EPA Denies Petition Seeking Ban on Lead Based Fishing Products
November 4, 2010 (Washington, DC) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today denied a petition calling for a ban on the manufacture and use of lead based fishing gear.
The Center for Biological Diversity, the American Bird Conservancy, the Association of Avian Veteranarians, Project Gutpile and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility filed the petition on August 3 to ban the production and sale of lead based ammunition and fishing tackle under the Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) of 1976.
EPA sent a letter to the petitioners today (http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/chemtest/pubs/SO.Frye.Sinker.Response.11.4.10.pdf) stating that they failed to demonstrate that the rule is necessary to protect against an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment. The letter also states that the increasing number of limitations on the use of lead fishing gear on some federal and state lands, as well as various education and outreach activities, call into question whether a national ban on lead in fishing gear would be the least burdensome, adequately protective approach to address the concern, as called for under TSCA. EPA's letter also notes that there are non-lead alternatives currently in the marketplace.
On August 27, EPA denied the portion of the petition relating to lead in ammunition because the agency does not have the legal authority to regulate this type of product under TSCA.
Seventy-eight members of the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus (CSC) in September signed a letter sent to Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), urging the agency to dismiss the petition. The CSC members state in the letter, "There are 60 million recreational anglers in America that contribute $125 billion to our economy annually, and penalizing these men, women and children that are the best stewards of our environment, as well as the financial backbone to fish and wildlife conservation in our country, would be a terrible and unnecessary injustice."
The CSC letter came on the heels of a similar letter to Administrator Jackson requesting dismissal of the petition, sent on September 15, from the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation (CSF) and partner members of the American Wildlife Conservation Partners (AWCP) and sportfishing communities. The National Assebly of Sportsmen's Caucuses (NASC) Executive Council also urged EPA to dismiss the petition in a letter to Administrator Jackson.
CSC member and former Chairwoman, Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, introduced S.3850 on September 28 to protect lead based traditional ammunition and fishing tackle from a potential ban by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This legislation would clarify that the components used in manufacturing shells, cartridges and fishing tackle are exempt from EPA regulation under TSCA.
"This issue is about protecting America's 60 million recreational anglers, and this attempt to ban lead based fishing tackle could potentially have driven up cost and serve as a disincentive for Americans to fish," said CSF President Jeff Crane. "A federal ban on lead ammunition and fishing gear would have also negatively impacted fish and wildlife conservation funding."
The Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (AFWA), representing the 50 state fish and wildlife agencies, also sent a letter the EPA in September, urging them to dismiss the petition.
State fish and wildlife agencies are authorized to manage most of a state's fish and wildlife, and therefore, closely monitor and address any local concerns about lead based fishing tackle and any potential impacts on local species. A federal ban on lead fishing tackle is not only unnecessary, but intrudes upon these traditional state agencies jurisdiction.
No scientific basis has been established to warrant any such ban on traditional fishing equipment. A similar proposal to ban lead fishing tackle was dismissed by the EPA in the mid-1990s because there was insufficient data to support such a ban at that time.
Sportfishing Industry Applauds EPA's Decision to Reject Lead Ban Petition
America's anglers triumph over unwarranted petition to ban lead in fishing tackle
Alexandria, VA - November 4, 2010 - The sportfishing community commends the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson for its decision to reject a sweeping petition to ban lead in all fishing tackle. The petition, which was submitted on August 3, 2010, by the Center for Biological Diversity and four other groups, requested that EPA ban all lead in all fishing tackle on all U.S. waters. The petition also included a request to ban the use of lead ammunition in the hunting and shooting sports. That part was denied on August 27 because EPA does not have the legal authority to regulate ammunition under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Opposition from anglers was strong; over 43,000 anglers sent comments requesting dismissal of the petition to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson through www.KeepAmericaFishing.org™.
In dismissing the petition, EPA indicated that the "petitioners have not demonstrated that the requested rule is necessary to protect against an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment, as required by the TSCA." EPA also cited state-specific actions and the increasing education and outreach activities being undertaken, stating that those actions "...call into question whether a national ban on lead in fishing gear would be the least burdensome, adequately protective approach to address the concern, as called for under TSCA."
"The sportfishing community applauds EPA's decision," said American Sportfishing Association (ASA) Vice President Gordon Robertson. "It represents a solid review of the biological facts, as well as the economic and social impacts that would have resulted from such a sweeping federal action. It is a common sense decision."
Robertson further said, "Increases in the cost of recreational fishing would stop many anglers from enjoying the sport. The resultant decrease in fishing license sales and the federal manufacturers' excise tax on fishing tackle, which represent the two most important funding sources for fisheries conservation, would be a large setback for fish and wildlife managers and this country's natural resources."
"The sportfishing industry is very proud of the fact that America's anglers were united on this important issue and played a pivotal role in EPA's decision to reject this unwarranted petition," noted Robertson. "KeepAmericaFishing™ provides anglers an opportunity to present a strong, coherent voice so that they can express their concerns to decision makers. EPA's dismissal is without a doubt in direct response to the facts we presented which were soundly supported by our collective comments and input."
The sportfishing community's objection to the ban was based on:
* The data does not support a federal ban on lead sinkers used for fishing. In general, bird populations, including loons and other waterfowl species, are subject to many more substantial threats such as habitat loss through shoreline development. Any lead restrictions on fishing tackle need to be based on sound science that supports the appropriate action for a particular water body or species.
* A federal ban of the use of lead in fishing tackle will have a significant negative impact on recreational anglers and fisheries resources, but a negligible impact on waterfowl populations.
* Depending on the alternative metal and current prevailing raw material costs, non-lead fishing tackle products can cost from ten to twenty times more than lead products. Non-lead products may not be as available and most do not perform as well. Mandatory transitioning to non-lead fishing tackle would require significant and costly changes from both the industry and anglers.
* America's 60 million anglers generate over $45 billion in retail sales with a $125 billion impact on the nation's economy, creating employment for over one million people.
This is not the first time that such a ban has been requested. In 1992 EPA received a similar petition to ban lead fishing tackle and in 1995 the Agency abandoned the proposed rule because there was no threat to bird populations and the economic impact was determined to be significant. In September 2010, legislation was introduced to both chambers of Congress to prevent an overarching federal ban on lead in recreational fishing tackle (S. 3850 and H.R. 6284).
"Even with this decision, ASA will continue to work with legislators and EPA to ensure that future considerations of lead fishing tackle bans are made in response to sound science, not unwarranted petitions," concluded Robertson. "Aside from the many anglers that spoke up, many organizations and members of Congress deserve thanks for decisively voicing their opinion to EPA."
To learn more about this issue and to support the voice of the American angler, please visit www.KeepAmericaFishing.org.
The American Sportfishing Association (ASA) is the sportfishing industry's trade association, committed to looking out for the interests of the entire sportfishing community. We give the industry a unified voice speaking out when emerging laws and policies could significantly affect sportfishing business or sportfishing itself. We invest in long-term ventures to ensure the industry will remain strong and prosperous as well as safeguard and promote the enduring economic and conservation values of sportfishing in America. ASA also represents the interests of America's 60 million anglers who generate over $45 billion in retail sales with a $125 billion impact on the nation's economy creating employment for over one million people.


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How to Fix a Really Slow Plumbing Leak
Hello, everyone. I'm Joshua Clement. And today I'm going to talk to you about how to fix a really slow water leak. Now it's important that you fix these leaks that way over time they don't get bigger and cost you a lot of money in your water bill. For this job we'll be using a PVC cleaner and glue. A pair of vice grips or pliers. And a quick fix. Our first step is to clean our pipe with our cleaner. We are going to take our cleaner and clean our damaged area. It's important to get all of the area clean cause this actually loosens up the plastic pipe and helps your glue to stick to it. Now we'll go ahead and clean our quick fix. After everything is dried to the touch we'll take our glue or cement. We'll go ahead and put it in our quick fix. Then we'll go ahead and put it on our pipe. You want to make sure you get it all over the area past where your quick fix is going to go. After that's done we are going to take one side, put it onto our pipe. Then take our other side and interlock them together. After you have it on there we are going to grab our vice grips and clamp it down till it clicks. And you should see glue squirt out the side. That means you have a nice tight fit all the way across your fix. This is a great easy way to fix your plumbing leaks. You do want to make sure that you let your glue dry for the appropriate amount of time specified on your glue. Thank you all for watching and good luck with this project.
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The creeping, crawling, flying, growing, flowering life on this Earth is going extinct at least 1,000 times more rapidly than if humans were absent from the scene. Some call this the sixth mass extinction.
The causes of the crisis are many: climate change, ocean acidification (it has triggered extinction before), habitat loss, deforestation, invasive species and even odd fungal diseases. Many of these factors are intertwined and complicated. So with creatures both adorable and ancient on the brink of disappearing from the Earth, and with countless, even nameless, others already gone, it could seem like now is the time to start accepting the idea of mass extinction. Or feel depressed.
But some think we don’t have to accept this extinction. One of the main researchers on the Science study that quantified that death rate, mentioned above, is one such visionary (or Pollyanna, depending on your bias). Stuart Pimm, of Duke University, recently told Brad Plumer at Vox why he’s not despairing. Plumer writes:
By assembling data on exactly what species are endangered and where, he said, scientists can now do more than ever to help conservation groups fend off extinctions. One example: more detailed research on Brazil's rainforests can give people an idea of which tracts are actually most cost-effective to protect.
The full Q&A is worth reading, but here are some quotes from Pimm that point toward a way forward that might have a little less death:
- "We have really good maps now showing where a lot of species are, on land and in freshwater and the oceans. We can identify the key places that matter."
- "What my NGO, Saving Species, does is we take our data and identify exactly where we think the most important fragments are. And then we raise money from Brazilian conservation groups to buy up the land between the fragments and reforest it. So we reconnect it — stitching habitat fragments to form much bigger habitats."
- "Do we need more resources? Yes. Do we need to focus more on the places that matter? Yes. But it's not as if we're blundering around not knowing what to do. I think the conservation profession now is very sophisticated, very clever, and has a lot of different techniques. We just have to be smart; we have to focus our energies. We have to solve difficult problems."
It’s all about strategy, Pimm explains. Some conservation efforts might have their heart in the right place but their resources in the wrong place. "But those conservation efforts aren't always the places that are optimal. Some places are bad," he says. "We need to encourage people to protect the places that matter — using scientifically informed decisions."
Focusing on individual species, like the Endangered Species Act does, can be most useful when the organism in question is recognized as an icon whose threat comes from a disrupted ecosystem. Fix the habitat issues; help the "poster child" species. Pimm also emphasizes the use of smartphones to document biodiversity and the importance of local conservation actions.
Of course, slowing climate change would also make a big difference. Pimm closes the interview with:
We're also still struggling with the overarching political question of what sort of planet we're going to hand to our children and grandchildren. That's a difficult one — it's obvious on global warming, but it's broader than that. I think this is a global debate about how we shape our global future — whether we want to have a planet that will continue to get hotter and hotter and hotter, whether we're going to use resources on land and oceans unsustainably, whether we're going to allow this wave of extinction to deplete the diversity of life on earth. That's a global issue, and I do worry about how poorly we are grasping this.

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Naloxone “Flush”: A Novel Approach to Complete Heroin Abstinence
Naloxone hydrochloride is a specific narcotic antagonist whose main use is the reversal of coma due to opiates. In 1973 the Drug Research Unit of New York Medical College used it to test the patients’ freedom from opiates, prior to the administration of naltrexone, which is more potent and has a longer duration. Both patients and staff called this procedure a “flush.” If naloxone was administered too soon, generally less than a week after termination of methadone maintenace, abstinence symptoms such as muscle cramps, nausea and hypersecretions would occur. These could be symptomatically treated with diazapam, prochlorpromazine and atropine.
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The schoolgirls abducted from Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in Talatu-Mafara local government area of Zamfara state have been released.
More than 300 of the schoolgirls were kidnapped after gunmen stormed the school in the early bright of the morning last Friday.
There was speculation about their freedom over the weekend, but the Zamfara state government repudiated the rumour as fake news.
However, on Monday, the state government announced that the schoolgirls have been freed.
”Alhamdulillah! It gladdens my heart to announce the release of the abducted students of GGSS Jangebe from captivity. This follows the scaling of several hurdles laid against our efforts. I enjoin all well-meaning Nigerians to rejoice with us as our daughters are now safe,” Bello Matawalle, the governor, tweeted.

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Eight Rehoboth area cottages will open their doors on July 6 and 7 from noon until 5:00 p.m. to benefit the Rehoboth Art League. The original purpose of The Cottage Tour of Art, which began 50 years ago, was to showcase Art League members works in summer cottages.
The homes presented on this years tour include:
16 Dover Street, The Pines: Owners Howard Menaker and Patrick Gossett have made major renovations to this cottage originally located on Rehoboth Avenue. A housewide kitchen/ sitting room with a full wall of cupboard space and whimsically lit coffee corner leads to a formal dining room. Also featured is a massive bedroom suite with glorious windows.
71 Columbia Avenue, The Pines: An enchanting entry under a blooming arbor prefigures the charm of this cottage owned by John and Ellie OToole. Built more than 80 years ago, only a few additions have been made, most recently an upstairs studio for Mr. OTooles painting pursuits. Enjoy the cool comfort and restfulness of the fine garden.
60 Park Avenue, The Pines: A gated mini-courtyard and broad steps are embraced by old dogwood limbs and guarded by a funky iron maiden in the garden. The owners Lee Walters and Fernando Ferre have chosen to paint in many shades of "greige" both inside and out for a restful ambiance. Paintings by Laura Hickman and Tom Wilson are not to be missed.
28 Columbia Avenue, The Pines: This sunny yellow home, owned by Robert and Megan ORourke, has a Victorian flavor thanks to beaded white gingerbread on the front porch and arbored gateway to the side yard. Lots of star shapes both inside and out, and lots of red, white and blue gives this delightful home a very patriotic feeling.
31 Olive Avenue: This "cottage" originally stood oceanfront beside the old Henlopen Hotel but was moved to its present location sometime in the second decade of this century. The new owners Scollay Petry, Mickey MacIntyre and Ralph Santora are carefully restoring this architectural gem back to its original grandeur.
Two Breezy Point, The Glade: From the fine formality of its brick and columned exterior manicured setting to the enjoyment of its pond side deck, the home of John and Nancy Barlow reflects their travels and lifes work. A mix of artifacts from many lands and work of local artists fill the considerable space within this home.
One Gordons Pond Drive, The Glade: Here is a "cottage" to tour for the art! Works by Marilyn Bauman, Laura Hickman, Jack Lewis, Joe Santangelo and Charles Palmer are among the owners collection with a dramatic touch. His glass-walled garden room is a prime example.
131 East Side Drive, Rehoboth Beach Yacht and Country Club: B.J. and Joanne McGregor have finely teamed their professional design and construction abilities to create their retirement home. Mementos from their travels blend well with family heirlooms, antiques and carefully selected fabrics and paints.
Cottage Tour tickets are $15 and available from the Art League, several locations around town, and at each tour site (only on the day of the tour). Advance ticket purchase is recommended. This is an adult function, sorry, no children under age 12. For additional information, please call the Art League at 302-227-8408.
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Some fully vaccinated people should wear masks indoors away from home, Massachusetts DPH says
Massachusetts public health officials are urging vaccinated people who live with any person at high-risk for COVID-19, who have weakened immune systems themselves and who are at an increased risk of severe COVID-19 because of their own age or health conditions to wear a mask or face covering when indoors and not in their own homes.
“If you have a serious health condition or risk of developing a severe illness from COVID, you should take extra precautions. If you have a close friend or family members who have a serious health condition or a serious risk of developing a severe disease or illness from COVID, you should take extra precautions,” Gov. Charlie Baker said.
The shift comes as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are on the rise once again, fueled by the more contagious delta variant. It comes on the heels of new CDC recommendations that even vaccinated people mask up in areas of significant coronavirus transmission.
DPH said it was issuing its updated advisory "in light of the information provided by the CDC, and in order to maximize protection of vulnerable individuals from the Delta variant."
DPH explained "increased risk for severe disease" means anyone who had any of the comorbidities or risk factors that affected their COVID vaccine eligibility status. That means you should mask up in public indoors if you or someone you live with someone who is 70 or over and/or has one of these conditions.
The vaccines have proven effective in preventing severe illness in fully vaccinated people who contract COVID-19, health officials say.
"Remember, please get vaccinated if you have not," Baker urged. "That is your best possible protection."
Baker said Friday that the new state advisory was issued "to reflect the new information out of the CDC" but added that the policy is not simply copied from the CDC but instead is "tailored" specifically to Massachusetts.
"We've made significant progress in the COVID fight. We lead the nation in vaccination rates among big states, and as a result, we have one of the lowest hospitalization rates in the country."
Earlier his week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it was updating its recommendation that vaccinated people resume wearing masks indoors in parts of the U.S. where the delta variant of the coronavirus is fueling infection surges.
The guidance on masks in indoor public places applies in parts of the country with at least 50 new cases per 100,000 people in the last week. That includes 60% of U.S. counties, officials said.
“In recent days, I have seen new scientific data from recent outbreak investigations showing that the delta variant behaves uniquely differently from past strains of the virus that cause COVID-19," CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Tuesday. "This new science is worrisome and unfortunately warrants an update to our recommendations."
"This is not a decision that we or CDC has made lightly," she added.
The governor made clear that he is not a fan of the CDC's latest guidance, which recommends different levels of protection based on the current transmission levels in a given county.
"What if you work in one county and live in another? What if you decided to go to vacation or out to dinner in one county and live in another?" he said in explaining why he opted for a statewide advisory. "And by the way, how is anybody supposed to keep track, given all the stuff that's going on in their daily life, with a rolling seven-day average in which one of four elements is going to determine, based on whichever one is highest, whether or not a district is substantially at risk or significantly at risk?"
When school resumes in about a month, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education said it and DPH "strongly recommend that all students in kindergarten through grade 6 wear masks when indoors, except students who cannot do so due to medical conditions or behavioral needs" and that "schools allow vaccinated students to remain unmasked."
"We fully expect cities and towns to make adjustments to do what's right for their specific school districts. But one thing is clear: All schools and all districts must be open every day to every student, no matter what," Baker said. "The documented negative impact on children that resulted from the uneven, unpredictable and profoundly difficult year that students had last year cannot and must not happen again. In-person learning is the only available option for Massachusetts schools and their students."
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Wuhan Women’s Football Goalkeeper Wang Fei: The Chinese Super League and Women’s Football are competing on the same field, a wonderful day
January 1 News The 2022 Chinese Super League came to an end yesterday.
At the awards ceremony at the Wuhan Sports Center, tens of thousands of fans witnessed the moment when the Wuhan Three Towns won the Chinese Super League Vulcan Cup.
Wuhan women’s football goalkeeper Wang Fei posted a message on his personal social media to thank Wuhan fans.
Before the awards ceremony, Wuhan Three Towns Football Club arranged a series of warm-up activities, including the match between Wuhan Three Towns Team and Wuhan Chegujiang University Women’s Football Team.
This season, the Wuhan Chegujiang University Women’s Football team won the 2022 Women’s Super League championship ahead of the Wuhan Three Towns team.
Wuhan women’s football goalkeeper Wang Fei posted a photo of the awards ceremony on his personal social media, and wrote in the accompanying text: "It’s a wonderful day, the Chinese Super League women’s football team is competing on the same field. Thank you to the fans who came to cheer for us. Football is even more exciting because of you."
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Author: John Payne Collier
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date: 1929
Traces the origins of puppetry's famous duo Punch and Judy from their birth in Italy to their travels across medieval Europe, exploring the show's moral and cultural significance and the people who created it.
Over half century ago the society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children complained to Mayor Van Wyck, of New York, that Joe Keaton, a vaudeville actor, was brutally mistreating his five-year old son. At each afternoon and evening performance the child, billed as “The Human Mop”, was slammed on the floor, hurled into the wings, and sometimes banged into bass drums. Unable to find a bruise or scratch on the lad, Mayor Van Wyck refused to ban the act. The “Human Mop” bounced on to worldwide fame as Buster Keaton, one of this century’s greatest comedians. In this intimate autobiography Buster Keaton tells his whole personal and professional story, beginning with his colourful and exciting childhood as the undentable tot in the “Three Keatons” whose proudest boast was having the rowdiest, roughest act in vaudeville. Buster has played with all the great ones, from George M. Cohen and Bojangles Robinson and Al Jolson to Jack Paar and Ed Sullivan and Red Skelton, during his sixty years as a star in vaudeville, silent and talking pictures, night clubs and television. Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle got him into the movies and taught him how to throw a custard pie. Buster could not even keep slapstick out of his eleven months as a draftee in our World War I army. He came out to help create the Golden Age of Comedy with his friends Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Arbuckle, Mack Sennett and the Keystone Cops. Marital troubles and alcoholism once got Buster down, but could not keep him down. MY WONDERFUL WORLD OF SLAPSTICK was written with the collaboration of Charles Samuels, co-author of His Eye Is On the Sparrow, Ethel Waters’ best-selling autobiography. Buster Keaton’s Life Story will enchant and thrill all those who enjoy looking past the glitter and the grease paint into a magnificent performer’s mind and heart.
Author: Tom Dardis
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Release Date: 1979
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Explores the complex nature of the enigmatic silent-film star through the eyes of his close friends and associates, recreating his vaudeville days, his great successes in the 1920s, and the years of decline
First published over fifty years ago, A GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS remains an essential text for all serious students of literature. Now fully updated to reflect the latest scholarship on recent and rapidly evolving critical theories, the eleventh edition contains a complete glossary of essential literary terms presented as a series of engaging, beautifully crafted essays that explore the terms, place them in context, and suggest related entries and additional reading. This indispensable, authoritative, and highly affordable reference covers terms useful in discussing literature and literary history, theory, and criticism. Perfect as a core text for introductory literary theory or as a supplement to any literature course, this classic work is an invaluable reference that students can continue to use throughout their academic and professional careers. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
Author: Douglas M. Kellner
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date: 2011-09-13
Genre: Performing Arts
Cinema Wars explores the intersection of film, politics, and US culture and society through a bold critical analysis of the films, TV shows, and documentaries produced in the early 2000s Offers a thought-provoking depiction of Hollywood film as a contested terrain between conservative and liberal forces Films and documentaries discussed include: Black Hawk Down, The Dark Knight, Star Wars, Syriana, WALL-E, Fahrenheit 9/11 and other Michael Moore documentaries, amongst others Explores how some films in this era supported the Bush-Cheney regime, while others criticized the administration, openly or otherwise Investigates Hollywood’s treatment of a range of hot topics, from terrorism and environmental crisis to the Iraq war and the culture wars of the 2000s Shows how Hollywood film in the 2000s brought to life a vibrant array of social protest and helped create cultural conditions to elect Barack Obama
Author: Pantelis Michelakis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2013-08-15
The first systematic attempt to focus on the instrumental role of silent cinema in early twentieth-century conceptualizations of the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East. It is located at the intersection of film studies, classics, Bible studies and cultural studies.
In the mid-seventies, both gender studies and humor studies emerged as new disciplines, with scholars from various fields undertaking research in these areas. The first publications that emerged in the field of gender studies came out of disciplines such as philosophy, history, and literature, while early works in the area of humor studies initially concentrated on language, linguistics, and psychology. Since then, both fields have flourished, but largely independently. This book draws together and focuses the work of scholars from diverse disciplines on intersections of gender and humor, giving voice to approaches in disciplines such as film, television, literature, linguistics, translation studies, and popular culture.
Author: Thomas Leitch
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date: 2009-03-01
Genre: Performing Arts
Most books on film adaptation—the relation between films and their literary sources—focus on a series of close one-to-one comparisons between specific films and canonical novels. This volume identifies and investigates a far wider array of problems posed by the process of adaptation. Beginning with an examination of why adaptation study has so often supported the institution of literature rather than fostering the practice of literacy, Thomas Leitch considers how the creators of short silent films attempted to give them the weight of literature, what sorts of fidelity are possible in an adaptation of sacred scripture, what it means for an adaptation to pose as an introduction to, rather than a transcription of, a literary classic, and why and how some films have sought impossibly close fidelity to their sources. After examining the surprisingly divergent fidelity claims made by three different kinds of canonical adaptations, Leitch's analysis moves beyond literary sources to consider why a small number of adapters have risen to the status of auteurs and how illustrated books, comic strips, video games, and true stories have been adapted to the screen. The range of films studied, from silent Shakespeare to Sherlock Holmes to The Lord of the Rings, is as broad as the problems that come under review. -- Shannon Wells-Lassagne
Author: Trav S.D.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date: 2006-10-31
Genre: Performing Arts
A seriously funny look at the roots of American Entertainment When Groucho Marx and Charlie Chaplin were born, variety entertainment had been going on for decades in America, and like Harry Houdini, Milton Berle, Mae West, and countless others, these performers got their start on the vaudeville stage. From 1881 to 1932, vaudeville was at the heart of show business in the States. Its stars were America's first stars in the modern sense, and it utterly dominated American popular culture. Writer and modern-day vaudevillian Trav S.D. chronicles vaudeville's far-reaching impact in No Applause--Just Throw Money. He explores the many ways in which vaudeville's story is the story of show business in America and documents the rich history and cultural legacy of our country's only purely indigenous theatrical form, including its influence on everything from USO shows to Ed Sullivan to The Muppet Show and The Gong Show. More than a quaint historical curiosity, vaudeville is thriving today, and Trav S.D. pulls back the curtain on the vibrant subculture that exists across the United States--a vast grassroots network of fire-eaters, human blockheads, burlesque performers, and bad comics intent on taking vaudeville into its second century.
Author: Siegfried Kracauer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date: 1960
Genre: Performing Arts
Siegfried Kracauer's classic study, originally published in 1960, explores the distinctive qualities of the cinematic medium. In this new edition, Miriam Bratu Hansen, examining the book in the context of Kracauer's extensive film criticism from the 1920s, provides a framework for appreciating the significance of THEORY OF FILM for contemporary filmmakers, students, as well as the general reader. 64 photos.
Author: Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 1997
Genre: Performing Arts
Featuring nearly three thousand film stills, production shots, and other illustrations, an authoritative history of the cinema traces the development of the medium, its filmmakers and stars, and the evolution of national cinemas around the world


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Obsidian Moon Crate is a quarterly book box based in the US that focuses on adults with interest in the darker elements of life and books. Each box comes with a new hardcover book either YA or Adult Fantasy or Science Fiction, one crystal, one candle, and four to five other items. December’s theme is Darker than the Deep.
The items included in this box are a Empire of Storms unisex t-shirt, a mixology drink, a candle inspired by Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse, a bath bomb with a crystal inside it, a Skin of the Sea inspired enamel pin and a set of foil bookmarks inspired by the Shades of Magic. All the items are high quality and the only one I won’t use is the mixology drink but I like the idea behind it.
The book included was The Syren’s Mutiny by Jessica S. Taylor which follows Brigid who stowaways on a ship to escape being married off, but when she is discovered she is thrown to the ocean. However, she is saved by becoming a Syren and Brigid now has the ability to seek revenge on those who wronged her. Based on the summary it sound to me like a dark fantasy horror with some possible romance. This edition also has an exclusive dust jacket, art on the hardback and end papers, and painted edges.
Overall, if you are interested in a darker aesthetic or darker book this could be the book box for you. I do plan to order other boxes from them in the future. The next quarterly boxes theme is Courting Death.


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By Carson Purnell
Early in 2020, the tone around the Covid-19 pandemic quickly changed from a ‘bad flu’ to a worldwide catastrophe, to be compared to the 1918 flu pandemic’s 50-100 million deaths1. Nobody in the world had specific immunity to this pathogen, and it was clear the novel coronavirus was highly contagious and had already spread throughout the world. Only with hard-won experience have doctors improved treatment protocols to save more patients throughout this pandemic. Research scientists have proven that public measures like masking and physical distancing limit the spread of Covid-192,3 and have developed vaccines that prevent nearly all serious cases. As communities reach high degrees of vaccination, Covid-19 will transition from a pandemic crisis to an endemic public health concern4.
Before scientific findings settled and vaccines became available, there simply weren’t any tools available for the general population to combat the deadly plague sweeping through communities. Instead, there were unfounded claims of potential cures. Most people heard about hydroxychloroquine, touted early last year as an effective treatment that turned out to have no benefit and moderate risk5-7. Other claimed cures may have gone beneath your notice, as they would not have appeared on PubMed, clinicaltrials.gov, or even in the wave of rapid publishing of research articles on Covid-19. Not science-based treatments, but ‘alternatives’ sometimes couched in scientific terms lacking evidence and plausible mechanism of action, to be compared to other pseudoscience, like homeopathy and chiropractic, as well as black-market scams offering vaccines. Now that the speed of vaccination is declining and different levels of anti-vaccine sentiment have again become an obstacle, pseudoscientific claims are again gaining attention. Here I will describe two purported treatments for Covid-19, colloidal silver and miracle mineral solution (MMS), that have been sold as cures for health issues for years before the Covid-19 pandemic despite the lack of scientific evidence.
Colloidal silver (and other colloidal metals)
Colloids are materials, usually liquids, where one substance is evenly distributed within another as tiny particles, without being dissolved. Colloids never settle or precipitate, and may be impossible to filter or separate by normal means. Metal colloids can be generated with specific particle sizes, and nanoparticles smaller than 100nm can be freely suspended in pure water or other liquids. The resulting color is dependent on particle size and is entirely different from the metal’s bulk color. These properties of colloids have been used in pigments and technical tools8. Gold colloids have a particularly wide range of pink, red, and blue hues (Figure 1).
Beyond their interesting color variety, colloidal nanoparticles are increasingly relevant in multiple scientific fields. For decades, colloidal metals have been used in electron microscopy to provide contrast in density-based images9, which I have used in my own experiments. Nanoscience applications in electronics and optics have also used colloidal nanoparticles to investigate nanoscale phenomena10, and in biomedicine, nanoparticles are an emerging delivery system for therapeutic drugs and biologics, especially for cancer11. In contrast to this research, there are many online marketplaces that sell colloids, mostly colloidal silver, as a general health improver and even cure. All available research instead indicates the opposite, and the NIH and FDA clearly warn that colloidal silver cannot treat any disease, but can cause a permanent skin discoloration called argyria (Figure 2).
Lacking actual evidence of effectiveness, colloid sellers try to cloak themselves in the style of science to make up for lack of substance. Providing highly technical information like bioavailability graphs and material safety data sheets as the company Purest Colloids does creates a feeling of transparency and honesty as convincing evidence does not exist. Purest Colloids also makes use of a standard marketing technique to improve their stature by pointing out that many competitors sell ionic solutions labeled as colloids. In a recent investigation into silver colloids, it was found that Purest Colloids indeed sells real colloids, while most advertised colloids were merely solutions of ionic silver12. These tactics create a facade of reliability without scientific rigor. To get around FDA regulations, these companies use generic language that the FDA does not regulate, like “boosts the immune system” and “supports healthy metabolism”.
Different from sellers that cloak themselves in science, there are also many that leverage older traditions that view silver and other precious metals as magical, protecting against disease and curses13. One of the most wide-reaching such magical thinkers is Jim Bakker, a televangelist who spends a great deal of time hawking overpriced doomsday survival supplies in addition to colloidal silver as a cure for all ailments, including Covid-19. Because of these explicit fraudulent claims, he has been sued by two states for continuing to advertise and sell these products, despite warning letters from the FDA.
Sometimes both mystical appeals and pseudoscientific disguises are used together, but regardless of strategy colloids are sold on a wide range of online marketplaces, including Amazon.com. As colloids are relatively simple to manufacture, colloid supply is difficult to police and the relatively low risks compared to other scams often allows colloid treatments to avoid regulatory intervention unless there are direct fraudulent claims that fall under FDA purview.
Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS)
An example of a different kind of pseudoscience, MMS was popularized in 2006 by Jim Humble through his book promoting MMS by claiming it cures cancer, malaria, Lyme disease, and even HIV/AIDS. Humble founded the Genesis II Church to sell MMS directly and avoid regulatory intervention, labeling MMS as a sacrament of his non-religious church. He has never presented evidence for these health claims, and has lied about the Red Cross letting him perform experiments on malaria patients, which the Red Cross has refuted. More recently, MMS has been in the news after claims of curing autism, resulting in a large number of poisoned children, until messaging from autism advocacy groups reduced its use.
MMS and its producers are universally condemned by all medical and patient advocacy groups because MMS is simply chlorine dioxide, an industrial bleach – not a medical product (Figure 3). MMS is not safe for human contact, being both toxic and caustic to the digestive system when consumed. There is no evidence that MMS has any benefit, and there never will be such evidence because an experiment that requires administering bleach is intensely unethical. In one final cruelty, purveyors of MMS formed insular subgroups to discuss how to avoid the attention of child protective services while force-feeding MMS to children, and insisting that the severe symptoms are signs that MMS is working and needs to continue being administered.
There was no hesitation last year for MMS sellers to prominently place claims of curing Covid-19 on their websites, leading to an FDA warning letter by April 2020. When the warning was ignored in favor of making profit, the Justice Department stepped in and placed an injunction on MMS sales in the US, leading to the arrest and recent indictment of major suppliers of MMS. While overdue, this reaction from the FDA and courts may help stop many future MMS poisonings.
Thankfully, there are a number of ways to spot pseudoscience and scams like these that don’t require a background in biomedical fields or extensive data dives. Both colloids and MMS have been hawked during every health-related news event for as long as they have existed – HIV/AIDS, cancer, and the original SARS. If colloids or MMS were effective at treating any of these illnesses, it would not have gone unnoticed. Remember that treatments claiming to be a panacea that treat or cure a wide range of conditions is biologically impossible and the sole territory of scams and pseudoscience. Both colloids and MMS come down to recycling: the same product being used again and again for new situations. If you can trace the life cycle of the product, you can likely find its true nature, either as a legitimate product with solid evidence that began in a lab, or a scam that has been shuffled across many different unreliable websites without any credence from scientific bodies. With knowledge of these pseudoscientific tactics and awareness of recycling scams, you will be less susceptible to fallacious arguments and hopefully you will be able to point out scams to your neighbors as well.
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2. Kwon S, Joshi AD, Lo CH, et al. Association of social distancing and masking with risk of COVID-19. medRxiv.2020.
3. Ju JTJ, Boisvert LN, Zuo YY. Face masks against COVID-19: Standards, efficacy, testing and decontamination methods. Adv Colloid Interface Sci.2021;292:102435.
4. Torjesen I. Covid-19 will become endemic but with decreased potency over time, scientists believe. BMJ.2021;372:n494.
5. Maraolo AE, Grossi A. Safety of hydroxychloroquine for treatment or prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection: A rapid systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials. Immun Inflamm Dis.2021;9(1):31-36.
6. Shetty RM, Namachivayam A. Evidence for Chloroquine/Hydroxychloroquine in the Treatment of COVID-19. Indian J Crit Care Med.2021;25(4):441-452.
7. Ader F, Peiffer-Smadja N, Poissy J, et al. An open-label randomized, controlled trial of the effect of lopinavir/ritonavir, lopinavir/ritonavir plus IFN-β-1a and hydroxychloroquine in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. Clin Microbiol Infect.2021.
8. Kerker M. The optics of colloidal silver: something old and something new. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science.1985;105:297-314.
9. Horisberger M, Rosset J. Colloidal gold, a useful marker for transmission and scanning electron microscopy. J Histochem Cytochem.1977;25(4):295-305.
10. Dreaden EC, Alkilany AM, Huang X, Murphy CJ, El-Sayed MA. The golden age: gold nanoparticles for biomedicine. Chem Soc Rev.2012;41(7):2740-2779.
11. Boisselier E, Astruc D. Gold nanoparticles in nanomedicine: preparations, imaging, diagnostics, therapies and toxicity. Chem Soc Rev.2009;38(6):1759-1782.
12. Kumar A, Goia DV. Comparative Analysis of Commercial Colloidal Silver Products. Int J Nanomedicine.2020;15:10425-10434.
13. Lamb GF. Magic, witchcraft, and the occult. Newton Abbot Eng. New York: David and Charles ; Hippocrene Books; 1977.


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This fleeting natural alpenglow is at its most stunning from November thru February, but has been drawing folks to Ojai year-round for generations. With colors reminiscent of the "Pink Moment," Daren's bandana design serves as an homage to the magical Ojai Valley, and wearable reminder of nature's most majestic, uplifting phenomena.
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Are you considering upgrading your current ticketing technology? Selling the idea to key decision-makers can be challenging. Here are some key points you should address any questions you’ll need to answer to demonstrate the value of investing in upgraded ticketing software.
Focus on Results
The key to selling decision-makers on new ticketing software is to show the primary financial return on investment (ROI). Show how the ROI will outweigh the purchase costs and resources required to bring the new system online. Highlight the positive impact it will have in streamlining processes, cutting costs and assisting in revenue growth.
Can the new ticketing system be used as a CRM or a prospecting tool? Will you be able to see purchasing data, such as ticket usage or buying patterns? Can you report on key habits to better understand your customers and target specific buyers?
With the increased industry focus on big data, highlight how the new ticketing software will offer a more global view of your customer and products, going beyond being just a placeholder or simple “order-taking” system. Showcase any available reporting mechanisms and focus on how the new system will allow you to get that key information. Explain how the new system will enable the club to better target products to key prospects, and identify new clients for other subscription- or revenue-related opportunities.
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How secure is your new system to implement? If this is a massive project that could take a year or longer to perform, you’ll need to consider how many person-hours and staff will be required to bring this project to fruition. Additionally, ask yourself if there are there secondary investments that will have to made into additional servers, computing power or upgraded security.
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Stuckey caught four passes for a career-high 64 yards and a touchdown in the Jets' 24-7 season-opening win over the Texans on Sunday.|||||||
The TD catch was Stuckey's first since Week 3 of the 2008 season. The second-year receiver out of Clemson could benefit from having rookie Mark Sanchez under center. Sanchez looked more than capable in his NFL debut Sunday.
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Stuckey wasn't expected to contribute much in the passing game as a rookie, but he has a touchdown in each of his first three NFL games. On Sunday, he'll try to become the first Jet receiver to score in the team's first four games since Keyshawn Johnson in 1998.
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Stuckey, injury-prone throughout his college career at Clemson, injured his right foot last week and was inactive for the season opener against the New England Patriots. The nature and severity of the injury wasn't immediately known.
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VILLAGE OF ALMONT
An Ordinance to prohibit the loitering of minors.
THE VILLAGE OF ALMONT ORDAINS:
Section 1. Loitering Prohibited
It shall be unlawful for any minor under the age of 17 years to loiter, idle, wander, stroll, play in, or be found upon public streets, highways, roads, alleys, parks, public buildings, places of amusement and entertainment, vacant lots, or any public place between the hours of 8:30 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. of the following day, official Village time.
However, the provisions of this section do not apply to a minor under the age of 17 years accompanied by his or her parent, guardian, or other adult persons having the care and custody of such minor; nor where such minor is returning from any school dance or school entertainment; nor where the legal employment of such minor makes it necessary to be upon the streets, alleys or other public places during the night time after said specific hours.
Section 2. Responsibility
It shall be unlawful for the parent, guardian, or other adult person having the care and custody of a minor under the age of 17 years to permit such to loiter, idle, wander, stroll, play in, or be found upon the public streets, highways, roads, alleys, parks, playgrounds, or other public grounds, public places and public buildings, places of amusement and entertainment, vacant lots, or any public place between the hours of 8:30 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. official Village time, as set forth here after. However, the provisions of this section shall not apply to the exempted class mentioned in Section 1.
Section 3. Each Violation; Separate Offense
Each violation of the provisions of the above sections shall constitute a separate offense.
Section 4. Delinquent or Neglected Child
Any such minor violating the provisions of Section l shall be deemed a delinquent or neglected child as defined in the Statutes of the State of Michigan. Said minor shall be brought before the Juvenile Court having jurisdiction over said minor, and said minor shall be dealt with by said court as provided by law.
Section 5. Penalty; Parent
Any parent, guardian, or other adult person having the care and custody of a minor under the age of 17 years who violates Section 2, upon conviction hereof, shall be fined not less than ten ($10.00) dollars, or more than one hundred ($100.00) dollars, and in the default payment thereof, shall be confined in the County Jail for not more than thirty (30) days.
Section 6. Separability
It is the intention of the Village Council that each provision of this ordinance shall be deemed independent of all other provisions herein. It is further the intention of the Village Council that if any provision of this ordinance is declared invalid, all other provisions thereof shall remain valid and enforceable.
Section 7. Declaration
The Almont Village Council hereby declares an emergency due to the numerous youths congregating on the public streets in such manner as to jeopardize the peace and tranquility of the Village.
Section 8. Effective Date
This ordinance shall take effect at 8:30 p.m. on October 30, 2022 and shall remain in effect until 6:00 a.m. on November 1, 2022.
The undersigned President and Clerk of the Village of Almont hereby certify that this emergency ordinance was adopted at a meeting of the Almont Village Council on the 4th day of October 2022.
Adopted: October 4, 2022
Effective: October 30, 2022
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Hell Night has been yet another one of those horror movies that I’ve meant to watch for a very long time. I would see the poster, the one with Linda Blair’s boobies hanging out of her dress, while she is screaming to get out. It was a memorable poster for sure, but for some odd reason, I never had the opportunity to watch it. Of course, that has changed now, since Scream Factory has produced a feature-packed Blu-ray release. Using a new 4K scan from the 35mm film print, the film has never looked better (sidenote: the film print was missing some footage, so standard definition footage was used, but Scream cleaned it up the best they could, and it looks good). As for what I thought of the movie, read on to find out!
Linda Blair plays Marti, a college girl in the process of trying to join a fraternity (sorority?). The process to get into the fraternity takes place during an event called Hell Night, and it involves spending a night in a supposedly haunted mansion. It’s your cliche story we have all seen before. Marti is joined by Denise, the slutty girl, Seth, the surfer dude, and Peter, the jock with a heart of gold. The leader of the fraternity (is it really a fraternity? Do some fraternities accept both girls and guys? I’m confused.) plays some pranks on the four people staying the night, but it isn’t long until the real monsters come out to kill some pledges.
As I’ve already mentioned, Hell Night isn’t very original, but it does offer a fun time. It’s got some fun murder scenes, with lots of practical effects. I did find that the kill scenes flashed by too quickly. There really isn’t much gore to speak of in the movie, as it’s mostly edited out. Also, it’s an 80s horror film, but there isn’t any nudity in the flick. There are some really gorgeous looking women in this movie, but the flesh stays covered. The most we get is the delicious Suki Goodwin walking around in scantily clad lingerie, which got my heart racing.
Another issue I had with Hell Night is the story, or to put it more bluntly, the lack of a cohesive story. We are provided with some backstory on the history of the mansion, but the murderers in the movie are never fully explained. You are told that one of the killers is a certain person who survived the night of the murders 12 years ago, but there is also another killer and I have no idea who that killer was. Also, later on in the film, we are shown a scene in the basement with some old rotten bodies around a table (a staple of 80s horror films), but I have no idea who these dead people are. Are they the family? Other victims? Doesn’t this Hell Night happen every year, so wouldn’t people stay at the mansion every year? Why was this one night the catalyst for the killers to start killing? It doesn’t make sense the more you think about it.
Maybe I’m thinking way too hard about Hell Night. Maybe I just need to sit back, turn my brain off and relax while Linda Blair’s big ol’ boobies heave around on screen. Yeah, I think that’s exactly the right way to watch this fun, but flawed horror film.
Scream Factory has released a feature-packed Collector’s Edition, with so many special features. There are plenty of new interviews with the cast and crew of the flick. Each one is packed with lots of information. These aren’t cookie cutter features that run a few minutes. Most of them run over 20 minutes or more. The only old extras on the disc is an audio commentary, trailers and photo galleries. Scream Factory has definitely provided plenty for fans to look at. Good on them!
If you happen to like the film even a little bit, you definitely want to own this amazing Blu-ray Collector’s Edition release from Scream Factory. It has a solid video transfer and extra features that are almost as big as Linda Blair’s boobs. A no brainer purchase!
NEW 4K Scan Of The Film Taken From The Best Surviving Archival Print
NEW Interviews With Actors Linda Blair, Peter Barton, Vincent Van Patten, Suki Goodwin, Kevin Brophy, And Jenny Neumann
Audio Commentary With Linda Blair, Tom DeSimone, Irwin Yablans, And Bruce Cohn Curtis
Original Theatrical Trailer & TV Spots
Blu-ray Disc Exclusive Bonus Features:
NEW Interview With Director Tom DeSimone
NEW Interview With Producer Bruce Cohn Curtis
NEW Interview With Writer Randolph Feldman
NEW – Anatomy Of The Death Scenes With Tom DeSimone, Randolph Feldman, Make-up Artist Pam Peitzman, Art Director Steven G. Legler, And Special Effects Artist John Eggett
NEW – On Location At The Kimberly Crest House With Tom DeSimone
NEW – Gothic Design In Hell Night With Steven G. Legler


(Reuters Health) — A new piece of technology that tracks eye movements after a head injury might be able to detect concussions and determine their severity, researchers say.
The new technology is essentially like a doctor moving a finger in front of a person’s eyes after a hit to the head – except now it’s automated, said Dr. Uzma Samadani of NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City.
And the results are reproducible, whereas with the follow-my-finger method, Samadani said, "Each doctor is going to have variability in how well they’re going to be able to assess how well a person is getting better."
Samadani said she developed the new technology because she needed a reliable way to assess concussions. Accurate diagnoses would improve patients’ care, allowing for more accurate assessments of when they could safely return to work or play after a hit to the head, she said.
The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention define a concussion as a type of brain injury "caused by a bump, blow, or jolt to the head that can change the way your brain normally works."
In her team’s study, 75 people who’d been in accidents (but not necessarily head accidents) plus 64 healthy volunteers all watched a 4-minute video while their eye movement was tracked by a computer. The computer could tell when their eyes are moving in opposite directions. So-called disconjugated eye movement has been tied to brain injuries for centuries.
People with hits to the head had less ability to control their eye movements, compared to people who had no known injuries, the researchers wrote in the Journal of Neurotrauma.
The computer also detected signs of concussion in some patients without any noticeable brain injury on a CT scan.
Images, like those from a CT scan, "tell you what (the brain) looks like – not how it functions," Samadani said.
The researchers also found that the severity of symptoms from concussion was tied to the severity of their eye movement problems.
The technology is currently only available in research settings, but Samadani hopes the FDA will clear it for use by the end of this year.
"I think we’re going to change how we diagnose and define brain injury and concussion," she said.
Future research needs to focus on other factors that may influence the results of the test, such as alcohol, morphine and sleep deprivation.
"What we’re finding so far is that these things affect eye movement, but in different ways than brain injury does," Samadani said. "So we’re hoping to tease out the differences."


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MOFFATT, LEWIS, businessman and politician; b. 1809 or 1810 probably in Rupert’s Land, son of George Moffatt*; m. 17 Jan. 1842 Caroline Covert, daughter of John Covert*, in Cobourg, Upper Canada, and they had at least two sons and three daughters; d. 7 Oct. 1892 in Toronto.
Lewis Moffatt was said in 1885 to have been “born in Montreal in 1810, of English parentage,” but the fact that his father, a wintering partner in the fur trade, was married in 1809 à la façon du pays suggests that he was born in the northwest. After living for a time in Cobourg in the 1830s, in 1837 he joined his father’s firm, Gillespie, Moffatt and Company, which was then at the head of Montreal’s commercial world [see Robert Gillespie*]. It had had a branch in Toronto and it supplied the firm there of Murray, Newbigging and Company. In May 1842 Lewis joined with Alexander Murray, who had continued that business following James Newbigging*’s death in 1838, forming a new Toronto branch of Gillespie, Moffatt, known initially as Moffatts, Murray and Company and later as Moffatt, Murray and Company. A general wholesale business, supplying imported dry goods, hardware, and groceries, this was one of the three or four largest wholesale houses in Toronto. It also acted there for the Phoenix Assurance Company of London, for which the Montreal house held the Canadian agency.
Moffatt moved immediately to commercial and considerable social prominence in Toronto. Through the Gillespies, he became one of two local directors for the Toronto branch of the Bank of British North America. He was a charter member of Toronto’s Board of Trade in 1844, a director from 1846 to 1852 of the city’s first building society (the Toronto Building Society), and a director in 1855–56 of the Toronto Exchange. He held shares in the city’s principal railway companies, the Toronto and Guelph as well as the Ontario, Simcoe and Huron (later named the Northern); he was a director of the former until its absorption into the Grand Trunk in 1853 [see Sir Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski] and of the latter through most of the 1860s [see Frederic William Cumberland*]. From 1871 to 1876 he served also as a director of the Dominion Telegraph Company.
Like his father, Moffatt sought in the late 1840s to reorient Canadian conservatism from compact toryism to moderate, responsible government, and in 1849 he became founding chairman of Toronto’s British Constitutional Society. Everything about his political activity suggests the sincerity of his declaration in 1855 that he was “proud to feel myself a Briton, a subject of that Empire on which the sun never sets.” This was a normal enough view in Toronto, but it is indicative of his place there that he was one of the few given the chance to speak it at the great local celebration of the British victory at Sevastopol (U.S.S.R.). He stood for public office once, serving as an alderman for St George’s Ward in 1871–72. Of all his interests, the longest sustained was the Church of England, which he served as auditor and later treasurer of the Church Society of the diocese of Toronto, as a churchwarden at St James’ Cathedral, and for the last 41 years of his life as a member of the council of Trinity College.
The late 1850s brought a sharp depression, signalled by severe credit stringency and numerous bankruptcies in Toronto and its hinterland. Moffatt was prominently engaged in the city’s efforts to respond. He was the founding president of a mortgage company, the Canada Landed Credit Company, launched in 1858 “to encourage the flow of capital to the soil of this Province”; he retained this position for more than a decade, during which period the business gradually built up its capital, deposits, and loans. Moffatt was the founding vice-president in 1858 of the North-West Transportation, Navigation and Railway Company, which aimed to foster links to the northwest [see Allan Macdonell*], and he was briefly president of it in 1860 before a new group, nominally headed by Sir Allan Napier MacNab*, took it over. In 1858 he was brought onto the board of the financially troubled Provincial Mutual and General Insurance Company, which was then considering winding up its affairs; he served it as vice-president in the mid and late 1860s. In 1859 he was vice-chairman of an apparently short-lived credit-reporting and bill-collecting agency, the Canada Trade Protection Society.
After 1857 all the province’s large general wholesale firms were hampered by heavy debts due them and were forced entirely from business or into greater specialization. Moffatt’s business dropped hardware and, in the mid 1860s, groceries. In 1868 John Beattie, a merchant in London, Ont., brought some capital to the firm, which became Moffatt, Murray, and Beattie. Murray died in 1870 and, following Beattie’s withdrawal in January 1871, the business became known as Moffatt Brothers and Company, the brother being Lewis’s half-brother Kenneth MacKenzie Moffatt, a former army officer who at first acted for the firm in Montreal and then moved to Toronto. Finally, in 1875, it failed. Lewis and his son Lewis Henry continued as Toronto agents for the Phoenix company. Although this agency business yielded a comfortable living, for the last 15 years of his life Moffatt was far removed from the wealth and prominence of his first decades in the city. It is appropriate to see his career in key respects as an extension of his father’s, but with a Toronto rather than a Montreal perspective.
Baker Library, R. G. Dun & Co. credit ledger, Canada, 26: 338; 27: 235 (mfm. at NA). CTA, RG 5, F, 1851, 1855, 1859, 1880. NA, MG 24, I8, 40: 202–77. Toronto City Council, Minutes of proc., 1871–72. The town of York, 1815–1834: a further collection of documents of early Toronto, ed. E. G. Firth (Toronto, 1966), 70, 75. Globe, 1850–60. Toronto Daily Mail, 10 Oct. 1892. Marriage notices of Ont. (Reid), 256. Mercantile agency reference book, 1864: 384. Toronto directory, 1833–90. B. D. Dyster, “Toronto, 1840–1860: making it in a British Protestant town”

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"Paddlewheel Steamers" by Robert F Harrington
Canadian Geographical Journal - February 1966
"In 1889 business was booming on the Arrow Lakes and Captain Armstrong brought the "Marion" over to Revelstoke (by flat car) to aid in the supply line along the river route. The members of the Columbia Transportation Company began to look about for more capital, seeing expansion as the only way to handle the growth in trade as the wealth of the mineral-rich Kootenays began to grow more evident. Late in 1889 backers were found in the form of three veterans of the Fraser River and Cariboo Trail eras. Frank Barnard of the Barnard Pony Express, Fraser riverboat Captain John Irving, and J.A. Mara, steamboat operator of the Kamloops-Shuswap waterways became partners with Hume, Cowan and Sanderson; and from the Columbia Transportation Company was formed the new Columbia and Kootenay Steam Navigation Company, capitalized at $100,000.
"J.A. Mara was a driving force in the C.K.S.N., as it became known, and he set about development with energy. Alexander Watson, a well known Victoria ship-builder, was brought to Revelstoke. Watson laid the keel of the "Lytton" in Revelstoke in December, 1889, and launched the 131 feet by 25 1/2 feet vessel in May, 1890. This ship, of 125 tons burden, cost the company about $40,000. But haste was in order, for the mineral output of the Kootenays was to rise from under $74,000 in 1890 to more than $731,000 in 1894 and to more than $6,500,000 in 1898.
"The Lytton, under Captain Frank Odin, made her maiden voyage on July 2, 1890, with distinguished Canadian Pacific officials aboard, including W.C. Van Home. Even as the Lytton was under construction, the C.K.S.N. purchased the stern-wheeler "Kootenai" as a running mate for the Lytton. The Kootenai was about 140 feet long, of 371 gross tons and was rated slower than the Lytton's 12 1/2 miles per hour average speed. The Kootenai was used mostly on the 150 mile route between Robson, near where the Kootenay River joins the Columbia, to Revelstoke; and the Lytton steamed the swifter water south from Robson to Little Dalles, connecting there with the Spokane Falls and Northern Railway.
"By 1891, expanding business forced the C.K.S.N. to put another stern-wheeler, the "Columbia", on the western route; and at the same time the C.K.S.N. entered the steamboat competition on Kootenay Lake with the 496-ton "Nelson", the largest ship to that date on Kootenay Lake.
"The Columbia was designed to relieve the Lytton on the tricky run south from Robson and was built at Little Dalles by Alexander Watson. She was 152 1/2 feet long, 38 feet wide and 554 gross tons. At the time the Columbia was queen of the river. She was fitted with electric lights, plushly furnished and cost the C.K.S.N. $75,000.
"Steamboating on the Arrow Lakes was not without its tragedies, however, and 1894-95 seem singular in this respect. First in a series of disasters for the C.K.S.N. occurred on July 26, 1894, when the Lytton was caught in a squall in Nakusp Bay. Before lines to the barge she was towing could be cast off, she was washed into the rocks along the shore. The hull stood the shock but the upperworks were knocked out of line. Though badly needed to haul steel for the Nakusp and Slocan Railway extension beyond Slocan Lake, she had to be laid up at Nakusp for overhauling.
"The Lytton saw heroic service on the Columbia and was not laid up permanently until 1902."
So...why was the ship named, "Lytton"? Perhaps a clue may be found in the diary of John Andrew Mara (the J.A. Mara mentioned above) who was born Jul 21 1840 in Toronto, Canada, son of John Mara born Ireland:
May 4, 1898
"Launched the steamer at 5 p.m. She slid off the ways easy and gracefully and as she entered the water Nellie christened her "Stikine Chief". Besides Alice, Nellie and Lytton, a few friends were on board and after launching we drank success to her in champagne."
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Safety Inspections Dominant Theme at Fun Park Hearing
The mother of a high school senior killed on a Concord water slide pleaded yesterday for stronger state oversight of amusement park rides at an Oakland meeting of the Division of Occupational Health and Safety.
Victoria Nelson of Napa spoke at the second public hearing of the Amusement Ride Advisory Committee, which released new draft regulations last week for a law passed last year in the wake of several deaths and serious injuries at California amusement parks.
"I feel strongly that OSHA needs to take a closer look at inspections," said Nelson, whose daughter Quimby Ghilotti was killed in a 1997 accident at Waterworld USA. Thirty-two of her classmates were injured in the incident as well. "This is the only area in which our children are not protected."
According to state statistics, California leads the nation in fatal park accidents, with 14 deaths from 1973 to 1997. California is one of 12 states that doesn't regulate permanent amusement parks, according to one industry association.
A law signed last year by Gov. Gray Davis requiring comprehensive examination of every amusement park in the state, and penalties of up to $70,000 for serious safety violations was supposed to take effect January 1. However, industry representatives and state officials continue to wrangle over the proposed regulations that would enable Cal-OSHA to enforce the law.
Amusement park industry officials were conspicuously absent from yesterday's meeting, after having peppered advisory committee members with comments and criticism during a packed meeting in January.
Boyd Jensen, a member of the safety committee of the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions -- and a consultant whose clients have included Knott's Berry Farm -- called the proposed regulations "close," but declined to elaborate yesterday on his concerns.
A spate of recent accidents have given amusement park safety a black eye. In August 1999, a 12-year- old boy plunged 129 feet to his death after slipping out of his harness on the Drop Zone ride at Great America. The next day, five people were hurt at Knott's Berry Farm in Orange County when a piece of the GhostRider roller coaster broke loose. Then Marine World's Boomerang roller coaster left 28 riders hanging upside-down in scorching heat when a cable broke.
Bowing to negative publicity, the amusement park industry went along with the regulation and inspection bill introduced last year by Antioch Democrat Tom Torlakson. The disagreements have been in the details of regulation and enforcement.
Initial safety inspections of the estimated 1,600 amusement park rides in California will be done by Cal-OSHA staff, according to the new draft regulations. However, for annual inspections, the amusement parks would be allowed to hire their own inspectors -- which angers Nelson.
"Permanent parks already are doing their own inspections and it's not working," she said. "Them hiring their own inspectors is a conflict of interest."
The draft regulations are subject to more public comment, and the earliest the law could go into effect is August, said Len Welsh, acting Cal-OSHA deputy chief.
Kathy Fackler, a San Diego mother whose 5-year-old son's foot was mangled in a 1998 accident at Disneyland, said the law is crucial for improving awareness of potential dangers at theme parks.
"You have your arm around your kid -- you don't think he could get in such trouble, that he could get his foot torn in half," she said. "The answer is not to further restrict children. The answer is for parents to understand that they are loading their children onto heavy machinery."


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WOBURN, MASS. (WHDH) - Maine State Police have cancelled an Amber alert issued earlier in the day after a mother who allegedly took her two children from Saco was arrested in Massachusetts.
Officials said Alexandra Vincent, who was believed to have taken her two small children from a home on Monday, is in custody. The children, Aleeah and Vincent Patrock, 8 and 6 respectively, were safe, according to a tweet from MSP.
The kids, as well as the vehicle Vincent allegedly drove, could be seen at the police department in Woburn Tuesday afternoon before being picked up by a family member later in the evening.
Details on what led up to Vincent’s arrest have not yet been released as she remains in custody in Woburn.
Originally posted at 4:29 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 4
State Police in Maine have issued an Amber alert for two young children who may already be in New Jersey, after their mother allegedly took them on Monday.
Officials said Aleeah Patrock, 8, and Vincent Patrock, 6, were missing from a home in Saco, Maine, after reportedly being taken by their mother, 27-year-old Alexandra Vincent.
State Police said she reportedly took the children on Monday, Oct. 3, and is believed to be driving in a silver, 2021 Toyota Rav 4. The vehicle is said to have a Maine license plate with a breast cancer awareness logo, with lettering that reads “LULOU.”
Authorities described Aleeah Patrock as a white female, weighing 75 pounds and standing 4 feet tall with brown hair and blue eyes. Vincent Patrock was described as being a white male with a height of 3’11” and weighing 50 pounds, with brown hair and eyes.
A description of the mother referred to her as a white female with a height of 5’2″ and weight of 140 pounds. She is believed to have blonde hair and blue eyes.
According to the alert, a phone ping indicated the three were in the area of Newark, New Jersey, around 3:30 p.m., though it did not mention whether it was Monday or the day the alert was issued, on Tuesday.
Anyone with information on their whereabouts is asked to contact the Saco Police Department at 207-287-4535.
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The Department of Petroleum Resources sealed 30 gas stations and eight liquefied petroleum gas outlets for various offenses in Akwa Ibom.
DPR state operations controller Victor Ohwodiasa said this during an interview with Nigeria’s news agency in Eket, the seat of the state’s Eket local government area on Thursday.
Ohwodiasa said LPG gas stations and outlets have been sealed for offenses ranging from under-distribution, operating without a valid sales and storage license, poor maintenance, improper location and illegal activities in the state.
“I can tell you with authority that we have sealed 30 gas stations and eight gas outlets for operating illegally in the state.
“We can’t continue to allow illegality because we don’t need an accident to happen first, we just need to be proactive instead of reactive.
“It will be an ongoing fight because people are under stress due to environmental conditions, economic hardship, they want to cut corners and that’s why we have regulators to check them,” Ohwodiasa said.
He said the sealed gas stations were located in the state’s Eket, Uyo and Onna LGAs.
“We are developing a plan to reach the 31 LGAs in the state, passing through not only gas stations but also gas outlets so that they can feel our presence in the state,” Ohwodiasa said.
He said the ministry would be proactive in ensuring that gas retail outlets and gas factories operate under the safety procedures that govern the oil and gas industry.

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Power star Pawan Kalyan’s forthcoming film titled "Gabbar Singh" , which is a remake of Bollywood’s hit film Dabangg. Recently the movie shooting schedule in Pollachi, Tamilnadu had to be called off due to heavy rains and it is going to start soon. The movie makers are expecting to be wrapped up the film shooting in the next four months and planning to release the film on April 27th, 2012. Incidentally, this release date coincides with the release date of Kushi, one of Pawan Kalyan’s biggest hits, which has released on April 27, 2001.
Sruthi Hassan is playing the female lead role in the film. Parvathi Melton will do the item song in this film. Suhasini is essaying the mother character to Pawan in this movie. Raktha charitra fame Abhimanyu Singh is seen as goon in Gabbar Singh film.
The film is being directed by Harish Shankar and produced by Ganesh Babu on Parameshwara arts banner. Devisri Prasad is composing the music for this film.