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I'd like to express my frustration with the priorities of the Athens-Clarke County Commission.
Growing up in Athens, I remember life in a town that was family-oriented. Saturdays were trips to A&A Bakery, Babytown, Lamar Lewis for free comic books, and the state farmers market on West Broad for fresh veggies from the Argos.
I used to watch fireworks as a kid on the Fourth of July and New Year's Eve. Now, private citizens have to come together to fund the Fourth of July fireworks. This is ridiculous, and our community should be outraged.
Also, the commission refuses to invest in the building that had housed the old farmers market. In a March story on the facility, Mayor Heidi Davison indicated that maintenance costs likely would be an issue.
The time is now for the community to rise up and demand that the commission provide funding for a facility to support our farmers and other local growers so we can enjoy a healthy food supply. A farmers market is a wonderful family event that could become a festival every Saturday.
The current farmers market venue at Bishop Park is too small to accommodate the parking needed for the market to be accessible. Let us peruse the county budget and cut nonessential items that don't directly benefit the welfare of our citizens.
We can buy a railroad trestle but can't fund an existing facility to provide a marketplace so that our local growers and artists can earn a living and stimulate the economy? You have got to be kidding me.
Carol Franklin
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Red Sox roll hot Dice at Rangers
Red Sox roll hot Dice in Lone Star State
Matsuzaka has had pinpoint control and filthy stuff over his last three starts, a span in which he's 3-0 with a 1.87 ERA.
Not that Matsuzaka will take much credit for his surge.
"I think it's really due to the fact that our lineup has been hitting really well and giving me the opportunity to pitch at my own pace," said Matsuzaka.
The three-start slump Matsuzaka had in late April and early May has become a most distant memory.
"He had a little bump in the road, as a lot of people do," said manager Terry Francona. "Some guys have it in August. He fought through it and worked hard. Now we're seeing the results of a lot of hard work and a really good pitcher."
Despite his recent success, Matsuzaka continues to seek ways to get better. He spent his side session making an adjustment to the grip on his changeup, a pitch that hasn't been as sharp over the last few weeks.
It was indicative of the overall approach of the Red Sox. Even though they have a 9 1/2-game lead in the American League East, there is no contentment.
"We just need to continue to work on this team, work on different things we need to work on," said catcher Jason Varitek.
The Red Sox had gone 8-0-1 in nine series before dropping two out of three in New York this week. Now the Sox will attempt to regain their groove against the Rangers, who are in last place in the AL West.
Nobody comes into this series hotter than first baseman Kevin Youkilis, who has a career-high hitting streak of 16 games and is batting .347.
Pitching matchup
BOS: RHP Daisuke Matsuzaka (6-2, 4.06 ERA)
Matsuzaka is on fire. In his last two starts, he hasn't walked a batter, and he has lowered his ERA from 5.45 to 4.06 in a span of three starts. He is holding opponents to a .235 average. This will be Matsuzaka's first career start against the Rangers.
McCarthy is 3-0 with a 2.31 ERA in his last four games, holding opponents to a .202 batting average. That's a complete turnaround from April, when he was 1-4 with a 9.90 ERA, and opponents hit .356 off him. The big difference has been putting his fastball where he wants it, using his changeup effectively and making adjustments quickly before innings get out of control. He is 2-1 with a 6.23 ERA in three starts at home this year. He is 1-1 with a 2.03 ERA in four games, including one start, in his career against the Red Sox.
Player to watch
Youkilis is hitting .405 in May, with four homers and 17 RBIs.
On the Internet
Gameday Audio
Official game notes
NESN On radio
WRKO-680 AM, Spanish Baseball Network Up next
Saturday: Red Sox (Tim Wakefield, 4-5, 3.14) at Rangers (Vicente Padilla, 2-6, 5.52), 8:05 p.m. ET
Sunday: Red Sox (Julian Tavarez, 3-4, 5.27) at Rangers (Kameron Loe, 1-4, 6.38), 3:05 p.m. ET
Monday: Indians (TBA) at Red Sox (Curt Schilling, 4-2, 3.94), 7:05 p.m. ET
Ian Browne is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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1. On 24 September, the Northern Ireland
Office (NIO) submitted to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee
a memorandum on "its work investigating the financing of
terrorism and its actions to seek to counteract this". This
supplementary memorandum is in response to a request by the Committee,
of 7 January, for additional information.
2. Answers to the specific questions raised
are set out below. However, before turning to these, the NIO would
like to clarify two issues further.
3. The OCTF does not have operational responsibilities.
It brings together the operational agencies in Northern Ireland
and senior NIO officials under the chairmanship of Jane Kennedy,
Security Minister. The OCTF enables the agencies to discuss and
agree areas for priority action through a concerted multi-agency
approach. The Task Force is therefore strategic in nature. While
it receives an update on operational activity at each of its meetings,
it does not direct it: that remains the preserve of the individual
agencies represented on the OCTF.
4. For this, its first year, the OCTF agreed
a set of strategic priorities, concentrating on the commodities
and types of criminal enterprise which are having the most adverse
impact on Northern Ireland society. The activity report to each
Task Force meeting is designed to enable the members to assess
in-year progress against those targets. It also enables the Task
Force to monitor any new or emerging organised crime trends which
require a strategic response.
5. The Task Force was established to tackle
organised crime across the board. Not all aspects of organised
crime in Northern Ireland are linked to the paramilitary organisations,
although some clearly is. The principle behind the OCTF is to
attack the criminal element of organised crime, whatever its source.
Through this route, both the classic organised crime organisations
and those linked with paramilitary groups will be affected by
good operational success.
6. For this reason a direct comparison with
the resources dedicated to the Terrorist Finance Unit could be
misleading. First, the OCTF is strategic, while the TFU was operational
in nature. Second, the OCTF approach of tackling criminality across
the board is markedly different from that adopted by the TFU.
The Government believes that the best way of judging the new approach
is by the results it achieves, rather than by the resources directly
dedicated to the Task Force.
7. Significant operational successes have
indeed been achieved. This reflects not only on the individual
agencies concerned, but also on the multi-agency approach the
Task Force is fostering. It reflects also on the new structural
changes put in place, notably by the PSNI and Customs, which facilitate
the provision of mutual support.
8. The Government is tackling the problem
of terrorist funding in other ways too. Specific legislation,
contained in the Terrorism Act 2000 and strengthened by the Anti-Terrorism
Crime and Security Act 2001, existing confiscation legislation
and the new Proceeds of Crime Bill all play a significant role
in the Government's strategy.
9. The remainder of this memorandum sets
out answers to the questions raised in the Committee's letter
of 7 January which fall within NIO's responsibility.
What human resources (measured in terms of full-time
personnel) and financial resources are available to the Organised
Crime Task Force, in the Northern Ireland Office?
The Organised Crime Task Force is chaired by
the Security Minister, Jane Kennedy. The Task Force meets approximately
every other month. Between meetings, Ms Kennedy makes a series
of visits and regularly undertakes media work on the role of the
OCTF. For example, in December, Ms Kennedy undertook a walk-about
in Belfast City Centre with Sir Reg Empey to promote jointly the
message that consumers should not purchase counterfeit goods.
Senior officials from the Policing and Security
Directorate, Criminal Justice Directorate and Information Services
sit on the Task Force (Director Policing and Security, Associate
Director Policing and Security, and Head of Security Policy and
Operations Division; Director Criminal Justice Directorate and
Head of Criminal Justice Policy Directorate; and Acting Deputy
Director of Communications). The Task Force is serviced by a small
secretariat from the Security Policy and Operations Division.
In addition to attendance at Task Force meetings,
the Director Policing and Security chairs the Task Force's public
sector sub group. This meets between each Task Force meeting to
liaise with the devolved administration. The Director also chairs
the strategy sub group which among other things drafts for the
Task Force's approval the annual strategy to counter the threat
to Northern Ireland society from organised crime. The Associate
Director chairs the Task Force's co-ordination sub group which
also meets between each Task Force meeting. This sub group works
with the agencies to strengthen further the agencies' co-operation
and co-ordination arrangements, and to develop performance measures.
The Head of the Security Policy and Operations Division chairs
the legal sub group which meets regularly. This group keeps the
agencies up to date on legislative developments and considers
legislative issues arising from the work of the agencies. The
Acting Deputy Director of Communications chairs a publicity sub
group which promotes the Task Force's key message that everyone
has a role to play in tackling organised crime, and it works with
the agencies to help promote operational success. Other members
of the Department attend in support of these sub group meetings.
The Department also attends the analysis and assessment sub group
chaired by the PSNI, which concentrates on further improvements
to the flow of intelligence between the agencies.
Although precise time inputs are not available,
all this represents a significant commitment by the Security Minister
and senior officials.
On the Secretariat side, one Grade A (Grade
7 equivalent) and one BI (SEO equivalent) are heavily engaged
on a daily basis on Task Force activity, which accounts for the
bulk of their work (the remainder of the work of these posts covers
linked issues, such as counter terrorism law). Other resources
are available within the Division as needed. Within the Communications
Directorate, one Information Officer is dedicated to Task Force
issues, reactive and proactive.
Policy input into the Proceeds of Crime Bill
is relevant to the Task Force's remit but is taken forward outside
How many OCTF staff are wholly or mainly engaged
in work against terrorist organised crime, and how does this compare
to human resources allocated to tackling ordinary organised crime
in Northern Ireland?
As noted above, the Task Force approach does
not distinguish between ordinary and terrorist organised crime.
The principle is to foster a multi-agency approach to tackling
all types of organised crime and the Task Force has concentrated
this year on the commodity areas which have the most adverse impact
on Northern Ireland society.
The Task Force resources are, for the main part,
staff costs. The costs of publicising the threat assessment and
strategy for year 1 were met within NIO resources.
How does the answer to (the above) compare to
the allocation to the anti-racketeering response when the NIO
Terrorist Finance Unit (and the RUC C1/3 squad) were in existence
in 1996?
As explained above, a direct comparison between
the OCTF and TFU would not take account of their very different
functions. For information, the TFU had 25 staff in 1996.
How many personnel have been provisionally allocated
to work in the Northern Ireland division of the Assets Recovery
In accordance with the Proceeds of Crime Bill
the Home Office is the responsible department for the resourcing
and funding of ARA including its physical presence in Northern
Ireland. The Bill requires the appointment of a senior officer
of the agency (possibly to be known as an assistant director)
to be responsible for its functions in Northern Ireland, and the
Government has made clear that the agency will have a branch here.
Details of the staff to be located in Northern Ireland and associated
logistical and resource issues are still being considered.
How many staff of the staff will be employed
Details of the staff to be located in Northern
Ireland are still being considered.
15 January 2002


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More Than 1,000 Israeli Medical Residents Submit Resignation Letters
Despite breakthrough in negotiation between doctors' union and Finance Ministry, residents demand raise in hourly pay.
Israel's resident doctors' representatives decided Thursday to submit over a thousand resignation letters in protest of the agreement being formulated between the Israel Medical Association (IMA) and the Finance Ministry. The letters will go into effect in 30 days.
According to Dr. Nadav Haim, a resident at Sheba Medical Center, "under the current circumstances, we feel we cannot go on with our work. Our hands are shaking and we are aware of the gravity of the decision and its consequences." Haim added that the residents support IMA head Dr. Leonid Eidelman's struggle, "yet under these conditions we feel we must take another step."
The IMA expressed anger at the decision. "The residents have gotten many benefits and everything was done… to improve their quality of life," said Dr. Zeev Feldman, one of the leaders of the IMA's protest. He called on the residents to retract the resignation letters and return to work within 24 hours.
The residents are pressuring the IMA not to back down from the demand for a significant raise in the hourly pay.
On Wednesday, the Finance Ministry and the IMA reached a breakthrough, with both sides agreeing to add 1,000 staff positions, as per the demands of the IMA and medical residents.
The sides also agreed on encouraging doctors to work in the periphery by offering grants of up to NIS 300,000. The parties are still negotiating the doctors' remaining demands.
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Discussion in 'Irrigation' started by exmarkrunner, Sep 23, 2002.
when do you guys stop installing systems?
We usually continue installing all through the winter, unless the ground is so frozen that we physically can't do it or snow or stuff like that.
I've put a couple in useing a jackhammer to trnch it during the winter. Colorado Springs can have extended periods of 60+ degrees during January and February. So installs are still possible.
We've worked every month of the year here but usually not in Jan or Feb. Mostly commercial in those months if available and temp and soil are right. Residential people just don''t get it.
The only thing that keeps me from installing is if the ground is too wet from rain. Otherwise, it's an all year thing for us here in sunny California.


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Gravatar troubles with IE 7
I wonder if anyone can help me with some css trouble I have with displaying my Gravatar in IE 7 as I am not very good with code. If you look on my website http://www.digital-rewrite.com (still under construction) in IE you will notice that my Gravatar displays above my post title and post date. This should be inline with those two text elements and it does do this in Firefox and all browsers that are of the same nature, just not IE. Does anyone know any css code or something that will rectify the issue? any help would be much appreciated.
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Intracellular acidosis due mainly to lactic acid accumulation has been regarded as the most important cause of skeletal muscle fatigue. Recent studies on mammalian muscle, however, show little direct effect of acidosis on muscle function at physiological temperatures. Instead, inorganic phosphate, which increases during fatigue due to breakdown of creatine phosphate, appears to be a major cause of muscle fatigue.
The energy consumption of skeletal muscle cells may increase up to 100-fold when going from rest to high-intensity exercise. This high energy demand exceeds the aerobic capacity of the muscle cells, and a large fraction of the ATP required will come from anaerobic metabolism. High-intensity exercise also leads to a rapid decline in contractile function known as skeletal muscle fatigue. It therefore seems logical that there is a causal relationship between anaerobic metabolism and muscle fatigue; that is, some consequence(s) of anaerobic metabolism causes the decline in contractile function.
Anaerobic breakdown of glycogen leads to an intracellular accumulation of inorganic acids, of which lactic acid is quantitatively the most important. Since lactic acid is a strong acid, it dissociates into lactate and H+. Lactate ions would have little effect on muscle contraction (16); however, the increase in H+ (i.e., reduced pH or acidosis) is the classic cause of skeletal muscle fatigue. However, the role of reduced pH as an important cause of fatigue is now being challenged, and several recent studies (5,14,19,20) show that reduced pH may have little effect on contraction in mammalian muscle at physiological temperatures.
Besides acidosis, anaerobic metabolism in skeletal muscle also involves hydrolysis of creatine phosphate (CrP) to creatine and inorganic phosphate (Pi). Creatine has little effect on contractile function, whereas there are several mechanisms by which increased Pi may depress contractile function. Thus, on the basis of recent findings (6–8, 10–12), increased Pi rather than acidosis appears to be the most important cause of fatigue during high-intensity exercise. This brief review will outline the results that form the basis for the switch from acidosis to increased Pi as the major fatigue factor in mammalian muscle. We will focus on studies in which fatigue develops on the time scale of minutes, in which the consequences of anaerobic metabolism would be of greatest importance. With even more intense activation (e.g., a continuous maximal contraction), other factors, like failure of action potential propagation, may become increasingly important. Conversely, with more long-lasting types of exercise (e.g., marathon running), factors such as depletion of carbohydrate stores and dehydration become increasingly important.
To study the mechanisms underlying fatigue, we frequently use isolated muscle cells (fibers), which are fatigued by repeated tetani of short duration. The present review will focus on results obtained in such studies as well as studies on skinned muscle fibers (i.e., muscle cells where the surface membrane has been chemically or physically removed). This is because studies on single muscle fibers provide the most direct way to address cellular mechanisms of fatigue. It may be argued that conclusions drawn from studies on single fibers are not relevant to the fatigue experienced by humans during various types of exercise. However, available data indicate that the mechanisms of fatigue are qualitatively similar in diverse experimental models, ranging from exercising humans to single fibers (2). The differences that inevitably must exist appear to be mainly of a quantitative nature.
The rise and fall of lactic acid as a direct cause of skeletal muscle dysfunction in fatigue
During intense muscle activity, the intracellular pH may fall by ~0.5 pH units. There are two major lines of evidence that have been used to link this decline in pH to the contractile dysfunction in fatigue. First, studies on human muscle fatigue have often shown a good temporal correlation between the decline of muscle pH and the reduction of force or power production. Second, studies on skinned skeletal muscle fibers have shown that acidification may reduce both the isometric force and the shortening velocity.
However, in humans the temporal correlation between impaired contractile function during fatigue and reduced pH is not always present. For instance, force sometimes recovers more rapidly than pH after the end of fatiguing contractions (18). This means that if reduced pH has a direct force-depressing effect in human muscles, this effect must have been counteracted by some other factor that increases force to the same extent. Such a force-potentiating factor has not been identified, and hence the obvious conclusion is that there is no causal relationship between acidosis and reduced force production.
Important evidence in favor of acidosis causing reduced force production comes from studies on skinned muscle fibers that were performed at ≤15°C (14). Recent studies have focused on the temperature dependence of the pH effects on force, and the results of these studies further challenge the role of H+ in mammalian muscle fatigue. Some early studies conducted more than 10 years ago showed that acidification, if anything, resulted in an increased tetanic force at physiological temperatures (17). More recently, Pate and colleagues (14) studied skinned rabbit psoas fibers and observed the expected large depressive effect of lowered pH at 10°C, but the effect of acidification on force production was small at 30°C. Similar results have subsequently been obtained in isolated single mouse muscle fibers (19) and whole mouse muscles (20) (Fig. 1A⇓).
Acidification has been considered to be an important factor behind the reduced shortening speed in fatigue. However, using skinned rabbit muscle fibers, Pate and colleagues (14) showed that acidification has little effect on the shortening speed at 30°C. Similarly, in intact mouse muscle fibers, the maximum shortening velocity was reduced by ~20% at 12°C, whereas there was no significant reduction at 32°C (19). Thus in mammalian muscle studied at physiological temperatures, cross-bridge function (i.e., the cyclic attachment and detachment of myosin heads to actin that results in muscle contraction) is little affected by acidification (Fig. 1B⇑).
Another mechanism by which intracellular acidosis may induce fatigue is by inhibition of energy metabolism. Key enzymes in glycogenolysis and glycolysis are phosphorylase and phosphofructokinase, respectively. Both of these enzymes are inhibited at low pH in vitro, and hence the rate of ATP supply to energy-requiring processes [e.g., cross-bridge cycling and sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca2+ pumping] might be diminished in muscles that become acidic during fatigue. However, a recent human study failed to detect a reduction of the rate of glycogenolysis/glycolysis in acidified muscle (4). Furthermore, a 0.4-pH-unit acidification did not affect the endurance of isolated mouse muscle fibers fatigued by repeated brief tetani at 28°C (5). Thus the inhibition of phosphorylase and phosphofructokinase induced by acidosis in vitro appears to be counteracted by other factors in vivo, and fatigue development does not seem to be accelerated by acidosis at near-physiological temperatures. Acidosis has also been suggested to decrease muscle performance during fatigue by inhibiting Ca2+ release from the SR. Such inhibition will decrease the degree of activation of the contractile machinery and hence lead to decreased force production. Although it has been repeatedly shown that there is a decrease in free myoplasmic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) during contractions in fatigue (see Fig. 2A⇓), it is doubtful if this is related to acidosis. One finding that might support a role of decreased pH in this aspect is that acidosis reduces the open probability of isolated SR Ca2+ release channels (i.e., the ryanodine receptors). However, acidification has no obvious depressive effect on depolarization-induced SR Ca2+ release in skinned fibers with an intact transverse-tubular SR system (13).
To sum up, acidosis has little direct effect on isometric force production, maximum shortening velocity, or the rate of glycogen breakdown in mammalian muscles studied at physiological temperatures. Therefore, if acidosis is involved in skeletal muscle fatigue, the effect may be indirect. For instance, extracellular acidosis may well activate group III–IV nerve afferents in muscle and hence be involved in the sensation of discomfort in fatigue. This would make good sense from an athlete's point of view. Training regimes for top athletes in endurance-type sports often emphasize "lactic acid training," i.e., training protocols that induce high plasma lactic acid levels. An effect of this type of training may then be to learn to cope with the acidosis-induced discomfort without loosing pace and technique and in this way get the maximum effect out of muscles, which in themselves are not directly inhibited by acidosis. An alternative mechanism by which lactic acid formation may impose a limit on performance is during long-lasting types of exercise in which glycogen depletion is a key factor. With extensive lactic acid production, the total amount of ATP produced from the stored glycogen is lower than with complete aerobic breakdown, because each glycosyl unit gives 3 ATP when lactic acid is produced and 39 ATP when it is completely metabolized in the mitochondria to CO2 and H2O. Thus the glycogen store is more rapidly depleted when large amounts of lactic acid are produced and muscle performance is severely depressed at low glycogen levels. Finally, the frequently observed temporal correlation between declining pH and decreased muscle function may be coincidental rather than causal. That is, a marked acidification implies that the energy demand exceeds the capacity of aerobic metabolism and that anaerobic pathways are used to generate ATP. It could then be that rather than acidification, some other consequence of anaerobic metabolism is the actual cause of impaired muscle function, and increased Pi is a strong candidate in this respect.
The rise and rise of Pi accumulation as a major cause of skeletal muscle fatigue
The concentration of Pi increases during intense skeletal muscle activity mainly due to breakdown of CrP. Most models of cross-bridge action propose that Pi is released in the transition from low-force, weakly attached states to high-force, strongly attached states. This implies that the transition to the high-force states is hindered by increased Pi. Therefore, fewer cross-bridges would be in high-force states and the force production would decrease as Pi increases during fatigue development. In line with this, experiments on skinned fibers consistently show a reduced maximum Ca2+-activated force in the presence of elevated Pi.
The hypothesis that increased Pi reduces maximum cross-bridge force has been difficult to test in intact muscle cells, since it has proven difficult to increase myoplasmic Pi without imposing other metabolic changes as well. We recently showed (6,7) that genetically modified mice completely lacking creatine kinase (CK) in their skeletal muscles (CK–/– mice) provide a reasonable model to study the effects of increased Pi. CK catalyzes the transfer of high-energy phosphate groups between CrP and ATP. During periods of high energy demand, the net result of the CK reaction is that CrP breaks down to Cr and Pi but the ATP concentration remains almost constant. Fast-twitch skeletal muscle fibers of CK–/– mice display an increased myoplasmic Pi concentration at rest; furthermore, during fatigue there is no significant Pi accumulation. The maximum Ca2+-activated force of unfatigued CK–/– fast-twitch fibers is markedly lower than that of wild-type fibers, which supports a force-depressing role of increased Pi (6). Furthermore, during fatigue induced by repeated brief tetani, fast-twitch fibers with intact CK display a 10–20% reduction of maximum Ca2+-activated force quickly, after ~10 tetani. This force decline, which has been ascribed to increased Pi, does not occur in CK–/– fibers (7). Even after 100 fatiguing tetani, force was not significantly affected in CK–/– fibers, whereas by this time force was reduced to <30% of the original in wild-type fibers (Fig. 2⇑). Additional support for a coupling between myoplasmic Pi concentration and force production in intact muscle cells comes from experiments in which reduced myoplasmic Pi is associated with increased force production (15). Thus increased myoplasmic Pi may decrease force production during fatigue by direct action on cross-bridge function. Altered cross-bridge function may also affect the force-[Ca2+]i relationship via the complex interaction between cross-bridge attachment and thin (actin) filament activation. In this way, increased Pi may also reduce force production by causing a reduced myofibrillar Ca2+ sensitivity, which is a frequently observed characteristic in skeletal muscle fatigue.
In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that increased Pi also affects fatigue development by acting on SR Ca2+ handling. In this respect, there are several mechanisms by which increased Pi may exert its effect, and the result may be both increased and reduced tetanic [Ca2+]i. Important mechanisms include the following:
Direct action. Pi may act directly on the SR Ca2+ release channels, increase their open probability, and facilitate Ca2+-induced Ca2+ release (3). This action of Pi would lead to increased tetanic [Ca2+]i and may be involved in the increase of tetanic [Ca2+]i normally observed in early fatigue. In support of this notion, CK–/– fibers do not display this early increase of tetanic [Ca2+]i (7).
Inhibition of Ca2+ uptake. Increased Pi may inhibit the ATP-driven SR Ca2+ uptake (9). In the short term, inhibition of the SR Ca2+ uptake will result in an increased tetanic [Ca2+]i (assuming that the amount of Ca2+ released stays constant). In the long term, on the other hand, Ca2+ might accumulate in other organelles (e.g., mitochondria) or possibly leave the cell. In this way, the Ca2+ available for release may substantially decline, resulting in reduced tetanic [Ca2+]i. Although it is theoretically possible that loss of Ca2+ from the cell contributes to the decline of tetanic [Ca2+]i in fatigue, we are not aware of any experimental findings that support this.
Ca2+-Pi precipitation. Pi may enter the SR, which may result in Ca2+-Pi precipitation and hence decrease the Ca2+ available for release. This mechanism has recently gained support from studies using many different experimental approaches. In initial experiments on skinned fibers with intact transverse-tubular SR systems, Fryer and colleagues (10) showed that increased Pi might depress SR Ca2+ release. These authors also provided indirect evidence that Pi may reach a concentration in the SR high enough to exceed the threshold for Ca2+-Pi precipitation in this high-Ca2+ environment. Since this pioneering work, it has been shown that the Ca2+ available for release is actually reduced in fatigued single fibers from cane toad muscles (11). Measurements of the SR Ca2+ concentration also show a decrease in fatigued cane toad fibers (12). Furthermore, the decline of tetanic [Ca2+]i during fatigue is delayed when the Pi accumulation is prevented by inhibition of the CK reaction, either pharmacologically (8) or by gene deletion (CK–/–) (7).
One weakness of the hypothesis that raised Pi causes Ca2+-Pi precipitation in the SR is that Pi increases rather early during fatiguing stimulation but the decline of tetanic [Ca2+]i generally occurs quite late. Moreover, in mouse fast-twitch fibers the decline of tetanic [Ca2+]i temporally correlates with an increase in Mg2+, which presumably stems from a net breakdown of ATP (2), and the coupling between Ca2+-Pi precipitation in the SR and increased Mg2+/reduced ATP is not obvious. However, a recent study provides a reasonable explanation for these apparent difficulties: Pi probably enters the SR via an anion channel, which increases its open probability as ATP declines (1). This can explain both why Pi enters the SR with a delay and why there is a temporal correlation between increasing Mg2+ and declining tetanic [Ca2+]i. Interestingly, in fibers where the CK reaction is pharmacologically inhibited and fatigue occurs without major Pi accumulation, an increase in Mg2+ is not accompanied by reduced tetanic [Ca2+]i (8). Together, results obtained with a variety of experimental approaches indicate that Ca2+-Pi precipitation in the SR is the major cause of reduced tetanic [Ca2+]i in fatigue induced by repeated, brief tetani.
Figure 3⇓ illustrates the various mechanisms by which Pi may affect muscle function during fatigue. It shows that increased Pi may depress force production by acting directly on the myofibrils or on sites in the excitation-contraction pathway within muscle cells. The depressive effect of increased Pi may, like the effect of acidification described above, diminish as the temperature is increased to that prevailing in mammalian muscles in situ. Little information is available regarding the temperature dependence of Pi effects on muscle contraction, and most skinned fiber studies looking at Pi effects have been performed at low temperatures. Studies performed on intact mouse fibers in our laboratory show marked depressive effects on force production that can be ascribed to elevated Pi. These studies have generally been performed at ~25°C, which is close to the in situ temperature at rest (31°C) of the superficially situated toe muscles used (5). Nevertheless, studies on mammalian muscle performed at normal body temperature (~37°C) are required to make sure that the effects of increased Pi remain as the temperature is increased.
The data presented above provide substantial support for increased Pi having a key role in skeletal muscle fatigue. For acidosis, on the other hand, most recent data indicate that its depressive effect on muscle contraction is limited.
We thank Britta Flock for constructing Fig. 3⇑.
Our research is supported by the Swedish Medical Research Council (project no. 10842), the Swedish National Center for Sports Research, and the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia.
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A top Cuban official on Thursday said Cuba is willing to discuss everything with the Obama administration, but it won't give up its form of government in talks to improve relations.
The comments by the director of Cuba's Foreign Ministry's North American Department echoed the sentiments of President Raul Castro, who has said repeatedly that officials would be willing to sit down for direct talks with U.S. leaders as long as his country's sovereignty is not threatened.
President Barack Obama has suggested it may be time for a new beginning with Cuba, and the White House authorized unlimited travel and money transfer for Americans with relatives in Cuba. But his administration has said it would like Cuba to respond by making small political and social changes to its single-party communist system.
Castro has bristled at that suggestion.
"Cuba cannot be asked to give up its form of government as a condition to establish normal relations with the United States. That position is a nonstarter. It will lead us no where," the Cuban official, Josefina Vidal, said at the start of a Cuban academic conference in Canada. "In doing so, the United States would make the same mistake that previous governments have done."
She said dialogue should occur without preconditions.
The conference is examining the significance of the 50th anniversary of the Cuba revolution. Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcon is scheduled to give a speech Saturday.
The U.S. has long sought what it considers real change from Cuba in the areas of human rights, free speech, free markets and democracy.
Last month, President Raul Castro said Cuba was willing to discuss "everything" with the U.S., leading to hopes that a door was opening to a new relationship.
But former president Fidel Castro insists that Cuba should make no concessions in return for better U.S. ties.
"Cuba is ready is to discuss everything but not to negotiate its sovereignty or its political or social system," Vidal repeated.
Raul Castro's daughter, Mariela, said the United States must not ignore Cuba's difficult past.
"Just like Obama cannot ignore his experiences as a black man in the United States, Cuba cannot forget its history as a country that's been blocked under the embargo for all of these years," she said in an interview. "You can never ignore your biography – neither your personal biography or your biography as a country."
The Obama administration has said it has no plans to lift the embargo which bans nearly all trade with Cuba. The island's government blames those sanctions for frequent shortages of food, medicine, farming and transportation machinery and other basics.
"The day the blockade is over and we have normal communication between our two countries, we will be free in Cuba to devote all our efforts and resources just to the development of our nation and not to think about ways to avoid the pressures and the obstacles the U.S. blockade signifies in Cuba," Vidal said.
Robert Pastor, a professor of international relations at American University and former President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser for Latin America, said that day will come, but not soon.
"I hope before too long we can have a conference like this in Washington," Pastor said in a speech. "But don't book your tickets quite yet."
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The University of Colorado Population Center (CUPC) and Population Program recently funded five outstanding developmental grants, which totaled approximately $30,000.
These awards represent an invaluable way to support junior and senior faculty, fund graduate students, bridge programs, and encourage interdisciplinary research. The proposals grapple with central demographic issues and are quite likely to result in cutting-edge research contributions. The CUPC and Population Program Developmental Grant Review Committee – which consisted of Lori Hunter and Jane Menken – made the following awards to CUPC and Population Program affiliates (with their project titles in parentheses):
- Francisca M. Antman, Department of Economics (How Does Adult Child Migration Affect Elderly Health? Evidence from Mexico);
- Jason Boardman, Department of Sociology (Gene Environment Interplay in the Development of Antisocial Behavior);
- Andrei Rogers, Department of Geography (The Indirect Estimation of Migration);
- Tim Wadsworth, Rick Rogers, and Fred Pampel, Department of Sociology (Individual and Contextual Factors Contributing to Suicide Mortality); and
- Daniel Sahleyesus Telake, Research Associate, Population Program, IBS (Monitoring Cause of Death Using Hospital Records in Addis Ababa).
The Population Program expects to make similar awards next year.
Richard Jessor has joined the Advisory Board of the Urban Population and Health Dynamics (UPHD) Research Program at the African Population and Health Research Center in Nairobi, Kenya. One facet of the UPHD Research Program, funded by the Wellcome Trust, is concerned with the transition to adulthood among youth in the Nairobi informal settlements (slums), and that longitudinal study is using measures developed here in IBS by Jessor and his colleagues. Jessor participated in the advisory board meeting held in Nairobi August 11-14. He will be returning to Nairobi to consult with members of the transition to adulthood research team, November 17-21.
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At its meeting on October 16, the University Design Review Board voted to approve the Design Development phase of the IBS building. What that means is that the design of the building is now set, both its interior and its exterior, and the building process can proceed to the preparation by the architects of the actual construction drawings that will be provided to contractors for submitting their bids. If you are interested in seeing what the building will look like and what exterior materials will be used-brick, limestone, stucco, glass, clay roof tiles-there is a large display in the 2nd floor Conference Room of IBS #1. Please feel free to visit and look around and ask questions the Building Committee (Dick, Jane, Steve) will be happy to try to answer. As the schedule now stands, interested contractors will submit pre-proposals in November, and there will be two days of interviews in mid-December with those contractors whose submittals were scored highest. Sealed bids will be opened in March, and the construction contract will be awarded on March 25, 2009. Construction will begin on April 27th and Move-In (!) to the new building is now set for September 1, 2010. Of course, things are likely to change along the way, but the move-in date is, we're assured, firm. We'll continue to keep you informed.


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Additional Sessions Judge Sanjay Garg framed charges dealing with kidnapping, murder, destruction of evidence and common intention under the Indian Penal Code against then head constable Bhoop Singh and constables Uttam Kumar, Sudhir Singh, Rajesh Kumar, Rajesh Kumar Yadav and Arvind.
The six were posted in west Delhi's Bindapur police station when the alleged custodial death occurred.
The recording of the statement of the prosecution witnesses in the case will begin from November 7.
The court has said the medical opinion was sufficient for framing murder charge against the policemen.
According to the prosecution, the six policemen picked up victim Manoj from J.J. Colony in Uttam Nagar on May 26, 2014, and took him to an old building in Bindapur.
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FRANK J. OTERI: That sounds like a great place to end this discussion and we might want to make this our ending and throw in a question before it, just because I have one other question that I want to ask, but…
LA MONTE YOUNG: Sure.
FRANK J. OTERI: Well, I was at the concert on Saturday and I thought, knowing the work that you've done with these upper primes and I thought, what would happen if some of the ragas were sung with some of these other intervals? If some of these upper intervals became melodic content for scales, where would that go?
LA MONTE YOUNG: Interestingly, also, in relation to the raga I sang, you saw how much I loved it and how much I was deep into it. It's all based on 5s.
FRANK J. OTERI: Yes I know that! [laughs] I was thinking that too.
LA MONTE YOUNG: It's really something that I could give myself up to that raga in such a way, but I became crazy in love with the raga and for me this is what music is about. When I perform a piece, I really go deep into it.
MARIAN ZAZEELA: But you really focused and brought out the tonality of it…
LA MONTE YOUNG: The 7th degree of the scale.
MARIAN ZAZEELA: The 7th degree.
LA MONTE YOUNG: Yeah, because it's a polytonal area: the major third and the 7th degree. That's true, but the tonic drone is still there and…
MARIAN ZAZEELA: …major thirds.
LA MONTE YOUNG: …the drone is really there…
MARIAN ZAZEELA: Yes, it is.
LA MONTE YOUNG: …and in relation to it. And interestingly enough, in Raga Yaman Kalyan, the sharp 4th degree, remember the sharp 4th degree?
FRANK J. OTERI: Mmhmm.
LA MONTE YOUNG: This pitch is not a perfect 5th above the 7th, the 7th is a natural 7th degree, it's 15, ok? In other words it's 5 x 3, it's 5 times the dominant, it's the major 3rd of the dominant, so it's 15. And the major 3rd of the raga is 5, O.K.?
FRANK J. OTERI: Right.
LA MONTE YOUNG: So the 7th is a perfect 5th above it. But the 4th degree, it's not…the 4th degree is 7:5 which is also a major 3rd below the 7th harmonic, which is not even in the raga.
FRANK J. OTERI: Right.
LA MONTE YOUNG: So to sing the sharp 4th of Yaman, I have to listen to the 7th harmonic—and then there's an ornament that goes back and forth between this sharp 4th degree, which is not a perfect 5th above the 7th, and some note slightly above it which might just be the perfect 5th above the 7th. And it's a very tiny little difference there going between 7:5 and 45:32. In fact, if the higher pitch is 45:32 then the difference between 7:5 and 45:32 is 225:224, very tiny indeed. 45:32 is a perfect 5th above 15, right?
FRANK J. OTERI: Which is the tritone in just intonation…
LA MONTE YOUNG: 3 times 15 is 45. So, to some degree the raga offers this possibility with the microtones, and of course, as a composer, I'm free. I can compose anything I want and I can perform it. I can tune anything I want. But as a disciple of raga, I have a responsibility to the tradition to try to carry on what has actually already been there so that it won't be lost. And when I first began to study raga I made it very clear to everyone that I was never going to do fusion. I was not interested in it. I was interested in being totally creative in my own work, but totally faithful to the tradition of raga and devoted to it, to really learn what it is. But once you really learn what it is—and I hope I'm humble enough to admit that I never have and never could—but once you really learn what it is, then you have the freedom to go on to the next step or to other steps and to other levels and with The Well-Tuned Piano—I was describing this before—one of the most important things about The Well-Tuned Piano is that it exists on so many levels, but at the very beginning levels, it offers this key, as I mentioned, a key that unlocks a door that leads to another level, that leads to another door, that leads to another level, so that theoretically, people from all levels of development and evolution could find their way into The Well-Tuned Piano and eventually work their way up to the most evolved, complex level.


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The surgical joining of two structures that are not typically connected.

An anastomosis is performed during surgery and may be done to repair a defect, to make the anatomy functional again after tissue is removed, or to make treatment possible.

An example of treating a defect would be repairing a blood vessel problem that was present at birth and interferes with the way blood flows through the body. In these cases, a cardiothoracic surgeon would perform a procedure that would join the blood vessels together to allow blood to flow better.

Another example of an anastamosis would be after a partial colon resection. If a portion of the intestine becomes diseased, it may need to be surgically removed in order to allow the patient to better digest their food and to decrease pain. In this example, a large section of intestine is removed--imagine a three foot piece of string and cutting out a foot of the length out of the middle--and the remaining ends must be reconnected. The anastomosis part of the procedure would be joining the two pieces of healthy tissue on either side of the resection, creating a newly shortened length of intestine for food and stool to pass through.

An arterio-venous fistula, created for dialysis, is an example of a type surgical anastomosis. For this procedure, a vein and an artery are spliced together, creating a larger blood vessel. This large vessel, when healed, can be used to insert the large dialysis catheter that is used to perform routine hemodialysis.

In bilio-pancreatic diversion, one type of weight loss surgery, an anastomosis is created between part of the small intestine and the stomach. This bypasses part of the intestine, effectively decreasing the ability of the intestine to absorb calories.

Common Misspellings: anastamosis,

Examples: To complete the gastric bypass surgery an anastomosis between the intestine and stomach was created, which joined the two structures together.


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Pack Your Bags: Pakistan has stunning Himalayan peaks, historic forts, valleys filled with wildflowers, Arabian Sea beaches, silk bazaars and impeccable Pakistani hospitality. Tourists can choose from camel trekking, white water rafting and wild boar hunting. If that's too mundane for you, try a yak safari. All that and some of the best carpet shops this side of Iran.
Rain Check: Turmoil, including suicide bombings and attacks on western restaurants and buildings is now routine in Pakistan's cities and towns. Al Qaeda boss Osama bin Laden, Taliban extremists and other nasties are believed to be hiding in Pakistan's mountains. "If you think where you are going should be completely peaceful, you will be constricted in your options. Being a tourist in the 21st century requires a little courage," Pakistani tourism minister Shahzad Qaiser told the Chicago Tribune earlier this year.
Tourist Blurb: "By the grace of God, there has not been a single incident of any terrorist attack on a tourist," Qaiser told the Chicago Tribune. "In spite of all the terrorism and political problems we are facing, the people of this country are tourist-friendly. Our religion and culture give prominent peace to hospitality."
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I told you last week that I was carrying on the tradition of Easter egg hunting that my grandmother started when I was a kid. My boyfriends son is almost 14 but still has fun hunting Easter eggs, especially if there's money involved.
I was pulling change and some dollar bills out of my purse getting ready to stuff the little eggs when Jace's grandmother decided to join in the fun. We stuffed about 40 little eggs then my mom and I hid them all over the backyard.
Jace came outside wearing a special 'egg hunting' outfit. He had fun and we did too. We laughed at him completely overlooking some of the eggs we hid; you'll notice the camo egg hidden in the umbrella in one of the pictures below. They were in plain site but his powers of observation were completely down.
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Chinese consumers are buying more as luxury brands continue to expand their presence in second- and third-tier cities.
A survey conducted jointly by Ruder Finn and Ipsos in June, found that consumers in first-tier mainland cities preferred to shop locally when buying luxury products, such as watches, cosmetics, clothing, shoes, and wine and cigars.
"Since the financial crisis in 2008, there continues to be questions from the luxury industry and consumer world about whether China would be able to pick up the pieces in consumption. So we started looking at patterns," says Jean-Michel Dumont, chairman of Ruder Finn Asia.
He says the company began working with the luxury segment in China about 11 years ago. "In the past two years, luxury brands have been creatively going into second- and third-tier cities to bring a closer footprint to consumers. However, in the past six months, we have observed a slowdown of openings."
He says that there has been a marked slowdown in terms of investment and a change in the shape of the retail as luxury houses switched from a presence in small-scale boutiques to custom-built houses in hub cities such as Beijing and Shanghai.
Meanwhile, design outlet operators in China remain optimistic about the market. "People want to shop closer to home and there is a demand for what we provide," says Ivano Poma, managing director of RDM, operator of the Florentia Village in Wuqing, between Beijing and Tanjin. The outlet has 180 stores, with a gross leasable area of 41,000 square metres.
"This is the first of many designer outlets our company is planning to open in China," Poma says. "It is authentically Italian as we were meticulous in the details of the design: marble façades, the artisans and architecture. This all leads to an authentic Italian experience. What we've created is a destination."
According to Poma, the catchment area of the Florentia Village draws more than 25 million people in a radius of 90 minutes; on weekdays, ladies from the cities lunching and, over weekends, families and friends for a day of enjoyment.
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I'm looking for a stereo preamp around 2-3 $k to go with my cyrus cd8x player. I haven't seen any reviews of affordable preamps..Am I missing something? I'd prefer it had balanced outputs. I have read the review of the Lynn Climax Control, and I drooled over the lab measurements but its price is out of my range. Am I out of luck?
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The Audio Research LS-16 Mark II is $3500 and is one of the best I have ever heard. I have not heard the new Classe, however, so I would suggest you arrange to somehow auditon both of them them if possible. I do know from personal listening that the LS-16 Mark II sounds better than two of the units rated Class A in the latest Recommended Components, however; I can vouch for that absolutely. I do not understand why Stereophile has not reviewed the LS-16, given its high performance and fairly reasonable price (listening, John?).
Have you considered a BAT (Balanced Audio Technologies) VK-3i? Balanced and unbalanced inputs, $1,995, +$500 for remote, +500 for phono input.
I'm going to toss a vote out for one pre-amp on the used market: the Adcom GFP 750. They sound good, to me, and go for 600 bucks or so.
I'm sure others will be happy to chime in on this piece, too.
Worth a listen!
Also on the used market, the Superphon Revelation II (in space case). Also cheap and startlingly good.
It may even be worth considering some of the headphone amps by headroom, Grace, etc...as possibilities. Many of them have an extra input or two for a cool minimalist system! Great sound at a good price.
If you run into any gear that piques your interest, post it!
I've seen a Pass Aleph P somewhere in the used market.Now that's a great pre but the guy did not tell us what power amp he is using.Just a Cyrus cd player ?!?!?!?
It (the GFP750) is to my ears one of the best sounding preamps in affordable land. It is also a fantastic bargain even new. Used you couldn't possibly go wrong with one.


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text: Harare - Zimbabwe will speed up the release of election results and bar police interference in voting in future, a senior government minister said on Thursday, two years after President Robert Mugabe's disputed re-election.Mugabe was forced into a power-sharing pact with his rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai more than a year ago after a crisis over the 2008 national election that many local and foreign observers say was marred by violence and vote-rigging.Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa said on Thursday that Zimbabwe's cabinet had agreed to amendments to the electoral law, and that Attorney-General Johannes Tomana would be drafting a bill to be debated by parliament in the coming months."The parties have agreed to amend the Electoral Act so that the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission is obliged to declare presidential election results not more than five days after the day of voting," he said in a statement.The proposed amendments would also bar police officers - who were accused in the 2008 poll of abusing their power to help disabled or illiterate voters to cast their ballots - from "taking part or interfering with the electoral process beyond maintaining law and order".Special courtsAmendments would allow the recently established independent Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to warn election candidates, election agents or parties implicated in acts of political violence and to set up special courts to try such cases.Zimbabwe's last electoral authority - which critics say was packed with Mugabe supporters - took more than five weeks to announce the results of a March 2008 presidential poll that gave Tsvangirai victory but not enough votes to assume power.Tsvangirai boycotted a runoff poll in June 2008, citing serious violence against his supporters. Mugabe, Zimbabwe's ruler since independence from Britain in 1980, denies that he has hung on to power by force or vote rigging.But under their power-sharing agreement, Zimbabwe's parties have agreed to implement some reforms before they call for a fresh election.Two weeks ago, the rival political leaders launched a campaign to solicit public views on a new constitution, a long-delayed step towards a new general election and part of a drive to sort out a decade-old severe economic crisis.Many Zimbabweans hope the new constitution, replacing one drafted in 1979 before independence from Britain, will strengthen the role of parliament, curtail the president's powers and guarantee civil, political and media reforms.Zimbabwe's political reform process is running almost a year behind over constant squabbling in the unity government, and officials say the next general election is unlikely to be held before 2012.


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Would you hire someone to teach your kid to ride a bike?
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Question: Would you hire someone to teach your kid to ride a bike?
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Question: Would you hire someone to teach your kid to ride a bike?
Total Votes: 1090
Too busy to teach your child to ride a bike? Outsource it!
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Cherished parent-child memory, or a major time suck? Some parents are outsourcing the job of teaching kids to ride a bike.
Teaching your child to ride a bike is so passé. You may think it's your job to teach balancing, pedaling, and braking, but busy parents now have options.
Canadian writer Rebecca Eckler recently confessed to hiring a professional bike-riding counselor to school her daughter in the ways of training wheels and banana seats. Oh, the horror, right? What's next — a professional Tooth Fairy and an after-school nurse to kiss boo-boos?
The future of parenting is outsourcing!
Nick Pavlakis from Vancouver, B.C.-based Pedalheads says the bicycle instruction business is booming because parents don't have time and they lack skills. "A lot of parents come to us and they've tried on their own and found it to be quite a struggle."
In Eckler's case, squeamishness drove her to seek help. She couldn't stand the thought of watching her kid fall, and argues in a post on Mommyish that hiring someone to teach bike riding is no different than doing the same for swimming or music. "At the end of the day, she knows how to ride a bike. End of story," she told TODAY Moms. But her post sparked mommy judgment. Why? "I think it's just because a lot of people don't know something like this is available," she said.
Bike New York offers free bike-riding programs in city parks, summer camps, and after-school programs in New York City. No one seems to be outraged about that. Communications Manager Dan Suraci says demand for instruction is huge. Their weekend classes — and the waitlist — are always full.
"Our instructors teach every weekend so they know the common problems and can easily teach to overcome those," Suraci said. He also credits the group dynamic. "Kids have a way of relating to other kids. When they get something and are energized about it, they share with each other."
Bike riding and big moments
Rhonda Franz of Parenting Squad is a mother of three and holds a Master's Degree in Education, specializing in early childhood development. She doesn't think it matters who teaches a child the actual skill of riding a bike. She agrees with Pavlakis and Suraci that it's often easier for children to learn together with their peers than it is for mom or dad to teach a skill.
"We teach them so much, and they're just tired of us," says Franz. "If another person can more effectively teach a child a skill rather than a parent, who can argue with that?"
Still, she said, it does matter who's present for that major milestone in a child's life.
"The experience creates a memory for parents and children — something they'll miss out on if it is outsourced," Franz said. She encourages moms and dads to consider that before handing off the responsibility to someone else.
Diane Mizota told TODAY Moms she might have hired out if she'd known she had the option, but is happy that she didn't. As a single working mom in Los Angeles, Mizota always thought her ex-husband would be the one to teach their son to ride a bike. When that didn't happen, she questioned whether she was up for the challenge.
Remembering the moment she finally let go of that seat, she writes, "I'm still claiming a major mommy victory. I overcame my mental block and earned the bragging rights and discovery that there is no feeling in the world like watching your kid ride a bike for the first time."
Parenting is not as easy as riding a bike
Parents know that teaching a child to ride a bike can be difficult. Maybe that's because you can't really teach them. All we can do is support them while they learn. As in all things parenting, we are powerless over what happens after we let go. Sometimes we have to watch them fall. We can't outsource that.
But what do I know? I subcontracted the whole thing to my husband.
Lela Davidson is the author of Blacklisted from the PTA. Her writing is featured regularly in family and parenting magazines throughout the United States and Canada. She blogs about marriage, motherhood, and life-after-40 at After the Bubbly.
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Not for being too busy, but I would if I were disabled and a single mom and had no one else to help me do it.
I'm never too busy to teach my child something new.
When I read this, I thought this was ridiculous but you do have a point.
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Not for being too busy, but I would if I were disabled and a single mom and had no one else to help me do it.
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I can agree that kids learn a lot from their peers. I can also agree that it's hard to watch your children fail or get hurt while they're learning to do things. So far I haven't outsourced any of my parental 'responsibilites' but I could have.
Why not? The mother in the article is right...parents have no problems putting their kids in swimming lessons...what's wrong with them hiring someone to help teach their kid to ride a bike and know all the safety rules.
I can't wait to see who gets horrified by this, lol.
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Not for being too busy, but I would if I were disabled and a single mom and had no one else to help me do it.
While I don't hire someone to help my children learn something new I rarely turn down help from the neighborhood. Our neighbor loves playing soccer with our kids and it's not something I have a desire to do. I love to bake and do crafts and often invite the neighbor kids over to help because it isn't something my neighbors do. My husband and I aren't very athletically inclined and we will rely heavily on coaches and others to help our children hone their skills.
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Not for being too busy, but I would if I were disabled and a single mom and had no one else to help me do it.
Yep, I am blessed to have an ex soninlaw that takes on all that physical stuff. Though I can manage a game of horse once in a while I would have never been able to teach B to ride a bike, nor could my hubby.
I absolutely would have considered paying someone had I not had G.
How far you go in life depends on your being: tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of both the weak and strong. Because someday in life you would have been one or all of these. GeorgeWashingtonCarver


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When Nicola Castell sets off on next month's Girls' Night Out charity walk she will reflect on last year's event, when her husband was at the Bury St Edmunds hospice.
Nicky, as she is best known, and husband Paul witnessed the excitement of St Nicholas Hospice Care's biggest fund-raiser first-hand as staff and volunteers were busy preparing for the annual event.
"I saw the whole of the hospice getting ready for it – cars going out and about, volunteers coming in, and I read the memory boards afterwards," said Nicky adding: "I said to myself that I would definitely do it next year."
Paul, a groundsman at Finborough School, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in May 2013 and admitted to the hospice four months later.
"He was poorly from the word go, but the chemo destroyed him. The weight dropped off and he was in bed all the time.
"However, he fought the cancer as much as he could because he didn't want to leave us," said Nicky, who described Paul as a supportive husband and fun-loving family man.
She added: "It was frightening at first to go to the hospice, but it was so lovely there and relaxed. I used to take the dogs – two cocker spaniels – and our son Henry, of course."
And when the time came, the hospice made arrangements for him to spend his final days at home.
Nicky said: "They knew he didn't have long and they turned it around so quickly. They got Paul home for two weeks before he passed.
"They sorted out full-time carers and nurses. That meant I could have him home with Henry and me, and be supported at the same time."
He died on October 1, aged 49.
"I still can't believe he is not here," said Nicky. "I should have had him for longer and Henry, who's only three, should have his daddy around."
Nicky, owner of Just Hair salon, in Great Barton, will be joined by five members of her team on the moonlight walk around Bury on September 13.
She will also be donating all the salon's takings on the day and her staff will be donating their tips.
"We've decided to do it together – we thought it was something different and that it looked like fun," said Nicky, who is also running a fund-raising raffle and a lucky dip from now until the big day.
"I know Paul will be watching us when we do Girls Night Out so I'm really keen to raise as much money for the hospice as possible," she said.
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Despite days of warning, Met-Ed did not bring in all the resources it could have until days after the storm. We had a windstorm and a little rain, and when our power went out Met-Ed told us it would take 10 days to get it back. That it only took five is little solace.


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text: Il Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 01:56:25PM +0200, Udo Stenzel ebbe a scrivere: > Hrm, you're accessing a symbol presumably found in a library that isn't > loaded. Either GHC cannot find the library, which shouldn't happen if > you're using the right package switch, or the .hi file you compiled > against is out of synch with the library, which also shouldn't happen, > as both were compiled from the same source. > > - Did you compile and install HaXml from source? If not, was the binary > meant for the version of GHC you're using? I installed from source, compiling by myself. > - Did you update anything after doing so? Some library, GHC itself, ...? No. Installed HaXml and tried it with this results. > - Did you use weird compiler switches (profiling on/off with missing > profiling libraries)? No. Just the HaXml default ones. Nothing weird as far as I can see. > - Did you move things around after compiling? Broken package database? > configure --user with install --global or vice versa? No. Also because that would result in ghc not compiling the code, I think. Instead, the code *gets* compiled by ghc, *but not* loaded by ghci: same code, obviously. > - Did you install more than one version of HaXml? Or are remnants of > failed installation attempts still in the search path? No, just version 1.13.1. No failed attempts whatsoever. > You could try the brute force approach of just exploding the source tree > of HaXml right into your project directory and not using the installed > package at all. ghc --make should be able to pick up the sources and > compile them without further ado. For hxml this might actually be the > right thing to do, because it's so small. However, if you didn't mess > with the internals of some package, your problem is just weird. I did not mess with anything. I believe my problem is weird, indeed. The solution you describe is feasible, but I'd like to get the general problem solved...;-) Andrea -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/haskell-cafe/attachments/20060910/8ffa8096/attachment.bin


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Promachoteuthis sulcus is known from a single, small (25 mm ML, sex unknown) but distinctive individual from great depths in the south Atlantic Ocean.
Brief diagnosis: A promachoteuthid…
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text: Howdy! Finally have some time off work to do some all-day low and slow smoking. Of course the first thing I thought was a packer! Lowest price I could find was Walmart for a select cut just under 11lbs. They had a good number of packers on display and this was the smallest. Gave my untrimmed baby a coat of black pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, brown sugar and oops, kosher salt. Perhaps table salt would have been better? I don't know but there is a bunch of liquid in the pan this morning. Damn the torpedoes! Into the mes30 it went with the amnps full of pitmasters choice. My goal is to keep it at 225-235F until finished. It's way too early in the morning for me so back to bed....Peace! -Rich


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Don't recommend killing spiders in the garden orangetom, they kill tons of bugs, but if you want to kill them in your house or other areas, Here are some tips from my natural pest control book.
cedar chips repel spiders, as does the herb pennyroyal sprinkled around.
To kill them, mix 1 oz. table salt to a gallon of warm water and spray them, or 1 drop of citronella oil to a quart of water.
This is the condition under which I asked that question.,,
We have a little place where we go from time to time but let the boss man know and our cell numbers. It is a little lean to...with heavy drapes to keep out the wind and even some of the cold.
But we have discovered we are sharing it with a black widow spider we have named Dorothy. She hangs out on the ground level behind a 55 gallon barrel which is cocked up slightly feeding on the passing crickets and other bugs. She often goes underneath this barrel. We know we are going to have to put down Dorothy or eventually she will have lots of little Dorothy's.
The barrel is tucked in there closely to other equipment's so we need to be careful about moving it and not knowing wherein goes Dorothy in her escape.
I have purchased a type of spider spray and have not tried it to date. I'll let you know how it works out. Apparently spider spray is a different formulation from regular insect spray.
Understand about spiders in the garden ...same thing with snakes...they handle lots of other bugs and critters...birds eating lots of different insects too.


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