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In this Parliament it always comes back to honesty and character.
All of the scandals and even the politics behind the biggest policy change of the year - the carbon tax - hinged on truth, lies and trustworthiness.
On the final bitter, angry sitting day this week, each leader made the character accusation against the other, signalling the deeply personal fight between the two will continue into next's year's election battle.
''The charge is the Prime Minister has been a dodgy and incompetent lawyer and she is an incompetent and untrustworthy PM,'' Tony Abbott said as he enunciated his case against Julia Gillard in the Australian Workers' Union/Slater & Gordon affair.
''This is not about gender. This is about character and you have failed the character test,'' he told the Prime Minister across the despatch box.
But he was unable to back his claim that she had broken the law, and after being defensive and often evasive for days, Julia Gillard was quick to switch to attack, telling Fairfax Media he was too negative, sexist and lightweight to run the country.
''I note some Liberal strategists are saying they are going to reset him or rebuild him over summer as if he was a robot you could bolt another part onto, but this kind of negativity is who he is and that will never change and that will shape the contest in 2013 between me and him, for me.
''I think I emerge from this year in the eyes of Australians as someone who has proved my mettle and someone who is driven by purpose.
''Leadership is about character and if all you can do is complain and divide and dig dirt then you are not a suitable person to run the country … it involves hard-headed policy work. If you want someone to have a House of Representatives dust-up then he is a good bloke to pick, if you want someone to design a complicated policy he'll never get that done, he is incapable of policy heavy lifting.''
In the opinion polls, 2012 ends much as 2011 did - Labor clawing back from ''wipe-out'' to ''within striking distance''.
In fact, after all the scandals, the fight-to-the-death over the carbon tax and Labor's acrimonious leadership challenge, the polls are almost exactly where they were when the year began.
That feels like an improvement for Labor because things got so much worse in between. Like last year, the Coalition finishes confident, but nervous that its support may be soft because voters are reacting to what they don't like about the government, rather than things they like about the opposition.
And they are nervous because one set of numbers is now different.
Gillard's net approval rating (the proportion of voters who think she's doing a good job minus those who think she's doing a bad job) has improved from -15 to -1, according to the Nielsen poll.
Abbott's has deteriorated almost as sharply (-13 to -24). Sixty per cent of the electorate disapprove of how the Coalition leader is doing his job. Only 36 per cent approve.
These are the numbers at the heart of the ''character wars'' - a battle of attrition between two relatively unpopular politicians to convince voters to distrust and dislike their opponent the most.
This week's all-out assault by the deputy Coalition leader, Julie Bishop, over the legal advice Gillard provided to her boyfriend 17 years ago was designed to stall the Prime Minister's approval rating recovery.
Abbott had always personally led the attack on Gillard's legitimacy as a leader - her ''knifing'' of Kevin Rudd to get there, the fact that she leads a minority government, her carbon tax ''lie'', the ongoing theme of untrustworthiness and lack of character. But his successful attack came at a personal cost, so for most of the week his deputy stepped in.
By week's end, Gillard looked like she had been evasive, but there was nothing to prove she had done anything criminally wrong.
''Involved in unethical behaviour and possible unlawful conduct,'' was as strong as Abbott could phrase his charge.
But the Coalition never needed the cliched ''smoking gun'' to achieve its real aim - to remind voters the Prime Minister hung out with what turned out to be some pretty dodgy union characters 17 years ago and to try to link that with much more recent union scandals.
''This isn't just about an old scandal … this is about the ability of this government to stamp out union corruption now,'' Abbott said.
''How can a Prime Minister be expected to stamp out union corruption when very senior members of the government have been associated with corruption themselves.''
Gillard's smackdown misogyny and sexism speech - even though genuine in its emotion - and Labor's ongoing attacks about his political shallowness and absence of policy and negativity have the same political aim - to keep doubts voters always had about the Coalition leader front of mind.
In fact, the sexism speech seems to have helped the Prime Minister in two ways - it reminded everyone of socially-conservative and possibly sexist things the Coalition leader had had to say.
But, according to the polling analyst Andrew Catsaras, it also reminded voters of something they had once liked about Gillard, something that had gone missing since she had become Prime Minister.
The ''content was important, but it was also the moment when she looked like she believed what she was saying again … before that she looked like she was arguing a brief, in that speech she looked like she was speaking from the heart, like she meant it, and people respond to that,'' he said.
But this fight comes at a cost to both sides.
Vicki Arbes,the chief executive of the polling company Hall & Partners Open Mind, said recently voters in her focus groups were so unimpressed by the spectacle of a desperate minority government clinging on against the Coalition's attempts to pull it down, they are almost past caring.
''The anger and disappointment voters felt for Labor after their high expectations in 2007 has dissipated because they have just switched off from the whole thing in disgust. They are disenchanted with politicians and bored with the whole spectacle.''
The government has been fighting to get the electorate to focus on its achievements - which Gillard listed at year's end, including the Murray-Darling Basin plan, committing to the Gonski education reforms, starting the national disability insurance scheme and winning the UN Security Council seat, due to her work and that of ''Kevin [Rudd], [Stephen] Smithy and Bob [Carr]''.
Abbott ended the year promising to unveil his ''positive agenda''. His first attempt was a book-compilation of his political speeches, accompanied by a launch speech in which he said the word ''positive'' many times. Like all oppositions, the Coalition will provide policy at the time it chooses in the lead-up to the election and has vowed that its pledges will be costed.
So 2012 turned out to be a year where the major parties have fought themselves back to the point where they started.
In early February, as Rudd and his supporters circled and Australians' summer tan lines began to fade, the first Nielsen poll showed an improvement on the truly dire situation for Labor of late 2011. Labor was on a primary vote of 33 per cent and a two-party preferred vote of 48 per cent. The numbers in the most recent Nielsen poll were almost exactly the same, although other polls are slightly closer. They dipped to unprecedented lows in the lead up to the July 1 carbon tax introduction and recovered slowly thereafter.
It was also a year of unremitting drama. It began with the Prime Minister being dragged away from a ''riot'' outside an Australia Day function also attended by the Coalition leader, and a storm over revelations that one of the Prime Minister's own media advisers may have triggered the protest by tipping off Aboriginal protesters about something Abbott had allegedly said. (Months later the AFP found the adviser had not done anything wrong.)
In February, Rudd was drawn into an earlier-than-intended leadership challenge, and lost, but only after his character and achievements had been pummeled by his frontbench colleagues who said he had presided over a shambolic and dysfunctional government and had been contemptuous of them and of the Australian people. (The voters still said they preferred him as leader.)
April and May were dominated by the dual Peter Slipper and Craig Thomson scandals (both are now sitting on the crossbenches).
By August, the scandalised headlines had been replaced by the long-running AWU affair.
And the back-to-back scandal was at least part of the reason Gillard struggled for so long to find her political stride.
As one minister (a Gillard supporter) summed it up ''we are finishing better than we started but it's still not good. That's why an early election makes no sense. We need some time to get our message out through all this trivia and bullshit''.
At that end of 2010, Abbott was cocky enough to tell journalists that ''next year'' he'd be hosting his Christmas Party at The Lodge.
Last year, he wasn't so boastful but he still thought that goal was in reach within 12 months. By next Christmas he may well be there.
But Gillard made it clear trust and character are two big issues she intends to make sure will stand in his way. And they are the same issues upon which he is relying to oust her.


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D3 Molly A. Hague has been selected to participate in the 2014-2015 class of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Medical Research Scholars Program (MRSP).
"This is such an honor" says Hague, "and I couldn't have done it without the support from everyone at UCSF!"
The MRSP is a comprehensive, year-long research enrichment program designed to attract the most creative, research-oriented medical, dental, and veterinary students to the intramural campus of the NIH in Bethesda, MD. Student scholars engage in a mentored basic, clinical, or translational research project on the main NIH campus in Bethesda, or at close by NIH facilities that matches their research interests and career goals.
MRSP scholars will experience the full continuum of biomedical research—the bench, the bedside, between both and beyond:
- Lectures on seminal basic, translational and clinical research topics that highlight the continuum of discovery, as well as issues in bioethics, science policy and emerging technologies
- Training in clinical protocol development and the conduct of human subjects research
- Clinical teaching rounds focusing on NIH research patients
- Academic leadership and drug development training
- Dedicated research mentor and advisor
- NIH Clinical Center courses such as "Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research" and the "Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research"
- Opportunity to attend Howard Hughes Medical Institute's (HHMI) scientific meetings at Janelia Farms Research Campus and the HHMI Headquarters
Hague stands out among many exceptional young scientists at the UCSF School of Dentistry, and in 2013 [1]was elected as the President of the National Student Research Group (NSRG, part of the American Association for Dental Research - AADR) for 2014-2015 [1].
Molly Hague
National Institutes of Health Medical Research Scholars Program [2]

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For my graduate research seminar, I recently had the pleasure of reading two books outside the field of American history. You may wonder at the insanity of assigning these new (to me) books. In this case, the reason is that each student comes from a different field, and I try to assign something for everyone. For these books, it was an especially worthwhile endeavor. Though focused on extremely different periods and different places (16th-17th century Venice and 20th India), both books discuss empire, citizenship, and the way religion helped define these geographic and political boundaries. The authors raise interesting questions for American religious historians about the social and imperial context of conversion, missionary politics, and the complicated, uncontrollable impact of certain books.
E. Natalie Rothman's prize-winning Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul looks at different "trans-imperial subjects," including commercial brokers, converts, and translators, to show their agency in shaping the political, religious, and linguistic boundaries of the Venetian empire. I found Rothman's discussion of converts (Muslims, Protestants, and Jews) to Catholicism especially compelling. She deemphasizes conversion as an individual experience, instead focusing on the importance of institutions, employers, patrons, and social networks. Rothman argues that "conversion should be studied as a set of historically shifting social practices rather than as individual spiritual choices." In her chapter on the House of Catechumens, which educated converts for baptism, she writes,
I underscore how religious conversion formed a web of social practices that were deeply imbedded in processes of subject-making and imperial consolidation. The house of Catechumens was instrumental not only in mediating the ongoing relationship among converts, their patrons, and the early modern Venetian state but, more broadly, in articulating categories of religious and juridicial difference. As such, it is best understood as a trans-imperial, rather than a strictly local, Venetian institution.
Mrinalini Sinha's Specters ofMother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire discusses the unexpected consequences of the 1927 publication of Mother India, a social and religious exposé by conservative American journalist Katherine Mayo (the photo is from the book). Arguing for the continuation of British colonial rule, Mayo's book focused on the oppressed and over-sexed Hindu woman to show that Indians were not capable of self-government. The response to the book—in India, Britain, and the U.S.—shocked its supporters in the Rockefeller Foundation and the British government. Indian nationalists, and their allies in the U.S. (including the NAACP, liberal journalists, and supporters of Irish independence), argued that the British Empire had failed to improve the status of Indian women. In Britain and the U.S., missionaries, who Mayo hoped would be her most vocal advocates, backed away from her central message.
As Sinha writes, a number of leading missionary organizations issued statements criticizing the book. One protest from seven American missionaries read:
[We wish] to pay our tribute of love and respect to the people of India from whom we, of the west, may learn many valuable lessons. We wish to express our sense of humiliation that an American should write with such unfairness and apparent prejudice in presenting India.Sinha effectively expands the geography of empire to show the shifting political ground on which imperialists, nationalists, and missionaries operated. If we place important books in American religious history, such as the Woman's Bible (I'm sure readers will come up with other good examples), in a trans-imperial context, what would we learn about their impact at home and abroad?
A side observation: Mayo is a fascinating figure. According to Sinha, she started her career as a researcher for Oswald Garrison Villard's book on John Brown. Before publishing Mother India, she wrote books defending the fiscal reputation of the YMCA, promoting imperialism in the Philippines, and celebrating the efforts of the state police to control immigrants, African Americans, and labor. In addition to her lifelong partner M. Moyca Newell, Mayo's biggest supporters were the Daughters of the American Revolution and other conservative women's groups (Kirsten Marie Delegard's new book on the development of female political conservatism after suffrage is on my "to read" list). Mayo was an Episcopalian, and I finished Sinha's book wanting to know more about the involvement of Mayo and other conservative women in the religious and racial politics of the American empire.


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|From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
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On Jun 21, 2006, at 11:43 PM, wooks wooks wrote: > LOL. Ok I've been rumbled. > I'll start all over again the way I've been told and await the light > bulb moment. Try harder: it is not about the "light bulb" at all. Unless you speak of the necessity to buckle under and to understand "programming as the discipline of design" as the "light bulb." We, the CS people, are the essence of design (and I don't mean HCI) but so much of what is sold as CS is complete total BS. We could do so much better -- Matthias > > > ----Original Message Follows---- > From: Stephen Bloch <sbloch at adelphi.edu> > To: "wooks wooks" <wookiz at hotmail.com>, plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu > Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] HTDP 12.4.2 > Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 23:26:14 -0400 > > At 1:03 AM +0100 6/22/06, wooks wooks wrote: > [code snipped] > > This is remarkably similar to the code one of my sharpest students > came up with for this problem last year (except that he was more > careful with the contracts, so his worked :-)) I'll tell you the same > thing I told him: you're thinking too hard. Follow the design > recipe... really! > > When I first saw the HtDP design recipe in a TeachScheme! workshop c. > 1999, I thought "These folks have some good ideas, but this 'design > recipe' is just too dumb for words." Since then I've taught maybe a > dozen courses using it, and every semester has convinced me more of > its usefulness -- not just for the weak, confused, struggling students > but for the "sharp" ones too. Almost every semester there's at least > one sharp student who skips the design recipe and gets through the > assignments on brilliance... until usually around Chapter 12, this > student who has never asked for help on anything all semester shows up > at my office door with a program that's getting more and more > complicated and no closer to working. As soon as it becomes clear to > me that the student hasn't followed the design recipe at all, I throw > out the existing code and start from scratch, asking questions to lead > him (it's almost always "him") through the design recipe. Half an > hour later the student walks out with a correct, working, clear > program half as long as the incorrect, confusing one he walked in > with. > > As Danny pointed out, your contract for "insertEverywhere" doesn't > match the way it is used in "arrangements". This would be clearer to > you if you took the test cases seriously: start with the empty case, > then a one-element list, then a two- or three-element list, each one > accompanied with what the correct answer should be. Writing these > test cases, with correct answers, is not just a way of conveniently > testing the program once it's written; it's a way of clarifying your > understanding of what the program is supposed to do. That's why you > do it BEFORE writing the program (you do, don't you?) > > If one of my students turned this in, (s)he would lose points for > (a) getting the contract for "insertEverywhere" wrong > (b) not providing ANY test cases for "insertEverywhere" (there should > be at least two or three, including an empty one) > (c) not explaining what "infiltrate" is supposed to do (I don't > require purpose statements for the assigned functions, or for > functions whose names are self-explanatory, but "infiltrate" isn't) > (d) not providing an empty test case for "infiltrate" > (e) not providing the correct answers for each test case for > "infiltrate" > and, of course (f) a program that doesn't produce right answers :-) > Every one of these items is not just Dr. Bloch being mean and picky; > these are practices that will HELP YOU PRODUCE CORRECT PROGRAMS. > -- > Stephen Bloch > sbloch at adelphi.edu > > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme
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Here at HM&P our work with Georgia-Pacific Professional has led to the recent launch of a campaign entitled Spread Wellness. The campaign aims to create a movement of people who regularly wash their hands, dry them with a paper towel and ask the person next to them to do that same. With flu season upon us, we're spreading the word about the importance of proper hand washing and drying to reduce the spread of germs.
As part of the campaign, you can sign up to be a Wellness Ambassador and receive a welcome kit and free wristband to help spread the word. You can also download and print hand-washing signs for your office, school, or facility. Plus, if you want to request a touchless paper towel dispenser for a business or other public place, you can request one at the site.


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Each year, the American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) declares a National Zoo Keeper Appreciation Week. The idea behind it is to honor animal care professionals and their contributions to conservation while increasing public awareness about preserving our precious habitats and natural resources.
Zoo Keeping is one of the most physically demanding jobs a person can have, but it also one of the most rewarding! Zoo keepers work in all weather conditions, weekends, holidays and sometimes even overnight. The animals do not stop needing care just because it is Thanksgiving, or during a hurricane. Many of us have stayed up all night caring for a critically ill bear, feeding an orphaned squirrel monkey, or observing a new mother otter with her first litter. My personal record is 36 hours straight of animal care. You would be hard pressed to find a group of more dedicated people than you would in a zoo's animal care department.
Zoo Keepers also work very closely with many of the other departments in the Zoo. Here are a few of the things they have to say about the keepers at the Oakland Zoo:
"I have never experienced such a dedicated and loyal staff that puts Oakland Zoo's animal care first. The animal care staff is representative of what it means to love the job you're in. I am proud of, and to be associated with, such knowledgeable and professional folks." Nancy Filippi Managing Director of Operations.
"Keepers, you don't care for gibbons and chimps, you care for Niko and Caramia, you care for each individual animal that is in your care, with all their unique issues, their unique likes and dislikes. You tap into what brings each animal happiness and health and deliver with love." Amy Gotliffe, Director of Conservation
"I'm always looking for ways to promote Oakland Zoo stories to the public. Often times, I am asking a lot of questions and bugging zookeepers for details about the animals they manage and most the time they think I'm crazy, is my guess. But, those nuggets of information help me grab the media's attention. I'm so appreciative for the little details zookeepers give me. Their jobs are fascinating and I ALWAYS learn new things about animals each time I bring a reporter or film crew to a location. Over the years, I've learned a lot of cocktail trivia about animals. Being out in the zoo with zookeepers is usually a definite perk to my job at the Zoo. Kudos to our zookeepers. You work so hard and we appreciate all you do for the animals at Oakland Zoo." Nicky Mora, Senior Manager of Marketing
"I appreciate the keepers because they do awesome work and serve a tremendous purpose. And, while I get to spend 95% of my time in a heated or air-conditioned office, the keepers do it all, rain or shine (and 98% percent of the time they smile doing it). I'm in considerable awe of their talent and dedication." John Lemanski, Director of Human Resources
"We have dedicated zoo keepers and are truly blessed to have dozens of staff members that work day in and day out with our diverse collection of animals. Many of the animal species featured throughout Oakland Zoo are ambassadors to animals in the wild that are in danger or at risk of becoming extinct. Our Zoo Keepers are advocates for the animals they care for and they strive to make the public aware of issues facing those same animals in the wild. We work really hard at spreading the message of conservation and our keepers play an integral role in that process." Dr. Joel Parrott, President and CEO of Oakland Zoo
"National Zoo Keeper Week is an opportunity for us to acknowledge Keepers for what they do and thank them for the care they continue to provide our animals at Oakland Zoo. One of the core beliefs our Keepers all embody is educating the public about pets, specifically which animals do and do not make good pets. Besides educating the public about the animals, our keepers go to great lengths to provide the most natural and enriching environment for the creatures in their care. Not only do the animals benefit from the creative ideas, all of the keepers share their successes and new ways to keep animals stimulated. We all learn from each other and no day working with animals is ever the same." Colleen Kinzley, Director of Animal Care, Conservation, and Research


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1838 — Mifflinburg, Union County, Pennsylvania
Egle's Notes and Queries of Pennsylvania, 1700s - 1800s
Annual Volume 1899, Notes and Queries - XIX, p 90
The Early Dead at Mifflinburg
Mifflinburg is a beautiful and thriving town in the heart of Buffalo Valley in Union County, Pa. and was founded over a century ago by Elias Youngman and for that reason, was called Youngmanstown. Immediately south of the town is the cemetery, the outgrowth of the churchyard connected with the Union church, built about 1806, and still standing, but used as a warehouse. In the old part of the cemetery, in front of the old church, are buried many of the German settlers of the valley, but most of their graves are unmarked. In the following list will be found a few whose names prominently occur in the early history of this region. Perhaps half of the inscriptions herewith given are in the Germany language. The tombstone of the proprietor and his wife (Elias Youngman & Catharine Nagel) are inscribed in Germany and fairly legible.
Cronemiller Martin, b 1761; d 1838 (Rev. soldier)
Cronemiller Jacob, b 1787; d 1840
Cronemiller Susan, wf. b 1788; d 1839
Jan 26 1838 — Mifflinburg, Union County, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Veterans Burial Cards, 1777-1999
about Martin Cronemiller Name: Martin Cronemiller
Death Date: 26 Jan 1838
Military Branch: Army
Veteran of Which War: Revolutionary War
Organization: York Co. Militia
Cemetery Name: Mifflinburg Cemetery
Cemetery Location: Mifflinburg; Union County, Pennsylvania
Location of Grave in Cemetery: #38
Range Grave No. 15
Headstone: Family
Information Given By: W.P.A. Grave Registration 7/30/1940
Remarks: Pa. Archives Vol 2, Series 6
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All the girls at work have this and I'm so excited to get one tonight! Have been feeling the need to eat a bit healthier lately, especially as the winter-comfort-foods-mood is around the corner and I know this will alleviate having to drag a bottle of salad dressing to work so lettuce doesn't get soggy. So excited!


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Office of Springfield District Supervisor Relocates
Office of Public Affairs
12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 551
Fairfax, VA 22035-0065
June 13, 2003
Office of Springfield District Supervisor Relocates
Springfield District Supervisor Elaine McConnell will relocate her office on Tuesday, June 17, to the newly renovated West Springfield Governmental Center, 6140 Rolling Road, Springfield, Va., 22152.
The main telephone, TTY and fax numbers for Supervisor McConnell's office will remain the same. To reach the office, continue to call 703-451-8873, TTY 703-455-6691 or fax 703-451-3047. Supervisor McConnell's e-mail address continues to be email@example.com. Office hours will remain the same, from 9 a.m. through 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.


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GPD: Biomass noise 'clearly heard' but below legal threshold
Published: Tuesday, October 1, 2013 at 12:40 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, October 1, 2013 at 12:40 p.m.
As noise complaints from residents of the Turkey Creek Golf and Country Club continue to pour in, Gainesville police began taking sound readings of the biomass plant in the early morning hours Tuesday.
Using an Alachua County Sheriff's Office noise meter and assisted by deputies, police said those initial tests showed that noise from the 100-megawatt plant could be "clearly heard" at some spots.
The noise, however, did not exceed the threshold to violate the city's noise ordinance. That law limits "continuous" noise between the hours of 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. to 60 decibels measured at 200 feet from the property line.
Sixty decibels is comparable to the sound generated by a conversation, a typewriter or a sewing machine, according to the American Hearing Research Foundation.
GPD spokesman Officer Ben Tobias said complaints come in to the agency on a nightly basis and testing will continue. He said police will recommend that the city bring in certified noise experts
"These are not certified tests," Tobias said of the early Tuesday morning readings. "These are preliminary tests. We will continue to work with residents and respond to complaints."
At 2:15 a.m., sound readings taken at Desoto Trail Park, where U.S. 441 and County Road 25A split, were in the range of 55 to 57 decibels, rising above 60 when traffic passed, Tobias said in a morning email summary of incidents sent to the media.
Inside the Turkey Creek community, readings did not exceed 45 decibels, Tobias wrote.
At the Whitney Mobile Home Park, in the 8400 block of Northwest 13th Street, noise from the plant was not audible, according to GPD.
City Commissioner Todd Chase also took a ride out to the entrance of Turkey Creek around midnight. He described what he heard in an email sent to the other commissioners, City Manager Russ Blackburn, City Attorney Nicolle Shalley and Gainesville Regional Utilities General Manager Bob Hunzinger.
"I can't say that this was the time when this was the loudest or not, but what I can tell you is that I can see why we are going to have a problem with relying on simple db level readings and relating them to our noise ordinance," Chase wrote.
"It reminded me very much like all of the times I have spent on military airbases around the world with the constant sound of jets taking off. It was not as if they were flying right over you, rather it was just a constant roar as we keep reading about and reminded me very much of being in my room on base and just always hearing the sound of the planes.
"There was also a strange whistle and whine that would come and go which was louder and high pitched. I doubt that what I heard last night would reach into the 70 dbs, but it would not have to be in order to be a pretty bad nuisance."
Residents of Turkey Creek, a community of more than 1,000 homes, have expressed concerns and complaints over noise from the nearby biomass plant since shortly after the plant began generating power in August. They have taken their concerns to the city of Alachua, where their community is located, the county, Gainesville and the company that owns the Gainesville Renewable Energy Center.
Emails residents have sent frequently describe the roar of a jet off in the distance.
In a letter sent to the city of Gainesville Monday, the homeowners association of Turkey Creek cited concerns with noise, air pollution and truck traffic and asked that the plant be shut down.
"We are not faulting the good intentions of the Gainesville City Commission in approving the biomass plant as a fuel source alternate to fossil fuels," the letter read.
"By this letter we not only voice our serious concerns as articulated above, but ask that you shut it down, conduct more research as to whether placement anywhere in Gainesville is viable without risk to human health and the environment and, if alternate placement is not viable, scrap it and replace the trees removed during construction."
In response to the complaints, GREC hired its own environmental firm to take sound tests. The biomass company said the plant will no longer start up between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. until the power station reaches commercial operation and the city assumes the authority to decide when to fire it up. Additionally, trucks may now only deliver wood only between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.
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In a message posted on its website, Dyson is urging customers to return the products for a free engineering fix.
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The anti-gay and perpetually pissed-off US group One Million Moms, has condemned Urban Outfitters' April catalogue. Outraged by a picture that they describe as "two women kissing in a face holding embrace!" the group has posted a call-to-arms on their website, that encourages said millions-of-moms to throw out the catalogue that may be brainwashing their teenage offspring, call up Urban Outfitters and give them a piece of their millions-of-minds!
This is the same group who also took a vendetta out against JCPenney after they made Ellen DeGeneres their spokesperson. After a long hard battle (since February) against the forces of darkness, they dropped that particular boycott last month. The irony is that the CEO of Urban Outfitters, Richard Hayne is a known conservative and supporter of Republican Rick Santorum, and has previously pulled pro-gay marriage shirts off his own shelves.
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If the economy is improving someone forgot to tell Office Depot's customers. The company reported a third quarter loss of $70 million loss on sales that declined 5% to $2.7 billion.
The company was quick to qualify the loss figure by noting that third quarter results include approximately $8 million of charges primarily related to restructuring activities and actions to improve future operating performance and approximately $88 million
related to non-cash asset impairment charges, $73 million of which was recognized in the North American Retail Division and $15 million recognized in the International Division.
The company said its third quarter profits would have been $18 million, or 6 cents a share, if the charges were excluded.
Getting a clear picture of Office Depot's performance tends to be complicated by frequent charges related to the implementation of a seemingly never ending turnaround strategy, resulting in frequent charges and one time events that impact accounting. That was the case again in the third quarter as results were compared to a prior year period that included approximately $6 million of charges the company said were primarily related to restructuring activities and other costs intended to improve efficiency and benefit operations in future periods, as well as a benefit from the reversal of approximately $99 million of combined tax and interest accruals for uncertain tax positions. Excluding these charges and the benefit from the reversal of accruals, the company would have had a net loss, after preferred stock dividends, of about $700,000 or zero cents per
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Despite the topline weakness evident across Office Depot's three divisions – retail, contract and international – company chairman and CEO Neil Austrian expressed optimism.
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I know it's unseemly to talk about fall right now, but when October rolls around and you are flush with fresh fall vegetables, it's a little easier to say goodbye to summer.
Many of these plants take a bit longer to be ready for harvest, so starting them from seed soon will give them the start they need. Some of them can even be stored right in the ground where they grow, making it easy to keep them fresh into the winter.
Soup crops
One of our favorites for fall is celeriac, a relative of celery. Sometimes called celery root because it shares that familiar celery flavor, celeriac is much easier to grow. While it does need a good amount of water, it requires less than the fussy celery. It also tends to have better resistance to pests and disease.
Sow celeriac seeds indoors now, and keep them moist. If you don't see the seeds sprout after two weeks, don't be discouraged as it can take up to three weeks to see a good amount of germination.
Transplant outside after the danger of frost has passed. Keep the soil moist, and when October rolls around, you'll have fist-sized, celery-flavored roots ready for the soup pot.
Cabbage is another fall vegetable that will plump up in the garden through the summer, using all that sun to build up stores of food for you to eat in the darker months. As a bonus, cabbages will actually sweeten up when temperatures drop if left in the ground.
Start these indoors in late March or April, and transplant them outside when temperatures consistently get up to the 50s. Time it right and they will be ready to harvest throughout the fall.
It sounds like we're halfway to a hearty, warming soup. All we need are some leeks. Leeks are another pest- and disease-resistant crop, making them a low-maintenance addition to your garden. They can be started from seed indoors, and transplanted out after the last frost.
Before you plant, dig or rake an inch or so of compost into your garden bed to provide them with the nitrogen they will need to grow. When transplanting, dig a trench 6 to 12 inches deep, and plant them at the bottom of this trench. Gradually fill in the trench around the leek stem to blanch them as they grow. This will help increase the amount of the tasty, white stems so prized in leeks.
Transitioning into spring
When starting your seeds indoors, it is good practice to use a sterile seed-starting mix. This drastically reduces the chance of your seedlings becoming diseased and helps them develop strong roots, which will help make your garden lower-maintenance and keep it pesticide-free.
When it is almost time to transplant your starts, you will want to "harden off" your plants. This means gradually exposing your plants to the harsher conditions outside so they can thrive beyond transplantation. Put your starts outside for a few hours one day, and then gradually increase the length of time they are outside over the course of a week.
Getting a start on your fall crops now may seem strange, but it is a great way to ensure you will have fresh vegetables like celeriac, cabbage and leeks ready for the soup pot when little else is growing.
For more about good plant choices for fall gardening, visit the Garden Hotline at www.gardenhotline.org.
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Diabetic nephropathy is kidney damage that occurs with diabetes. It is the job of the kidneys to:
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Blood passes through small filters in the kidneys. Changes in the blood vessels due to diabetes can cause damage to these filters. Blood sugar levels that are not well-controlled can have the greatest impact on the kidney filters.
Over time, the damage to the filters increases. The damaged filters cannot clean the blood properly and protein from the blood can leak into the urine. If left untreated, this can lead to kidney failure.
Factors that may increase your chance of diabetic nephropathy include Type 1 diabetes and Type 2 diabetes with:
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If the damage to your kidneys progresses to kidney failure, you may need dialysis . Dialysis takes over for your kidneys. Blood passes out of your body into a machine. The machine filters waste out of the blood then pumps blood back to you.
If the kidney failure progresses you may eventually need a kidney transplant .
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American Diabetes Association
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Canadian Diabetes Association
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American Academy of Family Physicians. Information from your family doctor: diabetic nephropathy. Am Fam Physician. 2005 Jul 1;72(01):100.
Diabetic nephropathy. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at: http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T113702/Diabetic-nephropathy. Updated August 18, 2016. Accessed September 18, 2016.
Diabetic nephropathy. Family Doctor—American Academy of Family Physicians website. Available at: http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/common/diabetes/complications/847.html. Updated February 2014. Accessed September 18, 2014.
Living with diabetes: kidney disease (nephropathy). American Diabetes Association website. Available at: http://www.diabetes.org/living-with-diabetes/complications/kidney-disease-nephropathy.html. Updated December 10, 2013. Accessed September 18, 2014.
Nephropathy in diabetes. Diabetes Care. 2004;27 Suppl 1:S79-83.
Last reviewed September 2016 by Kim Carmichael, MD
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Good location for the city centre, shops, museums and restaurants. Very comfortable and clean. Excellent breakfasts.
the shower and bed are great!
The room was clean and the quality of the furniture was excellent with hospitality.
The room gave us lots of ideas and inspiration´s! Great place to start a holiday, defitinely gave the scapeaway.
The design of the room: modern, complete (with everything fitted in a small space). The bed. The owners: discreet but friendly. The breakfast (even if we didn't have the small cakes shown on the B&B site!). We stay on the second floor room where the door is a glazed one: a curtain or something against the light would be necessary for a good night sleep. The noise was terrible until 4 am as the B&B is located on a place with bars. It seems that it is not the case all the time: but anyway better avoid the hotel in Summer when the terraces are all opened! As consequence we didn't sleep well (but the owners had the same problems & the man was very sorry in the morning!).
Very welcoming owners. Rooms very well fitted out. Small kitchen area a big plus. And the fresh breakfast basket left outside your door in the morning is just a great idea. Fantastic fresh bread, ham, cheese, and orange juice freshly squeezed to die for. Why anyone would want to give this accomodation a bad review is beyone me - its fab!!
very friendly host, breakfast sublime internet didn't work
Friendly staff, clean and very nice rooms. Directly located in the centre, everything in walking distance.
The room is very nice and extremely clean, it is truly a pleasure to stay there. Also, the breakfast is really good, in quality and quantity, and very nicely presented. The only thing we did not like, which is not the B&B problem but around, is that the building beside it is under construction, so the work noises start at 9am and sound quite close.
A historic house, quiet location yet right in the centre of town, large room, large modernised bathroom with all facilities. Not everything was quite ready in the room when I arrived, but it was soon sorted out.
Location. Comfort. Historic building. No
The room is so romantic and quiet; you dont hear any noise of the city, while it is situated in the middle of antwerp /
the warmth and welcome of the owner, relaxed comfortable and homely atmosphere, very central.
accomodation, friendlyness, close to shopping and historical centre of Antwerp NA
The location was fantastic, the surroundings charming and the host and hostess went out of their way to make our stay memorable.Nothing was too much trouble for them and we had a marvellous time in Antwerp.