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Aging Eyes
Visual loss among those over 65 is common, with 1/3 of this age group experiencing some form of eye disease. Common causes of vision loss and blindness in the elderly include the following:
- Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD): the leading cause of blindness in those 65 and older
- Diabetic Retinopathy: the primary cause of blindness in those 25-65
- Glaucoma: the most common cause of blindness in African Americans
- Cataract: the leading cause of blindness worldwide
Age-Related Macular Degeneration
This disease is the leading cause of legal blindness in the U.S. It affects fine detail vision, and therefore impacts on reading, driving, and other activities of daily living. AMD causes a darkened brown or gray-green smudged area in the central vision, not total blackness. However, the peripheral vision is typically spared.
AMD is rare before the age of 65, and increases in frequency with age. A family history of AMD is the second most common risk factor. Other predisposing conditions include high blood pressure, cardiovascular risks, and smoking. Light colored eyes and UV light exposure have not been shown to be risk factors.
AMD occurs as "dry" or "wet" types. The dry type is the most common. It causes yellow patches on the retina, called drusen, the hallmark of AMD. Drusen, however, dont usually affect vision. Wet AMD is more severe, and is caused by leaking blood vessels that result in scarring. Most patients with AMD that loose vision do so because they develop the wet type.
Treatment for AMD includes observation, vitamin supplementation (A, C, E, and Zinc), smoking cessation, laser photocoagulation and medication placed directly into the eye.
Diabetic Retinopathy
Most blindness due to diabetes induced eye changes (retinopathy) can be prevented with early detection and treatment. However, half of diabetic patients dont get regular eye examinations.
The most important risk factors for diabetic retinopathy are the duration of diabetes and the quality of diabetes control. After 15-20 years most patients with diabetes have some degree of detectible retinopathy. Other risks include high blood pressure, high cholesterol, kidney disease, congestive heart failure, and pregnancy during diabetes.
Diabetes can cause an overgrowth of blood vessels in the retina, and leakage of blood and fluid in the retina causing swelling and scarring. Early regular vision screening allows laser therapy before vision loss occurs. Diabetics should have a slit-lamp visual exam annually.
There are several types of glaucoma, which is a condition of increased eye pressure. Primary Open Angle Glaucoma is the most common. As with high blood pressure, patients are usually asymptomatic until very late in the disease, after vision loss has occurred. Another type, Angle Closure Glaucoma, presents as sudden pain and redness in the eye.
Risk factors for glaucoma include increased pressure in the eye, a family history of glaucoma, older age, and possibly diabetes and cardiovascular disease. High blood pressure is not a risk factor. Glaucoma affects peripheral vision first and central vision later. Treatment of glaucoma involves lowering eye pressures with eye drops, laser therapy and surgery.
Cataract surgery is one of the most common surgical procedures performed in the U.S. each year. Nevertheless, it is a common cause of blindness our country. Cataracts cause a slow progressive vision loss, with reduced contrast vision. The greatest risk for cataract is age. In addition, other risk factors include UV light exposure, steroid use, diabetes, smoking, and prior eye trauma. Vitamin supplements do not help. Surgery is highly effective and UV protective sunglasses are recommended to reduce risk.
The information in this article was presented in September 2007 by David Quillen, M.D., Chair, Department of Ophthalmology, Penn State College of Medicine, during the Family Medicine Seminar Series at Mount Nittany Medical Center. This series is sponsored by the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and Mount Nittany Medical Center. The Family Medicine Seminar Series is held monthly in the Mount Nittany Medical Center Dreibelbis Auditorium (Entrance D, rear of building), 6:00-7:30 pm. Call 814.231.7087 to register for the series. Upcoming topics include:
- October 25, 2007: "Updates in Breast Cancer Management & Breast Imaging", Rena Kass, M.D., Surgical Director-Breast Program, and Susan Schetter, D.O., Chief-Breast Imaging, Penn State Hershey Medical Center
- November 15, 2007: "The Human Genome Project", Sharon Reilly Kardia, PhD., University of Michigan, School of Public Health
Michael Flanagan, M.D., FAAFP is an associate professor of Family and Community Medicine at Penn State Hershey College of Medicine. Dr. Flanagan is board certified in Family Medicine, practices at Penn State Family Medicine, and is on staff at Mount Nittany Medical Center.


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Invasive species are one of the greatest threats to Samoa's natural heritage. In fact the impacts of invasive
This document builds on lessons learned from 10 years of DEC-MNRE action on the myna issue, training workshops on invasive species management, a 2015 myna population transect survey (conservative estimate of total population in Samoa between 129,407 and 188,583 birds), appropriate literature and experiences in Pacific and other countries. Recommendations are made on strategies and the priority information needed to implement those strategies.
As we experienced with the Taro Leaf Blight outbreak in the 1990s, the introduction of exotic pests or diseases into Samoa can have disasterous effects on our people and on our economy.
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Water lettuce is a free floating aquatic plant in rosettes of green leaves, rosettes occuring singly or connected to others by short stolons whose origins are uncertain. It forms large, dense floating mats. The plant can adapt to life in ponds, dams, lakes and quiet areas of rivers and streams, but cannot withstand salt water. Still continue with observation whether it is to survive in winter.
This report describes the results of the simulation exercise carried out to test the understandability, relevance, practicality and effectiveness of the Samoa Invasive Species Emergency Response Plan (SISERP) to invasive species emergencies. The exercise was conducted on June 26, 2015 at the MAF Crops Research Centre at Nu'u. A hypothetical invasive species outbreak of the Little Fire Ant (Wasmannia auropunctata) was simulated in the exercise.
The Aleipata Marine Protected (MPA) Management Plan is a partnership between the Government of Samoa and all the villages of the District of Aleipata. Both partners have responsibility for the continuous implementation of this Plan which highlights a collaborative approach to the sustainable use and protection of the Marine resources and environment in the District.

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Keselowski wins first of year, snaps losing skid at 37 races
CONCORD, N.C. — Brad Keselowski snapped a 37-race winless streak Saturday night by chasing down Kasey Kahne in the closing laps at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
The defending Sprint Cup Series champion, who failed to qualify for the Chase this year, grabbed his first win of the season and first since Sept. 30, 2012, at Dover, by passing Kahne with nine laps to go in his Penske Racing Ford.
Keselowski became the first non-Chase driver to win a Chase race since Jamie McMurray at Charlotte in 2010.
"I never give up. I didn't qualify well. But I kept working my way forward. I knew we had a good car," said Keselowski, who started 23rd.
The race changed dramatically with 27 laps remaining and Jimmie Johnson seemingly on his way to an easy victory. But a debris caution sent the leaders to pit road and ended Johnson's march to a record seventh Charlotte win.
Hendrick teammates Kahne and Jeff Gordon took only two tires and raced off pit road first, while everyone else took four tires and lined up behind them. Johnson came out in third, and should have been in good shape on four fresh tires.
Instead, Johnson had a terrible re-start and fell back to seventh.
"There was a caution that shook things up," Johnson shrugged.
Kahne pulled away with the rest of the leaders. Championship leader Matt Kenseth was in the mix for a moment, but Keselowski, sixth on the restart, got past him and took over second.
Keselowski then set his sights on Kahne once and for all. He had picked his way through traffic but getting past Kahne wasn't easy — Keselowski needed several attempts before making it stick.
"I love hard racing and there are a handful of guys who can't race hard and they freak out — he's not one of them," Keselowski said about Kahne. "He's an excellent driver. He ran me hard but ran me clean and that is great racing. He did a hell of a job and deserves a lot of credit for it."
Kahne finished second in a Chevrolet and was followed by the Toyota of Kenseth, who takes a four-point lead over Johnson into next week's Chase race at Talladega.
"I'm happy we finished third," said Kenseth, who was the lowest qualifying Chase driver at 20th. "I was so far behind because I qualified so poorly and needed all night to get back up there. Then at the very end they gave me a shot to win and I'm slightly disappointed that I didn't take advantage of that opportunity."
Johnson wound up fourth and said he had trouble when he tried to push teammate Kahne on the restart.
"Evidently I was too close to him and in his way, and my car washed up a little bit," Johnson said. "A couple of guys were able to get inside of me. I just lost track position at that point, which was unfortunate. Once I got rolling again I was fine, but I lost too much at that point."
Kyle Larson made his Sprint Cup Series debut driving a Chip Ganassi Racing-prepared car. He was impressive early, driving from 21st inside the top-12, and he lingered there alongside Juan Pablo Montoya, the driver he'll replace next season for Ganassi.
Larson eventually dropped to 16th, where he stayed until his engine lost a cylinder and eventually failed, sending him to the garage with 87 laps remaining.


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When the White House decided this week to give employers one more year to meet Obamacare's requirement that they provide health insurance or face fines, many business and government officials breathed a sigh of relief.
Change was coming too fast for many employers, who found the process complicated.
Even Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, who voted for the Affordable Care Act in 2010, said the delay was the right thing to do.
"Earlier this year I encouraged the administration to work more closely with businesses in Pennsylvania to better explain the health care law," Casey said in a prepared statement. "Delaying these requirements is the right decision for business that will give companies more certainty and ensure that additional questions can be answered."
The delay gives the Southern Lehigh School Board a chance to revisit the issue. Last month, the board announced it planned to keep many part-timers' hours below 30 a week so it wouldn't be penalized for not providing them with insurance coverage. Under Obamacare, employers with more than 50 full-time workers have to provide health care for those working more than 30 hours a week.
"We are waiting for the board to meet in July and see what we can learn about the postponement ... what it means and how best to proceed," said district Superintendent Leah M. Christman.
In the East Penn School District, the postponement comes too late. The issue was settled in contract language that says part-time cafeteria workers will put in fewer than 30 hours a week, Superintendent Thomas Seidenberger said.
Under the law, employers would have had to pay the Internal Revenue Service $2,000 for each full-time worker who did not get health coverage, beginning Jan. 1. With the postponement, penalties won't kick in until Jan. 1, 2015.
The deadline was pushed back to accommodate employers who found the reporting requirement complicated, according to a post on the Treasury Department's website.
"We have heard concerns about the complexity of the requirements and the need for more time to implement them effectively," Mark J. Mazur, assistant secretary for tax policy, wrote in the post.
But the delay does not affect another provision of the law. Individuals not covered by employer plans will still have to buy coverage through insurance marketplaces called exchanges next year. Open enrollment for the plans offered on those exchanges is expected to begin in October, which has employers hurrying to make coverage decisions before then.
Individuals with low incomes will qualify for subsidies, while the fine for failing to obtain health insurance is $95 per adult and $47.50 per child up to a maximum of $285 per family, collected by the IRS at tax time.
In light of the "employer mandate" postponement, insurers will have to take a fresh look at the policies they plan to offer their business and individual clients, said Aji Abraham, senior vice president of business development for Capital BlueCross.
It's a little early to know exactly how employer policies will change because the Obama administration didn't detail exactly what requirements are being waived, he said. The law includes minimum coverage standards, for example, that will probably remain in effect.
Some have suggested the reprieve will result in employers' dumping health care coverage next year en masse because there is no penalty for doing so, but Abraham said that's unlikely among most of the Lehigh Valley employers he's familiar with.
"Our employers tend to want to provide coverage, and they have wanted to provide coverage long before health care reform," he said.
Many companies will see rate increases, he said, as the cost of medical care continues to rise and Obamacare puts new fees and taxes in place and changes the way insurance companies calculate premiums.
Dealing with rising rates is nothing new, said Gale Hodavance, who owns a seven-person advertising agency in Nazareth.
"Almost every year we have been in business we have had to switch plans to keep it affordable," she said.
Trying to understand the law and keep up with the changes has been daunting, said Hodavance, who wants to offer employees health coverage that will keeping them working for her agency.
While the postponement benefits employers by giving them more time to make health coverage decisions, it also has political implications. It means the employer mandate won't kick in until after the 2014 mid-term congressional elections, avoiding potential voter blow-back.
Lehigh Valley Congressman Charlie Dent, a Republican who voted against the Affordable Care Act and is cosponsor of legislation that would permanently repeal the employer mandate, said the delay just underlines the law's many deficiencies.
"Politically, Obamacare was introduced to help the electoral prospects of the Democrat Party in the 2010 elections," Dent said in a prepared statement. "The delay in the implementation of the employer mandate is another political decision designed to help the electoral prospects of the Democrat Party in the 2014 elections."
Dent mentioned the school districts' decisions to cut hours as one symptom of an "unworkable, unwieldy and unmanageable" law.
The postponement also points to problems in turning a policy idea into a real government program, said Lara Brown, a political analyst and author in Washington, D.C.
"It suggests that the deeper they have gotten into this bill, the more areas of uncertainty and policy complexity and difficulty there has been," she said.
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Tampa, Fla.-Based Clinic Misleading Consumers by Falsely Advertising CoolSculpting® Procedure
PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ZELTIQ Aesthetics, Inc. (Nasdaq:ZLTQ), a medical technology company focused on developing and commercializing products utilizing its proprietary controlled-cooling technology platform, today announced it filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division, against Marco Hallerbach, MD, and Dr. Hallerbach & Associates, Inc., for false advertising, false designation of origin, unfair competition, trademark infringement, and unfair and deceptive trade practices. In addition, ZELTIQ simultaneously filed a motion requesting a preliminary injunction to cease Dr. Hallerbach's misleading advertising and prevent him from further use of ZELTIQ's trademarks.
Dr. Hallerbach, doing business as Dr. Hallerbach and Associates, Inc., operates a "cosmetic medicine and weight management" clinic under the name of Get Your Shape Back. The clinic is representing to prospective customers and patients that its purported Cryolipolysis treatments are the authentic, unique, patented FDA-cleared CoolSculpting treatments developed by ZELTIQ. In its complaint, ZELTIQ alleges that Dr. Hallerbach's attempts to pass off his services as authentic CoolSculpting treatments have resulted in actual customer confusion and dissatisfaction with the sham procedure. ZELTIQ further alleges that in addition to baiting potential patients into his own clinic, Dr. Hallerbach also offers these services to various spas in the area. Dr. Hallerbach has ignored cease and desist demands from ZELTIQ and continues to offer the purported Cryolipolysis treatments.
ZELTIQ is the exclusive licensee of Cryolipolysis, the patented technology behind the aesthetic procedure marketed as CoolSculpting®. Cryolipolysis is the non-invasive cooling of adipose tissue to induce lipolysis – the breaking down of fat cells – to reduce body fat without damage to other tissues.
"ZELTIQ prides itself on a reputation based on clinically proven safety and efficacy, and we will vigorously protect that reputation from copycat devices not cleared by the FDA," said Sergio Garcia, ZELTIQ Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. "We urge consumers to beware of misleading and deceptive advertising and to seek CoolSculpting treatments only from authorized physician providers within the elite network of CoolSculpting Centers."
About ZELTIQ Aesthetics, Inc.
ZELTIQ® Aesthetics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZLTQ) is a medical technology company focused on developing and commercializing products utilizing its proprietary controlled-cooling technology platform. ZELTIQ's first commercial product, the CoolSculpting® System, is designed to selectively reduce stubborn fat bulges that may not respond to diet or exercise. CoolSculpting is based on the scientific principle that fat cells are more sensitive to cold than the overlying skin and surrounding tissues. CoolSculpting utilizes patented technology of precisely controlled cooling to reduce the temperature of fat cells in the treated area, which is intended to cause fat cell elimination through a natural biological process known as apoptosis. ZELTIQ developed CoolSculpting to safely, noticeably, and measurably reduce the fat layer within a treated fat bulge without requiring the patient to diet or exercise.
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Winter can be tough. The wind is howling. The snow is blowing. It's too cold to go outside. You miss those warm summer breezes. How do you plan to survive until spring? At Visiting Angels, we know that getting through the winter chill can be hard. They don't call it SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) for nothing. We thought we'd put together some winter survival tips to help you power through and live large until the daffodils and tulips start to come up.
Feel warm, be warm. Start by dressing for the weather. Seniors are at risk for hypothermia, so be sure to stay warm. Dress in layers and when you head outside cover all exposed skin. If you are warm and cozy, maybe that blowing snow will make you feel like you are looking at a snow globe.
Check the car. Before winter gets to severe, be sure to check the car. Have a trusted mechanic check the oil, battery, tires, and windshield wipers. A quick winter check can help you feel more secure on the road. If you are worried about driving in the winter, ask a friend or family member to help. If you need regular assistance, Visiting Angels' senior home care services can provide the additional support you need to get to appointments or run errands safely.
Be prepared. Snow storms bring power outages. Make sure you are prepared with flashlights, new batteries, warm blankets, and canned goods.
Fight the winter blues. Winter can be an isolating time for seniors. If you don't have regularly scheduled activities to keep you busy, consider companion care services from Visiting Angels. Our elder care providers can stop in regularly to help you run errands, prepare meals, help with the housekeeping, play games, or just have a friendly conversation. Friendly companionship makes the day fly by.
Eat healthy. It can be hard to eat healthy during the winter when fresh fruits and vegetables are harder to come by. Try to eat a variety of foods to ensure you are getting all the nutritional benefits you require.
Home heating safety. Heating your home is essential; be sure you do it safely to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning. If you use a fireplace, have your chimney and flues checked. Have your furnace checked yearly. Check the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. If you use a kerosene stove, open a window slightly to dissipate fumes. Use space heaters with caution and always at least 3 feet away from curtains, bedding or furniture that might burn.
Stay active. One of the best ways to avoid the winter blues is to stay active. You can exercise by walking around your apartment building, at the local mall, health club, or, if the weather permits, outside.
If you are worried about not being able to get out and about this winter, call Visiting Angels today for home care services. Our home care services can help you live safely and independently throughout the winter.
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The phrase "4G network" suggests a seamless blanket of high-speed data connections that are always reliable. Yet the actual deployment of 4G macro cells are highly local and, as a result, there are wide variances in performance and reliability.
At the same time, carriers are experimenting with new data plans for the new 4G networks, adding to the calculus users must perform when trying to figure out if or when the move to 4G is worthwhile.
RootMetrics tests wireless performance in 75 markets every six months. The most recent "Need for Speed" report for the first half of 2012 is online. The data speeds are averaged (across LTE, 3G and 2G connections) for data, voice and texting, and packaged with interactive maps that show coverage and performance by carrier. It lets you compare carrier performance and even drill down to the city block around a home or business.
The RootMetrics' tests show LTE typically delivering average download speeds of 12M to 18Mbps. HSPA+42, being deployed by T-Mobile, averages around 8Mbps. "If you can get LTE, you'll be four to five times faster than you are today on 3G," says Bill Moore, CEO and president of RootMetrics.
In part, that difference between 3G and LTE hinges on the amount of spectrum available in a given area to a particular carrier, but also on LTE's much greater capacity and efficiency compared to 3G. For example, one crippling issue for early smartphone users on 3G data networks was less about the amount of data being sent and more about the amount of signaling traffic generated by the air interface. The signal load unbalanced 3G cells and bogged them down.
"Some of that had to do with the 3G protocol, which has a lot of signaling [overhead] associated with establishing a connection," says Vish Nandlall, CTO and head of strategy in North America for Ericsson, a major supplier of cellular base stations. "LTE is a much more streamlined protocol. There was a lot of foresight in developing LTE in terms of how many messages are passed back and forth to set up a session."
As more users come online with LTE devices, the issue will become network capacity rather than coverage, Nandlall says. LTE has a "huge capacity advantage" at the outset because it's typically using wider channels than 3G, 10MHz compared to 5MHz, he says.
Carriers are creating a distinctive network architecture for their LTE deployments: first, large macrocells for uniform geographic coverage, and then under that umbrella, an array of variously-sized smaller cells to reuse spectrum and increase capacity in local areas. "The small cells will add finer grained capacity between the existing macrocells," says Phil Bull, OSS solutions manager for Amdocs, which sells software and services for carrier billing, CRM and operations support systems.
"If you have a well-planned network, with enough capacity, it will be able to sustain the rates that you've committed to [as a mobile carrier] for a given set of users in a given area," says Eran Eshed, co-founder of Altair Semiconductor, an Israel-based LTE chipmaker.
Users in some urban areas might find that changing, as popular LTE smartphones and tablets connect in ever greater numbers. Cellular, like Wi-Fi, is a shared medium: the capacity of a given radio is shared among the users connecting to it. "Where you have [LTE] coverage today, you have plenty of capacity," says Phil Marshall, chief research officer for Tolago Research, a research firm focusing on the mobile broadband market. "But in urban areas, you'll see performance go down [over time]. At the rate at which usage is growing, it's not long before you hit the capacity limit."
LTE vendors and carriers agree that LTE users quickly double their data usage compared to 3G. Much of the increase is in video: with its much reduced latency. LTE consistently yields a more seamless and fluid video experience for users. "At this stage in the market, users will notice a significant performance enhancement," Marshall says. "You'll see a lift [in traffic] as people can do more and do it faster."
Yet actual performance, even in the same location, varies widely. Consider these 2012 test results for Atlanta,summed up in charts from PC Magazine, PC World, and RootMetrics.
All three agreed that AT&T's LTE network had the fastest average download speed, but each had a different speed: 18.3M, 17.2M and 11.6Mbps. AT&T Mobility's headquarters is in the Atlanta area. Verizon LTE was second, in two of the tests, with 10.8M and 8.79Mbps. T-Mobile - with its HSPA + 4G network - was second in one test, with 7.31Mbps and almost tied with Verizon for second in another - 8.36Mbps for T-Mobile vs. 8.79 for Verizon. Sprint was consistently fourth: with 3.24M, 3.65M and 5.1Mbps.
In Dallas, here's the break down ranked by average download speed, according to the three tests:
PC Magazine: AT&T - 14.6 Mbps, Verizon - 10.72M, T-Mobile - 7.89M, Sprint - 3.09M
PC World: AT&T - 10.22Mbps, Verizon - 7.52M, T-Mobile - 3.32M, Sprint - 2.75M
RootMetrics: AT&T - 17.2Mbps, Verizon - 11.4M, T-Mobile - 8.0M, Sprint - 3.8M
So even if you do your homework on the best carrier for your needs, be aware that your experience may vary.
Data plans
One area that LTE subscribers can expect big changes in is data plans. Carriers are experimenting with new options, though today the choice is between the tiered plans from AT&T and Verizon and the currently "unlimited" plans from Sprint and T-Mobile.
"The carriers are being mostly accurate in saying that 2 Gigabytes covers the preponderance of usage for most subscribers," says RootMetrics' Bill Moore. "But data caps affect your usage of that phone: your data plan changes the consumer's behavior." Some early adopters with a big appetite for mobile data are migrating to Sprint or even T-Mobile as a result, he says.
Carriers, analysts and vendors agree that subscribers who move to LTE at least double their data usage. Verizon says that, as of June 2012, about 12% of its contract subscribers were using LTE. Regardless of the exact percentage, the LTE users now account for about one-third of Verizon's total data traffic, according to the carrier.
"The reason data consumption goes up as it does, is video," says Roger Entner, principal with Recon Analytics, a telecom consultancy. "With LTE, we're now watching video on mobile devices like we watch it on television, with no buffering. About 60% of network data traffic is video, and that's rising."
Shared plans let multiple devices dip into a common data bucket, says ABI's Philip Solis. "But there are per-device per-month fees, which can vary depending on what kind of device you have, plus the costs of a larger monthly data plan." That can quickly add a lot of money to the monthly bill for a user or family.
That can, and should, make users cautious. "LTE is not a life-changing experience," Marshall says. "If someone is eager to get LTE today, they'd be focused on Verizon," he says. "If someone is interested in LTE but happy with the [cellular] experience they have right now, they can wait for their respective providers to deploy it in their area."
All the carriers are moving in the same direction, he notes, and users will eventually see similar performance levels across the rivals. "If you're the usual user who waits for maturing technologies, there's not an incentive to change [to LTE], at least at this stage," Marshall says.
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Let property go around here and it will revert to jungle so I and my neighbor have been working on cleaning three lots in West Melaque for the last three days. Two lots are owned by Ron and Dora in San Miguel and the other owned by Audrey and her husband who are either Canadian or Alaskan. I just know they live way up there in the cold. They will all be down this winter to start working on projects.
One of Ron's two lots are for-sale (he's not sure which) but both Real Estate signs were down or halfway down and I couldn't even get to the upper one. A different weed, almost a small tree, likes to grow on the upper lot and it was extremely difficult to cut. After Hugo cut it I sprayed around the sign and a bit more to see how this weed reacted. We may be able to control it better with spray next time ??
The lower two lots had different weeds and easier to cut but someone had dumped a cutup palm and various pieces of garbage and a large tarp on one. Hugo thinks we can just burn the palm when the pile of cut brush dries out ..... but would have to be sneaky because the Melaque laws about burning are stricter than out in the country where we live. Another reason to spray so you don't have to clean up the mess after.
So I finally bought a back-pack sprayer which I should have done years ago. I think the first one I priced was around 1500 pesos so I bought the 300 peso one and struggled with it ever since. I did some serious shopping this week and found a number of back-pack sprayers between 500 and 600 pesos. Couldn't pass it by. I sprayed most of my property this last month but ready for the future and maybe Hugo can make a little money with it.
Upper lot - There's a fallen sign there somewhere
Cleaned and sign refastened
Lower two lots - before
Lower two lots - after
Fumigador de Mochila - The one I bought


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Man of the Monsters (May, 1947)
Man of the Monsters
Here's a genius who makes prehistoric monsters that "live."
SOME learned scientists and explorers are content to probe Mother Earth for moldy remnants of prehistoric monsters, but not George Harold Messmore. This energetic little man with big ideas and accomplishments to match simply built himself a dinosaur factory in the heart of New York and proceeded to turn out his own staggering array of life-size, breathing, eating, fighting, snarling, replicas of the huge creatures that roamed the earth long before man had a tail to hang by. Powered by from one to 17 silent motors, operating a complicated mass of cogs, wheels, cams, chains, and bellows beneath canvas and papier-mache hides, huge dinosaurs, stegosaurs, allosaurs, saber-tooth tigers, mastodons and other monsters lash their tails, blink their eyes, gnash their teeth, swing their heads and limbs and emit frightful howls and screams. (Their vocal renditions issue from small phonograph recordings in their throats, but the secret of how these voice-noises were figured out still lies locked in Messmore's brain.)
Though he started his peculiar business in 1918 with a partner, Joe Damon, since retired, the firm of Messmore and Damon didn't attain its world-wide fame until 1933, when they put on their spectacular exhibit, "The World a Million Years Ago" at the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition. That exhibit, which drew thousands of spectators from the far corners of the earth, was one of the great box-office bonanzas of the Fair. Visitors who entered the huge metal globe of the world, which housed the exhibit, were treated to a tour through steaming prehistoric jungles alive with such kicking, squirming, roaring and tail-lashing monsters as brontosauri, allosauri, ichthyosauri, stegosauri and dimetrodons. The brontosaurus, a 60-foot mechanized reproduction of its extinct counterpart, could move its long neck in any direction and even pick hats off unsuspecting spectators' heads." Its movements were activated by 17 motors, guided by a man who manipulated a push-button control panel from a secret recess inside.
"That exhibit sure put us on the map," reminisces Messmore. "We were always cooking up new gags to publicize it." One of those gags resulted in so much world-wide publicity that Messmore had to stop his clipping agency from sending him any more newspaper clippings about it.
"It was breaking me to pay for all those clippings," explains Messmore. "You see, during the Fair, the exhibit was forced to move to a less desirable location and it needed a shot in the arm; so we changed its name to 'Down the Lost River' and hired a couple of nudists to go through a wedding ceremony in it. The bride was a Milwaukee gal and the groom came from Texas and all the members of the wedding party were as naked as jaybirds, except the minister, who wore a dignified goatskin. Reporters, feature writers and press and newsreel photographers really did a job on that ceremony, but so did a mechanic who accidentally threw the wrong switch and started up a tyrannosaurus and glyptodon. In the excitement a nudist and one of the bridesmaids fell backwards into the flotsam of the Lost River."
Turning from the primeval to the medieval, Messmore took over the Show Boat and set up another mechanized exhibit called "The Torture Chamber" where he entertained his customers with such delicate scenes as screaming and groaning men and women being broken on the rack, getting boiled in oil, having their feet seared with red-hot irons or cooked in iron boots filled with molten lead. These exhibits consisted of life-sized, mechanized men with settings, costumes and torture methods accurately reproducing those of the middle ages. Through cleverly recorded and synchronized sound effects, visitors heard the questioning of the inquisitor as well as the screams and groans of the unfortunate victims.
High spot of this exhibit, however, was Ann Kay, "The Crusader's Bride," who stepped forth wearing a medieval chastity belt, one of those iron panties which crusading husbands locked their wives into before going off to war. Ann Kay wore nothing else. This soon brought down on Messmore the wrath of official World's Fair Censor Joe Moriarity.
"See here, Messmore," he cried, "you cover up that girl's bosom or I'll close your show!"
"O. K.," said Messmore. "Will any opaque covering do?"
"Yes," replied Moriarity, "but it's got to be opaque."
That night Messmore put his ingenuity to work. He made a plaster cast of Miss Kay's bust, poured some flesh-colored latex into the mold and made a paper-thin, thoroughly form-fitting bra which, when donned, powdered and retouched with rouge, couldn't be spotted from two inches away.
"Moriarity sure was mad," laughs Messmore, "but he couldn't do a thing. The bra was opaque. People offered me thousands for that formula but we never gave out the secret."
Though Ann Kay and her cast iron device drew large crowds to the exhibit, Messmore's press agent for some reason couldn't get the papers to mention the chastity belt.
"It's no use," he told Messmore one night, "the papers won't touch it. I've tried everything."
"That's what you say," replied Messmore. "I'll bet you fifty bucks I can get it mentioned."
"It's a bet!" answered the P. A.
Messmore reached for the phone and called one of the local papers.
"I want to place an ad in the Lost and Found section," he said into the mouthpiece. "This is it: 'Lost: The key to the chastity belt. Liberal reward. Return to M. T. Show on Show Boat.' " Messmore won the bet.
In 1934, when International Harvester decided to demonstrate their McCormick-Deering milker at an exhibit, they turned to Messmore and Damon to produce a mechanical cow to which the milker could be attached. Nothing but a pure-bred blemish-free Holstein cow which could moo, switch its tail, turn its head, wink its eyes, chew its cud, breathe and give milk would do.
After examining over 150 cows, Mrs. Alken Ina Ormsby, No. 864,903, a bovine beauty of the finest qualifications, was selected. For weeks, she lived in regal splendor at the Messmore and Damon factory, eating the best of foods and living the life of Riley as she posed for her exact mechanical likeness. But when that likeness was finished, Mrs. Aiken's days of luxury came to an end and her skin was used to cover the mechanical creation she had been model for. At the exhibit, Messmore hooked the mechanical milker to the cow, running a pipeline up through one leg so that the imitation milk could be pumped back from the pail into the udder and then milked out again into the pail. "That cow sure fooled a lot of people," chuckles Messmore. "Once a hard-bitten old farmer watched her for some time, then came over and remarked, 'You know, I've been watching thet cow fer over an hour now, and by gosh she's still givin' milk!' "
Today Messmore's extraordinary inventory calls for a large staff of skilled wood carvers, seamstresses, machinists, scenic artists, sculptors and workers in every medium from welding to stage carpentry. Messmore himself does most of the sculpture work and can figure out in a jiffy what complicated eccentrics, gears, rods and cams are needed to bring anything from a six-inch dwarf to a 60-foot brontosaurus to life. He once made a herd of elephants which walked across the Zeigfeld stage carrying chorus girls in their trunks.
When a department store books one of his exhibits it pays a flat sum, sometimes as much as $15,000 plus half the gate up to $35,000. Frequently Messmore will revive an old show, such as "The World a Million Years Ago" or "The Torture Chamber," and send it on tour.
"Those shows will never become outdated," he claims. "Heck, one's a million years old already and it still packs 'em in!"


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Nearly a dozen Senate Democrats, including five up for re-election this year, are pressing President Barack Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline by the end of next month.
Most Republicans support the pipeline, but the 11 Democrats who wrote a letter to Mr. Obama urging him to approve the project deliberately made it a one party-effort. While a set of bipartisan signatures can be a powerful thing in the art of Washington letter-writing, these lawmakers clearly want to accentuate the pressure Mr. Obama faces from his own party on this issue.


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"Already a bit of a legend in China, the 40-year-old serial entrepreneur announced last April that he had formed Smartisan Co., Ltd. to work on a smartphone OS, and that it would shame all manufacturers with its revolutionary user experience. Having missed the December target that he promised, Luo eventually took the stage in Beijing last week to spend well over three - yes, three - hours going through the thought process behind his Smartisan OS, so bear with us here." The icons are nice, and there's certainly some nice touches in there, but calling this an 'operating system' is stretching the definition beyond its breaking point.


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Loraine Cooley has taught jewelry at the Creative Workshop since 1987.
Cooley earned a BFA in jewelry and metalsmithing at RIT and certification in art education for grades K-12 at Nazareth College. She has also exhibited at RIT's Dyer Gallery; Craft Art of Western NY, Buffalo; Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn; Etienne Gallery, Maine; and Downey Museum of Art, CA. Her jewelry was published in The Art and Craft of Making Jewelry (2006).
At MAG, her work has been selected for seven Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibitions; most recently, she was one of three artists from the 2013 show invited to give lectures. In November, her work will be included for the seventh time in the juried Fine Craft Show and Sale; in 2012 she was awarded Best in Show.
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With a gladsome heart, I specially welcome you to this brand new year 2020 - A year in which God will cause your eyes to see things which no man has ever seen nor ear heard. 1 Cor.2:9
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Blind Russian girl criticizes adoption ban
MOSCOW (AP) — A blind Russian high-schooler's impassioned criticism of the ban on adoption by Americans has added a new and compelling voice to the chorus of condemnation of the law.
Since her Jan. 6 blog entry complaining about the ban, written as an open letter to President Vladimir Putin, Natasha Pisarenko has attracted the wide attention of Russian media and, she fears, drawn the disapproving notice of authorities.
The adoption ban, which went into effect Jan. 1, is one of the most controversial moves of the first year of Putin's third term in the Kremlin. It was enacted as part of a bill retaliating for a new U.S. law that calls for sanctions against Russians deemed to be human rights violators.
But critics say it punishes innocent children by denying them a chance of escaping Russia's often-dismal orphanages. Around 20,000 people held a protest march against the measure in Moscow on Sunday that included banners likening Putin to King Herod, whom the Bible says ordered the massacre of Jewish male infants.
Pisarenko wrote sarcastically that by signing the law, Putin was "saving children from American evil" and said that Russians rarely adopt disabled children because the country's medical system is backward and can't take care of them.
"They die because Russia doesn't have modern medicine," she wrote.
Pisarenko, blind from birth, writes that she has painful personal experience with Russia's medical inadequacy. She says that although her father detected her blindness within days of her birth, Russian doctors were unable to diagnose it for months. But, she says, she received precise diagnosis and the hope of treatment from German and American doctors.
"For Russian doctors, I am a child with an illness of unknown etiology ... but in Germany and America I am a patient whose sight the doctors are trying to restore," she wrote.
Concluding her post, Pisarenko called on Putin to adopt five or 10 children with serious congenital disorders.
Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted by a local radio station as saying "Of course we will pay attention to such a statement.
"This girl is well known to us, she's known by the regional authorities and by the health ministry," he said.
Pisarenko and her parents have challenged authorities before, according to Russian media, notably when her parents agitated to have her educated at a regular school in her native Rostov-on-Don, rather than sending her away to a school for the blind. She's now in 10th grade, one year short of graduation under the Russian system.
In a later post, she expressed worry that her letter would cause her parents to be called in for questioning by regional authorities.
When The Associated Press on Monday asked her father, Nikolai, if Natasha could be interviewed, he said he had been ordered not to comment to news media, but declined to say who issued the order.
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The General Motors Design Team is responsible for drawing up the latest vehicle designs for the company, but have you ever wondered what these members have in their garages?
For the last three years, the GM Design Team has hosted a car show on the Wednesday prior to the Woodward Dream Cruise featuring their own personal cars. From Corvettes to ratrods, classic Chevys to modern customs, the rides of the designers show an eclectic mix of love for all things automotive.
One of the members of the team we ran into was Craig Sass, who is the interior designer for the C6 Corvette. Craig was showing off his 1967 Pontiac LeMans which was the very first car that he got at the young age of 17 in 1986. Over the years, the car has been modified from its previous regular LeMans drivetrain which featured a 326ci V8, 2 barrel carb and a 2 speed transmission with 2:64 rear end gears. Today, Sass now has what is essentially a GTO drive train with a 400 ci V8, 4 barrel carb, turbo 400 trans, and 3:55 rear end. Craig reminds those behind him that the car is a Lemans and not a GTO with the vanity license plate that reads "NO GOAT".
Chevy also brought out some of their latest vehicles to show off including the 60th Anniversary 427 Convertible, the new Camaro COPO and the 2014 Chevrolet Impala.
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In the final week of Rhizome's Community Fundraising Campaign, we profile seven artists hand-picked by Rhizome to generously contribute artworks, ensuring you receive compelling thank you gifts at every donation level. Give now to receive one of these works.
Tabor Robak creates sci-fi and techno-utopian interactive virtual environments, websites, videos and images. His imagery exploits high-end commercial aesthetics and slick special effects found in design, video games, action and sci-fi fantasy films.
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"I truly believe in the transformative potential of technology but I am also trying to be a realist. As eagerly as I await the singularity I also think it is ridiculous to hope for a techno-god to save us. There are 2 feelings I frequently find that reflected in my work that express this attitude. One is a complete, hopeful, teary-eyed love of the glittering special effects and commercial aesthetics. The other is a dark, almost comedic feeling of contentless emptiness."
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For Rhizome's Community Campaign, Robak has generously donated a limited edition digital print (20'' x 30'') from his Rocks series, Rocks (mirrored) (2012) available at the $125 level. Donors will also receive the limited edition tote bag by ReCode Project, the 56 + 10 Broken Kindle Screens (Kindle Edition) eBook, and one full year of Rhizome membership.


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What you need to know before you go
Barbados looks a lot like an English heritage village transplanted onto a Caribbean paradise. Between the white-sand shores and glittering blue seas, you'll find historical buildings, a heritage railway, horseracing course, and even a cricket stadium.
Of course, there's plenty about Barbados which is very unlike a little English village, quite aside from the delightful beaches. Barbadian culture is very vibrant and colourful. One of the best times to see the village at its best is during the carnival-like Crop Over, when musicians and revellers parade the streets in bright and sequined costumes.
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Barbados offers you a Caribbean island holiday that's not short of world-class beaches – some afford privacy and seclusion, while others are at the heart of the action. No one will blame you if you can't drag yourself away. After all, such tropical idylls are the reason we fly halfway around the world for our 2 weeks in the sun.
But beyond the beach lies a hilly, verdant landscape liberally scattered with historic plantation homes, rum distilleries and lush tropical gardens. Barbados is, without doubt, an island that rewards the wanderer. Every part of the island has somewhere worthy of an excursion, no matter what your passion. Let us tempt you with some of the best things to do in Barbados.
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An exhibition exploring works of Norway's two most prominent and pioneering architectural practices, Reiulf Ramstad Architects and Jensen & Skodvin Architects, is currently on show at London's Royal Institute of British Architects. On view until 15 June 2012, 'Contemporary Norwegian Architecture – Landscape and Intervention' surveys projects realised by both offices through a series of exhibits such as richly detailed models and images. A number of accompanying events such as film screenings are also scheduled with the fist one titled Knut Åsdam: Urban Transformations taking place this coming Sunday (29 April).
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'Reiulf Ramstad Architects and Jensen & Skodvin Architects are two of the most high-profile and innovative practices based in Norway. This exhibition explores their work, through a unique collection of richly detailed models and images, highlighting rural contemporary Norwegian architecture through the National Tourist Routes scheme and more.
'A selection of Tourist Routes projects – completed across the country – are displayed by each practice, in addition to a range of other buildings that have been undertaken, including housing and public works.'
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South Korea's recently inaugurated president, Lee Myung Bak, faces his first major foreign-policy challenge this week, as he prepares to confront President Bush Friday on a controversial secret deal reportedly drafted between American and North Korean negotiators.
Senior South Korean officials say they still don't know the contents of the agreement, which is meant to jump-start North Korean compliance with agreements to abandon its nuclear weapons program. But they bristle at suggestions that North Korea is attempting to bypass their government while negotiating with the United States.
"I do not know what they have agreed," says Prime Minister Han Seung Soo, the top official here while Mr. Lee meets with Mr. Bush at Camp David on Friday and Saturday. "But if North Korea is going to the United States over the shoulder of [South] Korea, it will not succeed."
Analysts say the US is backing away from the key condition of the six-party agreement signed in February 2007, which called for North Korea to reveal the contents of its entire nuclear program. The North has repeatedly denied developing warheads with enriched uranium or aiding Syria on the facility that was bombed by Israeli warplanes last September.
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Now, say analysts, Lee has to decide quickly whether to stick to his repeated pledges to adopt a "pragmatic" and tough policy toward North Korea – and break, as he has promised, from the Sunshine policy initiated by Kim Dae Jung after he became president a decade ago.
"It could be a dilemma for Lee Myung Bak," says Shim Jae Hoon, a longtime analyst of North Korean affairs. Lee "needs to draw a line from the previous government. He got elected on a platform of changing the government policy, and everything hinges on the nuclear issue."
At stake is a memorandum believed to have been drafted by US nuclear envoy Christopher Hill and North Korean envoy Kim Kye Gwan in a recent meeting in Singapore. In the face of North Korea's refusal to acknowledge anything to do with enriched uranium or the Syrian facility, Mr. Hill is believed to have suggested the two agree on a statement listing those accusations. North Korea would acknowledge that it "understands" what's written down – without directly affirming the truth of the document.
"That's too big a concession," says Choi Jin Wook, senior researcher on North Korea at the government-affiliated Korea Institute for National Unification, especially since Mr. Kim said after the meeting that he was happy with the results.
"North Korea cannot help but smile at this agreement," adds Mr. Choi, "but problems apparently focus on a matter of definition."
"As far as I know they just acknowledge the memorandum," he explains. "North Korea may say it 'understands' [the] memorandum," he goes on, "but 'understands' has a meaning that is different from 'I know' or "I confirm.' "
The reward for US acceptance of the North Korean position includes compliance with two longstanding North Korean demands: removal of North Korea from the State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism and lifting of economic sanctions imposed under the US "trading-with-the-enemy" act.
At the same time, North Korea would complete disabling its well-publicized facilities at Yongbyon – where it has produced warheads with plutonium at their core – and move on to permanently dismantling its entire nuclear program.
Pressure to accommodate
For all the apprehensions about the outcome of the Singapore meeting, however, the sense is that Lee may go along with it if only to advance South Korea's interests in other areas.
"There's no other way but to accommodate it," says Paik Hak Soon, director of North Korean studies at the Sejong Institute, which worked closely with the governments of Kim Dae Jung and Mr. Kim's successor, Roh Moo Hyun, on North-South reconciliation.
"The previous policy has been to facilitate the process of denuclearization," says Mr. Paik. "The rational way," he says, "is to keep both channels open." These include the six-party talks to persuade North Korea to live up to agreements on abandoning its nuclear program and inter-Korean dialogue building on the North-South summit of last October, in which North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il and South Korea's President Roh vowed to forge ahead on economic issues.
North Korea, however, has canceled all dialogue with the South. In recent days it has called Lee a "traitor," "imposter," and "sycophant" for demanding reciprocity on any deal with the North and verification of compliance with the nuclear agreement.
Lee "has failed to improve inter-Korean relations," Paik continues. "North Korea has its own interests to upgrade deteriorating relations. South Korea is losing some leverage."
North Korea's most pressing interest now may be the threat of a food crisis similar to that in the 1990s, in which up to 2 million people died. The World Food Program's Asia director, Tony Banbury, described North Korea as nearing a food crisis that is "bad and getting worse." The UN agency estimates that North Korea's food deficit this year will be twice that of last year. Foreign help is "urgently required to avert a serious tragedy," he said.
North Korea, however, has not made its annual request for food and fertilizer with South Korea. But it has spurned Lee's program, "Vision 3000," in which he has said he wants to help rebuild the North's economy so the average North Korean will earn the equivalent of $3,000 a year, many times the current level.
To accomplish this, "Lee doesn't have any other option than to accommodate," says Paik. For that reason, "what happened in Singapore is a breakthrough," he adds.


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The Farmingdale State women's volleyball team advanced to the Skyline Conference Semifinals with a 3-0 first round win over Purchase College tonight. The third-seeded Rams improved to 14-22 overall, while the sixth-seeded Panthers end the season at 9-13.
Farmingdale State captured all three sets by a score of 25-21. Junior outside Sarah Palladino (Lindenhurst, N.Y.) led the Rams with a game-high 12 kills, five digs and three service aces. Freshman middle blocker Maia Cadle-Hinton (Huntington, N.Y.) tallied nine kills, five aces and five total blocks, while sophomore setter Megan Pisciotta (Lindenhurst, N.Y.) finished with 25 assists and a game-high six aces.
For Purchase, freshman outside Alicia McCarthy (Plano, Texas) recorded seven kills, six digs and two blocks.
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The School of Music offers training toward two specific graduate degrees in music: Master of Music requiring a minimum of 36 hours of graduate credit, and Master of Music Education requiring 30 hours. All programs require a minimum of 24 hours of residence at the University of Louisville. Major subjects in the Master of Music curriculum are music performance with concentrations in choral, wind or orchestral conducting, instrumental or vocal performance, jazz performance or jazz composition and arranging, piano pedagogy, music history, music theory, and music composition. The Master of Music Education program allows an applied music minor in an instrument, voice, or conducting. Each degree program has specific prerequisites, entrance requirements, and programmatic expectations that are described in the relevant section of the catalog.
Jazz Studies Graduate Audition Requirements
Admission Requirements
1. Applications for admission to a graduate program require the following:
(a) a completed application;
(b) an application fee;
(c) official transcripts for all previous post-secondary course work (all transcripts not in English must be certified as authentic and translated verbatim into English);
(d) at least two letters of recommendation;
(e) scores from the General Test Section of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) that must be submitted prior to the beginning of study.
2. Applications to specific degree programs require evidence of preparation for advanced study as follows:
(a) in performance, an acceptable audition;
(b) in academic specializations (music composition, music history, music theory), a portfolio of work appropriate to the field of study;
(c) in music education, evidence of classroom teaching experience.
3. Applicants whose primary language is not English must show English language proficiency in one of the following ways:
(a) a minimum TOEFL examination score of 550 on the paper-based test, 213 on the computer-based test, or 79-80 on the internet-based test;
(b) successful completion of the exit examination for the advanced level of the Intensive English as a Second Language Program at the University of Louisville;
(c) documentation of the award of a degree from a recognized English language institution.
4. Applicants must possess a baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution in the area to be pursued in advanced studies, or they must present evidence of equivalent preparation.
5. Applicants must have a minimum cumulative undergraduate grade point average of 2.75 on a 4-point scale.
6. Applicants who meet the requirements listed in items 1-5 will be considered for conditional admission for graduate study at the School of Music. For additional entrance requirements specific to the degree of interest, consult the section relevant to the degree program below.
7. Entrance examinations in music history, theory and, if appropriate, jazz, will be administered before the first term of study. The School of Music provides guidelines to assist in preparing for the entrance examinations.
8. Any exception to the above expectations will be evaluated individually and will require a statement indicating criteria to be met in a specified time frame with provisions for monitoring progress and performance. Justification must be provided in writing and must be accepted by the faculty of the student's proposed program, the Director of Graduate Studies, and the Dean of the School of Music.
9. Students who fail to meet performance standards or who do not meet other requirements as outlined in the letter of admission, program of study, or the catalog of the University of Louisville are subject to dismissal from their programs.
General Information Regarding Academic Policies
1. Detailed curricular and program offerings, including specific requirements and provisions for degree programs, are published in the university catalog at http://louisville.edu/graduatecatalog. Students will be provided with copies of the Handbook for Graduate Studies in Music, the "Guidelines for Preparation for the Graduate Music History Entrance Examination," and "Guidelines for Preparation for the Graduate Music Theory Entrance Examination." These documents are also available on the School of Music website at http://louisville.edu/music/.
2. Students will be required to address any deficiencies revealed by entrance examinations in courses taken within the first two semesters of study. Credit toward the degree is not granted for review course work.
3. All students are required to complete Bibliography and Research Methods (MUS 607) by the end of the second semester of study (part-time students by the completion of 15 hours of graduate study). Upon satisfactory completion of requirements stated in B.2 and B.3, students will be considered in good standing.
4. Students will complete a project appropriate to the field of study as defined by the faculty of their program. The completion of this project (public recital, thesis, professional paper) normally takes place in the last semester of graduate study. Preparation and presentation of a recital must follow the guidelines in the Handbook for Graduate Studies in Music and the preparation of a thesis must follow the "Guidelines for the Preparation and Processing of Theses" issued by the School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies (SIGS). The preparation of a thesis in music composition must also follow the "School of Music Thesis Formatting Guidelines for M.M. in Composition" ULCompThesisGuidelines.pdf.
5. In order to graduate, a student must be in good standing with a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0. No more than six (6) hours with any "C" or "C+" grade will be accepted toward a degree, and no grade below a "B-" will be accepted for a course in the student's major subject area. Hours earned beyond the minimum in any curricular areas apply only to that area and cannot be assigned to another area in order to satisfy required credit. At least one-half of the total hours in graduate courses must be at the 600 level. Any exceptions to the program of study must be approved by the Graduate Studies Committee. A student whose cumulative GPA falls below 3.0, or who fails to satisfy the published performance criteria, will be placed on probation. Students are ordinarily not permitted to continue on probation for more than one semester.
6. When all course work and projects have been satisfactorily completed, the student becomes a candidate for the degree and is approved to take the graduate oral examination. A candidate who fails the oral examination at the end of one semester may not be given a second one before the end of the following semester. A candidate who fails the second oral examination will not be granted the degree of M.M. or M.M.E. from the University of Louisville.
7. Upon request, a maximum of six (6) hours of earned graduate credit with a minimum grade of "B" may be transferred from accredited institutions that offer advanced degrees. Credit for applied music will not be transferred, but advanced standing may be awarded at a jury. Ensemble credits appropriate to the student's degree program may be considered for transfer, but not to exceed one (1) hour per semester. Music history and music theory credits will be evaluated for transfer by the Director of Graduate Studies and the respective faculty. Transfer of more than six (6) hours may be requested provided that they are not earned by extension, or as thesis or practicum hours, and that the residency requirement of 24 semester hours is maintained by the addition of University of Louisville credits to the total program. Transfer of graduate hours within the University of Louisville toward a graduate degree in music may be requested provided that the minimum residence requirement of 24 hours is maintained.
8. Students receiving a graduate assistantship (teaching, research, or service) will be provided adequate training and will be required to adhere to university policies. Performance of duties in research and service by graduate assistants will be periodically evaluated. Students with teaching assistantships will be evaluated each semester.
9. Part-time students (with the exception of those in the M.M.E. degree program) must participate in one ensemble for each 18 hours of completed course work. If part-time study precludes completing ensemble degree requirements, other course work may be substituted.
- Bachelor of Music degree or equivalent.
- Demonstration, by examination, of skills and capacities in the following fields:
- written, aural, and keyboard harmony;
- melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic dictation;
- elementary counterpoint; and
- history and literature of music, and analytic understanding of musical forms and genres.
Core Curriculum
MUS 500 - Music History Review*
MUS 400 - Music Theory Review*
MUS 600 - Graduate Oral Exam Preparation
MUS 607 - Bibliography and Research Methods
Music History Seminar (500 or 600 level)
Music Theory (500 or 600 level)**
Applied Study (600 level)***
MUS 697 - Graduate Recital****
Other Requirements
All students must pass an oral examination after all course work is completed.
* These courses may be satisfied by passing the entrance examinations in these areas.
** For students in the Concentration in Jazz, Jazz Theory (MUS 539-02) is recommended. For students in the Concentration in Jazz Composition and Arranging, Advanced Jazz Compositional Theory (MUS 654) is required and Jazz Theory (MUS 539-02) is recommended.
Note: Concentration in Jazz and Concentration in Jazz Composition and Arranging majors may take both Jazz Theory (MUS 539-02) and Advanced Compositional Theory (MUS 654).
Note: Graduate Jazz History is a choice for the Music History Seminar
*** The applied course numbers for the degree concentrations are as follows: Jazz Performance: MUS 605, 606, 615, 616. Students enrolled for applied jazz composition and arranging may not also get credit for Advanced Jazz Arranging (MUS 656) or Film/TV Scoring (MUS 657).
**** Taken concurrently with final semester of applied study. Performance and pedagogy degree recitals are expected to show a performer's musical maturity and versatility. A degree recital program must be approved by the student's applied instructor. Minimum recital lengths will be determined by the appropriate area faculty and indicated on all applied syllabi.
Concentration in Jazz Performance
MUS 539-01 - Jazz Style and Analysis
MUS 539-03 - Standard Jazz Repertoire
MUS 655 - Advanced Jazz Improvisation
Jazz Combo (one per semester)
Jazz Ensemble or Jazz Repertory Ensemble (one per sem)*
Music Electives**
Concentration Total
* A student may substitute two additional Jazz Combo courses for one of the Jazz Ensemble courses.
** Applied Jazz or Ensemble will not meet this requirement; applied study in a secondary area is acceptable.
Concentration in Jazz Composition and Arranging
MUS 539-01 - Jazz Style and Analysis
MUS 539-03 - Standard Jazz Repertoire
MUS 655 - Advanced Jazz Improvisation
MUS 539-01 - Jazz Style and Analysis
Jazz Combo (one per semester)
Jazz Ensemble or Jazz Repertory Ensemble (one per sem)*
Music Electives**
Concentration Total
* A student may substitute two additional Jazz Combo courses for one of the Jazz Ensemble courses.
** Ensemble will not meet this requirement; jazz applied study is acceptable.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has been discharged from a New York City hospital.
The 89-year-old ex-diplomat was admitted to New York-Presbyterian Hospital on Tuesday for observation after a fall in his home. He was released the same day.
The hospital declined to release any other information.
Kissinger served under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977.


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NetApp Friday unveiled upgraded FAS3220 and FAS3250 Fabric-Attached Storage arrays, improving their performance by up to 80% and more than doubling the storage capacity.
The upgraded midrange FAS storage systems run v8.1.2 of NetApp's OnTAP OS, and can be configured with 3TB hard drives to store up to 2.1 petabytes of data in a single rack.
NetApp's FAS array line up
The FAS3220's performance was boosted by 80% by increasing its cores from four to eight. The new system can store 24BG of data, more then double the 10GB capacity of its predecessor device.
NetApp doubled the available drive slots from the older model's 240 to 480, and tripled the PCIe expansion slots on the controller from four to 12, allowing for additional storage connectivity or NAND flash cache cards in the FAS3220.
The FAS 3250 got a 70% performance boost by doubling the number of processing cores from 8 to 16. The new array can offers 40GB of system memory, up from 16GB. NetApp also increased the available drive slots from 600 to 720, a 20% boost, in the upgraded FAS 3250.
"We're going after shared virtualized infrastructures in a big way," said Nathan Moffitt, director of storage platforms marketing at NetApp's. "These arrays will be used in Microsoft Windows Storage Server environments and for our FlexPod configuration."
FlexPod is NetApp's preconfigured, pre-certified storage network for user groups of 1,000 to 2,000 people.
FlexPod initially used the NetApp FAS3210 midrange array, Cicso's Unified Computing System (UCS) blade server and a Nexus switch and VMware's vSphere cloud platform and vCenter management console.
Even with the upgrades, the FAS3220 and FAS3250 will remain at a price similar to its predecessor, Moffitt said.
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The votes are updating, but not uniformly across all lists. The individual list owners' settings, for resetting their votes e.g., may be affecting that. Also, the fact is that some owners have added a lot of large files to their lists which need to load before any back-up functions can occur. It maybe that the server backup 'times out' waiting for some lists to load so the site update doesn't complete.
FYI, the gotop100.com domain name currently appears to be owned in Florida. The whole gotop100 website appears to be hosted on a GoDaddy server.


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Gurmukhi/ Punjabi Fonts for free download. . .
Used in bollywood films and on the covers of literally dozens of books as well in as magazines and papers, my fonts are available for you to download from this page and use for free. These free Gurmukhi fonts - 252
fonts in 30
main families (more than 10,760,000 font file downloads to date) can be used in commercial as well as non-commercial contexts.
All of the fonts here have characters both in the Gurmukhi UTF-8 range and also in the ASCII range. This means that you can use them with programs that haven't got UniCode capabilities as well as with those that have although you might find that you can do more with the font using Unicode, or that there are extra features built in so that things are done automatically by the font, such as contextual substitutions - look for the 'CSub' logo on the left.
You can also look at the characters in individual fonts and styles, compare upto three at a time and download any or all of them from the font viewer page (click here).
If you are not sure of how to install a font, look at the font installation page.
If you have installed a complete family of fonts, such as 'Raaj', and you think you can't see them all, look at the end of this page.
Download All 252
fonts (all 30
families with all styles) in one file:
Regarding Unicode text: Note that whilst all of the fonts on this site work fine on UNIX/Linux there is a bug in some older versions of the rendering engine on Windows that means that in the Unicode range, some fonts will not display correctly in some programs on those systems. All of the fonts on this site work correctly in The Gimp - free image editing program - on Windows and UNIX/Linux but on some older versions of Windows, some programs don't process Indic fonts correctly.
Fonts work to differing degrees on those systems, depending upon how buggy the system is, you might find that some programs:
work completely well;
don't allow ligatures in Latin (like 'ffi' and so on) used by some fonts to give extra functionality;
have problems with conjunct formation
might steal elements from adjacent conjucts in complex words (usually English words in Gurmukhi written with explicit conjncts)
have problems with conjunct glyph element positioning
don't even put a sihari before the consonant/conjunct.
For example, Adobe Photoshop CS3 on Windows Vista Ultimate with Microsoft's own Raavi font falls into ths latter category, even though it all works perfectly on The GIMP on the same system with the same font.
Note, click on the character image on the right to see a sample of the font in different sizes and weights:
The Magaz font is in five weights: thin, light, normal, bold and black. They are fully hinted and because of colour-balancing, the bold font will work at very small pixel sizes (clear at 9 px em size) like so . . .
Each Raaj and Raajaa font is in seven styles: thin, light, normal, bold, black, script-thin and script. You can see an example of their use here...
The key mappings for each of them is the same - you use the UTF-8 mapping for your system but the ASCII part of the mapping is the same as the Windows98SE mapping above on this page.
There are some additonal mappings in that:
- click on a particular font's name to see all of it's style options and also to download fonts individually.Or, click here to see all font options apart from Gurvetica, Iragan, Dave and Tsheg which have their own pages.
You can also look at the characters in individual fonts and styles, directly compare up to three at a time and download any or all of them from the font viewer page.
Download Gurvetica:
This font has over 40 width/weight combinations, comes in two layout variants (giving a total of over 50 font files for you to choose from) and has a page, all of its own.Go to the Gurvetica Page.
Download Gurvetica (all styles (48)) in one file:
Download Gurvetica 'Lite' font pack (28 styles covering the whole range) in one file:
Download Gurvetica A (all styles) in one file:
Download Raaj (all styles) in one file:
Download Raajaa (all styles) in one file:
Download Choti (all styles) in one file:
Download Lanma (all styles) in one file:
Download Magaz (all styles) in one file:
Download Bulara (all styles) in one file:
Download Dekho (all styles) in one file:
Download Dekho Naveen (all styles) in one file:
Download Uttar (all styles) in one file:
Download Tsheg (all styles) in one file:
Download Dwarka (all styles) in one file:
Download Modhera:
This font allows you to produce Gujarati-style Gurmukhi display and body text and has a page, all of its own.Go to the Modhera Page.
Download Modhera (all files (5)) in one file:
Download Karmic Sanj (all styles) in one file:
Download Karmic Sanj Thin TrueType font 'karmic_1.ttf': 131,668Bytes.
Download Karmic Sanj Light TrueType font 'karmic_3.ttf': 139,924Bytes.
Download Karmic Sanj Book TrueType font 'karmic_4.ttf': 140,536Bytes.
Download Karmic Sanj Medium TrueType font 'karmic_5.ttf': 137,596Bytes.
Download Karmic Sanj Bold TrueType font 'karmic_7.ttf': 137,532Bytes.
Download Karmic Sanj Heavy TrueType font 'karmic_8.ttf': 136,864Bytes.
Download Karmic Sanj Black TrueType font 'karmic_9.ttf': 140,232Bytes.
Download Gubara (all styles) in one file:
Download Miscellaneous Fun Fonts:
These are miscellaneous fun fonts and, along with Gubara and Karmic Sanj, have a page, all of their own.Go to the Miscellaneous Fun Fonts Page.
Download Miscellaneious Fun Fonts (all files (11)) in one file:
Download Rupe (all styles) in one file:
Download GHW Adhiapak (all styles) in one file:
Download GHW Dukandar (all styles) in one file:
Download GHW Penti Akhari (all styles) in one file:
Download GHW Purani Primer PDL (1 style) in one compressed file:
Download Full:
This font allows you to produce hand-painted sign-style display text and has a page, all of its own.Go to the GHP Full Page.
Download GHP Full (all files (6)) in one file:
Download Gurmukhi Old Letterpress (all styles) in one file:
Download Punjabi Typewriter (all styles) in one file:
Download Iragan:
This font handles a number of technical issues for you so that you can read Hindi and Sanskrit and has a page, all of its own.Go to the Iragan Page.
Download Iragan (all styles (8)) in one file:
Download Dave:
This font has a number of styles and options giving 20 style/option combinations and has a page, all of its own.Go to the Dave Page.
Download Dave (all styles and options (20)) in one file:
Where have the fonts gone?
On some programs on some operating systems, you might think that you cannot access all of the fonts that you have installed.
This can be a problem with fonts that have a lot of weights such as 'Raaj'.
Normally, you will get a list of fonts that you have installed like the one on the right which is from WordPad (Windows Vista).
You can see all of the fonts that you have installed and you know what is what - even thought it has put them in alphabetical order rather than weight order.
However, some programs will try to be a bit cleverer than that and you might end up with a font list like the one on the right (this is Photoshop CS3).
In fact, all that has happened here is that the program as tried to separate the fonts into families and to a certain extent, it has succeeded - although not completely.
This list is actually a font families listing (so, we can see that it was wrong not to place 'Raaj Thin' in with 'Raaj').
On Photoshop - and a number of other programs - there is another set of options and here, to the right of the font families dropdown list, is the font style list.
Now, you can see the different styles that it offers you and largely, it has got this right - although not completely.
When I first came across this problem in an email, I wondered if it might be a problems with the operating system and font installation (this doesn't happen on the OS I use - SuSE) but it appears that it is nothing more than the program itself.
As for the 'Raaj Script' font, it has just renamed it for you as 'Raaj Medium'.
Ho hum.


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September 17, 2008
Love our little boy Avery
Here is a layout I did of Avery with Coco the bear. It's kind of a quickie and one I did months ago. The thing I love about this layout is the stitching around the heart and down the picture. Stitching always adds a touch of interest and texture and really does not take much time to do so I encourage you to do some if you have never done it before.
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The bell struck five………………………..
As the voice echoed through the streets
A gush of excitement chilled my spirit
I was wide awake………from the deep slumber
Shedding the last remnants of a sweetdream
Its my wedding day
Within a few hours……………
My angel will be holding my hands before the Holy Spirit
It seems a life time
since I went to school for the first time,
wearing short pinafore,
Holding my mum's hand
And screaming all the way down
My dad getting me dressed,
Murmuring about my laziness
The sound thrashing from him
For getting drenched all over in rain
And the thousand kisses he gave
On seeing my tear-stained face
Still I remember the day-I was just thirteen then
When I thought of ending my life
On seeing my poor marks in physics
The pranks we did on school……….oh! they are unforgettable
And the day I got a love letter
I was thrilled beyond words-
Though I didn't show it on my face
The ecstasy that filled me
When my sir praised my poem with wide open eyes
And said……
"You've got an exuberant imagination"
Hours that flew like seconds,
in the company of my friends-my sweet pies
the love and dreams we shared,
the tears and smiles we shed..............
The ever-green trees, election campaigns and the lover's corner
of our college campus………….
And now I've reached here-the next stage of my life is going to start
Wedding bells will be ringing
Blessings will be showered upon us
Finally……the moment will come……when I should loose
The tight grip on my dads hand…………..
I'll be snatched away from them…
Tears welled up my eyes
I started to weep terribly.
A tight embrace broke my reverie
It was my dad and mum
They were smiling,a radiant smile
Eclipsing all my sorrows
And as they guided me out from the room
I realized
They'll never be away from me
'cause without them
I won't have a soul……..


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- 1 ounce butter
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- 4 cups guava concentrate, or 4 cans juice
- 1 quart original flavor barbecue sauce
- 2 racks pork baby back ribs, prepared
- In Mi Cocina by Princess House 11-inch Cast Iron Skillet over low-medium heat, saute mango in butter until golden, add guava concentrate and simmer to reduce by half.
- Cool then blend.
- Return fruit mixture to Skillet, add barbecue sauce and simmer on low-medium heat until sauce has thickened, about 10-15 minutes.
- Baste prepared ribs with warm sauce and grill on medium-low heat another 10 minutes.
Flank Steak Filets with Coffee Glaze
Spiced Oil
- 2 cups vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup juniper berries
- 4 pieces star anise
- 3 cloves
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 1 vanilla bean, split
- 3 tablespoons spiced oil
- 1 cup white onion, diced
- 2 tablespoons fresh ginger, grated
- 2 Cuban chiles, diced
- 6 garlic cloves
- 2 tablespoons molasses
- 1 cup dark aged rum
- 1 tablespoon instant coffee
- 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
- 8 cups brewed coffee, divided
- 3 tablespoons butter, softened
- salt, to taste
Flank Steak
- 2 pounds flank steak
- glaze
- Place all spiced oil ingredients in Princess House Culinario Series Healthy 3-Quart Straining Saucepan and cook on medium heat 10 minutes.
- Remove from heat and let cool. Transfer to Fantasia Seal-Tight 4-Cup Storage Bowl and store in cool, dry location until ready to use. Note: oil should be used within 1 week.
- Heat Saucepan on medium-high heat. Add spiced oil and onion, and saute until cooked.
- Add ginger, chiles and garlic; saute additional 2 minutes.
- Add molasses, rum, instant coffee, cocoa powder and 1 cup brewed coffee; simmer until liquid is reduced by half.
- Add remaining brewed coffee and cook until reduced to about 3 cups, remove from heat and let cool. Add butter and adjust seasoning with salt.
- Cut steak against grain of filets. Heat Mi Cocina by Princess House 13-inch Comal to medium heat. Brush steak with glaze. Place on heated Comal and cook, basting and turning occasionally until cooked.


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