text:
A Lot of Tobacco
Posted: Feb 19, 2010 11:49am ET
Some people collect stamps, others collect fine wines, but the cigarmakers in the Dominican Republic collect cigar tobacco. The big companies that roll cigars here tend to have amazing stocks of tobacco—bale upon bale upon bale.
Catching up from my last update, I spent Wednesday at General Cigar Dominicana, one of the biggest cigar factories in the Dominican Republic. I sat down with Benji Menendez, a tobacco man with knowledge stretching back to the days of pre-Castro Cuba, and did a Q&A with him for an upcoming feature in Cigar Aficionado magazine. I don't want to give away any details, but it was a wide-ranging conversation that covered a lot of ground and taught me quite a bit that I didn't already know about Benji. He and his team are riding high after the success of their Benji Menendez Partagas Master Series Majestuoso (our No. 15 cigar of 2009).
As for Wednesday's dinner, I was spared returning to the stage to do the merengue, but Gordon Mott wasn't so lucky. The ProCigar guys have a sick sense of humor when it comes to getting their guests on stage, and Gordon was in the line of fire this year. I'll say no more.
For Thursday I got an early start, as we were heading out to Davidoff's tobacco farm and warehousing operation in Jicome. Tuesday night the clouds opened up and it rained very hard, and the morning was cloudy and wet, hardly ideal for tobacco. We went out to the fields and saw Hendrik "Henke" Kelner's hybrid crop, which looked in fine shape. The leaves are meant to be binder, if they are harvested whole; the ones that are damaged end up as filler.
Later, I walked with Henke (and Cigar Aficionado's Gregory Mottola) through his warehouse, and we separated from the rest of the group. Henke got caught up showing us tobacco, a lot of tobacco. I asked him how many cigars he was making a year, and the answer was well north of 20 million cigars a year. That takes a lot of tobacco. Check out this footage of one of his rooms with tobacco aging in bales, just a small part of the $40 million in inventory Henke says he has.
That's a lot of tobacco. And that gives you a small idea of how big an investment it takes to do this type of thing properly.
Thursday night was a fun one, with a white party (everyone was supposed to wear a white shirt) held at the big monument at the center of Santiago. The fun went well into the night. Everyone is looking forward to Friday—the Quesadas are unveiling a new cigar. Stay tuned for more.
You can follow David Savona on Twitter: twitter.com/DavidSavona
Comments2 comment(s)
Eric N. Hauser Iii Miami, FL & Chicago, IL February 20, 2010 12:45pm ET
Yo Dave,Outstanding coverage of the ProCigar Event!Was not able to attend this year, but am smoking a San Miguel y Ramirez Cuban Style Dominican. This is an outstanding churchill sized cigar!See you soon!Regards,Eric N. Hauser -EyC Distribution, LLC. / Doublegun Cigars--
Eric N. Hauser Iii Miami, FL & Chicago, IL February 20, 2010 7:33pm ET
One more comment, Henke (Mr. Kellner) is truly awesome and a true gentleman! A real cigar legend! Cheers to Henke Kellner! What a great product with a legend behind it!Eric
Log in if you're already registered.
Or register for Cigar Aficionado today—it's free.
Registration allows you to:
Keep track of your favorite cigars in your personal humidor.
Comment on all our stories.
Ratings & Reviews
Search our database of more than 17,000 cigar tasting notes by score, brand, country, size, price range, year, wrapper and more, plus add your favorites to your Personal Humidor.


text:
People don't like continually upgrading. You say Arch doesn't break stuff, but it does. Whenever upstream breaks stuff, Arch breaks it too. And this is not a problem of upstream: when developing, sometimes you make big changes that result in features not being available, or being different. And that's what people don't like: their applications changing without their control. Businesses like it even less.
Login or Sign Up
- Log in with

subset: commoncrawl


text:
October 31, 1967
Cottontown, Tenn.
Services for Leslie D. Durrett, 78, retired farmer of Cottontown, will be at 10 a. m. today at Wilkinson and Wiseman Funeral Home, Portland, Tenn. Burial will be in Hillcrest Cemetery, White House, Tenn. Durrett died Tuesday (Oct. 31) in Highland Hospital, Portland. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Cora McMurtry Durrett; a daughter, Mrs. James D. Johnson, Portland; three sons, Leon, Calvin, and Earnest Durrett, Cottontown; 10 grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
Leslie Davis Durrett was the son of Francis E. Durrett and Ann Elizabeth M. Ackerman. He was born 1 November 1889 in Robertson County, TN. He married Cora B. McMurtry on 24 November 1915. Photo of Leslie Davis Durrett.
Genealogist's Companion to Research in Sumner
County, Tennessee
Census Records | Vital Records | Family Trees & Communities | Immigration Records | Military Records Directories & Member Lists | Family & Local Histories | Newspapers & Periodicals | Court, Land & Probate | Finding Aids


text:
{{ 'course-page-playlist-no-lessons-placeholder' | i18n:'This class does not have any lessons yet, please check back once the live broadcast has ended.' }}
On Air
Class Info
For {{ ctrl.price.current_price === 0 ? 'free' : (ctrl.price.current_price | centsToDollars:'$':2:true) }} you get:
- {{ ctrl.segments.length }} Video {{ 'lesson' | pluralize:ctrl.segments.length }} in HD
- Exclusive bonus content
- Lifetime access, anywhere, anytime
- Streaming and downloadable files
- Available on desktop, mobile and tablet
- Watch offline with iPhone & iPad
- 100% satisfaction guarantee
{{ ctrl.broadcast.start | unixDate:'h:mma':true }} - {{ ctrl.broadcast.end | unixDate:'h:mma z':true }}
Try new photography challenges to grow your skills and have fun. We dare you.
Lacking ideas on what to shoot? Feeling uninspired behind the lens? Not sure what to do to flip the switch on your internal lightbulb?
What if you had new, creative photography ideas sent directly to you multiple times a week? "Assignments" that took you out of your daily grind, got you outside, and helped you break through your creative blocks?
Join CreativeLive for a month-long series of free photography challenges designed to bust you out of your comfort zone. You'll try new techniques, pick up new skills, and expand your photographic creativity.
Sign up for free, and get these challenges delivered right to your inbox three times each week.
What is the Creative Photography Challenge?
As fellow photographers, we know exactly how you feel. We've all felt drained of ideas of what to shoot next. This is why our team got together and designed the Creative Photography Challenge: a series of short, snackable videos that will help you discover and harness new photography techniques. Not only will these videos be delivered directly to your inbox three times a week for a month, but you'll be inspired by our community of fellow photographers that are participating in this challenge right along with you.
The challenges are simple; Each video is under five minutes long, so they won't take forever to watch, and you can complete each challenge in just a few minutes or take an entire day to really hone in on your new skills.
Here are the episodes:
- Motion Blur
- Sunset Bracketing
- Sandwich Bag Portraits
- Water Droplets
- Holiday Light Bokeh
- Car Trails
- Playing with Water
- Double Exposure
- Light Painting
- Sunstars
- Tilt-Shift
- Panorama
- Backlit Portrait
How it works
All you have to do to get started is click the free "Sign Up" button. You will then start receiving emails 2-3 times a week with each new video.
Click here for more information on how this all works.
Once you take your photo, tag it on Instagram using the hashtag #creativephotochallenge. We'll feature our favorites every week!
Also, you can join the Creative Photography Challenge Facebook group to ask questions, and share your experiences with your fellow photographers.
Start improving as a photographer today!
CreativeLive is proud to partner with:


text:
And, of course, the fine print:
Get free shipping on your next order when you spend over $100. The discount will be automatically applied to your purchase; no promo code required. The subtotal of your purchase must be $100.01 or greater after any promotional discounts have been applied. Additional fees such as tax or shipping and handling do not apply toward your minimum subtotal requirement of $100.01. Offer applies to standard shipping only. Certain items that require additional shipping and handling are excluded from this promotion and do not apply towards your $100.01 subtotal minimum. Offer subject to change.
Say bow-wow-wow, yippee-yo, yippee-hey. These friendly dog note cards will send tails wagging when they arrive in the mail. The original artwork is reproduced in graphic repetition on paper that's sourced from responsibly managed forests. Open up the blank note card and scratch out a thoughtful hello.
This product ships from the maker within 7 days, via USPS
If you're not happy with this item for any reason, you may return it for a full refund within 14 days.


text:
Briefings from Chancellor Dan Klaich on Nevada's Higher Education System. Sign up to have NSHE Notes delivered to your email inbox.
- May 31, 2016
- NSHE Notes: My last Note
For the last seven years, I have had the honor of serving as Chancellor of the higher education system here in my native state. This position has provided me the opportunity to give back to the state and to our public education institutions that have done so much for me and my family. Together, we have accomplished a great deal over these years.
- Read More
- May 27, 2016
- NSHE Notes: A Memorial Day message
On Monday, we will take a moment of reflection to honor those who lost their lives in service to our nation. For generations, their sacrifices have preserved our freedoms and democratic way of life.
- Read More
- April 26, 2016
- NSHE Notes: A statewide effort to build a New Nevada
Gov. Brian Sandoval has launched a bold new initiative to set the course for Nevada's future. "Nevada's Strategic Planning Framework is a road map that focuses state government on leadership, public service, and problem solving for the next five years. Governor Sandoval's Strategic Planning Framework represents one of the most comprehensive planning initiatives Nevada has seen in 40 years.
- Read More
- March 28, 2016
- NSHE Notes - Improving diversity efforts within NSHE
The demographics within the Nevada System of Higher Education continue to rapidly evolve. While our enrollment gap between white and nonwhite students has virtually closed over the past 10 years, the achievement gap is a different story. We have experienced steady improvement, but still have an approximate 20 percent difference in the number of awards conferred between white and nonwhite students.
- Read More
- February 29, 2016
- NSHE Notes: UNLV receives first Title III grant for $1.5 million
The eight institutions within the Nevada System of Higher Education are driven to serve the needs of all Nevadans. Where we have been challenged in reaching and helping various communities, we have strived to increase our efforts and are continually seeking to improve our services.
- Read More
- January 29, 2016
- NSHE Notes: Highlights from Jan. 22 Special Board of Regents meeting
Last Friday, the Board of Regents held a workshop to discuss the role of the Board and to examine issues related to strategic policy decisions. This public meeting provided a crucial opportunity for higher education officials, campus leaders, student leaders, and the public to discuss trends and best practices in higher education, consider our ongoing challenges, and to brainstorm possible policy changes.
- Read More
- January 19, 2016
- NSHE Notes: Spring semester is underway!
Classes begin today as spring semester 2016 gets underway. I hope everyone was able to enjoy the holidays with friends and family and has renewed energy to start the new year.
- Read More
- December 22, 2015
- NSHE Notes: Season's Greetings
The holidays have arrived and another semester has come to an end, marking a time of year for celebration. I was fortunate to participate in the winter commencement ceremonies at UNR and UNLV and congratulate about 3,500 graduates!
- Read More
- November 25, 2015
- NSHE Notes: Giving thanks
Giving thanks and encouraging acts of kindness are at the core of the national holiday of Thanksgiving. In 1863, a year before Nevada became our nation's 36th state, President Abraham Lincoln set aside a day for all Americans to reflect on the "gracious gifts" bestowed on our great country. He called upon us to be charitable and kind to all, especially those who most needed our help.
- Read More
- November 9, 2015
- NSHE Notes: Honoring Nevada's veterans
On Wednesday, we will take a collective moment to honor the service of those who are, and have been, members of our armed forces. It is a day to celebrate and thank our veterans for their bravery, willingness to serve, and sacrifices they have made for our common good.
- Read More


text:
Gilmore 'unaware of illegal fundraising'
TANAISTE Eamon Gilmore and Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte have both denied having any knowledge of illegal fundraising by their former political party.
It came after former Workers' Party general secretary Sean Garland admitted that the party had employed "legal and illegal means" of fundraising.
The admission was contained in a letter to the East Berlin communist authorities, sent in February 1989. At the time, Mr Rabbitte and Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore were Workers' Party councillors, and went on to get elected to the Dail in the general election in June 1989.
Both of them said they were not aware of the letter sent by Mr Garland earlier that year to the East German authorities. They also said they were not aware of any illegal fundraising by the Workers' Party.
The discovery of the letter has revived questions about the Workers' Party's links at that time to the Official IRA, which was known for its involvement in bank robberies, punishment beatings and racketeering.
Mr Gilmore and Mr Rabbitte both said that they had raised their own funds for the 1989 general election campaign and had not received any funding from Workers' Party headquarters. This was backed up yesterday by Mr Garland himself.
Irish Independent


text:
No citations after sled dog killed in UP crash
MUNISING, Mich. (AP) — Police say no citations will be issued after a pickup truck struck a dog team competing in the U.P. 200 race in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
One sled dog is dead and two are injured following the Sunday morning crash.
The Mining Journal of Marquette reports state police determined the crash involving the team of Frank Moe, a former Bemidji legislator, was an accident.
Police say the pickup driver slowed and had the right of way but was unable to avoid the dogs on M-28 near the Cherrywood Lodge in Alger County. The Upper Peninsula Sled Dog Association says Moe saw the truck but was unable to stop in time.
The pickup driver was a 65-year-old man from Canada.
The 240-mile sled dog race started Friday in Marquette and ended Sunday.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.


text:
From FedoraProject
(Moved to FeatureAcceptedF17 - feature was accepted at 2012-01-09 meeting.)
(→Current status)
|Line 11:
|Line 11:
== Current status ==
== Current status ==
* Targeted release: [[Releases/17 | Fedora 17 ]]
* Targeted release: [[Releases/17 | Fedora 17 ]]
* Last updated:
* Last updated:
* Percentage of completion:
* Percentage of completion: %
== Detailed Description ==
== Detailed Description ==
Latest revision as of 17:36, 8 March 2012
[edit] Kernel Target
[edit] Summary
Enable use of kernel target (LIO) for iSCSI and FCoE.
[edit] Owner
- Name: Andy Grover
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
[edit] Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 17
- Last updated: Mar 8 2012
- Percentage of completion: 100%
[edit] Detailed Description
Fedora currently supports being an iSCSI target via tgtd, packaged as scsi-target-utils. This is a userspace daemon. Fedora currently does not support FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) target mode at all.
The kernel now includes support for iSCSI and FCoE (and other) scsi targets with a generic target subsystem called LIO. Since that is already in place, the remaining work involves "targetcli", the utility for configuring, saving, and restoring the LIO settings across reboot.
[edit] Benefit to Fedora
This will make it easier to configure all current (and future) SCSI target protocols in a unified manner, will enable FCoE target mode, and allow users to start experimenting with LIO iSCSI support, and evaluating it against tgtd. Performance should be superior, especially once RDMA-based protocols like iSER and SRP are enabled.
[edit] Scope
- Package targetcli and dependencies (python-rtslib and python-configshell) (DONE)
- Kernel changes needed: build-in configfs to kernel (DONE)
- (optional) utility to convert tgtd config to targetcli config
[edit] How To Test
Protocols such as iSCSI require no special hardware, so these can be tested relatively easily, even in a VM. Other protocols such as FCoE require bare-metal HW, and some NICs may have additional hardware offloads that it would be great to test, as well.
Specifically for iSCSI target support, we can compare features and reliability to tgtd, and do performance comparisons.
Based on testing, we may want to flag some protocol support as stable, while others are still experimental.
[edit] User Experience
targetcli is a much more usable tool for configuring this stuff than tgtd's targets.conf. targetcli lets the admin interactively define backstores, targets, LUNs, and ACLs, and then the current config is saved to a machine and human-readable format (json). tgtd uses the traditional Unix "well-commented .conf" style.
In addition, targetcli is actually a front-end to rtslib, which provides a Python API for target config, so users can programatically interact with the kernel target config, if desired.
[edit] Dependencies
See Scope. Dependencies on kernel and upstream targetcli, but it's pretty much already in-place.
[edit] Contingency Plan
Stick with tgtd for iSCSI target support.
[edit] Documentation
targetcli includes built-in help on configuration commands, and the targetcli manpage walks through the steps to define iSCSI and FCoE targets.
[edit] Release Notes
Support for the Linux generic kernel target, LIO, is now available. It provides enhanced performance for exporting SCSI block devices via iSCSI, as well as adding support for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and other fabrics, in target mode. The utility for configuring this kernel feature is 'targetcli'.


text:
The internet reacts to President Trump's speech during United...
149 killed as 7.1 magnitude quake fells buildings in Mexico
SF 'refugees' like 'drunk millionaires in a dollar store,'...
San Francisco's worst street corners for hard-core drug...
Waves up to 20 feet to pound Northern California coast
'Earthquake weather' talk won't die even though seismologists...
Pedestrian on I-80 in SF hit and killed by driver of Porsche
John Kelly photographed with his head in hands during Trump...
Melania Trump threatens lawsuit over English class billboard
CHP officer killed in wreck on way to work in San Martin
Posts filtered on Category
Rec and Park votes to extend Gleneagles Golf Course lease at McLaren Park — to Supes next
The ongoing saga of the Gleneagles Golf Course in McLaren Park continued Thursday when the Recreation and Park Commission voted 6-0 to extend the lease of current operator Tom Hsieh for another nine …
Signatures turned in on measures to rehab Pier 70, bar Beach Chalet artificial turf, "balanced transportation"
It's looking likely that San Francisco voters will get to weigh in on the redevelopment of an aging waterfront pier, on whether the city should be barred from installing lights and artificial turf on …
San Francisco has the third best public parks system in the nation
Fans of City Insider know we like lists that arbitrarily rank San Francisco compared to other cities. Well, we like them when our city does well, anyway. Add our performance in The Trust for Public …
Dolores Park — "loved to death" — ready for its makeover, at $12.4 million
Dolores Park, which city officials described as being "loved to death" by the more than 5,000 visitors it gets most weekend days, is finally getting its long-awaited makeover. The Recreation and Park …
Dog owners sound off on GGNRA plan, but is anyone listening?
Dozens of people showed up Monday at San Francisco City Hall to express their displeasure with a set of proposed dog rules for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area — but the folks making the …
Another big, corporate sporting event coming to S.F. and causing controversy
Sure, it's dirt bikes and skateboards instead of giant sail boats. And it's Mountain Dew instead of Oracle. But there are some similarities between the just finished America's Cup and the coming Dew …
Community gardens are all the rage in SF
San Franciscans just can't get enough of community gardening these days. The latest one, a .66-acre site at the northwest corner of Frederick and Arguello streets called Golden Gate Park CommUNITY …
The tiny tree door saga continues
The tiny tree door in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park is back — with newer, more spacious digs. And this time, they're up to city code. Back in April, when curious people wandering through the …
Jerry Garcia Amphitheater won't be renamed
Deadheads rejoice – the proposal to rename San Francisco's Jerry Garcia Amphitheater is, well, dead. "We've officially passed on that site," said Vanessa Silberman, spokeswoman for Levitt Pavilions, …


text:
The Firing Line Forums
The Hide
The Hunt
> Upland Handguns?
View Full Version :
Upland Handguns?
roy reali
September 1, 2009, 09:04 PM
There have many threads about carrying a sidearm while big game hunting. I want to know if anyone carries a handgun when hunting for upland game?
September 1, 2009, 09:59 PM
I do. This one:
S&W 317 Ultra lite .22.
September 2, 2009, 10:53 AM
I carry a handgun from the time I get dressed in the morning 'till I go to bed at night. No reason to not carry one if I'm upland bird hunting.
For stuff like that, I like to carry a Single Six in .32 mag, with one round of handloaded snake shot in it.
September 2, 2009, 11:59 AM
I don't, because a handgun would be a distant second to a shotgun at just about anything. I would gladly take a shotgun over a handgun for self defense, for potting small game, for shooting snakes, or for anything else I can think of. They are both short range weapons (at least the way I shoot a pistol!) and I don't see a reason to put a handgun in my waist when I have a shotgun in my hands.
September 2, 2009, 05:06 PM
No reason other than I like having a pistol in my pocket. It's a .22 because it's illegal for me to have anything bigger while out Upland hunting (though I wouldn't in any case.)
September 2, 2009, 05:13 PM
darkgael, that is one light weight looking gun! I didn't mean there's anything wrong with it, its always nice to have a backup, and its fun to plink targets of opportunity when out in the woods. I just don't feel the need to pack extra weapons when I have a shotgun in my hands.
September 2, 2009, 10:16 PM
its fun to plink targets of opportunity when out in the woods.
Yep, ain't that the truth. Y'know, though, I've never fired that little gun while out hunting. It just goes along for the ride.
I used to have a Ruger Bearcat but it was too heavy.
September 2, 2009, 11:51 PM
I just don't feel the need to pack extra weapons when I have a shotgun in my hands. +1
September 3, 2009, 01:26 AM
+2. not much you can do with a handgun that you can't do with a shotgun.
September 3, 2009, 02:40 AM
One more consideration.
Lots of times,birdhunting,there are a lot of folks afield.Some in camo.
Drawing down on a coyote and whanging one off might seem a good idea in the moment,but a handgun slug might go a long way.
If I'm 200 yds away and you don't see me,your #7 !/2s are an annoyance,but a .357 slug might kill me.
Don't mean to be preachy,just something to consider.
September 3, 2009, 04:47 AM
Lots of times,birdhunting,there are a lot of folks afield.Some in camo.
In PA, a good part of Upland season runs concurrently with deer/archery season. You are exactly correct about hunters in camo being in the woods or at the field edges. Every year, at least once, my dog finds an archer while quartering for birds. They are both surprised; though, I suppose they can hear her coming with her collar beeping.
vBulletin® v3.8.7, Copyright ©2000-2017, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.


text:
CleverHiker is a website dedicated to making outdoor adventure more accessible for everyone. We've created over 30 HD Tutorial Backpacking Videos for learning new skills, the CleverHiker Gear Guide for finding the best lightweight equipment, and numerous in-depth Trip Reports for finding new adventures. So have a look around the site and hopefully you'll find some ideas that will improve your next backpacking adventure. Happy hiking everyone!
The CleverHiker Gear Guide is a compilation of the very best backpacking Tents, Backpacks, Sleeping Bags, Stoves, Water Purifiers and a whole lot more. Use these exceptional tools to increase camp comfort and decrease trail weight.
My Top Picks page is reserved for my personal favorite backpacking gear. When I hit the trail, this is what I carry in my pack.
Packing a top-notch tent is one of the best ways to increase comfort, safety, and enjoyment on backcountry trips. Here's my list of the 10 Best Backpacking Tents of 2017.
If you're planning to hit the trail this year, you'll probably want one of these badboys on your back. Here's my list of the 7 Best Backpacks of 2017.
Looking for that deep trail sleep? Then snuggle up with one of the 6 Best Sleeping Bags & Quilts of 2017.
Nobody likes waking up with numb hips. Get the restful trail sleep you've earned with one of the 7 Best Sleeping Pads of 2017.
A steamy cup of java on a crisp, quiet morning is just about the perfect start to any day in the wilderness. So pick up one of the 7 Best Backpacking Stoves of 2017 and make that moment happen.
Take your backcountry chillin' game to the next level with one of the 10 Best Backpacking Hammocks of 2017.
Outdoor adventure gifts are the best kind around. The gift ideas listed in the CleverHiker Gift Guide are can't miss recommendations for anyone that enjoys backpacking, hiking, and camping. So give a gift that gets someone outdoors this year. Give the gift of adventure!
I've built over 30 instructional backpacking videos in two series - Essential Trail Skills & Lightweight Backpacking Foundations. My focus is building educational resources to help backpackers of all levels feel more comfortable in the wilderness.
My blog is a great place to catch my latest trip reports, gear reviews, how-to guides, videos, CleverHiker updates and much more.
If you're not great at keeping up with blogs, sign up for my newsletter to see the best of CleverHiker.
Lying just north of the Mt. St. Helen's National Volcanic Monument, the Mount Margaret Backcountry provides sweeping views of the blast zone caused by the 1980's eruption and the surrounding peaks of Mt. Hood, Mt. Adams and Mt. Rainier. With spectacular views, abundant lakes and wildflowers that persist into early August, the Mount Margaret Backcountry provides an incredible chance to get away without having to travel far from either Portland or Seattle.
Nestled in the white-peaked Cordillera Blanca range in the Andes, the classic 4-day Santa Cruz backpacking trip may be one of the most beautiful treks in the world. While many people flock to the trails near Machu Picchu, this overlooked hiking mecca north of Lima has a fraction of the visitors, allowing for a relative amount of solitude for such a spectacular place.
We've spent the last few months hiking hundreds of miles through Oregon, Utah, Peru, Bolivia, and California testing a bunch of new gear. We were surprised by how much we liked some of our new equipment, so we thought we'd put together a post to highlight our favorite summer backpacking gear, big and small.
The Trinity Alps Wilderness, nestled between the Coastal Range and the Cascades, is located 50 miles west of Redding in Northwest California. This region is somewhat off the radar, as most choose to visit the famed southern neighbors in the Yosemite-Sequoia corridor.
The Rogue River Trail is one of the most scenic early season backpacking trips in Oregon, and the Pacific Northwest in general. The route traverses the north side of the Rogue River for 40 miles as it rolls through the lush and remote Rogue Valley.
Over the past eight months the SteriPEN Ultra has become my go-to backpacking water purifier. The Ultra is easy to use, works fast, kills all the bad stuff (protozoa, bacteria, and viruses), and best of all, it doesn't require any pumping, squeezing, backflushing, or chemicals.
Okay, so Packing It Out founder Seth Orme did have some help, but at it's core, the Packing It Out initiative has a simple and effective strategy: When you see trash on the trail, pick it up, and pack it out. It's really as easy as that.
Nepal is an unbelievably beautiful country with a radiant culture and some of the most fantastic scenery you'll ever lay eyes on. Making a pilgrimage to this trekking mecca should be on every backpacker's bucket list.
Nepal is one of the most spectacularly beautiful countries on the planet. It's a place where towering white peaks touch the sky, monks peacefully meditate in ancient mountainside monasteries, and lumbering yaks haul goods to quaint villages largely disconnected from the outside world. To put it simply, Nepal is a backpacker's dream come true.
The Pacific Northwest is an adventure junkie's paradise. It's a breathtakingly diverse playground of craggy granite peaks, high alpine lakes, meadows socked with wildflowers, rugged windswept coastline, and more shades of green than your eyeballs can handle.
If you've spent any time in the woods, you've probably made some epic backcountry blunders. I certainly have. In fact, the only reason I'm able to give any "clever" hiking advice is because of all the laughably bad mistakes I've made over the years. At one point or another I've fallen victim to every one of the blunders listed below (and then some!).
The Wonderland Trail is a true gem of the Pacific Northwest. It's one of the most iconic trails in the region, and with very good reason. Simply put, the Wonderland Trail should be on every backpacker's bucket list.
The Wallowa Mountain Range, located in the Eagle Cap Wilderness of eastern Oregon, is one of the most stunning areas to backpack in the Pacific Northwest. Often referred to as the "Alps of Oregon", the immense granite peaks of the Wallowas are best experienced on multi-day backpacking trips.
Washington's Enchantment Lakes are a truly magical sight to see. They reside in an area where immense granite peaks, majestic mountain goats, and crystal clear alpine lakes are hidden around every corner. If you haven't had a chance to experience this captivating place, put it on the top of your list.
Completing a thru-hike will be one of the most profoundly rewarding achievements of your life. You'll spend months communing with nature, build jaw-dropping endurance, and develop lasting friendships along the way. Mustering up the courage to set out on your first thru-hike just might be the best decisions you ever make.
For many of us, it's been drilled into our heads since day one that backpackers wear boots. That's just what you do. You need the toughness and the ankle support and the water protection, right? That's why it blew my mind a few years back when I learned that thru-hikers cover thousands of trail miles every year in running shoes. Now, after many years and many miles, I feel very confident saying: Ditch the boots and don't look back.
Reader Question: I am torn between the ZPacks Arc Haul backpack and the ULA Circuit backpack. The cost is the main thing but how does the Circuit do with the meshed back vs the Arc Haul gap between the pack and your back?
A lightweight down coat should be at the center of any good backpacking list. You'll wear it just about every night on the trail. It'll keep you toasty warm, even after spending hours jammed into the bottom of your pack. So, considering how essential your down coat is and how often you use it, let me ask you this; when was the last time you washed it?
Yeah… that's what I thought.
The Wind River Range in Wyoming is a place you truly have to see to believe. It's an outdoor adventurer's dream come true. Where immense glacier-carved granite spires tower over crystal-clear lakes, rolling meadows, and fields choked with high-alpine wildflowers.
I recently had the chance to review Therm-a-Rest's new Corus HD Quilt, and I think it has a lot of fantastic features. It's extremely light and compact, it has one of the best pad attachment systems of any quilt I've ever tested, and it comes at a reasonable price.
Outdoor adventure gifts are the best kind around. The gift ideas listed in the CleverHiker Gift Guide are can't miss recommendations for anyone that enjoys backpacking, hiking, and camping. So give a gift that gets someone outdoors this year. Give the gift of adventure!
Annie and I just got back from our first two big hikes in Nepal, the Manaslu and Annapurna Circuits. In total we've been on the trail for about 25 days and we've been loving every minute of it.
Cotopaxi's mission is creating innovative outdoor gear and making meaningful strides toward reducing global poverty. I recently had a chance to test one of their daypacks, the Luzon Del Dia.
In my opinion, speed valve technology is the future of sleeping pads. Therm-A-Rest's new NeoAir XLite MAX SV is the most convenient air pad I've ever used by a landslide.
If you're a backpacker who likes to pack light, but you still want to enjoy the comforts of a hammock in the wilderness, then the Hummingbird Single Hammock and Tree Straps are for you.
Most camp chairs are far too heavy and bulky for backpacking. At only 7oz, Therm-a-rest Compack Chair Kit is light enough to pack deep into the backcountry and comfortable enough to make all your buddies jealous while sitting around the campfire.
Starting this Friday (March 18th - April 4th), you'll be able to get 20% off one full-price item at REI. Here are 10 of my favorite big-ticket REI products that will make excellent discount purchases.
The Timberline Trail around Mt. Hood is one of Oregon's most iconic and scenic trails. This 40-mile loop is a fantastic way to experience the immense size and beauty of Mt. Hood.


text:
LAWMAKERS in Poland have prevented a transsexual colleague from becoming deputy speaker of parliament after her nomination caused discomfort among Catholics.
Liberal supporters of 58-year-old Anna Grodzka said parliament had missed an opportunity to show that Poland was becoming an open-minded society.
"This could have given a signal for Poles that a person from a discriminated minority can occupy such a high-ranking position," said Miroslawa Makuchowska, vice-president of the Warsaw-based Campaign Against Homophobia.
Loading article content
But Ms Makuchowska said some good had come out of the episode. "The more often Anna appears in the media, the more people are getting used to the issue," she added.
A businesswoman with a psychology degree, Ms Grodzka, formerly a man called Krzysztof Begowski, completed her sex change three years ago. She was elected as Poland's first transsexual member of parliament in October 2011.
The deputy speakership would have been a highly visible role, as it involves occasional ceremonial duties.
Asked yesterday what she thought about missing out on the job, Ms Grodzka said: "I regret it."
Her nomination was blocked before lawmakers even had the opportunity to debate Ms Grodzka's potential as a deputy speaker.
A majority of deputies voted against a motion paving the way for her to take up the post.


text:
Our accommodations are located right in the heart of Cape Cod, which means all the best local attractions are right at our doorstep! Click the links below for more information on some of the more popular Cape Cod excursions. Links will open in a new window
Whale Watch
- The Lady J Sport fishing - private charter 1-5 people
- Hyline Fishing - novice fishing up to 60 people
- Cape Rep in Brewster
- Other Professional Cape Cod Theaters
Island Cruises & Transportation
- Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
- Heritage Museum & Gardens
- Pilgrim Monument, Provincetown
- Sandwich Glass Museum
- Plimoth Plantation
- Bass River Guided Cruise
- Cape Cod Waterways
- Cape Cod Scenic Tours
- Cape Railroad
- Beach Comber Chatham Seal Watches
- Chatham Water Tours
- Cape Cod Kayak
- Great Marsh Kayak Tours
Event Websites & Video's


text:
Agency Response Letter GRAS Notice No. GRN 000329
Return to inventory listing: GRAS Notice Inventory
See also Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) and about the GRAS Notice Inventory
CFSAN/Office of Food Additive Safety
September 10, 2010
Benjamin L. England
Benjamin L. England & Associates, LLC
6420 Dobbin Road, Suite E
Columbia, MD 21045
Re: GRAS Notice No. GRN 000329
Dear Mr. England:
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responding to the notice, dated March 5, 2010, that you submitted on behalf of GLG Life Tech, Ltd. (GLG Life Tech) in accordance with the agency's proposed regulation, proposed 21 CFR 170.36 (62 FR 18938; April 17, 1997; Substances Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS); the GRAS proposal). FDA received this notice on March 9, 2010, filed it on March 12, 2010, and designated it as GRN No. 000329.
The subject of the notice is rebaudioside A purified from the leaves of Stevia rebaudiana (Bertoni) Bertoni (rebaudioside A). The notice informs FDA of the view of GLG Life Tech that rebaudioside A is GRAS, through scientific procedures, for use as a general-purpose sweetener in foods, excluding meat and poultry products, at levels determined by current good manufacturing practices. GLG Life Tech notes that rebaudioside A has recently been the subject of other GRAS notices, including GRN 000252, and incorporates by reference the information contained in GRN 000252. GLG Life Tech also notes that FDA responded to these GRAS notices informing the notifiers that, at the time of its response, the agency had no questions regarding their conclusions that the rebaudioside A that is the subject of their respective notices is GRAS for its intended use as a sweetener in food.
The rebaudioside A that is the subject of GRN 000329 is a highly purified component of the leaves of the stevia plant. As such, FDA notes that a GRAS notice for the use of a specific purified component of stevia, such as rebaudioside A, and FDA's response do not necessarily apply to the uses of other stevia products.
Title 21 CFR 101.4 states that all ingredients must be declared by their common or usual name. In addition, 21 CFR 102.5 outlines general principles to use when establishing common or usual names for nonstandardized foods. Our use of "rebaudioside A" or "rebaudioside A purified from the leaves of Stevia rebaudiana (Bertoni) Bertoni" in this letter should not be considered an endorsement or recommendation of any of these terms as an appropriate common or usual name for the purpose of declaring the substance in the ingredient statement of foods that contain that ingredient. Issues associated with labeling and the appropriate common or usual name of a food are the responsibility of the Office of Nutrition, Labeling, and Dietary Supplements in the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
GLG Life Tech provides information about the identity, method of manufacture, and specifications for its rebaudioside A. Rebaudioside A (CAS Reg. No. 58543-16-1), a glycoside of steviol, is identified as 19-O-beta-glucopyranosyl-13-O-(beta-glucopyranosyl(1-2)-beta-glucopyranosyl(1-3))-beta-glucopyranosyl-13-hydroxykaur-16-en-19-oic acid.1 Rebaudioside A is one of a group of known steviol glycosides, which differ by the number of glycoside moieties and bonding order. Rebaudioside A is obtained from the leaves of S. rebaudiana (Bertoni) Bertoni through extraction and multiple purification steps. The leaves are dried and extracted with water. The extract is precipitated with ferric chloride and calcium hydroxide and filtered. The filtered extract is pumped into an adsorption resin exchange tank. Upon saturation, the resin is washed with a water/ethanol mixture solvent. The resulting solution is decolorized with activated carbon and concentrated by evaporation at 80°C. It is then decolorized with activated carbon again and filtered. The resulting filtrate is spray dried and subjected to crystallization and recrystallization steps in ethanol/water, followed by filtration. The resulting crystal product is dissolved and then concentrated by evaporation at 80°C, filtered, and spray/vacuum dried to yield the final rebaudioside A product. GLG Life Tech provides specifications for its rebaudioside A that include the content of rebaudioside A (≥ 97% by weight (w/w)) and limits for lead (≤ 1 milligrams per kilogram (mg/kg)), arsenic (≤ 1 mg/kg), residual ethanol (≤ 0.5%), residual methanol (≤ 0.2%) and microbial contaminants (within specified limits). GLG Life Tech states that the rebaudioside A product meets the specifications for steviol glycosides established by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) at its 69th meeting in June 2008.
GLG Life Tech estimates the intake of rebaudioside A resulting from its intended use in foods. GLG Life Tech used dietary exposure data for sweetener use in various countries from a published study (Ref. 1). This study performed an intake assessment of rebaudioside A showing the overall projected intakes by mean and high percentile consumers in different subpopulations. The projected rebaudioside A exposures are based on sweetener substitution (expressed as sucrose equivalents in mg/kg body weight per day (mg/kg bw/d)) and assume a relative sweetness for rebaudioside A that is 200 times that of sucrose. GLG Life Tech notes that in the general adult population, the predicted rebaudioside A exposure from consumption of foods containing rebaudioside A would be 1.3 mg/kg bw/d for consumers at the mean and 3.4 mg/kg bw/d for high percentile consumers. GLG Life Tech states that the use of rebaudioside A in food is largely self-limiting due to its organoleptic properties.
GLG Life Tech discusses published and unpublished studies pertaining to the safety evaluation of rebaudioside A, including studies on rebaudioside A, stevioside, steviol, and crude stevia extracts. Among the published studies considered were subchronic toxicity studies in rats; chronic toxicity/carcinogenicity studies in rats; and reproductive/developmental toxicity studies in rats and hamsters. GLG Life Tech also considers published clinical studies and published and unpublished absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion studies in animals and humans. Additional studies that GLG Life Tech discusses include published in vivo mutagenicity/genotoxicity studies. Based on its consideration of all these studies, GLG Life Tech concludes that rebaudioside A is safe for its intended use in foods.
To further support its view that rebaudioside A is safe for the intended use, GLG Life Tech describes recent decisions by JECFA and the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) on the safety of steviol glycosides, one of which is rebaudioside A, for use in food as sweeteners. GLG Life Tech notes that in 2008, JECFA established an acceptable daily intake (ADI) for steviol glycosides of 0–4 mg/kg bw/d (expressed as steviol) and FSANZ established an ADI for steviol glycosides of 4 mg/kg bw/d (expressed as steviol).
Standards of Identity
In the notice, GLG Life Tech states its intention to use rebaudioside A in several food categories, including foods for which standards of identity exist, located in Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations. We note that an ingredient that is lawfully added to food products may be used in a standardized food only if it is permitted by the applicable standard of identity.
Section 301(ll) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA)
The Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007, that was signed into law on September 27, 2007, amends the FFDCA to, among other things, add section 301(ll). Section 301(ll) of the FFDCA prohibits the introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of any food that contains a drug approved under section 505 of the FFDCA, a biological product licensed under section 351 of the Public Health Service Act, or a drug or a biological product for which substantial clinical investigations have been instituted and their existence made public, unless one of the exemptions in section 301(ll)(1)-(4) applies. In its review of GLG Life Tech's notice that rebaudioside A is GRAS for use as a general-purpose sweetener in foods, excluding meat and poultry products, FDA did not consider whether section 301(ll) or any of its exemptions apply to foods containing rebaudioside A. Accordingly, this response should not be construed to be a statement that foods that contain rebaudioside A, if introduced or delivered for introduction into interstate commerce, would not violate section 301(ll).
Based on the information provided by GLG Life Tech, as well as other information available to FDA, the agency has no questions at this time regarding GLG Life Tech's conclusion that rebaudioside A is GRAS under the intended conditions of use. The agency has not, however, made its own determination regarding the GRAS status of the subject use of rebaudioside A. As always, it is the continuing responsibility of GLG Life Tech to ensure that food ingredients the firm markets are safe, and are otherwise in compliance with all applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
In accordance with proposed 21 CFR 170.36(f), a copy of the text of this letter responding to GRN 000329, as well as a copy of the information in this notice that conforms to the information in the GRAS exemption claim (proposed 21 CFR 170.36(c)(1)), is available for public review and copying via the FDA home page at http://www.fda.gov. To view or obtain an electronic copy of the text of the letter, follow the hyperlinks from the "Food" topic to the "Food Ingredients and Packaging" section to the "Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS)" page where the GRAS Inventory is listed.
Mitchell A. Cheeseman, Ph.D.
Acting Director
Office of Food Additive Safety
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
- Renwick, A.G. 2008. The use of a sweetener substitution method to predict dietary exposures for the intense sweetener rebaudioside A. Food and Chemical Toxicology 46:S61-S69.
1FDA notes that rebaudioside A may alternatively be defined as 13-[(2-O-β –D-glucopyranosyl-3-O-β–D-glucopyranosyl-β-D-glucopyranosyl)oxy] kaur-16-en-18-oic acid β-D-glucopyranosyl ester.


text:
quote:Originally posted by Foodbmequote:Originally posted by ZigI thought this was a Pork Tenderloins thread.Lighten up Zig. I excerpted this from one of the earlier comments. There's 23 Freakin' Pages of BPT's. How much more can be said about BPT's????
quote:Originally posted by ZigI thought this was a Pork Tenderloins thread.
quote:Originally posted by iqdivaI make a version of a pork tenderloin sandwich by slicing a pork tenderloin about a half inch thick and frying it like steak or chicken.I make milk gravy after I fry the tenderloin and make a "sandwich" with the tenderloin,gravy,and big homemade "cathead" biscuits.Serve with grits or rice and scrambled eggs.
quote:Originally posted by CajunKingWhere did you find the pretzel bread or do you have a recipe for it??
quote:Originally posted by DavyddDo they also serve Grainbelt beer?
quote:Originally posted by TJ JacksonFrisch's uses a fritter....no good at all
quote:Originally posted by KOKFound the info below. Maybe you can call them to see if they can ship.Thanks and good luck!KevinCaroline's Mighty Fine Food 688 E Springhill Dr, Terre Haute, IN 47802 (812) 232-9429
quote:Originally posted by DavyddOK, Rensselaer to West Lafayette. Oh where to stop? The Food Network Channel's Diners, Drive-ins & Dives tonight featured the Triple XXX in West Lafayette. The show featured hamburgers but closed with the Triple XXX pork tenderloin sandwich. They hand flattened it with a maple mallet, dipped it in flour and grilled it instead of deep frying. Anyone had one? No reference to deep frying. I know a lot of restaurants give you the choice.
quote:Originally posted by desertdogWhat is the term used to refer to a group of Breaded Pork Tenderloin Sandwiches??????Inquiring minds want to know!


text:
|Print [1]|Text Size: ||
Matthew Chapman, an explosives specialist in the military, and his wife Debbi were alarmed when they learned about a policy that could have a big effect on them. If they had to be evacuated from South Korea, they would only be allowed to take two dogs with them [3]. That presented a huge problem because the couple has three dogs and tensions between North Korea and South Korea are increasing, making evacuation more likely.
Unwilling to risk leaving a dog behind, they chose to foster one of their dogs with the Canine Corps at Paw Prints Dog Sanctuary [4]. They delivered their dog Dehlila to the facility, which is in Pennsylvania and serves military families whose dogs need a place to live when they are deployed or otherwise unable to keep their dog with them. Including Dehlila, the facility has 13 pets belonging to members of the military. They care for these military pets until their guardians are able to come back for them.
The Chapmans asked how they could help the organization, which provides free care for the pets of military people from Pennsylvania. The founder of the Canine Corps, himself a veteran, answered, "Come home safely."
|Print [1]
[1] http://thebark.com/print/3013?page=show
[2] http://thebark.com/category/author/karen-b-london
[3] http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/02/with_tensions_high_in_korea_mi.html
[4] http://www.caninecorps.org/
[5] http://thebark.com/content/esprit-de-corps
[6] http://amzn.to/1NrKTM1


text:
TornadoI am using the picture of the tornado. I grew up in tornado country. Have seen several up close and in person. In 5th grade, saw 6 out of the school window one day. Closest one was across the road from the grade school. Told the teacher to come and look at the tornadoes, and next thing we were in the school ba
steelhead01 70+, M 1 Sep 12, 2012


text:
Perlier Lavender Body Moisturizing Cream
- 3 reviews See the Breakdown
- Product Info | Add Your Review
Perlier Lavender Body Moisturizing Cream Reviews
Better than averageI would say this cream hydrates better than most. It leaves a subtle scent. I guess my main issue is that it smells very dated and reminds me of an old fragrance. I wouldn't pay full price, mainly because they often have sales where you can get this for much cheaper. If you get this on sale it is totally worth your money!! — 7 years, 6 months agoheidindg | 247 reviews
A little dab goes a long, long wayI often use this product as a hand lotion (as well as other Perlier lotions and creams). I particularly like to use the Perlier lotions after a mani-pedi. The scent is very light and lasts most of the day. I often give Perlier products as birthday and Christmas gifts. — 8 years, 2 months agoLady_in_Bloom | 60 reviews
Perlier lavender body moisturizing creamLove, love these products, lasts long time, little goes a long way, no chemicals used and they stand behind their products. All made in Italy by the famous Borghese family. The fragrance is intoxicating and does not smell obnoxiously strong. Very feminine. Worth every penny. They make sure all products are made with the real flowers, pesticide free. My favorite line of body products!!!!! — 8 years, 5 months ago051594 | 1 reviews
Home » Reviews » Body » Body Lotion » Perlier Lavender Body Moisturizing Cream
to top
My Reasons for Reporting This


text:
Abraham Michael Terres was born to Amy and Nathan Terres of Freeport, January 9, 2012, at 9:29 a.m. at CentraCare Health Systems, Melrose. He weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces and was 21 inches long.
Abraham is welcomed home by sibling Edmund, 2 years old.
Grandparents are Mike and Mary Kay Herkenhoff of Freeport and Rick and Brenda Terres of Spring Hill.
Great-grandparents are Ray and Laura Hoppe of New Munich and Jerome and Mary Ann Terres of Spring Hill.


text:
enrolling in Health Insurance Marketplace plans
Looking for affordable health coverage for 2017? are you covered? partners can help.
The Health Insurance Marketplace is available to people without health coverage. If you don't have a plan through your workplace, Medicare, Medicaid, or another source that provides qualified plans, the Marketplace can get you covered.
Open enrollment begins November 1, 2016 for 2017 Marketplace plans and ends January 31, 2017.
are you covered? partners are working throughout Ohio to provide consumers with free, impartial information and assistance with signing up for health insurance through the Marketplace and Medicaid. Trained counselors can answer questions, point you in the right direction or sit down with you and go through the process step-by-step.
To enroll:
- Visit www.healthcare.gov or get help by phone at 1-800-318-2596 or TTY: 1-855-889-4325.
- You can get free assistance in the enrollment process from areyoucoveredohio.org by calling 1-800-648-1176 or making an appointment with our counselors near your home or workplace.
enrolling in Medicaid
Unlike the Marketplace, Medicaid does not have an open enrollment period, and accepts new applications year round. are you covered? partners work with Ohioans to determine if they are eligible for coverage through Medicaid. The following individuals may qualify for Medicaid coverage in Ohio and should contact an are you covered? counselor for free help with the application process:
- Children up to 19 years old
- Parents or caretaker relatives of children up to 19 years old
- Some 19 and 20 year olds
- Adults up to age 64 living at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level
- Pregnant women
- Some women with breast and/or cervical cancer
- Adults aged 65 and older
- People with disabilities, including blindness as determined under the Social Security rules
- Some immigrants may be eligible for Medicaid
what it covers
No one plans to get sick or hurt, but most people need medical care at one time or another. Health coverage helps pay for these costs and protects you from very high expenses. When you buy a health insurance plan, the company agrees to cover part of your medical costs when you get sick or hurt.
Did you know the average cost of a three-day hospital stay is $30,000? Or that fixing a broken leg can cost up to $7,500? Having health coverage can help protect you from unexpected high costs like these.
Your health insurance plan will show what types of care, treatments, and services are covered, including how much the insurance company will pay for different treatments.
In general, your health insurance will cover the most important benefits you need:
- Doctor visits
- Hospitalization
- Prescriptions, including birth control
- Maternity and infant care
- Pediatricians
- Mental health
- Emergency services
Health insurance covers preventive services, too, and many of them are at no additional cost to you. These preventive services include:
- Vaccinations
- Cholesterol screening
- Blood pressure screening
- Colorectal cancer screening
- Mammograms
- Pap smears
are you covered? connects Ohioans to free information and assistance to sign up for health insurance through a company or through Medicaid. Our services are free, and we are a trusted network of local non-profit and health care organizations with a sole focus of making sure you have the health insurance plan that best fits your needs.
When can I sign up for health insurance?The first step is to meet with a certified assister or log on to healthcare.gov to find out if you are eligible to purchase insurance on the Marketplace. If you are, you can enroll in a plan that meets your needs during open enrollment, November 1, 2015 – January 31, 2016. After that deadline you will have to qualify for a Special Enrollment Period due to a life change.
How much will my new health insurance cost? Can I get financial help?More than half of all uninsured Americans can get covered for under $100 a month. And four out of five people who have already signed up received help paying for their insurance.
The amount of financial assistance works on a sliding scale based on an individual's or family's income. Some people will qualify for free or low-cost health insurance through Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
What does are you covered? do and how do you do it?are you covered? provides the only statewide network of trained counselors and navigators, working in all 88 Ohio counties. We coordinate the work of 250 organizations who want to make sure all Ohioans have access to affordable health insurance.
Through our local partners, we reach out to communities and neighborhoods throughout Ohio. Our counselors arrange times and locations to meet that are convenient for busy families. We take all the time you need to walk through the process of selecting a health insurance plan, and make sure it meets your health and financial needs.
Will my health insurance cover my doctor?Counselors and navigators from are you covered? will work with you to make sure your plan will meet your needs. We understand how important it is to maintain relationships with your doctors. are you covered? can help you if you want to check which plans cover your current health care professionals -- before you decide which plan to buy.
Can I go to my regular pharmacy? Will my prescription be covered?Not all health plans offer prescription coverage the same way. Since some health plans partner with certain pharmacies to provide you with prescription coverage, we'll help you check to see if your pharmacy is covered in the health insurance plan's network. For some drugs that you take every day, you may need to fill prescriptions by mail.
Will I have to pay some out-of-pocket costs myself?Your share of your health care costs (in addition to your monthly insurance bill) is called out-of-pocket costs. There are three kinds of out-of-pocket costs:
Deductible. You must pay this amount each policy period (which usually lasts one year) for covered services before your insurance kicks in. For example, if your deductible is $1,500, you will pay 100 percent of your health care expenses until you have spent $1,500. Preventive care (such as annual checkups) is free, and does not count toward your deductible.
Co-pay, or co-payment. A co-pay is a set amount that you pay for health care services. For example, you might have a $25 co-pay for visits to your doctor, or $75 for emergency room visits.
Coinsurance. Coinsurance is the portion of health care costs that you are responsible for once you've met your deductible (see above). It's usually a percentage, such as 20 percent. So if a doctor's visit cost $500 and your coinsurance is 20 percent, your share is $100.
Out-of-pocket maximum. This is the maximum annual out-of-pocket cost to you, including deductibles, co-pays and coinsurance.


text:
Photo by Andrew Ottoson
Challis threw every defender they could find at Prairie's forwards during the state championship game last Saturday, March 8, but the Pirates were able to get to the basket even when several Vikings stood in the way. Pictured is Lucas Arnzen — Prairie's top scorer during the tournament (48 points) and during the title game against Challis (20) — who was swarmed while attacking the hoop after receiving an entry pass from Tanner Ross (left, background).
NAMPA — Jake Bruner is built like Prairie coach Teel Bruner, his dad: tall and muscular. Tanner Ross and Lucas Arnzen are also tall and muscular, with Ross perhaps a bit taller and Arnzen perhaps a bit sturdier in build.
When Jake Bruner smiles, the history buff in the PHS cheering section might be reminded of old sayings, usually attributed to Winston Churchill, about grinning while fighting.
With 19 points in 19 minutes during the 1AD1 championship game last Saturday, March 8, Bruner had a lot to grin about. Like his dad, he saved the smiles for the end.
But in truth, Prairie made the victory look more like a day's work than mortal combat. Along with Jake Bruner, Ross and Arnzen functioned like interchangeable parts of an assembly line at a layup factory, with Teel Bruner the foreman barking throughout the whole shift to boost their collective efficiency.
Challis fell 78-43 in the 1AD1 championship game last Saturday, March 8. Glenns Ferry and Genesee on Thursday and Friday fared little better; Prairie won the three games by a combined 207-122.
Prairie's three big men combined for 121 in the tournament: Arnzen (48), Bruner (45) and Ross (28).
Without any obvious answers inside, Challis fell into disarray early, calling for time out when Prairie took a 4-0 lead. Ross made it 6-0, then Challis scored.
Bruner raised Prairie's lead to 18-9, but picked up his third foul with a minute left in the first quarter.
Had the Vikings craved a fight, this would have been the moment for Challis to get physical and hope for a few more calls; instead, Teel Bruner implored his squad for more production and Prairie's layup line only sped up.
Tyler Hankerson scored at short range, followed by Arnzen, then Ross on a tip drill putback — a run culminating in a 21-point Prairie lead at 32-11.
Challis notched an 8-1 run at the end of the quarter, which ended with Prairie leading 35-21 on Arnzen's late layup.
The official scorer at Idaho Center recorded none of those short shots as points in the paint; instead these were booked as 16 second-chance points on 15 offensive rebounds as Prairie outworked Challis in the key.
The Pirates continued to dominate down low during the second half, ripping off 43 total points: six more on second-chances and 24 in the paint.
Prairie came up with more than half of all available rebounds at their end, outdoing Challis 20-19 on their glass. Prairie's rebounders also dominated the defensive glass, producing a 48-27 margin on misses.
Had Challis managed a high shooting percentage, the bounces may not have mattered; instead, faced with fervant defense, the Vikings bricked more than twice the number of shots they made.
Prairie's guards also produced, forcing 27 Challis turnovers and outscoring the Vikings 27-10 in transition offense.
Chalk up that stat to Rhett Schlader, who booked eight steals and five assists on an otherwise quiet night.
Hankerson (11 points), listed as a guard, scored double figures, as did Prairie's big forwards: Bruner scored 19, with Arnzen (20 points, 11 rebounds) and Ross (12 points, 10 rebounds) delivering double-doubles.
Prairie 47, Genesee 29
CALDWELL — Once again, Prairie outclassed its opponent in the paint. But a Whitepine League rival had a fleeting answer for Prairie's press defense and post offense: all-out effort.
The Pirates weathered a storm for eight minutes during the second round of the 1AD1 boys basketball tournament last Friday, March 7, after which Genesee's surge slowed. After halftime, Prairie's productivity put the game away.
A 7-2 run had PHS up by three at the break, and Prairie ran that margin to 13 during the third quarter and added to the lead during the fourth.
Bruner put up 20 points, more than offsetting what the Tilleman brothers, Beau (11) and Reggie (8) produced for Genesee.
Lucas Arnzen, with 10 points, matched all other Genesee scorers. Rhett Schlader (8), Tanner Ross (4), Jared Higgins (4), and Tyler Hankerson (1) provided the rest of Prairie's margin of victory.
Prairie 82, Glenns Ferry 50
CALDWELL — Prairie never gave Glenns Ferry an inch, playing full-court pressure against an opponent ill-equipped to play the pace the Pirates decided to command.
Plundering the passing lanes, Prairie produced an immediate 15-2 lead, to which the Pirates added continually until substituting with about 10 minutes left.
Rhett Schlader finished with 11 points to go with 12 from Jared Higgins and 18 from Lucas Arnzen.
More like this story
Use the comment form below to begin a discussion about this content.


text:
The Assurance of Our Salvation: Exploring the Depth of Jesus' Prayer for His Own
Book by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Just hours before his betrayal and arrest, Jesus offered his famous High Priestly Prayer—one of the most intimate moments between Christ and his Father recorded in Scripture. John 17 has thus greatly encouraged Christians for millennia as it boldly affirms … Learn MorePaperback $28.00 $22.40 Add to Cart
The New Birth
Teaching Series by Steven Lawson
Twelve 23-Minute Messages Christians often describe themselves as "born again." While this phrase is familiar to many, people rarely explain what they mean when they use it. Unfortunately, talk of being "born again" often accompanies a man-centered understanding of salvation. … Learn MoreDVD $48.00 $43.20 Add to Cart
Also available in six other formats
February 2013 Tabletalk
Tabletalk by Various
Get Free Shipping on individual 2013 Issues of Tabletalk The February 2013 issue of Tabletalk features articles examining the nature of the union shared by the communion of saints with her Savior, Jesus Christ. The Westminster Larger Catechism states that … Learn MoreMagazine This item has sold out.
Blood Work: How the Blood of Christ Accomplishes Our Salvation
Book by Anthony Carter
Evangelical Christians often sing and preach about the blessed blood of Christ and the wonderful things it accomplishes for believers. To the uninformed ear, such language can convey the idea that Jesus' blood had semi-magical qualities. Actually, Jesus' blood was … Learn MoreHardcover $15.00 $12.00 Add to Cart
Also available in two other formats
November 2012 Tabletalk
Tabletalk by Various
Get Free Shipping on individual 2012 Issues of Tabletalk The November 2012 issue of Tabletalk features articles examining the five solas of the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century. Formulated by the Reformers in response to the abuses and errors of … Learn MoreMagazine $3.00 Add to Cart
Our Great God and Savior
Book by Eric Alexander
Eric Alexander's great concern in this series of studies is that Christian believers should know how rich they are in their gracious God and Saviour, and in His perfect work of salvation. Each study brings out a fresh aspect of … Learn MorePaperback $16.00 $12.80 Add to Cart
Chosen By God: 2008 Alaska Cruise
Conference Messages by R.C. Sproul
In these messages from the 2008 Alaska Discovery Cruise, Dr. R.C. Sproul presents an extensive study of the abundant grace of God in His election of men and women in salvation. Learn MoreDownload $22.00 $17.60 Add to Cart
The Cross of Christ: 2007 Dallas Conference
Conference Messages by Various Authors
As the Good Shepherd, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ willingly laid down His life for the sake of His sheep (John 10:11). All of history revolves around this event, so we must strive to understand its significance. In this … Learn MoreDownload Audio $12.00 $9.60 Add to Cart
Chosen by God: 2003 Houston Conference
Conference Messages by Various Authors
In this series of messages from Ligonier's 2003 conference series in Houston, Drs. R.C. Sproul and J. Ligon Duncan III explain the biblical doctrine of election. Emphasizing God's sovereignty, the depravity of man, God's eternal plan, and the justness of … Learn More
Chosen by God: 2002 Colorado Springs Conference
Conference Messages by Various Authors
Is 'predestination' a word you don't like to hear? Few Biblical doctrines provoke more discussion among Christians than predestination. We embrace the sovereign God as an ever-present, all-powerful, and all-knowing Provider and Protector. Yet we struggle to understand how the sovereignty … Learn More
The Cross of Christ: 2000 Nashville Conference
Conference Messages by R.C. Sproul
"Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am Your sin. You took on You what was mine; yet set on me what was Yours. You became what You were not, that I might become what I was not." – Martin Luther … Learn MoreDownload $10.00 $8.00 Add to Cart
Willing to Believe: 1999 Detroit Conference
Conference Messages by R.C. Sproul
How extensive were the effects of Adam's fall? Was his will crippled, so that he required the assistance of God's grace to overcome his wicked tendencies in order to be saved? Or was he plunged into spiritual bondage, unable to … Learn More
Union with Christ: In Scripture, History, and Theology
Book by Robert Letham
Union with Christ is the central truth of the whole biblical teaching about salvation. The entirety of our relationship with God can be summed up in this doctrine. Yet when people ask what this union actually is, we flounder. The … Learn MorePaperback $18.00 $14.40 Add to Cart


text:
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes: > Am Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2008 schrieb Alvaro Herrera: >> Effect: we would stop receiving complaints that an old pg_dump can talk >> to a server that most likely is incompatible with it. People would >> learn on the spot that they must install the newer pg_dump. > I think a more moderate measure might be to clarify the error message > "aborting because of version mismatch (Use the -i option to proceed > anyway.)\n" I would be satisfied with that if I thought people would actually read the message. My complaint is really directed at certain admin packages (and they know who they are) that invoke pg_dump *by default*, behind the user's back, with -i. regards, tom lane
Next: From: Roberts, Jon Date: 2008-01-31 15:34:30 Subject: timestamp format bug Previous: From: Andrew Dunstan Date: 2008-01-31 15:28:18 Subject: Re: Oops - BF:Mastodon just died
Next: From: Dimitri Fontaine Date: 2008-01-31 16:00:26 Subject: Re: {**Spam**} Re: [PATCHES] Proposed patch: synchronized_scanning GUC variable Previous: From: Tom Lane Date: 2008-01-31 15:25:54 Subject: Re: {**Spam**} Re: [PATCHES] Proposed patch: synchronized_scanning GUC variable


text:
Section Menu
Beyond the Field of Your Dreams: Careers in the Sports Industry Abound
Thursday, July 11, 2013
For those who have a strong interest in sports, the news is good. Beyond the privileged few who wear jerseys with numbers on their backs as pro athletes, the business of sports offers many opportunities in a wide variety of occupations and organizations according to John Lord, Ph.D., professor of sports marketing.
The domestic sports industry is huge and growing, totaling around $470 billion annually, according to Plunkett Research, a trend that has led to a greater number of career choices and outlets for students set on entering the field, Lord notes.
"The sports industry is very broad; it is very complex, and there are many different pieces of it," says Lord. "Beyond the teams, the leagues, and the events, there are all sorts of different industries. You have sports facility operations, sports media—not just radio and television, but also the plethora of digital and social media options available—sporting goods, merchandise and licensing, agents and agencies, hospitality management, health and fitness clubs, and a huge number of companies that attempt to build their brands via sports sponsorships. All of these segments, and more, comprise the industry and offer opportunities to talented and passionate individuals who seek a sports career."
In the sports industry, everything starts with selling and revenue generation. From ticket sales to suite sales to sponsorship sales the industry needs people who know how to "put butts in seats" and eyeballs in front of both traditional and non-traditional media. Companies using sports sponsorships to enhance their business need people who have the experience and skill set to manage these relationships. The challenge to the industry of finding the right people with the right skill-set as well as the right make-up was the main factor that led Lord to create a sports marketing major at Saint Joseph's University, which was launched in the fall of 2011.
As the largest business in the sports industry, careers in sports marketing and sales continue to grow. More than ever before, teams and leagues are hiring brand managers, marketing analysts, sales associates, communication and public relations assistants, web managers, and advertising and promotions managers to attract more fans in hopes of turning a larger profit. If the trend of expansion continues in the sports industry, job options will continue to open, making Lord's sports marketing major a valuable and relevant study area for students.


text:
Schools were in session and it was business as usual in the Bartlesville area on Thursday as residents waited to see how a powerful storm heading for the south and central part of the state will impact Washington County.
Schools were in session and it was business as usual in the Bartlesville area on Thursday as residents waited to see how a powerful storm heading for the south and central part of the state will impact Washington County.
All counties in Oklahoma are under storm warnings or advisories as the storm system churns its way through the state. An ice storm warning is in place until 6 p.m. Friday in the southeastern and south central parts of the state, where up to three-quarters of an inch of ice is possible.
In other parts of the state, a half-foot of snow is possible with the storm system. A winter storm warning is in effect for the central and northeastern parts of the state, including Oklahoma City and Tulsa.
Washington County Emergency Management Director Kary Cox says that locally, the forecast has improved a bit.
"It has been downgraded somewhat. I think the cold temperatures will be our biggest threat," Cox said Thursday.
"We may see some winter precipitation, sleet and snow or a mix of the two but that's pretty much it. The forecast isn't indicating that we are going to have any real big issues."
Cox said the bulk of the ice is expected to be south of Tulsa.
"We are expecting a lot of ice in those areas," he said.
"At the request of State Emergency Management we had two volunteers deliver two of our large trailer-mounted generators to Muskogee last night because of the forecast in that area."Cox said, however, that the county should expect below freezing temperatures until about Monday.
At press time on Thursday, classes were in session at area schools and Bartlesville Public School District officials had not announced plans for Friday.
But BPSD officials explained earlier this week how the decision to cancel classes is made.
When it comes to cancelling school for inclement weather, the decision-making process consists of a number of school staff evaluating roads and sometimes consultation with other local officials.
According to BPSD Community Relations Coordinator Chris Tanea, several school transportation department staff members as well as administrators try to get out as early as 4:30 a.m. — when there is inclement weather — to examine roads.
"We check the most difficult roads. So, we'll go up to the Circle Mountain area and the areas south of town, drive the route to the high school," Tanea said.
At times, district officials seek feedback from the Bartlesville Police Department and the City of Bartlesville.
"We try to make a decision by 6 o'clock, at the latest, because we have buses that are set to go out for the more rural routes at that time in the morning," he said.
He said the earlier school can be called off, the better.
Tanea said if conditions are deteriorating at night, classes for the next day could be cancelled or after students arrive for the day.
"Generally we really don't like to shorten a day. If the kids are in school, we like to have them be in school and send them home accordingly, at the proper times," he said. "But if there is a situation that arises where we find the need to do that, we would make the decision by evaluating the forecast … checking the road conditions and we always have to take into account that the parents, they're at work. How are they going to be able to get the kids?
"So there's a number of factors that go into that and that's really a last resort, is an early dismissal when they've already gotten to school."


text:
I am researching this line of
my family because it is one of the lines my family's manic depression came
down, and it is equally important to me to establish whether the genetic
mental illness alone caused the breakdown of this family, which plainly it
didn't. Inner city Los Angeles is a far better place to raise a family
than mid 19th century Montreal was. A trail of family and
moral dysfunction came right through my grandfather to his
daughters, particularly my aunt and her children, whose
behavior would often be incomprehensible without this
background information. It is important to realize that no
matter how they try to be moral or respectable, each generation
pretty much knows what their parents were able to teach them -
and my aunt identified with and was very close
to her father because he had, of course, married a woman whose
mother also had severe manic depression and who had a mild
and quite disruptive case of it herself, and my aunt
literally thought this is why she had morals! My grandfather's
mother, the daughter of John Cauthers, divorced his father, a sometime
journalist and reporter who wrote pornographic light opera
and died in New York City, in about 1900, in Boston,
when my grandfather was about ten! While one cousin was embezzling
my grandfather, another son of a different Cauthers aunt
went to California and dropped out (ca 1920)! For those who insist
we must think positive things about our ancestors; I am not an
only positive kind of person, and I am very much the product of
what my ancestors were, as is the story of my family. I do not
have to like all of my ancestors; I have to know about them.
My sources include:
Atherton, William Henry. Montreal 1535-1914, vol. II. (1914).
Cooper, John. Montreal: A Brief History (1969).
Jenkins, Kathleen. Montreal: Island City of the St. Lawrence (1966).
Leacock, Stephen. Leackock's Montreal (1948).
This may not be all my sources since I used sources from two libraries and
this came from one of them, and my population figures aren't in them.
The visitor who described the state of affairs in Montreal during this
period was neither laughing nor running away, though I find the state of
affairs she described idiotic to the point of being hysterically funny.
She and her sister were social reformers from England.
First of all, she noted the horrible overcrowding and poor
living conditions, impoverished people crammed into wooden buildings.
"Every house of public resort was crowded from top to bottom with
emigrants of all ages, English, Irish and Scotch. The sounds of riotous
merriment that burst from them seemed but ill-assorted with teh
haggard, careworn faces of many of the thoughtless revelers".
Of the cholera, "We were struck by the dirty, narrow, ill-paved or unpaved
streets of the suburbs, and overpowered by the noisome vapor arising from
a deep open fosse that ran along the street behind the wharf. This ditch
seemed the receptable for every abomination, and sufficient in itself
to infect a whole town with malignant fevers."
It is important to realize that not only did all of the
city's sewage ultimately drain into the river, but ALL of
the drinking water for the city of Montreal came from the
St. Lawrence River!
Her sister wrote, "The openning of all sewers, in order to
purify the place, and stop the pestilence, rendered the public
thoroughfares almost impassable, and loaded the air with
intolerable effluvia, more likely to produce, than stay the
course of the plague." In other words, the adminstrators
such as they were of Montreal tried to deal with a large
scale cholera epidemic by running the sewage down the city
Now, these two women had no more knowledge of how
disease is caused and spreads than the people who ran the
city did; they simply had the average person's supply of
common sense.
From the first sister's letter again:
"The cholera had made awful ravages, and its devastating effects were to be
seen in the darkened dwellings and the mourning habiliments of all
classes. An expression of dejection and anxiety appeared int he faces
of the few persons we encountered in our walk to the hotel...
In some situations whole streets had been depopulated; those that were
able fled panic-stricken to the coutnry villages, while others remained to
die in the bosom of their families.
To no class, I am told, has the disease proved so fatal as to the poorer
sort of emigrants. Many of these, debilitated by the privations and
fatigue of a long voyage, on reaching Quebec or MOntreal, indulged in
every sort of excess...
In one house eleven persons died, in another seventeen; a little child of
seven years old was the only creature left to tell the woeful tale. .."
On the plus side, the religious and benevolent orders of the city came to
the aid of the stricken people. On the negative side, they had to as there
was a single clinic with four doctors in teh city of over 10,000 people at
the time, and the best tehy could do was bug infested wooden sheds at the
Island I forget its name below Quebec, furnished with bunks for multiple
people and straw, exactly like in those pictures from Nazi concentration
camps, with sick people lying next to the dead. The sheds were located on
the banks of the river - with equally primitive toilet facilities. People
commented on that, and they commented on teh open sewers draining into the
river, but noone was very alarmed; "the municipal authorities pointed out
that everyone was already drinking the filth produced by fifty thousand
inhabitants. Hence, it seemed unlikely that the ablutions of a few
thousand more, would increase the evil!" Actually, not only the sick were
held at this island tent and shed camp along the river, but people had to
wait a long time for transport further up the river, and in the meantime
in those conditions, they of course got sick and died, too.
The only criticism people can offer to the Strickland sisters' description
is that they could not know that Montreal would rise to become a great
city, and also that those poor dying immigrants died for a noble cause, as
a health system grew out of it. These statements are true specimens, but
I'm not going to take the space to quote it. I'm sure those immigrants are
celebrating their fate in heaven. My interest is obviously what John
Cauthers, who was two years old when the first of fifteen years of cholera
and typhus epidemics hit, had to live through, and in my family that has
never completely recovered from this total and absolute social and family
breakdown in its background. But the same authors note that it was the
horrible conditions and their logical sequelae that shocked and forced the
city to organize and to become modern; the city's social services entirely
grew out of the mobilization to deal with these epidemics.
The city of Montreal was torn by riots and ethnic strife between 1832 and
1854, and the country by civil war in 1837-1838, and the rest of the
trouble did not affect only Montreal though it tended to focus there.
The sources of the trouble were an assortment of efforts to politically
organize Canada in the context of both Englishmen's and French desire for
independence, the fact taht Montreal was made the nation's capitol, the
lack of any sort of effective city government or administration in
Montreal before the city managed to incorporate in the 1840's, and an
assortment of extreme ethnic conflict between English and French, English
and Irish, and Catholic and Protestant, and extremely rapid growth due to
a rapid huge influx of immigrants from Ireland and Britain, most (though
not all) of them impoverished and often not in very good health even
before getting on board the ships that carried them to Canada.
Here are some excerpts:
"Elections in those days were not the well-conducted, strictly supervised
affairs of modern times. Rather were they often invitations to
violence--especially by reason of [they lasted for a month]. Rowdiness made
its appearance at an early stage...As the race moved ahead...the
supporters of Bagg complained loudly of the lawless behavior of their
opponents. Unruly mobs paraded the streets, intimidating the honest
voters. There being no regular civilian police in the employ of the city,
...150 special constables were sworn in and armed with heavy staves. Most
were Scotch or Irish. But as the balloting continued, so did the
violence...at last the disorder reached such a peak that they decided to
seek protection from the garrison..." To make a long tale short, troops
came into the city, in the evening the crowd got out of hand and attacked
a liquor store and pelted people and windows all along a street with
rocks. The troops fired into the mob and killed and wounded a number of
In 1837 and 1838 the political situaiton broke into civil war, I'm unclear
on the details or who was fighting who, except that again it focused on
Montreal which was "an armed camp"! People in upper Canada perceived
little to fight about, so the war didn't go very far there. It appears to
have pretty much been conducted between teh Niagara peninsula and
Another example; "An aspect of the burning of the Parliament house was
that, with thepolitical rancour there was mixed,... a fanatical religius
frenzy. It was planned to burn the "Grey Nuns", near at hand, as well as
the Jesuits' Residence and St. Patrick's Church. The menaces came to
nothing, owing to the guards of Irish watchers. [Get the picture here; Irish
Catholic gangstas patrolled the streets around their homes and churches,
ready for trouble.] Yet, at the time, according to a letter written from
Montreal in August, 1849, by teh Jesuit Father Havequez...the Grey Nuns
hard by were likely to become a prey to the fire "had not the brave Irish
run to the rescue and succeeded, after extraordinary efforts, in mastering
the flames". There are other accounts of this elsewhere that fail
to mention that the fire was deliberately started by some mob in order to
burn down Catholic churches and helpless nuns; only that this and
other fires like it were connected to the burning of the Parliament
Building, and that because the buildings were mainly of flimsy
wood, it succeeded in spreading over a rather good
sized chunk of the city and thousands were left homeless.
OK? Now, this was in 1849, when John Cauthers was about 19.
"Yet nothing ever dampened the spirits of the crowds permanently, for in
between the fires and the cholera there was more rioting. The immediate
cause of the 1853 outbreak was teh presence of Allessandro Gavazzi, a
former Roman Catholic priest [with a large anti-Catholic following all
over Canada]."
John Cauthers's brother, Samuel, and all his immediate
descendants, always forthrightly said they were Irish
(actually, they were Scotch-Irish, John's father and his
equally Scottish or Scotch-Irish mother even married in a
Presbyterian church), but in the family disorder and
disruptions that must have been forgotten.) My great grandmother,
Maryanne Cauthers Lowe, always maintained that her family were
ENGLISH in such tones that the staff at the state psychiatric hospital
in Massachusetts who treated her, knowing her to be from Montreal, and
Cauthers (from Carruthers) is an extremely rare name they wouldn't
have met before, decided she was FRENCH, recorded hers and her
father's names as Gauthier! I, recognizing from my aunt's
description the tone my mother, who also has mild and very
disruptive manic depression, uses when what she is saying
is anything but true, until I saw the civil records from Montreal
on this family, was looking for a Unitarian Gauthier family
in Montreal!
The medieval conditions are confirmed by other books that take the
carefully bright and positive tone about the city's history favored by my
two critics.
From Cooper:
"The first cholera visitation, in 1832, spurred action: garbage was to be
collected and disposed of; pigs were discouraged from frequenting public
places (so, tehre was no repetition of the homely occasion when a pig
entered the Bank of Montreal to scratch its back). A watch, or police
force of sorts, was recruited, armed with rattles..." (What a place
for the page to end, I think it said they were armed with some
device that made noise.) Picture the scene.
I am laughing. In the completely overcrowded medieval mess that was
Montreal, people are overflowing from every wooden house, effluvia is
flowing down teh gutter in the middle of the street, and pigs are roaming
around in the mess in the streets.
Another author argues with a Boston newspaper's "Dickinsonian"
account similar to that of the Strickland sisters, which happened
to add that the city was dark, that (in addition to none of the
rest of it was true) it was NOT dark, it had lights except
when the gas was out! Uh-uh.
But I must not have zeroxed the passages about the first municipal
meetings to install a system of street lights after the formal
incorporation of the city in the late 1840's and in response to the
troubles. Similar passages about how the newly incorporated city finally
began to develop a modern sewage system and way to bring clean drinking
water into the city!
But Jenkins cites one of English administrators, Lord Durham, who prepared
a report for Parliament in 1839. (Well after 1832.) "Durham had much to
say of the absence of "municipal institutions of self government"...[he
favored self government and his views on municipal government supported
this]..."The want of municipal institutions has been and is most glaringly
remarkable in Quebec and Montreal. These cities were incorporated a few
years ago by a temporary provincial Act, of which the renewal was rejected
in 1836. Since that time, these cities have been without any municipal
governent; and the disgraceful state of the streets, and the utter absence
of lighting, are consequences which arrest the attention of all, and
seriously affect the comfort and the security of the inhabitants".
So the Boston newspaper that said that the streets of Montreal were dark
did not lie. They were DARK. There WAS NO STREET LIGHTING.
This report also identifies another of the underlying
causes of the problems of Montreal; under the French, the
growing town was governed haphazardly by clergy, I guess,
and the spoiled and self centered young aristocrats who were ALL
of the people the British sent to govern Canada and to run
the city of Montreal, never cared enough to see to the
proper organization and government of this city.
Importantly, not all histories of Montreal mention the
dark side of its past at all ... not even by emphasizing a
"bright" side. One, the one of two that was on the library
shelves instead of in closed stacks, cited a different
19th century description of Montreal, written shortly
before 1832, that in its frank advertisement of a bright,
shining, city, said the city NEVER HAD ANY EPIDEMICS,
and left descriptions of social conditions in Montreal
in the 19th century entirely at that. As one would expect,
the upper classes of the city were enjoying life fully,
oblivious to the huge problems, as such people usually are.
There were large celebrations, balls, visits from royalty,
steamship christenings, all of that. And as in any time
of such ferment, the intellectual and religious life of the
city was quite lively and intense. While John Cauthers,
motherless teenaged son of a not stable blacksmith from
Ireland, was presumably roaming the streets and those
public houses the Strickland sisters wrote of, his future
wife's father the "artesian" (the upholsterer, wallpaper
hanger, formerly in England cabinet maker and sometime tea
seller, married to a woman both of whose parents were of
families with manic depression),
was on the committee that founded the Unitarian Church out of
VERY well attended sermons of two competing Presbyterian
ministers and a visiting Unitarian minister. And the mayor
who like many of the city's clergy died in one of these
epidemics from attending to the sick had been acting out
of shame, because like the rest of the authorities of the
city he had ignored the beginning of the epidemic, pretending
that there was no problem.
As to the city's population figures, there are two sides to them, and
different people emphasize different figures. Each cholera epidemic killed
about one tenth of the city's population at that time, or about
1200 people in 1832, typically a quarter to a third of the people
who became ill, and drove another 40% or so away, such that the
population of the city was immediately cut in half. But the
city was experiencing such a heavy influx of immigrants from Ireland and
Britain that despite this, its population went from something like 10,000
or 13,000 in about 1830 to about I believe 60,000 in 1850 or 1860. The
figures speak to the size of the immigration problem and of the problems
of a growing and poorly organized, poorly governed municipality, not to
a diminutiveness of the effect of the epidemics! If people want, of
course, I can find the rest of the figures...
Now, has anyone got anything else they want to ask me to prove?
Dora Smith
Census Records | Vital Records | Family Trees & Communities | Immigration Records | Military Records Directories & Member Lists | Family & Local Histories | Newspapers & Periodicals | Court, Land & Probate | Finding Aids


text:
Efficacy and Safety of Pimecrolimus Cream 1% in Patients (2 to 11 Years Old) With Mild to Moderate Facial Atopic Dermatitis
This study has been completed.
Information provided by:
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: August 12, 2005
Last updated: January 10, 2008
Last verified: January 2008
|Tracking Information
|First Received Date ICMJE
|August 12, 2005
|Last Updated Date
|January 10, 2008
|Start Date ICMJE
|August 2005
|Primary Completion Date
|Not Provided
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|The percentage of patients who have a facial Investigator's Global Assessment (IGA) score of 0 or 1 (clear or almost clear)
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Change History
|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT00130364 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Current Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Original Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Descriptive Information
|Brief Title ICMJE
|Efficacy and Safety of Pimecrolimus Cream 1% in Patients (2 to 11 Years Old) With Mild to Moderate Facial Atopic Dermatitis
|Official Title ICMJE
|Efficacy and Safety of Pimecrolimus Cream 1% in Patients (2 to 11 Years Old) With Mild to Moderate Facial Atopic Dermatitis
|Brief Summary
This study is not being conducted in the United States of America (USA).
Atopic dermatitis, also called eczema, is characterized by redness, papulation (skin elevation) and pruritus (skin itching). The active ingredient of pimecrolimus inhibits T-cell activation. These cells are involved in the inflammatory component of the disease. This study will test the safety and efficacy of pimecrolimus cream 1% in atopic dermatitis of the face in patients intolerant of, or dependent on, topical corticosteroids.
|Detailed Description
|Not Provided
|Study Type ICMJE
|Study Phase
|Phase 4
|Study Design ICMJE
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Condition ICMJE
|Atopic Dermatitis
|Intervention ICMJE
|Study Arms
|Publications *
|Not Provided
* Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline.
|Recruitment Information
|Recruitment Status ICMJE
|Enrollment ICMJE
|Completion Date
|August 2006
|Primary Completion Date
|Not Provided
|Eligibility Criteria ICMJE
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
|2 Years to 11 Years (Child)
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers
|Not Provided
|Contacts ICMJE
|Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
|Listed Location Countries ICMJE
|United States
|Removed Location Countries
|Administrative Information
|NCT Number ICMJE
|Other Study ID Numbers ICMJE
|Has Data Monitoring Committee
|Not Provided
|U.S. FDA-regulated Product
|Not Provided
|IPD Sharing Statement
|Not Provided
|Responsible Party
|External Affairs, Novartis
|Study Sponsor ICMJE
|Collaborators ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Investigators ICMJE
|PRS Account
|Verification Date
|January 2008
ICMJE Data element required by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors and the World Health Organization ICTRP


text:
Oh god no
'); var yuipath = 'clientscript/yui'; var yuicombopath = ''; var remoteyui = false; } else // Load Rest of YUI remotely (where possible) { var yuipath = 'http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.9.0/build'; var yuicombopath = 'http://yui.yahooapis.com/combo'; var remoteyui = true; if (!yuicombopath) { document.write('
Oh god no
God Damn It!!
I can't help but feel like they are done! Does Sager know what he is talking about with Artest or is it just a report of old news? Did Stern say no to the letter we supposedly sent asking for reinstatement?
I am losing hope, which is a horrible feeling to have! There is always next year, but not for Reggie!
Great...I finally get home and turn on the TV just in time to see JO get injured
Your horse is dead, get off it already...
And JO is hurt. Watch it be a friggin' broken hand.
God hates us.
We Cant Catch A Break
Someone tell Jermaine to play like an All-Star and not me in 8th grade. He has been pathetic for a while now.
Sorry, I didn't know advertising was illegal here. Someone call the cops!
JO is hurt well that is just ****ing great
If he doesn't shoot the free throws - he's not allowed to return to the game.
Just ****ING great, JO hurts him arm...in obvious pain.
Basketball Gods,
Why?What did we do?
Super Bowl XLI Champions
2000 Eastern Conference Champions
Looks like JO and DD may not tag team this season after all...
atleast he is able to play
that was insane
Wow. That's friggin' HILARIOUS. JO nails both FTs with ONE HAND.
Left Handed!!! Both!!!!!
HELL YEAH JO, making both with one hand.
jermaine should start shooting free throws like that
JO with the one-handed free throws!
:thepacers 38
Your horse is dead, get off it already...
i take that "atleast hes able to play" statement back
not just one handed - LEFT handed!Originally Posted by BostonConnectionThis quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
yeah i cant believe he made both!
Left-handed FTs by JO...Amazing.
Well, if JO's done, so is this season. Doesn't matter if we get Ronnie back or not if JO and Tins are gone.
Looks like DD may get a lot more PT than he expected.
God, this Pacers season is just a microcosm of my friggin' life.
Reggie doesn't have it tonight...