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NaftaPOS software for petrol stations
POS system software NaftaPOS is complex software for petrol stations intended for:
- provision of control over technological processes and forecourt equipment (fuel dispensers, ATG systems, price boards, car washes, others)
- automated measurement and commercial account at petroleum products
- provision of sales of retails products using various payment forms
- automated reporting over petrol station operation history during a selected period of time
- provision and account of personnel operation of petrol station
- provision of discount-bonus loyalty card system for customers
- automated identification of vehicles
- remote monitoring over petrol station operation (optional)
- remote reporting over operation of a petrol station network (optional)
Main purposes of NaftaPOS software are:
- make petrol station work efficiently and bring maximum profit to its owner
- reduce the cost of management over the petrol station
- make activity of cashiers and fuel attendants transparent in order to avoid stealing and frauds by personnel of petrol station
- make reporting over petrol station operation easy and convenient
- provide control over fuel dispensers and ATG systems of various brands and models
- provide multiple payment methods and attract more customers with discount-bonus loyalty programs (optional)
- make the owner of petrol station concretely master all operations and transactions by remote monitoring of petrol station activity and sales (optional)
Area of application – petrol stations for dispensing of petroleum products, diesel fuel, liquified petroleum gas (LPG), compressed natural gas (CNG), multiproduct fuel petrol stations, petroleum storage depots.
NaftaPOS software can simultaneously control up to 32 fuel dispenser sides (fueling places). Connection of fuel dispensers and ATG systems is made through a PTS controller over fuel dispensers and ATG systems, which supports more than 90 types of fuel dispensers brands of various manufacturers, between which you can find: Wayne Dresser Europe, Wayne Dresser Brasil, Gilbarco Veeder Root, Tokheim, Nuovo Pignone, Wayne Pignone, Tatsuno Japan, Tatsuno Europe, Tatsuno Rus, Tokico, Bennett, Petrotec, Salzkotten, FAS, Adast, MM Petro ZAP, Emgaz Dragon, Galileo, Kraus, Welma, PEC (Gallagher), Develco, Logitron, Kalvacha, Safe, Wayne Meksan, Mekser, Mepsan, 2A, Petposan, Petrolmeccanica, Batchen, Email, EuroPump, Baransay, Sanki, Korea EnE, LG EnE, SOMO Petro, HongYang, Blue Sky, GreenField, Falcon, Dong Hwa Prime, EPCO, Slavutich, Shelf, UniCon, UniGaz and others and also supports more than 20 types of automatic tank gauge (ATG) systems of various manufactures (Gilbarco Veeder Root, OPW, Hectronic, Struna, PetroVend, Start Italiana, Fafnir, Assytech, VEGA, Windbell and others).
Trial version of NaftaPOS is available for download upon request
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- Visualization and supervision of petrol station activity real-time (locally and remotely) - NaftaPOS software provides a easy possibility to monitor all the forecourt equipment operation online and inform about all malfunctions and events.
- Convenient operation without any professional training because of intuitive, explicit and clear user interface and operation procedures
- Flexible adjustment of petrol station operation - NaftaPOS system supports several ways of operation, which are flexible to set and adjusted to country local traditional specific ways of operation and rules
- Easy customization of user interface with selection of a graphical skin, position and size of windows and elements, their details
- Flexibility in creation and configuration of templates for printed receipts provides a possibility to make printed receipts of any kinds (text, images, sizes of receipts no matter which printer is used for printing them)
- Easy-to-read reporting and graphic statistic makes petrol station work efficient and brings maximum profit to its owner and reduce the cost of petrol station management
- Built-in shell for replacement of classic Explorer.exe Shell for Windows OS to protect PC from unauthorized access by service personnel
- Remote data gathering from a petrol station provides a possibility for petrol station owner to supervise petrol station activity everywhere and every moment and make the owner of petrol station a fully-fledged master of all operations and transactions through remote monitoring of petrol station activity and sales
- Support of a bonus discount loyalty and payment card system for attracting new customers and keeping existing customers
- Supports over 70 communication protocols of fuel dispensers and ATG systems. Application of PTS controller over fuel dispensers and ATG systems gives a possibility to easily connect to any of the supported fuel dispensers. Rich set of interface converters for connection to fuel dispensers provides compatibility with various kinds of input interfaces.
- Scalability - NaftaPOS system is developed with taking into account all the modern requirements to systems for automation of petrol stations. It is as relevant to small petrol stations, as it is to big petrol complexes with organization of several working places of cashiers, administrator (Back-Office) of a petrol station, central Head-Office for management and planning and provision of loyalty card system for customers.
- Possibility to provide control over same fuel dispensers from several NaftaPOS systems - Several NaftaPOS systems can be installed on the same petrol station and share common equipment and database.
- Easy localization to any international language
- Trial version of the system is avaiable for customers willing to test the system
- Easy updating - NaftaPOS is easy to be updated, when updates are installed, all of system database, software and hardware adjustments are kept. All new updates are available for download to all existing customers. Easy way to back up and restore NaftaPOS controller configuration between updates.
- Support by developers - 24 hour support to all customers of NaftaPOS software on any standing issues.
|Quantity of supported products
|Up to 100 000 products
|Quantity of payment forms
|Up to 7 payment form types
|Quantity of supported dispensing places
|Up to 32 dispensing places
|Database type used
|Supported Windows Operating System versions
|OS Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Embedded POSReady 2009, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server
NaftaPOS system provides a convenient user interface, which can be adjusted to fit your needs and preferences. Windows of pumps, products sales, tanks can be dragged to any place on the main panel and fixed, their scale can be changed and colors can be adjusted.
General view of NaftaPOS software can be modified
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|Built-in TT Shell can configured to suit user taste
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In addition NaftaPOS software supports skins, which completely change the user interface and are made to made the system suit to customers tastes:
|Any of more than 40 skins can be set in NaftaPOS software
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Well-thought interface of windows for operation with pumps, tanks, sales of products brings convenience during system exploitation on petrol station:
|Windows in NaftaPOS software can change their position,
properties and be placed anywhere in NaftaPOS desktop
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Configuration of NaftaPOS software allows precise adjustment of petrol station equipment to system, selection of the way of operation, adjustment of GUI:
|Easy and understandable configuration of NaftaPOS system
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NaftaPOS system makes taking care of petrol station operation easy and convenient:
|Reporting in NaftaPOS software
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Taking into account that in different countries there are different particularities of petrol stations operation like:
- the way the customers are serviced (order amd payment is given at pump or to cashier in petrol station office)
- the way how the management of petrol station is done (operation of cashiers in working shifts or without)
- the way how sales and remains of fuel are calculated (using automatic tanks gauge system, pump total counters, inventory reconcilation)
NaftaPOS software is designed to make it possible to flexibly configure and adjust a required way of operation and allow customers to make it work as their local rules demand.
One of the commonly used methods of NaftaPOS operation is when control over fuel dispensers is made by fuel attendants, who service customers. Fuel attendants operate dispensers and receive payment from customers. Fuel attendants control the fuel dispensers as if those worked in a standalone mode (administering starts automatically when the dispensing nozzle is lifted and trigger is pressed). In this mode it is possible to make fuel order preset (in volume or in money amount) from the dispenser preset keyboard. At this moment NaftaPOS software monitors all the transactions being performed and writes all the information to its database. Also cashier at any time can see activity of every fuel dispenser and in case of necessity can stop any of them and receive reports on operation remotely from NaftaPOS software. Receipts can be optionally printed after each dispensing.
Also in this mode third-party applications are able to use NaftaPOS software database as a storage of all transactions and sales performed (locally or remotely) – then this third party software can find total data on all sales and transactions from NaftaPOS database. NaftaPOS can be set to work without any working shifts and automatically start at launching PC so that it was possible to start operation with dispensers:
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Another popular way of NaftaPOS operation is when control over fuel dispensers is made by the cashier, who logs in NaftaPOS under a working shift (using his personal login and password) and is responsible for all sales performed at petrol station. Money are to be directly paid to the cashier, each customer after the sales performed receives a receipt:
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Operation with automatic vehicles identification system
NaftaPOS software is able to operate with automatic vehicles identification systems and use NaftaCards system for management over accounts of users.
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NaftaPOS system has a web-portal to provide:
- formation of reports on operation of petrol stations in various views for analytics and statistics of petrol stations activity to provide decisions for optimization of petrol stations operation;
- online monitoring of each petrol station activity (fuel dispensers operation, remains and parameters of fuel in tanks, current working shift operations) to provide control over personnel at petrol station and security;
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Thus using a standard web-browser it is possible to receive reports on operation of NaftaPOS systems at petrol stations and also to monitor their activity online:
|Web reporting of NaftaPOS operation and online monitoring through a web-browser
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NaftaCards fuel cards system
NaftaCards fuel cards system for petrol stations – hardware and software complex, appointed for provision and account of fuel sales at petrol station networks using fuel cards with fuel volume, money and discount wallets or their mixtures.
The system allows to replace usage of cash and coupons to more reliable and convenient settlements using fuel and money cards. Card of the NaftaCards system can be used for filling with petrol at petrol station and reception of a discount.
The system allows to issue fuel and discount cards for customers and also to lead management over cards and account of all sales using these cards with management over accounts of customers and possibility to set flexible system of discounts.
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|NaftaCards system operation
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1. Can NaftaPOS software be used for monitoring the fuel dispensers only?
NaftaPOS software can be adjusted to work in a mode, which allows monitoring of all sales and events on petrol station and store them into database with subsecuent formation of reports. This mode of operation in NaftaPOS is called 'Manual'.
Manual (monitoring) mode of control over fuel dispensers
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Also NaftaPOS system has a web-based HEAD-Office system called WebReports to provide:
- formation of consolidated reports on operation of all petrol stations in various views for analytics and statistics of petrol stations activity to provide decisions for optimization of petrol stations operation;
- online monitoring of each petrol station activity (fuel dispensers operation, remains and parameters of fuel in tanks, current working shift operations) to provide control over personnel at petrol station and security;
- centralized management over the whole petrol stations network with capability to manage over products from the central office (update products list, products prices, products quantity, etc)
Operation of WebReports system for collection of data from NaftaPOS system
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Thus using a standard web-browser it is possible to receive reports on operation of NaftaPOS systems at petrol stations and also to monitor their activity online:
|Web reporting of NaftaPOS operation and online monitoring through a web-browser
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2. Does NaftaPOS software integrate own fuel cards system?
Yes, NaftaPOS software works with our NaftaCards payment and discount loyalty card system.
NaftaCards system can have several applications at petrol station and for each application the structure of hardware can differ:
- 1. Application of cards by clients of the petrol station (private customer or corporate users).
In this case cardholders are clients of the petrol station. Card reader can be installed near NaftaPOS system inside the operator premise of petrol station or near the fuel dispensers.
In this case it is necessary to select fuel for dispensing (in NaftaPOS system or having previously taken up required nozzle on fuel dispenser) and after that bring a card to the reader. Dispensing can be authorized up to the maximal limit of the card.
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- 2. Application of cards by fuel attendants of petrol station and building reports on activity of each fuel attendant.
In this case fuel card is used for identification of a fuel attendant, who is servicing current dispensing by fuel dispenser. The dispensing can only start in case if fuel attendant brings his fuel card close to the card reader, which is installed on the fuel dispenser. The card reader reads the fuel attendant's card and NaftaPOS system verifies it on the server. The dispenser will be authorize for dispensing only in case if the card of fuel attendant is valid and allowed in the system, so without a valid fuel attendant card it is not possible to start dispensing (no one can steal petrol by start dispensing himself). Fuel attendant receives payment in the form of cash from clients of petrol station. NaftaPOS system in the end of the working day (working shift) builds a report on activity of every fuel attendant and total cash money amount, which fuel attendant received from customers and should return to petrol station owner.
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Connie Britton proved she's got perfect pitch as an actress in "Friday Night Lights" and "American Horror Story." Now she's trying to hit all the right notes – literally – in her new series "Nashville," which debuts on Oct. 10 on ABC.
To promote her new role as an established country music diva whose place at the top is threatened by slipping record sales, a fickle record label and a succeed-at-all-costs up-and-comer (Hayden Panetierre), the oft-Emmy nominated actress chats about finding her voice – with a twang.
Are you purposely choosing projects that are completely different every time out?
Yes, that is very much by design. I'm trying to do things that are very different and most specifically feel scary and risky.
Did you have a nice array of diverse offers after last year on "American Horror Story?"
I really did, and honestly, I wasn't really looking at anything because I was also in development with three different shows, and the idea of producing my own thing and creating my own thing is really exciting to me. But when this came along it had so many criteria that I really am looking for as an actor, so it was hard for me to say no. It's very hard, just FYI, to say no to Callie Khouri and the idea of playing a country music star and working with T Bone Burnett – how could I resist that?
What was the biggest fear of this project that turned into a joy?
Well, the biggest fear has been the singing, and when I feel like I sort of pull it off, that's the biggest joy. Also, the biggest joy, one of the biggest joys has been working with T Bone Burnett. He's such a generous, amazing, nurturing person. Honestly, if I ever become a good singer it will be solely because of him… I call him a voice whisperer because he somehow has this amazing capacity to bring out the voice in people that he works with.
Did the producers know that you could sing before they cast you?
When we first had a conversation about it I said, 'Now what about the singing? Would we be doing our own singing?' And they said, 'Well, that would be the ideal. Do you sing?' I said to them – and Callie always reminds me of this – 'Well, nobody has paid me to sing in a very long time.' And as Callie says, 'Well, that means at some point in her life they paid her to sing, so it must be okay.' Little did she know it was during Summer Stock, or whatever.
What do you know about the music business now that you didn't know before?
A lot of things. I think, not unlike Hollywood, the music industry can be very cutthroat, but then the flipside of that is that there's a lot of support in the music industry. Talking to people who I know in the music industry, there's actually a lot of appreciation for women who are in their forties. There's ageism, for sure, but there's also I think a deep regard for people who have established themselves and have really lived a life in music.
A lot of actresses shy away from playing a character struggling in the later stages of a career.
Honestly, when I read the script, I think the whole idea of this rivalry has been a little over developed. I never saw the show in those terms, and I'm going to work really hard to not have the show become about 'old' because I certainly don't feel old and I'm not interested in playing old. So I don't want it to be about old versus young, or about one woman versus another woman. I think what our two characters represent is two people in very different phases of their life and in very different phases of the music business.
Would you be willing to perform live – as, say, promotion for the show?
There would have to be such an enormous level of growth in my self-confidence for that to happen that it would be amazing. So, never say never – but almost never!
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Click below to download : Vailima Letters - Chapter XIV (Format : PDF)
Vailima Letters - Chapter XIVTUESDAY, DEC. 1891.
SIR, - I have the honour to report further explorations of the course of the river Vaea, with accompanying sketch plan. The party under my command consisted of one horse, and was extremely insubordinate and mutinous, owing to not being used to go into the bush, and being half-broken anyway - and that the wrong half. The route indicated for my party was up the bed of the so-called river Vaea, which I accordingly followed to a distance of perhaps two or three furlongs eastward from the house of Vailima, where the stream being quite dry, the bush thick, and the ground very difficult, I decided to leave the main body of the force under my command tied to a tree, and push on myself with the point of the advance guard, consisting of one man. The valley had become very narrow and airless; foliage close shut above; dry bed of the stream much excavated, so that I passed under fallen trees without stooping. Suddenly it turned sharply to the north, at right angles to its former direction; I heard living water, and came in view of a tall face of rock and the stream spraying down it; it might have been climbed, but it would have been dangerous, and I had to make my way up the steep earth banks, where there is nowhere any footing for man, only fallen trees, which made the rounds of my ladder. I was near the top of this climb, which was very hot and steep, and the pulses were buzzing all over my body, when I made sure there was one external sound in my ears, and paused to listen. No mistake; a sound of a mill-wheel thundering, I thought, close by, yet below me, a huge mill-wheel, yet not going steadily, but with a SCHOTTISCHE movement, and at each fresh impetus shaking the mountain. There, where I was, I just put down the sound to the mystery of the bush; where no sound now surprises me - and any sound alarms; I only thought it would give Jack a fine fright, down where he stood tied to a tree by himself, and he was badly enough scared when I left him. The good folks at home identified it; it was a sharp earthquake.
At the top of the climb I made my way again to the water- course; it is here running steady and pretty full; strange these intermittencies - and just a little below the main stream is quite dry, and all the original brook has gone down some lava gallery of the mountain - and just a little further below, it begins picking up from the left hand in little boggy tributaries, and in the inside of a hundred yards has grown a brook again. The general course of the brook was, I guess, S.E.; the valley still very deep and whelmed in wood. It seemed a swindle to have made so sheer a climb and still find yourself at the bottom of a well. But gradually the thing seemed to shallow, the trees to seem poorer and smaller; I could see more and more of the silver sprinkles of sky among the foliage, instead of the sombre piling up of tree behind tree. And here I had two scares - first, away up on my right hand I heard a bull low; I think it was a bull from the quality of the low, which was singularly songful and beautiful; the bulls belong to me, but how did I know that the bull was aware of that? and my advance guard not being at all properly armed, we advanced with great precaution until I was satisfied that I was passing eastward of the enemy. It was during this period that a pool of the river suddenly boiled up in my face in a little fountain. It was in a very dreary, marshy part among dilapidated trees that you see through holes in the trunks of; and if any kind of beast or elf or devil had come out of that sudden silver ebullition, I declare I do not think I should have been surprised. It was perhaps a thing as curious - a fish, with which these head waters of the stream are alive. They are some of them as long as my finger, should be easily caught in these shallows, and some day I'll have a dish of them.
Very soon after I came to where the stream collects in another banana swamp, with the bananas bearing well. Beyond, the course is again quite dry; it mounts with a sharp turn a very steep face of the mountain, and then stops abruptly at the lip of a plateau, I suppose the top of Vaea mountain: plainly no more springs here - there was no smallest furrow of a watercourse beyond - and my task might be said to be accomplished. But such is the animated spirit in the service that the whole advance guard expressed a sentiment of disappointment that an exploration, so far successfully conducted, should come to a stop in the most promising view of fresh successes. And though unprovided either with compass or cutlass, it was determined to push some way along the plateau, marking our direction by the laborious process of bending down, sitting upon, and thus breaking the wild cocoanut trees. This was the less regretted by all from a delightful discovery made of a huge banyan growing here in the bush, with flying-buttressed flying buttresses, and huge arcs of trunk hanging high overhead and trailing down new complications of root. I climbed some way up what seemed the original beginning; it was easier to climb than a ship's rigging, even rattled; everywhere there was foot-hold and hand-hold. It was judged wise to return and rally the main body, who had now been left alone for perhaps forty minutes in the bush.
The return was effected in good order, but unhappily I only arrived (like so many other explorers) to find my main body or rear-guard in a condition of mutiny; the work, it is to be supposed, of terror. It is right I should tell you the Vaea has a bad name, an AITU FAFINE - female devil of the woods - succubus - haunting it, and doubtless Jack had heard of her; perhaps, during my absence, saw her; lucky Jack! Anyway, he was neither to hold nor to bind, and finally, after nearly smashing me by accident, and from mere scare and insubordination several times, deliberately set in to kill me; but poor Jack! the tree he selected for that purpose was a banana! I jumped off and gave him the heavy end of my whip over the buttocks! Then I took and talked in his ear in various voices; you should have heard my alto - it was a dreadful, devilish note - I KNEW Jack KNEW it was an AITU. Then I mounted him again, and he carried me fairly steadily. He'll learn yet. He has to learn to trust absolutely to his rider; till he does, the risk is always great in thick bush, where a fellow must try different passages, and put back and forward, and pick his way by hair's-breadths.
The expedition returned to Vailima in time to receive the visit of the R. C. Bishop. He is a superior man, much above the average of priests.
Yesterday the same expedition set forth to the southward by what is known as Carruthers' Road. At a fallen tree which completely blocks the way, the main body was as before left behind, and the advance guard of one now proceeded with the exploration. At the great tree known as MEPI TREE, after Maben the surveyor, the expedition struck forty yards due west till it struck the top of a steep bank which it descended. The whole bottom of the ravine is filled with sharp lava blocks quite unrolled and very difficult and dangerous to walk among; no water in the course, scarce any sign of water. And yet surely water must have made this bold cutting in the plateau. And if so, why is the lava sharp? My science gave out; but I could not but think it ominous and volcanic. The course of the stream was tortuous, but with a resultant direction a little by west of north; the sides the whole way exceeding steep, the expedition buried under fathoms of foliage. Presently water appeared in the bottom, a good quantity; perhaps thirty or forty cubic feet, with pools and waterfalls. A tree that stands all along the banks here must be very fond of water; its roots lie close-packed down the stream, like hanks of guts, so as to make often a corrugated walk, each root ending in a blunt tuft of filaments, plainly to drink water. Twice there came in small tributaries from the left or western side - the whole plateau having a smartish inclination to the east; one of the tributaries in a handsome little web of silver hanging in the forest. Twice I was startled by birds; one that barked like a dog; another that whistled loud ploughman's signals, so that I vow I was thrilled, and thought I had fallen among runaway blacks, and regretted my cutlass which I had lost and left behind while taking bearings. A good many fishes in the brook, and many cray-fish; one of the last with a queer glow- worm head. Like all our brooks, the water is pure as air, and runs over red stones like rubies. The foliage along both banks very thick and high, the place close, the walking exceedingly laborious. By the time the expedition reached the fork, it was felt exceedingly questionable whether the MORAL of the force were sufficiently good to undertake more extended operations. A halt was called, the men refreshed with water and a bath, and it was decided at a drumhead council of war to continue the descent of the Embassy Water straight for Vailima, whither the expedition returned, in rather poor condition, and wet to the waist, about 4. P.M.
Thus in two days the two main watercourses of this country have been pretty thoroughly explored, and I conceive my instructions fully carried out. The main body of the second expedition was brought back by another officer despatched for that purpose from Vailima. Casualties: one horse wounded; one man bruised; no deaths - as yet, but the bruised man feels to-day as if his case was mighty serious.
Your note with a very despicable bulletin of health arrived only yesterday, the mail being a day behind. It contained also the excellent TIMES article, which was a sight for sore eyes. I am still TABOO; the blessed Germans will have none of me; and I only hope they may enjoy the TIMES article. 'Tis my revenge! I wish you had sent the letter too, as I have no copy, and do not even know what I wrote the last day, with a bad headache, and the mail going out. However, it must have been about right, for the TIMES article was in the spirit I wished to arouse. I hope we can get rid of the man before it is too late. He has set the natives to war; but the natives, by God's blessing, do not want to fight, and I think it will fizzle out - no thanks to the man who tried to start it. But I did not mean to drift into these politics; rather to tell you what I have done since I last wrote.
Well, I worked away at my History for a while, and only got one chapter done; no doubt this spate of work is pretty low now, and will be soon dry; but, God bless you, what a lot I have accomplished; WRECKER done, BEACH OF FALESA done, half the HISTORY: C'EST ETONNANT. (I hear from Burlingame, by the way, that he likes the end of the WRECKER; 'tis certainly a violent, dark yarn with interesting, plain turns of human nature), then Lloyd and I went down to live in Haggard's rooms, where Fanny presently joined us. Haggard's rooms are in a strange old building - old for Samoa, and has the effect of the antique like some strange monastery; I would tell you more of it, but I think I'm going to use it in a tale. The annexe close by had its door sealed; poor Dowdney lost at sea in a schooner. The place is haunted. The vast empty sheds, the empty store, the airless, hot, long, low rooms, the claps of wind that set everything flying - a strange uncanny house to spend Christmas in.
For a day or two I have sat close and wrought hard at the HISTORY, and two more chapters are all but done. About thirty pages should go by this mail, which is not what should be, but all I could overtake. Will any one ever read it? I fancy not; people don't read history for reading, but for education and display - and who desires education in the history of Samoa, with no population, no past, no future, or the exploits of Mataafa, Malietoa, and Consul Knappe? Colkitto and Galasp are a trifle to it. Well, it can't be helped, and it must be done, and, better or worse, it's capital fun. There are two to whom I have not been kind - German Consul Becker and English Captain Hand, R.N.
On Dec. 30th I rode down with Belle to go to (if you please) the Fancy Ball. When I got to the beach, I found the barometer was below 29 degrees, the wind still in the east and steady, but a huge offensive continent of clouds and vapours forming to leeward. It might be a hurricane; I dared not risk getting caught away from my work, and, leaving Belle, returned at once to Vailima. Next day - yesterday - it was a tearer; we had storm shutters up; I sat in my room and wrote by lamplight - ten pages, if you please, seven of them draft, and some of these compiled from as many as seven different and conflicting authorities, so that was a brave day's work. About two a huge tree fell within sixty paces of our house; a little after, a second went; and we sent out boys with axes and cut down a third, which was too near the house, and buckling like a fishing rod. At dinner we had the front door closed and shuttered, the back door open, the lamp lit. The boys in the cook-house were all out at the cook- house door, where we could see them looking in and smiling. Lauilo and Faauma waited on us with smiles. The excitement was delightful. Some very violent squalls came as we sat there, and every one rejoiced; it was impossible to help it; a soul of putty had to sing. All night it blew; the roof was continually sounding under missiles; in the morning the verandahs were half full of branches torn from the forest. There was a last very wild squall about six; the rain, like a thick white smoke, flying past the house in volleys, and as swift, it seemed, as rifle balls; all with a strange, strident hiss, such as I have only heard before at sea, and, indeed, thought to be a marine phenomenon. Since then the wind has been falling with a few squalls, mostly rain. But our road is impassable for horses; we hear a schooner has been wrecked and some native houses blown down in Apia, where Belle is still and must remain a prisoner. Lucky I returned while I could! But the great good is this; much bread-fruit and bananas have been destroyed; if this be general through the islands, famine will be imminent; and WHOEVER BLOWS THE COALS, THERE CAN BE NO WAR. Do I then prefer a famine to a war? you ask. Not always, but just now. I am sure the natives do not want a war; I am sure a war would benefit no one but the white officials, and I believe we can easily meet the famine - or at least that it can be met. That would give our officials a legitimate opportunity to cover their past errors.
I woke this morning to find the blow quite ended. The heaven was all a mottled gray; even the east quite colourless; the downward slope of the island veiled in wafts of vapour, blue like smoke; not a leaf stirred on the tallest tree; only, three miles away below me on the barrier reef, I could see the individual breakers curl and fall, and hear their conjunct roaring rise, as it still rises at 1 P.M., like the roar of a thoroughfare close by. I did a good morning's work, correcting and clarifying my draft, and have now finished for press eight chapters, ninety-one pages, of this piece of journalism. Four more chapters, say fifty pages, remain to be done; I should gain my wager and finish this volume in three months, that is to say, the end should leave me per February mail; I cannot receive it back till the mail of April. Yes, it can be out in time; pray God that it be in time to help.
How do journalists fetch up their drivel? I aim only at clearness and the most obvious finish, positively at no higher degree of merit, not even at brevity - I am sure it could have been all done, with double the time, in two-thirds of the space. And yet it has taken me two months to write 45,500 words; and, be damned to my wicked prowess, I am proud of the exploit! The real journalist must be a man not of brass only, but bronze. Chapter IX. gapes for me, but I shrink on the margin, and go on chattering to you. This last part will be much less offensive (strange to say) to the Germans. It is Becker they will never forgive me for; Knappe I pity and do not dislike; Becker I scorn and abominate. Here is the tableau. I. Elements of Discord: Native. II. Elements of Discord: Foreign. III. The Sorrows of Laupepa. IV. Brandeis. V. The Battle of Matautu. VI. Last Exploits of Becker. VII. The Samoan Camps. VIII. Affairs of Lautii and Fangalii. IX. 'FUROR CONSULARIS.' X. The Hurricane. XI. Stuebel Recluse. XII. The Present Government. I estimate the whole roughly at 70,000 words. Should anybody ever dream of reading it, it would be found amusing. 70000/300=233 printed pages; a respectable little five-bob volume, to bloom unread in shop windows. After that, I'll have a spank at fiction. And rest? I shall rest in the grave, or when I come to Italy. If only the public will continue to support me! I lost my chance not dying; there seems blooming little fear of it now. I worked close on five hours this morning; the day before, close on nine; and unless I finish myself off with this letter, I'll have another hour and a half, or AIBLINS TWA, before dinner. Poor man, how you must envy me, as you hear of these orgies of work, and you scarce able for a letter. But Lord, Colvin, how lucky the situations are not reversed, for I have no situation, nor am fit for any. Life is a steigh brae. Here, have at Knappe, and no more clavers!
There was never any man had so many irons in the fire, except Jim Pinkerton. I forgot to mention I have the most gallant suggestion from Lang, with an offer of MS. authorities, which turns my brain. It's all about the throne of Poland and buried treasure in the Mackay country, and Alan Breck can figure there in glory.
Yesterday, J. and I set off to Blacklock's (American Consul) who lives not far from that little village I have so often mentioned as lying between us and Apia. I had some questions to ask him for my History; thence we must proceed to Vailele, where I had also to cross-examine the plantation manager about the battle there. We went by a track I had never before followed down the hill to Vaisigano, which flows here in a deep valley, and was unusually full, so that the horses trembled in the ford. The whole bottom of the valley is full of various streams posting between strips of forest with a brave sound of waters. In one place we had a glimpse of a fall some way higher up, and then sparkling in sunlight in the midst of the green valley. Then up by a winding path scarce accessible to a horse for steepness, to the other side, and the open cocoanut glades of the plantation. Here we rode fast, did a mighty satisfactory afternoon's work at the plantation house, and still faster back. On the return Jack fell with me, but got up again; when I felt him recovering I gave him his head, and he shoved his foot through the rein; I got him by the bit however, and all was well; he had mud over all his face, but his knees were not broken. We were scarce home when the rain began again; that was luck. It is pouring now in torrents; we are in the height of the bad season. Lloyd leaves along with this letter on a change to San Francisco; he had much need of it, but I think this will brace him up. I am, as you see, a tower of strength. I can remember riding not so far and not near so fast when I first came to Samoa, and being shattered next day with fatigue; now I could not tell I have done anything; have re-handled my battle of Fangalii according to yesterday's information - four pages rewritten; and written already some half-dozen pages of letters.
I observe with disgust that while of yore, when I own I was guilty, you never spared me abuse, but now, when I am so virtuous, where is the praise? Do admit that I have become an excellent letter-writer - at least to you, and that your ingratitude is imbecile. - Yours ever,
Vailima Letters - Chapter XV
Vailima Letters - Chapter XIII
- Vailima Letters - Chapter XV
- Vailima Letters - Chapter XVI
- Vailima Letters - Chapter XVII
- Vailima Letters - Chapter XVIII
- Vailima Letters - Chapter XIX
- Vailima Letters - Chapter XX
- Vailima Letters - Chapter XXI
- Vailima Letters - Chapter XXII
- Vailima Letters - Chapter XXIII
- Vailima Letters - Chapter XXIV


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The 29th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards were held over the weekend, and as expected, Mike Myers and his cinematic abominaton The Love Guru won big. But career video game "filmmaker" Uwe Boll didn't go home empty-handed.
He won the award for Worst Director, courtesy of three of his films for the year (Postal, Tunnel Rats & Dungeon Siege, which picked up 5 nominations), but perhaps more fittingly was also given a Razzie "Worst Achievement Award" for his career's work. The award labels Boll "Germany's answer to Ed Wood".
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Present: Eric, Virgil, Chuck, Cathy, Jeremy, Jill, Lisa, Lynn, Tony Martin, Yulia, David Noon on phone, Joe, Sitka, Colleen subbing for Tim in Ketchikan Guests: John Bilderback, Carol HedlinEx officio Robbie
1. Call to order 3:06
2. Approval of minutes of last meeting (Feb 2, 2007) ATTACHMENT 2.1 approved
3. Approval of today's agenda
Jill additions-
- Faculty Senate officially ask IT to fix multiple instructor listings when there is only one instructor of record. Mis-listing is causing a lot of problems especially with end of semester course evaluations.
- Background checks during faculty evaluation for tenure and promotion. The Natural Sciences faculty voted against this idea unanimously and emphatically.
Lisa additions See #5a below
- Statewide committee on Outreach Activities-
- Feedback to Lisa by email….needs by next Friday
4. Assembly member's comments –see agenda additions above
5. 3:10-3:55 Guest: John Bilderbeck; Learning center and "Smart Thinking"
Intro & Overview LC
- Under Provost umbrella-general and Departmental funding(some lab fees for testing center)
- Initiative of focus
- User friendliness
- Popular amongst student and faculty
- Smooth accessFull chaotic room, who to ask for help, crowdedness discouraging
- Drop In Math Tutors now wear orange hunting vests (sashes caps sweatshirts also in orange)
- Writing tutoring appointments…45 minute appointments now the standard
- Math –crowding an issue…student fatigue setting in
- Relief valve option-sign up ahead of time for 15 minutes outreach guaranteed tutor time
- Still crowded …How to Queue?…publicity and communication needed
- How to serve Math 054/055 clients and other students in need of developmental help
- Why do students depart UAS?
- Eye contact, acknowledge students. Tutors now roam and engage…..gets the shy ones to ask tutor questions
- Traffic control sometimes difficult
- FS query: How much on line service does LC offer?....
- JB:not much did have online writing submission last spring for Ed Grad students…
- Online demand easily overwhelms face to face and takes 3 times as long to get the same feed back….Smart Thinking alternative. Now directly off UAS online page green services bar
- Staffing also a challenge for writing and math….
- Main focus is as campus drop-in center/ esp math drop-in tutoringSigning in =Inconvenient
- Tutor Track……Learning Center, Testing Center, TRIO (Don Montgomery Ketchikan big help)….
- Web page, student card readers under development
- Stigma about signing in….
- Workshops in the dorms for those who don't come to learning center
- Computer lab also…..records that usage…
- English numbers under-reported….couches far from computers…
- Tony - curious about student salary for tutors…
A-level $7.50
B-level $8.50
C-level $9.50
- Still the same….can Faculty Senate help raise salaries…statewide issues….
- TUTORS=math majors predominantly
- English tutors… more pay might get better tutors but not more tutors….
- IT uses gradation in pay with employee incentive….. (Level A start with training…..)
- Tutors are not in for the money but often interested in more time…..
- Minimum wage ~ $7.50
- Doing Exit interviews…..when/why tutors leave
- More trouble for Chem, Biol, Physics….paid more…
- JB Collaborations…..housing/activities/Trio/academic advising/ Departments (Math and English especially)
- Hiring proper number of tutors is current challenge, have just about enough…may need more if equilibrium changes
- Learning Center Advisory Board-(Harmon, Greesen, Hayes, Tomlinson, Hultstein)
- Chuck inquired about Committee G on Faculty Senate felt purposeless currently in suspension..(Bilderback served as committee initiator, informant, etc.)
- Also Advisory Committee put together by Vickie Orazem under provost. Chuck Requested minutes for FS from AB.
- Student Use Statistics LC=Fall 2006
- Caveats 1: students don't always sign in (~30% don't sign in)
- New tracking system-
- Ballpark 395 separate students logged in at least once…FTE 1195 that semester
200 (1-5 visits)
43 students 11-20
10 students 41-50
>60 7
- Average ~78 visits/7 students (CALC, Physics students)
- 1 at 95 times open 82 days
- 25% math=MATH 107 (15% of services=500 visits)
- MATH 054&055=30% of services
- Courses Assignments in Learning center, Faculty Office hours, Faculty walk students through center
- Collaboration with Joe Nelson TRIO
- Jill, Brian, John B on committee…..hired Brian Hitchcock Staff
- Tutors hired by mostly by John since LC moved to Provost office control, math faculty busy with overloads no releases
- for hiring committees….consult faculty for referrals
- Auto exam-consult Tony….
- Smart Thinking (globally available program)–purchased by UAK as a pilot project…Title 3 grant….1000 hours that expire after finals week. Now being used blanket availability/UAS online.
- Every student in every class can use online tutoring
- So far 110 registrations (clicked on link)
- 16 distinct users
- About 20 hours used to date 03/02/2007
- Long wait times. Tutor click initiates clock
- Outsourcing tutors-Bangalore
- Responses vary as tutors vary
- Writing more promising…..feedback better than on the ground faculty can provide.
- Need to tighten up their tutor training
- State Library has free tutoring, writing, homework help system
- Next year Smart Thinking…..could be very expensive
5a. Lisa - Metric for Outreach Reporting……
Lynn include in electronic Activities Report…bean counting activities inevitable….purpose to tell the public/legislature what we (UA faculty) does for the state of AK.
Meanwhile Jill's UAS Committee of University and Public Service is creating parallel language focusing on University and Public service.
6. Provost's comments – Robbie will ask Steve Lang career services to track employment data tutors/usage
4:14 Robbie on All Juneau High School Planning Committee
JDHS/Thunder MT/Yakoosge (Robbie, Joe, Larry)
Comments from public for a meet all over town
1) What do you not want HS to be?
2) Want do you want HS not to be
3) What do you want your graduate to look like?
Philippino Community Hall (diversity, equity, parent involvement), Auke Bay School , Floyd Dryden
Equity, (Vocational education Sports in valley), engagement of industry, parents, etc.
Student Success/Student Retention…PBB metrics down in student credit hours….student services trying to track "why" "what happened" for drop outs….
Without Vickie and Trio director…tracking students is falling through the cracks….
Need longer range plan….student retention and successChancellor's task Force on student Success……
Use UAF Model…..on a similar effort….brainstormed issues, narrowed to 8 issues…
Student orientation freshman and transfer students….sub committees on specific topics…..came back with recommendations for implementation…Urgency requires things in place for fall semester…..15-18 people have volunteered….Dana Thomas (Math Chair) organized UAF committee
Prerequisite checking by Banner…..Alliance/Senates from all campuses….Barbara Hegel if courses flagged…..students can't register….old-fashioned paper form to over-ride
Eric wondered could faculty consent could be electronic….
Or presorting by questionnaire type form that guides students through pre-requisite/registration process.
Joe Liddle - statistics…..105 college algebra prerequisites but motivated professionals can sometimes make it on 055..(knowledge versus maturity)
8 and 9 moved to the top of the next meetings agenda
7. Chairs comments/report
8. The Ad Hoc Curriculum Clarification Committee suggested changes to the faculty handbook; Lynn Shepherd
9. Faculty Award ; Cathy Connor ATTACHMENT 9.1
10. 4:32 pm information first float…… Library skill assessments: Carol Hedlin / Lynn Shepherd
A. Guide to literacy and standards….out last year…… election choices for instructors…..who ask for library staff to present in their classesSales test evaluates info literacy…..evaluates cohorts but not individualsIn response to assessment, core competencies, how to questions and challenges…how do we know if we are succeeding. Things We can do anyway
Institutional Issue…..can it be addressed at Testing level….
Use as learning tool?
Learning modules will be out literacy instruction,
Catalog, refworks, etc., literature reviews.
Reliable, valid, can use not as a prerequisites but a learning tool…James Madison University info literacy testing…entry level assessment – of interest to UAA UAF librarians…..
How it relates to current and existing standards….
Solution Needed...
Assessment delivered online… most viable option yet offered… pretest freshmen/post-test beginning juniors… 45 minute test...
Bay area group (need website) has sharable questions on the web. Take info back to departments and assess interest...
Yulia - pre and post 10 questions online tests that faculty could post, as part of their courses.
Assesses computer skills also screen maneuvers info access impacts research
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I was given a brief - to design and make St Dominic's family to celebrate 800 years if the Dominican Order of Preachers & Teachers.
The only picture of the family I was given was a Mosaic! Various other pictures of St Dominic are also other artists versions of how he looked, but there has been a reconstruction of his face - reference here. https://thepracticingcatholic.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/portrait-of-st-dominic/
I used the same head shape for all the figures
This is Dominic's mother Joanna of Aza.
Her husband Felix DeGuzman was a knight and they were an influential Spanish family in the 13th Century. "According to tradition, Jane had a dream before her son's conception in which she saw a hound racing through the world igniting everything with a flaming torch. Troubled by this dream, she went to pray at the Benedictine abbey of San Domingo de Silos, located in a pleasant valley about twenty miles north of Caleruega. This dream was indeed prophetic. Dominic did ignite the world with sacred truth through preaching and teaching born from a life of dedicated prayer, love for the Word of God, and a burning desire to gain souls for Christ. It is widely believed that Dominic's keen sensitivity to the sufferings of others, which he displayed from childhood on, was acquired from his mother, who, although from a noble family, was known for her compassion toward the poor and needy. From her Dominic also acquired the habit of prayer."
Dominics two older brothers were also Priests. Antonio was a Canon and Manes later became a Fominican Friar.
I have tried to portray them as close to an ordinary family as possible.
As usual, the robes took longer to make than the figures, which are stump dolls.
I have kept the bodies to a very simple style, as the focus is mostly on their individuality as a group of people.
Felix has raw wool needlefelted hair and drawn features. he has a beaten Earring collar!


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The Blue Baby Syndromes
By Roger P. Smith
Did environment or infection cause a blood disorder in newborns?
Did environment or infection cause a blood disorder in newborns?
Science can be a powerful tool for discovery and problem solving, but it can also be a messy, nonlinear process that does not provide all the answers. In such cases, people are forced to make the best decisions possible based on the available information, often erring on the side of caution—especially where public health is concerned. Whether or not those decisions are too conservative will often be the topic of long debate. One such example, involving drinking water standards and the health of newborns, has continued for more than half a century.
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In the congenital condition, called tetralogy of Fallot, a complicated structural defect allows blood returning from the body to the heart to be pumped out again without going to the lungs to be resupplied with oxygen. The hemoglobin in red blood cells turns red when iron in the molecule binds to oxygen; it turns bluish-purple when the oxygen is unloaded, which is why veins are bluish. With too much deoxygenated blood in the arteries, the skin turns from pink to blue (cyanosis comes from the Greek kyanos, meaning dark blue).
Alternatively, some chemicals can oxidize the iron in hemoglobin. The altered form, called methemoglobin, loses the ability to bind oxygen, and the pigment now changes to greenish brown or almost black. The human body contains enzymes to reverse methemoglobinemia, but only up to certain levels. After blood levels reach 15 percent, adults become visibly cyanotic. If more than half of the hemoglobin is converted, oxygen transport, particularly to the brain, is severely hampered, respiratory distress is likely, and death is possible.
In congenital heart disease the cyanosis is apt to improve if treated with oxygen, and if a sample of shed blood is shaken in air, it often becomes lighter and redder in color. Since methemoglobin does not bind oxygen, infants with that condition do not "pink up" on oxygen, and samples of shed blood exposed to air undergo little or no change in color.
The two conditions also look a little different. During the influenza epidemic of 1918, the word "heliotrope" was used to describe the color of the cyanosis of hypoxia, whereas the cyanosis of methemoglobinemia is often described as slate-gray. Simple laboratory tests are available to identify and quantify methemoglobin in blood, and infants with high levels of it respond rapidly to intravenous methylene blue—this blue dye turns the blue baby pink. When cyanosis develops post-partum, it is usually noticed first in the lips, spreading gradually to the nail beds of the fingers and toes, the face and then the whole body. Both congenital heart disease and methemoglobinemia tend to result in hypoxia and peripheral vasodilation, which may intensify the cyanosis.
In the condition first described by Comly (now known as well-water methemoglobinemia), affected infants appeared healthy at birth and remained so through discharge. The cyanosis arose only after days, weeks or months in the home environment. What made Comly's paper so noteworthy was the full explanation offered for the etiology of the disease—one that has been largely undisputed for 60 years.
He recognized that "the only significant change in the infant's environment from hospital to farm home was in the water that was used to prepare the formula." But what was the nature of the difference between hospital and home water? After the third episode of admission and treatment with methylene blue for one child, her father demanded to know exactly what "poison" in his well was responsible. Analyses of the water showed high levels of nitrate.
Inquiries to other physicians in the area about unpublished, similar cases turned up 17 more, with one fatality, suggesting that the condition was more common than suspected. As the number of physicians who reported seeing unexplained cyanosis in infants who had been fed powdered formula prepared with well water grew, measurements of the nitrate content of Iowa wells showed that more than half of the 91 wells initially sampled contained nitrate nitrogen in excess of 10 parts per million, and 20 contained more than 65 parts per million.
Those wells that tested high for nitrates were clearly undesirable from a public health standpoint. Most of them were old, shallow and dug rather than drilled, and they often had inadequate casings. Many were poorly covered so that surface runoff containing nitrate fertilizers or animal excreta rich in nitrates could enter freely. They were often found near barnyards, feedlots or pit privies, and some were contaminated with coliform bacteria. Although the wells served as the drinking water source for the entire family, only formula-fed infants were affected, and most were less than three months of age.
Subsequent independent surveys in midwestern states confirmed the initial results in Iowa. The most complete survey of all 48 states, plus what were then the territories of Alaska and Hawaii, was compiled in 1951 and identified 278 cases with 39 deaths. No cases were found in which wells contained 10 parts per million nitrate nitrogen or less, and only 2.3 percent of the cases involved wells with between 10 and 20 parts per million. Above 20 parts per million, the severity of the symptoms seemed to parallel the amount of nitrate present. Breastfed infants were never involved; neither were families who used municipal water supplies. No reports of cases prior to World War II were found. However, physician reporting was not mandatory for the condition, and the true number may have been much higher.
But by the time that report was published, the worst seemed to have passed, and the number of cases fell off steadily through the early 1950s. Today the disease has all but disappeared, with reports appearing only sporadically in the literature. Only two cases have been reported since the mid-1960s and none since 2000. Within 10 years the epidemic had waned as suddenly as it had appeared, without any preventive action having knowingly been taken. Whether it was because of public awareness, a massive improvement in rural drinking water quality, a trend toward breastfeeding or other factors may never be known.
Comly realized that he needed to explain the sensitivity of newborns to nitrates in order to complete the picture. He also needed an explanation for how biologically inert nitrate was responsible for oxidizing hemoglobin to methemoglobin. The most plausible candidate for the oxidizing agent was nitrite, which was known to be a potent generator of methemoglobin. To find it, he needed to look no further than the diverse normal microflora of the infant gut. Many common organisms found in the bowel were known to convert nitrate to nitrite; the nitrite could then be readily absorbed into the blood to do its damage.
In adults, however, ingested nitrates—more than 97 percent of which come from vegetables and other foods, not water—never come in contact with intestinal microflora, which are found largely in the colon. Nitrates are absorbed rapidly in the duodenum and excreted promptly in the urine. That led to a consideration of the second-most common finding in affected infants, namely evidence of gastrointestinal upset in the form of vomiting or diarrhea, things so usual as to excite little attention. A few infants who were tested were found to have high gastric pH in relation to adult values. Presumably the acidic milieu of the stomach and duodenum discourages microflora from invading the small intestine of adults. But if the pH were high enough in newborns, perhaps nitrate-reducing organisms could survive in the small intestine and come in contact with unabsorbed nitrate. This problem should be self-solving as infants mature, because acid production in their stomachs increases to adult levels by about six months of age. That coupled with a relative deficiency in the enzyme that reverses methemoglobin production in infant red blood cells could be enough to explain their sensitivity to nitrates. As Comly's explanation stands, it is both complete and plausible, but a long way from scientifically proven.
Largely because of Comly's recommendation, 10 parts per million of nitrate nitrogen quickly became the standard for potable water supplies in the U.S., and that maximum was reaffirmed in 1995 in the most recent review by the National Research Council. Unfortunately, nitrate removal from raw drinking water involves considerable expense. Conventional treatment processes are ineffective. A much more expensive process of ion exchange is the only one currently used. But those at risk—infants under three months of age—are one of the most vulnerable and emotionally charged groups in our population, one that all agree we would most like to protect.
In the 1980s a new phenomenon seemed to appear, namely, a form of infantile methemoglobinemia associated with inflammatory bowel disease (including diarrhea, acidosis, infection and gastroenteritis), where exposure to excessive nitrates could not be clearly established. The first of these reports appeared around 1982. Over the course of a year the authors had seen 11 infants with the triad of methemoglobinemia, diarrhea and acidosis. All were under three months of age, and all lived in homes with municipal water supplies. Although infection was suspected in at least some of these cases, no common fecal pathogens were isolated.
In the same year, a report from Israel described a study of 58 infants, age one week to one and a half years, admitted to the hospital for acute diarrhea. Over 100 admitted infants without gastrointestinal disturbances served as controls. All were fed the same milk, food and water, which had been analyzed for nitrates and nitrites. The study excluded infants with confounding factors such as genetic defects or exposure to drugs or chemicals that generate methemoglobin. None of the affected infants was said to be cyanotic, and only 12 of the 58 had methemoglobin levels above 8 percent. However, infants with the more severe diarrhea seemed to have higher methemoglobin levels. The nitrate concentration of the drinking water was well under the U.S. standard, and the diet was unusually low in nitrates. There was no clear correlation of the degree of acidosis and methemoglobin levels.
The most seminal observation was that the affected infants had high blood levels of nitrate, and those levels did appear to parallel the degree of methemoglobinemia. Affected infants excreted several times more nitrate in their urine than they consumed in their diet. In the control group the urinary excretion of nitrate was about the same as the daily intake or only slightly higher. Previously, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had demonstrated nitrate production within the body in germ-free rats.
As is often the case, these two reports opened the floodgates. Between 1983 and 1996 reports of more than 90 cases came out in the medical literature, and then, maddeningly, the reports stopped appearing, just as they had with well-water methemoglobinemia 50 years before.
In 1999, Alex Avery of the Center for Global Food Issues at the Hudson Institute and his colleagues offered an ingenious explanation of the etiology after an analysis of some seemingly unrelated literature on inflammatory bowel disease. Noting that the earlier Israeli study strongly suggested that nitrites produced in the body were responsible for the methemoglobinemia and that their end product, nitrates, were elevated in urine and blood, they suggested the involvement of endogenous production of nitric oxide from arginine. The importance of nitric oxide as a normal biological mediator in a number of physiological processes has only recently been recognized. In solution, nitric oxide exists in equilibrium with nitrite. There is some published evidence to suggest that certain viral or bacterial infections of the bowel cause an increase in nitric oxide levels in human colonic epithelial cells. Although these studies were focused on explaining the pathologic changes in the bowel, they offer a possible explanation for the methemoglobinemia. That explanation, however, does not yet suggest why infants may be more susceptible.
Few pursuits are more frustrating to the biomedical scientist than attempts to investigate diseases of very low incidence. It is a mixed blessing that both episodes of infantile methemoglobinemia ended spontaneously, because at this juncture no further elucidation of either is in sight. Try as we might, we face formidable obstacles in studying diseases that no longer exist and for which there are no satisfactory animal models. Nor is there any incentive to carry out such studies.
The hypothesis that Avery has offered for the etiology of the endogenous disease is, of course, incompatible with the exogenous well-water nitrate hypothesis. If Comly was wrong, exogenous nitrates were a red herring, and the drinking water standard for nitrate has been set at an unnecessarily low level. Communities may have incurred needless expense in pursuing nitrate removal. However, the evidence for the involvement of well-water nitrate in the first miniepidemic is at least as strong, if not stronger, than the evidence for the involvement of gastrointestinal infections in the second. The clear dose-response relationship between the well-water nitrate content and the severity of the methemoglobinemia, and the logical explanation for the sensitivity of infants to nitrate, support the etiology proposed for the first episode, but their equivalents are lacking for the second.
Science is simply not always able to provide neat and clean answers, and in order to protect the public, expensive policy decisions must sometimes be made based on whatever facts are known. We seem to be forced to the conclusion that an exceedingly rare toxic condition, methemoglobinemia in infants, is linked to two episodes of exposure to endogenous nitrite, but generated by two entirely different mechanisms. More improbable still is that both episodes suddenly appeared and then spontaneously resolved over the space of a dozen years, each in the second half of the 20th century. As Sherlock Holmes famously remarked to Dr. Watson, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." It also may be, in a way, a vindication of the now 50-year-old drinking water standard for nitrate.
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The little movie that could is finally getting its big break.
"Chicago Overcoat," a mob film created by six former Columbia College students three years ago, will premiere on Showtime 2 at 1 a.m. Tuesday.
The film follows the fates of an aging hitman and a washed up detective who become entwined when one last job leads to one last chance to settle an old score.
Despite the young age of the film's creators -- they were in their 20s when the movie began shooting three years ago -- they still managed to attract an impressive list of actors, including Frank Vincent and Katherine Narducci of "The Sopranos" fame, mob movie mainstay Mike Starr, and star turns by Stacy Keach and Armand Assante for good measure.
"When I got the script and read it, I said, 'this is pretty good,'" Vincent said at the 2009 Chicago International Film Festival where the film was honored. "I didn't realize that the whole crew was going to be in their 20s, so when I got there, I thought 'uh oh, what am I doing here?'" But from the very first day, I knew they were right on the money."
The national TV premiere has been a long time coming for the producers, who had problems raising the $2 million needed for the film, and finding the right distributor, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
"Chicago is the film. It's all about contemporary Chicago politics and the ghosts of the past that kind of stick around and have to find new meaning," co-writer Josh Staman said.
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All three repeated as state champs Wednesday night, leading Dracut to third place. The Middies finished behind Winchester and North Andover.
Stewart and the Ryans all went 4-0 en route to their titles.
Jon Ryan defeated Nick Stearn of Winchester for the 120-pound crown, 10-2. In the 138-pound final, the undefeated Stewart blanked Mikal Kalib of Needham, 6-0.
Jimmy Ryan bested Tom Griffa of Silver Lake in the 145-pound final, 5-1.
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We love the Raspberry Pi. This tiny computer has so much potential for makers, and it is offered at an extremely reasonable price. The one thing we didn't like about the Pi is how inaccessible it is to those who are new to Linux. So, the tiny team that brought you the Adafruit Learning System set out to develop our own way to open up the Raspberry Pi for everyone. What started out as a barebones, and basic way to get code running on your Pi, turned into something much more awesome. The Raspberry Pi WebIDE is extremely easy to use, but also very feature-rich and powerful.


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OKLAHOMA CITY – EMBARK has done its part to help reduce pollution during ozone alert season by encouraging metro residents to take a free ride every third Friday from May through September. EMBARK will offer its final Third Friday Free of the season on Friday, September 16. Fixed-route buses, zone 1 ADA para-transit services and Spokies bike share* will be free to everyone.
The annual, prescheduled free fare days during ozone alert season have substantially increased bus ridership on those days. Ridership on Third Friday Free days increased over average daily ridership by 13.5 percent in May, 17.6 percent in June and 23.7 percent in July.
"We've made significant changes over the past few years to make transit the better choice, not only for the environment but also for riders, and the positive reception of these changes are reflected in our continued growth in ridership," said Jason Ferbrache, EMBARK Administrator.
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