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Bond Allocation―Lake Charles Housing Authority
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and Act 51 of the 1986 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature, Executive Order No. KBB 2005-12 was issued to establish:
(1) a method for allocating bonds subject to private activity bond volume limits, including the method of allocating bonds subject to the private activity bond volume limits for the calendar year of 2006 (hereafter "the 2006 Ceiling");
(2) the procedure for obtaining an allocation of bonds under the 2006 Ceiling; and
(3) a system of central record keeping for such allocations; and
WHEREAS, the Lake Charles Housing Authority has requested an allocation from the 2006 Ceiling to finance the acquisition, rehabilitation, and equipping of Chateau du Lac Apartments, a 198 unit residential rental facility for the elderly, located on 6.2 acres at 333 Mill Street, Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, state of Louisiana, in accordance with the provisions of Section 146 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended;
NOW THEREFORE, I, KATHLEEN BABINEAUX BLANCO, Governor of the state of Louisiana, by virtue of the authority vested by the Constitution and the laws of the state of Louisiana, do hereby order and direct as follows:
SECTION 1: The bond issue, as described in this Section, shall be and is hereby granted an allocation from the 2006 Ceiling in the amount shown:
Amount of Allocation
Name of Issuer
Name of Project
Lake Charles Housing Authority
Chateau Affordable, LLC
SECTION 2: The allocation granted herein shall be used only for the bond issue described in Section 1 and for the general purpose set forth in the "Application for Allocation of a Portion of the State of Louisiana Private Activity Bond Ceiling" submitted in connection with the bond issue described in Section 1.
SECTION 3: The allocation granted herein shall be valid and in full force and effect through December 31, 2006, provided that such bonds are delivered to the initial purchasers thereof on or before December 28, 2006.
SECTION 4: All references in this Order to the singular shall include the plural, and all plural references shall include the singular.
SECTION 5: This Order is effective upon signature and shall remain in effect until amended, modified, terminated, or rescinded by the governor, or terminated by operation of law.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set my hand officially and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of Louisiana, at the Capitol, in the city of Baton Rouge, on this 2nd day of November, 2006.
Kathleen Babineaux Blanco
Al Ater
Secretary of State


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For some while now, I have been gaping in awe and befuddlement at the campaign of Herman Cain. I feel some obligation as a blogger to comment on what is surely the most bizarre presidential candidacy in my lifetime, but for the life of me I have been unable to find the appropriate standpoint from which to launch my commentary. Last night, Rachel Maddow devoted a segment of her nightly show to the subject, and with what I am compelled to believe was a brilliant satirical thrust, skewered Cain and his campaign, and along with him the entire commentariat -- mainstream, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and Underground.
Her shtick can be found here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/
Maddow chose to portray Cain's campaign as a piece of satirical performance art that has grown broader and more daring, more or less out of desperation, as the entire Republican Party has persisted in taking him seriously, despite his truly heroic efforts to tip them off, to let them -- and the rest of us -- in on the joke.
Her literary critical analysis begins with the very first Debate, at the end of which, when it came time for the two minute concluding statements, Cain quote several lines from what he identified as "a great poet," but which were actually taken from a song in the Pokemon movie.
Well, no one got that joke, so next he unveiled his now famous 9-9-9 tax plan, which, it seems comes straight out of the interactive computer game Sim City. When this was pointed out, both to him and to the world, the Republican voters did not applaud the comedy routine and usher Cain from the political arena. Instead, they drove his poll numbers up, eclipsing Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, and the egregious Rick Santorum.
Getting desperate now for his audience to catch on [there is nothing worse than being a stand-up comic in a cold house], Cain uttered his notorious line about one of America's Central Asian allies: "If someone asks me who the President is of Uzbeki-beki-beki-stan-stan, I will say, I don't know, do you?" That is not a flubbed answer, or a poorly handled foreign policy question. It bears no relation to Sarah Palin's inability to respond to Katie Couric's softball question, "Which newspapers do you read?" Cain's line is patently a comic throwaway, a rib-tickler, a gut-buster, a bit of tomfoolery. The pundits just stroked their chins and allowed as how Herman did not seem to be up on his foreign policy.
When Cain got to the top of the polls, how did he respond? He released a "campaign" ad in which his Campaign Manager blew smoke into the camera, after which the "candidate" himself slowly and deliberately exhibited a Cheshire Cat smile that as much as said, "Get it?"
Whereupon, Cain took off on a month long book tour!
The only thing Cain has done that looks remotely like the action of a serious candidate is to screw up his response to the revelations of his past history of sexual harassment charges. Now that really does look like the behavior of a political candidate --like a Newt Gingrich, a Bill Clinton, a Mark Sanford, a Gary Hart, a John Edwards.
Cain's latest bit of comic foolishness? His enthusiastic embrace of the Koch billionaires with a line right out of the 'hood: "I am their brother by another mother."
There are two questions that force themselves on us, the second even more interesting than the first: Is Maddow right that Cain is engaged in a deliberate bit of "performance art"?, And Why are the Republican voters buying it?
The first goes to motive, as they say in the law courts, and since I have never so much as seen Herman Cain in person, I cannot form a sound judgment about what he thinks he is doing. But I do have some opinions.
Herman Cain, I suggest, is only the most recent in a long, long line of Black comedians who placate, flatter, and reassure White racists by presenting themselves as caricatures of African-American men and women. Quite often these performances are deliberately and deeply ironic, a way of laughing at Whitey without getting lynched. Sometimes they are compromises made by gifted Black actors who can only get work by conforming their self-presentations to the prejudices of their audiences ["I don' know nothing about birthin' babies, Mis Scarlet."] And in some instances, alas, they are uncomplicatedly complicit in those prejudices.
I simply cannot tell which sort of minstrel Cain is playing. But I suspect he is not stupid, and it is just not possible to be Black in America, especially for one of his generation, without understanding these things viscerally.
The appeal to White Republicans? For years, they have been berated as racists. Although the charge is true, they hate it. their reaction is a of a piece with their deeply resentful sense that the educated, the successful, the Liberal, are looking down on them. By embracing Cain, they are giving the collective finger to the powerful, the successful, the ascendant, in their own Republican Party as well as in the Democratic Party. Ann Coulter, who can always be relied upon to say out loud what more cautious bigots will only mutter sotto voce, gave the game away when she said "Our Blacks are so much better than their Blacks." [I suspect Coulter is unaware of the famous 1859 Harriet Wilson novel Our Nig.]
How will this all play out? I simply cannot tell. Will Cain actually go through with the charade and allow people to choose convention delegates committed to him? Will he, God help us, win enough delegates to be competitive at the convention? The mean spirited gutter fighter in me hopes the answer is "yes," but the serious political philosopher shrinks from the prospect.

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* The correct installation method is by your mechanic using a StarScan tool to install the TIPM. They can update the software code and you just need to match the 04692298.
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I Pray to My Heavenly Father
I pray to my Heavenly Father
And thank Him for blessings most dear,
For all the great gifts that He gives me,
And the beautiful world we have here.
I ask Him to help me and guide me,
That always His will may be done.
I pray to my Heavenly Father
In the name of Jesus, His Son.
Text: Gwen Boyer
Music: Gwen Boyer
Artist: Boyer
Album: Music Published in the Church Magazines: Friend
Composition Date: 1974-06-01
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There has typically only been room for one top dog in the Porsche empire, and traditionally, that car has been the 911 Carrera.
But with this generation, the Boxster, and especially the Boxster S, has become damn good. But is it now faster than the 911?
Car and Driver's only watchable YouTube series, "Car and Driver Abroad," brought together a loaded Boxster S and a bone stock 991 911 Carrera in England and let them have at it. Did Porsche finally make a Boxster that's faster than the iconic 911?
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Australian field campaign validates SMOS data
To ensure the integrity of an Earth observation mission, it is often essential to compare the data being delivered from space with measurements taken on the ground. Accordingly, the first field campaign to validate soil moisture data from ESA's SMOS mission has just been carried out 'down under'.
Launched in November, the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission is still being commissioned, but already delivering its first calibrated images of 'brightness temperature'. As a measure of radiation emitted from Earth's surface, these images can be used to derive global measurements of soil moisture and ocean salinity to improve our understanding of the water cycle. In addition, data from SMOS will help to improve weather and climate models, and have applications in areas such as agriculture and water resource management.
As an important part of the mission, a number of intensive field campaigns are planned all over the world to make sure the mission is delivering true information on soil moisture and ocean salinity. These field campaigns involve taking in situ measurements on the ground, from aircraft, ships, oceans buoys and platforms.
The first such campaign to validate soil moisture data was recently completed in southeast Australia. Australia was well suited for this first measurement campaign because it is currently experiencing the summer growing season.
Both the observed brightness temperature data and the derived data products for soil moisture from SMOS need to be validated. To achieve this, data were collected from the air and on the ground. A light aircraft carrying an L-band radiometer and a thermal imager was used to make observations similar to those acquired by SMOS, while data on soil moisture were collected by a team on the ground.
Importantly, each flight, which observed 10 sites measuring 100 km by 50 km, was matched to the early morning overpass of SMOS, orbiting 760 km above. The ground team of about 20 students and scientists from Australia and Europe collected coincident soil moisture data so that the in situ data can be related directly to the data acquired by the satellite. They also collected other information, such as the temperature and roughness of the surface and the type and density of the vegetation covering the soil.
The field campaign, called AACES – short for Australian Airborne Calibration/Validation Experiments for SMOS – was led by the University of Melbourne and funded by the Australian Research Council. Due to the airborne and in situ data collection strategy, which covered a 500 km transect of the Murrumbidgee Catchment in southeast Australia, this campaign is one of the most comprehensive worldwide assessments of SMOS data. The experience gained in earlier campaigns carried out for SMOS, such as the Australian National Airborne Field Experiment in 2005, ensured the campaign was well planned and ran smoothly.
The test site covered a unique area that comprises a wide range of topographic, climatic and land-cover characteristics. These varied features meant that seasonal changes could be mapped on a very large scale. The site was ideal for validating the soil moisture component of the mission. The five-week campaign, which started in mid-January, included very hot and dry conditions as well as periods of heavy rain. Ground soil moisture measurements varied from 5% to over 40%, providing an excellent test bed for SMOS during its commissioning phase.
"The campaign has been a huge success. A significant rainfall event that occurred in the middle of the campaign means that both extreme hot dry and cool wet conditions have been captured by this extensive validation dataset," said Prof. Jeff Walker from the University of Melbourne. "The validation campaign will serve a key role in benchmarking the performance of SMOS during its six-month commissioning phase."
The team is now anxiously waiting for the delivery of data from SMOS so that they can analyse the dataset collected during the campaign and continue with the process of validation.
Notably, the data collected in Australia will be fed into the International Soil Moisture Network, which is a new system initiated by the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) in cooperation with the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) and ESA. The International Soil Moisture Network will bring together data collected in field campaigns worldwide and provide a standardised global database to share freely with the scientific community.
The next campaign, which will continue the process of validating soil moisture and also include the validation of ocean salinity data, will be carried out by ESA in cooperation with the French space agency CNES in Europe. Between April and July, several sites in Denmark, Germany, France and Spain will be observed from the air while teams take coincident ground-truth measurements as SMOS orbits above.


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Storm Watch 260
- Material: polished stainless steel - swarovski crystals - glass
- Case Size: W: 28mm, L: 34mm
CASE MATERIAL: Polished Stainless Steel
DIAL COLOUR: Grey
GLASS TYPE: Curved Glass
MOVEMENT: Quartz
STRAP TYPE: Mesh Strap
STRAP MATERIAL: Polished Stainless Steel
CLASP TYPE: Mesh Clasp
MULTIFUNCTION: Date Indicator
FEATURES: Slim Watch - Swarvoski Crystals
GENDER: Women's Watches
WARRANTY: 2 Years
British brand STORM leads the way as it pushes the boundaries of inventive design, through its innovative approach to producing iconic fashion watches for men and women. Shapes are contoured to catch the imagination and unique and bold designs are as individual as those who wear them.
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For defects which are covered by the guarantee it is at the discretion of STORM whether or not to carry out a repair or whether to provide an identical replacement or a watch with similar features. The STORM service centre and Blue Wing Gallery are also allowed to charge fees for postage and packaging and also necessary insurance. When claiming the guarantee, please contact Blue Wing Gallery or the STORM service centre.
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Capsicum annuum
For all peppers, days to full-color maturity are from transplanting date.
~160 seeds/g. Capsicum comes from the Greek kapto which means 'bite.'
Culture: Very tender, will not tolerate frost, dislike wind, will not set fruit in cold or extremely hot temperatures or in drought conditions. Start indoors in March or April. Set out in June. Black plastic highly recommended. Row cover improves fruit set in windy spots. Pick first green peppers when they reach full size to increase total yield significantly. Green peppers, though edible, are not ripe. Peppers ripen to red, yellow, orange, etc.
Minimum germination soil temperature 60°, optimal range 68-95°.
- BLS: Bacterial Leaf Spot
- CMV: Cucumber Mosaic Virus
- TMV: Tobacco Mosaic Virus
Seed-saving tips: Use only the first fruits for seed; allow only 3–4 fruits per plant to grow and remove all others. Fewer fruits = larger seeds = greater seed viability. Later fruits often have germination rates of only 60%.


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Free movie nights every two weeks, game nights every friday night, and various campus activities.Read More
Every common area has some form of entertainment, be it a television or pool table. There are also plenty of game nights, one every Friday night where lots of cool people get together and get their game on.Read More
I spend time with my wife. Read books. Go to park and play frizby golf.Read More
I have not become involved in the extra curricular activities offered at OSUIT. From my mail that is sent from the scholl though, I am made fully aware that there is a very involved school life and many fun things available to the students and the public.Read More
There is a myriad of intramural sports available here, with a workout gym and basketball court. There are also LAN parties time to time where people (both students and not) come to play video games for hours on end.Read More
OSUIT has movie nights for free and creates intermediate games during seasons. I love that they have softball and basketball in which I played in high school, and still get to in college.Read More
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Every other Thursday night is free movie night for OSU students at the local theater. There are also intramural sports teams going on all year round, different fund raising events, lots of clubs, and many other things.Read More
There are many things to do while staying on campus. There is a frisbee golf course, a basketball court, weight rooms, a softball field, soccer field, and racketball courts. These areas are the site of intermural tournaments and get togethers. There is a movie theatre where students get to watch movies free on certain thursdays in a month.Read More


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Golden Globes 2013: The best moments
Party time!
Sunday's 2013 Golden Globes scene was rockin' from start to finish with glitz, glamour and stars galore. Hilarity ensued as the booze flowed along with the funny wisecracks, surprise guests and emotional speeches.
We offer you the hottest moments of the night (and there were a lot of them):
• Bill Clinton! Nothing like getting a president to introduce your movie about a president. "Let's take a look at Steven Spielberg's extraordinary Lincoln," said Clinton as he took the Globes stage.
"Wow, what an exciting special guest!" said Amy Poehler. "That was Hillary Clinton's husband!" (Poehler, of course, did a mean Hillary impersonation on SNL.)
Daniel Day-Lewis, who won a Globe for playing Abraham Lincoln in the drama, called it "an incredible privilege to have him, a Lincoln scholar in his own right, speak about our film."
And did Day-Lewis feel the weight of responsibility in playing Lincoln? "Ya," he said backstage, "to the extent I really circled it for seven years before finally saying yes. I think I was pretty much convinced I wasn't the person (Spielberg) needed to help him tell the story. The last thing I wanted to do was to go down in flames having desecrated the greatest president in the history of this country. It's the work that takes over."
• Jodie Foster, accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award, gave a long, fiery, pointedly self-revelatory speech about being private, getting old, her ailing mother and Honey Boo Boo.
She started by quoting Molly Shannon's old Saturday Night Live character Sally O'Mally: "I'm 50! I'm 50!" She worked her way up to a big revelation. "I have a sudden urge to say in public something I have never been able to say. ... I'm sort of nervous but not as much as my publicist. ... I am ... single." She went on to acknowledge that people may have been expecting her to declare something else. But, "there's no big coming-out speech tonight," she said. "I did my coming out a thousand years ago back in the Stone Age." Now, she says, celebrities are expected to reveal all the details of their private life. But she made it clear she wouldn't be going the whole "make the public revelation, followed by the tabloid cover and reality show" route "because my life is so boring." She continued, "You might be surprised but I am not Honey Boo Boo child. That's not me. And never will be. My reality show would be so boring." She finished up by thanking her former partner, Cydney Bernard, her sons and her mom, evoking tears from the audience.
Twitter blew up with chatter that it all meant she was retiring, but backstage, she said that wasn't the case at all, reports USA TODAY's Bryan Alexander. "I could never stop acting. You'd have to drag me behind a team of horses. I'm not retiring. I'd like to be directing tomorrow. I'm actually more into than I have ever been."
What was she trying to say? "People change. Change is important. And your work evolves. My work is evolving."
Evolving into what? "I feel like acting has been this amazing film school for me. I'm really looking forward to directing more. And using all the things I have learned. And the things I feel."
Beyond that, she said, "The speech speaks for itself. It's been a long career. It's not just a career. It's friendships and relationships. This is one of the first lifetime achievement awards I have gotten. It feels like a graduation. I feel like I'm graduating from high school. Or college. It's a big moment."
• Tina Fey and Amy Poehler opened the show with non-stop laughs and kept them coming all night long with hilarious bits and one-liners about just about every star in the room.
They started with:
Tina: "I wish you could feel the excitement in the room."
Amy: "You can smell the pills from here."
Tina: "Ricky Gervais could not be here tonight because he is no longer technically in show business."
Amy: "We have no intention of being offensive because as Ricky learned last year, when you run afoul of the Hollywood foreign press, they make you host the show two more times."
Amy on director Kathryn Bigelow: "I don't know that much about Zero Dark Thirty, but when it comes to torture I trust the lady who spent three years married to James Cameron." (Lots of "oohs" for that one.)
Tina on Anne Hathaway's profound Les Miserables performance: "I have never seen anyone alone and so abandoned like that since you were on stage with James Franco at the Oscars." Anne hung her head and smiled.
Amy: "Ang Lee has been nominated for the Life of Pi, which is what I'm gonna call the six weeks after I take this dress off!"
Tina: "Quentin Tarantino is here — the star of all my sexual nightmares."
Amy: "Meryl Streep is not here. She has the flu and I hear she is amazing in it."
Amy: "Julianne Moore is here. She's nominated for Game Change." Said Tina: "I used to get prizes for that." She then did her Sarah Palin impersonation but couldn't quite get it. "I can't do it anymore."
• Amy and Tina kept posing as random nominees, sprinkled throughout the audience.
• As the night wore on, the two took the stage with drinks in hand. "Everybody's getting looser here, now that we're all losers." Added Tina, "Taylor Swift, you stay away from Michael J. Fox's son! Or, go for it!"
And at the end of the night, they yelled goodbye, with Poehler adding, "We're going home with Jodie Foster!"
• Jennifer Lawrence caused buzz all night long. First, with her dress. Her Dior Haute Couture gown was reminiscent of Madonna's cone bras, but not quite as perky. "I don't really know what 'haute' means," she told Ryan Seacrest during E!'s red carpet. She told USA TODAY's Bryan Alexander that she had to have it altered, pointing to the bodice. "Obviously I'm pointing to my breasts." And to USA TODAY's Andrea Mandell, she said, "It's filthy on the bottom. Don't look!"
Later, Lawrence caused more buzz when she accepted the award for motion picture comedy actress for Silver Linings Playbook. Looking at her trophy, she said, "What does it say???? I beat Meryl." And she said in it a sort of nyaa-nyaa playground tone of voice. But, it turns out, she may have been quoting the 1996 film The First Wives Club. In the film, Bette Midler's character says to Goldie Hawn's character, "Once you were a terrific actress. You even got an Oscar to prove it." Bette's character touches the statue in the scene, saying, " 'I beat Meryl.' That's what it says."
Lawrence then made a nod to producer Harvey Weinstein, saying, "Thanks, Harvey, for killing whoever you had to to get me up here today."
Backstage, Lawrence was asked about the Oscars. "The Oscars? Me and the Oscars together, gives me lots of anxiety," she said, reports USA TODAY's Bryan Alexander.
• Ben Affleck was beside himself with happiness about Argo's win for best picture and his win for best director. "Tonight's just a purely wonderful night," he said backstage. "I'm so grateful we were honored." The last thing on his mind was any thought of being "snubbed" by the Oscars with no nomination for best director. "We got nominated for seven Oscars including best picture. I was thrilled. If you cannot be happy for that, your prospects for long-term happiness are pretty dim. I'm elated. I feel like the luckiest guy in the world."
But doesn't winning on Globes night kind of stick it to the Academy? "I am a member of the Academy. We got nominated for awards by the Academy. I'm an enormous admirer of the Academy. I'm also thrilled to this get this acknowledgment."
George Clooney weighed in on Affleck's snub, reports USA TODAY's Bryan Alexander, saying, "I'm disappointed. I think he did a phenomenal film and he should have been nominated. But I cannot figure out the Academy. And he's still nominated for best picture. And we have a shot at that. We talked about this the next day for a while. We got seven nominations. It's disappointing. But we're not dead yet."
• Lena Dunham, star of HBO's Girls, was the belle of the ball as she won for best actress in a comedy, and the show won, too. While she called her boyfriend, guitarist Jack Antonoff, "family" on stage, backstage, she said, "I am not engaged. I don't want to get married until all gay people can get married," she said, and smiled. She also said, "Jodie Foster's speech was mind-blowingly beautiful."
• Sacha Baron Cohen, presenting the award for animated film, took the stage carrying a drink. He talked about Hugh "Jackson" and how he lost 30 pounds for Les Miserables, "which for my friend Gerard Depardieu would be a trip to the toilet." And he mentioned Russell Crowe, "who had four months of singing lessons — that was money well spent."
• Quentin Tarantino dropped the n-word backstage. A reporter asked if hearing all those n-words in Django Unchained jangled him on set. "No, not really. If somebody is out there actually saying, when it comes to the word n-----, that there I was using it in the movie more than it was used back in the antebellum South in Mississippi in 1858, then feel free to make that a case. But no one's actually making that case. In other words, what they're saying is I should lie. They're saying I should whitewash. They're saying I should massage. And I never do that when it comes to my characters."
• Don Cheadle followed him backstage, reports USA TODAY's Bryan Alexander. And Cheadle dropped it, too. "Please no n----- questions, black people questions are all right." Asked if he was offended by Django, he says: "I haven't seen the movie. Yet. I'm looking forward to it. Everyone says they really enjoy it. My daughter loved it. I'm 48 years old and when I look to the kids and the relationships they had, the people they relate to, the questions of racism that I dealt with growing up are completely foreign to them. The idea of not being in a relationship with someone because they are of another race. Or being a friend with someone because they are gay or whatever. Or the other prejudices I grew up with, a lot of those to a 14-year-old doesn't make sense, like the sort of questions of racism that I grew up." He added, "I thank hip-hop for sort of challenging those prejudices."
• Adele finally mentioned her baby son, born in October. It happened when she won a Globe for best original song for Skyfall. "Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God," she said, full of excitement. "We've literally come for a night out, I was not expecting it. Thanks for letting me be part of your world." The singer also thanked her boyfriend Simon Konecki for "convincing me to do" the song and thanked her "lovely son."
When asked backstage about motherhood and how it has changed her, she said, "I'm exhausted, that's how it changed me. I've got eczema from sterilizing bottles pretty much all the time." But she was elusive about her newborn son's name, reports USA TODAY's Andrea Mandell. "I'm not revealing his name. I'm not ready, it's too personal. But thank you for asking."
• Hugh Jackman talked man business backstage after his Les Mis acting win, reports USA TODAY's Andrea Mandell. "For the record, the idea that singing and dancing is not masculine is about the craziest thought I've ever heard in my entire life. I don't know how in history we got off track. The thing about Valjean is, to me, he's one of the great literary characters of all time. … It's really great to play someone who you look up to. To me, he's the epitome of a man."
• What you didn't see on camera, courtesy of USA TODAY's Claudia Puig: True love is in the house. Nominee Anne Hathaway and hubby Adam Shulman were holding hands and whispering as they headed to their seats. Eddie Redmayne from Les Miserables and Robert Pattinson, from that little-known Twilight series, were spotted having a drink at the bar. Tim Burton, with wife Helena Bonham Carter, arrived with his arm in a sling.
Loyalty goes far in Hollywood. When no one else would stand by him, Mel Gibson supported a struggling Robert Downey Jr. and helped him get his role in The Singing Detective. Now, when Gibson is still something of a pariah, Downey planted a kiss on his cheek in the ballroom.
Argo actor John Goodman was on the smoking balcony after being booted out of a seat. "So I'm just drifting around," he said, proving that not even those in nominated films get special treatment. When it was suggested he insist on his seat and make a fuss, given his status and parts in two big movies (including Flight), he said, "Nah, there are a lot of heavier hitters here." His favorites so far? Lincoln and Matt Damon's Promised Land. And on his must-see list: Silver Linings Playbook. Goodman said he was "dying to see Bradley's movie. He's such a great guy."
Louis C.K. passed a waiter carrying a tray of hors d'ouevres and hijacked him. "I haven't eaten yet," he said, and proceeded to pluck every one of them off the tray.
Is it romance? Single actress Eva Longoria and Bourne star Jeremy Renner were spotted chatting (flirting?) and dramatically hugging on the smoking balcony.
American Horror Story's Jessica Lange has been to quite a few Golden Globes. "Too many," she said, looking glamorous in her beaded L'Wren Scott dress and taking a drag from her cigarette. The difference this year? "It's cold! I got off the plane yesterday and it was colder than in New York!"
• The weather was unusually chilly for Los Angeles, so it was a constant topic of conversation. "Those are heaters," explained Ryan Seacrest to E! viewers, noting it's the first time heaters have been on the red carpet for the awards show. The forecast was for temps to drop into the mid-30s on Sunday night. "It's California cold," said Seacrest.
It's "the Cold-en Globes," said John Hamm, who told Seacrest, "It's L.A. When it hits 50 degrees, it's freezing."
"It's so cold," said Olivia Munn, but Hayden Panettiere was looking on the bright side. She told E!'s Giuliana Rancic, "It's nice not to be sweating profusely."
"I'm so excited to be here, I'm not feeling anything," said Katharine McPhee to Seacrest. Added Jodie Foster, "Actors, we're used to this. We're always in bikinis when it's 40 degrees out."
Jesse Tyler Ferguson of Modern Family told USA TODAY's Bryan Alexander, "It's freezing. A few years ago it was raining. Last year was hot. I blame global warming." Asked if he thought the show would win again tonight, he said. "We're not going to win this year. I'll be shocked if we do. At some point we're going to stop winning. We're really spoiled basically."
• Biceps curls? Francesca Eastwood, 19, Clint Eastwood's daughter and Miss Golden Globe 2013, helped hand out the awards and had to prepare for the task. "Yes, I was doing some exercises," she told USA TODAY's Bryan Alexander on the red carpet. "They are really heavy."
• A surprise ending: Although Lincoln was up for seven Golden Globes, Steven Spielberg wasn't going to jinx the night by getting too excited. "I hold my expectations in check," he told USA TODAY's Andrea Mandell. Turned out he was surprisingly correct. Argo took home the Globe for best movie in the drama category.
• Aziz Ansari joked around all night. The Parks and Recreation star was funny when asked by Rancic "who" he was wearing. "I'm wearing Kevin Dior … oh wait, Christian Dior. Kevin Dior is his brother who works at a Home Depot in Burbank." Later, he cracked from the stage that the cast from Downton Abbey had some "good weed" backstage in the form of cookies, or biscuits. "They call cookies biscuits!" he said, laughing hysterically.
• Claire Danes was feeling that the celeb scene was somewhat surreal because she's been "wearing sweatpants" since the birth of her son, Cyrus, on Dec. 17, she told Seacrest. Her Homeland co-star, Mandy Patinkin, was casual and modest about the night. "I take a 10-minute shower and 10 minutes to get dressed," he told USA TODAY's Bryan Alexander. "All I have to do is comb my hair and brush my teeth and Hugo Boss took care of everything." On his excitement over the evening's event: "I work my butt off to keep from being competitive. I'm one of the luckiest people in the world just to be here."
• Judd Apatow had another award on his mind. He recently won the Genius Award at the 2013 Movie Critics' Choice Awards. But the director, who is married to actress Leslie Mann, told USA TODAY's Bryan Alexander, "Nothing has changed at home. I always win the Schmuck Award. I get that every day."
- Flashback!: ER stars George Clooney and Julianna Margulies hugged on the red carpet. "You look absolutely beautiful," he told her.


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By the end of the 19th century, the medical specialties of gynecology and obstetrics established a new trend in women's healthcare. In the 20th century, more and more American mothers gave birth under the care of a university-trained physician. The transition from laboring and delivering with the assistance of female family, neighbors, and midwives to giving birth under medical supervision is one of the most defining shifts in the history of childbirth. By the 1940s, the majority of American mothers no longer expected to give birth at home, but instead traveled to hospitals, where they sought reassurance from medical experts as well as access to pain-relieving drugs and life-saving technologies. Infant feeding followed a similar trajectory. Traditionally, infant feeding in the West had been synonymous with breastfeeding, although alternatives such as wet nursing and the use of animal milks and broths had existed as well. By the early 20th century, the experiences of women changed in relation to sweeping historical shifts in immigration, urbanization, and industrialization, and so too did their abilities and interests in breastfeeding. Scientific study of infant feeding yielded increasingly safer substitutes for breastfeeding, and by the 1960s fewer than 1 in 5 mothers breastfed. In the 1940s and 1950s, however, mothers began to organize and to resist the medical management of childbirth and infant feeding. The formation of childbirth education groups helped spread information about natural childbirth methods and the first dedicated breastfeeding support organization, La Leche League, formed in 1956. By the 1970s, the trend toward medicalized childbirth and infant feeding that had defined the first half of the century was in significant flux. By the end of the 20th century, efforts to harmonize women's interests in more "natural" motherhood experiences with the existing medical system led to renewed interest in midwifery, home birth, and birth centers. Despite the cultural shift in favor of fewer medical interventions, rates of cesarean sections climbed to new heights by the end of the 1990s. Similarly, although pressures on mothers to breastfeed mounted by the end of the century, the practice itself increasingly relied upon the use of technologies such as the breast pump. By the close of the century, women's agency in pursuing more natural options proceeded in tension with the technological, social, medical, and political systems that continued to shape their options.
Keywords: Breastfeeding, childbirth, infant feeding, La Leche League, medicalization, midwifery, natural motherhood, obstetrics, scientific motherhood, women's health
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Paulie Gee's Planning Nationwide Expansion, a 'Brotherhood of Pizza Enthusiasts'
2013 isn't done in big pizza news: Eater reported this morning that Paulie Gee is working on expanding to cities across the U.S., including a Baltimore location already in process, but also as many as "seven other cities" such as Chicago, Oakland, Las Vegas, and Portland. These expansions are still in the early planning stage, at least a year away from opening.
Paulie himself is staying put in Greenpoint as he expands his original space to include the lot next door. Rather than jump between all the other locations, he's teaming up with partners in each city, including our very own Adam Kuban, who's been making pies at Paulie's since May, for the Portland restaurant. "I'm looking to match up the right person with the right community," Paulie told me. "And I'm looking to help other people experience the great things I've been experiencing the past few years."
"I've enjoyed being my own boss," he continued, which is the same experience he wants to give his partners. The new restaurants will be branded as Paulie Gee's, focus on being neighborhood spaces like the Greenpoint original, and will use the same recipes and equipment. But each regional partner will exercise creative control over their restaurants and will put their own spins and pies into the mix. "A lot of these people are those who've worked in my own restaurant....I'm hoping they'll share ideas with each other, too. I'm looking to make a brotherhood of pizza enthusiasts."
Adam shared some comments by email, which should, among other things, give you the answer to "why Portland":
The only words I can think of now are "HOLY" and "CRAP." I started apprenticing (somewhat) quietly at Paulie's with this as a possible goal. It's one thing to go from a seed of an idea to some follow-through to ... HOLY CRAP, IT'S OUT THERE, NOW I HAVE TO DO IT.
The timeframe is still TBD, since we haven't actually started actively looking for a space. There's still a lot to do between funding, finding a spot, moving cross country, and a million other things that have me slightly terrified. Like with my training at Paulie's, I've just been trying to set and hit small goals (like cooking one pizza perfectly, then two at a time, then four) that will eventually add up to the whole enchilada. Even now, I'm trying to be cautiously optimistic, because I realize you have to be INSANE to try to open a restaurant. Somehow, nobody has talked me out of it yet—not even my wife, who has been amazingly supportive in this whole thing as I work long hours to learn the ropes.
If it works out, it would be kind of full circle in a couple of ways. First, the idea of Slice actually began as a prototype of a printed 'zine in Portland. Granted, I never actually got beyond a mock-up (which I wish I would have kept), but I had the idea for doing a pizza-themed publication named "Slice" back in 1998 or so, while I was living there. Second, here is the comment thread that started it all.
This also explains why I have been largely absent from Slice in the last year. Once I started working at Paulie's, I didn't want to continue doing reviews, as it seemed like a conflict of interest. And I sort of kept this under my hat and didn't blog about it from the usual "Read About My Stage at XYZ Restaurant" angle because I didn't want my coworkers at Paulie's thinking I was just doing it for blog fodder. Ideally I didn't want any of them to even know I had any affiliation with Slice/SE because I didn't want to come across as an entitled interloper (even though essentially I am still an interloper). I went in fully expecting to keep my head down and get my ass kicked, and at times I did—and still do.
For a little more history, here's a photo of Adam meeting Paulie at Totonno's where they first discussed Adam apprenticing at Paulie's restaurant.
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Submarine USS Seawolf returns to sea after long layoff
Attack submarine USS Seawolf returned to sea after a 31-month, $280 million maintenance and modernizing stop at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility. It completed sea trials last week to ensure its systems were working properly and the boat was combat-ready. Now, the crew will go through a series of training and certification periods to improve their war-fighting ability.
"We are ecstatic to be at sea again, and Seawolf is even more capable and effective than at any time in her 15 years of service," Cmdr. Dan Packer, Seawolf's commanding officer, said in a news release.
The Seawolf was commissioned in July 1997, the first of what was planned to be 29 boats of its class. Their main mission was to destroy Soviet ballistic submarines before they could attack American targets. Though it was the quietest submarine ever built, it also was the most expensive. With the Cold War over, production was stopped after three boats, and the Navy switched to building smaller, cheaper Virginia-class submarines.
The other two Seawolfs are the USS Connecticut and USS Jimmy Carter.
They're homeported at Bremerton. The Navy says they're the fastest, quietest, deepest-diving and most heavily armed fast attack submarines in the fleet. The Navy officially lists the speed at 25-plus knots and the operating depth at "greater than 800 feet." The real numbers are secret. The subs can carry 50 Tomahawk cruise missiles or 50 Harpoon anti-ship missiles or 50 torpedoes or up to 100 mines.
The Jimmy Carter, which was modified to conduct secret operations such as transporting SEALS and undersea recovery, has been assigned to Bangor since November 2005.
The other two transferred from Groton, Conn., in 2007 as part of the Navy's shift of 60 percent of its firepower to the Pacific Ocean. The Seawolf arrived July 22, 2007; the Connecticut, after a deployment, Jan. 29, 2008.
All three could eventually wind up at Bangor.
In the environmental assessment for an explosives handling wharf, dated January 2012, is a section called "cumulative impacts." It lists past, present and reasonably foreseeable future projects in Hood Canal. Included is a Bangor service pier extension to homeport two more Seawolf-class submarines. It describes a 33,000-square-foot extension, new pier services and compressor building on the existing pier, upland maintenance support facility and 421-car parking lot.
Puget Sound Naval Bases Association annually treks to Washington, D.C., to encourage key politicians and Navy brass to support local Navy efforts. The pier was among issues it presented six weeks ago. The group says the submarines' squadron, Submarine Development Squadron 5, is working to get all the boats at Bangor. It would be less expensive and more efficient to centralize operations and training there.
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Edson Buddle didn't score a goal for the first time this season, in Saturday's match at Kansas City.
Without Buddle's firepower, the Galaxy weren't able to score at all and settled for a scoreless draw.
But is it that simple? If Buddle goes, so does the Galaxy's offense?
"Not really, I don't think so," Buddle said. "It hasn't been like that in the past. I don't think it's going to be like that this year. We're back home and I'm pretty sure someone's going to score sooner or later."
Buddle has scored all seven of the Galaxy's goals this season and before Saturday those goals were good enough to help the Galaxy claim victories.
But without Buddle firing balls into the back of the net, none of his teammates was able to pick up the slack. Relying on one player for all the goals, though, is not a concern; nor is it something that will cause the team to stress over, insisted Buddle.
"It's still early," Buddle said. "We're glad we've gotten off to the start we've gotten to and just want to continue to win games, especially at home. I don't think it's something that we're pressing this early in the season. Maybe if it was late, close to the playoffs, you might be pressing a little bit to make sure things are right, right before the playoffs but right now we're in a good state of mind."
The Galaxy will host the expansion Philadelphia Union on Saturday. The Philadelphia defense has yielded nine goals in four games, and they might be without injured star Sébastian Le Toux.
But more than the opponent's form, Buddle said what matters more is the Galaxy's desire to win the game because of the location.
"Bruce [Arena] has stressed all year that he wants to win at home and wants to have a better home record than last year," Buddle said. "This is a home game coming up so we want to capitalize, taking care of our home field."
One thing that might be in Buddle's favor is his knowledge of Philly 'keeper Chris Seitz. In the offseason, Buddle spent time playing games locally with other MLS players, Seitz among them. Seitz has struggled and come under heavy criticism in the early going of the season.
"I haven't seen him since the offseason," Buddle said. "He's done a lot of good things. When goals are being scored that seems to be highlighted a little bit more."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight days before the election, President Barack Obama switched from campaigner to hands-on commander of the federal response to Superstorm Sandy as it barreled across the Eastern Seaboard. Republican Mitt Romney scaled back his appearances and urged supporters to "do your very best" in donating to relief efforts.
The political pace quickened on Monday even without the customary clash of rallies and rhetoric. Romney's allies put down $1.2 million for a last-minute television ad campaign designed to make Pennsylvania competitive — or at least appear so — and the roll of early voters swelled past 15 million in scattered states.
With the race in its final full week, most national polls showed the two presidential rivals separated by a statistically insignificant point or two, although others said Romney had a narrow lead for the overall popular vote.
But the election will be won or lost in the nine most competitive states. Republicans claimed momentum there, but the president's high command projected confidence. And Romney's increasingly narrow focus on Iowa, Wisconsin and Ohio suggested he still searched for a breakthrough in the Midwest to deny Obama the 270 electoral votes needed for victory.
The president changed roles quickly during the day, highlighting the advantages of the incumbency — as long as events go smoothly. He scrapped a morning campaign appearance in Florida, boarded Air Force One for a bumpy flight to the nation's capital and appeared before reporters in the White House not long afterward.
"We're making sure that food and water and emergency generation is available for those communities that are going to be hardest hit," he said. At the same time, he soberly warned that heeding evacuation orders from local authorities was paramount for those in the storm's path.
"Do not delay. Don't pause. Don't question the instructions that are being given, because this is a serious storm and it could potentially have fatal consequence if people haven't acted quickly," he said.
The president didn't mention the campaign in his prepared remarks, and when he was asked how the storm might affect the election, he said he wasn't thinking along those lines. "I'm worried about the impact on families, and I'm worried about the impact on our first responders. I'm worried about the impact on our economy and on transportation," he said.
Romney went ahead with part of his campaign schedule, although he blended his appeal for political support with one for his backers to make a donation to the Red Cross or other relief agencies "in any way you can imagine to help those in harm's way."
"Do your very best to help," he implored as his aides spread the word he would cancel an evening appearance in Wisconsin and a full day of campaigning Tuesday because of the storm.
He received an update on federal storm response efforts in a phone call with the deputy director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other officials.
However, the campaign said Romney "believes that states should be in charge of emergency management in responding to storms and other natural disasters in their jurisdictions" and "are in the best position to aid affected individuals and communities and to direct resources and assistance to where they are needed most. This includes help from the federal government and FEMA."
Nearing the end of a brawl of a campaign, both Romney and the president said they hoped Americans would work together to help those in need — and an unscientific sample of voters said they liked what they were hearing.
Mike Beauregard, the owner of a cooking utensil store in Concord, N.H., said he was glad the president and Romney were cutting short their campaign trips. "The last thing first responders need is for these folks to be running around," he said, describing himself as a political independent who leans Republican.
Chuck Sikes, manager of a furniture store in Concord, also said both candidates did the right thing. A self-described Obama supporter, he said the president "would have been criticized if he had continued campaigning as not caring for people, yet others will criticize him for returning to Washington as making it a photo op. You're damned if you do, damned if you don't."
The machinery of the campaign ground on. According to the United States Elections Project at George Mason University, about 15 million ballots already have been cast, including 1.8 million in Florida and 1.5 million in North Carolina.
Democratic early voters so far outnumber Republicans in Ohio, Iowa, North Carolina and Nevada, while the reverse is true in Colorado. The two sides are at rough parity in Florida. No votes will be counted until Nov. 6.
The expansion of television advertising into Pennsylvania began with Restore Our Future, the group that was instrumental to Romney's success in the primaries and has worked to defeat Obama. The commercial says a "new normal" has developed as a result of the president's economic policies, where unemployment is high, "millions of Americans have simply given up, where our children will grow up under the weight of crushing debt in a world where America is no longer the leader."
Jim Messina, Obama's campaign manager, told reporters to expect an ad in response. "They are not close in Pennsylvania. We're going to win Pennsylvania, but we aren't taking anything for granted." Vice President Joe Biden is expected to campaign in the state before Election Day.
Yet another controversy erupted over a late-campaign television ad the Romney campaign was airing in parts of Ohio.
It says the Republican challenger will do more to support the auto industry than the president. "Obama took GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy and sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China," the narrator says.
The commercial does not mention that under the 2009 auto industry bailout, the Obama administration made sure that billions in federal loans were available to GM and Chrysler to allow them to emerge from bankruptcy and continue operations, a course that Romney opposed.
Additionally, while Chrysler may move some of its Jeep product line to China, that doesn't threaten production in the United States, as the ad seemed to suggest.
Obama's campaign countered with a commercial that opens with a photo of a shuttered factory, then shows a New York Times column that Romney wrote in 2008 that was headlined: "Let Detroit go Bankrupt."
Says the narrator, "When the auto industry faced collapse, Mitt Romney turned his back. ... And now, after Romney's false claim of Jeep outsourcing to China, Chrysler itself has refuted Romney's lie."
With Obama at the White House at least through Tuesday, former President Bill Clinton campaigned solo in Florida, then joined with Biden in Ohio. Obama's campaign booked Clinton into Minnesota, Iowa, Colorado, Ohio, Virginia, New Hampshire and Wisconsin for the race's final days.
Biden events in Ohio on Tuesday and in Pennsylvania on Thursday were canceled because of the storm.
Romney's running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, campaigned in Florida, and like the man at the top of the ticket, urged supporters to help those in need. "Here at home, people are packaging supplies at our victory centers throughout Florida. Swing by, give a hand," he said.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight days before the election, President Barack Obama switched from campaigner to hands-on commander of the federal response to Superstorm Sandy as it barreled across the Eastern Seaboard. Republican Mitt Romney scaled back his appearances and urged supporters to "do your very best" in donating to relief efforts.


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Geysers of the World
Geysers of Yellowstone
Little Squirt
Feature Type: Geyser
Geyser/Spring Type: Cone geyser
Upper Geyser Basin
Geyser Hill
Little Squirt Geyser was named for the squirting like behavior of its 4-6 foot eruptions. Intervals are from 4-14 days. Eruptions usually coincide with SMax of the Geyser Hill Wave. Durations are around 12-18 hours.
What to look for:
When it is not erupting, Little Squirt can be hard to find. It erupts from a small, 3 inch hole, in the sinter, about half way between the boardwalk and Silver Pool. Prior to the eruption, water will be visible in the hole.
It may be more interesting to watch the water level in the pools near Little Squirt. These pools are key to understanding the Geyser Hill Wave. If you are in the Upper Geyser Basin for a few days, plan to walk past this area at least once each day. Each day note the water level in Silver and Bronze. You should note that the water level slowly changes. It is when the water is near or at overflow that you can expect to see Little Squirt. This high water period is called SMax. Little Squirt rarely erupts at times other than SMax and only rarely misses an SMax. Once you have figured out SMax, you can start looking for other manifestations of the Geyser Hill Wave.
Electronic Monitor Files
Little Squirt eruptions for 2002.txt
Little Squirt eruptions for 2003.txt
Little Squirt eruptions for 2004.txt
Little Squirt eruptions for 2005.txt
Little Squirt eruptions for 2006.txt
Little Squirt eruptions for 2007.txt
Little Squirt eruptions for 2008.txt
Little Squirt eruptions for 2009.txt
Little Squirt eruptions for 2010.txt
Little Squirt eruptions for 2011.txt
Some of the temperature data used to derive the eruption times and durations used in this section were collected by Ralph Taylor under a National Park Service research permit, and the remainder was collected by personnel working for the Geology Department of the Yellowstone Center for Resources (including Ralph Taylor). The loggers are a combination of loggers owned by the NPS and Ralph Taylor. Analysis of the raw temperature data to extract the eruption data was performed by Ralph Taylor. The eruption time files on this website may be used provided that Yellowstone National Park is credited for the temperature data and Ralph Taylor is credited for the eruption times.
Activity Recorded by Data Logger - by Ralph Taylor
Little Squirt has been monitored electronically since 2003. I chose to monitor Little Squirt because it was the easiest way to record the peak water levels on the south side of Geyser Hill, the so-called "SMax". The sensor is actually in the pool of the geyser, so there is no doubt about the presence or absence of an eruption. I have not created software to determine the eruption durations, although the temperature record has enough information to do so.
The electronic record has three gaps, from 7 Feb to 24 June 2003, from 25 October to 19 December 2005, and from 15 February 2006 to 25 March 2006. All of the gaps were caused by logger failures.
During September 2009 there was a temporary shortage of data loggers, and the loggers from Dome and Little Squirt Geysers were removed for use on another project. During this time visual observations were used to fill in the data set.
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The logger trace (shown to the right) reveals that Little Squirt typically has a long duration eruptive period, usually around one day, followed by several hours of intermittent activity before all activity ends.
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Activity in 2011
The overall statistics for 2011 are shown at
Little Squirt 2011 Statistics.
The graph of intervals for 2011 is shown at the right.
The orange triangles show the first eruption of each recorded Dome Geyser series. Activity in Dome geyser is also known to affect some other features on Geyser Hill.
Eruptions of Giantess Geyser also affect many features on Geyser Hill. Giantess Geyser eruptions are noted by a yellow triangle.
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The next graph shows the activity for the three months prior to the last download.
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The interval histogram shows the distribution of Little Squirt's intervals. The blue bars are all of the intervals for the year to date. The maroon bars are the activity in the month before the last download, and the yellow bars are the intervals for the week before the last download.
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Activity since 2002
The graph at the right shows all of the electronically recorded intervals since 2002. In 2002 and early 2003 eruptions were occurring about every five days, albeit with a few as short as 3.5 days and a few much longer intervals. When the failed logger was replaced in June 2003, eruptions were more frequent, averaging around three days and typically ranging from two to four days apart. In late summer of 2005 intervals began to lengthen, then returned to the three day region but with more extremes evident. 2006 started with intervals in the one to three day range. The intervals below two days were actually a sort of extended series eruption. In April 2006 the intervals rose to about a week by mid-year, then declined to the 4-5 day range late in 2006 with some intervals as short as 12 hours.
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During the summer of 2007 intervals lengthened greatly, peaking at nearly 48 days in August. In September 2007 Little Squirt's intervals dropped to about a week, and by mid-November intervals settled at 3-4 days.
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Activity in 2010
Activity in 2009
Activity in 2008
Activity in 2007
Activity in 2006
Activity in 2005
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A Study of Male Rectal Samples in Preparation for Future Rectal Microbicide Trials
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00075062
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : January 1, 2004
Last Update Posted : August 21, 2008
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|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections HIV Seronegativity
|Procedure: Flexible Sigmoidoscopy Procedure: Rectal Biopsy
Rectal microbicides to prevent HIV transmission are currently being developed in the hope that someday they will be widely used to prevent sexually transmitted HIV. This study will examine variables in male rectal tissue; this information may be useful for future rectal microbicide safety and efficacy studies. The study will evaluate the differences in rectal tissue from HIV infected or uninfected males who either engage in anal-receptive sex (men who sleep with men, or MSM) or do not have anal-receptive sex.
The study will last approximately 7 months, with 6 weeks of follow-up. There are four groups in this study. Groups 1 and 2 will enroll HIV uninfected men; Groups 3 and 4 will enroll HIV infected men. Groups 1, 3, and 4 will comprise MSM who engage in anal-receptive sex; Group 2 will comprise men who do not. Patients will provide medical and medication history, undergo a complete physical exam, and receive HIV counseling at screening. An anoscopy (examination of the anus, anal canal, and lower rectum) and blood draw will be conducted at screening, study entry, and Weeks 2 and 4. Rectal secretions will be collected and a sigmoidoscopy (an internal examination of the rectum, distal sigmoid colon, and large bowel using a small camera) will be performed at study entry and Weeks 2 and 4.
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|16 participants
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|Official Title:
|Characteristics of Baseline Mucosal Indices of Injury and Inflammation in Men For Use in Rectal Microbicide Trials
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Inclusion Criteria for All Participants:
- HIV status confirmed by ELISA/Western Blot at screening
- CD4 count greater than 200 cells/mm3 at screening
- Able and willing to communicate in English
- Able and willing to provide adequate information for locator purposes
Inclusion Criteria for Men Practicing Anal-Receptive Sex (Groups 1, 3 and 4):
- Engaged in anal-receptive sex an average of at least once a week in the 2 months prior to study entry
- Agree to refrain from anal intercourse for 24 hours prior to and for one week after sigmoidoscopy
Inclusion Criteria for Men Not Practicing Anal-Receptive Sex (Group 2)
- No history of anal receptive intercourse in the 2 months prior to study entry
Inclusion Criteria for HIV Infected Men (Groups 3 and 4):
- Viral load of either greater than 10,000 copies of RNA/ml plasma or less than 50 copies RNA/ml plasma for at least 2 months prior to study entry
- Have not changed antiretroviral therapy within 6 weeks prior to study entry
Exclusion Criteria:
- For HIV infected patients, 3 or more HSV-2 (herpes) outbreaks in the 12 months prior to screening or 1 or more HSV-2 outbreaks in the 6 months prior to screening
- Active, serious infections (other than HIV) requiring parenteral antibiotic therapy within 15 days prior to screening
- Inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease) or rectal cancer
- Rectal surgery, including fistulectomy
- Diagnosed bleeding disorder, including hemophilia, thrombocytopenia, impaired blood clotting, or current use of anticoagulants that, in the opinion of the investigator, would make participation in the study unsafe or complicate interpretation of study outcome data
- Prosthetic heart valve or diagnosis of valve abnormality
- Hemorrhoid surgery in the 6 months prior to screening
- Bleeding hemorrhoids at screening or in the 6 weeks prior to study entry
- Anal fistulae in the 6 weeks prior to study entry
- Active diarrheal disease (greater than 3 times a day) or bleeding disorder
- Rectal cultures positive for chlamydia or gonorrhea at screening or within 1 month prior to study entry
- Unprotected anal intercourse in the 3 months prior to study entry
- Any other clinical condition or prior therapy that, in the opinion of the investigator, would make the patient unsuitable for the study or unable to comply with study requirements
- Enrolled in any other clinical trial for the duration of their participation in HPTN 056
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): NCT00075062
|United States, California
|David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90095
|Study Chair:
|Ian McGowan, MD, PhD
|University of California, Los Angeles
|Study Chair:
|Peter Anton, MD
|University of California, Los Angeles
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|January 1, 2004 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|August 21, 2008
|Last Verified:
|May 2006
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Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
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Hospital-acquired infections are a huge problem in the United States. Wouldn't it be amazing if they could be prevented merely through the materials used in the hospital room?
Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina explored covering key surfaces in hospital intensive care units in copper alloy, and found that this is an effective measure against the spread of some key types of bacterial infections. Their study is published in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
Up to $45 billion a year is spent on health care costs related to hospital-acquired infections, and an estimated 100,000 deaths occur annually because of them, the study authors wrote.
The antimicrobial properties of copper have been known for hundreds of years, said Michael Schmidt, the study's senior author – for at least 4,500 years. Ancient Indians realized that if water sits in a copper pot, this prevents illness, because the copper kills the bacteria. It's not used as often nowadays because molded plastics and stainless steel have taken over, being easy and in expensive.
How does it work? Copper is used to transmit electrons in walls for electricity. Similarly, bacteria will donate electrons to the copper metal, which places the organism in an electrical deficit. As a consequence, free radicals are generated inside the cell. The cell's proteins essentially get bleached, and its DNA get fractured. The electrical potential of the cell also gets collapsed.
"It's pretty hard to develop resistance from that multi-hit mechanism of action," Schmidt said.
How they did it
The study authors conducted the trial in the intensive care units of three different hospitals. Patients were randomly placed in copper or non-copper rooms. The study took place between July 2010 and June 2011.
Copper is an expensive material, so researchers carefully chose which parts of the ICU room should have the coating, based on the likelihood of a patient, staff member or visitor touching it. These included the rails that the patient uses to lift himself or herself out of bed, chair arms, the IV pole, the remote control and the tray that's used over the bed. On the whole, copper surfaces covered less than 10% of the room in the settings used in this study.
The researchers were most interested in the spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE). They compared the rates of hospital-acquired infections from any cause, or colonization with one of these two types of bacteria in the patients. Colonization means the bacteria is present on the person – such as on the skin, respiratory tract or gastrointestinal tract – without signs or symptoms of infection, said lead study author Dr. Cassandra Salgado.
Rooms with copper alloy surfaces were associated with lower infection and colonization for both of these types of bacteria than in normal ICU rooms. For hospital acquired infections, the rate was lowered from 0.081 to 0.034.
The challenge, of course, is investing the capital into buying new furniture and equipment for ICU rooms, Schmidt said. But he calculates that the cost of outfitting a room in this way would be recovered, in terms of money saved from preventing infections, after three months.
The researchers did not look at whether this intervention affects a patient's 30-day readmission rate, or whether it would work in a hospital room that's not part of an ICU.
Other researchers are looking at whether copper also stops carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), a deadly, antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria, Schmidt said.
"Bacteria have sex so quickly among their friends in their hospital environment, it may actually reduce the spread of CRE and other multi-drug resistant microbes, simply because the DNA is fractured," Schmidt said.
Some of the study authors reported financial connections to the Copper Development Industry, which is the market development, engineering and information services arm of the copper industry.
But this isn't the only research team that's looking into this question. A separate group at the University of California, Los Angeles, received a $2.5 million federal grant in 2012 to study the germ-fighting effectiveness of copper in hospitals. The cost effectiveness of that is still unclear, said Dr. Daniel Uslan, director of the antimicrobial stewardship program at UCLA's Geffen School of Medicine.
"I suspect the costs will be favorable, but more data is needed and I hope our study at UCLA will answer this important question," he said in an e-mail. "We also don't yet know which surfaces in a room are most critical. Can you get by with just coating one or two items, or do all the touch surfaces need to be copper coated? Obviously the costs will change dramatically depending on the number of surfaces coated."


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You thought being an astronaut in America was tough? Forget advanced degrees and 1,000+ hours of flight time — in China, if you're a woman with dreams of space, you need a perfect face and no BO.
China Military News reports two female "taikonauts" have made the next cut for the country's Shenzhou-9 mission space mission, declared sufficiently "flawless" for the vacuum. So why's physically verboten for would-be space women of China?
• NO "decaying teeth"
• NO scars
• NO cesarean births
• NO single ladies
• NO "body odor"
This sounds more like a checklist for hiring at a moon base strip club, not an elite group of highly educated and highly skilled space explorers, but, hey, priorities, I guess. But China says its insistence on pretty astronauts is justified — according to an editor at the China Academy of Space Technology's magazine, anything short of a flawless body could cause a cosmic crisis:
The women could not have decayed teeth "as it might cause great trouble or a disaster in space." Pang said a scar might open and start bleeding in space and the cramped conditions would intensify body odour.
And you thought getting hit by space debris or burning up upon reentry was precarious. Godspeed you, Chinese rocket ship beauty queens. You'll be an inspiration to other physically-flawless girls all across your country. [Chinese defence Mashup]
Note: Is it just us or does that photo of an alleged Beautiful Chinese Astronaut look photoshopped? Her face looks like it was drawn on!


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The Mapleson Cylinders - Program Notes
|Donizetti: LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR
|Band 7
Act III, Scene 1: Mad Scene cabaletta excerpt : "[Spargi d'amaro] pianto" ... to end of scene
Nellie Melba (s), Lucia
Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra--Luigi
March 2, 1901
[Snake: on container, Mapleson notation: "Mad scene slow," evidently referring to the very slow recording speed, not the tempo; Glackens 88.]
[These two cylinders cover the same ground, the cabaletta of Lucia's "Mad Scene"--a passage Melba did not record commercially. We have placed first the slightly clearer concert version, without chorus; this begins with the orchestral introduction. The second comes from the same staged performance of Lucia as the preceding duet, and begins right with Melba's first line. Curiously, although this passage is written out twice in the score--and, even on early recordings, is almost invariably sung twice, the second time with embellishments--it appears that Melba sang it only once through at these performances, and with hardly any embellishments (there is one quite spectacular flourish just before the coda). In both tracks, applause is clearly heard at the end.]
Led to believe that Edgardo is unfaithful, Lucia has agreed to a politically advantageous marriage, but when Edgardo breaks into the wedding festivities and denounces her, she loses her reason. On her wedding night, the demented girl has murdered her husband, and appears in the great hall of the castle, horrifying the wedding guests with her appearance and her hallucinations. This is the last part of Lucia's scena.
Spargi d'amaro pianto
il mio terrestre velo,
mentre lassù nel cielo
io pregherò, pregherò per te.
Al giunger tuo soltanto
fia bello il ciel per me!
Ah sì, ah sì, ah sì, per me,
fia bello il ciel, il ciel per me!
Ah sì, ah sì, ah sì, per me,
sì, per me, per me, per me, per me! Ah sì!
Ah sì, ah sì, per me, ah sì, ah sì!
CHORUS (in Band 7 only)
No, no, non è,
no, no, non è,
no, non è!
Spread bitter tears
over my earthly remains,
while up there in heaven
I will pray, will pray for you.
Not until you join me
will heaven be beautiful for me!
Ah, yes, ah yes, ah yes, for me,
will heaven be beautiful for me!
Ah yes, ah yes, ah yes, for me,
yes, for me, for me, for me, for me! Ah yes!
Ah yes, ah yes, for me, ah yes, ah yes!
CHORUS (in Band 7 only)
No, no, it is not [possible
to restrain our tears!]