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Getting Women Right: The Subtle Power Of "Enough Said"
When I was a kid, I loved drama. My favorite books, movies, and music where filled with epic, often unrequited love stories and big, heartbreaking deaths.
I swooned longingly during Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet, watched in horror as James Dean yelled, "I got the bullets!" at the end of Rebel Without a Cause, and cried all throughout David Lean's Dr. Zhivago. It's no surprise then that my favorite film in high school was Anthony Minghella's tragic love story, The English Patient. I saw the film nine times in the movie theater. And although I cannot for the life of me remember what a perfect participle actually is, I can quote every line from that movie word for word.
In my late 20s, something changed. Suddenly, the performances that moved me as a little girl seemed, well, melodramatic — cringe-worthy and forced, even. I found it difficult to re-watch the classic Hollywood films. And I found it harder and harder to connect with characters onscreen because what I was looking for now was more difficult to find: subtlety.
Which is why a scene in writer-director Nicole Holofcener's latest film, Enough Said, completely floors me. It's the moment when Julia Louis-Dreyfus' character Eva finally comes clean with James Gandolfini's Albert and tells him the real reason that she sabotaged their relationship. "I think I was trying to protect myself," she says.
That scene makes me cry. Not because the boy and the girl are breaking up or because the music is swelling but because the fear and vulnerability etched upon Ms. Louis-Dreyfus' face is raw and intimate. It feels too real. And I don't know what to do with that.
When asked by The New York Times what the trick to writing a great female character is, Ms. Holofcener responded, "Make her human." Ms. Holofcener gets women right. She's been making movies that center around women for years: Walking and Talking, Lovely and Amazing, and Please Give, just to name a few. She gets the highs and the lows that come with female friendships — how we talk to one another and how we depend on each other.
Enough Said is like a how-to-guide to womanhood. The movie tells the story of Eva, a masseuse and a single mom, who meets Albert, a recently divorced, shy, television historian. Through the development of Eva and Albert's relationship, we learn how to be good parents, how to be good friends, and perhaps most importantly, how to be vulnerable and ask for help.
I watched Enough Said for the second time, right after watching John Wells' much-hyped August: Osage County. The two movies couldn't be more different. Where the characters in Enough Said are subtle and understated, August's are loud and over-the-top, as theatrical as the Tracy Letts' play from which the movie is adapted. August: Osage County is set in Pawhuska, Oklahoma and centers on the dysfunctional Weston family, led by the cold, angry matriarch, Violet (played by Meryl Streep). The movie belongs to Ms. Streep. Her rage surges unexpectedly in waves throughout the film, and there's no doubt that she is, once again, delivering a powerhouse — and emotionally exhausting — performance.
But Ms. Streep's performance is just that, a performance. It doesn't resonate or connect, far too perfectly melodramatic to ever feel truly real. Ms. Streep will undoubtedly receive nominations for her role in August: Osage County, further cementing her status as the most nominated actor ever, but it's Ms. Louis-Dreyfus and Ms. Holofcener that I'll be rooting for. And even if they don't win a Golden Globe or an Academy Award, what they accomplished in Enough Said will remain inspiring, brave, and unforgettable.


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Marie Ferro owns Marie's Hair Studio in Malibu, CA, close to "The Colony" an ocean-front enclave of the rich, famous and, very often, blonde. Ferro knows something about creating movie-star, close-up worthy cuts and color as she counts actresses, models and other style-makers among her clientele. Here she shares her latest collection, Malibu Blondes, including the steps and formulas.
Malibu Blonde Smooth- Photo 1
This is a great way to set hair, that won't leave roller marks that hot rollers often do. Gives the hair natural body, shape and movement.
Step 1- Use Phytokeretin shampoo and conditioner to build strength in hair, use a microfiber towel to remove most of the water from the hair to save drying time and when product is applied it adheres better to the hair.
Step 2- Mix a quarter size of each Phytodefrisant and Phyto 7, apply evenly though hair with a comb. Section hair in four sections. Start with 2 inch sections from the bottom of hair. When hair in the first section is dry and warm from the dryer, wrap 1 1/2 inch Velcro roller around the hair making sure the ends are placed evenly around the roller,secure with small clip. Be sure the hair is placed on the base so there is lift at the root. Continue placing the rollers from the bottom to the top of the head using a brick lay pattern.
Step 3- After rollers are completely cooled and removed use a Mason Pearson brush to lightly move hair into place, creating a part.
Use small amount of Phytolisse throughout the hair for extra shine and to calm any flyaways.
Step 4- Finish with Phyto's workable holding spray lifting hair gently at root for added lift where needed and an all over light spray to set.
Malibu Blonde Tousled -Photo 2
This look is a lived-in style similar to what the Victoria's Secret models wear, a look often requested by clients.
Step 1- Use Phytovolume Shampoo and Phyto Balm so the hair is smoothed but not weighted down. Use microfiber towel to remove majority of water from the hair. Apply to Phytoactif to root for lift. Using a paddle brush, move the hair back and forth from the bottom of the head up in all directions while drying to create a free flowing movement in hair. Use paddle brush to smooth hair and remove frizz while maintaining body.
Step 2- When hair is dry, scrunch in small amount of Intense Volume Mousse throughout the hair. Use a diffuser to work the mousse into the dry hair creating texture and movement.
Step 3- Work small amount of Phyto's Matte Texturizing Paste into fingers. With fingertips, lightly separate ends of hair to create definition and separation.
Step 4- Finish using Phyto's Workable Holding Spray to set
Malibu Modern 40's - Photo 3
This look is a classic that always comes back around with a new twist. Today the key to creating this look in a modern way is to create high shine and relax the set, so it feels a bit more lived in.
Step 1- Shampoo and use a microfiber towel to remove most of the water from the hair. Mix Phyto's Srong Sculpting Gel with Phyto 7. Work into damp hair with a fine tooth comb.
Step 2- Section hair into two front and back sections. Starting from underneath the hair using a medium round brush lifting hair at the root, smooth out hair with dryer.
Step 3- When hair is completely dry, use a 1 1/2 inch curling iron, spraying Phytolaque Soie to prepare the hair before each time curl is set with the iron. Set hair all around the head within horizontal partings. Start placing the iron vertically from the left around to the right side of head; the curls will all go in the same direction in a horseshoe shape around the head. Placing the curls this way will cause the hair to go back on the left side and forward on the right, which is the heavier side of the hair . In through the top of the head section the hair in half from front to back at the crown. On the left side, set that parting back away from the face. On the right side on the top, set the row forward towards the face. Each curl is pinned with a small clip after each time the curling iron is removed, and left to cool completely.
Step 4- Comb out with Mason Pearson brush working in set wave pattern. Use long setting clips to clamp reinforcing the wave pattern in the hair. Finish the set with workable holding spray.
Step 5- Remove long clips and with a comb and fingers reinforce the wave pattern, cleaning up any stray hairs.
Color Formulas:
Formula A- Base color- 12BM 20mls+Blonding cream ash 5mls+50mls 40 volume Topchic Lotion
Formula B- Silklift strong, 20 vol, Silklift Conditioning Serum
Formula C- Accent tones- Goldwell Colorance 10BS 10ml+ clear 20mls+60mls Colorance Lotion
Goldwell Colorance 10G 10mls+9GB 20mls+60mls Colorance Lotion
Formula D- Base glaze- Goldwell Topchic 15mls water+5mls 10A,5mls 10V, 5mls10N+15mls 10volume Topchic Lotion
Formula E- All Over Finishing Glaze Goldwell Elumen 80mls clear+1mls [email protected]+1ml [email protected]
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Prepare hair with Malibu C.
1. Apply Formula A- Base color to regrowth, process according to manufacturer's instructions, shampoo hair, dry.
2. Zig- zag slicing in diagonal sectioning though out hair with Formula B. In-between foils paint in accent tones Formula C, process according to manufacturer's instructions until hair lifts to bright blond shade. Shampoo hair.
3. After lightly drying with a towel apply Formula D at the root to create a blended gaze effect at the base. After 10 minutes, shampoo
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Natalia "Norka" Méndez knows a thing or two about being comfortable in her own body.
As the former Cuban model stood in front of a crowded room of students, instructors and media at Foothill College Oct. 23 on her 75th birthday, her composure offered glimpses of the confidence, perseverance and fiery attitude that helped her forge a place in history through the pages of international newspapers and fashion magazines.
Méndez gained international fame in the 1950s and '60s as the favorite muse of renowned photographer Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez. Her success, she said, is all about being an "elegant and natural woman."
Before blowing out the candles on her birthday cake, Méndez shared stories from her days modeling during Cuba's golden age. With a Spanish father and an American mother, Méndez had a thin figure, a physical attribute that contrasted with the "thicker" image many in the Latino culture considered beautiful. It wasn't in vogue for young women of her era to pursue creative careers, but her fate was sealed when she met Gutiérrez, the photographer behind "Heroic Guerrilla" – the iconic photo of Che Guevara the Victoria and Albert Museum identifies as the most reproduced image in the world.
"Being an artist was the last option to my family," Méndez said.
Two artists, one heart
In what Foothill College photography and digital imaging instructor Ron Herman called the union of "two artists with one heart," Méndez and Korda – the name Gutiérrez gave himself to mimic the sound and spelling of Eastman Kodak Co. – married and enjoyed success in the days before the Cuban Revolution.
But when Fidel Castro assumed power in 1959, extravagance and luxuries disappeared, along with fine fabrics and opportunities in fashion and modeling. After giving birth to two children, Méndez emigrated from Cuba to Germany, where she recalls struggling day-to-day to find work. She eventually made her way to Paris – fortuitously during a model strike, a circumstance that landed her the opportunity to model again.
In the years that followed, Méndez returned to Cuba to be with her family. Although many of Gutiérrez's film negatives were destroyed in the Revolutionary Offensive of 1968, Foothill College Photography Department recently spent five months restoring some of the remaining images. It was during this process that the team organized Foothill's "Korda Moda" exhibition, showcasing 30 of Gutiérrez's couture fashion photos, including pictures of Méndez.
The exhibition is scheduled for display 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. weekdays and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays through Dec. 6 in the Krause Center for Innovation Gallery at Foothill College, 12345 S. El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills. The gallery is closed Sundays and Nov. 11 and 28.
For more information, visit kordamoda.wordpress.com.
Cuban model "Norka" visist Foothill College - Photos by Ellie Van Houtte/Town Crier


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OLD-TIME LAWYERS say that when a issue arises and you don't know the applicable law, the first thing to do is to ask a colleague. If that doesn't work and you've tried everything else, only then check the law books.
I took that advice in regard to the controversial Highway 101-Greenbrae-Corte Madera freeway project. That's the $143 million effort promoted by Marin Supervisor Steve Kinsey, Caltrans and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
The question is whether the law demands that the Transportation Authority of Marin accept the unpopular plan now on the table. Instead, might the statute's actual language provide binding instructions to Marin's highways and transit czars in line with the traveling public's desires?
The relevant law is California Streets and Highway Code Section 309.14. It's the product of Regional Measure 2, a 2004 Bay Area-wide ballot measure. That proposition raised auto tolls on the bay's state-run bridges and doled out political pork all over the region.
According to the code, the purpose of funds generated by RM2 for Marin is to "provide enhanced regional and local access around the Greenbrae interchange to reduce traffic congestions and provide multimodal access to the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge and the Larkspur Ferry Terminal."
How to do it? "By constructing a new full-service diamond interchange at Wornum Drive, south of the Greenbrae interchange, extending a multi-use pathway from the new interchange at Wornum Drive to East Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and the Cal Park Hill rail right-of-way."
Additional language directs cash for "bicycle and pedestrian access" between San Rafael and the ferry terminal. Much proposed under the current Caltrans scenario has little to do with the law's clearly worded purpose.
The Caltrans-Kinsey plan doesn't reduce "traffic congestion." While it makes the roadway marginally safer, there is no capacity increase. It does nothing to meaningfully provide "multimodal access to the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge and the Larkspur Ferry Terminal."
What don't they understand about the word "multimodal?" The current scheme does little to encourage bus, bike, pedestrian or bus mobility demanded by the state's so-called "Climate Protection Act."
For $143 million, the current Greenbrae-Corte Madera freeway project doesn't even do much for motorists, except flood traffic onto Corte Madera's streets.
It's a bad plan that doesn't accomplish what the law says it should.
Undoubtedly, the North-South Greenway bike and pedestrian corridor link was intended to be in the project. Yet, the segment of the Greenway within the plan's scope is mysteriously missing.
Some who have examined the statute now realize that the law's language may be the key to redirecting the project to something more cost-effective and useful. A few say they are looking at the statute's "legislative intent" to decipher its meaning.
Its legislative intent isn't complicated.
Years back, Larkspur sought assistance mitigating traffic congestion on Drake. Others wanted buses, bikes, walkways and SMART trains linking the ferry terminal.
Simultaneously, regional bureaucrats were raising big bucks from the obscure regional ballot measure. Kinsey and then-Assemblyman Joe Nation decided Marin deserved a piece of the pie.
Twenty-five million dollars would go to the now-completed Cal Park Hill tunnel. The remainder was aimed both at the Sir Francis Drake-101 interchange and the ferry terminal plus the Greenway connection.
Now, unless TAM, its honcho Dianne Steinhauser, Caltrans and Kinsey make major changes to the current blueprint, the plan is at risk of being torpedoed by litigation rightly claiming it violates the law's stated purpose.
Columnist Dick Spotswood of Mill Valley now shares his views on local politics twice weekly in the IJ. His email address is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Anyone really fill out as soon as they got older? I mean in the titties region. I just need hope. Or a boobjob. I'm almost 18 and a sad panda with 32Bs
Anyone really fill out as soon as they got older? I mean in the titties region. I just need hope. Or a boobjob. I'm almost 18 and a sad panda with 32Bs
I'm 18 and a 34A. Which one of us is bigger haha?
I don't think filling out is a happening thing, hate to burst your bubble
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a lot of girls fill out a bit more from 18-22. it often (but not always) goes hand in hand with getting fatter, though
the early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
I'm a 32 b too. When I was 18, I was 5'6 and about 150 pounds, and a 34 b. I have thinned out, lost 30 pounds losing "baby" fat I guess, within me turning 20. Also, when I lost weight I went down to a 32 a. Now at (almost) 23, I am still 120 pounds, I'm an inch taller, and I have 32 b boobs. They have filled out significantly from the time i was 20. You may still have hope but only time will tell. When I was 19, I was on birth control for a month my boobs went to a c cup, so it may help your boobs grow too. Actually I hated it tho, I don't like having anything bigger than a b.
I am not sure if I gained a cup size or just measured incorrectly before. I haven't gained amy weight though, so that isn't it. Useless post.
stop whining. Make life your bitch.
my mum went from B to double D in one year when she was like 23
i'm hoping that doesn't happen to me. i like my small c's
I have big boobs, and trust me, YOU DO NOT WANT THEM.
Big boobs are hard to dress, and you feel fat, you get back pain, bras cost a million dollars, you can't buy bikinis, they are a pain during exercise, you can't buy dresses and most of the time they end up a lot less attractive than small ones.
ME ME ME. So Ready.
On my 18th birthday I was a 34B. I started birth control the next day and within two months I was at 34DD. I'm the poster child for late blooming.
I was kind of late I guess. I went from a borderline A/B to borderline B/C from like 18 to 20. I'm 21 now and I wish they would grow just a bit more. I would just like to be a normal/big C cup, not a small C. Birth control gets them to where I like them, so honestly I think I'm going to get back on it. Not only for the bigger boobs (I get terrible cramps), but that's definitely a main motivator.
Alexithymia is a term coined by Peter Sifneos in 1973 to describe a state of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions. It's pronounced uh-lecks-uh-thigh-me-uh.
"An intellectual is a person that's found one thing more interesting than sex"- Aldous Huxley
Birth control made me go up maybe a cup size, but I was underweight and got healthier during that time so who knows. And now that I'm off it I think they got a bit smaller. They shrink and grow with my weight.
i was an A cup til i was like 17 almost. 2-3 months before i turned 17 i grew and was a B, the next month they were a C and by the time i was 17 they were D's lol.


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The widow of a Wharton, TX firefighter killed in the line of duty has taken her fight to defend the validity of her marriage to a Houston court room. Nikki Araguz, whose husband Capt. Thomas Araguz died in a July 4, 2010 blaze, lost the first round of her legal battle earlier this year when Wharton Judge Randy Clapp ruled that Mrs. Araguz's marriage invalid because her original birth certificate identified her as male.
Last week Araguz appeared before Presiding Hearing Officer Jacquelyn Coleman in Houston in hopes of having Judge Clapp's ruling overturned. The pertinent question in the case is whether Araguz is female, as her current birth certificate, Texas issued driver's license and other legal identity documents identify her; or male as her now amended original birth certificate identified her. If the appeals court finds that Araguz is legally male then her marriage to Capt. Araguz is invalid under Texas' constitutional prohibition on marriage equality.
"At stake in this important case are the rights of transsexual people to be respected for who they are and to have their marriages recognized," said Kent Rutter, the lead attorney for Araguz in the civil rights appeal.
Opposing Mrs. Araguz in court is Capt. Araguz's ex-wife, Heather Delgado. Delgado sued to have the Araguz's marriage declaired void so she would recieve widow's benefits available to surviving spouses of firefighters killed in the line of duty. Delgado claims that she needs the benefits to provide for her two children with Capt. Araguz. Children of fallen firefighters receive separate benefits from surviving spouses including financial support and tuition to Texas state schools. Capt. Araguz's children receive these benefits regardless of the outcome of Delgado's suit against Mrs. Araguz.
I am pursuing this case to defend my marriage," said Araguz.
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Feb. 22, 2010
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The Fairfax County Small Business Commission and the Department of Purchasing and Supply Management (DPSM) are hosting the 2010 Vendor Forum on Monday, March 15, 9:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.; registration begins at 8:30 a.m. The event will be held at the Fairfax County Government Center, 12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax, VA 22035.
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Return to USF helps Sitton mourn brother's death
Saturday's Times previews USF's football opener against Chattanooga by featuring a player who might not even suit up this season for the Bulls -- walk-on Jonny Sitton, whose brother Matt was killed in Afghanistan a month ago while serving as a U.S. Army Ranger.
Sitton played for USF in 2010 but spent last season at Shorter University, an NAIA school in northwest Georgia, but decided to return this summer, a move that had him home with his family when they learned the tragic news at their Largo home. Sitton talks about his brother's motivating role in his life, and how being back at USF has helped him deal with such a personal loss.
"This is where my home is," he said. "Not only home with my family, but with my brothers on the team. This is where I feel like I belong."


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Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge - This incredible 1.1. million-acre refuge, along with adjacent public land, contains more intact shortgrass prairie habitat than anywhere else in America. Yet livestock still graze on much of the refuge, and species like sage-grouse, pronghorn antelope, elk and mule deer must compete with livestock for habitat.
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BISON - The American bison is an iconic symbol of the great American West. Once there were more than 50 million bison roaming the U.S. But today there are only a few thousand roaming free and managed as wildlife. When they leave the protected boundaries of Yellowstone National Park, they're often killed by government agents in fear they'll spread disease to nearby cattle. In one recent hard winter when many bison left the high elevation Park in search for food, more than 1,600 were killed.
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Shortly after Piper Aircraft posted billboards in Wichita advertising for engineers, the company suspended further development of the single-engine PiperJet Altaire, "following a review to align the company's business goals with the light jet market outlook, investment strategies and overall economic forecasts." The move resulted in layoffs of 150 employees and 55 contract workers.
When it was first announced, the PiperJet was priced at $2.199 million (2006 $) and certification and entry into service were planned for this year, but the price grew to $2.7 million and certification was moved to 2013. Earlier, Piper claimed orders for 200 PiperJets; in 2008, when the prototype first flew, then-v-p of sales Bob Kromer told AIN that orders for 150 of those airplanes on were from Piper dealers, and the remainder from individual buyers. Kromer also said it would take $150 million to see the program through to FAA certification, and he added, "The PiperJet is our future."
Piper did not release any figures on how much it has spent on the Altaire program, but said it would refund customer deposits for Altaire position holders. Piper plans to preserve the intellectual property developed for the PiperJet, according to interim president and CEO Simon Caldecott. And while the company has no plans to sell the program, a spokeswoman told AIN, "[Piper] would entertain a credible offer for the aircraft program."
Piper accepted $10.667 million in incentives and tax breaks from Florida and Indian River County, part of a $32 million incentive package in exchange for a commitment to remain and grow at its Vero Beach, Fla. headquarters. Early in the PiperJet program, Piper had made a formal quest to find a location elsewhere to build a new assembly plant for the jet. Piper employment never reached the 1,166 people needed by the end of 2009 to qualify for the second $10.557 million, and it is unknown how much of the first set of incentives Piper will be required to repay.
The demise of the PiperJet brings into question the future of single-engine jets. Only one program remains in active late-stage development, Diamond Aircraft's D-Jet, which has resumed flight testing. The PiperJet was larger than the Cirrus Vision and D-Jet, and, with a 35,000-foot maximum altitude, was designed to operate at much higher flight levels.
The purchase of U.S. aircraft manufacturers Piper (by Brunei's Imprimis) and Cirrus Aircraft (by China's Caiga) does not seem to have injected vast amounts of money into their respective single-engine jet programs, and the personal jet market now seems substantially diminished since the excitement that at one time led to hundreds of orders.
Raymond Allen (not verified)
December 5, 2011 - 6:41pm
Unfortunate, but understand their position. I have been pleased with my Cherokee cruiser, Cherokee Dakota and my Cherokee arrow. It's better to back off now instead of bankruptcy.
Ray Allen
Gail A. Hammans (not verified)
December 5, 2011 - 8:17pm
Being a proud Piper Aircraft owner, its sad to see a company, with its long aviation history, not knowing which direction its future holds. First the Piper Sport, a great little plane with a bright future, and now the PiperJet Altaire. Did not upper management count their beans and do their homework before jumping in? No way to build confidence in a companies future customers.
OMAR (not verified)
December 6, 2011 - 4:08am
i am very sorry to see such a giant company in this case.
Don MacGregor (not verified)
December 6, 2011 - 1:12pm
I spent 40 years in Aircraft sales, and watched all of these folks price their selves out of the market. When I worked for a distributor the price of a fully equipped Archer II was $38,000, now partially because of Avionics, and what not we cannot buy an Archer III for well over $300,000. They try to tell you that $300,000 is equal to what the $38,000 was back in those days, not so, income is going down boys! There is no entry level Aircraft, or weekend flyer machine today, this will lead to a shortage of Pilots that might have become Jet Pilots someday. No Pilots! Who is going to buy their Jets. The few people that could buy the expensive machine's are now faced with the high cost of updating software all of the time. The single engine Jet at best had a very limited market, but all of the manufacturing outfits thought they should jump in and forget about the entry level buyer, go back to building something reasonable and Aviation will thrive again. Few companies would put their employees in a Single engine Jet!
Carlos (not verified)
December 18, 2011 - 9:40am
I think trying to meet all of the additional requirements of operating an aircraft above 25,000 feet was what did it in........


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Nebraska's Centennial Mall
Built in 1967 to commemorate the state's centennial year, Centennial Mall extends from the State Capitol seven blocks north on what would be 15th Street and is part of the City Parks system. The Mall serves as the scenic connection between the Nebraska's iconic State Capitol and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The mall's fountains have been a source of pride for many Nebraskans and are featured in a variety of the state's tourism and promotional materials.
In the last 40 years, the infrastructure and landscape plantings along the Mall have become aged to the point of deteriorating condition and are beyond the point of practical repair.
The City of Lincoln has committed $2.2 million to assist in funding essential improvements to Centennial Mall. Plans for a major renovation include new landscaping and green spaces and addresses safety and accessibility issues.
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Sodium imbalance is common and an adverse prognostic factor in hospitalized patients. However, identifying the causes of sodium imbalance is challenging in clinical practice. Levels of antidiuretic hormone (ADH) are elevated in patients with stroke correlating with disease severity and stress level; however, its measurement is cumbersome. ADH is derived from a larger precursor peptide along with Copeptin, which is a more stable peptide directly mirroring the production of ADH. Copeptin can be assayed readily in plasma. Early prognostic factors to predict in-hospital mortality and medium/long-term outcome in critically ill neurological patients, are helpful to guide and tailor early decisions on treatment, discharge from the intensive care unit and application of interventions to prevent deterioration of neurological functions.
We hypothesize that copeptin will improve the diagnostic accuracy to diagnose sodium imbalances as compared to routinely used markers Furthermore, we hypothesize that Copeptin will be a reliable prognostic tool, dependent or independent of sodium imbalance, to predict short-term (i.e. in-hospital) and medium-term (i.e. 3 months) clinical outcome in stroke patients.
|Stroke Transient Ischemic Attack
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|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Copeptin as a Novel Diagnostic and Prognostic Marker in the Management of Neurological and Neurosurgical Patients With Sodium Imbalance The "COSMOS"-Study (Copeptin in Osmoregulation and Stress Assessment)
|Study Start Date:
|November 2006
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|March 2008
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|March 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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- All consecutive patients who are admitted to the emergency department with an ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke or transient ischemic attach (TIA) according to the World Health organization criteria [37] with symptom onset within the last 3 days.
All consecutive patients who undergo intracranial surgery due to
- pituitary tumors
- intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH)
- subarachnoidal hemorrhage (SAH)
- chronic subdural hematoma
- head trauma with contusion cerebri
- intracranial abcesses
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients without informed consent.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00390962
|University Hospital Basel
|Basel, BS, Switzerland, 4051
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|Beat Mueller, Prof
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|October 20, 2006
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|September 22, 2008
Keywords provided by University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland:
diabetes insipidus
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Neurological patients with ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke and patients undergoing intracranial surgery.
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Ischemic Attack, Transient
Diabetes Insipidus
Cerebrovascular Disorders
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Brain Ischemia
Kidney Diseases
Urologic Diseases
Pituitary Diseases
Endocrine System Diseases
Arginine Vasopressin
Vasoconstrictor Agents
Antidiuretic Agents
Natriuretic Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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Headlines warn of dangerous chemicals, such as formaldehyde, being found in household and nursery products. Do parents need to be worried?
Formaldehyde is a naturally occurring flammable gas with a distinct and pungent odour. It's everywhere – in the air we breathe and in the food and water we eat and drink.
As a result of various metabolic processes, formaldehyde is also naturally present in the human body at very low concentrations and is produced in natural processes and daily human activities that involve the combustion of organic materials – for example, in bush fires or even home fires.
Apart from its presence in nature, it's a key chemical in the manufacturing process, used in the production of fertilisers, paper, plywood, and urea-formaldehyde resins used in pressed-wood products like MDF. It's also a widely used embalming fluid.
Formaldehyde is present in the family home, but usually at small levels. According to a US report, the levels reported in the average home are less than 0.03 parts of formaldehyde per million parts of air (ppm). Side effects are not usually experienced until it exceeds levels of 0.1ppm.
Some levels of formaldehyde are found in many products used around the home, such as antiseptics, medicines, cosmetics and personal care products like mouthwashes, skin disinfectants and even spermaticide creams.
Formaldehyde is also used to add permanent-press qualities to clothing and draperies, in the manufacture of carpets, and is a by-product found in smog and cigarette smoke.
While formaldehyde is not an actual ingredient in baby shampoos, as such, some contain a substance called quaternium-15 that releases formaldehyde.
One manufacturer of baby shampoos, Johnson & Johnson, has said it is reducing and gradually phasing out the chemical - as well as another one called dioxane, which has been linked with cancer - from its baby shampoo.
Classified by Australia's National Occupational Health and Safety Commission as a Category 2 carcinogen – that is, a substance that should be regarded as possibly cancer-causing to humans – formaldehyde is far from harmless. But most homes do not contain anywhere near dangerous levels of the gas.
When levels exceed 0.1 ppm, some people can experience reactions such as watery eyes, burning sensations in the eyes, nose, and throat, coughing, wheezing and skin irritation.
Some people are very sensitive to formaldehyde, whereas others have no reaction to the same level of exposure and it has been known to bring on asthma attacks.
While your family is most likely exposed to levels of formaldehyde that are well and truly within the safety guidelines, there are steps you can take to reduce exposure.
This article was written by Fiona Baker for Kidspot, Australia's best family health resource. Sources include the Federal Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities.
Last revised: Saturday, 28 April 2012
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Looking for an exciting place to spend your 4th of July weekend? Look no further than Washington DC! Our Dupont Circle bed and breakfast still has a couple of spaces open, so secure your spot now for a front row seat for all of the Independence Day celebrations happening in the nation's capitol! These won't last long, so book your chance to stay in Washington DC, close to all of the activity along The National Mall now!
The Annual 4th of July parade starts at noon on Thursday at Constitution Avenue and 7th Street, and progresses along Constitution until 17th Street NW. The National Mall will be filed with festivities throughout the afternoon, culminating with the National Symphony Orchestra's performance at the U.S. Capitol at 8, and the fireworks ceremony commencing after dusk. Public transit or by foot will be the best way to get to the National Mall on the 4th. The Smithsonian Metro is the closest stop along the National Mall, but the National Park Service advises visitors to consider other nearby stops such as Federal Triangle or the Archives Metro stops, to avoid overcrowding.
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The Stumble Inn
Well established backpackers now open in the most centrally located spot in town. Only 20 metres from the main street, a stones throw from all the beaches, and just a stumble home from all the nightlife.
Completely renovated by backpackers for backpackers.
The Stumble Inn has brand new everything! A fully equipped kitchen and cleaned spacious rooms. If you're traveling alone we do have single beds in shared rooms.
Enjoy dining 'al fresca'? Well please help yourself to our large, lush, open courtyard equipped with built in BBQ.
Feel like kicking your feet up and relaxing? Our huge common lounge will do trick. With a flat screen TV., mountains of DVDs, WIFI, board games, and a fully working fireplace.
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If you're coming from the train then find your way over the marina foot bridge and go left... If you're coming from the bus station then walk out the front and turn right... just a couple minutes walk along Avenida Descobrementes to the main square with the great statue. Walk through, and just past the statue of the boy/girl/weird astronaut head left and up onto the main road, Rua 25 de Abril. Walk along passing the big outdoor restaurants until you come to the beautiful SAL restaurant on your right. Turn right after the Taberna onto Rua Soeiro da Costa and just a few doors along on your right is where we are. Look up for the big bright yellow and black mosaic sign. The big yellow door, #10, will often be open into the reception during the day, if not just knock 3 times and we'll be there to welcome you....
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Our little street is filled with life. There's great Indian, mediterranian and Portuguese restaurants, and Little Italy, an amazing place that will deliver pizza by the metre to our door. There's also some great drinking spots, Johnos Bar is just a couple doors along, The crew at Galo party all night and the Taberna on the corner for the more up-market. Within a minute of our street are so many more great places; The Green Room, The Red Eye, The Jam Bar, Eddies Bar and whatever else you're looking for.
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Despite Dictators, Revolution, War and, Last Fall, Hurricane Mitch, Tobacco Men in Nicaragua Keep Planting and Rolling
Padrón's son Jorge has flown in and is all business. "There's nothing to do but work," he says. This is not a complaint. "I've got a lot to learn yet. It's important that I spend time here." He chuckles as he watches his father repeat a process that he has seen him do hundreds of times. "This is the secret," Jorge Padrón says with a nod in his father's direction. "The secret to success: to have tobacco."
Last fall, that secret became a matter of survival for the Padrón family. One of their two farms, which they had owned for 20 years, was scoured by floods caused by Hurricane Mitch. The topsoil was washed away. The parcel of land that had once given fame to the brand and the country is now little more than a field of rocks. Happily, no tobacco had yet been planted.
"The place is a disaster," Jorge Padrón says. But he adds, "We were fortunate that we didn't have any losses to the factory, or to the warehouses where we keep the tobacco. Production is up and running. Everything's normal." The company did, however, lose two curing barns.
The loss of the Padrón farm--it will likely never be used again--was about the worst loss suffered by any of Nicaragua's cigarmakers.
"Nicaragua has a lot of land," Jorge Padrón says. "The problem in Nicaragua is the lack of infrastructure and barns. We're going to have to build barns. We'll purchase other properties and we'll build the barns on it."
Despite the devastation it brought to Central America last fall, Hurricane Mitch amounted to little more than a brief interruption for cigar production in Nicaragua. Most insiders estimate that industry losses amounted to just 5 percent, mainly because most producers had not yet planted new crops. Excess humidity caused producers to halt rolling for several days during the intense rains. Some stored tobacco was damaged by floods and, most significantly, the homes of an unknown number of workers in the industry were destroyed. Cigarmakers have provided direct help and have mounted fund-raising efforts. The Padróns raised more than $72,000 through mid-December.
If the estimates are correct that Nicaragua was set back 20 years by the damage done by the hurricane--mostly to infrastructure such as roads and bridges--then it is all the more remarkable how unaffected the local cigar industry was.
The boom that propelled the cigar industry in Nicaragua, as elsewhere, has leveled off, and so has the fierce competition for raw materials. U.S. imports of Nicaraguan cigars dropped 16 percent in the first half of 1998. Of the nearly two dozen cigar companies that were doing business in Estelí a little more than a year ago, approximately 10 remain. Although the number of players is shrinking, the quality of tobacco coming out of Nicaragua is at a 20-year peak.
"I think we're getting to the point we were at before the Sandinista [revolution of the 1980s]. Perhaps we're already there," says Juan Francisco Bermejo, a co-founder of the old Nicaragua Cigars company in the mid-1960s, the original maker of Joya de Nicaragua. "Before the war, the best cigar in the world was Joya de Nicaragua."
In 1972, Bermejo sold his shares in the factory to co-owner Gen. Anastasio Somoza, who, as it happened, also ruled the country. After that, Bermejo was involved in another couple of factories, both of which were burned down in the early days of the Sandinista revolution. He left the country after that, returning in 1995 to open his new factory, Nicaragua American Tobacco S.A., or NATSA.
"I can tell you that for a while now we've had the same quality that we had in 1979," Bermejo says, seated in front of a shelf full of trophies won by the company's baseball team. "The Nicaraguan cigar is recovering its prestige. The agricultural sector has also recovered, and so has the shade-grown wrapper." All of NATSA's production, approximately 60,000 cigars a day (as of last September), goes to Cigars by Santa Clara, which is the importing and wholesaling arm of 800-JR Cigar Inc., the largest U.S. cigar retailer.
Like other longtime cigar manufacturers, Bermejo believes that the end of the boom, which some refer to as "stabilization," will help bring recognition to the Nicaraguan cigar. "The stabilization will not adversely affect the quality of the Nicaraguan cigar, it will improve it," Bermejo predicts. "This year the Nicaraguan cigar is better than last year, and next year it will be better than this year. Why? Because it's an industry which has been reborn."
Over the past 20 years, Nicaragua has seen more war than peace, more state control of the economy than private enterprise, more bad than good. Before 1979--and this is what led to the Sandinista revolution's triumph--Nicaragua had more than 40 years of less-than-benevolent rule by the Somoza family.
Conventional wisdom, disputed by some in the industry, holds that it was Anastasio Somoza who gave birth in the mid-'60s to Nicaragua's modern cigar industry. Recognizing that a large number of Cuban tobacco growers and cigarmakers had fled the Castro revolution, he invited some of them to take a look at Nicaragua.
"I'm proud to say that my father [Sixto] was one of the pioneers," says Nestor Plasencia. "We got to Nicaragua in 1965. I was still young at the time. And that's where the planting of wrapper leaf began in Nicaragua. Basically, three zones were opened: the Estelí valley; the Condega valley, a valley which is 35 kilometers from Estelí; and the Jalapa valley, on the border with the Republic of Honduras."
The Cubans went to Nicaragua in search of land similar to that which they knew in Cuba's Pinar del Río. "In Cuba, we grew tobacco in November, December, etcetera, and we had winds from the north," Plasencia explains as he looks out at the new irrigation tubes poking out of his fields. "The temperature would fall and would be quite cool. Here we are much farther south than Cuba, but we have the same [climatic] effect with the altitude."
Somoza gave priority in the mid-1960s to the cultivation of tobacco. Cigarette tobacco had been grown in the area for more than 100 years, but now the focus began to shift toward cigars. With the support of a new government agency called INFONAC--which was created by the nation's central bank president, who lived in Estelí--Estelí grew rapidly into the cigar capital of the country.
"INFONAC [Instituto de Fomento Nacional, or Institute of National Development] strongly developed and collaborated in promoting the planting of tobacco, cigar factories and all that," Plasencia recalls. "INFONAC would buy all the imports--insecticides, fungicides, the cloth for the shade-grown wrappers--and machinery necessary and would make them available to the industry. There was an enormously large amount of cooperation on the part of the government in developing and promoting the tobacco industry."
Like the Plasencias, the Perez and Toraño families have been involved with Nicaraguan cigar tobacco since the 1960s. Jaime Toraño, in association with Alfredo and Silvio Perez, began growing tobacco in the Estelí area in the late '60s, according to Jaime's nephew, Carlos Toraño. The younger Toraño now heads Central American Tobacco and Toraño Cigars and is associated with Habanicsa, a factory in Estelí that makes the Carlos Toraño label, among others. "At that time, and for a long time, the main client was General Cigar," he says. "Most of the tobacco that was grown was candela." (Candela is a once-popular green-leaf wrapper that is seldom found on premium cigars these days.)
"The truth is that in the 1970s, Nicaragua became the alternative in the United States to Cuban cigars and tobacco," Toraño says. "The basic brand, without a doubt, was Joya de Nicaragua, [which] became the standard of quality cigars in the United States." By 1976, Nicaragua was responsible for almost a fifth of U.S. premium cigar sales, second in production to the Canary Islands. The Central American country was also becoming the worldwide alternative for premium leaf tobacco, all of it descended from Cuban seed introduced in the 1960s.
The cigar industry in Nicaragua flourished until the Sandinistas took over in 1979. The new government still supported tobacco, but it took away much of the land. "We continued after that with the Sandinistas, but not farming ourselves directly," recalls Alfredo Perez. "They grabbed all the farms. The government was the owner." The Perez family had already expanded their activities to Ecuador. "We never stopped [working] in Nicaragua," Perez adds. "We couldn't farm the tobacco ourselves during the Sandinistas, but we were the ones who bought the tobacco from the government, gave them technical assistance and sold the tobacco." Now ASP Enterprises Inc., the Perez's Miami-based tobacco business, rents the land from private owners, plants the tobacco directly, processes it and sells it all over the world. (Today, Silvio Perez still oversees the family's tobacco operations in Estelí, while his son, Alfredo, and Alfredo's children concentrate on other aspects of their tobacco business.)
The Sandinistas' impact was widely felt. By 1990, exports of Nicaraguan premium cigars to the United States stood at 1.25 million. "In the 1980s, the tobacco industry practically suffered a great reduction," says Omar Ortez, the president of Condega, Nicaragua-based Agroindustrial Nicaraguense de Tabaco, which makes the Felipe Gregorio, Orosi, La Gianna, Hoja de Habano, Flor de Florez and Diamante brands and employs about 1,800 people. "Factories were working here, but there was not a large amount being produced. There was an increase in the planting of burley [cigarette tobacco] and a reduction in wrapper leaf. Only filler leaf was planted."
During those days, Ortez managed state-owned farms in Estelí and Jalapa. His own family's property was not confiscated because the acreage was too small. "There was not a broad sales structure during the Sandinista years. There was also a reduction in the quality of the tobacco because they were trying to produce volume," Ortez adds, noting that during the U.S. embargo, in the second half of the 1980s, most of the Nicaraguan production was sold to East Germany. Other tobacco insiders have claimed that some Nicaraguan tobacco ended up in Cuban cigars, though the Cubans deny it.
Another problem that arose during the Sandinista regime led to the destruction of the country's wrapper crop. During these years, the Cubans brought technical assistance and additional seed to Nicaragua. But a batch of seed they brought in around 1980 had not been sterilized and it carried blue mold, a tobacco fungus that ravaged the crop and wiped out wrapper production in Nicaragua.
In 1990, the Sandinistas, believing their own public opinion polls, felt confident enough to hold elections in an effort to win crucial international respect and assistance. They were voted out. The widow of Nicaraguan martyr Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, was chosen to lead the government. Her son-in-law, Antonio Lacayo, served as minister of the presidency--a post similar to the White House chief of staff--from 1990 to 1996.
"The most important thing [our administration did] was to try to reintegrate, to the degree possible, the tobacco installations and lands to their owners," Lacayo recalls. (The reintegration was fairly successful, he says; owners were awarded land, though not the same parcels that they had lost.)
"I never thought that a socialist government like the Sandinistas could survive in Nicaragua. So I decided to stay," Lacayo says. "I thought it would be very difficult for the Soviet Union to give the Sandinistas the same kind of subsidy as was being given to Cuba. But then [the Sandinistas' cause was ironically bolstered by] the openness with which the Reagan administration showed its aggression toward that government with the creation of the contras. A lot of European governments with a social democratic bent supported the Sandinistas to demonstrate their independence from the United States. [France's President François] Mitterand did it; [Spain's prime minister] Felipe Gonzales did it; [Italy's prime minister] Bettino Craxi did it, [as well as] some of the Scandinavian socialists. They perhaps did not have the intention of supporting Sandinismo, but they did intend to show within their own countries that they were independent and autonomous from the United States."
By the time the Sandinistas were voted out of power, they had saddled the country with a debt of $12.5 billion, a staggering sum for a nation whose annual gross domestic product then was $1.8 billion, with only $300 million in exports. The service on the debt alone was $250 million. Today, while Nicaragua boasts Central America's fastest-growing economy with a GDP tallying annual increases of 6 percent, the population of the country has practically doubled since 1978. This means that it will take another 25 years of such GDP increases just to return to the per capita income levels of 1977, according to Lacayo.
Under a law that prohibits a president from being succeeded by a family member (a safeguard designed to prevent a re-run of the Somoza dynasty), Lacayo could not run for president in 1996. Instead, he focused his energies on agriculture in the private sector and concluded that the best contribution he could make was by planting wrapper leaf.
"Nicaragua's principal problem, after the war and the Marxist system of government in the '80s, is unemployment caused by an enormous drop in production during that decade," Lacayo says. "So, in the cigar industry, the Nicaraguan has a type of oasis of opportunity, as much in the countryside as in the cities, where there are processing houses and the factories making cigars. It's been a blessing, really, from every point of view, because this is the agro-industrial activity which generates the most employment at this moment in Nicaragua. It competes with the employment generated by the coffee industry, except that the cigar industry jobs are more permanent in that they go on all year. Coffee is seasonal."
Lacayo, who earned a degree in industrial engineering from Georgia Tech and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gives the economics lesson while driving around his company's fields with his associate, Jose Joaquin Bendaña. An industrial engineer as well, Bendaña is a Nicaraguan-born ex-U.S. Marine, who is now an entrepreneur living in Teaneck, New Jersey. Their shade-grown wrapper fields are located near León, a town in western Nicaragua whose proximity to sea level makes it considerably hotter than the Estelí valley in the mountains to the northeast. Little of that cooling northern breeze reaches here. Many Cuban veterans in Nicaragua see this "new" location as risky, but admit that Lacayo's first crop was of high quality. Lacayo ages the leaves in possibly the most unusual curing barn in Nicaragua--an old abandoned foundry, a relic of the Sandinista days that was built in cooperation with the Soviet Union but never used for its original purpose.
Between taking calls on his portable phone, Lacayo explains that his company, Tabacos Nicarao, is named after Nicarao, the Nicaraguan Indian leader who negotiated a peace settlement in the year 1523 with the invading Spanish conquistador Gil Gonzalez de Avila. The meeting, commemorated in the company logo showing Nicarao offering a cigar to Gonzalez, took place in the southwestern part of the country and indicates that cigar tobacco was already known as a symbol of friendship and dialogue. That belief, along with an 1856 U.S. newspaper article, gave Lacayo and Bendaña enough faith to plant in the plain of León. The article is titled "The War in Nicaragua" and appeared in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, the Time magazine of its day.
"This great plain produces," the author wrote, "in the most amazing luxuriance, any or every thing [sic] that ever was grown in a tropical country. Tobacco, superior to that of Cuba..."
Lacayo and Bendaña are using advanced technologies to make up for their lack of experience in the industry. Drip irrigation is used to grow Connecticut shade and Habana 2000 wrapper leaf, a reddish-brown, shade-grown tobacco. Some of the fields are planted with corn and sorghum "to clean the soil of nematodes [worms] left by the tobacco plant," Bendaña explains.
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American consumers are seeking out organic foods at an unprecedented rate, in part because of concerns about pesticide use, the effects of growth hormones, antibiotic resistance, and because they want to avoid genetically engineered foods. "We need more organic farmers, and these young men and women are helping educate their own communities and peers about organic agriculture, and about farming's importance in general. We need these young people at the table as organic agriculture continues to grow. Some are now opening organic dairies of their own as they've graduated from college," said Mike Ferry, Horizon president.
This year's four scholarship recipients are:
- Callie Brodt (Ferndale, Calif.), age 19, is the granddaughter of Horizon farmer Jim Walker of the Walker Dairy in Ferndale, Calif. Callie attends Chico State University, where she is majoring in Agriculture Business. "Growing up on an organic dairy and working throughout the dairy industry has given me many opportunities," Callie said. "I really think the organic dairy industry is promising for our future because of the natural practices it offers and the benefits to our land, animals and consumers." HOPE Scholarship committee member Robyn O'Brien, author of The Unhealthy Truth, stated that Callie has "extraordinary clarity of purpose and commitment for someone so young." This is Callie's second HOPE Scholarship.
- Mieke DeJong (Bonanza, Ore.), age 21, is the daughter of Horizon farmers Arie and Jenneke DeJong, who run the Windy Ridge farm in Bonanza, Ore. This is Mieke's third HOPE Scholarship, and she plans to graduate in spring 2014 from Oregon State University with a degree in Agricultural Business. Mieke says helping out on her family's organic farm has been rewarding. "As I grew older, I gained a new perspective on what organic truly meant and have grown to love what it represents and how animals and farms should be treated," Mieke said. "Knowing that organic foods are produced with care and love from families like ours, I am more than willing to support organic foods and encourage others to do so as well." HOPE Scholarship committee member Glenda Yoder of Farm Aid said, "Mieke demonstrates a great awareness of the benefits and qualities of organic agriculture. She has qualities that could make her a business leader."
- Damen Jeg (Chehalis, Wash.), age 19, is the son of Horizon farmer Heinz Jeg of Jeg and Sons Dairy in Chehalis, Wash. Damen, who is a first-time recipient of the HOPE Scholarship, plans to attend Washington State University to pursue a degree in Animal Science. "Living and working on an organic dairy farm has been a unique and advantageous opportunity," Damen said. "The organic option provides a niche market for those who want to consume and utilize a more wholesome and pure product in their lives." Beyond family farming, he said organic agriculture also offers career opportunities in various fields, including agronomy, business, animal science and food science. HOPE Scholarship committee member Dr. Alan Greene commented that Damen is "an accomplished and well-rounded young man who will represent organic well. The skills he's learned will help him be a creative and problem-solving organic farmer."
- Sierra Knight (Lisbon, N.Y.), age 19, is the daughter of Horizon farmer Bradley Knight of Knight's Meadow View Farm in Lisbon, N.Y. Sierra, now a two-time recipient of the HOPE Scholarship, is attending The State University of New York (SUNY) at Potsdam, where she is majoring in pre-veterinary with a minor in biology. She would like to become a veterinarian. "Healthcare for an organic farm is especially difficult to find because of the specific list of medications and procedures that a farmer is allowed to use," Sierra said. "The availability of a veterinarian who understands organic is also very important in the farmer's goal in running and maintaining a productive farm." HOPE Scholarship committee member Steve Gilman said Sierra "is an incredible student and her pre-vet track is immensely important for organic agriculture."
The 2013 HOPE Scholarship recipients were chosen by a committee of organic industry leaders, including: Tracy Favre, National Organic Standards Board member and former chief operating officer, Holistic Management International (HMI); Steve Gilman, policy coordinator, Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) Interstate Council; Alan Greene, MD, founder of DrGreene.com; Faye Jones, executive director, Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES); Robyn O'Brien, author of The Unhealthy Truth and founder of AllergyKids; Bob Scowcroft, a long-standing organic advocate who has served in various leadership positions for 35 years; and Glenda Yoder, associate director, Farm Aid.
About Horizon Organic
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Huge announcement at 3pm today
September 12 2008 09:46AM
We here at the Nation like to think of ourselves as a six-piece 1980s polka band. At 3pm today, the accordion player finally reports for work.
That's right, the final masterstroke of people that work with the OilersNation will be revealed this afternoon as finalize our roster for the 2008-09 season.
We think you'll be pleasantly surprised. Be sure and tune in.
—DJ Spyn Cycle is the handsome cyborg who keeps the OilersNation from self-destructing. Barely.
September 12 2008, 09:54AM
holy F'n S i'm excited
September 12 2008, 09:55AM
It's Mark Bugg. Next...
September 12 2008, 10:10AM
Oh yes, by all means post your predictions here, Nation. Wild speculation and rumour is what we're all about.
September 12 2008, 10:12AM
Eklund? You guys signed Eklund.... Didn't you?...look at me......
September 12 2008, 10:13AM
OK, I meant "wild speculation within reason", reason being defined be me as: "Come ON, seriously."
September 12 2008, 10:17AM
DR. Randy Gregg?!!!
You're adding highly graphic adult content??
September 12 2008, 10:18AM
It's gotta be Fred Penner, crawling out of a log, playing his guitar, and telling stories about his little nephew Dustin...
September 12 2008, 10:18AM
Welp, since you guys have added my entire favorites list as contributors to this site...lets see what's left...{checks favorites}
Well it could be one of these:
1. Covered in Oil dude. 2. LOLcats.com
My money's on lolcats.
September 12 2008, 10:23AM
btw Oilersnation ROOKIE CAMP STARTS TODAY!!!!!!!!!
Do you know what that means???? We have actually hockey stuff to talk about actual hockey players that is actually happening!!!!!!!!!!
Thank god....the puck drop is so close I can smell the Avalanche blood already.
September 12 2008, 10:39AM
Hmmm . . . looking to add one more writer for the nation . . . needs to know something about hockey . . . needs to be able to present opinions that will generate discussion . . . needs to have something to say constantly . . .
I'm going with Brian Burke. I don't know how you guys did it, but nicely done.
September 12 2008, 10:53AM
I hate that covered in oil guy. Please don't let it be him. He is so whiny
September 12 2008, 10:55AM
"DR. Randy Gregg?!!!"
I wish. Do you know how rich and powerful Dr. Randy Gregg is? Let me put it to you this way - Daryl Katz owes him money
September 12 2008, 11:10AM
I too am not a covered in oil guy, period. His opposition to the arena is almost dumbfounding. I hope his home in annexed by the city and they drop the arena right on top. He then can be relocated to millwoods - if he isnt already there.
September 12 2008, 11:11AM
I am guessing K-Lowe. It must be the real reason he stepped up from GM to concentrate on more blogging.
Please say Guy...
September 12 2008, 11:26AM
Covered in oil guy lives in Toronto and that basically disqualifies him from talking about the oilers in my opinion
September 12 2008, 11:30AM
Um, you didn't email -me- about joining ON, so clearly, it's not that big of an announcement.
September 12 2008, 11:31AM
And I'm still guessing Morley.
This is exciting! This website is starting to take up way to much time in my work day ha ha ha
hmmm dstaples?
oh yeah guy would be the Best
September 12 2008, 01:06PM
Think meaner and more heavily armed than dstaples.
September 12 2008, 01:08PM
Wanye, we already have Brownlee.
September 12 2008, 01:22PM
K, given Wanye's hint it's either Rambo? or that mc79hockey guy?
...I hate waiting. If this is some sort of Eklundian ploy to keep getting hits on your site until all is revealed, then I have to tell you I don't appreciate being a pawn in your devious plan. But I will check back anyways JUST to prove that you don't control me! ...now, where do I send you money?
September 12 2008, 01:27PM
We did the delay quite honestly because the person is currently in the US and promised us his first words in "the early afternoon."
We wanted to get word up early to entertain ourselves with speculative comments.
It's a mainstream media personality. How's that.
September 12 2008, 01:33PM
Mark Schultz. Although I don't know what he would actually say...
He is kinda funny though.
Ah, it's Gregor. Interesting.
September 12 2008, 02:09PM
Holy F'n S we are 51 minutes from blowing our load
September 12 2008, 02:14PM
Maybe Dan Tencer, that would be awesome too.
Is it Matty? Would a hall of Famer "print" guy stoop so low as to write on the Internet? Or maybe it's Ken Reid? I don't know if I can wait until 3 to find out, as I usually sneak out of here at about 2:30 on Friday. I walk out with a really big frown on my face like I'm pissed off so nobody asks me where I'm going. Doesn't everyone do that?!?
September 12 2008, 02:30PM
I totally do that Chaz. I also do a fake phone call move on occassion. Perosonally I think it's cruel to do this announcement at 3 on one of the last sunny Fridays of the summer.
Damn you Wayne!
September 12 2008, 02:32PM
Pink shirts and leather pants . . . can it be anybody else but Gregor?
September 12 2008, 02:35PM
Brian Fellows -
It's Wanye homeslice. Wayne Gretz is a God. I'm not.
You know everyone we can sit here and say "who" posted "what" "when" and "why" all we want. I am just like you. Sitting here at my desk waiting for the weekend to begin......
Of course the difference here is that I know what is about to happen.
I have never known a secret before. Everyone else is gone. Spyn Cycle has something to do so he left me here and said "Post this when his email arrives. Not a moment before three though Wanye."
That's fine. I should be home watching PTI by 3pm anyways. Don't tell my Boss.
What a minute...Is PTI even on at 3 anymore? I lose track during golf season...
September 12 2008, 02:44PM
16mins......this better be good.
September 12 2008, 02:44PM
Come on RANDY GREGG!
September 12 2008, 02:46PM
You know why Dr, Randy has two G's in his last name? The extra G is for Extra Good. Like what his blogs about the Oilers would be like! and hell in our comments we could solicit free medical advice!
September 12 2008, 02:48PM
Its gonna be Bob Stauffer!
September 12 2008, 02:55PM
And survey says.... Matt F*ckin Greene
September 12 2008, 02:56PM
Fiveandagame -
"in our comments we could solicit free medical advice!"
Dr. Gregg what do you think about the Oilers Powerplay next year? Also, why does it burn when I pee?
September 12 2008, 03:01PM
And Wayne would finally get that growth examined! And the Good Doctor could tell us who's brain is bigger Willis or Lowetide!
September 12 2008, 03:01PM
"We did the delay quite honestly because the person is currently in the US and promised us his first words in "the early afternoon." "
This is the part that gave it away if you'd like to know. He said he'd be in Vegas on the Bear yesterday I believe.
er, Atlantic City..whatever.
September 12 2008, 03:32PM
Who said that, Ribs?