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Republic of the Philippines
Cebu Capitol, Cebu City
1. The Province of Cebu through the CY2018 General Fund (Development Fund), intends to apply the sum of ONE MILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND PESOS AND 00/100 (Php1,200,000.00) being the Approved Budget for the Contract (ABC) to payments under the contract for the CONSTRUCTION OF MULTI-PURPOSE DRYING PAVEMENT (MPDP) IN THE IDENTIFIED CITIES & MUNICIPALITIES OF THE PROVINCE OF CEBU.
Re-Adv. No.: 18-144
Particulars (Locations): Cluster IV: Southern Poblacion, San Francisco;
Igot, Esperanza, San Francisco;
Moabog, Pilar;
Imelda, Pilar
Contract Duration: 70 CD
ABC (Php): 1,200,000.00
Bid Fee (Php): 5,000.00
Bids received in excess of the ABC shall be automatically rejected at bid opening.
2. The Province of Cebu through its Bids and Awards Committee now invites bids for the SUPPLY OF LABOR, MATERIALS, AND INCIDENTALS for the CONSTRUCTION OF MULTI-PURPOSE DRYING PAVEMENT (MPDP) IN THE IDENTIFIED CITIES & MUNICIPALITIES OF THE PROVINCE OF CEBU. under Re-Advertisement No. 18-144. Bidders should have completed a contract similar to this Project, equivalent to at least fifty percent (50%) of the ABC. The description of an eligible bidder is contained in the Bidding Documents, particularly in Section II. Instruction to Bidders.
3. Bidding will be conducted through open competitive bidding procedures using non-discretionary pass/fail criterion as specified in the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of Republic Act 9184 (RA 9184), otherwise known as the "Government Procurement Reform Act".
Bidding is restricted to Filipino citizens/sole proprietorships, partnerships, or organizations with at least seventy-five percent (75%) interest or outstanding capital stock belonging to citizens of the Philippines.
4. Interested bidders may obtain further information from the BAC Secretariat and inspect the Bidding Documents at the address given below during office hours.
5. A complete set of Bidding Documents is available and may be acquired by interested Bidders on November 24, 2018 until December 17, 2018 from the address below and upon payment of the applicable fee for the Bidding Documents pursuant to the latest Guidelines issued by the GPPB in the amount indicated above.
It may also be downloaded free of charge from the website of the Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System (PhilGEPS) and the website of the Procuring Entity, provided that bidders shall pay the applicable fee for the bidding documents not later than the submission of their bids.
6. The Province of Cebu through its Bids and Awards Committee will hold a Pre-Bid Conference on Monday, December 3, 2018, at 2:00 P.M., BAC Conference Room, Ground Floor, Capitol Main Building, Cebu Capitol, Cebu City, which shall be open to all interested parties, but attendance is not mandatory.
7. Bids must be duly received at the BAC OFFICE, Ground Floor, Capitol Main Building, Cebu Capitol, Cebu City, on or before 2:00 P.M., Monday, December 17, 2018. All bids must be accompanied by a bid security in any of the acceptable forms and in the amount stated in ITB Clause 18.
Bid opening shall be on Monday, December 17, 2018 at 2:00 P.M., BAC Conference Room, Ground Floor, Capitol Main Building, Cebu Capitol, Cebu City. Bids will be opened in the presence of the bidders' representatives who choose to attend. Late bids shall not be accepted.
8. A Certificate of Site Inspection issued by the Provincial Engineering Office, 3rd Floor Capitol Main Building, Cebu City. Schedule of Site Inspection will be on November 29, 2018 and December 6-7, 2018. Please coordinate with the above-mentioned office @ tel. num. 888-2328 local 1431 or 253-3981, for the assembly area and departure time.
9. The Province of Cebu reserves the right to reject any and all bids, declare a failure of bidding, or not award the contract at any time prior to contract award in accordance with Section 41 of RA 9184 and its IRR, without thereby incurring any liability to the affected bidder or bidders.
10. For further information, please refer to:
The BAC Secretariat
Ground Floor, Provincial Capitol Main Building
Cebu Capitol, Cebu City
Tel. No. 888-2328 loc.1214, 253-7160; 239-5817, www.cebu.gov.ph


text: Some assumptions are so deeply ingrained that it's difficult to imagine the world from another perspective. Take taxonomy: We're raised to see nature through an essentially 18th century system of classification, one rooted in the urge to impose order on a vibrant, messy world. Not that there's anything wrong with order, of course, and taxonomies are quite useful. But sometimes, says artist James Prosek, they get in the way. We perceive names instead of beings, representative types instead of individual animals pulsing with life. "I'm interested in exploring how we might be able to communicate nature differently," Prosek said. "The way we communicate nature affects the way we perceive and treat it." Prosek rose to natural history acclaim in 1997, when Trout: An Illustrated History earned him comparisons to John James Audubon, the great naturalist and painter whose name is now synonymous with nature's beauty. Like Audubon, Prosek is a conservationist, but in the years following Trout, written while Prosek was still an undergraduate, his art evolved beyond natural history. Prosek still employs the visual language of that tradition, but he now challenges its conventions. In Ocean Fishes, his new book and collection of paintings, Prosek urges people to see nature, and especially the fish he loves so dearly, in a new light: Forget taxonomic checkboxes and biodiversity and ecosystem services, and think about a single creature's life. On the following pages, Prosek takes Wired on a tour of his new work. Above: In the Studio Each of the paintings in Ocean Fishes is life-sized and modeled on an individual fish that Prosek saw in person, alive and still flushed with colors that fade within moments of death. To paint this blue marlin, he traveled to the Cape Verde islands off West Africa. At fifteen feet long, it's the largest of the new paintings. Image: James Prosek (High-Resolution Version)Beyond Classifications Prosek's first book, Trout of the World, grew out of his boyhood love of trout, an enthusiasm pursued in a pre-internet age by writing letters to biologist and poring through library tomes of natural history. At the beginning, recalls Prosek, he thought the classification of salmonids — the fish family spanning trout and salmon — into different species was biologically ordained. The more Prosek learned, however, the more lines blurred. A blueback trout, for instance, is simply an Arctic char that happens to live in a different place. Rainbow trout and brown trout share an appellation, but are only distantly related. When the ranges of certain species overlap, such as cutthroat and rainbow trout, they often mate with one another and hybridize, despite their ostensible differences. "What I'd thought of as a kid as some kind of rigid system, I learned was a complete mess," said Prosek. And whereas his early paintings were often based on illustrations and written descriptions, striving towards archetypal representations of species, Prosek's travels for his next projects — Fly-Fishing the 41st and Trout of the World — taught him that even individuals of the same subspecies were often quite different. As much as Prosek loved natural history's illustrations, he realized that the notion of archetype was an illusion, too. Out of this came his decision to paint single, specific individuals in Ocean Fishes. "I wanted to make it clear that I wasn't painting a fish to represent a species in a field guide, but an individual. This is one fish I saw," said Prosek, who saw the bluefin tuna above harpooned in Cape Cod Bay. "But from doing that, I learned that even if you've seen the fish, you still can't depict a fish as dynamic and constantly changing as a tuna. When you pull a tuna out of the water, it's pulsing with color and life. It's like a reflection on the water. You can't capture that in one picture." Image: James Prosek (High-Resolution Version)Seeing a Fish Prosek's dissatisfaction with species names raises a thorny question: What does it actually mean to look at a black sea bass (above) but not see a black sea bass, inasmuch as the name conveys generalizations about its lineage? At a basic level, classifications and names are inescapable. To communicate is to name. For Prosek, the key is to understand that a species "is not separate from everything else, but is part of this fluid, continuous thing," including a creature's locale. In the Ocean Fish paintings, each fish is accompanied by depictions of other organisms found in its extended world — in this case, a quahog clam and beach plums. Image: James Prosek (High-Resolution Version)The New Audubon Once described by the New York Times as "the Audubon of fish," Prosek finds the comparison flattering but in some ways misleading. "Audubon was painting a nature that was just being discovered by Europeans," he said. "Painting now is a very different process. I always feel like I'm in the process of depicting something we're losing very quickly." Nassau grouper like the one above are an endangered species, as are many of the subjects in Ocean Fishes. Like Audubon, Prosek is a conservationist. (He even founded World Trout, an organization devoted to preserving native trout populations.) His task is a struggle, however, and not only because trout are threatened by development and climate change. Conservation as an ideal is struggling, often unable to articulate why the well-being of a particular subspecies is more important than a profit, invoking nebulous ideals of biodiversity or making ecosystem service arguments that leave little room for sentiment, much less a pocket of trout that evolved for 10,000 years in the headwaters of a Croatian stream. For Prosek, engaging with individual animals is an alternative to the usual conservation arguments — the seeds, he hopes, of a new conservation ethos. Image: James Prosek (High-Resolution Version)Hidden From Sight Of all animals, fish are the hardest to see in their natural environments, and this makes it difficult to appreciate them in way people do birds or mammals. For some, such as the Spanish mackerel above, it's almost easier to picture them as filets than actual creatures. "We don't have the opportunity to see them alive, in living colors," said Prosek. "That's part of what I wanted to show people. These creatures are incredible, but you see them dead and pale in a market. You're not getting that privileged view from the water." Image: James Prosek (High-Resolution Version)The Colors of Life Within moments of death, fish often begin to lose their color. This process was captured nicely in the movie version of The Life of Pi, said Prosek, when computer-generated mahi mahi like the one painted above are shown "with the lights of the fish going out as they die." Image: James Prosek (High-Resolution Version)Unappreciated Beauty The tendency of dead fish to lose their color has skewed our images of them. Atlantic cod, typically depicted in dull brown, "are one of the most misunderstood in terms of coloration," Prosek said. "When they come out of the water, they're all spotted and beautiful. I had no idea they had so much coloration." Image: James Prosek (High-Resolution Version)Ocean Fish in Person Prosek's paintings can be seen in the book Ocean Fish. They'll also be on display at the National Arts Club in New York City from February 19 to March 2. "I'm not against the Linnaean system of classification," he said. "I'm just offering my own personal taxonomy, the visual taxonomy of an artist who really likes these fish." 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Maritime News
Analysis: Strait of Hormuz and the Risk of Escalation
The Strait of Hormuz, the narrow shipping lane between Iran and Oman named after the fabulously wealthy ancient kingdom of Ormus, has fascinated oil traders since the Iranian revolution in 1979. Iran has periodically threatened to close the strait to enemy shipping, while the United States and its allies have pledged to keep it open and maintain freedom of navigation, by force if necessary.The strait has become a symbolic flashpoint in the region-wide confrontation and indirect conflict between Iran on one side and the United States and Saudi Arabia on the other.
Maritime, Measles & Quarantine
Measles is a highly contagious infectious disease. It is so contagious that 90% of non-immune persons will become infected if an infected person is in the immediate vacinity. It is an airborne disease spread through coughs, sneezes, and contact with saliva or nasal secretions. The virus can live for up to two hours in infected airspace or on infected surfaces. Individuals are infectious from four days before symptoms appear until four days after the patient is symptom-free. Symptoms include fever, cough, runny nose, inflamed eyes, and a red, flat rash. Complications may include diarrhea, middle ear infection, and pneumonia.
Offshore wind: One-stop Power Conversion
With the United States and China about to start their respective offshore wind build-ups, grid operators wondering about the efficiency of their turbines or the emissions-areas compliance of their wind-service vessels will be warmed to know there's someone they can talk to. Yaskawa's The Switch — a Japanese industrial giant's European environmental tech business — is offering one-stop wind-energy shopping. As with shipping, you can order permanent magnet generators, drives and converters for your wind turbines. Take heart. The lingo is the same. Yaskawa's The Switch is well-placed to hybridize vessels or help convert power from wind turbines. In the U.S.
French, Italian Shipbuilders Forge Naval Alliance
France and Italy forged a military shipbuilding alliance on Friday, as state-controlled Naval Group and Fincantieri signed off on a 50-50 joint venture that will bid for Franco-Italian warship projects and sell to the world market.The alliance reflects the two countries' desire to fend off competition in naval shipbuilding from the likes of China, the United States and Russia.It is targeting orders worth up to 5 billion euros ($5.63 billion) over the next decade. Naval Group said the joint venture aims to build 10-15 warships in that period, with synergies estimated at 10-15%.
Maersk Explores Arctic Shipping Route with Russia
Shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk said on Friday it is in talks with Russia's state-owned icebreaker operator to send more goods via the Arctic, which is becoming more accessible as climate change reduces the sea ice.Russia has made developing the so-called northern sea route (NSR) - which requires new ports and heavy icebreakers to move goods - a priority, with supporters dubbing the route the northern Suez Canal.Last summer, Maersk carried out what it said was a one-off trial, becoming the first to send a container ship - loaded with Russian fish and South Korean electronics - on the route.


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Arthur Joseph "Art" Rooney, Sr. (January 27, 1901 – August 25, 1988), often referred to as "The Chief", was the founding owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers American football franchise in the National Football League.
Rooney's great-grandparents, James and Mary Rooney, were Irish Catholics who immigrated from Newry in County Down, Northern Ireland to Canada during the Irish potato famine in the 1840s. While living in Montreal, the Rooney's had a son, Arthur (who would become the grandfather of the subject of this article). James and Mary later moved back to the British Isles, not to Ireland, but settling in Ebbw Vale, Wales, where the iron industry was flourishing, taking their son Arthur, then 21, with them. This Arthur Rooney married an Irish girl, Catherine Regan, (who was also Irish Catholic) in Wales and they had a son Dan. Two years after Dan Rooney was born, the family immigrated back to Canada and eventually end up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1884. Along the way the family grew to include nine children of which Dan was the second.
Dan Rooney remained in the Pittsburgh area, and eventually opened a saloon in the Monongahela Valley coal town of Coulter, Pennsylvania (or Coultersville). This is where Dan Rooney met and wed Margaret "Maggie" Murray, who was the daughter of a coal miner, and where the couple's first son, Art, was born. Dan and Maggie would eventually settle their family in Pittsburgh's North Side in 1913 where they bought a three story building at the corner of Corey Street and General Robinson Street. Dan operated a cafe and saloon out of the first floor with the family living above. The building was located just a block from Exposition Park, which had been home to the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team until 1909.


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Judgment and Mercy
When I began to consider what I should say in these pages, I found myself pulled in two directions. My first impulse was to lament the spiritual decay that people of my generation have observed at close range and to …Read More
Favor in God's Eyes
"Nondum considerasti, quanti ponderis sit peccatum!" wrote Anselm in his famous work on the incarnation, Cur Deus Homo. Translated, it means: "You have not considered how weighty sin is!" Low views of sin breed tepid views of the …Read More


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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the expansion of a USDA initiative to help farmers and ranchers conduct energy audits and improve their overall energy efficiency. The initiative builds on the existing energy audit initiative to help producers implement the energy conservation and efficiency recommendations that result from an energy audit.
"On-farm energy audits are one example of the many ways the Obama administration is supporting rural communities and helping rural families thrive," Vilsack said. "Providing producers with the opportunity to assess their energy usage and make needed improvements can save money while also benefitting the environment and reducing greenhouse gas emissions."
On-farm energy audits are tailored to each agricultural operation's primary energy uses. The audits help producers determine the amount of energy used by the entire operation and also identify short- and long-term measures producers can implement to conserve energy and achieve greater energy efficiencies.
The On-Farm Energy Audit/Implementation Initiative is offered through USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), which provides technical and financial assistance through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP). The on-farm energy audits, which are offered as EQIP Agricultural Energy Management Plans, must be conducted by certified technical service providers. Producers who have had an on-farm energy audit conducted that meets or exceeds the criteria of an EQIP Agricultural Energy Management Plan may apply for technical and financial assistance to implement the audit's recommendations.
Interested producers should contact their local NRCS office immediately to determine their State's specific deadline and payment schedule. Application deadlines may be no later than February 25, 2011. NRCS Service Center contact information is available on the Web at http://offices.sc.egov.usda.gov/locator/app?agency=nrcs.


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It is impossible to not be horrified and shocked by an assault weapon rampage that in one month has cost at least 50 Americans their lives, including eight residents of a Carthage nursing home.
But we need to offer more than sympathy — we should pledge to end gun violence, no matter the opposition or the difficulty.
When gun violence strikes we shake our heads, we mourn those lost and some of us ask "Why?" Then, unfortunately, we shrug our shoulders and return to our lives. Gun violence is the only epidemic that as a country we've written off as incurable.
It's an epidemic, however, that we know how to treat. Rules on safely storing and handling firearms work to stop violence before it begins. Sensible gun legislation keeps weapons out the wrong hands.
It appears our state legislators haven't all gotten this message. During this month of horrific violence we've also seen a crop of dangerous bills proposed. Instead of working to prevent gun violence, SB 782 would repeal the required permit for handguns — providing no way to keep domestic violence abusers and the dangerous mentally ill from obtaining a deadly weapon. Worse yet, the "Shoot First" bill provides almost total immunity to someone who chooses to use lethal force.
Rather than working with law enforcement to create safe environments, our legislators seem to be telling us that our safety us up to us. Is this really the best we can do: a return to the days of the Wild West, with everyone packing heat?


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Company Fired Black Employee Because of His Race, EEOC Charges
WINSTON-SALEM , N.C. – A Winston-Salem, N.C. –based, family-owned and operated electric company discriminated against a black electrician when it fired him because of his race, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
According to the EEOC's suit, around Dec. 17, 2007, Salem Electric Company terminated Rodney Tonkins' employment as a journeyman electrician, alleging that he was responsible for a crew of employees who damaged light fixtures on a light installation project. The EEOC contends in the suit that as a journeyman electrician, Tonkins did not supervise work crews and therefore was not responsible for the damaged light fixtures. Instead, according to the EEOC's complaint, the company's superintendent and foreman, both white, were in charge of the project and the crew workers. Neither of those individuals, nor the non-black employees who actually caused the damage to the light fixtures, was terminated.
Discrimination on the basis of race violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, Winston-Salem Division (EEOC v. Salem Electric Company, Civil Action No. 1:11-cv-00119), after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement through its conciliation process. In its suit, the EEOC seeks back pay, compensatory damages and punitive damages for Tonkins. The EEOC also seeks injunctive relief prohibiting Salem Electric from engaging in further racial discrimination.
"This case is a reminder to employers that fair and equal treatment of its employees must be applied in all phases of employment, including addressing performance concerns," said EEOC Regional Attorney Lynette A. Barnes of the agency's Charlotte District Office. "The EEOC will continue to vigorously protect the rights of workers who are targeted for adverse treatment based on race or other illegal factors."
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Wheat Free Recipes
Masala Chai Creme Brulee
This version of crème brulée is flavored with the spices that are used in masala chai. Cloves, cardamom, ginger and cinnamon give the dessert the distinct flavor of masala chai combined with the richness of a French custard. I wasn't sure how it would turn out, but after the first bite it has become my favorite flavor. Don't get me wrong; lemon, butterscotch and green tea are great flavors, but the masala spices are absolutely intoxicating.
I'm not a big tea drinker, but whenever we have a party and serve masala chai, I end up drinking all the leftovers. What can I say, I'm addicted. Even though the flavors of this drink are fabulous, it's probably good that I don't drink this particular tea that often because of its high caffeine content. Masala chai crème brulée has as much caffeine as a cup of masala chai, along with all the fat that is found in a crème brulée. Something else to keep me awake at night!
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Mocha Milk Chocolate Pot de Creme
A pot de crème is an egg custard that is very often flavored with chocolate. It's sort of a French version of chocolate pudding.
Preparing it is very easy. You basically follow the recipe for crème brûlée, but you bake the custard a little longer to get a thicker result.
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In any ESD protected work place, such as electronics manufacturing and repairing, hand protection against static electricity is important. Electro-Static Dissipative (ESD) hand gloves are used to protect against static discharge and contamination that may cause damage to materials being handled. However, just use of ESD hand gloves is not enough. Other products for ESD protection must also be used.
Our imported ESD Dotted hand gloves are made of electro-conductive fabric. These lint free dotted hand gloves possess low resistance to electric charge that act as conduit for dissipating static charge from the operator and the object to the atmosphere.
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We have already expressed our undying love for automotive tugs of war. This one between a Mitsubishi Evo VII and a totally rad Mazda Familia GT-R is just as awesome as we'd hoped.
Truly, in automotive tug of war, there are no losers, only winners. That is, unless somebody breaks the chain and/or their car. But that's just part of the fun!
(Hat tip to our Hoonigan friends!)


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Brand name: Prezista
Generic name: darunavir, or DRV
Class: Protease inhibitor (PI)
Manufacturer: Janssen Therapeutics, www.prezista.com, (877) JANSSEN (526-7736)
AWP: $1,271.09/month for 600 mg tablets; $1,482.99 for 400 mg tablets
Standard Dose: 800 mg (two 400 mg tablets) with 100 mg Norvir once daily with food for first-time therapy and treatment-experienced adults without Prezista-related HIV resistance, or 600 mg (one 600 mg tablet) with 100 mg Norvir twice daily with food for those who have been on other HIV medications in the past and failed those medications and have at least one Prezista-related HIV drug resistance mutation. Prezista should never be taken without Norvir. 75 mg and 150 mg tablets available for children over six, dose based on weight. An oral suspension for children three years or older and adults who have difficulty swallowing pills is available. Please see the new package insert for specific directions on how to take the oral solution based on weight. As with the Prezista tablet, the oral solution needs to be taken with Norvir. Take a missed dose as soon as possible, but not if more than 12 hours past the once-daily dose (or six hours past the twice-daily dose). Do not double up on your next dose; take the next dose on schedule.
Potential side effects and toxicity: Prezista contains a sulfa component, and should be used cautiously by people with sulfa allergies. Prezista may cause mild to moderate rash (0.4% of people taking it), accompanied by fever and/or elevations of AST/ALT (liver enzymes) in some cases, but the most common side effects may include diarrhea, nausea, headache, rash, and abdominal pain. Liver function should be measured before starting therapy and should be monitored. Increased monitoring should be considered for people with underlying chronic hepatitis B or C, cirrhosis, or elevated levels of AST/ALT, especially during the first several months of therapy. No dose adjustment is necessary for those with mild to moderate liver disease, but Prezista/Norvir is not recommended for people with severe liver impairment. Severe rash, while very rare (in less than 0.1% of those taking it), can be life-threatening. Seek medical attention immediately. You may need to stop all medications. See chart for potential drug class side effects.
Potential drug interactions: PIs interact with many other drugs. See package insert for the most complete list. Tell your provider or pharmacist about all medications, herbs, and supplements you are taking or thinking of taking, prescribed or not. Do not take with alfuzosin, Revatio, oral Versed (midazolam), triazolam (Halcion), Ergomar, ergonovine, methylergonovine, the herb St. John's wort, cisapride, pimozide (Orap), and rifampin. Should not be taken with Incivek (telapravir), because levels of both Prezista and telapravir are decreased. Prezista may decrease levels of phenytoin (Dilantin), phenobarbital, and Tegretol; levels should be monitored. A reduced dose of rifabutin is recommended. Do not use Advicor, Altoprev, Mevacor, Simcor, Vytorin, or Zocor for the treatment of high cholesterol. Cholesterol-lowering alternatives are Crestor, Lescol, and Lipitor, but should be used with caution and started at the lowest dose possible; you should be monitored closely for increased side effects from these medications. Pravacol (pravastatin) cannot be used with Prezista in the presence of liver impairment. The antifungal drugs such as itraconazole and ketoconazole may increase levels of Prezista, and Prezista may increase theirs, so caution must be exercised when used together (maximum dose is 200 mg a day for the antifungals). Vfend should not be used unless the benefits outweigh the risks. Cialis, Levitra, and Viagra levels are increased; doses should not exceed 10 mg Cialis or 2.5 mg Levitra per 72 hours, or 25 mg Viagra per 48 hours. Prezista may increase levels of calcium channel blockers, such as Norvasc and others, and beta-blockers, such as propanolol; clinical monitoring is recommended. A lower dose of trazodone and desipramine may be recommended. Close monitoring of INR levels required when using Coumadin (warfarin). Increases levels of fluticasone (found in Advair, Flonase, and Flovent); use only if the benefits outweigh the risks, and monitor for signs of Cushing's syndrome (increased fat in the abdomen, fatty hump between the shoulders, rounded face, red/purple stretch marks on the skin, bone loss, possible high blood pressure, and sometimes diabetes). Alternatives should be considered, particularly for long-term use. Effectiveness of birth control pills may be decreased; consider the use of alternative or additional methods of contraception. No dose adjustment required with buprenorphine (Subutex or Suboxone) or methadone. Monitoring of antidepressant response is recommended with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (such as Paxil, Zoloft). Use with caution with bosentan, salmeterol, immunosuppressants, and colchicine; use lower dose of colchicine. Use of the hepatitis C drug Victrelis (boceprevir) along with a Norvir-boosted PI can potentially reduce the effectiveness of both drugs -- combined use is not recommended.
More information: Prezista is a preferred PI for initial therapy in the DHHS HIV guidelines. Last year, Janssen Therapeutics entered into agreements with Gilead Sciences for the development of two fixed dose combinations (co-formulations) of Prezista -- one with the booster cobicistat, emtricitabine, and GS-7340, a pro-drug of tenofovir (this would be the first STR using a protease inhibitor); and also for a co-formulation with cobicistat. The use of built-in cobicistat would both eliminate Norvir and reduce pill burden. Janssen received community praise for not pricing Prezista higher than other new PIs when it came on the market. See package insert for more complete information on potential side effects and interactions.
Doctor's Comments
Prezista started out as the best of the "second-generation" PIs, showing excellent activity in most people with PI-resistant virus. Then it was shown to be more effective and more "resistant to resistance" than Kaletra in people who had taken PIs before but whose virus was susceptible to both drugs. A later study found that a once-daily dose of Prezista/Norvir had a number of advantages over Kaletra for first-line therapy, including less diarrhea, less lipid elevation, and better activity at higher viral loads. The latest development has been the approval of the once-daily dose for treatment-experienced patients who have no Prezista mutations. In short, you could say it's the "PI for all seasons." The main downside of Prezista is that it's more likely than other PIs to cause an allergic rash, and, unlike the rash with Sustiva, a rash on Prezista often requires a switch to a different drug. Prezista must always be taken with Norvir, and with food.
-- Joel Gallant, M.D., M.P.H.
Activist's Comments
Prezista replaced Kaletra as ruler of the roost, even though Reyataz is nipping at its heels. It has fewer side effects than the older PIs, but it does still have many of the drug interactions common to the older drugs. Janssen earned kudos from the HIV advocacy community over their pricing policies. Easy access websites allow for PAPs and co-pay cards for those with insurance coverage. Oddly enough, for many of us who never saw CD4 increases with our undetectable viral loads over the years, this gem can really crank up the CD4 counts for us. One of my personal favorites!
-- Joey Wynn


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The Sensuous Garden
Simon & Schuster Editions, 1997 - Gardening - 160 pages
Taking the five senses (or six, if you count intuition) as his starting point, Montagu Don offers us a wide-ranging and deeply involving discussion of the emotional, spiritual, and physical effects of a sensuous approach to the garden. Perhaps the most undervalued horticultural virtue, he maintains, sensuality claims the garden as a jumble of experiences rather than a sequence of botanical exercises. In the hands of this brilliant polymath of a writer we learn how to create and manage a garden to optimize all the senses. We see how each season brings its own distinctive sensations - the smell of newly mown grass in spring, the sublime flavor of a perfectly ripened tomato at the height of summer, the clinging smell of bonfires in autumn, the severe purity of the garden in winter. Also included is practical information about such sensuous touches as planting night-blooming flowers to perfume the evening garden, using richly textured ground covers to soften the path, creating monochrome flower beds to explore the nuance of color, and experimenting with the sweet and delicate flavors of baby vegetables. What emerges is a portrait of the garden as a place that affects not only our senses but also our moods and emotions, providing spiritual refreshment as well as physical delight.
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Wednesday is South Dakota Civil Air Patrol Day
PIERRE - Gov. Dennis Daugaard has declared Wednesday as South Dakota Civil Air Patrol Day.
Daugaard signed the proclamation establishing the day as a way to recognize the hard work and volunteer hours that the members of the Civil Air Patrol put in during missions for local, state, tribal and federal governments.
Col. John Seten is the South Dakota wing commander. He and others will be at the Legislature on Wednesday to share their stories with lawmakers.
He says it's important for the public to understand that the Civil Air Patrol helps stretch the resources of the state and saves it money through the use of well-trained volunteers.
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Who would go through such a painstaking process to recreate the poses and action of some of Grand Theft Auto V's screenshots, courtesy of Game Informer? RomanBOY123 would, apparently.
He put GTA IV on max settings on his PC (1920x1080 resolution, with HD tree mods) and came up with some amazingly accurate screenshots to match those of GTA V's. Check out one of them above by using the slider the reveal more of each. GTA IV is on the left, while GTA V is on the right.
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VIDEO: Al Horford played hero for the Hawks in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals
ATLANTA — Al Horford never put a timetable on it.
He wasn't thinking that far ahead when the Hawks made him the third pick in the 2007 NBA Draft and he went from two-time college champion to starting center for a struggling outfit in Atlanta, where he knew enough to know that there would be no Final Fours and contending for titles right away.
Fast forward eight years and Horford and the Hawks are in the Eastern Conference finals with the No. 1 seed and home-court advantage, facing off against LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers for the right to go to The Finals. To say this ride has been something of a roller coaster would be an understatement of epic proportions. And not just this stunning season, one that began with no one outside of the Hawks' most die-hard of supporters believing this sort of dream season was possible, but the entire trip from the moment he arrived to now, the moment when he and the Hawks have truly arrived.
"I think you acknowledge it," Horford said of the Hawks' breakthrough to the conference final round for the first time in the franchise's Atlanta history. "But then you move on and realize that is more work to be done. That's what I did after Game 6 in Washington. It was like, 'man, that's good but we still want more and we are still looking forward to the next round.'"
The compressed schedule for mountain climbing in college makes it much easier to get caught up in the moment at that level. Superstar players spend one, maybe two and rarely three seasons on campus before departing for the adventure that is professional basketball. Horford did not enter Florida as a guaranteed pro, a surefire one-and-done prospect headed for the top of the Draft. His journey was different.
And he knew that from the start. That's what made winning back-to-back titles with the Gators so great. Same goes for a NBA career that began with him being selected behind Greg Oden and Kevin Durant eight years ago. The road to back to respectability for the Hawks has been an arduous one. The fact that it's been paved on Horford's watch, with his blood, sweat and perhaps a tear or two over the years, makes this moment even sweeter than you might imagine.
Once the youngster of the bunch — playing alongside Joe Johnson, Josh Smith, Marvin Williams, Josh Childress, Zaza Pachulia, Mike Bibby and others — Horford's the seasoned veteran now. A three-time All-Star, he's the one pointing the way for youngsters like Dennis Schroder and Mike Muscala, alongside fellow veterans and All-Stars Paul Millsap, Kyle Korver, Jeff Teague and veteran swingman DeMarre Carroll.
As much hard work as it takes to grind away this long before reaching the conference finals, it also takes a ton of patience to continue plugging away with all of the distractions, on and off the court, that came up along the way. The cast of characters has changed dramatically and there have been regime changes in the front office and coaching ranks. The one constant has been Horford and his undeniable work ethic and desire to be better this year than he was the year before.
"You've got to look at yourself as an individual and it depends on where your goals are," he said. "I always wanted to be a better player. I always wanted to challenge myself. For me it's just, I feel like the league is changing quickly and every year I want to make sure I can be better and to put my team into a position to be successful. That's always my mindset, to make it a point of just getting better and not feeling content with what you have done."
Horford has found a kindred spirit in Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer, whose arrival before the start of the 2013-14 season ushered in a totally different program than what the Hawks were used to. The emphasis on player development and individual skill building became more than just operational procedure. It became a mission for all involved.
The results are obvious.
The best season in franchise history during the regular season. The breakthrough, finally, to the conference finals. And who know what else looms on the horizon in the next two weeks. There are children growing up in Atlanta who will identify Horford's time with the Hawks as some of the greatest times in franchise history, from the flash of the Highlight Factory days to this trip to the NBA's version of the Final Four and the matchup against LeBron, the face of a generation in the NBA.
"When you get to this point, if you want to be one of the best teams, you have to go through the best players and teams," Horford said. "There are no shortcuts when you get to this stage of the season. We have a huge challenge in front of us, and we obviously don't know for sure what's going to happen, but I think this is the way you want to do things."


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Following ten years as a public school teacher, Kim combined her love of teaching with her creative talents and began teaching jewelry classes. Mostly self taught, Kim now has been teaching jewelry classes for 17 years. She is an award winning instructor, author and jewelry designer. Kim has been published in numerous magazines and books. She has appeared on several beading/craft television programs and has written three books: Mixed Metal Mania and Metal Magic currently in print, and her 3rd Colorful Wire Jewelry to be published in June of 2016. Kim was elected one of the Top Ten Instructors in the country by the attendees of the prestigious Bead & Button show. She currently has videos available for on-line viewing at beaducation.com and interweave.com. In addition, she has over 20 stone setting DVD's through wirejewelry.com now available.
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There is one subject that always draws the attention of any Christian, well one that knows any Old Testament and New Testament history is the restoration of the Jews. For the most part, restoration has ceased to be a naughty word in our generation. While most Christians now use the term 'revival' it has a similar meaning. But the restoration of the Jews is one most Christians are well aware. They and we know that the Savior's second coming will come after their restoration to Jerusalem. It is one of those signs we are supposed to know. Accordingly, most have watched for the day and have even done what they could to expedite the process. In that vein, here is a scripture I find revealing in the Book of Mormon.
"But because of priestcrafts and iniquities, they at Jerusalem will stiffen their necks against him, that he be crucified. Wherefore, because of their iniquities, destructions, famines, pestilences, and bloodshed shall come upon them; and they who shall not be destroyed shall be scattered among all nations" (2 Nephi 10:5-6).
There is little debate this part of the sermon by Jacob has taken place. They have surely known destruction, famine, pestilence, and the most horrid bloodshed. The latest of which took place in the past century. Even before then, the scattering was well under way. If it were not for the scattering, Hitler probably would not have had so many opportunities to shed their blood. We see the Crusades and innumerable other attacks on Jerusalem from a variety of people. Christians through the ages have recognized the need of the restoration of the Jews to the Holy Land.
Over the centuries attempt after attempt has been made to relocate them back. The Crimean war is a great example. The French and Russians claimed it their prerogative to convert them and protect them. The Latter-day Saints recognized a different responsibility upon their shoulders. They were to gather in Israel. However, the Jew was to be last. 2 Nephi gives us another twist on the take from normal Christianity.
"But behold, thus saith the Lord God: When the day cometh that they shall believe in me, that I am Christ, then have I covenanted with their fathers that they shall be restored in the flesh, upon the earth, unto the lands of their inheritance" (vs 7).
An interesting question arises here. Who, or which of their fathers was this covenant made to? What is more interesting is that this restoration is not supposed to start until they shall believe in Christ. How much do they have to believe? How many have to believe to start this gathering? Who will start this process? They don't appear to believe yet, so have we really seen much of a gathering yet?
Then comes something more instructive, "And it shall come to pass that they shall be gathered in from their long dispersion, from the isles of the sea, and from the four parts of the earth; and the nations of the Gentiles shall be great in the eyes of me, saith God, in carrying them forth to the lands of their inheritance. Yea, the kings of the Gentiles shall be nursing fathers unto them, and their queens shall become nursing mothers; wherefore, the promises of the Lord are great unto the Gentiles, for he hath spoken it, and who can dispute?" (2 Nephi 10:8-9).
They shall be gathered in from their scattering by the nations of the Gentiles. America and Britain definitely fall into this category. Indeed, the leaders of these Gentile nations shall nurse them because the Lord has so abundantly blessed these nations. What an interesting observation. We certainly know many nations have aided in the return of the Jew to their inheritance lands. How much has this been completed? We do not know.
On a tangent, Jacob then goes on to say there will be no kings over this nation or land, and that this land is the decreed land of Zion. None, Jew or Gentile, shall fight against this land and prosper. A most interesting light considering the scriptures where different nations may lead this land, but there will be no kings, and nobody will ultimately conquer it. He also states how the seed of Lehi will be afflicted in the land. Anyhow, back to the Jews, I cannot help but think of some comments by Brigham Young.
"The decree has gone forth from the Almighty that they cannot have the benefit of the atonement until they gather to Jerusalem, for they said, let His blood be upon us and upon our children, consequently, they cannot believe in him until his second coming. We have a great desire for their welfare, and are looking for the time soon to come when they will gather to Jerusalem, build up the city and the land of Palestine, and prepare for the coming of the Messiah. When he comes again, he will not come as he did when the Jews rejected him; neither will he appear first at Jerusalem when he makes his second appearance on the earth; but he will appear first on the land where he commenced his work in the beginning, and planted the garden of Eden, and that was done in the land of America. When the Savior visits Jerusalem, and the Jews look upon him, and see the wounds in his hands and in his side and in his feet, they will then know that they have persecuted and put to death the true Messiah, and then will they acknowledge him, but not till then. They have confounded his first and second coming, expecting his first coming to be as a mighty prince instead of as a servant. They will go back by and by to Jerusalem and own their Lord and Master. We have no feelings against them. I wish they were all gentlemen, men of heart and brain, and knew precisely how the Lord looks upon them" (JD 11:279).
The restoration of the Jews had not commenced yet when Brigham stated those words. They will return to rebuild Jerusalem before he will return. The Gentiles will take them back, but their conversion will not start.
"Jerusalem is not to be redeemed by the by the soft still voice of the Preacher of the Gospel of Peace. Why? Because they were once the blessed of the Lord, the Chosen of the Lord, the promised seed. They were the people from among whom should spring the Messiah; and salvation could only be found through that tribe. The Messiah came through them, and they killed him; and they will be the last of all the seed of Abraham to have the privilege of receiving the New and Everlasting Covenant. You may hand out to them gold, you may feed and clothe them, but it is impossible to convert the Jews, until the Lord God Almighty does it" (JD 2:142).
"This American continent will be Zion; for it is so spoken of by the prophets. Jerusalem will be rebuilt and will be the place of gathering, and the tribe of Judah will gather there; but this continent of America is the land of Zion" (JD 5:4).


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36 HASKINS & SELLS May ARNOLD, B U R K E & C A M P B E L L SYNDICATE S T A T E M E N T OF O P E R A T I O N S FOR T H E Y E A R ENDED D E C E M B E R 31, 1918. Profits on trading: Prairie Oil & Gas Company $2,472.92 Seneca Petroleum Company 700.00 Total profits on trading.. $3,172.92 Loss on trading — Hazeltine Copper Company 25.00 Net profit on trading $3,147.92 Dividends from stocks owned 3,000.00 Total income $6,147.92 Deduct — Interest — net 754.92 Net income for the year..... 5,393.00 Add—G. M. Campbell's share of increase in value of stock due to revaluation at date of his retirement (October 19, 1918) ... 3,858.33 Total $9,251.33 Deduct—Profits distributed to G. M. Campbell at retirement 4,907.40 Undivided profits — December 31, 1918 $4,343.93 Capital at beginning of year. .$75,000.00 Add—capital contributions: F. B. Arnold....$10,000.00 A. S. Burke.... 10,000.00 20,000.00 Total $95,000.00 Less—Withdrawals of capital by G. M. Campbelll 25,000.00 70,000.00 Capital—F. B. Arnold and A. S. Burke — December 31, 1918 $74,343.93 E X H I B I T "B" Fluctuating Money Value IF prices have risen so that the purchasing power of $1.00 now is only 60% of what it was in 1914, should this effect in any way be reflected in the accounts? A thesis submitted recently at one of the universities had as its subject "The Effects of the Fluctuations in the Value of the Monetary Unit on the Balance Sheets of Corporations." The argument set forth was substantially as follows: Commodity prices are constantly fluctuating; therefore, the purchasing power of the dollar is constantly changing. Accounting which does not consider these fluctuations does not give true expression to financial results. Consequently, balance sheets should show the effect upon the factors of financial condition of fluctuations in the value of the dollar. Index numbers were offered as the means of determining the extent of the fluctuations. We shall be interested to hear what opinions, if any, members of the staff hold with regard to the practical or theoretical propriety of such procedure. Moving AS the Bulletin goes to press this month, the New York office presents an unwonted appearance. A band of painters and plasterers has invaded the premises. They mount on ladders or crouch unexpectedly behind doors, a trap for the unwary. Partitions are falling and rising again in a new place over night. The smell of paint is borne on the spring breeze; fresh varnish gleams on the woodwork. In the midst of this changing scene, packers are busy, piling filled cases one upon the other, tagging and labeling furniture and other movable objects, in preparation for the day of removal now so near. Meanwhile work goes on as usual; like time and tide, it waits for no man. This general appearance of upheaval, which under ordinary circumstances might be thought somewhat racking to the nerves, and which in itself is unimportant, is nevertheless a sign of greater things. It accompanies an epoch in the firm's history. It is part of the shaping of the new organization. For this reason we who are living in this state of flux and apparent confusion have thought it worth while to fix the picture for the moment in our minds. In the history of the firm this is a noteworthy time. To assist in the process of evolution is a stirring experience.
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The two leading mobile smartphone operating systems, iOS and Android, have been revised to let developers create new kinds of apps. Apple recently released iOS 5 in conjunction with the debut of the iPhone 4S. Also recently, Google introduced Android 4.0, otherwise known as Ice Cream Sandwich, along with the Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone, which will ship with the OS.
Each mobile OS offers its own set of improvements. Android 4.0 is arguably a more significant update in terms of the degree to which it improves the platform, but iOS 5 has plenty to offer as well.
Both updates include a long list of changes and additions. Apple says iOS 5 has more than 200 new user features and more than 1,500 new APIs. Google doesn't provide a similar count, but its latest version of Android is ambitious and compelling.
What follows are highlights of the features of most interest to developers.
Apple iOS 5
- Cloud API: Third-party developers can create applications that store and back up data in iCloud. This makes using the same app on different iOS devices easier because application files don't have to be transferred from your iPhone to your iPad, for example. It also reduces the risk of losing data if a device is lost since it's no longer stored on the device.
- Automatic Reference Counting: ARC makes it easier to manage memory in an application. Users don't notice good memory management, but they certainly notice when it's bad and the app crashes. If ARC can reduce crashes, then developers will embrace it.
- Storyboards: This new iOS 5 feature simplifies the process of creating apps with multiple menu screens. Users won't notice this feature either, but iOS developers will. If you're making an app with a lot of screens, Storyboard should speed up development.
- Newsstand Support: Publishers that want to sell content through Apple's Newsstand app will welcome the fact that developers can now write Newsstand-enabled apps. It remains to be seen how many publishers are willing to surrender 30% of their revenue to have their content offered through Newsstand, particularly in light of the HTML5 apps developed by the likes of the Financial Times to circumvent Apple's toll booth.
- Better AirPlay: AirPlay lets iOS devices stream audio and video content to AirPlay-compatible TV and audio equipment. iOS 5 adds the ability to let apps mirror iPad 2 content on a nearby Apple TV device. This makes buying or renting iTunes video content using an iPad 2 far more appealing.
- Core Image Framework: These APIs give app developers a set of nondestructive filters that can be used to manipulate video and still images. The framework supports various filter effects like color changes, gradients, and transformations, as well as face and feature detection. These filters use both CPU and GPU processing power, so they're fast.
- GLKit: The set of APIs is designed to make OpenGL ES 2.0 apps, with their accelerated graphics, easier to build. Suffice it to say that faster is better as far as graphics are concerned.
- Twitter Framework: This framework handles Twitter user authentication and makes it easy to integrate Twitter messaging into apps.
- Message UI Framework: This framework has been updated to add support for iMessages, text messaging that can be sent between iOS devices without incurring carrier text messaging charges.
Android 4.0
- Unified UI Framework: The new, more attractive Android UI is unified across device form factors. Android developers finally can write for Android devices as a whole rather than phones or tablets separately.
- Social API: This gives developers a way to store social data from multiple social networks, including contacts, profile information, status updates, and photos. Social networks may or may not provide the information. If they do, the user must grant permission. A new People app uses the API to set up contacts as social connections.
- Calendar API: This API simplifies the process of adding calendar services to apps. A shared database lets apps add and manage events, alerts, and reminders. This could be useful when creating an app to make restaurant reservations or one to determine whether friends are available to attend an event.
- Visual Voice-Mail API: Android's Phone app supports new visual voice-mail features, including the ability to access incoming messages, voice transcriptions, and audio files from multiple voice mail service providers. The Phone app can be integrated with developer apps to allow additional manipulation and organization of the visual voice-mail inbox.
- Android Beam: The Samsung Galaxy Nexus and other near field communication-enabled Android phones can use Android Beam to share information about their apps with each other when the phones are in close proximity. By bringing one NFC-equipped Android 4.0 device within a few centimeters of another, a user could exchange contacts, configure a multiplayer game, initiate a chat session, and share an Android Market link, among other things. Android Beam can switch over to Bluetooth for large data transfers; the advantage of Android Beam is that it doesn't require manual device discovery and pairing.
- Face Unlock: Facial recognition is often deemed to be creepy, but Android 4.0 uses it as an optional way to unlock the screen. Users can also use a PIN or pattern tracing to unlock their devices.
- Enterprise Enhancements: A new VPN API makes it easier to create Android 4.0 apps that rely on secure connections. It also lets administrators remotely disable the camera on managed devices, a necessity in certain kinds of work environments.
- Hardware Accelerated 2-D Graphics: Android 4.0 supports accelerated 2-D operations like scaling and rotating, and accelerated rendering of UI components. Speed means happier users.
- Improved Media Effects: With hardware 2-D support comes various new camera features that can be accessed in apps. These include continuous focus, image zoom, custom metering regions, and face detection. Hardware acceleration also brings advanced filtering and image transformation effects that can be used on still and video images.
These are just some of the features that will interest developers in iOS 5 and Android 4.0. If you're writing mobile apps, make sure to explore the documentation thoroughly. There's a lot more to see.
Thomas Claburn is a staff writer for Information Week and can be contacted at [email protected].


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NYPD: Part of 9/11 plane's landing gear discovered
A piece of landing gear believed to be from one of the planes destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks has been discovered wedged between a New York City mosque site and another building near the World Trade Center.
Police spokesman Paul Browne said Friday the part includes a Boeing identification number.
The twisted, rusted metal part has cables and levers on it and is about 5 feet high, 3 feet wide and 1.5 feet deep.
Browne says the piece was discovered Wednesday by surveyors inspecting the lower Manhattan site of a planned Islamic community center on behalf of the building's owner. He says the inspectors called 911 and police have secured the scene, documenting it with photos.
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Business as Unusual: Building the New Food Movement with Business Law
In the next installment of our Frontiers in Food and Agriculture webinar series on November 20, Rachel Armstrong will continue our conversation on how legal expertise and legal knowledge can rebuild and reinforce a burgeoning food system in the US. In her presentation,"Business as Unusual: Building the New Food Movement with Business Law," Rachel Armstrong will expound on innovative business models and legal tools that attorneys are using to help farmers face daily and seasonal challenges such as employment and contract law issues.
Armstrong is the founder and executive director of Farm Commons, a Madison, WI-based non-profit that providing legal services to sustainable farmers. Her previous work on farms, managing community gardens, catering, and running a local foods marketing program motivated her to earn her law degree. She's written several articles and books, instructed university and attorney classes in agricultural law, and, in 2012, received the Echoing Green Fellowship, an award recognizing the world's most promising social entrepreneurs.
As previous speakers, Jason Foscolo and Laurie Ristino, have helped demonstrate, creating the legal framework to support an emerging local and regional food movement is critical and there are many creative and unexplored ways of transforming a conventional food system that does not meet changing social demands or support environmental integrity. If, as Rachel Armstrong suggests, farmers are social entrepreneurs in developing innovative business models, then the role they play in implementing a sustainable food system advances both economic and social concerns such as community health and even race relations. In this light, the ways that attorneys, consumers, researchers and students can support those endeavors become ever more important.
Rachel Armstrong's webinar will be followed by an interactive question and answer session with the audience. Please register online here: https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/454961063 and join us on Wednesday, November 20 at 12:00-1:00 PM EST. If you can't make it to the webinar but would still like to listen to Rachel Armstrong's presentation, or any of our previous webinars, please find the recordings on our website.
On December 4, Janelle Orsi, a "sharing economy lawyer" and the executive director of the Sustainable Economies Law Center, will pick up the webinar series with her presentation "Legal Structures for Just and Sustainable Food Systems" focusing on barter, sharing, cooperatives, local currencies, and local investing. For more details see: http://envirocenter.yale.edu/events/. Registration is available here: https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/390068879.
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30 August 2011
mini-bathroom renovation
Our staycation was lovely though, full of great food and summer movies and relaxing together. Around the beginning of the second week, I started thinking "my, wouldn't this be a great time to try to renovate the bathroom a bit?" I mentioned this to Matt, at which point he sighed heavily, then gamely agreed to help me. Because he's such a good hubby.
This is the master bathroom, which is remarkably large for our modest, 1920s-vintage house (we think it was added on at some point). The fixtures are all fine, if a little generic. Since moving in, we've talked about doing a gut renovation "some day," and I started a wish list: free-standing tub, vintage-style lighting, hexagon tile flooring. But the reality is that we probably won't have the moola for a total renovation for many years. So we set out to see what we could do with as little investment as possible. The total renovation is still on the wish list, but we wanted to make it a more enjoyable space right now.
I forgot to take a "before" shot, but here's an in-progress picture to show you what we were working with. The floor was a hunter green vinyl sticky tile and the walls were the color of a band-aid. Somebody at some point must have liked this color combo. I'm not a big fan. I knew just changing those two elements would make a huge difference.
We stuck with sticky tile (hee) but chose a light, faux-marble one from Lowes. The colors in the tiles are quite lovely--mostly white and cream but with enough gray and brown smudgy bits that it has a lot of depth. And it hides dirt like a dream. I actually really enjoyed laying the floor, believe it or not. It was like one giant jigsaw puzzle. I LOVE jigsaw puzzles. Matt does not. We realized this after an hour or so, so he took over the painting from that point.
The walls are a very pale blue-gray and we repainted all the trim white. We also painted the base of the vanity a medium gray. I had originally chosen a minty green color that ended up looking dreadful. Just awful. Matt gave me an "I told you so look" and helped me pick out the gray color. Much better. We also replaced the giant frame-less mirror above the vanity with a smaller, framed one that we already owned.
We replaced some of the hardware with shiny new ones. The rusty black floor vent was replaced with a bright white one. We finally mounted a toilet-paper holder on the wall (we used to just keep the roll sitting on the back of the commode...it took me three weeks after installing it to stop twisting around behind me to reach for the tp).
This odd corner beside the shower is where we store our linens. There used to be two large, deep shelves here where we piled all our linens. It was impossible to keep it organized and neat, so we took down the shelves and put in an inexpensive storage cabinet. Now I don't have to stare at a jumble of towels and sheets.
I was going to sew a new shower curtain but then found this awesome one at Target. We also picked up the wooden floor mat and the cheerful yellow trash can there. I like the yellow accents and warm wood tones against the cool gray background.
I don't normally keep fresh flowers in my bathroom but maybe I should. I also hid all my ugly toiletries and only left out the pretty ones for these photos. I maybe watch too much HGTV. Speaking of which, there is an episode of Design Inc (here are some pics) that really inspired this bathroom. I love me some Sarah Richardson. I don't know that I am posh enough to live in any of her houses, but I do love watching her shows. Especially Sarah's Summer House. It is a modern day Blue Castle. (And if you haven't read The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery and have no idea what I am talking about, you need to read it. It is one of my favorite books of all time.)
I had to include this picture because Abby looks like a ghost. A sweet, friendly puppy ghost.
The whole "mini-reno" probably set us back about $200 and a few days of labor. One day we will get our claw-foot tub and ceramic tile, but in the meantime I know we will really enjoy this space.
4 comments:
- Jennie said...
It looks soooo faboo! Such a difference for so little money! It looks fresh and clean and modern -- before it was pretty ugly. And dark. Now it will be a much more pleasant space -- and it'll match the master bedroom better. :)
- Julie said...
I love it too! So fresh, and clean! I know someone who has had a claw-foot tub, and they told me that it is difficult to clean under and around. So, just saying, that you may want to keep that in mind before you dream about having one one day! Enjoy your new space, and put fresh flowers in there, whenever you can. They look great! Now, I'm going to have to look on Amazon.com to see if I can download the Kindle version of "The Blue Castle" on my iPad!
- Margo said...
so pretty and fresh!
I LOVE The Blue Castle!! Almost as much as Mary Stewart (which is how I found your blog) - I was just looking for my copy of The Blue Castle last week to re-read. Instead, I re-read Touch Not the Cat. Fab.
- Back2life bathrooms said...
This is awesome! I've been trying to do some bathroom renovation , and this gave me some great insight for things to try. Thanks for sharing!


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Hyde Park makes Canter's case
By DASCHELL M. PHILLIPS
Staff Writer
Hyde Park parents, teachers, students and community members gathered this week at two Chicago Public Schools (CPS) community meetings to urge the district to keep Canter Middle School open.
On March 21, CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett announced that several schools across the city, including Canter, 4959 S. Blackstone Ave., would be closed next school year due, in most part, to underutilization and balancing the CPS budget. More than 100 community members showed up to the meeting, which was held Monday evening at Kenwood Academy High School, 5015 S. Blackstone Ave., to protest the proposed school closing.
At Monday's meeting, Colleen Conlan, principal at Canter, said the school is currently working with a coordinator appointed by CPS to create a transition plan should the board decide to close the school and move the students to Ray Elementary School, 5631 S. Kimbark Ave., and Bret Harte Elementary School, 1556 E. 56th St. She said there was mention that the Canter building would be used as a parent university center but she has not heard anything else about the future plans for the building.
Community members spoke at the meeting to a three-person CPS advisory panel. They said that they were sticking with CPS's first plan that Hyde Park needs a middle school.
"Ten years ago, the board of education paid experts and administrators to come in and tell us about the importance of having a middle school," said Camille Hamilton-Doyle, co-chairwoman of the Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference Schools Committee and Canter local school council (LSC) member. "They sold us on middle school and we went for it — now you're saying we don't need it?"
Lena Fritz, Shoesmith LSC member, said the hearings are an insult to the community.
"Community members have been working hard to lift up our schools," Fritz said. "This is a hearing without exchange or dialogue about questions we have. We should be the ones listening to your pitch not the other way around."
Hannah Hayes, parent of a Ray Elementary and Canter alum, said, for its purpose, Canter is not underutilized.
"When my son was in 6th grade at Ray we found out the school was losing 7th and 8th grade, we were told middle school would be better," Hayes said. "Four CEOs later we're being told K through 8 is better. I wish the board would use its own rhetoric. Canter is right-sized."
Patrick Papczun, a new teacher at Canter who was an architect before coming to the school, said Canter did not get a fair examination.
"[Canter] is a great place that is doing so many things right but no one has come to see what we do, their opinion of us is based on what they hear," Papczun said. "There is now someone coming out three times a week to make sure we don't steal stuff and we still teach. How insulting. No one was coming before."
Teachers, administrators and parents said overlooking the special needs of middle school students during the young adolescent phase could be detrimental to learning.
"Middle school was a right of passage," said Chantell Allen, a Ray Elementary School parent who teaches at a different middle school. "Exposing kids to a 7th and 8th [grade] school culture and then sending them back to the babies is not right."
Bessie Tsitsopoules, a school social worker at Canter, said she is concerned about the academic and social emotional state of the students who may be moved out of Canter.
"When you take school relationships away from them grades go down because of instability," Tsitsopoules said. "Without relationships, education doesn't work."
Walter Winsor, math teacher and 8th grade homeroom teacher, said many K-8 schools ask teachers to teach several different subjects whether they are strong in them or not.
"The Canter staff is stronger than it has ever been — they are experts in their fields," Winsor said. "When I applied to other schools they wanted me to teach math and language arts. I know nothing about language arts. I am a math teacher. That is what [Canter students] are going to have at other schools."
Canter students also spoke to the CPS panelists on behalf of keeping their schools open.
Nelson Williams, a 7th grader at Canter, said he is a straight A student who is doing well in school because Canter is a middle school and it should be "kept alive."
"At first I wasn't excited about going to Canter until they said it was only a 7th and 8th grade school," Williams said. "I liked the building, the lunches and teachers … my best friend is there. If Canter closes I won't be able to take algebra."
Conlan said academic supports —especially for math — are extremely important at the middle school level.
"Algebra is the gatekeeper class in high school," Conlan said after the meeting. "Most students fail and if you fail algebra in high school you will most likely go on to fail other math courses. If you pass in middle school you tend to do better in high school."
Reagan Allen, an 8th grader at Canter, said he received the support he needed to become a better student at Canter.
"When I fist came to Canter I was a lost soul. It turned my education around when my teachers started to believe in me," Allen said. "If you close Canter so many other souls won't be able to be helped."
Samara Spencer, an 8th grader at Canter, said she receives the care and attention she needs at Canter.
"The teachers are loving, caring [and] helpful with troubles," Spencer said. "They even take time after school to make sure we understand what we are learning so we can pass the class."
Dianna Richardson, an 8th grader at Canter, said Canter is like a second home to her.
"My sister and aunt also went there. It was like home," Richardson said. "The teachers are like a second set of parents. They push me to do better. Canter is a community that sticks together; it is a place to learn and feel loved."
Pamella Williams, parent of children at Canter and Bret Harte, said a change in schools could mean a change in citizen dynamics in the community.
Williams said her children and many of the other families in the neighborhood volunteer at the school, take advantage of free family programs and lectures at the University of Chicago and join local athletic teams because they are all nearby.
Community member Dylan Cole said she decided to come to the meeting because she's tired of hearing about all the changes CPS is putting neighborhood schools through.
"What you do with public schools has an effect on my house," Cole said. "I've been hearing all this stuff on the news and researching for myself. I pay five figures in taxes on my home. Stop playing with theories and go back to full education."
Canter parent Donna Hart said the closing of Canter might mean her family will have to leave Chicago.
"I moved to Chicago two years ago from Minnesota," Hart said. "If Canter closes I have no other option but to uproot and go back to Minnesota. I don't want my daughter on the frontline of transition issues."
Leslie Travis, a librarian at Ray who lives near Canter, said she is concerned about how an unused building would affect the community.
"The school does a good job patrolling outside before and after school," Travis said. "I am concerned about an empty building near Kenwood High School and Blackstone Library. We need to keep the space alive and vibrant so the community can send their kids to school here."
Community member Angela Paranjape said Mayor Rahm Emanuel is misusing his authority over the public education system.
"Where are Shoesmith 7th and 8th graders going to go, how many teaching positions will be available, how do I know [Canter students] are going to take algebra when only two kids are moved to Bret Harte or Ray when we have a full class here at Canter?" Paranjape said. "Emanuel is not using his public responsibility to make it what [University of Chicago] Lab School is. He is squashing down public school kids so his kids have no competition."
Community member Victoria Long said none of the public schools in Chicago should be closing.
"This whole process is flawed. There is no dialogue but none of us have the power to really change things," Long said. "I hope Rahm knows that the voters of this city are going to remember this."
Ald. Leslie Hairston (5th) said she was never consulted when CPS recommended that Canter be closed and the children be sent to schools in her ward. She said she just met Thursday with Burnham Park area school chief John Price and Byrd-Bennett Thursday and was not informed that the Ray principal and vice principal would be escorted out of the school, for reasons Price will not comment on.
"I was elected to represent people who live in the 5th ward," Hairston said. "We will not allow you to disrespect us. We will speak with our voice and our votes."
After thunderous applause the crowd began to chant and urge Ald. Will Burns (4th) to speak but he declined. About 20 to 30 minutes later the chants for Burns to speak arose again but he had already left the meeting.
A few parents offered alternative solutions to closing Canter.
Gordon Mayer, Ray parent and Ray LSC chairman, said he'd prefer that Canter not be closed but if it must be then CPS should phase out 7th and 8th grades at Canter while phasing in 7th and 8th grades at Ray.
Ray parent Laura Shaeffer said there might be a way that CPS's new plans for Canter can coexist with the existing plan.
"Keep Canter open and the parent university could be open in the evenings," Shaeffer said. "All underutilized schools could be more creative in how space is used and share with community organizations."
The support for Canter moved Conlan to tears.
"I appreciate the community parents and feeder schools for their support," Conlan said. "Middle school is so important socially and emotionally at this age. They need special attention for different issues."
Supporters filed back in to Kenwood on Friday for a second meeting where Hairston once again spoke out and Burns broke his silence.
"I will be and continue to be at every meeting … with my people behind me," said Hairston, who was incensed by the fact that the school board planned to move Canter students to schools in her ward and change the leadership at Ray Elementary School without notifying her. "The people in intergovernmental affairs at CPS need to be fired, and that money should go to Canter Middle School."
Burns, who has been reluctant to speak during these hearings, was chided by chants from the community and urged make a comment.
"We are living in a crisis of austerity, but that crisis does not come from the city of Chicago," Burns said, adding that the state and federal government are to blame for the city's mass school closings. "If CPS is going to close Canter, they need to phase it out."
The panel will take notes from the hearings back to Byrd-Bennett and the board will vote on whether Canter should be closed at their May 22 meeting.
The next CPS community meeting to discuss the proposed closing of Canter will take place from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, April 12 at Kenwood High School. A final public hearing will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17 at CPS Central Office, 125 S. Clark St.


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The Dodge City Lady Demons withstood a fourth quarter challenge by the Hays Lady Indians, scoring the final nine points in a 41-32 Western Athletic Conference victory Tuesday night at HHS Gymnasium.
The Lady Demons had to play without leading scorer Katrina Roenfeldt due to an ankle injury; but many of the Dodge City players overcame moving to positions they weren't used to on the floor and gained some valuable varsity experience in the win.
"I was very proud how the girls fought through some adversity and in the way they finished," said Dodge City head coach Kelley Snodgrass. "(Hays) forced us to do some things defensively.
"With the adversity and people injured, I felt as though that they stepped up to the challenge."
Jessie Harshberger scored 18 points to lead the Lady Demons (10-9, 4-3) as she had to be more of a catalyst for the Dodge City offense. Harshberger scored 14 of her points in the first half.
"We found Jessie some open looks against their defense and she also was able to crash the boards and also got three steals," Snodgrass said. "We were looking for her to step up. She can knock them down anywhere; she just has to have the confidence to do it."
Brianna Bradshaw added eight points for the Lady Demons.
Hays remained winless on the season after 19 games, but gave themselves a chance to claim the victory on Senior Night at home. Mattison Schlaefli led the Lady Indians with 12 points in the loss.
Neither team shot the ball well in the contest. Dodge City was 14-of-47 overall (4-of-22 in the second half), while Hays made only 12 of its 43 attempts (4-of-20 after intermission).
Dodge City outrebounded Hays 44-26 in the game, including 20-8 on the offensive end).
Harshberger (six points) and Schlaefli (five) were most of the offense in the first quarter with the Lady Demons building a 9-7 lead.
Dodge City scored nine of the first 11 points of the second quarter to build its biggest lead of the game at nine; but a late three-point play by Schlaefli cut the margin to 24-18 by halftime. Harshberger scored eight points in the stanza.
Both teams made only one basket apiece in the third quarter — Dodge City shot 1-of-11 and Hays 1-of-9 — and tallied only four points to keep the Lady Demons' lead at six with a 28-22 cushion.
The Lady Indians scored 10 of the first 14 points of the final quarter to tie the game at 32-apiece before the Lady Demons clamped down on defense and were able to use the offensive rebounds to get back ahead with their game-ending run.
Dodge City's final regular season game is a contest against the Liberal Lady Redskins at DCHS Field House. Tipoff is scheduled for 6 p.m.
DODGE CITY (41) — Brianna Bradshaw 8, Rachel Durler 3, Chandra Sain 6, Jessie Harshberger 18, Baily Shelor 5, Taylor Nichols 1. Totals 14 12-23 41.
HAYS (32) — Mattison Schlaefli 12, Haley Wells 4, Haley George 2, Talyn Kleweno 3, Nicole Dinkel 2, Kaylie Schoendaller 2, Audra Schmeidler 5, Taylor Younger 2. Totals 12 5-7 32.
Dodge City 9 15 4 13 — 41
Hays 7 11 4 10 — 32
Three-point baskets — Dodge City 1 (Sain 1), Hays 3 (Schlaefli 1, Schmeidler 1, Kleweno 1). Records — Dodge City 10-9 (4-2), Hays 0-19 (0-7).
Lady Demons hold off Hays challenge
The Dodge City Lady Demons withstood a fourth quarter challenge by the Hays Lady Indians, scoring the final nine points in a 41-32 Western Athletic Conference victory Tuesday night at HHS Gymnasium.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Twelve distinguished individuals will be inducted into the NAIA Hall of Fame during the 2013-14 academic year. This distinction is a recognition of each individual's service to intercollegiate athletics, the Association and their sport. Induction into the NAIA Hall of Fame, and the ensuing title of Hall of Famer, is the highest individual honor bestowed by the Association.
Since it was established in 1952, the NAIA Hall of Fame has welcomed just 1,172 members for an average of 19 inductees per year. The Hall of Fame consists of a division for each sport currently or formerly sponsored by the Association—with the inductees in each division broken down into three categories: athletes, coaches and meritorious service. The Hall of Fame also includes a separate division for general meritorious service to the NAIA.
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The inductees will be recognized throughout the year at their respective NAIA National Championships, national coaches' association meetings or at the 73rd NAIA National Convention in Kansas City, Mo. More detailed information about each inductee will be released prior to these ceremonies.
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