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In recent years, scientists have taken an intense interest in curcumin, a bright-yellow compound in turmeric that seems to fight inflammation -- in test tubes and lab rodents, at least. If it could fight inflammation in people too, it potentially could help ease arthritis and some digestive troubles, along with other conditions fueled by inflammation.
Curcumin's stock in the supplement world has been on the rise thanks to articles that have touted the compound as a possible treatment for Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis and various cancers.
The stories beneath the headlines almost invariably warn that more research is needed, but the marketing of curcumin is moving full steam ahead at health-food stores, in vitamin aisles and on Internet sites. Ageless Cures sells 60 caplets of Super Curcumin -- with at least 950 milligrams of curcumin a tablet -- for about $20. You can buy 60 caplets of Life Extension's Super Bio-Curcumin -- with a little less than 400 milligrams of curcumin a caplet -- for about $12.
The claims: The Ageless Cures website claims that "curcumin has shown to be very anti-inflammatory without any negative side effects and many additional positive benefits." Visitors to the site are told that curcumin's anti-inflammatory power makes it an effective treatment for arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and Alzheimer's disease.
In an online review of Super Bio-Curcumin, vitamin supplier Seacoast Vitamins claims that "just one capsule a day with food may help regulate inflammatory response in the body." According to the company's site, control of inflammation can translate into relief from rheumatoid arthritis and other types of pain.
The bottom line: If you require hard evidence for your remedies, you may want to keep your curcumin in the spice rack. For the most part, the tantalizing possibilities are still unproven, says Greg Cole, a UCLA professor-in-residence of neurology and associate director of the university's Alzheimer Disease Center who has been studying curcumin for several years. "It does a whole lot of things in a test tube," he says. "For people, the data are pretty weak."
Test-tube studies have shown that curcumin can block inflammation, clean up free radicals and kill cancer cells, but there's a big roadblock between the lab and human use. According to Cole, plain curcumin isn't well absorbed, a shortcoming that seriously limits its potential effectiveness. (Mixing it with fat first seems to help absorption -- good news for people who like coconut milk or oil with their curries.) Cole suspects that the lack of absorption partly explains why a recent UCLA trial he conducted failed to show any benefits of curcumin for patients with Alzheimer's disease.
For now, Cole says, curcumin shows the most promise in the digestive tract, the one place in the body that supplements are guaranteed to reach. Preliminary trials of patients with colon cancer have found that taking up to 3.6 grams of curcumin a day appears to slow down the disease. A 2005 study of 10 people with inflammatory bowel disease -- either Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis -- found that 1.1 to 1.7 grams of curcumin a day for two months relieved symptoms and reduced the need for medications. The small study was not placebo controlled, however, which leaves room for doubt.
Bharat Aggarwal, professor of cancer research at the University of Texas' M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and a leading curcumin researcher, says that big, expensive human trials of the compound haven't been done because drug companies can't make money selling a curry spice. Despite this, at least a dozen small clinical trials are underway around the world. He believes that the compound shows great potential for treating Alzheimer's, inflammatory bowel disease, arthritis, cardiovascular disease and other conditions caused by inflammation. Anecdotally, he says, "I have a thousand patients who correspond with me, and the response [to curcumin] has been overwhelming."
Cole says some of his patients have also reported dramatic improvements after trying curcumin. "Is there any truth to it? I don't know."
Based on evidence so far, curcumin might be worth a try for people hoping to avoid colon cancer, including those at high risk because of polyps, says Dr. Mary Hardy, medical director of the Simms/Mann-UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology. The benefits for other types of cancers are much less certain, she says. Still, "I don't expect it to be harmful, so if someone was excited about taking it, I wouldn't tell them not to."
Cole agrees that there's little downside to trying curcumin. Because the compound is so poorly absorbed, he sees little potential for harm. Studies have found that people can take 7 grams a day without side effects, although it's possible that larger doses, or use over longer periods of time, can upset the stomach and perhaps increase the risk of bleeding.
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Bonnie Prince Billy With Harem Scarem and Alex Nielson | WIG213 | Released: 17/10/08
Is It The Sea? captures, in remarkable clarity, performances from the Bonnie Prince's sold out tour of Scotland and Ireland (and Newcastle) in the Spring of 2006. The tour found Billy in the company of Edinburgh's Harem Scarem on close harmonies, fiddle, flute, banjo and accordion and Glasgow's wunderkind Alex Neilson on drums and percussion.
For this tour Bonnie reached deep into his catalogue to produce a set long on magic and high on drama. Is It The Sea? captures Bonnie 'Prince' Billy in unique surroundings (isn't he always?) deep in the midst of some of Scotland's most adventurous traditional players. Arranged with a distinctly Caledonian air, the songs are animated by Harem Scarem's grasp of traditional harmony singing and Neilson's stately passive / aggressive playing. To the fore is Bonny Billy's rich and resolute on-stage voice.
Familiar album tracks that on record are hushed performances - 'Master And Everyone', 'Wolf Among Wolves' and 'Minor Place'- become rousingly emotional. Songs that have hitherto drawn you in with their intimacy are performed here in the resonance of the moment. Hearing the opening couplet from 'Love Comes To Me' sung out loud and clear:
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Three tracks: 'Cursed Sleep', the traditional 'Molly Bawn', and Superwolf's 'My Home is The Sea' both clock in around eight minutes. The band keep it loose and circular and stretch out on these tracks, allowing the voices to direct the drama, harmonies soaring up and down. 'Molly Bawn' in particular sees the band revel in the possibilities of playing a traditional ballad. Neilson marking out a loping kind of waltz which builds until everyone present is playing hell for leather, as Bonnie and Harem Scarem trade lines and up the intensity verse by verse. The result is a palpable sense of euphoria as the band and the audience realise that something pretty spectacular is going on.
Followers and watchers of Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, whether Palace veterans or the newly converted, will know never to second guess what they're about to hear on record or on stage when they see the BPB name. Is It The Sea? adds another layer of depth to one of the most beguiling catalogues in modern music; a recorded moment that finds Bonny 'Prince' Billy at the height of his powers, revelling in his songs and his surroundings. Sit back and imagine you're there and your world will be a better place.


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PORTLAND, Maine — In September, the Portland Museum of Art completed its restoration of Winslow Homer's Prouts Neck studio, opening it for public tours. The tours have been a great success. Reservations for the remainder of this year have been filled. Openings for the spring, when tours resume, are already being booked.
To celebrate the restoration, the museum has mounted two exhibitions. "Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine," consisting of works by the artist, is proving to be the most popular show in the museum's history; it is scheduled to remain open through Dec. 30. "Between Past and Present: The Homer Studio Photographic Project" directly relates to the studio. It runs through Feb. 17.
The museum commissioned five photographers to document aspects of the studio and do so with photographic processes in use during Homer's lifetime. Hence the show's title: A building made notable by its past history is recorded in the present using past techniques.
Sometimes the interaction of past and present can take mundane form. Note the bit of Grace Ultra roofing that peeks out in one of Tillman Crane's 10 platinum prints of the studio. More often, Crane imparts a timeless quality to the building and grounds. A roof corner looks like a ship's prow. A lobster pot along a cliff walk looms like a piece of sculpture — part David Smith, part Etruscan. The main room has the gravity and hush of a medieval cloister.
Alan Vlach's 10 salted paper prints suggest the texture of 19th-century engravings. They look a bit like Homer prints, in fact. The grain of the wood in "The Painting Studio" is so palpable it almost takes over the image, making it seem stippled.
Brenton Hamilton's 11 images in the show aren't Homer prints, but they come from them. Hamilton uses light-sensitive paper treated with gum bichromate (a process popular with Pictorialist photographers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries) to reproduce Homer prints in the museum collection. He then enhances them with gouache or washes. One-of-a-kind images, they're akin to monotypes. Hamilton's pictures aren't so much appropriations of the original Homers as reimaginings of them.
Abelardo Morell has only one photograph in "Between Past and Present," but it's a whopper. The image is very large, nearly 4 feet by 5 feet. Even its title is very large: "Tent-Camera Image on Ground: View of the Sea From Winslow Homer's Backyard, Prouts Neck, Maine." Morell has long specialized in taking inverted images indoors with a camera obscura. For the Homer picture, he set up a special tent behind the house, allowing him to superimpose a view of ocean on the lawn. It's quite phenomenal. The shadings of color have a delicacy that's poised in a realm somewhere between nature and art; and the texturing of that realm, as recorded by Morell, is a version of enchantment.
Striking as Morell's photograph is, it may not be the most eye-catching work in the show. The other candidate would be Keliy Anderson-Staley's "Objects of Uncertain Provenance" (even the title is memorable). It consists of 24 tintypes, each 8 inches by 10 inches, arranged in a grid. The tintype is the homeliest example of 19th-century photograph. Which makes it a fitting way to document these homely items — broken, discarded, or both — found in and around Homer's studio. There are butter molds, a safety razor, a broken plate, a crumpled cigarette pack (shades of Irving Penn's street detritus), a table knife, a hose nozzle, a bolt and washer, and so on. What makes their appearance so formidable is Anderson-Staley's simplicity of approach. They're like the rocks lining the shore in a Homer seascape: eloquent by dint of sheer endurance, beautiful through their purity of plainness.Mark Feeney can be reached at email@example.com.


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Answering gardening questions is something Wim Vander Zalm has been doing pretty much all his life.
At 19, he was already in charge of one of the biggest garden centres in B.C. - the Art Knapps store that existed off Lougheed Highway in Burnaby and is now GardenWorks.
Vander Zalm is the owner of two other garden centres in the Lower Mainland, Art Knapp Plantland and Florist in Port Coquitlam, and the Urban Garden store in the heart of downtown Vancouver on Hornby Street.
Over the years, he became so good at answering gardening questions, most of which came from customers in his stores, he became known as the "plant doctor." For 15 years, he was the host of CKNW radio's Garden Talk program and more recently he has been answering questions for GardenWise and BC Home & Garden magazines.
So, it should probably come as no surprise, given that he has been the go-to-guy for many gardeners looking for solutions to their plant problems and advice on their gardening challenges, that he has now condensed the best of that knowledge into a book: Just Ask Wim! Down-to-Earth Gardening Answers (Harbour Publishing, $26.95).
The book contains 100-plus of the most asked gardening questions: What vegetables can I plant as a winter crop? How can I avoid bitter bolting lettuce?
When is the best time to cut back rhododendrons? How do I overwinter my geraniums and fuchsias? What fast-growing evergreen hedge will work for my narrow urban yard? How late can I plant spring-flowering bulbs? What should I do about the chafer infestation that is destroying my lawn? What fruit and vegetables grow best in patio pots? And on and on.
The book is beautifully designed and intelligently organized with more than 200 colour photographs, plus a complete month-by-month garden checklist at the front.
With chapters on pruning and pest management, herbs and lawns, trees and shrubs, perennials, annuals, hanging baskets and container gardening, there is plenty of information to get beginner gardeners off to a flying start and take seasoned gardeners to the next level of expertise.
The goal that permeates the whole book is the idea of taking gardeners through the seasons with the confidence of having the guidance of an expert gardener at their fingertips.
The son of former B.C. premier, Bill Vander Zalm, he traces his passion for gardening back to his childhood and the influence of his dad, also a knowledgeable garden expert and garden centre owner, and other members in his family engaged in horticulture.
"My love for gardening could also be because of a game I traditionally played whenever I was in the car with my dad.
"I would repeatedly ask him to name plants that I pointed to in the gardens as we passed, scrambling to find the next plant that just might stump him.
"Without a doubt, that silly occupation made me more observant of my surroundings year in and year out, giving me cause to evaluate how, why and when plants bloomed, yellowed, grew leaves, dropped leaves, were pruned and so much more. I was quietly being schooled about the horticultural world around me."
By 13, Vander Zalm, with the help of his school buddy, Cam, had built a 200-square-foot greenhouse in the backyard.
It is a little unusual to find a 13-year-old as industrious and entrepreneurial as Vander Zalm was, but owning his own greenhouse certainly gave him an early start in the horticulture business.
"I found it very rewarding, both mentally and financially, taking cuttings and propagating different types of plants, which I sold at my dad's garden centre," he says. Today, what excites him most is turning people on to gardening and giving them the information they need to become good gardeners.
"I have learned that most people want information to solve a problem but not the kind of technical language that makes their eyes start to glaze over."
Achieving success, says Vander Zalm, is often about getting the right cultivar of plant and making sure it is planted properly in the right place with the right soil.
For success with tomatoes, for example, he says he highly recommends growing at least one variety of cherry tomato, such as Sweet 100 and Sweet Million.
"There is something about popping a bite-sized tomato, bursting with fresh-off-the-vine flavour, right into your mouth.
"Cherry tomatoes ripen early, quickly and continually, offering a ready-when-you-are crop for snacks and salads."
Other tomato recommendations include Fantastic, Early Girl, Oregon Spring and Better Boy.
You will find equally sound advice on growing cucumbers, lettuce, zucchinis, and the whole range of fruits.
Herbs are always popular with gardeners and Vander Zalm has been right on the money over the past few years in targeting and catering to the gardener keen to grow all the most useful herbs.
So in the book, he has detailed advice about growing basil and sage and other popular herbs.
For flower gardeners, he gets straight to the heart of some key concerns, such as how to keep dahlia tubers alive and healthy over winter so they will perform flawlessly for another season.
And there is a great chapter on growing bulbs indoors, forcing them to bloom in mid-winter, as well as making impressive displays with amaryllis.
Perennials are close to my heart, so I appreciated the month-by-month guide to flowering perennials. I suspect beginner gardeners will also love this information as planting perennials to create a seamless sequence of blooms is one of gardening's biggest challenges.
Lawn care is becoming more and more controversial, partly because of the move away from use of high-nitrogen fertilizers along with water restrictions and the desire by many homeowners to find less labour-intensive alternatives to growing grass.
Vander Zalm gives sound advice for those wishing to do the work and maintain a lawn, but also offers a whole bunch of practical alternatives, such as growing brass buttons (Leptinella squalida) and white clover (Trifolium repens) as ground cover options.
Pruning is another hot topic, but in Just Ask Wim you get some very straightforward guidelines for pruning trees and shrubs that give gardeners the biggest challenge such as wisteria, hydrangeas, lilacs and roses.
When he sat down to write his book, Vander Zalm looked at a few other garden books and found that they were mostly written for people who already knew a lot about gardening. He recognized the gap where a lot of new gardeners find themselves, searching for basic information.
"Personally, if I wanted to learn about car engines, I wouldn't be looking for technical talk because I truly know nothing about them."
From that point, he set out to write about the most-asked gardening questions with solid, common-sense answers. I think he has done that well and in a way that will encourage more people to get their hands in the soil and discover the joy of gardening.


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Didn't the article say out in time for Christmas? Spring is a tad early, but I'm not complaining.
I'm not complaining at all... this is great news as far as I'm concerned.Also, if this is coming out this early, perhaps this opens up the chances for a different big item being released in the Fall.
It seems that BBTS and EE have changed the release dates to August/September respectively.
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DETROIT -- When you're the highest profile car guy at General Motors, there aren't many days at the office better than a Corvette reveal.
Sunday was a good day for Mark Reuss.
"I'm very happy," the GM North America president gushed Sunday while talking with reporters after introducing the seventh-generation Vette to more than 1,000 media types, GMers, VIPs and Vette fans. "I'm really happy. I joined the company because of this car."
Reuss hasn't been as ebullient in recent media scrums.
He's had to fend off questions about GM's slipping North American market share and sluggish pickup sales. He grew tired of GM getting shoved through the political meat grinder during the campaign season.
"When you put a car out like this, it lays waste to all of that," Reuss said. "This car speaks for itself, stands for itself. It is an icon emotionally for this company and Chevrolet."
Reuss wears his emotions on his sleeve. He's been known to choke up while discussing the history and heritage of GM, where his father once occupied the same job he does now. His affable demeanor and cackling laugh can quickly vanish when asked a piercing or stupid question.
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Do you believe in "The World Unseen"? In ghosts?
Maybe this time of year; maybe because we're in a small room lit by candlelight and the question is being posed by a seemingly possessed young woman named Sarah Pelham, who lived in 18th-century Williamsburg and is convinced she's come face to face with horrible "agents of evil."
"Demons lurk in corners ... any dark, sharp angular corner ... they are just waiting for the opportunity to enter our world and do grievous harm!" she warns. No, Pelham's not a ghost, though she did live more than 200 years ago. She's just helping us to time travel as she tells her tale to the rapt audience at


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ORLANDO — Your turn, Chicago.
Maybe you can do what hasn't been done for a staggering 27 straight games, and stop the freight train that is the Miami Heat. The Detroit Pistons, Charlotte Bobcats and Orlando Magic — all members of the Eastern Conference lottery mafia — tried their best to derail the Heat's plans to surpass the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers' record 33-game win streak.
Maybe another playoff team, catching the Heat on the second game of a four-game road trip after two straight games missed by All-Star shooting guard Dwyane Wade (sore knee), can finally solve the Heat riddle?
Or not?
That Wednesday night showdown with the Chicago Bulls at the United Center doesn't look so daunting after all, not when LeBron James is a part of the festivities. He started slow but wound up one rebound shy of a triple double (24 points and 11 assists) in the 108-94 win over the Magic on Monday. The Heat always have a chance to walk out of an arena a winner with King James on the court.
Even on a team without Wade, James serves as the perfect catalyst for a veteran team filled with specialists who are comfortable with their roles. In addition to the shine of their stars, the Heat have shown off that depth during the streak.
"That is what this team is built around," James said, being generous, of course, since this team is built around him and Wade and fellow All-Star Chris Bosh. "A lot of depth and veterans, guys that know that when someone is out then guys are going to be able to step in. That feeling that D-Wade was out was like, 'okay, now it's time for someone to step up,' which we know we are capable of doing so."
As much as this streak is about the Heat and their record chase, this is about the other teams (10 who don't have as many wins on the season as the Heat have in the streak) deciding who among them will step forward and end this thing.
The Heat can't suffer through their usual first half swoon and climb out of a double-digit hole against a lunch pail crew like the Bulls, who will no doubt be amped-up for a chance to punch a hole in the Heat's cosmic ride.
And that Friday night tilt in New Orleans looks a whole lot tougher after the Hornets ended the Denver Nuggets' 15-game win streak tonight in a 110-86 waxing at New Orleans Arena.
Motivation is great, a fine tool to work with for any ambitious team. But, again, is it going to be enough to beat the Heat?
Those who have tried and failed know better.
"They move the ball so effortlessly," Pistons coach Lawrence Frank said. "They have great trust in each other. The way that ball moves from one player to the next is very, very impressive. And, defensively, they've always been top-shelf. They combine great athleticism, effort, technique and commitment. You know what they're going to do and it doesn't matter because they put great effort and intensity into it. The next step that they've taken is they've got great trust in each other."
In the two games Wade has been out, James has scored 56 points to go along with 21 assists, showcasing the Heat's share-the-ball mentality.
It looks just as impressive from other side of the conference divide, where the reigning NBA champs will remain the hunted, even for those teams that don't have a chance to snap the streak.
"It's hard to win basketball games in this league, and to win 'em in a row is even harder, and over 20 is really tough. So, we don't have any hate in our blood over here, we give respect when it's due," Oklahoma City Thunder All-Star Kevin Durant said. "But I would say we're not worried about what they're doing. It's just that all we're focused on is us. But every time you turn on the TV you here it and once you really sit back and look at it, it's impressive."
The Thunder battled the Heat in The Finals last year and know exactly how tough a team Miami is. But they only get two cracks at the Heat during the regular season (and went 0-2 against them).
Thunder coach Scott Brooks has an appreciation for what the Heat are doing because he coaches a team that's arguably just as talented as the Heat. OKC has put together four different stretches this season where they've won at least five straight games, including an 11-game streak from November 24 through December 20.
"I've never seen it in my lifetime," Brooks said. "I mean, I know the Lakers did it in the '70s, but I wasn't following the NBA in the early '70s. But, just to do what they're doing now with the parity that we have in the league, it's pretty amazing.
"There are so many games that you have to have everything go right to win. The travel, the back-to-backs, the injuries you have to overcome, the foul trouble, the turnovers — just everything about it, and to win [27] straight games, give them credit because they have the mental ability to have the mindset to do that night in and night out. That's just pretty phenomenal."
What Brooks calls "phenomenal" Heat coach Erik Spoelstra calls a part of the process.
The showdown with the Bulls is simply the next stop on this "business trip" for the man who collected his 250th win Monday night.
"Look, we haven't changed and I know our storyline is probably a little bit too boring for you guys," Spoelstra said. "You guys have a job to do. We have a job to do. One of the things when we first put this team together, you heard it all the time, was that we would stay disciplined to the process. And everybody wants to speed it up, that first year started with talk about The Finals and three, four, five, six and all that.
"That's the most dangerous thing you can do, not only in pro sports, but in life. You start living ahead of an unknowable future when the most important time is the present time, right now. We're not trying to take this for granted. It's a special opportunity for this group, but you honor this opportunity by staying in the moment."
The lights will be bright in Chicago, the moment immense with win No. 28 hanging in the balance. And, be it strictly business or just a part of the process, all due respect to Spoelstra — there's no denying that this streak has stumbled into phenomenal as we get closer and closer to No. 33.


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Posted 16 March 2008 - 05:25 AM
You can just convert the HDV to another codec for ease of editing if they find it to hard to edit the raw.
Dump the files to a watch folder and go to bed or convert the stuff to another codec on the fly as you firewire in would be another option as well.
Make sure you get a fast Blu_Ray burner or you will be waiting hours to burn a disk.
Or you can go the XDCAM Disc way with the XDCAM USB Deck$$$.
I suppose you could even render out a normal 25mbps HDV m2t file and send it back to a mini DV tape for a cheap backup last resort kind of thing in case the blu_Ray disk fails after a few years.
Posted 16 March 2008 - 05:41 AM
All i'm hearing is Blah, blah, blah.....
Dive safe
Posted 16 March 2008 - 06:25 AM
The EX1 shoots XDCAM HD EX files up to 35mbps VBR, not only HDV and that can only be transfered via USB on the camera or via a card reader. The SxS Express Cards require an Express/34 slot. Now why would you mess with the camera as a playback unit when you can go buy a new computer and continue shooting as you d/l your clips?
"Journalism is what someone else does not want printed, everything else is public relations."
"I was born not knowing, and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
Posted 16 March 2008 - 08:33 PM
So I am saying shoot it in HQ 35mbps mode, then USB the clips or use the express slot if you have one onto your computer to empty the cards so you can keep on shooting.
Now instead of buying a new computer if you convert the clips that are now on your drive to the another easier to edit codec then you are fine. If you have a encoder that lets you create a watch folder, the encoder will start converting the files as soon as they are dumped to the folder on you hard drive. Once you have done that burn all the raw XDCAM EX files to a Blu_Ray for archiving and edit with the new easy codec.
But if you have lots of money build yourself a super dooper computer that can edit multiply streams of raw 35mbps HQ footage but you don't really have to to get into these cameras.
If you do decide to shoot in normal HDV 25mbps mode you can then use the firewire port and firewire it in like any other HDV camera.
Posted 17 March 2008 - 02:56 AM
Dive safe
Posted 12 April 2008 - 09:54 AM
Posted 12 April 2008 - 04:41 PM
Here's a picture from Marine Visions
Posted 15 April 2008 - 06:29 AM
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Posted 15 April 2008 - 10:19 PM
I wonder if I'd need to add buoyancy once I've strapped a pair of L&M lights to it.
How does that stand on the bottom attach? I assume it's supposed to come off for the dive.
Posted 15 April 2008 - 11:44 PM
I wonder what the out of water weight will be when you chuck on a monitor, super wide port, lights etc?
The stand slides off and then Gates make different attachments for lights / tripod etc. The system works well and is quick to change between different options.
Posted 16 April 2008 - 12:05 AM
I'd love to get my fingers on that big focus knob.
Titter ye not !!!!!
Ey it looks a beastie... My Ex1 is getting lonely... But I said its getting a friend real soon...
Dive safe
Posted 16 April 2008 - 12:14 AM
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Posted 16 April 2008 - 11:39 AM
Cheers, Simon
Posted 16 April 2008 - 12:08 PM
Posted 17 April 2008 - 12:25 AM
With every generation of a Gates product we endeavor to make meaningful, practical improvements that do not compromise the durability/reliability of the housing. In this regard, we made some changes for the EX1 that may be of interest:
1) We have a new approach for buoyancy (well, new for Gates). We borrowed some ideas from IMAX and employ 4 and 8 oz trim weights that can be added/removed as needed for just the right buoyancy. Remove them as you add lights/monitor/tripod/etc. You can even move them forward/aft for trim, and top/bottom if you desire for changing the center of gravity. It's intended to be very flexible and configurable. This approach will be carried forward with new housings including DEEP RED.
2) The camera tray is vastly improved as well. No more tools required to mount the camera, and the tray locks into place with two rotating latches. Slick and easy.
3) The controls are the best we've made yet -- at your fingertips and easy to use. Are electronic controls still easier to use? You decide....
Posted 17 April 2008 - 05:57 AM
Re the controls really the only one I prefer as electronic is momentary auto focus, as I mentioned before. Could I do that on the new housing without a fidget and a wobble?
Also what's the flip diopter status?
Posted 17 April 2008 - 10:17 AM
Momentary Auto Focus was too tight with other controls to get into the repertoire. But the same thing can be accomplished using the A/M focus switch. In fact, the auto focus has a neat 'focus assist' feature. While in AF you can still adjust the manual focus ring to lock onto different part of the image, and the camera will then track that subject. I've tried it on land it seems to work well. I can see using this underwater, particularly for macro.
Posted 18 April 2008 - 08:46 AM
He didn't get bent shooting pike in Stoney Cove did he?
haha no it was on an HSE course - we were all narked out of our skulls hehe.
Getting bent at 3m in Stoney filming Pike would be bloody hilarous though! - well as hilarious as a bend could be - which really isn't funny - but hey you get my drift!
As to the Gates EX1 housing then it looks a beast. It would be no1 choice for me though if I was in the market for one after being so pleased with my V1 housing.
Cheers, Simon
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NEW YORK -- Watch out, Fox. The Cancellation Bear is gaining on you.
The website TV By the Numbers is making sport out of predicting which television series will survive or disappear, and the first weeks of a new TV season are particularly busy. The Renew/Cancel Index is a popular feature, where all the broadcast networks' shows are given ratings from one (certain to be cancelled) to five (certain to be renewed).
Less than four weeks into the new season, CBS' "Made in Jersey" is already swimming with the fishes, and NBC announced on Thursday that the comedy "Animal Practice" will be out the door next month. That was one of six shows that the Renew/Cancel Index had given its dreaded single frowning face. Site founder Bill Gorman, asked to go out on a limb, predicted "The Mob Doctor" on Fox would be the next to disappear _ but NBC beat him to the punch.
Gorman and partner Robert Seidman regularly tweet about their predictions as "The Cancellation Bear." The name refers to the old joke about two men being chased by a bear; you don't have to be faster than the bear, just outrun the other guy. Most TV shows just need better ratings than other programs on their network to survive.
The men, who started the site in 2007 to report news on television ratings, said people follow their favorite shows like they would sports teams, and are increasingly savvy about the business of entertainment.
"The difference between the shows and sports teams is, if the Yankees have a bad year, they're not going out of business," Gorman said.
Networks invest high hopes and a lot of money to make new series but inevitably many _often most _ quickly fail. Late October is a big decision-making time because networks must determine if they will pay for a full season's worth of shows and, if a program is doing poorly, quickly replace it with something that could pull in higher ratings during the November ratings sweeps.
Other series that the Cancellation Bear suggests not getting attached to are the CBS comedy "Partners," the ABC thriller "Last Resort" and creepy "666 Park Avenue," and the NBC comedies "Animal Practice" and "Up All Night."
In Gorman's defense, he had "Animal Practice" as the second or third most likely to go, along with "Partners."
Gorman, who started the site with Seidman after noticing there wasn't another blog that regularly discussed television ratings, said the numbers usually make their rankings clear.
"We're not splitting the atom," Gorman said. "We're just stating the obvious, and the only reason we're unique is nobody else is stating the obvious."
The Cancellation Bear occasionally tweets with Kelly Kahl, the executive in charge of CBS' schedule. Kahl said the analyses provided by TV By the Numbers are generally more thorough and thoughtful than he sees online. Their weakness is an over-reliance on the numbers without weighing many other factors that play into cancellation decisions, like whether a network has an ownership stake in a series, or whether a show is an executive's personal favorite and thus given more time to succeed.
"We're all kind of in the business and if we can have a little fun with it, that's good," Kahl said.
Gorman said he and Seidman, who weren't connected to the TV industry before starting the site, are learning about those other factors. For instance, they find that a series that makes it into a third season almost always makes a fourth no matter the ratings because a fourth season is key to getting a syndication deal for reruns, and that's where real money can be made. So, rest comfortably, fans of "Hawaii Five-0," "Blue Bloods" or "Raising Hope."
Their site and the networks don't have a contentious relationship. They wouldn't get the Nielsen ratings that their reporting is based upon unless people at the networks slipped the numbers to them. That also prevents them from making more of a business out of their predictions: Nielsen would no doubt raise a stink about people freeloading on their product in that way.
They've missed some calls. Fox's "House" had the numbers to return, but the Bear didn't take into account increased costs of producing an older show, or the desire of its actors to continue, Gorman said.
"Two years ago, we thought (Fox's) `Fringe' would get cancelled and we were subsequently proven wrong," Gorman said. "We were eviscerated by their crazy fans. We're a public forum and they descended on us like locusts."
They had a public battle with actress Kathy Bates and makers of "Harry's Law" over a prediction last year that the show wouldn't survive because it had an older audience, which has little value to NBC. The show's executive producer, Bill D'Elia, tweeted "who cares what they think? `Harry's Law' is most viewed scripted drama on NBC and will return."
Nope. The Bear caught up with him.


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A lot is being said and written about alternative energy these days, with much of the attention focused on ethanol made from U.S. corn. Billions of dollars are being invested in new production facilities, with more on the drawing board.
Everybody from zillionaires Bill Gates and Richard Branson to everyday farmers is investing in ethanol plants.
While there's little doubt ethanol can be a key component in an overall program to reduce this country's dependence on imported oil — and a potential boon to corn producers — other fuel sources will also need to be developed in order to keep pace with our growing appetite for energy.
Though ethanol from corn has garnered most of the attention, there may be equal or greater potential for cellulosic ethanol derived from biomass and plant wastes. The process has heretofore been much more expensive than producing ethanol from corn/grains, but new techniques are making it more economically feasible.
Cellulosic ethanol can be made from a wide range of biomass, from corn stalks and cereal straw to sawdust and switchgrass, the latter much-ballyhooed by President Bush in announcing his energy program some time back.
A demonstration plant in Canada is already producing cellulosic ethanol, and Celunol Corp. is building a demonstration cellulosic ethanol plant at Jennings, La., along with a 55-million gallon facility to produce ethanol from grain. The world's first commercial cellulosic ethanol facility is supposed to go online in Spain before year's end, producing more than 50 million gallons per year.
As the technology advances and becomes more efficient, the cost per gallon for cellulosic ethanol is expected to decline sharply and be competitive with grains ethanol.
Some analysts say if all the wastes from U.S. farms were converted to ethanol, it could replace up to 25 percent of the energy needed for transportation. Add to that the increasingly efficient production of ethanol from corn and other grains, along with various forms of biodiesel (which offers more energy/miles per gallon), and this country could replace a large chunk of imported oil and keep those billions of dollars in our own economy instead of supporting unstable and often unfriendly foreign nations.
It has been estimated that full-scale production of biofuels could reduce the oil dependency of the U.S. transportation sector by as much as two-thirds over the next several decades.
And if the U.S. automobile industry would pay more than lip service to boosting the fuel efficiency of its cars and trucks, it might succeed in winning back some of the market share it has lost to Japan and Korea, and save billions of gallons of fuel in the process.
Producing alternate fuels may not be the biggest hurdle, however — there will also have to be a commitment by government to support the development and growth of these industries and the infrastructure needed to insure their widespread utilization.
That may require huge ongoing subsidies. But wouldn't we rather spend billions on developing and supporting our own home-based biofuels industry than sending those billions to the oil sheiks and crackpot dictators?
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8th Arrondissement (Champs-Elysees), Paris Travel Guide
8th Arrondissement (Champs-Elysees) Summary
- Home to the Champs-Elysees, lined by shops and restaurants
- Golden Triangle shopping district, with designer stores such as Louis Vuitton and Chanel
- The Arc de Triomphe and the Grand Palais
- Convenient spot for business travelers
- Solid range of hotel types
- Destination for high-end fashion shopping
- Fewer major sights than some other neighborhoods
- Some feel that the Champs-Elysees area is too touristy
What It's Like
The 8th Arrondissement is best known for the Champs-Elysees, the most famous boulevard in Paris. Its sidewalks are lined by trees, shops, and restaurants, and most notably, high-end fashion boutiques. On one end stands the Arc de Triomphe, from which visitors can see sweeping views of the city, and on the other stands the Grand Palais, a beautifully restored historic building that now houses an impressive art collection. The Champs-Elysees is one of the three streets that form the "Golden Triangle" shopping district -- the other two being Avenue Montaigne and Avenue George V -- and it's here that shoppers will find the stores of name-brand designers such as Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, and Chanel. Some of Some complain that the Champs-Elysees has lost some of its charm with the influx of chain stores and restaurants, but at least the McDonald's offers beautiful views of the street!
Aside from the Champs-Elysees area, the Parc Monceau, and a few minor museums, the 8th Arrondissement has less to offer tourists than some other neighborhoods in the city. The larger part of the neighborhood is a commercial and business area, with few tourists and even few Parisians past dark.
Where To Stay
Most hotels in the 8th Arrondissement are located within walking distance of the Champs-Elysees. There are numerous luxury hotels as well as several mid-range hotels in the area. Those in Paris on business may consider staying closer to the heart of the neighborhood.


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Maybe an interview with the group that wrote a kernel that was mathematically proven to work would be interesting on several levels: engineering dealing with the knitty-gritty details of reality, and the mathematics that operates in the clouds. This project is deeply rooted in the direct interaction between these two fields. The mathematics area is not dealth with much in operating systems, since they are so close to the hardware. This project is unique in that it is so heavily grounded in Platonic mathematics. Unfortunately their website doesn't provide much information, nor did articles about their work. Here are some questions I think would be interesting:
- What motived them to write a mathematically proven kernel?
- How do they address issues with drivers, which are most often the source of crashes, not the kernel itself?
- The project aimed to reach a Platonic mathematical ideal in code, but what sort of engineering challenges did they face?
- Why did they choose Haskell and not some other functional programming language?
- How did they convert Haskell to C?
- What does the group think about the situation of operating systems today?
- Do they think their approach will have an impact on computer science? Why?
- How do they feel about their project being open source?


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A Light-Filled Brooklyn Kitchen, Perfect for Food Photo Shoots!
Karen, a food photographer, and her husband Chandler, a writer and cinematographer, share a love for high ceilings, wonderful light, richly colored wood, and Brooklyn. Their airy one-bedroom in Park Slope is the ideal live/work space, with plenty of room for dinner parties and food photo shoots. The kitchen, unsurprisingly, is one of their favorite rooms! Open shelves showcase Karen's custom-made archival Japanese silk boxes from Talas, along with her prettiest dishes. And the light! Oh, the wonderful light.
As Karen tells Design*Sponge:
One of our favorite rooms in the apartment is our sunny kitchen, painted in Cornsilk by Benjamin Moore. The previous owners put up the large framed peg board, which holds many of our pots and pans and helps to keep things organized since we don't have a pantry. Our wooden shelves and cabinetry are stained with a French country-inspired light blue. We like to display different stacks of plates and bowls on the shelves and often sort and resort them by color or style.
As a Brooklyn resident myself, I would die to cook and work in this kitchen! It's the perfect mix of old and new. And don't you just love the yellow pegboard?
See the Full Tour: Sneak Peek: Karen Wise and Chandler Kauffman at Design*Sponge
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Fucken dumshitte Red Sock fans must be so fucken miserable right now!!!! HAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!
Fucken dumshitte Red Sock fans must be so fucken miserable right now!!!! HAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!
Prof-like Substance says
Dude, did you see September. This was a mercy killing – the humane thing. The Sox didn't deserve to get in and we don't deserve to have to watch them get swept in the first round.
Sxydocma1 says
I agree with PLS. And sometimes I hate you CPP – the Yankees won the division so fuck off.
Hercules Grytpype-Thynne says
I love the blogs at FTB because they invariably make me think.
This particular blog makes me think, "what kind of compromising photos must Comradde PhysioProffe have of Ed Brayton or PZ Myers?"
DrugMonkey says
"…compromising photos ..of Ed Brayton or PZ Myers?"
I now hate you. Forever. For that image.
Hercules Grytpype-Thynne says
"…compromising photos ..of Ed Brayton or PZ Myers?"
I now hate you. Forever. For that image.
Could have been worse. I could have written "Ed Brayton and PZ Myers".
Brain bleach on aisle 1.
Midnight Rambler says
Could have been worse. I could have written "Ed Brayton and PZ Myers".
That was how I read it at first…
Anyway, re the OP: after blowing it that bad, the Sox really didn't deserve to win, and the Rays did. Plus, it ended with a loss to the fuckin' Yankees, so that makes it okay.
scenario says
I've been a Sox fan all my life and I'm not crying. They've been playing like crap for over a month and were going to get blown out in the first round anyhow.
Their biggest problem lately is that their trying to win the old Yankee way, buy it. They can develop talent. They can trade for talent but they can't sign good free agents. They keep getting expensive but soft players who are great when the team is up 9 to 0 but fold when it's 2 to 1. At the end of the year they've got great stats but when you put them in a pressure cooker, they fold.
The Sox management needed a good kick in the ass and they got it. They weren't going to win this year but maybe this will get them to wake up so they'll win down the road.
Chebag says
Are you people fucking nuts? Do you really take this stupid game seriously? Like any of it matters…grow up for fuck's sake!
scenario says
I always crack up on people who say grow up to people who like sports. The only thing that is really truly important is getting enough food to eat, a safe place to live,and make babies and raise them to the point when they can live on their own. Most of what we do with our lives is not really necessary. If some people enjoy watching a game, why is that any different than 99% of everything we do? Most of what we do is just gravy in the long term.
Stefan says
I don't care about sports at all…and I 100% agree with scenario ( not that anyone should care). Although – I cringed at the original post, I guess sports fans get that it's all just good-natured ribbing.
Chebag says
hahaha, you go right on trying to tell yourselves that your jock sniffing "fandom" is equivalent to all other human interests beyond food and shelter…you aren't even *playing* the game FFS.
King of New Hampshire says
Anybody can be a Yankees fan, but it takes a strong individual to be a Red Sox fan.
Although I often wonder if Fenway and Wriggly are just grand experiments in community loyalty. It would explain '86, for New Englanders, at least.
NoAstronomer says
Took my HS Senior daughter to visit colleges in the Boston area last week. My wife told her she wasn't to come back with a Boston accent. I told her an accent was fine, but if she turned into a Red Sox fan then she should probably just stay in Boston*.
* For the humor challenged that is what the rest of call a 'joke'.
Sven DiMilo says
I half agree with Chebag.
Who gives a shit about American League ball?
W. Kevin Vicklund says
51 for 51
W. Kevin Vicklund says
Typo, that should be 50 for 50.
lylebot says
Anybody can be a Yankees fan, but it takes a strong individual to be a Red Sox fan.
Yeah, it takes a lot of strength to be a fan of a team with an all-time winning record close to 52%, that has made the playoffs 6 times in the last 10 years (including two World Series wins), that has one of the biggest budgets in both leagues, that has featured some of the greatest players in baseball history, that has one of the most-loved fields in baseball, and on and on and on.
Maybe you mean it takes a lot of strength to not be happy with the extremely good hand you've been dealt. Try being a Cleveland Indians fan. I can't even take solace in my team's name and logo not being racist.
W. Kevin Vicklund says
Fucken dumshitte Yankee fans must be so fucken miserable right now!!!! HAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!
naturalcynic says
Way to go, Aaay-Rawwwdd. Played like a skankee should.
dankulkosky says
How are those dumb shite Yankee fans feeling now?
Pete says
Good morning! It looks like there was a baseball game last night. Not to dance on the grave of the Yankees' failure season, but, ahem:
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Tap, tap, tapitity tap, pause.
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Skip to comments.October 31, 1999: EgyptAir Flight 990 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean
Posted on 10/31/2008 1:28:11 PM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace
On October 31st 1999 EgyptAir Flight 990 struck the ocean with the loss of all on board.
The end of the NTSB's final summary reads thusly
"The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the EgyptAir flight 990 accident is the airplane's departure from normal cruise flight and subsequent impact with the Atlantic Ocean as a result of the relief first officer's flight control inputs. The reason for the relief first officer's actions was not determined."
Video link in segments:
I am only going to link the list of passengers and crew who were lost due to 419 concerns:
(The above link has this article subbed under "Iran hostage crisis" - interesting
I believe he explained his actions by uttering "Allahu Akhbar" a few times as the plane spiraled in.
Practice run.
There was a lot of wrangling and arguing between the various government agencies as well as with the foreign investigators over the meaning, context and translation of "Twakalt ala Allah" - "I rely on God"
I remember at the time thinking it was a giant cover-up.
The perp:
Pipes weighs in:
pull with me!!!
Partially explained.
Here's what I think happened. Several Orthodox Jews were known to have been on the flight. My guess is that Batouti was seated near them and became aware of them. Then all that good Religion of Peace Teaching kicked in, he went up to the cockpit, pulled rank, and killed the infidels in the glorious name of Allah.
You know it is interesting you say that. So many times when people talk about the inspiration for the 9-11 attacks they will bring up Ramzi and Bojinka..which of course was not a hijacking/kamikaze plot but an explosives plot. I have to think that given the year this occurred, that Bin Laden must have been inspired by what was clearly a Muslim intentionally crashing a plane while reciting all of the religious phrases that were uttered. I do think that this was where the plot began.
This was another deliberate act by a muslim which the LA Times and a democrat aministration tried to pass off as just "workplace violence."
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – A black lawmaker didn't break any legislative rules when writing an email referring to a white constituent's ancestors as incestuous slave owners, the Alabama House leader said Tuesday.
Republican House Speaker Mike Hubbard of Auburn said Thursday that neither he nor most other legislators share the views that Democratic Rep. Joseph Mitchell of Mobile expressed in the email to a Jefferson County man. He said the response from most legislators was, "I can't believe he would put out something like that."
But Hubbard said Mitchell has free speech rights.
"There is nothing in our rules that prevents someone from sending an email that has his personal opinions in it," Hubbard said.
Like the Republican leader, Mitchell's fellow Democrats quickly distanced themselves from the 19-year veteran of the Legislature.
Mitchell and many other members of the Legislature got an email from Eddie Maxwell of Jefferson County asking them not to pass gun control laws and saying that he would consider any legislation a violation of the state's constitution.
Mitchell sent back an email, referring to the man's "slave-holding, murdering, adulterous, baby-raping, incestuous … kin folk."
Mitchell has missed much of this year's legislative session due to illness, but he confirmed the email. "That does sounds like me," he said in an interview.
Maxwell replied that this was not the kind of response he expected from a legislator. "I'm not a racist and I find your reply to be especially offensive concerning the position you hold," he wrote.
Mitchell said he was trying to explain that someone who was descended from slaves and was disenfranchised by racial language in the state's 112-year-old constitution might have a different view of the document than someone else.
The email exchange attracted attention because many legislators were on the distribution list.
State Republican Party Chairman Bill Armistead, a former legislator, said, "There is no place in civil discourse for phrases such as the ones used by Rep. Mitchell."
House Democratic leader Craig Ford of Gadsden said, "I assure you that Joseph Mitchell does not speak for Democrats or anyone else other than himself."
Bradley Davidson, executive director of the Alabama Democratic Party, issued a statement calling the remarks "inflammatory" and said Mitchell "stands alone in this matter."
Mitchell was one of the Democratic legislators who survived the 2010 election, when Republicans won more than 60 percent of the seats in the Legislature and ended 136 years of Democratic control.
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The contracts with two prospective occupants are in the closing stages of being signed off as the lawyers fine-tune the small-print, with the space-takers set to be formally announced in the next couple of weeks.
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Billionaire Twitter founder Jack Dorsey celebrated New Year's Eve on a yacht off the coast of St Barts with his supermodel girlfriend, Lily Cole. Billionaire Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich saw in 2013 by throwing a £5m party on the same Caribbean island, flying in Kings of Leon to entertain 400 of his closest friends.
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I'm a terrible planner. I'm more of a fly by the seat of my pants type of person.
This doesn't always bode well for me. And causes a lot of undue stress on myself and yes, those close to me, I'm sure. Procrastination at its best.
But here's the thing. I'm just not good at planning. I wasn't raised by planners either. I grew up in a house where my parents were packing at midnight and doing loads of laundry for a trip leaving at 7am the next morning.
Spontaneity was typical. We'd wake up on a Saturday and dad would say, "Hey, who wants to go to Disneyland? (or the beach, or to San Diego, or the mountains)" And it wasn't a ploy to surprise us. It was indeed spontaneous. More than once, we'd head to Dodger stadium for a game without tickets only to find out it was sold out and dad would get tickets from a scalper. (This was in the dark ages before craig's list).
So, I don't know what kind of hope there is for me becoming a planner. I do a lot of planning in my head though. Lists in my brain of what I want/need to do. And even though I'm doing so much last minute. With the help of friends and loved ones, quite often. It all works out in the end.
I keep things flexible. So, if one thing doesn't work out according to the ideas I have in my head, I'll do something else. I roll with the punches. And this works in my favor too. I don't get caught up in the details. So if it doesn't work out the way I thought, I don't lose my head. No, that's not me. I have dear friends like that though, and god bless them.
So, the point of all this… I have a LOT to do tomorrow!!! ACK!
What are your planning tricks and tips? What works for you? I'd like to pass on better planning skills to my kids. What do you think?
**I'm doing the Holidailies blogging every day in December. Wish me luck!
You DO have lots to do for tomorrow.
So get to it!
I was reading this, thinking, it's so not me, then I read this "So if it doesn't work out the way I thought, I don't lose my head. No, that's not me. I have dear friends like that though, and god bless them." Thanks for the shout out, LOL!
Maybe start by having the girls keep track of the big stuff or get a family calendar.
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Matt Lassen, a student in JMU's graduate Physician Assistant Studies program, looks on during "Ask a PA Night" at Our Community Place in Harrisonburg.
"Who thinks tobacco is a problem?"
Almost everyone listening to the "Ask a PA Night" presentation at Our Community Place in Harrisonburg raises a hand.
Jason Wilson, a physician assistant at Shenandoah Valley Surgical Associates, nods with a knowing smile and continues his presentation on tobacco use, as more than half of the audience floats in and out of the room to take post-dinner smoke breaks.
Throughout the presentation, Wilson touches on many issues related to smoking including health problems, "healthy" cigarettes, smokeless cigarettes and, most importantly, ways to quit. He stops frequently to answer questions from his attentive audience and several people admit they have tried to quit multiple times, but ultimately failed.
Wilson, a former smoker himself, encourages them. "After numerous tries, anyone can stop. I'm a testament to that," he says.
The idea for the event came from two students in JMU's graduate Physician Assistant Studies program, Matt Lassen and Shay Fedewa. During the event, two PA students and one local, practicing PA present to the people who have dinner at OCP. Following the presentation, there's a question-and-answer session, during which the audience members can ask any health-related questions they may have.
Lassen and Fedewa also place a box inside OCP for community members to submit questions throughout the month. Before the event, the students look at the questions and include their answers in the presentation.
PAs work as part of a team with doctors. As licensed health care professionals, they can conduct physical exams, diagnose and treat common illnesses, order and interpret tests, prescribe medications, counsel on preventive care and even assist with surgery.
'Many individuals forgo health care because they either can't afford it or don't know where to go.'
Lassen first thought about creating an outreach program after attending a leadership symposium in Washington, D.C., this past summer. The four-day symposium is for recipients of the prestigious Paul Ambrose Scholars Program. During the symposium, Lassen and 45 other pre-professional health students visited community health clinics in D.C. He says the experience "gives you a different perspective of health care and the population. They really need to be served."
After the symposium, Lassen came back to JMU with the goal of creating a community-based health education program. He and Fedewa chose Our Community Place for their outreach efforts after their health sciences instructor, Sharon Maiewski, mentioned it in class.
Maiewski has been volunteering at OCP for years and knew that the faith-based community center would be excited to collaborate with JMU.
"We care about the whole person," says Philip Fisher Rhodes, executive director of OCP. "We want people who are spiritually and physically healthy."
During her volunteer experience, Maiewski had seen first-hand the difficulty that many people have with accessing affordable health care because most people don't think about their health until it is too late and have to go to the emergency room.
"The people in the community who have the least amount of ready resources to pay for something, end up going to the most expensive place there is to get care," Maiewski said.
This issue inspired the students to focus their first event, which took place in October, around health care knowledge in the community.
"Many individuals forgo health care because they either can't afford it or don't know where to go," Fedewa said. "By providing the community information on affordable alternatives, they will be able to take advantage of preventative care services as well as improve their overall health."
The students hope to continue these monthly events and eventually let future classes of PA students take over.
Lassen says visiting community health clinics in Washington, D.C., convinced him of the value of creating an outreach program in the Harrisonburg area.
"It's a great way to utilize the medical knowledge I have learned so far and have an opportunity to apply it," Fedewa said. "During the sessions you are on the spot being asked questions, and have to be quick on your feet with a response."
Maiewski believes that leading these events comes naturally to most PA students because of their desire to work with and educate the public. This aspect of the profession is what drew Lessen to JMU in the first place. After working as a researcher at SRI International in Harrisonburg for two years, he left with the hope of becoming involved with the "human element" of medicine. He chose the PA program because he knew he would be able to complete his degree and be out in the field in only two years.
"I think that their hearts are more about having an effect sooner," Maiewski says.
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