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Following Rep. Charles Rangel's announcement Wednesday that he'd no longer head up the House Ways and Means Committee, naturally the nation awaited the revelation of his successor with bated breath ... or not. But either way, Rep. Sander Levin has been picked to take over. Levin's a Democrat from Michigan, and as The Christian Science Monitor notes, he "now forms one-half of the most powerful brother team on Capitol Hill in decades." Good luck, Rep. Levin, and steer clear of travel offers to the Caribbean. —KA
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Levin is a veteran lawmaker from Royal Oak, Mich., a Detroit suburb off famed Woodward Avenue that is home to many auto workers and executives. He is also the older brother of Sen. Carl Levin (D) of Michigan, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
To have siblings running two of the most important panels in US government is unprecedented. It's certainly unprecedented for Michigan, a state struggling with unemployment due to auto industry bankruptcies and restructuring.
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Senator Bill Nelson to Face Rep. Connie Mack in November as Hutchison Retires
The Senate will be losing one of its key NASA proponents at the end of the year with the retirement of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX). The question is whether it will be losing another as Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) fights a tough race to retain his seat.
Florida held its primary this week and Rep. Connie Mack IV won the Republican nod to challenge Nelson, who is running for a third term in the Senate. So far the battle is shaping up along national lines with debates over Medicare and Social Security getting top billing, not the space program, as important as it is to the State of the Florida.
Nelson, who flew on the space shuttle in 1986 as a payload specialist when he was a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, is an avid supporter of NASA's human spaceflight program and of NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, the pilot of that shuttle mission. Nelson and Hutchison crafted the 2010 NASA Authorization Act that reached a compromise with the Obama Administration on building a Space Launch System and Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle to send humans beyond low Earth orbit in addition to the Administration's desire to rely on commercial companies for crew space transportation to and from the International Space Station (ISS). Nelson and Hutchison also are fervent ISS supporters.
Although there are other Senators with a strong interest in NASA, notably Senators Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) and Richard Shelby (R-AL), the Nelson-Hutchison team has been especially influential over the past three contentious years. If Nelson wins his race, he will need a new partner in the Senate to support the vision for human spaceflight that he and Hutchison painted in the 2010 authorization bill.
Mack's position on the space program is unclear. He represents a district on the southwest Gulf Coast that includes Ft. Myers, far from Kennedy Space Center and the "space coast" on the Atlantic side of the State. The list of issues on his website does not mention science or technology, much less space. The son of former U.S. Senator Connie Mack III (R-FL -- whom Nelson replaced after Mack retired), a former member of the Florida House of Representatives, a businessman, and the husband of Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), the only aspect of his official biography that may hint at what position he might take on the space program is that he "believes the private sector, and not the government, creates new jobs," although that is a very generalized statement.
Three NASA authorization bills have passed since he began serving in the House -- in 2005, 2008 and 2010.
The 2010 bill was very controversial in the House and opposition to it was led by then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), chair of the Space and Aeronautics subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee. The bill that passed the House was the one crafted by Nelson and Hutchison in the Senate. The House committee had its own version, but time ran out for its consideration and the House decided to vote on the Senate version because, as then-House Science and Technology Committee Chair Bart Gordon (D-TN) said at the time, it was "better to consider a flawed bill than no bill at all..." Giffords disagreed, objecting particularly to the Space Launch System that was "designed not by our best engineers but by our colleagues over on the Senate side." She was able to convince 117 Members, including Mack, to vote with her in opposition, but that was not enough to defeat the bill.
The bill was a three-year authorization that runs through FY2013, which ends on September 30, 2013. It is widely expected that Congress will consider a new NASA authorization bill next year. Whether Nelson or Mack wins the Florida Senate race thus could make a considerable difference in what that bill might say.
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Electrical geophysical tests measure conductive tracers in both fractures and the rock matrix and thus provide information about bulk concentration and movement of contaminants that conventional methods can't.
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists use electrical geophysical tests to monitor how rate-limited mass transfer (see text box) controls the movement of contaminants between the host rock (rock matrix) and the more permeable fractures in fractured rock aquifers. The method involves injecting water with an electrical conductivity different from the groundwater (a different salinity, for example) into a well and then pumping it back out of the ground from the same well. The scientists monitor this "push-pull" tracer test by sending electrical current into the ground with two electrodes in a nearby well; the resulting difference in voltage is measured by two neighboring receiving electrodes in the same well. This procedure was repeated for many different combinations of electrodes. The information from the combined geophysics/hydraulic tracer test is used to calculate rate-limited mass transfer coefficients that are based on the realistic field-scale data provided by the push-pull tracer test. The scientists use the coefficients to more accurately simulate the transport of contaminants in fractured rock.
Culkin, S.L., Singha, K., and Day-Lewis, F.D., 2008, Implications of rate-limited mass transfer for aquifer storage recovery efficiency: Groundwater, v. 46, no. 4, pp. 591-605, doi:10.1111/j.1745-6584.2008.00435.x.
Day-Lewis, F.D., and Singha, K., 2008, Geoelectrical inference of mass transfer parameters using temporal moments: Water Resources Research, v. 44, W05201, doi:10.1029/2007WR006750.
Singha, K., F. D. Day-Lewis, and Lane, J.W., 2007, Geoelectrical evidence of bicontinuum transport in groundwater: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 34, no. 12, L12401, doi:10.1029/2007GL030019.
Singha, K., Pidlisecky, A., Day-Lewis, F.D., and Gooseff, M.N., 2008, Electrical characterization of non-Fickian transport in groundwater and hyporheic systems: Water Resources Research, v. 44, W00D07, doi:10.1029/2008WR007048.


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TIM Robbins has big hands. The kind that could wrap around a right-wing, pencil-necked rabble rouser if he were so inclined - which he isn't, no matter the provocation. Or indeed, grip a guitar neck during a consciousness-raising bit of folk rock - which he's more partial to, as shown by his first album, Tim Robbins and the Rogues Gallery Band, and his first tour of Australia as a singer in coming weeks.
His Melbourne gig is at the humble East Brunswick Club on April 29 - hardly the place for a Hollywood celebrity, you'd imagine. But Robbins is committed to his new life on tour and his music and - as the son of a working folk musician - he prefers performing in small and sometimes scungy venues rather than the kind of prissy theatres an Oscar winner celebrity might favour normally. His hands often cut through the air or draw shapes as he speaks in a voice that can reverberate when he gets excited, filling this room even though he seems to be compressed into the lounge.
He is, in fact, a big man, more than two metres tall and solidly built with only a small paunch resistant to his regular workouts at a nearby West Hollywood gym.
The silvery grey hair is swept high but loose, suggesting that if not deliberately styled then attention to his appearance certainly has been paid by this 52-year-old. Hey, just because you have become a singer/songwriter after 30years as an actor, Oscar winner and, along the way, political and social activist, doesn't mean you let your standards drop.
Anyway, there's a man out on the balcony as I sit down with Robbins and I ask if that is his security, to which he jokingly replies that you have to be careful about assassins at the celeb-friendly Sunset Marquis Hotel in Los Angeles. His big-chested laughter is cut short, though, because, just like making bomb jokes at an airport, there are repercussions to flippancy when you are Tim Robbins.
He is still regretting a throwaway joke in a radio interview last year that this album is his midlife crisis record. Almost immediately that became the de facto definition in every story written about it, even as he performed dozens of gigs through the US and Europe late last year with more energy than your usual midlife crisis exhibits.
"It was pretty surreal," he says, shaking his head slowly. "If you listen to the original audio recording it is so clear I am making a joke: she's laughing, I'm laughing and I'm saying, 'Maybe I should call the song Pain and Misery'. It is so clearly a self-effacing moment."
Given the album came out after the 2009 break-up of his 22-year relationship with fellow actor and activist Susan Sarandon, and that neither of them has played the media's game by talking publicly about what led to the split, it is probably not surprising that the London tabloids for one were pumping out midlife crisis stories about him.
"And right next to [one story] they've got a side article written by a psychiatrist and he's explaining what men go through when they have a midlife crisis and all the flashpoints and signs and comparing me to a British comic who was institutionalised," Robbins says, beginning to laugh again. "And I was like, 'Howthe f--- did that happen?'
"That's bad enough but then it goes viral. Soon it is, 'Wow, that guy's really a self-indulgent prick, like we are interested in his f---ing midlife crisis?' Listen to the album and there is not one song that is about midlife crisis."
It's true. There are plenty of crises on the album, characters facing turning points of love and faith and death, but little if anything that can be easily pointed back to Robbins. The one thing in defence of the media who went skipping away with this line is, for good and bad reasons, Robbins is not known in the public eye as a joker. Tim Robbins, actor in Bull Durham, director of Bob Roberts, anti-death penalty and anti-war activist? Yes, certainly. Tim Robbins gagmeister? Not so much.
"I don't know why, because all my friends think I'm pretty funny. Pretty much every talk show I've done I've been pretty funny on it," says Robbins.
While his first tour, this is not Robbins's first visit as a singer to Australia.
He laughs about his band being forever associated with the messy and widely pilloried Sydney Festival show also called Rogues Gallery last year, in which he performed several sea shanties among a celebrity-filled, if not always lucid, line-up.
"When you're doing public appearances it really isn't for proselytising or speechifying, so I never do it. But the times I guess that I have done it, it's been effective enough that it kinda defines me to a certain extent."
As one of the few high-profile actors who have consistently been outspoken at crucial junctures, such as the Iraq war, Robbins believes he gets painted in fairly monochromatic shades by his opponents in the right-wing media as a way of marginalising him. Such as suggesting he is a humourless radical with ideas not shared by regular folks, for example?
"Right, there's a good example, the word radical. What has defined me as a radical? Well, coming out in 2003, before the war [in Iraq], and saying I really believe that we should find those weapons of mass destruction before we invade a sovereign country. And that's nuts, right? And all that radical thought wound up being the truth."
There's his problem, of course: worrying about truth rather than the more flexible truthiness.
"Well, we're living in a world where black is white and up is down. That would be a really frightening kind of thing to live in [but] the reality on the street is completely different," he says.
"If you believed the media you would think I couldn't walk on the street because I'm such a crazy f---ing radical that all the righteous patriots would just string me up. The truth is I can go anywhere in the United States in any bar, right-wing or left-wing. People aren't those crazy yahoos, they're thoughtful, reasonable people for the most part who are happy to see me; who liked The Shawshank Redemption and want to talk. They might not agree with you but that doesn't make you a bad person."
The "great liberation" of recent times for him was getting rid of the television that for an hour or two every day was creating a new version of what he describes, borrowing from Orwell's 1984, as the three-minute hate. And this was whether he was watching Fox or Jon Stewart.
"I realised I don't need that. I know how I feel, I know what I believe, I don't need to be reminded every day that I should distrust or dislike any particular individual,'' says Robbins. ''That's not productive, that doesn't get you anywhere.''
The problem with this reasonable argument is that even if you don't see everything so polarised you find yourself shutting off from the arguments because you're sick of hearing them. But how then do you participate in the debate or change the debate?
''You talk to people on the street. The chances of you encountering another individual are increased manifold by you not being at home watching television,'' he chuckles. ''The other argument to that is, do we need to get into an argument? Is there something to argue about?''
Not so much an argument but hearing the other side, engaging in the discussion with someone who doesn't think the same as you.
When you buy newspapers or choose news and current affairs programs that share your point of view, the discussion becomes nothing but self-congratulations.
Maybe that's what the album and touring is for. But then don't come to Tim Robbins and The Rogues Gallery Band looking for polemics or even sly subversion as he portrayed in his 1992 movie Bob Roberts, a satire of politics and pop about an upstart candidate for the US Senate. Robbins's satirical folk songs were a feature of the movie.
As can be shown by his invitation to this year's Byron Bay blues and roots festival, these songs are as much in the narrative style of his major influences, the Texas school of songwriters such as Townes van Zandt and Guy Clark, as the more pointed work of folk writers he lauds such as Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan.
His music has been described by The Daily Telegraph as emotionally complex with morally ambiguous narratives set to dreamy, American soundscapes.
And it can't be ignored that music runs in his blood. His father, Gil Robbins, was a member of hugely popular early-'60s folk band the Highwaymen (Michael, Row the Boat Ashore), and the actor recalls childhood visits to such famous Greenwich Village folk haunts as the Gaslight.
His mother sang in a New York choir that performed at Carnegie Hall. So was it inevitable that when he finally came to take up songwriting and performing he would work in this narrative way given his background in acting is in storytelling? Or was it his musical interests which drove him that way?
''That's a good question because I think a lot of those songwriters, and others like Tom Waits, influenced me in the way I looked at theatre and how I would write stories. That's the kind of stories I wanted to tell.''
He said once that in 1981 when he started his theatre company, The Actor's Gang, with like-minded actors such as John Cusack, they were all fans of the Clash and wanted to bring that attitude to the stage.
''Yes, that vitality,'' Robbins says with urgency, his hands flashing again. ''We were coming out of the '70s, that lost era of music, of mindless cocaine stupidity. This was living in the here and now, not only the Clash but Los Angeles bands like X, and Fear and Black Flag, the DKs [San Francisco's Dead Kennedys] from up north.
''You'd see these bands and this culture was alive, these young people were active, involved, and it wasn't just music - the music was talking about something.''
■Tim Robbins plays the East Brunswick Club on April 29.


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Published: January 20, 2014 - 10:38 PM | Updated: January 21, 2014 - 09:18 PM
Ford Motor Co. continued its reign as the best-selling carmaker in Northeast Ohio as vehicle sales in the region climbed strongly in 2013 to their best levels in years.
Ford vehicles dominated the top 10 best-selling models in Summit County in 2013, while overall sales led all other manufacturers in greater northern Ohio last year, according to two Northeast Ohio dealers associations.
Annual sales — locally and nationally — rose to their highest levels since the lows of 2009 and the depths of the Great Recession, which bodes well for the economy, observers said.
Sales were the highest since 2005, when more than 237,000 new light vehicles were sold in the region. The final Northern Ohio results beat sales forecasts by 300 vehicles, according to the Greater Cleveland Automobile Dealers' Association.
Dealers sold 40,960 new Ford vehicles last year in a 21-county region of northern Ohio, nearly 13 percent more than the 36,319 sold in 2012, according to the Cleveland association.
Chevrolet was the second-best-selling manufacturer in the region last year with 32,679 vehicles sold.
Honda was third with 19,997 sales, just ahead of fourth-place Toyota with 19,698 sales. Kia finished fifth with 12,959 sales.
Northern Ohio sales hit 229,534 last year, up 10.3 percent from 208,099 in 2012, the Cleveland automobile dealers association reported.
"[Car sales are] a very important piece of the economy," said Ken Mayland, head of ClearView Economics in Pepper Pike. "We should continue to see sales grow [in 2014]."
Important data
New vehicle sales tend to be a leading economic indicator, meaning their rise or fall shows upcoming economic growth or decline, Mayland said.
Housing construction is another indicator, he said.
"2014 prospects are better because of housing starts and auto sales are in upward trends," he said. "It's a very good sign for the economy at large."
Nationally, new vehicle sales still are below averages from 2000 through 2006, when between 16 million and 16.5 million new vehicles were sold each year, Mayland said.
"For 2013, we came up to 15.5 million. We're working our way," Mayland said. "We're now in fourth gear and probably have one more gear to go. I think we'll get there in 2014, 2015."
"There's pent-up demand. People put off purchasing vehicles. Now, they need to," said Terry Metcalf, executive vice president of the Northeast Ohio Auto Dealers Association in Akron.
While the economy is improving, it still appears to be pretty soft, Metcalf said.
Sales this year are projected to increase over 2013, Metcalf said.
The National Automobile Dealers Association is projecting 16.4 million new vehicles will be sold or leased this year, a 5.1 percent increase over 2013 figures.
"It's not going to be as big as 2013 over 2012," Metcalf said. "But we think it's going to be pretty good."
Major comeback
This is an exciting time for Ohio's automobile industry, including dealers, large and small suppliers and carmakers, said Eric Burkland, president of the Ohio Manufacturers' Association in Columbus.
"We fell off the cliff in the Great Recession. That was just economic trauma," he said. "Companies that survived it are going great guns right now. ... There were a lot of people writing off the auto industry as an economic engine here in the state. Fortunately, they were wrong."
He called the ongoing increase in new vehicle sales half of a "double good story" in Ohio.
"Ohio-made cars are selling, whether it's the Jeeps or the [Chevrolet] Cruze or the Honda products," Burkland said.
December sales capped off 12 straight months of sales growth compared to 2012, the Cleveland automobile dealers group said. The strong end to 2013 sales shows growing consumer confidence as well as pent-up demand, said Louis Vitantonio, president of the Cleveland dealers association, in a statement.
The Greater Cleveland Automobile Dealers' Association organizes the annual Cleveland Auto Show, which is considered the kickoff to the spring selling season. This year's show opens to the public March 1 at the I-X Center next to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
Top local vehicles
The Ford Escape small SUV was the best-selling new vehicle in Summit County in 2013, with 880 vehicles sold, an increase of nearly 20 percent from 2012.
Ford's F-150 pickup was the second best-seller locally, with the Fusion midsize sedan tied with the Honda Civic for third place and the Ford Focus small car the county's fifth best-seller. The only other domestic model to crack the top 10 in Summit County was the made-in-Lordstown Chevrolet Cruze, which came in sixth in 2013.
"We did sell an awful lot of Escapes," said Joe Stefanini, vice president for Montrose Auto Group and current president of the Northeast Ohio auto dealers group.
"We had our best year ever. Ever. Ever. Ever," Stefanini said. "Ford was our star."
Ford historically has done well in Northeast Ohio, helped in part by a significant manufacturing presence in the area as well as a strong dealer network, Stefanini said.
"I'm hoping 2014 will be an excellent year," he said.
Montrose Auto Group anticipates spending more than $2 million to expand and upgrade its dealerships in Montrose and Alliance starting late this year, he said. These will be the first major renovations for the facilities in about eight years.
Jim Mackinnon can be reached at 330-996-3544 or email@example.com.


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Sonia makes beautiful bathroom furniture and this is no exception. The Atic comes in various finishes, this one is 'flowers'. It's subtle but still fun.
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Clinical audit
- What is clinical audit?
- The National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP)
- National Quality Improvement & Clinical Audit Network (NQICAN)
- National Advisory Group on Clinical Audit and Enquiries (NAGCAE)
- National Quality Improvement & Clinical Audit Network – Minutes
Clinical audit is a way to find out if healthcare is being provided in line with standards and lets care providers and patients know where their service is doing well, and where there could be improvements. The aim is to allow quality improvement to take place where it will be most helpful and will improve outcomes for patients. Clinical audits can look at care nationwide (national clinical audits) and local clinical audits can also be performed locally in trusts, hospitals or GP practices anywhere healthcare is provided.
The National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP)
NCAPOP audits are commissioned and managed on behalf of NHS England by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP). The programme comprises more than 30 national audits related to some of the most commonly-occurring conditions. These collect and analyse data supplied by local clinicians to provide a national picture of care standards for that specific condition. On a local level, NCAPOP audits provide local trusts with individual benchmarked reports on their compliance and performance, feeding back comparative findings to help participants identify necessary improvements for patients. Most of these projects involve services in England and Wales; some also include services from Scotland and Northern Ireland.
As well as the 30-plus national clinical audits, NCAPOP also encompasses the four Clinical Outcome Review Programmes (CORP). These help assess the quality of healthcare and stimulate improvement by enabling clinicians, managers and policy makers to learn from adverse events and other relevant data.
- More about NCAPOP
- More about local clinical audit
- More about HQIP
- Letter from Sir Bruce Keogh to NHS Trusts and NHS Foundation Trusts for the National Clinical Audit and Patients Outcomes Programme Subscription Fees.
National Quality Improvement and Clinical Audit Network (NQICAN)
The National Quality Improvement and Clinical Audit Network (NQICAN) brings together the 15 regional clinical audit/effectiveness networks from across England. NQICAN works closely with NHS England, NICE and HQIP. It is NQICAN's aim to support staff working in these areas in health and social care organizations; providing them with training, resources and giving them a 'voice' at national level.
All staff working within the field of quality improvement and clinical audit are encouraged to engage in their regional network and associated training opportunities.
The network provides practical guidance and support in relation to quality improvement, clinical audit including implementation of national audits, as well as related areas such as Quality Accounts, CQC Outcomes Framework , NHS LA Standards. The network offers both added value to organizations and personal development to staff.
More information, including the full list of regional networks with contact details can be found on the NQICAN website.
National Advisory Group on Clinical Audit and Enquiries (NAGCAE)
NAGCAE provides policy and strategic advice to NHS England on clinical audit and enquiries. It was established to drive the reinvigoration of the national clinical audit programme and provide a national focus for discussion and advice on matters relating to clinical audit and enquiries.
The National Advisory Group for Clinical Audit & Enquiries (NAGCAE) was established in April 2008 (as the National Clinical Audit Advisory Group). It provides advice on clinical audit to NHS England. Unlike the two other core professional activities aiming to enhance health and social care quality, namely education and research, clinical audit had previously lacked a national strategy and a coherent programme of activities.
NAGCAE endeavours to meet its challenges by enhancing the existing programme of national clinical audits and enquiries, and seeking to support the many NHS staff involved in local audits and enquiries in their own Trusts. It also seeks to improve connections – between the centre and the periphery; between national clinical audits, regardless of their source of funding; between clinical enquiries into adverse outcomes; between quality assessment and quality improvement interventions such as revalidation, regulation and commissioning; and between clinical audit and other routine data collection in the NHS.
To achieve these goals, the members of NAGCAE reflect the diverse range of backgrounds, skills and interests that are needed to understand the challenges and devise appropriate policies:
- Professor Nick Black (Chair): Professor of Health Services Research, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
- Dr Geraldine Walters: Director of Clinical Nursing, King's College Hospital NHS FT
- Amanda Edwards: Deputy Chief Executive, Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Dr Steven Berg: General Medical Practitioner, Bexley
- Dr Nick Bishop: National Professional Advisor, CQC
- Jennifer Bostock: Lay Member, Independent Mental Health Act manager
- Simon Pleydell: NHS Manager, CEO, Whittington Health
- Robert Grant: Statistician, Senior lecturer in health and social care statistics, St George's Medical School
- Dr David Cromwell, Director, Clinical Effectiveness Unit, The Royal College of Surgeons of England
- Dr Bob Young, Consultant Diabetologist, Salford Royal Foundation NHS Trust
- Janette Mills, Head of Audit and Effectiveness, Southport & Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust
Terms of Reference. NAGCAE's responsibilities are:
- to provide policy and strategic advice to NHS England on clinical audit, national confidential enquiries and other issues as requested;
- to support the reinvigoration of clinical audit, both nationally and locally, so as to stimulate improvements in clinical practice and service delivery;
- to provide advice and guidance to NHS England on the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP) including advising on topics for new national clinical audits, on topics to be discontinued and on the selection of tenders for supplying national clinical audits; and
- to provide advice and guidance to NHS England on the Clinical Outcome Review Programme (CORP) including advising on clinical areas for national enquiries, on areas to be discontinued and on the selection of tenders for supplying national clinical enquiries. (Note: this does not include responsibility for advising on specific topics within a clinical area).


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medicine > Student Financial Services > Federal Loan Repayment > Federal Loan Consolidation
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| One should not forget that the morning-after pill does not only prevents ovulation but also prevents the living embryo from implanting in the uterus, and that, is abortion!.
Also, several studies show that greater access to this pill does nothing to reduce surgical abortions. Other statistics show that teenage pregnancies have soared. Research has also revealed that over the counter access the morning-after pill "coincides with surges in STD rates.
Have you considered how will you handle the numerous problems which will arise especially with regard to keeping it out of the hands of minors?
Please, do not let this drug be sold so ?easy?! You have no mechanism for enforcing a regulation that prohibits sale to under aged!


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Chemical Peel Q&A
Breakout + Chemical Peel
I Recently Had a Med Chemical Peel. My Skin Hasn't Recovered and I'm Noticing Breakouts. Before This, I Never Broke out ): Help?
My doc suggested a medium chemical peel for my scars that my pimples left behind. I've never had acne. After getting the peel, I am in the recovery... READ MORE
Break out After Chemcal Peel?
I have bad acne break out after chemical peel, i had 3 treatments 70% over three weeks and have used products (jan marini) two weeks before the peel... READ MORE
Is it normal to breakout for a couple of weeks after a light chemical peel?
I had a peel done on the 10th. My face started breaking out some that following weekend and now it still continues to breakout while other areas are... READ MORE
I had two 20% tca Chemical Peel. The first one was great but second one I break out. What treatment would you recommend? (photo)
Okay to get another chemical peel with slight breakout?
I got a chemical peel (light) 3 weeks ago. I'm scheduled to get another one in 3 days. Is it okay to get this peel if I have a slight breakout on my... READ MORE
Will chemical peel prevent future breakouts?
My dermatologist has suggested chemical peeling to get rid of acne scars. I have oily skin. Brown skin tone. I have been using Sebonac gel with... READ MORE
Getting light peel tonight. I have a couple healing breakouts and had been using aczone on them at. Ok to get peel still?
For the past week I have been using aczone on an area where I had active breakouts and now they are in the healing process. Is it okay to get the peel... READ MORE
Can one be allergic to chemical peels and retinol?
5 months ago I had mild breakouts , dermatologist suggested chemical peel. THE BREAKOUTS INCREASED after peel. Now after 4 months I have several dark... READ MORE
Does dermabrasion or chemical peels cause permanent hypo/hyper pigmentation on skin Fitzpatrick 4 or 5?
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My skin type is 3 and I have pih from a bad breakout that I had 2 months before and also I have scars on my face. What can I do?
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A press release from the Marcellus Shale Coalition, a pro-drilling group based in Pennsylvania:
State of Key Pa. Rivers Growing Stronger Alongside Safe Natural Gas Production
Pittsburgh, Pa.– While there continues to be a great deal of public focus on the safe, effective and tightly-regulated development of clean-burning American natural gas, especially as it relates to protecting our water resources, the health of several key Pennsylvania rivers are strong -- further demonstrating that natural gas development can, and must, be balanced with enhancing our environment.
For its part, the natural gas industry recognizes that technological advancements must continue to be leveraged across its operations toward the shared goal of a stronger environment and a stronger economy. And through the ongoing development of Recommended Practices and other water management technologies, which are allowing for more water to be recycled and reused, along with common sense environmental regulations, this objective continues to be met. And as President Obama said a week ago in his State of the Union Address, responsible shale gas development "has led to cleaner power and greater energy independence. We need to encourage that."
This positive news cannot, and will not, make for complacency however. The responsible development of Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale – which is helping to put more than 240,000 Pennsylvanians to work today, according to the state Department of Labor & Industry – represents a generational opportunity, and we must work collaboratively and diligently to get this right. President Obama is right -- we need to encourage this safe development.
Chesapeake Energy Corp,the Oklahoma-based firm is the No. 1 driller in Ohio.
Rig Count Interactive Map by Baker Hughes, an energy services company.
Shale Sheet Fracking, a Youngstown Vindicator blog.
National Geographic's The Great Shale Rush.
The Ohio Environmental Council, a statewide eco-group based in Columbus.
Earthjustice, a national eco-group.
People's Oil and Gas Collaborative-Ohio, a grass-roots group in Northeast Ohio.
Concerned Citizens of Medina County, a grass-roots group.
No Frack Ohio, a Columbus-based grass-roots group.
Fracking: Gas Drilling's Environmental Threat by ProPublica, an online journalism site.
Pipeline, blog from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Marcellus shale drilling.
Allegheny Front, environmental public radio for Western Pennsylvania.


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I am originally from England and still have the funny accent but I can throw a few Y'alls in every now and then! I worked across the uk and Europe and ended up in Atlanta (which I love as a city) and spent some time in Silicon Valley (which is probably the only other place I would live in the US. ) in truth I have traveled all over the world for work and fun, I am truly very lucky.
I am also lucky to have some really amazing friends, with whom I spend a lot of time on the weekends, whether it's on the lake, at a game, cooking dinner or out creating havoc ! I always have fun ! And trust me when I say I need that after an extended trip or long week of work !
I have played sports all my life and continue to try and play whatever I can, though my days of playing contact sports are behind me(too many years playing rugby). I work out regularly and focus on a relatively healthy lifestyle! I recently ran a couple of the tough mudder style runs and may have become a little addicted ! I am pretty competitive which drives me and I always like to learn about anything. (Intellectually curious I am told!)
So I think I am a pretty normal guy ( not sure how that statement helps me stand out from the crowd here?!?) I have no baggage or skeletons in the closet but just a lot of great experiences.
I like to think i never meet a stranger and one of my buddies calls me a chameleon because I can blend into just about any situation. (Really hope that doesn't sound conceited?!)
I love good food, wine and conversation.
I am honest, truthful, loyal and open but then who would say anything different on here! Lol
My life is pretty amazing but I need to create and share those memories with someone. If you feel you we could have some fun together -shoot me a note and let's chat :-)
I definitely play as hard as I work. I am always hanging out with friends, used as the cheap child entertainer ! The autumn/fall in Atlanta is my favourite time of year ! College football, great weather and fantastic evenings out!
I lead the marketing for a technology company which keeps me pretty busy but also allows me to have fun.
Now, what I enjoy isn't necessarily what I am good at but I can cook, try to make people laugh (I might have to bribe them but they laugh eventually) and I always find the funny side of things.
oh and my eyes ... if they are open!
Books devil in the white city, anything by Philip Kerr, too many boring business books to mention
I love the escapism of movies -I ll try just about anything!
Music is really varied from the 90s through to today -I always have some Zero 7 to chill and definitely some deadmau5 to run /workout
good wine
and sports.
And it goes without saying (but I will anyway) my friends, all of whom contribute in some way to the necessity of the 6 things above!
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Keystone Oaks girls basketball's ugly wins lead to 4-1 start
It was a strong showing for the Keystone Oaks girls basketball team last week when looking at the final results.
The team rattled off three wins — 47-44 over Mars, 46-35 over Trinity and 46-43 over Thomas Jefferson — but coach Nikki Presto wasn't overly pleased with the performances, calling the games ugly.
Still, the second-year coach agreed an ugly win is better than a pretty loss.
"We said a win is a win after each game," Presto said. "We make adjustments every quarter of every game to make improvements. We cannot make mistakes against championship-caliber teams when we face them."
The win over Thomas Jefferson last week didn't come easy. Keystone Oaks carried an 18-14 lead into halftime after a first half in which each team struggled to find an identity on offense.
"We have been having some trouble in our half-court offense," Presto said. "We are a lot better in our full-court game and transition. We are trying to make adjustments in practices, before games and during games.
"Luckily we have been able to come out on top for the most part."
A pair of 3-pointers from Kayla Brownlee and Jillian Welch along with a Maryssa Agurs layup gave Keystone Oaks a 26-16 lead early in the third quarter.
The Lady Jaguars would responded and came within five before Keystone Oaks extended the lead to 34-27.
The Lady Golden Eagles lead extended to 11 points three minutes into the final frame before a Thomas Jefferson 14-5 run pulled the visiting team within a basket.
With 16 seconds left and Keystone Oaks holding a 45-43 lead, Lexi Mercuri was unable to make the first of a pair of free throws.
Thomas Jefferson grabbed the rebound and with less than three second left, and Welch took a charge from Alexis Yanief to seal the win for the Lady Golden Eagles.
"I jumped up and down in my heels and almost fell," Presto said on the call. "It was really a judgement call from the referee, and luckily it went our way.
"We knew (Yanief) was going to shoot the ball, because she is their best player. (Welch) stepped up for us. She isn't afraid to do the little things.
"One of the good things about this team is they are not afraid to handle the basketball at the end of games. Their not afraid of pressure or intensity."
Agurs and Welch led the team with 10 points each. Brownlee added nine.
In the final games leading up to the Christmas break, Keystone Oaks faced South Park — the No. 3 team in Tribune Review's Class AAA rankings — on Monday. Results were unavailable at press time.
Keystone Oaks will face South Fayette tonight, Thursday, at home. The Lady Lions are looking to be one of the top teams in Section 5-AAA.
With two high-profile games in a short period of time, Presto said the week will show how strong her squad can be.
"They are obviously two of the best teams in the section," Presto said. "There will be a lot of preparation, but the outcomes will come more from who has the biggest desire to win."
The Lady Golden Eagles host South Fayette tonight. Tipoff is set for 7:30 p.m.
Keystone Oaks will host the Keystone Oaks Christmas Tournament on Dec. 27 and 28.
On the first night, Slippery Rock will face Peters Township at 6 p.m. Keystone Oaks will then face Fort LeBeouf at 7:30 p.m.
Night 2 will feature a consolation game at 6 p.m. followed by a championship game at 7:30 p.m.
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Sharin no Kuni - Himawara no Shoujo - English Localization Patch Released
Full Name: 車輪の国、向日葵の少女 – Sharin no Kuni, Himawari no Shoujo – Country of Wheel, Girl of Sunflower
Summer comes, it gets hotter, it rains a bit, the fields are lush,
the wind carries in the scent of greenery, I have a friend like Ken-chan with me...
Nothing changes, but I'm happy with the way things are.
Project Page
Error Report Page
Please refer to the readme for installation instructions, translation notes, and more.
This release translates the entirety of the game.
Please enjoy.
We will be translating the bonus Houzuki chapter from the fandisc after this, so look forward to that.
Swing by #firstname.lastname@example.com if you wish to speak with the staff.
Reply with a quote on The Encubed Forum Here - Moogy's Post from the Encubed - Slight modification to fix the reply forum..
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Original Work
Title: Sharin no Kuni, Himawari no Shoujo (Wheel Country, Sunflower Girl)
Developer: Akabeesoft2
Release Date: November 25th, 2005
Scenario: Loose Boy
Character Designs and Artwork: Alpha
Translation: Then00bAvenger
Editing: Moogy
Quality Assurance: meisnewbie
Release Date: November 4th, 2009
Group: TLWiki
Project Webpage: http://tsukuru.info/tlwiki/index.php...Sharin_no_Kuni
Special Thanks: #tlwiki, #Ammy, #Ensue, #ndt, Fungi, Nagato, Ragyx, Yu-rin, Kefit, TinFoil, ayyo, Shu, and everyone who reported errors
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Sharin no Kuni, Himawari no Shoujo English Localization Patch
Visual Novel Translation Wiki Project Page
Thank you all for translating. It is a visual novel filled with wins, hope everyone is able to enjoy this just as I did.
I agree. Ever since Skyfall recommended this game, I've been hoping to see a translation for it. Didn't dare to test my weak Japanese skills against it given the story it has.
Any walkthroughs for this game?
Yeah, there's one here.
I must say that this was quite the gem of a visual novel that I discovered this week. It had a little bit of everything.
Going in I was expecting to find something pretty shallow like Eldeweiss, which pretty much cared mostly about sex. But I heard good things about it and decided to venture forth.
However, I was pleasantly surprised. While I didn't find it AS good as say Tsukihime or Fate Stay/Night... It was definitely awesome and I recommend it to all.
Rawr playing this after finishing G Senjou no Mao. Seeing a lot of similarities. Definitely enjoying it so far.
Only major difference between Sharin no Kuni and G-Senjou no Maou that I found was concerning route alternations. Sharin no Kuni goes through the main plot no matter who you pick, while G-Senjou no Maou separates each story for each girl which made it a little more detailed about each character and their development.
Finally finished the VN. Went for the Natsumi route first (which seems to make the most sense), and then went for Ririko and harem routes. Harem route was quite hilarious - Ken being a total pimp in that last CG lol.
Overall, I would say that the side character chapters were better than the ones in G Senjou, but G Senjou had a more epic main route. In regards to male characters, Houzuki and Kenichi were probably slightly more badass than Mao and Kyousuke respectively, but Gonzou trumps them all imo mwhahaha.
Would say I enjoyed Sharin slightly more than G senjou, but hey Akabesoft2 kicks ass. Looking forward to playing more of their VNs in the future.
Natsumi's ending was my first pick as well because of that flashback of Kenichi's past and when his development began. Natsumi had such a major effect in his life that it would be a crime to not pick her route at all.
Sachi's ending was indeed touching, but you can't help it when the VN chooses Natsumi :o Touka ended casually, while Ririko is still a major sadist.
Just finished it today. Quite a powerful VN, some great drama peaces and epic moments. The protagonist was rather impressive as well. I kinda liked all the girls, but generally Sachi took the cake. She was my first choice cuz' of her personality and cuteness. Definitely had a depressive and emotional chapter. But all is well when it ends well.
The only thing that I didn't like is that Sachi's other h-scene (which contains my personal fetish) was in bad end, but thats just me. :3
Crimson Cloud... Are you perhaps a masochist????
Pssh. It's all about the Ririko route, burning candles ftw!!!
@Fav. Girl: NATSUKI! She's basically confirmed as the offical ending if you have played the Fandisc :) Besides, her chapter focus was quite moving.
As for the Fandisc: Houzuki's route was epic, the other girls' scenarios are basically just fanservice *coughSachicough*
I want to go on a date! We'll play MMORPGs all night long! And then I want you to confess your love to me by saying 'let's grind together, baby!
I started playing this last weekend and immediately took a liking to Sachi. XD
However I'm currently in midst of a Toaru No Majutsu/Kagaku phase and trying to finish them first...
<3 Mikoto. XD
And dude, what's with the full name? Next thing I know people will start using Mr. in front of it. Just saying Crim is fine although don't use CC as people will think that I'm a trap or something. :p
Spoiler for that line in the VN:
She indeed had quite a few good lines throughout the story.
Finished Hozuki chapter in the fandisc. It was godly. Imo, the best ch in the entire Sharin no Kuni franchise, but more importantly, made everything make sense.
Spoiler for Sharin no Kuni Houzuki's character:
Awesome story and characters this VN and G Senjou was. It felt like it had the timely "wham" melodrama moments of Key VNs combined with the thriller/mystery suspense of Death Note or Code Geass. To quote a youtube comment (Lol...) "Maou. More badass than Light and Lelouch combined. Period." and I wholeheartedly agree :D.
I think I'm pretty much a Akabesoft2 fanboy by now :3. Dammit ... now my standards are too high so I'm unlikely to enjoy anymore VNs from now on... Damn you Akabesoft2
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Shoppers spend over Pounds 10 billion on bananas annually and now this demand is being linked to the contamination of Central America's crocodilians. New research, published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, analyses blood samples from spectacled caiman in Costa Rica and finds that intensive pesticide use in plantations leads to contaminated species in protected conservation areas.
"Banana plantations are big business in Costa Rica, which exports an estimated 1.8 million tonnes per year; 10% of the global total," said author Paul Grant from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. "The climate of the country's North East is ideal for bananas; however, the Rio Suerte, which flows through this major banana producing area, drains into the Tortuguero Conservation Area."
Tortuguero is home to the spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus), one of the most common species of crocodilian in Central America. This freshwater predator is known to be highly adaptive, feeding on fish, crustaceans and in the case of larger specimens, wild pigs.
Due to the increased global demand for fruit, pesticide use has more than doubled across Central America in the past twenty years. In Costa Rica, which ranks second in the world for intensity of pesticide use, the problem of contamination is compounded by environmental conditions and lax enforcement of regulations.
"Frequent heavy rains can wash pesticides from plantation areas, leading to contamination and the reapplication of sprays to the crops," said Grant. "Without adequate enforcement of regulations dangerous practices such as aerial spraying close to streams or washing application equipment in rivers also contributes to contamination downstream."
The team collected blood samples from 14 adult caiman and analyzed them for traces of 70 types of pesticide. Caiman within the high intensity banana crop watershed of Rio Suerte had higher pesticide burdens relative to other more remote locations.
The nine pesticides detected in the caiman blood were identified as insecticides. Of these seven were listed as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPS), banned under the 2011 Stockholm Convention.
"Caiman near banana plantations had higher pesticide burdens and lower body condition," said Grant. "This suggests that either pesticides pose a health risk to caiman, or that pesticides harm the habitat and food supply of caiman, thereby reducing the health of this predator."
As long-lived species atop the food chain crocodilians provide an integrated assessment of the fate of pesticides in tropical areas and can be indicative of pesticide damage throughout the ecosystem.
"Caiman and other aquatic species have been exposed to pesticides from upstream banana plantations, even in remote areas of a national wilderness area," concluded Grant. "Banana plantations may be economically important to Costa Rica; however their erosion of aquatic ecosystems highlights the need for a developed regulatory infrastructure and adequate enforcement."
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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 16:27:38 -0800 (PST)
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Patricia and all:
I trust that you have been following the postings over the past year about the DNAPrint Version 2.0. The bottom line is that for genealogy the test has great reliability (accuracy in detected the same allele value when administered on more than one occasion), but falls badly on validity - measuring what it is supposed to measure.
Upping the number of Deep Ancestral Informative Markers from 72 to 180 will only serve to tighten up the confidence intervals - unless they fiddle around with the agorithm. Their problems will not go away until they collect large representative samples from around the world to use as their reference base. The sampling problems have been discussed at length. We must all face the facts that we have the right to get excited because we hoped to find some Native American, because that is our right, not because the results of the test can in any way depended on. The only exceptions are percentages above about 30%, and where the result tallies very closely with a clear paper trail (as does mine - but I really think it was just a random finding). Please everyone, check or re-check the log of Charles Kerchner which will show expected versus observed findings from the DNAPrint test.
I am not trying to be a wet blanket, but there is not a scientist I know who would support the use of this test to explore the possibility of small percentages of minority ancestry. The results could mean anything - false positive, false negative, or as so frequently been seen, downright bizarre.
David F.
Patricia <> wrote:
I too have been told by Family Tree DNA that I will be getting the new test
done as I have been waiting so long for my results.
Looking forward to it.
Dr. David K. Faux, P.O. Box 192, Seal Beach, CA, 90740, USA
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