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Monday, May 2, 2011
Jessica Alba becomes Piaget 'Possession' ambassador
Piaget has enticed one of Hollywood's hottest stars to be a brand ambassador for their new Possession jewellery range, and certainly they don't come much hotter than Jessica Alba, looking fabulous at just turned 30 on April 28th.
The photographs of the Golden Globe nominated actress, who has appeared in movies such as Fantastic Four, Valentine's Day, Little Fockers and hit TV series Dark Angel, was shot by Patrick Demarchelier, one of the most legendary photographers in the business... ever!
Styling for the photography shoot was by celebrity stylist and rising star Brad Goreski, who teamed up with make-up artist Lauren Andersen and hair stylist, Renato Campora.
The results speak for themselves.
The team created six distinct looks…six gorgeous images, each showing a different side of Jessica. Whether she's chic and sexy in a little black number or looking sharp and sophisticated in a leather blazer, Piaget's Possession jewellery provided the perfect accent.
You would imagine these great shots will be splashed across double page spreads in glossy women's magazines, or even featured on giant billboards throughout Hollywood and Santa Monica, but interestingly, unlike most luxury brands, Piaget is not using the pictures for a print campaign at all.
They are focusing on social media (Facebook, Twitter, youtube) and key online sites.
This strategy builds on the hugely successful campaign Piaget did last year with Sienna Miller.
In what is possibly the campaign's most glamorous image, Piaget presents a black and white portrait of Jessica wearing a dazzling white gold and diamond Possession cuff, earrings and ring.
The full collection of iconic images debuted on Piaget's web site and Facebook page on April 27th.
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|Scientific classification
Chytridiomycota is a phylum in the kingdom Fungi. The name is derived from the Greek chytridion, meaning "little pot", describing the structure containing unreleased zoospores. In older classifications, chytrids (except the recently established order Spizellomycetales) were placed in the class Phycomycetes under the subphylum Myxomycophyta of the kingdom Fungi. Previously, they were placed in the Mastigomycotina as the class Chytridiomycetes.[1] Also, in an older and more restricted sense (not used here), the term "chytrids" referred just to those fungi in the order Chytridiales. Here, the term "chytrid" will refer only to members of Chytridiomycota.[2] The chytrids have also been included among the Protoctista,[3] but are now regularly classed as fungi. Chytrids are one of the early diverging fungal lineages and are saprobic, degrading refractory materials such as chitin and keratin, or acting as parasites.[4] Their membership in kingdom Fungi is demonstrated with chitin cell walls, a posterior whiplash flagellum, absorptive nutrition, use of glycogen as an energy storage compound, and synthesis of lysine by the α-amino adipic acid (AAA) pathway.[2][5] There are approximately over 750 chytrid species distributed among 7 orders.[6] There has been a significant increase in the research of chytrids since the discovery of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, the causal agent of chytridiomycosis.[7][8]
- Life cycle & body plan 1
- Brief taxonomic history 2
- Habitats 3
Ecological functions 4
- Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis 4.1
- Other parasites 4.2
- Saprobes 4.3
- Fossil record 5
- In fictional media 6
- References 7
- External links 8
Life cycle & body plan
Chytridiomycota are unusual among the Fungi in that they reproduce with zoospores.[4][9] For most members of Chytridiomycetes, sexual reproduction is not known. Asexual reproduction occurs through the release of zoospores (presumably) derived through mitosis.[4] Where it has been described, sexual reproduction of Chytridomycetes occurs via a variety of methods. It is generally accepted that the resulting zygote forms a resting spore, which functions as a means of surviving adverse conditions.[4] In some members, sexual reproduction is achieved through the fusion of isogametes (gametes of the same size and shape). This group includes the notable plant pathogens Synchytrium. Some algal parasites practice oogamy: a motile male gamete attaches itself to a nonmotile structure containing the female gamete. In another group, two thalli produce tubes that fuse and allow the gametes to meet and fuse.[4] In the last group, rhizoids of compatible strains meet and fuse. Both nuclei migrate out of the zoosporangium and into the conjoined rhizoids where they fuse. The resulting zygote germinates into a resting spore.[2] Sexual reproduction is common and well known among members of the Monblepharidomycetes. Typically, these chytrids practice a version of oogamy: the male is motile and the female is stationary. This is the first occurrence of oogamy in kingdom Fungi.[5] Briefly, the monoblephs form oogonia, which give rise to eggs, and antheridia, which give rise to male gametes. Once fertilized, the zygote either becomes an encysted or motile oospore,[4] which ultimately becomes a resting spore that will later germinate and give rise to new zoosporangia.[5] Upon release from the germinated resting spore, zoospores seek out a suitable substrate for growth using chemotaxis or phototaxis. Some species encyst and germinate directly upon the substrate; others encyst and germinate a short distance away. Once germinated, enzymes released from the zoospore begin to break down the substrate and utilize it produce a new thallus. Thalli are coenocytic and usually form no true mycelium (having rhizoids instead). Chytrids have several different growth patterns. Some are holocarpic, which means they only produce a zoosporangium and zoospores. Others are eucarpic, meaning they produce other structures, such as rhizoids, in addition to the zoosporangium and zoospores. Some chytrids are monocentric, meaning a single zoospore gives rise to a single zoosporangium. Others are polycentric, meaning one zoospore gives rise to many zoosporangium connected by a rhizomycelium. Rhizoids do not have nuclei while a rhizomycelium can.[5] Growth continues until a new batch of zoospores are ready for release. Chytrids have a diverse set of release mechanisms that can be grouped into the broad categories of operculate or inoperculate. Operculate discharge involves the complete or incomplete detachment of a lid-like structure, called an operculum, allowing the zoospores out of the sporangium. Inoperculate chytrids release their zoospores through pores, slits, or papillae.[4]
Brief taxonomic history
Species of Chytridiomycota have traditionally been delineated and classified based on development, morphology, substrate, and method of zoospore discharge.[4][3] However, single spore isolates (or isogenic lines) display a great amount of variation in many of these features; thus, these features cannot be used to reliably classify or identify a species.[4][3][10] Currently, taxonomy in Chytridiomycota is based on molecular data, zoospore ultrastructure and some aspects of thallus morphology and development.[3][10]
Chytrids are aquatic fungi, though those that thrive in the capillary network around soil particles are typically considered terrestrial.[4][3] The zoospore is primarily a means of thoroughly exploring a small volume of water for a suitable substrate rather than a means of long range dispersal.[11] Chytrids have been isolated from a variety of aquatic habitats, including peats, bogs, rivers, ponds, springs, and ditches, and terrestrial habitats, such as acidic soils, alkaline soils, temperate forest soils, rainforest soils, arctic and Antarctic soils.[4][3] This has led to the belief that many chytrid species are ubiquitous and cosmopolitan.[4][3] However, recent taxonomic work has demonstrated that this ubiquitous and cosmopolitan morphospecies hide cryptic diversity at the genetic and ultrastructural levels.[12][13] One of the least expected terrestrial environments the chytrid thrive in are periglacial soils.[14] The population of the Chytridiomycota species are able to be supported even though there is a lack of plant life in these frozen regions due to the large amounts of water in periglacial soil and pollen blowing up from below the timberline. It was first thought aquatic chytrids (and other zoosporic fungi) were primarily active in fall, winter, and spring.[4] However, recent molecular inventories of lakes during the summer indicate that chytrids are an active, diverse part of the eukaryotic microbial community.[15]
Ecological functions
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
The chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis is responsible for chytridiomycosis, a disease of amphibians. Discovered in 1998 in Australia and Panama this disease is known to kill amphibians in large numbers, and has been suggested as a principal cause for the worldwide amphibian decline. Outbreaks of the fungus were found responsible for killing much of the Kihansi Spray Toad population in its native habitat of Tanzania,[16] as well as the extinction of the golden toad in 1989. The process leading to frog mortality is thought to be the loss of essential ions through pores made in the epidermal cells by the chytrid during its replication.[17]
Other parasites
Chytrids mainly infect algae and other eukaryotic and prokaryotic microbes. The infection can be so severe as to control primary production within the lake.[5][18] It has been suggested that parasitic chytrids have a large effect on lake and pond food webs.[19] Chytrids may also infect plant species; in particular, Synchytrium endobioticum is an important potato pathogen.[20]
Arguably, the most important ecological function chytrids perform is decomposition.[3] These ubiquitous and cosmopolitan organisms are responsible for decomposition of refractory materials, such as pollen, cellulose, chitin, and keratin.[4][3] There are also chytrids that live and grow on pollen by attaching threadlike structures, called rhizoids, onto the pollen grains.[21] This mostly occurs during asexual reproduction because the zoospores that become attached to the pollen continuously reproduce and form new chytrids that will attach to other pollen grains for nutrients. This colonization of pollen happens during the spring time when bodies of water accumulate pollen falling from trees and plants.[4]
Fossil record
The earliest fossils of chytrids are from the Scottish Rhynie chert, a Devonian-age lagerstätte with anatomical preservation of plants and fungi. Among the microfossils are chytrids preserved as parasites on rhyniophytes. These fossils closely resemble the modern genus Allomyces.[22] Holocarpic chytrid remains were found in cherts from Combres in central France that date back to the late Visean. These remains were found along with eucarpic remains and are ambiguous in nature although they are thought to be of chytrids.[23] Other chytrid-like fossils were found in cherts from the upper Pennsylvanian in the Saint-Etienne Basin in France, dating between 300 and 350ma.[24]
In fictional media
The novel Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Fallout (2007) features a species of chytrid that feeds on petroleum and oil-based products. In the story the species is modified using nuclear radiation, to increase the rate at which it feeds on oil. It is then used by Islamic extremists in an attempt to destroy the world's oil supplies, thereby taking away the technological advantage of the United States.[25]
- ^ The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise Vol IVB A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidiomycetes and Lower Fungi. 1973. Edited by Ainsworth, Sparrow & Sussman. Academic Press: New York.
- ^ a b c Alexopoulos CJ, Mims CW, Blackwell M. 1996. Introductory Mycology. 4th edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Barr DJS. 1990. Phylum Chytridiomycota. In: Handbook of Protoctista. Eds Margulis, Corliss, Melkonian, & Chapman. Jones & Barlett, Boston. Pgs. 454-466.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Sparrow FK. 1960. Aquatic Phycomyetes. The University of Michigan Press:Ann Arbor. 2nd edition
- ^ a b c d e Kendrick, Bryce. 2000. The Fifth Kingdom. 3rd edition Focus Publishing: Newburyport, MA.
- ^ http://bama.ua.edu/~nsfpeet/
- ^ Blackwell M. 2011. The Fungi: 1,2,3 … million species? American Journal of Botany 98:426-438.
- ^ Longcore JE, AP Pessier & DK Nichols. 1999. Batrachochytirum dendrobatidis gen. et sp. nov., a chytrid pathogenic to amphibians. Mycologia 91(2):219-227.
- ^ Hibbett et al. 2007. A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi. Mycologia 111(5): 509-547.
- ^ a b Blackwell WH, PM Letcher, & MJ Powell. 2006. Thallus development and the systematics of Chytridiomycota: an additional developmental pattern represented by Podochytrium. Mycotaxon 97: 91-109.
- ^ Carlile MJ. 1986. The zoospore and its problems. IN: Ayres, Peter G., and Lynne Boddy, eds. Water, Fungi, and Plants. Vol. 11. Cambridge University Press, 1986.
- ^ Letcher PM et al. 2008. Rhizophlyctidales--a new order in Chytridiomycota. Mycological Research 112: 1031-1048.
- ^ Simmons DR. 2011. Phylogeny of Powellomycetacea fam. Nov. and description of Geranomyces variabilis gen. et comb. nov. Mycologia 103(6): 1411-1420.
- ^ Freeman, K.R. "Evidence that chytrids dominate fungal communities in high-elevation soils". http://www.pnas.org. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
- ^ Lefèvre E, PM Letcher & MJ Powell. 2012. Temporal variation of the small eukaryotic community in two freshwater lakes: emphasis on zoosporic fungi. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 67: 91-105.
- ^ Saving Tiny Toads Without a Home, by Cornelia Dean. The New York Times. February 1, 2010.
- ^ (Voyles, J., L. Berger, S. Young, et al. 2007. Electrolyte depletion and osmotic imbalance in amphibians with chytridiomycosis. Dis Aquat Organ. 77: 113-118.)
- ^ Ibelings BW, de Bruin A, Kagami M, Rijkeboer M, van Donk E. 2004. Host parasite interactions between freshwater phytolankton and chytrid fungi (chytridiomycota). J Phycol 40:457-455.
- ^ Gleason, Frank H., et al. "The ecology of chytrids in aquatic ecosystems: roles in food web dynamics." Fungal Biology Reviews 22.1 (2008): 17-25.
- ^ Hooker WJ. (1981). Compendium of Potato Diseases. International Potato Center. pp. 36–7.
- ^ "THE CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA". http://website.nbm-mnb.ca. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
- ^ Taylor, T.N.; W. Remy; H. Hass (1994). "Allomyces in the Devonian". Nature 367 (6464): 601.
- ^ Krings, Micheal; Nora Dotzler; Thomas Taylor; Jean Galtier (2009). "Microfungi from the upper Visean (Mississippian) of central France: Chytridiomycota and chytrid-like remains of uncertain affinity". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 156 (3-4): 319–328.
- ^ Krings, Micheal; Jean Galtier; Thomas N. Taylor; Nora Dotzler (2009). "Chytrid-like microfungi in Biscalitheca cf. musata (Zygopteridales) from the Upper Pennsylvanian Grand-Croix cherts (Saint-Etienne Basin, France).". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 157 (3-4): 309–316.
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External links
- Chytrid Fungi Online: by the University of Alabama
- Longcore Lab from University of Maine--Including links on how to isolate and culture chytrids
- Introduction to the Chytridiomycota: at the UC Museum of Paleontology
- Impact of chytrid fungus on frogs (Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife)
- 'Amphibian Ark' aims to save frogs from fungus
- The Aquarium Wiki Encyclopaedia on Chytrid Fungus and how it impacts amphibians kept as domestic pets.
- Chytridiomycota at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

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12 Days of Christmas
(Al Cartwright is my mentor, the person who gave me a chance in the newspaper world a few decades ago. He was the Wilmington News-Journal Sports Editor and I was a staffer. I left there for the Phillies in October 1963. Later, Al worked with me as a Publicity Consultant for the Phillies (1970-71). He's been retired for some time but I'd like to share one of his traditional "Ala Carte" columns he used to write in Wilmington, a humorous take-off on the "Twelve Days of Christmas.")
Legendary letters written by Agnes Hollister to her beau"
When I answered the doorbell today, the postman delivered a partridge in a pear tree! What a thoroughly delightful gift! I couldn't have been more surprised.
With deepest love, Your Aggie.
Today, the postman brought your very sweet gift–two turtle doves! I'm delighted at your thoughtfulness. They are just adorable. The partridge likes them, too.
All my love, Aggie.
Oh! Aren't you the extravagant one! I really must protest, though, John. I really don't deserve such generosity–three French hens! They are just darling, but I must insist: you've been TOO kind.
Love, Aggie.
Today, the postman delivered four calling birds. Now really. They are beautiful birds, but don't you think enough is enough? You're being too romantic. Besides, the partridge, the turtle doves and the French hens have eaten all the pears. You dear silly boy, you!
Hastily, Ag.
What a surprise! Today, five golden rings–one for each finger! You're impossible, but I love it. Frankly, all the birds squawking were beginning to get on my nerves.
All my love, Your Aggie.
When I opened the door this morning, there were six geese a-laying on my front steps. So you're back to the birds again, eh? These geese are huge. Where will I ever keep them? The neighbors are already complaining and I hate to think what will happen when the goose eggs hatch. I can't sleep through the racket now. Please stop, John.
Agness Hollister.
What's with you and the birds? Seven swans-a-swimming!!! What kind of joke is this, you sickie? The whole house is full of feathers and broken goose eggs and this zoo is so noisy I couldn't sleep even if my bed wasn't full of you-know-what. It's not funny, so if you've got any more birds up your sleeves, you know what you can do with them.
I mean it, A. H.
I think I prefer the birds. What in God's name am I going to do with all these eight maids a-milking? It's not enough with all those birds messing, but eight maids had to bring their eight cows! I'm trapped and I can hardly breathe. Lay off, wise guy!
Agnes H.
Nine ladies dancing, eh? How dare you call them ladies? The Health Department has subpoenaed me to show cause why the whole building shouldn't be condemned. The Vice Squad is staking out the place. If I ever catch you around here again–well, have you ever been skulled by a pear tree?
One Who Means It.
The cops are coming for you, as soon as they finished rounding up those 10 lords a-leaping. The place looks like the Gong Show. All 23 of the birds are dead–trampled by the lords. I hope you're satisfied, you low-life.
You Know Who
What are you–some kind of sadist? Now there's 11 pipers piping! And geez, do they play–even without the pipes. They've never stopped chasing the milkmaids since they got here yesterday morning. Some of them even chased the cows, so the cows got panicky and stepped all over the deceased birds. There's feathers and milk flying all over the house and the aroma has killed the pear tree. The neighbors have entered a petition to evict me.
You'll get yours! A. Hollister.
This is to acknowledge your latest gift of 12 drummers drumming which you saw fit to inflict upon our client, Ms. Agnes Hollister.
Any further correspondence with Ms. Hollister should be addressed in care of this law firm, inasmuch as the destruction of her residence was, of course, total.
Please do not attempt to make personal contact with our client, as Ms. Hollister has given explicit instructions to her attendants at Happy Dale Sanitarium to shoot you on sight. Fatally.
Naturally, a suite is being prepared against you, entered jointly by Ms. Hollister, the Postal Service, the Department of Health, the U. S. Department of Agriculture, the Federal Immigration Office, United Parcel Service and the Humane Society. The State Department of Mental Health is instituting a separate action with a different objective in mind.
Very truly yours,
Badger, Bender, Loophole & Mulford.
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A Happy & Prosperous New Year to the Baron seems to be in order. Thanks for a great 2006.
Rod Barajas was a nice Christmas present, nice to see the cookie crumble our way.
Class & character, much like height, can't be tought:
"Al Cartwright is my mentor, the person who gave me a chance…"
It's as good a lead as I've seen, well said…the 12 Days is classic.


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Cause of Mass. gas blast that hurt 18 being probed
Sat., Nov. 24, 2012
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Dozens of building inspectors began assessing homes and businesses in one of New England's biggest cities on Saturday, a day after a natural gas explosion leveled a strip club located next to a day care and heavily damaged a dozen other structures. The blast injured 18 people, many of them first responders.
Investigators were trying to figure out what caused the Friday night blast in Springfield that could be heard for miles, left a large hole in the ground where the multistory brick building housing Scores Gentleman's Club once stood and scattered debris over several blocks.
Officials had already evacuated part of the entertainment district after responding to a gas leak and odor reported about an hour before the explosion while firefighters, police officers and gas company workers were in the area filled with commercial properties and residences.
"It really is a miracle and it's an example of our public safety officials, each and every day, putting themselves in harm's way, taking what could have been considered a very routine call of an odor of gas, but they took the proper precautions," State Fire Marshal Stephen Coan said. "And thanks to God that they did."
Officials also marveled how the 5:30 p.m. blast occurred when a day care center next door was closed. The center's building was heavily damaged.
Lt. Gov. Tim Murray and Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno were attending a tree-lighting ceremony when the explosion occurred. Sarno said some people mistakenly thought the boom was part of the holiday event.
The explosion blew out windows in a three-block radius, leaving at least three buildings irreparably damaged and causing emergency workers to evacuate a six-story apartment building that was buckling, police said. Pieces of broken glass littered streets and sidewalks. It was unclear how many residents had been evacuated. A shelter was set up at a school.
Omar Fermin, manager of the Punta Cana Restaurant two blocks from the explosion site, found the floor-to-ceiling windows blasted out when he came to check on the property Saturday morning.
"It looks like an earthquake hit," said Fermin, a native of the Dominican Republic. "I've never seen anything like it."
He said he was waiting for somebody to come and assess the damage. He worried the restaurant would remain closed for weeks while the owner seeks to replace the massive custom-made windows.
Authorities cordoned off the center of the explosion Saturday morning as building inspectors worked to identify unsafe structures. Anxious residents gathered at the perimeter, waiting for permission to visit their buildings.
Dogs trapped in abandoned buildings barked out loudly Saturday as building inspectors fanned out across the area. One inspector said he wished he could get a ladder and permission to retrieve a dog that was barking in the upper floor of one building sealed off from residents.
Coan, the fire marshal, said his office was investigating a cause of the blast and its possible origin. The state's Department of Public Utilities was also investigating.
Sheila Doiron, a spokeswoman for Columbia Gas of Massachusetts, said the company will continue to monitor for any potential leaks within several blocks of the blast site. So far, she said, the company hadn't yet found any measurable readings.
Doiron said the company also didn't find in its records any gas odor calls to the area where the strip club was located.
The victims were taken to two hospitals in the city. None of their injuries was considered life-threatening, officials said. Those injured were nine firefighters, two police officers, four Columbia Gas workers, two civilians and another city employee.
Springfield, which is 90 miles west of Boston and has about 150,000 residents, is the largest city in western Massachusetts. It's known as the home of the Basketball Hall of Fame, which is not in the vicinity of the blast.
The city has been rebuilding from damage it sustained in a June 2011 tornado.
On Friday night, residents milled around the neighborhood where the explosion occurred, stunned by the destruction and confused by the cordoned-off area, which grew as crews continued to search for gas leaks. The mayor warned against looting, saying police would be out in force.
Wayne Davis, who lives about a block away from the destroyed building, said he felt his apartment shake.
"I was laying down in bed, and I started feeling the building shaking and creaking," he said.
The Navy veteran said the boom from the explosion was louder than anything he'd ever heard, including the sound of a jet landing on an aircraft carrier.
The blast was so loud it was heard in several neighboring communities. Video from WWLP-TV showed the moment of the explosion, with smoke billowing into the air above the neighborhood.
Associated Press writers Rodrique Ngowi, Bridget Murphy and Bob Salsberg in Boston and Jessica Hill in Springfield contributed to this report.
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Aseptic necrosis of the hip is the death of bone tissue in the head of the femur (thigh bone) due to poor blood supply.
There is a certain type of aseptic necrosis of the hip called Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease. It affects the growth plate at the upper end of the femur in children. It is most common in boys aged 5-10 years old.
Aseptic necrosis of the hip is caused by any event or condition that damages the arteries that feed the head of the femur. The most common events are fractures in the upper femur and dislocations of the hip, especially developmental dysplasia of the hip. Other causes reduce the blood supply by closing off or compressing the blood vessels.
Risk Factors
Factors that increase your chance of getting aseptic necrosis of the hip include:
- Femoral neck fractures
- Hip trauma
- Dislocation of the hip
- Radiation therapy
- Lengthy or repeated use of cortisone-like drugs
- Decompression sickness
- Sickle cell disease
- Gaucher disease
- Cushing disease
- Smoking
- Excessive alcohol use
- Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)—especially if SLE is being treated with corticosteroids
- Chronic renal failure or renal transplantation
- HIV infection
Symptoms may include:
- Groin pain, mainly with weight-bearing actions
- Hip pain or limited hip motion
- Buttock, thigh, and knee pain
- Limping
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. You may be referred to an orthopedic surgeon.
Images may need to be taken of your internal structures, especially your bones. This can be done with:
Talk with your doctor about the best treatment plan for you. Treatment options include the following:
Physical Therapy
Your doctor or physical therapist may advise non-weight-bearing exercises to slow disease progression.
The following medications may be advised:
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as ibuprofen, to relieve pain
- Bisphosphonates to prevent the loss of bone mass
- Iloprost to relax blood vessels
- Enoxaparin to prevent blood clots
There are several surgical surgeries used to treat aseptic necrosis of the hip. The choice depends on the extent of disease and the age and health status of the patient. Bone grafts, decompression of the inside of the bone, realignment of the bone, femoral head resurfacing, and prosthetic hip replacement are some options.
To help reduce your chances of getting aseptic necrosis of the hip, take the following steps:
- Minimize the dose and duration of cortisone-like drugs.
- Avoid decompression disease when diving underwater.
- Reduce or stop smoking.
- Avoid excessive alcohol.
Revision Information
- Reviewer: EBSCO Medical Review Board Warren A. Bodine, DO, CAQSM
- Review Date: 03/2018 -
- Update Date: 02/10/2014 -


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Item Description
Report of H. J. Strickler, Commissioner to Audit Claims of Citizens of the Territory of Kansas
Author: Strickler, Hiram Jackson
Date: 1859
This claim was submitted by Blake Little on behalf of J. H. Little & Company for supplies furnished to the territorial militia on or about August 22, 1856. Mr. Little's store was in Bourbon County. Each claimant had to submit an itemized list and have two witnesses attest to the losses claimed. Even though many of these claims were approved for payment, no funds were ever appropriated or distributed.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: 328.7304/Un3/Serial Number 1017
Item Number: 101154 Number of images: 3
Keywords: Bourbon County, Kansas Territory; Damage claims; J. H. Little & Company; Little, Blake; Militia; Strickler, Hiram Jackson
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|Abstract title: word limit 15
|Symposia leads notified: 20 March 2019
|Select a Presentation type: oral, poster, either oral or poster, speed talk
|Call for abstracts: closed now
|Select a theme: included in this list is the accepted Symposia
| Abstract presenters notified: 25 July 2019
|Authors and affiliations: city/state/country/first name/last name
| Abstract presenters registration deadline: 19 September 2019
|Presenting author biography: word limit 150
|Abstract upload: word limit 250
Key themes for call for abstracts
Adaptation & evolution
Conservation biology
Disease ecology
Diversity &
Education & outreach
Paleontology & ancient DNA
Policy and management
Population & landscape genetics
Reproductive biology
Social science
Taxonomy & phylogenetics
Tim Halliday Amphibian Conservation
Accepted Symposia
Amphibian Bioacoustic Symposium
Amphibian conservation in the Anthropocene – challenges, priorities, and solutions for the human epoch
Amphibian Conservation Research Symposium (ACRS)
Amphibian disease susceptibility in a changing world
Amphibian genome assembly and evolution
Beyond CTmax and CTmin: Advances in Studying the Thermal Limits of Reptiles and Amphibians
Biology and conservation of paedomorphosis in amphibians
Biology of the Frog Family Microhylidae
Climate change and shifting phenology in amphibians: causes and consequences
Early Detection Rapid Response (EDRR) for invasive reptiles and amphibians symposium
Emerging Frontiers in Sex Chromosome Evolution
Evolution of terrestrial breeding in amphibians
Herps in the City: mechanisms of responses to human-induced environmental change.
Improving the interface between research and management for conservation of New Zealand reptiles and frogs
Moving Herpetofauna in The Right Direction Part I: Conservation Translocations
Moving Herpetofauna in The Right Direction Part II: Translocations and Tools To Mitigate For Development
New and Innovative Technologies for Herpetological Research
New Perspectives on Biology of Sea Snakes
Novel Approaches to Science Communication & Conservation Engagement in Herpetology
Phylogeography and biogeography of Neotropical herpetofauna
Recovering amphibian and reptile species from the brink of extinction: developing best-practice guidelines
Reproductive Technologies and Biobanking for Amphibian Conservation
So many snakes (and lizards and toads) in so little time: Celebrating the career of Rick Shine.
Sociality of Amphibians and Reptiles
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I am an entrepreneur in my late 20's always looking for another idea or project to start. I love the game of golf and sports in general. When I play sports I like to dress the part and look professional. I like the look of name brands and think that a recognizable image plays a big role in looking good.
Realistically, I am not trying to compete with the big boys directly (Nike, Callaway, Ping). I want to provide a product that matches the quality and professional look of these brands, but at a better price that the casual, younger golfer can afford.
This logo will be used for a golf apparel brand. Keep that in mind. It will be on the sleeves and chests of shirts.
I would like a professional quality logo that can stand alone and be recognized and also be combined with text to complete brand identity. (i.e. the Nike 'swoosh' by itself everyone knows, but they also add the word 'Nike' above the swoosh in some uses.
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I would love to see other ideas as well. The letters 'DG' made into a logo. A logo that does not use letters at all. I would prefer something more horizontal than vertical. Something as simple as the Nike Golf logo I like a lot. I wouldn't mind seeing pure text logos.
The key is a very professional, established look. Look at the logos of Nike, Adidas, Callaway, Puma, and others. What I don't want is a logo that looks like the Ashworth or Greg Norman logo. If you can put it up to the previously mentioned company logos and it looks like it fits in then you're on the right trail.
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GM communication is meta, not in-game info.
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Prevent Security & Technology is a security systems integration company. We provide access control, CCTV, IP video, intercoms, and fire/burg alarms. As a systems integrator we take all of the above systems, and even some other types of building systems, and integrate them into a single system with a single user interface; increasing effectiveness and response time for security personnel. Our approach to security is based strongly on an IT based platform, using IP cameras whenever possible along with network attached storage, and IP based access control. We believe in using equipment that is based on an open architecture, giving our customers much more flexibility to integrate with multiply systems; and keeping the technology they purchase relevant longer. We believe in working with the customer find the system and technology that best fits there needs. Some of the systems we sell are Software House(www.swhouse.com), OnSSI(www.onssi.com), Intransa(www.intransa.com), Axis(www.axis.com), and Firetide(www.firetide.com). They are manufacturers of access control, video management software, video storage, IP cameras, and wireless mesh network respectively. We also do fire and burglar alarm systems, but our primary focus is on system integration.
Our target audience is corporations over 50 employees, Fortune 1000 companies, and larger local and region companies. We have a strong presence in pharmaceutical, health care, banking, gaming, retail, commercial property management. Our target markets are pharma, health care, banking, chemical companies. These industries are regulated and there are minimum security standards that have to be met to be compliant with government regulations. We also target other types of manufacturing facilities; especially contract manufactures, which are companies that manufacturer products for other companies. An example being a drug company that has a patent on a new drug, but no means to make it in large quantities. They sometimes go to an existing manufacturing facility and contract the production of the drug to them. We target this types of manufacturers because we can teach them how to use security as a marketing tool to attract more contract work.
The new logo must be modern, technology based, and have our name in it. I have attached images that we use for our brochures; I like the colors of our website and logo, but I'm open to ideas. Here is a paragraph from our website about our name, and why it is what it is.
What's in a name?
Does our name represent who we are?
Will our name help our customers identify with us?
These were some of the questions we asked ourselves when we came up with the name PREVENT SECURITY & TECHNOLOGY. I think everyone would agree that the best way to keep people safe, and assets secure, is to Prevent vulnerabilities from forming. Security is taking precautions to guard against these vulnerabilities; and Technology provides the means and methods we use to create the safeguards. So why did I underline & Technology above? Because Technology is what is driving change in the security industry, and it is our obligation to you to always be on the cutting edge. The use of technology is not limited to certain companies, or departments, or markets; so why should we limit our services to security? Although our primary focus is on security, the technology we support requires us to have some experience in IT infrastructure, network engineering, software programming, and network security. Our knowledge in these fields can be a resource for our customers that are secondary to their security needs.
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Apple put out a big press release on the state of the App Store.
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- Apple has had 40 billion app downloads, and half of those happened last year.
- Apple developers have made $7 billion on the App Store.
- Temple Run was downloaded 75 million times in 2012.
- Two game studios brought in over $100 million combined.
While all of those are nice, a reader emailed to point out this is the most important number in the press release: "The App Store has over 500 million active accounts."
In consumer tech, companies like to measure themselves by their monthly active users. Facebook, for instance, says it has 1 billion monthly active users. Twitter says its has 200 million active users. Yahoo has 728.4 million monthly users, according to comScore.
Apple is right in the mix with these companies. There is of course, one key difference. To use Twitter, Yahoo, or Facebook, all you need is an internet connection. To use the App Store, you need an internet connection, and an iOS device which has an average selling price around $450.
Facebook, when it went public, said it was getting $4.10 per user around the globe for 2011. Twitter is estimated at less than a dollar per user. Yahoo is getting $6.80 per user (using trailing twelve month revenue data). Apple gets 100X the average of those companies.
More importantly from Apple's perspective, it's financially and emotionally costly to switch from iOS to another platform. Quitting Facebook for Google+ means losing out on most of your friends. But, you can try to talk them into joining you at Google+. Giving up on Twitter costs nothing. Leaving Yahoo, as Yahoo knows, isn't hard.
Quitting iOS for another mobile platform means losing your $300-$650 iOS device, plus all the apps you've downloaded. Will some people still quit iOS? Certainly, some people will quit. But, the vast majority are going to stick around once they've invested money and time learning iOS.
Here's another advantage Apple has over the other companies we've mentioned. To use the App Store, you generally need a credit card. That means Apple could have 500 million credit cards on file. If it ever wants to explore payments it has a massive advantage over the competition.
We've reached out to Google to get its active Android numbers, but haven't heard back yet.
In June it said it had 400 million active Android devices. On its most recent earnings call it said, "Today, there are over half a billion Android devices, half a billion, with 1.3 million more being activated every day." We don't know if that means half a billion active devices or just half a billion have been sold.
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/ Tuesday, March 6, 2012 / 11 Comments / Chinese , Meats , North American
Stir-Fry Beef With Scallions~Mongolian Beef
This Stir-fry Beef With Scallions (or fondly known as Mongolian Beef in North America) is rich, sweet, spicy, and packed with flavors. Try making this dish at home, it will be ready in minutes and your choice of beef cut will also ensure the meat will be succulent and tastes unlike any Chinese eateries' version. Really simple to cook and is great with a bowl of hot steamed rice!
Stir-Fry Beef With Scallions~Mongolian Beef
2 (About 600 g) Beef Sirloin Steak, trimmed excess fat, sliced into thin strips
¼ tsp Freshly Ground Black Pepper
A pinch of Sea Salt
1 Tbsp Corn Flour
2 Tbsp of Peanut Oil
3 Cloves Garlic, chopped
5 to 6 Stalks Scallions, cut into ½-inch pieces
1 ½ Tbsp Soy Sauce
1 Tbsp Dark Soy Sauce
2 tsp Chinese Cooking Wine~such as Shaoxing Wine
1 Tbsp Sugar
1 tsp Sesame Oil
2 tsp Oyster Sauce
2 tsp Chili Flakes
3 Tbsp of Water
Toss the beef with black pepper, sea salt, and coat with corn flour.
Combine the sauce ingredients in a bowl and set aside.
Heat the oil in a large wok or cast iron pan until hot. Add beef slices into the pan and sauté for about 40 seconds over a moderate high heat. Push the meat to one side, toss in the garlic and stir-fry for a few seconds more, then add the prepared sauce, stirring as it thickens. Mix in the scallions and stir a few times, switch off the heat, and serve immediately with some steamed rice.
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Beautiful meal!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 6, 2012 at 1:37 PM
Looks really good. One question, is corn flour the same as corn meal?ReplyDelete
@Anonymous: Corn flour is also known as corn starch, available at most Asian grocer.ReplyDelete
Looks delicious! Love the chopsticks -- I've never seen that type anywhere!ReplyDelete
Here, Mongolian Chicken is mildly curried, and cooked in a bit of milk.ReplyDelete
I just wonder how they come up with the name.
Really nice flavors, my family would really enjoy this :)ReplyDelete
This looks and sounds delicious, I love mongolian beef, thanks.ReplyDelete
You are welcome to join in my food blogger event THE SOUP KITCHEN, here all bloggers are welcome, hope to see you participate soon. The month os April theme is Chinese Soup.
- AnonymousMarch 14, 2012 at 2:37 PM
Those are such cute chopsticks. I have a few friends that can't use chopsticks and are too embarrassed of fumbling to learn. These would be perfect for them.ReplyDelete
This meal looks so tasty and easy to make! I keep all of the sauce ingredients in my fridge as staples. I am saving this recipe and can't wait to try out this recipe myself!ReplyDelete
I made this about 10 minutes ago and my Husband and I adored it. I am in love with this recipe and will be making it time and time again. Perfect!ReplyDelete
I don't mean to be rude, but I did change the recipe a bit. Just pointing it out for those looking to try it. I halved the beef, but I kept the sauce the same so our brown rice had moisture. Also, I'm out of Shaoxing Wine so I subbed with a blend of honey and Marsala.
- AnonymousApril 29, 2013 at 1:21 AM
Wow! This dish is very inviting and I think my kids will like this, because they love eating Chinese foods. I will definitely create this one for them.ReplyDelete
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(Reuters) - Dog and cat lovers have a new way to make sure their pets get plenty of exercise and nourishment: phone apps that track how much an animal plays, runs, sleeps and eats.
Whistle, an iPhone app and monitor worn on a dog's collar that was launched last week, measures an animal's activity throughout the day. The app can track changes over time and can compare exercise levels with other dogs of the same breed.
Created with input from veterinarians, Whistle Labs' app aims to help owners detect early medical problems by showing changes in a dog's activity level and behavior compared to other animals of the same age, breed and weight.
"What (veterinarians) get today are hyperemotional responses, often driven by one or two anecdotes," said Ben Jacobs, chief executive of the San Francisco-based company.
"What we found out was that a) vets didn't really have the information they needed and b) there's no breed weight and age standards," he added in an interview.
The app gathers data from a small circular device attached to a dog's collar. An accelerometer in the device detects motion, helping to determine if the dog is playing, walking or resting. The rechargeable device is enabled for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
The app also notifies owners of changes in a dog's behavior, such as if it suddenly starts waking up at night.
"This is the first window you have into the dog's entire day," Jacobs said.
The monitor costs $99.95 and the app is free for iPhones. Whistle Labs said it is also gathering data about dog activity by breed and weight for research use.
Another app called Pintofeed, which is linked to a Wi-Fi-connected feeder and costs $149, allows owners to feed their dogs and cats remotely and set feeding schedules.
"People lead busy lives and don't really want to have to deal with another task. The feeder is autonomous and manages the feeding for you so you don't have to rush home from work," said Carlos Herrera, co-founder and president of Pasadena, Calif.-based Pintofeed.
"The app is meant to be a management and notification device. You'll get alerts saying your dog skipped a meal, or your batteries are running low, or the food is running low," he added.
For owners who want to keep tabs on the location of their dogs and cats, an app call Tagg for iPhone and Android provides the information.
The GPS-enabled tracker attaches to the collar of a pet and tracks the animal's location on a map. Users receive alerts when the pet ventures outside a particular range and they can also view activity levels.
Tagg costs $99.95 and has a subscription fee of $7.95 per month.
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More and more people these days using the USB pen and flash memories instead of floppies and CDs. They come is different sizes from 128MB upto 2 GB. Moreover, may new Linux user find it difficult to use usb devices, the main problem is people don't understand how it works…
USB devices use SCSI devices names
SCSI devices such as /dev/sda use to represent your first USB pen/stick and equivalent partitions are as follows:
Sample 256 MB USB PEN (E: is 100 MB, F: is rest of the free space)
Linux Partition => Windows XP/NT
/dev/sda1 => E: (assuming that C: is hard-disk; D: is VD/CD/RW)
/dev/sda2 => F: (assuming that C: is hard-disk; D: is DVD/CD/RW; E: is first drive USB pen 100 MB drive)
Linux Kernel must have support for USB
Linux kernel must compiled with support for
i) SCSI disk
ii) USB Support
iii) USB Mass support
Most of the modern Linux distribution comes with all sort of support. If it is not included, get latest kernel from http://kernel.org/ and make sure you compile it with above features + file system support such as ext2/3, vfat and so on…
Commends to mount USB Pen / Flash memory stick under Linux
a) Log in as the root user (or use sudo command)
b) Create a mount point
# mkdir –p /mnt/pen
# mkdir –p /mnt/pen
c) To mount the disk run mount command:
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/pen
This command will mount MS-Windows XP/Vista E: into /mnt/pen
d) To use it or to see your files:
# cd /mnt/pen
# ls –l
e) To copy files from /home/rdl/*.c to directory to pen drive us cp command:
# cp –v /home/rdl/*.c /mnt/pen
f) You can use rest of the all command such as rm, rmdir, mv etc to copy, move or delete files.
g) To format the /dev/sda2 as Linux ext3 partitions use the following command:
# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda2
h) To delete all partition and to create new partition use run fdisk program:
# fdisk /dev/sda
Refer to fdisk man page for more information on how to delete and create partitions.
g) To list all partition on all devices use the following command:
# fdisk –l
h) Use dmesg command to get more info on your USB devices:
# dmesg | grep –i "usb"
i) Run scandisk (window like stuff) on /dev/sda1:
# umount /dev/sda1
# fsck /dev/sda1
Further readings:
=> See the detailed guide USB Flash Memory HOWTO


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Visiting Nevada's Yucca Mountain in 2011 was like walking through a ghost town, Rep. John Shimkus recalled in an interview this week.
It was the year after the Obama administration surrendered to fervent local opposition and halted work by the Department of Energy to prepare the site to store the nation's commercial nuclear waste, even though Congress designated it for that purpose in the 1987 Nuclear Waste Policy Act.
By the time Shimkus arrived, empty desks and cubicles sat abandoned where hundreds of people had worked on those preparations, which included submitting an application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
"They just locked the doors and told everyone to take their personal items and leave," he said. "When you went back, there [were] still coffee cups on the desk."
The Illinois Republican would bring those observations back to Capitol Hill, admonishing DOE officials for what he called a "colossal waste of resources." His criticism was grounded in the $15 billion the federal government spent preparing and studying the site — an amount the Obama administration was willing to write off in the face of intense local concern, including from then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, over storing waste that would remain deadly for thousands of years.
Like a lone ranger in the Old West trying to right what he perceived to be an illegal action by the administration, the House's most vocal and intense proponent of turning Yucca into a nuclear waste storage site has visited Nevada five times over the past decade in an attempt to resurrect the project.
Now, eight years after that Obama administration decision, Shimkus' quest culminated on the House floor, where a comprehensive, bipartisan nuclear waste package passed Thursday, 340-72. It would give Yucca Mountain the needed policy jolt to start moving again.
Shimkus' approaches over the years have ranged from biblical rage to statesmanlike diplomacy. But despite a Senate roadblock awaiting the bill, he's pushed Yucca Mountain into the House spotlight.
"He has been all about Yucca, all of the time," said Energy and Commerce Chairman Greg Walden of Oregon. "I share his cause, but I don't think I can achieve his level of commitment and enthusiasm, because nobody has. He's been terrific."
Indeed, Shimkus was so determined to see his Yucca Mountain bill to the floor, Walden said, that he sent handwritten letters to the homes of House GOP leaders for seven straight days during a recess week to win their support.
No nuclear reactor operates within the boundaries of his district, but Exelon's Clinton nuclear station is 30 miles from its northern reaches. Illinois has six nuclear power plants with 11 generating units — and about 10,497 metric tons of high-level nuclear waste, the most in the nation.
Those nuclear ties have also come with some significant campaign contributions from Exelon Corp., the Chicago-based company that operates more nuclear plants than any other single company. Since he first ran for office in 1991, Shimkus has received approximately $111,949 in donations from the utility to his individual campaign account and PACs associated with him, according to OpenSecrets.org.
A military veteran and former high school U.S. government history teacher, he says his Yucca defense is also driven by his advocacy for law and order. He was furious, he said, when he perceived that the Obama administration ignored the law — the 1987 Nuclear Waste Policy Act in which Congress determined that Yucca Mountain should be the nation's nuclear waste repository.
"To have insider politics, presidential politics break the law, that's what really got me fired up … just the total disregard for the law by the executive branch," Shimkus said in the interview.
Despite that designation, the Obama administration called the site unworkable in the face of local opposition powered in Washington by Reid. But even Republicans in the state and on the Hill long complained that radiological leaks at the site could contaminate water supplies and that moving the material to the site could expose citizens to radiation should an accident occur.
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Shimkus' anger about the decision would bubble to the surface during oversight hearings by the Energy and Commerce Committee and its environment subcommittee, which he chaired, a position he said he sought partially because of its oversight of the Yucca Mountain issue. His questioning of key Obama-era DOE officials was aggressive, to say the least.
One of those DOE officials, former Assistant Secretary of Nuclear Energy Peter Lyons, described those hearings "as the low point in my time of public service."
"The most frustrating part was I was not able to even respond," Lyons said. "It's no fun to be yelled at without being able to respond. … He had the microphone and he could yell much louder than me."
Shimkus said the intense questioning was warranted. The Obama administration objectively broke the letter of the law, he said, and he cited support for his view in the various federal court orders directing the spending of money appropriated by Congress to continue the Yucca Mountain licensing process.
"I think those tirades are, in biblical [terms], we would call it righteous anger," said Shimkus, a bible study teacher and daily tweeter of biblical verses. "It's unfortunate that you have to scream and holler to make your point."
His approach has softened as he has taken on more responsibility as chairman of the Energy and Commerce Environment Subcommittee. He also acknowledges that with more Washington experience, he has learned how to better work with the other side of the aisle, as is evident in his successful bipartisan update to the Toxic Substances Control Act in the last Congress.
His willingness to work with Democrats helped produce the nuclear waste legislation that moved out of committee on a 49-4 vote. A central tenet of the legislation authorizes temporary sites to store nuclear waste consolidated from multiple plants, a policy identified as the preferred alternative to Yucca Mountain by the Obama administration.
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"It's not an easy issue," said Rep. Paul Tonko of New York, the ranking member of the subcommittee. "It's a tough issue, but he is driving an issue that he has embraced, and I respect that."
The legislation softened from draft versions to maintain key state water and air quality permitting oversight in a nod to Democratic concerns. The bill would also provide financial incentives to Nevada.
Shimkus said he has tried to establish a productive dialogue with groups in the state. He has visited Reno twice to make his case, and he has spoken in front of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce annually for the past five years when they have visited Washington.
But to many in the state, Shimkus' policy ambition interferes with their state's rights, putting citizens' health at risk. The fact that the bill would expand the capacity of the Yucca Mountain site has not helped matters.
"We are pretty united in Nevada against Yucca Mountain, certainly in southern Nevada," said Democratic Rep. Dina Titus. "We got the chamber of commerce, we got the Nevada resort association, almost all of the elected officials, so he's not a real welcomed person there."
Titus said that during one of his trips to Nye County, where Yucca Mountain resides, he visited with pro-Yucca local officials.
"He's not been playing fair with us, we believe," she added.
That Nevada opposition extends to Republican Sen. Dean Heller and Democrat Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto — both of whom have the ability to scuttle consideration of the bill on their side of the Capitol. And Heller will face a re-election challenge in November from Democratic Rep. Jacky Rosen; opposition to Yucca will be a yardstick for most voters.
Shimkus said the House vote is part of the process, along with renewed interest from the Trump administration, in Yucca Mountain's return. The administration's backing could put pressure on the Senate to find some type of matching effort on nuclear waste.
"Getting people on record is an important thing to do," Shimkus said.
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Highlights of leadership news conferences today include: Speaker Paul D. Ryan said work with the White House and Democrats is a must for him in the search for a DACA solution. Meanwhile, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., criticized President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal.
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the U.S. government would drop out of the 2015 multinational agreement limiting Iran's nuclear activities. His White House speech included inaccurate statements and omissions of fact that reflect either misunderstanding of the accord or an effort to distort the historical record.
"At the heart of the Iran deal was a giant fiction, that a murderous regime desired only a peaceful nuclear energy program," Trump said. Actually, it was the concern that Iran might be creating the ability to build weapons that led to the 2015 deal.
Trump then said: "Today, we have definitive proof that this Iranian promise was a lie. Last week, Israel published intelligence documents, long concealed by Iran, conclusively showing the Iranians' regime and its history of pursuing nuclear weapons."
What Trump did not disclose: the Israeli revelations concerned already-well-known Iranian efforts to pursue a nuke more than 15 years ago. Regardless, with the kind of tough inspection regimes contained in the Iran deal, the world does not have to rely on Iran's word about anything.
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Trump said the deal has allowed Iran to enrich uranium. He left out that Iran agreed to only enrich to levels of uranium-235 needed to operate a nuclear reactor (3.67 percent) – not to the vastly higher levels needed for a bomb (90 percent).
Trump did not mention that, under the 2015 deal, Iran can only maintain a stockpile of 661 pounds of that lower-enriched uranium, versus the thousands of pounds of the higher-enriched uranium it had before the deal.
Also not included in the speech: Iran limited its plutonium enrichment and its enrichment centrifuges, and has sent huge amounts of uranium and plutonium out of the country.
Trump said the deal's monitoring provisions are inadequate. No credible other source has made that argument. The International Atomic Energy Agency has said it has the access that Iran agreed to provide to its nuclear sites.
Trump has previously contended that the Iranians can block access to sites. But that's only the case with certain non-nuclear sites, and there's a process for inspectors to get to those, too, in a short period of time.
Most importantly, international inspectors say they have access to many more facilities than they saw before the deal — and access to every single place they say they have needed to see. U.S. intelligence agencies and Defense Department leaders also have consistently and publicly said that visibility into Iran's nuclear program has increased substantially and that Iran is doing everything it said it would do.
On Tuesday, America's president effectively said this country would nonetheless not comply with its end of the bargain.
Trump said the nuclear deal is flawed because it lacks any constraints on Iran's ballistic missiles and its support for terrorism, including the killing of Americans.
But the United States has sanctions on Iran for its non-nuclear behavior. Perhaps those could be ramped up. But why would the president scuttle progress in one area — the nuclear one — in the hope it would lead to better outcomes on the other concerns?
Trump implied that, under the deal, Iran could rapidly break out and attain a nuclear weapon. But it would take longer under the deal for that to happen than it would have without the deal.
Trump has complained that the deal's provisions will start to expire in 2025. In fact, its most critical terms last until 2030 and inspectors have access to sites for even longer periods.
But if the problem with the pact is that it doesn't last long enough, then why isn't the answer to extend the deal — or to reach a better deal that lasts longer?
Trump says the deal's limitations on Iran are "weak." Even if that were true, and that is highly debatable, aren't weak limitations better than the virtually zero limitations that existed before — and may exist again if the deal is abandoned?
The president seemed to suggest that he would have struck a better arrangement had he been at the negotiating table a few years ago. We'll never know if that's true. But why couldn't Trump sit down with Iran now and hammer out what he thinks is a better deal? He says he's working toward that. But why pull out beforehand?
Whatever the shortcomings of the Iran deal, the comparison that must be made is not Iran Deal vs. Ideal Other Deal. Rather, it is: World With Iran Deal vs. World Without Iran Deal, whether that world is the world before 2015 or whatever world follows Trump's announcement.
That brings us to the key question: What's going to happen now?
It depends on what other nations do. If the Europeans, Russians and Chinese keep doing business with Iran — and especially if the United States does not punish their continued trade with Iran — then little may change.
But there is a wild card question: How much will Trump's move strengthen Iran's hardliners? Will they succeed in returning Iran to its previous path of accumulating the know-how and material to build atomic bombs, if they were to choose to do so?
Trump said the 2015 Iran pact would lead to a nuclear arms race in the Mideast. But it's hard to believe that the absence of a deal would reduce that likelihood. Quite the contrary: If Iran reacts to Trump's move by returning to its pre-deal nuclear activities, such an arms race would almost certainly become more likely, not less.
Ironically, Trump also said Tuesday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was en route to North Korea to strike a nuclear deal with that country. Maybe whatever deal the Trump team reaches with North Korea will be much smarter than the one Obama and other world powers struck with Iran.
On the other hand, maybe Trump will learn how difficult such negotiations are. And maybe he'll see how much harder it is to talk with an actual nuclear power (North Korea) than with a would-be one (Iran). He may also discover how much countries want in return for giving up a nuclear arsenal, the sort of weaponry that gives the United States and other world powers clout on the global stage.
But Kim Jong Un's confidence in Trump's word can hardly be bolstered by watching how Trump has treated the Iran deal — a pact that, according to its admittedly imperfect terms, is, by all believable accounts, working.
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As the House GOP wrestles with whether to overhaul the food stamp program and tie it to work in the new farm bill that passed the Agriculture Committee in April, other small changes to the previous law stand out that could markedly affect longstanding federal nutrition programs.
Some lawmakers want to add frozen, canned, pureed and dried produce to the menus of the U.S. Agriculture Department's Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program for schoolchildren.
It's a proposal Maine GOP Rep. Bruce Poliquin says will help American children "be able to eat healthy all year round with nutritious products from across the country," according to The Associated Press.
Adding packaged and processed fruits and vegetables to the fresh produce snack program is not only "a huge win for our school children," Poliquin said, but would enlarge the consumer market for blueberry farmers in Maine and other produce industries.
Some Democrats are already pushing back on the proposal to open the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program, which grants public schools money to purchase fresh produce to provide as snacks for its students free of charge, to more processed goods.
"Once you start whittling away at it, it's no longer a Fresh Fruit and Vegetable program," former Iowa Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin, who initiated the program in 2002, told the AP.
Harkin is dubious of frozen fruits and vegetables because of the sugar and chemicals added to keep them from rotting too quickly. It'd be better to skip freezing and packaging blueberries and instead send fresh bushels straight to the schools, he said.
"People have wanted to include peanuts and trail mix and God knows what else," Harkin said. "Now this guy from Maine wants frozen or canned blueberries."
There is no set timetable for a vote on the farm bill, but House Republicans have said they have the votes and plan to proceed without Democratic support.
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Michigan Rep. Mike Bishop wants an investigation into the Department of Agriculture's "secretive and problematic" experiments that have reportedly led to the deaths of hundreds of kittens.
Bishop sent a letter on Tuesday to Secretary Sonny Perdue about the cats' treatment in the experiments, WTOP reported.
The Michigan Republican's letter said his office researched a project called "Toxoplasmosis in Cats" being conducted in Beltsville, Maryland.
"I'm shocked and disturbed that for decades the USDA — the very organization charged with enforcing animal welfare laws — has been unnecessarily killing hundreds of kittens in expensive and inefficient lab experiments," his letter read.
Bishop's letter described how cats were bred and then fed meat infected with toxoplasma so their feces could be collected to harvest parasites, after which the cats would be killed and their remains destroyed by incineration.
"Any government research program like this one that's been funded since the Nixon administration needs to be put under the microscope, especially when it involves using kittens as disposable test tubes in harmful tests that most taxpayers oppose," Bishop said in a statement.
Kim Kaplan of the USDA responded in an email to WTOP that using cats was "essential to the success of this critical research" and that "the estimate of 100 cats used in the research … is a serious overestimation."
Kaplan also said the cats could not be adopted out because they could pose a risk to adoptive families.
"Women newly infected with toxoplasma during pregnancy and anyone with a compromised immune system should be aware that toxoplasmosis can have severe consequences," Kaplan said.
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The House will take up legislation this week that would help restart the stalled process for making Nevada's Yucca Mountain a central repository for commercial nuclear waste. After years of false starts and misses, the bill is moving with bipartisan support.
In Nevada, however, there is bipartisan opposition to the Yucca project, and the state's congressional delegation prepared a series of amendments meant to ensure that the House would consider key safety provisions for the project, which is located about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas and adjacent to the land where the government tested nuclear weapons.
The Rules Committee on Tuesday readied, 7-4, a structure rule for floor consideration of the bill. In total, three Democratic amendments, but only one from the Nevada delegation, will be considered on the floor, including a Rep. Dina Titus substitute amendment to require consent-based siting in the approval process.
The bill would tackle a to-do list of pending Yucca Mountain policy items, including a series of federal government land transfers, a revamped economic incentive package for Nevada and a change to the fee collected from consumers of electricity generated by nuclear power.
The legislation would also authorize the Department of Energy to construct an interim storage facility to collect waste from reactor sites across the country and consolidate it in remote areas on a temporary basis while the federal government moves forward on a permanent repository.
The temporary storage option, originally backed by the Obama administration as its preferred alternative to Yucca Mountain, would open a new pathway for the nuclear waste, now stored on-site at nuclear generating stations. It would represent a breakthrough in the nuclear logjam that has flummoxed appropriators for most of this decade. Yucca Mountain would move on a parallel track to any pilot storage program.
"Interim storage was really the big thing that helped move this down the field," Illinois Republican Rep. John Shimkus, the bill's sponsor, told reporters.
The nuclear waste issue has been a regular feature of the annual Energy Department appropriations cycle. House Republicans have funded Yucca Mountain but not interim storage. The Senate has funded interim storage but not Yucca Mountain. The result has been that neither option has received funding in more than five years.
"People are ready to do something rather than nothing," Shimkus said, predicting a strong bipartisan vote on the bill.
Local opposition to the Yucca site has always been strong, but this year two members of the Nevada delegation, Republican Sen. Dean Heller and Democratic Rep. Jacky Rosen, are heading toward a close Senate race against each other in November. Both oppose the project.
The state's resistance extends back to when Congress first officially designated Yucca Mountain as the nation's commercial waste repository in 1987 as an update to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act. Dubbed the "screw Nevada bill" by Democrat Harry Reid — a freshman senator at the time — the law moved forward without the support of Nevada lawmakers. Critics complained that the site and shipment of nuclear waste through the state could expose citizens to radioactivity via leaks into the water tables or a potential shipping derailment.
Reid would make the scuttling of Yucca Mountain a central tenet of his time in the Senate. The local opposition, combined with a sympathetic Obama administration, eventually led to the shuttering of the project in 2010. The license application, submitted in 2008, has remained in a suspended state, although it remains pending before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
But with the Trump administration renewing interest in moving Yucca Mountain forward, Nevada lawmakers are seeing the potential for a second "screw Nevada" congressional moment.
"This legislation is Screw Nevada 2.0," Titus said in a statement. "Nevada is not a wasteland, and I'll continue to fight any attempt to turn it into the nation's nuclear waste dumping ground."
Rosen filed an amendment to the Rules Committee that would hold off any licensing activity for Yucca Mountain until the Office of Management and Budget conducts a study of the economic impacts from alternative uses of Yucca Mountain.
Heller, meanwhile, remains a roadblock in the Senate for the bill moving forward. He is already blocking consideration of two NRC nominees who have voiced support for continuing the Yucca Mountain license process. Those holds threaten to leave the NRC without the needed number of commissioners to hold a quorum by the end of June.
The legislation has the support of the nuclear industry and the DOE, both of which want to see nuclear waste moved from reactor sites across the country.
Shimkus' bill "would help place the federal government on a path to fulfill its responsibilities and to unburden taxpayers of the ever-mounting liability by establishing a durable program for managing used nuclear fuel," Nuclear Energy Institute President Maria Korsnick said in a Sept. 27 letter endorsing the bill.
In total, there are some 81,000 metric tons of nuclear waste across 35 states awaiting DOE action. That sitting waste represents about $34 billion in liabilities to the federal government. The United States paid out approximately $700 million in fiscal 2017 to compensate utilities for its failure to take title of the waste under timelines set in the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, and those payments are likely to continue for the foreseeable future without action.
Movement on a nuclear waste strategy would also enable the federal government to begin collecting the Nuclear Waste Fund fee again. A federal court stopped the payments over a lack of a coordinated strategy to move the waste, leaving the fund to only increase through interest payments. It currently sits at about $40 billion. Cost estimates place the full construction of Yucca Mountain at over $100 billion.
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