text: Paul Kolnik / Lincoln Center Theater / AP PhotoTony Preview 201106.03.11 5:28 PM ETPaul Kolnik / Lincoln Center Theater / AP PhotoJoan Marcus / Boneau / Bryan-Brown / AP Photo The Book of MormonThe most talked-about—and downright hilarious—show of the year is also the most decorated, garnering 14 Tony Awards nominations, including: Best Musical, Best Original Score, Best Direction, a whopping four acting nominations, and more. From South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Avenue Q composer Robert Lopez, The Book of Mormon tells the story of a pair of optimistic Mormon missionaries who go to AIDS and poverty-stricken Uganda to try and attract converts. It lampoons the relentless joyfulness and naïveté of Mormons, as well as the First World's myopic view of Third World problems, epitomized by the ditty, "I Am Africa," where the missionaries hilariously claim they're the voice of the African people. In an ironic twist, there's even a Bono joke thrown in. "That was always in there, too, before Spider-Man or anything else happened!" co-director Casey Nicholaw told The Daily Beast. Above all else, the play is about how all religious orthodoxy is a bit bizarre, and that the real importance of religion is to bond people together to create a better world. "We may laugh at [Mormons'] silly beliefs," co-creator Stone told Newsweek. "but at the end of the day, we really liked them. We wanted it to be a feel-good musical. And one that inspires people as well." Joan MarcusThe Merchant of VeniceReceiving seven Tony Awards nominations, including Best Revival, Best Direction, Best Performance by a Leading Actor (Al Pacino), and Best Performance by a Leading Actress (Lily Rabe), director Daniel J. Sullivan's adaptation of Shakespeare's tragic comedy debuted as part of Central Park's Shakespeare in the Park program before moving to Broadway. It tells the tale of Antonio, a young man who pledges a pound of his flesh to a Jewish moneylender, Shylock (Pacino), so his friend can woo an heiress, Portia (Rabe), in style. When Antonio is unable to pay, Shylock vows revenge. According to The New York Times' Ben Brantley, not only does Rabe offer a "smashing breakout performance" as Portia, "but it is to the credit of both actor and director that Mr. Pacino serves Mr. Sullivan's vision perfectly here... it suddenly hits you that Shakespeare's vengeance-addled Jew is neither merely the victim nor the villain of this piece; he is instead the very soul of the money-drunk society he serves and despises." Simon Annand / Boneau / Bryan-Brown JerusalemAfter mesmerizing West End audiences—and collecting a heap of awards—during its run at London's Apollo Theatre, Jez Butterworth's play has taken Broadway by storm, earning six Tony Awards nominations, including Best Play, and Best Performance by a Leading Actor (Mark Rylance). On the morning of St. George's Day, Johnny Byron (Rylance) is being attacked on all sides. The local council wants to evict him, his son, Mark, wants his dad to take him to the fair, and several local thugs are after his booze and drugs supply. Rylance's magnetic performance steals the show, but he's no newcomer. The British thespian has acted in theater for over 30 years, and even served as the Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe in London from 1995 to 2005. He also won a Best Actor Tony in 2008 for his performance in Boeing Boeing, but Jerusalem holds a special place in his heart. "I knew people like this when I was a kid, and I was always drawn to these types of people on the fringes of society, so I wanted to play someone like this," Rylance told The Daily Beast. "I played a character in Sam Shepard's play True West that was a bit like this, but I don't think there's ever been a character written like Johnny Byron." Boneau / Bryan-BrownThe Scottsboro BoysDespite receiving mixed reviews, this musical reimagining of the plight of the Scottsboro Boys--nine black teenagers wrongly accused of raping white women in 1931 Alabama—received 12 Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical, Best Director (Susan Stroman), and several acting nominations. The musical follows the basic framework of a minstrel show, but cleverly refashions it in order to create a musically inspired social commentary about an incident that provoked national outrage—and served as a catalyst for the American Civil Rights Movement. The Scottsboro Boys also marks one of the last collaborations between composer Jon Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb, who passed away in 2004. "Let's get right to the point. The Scottsboro Boys is a staggeringly inventive piece of musical theater," wrote the Associated Press. "Its intentions are serious, its execution pretty much pitch perfect, and its entertainment value—featuring what is the final score by John Kander and Fred Ebb—of the highest order." Boneau / Bryan-BrownGood PeopleDavid Lindsay-Abaire, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Rabbit Hole, returns to Broadway with his latest play, <i>Good People</i>. The story centers on Margie Walsh, played by Frances McDormand—a single mother from South Boston who is fired from her job, and, out of desperation, looks for employment from her old boyfriend Mike (Tate Donovan)—a wealthy doctor who has lost touch with his old Southie neighborhood. Margie shows up to Mike's house unexpectedly, leading to a series of increasingly tense encounters between the ex-couple, and Mike's new, bourgeois wife, who is black. "There's nothing pure about the goodness or badness of the folks who inhabit this play," wrote The New York Times' theater critic Ben Brantley. "This makes them among the most fully human residents of Broadway these days." The show earned Tony Awards nominations for Best Play, and Best Actress in a Play (McDormand). Paul Kolnik / Lincoln Center Theater / AP PhotoWar HorseBased on a book of the same name by Michael Morpurgo, and adapted for the stage by Nick Stafford, War Horse is one of the most inventively staged plays in years. Nominated for five Tony Awards, including Best Play, it's the tale of a young British farmhand who develops a deep bond with his horse. When the steed is sold into the cavalry and shipped to France during World War I, the underage boy enlists in the army and travels to the front lines to reunite with his best friend. The play boasts an epic story and awe-inspiring design—including thrillingly alive horse puppets—by Tony-nominated Rae Smith. "I was watching the actors and the horses, and thinking of the language of a show that has to move very fast in a big, open space, and with its center and its heart in the horse world," Smith told The Daily Beast. "It was really important to design a revolve so you could get the puppets around stage quickly and elegantly, without anyone thinking they were slow. Puppets are fabulous and interesting, but they're also much slower than a human being—to both perceive and to move." Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of the play will hit theaters this Christmas. Joan Marcus / The O and M Co. / AP PhotoThe Normal HeartLarry Kramer's semi-autobiographical play about the rise of HIV-AIDS in New York City in the early 1980s centers on two contrasting characters: Ned Weeks (Joe Mantello), the gay Jewish founder of an HIV advocacy group, and his closeted—and composed—lover, Felix Turner (John Benjamin Hickey). After debuting Off-Broadway in 1985, The Normal Heart made its Broadway debut in April 2011, and has been nominated for five Tonys, including Best Revival, Best Direction, and Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play (Ellen Barkin, in her Broadway debut). The play "blasts you like an open, overstoked furnace," wrote critic Ben Brantley of The New York Times. "Your eyes are pretty much guaranteed to start stinging before the first act is over, and by the play's end even people who think they have no patience for polemical theater may find their resistance has melted into tears. No, make that sobs." Joan Marcus / Boneau / Bryan-BrownThe Motherf**ker With the HatNominated for six Tony Awards, including Best Play, Best Direction, and Best Actor in a Play (Bobby Cannavale), Stephen Adly Guirgis' cheekily titled The Motherf**ker With the Hat is a rapid-fire, verbal sparring match involving Jackie (Cannavale), a former drug dealer fresh out of prison who finds a hat that doesn't belong to him in his cokehead girlfriend's apartment. Jackie accuses her of cheating, and goes to his drug and parole counselor, Ralph D. (Chris Rock) for guidance. The Wall Street Journal called it an "unromantically romantic comedy that keeps you laughing, then sends you home thinking." Emmy Award-winning character actor Cannavale echoed these sentiments, telling The Daily Beast, "I think the hardest thing to do is change our behavior, and it's easier not to, and sometimes I think people will keep going around the same circle. I like playing characters who are at that crossroads. It becomes a visceral experience watching that. And if the event is written very well, like this is, it makes for sitting-at-the-edge-of-your-seat theater." The Hartman GroupHow to Succeed in Business Without Really TryingThough best known for Harry Potter, star Daniel Radcliffe's leading role as J. Pierrepont Finch, this adaptation of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical comedy centers on a crafty window washer (Radcliffe), who, with the help of his trusty self-help book, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, experiences a dramatic rise up the corporate ladder. Naturally, hijinx and hilarity ensues. The revival has been nominated for eight Tony Awards, including Best Revival, Best Direction, Best Choreography, and several acting nominations. "Directed by Rob Ashford, How To Succeed has an attractive retro palette similar to the one he used in last year's Promises, Promises…and his resourceful choreography is danced by a superbly athletic chorus," wrote Time Out New York. Joan Marcus / Boneau / Bryan-BrownThe House of Blue LeavesFirst staged in 1966, playwright John Guare's The House of Blue Leaves, a scathing critique of our celebrity-obsessed culture, is now as relevant as ever. Set in 1965 Queens on the day Pope Paul VI visited New York City, David Cromer's Tony-nominated 2011 Broadway revival of Guare's black comedy features nuns, GI's, a zookeeper-cum-songwriter, Artie (Ben Stiller), who has dreams of Hollywood, and his schizophrenic wife, Bananas (Edie Falco). Stiller, interestingly enough, made his stage debut as a minor character in a 1986 Off-Broadway revival of the play. "It's very funny and has broad humor but then there's all these really dark undertones and events that happen, and characters that are really cruel to one another," Stiller told Newsweek. "What's amazing about the play is that it saw this very different world back in 1971. All the characters feel like they need to be validated somehow by celebrity or being noticed. And that's the sadness of the play; the idea that people can't just be happy with who they are."


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Study for the GED online
If you have been interested in studying for your GED but have difficulty scheduling a class in person, you may be interested in an online class that will begin soon. Parker Williams Branch Library, 10851 Scarsdale, will host orientation and pretesting on July 6 from 1 to 4:30 p.m. for an online GED preparation class sponsored by College of the Mainland. The only requirements for registration are as follows:
- You must have access to the internet and have a valid email address.
- You must be 18 or older and have a picture ID, or 17 years old with an ID, school withdrawal papers and parent permission.
- The session begins promptly at 1 p.m. and pretesting lasts until 4:30 p.m.
For more information, please call the College of the Mainland Adult Education Office at 409-933-8294 or 1-888-258-8859, ext. 8294.


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The Chautauqua County Fire Investigation Team was called in to determine the cause of the fire that started at just before 7 a.m. at the home of Kevin and Beth Oakes. They say the fire started in a confined space where the home's wood-burning furnace's chimney was located. The fire has been ruled accidental.
Fire damaged was limited to the roof and a second floor bedroom.
Sheriff's deputies say the Oakes' adult daughter Erika was sleeping in another second floor bedroom when the fire started, but she was able to escape without injuries because of working smoke detectors in the house.


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RoadMate 2240T-LM 4.3" Touchscreen Vehicle GPS Navigator with Lifetime Traffic Alerts and Map Updates (RM2240SGLUC) by Magellan®. The new RoadMate 2240T-LM offers the security of Free Lifetime Map Updates and the convenience of Free Lifetime Traffic Alerts. Drive knowing you have the latest road changes in your navigation. And should there be a reported traffic event on your route, the RoadMate 2240T-LM will chart the most efficient course around it. In addition to these two high end features, this GPS navigator boasts a rich set of new features!
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S100A10, annexin A2, and annexin A2 heterotetramer as candidate plasminogen receptors (2005-01)No abstract available.
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cdc68 transcription activator is antagonized by San1, a protein implicated in transcriptional silencing (1993-1993/)The CDC68 gene (also called SPT16) encodes a transcription factor for the expression of a diverse set of genes in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. To identify other proteins that are functionally related to the ...
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Gcs1 is an ADP-ribosylation factor GTPase- activating protein (1996-1996/)Movement of material between intracellular compartments takes place through the production of transport vesicles derived from donor membranes. Vesicle budding that results from the interaction of cytoplasmic coat proteins ...
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Gcs1 is an ADP-ribosylation factor GTPase-activating protein (1996-09)No abstract available.
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae MYO2 gene encodes an essential myosin for vectorial transport of vesicles (1991-1991/)After the initiation of bud formation, cells of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae direct new growth to the developing bud. We show here that this vectorial growth is facilitated by activity of the MYO2 gene. The wild-type ...
The Saccharomyces-Cerevisiae Cdc68 Transcription Activator is Antagonized by San1, a Protein Implicated in Transcriptional Silencing (1993-12)No abstract available.
The Saccharomyces-Cerevisiae Myo2 Gene Encodes an Essential Myosin for Vectorial Transport of Vesicles (1991-05)No abstract available.
Salt Dependency of Chromaffin Granule Aggregation by Annexin-Ii Tetramer (1995-04)No abstract available.
Salt Dependency of Chromaffin Granule Aggregation by Annexin-Ii Tetramer (1994-11)No abstract available.
Sawyeria marylandensis (Heterolobosea) Has a Hydrogenosome with Novel Metabolic Properties (2010-12)No abstract available.
Scoping the Processes and Feasibility of a Synoptic Breast Pathology Reporting Module (2012-09-11)This report presents the work that has been done in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at Dalhousie University in collaboration with the Nova Scotia Breast Screening Program during the summer term from May to August ...
Seasonal changes in hepatic gene expression reveal modulation of multiple processes in rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) (2010-11)Rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) are freeze-resistant fish that accumulate glycerol and produce an antifreeze protein during winter. Quantitative reverse transcription PCR (qPCR) and subtractive hybridization studies have ...
Seasonal expressed sequence tags of rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) revealed by subtractive hybridization and the identification of two genes up-regulated during winter (2008-11)The rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) is freeze-resistant and maintains swimming and feeding activity during winter. In order to identify genes differentially expressed in smelt liver response to winter water temperatures, a ...
Secretory expression and site-directed mutagenesis studies of the winter flounder skin-type antifreeze polypeptides (1999-08)Winter flounder contains both liver-type, extracellular antifreeze polypeptides (wflAFPs) and less active skin-type, intracellular antifreeze polypeptides (wfsAFPs). The lower activity of wfsAFPs might be due to their lack ...
Selected Contribution: Time course and heterogeneity of contractile responses in cultured human airway smooth muscle cells (2001-08)We measured the time course and heterogeneity of responses to contractile and relaxing agonists in individual human airway smooth muscle (HASM) cells in culture. To this end, we developed a microrheometer based on magnetic ...


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Biblioteca Bookshelf
one of the hottest designs i've ever seen. i absolutely love this bookcase! certain to add a flair of polished chic to any room, it will showcase books, pictures and knickknacks most beautifully.
This pillow is so funny! Perfect for when you're watching scary movies!
Perfect mummified pillow!
It's Killing Time! Great for any horror household!
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From seller horrordecor on Etsy. I'm loving all of horrordecor's handmade halloween decor items!
Sale Alert! This beautiful organic, ikat inspired duvet cover and sham set are on sale for $59! And its available in blue and red. Check out the picks and scoop one up while you can.Added 9 Years Ago from Pottery Barn
Wonderful retro peacock inspired deisgn. The pitcher is acrylic not glass. Very delightful piece.Added 9 Years Ago from Jonathan Adler
This decorative peacock inspired melamine plate is perfect for outdoor dining and entertaining.Added 9 Years Ago from Jonathan Adler
This cotton, geometric print is mesmerizing.
Plastic furniture re- interpreted....in WOOD. Brilliant. This chair is amazing. Check out the stool too.
So I've been checking out a lot of l'Objet's dinnerware pieces and overall I really like what they're doing. I'm mesmerized by these coral napkin rings. The rings attached to the coral pieces are gold plated rope.Added 9 Years Ago from Saks Fifth Avenue
Another great piece by Finnish designer Sami Rinne, inspired by adorable little bunnies.
Inspired by aluminum take out dishes, Barrezueta creates beautiful and porcelain tableware. Check out her 'Classic' line- white porcelain with gold trim- elegant and humurous. Amazing concept. There's so many of these pieces I'd l... Inspired by aluminum take out dishes, Barrezueta creates beautiful and porcelain tableware. Check out her 'Classic' line- white porcelain with gold trim- elegant and humurous. Amazing concept. There's so many of these pieces I'd like to own. Check out all the pics.Added 9 Years Ago from Lorenabarrezueta
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Fire destroys mobile home
April 05, 2014 10:59 AM
No injuries were reported in a mobile home fire at 251 Laughard Lane, East Wheatfield Township, at 9:10 a.m. Friday.
Tom Fry, chief of the Armagh & East Wheatfield Township Fire Company, said the occupant, Stephen Probst, was not home when the fire started and a neighbor turned in the alarm.
Fry said the home was destroyed. The cause of the fire was not determined and a state police fire marshal has been asked to investigate. Firefighters from the Clyde, New Florence and Seward fire departments also responded.
The American Red Cross office in White Township is assisting Probst with his emergency needs.


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Applications for this meeting must be submitted by July 22, 2017. Please apply early, as some meetings become oversubscribed (full) before this deadline. If the meeting is oversubscribed, it will be stated here. Note: Applications for oversubscribed meetings will only be considered by the Conference Chair if more seats become available due to cancellations.
GRS Speaker Abstract Deadline: Although applications will be accepted until the date noted above, any applicants who wish to be considered for an oral presentation should submit their application by May 19, 2017. Please refer to the application instructions in the Meeting Description section below for more details (if available).
The meeting will feature approximately 10 talks and 2 poster sessions. All attendees are expected to actively participate in the GRS either by giving an oral presentation or presenting a poster. Therefore, all applications must include an abstract.
The Chairs will select speakers from abstracts submitted by May 19, 2017. Those applicants who are not chosen for talks and those who apply after the deadline to be considered for an oral presentation will be expected to present a poster. In order to participate, you must submit an application by the date indicated in the Application Deadline section above.


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¿Qué pasa? Tips to Learning Languages on the Road
Learning languages comes easy to some, can be challenging for others, and can seem impossible to many. But persevere and you'll be gifted with an ability to engage with people when you travel in truly wonderful ways. I've been making an effort to practice my Spanish in Buenos Aires, and I've been really glad I have.
I have found some languages easy to learn (Spanish; and Swahili – see this post!), others difficult but with hard work doable (Russian – I'm half Russian so I know it should be easier, but it's not), while others seem next to impossible (Portuguese – and yes, it's similar to Spanish, but have you heard it spoken?!).
Of Russian-Australian heritage I grew up with Russian continually spoken around me. Yet as the grandchild of immigrants eager to assimilate, my grandparents and mother didn't expect me to speak Russian. Instead I learned to understand the language – and later to read and write it (at little more than kindergarten level!) – but I was never really encouraged to speak it. It's my biggest regret. Handily however, as they got older, my grandparents would forget and speak to me in Russian and I'd answer in English.
My mother, who was a baby when she, my grandparents and great-grandmother arrived in Australia, is fluent in Russian. When Terence and I took her to Russia after my father died, I would get her to buy our tickets for the trains, the ballet, museums, etc. Every time she did so, the ticket sales staff would say "X rubles for you and XXX dollars for the two foreigners!"
She was amazing! I actually understood most of the conversations on the streets around me, but I just wasn't in the habit of speaking the language. I could hear in my head what I should be saying but I couldn't quite get the words out of my mouth. It was a weird feeling.
And I've found it to be the same for Spanish, French and Italian. My comprehension as well as my reading skills are far better than my spoken skills. Sometimes it's simply the case that people are stronger in certain language skills – whether it's listening, speaking, reading, or writing – over others.
Some people simply don't have the talent, patience or time for learning languages. Others find it harder to learn a new language the older they get. Whatever your reason, if you're eager to learn a new language, learning how you like to learn is one of the first steps. Here are some other tips.
10 tips from our language lessons learnt on the road
1. Learn how you like to learn languages
We all learn differently. I love learning firstly by reading and writing, learning the verbs and understanding the grammar, I like to see a word to be able to pronounce it properly. Terence, on the other hand, is a great listener and is brilliant at mimicking accents. Understand your learning preferences and styles, and focus on those. If you like talking but hate reading and writing, focus on speaking – as those particular skills improve, you'll develop the confidence to learn the other skills.
2. Buy a phrase book and dictionary
Buy these before you travel or, if you're on a round-the-world trip, as soon as you arrive in a place. Carry them with you wherever you go to translate words and phrases as you need them and try to learn new words each day.
3. Learn some basic vocabulary before you arrive
At the very minimum, we try to learn around 10-15 words of the language of the place we're visiting – hello, good morning, how are you?, good thanks, yes, no, please, excuse me, thank you, you're welcome, how much?, sorry, I don't understand, I don't speak (much) xxxx, no problem, and goodbye. And we try (but don't always succeed) in using those basic words every day. If we're staying in a place for a while, we'll then move onto directions, food, shopping, and so on. Locals appreciate it and it makes a difference. Those 'rude Parisians' that tourists often complain about, actually become very friendly when you speak a little French.
4. Do a language course before you go
We first learnt Spanish in an 8-week course, one night a week, at an evening college in Australia before our first trip to Mexico many years ago. It was great fun. Aside from the fact that I challenged our Spanish teacher to a gazpacho and sangria cook-off and won, we learned a lot in that short time and it made our travels around Mexico so much more fun. Although there was that one time I ordered fried plantains (green bananas, drenched in cream!) instead of patatas (potatoes). I had a hangover and was already queasy. Forcing myself to eat them as the excited old lady who cooked them eagerly watched me, waiting for my reaction (I was probably the first stupid turista to have ordered them) wasn't so much fun…
5. Sign up for language classes or private lessons as soon as you arrive
You don't think you have time? While you'll learn a language faster by doing a lesson every day, or at the minimum a few times a week, some schools offer short courses, such as the 3-hour Crash Course for Busy Travellers offered by Vamos Spanish Academy in Buenos Aires, which I tested out. The instructor can either run through the basics with the group if they're learning the language for the first time, or, if they know Spanish but are out of the habit of speaking it, she tests students to see how much they remember, then helps them brush up on what they've forgotten. It was excellent and just what I needed. Some schools, such as Vamos, also organize other activities and tours that you can do with other students so you have some buddies to practice with.
6. Go beyond the basics and pick up some commonly used local expressions or colloquialisms
Learn how to say the equivalent of something you might use often in your own language. I start my sentences with 'Okay, …' a lot, so I find myself saying 'Alora,…" in Italy and 'Bueno,…' in Spanish speaking countries. Terence likes Que Pasa?! What's up? What's happening? It's one of our favourites phrases in Spanish and one that handily crosses most borders – important considering that Spanish in Spain is different to Spanish in Argentina which is different to Spanish in Mexico and so on.
7. Use time in restaurants to learn your food vocabulary and practice ordering
Ask for two menus, one in the local language and English if they have one, or simply use your dictionary and phrase book to translate, highlighting your favourite foods. We tend to find that many local foods aren't in the dictionary or menu reader of most phrase books so we ask the waiters to help us translate. We always find them patient and helpful, especially so in Beunos Aires.
8. Use language learning CDs, websites or applications to learn more
We used a fantastic product called Earworms to brush up on our Italian in Puglia as the manager of our holiday rental in Alberobello only spoke Italian, and we mainly had contact with Italian speakers during our stay. That in itself helped us improve our Italian. But Earworms is brilliant. Vocabulary, phrases and conversations are set to a cool soundtrack with a great beat and are repeated several times each so they stick in your head and are impossible to forget. We'd listen to it while cooking or pottering around. It was a blast and it worked a treat.
9. Immerse yourself in the language
Try to read the local newspaper or magazines, watch some television in the local language, go to the cinema, and put yourself in situations where you have no choice but to speak that language – go shopping at the local supermarket, head to a football game, or drop into a favourite bar or café each day that is frequented by locals rather than travellers.
10. Be confident and don't be afraid of making mistakes
The biggest impediment to language learning is shyness and a fear of embarrassing yourself, but I find most people are patient and helpful, especially taxi drivers. I think I learned more Spanish from the back of a taxi than I did anywhere else. Think how you react and behave when you meet a foreigner attempting to speak English. You probably listen carefully and patiently wait as you to attempt to understand what they're trying to communicate, and then you respond slowly and clearly, using basic English. I find most people (although not all!) will do the same.
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I am so with every word!
I'm presently learing Spanish, with some CDs I got from the library & listen to one most days on my portable CD player when I go for a walk … I used to call it 'walking the virtual dog'; now I call it 'going for my Spanish lesson'.
BTW, I was amused when a Dutch ATM instructed me (I forgot to switch to the English dialogue) to 'Steek Kaarte Een' … dead easy, this Dutch! 😀
How funny when you want to say something in a language you have learn and can only utter the words in your mind. I agree it is such a strange feeling which makes one stammer or become mute.
This is great advice for those looking to learn a bit of the local language. I think it's a great way to go as it's so much more fun when you can chat to the locals, or at least have fun trying, when you are in a new place.
This article really resonated with me. As half Mexican, half American, I also grew up with parents fluent in the language, but with no Spanish skills. I felt like you that learning Spanish should be easier for me since I've been exposed to it a bit through my family, but learned that's not the case! Great tips, great article…I'm stumbling it now!
Some good advice. We've got about 8 months before we travel and I'm hoping to learn a little Spanish to help me through Central/South America if we make it there.
Did you learn enough to hold extended conversations with others or is basic comprehension the bar I should aim for?
Hi Lara!
You are half Russian and you are not finding it easy? noo!! I am not Russian at all but I learnt conversational Russian quite quickly (its structurally similar to Sanskrit, maybe that's why). Its the Spanish I am struggling with right now. Loved your post and the tips!
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That's hilarious about the Dutch ATM!
I've always found CDs to be great. Right through my Masters degree I used CDs constantly – when I was in the shower, doing the dishes, pottering around the houses. Sometimes I'd be consciously learning, other times I reckon things sub-consciously seep in.
How's your Spanish now?
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Agree! I guess it's kind of like when you sing in your head too, isn't it? When you sing a song in your head somehow you miraculously know all the words and it's all in tune, open your mouth and… (if it's me singing:) ugh!
lara dunston
Thanks, Andrea. Much appreciated. Totally agree with you. And thanks for dropping by!
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We have a Mexican-American friend who said exactly the same thing, so I'm guessing you're not alone and that's the experience for many of you/us. She's now living in Mexico City and her Spanish is coming along nicely now. Thanks so much for visiting and commenting. And for stumbling!
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Kieron, when I first went to South America years ago after studying Spanish intensively for one year at uni, my Spanish was basic conversational in the beginning and then improved to having extended conversations at an intermediate level I guess. Meaning, I couldn't interview the filmmakers/academics in Spanish, because I just didn't have the vocabulary and my tenses weren't as sophisticated as I wish they'd been. So those interviews took place in English. But by the end of that year away, I could chat away to waiters, taxi drivers, people in markets, hotel staff, young people I met (although then there was a whole lot of slang to learn!). My reading and writing was far superior.
Every time I return to a Spanish-speaking country, I can quickly pick up the basic greetings and start speaking straight away, but it takes me a while to dig deep into the recesses of my memory to have proper conversations. What I want to do – and what I've never done before – is to go to a Spanish-speaking country and have intensive lessons from the time I arrive on a daily basis. I think that would make all the difference.
Good luck with your lessons! Do return and let us know how you go.
lara dunston
Hi Priyank – As far as Russian goes, I only spent a couple of weeks there and relied on my mother to translate a lot. I could understand a lot but didn't have the language fundamentals to converse. Returning there to study Russian is a dream of mine and definitely something I'll do one day. Best of luck with your Spanish and thanks for the nice comments!
Brian @ Wanderings
I'm one of those people who find learning languages nearly impossible. I do make an effort to learn a couple of words and phrases wherever I go. Thus far, that hasn't been a problem because I've only ever needed to tackle one language at any given time. But how do you manage a trip that has multiple destinations with multiple languages? How did you manage to keep it all straight on your recent round the world trip? I think after a few stops I'd be talking in tongues.
Such a great post! I love languages and really enjoy the process of learning them. My husband and I are working on Spanish in South America at the moment. I really relate to what you said about not knowing your family language growing up. My father is Italian and we have Polish, Austrian and Russian on my mother's side but no one ever taught me a second language. Growing up I studied French in school, which I never got to practice until I lived in France. My husband is Macedonian and we plan to teach teach our kids at least a little of the language even though it probably won't be "useful" for them. I think language is the key to relating to your heritage, whatever that may be.
Kay Funk
I love to buy "women's" magazines, cooking, decorating, crafts etc in the language of the country we are in. Really helped with my Czech but it needs to be used to be retained! I have magazines in Spanish, Czech, Hungarian, French, Italian. They bring back lots of good memories!
Good post, it's all very true. I think number 10 is the most important and it ties in a little with your Russian experience. If you don't talk then it makes it much harder to learn and makes a lot of the other redundant. I learnt Spanish in Ecuador for 2 months where nobody spoke English so it made me talk and I got to intermediate fairly quickly. On the otherhand I learned Arabic and everybody always spoke English and the few times I did pluck up the courage to talk they didn't understand me so made it much harder (extremely hard) to learn. I'm still no good.
Tyler Muse
Interesting perspective on how you yourself like to learn language. Although you say you like to learn the written way first, do you find that you have trouble when it comes to speaking? I think one-on-one conversation with a native speaker is what really gets you to speak, but I wonder if you're way get you there too? Great article!


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Things I've noticed in my first month of Primal...
- Fingernails smoothing out and growing faster
- I feel more alert in the evenings... prepping my lunch for the next day used to be such a chore; now I'm doing even more lunch prep and it doesn't bother me. I even pre-cooked tonight's supper (I work a later shift) so my husband only has to heat it up when he gets home with our kids.
- My hair seems to have grown more this month than it has in previous months
- Weight loss - goes without saying. About 15 lbs now, and I'm noticing it in the way my skirts and cardigans are fitting now.
- Plantar fasciitis is MUCH reduced. Looking forward to it going away entirely.
- I have KP too, I've had it since I was a kid, so do my mom and sister. I thought it was the luck of the genetic draw. I still have dots but the skin on my upper arms feels softer. Wonder if the red spots will fade over time?
- No scaly elbows! Nice and smooth.
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I only wash my hair when I cut it every couple months. I completely forget that other people wash it every day.
I'm 40% of the way towards goal. Down 30 pounds since late summer. Plantar fasciitis, gone. Numbness and tingling in hands when I sleep, gone. Snoring, gone. Generalized aches and pains, gone. Blood pressure, normalized. Fasting blood sugar, down to 84 from 99. Energy greatly improved. No more need to take naps during the day. Skin is glowing.
Originally posted by hilm3 View PostI don't snore any more! At all. I don't get up with a raw, painful, swollen throat because of it. I can take naps without embarassment in planes and trains - not that I need naps anymore!
My DH used to snore so loud I'd swear the neighbors could hear him. He doesn't snore anymore. At all. I know he's getting better rest because of it, so that makes me uber happy.
Neither of us fart anymore, and our breath smells better.
DH's constant back pain from spinal stinosis (sp) has subsided to the point that he no longer needs pain meds - never thought that would happen!
I look in shopping carts too. I have become a shopping cart voyeur! I have that urge to beg them to put it back and eat what we should be eating as humans. I guess if a vegetarian told that to me, I would not be entirely receptive. I need to buff up and wear one of those grok shirts or a primal diet shirt (I've seen some with a food plate on them).
I was lucking enough to come across paleo eating by reading a book and stumbling across Lorein Cordain's book. I suffered from hypoglycemia for thirty years. I wish someone would have told me about it before; but then again it might have seem too odd at the time to accept.
I've only been doing this a few days so I don't have much to report yet but I noticed this morning when I made breakfast I could smell things better. I don't mean things smell stronger. It's like smells have more detail, like I could smell the parts of things, not just the whole thing, if that makes sense. For example, I cooked turkey bacon this morning and I didn't just smell "bacon". I could smell turkey, smoke flavoring, salt, etc. Is that weird?
I have been primal for 4 months now, I don't notice any body oddor at all any more, nails grow faster, lost 10 lbs, I can taste things better now which makes everything more enjoyable. My skin looks perfect, I was starting to notice the effects of age (at 34 yo) but I see a total difference on my face now. I don't feel bloated after every meal or tired. I don't have to gobble down a glass of syllyum husk followed by 2 more of water every morning in order to 'visit the facilities', and one of the more important side effects, aside from being and feeling healthy of course, is the fact that I got my confidence back. I became so uncomfortable in my own skin for the last 4 years, that I was always hunched over, avoided eye contact, walked accross a room real fast so as to not be noticed...getting my confidence back has had a huge impact on every thing that I do from working out to my job and everything in between! I love it!!Loving my primal life
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Six years ago, my mother was in hospital, on a ward on a higher floor. My husband would insist on using the stairs, not the lift, when we visited, and I would drag my aching bones up behind him, slowly and resentfully.
Last week, my mother-in-law was in hospital, in a ward on the second floor. I was happy to have the opportunity to run up the stairs to visit her.
When I tried to give blood last month (and was denied for low iron - topic for another time), they took my blood pressure and it was 100/70. Pre-primal it was usually 120/80.
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See the birds nesting on Alcatraz; camera is low-quality but updates frequently.
See how crowded the docks and picnic area are before you head over to a guest slip or mooring at Angel Island's Ayala Cove. The webcam looks out a second-floor window in the building that houses the visitor's center.
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Traffic-oriented webcams, but there are some views of the bay and the bridges.
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Streaming video from the San Francisco Maritime Park, with Alcatraz and Angel Island in the background. Perhaps the best webcam on San Francisco Bay — great image quality and a beautiful view.
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View from the Berkeley Marina to the Golden Gate.
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Webcam from Sam's restaurant in Tiburon. Check out the dining on the deck!
Views from Sausalito.
A great view across the bay to San Francisco from the Sausalito Yacht Club, adjacent to the ferry dock. Live updates — watch the ferries come and go too!
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The end of the Space Shuttle?
I'm trying to figure this out and sometimes I feel like I am the only one questioning the obvious.
They announce that the space shuttle fleet will retire in May 2010. Not as far off as one would think. In the process they have scraped several projects that were to go to the space station.
NASA has also announced that they will then begin using a rocket/capsule craft for a trip to the Moon, Mars and who knows...Isn't that backwards? Didn't we already do that? The whole capsule thing?
Anyay, I understand after the last shuttle disaster that something needed to be done. But eliminating the fleet? Seems like it was working. Any space travel comes with it's share of danger. Astronauts know that going in.
Maybe there is part of the plan I am not privy to.... But I do know that China is panning it's first spacewalk this week... and private companies are going to begin putting people into orbit next year...For a price.
Don't get me wrong... I'm still excited about space and the possibilities of going to the moon, or Mars... But the shuttle to the Space station seemed like a pretty useful thing.
Maybe there is more to know and I am not on the list of people that need to know at NASA.
If anyone has any inside info...or just some crazy. crack pot theories... I'd love to hear them!
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The GNU Weird, is an interesting binding. It has the cant, and the eva footbeds. things I liked, but I was not a fan of the toe cap. I also had some issues getting them on on steeper areas, as the clip on the heelcup to close it gets in the way. I wound up going to flow.
The CTX is better beuilt and offers the side entry like the flow as well as rear entry, but the latch can be a bear to snap in or out
Gnu bindings are pretty much garbage: poor quality, poor materials, poorly designed and prone to breakage
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|So I found a pair of GNU Weird bindings for around $80. They are normal $210 but I was wondering how these bindings sized up to maybe some of my other options such as the K2's that were mentioned above. Is GNU a respected brand and has anybody tried this particular model? I have read ggood things about them but the info I have found on them has been very limited and I would like to get further opinion. These bindings also feature the fold back system which I would highly prefer for the convenience. Thanks for any insight on these bindings.
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Hey there. I have been snowboarding for about five years now and really enjoy it a ton. I decided to upgrade my gear this year, but am on a pretty tight budget. Before I had some generic board and bindings, but I made it work and had a lot of fun on it. I think just about anything is an upgrade from what I had before, and I am convinced I will enjoy just about anything that I get, but I want to maximize the time and enjoyment that I will get out of my next pair of bindings.
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I decided to get an implant not to really augment my chin but more so to hide increasingly double chin and lack of jaw line. I felt as if it was too big when i was in postop but hoped that it would get better as the swelling subsided. However, i feel like the opposite has happened. i think my chin has grown due to scar tissue growth. And now i look like i have someone else's chin. it is so... READ MORE
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My youngest DS is 4 years old. He's had his share of respiratory trouble from early infancy and dx'd w/ asthma shortly before his 3rd birthday. Nothing serious, really, and no daily meds for a long time except Zyrtec for allergies. We had a nebulizer at home and albuterol to use as needed. Then last October he took a sharp turn and he had a 911 emergency asthma attack, and several flares since then. Really, he hasn't been completely well since October, though we've added daily controller meds and he's not having the acute flares that he was.
So we finally got in to see an asthma specialist, who tweaked his meds some. He had his allergy tests today. Worst part of that was, no Zyrtec for a week, so his poor nose and eyes! I was surprised by how few things he reacted to during the tests. DH also has asthma and loads of allergies. DS was only allergic to the common trees around here - I don't think there are too many people in this part of the country who aren't allergic to elm, juniper, and mulberry!
So I thought he had no food allergies. I limited his dairy pretty strictly because it seemed to contribute to his nose being so gunky all the time. Turns out, he is significantly allergic to soy, zero reaction to dairy. So here I've been, giving the kid soy yogurt, thinking I was being so responsible! Fortunately he's always had rice milk to drink, but still, he's had lots of soy exposure. Which makes me feel bad, but on the other hand, now that we know, who knows how much his health could improve now that we know to cut it out entirely? It was such a strong reaction (3+) that I'm really looking forward to how his color and his circles might change in a couple of weeks.
But the worst reaction by far was to kapok, which I never heard of before today. It's a plant fiber that's sometimes used as stuffing in toys or pillows. It's got to be in my house somewhere, and I can't find it! We have very few stuffed toys because of mites, but they're all polyester. Ditto all the comforters, bed pillows, the futon, bed mattresses, the couch, I've turned this house inside out reading all the labels, even cut some stuff open to look at the stuffing. All safe polyester filling. I can't shake this awful feeling that there's something in my house that's poisoning my kid, and I can't find it! I'm going to my mom's house as soon as this big winter storm we're having allows it to read all her furniture labels since DS spends some time over there every week.
So I'm bummed about this soy thing, because it seems to be the hardest of all foods to avoid. At his preschool, all the kids take turns bringing snack, but he'll have to start bringing his own every day from now on. He probably won't care; there's another girl who has to do that, so they both might be glad to have a "partner."
So who knows anything at all about kapok? Any clues at all? There's very little info about it on the web except, ironically, that it's heavily advertised as a great alternative for allergy sufferers!
Enough rambling from me. I'll probably be here more in the future to drink from yall's well of wisdom.
Kapoc is used in many asian countries the tree's grow in massive kapoc forests. Pillows are stuffed,bedding.....etc.
The allergies will only get worse if you keep 'suppressing 'them with the meds you have listed. Allergies are the body's way of conmmunicating an imbalance. Something has cause a systemic overload in the body,for instance; Most likely it starts with vaccines,this causes the immune 's first assault. Then we add the use of antibiotics for ear inf,colds,flue,cough etc (useless and immune toxic). Then we add steroids,cortizone,antihistamines for more layers of secondary symptoms like eczema,asthma,rashes.
All of these toxic medication have caused "allergies". This means the body is now too weak to expell any environmental interactions.
Best thing for childrens overall health is to find a Naturopath.
Using allopathic (conventional) prescription drugs can only lead to more and more chronic complications in the future.
Its NOT normal for a person to have allergies,this has been so accepted in this modern day society. www.mercola.com look up allergies in this website searchbox
It is not a preventative,it is a toxic substance with long term side effects. Its dangerous for the heart.Once you have asthma and take"THESE INVENTIONS" you will have chronic reoccurant asthma for the rest of your life. There is a way of curing it,but not this way,not via modern conventional meds.
Type in the drug and "adverse effects" after the drug.
Seek alternative treatments
Do you have a child w/ asthma yourself? Have you ever witnessed a child in the midst of an asthma attack?
So I guess what you're saying is it's better for our kids to die from asthma attacks than to take medications?
Guess what folks, being medication compliant, using the preventative medications that come before needing a rescue inhaler really reduces the amount of albuterol and prednisone that you end up needing.
I'd rather not use my kids as guinea pigs for herbal stuff on life threatening things like asthma and anaphylaxis.
Hospitalization and death are much more serious side effects of NOT taking asthma medications than the vast majority of the side effects of the occasional use of albuterol.
Guess what folks, being medication compliant, using the preventative medications that come before needing a rescue inhaler really reduces the amount of albuterol and prednisone that you end up needing.
I'd rather not use my kids as guinea pigs for herbal stuff on life threatening things like asthma and anaphylaxis.
Since he has been on homeopathy he is cured of asthma,no inhalers,no steriods,nothing allopathic.......................nothing not even a relapse!
He is only ONE example...................
I'm not here to argue,do as you please,i'm just showing you there are other options.
From what little I understand about asthma, some people just seem to "grow out" of having asthma or Reactive Airways Disease, which what my 7 yo was diagnosed with when she was 4 after contracting bacterial pneumonia. I've met many people who claim to have grown out of having attacks or any respiratory issues at all, w/o using any homeopathics or naturopathy, only taking the scary Western meds (steroids et al) until they stopped having attacks, usually around 18 or so.
It's frustrating to me, becauseI feel that my daughter's RAD or asthma began 3 months after having the MMR immunization at 4 years of age. We waited to immunize her with that one, after hearing all the horror stories. In Maine, we were also allowed to separate the vaccines into Measles, Mumps and Rubella, which I was told are easier for the system to deal with, but we were only ever able to get the Measles part of the vaccine, and finally resorted to the whole deal at 4 yo. She had no fever when she got the vaccine, but the next week, she had the worst cold of her life (she'd only had about 3 colds, very mild ones up until then, believe it or not!)
The cold never seemed to get quite better, and the next month, she had a worse cold, which I now believe may have been mild bronchitis. THAT too never quite went away, but the doctor said coughs can linger, and didn't feel it was a problem.
# months after having the MMR vaccine, my daughter contracted a severe case of bacterial pneumonia, whereupon she was diagnosed with RAD and they piled on the "preventative" meds like steroids, albuterol, singulair, etc.
After having her allergy tested for over 100 things, we discovered that she has just 4 allergies, but they're all doosies: dust, dust mites, dogs and cats. Bummer. . . We've done what we can to make our house less dust filled, and we don't have a cat or dog, but still the asthma-like condition continues. It sounds like we have it easier than some of the moms here, and for you, I'm sorry--it's terrifying to see your child unable to breathe. I commend you for doing whatever it takes to keep them well.
Last year, we started seeing a naturopath in our area, and taking all the various supplements and cod liver oil, etc, that he recommended, has helped greatly in many ways, but alas, STILL the asthma rages on.
I ordered liquid homeopathic (or allopathic?) dust mite and housedust from England (the only place I've been able to find them) to try to help eradicate the dust allergies before we try the allergy shots that can cause so much discomfort each time a person has the shots, or at worst case scenario, anaphylaxis or death. I hope the homeopathics help, because our naturopath and doctors all agree that house dust and dust mites are my daughter's worst enemies--she's healthy all spring, summer and early fall with nary a sniffle, but w/in a week of closing the windows and doors to the cold, the colds and asthma begin anew.
My point in all of this is that I am so confused by the whole thing--why she has these allergies in the first place, why our kids need to suffer with this, how to treat it, whether to give the steroids that suppress her immune system and seem so counter-intuitive to me. (I do when it's necessary, believe me!) All I want is to see my daughter be able to grow up healthy and free of illness and asthma. And I'm worried that having had 4 pneumonias in 3 years could be scarring her lungs. Does anyone know what the truth of that is? Sorry for the long post. I was excited to find a whole thread devoted to asthma. Be well everyone!
My ped doesn't call ds's asthma asthma. He calls it RAD as well, which is the exact same thing. He says he won't call it asthma unless ds fails to outgrow this. It started w/ a bad case of RSV when he was a young infant, which probably scarred his lungs. But from what I've read, there is no way of telling which came first, the chicken or the egg, they just know that kids w/ allergies tend to have lung scarring from RSV, causing RAD, and the same kids tend to develop asthma even w/out RSV (RSV can cause pneumonia, btw.) Lung scarring can and will heal eventually, might take months, might take years, might take half a lifetime.
Most kids w/ asthma get better as they get older. This is for the same reason as above, plus adults aren't as prone to allergies as kids are. Not as severe allergies, at least.
Sorry if you felt attacked, but so did I. I just get so sick and tired of people telling me I'm poisoning my child w/ medications when they have no idea what I've tried and what we're going through/have been through. KWIM?
go to searchbox;type asthma
here is a good article on asthma and homeopathy;
Yes my husband had asthma his entire life as a child.
Since he has been on homeopathy he is cured of asthma,no inhalers,no steriods,nothing allopathic.......................nothing not even a relapse!
He is only ONE example...................
I'm not here to argue,do as you please,i'm just showing you there are other options.
So all I want, anywhere, anytime, is at least acknowledgement that I'm doing the best I can with the information I have, and I don't make my decisions out of ignorance or blind faith in modern medicine. We're not playing here; many of our children have life-or-death allergies and keeping these kiddos safe is a big job. And MDC is not a place where people are unaware that there are alternatives! You'd be hard pressed to find a crunchier crowd!
In the case of an emergency of course parents cannot think clearly. All of this research must be done without the state of panic.
Having a backup system via naturopaths,homeopaths,acupunturists will be of great help in the future time of caos.
Long term treatment is not via inhalers,steriods,cortizones.............again there are other ways that are more conclusive towards a nontoxic holistic healing path.
Preventative actions need to be practiced such as change of dietary toxins. Starting with no dairy,no sugar.
Yes asthma does occur with babies without vaccines,true but in these rare cases its due to a hereditary miasmatic predisposition,even MORE difficult to erradicate by means of inhailers,steriods alb............etc. These only suppress the DEEP SEATED imbalance.
Sorry my post come across so harsh,i am a user of alternative methods of medicine. Have left the TOXIC world of allopathy behind for over a decade as it has ruined my entire families health including my own,so yes i do know where your comming from,yes i have a child,i would dye for him,as all mothers would. This is why i have educated and dedicated my life to holistic healing.
I have great compasion for extremely sick children. As i do homeopathic volunteer work in poor countries like India and Indonesia. I cannot stand to see babies/children sick,there is no need to be suffering if you have the means and background information it must be shared,so others will not suffer.
We learn from each other dont we? I have already been on this path of allopathic suppressive chemicals i'm almost 50yrs old prob. older than most of you first time mothers. I have seen horrible things in many slum health clinics,most would not want to see.
I don't know if this comes too late but I will give it a shot. I have just been diagnosed with severe dust mite, and to a lesser degree, mold and cockroach allergies. I know we have dust mites as do all living things but I also suspect mold as it gets humid around here. My allergist advised me to get dust mite proof encasings on all bedding in the house, remove carpeting and cover upholsterd furniture with washable covers or move to leather/vinyl ( I prefer leather). It would be good to get rid of stuffed animals, polyester or not. Also to eradicate dust mites and prevent mold is to keep humidity to a minimum, below 45%, I think but I have to look it up. We are going to get a dehumidifier to keep our humidity down to ensure both dust mites and mold can't thrive. Anyway I immediately covered my mattress and pillows in dust mite covers and threw out my mattress pad (one less thing to wash and collect dust mites). I noticed a 90% improvement within 2 nights. I always felt wheezy, sneezy when I got into bed so I knew it must be the dust mites. Thankfully we do not have roaches, but when I was growing up we did so that is why I have developed an allergy to them. I am now on to buying a dust mite proof comforter cover for all of our comforters. I don't want my 3 year old to develop these allergies and I already notice he itches his eyes like crazy whenever he climbs into our bed. Oh, and I also bought latex pillows since they are dust mite resistant, which I am surprised I love. I covered them immediately in the encasings. Try not to use bedding with flame retardants as they are also harmful. But if you cover everything in the dust mite proof encasings (I would recommend 100% cotton or organic cotton covers), you seal most of the bad stuff in, I would think. At least the dust mites and their debris will be. Good luck and by this time I hope your child is much much better.
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Even with a slight hike in the Federal Reserve's benchmark interest rate, mortgage rates remained below 4 percent and very close to last year at this time. "Buyers just cannot resist the favorable position that excellent home values and fabulous interest rates are providing throughout our entire market area," says Pat Shea, president of Lyon Real Estate.
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Abstract The Transport Certification Australia on-board mass feasibility project is testing various on-board mass devices in a range of heavy vehicles (HVs). Extensive field tests of on-board mass (OBM) measurement systems for HVs were conducted during 2008. These tests were of accuracy, robustness and tamper evidence of HV on-board mass telematics. All systems tested showed accuracies within approximately ±500 kg of gross combination mass, or approximately ±2% of the attendant weighbridge reading. Analysis of the dynamic data also showed encouraging results, and has raised the possibility of using such dynamic information in tamper evidence in two areas. This analysis was to determine if the use of averaged dynamic data could identify potential tampering or incorrect operating procedures, as well as the possibility of dynamic measurements flagging a tamper event by the use of metrics including a tampering index. Technical and business options to detect tamper events will now be developed during implementation of regulatory OBM system application to Australian HVs.
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Alexia Lennon, Kirsteen Titchener and Narelle Haworth
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AbstractCorrect use of child restraints reduces the risk of death and injury. Use of adult seat belts is better than being unrestrained but can result in injury to children who are too small. New Australian legislation extends the requirement for using childs pecific restraints until children are 7 years old and thus requires more appropriate levels of protection for these children. As part of a larger study of injury prevention in Queensland, parents of children 0–9 years old were surveyed regarding their restraint practices before the introduction of the new legislation. The restraint status of 18% of the children would not be compliant with the new legislation, with the problem being more prevalent for 5–9 year olds (22%) than 0–4 year olds (16%). A high proportion of older children used an adult seat belt. Very few children aged 0–4 (1.3%) usually travelled in the front seat in contravention of the new requirement, but about 11% of this age group were reported as ever having done so. Usual travel in the front seat was higher among 5–9 year olds (8.5%), with more than half of the 5–9 year olds reported as ever having done so. Given the widespread use of adult seat belts by older children, there is a need to consider improving protection of children in the 'gap' between when the requirement for the child to use a booster ceases (effectively age 7) and when the adult belt is likely to actually fit the child (closer to age 9 or 10).
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Steve Lamb, Kate Mora and Darren Walton
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AbstractThis study analyses travel survey data from 1989 to 2006 to determine whether SUV use in New Zealand has become more 'car-like' and less commercial. The New Zealand Household Travel Survey of 1989/1990, 1997/1998 and 2003–2006 was the primary data source. Information on vehicle make and model was used to create a consistent SUV category across all years, which was compared with a sample of cars matched by owner age, gender and income, to control for confounding influences on use. The proportion of SUVs to cars in the New Zealand vehicle fleet increased by 7.3% from 1990 to 2006. The additional utility SUVs are perceived to provide did not differentiate their pattern of use from that of cars. Privately owned SUVs are used as a substitute for cars. Lower vehicle occupancy and similar proportions of recreational trips for SUVs and cars contradict reported reasons for SUV purchases. The extra utility SUVs provide appears to be utilised by a sub-group of traditional SUVs that continue to be used for commercial purposes.
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Anuradha Premathilaka, Seosamh Costello and Roger Dunn
AbstractThe management of the rail infrastructure in New Zealand has recently reverted to public ownership and is now managed by the New Zealand Railways Corporation (NZRC). Current legislation requires the NZRC to produce long-term strategic plans for the management of the rail track infrastructure, in order to demonstrate proper management of the public asset. However, long term strategic planning requires knowledge of not only the current condition of the asset, but also its future condition as determined from performance modelling, something previously not available for the rail infrastructure in New Zealand. This prompted a research study into the development of a deterioration model for New Zealand's rail track infrastructure. To date, the study has focused on rail wear; rail being one of the most expensive track renewal items in New Zealand. This paper describes the development of predictive models for 50 kg/m and 91&90 lb/yd rails using the "R" statistical software originally developed at the University of Auckland. A multiple regression analysis produced models with reasonably high coefficients of determination for both 'side wear on the high leg' and 'top wear on the low leg' on 50 kg/ m curved tracks and for total wear on both high leg and low leg for 91&90 lb/yd rails. Both are 'absolute models', as the accuracy of the data collection techniques employed did not permit the development of an incremental model. Nonetheless, these will undoubtedly prove valuable to decision makers. However, the variability in the data suggests that a probabilistic model would be more appropriate than a deterministic model at the network level. In particular, rail wear would be better represented at the network level by a stochastic process such as the Markov model. Such a model is now in the process of being developed and will be reported in future publications.
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Paul Hamer
Invited PaperThis paper was originally peer reviewed and presented at the 32nd Australasian Transport Research Forum, held in Auckland, New Zealand, 29 September–1 October 2009. It is published here with minor edits but without further review at the invitation of the Editor, in order to make it available to a wider audience and to place it on the published record. All papers that have been presented at the Australian Transport Research Forum since 1975 are accessible at www.patrec.org/atrf.
Abstract Providing accessible, cheap and plentiful car parking at commuter railway stations is often advocated as a means of encouraging car drivers to shift to public transport modes for part of their journey. Accordingly, State Governments across Australia have, in recent years, committed significant money to expanding park and ride facilities on their rail networks. While such projects are popular with commuters, questions remain over the role of park and ride in increasing public transport patronage. Passenger interview surveys were carried out at selected railway stations on the Victorian metropolitan and regional rail networks to explore the extent to which park and ride facilities generate a mode shift from car-only modes to more sustainable transport modes. The results of the survey are comparable to the public transport increases recorded in similar studies undertaken in the United Kingdom and the United States. However, a significant proportion of respondents had changed their trip patterns, suggesting that the proportion of former drivers could be higher than that recorded. The study also suggested that the recorded shift resulted from a combination of changes in personal circumstances and transport related factors. These findings have implications for traditional economic models which assume that a return car trip to the city is saved for every diverted driver.
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Vince Dravitzki, Tiffany Lester and Darren Walton
Invited PaperThis paper was originally peer reviewed and presented at the 32nd Australasian Transport Research Forum, held in Auckland, New Zealand, 29 September–1 October 2009. It is published here with minor edits but without further review at the invitation of the Editor, in order to make it available to a wider audience and to place it on the published record. All papers that have been presented at the Australian Transport Research Forum since 1975 are accessible at www.patrec.org/atrf.
AbstractThis paper discusses a travel purpose that should be the focus of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport. For many years, travel management has focussed on the 'to work' travel purpose so as to maximise the efficiency of the transport network during this peak travel period. This 'to work' focus has been transferred as the focus of greenhouse gas emission reduction strategies, as shown by work travel plans and the like. This paper discusses how social/recreational trips should be a major focus for reducing greenhouse gas emissions; not just because social/recreational travel is at least an equivalent contributor to total vehicle kilometres travelled compared to the 'to work' trip, but also because of very strong linkages between social/recreational travel and other key transport behaviours. From New Zealand evidence, it appears that the impetus to make social/ recreational trips has always been strong; that social/recreational trips were the dominant factor in the New Zealand uptake of private vehicles and that social/recreational trips have a strong influence on the size of vehicle purchased. A recent New Zealand study confirms that, although social/ recreational trips that require a larger-than-regular vehicle, such as holiday trips, are infrequent, these trips strongly influence the type of vehicle purchased. Social/recreational travel has a symbiotic relationship with urban form; with vehicle uptake often initially being for social/recreational travel then high rates of vehicle access allowing settlement growth of low density urban forms; then this urban form making extended S/R travel necessary to enable families and friends to reconnect throughout these dispersed settlements.