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Arthritis & Rheumatism, Volume 63,
November 2011 Abstract Supplement
Abstracts of the American College of
Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals
Annual Scientific Meeting
Chicago, Illinois November 4-9, 2011.
European Registry of Babies Born to Mothers with Antiphospholipid Syndrome.
Mekinian1, Arsene, loire-Berson2, Priscille, Lachassinne3, Eric, nicaise-Roland4, Pascale, Vicaut5, Eric, Stirnemann6, Jerome, chollet-Martin4, Sylvie
Jean Verdier Hospital, Bondy, France
CHU poitiers, Poitiers, France
University Children's Hospital Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
University Children's Hospital Ljubljana, Slovenie, Slovenia
Rheumatology, Brescia, Italy
Rheumatology, Milan, Italy
Bondy, France
Service d'hématologie biologique, Université Paris 13, AP-HP, Hôpital Jean Verdier, 93140, Bondy, France., Bondy, France
Service de gynécologie-obstétrique, Université Paris 13, AP-HP, Hôpital Jean Verdier, 93140, Bondy, France., Bondy, France
Service de néonatologie et pédiatrie, Université Paris 13, AP-HP, Hôpital Jean Verdier, 93140, Bondy, France., Bondy, France
Unité Fonctionnelles d'Immunologie Autoimmunité et Hypersensibilités, AP-HP, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Paris, Paris, France
Paris, France
Service de médecine interne, Université Paris 13, AP-HP, Hôpital Jean Verdier, 93140, Bondy, France., Bondy, France
Obstetric and Gynecology of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
Rheumathology Unit, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy, Brescia, Italy
Hemostase Poitiers, Poitiers, France
To describe the outcome and the immunological status of children born to mothers with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), to determine the factors responsibles of children abnormalities, to correlate childrens immunological status to mother's antibodies.
A prospective follow up of a European multicentric cohort of 130 children born to mothers with APS. Both maternal (clinical features, history, pregnancy features, immunological status) and infant's data at birth were recorded. A clinical, developmental and immunological follow up of infants at 1 to 3, 9 to 12, 24 months and 5 years was performed.
One hundred forty women with APS (Sapporo) (mean age 36±5 years) were included. Eighty one percent of the mothers (n=115) have primary APS and the purely obstetrical APS represents 79% of the cohort (n=111). During pregnancy, treatment with aspirin-low molecular weight heparin was present in 125 cases (90%), steroids in 25 cases (18%), and hydroxychloroquine in 15 cases (11%).
One hundred thirty children born to mothers with APS were analyzed (female sex in 61 cases, birth weight 3000±500 g, height 48±3 cm, cranial perimeter 34±3 cm). Seventeen percent have a premature birth (n=22), and fifteen percent presented birth weight <2500 g (n=19). Thrombopenia was noted in 2 children, without any case of lupus or thrombosis. Four percent of children have lupus anticoagulant and antibeta2GP1 IgG antibodies (n=4), fifteen percent have anticardiolipid IgG antibodies at birth (n=17) (table).
|Cordon (n=40)
|First week (n=110)
|3 months (n=35)
|9 months (n=38)
|24 months (n=49)
|4 (4%)
|1 (3%)
|1 (3%)
|Anticardiolipid IgG
|7 (18%)
|17 (15%)
|3 (9%)
|7 (18%)
|11 (22%)
|Anticardiolipid IgM
|1 (2%)
|AntiB2GP1 IgG
|2 (5%)
|4 (4%)
|5 (14%)
|7 (18%)
|5 (10%)
|AntiB2GP1 IgM
|1 (2%)
During 5 year follow-up, four children displayed behavioural abnormalities between 3 months and three years of age (psychomotor development delay with axial hypertonia, autism, attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder and language delay, growth failure and language delay (n=1 each)). No thrombosis or lupus was noted during follow-up. Eighteen percent have anticardiolipid IgG and antibeta2GP1 IgG antibodies above 6 months (table). Among children with abnormal psychomotor development, one has persistent anticardiolipid IgG antibodies.
Anticardiolipid Ig G and antibeta2GP1 Ig G antibodies in children, even after 6 months, were correlated with the same antibodies in mother (p<0.05).
The presence of maternal lupus with odds ratio 4 [1.2; 15]) and anticardiolipid IgG (odds ratio 6 [1.1; 33]) were predictive of neonates complication, whereas the presence of previous placenta praevia and mother's anticardiolipid IgG antibody were predictive of complications in children at 3 and 9 months.
Despite a high rate of premature birth and persistent antiphospholipid antibodies, the children born to mothers with APS do not have significant abnormalities of psychomotor development, thrombosis or lupus. The significance of persistent antibodies in children is not actually established.
To cite this abstract, please use the following information:
Mekinian, Arsene, loire-Berson, Priscille, Lachassinne, Eric, nicaise-Roland, Pascale, Vicaut, Eric, Stirnemann, Jerome, et al; European Registry of Babies Born to Mothers with Antiphospholipid Syndrome. [abstract]. Arthritis Rheum 2011;63 Suppl 10 :728


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No mana in undermining free public transport
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VAN -- Valley Action Network
17 September, 2007
No mana in undermining free public transport
Valley Action Network is disappointed, but not surprised, by the actions of Mana Coach Services in undermining the first free bus service in the Wellington region.
Last Tuesday's meeting of the Passenger Transport Committee of Greater Wellington Regional Council was expected to approve a free bus service for Kapiti Coast commuters who hold monthly train passes.
Instead, it received a brief report from Council Transport Planner Yvonne Gwyn. The report said the free bus trial would not go ahead because Mana Coaches would not cooperate.
"Free public transport is an idea whose time has come", said VAN organiser Grant Brookes. "Spending ever more transport dollars building more roads for more cars, in an age of climate change and rising oil prices, is crazy.
"The sensible alternative is free and frequent public transport, spelled out today in the release of VAN's transport policy. This is what we'll be pursing if we're elected to Hutt City Council.
"Other cities like Invercargill and Christchurch, with less developed public transport systems, have free buses. Why not here?
"The actions of Mana Coach Services, however, highlight the need to look at ownership and control of public transport at the same time", commented Grant. "Clearly, private transport companies can't be relied on to be sensible.
"The Regional Council is buying new trains. Why not publicly-owned buses, too?"
VAN's policy of Free and Frequent Public Transport, reprinted below, is the fourth of six policy releases to be made before next month's local body elections.
The six policies are:
Human City -- Putting people before big business
* A Green City -- Action on climate change. Zero tolerance for polluters
* Grassroots Democracy -- Community Boards for all, with extra powers
* Rates Justice -- Reductions based on need. Residents before greedy corporations
* Free Council Services -- Not just protected but extended
* Free and Frequent Public Transport -- It makes climate sense and serves the people.
More information on these policies can be found on the VAN website, www.huttvan.org.nz.
Free and frequent public transport -- It makes climate sense and serves the people
The burning of oil and other fossil fuels is raising the levels of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere and threatening huge climate change. At the same time, peak oil -- the end of the world's cheap oil supplies -- is around the corner. Competition for what's left is fuelling wars. To tackle these major problems facing humanity, new solutions are needed.
In New Zealand cities, the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions is transport -- mainly private motor vehicles.
For Hutt residents, transport is a big issue. A third of the Hutt residents in jobs commute outside the city to get to work. Many more commute for family and social reasons.
Drivers face clogged motorways, frustration and road rage. Roads within Hutt City, too, are choked at peak times. Businesses lose money through the delays.
The Council's solution to these problems is to build more roads. They support plans to spend a billion dollars on a new motorway through Transmission Gully and upwards of $60 million on a new Cross Valley Link.
But more roads encourage more car use and more greenhouse gas emissions. They're a short-term fix for congestion in one place that moves the bottleneck somewhere else. And new charges on motorists, like a regional petrol tax, will be needed to build them.
What's needed is a major push to encourage people into public transport -- particularly into our electrified rail service, which is powered mainly by clean, renewable energy.
Making trains, buses and ferries free would do this, without hitting drivers with new taxes.
Other cities like Christchurch and Invercargill already have some free bus routes. Campaigners in Auckland and Dunedin are pushing to extend this to free and frequent public transport city-wide, like in some European and North American cities.
Fares could be eliminated by diverting a fraction of Wellington's roading budget to public transport. But it's unlikely to happen under current ownership arrangements.
The privatisation of public transport has been a disaster. Private operators have been happy to cream off profits, while the network's been run down.
When major investment is needed to maintain or upgrade the system, they demand hand-outs from the public purse.
The government already owns the railway tracks. The Greater Wellington Regional Council is spending more than $500 million refurbishing the trains, buying new ones and building new stations.
Public subsidies cover around half the annual operating costs for Tranz Metro. Bus operators get two thirds of their income from the public purse.
It makes sense to spend a little extra and take the whole transport network back into public ownership. Then there would be no private operator creaming off profits, and every public dollar could go on reducing fares and improving services.
In 2002, the Regional Council won government backing to buy a half share of Tranz Metro. The deal fell through, mainly due to ideological opposition to public ownership from local councils and business interests.
We say that a fraction of Wellington's roading budget should be used to take public transport back into public ownership and make it free and frequent. It makes climate sense and serves the people.
VAN -- Valley Action Network wants moves towards this by:
* Speaking out in favour of public transport over more road-building in all public forums.
* Scrapping plans to waste millions of ratepayer dollars on a new Cross Valley Link.
* Pressing Greater Wellington Regional Council to bring forward its plans for trains on the Upper Hutt line every 10 minutes at peak times, and every 15 minutes off-peak.
* Linking up with other authorities and campaigners in the region to petition the government for more money for public transport.
* Reviving plans for Greater Wellington Regional Council to buy out private transport operators, and then move to reduce fares towards zero.


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Finding records of your ancestors in Slovakia (formerly Northern Hungary) early 1700s to 1918
This guide contains easy-to-use instructions that will teach you how to use original records to locate ancestors. These instructions include a step-by-step strategy for finding an ancestor family in the most useful record types for Slovakia in early 1700s to 1918.
Beginning Slovak researchers will also need: Reading Slovak Records and depending upon the language used in the records Reading Hungarian Records or Reading German Records or Latin Genealogical Word List.
If your ancestor lived in Slovakia (formerly northern part of the Kingdom of Hungary) between the early 1700s and 1918, follow the steps in this article to find the records of his or her family. These instructions will show you which records to search, what to look for, and what tools to use. One piece of information will lead to another until you have identified each family member and filled out a family group record.
1. Find your ancestor's birth record in church records.
2. Find the birth records of your ancestor's brothers and sisters in church records.
3. Find the marriage record of your ancestor's parents in church records. This family is now complete.
The steps and tools you need follow.
How to begin - preparation
You should have already gathered as much information as possible from your home and family and filled out family group records and a pedigree chart. You may have checked FamilySearch or other computer files to see if others have researched your Slovak family.
To begin
A. From your pedigree chart, choose an ancestor who was born in Slovakia between the early 1700s and 1918. You must know the place of birth and an approximate birth date in order to find your ancestor's family. It is helpful to know the county. You also need to determine the location of the record keeping parish that served your ancestor's community. (See Tips). It is helpful to know your ancestor's religion because the records of different religions were kept separately.
B. Write your ancestor's name in the children's section of a new family group record. Read through the instructions in this guide. Then follow the steps below to find your ancestor's family.
If you don't know your ancestor's birthplace or birth date:
- See Tracing Immigrant Origins. This publication provides many suggestions about sources that may give you a specific place of origin for your ancestor.
- Start with a more recent generation. You will learn how to do research, and you will probably discover something you didn't know about your family.
- Find the records for the family in the example given. This will teach you basic research skills before you search for your own family. This is a good class activity.
If you are not sure of your ancestor's religion:
- Search Roman Catholic records first as this was the dominant religion of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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To celebrate this year's Stella Prize for women's writing, prominent Australians share their #StellaSpark, their favourite book by an Australian woman.
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"All of Helen Garner's non-fiction writing, but particularly Joe Cinque's Consolation, has shown me the power of narrative and the importance of intense observation. She reminds me that one devastating 'right' word is so much better than a string of less suitable ones."
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2015 Stella Prize Winner
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I love all Joan London's books, but The Good Parents is my favourite. London writes – seemingly effortlessly – of the complicated bonds between parents and children, lovers and siblings. More than any other novelist, she makes me want to become a better writer."
"When I read Geraldine Brooks's Year of Wonders, it taught me that an Australian author can set their novel in another place and time (England, 1666) but that the character, Anna Frith, can still have an Australian sentiment."
"My Stella Sparks moment is cemented forever – I read it in my last year of school. It's Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children."
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Zor is one of the primary antagonists in Sonic Lost World. He is a Zeti and a member of the Deadly Six, serving as the group's spy. When Dr. Eggman came to the Lost Hex, Zor and the other members of the Deadly Six were forced into serving the doctor due to the effects of the Cacophonic Conch. After Sonic the Hedgehog arrived and got rid of the conch, Zor and the others rebelled against Eggman and took control of his forces. Afterwards, Zor followed Zavok's plans to make him and the other Deadly Six stronger by using Eggman's Extractor, while destroying Earth, but was ultimately defeated by Sonic.
Zor is one of the most diminutive of the Deadly Six, being only slightly taller than Master Zik. This may be in part due to Zor's poor posture, as he always stands with a heavy slouch. Zor's upper body is white, while his body from the waist down is black. He has short, skinny legs with two cyan claws, with a third smaller claw on each heel. Zor has a thin, rat-like tail that's white in coloration. His arms are thin and gangly, while he has five-fingered hands with cyan nails. Unlike most of the other Deadly Six, Zor wears fingerless black gloves on each hand. Zor's head is oblong-shaped, and the majority of it is covered in vibrant purple hair, with one bang covering the right side of his face. Zor has blue eyes with yellow sclera, (which are always angled to give the impression that he's depressed) and black markings around his eyes. He has large purple lips with dark grey freckles above them. On the top of his head Zor has a pair of horns that curve backwards, with an alternating black and cyan coloration. Zor seems to always carry a blue rose with him.
Many years prior to the events of Sonic Lost World, Zor was brought into the Deadly Six when Master Zik formed the group.
Shortly before the events of Sonic Lost World, Zor and the other Deadly Six met Dr. Eggman, who used a Cacophonic Conch to enslave them. Zor then begrudgingly assisted Eggman in his latest scheme for world domination by capturing the animals Eggman needed to build an army of Badniks.
When Eggman returned to his factory, Zor was there when Eggman showed him and the other Deadly Six how to make Badniks and when he revealed his intention for him and the other Deadly Six to help defeat Sonic the Hedgehog. Not long after, he witnessed Zazz head out to fight Sonic.
Later on, as Zor was with Eggman and the other Deadly Six in Windy Hill, Sonic found them. When Eggman then left Zazz to finish Sonic, Zor and the remaining Deadly Six left with Eggman. After their leave, Zor and the others resumed gathering animals for Eggman. However, the animals they got were deemed underwhelming by Eggman, and Zor and the other Deadly Six were punished with the Cacophonic Conch when Zavok spoke up.
Some time later in Desert Ruins, Zor and the other Deadly Six were scolded by Eggman for their failures and were punished by hearing the Cacophonic Conch again. However, Sonic then appeared and knocked the conch away. Now free to use their powers, Zor and the other Deadly Six took control of Eggman's Badniks and used them to attack everyone, forcing Orbot, Cubot, Sonic and Tails to flee.
After being liberated by Sonic, Zor and the other Deadly Six took control of Eggman's operations on the Lost Hex, but Sonic still opposed them. When Zavok then enacted his plan to destroy the Earth with Eggman's Extractor and use the energies that it harnessed to make himself and the Deadly Six stronger, which in turn would kill Eggman as punishment for their enslavement, Zor went with Zavok's plan.
Soon after, Zor and the other Deadly Six set up a trap to capture Sonic so they could turn him into a robot in their service. When Zor learned they had caught something, he thought Sonic had fallen for the trap. However, he later met Sonic, who demanded Tails, who they had actually caught, back. Uninterested in Sonic, Zor left to tell the others the news, though not before fighting and being beaten by Sonic. He eventually got back to the Deadly Six and told them the news, only hear they already knew. Returning to Silent Forest, Zor - sickened by Sonic's upbeat attitude - attacked him, but was defeated again.
Some time later, Zor faced Sonic with Zavok and Zeena when Sonic was making his way through Lava Mountain. Upon meeting him, Zor was not happy about his dismay at seeing them, before they revealed that they had seemingly turned Tails into a robot servant. When Sonic refused to serve them, Tails was ordered to kill Sonic, but Zor was caught off guard and forced to retreat when Tails attacked them, having only pretended to be their robotic slave. After escaping, Zor was confronted by Sonic, but despite having his strength enhanced by the energy from the Extractor, he was defeated for good. What happened to Zor afterwards is unclear.[1]
Zor is described as being "one with the shadows", both physically and mentally. Believing that everything and everyone are pointless in the cosmic scheme of things, Zor has given up on hope, happiness and life. As such, he is a pessimistic and depressing individual that is moody, rude, indifferent towards everything and cannot be impressed by anything.[2] He often whines about how and why everything seems meaningless, and has low expectations for everything as he does not find them worth enough to be bothered about. His conviction about everything's meaninglessness also gives him a suicidal attitude, given that he at one point exclaims that he "longs for death's cold embrace".
Despite his nihilistic perspective, Zor still intends to go through with his assignments and duties, though he does not know why he does it and has no interest in a successful outcome. Ironically, he does not like to hear others whine, as he wants whining to be his deal, and he tends to give some things more value than others.
Zor has an extremely dislike towards happiness in general, believing that it is such views on life that are wrecking the world for others. He even becomes sick in the face of positive attitudes and gets pains in his face when smiling. As such, he will personally take action himself to ruin things for others, even going as far as to harm others, to ensure the end of their happiness.
Zor has displayed a masochist side of himself, finding comfort and even happiness (despite his aversion to it) in the pain that is inflicted on him. When he does smile, thereby causing himself pain, Zor finds it cool, and when he receives harm from Sonic's attacks he openly welcomes it.
Like the other members of the Deadly Six, Zor is inherently malicious and violent. Despite not being particularly violent (compared to the other members of the Deadly Six) and claiming that nothing makes him happy, Zor openly enjoys the sadness and misery of others. He enjoys giving others bad news and making their lives a misery, inflicting pain and physical punishment, and even killing others, which are some of the few things that can make him smile. He also has no qualms about causing massive genocide or widespread destruction for his own benefits. Zor also comes off as vengeful, given that once he was freed from Eggman's enslavement by Sonic, he launched an attack on the scientist with the other Deadly Six.
Powers and AbilitiesEdit
Zor possesses a high amount of physical strength, enough to let him completely shatter rocks with his bare fists. He also has incredible jumping skill, allowing him to leap high into the air and across very large distances in an instant.
Zor has the ability to utilize dark and forbidden powers that none of the other members of the Deadly Six dare to use.[2] He is able to manifest flocks of black bats with one red eye that are made of shadows, which he is able to command, and can even make these bats amalgamate into shadowy clones of himself, which seemingly possess the same abilities that the real Zor has. Additionally, Zor has the ability to project purple energy blasts from the palm of his hand and is capable of flight.
As a Zeti, Zor possesses the innate ability to manipulate magnetic fields, which allows him to take control over electronics. This allows Zor to take control of and command robots, such as Badniks, by touching his forehead and then using his hands to issue commands, and to remotely pilot mechs without using physical control interfaces.[3]
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Zor is encountered at Silent Forest in the Wii U version of Sonic Lost World. His boss battle involves him riding on top of a giant, robotic owl that shoots missiles at Sonic. Using the Kick attack, Sonic can kick the missiles away. There are three locations to this boss fight; the first one takes place an Zone One of Silent Forest; Zone Two has a fight with Zor controlling an robotic owl; and in Zone 4 has a 2D perspective with everything colored black, excluding the background.
Appearances in Other MediaEdit
Archie ComicsEdit
Zor made a brief appearance in Sonic Halloween Comic Fest 2013 and Sonic Super Special Magazine #9 published by Archie Comics, which are both comic book prequels to Sonic Lost World. In the comics, after Dr. Eggman had enslaved the Deadly Six with his Cacophonic Conch, Zor and the other members of the Deadly were rounded by Zavok, and went down to Earth to capture animals for Eggman.
- "Sigh. Everything seems so pointless."
- —Zor in Silent Forest.
- " Man, this day just keeps getting lamer and lamer... Whatever. I've gotta go tell the others the bad news. Giving bad news is actually the one thing I enjoy."
- —Zor heading out to tell the Deadly Six that they had failed to catch Sonic.
- "I'll deal with you later, Loser."
- —Zor telling Sonic off.
- "Maybe all these armies death traps and will finish Sonic, maybe they won't. Does it really matter in the cosmic scheme of things? We're all gonna die eventually..."
- —Zor during Silent Forest Zone 2.
- "Just give up, Sonic! That's what I do! As a matter of fact, I've given up on hope, happiness, success... Come to think of it, what am I still doing here? I should just crawl back into bed..."
- —Zor during Silent Forest Zone 2.
- "I suppose we're gonna have to fight."
- —Zor when about to fight Sonic in Silent Forest Zone 2.
- "Look at him, all "I'm so fast" and stuff. Ugh, makes me sick. Time to knock him down a peg."
- —Zor observing Sonic.
- "He's so upbeat I wanna beat him up! It won't make me happy... but to be fair, nothing makes me happy."
- —Zor during Silent Forest Zone 4.
- "Smiling hurts my face. When I hurt your face, I'll smile. So in the end, I'll just be hurting myself... cool."
- —Zor during Silent Forest Zone 4.
- "Another pointless conflict is about to begin..."
- —Zor when about to fight Sonic in Silent Forest Zone 4.
- "Only the Reaper wins in the end."
- —Zor after being defeated in Silent Forest Zone 4.
- "Don't be so whiny, man! That's MY deal."
- —Zor after Sonic expressed his dislike of the Deadly Six.
- "Look at that hedgehog with all his trying and positive attitude. It's people like that who are wrecking this world for the rest of us."
- —Zor during Lava Mountain Zone 3.
- "Sonic's doing better than I expected, but I have pretty low expectations... about everything. I mean, really, why bother?"
- —Zor during Lava Mountain Zone 3.
- "Do you realize how meaningless we all are? Well, mostly you."
- —Zor when about to fight Sonic in Lava Mountain Zone 3.
- "In this pain I finally find comfort!"
- —Zor during his fight with Sonic in Lava Mountain Zone 3.
- "I long for death's cold embrace!"
- —Zor as he is defeated by Sonic in Lava Mountain Zone 3
- "I suppose I should care Sonic's heading my way to hand me a beating. But caring would cut into my sulking time!"
- —Zor when Sonic is approaching him.
- Zor sometimes carries his rose in his mouth.
- Zor is the youngest member of the Deadly Six at the age of 112 years.
- Despite Zor having his rose with him almost all the time, it clearly does not show much significance to him as in his first encounter, he merely tosses it without a second thought and he is not seen with it again.
- In the Wii U version of Sonic Lost World, Zor is shown with the ability to levitate in the air at will, but in the Nintendo 3DS version, he is shown to fly by flapping his arms.
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London, UK (SPX) Mar 29, 2012
Unless development patterns change, by 2030 humanity's urban footprint will occupy an additional 1.5 million square kilometres - comparable to the combined territories of France, Germany and Spain, say experts at a major international science meeting underway in London.
UN estimates show human population growing from 7 billion today to 9 billion by 2050, translating into some 1 million more people expected on average each week for the next 38 years, with most of that increase anticipated in urban centres.
And ongoing migration from rural to urban living could see world cities receive yet another 1 billion additional people. Total forecast urban population in 2050: 6.3 billion (up from 3.5 billion today).
The question isn't whether to urbanize but how, says Dr. Michail Fragkias of Arizona State University, one of nearly 3000 participants at the conference, entitled "Planet Under Pressure".
Unfortunately, he adds, today's ongoing pattern of urban sprawl puts humanity at severe risk due to environmental problems. Dense cities designed for efficiency offer one of the most promising paths to sustainability, and urbanization specialists will share a wealth of knowledge available to drive solutions.
How best to urbanize is one among many "options and opportunities" under discussion by global environmental change specialists today, Day 2 of the four-day conference March 26-29, convened to help address a wide range of global sustainability challenges and offer recommendations to June's UN "Rio+20" Earth Summit.
Other leading options and opportunities being addressed include green economic development (Yvo de Boer, former Executive Secretary, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change), securing food and water for the world's poorest (Bina Agarwal, Director, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University, India), and planetary stewardship: risks, obstacles and opportunities (Georgina Mace, Professor, Imperial College, London). For a full list of "options and opportunities" conference sessions and topics, see conference website.
Cities responsible for 70% of CO2 emissions
"Re-engineering cities is urgently needed for global sustainability," says Dr. Dhakal, adding that emerging urban areas "have a latecomer's advantage in terms of knowledge, sustainability thinking, and technology to better manage such fundamentals as trash and transportation."
Over 70% of CO2 emissions today relate to city needs. In billions of metric tonnes, urban-area CO2 emissions were estimated at about 15 in 1990 and 25 in 2010, with forecasts of growth to 36.5 by 2030, assuming business as usual.
Addressing climate change therefore demands focusing on urban efficiencies, like using weather conditions and time of day-adjusted toll systems to reduce traffic congestion, for example. Congestion worldwide costs economies an estimated 1 to 3% of GDP - a problem that not only wastes fuel and causes pollution, but time - an estimated 4.2 billion hours in the USA alone in 2005. Estimated cost of New York City's congestion: US$4 billion a year in lost productivity.
An "Internet of things" is forming, he notes - a fast-growing number of high-tech, artificially intelligent, Internet-connected cars, appliances, cameras, roadways, pipelines and more - in total about one trillion in use worldwide today.
High-tech ways to improve the efficiency of urban operations and human health and well-being include:
+ Rapid patient screening and diagnostics with digitalised health records;
+ Utility meters and sensors that monitor the capacity of the power generation network and continually gather data on supply and demand of electricity;
+ Integrated traveller information services and toll road pricing based on traffic, weather and other data;
+ Data gathering and feedback from citizens using mobile phones;
+ And many more.
"Our focus should be on enhancing the quality of urbanization - from urban space, infrastructure, form and function, to lifestyle, energy choices and efficiency," says Dr. Dhakal.
Care is needed, he adds, to avoid unwelcome potential problems of dense urbanization, including congestion, pollution, crime, the rapid spread of infectious disease and other societal problems - the focus of social and health scientists who will feature prominently at the conference.
Says Prof. Karen Seto of Yale University, who with colleagues is organizing four of the 160 conference sessions at Planet Under Pressure: "The way cities have grown since World War II is neither socially or environmentally sustainable and the environmental cost of ongoing urban sprawl is too great to continue."
For these reasons, "the planet can't afford not to urbanize," says Seto. "People everywhere, however, have increasingly embraced Western styles of architecture and urbanization, which are resource-intense and often not adapted to local climates. The North American suburb has gone global, and car-dependent urban developments are more and more the norm."
How humanity urbanizes to define the decades ahead
"We have a unique opportunity now to plan for a coming explosion of urbanization in order to decrease pressure on ecosystems, improve the livelihoods of billions of people and avoid the occurrence of major global environmental problems and disasters. That process cannot wait," says Roberto Sanchez-Rodriguez, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences at the University of California, Riverside.
"It is also important to stress that differences exist in the urbanization process in high-, low- and middle-income countries and reflect them in our strategies. We need to move beyond traditional approaches to planning and be responsive to informal urban growth, to the value of ecosystem services, and to the need of multidimensional perspectives (social, economic, cultural, environmental, political, biophysical).
Ultimately, the researchers say, solutions include:
+ Planning and investments in public infrastructure that encourage transit and accessibility
+ Better land-use zoning and building standards that increase efficiency and multiple uses.
+ Reversing the trend to ever larger homes
+ Ending subsidies that promote low density and leapfrog development and discourage compact development, or favour cars at the expense of public transit
+ Improving the quality of inner city schools and addressing other growing urban challenges, such as growing income inequality, segregation and social polarization, crime rates and heightened health threats including stress;
+ Through social marketing, foster demand for efficient styles of living
Beyond city limits
"Everything being brought into the city from outside: food, water, products and energy need to be sourced sustainably. We need to rethink the resource flow to cities."
Says Dr. Mark Stafford Smith, Planet Under Pressure co-chair: "A more general theme of the conference is underlined by the urbanization issue - that much of the planet's future is tied up in interconnected issues - climate change and city design, city resource demands and impacts on rural areas, rural food and water productivity and the ability of cities to continue functioning. The deep intensity of interconnectedness of these issues requires an integrated approach, tackling challenges together rather than each individually, one at a time."
Professor Elinor Ostrom of Indiana University, the 2009 Nobel laureate in economics and opening day plenary speaker at the Planet Under Pressure conference, underlines the importance of cities in giving effect to globally-developed policies to achieve environmental sustainability.
Indeed, through initiatives such as C40, a consortium of cities committed to emissions reductions, cities are showing strong leadership. This approach can help ensure a move to a more sustainable pathway should global policies fail to deliver.
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In a press release, the Buckeyes announced that Zisis Sarikopoulos, a 7-0, 265-pound center originally from Athens, Greece, will transfer into the program from the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
Sarikopoulos, who averaged 1.8 points and 1.1 rebounds per game as a freshman in 20 starts, has international experience to his credit after leading the Greece Under-18 team to a second-place finish in the 2007 Euro Championships. During the championships, Sarikopoulos averaged 7.5 points, 5.1 rebounds and 2.0 blocks for his squad.
He also helped his club team, Olympiakos B.C., to a second-place finish in the country, posting 20 points and 16 rebounds per game in doing so.
"Zisis will give us a physical presence and some size," Matta said in a statement. "We have a year to work with him on getting stronger and learning our system. He entered college at only 17 years old. He will help immediately in practice. We are excited about his decision to join our program."
To satisfy NCAA transfer rules, Sarikopoulos will have to sit out the 2008-09 season but will have three seasons of eligibility remaining.
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(CNSNews.com) - A new television channel funded by American taxpayers, headquartered in Northern Virginia and beaming Arabic-language programming to the Middle East, includes all views in the debate over the war in Iraq - even those from individuals still loyal to Saddam Hussein.
Ziad al-Khasauna, an attorney from Amman, Jordan, and a recent guest on a program called The Free Hour on the Alhurra (The Free One) satellite television channel, defended Saddam''s regime.
"I call it the former Iraqi government - which was headed by the legitimate president of Iraq, President Saddam Hussein, who from my perspective is currently kidnapped as far as international law is concerned," al-Khasauna argued during a coarse debate on Alhurra, which operates 24 hours a day.
Alhurra began broadcasting in February and has an annual budget of $62 million. Its purpose, as expressed by the television channel''s mission statement, is to advance "freedom and democracy in the Middle East and long-term U.S. national interests." So, why allow individuals still loyal to Saddam Hussein to add their two cents to the debate?
"You cannot ignore those voices" if the network is to be credible, said Mouafac Harb, director of Network News for Alhurra, because al-Khasauna''s remarks and others like them represent "a point of view in the Middle East."
"If you bring people who disagree with you" to the discussion, Harb told CNSNews.com , people will make up their own minds and "expand the landscape" of news in the Middle East, which he said is desperately needed.
The current function of the press in the Middle East is not to serve as a watchdog, which is a role adopted by the American media, Harb said. Instead, the Middle East press attempts to "inflame and provoke," often times to mobilize people against U.S. foreign policy.
The Free Hour program that contained al-Khasauna''s remarks, added a human rights activist as a political counter-weight.
"Saddam was president of a murderous gang - a professional criminal who arrived on the back of a tank in the middle of the night ... and took power through murder and torture," said Abdul Al-Hakeem, who was described on the program as the founder of the first Iraqi human rights organization.
That same program aired videotapes recovered from "intelligence centers" in Baghdad that showed graphic scenes of torture and dismemberment. The anchor of The Free Hour described the victims as "ordinary civilian prisoners" of the Saddam Hussein regime. While Harb claimed it was necessary to show the footage, he said his producers "couldn''t sleep for a week" after viewing it.
Al-Khasauna expressed skepticism about the authenticity of the tapes.
"I also have doubts regarding these pictures - since we live today in the world of photography, in which the electronic capability is able to bring the most powerful and most terrible pictures to the world ... particularly as they came from violent occupiers, murderers of children and women," al Khasauna said.
Producers at Alhurra encourage robust debate from all sides in order to achieve their goal of fairness and also to attract viewers, Harb said. "If you produce a good product, people will tune in," he added.
Harb told CNSNews.com that he was surprised the American networks had not shown the videotapes of prisoners being tortured by the Saddam Hussein regime.
"I didn''t see them anywhere. They were available, but no one was showing them," Harb said.
Alhurra has devoted considerable time to covering the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, Harb added, but a dedication to balance dictated that the torture tapes from the archives of the Saddam regime also be broadcast.
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It's become a periodic sight: hecklers interrupting a speech by President Obama.
This time, followers of the Occupy Wall Street movement began yelling at the president today as he began his speech in Manchester, N.H.
As protesters shouted about the "over 4,000 people" arrested at Occupy movements across the country, the president's backers began countering with chants of "fired up, ready to go!" and "Obama! Obama!"
"That's OK, that's OK," Obama told his supporters.
Turning to the protesters, Obama said: "Listen, I'm going to be talking about a whole range of things today."
"And I appreciate you guys making your point," he said. "Let me go ahead and make mine, all right?"
"And I'll listen to you -- you listen to me. All right?"
The speech went on without further interruption -- and Obama at one point made reference to the Occupy movement.
"A lot of the folks who have been down in New York and all across the country, in the Occupy movement, there is a profound sense of frustration," he said. "There is a profound sense of frustration about the fact that the essence of the American Dream -- which is if you work hard, if you stick to it, that you can make it -- feels like that's slipping away. And it's not the way things are supposed to be. Not here. Not in America."
In previous months, Obama has been interrupted during speeches in San Francisco and West Hollywood.
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December 10, 2007
NIH Looks to Revise Peer Review Process to Help Young Researchers
From the Chronicle of Higher Education (12.10.07) [U of I access link]
NIH Panel Unveils Big Ideas for Revamping Peer Review and Grant Making
A committee studying ways to improve peer review and grant making at the National Institutes of Health called for major changes on Friday. They include slashing the length of grant applications and placing more weight in grant reviews on the scientific effects of the proposed research.
The working group, created by the advisory committee to NIH director Elias A. Zerhouni, also suggested providing more grants for young scientists who have never before received one. The agency should review grant proposals from such applicants separately from those of established, older investigators. The younger scientists make up a diminishing proportion of the agency's grantees, raising concerns about the future vigor of the biomedical-research work force.
In addition the working group proposed ways to improve the quality and efficiency of the NIH's peer review. One way was to require senior, established researchers to serve on the agency's review panels, which are made up largely of outside academics, as a condition of receiving certain grants. Those veterans are increasingly unwilling to volunteer because of the time commitment involved, but they possess the expertise and experience needed for quality reviews, the panel found....
One of the big changes would transform the peer-review committees of outside scientists who now review and rate applications for NIH grants, making them operate more like the editorial boards of scholarly journals. The committees, called study sections, would "outsource" grant applications to specialists in the discipline to review technical aspects. The study sections would be made up of generalists who would discuss the applications' scientific significance, broadly construed.
Further Reading:
- Read the full article in the Chronicle.
- Review the NIH web site for more information about the "Enhancing Peer Review at the NIH" Working Group, including a Meeting Summary from the Oct 25th NIH Regional Consultation Meeting on Peer Review, held in San Francisco.
- Read news item in the 12-7-07 issue of Science A Radical Revamp of Peer Review?
- Videocast and PowerPoint presentation given by Larry Tabak at Peer Review Advisory Committee Meeting on 3 December
Read comments left at the Scientist (magazine) website about the NIH proposal.
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'Wish' A Happy New Year? No. MAKE IT A Happy New Year.
Did you wish a Merry Yuletide or did you make it a Merry White Yuletide?
Wishes don't work. Wishes are asking for some other person — or some thing — to do what you want done.
Wishes are not action. Neither are these words of mine.
During the Yuletide, if you exposed, expelled, or permanently silenced at least one jew infesting our country, you made it a Merry Yuletide.
Likewise, to make it a Happy White New Year, each one of us must at least expose local crypto-jews. Better, expel at least one from our country, though that is difficult, I know. Best of all, and easier than expelling, is permanently silencing any jew in your county, state, or in our country. Yes, that means killing an enemy jew.
Don't buy the programming from the tv crime shows. Their purpose is to influence your thinking. As we know, their depiction of always-White perps is meant to make us Whites think our race is no good and to encourage the other races to increase their hate of our race.
Those fiction programs have another purpose: They want us to think that the so-called "law enforcement" agencies will use their scientific wizardry to catch our White heroes no matter how careful we are. They want us to think we cannot get away with any deeds in our self-defense. Reality is the opposite of that.
For example, they can not make clear closeup photos from grainy distant security cam videos. If you use Photoshop or a similar software program, you know that you can't make a good photo from a bad one. If the original photo lacks detail, then there's no detail there upon which to improve. In that case, a clear photo would be a faked photo.
What about all the tv noise about facial-recognition software? It's hype. If you cover parts of your face, there's no way for software to recognize you. Covers include glasses, bandage, hat, or hood. Also, you can easily change the contours of your face. Be slack-jawed when you are in camera range at the scene of your heroic deed. Or squint and scrunch up your face during that minute. Or puff out your cheeks. Wear makeup. Never look up into the cameras.
Notice that the tv crime shows have a zillion different tests they can do if they collect every molecule of material from the "crime" scene. But for each show, they magically choose the useful evidence to collect, and then they magically perform the correct few tests that link the "crime" to a suspect.
If you don't leave obvious evidence for them, they will have nothing. (Consider leaving a piece of false evidence to misdirect them. However, this requires clear and clever thought to avoid it from backfiring on you.)
If you do your deed in a distant place where nobody knows you and where you will not return, they will have no suspect at all. Instant cold case. They move on to the next case. That's reality.
The "crimes" they solve are the deeds of the ignorant, nearly always involving family or friends or acquaintances, and nearly always in the same vicinity. So, if you risk staying in a motel for a night in that city, make it across town.
It helps immensely to have a partner who keeps the vehicle you are using — if you are using a vehicle — away from the deed, thus away from any potential cameras and any potential witnesses. But for many of us, there is no such person we can trust.
During your excursion, don't carry your cellphone. Don't use a credit card. Don't mark your trail. Don't tell anybody where you really went.
Our strengths are our mobility, unpredictability, our White creativity, and efficiency.
As jewry gets wind of our successful efforts, most jews will flee our country. Even if the jewsmedia throw a cloak of silence on our increasing wave of deeds, the word will spread among the network of jewry.
It will be a joy to see the enemy jews crazed with terror like the terror they constantly inflict upon our ignorant people. (We who are not ignorant are not in terror: We are activated by the jews' atrocities against our people.) The jews' emotional and neurotic reactions will hasten our ultimate White victory.
Go out and make it a Happy White New Year.
- Selected articles of advice are linked in the "Not For TV Addicts" section at the bottom of this website.
- James Schiffer, jew. Despite having the obvious jew hair and nose, he qualifies as a secret jew — crypto-jew — because he hid his jewness and pretended to be White in Marquette, Michigan, where I knew him. Look at where he has been and some of what he has done, here and here, to see his anti-White opportunities.
- Jason Schneider, crypto-jew. When I first met him, he was a student at Northern Michigan University who opened a parent-funded coffeeshop and operated it as an old-style, dingy, hippie-ish hangout. He typically wore glasses then. In the photo above, the blue of the eyes may be natural or from contacts. After travel and counter-culture (which is anti-White culture) activism, he returned to Marquette, got on the City Commission spouting small-business do-gooding and saying the commission needed "a wide range of ages" on it rather than the wisest members of the community, and then he jumped to indirectly representing the jew giant international mining corporation Rio Tinto as it increasingly rumbles Marquette county.


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It was a game that saw an unassisted triple play, the Mets starter leaving in the middle of bat of a 3-0 count to the opposing pitcher in the first inning and an inside-the-park home run. What better way to showcase the return of Pedro Martinez to New York?
Pedro wasn't great but he did enough to get the win, even though he allowed four runs in six innings. Had it not been a dreadful performance by Oliver Perez, the Mets probably could have won this game. Perez didn't even make it out of the first inning, allowing six runs on two three-run bombs. To be fair, it looked like the umpire was squeezing him a bit. When Perez went on a 3-0 count to Martinez, Jerry Manuel yanked him, having seen enough. It was embarassing for the Mets, Perez and the fans. You just had to feel sorry for the guy, who looked like he might cry as he ran off the field. The $12 million man was pitching more like a $12 man.
Although the Mets were down by six runs, they started to chip away at the lead. Angel Pagan had a great day at the plate. In his first at-bat, he hit what should've been a double, but the ball got stuck under the padding in left center field. Shane Victorino threw his hands up as if to say it was a ground-rule double, but the umpire wasn't buying it. So, Pagan kept running and earned himself an inside-the-park home run. Jeff Francoeur then tripled to scored Daniel Murphy to make it 6-2.
The Phillies came back in the third off of a Pedro RBI and a sacrifice fly by Jimmy Rollins against reliever Nelson Figueroa. In the bottom of the inning, the Mets got two back after Pagan hit his second home run of the game, and Cory Sullivan grounded out, scoring a run. No one would score again until the seventh inning when Murphy hit an RBI single to make the game 8-5.
Pat Misch pitched four scoreless innings, rebounding after a rough inning the night before. Sean Green then came into the game and struggled, allowing a run on a wild pitch. Sometimes, he's lights out and other times he's so wild, he hits batters and throws balls into the dirt. It's very frustrating to watch. In the eighth inning, Anderson Hernandez doubled in another run, making the game 9-6.
The Mets weren't done. With Brad Lidge closing, Pagan reached third base on a throwing error by Ryan Howard. Luis Castillo reached safely at first and Pagan scored, thanks to an Eric Bruntlett error. Because of the back-to-back errors, the Mets had closed the gap to two runs with no outs. Murphy reached on an infield single, advancing Castillo to second. With men on first and second and the big bat of Francoeur up, the Mets faithful were in a frenzy.
However, a win was not meant to be as Francoeur hit into just the 15th unassisted triple play of all time. Castillo had darted for third in a stolen base attempt. Francoeur lined the ball into the glove of Bruntlett, who stepped on second to get Castillo out and then tagged out Murphy to end the game. It was a surprising ending to a riotous game. Pedro got his second win as a Philly and his first at Citi Field.
The two teams finish their four-game wraparound series Monday afternoon. Bobby Parnell tries to forget about his last dreadful outing and beat Cliff Lee. Good luck.


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The Carroll County High School track and field team hosted its only home meet of the season Friday. The team honored its three seniors: thrower Raenah Hawkins, jumper/sprinter Kristofer Curnutte and thrower/sprinter Brandon Franklin.
"It was nice to honor those seniors for their commitment to the team," head coach Joe Creager said in an email. "I would like to thank Mr. Tom Stephens, Mrs. Mandy Wilson and Mrs. Lynn Eaglin and all of the students who came out to help make the meet a success."
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The five-event speedway season opens with the June 29 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Quaker State 400 that features a race-day concert with country music artist Billy Currington, June 28 NASCAR Nationwide Series Feed The Children 300 and June 27 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series UNOH 225. A second event weekend features a 300-mile NNS battle on Sept. 21 and a 150-mile ARCA Racing Series event on Sept. 20.
Carroll County track and field junior Ashley Srouder broke her own school record in the girls shot put with a toss of 28 feet 8 inches on Tuesday, April 9 at the Oldham County High School meet.
The schools competing in the meet were Oldham County, North Oldham, South Oldham, Trimble County, North Bullitt, Assumption, Christian Academy of Louisville and Trinity.
Eighth-grader Malachi Corbin threw a personal best 104 feet 9 inches in the boys discus. He also finished sixth in shot put for all of the boys team points.
Carroll County gave up five runs on four errors in the last two innings to lose, 9-8, to Walton-Verona in the first round of the 8th Region All-A Classic Friday.
"We had every kind of error imaginable," head coach Jimmy Ray said. "We gave it away. … The most frustrating loss I've been in in a baseball game."
The Panthers led, 8-5, with two outs in the bottom of the seventh, but could not close out the win.
Led by junior Michaela Culver, who launched two home runs over the center field fence, the Lady Panthers softball team defeated the visiting Henry County Ladycats, 11-1, in six innings on April 9.
Culver hit solo home runs in the second and fourth innings, as well as an RBI single in the bottom of the sixth to end the game.
"It was a great game, a good win, and I'm glad to get it," head coach Dennis Hawkins said.
The Lady Panthers defeated Walton-Verona, 7-1, in the opening round at Carroll County to earn a second round game at Trimble County in the 8th Region All-A Classic.
Kelsey Ogden hit a grand slam in the third inning and followed it up with another home run in the sixth to propel her team to the win over the Lady Bearcats.
The Carroll County High School tennis teams took on Western Hills Friday night at the county park. The girls won their match 4-1, but the boys lost 4-1.
The Panthers teams have not played very many matches because of weather-related cancelations and spring break.
The Lady Panthers "totally dominated" Western Hills, head coach Juan Fernandez said in an email. The girls are 5-0 this season and keep getting better. He said he sees nothing but upside with the team.
Due to unforeseen circumstances at Henry County they have canceled all of their meets for this season. This means there will not be any Elementary track meets this season, track coach Joe Creager said in an email. "We look forward to having your son/daughter out in the fall for cross country and again next spring for (track)," he wrote. "I'm sorry for the inconvenience." For any questions, contact Creager at Carroll County High School, (502) 732-7075.
On a cool Thursday evening at Panther Field, the home team kept things exciting until the very end. After building a three-run lead, the Panthers stumbled in the seventh, allowing the visiting St. Henry Crusaders to tie the game. But the Panthers did not fall, scoring in the bottom of the eighth off a line drive down the third baseline by Zakk Hicks to win the game, 8-7.
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The first was christened by the great etiquette guru Emily Post as "zigzag" eating.
Two more hours took us to Limone, at a jog trot, down a zigzag road, less abrupt in its turns than that on the other side.
Its zigzag course makes it problematical where it will fall.
Thou turnest back in a zigzag, thou bearest thy bow, thou takest the iron in thy left hand.
Only by following at some distance could one cut across the zigzag path of the French.
If we are barred from carrying on a zigzag by the mishap to our helm, we can still put a crazy gait on her by using the engines.
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
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When Hall County Commissioner Craig Lutz decided not to seek re-election to his District 1 seat representing South Hall, he reached out to a few potential candidates and urged them to enter the race.
"Even had I decided to run, I wanted somebody to run against me because that was the only way new ideas would be able to come out in a race," said Lutz, who decided instead to seek the Republican nomination for the District 4 seat on the state Public Service Commission.
Two of the people Lutz said he reached out to were Kathy Cooper and Ken Cochran, though both insist they made decisions to run on their own.
Because they face no Democratic or independent challenger in the general election this fall, the May 20 Republican primary, for which early voting is underway, will determine the next commissioner.
But getting there is the hard part, particularly in a non-presidential election year when voter turnout typically drops off. Both candidates said they have had difficulty reaching and engaging potential voters.
"It's just that there's not as much interest right now," Cooper said.
Moreover, Cochran said, the shortened campaign season — the Georgia General Assembly moved up the primary date this year to match the federal election calendar — has left less time to knock on doors, shake hands, kiss babies and meet with community groups.
"That's been the hardest challenge," Cochran said.
Though both candidates have been involved in local politics for many years — Cooper ran unsuccessfully for the county commission in 2006 and Cochran has been a leader in the Hall County Republican Party for more than a decade — elected office presents challenges neither has faced.
Cooper, 51, is a lifelong farmer. As president of Cooper Family Enterprises, she runs a diversified family farm in Chestnut Mountain.
Cooper is hoping to bring some diversity to the Board of Commissioners. She said adding a woman's voice, experience and perspective to a board filled by white men is badly needed.
But Cooper also said she wasn't running exclusively on gender politics. Her bona fides for office, she said, extend to her service in community organizations, her familiarity with the issues facing South Hall and her commitment to conservative ideals.
Cochran, 64, is the owner of Cochran's Marine Service. He has served on the executive board of the local GOP for 13 years and also is a member of the Gainesville-Hall County Metropolitan Planning Organization.
Cochran is a familiar face at county commission meetings and local political events. He is hoping to piggyback on his reputation while jumping on the populist tendencies of tea party-fueled conservative politics.
"I feel like I'm more of a people candidate," Cochran said.
Cochran said the pillars of his campaign include government transparency, improving workplace conditions for county personnel and implementing a long-term transportation plan to deal with growth in the county.
Cooper, meanwhile, said she is committed to not increasing taxes.
"It's something you hope you can fulfill as a Republican," she said.
Cochran also intends to keep his pledge to avoid tax increases.
Both Cooper and Cochran acknowledged that their stance on issues regarding growth and development in South Hall are likely to turn the election in their favor.
Cooper said her background in farming and real estate gives her a perspective unique from Cochran's.
"Our life experiences are different," she said.
Cochran is betting that his service to the community and long-time residency in South Hall will move voters to his corner. He said managing South Hall growth requires schools and governments to work together, and he intends to ensure that services remain efficient for residents as growth emerges.
The candidates said they would be running hard in the final weeks leading up to May 20, meeting with as many constituents as possible and attending speaking engagements.
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A walkway between two stations which was supposed to be built 18 years ago will open next month, according to MP Stella Creasy.
Ray Dudley Way will link Queens Road and Walthamstow Central stations.
The Family Housing Association (FHA) agreed to build it after receiving planning permission for homes in Exeter Road, but never completed the work.
In 2008 Solum Regeneration promised to build the walkway as part of its tower block development by Walthamstow Central station.
The council later secured a High Court ruling enabling it to bill FHA for the work and construction began in March.
Despite council assurances that it would open this month, Stella Creasy has told constituents in a newsletter that the link will open on August 11.
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122 Conch Street is the house and residence of Squidward Tentacles. Squidward took pride in his house after winning the title of House Fancy Prince from Nicholas Whithers in a competition against his life long rival, Squilliam Fancyson. Also, Squidward's house was the location for the popularBikini Bottom TV show "Squidward's House Party". In one episode, a fish mistakes it for 122 Conch Drive. Squidward's house mouth is a door, but originially, its mouth was closed, and a door rested underneath it. The house's exterior styling is reminiscent of an Easter Island Moai. The ground floor consists of three adjoining rooms; the one at the front being the living room. The living room consists of a bookcase with some of Squidward's jazz records, a couch, coffee table and TV. Behind the living room is the kitchen with a fridge, an island counter, and four cabinets. This is where Squidward cooks. The dining room is off to the side and consists of a round table with chairs and a clamshell chandelier. There is a room off to the side with a spiral staircase leading to the second floor. At the top is a bedroom on the left ear. In here is a canopy bed, a nighstand, and a closet with alarm clocks as seen in "Employee of the Month". Off of the bedroom is a bathroom with a toilet, sink with medicine cabinet, and a jacuzzi tub/shower.
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First Floor EditEdit
- Kitchen: This is at the Back. Squidward makes food such as cake here.
- Dining Room: Next to the Kitchen. This is where Squidward eats meals. This is where he keeps his shell-phone in "House Fancy"
- Living Room: Squidward watches TV and enjoys Sundays here.
- Toilet: This is where Squidward keeps his "Talking Toilet" and "Talking Toilet Paper".
Second Floor EditEdit
- Closet: A closet in Squidward's bedroom. This is where Squidward keeps all of his alarm clocks (seen in "Employee of the Month")
- Bedroom: Squidward sleeps in this room. This room can be found on the left ear (at least in "Employee of the Month" it is)
- Bathroom: This is where Squidward's bath tub/shower is located, just off of his bedroom.
- Gallery: Squidward does his art and plays his clarinet in this room.
- Back Room: This room has wallpaper that is easy to peel and is only shown in Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost.
Inhabitants EditEdit
- Squidward Tentacles
- Clarinet
- SpongeBob SquarePants (on occasion)
- Patrick Star (on occasion)
- Snellie the Snail
- Gary
Damaged Instances/Losses Edit Edit
- "Bubblestand" - His house gets carried really high by a giant bubble, dropping it from high-up causing it to get stuck in the ground with Squidward in it.
- "Plankton!" - Being controlled by Plankton, SpongeBob bursts through the walls.
- "Naughty Nautical Neighbors" - The house explodes after SpongeBob and Patrick burp.
- "Sandy's Rocket" - SpongeBob and Patrick think Squidward is an alien and bag up his belongings, destroying the inside.
- "I Was a Teenage Gary" - SpongeBob chases Squidward destroying his house.
- "The Paper" - Squidward trades all of his belongings for a piece of paper, including the base structure of his house. He is also seen busting through the side of his house with his shell-cart.
- "Dying for Pie" - It was destroyed along with the rest of Bikini Bottom in the explosion.
- "Squidville" - SpongeBob and Patrick use their reef blowers to suck up the parts and shooting them out, destroying his house.
- "Christmas Who?" - Squidward (as Santa Claus) gave all away his stuff and furniture (even his decorations) to everyone so SpongeBob could be happy. Almost the same as in The Paper.
- "Shanghaied" - Flying Dutchman's anchor hits the side off the house.
- "Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm" - It is crushed by the worm, along with the rest of Bikini Bottom
- "Can You Spare a Dime?" - Squidward loses his house because he can't afford it after he quits his job.
- "Skill Crane" - Squidward gives up the deed to his house while he was trying to win a prize
- "Good Neighbors" - Squidward busts his head through the door screaming that "THEY'RE THE WORST NEIGHBORS EVER!!!!!!!!!!" when SpongeBob said if he was going to say something. It then comes alive and destroys Bikini Bottom.
- "Rule of Dumb" - Patrick moves his house to make a ferris wheel, destroying the inside and dropping the house into the ground.
- "The Krusty Plate" - Same as "Dying for Pie." It was destroyed with the rest of Bikini Bottom and theKrusty Krab with the maximum power.
- "House Fancy" - When he was in a hurry, he made SpongeBob vacuum, the vacuum cleaner exploded and the house remodeled. Also, after Patrick used Squidward's bathroom, the toilet crawled out moaning and then died.
- "Giant Squidward" - The citizens of Bikini Bottom set up a trap at the house cutting off the top.
- "Squid's Visit" - The house caught on fire and was vaporized while Squidward was visiting SpongeBob. It was caused by a casserole in the oven.
- "That Sinking Feeling" - This time it wasn't destroyed, it just sunk underground along with the rest of Bikini Bottom.
- "Growth Spout" - Mr. Krabs stole some food so he could feed his daughter Pearl. When he left, the house said "Oh well. I needed to loose a little weight anyway". What's interesting to note is that while the house just said "oh well", Squidward was angry about it and tried to call the cops, as it hints that the house isn't as grumpy as Squidward. Also in this episode the kitchen is in an unknown room in an unknown floor.
- "Enchanted Tiki Dreams" - SpongeBob and Patrick use the house to build Squidward's paradise.
- "The Monster Who Came to Bikini Bottom" - Raarg destroyed the house.
- "Sponge-Cano" - The citizens of Bikini Bottom sacrifice the house to a volcano after the water pipe broke and landed on the volcano.
- "Big Sister Sam" - Patrick's sister, Sam throws Squidward's house, removes parts and then chews up the parts into small bullet like rock, blows them out, and destroys his house completely.
- "A Friendly Game" - It was destroyed when SpongeBob and Patrick were looking for their golf balls and making shots where they left it.
- "Frozen Face-Off" - Once again, same as "Dying For Pie."
- "Squid Baby" - A boat files right into the house completely destroying it.
Intelligence Edit Edit
Squidward's house appears to have a mind of its own. It was assumed so to give a comedic effect.
- "The Secret Box" - Tries to peek into Patrick's secret box, then returns to its normal position after SpongeBob & Patrick see it trying to take a peek.
- "Good Neighbors" - It comes alive and destroys most of Bikini Bottom, though unlike the other episodes, this is because of the security system Squidward set up going haywire.
- "Funny Pants" - It covers it's ears and makes an angry face forSpongeBob crying.
- "Growth Spout" - After Mr. Krabs steals food from the house, it says "Oh well, I needed to lose a little weight anyway."
- "A Friendly Game" - Same as Funny Pants, but the hands are sand and does not make an angry face. For SpongeBob's alarm at the start.
- In a Nick Magazine comic, "House of Squidward", there is a switch buried in the backyard that makes Squidward's house come to life. He grows feet and arms. He is brought to rest when SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward cleverly disguise SpongeBob's house as a woman. Using a microphone and a speaker controlled by SpongeBob, they are able to trick the house into sitting back down in behind the walkway, and then flip the switch to keep Squidward's house from moving.
Trivia Edit Edit
- There is also a garbage version of Squidward's house only seen in the episode "Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful." It was created by SpongeBob and was somehow built under Squidward's actual house.
- For some reason, Squidward's house is red during nighttime in most cases.