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The aggregation of β-amyloid peptide (Aβ) into fibrils plays an important role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Metal ions including copper and zinc are closely connected to the precipitation and toxicity of Aβ. In this study, a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensor was constructed to investigate the interactions between Aβ and metal ions. Aβ peptide was immobilized on the SPR chip surface through a preformed alkanethiol self-assembled monolayer (SAM). Our observations indicate that the immobilized Aβ undergoes a conformational change upon exposure to the metal ions. A difference in metal binding affinity between Aβ1–28 and Aβ1–42 was also detected. The results suggest that SPR is an effective method to characterize the interactions between Aβ and metal ions.
Alzheimer's disease (AD), which is characterized by irreversible and progressive neurodegeneration, is the dominant cause of dementia. The morphological hallmarks of AD are extracellular senile plaques and intracellular neurofibrillary tangles. The aggregated β-amyloid peptide (Aβ) containing 39–43 amino acid residues, which is generated from the amyloid precursor protein (APP) through the sequential cleavage by two enzymes, β-secretase and γ-secretase, is the principal component of the senile plaques. According to the amyloid cascade hypothesis, the aggregation of Aβ in AD leads to the formation of neurotoxic oligomers that are purportedly responsible for neuronal dysfunction and cell death [
The aggregation of Aβ peptide is primarily affected by pH [
Surface Plasmon resonance (SPR) spectroscopy is capable of detecting a mass or conformational change above a metal surface. At a specific angle, the absorption of incident light by a thin metal film causes a collective oscillation of electrons in the film that launches an evanescent wave into the dielectric layer adjacent to the metal film. The propagation of the evanescent wave decays exponentially away from the metal film and is thus significantly perturbed by the adsorption of a species on the metal film or changes in the adlayer structure. Due to the advantages of real-time, label-free and direct detection of molecules in various media, SPR has become a popular and powerful technique to study molecular interactions. In recent years, SPR has been successfully employed to study biomolecular interactions related to AD [
The successful immobilization of the Aβ peptide on the sensor chip surface was tested by injecting a Zn2+ ion solution into the flow chamber and pumping it across the Aβ-immobilized sensing surface. In our experiment, the sample loop volume is 20 μL, the flowing rate is 10 μL/min, so that the Zn2+ ions start to flow onto the immobilized Aβ1–28 at about 80 s, the flowing of metal ions ends at about 200 s; the difference in the baseline SPR angles before and after the Zn2+ ion solution injection (termed as the SPR dip shift Δ
To confirm that the net change is induced by the metal ions, we conducted a control experiment in which Zn2+ ions flowed over an ethanolamine-blocked surface without the immobilization of Aβ peptide.
The SPR angle shift is directly correlated with the Zn2+ concentration ([Zn2+]). In
The slope of the linear regression in the second region is higher than that in the first region, which reveals that the SPR angle shift elicited by Zn2+ ions is greater with increasing Zn2+ ion concentration. These results suggest that the Zn2+-induced Aβ1-28 conformation change is concentration dependent. This finding is in agreement with a previous report indicating that Aβ undergoes a conformational change from a random coil to a regular secondary structure in the presence of Zn2+ ions and forms stable 1:1 and 1:2 (peptide/zinc) complexes [
A similar trend was not found for the interactions between Cu2+ and Aβ1–28. The calibration curve depicted in
Compared with Zn2+-Aβ complexes having stoichiometry ranging from 1:1 to 3:1 [
Aβ1–40 and Aβ1–42 are the most prevalent
Aβ1–42 peptides have 14 additional residues in the hydrophobic tail compared to Aβ1–28, which makes Aβ1–42 more prone to aggregation than the truncated Aβ1–28. A possible explanation for the decreased stoichiometric binding of Aβ1–42 compared to Aβ1–28 may be the interference of the hydrophobic tail in Aβ1–42 with the Zn2+ binding site. Our data are in agreement with a previous report indicating that Zn and Cu form a monomeric complex with Aβ1–42 [
Similar results were obtained for the Cu-Aβ1–42 interaction. As shown in
Human amyloid-β peptide (1–28) (Aβ1–28) and human amyloid-β peptide (1–42) (Aβ1–42) were obtained from GL Biochem Ltd. (Shanghai, China). 1-(3-Dimethylaminopropyl)-3-ethylcarbodiimide hydrochloride (EDC),
Uniform and nonaggregated monomeric Aβ1–28 and Aβ1–42 peptides were prepared as previously described [
BK7 glass cover slides (Fisher) were cleaned with a piranha solution of 70% concentrated H2SO4 and 30% H2O2 (7:3,
Aβ peptide immobilization was achieved using covalent bonding mediated by a chemical reaction. The
SPR measurements were conducted with a custom-built flow injection-SPR equipped with a bicell detector as previously described [
In the present study, a SPR-based analytical method was used to investigate the interactions between Aβ peptides and metal ions. The coordination of metal ions with the truncated Aβ1–28 and the full-length Aβ1–42 were compared. The conformational transition of Aβ induced by metal ion binding can be readily detected by this highly sensitive FI-SPR sensor equipped with a bicell detector. At physiological pH, Zn2+ demonstrates different binding affinity for Aβ1–28 and Aβ1–42, while Cu2+ exhibits similar interactions with both Aβ peptides. The interactions between Zn2+ and the Aβ-peptides in an intra- and inter-molecular mode have been previously validated. These studies complement other analytical methods and should help elucidate the role of metal ions during Aβ aggregation.
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21145006), Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry and Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation (2113046).
The sensorgram of a 200 μM Zn2+ ion solution flowing over the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor chip with (
The sensorgrams for the interactions between Zn2+ ions and the Aβ1–28 peptides. Various concentrations (50, 100, 200, 300, 600, 700 and 800 μM, from top to bottom) of Zn2+ ions were injected onto the Aβ1–28 sensorchip. Arrows indicate Zn2+ ions starting to flow onto immobilized Aβ1–28 and when the flowing of metal ions ends, respectively.
Calibration curves for the interactions between various Zn2+ concentrations with Aβ1–28. Each value represents the mean ± standard deviation of three separate injections.
The calibration curve for the interactions between various Cu2+ concentrations with Aβ1–28. Each value represents the mean ± standard deviation of three separate injections.
The sensorgram for the interactions between Zn2+ ions and Aβ1–42. Various concentrations (50, 100, 300, 400, 500 and 800 μM, from top to bottom) of Zn2+ ions were injected onto the Aβ1–42 sensorchip. The inset shows the calibration curve for the interactions between various concentrations of Zn2+ with Aβ1–42. Each value represents the mean ± standard deviation of three separate injections. Arrows indicate Zn2+ ions starting to flow onto immobilized Aβ1–42 and when the flow of metal ions ends, respectively.
The sensorgram for the interactions between Cu2+ ions and Aβ1–42. Various concentrations (50, 100, 200, 300, and 400 μM, from top to bottom) of Cu2+ ions were injected onto the Aβ1–42 sensorchip. The inset shows the calibration curve for the interactions between various concentrations of Cu2+ with Aβ1–42. Each value represents the mean ± standard deviation of three separate injections. Arrows indicate Cu2+ ions starting to flow onto immobilized Aβ1–28 and when the flow of metal ions ends, respectively.
The procedure for the immobilization of Aβ. (


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Scheme aims to cover about 250 cities and towns. A couple of programmes initiated over the past three years have reported little progress
The ministry for housing and urban poverty alleviation has launched a new scheme 'Rajiv Awas Yojana' (RAY) with a vision to 'create a slum-free India'. The first phase of this project, which will be undertaken over two years, has a budget of Rs5,000 crore.
Under the scheme, central support will provide Rs50,000 per unit, or about 25% of the cost of civic infrastructure (external and internal), whichever is lower.
The scheme is expected to be implemented in nearly 250 cities and towns by the end of the 12th Plan (2017). The selection of the location will be done by states in consultation with the Centre.
The states would be required to include all the cities already under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) programme, those with a population of more than 3 lakh in the 2001 census, and some other smaller cities.
A list of 157 cities, for which funds have been released for preparatory work under the Slum Free City Planning Scheme, contains names of metros and upcoming centres like Visakhapatnam, Ahmedabad, Shillong, Bhubaneswar and Varanasi.
Union minister of state for urban employment and poverty alleviation, Kumari Selja, informed parliament on Tuesday that 50% of in-city costs will be borne by the Centre. In the case of north-east and special category states, the share of the Centre would be 90%, which would also include the cost of land acquisition, if necessary.
The existing schemes for the urban poor, Integrated Housing and Slum Development Programme (IHSDP) and Basic Services to the Urban Poor (BSUP), have not progressed in the last three years.
IHSDP has failed to come up with any dwelling units in Gujarat since the launch of the programme in 2008, though 10,019 units have been approved. Under BSUP, which was launched in 2005, 2,624 dwelling units have been completed and 2,040 are under construction. The figures haven't changed since 2008.
Forward Markets Commission orders NMCE to file criminal cases against Mr Gupta and take measures to recover illegal payments totalling to over Rs36 crore made to firms controlled by him and his relatives
FMC ordered NMCE to file criminal cases against Mr Gupta and take legal action to recover wrongful and illegal payment totalling to over Rs. 36 crore made to firms controlled by him and his close relatives
Commodities market regulator, the Forward Markets Commission (FMC), has charged Kailash Gupta, founder vice-chairman and managing director of the National Multi-Commodity Exchange (NMCE), and his family members of fraud. The FMC has in an order that was issued on Tuesday stated that Mr Gupta breached his fiduciary responsibility to the exchange and systematically defrauded it.
The order further stated that he misused and misappropriated its property and committed a series of crimes under various laws to benefit himself, his family and family owned/controlled firms.
The regulator said that family-run entities which have benefited were Arrow Total Solution Pvt Ltd, Arrow Total Solutions LLC, Neptune Overseas Ltd and Kushal Enterprises.
Mr Gupta headed the Ahmedabad-based NMCE as managing director and CEO since its inception in 2003 till May 2010. Thereafter, he served as executive vice-chairman till 26 February 2011 and is now the vice-chairman of NMCE, which is the country's fourth largest commodity exchange.
The FMC in its 96-page order said, "they are all severally and jointly liable not only to return the embezzled, misappropriated and misused funds of the NMCE, but also liable to be prosecuted for the offences committed".
In the light of these findings, FMC has ordered NMCE to file criminal cases against Mr Gupta and take legal action to recover wrongful and illegal payments totalling over Rs 36 crore, made to firms controlled by him and his relatives.
Ignoring intimidation and family pressure, Bhadresh Wamja of Saldi village used the RTI to restore foodgrain and fuel rations that were being denied to villagers and spurred a policy decision by the state government
Saldi village is 13 km from the district town of Amreli and about 225 km from Gandhinagar, the Gujarat state capital. This innocuous village has a population of barely 3,000, and very little information is available about it on the internet. But it is from this obscure corner of Gujarat, that a teenager has succeeded in persuading the state government to list fair price shops also under the Right to Information Act, 2005. This, even though the shops are not public authorities, but are privately owned!
Bhadresh Wamja is a second-year B.Com student, who had been bothered for a while that the two fair price shops in his village never seemed to have enough stocks of wheat, rice and kerosene. His family of four members was among those categorised Above the Poverty Line (APL), and this entitled them to 10kg wheat (at Rs10 per kg), 2kg rice (at Rs7.25 a kg) and 2 litre of kerosene per person (at Rs12.53 to Rs13.43 a litre).
"My family is well off and we don't need to buy the ration; but many of my friends complained that they never received it. So, I decided to go to the shop and buy supplies on my family ration card. Predictably, the shopkeeper said that he had not been getting any stock of wheat, rice or kerosene from the government for the past several months; so from where will he give me?'' That ignited the idea of an RTI campaign. "Not for my personal benefit, but for the good of the village," says Bhadresh.
Newspapers publish stories on the RTI and Bhadresh reads these with great curiosity. In January, Gujarat Samachar, Gujarat's leading newspaper, printed a chart about how much foodgrains and kerosene, families of APL and BPL (Below Poverty Line) should receive every month, along with a table giving the prices per kg. Bhadresh says, "That news along with the price chart opened my eyes and I decided to show this to the shopkeeper. But he wasn't impressed. I asked him why he was overpricing the wheat and rice (selling them at Rs15 a kg)," but the shopkeeper reiterated, "what can I do when the government does not send us any supplies."
He decided to apply for this information under the RTI Act. He sent an RTI application to the tehsildar of Lilia taluka (Saldi is in Lilia taluka) on 11 February 2011, asking him the stock supply that the fair price shop has been receiving every month, between August 2010 and January 2011. And the tehsildar ordered the shopkeeper to disclose the details within 15 days. The shopkeeper did not oblige.
Bhadresh informed the tehsildar about this, and while the tehsildar first declared that he would come to inspect the shop on a particular date, he did not turn up. Subsequently, he assured that he would visit the place on Monday; but on Sunday itself the shopkeeper started removing the sacks of grain, to take them elsewhere, so he could show that he did not have any stock.
Bhadresh called Pankti Jog, a member of the Mahit Adhikar Gujarat Pahel in Ahmedabad which runs an RTI helpline, to inform that the shopkeeper was taking away the ration stock from the shop. Ms Jog asked him to photograph the act with his mobile phone camera.
The tehsildar came to Bhadresh's house on Monday, but instead of inspecting the shop he tried to persuade him to withdraw the RTI application and not to get involved in such activities. The 18-year-old had also been receiving threats from the shopkeeper, which prompted his family to remind him that his career should come first. But Bhadresh had decided not to get swayed and to ensure that the shopkeeper learns a lesson.
Ms Jog says, "We launched the RTI helpline five years ago (number 99240 85000) and since October last year we have also been helping those who have been threatened in connection with the use of RTI. Bhadresh called me up complaining about the threats and the reluctance by the shopkeeper to disclose details of the stocks, despite an order from the tehsildar, the alleged nexus between the shopkeeper and the tehsildar, and the pressure that was building up at home.''
Ms Jog advised Bhadresh that under the Food and Civil Supplies Regulatory Mechanism, these details are categorised as pro-active disclosures, that is under Section 4 of the RTI Act at the office of the deputy tehsildar. Therefore, he should approach the deputy tehsildar for information. She also asked him to lodge a police complaint at the office of the deputy superintendent of police in Liliya.
So, Bhadresh lodged a police complaint. He also visited the office of the district supply officer (DSO) where he found out to his utter shock that the shopkeeper was supplied with 8,306 kg of wheat as regular supply and 1,599 kg as extra wheat between August 2010 and January 2011. According to the documents, the shopkeeper had supplied the entire stock to ration card holders, which indicated that the shopkeeper was lying to the villagers.
Bhadresh spread this information in the village and very soon the villagers started to back him openly. The threats automatically reduced as he built a support group. Twenty villagers even signed an appeal to the tehsildar for an inspection of the shop. The fair price shop is owned by Paresh Shejpal, of Deendayal Grahak Bhandar.
"I also called up the tehsildar and informed him that I had a recorded conversation of Bhadresh complaining about indirect threats to him and that if he did not inspect the shop, I would hand over the tape to the deputy superintendent of police and the district supply officer who could take action against him," Ms Jog said. She also sent a complaint to the State Information Commission.
When the tehsildar visited the village he asked 10 villagers to produce their ration cards and found that nine of the ten had not received even a single kilogramme of grain during the last six months, although the shopkeeper had reported that he had supplied the stock according to the rules. The one person who did get some ration managed to do so after a heated argument with the shopkeeper.
The tehsildar was forced to write a report against the shopkeeper, and the district supply officer ordered an inquiry. Immediately after the check, the shopkeeper began supplying the ration to the villagers without any excuse about not receiving supplies. He has also been made to put up an item-wise list of the supplies that he receives.
Bhadresh's tenacious campaign and the support from Ms Jog, encouraged the chief information commissioner of Gujarat, RN Das, to dash off a letter (17 February 2011) to the secretary of the Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department, to order proactive disclosure of ration supplies not only at tehsildar offices, but also at fair price shops across the state.
The letter stated: "… letter received on 15.2.2011 from the Mahiti Adhikar Gujarat Pahel (MAGP) on the subject of difficulties faced by the citizens regarding obtaining of information on PDS in respect of Fair Price Shops. It appears that in the particular application enclosed with the above-mentioned letter, the applicant Shri Bhadresh Kumar V Wamja sought information related to the APL quota of foodgrain and kerosene issued to the particular fair price shop and alleged diversion of the APL quota by the fair price shopkeeper and that after the said application was made on 11.2.2011 the Vigilance Committee did make necessary inquiry, but as stated in the said letter under reference, neither the details (names, etc, and functions) of the vigilance committee were proactively disclosed at the village level/fair price shop level, nor the stocks issued to the fair price shops were proactively disclosed.
"A copy of the proactive disclosure material at the village level which was prepared during the Panchmahal's district abhiyaan in active collaboration with the Panchmahals district administration, the civil society groups, in particular the MAGP, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) and Anandi, is enclosed herein for your easy reference. The proactive disclosure material is in two parts. Part I deals with critical information which is more or less static and is required to be painted on the walls. While Part II deals with substantial information which may be dynamic and is therefore required to be revised periodically.
"I would request you to consider the above-mentioned proactive disclosure material for its adoption and implementation by your department and to issue necessary administrative instructions to the district supply officers, mamlatdars and the fair price shop licensees.''
The Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department in an order, dated 4 March 2011, to all tehsildars and fair price shop licensees in Gujarat directed them to proactively disclose ration supply information on the walls of fair price shops as well as at the tehsil level.
Have shopkeepers been abiding by the order? Ms Jog says, "We had made a template of how to declare information about the ration in shops and adopted it in 22 model villages. This has been replicated in many other villages after the information commission's order. We have been conducting a mass campaign through distribution of pamphlets and advertisements through the media. So villagers are aware about the proactive disclosure of ration supply in their respective fair price shops. They take the pamphlets and show it to the shopkeeper to demand information. Thanks to Bhadresh, the ball is in now in the shopkeeper's court. And this time big brother (the Food and Civil Supplies department) is watching and the villagers are not relenting." Villagers are now demanding village vigilance committees for the public distribution system.
It's another tremendous example of the success of an individual, just 18 years old, in bringing about a mini social revolution through the RTI, in a hitherto little-known village.
(Vinita Deshmukh is a senior editor, author and convener of Pune Metro Jagruti Abhiyaan. She can be reached at [email protected].)


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I bought my snorkle eqipment from Sam's Club for my family and me. I just couldn't stand the thought of it being used over and over, even though they do wash it in a barrel.Mine was made especially for women and it fit perfectly.It was a fraction of the price as those we checked out in Florida. I still have to buy a vest so we can snorkle on our own easier.


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Doyle to shoot Goei's Yellow Flowers
EXCLUSIVE: At ScreenSingapore, local production house 13 Little Pictures has announced cinematographer Christopher Doyle is attached to shoot director Glen Goei's upcoming Yellow Flowers, a.k.a. The Hangman's Breakfast.
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The wonderful people at the Everything is Terrible! blog have posted a bunch of clips from a Super Bowl variety special from the late '70s, in which Andy Williams, Paul Williams, Joe Namath, Foster Brooks and others perform a bunch of song and dance variety numbers with football themes. Even Billy Carter, President Jimmy Carter's brother, makes an appearance.
A couple of things here. First, I miss the '70s. Only in that decade did you see such weird and wonderful variety shows - this was the decade that also gave us the Paul Lynde Halloween Special and the Star Wars Christmas Special, as well as the Sonny and Cher Show and the Donny and Marie Show. There's a reason why the variety show has never made a comeback - you can blame these and countless other shows for that.
Second, it's amazing that you had actual athletes participating in something like this (they looked like Pittsburgh Steelers to me). These days, everything is so controlled by the teams and the league, that you'd never ever see something like this on TV before the big game. Maybe on something like Saturday Night Live during the offseason, but that's as close as you'd get.
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Monday, April 10, 2006
I want this boy to become a librarian,
9 comments:
I've been amusing myself for a surprising amount of time now coming up with all the ways you might have come across this particular tidbit from the Iceland Review....
- 5:07 PM, April 10, 2006
It is, after all, a "one-stop-shop for people looking for the best information on Icelandic culture, society and entertainment."
- 9:51 PM, April 10, 2006
- Hollis said...
That's funny, you want him to be a librarian, and I just want him to be my friend! What a cool kid!
- 9:55 AM, April 11, 2006
- Susan said...
Eloise, google "children's book author" and you never know what will come up!
- 11:35 AM, April 11, 2006
- Roger Sutton said...
I periodically check up on Iceland--I hear it's lonely at the top (of the world).
And now I feel like Googling Karen Carpenter, thanks a LOT.
- 1:53 PM, April 11, 2006
And now I've got that dang song going through my head. I've got two words for you: Muskrat Love.
- 2:54 PM, April 11, 2006
- Susan said...
Muskrat Love? That was Toni Tenille, of the Captain and... What a beautiful song. And meaningful, too.
Roger, did I saw google? I meant gargle.
- 3:00 PM, April 11, 2006
- Susan said...
Ahem. That should be "say" not "saw," above.
- 4:34 PM, April 11, 2006
- Roger Sutton said...
and they whirl and they twirl and they tangle . . . remember how that song got BANNED?
- 1:13 PM, April 12, 2006


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Gaelic literature
Gaelic literature, literature in the native tongue of Ireland and Scotland. Since Scots Gaelic became separate from Irish Gaelic only in the 17th cent., the literature is conventionally divided into Old Irish (before 900), Middle Irish (until 1350), Late Middle or Early Modern Irish (until 1650), and Modern Irish and Scots Gaelic (from 1650).
Sections in this article:
- Introduction
- Old Irish
- Middle Irish
- Late Middle Irish and Modern Irish
- Modern Scots Gaelic
- Gaelic in the Modern World
- Bibliography
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Apple's Minuscule iPod Nano Dazzles
Apple iPod nano, first generation (1G) 2GBTechHive Rating
The first thing you notice about the flash-based iPod Nano, of course, is its tiny size. But what's really impressive about the Nano--and represents a breakthrough for the category of lilliputian MP3 players--is its bright, crisp color display, which makes navigating your tunes a snap.
The slim Nano costs $249 for the 4GB version; a 2GB model sells for $199. It weighs 1.5 ounces and is about 0.25 inch thick--so small that you scarcely feel it when you have the Nano in your shirt pocket. Surprisingly, its size was no impediment to functionality: I navigated the Nano's menus, displayed on its barely-larger-than-a-postage-stamp display, without difficulty. The unit's screen resolution is sufficiently high that it can fit as many as 27 characters across, in extremely readable type.
But as good as the display is, you shouldn't get too excited about the Nano's ability to display photos: The shots I viewed looked dark, and even high-quality photos don't look so great when they are shrunk down to 1.5 inches across.
Whereas most flash-based players top out at 1GB, the Nano falls into the midcapacity range once exclusively the domain of players that carried internal hard drives. I put 433 songs (encoded at anywhere from 128 kbps to 192 kbps) on the 2GB model I tested. Because it uses flash memory, the Nano should be more rugged than its hard-drive counterparts, and thus more attractive to joggers, bicyclists, and others unwilling to risk ruining a hard-drive player during their exertions.
Apple has taken its signature scroll wheel and shrunk it to Nano-size proportions. This initially concerned me, since I have big, clumsy thumbs, but I had no trouble navigating the Nano. In my tests the sound was very good, too, even over the included earbuds.
Like other iPods, the Nano uses a rechargeable battery that you can't replace. It ships without an AC adapter, so you have to charge it through the included cable and your USB port. That process takes about 3 hours, and a single charge should last you 14 hours, according to Apple.
My chief complaint about the Nano involves the unfortunate design decision of positioning its headphone jack at the bottom of the player. This arrangement prevents users from standing the player up on a table while listening to it.
But if you're an iTunes devotee already--or if you want a featherweight, fashionable MP3 player--you'll find plenty to love about the iPod Nano.
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Apple iPod Nano
Its high-capacity flash memory and crisp color screen make this stylish music player a standout.
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Graduate Schools in Orchard Park, New York
There are at least 7 colleges in the Orchard Park area that have graduate programs. This includes graduate schools in cities surrounding Orchard Park (Amherst, Buffalo, East Aurora). The specific degree types offered by each school are included below. Popular graduate degrees include Masters of Business Administration (MBA), Masters in Nursing (MSN), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD).
For more graduate school options, we have also compiled a list of featured Graduate Schools in New York.
These schools do not admit all qualified applicants.
Based on 2008-2009 information.
Canisius College
2001 Main St
Buffalo, NY 14208-1098
Christ the King Seminary
711 Knox Rd
East Aurora, NY 14052-0607
D'Youville College
320 Porter Ave
Buffalo, NY 14201-1084
Daemen College
4380 Main St
Amherst, NY 14226-3592
Medaille College
18 Agassiz Circle
Buffalo, NY 14214-2695
University at Buffalo
3435 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14214
SUNY College at Buffalo
1300 Elmwood Ave
Buffalo, NY 14222
Orchard Park Colleges
Orchard Park colleges and trade schools.


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The mission of the female pelvic medicine and reconstructive pelvic surgery rotation is threefold:
The accomplishment of these goals will require the vigilance of the residents, not only to be at the appointed place at the appointed time, but to have read and digested material from independent study. It will also require the organizational skills to ensure that clinics run smoothly and the operative schedule remains full. The FPMRS service consists of a senior resident supported by a third-year resident in the weekly clinics. The following guidelines pertain primarily to the senior resident assigned to the service.
Didactic Preparation
Unlike any other service in the department, there is very little structured preparation for the FPMRS block to date. In contrast to this service, residents have an intimate association with general gynecology and obstetrics from the time of internship onward. In depth exposure to gynecologic oncology occurs in the second year, and all are covered in monthly patient management conferences. Even topics in reproductive endocrinology are discussed on a weekly basis at noon conferences. For this reason, if the resident is to have any degree of autonomy or be anything other than an observer, a program of reading and independent study must be well underway by the beginning of the rotation. Showing up in the OR and not understanding precisely why a given procedure is being performed, or attending clinic without understanding the common urologic diagnoses and how they are detected are things which are simply unacceptable.
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Morning Quickies: Transexual Model Lea T. Lands "Elle" Cover
- Lea T., the transsexual model who is quickly becoming one of the biggest names on the catwalk, has landed the December cover of Elle Brasil, the Brazilian version of the fashion mag. I totally get a Victoria-Beckham-meets-Kim-Kardashian vibe from her. [Daily Mail UK]
- Oops: Tyson Beckford might have spoiled the "America's Next Top Model" finale. [ONTD]
- Blake Lively has terrible taste in art, or, as she puts it, she is drawn to works "that portray a childish imagination with a malevolent undertone." [The Gloss]
- A Britney Spears song for every mood. [TresSugar]
- Paula Abdul is selling 700 items of her clothing on eBay, including a pair of Louboutin heels for a paltry $89. [Life & Style]
- Cat Marnell from xoJane is eating Kleenex to suppress her appetite??? [xoJane]
- It's hard to like "I Hate My Teenage Daughter." [Crushable]
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Memorization or memorizing (Memorisation or Memorising in British English) is the process of committing something to memory. The act of memorization is often a deliberate mental process undertaken in order to store in memory for later recall items such as experiences, names, appointments, addresses, telephone numbers, lists, stories, poems, pictures, maps, diagrams, facts, music or other visual, auditory, or tactical information. Memorization may also refer to the process of storing particular data into the memory of a device.
The scientific study of memory is part of cognitive neuroscience, an interdisciplinary link between cognitive psychology and neuroscience.
Some principles and techniques that have been used to assist in memorization include:
- Rote learning, a learning technique which focuses not on understanding but on memorization by means of repetition. For example, if words are to be learnt, they may be repeatedly spoken aloud or repeatedly written down.
- A mnemonic, a type of memory aid. Mnemonics are often verbal, such as a very short poem or a special word used to help a person remember something, particularly lists, but they may be visual, kinesthetic or auditory. Mnemonics rely on associations between easy-to-remember constructs which can be related back to the data that is to be remembered. This is based on the principle that the human mind much more easily remembers spatial, personal, surprising, sexual or humorous or otherwise meaningful information than arbitrary sequences.
- A Mnemonic link system, a method of remembering lists, based on creating an association between the elements of that list. For example, if one wished to remember the list (dog, envelope, thirteen, yarn, window), one could create a link system, such as a story about a "dog stuck in an envelope, mailed to an unlucky black cat playing with yarn by the window". It is then argued that the story would be easier to remember than the list itself. Alternatively one could use visualisation, seeing in one's mind's eye an image that includes two elements in the list that are next to each other. One could imagine a dog inside a giant envelope, then visualise an unlucky black cat (or whatever that reminds the user 'thirteen') eating a huge envelope. In order to access a certain element of the list, one needs to "traverse" the system (much in the same vein as a linked list), in order to get the element from the system.
- A peg system, a technique for memorizing lists. It works by pre-memorizing a list of words that are easy to associate with the numbers they represent (1 to 10, 1-100, 1-1000, etc). Those objects form the "pegs" of the system. Then in the future, to rapidly memorize a list of arbitrary objects, each one is associated with the appropriate peg. Generally, a peglist only has to be memorized one time, and can then be used over and over every time a list of items needs to be memorized. The peglists are generated from words that are easy to associate with the numbers (or letters). Peg lists created from letters of the alphabet or from rhymes are very simple to learn, but are limited in the number of pegs they can produce.
- The Major system, a mnemonic technique used to aid in memorizing numbers which is also called the phonetic number system or phonetic mnemonic system. It works by converting numbers first into consonant sounds, then into words by adding vowels. The words can then be remembered more easily than the numbers, especially when using other mnemonic rules which call for the words to be visual and emotive.
- The Method of loci, a technique for memorizing practiced since classical antiquity which is a type of mnemonic link system based on places (loci, otherwise known as locations). It is often used where long lists of items need to be memorized. The technique was taught for many centuries as a part of the curriculum in schools, enabling an orator to easily remember a speech or students to easily remember many things at will.
- The Art of memory, a group of mnemonic principles and techniques used to organize memory impressions, improve recall, and assist in the combination and 'invention' of ideas. This group of principles was usually associated with training in Rhetoric or Logic from the time of Ancient Greece, but variants of the art were employed in other contexts, particularly the religious and the magical. Techniques commonly employed in the art include the association of emotionally striking memory images within visualized locations, the chaining or association of groups of images, the association of images with schematic graphics or notae ("signs, markings, figures" in Latin), and the association of text with images. Any or all of these techniques were often used in combination with the contemplation or study of architecture, books, sculpture and painting, which were seen by practitioners of the art of memory as externalizations of internal memory images and/or organization.
Specialised forms of rote learning have also been used in Vedic chant since as long as three thousand years ago,[1] to preserve the intonation and lexical accuracy of very long texts, some with tens of thousands of verses.
See also:
- Memory, the psychology of memory
- Mnemonic
- Mnemonic link system
- Mnemonic peg system
- Mnemonic major system
- Method of loci
- Art of memory
- Rote learning
- Cramming (memorization)
- Oral tradition
Notes Edit
- ↑ Scharfe, Hartmut: "Education in Ancient India", 2002, BRILL; ISBN 9004125566, 9789004125568, at Ch. 13: "Memorising the Veda", page 240
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On Wednesday last, the neighbourhood of Aughton-street presented a scene of agitation not surpassed since the memorable capture there of "Little Elwood", the highwayman.
The cause of excitement was no other than a report that some women had been detained in the act of making pies from the mangled remains of children, whom they had murdered for the purpose.
This strange rumour spread with great rapidity, and as all strange stories are readily believed in proportion as they are monstrous and incredible, it met with implicit credence in all parts of the town. It put an immediate stop to the sale of meat pies.
This horrible story [sprang from] the following circumstances:- Henry Gillies, with his wife, and mother-in-law, came to reside at 7, Aughton-street. A little girl happened to peep in at the window, beneath the blind; and saw Amelia Anderton, the mother-in-law, with a knife, bending over a body upon the table.
A Mrs. Needham, who also peeped under the curtain, [had] the impression that the old woman was cutting flesh from the body of a child.
She also saw the wife of Gillies lying on straw in the room, with another child in her arms. Mrs. Needham fully persuaded that what she had seen on the table was the body of a murdered child, immediately went to the house [with and one or two other persons]; and they then found the old woman busily cutting flesh from the body, not of a child, but of a greyhound.
The party were inclined to laugh at this solution of the terrible story; but Needham insisted on looking into a small pantry. A large mug stood on the floor: into this Needham put a stick [to] ascertain its contents; when, to his great horror, he brought up the body of a young child, reduced nearly to the state of a skeleton, which he placed on the table beside the mangled carcase of the greyhound.
On the following day Gillies and his mother-in-law were brought up at the New Bailey for examination. Gillies [said] he was employed by a professional gentleman to make anatomical preparations. The body of the child had been entrusted to him by that gentlemen, [likewise] the body of the dog.
Mr. Ollie the surgeon [a witness] had no doubt the body was in preparation for a skeleton. Mr. Foster observed he did not see that there was any charge made out against the prisoners.
We have been induced to detail the particulars of this case at length: because we think it desirable that public opinion ought be set perfectly right respecting an occurrence which has been so strangely misrepresented.


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You guys are normally a very good influence on me, with your kind comments and thoughtful emails. But recently, things went a little south (my fault, not yours). Since we've been discussion cold feet and divorce and wedding anxiety on the blog, I've started getting a lot of emails of the freaked out variety. More specifically, they are emails that detail the reasons why you might be freaked out about marriage. Lines of thought include, "Forever is terrifying," and "Think of all the things that can go wrong in a lifetime together," and "What if we don't get along in 30 years," and the more general, "Oh my God I'm scared."
I didn't have cold feet pre-wedding, but sometime right before our first anniversary these emails reached critical mass in my brain. Suddenly I started looking around thinking, "Well, sh*t. Forever IS a long time, and oh my God what if we DON'T get along in 30 years?!" Lucky David, right? So when we woke up the morning of our anniversary and David said, "Do you think it will be just like this on our 50th, but we'll just be creakier?" I thought, "OHMYGOD! This goes on for another 49 years????" Logically, 49 years like this last year would be fantastic news, but freaking out does not respond well to logic. Needless to say, I'd picked a fight with David before breakfast.
We did not, however, have a horrible anniversary.
Sometime during that afternoon, as the freaking out reached it's peak, I had a realization. It was this: my marriage isn't for forever, my marriage is for today. Which is to say, of course we freak out when we ponder questions like, "How long is forever?" and "What if we don't get along in 30 years?" Those questions freak us out because A) They don't have an answer, no matter how long you think about them, and B) There is nothing we can do to solve the problems they pose. They are, in a sense, totally useless (but terrifying) questions.
What we can do is look around our life and figure out how our marriage is doing today. If it's good, it's good. Stop freaking out and breathe it in. But if, for example, you've been freaking out all day about the nature of forever, it's quite possible that you've also been an asshole all day, and your marriage, achem, might need a little care right this very second.
Which, on the evening of our anniversary, we gave it.
So, perhaps more useful than my revelation, I give you my easy recipe for a fantastic anniversary. We had our fantastic anniversary in Rome, which was borderline ridiculous (though the kind of ridiculous I'll take), but it turns out we could have had it anywhere.
My Recipe:
- One bottle of prosecco
- One ipod wedding playlist to listen to
- Slow Dancing or hand holding to your romantic wedding song (ours was not our first dance song, actually)
- Then dancing around the room like a lunatic to the fast songs
- Electric slides encouraged
- One nice dinner (out or in)
- One bottle of wine
- One nice slow walk home (trashed)
And that, my friends, is how we took our marriage one day at a time on August 9, 2010, on a very hot night in Rome. After a pretty imperfect day, it was exactly right.


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Observations from Watching MySQL Source Code Commits
A few week ago we switched kruckenberg.com over to a new server. With the move I lost all of my procmail filtering rules which were responsible for automatically moving incoming mail to various folders on the server (mail must be filtered on the server so my Blackberry and webmail will get the same filtering).
Anyhow, one of the things I'd been sticking into a folder and looking at occasionally (meaning once a year to purge) is the messages from MySQL source commits. Anyone can subscribe to the list on the MySQL mailing lists page and get these messages which essentially contain the notes and diffs from when something is checked into version control. Most of these commits are for the database application, but there is also a steady stream of documentation changes coming in. Since I haven't gotten around to redoing the server-based filtering the MySQL source changes are popping up in my inbox with every other important and urgent email.
Over the past few weeks (since November 16th to be exact) I've been watching these a little closer because they are interesting to an outsider. I thought I'd throw a few observations out there.
- the code never sleeps: Code commits happen around the clock, there has rarely been a time when an hour passes without a commit. Based on when my inbox gets the most messages I'd say there are is a heavy concentration of development that happens in Europe because when I wake up at 6 or 7am my inbox is already overflowing. By early afternoon it has died down significantly.
- many hands...: I count 68 unique committers in this chunk of commits (1184 total commits).
- Monty *does* work on the code: I've heard numerous folks say that Monty (one of the MySQL founders) is very involved writing MySQL code. It is true. In fact, Monty is in the top 10 most frequent committers over this period of time.
- 5.1 is king: The highest percentage of commits were to the MySQL 5.1 code, 5.0 being not far behind. There is also a fair amount of work happening in version 4.1. Version 5.2 had a few changed and even 4.0 showed up once.
- who are these folks?: I know a good chunk of MySQL employees but most folks who've committed code in the past two weeks are folks I haven't met before. It is nice to see a familiar name from time to time like Jay, who had some commits for both the 5.0 and 5.1 tree recently.
- it's not all there: I have yet to see anything about Falcon, which I'm anxious to get my hands on - there must be some rules about what is and isn't sent to the list because I know there's development going on with Falcon but nothing of it in the source code commits
It has been interesting to watch, but I don't think it is going to last much longer as I think I'm ready to devote some time to setting up filters on the new machine.
Anyone else have comments on things they've noticed from watching these commits?
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The 'Haven't Met You Yet' hitmaker goes out to a friendly residential neighborhood on a snowy night in this newly-released video.
Michael Buble embraces the joy of Christmas in a music video which supports his holiday single "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town". The Canadian singer walks down the pavement on a snowy night while singing and doing silly dance. Every once in a while, he greets some friendly passersby.
"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" is re-recorded for his latest holiday compilation "Christmas" which peaked at No. 2 on Billboard Hot 200. Unlike fellow Canadian Justin Bieber who remixes the classic yuletide into poppy tune, he revamps it into a jazzy number.
Both of the singers have been tapped to perform at the same concert, "Christmas in Rockefeller Center", along with Faith Hill, Carole King, Tony Bennett, Cee-Lo Green, Katharine McPhee and "The Voice" winner Javier Colon. The event will air on NBC on November 30.
Bieber is additionally invited to NBC's "A Michael Buble Christmas" along with Kellie Pickler. "I'm truly excited to be sharing my favorite time of year with millions of people," Buble says. "Doing this Christmas special is a long-time dream of mine." The gig will broadcast on December 6.
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View pre-real-life hoorah on yoganini's travel map.
i am finally, finally here.
i flew from kathmandu to delhi then straight to chennai (madras). what a dump! as the fourth-largest city in india, i shouldn't have been surprised. but after getting ripped off by the prepaid taxi (yes, apparently it's possible) and into my shady hotel on the busiest street in the city, i immediately made a plan to get out. everything was gray and the sound of horns honking became white noise within hours, as that's ALL you hear. i saw no tourists, which was fine, but i felt as if there were only indian men looking on as i walked around, so i made it an early night and had a quick dinner near the hotel, which, at $12/ night, was a fine rip-off. the next day, i tried mailing things home (but do i really need to keep all this trekking gear?? i still have it with me and can't decide), only to find that the stuff needs to be specially wrapped by a tailor, who was 12km across the city of dishonest cab drivers (according to lonely planet) and then costs $50/ km. no, thank you.
off to figure out the initially difficult and confusing train situation. after about an hour of wandering around and asking nearly everyone i ran into where the tourist ticket counter was, i finally found it and, despite having already paid for a second night there, booked the first night train out of there for $3! i met a nigerian-italian, John, who was excellent company. being more of an expert on the matter, as he'd spent the last 3 months in southern india, he informed me that Chennai was the worst city he'd been to to date. we wandered around all day, chatting about india and nepal (he's eventually headed there). it was very interesting watching the locals, as apparently they have a particular disdain for Nigerians, who are believed to be untrustworthy and bad based upon only a handful of wrong-doers. despite that, i still felt like fewer people harassed me than they would have had i been alone (though instead they harassed John... ah well, annoyance deflected. i'll take it). we ran into some people at a little stand where we had tea (for 7 Rs, about 10 cents and oh-so-good... this is the life) and, all men, they never looked at me and only asked me some questions after finding out that john and i were just friends. though they knew it was impossible for us to have been married as we both look so different. was very interesting to hear them all agree.
in the streets: dogs, cats, cows, and some goats. motorcycles, rickshaws, autorickshaws, pedestrians, cars, buses, cart of all sorts.
also in the streets: plastic, cow dung, men's piss (the world is their toilet, wow), spilled food, dust. i wore sandals and came back with black feet. so gross, but so gratifying to see the before and after washing.
at 8.50pm, we found my train (john is headed north) to Madurai, an 8 or so hour long ride. i got the top bunk and because there was no room for my bag under the bottom bunk, i had to sleep with it. for those of you who have been on one, there is NO room for a bag and a person. ah, well. i was so tired that i fell asleep by 9.30pm. i woke up and heard 'madurai' on the speaker at the station, and the man in the bunk nearby said it was Madurai, so i nearly fell off and knocked a woman out with my bag racing off the train. as it started to move again, i asked the man standing in the door of the train if this was madurai station. nope, heehee, it's in about an hour. HA! nice. i have learned to ask questions all the time.
i arrived in Madurai at 6.30am this morning. i've seen the most beautiful temple, so colorful and ornate and detailed. again, pics to come. it is 2pm and i feel i am ready to be in a still quieter place. so tomorrow i will take a train to Kanyakumari, the southern most tip of India, for a beautiful sunset and sunrise. the train is open seating, so i'm not sure what to expect from a train with benches in a country that has very different ideas of personal space. ah well, it is only 5 hours. until then, i think i will head back to the temple for some nice sunset peace and quiet. and street food. mmmmm
i have been so lucky thus far, meeting great people and feeling like all these minor setbacks are just that: minor. thank you, yoga.
namaste, until the next city,


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Washington (AFP) May 21, 2013
The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday urged Iraq to build up its weak fiscal buffers as the oil producer's economy remains highly vulnerable to the oil market.
Iraq has maintained macroeconomic stability "in a difficult security and political environment," the IMF executive board said.
The board, summing up a review of the Iraqi economy, urged the government to strengthen fiscal buffers and its institutions, citing still-high risks, "including from oil price volatility."
And the board urged a faster pace of reforms for the private, non-oil sector to generate jobs and more inclusive growth.
"Risks to the macroeconomic outlook remain high," the board said, also pointing to delays in oil developments and further deterioration of the security situation.
The assessment came amid a wave of violence in Iraq that has killed 374 people so far this month, according to an official tally.
The IMF assessment followed a recent on-the-ground evaluation of Iraq's economy, known as an Article IV Consultation.
The board called for curbs on current spending -- including public employment, energy subsidies and transfers to state-owned enterprises -- to increase leeway for priority social spending and public investment, and to build up buffers.
Over the medium term, the IMF said, Iraq's outlook will continue to be driven by developments in the oil sector.
Economic growth reached 8.4 percent in 2012 and was expected to rise to 9.0 percent in 2013 as oil production increases to 3.3 million barrels per day.
Higher-than-expected oil revenues contributed to fiscal surpluses of almost 5.0 percent of gross domestic product in 2011 and 4.0 percent in 2012.
However, it said, "With a break-even oil price of about $100 (a barrel), fiscal performance is very vulnerable to oil revenue shocks -- either from oil price declines or export shortfalls," the IMF warned.
"Furthermore, fiscal discipline weakened over the past two years, with poor budget planning and execution, large off-budget spending, and low investment execution rates."
The global lender said the country's 2013 budget includes large unfunded commitments that increase fiscal risks, "including the possible depletion of fiscal reserves, if the budget were to be fully executed."
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|Wednesday May 17, 2017 @10:23AM
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Why do we Need Oxygen?
One of the best ways to learn about a human being's need for oxygen is to take a close look at what would happen without it. We need food, which our bodies transform into the energy we need. We need water, which we need to keep our bodies healthy and our blood flowing. We need oxygen because, without it, the rest of our systems wouldn't operate at all.
Of the three – food, water and oxygen – we would die more quickly without oxygen than without the other two. Oxygen is inhaled into the lungs and enters our blood through alveoli. The oxygen is carried to the rest of the body through the blood. The oxygen is used to make water molecules. Water makes up the vast majority of our body tissue. In addition, nearly every function that keeps us alive uses oxygen as the source of energy. Oxygen is the prime ingredient for our body's metabolism, the process that changes food into the fuel we need to continue living.
Since human beings are animals that live on land, we can get the oxygen we need from the air around us. The final product of our breathing is carbon dioxide, which we breath out (expel) into the atmosphere. Plants use carbon dioxide much as we use oxygen but plants add oxygen to the air. A healthy climate for human breathing includes healthy plants.
We mentioned learning about why we need oxygen by finding out what would happen without it. Human beings cannot survive for long periods of time underwater without mechanical breathing apparatus. A fish can because it has gills that take oxygen from the water around it. Our lungs can't do that. Whether we breathe naturally or with help from scuba gear underwater, the pressure of the oxygen has to be correct.
We could breathe through a tube that reaches above the surface of the water. Men have done this with hollow plant stems and other devices when hiding from pursuers. The snorkel works on this premise as well. The amount of oxygen in the air around us is at the correct level for us to breathe it without major difficulty. Not only that, the normal air pressure is right for us as well. If the air pressure (per square inch) was too high animals wouldn't survive. The same would be true if the pressure is too low.
If we are underwater and have a mechanical means of breathing, the oxygen stored in the tanks is highly compressed. It would be dangerous to try to breathe this directly into the lungs. The regulator valve at the top of the tank lowers the pressure to a safe range for us to breathe. The human body is a complex mix of various chemicals. Oxygen is just one of them, but it may be the more important.


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CHICAGO (AP) — President Barack Obama's campaign has moved a New York fundraiser to be headlined by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Next week's event originally was to be held at Pfizer's headquarters but now will be at New York's University Club. Emanuel was Obama's chief of staff before being elected Chicago mayor this year.
The Boston Globe reported Thursday that the event was moved after the newspaper asked about the propriety of hosting it at a pharmaceutical company regulated by the government.
Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt says in a statement to The Associated Press that the event had nothing to do with a specific company.
Obama is raking in the bucks for his re-election bid. He collected $86 million for his campaign and the Democratic Party during the past three months.


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This little slap of winter is a pantywaist compared to what happened 35 years ago this weekend, a monstrous freak of a storm, the brutality of which had never been seen.
Just surviving it isn't an exaggeration. If you stepped outside, your breath -- literally -- was taken away. Dozens of people in Ohio died.
It took just 24 hours in January 1978 to sink us deep into hell's icebox. Snowdrifts 10- to 15-feet deep and hundreds of feet long demoralized the population. Federal troops and federal money had to help dig us out.
The last remnants of snowfall from The Great Blizzard didn't melt away in Ohio until May 5. Imagine that.
In a tear-choked voice, Gov. James A. Rhodes on the evening of Thursday, Jan. 26, 1978, called the blizzard "the greatest disaster in Ohio history." It was, the governor said, "A killer storm looking for victims ... Ohio is in trouble."
A storm of unprecedented magnitude -- that's what the National Weather Service termed the blizzard. Technically, what occurred here on Jan. 26, 1978, was not a blizzard. What did occur was even rarer and even more dangerous: A severe blizzard -- the worst of winter storms.
The National Weather Service defines a "severe blizzard" as a storm with winds of 45 miles per hour or greater; a great density of falling or blowing snow; and temperatures of 10 degrees or less.
During The Great Blizzard, winds gusted to more than 100 miles per hour over much of the state, with sustained winds in the 45- to 60-miles-per-hour range. Record snowfalls were recorded in many areas, and all-time low barometric pressure records were shattered as the intense storm roared across the state.
An entire semi-trailer truck was buried in one snow bank near Mansfield. The driver was not rescued until nearly a week later. Hundreds upon hundreds of motorists were stranded in their cars along nearly every highway in the state. The Ohio Turnpike, for the first time in history, was shut down. Interstate highways were, for the most part, impassable. Smaller roadways in nearly every county were invisible beneath the deep snow.
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Electric service to thousands of homes was disrupted. People were forced to leave their frigid homes.
Suffering, discomfort, and danger were commonplace. Thousands of volunteers with snowmobiles and four-wheel-drive vehicles responded to pleas from police statewide to deliver medicine and transport doctors and nurses to hospitals.
Officials urged all Ohioans to remain at home as temperatures dropped to near zero. Wind chill factors across the state plummeted to near 60 degrees below zero.
The death toll was 51 people, making it one of the deadliest winter storms in Ohio history.


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More than a million times a year, or every 25 seconds, a child suffers a sports-related injury severe enough to send him or her to the emergency room, according to Safe Kids Worldwide.
With school sports in full swing, it's important learn to recognize the difference between an injury and being hurt, say sports medicine specialists.
Serious injuries such as concussions, muscle tears, heat-strokes and broken bones are quite common in high school sports, but can be prevented with the right precautions and preventive habits, say doctors at Redlands Community Hospital.
Athletes 12 to 15 years old make up more than half of all concussion-related emergency room visits. Knee injuries such as tears in the anterior cruciate ligament are eight times more common among young female athletes than male athletes.
Consistently rehydrating before and throughout practices and games is vital, and teaching young athletes injury prevention skills such as warm-up exercises and stretches to prevent common injuries is also vital.
"Understanding specifically where stress is placed on muscles during a particular sport, such as in football, soccer, basketball or baseball, can ensure adequate stretching and warm-up exercises are performed," said Dr. Cameo Carter, a pediatrician at Redlands Community Hospital. "Ensuring school and after-school coaches are educated in injury prevention and supporting their decision when taking an athlete out of a game is also important."
Educating yourself and your children on signs of head trauma and encouraging children to speak up when injured are valuable tools in their recovery. Making sure that athletes wear proper equipment, such as helmets, shoulder pads and shin guards, can help reduce the number of injuries sustained. New and trending sports-injury prevention products such as the SkullTec, a beanie or head cap that can reduce impact of collisions by 25 percent, may also be beneficial.
"If you think your child is injured, take immediate action," said Dr. Heather Barr, a pediatrician for the Beaver Medical Group. "Speak with the team trainer or coach and then get immediate medical care, particularly if it's a head injury."
Source: Redlands Community Hospital