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Arthritis & Rheumatism, Volume 62,
November 2010 Abstract Supplement
Abstracts of the American College of
Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals
Annual Scientific Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia November 6-11, 2010.
Controversies in the Use of Acupuncture for Osteoarthritis (OA). A Systematic Review of the Quality and Treatment Features of Randomized Clinical Trials (RCT).
Marengo2, Maria F., Waimann2, Christian A., Lopez-Olivo2, Maria A., Looney1, Carol, Suarez-Almazor3, Maria E.
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Acupuncture is one of the most frequently used non-pharmacological therapies for musculoskeletal disorders. There is conflicting evidence on its efficacy for the management of knee OA, which could potentially be attributable to the quality and variability of methodologies used across RCTs. We conducted a systematic review of the evidence reported for acupuncture in the treatment of knee OA.
We electronically searched Embase, Medline, Web of Science and Cochrane Library up to June 9 2010, and manually searched the bibliography included in the identified systematic reviews and meta-analyses. We selected all RCTs which included patients with knee OA, compared needle acupuncture with a sham procedure, and reported pain outcomes. We excluded articles were the control group did not receive a sham intervention. We evaluated the quality of the trials using the Cochrane methods to assess risk of bias (0-worst to 11-best), and we also identified the characteristics of the trials, and specifically the modalities used for the acupuncture and sham treatments. Two authors independently agreed on eligibility and assessed the quality and methods.
Summary of the Results:
We identified 6 systematic reviews. Of 14 RCTs, 9 included a sham intervention. Eight of the trials included the WOMAC as an outcome. A total of 1034 patients received acupuncture and 1127 sham intervention. Five of the 9 RCT reported statistically significant results with respect to pain. Six RCTs had a quality score of at least 7 points. The 3 with lower quality did not report statistically significant findings. Marked differences were observed with respect to trial characteristics, acupuncture treatment and sham procedures, with respect to use and number of points, duration and frequency of treatments and sham pricedures (penetrating versus non-penetrating needles). Negative trials were more likely to have used fewer acupuncture points, shorter duration and number of treatments, electric stimulation in the sham group. Very few studies controlled for the potential placebo effects of the interaction between acupuncturists and research staff with participants.
RCTs of acupuncture in the treatment of knee OA show variability in the results that does not appear to be related to quality of the trial, but is associated with the characteristics of the acupuncture treatment and the procedures used for the sham intervention.
To cite this abstract, please use the following information:
Marengo, Maria F., Waimann, Christian A., Lopez-Olivo, Maria A., Looney, Carol, Suarez-Almazor, Maria E.; Controversies in the Use of Acupuncture for Osteoarthritis (OA). A Systematic Review of the Quality and Treatment Features of Randomized Clinical Trials (RCT). [abstract]. Arthritis Rheum 2010;62 Suppl 10 :941
DOI: 10.1002/art.28709


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KERRY Katona has given birth to her fifth child, a baby girl.
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Kerry,33, and former rugby player George got engaged last April and hope to marry later this year.
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23 January 2009
A Decisive Year: Revitalizing the Peacekeeping Partnership
UN peacekeeping a decade ago – turning a corner
Ten years ago, United Nations peacekeeping turned an important corner: 1999 was a year of profound changes for UN peacekeeping and for international peace and security. The reports on Srebrenica and Rwanda and the collapse of the mission in Somalia led to some hard introspection and ultimately to new ways of thinking about peacekeeping, driven largely by the report of the High-Level Panel on United Nations Peace Operations – the Brahimi report.
In 2000, a new surge in peacekeeping saw deployment figures leap from less than 14,000 personnel to nearly 40,000 personnel. This has turned out to be a sustained surge that continues until today, exactly a decade later, with 112,000 deployed and many more to come with strengthening of MONUC, continued deployment of UNAMID and the authorization of an enlarged mission in Chad. Detailed planning and preparation for a potential new mission in Somalia is underway. Today, we are larger and spread more widely than ever before, with mandates that are more complex and robust than ever. These mandates which we receive from the Security Council reflect a better appreciation by the international community of the complexities of post-conflict challenges, but also the desire for more comprehensive peace settlements by conflicting parties themselves.
The last decade has also been a time of resurgent thinking on UN peacekeeping, peacekeeping reforms, and the gradual strengthening of a professional peacekeeping system. We have seen many improvements. We have clarified thinking on modern UN peace operations and strengthened the UN's institutional capacity to support operations. Nevertheless, much remains to be done.
The growth in UN peacekeeping over the past decade also reflects its strengths. It can provide the international community with a credible response to assist the implementation of peace agreements; it can provide a platform for a wide range of assistance and support to help countries move from conflict to stability; it can bring the broad legitimacy of the United Nations and its neutrality to bear, to serve as an honest broker after divisive civil strife. Ultimately, it has proven to be a flexible and resilient tool for the maintenance of international peace and security.
Past reform initiatives
Yet, as all of you are well aware, the last 10 years were not all good news. We have faced operational challenges in almost all of our theatres of deployment and the reform at Headquarters has not always resulted in as much improvement as is needed. The implementation of the Brahimi recommendations, the Peace Operations 2010 reform agenda, and most recently, the Secretary-General's initiatives to create two strengthened departments, DPKO and DFS, have all been a manifestation of our desire to strive constantly to do the job of peacekeeping better.
You have been our partners in this ongoing process and we want to assure you of our continued commitment to this agenda for professionalization and improvement. We are open to new ways of tackling persistent challenges and to new ways of doing business in partnership with the Security Council, the General Assembly and our operational partners.
A pivotal year
Mr. President,
I believe 2009 is a pivotal year for peacekeeping. A number of our missions face risks that are so significant that there is a potential for mission failure, with terrible consequences for the United Nations.
In Eastern DRC the parties recently brought the country to the brink of catastrophe and MONUC was hard-pressed to manage the crisis. The mission was called upon to support the FARDC in combat even as it crumbled and at the same time protect hundreds of thousands of civilians spread across a vast area. In Darfur, UNAMID continues to face difficulties in deploying, while the parties on the ground are increasingly belligerent and the political negotiations move slowly. Even at full strength, UNAMID will continue face daunting challenges. Over 2.5 million refugees and IDPs look to UNAMID for protection. The mission still lacks the helicopters that would provide the essential mobility to carry out its mandate.
As I speak, DPKO and DFS colleagues are on an assessment mission looking at the situation in Somalia. The Security Council's resolution on the intention to establish a future UN peacekeeping operation is clear. In the interim, our colleagues in DFS now face a dual challenge of continuing to prepare and plan for a mission that will undoubtedly face tremendous operational hurdles, while simultaneously strengthening and supporting AMISOM. There remains no peace to keep in Somalia.
Mr. President, United Nations peacekeeping is clearly overstretched. We face operational overstretch and, I would argue, political overstretch too. With 18 operations deployed in five continents, with 78,000 military, 11,500 police and 23,500 civilians deployed, the operational challenge of maintaining full support to all our missions and mounting new ones is far beyond what the Brahimi reforms envisaged. They were scaled to allow the UN to launch one peacekeeping operation per year. Last week, the Security Council voted through two new mandates for Chad and Somalia. Meanwhile we are still in a deployment phase in DRC and in Darfur.
At the same time, our missions carry forth mandates that represent much more than the deployment of uniformed personnel. Many are fundamentally political operations supporting complex transitions to peace within deeply divided countries. Even with well-crafted mandates, these missions need continuous and concerted international support as they manage constant tactical, political adjustments on the ground. Yet for many of our missions, there is no consensus in the international community regarding the optimal political direction.
Therefore we face three sets of fundamental questions. First, is peacekeeping being deployed beyond its capabilities? Is the current model of peacekeeping up to the challenges of these new mandates? Does it have the right resources? Are there sufficient troops of requisite capabilities? Can we find the air assets essential to meet these robust mandates with mobility and deterrence? In too many cases the answer is no. There is a constant strain now between mandates and resources, between expectations and our capacity to deliver; and the strain on Secretariat resources to plan, manage and support our current pace and scale of operations.
My colleague, Susanna Malcorra, will speak more about the operational challenges that lie immediately ahead.
Second, is the UN properly configured to manage the complexity of the peacebuilding challenges which are at the heart of resolving internal conflict and civil war? Many of our peacekeeping missions are early peacebuilding missions but do we have the expertise and resources necessary to rapidly deploy and plan the complex and long-term assistance required to support national actors in rebuilding their states? The linkage of the Peacebuilding Commission and Security Council in aligning political direction, aid strategies and donor support is an important issue. The linkage of the missions, the UN Country Team and International Financial Institutions and bi-lateral donors on the ground is equally important. We are working hard on these partnerships and we have done a lot to integrate the UN's response on the ground. However, there is much left to be done if, together, we are to provide a comprehensive peacebuilding response. I am conscious that this is an issue that will be addressed in an upcoming report of the Secretary-General, so I will not dwell extensively on it here.
The third, and perhaps most fundamental for peacekeeping, is the question of where peacekeeping fits in the overall political response of the international community to complex crises. Are the political and regional dimensions which drive the crisis being adequately addressed, and is peacekeeping the right tool to do this? Is there even a peace to keep? Peacekeeping, however well resourced, will simply not be sufficient where the parties are not willing to achieve peace. Indeed, over the past few years we see increasing signs of non-cooperation from host governments and increased resistance from some parties to conflicts to our presence and actions.
Many of these questions were of course raised in the Brahimi process, and we would do well to return to take a look at how recommendations have, or have not been implemented. Some of the issues we face have arisen since the Brahimi reforms. Indeed, UN peacekeeping as a whole also faces questions of a more systemic nature:
UN peacekeeping has proven remarkably resilient and has established a good track record. It is a uniquely universal burden-sharing arrangement and enjoys a high degree of legitimacy when used appropriately. It combines military response within an integrated civilian approach, a critical attribute that gives it a niche role in the spectrum of options for the maintenance of peace and security.
But it is not a tool for all situations. When used inappropriately, its failures can tarnish not just the image of the operation in question, but the credibility of the Organization as a whole to be the guarantor of peace and security that "saved succeeding generations from the scourge of war".
Yet, Mr. President, there are also areas of potential opportunity which we should bear in mind as we consider the challenges:
We must transform these opportunities into structural supports for UN peacekeeping.
UN peacekeeping is a global partnership
Mr. President,
UN peacekeeping is a unique partnership in which we all have a stake. It is an endeavor of the Security Council and the General Assembly, of contributing nations and host nations, of the Secretariat and the field missions, of individual peacekeepers and the populations they are deployed to who hope for security and a better future. We all need to work together to protect the investments we have made and the successes we have achieved. This calls for a renewed consensus on the state of peacekeeping, its challenges, and the way forward.
To move together to face our new set of challenges as one, I feel there are some fundamental questions we must ask ourselves:
In DPKO, we have struggled with some of these questions in the enunciation of an internal publication – our capstone doctrine – on principles and guidelines for UN peacekeeping that enumerates our views, from the implementation perspective, about what modern peacekeeping is doing and is able to do. It builds upon the Brahimi review process and captures internal lessons and good practices that we have learned. This effort to arrive at a common vision is not easy, even internally, and would surely be even more difficult across a partnership as diverse as the UN peacekeeping partnership, but it is this sort of intellectual Endeavour that will be at the heart of establishing a common vision for the future. We can then construct solutions to impediments through honest exchange of what is working and what is not.
A call for action – on two tracks
To ensure UN peacekeeping remains a viable and indeed a stronger instrument for the future, I believe we need to follow two simultaneous tracks this year.
First, we must survive the current operational workload and the looming challenges in the months ahead. This demands concrete and practical action on several fronts, for example:
At the same time, we are of course ready to work with the Security Council to ensure it has the information it needs to craft mandates with relevant benchmarks, and to engage with the Council in monitoring and evaluating them.
This leads me to the second track of work that we may need to tackle larger, systemic challenges. We need to bolster, and in some instances say mend, the global partnership that we need for a healthy and well-functioning United Nations peacekeeping system. UN peacekeeping is effective only if all actors have a shared vision of what this instrument can and cannot achieve.
Much needs to be done to achieve a better convergence of views. Peacekeeping, although owned by all, is not commonly understood by all. Today, we find ourselves looking from different angles with differing assumptions and expectations at a very complex puzzle. The Secretariat, the troop and police contributors, the Fourth Committee and Fifth Committee of the General Assembly, and of course this august body, the Security Council: each of us carries a fragment of the puzzle that is peacekeeping. These puzzle pieces must be brought closer together than they are today.
I hope that we can harness our intellectual energies and our capacity to come together to solve problems to address some of the persistent challenges we face. For this reason I am extremely grateful for this debate today. It marks the start of a process in the Security Council of reflection. The Security Council is a major part of this equation, but others need to act as well. Several weeks ago, Susana Malcorra and I initiated internally a process of introspection and stock-taking, to review how far we have come in the Brahimi process and to consider how to meet new challenges on the horizon, even as we grapple with today's urgent issues. We need to look at our own house and find new and innovative ways to tackle the challenges of modern peacekeeping. We will share our findings with the Security Council and the General Assembly, with a view to building consensus on the way forward.
The General Assembly - the C34 and the Fifth Committee - is an absolutely pivotal actor in this partnership. In the coming session, the Secretariat looks forward to continuing its ongoing dialogue with the Special Committee and Fifth Committee on many peacekeeping issues that lie squarely within the Assembly's remit. I hope that 2009 can be a decisive moment to re-energize our thinking on how to better UN peacekeeping. With troop contributors and police contributors and those who fund capacity building efforts, we need to build a fully functional dialogue on what is needed to mobilize more capacity.
The first step in strengthening our partnership is to work together, constructively, to forge a more common appreciation of what UN peacekeeping is and can be today, and for tomorrow.
Too often in the history of human endeavor, change in attitude and change in action comes only after a crisis. It is my deep hope that this time we will not need a new generation of reports full of regretful lessons, such as those that followed the tragedies in Rwanda and Srebrenica, before we address the challenges that face us.
2009 needs to be a year of ideas as much as a year of operational success. It needs to be a year of cooperation and problem-solving. The time to begin this revitalized peacekeeping partnership is now. For our part, the Secretariat is now fully mobilized to engage in reflection, both internally and with the Member States, in order to reach very concrete recommendations as soon as possible. I hope we can use today's debate as an important first step to move forward this agenda. Success for us requires both clarity of vision on the instrument of UN peacekeeping and global consensus to support it. We need your leadership and unity to achieve this.


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Mr. John Doe went to buy an insurance policy one fine morning. He decided to meet a consultant and find out the various options he had available to him within his means. He knew his consultant would come up with a good and sensible list of options for him to consider, and he was looking forward to this meeting to finally get things rolling in the right direction.
Sure enough, his consultant hadn't failed him. He was ushered into the office and served up his favourite cup of coffee with 2 sugars. When he was comfortable, the consultant took him through all the options he had selected for Mr. Doe to consider.
Mr. Doe sipped his coffee thoughtfully while poring over the options available. The consultant gave him details and finally handed over a summary sheet outlining the features of each selected plan.
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Trustworthiness is a synonym for honesty.
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Journal on Writing a Drexler Paper
*This paper was written by Jenna Cuddeback, a former Writing Center Consultant, in fulfillment of an assignment for the Writing Center staff development course, Topics in Composition. The commentary provided addresses the writing process that the author went through while completing an term paper for Non-Western Cultural Perspectives, taught by Dr. Robert Drexler.
In my dual role as person writing about how to write a Drexler Term Paper and a person writing a Drexler Term Paper, I felt it would be very helpful to include a journal of how I myself completed this assignment. It is not necessarily a blueprint for how to write a term paper, but perhaps it can be seen as a reflection on how the process might work. In the section after Journal of a Term Paper, I include basic information about the term paper, analysis of evaluation for the Term paper, a word about the intended audience, a sample paper (namely, my own, as it is the only one I can get on such short notice, a few notes on outside resources for the nuts and bolts, and a final word about the class.
Journal of a Term Paper
Topic selection for the term paper for Dr. Drexler's Non-Western Cultural Perspectives course on Vietnam began about a week into the term. I chose a general category--the 1950s. After talking with Dr. Drexler, I narrowed down to a specific topic: Dr. Thomas Anthony Dooley. I had never heard of the man before in my life. Starting on February 18th, however, he was my topic for a term paper.
I intended to start right away--at least, that's what my day-planner tells me. I have the 18th labeled as the day to begin work on Dooley. As with all good intentions, however, this went sadly awry.
My first labeled workday for Dooley is March 1st. The record in my bibliography for that day is that I accesses Encyclopedia Britannica online. I started the paper by searching the internet. Information from the internet is not highly reliable and should never be the basis for a paper; however, the internet is a quick way to discover basic dates or information--in this instance, who Dr. Dooley was, what he was responsible for, when he lived and dies, and why I should study him. Online encyclopedias, though not a replacement for textbook legwork, offer the same information as printed encyclopedias and are much easier to access. Encyclopedia Britannica, at http://www.encyclopediabritannica.com, is a good source form which to launch research.
My search engine of choice is www.askjeeves.com or www.ask.com. At this location I typed in my question ("Who is Thomas Anthony Dooley?") and came up with some information. I read through and printed the pertinent information, winnowing out what I might need. Some examples of things I obtained from the internet: the page about Dr. Thomas Anthony Dooley from The Daily Catholic; The University of Missouri at St. Louis's Historic Manuscript Collection's listing of their holdings of Dooley archives; and the list of Dooley artifacts form Notre Dame's Archives Inventory. Again, while I do not recommend that the internet be one's selling point for research, it is a good place to begin one's studies.
Also, while online, I searched Dooley's name at amazon.com, or www.amazon.com, to see what books he had written. I found the name of his works and well as the name of his biography. I printed these pages, so I could look for the books at the Coe library. Coe's library was relatively useless in this instance; they held none of Dooley's books or his biography. Therefor I decided to go to the public library.
The reference librarian at the public library was helpful; she located for me the Guide to Periodicals and found the years I needed (1954-1961 for Dooley's public or work life). I then read through carefully, looking under the subjects most closely related to my topic--in this case Dooley's name, the fact that he served in Laos as a medical missionary--and came up with several articles. From there I found magazines, read articles, and photocopied several. I also used microfilm to find New York Times articles pertaining to Dooley.
This was all well and good, but they were almost all obituary clippings--reports of his death. I needed information about his life. These I checked out, and endeavored to read. Had the public library not carried them, I would most likely have checked for an interlibrary loan, from one of the other colleges.
I got the books and articles together on March 3rd. The first segment--containing about ten pages of text--was due the 16th. I read the book, but instead of trying to wrestle with it I worked from articles, detailing how I would begin and end my paper for the first turn-in date. I read over the books over the next two weeks, marking pages I might need to work from.
The second segment of my work on the paper began at Spring Break. I had decided to St. Louis to visit my grandmother for break, and as I knew Dooley attended St. Louis University, I decided to visit the college and see if they held any archival information about him.
One March 19th, I visited the college. I learned that they did not carry all of the archival information; much of that was actually at the University of Missouri in St. Louis. I did spend time in the St. Louis room and came away with several articles form when Dooley was alive, as well as having a chance to look through Dooley's mother's scrapbook collections, collected there in reproduced form. I was given a brief bibliography detailing Dooley's highlights. I also learned that Dooley's biographer was an instructor in Theological Studies at SLU. I telephoned him on March 20th at the school and arranged an interview.
I met with Dr. Fisher for an hour, and came away with an audio-recorded (with his permission) interview about Dooley, an interview that answered several of my questions, gave me a focus for my paper, and helped me understand the man a lot more.
Back in Cedar Rapids, I transcribed my interview. I got my term paper back from Dr. Drexler, with his comments and my initial transcribing and discussion of the articles. I knew I had a lot of work left in front of me.
I froze. Two weeks passed in which I had done nothing. finally, I went through my planner and from April 3rd on I marked every day a Dooley Day - meaning I was going to put in at least a little time on Dooley. I didn't, but I made an effort. I met with Dr. Drexler to discuss his comments and what I was planning on doing with the paper from where it was.
The term paper was due May 9th. I began rearranging what I had previously turned in and putting in what I had recently gathered about three weeks before that. I continuously printed copies.
From about April 23rd on came the third stage of my paper - the constant revision. Every other day I was retyping and reprinting and scribbling all over the paper. I still had no introduction and on conclusion, but I was coming closer to having at least a thesis. Dr. Drexler assured me that I did not have to come to a solid conclusion, but I had to have an idea and something to wrestle with - I could not simply write a personal history.
I spent the week from April 30th to May 3rd on what I thought was the final draft, and by that point I had 12 pages. I had cut a lot of the information from the texts and the interview. May 4th I handed in my finalized copy to Dr. Drexler. It was returned to me on May 8th. I met Dr. Drexler, talked to him, and made a couple of notes. He was two selections he wanted me to expound on. I took the paper but did not complete it. I also did not hand it in on the 9th.
Though I hate missing deadlines, I wanted a perfect paper. I returned to school May 10th and worked a final four hours on the paper, moving around selections and working to integrate my multitude of sources. I cleaned up my interview and handed it in with the paper, leaving all seventeen pages of paper and the interview at Dr. Drexler's office by midnight.
My bibliography for this paper lists, besides my four internet sources, fourteen magazine articles, one interview, and five book sources. Of those five book sources only three were actually helpful.
Basic Information about the Term Paper: From a scattered few things said in class and repeated in individual discussions, I came up with the following sketch of Dr. Drexler's instructions and his intentions with this term paper:
Dr. Drexler never came out and said any of this at any given time; as I said, it was gleaned from several discussions.
Analysis of Evaluation for the Term Paper: The term papers are evaluated first and foremost, as with most Drexler papers, in terms of content. If one's paper contains misspellings he will often mark them of it he questions word choice he will mark the word, but he doe not consider these heavily unless they are constant throughout the paper. He looks foremost at the text - at what the writer said, not have they said it. He will mark places for expansion or tightening, and he will also mark places where questions are raised and not answered. He writes a good deal in the margins of the paper generally, often noting minor issues. However, much of this is not considered in the final evaluation as long as the paper has been informative or has said something substantial. Even on the final copy he will write. Also, handing in copies frequently is a good idea to make sure one is on-track, as he will write all over them and give them back in short order. Typically, turning in paper before due dates and then again on due dates works to one's advantage, because he recognizes the work on and evolution of the paper. If you do this, however, do not simply take the paper he has read through and change the minor errors and hand it back in, especially not on the final draft. It is a good idea always to include more data or information or new reflections simply because he will recognize he has been used as a sophisticated grammar check, and react accordingly.
About the Intended Audience: It is best to assume that, for this particular paper, the intended audience is one's classmates and the professor. Some degree of explanation of outside events - if one's paper is about a event in the Vietnam War, for example the Boat People, it is a good idea to include a brief note about the war. One does not have to include much, however, because in general one's classmates know the background. If one ahs an esoteric topic one should include information not familiar to the class, but other than that, direct the paper at your classmates.
Outside resources:
A Final Word about the Class:
Paper for Dr. Drexler's classes tend to follow this same pattern.
Though this was the first research term paper I wrote for Dr. Drexler,
I had written analytical term papers over literature for him in other
classes and I found that the system is the same. Thus the above guidelines,
including grading proceedings, tend to be much the same no matter
which Drexler class one is writing for. Thus one can apply these ideas
to other Drexler papers or term papers.
This web site created and maintained by the Coe Writing Center. Copyright 2001.
E-mail Dr. Bob Marrs with any questions, comments or suggestions.


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I'm going to clarify my comments I made August 4th at the public meeting.
1) Protection and support from the state. This does not mean money or grants. To make it clear what I am asking for I'll say this: My local government is trying to chase my company out and is making it very difficult to get recoverable materials that are ending up in our landfills. I was even told I'm not allowed on public roads with recovered materials. I collect materials you would find in curbside programs from people that ARE NOT ALLOWED to use curbside because they're in a multi-family complex that doesn't want to deal with the problems of a centralized recycling program.
2) Marketing and education. Education is ok but when it comes to multi-family complexes, or Florida in general, we have so many snowbirds and vacationers that getting to them with education is very unlikely and expensive. That's why I said marketing, make them want something (most already do) and then sell it to them. This is the fair way to sustainability, not taxing. People will spend the money they make(willingly) on those that have the best offer/marketing. Also, not everyone wants to recycle that's a fact, forcing them to recycle or to pay higher taxes will just cause problems that drag on.
3) Bottle bill. Over all a good idea, it could very likely put me out of business and I'm ok with that. I'm also ok with it putting some scrap metalers out of business too, cause if they depend on the poor or elderly to bring in a bag of cans to stay in business they had a weak business plan to start with.


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This year will mark the 50th anniversary of a magic night in March, when the 1957 North Carolina Tar Heels completed a 32-0 season to win the NCAA basketball championship. But if you were at the home of Joe and Carol Quigg on Tuesday afternoon, or at a book signing at Barnes & Noble about an hour later, you'd have thought the championship was won last year. (Fayetteville Observer)
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Charity watchdogs have moved in after David Morgan, sole trustee of the Tom Amos Charity, lost a fortune in investment gambles.
Solicitor Morgan pumped £310,000 of the charity's cash into foreign company shares that are not quoted on any stock exchange. Their value at the end of last year was estimated at just £22,000.
Morgan also took four years to transfer a £1.4million donation into the charity's bank.
Meanwhile, says the Charity Commission, this "good cause" hasn't carried out any charitable activity since being founded in 1999.
When told the charity, set up to aid residents of Little Waltham, Essex, must have another trustee, Morgan appointed his son. Now the Charity Commission has installed three trustees.


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Tuesday, 3 September, 2002, 10:44 GMT 11:44 UK
Palestinian militants reject peace plea
Palestinian militant groups have rejected a call by the Palestinian interior minister for a complete end to attacks against Israel.
Abdel Razak al-Yahiya on Monday said Palestinian violence was undermining the struggle for statehood and should be replaced by peaceful forms of resistance.
There was further bloodshed in the West Bank on Tuesday, when two Palestinians were killed by Israeli tanks, according to Palestinian sources.
The two victims were hit by shells in the village of Burin, south of Nablus, Palestinian security officials said.
Plea rejected
Mr Yahiya's call for an end to armed attacks was the furthest-reaching by a leading Palestinian since the Palestinian uprising began nearly two years ago.
"All forms of Palestinian violence have to stop," the interior minister told Reuters news agency.
"All resistance acts that are characterised by violence, such as using arms or even throwing stones... are harmful. I call for civil resistance within the framework of the political struggle," he said.
But, in separate and joint statements on Tuesday, Palestinian groups at the forefront of attacks against Israel vowed to continue fighting.
"There will be no end to resistance until the end of occupation," the al-Aqsa Brigades, an armed group linked to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, told Reuters.
Another group, Islamic Jihad, said it "will not pay attention to these [Yahiya's] nonsense statements and will pursue resistance in all forms because this is what the Palestinian people want".
Senior Islamic Jihad leader Abdallah al-Shami said Mr Yahiya was caving in to Israeli and US demands.
Closed-door talks
The Palestinian interior minister, who is overseeing reform of the Palestinian security forces, has met militant leaders over the past few weeks to try to end the violence.
Palestinian officials said in July they came close to an agreement with militants on ending attacks in Israel but that the tentative deal was scuppered by an Israeli missile attack on Gaza which killed 15 people.
Israel has demanded a complete end to attacks by Palestinian militants before peace talks can resume.
Radical Palestinian groups have killed scores of Israelis in suicide bombings and other armed attacks since the uprising began in September 2000.
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Save Our Shores
Most people don't need any extra incentive to save the world — self-preservation is motivation enough. But just in case your charitable side could use a little stimulation, participants in the Surfrider Foundation's upcoming beach restoration project will get a side of free booze with that warm, fuzzy feeling of do-goodery. The coast-conscious charity is hosting an afternoon of dune restoration with sponsor Barefoot Wine. On the agenda is uprooting invasive, sun-sucking plants that have overtaken the dunes (scaevola, to be specific) and replacing them with native flora. Volunteers can expect to dig, pull, plant, and soak up some summer sun. Attendees should wear strong shoes (no flip-flops), sun protection, and comfortable clothes. Bathing suits under clothes for a post-restoration dip are optional. Also, volunteers should bring refillable water bottles — the folks at Surfrider aren't into disposable plastics. After the hard but rewarding work is out of the way, anyone 21 and over will earn entrance to a celebration at Hurricane Grill & Wings (3201 N. Miami Ave., Miami), featuring free bubbly, wine, and beach treats. The restoration takes place from 2 to 5 p.m. at 53rd Street and Collins Avenue (look for the Surfrider tent), and the party at Hurricane Grill immediately follows until 7 p.m.
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FLORENCE, S.C. - Francis Marion University right-handed pitcher Philip Wilkins signed a minor league free agent contract with the Detroit Tigers this past weekend.
Wilkins, 21, is to report to the Tigers' rookie league affiliate in Lakeland, Fla., on Tuesday. The Lakeland squad is a member of the north division of the Gulf Coast League, which is a week into its 60-game schedule.
He was signed by Tigers scout Bill Buck.
"I am very excited about this opportunity," said Wilkins. "I had attended several tryout camps and earned some interest, but it is all about getting a chance."
A native of Winnsboro, Wilkins posted a 5-2 record with six saves and 3.72 earned run average as a member of the 2004 FMU squad. The 6-2 195-pound righty appeared in team-high 22 games and pitched 46 innings. He allowed only 33 hits, while walking 19 and striking out 53 batters. Opponents batted only .193 against him.
He helped lead the Patriots to a 29-17 record, a season-ending six-game winning streak, and a fifth-place finish in the Peach Belt Conference standings.
Wilkins, a product of Richard Winn Academy, spent three seasons at the College of Charleston before transferring to Francis Marion. With the Cougar program, he appeared in 18 games and registered an 0-3 record with 21 strikeouts in 24 innings pitched.
Three former Patriots are currently playing in the minor leagues: left-handed pitcher Hal Chafey and third baseman Wilson Burwell with the Florence Freedom of the independent Frontier League and right-handed pitcher Sam Greco with the San Angelo Colts of the independent Central Baseball League.


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RuneScape - Treasure Trails Added @ Official Site
A new gameplay element to RuneScape has been added called Treasure Trails which involves gathering clues to find treasures in the form of new items:
RuneScape players, dust off your spades, gather up your items and practice your emotes: new treasure trails are here! Emote-based treasure trails have been added to the types of trail available by the shifty-looking Uri and his team of agents. These will be dropped from now on amongst the existing clues you have grown to know and love. Uri's clues will tell you where to go, what to wear and which emote he wants to see you perform in order to advance the treasure trail.
If you're lucky, your reward may include some of the new items, such as elegant clothing, new versions of old amulets, shirts featuring Bob the cat, full helmets bearing the heraldry that adorns the kiteshields already available and composite bows. The luckiest players will be given items from the 3rd Age sets, which cover all combat styles and consist of level 65 armors whose stats justify the rarity of their appearance.
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SP/MP: Massive
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: MMORPG
Platform: PC
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by Staff Writers
San Sebastian, Spain (SPX) Sep 09, 2013
During the summers of 2010 and 2011, the UPV/EHU's Bentos Marino group analysed samples of algae populations from five zones and measured the amount of light present in and the temperature of each zone over the summer. The research group observed that the algae that displayed the most signs of stress were from the zones exposed to the most solar radiation. The results of the research have been published in the Journal of Sea Research.
Gelidium corneum is a very common alga along the Basque coast. It grows at a depth of between 3 and 15 metres, and from September onwards can be seen out of the water. It gets broken up by storms and washed up on the beaches where it forms a red carpet. On some parts of the coast, above all in transparent water zones, the fronds of the algae have turned yellowish. The researchers have identified this change as a symptom of stress.
There are more sunny days during the summer which is when the algae are exposed to increased solar radiation. However, this is not necessarily harmful, since the more light there is, the more the algae will grow. But if the light exceeds the optimum average, the algae become inhibited.
After choosing algae populations located at the same depth in five zones along the Biscay coast (Kobaron, Gorliz, Ogono, Ea and Lequeitio), it was possible to observe that the algae in transparent waters were suffering greater stress. The ones under the influence of an estuary, as in the case of Gorliz, are in a better condition, since the turbid waters in the zone mean that they are exposed to less solar radiation.
Stressed algae
The increase in solar radiation increases the alga's photosynthesis, which happens in any plant. But above certain levels the researchers have been able to confirm that antioxidant activity decreases.
In principle, the increase in solar radiation leads to greater antioxidant activity, because this is the mechanism the alga uses to manage the oxygen-free radicals generated when photosynthesis intensifies. But if solar radiation exceeds the limits, the alga suffers fatigue, cannot control the free radicals and goes into basal mode. It only carries out the functions needed to survive.
Yet there is another reason supporting the fact that the excess of solar radiation decreases antioxidant activity: ultraviolet solar radiation directly destroys the enzymes that have an antioxidant capability.
The researchers believe that the excess of solar radiation could lead to another problem. Normally, the more the amount of light increases, the greater the C:N ratio becomes, in other words, the interior percentage of nitrogen decreases.
The fact is, the alga needs more nutrients (sources of nitrogen) to increase photosynthesis, and over the summer the quantity of nutrients in the sea tends to run low. So if the solar radiation is excessive, the alga will use the reserves it keeps inside it to survive. These reserves contain pigments that dye the alga red: phycolipoproteins.
If these red pigments are in short supply, the alga turns yellow. This process is similar to that which happens in deciduous trees in autumn: in order to get itself ready for the winter, the tree appropriates the reserves accumulated in the leaves and that is why the leaves turn yellow.
In the case of algae, this is not adaptation that takes place on a yearly basis, but a means of protection that is activated at a given moment and could be one of the symptoms of a situation of stress. If the conditions were to deteriorate, the alga would turn white and brittle.
Transparent water is not better
The result of the research has been published in the Journal of Sea Research. This research is part of a broader study and comes within the thesis submitted by Endika Quintano, a UPV/EHU Researcher.
Endika Quintano (Bilbao, 1984), a Biology graduate, is a researcher in the Bentos Marino group, and is currently writing up his PhD thesis. The UPV/EHU's Bentos Marino group set up by the Faculty of Science and Technology is dedicated to researching the quantification of coastal impacts, care of the environment and the evaluation of environmental rehabilitation. The following Bentos Marino researchers also participated in the study alongside Endika Quintano: Unai Ganzedo, Isabel Diez-San Vicente and Jose Maria Gorostiaga-Garai. Professor Felix Lopez-Figueroa (Photobiology Unit of the University of Malaga) participated in the study of the biochemical factors.
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At the venue where world IBF light-welterweight champion Ricky Hatton watches his football, the main event is the contest for the undisputed title of Best Young Defender in Britain.
In the light blue corner, is Manchester City's defender Micah Richards, while coming out of the red corner is Saints left-back Bale.
It is the hot ringside ticket for club scouts and to make it even easier for the men with upturned collars, notepads and a nose for a player, Richards and Bale will go head-to-head down the same flank in their own turf war.
As the countdown begins to the title showdown, BBC Sport runs its own tale-of-the-tape over the two contenders.
RICHARDS:Age: 18 (born Birmingham, 24/6/88). Height: 5ft 11in (1.80m).Weight: 13st (82.55kg).
Debut: 22/10/05, v Arsenal, Premiership.
Full international debut: 15/11/06 v Holland (after 28 first-team appearances)
BALE:Age: 17 (born Cardiff, 16/7/89).Height: 6ft (1.83m).Weight: 11st (69.85kg)
Debut: 17/4/06 v Millwall, Championship.
Full international debut: 27/5/06, v Trinidad and Tobago (after two first-team appearances).
Richards broke Rio Ferdinand's record as the youngest-ever England defender.
Bale became Wales youngest full international in making his debut against Trinidad. His goal in a European Championship qualifying tie against Slovakia on September 2006 makes him Wales' youngest ever goalscorer.
Despite Bale having more international caps than Richards, and Saints boss George Burley's protestations that: "I don't need to see him play against Premiership opposition to know how good he is," this will be Bale's first game against top-flight opposition. Richards has played all his competitive football in the Premiership.
ROUND ONE: Richards 10pts Bale 8.
RICHARDS: Although not a six-footer, possesses a terrific spring, giving him power in the air. His ability up top makes him vital to City at set- pieces at both ends of the pitch.
BALE: Rarely beaten in the air by the wide players he marks, and also acquits himself well when covering his central defenders when the ball comes in from the other diagonal.
ROUND TWO: Richards 10 Bale 9.
RICHARDS: Quick and powerful. Has the pace to match opponents, get alongside them and get in his tackle. Strong in the tackle too, when Richards tackles opponents, they stay tackled.
BALE: Quick as well, but more of a rapier to Richards' broadsword. Bale will stand on his feet longer, and prefers to shepherd opponents away from danger. But is a sweet timer of a tackle.
ROUND THREE: Richards 10 Bale 9.
RICHARDS: His lack of experience sometimes puts him in the wrong place, but relies on his pace to get him out of trouble. Just as importantly, has built up a good understanding with the central defenders who play inside him, Richard Dunne and Sylvain Distin.
BALE: His importance to Saints as an attacking threat can strand him upfield, and prone to a ball in behind him. Not necessarily his fault as Wayne Bridge had Chris Marsden to cover him and endorse his licence to bomb forward.
ROUND FOUR: Richards 10 Bale 9.
RICHARDS: Comfortable enough with the ball at his feet without ever being likely to dazzle and bemuse his way around an opponent. Can get forward and overlap and deliver a decent cross, but strictly no frills.
BALE: As full of skill and trickery as a winger - which some feel he might evolve into, possibly as a long-term replacement for Ryan Giggs (for Wales, if not Man Utd). Loves to swashbuckle forward and is a real threat to opponents with his ability to beat his man and get in a telling cross.
ROUND FIVE: Richards 7 Bale 10.
RICHARDS: Two goals to his name. His first, in the FA Cup against Aston Villa, last season, brought him to national attention. His threat at set- pieces relies on the delivery of others.
BALE: Five Championship goals, and an international strike for Wales. A magical wand of a left peg and sublime skill at free-kicks have invited comparison with David Beckham but his skill and ability make him a threat in open play.
ROUND SIX: Richards 8 Bale 10.
Richards had the privilege of embarrassing Gary Lineker. After his headed equaliser in the live FA Cup tie at Aston Villa, an over-excited Richards gave his first live national television interview.
A stray swear-word during the interview prompted a sheepish Lineker to excuse it as "the inexperience of the young lad".
Bale was so good at school his PE teacher made him play one-touch football, with his right foot only. As a schoolboy distance runner, he built up a reservoir of stamina that stands him in good stead to this day.
Like Beckham and Matthew Le Tissier before him, Bale will spend hours after training has finished, perfecting his free-kick technique.
Time and transfer will tell how much two these young stars will be worth.
City have denied turning down an £18m bid for Richards from Chelsea, Saints are said to be battling to resist £10m offers for Bale.
RICHARDS: 55pts
BALE: 55pts
Richards wins in more rounds than Bale, but his margins of victory are not as convincing as Bale's. In the departments Bale tops Richards, he is much better.
Separate them? We certainly couldn't.


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Pitt's Jermaine Dixon out minimum 8 weeks
Pitt senior shooting guard Jermaine Dixon, the team's only returning starter, reinjured his right foot and underwent bone graft surgery on a fifth metatarsal fracture this morning at UPMC South Side Hospital.
Dixon had initially injured the foot in early July. He is expected to be sidelined a minimum of eight weeks, according to Pitt trainer Tony Salesi. Pitt's opener is Nov. 13 against Wofford.
"We fully expect Jermaine to make a full recovery," Pitt coach Jamie Dixon said. "The surgery was a success and we know that Jermaine will work hard during the rehabilitation process."
Dixon started all 36 games for Pitt (31-5) last year, averaged 8.4 points per game with 32 3-pointers, and ranked second on the team with 51 steals.
Pitt already is shorthanded as redshirt junior forward Gilbert Brown is suspended for the fall semester for academic reasons. Brown could be eligible to return on Dec. 20.


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Smallpox Outbreaks, Bush Calls for Calm, Shopping
December 7, 2002
By David Albrecht
DC - "The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta confirmed
early this afternoon that smallpox outbreaks are underway
in eight American cities. The cities are: New York, Baltimore,
Raleigh NC, Jacksonville FL, San Antonio, New Orleans, St.
Louis and Seattle. CDC confirmation of additional outbreaks
in Los Angeles, San Diego, Salt Lake City and Santa Fe, NM
is expected by late tonight.
CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding stated that a bio-terror
attack is a foregone conclusion as the cause of the epidemic:
"There is no other possible explanation for the multiple simultaneous
outbreaks we are seeing now. We are proceeding on the assumption
that this is part of a terrorist attack plan." Smallpox was
eliminated as a natural disease in the late 1970s, although
the US and Russia retained viral stockpiles for research and
defensive purposes.
Neither CDC nor the Public Health Service has given definitive
figures on the number of victims so far, though PHS estimates
initial caseloads "in the low thousands", according to an
anonymous source. A doctor at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St.
Louis, also speaking off the record, gave figures of 44 dead
and 237 confirmed infected (including fatalities) since victims
began turning up in emergency rooms three days ago. St. Louis
appears to be one of the areas hardest-hit by the attack,
although official confirmation of the death toll is still
pending, both in St. Louis and around the country. Further
figures or estimates from other cities were lacking at press
President Bush addressed the nation from the Oval Office
at 4:00 PM EST. Referring to the smallpox epidemic as "a cowardly
attack on America by those who hate our freedoms," the president
spent relatively little time discussing countermeasures and
quarantines. Instead, in a bid to shore up consumer confidence
and slumping financial markets, he urged uninfected Americans
to shop, spend and invest. In his words, "A new car, a Florida
vacation or a mink coat gives terrorists a clear message -
you have not won!"
The president's schedule did not allow time for a formal
press conference, but reporters were able to shout a few questions
during the photo op before the speech. One asked for comment
on the videotape recently released by the Arab TV network
Al-Jazeera showing Osama bin Laden inoculating a suicide volunteer
with the smallpox virus. Bush stated that "The fight against
terror isn't about just one man. It's about rooting out those
who fund and support terrorism." The president noted that
the Al-Jazeera studios and transmitters had already been precision-bombed
by U.S. Central Command forces stationed in the Persian Gulf
region, and that he "didn't expect to hear from Osama again"
anytime soon.
Corporate America responded quickly to the president's call
for confidence. Detroit's Big Three promptly rolled out a
new patriotic sale promotion, jointly announcing "Red Dot
Specials", which will give new car buyers one year before
they make their first payment, in combination with 0% financing
for qualified buyers. Tiffany's and Bloomingdale's in New
York announced deep discounts on Kate Spade and Versace designer
face masks, and Target announced an "Epidemic of Savings Sale"
in an attempt to cut heavy inventories. Economists attributed
consumers' lackluster initial response to cool weather, a
natural slowdown following a busy prior month in retail, and
the presence of large numbers of heavily armed police and
National Guard troops blocking access to some major metro
areas and selected interstate highways.
On Wall Street, the Dow finished down 868.34, the S & P 500
was down 154.76 and the tech-heavy NASDAQ was off 367.84.
Street-watchers noted that much of the relatively downbeat
session was due to profit taking, sub-par earnings in the
tech sector and a triple-witching hour in the commodities
and futures markets. Lou Dobbs of CNN's popular "Moneyline"
mentioned that "sheer rending-your-own-face-with-your-fingernails
panic" might have played a secondary role.
President Bush said relatively little in his speech about
exactly what measures would be taken in cities and regions
attempting to deal with smallpox. He said that he and Tom
Ridge, working through the new Department of Homeland Security,
would allow "full latitude" to local and state governments.
"We don't pretend to have all the answers. We've never believed
that all wisdom resides in Washington. In many cases, mayors
and governors know better than we do as to what needs to be
done." Bush did announce that INS had instituted a "temporary"
shutdown of all incoming international flights and that Coast
Guard crews in full biohazard gear would board and search
all inbound ships. Further details, he stated, would be up
on the White House website sometime next week.
The president did promise substantial emergency federal aid
to state and local governments to help in dealing with the
crisis. However, there may be some difficulty in steering
extra funding through the House. Majority Leader Tom DeLay
(R-TX) has already denounced the idea of "free rides" for
"states and cities that can't control their panicky residents."
DeLay has also announced that he will not allow block grants
to non-federal health departments without careful systematic
review. Capitol Hill insiders believe that DeLay's intransigence
stems from concerns among pro-life Republican politicians.
Many, including Georgia GOP Chair Ralph Reed, are concerned
that money transferred to states would allow intra-budget
transfers within states that might allow state tax dollars
to be diverted to health clinics that might discuss abortion
with smallpox victims who might be pregnant. Neither Bush
nor DeLay were available for comment on the emergency spending


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