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|This zoom-in Scanning Electron Microscope image shows a five-nozzle M3 emitter, where each nozzle measures 10x12 microns.
In recent years, the science of biology has been dominated by genomics - the study of genes and their functions. The genomics era is now making way for the era of proteomics - the study of the proteins that genes encode.
Future proteomics research should see a substantial acceleration with the development of a new device that provides the first monolithic interface between mass spectrometry and silicon/silica-based microfluidic "lab-on-a-chip" technologies. This new device, called a multinozzle nanoelectrospray emitter array, was developed by scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
"Proteomics has become an indispensable tool in biological research, be it diagnostics, therapeutics, bioenergy or stem cell research, and mass spectrometry is proteomics' enabling technology," said Daojing Wang, a scientist with Berkeley Lab's Life Sciences Division who leads the proteomics research group and was the principal investigator behind the development of the multinozzle nanoelectrospray emitter.
"Lab-on-a-chip technology has enormous potential for proteomics research," Wang said, "but for this potential to be fully realized, a major advance in interfacing microfluidics with mass spectrometry is needed. Our device provides that interface."
Wang and Peidong Yang, a leading nanoscience authority with Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry and Materials Sciences Division, and also a chemistry professor with the University of California's Berkeley campus, co-authored a paper on this work which is being published by the American Chemical Society (ACS). The paper, which is now available in the on-line version. is entitled: "Microfabricated Monolithic Multinozzle Emitters for Nanoelectrospray Mass Spectrometry."
Other authors of the ACS paper were Woong Kim, a postdoctoral fellow in the Molecular Foundry, and Mingquan Guo, a postdoctoral fellow in the Life Sciences Division.
When the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, giving scientists a complete catalogue of human DNA, the next big effort focused on genomics, identifying DNA sequences that code for proteins, aka, genes. With the identification of each and every new gene, the emphasis shifts to determining the biochemical function of its associated proteins.
All biological cells are constructed from aggregations of proteins that interact with other protein aggregations like an elaborate, finely choreographed network of interdependent machines. This biomolecular machinery also controls nearly every chemical process inside a cell, and forms much of the connectivity that enable cells to come together into tissues and organs. One of the first steps in proteomics research is to determine the identity and modifications of individual proteins that make up a cell or tissue sample. The principal means of doing this is through mass spectrometry.
Mass spectrometers use a combination of ionization and magnets to separate a protein's constituent peptides. Detection and analysis of this mass spectrum can then be used to identify the protein and quantify its presence in a sample. The most popular technique today for ionizing a protein's constituents for mass spectrometry is to liquefy the protein and send it through electrically charged capillaries - a technique known as electrospray ionization. One of the best candidates for high throughput integration of the detection and analysis processes is to interface the mass spectrometers with lab-on-a-chip technology, where biological fluids are introduced onto a microprocessor chip. However, microfluidic analysis of proteins has been a separate process from mass spectrometry - until now.
"Ours is the first report of a silicon/silica microfluidic channel that is integrated monolithically with a multinozzle nanoelectrospray emitter," said Wang. "This paves the way for the large scale integration of mass spectrometry and lab-on-a-chip analysis in proteomics research."
Each emitter consists of a parallel array of silica nozzles protruding out from a hollow silicon sliver with a conduit size of 100 x 10 microns. Multiple nozzles (100 nozzles per millimeter was a typical density) were used rather than single nozzles in order to reduce the pressure and clogging problems that arise as the microfluidic channels on a chip downsize to a nanometer scale. The emitters and their nozzles were produced from a silicon wafer, with the dimension and number of nozzles systematically and precisely controlled during the fabrication process. Fabrication required the use of only a single mask and involved photolithographic patterning and various etching processes.
Said Peidong Yang, "Once integrated with a mass spectrometer, our microfabricated monolithic multinozzle emitters achieved a sensitivity and stability in peptide and protein detection comparable to commercial silica-based capillary nanoelectrospray tips. This indicates that our emitters could serve as a critical component in a fully integrated silicon/silica-based micro total analysis system for proteomics."
Added Daojing Wang, "This is also the first report of a multinozzle emitter that can be fabricated through standard microfabrication processes. In addition to having lower back pressure and higher sensitivity, multinozzle emitters also provide a means to systematically study the electrospray ionization processes because the size of each nozzle and density of nozzles on the emitters can be adjusted."
According to Wang and Yang, the fabrication and application of the microfabricated monolithic multinozzle emitters, called "M3 emitters" for short, could be commercialized immediately and should be highly competitive with current silica capillary emitters in terms of cost and mass production.
"We are now in the process of creating a chip that integrates sample processing and preparation as well as detection and analysis," said Wang. "The ability to perform the full process on a single chip has enormous commercial potential."
Berkeley lab has filed for a patent on this technology. The research was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, with some of the work done at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, which is supported by the Office of Science in the U.S. Department of Energy.
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An important rule of motivation is using self-talk that works for you. What we say to ourselves can be really helpful or detrimental. It can stop us moving forwards, stop us liking ourselves and stop us having the life we want. Here, we explain why self-talk is a great motivational tool.
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In the 1960s, sociologists created 'labelling theory' to illustrate how our identity and behaviour can be determined and influenced by the terms used to describe us.
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These labels may not have come from someone else calling us something negative– they may have come from us – the words and thoughts we use to describe ourselves. What's important is that we stop thinking about ourselves in negative terms, because our thoughts become our reality.
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Skip to comments.Jones (R) upends Smith (D) in mayor's race (Charleston, West Virginia)
Posted on 05/20/2003 11:11:04 PM PDT by LdSentinal
Seizing momentum as the campaign wore on, Republican Danny Jones romped to victory as Charlestons next mayor Tuesday night, capturing more than 57 percent of the vote over Democrat Chris Smith.
Jones, energized by $75,000 worth of television ads and $17,000 in mass mailings in the last few weeks of the campaign, overcame Smiths substantial primary campaign momentum to win.
Jones said he knew he would be victorious on election night after seeing the first precincts tabulated from the West Side, where he won handily.
He promised to stick with the job, in response to criticism that he had quit too many jobs in his checkered career.
I know that Ive done a lot of different things in my life, but Ill be mayor of this town for four years, Jones told supporters Tuesday evening. Ill devote all of my waking life and focus to making Charleston a better place to live.
Smith consoled supporters and told them not to be glum. Dont look sad. Put a smile on your face, he told them.
He urged his supporters to help Jones because he needs all the support we can give him.
He also thanked supporters and his legion of volunteers. The volunteers have been fantastic. Youve all worked very, very hard. Its been a good experience. Id do it again and do it the same way.
Jones received 7,500 votes to Smiths 5,470. The 12,970 votes cast a 37 percent turnout represented an increase over 1999s general election total of 11,296.
The Republican predicted Monday that he would receive between 6,500 and 7,000 votes.
Outgoing Democratic Mayor Jay Goldman, who threw his support behind Jones, was there to celebrate with Jones supporters. Weve got a real mayor and not an e-mayor, Goldman said, in a reference to Smiths use of e-mail to communicate with reporters.
Smith had demolished Goldman, 62 percent to 38 percent, in Marchs Democratic primary. One poll Smith commissioned shortly after the primary showed him with a lead of 18 percentage points over Jones.
Jones began chipping away at that perceived lead about a month ago, with a broad array of television spots. They highlighted everything from garbage collection and recycling to economic development.
The 52-year-old Republican used $100,000 of his own personal fortune to fund most of the campaign. His family made its mark in coal and other industries.
Jones outspent Smith $101,711 to $32,260 in the critical period between April 5 and May 9, latest spending reports show. Smiths campaign gradually ran out of money, after spending $72,000 to defeat Goldman.
Jones, a former Kanawha County sheriff, House of Delegates member, restaurateur and radio talk show host, waged a controlled, media-savvy campaign.
His camp sometimes became testy at suggestions that it didnt have the volunteer base that Smiths effort did. Jones leaned heavily on television and mailings to get his message across, but volunteers were part of the equation, as Russell Ray would attest.
A city refuse department employee, Ray worked with Jones last summer when the mayor-to-be put in long hours picking up yard waste. Jones was the assistant city refuse chief at the time.
Ray worked the West Side Hill and the East End for Jones, passing out literature.
Hes going to be a peoples mayor, said Ray, who said he was one of about 20 black volunteers working for Jones, half from the refuse department.
Of Smith, Ray said, You cant talk about basketball all the time and the memories of the 50s. You cant win the mayorship like that.
Jones, who lives in a posh house on Loudon Heights Road, has talked about a disconnect facing the city, between wealthier residents in Kanawha City and South Hills and their working-class counterparts on the other side of the Kanawha.
I know that when you live up where I do, we dont concern ourselves with some of the same things as other parts of the city, Jones said. Some people have gunshots ringing in their neighborhoods. These are the people were trying to keep safe. And were going to get the yard waste picked up if I have to do it myself.
Smith and Jones waged what turned out to be a fairly contentious campaign, particularly after an April 6 debate at Stonewall Jackson Middle School. Jones alleged that Smith supporters shouted him down toward the end of that debate.
I made up my mind after Stonewall, Jones said. We started feeling it after that.
Smith backers said the incident was brief and prompted by Jones inaccurate attack. Jones put $80,000 of his own money into the campaign the day after and used it well on television. He acknowledged Tuesday that the ads played a large part in the win.
Accusations of sign stealing followed the Stonewall fiasco.
Jones accused Smith supporters of swiping hundreds of his signs. Smith countered that Jones orchestrated the whole event himself, in effect removing his own signs. He predicted that Jones would next accuse his campaign of breaking into Jones headquarters, though that never materialized.
As the campaign wore on, Jones and his campaign manager, Larry LaCorte, became more aggressive. A poll paid for by Jones drew Smiths ire, because it included negative statements about the Democrat.
Smith termed the survey a push poll, one whose chief intent is to influence voters without collecting substantial data. Jones said the voter preference question came at the beginning of the survey, before the negative statements were read.
At any rate, it showed Jones with a lead of 9 percentage points, but with 22 percent undecided. Last week, a poll Smith commissioned, done by one of his own contributors, showed the two in a dead heat. That poll showed 25 percent of voters remained undecided.
Of the past six mayors, Jones becomes the fourth Republican to win the office in a heavily Democratic city. One, Chuck Gardner, was chosen by City Council in 1987 to fill the unexpired term of the late Mike Roark, who resigned after pleading guilty to cocaine use.
Son Zak and sister Laura Patterson accompanied Jones at the victory podium Tuesday. Jones has always been single.
I dont want to hear anybody say Im not a family man, Jones said.
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Mary Wright Peterson 1824-1904
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Viola May Peterson Henderson b 1857 Iowa
Nora Ann Peterson Thompson b Iowa(also married Dorchester, Saline Co. Neb)
Rurick Nivil Peterson b 1861 Iowa
Clara Emma Peterson Baker b 1864
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Mother's Day in the Australian outback is brutal and bloody – but then so is every day. Away from questioning eyes, in the dead of night, millions of kangaroos are slaughtered every year, including mothers and their babies.
There is no scientific justification for Australia's mass slaughter of its unique wildlife. It cynically denigrates kangaroos as 'pests' simply to earn foreign exchange from their body parts.
And now, in an attempt to boost falling sales, budget chain Iceland has started selling kangaroo and other so-called 'exotic' meats. We have been here before! Many years ago we ended this barbarism – and we're determined to do it again.
In truth, female kangaroos are amazing mothers. They reinforce the maternal bond with their young by grooming them as they suckle. She will often have an adolescent at foot and a baby in her pouch and produce different types of milk for each. Her pouch is a safe haven for her young but sadly, it offers no protection from bullets!
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This is the world's largest massacre of wild land animals and around six million kangaroos are earmarked for slaughter each year. This figure does not include the million or so joeys and adolescents as they're just trash. So, it's likely that for every female kangaroo in Iceland's freezers, two other lives will have been snuffed out.
Our Australian colleagues have sent us horrific photos of the aftermath of the killing. A decapitated female lies surrounded by her own ripped-out entrails and mammary glands, her bloody paw almost touching the lifeless body of her joey. There is the severed head of a young kangaroo, his eyes still bulging in terror from when an axe split his face in two. Who could do such a thing? Back in the 1990s, Viva! stopped every major British supermarket from selling kangaroo and other 'exotic' meats. More recently, we stopped the big sports companies such as Adidas from using kangaroo leather and this has hurt the industry badly so they're now trying to flood the market with cheap meat to keep themselves afloat. We cannot let this happen.
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You will have something nice to save though -- mainly, the sweet Amaterasu postage stamp on the envelope. Lastly, the company will also be sending you a coupon code for free shipping on a future purchase. Well done, Capcom! What a great way to show appreciation for your fans.
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Today through March 4, teams will be able to "tag" a player that is an unrestricted free agent, which gives that player a top five average for his position for one season. For the Denver Broncos, the plan has been set, as they are ready to use that tag on all-pro offensive tackle Ryan Clady.
Before the 2012 season, the Broncos and Clady were not able to reach a contract agreement, and have resumed talks over the past couple weeks. Clady, however, is coming off rotator cuff surgery, which will sideline him for five to six months while he rehabs. This leaves Executive Vice President of Football Operations John Elway having to make the choice to tag Clady, and secure him through the 2013 season.
This is not necessarily a bad thing for Clady, who will make $9.66M this year, up from his previous salary of $3.5M. We all know that Clady is worth much more, but considering the surgery, it is a smart business move to see just how the tackle performs this year, and if the injury surfaces again.
I don't know if you could put a price on a tackle that can protect the blindside like Clady did for Peyton Manning this past year, only allowing one sack, but I'm sure the quarterback will be thrilled to have him back. While Clady does not necessarily like the franchise tag, and would rather the security of the contract, this does not hinder them from working out a deal in the coming months like they did last off-season with K Matt Prater.
Head Coach John Fox and his Broncos are the preliminary favorites to win it all in 2013, and while it is too early to speculate on that, it is understood that the team does not need a major overhaul to get to their goal. Beginning with Clady relieves them of one burden on their list, and allows their focus to be primarily on the combine coming up, as well as free agency before getting to the NFL Draft in April.
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Paul Turner's urgings make him sound like a pusher. But he's actually a perpetually tinkering inventor whose latest bicycle opus, created in a warehouse in Boulder, is promising to transform an industry. It'll be Turner's second time.
Turner was the first to put shocks on a mountain bike. The company he founded in the late '80s, Rock Shox, led the sport of mountain biking into a new era.
Now, three years after leaving Rock Shox, Turner and five shaved-leg employees have created the ultimate full-suspension mountain bike. His Maverick bike, with a patent pending on a new rear suspension design, is arguably the most technologically advanced, yet simply designed, mountain bike on the market. And it's the most expensive almost $5,500.
"People ride it, and they're sold," says the 42-year-old Turner, who could pass for 32. "They maybe can't afford it, but they understand."
"It is absolutely worth the money," says Steve Silberman, who bought the first Maverick when it hit high-end bike shops four months ago. "You can buy four or five GTs or Trek (mountain bikes) over the course of a Maverick's lifetime. It's not any more expensive in the end."
Turner's latest invention comes almost 20 years after his first mountain bike race.
He grew up racing motorcycles and was not impressed with the sport of pedaling heavy bikes up steep hills and pounding his body on downhill tracks. So he built a shock, lured a big bike maker to fund his invention, and co-founded a company that quickly dominated the bike market.
In 1990, Ned Overend, riding a Rock Shox bike, won the cross country race at the World Championships in Durango, Colo. The world took notice, and mountain biking has since been transformed.
Today, riders are soaring off 40-foot vertical cliffs known as "hucking" and pedaling away. Downhill mountain bikes provide as much as 9 inches of vertical movement in front and rear shocks. That's motorcycle-type shock absorption.
The business of mountain biking has changed, too.
Small bike companies have grown, even attracting the eye of Wall Street investors. Turner's Rock Shox went public, although it recently was de-listed by the New York Stock Exchange.
Schwinn, once a pillar of cycling, has foundered. Unlike just about any other industry, the thriving companies are the small boutique shops, the companies that just make bikes. The companies that can react quickly to the evolving needs of riders who are challenging traditional mores in the world of mountain biking. The companies that are steered by riders who can negate troubles found when pedaling up steep rock trails with a new design. They know how to make a 25-pound bike that can absorb the biggest hits at 35 mph.
"Rock Shox grew very big, very fast," says Turner, hinting at a less-than-amicable relationship with his former company. "It got to be a huge, corporate, seething entity. The bike industry is run with both a blessing and a curse. Its greatest attribute is that it's run by enthusiasts, riders. But those enthusiasts start running big companies, and they just come undone."
Forcing a passion for biking which Turner calls pixie dust into a corporate structure, doesn't work, says Turner, who still owns 15 percent of Rock Shox.
"Professional management types come in, and they just can't understand the pixie dust," he says, naming 10 small bike companies that have struggled to the brink of death after being acquired by large investors.
"That's what happened at Rock Shox," says Frank Scurlock, Maverick's head of sales and an 11-year veteran of Rock Shox who relishes the fact that pricing doesn't overshadow quality at his new gig.
Maverick won't make more than 500 bikes a year. Turner has a patent pending on his unique magnesium linkage, a swinging bracket at the bottom of the bike that allows the shock and rear wheel to move up and down, instead of at an angle like every other rear suspension.
Turner is licensing his creation to different bike companies as well as doing design work for a new fork system and helmet.
The Maverick design keeps the rear wheel and its cogs in the same plane as the front chainrings. That means pedaling is not affected when the rear suspension is flexing the bane of riders who bemoan lost power when climbing uphill.
"It's much, much faster when climbing," says Tom Beckett, owner of Boulder's Sports Garage, where Maverick bikes are selling quickly. "Demand is very positive. It's an incredibly performing bike."
As mountain biking's technological advancements make the sport less of a physical endeavor and more of a gravity-fed adrenaline booster, Turner thinks he's poised, again, to meet demand.
"It's about having a blast and playing with terrain, like skiing or windsurfing," he says. "But the difference is access. Fun is right outside your back door. That's the key to the new resurgence."
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Which of your hurtful stories have I not heard?
And which of your stories that I heard have I not hurt from?
I am done listening to people demanding me to be a little less of myself, belittling my stories, denying my past. My root of a rose bush shall never grow into a forest of weeping willows.
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When I read Masaru Emoto's RICE EXPERIMENT not too long ago, I didn't see any pictures on the internet. I didn't look. As much as I believe in my ability to mentally picture a lot of things I read, I took the whole rice experiment with a grain of salt.
But when I visited a friend whom I had not met for 20 years, who successfully runs an international school and who took me to her school lab not knowing if I was aware of Masaru Emoto's experiment, what I saw humbled me to the core. I thought I had read it all. I thought I had seen it all.
The rice in the jar with the 'I Love You' label looked good. The rice in the jar with the 'I Hate You' label looked horrible. Yeah, it was almost a cliché. But there was another jar with worse than horrible looking rice in it. Unlabelled. And I learned from Zaliza that the rice was not given any attention at all. Not spoken to, not touched. Nothing. And strangely, all I could think of at that very point was the line from Agnes Monica's song: "Tak dianggap sama sekali."
Driving all the way home from the visit that day, the image of the worse-than-horrible-looking rice kept playing in my mind. And that image has kept me praying… that I shall keep speaking to my children for as long as I could talk. That I shall keep holding my children's hands for as long as I could walk. That I shall keep embracing my children for as long as I could. That I shall never ever love them in silence.
That I shall keep praying for Enida…
Teruskan lah, teruskan lah… kau begitu.
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It didn't ideally start with an excitement of driving Monchies to school this morning, to be honest. I had missed the kids despite knowing they had fun walking from Sofia's house who lives just across the road from school the day before, when I was in Singapore. I wish I could keep them at home to make up for yesterday. But there was something about our supposedly-routine drive to school today that awakened me and had not put me back to bed.
I was quietly cursing the driver in front of us for signalling but didn't inch in to our lane by the 'which-planet-did-you-get-your-license-from-Pluto-or-something' curse, when Kitreena was scolding her brother for finishing his previous day's lunch money on a snack. I thought she wasn't paying attention to my Italian-driving skills on Jalan Tun Nazak.
Kitreena: Ma, Pluto is not a planet anymore. It's a dwarf planet.
Mommy: Yeah, I know. See? Nothing lasts forever. Not even a fact!
Kitreena: What do you mean? They just discovered it.
Mommy: Pluto was a planet for… like, forever. It was a known fact. I was born to that fact. And I thought I was going to die knowing that for a fact Pluto was going to be a planet forever. But even that fact could be changed on us, you see. Just like a person you trust to be honest forever. To you, that is a fact. Until… the next thing you know, they change.
Kitreena: Ya. True lah, Ma. If facts can change, what more people.
Mommy: Yup, and that's the thing about forever. It has its 'until'.
Edrick: Hmmm… that's new.
Monchies and I agreed today that there is no such thing as forever. And that is a fact. For now.
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Like usual, it is a long wait for Kitreena to be ready in the morning for breakfast. Today is our 4th attempt to go out for brekky. The three previous attempts, sad to report, have successfully failed.
In Cucina Mesra this morning as I was working on the modules to be sent to IPDM, Edrick walked in, rubbing his tummy…
Edrick: Mom, I'm hungry.
Mommy: Me too!
Edrick: Are we going somewhere for breakfast?
Mommy: We're trying.
Edrick: What do you want to eat?
Mommy: I want to eat a HORSE!
Edrick: Yeah! I'll have a horse too!
Mommy: I want the biggest one on the menu, okay!
Edrick: Okay Mom, I'll have the second biggest one.
I asked Edrick to have some MILO while waiting. He's fine now and that mug of MILO has saved the second biggest horse on the menu.
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We seldom go shopping for clothes, Monchies and I. Whatever we have that we can wear, we wear them 'til they wear out. And even when they are all worn out, some clothes that we really love are worn out 'til they are torn up. I'm still having a tough time trying to justify why I am in the clothing business, considering how much I do not like shopping for new clothes.
But the kids are tired of wearing Airwings Merchandise tops, I can tell. So, after Christmas I took them shopping. Kitreena was in dire needs for some 'girls' stuff. It was the best time to shop for clothes when everybody else had already spent their mulah prior to Christmas. Malls were quiet and everything was on sale sale sale!
We had a great time shopping, Monchies and I. So great and so rare, that we were still talking about it a week after. When I picked them up at school one sunny afternoon, Kitreena wished we could go do it again.
Mommy: But you got everything you wanted, didn't you?
Kitreena: Not everything.
Mommy: What else did you want?
Kitreena: I wanted Daddy.
Mommy: Huh? Uh… sorry sayang, I can't help you.
Kitreena: Hehehe…
Mommy: Not for sale. Not on sale.
Edrick: But wait, Mom! I thought I saw him on the shelves.
Mommy: Saw what?
Edrick: Daddy! At RM58.99.
Kitreena: *silent*
Mommy: *silent*
Edrick: *all smiles*
When I finally got the joke, I broke out in a ROAR of laughter that made Edrick laugh…
Edrick: I haven't made you laugh this big for a long time, Mom!
Mommy: I know! I just didn't see it coming!
Kitreena: *tries not to laugh*
Mommy: But why RM58.99 and not RM60.00.
Edrick: That's after discount.
Mommy: *roars some more*
Kitreena went quiet in the back seat, and I let her take it easy and take what Edrick said as a joke to lighten up our day. But I did tell her that sunny afternoon, no matter how much we had, some things were just unattainable by money. Some things that were supposedly easy and ready… were the very same things that were not meant to be.
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I was ready to go for a nap when Captain Ana and I took Monchies out to see 'Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Road Chip' at TGV Sunway Putra a couple weeks ago. It is obvious I am not a fan of Alvin, although it was playing on repeat for many many months in my house when the first Alvin movie came out. I almost thought the kids have grown out of Alvin. Boy! I was wrong.
And then I was wrong about another thing…
That was when I started to tear up hearing a line from Miles, "Dads are overrated. You'll get over him leaving, eventually."
I found myself looking for a reaction from Kitreena. She looked at me, puckered her lips, shrugged her shoulders, smiled, looked away and then continued watching. It was then that my tears started rolling. And it was then that I knew for sure, I was raising a strong little lady.
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Throughout the 2000s, many people used IE at home because it's the only browser they're allowed to use at work. Since IE is familiar and comes built into their Windows machines, they simply default to using it in their personal computers, too. It makes sense — why change the way you use the web on different computers when it isn't necessary?
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Below the house is the covered parking on the road side. Pass through the gate/doors to find a small fenced in yard and patio/party area on the beach side. Aside from 2 bedrooms (1 Queen, 1 full) and a large shared bath on the main floor there is the huge open area which consists of living dining and kitchen. The kitchen offers a 6 burner restaurant style gas range and seperate side by side freezer and refrigerator as well as every cooking convenience we could think of.
Behind the kitchen is additional pantry space and the "Duet" washer & dryer. The living area faces the great Gulf of Mexico mere steps beyond the covered 10 x 30' deck, which holds a teak dining table and chairs. The bar contains an extra ice machine and wine refrigerator. There is a wide screen TV above the gas fireplace and cushy seating for many.
Upstairs find the very special "honeymoon suite" Gulf side, complete with king canopied bed, private deck with seating and an attached private "spa bath". Additionally on the 2nd floor are 2 bedrooms (1 queen, 1 twin +twin + trundle) on the north side, facing the lagoon, 2 more bathrooms and a library/twin + twin room that faces S.E.
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a visitor from North Little Rock, Arkansas wrote:
Beautifully appointed and impeccably maintained, this is the perfect place for our annual "Beach Week." We look forward to returning in future years. For 25 years we have been going to "Beach Week" on the Gulf. Never have we stayed in such a place as well cared for as this.
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Sherry, when we booked our vacation in Oct., 2010, we had no idea how much we would need "a get away" by July 2011. We were both working in the hospital the day of May 22 when an F5 tornado ripped thru our community of Joplin, Mo. The weeks that followed left us all physically, mentally and spiritually exhausted. Your home gave us the perfect place to rest, heal, and rejuvinate.
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This was our 3rd year in your lovely cottage and once again it was WONDERFUL! Thank you for your gracious hospitality! Our family beach memories will alwasy be with us
P.S. Zekes was a great recomendation! We have fish tales to tell for a lifetime!
a visitor from Champaign Illinois wrote:
We are really enjoying our stay at Sea Stars. We've stayed in many homes over the past 26 years at numerous beaches and we've determined yours is our favorite. Your kitchen is fantastic...extremely well stocked with everything we could ever need. My in-laws came in for a few days and we spent Christmas at the beach...a totally new experience for us, and one we'll probably do again. They are leaving tomorrow morning, but tonight we'rere heading to Louisiana Lagnaippe for a farewell dinner.
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Thanks again for providing such a wonderful home. We have to look at our schedules for the coming year, but it is very likely we will be booking again--either Nick spring break or the holidays. Hope you and your family have a healthy and happy new year!!
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This was our first cycle tour in France and we planned to do around 30 to 35 miles each day. This map is the tidied up version without the little detours to the boulangerie or the cafe!
Mainly back roads and cycle paths.
A little bit on main roads.
We planned a rough circular route starting at Saintes where we left the car at the chambres d'hotes. We didn't book any accommodation for the trip and carried camping gear with us.
Our first day took us to just beyond Talmont Sur Gironde where we found a very good municipal campsite, the camping plots are large and quite private.
The following day we headed to Blaye where we camped on the Citadel. We took the ferry the next day to Bordeaux. Bordeaux has excellent cycle paths and we found getting in and out of here very simple. Cycling in Bordeaux was a pleasure.
After a night in a hotel, a lovely meal and a wander round the city we headed to St Emilion where we stayed in a luxury campsite with a swimming pool. Then on to Montpon-Menesterol. Then to Riberac where we stayed in a chambres d'hotes for a couple of nights and had a rest day.
On Bastille day we cycled through beautiful countryside and camped in a peaceful site in the middle of nowhere, we were the only ones there and the owner had a beer with us and sold us a bottle of wine, it was lovely, we saw deers and enjoyed the rest.
The next day we cycled towards Jarnac, unfortunately the campsite was been dug up and refurbished so we cycled out to Bourg Charante, another lovely site by the river.
Our last day of cycling skirted round Cognac and brought us back in to Saintes by a handy cycle track.
What can I say, each day was very different by the countryside, the buildings, the flowers and the views. We had days of sunflowers, vin yards, flat lands with storks and fantastic forests and views, not forgetting all the pretty villages and towns.
Nice food, plenty of cheese.
A good trip!
We were very excited about our cycle tour in France and had mapped out a rough route to follow but didn't book any accommodation as we wanted freedom to change our mind and find our way.
All the camp-sites and accommodation were very good, large pitches and friendly.
The cycling was a real joy, mainly on back roads with very little traffic or on cycle paths.
It was great cycling through different regions and seeing the change in the countryside.
We took lots of photos mainly of sunflowers as the ride was very idyllic and pretty.
Very happy, a great way to spend a holiday.
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2010 Alltech WEG Partners with the University of Kentucky
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"The University of Kentucky is pleased to partner with the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games," said President Lee T. Todd, Jr. "As the Commonwealth's flagship university, we share in the state's commitment to make the Games the world's premier sporting event in 2010. This international competition places Kentucky on the world stage, and we are ready to help showcase our state."
The university's sponsorship includes a broad range of partnerships across UK's departments and organizations. In addition, UK HealthCare will be the "Official Medical Provider" of the 2010 Games, and will provide first aid and medical services for spectators, fans, and participants during the Games including personnel and equipment. UK will donate more than 7,000 hours in medical personnel time during the Games.
Dr. Mike Karpf, UK executive vice president of health affairs, said, "UK HealthCare is excited to play a significant role in the operations of the 2010 Games. As we welcome thousands of guests to our community, I can assure you that UK HealthCare is fully prepared to provide the medical and emergency care for our visitors."
UK's College of Agriculture will also be the "Official Equine Initiative" of the 2010 Games, partnering with the Games and others in the equine industry to discover, share, and apply new knowledge to enhance the health, performance, and management of horses. UK's Office of Commercialization and Economic Development will also work with the 2010 Games to provide access to the Coldstream Research Campus as needed.
Other UK Colleges, departments and campus units, including Foreign Language, Arts and Sciences, Fine Arts, Design, as well as the Career Services Department, will provide assistance and support for the 2010 Games when appropriate.
"We are very grateful to the University of Kentucky for this significant pledge of support to the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games," said Jamie Link, CEO of the World Games 2010 Foundation."We are confident this partnership will help the university expand its programs, enhance learning opportunities, and garner recognition as the first-class university it is."
The Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games are the world championships of eight equestrian disciplines recognized by the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI), and are held every four years. The Games have never before been held outside of Europe; nor have all eight disciplines competed at a single site--both firsts that will be achieved at the Kentucky Horse Park.
The Games will be broadcast on NBC Sports, which has marked the largest commitment to network coverage of equestrian sport in U.S. television history. The 2010 Games are expected to have a statewide economic impact of $150 million, and other current sponsors include Alltech, Rolex, John Deere, and Ariat International, Inc. For more information on the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, please visit www.FEIGames2010.org.
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Installation of boxes, vinyl cut text. 10m x 3.5m (wall), 10m x 3.5m (floor). Courtesy of the artist.
This work and research is based on the history and sociology of North West Victorian Mallee dry land farmers and their determination to tame a vast semi desert land. This is traced through the collection and re-interpretation of the ephemeral object (the secular relic) abandoned in the informal tips on the bed of Lake Tyrrell, then installed into a large scale monument to commemorate human aspiration.
This abundant waste, amid the bloated heritage of our post-industrial materialism, act as cultural artefacts that replace nature as signifiers of meaning and act as memory capsules to the slow displacements events of human movement caused by environmental, political and sociological change.
The objects are stripped of their original utilitarian value and purpose, and a type of aura of enigmacity, or momento mori emerges from the absence. They are ephemeral objects, representing ephemeral lives.
This exhibition comprises the practical component of Neil Fettling's PhD.
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Westbury man running in North Pole Marathon
Claudio Gonzalez is going to the North Pole. Not to see Santa and his reindeer but to go for a run, where he will face bitter cold temperatures, biting winds and perhaps wandering polar bears.
A decade after taking up running to lose weight, Gonzalez, 39, will pull on running shoes with metal spikes, layer up in fleece and set out to run 26.2 miles on the polar ice cap on Wednesday. The Westbury resident will be among 44 runners braving temperatures likely to be about 22 below zero to compete in the North Pole Marathon. As guards with tranquilizer guns watch for polar bears, the racers -- there is a men's division, a women's division and a team division -- will run a loop around Barneo Ice Camp, a smattering of tents and a landing strip rebuilt every spring for Arctic researchers, explorers and adventurers.
"I'm turning 40 this year," Gonzalez said. "A lot of people have a midlife crisis and buy a Porsche. This is my midlife crisis."
Actually, it's more like an item on his marathon to-do list. Gonzalez wants to join the elite Seven Continents Club, whose members can proclaim they have completed marathons on all seven of the world's continents (North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania and Antarctica).
The North Pole Marathon began in 2002 and bills itself as the "World's Coolest Marathon" and the only one run entirely on water -- more precisely, ice. About 300 people have completed the race, compared with the 36,000 who finished the 2004 New York City Marathon, Gonzalez's first.
It's likely not just the atmosphere that accounts for the gap in finishers for those races. As if the cold and the polar bears aren't daunting enough, the North Pole Marathon has an entry fee of 11,900 euros, or about $16,422, which Gonzalez paid himself. He left Saturday for the race, flying from Newark to Oslo, and then on to Svalbard, Norway, and from there to the North Pole. The trip is about 16 hours. Once Gonzalez arrives, he said he expects to be on the North Pole for about 48 hours.
Preparing for the marathon
Gonzalez has barely altered his training routine for his North Pole challenge. He runs five times a week in Eisenhower Park in East Meadow and doesn't normally train in the winter because most of his races are in the fall. To prepare for the North Pole Marathon, he started running in December. Long Island's frigid, snowy winter was just the ticket to help Gonzalez train for his run on the Arctic ice. In February, he put his gear to the test on a day when the wind chill made it feel like 10 below zero.
"After four miles, I was pretty warm," Gonzalez said. "The key is that base layer. Then, if you have a good shell to break the wind, it's really all you need."
Gonzalez started running in the first place to combat the after-college weight gain that came with life in the business world.
"The life of a consultant is basically traveling every week, and you eat out every day, so you gain a lot of weight," he said, recalling his dismay at putting on 40 extra pounds. "It was all the eating and the sedentary lifestyle of sitting at a desk all day long. Right before I turned 30, I said, 'I've got to do something.' "
He started small, a few miles at a time, but by April 2004, Gonzalez had decided to go the distance. He entered the lottery and won a spot in the New York City Marathon.
"Right after I finished, I said I'm never running a marathon again," he said. "A week after that, I was thinking about my next marathon. I definitely caught the running bug."
Nine more marathons would follow, along with 20 half-marathons, including the Brooklyn Half. Eventually it became Gonzalez's goal to run a marathon on every continent. Then, he heard there was one at the North Pole, which is not actually a continent but a 12-foot-thick slab of ice floating on the Arctic Ocean.
Gonzalez decided to run that marathon first -- while he still can.
"Maybe 10 years from now, that marathon may not be there anymore because of global warming," he said. "So if I want to do this, I should do it sooner rather than later."
Gonzalez also has run in the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, D.C., the Philadelphia Marathon and the Chicago Marathon. Though he struggled for years to finish a race in the Lower 48 states in less than four hours, he said he'll be happy to break the seven-hour mark at the top of the world.
"I'm going to go just to finish," he said.
Gonzalez, a supply-chain consultant, is running for more than bragging rights. Like many of the entrants, he is running for a worthy cause and hopes to raise $10,000 to help victims of the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti. He has raised $300 so far.
Pledges for Gonzalez (bit.ly/O965rP) will benefit the Happy Hearts Fund, a nonprofit founded by model Petra Nemcova to rebuild schools after the massive and deadly Indian Ocean tsunami in 2005. Nemcova was critically injured and her boyfriend was killed by the tidal wave that hit Thailand. The Happy Hearts Fund has expanded and now works in seven countries, including Haiti, that have experienced natural disasters.
When Gonzalez was looking for a cause to support with his polar marathon, Haiti was a natural choice because of his friendship with Damian Merlo, the special assistant to Haiti's president, Michel Martelly, and Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe.
"Claudio has been one of my best and closest friends since high school, and it means a lot that he has dedicated this special race in the North Pole to the country I now spend so much time in, Haiti," Merlo said in an email. "Haiti is working hard and is under way to its reconstruction, and this type of attention is crucial to the development process, especially as the prime minister works hard to rebuild schools around the country."
Nemcova, too, cheered on her benefactor.
"Claudio is doing a few things I could never do," she said. "First is to run, and second to run a marathon, and third, run a marathon [at] the North Pole. It will be an amazing journey. But what connects us is the ever-important sprint to rebuild children's lives."
Gonzalez said he plans to give his top three contributors bottles of snow from the North Pole.
Meeting his match
Gonzalez was born in Argentina and moved to the United States in 1989, when he was 15. He and his parents lived in Rockville, Md. After graduating from the University of Maryland, Gonzalez lived in Chicago, where he met his fiancee, Juanita Marquez. They have a daughter, Sofia, 5.
"On our first date, through conversation it was revealed we were both running in the same half-marathon four days later, and that was all she wrote," said Marquez, who plans to enter nursing school next year at Adelphi University in Garden City.
She did not accompany Gonzalez to the North Pole and was concerned initially about him going.
"The first thing I thought about was the negative 20- to 30-degree weather," Marquez said. "I was worried how the human body would hold up under such extreme temperatures. And then, also to hear that there would be men with tranquilizer guns on hand in case of polar bears. . . . Yes, I was extremely apprehensive."
Gonzalez managed to put her fears to rest by sharing emails from the race director attesting to its safety and the presence of two doctors on hand for the race, and showing her the marathon's website (northpolemarathon.com).
Nevertheless, the runner in her will not be following in her fiance's footsteps. "I told Claudio, 'You couldn't pay me to run that marathon,' " she said.
To prepare for polar ice cap weather, Gonzalez has bought lots of gear designed for such extreme temperatures, which is expensive because of the protection it offers. It might seem like a good idea to bundle up when the mercury is at minus 22, but Gonzalez plans to dress lightly for the race: a base layer that wicks away moisture, a fleece top and a wind-breaking running suit.
"You can't wear anything too warm," he said, because overdressing leads to sweating, which can bring on hypothermia. His hands will be in gloves inside mittens, and his face will be protected by a mask and goggles. No skin will be exposed, as frostbite can happen quickly when it's that cold.
Which continent is next? Gonzalez hasn't decided yet, but he said it's between Europe and South America.


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Health leaders urge government to view obesity as disease
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On June 18, 2013, the American Medical Association recognized obesity as a disease. Now, health officials want the federal government to recognize it too.
Former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson teamed up with Michigan Department of Community Health Director, James Haveman, on Wednesday in Lansing to try and urge congress to pass the Treat and Reduce Obesity Act which would require Medicare to cover obesity medicines for seniors.
"Currently the statistics show that one out of three Americans are obese and one out of three are overweight," said Doctor Patrick Friedli, Medical Director for Munson's Comprehensive Healthy Weight Center. "So that means essentially means two thirds of our population has a weight problem."
According to MDOCH, 18 percent of Michigan was obese in 1995. The number grew to 32 percent by 2010. Now, health professionals are warning that half of the state could be obese by the year 2030.
Which is why health leaders across the country are trying to urge congress to accept obesity as a disease. MDOCH says it's something that could reduce medical costs too.
"With addressing obesity we do know that our medical costs in general will go down if we reduce obesity rates," said Angela Minicuci, Public Information Officer for MDOCH. "Medical costs associated with obesity in Michigan are more than $3-billion. So we do know that if we reduce our obesity rates, 75 percent of our health care expenditures are associated with chronic diseases and that would dramatically impact those numbers."
Doctor Friedli says medication is not always the best answer for helping people to get a handle on obesity.
"I would rather not give a prescription for a medication," said Friedly. "I would rather give a prescription for...here's what you need to eat, here's what you need to do as far as your lifestyle and your physical activity."
Doctors say it is common for people over the age of 65 to become obese as their bodies and life-styles begin to slow down.
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