text: SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY COMMISSION Minutes of the special meeting of Thursday, November 13, 2003. (As approved January 20, 2004) The San Francisco Public Library Commission held a special meeting on Thursday, November 13, 2003, in the Koret Auditorium, Main Library. Vice President Steiman called the meeting to order at 4:06pm. The following members were noted present: Commissioners Bautista, Chin, Coulter, and Steiman. Commissioners Higueras, Strobin, and Streets were excused. Vice President Steiman announced that as Public Comment at the previous Commission meeting had abruptly ended due to loss of the meeting's quorum, she was taking general Public Comment as the first item during this meeting. Agenda Items: 5) Public Comment 1) Ingleside Prop. 14 Application 2) Portola Prop. 14 Application 3) Visitacion Valley Prop. 14 Application 4) Ortega Prop. 14 Application 6) ADJOURNMENT APPENDIX A AGENDA ITEM #5 PUBLIC COMMENT An anonymous member of the public noted that there were no explanatory documents listed for the items to be reviewed at this meeting and that the materials provided were insufficiently extensive to address the issues involved with four branch libraries. This person also questioned the potential impact on these plans of a failure to receive state grants. Mr. Peter Warfield expressed disappointment that explanatory materials were not made available in advance and queried what attachments available were to be discussed. Mr. Warfield suggested that as the needs assessments were dated several months ago they should have been made available sooner. Ms. Ellen Egbert, Bernal Heights Branch, lauded the Commissioners for their service. AGENDA ITEM #1 INGLESIDE PROP. 14 APPLICATION FORM & SELECTED ATTACHMENTS Deputy City Librarian Paul Underwood presented a detailed overview of the Prop. 14 (State Library Bond Act) Application for the new Ingleside Branch noting that copies of the Prop. 14 Applications and selected attachments were available at the rear of the auditorium and would also be available in the Library Commission Office. Mr. Underwood then discussed the 78-year history of the Ingleside Branch in leased facilities, outlined details of the new proposed branch based on an extensive needs assessment and called attention to the cooperative agreement with the Aptos School. Branch Library Improvement Program (BLIP) Manager Marilyn Thompson then presented an architectural overview of the proposed new branch. Public comment on AGENDA ITEM #1 INGLESIDE PROP. 14 APPLICATION FORM & SELECTED ATTACHMENTS An anonymous member of the public inquired as to the strong points of the proposed Prop. 14 Application considering the highly competitive environment for such grants and the relatively small service population for this branch when viewed on a statewide scale of increasing populations. Mr. Peter Warfield inquired concerning specific statistics concerning changes in the branch collection's size, available seating, and usable floor space. Mr. Warfield suggested that the City Librarian discuss the strength of these applications in view of the reported evaluations of previous applications. Commission discussion of AGENDA ITEM #1 INGLESIDE PROP. 14 APPLICATION FORM & SELECTED ATTACHMENTS In response to questions by Commissioner Coulter, the Deputy City Librarian outlined the comparison between the existing and proposed branch and discussed how the needs assessment addressed questions concerning book capacity. The City Librarian informed Vice President Steiman concerning State norms for numbers of books and square feet of service space per population in a branch library but suggested that such broad rules of thumb were not significant in comparison to clearly identified local needs that drive how branches are structured. Ms. Hildreth noted that as this facility would be seen as a new branch it would have a critically important competitive advantage in a very competitive effort to obtain grants from a limited amount still available. In response to another question by Vice President Steiman, Ms. Hildreth noted that the full site could be eventually used for expansion, another competitive advantage for this project. In response to questions by Commissioner Bautista, Ms. Hildreth discussed how the proposed courtyard was to be used. In response to a question by Commissioner Chin it was noted that cooperative agreements with City College would not help with the application and that dense housing was proposed for the other site adjoining the library's site. Responding to a question by Commissioner Coulter regarding why five applications were being submitted; the City Librarian noted that those applications submitted and ranked as eligible for 3rd cycle Prop. 14 grants but not funded would be well positioned to obtain funding should another state library bond be enacted. AGENDA ITEM #2 PORTOLA PROP. 14 APPLICATION FORM & SELECTED ATTACHMENTS The Deputy City Librarian outlined the details of the proposed Prop. 14 (State Library Bond Act) Application for the new Portola Branch. The Deputy City Librarian presented an overview of the 75-year history of the Portola Branch in leased facilities, outlined details of the new proposed 6,300 sq. ft. new branch on a 8,800 sq. ft. site to serve the children, youth, and families of this very diverse community. Mr. Underwood noted the steps taken to respond to community requests for: the library to be a center for the community; to support the needs of students and their families; to provide flexible program space; to increase available computer resources; and to increase non-English languages collections. The Deputy City Librarian also discussed the cooperative agreement with the E.R. Taylor Elementary School and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School. BLIP Manager Marilyn Thompson then presented an architectural overview of the proposed new branch. Public comment on AGENDA ITEM #2 PORTOLA PROP. 14 APPLICATION FORM & SELECTED ATTACHMENTS Ms. Chris Ortiz, Portola representative on the Council for Neighborhood Libraries, lauded the proposed new branch noting its long an d difficult history of struggle to grow and serve the neighborhood families. An anonymous member of the public commented that this was an isolated neighborhood and suggested that the graphic presented could be improved by showing the location of the proposed new facility. This person expressed concern that proximity to the school would result in the branch being inundated by students and suggested that the Library had paid too much to the school district for the property. Mr. Peter Warfield expressed disappointment that these explanatory materials were not made available in advance and expressed his shared concern that the proposed joint use agreements with the schools would negatively impact other branch users. Mr. Warfield also requested a comparison of the old and new branches regarding floor space, collection size, and seating, and asked if what was being provided was what had been requested by the community. Commission discussion of AGENDA ITEM #2 PORTOLA PROP. 14 APPLICATION FORM & SELECTED ATTACHMENTS Commissioner Coulter noted that proximity to schools was a major advantage for this application, noting that both elementary and middle schools private and public were nearby. Ms. Hildreth then informed Commissioner Bautista that the title to the property would close before January 16th. Commissioner Chin wondered that anyone would consider it problematic that there were so many schools nearby or that their students might use the proposed new branch. Commissioner Chin noted that all of the nearby schools had libraries and that the branch would serve everyone not be overrun by students. Vice President Steiman pointed out that virtually all of these issues had been extensively discussed previously as well as in the community. AGENDA ITEM #3 VISITACION VALLEY PROP. 14 APPLICATION FORM & SELECTED ATTACHMENTS The Deputy City Librarian outlined in some detail the proposed Prop. 14 Application for a new Visitacion Valley Branch Library. Mr. Underwood recounted the 70 year history of the branch in very small leased locations and highlighted the great need and demand for increased library services in this one of the city's most diverse and under-served neighborhoods. The Deputy City Librarian detailed the emphasis placed by the community and the library planners in developing a new branch that provides educational opportunities for students and families. Mr. Underwood described an emphasis on English language learning, flexible program space, and greatly expanded access to computers and technology requested by the community. Mr. Underwood discussed proposed expansion in the branch's collections to meet the identified needs of the neighborhood. Ms. Hildreth pointed out that the Super Fair Market site was ample to provide for future expansion. Ms. Thompson then presented an architectural overview of the proposed new branch. Public comment on AGENDA ITEM #3 VISITACION VALLEY PROP. 14 APPLICATION FORM & SELECTED ATTACHMENTS An anonymous member of the public commented that this was a very interesting but much neglected neighborhood and discussed this person's impressions of a community meeting held to discuss the new branch. This person noted that this new branch offered an opportunity to rejuvenate and reach out to this overlooked very diverse and fast -changing community. Mr. Peter Warfield decried that lack of availability of explanatory materials noting that his brief look at the full applications and the small print used in many of the documents did not allow him time to study what was proposed. Mr. Warfield asked if what was proposed was what the community had requested, and noted that the collection was being increased 50 percent. Commission discussion of AGENDA ITEM #3 VISITACION VALLEY PROP. 14 APPLICATION FORM & SELECTED ATTACHMENTS In response to a question by Commissioner Chin, the size and layout of the children's and teen areas and access to the proposed program space was discussed. In response to a question by Commissioner Coulter, the community discussion that led to inclusion of the proposed community history wall was described. There followed a general discussion of issues involving the trade-off necessary given the limited amounts of public service space available between requests for flexible program space and more room for collections. The City Librarian emphasized that these trade-offs were a major topic of discussion, and that a consensus on an appropriate balance between the competing needs for this neighborhood was achieved in the community meetings. AGENDA ITEM #4 ORTEGA PROP. 14 APPLICATION FORM & SELECTED ATTACHMENTS Mr. Paul Underwood, Deputy City Librarian, presented an overview of the Prop. 14 (State Library Bond Act) Application for the new Ortega Branch Library replacing the existing city-owned 1956 Appleton-designed facility with a new larger building placed to be more visible and accessible from the street. The Deputy City Librarian noted that the existing branch was constructed as part of a neighborhood civic center located in the heart of the neighborhood and shared some spaces with a recreation center and was sited between schools. Mr. Underwood highlighted the expanded new branch's emphasis on meeting the needs of the largely Asian and increasing numbers of Russian and other non-English speaking residents as well as many students in the neighborhood. He called attention to cooperative agreements with the nearby middle and elementary schools and detailed an extensive process used to gather community input. BLIP Manager Marilyn Thompson then presented an architectural overview of the new Ortega Branch. City Librarian Susan Hildreth explained that the Library had shared in the 1949 purchase of the property originally and owned a "footprint" for its branch, but that the existing building was not within that footprint and that the details of its relocation on the site would need to be worked out. Public comment on AGENDA ITEM #4 ORTEGA PROP. 14 APPLICATION FORM & SELECTED ATTACHMENTS An anonymous member of the public found it interesting how this project had played out, pointing out that this area had originally been sand dunes, and expressed a desire to have additional time to study the proposal. This person called attention to the point that many users of this branch were older and that their needs should be considered as well. Mr. Peter Warfield expressed frustration that more information was not made available and suggested that the needs assessment should be more extensively reviewed. Mr. Warfield asked if this was what the community had requested and inquired concerning changes in the branch's collections size, available seating, and floor space. Commission discussion of AGENDA ITEM #4 ORTEGA PROP. 14 APPLICATION FORM & SELECTED ATTACHMENTS Commissioner Bautista found the proposed relocation a big improvement and much more accessible. She also approved of the ample spaces proposed for children and teens. She noted that this branch was very heavily used by students and was an important center for the community. Commissioner Bautista also liked the secure garden area as well as noting that the community room could be used by book clubs and for other literary related purposes. Ms. Hildreth called the Commissioners' attention to the important fact that should the Prop 14 Application be unsuccessful, the Library would have to revert to its original plan to renovate the existing building rather that build a new facility. Commissioner Chin praised the dedication and very hard work on this and the other Prop. 14 Applications by Library staff. Commissioner Chin additionally lauded the careful attention given to addressing unique neighborhood issues such as poor test scores in each of these proposals. The City Librarian noted that in this as with each of these proposals the highest and best uses of the new branches resulted from input by the neighborhood where the branches were located, such as a serving as the community's center and providing increased internet access. AGENDA ITEM #6 ADJOURNMENT MOTION: Commissioner Bautista, seconded by Commissioner Chin that the meeting be adjourned. Public comment on AGENDA ITEM #6 ADJOURNMENT None offered ACTION: AYE 4-0 (Bautista, Chin, Coulter, and Steiman) The meeting was adjourned at 5:58pm. Michael Housh, Commission Secretary 1/21/04 Minutes of the regular Commission Meeting of November 13, 2003 Appendix A The Public Comment Summary Statements included in these Minutes are authorized by San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.16. These summary statements are provided by the speaker. Their contents are neither generated by, nor subject to approval or verification of accuracy by, the San Francisco Public Library Commission. The number of members of the public who spoke anonymously at this meeting. 1 Public comment available for viewing in pdf format. Explanatory documents: Copies of listed explanatory documents are available as follows: (1) from the Commission Secretary/Custodian of Records, Main Library, 6th Floor, (2) in the rear of the Koret Auditorium immediately before and during the meeting, and (3)to the extent possible, on the Library's Web site. Additional materials not listed as explanatory documents, if any, that are distributed to the Library Commissioners prior to or during the meeting in connection with any agenda item will be available to the public for inspection and copying in accordance with Government Code Section 54954.1 and Sunshine Ordinance §§ 67.9, 67.28(b) & 67.28(d).


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MONDAY, Oct. 28, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- Only a weak link exists between pesticide exposure and a common birth defect in baby boys, according to a new study.
Researchers examined the association between hundreds of chemicals used in commercial pesticides and a birth defect called hypospadias, in which the urethral opening on the penis is on the underside rather than on the tip.
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In the study, researchers compared data from 690 male infants born with hypospadias and nearly 2,200 male infants who did not have the birth defect. The infants were born in California's Central Valley, which has one of the highest rates of pesticide use in the nation, according to the study. The mothers of the children lived fairly close to where pesticides were used.
The researchers found that 15 chemicals used in pesticides had possible associations with hypospadias, but they said further research is needed, according to the study, which was published online Oct. 28 in the journal Pediatrics.
Study co-author Gary Shaw, a professor of pediatrics at Stanford, said the jury is still out on the possible association between pesticides and hypospadias.
"These results extend what we know, but at the end of the day they need to be replicated before we can really be sure whether there is or is not a real risk associated with these chemicals," Shaw said in the news release.
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Broome County Central Foods and Nutrition Services provides food management and production services within applicable codes and regulations to County operated facilities and programs.
Broome County Central Foods Administrative Offices and Central Production Facility are located at 2001 East Main Street in Endicott, New York. The facility opened in June 1988 and a renovation and expansion project was completed in 1995. State-of-the-art cook chill and conventional food production methods are utilized. In 2009, it is estimated that 1,277,954 meals will be served by Central Foods.
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The Louisville Farm to Table effort will present a full day of exploration into the world beyond farmers' markets, Making Money Growing Food, this Thursday, Oct. 20, at St. Catharine Mother House near Springfield.
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Reno wrote:If nothing else, we'd lose such delightful and legendary inaccuracies as 'this guy are sick'.
Daemon wrote:I want the game to be one epic story tying everything together. I am ok with changing things here and there, let the game go out with a bang. This will be the final Final Fantasy VII. No more spin-off games, movies or OVA.
Daemon wrote:Also, I was scouring the web and came across another Neogaf post. DiipuSurotu pointed out a man standing in a corner that closely resembles Auron. After he (or she) pointed that out, I just realized that the narrator also sounds like Auron It's a nice easter egg considering Nomura is involved with this project.
Daemon wrote:Here's some "insider" info regarding the FF7 Remake. Some say the user Verendus is a very reliable insider but as always, take this with a grain of salt. It is a nice read though.
Source: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread. ... t169176782
Prior to the official unveiling, Final Fantasy VII's original character designer Tetsuya Nomura had no idea he'd be directing the remake.
"It was very perplexing. Then one day, as I was checking the internal company presentation video it said 'Director Tetsuya Nomura' at the end."
Apparently this was news to Nomura who had assumed that Kitase would be reclaiming the director's chair for the remake of his game. "So I called up Mr. Kitase and said, 'It says that I'm the director for some reason.' To which he replied, 'Of course it does.'"
The "'I thought you were going to direct!' 'Well I thought YOU were going to direct!'" episode was something that happened in the initial stages of the project's inception and Nomura has stated that he is presently well aware of and well into his position as director.
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Goessel City Clerk, Anita Goertzen, attended the 21st annual Retreat for Rural Leaders at the Barn-and-Breakfast Inn near Valley Falls. The retreat was attended by 24 civic leaders statewide and was organized by the Kansas Sampler Foundation.
After the retreat, Goertzen has contemplated how to apply those experiences to Goessel.
Talking with a technology guru, at the meeting, she is interested in improving Goessel's computer system at the city office to allow the city to function more efficiently. Goertzen said she is already active online trying to promote the town. However, she wants to add information to the Get Goessel webpage about the original steps to the Bethesda Hospital and the grave, where Jim Jarvis is buried, to attract members of Kansas Explorers Club to town.
She wants to engage younger adults in town, referred to at the retreat as power ups. She thought dance lessons, aerobics, or computer classes might be well attended. She said Goessel has tried to maintain interest generated from Threshing Days in August with a Harvest Festival in October. Unfortunately, the first two years of the Harvest Festival have been sparsely populated because of weather and local sporting obligations.
She also thought about trying to showcase the enthusiastic people in Goessel. The first three people she thought of were Brian Stucky, GHS art teacher; Linda Ewert, the pastor of Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church; and John Fast, the Superintendent of the USD 411 school district.
Two topics emphasized at the retreat were nurturing relationships and turning ideas into action.
Each year, the group takes a field trip to work on the theme. Muscotah, a small town in western Atchinson County, was the field laboratory this year. The group met with townspeople to hear ideas and then toured the town. Then the group met to create action steps to help Muscotah.
Another action was to help create a library in Woodbine, a small town in Dickinson County. Participants brought more than 400 blocks to the retreat, created an online library database, and raised some money to help start the library. Two hours after the retreat, volunteers gathered in Woodbine to help unload books.
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The National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey is the home of the Center for U.S. War Veterans' Oral History Project. It is the Center's mission to collect and preserve the memories of veterans through recorded oral history interviews.
The interviews are recorded on DVD formats and housed at the museum's Sea Girt location, where they are accessible to researchers and scholars. As part of its program of providing historical information to the public, the museum is posting summaries of interviews on this website.
To date, the Center's collection contains over 500 interviews of veterans of all branches of service from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom and other American military campaigns.
The Center for U. S. War Veterans' Oral History Program is an official partner of the Library of Congress Veterans' History Project in Washington, DC. A record of each interview is filed with that organization. Each interviewed veteran receives a copy of his or her recording in DVD format for personal use.
For further information on access to this collection, or to participate in the program, please visit or contact Carol Fowler at the museum in Sea Girt at 732-974-5966.
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Historical novelist Philippa Gregory's British history series will be the basis of a new Starz miniseries titled "The White Queen," which will premiere this August.
"Queen" will follow the events of Gregory's books "The Lady of the Rivers," "The White Queen," and "The Red Queen," which are known as the "Cousins' War" series. "Red" centers on Margaret Beaufort, the mother of the first Tudor king Henry VII, while "White" follows Elizabeth Woodville, who became queen by marrying King Edward IV. "Rivers" is the story of Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Elizabeth's mother. The conflict around which the series is built is the War of the Roses, in which the houses of York and Lancaster struggled for the English throne.
The series will run for 10 episodes and is produced in tandem with the BBC.
"All are heroines in the real sense of the word," Gregory said of her characters in a statement. "They were courageous and determined and went through extraordinary danger, but they never abandoned their unwavering desire to return their family to power.... I think people are going to be surprised to see these remarkably powerful women when traditional history tells you female were simply relegated to be victims or wives or mothers."
The series stars "Ripper Street" actress Amanda Hale as Margaret Beaufort; "Albert Nobbs" actress Janet McTeer as Jacquetta of Luxembourg; actress Rebecca Ferguson as Elizabeth Woodville; Max Irons of "Red Riding Hood" as Edward IV; and "The Tudors" actor James Frain as Lord Warwick, who serves as mentor to Edward IV.
"Queen" will premiere Aug. 10.
Gregory is best-known for her novel "The Other Boleyn Girl," which followed Anne's sister Mary Boleyn and her relationship with her more famous sibling and was released in 2001. It was released as a movie in 2008 starring Natalie Portman as Anne, Scarlett Johansson as Mary, and Eric Bana as King Henry VIII.


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Relativistic Quantum Information
crucial question in any approach to quantum information processing
is: first, how are classical bits
physically in the quantum system, second, how are they then manipulated and,
third, how are they finally read out?
I'll describe a special information-theoretic property of
quantum field theories with holographic duals: the mutual informations among
arbitrary disjoint spatial regions A,B,C obey the inequality I(A:BC) >=
I(A:B)+I(A:C), provided entanglement entropies are given by the Ryu-Takayanagi
formula. Inequalities of this type are known as monogamy relations and are
characteristic of measures of quantum entanglement. This suggests that
correlations in holographic theories arise primarily from entanglement rather
The fundamental properties of quantum
information and its applications to computing and cryptography have been
greatly illuminated by considering information-theoretic tasks that are
provably possible or impossible within non-relativistic quantum mechanics. In this talk I describe a general framework
for defining tasks within (special) relativistic quantum theory and illustrate
it with examples from relativistic quantum cryptography.
We present a general, analytic recipe to compute the entanglement that is generated between arbitrary, discrete modes of bosonic quantum fields by Bogoliubov transformations. Our setup allows the complete characterization of the quantum correlations in all Gaussian field states. Additionally, it holds for all Bogoliubov transformations. These are commonly applied in quantum optics for the description of squeezing operations, relate the modedecompositions of observers in different regions of curved spacetimes, and describe observers moving along non-stationary trajectories.
Recent analysis of closed timelike curves from an information-theoretic perspective has led to contradictory conclusions about their information-processing power. One thing is generally agreed upon, however, which is that if such curves exist, the quantum-like evolution they imply would be nonlinear, but the physical interpretation of such theories is still unclear. It is known that any operationally verifiable instance of a nonlinear, deterministic evolution on some set of pure states makes the density matrix inadequate for representing mixtures of those pure states.
Bases of orthonormal localized states are constructed in Rindler coordinates and applied to an Unruh detector with good time resolution and an accelerated rod-like array detector.
Using the Deutsch approach, we show that the no-cloning theorem can be circumvented in the presence of closed timelike curves, allowing the perfect cloning of a quantum state chosen randomly from a finite alphabet of states. Further, we show that a universal cloner can be constructed that when acting on a completely arbitrary qubit state, exceeds the no-cloning bound on fidelity.
An unsolved problem in relativistic quantum information
research is how to model efficient, directional quantum communication between
localised parties in a fully quantum field theoretical framework. We propose a
tractable approach to this problem based on calculating expectation values of
localized field observables in the Heisenberg Picture. We illustrate our
approach by analysing, and obtaining approximate analytical solutions to, the
problem of communicating quantum states between an inertial sender, Alice and
In the Unruh effect, long-distance correlations in a pure
quantum state cause accelerated observers to experience the state as a thermal
bath. We discuss a similar phenomenon for quantum states that contain
correlations between the distant future and the distant past. Examples include
Minkowski half-space with a static mirror and an eternal black hole with an
unusual global structure behind the horizon. The question of utilising the
future-past correlations in quantum information tasks is raised.
After an introduction to generalized uncertainty
principle(s), we study uncertainty relations as formulated in a crystal-like
universe, whose lattice spacing is of order of
Planck length. For Planckian energies, the uncertainty relation for
position and momenta has a lower bound equal to zero. Connections of this
result with 't Hooft's deterministic quantization proposal, and with double
special relativity are briefly presented. We then apply our formulae to


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Confirmation Certificate - Psalm 27:1
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Wow, I'm really liking the Agent class for the Empire. A friend of mine picked up the game recently so I joined him on the Hanharr server. I'm just not sure whether to spec Sniper or Operative. Time will tell I suppose.


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In a move that is sure to do wonders for my productivity here at Semantic Drift, I have decided to join the team over at Legal Geekery. You'll never see a more wretched hive of scum and villainy, if by "scum and villainy" you mean "law students and writing" and by "wretched hive" you mean "awesome blog". I'll be inflicting my more law-related writing on the unsuspecting public over there. That should free up more of my headspace here to talk about what I ate for breakfast and which movie I saw over the weekend. Lucky you!
Anyway, my first post over there is a listing of the Most Evil Lawyers from film and television. When I found out that maybe people don't like lawyers and there were unflattering portrayals of them in pop culture, I was shocked, shocked I say!
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Oral and Rectal Medicine
Hi, is the oral form of medicine equivalent to the rectal form of medicine (i.e 500mg of oral table vs 500 mg of rectal tablet)? I notice that there is a medication called Primperan for nausea and vomiting and the oral form is 10 mg per tablet while the rectal form is 20 mg per tablet. This makes me feel that rectal form is not equal to oral form. Please explain. Thanks a lot in advance.
The route of administration will often make a difference as to how a medication may be used for therapy. Most medications are ingested orally, but other routes, such as rectal administration, are also used to administer a drug, especially if a patient has trouble swallowing.
Even though the medication may be the same one, the route that is being used to administer it makes a difference as to how much the body will be able to use from it. The absorption and bioavailability (how much is actually used by the body) of a medication plays a large role when talking about equivalence of dosage forms.
In the example described, metoclopramide (Primperan) has an oral bioavailability of 80%, so 80% of the medication is actually absorbed when ingested. The bioavailability of metoclopramide rectal suppositories is 53%, so a lot less is actually absorbed by this route. The absorption of metoclopramide is also delayed with rectal administration. Rectal administration of a 10mg suppository will only achieve a peak blood level of 17-37 ng/ml in 2 hours. A 20mg rectal suppository will achieve a peak blood level of 43-82 ng/ml. Higher doses are needed for metoclopramide suppositories in order to reach therapeutic levels.
This is true for most medications. Rectal absorption is more erratic than absorption following oral administration. The absorption rate is generally slower. Therefore, higher rectal doses, or more frequent administration, may be required to achieve and/or maintain blood concentrations of a medication comparable to those obtained following oral administration.
Submitted by Ashley Tepe, James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy, NetWellness.org PharmD candidate
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A Guide to Proofreading
Posted by The ginger Team | October 25th 2011
Proofreading is an essential part of the writing process, no matter what type of document you are writing. Mistakes can include anything from misunderstanding English grammar, to spelling errors, usage of wrong words, and simply typos – but either way such mistakes reflect on the writer, and can be easily avoided by proofreading.
Once you are writing a text, you become very familiar with it. So familiar that your eye might easily skip over m1stak3s that you would otherwise recognize immediately. The most important tip for successful proofreading is to make yourself, or someone else, be able to read the text from a fresh point of view.
Here are some proofreading tips that will help you do so:
- Get some distance from the text.
If you have the time, let it go for a couple of days and then return to it fresh. If you're on a tight schedule, try to walk around for a few minutes, have coffee, look at something else. Then begin the proofreading process with new energy and a clear mind.
- Print your texts.
you'd be surprised at how reading that same text you've been working on on paper, instead of on the screen, will show you obvious mistakes you have missed.
- Read aloud.
Reading your text aloud will help you detect sentences that sound clunky, have erroneous English grammar or spelling, or are out of place.
- Slow down.
Reading your texts slowly can help the mistakes pop right out, and is a key step of proofreading. Read your sentences word by word and try to see if every word is spelled correctly.
- Try reading your text backwards.
If you're having a hard time with the slowness, try reading your text backwards, sentence after sentence. This will make you see the text not as a whole, but as a new piece built from small elements. Make sure each element is correct.
- Use an automatic English grammar/spelling checker.
It's important to use one that is context based so that it will detect mistakes on a sentence level, and not only word by word.
- Let a friend go over it.
Sometimes, even after all these steps, there might still be some mistakes you will not be able to detect. Find a friend that has good English grammar and spelling skills, and have them go over your text. A friend might also be able to provide thoughts about the overall content and structure.
- Improve your language skills.
In the long run, it is best to practice such topics as English grammar and spelling. Work on your vocabulary. Take a look at your texts and see if you have recurring errors. Focus on those topics to learn and improve your English grammar, which will result in fewer mistakes to begin with.


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Floral Fashion * coloring book
Don't forget my coloring ebooks FLORAL FASHION & FLORAL FANTASY, wonderful ideas for your party dresses. You can get 72 coloring pages (36 dresses + 36 floral themes) for only $2.99. You don't believe it? Try HERE!
Christmas cookies * coloring page & recipe
- 1/2 cup Hugs
- 4 teaspoons Kisses
- 4 cups Love
- 1 cup Special Holiday Cheer
- 3 teaspoons Christmas Spirits
- 2 cups Goodwill Toward Man
- 1 Sprig of Mistletoe
- 1 medium-size bag of Christmas Snowflakes (the regular kind won't do!)
- Hugs, kisses, smiles and love until consistent.
- Blend in holiday cheer, peace on earth, Christmas spirits and good will toward men.
- Use the mixture to fill a large, warm heart, where it can be stored for a lifetime, (it never goes bad!).
- Serve as desired under mistletoe, sprinkled liberally with special Christmas Snowflakes.
- It is especially good when accompanied by Christmas family get-togethers.
- Serve to one and all - and have a very, Merry Christmas!
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Planting Promise, Sierra Leone 57 images Created 16 Feb 2011
Planting Promise is an organization dedicated to the development of education in Sierra Leone. Its aim is to bring opportunities to initiate self-run, self-supporting projects that offer real solutions to the difficulties facing the world's poorest country. They believe real and lasting development comes from below, from local projects that address specific needs, rather than large international models. To this end, they currently run five projects that aim to bring wealth into the country through business. The profits from these businesses are then used to support free education for children and adults...Through the combination of business with social progress, the charity hopes that they are providing real, lasting and profound changes for the better, by promoting sustainable and beneficial industry in the country, and putting it to the service to the needs of the people. As well as providing the income to fund the school, the farms will also be an example of successful commercial enterprise to teach the children in the school the viability of profit-making schemes that go beyond subsistence models, the only things the children of these desperately poor areas are accustomed to. By learning particular details of the challenges that they will face, the children will emerge from this school equipped to contribute in a real way to their society.


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While checking out my bedroom window for clear skies last night, I noticed the first fireflies of the season, blinking and darting in the horse pasture behind the house. And it reminded me of a Robert Frost poem I couldn't quite recall. So this morning I looked it up on the internet. Gotta love Google.
Fireflies in the Garden
Here come real stars to fill the upper skies,
And here on earth come emulating flies,
That though they never equal stars in size,
(And they were never really stars at heart)
Achieve at times a very star-like start.
Only, of course, they can't sustain the part.
It reminded me that last year we had a bumper crop of fireflies. There were literally tens of thousands of them flashing, winking, diving and darting for hours each night in the field out back. Not often am I able to convince Irene that there is something worth her time and effort outdoors in the dark. She hates to get cold, and her eyesight is jacked from chemotherapy. Astronomy is not even on her list, unless its a fantastic display of aurora or an eclipse. But even she was impressed with the little buggers by the thousands as far as the eye could see.
I couldn't help but think how much they reminded me of thousands of little variable stars. Winged cataclysmic variables going into outburst at irregular intervals, but their sum in real time was like a visual music of the spheres.
And like many things in nature, it couldn't be captured in a photograph or turned into bytes. No, you have to just take in the whole with your own eyes and enjoy it for what it is. No need to record it as data. Just eat it up in the now and soak in the miracle. And when it is all over you won't be able to quantify it, or prove anything. But you know what you saw, and it is all yours, to share as you will...or not.


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Friday, January 6, 2012
Welcome to 2012
Welcome to 2012, the year the Mayans thought it was all going to end. I'm not actually a big believer myself and I'm pretty certain that I'll be writing a similar new year post next year.
2012 is set to be a momentous year for the autism community. The revised DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) will be finalized (though it's not due out until May 2013) and will bring with it some quite controversial changes which will no doubt throw some members of the autism community into "damage control mode".
If the writers have their way, Aspergers will become an obselete term and the name of this blog will no longer have any meaning. You'll notice that I'm not rushing to change it.
This year, we'll be finishing off a few articles which have a part one but no part two. The "best of the best" series will hopefully be back and we'll have some more reviews including one for the best asperger relationship book I've ever read.
We'll also be reviewing some films and hopefully looking at some android apps which will enable you to affordably get the same sort of autism assistance experience that you get on an iPad at a fraction of the cost.
All in all, it's going to be another great year and I hope you'll come along for the ride.
5 comments:
- Me said...
I find the DSMV proposal to remove Aspergers as a separate diagnosis an interesting quandry.
- January 6, 2012 at 10:32 AM
- John Elder Robison said...
Gavin, I think it's very unlikely that the term Asperger's will become obsolete for some time to come, if ever.
- January 6, 2012 at 1:43 PM
- Me said...
Perhaps you would be interested in my recent ramblings on the subject?
- January 6, 2012 at 2:46 PM
- The Blue Orchid said...
Along for the ride. Thanks for keeping us updated and for your insights.
- January 7, 2012 at 1:16 AM
- RickR said...
Hi its amazing people are bringing awareness to aspergers. I recently came across a new independent film called White Frog. It's not out yet but the trailer is youtube. Just type in "White Frog Movie Trailer 2" on youtube. Or click this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbaIf83GcOw
- February 25, 2012 at 10:37 AM
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Pink Dress Form Gift Tags
Welcome to my Freebie Friday post, this week I have made these digital dress form gift tags for you to download. There are 4 colours in different sizes, Pink, Purple, Blue and Green, hope you like them!
Just punch a small hole in the top and thread pretty ribbon through and attach to your gift.


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A string of Sunni-populated villages along Lebanon's northern border with Syria has turned into an active war front, with Syrian rebel fighters using the area as a de facto safe haven. Their presence draws nightly bombardments from the Syrian Army, posing a security dilemma for the Lebanese government.
At least four civilians have been killed and several more wounded since the nightly Syrian artillery bombardments began more than a week ago, targeting an area of some 32 square miles between this small village and the Wadi Khaled district 12 miles further east. Each night, the targeted Sunni villages empty as residents flee for safer areas away from the border.
"We are poor. We have no money. We are neglected by the government. And now the Syrian shelling has turned us into refugees in our own villages," says Ahmad, a gaunt-faced, lanky farmer in his early 40s who lives in Nourat al-Tahta.
The border with Syria lies less than a mile north of Ahmad's house. Here it follows the Kabir River, a shallow waterway that meanders through a steep wooded valley which provides some cover for Syrian civilians fleeing the violence in their homeland and for members of the rebel Free Syrian Army to slip in and out of the country at night.
Many of the villages in this area house large numbers of Syrian refugees, most of them with harrowing stories about atrocities they have witnessed and the dangers they braved to escape. Two young Syrian men from the mainly Sunni-populated town of Tel Kalakh, two miles north of the border, lay on mattresses on the floor of Ahmad's house, resting from the sweltering midday heat. Pulling up his vest to expose the scar, one of them said he was shot in the chest by a Syrian sniper while riding a horse across the Kabir River into Lebanon a few months ago. He clung to the horse's mane, bleeding heavily and made it to safety. The other said he was struck by bullets three times in his legs. He was in a party of seven that dashed across the border. Two members of the group were killed.
Now, however, casualties are closer to home for the residents of Nourat al-Tahta and neighboring villages.
Last week, a man died when he accidentally drove into a tree in his panic to flee shellfire in the village. The same night, two Syrians were cut down by shrapnel in the street. Mohammed, another Syrian from Tel Kalakh staying in Nourat al-Tahta, said he was hit by shrapnel while helping evacuate children from the village.
A foot-deep bomb crater beside a house with shell-pocked cinder block walls on the eastern entrance of Nourat al-Fawqa provides evidence that the Syrian Army is using large caliber artillery rounds to strike north Lebanon. Vicious heavy steel shrapnel shards lay scattered on the ground.
Lebanon struggles to respond
The Lebanese government, which is dominated by allies of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has been hesitant to address the deteriorating security situation along the border, not only here but along other parts of the frontier that have witnessed brief Syrian troop incursions and isolated shelling.
On July 16, Adnan Mansour, the Lebanese foreign minister, played down the impact of cross-border breaches by Syrian military forces, saying "the incursions have involuntarily led to the fall of victims, but we cannot consider them as violations."
Syria has blamed the violence on the presence of FSA militants in north Lebanon using the area as a springboard for cross-border attacks against regime forces.
"When border guards are targeted or Syrian territories are targeted by fire from the Lebanese side, then the solution should come through coordination between the two countries," said Ali Abdel-Karim Ali, the Syrian ambassador to Lebanon, in early July.
This pocket of north Lebanon, although predominantly Sunni, also includes Christian and Alawite-populated villages. Many of their residents sympathize with the Syrian regime, or at least hold less favorable views of the armed Syrian opposition than local Sunnis.
"All the shelling here is because people fire from Lebanon at the Syrians and then the Syrians shell back," says Edmond Elias, the mayor of Menjez, three miles east of Nourat al-Tahta, blaming the presence of "extremists" in neighboring Sunni villages.
The Lebanese army is presently redeploying troops from elsewhere in the country to the northern border in an effort to contain the security problems. The Lebanese army command said in a statement last week that the mission included clamping down on the cross-border infiltrations and arms smuggling operations and that troops would immediately respond to sources of fire "whichever side they may come from."
Still, the operational choices facing the Lebanese army are bleak. Few Lebanese expect the army to stage counter-bombardments of Syrian artillery batteries that shell Lebanese territory. On the other hand, pursuing and arresting FSA militants sheltering on Lebanese soil will further worsen already tense relations with Lebanese Sunnis in the north who broadly back the uprising against the Assad regime and willingly cooperate with the armed Syrian opposition.
Waging war by night
Local Sunni residents along the border are coy about the presence of FSA militants in their villages. But as the setting sun turns the sky to the west of Nourat al-Tahta a deep crimson gold and residents climb into their cars to escape the coming night's artillery shelling, the FSA men make their appearance. At Ahmad's home, AK-47 rifles are brought out of hiding and walkie-talkies are switched on, tuned in to the frequencies used by the FSA or those of the regular Syrian army across the border.
"Sometimes, we can have conversations with the officers in the Syrian army," says Khaled, a member of the FSA's Tel Kalakh Martyrs' Brigade. "The other day, the officer swore at us and said he would destroy Nourat al-Tahta. We said 'go ahead and try.' They really hammered us that night," he adds with a chuckle.
By 8 p.m., the village is almost completely deserted. The inky night sky is scattered with a wash of silver stars and the only sounds are cicadas in the trees and the hum of a distant generator. The first sound of shellfire comes minutes later, a distant barely audible thump from somewhere inside Syria.
Ahmad, the FSA men and Syrian refugees sit outside the front door chain smoking and sipping endless glasses of hot sweet tea and thick Turkish coffee. They amuse themselves by playing a clip on a cell phone showing one of their colleagues in the Tel Kalakh's Martyrs' Brigade pretending to be a street beggar, his hand outstretched not for money but for bullets. His obliging comrades wander past dropping a few rounds into his hand and are rewarded with extravagant gratitude from the "beggar." Despite the deliberate humor, the video clip illustrates the FSA's pressing need to maintain a steady source of weapons and ammunition to pursue their struggle.
Khaled shows a picture of himself in uniform, holding a light machine gun and standing in a snow-covered courtyard of the Crusader-era Crac des Chevalliers, one of the best preserved medieval castles in the world, lying in Syria five miles north of the border with Lebanon. Eight hundred years after it was built, the castle has reverted from being a popular tourist destination to its original role as a military stronghold, today under the control of armed rebels and subject to repeated artillery shelling and air strikes by regime forces, according to the FSA.
A car pulls up alongside Ahmad's house and the driver informs them that the Christians in the neighboring village of Dababiyah also have abandoned their homes this evening. The news is received with a thoughtful silence.
"That's the first time the Christians have left their homes," says one man. "Something's up."
Foremost in everyone's mind is the village's proximity to the border just a few fields away. Only a handful of FSA men hiding out in the brush are there to prevent Syrian troops from staging a cross-border incursion to hunt down their rebel enemies.
An hour later, the FSA walkie-talkie crackles and a recording of a sheikh reciting a prayer is broadcast.
"Prayers before fighting," says one man.
Most FSA operations occur at night when the militants can use the cover of darkness to maneuver and launch attacks. At 9.45 p.m., Khaled, who is listening intently to his radio, announces "It's started. They [the Syrian army] are hitting Tallet Hosn." Tallet Hosn is the Arabic name for Crac des Chevalliers.
Sunrise brings a respite
At 10 p.m., the shelling reaches Lebanon – a deep resonant thump of an exploding shell in the Kabir valley just north of the village. Ahmad and his companions move inside and sit on thin mattresses away from doors and windows with their backs to the walls. More shells fall, drawing closer, the blasts strong enough to reverberate through the walls and loosen flakes of paint from the ceiling. Some shells fall three or four at a time in quick succession.
The shelling subsides for an hour then resumes, repeating a pattern that lasts most of the night. During quieter moments, the men move back outside into the cooler air. A convoy of Lebanese soldiers slowly patrols the main road in a humvee and truck, hazard lights flashing.
FSA men in plainclothes and clutching the ubiquitous walkie-talkie occasionally emerge out of the blackness to smoke a cigarette and impart the latest news. One fighter paces up and down in frustration, constantly hitting the redial button on his mobile phone.
"Tel Kalakh has been heavily hit today. They used helicopter gunships against the area where his family lives and now no one is answering the phone," explains Mohammed.
The fighter later discovers that his brother is alive but trapped under the rubble of his home which was destroyed over his head.
The clashes and shelling along the Lebanon-Syrian border have disrupted the lives of Ahmad and other villagers, especially farmers and shepherds who cannot risk moving too close to the river where some of their fields lie and sheep like to graze. But Ahmad is unrepentant in his support for the uprising against the Assad regime.
"We cannot be with a regime that massacres its own people, whether, Sunnis, Christians, or Druze. It's not a sectarian thing for me. That's why I support the Free Army [FSA]," he says.
The last shells explode softly in the distance shortly before the dawn sun begins to peep over the hills to the east. Ahmad and his companions stand up wearily.
"The sun is up. Now it's safe to go to sleep," he says.


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Hello, IP&TV World Forum! We're in MR1, Gallery Level
It's springtime in London (or near enough), which must mean it's time again for the IP&TV World Forum. Here's a handful of reasons why you should come by and see us this week!
1. Strong coffee that is free and plentiful. Enough said.
2. To check out a (deployed) way of wiring homes that aren't wired. Last year, AT&T launched its "Free Your TV" offering in its U.S. footprint – an instantly popular product, because it lets consumers place their HDTV screens wherever they want – regardless of whether there's a coaxial outlet nearby. If getting to signal to usual or unusual places in your house is on your wish list, come by. We'll fill you in on how the AT&T deployment is going (hint: really, really well). Check out the AT&T ad here:
And while you're in the stand, do check out our Videoscape demonstrations – Lots of cool new developments to see!. And if that's not enough, ask us about progress to date with recent Videoscape newsmakers TELUS, Rogers, and Numericable.
3. Our own Doctor Ken (Morse) is keynoting on The Service Provider Media Cloud on Wednesday, and, while we're slightly biased – he's usually right. When: Wednesday, March 21, 10 AM London time. We can't give away the full storyline here, but if you've been thinking about what it takes, infrastructure-wise, to get to next-generation media services, you'll want to sit in. Read this transcript of a recent interview with Ken on IP Video here.
4. Likewise for clouds and connected devices, on Thursday at 12:40 PM London time, with our own Tim Sheppard. Tim is our head of video strategy/EMEA, and will be participating on a panel to go deeper into the cloud scene: Why it's happening, what makes it complex, and where it's going. His specific area of contribution: "Is the Cloud a Network Architectural Imperative in the Multiscreen World?"
Last but not least: Just learned that Videoscape is short-listed for the "Best Multiscreen TV Solution" award at this year's Forum. And in partnership we've been nominated with AT&T for the aforementioned wireless receiver, in the "Best TV Consumer Device" division. We'll know more on the eve of March 21, at the ceremony. Fingers crossed. London Film Museum – here we come: http://iptvawards.com/awards-categories/
Bonus Topic: On March 15, we announced our intention to acquire NDS. A number of Cisco and NDS executives will be at IPTV World Forum who can explain why we think is a great combination.
That's it for now. We really do hope to see you at the stand. Until then, and for breaking news and updates, follow us on Twitter at @CiscoSPVideo.
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