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What is cIRcle?
cIRcle is an open access digital repository for published and unpublished material created by the UBC community and its partners. Its aim is to showcase and preserve UBC's unique intellectual output by making content freely available to anyone, anywhere via the web.
UBC is committed to "developing a system for making UBC research accessible in digital repositories, especially open access repositories" and cIRcle is part of this strategy. The Senates of UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan have both endorsed UBC's Open Access Position Statement which encourages faculty to deposit their research in cIRcle. In addition, some funding agencies have open access policies.
If you wish to make your research openly accessible, cIRcle is an option to consider. You can always find us at our easy-to-remember URL: circle.ubc.ca
What can I find in cIRcle?
Through cIRcle you can find articles, conference and workshop papers, theses and dissertations, technical reports and working papers, books, datasets, learning objects, multimedia and audio-visual materials including podcasts, webcasts and more. cIRcle features both peer-reviewed and non peer-reviewed content making it a valuable resource for interdisciplinary research and inquiry.
How is cIRcle connected to UBC Library?
cIRcle is a service of the UBC Library and is a key player supporting the 'Accelerate Research' strategic direction in the Library's Strategic Plan which in turn is based on UBC's core commitment to 'Research Excellence' as described in Place and Promise: the UBC Plan.
What software does cIRcle use?
cIRcle uses software called DSpace, an open-source system developed by MIT and Hewlett-Packard. Hundreds of institutions in countries around the world use DSpace. To learn more about cIRcle's use of DSpace, see our user guides.
How can I add my work to cIRcle?
Visit our instructions to submit your content to learn more or contact cIRcle staff.
The system of scholarship and scholarly publishing is going through a process of change across the world. Notions of authorship and scholarly publishing are rapidly evolving in the digital age. Digital repositories (also known as information or institutional repositories) provide an opportunity to make scholarly content (including peer reviewed content) freely available online. Providing open access to an institution's research output can make the dissemination of scholarly information more cost effective and easier, resulting in greater accountability for public tax dollars.
In April 2006, the UBC Library's e-Library Committee proposed the creation of a digital repository to showcase UBC's scholarly work online. A pilot project was launched in spring 2007 and two years later, cIRcle became a full service of the Library. Today, with over 40,000 items online (and growing) scholarly communication is beginning to come full circle at UBC.
cIRcle's main goals are:
- To showcase the intellectual output of UBC and its partners by making the research carried out at UBC freely accessible;
- To support teaching, learning, and research activities on campus; and
- To preserve materials in cIRcle for future generations.
Impact and Assessment
The cIRcle Impact & Activity Report 2016 describes the engagement of UBC researchers, students, and community partners with cIRcle, and illustrates the dissemination of their scholarly work. Click here to read our 2013 report.
For more cIRcle news and activities, read our previous "cIRcle in the headlines: December edition" updates from 2013, 2014, and 2015. Watch for our December 2016 edition announcement via Twitter - @cIRcle_UBC.
Why use cIRcle?
With all content in cIRcle being indexed by web search engines like Google and Google Scholar, cIRcle enhances the global reach of and accessibility to UBC research. In fact, did you know cIRcle enables UBC researchers to comply with the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications? For details, visit Scholarly Communications Tri-Agency Open Access Policy.
Offering a number of services to help you manage and enhance your scholarly profile, cIRcle provides three major repository benefits as follows:
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- cIRcle content is indexed by high-profile search engines such as Google as well as academically focused search engines and collections such as Google Scholar, OAIster and CARL making it quick and easy for scholars and others to find your work.
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Need more reasons? Read about how contributing to cIRcle supports Open Access and Granting Agency Mandates, or visit our Who's using cIRcle? page to see what others are saying about the benefits of using cIRcle.
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Who's using cIRcle?
cIRcle content is organized around communities representing UBC departments, labs, research centres, schools or other administrative units. There are currently more than 40,000 items in cIRcle and the number continues to grow as new communities are added.
Items in cIRcle are generally heavily used. Look for the statistical information at the bottom of each record in cIRcle, or visit our FAQ for more information.
How our contributors are using cIRcle:
Browse cIRcle and contact cIRcle staff to find out how you can deposit your work in cIRcle.
The following sections highlight just a few of the many exciting collection projects featured in cIRcle. For an exhaustive list, you can browse the database by communities and collections or use cIRcle's Advanced Search feature to narrow your search.
This list represents a small sample of the projects currently underway.
ICASP12 – The 12th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering
- ICASP12 – The 12th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering and its proceedings showcase full-text, peer reviewed abstracts and papers consisting of research that 'plays a vital role in modelling the uncertainties, evaluating the risks, and identifying good decisions' in construction and engineering projects worldwide. This conference was held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia on July 12-15, 2015.
EESD15 – The Seventh International Conference on Engineering Education for Sustainable Development
- EESD15 – The Seventh International Conference on Engineering Education for Sustainable Development and its theme on Professional Breadth and Technical Depth – Cultivating the T-Shaped Engineer feature the 'sharing of best practices in pedagogy innovation, curriculum re-design and assessment, community engagement in engineering education, student development, and more'. This conference was held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia on June 9-12, 2015.
ICSC15 – The Canadian Society for Civil Engineering's 5th International/11th Construction Specialty Conference
- ICSC15 – The Canadian Society for Civil Engineering's 5th International/11th Construction Specialty Conference "provided the opportunity for researchers and practitioners of construction from around the world [to share] the most recent innovations and developments in the construction industry". This conference was held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia on June 7-10, 2015 in partnership with the American Society of Civil Engineers' Construction Institute (Construction Research Congress – CRC), the US Construction Industry Institute, and the UK Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM).
TRIUMF: Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics
- TRIUMF (TRI-University Meson Facility) is "one of the world's leading subatomic physics laboratories. It brings together dedicated physicists and interdisciplinary talent, sophisticated technical resources, and commercial partners in a way that has established the laboratory as a global model of success. Its large user community is composed of international teams of scientists, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate and undergraduate students". Explore its two new collections in cIRcle - TRIUMF Annual Reports and TRIUMF Technical Reports.
Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at UBC Farm Research
- The Centre for Sustainable Food System (CSFS) acts as a living laboratory, with both food production (UBC Farm) and community-based programs. This collection is an access point to decades of publications, reports, posters, and related materials from research projects, directed studies, and other activities that have taken place at CSFS by students, faculty, community members, and visiting scientists.
Adam Jones Photography Collection
- Adam Jones is an associate professor of political science in the Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences at UBC Okanagan and is an expert consultant to the United Nations Office of the Special Advisor for the Prevention of Genocide, based in New York. The Adam Jones Global Photo Archive is a pilot project which aimed to capture and preserve a selection of digital images taken by Adam Jones which relate to his scholarly publications in genocide studies.
SWORD Implementation Project
- cIRcle staff are currently investigating strategies for using SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) to automatically upload to cIRcle UBC faculty authored articles published by open access publishers. This project supports cIRcle's mandate to showcase and preserve UBC's unique intellectual output.
This list represents a small sample of the completed and ongoing projects at cIRcle. Click on the project title to view the collection in cIRcle.
Sechelt Dictionary
- Written by Ronald C. Beaumont in consultation with the Sechelt Indian Band, the Sechelt Dictionary (English-Sechelt and Sechelt-English) is part of an ongoing effort to preserve a knowledge of this language and to encourage a revival of its use by present and future generations of Sechelt people.
Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR), Centre for
- The Centre for Health Services and Policy Research (CHSPR) is an independent research centre based in the School of Population and Public Health of the University of British Columbia with the mission of stimulating scientific enquiry into health system performance, equity and sustainability. While actively participating in various policy-making forums and are regularly called upon to provide policy advice in British Columbia, Canada, and abroad, its research is primarily funded through competitive, peer-reviewed grants obtained from Canadian and international funding agencies.
Cedar Mesa Project, Utah USA (Second Edition)
- This collection will contain the second edition of: Human adaptations on Cedar Mesa, Southeastern Utah by R.G. Matson, William D. Lipe, and William R. Haase IV (1990). The first edition is currently available in cIRcle where it has been downloaded over 3,700 times since it was uploaded in 2010
Consortium for Nursing History Inquiry
- The Consortium started as a School of Nursing initiative in 2012. The Consortium is led by a Steering Committee of UBC faculty members and affiliates and liaises with a wide group of stakeholders, including faculty, students, alumni and other groups at UBC and beyond. Please visit the Consortium web page at: https://blogs.ubc.ca/nursinghistory/sample-page/.
Theses and Dissertations, Undergraduate and Graduate Projects and more
- In the Spotlight: Faculty Research and Publications AND Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS), School of
This list represents a small sample of the projects in the planning and consultation stage.
The 2015 International Conference on Health Promoting Universities and Colleges/VII International Congress
- The 2015 International Conference on Health Promoting Universities and Colleges/VII International Congress served to "create a dynamic meeting place for researchers, practitioners, administrators, students and policy-makers from around the world to explore pressing issues and identify promising paths for healthy and sustainable campus development". The theme of this conference was Promising Paths: Research, Practice, and Policy for Healthy and Sustainable Campuses. This conference was held at the Okanagan campus of the University of British Columbia in Kelowna, British Columbia on June 22nd – 25th, 2015.
Forestry Annual Reports
- The Forestry Annual Reports collection in cIRcle contains annual reports since the mid-1990s to present at: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/36393. Stay tuned for the most recent annual reports to be added soon.
CeMCOR: The Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research
- cIRcle is consulting with CeMCOR to provide open access and long-term preservation to CeMCOR research papers. Stay tuned for the most recent annual reports to be added soon.
Canadian Literature Journal
- The first 155 issues of this journal (1959-1997) will be made available in cIRcle.
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Bee Movie Brings Its Buzzzz to NYC
Jerry, Chris, Renee and Matthew premiered Bee Movie in NYC last night. Little James Wilkie missed the showing, but Tina Fey and Darrell Hammond's kids were there for the fun. Gotta love that Jerry wore his Bee tie for the event, but it's not much of a surprise considering the promotional work he's been doing for the movie. Have you seen NBeeC recently? Jerry's self-acknowledging plugging is a bit much. I'm still excited to see the movie, just saying. Meanwhile, Renee can rock her short hair, but right now she is just...not. Jerry recently talked about the experience of getting into animation. He said it's "playing with toys, except you're a grown-up, and there's millions of dollars at stake." With the star power (and bank accounts) behind this one, methinks there won't be any painful stings. Groan.
To see more from the premiere including SNLers Darrell Hammond, Tina Fey just
Images include Jerry Seinfeld, Renee Zellweger, Chris Rock, Darrell Hammond, Tina Fey, Matthew Broderick

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145.57 acres in Banks County, Georgia
Middle Fork Farm consists of 145 entirely fenced, manicured acres & is bordered by the Broad River. Ranch improvements include a 2 bed/3 bath log cabin, 5 stall horse barn w/2 bed/2 bath caretaker apartment & 3 outbuildings which provide ample space for hay, utility & equipment storage. A spring fed pond offers year round water for livestock & sport for the fishing enthusiast. Middle Fork is fully operational producing quality cattle & horses. SELLER WILL CONSIDER OFFERS.
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text: Korn is going to be in Springfield on May 29th. I have a friend who is practically bagging me to go with her, as it's one of her favorite bands and no one else is able to go. She would go by herself, but what fun is that? Also, her ex-husband might be there, and she doesn't want to run into him alone. I'm not exactly a fan, but that's more because I just haven't listened to much of their music. I told her I'd let her know. I want to because I don't want her to go alone, but what fun would I be if I didn't know any of their songs? Going to look up some songs to listen too. Can any of you possible Korn fans tell me which songs would be good to listen to that they would likely play in concert? Thanks in advance.


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Pennsylvania's unemployment rate holds steady at 7.5 percent
The state turned in sluggish employment growth in June, adding 19,100 jobs and maintaining a 7.5 percent unemployment rate that was unchanged from May.
"We're not going backwards," said Frank Gamrat, senior economist at the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy, Castle Shannon.
"It's growing; it's just not growing as quickly as we would like it to," he said.
Employment gains were led by the education and health services sector, which added 17,100 jobs across the state last month, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the Department of Labor & Industry.
"Health and education is really toeing the line," Gamrat said.
Despite those gains, Gamrat called the June numbers a "mixed bag" because goods-producing businesses — in construction, mining and logging, and manufacturing — all experienced declines.
"A lot of the steam we've had in the last couple years seems to have gone out of the machine," he said.
Goods-producing industries shed 5,600 workers last month, led by a 3,600-job decrease in construction.
The data on jobs come from a survey of employers. A separate survey of households is used to calculate the unemployment rate, which, while unchanged from May, was down from 8 percent in June 2012.
"That's significant. That's some positive in all this," Gamrat said.
State figures showed 490,000 people were unemployed last month, up from 488,000 the month before.
The national unemployment rate in June was 7.6 percent, unchanged from May, and down from 8.2 percent in June 2012.
Alex Nixon is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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Take a look at Priyanka Chopra's bold wardrobe choice at her newly released single 'I Can't Make You Love Me' launch event held in Mumbai. Was it a wardrobe malfunction or a bold style statement?
hahaha! wardrobe malfunction? she's not that dumb! she intentionally did it! but its not hot! its cheap and vulgar!
oh dear! definitely intentionally did it! she looks uncomfy in it too! trying to adjust skirt and top when the cameras on her!! tch tchhh!!


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The Student Borrower Bill of Rights* includes the following rights:
To unbiased advice about loans and lenders from the BCC Financial Aid Office.
- To choose the lender, even if the lender is not included on BCC's published lender list.
- To know what criteria BCC uses to select lenders whose names it lists for student use.
- To know whether the published lenders are paying BCC or the financial aid staff.
- To know what benefits or rate discounts lenders offer, and whether those benefits or discounts will be made immediately available, or only after a certain number of consecutive timely payments.
- To know if a lender has agreed to sell its loans to another lender.
- To know whether borrower benefits and discounts will continue if the loan is sold.
- To know the interest rate for the loan before borrowing.
- To exhaust federal borrowing options before turning to higher cost private loans.
*This nine-point "Student Bill of Rights" was part of the Student Lending Accountability, Transparency and Enforcement Act adopted by the New York State Legislature in May 2007, and made public by the Associated Press on May 24, 2007.


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|The Emperor Of Japan
|First Appearance
|Season 9 ("Papa's Big Snooze")
|Cartoon Show
The Emperor Of Japan is a human character who appeared in the cartoon show episode "Papa's Big Snooze". He is a resident of the Palace Of The Rising Sun, whose garden is surrounded by a maze that can only be accessed through a sliding hedge gate. He is constantly carried into the garden by his guardsmen wearing blindfolds so that nobody but him and his gardener Dojo will know the way in. Unfortunately, because of the blindfolds, the guardsmen are usually left not being able to bring the Emperor safely into the garden, which makes the Emperor scold his guards and blame them for being clumsy.
In the episode, the Emperor visited the garden and demanded Dojo to improve its appearance and to get rid of the bugs or he will have his head. The Emperor would return later on to find that the garden has been improved with all the trees' shrubbery trimmed, not knowing that it was the work of the bonsai beetle. Nevertheless, he was pleased with Dojo's "efforts" and ordered him to make sure all the trees and flowers would be just as beautiful to look at. He also decided at that point to make the garden accessible to everyone.


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Mora, New Mexico
|Mora, New Mexico
|census-designated place
|state of New Mexico
|Coordinates: 35°58′27″N 105°19′48″W / 35.97417°N 105.33000°WCoordinates: 35°58′27″N 105°19′48″W / 35.97417°N 105.33000°W[1]
|United States
|New Mexico
|Mora County
|7,172 ft (2,186 m)
|Time zone
|• Summer (DST)
|Area code
|FIPS code
|35-50090 [1]
|GNIS feature ID
|0915867 [1]
Mora or Santa Gertrudis de lo de Mora is a census-designated place in, and the county seat of, Mora County, New Mexico, United States. It is located about halfway between Las Vegas, New Mexico and Taos on Highway 518 at an altitude of 7,180 feet. The Battle of Mora and the Second Battle of Mora were fought in Mora in 1847, where US troops eventually defeated the insurgents, effectively ending the Taos Revolt in the Mora Valley.
Hispanic settlers had occupied lands within the Mora Valley without legal title ever since Governor de Anza had made peace with the Comanches in the late 18th century opening up the east side of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains for settlement. However, Mora was formally founded as a farming community in 1835[2] The settlers came primarily from Las Trampas, but also from Picuris and Embudo.[3] The 76 families each received a strip of land by grant of Governor Albino Perez.[2] Despite fanciful stories about fur trappers, scattered bones and subsistence on mulberries (mora means mulberry in Spanish), the fact is that the valley, the river and the town took their name from the family name "Mora" of several of the settler families.[2] In 1843, there was a raid on the town by Texas freebooters under Colonel Charles A. Warfield[4] claiming that the people in Mora had purchased stolen beef from the Comanches. The Texans killed five men and took eighteen women and children captive as well as 75 horses. The people of the Mora Valley convened a posse, overtook the Texans, and sent them back to Texas on foot.[3]
In 1847, after the Battle of Mora, Federal troops killed stragglers, looted and burned the town, the nearby ranches, and all the crops.[5] The town was essentially destroyed and was rebuilt by the insurgents who had fled at the news of artillery coming up the valley. After 1851 when Fort Union was established on the Santa Fe Trail, these same farmers sold their crops to the fort.
Ceran St. Vrain settled in Mora in 1853 built a grist mill and became a major supplier of flour, grain and fodder to Fort Union. At the peak in the 19th century there were five grist mills operating in Mora. The ruins of St. Vrain's mill still sit one block north of Mora's main street.[3]
On 22 February 1916, the common lands of the Mora landgrant are sold to "The State Investment Company" at the courthouse door in Mora.[6] Without access to the grazing and timbering lands, many residents sought work outside Mora.[6]
Cultural references[edit]
The settlement is mentioned in Willa Cather's 1927 novel Death Comes for the Archbishop, Book Two Chapter 2.
One of Frank Waters's most popular novels, "People of the Valley" takes place high in the Sangre de Cristo mountains where an isolated Spanish-speaking people confront a threatening world of change. Based on Mora, NM ISBN 0-8040-0243-6
Mora was also in "The Daybreakers" by Louis L'Amour. The character Orrin Sackett was the fictional Marshal of Mora.
Notable people[edit]
- Floyd Esquibel, member of the Wyoming Senate and former member of the Wyoming House of Representatives[7]
- ^ a b c d Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) details for Mora, New Mexico; United States Geological Survey (USGS); November 13, 1980.
- ^ a b c Pearce, T. M. (1965) "Mora" New Mexico place names; a geographical dictionary University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM, p. 104, OCLC 420847
- ^ a b c Noble, David Grant (1994) "Mora" Pueblos, Villages, Forts & Trails: A Guide to New Mexico's Past University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, pp. 175-179, ISBN 0-8263-1514-3
- ^ Bullock, Alice (1981) "Lo de Mora" Mountain Villages (2nd ed.) Sunstone Press, Santa Fe, NM, p.53-58, ISBN 0-913270-13-X
- ^ Goodrich, James W. (1972) "Revolt at Mora, 1847" New Mexico Historical Review 47(1): pp. 49-60, p. 56
- ^ a b Sálaz, Rubén Darío (1999) New Mexico: A brief multi-history Cosmic House, Albuquerque, p. 430, ISBN 0-932492-05-3
- ^ "Senator Floyd A. Esquibel". State of Wyoming Legislature. Retrieved November 6, 2012.
Further reading[edit]
- Stanley, Francis (1963) The Mora, New Mexico Story Pep, Texas OCLC 2744942
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mora, New Mexico.
- Official Mora County Website
- Mora travel guide from Wikivoyage


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It's normal for your blood sugar level to rise after you eat, especially if you eat a meal high in refined sugar. But if your blood sugar rises more than most people's, you might have diabetes or pre-diabetes, a condition that indicates a strong risk for developing diabetes in the future. If you already have diabetes, you doctor will recommend keeping your blood sugar within a prescribed range. A glucose tolerance test, done one to three hours after you eat a high-carbohydrate meal, can check your blood sugar levels.
When you eat carbohydrates, your body breaks down the sugars they contain into glucose. Your body can't absorb most sugars without breaking them down first. Simple sugars such as refined sugar break down very quickly; you absorb them rapidly into your bloodstream, which raises your blood sugar. In healthy people, the levels don't rise very high and they drop back to normal quickly. If you have diabetes, your levels after a meal will rise higher and stay high longer than levels in other people. This occurs because your pancreas either don't release enough insulin, the hormone that helps cells absorb glucose, or because the cells don't respond properly to insulin release.
Normal Levels
If your doctor suspects that you have abnormal glucose levels, he might suggest doing a glucose tolerance test. You are given around 75 grams of carbohydrate after fasting for 12 hours. At one- to three-hour intervals, your doctor draws blood and analyzes your glucose levels. A normal fasting glucose is 60 to 100 milligrams per deciliter; your levels should rise no higher than 200 mg/dl one hour after eating and no more than 140 mg/dl two hours after finishing the snack. Most healthy people without diabetes have two-hour readings below 120 mg/dl.
A fasting blood sugar of between 100 and 130 mg/dl indicates impaired glucose metabolism. This means that you don't process glucose normally, which puts you at higher risk for developing diabetes. Within 10 years, most people with pre-diabetes will develop diabetes unless they change their lifestyle, according to the Joslin Diabetes Center.
If you have a blood sugar level higher than 200 mg/dl two hours after consuming the 75 grams of carbohydrate, you generally have diabetes, although other conditions such as Cushing's disease, and certain medications can also cause a rise in blood sugar levels. Once you're diagnosed with diabetes, you doctor will set a target range for your blood sugar after meals. Most doctors want you to keep your blood sugar under 180 mg/dl after eating. In some cases, your doctor will set different limits based on your specific health issues.
The higher your blood sugar rises after meals and the longer it stays high, the more likely you are to develop diabetic complications such as neuropathy, diabetic retinopathy or poor circulation. High levels of circulating glucose in your blood can damage your blood vessels.
References (6)
- MedlinePlus: Glucose Tolerance Test
- MayoClinic.com: Know Your Blood Glucose Target Range
- Diabetes.org: Checking Your Blood Glucose
- American Diabetes Association: Is Postprandial Glucose Control Important? Is It Practical In Primary Care Settings?
- Group Health Research Institute: How Our Bodies Turn Food Into Energy
- Joslin Diabetes Center: Diabetes A to Z
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- Glucose meter image by Radu Razvan from Fotolia.com


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Around the world the top experts on war, terrorism, foreign policy, diplomacy and politics warned against invading Iraq. Some resigned in protest from governments and their agencies in the US, Britain and Australia.
Ordinary people who rely on their leaders to exercise sound judgement in their interests warned against it too, most spectacularly on a weekend in February 2003 when they marched in unprecedented numbers on all continents to request an alternative to war.
Yet on the eve of war, John Howard said of his long-made decision to invade Iraq: "I have never thought of changing my position. Never."
This Easter, on the first anniversary of the toppling of Saddam's statue in Baghdad, I want to salute some of the many Web Diary readers who did what they could to avoid the disaster Bush, Blair and Howard were determined to inflict on us all.
October 1, 2002
David Makinson: "Many commentators have tried the 'appeasement' argument. It's terribly short in the logic department, but it has a certain emotive appeal so I'm not above using it. If we continue to appease US self-interest and let Bush et al get away with this, our children will hold us to account one day."
Kim Rybinski: "The Americans just don't seem to learn from their history. They were defeated in Vietnam because they failed to understand their enemy or their enemy's commitment to their cause. Sadly, I fear that this is another lesson that will have to be taught to them again."
Gene Adam: "There is no critical evidence in hand that Saddam is an immediate threat to Oz, the UK or the US now, even without inspectors on the ground, and certainly not ever if inspectors are in place. This rush to war is obviously not a matter of self-defence, of disabling an imminent attack. Is this rush to war with Iraq, with Osama bin Laden uncaught and unaccounted for and his followers doubtless at work, simply a matter of it being the right moment to grab the oil?"
January 30, 2003
Mike Lyvers: "The US threatened war, forcing the UN to take action by resuming inspections. As long as those inspections are happening, Saddam is effectively bottled up. That's why they should be continued - they keep Saddam under wraps without having to go to war to do so. That's why I oppose invading Iraq."
Grace Knight: "You bastards of war you took your turn, running our planet into the ground. Now you sanction a dying child's last breath, won't stop till you own the rest."
February 12, 2003
Justin Bell: "The benefit of removing Hussein by unilateral action is not worth the cost of exhausting the Western world's most precious resource - international goodwill towards the ideals of America and Western liberal democracy."
February 14, 2003
Michael Chong: "In diplomacy nothing's so diverse as the mechanics of truth, you can even engineer in reverse evidence from proof. So shall we lose or confuse the plot of morality's slender charter, as we choose to undo the despot with the tyranny of another?"
February 18, 2003
Diann Rodgers-Healey:
"We fear the loss of blood, so young. We fear the swell of death, so near. The loss of peace, the strength of rage. A future of divide, inequality more alive."
March 18, 2003, the day Howard formally committed to the war on Iraq
Meagan Phillipson: "With a handful of words, the future of the entire world has become critically uncertain on a multitude of fronts. The only thing that remains certain, for me at least, is the thought that when people make war, war makes monsters of people. Hardly a comforting certainty in this, the most uncertain of times."
Carole Hancock: "War is not the way to solve this problem and I sincerely hope that John Howard is prepared for the likely consequences. Even if the war is fast and furious, I doubt it will be the end of the issue. It is very likely there will be significant repercussions that roll out continuously in guerilla-type tactics by those who will feel justified to retaliate."
Hamish Tweedy: "I have to confess to being more nervous about war in Iraq than any other decision I can recall. I can't think of a time I more wanted to be shown up as an idiot, and that John Howard and the Government are 100 per cent correct and our commitment to a war on Iraq without UN sanction is not only the right thing to do but won't turn around and bite us on the bum. If things go awry this could seriously screw the world and Australia for generations."
March 19, 2003
John Augustus: "The big eagle caught in the trap. Feathers of failed diplomacy drifting, bin Laden smiling, the hapless waiting. A swift, brutal war, a fractured globe. The terrorist wins after all."
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Summer's End Stew Recipe
My family loves stew, and this recipe is perfect for the last few vegetables left in the garden. The best part of this recipe is that you can substitute whatever is available in your garden. It's perfect with freshly baked bread.
- 1-1/2 pounds beef stew meat, trimmed
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 8 to 12 medium fresh tomatoes, peeled and cut up
- 2 cups tomato juice or water
- 2 medium onions, chopped
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 2 teaspoons salt, optional
- 4 to 6 medium potatoes, peeled and quartered
- 3 to 5 medium carrots, sliced
- 2 cups frozen corn
- 2 cups fresh cut green beans
- 2 cups frozen peas
- 2 to 3 celery ribs, sliced
- 1 cup sliced zucchini
- 1/4 cup minced fresh parsley
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1. In a Dutch oven, brown meat in oil over medium-high heat. Add the tomatoes, tomato juice or water, onions, garlic, pepper, and salt if desired. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 1 hour.
- 2. Add the potatoes, carrots, corn, green beans, peas and celery. Cover and simmer for 30 minutes. Add zucchini; simmer 10-15 minutes longer or until meat and vegetables are tender. Stir in parsley and sugar. Yield: 16 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 cup: 189 calories, 6g fat (0 saturated fat), 32mg cholesterol, 170mg sodium, 22g carbohydrate (0 sugars, 0 fiber), 13g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 2 vegetable, 1 starch, 1 meat.
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"The stew is wonderful. I make the whole recipe for my husband and I and freeze daily portions and we have a great meal ready to go anytime. It needs to cook a lot longer than stated, though. But it's wonderful!"
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Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise Share Clothes
Katie Holmes likes to wear jeans belonging to husband Tom Cruise.
It keeps them "connected," according to Star.
Connected? There's probably a tracking device built into them!
Katie's been photographed multiple times wearing denim that's rolled at the ankle and baggy on her lithe frame.
"She was surprised they fit her so well," a source says. "All she needed was a wide belt to keep them up."
The belt, sure. But those jeans should be like capris on her! She's taller!
Katie's been rocking the Scientology trousers as she walks to rehearsals in NYC for her Broadway debut.
Does this mean Tom's at home wearing her dresses? He needs to feel "connected" too, ya know.


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New Delhi, July 3 (ANI): Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Brinda Karat on Wednesday said that the Food Security Bill has never been a top priority for the Congress-led UPA Government, and demanded that there should be a proper discussion in the Parliament on it before it is passed.
"We really regret that for the last four years, food security was not a priority for this government. Many other things were (there), but not the Food Security Bill because we believe that in a country with such high numbers of malnourished people, food security-particularly there should be a legislation to back it-must be the first priority of this government which has not been," said Karat.
"Now, without that priority they want to push an ordinance on a bill, which has flaws in many aspects, which is why my party has already moved very serious amendments. Now, even without looking at those amendments, the government wants to push through an ordinance. Therefore, I think the only correct way would be for the government to give priority to this bill in the forthcoming session of Parliament and allow a proper discussion on it, to allow us to move our amendments and then let it pass," she added.
The proposed ordinance on the food security is likely to be taken up again at a meeting of the Union Cabinet here today.
On June 13, the Cabinet had deferred the proposal amid differences on the issue.
Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said after the meeting of the Union Cabinet that the government will try to call a special session of Parliament to debate and pass the Bill, which aims at providing the legal right to subsidised food to nearly 67 percent of India's population.
The Food Security Bill was tabled during the budget session of Parliament, but could not be taken up for discussion because of opposition-led disruptions of proceedings arising out of scam-related allegations.
The Food Security Bill is aimed at giving legal rights to 67 per cent of the population for a uniform quantity of 5 kg foodgrains at a fixed price of Rs one to three per kg through ration shops. (ANI)


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First-timers - not disappointed.: Oriana Cruise Review by alfie155
Overall Member Rating
First-timers - not disappointed.
Destination: Europe - Western Mediterranean
Embarkation: Southampton
This was the first proper cruise for 4 out of 6 of us so forgive any naivety or seeming easily pleased.
We ordered a mix of cabin types at the Getaway rate, arriving separately in 3 groups and requiring 2 different dinner sittings, but the booking process was quite straightforward and Emily at Planet was very helpful.
The paperwork or rather the on-line processes needed only minimal effort to get through. Planet handled our requests for decent cabins in close proximity and not getting the dreaded obstructed view extremely well although the final decision on who-goes-where is, I assume, at P&O's discretion.
We got an oceanview on E deck and 2 adjacent superior balcony suites on B deck and the respective occupants were all pleased with their cabins. The B deck cabins were much larger More than our cabin E13x and included binos, atlas, dressing gown and slippers.
One couple opted for the valet port parking at '£117 and the other 2 couples took 2 cars to Alternative Car Parking, Marchwood who provided an excellent, friendly and personable service for '£46 less. Highly Recommended.
We were asked to check-in from 3:00 '" 3:45pm on Sunday 14 July - a very civilised time. The luggage disappeared straight into the ship from the ACP shuttlebus and we walked straight to the check-in hall with hand luggage and suit bags. A large number of desks meant very little waiting. We were briefed by a friendly, efficient lady about the procedures, credit card details taken, directed through security, and straight onto the ship. A refreshing change from the awfulness of departing from a London airport.
Straight to our cabin to freshen up and make a cup of tea. Full marks to P&O for providing tea-making facilities in each cabin. Our steward was there to welcome us and talk us through shipboard life and made us feel at home straight away. Then there was a call to attend the safety drill '" in our case in the Harlequin lounge which was packed with passengers carrying their orange life jackets. The briefing was given over the tannoy by Capt Camby - a more dependable and splendid sounding chap you wouldn't find. Back to our cabin and the suitcases were now waiting outside, so a quick un-pack and as the sailaway beckoned, we made our way to the very top deck. Ever so smoothly and gracefully the Oriana using thrusters only slipped away from the Mayflower berth, and sailed down the Solent and past the IoW in lovely sunshine. Fantastic.
We decided to all eat together for the first night at the self-service Conservatory. The food was ok but to be honest I can't remember what I ate as there was a lot to choose from. Some in our party were less than impressed '" but none of us really knew what to expect so soon into the cruise. Afterwards, we went to the Harlequin to sample the entertainment. This was dancing with the resident trio and seemed more suited to a pensioners day centre. Sorry but this was absolutely not my cup of tea so off to explore the ship and do a few laps of the Promenade Deck. My favourite spot was the stern rail watching the wake from the twin screws fade to the horizon. Magic.
When you retire to your cabin, the Horizon in-house newsletter and 2 chocolates await you. We felt no noise or vibration, the temperature controls seemed to work and getting a good nights sleep wasn't difficult. Or at least it wasn't after the racket made by the people next door died down. Some of these cabins sleep 4 by having wall-mounted pull-down beds so possibly that procedure was making all the noise. Fortunately this was a one-off and every other night was quiet and peaceful.
The cabin is snug but well equipped with a small corner sofa and table, a small flat screen tv, 4 wardrobes each with a safe(!) 2 bedside units and the ensuite shower room etc. OK for a couple but very cramped for 4. The power points are 3-pin UK type but there are no spare points so if you want to charge a phone say or power some speakers you have to unplug the tv or kettle. As mentioned above the B deck balcony cabins were much larger and better equipped but they paid twice as much as we did.
Breakfast can be taken in the Peninsular restaurant with full waiter service in one sitting. Varied choices and delicious food, nicely served. Service ends at 0915 or 0930 depending on whether it was a port-of-call day. This suits passengers taking excursions which usually make an early start.
For a more leisurely start to the day it has to be the Conservatory (or Smash n' Grab as we came to call it.) All the usual buffet fare is there with a good range of cereals, seeds, fruit, eggs 3 ways, bacon, sausage, toast etc - the full works in fact. There were 4 vending areas to obtain filtered water, juices, teas and coffee. The coffee we thought was actually not too bad. Inevitably there was queuing at certain times and the hot food options generally tailed off by 10:30. There is also the Al Fresco bar that serves a more limited range of breakfast food as well as late night snacks. I only used it once at about midnight as I missed cheese and biscuits that evening. It was quite small but a relaxed and friendly place to be.
Lunches were served in the Peninsular and Conservatory, but we made a point of not having lunch as breakfast had hardly been digested '" and instead took Afternoon Tea in the Peninsular. This became something of an institution. The finger sandwiches are delicious and keep on coming and then you are served scones, cream, jam, teacakes and crumpets. Sometimes the crumpets etc came before the sandwiches which was a bit odd but if you persevered you could make it happen in the right order. The only slight quibble is that you felt obliged to leave quite swiftly but the staff have to lay the tables for the 18:30 dinner service.
Evening meals are served in 2 sittings in the Oriental and Peninsular restaurants whilst the Conservatory offers open buffet-style dining.
There is also a Marco Pierre White and an Italian restaurant that charge supplements but we were well catered for in the Peninsular so never got around to eating anywhere else.
Mum and her friend soon abandoned their 18:30 dinner sitting and joined the rest of us for 20:30, the restaurant manager happily facilitating that for us.
Dinner was 5 courses: starter, soup, main, sweet, cheese and biscuits and then coffee. The wine list was good with sub-West End prices '" there was a particularly good Claret for '£14.50. Prosecco was '£18.50. If you didn't finish a bottle, it would be put out for you the following evening.
A typical menu would include a steak or Beef Wellington, lamb &/ pork, fish and a veggie option. Considering the numbers catered for the presentation was very good, service briskly efficient and the food served hot. Only once did a dish disappoint '" a rather bland roast beef. You get to know the waiting staff and when we missed dinner due to staying ashore in Gib, the next night they asked were we had been.
One nice touch was a glass of fizz being served to every diner to toast the Royal birth earlier that day. Very British and very well received.
We didn't manage to visit all the bars, but the Crows Nest was OK although we could take or leave the pianist. Crichton's was also pleasant enough.
Actually our drinks bill at the end was surprisingly reasonable with no added service charges of 15% or more that you can get on other lines. The daily gratuity charge was '£3.50 per head per day and I can't imagine anyone would baulk at that. All the staff we met were friendly, professional and helpful '" and incredibly hard working. Again the only area we would comment on is feeling slightly rushed at the end of meals. Some people like to leave to go to a bar or some other activity whereas we are 'lingerers' who like to chill after the meal. However it was easy to get into the swing of things and there was always somewhere else to be anyway, be it a show, film, quiz, the photography area etc.
There was a resident theatre troupe called the Headliners who performed twice nightly most nights, generally in the Theatre Royal. They were excellent and all their shows were very well received. Their tour of duty actually ended with this cruise so I don't know how they were to be replaced, but sadly for some of them I gathered that the dole queue beckoned. There was also a very funny comedy magician called Andre with a great line in Saga cruise gags and good magic tricks too. There was a crew talent show which was brilliant and a passenger talent show which was basically X Factor Lite with 5 different singing acts but of course it all depends on talented passengers coming forward. The resident band I'm sorry to say was only so-so '" there didn't seem to be much rapport between them. The guitarist who played some lunch times by the pool was very good '" a shame he didn't get some evening slots.
The theatre is very well equipped in terms of sound and lighting, on a par with a very good provincial theatre. The Chaplin Cinema screened Skyfall, Quartet, Lincoln, The Queen and several other recent films, several times a day. A great place to go on a day at sea when the weather isn't too good.
There were quizzes every day and evening and perhaps best of all a series of 5 lectures about the Assassination of Concorde. An in-depth no-holds-barred account by an insider of the disgraceful circumstances surrounding the ending of Concorde flights.
Two of our party enjoyed the Zumba classes and the gym has a panoramic view over the bow of the ship.
None of us visited the spa so cannot comment and there were various art classes, photography sessions and other stuff which we didn't get to try but as we enjoyed such fantastic weather we mostly sunned ourselves on deck.
Naturally on a glorious day at sea there is more pressure on sun-loungers but we always managed to find space somewhere. By 5:30pm most passengers seemed to vanish so the sunny areas would be deserted. I'm not a fan of chlorinated swimming pools so cannot comment on them but they were enjoyed by others in our party.
The second smaller theatre (Pacific Lounge) where the lectures were held was not ideal as there were seats having pillars spoiling the view and the tub seats face the wrong way but I guess they are trying to create a cabaret/club vibe.
There were 3 formal nights when the penguin suits got an airing, the first one being an opportunity to meet and have a snap taken with Capt Camby. Never done that sort of thing before but actually good fun and the ladies loved to dress up. If you want to steer clear, the Conservatory caters for casual dressers. The ship's photographers have a field day on the formal nights and also at the gang plank but there is no pressure to buy, but the good photos are hard to resist. They even expertly photo-shopped a pic for me at no extra charge.
Although the ship was full with approx 1,880 passengers, the only times you were aware of crowding was in the Conservatory at breakfast, the Theatres and sunny days on deck. We never queued to disembark at ports, we always went straight to our table for dinner, there was always space in the bars, and during my late night laps of the Promenade deck would seldom see anyone apart from maintenance crew.
There are some shops in the Atrium on decks 6/7 but these weren't brilliant, mainly selling cheap watches and baubles or expensive designer stuff, and duty frees.
The only paid excursion we did was the Andalucian Drive from Cadiz. That was actually disappointingly dull and not helped by the coach breaking down in the middle of nowhere. We were sitting at the back and on every hill I could smell the tell-tale stench of cooked clutch. Eventually the bus gave up the ghost on a narrow country road and the rescue bus had to reverse several miles to get to us and then proceed in the wrong direction. When we got back to the ship there was indeed a long queue to get aboard as all the tour buses seem to return at the same time, so we walked back to town and had an interesting mooch around instead.
Most ports were departed between 3 and 5pm which was a bit too early in my view but at Gibraltar we did get a full day ashore. Some of us went up the Rock and others spent the day on the beach and met the most delightfully friendly locals who gave mum one of their umbrellas and deckchairs as it was so so hot. My electric razor had managed to flatten itself on the journey to Southampton and nobody on board seemed to have a Philips Philishave power lead so I left it with one of the many electrical stores on Main Street and they charged it up for me. Also Bombay Sapphire gin is under a tenner in Gib!
After a few drinks to get rid of '£Gib notes in Casemates Square we eventually got back to Oriana at about 21:00. By the time we got to the Conservatory it was almost closing down but the head waiter made sure we were all fed. As a bonus they served the best prawn curry we had ever tasted.
Lisbon was one of the disappointingly short stays but we had time to get a train out to Cascais, shop, walk along the prom to Estoril for coffee in a beach bar, get the train back and a bit more shopping near the terminal. That day the IT system failed so the crew couldn't be sure that every passenger smart card had registered upon embarkation so everyone had to return to their cabins to be checked in by their steward. The delay amounted to about an hour so we had our Afternoon Tea and were back on deck in time to enjoy the ships horn blast out Capt Camby's signature tune as we sailed under the huge 25 April Bridge.
The Captain always gave a summary of the day at 1800 and let us know what sort of sea conditions and weather to expect and ended with a humorous anecdote or saying.
According to Channel 1 on the cabin tv the worst sea we got was Force 7 which made the ship move only ever so slightly, and with nothing more than a Force 2/3 across the Bay of Biscay we were indeed blessed.
During my nocturnal perambulations I noticed that the beautiful teak decks get washed down every night by a crewman.
Other reviewers criticise the Reception staff as being unfriendly. When I was frequently in their company trying to get my razor sorted we had some great banter and I found the girls to be delightful.
Our steward kept our cabin clean and tidy, others as stated were forever cleaning the decks and other parts of the ship, there were hand-sanitising kits by all the restaurants and as far as I know there was no noro-virus on our cruise. Phew!
There is a well-practised routine for disembarkation '" do all your packing, leaving out only your going-home-items, suitcases to be labelled and left outside by 2am.
Breakfast served up to 8am and sit around awaiting your allocated time, notified by colour-coded cards. The procedure went very smoothly and at least half-an-hour earlier than expected we got the call to proceed to Deck 5, go ashore to find your suitcases laid out in lettered bays representing your Deck, through customs and straight to the ACP shuttlebus. Totally efficient and painless.
We found the Oriana to be a wonderful ship, clearly loved by the Capt and crew and it would seem most other passengers. An enormous tower block of a ship carrying 3000+ assorted families she aint and thank goodness for that.
If we could sail on her tomorrow we would; did we a have a fabulous holiday '" oh yes. Roll on the next time. Less
Published 10/29/13
Cabin review:
When you retire to your cabin, the Horizon in-house newsletter and 2 chocolates await you. We felt no noise or vibration, the temperature controls seemed to work and getting a good nights sleep wasn't difficult. Or at least it wasn't after the racket made by the people next door died down. Some of these cabins sleep 4 by having wall-mounted pull-down beds so possibly that procedure was making all the noise. Fortunately this was a one-off and every other night was quiet and peaceful.The cabin is snug but well equipped with a small corner sofa and table, a small flat screen tv, 4 wardrobes each with a safe(!) 2 bedside units and the ensuite shower room etc. OK for a couple but very cramped for 4. The power points are 3-pin UK type but there are no spare points so if you want to charge a phone say or power some speakers you have to unplug the tv or kettle. As mentioned above the B deck balcony cabins were much larger and better equipped but they paid twice as much as we did.
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Streptococcal Infection and Respiratory Distress in Newborns
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This study will evaluate whether babies are more at risk of developing breathing problems if their mothers carry group B streptococci (GBS) in vagina/rectum, and whether the breathing problem is due to phospholipids released by the GBS. About one in five pregnant women carry GBS in their vagina/rectum. Mothers who carry these bacteria are given antibiotics during labor to prevent infection in the baby. However, recently it has been suspected that even without blood stream infection, the chemicals released by GBS, called phospholipids, might lead to breathing problems.
Women at 32 or more weeks of pregnancy who deliver at Ben Taub Hospital and St. Luke s Episcopal Hospital in Houston, Texas, and Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland, California, may be eligible for this study.
Mothers undergo the following procedures:
- Vaginal/rectal GBS culture. A sample is collected from the lower vagina and rectum using a cotton swab upon admission to labor and delivery.
- Blood collection to test for phospholipids. A blood sample is obtained from the mothers at the time of routine blood drawing during labor, and a blood sample is obtained from the umbilical cord (after delivery).
- Collection of health information from the medical record.
Newborns undergo the following procedures:
- GBS culture. Samples are collected from cotton swabs of the ears, navel, anus and throat to test for GBS bacteria.
- A small amount of blood from newborns is obtained for phospholipids test when the newborns have blood drawn for other tests.
- Collection of health information from the medical record.
|Group B Streptococci Respiratory Distress in Newborn
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Respiratory Distress of the Newborn and Its Relationship to Group B Streptococcal Colonization
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|Study Start Date:
|February 4, 2008
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|June 19, 2015
Phospholipids from the group B streptococcal (GBS) cell wall cause pulmonary hypertension in experimental animals. We hypothesize that newborns colonized with GBS receive bacterial phospholipids leading to pulmonary hypertension and respiratory distress. When exposed to penicillin (beta-lactam), Streptococcus mutans releases phospholipids immediately. An analysis of 1610 colonized newborns from the NICHD GBS study conducted in six academic centers from 1995 to 1999 showed that 8.8% of GBS colonized newborns greater than or equal to 32 weeks gestation had signs of respiratory distress as compared to 1-3% observed in general newborn populations, and that beta-lactam use during labor was associated with 2.62 fold increase in respiratory distress in the colonized newborns. These findings support the association of neonatal respiratory distress with GBS colonization and with penicillin use during labor. These data however require confirmation.
We now plan to conduct a prospective study to relate the levels of serum bacterial phospholipids to the occurrence of respiratory distress in newborns of mother colonized GBS. This study will also evaluate the effect of beta-lactam use during labor on the release of phospholipids and therefore the occurrence of respiratory distress in newborns of mothers colonized with GBS. The study will be conducted at the Baylor College of Medicine and Oakland Children s Hospital and Research Center. Serum phospholipid levels will be measured in newborns with respiratory distress, newborns of mothers colonized by GBS, treated or untreated with beta-lactam during labor.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Senior
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
All women who are admitted to labor and delivery room at greater than or equal to 32 weeks gestation will be approached for obtaining consent to participate in this study.
Newborns with severe or fatal congenital anomaly such as gastroschisis, congenital diaphragmatic hernia, tracheoesophageal fistula, transition of the great arteries, coarctation of aorta, myelomeningocele, and omphalocele will be excluded from the study.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00612937
|United States, California
|Oakland Children's Hospital and Research Center
|Oakland, California, United States, 94609
|United States, Texas
|Baylor College of Medicine
|Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
|Principal Investigator:
|Forbes D Porter, M.D.
|Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
|Responsible Party:
|Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00612937 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|February 10, 2008
|Last Updated:
|June 30, 2017
Keywords provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC) ( Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) ):
Group B Streptococci
Respiratory Disease
Beta Lactam
Respiratory Distress
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Streptococcal Infections
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections
Bacterial Infections
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Federal health officials warned doctors yesterday that doxycycline, an antibiotic being prescribed to people who might have been exposed to anthrax, could stunt fetal growth when taken by pregnant women.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta urged doctors to prescribe Cipro to pregnant women instead.
The recommendation was made as health officials worried that Cipro was being overprescribed in the general population, possibly causing common bacteria to become resistant. The centers last week asked doctors first to consider doxycycline, which works equally well against strains of anthrax detected recently.
But doxycycline can endanger fetuses, including weakening tooth enamel and stunting bone growth, the centers warned.
No studies have been conducted on how Cipro affects pregnancy, but the centers said it was unlikely to pose a substantial risk.
Doctors can also consider amoxicillin, a relative of penicillin.
The Food and Drug Administration also announced yesterday that it had issued warning letters to 11 foreign pharmacies to stop selling Cipro to Americans via the Internet.
The agency said it was advising the Customs Service that shipments from these companies could be detained and refused entry into the United States.Continue reading the main story
The warning letters were sent to: Farmacia Cerati, San Damiano d'Asti, Italy; Farmamondo, Chiasso, Switzerland; JFW Enterprises, Hermosillo, Mexico; Masters Marketing Company, Harrow, England; Mediplan Health Consulting Inc., Minnedosa, Manitoba, Canada; Rhino Corporate Communications, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Pharma Group, Lisbon; Pharmacy International Inc., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Point Douglas Pharmacy, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Hans-Georg Seiler, Krefeld, New Zealand; and USAmedicine.com Ltd., Dublin.Continue reading the main story


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Hearing that his girlfriend's best friend had covered his hit 'Baby' in one of her concerts, Bieber later showed L.A. how the song is sung in duet.
Justin Bieber came crashing his best friend Taylor Swift's concert much to her audience's delight. Swift was entertaining a crowd at Los Angeles' Staples Center on Tuesday, August 23 night when Bieber suddenly appeared from backstage to sing a special duet of his song "Baby".
The surprise appearance actually was previously hinted when Bieber tweeted in response of Swift's cover of his song during her Toronto show. "Heard you sang BABY at your concert in TO. thank u for the love ...might have to come by and stop in on a show," boyfriend of Selena Gomez tweeted to her.
During the L.A. show, Bieber tackled the rapping part while Swift sang the chorus. "You think you've heard LOUD screaming in your life. Then @justinbieber comes out and does a surprise song during your show," Swift tweeted after the show. In return, Bieber tweeted, "@taylorswift13 we should do that more often. :) great show! #muchlove"


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E-Leather, from the company of the same name, is leather, but not in a form that a cow ever wore. It's a unique blend of untanned leather shavings and textiles that the Peterborough, England company has been developing over a period of 10 years. The product was introduced to the aviation industry at the Aircraft Interiors Expo 2007
in Hamburg, Germany.
It looks like leather, smells like leather and has much of the natural feel of leather. But there are also some advantages; it's stronger–and lighter in weight–than leather, has no natural defects, comes in nine-foot-wide rolls up to 1,000 feet long, resulting in about 5-percent cutting waste compared with 18- to 40-percent waste with natural hides. According to the company, the color consistency is superior to that of "real" leather. At about $28 per square yard, the price is also attractive.


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Name: Gold Street Caffe
Location: 218 Gold Avenue SW, Albuquerque, NM
Rating: 2-
A couple of weeks ago, Mark Prince posted this rumor on Twitter. Ever since, I've been eagerly looking about for signs of this Intelligentsia purchuse to the point of actually considering absurd hypotheses. The sight of a Southwest airlines seatback card even made me wonder. Might I find Intelligentsia coffee next time on one of my least favorite but most frequently flown airlines? Of course not, but, I can dream, can't I?
In fact, I might not have perseverated on these two coffee secrets if I hadn't encountered a third. I was on my way to Albuquerque, heading back from Gallup. What I really wanted to do was head straight for The Grove, but I felt obliged to follow up on a lead. I had heard a while back from someone in Albuquerque previously that the The Gold Street Caffe made fabulous lattes. While I wasn't going to order a latte, I figured I would try the espresso they made it with.
It turns out the the Gold Street Caffe leads a parallel existence to the The Coffee House, where I had visited just in Gallup. Both lie one block off Old Route 66, but while The Coffee House is a coffee outpost, the Gold Street Caffe is a bustling downtown Albuquerque breakfast and lunch spot. While the Coffee House occupies a worn down space, the Gold Street Caffe is completely remodled in a vaguely Venetian/Southwestern/Hotel aesthtic – tile floors and black, metal framed and wicker chairs with flowery printed booths. I suppose this look may be appealing to some folks. I don't happen to be one of them.
With regard to the espresso, Gold Street Caffe struck me as a restaurant that gets by with less than average coffee (the food looked like it might have been good but I didn't try it). The espresso I ordered was long, had virtually no crema and was astringent. It seemed like the type of dark roasted espresso from which a decent shot is possible, but this certainly wasn't it. It wasn't ground to order although otherwise the barista seemed to more or less have down the shot-pulling routine, at least to the extent I could see what he was doing over the top their 3 group Espressa espresso machine. I never did try the brewed coffee – which was brewed commercially into an airpot – mostly because of the transaction that followed my espresso.
I asked the barista what roaster provided them with their coffee. I could see the 5 lb bag on the lower shelf, but the label was turned away from me. He and another waitress told me that it was a roaster out of Oregon, but couldn't say which one. I pressed a little more and they clarified that they weren't allowed to tell me. It was a "company secret" and the owner didn't want them saying.
Now I've long complained about cafes not giving credit where credit is due when it comes to promoting the roaster they use. It's bad enough when the roasters name isn't prominently displayed somewhere and even worse when coffee is bagged and labeled such that the roaster gets no credit. My beef is that while barista skills certainly matter, with the exception of the best cafes, barista skills vary the most from visit to visit. It's a variable you can't control as a patron. If you visit a cafe with a good roaster, you've got the coffee variable under control. Furthermore, good roasters demand more from their clients when it comes to coffee preparation. As a customer, what roaster a cafe uses often determines whether it's worth a visit.
So while a lack of roaster information is not uncommon, keeping roaster information secret pretty much leaves me befuddled. Is the cafe owner worried about driving away business? Is there something illegal or illicit going on? Does the owner think that secrecy will create a kind of cache with the clientele (as though secret sauce somehow makes the Big Mac more sexy)? Could this simply be a mixup on the part of the staff? Since I didn't have the answers, I decided instead on comfort and headed out to get that shot of Black Cat.


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Restore Your Corrupted Apps to Their Default State
What You'll Learn
In this post we'll show you how to reset an app so you can restore it to its default state. This can be helpful if an app is creating problems or corrupting your site (which can happen with the Embed HTML app). By resetting your apps you should be able to get your site working properly again.
Note: if you reset an app, you won't be able to get your content or styling back, so be careful.
1. Login to your site.
2. Add /siteadmin/apps/corruption_panel at the end of your site's URL. You can see an example in the image below.
3. In the panel that'll open up, look for the app that is causing trouble.
It's usually the Embed app because it deals with codes from other pages that can be corrupted. That's why we encourage you to be careful and not use codes from sites you don't know or trust because it can cause some serious damage to your site.
Note: to know which app is the one that's corrupting your site, remember which one you were editing when your site started breaking and that will be the answer. You will be able to see the date when it was last modified on the right hand side of the panel. Most times the app itself will break (this can also give you a clue as to what app to reset).
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I ran it in and out of the parking lot, and up and down the little industrial park street to get used to it.
Once we got her home, though, I had to get into the truck to drive to the Camp Pendleton Motorcycle Training office, to get the little yellow card that allows me to ride a motorcycle on base. Once I did that, I raced back home. I had a little less than an hour to make the 45-minute ride up to the Naval Weapons Station in Fallbrook to register the bike. I made it to the pass & ID office with less than five minutes to spare.
But the bike got registered, so i can drive it to work on Thursday. I did, I admit, go by my office to let the guys look at it. Then it was a 45-minute ride back to the house.
I hated to put the bike up, but, unfortunately, I have other things I have to do. So, I'll have to be satisfied with 2 1/2 hours on the bike today.
Still, today was a good day.


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AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. - Nassau County Fire Rescue is investigating reports of a possible fire at the Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island.
Around 6 a.m. Thursday morning, an alarm went off, alerting guests to evacuate the hotel due to possible smoke and fire on the 8th floor.
There is no visible smoke or fire. Firefighters are still working to identify a possible source.
The hotel is currently half-full, but no word on how many guests were actually forced to evacuate.
Many guests were still sleeping when the alarm went off and were forced to evacuate in pajamas, including Channel 4 anchor Bruce Hamilton. The hotel is trying to keep them warm with robes and hot coffee.
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- Released: Jan 1, 1993
- Sound: 8
- Lyrics: 10
- Overall Impression: 10
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Sound — 8
'Unknown Road' is Pennywise's 1993 follow up to their debut self titled album - and what a phenomenal album it is! The raw speed and aggression of the debut is still here but with added diversity and depth. The sound quality is top notch, the only problem is that the volume won't satisfy headphone users. This is the only problem though and the sheer quality of the material makes up for it.
Lyrics — 10
As with the debut album, the lyrics are mainly written by bassist Jason Thirsk - and they are awesome all the way through this album. They are very deep yet not complicated and are thoroughly enjoyable. The lyrics fit perfectly with the music, nothing sounds out of place. Jim Lindberg is a brilliant vocalist, probably the best punk rock has ever produced, and his voice never falters on this album.
Overall Impression — 10
Overall, this is a near perfect slice of punk rock. This is a very good album that everyone needs to own. It is probably Pennywise's third or fourth best studio album. The tracks are: 01. Unknown Road - 10/10 a brilliant piano intro ushers in one of the most powerful songs Pennywise have written. 02. Homesick - 9/10 a top quality song that is unbelieveably fast. 03. Time To Burn - 8/10 a very original song with great use of chanting crowd samples. 04. It's Up To Me - 8/10 another solid song. 05. You Can Demand - 8/10 has a great chorus. 06. Nothing - 9/10 a brilliant song with a great riff. 07. Vices - 9/10 another great one. 08. City Is Burning - 10/10 one of the most diverse songs Pennywise have written. 09. Dying To Know - 10/10 best track on the album. 10. Tester - 9/10 I love this song. 11. Try To Conform - 9/10 yet another great track. 12. Give And Get - 8/10 very good punk anthem. 13. Clear Your Head - 9/10 an epic ending to this epic album. The most impressive songs are 'Dying To Know', which has a fantastic intro solo and 'Unknown Road', which is probably one of the best punk rock songs I've ever heard. If it were stolen, I'd certainly replace it. The only problem with it is the volume, but a remastered version is being released soon so it should soon be the perfect album!


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|From: Danny Yoo (dyoo at cs.wpi.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 18 15:22:57 EDT 2010
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote: > On Jun 18, Danny Yoo wrote: >> What other debugging information can I provide? > > Create a core dump, then use gdb to get a stack trace. Ok, here's what I'm seeing: dyoo at go:~/local/plt-4.2.5/src/mzscheme/gc2$ gdb ../mzschemecgc core.29109 GNU gdb 6.8-debian Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"... warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error. Reading symbols from /lib/i686/nosegneg/libdl.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/nosegneg/libdl.so.2 Reading symbols from /lib/i686/nosegneg/libm.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/nosegneg/libm.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/i686/nosegneg/libpthread.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/nosegneg/libpthread.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib/i686/nosegneg/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/i686/nosegneg/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 Failed to read a valid object file image from memory. Core was generated by `../mzschemecgc -cqu ./xform.ss --setup . --cpp gcc -E -I./.. -I./../include -pt'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. [New process 29109] [New process 29110] #0 0x080c0a62 in scheme_jit_longjmp (b=0xbfb75ed8, v=1) at ./jit.c:12814 12814 while (stack_cache_stack_pos (gdb) bt #0 0x080c0a62 in scheme_jit_longjmp (b=0xbfb75ed8, v=1) at ./jit.c:12814 #1 0x08088d71 in scheme_do_eval (obj=0x1731e0, num_rands=1, rands=0xeccd0, get_value=-1) at ./eval.c:9101 #2 0x0808a4a9 in _scheme_apply_multi_from_native (rator=0xe, argc=1, argv=0xbfb75e9c) at ./schnapp.inc:84 #3 0xb7f7e44a in ?? () #4 0x00177930 in ?? () #5 0x00000001 in ?? () #6 0xbfb75e9c in ?? () #7 0x000edaf0 in ?? () #8 0xbfb7001d in ?? () #9 0x000c1488 in ?? () #10 0x00000000 in ?? ()
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Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) sent Springfield-based Mid Valley Metal Recycling a letter on Dec. 9 for failing to submit stormwater monitoring results for 2012-13 for its facility on South A Street in Springfield, which has a DEQ-issued Clean Water Act permit to discharge pollution to the Springfield Millrace. DEQ also sent a letter to David L. Penegor on Dec. 11 for solid waste, waste tire, used oil and spill violations at a site on Brabham Road in Pleasant Hill near Highway 58.
One of Oregon's two nuclear reactors is a noncommercial one at Oregon State University that is training a new generation of nuclear specialists, some with commercial aspirations (the other is at Reed College). However, local utility EWEB gets power from the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), which in turns gets electricity from the Columbia Generating Station (CGS) nuclear reactor in Washington on the Hanford site.
Whoville campers are worried that history will repeat itself. Before the Eugene City Council's winter break in 2011, the council and EPD had no plans to close the Occupy Eugene camp at Washington-Jefferson Park during winter break. By Christmas, it was closed. Now that the council has said the same thing about Whoville, some campers say that some of the same tactics used to justify Occupy's closure are threatening Whoville.
Record-setting low temperatures can lead to record-setting energy bills, but UO students can get help improving their homes' energy efficiency. Student and Community Outreach for Renter Efficiency ($CORE) sends peer energy educators to assess students' dwellings for ways to be more green, complete with about $40 in free fixes.
Without much discussion, the Eugene City Council unanimously approved a supplemental budget Dec. 10, including $2,258,355 increased revenue in the General Fund, which is now facing an approximately $3 million budget gap, down from $5.9 million earlier in 2013. A total of $1.5 million was sent to the replacement fund for the rebuilding of City Hall. Supplemental budgets are passed when the city's income or expenditures are different than predicted in the fiscal year's original budget.
Months after county administrator Liane Richardson was fired over changes she made to her pay, Lane County citizens still don't know the whole story about what happened. Various news organizations, including Eugene Weekly, made public records requests for copies of the outside investigation by USO Consulting that examined the circumstances surrounding the compensation changes, but the county hasn't released it in an unredacted form. The investigation found that Richardson violated county policy, but the county never gave any more details.
The extended freeze is making Eugene area rhododendrons, azaleas and other plants looking sad and shriveled. Will they survive?
"The cold weather causes the water in the leaves to evaporate, and with the ground frozen, no water enters the plant and/or leaves," says Ross Penhallegon of the OSU Lane County Extension. "The leaves then start to wilt and droop. The longer the cold (below 25 degrees) weather, the more damage or water loss to the leaves."
Mark Frohnmayer is tired of feeling like he has to vote for the "lesser of two evils" in the Oregon elections process, and he's out to change our primary process to a more open process called "approval voting."
The upper level Lane County Public Service Building is going through a $750,000 remodel; this includes the area around where the county commissioners work, though not, according to County Spokesperson Anne Marie Levis, their actual offices. Work began last week and is expected to wrap up on Jan. 25, according to a Sept. 30 email from Capital Projects Manager Brian Craner to Commissioner Pete Sorenson.
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is accepting comments through 5 pm on Monday, Dec. 16, concerning a Clean Water Act discharge permit application for industrial stormwater discharges from Metal Products Company in Springfield. Visit goo.gl/ScwdH to see the company's stormwater plan, and goo.gl/iMDQb to comment. Metal Products Company's permit application was prompted by a notice of intent to sue letter sent by Oregon Clean Water Action Project on behalf of Willamette Riverkeeper.
• Eugene's mayor says Whoville is here to stay through the holidays — or, at least, the city has no plans to disperse the homeless camps before the City Council reconvenes Jan. 13. But the council's refusal to officially approve four emergency rest stops before its monthlong vacation irked protesters, who say they've been harassed by police at the sites and want the council's protection through the break.
Sen. Ron Wyden released his long-awaited company bill to Rep. Peter DeFazio's O&C Trust, Conservation and Jobs Act on Nov. 26, shortly before the Thanksgiving holiday. Environmental organizations such as Oregon Wild and Cascadia Wildlands immediately greeted the bill, which calls for "ecological forestry" on the controversial public lands, with disappointment and criticism.
Duck confit, duck charcuterie, duck-fat ice cream … sometimes you have to break a few duck eggs and eat a few fowl in order to protect ducks and their habitat. On Dec. 11, local restaurant Party Downtown is teaming up with conservation group McKenzie River Trust (MRT) for an evening of duck feasting and river saving, along with celebrity hunter, gardener and cook Hank Shaw. Shaw is on tour promoting his new book, Duck, Duck, Goose: The Ultimate Guide to Cooking Waterfowl, Both Farmed and Wild.
"The media creates a lot of body dissatisfaction, specifically in teen girls," says Elizabeth Daniels, co-author of a new study, which finds that ethnic identification may help Latina adolescents find better satisfaction in their bodies.
Psychologists at Oregon State University-Cascades and Gallaudet University evaluated more than 100 Latinas, ages 13-18, having them react to images found in advertisements, magazines, television shows and movies. The subject matter consisted of unrealistic images of white women in sexualized roles, according to Daniels.
It's a tough time to be a Chinook salmon, but members of the McKenzie Flyfishers and the Steamboaters are trying to make things easier for the threatened fish. Concerned by what they say are poor management practices in hatcheries that allow wild fish to breed with hatchery fish, changing their genetic integrity and making them less fit for survival, the Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) filed a lawsuit Dec. 2 against the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) and the U.S.
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is accepting comments through 5 pm on Thursday, Dec. 5, concerning the proposed purchase and reuse of the former Elmira Store & Gas Station. According to DEQ, "Petroleum contamination from gasoline and diesel storage has been observed on the property since at least 1998." Aside from the removal of underground storage tank systems and fuel dispensers in 1999 and some excavation, little cleanup has been completed. Green Energy Alternatives Research proposes to purchase and redevelop the site as a nonprofit community center.
Attempts to move megaloads of Canadian tar sands extraction equipment are being met with strong resistance in Eastern Oregon. On Dec. 1, two opponents of the loads locked themselves to the transport vehicles, while still more of the more than 50 protesters from anti-climate change groups 350.org and Rising Tide as well as Oregon tribes "held down a ceremonial line" in front of the truck, according to Kayla Godowa Tufti, a Eugene resident and Warm Springs tribe member who participated in the action. On Dec.
Turkey may be November's big flavor, but the slow food movement hopes Eugeneans find another flavor to relish: the Lower Salmon River squash. On Terra Madre Day Dec. 10, Slow Food Eugene and Open Oak Farm will celebrate the Northwest cultivar and learn about the Ark of Taste, a global project dedicated to saving some of the thousands of heritage foods that globalization and monoculture crops are endangering. The 6:30 pm potluck will be held at the Eugene Garden Club, 1645 High St.
The city of Eugene and LTD are competing for ConnectOregon V transportation grants that would create a bike share program and construct three bicycle-pedestrian bridges in West Eugene over Amazon Creek. ConnectOregon is a lottery bond-funded initiative that supports air, rail, marine, transit and bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure.
Fall is in full swing, which means there are piles of leaves accumulating all around the city — in yards, on sidewalks and, unfortunately, in piles that congest bike lanes. Bicyclists are at risk when traveling over slippery piles or swerving into lanes of vehicular travel to avoid the piles. Property owners are liable for any damage resulting from improper leaf placement.
Sites of former meth labs are known for their toxicity, but the risk doesn't end with labs. The Oregon Health Authority says that homes once occupied by heavy meth users can be contaminated, too, and must be cleaned carefully.
Big Oil is looming. The Keystone XL pipeline project, a massive 1,179 mile crude-oil pipeline that would run through the middle of the U.S., is currently on the forefront of the environmental radar as the country waits to hear whether the U.S. State Department will recommend its approval by the president. On Nov.
Can small sea birds save a forest? Conservation groups like Cascadia Wildlands hope so. Next month the State Land Board decides whether or not to dispose of three parcels of the Elliott State Forest by selling to private buyers, which include interested parties from the timber industry. In a Nov. 10 letter, Cascadia Wildlands and other conservation groups asked the State Land Board, which includes Gov.
In the midst of the city's budget crisis, the Library Journal rated Eugene Public Library a three-star library. The journal looks per capita at circulation, visits, program attendance and public internet terminal use and ranks libraries across the U.S according to their budget class. By the Library Journal's metrics, a three-star rating equates to being in the top 3 percent of a library's budget class in terms of cost-effectiveness.


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Council workers in Bolton will be balloted for strike action after more than 80 per cent of Unison members voted to reject a one per cent pay rise offer.
The union, which represents public sector workers, says there is anger over the pay increase which will mean the lowest paid staff would receive a rise only slightly above inflation.
The move is part of a national industrial action ballot in England, Wales and Northern Ireland by local government workers. If members vote to strike, it is anticipated the industrial action will start in July.
Andrea Egan, assistant branch secretary, said Bolton public sector workers had spoken loudly and clearly against the one per cent pay offer.
She said: "This anger has come from across the board. It includes cleaners, caretakers, refuse workers, care staff, social workers, planning officers and people in the contact centre who have all said that enough is enough.
"No one likes the idea of striking, but people are prepared to fight for a decent pay rise."
In January, union members lobbied the council to increase employees' pay by £1 an hour to help them cope with the rising cost of living. In February, Bolton Council committed to spending £400,000 to boost the pay of their lowest earners to the living wage.
The call for industrial action has received the support of the general workers' union GMB, and Sean Warren, the union's convenor, said they would be working closely with Unison colleagues.
He said: "The overwhelming response that we have had from rank and file GMB members here in Bolton has been very much in favour of taking action against the one per cent offer.
"We keep hearing that we are out of recession and that wages are now rising faster than living costs. That is certainly not the experience of public service workers here in our town."
Unison members are invited to attend an open meeting about the strike at the Lancaster Suite in the Town Hall on Tuesday, May 27, from 4.30pm until 5.30pm.
Sessions will also take place on Wednesday, May 28, at 7am in Wellington Yard, and from 12.30pm until 1.30pm at the Library Lecture Theatre in Central Library, Le Mans Crescent.


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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Self-described 'Tax Lady' Roni Deutch says she's closing her California law firm of 20 years and surrendering her law license amid allegations of wrongdoing that she denies.
Deutch gained a measure of fame nationally on late-night television commercials.
The Sacramento Bee reports her firm is about $10 million in debt and she's personally $5 million in the hole.
Deutch ran into legal problems last year when then-Attorney General Jerry Brown sued her on grounds she cheated clients out of $34 million.
A Sacramento judge froze her assets for destroying millions of pages of documents and failing to pay about $435,000 in refunds.
Deutch faces hundreds of counts of contempt and possible jail time. A hearing on the contempt of court allegations is scheduled for July 22.