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So a funny thing happens when you quit smoking. While you may have stopped the physical act of inhaling cigarette smoke in order to feel the effects of nicotine, your body is still addicted to the stimulant.
Nicotine Replacement Therapies, or NRTs, are patches, gum, lozenges and, increasingly, e-cigarette water vapor devices, that are meant to wean the smoker off of nicotine. This is old news, obviously. But to me, two years after quitting smoking, the need for nicotine is my daily headline. I cannot quit the nic.
I tried the patch, and it gave me the type of nervous energy – paranoia, really – and cold clamminess of a serial shoplifter, always poised to walk through the security sensor exits. The gum worked okay. But then I Googled what can happen to your masseter muscles if you chew too much, and that was the end of that. Sucking on a regular sized Nicotine lozenge feels like harboring a chalky gumball criminal in my cheek.
The NRT that really got me, and it still has me, is the Nicorette Mini-Lozenge. It's Tic-Tac small, discrete, and dissolves quickly. And, unlike its generic counterparts, Nicorette's brand has what I can only describe as a "satisfying burn," the familiar discomfort reminiscent of smoking a cigarette. The mini-lozenges were the only thing that got me to stop smoking for good. I don't want to start smoking again, so I'm staying on them for now.
Other people have discovered the joys of the Nicorette mini-lozenge, too. So much so that they're very hard to find these days. They're no longer sold on popular online retailers, like Amazon, Target or Soap.com. And you can't find them in stores in New York City. On a recent Saturday I took what I called a "long walk," but was really an OTC drug run through Manhattan, from CVSs to Duane Reades, and back again. I went into eight different places before I finally found a pharmacist who had one pack of the 4 mg Nicorette mini-lozenges, hidden away behind the counter. "There have been supply problems," she said. You don't say!
The Nicorette company, owned by GlaxoSmithKline, is a behemoth. The Nicorette brand has been around for some 20 years. Their product has, according to them, helped millions of people quit smoking.
Despite the client base, the Nicorette company is very bad at communicating with their customers, many of whom are woefully dependent on their products. Nicorette's slogan, "Quit on Your Own Terms," is a nice bit of inspirado. But, if you're switching out one form of nicotine with another in order to quit smoking, you're really quitting on Nicotine's – or Nicorette's – Terms.
Nicorette doesn't have a general Facebook page, with the exception of Nicorette India. Nicorette's verified Twitter account's last tweet? February 5th, about CVS's decision to stop carrying cigarettes. Their last interaction with Twitter users was February 6th. But, like with most products these days, users feel a need, and increasingly an expectation, to communicate with brands online. Particularly ones where they're dependent on the product.
Search Twitter for Tweets to Nicorette, and you see that even though Nicorette has stopped interacting with its users, users haven't stopped asking questions that require answers.
@nicorette went to 5 different stores in NYC and can't find mini lozenges anywhere! Still make them?
— Paul Starke (@pstarke) May 21, 2014
Hey @nicorette I can't find 4mg mint lozenges ANYWHERE in Chicago. I'm 30 days on the wagon and these CVS brand lozenges aren't as good
— Corey Richardson (@vexedinthecity) May 16, 2014
@nicorette okay thanks so much for all your help, if it goes septic, I'm suing
— Steph Mason (@Steph_Masonn) April 29, 2014
Aside from my pharmacist friend's comment that Nicorette's having supply problems, whenever I searched online for any information about Nicorette from the company, I came up empty. No info from Nicorette. No answers from other people experiencing the same problems. That was until earlier this week, when I came across Nicorette South Africa's website.
On the homepage of the website, you'll see the notice that: "Please note that information in this website is intended for residents of South Africa only." Trouble is the Internet is international. Fine to issue that declaimer, but people who want information – especially about a drug they're relying on -- will go anywhere online to get it.
I was reading through this South Africa FAQ section, expecting it to be a standard FAQ section - how to use the product etc. - when I realized that all of the questions were user submitted. The answers are supplied by a not-totally-great English writer, a doctor by the name of "Dr. John." The answers are written like a Nigerian email scammer wrote them.
How to stop smoking?
Dear Enquirer - quitting smoking is as challenging an endeavour as trying to quit any other drug of addiction/abuse - so DETERMINATION TO QUIT is number 1 on the list -- this determination must be fed by the knowledge that every drag on a cigarette pulls more than 4700 known toxins into your body - and at least 60 of these are carcinogens !! Number 2 on the list is to tell all your friends that you are quitting - and this helps to oblige you to get clean; number 3 is that you'll find help on the Nicorette website as to the role of nicotine replacement to assist in breaking free from the thousands of toxins in cigarette smoke. Then 4, internet has many helpful sites for quitting smoking - examine some of these. BUT do realise that you'll do your health and your finances a vast benefit by quitting poisoning yourself with cigarette smoke. Every best wish - dr. john.
Fine, how to stop smoking. Makes sense in the FAQ section for Nicorette. The response is weird, but fine. But then the seriousness of the questions, and the lack of help in the responses, got very, very bleak.
Hi DR John i just resently found out that im pregnant, will it be safe to use the patches to quit during this period? what are the effect to the baby if i continue to smoke while pregnant ?
Dear Lady - Thank you for your enquiries. Let me attempt to provide some responses that may be helpful to you. FIRSTLY - and most importantly: please realise that every drag on a cigarette draws more than 4700 known toxins into your body - and if pregnant, your developing baby gets these too !! Do PLEASE open & peruse this internet site for more information:http://www.babycenter.com/0_how-smoking-during-pregnancy-affects-you-and-your-baby_1405720.bc SECONDLY: there are no Nicorette patches currently available, and there will not be for several months at least; we await approval by the Medicines Control Council for new 'Invisi-Patches', but meanwhile all stock of the original patches has been totally sold out! The only Nicotine replacement that we can offer currently is the Nicorette Gum. However, we may not recommend the use of Nicotine Replacement medications during pregnancy/lactation by virtue of the regulations of the Medicines Control Council !! However your GP or your Obstetrician-Gynaecologist may certainly prescribe Nicotine Replacement medications for you to use (this could include the nicotine-only e-cigarette). I'm sure you believe, as I do, that no one is entitled to poison anyone else. You may be choosing to poison yourself with smoking but are you entitled to poison anyone else, particularly a new Life ?? So please discuss this matter urgently with your responsible healthcare practitioner! With every best wish to You and your new Baby - yours truly - dr. john..
can you use Nicorette quickmist if you have had a mild stroke in the last 3 months,mine was last Sunday
Dear Enquirer - Thank you for this enquiry - but as there is no Nicorette Quickmist available in South Africa -- [which is where your enquiry eventuated] -- I can but comment that if you can smoke after having had a stroke, then getting rid of the known more than 4700 toxins in tobacco smoke, must make the nicotine replacement medication mightily safer than smoking !! Do discuss with your own medical practitioner with regard to this matter - as stroke victims are always on fine knife-edge !! With every best wish - dr. john - for Johnson & Johnson In Cape Town, South Africa.
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Hi - and thank you for your comments. Best wishes - dr. john
Dr. John has many answers, but probably not the ones that the Nicorette company wants to rise to the top, just by virtue of the fact that they're putting out no other communications to the public. Of all companies, you'd think that one founded on the issue of breaking addiction would have a communications strategy that, well, communicates. Particularly at a time where there's a lot of public health attention focused on stopping smoking.
The Nicorette Mini Lozenge shortage has been going on in the New England region for the past three months, in my expert estimation. I'm whittling away at my supply. It's become an "is it Sponge Worthy?" situation every time I think about having one. Soon I'll be out, and I promised myself I wouldn't buy any more packages from Ebay. I've stopped smoking but I'm still addicted to the cure.


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ok, 3 days ago, i've sent in my wordpress template. I could understand if you're a busy man, (or woman) that you have not the time to review my sent-in template on the first day…
I even could understand you didn't find the time the second day, altough that brings the question: how" pro" is this site maintained, when reviewers only occasionally check some templates…
What i have troubles understanding with is… why is my template not reviewed after 3 days ! Not only is the suspense killing me… , but I don't start on a new" project" unless my previous one is accepted…(i avoid to work on 2 or more templates at once)...
is there only one guy/gal reviewing the templates? or what? anyway… 3 days is long…verrrrrrrrry long….
Three days does seem a bit long. Our WordPress reviewer might be backed up. I'll check on it.
thanks !
the suspense kills you, I know… I can just imagine the amount of time it takes to review a template:
- Checking the HTML - Review of documentation + commenting in code - making sure all the files are included - copyright etc - checking the PSD file
The list goes on.
If I'm correct, they have a group of reviewers that does the whole Envato marketplace. If they did 1 per hour and I'm guessing the average is 40 per day they would need about 5 full time staff just to do reviewing.
So even though it's frustrating, I can understand. My suggestion to you: Learn to go on while you wait.
Hi Kay_B
I don't review here but I couldn't resist replying
3 days may seem long now.. but you gotta realize it was 1 to 2 weeks waiting time when Envato first got started..and I can tell you that on other stock sites the wait is waaay longer
Of course I respect your choice not to multitask projects… so barring that don't worry.. your item will soon be reviewed.
Reviewing can take long sometimes. I'm not sure about the other reviewers, but I have a full-time job as a web developer. So my reviewing is done at night on my down time. I try to get things out of the queue every day, but sometimes (namely weekends and long days), it just doesn't happen.
And like the previous commenter said, 3 days may seem long, but most other places take much longer. I've submitted photographs to iStockPhoto and they've taken up to a month to be reviewed!
Hire me as a reviewer, I work at home as freelancer LOL .
ok, my template is reviewed…
This File Did Not Meet Our Criteria Hi Kay_B, after having all of our reviewers take a look at this particular template, we agreed that it still largely feels unfinished. It definitely has promise, but needs more work.
Just spend some more time with it.
i mean c'on !, ive been working on that template for 4 weeks (seriously), i thought it was perfect…so i've sent it in…
first time rejected because: the longer titles came out of the box on the normal frontpage-posts, and a bad png-fix… nothing else mrked as inadequate or "unfinished", those were the only 2 comments on it… so, i've fixed those 2 items, added a rss feed, and tested it in wordpress 2.7. proud of my template (best one i've made yet, so i think), i've sent it back in… waited 3 days with killing suspense… and they say it looks" unfinished"??? what do you mean by unfinished please? my first template was rejected like 10 times, each time with a different fix needed…i'm not a bad guy, i've fixed the things…i've eaven fixed more than you asked for the first time
so, my question (since i don't want to send it 10 times in again…) could you please define "unfinished", as i thought it was finished, i don't really see something "unfinished"... btw: on-line preview:
in the future, it also would help saying everything wrong about it,on the first run… first run: fix the title problem and the png in internet explorer, 2nd time: looks unfinished…couldn't you've told me that the first time?...
Is everyone gotta send in their templates 10 times to fix different "fixes" every time or is it just me…
sorry, i'd had to let it off my chest…
I like it and maybe there is a market for video sites…I think there has been a couple. The bottom of your page and has blank area, which seems odd and I bet that is what they are talking about. Also when you rollover the next/previous for the featured section on hover you get an arrow that points both left/right but they each only go in one direction.
Seems like You really need some more work here. Theme is nice but really looks unfinished. For example, font is to bright and to small, RSS icon is almost invisible like the rest of Your site. Too much whitespace in Your tagcloud. Tiny navigation , input field text not aligned correctly and so on… Try harder, I'm sure You'll get here.

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For what it's worth. There's a TV show on every Wednesday night at 8, or 9pm called Best Defense Survival. On that show I think they mention some locations around the states that offer that type of training from time to time, plus they go over several scenarios on the show itself. I found it pretty interesting on the times I watch it.
I think it's on the Out Doors channel, 153 on the Dish network. Cheers.


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This is a discussion on "The BIG BOV thread" (Where all bov question threads get merged) within the Engine Modifications forums, part of the Tech & Modifying & General Repairs category; Originally Posted by Chunks What a nightmare....
Originally Posted by Chunks
*1969 Camaro - Kickin' It Old School
*2005 Corvette C6 - A few APS bolt-ons
PICS & MODS <- Built by XX Tuning
*2003 Subaru WRX - 332 AWHP - SOLD
PICS & MODS <- Built by XX Tuning
Originally Posted by GPJamesMVT
Pull off the recirculation hose and then you have to find something to plug the hole on the inlet pipe. As far as what to use to plug the hole I don't know, sorry.
PS: You guys are worse than NASIOC.. chill out and let the guy experiment a little. If he finds his car runs like **** and he doesn't put it back to how it was then it's his own fault.
2005 Aspen White/Gold STi
TD06-20G 350whp on 93 octane
Thanks for all of the input peoples. Negative, constructive, postive, I welcome all critisim and thoughts. I am new to cars in general, and I don't want to ruin my new Subaru. I am not going to drive it until the weekend, this being after I return the stock air system, fix the BOV and set the boost at the stock level.
Basically I have been going to a performance shop that doesnt give a damn about what I'm doing and is loving the $ I'm sending their way. It's funny becuase Im no dummy, but I ignorantly installed these mods before reading as much as possible.
My next purchase will be a turbo back and UTEC - then a tunning session.
I'm learning a lot, and I appreciate the replys from all.
Sounds like a good plan
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04 WRX wagon - 304whp Mods - SOLD
Hey either plug that rubber plumb back hose or hook it up to recirculate.Then adjust the aps with the center set screw until the plunger seals closed at idle,on mine I recirculate and had to remove the nut that holds the hex screw in place to get it to stay closed at idle.Without the nut the set screw will still stay in place without loosening,just make a little mark with a marker just so you know that the adjustment is for future reference to where the set screw is.My APS idles just like stock with not blips whatsoevar
Now your on the right trackOriginally Posted by finallygotmyrex
you might also want to consider an up pipe, which is the best bang-for-the-buck mod IMO
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LS2 RX7-2014 Tundra DC-GD Race Car In Progress
Here are some good links, just for you!
The "Good first mods" sticky
And here's great coverage of FAQs from NASIOC.
P.S. Check out Cobb tuning, slightly perferred to UTEC. www.cobbtuning.com
I'm from Fairfax too! If you see me around, I'm in the blue bugeye WRX with IMPRZ ME plates. I take it you'll be in the WRX with the flames coming out of the hoodscoop?
Heather | 2002 WRX | Stage 2
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Originally Posted by rbwrx
right! our car has an intake and a blow off valve already....why do you need such things?
give me your money
I have 5 infraction points. What do you have?
Originally Posted by Speedette
Flames?! It could be possible....
I live in Centreville, not sure if you are familiar. I drive a Black '03, stock body... for now. I was thinking you drove that crazy pink WRX.
Regarding my car, I hooked the APS BOV up properly last night and its now recirculating and idling just fine. I removed the AEM CAI (POS) and put my TurboXS shorty back on. I turned the Hallman MBC alllllllll the way down and reset the ECU (removed negative, pumped brakes, started car and let it sit for some time, turned it off and on again and pushed it hard for 5 minutes) Is this proper?
Later that night I was in low RPMs in third gear and I hit FUELCUT! Even after removing the poopy mods... It through a CEL again also.
I'm going to figure out the code and go from there.
Well good to hear it's idling correctly and that you fixed the BOV and tossed the CAI! Sorry I can't help you out technically with the fuel cut issue.Originally Posted by finallygotmyrex
And yes! I know where Centreville is, I've probably even seen you around. And what do you mean by "crazy pink WRX"?! I'm actually getting my WRX painted to that pink color that is photoshopped in my avatar.
Heather | 2002 WRX | Stage 2
ScoobyDMCtt | Official Bodyguard #2 for the Bugeye Mafia
TastesLikeAwesome | @Subiestar
Originally Posted by Speedette
I mean that car looks pretty cool with the pink body.... I'd love to see it on the road
Originally Posted by finallygotmyrex
anyone wanna buy a used car?
ScoobyDMC #009 - making dirty jokes since before you were making dirty diapers.Originally Posted by Blarg
shut up fool, you arleady missed the bashing party. I took the CAI off and turned the boost to stock and also fixed the BOV.
I didn't miss it, I'm just fasionably lateOriginally Posted by finallygotmyrex
ScoobyDMC #009 - making dirty jokes since before you were making dirty diapers.Originally Posted by Blarg


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Baton Rouge General is deeply saddened to announce that our patient listed in critical condition, Scott Thrower, has passed away.
"On behalf of Baton Rouge General and our Regional Burn Center team, we express heartfelt condolences to Mr. Thrower's family and friends for their loss, and to all those affected by this tragic event," said Dr. Floyd Roberts, Baton Rouge General's Chief Medical Officer.
Of the three patients who were also being treated in the Regional Burn Center, one patient has been released and the remaining two patients are in good condition. Baton Rouge General received a total of 19 patients following the June 13 explosion that occurred at the Williams Olefins chemical plant in Geismar, La.
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Baton Rouge General Medical Center is a full-service community hospital, with 527 licensed beds on two campuses. As the first hospital in Baton Rouge, opening its doors in 1900, Baton Rouge General has a long history of groundbreaking milestones, as well as providing the Greater Baton Rouge community with high quality healthcare for generations.
Baton Rouge General is affiliated with and also serves as a satellite campus of Tulane University School of Medicine. In addition to serving as a satellite campus for Tulane medical students in the LEAD (Leadership, Education, Advocacy and Discovery) Academy program, Baton Rouge General also offers a Family Medicine Residency Program, Internal Medicine Residency Program, Sports Medicine Fellowship Program, School of Nursing and School of Radiologic Technology. Baton Rouge General, an accredited teaching hospital since 1991, is committed to exceptional medical education and serves a diverse population that is representative of the types of patients, injuries, illnesses and healthcare needs most frequently seen by physicians in private practice.
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X-Men: First Class Trailer Premieres
Many wondered why the trailer for X-Men: First Class didn't air during the Super Bowl. Perhaps 20th Century Fox was afraid that it would get lost in the shuffle with Thor, Captain America, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and many of the other films that aired commercials. Well judging by what the studio released today, they had nothing to worry about.


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One of the shining lights in the Honeycomb tablet market has been the Asus Eee Pad and the Taiwanese computer manufacturer has officially unveiled its follow-up the Eee Pad Transformer Prime.
The Prime is an important tablet as it's the first-ever Android tablet that will use the new Tegra 3 quad-core processor, which should mean a serious increase in graphics capability and power efficiency.
Chip manufacturer Nvidia officially unveiled the Tegra 3 chip this week, which had previously gone under the codename of the 'Kal-el'. The new chip see's the number of cores jumps from 2 to 4, and Nvidia says the jump in performance will upwards of five times compared to the old chipset.
The makeup of the new chip is drastically different to the previous versions and now consists of four Cortex A9 cores, each clocked at 1.3 GHz and comes with 12 cores of graphics processing, which according to Nvidia will triple the quality of graphics when compared to the current generation of top-tier Android tablets which utilise the Tegra 2 chipset.
One notable change to the chipset architecture is the inclusion of a fifth processor. Called the "companion core" it will be tasked to handle smaller background processes. For example, it could be use to play music, or used to keep the Tablet in standby mode, and is expected to significantly improve the battery life and might even see the Prime being able to compete with Apple's class leading 1 month standby time – which the original Asus Eee pad struggled with.
The new chipset is so fast that it will be able to handle full 1080p video playback as well as 7.1 surround sound encoding. They're also promising the new chip will significantly improve image capturing by taking pictures twice as fast than before and will improve storage speeds and file transfers.
Asus is obviously looking to take advantage of the new power and take the fight to the iPad 2, Kindle Fire and top-tier Android tablets like the Galaxy Tab 10.1, and Xoom.
Like its predecessor the Transformer Prime will also come with its clever docking station, which makes it into a fully working laptop and adds a full querty keyboard, touchpad mouse compatibility, substantially increased battery life and a extra USB 2.0 port and a further SD card slot. It will initially run Android 3.2 Honeycomb, although Asus says more news on an upgrade to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich will be unveiled in December.
The 10-inch tab will continue to use the same 1280×800 IPS panel and will now come with Gorilla glass for extra durability. The disappointing sound on the old Eee pad seems to have been remedied as it will now comes with ASUS SonicMaster Technology which provides substantially better sound. Also, the company says that with the introduction of the new low power consumption NVIDIA processor, the Tablet will provide a mind boggling 12 hours of battery life without the dock and when it is connected to the mobile dock , this number further increases to an impressive 18 hours.
The tech specs for the cameras are very impressive as well – it will come rear facing 8-megapixel camera, autofocus and LED Flash. The front facing camera will remain as the same 1.3-megapixel from the the old tablet.
The tablet will use a hyrdo-oleophobic coating (we have no idea), which apparently will mean the screen and metal case will be better protected from fingerprints, water marks and oil smudges. You'll be able to use a variety of input methods allowing users to choose between the a proper querty keyboard, the on-screen virtual keepboard or simple us your hands. The Tablet will also compatible with Microsoft Office (1997-2007) and can be used to work on presentations, spreadsheets and word files.
Connectivity-wise, the tablet comes with the now standard Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS and A-GPS support – for added storage there will be a microSD card reader and microHDMI port. If you buy the dock you will gain a proper USB 2.0 port and a extra SD card reader. The size of the tablet remains very similar to the original Eee pad with dimensions of 263mm x 180.8mm x 8.3mm and its weight is a respectable 586 grams.
There will be two versions of the tablet – Amethyst grey (gun metal grey) and Champagne Gold (silver). There'll be 1GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. The 32GB model will set you back $499 while the 64GB will cost $599. The additional keyboard dock will be priced at $149.


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2) How are the new spec sheet and instructions progressing ?
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Bhopal, Feb 25 (UNI) Madhya Pradesh Governor Balram Jakhar today said the government was keen to create an atmosphere wherein development works would be taken up with people's cooperation.
''Every citizen should make valuable contribution in the state's development'', appealed Mr Jakhar in his address to the Legislative Assembly on the opening day of the 40-day budget session.
''Work was in progress to provide drinking water in all rural habitats and such facility was made available in 6890 habitats till December last. Clean drinking water would be provided in remaining areas by next year'', he said.
''Under total sanitation campaign, entire state would be covered under cent percent sanitation programme by 2010-11, while toilets would be provided in all schools and Aanganwadi centres by June, 2008'', Mr Jakhar said.
Under the programme to strengthen infrastructure in urban areas, schemes to provide clean drinking water in urban areas like Indore, Bhopal, Ujjain, Gwalior and Jabalpur would be completed by 2009, the Governor said, adding this include Bhopal's scheme to provide water from Narmada and drinking water facility in gas-hit areas, Narmada-phase three and Yashwant Sagar project for Indore, Kaketo-Pahsari project for Gwalior, Gambhir scheme for Ujjain and Narmada water for Jabalpur.
Under planned development, Master plan for 64 towns have been published, he said, the government medical college at Sagar would start functioning from next academic session.
The Governor said short term loan for agriculture purposes would be made available at five percent from next year as compared to seven percent at present. The state government would give Rs 100 as bonus per quintal of wheat in addition to the minimum support price declared by the Centre. Additional irrigation facility had been created for 1.29 lakh hectare.
All arrangements were in place for implementing E-district project in Indore and Sagar districts. Urban Haat will be set up at Indore to provide permanent infrastructure for marketing of handicraft products.
The Governor said 50 percent dearness allowance had been merged with the basic pay of employees. New computerised drawing system had been introduced for drawal of funds from Treasuries for all works departments, he said, adding the government had already introduced gender budget.


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California's Timid Recovery Seems To Have Stronger LegsGene Koretz
Fears that California's recovery has stalled appear to be exaggerated, contends economist David Hensley at Salomon Brothers Inc. Based on a forthcoming revision of state employment data, he predicts that the jobs picture for 1993 and 1994 will look decidedly more upbeat than the current numbers that show scant gains this year since employment hit a trough last December.
The problem is that California counts jobs created by new businesses only after it is able to verify them through actual payroll tax payments. A recent preliminary review of such payments through March of this year erases much of the job losses last year and shows a healthy pickup in February and March of this year. It indicates that the original employment count over the 12 months ending in March may have missed as many as 220,000 jobs.
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The Liechtenstein Gorge is about 5km outside the Sankt Johann town centre.
Arrival by car or travel coach
Exit the A10 Tauern Autobahn at the Pongau junction following the signs for the B311 (2-lane highway). Continue for about 6 kilometres, past Bischofshofen, until you reach Sankt Johann. Take the south exit (Knoten Süd). Turn left and continue on the "Grossarler Landstrasse" (2-lane road) toward the Alpendorf and the town of Grossarl. After about 700m turn left and then immediately right, following the Liechtenstein Gorge Road about 3km until you reach the gorge parking lots.
Adequate parking – also for buses – available.
Public Transport
Intercity Train Station St. Johann im Pongau
Westbahn Vienna – Salzburg – Sankt Johann or Munich – Salzburg – Sankt Johann
With the City Bus: departure from the train station through the centre of town to the Plankenau Wirt Hotel. From there you can walk to the entrance of the gorge in 20 minutes along the "Klammweg" (Gorge path).
Return: Citybus as far as the regional district courthouse; from there it is about a 10 minute walk to the train station.
By foot
City centre/train station to the Liechtensteinklamm
Take the Tauern Bicycle Path along the Salzach River, walk takes about 1½ to 2 hours.
Alpendorf to the Liechtensteinklamm
From Alpendorf you can take a walk down to the Liechtensteinnklamm (about 20 min).


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The way life should be!! Rent one of our five cabins on China Lake. Only nine years old, sleeps 6 with full kitchen and bath. Each cabin is equipped with screened in porch, gas grill, fire pit and picnic table. All you supply is food and linens!
Boat ramp on site and dock space and moorings subject to availability.
The downstairs bedroom has a full size bed. Upstairs bedroom has 2 twin beds. The upstairs loft has either a pull out couch or futon. The living room has LL Bean furniture surrounding a gas fired wood stove.
The kitchen table is perfect for eating or playing games/cards. The kitchen offers microwave, coffee maker, full size stove and refrigerator. The first floor bath has a full size tub/shower. All these rooms are wrapped in knotty pine and decorated nicely.
China Lake was voted #23 on the 2014 BassMaster 100 Best Bass Lakes. It offers boating, fishing and lots of family fun! Take a 7 mile ride up the lake by boat to the ice cream shop which could take you an entire afternoon making stops to jump in and swim!! The China area offers convenient shopping at Hannaford Supermarket and dine at the China Dinah.
About ten years ago, Dick Sabatini and family bought 91 acres of land adjacent to the Pellerin Campground. The Sabatini brothers who are builders by trade, constructed five cabins in the woods. These three season cabins have provided many happy family memories for our family and many others.
Dick Sabatini- Owner purchased this cabin in 2005
Voted #23 out of 100 US lakes by BassMaster for bass fishing in 2014!
Unlike most lake front properties in Maine, this property has a gradual slope that continues into the water. This makes it enjoyable for boating, swimming and great for kids. The friendly people at the Pellerin Campground made us feel like part of the family. You too will enjoy the friendly family atmosphere here at the cabins at Pellerin Cove!
The stars are so bright in the sky at night while enjoying singing and fun around the campfire. Bring your guitar!
My husband, son and I were looking for a place to stay while visiting my littlest sister at Colby. This cabin turned out to be the perfect spot for us! Quiet, private area, gorgeous scenery, enough space for us to spread out, all of the comforts of home: there is nothing we were lacking during our visit. It was less than a half hour from Colby, and my sister was so grateful to be able to get off campus for a little retreat. The fireplace in the corner warmed up the cabin nicely, and the lake was stunning with all of the fall foliage. We will definitely be back! Thank you so much for making this available!
Six of us spent to nights at your cabin. It was very comfortable. We would recommend that the Futon become a double bed, but everything else was great. It was a short ride to the fair.
My family of five absolutely loved the cabin. So adorable and clean on the inside...exactly as pictured. Beautiful pine walls and floors. The screened in porch on our cabin was great and good sized. We used it a lot especially on the day that it rained (cabin 11 is the only one without a large porch. It has a smaller one though). We did have to bring linens and towels which was no problem. And there were ceiling fans in each bedroom as well as extra fans provided. Loved that! I do wish I would have known to bring dish towels, sponges and dish soap though. None was provided so I had to go to the grocery store down the road. Not a problem. Only a mile a way. The swimming area for the kids was okay. Fairly good sized and Just a short walk to the water. It was Rocky and a bit mucky after walking out about 5 feet. But we still had fun floating around. Most lakes are a bit mucky. The swim area was also in between the docked boats....luckily none were really moving or docking during the times we swam. There is a nice sandy swimming area just a five minute boat ride to the left. The manager on site was wonderful!!! Jim was so kind and was around all the time to help us in any way that he could. I was not sure about what to do at the end of our stay, as there were no instructions provided for cleanup or trash disposal. He was there to help me out. The only thing I could say about the cabins that I was a bit disappointed in was the fact that I had absolutely no idea that these cabins were on a campground. It was in the RV part of the campground. By the pictures and descriptions on Homeaway I thought they were just 5 private cabins nestled in the woods. That information should really be in the description. I had not intended to stay on a campground....however.....it turned out great anyway and we had a great time. All the RV's are permanent residents and there are not that many there...about 6 well maintained spots there. Therefore, we did not see many people at all during our stay. I just wish I would have known prior to reserving. Although I love campgrounds....We had wanted just a cabin on a lake. But again.....we had a great time there and the campground part did not stop us from having a very quiet and peaceful time. All the RV residents there are very quiet and friendly....when we did see them....which was not often....which made us end up feeling like we were nestled quietly in the woods anyway. :) Great memorable time overall!! Highly recommend!!
The cabin was very clean & everything is brand new! Remember to bring your own linens and towels. New grills outside & fire pit stop at the market for food and marshmallows!!!
We did not stay long enough -we did a weekend Friday to Sunday I would recommend staying at least 5-7days or LONGER especially if you are traveling more than 5 hours away like me from NYC.
Okay I could go on and on about the cabin and tranquil environment, but I must talk about Jim... Jim is AWESOME he recommended places to eat, made sure we arrived and introduced himself and went out of his way to give us a ride on his boat around China lake! He and his wife are adorable and such awesome people! I really had a great time with them. Jim loves his job and it really shows!
Be prepared to weave at EVERYONE! It's the friendliest town everyone waves hello!
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We had all had a blast! Even my 9year old son had fun and he didn't have WIFI! YAAAY!
China Lake offers boating, fishing and lots of family fun! Take a 7 mile ride up the lake by boat to the ice cream shop which could take you an entire afternoon making stops to jump in and swim!! The China area offers convenient shopping at Hannaford Supermarket and dining at the China-Dina Restaurant. Plenty of friendly people! China, Maine is 15 minutes east of Augusta, the capitol of Maine, for flights and easy highway access. Coastal Maine is within half hour away. Camden and BoothBay just shy of a hour to drive. Two hours north is white water rafting down the Kennebec River. One of our favorite family events!!
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MINNEAPOLIS--The two baseballs sat on slugger Jim Thome's locker-room shelf Saturday at Target Field, wrapped in a plastic baggy.
There was home run ball No. 583, tying Mark McGwire for ninth place, and home run ball No. 584, passing McGwire and moving within two homers of Hall of Famer Frank Robinson.
Hard to believe that just eight months ago, he was wondering if he had played his last game, waiting by a phone that remained silent.
"When I wasn't getting any calls this winter,'' Thome says, "I really didn't know.''
Well, now the baseball world knows, that Thome is alive, thriving, and could be playing long enough to be breaking a whole lot more records.
"It's Babe Ruth all over again,'' Twins manager Ron Gardenhire says.
Thome has been a godsend for the Twins this year, with first baseman Justin Morneau out perhaps for the season's duration with a concussion. They have needed him to play every day, and he has responded, reaching the 20-homer plateau for the 17th time in his career in the Twins' 12-4 rout over the Texas Rangers.
There's not enough time for Thome to realistically hit his 600th homer this year, but it will certainly come in the future, with plenty of baseball left to be played in his 40-year-old body.
"I just wanted to be healthy,'' he says, "and for the most part, I have been.''
Thome is too modest to expound on his own accomplishments, and talks about Cooperstown as if it's impossible to even dream about a future induction, but the bat speaks for itself. He keeps swinging, and legends are going to down like bowling pins.
When asked what legendary players have meant the most to him that has passed on the all-time homer list, he immediately thought of Harmon Killebrew, the Twins' all-time homer leader, who has become close friends with Thome.
"That's as good as it gets,'' Thome said.
The only other player he has passed on the list, and held in such reverence, is the late Mickey Mantle.
"Mickey Mantle,'' Thome said, "because of the name, "Mickey Mantle.' You hear your dad talking about Mickey Mantle.''
Someone then asked about Ruth, possibly passing him at the 714 mark.
"I think I'll be fishing by then,'' Thome said, laughing.
By Bob Nightengale
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Soil Association
February 12, 2014
A Critique of the Soil Association's Opposition to Golden Rice
Patrick Moore, Ph.D.
The Soil Association, with 27,000 members, is the largest organic food organization in the UK, responsible for the certification of 80 percent of organic food production. They have issued a document "Golden Rice Briefing" (undated, but by the references clearly recent) in which they set out their "reasons" for their opposition to Golden Rice. Golden Rice is a genetically modified variety of rice produced for humanitarian purposes to reduce the more than two million childhood deaths caused by vitamin A deficiency each year.While we understand that most organic food standards forbid the growing of GM varieties we believe it is immoral for a food organization to repeat the lies and fear tactics of anti-GMO activists such as Greenpeace, GMWatch, and Friends of the Earth. Specifically we condemn the Soil Association's following statements and positions:
- The Soil Association states that the more than 3 billion people who eat rice as their staple food should give it up altogether, as a way of addressing vitamin A deficiency. It is impossible to give up one's primary source of energy without starving to death.
- They associate Golden Rice with cancer. This is an irresponsible fear tactic.
- They indicate that they are against the fortification of foods by adding nutrients, which would set back human health more than 100 years.
- They claim that Golden Rice is a "waste of time and resources". When Golden Rice is released and is adopted it will prove to be one of the most cost-effective cures on a per capita basis in history.Their assertions indicate a dismal state of knowledge about genetics, biochemistry, nutrition, and science in general.
- They have joined those extremist groups that are responsible for prolonging the approval of Golden Rice. They would sacrifice two million children per year on the altar of their ideology.
- They repeat the red herring that beta-carotene in Golden Rice might break down before it is eaten. This is an ignorant assertion and is only mentioned to spread doubt.
Patrick Moore, Ph.D., Leader, Allow Golden Rice Now! Campaign
February 2014
"Healthy Soil, Healthy People, Healthy Planet" – this is how the Soil Association presents its objectives.
It is baffling; to say the least, how the Soil Association thinks preventing the introduction of Golden Rice could lead to Healthy People.I have supported Golden Rice since it was announced in 1999. I find it hard to believe that anyone but the most callous misanthrope would oppose it, given that it could prevent more than 2 million child deaths per year. Here is my rebuttal of the Soil Association's science-retarded campaign to prevent Golden Rice from playing an important role in saving these children from blindness and death.
I have inserted my annotated comments in green throughout the text.
Here begins the Soil Association's Document:
Golden Rice Briefing
A symptom of poverty
Vitamin A deficiency is widespread in many parts of the developing world resulting in the blindness and death of millions of children. It is a symptom of the fact that people are so poor they have to survive on virtually nothing but rice, which lacks certain nutrients.
The most important missing nutrient is beta-carotene which all animals, including humans, require and from which they synthesize vitamin A. Neither white rice nor brown rice are effective as a source of vitamin A. Why does the Soil Association refer to "certain nutrients" when it is certain that vitamin A deficiency is the cause of these millions of deaths? The reason is clear. They want to set the stage for the argument that just adding a source of vitamin A to the diet is not sufficient to prevent these deaths. In this they are dead wrong but it doesn't stop them from the attempt to obfuscate.
Yes vitamin A deficiency is a result of poverty, among people who are too poor to afford a varied diet. But in most places where it is a problem, they do eat at least a cup of rice each day, and they are not starving. If the rice they ate was Golden Rice they would not lose their eyesight and die.
Scientists and engineers get excited when there is the potential for their research to solve a humanitarian issue – and rightly so. However, there are inevitably times when, in this excitement, certain things get overlooked and the research can plough ahead without much thought as to whether it is the right solution to spend time and resources on. Golden Rice is sadly a classic case of misspent time and resources.
If Golden Rice delivers as promised, and all indications are that it will, it will be one of the most cost-effective cures for a major killer in history. 250 million pre-school children are lacking in vitamin A. More than 2 million die each year. Additionally, up to 500,000 go blind and most of these die prematurely. Once Golden Rice is approved for cultivation it will be sustainable in perpetuity. Every Golden Rice plant will breed true and farmers will be able to save seeds and replant them. All other interventions require additional ongoing expense. Golden Rice is anything but a waste of time and resources.
Here are a few numbers to compare: We believe the total annual cost of distributing vitamin A capsules is more than US$500 million). During the 8 years it took to develop Golden Rice (1991-1999) about US$4 billion was spent on the distribution of vitamin A pills. The Golden Rice Project spent $2.4 million on the science during that same period, that is 0.006% of the cost of the pills. The total cost for Golden Rice development and regulatory approval is about $35 million.
Once the Golden Rice is released it will be sustainable forever at no additional cost compared to regular rice. Compare this with the cost of vitamin A pills, which don't get to many of the people who need them. From 1991 – 2014 the program to distribute vitamin A pills cost US$11.52.25 billion or nearly more than 65 300 times the cost of developing Golden Rice. The annual US$500 million cost would continue forever and still 2 million children die each year despite the distribution of pills.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is taking the lead in supporting the field trials of Golden Rice. The Helen Keller International NGO will conduct nutritional studies. These organizations do not invest time and money in lost causes. They are very careful in choosing priorities for their philanthropic programs. When it is finally approved for commercial production, Golden Rice will prove to be one of the most cost-effective cures for a major affliction in the history of public health.
Whilst in the eyes of scientists the solution is to create rice which provides one missing nutrient, this is only treating the part of the symptom, not the problem – poverty.
I would argue that the real problem is the death of more than two million children every year. It is surely better to live in poverty with a healthy immune system and the sight of both eyes than it is to be blind or dead. It would be wonderful if we could rid the world of poverty. Perhaps that could be the next step after curing this deficiency that takes more than two million innocent children each year.
In the eyes of humanitarian experts, the solution is to reduce the number of people having to survive on rice in the first place. It is poor distribution and access, both to other foods and the tools and skills to grow them, which are the main reasons children are going blind. Furthermore, they are suffering from broader malnourishment than just vitamin A deficiency.
Here a false dichotomy is drawn between "scientists" who are portrayed as misguided, and "humanitarian experts" who are somehow wiser. In fact the two inventors of Golden Rice, Professors Ingo Potrykus and Peter Bayer, are humanitarian scientists who were aware of the vitamin A crisis and turned their science skills into crafting a solution. They then ensured that they could donate their technology, without any financial reward, to assist the in developing countries. Neither has worked for a corporation but rather in government labs and universities.
One would imagine that the Soil Association, representing farmers and such, would know the difference between a "staple food" such as rice, corn, potatoes, cassava etc. and "nutrient" foods such as green vegetables, fresh fruit, nuts etc. No humanitarian would want to "reduce the number of people having to survive on rice". Rice, like the other staples, provides the calories, in the form of starch, which gives the body energy. All cultures rely on one or more staple foods. Nearly 3.5 billion people rely on rice as their staple food. Unfortunately it does not have as many nutrients as corn or potatoes.
The people who die from vitamin A deficiency are not wealthy enough to afford both a staple food and additional nutrient-rich foods. They might be able to afford more nutrient-rich foods if they gave up rice, but then they would likely starve for lack of calories (energy).
It is not the distribution system that causes children and young mothers to die from the nutritionally acquired immune deficiency syndrome or to go blind, it is lack of vitamin A. While there may be other nutrients that would be beneficial for these children, they would not be dying by the millions if only they had a source of vitamin A.
GM technology out performed by less glamorous solutions
The best solution to vitamin A deficiency is to use supplementation and fortification as emergency 'sticking-plasters', and in the meantime, for funding support and research to go into measures which tackle the broader issues of poverty and malnutrition.
There are already up to half a dozen strategies used to tackle vitamin A deficiency. Sadly they are less exciting to some journalists, politicians and scientists than the idea of beta-carotene producing rice, containing genes from a bacteria and maize plant. But they work and have saved many lives.
We know they work, as, for example in the Philippines vitamin A deficiency in young children has fallen by 25% in just 5 years – a fantastic achievement1, without any GM rice.
Now the Soil Association resorts to a ridiculous argument, that Golden Rice is somehow "glamorous" and "exciting". Well, it is exciting because it has a better chance of solving the problem than any other strategy. The example of the Philippines, reducing vitamin A deficiency by 25% at tremendous cost that must go on forever, is not very exciting. And what about the 75% remaining! And what about India with 2 million under 5 years deaths annually since the 1980's, despite knowledge of other interventions for vitamin A deficiency.
Golden Rice has the potential to eliminate vitamin A deficiency completely and forever in rice eating populations, at no additional cost to the poor people who need help.
Golden Rice was not developed mainly for the Philippines but for countries with larger problems such as India (no progress in reduction for 25 years), Bangladesh, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar, countries that suffer vitamin A deficiencies between 42-48% of the population today. Golden Rice is being developed in the Philippines because that is where the International Rice Research Institute is based and because they have received the funding to develop the Golden Rice into the local rice varieties.
If there were indeed "half a dozen strategies to tackle vitamin A deficiency" why are two million children still dying every year? What is the Soil Association doing to help with this? I would guess nothing, as appears to be the case for all the principal opponents of Golden Rice.
The alternatives
'Sticking plaster' short-term measures
Vitamin A supplement provision – particularly successful projects include those combining Vitamin A with immunizations, for example when new mothers have just delivered and during National Immunization Days (NIDs) to eradicate polio2
Vitamin A pills cost about 2 cents each, but at least US$1.00 each when distribution costs are taken into account, even when these distribution costs are reduced by sharing the logistics of measles or polio vaccination campaigns. But measles and polio campaigns success means that they are winding down. This will put up the costs of vitamin A supplementation further than the current more than US$500 million annually.
Vitamin A pills are probably the most costly alternative and must be continued ad infinitum. It is simply not a sustainable strategy andvitamin A pills fail to reach many who suffer. In 1992 the UN International Conference on Nutrition, in the decade when vitamin A pills were first used, clarified that supplementation was only an interim measure.
Why would the Soil Association even bother to talk about "short term strategies" as solutions?
Fortifying rice and flour through processing methods – Flour is mandatorily fortified in the Philippines3. There are also improvements in the ability to fortify rice, however the full potential of this still 'remains untapped' and lacks adequate research4.
We add iodine to salt, and vitamin C to apple juice. These are excellent programs, but they depend on food processing and distribution infrastructure. Rice, most of which is consumed where it is grown, is eaten unprocessed. It is the staple for 99% of the people of Laos for example, where most villages do not even have any roads connecting them.
Golden Rice is, in fact, a type of fortification known a "biofortification" because the biology of the plant itself does the work of putting the nutrient into the food. It is the ultimate "organic" nutrition supplement. This is by far the most cost-effective and sustainable approach.
The problem with normal fortification, where the vitamin is added to the food, is that it must be done in a factory or processing plant, and the food must then be distributed. Much of the rice grown on small farms in developing countries is eaten on the farm and it is therefore not possible to fortify it before consumption. Biofortification is the logical best choice.
Biofortification can be achieved by conventional breeding with crops where an existing low level of micronutrient can be improved upon. But no white rice contains any vitamin A precursors, so the use of genetic engineering techniques was the only possibility. Incidentally, the technique was only used once, about a decade ago, to create the Golden Rice varieties being developed today. Since then all the work in developing counties, and all the introduction of the nutritional trait into locally preferred rice varieties, has been accomplished using conventional breeding only.
The availability and publicity of cheap food containing sources of vitamin A, for example fortified milk and ready-made meals containing supplements and carrots (rich in vitamin A) in the Philippines have had major success
The Philippines is one of many countries where the deaths and blindness caused by vitamin A deficiency is a problem. Philippine families are very well aware of the paucity of nutrition in their diet, cannot afford to improve it and want to try Golden Rice. The people who are most at-risk cannot afford additional food.
Long-term measures with multiple benefits
The use of awareness campaigns warning parents of the cause of child blindness – a key weapon is to advise parents, the key target audience, of the dangers of rice based diets (which lead to more problems than just vitamin deficiency – problems that could actually be worsened by encouraging more rice consumption).
This shows how misguided the Soil Association is. We are to warn people who eat rice as their staple food of "the dangers of rice-based diets"? All three and a half billion of them? Down with sushi, curry on rice, rice bowls, and rice pilaf? In the Philippines rice is so important that a meal without rice is not even considered a meal! This suggestion is symptomatic of the ridiculous measures fanatics and ideologues will go to uphold their "zero-tolerance" intolerance of new technologies, in this case transgenic biotechnology, otherwise known as genetic engineering and genetic modification or gmo-crops. (But they don't oppose these same techniques routinely used in the manufacture of bread, cheese, wine, beer and insulin.)
The campaign against GM technology is a classic propaganda campaign based on fear of the unknown. As Greenpeace has said of Golden Rice, "there may be unforeseen health issues". "Unforeseen" sounds scary, but it really indicates that they know of nothing that could be harmful. And note the tentative nature of "may be". Indeed there isn't anything to the campaign but fear tactics to raise cash contributions from well intentioned, but misguided, supporters.
How could "problems be worsened" by eating more rice if there is no nutrition in the rice in the first place? This is entirely illogical thinking.
The truth is we are all "genetically modified", a random mixture of our mother's and father's genes. Every living thing is genetically modified, that's how evolution works. It's just that the propagandists have taken the neutral term "genetically modified" and associated it with scary thoughts, like Frankenstein Foods, Killer Tomatoes, and Terminator Seeds. All these terms are borrowed from scary Hollywood movies, and the campaign against GM food is based just as much on fantasy as those movies.
It is actually common in nature for genes to move from one species to another. In nature this is a random process, or at least we are not in control of it. GM technology gives us the ability to choose which genes are moved from which species to another. This allows us to put desirable traits into our food crops that would be unlikely to occur by the random movement of genes in nature.
The molecular processes involved are identical, whether by conventional seed breeding or by genetic engineering. The conclusion: biosafety assessment must be based on the product, not the process involved in creating the product. This means that a product where only beta-carotene is added, for example, should not require years of exhaustive assessments. Canada has been operating in this manner for more than a decade without any problems. The Chief Science Advisor to the European Commission, Anne Glover, has recently stated that GM crops are no riskier than conventional crops.
Projects which target poverty in smallholders – these include providing farmers with a range of seeds, tools and skills necessary for growing more diverse crops to target broader issues of malnutrition. The benefits include: more resilient and increased incomes, often reduced reliance on external inputs, and of course more balanced diets. A fantastic example of this is the work carried out by Send A Cow in Uganda and Kenya, including the development of kitchen gardens5.
The intention is that Golden Rice seeds made available to farmers will contribute to: "a range of seeds, more regular and increased incomes, often reduced reliance on external inputs, and of course more balanced diets". World Bank economist Kym Anderson has calculated that conservative adoption of Golden Rice will add US$4.0 billion – US$18.0 billion annually to Asian GDP due to the greater productivity of the population. Moreover, much of vitamin A deficiency occurs among the landless and people who live in urban slums where there is no land available. Those poor farmers who do have land often need every square inch of it to grow enough calories (rice) to stay alive. Is the Soil Association sending thousands of agronomists with a "range of seeds, tools, and skills" into the tropical countries where 250 million pre-school children need vitamin A, or just blocking serious attempts by others to do that?
Breeding and providing biofortified crops: breeding crops high in nutrients is proving to be easier than creating GM versions. The best example is the creation of sweet potatoes that grow in tropical conditions, cross-bred with vitamin A rich orange sweet potatoes, which grow in the USA. There are successful campaigns providing these potatoes, a staggering five times higher in vitamin A than Golden Rice6, to farmers in Uganda and Mozambique78.
It is possible to produce biofortified crops through conventional breeding with species that already have the ability to put the nutrient into the crop, as is the case with sweet potatoes. Rice does not have this potential, if it did the inventors of Golden Rice would have used conventional breeding techniques. Most vitamin A deficiency occurs in South-East Asia where rice provides 660 billion calories daily. In contrast sweet potato provides 7 billion calories daily (0.15% of rice).
Above we have the list of the Soil Association's "better ways" to address vitamin A deficiency. None of them have solved the problem to date. This is why humanitarian scientists have concluded that Golden Rice is the logical best solution. But the ideologues press on.
Golden Rice is proposed as an additional intervention for combatting vitamin A deficiency – not a replacement for all other encouragements to a varied diet, education, and reduction of poverty.
Stealing the limelight
Golden Rice, sadly, was never going to be an emergency 'sticking-plaster' – as with all genetic modification it takes years to develop.
Golden Rice is intended to provide a free nutritional supplement within the existing staple crop, to those that can benefit from it, and with no downside. As such it is sustainable, and never intended as an "emergency sticking plaster". It does not take "years to develop" GM varieties. Graduate students are making them in university labs around the world to earn their degrees. It is the regulatory apparatus that is the problem and the time-waster. Golden Rice could have been ready for commercial cultivation years ago if it were not for the suspicions raised about the technology used to create it. Indeed, given what we now know about human nutrition even the initial 'proof of concept' Golden Rice from 1999 would make a significant contribution to vitamin A deficiency alleviation. It is not the science but this suspicion and the related ridiculous maze of bureaucracy and regulations that is holding up Golden Rice. The majority of the process and funding for the development of Golden Rice has been due to the regulatory procedure, which itself is the result of the anti-GM movement. If vitamin A deficiency were a disease and Golden Rice was discovered as a cure it would have been approved years ago.
How ironic that rice containing an essential nutrient is more difficult to introduce than a pharmaceutical that is essentially a biocide meant to kill a disease agent, with a good chance of nasty side effects on the patient.
Incredibly, whilst portrayed as the leading solution for at least 15 years, it has not yet actually helped a single person.
Actually, in two human studies, with adults in the US and children in China, the beta- carotene in Golden Rice increased the vitamin A of the subjects more efficiently than beta carotene from other sources, including spinach: "the high bioconversion efficiency of Golden Rice b-carotene to vitamin A shows that this rice can be used as a source of vitamin A. Golden Rice may be as useful as a source of preformed vitamin A from vitamin A capsules, eggs, or milk to overcome VAD in rice-consuming populations." (Tang et al, 2012). It has not been made routinely available to those that need it due to a combination of ridiculously onerous regulations, brought on by the fear campaign, and by the campaign to block all GM varieties, regardless of the benefits they can bring. These two factors feed into each other. It is time to break this dam.
It is not credible to deny access to the cure and then to complain that the cure doesn't work. If activists don't think it will work, why are they so vociferously opposed to it?
when (or if) it finally is released for general use, it will not be helping to reduce people's reliance on a rice based diet.
As mentioned previously, the Soil Association surely can't be serious about telling people they should give up rice as their staple food. There is nothing wrong with rice as a source of carbohydrate for dietary energy. It is simply lacking a source of vitamin A.
The concept of "biofortification" is considered by the Food Policy Research Institute to be the most intelligent and sustainable intervention against micronutrient deficiency. Golden Rice is the first purposely-created biofortified food, created even before the term was invented. Biofortification does not stop with vitamin A. High iron, high zinc, other vitamins, folate, high quality protein, and healthy fatty acids are all in the pipeline. Dr. Potrykus states that it is possible to develop rice with all the micronutrients that are missing from the diets of poor people in the rice-eating cultures. Through a combination GM technology and conventional breeding it will be possible to eliminate all nutrient deficiencies. This would not be possible without the science of genetic engineering.
It is another example of where scientists have overlooked the social nature of a problem, in which they optimistically see a simple, quick fix and have ploughed on regardless of difficulty, expense and time, and of course, while ignoring the readily available alternatives.
There we go with the "stupid scientists" again. Perhaps they should be banned too? If the alternatives are so "readily available" why aren't they in place after so many years? Because they are not practical, cost too much, and are not sustainable over the long run, that's why.
We believe that we could have gone further to curing blindness in developing countries years ago if only the money, research and publicity that have gone into Golden Rice over the last 15 years had gone into proven ways of curing the Vitamin A deficiency that causes blindness.
The amount of money spent on Golden Rice, about $35 million over 20 years, is nothing compared to the $16.8 billion spent on HIV/AIDS research in 2011 alone. Malaria research and prevention cost $10 billion in 2010. Vitamin A deficiency causes more deaths per year than either of these major diseases. And vitamin A deficiency is not a disease where microbe must be killed; it is simply the lack of an essential nutrient.
Who is the "we" in "we could have gone further"? Just who does the Soil Association suggest should be delivering their so-called "better ways"? Do they have a program with a budget? No they don't.
The Golden Rice Humanitarian Project, The International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, the national rice programmes in Asia, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Helen Keller International, do have programs with a budget, and they are moving forward to cure vitamin A deficiency. The members of the Golden Rice Humanitarian Board are all volunteers with no pay for their Golden Rice work.
Other concerns
Controversy in its development
Efforts to create a 'not for profit' crop, to be made freely available to the people who would need it most, should be applauded. However in the development of Golden Rice there has been controversy, in particular, due to studies testing children without adequate permission.
This refers to a bit of dirty business, initiated by Greenpeace in 2001, when they said a woman would require 9000 grams (9 kilos) of cooked Golden Rice to receive any nutritional benefit. It continued in 2012 with Greenpeace trying to discredit the excellent results achieved in peer reviewed published research: "A bowl of 100 to 150 grams cooked Golden Rice (50 grams dry weight) can provide 60% of the Chinese Recommended Nutrient Intake of vitamin A for 6–8-year-old children" (Tang et al).
After Golden Rice was first grown in field trials in the US in 2004 it was decided to develop nutritional studies to determine how efficiently humans who ate it would convert the beta-carotene in the rice into vitamin A. In 2009 a study was published in the peer-reviewed American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that proved that adults fed Golden Rice very efficiently produced vitamin A in their bloodstream. Led by child nutritionist Dr. Guangwen Tang at Tufts University in Boston, and funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the same scientist team, now collaborating with experienced clinical researchers in China, undertook to investigate how efficiently Chinese children could utilise different foods, including Golden Rice and spinach, as a source of vitamin A. Ethical clearances were received from the authorities in both China and USA. Following the detail of the agreed Protocol, and meetings with them, the scientists received permission from the parents and each of the 23 children, to give them one serving of "rice that has been altered to contain beta-carotene". The research successfully established that children, as expected, convert the beta-carotene in rice to vitamin A even more efficiently than adults. The results were published in the same American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on August 8th 2012 (5 years after the field work was completed).
When the study was published Greenpeace sent an electronic message into China from their Hamburg, Germany office, "American scientists are using Chinese children as guinea pigs for potentially toxic rice". Actually a Chinese-American scientist, in collaboration with top Chinese clinicians, fed perfectly nutritious Golden Rice to children and proved it worked. The message went viral on the Chinese version of Twitter, Chinese citizens were infuriated, and three top Chinese government clinical researchers were fired to save politician's face. Eventually, is a case which is not yet concluded, Dr. Tang was disciplined by her own university (including for following to the letter the Protocol agreed in writing with the same university) for what most independent observers conclude are, at most, minor deviations within complex research of no safety nor scientific consequence. Although the officials overreacted to a politically motivated scare they also have emphasized the validity of the results and importance of the research results for global public health.
Will it work?
One reason it is taking so long to develop was because the first generation had poor levels of beta-carotene and required further gene changes.
We now know, as a result of the research reported above, that even the earliest Golden Rice produced by 1999 could make a significant impact on vitamin A deficiency. (That this was not investigated at the time was also due to sustained opposition from anti-GMO activists) In any event the levels of beta-carotene produced were increased by 2004. What is the Soil Association's point?
There are still concerns regarding potential declines in beta-carotene during storage, as it can break down in the presence of oxygen and light9, so it is unclear how much beta-carotene might be available when the GM rice is actually eaten.
The beta-carotene in Golden Rice remains visible for at least 2 years, much longer than rice is normally stored.
Rice is not stored in sunlight. Just as with carrots, and corn, the beta-carotene remains available through storage. All estimations of Golden Rice's effect take degradation through storage and cooking into account. This is another red herring repeated over and over by desperate ideologues.
Health risks
It is unwise for a long-term major solution to focus on fortification of foods as there are general issues with fortification – due to differences between individuals, some people in the population will inevitably get too little and others too much. Overdosing on beta-carotene has been linked to an increased cancer risk10.
The Soil Association should be very ashamed to make this statement. At first the anti-Golden Rice campaigners said there was not enough beta-carotene in Golden Rice to help with the deficiency. Now they say there could be too much? It is simply impossible to get too much beta-carotene from eating Golden Rice. Excess beta-carotene is excreted, and long terms studies with healthy doctors and nurses consuming beta-carotene daily for 12 years and 9 years respectively recorded no adverse effects.
The Soils Association appears here to be in opposition to the fortification of food in general. Does this indicate that they oppose putting iodine in salt to prevent mental retardation, fluoride in toothpaste (and in some countries, water) to prevent tooth decay, vitamin A in milk to prevent immune-system deficiency and blindness, niacin in flour to prevent pellagra, vitamin D in vegetable oils to prevent rickets, folic acid in flour to prevent spina bifida and other birth defects? Fortification, especially biofortification such as with Golden Rice, holds the promise of eliminating micronutrient deficiency worldwide. It is astounding that an organization concerned with producing food could take such a ridiculous position. If adopted, a policy against food fortification would set global health back more than 100 years.
To claim there may be health risks to people who will otherwise go blind or die without the vitamin A is immoral. There is absolutely no evidence that there is anything in Golden Rice that could cause harm.
Genetic modification of metabolic pathways in plants can have unintended effects due to the complexity of the genetic pathways and break-down of genetically engineered metabolic products. There are concerns that other metabolic products may emerge in the GM rice plants which have unintended health risks, in particular Retinoic acid, which can damages human foetuses11.
This is an irresponsible assertion and indicates a lack of basic biology.
Here is the science:
Beta carotene must be converted, by animals including man, to vitamin A (retinol) before the retinol gets converted to retinoic acid (2 steps). Thus b-carotene is safer than vitamin A which is found in animal products such as eggs, milk, butter and liver. Are carrots, which contain more beta-carotene than Golden Rice, likely to damage fetuses?
Retinal, retinol and retinoic acid are absent in plants (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12867709) and therefore the respective biosynthetic pathway does not exist to create them in plants.
"Retinoic acid is a metabolite of vitamin A (retinol) that mediates the functions of vitamin A required for growth and development. Retinoic acid is required in chordate animals, which includes all higher animals from fish to humans."
In other words, retinoic acid is essential for good health in species with a backbone.
Will it ever be ready?
All the initial work on Golden Rice was focussed on a strain of rice Japonica, a short-grain variety, not suitable for growing in the areas where Vitamin A deficiency is highest. It is only recently that the long-grain variant Indica has been targeted, grown in countries such as the Philippines where vitamin A deficiency is a major problem.
The japonica variety was used in the initial stage because it was easier to work with for the "proof of concept" phase of the development. All the work now being done, and for the last decade, is with the indica variety.
After more than 15 years, Golden Rice is still far from commercialisation. The International Rice Research Institute reports that it hasn't yet been deemed safe for humans, animals or the environment, or has it been shown to reduce vitamin A deficiencies in community conditions – they say this will take a further two years or more1
Golden Rice is actually very close to being ready for commercialization. If it were not for the unnecessarily onerous regulatory requirements it would already be available. But it is better late than never. Golden Rice will eventually be approved. The primary focus of the Allow Golden Rice Now! Campaign to ensure that this comes sooner rather than later. You can easily deduce that the Soil Association would prefer it were never released and that 2 million children per year continued to be sacrificed on their ideological altar. Two more years is two years too many, but let's make sure it's not three or four years due to the intransigence of Luddites and anti-science extremism.
Regulatory clearance will confirm that Golden Rice is safe, period. The studies to be conducted by Helen Keller International are to measure the effectiveness of Golden Rice in delivering vitamin A to children under real-life community conditions.
There is no evidence that opposition to GM rice from scientists and NGOs has delayed the development of Golden Rice.
Scientists have tried to get Golden Rice approved; anti-Golden Rice NGOs have stopped at nothing, including lies and scare tactics, to stop it. This is an historical fact. It is also clear from this document that the Soil Association wishes to prevent the development of Golden Rice and is willfully complicit in the same lies and scare tactics.
What is clear after 15 years of claims about Golden Rice is that it did not provide the instant, miracle cure to blindness that pro-GM scientists, GM companies and some politicians claimed it would back in 1998.
No one made claims of "instant, miracle cure" asserted here. If one checks the Internet they will see that this is only an accusation made by the anti-GMO movement. No one could have predicted the irrational, fanatical, fear-based campaign that would develop among anti-GMO NGOs. No doubt the fundraising potential was perceived early on. If it were not for the anti-science nature and ideological bent of this campaign Golden Rice would already be growing in farmer's fields and beginning to bring an end to vitamin A deficiency. Yes, there are other afflictions that must be addressed. But vitamin A deficiency is the biggest killer of children in the world today. It is immoral and a Crime Against Humanity to oppose it with lies and dirty tricks.
We now know that those claims were untrue.
Those claims have already been proven by carefully conducted scientific research, and will be proven true in populations when Golden Rice finally becomes available to those who so desperately need it.
We also know from those developing it that Golden Rice is still years away from being available, and that those developing it still do not know if it is safe, nor if it will work, nor if it will prove acceptable to the people suffering from Vitamin A deficiency.
Then let us try. All we ask is for the denunciation of the destruction of the field trials, and other methods of willfully blocking Golden Rice, and for an exception to be made to the "zero-tolerance" position on GMOs, on humanitarian grounds, for Golden Rice. We know that it is safe, that it will work, and that it will be accepted.
What we do know is that there are already effective cures for Vitamin A deficiency, both short-term and long-term, we know that these work, and we know that the long-term solutions solve not just the problem of Vitamin A deficiency, which does not occur in isolation, but the wider problem of multiple vitamin deficiency.
If these cures you speak of "work" why does the problem persist? Why do more than 2 million, mostly children, die annually from the preventable cause, which is vitamin A deficiency?
Is it because the Soil Association is doing nothing to help, and yet carping from the sidelines as millions of children die?
(I have not placed footnotes in the text so as not to interfere with the Soil Association's footnotes. Below is a list of resources that support the case for Golden Rice and provide useful information on the subject)
The Golden Rice Humanitarian Project: http://www.goldenrice.org/index.php
The Allow Golden Rice Now! Campaign: http://www.allowgoldenricenow.org/
Nutritional study with Golden Rice: http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/96/3/658.abstract
World Health Organization on vitamin A deficiency: http://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/vad/en/
Who destroyed the Golden Rice Field Trials?http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/08/26/golden_rice_attack_in_philippines_anti_gmo_activists_lie_about_protest_and.html
A Senseless Fight: http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/senseless-fight/
Crime Against Humanity: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/former-greenpeace-leading-light-condemns-them-for-opposing-gm-golden-rice-crop-that-could-save-two-million-children-from-starvation-per-year-9097170.html
Tables Turned on Greenpeace: http://www.nutraingredients.com/Industry/GM-golden-rice-Tables-turn-on-Greenpeace
Greens Must Embrace GM: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/if-the-environmentalist-movement-is-to-stay-relevant-it-must-embrace-worldchanging-technologies-like-gm-9096768.html
Greenpeace War against Life: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/10/13/Greenpeace-Willing-to-Let-Children-Go-Blind-or-Die?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
The Genomic Misconception, Klaus Ammann: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871678413000605
Journal references on vitamin A and health effects:
Grodstein F, Kang JH, Glynn RJ, Cook NR, Gaziano M. A randomized trial of beta carotene supplementation and cognitive function in men: The Physicians' Health Study II. Arch Intern Med. 2007; 167 (20): 2,184-2,190.
Kang JH, Grodstein F. Plasma carotenoids and tocopherols and cognitive function: A prospective study. Neurobiol Aging. 2008; 29(9): 1,394-1,403.
Kang J. H. et al. Vitamin E, vitamin C, beta-carotene, and cognitive function among women with or at risk of cardiovascular disease. Circulation. 2009; 119:2772–2780.
Shekelle RB, Lepper M, Liu S, Maliza C, Raynor WJ Jr, Rossof AH, Paul O, Shryock AM, Stamler J : "Dietary Vitamin A and Risk of Cancer in the Western Electric Study" Lancet, (1981): 1185-1190
The Soils Association's references begin here:
1 IRRI website: http://www.irri.org/golden-rice/faqs/what-is-the-status-of-the-golden-rice-project-coordinated-by- irri
1 http://www.fnri.dost.gov.ph/images/stories/7thNNS/biochemical/biochemical_vad.pdf
2 http://www.who.int/vaccines/en/vitamina.shtml
3 'Philippine Food Fortification Act of 2000' http://faolex.fao.org/cgi- bin/faolex.exe?rec_id=032376&database=FAOLEX&search_type=link&table=result&lang=eng&format_name=@ER ALL
4 http://riforg.gainhealth.org/rice-fortification/rice-key-facts-and-figures
5 http://www.sendacow.org.uk/about-us For impacts, in particular in terms of balanced diets see http://www.sendacow.org.uk/assets/files/Related-downloads/Send-a-Cow-Impact-Report-WEB.pdf
6 See quote from Dr. Medina http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23581877 and quantities listed in Burri, B. J. (2011) 'Evaluating Sweet Potato as an Intervention Food to Prevent Vitamin A Deficiency', Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, 10: (2) 118,130
7 http://www.harvestplus.org/content/uganda-and-mozambique
8 Burri, B. J. (2011) 'Evaluating Sweet Potato as an Intervention Food to Prevent Vitamin A Deficiency', Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, 10: (2) 118,130
9 http://www.clrri.org/ver2/uploads/noidung/14-03_1.pdf
10 Satia et al (2009) 'Long-term Use of β-Carotene, Retinol, Lycopene, and Lutein Supplements and Lung Cancer' Journal of American Epidemiology',http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2009/02/10/aje.kwn409.abstract?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RE SULTFORMAT=1&author1=Satia&andorexacttitle=and&andorexacttitleabs=and&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid =1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=date&resourcetype=HWCIT
11 Quoted from Dr Michael Hansen, Senior Scientist, Consumers Union – whilst carrots contain high levels of beta-carotene with no known effects onfoetus development, he argues that any carrots which had resulted in adverse effects would likely to have been selected out over time. In other words, food has a long co- evolutionary relationship with humans, which is short-circuited in GM crops.


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Isnt the camber supposed to be adjusted to -0.5 on the 2003 ZHP? I just got new tires and they did an analysis on the wheels/axle, and it shows in the attached image.....
Are these numbers within acceptable tolerance? I assume more neg camber means it will help hold turns better but it will create more uneven tire wear on straight line driving?
According to this document the specs look correct regarding front camber. Correct when the car rolls with a turn the tire will move towards 0 degrees or positive degrees depending on how hard the turn was taken. There is a little noticeable tire wear with negative camber in the straight line but it has to deal with the toe settings more than the camber settings. Uneven tire wear is just the nature of the beast when driving a sports car. :)
For an unloaded E46, -1.5 to -1.8 degrees of rear camber is perfect. BMW specifies -2 degrees with a load ballast (I'm pretty sure). Camber decreases (becomes more negative) with decreasing ride height.
As for your toe, that is fine too. You want just a little toe in on the front and rear.
Interesting that there is so much less camber in the front compared to the rear. I would generally expect the opposite. Your alignment is perfectly even, most shops I've been to don't take the time to do it that accurately.
My shop nails the alignment, per my specs, to the absolute tee. But yeah more negative camber in the rear is normal and common on BMWs. This is for safer driving (for the general public) that's why the rear tires on BMWs wear out so fast. toe in + negative camber.
Thanks guys! Makes me feel a lot better.. will have to take it to my lifetime free alignment at Firestone since I just got new tires but nice to know.
Should I actually take #'s and take it to them, and does anyone have those specs my car should have if perfect? I wouldnt be surprised if they were not familiar with a ZHP's specs. I hope they dont do a bad job but I have been going to them for like the last 10 years. They always give me a computer report when I ask for it etc... (P.S. I have 17" BBS, not sure if that matters)
I would want the front camber evened out more than anything. Either .5 or 1.1 is fine for daily driving. I drive my ZHP 20000 miles per year with neg 1.8 front camber, .1* total toe in front, neg 1.5 rear camber and .1* toe in rear. Tire wear is perfectly even and the car handles well.
On my 335 I run neg 3.2 camber front and neg 1.8 rear with the same toe settings as the ZHP and get only slightly accelerated front inside tire wear.
With these rear settings rear tire wear is even.
You will feel it in a daily driver car more in terms of the car going straight down the road. With camber being that far off it can cause the wheel to pull one direction.
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