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I pride myself somewhat on how I organize these posts, only to find that those of you receiving this in the email version will think I am careless and disorganized. In truth, it is the blogger editor which while never very good has gone from bad to worse. I spend at least 50% more time putting these things together now versus how long it took prior to the 'upgrade'. So my apologies to those of you who care about these things but it's just not my fault.
The challenge will be to sort all of that material into ephemeral and semipermanent baskets, some of which might be called, for lack of a better term, books. But at the moment, as Mr. Hellman said, online books are largely stuck in the "pretend it's print" model. That works for traditional publishers because it offers a model that looks a lot like the past but ultimately depends on a notion of false scarcity.
Mr. Hellman's own idea, which he is developing as Unglue.it, is to crowd-source the money to digitize individual titles and basically set them free. It sounds like a dreamy but impractical idea, but he added this to ground it in reality: "Have you ever given a book to someone? Have you ever given the same book to multiple people? Would you like to give this book to the entire world?"From the Observer a look at how British museums are embracing photography all of a sudden (Observer)
The culture around photography – festivals, book publishing and selling, workshops, websites and prizes – has grown exponentially, making London a centre of contemporary photographic practice. Finally…
Inevitably, if belatedly, the major art institutions have responded in kind. Last week the Victoria & Albert unveiled its new Photographs Gallery, a permanent space to show highlights from its extraordinary collection, chronicling the history of photography from 1839 to the 1960s. Ironically, the exhibition harks back to a time when London embraced what was then a revolutionary new medium that threatened to make painting a thing of the past. The V&A was the first museum to collect photography and, in 1858, to exhibit photographic prints. The oldest photograph on display in the new gallery is a daguerreotype of Parliament Street from Trafalgar Square by an anonymous photographer, and many of the pioneering giants of photography, from Margaret Cameron to Cartier-Bresson, Man Ray to Irving Penn, are represented. What's more, the exhibition will be re-curated every 18 months to show off the scale of the museum's archive of original prints.
"We play to our strengths," says curator Martin Barnes, "which, in photography, is the fine print. We are not showing the history of photography, nor charting a chronological story with examples along a linear trajectory, but nevertheless the collection is deep enough that the historical reach will always be evident in the exhibition."And again from the Observer a review of a book that looks at the history of some of London's ritzy hotels during the war (Observer)
At the Savoy, journalists filed articles from makeshift offices carved from the carcasses of once-expensive suites. Con artists and swindlers, invigorated by the opportunities brought by war, hunted for victims among the potted palms. Illegal abortionists, profiting from the wartime increase in unwanted pregnancies, conducted their business behind locked hotel-room doors. Spies and spymasters made the grand hotels into thriving centres of espionage, using quiet suites for debriefings and interrogations and picking at the plasterwork for hidden microphones. MI5 booked a suspected Nazi double agent called Stella Lonsdale into a room at the Waldorf, and waited for her to crack. Guy Burgess installed a pair of spies at the Dorchester, one a painfully handsome 19-year-old with 10 targets on his watch list – mainly homosexual Magyars (Hungarians) who were charmed by his unfingermarked good looks. "The whole place," shuddered the head of Special Branch, "is crawling with foreigners."
The photographer Cecil Beaton made a gleefully snobbish inventory of the Dorchester's inhabitants: "Cabinet ministers and their self-consciously respectable wives; hatchet-jawed, iron-grey brigadiers; calf-like airmen off duty; tarts on duty; actresses (also); déclassé society people; cheap musicians and motor-car agents." At the front of the hotel, General Eisenhower plotted the progress of the war behind a concrete barrier installed for his protection. Beneath the hotel, the foreign secretary Edward Halifax slept beside his wife and his mistress in the Turkish bath – not realising that the chamber projected out from the main body of the hotel and was therefore one of the most vulnerable spots in the building.Will games replace reading? The Author answers his own question (Observer):
As an author who also plays games, and the father of three boys who read books and play games, I often get asked whether I think games will kill off the novel, and the answer is no, of course they won't. Books have survived the coming of films and TV, rock'n'roll and sudoku, and they will survive the coming of computer games. But they will be influenced by them, just as all those other media had their own impact and influence on books and, let's not forget, were hugely influenced by them.
The best games have taken stuff from books (where would computer games be without Tolkien, for instance?) and any novelist worth their salt should be taking stuff from games. What you don't want are books that slavishly replicate the experience of playing a game because, well, why not just go and play a game instead? In the same way, you don't want a game that gets bogged down with interminable cut-scenes and has only one, very rigid, way of being played. There are cleverer and more elegant ways of designing them, as demonstrated by the brilliant GTA series.More mindless drivel (Telegraph)
It is reported Miss Middleton has had two meetings with publishing executives at HarperCollins and has met with several other publishing houses. There are predictions that she could make more than £1m from royalties and the sale of international rights and spin-off projects.
A well-placed publishing source told the Sunday Times (£): "Pippa is very serious about the project and has been going to meet publishers personally. Pippa hasn't signed a contract yet but I don't think it will be far off. She is a good writer but I expect she would be offered the services of an experienced ghost writer."
Movie and theatrical performance rights may follow if all goes well (This bit is a lie).
From The New Republic, why authors should embrace Amazon's push into publishing (TNR):
THE TIMES WONDERS if Amazon can "secretly create its own bestsellers." Actually, it already has, although they aren't the books in its publishing program. Of the current top ten e-book bestsellers on Amazon, four of them are self-published. These aren't flukes: They've been in the top ten more than 50 days on average. They're books by authors you probably haven't heard of—Darcy Chan, Chris Culver, Michael Prescott, Douglas E. Richards—right up there with James Patterson and Nicholas Sparks. At 79 to 99 cents a copy, they're priced to sell. But considering that sales estimates for some of the top indie e-book sellers start at 2500 copies a month, that's money most authors would be quite pleased with. Self-published e-books occupy several slots of the top ten on all the genre lists, too—sci-fi, romance, mysteries.Notes on a voice from More Intelligent Life takes on Conan Doyle:
This is staggering, and it's a part of the story that hasn't yet been fully explored. When nontraditional e-books are taking such a large cut of the market, why on earth is Amazon building an editorial apparatus? It would seem to be exactly the wrong move—unless there's some other piece of the puzzle we don't know about.
Amazon can be faulted for a lot of things, but making bad business decisions isn't one of them. If the company has calculated that the gain of bringing edited books to market is worth the investment in an in-house editorial staff, that's not an assault on the publishing industry. To the contrary: It's a signal that the services the industry has traditionally offered are still of value. What's under assault, rather, is the bloated, arrogant, and conservative culture of the publishing conglomerates that for so long have enjoyed far too much control over what we read.
"Dr Watson doesn't write to you, he talks to you, with Edwardian courtesy, across a glowing fire." So said John le Carré, one of many writers in thrall to Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930). His most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, provides the excitement. But his second most famous, John Watson, provides the voice.From Twitter:
The stories (1887-1927) are infinitely re-readable. Fans focus on Holmes himself, that perfect assemblage of cold calculation and eccentric tastes—the violin, the cocaine, the tobacco in the Persian slipper. "Every writer owes something to Holmes," wrote T.S. Eliot in 1929. But Holmes would be precious without Watson's direct, manly presence. A late story narrated by Holmes was hopeless. The prose lost most of its energy and all of its suspense, and became smug.
Watson, the medic ever ready with a pistol and a flask of brandy, was a conduit for Doyle himself, who had been a GP. The doctor is decent, and, contrary to popular belief, not stupid. He shares the reader's breathless bemusement at Holmes's lightning deductions. "What can it all mean?" Watson gasps in "The Speckled Band", the most terrifying story of all. "'It means that it's all over,' Holmes answered."
Lonely Planet looks to digital publishing http://bit.ly/rVpFRq
Philip Pullman: Using the internet is like looking at a landscape through a keyhole - Telegraph
Tom Waits: 'I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me' – interview http://gu.com/p/32mnp/tw
Editing Wikipedia at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts: http://nyti.ms/qCaJdn


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'Shot in the Dark' Is Dunkin' Donuts First-Ever Coffee in a Can
Two years ago, Dunkin' Donuts introduced bottled coffee beverages. Now, the brand is releasing its first-ever java by the can. "Shot in the Dark" combines espresso and coffee with a touch of cream and sugar. It currently comes in three flavors - caramel, mocha, and vanilla - which are all served in a slim 8.1-ounce can. Each Shot in the Dark is 80 calories and costs $2.49.
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"Our fans have loved our ready-to-drink iced coffees as a great way to power through their day with Dunkin' anytime and anywhere," Dunkin' Donuts vice president for retail business development Brian Gilbert said in a release. "Now, for the coffee-loving consumers who want something a little bolder than a traditional cup of coffee, but not as strong as a shot of espresso, our Shot in the Dark creates an exciting and energizing new option when on-the-go."
In anticipation of autumn, Dunkin' Donuts also recently began serving its annual pumpkin lineup. The brand's pumpkin spice bottled iced coffee, K-Cup pods, pumpkin-flavored lattes, cappuccinos, cold brew, iced coffee, and hot coffee, muffins, doughnuts, and Munchkin doughnut holes are available now in outposts nationwide. These items came long before the official start of fall, but we aren't surprised because so did all of these pumpkin spice products you can buy right now.

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Welcome to the Church of the Holy Rude, Stirling!
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Join us for Sunday Worship as indicated below.
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, all services are suspended until further notice. — Church of Scotland
22 March 2020, Reflection and prayer. — Rev. Alan Miller.
29 March 2020, Prayer and Reflection for the 5th Sunday in Lent — Audio only — Video on Youtube — Rev. Alan Miller.
We are a congregation of the Church of Scotland (a church in the Presbyterian tradition and part of the world-wide family of Reformed Churches), worshipping in our beautiful and historic building which dates from the 15th century.
The Church has been the historic Burgh Kirk, or Parish Church, of Stirling for 900 years and is the only church still in active use, apart from Westminster Abbey in London, to have hosted a coronation, when the infant King James VI of Scotland (later also James I of England) was crowned in the Holy Rude on the 29th July 1567.
We are a friendly and welcoming faith community, open to all who come to us as we seek to live out our Christian faith in offering hospitality to all who come, no matter what your age, background, culture or gender, and whether you come only once, or become a regular member of our congregation every Sunday.
Our worship style is traditional, and we have a reputation for good music and liturgy, and thought-provoking preaching. There is a Young Church for children from 3 to 12 years old, and during the service there are baby changing facilities and a creche for very young children in the vestry.


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MILAN (AP) - Fiat and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne said Tuesday his plans to invest to ramp up Alfa Romeo and Maserati production in Italy was "up for grabs" after a court ruled a key labor statute unconstitutional.
MILAN (AP) � Fiat and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne said Tuesday his plans to invest to ramp up Alfa Romeo and Maserati production in Italy was "up for grabs" after a court ruled a key labor statute unconstitutional.
Marchionne told an analyst conference that he has urged the government to draft legislation to create some certainty for Fiat, Italy's largest private sector employer, but "I have seen nothing yet."
The constitutional court ruled in early July that a labor statute that limits unions operating within a company to those who have signed collective work contracts violates the constitutional protection of union freedom. The ruling was the result of a challenge by the FIOM union, which has refused to sign more flexible labor agreements sought by Fiat as a condition for new investments.
Marchionne said the decision has triggered a lack of certainty in regard to plans to raise production of higher-margin luxury cars in Fiat's underutilized Italian plants for the export market.
"If the industrial conditions in Italy remain such that it is impossible to properly govern the industrial operations in this country, then obviously any commitment we made to this country is up for grabs," Marchionne said. "We are still trying to understand the implications of the latest court ruling on what Fiat is doing in Italy."
The court's ruling could impact operations on the Pomigliano plant, where Fiat invested 800 million euros to build the new Panda, as well as plants in Turin. Marchionne said he was seeking a meeting with the head of the FIOM union.
Europe's recession, along with plummeting sales in its domestic Italian market, have continued to weigh on Fiat's results. Fiat on Tuesday said strong sales by its U.S. subsidiary Chrysler came to the rescue again, as it reported a quadrupling in second-quarter net income.
Fiat, which is based in the northern city of Turin, said net profit for the three months ending June 30 was 142 million euros ($188 million), up from a restated profit of 32 million euros in the same period last year. Without Chrysler, in which Fiat holds a majority stake, the Italian company would have lost 247 million euros, as European sales dropped 5 percent.
Fiat shares dropped 4.7 percent to 6 euros in Milan trading.
Worldwide car shipments were up 5 percent in the quarter to 1.2 million units, more than half of those Chrysler brands. North American sales rose 4 percent, while Asia and Latin America posted double-digit growth.
Fiat sold 234,000 passenger cars under its mass-market Fiat, Lancia and Alfa Romeo brands in the quarter. Its market share shrank 0.5 percentage points to 6.3 percent "reflecting the continued reduction in Italy's overall weighting in the European market," Fiat said.
Revenues for the quarter were 22 billion euros, up 4 percent over the previous year.
Marchionne said Chrysler results showed "the machine is back on," but he acknowledged the second half of the year will be a challenge due to the cost of new Chrysler product launches.
In the United States, Chrysler Group's sales picked up in the quarter on strong demand for trucks and SUVs, hitting 643,000 vehicles with growth outpacing the industry average. Still, Chrysler cut its full-year sales and profit targets after a slower than expected start to the year.
Chrysler said it now expects to ship 2.6 million vehicles worldwide in 2013, at the low end of its target of between 2.6 million and 2.7 million. It expects to earn between $1.7 billion and $2.2 billion, down from its previous target of around $2.2 billion.
Fiat took the majority stake in Chrysler in 2009, however its efforts to buy out a minority stockholder have been stymied by a disagreement over a price. A court in Delaware is deliberating Fiat's petition to put a value on an initial 3.3 stake, which will form the basis for determining the value of further shares.
The Italian auto group cut European trading losses � or losses before interest, taxes and one-off items � by 40 million euros to 98 million euros, thanks to cost cutting and the success of the larger version of its popular 500 model, the 500L, which sold 18,000 units in the quarter.
The carmaker's luxury brands contributed 105 million euros thanks to performance sportscar maker Ferrari. Maserati dipped due to costs associated with the launch of the new Quattroporte.
Fiat confirmed its 2013 targets of a trading profit between 1.2 billion euros to 1.5 billion euros on revenues of at least 88 billion euros.


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Earlene Hooper was elected March 15, 1988 in a special election. Her re-election in November 1988 made Ms. Hooper the only minority serving in the legislature from Long Island as well as the only minority serving the legislature from a suburban area of the state. In addition, as the first woman Deputy Speaker, Hooper is the highest ranking female in the New York State legislature.
She is a social worker by profession and has worked as an administrator in the New York State Department of Social Services, Division of Children and Family Services.
An active unionist, Ms. Hooper was a member of the Executive Board of the Public Employees Federation (PEF). From 1979 to 1988, she served as shop steward for PEF in her Department of Social Services office.
A long-time member of the Hempstead Heights Civic Association, she has provided innovative and effective leadership in an effort to improve the community. As Legislative Chairwoman of the Nassau County Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, she established the DEALS project (Developing and Expanding Adult Life Skills) to help young people make the difficult transition from adolescence to adulthood.
Ms. Hooper is an active member of the NAACP, the Central Nassau Chapter of the Negro Business and Professional Women's Association, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and Links, Inc., Nassau Chapter.
Her legislative priorities include securing increased state funding for local school districts, fighting for drug rehabilitation programs, ensuring safe affordable housing for all New Yorkers, protecting our environment and strengthening economic development. Her role as Deputy Speaker gives her the passion she possesses to assure equitable representation and participation of minorities share in state business opportunities.
She is a member of the Assembly Task Force on Women's Issues and the New York State Black and Puerto Rican Legislative Caucus. Additionally, Ms. Hooper was appointed by former Speaker Miller to the Permanent Commission on Justice for Children where she served 1988-1993.
She was graduated from Norfolk State College, Norfolk, Virginia, with a B.A. in English and received her Master's Degree in Social Work from Adelphi University, Garden City, New York, and Doctor of Humane Letters from Five Towns College, Huntington, N.Y. She is a professor (adjunct) at Adelphi University's Graduate School of Social Work, Garden City. N.Y.
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Social networking has taken the world by storm. Though it can trace its roots back more than a decade to discussion forums and blogs, social networking has exploded with the popularity of sites like MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter.
It seems like every day there's a new social networking site or social networking tool that the blogosphere is clamoring about and saying your business, church, or non-profit "must use" if it wants to keep up, stay relevant, and connect with people.
So, to make sense of all this I've invited a panel of experienced social networkers to do a Social Networking Round Table with us. They've been gracious enough to take time out of their busy schedules to share their insight on social networking with us. Because issues are so extensive, I've broken up the interviews up into 4 parts.
Part 1: Social Networking Consumption
Our panel for part 1 includes
- John Saddington – Social computing technologist, avid blogger at ChurchCrunch and Human3rror, and Twitterer @human3rror.
- Kem Meyer – Communications Director at Granger Community Church, author of Less Clutter, Less Noise, blogger at KemMeyer.com, and Twitter @kemmeyer.
- Matt Farina – Web developer, co-host of the Geeks and God Podcast, blogger at MattFarina.com, and Twitterer @MattFarina.
1) What social networking tools do you personally consume (read/view)? Do you read blogs? (how many?) Do you visit forums? Are you on Facebook? How many Twitterers do you follow and actually read?
JS: Ok, so first I personally use a number of social networking applications and services but primarily I spend most of my time on my blogs which is human3rror.com and churchcrunch.com and a number of other blogs that I manage as well and spend some time on twitter often as well. Of course I read tons of blogs. I read approximately am subscribed to 224 blogs currently. I visit a number of forums for all set information I am on facebook, yes, I don't spend too much time. I probably check it about once a month. Currently how many twitters a month is about 3 ½ thousand and I don't read all of them because it is impossible.
KM: I regularly use three main tools: Bloglines, Twitter and occasionally Facebook. I don't visit Forums. I'm following about 100 blogs and about 250 people in Twitter. In my Bloglines, Twitter AND Facebook, I group people into different categories. The category determines the frequency that I actually read new posts. Some I check daily, some monthly, some quarterly, some only as needed, some are professional, some are personal, etc. I use other social media tools as well (e.g., YouVersion, LinkedIn, etc) but they are not part of my daily routine.
MF: My social networking is fairly limited. I primarily use twitter where I follow just under 150 people. To be in on more conversations I used saved searches on topics. I also use facebook. While I don't take advantage of many of the features or applications it's been a great way for me to connect with old friends.
I read a lot of blogs. Using Google Reader I follow a couple hundred blogs that I'm able to get through in less than a half hour each day. For the most part I skim them and read the posts that jump out at me.
The one forum I frequent is the Geeks and God forum. This forum is centered on technology use in the church and is one I run.
2) On an average day how much time do you spend reading/viewing social media?
JS: Probably a lot. I typically spend at least an hour in my Google reader alone. At least reading up on current blogs and information and then throughout the day I am viewing other resources as well. I don't know how much that might actually be.
KM: Depends on the day… but the average is probably 1-3 hours.
MF: It's hard to say how much time I spend in social media each day. I directly spend about a half hour each day reading RSS feeds. Beyond this the time is a few seconds here and there while I do something alongside something else. It's integrated into my day like drinking my mourning coffee. It happens alongside the other things I'm doing. You won't find me searching youtube, playing games on facebook, or in many of the other distracting things out there. My time is limited and I just don't have time for that. When I do have time I prefer to spend it with my wife or new puppy.
3) A lot of people struggle with "tyranny of the urgent" – phone, email, and other messages coming in that distract from more important work. Years ago, before the advent of social networking, the most common suggestion was to keep your email tool closed all the time and just schedule in 3-4 times to check and respond to email each day. Now with social networking, people are getting dozens of emails, Facebook updates, tweets, RSS updates an hour. How do you manage this? What's the best way to do social networking still keep your sanity and get things done?
JS: I'm not sure. I am actually not the best person to ask in terms of managing the chaos. I do have somewhat of a loose schedule in terms of how I do manage it. I am a fan of Inbox Zero but I have never actually done it. So I try to get it down as much as possible. Managing your priorities I suppose and making sure your priorities are in order – spend time where you really need to spend time with your family and with your ministry and with friends and other activities that are available to you.
KM: If I'm working on a deadline and really need to focus, I turn everything off (facebook, email, phone, twitter) and focus on the project at hand for 2-3 hours at a time. When I come up for air, depending on how much time I have, I may only check email and Twitter and leave the rest for later. I don't stress out about keeping up with my social media. I consume what I need, when I need it and don't worry about what I've missed. Sometimes I'll go scroll backwards to catch up, but rarely. If I miss something, it's really inconsequential because I can always find something later if I need to. Also, I don't prioritize replying to Facebook contacts. It's more social/recreation tool for me than the others and, therefore, less of a priority. I get to Facebook when I have the margin.
MF: From what I understand, people typically perform better when they are focusing on one task at a time. I try to do this. I check my email at 3 – 4 times a day. When I have to write or focus on a task I try to shut other things out. I use a program that isolates the window on my computer I'm working in and turns the rest of the screen black. This blocks out the distractions. I do keep twitter open much of the day. But, I only check it every so often. It provides a nice distraction for the micro breaks I take.
Big thanks to our panel – John, Kem, and Matt – for sharing your social networking usage and insights with us.
A few things that stood out to me…
First, these guys (and I use that term in a non-gender specific way) read a lot! If you want to know what's going on and want to know how to speak into social networks, you've got to listen.
Second, they all turn off social networking (and other communication) tools when they need to focus and get stuff done. Good advice.
Third, I really liked what Kem said about how she doesn't stress over missing things and rarely goes back to catch up. I know for me, sometimes reading blogs (and I subscribe to about 150) can feel like a chore, especially if I've been away or buried in a project for a few days.
Next week in Social Networking Round Table – Part 2 our panel will look at how organizations should decide which social networking tools/sites and talk about how to use those tools/sites most effectively.
Continue the discussion with your comments… What social networking do you consume and how do you manage it? What's your reaction to our panelists?


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Parts Of: Hippopotamus
A set of 10 highlighted parts of a hippopotamus, from the wild animals category, each organized in a 3-part card layout. All images are hand-painted and printable in high definition.
FORMAT: This is a downloadable product. You will need to cut out and laminate the cards before use.
Approximate card sizes are 3¾" x 4¾" (control cards), 3¾" x 3½" (image cards), and 3¾" x 1¼" (label cards).


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New Safe Chemicals Act Shifts Accountability and Burden of Proof to Industry
New Safe Chemicals Act Shifts Accountability and Burden of Proof to IndustryMany people have complained about needing a degree in chemistry to understand which products are safe and which are not. New Safe Chemicals Act may enable the protection we need.
In February we wrote a blog about The Health Case for Reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act, a new health report from Safer Chemicals Healthy Families. See Toxic Chemicals Are Putting Your Children at Risk. The tireless efforts of many people have finally paid off - landmark legislation that completely overhauls the broken system used by government to protect us from toxic chemicals has been introduced in Congress.
Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Congressmen Bobby Rush (D-IL) and Henry Waxman (D-CA) are the authors of the new Safe Chemicals Act, formerly known as the Kid-Safe Chemicals Act.
Here are some of the highlights to give you an idea of what the new law would do:
- (Finally) empower the EPA to regulate toxic chemicals, and act quickly when necessary.
- Ensure the EPA is provided with sufficient information to evaluate the safety of a chemical.
- Establish new research programs to help us understand the risk toxic industrial chemicals pose to children, ourselves, and the environment.
- Force industry to prove their products are safe, both those already on the market and those they introduce in the future. Formerly, the burden of proof was the responsibility of the EPA, which didn't have the power, information or funding needed to fulfill the obligation.
- Provide the public with transparent and adequate information to make their own judgments and decisions.
and more.
The Safe Chemicals Act will "breathe new life into a long-dead statute by empowering EPA to get tough on toxic chemicals," said Senator Lautenberg.
And that's exactly what we need to protect ourselves, our children, and our environment.
If you would like to read the bill in its entirety, it's available here.
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Certificate Programme planned for launch in year 2014.
Todays highly regulated industrial products and processes require high proficiency in handling microbiological techniques. Problems arise when new microbes spring up surprises every now and then in human and animal health, industrial and other situations. Individuals must have skills to handle all types of microbes and identify them.
We provide training in Food Microbiology, Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Ayurvedic Microbiology, Cosmetics Microbiology, Water Microbiology etc. Training is offered to build new skills and competence so that the candidates acquire confidence in taking responsibilities as Microbiologists in all sectors.
Our Microbiology training provides an up-to-date, comprehensive working knowledge of all areas of basic microbiology, with particular focus and emphasis on laboratory-based practical aspects.
Our training programme will cover:
• Groups of microorganisms of importance in Food and Pharma Industry
• Factors affecting the growth, survival and death of microorganisms
• Applications
• Microbiology laboratory equipments – operation and practice
• Microbiology laboratory accreditation, performance monitoring and systems for documentation
• Conventional methods for microbiological examination
• Confirmation tests and how they work
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SAN JOSE — A local man who was held over for trial on the basis of a phony lab report cooked up by a police officer and presented in court by a prosecutor is poised to win a legal settlement with the city for $150,000.
On Tuesday, the San Jose City Council is expected to approve the settlement with Michael Kerkeles of San Jose. Under the agreement, the city must also pay Kerkeles' legal fees, which could be at least $1 million because the federal civil rights case dragged on for six years and included a hard-fought appeal.
Kerkeles declined to comment, but one of his lawyers said the case has taken a major toll on him. Not only was Kerkeles at work when the sexual assault of a developmentally disabled woman supposedly occurred, the lawyer said, but his wife also was in her home office, steps from where the alleged rape took place.
"It's a significant sum, but Mr. Kerkeles certainly wouldn't trade the money he got for what he went through," lawyer Matt Davis said.
Fake crime report
The evidence that Kerkeles' rights had been violated was bolstered last year when prosecutor Jaime Stringfield admitted she misled the court about the lab report. She was suspended for a month by the state Supreme Court, based on a recommendation by the State Bar, which licenses attorneys. She had already resigned from the District Attorney's Office to pursue a teaching career, but is currently licensed to practice law.
However, the police officer, Sgt. Matthew Christian, remains on the job and is now assigned to the Traffic Investigations Unit, said SJPD spokesman Albert Morales.
The injustice unfolded after Kerkeles was accused in 2005 of sexually assaulting the developmentally disabled neighbor with the mental acuity of a 7-year-old.
In hopes of extracting a confession, Christian created a "ruse" crime report indicating that Kerkeles' semen had been found on a blanket, while the actual report revealed no semen. Such a tactic is legal — at that stage of a case.
Kerkeles asked for an attorney, so the report was never actually used as a ruse. Instead, it was presented in court after the District Attorney's Office lost two preliminary hearings in the case.
'Huge mistake'
On both occasions, the judge found the woman was not a competent witness and there was insufficient evidence to hold Kerkeles over for trial on charges.
But at the third preliminary hearing, then-prosecutor Stringfield elicited testimony from officer Christian regarding the contents of the ruse report. The officer's testimony was that semen had been found on the blanket, prompting the court to find there was probable cause to hold Kerkeles over for trial.
"In our view, that was a huge mistake," San Jose City Attorney Rick Doyle said, referring to the presentation of the phony document in court and Sgt. Matthew Christian's testimony about it.
There were several indications that the report was false. For one thing, the officer used a phony name for the crime lab analyst. It was also dated within a day of the evidence being seized — contrary to normal DNA examinations, which take considerably longer to complete. Stringfield had in her file a real report that did not find semen on the bedspread.
"It's a good number ($150,000) to settle the case for," the city attorney said, "given the (legal) risks."
Contact Tracey Kaplan at 408-278-3482. Follow her at Twitter.com/tkaplanreport.


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Every day, I link out a few blogs posts and articles that I've read or used from across the internet. Here are the top ten of the items that I linked out last week. Typically, these are the tweets from things I read in the evenings and then share throughout the afternoon with the "Reading" title. Let me know if you find these useful or interesting.
Last week's top 20 "Reading" Links
- Things You Wish You'd Known Before a Job Interview [71 clicks]
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Subway's New Chipotle Cheesesteak Reinvents a Classic
You may think that you've had a steak and cheese sandwich at Subway, but you haven't had the ultimate steak and cheese sandwich at Subway. Starting September 21, the beloved sandwich chain is serving up a bold new sandwich, the Chipotle Cheesesteak, and it's going to make you rethink everything you thought you knew about Subway subs.
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I'm not the biggest fan of spicy foods. Like, medium chicken wings make me sweat. And while I did find this sandwich had an edge to it, the actual smokiness, meatiness and cheesiness of the individual ingredients came through far more than the heat level. And if you're looking for a Subway sandwich with a ton of flavor, this will get the job done.The Chipotle Cheesesteak is one of three steak and cheese offerings available at Subway. Along with that sandwich, they're also offering a Signature Steak and Cheese Sub and a Chipotle Southwest Steak & Cheese Signature Wrap. And if you didn't know Subway had so many steak menu items, you probably don't know these 14 other facts about the chain.


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2,870 stores on Britain's top 500 high streets have closed down in the first half of the year, according to research by PwC and the Local Data Company. However, a total of 1634 stores opened in the same period, meaning the net closure was 1,234. This is an increase from the 1,123 from last year and the highest number since the survey began in 2010. Fashion retailers saw the biggest decline in the period, driven by administrations and CVAs. Competition from online retailers has made it difficult for traditional retailers to survive and pay the overheads of a brick and mortar store. Here are some of the retail names that have gone from many high streets, or could be going soon.
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Steelhead of 8-20 pounds run well from October through April, with November, December,
February and April the best. The best mixed bag fishing (salmon, browns, steelhead,
lake trout) is in October and November.
streams vary in size from large rives to small creeks of moderate gradient. The
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Winter has been slow to let go up here, but now that it finally warmed up fishing
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weather. Last Sat. it never got above 26 F all day but we caught Steelhead. The
warmer days have definitely fished better and the forecast for this week is 50s
to 60s and the water levels in the creeks are near perfect. I expect it to be
excellent.Just as an example of the variability involved in Steelhead
fishing; the two anglers who just fished with me were up for three days. The first
day was cold with a miserable wind chill and high water. It was also their first
time fishing since a trip with me on the Delaware in September and they were very
rusty and didn't land anything. The next day was warmer, the water lower, and
more importantly they had gotten their casting and mending skills back. They landed
a couple nice big Steelhead and lost some others. By Friday( their last day) they
were fishing with confidence and skill and water levels were better though it
was still rather cold. We hooked Steelhead all day on a variety of flies and one
of them was a true trophy of 16 to 18 pounds. In three days they experienced the
full gamut of fishing success. Angler skill/technique is the one variable that
can override all the others.A variety of flies have produced from big
spey flies through my " go to" attractors the Lemon Drop, Cherry Blossum, and
Freight Train Flashabou. Of course we caught some fish on glow bugs too. Techniques
have been mostly dead drift with an indicator but swinging on a sink tip has worked
better at times. All in all it was a good if cold week. John D.
May through August, we concentrate on large wild stream trout in the Delaware
River System. The Delaware is home to the finest population of large streambred
rainbow in Eastern North America. Their fighting characteristics are legendary.
Brown trout abound in the East and West branches and reach sizes usually encountered
only in lakes. American shad are an added bonus that can produce great sport in
late Spring. The main river is large, and its character and fishing techniques
required often have more in common with Montana than New York. Both wading and
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Marjorie Otto/Review • Participating in nation-wide walkouts to protest gun violence, hundreds of students walked out of Harding High School March 14. Students left at 10 a.m. and stayed outside for 17 minutes, one minute for each victim of the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
Hundreds of students walked out of Harding High School at 10 a.m. on March 14 to protest gun violence in schools, in solidarity with students at schools across the state and nation.
From left to right, Kaylyn Vang, Xia Vang and Chinue Yang. (Submitted photo)
With a winning dish of Thai peanut chicken lettuce wraps, cucumber salad and pineapple crisp, one of two teams from Harding High School will be going to Washington, D.C., in June.
Gerald Keenan got a nod from the Minnesota State High School League when he was inducted into their Hall of Fame on Oct. 25. The Harding High School athletics director has been at the school since 1975, and with the district since 1960. (Patrick Larkin/Review)
Jerry Keenan's lifelong dedication to athletics gets a nod
Fifty-five years into his career, Harding High School's activities and athletics director Gerald Keenan has no plans of stopping, even after achieving state Hall of Fame stature.
Jerry Keenan, as he prefers, was inducted into the Minnesota State High School League Hall of Fame on Oct. 25, receiving the designation alongside three Olympic athletes and nine other Minnesotans involved in high school sports for the league's 100th anniversary.
For the second time in his career in St. Paul Public Schools, Erik Brandt is a 2015 Minnesota Teacher of the Year finalist.
Brandt, an English teacher and IB program coordinator for the school, was also named a finalist in 2013.
The 30 semifinalists for Education Minnesota's annual Teacher of the Year award have been announced, and two East Side educators are among them.
Harding High School students competed with other St. Paul Public School kids in a culinary cookoff after school on Friday, Feb. 20 at Saint Paul College.
Bruce Thao, 16, a Harding High junior, tells his friends about the benefits of opening a savings account. Harding High School now has a credit union within its walls, located in the cafeteria. (Patrick Larkin/Review)
Credit Union at school is only the fourth in the state
It's not every day that you stroll into a high school and find a credit union.
In fact, in Minnesota, it's pretty rare -- Harding High School is only the fourth high school in the state to have a credit union within its walls.
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Mylai Tenner was an enthused tri-sport athlete when he attended Harding High School.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama emphasized the economic benefits of overhauling the country's immigration laws in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday as he urged Congress to send him legislation to sign into law in the next few months.
In a speech largely focused on job creation, Obama said the United States could strengthen its economy by attracting more high-tech workers from overseas and establishing a pathway to citizenship for those who entered the country illegally.
"Our country is stronger when we harness the talents and ingenuity of striving, hopeful immigrants," Obama said.
Unlike some of Obama's other proposals, an immigration plan stands a chance of passing both the Democratic-controlled Senate and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives because of the growing clout of the Latino electorate.
Obama emphasized the common ground that exists among a range of stakeholders on immigration, such as the need to reduce bureaucratic hurdles and attract top global talent.
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Obama is eager to act on a top priority of Latinos, who favored him over Republican Mitt Romney in the November 6 election by 71 percent to 27 percent, helping Obama win politically divided states such as Florida and Nevada.
Republicans, meanwhile, worry that they will be consigned to irrelevancy if they do not do more to appeal to Hispanics, who the Pew Hispanic Center estimates will make up nearly one-third of the U.S. population by the middle of the century.
"The president's remarks are yet another reminder that what seemed politically impossible only a year ago is now within our reach, if only for a fleeting moment, as Democrats have a political debt to pay and Republicans a party to save," said Cheryl Little, director of Americans for Immigrant Justice, a Miami immigrant-advocacy group.
Other factors are helping as well.
Illegal immigration has declined sharply since the last time Congress took up the issue in 2007, largely because of the downturn in the U.S. economy. That has eased concerns that migrants are taking American jobs or disrupting U.S. communities.
Meanwhile, business and labor groups have increasingly chafed against the limits of a system that is widely viewed as broken.
High-tech companies argue that the country's restrictive visa program hampers innovation by limiting the number of skilled workers they can recruit from abroad.
Hamilton Place Strategies, a Washington research group, argued in a recent paper that low-skilled immigrant workers in agriculture also boost the economy by increasing work for Americans in other sectors, such as transportation and marketing.
Republican Senator Marco Rubio, who was picked by his party to respond to Obama's speech late Tuesday, also emphasized the economic benefits of immigration reform.
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The earthquake and subsequent tsunami disaster in Japan have prompted speculation about the world's nuclear future, the pressures on oil, and issues around economic collapse. Here's our round-up from some of the top thinkers in the peak oil movement.
|James Howard Kunstler | Kunstler.com
What's happening in Japan now makes 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the Macondo blowout look like everyday problems. The earthquake/nuclear disaster may propel Japan more quickly onto the path of systematically downscaling and re-localizing — while other nations such as the US campaign to sustain the unsustainable. So in the medium-to-longer run, this might turn out, paradoxically, to be beneficial for Japan. They'll get a head-start for making the new arrangements that we'll all have to make.
|Jeff Rubin | Jeff Rubin's Small World
If the Three Mile Island disaster in 1979 near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is any guide, the real impact of what's happening at the Fukushima power plant will be felt for decades. Overnight, the Three Mile Island accident undermined public confidence in the safety of nuclear power. There hasn't been a new greenfield nuclear power station built in the U.S. for decades. And the nuclear disaster in Japan is now sure to put the kibosh on hopes of any nuclear renaissance in America.
|Andre Angelantoni | Post Peak Living
We are just at the beginning of seeing societal systems break down that we have counted on for all our lives. Instead of focusing on what is lost, focus instead on how this will create space for the resiliency of individuals and communities to take their place.
|Carolyn Baker | CarolynBaker.com
Restoring our intimate connection with the Earth does not guarantee physical survival, but it does facilitate a sense of meaning and purpose when the planet's tectonic plates are reverberating, and we are reminded that Earth's rage on one side of the planet will invariably and unimaginably impact our side as well. I would ask every person reading these words to take an hour or more to cease whatever you are doing. Find a very quiet place in nature, and open your heart and mind to the Earth. Ask the Earth to tell you what it wants from you. Consider that there is something important, even urgent, that you came here to do. If you don't yet know what that is, or even if you do, ask the Earth to tell you how you can do what you came here to do and do it even more consciously and more powerfully than you ever have. Feel your connection with Earth in every cell of your body. Commit to loving and protecting the Earth in every aspect of your life — what you eat, what you consume, and how you touch the lives of other members of the Earth community from moment to moment.
|Harvey Wasserman | Solartopia
Once again nuclear power has proven itself to be a plague on all humanity. We have the technology to get to Solartopia — a totally green-powered Earth — and if we don't use it, we will perish. Defeating King CONG — coal, oil, nukes & gas — is the first, essential step.
|Tom Whipple | Peak Oil Review
When the word came that several large Japanese oil refineries had been closed due to the quake, tsunami, and in a few cases fires, oil prices dropped on the theory that Japan would not be importing as much oil in the immediate future. As the scope of the disaster became more apparent, including the forced shutdown of 10 nuclear reactors and at least five thermal power plants, analysts were forced to rethink their initial appreciation of the situation. Just looking at the scope of the devastation, it is obvious that it will require prodigious amounts of energy, mostly in the form of diesel, over many years to clean up and rebuild from the damage. Simply moving and accommodating the hundreds of thousands who have lost their homes or been evacuated from around the ailing nuclear plants will required much added energy. The loss of agricultural land will likely require an increase in food imports. In addition, the Japanese will need to increase their imports of fuel oil and natural gas to compensate for the loss of so many electric power reactors. Rolling blackouts in the industrial parts of the country may cause many businesses and individuals to turn to backup generators, thereby increasing the demand for diesel and gasoline.
|John Cooksey | How to Boil a Frog
None of us know how the situation in Japan, or on the Earth as a whole, will play out. The Laws of Irony make plain that whatever situations we plan for, will be the only ones that don't happen. (Turns out brain-eating zombies aren't interested in the rice you have stored in the basement.) The China Syndrome taught us about reactor core meltdowns. Let's make sure The Japan Syndrome isn't a disconnection from our feelings, a triumph of intellect over empathy.
|Michael Ruppert | CollapseNet
Oil refining capacity is going to be a huge factor in the days ahead. Over the next two weeks I anticipate a serious global shortage of diesel fuel to run generators. Immediate disruptions in the supply chain, re-prioritization and recalibration of refineries around the world, plus the critical issue of delivery of refined diesel for electrical generation, is one of the two or three most-pressing issues right now. The absolute first priority however is to get control of the nuclear reactors and prevent and total meltdown at Fukushima.
|Nicole Foss | The Automatic Earth
Fear is a phenomenally "catching" emotion, and that can have serious consequences of its own, especially under circumstances where social infrastructure is already overwhelmed. A perception of cover-up would add significantly to this fear. It is therefore extremely important for the Japanese authorities to be consistently and completely forthcoming about the situation.
|Sharon Astyk | Casaubon's Book
One of the good things that could potentially come out of the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami is an awakening of people to the reality that even in seemingly protected and developed world space, disaster, true disaster, is more common than you think, and requires basic preparedness. All of us intellectually realize that an evacuation plan is necessary – any of us can have a fire, a radiation leak, a chemical spill, a flood, a tornado, an earthquake in our region that requires evacuation. It is not so very strenuous to have a "grab and go" bag together – and the difference between escaping with the resources to meet very basic needs and escaping without them is huge.
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New York, May 7, 2012--China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs should immediately grant accreditation to Al-Jazeera English reporters to work in China, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The channel said China has refused its long-time correspondent Melissa Chan and other colleagues journalist visas, forcing it to close its Beijing bureau.
Al-Jazeera English had requested visas for various correspondents "for quite some time," but none were issued, the channel said in a statement released early Tuesday in Beijing. Accreditation is handled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' International Press Center. "With China not renewing [our] existing correspondent's accreditations, or allowing a replacement correspondent," Al-Jazeera English said it has no choice "other than to close its Beijing bureau."
"We urge China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to immediately grant Al-Jazeera English correspondents accreditation to report the news in China," said Bob Dietz, CPJ Asia program coordinator. "The refusal to renew Melissa Chan's credentials marks a real deterioration in China's media environment, and sends a message that international coverage is unwanted."
Al-Jazeera English did not elaborate on the reasons for China's decision. Like all foreign news outlets, the channel covered topics censored domestically by the Chinese Communist Party, including ethnic unrest and secret jails. Anonymous hackers have subjected Chan to malware attacks in the past, another common experience for foreign reporters, according to CPJ research. But there was no clear reason for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ban the channel's correspondents. Chan, the Al-Jazeera English Beijing-based correspondent since 2007, told CPJ by email she was not authorized to comment.
"Surveillance and harassment are the norm for reporters on the China beat, and authorities will often delay visa approval or threaten to revoke it as part of an overall strategy of intimidation. But effectively shuttering an international news outlet is a disturbing development," Dietz said.
Some news outlets do not publicize visa pressure in hopes of maintaining future access, but CPJ has documented visa problems in the past. Dietz was himself denied entry into China before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and his applications for a journalist visa from New York and Hong Kong were ignored. Some accredited reporters and unaccredited citizen journalists reporting on Tibet were denied entry or deported during the Olympics.
China responded to concerns about its pre-Olympics media environment with rules allowing foreign journalists to work anywhere and interview anyone who consents. But more recently, at times of heightened internal tension, Beijing has invoked that rule to punish journalists who it said didn't seek prior approval:
- Foreign journalists were detained in 2011 for not seeking permission to report in a Beijing shopping street pegged as the site of Jasmine Revolution demonstrations--though the protest never materialized, and permission appeared impossible to obtain.
- Beijing's Public Security Bureau summoned at least a dozen reporters on Friday for working without permission in the part of Chaoyang Hospital where blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng was being treated, according to an email circulated to members by the Foreign Correspondents Club of China.
- At least two reporters had their press credentials seized, "hopefully just temporarily," for unauthorized reporting at the same site on Thursday, according to the Club.
Melissa Chan is listed as the 2011-2012 Secretary of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China on the organization's website.


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When pet owners have to be away for vacation or business, it is important that they find a great pet sitting company or professional to care for pets in their absence. Pet sitting is the most common service requested in the industry, and there are plenty of Chandler dog sitters and cat sitters in the area who are well qualified to care for your pets while you're gone. PetSitting.com's citywide network of the leading Chandler pet sitters provides consumers with insured and bonded services for worry-free, pet-free trips. Fill out our simple pet sitting form to receive a quick response from an established pet sitting company in Chandler.
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The White House Conference on Library and Information Services Taskforce (WHCLIST) and the ALA Washington Office are calling for nominations for the WHCLIST Award. This award is granted to a non-librarian participant in National Library Legislative Day (NLLD). The winner receives a stipend of $300 and two free nights at the Liaison hotel.
WHCLIST has been an effective force in library advocacy nationally, statewide and locally since the White House Conferences on Library and Information Services in 1979 and 1991. WHCLIST has provided its assets to the ALA Washington Office to transmit its spirit of dedicated, passionate library support to a new generation of advocates. Both ALA and WHCLIST are committed to ensuring the American people get the best library services possible.
The criteria for the WHCLIST Award are:
- The recipient should be a library supporter (trustee, friend, general supporter) and not a professional librarian.
Recipient should be a first-time attendee of NLLD.
- Representatives of WHCLIST and the ALA Washington office will choose the recipient. The ALA Washington Office will contact the recipient's senators and representatives to announce the award. The winner of the WHCLIST Award will be announced at NLLD. The deadline for applications is April 1, 2016.
To apply for the WHCLIST award, please submit a completed NLLD registration form; a letter explaining why you should receive the award; and a letter of reference from a library director, school librarian, library board chair, Friend's group chair, or other library representative to:
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Note: Applicants must register for NLLD and pay all associated costs. Applicants must make their own travel arrangements. The winner will be reimbursed for two free nights in the NLLD hotel in D.C and receive the $300 stipend to defray the costs of attending the event.
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In the United
States, dietary supplements are substances you eat or drink. They can be
vitamins, minerals, herbs or other plants,
amino acids (the individual building blocks of
protein), or parts of these substances. They can be in pill, capsule, tablet,
or liquid form. They supplement (add to) the diet and should not be considered
a substitute for food.
Dietary supplements are widely available in
the United States in health food stores, grocery stores, pharmacies, on the
Internet, and by mail. People commonly take them for health-related reasons.
Common dietary supplements include vitamins and minerals (such as vitamin C or
a multivitamin), botanicals (herbs and plant products, such as St. John's
wort), and substances that come from a natural source (such as omega-3 fatty
Makers of dietary supplements cannot legally say that
dietary supplements can diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease. But they can
say that they contribute to health maintenance and well-being.
People have used the active ingredients in dietary supplements for
thousands of years to help health and to treat illness. Sometimes those
supplements are the basis for some of today's common medicines. For example,
people have used willow bark tea for centuries to control fever. Pharmaceutical
companies eventually identified the chemical in willow bark that reduces fever
and used that knowledge to produce aspirin.
The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) does not regulate dietary supplements in the same way that
it regulates medicine. A dietary supplement can be sold without research on how
well it works.
People use
dietary supplements for many health conditions.
Not all herbs and
supplements are safe. If you are unsure about the safety of a supplement or
herb, talk to your doctor, pharmacist, or dietitian.
Always tell
your doctor if you are using a dietary supplement or if you are thinking about
combining a dietary supplement with your conventional medical treatment. It may
not be safe to forgo your conventional medical treatment and rely only on a
dietary supplement. This is especially important for women who are pregnant or
When using dietary supplements, keep in mind the
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Former House Speaker Andrew Romanoff today hired a new spokesman for his U.S. Senate campaign, a move made possible by firing his old campaign spokesman.
Dean Toda, who most recently worked as a reporter and editor for the Colorado Springs Gazette and before that worked as an editor for The New York Times, joined Romanoff's team today as press secretary.
Toda replaces John Schroyer, who had served as Romanoff's press secretary for two months and who was dismissed this morning. Schroyer, a former Capitol reporter for the Colorado Statesman and the Colorado Springs Gazette, is friends with Toda.
Romanoff, of Denver, is seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate to replace Michael Bennet, whom Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter appointed to the seat in 2008 after then Democratic incumbent Ken Salazar became U.S. Secretary of the Interior.
Schroyer declined comment.
Toda didn't comment on Schroyer's firing except to say, "I like John and did not want this to happen to him."


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Grand Junction Gains More Medical Kudos
Grand Junction's by-now-well-known health care system is about to get another shot of favorable national publicity in a Rocky Mountain PBS documentary scheduled to air next week. The documentary, "U.S. Health Care: The Good News," showcases three communities to illustrate how some have managed to stay on the low-cost end of the huge discrepancies in health care spending. Grand Junction has been cited as one of the best communities in the country when it comes to providing good health care while keeping costs lower than most places.
That distinction has come from the Dartmouth Atlas Project which studies and publishes information regarding the disparity of how medical resources are used across the United States. Grand Junction's difference is attributed to physicians and community leaders forming a nonprofit insurance company nearly 40 years ago. The Rocky Mountain Health Organization, now called Rocky Mountain Health Plans, created a collaborative system between health care facilities and providers that rewards doctors for holding down costs by decreasing unnecessary medical procedures. It also includes the formation of health-care programs for low-income and uninsured patients.
The PBS documentary by former Washington Post correspondent and health-care writer T. R. Reid, will air at 9 p.m. Feb. 16 on PBS stations.