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Carnival Legend - Western Caribbean
Destination: Western Caribbean
Embarkation: Tampa
Embarkation was a breeze. We got dropped off at the terminal at about 12:30 and by 1:00 we were on the Lido Deck having lunch. We had filled out the Fun Pass ahead of time online & had the printed copies ready. We have never boarded a ship so quickly and easily. After a great lunch, we went to our cabin; the suitcases arrived within a half hour.
Cabin: We had an outside cabin on the Riviera deck, starboard side. We had booked late and there had been no balcony cabins but this was a very nice cabin, with plenty of room, very well designed, with a big window. The bed was very comfortable (just as nice as the one on the brand-new Noordam More that I took last summer). The cabin steward, David, did a great job keeping everything clean and well supplied.
Dining: My husband and I were very impressed with the food and service in the main dining room, and we agreed that it was superior to that on the Noordam. With very few exceptions, all our meals were excellent (better than most fine restaurants that we go to), and we felt no need to go the Golden Fleece. We had a table with 5 other people which was fun because we soon became friends and enjoyed trading stories each night about our adventures in the ports. Our waiter was Frank and he and his assistant were outstanding - very personable and fun, excellent manners, and excellent service. Again, this is the best service we have experienced on a ship. One complaint: the bar-waiter in the dining room often missed us - we went without the drinks that we had planned on having.
The ship: I thought this ship was beautifully designed. It had a lot of wood trim and a bit of an old-world feel which I really liked. The gray urns everywhere are a bit odd, though. There are wonderful places to sit and spend time, and on most decks (other than the Lido), it did not feel crowded. The atrium is quite dramatic, and there is a neat bar there, right in the center of things. The library was ridiculous though. Fake leather bindings in place of books! The few shelves of books were actually locked up except for 2 hours a day. I heard many complaints about this from other people on the ship. Carnival needs to realize that not everyone is drinking & attending the hairy chest contests! Although most readers will be bringing their own books, people like to look at map books and nautical books during a cruise, as well as travel guides relating to the ports of call. The computers were available there for internet use, and this is about all that was happening there. The casino was large and fun, but of course a bit smokey. My husband enjoyed the slots and some blackjack. The dining room was decorated with some interesting light fixtures with some very artistic murano-type glass. The lido deck restaurant had great food, although you have to wander around a bit on the first day to figure out where everything is. My only complaint is that they were always playing loud and rather annoying music everywhere on this deck - even first thing in the morning. They could tone that down, especially when you are trying to enjoy your morning coffee and talk with your companions. I quickly learned to order coffee from the room service.
Grand Cayman - This island was beautiful. I wish we had been able to spend more time there. We had reserved a rental car, so we took an early tender to the port in Georgetown, and by 8:45 we were on our way to explore the island. It is a bit hard to get used to driving on the left, though. We headed east out of Georgetown and took the Frank Sound Road north towards Rum Point. We stopped at a little public park on the water (North Sound) at Cayman Kai (aka Kaibo) and swam and snorkeled there. Also collected some nice little shells there. This park had no admission charge, had nice clean bathrooms, and we were the only people there! You really can get away from the cruise ship crowds if you do a little exploring. This was in a very upscale area near large homes on the water. We then proceeded to Rum Point, which is a beach area with a restaurant, some shops, and free parking. They have chaises on the beach to use (don't know if there is a charge for this because we put our towels on the sand & spent the whole time in the water!) I would assume that you pay a nominal fee for the chaise since there is no admission charge. There are very clean bathrooms to use also. This place is beautiful - clean sand, lots of shade, and clear turquoise water for swimming and snorkeling. There are some reefs you can swim out to, which we couldn't do because a storm was coming up. There is also a pier there that snorkel boats leave from. At times this beach area was almost empty; later some tours came and it filled up with people (especially at the restaurant). At this point, we decided to leave and head back to Georgetown. We stopped at the Lighthouse restaurant on the way back and had a delicious (but a bit pricey) lunch at a seaside table. Got back to the port just in time to catch the last tender. Watch the time here - it goes by fast! I wish Carnival would allow more time in this port, as I would have liked to go to Seven Mile Beach for an afternoon swim.
Cozumel - Our ship docked in the port area that is a few miles south of the town, not at the main dock. We had been to Cozumel 25 years ago, but I still remembered where everything was, so it was easier to know where to go. We rented a car again, this time right at the port. We headed out to the south and stopped at a few open beaches to collect shells. The weather was not good (raining & windy) so we decided to stay out of the water for awhile and take a ride down to Punta Sur. At this southernmost point of the island, the main road curves to the east, and goes alongside the very dramatic and wild-looking windward coast. This area is very picturesque - there are large waves crashing on the rocks, like New England, but it is not safe to swim. There was no one else out there - a car came along the highway maybe once every 10 minutes. At Punta Sur, there are a few vendors that I bought shells from. They were friendly, and we struck up a conversation. Hurricane Wilma dealt a nasty blow to this island, and a lot of homes and other structures were destroyed, and we talked about this. On the way back, we went to the park at Chankanab. The admission price was $16 per person. The park is nicely designed and the new buildings have some impressive and unusual architecture. There is a "swim with dolphins" section and then a long beach area with lots of chaises and thatched roof areas for shade. The snorkeling area is interesting - a large area is roped off, so I was not expecting much, but it gets deep fast, the water was clearer than in the Caymans, and there were lots of fish around some coral heads. This would be a very good place for beginners to learn to snorkel because it is easy to get in the water (there are steps with handrails down the rocks), it is semi-protected, and the water is so clear. The park also had a restaurant, and waiters come by often to take orders. It was not at all crowded when we went there, but this may have been because there had been light rain off and on. But we again felt lucky to avoid the crowds because there were 2 other cruise ships in port. It was easy to return the car - about 5 minutes, right at the port - the man at Executive Cars was very nice and easy to deal with. On the way back in, we spent a little time looking at the shops. The silver shop in the main building had some really good looking sterling silver jewelry at fairly reasonable prices. I had no time to haggle though because we needed to get back on board the ship.
Belize - My husband booked 2 ships' tours back to back, which is probably not a good idea, but it worked out well for us. The morning one was a snorkel trip to Goff's Cay. With a boat load of about 25 people, we headed south to the Cay for about 20 minutes. Once there, you can go ashore and swim from the beach or take the boat out to the nearby reef. We went ashore because they were having trouble with the boat, and we wanted to go in the water. The people who went to the reef said it was very good. Goff's Cay is a tiny island - maybe 3 acres in size. The tour companies take everything out there - food, drinks, and even the "facilities" (i.e., a Porta-Potty) arrived on a boat. This might sound a little strange, but it is good ecologically: they take EVERYTHING away at the end of the day so the waters stay very clean. For people who like a good beach, this place is great. The snorkeling is very good going in right from the shore, as there is a lot of coral and lots of fish. I spent the whole 2 hours in the water. In the afternoon we took our 2nd ship excursion - this one to the reef at Turniffe and a beach break at Bannister Island. Both were better than expected. The reef is beautiful - like the Florida Keys 30 years ago. The boat was quite crowded however - on the short ride over we were pretty crowded, but divers do not want to miss this reef. If you are experienced, you can get in the water quickly and avoid the lectures to beginners. They serve free soft drinks and Rum Punch on the boat. We went ashore at Bannister Island, which was quite nice. they had a large swimming area, kayaks to explore the mangrove shoreline, and thousands of little shells that looked like jewels lining the shoreline. And the usual amenities in places like these - bar, restaurant, massage on the beach, etc.
Costa Maya - This was my least favorite port, but if you like to drink, it might be your favorite. The ship docks at a large pier, and as you go ashore there is a large facility for cruise passengers with many shops, restaurants, and a large inviting pool. The waterside area has "iron-shore" - actually limestone rock, forming a sharp shoreline which is common in many Caribbean localities. This was marked "No Swimming" so we moved on. Later I saw many people swimming and snorkeling in this area. We took a taxi into the town of Majahual ($2 per person), which is about 2 or 3 miles away. The town has a main tourist district that stretches along the waterfront (kind of like Avalon on Catalina Island). This "street" (no cars allowed on it) has numerous restaurants and shops along it, and many shopkeepers approach you as you walk by. We went to the Cat's meow. Our waiter was Hugo, and he was very nice and treated us very well, had a great sense of humor. The owner, Barbara, came around with her famous black cat. She talks to all the customers and constantly checks on everything, making sure everybody is happy. We had some beers, and my husband got a massage ($20 for an hour) to help his aching muscles (from all the snorkeling for 3 days). You can swim and snorkel right from the beach in front of this restaurant. Be careful of the margaritas in this place - they are apparently very strong -each probably has a double or triple shot of alcohol. Don't drink them too fast! I watched a woman (in her 30's or 40's, not a young naive type) with her husband drink about 3 of these over an hour and a half. The problem was, she sat in the sun the whole time and probably got overheated (as well as inebriated) because she suddenly got quite sick. The husband became frantic, but Barbara (the restaurant owner) quickly got some cool towels and ice, and with the help of another couple, we got her into the shade and got her cooled down. Eventually Barbara got a taxi, and got her and her husband and the other couple who were helping them on their way back to the ship.
After all this activity, we were glad to have a quiet day at sea and enjoy the good food and fun on the ship. Debarkation went quickly once they called us (at about 9:30); we found our luggage, went through customs and were out of the terminal about 20 minutes after leaving the ship.
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If It Proves Anything - Poem by Ivan Donn Carswell
A statistical arbiter
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Victory International Christian Center is a place of refuge for those spiritually, mentally, economically, and socially, wealthy or poor. Founded in 1996 by Retired USAF Major Carlton G. McCarter and his wife elementary school teacher Marilyn E. McCarter, VICC has blazed a trail that will bring forth divine success for years to come.
In an area that is known for its oppression of people and strong traditions in all areas of life, VICC is not your traditional church being led by conventional pastors. God began this ministry against the grain, against the societal and spiritual norms for this region. So the members of this ministry are apart of an elite special force strategically placed to take down major principalities impacting our nation as a whole.
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Manuel Vázquez, a Spanish man who had previously been condemned by a Barcelona court to two years for kidnapping his sister's boyfriend, has had 6 months added to his sentence by Spain's Supreme Court.
The victim, Alexander Javier Rodríguez, whose girlfriend's family did not approve of him because he was not a Gypsy, had his life threatened by Vázquez during an altercation in front of Rodríguez' place of work. The brother allegedly told him that he had better forget about being with the young woman because Gypsies have their "rules."
Rodríguez and a friend were then forced by Vázquez and an under-aged accomplice into a car and driven to a vacant piece of land outside the city. There they were made to get out of the car and Rodríguez was forced to undress. Vázquez and the accomplice then drove away, leaving the two friends with no phone or money, and Rodríguez with no clothes. The police later found the two victims walking back to Barcelona on the highway, with Rodríguez wearing a few pieces of clothes loaned by his friend and workers at a factory they had passed.
Vázquez was given a two year jail sentence by the Provincial Court of Barcelona for illegal detention of another and a fine of 240 euros for unjust humiliation. However, that court absolved him of violating the moral integrity of the victim. The District Attorney's Office appealed the decision to the Supreme Court, claiming that not only was Rodríguez subjected to degrading treatment, but that it was directed against his dignity as a person. The prosecutor believed that Vázquez's actions constituted such a crime, as outlined by both the Spanish Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights.
The Supreme Court agreed, finding that being stripped of his clothes "constitutes especially humiliating conduct towards the victim, who was left completely naked before the defendant and the under-aged accomplice."
"The conduct of the defendant constitutes a serious humiliation of the personal dignity of the victim, with the aim of subjugating his will", the decision stated, adding that the Vázquez' behavior "involves degrading treatment, intended to humiliate the victim and to cause him unquestionable mental distress, of sufficient magnitude to be considered a crime against moral integrity."
In addition to having his sentence increased, Vázquez has also been prohibited from coming within one kilometer of Rodríguez for a period of five years.
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Randy wrote in Message No. 11104:
Your pain and anger are understandable. I want to apologize to you if I have caused you any hurt. I am not in this group to defend anyone other than the right of conscience and the need for increasing our awareness of our oneness.
Reverend Jackson is a towering figure on the world's stage. His achievements and efforts on behalf of the Human condition are many. He is a man who has persevered against adversity, hatred and terror. These are facts that can be proven.
Greg made some statements re. Rev. Jackson having fathered a child with someone other than his wife. Greg's allegation is also corroborated by the facts, (http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/01/19/jackson/index.html http://tinyurl.com/ojetz) Before I go any further I must confess that I have committed adultery, so I would be the last person on Earth to point fingers at anyone re. sexual immorality. Anyone that has been following my posts should know my feelings about our society's preoccupation with sexual immorality to the near exclusion of more pressing matters. However, this discussion is not about me, it is about what is the most productive way that we can communicate difficult and contentious issues to one another without increasing conflict.
Greg surely could have been more diplomatic in his use of the term "fraud", but a Reverend is someone who is "worthy of adoration or reverence" and I suspect that if a white reverend did the same thing, (http://tinyurl.com/jfnc3) Greg would use just as strong language. I'd be willing to bet that if Greg's own father was caught in some shenanigans, Greg would not only call him a fraud he'd renounce him. Now, it is true that the timing of the release of the allegations in the above story was probably politically motivated, but I don't see any malevolence in Greg's statement. At the time of the initial story some conservatives, Ward Connerly among them, refrained from making it an issue; "I don't believe you kick a person when he's down. This has to be a devastating thing to his family and a lot of other people who follow his guidance, but I don't want to pile on at this moment of personal anguish". Indeed, conservative columnist Andrew Sullivan suggested that the allegation could have been perceived as racist: "I'm not going to get up on a high horse about Jesse Jackson's personal woes," Sullivan writes on his Web site. "But I can't help wondering just how long it will take before he or a supporter describes the National Enquirer as the modern equivalent of Bull Connor, and the exposé as racially motivated. A day, maybe? A news cycle?"
Others weren't so reticent. Some conservatives seized upon the so- called liberal media's treatment of conservative clergy as evidence of Rev. Jackson being fair game in the, "your Rev. is a worse sinner than our Rev." game. As conservative lawyer Ann Coulter put it, "No one thought it was irrelevant or a political hit when Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker were caught with their pants down. Oh no. Then the media was full of self-righteous indignation about the rank hypocrisy of such men -- amid the snorts of laughter. Not only that, but the bad acts of those men were taken as evidence of the stupidity and hypocrisy of their flocks."
Greg also commented about the business interests of Rev. Jackson and his sons. Again, Greg speaks the truth as excerpted paragraphs below indicate; "Busch was having problems with the River North distributorship, both financial and racial. African-American employees complained that they were being denied promotions and were threatening to call in Jackson and Operation PUSH if Busch didn't satisfy their demands. The Busch family apparently assumed Jackson could now launch a successful boycott, because of public support from President Clinton, and sought to defuse the situation by winning him over as an ally. They began with a $10,000 contribution to Jackson's Citizenship Education Fund in 1997, and campaign cash to Jesse Jr. But in the end they preferred marriage to seduction, and in 1998 began exploring ways to sell the troubled beer distributorship to Jackson's own sons. In the meantime, Jesse had turned up the heat. In tandem with the Rev. James Meeks -- the powerful pastor of Salem Baptist Church, the fastest-growing black church in Chicago -- Jackson had been preaching anti-alcohol messages to the faithful in the heart of the River North Budweiser territory. "You had Jesse and Reverend Meeks saying the community needed to be dried up from alcohol at the same time Jesse's sons were looking to enter the beer business with Anheuser-Busch," recalls former Jackson associate Glen Bone III. "That type of hypocrisy didn't sit well in the community." But it worked like a charm with Augie Busch IV."
Here's how one black conservative commentator views Rev. Jackson; "Here's hoping that more people will find the courage to stand up to Jackson's mafia tactics like Eddie Edwards so that others can see Jackson for what he really has become: a petty thug."
(Michael King is a member of the African-American leadership network Project 21 and an Internet and radio broadcaster in Atlanta, Georgia. He can be reached at mhking (at) bellsouth.net and http://www.geocities.com/mhking1/.)
Jason, so here we have black people making the same allegations as Greg and I have provided other sources to substantiate Greg's claims. As you may know from my other posts I am a black man, who grew up in the projects of the deep south in racist America. I don't think that you will accuse me of being a racist, will you? Although some have described me as being conservative, I doubt if you'd find many conservatives that would say that. In fairness to your analysis of Greg's post, I tried to convey to Greg some facts of modern American life and human society. I said, "in a society where standards are routinely discarded in service to money and power, your (Greg's) positions may be misinterpreted by some, especially since you tend to write in an unapologetic tone. Put another way, in a racist society that has not come clean from a history of divide and conquer, any attack on the leadership of people of color could draw charges of bias and racism. It is a lot easier to go after the indiscretions of the leaders of powerless people than to go after the leaders of the powerful. Yet, on this matter I suspect that Greg would go after powerful conservatives too if they strayed from their marriage or ethical business conduct. The problem is that powerful conservative people get to determine who is bad and who is good, to reward and punish. In attacking unrighteousness across the board without acknowledging differences in who has power and who doesn't and the existence of institutional racism deeply embedded in our society, Greg may have been unfair but I think that it is incorrect to call him a racist on the facts and as a matter of civil discourse on this wonderful resource for our reconciliation. What are your thoughts Jason? How about if you and Greg share a bag of fries and don't forget the ketchup. As you may know, it has natural mellowing agents.
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Ramon Sotelo, 80, of Galt, died March 29. He was born Dec. 12, 1933, in Arizona.
Mr. Sotelo worked in manufacturing and was a foreman in the agriculture business for 50 years.
He is survived by his wife, Juanita Sotelo; daughter, Kelly Barron; son, Raymond Sotelo; 10 grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.
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In recent weeks, McHale has used The Soup to promote Community—with facetious knowingness, of course.
This is not by any means a facetious question: Do you think alcohol should also be made illegal?
I had no business to get facetious--my temper's not so good, either.
I am trying to be facetious, but really the matter worries me a little.
He struggled not quite successfully to be facetious over the pretty, negligible activities of his wife's sex.
Ranulph welcomed the facetious man of law with no little satisfaction.
The boy had a facetious and rather unpleasant face, and was certainly not remarkable for good manners.
"Ay, and to love them too, I suppose," added Teyma with a facetious sneer.
I even felt all up my back, thinking that perhaps some facetious boy might have transformed me into a walking placard.
The feeble attempt to be facetious to the last utterly failed.
1590s, from French facétieux, from facétie "a joke" (15c.), from Latin facetia "jest, witticism," from facetus "witty, elegant, fine, courteous," of unknown origin, perhaps related to facis "torch."
It implies a desire to be amusing, often intrusive or ill-timed. Related: Facetiously; facetiousness. "Facetiæ in booksellers' catalogues, is, like curious, a euphemism for erotica." [Fowler]


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A special six-pack of the beer with two Westvleteren glasses was sold in Belgium and will be sold in the U.S. sometime later this year, according to Ryan Williams, a spokesman for the Shelton Brothers importers. In order to try to keep any profits from the sales going to the monks, it will probably be priced at about $85 a six-pack, he said.
It should be available in the Bay Area, but details have not been worked out. The Almanac will try to post details as they become available.
And if you really can't wait, the special six-pack and glasses are available on eBay from a British seller asking $213 plus $95 postage.
— Barbara Wood


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Vintage Glamour Clutch by Brenda K. B. Anderson
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Vintage Glamour Clutch
Pack big-day essentials in a shimmery bag with an antique-inspired clasp and shape.
SMC SELECT Pertinio, 1.75oz/50g balls, each approx 109yds/100m (82% cotton, 14% viscose, 4% lurex)
2 balls #01916 Gray
Bridal satin lining fabric, .5yd/.5m
Plastic canvas, 2.5"/6.5cm by 8.5"/21.5cm
Sew-in style purse frame, 6"/15cm (www.etsy.com/listing/60771582/6-inch-halfround-sewing-pur...)
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|Sport, 1 pitch, 70'
|YDS: 5.11a French: 6c Ewbanks: 22 UIAA: VII+ ZA: 22 British: E3 5c [details]
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By Deaun Schovajsa
Jul 17, 2008
rating: 5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c
|Steep it is with beautiful movement on big holds and side pulls. This one is sweet and it gets shade early in the afternoon!
By coop Best
From: Glenwood Springs, CO
Sep 7, 2010
|This is getting slick but still very fun
By Jikimika Dinglehoffer
From: Lander, Wy
May 24, 2011
|Too slimy. Maybe this route was fun a very long time ago. Even on a cold day this thing is slick.
By E thatcher
From: Plymouth/ North Conway (NH)
May 25, 2011
|I just did this route 2 weeks ago and didn't think it was too slimy at all. In fact, I thought it was the best .11- I've ever done. Some of the holds have to much chalk on them and would benefit from a scrubbing. Other then that I'd say it's totally fine.


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This is a very nice Gemini 34 MC. She is a two owner boat and has never been to the tropics. Her enclosure is in excellent condition and her Westerbeke diesel has only 863 hours. She has had only light use on the Chesapeake Bay and a trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Her owner is very meticulous and he reports that "everything works" Please see the "Full Specs" for further details.
You can email Ron at email@example.com
The dinette is up on the centerline with good visibility and open air into the cockpit with an opening door and drop open windows.
To starboard there is a cabin aft, the galley is amidships and access to the forward owners cabin is forward with a queen berth amidships with great overhead light and two hatches for ventilation.
To port there is a cabin aft, nav station and work space amidships and a head forward with a shower and a composting head.
The cockpit has a lot of room for sailing and relaxing and aft is a wonderful hammock that is new this fall 2016.
It's a wonderful layout for a 34' boat that can use a regular slip with 14' beam.
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Y-DNA-HAPLOGROUP-I-L ArchivesArchiver > Y-DNA-HAPLOGROUP-I > 2009-07 > 1247920008
From: "Ken Nordtvedt" <>
Subject: [yDNAhgI] More Walk the Y New SNPs for I2a tree
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:26:48 -0600
A dna donor from the I2a2a-Disles clade received his Walk the Y results. Two things were achieved:
1. He found a new snp, named L178, on the Dinaric/Disles branch line after it splits from the I2a2 Isles branch line.
See warpedfounderstree file at http://knordtvedt.home.bresnan.net
2. He was found ancestral for L161, the new snp found by a Walk the Y donor from I2a2 Isles. This importantly means L161 occured on the Isles branch line after this same split mentioned in 1. This latter finding is important for the salesmanship of L161; it really stands a chance of splitting the four main clades of I2a2-Isles. So folks in I2a2-Isles in clades A,B,C,D should test for L161 at FTDNA's advanced tests catalog. The donor whose dna found L161 is from the D clade, and we hope it is not extremely downstream and being a private-like snp. Only testing by assorted Isles I2a2 people can now sort this out. The synergy between The Disles results and the earlier Isles finding put L161 where it can split Isles.
When L178 becomes available for purchase at FTDNA, some I2a2a Dinarics should test for it. Then we find out if L178 splits Disles from Dinaric clades . I2a2a Disles is found mainly in the British Isles, but interestingly it is closest to I2a2a Dinaric which is found mainly in Eastern Europe with its hotspot in the western Balkans. Those two branch lines must have had an interesting journey in Europe since the LGM.
We have now found 5 new snps within the I2a tree --- three on the I2a1 branch line, one on the I2a2-Isles branch line, and now one on the I2a2a-Disles branch line. I estimate a total of about 50,000 years of parallel and independent branch line has been covered in these Walk the Y searches. So we are getting a new snp found per approximate 10,000 years of branch line, or 330 generations. This number seems about what the HUGO versus I1 full Y sequence data results seem to show.
We still wait on a Walk the Y result from an I2* donor. I2* is close to my heart, being a clade of unusual geography and age which may contain the best information about the earliest era of haplogroup I. Finding 2 new snps from him on the I2(xI2a) part of the tree would not be unrealistic given the number we have found so far.
Then we have a couple donors from the two main divisions of I2b1* --- Continental and Roots. They stand good chances of finding 2 snps separating them, and also conveying information about I2b1a and I2b1c as bonuses.
Findly, a brave donor from I2a* Western waits results. He stands a good chance of a couple new snps to take the * away from this unique clade.
So far we'd have to say the Walk the Y projects in I2 have been a success in their early phases. Followup individual tests of the new snps by folks known to be in the appropriate sub-haplogroups and clades are required, however, to extract all the information the new snps contain about the phylogenetic tree of haplogroup I2 and new branchings.
A good number of I1 people have signed up for the Walk. It's a discussion for another day. What happens in I2 and what happens in I1 are quite disjoint. But the snp discovered per 10,000 years of independent branch line should give a clue to what to expect.
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The show must go on. So the old adage goes at least, but that was before electronic music and before bands became completely dependent on alternating current and all the gizmos, computers, and samplers that it brings to life. An electronic-based band should hardly have amnesty from such showbiz dogma. And yet the Junior Boys pulled out all the scapegoats at Webster Hall when Matt Didemus' sampler cut out. Singer Jeremy Greenspan had the unfortunate task of conveying all the bad news to the crowd, though. They chastised the sampler's manufacturer, AKAI, stressed the frustration of having such problems in New York City rather than Kentucky, and shot out that, "I bet this never happens to Fleet Foxes."
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Eliminating an ambulance is short-sighted
Dear Editor:
Really, the city wants to decrease the number of ambulances in Ahwatukee Foothills from two to one, to serve an isolated community of 80,000.
If this is a re-structuring thing then maybe you should get an independent outsider to take a look at how you operate this service. The fire department, which operates the ambulances in Phoenix, responds to emergency medical calls 86 percent of all their dispatches. Yet, they have less than 50 percent of their total on-duty equipment as ambulances. Perhaps you should be running this system as a business because a ride to the hospital in an ambulance can be billed at nearly $700, for a basic ride, not including any supplies that were used. The fire department claims they are collecting 81 percent, which is better than most collection agencies.
This is a revenue generating service! You should be expanding it instead of decreasing it. If the fire department can use less of the expensive fire engines and ladder trucks, they can save on repairs and replacements by utilizing a more cost-effective and equally useful ambulance.
The next closest ambulance to Ahwatukee would have to come from the north side of South Mountain (as explained in the March 26 article in the AFN, "Local ambulance could be on budget chopping block"). That would take from the citizens of another district, who would be sacrificing that service, and back-up for that area would come from somewhere else, thus depleting service from that area, creating a domino effect.
Being involved with emergency medical services for nearly 25 years, I have seen enough to know that planning is key to a successful service. Statistics are used in every facet of planning and daily operations in order to get the most out of that service. Look at your statistics!
To the council members of Phoenix: How can you explain to your constituents that they waited for an ambulance and it may or may not have contributed to the worsening of his/her condition? Getting a fire truck to a scene does not automatically assure that the problem is fixed. Yes, there are some field procedures that can temporarily fix what the problem may be, but transporting a patient to a hospital, where there are doctors, skilled nursing staff, equipment, additional medications (not found in paramedic kits) and comfort, that is the real treatment. There should be no excuse for delay of transportation due to lack of ambulances.
If you, or a family member, had to wait for one, I am confident that it would never happen again. Treat others as you would like to be treated.
Brian O'Leary


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An essential component of efforts to prevent new human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV) infections in the United States is the use of voluntary HIV counseling
and testing by persons at risk for HIV, especially members of underserved
populations.1 To increase the number of
persons at risk for HIV who receive voluntary HIV counseling and testing services,
barriers to these services must be identified and removed. The stigmatization
of persons infected with HIV and the groups most affected by HIV, including
men who have sex with men and illicit drug users, is a barrier to testing.2,3 Measuring public attitudes and
knowledge about HIV transmission to determine the prevalence and the correlates
of stigmatizing attitudes is important for guiding efforts to remove barriers
to HIV prevention. This report describes the results of a national public
opinion survey conducted through the Internet to measure indicators of HIV-related
stigma and knowledge of HIV transmission. The findings indicate that most
persons do not have stigmatizing views.
During August-September 2000, Research Triangle Institute conducted
an Internet-based, household survey in a sample of 7493 adults aged ≥18
years. The sample was proportionately selected from a nationally representative
panel of approximately 45,000 households. To establish the panel, a sample
of U.S. households obtained through random-digit-dialed telephone sampling
was offered Internet access and equipment in exchange for participation in
weekly surveys. Surveys were conducted using a standard television set connected
to the Internet, and responses were entered using a remote control. A module
on HIV-related stigma and knowledge of transmission was included in a larger
survey on health and aging. This analysis is based on 5641 respondents (75.3%)
who answered the question on HIV stigma.
The survey included one question that was considered a proxy indicator
for a stigmatizing attitude. Participants were identified who strongly agreed
or agreed with the statement "People who got AIDS [acquired immunodeficiency
syndrome] through sex or drug use have gotten what they deserve." Although
this question addresses only one element of HIV/AIDS stigma, for this report,
these answers were considered a "stigmatizing" response. Two questions concerned
knowledge about HIV transmission. Persons who responded that it was very unlikely
or impossible to become infected through sharing a glass or being coughed
or sneezed on were considered informed; those who stated that it was very
likely, somewhat likely, or somewhat unlikely were classified as misinformed.
Percentage estimates were weighted to provide representative estimates, and
confidence intervals (CIs) and p-values were computed using SUDAAN.
Among the 5641 respondents, 40.2% (95% CI = 38.8%-41.6%) responded that
HIV transmission could occur (i.e., it was very likely, somewhat likely, or
somewhat unlikely) through sharing a glass, and 41.1% (CI = 39.7%-42.5%) responded
that it could occur from being coughed or sneezed on by an HIV-infected person.
A total of 18.7% responded that persons who acquired AIDS through sex or drug
use have gotten what they deserve. Stigmatizing responses were more common
among men (21.5%), whites (20.8%), persons aged ≥55 years (30.0%), those
with only a high school education (22.1%), those with an
income <$30,000
(23.4%), and those in poorer health compared with others (23.6%). For both
transmission questions, approximately 25% of those who were misinformed gave
stigmatizing responses, compared with approximately 14% who were informed
DA Lentine, JC Hersey, VG Iannacchione, GH Laird, K McClamroch, L Thalji,
Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Prevention
Informatics Office, Office of the Director; Behavioral Intervention Research
Br, Div of HIV/AIDS Prevention-Intervention Research and Support, National
Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC.
The findings in this report suggest that most U.S. adults do not hold
stigmatizing views about persons with HIV infection or AIDS. However, a substantial
minority gave a response that suggests they may have stigmatizing attitudes
about persons with HIV. The smallest proportion of respondents who gave this
response was black, the racial/ethnic group with the highest rates of AIDS
in the United States. Significantly more of the respondents who were misinformed
about HIV transmission gave a stigmatizing response, suggesting that increasing
understanding about behaviors related to HIV transmission may result in lower
levels of stigmatizing beliefs about infected persons. However, many other
factors are probably related to stigma.
Early HIV diagnosis and entry into health care have both individual
and societal benefits: improved health and productivity, reduced hospitalization
costs, and decreased transmission from persons who do not know their HIV status.1 Because most HIV-infected persons probably will
adopt safer sexual behaviors after the diagnosis of HIV infection,4,5 increasing the number of infected
persons who know their serostatus is an important prevention goal. However,
HIV-infected persons who fear being stigmatized are typically reluctant to
acknowledge risk behaviors, avoid seeking prevention information, and may
experience real or perceived barriers to prevention and other health-care
services.2,3 Therefore,
public health measures that encourage access to HIV testing by reducing stigma
(e.g., social marketing campaigns targeted to high risk, stigmatized populations;
sexuality and cultural sensitivity training for health-care providers; and
anonymous testing opportunities) strengthen HIV-prevention efforts.
The findings in this report are subject to at least two limitations.
First, the results are based on only one question about stigma, which comprises
a range of attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. Second, the survey did not include
persons who do not own a telephone, persons in institutions, the transient
or homeless, and those living on military installations. Despite these limitations,
the sampling methods eliminated the main bias in earlier Internet samples
(i.e., a lack of universal access to the Internet) while preserving the advantages
of Internet surveys. In addition, the panel closely matched the overall U.S.
population with respect to age, race/ethnicity, sex, education, and income.
Stigma includes prejudice and active discrimination directed toward
persons either perceived to be or actually infected with HIV and the social
groups and persons with whom they are associated.3
Overcoming stigma is an important step in persons seeking to know their HIV
status. Measurements such as those conducted in this study help to direct
and assess efforts to overcome these barriers.
1 figure omitted
Data reported to CDC through the West Nile Virus (WNV) Surveillance
System have shown an increase in the geographic range of WNV activity in 2000
compared with 1999, the first year that WNV was reported in the Western Hemisphere.1 In response to this occurrence of WNV, 17 states
along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, New York City, and the District of Columbia
conducted WNV surveillance, which included monitoring mosquitoes, sentinel
chicken flocks, wild birds, and potentially susceptible mammals (e.g., horses
and humans).2 In 1999, WNV was detected
in four states (Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York).3 In 2000, epizootic activity in birds and/or mosquitoes
was reported from 12 states (Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
Vermont, and Virginia) and the District of Columbia. Of the 13 jurisdictions,
seven also reported severe neurologic WNV infections in humans, horses, and/or
other mammal species. This report presents surveillance data reported to CDC
from January 1 through November 15.
During 2000, 18 (14 from New York and four from New Jersey) persons
were hospitalized with severe central nervous system illnesses caused by WNV.
Patients ranged in age from 36 to 87 years (mean: 62 years); 12 were men.
Of the New York patients, 10 resided in Richmond County (Staten Island), two
in Kings County (Brooklyn), one in Queens County, and one in New York County
(Manhattan). Of the New Jersey patients, two resided in Hudson County, and
one each in Bergen and Passaic counties. Epizootic activity in birds and/or
mosquitoes preceded the onset of human illness in all of these counties. Diagnoses
were confirmed either by ELISA for WNV-specific IgM in cerebrospinal fluid
or by a four-fold rise in WNV-specific neutralizing antibody in paired serum
samples. Dates of illness onset ranged from July 20 to September 13. Of the
18 patients, one died (case fatality rate: 6%), and one is in a persistent
vegetative state. In addition, WNV infection was documented in a mildly symptomatic
woman residing in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
Veterinary surveillance has identified WNV infections in 65 horses with
severe neurologic disease from 26 counties in seven states (27 horses in New
Jersey; 24 in New York; seven in Connecticut; four in Delaware; and one each
in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island). Illness onsets in these
horses ranged from August 15 to October 29. WNV infection has been confirmed
in 26 other mammals; of these, 25 were from 10 counties in New York (14 bats,
four rodents, three rabbits, two cats, two raccoons), and one was from Connecticut
WNV was isolated from or WNV gene sequences were detected in 470 mosquito
pools in 38 counties in five states (352 pools in New York, 54 in New Jersey,
46 in Pennsylvania, 14 in Connecticut, and four in Massachusetts). Of the
470 reported WNV-infected pools, Culex species accounted
for 418, including 222 Cx. pipiens/restuans, 126 Cx. pipiens, 35 Cx. salinarus, 11 Cx. restuans, and 24 unspecified Cx. pools. Ochlerotatus species
(formerly in Aedes genus)4
accounted for 29 positive pools, including nine Oc. japonicus, nine Oc. triseriatus, eight Oc. trivittatus, and one each of three other Oc. species. Aedes species accounted for 18 positive pools, including 16 Ae. vexans, one Ae. albopictus, and one unspecified Ae. pool. In addition, WNV was detected in three pools
of Culiseta melanura, one pool of Psorophora ferox, and one pool of Anopheles punctipennis.
A total of 4139 WNV-infected dead birds were reported from 133 counties
in 12 states (New York reported 1263 birds; New Jersey, 1125; Connecticut,
1116; Massachusetts, 442; Rhode Island, 87; Maryland, 50; Pennsylvania, 34;
New Hampshire, seven; Virginia, seven; Delaware, one; North Carolina, one;
and Vermont, one) and the District of Columbia (five). Crows were the most
frequently reported WNV-infected species. Since 1999, WNV has been identified
in 76 avian species in the United States. WNV infection also was documented
in specimens collected from six previously seronegative sentinel chickens
in six counties in two states (New Jersey, four and New York, two).
A Novello, MD, D White, PhD, L Kramer, PhD, C Trimarchi, MS, M Eidson,
DVM, D Morse, MD, B Wallace, MD, P Smith, MD, State Epidemiologist, New York
State Dept of Health; S Trock, DVM, New York State Dept of Agriculture; W
Stone, MS, Dept of Environmental Conservation, Albany; B Cherry, VMD, J Kellachan,
MPH, V Kulasekera, PhD, J Miller, MD, I Poshni, PhD, C Glaser, MPH, New York
City Dept of Health, New York. W Crans, PhD, Rutgers Univ, New Brunswick;
F Sorhage, VMD, E Bresnitz, MD, State Epidemiologist, New Jersey Dept of Health
and Senior Svcs. T Andreadis, PhD, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station,
New Haven; R French, DVM, Univ of Connecticut, Storrs; M Lis, DVM, Connecticut
Dept of Agriculture; R Nelson, DVM, D Mayo, ScD, M Cartter, MD, J Hadler,
MD, State Epidemiologist, Connecticut Dept of Public Health. B Werner, PhD,
A DeMaria, Jr, MD, State Epidemiologist, Massachusetts Dept of Public Health.
U Bandy, MD, State Epidemiologist, Rhode Island Dept of Health. J. Greenblatt,
MD, State Epidemiologist, New Hampshire Dept of Health. P Keller, M Levy,
MD, State Epidemiologist, District of Columbia Dept of Public Health. C Lesser,
MS, Maryland Dept of Agriculture; R Beyer, C Driscoll, DVM, Maryland Dept
of Natural Resources; C Johnson, DVM, J Krick, PhD, A Altman, MS, D Rohn,
MPH, R Myers, PhD, L Montague, J Scaletta, MPH, J Roche, MD, State Epidemiologist,
Maryland Dept of Health and Mental Hygiene. B Engber, ScD, N Newton, PhD,
T McPherson, N MacCormack, MD, State Epidemiologist, North Carolina Dept of
Health. G Obiri, DrPH, J Rankin, Jr, DVM, State Epidemiologist, Pennsylvania
Dept of Health. P Tassler, PhD, P Galbraith, DMD, State Epidemiologist, Vermont
Dept of Health. S Jenkins, VMD, R Stroube, MD, State Epidemiologist, Virginia
Dept of Health. D Wolfe, MPH, H Towers, VMD, W Meredith, PhD, A Hathcock,
PhD, State Epidemiologist, Delaware Div of Public Health. Animal, Plant, and
Health Inspection Svc, US Dept of Agriculture. National Wildlife Health Center,
US Geologic Survey, Madison, Wisconsin. P Kelley, MD, Walter Reed Army Institute
of Research, District of Columbia. M Bunning, DVM, US Air Force, Frederick,
Maryland. Arbovirus Diseases Br, Div of Vector Borne Infectious Diseases,
National Center for Infectious Diseases; and EIS officers, CDC.
Although the WNV epizootic has persisted in the four states originally
affected in 1999 and expanded into eight additional states and the District
of Columbia, only 18 humans with severe neurologic illness attributed to WNV
were reported in 2000 compared with 62 in 1999.5
However, severe neurologic illness occurs in <1% of infected persons, suggesting
that approximately 2000 persons may have been infected during 2000. Although
some decrease in severe human illness may be attributable to vector-control
and other prevention activities, experience in Europe shows that the incidence
of human illness can be variable and outbreaks sporadic.6
Because widespread WNV epizootic activity probably will persist and expand
in the United States, larger outbreaks of WNV infection and human illness
are possible if adequate surveillance, prevention activities, and mosquito
control are not established and maintained.
A major objective of WNV surveillance is to detect epizootic activity
early so that intervention can occur before severe human illnesses. In 2000,
all 18 persons with severe neurologic disease became ill after WNV-infected
dead birds were identified in their county of residence, suggesting that avian
surveillance data are a sensitive indicator of epizootic transmission that
may portend human illness. However, of 133 counties reporting WNV-infected
birds, only seven (5%) reported at least one person with severe neurologic
illness. The presence of WNV-positive mosquito pools may indicate a greater
potential for severe human illness as six (16%) of the 38 counties with positive
pools reported at least one severely ill person. But these pools were identified
before the onset of human illness in only five of these counties. Further
analysis of 2000 surveillance data, including an assessment of the timing,
number, and geographic location of WNV-infected birds, and an assessment of
mosquito-trapping activities, infection rates, and species identified are
required to further interpret these data.
As occurred in 1999, the number of reported WNV illnesses in horses
peaked and persisted after human illnesses.7
Although more data are needed to determine the reasons for this relative delay,
it appears that horses are not a sensitive sentinel for the prediction of
human illness.
The continued geographic expansion of WNV indicates the need for expanded
surveillance and prevention activities. Surveillance should include monitoring
WNV infection in birds, humans, and veterinary species and in mosquitoes,
particularly when WNV activity has been identified.5
Prevention should include programs that (1) eliminate mosquito-breeding habitats
in public areas; (2) control mosquito larvae where these habitats cannot be
eliminated; (3) promote the increased use of personal protection and the reduction
of peridomestic conditions that support mosquito breeding; and (4) implement
adult mosquito control when indicated by increasing WNV activity or the occurrence
of human disease. In addition, because arbovirus infections are endemic in
the continental United States, states should have a comprehensive plan and
a functional arbovirus surveillance and response capacity that includes trained
personnel with suitable laboratory support for identifying arbovirus activity,
including WNV.5
During August 16-October 17, 2000, 33 cases of acute flaccid paralysis
(AFP), including seven (21%) deaths, were reported in Cape Verde, an archipelago
of 10 islands west of Senegal and Mauritania. Preliminary laboratory results
identified wild type 1 poliovirus among eight cases. The first patient was
a child aged 2 years from the capital city of Praia; paralysis onset occurred
August 16. The child had received one dose of the recommended three doses
of oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV). Twenty-two cases were reported from the
island of Santiago, seven from Sal, three from San Vincente, and one from
Maio. The ages of the AFP patients ranged from 3 months-38 years; 11 (33%)
were aged <5 years, 15 (46%) were 5-14 years, and seven (21%) were ≥15
years. No deaths were reported among patients aged <5 years. Three deaths
(case fatality rate [CFR]: 20%) occurred among patients aged 5-14 years and
four deaths occurred among patients aged ≥15 years (CFR: 57%). Of 33 cases
with known vaccination status, 13 (39%) were fully vaccinated.
The estimated population of Cape Verde in 2000 was
(World Health Organization [WHO], unpublished data, 2000). Reported routine vaccination
coverage with three doses of OPV has been <80% every year since 1995. The
country has not conducted mass vaccination campaigns against poliomyelitis
and has not established AFP surveillance. In response to the outbreak, a mass
vaccination campaign was initiated October 16 with the goal of vaccinating
every child aged 0-59 months with two OPV doses. Investigations by the Cape
Verde Ministry of Health and WHO are under way to determine the circumstances
associated with the outbreak, whether the outbreak has spread to other territories
such as the neighboring countries of West Africa, and whether additional interventions
will be required to control the outbreak, including a mass campaign targeting
persons aged 5-14 years.
Travelers to Cape Verde and West Africa who are not vaccinated adequately
must be considered at risk for polio. Recommendations for children in the
United States include a four-dose vaccination series with inactivated poliovirus
vaccine (IPV) at ages 2, 4, and 6-18 months, and 4-6 years. Unvaccinated adults
should receive three doses of IPV, the first two doses at 4-8 week intervals
and the third dose 6-12 months after the second. If three doses cannot be
administered within the recommended intervals before protection is needed,
alternative schedules are proposed.1 For incompletely vaccinated
persons, additional IPV doses are recommended to complete a series. Booster
IPV doses should be considered for persons who have completed a primary series
of poliovirus vaccination and who may be traveling to areas where poliomyelitis
is endemic.
Ministry of Health, Country Office, Praia, Cape Verde; Intercountry
Office for West Africa, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire; Intercountry Office for Southern
Africa and Regional Office for Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe. Institute Pasteur,
Dakar, Senegal. National Institute of Virology, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Vaccines and Other Biologicals Dept, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Div of Quarantine and Respiratory and Enteric Viruses Br, Div of Viral and
Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases; Vaccine Preventable
Disease Eradication Div, National Immunization Program, CDC.
Reference: 1 available
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Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of lung and bronchus cancer.1 During 1988-1997, per capita cigarette smoking
in California declined more than twice as rapidly compared with the rest of
the country.2 To characterize lung cancer
incidence in California, data from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance,
Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program were compared with data from
the population-based California Cancer Registry (CCR). This report summarizes
the results of that analysis, which indicated that during 1988-1997, age-adjusted
lung cancer incidence rates in California declined significantly compared
with stable incidence rates for the combined SEER area of five states and
three metropolitan areas.
SEER data used in the analysis were from Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa,
New Mexico, and Utah, and Atlanta, Georgia; Detroit, Michigan; and Seattle-Puget
Sound, Washington.3 SEER registries in California
were excluded from the SEER analysis and were included with the CCR data.
CCR data were statewide; SEER data collected in California included Los Angeles
and the San Francisco Bay area only. Data collection standards for SEER and
CCR were similar. However, CCR had more data than the SEER California component;
therefore, the combined CCR and SEER data provided a more reliable estimate
of cancer rates than using the California SEER data alone.
Cancer incidence rates were age-adjusted by the direct method based
on estimated 2000 U.S. population data.3
Annual lung and bronchus cancer (International Classification
of Diseases, for Oncology, codes C340-C349) incidence rates per
population during 1988-1997 were reported among men, women, and both sexes
combined for California and the eight SEER regions combined. Two measures
of change were reported. First, the estimated annual percentage change (EAPC)
was calculated using the average percentage increase or decrease in cancer
incidence rates per year during 1988-1997, and a regression line was fitted
using the assumption that the natural logarithm of cancer rates changed at
a constant rate during the 10-year period. Second, the total percentage change
was the average of 1988 and 1989 data minus the average of 1996 and 1997 data
divided by 1988 and 1989 data and multiplied by 100. Statistical significance
was set at alpha = 0.01.
Non-California SEER data did not reveal a consistent pattern in the
age-adjusted lung and bronchus cancer incidence rates during 1988-1997. EAPC
of −0.4% per year was not significantly different from zero. Comparing
the CCR incidence rates with non-California SEER incidence rates, the CCR
lung and bronchus cancer incidence rates were slightly higher during 1988-1990.
However, during 1991-1997, incidence rates in CCR declined from 68.0 per
to 60.1. During 1988-1997, overall lung and bronchus cancer CCR incidence
rates decreased an average of 1.9% per year (p<0.01). The CCR incidence
rates decreased 14.0% during the 10-year period; the rates in non-California
SEER regions decreased 2.7%.
The decline in incidence rates among men (all ages combined) in the
CCR data was 1.5 times greater than the decline among men in the non-California
SEER regions. Among men, lung and bronchus cancer incidence rates declined
significantly during 1988-1997 in data from the CCR and the SEER regions;
however, the decline was greater in CCR (EAPC = −2.9%; p<0.01) compared
with non-California SEER regions (EAPC = −1.8%; p<0.01). Among women
(all ages combined) in CCR, lung and bronchus cancer incidence rates declined
4.8% during 1988-1997 (EAPC = −0.6; p<0.01); incidence rates among
women in non-California SEER regions increased 13.2% (EAPC = 1.5; p<0.01).
DW Cowling, PhD, SL Kwong, MPH, R Schlag, MS, JC Lloyd, MA, DG Bal,
MD, Tobacco Control Section and Cancer Surveillance Section, California Dept
of Health Svcs. Office on Smoking and Health, National Center for Chronic
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC.
More than 80% of lung and bronchus cancer is caused by cigarette smoking,
and former smokers have about half the risk for dying from lung cancer than
do current smokers.1 Compared with current
smokers, the risk for lung and bronchus cancer among former smokers declines
as the duration of abstinence lengthens, with risk reduction becoming evident
within 5 years of cessation.1 Reductions
in the smoking rate in a state could reduce lung and bronchus cancer rates
within 5 years of the decline in smoking rates.1
The difference in the rate of decline in lung and bronchus cancer incidence
rates between California and other U.S. regions may be related, in part, to
the significant declines in smoking rates as a result of California tobacco
control initiatives. The California Tobacco Control Program was created by
Proposition 99 and was approved in 1988.2
The program emphasized a comprehensive approach to tobacco control, prevention,
and education and included strategies to change social norms related to tobacco
use. The decrease in per capita cigarette consumption that began in 1990 has
been attributed to the $0.25 increase in the excise tax in 1989.2
During 1988-1996, California had a more rapid decline in per capita cigarette
consumption compared with the rest of the country.2,4
This decline has been attributed primarily to a change in the social acceptability
of smoking among California residents.2,4
However, smoking rates in California were declining more rapidly than the
rest of the country since the late 1980s, before enactment of Proposition
The findings in this study are subject to at least three limitations.
First, the SEER cancer incidence rates are based on data from selected geographic
areas and may not represent incidence rates nationally; SEER data in this
analysis represent 9.5% of the U.S. population (excluding California). Second,
although a constant rate of change over the study period is the standard assumption
when using EAPC, this assumption has not been tested.3
Third, although decreased population smoking rates in California are probably
responsible for reduced rates of lung and bronchus cancer, a cause-and-effort
relation cannot be determined through population-based assessments.
Following the California model, aggressive and comprehensive tobacco-control
programs have been implemented in other states, including Arizona, Florida,
Maine, Massachusetts, and Oregon. Initial results from several states have
shown substantial declines in per capita cigarette consumption and/or changes
in the prevalence of adult or youth smoking rates.4- 8
The results of this report suggest that a comprehensive tobacco prevention
and education program also may reduce rates of lung and bronchus cancer.
On the basis of results from state programs, CDC published Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control.9
This document, along with the release of Surgeon General's
Report, Reducing Tobacco Use: A Report of the Surgeon General,10 provides guidance to states in establishing successful
and sustainable tobacco control programs.
HIV-Related Knowledge and Stigma—United States, 2000. JAMA. 2000;284(24):3118-3119. doi:10.1001/jama.284.24.3118
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Recognised internationally as a masterly interpreter, Mark Wigglesworth creates performances of great sophistication and rare beauty. His highly detailed readings always possess a controlled pacing and a finely considered architectural structure. He has forged enduring relationships with many top-level orchestras and opera houses across the world in repertoire ranging from Mozart to Tippett.
Born in Sussex, England, Mark Wigglesworth studied music at Manchester University and conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London. While still a student, he formed the Premiere Ensemble, an orchestra committed to performing a new piece in every programme. A few weeks after leaving the Academy, he won the Kondrashin International Conducting Competition in the Netherlands, and since then has worked with many of the leading orchestras and opera companies of the world.
In 1992 he became Associate Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and further appointments included Principal Guest Conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Highlights of his time with BBC NOW included several visits to the BBC Proms, a performance of Mahler's tenth symphony at the prestigious Amsterdam Mahler Festival in 1995, and a six-part television series for the BBC entitled Everything To Play For.
In addition to working with most of the UK's orchestras, Mark Wigglesworth has guest conducted many of Europe's finest ensembles, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam, La Scala Filarmonica, Milan, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Rome, Stockholm Philharmonic, Gothenburg Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony, Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg Camerata and the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
He has been just as busy in North America, having been invited to the Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, the Toronto Symphony, and the Boston Symphony. He regularly visits the Minnesota Orchestra and has an on-going relationship with the New World Symphony. In Australia he has worked regularly with the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras and enjoys a special relationship with the Adelaide Symphony.
Equally at home in the opera house, Mark Wigglesworth started his operatic career with a period as Music Director of Opera Factory, London. Since then he has worked regularly at Glyndebourne (Peter Grimes, La bohème, Le nozze di Figaro), Welsh National Opera (Elektra, The Rake's Progress, Tristan und Isolde, Così fan tutte) and English National Opera (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Così fan tutte, Falstaff, Katya Kabanova, Parsifal). He has conducted at the Netherlands Opera (Peter Grimes); La Monnaie in Brussels (Mitridate, Wozzeck, Pelléas et Mélisande); the Sydney Opera House (Peter Grimes); the Metropolitan Opera, New York (Le nozze di Figaro); and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg).
In the studio, Wigglesworth's recordings have centred around a project with BIS Records to record all the symphonies of Shostakovich. This cycle has received critical acclaim throughout the world. Other recordings include live performances of Mahler's sixth and tenth symphonies issued by the Melbourne Symphony on the MSO Live label, Peter Grimes from the Glyndebourne Festival, Don Giovanni from the Sydney Opera House, a disc of English music with the Sydney Symphony, and most recently the two Brahms Piano Concertos, played by Stephen Hough and the Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg.
Orchestral highlights
Minnesota Orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
New World Symphony Orchestra
Camerata Salzburg
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Royal Flemish Philharmonic
Opera highlights
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny)
Metropolitan Opera (Le nozze di Figaro)
Glyndebourne (Peter Grimes, La bohème, Le nozze di Figaro)
Bavarian State Opera (Così fan tutte, Mitridate re di Ponto)
Netherlands Opera (Peter Grimes)
English National Opera (Jenůfa, Die Zauberflöte, Macbeth of Mtsensk, La forza del destino, Katya Kabanova, Parsifal)
Welsh National Opera (Elektra, The Rake's Progress, Tristan und Isolde, Così fan tutte)
Mark Wigglesworth conducts [the ENO] in a masterly interpretation marked by extreme contrasts between silken sensuous pianissimi and boilingly thunderous fortissimi. The playing is as good as anything in London.
The Times, five stars
There are many big orchestral beasts still to appear in this Proms season, but when the summer's highlights are recalled this superlative performance of Elgar's First Symphony by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Mark Wigglesworth will surely be near the top. It had everything.
This is an exquisitely musical and splendidly atmospheric disc… his outstanding recording of the Mahler 10th Symphony… is my all-time favorite performance of that work. This is yet further proof that he is an exceptionally special talent… Wigglesworth draws such extraordinary playing out of the Sydney Symphony that one is left speechless in trying to describe its effect.


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Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin (www.beg.utexas.edu).
2003 West Texas Geological Society Fall Symposium, Midland, Texas, October 89, 2003
Deanna M. Combs, Eugene M. Kim, and Susan D. Hovorka
The Yates Formation in the Permian Basin, Texas contains an under-exploited gas resource. Little research or commercial effort has been directed at examining incremental gas production opportunities such as for the Yates Formation. Gas from the Yates Formation historically has been under-exploited in lieu of deeper occurring oil reservoirs and has been produced and sold at a discount due to its high nitrogen content (15-20 % nitrogen) and low pressures. Regional use of this gas as a fuel source for gas-fired turbines or mixing of the high nitrogen gas with other low nitrogen gases may increase its value and market. More detailed stratigraphic and reservoir characterization efforts are essential for designing efficient production strategies.
While the importance of cores to calibrate wireline log data is obvious, it is especially crucial in interpreting the lateral variations within the Yates Formation. Integrated log data and core studies of the Yates Formation from Ward-Estes, North Field, Ward County provide a basis for interpreting Yates facies and lithologies from wireline logs. Low gamma ray signatures in Ward-Estes, North Field wells correspond to intervals of thin dolomite and thick anhydrite. By contrast, cores in Kermit Field, Winkler County and Embar Field, Andrews County reveal that low gamma ray values represent thick intervals of halite, as well as the aforementioned dolomite and anhydrite. These data support a regional trend of increasingly more open marine facies in Yates sediments to the south and west in the Permian Basin.
Deposition within the Yates Formation is a function of cyclic marine flooding over shallow water exposure surfaces or tidal flats. Cycle bases are defined by marine sediments, such as dolomite, anhydrite and, halite, deposited during marine transgression. Lateral variations in lithology are probably due to local variations in marine circulation and topography. Cycle base marine units are (1) cryptalgally laminated, (2) brecciated due to solution collapse brecciation, (3) composed of well sorted, rounded rip-up clasts, or (4) karsted due to dissolution. Cycle tops are defined by thinly bedded, highly porous, fine-grained eolian sandstone to siltstone. Sandstone units are highly (1) haloturbated, (2) well bedded, or (3) massively bedded (rare). Although facies and thicknesses vary somewhat laterally, cycles are generally laterally continuous over large areas and relatively planar.
The contact between the Yates Formation and the underlying Seven Rivers Formation is gradational due to an overall regional decrease in accommodation as defined by the thinning of marine units and the thickening of eolian units. The upper contact of the Yates Formation and the overlying Tansill Formation is relatively sharp. This contact is interpreted to be the result of a large-scale marine transgression. The carbonate/anhydrite deposits that mark this flooding event are defined by an obvious gamma ray log response. Consequently, this contact is used as a regional correlation marker bed.


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I was injured on 02/04/2011 and was placed on temporary disability on 03/28/2012. Since then, I've continuously received TTD benefits and will run out by the end of march 2014 (in 3 months). I'm completely disabled and unable to do any work. I've just received approval to meet with a spine surgeon following a lengthy AME battle and will be having a fusion surgery very soon (so there's no way i'll be able to work when my TTD benefits run out in a few months.) My attorney tells me that there are absolutely no extensions on TTD and that WC doesnt have to advance me PD benefits, so I may not receive any $ from WC after March. What should I do/what r my options? State disability? Unemployment Insurance? Federal disability/ SSI? I'm 24 y/o, so no Social Security yet.
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I agree with my colleagues, if you have a treating physician to certify that you are eligible, you should apply for EDD, that's what it for. Your treating doctor will be able to help you with the forms, good luck!
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As most of you know I turned the big FIVE O this year on my birthday and I have had a few months now to look back on it and you know, I like a lot of others over the years have many things to be thankful for in my life. This being Native American Heritage month along with the Thanksgiving holiday brings out a time to be thankful in one's life and I am. I am thankful that my mother taught me her heritage for me to continue it, I am also thankful for my dad's heritage and family name it is one that holds honor in the history and making of this country as well.
With this festive time of year I decided to go out and celebrate last weekend and we all have been lucky over the years or well some of us have, get out and had to much to drink and drove home and made it safely with out hurting ourselves, someone else or getting pulled over by the police, yes I have been guilty of that. As I grow older I think about those times and so this past weekend I decided if I got out and had to much to drink I would just take a taxi. Well the ole Scottish, Englishman Cherokee did get out and got to drinking a little to much so I locked my car up and took a taxi, boy I'm I glad I did about a mile from my home town they had a road block, they were stopping cars left and right but when they saw the taxi the just waved me through and I went to the house. You know that was the first time I ever drove a taxi it was fun but I can't remember where I got it from.
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The word healing is frequently used in Energy Therapy and other therapies like it. It is used in the context of restoring the body to wholeness. This wholeness is from a holistic point of view – where the whole is relating to the body, mind, spirit, and emotion. Energy Therapy brings a balance to the body, mind, spirit, and emotion. This can encourage an improvement in symptoms, decrease discomfort, encourage relaxation, support one's feeling of greater sense of self.
The word healing is meant as to describe the balance that occurs in the body that can restore a person to some sense of wholeness.
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