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Rockland — Come into the Brown Bag and enjoy one of our delicious lunch specials!
*5 Oz. Big Beef Cheeseburger ~ w/ cheddar, tomato, lettuce, and scallion garlic mayo, on a homemade white roll...$6.25
*Smoked Turkey Melt ~ w/ mozzarella, tomato, sauted onion, chopped pickles, lettuce, and sundried tomato pesto, in a crisp wrap...$6.50
*Canadian Bacon BLT ~ w/ provolone, avocado, tomato, lettuce, and pesto mayo..$6.25
*Caesar Salad ~ topped w/ fresh tomato, served w/ toasted French bread...$5.50 OR w/ Grilled Chicken...$6.95
*Fresh Crab Salad on a crisp warm croissant...$8.50
*Grilled Veggie Burger ~ w/ pepper-jack cheese, tomato, sauted onion, lettuce, russian dressing, in a toasted pocket, served w/ potato salad...$6.25
*Corn Beef & Swiss Melt ~ topped w/ coleslaw, on toasted Chef's Choice...$6.25
*Gobbler ~ fresh roasted turkey, warm homemade stuffing, cranberry sauce, lettuce, and mayo, on homemade whole wheat bread...$6.95
*Daily Soup ~ cup...$3.25 bowl...$4.25
*Claire's Haddock Chowder ~ cup...$4.25 bowl...$5.25
*Daily Quiche ~ served w/ a toss salad...$6.95
Don't forget to check out our front case filled w/ delicious homemade entrees and side dishes, perfect for lunch or for dinner!
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Originally Posted by Drithius
Broke the bank… again. I got tired of lagging in Fallout New Vegas with my irritatingly slow AMD Phenom II 965 chip and architecture.
So I decided to upgrade to an Intel i7 finally. And of course that entailed a new motherboard. Oh and some new memory. And of course a new 6gb/s SSD because my old 3gb/s drive simply couldn't do. Oh, and a new case. And a new power supply… and… and… and my wallet discovered I should have left well enough alone.
Intel i7 4770k
Corsair h100i cooler
Asus Maximus Hero motherboard
16gb G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series RAM (2133MHz)
Samsung 840 Pro 128gb for the OS, replacing Intel x-25m
Cooler Master HAF-X case
PC Power & Cooling 950W PSU <—- Only thing I don't feel guilty about blowing money on; my current psu is nearly 7 years old! Still going strong but starting to get nervous.
…It'll definitely feel nice to be bottlenecked by my video card again. The Phenom II has been a thorn in my side ever since I originally tried to save a few bucks and bought it in 2009.

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John Nicholson: Is Egypt Safe for Tourism? Yes.: Our media back home continue to perpetuate the myth that Egypt is unsafe for foreign tourists, and they love to play old clips of rallies and demonstrations in one tiny square in one city of Egypt from specific days every time a story on Egypt is reported. The funny thing to those of us actually on the ground in Egypt every month is that we see these same news reports and stories on TV from our hotel rooms, then we look out the window and see life on the streets of Cairo going on as normal - calmly and peacefully. Then we look back at the TV screen and see clips being played from months or even years ago now and we can't help but laugh.
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Nifty at 50! Ultimate MILF Elle Macpherson's bikini body diet secret
THE Australian model, dubbed 'The Body', recently shared a sexy snap of herself in a skimpy bikini and hinted at the reason she stays so trim...
It's hard to believe supermodel Elle Macpherson is 50 years old.
The stunner, who is arguably the world's hottest MILF, recently shared a photo with her 117,000 Twitter followers of herself catching a tan onboard a luxury yacht. But it wasn't the Italian crystal clear waters and cloud-free sky we were interested in. Oh no.
Elle's incredibly tanned, toned physique is what really caught our attention.
If, like us, you're wondering how she achieves her eternal youthfulness, it's apparently all down to the green juice she's sipping in the picture.
She captioned the photo: "Super greens... After super swim."
Elle jumped on to the juicing bandwagon earlier this year with her "Super Elixir" of "alkalising greens", which she launched with nutritional doctor Dr Simone Laubscher.
Loved by the likes of fellow model Daisy Lowe and Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw, the Super Elixir contains four essential super greens - plus 41 other super food ingredients to ensure the celebrities look fantastic 24/7.
Elle said: "For years, I was taking vitamins and powders. I wasn't unaware of wellness but something wasn't working for me and I told my doctor, 'I don't feel great.'
"She told me my body was acidic, it was down to stress, travel and lack of sleep."
Elle's green powder juice helps "alkalise" the body which has become acidic. An good body pH is believed to "slow ageing".
But it's not just the green potions that help keep Elle looking so perfect. She has to cut out lots of fun things in life too, saying: "I'm a pescatarian, I don't drink, do drugs or smoke."


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|Numéro de publication
|Type de publication
|Numéro de demande
|Date de publication
|5 mars 1996
|Date de dépôt
|1 aoűt 1994
|Date de priorité
|1 aoűt 1994
|État de paiement des frais
|Numéro de publication
|Ratnavali B. Perla
|Cessionnaire d'origine
|Perla; Ratnavali B.
|Exporter la citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Citations de brevets (6), Référencé par (15), Classifications (13), Événements juridiques (5)
|Liens externes: USPTO, Cession USPTO, Espacenet
This invention relates to surgical aspirating and ventilating devices and more particularly to an improved apparatus for aspirating and ventilating a newborn infant immediately after a delivery.
When meconium is present in the amniotic fluid of an infant during a delivery, there is a likelihood that this meconium will enter the airway of the newborn infant resulting in asphyxia. Asphyxia lowers blood oxygen content (hypoxemia) with a resulting fall in pH (acidosis). As long as decreased pulmonary function exists, proper oxygenation of the newborn's body tissues is impossible.
The recommended procedure during a birth is to immediately view the trachea after delivery with a laryngoscope. If thick or particulate meconium-stained fluid is present, it is extremely important to suction the fluid from the newborn as soon as possible. Asphyxia can be prevented by quickly and properly suctioning the infant and then ventilating the infant with 100% oxygen. Currently available aspirating and ventilating apparatus for newborn infants have several deficiencies.
In the recommended procedure, a conventional type endotracheal tube is shortened with a scissors and connected with a coupling to a bulky adapter. The bulky adapter is used to regulate the vacuum in the endotracheal tube and to connect the endotracheal tube via a line to a vacuum source. The vacuum source is generally a regulated wall unit.
The endotracheal tube is inserted in the trachea of a newborn infant approximately 3 cm. below the vocal chords and continuous suction is applied to remove meconium from the trachea.
After suctioning, the endotracheal tube coupling may be disconnected from the bulky adapter and a ventilating device attached to the endotracheal tube to oxygenate an asphyxiated infant.
One deficiency of the recommended practice is that the endotracheal tube is difficult to maneuver because of the bulk of the adapter and the closeness of the line from a wall vacuum source to a physician's wrist. The closeness of the line from the vacuum source imposes a load on the physician's wrist which must be overcome when maneuvering the endotracheal tube.
Another deficiency is that the endotracheal tube coupling is difficult to disconnect from the bulky adapter when it is necessary to connect a ventilating device. A third deficiency is that the apparatus has three connections between the endotracheal tube and wall vacuum source. The three connections consume time during a setting up of the apparatus and increase the likelihood of an accidental detachment of the endotracheal tube from the wall vacuum source.
A fourth deficiency is that time is required for shortening the endotracheal tube and connecting and disconnecting the endotracheal tube from the coupling and the coupling from the adapter.
A fifth deficiency is that suctioning is a two-handed operation because of the distance between the endotracheal tube and the suction regulating port.
The present invention overcomes the foregoing deficiencies by providing an aspirating and ventilating apparatus for a newborn infant which is more reliable, easier to use, and less time consuming than currently used apparatus. The invention resides in a number of features which individually and collectively contribute to its ability to remove meconium and treat asphyxia in newborn infants. These features relate to its ability to reduce the time in treating these conditions and to easily maneuver the endotracheal tube which is used for suctioning and ventilating an infant.
One benefit of the invention is that the bulky adapter is eliminated. Another benefit is that a flexible tube is provided between a physician's wrist and the line which is connected to the wall vacuum source.
The elimination of the bulky adapter and the spacing away of the endotracheal tube from the tube leading to the wall vacuum source reduces loading on the physician's wrist and increases maneuverability. A third benefit, in addition to the foregoing benefit, is that two connections between the endotracheal tube and vacuum source are eliminated. This reduces time and the likelihood of the vacuum source being detached from the endotracheal tube. A fourth benefit is that the apparatus can be operated with a single hand.
The improved aspirating and ventilating apparatus comprises a flexible one piece suctioning device in combination with a tube leading to a vacuum source; a ventilating device; and a means for shutting off vacuum when said ventilating device is operative.
The one-piece aspirating device has an endotracheal tubular portion with the large lumen of the usual type endotracheal tube, an intermediate body portion, an outlet tubular portion and a port for regulating vacuum in the endotracheal tubular portion, administering medication, and connecting said ventilating device. The aspirating device is preferably formed from the same piece of material.
Further features and benefits of the invention will become apparent from the ensuing detailed description and drawings which disclose the best mode contemplated by the inventor in practicing the invention and the property in which exclusive rights are claimed is set forth in each of the numbered claims at the conclusion of the detailed description.
FIG. 1 is a front view of an aspirating and ventilating apparatus for a newborn infant according to the invention.
FIG. 2 is a right side elevational view of the aspirating and ventilating apparatus.
FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view drawn to an enlarged scale taken on the line 3--3 in FIG. 2.
FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view drawn to an enlarged scale taken on the line 4--4 in FIG. 3.
FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view drawn to an enlarged scale taken on the line 5--5 in FIG. 1.
FIG. 6 and FIG. 7 are views of an infant's suctioning apparatus which are exemplary of the prior art.
Referring now to the drawings wherein like numerals designate like and corresponding parts throughout the several views, in FIGS. 6 and 7, an infant's suctioning apparatus 10 is shown which is exemplary of the prior art. The apparatus 10 comprises a separate endotracheal tube 11, a coupling 12 for connecting one end of the endotracheal tube 11 to an adapter 13, and an adapter 13 connected at one end to the endotracheal tube 11 and at the other end to a line 14 leading to a regulated wall suction device (not shown).
The endotracheal tube 11 is marked with graduation marks 15 one cm. apart along the length of the tube 11. The purpose of the marks 15 is to assist a physician in shortening the tube 11 and to indicate whether the position of the tube 11 has changed in an infant's trachea.
The tip 16 of the endotracheal tube 11 is cut at an angle to facilitate its insertion into an infant's trachea. The tube 11 has a heavy black line 17 from 2.2 to 2.8 cm. from the end of the tip 16, called "the vocal chord guide". The heavy black line 17 is intended to be placed at the level of the infant's vocal chords.
The inside diameter of the endotracheal tube 11 ranges from about 2.5 mm. for a newborn infant to 4.0 mm. for an infant over 38 weeks in age. The length of the endotracheal tube 11 which is used varies according to the age and weight of the infant. An adhesive tape (not shown) is used to secure the endotracheal tube to the face of a newborn infant and lessens the likelihood of tube kinking.
A part of the recommended practice is to shorten the endotracheal tube 11 where it attaches to the coupling 12 with a pair of scissors so that no more than 4 cm. of the tube extends beyond an infant's lips when the tube is in the infant's trachea.
The generally cylindrical adapter 13, a bulky and rigid device, has a short inlet portion 18 which is connected to the endotracheal tube adapter 13, a short outlet portion 19 which is connected to the line 14 leading to the wall vacuum device, and an upward extending port 20 for controlling the level of vacuum in the endotracheal tube 11. The deficiencies of the current apparatus 10 can be understood by reference to FIGS. 6 and 7.
The direct connection of the line 14 from the wall vacuum device to the adapter 13 places the line 14 near a physician's wrist, resulting in the weight and relative stiffness of the line 14 loading the physician's wrist. The effect of the load on the physician's wrist is to make the small endotracheal tube to be difficult to maneuver in a newborn infant.
The three connections between the endotracheal tube 11 and wall vacuum device are also shown in FIGS. 6 and 7. The first connection 21 is between the endotracheal tube 11 and coupling 12; the second connection 22 is between the coupling 12 and bulky adapter 13; and the third connection 23 is between the bulky adapter 13 and line 14 from the wall vacuum device. A press fit of the endotracheal tube coupling 12 to the adapter 13 makes it difficult to disconnect the endotracheal tube coupling 12 from the adapter 13 when it is necessary to connect a ventilating device (not shown).
With reference to FIGS. 1 through 5, inclusive, a disposable aspirating and ventilating apparatus according to the present invention is generally designated by the numeral 25. It will be observed in the drawings that the present invention 25 reduces complexity; shortens set-up time; and reduces the likelihood of a vacuum loss during the suctioning of an infant.
The improved apparatus 25 comprises a flexible one-piece transparent aspirating device 26, a tube 27 for connecting the aspirating device 26 to the vacuum source, a ventilating device, and a clamp 29 for shutting off and admitting vacuum into the suctioning device 26.
The one-piece aspirating device 26, which is a primary feature of the present invention, is best understood by reference to FIGS. 1 through 3. The aspirating device 26 is preferably formed from the same piece of flexible, transparent, non-irritating plastic material, such as polyethylene. The aspirating device 26 has an endotracheal tube end portion 30, an intermediate body portion 31, an outlet tube end portion 32 and a port 33. The design of the aspirating device 26 allows the device to be made in one piece by the low cost blow molding process.
As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the endotracheal tube portion 30 has an arcuate shape, an angular end portion 34, a series of graduation marks 35 and a vocal chord guide mark 36 similar to the conventional endotracheal tube 11. Only two sizes of suctioning devices 26 are contemplated for infants, one having an endotracheal tube portion 30 with a 3 mm. lumen (inside diameter) and another with a 3.5 mm. lumen. The length of the endotracheal tube portion 30 is preferably fixed at 13 cm. to eliminate the operation of shortening the tube 30.
In treating infants, it has been observed that the 13 cm. length and 3.5 mm. lumen is adequate in almost all cases. The smaller 3 mm. diam. lumen is needed in a few cases for suctioning small babies.
The outlet tube portion 32 of the aspirating device, an important feature of the invention, is preferably about 35 to 50 cm. long, to prevent the weight and stiffness of the tube 27 from the wall suction device from adversely affecting the maneuverability of the aspirating device 26.
The flexibility of the outlet tube portion 32 is greater than the tube 27 from the wall suction device because of its smaller diameter and reduced wall thickness. The outlet tube portion 32 may be formed straight or in other shapes. The free end of the outlet tube 37 is expanded and sized to attach the outlet tube portion 32 to the tube 27 from the wall suction device.
The port 33 for regulating vacuum in the endotracheal tube portion 32 extends outwardly from the side of the body portion 31, such that the port 33 is easily accessible for regulating the level of vacuum in the endotracheal tube portion 30, administering medication through the endotracheal tube portion 30 and attaching the ventilating device 28. The level of vacuum is adjusted by closing and opening the port 33 with a physician's finger.
The port 33 is sized and shaped to adequately secure the ventilating device 28 to the aspirating device 26 with a light press fit, or by some other conventional means. One benefit of the side port 33 is that the obstruction of a physician's field of vision is minimized. Another benefit is that the apparatus 25 can be operated with a single hand.
With reference to FIGS. 2 and 5, a clamp 29 is provided on the outlet tube portion 32 of the aspirating device 26 to shut off the suction when the ventilating device 28 is operative. The ventilating device 28 may be any type of conventional device for administering oxygen to a newborn infant.
The clamp 29 which surrounds the endotracheal tube portion 30 is conventional and shuts off the vacuum by pinching the outlet tube portion 32 of the aspirating device 25.
From the foregoing, it will be apparent that my invention provides an improved apparatus for aspirating and ventilating infants and in particular for suctioning thick or particulate meconium-stained fluid from newborn infants.
Although but a single embodiment has been illustrated and described, it will be appreciated that other embodiments can be provided by obvious changes in shape, materials and arrangements of parts without departing from the spirit thereof.
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|Medicpro Inc.
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|9 avr. 1998
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|Singo; Ronald C.
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|16 aoűt 1999
|24 oct. 2000
|Vu; Denis A.
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|24 juil. 2001
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|15 avr. 2003
|Scimed Life Systems, Inc.
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|25 oct. 2005
|Neotech Products, Inc.
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|14 févr. 2006
|Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
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|Lemoine Patrick D
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|4 oct. 2011
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|Classification aux États-Unis
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|Classification coopérative
|Classification européenne
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|Certificate of correction
|2 juil. 1999
|Fee payment
Year of fee payment: 4
|24 sept. 2003
|Maintenance fee reminder mailed
|5 mars 2004
|Lapse for failure to pay maintenance fees
|4 mai 2004
|Expired due to failure to pay maintenance fee
Effective date: 20040305


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Houseworks Construction
After John Ford got layed off in December, he made a decision to take control of his future. So instead of looking for a new job, he started his own company, Houseworks Construction Inc.
"I didn't feel like having my future in someone else's hands anymore," said Ford.
For the last 12 years Ford has worked for several Twin Cities construction companies as a project manager. While he enjoyed the work the layoff has led him back to his love of building things with his hands.
As carpenter Ford can build just about anything. Over his 35 year career he has, in fact, built just about everything. With those skills he hopes to establish Houseworks as a quality company in the area.
This isn't Ford's first crack at entreprenuership. He has run his own businesses before with varying degrees of success.
This time around Ford said he has a good perspective on what it takes to run a successful company. And with all the tools and credentials he needs, Ford just needs to find some work.
"I've been through recessions before and I know there's work out there," Ford said.
Ford has worked in construction since 1973. He fell into the trade sort of by accident. His first experience came when he agreed to help a family member shingle a barn. He liked the work and that led to him taking other building jobs. From there, a carpenter was born.
"I think it's fascinating. You get to use creativity and work with your hands," Ford said about carpentry.
Although he could retire, Ford has no intention of hanging up his tool belt and has confidence that his latest endeavor will payoff in the end.
"I'll work til I'm 100 if I can," Ford said with a chuckle.
Ford said throughout the project, whatever it might be, he will work closely with his customers to meet their needs. Additionally he said the projects will be done in a clean and professional manner.
"My whole focus is to make sure I'm taking care of my customers," said Ford.
Ford plans to spend the next year establishing himself and gaining customers. He is running the business out of his Rosemount home. He hopes to grow and hire additional carpenters to work with him.


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Importing data from Google Analytics is currently broken. Apparently, the protocol (Client Login) used does not longer work and it needs to be replaced with OAuth2.
I've hit a strange issue with OAuth2 authentication and there is little time to work on it, so it will take a while before it's fixed.
The project has reached version 1.0.0, barely. There are still bugs present, but I do not have any more time to invest in the project, unfortunately.
The application should be usable. It does what it's supposed to do. All the major planned features have been implemented.
I hope you like it and find it useful. Or at least pretty :)
The setup file for Windows 32 has been removed due to a critical blocker bug on Windows 7. I will try to solve the issue as soon as possible.
A new beta version has been released. However, there are lots of bugs everywhere, ranging from package installation problems to graphics problems. Each bug has to be tracked down and eliminated, and it will probably take some time. Testing is welcomed (and much needed)!
We have fixed a number of annoying bugs and made some other improvements. Consequently, a new release has been made. Now we are beginning to implement support for Google Analytics.
Found out that the wgs server was completely broken and no registrations were possible for who knows how long. Made temporary fixes, and now it appears to work. Fixed most of the annoying bugs from 0.5.0. Added pretty icons.
I will begin working on developing the beta version. Before the beta is complete, the following must be implemented:
- redesigning the module classes
- bar graphs showing the data nicely in a time dependent fashion
- implementing the import from sql database feature
- better error handling (handling more cases of things that can go wrong)
I hope the beta version will be ready by the start of march.
The dynamic DNS service for our improvised server has failed us :(. We have changed the provider, and now the domain name has changed. Please use the following server address: web-remote.no-ip.org
The new packages have been generated for Windos and Linux. Found and fixed a major critical bug on the Windos platform, that crashed the application starting it's second launch, because of a small bug in Qt (the QAbstractItemModel::beginRemoveRows() function with count=0). Please send us an email if you find critical bugs :)
Finally, work on the Add Module Dialog has been completed. Now the Web Geostatistics application should be functional again. The improvised home server also appears to be functioning. Therefore, you should be able to use the application, despite it has not been tested extensively. Soon work on the important data analysis section will begin.
We managed to set up an improvised Linux home server, which will become the default server starting the next release. The next release will be made in a couple of days, after the work done to the add module dialog is completed. Unfortunately there is much work needed to be done until the beta stage is ready.
Unfortunately the only Web Geostatistics server is down for an unknown period of time because the account for the web hosting has been suspended due to exceeded traffic limit for Web-Remote.
This means Web Geostatistics will be unusable for a couple of weeks, until we implement support to configure the server address in the application, and until we configure a improvised home server.
We apologize for this unfortunate event.
After fixing some more bugs, and adding the texture set selection option, we are ready with the 0.3.0 ALPHA version.
Finally the reorganization of the project has been completed. Now the CMake build system is functional, Doxygen configured and the source documentation done. No more build files in the subversioning tree. Soon documentation for the developers of the applications or websites that can be analyzed will be ready.
The documentation of the source has been completed. It uses Doxygen to generate html pages. Usage documentation for the wgsclient library will be done soon. The reorganization of the project is nearing completion.
Some important bugs have been fixed, in the data download and management classes, and the performance of the data analysis has been improved.
However, there are still some bugs present and there is much more to be implemented.
More features will be added after the refactoring, bug fixing and documentation are done. We hope to achieve this by the end of this month.
The project is being switched from QMake to CMake, since CMake is better for cross-platform development. However, this is not easy to get done, but we believe that it is necessary.
Overall, we aim to make the code more conforming to the open source development standards.
Web Geostatistics is finally approaching an usable beta-version. In about a week, a usable version should be available via the source code.
Unfortunately, download packages are not in this week's schedule, but they will be prepared as soon as we have time.


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The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), joined by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid, and People for the American Way, filed a brief in Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Holder, urging the Supreme Court to reject a constitutional challenge to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Section 5, regarded by many as the heart of the Voting Rights Act, both blocks and deters discriminatory voting changes in a select number of jurisdictions around the country. Specifically, Section 5 requires jurisdictions with a history of racial discrimination in voting to submit new proposed voting changes to the Department of Justice or to the D.C. District Court for pre-approval. After careful review of an expansive record, Congress concluded that the Section 5 preclearance provision is still necessary to prevent minority citizens from being deprived of the right to fully participate in our democracy. Accordingly, in 2006, with overwhelming bipartisan support, Congress voted to reauthorize Section 5 and President Bush signed the reauthorization into law.
Days after the reauthorization, the Petitioner (a small Austin-based utility district) filed suit challenging the Section 5 preclearance provision of the Act. The Petitioner sought to end its responsibility for having its voting changes reviewed (through what is termed a "bailout") and, more importantly, to have this core provision declared unconstitutional. Last spring, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia unequivocally rejected the Petitioner's claims that it was exempt from the pre-clearance provision, and concluded that Section 5 is constitutional.
LDF's brief provides a thorough review of the extensive legislative record developed by Congress, which vividly demonstrates that pervasive discrimination against minority voters still persists in the jurisdictions that are covered by Section 5. Based on this evidence, LDF concludes that it was well within Congress's authority to renew this core provision of the Act to ensure protection for minority voting rights.
"No statute in our history illustrates America's commitment to inclusive democracy more clearly than the Voting Rights Act, and Section 5 lies at its heart. Since its passage, Section 5 has helped prevent and deter racially discriminatory voting practices that would otherwise deny or abridge our citizen's right to vote," said John Payton, LDF's president and director-counsel.
"In 2006, Congress observed measurable progress in our nation's efforts to ameliorate voting discrimination, but also found substantial, continuing intentional discrimination. In light of the record, Congress reasonably determined that condoning racial discrimination in voting, with knowledge of its effects, and persistence, erodes the promises of our Constitution, of full citizenship, and our enduring commitment to democracy," said Debo Adegbile, LDFs litigation director.
The Petitioner has argued that the election of President Barack Obama, the nation's first African-American president, demonstrates that the country no longer needs a Voting Rights Act. LDF's brief argues that "while the historically significant election of the nation's first African-American president represents a milestone that was not visible in 1965, no event, no matter how significant can instantaneously erase the legacy of Jim Crow and its enduring effects." Moreover, the brief concludes that Section 5 plays a key role in moving the country closer to "the inclusive democracy it strives to become."
This case is one of the most important voting challenges to come before the Supreme Court in recent years. The Court will hear oral argument in the case on April 29th.


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To kick off the NRL season, check out the new 2013 TV ad featuring Jessica Mauboy.
WELCOME to the new NRL. The Australian Rugby League Commission this morning revealed its new television advertising campaign for the 2013 NRL season - with a strong focus on attracting women, children and families to the game.
The new campaign, which features highlights from all the biggest names in the game including suspended Bulldogs star Ben Barba, showcases the mercurial talent in the game and the league's links to grassroots football.
It also stars Australian pop star Jessica Mauboy belting out a jumpy re-mix of the classic Etta James track Something's Got a Hold On Me.
Mauboy will tonight team up with Cowboys co-captain Johnathan Thurston at Sydney's The Star Casino to launch the 2013 Telstra Premiership season and the biggest game-wide campaign in rugby league history.
"There's an exciting new edge to this year's campaign which promotes the incredible work of our players in the community, junior registrations, our state Leagues as well as the Telstra Premiership, Origin and international rugby league," NRL commercial manager Paul Kind said.
"It represents what the game stands for and what it means to people everywhere.
"To have Jessica involved, who is so passionate about the game, that's a really important component and you can see her bring her love of the game into the campaign."
It is a major shift away from the NRL advertising campaign of the previous two seasons which was centred around the rocking Bon Jovi Our House track promoting the game's popularity in traditional heartlands in the face of AFL's invasion of western Sydney.
Mauboy is the first female used to head an NRL marketing initiative since the iconic Tina Turner campaign in the 1990s.
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ANOTHER SWEET 16: #13 Bears Advance With 4-2 Win Over #25 TulsaMay 12, 2013
By Jerry Hill
Baylor Bear Insider
Facing an experienced fourth-year junior that had already made two trips to the Round of 16 in the NCAA Championships, Baylor freshman Julian Lenz seemed to be in over his head.
But showing the cool resolve of a seasoned veteran, Lenz staved off two break points at 4-4 in the third set and then broke Clifford Marsland's serve in the next game to clinch the 13th-ranked Bears' 4-2 win and their own trip to the Sweet 16 with a hard-fought 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 victory on Court 2.
Keeping alive a pair of impressive streaks in Saturday night's marathon match at the Hurd Tennis Center, Baylor (22-5) earned its 12th consecutive trip to the NCAA Championships' final site and improved to 20-0 in NCAA postseason matches at home.
"Their lineup was such that their strongest position was (No. 2 singles)," said Baylor head coach Matt Knoll. "That's what's great about sitting down and looking at what's going to happen, if there's one point we're not going to get, it is 2; and we got that point. You just never know. The thing that we're fortunate about right now is we're competitive at every spot. That's the sign of a good team. We don't need any one guy to win every time. We've got a chance to win everywhere."
This one, though, was in doubt until the very end.
The tide seemed to be turning in 25th-ranked Tulsa's favor when the Golden Hurricane's Grant Ive rallied to split sets with Mate Zsiga at No. 3 and held serve to take a 1-0 lead in the third.
At 4-4 and 15-40 in the third set, Lenz was five points from defeat and swinging the momentum of the match over to Tulsa. But he reeled off four unanswered points to hold serve and then overcame a 30-0 deficit on Marsland's serve in the next game, clinching it when the Tulsa player overcooked an overhead just beyond the baseline.
"That's a moment that you can't really describe," said Lenz, who was mobbed by his teammates after clinching the match. "I felt a lot of pressure from his side on my service games, because he was returning really early. And then I was like, 'OK, just hit the ball . . . focus on your serve, hit the first serve and try to take one corner and just focus on that.' And it worked out, obviously. I got the momentum from the whole crowd on my side. It gave me that last boost to get the break at 5-4, and now we're all really happy."
Things didn't start well for the Bears, who dropped the doubles point for just the sixth time this season after blowing leads at the Nos. 1 and 2 spots.
At No. 2, Ive and Tristan Jackson overcame an early 4-1 deficit to win seven of the next nine games and defeat Patrick Pradella and Roberto Maytin, 8-6. In a reversal of that result, Lenz and Tony Lupieri rallied from a 4-1 deficit to beat the Golden Hurricane's Japie De Klerk and Carlos Baustista, 8-5, at No. 3, leaving the opening point to be decided at No. 1.
The 63rd-ranked duo of Zsiga and Diego Galeano held a 6-4 lead at No. 1, but Tulsa's Marsland and Alejandro Espejo got the break they needed and then clinched the opening point, 9-8, by dominating the tiebreaker, 7-3.
"I was a little disappointed that we were up a break at both 1 and 2 doubles and didn't get either one of them," Knoll said. "That made it a longer day, for sure."
Ultimately, that turned a potential 2 1/2 - or 3-hour match into nearly four hours on the courts.
Swinging the momentum, Baylor won five of the six first sets in singles, the only loss coming in a tiebreaker at No. 1.
"We came out after losing the doubles point, and we were tremendous," Knoll said. "Some of the sets weren't that competitive. I thought particularly the guys down at the bottom really came out rocking and rolling. That really changed the momentum of the match."
Sophomore Marko Krickovic, who played only two conference matches and had been out of the lineup since April 21, came within a point of closing out a double-bagel victory on Friday against Prairie View. And then, replacing Maytin in the lineup, he cruised to a 6-2, 6-0 win over Jackson at No. 6.
"I've got to give him a ton of credit," Knoll said of Krickovic, who improved to 12- 6 in dual-match play and 2-1 at No. 6. "He hasn't played a lot. (Jackson is) a guy that beat us when we played them in February. So, for him to come out and lose two games against that guy was pretty impressive."
Krickovic said it was "never really about my tennis."
"I've been playing good enough the whole season," he said. "I just didn't stay in there mentally. I had some problems that have been out there for a while, and I think I just needed that time off to really work on that. You can see that, obviously, something changed from the beginning of the season till now."
Completing the domination at the bottom of the lineup, Galeano rolled to a 6-0, 6-3 win over Baustista at No. 5, and Lupieri pushed Baylor's lead to 3-1 with a straight-set win over Espejo at No. 4, 6-3, 6-3.
"If I win 7-6, 7-6, it's the same thing; I don't really care," Krickovic said. "I'm just happy that I brought my game from practice to the match, finally, because I've been practicing amazing and just couldn't bring it to the matches."
At No. 1, De Klerk overcame code violations that cost him a penalty and a game, rallying from a 3-1 deficit in the second set to knock off the 24th-ranked Pradella, 7-6(5), 6-4, to pull the Golden Hurricane (16-8) back within 3-2.
"I think the hangover of losing the first set carried over into the second," Knoll said. "It wasn't the most complete match, but Japie had something to do with that."
With it coming down to the final two matches, Zsiga seemed like the Bears' best bet, especially when Lenz faced a pair of break points in the third. But the 55tth-ranked freshman came through with one of his biggest wins of the year in improving to 27-9 overall and 16-5 in dual matches.
"I really had some trouble in the beginning of the season," he said. "I was just trying to focus on improving and getting one day better. And I think I'm at the top level of my performance right now."
"I thought it was the best I've seen him play," Knoll said of Lenz. "He's a heck of a competitor. I was really proud of him today. I thought he did a great job."
Baylor snapped a two-match losing streak to Tulsa and improved to 45-14 all-time in NCAA play and 14-0 in second-round matches.
Making its 14th overall appearance at the NCAA final site and 12th in a row, Baylor will face fourth-ranked and four-time defending national champion USC (25-4) at 4 p.m. Thursday at the Atkins Tennis Center in Urbana, Ill.
"I think we have a great team this year. We have nine guys out there that can win matches," Krickovic said. "It's a great opportunity for us to get out there and show what we have. I think we can cause some trouble there."
Here is a link to the complete results from Saturday's Baylor-Tulsa men's tennis match.
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" Brand: Tesco / Type: Caramel "
If you like Twix biscuits, but not the price of them, then these could be the answer. These are Tesco's version of Twix and are sold in packs of either 4 biscuits, 7 individual biscuits or in multi-packs of 15 individual biscuits.
Taste-wise, I can't tell much difference between these and Twix. The caramel is lovely and soft and the chocolate is nice and creamy with a good flavour. The biscuits are crunchy and not at all soggy. I personally think they are really scrumptious and I often have one with my morning coffee.
Pricewise, a 4-pack costs 79p, the 7-pack costs £1.12 and the pack of 15 costs £1.04, which I think is very good value for money. For those watching their weight each 21g biscuit contains 105 calories, so not too much of a sin to eat one!
I buy these a lot for my kids, who like them as much as Twix. They are great as a snack, go well with a cuppa and are small enough to fit in lunch-boxes.
In these days of having to watch the pennies, these are a great alternative to the more expensive Twix biscuits.
I started buying Tesco treat sized snacks for the kids as I found the Cadbury bags were getting too expensive for what you got. I prefer buying the treat sized for the kids and it means I can pinch one or two without feeling guilty. This is the Tesco own brand version of Twix and I actually think this is just as good as the real brand when you are comparing the treat sized bars. Although the chocolate coating isn't quite as nice the biscuit part is firmer and sweeter and the caramel topping is just as nice. At £1 for a bag of 15 bars they are incredibly good value and great for having in your bag or popping into lunch boxes. Best of all is that the kids really don't notice the difference between these and the proper Twix brand. If I was buying a bigger sized bar I'd probably go for Twix proper because I think the quality of the chocolate starts to become more of an issue after more than a few mouthfuls but at this size they do the job and are a great purchase.
These are Tesco's version of a Twix and you can get them in a few different pack sizes, the one I've got is 7 smaller sized bars and they cost £1.00. They're not tiny treat sized chocolate bars but are deffo loads shorter than a standard size Twix, you get 2 in a pack though so that's still plenty of chocolate! lol
They're not that bad but you can deffo tell this is a cheap rip off Twix and not the real thing. The chocolate tastes cheap and even the layer of caramel is a bit disappointing because it's got a sweet taste but there isn't a lot of acctual FLAVOUR to it.
The biscuit is nice and crunchy and it's probably my favourite bit of this bar, it's got a nice taste that's a bit like digestives but a bit like shortbread as well. It's harder than the biscuit in a Twix and I wouldn't usually like that but it goes best in this bar.
It's not worth trying to eat these by eating the caramel off first because the caramel isn't that nice but when you eat it all together the biscuit brings all the different flavours together. The chocolate isn't NASTY but it's just got that cheap taste that supermarket chocolate always has.
These bars are 42g for both fingers and that would make them a good size for a kids lunch box and would be cheaper than buying packs of proper Twix bars. Not as big either but having 2 pieces in each bar would make it feel like the've got something bigger than they have! lol
I'd recommend these but I'd deffo say to look at them like chocolate biscuits and nothing majorly special because then you won't be disappointed! lol They're ok for munching on when you just want something that tastes half decent but if I wanted a GOOD chocolate bar then I'd deffo go for a proper Twix.... or not even that actually, it would be something even better than THAT!
Recommended..... for lunch boxes and a quick snack between meals!!!
I am always on the look out for ways to reduce the cost of our weekly shop. We all take pack lunches to work and I often stock up on chocolate bars for people to eat to fill them up to last them through till tea time, and as a bit of a treat to be honest. I was plesently surprised when I saw Tesco had started doing their own version of the Twix bar, at a cheaper price.
The Tesco crunchie caramel biscuit bar comes in a variety of shapes and sizes, most predominantly one longer finger, or two shorter ones, and I have only seen them in multipacks. They come in a type of foil pack plastic wrapping, which as far as I can tell is not recyclable which is a downside. The wrapping however is good at keeping them fresh.
For those who know what a twix is you can skip to the next bit as these bars are very similar. The bars consist of a bottom layer of thin chocolate followed by a large chunk of a shortbread type biscuit (but not quite as nice as shortbread) and then caramel, then another layer of chocolate to finish it off. By my estimations the bar is 10% chocolate, 20% caramel and 70% shortbread. The combination of the three together are a winning formula, as Twix found out as they have huge sales of their chocolate bar, all that remains to be seen is whether tescos can have the same success.
The tesco version of the twix is good, really good, but not excellent or superb like the 'rea' version. I cant put my finger on it but the taste is not quite 100% the same. I think it is the biscuit part and it tastes a little more stale.
However, for the price difference, the small taste discrepancy can definitelt be ignored if you are in for a bargain, and I am so I will be going forward with these until I win the lottery!!
These are Tesco's version of Twix's and although they were alright, they just weren't quite as good as the brand named ones. You can buy these in a Mini Bar pouch which has the other Tesco versions of Chocolates such as Snickers, Mars Bars, and Bounty's or you can buy them in a Snack Sized pack. In the Snack Sized pack you get 7 of these and they cost about £1.10.
Packaging is alright for these. They are individually wrapped and they are all wrapped together in a longer pack. The colourings on the pack are a medium/deep brown and it has the writing in white on the pack. There is the normal picture of the item which has been half eaten and it looks alright on the front.
Now to the Bar. It is a hard layer of Crunchy Digestive type Biscuit. The Biscuit tastes a little Salty, and pretty Malty. The Caramel on the top is a darker brown colour compared to the Twix one and the Caramel seems a little thicker as well. It is all wrapped in Milk Chocolate. The Milk Chocolate is sweet enough, but it doesn't taste that Milky to me. It has the taste of cheaper non brand named Chocolate in my view and that's why it isn't quite so good. It is pretty sweet though, and that is good in my view.
I normally don't eat these straight from the fridge, as I find the Caramel is too hard this way, but they are nice enough at room temperature.
Each Snack sized pack has 285 calories and 13.3g fat, so perhaps a little higher than a standard bar of Chocolate considering the pack size.
These are not my favourite in the Tesco Chocolate range, as I like the Wild N Whippy ones the best, but I would say these are my 2nd favourite as they are sweet enough, and sicky to deal with your sweet tooth.
A cheaper alternative to the brand name, but not that much cheaper if you compare them both.
Tesco Crunchy Caramel Biscuit is one of the Tesco own chocolate bars that I've been most impressed with. Price wise, a packet of seven individual snack size bars will set you back £1.06, which is a reasonable 15p per bar. Each bar in these packs comes as a short, twin pack - like a twix that's been cut in half! You can also purchase these in packets of four standard sized bars for 99p, which works out at 25p per bar.
Obviously, these bars are Tesco's take on Mar's Twix bars. Be warned that although you might assume that Tesco's version is considerably cheaper than Mar's, they're not. A five pack of Twix costs £1.59 which is 32p each, and a packet of nine snack sized Twix costs £1 which is 11p each. The Mars snack versions are slightly smaller than the Tesco, but the point is that the prices are actually a lot closer than you might assume.
Taste wise, these aren't quite a Twix, but they're really nice in their own way. The milk chocolate they've used in these bars is acceptable, and there's plenty of it whichever size you opt for. The caramel is my favourite part in these, and I like that it's really soft, sweet and thick in texture. I also like that the biscuit they use in these has a good, solid crunch to it and a slightly buttery biscuit flavour.
The wrapping they use on these is slightly better than I've found on some of the other Tesco own chocolate bars. It survives being banged around in my lunchbox or glove compartment all day, and yet is easy to open. So that makes these ideal for taking out and about with you to save spending 50p+ on an individual bar from the shops.
The nutritional content is just not good I'm afraid. A standard sized Tesco Crunchy Caramel Biscuit contains 285 calories, 13.3g of fat and 25.8g of sugar. That's about the same as Mar's Twix, and a lot of other chocolate bars that contain caramel. It's still something to consider when you slip these into your basket though. Once in a while they're tasty, once a day and you've got a belly as big as mine.
I recently reviewed Tesco's Wild & Whippy bars and their Caramel Nougat bars. The first being a very close version of Milky Way, and the latter being a very good replication of Mars. Tesco's Crunchy Caramel Biscuits are next on my list as a great alternative to Twix if you want want to save a few pennies on the branded version.
Tesco Crunchy Caramel Biscuit Bars can be found in the chocolate & sweets isle, alongside their other own-brand products. These come in mutlipack sizes only, as Tesco own brand chocolate bars aren't sold individually. A 232g 4 pack costs 99p (currently on offer at 3 for £2.50, including a selection of their other own brand bars), and a 294g 7 pack costs £1.07. The 7 pack is a great buy, especially when comparing it to Twix which can cost twice as much.
The plastic outer packaging is a golden brown colour, and the bars come in a cadboard tray. The appearance and packaging aren't anything fancy, but they're more than adequate. It's good to know you're not paying for the brand or the design on the front, so at £1.07 for a pack of 7 I think they're very well priced.
Each individual packet has twin biscuit fingers, like a twix though not as long. These are the perfect size for a snack, and great for taking out or putting in lunchboxes. Each packet contains 196 calories and 10.5g of fat, so that's still a little less than a Mars for example. If you just want a bit of chocolate & biscuit yumminess, one finger is enough (no rude jokes please!) and I find they stay fresh once opened, especially if you pop it in a biscuit tin or the fridge.
These are very similar to twix; a biscuit base with a layer of caramel, covered in milk chocolate. They look similar too, with the slightly rippled, smooth chocolate which smells as tempting as it looks.
The chocolate is smooth and has a lovely taste, and the same can be said about the caramel, which is thick and sweet. This goes perfectly with the biscuit base, which is lovely and crunchy. Texture wise, this is very satisfying because the chocolate melts in your mouth, the biscuit has a great crunch, and the caramel is chewy without being hard enough to bite your teeth or smooth enough to dribble down your chin!
Tesco's Crunchy Caramel Biscuits definitely give Twix a run for their money, especially in terms of price. Personally, I think there's little difference between the two, but judging these bars on their own merits I would say they're good quality and very tasty.
mmmm... these are yummy.
Basically these are a Tesco own brand Twix. They only come in a multipack, and are snack size, but they're big enough to satisfy a chocolate craving and as they are little you save a few calories.
Being an own brand of course, these are cheaper than buying Twix and I can't really tell the difference, I think maybe the carmel isn't quite as runny but who cares?
For those of you unfamilar with Twix, They are two fingers of shortcake biscuit (and this biscuit in these tesco ones are particularly good) with caramel on top all wrapped in milk chocolate.
For people who still want a treat but are watching the pennies, certain items, well most in fact are just as good buying the own brand and this is one very good example. They deliver on flavour, texture and price, the packaging is almost the same as twix too, bar the logo of course.
A top buy.
Last week my body was longing for something, I was feeling hungry so I got myself some ham and cheese, a real favourite of mine. I ate it but still my body wanted something. Not having had anything sweet for quite sometime (I tend to stick to a low carb diet so biscuits and sweets are normally not on the menu), I started to crave something chocolatey. My girlfriend also fancied something so we popped to our local Tescos. Off we went to the confectionary aisle to find something tempting. I saw a pack of Twix bars and not having had a Twix for a very long time it really appealed to me, so I picked it up.
While my girlfriend was choosing, I noticed down at the bottom of the shelves, a selection of boxes of Tescos own brand chocolate bars. They were own brand versions of famous brands, Milky Way, Twix and I think there was Mars Bar too. I looked at the price of the Own brand version of the Twix, Tescos Crunchy Caramel Biscuits (wow what a catchy name...) and noticed that a pack of 7 double finger bars was only something silly like 89p. Ok they were smaller than the Twix bars in my hand but I got much more for my money. Being fairly budget conscious at the moment, I put the Twix pack back and picked up the Tescos bars.Once my girlfriend had chosen what she wanted, we headed home.
Upon opening the pack I was greeted with seven individually wrapped twin finger packs of the crunchy caramel biscuits. I opened one and took one of the fingers out. Each finger is shorter than a genuine Twix finger, probably between 2/3 and 3/4 of the size but as I said before, I got much more for my money overall.
When compared to a Twix finger, I would say the Tescos bar is not constructed quite so neatly. With a Twix, the whole bar blends seamlessly together, the biscuit and caramel combine smoothly down the sides and were it not for the texture difference they could be seen as one. With the Tescos bar, the two layers, the biscuit and the caramel, can clearly be seen as two layers, the caramel perched upon the biscuit base. The top of a twix undulates in smooth gentle waves, the top of the Tescos one is bumpy. On the whole though there really isn't much to choose between them looks wise, so little in fact I'm fairly sure you could pass them off as each other if your target didn't have the opportunity to compare.
Having looked at the bar, it came to the eating. With my first bite I was greeted with a lovely sensation of the two textures, first my teeth slide through the chocolate to the soft caramel then they crunched through the biscuit, which was neither too hard nor too soft but just right. With my first chew I experienced the chocolate, which was lovely, smooth, and good quality. My second chew gave me the caramel, and what caramel it is! Soft and sweet with a truely caramel flavour which really brought whole thing to life, it was delicious! This is one very tasty biscuit based bar!
Soon I had polished off the whole finger and was ready for the next one, the joys of a two fingered bar! The second was just as delicous. Unlike some chocolate bars/biscuits which seem packed full of sugar and leave you feeling like you've just consumed the contents of the sugar pot. These bars are just right, they are sweet enough to be sweet but they don't rely on that to make them nice, they actually taste wonderful too. And having eaten the whole bar Iwas left wanting more which is often not the case with such things as often straight after eating such snacks I feel like I need to wash my mouth out with a drink as my whole mouth has been overtaken by the sugar.
I shan't bore you with the nutritional values of the bar because lets face it, it's a chocolate/biscuit bar, it isn't going to be packed full of goodness! At the end of the day if you are eating these everyday or giving them to someone for lunch everyday, they will be bad for you but if eaten on the odd occassion as a treat they are fine.
As an own brand version of a mainstream brand, how do I think they stand up? The answer to that is simple, while they taste slightly different to a real Twix, I have the say the difference is that they are actually nicer, the caramel in these bars is simple delicious! If I had the choice between the two, I would pick these bars over the Twix every time! They taste great and are very good value. My conclusion on these bars is simple, they are great!


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After visiting two greenhouses that produce finished plants from cuttings earlier in the week, we visited Fides' 15-acre cuttings farm in South Africa called Safropa–blending South Africa with Europe. The facility was originally built to supply chrysanthemums but that production has moved to Uganda. Today, the facility is completely focused on kalanchoe cuttings. Frank Enthoven moved to South Africa from California to manage the operations.
Safropa produces 1.8 million cuttings per week. While 65 percent of the production is the double-flowered Calandiva varieties, the remaining 35 percent are single-flowered kalanchoe. In just four years, the double-flowered varieties have dominated the European market.
Adjacent to the property is a strawberry farm, also owned by a Dutch entrepreneur. Dutch ingenuity has come into play at Safropa, building canals to catch rainwater and securing a stable year-round supply of water, which isn't found on most farms on South Africa. The primary heating source is coal and Safropa uses between 15 and 20 tons of coal per night. While coal is abundant and cheap compared to other fuels, the price has doubled from 400 rands per ton a year ago to 800 rands per ton. For electricity, the facility has two generators to compensate for blackouts.
Safropa employs 350 workers. While 20 take cuttings at any given time, the rest are involved in crop maintenance and shipping. While some come to the greenhouses by foot, others come by bus and Fides pays for the ticket. Workers get paid by the unit. While you wouldn't think there would be a lot of worker protections in a Third World country, because of the legacy of Apartheid, there are a lot of social reforms and laws employers must follow under the Employment Equity Act and Basic Conditions of Employment Act.
One thing we noticed across the kalanchoe varieties was differences in leaf shapes and size. Large leaves are taken off to enhance cuttings production. Supplemental lighting is used to keep plants in a vegetative state. Safropa has been testing energy saving bulbs from Philips. Lights are on 10 minutes and off 20 minutes.
The rooting medium consists of coco fiber, bark and Styrofoam. It is steam sterilized and reused for three crops. "We had to learn a lot with coco, making sure it wasn't too wet or drying out" Enthoven says. "We were almost not sleeping at night testing the cocos."
Stock plants are changed out every 40 weeks, which keeps production fresh. "When I came here, the place was full of kalanchoe trees!" Enthoven says. "This system works. The main thing is the plant needs to be ready for the next order in three weeks."
This was a great opportunity for the kalanchoe growers to ask Enthoven questions about their own production concerns. He says he fields between 30 and 40 emails a day on these matters.
When we went into the shipping coolers, the growers had fun finding the boxes of cuttings addressed to their operations in Canada. A few even put surprise notes in the boxes for their employees to find. Cuttings were shipped to arrive on Monday for sticking Tuesday. They are packed in Styrofoam-lined boxes for temperature control. Transportation takes longer to the United States and Canada. If temperatures are consistently high or low, that's okay, but when temperatures fluctuate, the plants sweat.
Another logistical difference between North America in Europe is what happens when substitutions need to be made. In North America, where there is usually a broker in between, the substitution needs to be cleared through the broker before it can happen. In some cases, brokers will allow growers and Fides to resolve these issues directly. For blooming potted plant specialists with 52-week programs, timing is critical to receive the same colors on the same date. They need all the colors in the box of cuttings.


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WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- The UPI think tank wrap-up is a daily digest covering opinion pieces, reactions to recent news events and position statements released by various think tanks. This is the first of several wrap-ups for Feb. 28.
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LOS ANGELES -- Trilogy of error? Unsatisfying media spectacles from Bush, Saddam, and a virtual march.
By Nick Gillespie
In a world with a gargantuan appetite for political theater, no fewer than three separate media events vied for our attention on Wednesday: the anti-war group MoveOn's "Virtual March" on Washington; Dan Rather's televised interview with Saddam Hussein; and President George W. Bush's "major speech" on post-war Iraq.
That all three were ultimately unsatisfying spectacles is perhaps not surprising, but is troubling all the same, especially as each adds to a growing sense that we're stuck in a great, anxious historical pause.
The Virtual March against invading Iraq apparently succeeded in its primary goals of tying up Capitol Hill switchboards and providing workfare for virtual actors such as Mike Farrell. Organizers claim that motivated crank-yankers placed over one million calls to the president, senators, and congressmen. Callers were encouraged to choose any or all of seven eminently defensible "talking points," ranging from "We can disarm Saddam Hussein without invading Iraq" to "What happens after war?" to "Young Americans will die in battle."
MoveOn wisely counseled the antiwar crowd to steer clear of unconvincing tropes such as "no blood for oil" or Amiri Baraka's insistence that somehow Israel is the real enemy here.
Whether MoveOn's act of telephonic terrorism will help or hurt antiwar efforts is anybody's guess. "It's a useful tool for people to express (protesters') views," said a White House flack who admitted that the president's phone rang "a lot" due to the protest. Still, sniffed the spokeswoman, "it's not objective or scientific or a way to measure public sentiments."
One of the Virtual March's organizers, Tom Andrews, told the press that none of pols' offices "expressed annoyance," which may well be a greater sign of defeat than having one of TV's first female cops, Cagney (or is it Lacey?), working the phone tree.
At least this much is clear, based on Wednesday night's 60 Minutes II kid-gloves chat with Saddam Hussein: The "Arab Avenger" is not helping his own cause, unless his goal is committing suicide by U.N. resolution.
Dan Rather certainly seemed dedicated to burying his own Q rating every bit as deep into the ground as Saddam's reputed cache of chemical and biological weapons. The newsman's lengthy follow-up on the details of the absurd Saddam-Bush debate burned valuable time that might have been better spent asking questions about torture, starvation, and repression.
And his bizarre request that Saddam utter some pidgin English for the camera -- "would you speak some English for me? Anything you choose" -- stopped just short of "What's the frequency" weirdness. One needn't invoke the good old days when high-hat hacks such as Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite bestrode the Earth to realize something's seriously wrong when Martin Bashir's Q&A with Michael Jackson is harder-hitting and more revelatory than a "serious" journalist's talk with the dictator du jour.
For his part, Saddam's jesuitical lies regarding his obvious non-compliance with United Nations resolutions, his insistence that Iraq evacuated Kuwait as the victors in the Gulf War, and the legitimacy he invested in being chosen "unanimously" to lead Iraq's terrorized population all helped put an inhuman, sociopathic face on a tyrant that even the most ardent anti-war activists don't defend.
Other offhand comments (e.g., "Jealousy is for women ... men are not supposed to be jealous of one another" and his self-described "funny anecdote" about only calling the first President Bush Mr. after he'd left office) merely cemented the image of Saddam as someone whose reality principle vanished a long, long time ago.
The best case for not attacking Iraq -- that, as U.S. intelligence has held all along, Saddam was not involved with Sept. 11 and that he can be contained with force short of an invasion -- is still wholly legitimate. But Saddam's every utterance speaks directly to the hawk in every dove.
More important to most anti-war protesters, who typically invoke the United Nations as the ultimate arbiter on action in Iraq, is this: If even Saddam agrees with the letter and law of the current U.N. resolutions -- "We have committed ourselves to Resolution (sic)"; "No violation has been made by Iraq to anything decided by the United Nations," -- he has legitimated an international strike against his regime, even if the United Nations itself watches from the sidelines.
If Saddam's table talk with Dan Rather gave pro-United Nations antiwar activists something to think long and hard about, President's Bush's speech at the American Enterprise Institute's annual dinner, tried to focus attention away from fighting and toward the sort of rosy, best-case scenario usually directed at economic activity rather than the re-sculpting of an entire world region. Deposing Saddam by force if necessary could, said Bush, lead to a flourishing of democracy in the Middle East, the end of global terrorism, and a final settling of the Palestinian issue.
Bush, who came to power articulating a "humble" foreign policy that explicitly eschewed nation building and what are generally called humanitarian interventions, has patched together themes that, however at odds with his earlier stance, combine something for liberals and conservatives alike (in his phrase, "liberty for an oppressed people, and security for the American people").
While this has been to date Bush's sharpest articulation of his administration's aims in Iraq, to call his scenario simply overly optimistic borders on Saddam-like delusions.
"Old patterns of conflict in the Middle East can be broken, if all concerned will let go of bitterness, hatred, and violence, and get on with the serious work of economic development, and political reform, and reconciliation," proclaims Bush, as if there was something original or magical in articulating such an obvious conditional statement.
Indeed, recent adventures in nation building have been less than smashing successes; rebuilding an entire region will only vastly multiply the degree of difficulty of such a task. It is also not at all clear that such efforts will help bring al Qaida to justice or secure American borders and people against further terrorist attacks. As important, when Bush declared that "we will remain in Iraq as long as necessary, and not a day more," he may have been setting us up for the sort of essentially permanent camping trips U.S. armed forces have been on in Europe and the Korean Peninsula.
Perhaps the most troubling aspect of Wednesday night's speech is that the once-controversial assumption at the core of Bush's foreign policy -- the doctrine of preventive war, of striking enemies who are not posing immediate threats -- has now become taken for granted as a starting point for action, even as it conceivably justifies an endless repetition of military interventions all around the globe.
That night, Bush spoke of a post-war Iraq in the most flattering and attractive terms Americans could hope for. But if we're to ponder such a potential reality even before the first shot has been fired in this first preventive war, we're also all left to wonder where the next such conflict will take U.S. troops.
(Nick Gillespie is Reason magazine's editor-in-chief.)
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President Bush's announcement of a $15 billion initiative to combat HIV/AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean is a bold, historic step, but implementation will require sustained, high-level attention by both the Executive Branch and Congress, according to a statement by the CSIS Task Force on HIV/AIDS, presented Thursday to Task Force co-chair Sen. Bill Frist, R, Tenn. The task force statement offers the following recommendations:
-- Make the proposed appointment of an HIV/AIDS "czar" an early priority and give him or her a global profile, a robust clear mandate, and direct access to the secretaries of State and Health and Human Services;
-- Ensure robust and sustained support for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria to expedite delivery of substantial assistance to acutely affected countries;
-- Significantly enlarge bilateral cooperation with China to pre-empt a full-scale HIV/AIDS pandemic in that country, and forge a coherent, forward-looking strategy to address the second wave of HIV/AIDS, which is beginning to strike large, populous states -- Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Russia, and China -- that are of key strategic importance;
-- Formulate an integrated strategy to reduce the acute vulnerability of women and girls to HIV/AIDS, expanding opportunities for economic empowerment, strengthening access to justice, and increasing their treatment and prevention options;
-- Revise the U.S. food relief and development strategy to mitigate the crushing impact of HIV/AIDS on rural household economies and worsening food insecurity.
The task force statement draws on four more detailed analyses outlining pragmatic policy steps:
-- "Averting a Full-Blown HIV/AIDS Pandemic in China," the report of a CSIS delegation to China co-chaired by former Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis Sullivan and former U.S. Ambassador to China Stapleton Roy, which calls for a sustained leadership dialogue between top-level U.S. cabinet officials and their Chinese counterparts and expanded operational collaboration between the two countries.
-- "Fatal Vulnerabilities: Reducing the Acute Risk of HIV/AIDS among Women and Girls," authored by Janet Fleischman of Human Rights Watch, chair of the Task Force committee on women and girls, which urges integration of a gender component into HIV/AIDS programming to mitigate the increasing "feminization" of the global pandemic.
-- "The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria: Progress Report," authored by Todd Summers, chair of the Task Force Committee on Resource Mobilization and Coordination, which calls on Congress to substantially increase pledges to the Global Fund as part of the president's new global AIDS initiative.
A fourth report, "HIV Testing Requirement for Immigrants and Visitors to the United States: Time to Reconsider?" calls for a reopening of debate on mandatory HIV-testing for prospective immigrants to the United States.
"U.S. global leadership has been dramatically enlarged by the President's initiative. It is now critically important that Congress take quick bipartisan action to commit substantial new funds towards HIV/AIDS and to expedite the authorities and appointment of an empowered AIDS Coordinator," said J. Stephen Morrison, director of the CSIS Africa Program and the CSIS HIV/AIDS Task Force.
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(The goal of the libertarian Heartland Institute is to help build social movements in support of ideas including parental choice in education, market-based approaches to environmental protection, privatization of public services, and deregulation in areas where property rights and markets do a better job than government bureaucracies.
Supported by contributions from private individuals, foundations, and corporations, Heartland does not accept government funds and does not conduct "contract" research for special interest groups.)
CHICAGO, Ill. -- A state global warming policy could destroy the economy
By Dr. Roy Cordato
There is a little-known provision in North Carolina's "clean smokestacks" bill that could cost the state billions of dollars annually and devastate the economy. The provision establishes a commission to make recommendations for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and combat the "problem" of global warming.
In setting up the commission, North Carolina is joining a number of other states in an attempt to implement the U.N. treaty on global climate change known as the Kyoto Protocol. President Bill Clinton signed the protocol, but because of its high costs the Senate declared its opposition in a near-unanimous vote. In 2001 the Bush administration withdrew the United States as a signatory to the treaty. The treaty would have forced drastic reductions in energy usage in order to achieve the required goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions to 7 percent below 1990 levels.
It was clear from the beginning the treaty would have a chilling effect on the nation's economy. In a 1998 study conducted by WEFA Inc., it was found that the treaty would increase the price of electricity by more than 86 percent and the price of gasoline by more than 50 percent. GDP would be reduced by nearly $400 billion and four million jobs would be lost. More than 100,000 of those jobs would be lost in North Carolina.
But what would happen if North Carolina tried to pursue the Kyoto requirements on its own? Given the influence that environmental pressure groups have with Gov. Mike Easley's administration, this scenario is quite plausible. According to a new study by The Heartland Institute, a national free-market think tank based in Chicago, Illinois, a statewide program to reduce greenhouse gases to levels required by the U.N. treaty would cost North Carolina tens of billions of dollars a year.
In particular, the study concludes that such a program would cost the average household in the state $7,249 annually and the total in higher energy costs and lost wages for consumers and businesses combined would be a devastating $22.7 billion.
In its study, Heartland looked at 37 states to determine the costs if each state pursued the Kyoto targets separately. The reason for this is that many state governments, influenced by radical environmentalists, are embracing the treaty on their own. And it looks as though North Carolina soon may jump on the bandwagon.
The Heartland study also predicts severe consequences for North Carolina's budget. The study, based in part on the U.S. Energy Information Agency study cited above, concludes that the state would have to spend $552 million a year to achieve the Kyoto reductions and would lose $3.7 billion in revenues from reduced economic growth.
But isn't all of this worth it to save the planet from the melting ice caps and rising sea levels supposedly brought on by global warming? The fact is that North Carolina could do all that the Kyoto Protocol requires and more, and it would have no perceptible effect on global climate. Any action that North Carolina could take would involve all costs and no benefits.
In a prominent study by Dr. Thomas Wigley, himself an advocate of the idea that human induced global warming is occurring, it was concluded that if the Kyoto Protocol were adopted and adhered to with 100 percent compliance, the effect would be to cool the planet by an imperceptible 0.13 degrees Fahrenheit over the next 50 years. Furthermore, the best evidence suggests that global warming is not occurring. The two most accurate measures of global temperatures, satellite and weather balloon data, show no warming for the past 24 years.
North Carolina should not adopt any policies meant to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, but a naturally occurring gas that is essential for all life on Earth. Increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are likely to induce longer growing seasons, increased crop yields, and lower food prices.
During this session, the General Assembly should revisit the "clean smokestacks" bill and repeal that portion of the legislation establishing the "greenhouse gas" commission, whose recommendations can only be harmful to the state and its citizens.
(Dr. Roy Cordato is vice president for research and resident scholar of the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, N.C.)


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Merry MaryAlternate titles: 娶妻玛丽 Starring Lee Ha Na and Ji Hyun Woo
From the director of 2007 hit Queen of Housewives and the writer of 2004 hit The Woman Who Wants to Marry comes Merry Mary, a joyous, endearing romp about two people who meet on a verbal battleground and end up falling in love. Lee Ha Na of Triple and Ji Hyun Woo of upcoming Birth of a Rich Man star as the bickering couple in this delightful romantic comedy.
Hwang Me Ri (played by Lee Ha Na), nicknamed Merry, dreams of becoming a musician as she works as a street vendor. Cheerful and optimistic despite the drudgery of her life, she works hard, and nothing disturbs her until Kang Dae Gu (Ji Hyun Woo), a poor novelist, moves into her neighborhood. Clashing from the moment they meet, the two keep their neighbors in an uproar as they embark on a no-holds-barred war of attack and defense.
Adding to the confusion is Seon Do Jin (Lee Min Woo), a straightlaced schoolteacher who was Me Ri's childhood crush and who feels sorry for her, and Lee So Ran (Wang Bit Na), a plastic beauty with her sights set on Dae Gu. Will Me Ri choose the man whom she has loved for years, Do Jin? Or will she recognize the romantic sparks flying underneath the insults and fights she exchanges with Dae Gu?
Also known as Me Ri, Dae Gu's Attack and Defense Battle and Mary Daegu Bout.
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The 2010 version of U.C.ME-OPC software from Control See Ltd includes scheduling functionalities based on information received from SCADA applications, DCS, and OPC servers.
Control See Ltd has announced the release of its U.C.ME-OPC software product version 2010. This new version includes scheduling functionality to the existing functionality – alarm notification (via SMS, Pager, Email, Voice and Fax), remote control (via SMS and Phone) and alarm analysis.
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- On Sunday, September 12th U.C.ME-OPC can run an external utility that will load a process recipe.
U.C.ME-OPC is alarm notification software that can connect to any SCADA application, distributed control system (DCS) or OPC server using OPC connectivity. Based on the information retrieved from these systems, alarms can be sent to any phone via SMS or Voice, Pager, Email or Fax.
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