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1899, more than a century ago, shipping fresh bananas and preventing them from ripening en route was a real challenge. The first banana shippers, relying on favorable winds could only hope that their cargo would not ripen before they reached port. When Captain Lorenzo Dow Baker sailed the fishing schooner Telegraph from Jamaica to Jersey City in 1870, with a load of 160 bunches, he stowed them on deck and waited for fair winds.
His luck held, and he arrived in New Jersey 11 days later, where he sold them for a profit of $2.00 per bunch. This was the beginning of what is now known as Chiquita Brands International.
In 1899, the United Fruit Company was founded. The company was fruit of the merge of Boston Fruit Company owned by Captain Baker and Andrew Preston and a railway company that had planted bananas alongside its tracks. Minor C. Keith and his railroad companies merged with the Boston Fruit Company to create the United Fruit Company on March 30, 1899.
United Fruit Company issued its first annual shareholders report a year later, in 1990 and was first listed on New York Stock Exchange in 1903.
Great White Fleet
The Great White Fleet name can be traced back to 1907, when President Teddy Roosevelt sent a fleet of warships on a worldwide tour. These ships were painted white instead of the now customary gray, and became known as the Great White Fleet. At the same time, Captain Baker also painted his ships white to reflect the tropical sunlight and allow banana temperatures to be more easily maintained.
As the United Fruit Company fleet of big, fast, white-painted reefer vessels grew, they too became known as the Great White Fleet. By 1930, the company's fleet had grown to 95 ships.
Miss Chiquita
Towards the end of World War II, the Company introduced the name Chiquita and the Miss Chiquita character and jingle. Miss Chiquita was introduced as the logo and mascot for the banana company in 1944 and was drawn by artist Dik Browne.
In the early years, Miss Chiquita appeared on radio shows and made many guest appearances in movies, commercials, and even the Boston Pops Symphony Orchestra. The banana, Miss Chiquita, was changed into a woman with a fruit hat in 1987.
1963, the current logo features a rough rendering of the woman above the brand name on a blue seal. The Company began the largest branding program ever undertaken by a produce marketer, accompanied by a record-breaking ad campaign which included affixing the trademark Blue Sticker to bananas,
The company sponsored the XIII Olympic Winter Games held in Lake Placid in 1980. The brand issued a limited edition of 16 collectible stickers featuring the raccoon mascot of the games.
American speed skater Eric Heiden won all five speed skating events from 500m all the way up to 10,000m, setting an Olympic record in every one. He became the first person in Olympic history to win five gold medals in individual events at the same Games.
In 1990, the Company officially changed its name to Chiquita Brands International, Inc. to take advantage of global brand name recognition. In the 90s, Chiquita started its journey to become a more sustainable company by partnering with NGOs such as Rainforest Alliance for achieving certification for all of its owned banana farms in Latin America by 2000.
The same year, Chiquita adopted the Social Accountability 8000 standard for labor rights as the core labor standard for its operations.
Chiquita Brands International is acquired in 2015 by agribusiness Grupo Cutrale and J. Safra Group. The company repositions the brand as 'playful by nature' and launches the Just Smile campaign around the globe.
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Captain Lorenzo Dow Baker purchased 160 bunches of bananas in Jamaica and sailed them to Jersey City in 11 days, where he sold them for a profit.
Minor C. Keith traveled to Costa Rica and contracted to build a national railroad. Since he needed cargo and passengers for the railroad, he planted bananas alongside the tracks to provide paying fares both inland and back to the sea.
Captain Baker started a partnership with Andrew Preston and investors and called it Boston Fruit Company.
Keith and his railroad companies merged with the Boston Fruit Company to create the United Fruit Company on March 30,
Fruit Dispatch Company was formed to distribute bananas throughout the United States. The company broke new ground over the years in the distribution of fresh perishable produce to interior regions.
Painted ships white to reflect tropical sun and maintain optimum temperature for bananas. The ships were referred to as The Great White Fleet.
United Fruit Company revolutionized ocean transportation of perishable food products by using refrigerated vessels. United Fruit listed on New York Stock Exchange.
United Fruit perfected an unbroken string of wireless communication from the United States to South America. They were the first company to bring this new technology to the tropics so that the ships at sea could communicate vital information with company locations in Latin America.
The Company initiated the first banana research in Latin America to develop new disease-resistant varieties.
Company's fleet grew to 95 ships.
World War II brought the banana industry to a virtual standstill. Company ships were requisitioned by British and American governments to aid in the war effort.
The Company introduced the name Chiquita and the Miss Chiquita character and jingle.
Chiquita was registered as a trademark in the United States.
The Company began shipping pre-cut hands of bananas in cardboard boxes instead of bunches, to protect against bruising.
The Company began the largest branding program ever undertaken by a produce marketer, accompanied by a record-breaking ad campaign which included affixing the trademark Blue Sticker to bananas: "This seal outside means the best inside."
The Chiquita brand was introduced in Europe.
The Chiquita label was introduced in Europe.
The Company was awarded its first patent for modified atmosphere packaging to provide a low oxygen atmosphere in individual boxes of bananas to arrest ripening during transit.
The Company merged with AMK Corporation, which operated the John Morrell meat business; name changed to United Brands Company.
The Company introduced the first refrigerated container ships for transport of bananas between Latin America and Texas.
Chiquita was the official sponsor and supplier of bananas to the Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York.
Chiquita took delivery of the first of four new refrigerated ships for the Panama to Europe trade.
The Company officially changed its name to Chiquita Brands International, Inc. to take advantage of global brand name recognition. Chiquita took delivery of first of 16 refrigerated ships in its modern fleet and invests in major banana expansion in the Atlantic zone of Costa Rica.
Chiquita built a state-of-the-art banana processing plant in Costa Rica. Chiquita is the first banana company to work with the environmental organizations Rainforest Alliance on the Better Banana Project.
Chiquita's refrigerated ships were fitted with new controlled atmospheres to further slow the ripening process and enhanced the quality of fruit shipments.
First Chiquita farms were certified by the Rainforest Alliance's Better Banana Project.
Chiquita bananas were certified by the American Heart Association.
Chiquita completed the expansion of the world's largest banana processing plant located in Costa Rica.
Chiquita adopted Core Values and updated its Code of Conduct to include Social Accountability International's SA8000 labor standard. Rainforest Alliance certified 100 percent of Chiquita's farms in Latin America to strict environmental and social standards of the Better Banana Project.
Chiquita & IUF, COLSIBA sign a historic agreement on labor rights for banana workers. Wal-Mart named Chiquita Environmental Supplier of the Year.
Chiquita joined the Ethical Trading Initiative. The company is named one of top 20 "green stocks" by The Progressive Investor.
Chiquita received "Corporate Conscience Award" from Social Accountability International.
100 percent of Chiquita's owned farms in Latin America certified to SA8000 labor standard. Chiquita earns "Corporate Citizen of the Americas Award" from Organization of American States for Nuevo San Juan home-ownership project in Honduras.
Chiquita introduces breakthrough food safety innovation Fresh Rinse.
Chiquita becomes National Strategic Partner for USDA MyPlate Program.
German retailer REWE Customer Award as one of the most sustainable products
World's largest solar tracking system on a roof now complete at Chiquita facility in US
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01009827
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First Posted : November 9, 2009
Last Update Posted : February 28, 2017
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The proposed study is a cross sectional study intended to be conducted at each of the 15 Adolescent Medicine Trials Units (AMTUs) participating in the ATN and to enroll all participating patients followed at each site. This approach will allow for the examination of the broad spectrum of youth participating in the ATN, including those newly entered into care.
Psychosocial and risk-taking behavioral data will be collected using Audio Compute-Assisted Self-Interview (ACASI); biomedical information will be collected through medical chart abstraction.
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All HIV-infected adolescents and young adults engaged in care at the 15 sites and their affiliates who are between 12 and 24 years of age, inclusive, are aware of their HIV status and understand written and/or verbal English will be eligible for inclusion in the study. In addition, new patients who have their initial clinic visit within the enrollment period will also be eligible for participation.
Other: Observation
Participants will have biomedical information extracted from their medical chart, will complete the ACASI questionnaire and have a face-to-face post-ACASI debriefing interview administered. Participants who do not have a documented HIV-1 viral load and/or CD4+ T-cells count from within the previous six months will also have venipuncture performed to obtain a blood sample for these tests to be performed.
- Rates of adherence to medical regimens, sexual risk behavior, substance use and mental health concerns; basic demographic and biomedical data for adolescents and young adults with HIV infection engaged in care at the AMTUs. [ Time Frame: within 2 weeks of enrollment ]
- To better understand the complex relationships between adherence to medical regimens, sexual risk behavior, substance use and mental health concerns, and basic demographic and biomedical data in adolescents and young adults with HIV infection. [ Time Frame: 1.3 years ]
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- Knowledge of HIV positive diagnoses;
- Age 12 years through 24 years, inclusive;
- Engaged in care at the AMTU or its affiliate and/or partnering clinic. Individuals will be considered to be engaged in care if:
- Diagnosed less than or equal to 12 months prior to the date of approval to generate the master list and has attended a minimum of one visit since diagnosis for the management of HIV disease or its sequelae; or
- Diagnosed more than 12 months prior to the date of approval to generate the master list and has had a minimum of one visit, as described above, within the past 12 months.
- Ability to understand written and/or verbal English
- Ability and willingness to provide signed consent/assent;
- Parental/legal guardian permission (if applicable)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Presence of serious psychiatric symptoms (e.g., active hallucinations, thought disorder) that would impair the individuals' ability to complete the study measures;
- Visibly distraught (e.g., suicidal, homicidal, exhibiting violent behavior); or
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To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01009827
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News Service of Florida:
The campaign for Attorney General Pam Bondi listed $139,076 in contributions on Sept. 10, the day of her waterfront campaign kickoff in Tampa that was the basis of a controversial request to delay the execution of a convicted murderer.
Contributions that day were collected from 334 individuals and businesses.
Another $26,600 in contributions, including a $3,000 in-kind donation for consulting from the Republican Party of Florida, was listed on Sept. 11.
Bondi, who does not have an announced challenger, has repeatedly apologized for asking Gov. Rick Scott to reschedule Marshall Lee Gore's execution from Sept. 10 to Oct. 1. Gore was put to death Oct. 1.
Another $55,764 was listed on Sept. 10 by "And Justice for All," a type of political committee known as an electioneering communication organization, set up for Bondi.
The Sept. 10 totals include $764 for food and beverages from the Columbia restaurant in Tampa.
The committee, registered on Aug. 6, has received $809,500 in contributions.
For the year's third quarter, Bondi's campaign account recorded $404,910 in cash donations and another $219,787 through in-kind assistance. While the contributions were dated Sept. 10, filings with the state do not indicate whether the money was received at the kickoff event.


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The end is nigh! The end of the world, that is, now that sorcerer Kulan Gath has summoned powerful Mayan avatars of destruction to reduce the planet to ashes. Earth's only hope is a motley band of warriors, including Red Sonja, Vampirella, Dracula, Pantha, Herbert West the Reanimator and more, who must stand against Gath's minions. It's a contest of champions, with the very survival of our world depending on the outcome. Writer Ron Marz and artist Walter Geovani continue Dynamite's crossover to end all crossovers!
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Yesterday, Ted Cruz had his first authored bill get signed into law, but the freshman Senator from Texas probably didn't too excited by the victory. Despite unanimous support in both chambers of Congress for the new law, President Barack Obama sounded less than enthusiastic about enforcing the bill he signed yesterday that would block the proposed Iranian envoy to the UN from receiving an entry visa to the US:
It's the oddest of legislative couples: President Obama and one of his biggest critics, Ted Cruz.
Obama on Friday signed a Cruz-backed bill aimed at blocking Iran's appointed ambassador to the United Nations because of evidence linking him to the 1979 takeover of the American embassy in Tehran.
Technically, the law bars individuals from entering the U.S. as U.N. ambassadors if they are "found to have been engaged in espionage or terrorist activity directed against the United States or its allies."
In reality, the bill targets a specific Iranian individual: Hamid Aboutalebi, who has been refused a visa by the administration.
Aboutalebi belonged to the same organization that seized and held American diplomats in 1979 from the Tehran embassy — people who should have had the same diplomatic immunity Iran now demands for Aboutalebi. The group acted as a front for the Iranian government and held dozens of Americans for 444 days. Aboutalebu now claims that he only provided translation and negotiation services for the group, but his appointment was clearly intended as a slap in the face to the US. Cruz and Chuck Schumer responded to the provocation with the bill that bars his entry to the US, which passed the Senate by acclamation and the House approval quickly followed.
That kind of widespread consensus put the White House in a tough spot. At first, the Obama administration appeared tentative about the Iranian appointment, mindful of US obligations under Article IV of the 1947 treaty establishing UN headquarters within the US. At first, Jay Carney referred reporters to the State Department for answers as to whether Aboutalebi would get his credentials, but later last week the White House announced that it would not approve the application.
That still left the Cruz-Schumer bill, which Obama apparently felt was more trouble to veto than to sign — although Obama waited a long time to act. The President signed it in a Friday afternoon document dump-style act on Good Friday, and then issued a signing statement that insisted the law was merely "advisory":
President Obama on Friday signed into law a bill authored by Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz that would bar an Iranian diplomat from entering the United States, but immediately issued a statement saying he won't enforce it.
Obama decided to treat the law as mere advice. "Acts of espionage and terrorism against the United States and our allies are unquestionably problems of the utmost gravity, and I share the Congress's concern that individuals who have engaged in such activity may use the cover of diplomacy to gain access to our Nation," Obama said in his signing statement.
"Nevertheless, as President [George H.W.] Bush also observed, "curtailing by statute my constitutional discretion to receive or reject ambassadors is neither a permissible nor a practical solution." I shall therefore continue to treat section 407, as originally enacted and as amended by S. 2195, as advisory in circumstances in which it would interfere with the exercise of this discretion."
Iran is "outraged" over the decision:
As Joel Gehrke pointed out for the Washington Examiner (and even Al-Jazeera notes above), Obama spent the better part of two years ripping into George W. Bush for issuing signing statements that denied that the executive had to abide by bills he signed. The self-described Constitutional law scholar lectured Bush on the constitutional remedy for bills that the executive refuses to enforce, which is the veto. If Obama wants advice, he can ask for it; if he signs a law, he must abide by it. Most Constitution experts already know this.
The UN wants to stay out of the dispute, and even one Iranian general wants Tehran to throw in the towel:
A senior Iranian military official has urged the foreign ministry to name a new envoy to the UN after the US blocked its chosen ambassador over alleged ties to the 1979 takeover of the US Embassy in Tehran, the semi-official Fars news agency reported Saturday.
Gen. Mohammad Bagherzadeh also said that Hamid Aboutalebi should remain close to his mother because the family lost two sons during the 1980-88 war with Iraq.
That would be a good excuse for Tehran to retreat, especially since the UN doesn't want to get involved. Either they pick someone else or go unrepresented at the UN. We'll see who replaces Aboutalebi, though; don't think the insults have stopped for good.


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When to Potty Train
Dawn Meehan on When Not to Potty Train
I've had many people ask me the very same question posted by Marcy H. here on Circle of Moms: when is the right time to start potty training? Since I've potty-trained six kids, they figure I'm an expert. I'm not sure I'm an expert, but I do have a wealth of experience in the diaper-changing arts. So, I came up with a list of the things I consider most important when deciding when to start potty training.
Keep reading.
1. Don't push potty training before your child is ready. I made the mistake of doing this with my first child. When my firstborn son turned two, I decided, somewhere in my new mom brain, that two was indeed the official age to begin potty training. Unfortunately my son did not share my enthusiasm and thus began a very long (nearly three-year) stint of trying to get him to pee on the toilet. Well, actually I tried to get him to pee IN the toilet. Peeing ON the toilet is what he and all the other males in my house do now.
2. Don't let others push you into potty training before your child is ready. When your well-meaning mother tells you, "You were potty trained by the age of," put your fingers in your ears and sing, "La la la la la la la, I'm not listening!" When your best friend tells you that her child is potty trained, say, "That's great!" and resist the urge to compare your children. Just as babies learn to walk and talk at different ages, so they also potty train when the time is right for them.
3. Don't let the idea of a musical potty seat, potty training books, or special underwear push you into potty training before your child is ready. If your child is really ready to start using the potty, he'll do it with or without the latest potty training gadgets. If he isn't ready, even glow-in-the-dark Elmo underwear that sings a potty song and dispenses M&Ms won't work.
4. Don't let the worry that yours will be the only child in school who still wears diapers push you into potty training before your child is ready. After my bad experience potty training my first child, I decided I'd had enough torture in the potty training venue, so when my second child came along, I figured I'd let her wear diapers until she went to college. Luckily I didn't need to wait that long. She wanted princess underwear and that was that. Overnight, "poof" she was trained. And I promise you, your child will eventually train as well. I have yet to hear of a child in junior high who still has mom come in to change his diapers.
5. Don't let the thought that your child is capable of training, but just being purposefully stubborn, push you into potty training before your child is ready. I made this mistake with my first child. He could stay dry sometimes. He could go on the potty seat sometimes. I assumed that meant he was capable of potty training; he was just being defiant/lazy/difficult when he had an accident. I was so wrong. Little kids' bodies mature at different ages, and just because they can make it to the bathroom sometimes, does not necessarily mean they are physically ready for potty training. Making the kids feel like it's their fault, or that they're too lazy/busy/stubborn to get to the potty seat is about the worst thing you can do in your potty training efforts. If they aren't ready, they aren't ready, and the only thing that forcing them to sit on the potty seat every 10 minutes will do, is train you to look at your watch every 10 minutes.
I'm happy to say that potty training all five of my other children was a breeze! It was a pleasant experience for everyone involved because I waited until they were completely ready on their own. Each of those five trained at different ages between two and nearly five, but each trained in a few days time; in their own time.
Author and award-winning mommy blogger Dawn Meehan is the creator of the popular and hilarious BecauseISaidSo.com. Laugh your way through your pregnancy with Meehan's humorous book: You'll Lose the Baby Weight (and OTHER LIES about pregnancy and childbirth).
The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of, and should not be attributed to, POPSUGAR.


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Atmospheric pollution may not exactly be among mankind's proudest achievements, but it's certainly an incontrovertible sign that we are here. Could something similar help us find civilizations on other planets?
That's the premise behind one of several recently announced new approaches to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Pollutants like Earth's in the atmospheres of other worlds could serve as biosignatures indicating the presence of advanced civilizations there, a team of researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has suggested.
So, to find the civilizations, we should look for the pollution.
"People have searched for extraterrestrial civilizations by looking for radio signals and laser emissions -- intentional transmissions -- and haven't found anything in the past 50 years," Avi Loeb, chair of Harvard's Department of Astronomy and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation within the Center for Astrophysics, told TechNewsWorld.
"I thought about industrial pollution, which could be an interesting signature for an intelligent civilization," added Loeb, who is a coauthor on the resulting paper, now available online in The Astrophysical Journal.
'White Dwarfs Are Like Flashlights'
The upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, due to launch in 2018, should be able to detect two kinds of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons in the atmospheres of other planets, the Harvard research team said.
(Credit: Northrop Grumman)
There are two key limitations on this capability, however. First, atmospheric levels would have to be 10 times those on Earth. Second, with the James Webb telescope, it will be possible only for Earth-like planets circling a white dwarf star -- what remains when a star like our Sun dies -- because of the stronger atmospheric signal that would result.
"White dwarfs are like flashlights," Loeb explained, highlighting "fingerprints of pollutants in the planet's atmosphere."
Finding pollution on an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star, on the other hand, would require a "next-next-generation" telescope, the researchers contend.
Nevertheless, searching for CFCs could ferret out not only existing alien civilizations but also some that may have destroyed themselves. Because some pollutants last for 50,000 years in Earth's atmosphere, while others last only 10 years, signs of molecules from the long-lived category but none in the short-lived category could suggest that the sources are gone.
"In that case, we could speculate that the aliens wised up and cleaned up their act," Loeb said. "Or, in a darker scenario, it would serve as a warning sign of the dangers of not being good stewards of our own planet."
'Interplanetary Eavesdropping'
Other SETI groups are refining their approaches as well.
The SETI Research Center at the University of California at Berkeley, for instance, recently announced two new efforts launching this year.
In one, the group will conduct something it calls "interplanetary eavesdropping" in the hope of intercepting communications between beings on two planets in the same solar system.
"The idea is that life on a planet may eventually travel to another planet in their own solar system, and they may send radio and laser signals back and forth between these two planets," explained Dan Werthimer, director of the SETI Research Center at Berkeley and chief scientist for SETI@home, in a talk earlier this summer. "We could intercept these signals."
Another effort, dubbed "Panchromatic SETI," targets nearby stars with planets and uses seven different telescopes covering a broad range of frequencies in the hope of finding a signal.
'100 to 1,000 Times More Spectrum'
"The driving principal of our strategy is to try many different experiments, because we can only make educated guesses about the types of signals advanced technology might produce," Andrew Siemion, project scientist at the Berkeley SETI Research Center, told TechNewsWorld.
"We conduct SETI searches across the electromagnetic spectrum, from the lowest radio frequencies that make it through the ionosphere through to optical light," Siemion explained. "In general, technologically produced electromagnetic emission can be much more confined in frequency or in time than that produced by natural sources, and we take advantage of that property in our searches."
Whereas early radio SETI experiments could look only for signals within a narrow range of frequencies -- say within a few tens of MHz -- "our latest generation of experiments are looking at 100 to 1,000 times more of the spectrum, and we're extending the technique to very high and very low radio frequencies that have never been searched before," he said.
'A Powerful Carbon Dioxide Laser'
The group is conducting the first SETI experiments ever performed at several telescopes, including the LOFAR radio observatory in Europe and the CARMA Observatory in California, Siemion noted.
"With our collaborators, we're also building observing systems to conduct the first SETI searches ever performed in the mid- and near-infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum," he said.
In the mid-IR range, for instance, the group is using the Infrared Spatial Interferometer at Mt. Wilson Observatory in California to search for both pulsed and narrow-band indicators of technology. "This novel facility actually uses a powerful carbon dioxide laser to convert mid-infrared light down to much lower frequencies where we can analyze it in the same way as our radio experiments," Siemion pointed out.
Also under way is an effort to fit several telescopes with new, near-IR photon counters that can detect a pulse of light only a nanosecond long -- something "we think could be produced by a large pulsed laser operated by an advanced extraterrestrial civilization," he said. "Near-IR photons can get through the dust between stars very easily, so we could see a signal like this from a very distant star."
'That Changed SETI'
A fundamental change in our understanding of stars and planets has had a big effect on how SETI is conducted today, Seth Shostak, senior astronomer with the SETI Institute, told TechNewsWorld.
"In the past, we tended to look at Sun-like stars," Shostak explained. "What we know today is that essentially all stars will have planets."
Moreover, recent data suggests that the fraction of those with potentially habitable planets might be as high as one in five, he pointed out.
Taken together, "that sort of changed SETI," Shostak said. "We no longer have to concentrate on stars known to have planets -- now we can look at all stars, or the closest ones."
The SETI Institute uses the Allen Telescope Array -- recently endangered by threats from two forest fires -- to study select portions of the sky.
Red dwarf stars -- which tend to be fainter but longer-lasting than Sun-like stars -- are particularly good candidates, Shostak noted, because they're both numerous and are thought to have more planets than other stars do.
"Every red dwarf ever born is still out there," he said. "On average, they will be billions of years older than Sun-like stars."
The institute also is studying the center of our galaxy, Shostak added, reasoning that its central location could make it a focus for other civilizations.
'The Only Way to Know Is to Look'
How long before we find one of those civilizations -- assuming they're out there?
"That's difficult to say," Siemion said.
"On the one hand, we now know that there are hundreds of billions of planets in the galaxy, which means there are an awful lot of places life could get started," he explained.
"We also know that all of the prebiotic molecules, water and energy sources we think were necessary for life to arise on Earth are present in abundance elsewhere in the universe," Siemion added.
"However, we don't have any idea what the probability is that these conditions will actually lead to life developing, or the probability that basic life evolves intelligence," he added. "If we take the very, very large number of possible places life could emerge, and multiply it by a very small probability of it happening, we might still get just one."
In any case, "ultimately the only way we are ever going to know whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is to look for it," Siemion concluded, "and that is precisely what SETI is -- a scientific experiment designed to answer this fundamental question: Are we alone as technologically capable beings?"


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Workers at Wall Street firms should expect their cash bonuses to fall by 14% this year, after dropping 13% last year, according to an estimate released in March by New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. Still, experts point out, this figure is quite generous given the sharp declines in profitability for the New York investment firms.
"Cash bonuses were down in 2011, reflecting a difficult year on Wall Street," DiNapoli said in a statement. "Profits were down sharply and securities firms in New York City resumed downsizing in the second half of the year.
The state comptroller estimates that profits for the broker/dealer operations of New York Stock Exchange member firms, were $13.5 billion in 2011, less than half of the $27.6 billion earned in 2010. If the estimates prove correct, this would be the second year in a row that profits dropped by more than half, according to the comptroller.
Despite declining profits, the total cash bonus pool of Wall Street workers was $19.7 billion, topping total profits by some $6 billion. In 2010, the pool for cash bonuses was $22.8 billion, which put it some $5 billion behind the combined profits of Wall Street firms.
"Industry profits were down 50%, and bonuses were down just 13%. This is moral hazard being displayed at its finest," said Chip Roame, head of Tiburon Strategic Advisors, in an interview. "Why not shoot for the lights if you are a brokerage firm CEO? If you miss by a lot, as in 2011, you still get 87% of the prior year bonus!" added Roame. "And that followed a huge earnings decline the prior year."
Average Bonus Levels
The average cash bonus fell 13% to $121,150 per individual in 2011 from $138,940 in 2010. In 2006, the average cash bonus peaked at $191,360.
The comptroller's office says that the average Wall Street salary (including cash bonuses) in the securities industry grew 16% to $361,180 in 2010, which was 5.5 times higher than the average salary in the rest of the private sector ($66,110). Data are not yet available for 2011.
Income tax collections from Wall Street-related activities accounted for up to 20% of New York state tax revenues before the financial crisis, but that contribution fell to 14% in 2011. Wall Street's contribution to the city's tax collections has dropped from 13% of tax revenues to less than 7%.
In 2010, the securities industry in the Big Apple represented 23.5% of all wages paid in the private sector despite accounting for only 5.3% of all private sector jobs.
2012 Bonuses
"Bonuses are based upon the demand in the job market and corporate profits which are way down," said Mark Elzweig, a New York-based executive-search consultant, in an interview. "They are not based upon the prices of shares in the stock market."
Like DiNapoli, Elzweig says that the uncertain economic environment is characterized by ongoing layoffs and sporadic hiring. "There is still an oversupply of qualified candidates in many areas. The numbers are misleading because many people received no bonuses at all," he shared.
Still, Roame says, there could be a bit of a silver lining in 2012 with the recent market upturn. "Lots could change," the consultant said. "Revenues and profits need to be earned throughout the year, so the early year rise in the markets bodes well."


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- Barriers and facilitators to accessing skilled birth attendants in Afar region, Ethiopia
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- King, Rosemary; Jackson, Ruth; Dietsch, Elaine; Hailemariam, Asseffa
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- 2015
- Type
- Text; Journal article
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- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/89620
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- vital:9292
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- Objective: to explore barriers and facilitators that enable women to access skilled birth attendance in Afar Region, Ethiopia. Design: researchers used a Key Informant Research approach (KIR), whereby Health Extension Workers participated in an intensive training workshop and conducted interviews with Afar women in their communities. Data was also collected from health-care workers through questionnaires, interviews and focus groups. Participants: fourteen health extension workers were key informants and interviewers; 33 women and eight other health-care workers with a range of experience in caring for Afar childbearing women provided data as individuals and in focus groups. Findings: participants identified friendly service, female skilled birth attendants (SBA) and the introduction of the ambulance service as facilitators to SBA. There are many barriers to accessing SBA, including women's low status and restricted opportunities for decision making, lack of confidence in health-care facilities, long distances, cost, domestic workload, and traditional practices which include a preference for birthing at home with a traditional birth attendant. Key conclusions: many Afar men and women expressed a lack of confidence in the services provided at health-care facilities which impacts on skilled birth attendance utilisation. Implications for practice: ambulance services that are free of charge to women are effective as a means to transfer women to a hospital for emergency care if required and expansion of ambulance services would be a powerful facilitator to increasing institutional birth. Skilled birth attendants working in institutions need to ensure their practice is culturally, physically and emotionally safe if more Afar women are to accept their midwifery care. Adequate equipping and staffing of institutions providing emergency obstetric and newborn care will assist in improving community perceptions of these services. Most importantly, mutual respect and collaboration between traditional birth attendants (Afar women's preferred caregiver), health extension workers and skilled birth attendants will help ensure timely consultation and referral and reduce delay for women if they require emergency maternity care. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
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- Churchill Livingstone
- Relation
- Midwifery Vol. 31, no. 5 (2015), p. 540-546
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- Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd
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- 1110 Nursing; 1117 Public Health and Health Services; 1114 Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine; Afar region; Ethiopia; Health extension worker; Skilled birth attendant; Traditional birth attendants
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We had a girl's night tonight in honor of Jess and Courtney's recent birthdays.
Courtney made the salsa.
Jess made the sangria.
I made the salad.
And Courtney made the ropa vieja, rice, and bean.
Put it all together and you one serious meal.
We all brought the gossip. And the laughs. Facebook and twitter played a part too. 😉
Courtney made the birthday cake. Mary brought the ice cream.
We all sang "Happy Birthday" while Jess and Courtney blew out the candles.
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This is why I also converted my front turn signals to extra bright, "always on" yellow LED lights (they blink OFF when turning, instead of on). Too many cars now have white lights on all the time and I want to look different than a car, and have a wider light pattern so I can be more easily seen, and from more angles, and not look as far away.But yeah, for some drivers, nothing you do will matter.
Be sure you get your helmet and gear covered by the ins adjuster.
Yeah? That's a thing?
However, if I let the level of tylenol in my system go down, the pain makes an appearance pretty quick.
Glad that works for you. It is sold all over and pushed by healthcare workers everywhere. But acetaminophen does absolutely nothing for me.... zilch, nada, zip. It is 100% ineffective; might as well take a pill of chalk. Interestingly, most people I know tell me the same thing- my Mom, sister, several friends, some coworkers.Give me ibuprofen! Not only does it work, it helps healing through anti-inflammatory action.
If they total the bike, everything on it would go with it.Check that they cover everything you have on it. ie; Make a detailed list. Find current prices for the accessories.If you plan to remove things,,, get some help and get it done before they give you a check.Ted
Generally, insurance companies go by the resale value of a comparably equipped vehicle. In this case, at 2008 Kawa Concours with XX miles. The use local ads, even Kelly blue book to determine how much to cut a check for. And they almost always lowball you so be ready to counter.
Can one insist on "replacement" instead of value? For example, I have a silver 2011 in extremely good condition. I wouldn't want "blue book value" I would want another silver 2011 in extremely good condition. If that means paying 20% more than blue book and having to pay to get it shipped from another state, so be it- THAT is the actual cost. And I would want their insurance company to pay that. Probably not how it works, though.
Took some video of the carnage. https://youtu.be/saTLokvWK20
Boy that really crunched into a heap
Yep. The ignition still turns on, and the lower fork lights come on though. MondoMoto MM10 lights are tough!
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We've seen robots play music before, but Drexel University's HUBO bots take things to an entirely different level. That's because these robots haven't actually been programmed to play Come Together — at least not specifically.
According to members of the University's Music and Entertainment Technology lab (MET-lab), these bots have been designed to play music by following an actual musical score:
The HUBOs are operating autonomously (not human-controlled). Their movements are directed by student-developed software to perform the gestures necessary to produce the appropriate notes and beats as dictated by a musical score. Every sound in the video was performed by the robots.
MET-lab student Matthew Prockup created the musical arrangement for drum kit and three "Hubophones", novel percussion instruments designed and constructed by the lab for this performance.
The whole ensemble is impressive, and sounds really great — especially when you realize that the Hubophones were designed out of PVC; but we were particularly impressed by authentic Beatles sound coming from the robot on Ringo's mini-kit... are we sure that's not just a human in a HUBO-suit? [Drexel Engineering via Engadget]


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GEF4 is the unified effort to develop a new GEF 4.x code base as a modernization of the current one (Draw2d, GEF (MVC) 3.x, and Zest 1.x, in the following referred to as GEF proper). Being developed in parallel to maintaining the GEF proper code base, GEF4 is set up as a set of provisional components, not being bound to the same API compatibility constraints.
Additional information about our plans and can be inferred from the following talks:
- Alexander Nyßen (2012): GEF - Past, Present, and Future, EclipseCon NA, Reston (VA), 2012
- Alexander Nyßen (2012): GEF4 - Share And Enjoy..., EclipseCon Europe, Ludwigsburg, 2012
- Alexander Nyßen (2013): GEF4 - (Continue to) Share and Enjoy..., EclipseCon NA, Boston (MA), 2013
- Alexander Nyßen (2013): GEF4 SwtFX (Lightning Talks), EclipseCon Europe, Ludwigsburg, 2013
- Alexander Nyßen (2013): GEF4, RheinJug, Düsseldorf, 2013
Current Status
Having functionally completed the GEF4 Geometry and GEF4 Cloudio components, work is currently being spent on developing a JavaFX-based replacement for the core of GEF (GEF4 FX, GEF4 SwtFX, GEF4 MVC), as well as further migration of the former Zest2 code base (GEF4 Layout, GEF4 Graph).
- GEF4 Geometry - Provides different abstractions (Euclidean, Projective, Planar) for 2D geometric calculations, and conversions of planar geometries (curves, shapes, poly shapes) to/from respective SWT and AWT equivalents (as well as conversions between these SWT and AWT geometries). (355997)
- GEF4 SwtFX - Provides JavaFX Node implementations for SWT Controls, so that you can embed SWT Controls in a JavaFX scene graph using the JavaFX SWT integration. (410772)
- GEF4 MVC (MVC / MVC.UI / MVC.FX / MVC.FX.UI) - Core model-view-controller framework to build up graphical editors and views. Provides an UI toolkit independent and a JavaFX specific layer, and can be used to build standalone and Eclipse-integrated editors and views (419805)
- GEF4 Layout - Will provide a data model for layout calculations as well as basic layout algorithms. Will be based on the contents of the
org.eclipse.draw2d.graphpackage as well as on the SWT/JFace independent parts of the
org.eclipse.zest.core.layoutsplug-in.( 394219)
- GEF4 Graph Will provide a UI-independent data model for representing graph structures, as well as an import/export functionality from/to GraphViz DOT representations.
- GEF4 Cloudio - Provides support for visualizing tag clouds. (Refactored out of the Zest2 code base, see 420061 for details)
- GEF4 Zest - Transferred from original Zest2 code base, already adopted to GEF4 namespace and versioning, and integrated into GEF4 Git repository and update-site. Not yet fully adopted/re-modularized to depend on other GEF4 components only (i.e. still dependent on Draw2d 3.x). However, the GEF4 Layout, GEF4 Graph, and GEF4 Cloudio components have already been factored out (372365).
Bugzilla components (for those listed above) are created one by one as parts of the remaining code base are migrated. In addition, all bugs related to GEF4 are prefixed
[GEF4]. Here is a list of all bugs currently related to GEF4.
Source Code
The complete source code of GEF4 is located in the GEF4 Git repository. For further information on how to obtain it and how set-up in order to contribute, please refer to the GEF Project Contributor Guide.
Update Sites
A Tycho-based build infrastructure for the GEF4 provisional component has been configured under https://hudson.eclipse.org/hudson/job/gef4-master. The build job is triggered hourly in case of changes to the source code repository and further once per day. It produces an update-site, which does not get promoted to downloads.eclipse.org, but can directly be consumed from:
In addition to this, integration, milestones, and release builds are promoted to downloads.eclipse.org and can be found here:
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Hey everyone! I hope you all had a fun and safe Halloween! Nothing too exciting over here. I had to stay late at school for a meeting and then did some studying and some Glee watching and early to bed… I know, WILD. To re-cap my birthday, I'm turning Thursday Thoughts into a birthday edition! With a few random things thrown in. It is Thursday Thoughts…
1. Luckily I got to see MOLLY on my birthday! It was only for a couple minutes, but I always love seeing her!
2. Speaking of Molly….
3. For my birthday, my friend sent me a new pair of norts (nike shorts) and I LOVE them! Had to snap a photo in the gym when I wore them on my birthday!
4. To celebrate my birthday, my brother and sister-in-law took me to the Laugh Factory for a comedy show. Beforehand we went to Falafill for dinner. I'd heard of it from Lindsay and was excited to give it a try! I got the seasonal falafel, which was beans and butternut squash, and filled up at the bar! It was really good!
5. The morning of my birthday my workout was supposed to be 40 min cardio. I know my knee (IT band) hurt during the 5K this weekend but I wanted to try running anyway… Stupid. I had to stop at 2.5 miles and then it was killing me all day. It feels fine when I walk around now, but I'm taking off running again until Monday and rolling/icing like a crazy person.
6. After the Laugh Factory, we saw a guy dressed up sitting alone in the bus stop… I've decided he's dressed as a bumble bee.
Gotta love Halloween.
7. My mom and one of my oldest friends each called and sang me Happy Birthday on the phone. You know people really love you when they'll sing the whole song to you on the phone every year.
8. At school yesterday, a bunch of people were dressed up. Mostly 1Ls and I think it was for a class, but nevertheless I pretended it was in celebration of my birthday (I pretty much assume all of Halloween is about my birthday…). Elmo:
9. And to round out today's Thursday Thoughts – Another Molly photo. Of course.
Are you a fan of falafels? Have you ever had one?
What do you like to wear when you workout?
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Home for Christmas? Travel Still Snarled After Deadly Winter Storm
Airports struggle back after as much as 2 feet of snow. Shopping, NFL also hit.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 2009 -- Winter officially arrives Monday -- but it jumped the gun on the East Coast, where a record-setting storm brought as much as two feet of snow and was blamed for at least five deaths, thousands of traffic accidents, closed airports and roads, power outages and nearly deserted stores on the weekend before Christmas.
Travelers continue to suffer the consequences.
Airports closed or severely hampered during the storm tried to rebound after many air travelers woke up Sunday on terminal floors. But open seats were scarce after thousands of canceled or delayed flights, and massive delays raged on.
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In some cases, it seemed airlines couldn't promise everyone would be home for Christmas.
College student Marisa Morin, 19, spoke to ABC News this morning after she was delayed more than 25 hours at Washington's Reagan National Airport.
"The latest is that they cancelled my 9:30 for this morning and they've put me on a 3:30 p.m. or a 9:00," she said. "They said that the likelihood of getting out is probably slim just because they have to clear all the runways here. ... It's going to keep on going like that: They're going [to] put me on the next flights until one lucky flight actually leaves."
Reagan National reopened for flights at 12:30 p.m., but Morin had lost patience. Instead, the Georgetown University freshman, aiming to get home to New Hampshire for the holidays, said she got "the last ticket" on an Amtrak train to Boston.
Even airports outside the storm zone were affected by the East Coast's woes.
Jacob Shirk, stuck at Chicago O'Hare International Airport Saturday, was told to stay put for the rest of the night.
"When I first got in, they gave me a toothbrush and just said, 'Get comfortable,'" Shirk said.
'Blizzard of '09' Sets Records Up and Down East Coast
Twelve states from North Carolina to Maine were hit by what they're calling the "Blizzard of '09." In addition to dumping record amounts of snow for December up and down the eastern seaboard, the storm unleashed wind gusts of up to 65 miles per hour in some areas.
Philadelphia got 23.2 inches of snow, the second-biggest single snowfall there ever, according to The Associated Press.
Today, Washington, D.C., was reeling from the largest one-day December snowfall in history, with totals of 16 inches to two feet in the region falling Saturday.
Even on Monday, federal agencies in the Washington, D.C., area will be closed, and only emergency personnel and some Telework employees were being asked to report to their jobs, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management announced.
Snowfalls of nearly two feet or more were reported in areas as disparate as Robbinsville, N.C.; Virginia; West Virginia; Maryland; southern New Jersey; West Greenwich, R.I.; Bourne, Mass.; and parts of New York's Long Island, the National Weather Service reported.
New York City got 10.9 inches of snow in Central Park and 14.5 inches at JFK airport, apparently amounting to its largest snowfall in several years.
The storm was "exiting the Northeast" at 4 p.m., but winter weather advisories remained in effect along the Maine coast, according to the National Weather Service.
Bad Timing -- or 'Perfect'?
The timing could not be worse for many, with Christmas only five days away and retailers already struggling. And the weather snarled the travel plans of people flying home for Christmas.
But the timing wasn't bad for everyone.
"Other than spoiling the Christmas shopping, from the emergency manager perspective it was the perfect timing," Peter Judge, spokesman for the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, told the AP. "Even the cleanup today, we're not fighting the people who would be trying to get to work."
Some Twitter users also found the storm to their liking, evidently. A group of them organized a massive snowball fight in downtown Washington Saturday by communicating through the social media site.
Snarled Air Traffic System
The mood was not as light at the East Coast's airports. Airlines scrapped thousands of flights at airports from North Carolina all the way up through Boston, causing a ripple effect of delays across the country.
Click here or scroll down for a list of cancellations reported by major carriers.
Inconvenienced travelers included the National Football League's Chicago Bears, whose initial flight to Baltimore to play the Ravens today was canceled. The Bears managed to fly to Baltimore Saturday night, ABC News Baltimore affiliate WMAR reported, though the start of the game was delayed from 1 to 4:15 p.m.
In Philadelphia today, officials also delayed the start of the San Francisco 49ers-Philadelphia Eagles game a few hours to help get the field cleaned off and allow more time for people to get to the site.
Sleeping at the Airport
It was a long night for workaday airport travelers, too. Passengers who had nowhere else to go camped out at several airports, hoping for a flight out today.
They included Liam Cummings, stuck at Washington's Reagan National Airport since Friday evening.
"This is where I slept last night, and this is where I plan on sleeping tonight," he said as he lay on a floor.
Saturday night, D.C.'s airport authority gave out 200 blankets at National Airport and 600 at region's other large airport, Dulles, where officials managed to open one runway at 6 a.m. and started receiving arriving flights.
Tara Hamilton, a spokeswoman for the region's Metropolitan Airport Authority, said reopening National was particularly difficult.
"We had more snow than we've ever had a Reagan National," Hamilton said. "What that meant was we couldn't simply push the snow away or groom it. We actually had to haul it away. ... I think we were doing the best we could do. We've never had a situation like this."
Things were particularly bad this morning at National's American Airlines ticket counters, with waits of more than four hours. Other airlines apparently canceled most of their morning flights and told passengers not to come to the airport.
Baltimore-Washington International Airport was able to keep one runway open Saturday. Although the airport was open, officials said Sunday flights would continue to be impacted by the storm, with travelers advised to check with their carrier before making their way to any of the airports.
Airport Delays Go On
About 1,200 flights were canceled Saturday and Sunday at the New York region's three major airports, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey said.
At New York's LaGuardia Airport, passengers were hoping they could beat the storm, with no luck.
"We just found out that all the flights for our airline are canceled," said one traveler, Tina Moore.
In Baltimore, Alex Eichmiller was stuck on a runway for eight hours along with 147 fellow passengers on an Air Jamaica flight, as he told the local ABC station.
"Everyone is getting restless and hot and hungry," he said, adding that they were getting water as they waited, but not food.
Snarled Highways, Stranded Motorists
Things were not much better on the roads.
In Havertown, Pa., near Philadelphia, Christine Cavalier said initially it appeared only major thoroughfares in the area were being cleared.
"People are getting through, but they can't go everywhere," she said, according to ABC News Radio.
Cavalier, mother of a 9-year-old daughter and a 3-year-old son, said her kids loved it.
"The snow angels were a little bit hard to do, because they couldn't get up after they made them," she said, laughing. "They were so deep down in the snow that it was hard for them to actually get back up again."
Even after the snow moved out of some areas, blowing snow and unplowed roads continue to make driving dangerous well into Sunday.
Authorities in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia asked residents this morning to stay home and give public works crews a chance to plow major highways and roads.
Area hospitals asked for volunteers with four-wheel drive vehicles to help get doctors and nurses to work. Other employers were requesting that only essential employees report to work today.
In Virginia alone on Saturday, police responded to more than 2,900 traffic accidents and disabled vehicles, and nearly 1,000 drivers were stranded on a highway. Rescue workers had to drive up and down roads offering to take stranded riders to shelters. The National Guard had to rescue some motorists in Humvees.
"The only thing I can say is if you don't have to be out here don't," said Mark Hall a stranded driver. "And if you are, make sure you got a full tank of gas."
Almost 1,000 people across the nation woke up in Red Cross shelters this morning, the Red Cross said in a Twitter "tweet" today.
In Maryland on Saturday, a snow plow made matters worse when it pushed as much as 18 inches of snow onto a ramp where 20 vehicles were hoping to get on the highway to get home. A state trooper, also stranded with the cars, was able to call for help and get all of the drivers and passengers out safely.
One Virginian was reported as having been killed in a traffic accident caused by "slick roads," according to The Associated Press, and another of the five deaths may have been caused by poor conditions on the road.
Another death is believed to have been caused by exposure to low temperatures, according to the AP, and two others in Ohio were killed in accidents on the snowy roads.
There were plenty of rescues, too.
In Wonalancet, N.H., after a lengthy search, fire-rescue crews managed to locate a missing 53-year-old hiker who had called for help over a bad cell phone connection during the storm, according to ABC News affiliate WMUR.
D.C. Blast -- 16 Inches to 2 Feet
Aside from occasional light flurries, snow had stopped falling in downtown Washington, D.C., by this morning after a record-breaking winter storm. It was the heaviest December snowfall ever and among the biggest snowfalls in local history.
Thousands of people in Virginia and Maryland remained without power this morning.
Some parts of the region got more snow in a day then would normally fall in an entire winter. In the end, the storm dumped anywhere from 16 inches to two feet on the nation's capitol and nearby Virginia and Maryland suburbs Friday night and Saturday.
At its peak, the Nor'easter dumped snow at a rate of up to 2 inches an hour and packed wind gusts of 40 mph as it moved across a wide swath of the mid-Atlantic before moving on to Philadelphia, New York and into New England.
The city's public transportation system remained largely shut down Sunday morning, with no busses running and trains operating only on underground portions of the 106-mile Metrorail system. Officials gradually restored bits of still-fragmentary service through the day.
As the storm raged Saturday, Waldo Wentz, 56, tried in vain to get a cab in deserted downtown Washington, to get to a friend's house for a Christmas party in Maryland.
"My friends' kids are going to be disappointed if Santa doesn't arrive with these presents," he said, his arms loaded with gifts, a Yule log and cookies.
McKinsey Harris, who was expecting a four-hour commute from western Virginia to Washington Saturday, wound up stuck for nearly a full day.
"I have never seen anything like this," Harris said. "I've seen overturned cars, tractor trailers sliding off the road. I had no idea how to handle this weather and I have now been stuck in it for almost 24 hours. So I guess I've learned and I've also learned to always have you know a blanket, food, water, everything with me just in case something like this is to happen ever again."
Wintry Wedding -- But Band Got Snowed Out
The blizzard did not stop Emily Lake and Tony McCormack from tying the knot. They married Saturday at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Silver Spring, Md., even though their wedding band had already cancelled due to the weather.
Many churches along the eastern corridor suspended Sunday church services, reminding parishioners that church law includes a provision for "grave cause" to miss Mass at church.
Instead, the dioceses were urging Catholics to watch Mass on television or listen to Masses broadcast on the radio or on the Internet if their roads were "unsafe."
ABC News' Marisol Castro, Emily Friedman, Jennifer Parker, David Kerley and Cullen Dirner, and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Air and Rail Cancellations and Delays -- Carrier by Carrier
Check with your carrier for the latest delay information.
Here is what they reported earlier today:
United Airlines (2:45 p.m.) -- Systemwide, United and United Express had 1,000 cancellations Friday-Sunday out of about 9,900 flights scheduled. The airline was adding extra planes and larger planes, and hoped to be in better shape by Monday.
USAirways (2:45 p.m.) -- Cancelled 908 flights Saturday, including mainline and express, and 671 today. That's out of a total of 3,000 flights a day. The airline is trying to reset for Monday and run as normal a schedule as possible.
Southwest (2:30 p.m.) -- Cancelled 380 Flights Saturday and 174 today, mostly first flights of the day, though more are possible. Better on Monday.
Amtrak (12:30 p.m.) -- About 15 percent of trains out of Washington, D.C., were canceled today. The issue was equipment in wrong places and trouble getting employees where they needed to be. It was having a ripple effect throughout the system -- affecting trains going south as well as north. Trains that were running were operating at full capacity today. Some cancelations included Acela Express service. There probably will be some residual effect for Monday.
American Airlines (12:30 p.m.) -- Cancelled 127 flights, plus another 40 for American Eagle. All morning operations at LGA, JFK and BOS were canceled. Hoped to resume operations there this afternoon.
Delta (12:30 p.m.) -- Hundreds of flights remained canceled. Hope to start resuming operations in the afternoon, but didn't expect planes to really start flying until Monday. The issue wasn't the runways -- but rather getting planes and workers where they needed to be. Officials were trying to figure out if they can run more flights or use bigger planes on some routes to accommodate passengers.
Continental (12:30 p.m.) -- Cancelled 50 flights this morning. Other flights were operating with one- to two-hour delays, depending on location and de-icing. Monday looked better domestically for a more complete schedule. However, there could be problems with flights coming from Europe -- which has its own weather problems.
JetBlue (12:30 p.m.) -- Cancelled 205 out of 682 flights -- mostly JFK and Boston. The airline's goal was to be up and running "full steam" Monday.
Air Tran (12:30 p.m.) -- 32 cancellations today. No more expected.


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Sometimes it is hard for a mother to recognize and acknowledge that a child is different and may have ADHD. That recognition is never what a mother wishes to realize. The child with hyperactivity is a difficult child. He or she may be different from the moment of birth. The child may cry incessantly no matter what is done. He may not sleep well. The child may be exhausting, constant, and show no mercy for the family.
As the child becomes older and more active, it may be difficult for those in contact with a parent of a child with ADHD to stop criticizing them for not disciplining the child. The child may always be a source of conflict in the family. Fathers may not be home all day long and feel that "mom" is just not tough enough. She may be trying her hardest, but no matter what approach she tries, nothing may work. Going to bed with tears and feelings of defeat as a parent can often happen.
There may be times when a mother looks around at other mothers and sees the pride and enjoyment another mother may be feeling about her child. Sometimes a mothers of a child with ADHD may have feelings of dislike for her child. Guilt and sadness may occur, and the mother may not know where to turn to discuss these unwelcome feelings.
As I hear the many stories of mothers (or fathers who are involved) who have come to me for help, I am glad they have sought assistance. The first step of trying to help a child with ADHD is realizing that something is not going well with the child and then finding a professional to evaluate the child. When that step is taken, the beginning of the end of guilt and denial takes place, and the mother can start building a more positive approach to her child, which in the end will allow the child to feel more love and acceptance.
Important: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and not Everyday Health.


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Undergraduate Degrees, Majors and Concentrations
SPMG3610 - Sports Sales
Fall 2020
Sales is an essential revenue producing function for any commercial organization. Sport and recreations have a unique marketing relationship of product and inventory with the consumer and marketplace. The course is designed for the student to learn the theoretical concepts and the application of skills and practices associated with the sports sales process, building upon theories learned in the prerequisite class. Through readings, guest speakers and lectures, the course will examine the rationale regarding the benefits and disadvantages of various sales and promotional methodologies. This course will then concentrate on promotional and sales strategies, campaigns and techniques that will be presented in an applied format. In essence, this applied format will function as a "real world" laboratory, where students will actually conduct sales and promotional activities for sport entities which may include: minor league franchises, collegiate athletic programs, and for-profit sports related businesses. While sales management within the sport organization will be addressed, the primary focus of the course is to develop the student as an effective salesperson able to function in the applicable areas of the sport-tainment industry. 3 credits
Prerequisite: MARK3100 or SPMG3402
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The Regional Roundup of Energy Efficiency Policy is intended to give policymakers, regulators, efficiency proponents, program administrators and other stakeholders a comparative view of the progress of energy efficiency policies and programs across the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic region.
Along with state-level highlights, the report examines regional trends and shared challenges in harnessing the potential of energy efficiency to meet today's pressing energy and environmental challenges — controlling energy costs, improving system reliability, reducing the need for expensive new generation and transmission projects, modernizing the electric grid, strengthening the economy, growing jobs, improving public health and curbing emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants.
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- An overview of state progress – including regulatory updates and most recent data on investments and savings for gas and electric efficiency programs
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- For more on what is happening in the states throughout the year, please visit our state pages.