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Thomas Benton Cooley, né le  à Ann Arbor, dans le Michigan et mort le  à Bangor, dans le Maine, est un pédiatre et hématologue américain.  Il est surtout connu pour sa découverte, en 1925, de la thalassémie majeure, longtemps appelée maladie ou anémie de Cooley.

Biographie

Cooley est le fils de Thomas McIntyre Cooley, professeur et doyen de l'Université de Droit du Michigan,  juge en chef de la Cour suprême du Michigan, et premier président de l'Interstate Commerce Commission.

Il fréquente les écoles publiques d'Ann Arbor,  diplômé de la Ann Arbor High School.  Il s'inscrit à l'Université du Michigan et y obtient un baccalauréat ès arts en 1891 et un doctorat en médecine en 1895. Il est stagiaire à l'hôpital de Boston de 1895 à 1897, puis instructeur de l'hygiène à l'Université du Michigan de 1898 à 1900. Il effectue ensuite un séjour d'études d'un an en Allemagne.  En 1902, il retourne à l'hôpital de la ville de Boston en tant que médecin résident et entreprend une formation en maladies contagieuses.

Il est directeur de l'Institut Pasteur (centre anti-rabique) à l'Université du Michigan de 1903 à 1904.  En 1905, il est pédiatre de la ville de Détroit, directeur médical de l'allaitement des nourrissons.

Au cours de la Première Guerre mondiale, il est chef adjoint du Bureau des Enfants de la Croix-Rouge américaine en France, chargé de porter secours aux orphelins de guerre. Pour son action, il est décoré en 1924 de la Légion d'honneur.

À partir de 1921, il est médecin-chef à l'hôpital pour enfants du Michigan, et à partir de 1936, professeur de pédiatrie au Collège de médecine de l'Université Wayne. Il a été aussi membre puis président de l'Académie Américaine de Pédiatrie, et de la Société Américaine de Pédiatrie.

Il prend sa retraite en 1941 et décède en 1945.

Travaux
En 1904, il publie un rapport détaillant les résultats relatifs au suivi de trente-huit patients mordus par des animaux suspects de rage, et soignés par le traitement Pasteur à l'Université du Michigan. Aucun d'entre eux n'a développé la rage.

En 1905, en tant que directeur médical du Babies' Milk Fund de Détroit (promotion de l'allaitement), il travaille en collaboration avec de jeunes pédiatres, infirmières, travailleurs sociaux, avocats...  il contribue ainsi à réduire les diarrhées graves des nourrissons, une des premières causes de la forte mortalité infantile dans les villes de cette époque.

Durant la guerre de 1914-1918, en France, en tant que responsable de la Croix-Rouge, il participe activement à la création de dispensaires de santé infantile, à la formation de personnel qualifié en hygiène et diététique, à l'éducation des mères, pour venir en aide aux 400 000 orphelins de guerre.

L'anémie de Cooley
En 1925, Cooley observe cinq enfants présentant une anémie particulière. Cette anémie s'accompagne d'une importante splénomégalie (grosse rate) et de lésions osseuses localisées sur le crâne. Cooley remarque l'aspect mongoloïde du visage, et considère d'abord cette anémie comme congénitale mais non comme héréditaire.

En 1927, Cooley et ses collaborateurs précisent les caractères des globules rouges chez ces malades, ils sont de taille inégale, pauvres en hémoglobine rassemblée au centre (« target cells » ou cellules en forme de cible). Il apparait rapidement que cette maladie est familiale : tous les malades américains sont fils ou filles d'immigrants grecs ou italiens.

Des médecins italiens signalent alors des cas analogues, mais relativement bénins. Des recherches ultérieures montreront que cette maladie est une anomalie génétique du métabolisme de l'hémoglobine, portée par un chromosome non sexuel, et qui se transmet de génération en génération. La forme hétérozygote est bénigne, voire inapparente (un seul parent transmet l'anomalie), la forme homozygote est très grave (les deux parents transmettent la maladie), la mort survenant avant l'adolescence en l'absence de traitement. La maladie ou l'anémie de Cooley représente la forme homozygote.

En 1936, cette maladie sera appelée thalassémie, apparemment particulière aux méditerranéens, mais elle se rencontre aussi en Afrique et en Extrême-Orient. Le fait que les anomalies génétiques sont diverses a conduit  à la désigner comme thalassémies au pluriel. La maladie ou anémie de Cooley est l'ancien nom de ce qu'on appelle aujourd'hui β-thalassémie majeure.

Des historiens se demandent comment une telle maladie a pu être découverte aux États-Unis, plutôt qu'en méditerranée. Le paradoxe ne serait qu'apparent : Cooley intéressé à réduire la mortalité infantile, a remarqué cette maladie à Detroit parce qu'elle était rare, donc digne d'être remarquée. En Italie et en Grèce, elle aurait échappé au regard médical, car trop familière et mêlée à une plus forte mortalité infantile.

Publications
 T.B. Cooley and P. Lee, Series of cases of splenomegaly in children with anemia and particuliar bones change, Transactions of American Pediatric Society, 37, 1925, p.29.
 T.B. Cooley and coll, Anemia in children with splenomegaly and particuliar changes in the bones, American Journal of Diseases Children, 34, 1927, p.347-363.

Références
 Des éléments biographiques proviennent d'une adaptation de l'article correspondant de Wikipedia en Anglais.

Liens externes
http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1931.html

Pédiatre américain
Naissance en juin 1871
Décès en octobre 1945
Étudiant de l'université Michigan Health System
Décès à 74 ans
Décès dans le comté de Penobscot
Naissance à Ann Arbor

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Research explores link between pesticides and colony collapse disorder
Honey bees' colony collapse disorder might be related to pesticide exposure. For the past decade, beekeepers have treated their hives with pesticides to combat two kinds of mites that parasitize the bees and entomologist Walter (Steve) Sheppard said that the pesticides can accumulate in the wax and reach a concentration that over time harms the bees.
The sudden disappearance of honey bees in many parts of the country might be related to pesticide exposure, according to Washington State University entomologist Walter (Steve) Sheppard.
Beekeepers have struggled as hives have failed soon after the bees embark on their pollen-gathering season. In what has become known as "colony collapse disorder," honey bees leave the hive and don't return.
"I don't think we really know what we're up against with colony collapse disorder," said Sheppard. This summer, his research team is exploring the possibility that exposure to pesticides in the hives is contributing to colony collapse.
For the past decade, beekeepers have treated their hives with pesticides to combat two kinds of mites that parasitize the bees.
"To keep bees, especially on a commercial level, beekeepers have needed to use some sort of chemical control of these mites," said Sheppard. "Normally, Varroa mites will kill a colony within two years, if they're not treated and the use of these pesticides brings with them a risk of accumulation in the wax."
Honey bees rear their young in waxy honeycomb which is re-used for several years. If pesticides used to control mites build up in the wax, over time they could reach a concentration at which they harm the bees as well. Sheppard is testing whether something in the honeycomb of a failed colony will carry over and affect the health of a new brood of honey bees.
"We've gotten some combs that were from colonies that suffered from colony collapse disorder, and we'll be doing some experiments to compare them with combs from healthy colonies. We'll have our [healthy] queens laying eggs on both the collapsed colony combs and the control combs at the same time."
Sheppard said the study should yield information about the potential role of pesticides in causing colony collapse by the end of the year.
Sheppard said honey bees could also be exposed to pesticides during their foraging flights, if they visit fields and gardens that were recently treated with the chemicals. That source of exposure has been a concern for beekeepers since pesticides came into wide use in the 1950s, he said.
Honey bee health is crucial to the nation's farmers and fruit growers, who rely on honey bees to pollinate crops such as apples, cranberries and watermelons. Together, honey bee pollinated crops are worth more than nine billion dollars a year to the American economy.
Sheppard directs the Apis Molecular Systematics Laboratory at WSU. He was a member of the Honey Bee Genome Project, an international consortium of scientists that earlier this year published the complete DNA sequence of the honey bee, Apis mellifera.
Walter S. (Steve) Sheppard, WSU Department of Entomology, 509/335-5180, shepp@wsu.edu
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Farmers can use less nitrogen while sustaining their lands
Ongoing field trials since 2002 by a team that includes 16 farmers, Cornell researchers and Cornell Cooperative Extension field crops educators in 10 counties are showing the value of on-farm research. Their results are successfully quantifying and predicting the nitrogen needs for growing corn, saving farmers money and reducing environmental impact.
"With this program, we focus on determining under what situations extra nitrogen would be good to add and when a farmer can save money by reducing fertilizer applications without impacting yield and quality," says Quirine Ketterings, associate professor of crop and soil sciences, who co-leads the research team. "This is the best way to minimize the potential negative environmental and economic impacts of excess nitrogen fertilizer use."
The project evaluated five treatments when growing corn: no starter fertilizer and no additional nitrogen; a starter of 30 lbs nitrogen only; and starter of 30 lbs nitrogen plus 50, 100 of 150 lbs of added nitrogen on corn newly planted in fields that grew alfalfa (a legume), grass or an alfalfa/grass mix the year before.
None of the 16 first-year corn trials evaluated in 2005-06 responded to additional nitrogen after the starter fertilizer, said Cornell graduate student Joseph Lawrence. This indicates that the forage grass and/or legume gave enough nitrogen back to the soil to feed the following year's corn crop, he said. Forage quality was not negatively impacted either.
For example, after farmer Mike Kiechle of Garden of Eden Farm in Philadelphia, N.Y., cut the excess nitrogen in his applications in the 2005 research trial that evaluated all treatments at his farm. With excess nitrogen, the corn grew taller but the ears were smaller and produced less grain.
"The corn that received less nitrogen was shorter, sturdier and produced more corn in the silage," Kiechle said. "I had been happy to harvest 18 tons of corn silage on my clay soils, so when we harvested 20 tons in 2006, I was excited." This year, Kiechle is applying half the nitrogen he used last year. "This on-farm research trial showed I was just wasting money to apply more. I cut back, and that has saved me about $10-$12 per acre."
And when farmer Dan Mulvaney used only 30 lbs of starter nitrogen on second-year corn at his farm in Conesus, N.Y., his corn silage yields increased 4 to 5 tons per acre, and his shelled corn increased from 100 to 140 bushels per acre.
In Freeville, N.Y., Beck Farm crop manager Jerry Coller manages 2,000 acres of crops and does not have enough manure to meet the nitrogen needs of those crops. He says the precision nitrogen project showed him that his grass crops provide more nitrogen than he thought, so less manure is required to fertilize those lands to grow corn. Coller has reconfigured applications to better distribute the farm's manure resources to other fields.
In New York state, some 460,000 acres produced 8.28 million tons of silage in 2006. Nitrogen fertilizer is growing increasingly expensive (about 40 cents per pound last year), so any reduction in nitrogen use improves farmers' bottom line and prevents nutrient losses into the environment.
This project, in its final year, is funded with grants from the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program and New York Farm Viability Institute and the Cornell Agricultural Research Station. The project team will also provide conclusions about use of soil nitrogen tests to determine when corn grown in New York needs nitrogen.
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Dentists improve oral health for sub-Saharan Africans
NEW YORK, June 15, 2007 – A new initiative from Columbia University Medical Center will be the first to target chronic oral health problems in sub-Saharan Africa, where the vast majority of chronic diseases are left undetected and untreated. The initiative is the result of an anonymous $1.5 million gift to support the Millennium Villages, which aims to fight extreme poverty and related challenges such as disease, hunger and lack of access to water and sanitation though scientifically sound and sustainable interventions. A third of the gift will be devoted to supporting the oral health program.
Chronic diseases will soon become the leading cause of health problems in the developing world, and oral health conditions are one of the most common chronic disorders, according to the World Health Organization. Initial Columbia research in the village of Koraro, Ethiopia, found that more than half of the population complained of oral pain. The generous donation will fund the first extensive initiative, led by Columbia's College of Dental Medicine, to directly target oral health problems in sub-Saharan Africa with a sustainable prevention and treatment program.
"Oral health is important to total health, so it's essential that efforts to improve the lives of impoverished communities include a dental component," said Ira Lamster, DDS, dean of the College of Dental Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. "The faculty and students of Columbia's College of Dental Medicine are committed to addressing the global epidemic of chronic oral health problems through treatment and prevention programs."
"There is currently no access to dental care whatsoever in the remote villages of the world," said Steven Syrop, DDS, associate clinical professor of dentistry at the College of Dental Medicine, who is leading the dental component of the Millennium Villages. "There are only 48 dentists in the entire country of Ethiopia, and most are in the capital, Addis Ababa. We're going to bring dental care to villages where there are no dentists."
The health component of the Millennium Villages grew out of the United Nations Millennium Project and the World Health Organization Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, both of which showed the direct link between improving public health and economic growth. Those reports explained that health improvements can only happen through a broad range of inter-related public health reforms.
The Millennium Villages project, supported by The Earth Institute at Columbia University, Millennium Promise, the United Nations Development Programme, and the UN Millennium Project, currently includes 12 sites in 10 sub-Saharan countries. It reaches more than 400,000 people with plans to increase its reach over time. The project empowers the local health care sector by supporting basic health interventions, building or upgrading clinics, and expanding the pool of community or village health workers. The participating villages are integral partners in the project and take responsibility for the interventions.
In addition to the oral health initiative, the new funding will support Columbia-led interventions to address chronic cardiovascular and mental health disorders in the region.
The dental component of the project is the result of research by Dr. Syrop and his team, who traveled to Koraro, Ethiopia, in the fall of 2006 to assess the oral health situation in the village of 5,100 people. In addition to the common complaint of oral pain, the team found a high incidence of hardened plaque (calculus) and gingival bleeding. Ninety-five percent of the people they examined had significant dental erosion because of the presence of sand in their food as a result of the arid environment and lack of water for rinsing crops.
"We were surprised by the extent of the oral health crisis in Ethiopia," said Dr. Syrop. "In an area where the population has little access to sugary food and fermentable carbohydrates, we didn't expect the problem to be as bad as it is. Developing a sustainable oral health program is an essential ingredient to improving the lives of these people."
Teams of five or so Columbia faculty, staff and students will travel this fall to sub-Saharan countries, including Tanzania, Rwanda and Senegal, to collect data and assess the population's oral health needs. They will use the data to develop a program for three or four villages initially, and then ultimately incorporate oral health as an integral component of improving health care at all of the Millennium Village sites.
The Columbia teams will train local health care workers to provide basic essential dental care, including extractions and control of infections. Additionally, the teams will introduce a comprehensive prevention program in the schools and the overall community by working with local teachers to develop a curriculum that is appropriate and sustainable for the individual village. They also will develop a prevention program to educate mothers about caring for the oral health of their young children.
"Treating and preventing oral health problems is one spoke in the wheel of improving conditions in sub-Saharan Africa," said Dr. Syrop. "By improving their health, we enable this population to be more productive, helping them to improve their economic situation and lift themselves out of poverty."
Columbia University Medical Center provides international leadership in pre-clinical and clinical research, in medical and health sciences education, and in patient care. The medical center trains future leaders and includes the dedicated work of many physicians, scientists, nurses, dentists, and public health professionals at the College of Physicians & Surgeons, the College of Dental Medicine, the School of Nursing, the Mailman School of Public Health, the biomedical departments of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and allied research centers and institutions. http://www.cumc.columbia.edu
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Freedom? I don't think so.
When I stepped onto my front porch this morning, I thought I was in Costa Rica.
At 7 AM on most June mornings in Greensboro, North Carolina, it is already unsettlingly warm, a harbinger of the choking, sweltering afternoon to come.
But this morning, the air was different. Cool, gray, moist. So humid it wasn't even mist, really, so much as tiny droplets of rain suspended in midair.
I breathed in the sickeningly sweet perfume of our privet's tiny white blossoms, not unlike the cloying scent of the pink guavas that flavor Costa Rican air. I breathed, again, closing my eyes until the waves of nostalgia slackened enough for me to climb upon my bike and pedal down the sidewalk.
As I crested the hill on Spring Garden Street, I was astonished to see the buildings of downtown completely obscured by an impenetrable curtain of gray. No number racing today. I usually like to use the clock atop the JP Morgan tower to time myself as I creep up the final ascent toward downtown, but this morning I couldn't even tell the tower existed. I'd just have to pedal hard and hope for the best.
As I circled the roundabout onto McGee, I caught a whiff of sizzling sausage in the air. Instantly, the Costa Rican neblina became a familiar English fog. I thought of the little sausage rolls my brother ate at a Tesco's deli in York, eleven years ago. I breathed in deeply and now I was riding, not through Costa Rican jungle pathways, but down English high streets, the alleys behind our village's bakery. Longing stirred again deep in my chest.
But now was no time to dream. Elm Street, the main artery of downtown, means dodging streams of commuter cars, buses, trucks, pedestrians, and the occasional fellow biker. As I flew past a line of vehicles waiting impatiently at a light, I set my sights on a dump truck some four blocks ahead. "Prepare to meet your match, dumpy," I whispered, and started pedaling like crazy.
The dump truck got stuck at the next light, while I whizzed past a coffee shop, a bakery, a theater, a club. I zoomed over a cross walk, circumventing another motionless lane of traffic. Now I could hear the rumble of the dump truck's engine. Perfect – now it had gotten stuck at the Smith Street intersection. I rode as hard as I could.
As the light changed, as the dump truck shifted into gear, I shot through the intersection, surging into the lead. Grinning from ear to ear, I gloated as I screeched to a stop in the parking deck. The truck rumbled past.
As I chained up my bike and pounded downstairs to the office, my face was glowing with heat, despite that cool, unearthly mist. My heart was pounding, my leg muscles were alive and awake. As my sleepy co-workers shuffled into their cubicles, yawning and clutching cups of coffee, I tucked my bike helmet under my desk and smiled.
Waiting for my boss to arrive, I sipped my tea and read the morning paper. "Drivers go it alone on way to workplace," proclaimed a headline on page A3. Despite gas prices over $3 a gallon, the article told me, the percentage of commuters driving to work alone has reached an all-time high of 77%.
"It's very hard to find someone to ride with, and it's very hard to find public transportation," explains Alan Pisarski, author of Commuting in America. "There aren't a lot of options for people." Part of the problem, the article clarifies, is the housing and work patterns of most suburban commuters, and the few alternative options available in most areas.
However, other transportation experts attribute the trend to an American need for freedom and independence. "The freedom of mobility that comes with the use of a personal automobile is something we are very, very reluctant to give up as individuals," says Geoff Sundstrom of AAA. "Commuters," he says, "are willing to drive more fuel-efficient autos but are loath to give up the keys entirely, regardless of gas prices… many people equate carpooling and mass transit with 'a decline in their personal standard of living.'"
I set the paper down. Freedom? What had I experienced this morning, if not freedom? I'd been to two continents. I'd daydreamed, raced, dawdled, soared. Standard of living? This morning I'd gotten a jolt of free exercise, a boost of confidence and excitement; meanwhile the drivers I whizzed were stuck at stoplights, trapped in machines that greedily guzzle their gasoline, money, and time.
It's true that in some ways, relinquishing your car is losing the ultimate convenience: total mobility, at your whim, all the time. When I carpool out to our construction yard, it's true that I am not free to leave the instant my work is done. I do have to wait until my co-workers are done, too, and I have to endure a longer ride home as we go by Catherine's house and Jeremy's apartment before mine.
But in another light, I am more free: free from dependence on foreign oil, free from the burden of caring for a car, of earning money to upkeep its needs and feed its hungry gas tank. Free from the guilt of contributing to our nation's insatiable, war-mongering need for more, more, more. Free from the responsibility of the realization that, in order to avert the energy crisis that we are on the brink of, some things have to change. Our definition of freedom, for instance. Our definition of what it means to live well.
by Sadie Kneidel
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Should insurance companies have access to your genetic Information
There is no good reason to deny insurers access to genetic information, argues a Professor of Ethics in a debate published in this week's British Medical Journal.
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Only if we refuse to give insurers access to all health information can we reasonably stop them seeking genetic test results, says Professor Soren Holm from Cardiff Law School.
If insurers were denied access to any health information they would only be able to differentiate premiums according to very general risk markers, for example, age, gender or occupation. This would mean in effect that the healthy subsidise the unhealthy – but there would be equality.
However, if we allow insurers to have some kinds of health information, such as a person's BMI or cholesterol level we no longer have any principled reason for excluding genetic information:
"Genetic information is not special. It is not inherently more specific, predictive, sensitive or private than other kinds of health information."
Professor Holm concedes there are worries about sharing genetic information - allowing insurers to see genetic information could deter people from getting tested or insurers may use the information inappropriately. This may be the case, he says, but the same is true for other health information – for example whether someone is HIV positive.
He argues a better solution to this problem would be to make challengeable a decision to deny coverage for life or health insurance, thereby forcing insurers to make their reasoning transparent.
On the other side of the argument Professor Richard Ashcroft from the University of London says access to genetic information should not be allowed as it could lead to irrational discrimination. This arises, he says, from false beliefs about genetic information. It can be misunderstood or its significance over-estimated.
He says if insurers had access to complete health information, including genetic test results, it could lead to a situation which was "actuarially fair" but "socially unfair":
"If the point of insurance is to cover the costs of ill luck, the only sort of ill luck you could not insure against would be the misfortune to have a late onset serious genetic disorder. Arguably such people would need insurance more than most yet would be less able than most to get it."
In the face of uncertainty surrounding the interpretation of genetic information, occasional discriminatory practice by individual insurers and a lack of solutions to the problem of social justice, he says, it is preferable to maintain the status quo, at least in the medium term.
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Adam J. Foss is a former Assistant District Attorney in the Juvenile Division of the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office (SCDAO) in Boston, MA, and a fierce advocate for criminal justice reform and the importance of the role of the prosecutor in ending mass incarceration. Mr. Foss believes that the profession of prosecution is ripe for reinvention requiring better incentives and more measurable metrics for success beyond, simply, "cases won" leading him to found Prosecutor Impact - a non-profit developing training and curriculum for prosecutors to reframe their role in the criminal justice system.
During his eight years as a prosecutor, Mr. Foss collaborated with the courts and the community to develop programming that continues to have a positive impact on the neighborhoods he prosecuted in. One example of these efforts is the Roxbury CHOICE program, an initiative Mr. Foss co-founded, to turn probation from a punitive sentence into a beneficial relationship with the court, the probation department, and the District Attorney's Office. He is also the founder of the SCDAO Reading Program, a program he started, to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students. Before leaving the District Attorney's Office, Mr. Foss was a critical piece of the foundation of the first juvenile diversion program in Suffolk County, keeping young people out of the cradle to prison pipeline.
Most recently, Mr. Foss appeared in the critically-acclaimed CNN feature-length documentary "American Jail." The Mandela Foundation recognized Mr. Foss as the 2017 Nelson Mandela Changemaker of the Year. Fast Company named him one of the Most Creative People in Business of 2017. The NAACP awarded Mr. Foss with the 2017 Roy Wilkins Next Generation Leader Award. The Root named Mr. Foss one of the 100 most influential black Americans of 2016. He was named Graduate of the Last Decade by his alma mater, Suffolk University Law School and is a visiting senior fellow at Harvard Law School. He sits on the boards of Restore Justice California and of the Pretrial Justice Institute. He also is a fellow at the Open Society Foundation Leadership in Government initiative as well as a Director's Fellow in the world renown MIT Media Lab. In February of 2016, Mr. Foss delivered a TED talk that has already eclipsed 2 million views. In 2015, he was voted one of the country's 40 most up-and-coming lawyers by National Law Journal and in 2013, the Massachusetts Bar Association voted him Prosecutor of the Year. In both his professional and personal capacities, Mr. Foss volunteers much of his time to the community he works in.
Follow him: Twitter/IG: @adamjohnfoss and @prosecutorimpct or https://prosecutorimpact.com
Venus D. Johnson, a California native, was born and raised in Oakland. Mrs. Johnson currently serves as the Chief Assistant District Attorney in Contra Costa County under the leadership of District Attorney Diana Becton. As the second in command, she advises the District Attorney and assumes her role in her absence. Mrs. Johnson also oversees and implements all office wide directives issued by District Attorney Becton, in addition to assisting and overseeing assigned budget and personnel matters. Ms. Johnson oversees the creation, development, and implementation of all criminal justice reform policies and practices adopted by the District Attorney, in addition to directly overseeing the Juvenile Division, Human Trafficking Unit, Conviction Integrity Unit, and the Special Operations Division. Prior to holding this position, Mrs. Johnson served as one of two Assistant District Attorneys for District Attorney Becton.
Previously, Mrs. Johnson was the Director of Public Safety for Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf. Prior to this position, she was the Associate Attorney General for California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris. She managed the Attorney General's Executive team and served as a senior legal and policy advisor to the Attorney General -- focusing particularly on criminal justice, law enforcement, the interplay of technology and privacy as it relates to law enforcement, police and community relations, criminal prosecutions as well as criminal appeals, habeas proceedings, and cert petitions. Prior to that, Mrs. Johnson was a Deputy Attorney General in the Attorney General's Office of Legislative Affairs. As an expert in criminal law, she represented the Attorney General's Office on a wide variety of matters before the California Legislature. Her duties also included assisting in the development of the Attorney General's legislative agenda and advising and assisting legislative staff and committee consultants on the technical and policy implications of proposed legislation.
For the first eight years of her legal career, Mrs. Johnson served as a Deputy District Attorney in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office. She earned her BA in Political Science from Loyola Marymount University, and her law degree from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. While at McGeorge she was inducted into the Traynor Honor Society for scholastic achievement and The Order of Barristers, a national honorary organization for excellence in oral and written advocacy. She is also extremely dedicated to giving back to her community and has served on a number of local and non-profit boards in the Bay Area.
Yoel Haile is a Criminal Justice Program Manager with the ACLU of Northern California. In this capacity, he manages a statewide network of local organizations in 11 of the largest California counties to hold elected district attorneys accountable and end mass incarceration.
Hillary Blout is the Founder and Executive Director of For The People, a newly launched organization supporting prosecutors in reevaluating past sentences and facilitating release of incarcerated people serving unjust sentences. Targeting hard to reach populations, she focuses on those serving long-term sentences and sentences involving serious and violent offenses through illustrating the nexus between public safety, redemption and reuniting and rebuilding communities. Hillary conceptualized and secured the passage of California Assembly Bill 2942, the nation's first law that allows prosecutors to directly facilitate prison releases through recalling their own sentences.
Hillary is a former Assistant District Attorney, recruited by then-District Attorney Kamala Harris to help launch the nation's first progressive prosecutor movement through using the Smart-on-Crime approach, in the midst of the Tough-on-Crime era. While there, Hillary prosecuted the full range of cases, from misdemeanors to life cases and spent many years focusing on crimes against women and children, as well as securing enhanced and stable resources for these victims. Hillary then worked for District Attorney George Gascon, where she led sensitivity trainings for law enforcement and was a Neighborhood Assistant District Attorney, working towards bridging the divide between community and law enforcement.
After working as a prosecutor, Hillary spent three years leading criminal justice reform efforts in California on behalf of Californians for Safety and Justice, where she led public engagement efforts for Proposition 47, California's historic reform initiative, and following its passage, oversaw statewide implementation of the new law. She worked with government agencies, system leaders, community-based organizations, elected officials, law enforcement agencies and the courts to align efforts to efficiently implement the measure. Her work in this capacity led to 300,000 felony petitions for criminal reductions, significant reductions in prison and jail populations, and the divestment of prison spending in favor of prevention and treatment programs. Hillary also led statewide efforts to increase access to post-conviction legal remedies, trained hundreds of attorneys and other stakeholders on providing this type of relief and led a statewide education campaign on the barriers of having a criminal record and its impact on recidivism and public safety. Hillary is the principle drafter of California Penal Code § 1203.42, a law that creates the only direct post-conviction remedy to expunge a conviction involving a prison sentence.. During the start-up phase, Hillary also worked as the Policy Director for Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP) where she developed policies related to prosecutorial reform, with a specific focus on Conviction Review and Crimmigration.
Prior to her legal career, Hillary worked for two consecutive San Francisco Mayors, Mayor Willie L. Brown, Jr. and then-Mayor, Governor Gavin Newsom. Among other things, she led the City's efforts to address environmental justice issues confronting a predominantly black neighborhood due to the effects of two polluting power plants and a federal superfund site. Hillary obtained her undergraduate degree from San Francisco State University and her J.D. from University of San Francisco. Hillary serves as the President of the Board of Directors of the Young Women's Freedom Center, an organization that guides and supports system-impacted young women currently incarcerated and those transitioning out of the justice system.
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Swiping for salvation: Why Mormon singles put their faith in a dating app
LDS Dating Culture
Commentary: Why can't ex-Mormons just leave the LDS Church alone? Turns out, most do.
The top reason why exmormons are pathetic at basic adult functioning
Dating An Ex Mormon Man
The Mormon Church vs. the internet
Mormon Missionaries & Dating Before Missions
Statistically, though, most former Mormons do appear to leave the church alone. The majority of those who leave do so in late adolescence or early adulthood, which is a similar pattern to other religions in America. This could be because they are less likely to participate in two institutions that have traditionally catalyzed a return into the religious fold: marriage and child-rearing. Millennials are waiting longer to get married, if they marry at all, and they are having fewer children, both of which tend to depress religious activity. Back to ex-Mormons. Something has surprised me in the reactions to The Next Mormons survey findings and book : While I was prepared for pushback from very orthodox Latter-day Saints who might be unwilling to acknowledge serious retention problems in the U. Rather, bishops, Relief Society presidents, institute teachers, and other local leaders have reached out to express gratitude for nationally representative research that quantifies what they are already seeing in their wards, classes and families. Unexpectedly, though, some ex-Mormons have been frustrated with the findings. A number of former members have questioned whether the median age for leaving is really And they have especially pushed back on the idea that a majority of those who left the church were not fully committed to it in the first place.
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Female graduates of the largest majority-Mormon university earn on average $ a year. "BYU is just like a dating factory, but [for women] that was the entire point. Statistics bear this out: Male graduates of BYU earn 90 times more than their (Only women, it was strongly implied, could be the former.).
Australian children as young as 12 are being asked explicit questions about their sexual thoughts and whether they masturbate, as adult male religious figures in the Mormon church use one-on-one interviews to test children's sexual "purity". The invasive questioning has been described as an "abuse" of children, according to leaked correspondence from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Mormons regard sexual purity as a key tenet of their faith and regard breaches — sex out of marriage, sex between gay couples, even masturbation — as being next to murder in terms of sinfulness.
Shawn was brought up in the Mormon religion and was required to talk explicitly about his sexual thoughts. Credit: Dominic Lorrimer. Stephanie McLean, who was brought up in the church, recalls a Mormon leader grabbing a white rose, pulling off the petals and stamping on them, then saying: "that's you after sex". A movement has sprung up in Utah, the headquarters of Mormonism, to protest against the interviews. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormon church, is a small religion but has rising political influence in Australia with just over 60, adherents, according to Census data.
We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. To be a Mormon among Mormons is to realize the American fantasy of good neighbors. They invite you over on summer evenings for lemonade at the table in the backyard next to the hydrangeas.
It's a grueling process when a member decides to leave the Mormon Church, including submitting a letter that announces one's official.
Australian Women's Weekly. Debbie Hoad, a federal government worker who lives in Canberra, was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for 30 years. Her parents joined when she was six, she was baptised at the age of eight, and she remained a member until After speaking to The Weekly on the phone about her decision to leave the church, as well as the role of women in the church, she sent a long follow-up email with more of her thoughts.
We reprint parts of it here, for readers seeking more information on the thoughts and feelings of an ex Mormon. Good things about life in the Mormon Church. There is a strong sense of community, and generally, if you are active in the Church you do feel needed. You work together with people in various roles and that tends to build strong friendships over time.
I was lucky enough to have strong, caring youth leaders and mostly good bishops. I enjoyed my teaching roles in the Church and still have a deep affection for the various students I taught over the years. More than one Mormon has expressed to me that they believe or believed that obedience to God is the goal of life, not personal happiness. It creates a very skewed perspective on what life is about. Unless you are a youth or an investigator a person checking out the Church to consider joining , there is little tolerance for open doubt or dissent.
It's a culture like any other. Cross-cultural love can be a dating like tap-dancing across a minefield, but it's possible, and happens every day. That's good. Let him determine what he's comfortable discussing.
So don't take dating as ex-mormon affront if he has a why time explaining what and how he's feeling. This is a great comment here. I am exmormons male ex-mo.
The credibility of some of the documents has come into question, as has the church of interest they even sparked. There's a giant leak of internal Mormon Church documents at Reddit and they're as hilariously boring as you'd expect https: Among the documents were church schedules and recommendations for a representative to the UN. It was mostly a pile of not so groundbreaking discoveries, like the fact that the church really doesn't like porn.
In woman, the church itself brushed off the leak. Loyal members of the subreddit were initially excited, and many later disappointed, by the apparent woman marriage. But the resilience of the group remained. In recent years, the church has published stories attemping to clarify its position on a shelf of difficult controversies, like issues of racism, prejudice against LGBT communities , polygamy and church marriages condoned in the earliest years of the faith.
Have you ever wondered why disaffected, ex-, post and former Mormons often are such neurotic people with miserable lives? After leaving the church, many of their marriages fall apart. They do not have the basic competencies of adult functioning. In fact, if you look at the skills that post-Mormons often must learn after leaving the church, it may strike you that the adult ex-Mormon actually seems like a child. However, this has not been an isolated phenomenon.
What could be the reasons for this debilitation?
"You can take the person out of Mormonism, but you can't take the Statistically, though, most former Mormons do appear to leave the church.
There was no burning bush. No visitation or concourses of angels. No grand revelation. I decided I wanted to attend the temple and receive my Endowment. I was only 24 at the time and had not served a full time mission for the LDS Church. So I recognized that my desire was a little unorthodox. Young people usually only receive the endowment when preparing for either a mission or marriage.
I was doing neither. I put off the feeling for weeks but it kept returning, a pesky little thought. I was taught since my infancy not to deny promptings of the Spirit, so I went to my bishop. The first thing he asked me was if there was a guy I could marry instead. Clearly, I said the answer was no.
It feels good to invest in a relationship. To care. To want to share. To want to give. There is no third alternative. However, many people assume there is a third alternative and try to keep the relationship alive when all signs of vitality have ceased.
And yes, Mormon men take full advantage. University of Tampa who is ex-LDS himself, said the growing exodus of men from the LDS church.
Within the last five years, being able to swipe left or right on a potential love interest seems to have replaced the stereotypical coffee-shop-meet cute story for thousands of people in our generation. More and more people are finding dating success by turning to their phones. With more people using technology as a means of meeting people, different apps and websites are constantly being introduced for every differing demographic imaginable.
Finding inspiration in his family life and the dating scene in Utah County, Taylor recognized the need for a resource that would allow former church members to make connections organically with people who share similar ideals. This is the lowest percentage of church members in the county in nearly 90 years. With a population whose diversity continues to grow — as well as a depleting number of church members — it seems a new sect has been formed amongst the people of Utah.
Although that community continues to grow, individuals may find themselves lacking any sort of support system or sense of camaraderie when compared to their time in the church. The purpose of New is to bring together those like-minded individuals with others who can understand and empathize with their situation and history. While the app is fairly new, Taylor is constantly planning for the future and looking at how to better innovate and format the app for users.
He is even contemplating adding an option for individuals who are interested in new friendships as opposed to romantic relationships.
S o I am 24 years old, and I've never had sex. I also don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't do drugs, and I don't drink coffee. I'm a Mormon. And I've lived in New York City for six years as a Mormon, and it is hard to be a Mormon here if you don't drink or if you don't do drugs, but it is especially hard to live in New York City if you don't have sex.
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MRS Financial Services Conference: Stuck in the 70s! Why our understanding of the SME sector needs a reboot!
At the Market Research Society's Financial Services Conference on 15th November David Smith, Adam Riley of Decision Architects and Stuart Baker of MetLife presented 'Stuck in the 70s! Why our understanding of the SME sector needs a reboot!'.
Starting from the definition of SMEs set down in the early 1970s, this presentation explores new ways of thinking about the SME universe – beyond merely number of employees and turnover. They argue that understanding small businesses from the perspective of their business mindset, business outlook and level of business capability is the key to understanding what makes SMEs tick.


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Q: How to change tag 'UNKNOWN' when doing syslog from GLOG? I am writing syslog using GLOG
using GLOG documentation
For example I have following code :
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but int log file I see
 Nov 18 16:39:03 xyz UNKNOWN[12807]: Syslog testing

Can anybody please tell me Is there any way to change UNKNOWN to my input string?.

A: This happens because you haven't initialized GLOG yet. Before calling anything in the glog lib, run the InitGoogleLogging function. The documentation states you should pass argv[0] from main (see https://github.com/google/glog), which should be the name of your executable. However, you can pass what you desire here and that is what you will see in syslog.
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google::InitGoogleLogging("MyProgramName");
SYSLOG(INFO) << "Starting my program!";

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Apr 29 18:38:28 ccc39bda5f31 MyProgramName[2927]: Starting my program!

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Biology Eating a high protein diet is not as bad as smoking
Eating a high protein diet is not as bad as smoking
Francesco Busiello •March 6, 2014Biology, Blog post, featured, Health
In the latest bout of bad science reporting publications such as the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, CNN and a bunch of others have published articles claiming that a new study shows that eating a high protein diet is as bad as smoking.
"People who eat diets rich in animal protein carry similar cancer risk to those who smoke 20 cigarettes each day," The Daily Telegraph
As usual, one has to look at the study itself (published in the journal Cell Metabolism) to gather what has actually been discovered.
"A diet rich in meat, eggs, milk and cheese could be as harmful to health as smoking, according to a controversial study into the impact of protein consumption on longevity." The Guardian (at least they did use the word "controversial")
The suggestion that eating a high protein diet is comparable to smoking is not one of the study's findings though it was included in the University of Southern California's original press release. Which is kind of a shame.
Science reporting is already not great, there is no need for institutions to engage in fear-mongering as well.
"That chicken wing you're eating could be as deadly as a cigarette. In a new study that tracked a large sample of adults for nearly two decades, researchers have found that eating a diet rich in animal proteins during middle age makes you four times more likely to die of cancer than someone with a low-protein diet — a mortality risk factor comparable to smoking." – USC News
But let's take a look at the study. The researchers analysed the data of 6381 US citizens over the age of 50. The average age of this study group was 65 years old.
The participants, as part of the survey, logged what they ate in the last 24 hours (from memory) and then specified if this was their normal eating habit. 93% of the group said it was.
The researchers then divided the group into three depending on the daily amount of protein they ate.
High protein diet – 20% or more of daily calories coming from protein
Moderate protein diet – between 10% and 19% of daily calories coming from protein
Low protein diet – less than 10% of daily calories coming from protein
As any athlete or bodybuilder or serious gym-goer will tell you, 20% of daily calories coming from protein is not exactly much. For example, someone on a weight-training regime will at least try to hit 40%.
But let's keep going. Did the amount of protein have an effect on health?
As this excellent piece on the NHS website reports, nope.
"Overall, there was no association between protein intake and risk of death from any cause, or death from cardiovascular disease or cancer."
There was a slight correlation between a high protein diet and diabetes but the sample size was quite small (very few people died of diabetes). The study's authors say that a larger study is needed to confirm this finding.
According to the data, there is an increase of risk of death between the ages of 50 and 65 but this relationship is then reversed after the age of 65.
After the age of 65 people who had reported a high protein diet had a lower risk of death.
The authors of the study suggest that a moderate protein intake between the ages of 50 and 65 and a high protein diet after the age of 65 may increase health and longevity.
However, there are several issues with the study. While the authors did take into account several confounding factors (including previous history of smoking, total calorie consumption and "disease status") they did not take into account quite a few others like, for example, amount of physical activity.
Also, the diet survey was only conducted once and on only one 24 hour period. The study lasted 18 years. Who knows if the participants changed their diet in the meantime. Someone who was eating a lot of protein at age 50 could be eating very little at age 68 (when the study ended) yet they would still be considered under the "high protein diet" group.
Therefore, is a high protein diet bad for you? We just don't know.
Is it as bad as smoking? We don't really know either. But we do know that you don't need to smoke to survive (while proteins are vital) and smoking has been proven again and again and again to be really really bad for you.
Levine ME, Suarez JA, Brandhorst S, et al. (2014) – "Low Protein Intake Is Associated with a Major Reduction in IGF-1, Cancer, and Overall Mortality in the 65 and Younger but Not Older Population" Cell Metabolism.
Excellent NHS write-up (I recommend reading this for a more thorough analysis of the study)
High protein diet not as bad for you as smoking – nhs.uk
Not so great write-ups
High-protein diet 'as bad for health as smoking' – The Daily Telegraph
Eating too much meat and eggs is 'just as bad as smoking', claim scientists – The Independent
Diets high in meat, eggs and dairy could be as harmful to health as smoking – The Guardian
USC press release
"Meat and cheese may be as bad as smoking" – USC News
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The United States is committed to ensuring it is fully prepared to manage a domestic radiological or nuclear smuggling incident regardless of whether material originates within the United States or overseas.
We maintain a Counter Nuclear Smuggling (CNS) Team that has the personnel, equipment, capabilities, and legal authorities to respond quickly and effectively to nuclear smuggling incidents. The CNS Team achieves its objectives through detection and operational activities. Many federal departments and agencies are engaged in this effort, including the Department of Justice, through the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); the intelligence community; Department of Homeland Security; Department of Energy; Department of Defense; Department of State; and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. These federal entities also work closely with state, local, and tribal governments as well as with the private sector, other countries, and international organizations. Each Department and Agency possesses both unique and complementary capabilities and legal authorities to respond to a radiological or nuclear smuggling incident.
The FBI has taken recent steps to strengthen U.S. capacities to ensure a strong law enforcement response and coordinated criminal investigation of nuclear smuggling threats and incidents within the United States. As part of this mission, the FBI has established the Radiological Nuclear Search Operations (RNSO) framework for all domestic incidents, coordinating the law enforcement and investigative response of applicable U.S. Government investigative assets, as well as other federal, state, local, and tribal agencies as required. If a threat is deemed credible, the FBI's newly-established Radiological Nuclear Strategic Group is capable of coordinating the identification and deployment of specialized interagency elements used to support the RNSO in locating, identifying, and interdicting the threat.
To assist in an international nuclear smuggling incident, the FBI utilizes its international network of Legal Attachés and WMD Assistant Legal Attachés to work with foreign counterparts, as well as international organizations such as INTERPOL, to develop lead information on suspected smuggling networks. At the request of the foreign government, the FBI is also capable of deploying investigative and laboratory assets to assist in the response to an international nuclear smuggling incident.
The United States encourages international partners to strengthen capabilities to investigate smuggling networks, interdict and remove trafficked material from the black market, and arrest perpetrators. At the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, 19 countries signed a Statement of Activity and Cooperation to Counter Nuclear Smuggling (CNS), and others announced steps to strengthen counter nuclear smuggling capacities. An updated CNS statement was signed in 2014 at the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague, and many countries pledged to continue the discussion on this important topic and encouraged others to join.
In February 2014, the United States and the Institute for Transuranium Elements of the European Commission Joint Research Center held a Countering Nuclear and Radiological Smuggling Workshop for Nuclear Security Summit states. Thirty-eight governments and observing international organizations attended the workshop, which featured a series of hands-on demonstrations and exercises in the areas of nuclear material detection, law enforcement investigations, and nuclear forensics – all of which are integral to effectively counter transnational nuclear smuggling networks.
The United States actively works with international partners, including INTERPOL and the International Atomic Energy Agency, to improve counter nuclear smuggling capacity worldwide. Since 2011, the United States has worked with 8 countries to strengthen national counter nuclear smuggling capabilities. The Department of State negotiates politically binding joint action plans with key countries to strengthen capabilities to prevent, detect, and respond to incidents of nuclear smuggling. The Department of Energy supports these initiatives by providing detection systems and training to these and other countries. The Department of Defense also supports these initiatives by securing vulnerable nuclear material at sensitive sites by providing equipment and training.
Through the FBI and DOE, the United States supports the INTERPOL CBRNE Sub-Directorate. In support of the 2012 Summit, INTERPOL initiated Operation Fail Safe, an information-sharing tool that supports the international law enforcement community in tracking the transnational movement of individuals involved in the illicit trafficking of radioactive or nuclear materials.


Is your field linked to a text object in your title block? I've noticed that the Title Block Border Settings dialog only seems to see active (linked) custom fields.
Not sure if it's working as designed, or a bug. I would imagine there are circumstances where you might want to tie data to a sheet, even if it's not necessarily being displayed in a text object.
In the TBB Settings dialog are displayed only the default fields and the linked fields to texts in the layout. This was done, as it was requested by many users, in order to reduce the ammount of fields that are not used.
If that's the reasoning, I would think it should display ONLY the linked fields.
In fact, I really dislike that we're required to have all those default fields, most of which I don't use, and which cause confusion amongst co-workers (e.g. "Project Date" vs "Date" vs "Current Plot Date" vs what we actually use which is "Date of Drawing" but we can't hide the others). While I understand the difference between each of those examples, not everyone does, so I often see data entered into wrong fields.
It would be nice to have control over what fields are displayed, perhaps as another parameter when you click "Manage Project/Sheet Data"? (For reference, see Spotlight Settings<Lighting Device Parameters for how this should function.) This would increase flexibility, and I'm sure CAD managers who set up standards and title blocks for larger workgroups would appreciate better control over the fields. It would also address scenarios like MSLD's.
Nikolay, you'd probably know best if this would be theoretically possible to add in the future?
We have having an issue with the TBB in our office.
Our Title block was set up using 2018 and all worked well. Now you can only edit the Sheet Name and Sheet Number through double clicking on each title block and editing it in settings. If you try to edit the sheet name and sheet number on sheet data in the TBB, those two fields are not shown even though they are active and linked to data.
How can I get these two fields to show in the TBB, so that I dont have to go through each page and go into each title block settings individually?
The Sheet Number/Title fields are not available in the Title Block Manager. However, you could easily change these fields for the Title Block Borders if you have "Auto Drawing Coordination" turned on in Document Preferences and edit the Sheet Layers from the Organization dialog.
The Sheet Number/Title fields are not available in the Title Block Manager. - WHY, you could do this before and it was great.
However, you could easily change these fields for the Title Block Borders if you have "Auto Drawing Coordination" turned on in Document Preferences and edit the Sheet Layers from the Organization dialog. - I cant seem to find the "Auto Drawing Coordination"


An artist has envisioned what the women of Disney might look like in real life and the result is beautiful.
The series sees Belle, Aurora, Cinderella and many other Disney female heroines re-imagined as real humans through photo-manipulation and digital painting.
Helinski-based artist and graphic designer Jirka Väätäinen began the series by re-envisioning The Little Mermaid's Ursula in April 2011 while studying graphic design at the Arts University College at Bournemouth.
"I decided to entertain myself by Photoshopping together a "real life" version of my favourite Disney villain, Ursula," wrote Väätäinen on his blog.
Soon his blog attracted thousands of visitors every day and he decided to continue his 'real-life' Disney works, one character at a time.
Over the last three years, Väätäinen transformed 17 Disney characters, his latest being Wendy from Peter Pan.


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Temperatures outside may be low but our offers are hotter than they've ever been!
The award-winning BMW range is more affordable and has higher standard specifications than you might realise. With the range now boasting more models than ever before, finding the perfect BMW has never been easier. There is a wide variety of models to choose from and every one of them has Navigation, Bluetooth, DAB Radio and Intelligent Emergency Call as standard.


Our decision to participate in City of Water Day was influenced by two "name" events. The first was reading a New York Times story about a woman complaining that the Bronx River and other city water bodies were either not identified accurately or at all on the new subway map.
The Times story brought to mind a comment that Assembly Member Jeffrion Aubry of East Elmhurst made several years ago at a public hearing. A developer had requested the community board's OK to remove a huge boulder that stood in the way of a proposed new hotel near LaGuardia Airport. Jeffrion, nearly three score at that point, noted that a stream passed the beloved boulder when he was a kid (Killy Pond they called it) into which he and his friends would jump.
These two water-name events led us to think about how city water bodies could be further identified and developed with good domain names, like BronxRiver.nyc. So we set up our table on a most glorious day and asked City of Water Day celebrants on Governors Island to provide names of city water resources that we might reserve. See our City of Water Names wiki page for the responses we received and where you enter other water names. Of the many names offered, everyone's favorite was Dead Horse Cove.
If we can think of a more engaging presentation we might again table next year. But it was a gem of an event and those manning the table agreed that more-fun less-work should be the rule for City of Water Day 2011. For example, did you ever think about riding on a fire boat while it shoots its water cannons? City of Water Day provides the opportunity to fulfill such youthful dreams. Look for me on the fire boat next summer.
New York, February 21, 2010 - We had our fourth meeting on dotNeighborhoods, gathering at the Neighborhood Preservation Center on January 26. The meeting report and some photos of the attendees are now available.
The meeting began with a project overview from Connecting.nyc Inc.'s (CnI) executive director, followed by a report from the Hunter College Urban Affairs Workshop on their "Case Study: Neighborhoods in a Digital Era." Their research focused on three areas: Identity, Content, and Governance. Read Hunter's Executive Summary and download the full document details from here.
Discussion followed with many suggestions and opinions expressed. As the meeting neared its conclusion, it was noted that while city hall has seen the wisdom of reserving the neighborhood domain names, it was not clear, should the current direction prevail, what it will take to have them released and developed in the public interest.
At the previous meeting it was suggested that an independent Ad Hoc group be formed to facilitate the dotNeighborhood's development. Thomas Lowenhaupt, CnI executive director, reported that he'd had discussions about the formation of an independent organization and that legal assistance was available. He suggested that a statement of principles regarding the role and responsibilities of the dotNeighborhoods be drafted, refined, and endorsed by supporters via an Ad Hoc dotNeighborhood Trust. And that this statement of principles be refined and passed on to the City Council and Mayor. All agreed.
Following the meeting a draft "dotNeighborhoods Proclamation" was published on CnI's wiki. With this post we invite public comment on that draft document. After wide circulation, comments, and refinement it is expected that an Ad Hoc dotNeighborhood Trust will endorse and present the Proclamation to our elected representatives for their thoughts, consideration, and assistance with developing the dotNeighborhoods.
One of the images I've used with these recalcitrants is the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 and the impact it had by creating the Manhattan street grid. Our logo - part grid part web - evolved from this image. Sometimes I get a convert.
With a carefully planned introduction, what .nyc provides is an avalanche or big bang effect, bringing reorganization and efficiencies like those barcodes brought to the retail world, to neighborhoods. And if we extend from this name niche to the entire .nyc name space, one might begin to see the impact of an organized digital grid.


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Thomas S. Stoll Memorial Park is an 80-acre park featuring a picturesque walking trail, picnic shelter, picnic areas, playground, a small pond, a seven-acre dog off-leash area, and seven athletic playing fields.
The park was dedicated in 1981 and named in honor of Thomas S. Stoll who passed away the previous year. He was instrumental in the park's development and served as chairman of the district's Board of Park and Recreation Commissioners.
Thomas S. Stoll Park has one shelter. To ensure the use of a shelter, reservations are recommended. For individual shelter details view the subfacilities section below.
To check availability or to reserve a shelter, call (913) 831-3359, Monday - Friday from 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. or visit our Registration Office in Antioch Park.
For additional information about renting a shelter visit the reservation and rentals page.
The pond is stocked with a variety of fish including largemouth bass, bluegill, and channel catfish. JCPRD fishing permits and state fishing licenses (per state regulations) are required before fishing. See below for requirements.
For details about permit requirements, state licenses, or to see the latest fishing report, visit the permit information page.
Dog Off-Leash Area
The fenced seven-acre off-leash area is located near the center of the park. The flat open space is fenced and has ample parking.
For the enjoyment and safety of all patrons and pets, the Off-Leash Area Code of Conduct/Rules (PDF) apply.
Maintenance closures are scheduled every Wednesday from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. from March 15 to November 15.
The off-leash area is open year-round during regular park hours except during weekly routine maintenance closures. Our maintenance closures are conducted to provide a high level of maintenance to the area without compromising dog, patron, and staff safety. Trespassing is prohibited when the gate is locked.
JCPRD's other off-leash areas are located in Heritage Park, Shawnee Mission Park and Kill Creek Streamway Park (at the 95th Street access point).
Field Rental
The athletic fields are available for rentals. For details, please call (913) 826-2850.
Park Police & Safety
In an emergency, dial 911. To reach the Park Police dispatch, call (913) 782-0720.
For additional information and safety tips, visit JCPRD's Park Police page.
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Recently I had the pleasure of attending a fantastic dinner hosted by Wyndham Estate Wines to taste their new George Wyndham Founder's Reserve Shiraz. It was one of the best meals I've ever had.
I was invited to join host Mark Brand, prominent restaurateur, social activist and trailblazer, for this exclusive dinner. A trailblazing entrepreneur, Mark has changed the landscape of Vancouver's culinary and social landscape. Beginning with the original Boneta in 2007, Mark has launched a diverse collection of restaurants and retail outlets. He has also had a significant impact on the downtown eastside with the reopening of Save-On Meats and his commitment to community initiatives including a meal program.
The wine was expertly complemented with a custom-designed multi-course tasting menu expertly prepared by Mark Brand's Executive Chef Elliott Hashimoto. Aside from being a fantastic chef, Elliot is personable and friendly. I really enjoyed talking to him. His menu was inspired by this very versatile vintage. Recently-appointed Chief Winemaker Steve Meyer was also in attendance.
Our first course was BBQ eel, Kawarre, cinnamon and daikon.
George Wyndham Founder's Reserve Shiraz is a full bodied, luscious wine with a rich mid-palate that is supported by fine velvety tannins, integrated oak nuances, ripe plum and blackberry fruit flavours. Developed in honour of George Wyndham, a true trailblazer who planted Australia's first commercial Shiraz vineyards back in 1830, George Wyndham Founder's Reserve Shiraz is dedicated to his passion for creating of rich, robust wines.
The next course was Ling cod poached in the George Wyndham Founder's Reserve Shiraz served with beets, king oyster mushrooms and truffles. This was an amazing dish. Poaching the cod in the Shiraz was innovating and creative.
Third course: pan roasted duck breast with charred peaches and roasted celery root purée. The Shiraz was a fantastic pairing with the duck.
Four-course: braised veal cheeks and ox tail ravioli with caramelized brussels sprouts.
Finally for dessert: spiced pear tart with fennel ice cream.
This was by far the most versatile wine I've ever tasted. And this meal is one that I will never forget.


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October 5, 2010 at 2:50 pm PT
App stores can't catch a break. When these virtual marketplaces don't offer enough mobile apps, they're viewed as too small (see Palm's App Catalog and RIM's BlackBerry App World). If they host a large number of apps, they can get criticized for being too overwhelming (see Apple's App Store and Google's Android Market).
Whatever the size of their smartphone's app universe, many people just want a way to find the apps they can really use. This week, I tested two free tools that offer ways of sorting through hundreds of thousands of apps to show you some you might actually like and some you might find useful. (Never mind the fact that these tools are apps themselves.) I tested Chomp, which works on the iPhone, and Appolicious, which works on the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. Appolicious also has its own website and a partnership with Yahoo (YHOO) so that its app reviews, which are written by a 15-person editorial staff and regular users, are promoted in relevant articles on Yahoo's websites.
If you turn on the Genius feature of Apple's (AAPL) App Store, it will make recommendations based on apps you already own and let you choose a "Not Interested" option, which guarantees an app won't be suggested again. The Android Market doesn't currently offer suggestions of apps you might like but a Google (GOOG) spokesman said a feature like this is coming.
Both Chomp and Appolicious have a community of users who are reviewing apps, and you can follow all, some or none of these people. Appolicious reviews are in-depth and more hands-on than Chomp's. An Appolicious review of the $4.99 FlightTrack app for iPhone and iPad included a YouTube video explaining the app, a scale rating, a list of other Appolicious users who own the app and an Appolicious Advisor review, written by someone who works for Appolicious Inc.
Here's how these app-finding tools work: The Chomp app starts with a home page that shows two recommendations; two apps liked by people you follow; two apps that are on sale (like one that was $1.99 but is now free); two apps that were recently reviewed and two newly released apps. It makes recommendations by suggesting apps that are similar to those you reviewed and liked. But Chomp has a loose definition of a review: Selecting a heart beside each app's description means you reviewed the app and liked it; tapping a broken heart means you didn't like it. (There's room to write a brief explanation of why you liked or disliked an app.)
Chomp's co-founder and chief executive, Ben Keighran, says the company is working on iPhone and Android versions to release before the end of the year. Because it's an Apple affiliate, when someone buys an app using Chomp, 5% of Apple's usual 30% profit from the app goes to Chomp (the developer typically gets 70%).
Appolicious takes a different tack for suggesting apps. It scans the titles of apps you've downloaded, saves the names of those apps in your Web-based Appolicious library and suggests apps that are similar.
I tried this on a Motorola Droid X Android device, and it worked—with my permission—just seconds after I opened Appolicious for the first time, spitting back a list of related apps. These can be conveniently downloaded from within Appolicious rather than leaving the site for the Android Market.
Chomp is an iPhone app that suggests apps according to other apps you've reviewed.
The iPhone and iPad's iOS operating system doesn't allow this, so you'll have to open the Appolicious.com site on your Mac or Windows PC and opt to use the App Library Builder tool, which opens a computer folder containing copies of your apps stored by iTunes. I did this on my MacBook and, though it was a little clumsy, Appolicious imported 44 titles of my apps in just a few seconds.
(Chomp doesn't offer an option to scan your own apps. Mr. Keighran said people could have hundreds of apps but that doesn't confirm whether the user actually likes them, so this method could lead to bad recommendations.)
If you aren't cool with the idea of Appolicious scanning all of your apps to suggest new ones, you can edit your profile to check boxes that describe your app personality. Some suggestions include Social Butterfly, Foodie, Parent, Shopaholic and Book Reader. Here, you can also check off the devices that you own, so Appolicious will suggest apps that work on them.
Appolicious, like Chomp, makes money—5% of paid apps—when it recommends apps people buy because it's an Apple affiliate. Appolicious.com also runs ads that are strictly unrelated to any recommendations.
In the end, it was hard to tell whether I was really getting apps that were a good fit for me or just a random bunch of new app suggestions.
Appolicious installs on Android devices and scans the phone's apps to suggest new ones.
The Appolicious methods for determining what kinds of apps I'd like seemed to return many apps I wanted to download, but it also recommended some I didn't want, including a game called "SceneIt? Comedy Movies HD" that was recommended to me before I created a profile or allowed the program to scan my personal app library.
Chomp's reviews seem more like yes or no lists—people either do or don't like apps, and many reviews I read didn't explain why they liked or disliked an app. One reviewer is Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg.com and an adviser to Chomp. I did like the way Chomp spotlighted apps that were for sale, many of which I wouldn't have known about otherwise.
While Chomp's site is a bit on the meager side, Appolicious gives you a meatier selection of app recommendations. The more information you tell Appolicious, the better your results will be.
See a video with Katherine Boehret on Chomp and Appolicious at WSJ.com/PersonalTech. Write to her at mossbergsolution@wsj.com
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On his farm, Muriithi has heaps of unsold bananas and has no idea where to take them.
Currently, brokers are buying a bunch at Sh200, down from over Sh700.
To grow bananas, Muriithi digs a three by two-foot hole and puts a wheelbarrow of manure, which he mixes uniformly with soil before planting the suckers as he maintains a distance of 12ft from one plant to another.
The farmers want the county government to intervene and help in the construction of a warehouse or factory that will process bananas for Kirinyaga farmers.
After a two-hour drive from Nyeri, we arrive at Elijah Muriithi's farm in Kiamuruga village, Kirinyaga County, which is literally littered with bananas.
The farmer has been growing bananas for the past 31 years, but for all those years, he has never been as unhappy as he is now.
This is because prices of the produce have fallen to a new low, pushing farmers into losses.
And this is the scenario on most of the farms Seeds of Gold team visited this week.
A company they were selling the produce to stopped buying abruptly, leaving the farmers stuck with the produce.
"We are caught between a rock and a hard place. The company was buying the produce at Sh20 a kilo but brokers are currently offering less than half the price," notes Muriithi.
With no buyers in sight, the bananas are falling off the stems, rotting on the farms as some farmers feed them to cows.Currently, brokers are buying a bunch at Sh200, down from over Sh700.
"Brokers know that we are desperate and that is why they are offering us Sh10 per kilo," adds Muriithi.
On his one acre, Muriithi grows three types of bananas namely Grand Nain, Williams and Fhia-17.
"I have been chopping the bananas and drying them in the sun in the hope that I will later make flour but still I don't know where to sell the product," says the farmer, who grows 300 plants.
"Larger spaces are disadvantageous since bananas require a lot of water to develop a canopy," notes MuriithiIsabela Wambui has over 200 banana stems on her farm and recalls the good old times with nostalgia.
"The last time the firm purchased from me, they carried over 600 kilos of bananas at Sh20 per kilo. I was selling the bananas once a month and earning over Sh20,000 but now I am making less than Sh5,000," she says.
Kirinyaga County government, however, faulted the farmers for changing buyers. Johnson Ndege, the agriculture chief officer, said farmers are encouraged to form associations that link them to buyers.
"A majority of the farmers jump to buyers offering higher prices instead of sticking to the ones offering standard prices all seasons," noted Ndege.
He said the county government has constructed shed to link buyers to the farmers.


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Easy Pickled Beets Recipe
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Beets may not be the first vegetable you think about whipping up as a side dish, but the dark red root's sweet and earthy flavor pairs well with just about every protein, sharp cheeses, and other veggies, too. Plus, according to Healthline, it's a powerhouse food that may help improve heart, brain, and digestive health while fighting inflammation. But if you're not sure how to whip up a batch of beets, there's nothing complicated about it — an easy pickled beets recipe that requires very few ingredients is the perfect way to add beets to your menu. "I love how easy this recipe is and how much flavor comes from just a few ingredients," says Miriam Hahn, recipe developer and health coach. "This is my favorite way to eat beets, which are loaded with antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals."
Just make sure you have ume plum vinegar on hand before you start cooking, as it's the secret ingredient that makes this recipe shine. "It adds so much to this recipe. Ume plum vinegar has a salty, fruity, yet tart flavor. It is a really potent vinegar that goes a long way," Hahn explains. Also, this recipe calls for a rather speedy pickling process, so you won't have to wait around for days as the beets pickle in a brine. Instead, you'll toss them in a vinegar-based dressing at the end, and voila! You'll have easy pickled beets, without the waiting time or hassle.
Gather your ingredients for easy pickled beets
Very little is required to make a batch of pickled beets. Aside from the beets themselves (you'll need two large beets or four small ones) and the ume plum vinegar, all you need is minced garlic, olive oil, salt, and pepper. Hahn also suggests adding Italian parsley for topping, but notes that you could try other fresh herbs as well, like cilantro, basil, or chives.
While the ingredients in this recipe are pretty standard, you may be wondering why it doesn't call for a typical pickling brine. "Since beets are soft they easily absorb the vinegar dressing and you get great flavor very quickly," Hahn explains. "Because we are not going for a fermented probiotic affect that you get with a salt brine, there is no point in waiting." Hahn also notes that the ume plum vinegar has a stronger taste than regular vinegar, so even in a short amount of time, you really will taste that "pickled" flavor in these beets!
Cook and cool the beets
Working with beets isn't all that different from other root veggies — you'll want to cut off the stems and tails, boil them, and peel them. In fact, that's pretty much all you have to do to prep this pickled beets recipe. Specifically, once you've cut the stems and tails off the beets, place them in a large pot, and add water until it's roughly 3 inches higher than the beets. Bring the water to a boil and cook the beets for 30 to 50 minutes, depending on the size of the beets. They're done when you can easily insert a knife into the veggie and pull it out easily. Once they've cooked through, set them aside to cool for about 10 minutes.
Make the dressing
While the beets are cooling, you'll have time to whip up your dressing. In a small bowl, whisk together the garlic, olive oil, ume plum vinegar, salt, and pepper. When the ingredients are well-combined, set the dressing aside.
Peel and slice the beets
Once the beets have cooled enough to handle them, peel them with your hands or a paring knife. Just be forewarned, beets stain! Hahn suggests wearing kitchen gloves to prevent turning your hands red.
When you've peeled the beets, go ahead and cut them into ½-inch thick slices, quarter them, or chop them into cubes. It doesn't matter which you choose; it's a matter of personal preference.
Top with the dressing and serve
The only thing left to do is add the "pickling" part of this recipe, AKA the vinaigrette dressing. Pour the prepared dressing over the beets and toss lightly to combine. If desired, go ahead and add the fresh parsley or other herbs before serving.
While beets may be thought of as a typical side dish, Hahn says you can also enjoy them as a snack on their own, or they can be added to a hearty salad. If you do plan to serve them as a side, you don't need to think too hard about what to add them to. "They go great with anything off the grill, pasta, paninis, wraps, salads, or even lettuce wraps," Hahn says. "They last for well over a week in your fridge, so you can have a little bit with each meal and get the digestive aid benefit."
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If you're looking for a quick and easy dinner side dish, these pickled beets will do the trick.
2 large beets
2 tablespoons ume plum vinegar
Optional Ingredients
Italian parsley, for topping
Cut the stems and tail off of the beets.
Place the beets in a large pot and fill with water about 3 inches above the beets.
Bring to a boil and continue to boil on medium-high heat for 30 to 50 minutes. This will depend on the size of your beets. You will know they are done if an inserted knife glides in and out easily.
Let the beets cool for about 10 minutes.
While the beets are cooling, mix the garlic, olive oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper together.
When the beets are cool enough to handle, peel them with a paring knife, or you can peel them with your hands, and consider wearing gloves as the beets will stain.
Slice them in ½-inch thick slices, quarter slices, or chop them into cubes.
Toss with the dressing and serve. Top with fresh parsley, if desired.
Calories per Serving 115
Trans Fat 0.0 g
Cholesterol 0.0 mg
Total Sugars 3.5 g
The information shown is Edamam's estimate based on available ingredients and preparation. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist's advice.


Q. We have a property that is likely to be unoccupied over the winter. Are there any precautions that we should take?
A. With an empty property over the winter, one of the main concerns must be to ensure that the property is properly protected against the danger of burst pipes. By far the safest way to deal with this is to have both water and central heating systems fully drained down. This does mean that the property will feel cold, damp and uninviting, but that's a small price to pay for the security of knowing that you're not going to face a repair bill for perhaps tens of thousands of pounds.
Sadly, the other main concern you need to address is the risk of vandalism – or at least, unauthorised entry. Obviously, a properly functioning alarm system can work wonders in helping to deter intruders, and asking a neighbour to keep an eye on the place is also advisable. However, an empty house is easily spotted, so it's a good idea to keep a couple of lamps, and even a radio, on timer switches, to give at least the casual observer the impression that someone's at home. And if your neighbour can be prevailed upon to park a car in the driveway occasionally, then so much the better.
You should try to visit the property regularly, or arrange for someone else to do so. Again, this will help create the impression that the place is occupied. Also if anything has gone wrong, or any damage - accidental or otherwise - has occurred, it can be spotted and rectified before its expense escalates. Besides, it's important that the property should look cared for. Few things are more likely to attract the unwelcome attention of vandals and others than a general air of neglect. This is true at any time of year, of course, but particularly so during the winter months. So, things like keeping the front garden neat and tidy, the windows clean and the hallway free of accumulated junk mail, are all worth doing.
Finally, bear in mind that many insurance companies will only cover empty properties for a limited period of time – often as little as one month. So, check!


My brother, I wish you a peaceful resting place in God's kingdom. You have reached your retirement from this life. I am hoping those pearly gates have some ornate woodwork for you to add your expertise to. I am sure God will accept your helping hands. I will miss you much but know you have been tempered by God for your place in heaven. Until we meet again, take care brother.
May you rest in Peace . I know mom dad Robin and Charla are waiting for you and will welcome you with open arms. Loved the time we talked football while every one else was out in the dinning room. I love you.
My deepest condolences to the Fosnaught family, may you find comfort in prayer and the beautiful words of Isaiah 25:8 where God promises us that He will soon eliminate all death and suffering.