bring themselves to visit the memorial; they are waiting back in the hotel. "My husband is still angry over how he was treated when he came back," says one of them. "The politicians lost the war, not the soldiers. They didn't let the soldiers win it."
Cathy Byers, in her mid-30s, has just placed a red rose at the base of the wall and she, too, is angry and tearful. She is a Bush supporter and she supported the Administration's decision to go to war in Iraq. "We lost in Vietnam because we lost our will to win," she says. "I hope we have learnt the lesson in Iraq and we'll let the soldiers win over there. But then the Iraqis have to take over and do the fighting."
While there has been mostly silence about the Vietnam War in this Saigon anniversary week, there's no doubt that this war remains a troubling and divisive presence in the American psyche.
It is no accident that those in the Bush Administration who were least gung-ho about going to war in Iraq were then secretary of state Colin Powell and his deputy, Rich Armitage, both Vietnam War veterans. The lesson of Vietnam for Powell and Armitage was that the US should never again go to war without clearly defined national security objectives and a clear exit strategy for when those objectives are achieved.
For Vice-President Dick Cheney and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld - and for many of the most influential neo-conservatives - the Vietnam War was a just war that could have been won but for the loss of nerve first by President Lyndon Johnson and, later, by an increasingly embattled Richard Nixon, who was consumed by the Watergate scandal.
To them, the Vietnam War destroyed America's confidence in itself and in its military, and only a massive increase in military spending and the flexing of America's military muscle could, once and for all, remove the stain of the Vietnam defeat and the perception that America was "soft".
To a certain extent, where Americans stand on the Bush foreign policy and on the war in Iraq depends on how they read the lessons of the war in Vietnam.
Ted Kennedy summed up the view of those who think that war was a tragic mistake, unwinnable, unjustified, a terrible American tragedy, when he described the war in Iraq as "George Bush's Vietnam".
Bush has said little about the war in Vietnam and given the controversy about how he avoided the draft, that's not surprising. Asked in an interview with The New York Times in January about the lessons of the Vietnam War, he said that ". . . there have to be clear objectives that everyone understands".
But the objective that was to remove the threat of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction turned out to be a chimera; there were no WMD to be removed. And so the objective changed to bringing democracy to Iraq and to ensure, as part of the war on terror, that Iraq doesn't become a failed state, a haven for totalitarian Islamist terror organisations.
Thirty years after the fall of Saigon, the echoes of that lost war can still be heard at that heartbreaking black wall with all those names of dead young men on it. They can also be heard in the White House and among key Administration officials whose view of the world was formed, for better or worse, in the bitter aftermath of that conflict.
Michael Gawenda is United States correspondent.
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GFCI Breaker & GFCI Outlet together???
I have 2 GFCI Breakers already installed in my house. Both are for the kitchen appliance recepticals. I would like to just have GFCI outlets in the kitchen, rather than the normal outlets that are in there now (for ease of use in the event of a circuit overload). I am familiar with gfci outlet replacement, but am unsure if I can have a GFCI outlet on a GFCI breaker. I know it may be overdoing it, but is it dangerous or problematic?
Only problem would be which one will trip 1st
In the event of a circuit overload - the breaker will trip, not the GFCI outlet. The GFCI part of the outlet will ONLY trip if it detects an imbalance - IE a "leak"
A GFCI outlet is not an overload device
you cannot use both on the same circuit. One or the other. That is a recipe for disaster.
Lawnguyandsparky...... you got some explaining to do cause my electrician says NO NO NO to using both at same time.
...and she's still not dead. :whistling2::huh:
I can see multiple GFCI outlets on the same circuit properly wired off LINE feed
But there isn't any "disaster" waiting to happen
Some may even say it is safer, if the GFCI ouitlet fails the GFCI breaker will kick off
Most agree that double protection is not needed & a waste of $$
The problem will be which kicks off 1st
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Question: I worked in a electrical vault room that supplied a large laboratory alcohol bottling facility. The room also served as a storage room for the alcohol, custodial cleaning supplies, paper filing, laboratory chemical storage and glass cutting, sanding and buffing. The room was about 12 x 14 with no HVAC or windows. I developed cancer. There is no cancer in my heritage. I had to sit within 4 inches of the electrical wall panel between the transformers. No investigation into my illness occurred. The glass cutting was dismantled and removed. The electrical walls where later shielded and the room's doors posted.
My question is, can exposure to electricity or magnetic fields in this room cause an abnormality in a human?
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"Safe!" calls out Conner Hughes, a senior at San Ramon Valley High School, as he umpires the San Ramon Valley Little League Majors game April 18 between the Tigers, coached by John Schletz and Dave Paulus, and the A's, coached by Larry Fleming, Jim Meehan and Dave Lowe. The Tigers' catcher is Colin Schletz; the A's player is No. 7, Carson Meehan. The A's won the game, 7-0.
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Two Southwest Louisiana senators said their constituents are concerned about Gov. Bobby Jindal's tax reform proposal, including whether a higher sales tax rate will offset the loss from removing state income taxes.
"I can tell you that the vast majority of people who I have heard from — both business people and individuals — do not think that it's a good idea," Sen. Ronnie Johns, R-Sulphur, said Tuesday.
Jindal has proposed eliminating $3.6 billion in individual and corporate income taxes and raising sales tax rates from 4 percent to 6.25 percent. The plan also calls for taxing services like haircuts, landscaping and advertising. State lawmakers will consider the proposal once the legislative session begins Monday.
"It's a whole lot to bite off and chew in a 60-day session," said Sen. Dan "Blade" Morrish, R-Jennings.
Morrish said getting rid of the state income tax is a good idea, but replacing that revenue is the big issue. Another concern, he said, is the shifting numbers, including the originally proposed 5.88 percent sales tax increase going to 6.25 percent.
"The numbers are all over the charts," he said. "I don't know where it's going to be tomorrow."
Johns said some local retailers oppose the plan because Calcasieu Parish consumers could go across the border to Texas to buy the same product cheaper.
Johns said some local hotel owners are concerned about their ability to host conventions and compete with other states that would charge fewer sales taxes.
Morrish said that local business owners told him they would rather pay corporate income taxes than follow Jindal's tax reform proposal.
Because the tax reform plan continues to change and is far reaching, Johns said lawmakers need more time to review the proposal.
"In my opinion, I think that this is something that should've been discussed, thought out (and) worked on for a minimum of one year," he said. "Whatever we do is this year in the Legislature is going to have a long-term effect on the state."
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