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Last week, the radio show Marketplace explored "How we consume, what we get from it, what it costs and whether we can keep it up," in a weekly series entitled Consumed.
"This series," explained Marketplace's host Kai Ryssdal, "is all about whether consumer economy is sustainable on every single level, for businesses, for consumers and for the people who work in it."
With such a premise, I couldn't help but listen to Marketplace all week. The series didn't disappoint and besides providing a great example of what public radio is all about, it also gave me some food for thought. Here are some of the more interesting lessons I've learned from it:
Day 1: Learn from Betty Blue, not from Adam Smith
On the first day of the series, Kai Ryssdal talked with P.J. O'Rourke, a political satirist and an expert on Adam Smith, the 18th century Scottish economist and philosopher who is considered by many the father of modern economics, mainly due to his 1776 book "The Wealth of Nations", where he presented the idea that economic progress depends upon three individual prerogatives: The pursuit of self-interest, the division of labor, and the freedom of trade.
The conversation was on the relevance of Smith's ideas for today's consumer economy, including whether Smith's perception – that if all people pursue their own interests the common good will advance – still has merits. Neither Ryssdal nor O'Rourke thought so. "If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy," O'Rourke said, "and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed."
Ryssdal had another explanation in mind. In another segment, he went to a hardware store to buy some stuff he needed and found himself looking at new grills, though he really didn't need a new one. So why was he looking at the grills? Simply because they're there, he explains. "That's so much what happens in this economy, right? We have the choice, we pursue it and thus we consume."
Is it possible that the problem is just our inability to resist temptation? If so, maybe we can learn something from the 1986 French film Betty Blue, where the actor Jean-Hugues Anglade explains to his neighbor's wife why he resists her seductive offers. "Sometimes I resist my desires in order to feel I'm free," he says. So maybe it's time to update Adam Smith's metaphor of "invisible hand" to the "invisible resisting hand," which will make sure we only buy what we need.
Day 2: Advice for CEOs: Think of your grandchildren, not the next quarter
Day 2 looked at companies and how their focus on constant growth and shareholder value impact the consumer economy. This them was best emphasized by an in-depth interview with none other than Paul Polman, the CEO of Unilever, who explained how his company addresses these issues.
In the interview, Kai Ryssdal asked Polman a tricky question, "Who do you feel more responsible to – your grandchildren or your shareholders?" To that, Polman had a clear answer, "My grandchildren, without a doubt." Does that mean that he prefers stakeholders over shareholders? Not really.
Polman explained, "The debate always tries to polarize – we cannot do one versus the other. There's absolutely no reason why you cannot maximize shareholder value while at the same time also caring for the other stakeholders. In fact, we would submit at Unilever that these two go hand-in-hand…you cannot have a successful healthy business model if you don't also create a healthy environment. Business has a very hard time succeeding in societies that fail…and the data is evident that using up our scarce resources is also an enormous cost of business."
Hopefully other CEOs took a note of that.
Day 3: Millennials' hurdles provide hope for a better future
Day 3 made the case that millennials have hard time participating in the consumer economy not because they don't want to, but because they can't afford it, as well-paid, full-time jobs with benefits are hard to come by for many millennials.
Basing your livelihood on a "patchwork quilt of part-time jobs" has many downsides, but there's also an upside. The need to be more frugal and to look for alternatives to traditional consumption (sharing economy, for example) might seem like a bummer, but it can actually become the foundation of a better and more prosperous future for this generation. If these experiences shape millenials' consciousness and impact their behavior even when they finally get their full-time jobs, then a sustainable future might be within reach.
Day 4: Bubbles forever
Day 4 was mostly about bubbles, a phenomenon with a long history that was explained by Prof. Joesph Stiglitz as follows: "If the reason the price is high today is only because investors believe that the selling price will be high tomorrow — when 'fundamental' factors do not seem to justify such a price — then a bubble exists."
The main story was on a bubble that took place in Eastern Montana 100 years ago, as well as its similarities to the latest housing bubble. The lesson I found here is that maybe we shouldn't be that surprised when we experience bubbles – after all, they're the result of human nature, not force majeure and while times and circumstances may change, it seems like greed and hope, the human forces behind bubbles, will never go away.
Day 5: The real cost of consumerism
On the last day, Adriene Hill and David Weinberg from Marketplace's sustainability desk (which was responsible for the series) did a great segment on the evolution of the society from a "market economy, to being a market society where everything is for sale."
They talked with Harvard Prof. Michael Sandel on what might be one of the more troubling costs of consumerism – what it does to us as a society. Prof. Sandel explained it:
Democracy doesn't require perfect equality, but it does require that men and women from different backgrounds, different walks of life, encounter one another, bump up against one another in the course of ordinary life. Because this is what gives us a sense that we are all in this together — that sense of being engaged in a common project. Without that experience of a shared civic life, it's very difficult to think and act as democratic citizens.
So isn't it time to say goodbye to the consumer economy before it's too late? I sure thought so after the series ended. How about you?
[Image credit: APM: Marketplace]
Raz Godelnik is the co-founder of Eco-Libris and an adjunct faculty at the University of Delaware's Business School, CUNY SPS and the Parsons The New School for Design, teaching courses in green business, sustainable design and new product development. You can follow Raz on Twitter.


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I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving... and now let the Christmas season begin! As always, my mom has put together a lovely Adventskranz or Advent wreath. You can see those from previous years here, here, here, here, and here.
The first candle lit on the Adventskranz
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I revisited a rambling (part kempt and part wonderfully wooded and wild) South London cemetery today where, incidentally, I was so pleased to spot a single Speckled Wood butterfly which type seems drastically down this year - even completely gone so early in the year in London locations where I have viewed them over the years as the most ubiquitous butterfly first to arrive in Spring and last to leave in Autumn.
Instead, Ringlets are, to me, peculiarly abundant that I have never viewed in London in previous years. And, what a surprise to witness a Ringlet variant male, of which I saw several of the same, so distinctive the lighter rear wings in flight that I wondered what I had come across if they had not been Ringlets?
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Nice pictures I agree its a Ringlet and looks a little different but I am not too familiar with them only seeing them once or twice a year Is it possible they are sun bleached, they are "old" the white border has been eroded
Many thanks Steve...
"Sun Bleached" is such an apt description of the pale-winged Ringlet I witnessed today.
You are welcome its great to find another Butterfly "headbanger" I love tracking them down 47 species so far in my area this year


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ENCINITAS -- The city has bagged a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, money that officials said Friday will pay for brochures and a Web site outlining Encinitas' artistic, cultural and historic resources.
The federal arts agency awarded only two of its competitive Challenge America grants in San Diego County, one to Encinitas and the other to Malashock Dance & Company in San Diego. Across America, only 86 of 154 applications were funded. All grants were for $10,000 and require a dollar-for-dollar match from the applicant.
"I never imagined Encinitas receiving an NEA grant," said Kathryn Gould, a member of the city's Commission for the Arts.
Now in its third year, the Challenge America grant is designed to enable arts organizations to expand their audiences, said Victoria Hutter, an endowment spokeswoman.
The endowment strongly encouraged applicants to demonstrate how their work would involve partnerships, she said.
The partners in Encinitas include two city panels -- the Commission for the Arts and Cultural Tourism Committee -- as well as Downtown Encinitas MainStreet Association.
Meetings to begin brainstorming for the Encinitas project should begin in January, said Peder Norby, the association's executive director.
"What we want to avoid is to be just another brochure in a brochure rack with hundreds," he said.
The form and shape the piece will take are not known, but one idea would be to design the brochure so it could be cut and folded to create a diorama or other piece of art.
The brochure will be distributed throughout the city and will be available at the Encinitas Visitors Center on Encinitas Boulevard.
Together with the brochure, the grant will support construction of a Web site, where the complete story of Encinitas' artistic and cultural history will be told.
Gould, the arts commissioner, said the project will meet a number of goals in the city's year-old Arts Master Plan -- a thick document designed to serve as a road map for the city's promotion of the arts. For example, it suggests that art be available to all city residents.
Public art enlivens much of Encinitas. Colorful tiles painted by local children cover park tables and waste receptacles. Every year since 1999, the Arts Alive Banner Project brings 74 original paintings to light standards along Coast Highway 101.
The 101 Artists Colony on E Street is a co-op where local artists rent space and show their work.
Donna Butnik was among artists at the colony on Friday helping to decorate a float for today's Holiday Parade. (The parade begins at 5:30 p.m. at D Street and South Coast Highway 101.)
It's exciting for Encinitas to get the grant, she said, but added that she was concerned about restrictions of content.
"A lot of times, if you do something for the city, it can't be controversial," Butnik said.
According to Hutter of the endowment, the agency does not make decisions based on contact.
"We make decisions based upon the ability of the grantee to carry out the project," she said.
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Swansea defender Ashley Williams has completed his £12million switch to Premier League rivals Everton.
The Toffees have moved swiftly to replace John Stones, who was sold for £47.5million to Manchester City on Tuesday, by acquiring Williams, 31, for a fraction of the cost on a three-year deal.
Williams had spent eight years with the Swans and though they rejected Everton's initial advances for him, the Welshman's desire to move to Merseyside saw the South Wales outfit relent.
Having risen through the leagues with them, chairman Huw Jenkins expressed his regret that Williams had sought pastures new.
"We are disappointed to lose Ashley. It is definitely not something we wanted to happen," Jenkins said on Swansea's official website.
"But having turned down Everton's initial offer, Ashley expressed his desire for a new challenge at this time of his career.
"Taking into account the excellent service Ashley has given this football club over the last eight years, including as club captain, we reluctantly agreed to his request to join Everton after they made an improved offer.
"It goes without saying that we wish him the very best with his new challenge and thank him for his services."


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Activities Implemented Jointly Under the Pilot Phase
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B. Governmental Acceptance, Approval or Endorsement:
(a) In the case of joint reporting, the report is submitted by the designated national authority of one participating Party with the concurrence of all other participating Parties as evidenced by attached letters issued by relevant national authorities;
1. For the activity:
Intermediate and joint report: please add copies of letters of endorsement by each designated national authority of Parties involved in the activity.
As evidenced by the attached letter, this integrated project has been endorsed by the following involved participants: Costa Rican Ministry of Environment and Energy, the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Power and Light Company of Costa Rica and the Norwegian Consortium, under an agreement signed on October 26, 1996.
Please find enclosed a copy of the agreement/endorsement by the RNMFA, the Norwegian designated national authority.
C. Compatibility with supportiveness of national economic development and socio-economic and environment priorities and strategies:
This project is designed to be fully-integrated and are totally consistent with the goals of the government of Costa Rica, that is to: augment the country's renewable energy supply, internalize costs of environmental services, and sell nontraditional goods and services in which Costa Rica has a natural comparative advantage, such as the service of cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions.
The Certifiable Tradable Offset (CTO) financing mechanism for the forestry component has been developed, as the first worldwide of its kind, in order to gain practical experience with such a mechanism explicitly designed with pilot phase objectives in mind, i.e. to contribute to the information base needed for evaluations of the pilot phase without preempting its outcome. This mechanism will not only assure that individual farmers receive compensation for the environmental services that their forest provides, but it will also assure to AIJ investors that the farmers commitments are legally binding for at least 20 years. Without AJI funding, it is certain that the FESP program, a component of the new Forestry Law, will not be applied to this pilot project, along with the environmental, economic and social benefits associated with it.
This project represents a full integration of public and private participation through the production of environmental services, such as GHG emissions reductions. In addition, demonstrated that sustainable development can be good business for all participants and that the CTOs are highly cost-effective and economically viable in terms of real costs of emissions reduction when subject to mutually beneficial incentive structures.
D. Benefits derived from the AIJ project:
E. Greenhouse gas impacts of the AIJ Project
With this project, the CNFL's goal of GHG emissions reduction will be realized through the carbon sequestration due to enhanced biomass growth and carbon storage through forest conservation. The project will provide a total cumulative greenhouse gas reductions estimated at 230,842 mt C (see next Table). This estimate was determined based upon the assumption of 25 years life for the project.
For this proposal, the project "cumulative effect" scenario is given by the accumulation of the annual "project effect". For the primary forest conservation, it was assumed that in the absence of the project, the current land-use pattern would continue along with decline in carbon stocks. Therefore, the "project effect" estimation was based upon the emissions avoided by halting deforestation.
The methodology used for the estimation of the biomass was based upon the "Life Zones System", developed by Holdridge from the Scientific Tropical Center, based in Costa Rica. It permits to map forest types not only in terms of bioclimate or life zones, but also in terms of local forest and soil ecosystem type or plant association, within each distinctive life zone.
The carbon was estimated considering a proportion of green biomass/dry biomass of 0.5 and the fraction of carbon in the dry biomass used was 0.45. This calculation was done by Life Zone system and an average of 67 mt C/ha was obtained. On the other hand, the deforestation rate or risk of change in the use of the land in the area was estimated in 7.5%-weighted average. This value was obtained based on the Model of the Critical Areas developed by FUNDECOR. Landsat images from 1986 and 1992 were used to validate the model. Therefore, considering the area of 2,000 ha to be protected by the project, the avoided emission for the first year, 1997, was 10,050 mt C (=2,000 ha * 0.075 * 67 mt C/ha) and for 1998 , 9,296 mt C (=1,850 ha * 0.075 * 67 mt C/ha). Thus, the "cumulative effect" of the project or the emissions avoided by the net storage of Carbon in the protected primary forest during the project life span, 1997 trough 2021, was estimated to be 41,000 mt C. (see next Table).
To determine the "project effect" or the carbon sequestration in the secondary forest, the estimation of biomass was based on studies done in Costa Rica by the " Centro Agronómico Tropical" (CATIE), a worldwide recognized institution that for many years has developed forestry investigations with native species of the tropics. For the carbon estimate, a proportion of green biomass/dry biomass of 0.5 was used and the fraction of carbon in the dry biomass used was 0.45. This calculation was done using the Life Zone Systems and an average of 2 mt C/ha was obtained. The area to be protected by the project is 1,000 ha and to accomplish this, the annual incorporation of 100 ha will take place along a period of 10 years, starting in 1997. For 1997, the Carbon sequestered was estimated to be 200 mt C (= 100 ha * 2 mt C/ha). Thus, the "cumulative effect" of the project or the amount of Carbon sequestered in the secondary forest during the project's life, 1997 through 2021, was estimated to be 114,917 mt C. (see next Table).
For the reforestation component, the estimation of biomass was based on studies done by CATIE, the "Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica" and the "Universidad Nacional". To determine the Carbon sequestration, a green biomass/dry biomass proportion of 0.45 was used and the carbon fraction in dry biomass used was 0.45. The annual increase rate for the species to be planted was estimated to be 20 m3 /ha/year and the rotation for the species 25 years. The new plantation to be established is 1,000 ha, and to accomplish this, an annual incorporation of 100 ha will take place along a period of 10 years, starting in 1997. For 1999, the Carbon sequestered was estimated to be 405 mt C (= 100 ha * 20 m3 /ha/year * 0.45 * 0.45) and for the year 2000 810 mt C (= 200 ha * 20 m3 /ha-year * 0.45 * 0.45). Thus, the "cumulative effect" of the project or the amount of Carbon sequestered in the plantations during the project's life, 1997 through 2021, was estimated to be 74,925 mt of C. (see next Table).AIJ Pilot Project
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of Carbon stored in forest and fixed by plantations
F. Additionality to the financial obligations of Parties included in Annex II to the Convention,
within the framework of financial mechanism as well as to current Official Development Assistance flows.
The AIJ funding will be made available by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Norwegian Consortium. The contribution of the RNMFA is provided from a separate budget line, the Norwegian Climate Fund, which has been established in addition to the Norway's Development Assistance Budget and will not be reported as part of Norway's Official Development Aid (ODA). This contribution is provided in addition to Norway's financial commitments under UNFCCC. The contribution from the Norwegian Consortium is a private sector contribution provided specifically as an AIJ investment. CNFL contribution is for the project development.
Sources of project funding.
As above-mention, the forestry activities will take place under the FESP program. Among the incentives, it provides an annual payment of about US$ 58/ha/year, against proof of effective conservation of forests or US$ 48/ha/year for reforestation. These contracts will be legally binding for at least 20 years. On the other hand, as proof of the CO2 emissions sequestered or avoided through the investment, the foreign AIJ investors will receive CTOs in return for their financial contributions on AIJ. The rate at which the CTO is issued to the investors is US$ 10/mt C or US$ 2.72/mt CO2 . Although the Norwegian AIJ additional investment is part of the project, consistent with Decision 5/CP/1 of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, no GHG emissions reductions credits will be claimed by Norway during the pilot phase. Without the AIJ additional funding, it is certain that the FESP program will not be applied to this project, along with the environmental, economic and social benefits associated with it.
G. Contribution to capacity building, transfer of environmentally sound technologies, and know-how to other Parties, particularly developing country Parties, to enable them to implement the provisions of the Convention. In this process, the developed country Parties shall support the development and enhancement of endogenous capacities and technologies of developing country Parties.
Because the forestry component involves education and outreach activities, information about proper silviculture techniques will be passed on to individual farmers and community organizations, contributing in this way to local know-how capacity building. Furthermore, the implementation of the financial structure of the AIJ component, as one of the first application of this new legal procedure, will contribute to develop endogenous capacity in this field. In this way, one of the tenets of Costa Rica's official commitment to sustainable development is the use of market oriented initiatives to mitigate climate change. The designation of CTOs as market instruments designed to attract foreign investments for carbon mitigation is a cornerstone of this approach. The CTO will function as the financial instrument through which Costa Rica may fulfill its national priorities of biodiversity conservation, mitigation of climate change, production of local environmental services, such as protection of aquifers and low-impact ecotourism, and direct participation of small landholders in all these activities.
H. Additional comments, if any, including any practical experience gained or technical difficulties, effects, negative impacts or other obstacles encountered
Norwegian comment:
The Government of Norway and the Norwegian Consortium, the investors, found the cooperation with the Costa Rican side to benefit significantly from the fact that know-how and capacity for AIJ cooperation is in place.
Costa Rican comment:
In February 1997, the Government of Costa Rica, through OCIC, issued CTOs to Norwegian AIJ investors in exchange for the first disbursement of US$1 million corresponding to the first tranche of 100,000 mt of C. In 1997, the final disbursement of US$1 million was channeled to FONAFIFO in exchange for the second tranche of 100,000 mt of C .
The issued CTOs for the 200,000 mt of C, corresponds to an equivalent amount of carbon "not emitted" during 1996 and 1997, attributed to private forestry conservation activities financed by the Government of Costa Rica under the FESP program. Those activities comprise a total of 20,856 ha, corresponding to 382 legally binding contracts for private forestry conservation in different regions of the country.
With the total US$2 million AIJ fund, an expected additional 900 private forest landowners will be compensated, under the framework of legally binding contracts, for the environmental services provided by their forestry efforts, such as conservation and reforestation of a minimum 10,000 ha of natural and secondary forest in Costa Rica. During the execution of the FESP program, priority will be given to the 4,000 ha comprising the watershed of the Virilla upper-river basin. Without the AIJ additional funding, it is certain that the FESP program will not be applied to this project, along with the environmental, economic and social benefits associated with it.
During the period from 1997 to 1999, the FESP program allows for a total of 203,434 ha under legally binding contracts conservation in different regions of the country, according different forestry activities as shown in the following Table. The total investment was US$ 23,976,972.FESP Program: Area (ha) under legally binding contracts 1997-99
Concomitantly, according the terms of the bilateral agreement for the Costa Rica / Norway Reforestation and Forest Conservation AIJ Pilot Project, the commitments stated in section E of this report has been fully accomplished by Government of Costa Rica (see next Table).
During the period 1996 to 1999, a total of 2,387 ha in the Virilla upper-river basin have been incorporated to the FESP program. This area corresponds to about 60% of the total 4,000 ha referred by the project agreement (see next Table).Costa Rica / Norway Reforestation and Forest Conservation AIJ Pilot Project
Implementation 1996-1999
FONAFIFO and CNFL have executed the project implementation, supported by FUNDECOR (Central Mountain Range Development Foundation). Satellite images, ground-truething data, and independent audits ensured that the submitted information reflects the reality.
This AIJ Pilot Project constitutes a groundbreaking precedent of using the CTO financial mechanism, with a "commodity approach", to clean the atmosphere and, in this way, contributes on the basis of "learning by doing", to further develop AIJ. Such scheme could be promoted on a global scale as a financial mean to transfer additional finance resources to developing countries in order to promote the international effort to abate emissions of greenhouse gases to combat the global warming.


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Lady Gaga was bullied at school
Lady Gaga has spoken of how she was bullied at school because of the way she looks.
The 24-year-old superstar now turns heads with her outlandish style and barely-there outfits but confessed her days at an all-girls New York private school were hard.
While posing in underwear for Cosmopolitan, she told the magazine: "I had a very big nose, very curly brown hair and I was overweight - I got made fun of."
Now the singer, real name Stefani Germanotta, loves the spotlight and performing.
She said: "My friends joke that I'm dead until I get on stage. For some people, fame kills it and becomes more important than the music or the performance.
"But for me fame is like rocket fuel. The more my fans like what I'm doing, the more I want to give back to them.
"And my passion is so strong I can't sleep - I haven't slept for three days."
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The words, "special senses," typically get in touch with to mind comic book superheroes and cheesy tv psychics - incredibly hardly ever does a single promptly believe of sharks. Nonetheless, sharks (including the excellent white) are among numerous animals around the planet with fascinating sensory capabilities beyond these familiar to humans. Furthermore to sight, taste, touch, and an exceptionally powerful sense of smell, fantastic white sharks have two other sensory receptor systems: mechanoreception and electroreception.
Mechanoreception can be a sensory method by which an animal detects the power alterations from varying pressures and movements inside the atmosphere. Sharks can sense the wave disturbances produced by other animals and objects in the water from really a distance, tremendously aiding them in getting prey. The erratic thrashings of a wounded seal or fish are just like the loud PA-system announcements we all recall from grade college, calling everybody for the cafeteria for lunch! Sharks are swiftly aware of new objects introduced inside the surrounding water, including boats or shark diving cages, and often come to investigate. Scientists also believe that sharks use mechanoreception to navigate, sensing the direction and movement of changing currents.
Anybody who sees a photo of a great white shark (or is lucky sufficient to safely see one particular in particular person!) is capable to notice the ridge that runs lengthwise along each sides, in the gills to the tail fin. That is known as the "lateral line." Like eyes and noses are for the senses of sight and smell, the lateral line is largely accountable for the shark's mechanoreception abilities.
Great whites can not just sense movement inside the water, but also minute electrical impulses. This kind of sensory method is named electroreception. Easily visible on the underside from the shark's snout are a sprinkling of pores known as the ampullae of Lorenzini. Named just after the Italian researcher who first commented on them in 1678, these pores resemble several blackheads or possibly a 5 o'clock shadow. Every single pore is filled with conductive gel and sensory cells, providing the fantastic white the potential to detect the weak electrical signals offered off by all living organisms. The tiny quantity of energy generated by the heartbeats and muscle contractions of other animals are quickly picked up by the ampullae of Lorenzini. Specific metals, when introduced into seawater, give off an electrical signal which is picked up by sharks. Researchers, fisherman, and people that dive with great white shark diet have noticed that great whites sometimes bump or bite metal parts of their boat to investigate these new electric impulse sources. Responsible researchers and great white cage divers make their cages out of metals with incredibly little electrical ion reaction to seawater.
Substantial study on the terrific white's "special senses" has not been attainable hence far, on account of our inability to keep one particular in captivity for the length of time vital for comprehensive observation and testing. One particular juvenile white shark, kept for 3 days inside the San Francisco Steinhardt Aquarium in 1980, showed sensitivity to a tiny section of her aquarium having a minuscule electrical differential of 0.125 millivolt. From this and other calculations, marine biologists estimate that the great white shark can detect the electrical equivalent of a D-cell flashlight battery at a distance of just about 1,000 miles away!


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FAIRFAX, VA — The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) announces the open comment period for an updated AIHA/ANSI Z10 standard, according to a press release.
This standard defines minimum performance requirements for occupational health and safety management systems (OHSMS), the release stated.
According to the release, the open comment period began November 25, 2011, and the deadline for comment on the Z10 standard is January 9, 2012.
The design of ANSI Z10 encourages integration with other management systems to facilitate organizational effectiveness using the elements of Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) model as the basis for continual improvement, the release noted.
To obtain an electronic copy of the draft or comment, click here or contact David Hicks, AIHA secretariat representative, at email@example.com, the release added.
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Mentor Tech Program Begins New Cycle
With the annual performance review period completed, it is now time to start thinking ahead, making plans and setting goals for the upcoming year. If career development is on the list, then the Mentor Tech program may be worth a closer look.
Sponsored by Georgia Tech's Office of Organizational Development, Mentor Tech matches faculty and staff who volunteer to assist junior employees with a desire to learn. The program taps into the wealth of experience and talent possessed by other successful Georgia Tech employees.
Mentoring is not only a viable method for growing career skills, but also widely viewed as an important tool in the process of life long learning. As an informal advisor, mentors also receive support from the Mentor Tech staff in the form of training and reference materials.
"We are recruiting mentors and protégés at all levels of the Institute," said Deborah Covin Wilson, director of the Mentor Tech program. "Mentors do not have to be a supervisor, but must have a successful track record, possess several years of experience at Georgia Tech and be willing to commit two hours a month to a protégé. Prospective protégés should be serious about their professional development."
Applications for this year's program are available at www.mentortech.gatech.edu; the deadline to apply is May 14. Applicants will be notified of their status in early June.


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AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. —— Somebody needs to remind a certainmilitary institution that competes in the Mountain West Conferencethat it is known as Air Force, not Air Coryell.
The Air Force Academy averaged more than 23 yards per completionSaturday afternoon, taking advantage of a young San Diego Statedefense trying to find its stride. The Falcons had 503 total yardswith 231 coming through the air.
Dating to last football season, it was the third consecutivegame in which Air Force has thrown for more than 200 yards. Thatstill leaves the Falcons' passing game far behind the aerialcircuses that former Aztecs and Chargers coach Don Coryell oversaw,but the trio of 200-yard games had not been done since the Falconsbecame an option team in 1980.
"They're throwing the ball a lot more than they did in previous years," said Aztecs middle linebacker Freddy Keiaho, who had a game-high 13 tackles in the Aztecs' 41-29 loss Saturday. "Their quarterback was accurate today."
Air Force's Shaun Carney was 10-of-12 passing, a torrid 83.3 percent. One of his incompletions came when his deep throw hung in the air just long enough for Aztecs safety Reggie Grigsby to catch up and deflect the ball away.
But there was another time when Grigsby was beaten on a 61-yard pass play to Jason Brown.
"Those two plays were my busts in the back end," said Grigsby, the former El Camino High standout who had 12 tackles. "They got behind me. The quarterback put the ball in the air, and the receiver play was outstanding on both plays."
Meanwhile, Air Force's perennially solid ground attack was chewing up turf as well. The Falcons had 272 rushing yards, and fullback Jacobe Kendrick finished with 128 yards and four touchdowns.
Air Force controlled the ball for 33 minutes, 52 seconds, and it was clear late in the game that the San Diego State defense was gassed in the 6,621-foot elevation. Right after the Aztecs pulled within 27-22 with 9:59 remaining, the Falcons carved up the Aztecs for 81 yards on a 11-play drive that ended with Kendrick's 1-yard TD run.
"Over a period of time, it takes its toll," Aztecs coach Tom Craft said. "Here we are up in altitude, and they're fighting their tails off and we just couldn't keep it up there at the end."
Air Force moves ball for more than 500 yards against the young defense.
A second-quarter sequence when the Aztecs twice botched handoffs to fuel a 20-point quarter for Air Force.
Aztecs at Ohio State, Saturday, 12:36 p.m.
"We shot ourselves in the foot twice when we had good drives going moving the ball, and I think that was a big key. The turnovers got us again." —— TOM CRAFT, Aztecs coach, on two fumbles that preceded Air Force touchdowns
Air Force fullback rushes for 128 yards and four touchdowns, both career highs.
Record falls to 5-16 in road games during Tom Craft's tenure as coach.
T Chris Pino - stinger
RB Lynell Hamilton - dislocated right pinky
C Jasper Harvey - ankle
The teams combined for eight fumbles, five by Air Force andthree by the Aztecs. There were six fumbles in the first half, fourby Air Force. But the Falcons lost only one of them, with Aztecs DEAntwan Applewhite forcing and recovering the fumble to set up afield goal.
The Aztecs suffered two costly handoff exchanges between QBKevin O'Connell and RB Lynell Hamilton with Air Force cashing bothturnovers into touchdowns.
"The timing was a little off on our shotgun handoffs," O'Connell said. "That's something we'll clean up real quick. You have to put that on the backfield."
Said Hamilton: "We were just both too anxious. It's something we need to work on."
The Aztecs benefited from instant replay when an overturned call led to the team's first touchdown.
On second down from the Air Force 28-yard line, O'Connell tossed a short pass to Brandon Bornes in the left flat that slipped out of his hands as he started to turn upfield. The ball squirted to the turf, and Air Force's Drew Fowler picked it up and returned it to the San Diego State 30.
The ruling that Bornes fumbled was challenged, and replay officials ruled Bornes never had control of the ball and that the correct call was an incomplete pass.
Jeff Webb caught a 24-yard pass on the ensuing play. O'Connell later scored on a 1-yard keeper.
OT Chris Pino experienced some tense moments when he suffered a stinger during a collision while blocking in the first quarter. The El Camino High graduate lay motionless on the field for a few minutes before he regained feeling in his body.
"At first, I couldn't move anything," Pino said. "That's why I was scared. I couldn't move my head. That was the scariest feeling ever. Once you start moving your body, then you know you're OK."
The Aztecs' special teams played much better than they did in a season-opening loss to UCLA.
The Aztecs limited Air Force to 36 yards on three kickoff returns. P Michael Hughes averaged 46 yards per boot, and K Garrett Palmer was 3-of-3 on field goals, connecting from 33, 29 and 47 yards.


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Sportsline: Roseau girls hockey makes jump to Class AA
The Roseau girls hockey team will join its boys next winter playing in Class AA instead of Class A.
The boys have opted for the higher class since the two class system was first put into effect in 1998
The boys figured they had an easier path to the state through 8AA than 8A and proved their point by winning the section six times in that span.
They fell this year to Moorhead in the title game.
The girls will get away from Warroad by the move, losing to the Warriors three times this winter including the section title game.
The switch will last for a minimum of four years at which time it can be reassessed.
Roseau's departure will cut the number of teams in 8A to six.
Warroad authorities expressed disappointment in the switch removing the chance of the two neighbors clashing in the section final each year.
New mat room
The Detroit Lakes rapidly improving wrestling program got a shot in the arm.
After years of practicing in a cramped area the Lakers have a new expansive wrestling room, a 42 x 140 foot area which opened two weeks ago.
It replaces a 35 x 50 foot room were even the wrestling mat wouldn't fit. The new room houses three full sized mats plus wall mats similar in appearance to the wrestling room at Bemidji High.
In its formative years, the Lakers once practiced on the high school stage and later in the cafeteria, locations also familiar to Bemidji wrestlers.
They later moved to the former weight room where they have been for the past 10 years.
The new facility, constructed at a cost of &282,000 allows 55 wrestlers to work on the mats at one time compared with 35 at the old facility and brings the JV and junior high programs back to work with the varsity rather than being scattered through the elementary schools.
The school district paid $125,000 of the total cost with fund raisers providing the remainder.
Long time Bemidji wrestling fans can well remember the days in the J.W. Smith gymnasium, the frosty high school football Fieldhouse at 18th and Bixby, the Building A stage and the ag room and cafeteria in Building B among other places before the new high school was constructed.
Hanson honored
The UW-Stout hockey team had all six starters named to the UWAC all-conference first team or honorable mention.
Among them was Bemidji's Derek Hanson.
Hanson was a first line wing who had 15 goals and a team high 25 assists for 40 points.
The top line scored 48 of the team's 116 goals this winter.
Gymnasts honored
The Bemidji High School gymnastics team received a Silver Academic Award at the state meet banquet for having a team grade point average of 3.745.
A gold academic award goes to teams having a GPA of 3.75 or higher.
Bemidji Coach Don Papreck was officially inducted into the Gymnastics Coaches Association Hall of Fame at the event.
Aerials meet
At the recent St. Cloud Invitational, two level 6 entrants scored well with Hope Hickman receiving 7.9 on the vault, 6.9 on the bars, 8.525 on the beam and 8.325 on the floor for a 31.625 all around finish, good for fourth place.
Brittany Beck finished with an 7.2 in vaulting, 5.6 on the bars, 7.8 on the beam and 8.5 on the floor for a 30 point all around mark.
The results of the meet were inadvertently left out of an earlier story.
The next action for the Aerials will find the level 7 gymnasts competing in Fargo this weekend.
Spring sports start
The first five of the seven Bemidji High spring sports teams will begin drills tomorrow.
Opening drills indoors will be the boys and girls track and golf teams and softball team.
The heavy winter snow will prevent any outdoor activity for several weeks with only the track teams listed for completion at the BSU indoor meets, the Lions, Paul Bunyan and Little Amik I and II.
Ryan Aylesworth will begin his second season as boys head track coach while John Deden completes his overseas tour of duty with the National Guard.
Chris Lehman is back for his fifth year as girls head coach.
Veterans Jeff Nelson (22) and Eric Niskanen (15) will return to the girls and boys golf squads while Brad Takkunen starts his 14th season as softball coach.
The baseball team will open March 16 and the tennis team March 23.
Bagley connection
Jerry Riewer and Tom Wolhowe were stars on the Bagley High school basketball teams in the mid 1950s.
Both went on to college careers and spent their lifetime teaching and coaching at Staples and Starbuck.
Now both are proud grandparents of new members of the 1,000 point club with Derek Wolhowe clearing the mark last week with a 23 point night in an 87-83 win at Hawley to join teammate Jordan Riewer who went over the mark Dec. 16.
Grandpa Riewer, who coached baseball and cross country at Staples for three decades has retired though still teaching driver training.
1,000 pointers
Five other newcomers reached four figures this week.
Colby Owens of MCC hit 24 against RLCC to top 1,000, the 11th player at the school to clear the four figure mark.
And Jordan Christianson of Sauk Rapids reached 1,000 with a 12 point performance in a 66-56 loss to Little Falls.
Juniors Kayla Heisler and Camille Manders of Remer joined the club in back to back games, the schools' 12th and 13th players to gain that figure.
They joined Keith Kunnari of the boys team who reached that figure three weeks ago.
Manders reached 1,000 with 21 points in a 61 54 win over Pine River. Heisler hit 16 in a 79-65 loss to Floodwood.
Courtney Lynch of Apollo hit 1,000 in the Eagles 53-51 loss to Elk River in the 8-4A playoff opener.
Jessica Christofferson of Bemidji had an assist on the lone goal as the Minnesota Ice stropped the Minnesota Fire 5-1 in the Northern Minnesota all-star hockey game at Cloquet.
Christofferson and Haley Johnson skated with the Fire. Annie Swartz played defense for the Ice.
State polls
Hopkins, Mankato West, Pelican Rapids and Granada-Huntley still lead the state boys basketball poll.
St. Cloud Tech remains third in 4A, Apollo third and Grand Rapids sixth in 3A, Virginia seventh and Mesabi East 10 in 2A and Chisholm third, Park Christian fifth, Sebeka seventh and NCE ninth in single A.
In girls hockey, Stillwater and Blake are the division leaders with Cloquet eighth and PHM 11, Elk River 12 in AA. Warroad is second, Roseau fourth, Fergus Falls fifth, Crookston sixth, Silver Bay seventh, and Eveleth-Gilbert 14 in Class A
In boys hockey, Eden Prairie and St. Thomas Academy are the division leaders. Duluth East is fourth, Moorhead 11 and Elk River 12 in AA. Little Falls is second, St. Cloud Cathedral fourth, Warroad fifth, Alexandria sixth, Thief River seventh, Hermantown eighth, Virginia 12 and Hibbing 15 in Class A.


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Human beings have learned a thing or two about evil over the millennia, yet evil has lost none of its power to surprise. And when we find it living next door, whom do we blame for having seen without perceiving? Blame the human tendency to find the possibility of evil so close to home unfathomable.
The kidnappings of two teenage girls and a young woman in Cleveland that extended into roughly a decade of captivity in a small, shabby home with boarded-up windows in plain sight of neighbours, now blessedly over, is another episode in the unending story of human evil.
Who looked and didn't see?
Anthony Castro, an adult son of alleged kidnapper Ariel Castro, knew that his father was a violent man who had been the subject of a court order to stay away from his ex-wife and children. Anthony knew about the kidnappings. As a journalism student, he had written a story about them. And his father had strange ways with his house, which seems to have been mostly unused. "There were places we could never go," Anthony told the Daily Mail in London. "There were locks on the basement. Locks on the attic. Locks on the garage." Should Anthony Castro have probed?
And what of the neighbours who allegedly saw and raised a fuss? A man named Israel Lugo told CNN that his sister saw a woman behind a boarded-up window, and he called the police. Police came and pounded on the front door but when no one answered they left, he said. Police say they have no record of it. Mr. Lugo also said four or five people from a retirement home behind the house reported seeing women on dog leashes in the backyard; the police were called, but didn't show up. Again, police say they have no record of it. Should the sister, the elderly people and Mr. Lugo have persisted?
An aunt of a kidnap victim said, "We all have to stick together, neighbour with neighbour. We need to still be a family, neighbourhood with neighbourhood. We need to watch out for all kids. Really, watch who your neighbour is because you'll never know." There's the impossible tension. To be neighbours, and to watch your neighbour. To perceive the evil close to home. To be together, but with eyes wide open. After everything, it's an eloquent plea.


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Miss Squires was laid to rest in the same grave as her brother at a private burial service at St Andrew's Church in North Kilworth, Leicestershire at 9am attended by some family members and her partner Simon Van Herrewege.
Her brother Grant died at the age of 25 in 2001.
Miss Squires' parents Priscilla, known as Cilla, and Paul were not present at the burial but were attending the funeral service afterwards with her sisters Maxine, Nicola and Penny.
Miss Squires collapsed and died less than a mile from the finishing line of the 26.2-mile course on Birdcage Walk near Buckingham Palace on April 22.
The 30-year-old was running for the Samaritans, in recognition of the work done by her mother Cilla, who had volunteered for the charity for 24 years.
Donations to Miss Squires' JustGiving website jumped from £500 to more than £1 million in the week following her death.
Floral tributes were left on the path leading up to the church.
One read "Bear, we love and miss you so much. God must have needed an extra special person to have taken you. You're now with Grant so look after each other."
Another bouquet with a pair of gold plastic scissors attached was from the Moko hair salon in Market Harborough where she worked.
A record, Running by Alan Braxe and Fred, was also left. The message said "Your fav request. This will always remind me of you. Spencer."
A gold plaque has also been placed in the churchyard with her name engraved on it.
Members of the congregation arriving for this afternoon's service, due to begin at noon, wore splashes of red, Miss Squires's favourite colour, at the request of her family.
They were also handed red bands with XXX Claire XXX on to wear in return for donations to the charity Rainbows.
Dolly Parton's song Nine To Five and Toploader's Dancing In The Moonlight were played on a PA system set up outside the church.
Some 200 people packed into the church, which can seat 150, while more than 400 stood on the grass outside.
The Rev Emma Davies described Claire as a "truly beautiful" person who "sparkled".
The congregation then sang All Things Bright And Beautiful, the first of two hymns which have been chosen by the family.
Local Baptist minister Pastor Johnny Hutton, a family friend, led the service.
He said: "Many people have said that Claire was so much like that Samaritan who was prepared to help someone regardless of who they were or where they came from.
"Claire's life has inspired others to do the same and her tragic death has caught people's attention so that she has left this amazing legacy.
"Those who have donated should also be commended for their giving.
"I know the family have been moved by the generosity of so many, particularly from children and those who could ill afford to give.
"Claire's life and it seems untimely death will long be remembered by many more than just family and friends because of this unprecedented response."


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Equity in Swedish Health Care Reconsidered: New Results based on the Finite Mixture Model
This paper reconsiders the equity issue in Swedish health care utilisation previously analyzed by Gerdtham (Health Economics 6, 303-319, 1997) within the framework of the standard two-part model. Departing from the user/nonuser distinction, we use the more flexible framework of the finite mixture model that distinguishes between frequent/infrequent users. Our empirical results indicate that the finite mixture model fits the data better than the two-part model. The results indicate that income increases use among infrequent users in both physician and hospital care but that there is no such income effect among frequent users.
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Discussion in 'Miami Dolphins Forum' started by mmitro55, Mar 16, 2013.
Apparently discussions are going on right now..... Just saw this from phinatics
hope so.
Please? Come on, Jake!
that would be cool.
hope this gets done, might be for one year. See how Martin develops
Come home Jake
bringing Jake in the fold would almost certainly guarantee Miami will be looking on draft day to acquire more picks or move up to snag BPA at Corner (Milliner)
If we can resign jake I'm all for moving up and getting Millner
Please please please
The Rams, get use to losing
You do realize they had the same record as us last year.
He signed the contract with the Rams enough said
Jake my cornfed fat *** is all about the money like the cornfed fat **** that drafted me Wrong!


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Psoriasis is less common in populations whose dietary staples include cold-water fish containing omega-3 fatty acids. But study results have been mixed as to whether fish oil supplements can reduce inflammation and improve psoriasis signs and symptoms, such as itching and scaling. The latest findings suggest that fish oil delivered by a needle in a vein (intravenously) reduces psoriasis symptoms more quickly than do fish oil supplements taken by mouth.
One small study indicated that a combination of a calorie-restricted diet and increased omega-3 fatty acids helped control psoriasis in obese people with psoriasis. More study is needed.
Side effects of high-dose fish oil supplements can include a fishy aftertaste, heartburn and nausea. Dosages greater than 3 grams a day may affect blood clotting, increase your risk of bleeding and decrease blood pressure. This may be of particular concern if you're taking blood-thinning medication or high blood pressure medication.
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Formation of the Powhatan Confederacy
The Powhatan Confederacy was formed, ca. 1550.
The Powhatan Confederacy was formed, ca. 1550.
Pocahontas (ca. 1595–1617), also known as Matoaka and Rebecca Rolfe, was the daughter of Wahunsonakok, a Powhatan Indian chief who mediated between the Powhatans and the English colonists at Jamestown. In 1607, she participated in John Smith's initiation into tribal membership of the Powhatans, an incident that has been mytholigized and re-imagined throughout American history. After being captured by an English expedition in 1613, Pocahontas was reluctantly converted to Christianity. She took the name "Rebecca" and was married to John Rolfe...
John Smith was an English explorer and founder of Jamestown. During an expedition in 1607, Smith was captured by a group of Powhatan warriors. Rather than killing him, however, the Powhatans inducted Smith into their tribe. Pocahontas played a role in Smith's initiation ceremony.
Opechancanough (cc. 1545–1646) was a Powhatan Indian chief who led a series of attacks on English colonists in Virginia in 1622 in an attempt to force them from the region. After leading the Powhatans for more than twenty years, Opechancanough was captured and killed by English forces in 1646.


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UPDATE: I added three mythological creatures: The CENTAUR (thanks to a centaur's body from BRICK FORGE), Cerberus (actually from HARRY POTTER I just added food for him to eat) and the fabled SIREN. I am almost done with Mount Olympus waiting for a few pieces from LEGO. When it's done I will post! Note: Finished all the principle GODS & GODDESSES with the addition of MINERVA! Several "GODS & GODDESSES" Have been added! They are: APOLLO, BACCHUS, CERES, HERCULES, VENUS and VULCAN and I updated:DIANA, JUNO, MARS and MEDUSA. I have done a GROUP SHOT which I will update, find it as the last picture! I will be adding a CENTAUR and I already have done a SIREN! Be on the lookout for them! And there are a few surprises to come using them! Since I redone the WONDER WOMAN TEMPLE and had the JLA fighting the "gods", it came to me I had to keep my promise to create more "gods" and add "goddesses"! This is the result! I created MODs for all except MEDUSA she is the LEGO Collectible Minifigure BUT once I get another she will become a MOD as well! Also note JUNO's blouse will be different as well! This is my introduction. I am adding the GODS & GODDESSES in the TEMPLE and adding A MT. OLYMPUS set as well! To showcase my new minifugure designs! I chose the ROMAN PANTHEON since I am Italian and for your pleasure I included a description of each "god & goddess" (it's the teacher in me)! More of the teacher: the Romans also believed their gods lived in Olympus which they called in LATIN: Olimpi! I will be doing different versions of NEPTUNE as well!
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CHART OF THE PRINCIPLE ROMAN GODS (and their descriptions)!
The god APOLLO riding his steed: PEGASUS!
The god BACCHUS god of Celebration and Merriment!!!
The Centaur a mythological creature half man and half horse! His name comes from the Greek "hippocentaur". They were featured in literary forms of Roman mythology. A painted terracotta centaur was found in the "Hero's tomb" at Lefkandi.
Cerberus the three headed dog guardian or "hellhound" that guards the gates of the Underworld, to prevent those who have crossed the river Styx from ever escaping.
The goddess CERES the goddess of the earth. Here she is seen spilling out her blood to get the foliage to grow at great speed!
This is a MOD of the Collectible Minifigures of CYCLOPS!
This is DIANA the goddess of the hunt!
This is what she first looked like before I completed the following changes:
Hercules a god or a demigod? He is known for his 12 labors and not well loved by JUNO!
This is JUNO the ROMAN name for the goddess HERA!
This was JUNO before the following changes I made:
JUPITER is the ROMAN name for ZEUS the head of the gods!
I made several changes before I posted this! When I did I noticed I made a color mistake with the green jewel it was supposed to be blue so I corrected it! Look below for the correction!
This is MARS the god of war the planet MARS is named after him because it appeared RED the color of anger!
He underwent plenty of changes to see them look below:
MEDUSA beware looking at her face!
This is the way LEGO saw MEDUSA as promised I gave her the following MOD based on the fact no man could avoid her beauty!
This is MERCURY!
He was one I got the way I saw him to be right from the start---no changes made!
MINERVA favored of Jupiter!
The Minotaur of the maze!
I gave him a MOD as well, different horns and a totally different torso and legs! And a new weapon in his hand!
NEPTUNE the god of the Seven Seas!
This was how he looked before I made the changes you'll see below!
PLUTO the god of the underworld the former planet in the outermost portion of the universe was named after him!
Like MERCURY I got PLUTO right - right from the start!
The first century Roman historian Pliny the Elder discounted Sirens as pure fable. But Leonardo da Vinci wrote of the Siren, "The siren sings so sweetly that she lulls the mariners to sleep; then she climbs upon the ships and kills the sleeping mariners."
The goddess VENUS whose beauty launched a million ships. She had all of beauty's secrets at her disposal and love potions as well. Here she is pouring a love potion from a lantern!
The god VULCAN the god of the forge he is credited for creating JUPITER's weapons and thunder bolts! He worked so long in the foundry his skin turned ashen!
All the GODS & GODDESSES together! You will get a sneak peak of the SIREN as well as my update of NEPTUNE if you look closely!
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1942 PLATE FOR D.H. HOLMES DEPARTMENT STORE'S CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF 1942 FOR THE FAMOUS DEPARTMENT STORE LOCATED IN NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. MADE BY "VERNON KILNS."Plate is a little over 10" in diameter. 1" high. Across the middle section is "New Orleans America's Most Interesting City" on a banner. Around the plate are pictures of places in New Orleans, which are identified: "Old Absinthe House Built 1798," Little Theatre Courtyard," "Fan Window Gov. Claiborne's Home," "D.H. Holmes 1842" (shows how storefront looked in 1842), "D.H. Holmes Co. Ltd 1942" (this pictures shows how storefront appeared in 1942), "Sugar Bowl," and in the very center is a picture of "St. Louis Cathedral." (T is a little manufacturing glitch between the G and A of "Sugar Bowl," so it is difficult to read when you are reading it very quickly, but it is a G and an A for Sugar Bowl. (Thanks for your help, sir!) On back of plate it states: "Holmes Centennial Celebration 1842-1942 Made Exclusively for the Centennial Celebration of D.H. Holmes Co. Limited New Orleans' Quality Department Store by Vernon Kilns, U.S.A." THE FRONT OF THE PLATE IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, WITH NO CHIPS, CRACKS, CRAZING OR REPAIRS. ON THE BACK OF THE PLATE ARE SOME VERY SMALL FIRING POPS, BUT NO CHIPS, CRACKS, CRAZING OR REPAIRS. Estate ... read more


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Imidapril (Tanatril™), through its active metabolite imidaprilat, acts as an ACE inhibitor to suppress the conversion of angiotensin I to angiotensin II and thereby reduce total peripheral resistance and systemic blood pressure (BP).
In clinical trials, oral imidapril was an effective antihypertensive agent in the treatment of mild to moderate essential hypertension. Some evidence suggests that imidapril also improves exercise capacity in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) and reduces urinary albumin excretion rate in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus. Imidapril was well tolerated, with a lower incidence of dry cough than enalapril or benazepril, and is a first choice ACE inhibitor for the treatment of mild to moderate essential hypertension.
Pharmacological Properties
The active metabolite of imidapril is imidaprilat, which inhibits the conversion of angiotensin I to angiotensin II. Lowering of plasma and tissue angiotensin II levels results in peripheral vasodilation, reduced systemic BP, renoprotective effects in patients with type 1 diabetes, and decreased renal sodium and water retention.
After multidose oral administration in patients with hypertension, steady-state maximum plasma concentrations of imidapril (≈30 ng/mL) and imidaprilat (≈20 ng/mL) are achieved in a median time of 2 and 5 hours. In healthy men 25.5% of a single dose of imidapril 10mg was excreted in the urine within 24 hours. Elimination occurs primarily through excretion in the urine (≈40%) and faeces (≈50%); after oral administration in healthy volunteers, the terminal elimination half-life of imidaprilat is ≈24 hours.
Therapeutic Efficacy
In randomised controlled trials, oral imidapril was effective in the treatment of adults with mild to moderate essential hypertension. In short-term (2- and 4-week) dose-finding trials, imidapril dosages of 10–40 mg/day were significantly more effective than placebo, inducing 11–15mm Hg reductions in sitting diastolic BP (sDBP; primary endpoint). In comparative 12- and 24-week trials, imidapril 5–20 mg/day induced reductions in mean sDBP of 10–15mm Hg that did not differ significantly from those induced by hydrochlorothiazide 12.5–50 mg/day or captopril 50–100 mg/day (primary endpoint), nor those induced by enalapril 5–10 mg/day or nifedipine sustained release (SR) 40–80 mg/day (secondary endpoint). In addition, reductions in sDBP and sitting systolic BP (co-primary endpoints) with imidapril did not differ from those induced by candesartan 4–16 mg/day. Favourable reductions in sDBP were maintained during 6-month and 52-week noncomparative trials.
In patients with type 1 diabetes, the urinary albumin excretion rate (a marker of nephropathy) increased by 72% in placebo recipients, but declined by 41% in imidapril 5 mg/day and by 6% in captopril 37.5 mg/day recipients during a mean treatment period of 1.5 years.
In patients with CHF, mean total exercise time increased from baseline in imidapril 2.5–10 mg/day recipients in a dose-related manner after 12-weeks of treatment; a 9.7% increase with imidapril 10 mg/day was significantly greater than the change with placebo (+0.7%).
Overall, imidapril was relatively well tolerated, with an incidence of adverse events in pooled analyses of data from clinical trials and post-marketing surveillance (n = 6632) of 6.6%. The most commonly reported adverse events were cough, hypotension, dizziness and pharyngeal discomfort. During 2- and 4-week trials, the overall incidence of adverse events was 26% and 40% in recipients of imidapril 2.5–40 mg/day compared with 35% and 37% in placebo recipients. In comparative trials, the incidence of treatment-related adverse events in imidapril versus enalapril recipients in two 12-week trials were 5.6% versus 12.2% and 12.0% versus 14.1%; in other 12-week trials treatment-related adverse events were observed in 24.2% of imidapril versus 41.7% of nifedipine SR, and 20.7% of imidapril versus 46.4% of captopril recipients, while the overall incidence of adverse events in imidapril versus candesartan recipients was 11.7% versus 16.1%. The incidences of adverse events in a 24-week trial were 46.0% with imidapril and 52.8% with hydrochlorothiazide. In longer-term trials, adverse events were reported by 61.6% of imidapril recipients in the 52-week trial; however, only 1.7% of imidapril recipients in a 6-month field trial experienced adverse events considered related to ACE inhibitor treatment.
In prospective investigations in hypertensive patients, switching to imidapril did not reduce the incidence of cough (a class effect of ACE inhibitors) in a small open-label trial in hypertensive patients already experiencing ACE-inhibitor induced cough; however, in a large crossover trial, the incidence of cough with imidapril (15.2%) was less than half that with enalapril (38.6%). In addition, cough disappeared in 52.9% of enalapril recipients switched to imidapril, and in patients without cough during imidapril treatment, switching to enalapril induced cough in 20.9%. In contrast, in patients without cough during initial enalapril treatment, only 0.9% developed cough during subsequent imidapril treatment. In a second large, double-blind crossover trial, the incidence of cough was significantly lower in imidapril than benazepril recipients.
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