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This month we have three questions and lots of great answers!
I'm slightly asymmetrical, it's a family thing. I need full patterns when I'm patternmaking, but it's been awhile since I made a full pattern and I've forgotten how I did it.
So for loose clothes I've been ignoring my asymmetrical shape, it isn't obvious, just slightly less well fitted. But now that I made my first corset I've come into trouble with using half patterns, there's no room for errors.
I have a left shoulder that drops down and my hips are asymmetrical but hard to explain how, just that the rounding is different. If you measure form my waist to the ground one side will be longer that the other. The problem with my first corset (which wasn't noticeable during the fittings since I didn't bone it and wore it for a longer period) is that my left hip pushes my corset into my dropped shoulder.
How do I measure these differences and how do I transfer them onto my pattern? Thank you,
Tilia, you need someone experienced to measure you and calculate the exact differences from one side to the other. Then it will allow you to make the best choices with your pattern and mock-up.
There are two different ways to go :
Symmetrical and pad one side to match the other (a good option if it is a noticeable difference)
Asymmetrical and fit the mock-up very carefully in attempt to disguise the asymmetry.
Hi Tilia,
I'll open this response by saying that I haven't done an asymmetrical corset through to completion yet, so these are simply some observations and ideas that may help :-)
I think that essentially, there are two routes to corseting an asymmetrical body: fitting and flat pattern drafting. They're heavily tied up with one another of course, but one approach may suit you better than the other.
Option 1- Through fitting. Draft a symmetrical full pattern. Make an un-boned or lightly boned toile (don't bone the seams) and have someone there to help take fitting notes and make alterations to the toile whilst you're wearing it. Leave the seams unfinished (give yourself about an inch or more of seam allowance) and to the outside of the corset so that you can unpick and pin/baste where necessary to get the lines correct. I might even draw any new stitching lines directly onto the toile.
Once you have let out or taken in the seams where necessary (and also marked where the top and bottom edges need to fall), remove the toile, unpick, and transfer the changes onto each side of your flat pattern. As this toile wasn't properly boned, I would then do a new toile based on the altered pattern, fully boned with the appropriate seam finishes, so that you can confirm the changes you have made.
Option 2- Through drafting. Draft an asymmetrical full pattern, based upon extensive measurements and observations of your body. For this, you would need to take all the usual measurements, but then break them down further. So for example, along with "hip" and "front hip", you would also want "left front hip" and "right front hip", which would be taken from the centre-front line of your torso, out to your side seam. The same is true for the vertical measurements, eg: "waist to high hip, left" and "waist to high hip, right". You would need assistance taking the measurements, and need to ensure your posture is as relaxed and normal as possible. You then use the measurements to create a pattern as normal, but with left and right drafted separately. Again, a toile to check fit and shaping would be a good idea!
Do also note that each change may have a knock-on effect. For example, it sounds as though you may need an inch or so extra space over the left hip to account for that roundness you mention, and that you may also need to cut down the left underarm slightly. But what could happen, is that once the extra fullness is given to that hip, the corset is no longer being thrust upwards by it. Therefore, the left underarm might now sit comfortably, without any alteration required. This is why I may be tempted to go with option 1, so that you can make quite immediate changes and see the effect they have, whilst the toile is on your body.
I'm sure there are many more (and probably faster and more sensible!) ways of patterning for asymmetry, so do continue experimenting and researching. Best of luck :-)
Tilia, I've had great success with an asymmetrical body by working completely intuitively. I made a mock-up that fit the measurements but pretty much disregarded the asymmetry, put it on and moved around and let it settle where it wanted to be, and then literally drew on the corset with a big black marker where the edges should be at top and bottom and at the centre back, and where I wanted the seams to be. Where the busk was skewed, I drew a line on the corset down the centre front of the wearer, ie. where I wanted the busk to lie.
This was for a lady with a double scoliosis, whose back was very asymmetrical indeed, and it worked a treat. When we took the mock-up off and laid it flat, we actually found that one of the straight lines I'd drawn down the back (for a centre back edge) was curved, and the other was straight, and one back piece was twice as wide as the other. I altered the pattern trusting the big black lines, however weird the resulting pieces looked when laid flat, and once she put it on, you had to look carefully to notice the asymmetry at all!
Best wishes,
Hello, I'm a beginner corsetiere.
I'm starting to deal with models and photographers,and I'm in doubt about what to do.
1) How much to ask when renting a corset ?
2) Collaborations with models. If a contract is signed by the two parties and you send your corset as payment for photos and promotions. What to do if the contract is not respected?
Alessandra, I have had a few bad experiences renting garments to models, stylists and photographers. If the garments are returned they may have make-up stains or other damage. I now rarely allow anyone to borrow or rent anything.
However, if I am convinced to do so, I require a refundable security deposit for the full cost of the garment and permission to use at least one photo from the photo shoot on my website under agreed circumstances (unique to each situation). That tends to scare the irresponsible ones away and demand a bit of respect for your garment. I should also add that certain larger well-known names/publications will expect you to deliver the world for free. That is a choice and risk you need to measure individually. Sometimes it is worth the gamble.
As to a violation of a legal contract, all you can do is begin legal proceedings. Most people pay up to avoid the problem.
Good Luck!
What is the correct professional way of caring and cleaning for corsets. In my experience unless it's not everyday wear corset, corset/bustiers with surface embellishments i.e. beading I've made in the past I've advised specialist cleaning. What's the correct protocol for everyday wear corsets?
Thank you, Suzannah
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Joel Naburgs had 18 points and Aaron Graham had 17 points but Stetson lost its Atlantic Sun Conference opener 70-64 at Mercer on Monday.
MACON, Ga. — Joel Naburgs had 18 points and Aaron Graham had 17 points but Stetson lost its Atlantic Sun Conference opener 70-64 at Mercer.
Stetson fell to 3-9 and 0-1 in the A-Sun; Mercer is 8-6, 1-0.
"They're a good team," Stetson coach Casey Alexander said. "They've accomplished a lot with this group of guys that they have right now, and their expectations are to win. They maintained that expectation for more of the 40 minutes than we did.
"I do think our guys played hard. I think our guys tried to do what we're asking them to do, which is always the first place to start. I was pleased with their effort. This is a tough team to prepare for, a tough team to guard and a tough team to score against, so we knew it was going to be a grind."
In the first half, the Hatters shot 33.3 percent and the Bears shot 34.4 percent. Stetson's 5-of-11 shooting from 3-point land made up for 11 first-half turnovers. Mercer led 28-26 at halftime.
Mercer's eight-point run bumped its lead up to nine late in the game, and Stetson didn't get closer than six.
"It just didn't happen," Alexander said of Stetson's inability to take the lead late. "The thing you have to remember is that it's not going to happen for a lot of teams that come in here. That doesn't make it okay, it's just the reality of playing a good team on their floor."
Mercer's Smith finished with a career-best 25 points.
Stetson shot 40.8 percent from the floor and 41.7 from 3-point range. Chris Perez had 13 points and Pegg had 11 points.
"It was great to see those guys (Naburgs and Graham), together, have a nice game and make some shots," Alexander said. "They played with much more confidence, shot it with much more confidence, which we have to have if we're going to be any good at all offensively."
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The Ravens may have to meet the Denver Broncos Sunday without their top three inside linebackers in Ray Lewis (torn right triceps), Jameel McClain (neck stinger) and Dannell Ellerbe (right ankle, left foot, both thumbs). That would leave the defense with just three healthy inside linebackers in Josh Bynes, Brendon Ayanbadejo and Albert McClellan.
Both McClellan and Bynes are undrafted players, and Ayanbadejo is 36 years old. Dean Pees acknowledged that there is a difference between that trio and the group of Lewis, McClain and Ellerbe, but the defensive coordinator said the biggest impact is a reduction in the number of packages the Ravens can employ.
"We were kind of coming along a little bit because we kind of had all these packages devised where you can be in this package and we can do this or you can be in this package and we can do that," Pees said Thursday. "All of a sudden, those packages have shrunk because we don't have guys to put in that package. So that package is out. So that's kind of changed a little bit. It hurts you a little bit. It's actually hurt us a couple times in the last two games, trying to close this thing out because we're wanting to do things that maybe we can't do or if we do call something, it's probably the first time that guy has actually had to do it in a game situation, and it didn't turn out so well."
Ayanbadejo, Bynes and McClellan have carved out a niche through their play on special teams, but are not being asked to absorb the assignments that Lewis, McClain and Ellerbe would normally run on defense.
"Basically, all the guys that were playing special teams are now playing defense," Ayanbadejo said. "So now it's tough sledding. … But it's the old adage. Next man up. Got to get the job done."
It's unclear which two players from that trio would start if Lewis and Ellerbe join McClain, who has already been ruled out, on the sideline. Bynes played 44 of 72 snaps (62 percent) on defense and made five tackles in the team's 31-28 overtime loss to the Washington Redskins last Sunday. Ayanbadejo was next with 40 snaps (56 percent) and finished with seven tackles, and McClellan brought up the rear with 26 snaps (36 percent) and three stops.
But McClellan made one start at inside linebacker in the Ravens' 16-6 victory over the San Francisco 49ers and said he feels comfortable playing either inside or outside.
"All of us on the field are comfortable," McClellan said. "Being an outside linebacker for most of my career, it's more comfortable out there. But inside, it's getting a little bit better."
The re-tooled inside linebacking corps will be severely tested by Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning and a suddenly revived running game led by Knowshon Moreno. But Bynes disputed the notion that the pressure has ramped up significantly.
"I don't want to say pressure because then you put more pressure on yourself and it makes you play out of what you normally do," Bynes said. "Regardless of what anybody else says, me, Albert and BA [Ayanbadejo] are going to go out there and do what we're supposed to do for this team. Of course, I'm not Ray Lewis. BA's not. He's Ayanbadejo. I'm Josh Bynes, and that's who we're going to play like."


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Friday, November 12, 2010
VeganMoFo: Fancy Pants French Ratatouille
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I'd like to give you some sort of award for your skills in layering all those veggie slices.ReplyDelete
That is soooooo pretty I cried a little bit.ReplyDelete
That is amazingly beautiful. So colorful. I would love to just look at it (then devour it of course).ReplyDelete
Wow, Amey, that is absolutely beautiful.ReplyDelete
here i go back to the store for more depends! thanks, amey!ReplyDelete
and really, i don't think i have the skills to layer like that. i mean, where did you even start? the middle?
crazy pretty. i'd also hate to be the first person to pick that apart... it's too pretty to eat, really.
thank you for spending your morning with me! i ate all those cookies and then remembered i was gonna take a picture to blog about today, now my MOFO if MUCKED UP!
At first I thought this was a picture of a big lollypop. I've never seen ratatouille this beautiful! This would make an impression for guests for sure.ReplyDelete
That is the most beautiful layering I've ever seen!ReplyDelete


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This change in the way DBAs back up data has led to a change in the way companies design backup software. For example, UltraBac Software's UltraBac 7.1.4 is similar in functionality to such longtime backup leaders as VERITAS's Backup Exec in that it manages backups from multiple computers on the network either to a local tape drive or to a tape library management server. But UltraBac has some extra features that let you back up to hard disks, FTP servers, and other devices as well as perform complete disk-image backups of both client machines and servers. Imceda Software's (formerly DBAssociates') LiteSpeed for SQL Server started out as a disk-only solution but added tape support in a recent update.
I recently evaluated UltraBac 7.1.4 and LiteSpeed for SQL Server 3.1 for my company, an application service provider for the healthcare industry. We already use Backup Exec and a Dell PowerVault 130T tape library server to back up our SQL Server databases and our file servers to tape nightly. But we wanted to look at alternatives or supplements to Backup Exec because my tests showed that restoring from tape requires well over an hour, and being down for more than an hour waiting for a backup to restore is unacceptable for our environment. Additionally, our main database is growing by about 5GB per month. So maintaining a week's worth of full backups on disk is becoming more expensive, and our total storage needs are projected to grow from approximately 220GB per week now to more than 700GB per week within the next 12 months. My goal was to find a way to decrease our storage requirements and our backup and restore times.
Both UltraBac and LiteSpeed let you back up to a hard disk, which Backup Exec doesn't support, and offer data compression that's significantly better than anything we get through the compression hardware built into PowerVault 130T. Imceda has focused on making LiteSpeed the fastest database-backup software for SQL Server, and this attention to detail shows in my tests. UltraBac's feature set overlaps with Backup Exec's almost completely but offers better compression and encryption of the data.
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Directly comparing UltraBac and LiteSpeed is difficult because they don't offer the same feature set. Table 1 shows the features that are probably most important to DBAs; as you can see, the products differ a bit in functions that might be essential to your organization. For example, as a consultant, I've seen environments in which point-in-time recovery and object-level recovery are absolutely necessary for a backup-and-restore solution. LiteSpeed's Professional version provides both features, but its Standard version and UltraBac don't.
Encryption is another feature that can be crucial for businesses. The push to protect patient privacy means that more DBAs for healthcare companies are looking at encryption as a way to protect data if the physical storage leaves the company's control, whether by theft or by accident. (For more information about how DBAs can address patient privacy concerns, see Sean Maloney's July 2004 article, "For Your Eyes Only," InstantDoc ID 42615.) Encryption is one more way to protect data against theft. LiteSpeed has encryption in its more expensive version; UltraBac has it standard.
Perhaps the greatest difference between the two products lies in their options for managing your backups. UltraBac's management console is significantly more polished than LiteSpeed's. LiteSpeed replaces T-SQL backup and restore commands with extended stored procedures; UltraBac provides a GUI that coordinates access to all its functions and devices. If you're used to Enterprise Manager, the UltraBac GUI provides the same kind of assistance in managing the backup environment.
UltraBac also supports more types of destination devices and offers easy management of those devices. For example, it has a separate console for managing tape-drive autoloaders. LiteSpeed's tape-drive control is limited to the standard set of commands—erase, skip, format, rewind, unload, and so on. In addition, UltraBac supports storing a backup on an FTP server (a good option for storing backups offsite or on UNIX- or Linux-based file servers) and optical drives (which are a good choice if you're worried about the life span of magnetic tape). Finally, a built-in SMTP client lets UltraBac send status messages without having to install SQLMail. I'm sure I'm not alone in wishing more companies would add an SMTP client so that we could do away with SQLMail altogether.
In terms of management options, LiteSpeed excels with its wizards, called assistants. The assistants walk you through everything from setting up simple database backups to modifying SQL Server maintenance plans to use LiteSpeed's extended stored procedures, which replace the T-SQL backup commands. Each assistant also offers the option of saving the steps it generates as a T-SQL script, so you can use the assistant to build a set of scripts for common management tasks, then modify them for other purposes. Less-experienced DBAs will find that the assistants make properly configuring the system easy, and experienced DBAs will find that these tools speed the process of setting up backups in a multiserver environment.
Another nice feature worth mentioning is LiteSpeed's Extractor tool; it converts Imceda's backup format into Microsoft Tape Format (MTF), which SQL Server can read directly. Even when SQL Server backs up a database to a disk file, it's using MTF as if it were writing to a tape. Being able to convert from Imceda's proprietary format to MTF gives you the option of sharing database backups with any other application that can read MTF data.
The Testing Environment
For this comparison, I used fully licensed, unrestricted copies of the software, not trial versions. Because I was installing the software on spare computers in my production environment, my goal was to see how the products would perform if I bought them. I used a Dell PowerEdge 2650 with two 3.0GHz CPUs and a single 10,000-RPM 146GB SCSI disk connected to the onboard Perc 3/DI hard-disk controller for both the database and the backup files. This configuration isn't ideal for a production database server, but the hardware I planned to use for the tests was delayed. Nevertheless, the results from the tests accurately reflect the relative speeds of the two products.
Note that I couldn't test backups to tape because the only tape drive we have is the one my company uses for backing up our production environment. My company is very risk-averse, so I decided not to introduce any changes to production. Because we hold our backups on disk for a couple of days and use tape only for long-term storage, the process of backing up directly to tape wasn't part of my evaluation. What I considered more important was the size of the backup file, reasoning that a smaller file takes less time both to store and to load. As you'll see, the tests don't support that assumption.
Size Matters for Backups
A big database may seem impressive, but size becomes an impediment when it comes time to restore a database after a system failure. The laws of physics dictate a finite limit to how fast data can be read from a physical medium such as a tape drive or hard disk. And restoring a database incurs a double time penalty because the software must read the data from the backup device and write it to the hard disk. Common sense says that a small database backup file should take less time to restore than a large one.
The size of the backup file affects the cost of disaster recovery as well as the time. Compression built into the tape drive doesn't offer much cost reduction because it often doesn't compress database backups well. Even though the tape drives are supposed to provide 50 percent compression, it often happens that databases only end up compressing to 60 to 75 percent of their original size. You can decrease the costs of backup storage by backing up the database to disk, then zipping the files to compress them. However, you'd need to unzip the backups before restoring them. That extra step usually adds a significant amount of time to recovery, so you'd be sacrificing a speedy recovery just to decrease the cost of storing the database backup on tape.
To achieve smaller backups without sacrificing speed, you need to have the compression built into the backup software. Both LiteSpeed and UltraBac perform some compression, but LiteSpeed had a much better compression rate for my production database. Table 2 compares the backup file sizes for both products—and for SQL Server backup for reference. One result that surprised me is that although UltraBac compressed the database file reasonably well (as Table 2 shows), the backup took about 79 percent of the time a standard SQL Server backup took. On the assumption that writing fewer bytes to disk would result in faster backup times, I expected UltraBac's backup time to be roughly 39 percent of the SQL Server backup time. That assumption didn't prove true for either product. In fact, Table 2 shows that the decrease in the backup time correlated to about twice the percentage of compression. In other words, UltraBac produced a file that was 39 percent of the size of a SQL Server backup in 78 percent of the time it took to do a SQL Server backup. LiteSpeed produced a file that was 28 percent of the size of a SQL Server backup in 51 percent of the time. Possible reasons for the differences in backup times range from the efficiency of the compression algorithms to memory management to hard-disk contention. In any case, LiteSpeed was clearly superior in terms of raw backup speed.
Restore in a Hurry
Because databases are a critical business resource, when they stop working, DBAs feel urgent pressure from the highest levels of management to restore operations immediately. There's nothing like a database server crash to teach top managers at your company your name and phone number. For this reason, the speed with which an application can restore a database backup is probably a more important part of the buying decision than how long the database backup takes.
The database-restore time, though, depends on more than the software you use. While writing this article, I discovered some known problems with how fast certain RAID controllers from Dell and other companies can write to a RAID 5 array. A worst-case example was a former client's 50GB database that took about 30 minutes to back up but required more than 3 hours to restore. I narrowed the problem down to the fact that the database's data files were being written to a RAID 5 array. This example is specific to Dell RAID controllers, but it doesn't seem to occur in all cases. However, it lends support to two truisms about database backups. First, just because a database takes X minutes to back up doesn't mean it will take X minutes to restore. And second, you should always test backups by restoring them.
Looking at Table 3, you can see that LiteSpeed had a distinct advantage in restore times in my tests. UltraBac's restore time was similar to SQL Server's, indicating that UltraBac didn't provide any restore-time enhancements over SQL Server's built-in functionality. However, the location of the backup files is another important factor in determining restore times. I performed all the restores in my tests from the backup files on the local hard disk, but the time required to read LiteSpeed's backup off tape might bring its total restore time closer to the other two products. (I couldn't test this, however.)
You might assume that the difference between LiteSpeed's and UltraBac's restore times resulted from UltraBac's backup file being 50 percent larger than LiteSpeed's. If UltraBac restored the database in 1.5 times the amount of time LiteSpeed took, that argument would seem reasonable. But UltraBac took more than twice the time LiteSpeed did, and it took 4 minutes longer than the standard SQL Server restore, so UltraBac in my tests offered no technological superiority over SQL Server's standard functions. UltraBac's documentation says it uses the same APIs SQL Server uses, so restore times comparable to SQL Server's are to be expected.
Calculating ROI
If you have a backup solution in place at your company, the first question management will ask when you start evaluating these products is, "Why do you need to spend more money on backup software?" One good reason is that compression decreases the effects of growth in the disk backups. If your database grows too large for existing hard disks, your only two choices are to buy more (or bigger) disks or to compress the database backup to fit on existing disks. Compression is the only way to expand your backup capacity without buying more hardware. For example, a 73GB, 15,000-RPM SCSI disk from Dell costs my company about $800, and a 146GB 10,000-RPM SCSI disk costs more than $1100. You can find cheaper prices, but the cost of adding even one new drive or adding a new hard disk array is still going to be comparable to the cost of either LiteSpeed or UltraBac.
The cost of archiving data to tape is another good argument. The compression both products offer should repay your investment by decreasing the number of tapes you need to buy each year. The 200/400GB tapes for our Dell PowerVault 132T cost approximately $75 each. Our policy is to perform a full backup of the database each night, and because of government regulations, we never rotate our tapes out of long-term storage. Based on a projected growth rate of about 5GB of data per month, we'll need 58.5 tapes (23,400GB total divided by 400GB per tape, which assumes the theoretical best hardware compression rate) just for the database backups. So 58.5 tapes at $75 each is $4387.50 a year. If I assume that LiteSpeed will compress my backups to 28.6 percent of their original size, my company will spend only $2509.65 per year on tapes. That's a savings of $1877.85 a year, not including the savings in storage costs for storing half as many tapes. UltraBac, which creates slightly larger backup files, will offer similar, though smaller, savings. For example, 39.1 percent of 23,400GB is 9149.4GB, which divided by 200MB per tape means we would need 45.75 tapes per year. And 45.75 multiplied by $75 per tape yields a yearly cost of $3431.03 and a yearly savings of $956.48. Those savings make it possible for companies like mine that use a large number of tapes each year to pay for a reasonably priced product like UltraBac in a very short time.
My only real complaint about both products is their limited documentation. LiteSpeed has some excuse for the minimal documentation because it's a straightforward, easy-to-learn replacement for SQL Server's standard backup and restore commands. If you understand how to use the T-SQL statements, you should have little difficulty understanding LiteSpeed.
UltraBac, on the other hand, focuses its documentation more on image backups than on database backups. I often felt like UltraBac added SQL Server backups as an afterthought—for example, only a few pages of text in the Help file discussed how to configure UltraBac's backup agent software for SQL Server. There is almost nothing about troubleshooting problems, improving performance, how the agent works, and so on. Fortunately, the GUI is well enough designed that you can back up databases without needing the documentation. Still, it's a weakness in an overall strong product.
Making a Choice
For my environment, in which having the server down as much as 1 hour is a disaster, LiteSpeed is the obvious choice. LiteSpeed does such a good job of compression that you can afford to keep a week's worth of backups on a file server. Given the decrease in the cost of large-capacity hard disks and the growing acceptance of serial advanced technology attachment (ATA) drives for production storage, backing up databases to hard disks will likely become the standard as the first stage of a disaster-recovery plan.
Most DBAs have more confidence in tape than in hard disks for long-term storage, so tape is still king, and every environment needs some method for managing those tapes. UltraBac is superior to LiteSpeed in the number of devices it can manage and in managing tape libraries. In fact, backup management is where UltraBac excels. LiteSpeed's tape-management options aren't as well-developed or sophisticated as UltraBac's tape-management functionality. If you don't already have software for managing tape drives, I recommend UltraBac. Even if you do, the savings from better data compression may make it worthwhile to replace the software you are currently using.
If you have enough money in your budget, consider buying both products. Use LiteSpeed for fast, compressed, encrypted backups, and use UltraBac to keep track of where everything is stored. Each product has strengths that complement the other's weaknesses; together, they make a very powerful toolkit.


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Dear Annie: Our 31-year-old son is bipolar. We did not realize how severe it was until a few years ago. He is a bright, gentle and articulate college graduate who can also be mean, self-centered and highly opinionated. When he takes his medication, he is cooperative and easy to live with. The problem is he won't take his medicine consistently. He claims it makes him feel "slow."
He has seen therapists over the years but refuses to continue, claiming they find nothing wrong with him. We have no way to know whether this is true. When he finally graduated a year ago, he received a nice inheritance check from his grandmother and ran through the money in two months, spending it on pot, gambling, clothes and prostitutes. There was little left to pay his bills, so he left his wrecked car in a vacant lot and walked back to our house. We took him in on the condition that he would resume his medication. We paid his lapsed insurance, the fine for getting into the accident, and the repairs to both vehicles.
We took him back to a psychiatrist who offered to treat him at low cost.
We enlisted him in a program wherein the drug company provides his medication for free for one year. After two months, he got a good job, but three months later, he was laid off. We suspect he stopped taking his medicine.
We have had therapy, too. We have come to the conclusion that, although he may become homeless, we have to give our son a deadline to move out and seek a restraining order to keep him away. Is there a better answer? - Parents at Wits' End
Dear Parents: Your son is 31 and will deal with his bipolar disease in his own way, even if that means not taking his medication. Please encourage him to tell his doctor that one of the side effects is that he feels "slow" and to ask whether the meds can be adjusted.
We agree that insisting he move out is a good idea. However, unless he is stealing from you or refuses to leave the premises, we don't believe a restraining order is necessary.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness offers a 12-week Family-to-Family program for those dealing with family members who are mentally ill. Please contact them at 1-800-950-NAMI (1-800-950-6264) (nami.org).
Dear Annie: I have been dealing with breast cancer for two years, and it has been quite stressful, but I always try to project a positive, upbeat persona.
I have lost a lot of weight throughout this ordeal, and it is naturally of great concern to me. Yet even people who know about my cancer treatment always bring up the fact that I have lost weight. "Boy, did you get skinny!" or "How much weight did you lose " I find these remarks extremely upsetting.
Could you please ask your readers to be a little more sensitive about saying such things to people who are dealing with cancer? We know we have lost weight and don't need you to bring it to our attention. - Surviving
Dear Surviving: Many people don't know how to respond in situations like yours and will say inappropriate things in an attempt to be nice.
Telling a woman that she's lost weight is often a compliment, and this is probably where their heads are. You don't need to respond, and we suspect some of them are mortified after the fact. But we are happy to pass the word that such comments are not appreciated.
Dear Annie: I am 57, and my girlfriend is 10 years older. We "make love," which is more than the physical act. While we enjoy the physical, it's the emotional that makes us both feel loved. Sex by itself does not make me feel loved.
Love is giving, not demanding or requiring. And that is something both men and women fail to understand. - Lucky in North Carolina
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Some of my fondest deer hunting memories have been those long hours of post-hunt analysis back at camp after a day afield.
It didn't matter who pulled the trigger or released the arrow. The devil, as they say, was always in the details. How did the deer react? Where did it run? What was it doing when the hunter last saw it? Our camp's members would wear out those old Stump Sitters shot-placement posters discussing — and even arguing — about what to do next. But, I tell you, we were sure glad we at least had some kind of visual to get the discussion started.
I'm proud to say those days are in the past … the days of crude visuals, that is.
Yes, many of us will continue to use posters, plastic overlays and hand-scribbled drawings on paper napkins. However, I am confident you will not find a better tool than the new Vital Information CD being offered by D&DH.
This product has been 15-plus years in the making. We've secured everything you'll need to better analyze each and every shot you take at a white-tailed deer. All you need is a computer.
Some of the features include:
* D&DH's exclusive Vital Vision interactive computer program. This allows you to view an anatomically correct whitetail from 360 degrees. View all of a deer's internal organs and bones from every possible shooting angle. Move screens in and out to see organs and bones.
* Five instructional hunting videos on proper shot placement show breath-taking hunts for trophy bucks and teach you the do's and don'ts of shot placement as our staff rates each shot in detail.
* Eight full-length articles on whitetail science and physiology from the pages of D&DH. These articles will teach you the science behind the inner workings of a deer's lungs, rumen, esophagus and circulatory system.
* Full-color deer-hair identification guide. A must for post-shot analysis.
* Complete deer anatomy charts with full-color illustrations.
* Photo essay to help age deer by their teeth.
* Blood-trailing tips and tactics.
* Guide to caping, skinning, field dressing and processing.
* Illustrations on how to identify the tracks of a wounded deer.
* Explanations on why deer are built to survive.
Vital Information will prove to be an invaluable tool for any deer camp or hunter education program. So be sure to order yours now to get it in time for opening day!
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Japan has become a very attractive place to invest in recent weeks. It is something akin to a great river with a lot of fresh meat floating about, and as yet relatively few piranhas benefitting from that environment.
Japanese stocks have been on the upswing. Back in September, when former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe became again the leader of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, the Nikkei 225 was at 9,000. It began a steady rise in mid-November, after then-Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda dissolved the Diet and called for an election. The LDP won a majority in that election, in mid-December, and Abe accordingly became the new PM. The bullish move in the stock market began while those events transpired.
On the day Abe became Prime Minister, the Nikkei 225 closed at 10,230.36 About a week into March, the index passed 12,000, and by the end of March it was flirting with 12,500.
GFIA, in its Research Insights newsletter for March 2013, highlighted Japan in a detailed "quant research piece." GFIA contended that "from an allocator's perspective, this is a market representing the world's third largest economy, arguably its most innovative economy with more than 3,000 listed stocks, of which, conservatively, there might be sell-side coverage of 25% and a minimal community of alpha seeking investors."
The newsletter classified Japan-focused hedge funds into three groups: Long/short, long-only and market neutral. It is an unequal division: The long-short class dominates, as 69% of the whole.


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About Town
Dinner to fund capitol trip
Jamestown's grade 8 students will be traveling to Washington D.C. next June for a four-day field trip.
A dinner will be held on Saturday, Nov.17, to help raise money to pay for this trip. The dinner will be served by the students to members of the public who want to see that the trip is funded.
St. Matthew's parish hall will be the setting for the event. Tickets are $30 for an upscale dinner, with a choice of steak, chicken or vegetarian lasagna. Seatings are from 5 to 6 p.m. or from 6 to 7 p.m. and tickets are limited to only 60 for each seating. Tickets must be bought no later than today at Baker's Pharmacy, or by calling Sue Fay at 423-3027.
Piano concert is free on Sunday
The Jamestown Community Piano Group will sponsor a piano recital at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov.18, at St. Matthew's Church on Narragansett Avenue.
Performing will be University of Rhode Island piano students of Manabu Takasawa and Grace Urrico. Those students include Adam Salisbury, music minor from North Kingstown; Justin Cahoon, music performance major from Cumberland; Helen Zhang a music minor from Providence, and Daniel Kutty, music major from Providence. Also performing are three piano performance graduate students including Claire Huang from Taiwan, Linda Pezzullo from Old Lyme, Conn., and William Greub from North Kingstown.
The program will include works by Bach, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Debussy, Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev. All are welcome. Admission is free. Donations for the upkeep of the Community Piano are always welcome.
Garden club history showcased
A new exhibit has been installed in the Jamestown Historical Society display case at the Jamestown Philomenian Library. The exhibit features objects and information about the Jamestown Garden Club and the Quononoquott Garden Club. They both have distinguished histories and have made many contributions to the community.
A notebook on the top of the case has more detailed information on their past achievements.
East Passage group meets tonight
The East Passage Lot Owners Association will hold their annual budget meeting tonight, Thursday, Nov. 15, at 7 p.m.
The meeting will be held in the library museum room and all lot owners are encouraged to attend. Sign up for driver's education class
CCRI Driver's Education classes taught by Jim Barron will be offered at the Jamestown Fire Station beginning on Nov. 30 and running through Jan. 15, 2008.
The class will meet on Tuesday and Friday evenings from 6 to 9 p.m. Students must be 15 years, 10 months old by the first class to be able to participate. For more information and to register, visit www.ccri.edu and look for the RI Driver Education site on the home page or call 825-2182.


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Michael Perri, dressed as the Marvel Comics character Deadpool, shows off his gun "the solution" at the costume contest during the annual C2E2 Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo Friday, April 26, 2013 at McCormick Place in Chicago. "I didn't think I could fit it my car," said Perri, who had to break the mock weapon into two pieces for transport.
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Cincinnatti Reds second baseman Brandon Phillips spent Thursday morning in Family Court battling one of his baby mamas, a local woman with whom he has a 4-year-old daughter. He has another child with a woman in Buffalo. Phillips, who was selected as a reserve in tomorrow's MLB All-Star Game, and Danielle Daluisio had a casual relationship in 2006 that resulted in a daughter, Micole Malia Phillips. Phillips has seen the child a total of five days in four years according to Daluisio's lawyer, Lynne Gold-Bikin, chairwoman of Weber Gallagher's family-law division. Thursday's hearing set dates in August for a child-support hearing and November for a custody hearing.
Daluisio, who receives $5,000 per month from Phillips for the child, is seeking a significant increase in child support from the baller, who signed a 4-year, $27 million contract with the Reds in 2008. Daluisio, 27, who works in school administration and has an internship with the NCAA, has primary custody of the child and seeks to establish more strict visitation conditions for Phillips, 29, such as preventing him from exposing the child to other women, according to Gold-Bikin. An attorney for Phillips declined to comment on the situation, and a Reds spokesman did not get back to us.
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Ellis Henderson's 98-Yard Return for Go-Ahead Touchdown Leads Grizzlies to Victory Over South Dakota
On a day when the normally unflappable Jordan Johnson threw three interceptions, Montana's defense and special teams came through with yet another heart-pounding win on the road, beating the University of South Dakota 31-27.
Montana's defense once again gave up huge chunks of yardage, but managed to hold the Coyotes to only three second-half points.
It was wide receiver and returner Ellis Henderson who became the hero on this day, with nearly 315 all-purpose yards, including two touchdowns from Johnson.
The biggest play of the day came with under two minutes left in the game, when the Coyotes kicked off to Henderson, who flew up the sidelines, eluding the punter and went into the end zone virtually untouched, for a 98-yard touchdown. That made the score 31-27 with just 90 seconds left to play.
The Coyotes drove the field with 10 seconds left, and were facing a fourth-down, when Grizzly safety Bo Tully knocked down a pass in the end zone, giving the ball back to Montana.
Montana now stands at 8-2 overall, and will return home to host Weber State on Saturday, November 16.


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Police find drugs during search of Alvirne HighBy APRIL GUILMET
Union Leader Correspondent
October 30. 2013 10:58PM
HUDSON — Growing concerns over students' alleged drug use led to a random search of Alvirne High School early Wednesday morning, police and school officials said.
About 20 police cruisers were parked outside Route 102 high school shortly before 9 a.m., including cruisers from Londonderry and Nashua.
An officer working at the scene declined to comment on the search that was under way and referred all inquiries to Hudson Police Capt. William Avery or Principal Steve Beals.
Beals said the search was a multi-pronged effort to address concerns "both within the schools and the Hudson community as a whole, where drug use and availability has increased within our society."
Students were evacuated from their classrooms as police officers and several K-9 units searched the entire school, including surrounding buildings and property.
K-9 units from Londonderry, Hillsborough, Merrimack, Nashua, Goffstown, Pittsfield, Manchester and Salem, as well as the Massachusetts communities of Chelmsford, Lowell and Suffolk County, were all deployed for the search, according to Avery.
Avery said drugs were discovered on the Hudson campus, though he declined to reveal what type or how much.
"We won't be sharing specifics at this time," Avery said Wednesday afternoon. "But I can say that our mission was definitely accomplished."
Avery also declined to comment on how many students were involved, though he stressed there would be "serious consequences" for any students found guilty of drug possession.
The search was completed in just over 20 minutes, with students evacuated for just over a half-hour.
Avery credited the many area police forces that assisted in making the random search "as nondisruptive to the school day as possible."
"This is part of an ongoing effort between the entire school district, the town and the police department to address various reports of drug activity within this school," he said. "Really, this is only the beginning of what we have planned."
Beals said the students weren't told the reason for the evacuation, but noted that "all normal evacuation procedures" were followed before police and K-9 units entered the buildings.
A local mother, who did not want her name revealed, said she received a text message from her son, a freshman at Alvirne High School, just after 9 a.m. Wednesday morning.
She said her son told her he'd just been evacuated from school but wasn't told the reason for the evacuation.
Parents, who were notified of the search via an email blast a short time later, reported being initially concerned about the evacuation, with several noting that the incident was particularly frightening since it echoed another incident at the high school earlier this month.
On Friday, Oct. 18, the high school was evacuated and students were sent home early because of a suspected gas leak. The issue was promptly addressed, and students and staff were back at school on Monday.


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The first English settlers in Jamestown, Virginia, who arrived in 1607, were eager to find gold and silver. Instead they found sickness and disease. Eventually, these colonists learned how to survive in their new environment, and by the middle of the seventeenth century they discovered that their fortunes lay in growing tobacco.
This 1622 letter from Jamestown colonist Sebastian Brandt to Henry Hovener, a Dutch merchant living in London, provides a snapshot of the colony in flux. Brandt, who likely arrived in 1619 in a wave of 1,200 immigrants, writes of his wife's and brother's deaths the previous year almost in passing. He mentions that, due to his own illness, he "was not able to travell up and downe the hills and dales of these countries but doo nowe intend every daye to walke up and downe the hills for good Mineralls here is both golde silver and copper." Most of Brandt's letter is devoted to its real purpose: putting in orders for cheese, vinegar, tools, spices, and other assorted goods from the London Company that were not available in Virginia. Interestingly, he promises to pay in tobacco and furs—not in the gold and copper he's looking for.
We know little about Brandt. He does not appear in any known existing official records, and historians presume he died not long after writing this letter. The glimpse he offers into early Jamestown serves as a tantalizing example of the challenges and thrills of studying colonial American history.
Well beloved good friend Henry Hovener
My comendations remembred, I hartely [wish] your welfare for god be thanked I am now in good health, but my brother and my wyfe are dead aboute a yeare pass'd And touchinge the busynesse that I came hither is nothing yett performed, by reason of my sicknesse & weaknesse I was not able to travell up and downe the hills and dales of these countries but doo nowe intend every daye to walke up and downe the hills for good Mineralls here is both golde silver and copper to be had and therefore I will doe my endeavour by the grace of god to effect what I am able to performe And I intreat you to beseeche the Right Hon: & Wor: Company in my behalfe to grant me my freedome to be sent either to me I dowbte not to doo well & good service in these countries humbly desyringe them also to provyde me some [appointed] fellowe & a strong boye to assiste me in my businesse, and that it may please the aforesaid Company to send me at my charge a bed wth a bolster and cover and some Linnen for shirtes and sheetes. Sixe fallinge bands wth Last Size pairs of shoes twoo pairs of bootes three pairs of cullered stockings and garters wth three pairs of lether gloves some powder and shott twoo little runletts of oyle and vinnegar some spice & suger to comfort us here in our sicknesse abowte ffyftie pounds weight of holland and Englishe cheese together, Lykewyse some knyves, spoons, combes and all sorts of cullerd beads as you knowe the savage Indians use Allso one Rundlett wth all sortes of yron nayles great and small, three haire sives, two hatchetts wth twoo broad yrons and some Allum And send all these necessaries thinges in a dry fatt wth the first shippinge dyrected unto Mr. Pontes in James Towne here in Virginia And whatsoever this all costes I will not onely wth my moste humble service but allso wth some good Tobacco Bevor and Otterskins and other commodities here to be had recompence the Company for the same And yf you could send for my brother Phillipps Sonne in Darbesheere to come hether itt [were] a great commoditie ffor me or suche another used in minerall workes And thus I comitt you to the Almighty. Virginia 13 January 1622.
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This fact helps us understand that Virgina settlers weren't apdated to their suroundings yet. They probable didn't apdat their suroundings because they are used the way they lived from wherever they came from. They probable also brought diseases with them and also there was probable diseases unknow to them. So thier their immune systems weren't exposed to the diseases, resulting in a lot of death.
Also, the settlers probable didn't apdat to their suroundings until like three or four months living there. It also shows that the settlers went throuh hardships because they weren't used their environment. The settlers eventually get used by sending orders to London, England and ask for certain things. The certain things they ask for is vinegar, cheese, spices, tools, sugar, and other goods that Virgina didn't have. In conclusion I think the settlers had gone through a lot of hardships.
The English settlers grow tobacco and they learned how to live off of there environment.That why they were eager to find gold and silver but instead they found there sickness and they also got diseases.A man named Brandit to Henry Hover arrived who was a dutch merchant to help.
Sebastian Brandt does not mention his brother and wife (wyfe) again except at the beginning of the letter. These conditions tell us that it was very common for people to die back then in the 1600s in Virginia. It could've been caused by plagues or injuries but back then they may have not had the medication to treat them properly. Therefore they died. And Brandt may have not mentioned them again because maybe it was too painful to think about it. This is what I infer from Sebastian Brandt not mentioning his brother and wife (wyfe) again except at the beginning of the letter.
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This fact helps us understand that Virgina weren't adpated to thier surrondings yet. They probable didn't adpat to thier surroundinds they were used to the way they lived from wherever they came from, and they arrived during the winter time.They probable brought diseases with them and since the arrived the winter time the weren't used to the unbearable cold. So they probable brought disesases with them, and most of the settlers probable froze to death, resulting in a lot of death.
The settlers probable didn't adpat to their surroundings until about three or four months of living there. But the settlers eventually got used living in America because they sent orders to London, England and traded with them. The things the settlers would traded with London for is cheese, vinegar, spices, tools, sugar, etc. The settlers eventually learned the ways to live in America.
Settler's back In James town didn't really have that much.they didn't have doctor's or medicine so people were getting sick.when the first settlers came to James town they didn't have that much food left so they were hungry and people started to starve.so when Sebastian Brandt talked about his brother and wife he didn't talk about them any more because there death was to hard on him probably.so he didn't want to talk about them. So since they didn't have medicine they had to die.
The fist sentence of Sebastian Brandt's letter regarding his brother and wife's passing helps us understand how sick he was. I believe it infers that he was close to dying, he writes that he was thankful to god that he had recovered but also adds of the passing of his brother and wife. This sentence gives us an understanding of how the cause of death in that time period had to do with the spread of disease and how little treatment there was.
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Essential Cosmic Perspective / Edition 7
Built from the ground up on our new understanding of the universe, this reader-friendly book focuses on central ideas and unifying themes to provide a concise cosmic context. Scientific concepts are linked to everyday experience to help readers develop an appreciation for the scientific method and to see how physics and astronomy are foundations for understanding their world. Recent discoveries spark readers' curiosity in the universe as a whole. Updates include discoveries such as the accelerating universe/cosmological constant, the detection of more planets around other stars, the potential of water flow on Mars, and the latest theories on the very early universe. For college instructors and students, or anyone interested in astronomy and physics.
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Jeffrey Bennett
Jeffrey Bennett holds a B.A. (1981) in biophysics from the University of California, San Diego, and an M.S. and Ph.D. (1987) in astrophysics from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has taught at every level from preschool through graduate school, including more than 50 college classes in astronomy, physics, mathematics, and education. He served 2 years as a visiting senior scientist at NASA headquarters, where he created NASA's "IDEAS" program, started a program to fly teachers aboard NASA's airborne observatories (including the recently launched SOFIA observatory), and worked on numerous educational programs for the Hubble Space Telescope and other space science missions. He also proposed the idea for and helped develop both the Colorado Scale Model Solar System on the CU-Boulder campus and the Voyage Scale Model Solar System on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (He is pictured here with the model Sun.) In addition to this astronomy textbook, he has written college-level textbooks in astrobiology, mathematics, and statistics; two books for the general public, On the Cosmic Horizon (Pearson Addison-Wesley, 2001) and Beyond UFOs (Princeton University Press, 2008); and an award-winning series of children's books that includes Max Goes to the Moon, Max Goes to Mars, Max Goes to Jupiter,and Max's Ice Age Adventure. When not working, he enjoys participating in masters swimming and in the daily adventures of life with his wife, Lisa; his children, Grant and Brooke; and his dog, Cosmo. His personal Web site is www.jeffreybennett.com.
Megan Donahue
Megan Donahue is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University. Her current research is mainly on clusters of galaxies: their contents-dark matter, hot gas, galaxies, active galactic nuclei-and what they reveal about the contents of the universe and how galaxies form and evolve. She grew up on a farm in Nebraska and received a B.A. in physics from MIT, where she began her research career as an X-ray astronomer. She has a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Colorado, for a thesis on theory and optical observations of intergalactic and intracluster gas. That thesis won the 1993 Trumpler Award from the Astronomical Society for the Pacific for an outstanding astrophysics doctoral dissertation in North America. She continued postdoctoral research in optical and X-ray observations as a Carnegie Fellow at Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, and later as an STScI Institute Fellow at Space Telescope. Megan was a staff astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute until 2003, when she joined the MSU faculty. Megan is married to Mark Voit, and they collaborate on many projects, including this textbook and the raising of their children, Michaela, Sebastian, and Angela. Between the births of Sebastian and Angela, Megan qualified for and ran the Boston Marathon. These days, Megan runs, orienteers, and plays piano and bass guitar whenever her children allow it.
Nicholas Schneider
Nicholas Schneider is an associate professor in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado and a researcher in the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. He received his B.A. in physics and astronomy from Dartmouth College in 1979 and his Ph.D. in planetary science from the University of Arizona in 1988. In 1991, he received the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Award. His research interests include planetary atmospheres and planetary astronomy, with a focus on the odd case of Jupiter's moon Io. He enjoys teaching at all levels and is active in efforts to improve undergraduate astronomy education. Off the job, he enjoys exploring the outdoors with his family and figuring out how things work.
Mark Voit
Mark Voit is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University. He earned his B.A. in astrophysical sciences at Princeton University and his Ph.D. in astrophysics at the University of Colorado in 1990. He continued his studies at the California Institute of Technology, where he was a research fellow in theoretical astrophysics, and then moved on to Johns Hopkins University as a Hubble Fellow. Before going to Michigan State, Mark worked in the Office of Public Outreach
at the Space Telescope, where he developed museum exhibitions about the Hubble Space Telescope and was the scientist behind NASA's Hubble Site. His research interests range from interstellar processes in our own galaxy to the clustering of galaxies in the early universe. He is married to coauthor Megan Donahue, and they try to play outdoors with their three children whenever possible, enjoying hiking, camping, running, and orienteering. Mark is also author of the popular book Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe.
Table of Contents
2. Discovering the Universe for Yourself.
4. A Universe of Matter and Energy.
5. Universal Motion.
6. Telescopes and Spacecraft.
8. The Terrestrial Worlds.
9. Jovian Planet Systems.
10. Remnants of Rock and Ice: Asteroids, Comets, and Pluto.
11. Planet Earth and Its Lessons on Life in the Universe.
13. Stars.
14. Star Stuff.
15. The Bizarre Stellar Graveyard.
17. A Universe of Galaxies.
18. Dark Matter and the Fate of the Universe.
19. The Beginning of Time.
20. Interstellar Travel and the Search for Extraterrestrial Civilizations.
Appendix A: A Few Mathematical Skills.
Appendix B: The Periodic Table of the Elements.
Appendix C: Planetary Data.
Appendix D: Stellar Data.
Appendix E: Constants.
Appendix F: Key Equations.
Star Charts.
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A gas found naturally in the body, the major function of nitric oxide is conveying information between cells. It increases blood flow as it dilates blood vessels (It is treated as a vasodilator agent) – a major reason behind it being used as a supplement for patients having heart troubles. Generally, Nitric Oxide is known to act as a signalling molecule (or a molecular messenger) where the molecule is supposed to transmit information between cells. Supposedly, your fingers have come in contact with fire. Instantly, the molecules are released from those specific skin cells, traveling the cell gaps by diffusion and interacting with specific receptors in another cell, where it triggers a response in that cell, making you withdraw your fingers from the contact. The responses happen when a series of enzyme controlled reactions makes changes inside the cell. Nitric oxide, again, is considered as a neurotransmitter, an internally originating compound which transmits information across the joints between a neuron and another cell. Also, Nitric oxide functions as a bronchodilator, concentrating on the agenda of expanding bronchus (or bronchial tubes).
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Enrollment counselors will help people sign up until midnight at events in the Chicago area, Mattoon and Rockford on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. At a call center in Chicago, operators will answer questions during those last three days from all around the state until midnight. Meanwhile, a federal call center is open 24 hours a day.
The scramble to reach procrastinators — including a "last call" public service announcement from President Barack Obama — may push the president's home state to a federal goal of 143,000 enrollees for 2014 health coverage, or it may not.
That won't be known until mid-April when the Obama administration is expected to release figures for first-year enrollment under the Affordable Care Act. Even then, it may not be clear how many Illinois residents paid their first monthly premiums and were actually covered.
For now, Illinois officials are optimistic — and busy. They say they're on track to meet the goal.
"We're making sure Illinois consumers have every single opportunity to enroll before the deadline," said Jennifer Koehler, executive director of Get Covered Illinois, the state's online insurance marketplace. On Monday, the Illinois marketplace help desk received 7,647 calls, the highest one-day volume ever, she said.
Koehler said she expects young adults to be the toughest holdouts. So far, about one in four Illinois enrollees has been in the 18- to 34-year-old age group. "We've really ramped up our messaging to that demographic, making sure they're aware of the free help available across the state," Koehler said.
Meeting the deadline means avoiding financial penalties on 2014 federal taxes. After Monday's deadline, only people with limited special circumstances, such as a divorce or a move to a new state, and low-income people who qualify for Medicaid will be able to get coverage that meets the federal law's requirements.
People without insurance can be fined either 1 percent of their income or $95, whichever is greater, when they file their 2014 federal taxes.
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The White House has said it won't push back the deadline to sign up for coverage, but if someone has already started an application, they will get some extra time to finish it.
Koehler said people shouldn't wait until Monday to get started shopping on the health insurance website or to get help from an insurance broker, agent or enrollment counselor. Many people are surprised, she said, by how many insurance plans they need to review. Most areas in Illinois have 30 or more insurance plans being sold.
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