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Amanda Seaton The Left Operon of Bacteriophage HK639 Is Essential for Viral Growth (Dr. Rodney King); Additional Author Rodney King
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Biceps, BFFs, and More of the Week's Cute Candids
Now that the dust has settled from the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, snap-happy models and celebrities are back to sharing photos of their daily lives. This week, there was a mix of family bonding and BFF reunions — just see longtime pals Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato's sweet selfie for further proof. Kim Kardashian bared her cleavage while hanging out with not one, but two models this week, and in case you missed it, Miley Cyrus's eyebrows are but a mere memory. Gisele Bündchen spent an afternoon with her baby daughter, Vivian, while Hilary Duff got in on the Movember movement with a fake mustache. Both Emmy Rossum and Drake had their bods on display while working out, Jenny McCarthy didn't let anything come between her and her Giordano's, and Oprah got to kick it with the lads of One Direction — lucky lady!
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Dana White shared what was said during the first staredown between Alistair Overeem and Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva.
The UFC president had to jump in between the two hulking heavyweights at a press conference Thursday, but only after they exchanged some choice words.
"You better start respecting me," Silva told Overeem.
"I'm going to (expletive) destroy you," Overeem responded.
The two former Strikeforce standouts, who have been at odds since their fight was first announced, didn't have a chance to make as much of a scene at the UFC 156 weigh-in Friday at the Mandalay Bay Events Center.
White immediately stuck his arms in between Overeem (264) and Silva (263) as soon as they stepped off the scale and squared up to pose for their fight photo.
Overeem, who's coming off a yearlong suspension after testing positive for elevated testosterone levels, was mostly booed as he walked onstage. He took off his hoodie to reveal a T-shirt with a perfect message for the occasion.
"Haters gonna hate," the shirt read.
Overeem wasn't the only fighter scheduled for Saturday night's card who received a negative reaction and engaged in an intense staredown. Overeem's teammate from the "Blackzilians" in South Florida, Rashad Evans, followed the same pattern moments later.
Evans (206) walked out to boos before getting an inch away from the face of Antonio Rogerio "Lil Nog" Nogueira (206). White had to push them apart and the two light heavyweights passed on an opportunity for a handshake.
The disagreements between main-event featherweights Jose Aldo (145) and Frankie Edgar (144) are more light-hearted in nature.
Their most significant point of dissension was on the subject of speed. Aldo says Edgar, who is fighting in the 145-pound division for the first time, won't be able to keep up with him. Edgar claims he'll be quicker than ever.
Both looked awfully fast at the weigh-in. Edgar sprinted from behind the curtain backstage and onto the scale. Not one to be outdone, Aldo followed course and sped through the weigh-in process.
He took a couple of swigs of Pedialyte to rehydrate and then posed with Edgar.
"He's a great fighter, but I'm going to send him back to his weight class," Aldo said through a translator for his final comments before the fight.
White and his staff must have felt relieved with all the main-card fighters coming in on point because the weigh-in got off to an ominous start. The first three fighters to step on the scale — bantamweights Dustin Kimura, Edwin Figueroa and Francisco Rivera — all missed weight.
After coming in 3.5 pounds over the limit at 139.5, Kimura will forfeit 20 percent of his purse to opponent Chico Camus (134). Figueroa and Rivera both came in heavy on first attempt, but got down to an acceptable 136 and 135.5, respectively, on a second attempt within an hour.
"I know he's been a great champion for a while," Edgar said of Aldo while he walked off the stage. "I feel better than ever at 145. Nothing you want bad enough is going to be given to you, so I'm ready to take it tomorrow."
Check below for full results from the UFC 156 weigh-in.
Featherweight championship bout: Jose Aldo (145) vs. Frankie Edgar (144)
Light heavyweight bout: Rashad Evans (206) vs. Antonio Rogerio "Lil Nog" Nogueira (206)
Heavyweight bout: Alistair Overeem (264) vs. Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva (262)
Welterweight bout: Jon Fitch (171) vs. Demian Maia (170)
Flyweight bout: Joseph Benavidez (126) vs. Ian McCall (125)
Lightweight bout: Gleison Tibau (155) vs. Evan Dunham (155)
Welterweight bout: Tyron Woodley (170) vs. Jay Hieron (168)
Lightweight bout: Jacob Volkmann (156) vs. Bobby Green (155)
Lightweight bout: Yves Edwards (155) vs. Isaac Vallie-Flagg (156)
Bantamweight bout: Chico Camus (134) vs. Dustin Kimura (139.5)
Bantamweight bout: Edwin Figueroa (135.5) vs. Francisco Rivera (136)
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Updated from 12:08 p.m. ET to reflect Dell comment and information surrounding Icahn proposal NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- The battle for Dell ( DELL) continues. Southeastern Asset Management, one of Dell's ( DELL) largest independent shareholders, on Tuesday said both a $14.25 a share proposal by the Blackstone Group ( BX) and a $15 a share proposal by Carl Icahn to buy the struggling PC-maker are superior to the company's earlier $24.4 billion buyout deal with founder Michel Dell and Silver Lake Partners. Southeastern's support for either of the newer proposals indicates that activist investor of Carl Icahn is still gaming for Dell, despite media reports to the contrary. Icahn's proposal for the acquisition of up to 58% of Dell's shares relies on the participation of large shareholders such as Southeastern and T. Rowe Price, in addition to the roughly $1 billion stake Icahn Enterprises holds in the Dell's shares. "The Special Committee has obtained two preliminary alternative proposals, both of which we view as superior to the Michael Dell / Silver Lake buyout," Mason O. Hawkins, Southeastern chief executive, said in a Tuesday letter. The special committee was formed by Dell's board of directors to solicit competing bids to Michael Dell and Silver Lake's offer for the company. "We view these proposals as superior primarily because each offers shareholders the opportunity to remain owners of Dell while also offering a higher cash price to owners who choose to exit their investment," Hawkins wrote. Both Blackstone and Icahn have yet to submit formal offers to follow up proposals they submitted ahead of a late March deadline on the company's so-called 'go-shop' period. Blackstone is about four weeks away from making a formal offer for Dell, a source familiar with the proposal said. That source said the Blackstone investor group has been in contact with Michael Dell and has traveled to the company's Round Rock, Texas headquarters, as it conducts a due diligence process. The disclosure by Southeastern raises new concern that Dell's shareholders will not back the initial $13.65 a share buyout offer agreed between the company, its founder, Michael Dell, private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, agreed on February 5. Charlotte McCrum, a spokesperson for Silver Lake at Brunswick Group, declined to comment. Southeastern previously criticized the initial offer as an insufficient price that wouldn't give shareholders commensurate payment for Dell's cash stockpile or the acquisitions the company has made in an effort to shift from PC's to tech services such as IT security, cloud computing and databases. Hawkins' fund sees a special dividend of up to $12 a share, among more shareholder friendly alternatives to the full takeover agreed between Dell, Silver Lake and the company's founder. Southeastern also said it would consider participating in a so-called 'stub' of Dell's stock that is a key element of the Blackstone and Icahn proposals. A Dell stub would allow current shareholders to either take cash payments for their shares at a takeover price, or continue to hold the PC-maker's stock in public markets. "Southeastern urges the Special Committee to negotiate and evaluate these alternatives in good faith, and to recognize that offering shareholders a choice is a win / win outcome for all parties," the fund added in the letter. Dell's Mar. 29 proxy statement "fails to make a case for shareholders to accept" the Silver Lake offer, according to the Southeastern letter. "As we have indicated, while the Board's Special Committee continues to manage its process, the Dell team remains focused on its customers and on providing innovative products and solutions to help them succeed," Jess Blackburn, a Dell spokesperson, said in an e-mail.
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Dear Members,
This Uposatha Day I read David's book "The Complete Book of Buddha's Lists -- Explained".
I truly like "The 12 Parts of Dependent Origination and the Three Causes of Kamma" and
I would like to share with you all.
The 12 Parts of Dependent Origination and the Three Causes of Kamma
[By Dr.David N. Snyder]
Dependent Origination
The balanced ―middle way approach of the Buddha's teachings has proven itself in other
aspects of life as well. For example, the Buddha's Dependent Origination, which is a 12 part
cyclical process of arising, decay, death, and rebirth of all things is a ―middle way position
between the extremes of ―free-will and ―determinism. Western philosophy has been struggling
between these two extremes, the reason being because both free-will and determinism are
partially correct and partially incorrect. The Buddha's Dependent Origination takes features of
both and thus, correctly explains things. There is will or volition and there are conditions, but all
without a ―first cause or first event.
According to Dependent Origination everything is relative, conditioned, and inter-dependent. A
simple formula that helps define Dependent Origination is; when this is, that is, this arising, that
arises, when this is not, that is not, this ceasing, that ceasing.
The twelve parts to Dependent Origination are: through ignorance conditional volitional or
willful actions or kamma formations take place. Through willful actions there is
conditioned consciousness, then conditioned mental and physical phenomena, then the six senses
(five physical senses and the mind), then conditioned contact, then conditioned sensation,
then conditioned desire, then conditioned attachment, then the process of becoming,
conditioned birth, then decay, death, sorrow, pain, etc., and then the process starts again.
The free-will theory maintains that one's self is the sole explanation for phenomena. Each
individual chooses his or her actions and there are no outside forces. The free-will explanation
places permanence and all authority to the self.
The determinism theory is the direct opposite which states that there is no will in anyone and
each individual performs actions much like a programmed robot. Each person's life is predetermined
by environmental and genetic factors which no self or soul has any control over. In
determinism theory all of our behaviors can be predicted. Just as a computer will produce a
definite outcome with specific data entered, so too will a human react with the same data (life
experiences, etc.) according to determinism.
Both extremes provide good points and are convincing. This is because both are partially
correct. The natural and social sciences have demonstrated quite conclusively that we can be
very deterministic. For example, people who have gone through childhood traumas or various
other similar life events tend to have the same consequences to their personalities, positive and /
or negative. Twin studies have shown how identical twins sometimes have the same behaviors
even when raised separately, pointing to genetic deterministic theories.
Other studies have shown that twins sometimes have completely different personalities and
behaviors even when raised together. When identical twins are raised together they are
basically (at least as children) receiving the same diet and care and have the same genetic code.
Yet studies have found their behaviors and interests completely different.
The Buddhist commentaries state that Dependent Origination includes the arising of effects in
dependence upon a conjunction of conditions. This suggests that no single cause can produce an
effect, nor does one effect arise from a given cause. There is always a collection of conditions
giving rise to a collection of effects. (Abhidhammattha Sangaha) Natural and social scientists
have always looked to multiple causes as rarely does any effect result mostly from one cause.
They use control groups and other techniques to isolate possible causes to at least narrow their
theories down to fewer possible explanations. This is fully compatible to the principles of
Dependent Origination.
The ―missing link which needs to be added to the deterministic theory is the thinking mind, the
element of free-will and kamma formations. Kamma formations can be from a current or a past
life, in fact the differences between many siblings, can probably best be explained as evidence
for re-birth, past lives.
The German Born Buddhist nun, Ayya Khema, describes the interplay of free-will and
determinism as follows:
―One has to imagine a dog tied to a leash. This leash is our old kamma. The dog can move as
far as the leash stretches. If he does only good things in his domain, then the leash gets longer
and longer; more and more possibilities of doing good or evil come about. (Khema, 2001)
The above description by Ayya Khema teaches us that we have the free-will to make choices, but
we are also conditioned or determined by our past choices and environment. By making more
and more good choices, we can open up our opportunities and become less deterministic.
**************To be continued***************
Love Buddha's dhamma,


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|Rheumatic Heart Disease Coronary Heart Disease
|Drug: Glutamine Drug: Ringer's solution
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Intravenous Supplementation of Glutamine Preoperatively for Cardiac Function and Recovery Improvement in Adult Accepting Cardiosurgery: A Randomized, Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Trial
- perioperative changes of Cardiac Index (CI) [ Time Frame: postanescesia before surgery, 2, 20 hours after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) ]For each patient,a Swan-Ganz catheter will be inserted after anesthesia induction.CI and other values of hemodynamics will be measured.
- Troponin I(cTnI) [ Time Frame: postanescesia before surgery, 6, 20 hours after CPB ]CTnI is a sensitive indicator of myocardial damage.
- Brain Natriuretic Peptide (BNP) [ Time Frame: postanescesia before surgery, 6, 20 hours after CPB ]BNP is a sensitive indicator of cardiac dysfunction.
- Systemic inflammation [ Time Frame: postanescesia before surgery, 2, 20 hours after CPB ]Blood levels of Interleukin-6(IL-6)、Tumor Necrosis Factor(TNF-a) and Malondialdehyde (MDA) will be measured.
- Heart issue HSP-70 [ Time Frame: 20 minutes after CPB ]A mass of heart tissue (a part of right auricle of heart,weigh about 50mg) will be cut 20 minutes after CPB for the measurements.
- Heart issue O-GlcNAc [ Time Frame: 20 minutes after CPB ]The same mass of heart tissue described above will be used for the measurements.
- Recovery index [ Time Frame: Date of surgery until date of hospital discharge (an expected average of 2 weeks) ]Recovery index include duration of mechanical ventilation、duration of ICU stay、duration of hospital stay、adverse event and mortality.
|Study Start Date:
|January 2013
|Study Completion Date:
|March 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|March 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Glutamine
20% N(2)-L-alanyl-L-glutamine 0.4g/kg(2ml/kg) mixed with compound amino acid (10ml/kg)(volume ratio=1:5).Intravenous injection twice (24 hours、1 hour before operation).
Drug: Glutamine
20% N(2)-L-alanyl-L-glutamine 0.4g/kg(2ml/kg) mixed with compound amino acid (10ml/kg).Intravenous injection twice (24 hours、1 hour before operation). Injection rate = 6ml/kg/h
Other Name: Dipeptiven (N(2)-L-Alanine L-Glutamine dipeptide)
Placebo Comparator: Ringer's solution
Ringer's solution 12ml/kg. Intravenous injection twice (24 hours、1 hour before operation).
Drug: Ringer's solution
Ringer's solution 12ml/kg. Intravenous injection twice (24 hours、1 hour before operation). Injection rate = 6ml/kg/h.
Detailed Description:
Cardiosurgery is mostly done under cardiopulmonary bypass. However, the cardiopulmonary bypass and the later recovery of spontaneous circulation, a cardiac ischemia / reperfusion process, may cause myocardial damage and affect cardiac function as well as prognosis.
Glutamine, an amino acid abundant in the human body, plays an important role in the regulation of metabolism and immune cells and the protection of organs. Relative lack of glutamine is reported during stress or serious illness. Animal studies have confirmed that pretreatment with glutamine has a protective effect on the heart, liver, kidney and other organs post ischemia / reperfusion injury. It is also established that glutamine exerts myocardial protection mainly by activating hexosamine biosynthetic pathway, increasing intracellular O-GlcNAc protein modification and expression of heat shock protein 70 (HSP70), starting the protective reaction in the body, improving the function of myocardial cells, and inhibiting the release of inflammatory cytokines and oxidative stress levels. Besides, clinical studies have shown that at the perioperative stage glutamine has a protective effect on cardiac function of the patients treated with pump coronary artery bypass surgery.
The purpose of this study is to ascertain whether preoperative intravenous administration with glutamine (as compared with control group) can improve the postoperative cardiac function and prognosis of adult patients undergoing cardiac surgery and reduce inflammatory response and oxidative stress levels of the body. The correlation between Clinical manifestations and expression of myocardium O-GlcNAc and HSP70 will also be investigated.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 80 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Adult patients with coronary artery disease or rheumatic heart disease accepted cardiosurgery under cardiopulmonary bypass
Exclusion Criteria:
- ejection fraction(EF)<50%
- Preoperative support with intra-aortic balloon pump(IABP)
- Hepatosis
- Renal dysfunction
- Myocardial infarction attack within 3 months
- Emergency operation
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01794884
|China, Jiangsu
|Zhongda Hospital Southeast University
|Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, 210009
|Responsible Party:
|Yuejiang Liu, Associate Professor, Southeast University, China
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01794884 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|February 4, 2013
|Last Updated:
|May 27, 2014
Keywords provided by Yuejiang Liu, Southeast University, China:
Cardiopulmonary bypass
Cardiac function
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Heart Diseases
Coronary Disease
Coronary Artery Disease
Myocardial Ischemia
Rheumatic Heart Disease
Cardiovascular Diseases
Vascular Diseases
Arterial Occlusive Diseases
Rheumatic Fever
Streptococcal Infections
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections
Bacterial Infections
Pharmaceutical Solutions
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017


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This is the second of a series of stories about the five candidates seeking seats on the Oroville City Council, who include incumbents David Pittman, Al Simpson and Thil Chan-Wilcox and new candidates Freda Flint and Richard Flint.
OROVILLE — Richard Flint would like to bring a different perspective to the City Council that focuses on the natural habitat and geography of the area and more deliberation in decision-making.
Flint is a retired fisheries biologist for California Department of Fish and Game.
Flint is not convinced that a whitewater rafting park is the best thing for this area.
He said whitewater venues in nearby areas already attract a lot of the enthusiasts, with the park in Reno drawing as many as 4,000 people a day. The natural rafting on the river in Truckee draws crowds.
In addition, there are natural rafting spots in the Feather River Canyon along with seasonal water releases by PG&E for rafting during certain times of the year.
Flint isn't sure that a park in Oroville would attract that many people, especially since the whitewater rafters are split into so many skill groups.
Rather than a manmade whitewater park, Flint envisions more natural river rafting on the Feather River by opening more access areas.
One such access area is below the Green Bridge where Fish and Game launches boats on the north side of the river. It has been gated off since 1969, he said.
A seemingly quiet and soft-spoken man, Flint has been an outspoken supporter for fishing access to the Feather River.
When he came to work in Oroville for Fish and Game in the mid 70s, fishing was closed from the Thermalito Afterbay Outlet to the Fish Barrier Dam.
"That was my big thing all the time I was in Fish and Game, was to promote access to the river and to promote access for fishermen," Flint said in an interview a couple of weeks ago.
He said people could fish in certain areas below the outlet like they can now, but access was denied because state agencies would not allow people into many areas.
"DWR was driving people off of the apron at the outlet, so I went down there and got arrested by DWR," he said.
He didn't go to jail, but he got a lawyer and found out a Supreme Court decision allowed DWR to deny access onto the apron.
"But eventually, I got that closure erased, and I got the general closure of fishing erased to the Highway 70 Bridge."
He said that seemed to create a new mindset in local anglers that the river did not have to be closed off to fishing.
A group of anglers from Chico jumped in and got the river opened up for steelhead fishing from the Highway 70 Bridge to the Green Bridge, he said.
Now, it seems to be the same that fishing was closed in the river because of low spawning salmon numbers, but now there's 60,000 fish in the water and fishing access hasn't been fully opened again, he said.
Flint says Oroville has the best salmon fishing south of Vancouver on the river.
"We also have an outstanding steelhead fishery in the river," he said.
The natural geography is the destiny and best marketable feature of the area, he said. Often city fathers have latched onto small things rather than enhancing the nature of the area.
He said looking at the geographical area also means looking at what you are competing with in the geographical region.
He worked with a lot of engineers for PG&E and Caltrans and understands them.
He has a knowledge of fish biology, environmental issues and issues surrounding the river and fish.
"You can see from all that that I have a different view or perspective on the issues," Flint said.
He is for fiscal responsibility. There's been a lot of money spent over time on projects and ideas that did not come about, he said.
New ideas are good, but you have to look at the chances they can be accomplished.
"City Council is a deliberative body, and they ought to deliberate," he said.
His policy has always been to get as much information on the table for discussion that will lead to better decisions before spending a lot of money on a project that can't be done.
He is for openness and transparency and putting everything out in public discussion.
When you bring ideas up, you have to look at the real probabilities for success, and you have to let go of the idea if there's not a good chance of accomplishing it, he said.
"We are going to be coming up with a big pile of money through the DWR relicensing, and it would be a shame for it to be squandered on things that can't be accomplished and end up with nothing," Flint said.
Flint has also served on the Oroville Planning Commission.
He does not like numerous laws and regulations that don't accomplish what they were meant for, but just give the power to regulate.
"There ought be a real purpose for a regulation and if it doesn't serve that purpose, you ought to throw it out," he said.
Staff writer Mary Weston can be reached at 533-4415 or email@example.com.


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West Virginia American Water has issued a boil-water advisory for approximately 2,000 customers on Smith Creek Road from the 3800 block to Gore Addition, Greenview Road, Hudson Valley Road, Childress Road, Brounland Road, Sand Plant Road, Ridges subdivision, Rabel Mountain Road, Heavenly Drive, Midkiff Road, Ruth Road, Trace Fork Road — from Rabel Mountain Road, Midkiff Road, Coventry Woods Subdivision, Eagle Drive, Crooked Creek Road, Chestnut Street — from Childress Road to Hudson Valley Road, Willow Drive, Yorktown Place and Gettysburg Road. The advisory follows a water main break that caused several storage tanks to drain.
Customers in those areas should boil their water for at least one full minute prior to use until further notice.
West Virginia American Water has lifted a boil-water advisory for customers in the East Pea Ridge Road area of Huntington.


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2009 Presentations to Residents by the Board of Supervisors
The Office of Public Affairs coordinates resident presentations and recognitions by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors at its regular meetings. Click on any thumbnail for a high resolution image.
Beginning May 10, 2011, presentations to residents are archived with related meeting materials, organized by Board of Supervisors meeting date.
December 7, 2009
|Mountain View Alternative High School
|Fairfax County Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association
|Senior Center Without Walls
Women's Group of Mount Vernon
|Bobby Dittmann
|Mowing Right of Way
|Noman Cole Jr. Pollution Control Plant
November 16, 2009
|Fill the Boot Campaign
|Chantilly American Major All Stars Team
|TV Conversion Equipment Volunteers
|Herndon Fortnightly Club
|Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board
|AIDS Awareness Day
October 19, 2009
|Maureen Ribble
|Adoption Awareness Month
|Operation Medicine Cabinet Cleanout Week
American Indian Heritage Month
|Robin Thompson
|Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
|Breast Cancer Awareness Month
|Doggie Dip
|Jim Dedes
|VonlunteerFest Day 2009
October 5, 2009
|Fire Prevention Week
|Disability Employment Awareness Month
|Nysmith School for the Gifted
West Springfield High School
|Chris Godart
|Elizabeth M. Fairchild
September 14, 2009
|Fire and Rescue Department
|Child Passenger Safety Week
|Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Hispanic Heritage Month
|ElderLink Independent Living Project
|Mental Illness Awareness Week
|Suicide Prevention Week
|Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind
August 3, 2009
July 13, 2009
June 22, 2009
|Tim Ruiter
|Chesterbrooke Residences Inc.
|Asian American History Project Taskforce
|United Community Ministries
|Good Shepherd Housing and Family Services
|Economic Development Authority
June 1, 2009
May 18,2009
|Odyssey of the Mind
|Sean Fletcher
|Herndon High School Robotics Team 116
|Inova Fairfax Hospital
|Community Action Month in Fairfax County
|Springfield Days
|Reston Metrorail Access Group
|Polo Fields Residential Permit Parking District Program
|Public Works Week
May 4, 2009
|Police Week and Police Officers' Memorial Day
|Emergency Medical Services Week
|Angelman Syndrome Awareness Day
|Bike to Work Day
|Building Safety Week
|Nurses Week
|Older Americans Month
|Employee Health and Fitness Day
April 27, 2009
|Volunteers in Police Services
|Parents Who Host Lose the Most
|Jamie Chang
|Foster Care and Foster Family Recognition Month
|Lyme Disease Awareness Month
|Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
|Donate Life Month
March 30, 2009
|Public Safety Telecommunications Week
|Sexual Assault Awareness Month
|Public Health Week
|Childhood Immunization Month
|Fair Housing Month
March 9, 2009
|Fairfax Cares
|Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Month
|Walter "Skip" Munster Jr.
Feb. 23, 2009
|Graham Road Elementary School
|Sheriff's Office and Community Labor Force Program
|Fire and Rescue Department
|Diamond Dream Foundation
|Women's History Month
|Consumer Protection Week
Feb. 9, 2009
|Sheriff's Office Honor Guard
|Bill Renner
|Springfield Mall
|Peter Braham
|Engineers Week
Jan. 26, 2009
|African-American History Month
|Black Women United for Action
|Mentoring Month
|Reston Hospital Center
|Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day
Jan. 12, 2009
|South Western Youth Association East 9-10 Year Old Little League All-Stars
|Sami Kalifa
|Budget Community Dialogues Team
For a schedule of the Board's meetings and other information, visit the Web page of the Board of Supervisors or call the Office of the Clerk to the Board at 703-324-3151 (Voice mail after hours), TTY 703-324-3903; fax 703-324-3926, via e-mail or U.S. mail at: Office to the Clerk to the Board of Supervisors, 12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 533, Fairfax, VA 22035-0072. The Clerk's Office maintains regular business hours between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.


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INDIO – Refused's reunion sent its fans home happy after its late Friday set at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival.
The punk band, who returned after 14 years, performed to frequent cheers, moshing and crowd surfing on the Outdoor Theater here.
"It's been 14 years since we've played together," said lead singer Dennis Lyxz?n, added he was skeptical of performing again after Coachella officials asked about a reunion.
"Why play 14-year-old songs? Who would want to see that happen? We want to thank Coachella … they nudged us in the right direction."
The anti-capitalist group (who Lyxz?n said he did not endorse either U.S. presidential candidate) tore through its back catalgue like "Poetry Written In Gasoline," "Rather Be Dead," "Liberation Frequency," "Summer Holidays Vs. Punk Routine" and "Circle Pit."
Lyxz?n, who is also in The (International) Noise Conspiracy, was very charismatic and frequently threw his microphone stand up in the air and caught it to the hardcore punk beat. He would also perform a version of what could best be described as the robot dance during the energetic set.
Reach Wes at via email, call him at 909-483-8549, or find him on Twitter @IEmusicNow.


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NATHAN Dyer jetted off on his summer holidays content that he and his Swansea City team-mates deserve to put their feet up after a challenging season at the Liberty Stadium.
In February last year, the 26-year-old, from Trowbridge, scored twice in a man-of-the-match performance as the Swans lifted the League Cup and set-up a maiden campaign in the Europa League but a historic European adventure meant that City's season began early, with a third qualifying round tie against Malmö on August 1.
The strain of competing in Europe led to Swansea flirting with the Premier League relegation zone and after manager Michael Laudrup was sacked with three months of the season remaining, Dyer had to adjust to team-mate Garry Monk taking the reins.
But the Swans eased to a 12th-placed finish and with Monk confirmed as the club's permanent chief, Trowbridge ace Dyer is looking forward to starting afresh next season – after some well earned downtime.
"It's nice to finish and have a bit of a break because it's been an up and down season," Dyer told the Wiltshire Times.
"It's been an up and down season. At one point, we were getting a little bit too near to the relegation zone but thankfully, we stayed away from there in the end.
"It was tough because we started so early because of the Europa League and there's been so many games but I think we've done well in the end.
"I've known Garry Monk since I came to the club (in 2009) and I'm sure that the senior players here will be there to help him out. I'm sure he'll bring in his own players and try to move us forward."
Dyer brought the curtain down on his season with a superbly-taken left-footed finish in Swansea's 3-1 win at Sunderland on the final day of campaign but the winger admits that his year has been hampered by injury.
On December 15, he suffered a painful-looking ankle injury in a game at Norwich City, with television broadcasters refusing to show replays of Dyer's ankle twisting as he fell awkwardly following a collision with Sebastien Bassong in that evening's television highlights.
The Swansea man, who had opened the scoring before he was sent to hospital with a suspected broken ankle, luckily escaped with just ligament damage but didn't return to action until the end of January.
Dyer said: "It was a really painful one but it could have been a lot worse.
"I was out for seven weeks but the problem after that was that I kept having those little niggles and setbacks every now and again – it's definitely been a problem for me.
"But I think that I was just getting in form at the end of the season. I'm fine now and I'm looking forward to trying to push on once pre-season starts."
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MIAMI - The Miami Marlins did it again. They found a new way of crushing the spirits of the shrinking number of their fans.
As you probably heard, after finishing in last place with their worst record in 13 seasons, the Marlins traded five of their best players for five no-named players who are simply not as good. Two of the five players the Marlins traded were All Stars.
Why would the Marlins make this trade? It is simple; it saves them $160 million in salaries.
So, think about what the Marlins have done.
First they convince local politicians to spend about $400 million of your tax dollars to build a new stadium for them. And the math is all in their favor. Taxpayers pay 80 percent of the cost and the Marlins pay 20 percent.
The Marlins' owners then take your tax money with a smile, while promising to recruit the players to build a winning franchise. They then get the fans excited when they sign a lot of big name players, but then have a disastrous season. Along the way, their manager makes some bonehead comments about Fidel Castro that alienate just about everyone in town.
I always wondered why the Marlins' new stadium was built where there was so little parking. With the way they are treating their fans, I just figured out they may have too many parking spaces.
That is my take on things. Let me know what you think.


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Bullpen sessions up next for Mattheus
VIERA, Fla. -- Reliever Ryan Mattheus, who hasn't pitched in a game because of inflammation in his chest, played catch from 60 feet the past two days and hopes to start having bullpen sessions within a week.
After at least two such sessions, Mattheus will probably throw batting practice. He does not know when he will pitch in a game.
"I don't feel the injury in there at all [while throwing]. That's very positive," Mattheus said. "There was still a little soreness in there when I lifted for the first time."
Bill Ladson is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, All Nats All the Time. He also could be found on Twitter @WashingNats. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Production has commenced today in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Marvel Studios' movie Marvel's The Avengers, directed by Joss Whedon from a screenplay by Whedon. The film will continue principal photography in Cleveland, Ohio and New York City.
Set for release in the US on May 4, 2012, Marvel's The Avengers is the first feature to be fully owned, marketed and distributed by Disney, which acquired Marvel in 2009.
Robert Downey Jr. returns as Tony Stark/Iron Man along with Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Chris Evans as Captain America, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, Mark Ruffalo as Hulk, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson, and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury. The star cast of superheroes will be joined by Cobie Smulders as Agent Maria Hill of SHIELD, as well as Tom Hiddleston and Stellan Skarsgård who will both reprise their respective roles as Loki and Professor Erik Selvig from the upcoming Marvel Studios' feature Thor.
Continuing the big-screen adventures started in Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor, and Captain America: The First Avenger, Marvel's The Avengers is the superhero team up of a lifetime. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as SHIELD, finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster.
Marvel's The Avengers is being produced by Marvel Studios' President, Kevin Feige, and executive produced by Alan Fine, Stan Lee, Louis D'Esposito, Patty Whitcher, and Jon Favreau. Marvel Studios' Jeremy Latcham and Victoria Alonso will co-produce.
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May 7, 2007
"If You See an Alligator" Safety Tips Offered
HOUSTON — Once an endangered species, the American alligator is now common in rivers, creeks, and backwater sloughs of East and South Texas. An ever-expanding human population continues to encroach upon the alligator's domain, driving a trend of increased encounters between alligators and people.
Late spring through summer is alligator mating and nesting season, when gators are more active and visible. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department wildlife biologists and game wardens stress education rather than over-reaction as a first step in dealing with gators and suggest a "live and let live" approach whenever possible.
"Springtime is when alligators are most active," said Monique Slaughter, a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department biologist who helps run the state alligator program at the J.D. Murphree Wildlife Management Area in Port Arthur. "Courtship and mating begins in late spring and continues through early summer. April through July are peak months for nuisance gator calls."
Slaughter says most Texans in "gator country" will probably live in close proximity to these native reptiles with no confrontations. However, there are occasions when certain alligators become a nuisance and must be handled by the proper authorities.
The TPWD Law Enforcement regional communications center for Southeast Texas in La Porte received 758 phone calls about alligators during 2006. A substantial number of these did not involve true problem gators, and the sheer volume of these reports is taxing available manpower and resources needed to handle the real problems. About 19 percent of these calls were handled by giving callers general information about alligators and how to safely co-exist with them, many of the situations were temporary and with patience from landowners or residents the animals simply moved on. Residential situations comprised 26 percent of the total calls, while 17 percent were in areas of high usage by outdoor enthusiasts such as hunters, boaters and anglers.
"We have procedures in place where we try to educate callers that alligators are not normally aggressive, and if you leave them alone they'll leave you alone," said Capt. Albert Lynch, who supervises game wardens that respond to alligator complaints in the Houston area. "When you have an aggressive alligator there's no doubt, but a lot of the calls are from people who just have no idea that there are alligators here and have never seen one before. The mere presence of an alligator is not cause for concern, and during the active months in spring and summer they may be seen in retentions ponds, drainage ditches and similar places."
Alligator experts at Murphree WMA report that 132 alligators were relocated from about 15 Southeast Texas counties in 2006, mostly from housing subdivisions adjacent to natural habitat. Relocating problem alligators is not always a viable option, and it can create greater problems, as by nature these animals are territorial and moving a problem alligator often creates a problem in a different location.
Authorities say what is needed is a populace better able to recognize the few nuisance alligators and to coexist safely with the majority of alligators that are not nuisances.
The current legal definition of a nuisance gator is "an alligator that is depredating [killing livestock or pets] or a threat to human health or safety" under definitions laid out in the Texas Administrative Code (Title 31, Part 2, Chapter 65, Section 65.352). For the public, the practical definition of a nuisance alligator is one that is at least four feet long and has lost its fear of humans so that it is approaching people or otherwise exhibiting aggressive behavior.
The number one cause of nuisance alligators is connected with the cardinal rule for the public: never feed an alligator or allow it access to human or pet food. Once an alligator learns to associate people with a meal, it becomes a permanent nuisance, and often it must be killed, since it will be a problem elsewhere if relocated. Since October 1, 2003, it has been a Class C misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $500 for anyone caught feeding an alligator.
In Texas, no fatalities have been documented due to alligators. In the past 20 years, there have been 19 injuries due to alligators reported to TPWD statewide, none life threatening.
DOs AND DON'Ts FOR LIVING WITH ALLIGATORS
- Don't — kill, harass, molest or attempt to move alligators. State law prohibits such actions, and the potential for being bitten or injured by a provoked alligator is high.
- Do — call your TPWD regional office if you encounter a nuisance gator that has lost its fear of people.
- Don't — allow small children to play by themselves in or around water.
- Do — closely supervise children when playing in or around water.
- Don't — swim at night or during dusk or dawn when alligators most actively feed.
- Do — use ordinary common care. Swim only during daylight hours.
- Don't — feed or entice alligators. Alligators overcome their natural shyness and become accustomed or attracted to humans when fed. It is now a Class C misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $500, to intentionally feed an alligator.
- Do — inform others that feeding alligators creates problems for others who want to use the water for recreational purposes.
- Don't — throw fish scraps into the water or leave them on shore. Although you are not intentionally feeding alligators, the end result can be the same.
- Do — dispose of fish scraps in garbage cans at most boat ramps or fish camps.
- Don't — remove any alligators from their natural habitat or accept one as a pet. It is a violation of state law to do so. Alligators do not become tame in captivity and handling even small ones may result in bites. In particular, never go near baby alligators or pick them up. They may seem cute and harmless, but mama alligator will be nearby, and will protect her clutch for at least two years.
- Do — enjoy viewing and photographing wild alligators from a safe distance of at least 30 feet or more. Remember that they're an important part of Texas's natural history, as well as an integral component of many wetland ecosystems.
Nuisance alligators may be reported to the TPWD law enforcement communications center for Southeast Texas in La Porte at (281) 842-8100 or in Austin at (512) 389-4848.
Information about alligators, including public safety tips, research reports and basic natural history, is on the TPWD Web site.
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ON A BRIGHT August afternoon last summer, an armada of 78 small craft pulled away from the Boat Tavern in Bath, Illinois, for an Illinois River fishing tournament in which no one was permitted to use a fishing rod. They returned three hours later with a staggering 1,804 fish that ranged from 5 to 20 pounds, every one of which either jumped into a boat or was scooped out of the air like a monstrous butterfly by people wielding landing nets.
The Redneck Carp Tournament was an attempt to focus national attention on a developing environmental disaster—silver and bighead carp from Southeast Asia that have invaded Midwest rivers and that may soon move into the Great Lakes, where experts already have tallied more than 180 exotic species from around the world. If they do reach the lakes, they could wreck the $5-billion commercial and sport fisheries that the governments of two nations have spent 40 years and hundreds of millions of dollars trying to restore after the last biological disaster there.
The first exotics to enter the Great Lakes were probably sea lampreys and alewives, initially recorded in Lake Ontario after the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825. The massive barrier of Niagara Falls kept invasive species out of the four Upper Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan and Superior—until the Welland Canal in 1829 opened a waterway between Lakes Ontario and Erie, beginning a slow but steady progression of new creatures that threatened the survival of native species.
Lampreys are eel-like, jawless relics from the earliest days of fishes. With the hooked teeth of their suckerlike mouths they clamp onto the sides of other fishes, drill holes with file-like tongues and suck host body fluids. Aided by overfishing and pollution, lampreys by the 1940s had driven lake trout to the brink of extinction.
Alewives are small, silvery prey fish from the Atlantic that can live in fresh water. With the decimation of the top predators that might have fed on them in the Great Lakes, alewife populations exploded, until they accounted for up to 80 percent of the lakes' fish biomass.
The lakes also were filling with algae as phosphates and other nutrient pollutants, poured in by everything from washing machines to chemical factories, stimulated plant growth. By the 1960s, the ecology of the lakes was so disrupted that many people had written off Erie as the American Dead Sea. Every summer, beaches were covered with windrows of rotting algae mixed with millions of rotting alewives that died when the algae used up all the available oxygen in the water.
The Clean Water Act of 1973 was the first major step in turning around the pollution problem, and within 20 years it resulted in enormous improvements in water quality. The states around the lakes also attempted to control the alewife problem—somewhat dubiously—by introducing yet other exotics: predatory salmon that would prey on alewives. Pacific chinook and coho, first stocked in 1966, immediately won the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of anglers.
But these steps took place during a period of rapidly expanding global trade, bringing into the Great Lakes exotic species that made sea lampreys look relatively benign. The disintegration of the Soviet Union in the 1980s compounded the shift in commerce, yielding new trading partners for the United States and Canada and a huge increase in the number of ships entering the lakes from the Baltic. Those ships brought in a cavalcade of invasive species, including quagga mussels, spiny water fleas and fish such as the round goby and European ruffe. A new nonnative species is discovered in the Great Lakes about every seven months. "As the influx continues, the damage mounts, but it doesn't have to be this way," says Jeff Skelding, senior manager of NWF's Great Lakes Restoration Campaign. "Congress can pass federal legislation to protect the Great Lakes from invasive species." (See "NWF in Action" box, below.)
Among the first of the recent newcomers to gain national attention was the zebra mussel, a bivalve from the Baltic Sea area that feeds by filtering tiny organisms out of the water. About the size of a fingernail, it first showed up about 1985 and spread rapidly. Within 10 years, water clarity in the lakes had increased 50 to 200 percent. Unfortunately, the mussels achieved that seemingly desirable result by removing vital nutrients from the bottom of the food chain. Lake Huron became so sterile by 2003 that alewives disappeared, starving the salmon fishery into collapse.
Many of the more recent invaders arrived as hitchhikers that had been sucked into ship ballast tanks along with water needed to provide stability. Most of the creatures are small, from dime sized to microscopic, but inspectors have seen minnow-sized fish in the tanks. When ships dump ballast in the lakes to take on cargo, many organisms in the tanks wash out. Enough survive to create biological chaos.
U.S. and Canadian regulations require ships to replace ballast water offshore before entering the lakes, flushing out most of the potential invaders and theoretically poisoning invasive freshwater species with salt water. However, many creatures can survive such measures and stay in the tanks, and enforcement of the regulations is ineffective. Ships that declare they have no ballast on board are largely exempted, even though they can carry invasive organisms in tank sludge. Equipping ships with chemical or heating systems to kill unwanted hitchhikers is no more than 90 percent effective. The 500-some oceangoing ships entering the lakes yearly leave a huge opening for potentially disastrous introductions.
While industry touts the Great Lakes oceangoing trade as an economic benefit, others say it is a classic example of penny-wise and pound-foolish. John Taylor, an economics professor at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, completed a study in 2006 of saltwater shipping into and out of the Great Lakes and reports that the costs are five to ten times as great as the benefits. He estimates that if saltwater ships were banned, the cost to the economy would be about $55 million a year, while "we estimate that existing invasive species on the Great Lakes are costing us $250 to $500 million a year."
The Asian carp threatening the lakes today didn't arrive in ship ballast or via the St. Lawrence Seaway. Arkansas commercial fish farmers imported bighead and silver carp in the early 1970s to eat algae in fishponds. When the Mississippi River flooded the ponds in the 1980s, carp escaped into the wild (some authorities believe that fish farmers also deliberately released carp that had grown too large). Jerry Rassmussen, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist, warned his bosses about the escapes and the threat nearly 20 years ago, but his warnings were largely ignored. Officials in the states where the fish escaped also paid little attention because the aquaculture industry had a lot of political clout and resisted any efforts to impose strict regulations. Asian carp were still escaping from flooded Missouri fish farms in 1994.
Silver carp and bighead carp grow to about 70 and 110 pounds, respectively, in their native waters in Southeast Asia, but in North America the maximum sizes seem to be 20 pounds for silvers and 50 for bigheads. Silver carp attract the most attention, because they leap 10 to 15 feet out of the water when spooked by boats, sometimes blasting through the surface in shoals (bigheads rarely jump, although they can). Several boaters have suffered injuries that include broken jaws, noses, ribs, arms and legs after being hit by flying carp.
Neither species will bite a baited hook. They feed by sucking up more than half their own weight in algae and zooplankton every day. Fisheries scientists fear they could completely disrupt the food web in the Great Lakes. Everywhere they have turned up, Asian carp have stifled native species, including bass, crappies, bluegills, buffalo fish and catfish, to become overwhelmingly dominant. About 80 percent of the commercial fishermen on the Illinois River quit after carp eliminated most of the buffalo fish and catfish that were the fishermen's bread and butter.
In an ironic twist, commercial fisheries may be adapting to the carp and could complicate measures to control the fish. About three years ago a few fishermen began netting Asian carp for sale to markets in Asian neighborhoods around the continent. Steve McNitt, sales manager for Schafer Fisheries in Thomson, Illinois, sold more than 2 million pounds of Asian carp in 2005 and hopes that amount will increase tenfold. Such commercial development is the last thing biologists want to see, fearing that if Asian carp become commercially valuable, people who make money from them will oppose their eradication.
A major concern now is that the carp will reach the Great Lakes. "These are species that could be as destructive or even more so than sea lampreys and zebra mussels," says Marc Gaden, a spokesman for the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, the joint Canadian-American body that manages the sport and commercial fisheries. "We know that they can handle the climate, and they do well in bays, estuaries and marshes. There are thousands of places like that around the Great Lakes."
The carps' gateway to the Great Lakes is the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, which connects Lake Michigan with the Illinois-Mississippi River system. When Illinois researchers set nets in 2003 in the Illinois River a few miles upstream from Bath, which lies about 250 river miles from Lake Michigan, it took only 30 minutes to fill the nets with several tons of silver and bighead carp. Such abundance prompted Betty DeFord, the owner of the Boat Tavern in Bath, to organize the Redneck Carp Tournament in hope of prodding government at all levels to find a fix for the carp problem. "We started this a couple of years ago to try to get some attention and some help," DeFord says. "I don't even take my grandchildren out on the water any more. If a 20-pound carp came into a boat and landed on a 2- or 3-year-old child, it could kill them."
The only thing keeping Asian carp out of the Great Lakes as of the winter of 2006 was sheer luck. The fish have been seen in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal about 30 miles below Lake Michigan, but not until early 2007 did Congress introduce legislation to provide funds for completing a permanent electronic barrier on the canal. The bill had not yet passed at the time of this writing. Ed Landmichl, a Chicago angler and activist, said he and others who are worried about the carp reaching the Great Lakes have gone out in boats when a temporary barrier now guarding the canal is supposed to have been working. "We have [sonar] fishfinders, and we can see fish of all sizes swimming right over it," he says. "Either it isn't turned on some times, or it's not effective."
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which runs the barrier, admits that the agency has sometimes turned it off for maintenance and construction because of design errors that threatened the safety of passing barges. In addition, the present barrier, installed two years ago, was supposed to be a temporary structure until a better, more effective barrier could be built. But as of mid-March, Congress had not passed the legislation needed to build the new barrier.
Some people fear that the temporary electric barrier is ineffective and that the carp have already reached the Great Lakes. Since 2000, anglers in eastern Lake Erie, about 900 miles from Chicago, have caught four adult bighead carp up to 50 pounds each. The origin and ecological significance of these fish remain unknown.
If the carp establish populations in the Great Lakes, they will turn the lakes into giant carp ponds in which other key fish species are wiped out. Says Gary Towns, fisheries manager for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources in the southeastern section of the state, "We have to find a way to stop [the carp], because ignoring them is like playing Russian roulette."
Eric Sharp is a reporter for the Detroit Free Press.
NWF in Action
Restoring the Great Lakes
As coleaders of the Healing Our Waters--Great Lakes Coalition, NWF and the National Parks Conservation Association are working with other coalition members to pass federal legislation that will relieve the threat of alien species in the Great Lakes. These bills include:
NWF also is working to expand and fully fund programs in the U.S. Farm Bill that are essential to Great Lakes protection and restoration. Farm Bill programs provide farmers with funding and assistance for restoring and protecting wildlife habitat that supports the region's $18-billion annual hunting, fishing and wildlife-watching industry. The programs also restore wetlands and other habitats that serve to filter pesticides, fertilizers and sediment out of water that millions of Great Lakes residents depend on for drinking, bathing, fishing and swimming.
In addition, NWF has joined its state affiliate and other groups in federal district court to stop the shipping industry from striking down a 2005 Michigan law that seeks to protect the Great Lakes from invasive species discharges from oceangoing vessels by requiring the ships to obtain permits for ballast-water discharge.
"The clock is ticking for the Great Lakes," says Jeff Skelding, senior manager of NWF's Great Lakes Restoration Campaign. "NWF is calling upon Congress to act now to restore this resource. By investing in a solution today, we will avoid the higher price of trying to contain this problem tomorrow, and we will ensure that future generations continue to experience the lakes as we know them."
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Why We Call 'Em "Great" Lakes
How big are the Great Lakes? Well, when the French navigators who were the first Europeans to put the Great Lakes on world maps initially sailed into Lake Huron's Georgian Bay in 1615, they called the lakes "sweet seas." Keep in mind that these people had recently crossed the ocean in tiny wooden ships, so they knew a sea when they saw one.
So much for impressions. Let's get down to facts. The Great Lakes cover 94,000 square miles and hold 5,500 cubic miles of water within 10,210 miles of shoreline--almost 20 percent of the world's freshwater and more than 95 percent of surface freshwater in the lower 48 states. Only the polar ice caps contain more freshwater.
The greatest of the lakes is Superior. With a name like that, it has to be greatest, or face a lawsuit for false advertising. It holds 2,900 cubic miles of water--or, if you like your water in gallons, 3,000,000,000,000,000 (3 quadrillion) gallons--which is as much as all the other Great Lakes combined plus three more Lake Eries. That's enough to cover all of North and South America with a foot of water. It has the largest surface area of any freshwater lake--31,700 square miles--roughly the area of South Carolina. If Superior's 1,826 miles of shoreline were stretched into a straight line, it would start in Duluth, Minnesota, and end in Miami, Florida.
The bottom of Lake Superior is 700 feet below sea level, a whopping 418 feet lower than Death Valley, making the lake bottom the lowest land in North America.
But all these superlatives aside, the Great Lakes aren't as great as they used to be. Lake trout, once the primary Great Lakes commercial fish, now survive at levels capable of sustaining commercial fishing only in Lake Superior, and even there they are supplemented with hatchery fish. The blue pike, once the top predator in the open waters of Lake Erie, and the Atlantic salmon of Lake Ontario, were major components of the early fishing industry but are now extinct.
And that's not all. Lakes Superior, Huron and Michigan have been shrinking in recent years. Once again, Superior outdoes the rest, dropping back 50 feet or more from its traditional shorelines. Beds of native wild rice, usually inundated, are going dry, sandbars are rising to the surface and cargo ships navigating the lakes have to lighten their loads to avoid running aground. Superior is nearly 20 inches below its normal average depth of 601.92 feet and is closing in on the record low set in 1926--599.92 feet. But at its deepest, Superior is 1,330 feet to the bottom, so the effect of this lowering is felt mainly along the shrinking shores, where boat docks are being left high and dry.
Why the shrinkage? No one's sure, but a likely culprit, say experts, is global warming, which has reduced the amount of time the lakes spend under ice in winter, allowing more water to evaporate during the cold season than would otherwise occur.--Roger Di Silvestro


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No. 3 Women's lacrosse advances to sixth straight league final
Libby Schultz '12 scored three goals and added an assist to lead nationally ranked No. 3 Hamilton College to a 10-7 win against Skidmore College in a 2011 Liberty League women's lacrosse championship semifinal at Hamilton's Steuben Field on May 6.
Top-seeded Hamilton (16-1 overall) advanced to its sixth straight league final. The Continentals will play Union College -- a 9-8 winner against Rensselaer in the second semifinal -- in the championship game at Hamilton on Saturday, May 7, at 3 p.m. The Continentals and Union will be meeting in the final for the sixth year in a row.
Hamilton extended its win streak to 14 games and is 48-1 against league opponents since the start of 2007. The Continentals have captured four consecutive league postseason championships.
No. 4 seed Skidmore (10-8) lost 13-7 at home against Hamilton just one week ago. The Thoroughbreds were making their first appearance in the league championship since 2006.
Rachel Friedman '13 chipped in two goals and one assist for the Continentals. Friedman leads the team with 63 goals and 75 points. Katie D'Antonio '14 added two goals, and Sarah Bray '11 had one goal and one assist. Anne Graveley '11 and Kate Otley '12 tallied one goal apiece, and Mariah Monks '13 was credited with one assist.
Dewi Caswell '14 made six saves in her first postseason start for Hamilton. Bray helped lead the defense with four ground balls and four caused turnovers, and Meg Pengue '12 also caused four turnovers. Friedman won four draw controls and Otley captured three.
Kimberly Segalas '11 paced the Skidmore offense with four goals. Lindsay Stavola '11 had one goal and two assists, and Lexi Melville '13 and Robin Fetterolf '14 notched one goal apiece. Rachel Klein '12 stopped six shots and scooped up four ground balls. Leslie Stebbins '12 picked up four ground balls and Ali Evans '13 caused two turnovers. Stavola and Abbie Hamlin '12 won two draws apiece.
The Continentals held a slim 2-1 lead at the break after a first half that produced more turnovers (19) than shots (18). Stavola tied the score with her team-high 52nd goal on a free-position shot with 27:24 left. Schultz put Hamilton back in front about four minutes later, only to have the Thoroughbreds tie the score again on a free-position goal by Segalas with 21:33 remaining.
Otley put the Continentals ahead with her own free-position goal 32 seconds later. Skidmore tied things up for the last time at 4-4 with 19:00 left when Melville scored her 16th goal.
Hamilton responded with the next four goals to seize control of this semifinal. D'Antonio put the Continentals in the lead for good on a feed from Schultz just 20 seconds after Melville's goal. Graveley followed with her 23rd goal at 17:24 remaining, and Schultz scored her 26th with 16:06 left. Friedman made the score 8-4 on a free-position goal with 14:51 remaining.
The Thoroughbreds didn't get closer than three goals the rest of the way. Segalas scored three more times in the final 8 minutes, 17 seconds.
Hamilton held a 22-17 shot advantage, and won 12 draws to seven for Skidmore. The Thoroughbreds owned an 18-17 edge in ground balls. The Continentals lead the all-time series, 29-8, and have won the last seven meetings.


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Post-surgery lobectomy
My husband is 9 days post surgery from a bilobectomy for cancer. Although he is clear of the cancer, he still has a chest tube. Two days ago after the tube was clamped his neck and face became swollen and he can hardly speak. His breathing is okay. He is very upset and depressed and still has a lung leak. Our doctors tell us this is not unusual. How long can this go on or how long should we have to wait for this? His depression is overwhelming him in spite of the good news about the cancer being gone. He wants to go home. Can you tell us anything?
The really important news is that they successfully resected the cancer, and that there was no evidence of spread.
A prolonged air leak (usually defined as greater than 7 days) is not uncommon after bilobectomy. It is usually not life-threatening. But it is a major nuisance. Occasionally it requires additional surgery; however, it is usually treated successfully with patience.
The swelling (called subcutaneous emphysema) frightens everyone, but is really not a major issue. It represents air leaking from the lung that is unable to exit via the chest tube.
One strategy that you husband's surgeon may use is called a Heimlich valve. Basically, if the lung stays inflated when off suction ("water seal"), but still is leaking, the chest tube can be attached to a Heimlich (one-way) valve that allows the air to escape while the lung gradually heals (seals). People can frequently go home with a Heimlich valve.
Please feel free to contact NetWellness again if you have further questions.
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There are so many words. If you take the letters found in the word CONSTANTINOPLE, using the clues below, can you figure out the words that can be made?
1. A piece of paper currency used during the American Revolution
2. A friendship that is not based on any romantic feelings or desires
3. To prevent or limit expansion
4. Bending readily, supple or flexible
5. A mineral, often used as an iridescent gem, made of silica, SiO2, and water
6. Pertaining to the Post Office
7. Struggling or striving together in opposition
8. Free from moral wrong, pure
9. Any towering, pointed formation, as in rock or mountains
10. A large bird with a large bill, with a distensible pouch
11. Pointed, conical teeth
12. Dating from a remote period; of great age
Answer1. Continental
2. Platonic
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12. Ancient
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Thanks. That gives me a few more ideas.
That was more meant as a "isn't this already doing what you want"
I explicitly want something where someone can say "I want to move to another country, where can I go?" What they often want, though, is really information about the legal requirements they face. For example, I briefly described how to get a job in the UK [livejournal.com], but that's out of date (not much) and specific to the UK.
What are marriage laws per country? Can you get in via ancestry? Can you get -- or do you even need -- a work permit? Does legally working in a country long enough give you an automatic path to
Ah, now I see. That sounds like a very good idea to me. I don't know if anything like this already exists. But since I remember the confusing parts of (only) moving from Austria to Germany, I can imagine this would be much appreciated, especially by people targetting countries that are further from where they are, and where the cultural differences are bigger.


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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM (PDT)
Event Details
Experience 4th st Pizza the Spartan way! Come say hello (and eat some pizza after work... no need to cook!) 4th St. Pizza will also be offering happy hour pricing on additional food and beverage. Bring a friend... Hail Spartans!
Wednesday March 13th, 5pm-7pm.
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In Ajahn Sumedho's book The Sound of Silence there is a chapter named, "Questions About Awareness and Rebirth" (http://books.google.com/books?id=TqKbrmljVdwC&dq=the+sound+of+silence+sumedho&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=kYk_AxIYfK&sig=eu02HpKqQDRSjIwVW2Qa-TodotU&hl=en&ei=V2W8SZ_9EomMsAOa5PmdAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA237,M1) where Ajahn Sumedho states:
"Rebirth," like "reincarnation," is a term that's used generally referring to having gone through a series of different lives, and then there are various views about whether once you get reincarnated into human form where you can go, become a frog again or something like that. . . . But the truth of the matter is, nobody really knows.
The historical Buddha refers to previous lives in the scriptures and things like this, but for me these things are speculative.
Do you guys agree with Ajahn Sumedho's view that rebirth is speculative? If you do or do not, then why?


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