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Bellevue (Nebraska)
Bellevue[3], is a small town in Sarpy County, Nebraska, just south of Omaha and west of the Missouri river. It is the oldest town in Nebraska and the oldest town west of the Missouri river. It is known for being the historical home to Strategic Air Command and, today, US Strategic Command.
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The primary north-south arteries are Highway 75 (the Kennedy Freeway) and Fort Crook Road. Both roads link to Interstate 80 north of Bellevue in South Omaha. Highway 370 and Cornhusker Road are major east-west arterials. Interstate 29, in Iowa, can be reached by following Highway 370 through Olde Towne Bellevue and crossing the Missouri River.
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There are three main roads that will lead you around Bellevue. The oldest being Mission Ave. This will take you through Bellevue's historic Olde Towne area. Cornhusker Road will take you through one of the newer parts of town, Wolf Creek. Highway 370 will take you past the Twin Creek area.
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Head north to Omaha and check the booming riverfront area or head south to Lincoln and catch a Huskers game.

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Q: Do I have to take my koi and goldfish out of my water garden for the winter? – Barbara of Massachusetts
A: No you don't actually. They are many water garden owners who leave their koi and goldfish in their water garden throughout the winter season with no issues whatsoever. There are really only two things that you need to do to make sure your water garden is fit to allow fish to winter over:
Does your water garden have a depth of at least 18″?:
This is very important. There are places in the US alone where water freezing depths can easily be around 18″ to 24″. I suggest a minimum of 18″ of depth to be safe, but I am more inclined to recommend 24″ just to be double safe. We want to make sure our fish friends don't become icicles. In either instance, it's also extremely important to make sure we keep a hole open in the ice during these cold times, which leads me to the second thing.
Keeping an open hole in the ice during the winter:
During the winter, when the ice forms a solid layer across on the surface of your water garden, there are toxic gases, caused by decaying vegetation or organics, that can build up underneath the ice. This build up can become so toxic underneath the ice that it can kill all of the fish in the water garden. The best thing to do in this situation is to keep a hole open in the ice to allow for these gases to escape. This is actually very easy to accomplish. Using a pond heater/de-icer, such as a Pond Saucer or ThermoPond, is a great way to keep a hole open in the ice. Another way to keep a hole open in the ice would be to use a small bubbler aerator. These will not only keep a hole open in the ice, but will also add oxygen as well! Bubbler aerators can be used all year to keep oxygen levels high.
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Lets see, this season and last:
Ben multiple times
Troy multiple times
Harrison multiple times
Smith - pretty much missed his final season due to injuries
Those are not in any particular order, and I am sure I am missing a few. And, if you look at the names, for the most part, they are key players. I look at a team like Baltimore, or the Packers, etc. and there QB's play season after season with nary an injury. I understand our O-lin is always in flux, but common' they had had years to figure that out. It is amazing Ben's stats are what they are.
So, with all of that in mind, are the Steelers injury stats that far out of line with other teams? It seems to me they are. Does the league keep official injury stats? My wife and I always kid about who will get hurt this game. And sure enough, week in and week out, somebody gets injured.
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Governor Mark Dayton Signs Health Exchange Bill
ST. PAUL (AP) - Minnesotans will be able to buy health insurance online through a state-based marketplace called MNsure, starting in 2014.
Gov. Mark Dayton signed a bill Wednesday creating that health insurance exchange. Dayton says it's a major step in making health care better and more affordable.
It's a key part of implementing President Barack Obama's federal health care law. About 1.3 million Minnesotans are expected to get coverage through MNsure, including 300,000 who currently don't have health insurance.
House lawmakers passed the legislation last week, with all but one Democrat supporting it and Republicans opposed. The Senate passed the bill Monday on a straight party-line vote.
The marketplace will be run by a seven-member board, including Health and Human Services Commissioner Lucinda Jesson. Dayton has until April 30 to appoint the others.


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Italian GP 2012
Saturday Team Quotes
Red Bull-Renault
Sebastian Vettel (6th, 1:24.802):"I'm pretty happy with the result; my last lap should have been a bit quicker, but whether it would have made a difference or not is hard to say. If you look from us to the front, the gaps are too big. All weekend we were not quick enough, so P6 is a very good place to be. Let's see what we can do in the race, I think the pace tomorrow should be better."
Mark Webber (11th, 1:24.809):"It's pretty much what we expected today. Seb and I were on the bubble there; it was very close between us there's only a tenth here and there and I'm out. No massive surprises. I'm eleventh, so we can have a bit of a choice on what we can do tonight, but I'd rather be further up the grid. We've got a bit of a slog tomorrow; but it's Monza so never say never."
Christian Horner, Sporting Director:"It was a difficult qualifying for us today; we knew going in to this session that it was going to be tough. We made it through Q1 without any pressure after Hulkenberg stopped early on. Unfortunately Mark missed the cut at the end of Q2 by the smallest of margins. Sebastian delivered a very good lap in Q3, to line up in sixth, which will become fifth for the starting grid tomorrow (due to Di Resta's penalty). Hopefully our race pace will be stronger than we've shown today and we can take the fight to the cars ahead of us. It's a fairly unique track."
Cyril Dumont, Renault:"Again this weekend we would like to be a bit further ahead on the grid but we haven't succeeded to do that. I would like to apologise to Sebastian, as we had an issue in FP3 during his last run. We had an alternator failure, which meant he wasn't able to do a run on the option tyres. We have to investigate exactly where the issue is coming from, as this was a later spec of alternator compared to when we had this issue in Valencia. We have to analyse all the data to understand. Looking at our pace in FP2, it's encouraging for the race tomorrow."
Lewis Hamilton (1st, 1:24.010):"This is a fabulous day for the whole team they've done a fantastic job to get our car into this position, so I want to say a huge thanks to them. The whole Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team deserves this result. It's going to be a fast, tough race tomorrow. Jenson and the Ferraris are very quick, but we've got a good car and a good set-up, and we're in the best possible position to score maximum points tomorrow. This is a beautiful track; it's so fast that you really need to respect it. Monza has such great history too, and, at some stage, I'd love to become part of that history. For the moment, though, I'm just looking for a strong, consistent race tomorrow, because I need to score some good points. Finally, I just want to pass on my best wishes and congratulations to my friend Alex Zanardi. Alex is not only one of the most courageous men I know, but he's also one of the nicest, and his gold medal successes at the Paralympics over the past few days have been incredibly inspiring."
Jenson Button (2nd, 1:24.133):"It's been a really good day for us. Congratulations to Lewis and the whole team they've done a fabulous job to get us in this position and we've got to build on that tomorrow. Happily, we're in the best position possible: the past few races have really shown the strength of our car.We didn't consider trying to tow each other around as some of the others did it's a difficult thing to get right and if you get it wrong you end up being compromised elsewhere around the lap. I don't think tomorrow's race will be all about the start you want to get a good run into Turn One, admittedly, but if you try to plan something too ambitious, it often doesn't work. There haven't been any first-corner incidents at the front of the grid for the last couple of years here, so Lewis and I will just be focusing on getting our two cars out of the first corner in front of all the others."
Martin Whitmarsh, Team Principal:"I'm extremely proud of the entire Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team, all of whose members have worked incredibly hard to develop our car so well over the year. Today's front-row lock-out is an appropriate reward for all their efforts. In fact, I'm told that we now hold the record for the highest number of front-row lock-outs in Formula 1 history, which is quite an achievement. So I want to say a big 'well done' not only to the men and women who have worked so hard to make our car quick here today, but also to the men and women who have worked equally hard, going back through 46 long years, ever since McLaren first entered a world championship grand prix in 1966. But tomorrow is what counts, and I'm glad to say that we got quite a lot of race prep work done yesterday, so we're hoping to be in pretty good shape for the race. Returning to today, though, both Lewis and Jenson drove immaculately, capitalising on our car's impressive pace in sectors one and two, and optimising its capabilities also in sector three, where it was slightly less competitive relative to our opposition. Doing that may have looked easy for them, but it wasn'. In fact they both had to keep their nerve towards the end of their fastest laps. Well done, boys. Tomorrow's race will be fast and hard, too. Bring it on!"
Felipe Massa (3rd, 1:24.247):"I am very happy with this qualifying, the best in a long time for me. This is a very important race for Ferrari and I will do my best to get a good result. I feel sorry for Fernando, as he had been very strong all weekend: we both have a good car and I'm sure that tomorrow we will be able to bring home a good points haul for the championship. We have a chance of beating McLaren, even if they are very strong. For me, getting back on the podium, here in front of our fans, would be wonderful! It's my second home race and racing here is always a fantastic feeling. We tried to make as much use as possible of the slipstream, which requires a lot of concentration, but it's true that in the end, I got my best time when I had no one in front of me."
Fernando Alonso (10th, 1:25.678):"I think I could have got pole today, but instead I find myself tenth. A real shame, because the car was very strong, but these things happen. It's maybe fifteen years that something like this has happened, but it has and there's no point in crying over it. The problem will be fixed for tomorrow, but of course this result changes everything as far as the race is concerned: we had the chance to increase our lead over our closest rivals, but now, it's likely that at least some of them will make up ground on me. I don't think the failures we've had over the past couple of days can be linked to a speeding up of the development on the car, because they have not involved components on which we are pushing to extremes. Tomorrow, we will try and pick up as many points as possible, maybe getting ahead of some of my direct competitors. We have to accept that problems like these can occur even if, when it does happen, the first reaction is disappointment. Having said that, it's a case of better Saturday than Sunday, because then, you have no chance of remedying the situation! Risks starting in the middle of the pack? Given how the points table looks, it's more a case of the others having to worry about coming away with another no score"
Stefano Domenicali, Team Principal:"What happened to Fernando this afternoon is a real shame, because today we could have gifted pole position to the fantastic Monza crowd. Felipe drove a great qualifying and we are very happy that he is finally back fighting for the top places on Saturday too. All the signs were there for a nice afternoon, but if you don't have 100% reliability, then you pay a high price and today that was confirmed yet again. First of all, we need to understand what happened to the back end of Fernando's car, but above all, we must immediately put behind us the disappointment we are feeling right now and prepare as well as possible for a race that looks like being very tough, from every perspective. 53 laps of Monza is a lot and everything can still happen. I remain convinced that we can still bring home a strong result in terms of the two championships, but clearly, if everything had gone smoothly today, we would have a much stronger chance."
Pat Fry:"We are very disappointed with what happened to Fernando's car this afternoon. A problem with the rear anti-roll bar was spotted at the start of Q3 and cost the Spaniard dear, as he never really managed to put together a proper timed lap. A shame, because Felipe's third place, a few tenths off pole, showed that we had all the potential to aspire to a great result in front of our home crowd: the Brazilian drove an excellent qualifying and deserves this result. We need to look into exactly what happened, but clearly, problems like these cannot occur if one wants to fight for the targets we have set ourselves. Fernando will face an uphill battle tomorrow, while Felipe will be able to exploit his grid position to go on the attack. Tyre performance will, as usual, be very important, especially as at this track the best strategy seems pretty clear. Obviously the priority is reliability and this weekend, we have already paid a high price on that front and we cannot afford to have further problems."
Mercedes GP
Michael Schumacher (5th, 1:24.540):"I think we can be satisfied with our qualifying performance as we have performed consistently all weekend. Our car clearly suits this circuit more than at the last races, but we've had a couple of hiccups along the way in practice. Our guys back at the factory and here at the track did a good job to sort out the problems and compliments to them. Solid points should be a realistic target for tomorrow. The fact that I will start from fourth is another small positive point, because here the even numbers on the grid are probably the better start positions."
Nico Rosberg (7th, 1:24.833):"Starting from sixth place here in Monza is a decent result from a tricky qualifying session today. I wasn't happy with the balance of my car by Q3 and, although it started well, I then lost the right balance so I couldn't improve my time. I'm looking forward to the race tomorrow and I hope we can gain some positions."
Ross Brawn, Team Principal:"It was a pretty solid qualifying session for the team this afternoon. The key to the session was using the tyres in the correct way and getting them at their best for the timed laps. We could perhaps have squeezed a little more out of our package today in terms of pure performance, but our positions are close to our maximum at this circuit. Yesterday's race preparation was, for the first time in a number of races, untroubled by poor weather so we were able to achieve a lot of good work on various fuel loads. Now, we will see how that translates into tomorrow's race."
Norbert Haug, Mercedes Motorsport Director:"Fifth for Michael and seventh for Nico are better qualifying results than we had in the last two races and this should be a decent basis for the race tomorrow. Five Mercedes-powered cars in the top seven places of the qualifying ranking is a good result for our engine today."
Kimi Raikkonen (8th, 1:24.855):"We didn't have the speed today but at least we are in the top ten. We've been in more or less the same position all weekend so today's pace was not a big surprise. It's a long race and usually we are a bit stronger in race conditions. It is possible to overtake here so let's see what happens tomorrow."
Jerome d'Ambrosio (16th, 1:25.408):"I have mixed feelings really to be honest. I progressed through to Q2 but it's frustrating not to have done a bit better as I'm really close in the second and third sectors but I've struggling a bit in the first since yesterday. About 60-70% of the difference to Kimi is lost there, so there's a lot of time to be found in just two corners ; we need to work on that for tomorrow. There's a lot to take in for me this weekend so it's not too bad, but I would have liked a bit more."p>Alan Permane, Chief Race Engineer:"P6 was our target ; we missed it by half a tenth. We're a little disappointed with where we are on the grid for tomorrow's race, as P6 was our target with Kimi's car and we missed that by just half a tenth. Kimi had Fernando [Alonso] ahead of his for his last run, which should have given him a nice tow. Unfortunately though, Fernando was not fast on that lap and we were too close to him in the Ascari chicane which cost about a tenth and a half. That's qualifying sometimes. We're confident that with the amount of downforce we have on the car we can have a strong race. Our tyre degradation is generally less than some of our rivals so that should assist us too. We're pretty confident we can put in a decent performance and score some good points. It's been a steep learning curve for him and he's done a good job. It's going to be a difficult race for him tomorrow with the low downforce specification on the car, especially pushing through the chicanes in this configuration. We hope that his progressive improvement over the weekend so far will continue through the race, as anything can happen tomorrow. Both compounds are very close together. The medium slightly had the edge for qualifying today, yet it also showed pretty low degradation when we used it for long runs on Friday."
Force India-Mercedes
Paul di Resta (4th, 1:24.304):Paul: "The car has been working well all weekend so I knew we were in good shape going into qualifying. We were in the top five of free practice and the car has got better and better with each run as the track evolved. I'm very happy with my Q3 lap, which was my quickest lap so far so we maximised it when it mattered. I think the entire team has done an excellent job to get us in this position we've trusted our instincts and just worked away at dialling the car into the track. I knew I was going to have a grid penalty for the gearbox change, which is frustrating, but at least I will start inside the top ten. The challenge now is to make sure we have the race pace and use the strategy to come away with points."
Nico Hulkenberg (24th, No Time):"A very short and disappointing session for me. I was about to start my first timed lap in Q1 when I suddenly lost drive. I pulled over at the first chicane and the team told me to switch off the car. It's a shame this happened on a day when the car looks so competitive, but that's racing. Starting so far back tomorrow will be tough, but I will try and push through so that we can hopefully come away with something from the race."
Dr. Vijay Mallya, Team Principal:"We had a very competitive car today and Paul delivered an excellent performance to set the fourth fastest time in Q3 it was his quickest lap of the weekend and his best ever qualifying performance. It's just unfortunate that he will take a five-place penalty for the gearbox change. Even so, he will be in the mix tomorrow and will be strong in the race. The big disappointment of the session was the technical fault on Nico's car, which we believe to be related to fuel pressure. Without this issue I'm confident we would have had both cars well inside the top ten. The task now is to come away from here with points to strengthen our position in the championship."
Kamui Kobayashi (9th, 1:25.109):"Well we don't have the same pace here as we did last week in Spa, which made it a tough qualifying. Having said this, I am happy to have reached the first target which was to get through to Q3. Friday was pretty difficult because a mechanical problem prevented me from doing the mileage I would have wanted, and this is also why I cannot really make any predictions on how the race will go. I lack the experience of proper long runs. After the third free practice session this morning we changed the car's settings quite a lot and this paid off in qualifying, I got confidence in the car back. My lap time in Q2 was really good - half a second quicker than in Q3 - and to me this was the maximum possible. However, it was a shame I didn't manage to improve on my second lap during the final attempt. I want to get a strong race result tomorrow."
Sergio Perez (13th, 1:24.901):"We knew it would be tight to make it into the top ten today, but I was fighting hard. We have improved the car quite a lot since Friday, but we are clearly not as quick here as we were in Belgium. On my last attempt in Q2 unfortunately I was driving too close behind Bruno Senna and could not improve my lap time. I lost two tenths of a second in the first sector. I didn't want to back off to make a bigger gap because I didn't want to compromise the warm up of my tyres. The tyre compounds here are quite similar and we don't expect high degradation, but in the end, given the high temperatures, you never really know. I am very optimistic about scoring good points here in tomorrow's race."
Monisha Kaltenborn, CEO:"We are quite happy with the qualifying result, because we knew the Monza track characteristics would be challenging for our car. However, we are in a good starting position and are looking forward to a strong race."
Giampaolo Dall'Ara, Head of Track Engineering:"In the morning we had to make up some ground which we lost yesterday. We found some good directions for the car. In qualifying we made it quite easiliy through Q1,and then it was really down to the drivers. Our performance was very close to some other competitors, so it was really a matter of fractions to be in or out of the top ten and so be further up or back down the grid. I'm confident we can have a good race from these positions."
Toro Rosso-Ferrari
Daniel Ricciardo (15th, 1:25.312):"This was a so-so qualifying. When you are fifteenth, you always think you could do a bit better. However, realistically, I don't think we could have got to Q3 today, so we have to settle for this as Senna is around three tenths in front and even putting my best sector times together, I don't believe it would have been good enough to match that. It's some consolation not being right at the back of the Q2 section and now there's the race to look forward to. It's not been a bad day and with the set-up we have chosen I think we could be in a strong position to overtake other cars tomorrow. With a good race pace and two DRS zones, it should make for an interesting afternoon. The first corner here is always a bit of a lottery and from this part of the grid I might be able to profit from any delays to those at the front."
Jean-Eric Vergne (17th, 1:25.441):"Honestly, I have not felt comfortable in the car most of the weekend as we never really found the best set-up. Actually, qualifying was the best of all the sessions so far. On top of that, I am to blame for a small mistake on my quick lap which cost me about two tenths, after I went over a bump just as I was changing gear. On the plus side, we have made a good step forward with the car since yesterday, which maybe does not show in the times as they are all so close."
Laurent Mekies, Chief Engineer:"After analysing all the data last night and making changes to the car, in absolute terms, we made a step forward today. On Friday we were not happy with car balance and made progress in that area, so that both Daniel and Jev were a bit happier with the car today. Although the performance did improve, it was not enough to get further up the order than fifteenth place, in what was a very evenly matched session. We did our homework regarding race preparation on Friday, so hopefully we can pick up a bit more pace tomorrow and combined with the fact the STR7 seems to show good top speed, that should allow us to enjoy some good battle out on track."
Pastor Maldonado (12th, 1:24.820):"It wasn't the best day for our car today as we were struggling a bit for pace and then in the last Q2 lap I didn't quite put everything together. Everything is so close here though and it will be a tough race, but we've done a fair amount of testing on higher fuel so I'm looking forward to seeing what we can do."
Bruno Senna (14th, 1:25.042):"I think we are more competitive on the harder compound tyre because for some reason we didn't seem to pick up a lot of grip on the medium tyres, so we need to look into that further. We have the race pace and the track does allow for some overtaking so I think we could both have a chance of scoring points. It's very tight here at Monza but it's a long race. I'm looking forward to racing around this brilliant track."
Mark Gillan, Chief Operations Engineer:"After a decent third practice this morning we were hopeful of a reasonable qualifying session, but unfortunately we didn't quite have the pace to make it through into Q3, with Pastor and Bruno finishing in 12th and 14th respectively. Conditions tomorrow should be similar to todays and we need to attack hard in the race with our aim still to get the cars home in the points."
Heikki Kovalainen (18th, 1:26.382):"A pretty straightforward qualifying for me today. The car's felt well balanced all day and even though we were ahead of one of the Lotus cars after the first run we knew it would be difficult to push into Q2. On the second set of tyres I wasn't quite able to get the most out of them so I think the time today is probably as much as I could have got out of it. Despite that the performance here is again much better than Spa and we're back to the sort of levels we expect. Now we need to push on from here, learn as much as we can about what went wrong in Belgium and make sure we have a good race on Sunday and then carry this pace through into Singapore."
Vitaly Petrov (19th, 1:26.887):"I've been happy with the car today and it's good that we've made clear improvements from FP1 to FP3. In qualifying I couldn't quite push as hard as I'd like - the brakes felt good in FP3 but in quali I couldn't attack into the braking zones as hard as I was able to in third practice so maybe that's where we lost a bit of laptime. Still, tomorrow's another day and we'll do the best we can to have a good race after having got back some way towards where we should be."
Narain Karthikeyan (22nd, 1:27.441):"In all honesty today's qualifying session was average but the best thing was that the car performed better than in the morning. We improved our times but didn't manage to complete the perfect lap which is required at this circuit. We lacked a bit of maximum speed with the second set of tyres and I looked for some slipstream but it didn't work out and I wasn't able to put all three sectors together. That's how racing goes, sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't. Now we need to find the best strategy to gain some positions in tomorrow's race, but I'm confident because the car has a good pace and is consistent so, even though it's not easy to overtake, we will try until the end."
Pedro de la Rosa (23rd, 1:27.629):"We've had very good sensations since yesterday and the car performed even better today with the set-up changes we made. The performance was better with the first set of tyres, as we faced some problems with the second set, but I'm happy with the result we achieved. We need to continue with this good standard tomorrow and try to beat our main rivals in the race."
Toni Cuquerella, Technical Director: "Monza is a low downforce circuit where we expected to have a good pace that would enable us to close the gap to the front. And that was the case. In the morning we worked on adjusting the set-up and in qualifying we opted for a level of downforce and gear ratios looking ahead to tomorrow's race. Both Narain and Pedro performed well although neither improved their time with their second set of tyres. Monza is a circuit where the smallest of errors is very costly because the straights are very long. The data we have on the tyres makes us think that the most common strategy will be one-stop as it's not a very demanding circuit for the tyres."
Timo Glock (20th, 1:27.039):"In the morning we struggled a bit more than yesterday. The car balance was a little bit out and not the same as yesterday, but we tried some new stuff for qualifying and I was happy with the changes. In the first run I got a good tow because our downforce package is pretty efficient, but if you get a tow you gain quite a lot of top speed as well. On the second run, straight away I felt that the tyres were completely different in terms of traction and I wasn't able to get a tow. We were quite close to Petrov, so there is good reason to be positive, but the second set of tyres is normally quicker and the track is faster, so on that side it's a little frustrating. We need to analyse the data now and see what the problem is, so we can get the best out of the car tomorrow."
Charles Pic (21st, 1:27.073):"I think it was a good qualifying for me. I had some traffic on the first set of tyres, but things went better for me on the second set. We had to make a small change this morning which has perhaps cost us a little bit, but generally I'm happy with today and I think there is more to come tomorrow. We are closer to the cars ahead again, so another step - this time in qualifying, not just the race."
John Booth, Team Principal:"Today has provided another positive step towards tomorrow's race and this has seen us closing in on our objective of taking the fight to our immediate competitors in qualifying as well as in the race; we're closer again. Both drivers did a good job but they didn't have a straightforward time of it. Timo experienced problems with his second set of tyres and with Charles we have had to make a set-up change specifically to help the overall race performance. Nonetheless we're encouraged that things have gone better for us so far and that our usual trend of faring better in the race comes to fruition again tomorrow."


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According to Cult of Mac, Apple's retail stores are no longer selling slider cases for the iPhone 4 because of what's been referred to as "Glassgate" - the scratching and cracking of the iPhone 4's glass due to trapped dirt. Even cases that are part of Apple's "made for iPhone" program are reportedly being pulled.
Glassgate may or not be real, but it looks like Apple is trying to find out. A source in the case industry has confirmed that Apple is suspending the sale of all slider cases and testing them one by one in a secret facility.
Apple is investigating whether the constant action of sliding cases on and off the glass-backed iPhone can cause scratches and eventually cracks, said the source. The iPhone 4′s back is not made from the same toughened Corning Gorilla Glass used on the front. The Glassgate issue is not affected by snap-on cases, our source said.
This is huge for slider case makers - a huge hit to their bottom line, that is. Even though making the cases is cheap, makers must invest $250,000 for the molds. Many companies have ordered big production runs in anticipation of selling them at Apple Stores, but now they're left with a bunch of cases and nowhere to sell them. For example, Mophie is rumored to have ordered over 100,000 Juice Pack Airs for iPhone 4.
Not all case makers are buying into the hype. CEO of Hard Candy Cases, Tim Hickman, is not convinced that Glassgate is a real problem, but a perception problem. (Hard Candy Cases are not sold in Apple stores, so this ban does not affect his sales).
I've shipped 22,000 units and not heard a single complaint. If there was a problem, we would have heard about it by now. I'm very suspect that there's a real issue there.
It'll be interesting to see how this unfolds. Will Apple determine that Glassgate is real and permanently ban the sale of slider cases from their stores?
Have you experienced Glassgate to be a real problem? Or do you have a slider case that is working perfectly with your iPhone 4? If you're a slider-case user, are you discontinuing the use of that case until Apple reaches a verdict?


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Feature: deceptive appearances – engineering cartilage
The tiny area of uncertainty that is inevitably left by circumstantial evidence – however compelling – poses a dilemma for scientists, as well as juries. At Guy's Hospital in London, Dr Eileen Gentleman believes the gap between what has been proven as certain and what has to be inferred from contextual clues has been hampering progress in the field of tissue engineering.
For the past 15 years, researchers have been growing bone and cartilage in the laboratory. Biological texts show that these lab-grown tissues have the appearance, texture, and protein and mineral components of bone and cartilage. But once they are tested in an animal, these tissues simply don't behave quite like the natural tissues they are supposed to replicate.
"When I got into this field, I saw paper after paper in which people described putting cells in a material like a polymer, creating a tissue that resembles cartilage, and testing it in an animal," says Dr Gentleman. "The results are OK, but they've never been good enough to take forward to clinical trials with people."
She believes the missing part of the equation is an engineering perspective. "Joints are remarkable feats of engineering, but efforts to grow them in the lab have focused mostly on their biology."
Cartilage and osteoarthritis
That means that so far, aside from joint replacement, there is still limited help for the 10m or so people in the UK estimated to suffer from osteoarthritis. This painful, crippling disease is an extremely complex one involving many different processes and is still poorly understood, although there's a general consensus that it seems to start with some sort of damage or tear to the cartilage.
Cartilage is the rubbery, slippery tissue that cushions the ends of bones in our joints, absorbing shock and allowing them to slide comfortably against each other. It consists of layers of tissue with distinctly different compositions and structures, which become harder and more calcified towards the surface.
The different layers merge seamlessly with each other and eventually transition equally seamlessly into the bone at the surface, forming a fully integrated 'osteochondrial interface' of bone and cartilage. However, unlike bone (which is full of blood vessels and hence very good at self-repair), cartilage contains almost no blood vessels – and no blood cells to help it heal.
Instead, once cartilage is torn, it starts to degrade over many years. That process is compounded by inflammation and aggravation to the surrounding tissue, eventually leading to the extremely painful degeneration of the whole joint – including the underlying bone.
Current surgical interventions can't stop that degenerative process, although they bring patients some short-term relief from pain. One involves scraping pieces of torn cartilage from the joint and poking the bone underneath to break it slightly (a technique called microfracture) so blood can come up through the bone and attempt to heal the area.
The tissue that then forms isn't normal cartilage, however. "You get something called fibrocartilage, which doesn't function like natural cartilage. It's not the nice, soft, slick stuff that you should have cushioning your joint."
The alternative technique, mosaicplasty, involves punching a little plug of cartilage and bone from a part of the joint that's not load-bearing or obviously diseased and using it to 'fill in' the lesion in the load-bearing part.
However, says Dr Gentleman, "When you have osteoarthritis in your knee, it's not just in that one part, it's in the whole knee. So the plug might look healthy or less worn down, but the cells in it are probably being exposed to all this inflammation, so they might well be diseased too."
Hence the goal of tissue engineers: to create plugs of healthy bone and cartilage in the laboratory that will function like the 'real' cartilage in human joints. This would mean they could prevent the degenerative process before it develops into osteoarthritis, and repair and restore the joint.
It looks like a duck
Dr Gentleman – who is also a Senior Research Fellow at King's College London – has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship to take up the gauntlet. Her background is in biomedical engineering, and she now plans to add the methods and perspectives of engineering to those of biology.
Biologists attempting to create cartilage and bone over the past 15 years have typically tested the mechanical properties of their laboratory-grown tissue – for example, whether it is rubbery and resilient enough when pressure is applied. "Obviously the cartilage-bone has to support load and body. That's its function. So you have to make sure that it's hard enough to do that."
They have also used gene-expression analysis and histological stains to look for important constituents of the material, such as calcium in bone and type II collagen in cartilage. "You put a slice of the tissue on a slide under a microscope and add a dye that binds to calcium or one that binds to type II collagen.
"If the stains show that the right proteins, minerals and other components are present – and the material has the right mechanical properties – that's how you demonstrate that you've done tissue engineering."
Herein lies the tissue engineering equivalent of the smoking gun scenario. "Just because biological tests indicate a tissue looks like bone and feels like bone, doesn't actually mean it is bone," says Dr Gentleman. "Lots of forms of mineral contain calcium, but they're not all bone."
This is where an engineering perspective becomes important. To look at how close a match these laboratory-generated tissues really are to native bone and cartilage, Dr Gentleman and her colleagues supplemented the biological analyses with engineering tests, such as bio-Raman microspectroscopy.
"You shine a laser on the material, and the way the light scatters gives you an idea of the bonds between its components. Different mineral types form different bonds, so you get a much more precise picture of what is actually present."
The engineering tests revealed differences between the composition of the engineered tissues and that of normal bone that were not previously visible.
Is it a duck?
If a lab-grown tissue seems from some tests to be the real thing but isn't really, then it won't behave like it once it has been implanted in a human body.
Bone cells in the body carry out many biological and structural functions. They degrade and resorb, maintain tissue metabolism, exchange nutrients and waste, build the extracellular matrix, mineralize and contain, synthesize, transport, and secrete.
Engineered bone and cartilage able to regenerate the joints of living people must generate cells that will carry out these myriad, highly specialized functions in precisely the same way they do in native tissue. They must also merge seamlessly with each other to create the integrated 'osteochondrial interface' of bone and cartilage that is so crucial to pain-free, fully functioning joints.
That's a larger-scale engineering challenge that is made harder by the fact that cartilage doesn't repair itself: "Even if you do create something in the lab that has exactly the same components as cartilage, how do you then get it into the lesion in the joint and get it to heal in there and integrate with the normal cartilage and bone?"
To get past that hurdle, many studies have attempted to make layered constructs, such as cell-seeded scaffolds. "People have tended to take some cells, stick them to a biocompatible material or scaffold, then put that structure in the joint and hope some magic will happen.
"But as any engineer will tell you, if you just glue two pieces together, as soon as you put a shearing force on it they peel apart. The only thing holding them together is whatever glue you used. So with all these sliding forces in the joint, it is probably not what you want to do."
A whole interface
With her Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship, therefore, Dr Gentleman aims to be a lot more thorough in the laboratory than she believes people have been to date, before pushing forward with animal studies.
Her aim is to use an engineering approach to create a whole osteochondral interface in which bone and cartilage transition seamlessly into each other like they do in the body. "That's the only way it will effectively transmit loads to the underlying bone. And because bone will heal, it will heal the construct into the joint."
At the same time, she plans to take inspiration from biology to enhance the engineering techniques by mimicking what the body does in a developing embryo. "We'll use the human stem cells that form the osteochondrial interface in the embryo and continue to live in your bone marrow when you are an adult.
"Stem cells take something that is essentially a whole lot of nothing and create the extracellular matrix – the part of your tissues outside the cells that gives them structural support – out of collagen, sugars, carbohydrates and minerals. The aim is to apply a stimulus to convince them that they're in the part of the body where they would make either cartilage or bone. Hopefully, that will encourage them to do so."
Dr Gentleman hopes this will produce constructs that are closer to the native tissue in their biology and their engineering than previous attempts have been: "It's not just a matter of getting the engineering right, as well as the biology. It's a matter of getting them both correct at the same time."
If she's successful, there is a better chance these constructs will function like the real thing in people's bodies, offering hope to the estimated 10m people in the UK who are affected by osteoarthritis.


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Study Restrictions for Internationals
Dallas is the main campus approved to enroll F-1 student visa and J-1 exchange students. If you are applying to come on a student F or J visa, you must study full-time and attend the Dallas campus. Study at the extension sites of San Antonio, Washington DC, Austin, and Atlanta is strictly prohibited by immigration law. Proof of status must be submitted to the International Student Office. Those who are in B-1 or B-2 status may not attend school full-time, as this would constitute a violation of their visitor visa status. If you are currently a non-immigrant worker residing in the U.S., you may apply to study at an extension campus only for non-degree or part-time purposes and if your study is incidental to your main purpose (your visa category) for being in the US.
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- photocopy of the identity page and the expiry date page (if different) of your passport.
- photocopy of current visa or receipt of status notification
- an approval letter from the body responsible for overseeing the main visa activity (e.g. employer) certifying that the visa activity is currently valid, and that non-degree, part-time, and short-term study at DTS would not interfere with the applicant's main visa purpose for employment.
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To comply with government regulations, you must register and complete at least 12 credit hours per semester (master's degrees), and 6 hours (doctoral degrees). Students who receive scholarships are required to complete a total of 30 credit hours per year. The Citizenship and Immigration Services receives regular notification of any student failing to maintain full-time status, and if there is no authorization from the International Student Office, the student is deemed out of legal status and liable for deportation.
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International students enrolled full-time are permitted to study at the Dallas main campus. For an international already living in the US on a non-student visa, they may be approved to study part-time, if the study is not conflictual with their full-time pursuit. For internationals living within the US and studying full-time, no more than the equivalent of one on-line/distance education class or 3 credits per semester, may be counted towards the ''full course of study'' requirement (pg. 76271, Final Reg. of Federal Register Vol. 67 No 238 (f)(6)(i)(G). If living overseas, internationals can enroll in as many online courses as DTS allows.


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A winner was selected from 317 designs submitted by 97 freelance designers.
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I'm a 29 year old male in San Diego, CA. I love to do adrenaline sports like motocross, streetbikes and skydiving. My company is action packed, running at 175 miles per hour and full of adrenaline. We are always looking for the next adrenaline high.
This is for 17-35 year old men and women who love action and adrenaline sports like skydiving, dirt bikes, street bikes, snowboarding, racing and stuff like that. They love things that are cool and new, crazy and edgie.
You are free to be creative! All I want is the letters "A" and "O" in the logo, everything else is up to you! It will be used for hats, t shirts and stickers. It must be unique! I want people to look at it and know thats Adrenaline Obsession's logo. I want it adrenaline filled, cool, new and exciting! If someone doesn't know what the logo is, i want them to thinks its so cool that they have to ask who it is. Remember someone jumping out of a plane at 12,500 feet wants to wear this logo or a guy who jumps 40ft jumps with his dirt bike wants to wear this logo.
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On Sunday, Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher said he was out of camp on personal business, not to get his sore left knee looked at by other doctors.
In a stunning coincidence of timing, Urlacher had surgery on that very same knee this morning, according to Brad Biggs of the Chicago Tribune.
Urlacher and the team have maintained he'll be ready for the Sept. 9 opener against the Colts, but with surgery 26 days from that point, his status is very much in the air.
During an interview Monday with WFLD Fox-32, Urlacher was asked if there was a surgery that he could have and still return quickly.
"I don't know," Urlacher said. "I am just going to keep resting right now. I have never had a scope. I don't know how that stuff works. This is the first time I have ever done anything to my knee so I am kind of new to this. I don't know. Honestly, I don't know how that works."
Urlacher's been limited all offseason, after spraining the MCL and PCL in his left knee in the Jan. 1 finale against the Vikings.
He practiced for a week early in camp, but when the knee swelled, the Bears decided to shut him down.
"I just think I did a lot of movements I hadn't done in a long time and being out there for 2 ½, three hours probably doesn't help, running around," Urlacher told Fox-32. "But it's practice. You gotta do it. I think just the shock of being out there so long and doing so many movements like that was too much for my knee.
"It is hard but there is a fine line between pushing it and easing into it, which is what I need to do. I just gotta get back out there for Sept. 9. Even if I just practice the week before, I'll be in good enough shape to make it through those games. But I gotta be out there when the games count."
Urlacher sounds like a guy in a bit of denial. He's 34 years old, and isn't going to be able to recover at the rate he did when he was younger.


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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Thunderstorms, lightning, snow, massive waves and generally odd weather were all being reported across California as yet another storm moved through the region during the last weekend of the year.
In Northern California, a combination of cold temperatures and the moisture being carried by the latest storm dropped snow Saturday on some mountains in the Bay Area, the National Weather Service reported.
Outside of San Jose, cameras at the Lick Observatory, on the summit of 4,200-foot high Mount Hamilton, showed snow falling Saturday afternoon.
Snow was also reported on other area mountains, including across the Santa Cruz mountains and on Mt. Diablo, said National Weather Service meteorologist Steve Anderson.
"Pretty much everywhere above 2,500 has seen a dusting today," Anderson said Saturday.
Along the coast, the weather service issued a high surf advisory from Sonoma County south to the Central California coast, and with waves up to 22 feet, forecasters were warning people to be careful walking along area beaches.
"If you"re at the beach, don"t go close to the water and don"t stand on edge of any cliffs," Anderson said.
The warning came after a man and boy fishing near the Golden Gate Bridge died Friday after being swept into the ocean by large waves.
The unstable air associated with Saturday"s storm also churned up thunderstorms, including one storm that produced a waterspout off the coast of California"s Big Sur area Saturday, Anderson said.
The waterspout was tracked by radar about 26 miles south of Carmel, but no damage or injuries were reported.
In Southern California, thunderstorms and lightning hit the region. A Delta Airlines passenger jet en route from Japan was struck by lightning as it approached Los Angeles International Airport. The plane landed without incident, an airport spokesman said.
Several lightning strikes were observed in West Los Angeles and Marina del Rey.
Also in Southern California, forecasters warned of potentially hazardous driving conditions on Interstate 5 through the Tejon Pass, about 70 miles north of Los Angeles, as light snow fell on the roadway.
In the Sierra Nevada, the ski resorts were off to a great start for the winter season after several snow feet of snow piled up from a series of earlier storms. Heavenly Mountain Ski resort near Lake Tahoe, reported on its website that nearly six feet of snow fell on the resort during the past week.


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Early staging dates for pension auto enrolment now available
Businesses now have the option to bring forward the staging date in which they will automatically enrol employees into a work place pension scheme.
Automatic enrolment is being phased in from October this year, when the largest firms will be the first to enrol all eligible employees. Smaller companies will gradually follow suit from this date, until it is compulsory for all firms to do so from 1 January 2016.
A company's automatic staging date is determined by the size of its PAYE scheme on the 1 April this year, with larger firms employing 120,000 or more employees auto-enrolling from 1 October 2012, and those with 50,000-119,999 employees doing so from 1 November 2012.
Acknowledging that staging dates may not always suit individual business needs, The Pension Regulator has allowed some flexibility by offering all employers the option to bring forward their staging date.
Those with a staging date of 1 October 2012 (120,000 or more employees) may now bring it forward to as early as 1 July, 1 August of 1 September 2012, while those with a staging date of 1 November 2012 (50,000-119,999 employees) being able to bring it forward to 1 July, 1 August, 1 September or 1 October 2012.
The Pension Regulator has also published guidance to the alternative staging dates available and how businesses may go about altering their date.
The Government hopes that up to 10 million people will be automatically enrolled through the scheme, either into a workplace pension scheme or the new state-backed NEST scheme, in a bid to encourage more workers to save towards a pension.
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This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2012, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
When I was younger, cartoons were comforting with roadrunners,daffy ducks and porky pigs, often accompanied by Rossini's overtures, Liszt's Les préludes, Brahms' Hungarian dances and Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" and Fifth Symphony.
Now, in this new age, many cartoons have built upon Beavis and Butt-Head's hard-rock fantasies to feature soundtracks that pummel the skull.
One of the most popular cartoons is the Adult Swim animated program "Metalocalypse," starring the fictional, virtual death-metal band Dethklok.
On the show, the virtual band performs songs such as "Bloodrocuted," "Castratikron," "I Tamper with the Evidence at the Murder Site of Odin" and, my favorite, "I Ejaculate Fire."
Adult Swim organized a promotional tour featuring Dethklok, series co-creator Brandon Small and a band hitting college campuses in late 2007. Since then, Dethklok has evolved into a living, breathing, internationally touring ensemble that headlines bills at arenas.
Even more, the band's music has become popular in the noncartoon-watching mainstream, with "Dethalbum III," released on Oct. 16, debuting at No. 10 on the Billboard album chart. The album, the band's third, contains music from the second, third and fourth seasons of the show.
The show has even attracted big names as voice talent, with Malcolm McDowell and "Star Wars" icon Mark Hamill portraying several characters in "Metalocalypse." "The first time I saw [Hamill], I was stunned to be in the same room with him," said Small. "My heart skipped a beat."
One of the keys to the show and band's success is that while some elements (such as the aforementioned song titles) poke fun at the genre of metal music with gallows humor, the program is also undeniably a celebration of hard rock, its culture and its rabid fans.
Small, who before the series was a stand-up comic and still continues that trade, insisted in a phone interview that the show is not intended as satire. Being able to tour as the leader of the real band Dethklok is "incredibly fun. … I had been playing guitar for a long time, but I had never toured."
Small's previous animated series, Adult Swim's "Home Movies," ended in 2004. After that demise, he and his musician friend Tommy Blacha were pitching new show ideas to the network when they decided to combine their love for metal with animation. "Metalocalypse" first aired in 2006, and now the show is developing its fifth season.
Many of the songs Dethklok performs are inspired by band such as Cannibal Corpse, Small said. The latter's song "I Cum Blood" influenced the amusingly aggressive Dethklok tune "I Ejaculate Fire," he said. "The quicker I write these songs, the better. Making a TV show is so much harder than [making a record]."
When you look at the lyrics to "I Ejaculate Fire," you can sense the fun Small is having:
I ejaculate fire!
A venomous fluid, cantankerous druid
It kills when I breed, with my death seed
Checkmate the world dies when I procreate
A fan of the show is singer Robb Flynn of Machine Head, which is opening for Dethklok, and just released a live album, "Machine F Head Live," on Nov. 13.
"I think [Dethklok] is awesome," Flynn said. "Their visuals are so funny and over-the-top. They push it. To me, Brandon Small has an incredible take on metal kids and things that crack them up."
In recent days, Machine Head has been embroiled in controversy as Walt Disney Properties has, for the second time, banned the band from appearing at venues on its property in California and Florida. The Dethklok tour is scheduled to, among other places, visit the House of Blues in Orlando and Anaheim, but Machine Head will not be allowed to perform on those dates.
In 2007, Walt Disney Properties banned the Oakland-based Machine Head from the House of Blues venues in Anaheim and Orlando, home to Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Machine Head was banned because of the band's "violent imagery" and "undesirable fans," according to Disney.
"They don't understand us," Flynn said. "It's 2012 in America." He said the band's fans have taken to social media to blast Disney for its decision.
The guitarist of another opening band, Mike Martin of All That Remains, has never seen "Metalocalypse," but was appreciative of being given the opportunity to tour with bands he respects, he said.
All That Remains, based in Massachusetts, released "A War You Cannot Win" on Nov. 6, the third album from the band that debuted in the top 20 on the Billboard album chart. "We wanted to make songs that people will remember," Martin said. The album was produced by Adam Dutkiewicz, a guitarist from another Massachusetts metal band, Killswitch Engage. The process went so swimmingly that Martin has moved into Dutkiewicz's house.
That story reminds me of another Dethklok song, "Happy Metal World Rainbow":
There was once a time
Where I longed for pretty things
But now that's changed
I long for murder
Wait a second. That's the wrong song. Sorry about that.
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Metal bands Dethklok and guests Machine Head, All That Remains and Black Dahlia Murder will perform.
When • Wednesday, Nov. 21, 7 p.m.
Where • Saltair, 12408 W. Salt Air Drive, Magna
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Tragic news has emerged today from Spain, where actor Antonio Mayans -- her co-star in dozens of films -- formally announced the February 15 death of Lina Romay, the actress and filmmaker best-known as the wife and longtime creative partner of Spanish director Jesús "Jess" Franco. A cancer victim, she was only 57 years old.
Born Rosa María Almirall Martínez in June 1954, Lina Romay -- renamed after the retired former singer with Xavier Cugat's band, who died a couple of years ago -- entered the world of cinema in a brief appearance in Jess Franco's film THE EROTIC RITES OF FRANKENSTEIN (1972) as a gypsy girl, which appears in only the Spanish variant of the picture. She came to Franco's attention as the art student girlfriend of his stills photographer Ramón Ardid, but it soon became apparent to both Jess and Lina that they were personally and creatively inseparable. Their attraction ended Franco's marriage to his script girl Nicole Guettard, who disappeared from his filmography circa 1974, returned briefly circa 1980, and died in 1996. For Franco's part, having found it difficult to reassemble himself following the 1970 accidental death of his most promising actress Soledad Miranda, he claimed to sense a reincarnation of Soledad in Lina, and she -- who never met her predecessor -- claimed to sense her presence watching over them at times, as if from within.
Her first starring role for Franco was 1973's FEMALE VAMPIRE, which exists in no fewer than three distinct variants: mainstream, erotic and hardcore. A self-proclaimed exhibitionist, Lina had no problem with performing hardcore straight or lesbian acts onscreen, and she was adamant offscreen that these were things she did in character, not as herself. The IMDb lists 118 different films to her credit, but this is hardly a complete accounting. Her filmography swells to a still larger number if we take into account the variants that exist of numerous Franco films; she also worked on rare occasions for other directors, including Carlos Aured, Erwin C. Dietrich and Andreas Bethmann. During the 1980s period when she and Franco were earning their incomes from pornographic films, she sometimes worked under the secondary pseudonyms Candy (or Candice) Coster and Lulu Laverne, accepting directorial credit for some of them.
No other woman gave quite as much of herself to the fantastic cinema as Lina Romay. The sprawling filmography of Jess Franco can be divided, unevenly and much in her favor, between the films he made Before Lina and With Lina; she became so synonymous with his work, as its focus and behind-the-scenes facilitator, that an After Lina period seems frankly unimaginable. As Franco's muse, Lina inspired as many as 150 or more films, and in many of them she withheld nothing of herself from his voracious camera -- body or soul. Theirs was an ideal meeting of exhibitionist and voyeur, both giving generously to one another in one of cinema's most provocative love stories. As the years passed, Lina changed and her body changed, but it never mattered to Franco, who continued to star her and film her as if she were the most desirable woman on earth. This is not to say that Franco's adoration of her was blind; on the contrary, Lina became a skilled actress under his tutelage, acquitting herself admirably not only as vampire women and nymphomaniacs, but in roles requiring the deft touch of a light comedienne. She could carry a film without dialogue; she could be funny, tragic, insanely desirable, shocking, even embarrassing in ways that left one admiring her bravery. On the two occasions when she ended a film by screaming -- LORNA... THE EXORCIST (1974) and MACUMBA SEXUAL (1980) -- she showed she could chill the blood like no one else, on the strength of her performance alone.
In Brian Horrorwitz's ANTENA CRIMINAL, a documentary about the filming of BLIND TARGET (2000, one of their lesser pictures), a candid illustration of their 40-year union emerges as Franco loses his temper when a scene continually goes wrong. He scolds a young actress and upsets himself to the point where he had to leave the set and sit down for a smoke in another room. Horrorwitz's camera holds on his attempt to recompose himself, and we see Lina find him, lean into him and stroke his head calmingly. It is the most privileged glimpse of their private selves we have, unless we count Lina's unbilled presence on the evening in February 2009 when Franco's career was rewarded with the Goya Award. During this presentation, Lina wheeled her husband onstage to generous applause, held his microphone as he accepted the honor, and bowed to kiss his head. The moment becomes even more poignant if we realize that, though they had been lovers and collaborators for 35 years, on the evening of this life achievement recognition they were technically newlyweds.
Those who admire the work of Jess Franco cannot help but become deeply involved in it, which means that, in the course of our exploration, we end up seeing more of Lina than we see of any other actress -- seeing more of her, and seeing more OF her -- so the news of her premature death strikes us in an uncommonly personal place. As the incarnate center of a filmography I take very personally, I had and will always have a great affection for her. Anything I have ever heard or learned about her -- including the only extensive interview she ever granted, to Kevin Collins for his booklet THE LINA ROMAY FILE: THE INTIMATE CONFESSIONS OF AN EXHIBITIONIST -- only confirmed what her work onscreen led me to suspect. I remember Kevin telling me that, at the time he recorded the interview, he asked Lina to sign something and she responded "Me?" She had starred in at least 100 films and no one before Kevin had ever asked Lina Romay for her autograph. This changed as she and Jess subsequently flew to different points around the world, including America, to make various convention appearances.
Jess Franco and Lina Romay were more than a team; they were an indivisible creative force for roughly 40 years. My heart goes out to my favorite living director at this time of most terrible loss -- to him, to me, to us, to cinema.


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Dropped Calves and Hemp Fiber: The 1880 Agricultural CensusBefore the turn of the century, your ancestor's farm served as the family's employer and grocery store. But getting an idea of the farm's operation can be difficult. Probate records (especially inventories of chattel property) may provide some specific information. Histories of farming or agriculture can provide generalized farming information, but genealogists are always hungry for specifics about their family. For rural ancestors during the second half of the nineteenth century, federal agricultural census schedules may contain some of those family-specific clues.
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The 1880 Agricultural Census for Walker Township, Hancock County, Illinois, contains several of my relatives, including my great-great-grandfather, Michael Trautvetter. The schedule contains a great deal of information about the Trautvetter farm.
Michael owned his farm (no note as to whether or not it was mortgaged), which included seventy-nine tillable acres, one acre of meadow, and one hundred forty-five acres of woodland or forest (most likely timber). The value of the farm ($7,000), the implements ($100), and the livestock ($100) were also included. Michael had spent $50 on building and repairing fences during the year and had paid for fifty-six (or fifty) weeks of hired labor throughout the year. Of the ten farmers listed on Michael's page in the census, all but two had hired labor at some point during the year. The value of the labor was consistently five dollars per week. The farm included two acres of hay and four horses.
Michael grew two thousand bushels of Indian corn on forty-seven acres, sixty bushels of oats on five acres, and 353 bushels of wheat on twenty-five acres. One hundred barnyard chickens and nineteen "other" chickens produced a total of two hundred dozen eggs during the year. Twenty-four hogs, six milk cows, and ten "other" cattle (there were no working oxen) rounded out the livestock. Four calves were "dropped" (i.e., born) and three head of cattle were sold during the year. The farm had produced 150 pounds of butter. Hops and tobacco were not grown on the Trautvetter farm, but there were five acres of Irish potatoes, resulting in 125 bushels. The Trautvetter's seventy apple trees were spread over two acres and produced one hundred bushels of apples during the year. There were no peaches, grapes, or honey produced on the farm. Nor was any wood cut and sold from the timber on John's property.
Several other ancestors were included in the same and nearby townships, allowing a comparison between the farms. One had lost sheep due to killings by dogs, and another apparently partially supported his family by selling cut wood. There were three possible types of tenure (possession) for the farmer listed: ownership, renting for a fixed amount, and renting for a share of the products. This may lead to possible land and property records. The amount of hemp fiber was also counted, but I didn't notice any families with it listed among their entries. Of course, back then it was normally used to make rope, and the census taker probably didn't use an infrared camera to locate it. While agricultural census records do not provide the genealogical details one expects from population schedules, information can be gleaned from them. This is particularly true when your ancestor's entry is compared to other entries on the same page and the same township. Don't just compare your family's entry with the ones directly before and after it. I have eight ancestors listed in the 1880 agricultural census, and it is interesting to compare all of their entries.
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1860--same as 1850
1870--farms of at least three acres or $500 of annual produce
1880--same as 1870
The answer is maybe. To determine if agriculture censuses are in the library's collection, find the locality of interest in the card catalog and search for "census" for any year between 1850 and 1880. For example, search for "Utah-Census-1880." The library does not have all of these records in its collection. Unfortunately, there is no one site where you can determine which federal agricultural census records are available (if there is such a page, please e-mail me and we'll let Daily News readers know). However, what follows are some links to pages that have information on agricultural census records on a wide variety of areas. Readers may also wish to consult "The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy" by Loretto D. Szucs and Sandra H. Luebking, pp. 129-134, for more information on these records.
Some Agricultural Census Links
Alabama Census Links
(includes several agricultural census transcriptions 1850-60)
Georgia, Marion County 1860 Agricultural Census Index
Illinois Federal Agricultural Census in the Illinois State Archives
Kansas Census Records
North Carolina, Alleghany County 1860 Agricultural Census
(Transcription-note columns may not appear lined up, but this site does include a listing of what questions were asked on this census.)
South Dakota Census Records at SDSU
Virginia, Grayson County 1860 Agricultural Census
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A listing of 1850-80 agricultural census schedules for the following states are available: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. These are available for purchase from the University of North Carolina, but your local library may be able to get them from another source on interlibrary loan.
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New Guidance on Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV
July 20, 2010
2010 Guidelines: "Antiretroviral Drugs for Treating Pregnant Women and Preventing HIV Infections in Infants"
Since WHO issued revised guidelines in 2006, important new evidence has emerged on the use of antiretroviral (ARV) prophylaxis for the prevention mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT), and on safe feeding practices for HIV-exposed infants.
At AIDS 2010, WHO is releasing new guidelines on PMTCT and infant feeding practices. If widely implemented, these guidelines will provide the basis for more effective PMTCT interventions in resource-limited settings, and will virtually eliminate the number of new paediatric HIV infections. For the first time, the elimination of mother-tochild transmission of HIV (MTCT) is considered a realistic public health goal.
The PMTCT and infant feeding guidelines were developed in coordination with the new WHO guidelines on adult and adolescent ART and paediatric ART.
Key Recommendations
The key recommendations of the new guidance on ARV drugs for treatment of pregnant women and prevention of HIV in infants are as follows:
The 2010 revised PMTCT guidelines refer to the following two key approaches:
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What ART Regimen to Initiate
The 2006 guidelines recommended AZT + 3TC + NVP. In the 2010 guidelines, the recommended first-line regimens for pregnant women are:
The expanded number of recommended treatment options in the 2010 guidelines will enable countries to choose the treatment option that is most suited to their national circumstances and the needs of their populations.
ARV Prophylaxis
The 2006 guidelines proposed starting ARV prophylaxis in the third trimester (28 weeks) of pregnancy. They recommended a regimen of twice daily zidovudine (AZT), single-dose nevirapine at onset of labour, a combination of AZT+3TC during delivery and one week postpartum, as well as infant prophylaxis for one week after birth.
The 2010 guidelines include two options, both of which should start earlier in pregnancy, at 14 weeks or as soon as possible thereafter. The two options provide significant reduction in MTCT with equal efficacy in this group of women who are not eligible for ART:
2010 Guidelines on HIV and Infant Feeding
In many countries, both health services and individual mothers have not been able to adequately support and provide safe replacement feeding. HIV-positive mothers have faced the dilemma of either giving their babies all the benefits of breastfeeding but exposing them to the risk of HIV infection, or avoiding all breastfeeding and increasing the risk of death from diarrhoea and malnutrition.
At the time of the 2006 PMTCT guidelines, there were insufficient data supporting the use of ARVs to prevent HIV transmission from mother to baby during breastfeeding.
Since then, several clinical trials have shown the efficacy and acceptability of prophylaxis either to the mother or to the infant during breastfeeding. The new PMTCT recommendations outlined above reflect this exciting breakthrough.
The 2010 guidelines on HIV and infant feeding build on the new recommendations for lifelong ART and the two prophylaxis options for HIV-positive women who breastfeed and are not taking ART - see Options A and B as above.
The effectiveness of ARVs to reduce transmission through breastfeeding has resulted in two major changes from previous guidelines:
Benefits and Challenges
The 2010 guidelines have great potential to improve the mother's own health and to reduce mother-to-child HIV transmission risk to 5% or lower in a breastfeeding population, from a background transmission risk of 35% (in the absence of any interventions and with continued breastfeeding).The 2010 guidelines have great potential to improve the mother's own health and to reduce mother-to-child HIV transmission risk to 5% or lower in a breastfeeding population, from a background transmission risk of 35% (in the absence of any interventions and with continued breastfeeding).
The new guidelines offer the potential for all countries to virtually eliminate paediatric HIV. Combined with improved infant feeding practices, the guidelines can help to reduce both child mortality and new HIV infections.The new guidelines offer the potential for all countries to virtually eliminate paediatric HIV. Combined with improved infant feeding practices, the guidelines can help to reduce both child mortality and new HIV infections.
PMTCT can also act as a gateway to improved reproductive, maternal and child health services at primary level and, in turn, bolster progress towards achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals of reducing under-five mortality rates by two thirds, decreasing maternal mortality rates by three quarters, and halting and reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015.
The new guidelines enable more consistent policies and support for infant feeding practices among both HIV-positive and HIV-negative mothers in the general population. Given the importance of breastfeeding as a child survival intervention, the availability of ARV interventions could make a major contribution to reducing child mortality in the entire community.
The major challenges in scaling-up national PMTCT services and implementing the new guidelines are weak health infrastructure, limited human resources, limited management capacity, and limited funding and support for PMTCT. However there are many hopeful signs that PMTCT now have greater priority both at the national and international level.
Given the confusion in the past around HIV and infant feeding, comprehensive communications strategies are now needed to give health workers confidence to recommend breastfeeding and ARVs and for HIV-positive mothers to want to breastfeed.
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