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Scientists with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency are taking water samples from the Minnesota River Friday to see if there's enough oxygen in the river to support aquatic life.
They're taking a boat down a 22-mile stretch of the river, from Jordan to where the Minnesota meets the Mississippi.
The MPCA's Glenn Skuta says the hot, dry summer has contributed to a slower flow and warm waters that are typically followed by low oxygen levels.
Skuta says that could trigger a fish kill, and that's a concern for a fishery that has rebounded in recent years.
"There's a great improvement in the number of anglers fishing on the Minnesota River over the last decade and such," he said. "So we want to make sure when we hit these rare events like this one -- where we get down to a flow that we haven't seen since 1988 -- that we are protecting the river at that kind of a critical condition."
Skuta adds that climate change may make this summer's scenario more common in the future.
"The likelihood of seeing drought or low-flow conditions like we're seeing now may very well increase as time goes on," he said.
Low dissolved oxygen comes from phosphorus that enters the water. The test samples should help scientists determine if tougher standards on water-treatment plants are working.
If they're not, Skuta says the MPCA will have to look at what else can be done to control phosphorus in the river.


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The Great Lakes are a breathtaking and unique natural resource. They are the world's largest surface freshwater ecosystem and contain 20 percent of all surface freshwater on the planet. More than 35 million people in eight states and Canada depend on the Lakes for their drinking water.
The Great Lakes watershed provides habitat for wildlife, including the gray wolf, Canada lynx and the millions of migratory birds that pass through in the spring and fall. The five lakes – Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario – are home to numerous fish such as walleye, whitefish, trout and lake sturgeon.
In spite of their majesty, the Great Lakes are fragile and face serious threats from invasive species, toxins, water diversion, wetland destruction, sewage overflows and climate change.
Restore the Great Lakes - As the co-chair of the 120-organization Healing Our Waters® - Great Lakes Coalition, NWF is working to enact and fund the comprehensive plan to restore the Lakes that aims to clean up toxic sediments; protect and restore wildlife habitat and wetlands; reduce polluted runoff; halt new invasive species; and stop sewage from contaminating the Lakes. Our efforts have brought billions in new funding to Great Lakes cleanup projects that restore the Great Lakes, protect wildlife habitat and revitalize the economy.
Connect Kids with Nature – NWF-Great Lakes is growing a grassroots online and on-the-ground kids and wildlife community of cause called Wildlife Nation™ that empowers and supports adults in connecting kids with wildlife and habitat in ways that are meaningful and pass from generation to generation. Through Wildlife Nation™ and our leadership in advocating for and guiding state education policies to green schools and enhance children's environmental literacy, NWF is helping children regain their connection to the natural world.
Stop Invasive Species - NWF is leading the charge to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes by advocating for the permanent separation of the Great Lakes from the Mississippi River basin. We are working to stem the tide of invasive species in ballast water tanks of seafaring ships by promoting effective legislation and pursuing legal challenges to ensure that the Clean Water Act is upheld.
Improve the Environments Where People Live - Through our Midwest Urban Initiative, NWF is working in the Great Lakes region's largest urban centers and communities of color to help strengthen the work being done on energy and sustainability; green job development; air and water quality; brown field and hazardous waste clean-up; and environmental justice issues.
Safeguard the Great Lakes From the Effects of Climate Change - As one of the first groups in the region to work on climate change adaptation, NWF is taking the lead to assess vulnerability, create policies, and design "climate-smart" restoration and conservation projects that protect wildlife in the Great Lakes from climate change. Our partners include the Healing Our Waters® - Great Lakes Coalition, the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and the Great Lakes LCC. Learn more at www.nwf.org/climate-smart.
Reduce the Pollution Causing Climate Change - The Great Lakes Regional Center is a hub for climate policy advocacy from city halls, to state capitols, to Washington, D.C. We defend the Clean Air Act, lead the fight to reduce mercury emissions from coal-burning powerplants, and support breakthrough solutions on fuel efficiency, renewable energy and energy efficiency that reduce the pollution that harms our waters and wildlife.
Defend the Great Lakes from Oil Pipeline Spills – The Great Lakes are threatened by oil spills, ageing pipelines and increased imports of raw tar sands oil. National Wildlife Federation is dedicated to protecting the Great Lakes from becoming the next oil spill victim by making sure pipeline networks are properly regulated and by working to preventing new dangerous pipelines in the Great Lakes region.
Save Lake Superior From Sulfide Mining - Sulfide mining is a dangerous form of mining that has a legacy of decimating water resources. NWF is defending a premier tributary of Lake Superior from proposed sulfide mining directly beneath its waters. The outcome could set a precedent for future sulfide mining that determines the health of Lake Superior for generations.
Sustaining Healthy Lake Levels and Flows of Water - National Wildlife Federation recently met one of the most important challenges to the Great Lakes – preventing diversions of Great Lakes water out of the region. Thanks to 10 years of hard work by NWF and a host of partners, the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact was enacted in 2008. NWF continues to lead efforts to implement the Great Lakes Water Resources Compact in all eight Great Lakes states.
Guard Water Quality - NWF is working to guard wildlife and human health by keeping our Great Lakes and waterways clean. We have had many successes in stemming pollution in the past, but today we face a new challenge: excessive nutrients from farm fertilizer and manure. Lake Erie, in particular, experiences massive toxic algal blooms from excess nutrients. NWF works with a number of partners, including the Western Lake Erie Basin Partnership, scientists, farmers, businesses, land managers, and restoration experts to find solutions that guard Great Lakes water quality.
Revitalizing the Huron River Corridor in Southeast Michigan - The National Wildlife Federation is a leader in the new RiverUp! project to fix up recreation infrastructure, clean up areas in need of restoration, and build up destination spots that bring people to the riverfront. Along with partner organizations and leaders in the community, we are rejuvinating the Huron River as a destination for local residents and tourists.
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Albert Uderzo was born as the son of Italian immigrants in France. He made his first acquaintance with comics through the 'Mickey Mouse' strip in Le Pétit Parisien. In 1940, when he was only thirteen years old, Uderzo was employed by the Société Parisienne d'Édition, where he learned the basics of the trade: designing text and letters, and editing photographs. His first illustration, a parody on Aesop's fables, was published in magazine Junior, around the same time that he met the great comic artist Calvo.
from Bonnes Soirées (1953)
Uderzo spent most of the war working as a farmer in Brittany, and helping his father with his furniture business. In 1945 and 1946, he worked on an animated film titled 'Clic-Clac', together with Renan de Vela. De Vela aslo assigned Uderzo to illustrate the book 'Flamberge, gentilhomme gascon', by Em-Ré-Vil. Uderzo made his first story, starring the character 'Clopinard', for Éditions du Chêne in Paris in the following year.
Signing his work Al Uderzo (which sounded more American), he created several comics for magazine O.K. shortly afterwards, including 'Arys Buck', 'Le Prince Rollin' and 'Belloy l'Invulnérable'. In 1949, Uderzo became reporter and illustrator for France Dimanche through Yves Chéron's International Press agency, and he was one of the illustrators of the vertical comic strip section 'Le Crime ne Paie pas' by Paul Gordeaux for France-Soir.
Captain Marvel Jr. (dutch version, Bravo 1950)
By 1950, while Uderzo was drawing 'Captain Marvel Jr.' for magazine Bravo!, he met Georges Troisfontaines, the agent of the Brussels-based World's Press syndicate, who introduced him artists like Victor Hubinon, Eddy Paape and MiTacq, as well as writer Jean-Michel Charlier, with whom he relaunched 'Belloy' in magazine La Wallonie. Around the same time, he got in touch with René Goscinny, with whom he would start a fruitful collaboration.
Jehan Pistolet
In November 1951, the first joint work of Uderzo and Goscinny, a feature on savoir-vivre, was pulished in women's weekly Bonnes Soirées. Their next creations were 'Jehan Pistolet' and 'Luc Junior' for La Libre Junior. They also came up with a character for the aimed at American market, the Indian 'Oumpah-Pah'. The idea did not work out, and ended up in the drawer. For now.
Tom et Nelly (Risque-Tout #8, 1956)
By 1955, Uderzo, Charlier, Goscinny and Jean Hébrard founded their own syndicate, resulting in two agencies: Édifrance and Édipresse. At the same time, Uderzo and Goscinny created 'Bill Blanchart', a realistic series for La Libre Junior, and they also succeeded Christian Godard on 'Benjamin et Benjamine' . Uderzo drew 'Clairette', a feature written by Charlier, in 1957 before making his debut in magazine Tintin in the following year. It was here that 'Oumpah-Pah' was finally published, as well as the new series 'Poussin et Poussif', 'La Famillle Moutonet' and 'La Famille Cokalane'.
In 1959 the Edifrance team launched a new magazine, called Pilote. Uderzo was there from the start with no less than two series. The first was the realistic aviation series 'Tanguy et Laverdure', written by Charlier, the second 'Astérix', written by Goscinny. This last series, about a small Gaule from a well-known little Gaulish village which keeps resisting the Roman occupation, soon developed into the most popular comic in France.
Tanguy et Laverdure
Over the years, Uderzo devoted himself more and more to 'Astérix', of which the first album of a long series was published by Dargaud in 1967. In 1974, Goscinny, Uderzo and Georges Dargaud founded the Idéfix Studios for the production of animated films starring their famous heroes. René Goscinny died in 1977 and Uderzo was to continue 'Astérix by himself.
First appearance of Asterix
He continues to oversee the production of new stories through his own production label Les Éditions Albert-René to the present day. It was announced in 2012 that Udezo would retire from the drawing board, and that Didier Conrad and Jean-Yves Ferri became his successors as artist and writer, respectively. In spite of the great artwork, the brilliant storytelling of Goscinny is sorely missed in the latest albums.
In 1996 both Asterix and Obelix had asteroids named after them. Albert Uderzo was named Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion in 2007. He was also invested with the French Légion d'Honneur in 2013.
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President Barack Obama in his inaugural address on Monday linked the gay rights struggle to the battle for women's suffrage and civil rights for blacks.
"We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths - that all of us are created equal - is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls and Selma and Stonewall," Obama said.
The statement was the strongest that the president has made in support of the rights of gays during his presidency. In contrast, in his 2009 inaugural address, Obama did not mention gays and lesbians at all.
Obama's words also represented the first time a president discussed gay rights during an inauguration speech.
"It is now our generation's task to carry on what those pioneers began. For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers, and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts," Obama said.
"Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law - for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well."
Gay rights activists throughout the region, such as the Rev. Don Crail, a retired Presbyterian minister living in Claremont, commended Obama for his framing the struggle for equality.
"He put it in the context of civil rights and it is, I think: It's the next chapter in equality in this country. I think instead of being behind the curve, I think he's gotten ahead of the curve," said Crail, former director of the Lazarus Project in West Hollywood, an outreach ministry of reconciliation for gays and lesbians with the Presbyterian church.
"I think gay marriage will become a reality in many more states in this next four years. He's also instructed his attorney general to not defend the Defense of Marriage Act. I think he's been prophetic on that issue."
Obama supported same-sex marriage in 2012 and pushed for the 2011 repeal of "don't ask, don't tell," which curtailed gays ability to serve openly in the military.
Crail was also pleased by the participation of gay poet Richard Blanco, who recited a poem during Obama's inauguration ceremonies.
"The fact that it's Martin Luther King's special day, I think it's very right and appropriate for him to let the world know how he feels," said Patti Loitz, president of the Pasadena chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.
Loitz said she doesn't think Obama's comments will necessarily translate into legal changes.
"We know how he feels, but he doesn't make the laws," she said. "It's just a matter of whether can they get the cooperation from all the parties involved."
Loitz wasn't surprised he would address gay rights during his speech: PFLAG had a float in Monday's inauguration parade - the first time the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community was represented in the parade.
"It fits right in with the message of equality for women, blacks and gays," she said. "It's at the forefront now."
Obama's evolving views on gay marriage accompany a shift in the views of many Americans: In the most recent survey on gay marriage by the Pew Research Center, 47 percent of the 3,008 adults surveyed in April supported gay marriage, 43 percent opposed it and 11 percent of those surveyed didn't know.
Four years ago, only 39 percent of those surveyed supported it and 51 percent opposed it.
And in 2004, shortly before George W. Bush won his second term in office, only 31 percent of those surveyed supported it and 60 percent opposed it.
Members of the Long Beach and Signal Hill's gay community also reacted positively to Obama's speech and found his words - spoken in front of the public as well as some U.S. Supreme Court justices - meaningful at a time when landmark judicial issues such the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8 are being examined.
The Defense of Marriage Act forbids federal officials from recognizing same-sex marriage and Prop. 8 is California's ban on same-sex marriage.
"The idea that he said that love should be shared by all - he was spectacular," Signal Hill Councilman Larry Forester said.
Forester said the president has come a long way from his initial views on gay marriage, which Obama did not favor until recently despite supporting gay rights.
"Over time, he finally decided that love is love and love between two people of the same sex is love between two people of the opposite sex," Forester said.
"He said it to the public and I could not be more elated."
Long Beach Vice Mayor Robert Garcia also applauded Obama's speech and its emphasis on civil rights for not only the LGBT community but for women and minorities.
"He talked about America being at its best when it's equal and that's what came across for a lot of people," he said.
Obama's words may help further marriage equality, Garcia said, adding four more states passed same sex marriage laws after the president spoke out in favor of gay marriage about a year ago.
"It's a step forward when our leaders acknowledge that we have to work for all Americans, that all Americans should be treated equally," Garcia said. "It's going to make the country stronger."
Staff writer Karen Robes Meeks contributed to this report.
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As a husband-and-wife team, our practice is like our second family, and our staff is an extension of that philosophy. From thier initial phone and first visit to the day of surgery and after, our patients receive close, personal attention.
Our mission is to add joy to our patients' lives through genuine caring, generosity of spirit, and the quality of our work. Many of our patients have been bothered by something, sometimes for years. After surgery, the thing our patients tell us over and over is what a difference their results made in their self-confidence.
Patient education is an important part of our practice. In addition to our written materials and our TouchMD program, we offer our patients continually updated information on our YouTube channel, our website, our blog, our newsletter, social media, and our special events. We love teaching as much as our patients love learning!
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Because so many of our patients come from a distance, we offer a virtual consultation through our secure website. During our in-office consultation, I meet with may patients to find out their goals, examine them, and review their options and my recommendations.
I spend a lot of time on patient education both at the time of consultation as well as preparing online materials patients can easily access. Patient education is important to give an understanding of what can or cannot be done, to have a smooth recovery, and to be satisfied with the final results.
We offer several tools to help answer our patients' question. TouchMD has greatly facilitated my ability to teach and show other patients' results during the consultation, and patients can access the site by logging on from home. Our videos, website, and blog can also answser many questions.
My job isn't to talk a patient into having surgery. On the contrary, I want to make sure that patients who schedule surgery are 100% sure it's what they want. My job is to help them reach their goals. If my patients are happy, I'm happy!
Our surgery suite is accredited by both AAAASF and IMQ. Our patients' safety is at the top of the list above all else. But we also know patients do better when they're surrounded by welcoming, cheerful faces, a beautiful facility, and even a gown that covers completely (even the back!). So we provide all that as well.
Depending on the type of case and what's best for the patient, we use local anesthesia, sedation, and general anesthesia. Our anesthesiologists are all board-certified physician anesthesiologist.
Our surgical technicians and nurses are not only well-trained and competent, they're also so nice that patients often mention them by name after surgey and ask me to thank them for such a great experience.
It's natural to be nervous about surgery, so we roll out the red carpet to make our patients feel comfortable, safe, and cared for.
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Dame Judi Dench may currently be shooting the new Bond film in chilly England, but her previous role took her, and a bunch of veteran British actors, to India where they filmed The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, released in cinemas on Friday, February 24. The actress describes how she fell in love with India and why she's loving working with Sam Mendes on Skyfall.
By Kate Whiting Waiting to speak to Judi Dench is a bit like anticipating an audience with the Queen. So when I'm finally ushered into the presence of acting royalty, I'm immediately concerned to hear the great Dame coughing.
"No, I haven't at all. I don't know what it is," she says, dismissing my fears she's suffering from a cold.
"We were filming [Skyfall] yesterday and it was very, very cold. I think I've just a bit of a cough. It'll only last today and then it will be away," she adds, smiling sweetly.
Suitably relieved, we begin the business of discussing her latest film role in John Madden's comedy drama The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
The director managed to gather together a dream team of venerable British stars, including Dame Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie and Tom Wilkinson, for the ensemble comedy drama about a disparate group of retired Brits heading for a new life in India.
As Evelyn, a recent widow whose husband has left her with mountains of debt, Dench has perhaps the greatest 'journey' to contend with, as she learns to become both financially and emotionally independent.
Embracing the internet, Evelyn finds details online of a hotel for the "elderly and beautiful" in colourful Jaipur, run by ambitious manager Sonny (Dev Patel), and throughout the film, blogs about her adventure serve as a narrative for the story.
For Dench, the opportunity to work with director John Madden again (after her Oscar-winning turn in Shakespeare In Love and the Oscar-nominated Mrs Brown) had immediate appeal, not to mention the chance to visit India for the first time.
"Have you got half an hour?" she asks, giggling, before listing all the things she loved about the country.
"I can't wait to go back. Like my character, I became completely infatuated by it. Incredibly charming people, the crew couldn't have been more colourful, wonderful, welcoming and funny. And we got to see so many things: the traffic, the birds, the colour, the light..."
She even attended a royal wedding that was being held in the hotel where the cast were staying, and her eyes light up at the memory.
"We weren't invited, but there were rehearsals, with elephants and white horses, so we stood on a balcony to watch. Everybody started to arrive and all the women came up to the balcony with us, and the men were in this great procession.
Smiling, she remembers how the cast were invited to join the wedding party for a cup of tea: "We said, 'We're not dressed properly' but they said it didn't matter at all. So we did," she finishes, beaming.
She's clearly passionate about India and it's easy to see how a young Dench was similarly gripped by a love of acting. Born in York, her Irish mother, who'd met her doctor father while he was studying medicine in Dublin, was a wardrobe assistant at the Theatre Royal and actors often came to stay at their house.
She followed her brother Jeff to the Central School of Speech and Drama and joined the Old Vic Company, touring as Shakespeare's great heroines, Ophelia, Juliet and Henry V's Katherine, a role that was also her New York stage debut.
In 1971, she married fellow actor Michael Williams, her co-star in early Eighties sitcom A Fine Romance, and had a daughter Tara Frances Cressida, known as Finty, who's also an actress.
When Williams died of lung cancer in 2001, aged just 65, Dench threw herself into work, and says she was able to draw on her experience of being widowed to play Evelyn: "Everything that happens to you is fed into a kind of computer, I suppose. It sounds rather... what's the right word?... Cold, rather calculating. But nevertheless, every experience you have, you sometimes draw on if you're an actor."
In the film, Dame Judi plays a women quite unused to negotiating the nitty-gritty of daily life, who is suddenly forced to rise to the challenge: "It's the whole thing of somebody suddenly dying and you thinking, 'Gosh, I'm the person who has to change the plugs now, I'm the person who has to do the bills'. I'd had that experience already, so I suppose I used that."
She admits it's unusual for so many older actors to be on screen together at once, but thinks it's something there ought to be more of - and would only change one thing about the film: "Maybe the acting, but then I'm hyper critical about myself."
For someone with so many iconic roles and award nominations to her name, it seems strange to think she's so self-critical.
"It's better for me as time goes by. I watch [my performance] after I've forgotten all about it, because otherwise I get fixated and my judgement goes too."
But despite her self-doubt, one role she'll always say yes to is M in the Bond films.
With Skyfall currently shooting at Pinewood Studios, it's too tempting not to ask what M is up to in the 23rd film in the franchise (her seventh), but sadly her lips are sealed.
Still, it must be nice to return to the Pinewood family?
"Yes," she says, brightening. "It's very nice indeed to go back. There are some brilliant sets and it's being directed by Sam Mendes, who I worked with, oh, when he was a little baby boy really," she says, laughing.
"It was about the second or third thing he did. He directed me in The Cherry Orchard on stage, so now he's doing this."
At 77, and still in so much demand, is she at all tempted to run away to India and retire like Evelyn?
"No, I'm not tempted to retire, but I'm very tempted to go back. I hope the film is a very strong advert for India, because it should be."
And with that, my audience with the queen of stage and screen is over.
Extra time - Dame Judi's golden roles :: Queen Victoria in Mrs Brown (1997): At her regal best as the bereaved Queen Victoria who gets close to Scottish servant John Brown.
:: Iris Murdoch in Iris (2001): In this biopic of novelist Iris Murdoch, Dench portrays the older Iris who is afflicted with Alzheimer's disease.
:: Miss Matty Jenkyns in Cranford (2007-2009): In BBC One's classic Sunday night period heart-warmer, Miss Matty was at the centre of village life.
:: Shakespeare In Love (1998): Dench held court and won an Oscar as Queen Elizabeth I in this fictional account of the Bard's love life.
:: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is released in cinemas on Friday, February 24


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Funds set up to honor Newtown victimsPosted: Updated:
Several funds have been set up to honor the victims of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
The parents of the children who survived the Sandy Hook Elementary School have set up a fund. The money donated will be used to help with funeral costs as well as ongoing living expenses.
"We ask the world to join us not only in our grief but also in our burning need take some of the burdens off these families in their time of incredible pain," the website said. "To bear their cross in some small way."
Checks can be sent to My Sandy Hook Family Fund c/o Wells Fargo Bank, 26 Church Hill Rd., Newtown, CT 06470.
UConn has announced the Sandy Hook Memorial Scholarship Fund to provide financial student aid to survivors of the Newtown school shooting.
Siblings of the students who died and dependents of the adult victims will also have access to the scholarship.
Geno Auriemma and his wife, Kathy, have already made an $80,000 donation.
Click the following link to donate to the UConn scholarship fund.
Donors may also contribute to the fund by texting 50555 with UConn Newtown.
Checks can be sent to the UConn Foundation at 2390 Alumni Dr. Unit 3206, Storrs, CT 06269-3206. It must be indicated on the checks that it is for the Sandy Hook School Memorial Scholarship Fund.
The United Way of Western Connecticut, in partnership with Newtown Savings Bank, has started the Sandy Hook School Support Fund for the victims of the shooting.
"As people from our area and beyond respond to this heartbreaking tragedy, they are turning to United Way looking for ways to help," the agency said in a statement Sunday.
The fund will be used to "provide support services to the families and community that has been affected."
Checks can be sent to Sandy Hook Support Fund, C/O Newtown Savings Bank, 39 Main St., Newtown 06470, or they can be dropped off at any Newtown Savings Bank branch location.
For more information, click the following link.
Eastern Connecticut State University announced a scholarship fund in the name of the teacher, an alum, who hid and blocked her students in Newtown.
It is called the Victoria Leigh Soto Endowed Memorial Scholarship Fund at Eastern to support students studying to be teachers who have unmet financial need.
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Donations can also be sent to the Newtown Parent Connection.
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NEW YORK — With Toy Fair happening now in New York City, the Toy Industry Association has revealed what it believes are the top toy trends for 2013.
"Toy Fair '13 is showcasing a huge variety of toys and games that encourage hands-on play and engage everyone – from the youngest of children right through to tweens, teens, and even adults!" said Adrienne Appell, TIA trend expert. "We are also seeing a more seamless integration of technology into playthings…this is a huge coup for the toy industry, which has managed to incorporate up-to-the-minute tech advances into their toys while still preserving traditional play patterns that kids love."
The TIA identified six trends: retro, pop culture, 360 degree play, enaging tweens and teens, 24/7 play and construction craze.
Toys falling in the retro category include classic games, toys and characters that kids, parents and grandparents can all enjoy. Pop culture toys are those inspired by popular cooking, DIY and other reality programming. Toys in the 360 degree play category include those that combine real and virtual worlds; products that allow users to 'change' or enhance the physical world as they play; and 3D playthings that create a more interactive experience. Engaging tweens and teens means understanding that older kids are still looking for ways to play beyond the computer or TV screen. Portable toys are what make up the 24/7 play category. Construction toys may be an old category, but new innovations keep it a popular year after year.


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This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
Hunter College of City University of New York
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Jeffrey T. Parsons, Hunter College
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The objective is to expand and refine an intervention for transgender women (TW) into a 7-session individual- and group-based intervention that is scalable for community settings to reduce sexual risk and substance use and to increase stigma-coping and risk-buffering behaviors among TW in NYC. The investigators will pilot test the intervention with 20 TW and subsequently, conduct a randomized controlled trial with 240 TW to compare the intervention to a wait list control condition.
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Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
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Further study details as provided by Jeffrey T. Parsons, Hunter College:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Number of Unprotected Sex Acts in the Past 90 Days [ Time Frame: every 4 months over the course of 8 months ]Decreases from Baseline in the Number of Unprotected Sex Acts in the past 90 days at 4 and 8 months
- Number of Days of Drug Use in the Past 90 Days [ Time Frame: every 4 months over the course of 8 months ]Decreases from Baseline in the Number of Days of Drug Use in the past 90 days at 4 and 8 months
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|June 2013
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|January 2017
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|January 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: MI + CBST Intervention
Seven sessions of Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioral Skills Training
Behavioral: MI + CBST Intervention
The intervention focuses on exploring health goals, creating an action plan, learning about the impact stress, stigma, and substance use can have on health, improving personal growth and social support, and connecting with resources. The first two sessions will be primarily Motivational Interviewing and will explore participants' feelings about their sexual risk, substance use, non-medically monitored hormone and silicone use, and any other issues. Group sessions (Sessions 3-6) will incorporate Cognitive Behavioral Skills Training focusing barriers to physical and mental health. The last session will focus on reviewing progress toward health goals, identifying barriers to change, and generating a plan for connection to ongoing care to reach target health goals.
|No Intervention: Wait List Control Condition
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- 18 years of age or older
- Identify as a transgender woman (assigned male at birth and currently identify as female)
- Report 3 or more acts of unprotected anal or vaginal sex in the past 90 days and at least 1 in the past 30 days
- Report 5 or more days of illicit drug use in the past 90 days and at least 2 in the past 30
- Provide contact information
- Reside in the NYC metropolitan area
- Able to complete a survey in English (Spanish-language assistance can be provided by bilingual staff)
- Provide informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Unstable, serious psychiatric symptoms
- Current suicidal/homicidal ideation
- Evidence of gross cognitive impairment
- Currently enrolled in a drug abuse treatment or enrolled in an HIV risk or drug use intervention study
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01880489
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01880489
|United States, New York
|Center for HIV/AIDS Educational Studies and Training of Hunter College, CUNY
|New York, New York, United States, 10018
Sponsors and Collaborators
Hunter College of City University of New York
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
|Principal Investigator:
|Jeffrey T. Parsons, Ph.D.
|Hunter College of City University of New York
More Information
Additional Information:
Keywords provided by Jeffrey T. Parsons, Hunter College:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|Jeffrey T. Parsons, Distinguished Professor, Hunter College
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01880489 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
R01DA034661 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|June 13, 2013
|Last Updated:
|October 7, 2016
Keywords provided by Jeffrey T. Parsons, Hunter College:
transgender women
sexual risk
substance use
HIV prevention
behavioral intervention
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Virus Diseases
Genital Diseases, Male
Genital Diseases, Female
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017


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Yoram Daon is a native born Israeli, who earned the M.B.A. degree from Keller Graduate School of Management in Chicago, Illinois, and a B.S. degree in Finance from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He had also qualified as a Practical Engineer of Aeronautical Electronics at the IAF Technical Institute, Haifa, Israel.
At Case, Yoram lectures and heads the Hebrew section, and is a member of the Judaic Studies Advisory Committee. For three years he was an advisor to the Theta Upsilon chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, a co-ed national community service fraternity (serving one year as Chair of the Advisory Committee).
Yoram was nominated for the Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching for five consecutive years (2006-2010); for the J. Bruce Jackson, MD Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring (2007); and for the Dorothy M. Pijan Student Leadership Award as Outstanding Student Organization Advisor (2006, 2007).
Yoram is the co-author of English for Science & Technology – a language course of study for engineering, science and technology college students (Kavim Publishers, Be'er–Sheva, Israel, 2002). He has also designed and led workshops and innovative seminars and has written papers and manuals on a wide variety of subjects. He has edited dual-language (Hebrew and English) educational material, and has translated articles and technical material (English/Hebrew – Hebrew/English).
Yoram was an Associate Professor of English for Science and Technology and an Associate Professor of Industrial Administration at Sapir Negev Academic College in Israel for three years. In addition, he taught English as a Foreign Language extension course at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Yoram is an experienced business consultant who specialized in marketing policy, management strategies, feasibility analyses and contract negotiations. His prior experience includes senior management positions in non-profit, commercial and industrial firms in Israel, as well as management positions in the United States. Yoram is an experienced emergency/crisis negotiator, and is a retired Captain of Police (Israel), and a veteran of the Israel Defense Force.
Yoram is a seasoned and active community volunteer who led fund raising activities and served on the board of directors of several non-profit philanthropic organizations: Lions International District 128 Arad Chapter, Israel; Israel Cancer Association Arad Chapter; and the Arad Emergency Trauma Center, Israel. He was also active in a volunteer Desert Search and Rescue unit, which operated in the Judean Desert and the Dead Sea region.
Yoram has founded, managed and trained a competitive swimming team and is an international swimming official. He's partial to Boxer dogs, and has trained and competed with several of his pedigrees.
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text: Virginia ruling on AEP provides support to citizen groups By Ken Ward Jr. August 1, 2013 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A ruling by Virginia regulators provides new support to citizen groups who argue that Appalachian Power should not be taking on larger ownership in two coal-fired power plants in West Virginia.Cathy Kunkel, an energy expert with the West Virginia-Citizen Action Group, said Thursday the Virginia State Corporation Commission decision mirrors arguments her group and others are making before the West Virginia Public Service Commission."This is a very positive decision that recognizes several of the concerns that we raised in the West Virginia case, including Apco's lack of fuel diversity, the liability of the coal ash pond at Mitchell, and the risk of future climate change regulations," Kunkel said.Kunkel discussed the issue the day after Virginia's commission issued a split ruling on American Electric Power's proposal for its Appalachian Power subsidiary to take a greater ownership role in two of its coal plants.The Virginia SCC on Wednesday approved Apco's plan to acquire the remaining portion of its John Amos plant near St. Albans.But the commission also rejected the company's effort to take over half of the Mitchell plant near Moundsville from a sister American Electric Power subsidiary, Ohio Power.Virginia regulators also approved Apco's request to merge with another AEP subsidiary, Wheeling Power. AEP President and CEO Nick Akins said his company was pleased with the ruling regarding the merger and the John Amos plant, but that the Mitchell portion of the decision was "disappointing."In a prepared statement, Akins said that Virginia's denial of the Mitchell ownership transfer "is a complicating factor because there will be insufficient generation resources to serve the merged company.""AEP intends to bring this matter to the attention of the parties and the Public Service Commission in West Virginia and may re-evaluate the merger," Akins said.Because Appalachian operates as a regulated utility in both Virginia and West Virginia, the proposal needs approval from officials from both states. Appalachian Power already owns most of the John Amos plant. The Mitchell facility is currently owned by AEP Ohio, also known as Ohio Power, an AEP subsidiary.Apco says that, starting in May 2015, it will have a generating capacity shortfall of about 730 megawatts. But if Wheeling Power becomes part of Apco, that shortfall will rise to about 1,230 megawatts later that year, the company has said. Apco had hoped to take over the rest of John Amos and half of Mitchell to meet that demand.The more than $1 billion transaction would provide Appalachian with an additional 1,667 megawatts of generation capacity, with 867 of that coming from Amos and 800 from Mitchell.The AEP case is pending before the West Virginia Public Service Commission and is one of two cases in which the West Virginia PSC is considering proposals by power companies to shift ownership of coal-fired generation plants to West Virginia-based subsidiaries. In the other case, FirstEnergy wants to transfer ownership of its Harrison Power Station to its Monongahela Power subsidiary. Consumer advocates and environmental groups question both proposals, which are worth more than $2 billion combined. The critics worry about the impact on customer rates, argue that the power companies ignore potential gains from better demand-side energy efficiency programs and complain that the plan locks West Virginia into a long-term electrical-generation mix that is too narrowly focused on coal.In its 12-page ruling, the Virginia commission agreed with some of those criticisms. Commissioners cited the risks associated with a lack of diversity in Apco's generating fleet. Approving both plant acquisitions would raise the percentage of coal-fired electricity produced by the company to a projected 87 percent by 2017, the Virginia ruling said."Eliminating the possibility for additional fuel diversity at this time unreasonably increases customers' risks related to coal," the commission ruling said. 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I like Fallon as well...great Barry Gibb impersonation...only downer for me was watching him and queen latifah in "Taxi"...
I like Fallon as well...great Barry Gibb impersonation...only downer for me was watching him and queen latifah in "Taxi"...
I like Conan, but I think his act lends itself better to Late Night than a "primetime" late night show.
I hope it's never sunny in Philly again.
This guy wasn't funny on SNL....and he's been an afterthought since.
I remind everyone that the conventional wisdom hated the Conan O'Brien hiring, and it's still painful to watch him on the first couple years of the show.
I didn't see Fallon fill in for Letterman. Does anyone who saw him in an interview format have an opinion of him?
I think Letterman is great, but if I were to predict his efficacy as a talk show host based on his movie career (e.g. "Cabin Boy") I'd think he sucks too.
Who said bring back Kilborn? Please, please no.
". . . acquiring J. Blanton from Oakland for, apparently, Bailey/Cueto, Votto and a lesser prospect. I do it in a second . . . The Reds' equation this year is simple: Make Matt Belisle your #3 starter . . . trade for Blanton, win 85 or more, be in the mix all summer." - Paul Daugherty, Feb. 8, 2008
There is little related to SNL and a show like Late Night...Jimmy Falon is a VERY GOOD WRITER and he is also a very natural conversationalist, same as Conan when he took over. He doesn't need to be a great Stand up Comedian or even Skit comedian or actor to do the show well, I think Falon will surprise a lot of people with how good he does.
That said, I hated him on SNL, he was totally out classed in every aspect of the show...except, writing.
I think this is a good choice.
Knowing Jay Leno and his incredible streak of LOYALTY, I would say he entertains thoughts of ABC and FOX but will end up staying with NBC...I admit I could be dead wrong but in the past from the clubs he has worked to the people he promotes to the management team he works with to the writers on his show has shown an extreme amount of loyalty.
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so Craig Ferguson is going to win. Huzzah, he's hillarious.
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"I know a lot about the law and various other lawyerings."
Hitters who avoid outs are the funnest.
Everyone knew that the Cone Zone was funny, but he had to adjust because he was never on TV before.
Fallon was already on TV and was very forgettable as a whole. He is kind of like a less childish version of Dane Cook, who is equally not funny.
Is he going to get Horatio Sanz to sit with him and laugh for an hour?
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MINNEAPOLIS — A Lutheran pastor in Minneapolis who opposes homosexuals being allowed to lead congregations says he is attracted to men but says he's not a hypocrite because he never acted on his urges.
The Rev. Tom Brock told The Associated Press on Monday, Aug. 2 that he has known for many years that he is attracted to men. He says he is still a virgin at age 57 and doesn't consider himself gay because he hasn't acted on his attraction.
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Unfortunately for producers on the Plains, 2013 started exactly how 2012 ended – dry. Though minimal, conditions improved by less than 1 percentage point across the "Lower 48" thanks to a wet New Year's Eve storm system that passed through the central Plains.
Even with the storm, however, 61 percent of the contiguous United States is in moderate or worse drought, according to the latest Drought Monitor released on Thursday.
The worst drought conditions in the nation stretch from Texas (35 percent in extreme or worse drought) to South Dakota (63 percent in extreme or worse drought). Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota have been notorious for the past few months. In both Kansas and Nebraska, at least 50 percent of the states have remained in extreme to exceptional drought since early mid-July.
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The Midwest first escaped the vicious grips of the drought after the remnants of Hurricane Isaac drenched many of the region's states in early September, but spotty precipitation has pushed some states back into drought. Moderate, severe and, in some cases, extreme drought have now returned to Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota.
Other areas in the Midwest, including Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan, have seen more winter storms. USA Today reports that though 15 inches of snow have been dumped on parts of the Midwest and East, it would take at least 8 feet of snow to return soil moisture to pre-drought levels in time for spring planting.
On the Plains, even more snow will be needed to quench the drought's impact. David Pearson, a hydrologist with the National Weather Service, told USA Today that the amount of snow needed to make up for the drought this winter would be astronomical. According to Pearson, it's "an amount nobody would wish on their worst enemy."
"It's so out of this world it wouldn't make much scientific sense (to guess). It would take a record-breaking snowfall for the season to get us back on track," Pearson said.
That would mean more upwards of 150 inches of snow, four times the average winter snowfall in Chicago. Read more USA Today.
For nervous producers questioning the impact the possibility of another long year of drought, Scott Irwin and Darrel Good from the University of Illinois point out that corn and soybean yields are "overwhelmingly" determined by summer weather conditions rather than late winter or early spring.
"Preseason moisture deficits can impact yield for the upcoming crop but this impact is typically quite small relative to the impact of precipitation and temperature during the reproductive periods for corn and soybeans, a fact that should be all too obvious after the "flash drought" of summer 2012," Irwin and Good wrote in an article available here.


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Side Effect of Seroquel
I am a 35 year old female and I am taking Seroquel, Lamictal, and a small dose of Klonopin. When I first came to my doctor, I was 90 lbs. and dangerously underweight. I am working with a nutritionist and counselor, and I am now up to 108 lbs. I`m so happy about gaining the weight but the problem is I look totally out of proportion - my stomach is so distended that I look pregnant. I`m afraid if I stop the seroquel, I`ll end up losing the weight I worked so hard to gain, but I can`t go on feeling this uncomfortable. The seroquel is what helped slow me down and relieve my anxiety so that I could start eating more and not exercise compulsively.
It certainly sounds like you've done many correct things since you have had some benefit with this medication regimen and have tried to manage potential side effects through a nutritionist and a counselor. Although I don't know the time that you gained this weight, your height, other laboratory indices, the dosage of your medications or the significance of the benefit derived, I will try and give you some options as you work with your physician and other team of health care providers.
As stated it is most likely that Seroquel has lead to your weight gain, but also much of your derived benefit. The first alternative would be to try the smallest dose that is required of Seroquel. If that either fails to continue to help your anxiety, etc. (symptoms) or still contributes to weight gain/abdominal symptoms, there are other alternative agents available like ziprasidone (others) that might be helpful with a lower potential side effect burden. Some consideration to maintaining the other medications and discontinuing Seroquel should be given and is an option, but from the limited history, needs to be done more carefully.
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One thing that I noticed after re-watching the 4th quarter, Reggie was abusing them so badly that after he caught the TD, everyone, and I mean EVERYONE on the Packers thought they were going to Wayne on the 2 point conversion. Reggie was in their domes man.
That was a cool shot of the locker room.
I hope they take a video of the Colts players handing the game ball to Coach Pagano
Well, they can't really "hand" it to him. He's in isolation in a clean room. I get your meaning though.
The play where Luck had Clay Matthews on his throwing arm and shakes him off like he is a flea was amazing. Also, if I have to hear any more bull **** about Luck's arm strength I am going to murder a baby seal. Luck's arm was so good today that he over threw Donnie Avery by 6 inches on a cross field throw from the 50 yard line that ball probably went 70 yards in the air. And no one with "bad arm strength" could make the throws on the run Luck was making today.
The best QB on the field today was the rook from Stanford. No doubt.
Amazing game by Luck, Wayne, Freeney, Redding, Mathis, Vaughn, and the whole team. Fantastic.
Luck took punishment today? Are you kidding? How many times was Rodgers sacked?
Stop replying to the stupid idiot homeless troll.
I would edit that to say an amazing second half. If they had played both halves like that, Blu's score prediction might have been reversed.
I believe it was said the GB kicker makes 50% of those 50yd FG's so it's clearly a shocker he'd miss a kick he normally makes. That's like 5 out of 10... or 50 out of a hundred...
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, thats teamwork."
-John Wooden
Written by
Zak Keefer
They played for Chuck.
They won it for Chuck, too.
Six days after swallowing the stunning news that their head coach, Chuck Pagano, had been diagnosed with leukemia and would be out at least a month -- if not the season -- the Indianapolis Colts rode a spirited comeback Sunday afternoon at Lucas Oil Stadium, rode it all the way to an upset victory over Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers.
Rookie quarterback Andrew Luck orchestrated five second-half scoring drives, including the second game-winning drive of his career, to cap an exhilarating 30-27 victory.
Luck hit Reggie Wayne, who had a career day receiving for the Colts -- catching 13 passes for 212 yards -- for the game-winning touchdown strike with under a minute left. It finished off a 13-play, nearly four-minute drive for Indianapolis.
Green Bay's final shot came on the leg of kicker Mason Crosby, but Crosby's potential game-tying attempt from 51 yards with three seconds left missed wide left.
Luck went 31-for-55 for 362 yards and two touchdowns -- one with his arm, one with his legs. He also became just the fourth rookie quarterback in NFL history with over 1,000 yards of passing in his team's first four games.
"I wouldn't trade him for anyone in the universe," Colts interim head coach Bruce Arians said of Luck.
Of Wayne, Luck said after the game "he's the best football player I've ever played with."
Rodgers, last seaon's NFL MVP, finished 21-for-33 for 243 yards with three touchdowns and one interception.
Pagano's spirit was evident throughout Lucas Oil Stadium. #ChuckStrong banners were draped behind the endzones, and players from both teams wore T-shirts supporting the Colts' coach during warm-ups.
In a letter to the team, read by Arians Saturday night, Pagano wrote: "WE WILL, WE CAN, WE MUST. WE HAVE NO CHOICE. WE WILL OVERCOME."
The Colts overcame an 18-point halftime deficit Sunday by outplaying the Packers on both sides of the ball for the final 30 minutes. It was Luck surging up the middle for a 3-yard touchdown scamper. It was Wayne hauling in a one-handed catch down the sidelines despite a called pass interference penalty. It was Cory Redding and Robert Mathis harassing Rodgers throughout.
With the win, the Colts even their record at 2-2. They travel to New York next Sunday to face the Jets.
Offense was great in both halves. We moved the ball better than Green Bay the whole game. Just had some costly penalties and near misses on third down in the first half that really cost us.
I think had the Colts not gambled on that 4th and inches and give GB a shot of momentum and a short field the first half might've not looked so lopsided on the scoreboard. The Colts did play fairly well the entire game.
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, thats teamwork."
-John Wooden
Oh BTW how many PIs did the Pack get away with? At least two pretty blatant ones.
If it weren't for the defensive collapse two weeks ago, Luck would already have three game-winning drives in the first four games of his career.
This....stuff....is....too....good....I...cannot.. .stop...laughing.
I'm out of town so we got the Bears game glad I DVR'd the game though so I can watch it when I return but wow they came back and won I thought they were dead to be honest.
So thrilled!
game winning drive start to finish
Luck is as tough, smart and talented as any QB I've ever seen in his first 4 games.
Very impressive. Great Win!
"Just look at the flowers ........ BANG"