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Located at the southern edge of Hollywood, the Paramount Pictures studio lot reflects the evolution of Los Angeles' motion picture industry, from the silent film era, to the birth of sound, to the rise of television and other media.
The studio lot, which is bound by Melrose Avenue, Gower Street, Van Ness Avenue, and the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, contains two potential historic districts: the Paramount Pictures Historic District and the RKO Studios Historic District. The site also includes the Streamline Moderne KCAL Building, completed in 1935 as a radio broadcasting facility.
Buildings and structures on the lot reveal industry practices from Hollywood's "Golden Ave," in which production, distribution, and exhibition were fully integrated. As a result, the facilities reflect a diverse range of uses, styles, and typologies. Examples of building types include administrative offices, pre-and-post production facilities, stages, utility buildings, and actor support services.
The lot also retains its original street patterns, circulation paths, and integrated landscape design.
In addition to its contributions to the entertainment industry, the Paramount Pictures studio lot gave birth to the first lesbian publication in the United States, which circulated in Los Angeles from June 1947 to February 1948.
The magazine did not have any advertisements, nor did it have any editorial contact information, and the only name associated with its content was Lisa Ben (an anagram of "lesbian"). The underground publication was entitled Vice Versa and subtitled "America’s Gayest Magazine."
Edythe Eyde, otherwise known as Lisa Ben, single-handedly published Vice Versa while working as a secretary in the Publicity Department at RKO Studios. The department was located in "Building D" or the Jesse Lasky Building, which is a contributing property to the potential RKO Studios Historic District.
Founded in 1913, Paramount Pictures traces its formation to Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company. Zukor's Famous Players merged with the Jesse L. Lasky Company in 1916, creating the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. The studio made its home near Sunset and Vine.
By the 1920s, Famous Players-Laksy was one of the most prominent studios in Hollywood. In 1926, the company purchased its present lot (formerly home to United Studios) and embarked on an ambitious building program.
The studio's name changed to Paramount in 1930 and continued to expand its film productions and theatre network. It also invested heavily in radio, music, and, later, television. Notable films from this era include Monkey Business, Shanghai Express, and I'm No Angel.
In 1967, Paramount Pictures purchased the neighboring RKO Studios lot from Desilu Productions.
The Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO) Corporation formed in the late 1920s, merging a circuit of vaudeville theatres, film production, and radio networks. In order to promote the union of radio and motion pictures, the company pursued an elaborate advertising campaign centered on the image of a giant radio tower perched on a globe.
Like neighboring Paramount, RKO Studios undertook a large-scale building campaign in the late 1920s and early 1930s in order to accommdate new facilities for talking pictures. During the '30s and '40s, the studio produced a number of celebrated films, including Gunga Din, Love Affair, and Citizen Kane, and it enjoyed a legendary partnership with Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire.
In 1948, tycoon Howard Hughes purchased the studio, which he ran until 1957. Desilu's Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz owned the RKO lot from 1957 until 1967, filming episodes of "The Lucy Show" on Stages 21 and 25.
Edythe Eyde first arrived in Los Angeles, against her parents’ wishes, in 1946. She lived alone and in a short time acquired a job at RKO Studios as a secretary to Milton Howe. He was a low-level executive in the publicity department who advised her to “look busy” as there would not be a large work load for her to execute.
Eyde had come out as a lesbian the year before and, given her newfound freedom from home, she wanted to meet other women like her. At work she found the necessary supplies, time, and privacy to launch a publication that spoke to the lesbian community of Los Angeles.
She began writing the “gayest magazine” at her secretarial desk crafting the penname Lisa Ben (an anagram for “lesbian”) as a security measure. The first issue was fifteen pages long, and she created ten carbon copies for distribution.
Eyde confided in her neighbors about her sexuality and gave them copies to read. She urged them to pass the magazine along rather than throwing it out. Her networking skills soon enabled her to reach a wider audience of loyal readers. For a short time, she mailed issues out to various locations, but soon stopped when a friend advised her on the dangers of using the postal system. Homosexual material was considered obscene, and its circulation was a prosecutable offense under the Comstock Act.
Eyde went onto publish twelve issues of Vice Versa from June 1947 to February 1948. Each one focused on different topics and reflected the personality and tastes of its publisher. The publication discussed various aspects of lesbian life and introduced poetry and short fiction. Like other magazines, Eyde also wrote reviews on literature and film.
Eyde lost her job in February 1948 when Howard Hughes purchased RKO studios. Thereafter, Eyde was unable to the find the time and privacy to draft any further issues, ensuring an end to Vice Versa. She continued to work as a secretary at various locations as well as writing freelance articles to then-emerging gay publications. In 2010 she was recognized for her work in journalism by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and inducted into their Hall of Fame. She died on December 22, 2015 at the age of 94.
Both the Paramount Pictures lot and the RKO Studios lot are associated with "The Major Studio Era" or Hollywood's "Golden Age." As competition increased, smaller companies merged with larger ones, and film production adopted an industrial model.
By 1920, the American film industry was largely controlled by eight companies, which were known as the "Big Eight." These companies—Famous Players-Lasky (now Paramount), Fox, Warner Brothers, United Artists, RKO, Columbia, Metro (now MGM), and Universal—controlled ninety-five percent of film revenues in the U.S.
These studios set global precedents for filmmaking and depended on modern facilities to produce, distribute, and exhibit motion pictures. Though the 1920s, '30s, and '40s witnessed the ambitious expansion of the industry, the Major Studio Era came to an end in 1949 following a federal investigation of anti-trust violations.
Because Paramount and RKO both continued to produce motion pictures and made significant developments in radio and television in later decades, they reflect the development of the postwar entertainment industry to suit changing tastes and social patterns.
Beyond the realm of Hollywood's Golden Age, the studio lot is significant for its associations with the city's lesbian history.
Vice Versa set in motion a new channel of communication for lesbians in Los Angeles. In a time when circulation of "homosexual" material was a prosecutable offense, Eyde’s underground publication gained a loyal following.
Declaring itself “America’s Gayest Magazine,” Vice Versa set an important precedent for LGBTQ publishing in the mid-twentieth century as the first LGBTQ-interest newsletter in the country.
Several years later, The Ladder, to which Edye was a contributing writer, became the first nationally circulated lesbian magazine in 1956. Its gay counterpart was The Advocate, which began publishing content in 1967.
The magazines brought gay and lesbian interests and concerns to a broader audience. In a broader sense, these literary publications became tools for normalizing homosexuality in an effort to gain acceptance from society at large.
As the building from which Eyde launched her short-lived publication, the Jesse Lasky Building is one piece of a larger story about lesbian activism and literary movements in Los Angeles, connecting it to places like Sisterhood Bookstore and the Woman's Building in the second half of the century.
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives holds a complete set of the magazine.

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The Israelites Oppressed
1 These are the names of the sons of Israel(A) who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family: 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah; 3 Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin; 4 Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.(B) 5 The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy[a] in all;(C) Joseph was already in Egypt.
6 Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,(D) 7 but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers(E) and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.
8 Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.(F) 9 “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous(G) for us.(H) 10 Come, we must deal shrewdly(I) with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.”(J)
11 So they put slave masters(K) over them to oppress them with forced labor,(L) and they built Pithom and Rameses(M) as store cities(N) for Pharaoh. 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites 13 and worked them ruthlessly.(O) 14 They made their lives bitter with harsh labor(P) in brick(Q) and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.(R)
15 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives,(S) whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, 16 “When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.”(T) 17 The midwives, however, feared(U) God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do;(V) they let the boys live. 18 Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”
19 The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.”(W)
20 So God was kind to the midwives(X) and the people increased and became even more numerous. 21 And because the midwives feared(Y) God, he gave them families(Z) of their own.
22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile,(AA) but let every girl live.”(AB)
The Birth of Moses
2 Now a man of the tribe of Levi(AC) married a Levite woman,(AD) 2 and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine(AE) child, she hid him for three months.(AF) 3 But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus(AG) basket[b] for him and coated it with tar and pitch.(AH) Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds(AI) along the bank of the Nile. 4 His sister(AJ) stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.
5 Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank.(AK) She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it. 6 She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.
7 Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”
8 “Yes, go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother. 9 Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him. 10 When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named(AL) him Moses,[c] saying, “I drew(AM) him out of the water.”
- Exodus 1:5 Masoretic Text (see also Gen. 46:27); Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint (see also Acts 7:14 and note at Gen. 46:27) seventy-five
- Exodus 2:3 The Hebrew can also mean ark, as in Gen. 6:14.
- Exodus 2:10 Moses sounds like the Hebrew for draw out.
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
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Google’s business model was built on a symbiotic relationship between companies who want their content to be seen, and Google rewarding them for quality content. To be fair, this was so Google could sell ads, but it worked out well for mostly all parties involved.
That’s broken down.
Most companies are still getting the plurality of their traffic from organic and paid search, but the social contract has been run over by a truck. Google has added increased ads, along with the knowledge box and other built-in features that push organic results down below the fold.
The Wall Street Journal recently claimed Google interferes with search algorithms and changes results. Others in Search Engine Land claimed it’s more complicated than that — where Google does interfere, it has good reason. Regardless of who is exactly correct, it’s clear marketers are paying the price.
In this SearchChat Episode Tim Peter and Steve Zakur finally acknowledge that Google is not just a monopoly, but plain evil. We depend on Google, and rates are going up. How do we respond?
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The writer and photographer Teju Cole recently wrote in the magazine about his favorite movie, Krzysztof Kieślowski’s “Red.” On this week's Out Loud podcast, he joins Michael Agger, the culture editor of newyorker.com, to talk about the film and the music, poetry, and art that he revisits over and over again. “For me, the great ideal is a work that stands up to repetition,” he says. “You can have two works that have similar impact on first encounter, but only one of them can contain sustained scrutiny.” Cole also discusses how listening to music changes a person’s experience of a city, his recent trip to the Deep South to explore civil-rights history, and why he finds Switzerland to be an “endlessly fascinating” country.
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Have Aliens Found Us? An Interview with the Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb About the Mysterious Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua
Avi Loeb discusses why we need to consider the possibility that the object was sent by aliens, the dangers of unscientific speculation, and what belief in an advanced extraterrestrial civilization has in common with faith in God.
What Mary Oliver’s Critics Don’t Understand
Fans of Mary Oliver’s poetry understand something that her critics don’t.
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The Art of Decision-Making
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"Portland based jazz guitarist Eric Skye was named by 20th Century Guitar Magazine as one of the best rising stars of the American acoustic jazz scene. This hardworking instrumentalist has gained a loyal following both as a dramatic and expressive live performer and an in-demand acoustic guitar instructor both in Oregon and in the online music community. He has been featured in magazines such as Acoustic Guitar, Guitar Player, Jazziz and Jazz Improv, and his music can be heard on NPR. To match his distinct personality and playing style, Eric and Richard collectively dreamed up a gorgeous Cocobolo OO with an Adirondack top, unique 24.9 inch scale length for ease of playability, slightly deeper body for added bass and volume, hot hide glue with Adirondack Spruce, scalloped bracing and a distinctive herringbone purfling and ivoroid rosette. This instrument is designed for the excruciatingly accurate and sophisticated techniques of the most demanding jazz fingerstylist."
Features and Specs:
Body - 12 Fret, Deeper Body
Top - Adirondack Spruce with Scalloped Adirondack Braces attached with Hot Hide Glue
Purfling - Herringbone
Rosette - Ivoroid
Pickguard - Tortoise
Back and Sides - Cocobolo
Back Stripe - Zipper
Binding - Ivoroid with Side Purfles
Peghead - Slotted
Headplate Overlay Material - Cocobolo
Peghead Binding - Ivoroid/Black/Ivoroid
Neck Shape - V with Black Side Dots (an extra dot at the 19th fret)
Neck Finish - Clear/Matte
Binding - Ivoroid/Black/Ivoroid
Fretboard - Ebony with Bone Nut
Scale Length - 24.9"
Width at Nut - 1 13/16"
Width at 14th Fret - 2 1/4"
Fretboard Inlay - SCGC Logo at the 14th Fret
Nut - Bone
Bridge - Ebony Pyramid Style with Bone Saddle
Tuning Machines - Nickel Waverly with Ivoroid Buttons
This guitar includes a deluxe Ameritage arch top hardshell case. (used)
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On May 18, 1974, India claimed that it has successfully tested a nuclear device, codenamed “Smiling Buddha” and became the sixth nation to have exploded a fission device. The test was conducted exactly four years after the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) had entered into force and most of the countries were in oblivion that the world will never see Sixth nuclear weapons state. This Indian act was a kind of disrespectful shock for post-NPT nuclear order because the world’s great powers thought that the issue of nuclear proliferation has been settled, once for all. But New Delhi defied that nuclear order and tested its first nuclear device by exploding an eight-kiloton device in the Jaisalmer desert, 5 km from Loharki village. Since then, the villagers have frequently reported that they have experienced radiation-related diseases.
The villagers living in the vicinity of the explosion site had been identified as ‘martyrs’ as all destruction, particularly human health, was considered to be collateral damage for the greater good. Forty-six years after the first nuclear test, the villages around the Pokhran test range have long been out of the spotlight in the international arena. But now gradually due to irregular high rates of cancer and genetic related diseases, these villagers formed a dramatic community of people who struggle everyday with the risk of exposure to radiation. The government has done little to remove apprehensions of the villagers for almost half a century.
Scientists believe groundwater could still be contaminated in Loharki and many other villages. The associate professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute, Robert Jacobs, who has been studying several nuclear testing sites, said it is seriously concerned that the alpha-emitting particulate matter is common in areas around every nuclear test site of India. A classified US leaked document of 22 May 1974 also stated that Pokhran nuclear test had contaminated the desert area’s groundwater. The document was sent by Daniel Patrick Moynihan to Washington DC in which he said: “Depending on the cratering and earth splitting effects of the blast, the ground water in the immediate vicinity of the blast site as well as the sweet water reservoirs could very well be contaminated.”
India conducted its second round of nuclear tests in 1998 under the code name “Operation Shakti.” The site for an underground explosion was located only 3 km away from Khetolai, a village of approximately 5000 inhabitants in the locality of the city of Pokhran. In Khetolai, cancer death has become prevalent; it is difficult to ignore the correlation to nuclear tests. Last general elections were a nightmare for residents of Khetolai. In his election campaign, PM Modi said that India is not scared of the nuclear weapons of Pakistan and he asked, “have we kept our nuclear bomb for Diwali?” The resident of Khetolai, Zajmal Ram Bishnoi – who has some idea about fallout of a nuclear explosion – responded that “we want to live in peace. We don’t need war. If nuclear weapons are used, everything that is in front of our eyes will disappear.”
In western Rajasthan, the high occurrence of bone and leukemia prompted physicians to support studies that determine whether the Pokhran nuclear test in 1974 was responsible in any way. Then comprehensive research in the field of malignancy undertaken by R G Sharma and his collaborators at Dr S N Medical College in Jodhpur, the results of which were released in September 1992 in the Indian Journal of Cancer. Following the first 1974 test, Sharma and his partners identified 2,662 new cancer cases. In a 2012 “GLOBOCAN” World Health Organization’s (WHO) survey, five lakh deaths due to cancer have been recorded. One in 2.500 citizens, according to a preliminary estimate, dies from cancer. In Khetolai, the same estimate shows, four times increase with respect to the national level, that one in 500 individuals succumbs to cancer. In other figures, the Department of Atomic Energy found that 70% of the health-related deaths linked to atomic energy hubs have been triggered by cancer over the past 20 years. However, no further research was carried out notwithstanding these alarming findings.
Billions in India face the awful possibility of surviving under the influence of unchecked nuclear ambitions. Nuclear establishment’s confidentiality and ignorance have failed to reveal proper security information related to current and future nuclear-related projects. India plans to source a quarter of its energy from nuclear power by 2050. The policy pundits have formulated this random growth in nuclear sector when hundreds of thousands of Indian men and women have participated in protested against the expanding nuclear industry. These remonstrations have been a steady feature in Koodankulam, Jaitapur and Gorakhpur. At least five protestors have lost their lives since 2010 in their struggle against the country’s unverified nuclear expansion. Meanwhile, radioactive waste from uranium mining in the country’s east is reportedly affecting adjacent communities. Thousands of Indians suffer from the effects of uranium mining as related to poor technical and management practices.
Unfortunately, on a number of occasions, India treated its citizens as lab rats. People of India should embrace themselves for another nuclear misadventure because Indian scientists are asserting the government to evade signing the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). After all, the thermonuclear test of 1998 was a failure, as the yield of fusion device never produced the desired results. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has already given green signal to the government to conduct more nuke tests. India under the leadership of PM Modi is capable of doing any radioactive folly. The Hindu leadership under extremist ideology of BJP will again happily take advantage of the ignorance of the Indian population on nuclear issues under the guise of greater national interests.


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Chinese fossil knocks oldest bird off perch
Steve Connor is the Science Editor of The Independent. He has won many awards for his journalism, including five-times winner of the prestigious British science writers’ award; the David Perlman Award of the American Geophysical Union; twice commended as specialist journalist of the year in the UK Press Awards; UK health journalist of the year and a special merit award of the European School of Oncology for his investigative journalism. He has a degree in zoology from the University of Oxford and has a special interest in genetics and medical science, human evolution and origins, climate change and the environment.
Thursday 28 July 2011
After 150 years of being classified as the oldest bird, scientists have knocked the fossil Archaeopteryx off its perch and reclassified it as a feathered dinosaur, one of many that were fluttering around in the Jurassic period more than 150 million years ago.
Archaeopteryx is an iconic fossil, and one of the best-preserved specimens is considered to be one of the most precious objects in the Natural History Museum in London. The fossil is a classic textbook example of a species in evolutionary transition, displaying features that are part bird, part reptile.
Archaeopteryx, however, has provoked controversy since the first fossil specimen was discovered in a Bavarian quarry in 1861, just two years after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. (Darwin included a reference to it in later editions.)
Scientists were adamant that Archaeopteryx (meaning "ancient wing") was the earliest example of the group of animals that split away from the reptiles to form a distinct class of creatures with feathers and wings – the birds.
However, a newly discovered fossil of a two-legged feathered creature in China has led researchers to re-evaluate the zoological position of Archaeopteryx and place it firmly within a recently discovered group of dinosaurs with feathers and primitive wings.
The reclassification of Archaeopteryx is expected to be exploited by creationists, who are likely to pick up on the fact that scientists are appearing to change their mind about the fossil's iconic status as the first bird, but this would be wrong, said Lawrence Witmer, professor of anatomy at Ohio University.
The reclassification does not alter the fact that Archaeopteryx possessed features that are both reptilian and avian, nor does it change the fact that birds evolved from feathered dinosaurs, he said. "What this does is change our view of Archaeopteryx. For 150 years it's been our oldest and most prominent bird. Part of the reason why we should care about this is that Archaeopteryx is probably one of the most famous fossils ever," Professor Witmer said. "It changes a lot in terms of how we view early birds, and how early birds evolved."
The new fossil, Xiaotingia, was bought from a Chinese fossil dealer and is believed to be about 155 million years old.
The Chinese team of scientists believe that Xiaotingia's rows of small teeth put it firmly within the theropod group of meat-eating dinosaurs.
Professor Witmer said: "Perhaps the time has come to finally accept that Archaeopteryx was just another small, feathered, bird-like theropod."
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Quality of Diabetes Care in Primary Health Centres in North Al-Batinah of Oman
Mohammed Al-Shafaee*, 1, Yousuf Al-Farsi 1, Yousuf Al-Kaabi 1, Yajnavalka Banerjee 2, 3, Najat Al-Zadjali 1, Ibrahim Al-Zakwani 4, 5
Identifiers and Pagination:Year: 2014
First Page: 48
Last Page: 54
Publisher ID: TOCMJ-8-48
Article History:Received Date: 4/3/2014
Revision Received Date: 6/5/2014
Acceptance Date: 7/5/2013
Electronic publication date: 13 /6/2014
Collection year: 2014
open-access license: This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
To assess the quality of diabetic care provided in primary health care settings in Oman.
This was a cross-sectional study of randomly selected 500 patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) attending 6 primary care diabetic clinics in the north Al-Batinah region of Oman from January to December 2010. Nine standards on the quality of diabetes care were audited.
The mean age of the sample was 51±13 years, ranging from 15 to 87 years; the majority (61%) were females. The mean duration of DM was 4±3 years, ranging from 1 to 18 years. Seventy-seven percent of the patients attended diabetic clinics at least 4 times per year. Of the 9 assessed diabetic standards, HbA1c was documented in 33% of the patients, body mass index in 12%, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) in 40%, urinary albumin:creatinine ratio in 28%, creatinine in 63% and blood pressure (BP) in 96%. Optimal control among the documented indicators was noted in 32, 21, 25, 85, 95 and 19%, respectively. Twenty percent of the patients had their ECGs done while only 39% of the patients had foot examination. No patient had attained control in all of HbA1c., BP and LDL-C.
There is a gap between the recommended DM care guidelines and current practice with consequent poor quality of care in these patients.
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is considered as a major public health problem in Oman and the World at large [1-6]. The disease is the foremost cause of blindness, end-stage renal failure, non-traumatic limb amputations, and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality . Several future projections of the prevalence, incidence, and total number of DM cases for the US and other countries have been carried out. Projections for the year 2025 show that the prevalence of DM is increasing and the global burden of DM is estimated to increase by 122%, with a total of 308 million people being affected [1, 2, 7] but since 2000, the number of people with DM has more than doubled to 285 million . In a recent study,it was shown that the annual diagnosed DM incidence (new cases) will increase from about 8 cases per 1,000 in 2008 to about 15 per 1,000 in 2050. If it is assumed that there is a low incidence and relatively high DM mortality, cumulative DM prevalence (diagnosed and undiagnosed cases) is anticipated to increase from 14% in 2010 to 21% of the US adult population by 2050. Further, if current increases in DM incidence continue and DM mortality is relatively low, prevalence will increase to 33% by 2050. A middle-ground picture projects an incidence of 25 to 28% by 2050. The most disquieting fact of this study was that intervention can reduce, but not eliminate, increases in DM prevalence .
In the Eastern Mediterranean Region, DM is expected to increase by 150% in the first quarter of this century . This problem is also reflected in the Middle East where the prevalence of type 2 DM in 2007 varied between 3.4% in the Yemen to 19.5% in the UAE in patients between 20-79 years of age . In Oman, the prevalence of type 2 DM in 2009 was 12% as mentioned by the annual health report indicating steady increase in its prevalence . The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates a 190% increase in the number of people living with DM in Oman over the coming years, from 75,000 in 2000 to 217,000 in 2025 . All these figures support the fact that type 2 DM is a major public health problem in Oman.
DM imposes a huge economic burden on national health care systems and impinges on both national economies, individuals and their families. Direct medical costs consist of resources used to manage the disease. Indirect costs include lost productivity caused by morbidity, disability and premature mortality. Further, costs refer to the reduced quality of life for people with DM . Therefore, there is an urgent need to continuously assess and improve the care of patients with type 2 DM. Further studies have shown that good control of blood pressure and glucose lead to significant reductions of cardiovascular complications among patients with type 2 DM [13-15], which indicates that effective patient care can significantly reduce the detrimental consequences associated with this disease.
The management of patients with type 2 DM is complex. Good control significantly reduces the risk of complications. However, studies from around the world consistently report inappropriate disparity in care [16-18]. Preceding research conducted with regards to DM care has categorized several relevant factors under the wide-ranging headings of patient, health professional and organizational factors . Ideally, quality upgrading efforts should be underpinned by more specific knowledge of modifiable factors. Additionally, factors identified in prior work from Europe and North America may not be assignable to other cultures. Case in point, the population of Oman is relatively genetically homogenous , in comparison with other populations. Therefore, patient care associated with type 2 DM in Oman may have unique and specific requirements, compared with those practiced in other populations. This necessitates that a continuous assessment of patient care associated with type 2 DM is carried out, in order to identify the precise need, facilitating patient care.
However, at present only one study in the literature assessed the quality of primary care provided for patients with DM in Oman. This study was conducted in the capital city of Muscat. It showed that 2.4% of patients were within target for HbA1c and other standards according to the Ministry of Health (MoH) for guideline . However, information with regards to the quality of care for patients with type 2 DM in the other regions of the country is currently lacking. The purpose of this study therefore is to assess the quality of diabetic care provided in primary care setting in North Al-Batinah governorate of Oman, one of the largest governorates in the country, with a total of 16,000 patients with DM .
This study was conducted in the north Al-Batinah governorate between January and December 2010. This region consists of 6 districts (known as wilayaat) and about 23 health centers ranging from 2 to 4 heath centers for each district. The total number of patients with DM in this governorate is about 16,000 as of the end of December 2010 according to the MoH annual report . Health centers with less than 100 patients with DM were excluded. One health center was then selected randomly from each district. The target population in the 6 selected heath centers was 8,365 patients with DM. Sample size was generated using data from the literature and the statistical program, “epi-info” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA, USA). This resulted in a required sample size of 500 patients with 95% confidence level and ± 3% accuracy. The number of patients from each health center was selected proportionally according to a stratified sampling method followed by simple random sampling from each of the selected centers. See Table 1 for details.
Contribution of each health center’s sample size.
|Willayat||Selected Primary Health Center||Number of Diabetic Patients||Contribution of Each Center (%)||Contribution of Each Center (Number)|
|Shinas||Shinas extended health center||1,611||19||95|
|Liwa||Nabur health center||224||3||15|
|Sohar||Al-Multaqa health center||622||8||40|
|Saham||Saham extended health center||3,255||39||195|
|Al-Khaburah||Al-Khaburah extended health center||2,219||26||130|
|Al-Suwaiq||Al-Bidaya health center||434||5||25|
Description of ophthalmology review, foot examination and ECG documentation.
|Health Center||Total||ECG||Foot Exam||Ophthalmology|
|Shinas||95||1 (1%)||0||22 (23%)|
|Liwa||15||1 (7%)||1 (7%)||1 (7%)|
|Sohar||40||31 (78%)||2 (5%)||21 (53%)|
|Saham||195||9 (5%)||191 (98%)||140 (72%)|
|Al-Khaburah||130||53 (41%)||3 (2%)||32 (25%)|
|Al-Suwaiq||25||2 (8%)||0||7 (28%)|
|Total||500||97 (19%)||197 (39%)||223 (45%)|
Percents are row percentages
Exclusion criteria included patients who did not attend diabetic clinics in the preceding year. Depending on the MoH guidelines for the management of DM in primary health care, a checklist included patient demographic data; process of care which included whether the measurements had been recorded in the last 12 months, and outcome of care which included the result of those measurements. Nine standards of care were measured that included HbA1c (<7%), body mass index (BMI) (18.5-24.9), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) (<2.6 mmol/L), urinary albumin: creatinine ratio (ACR) (<3.5 for females, <2 .5 for males), serum creatinine level (<120 μmol/L), blood pressure (BP) (<130/80 mmHg), electrocardiogram (ECG) (once/year), foot examination (each visit) and annual retinal checkup (once/year). The checklist also included antihypertensive, glucose and lipid lowering medications. Data was collected by the investigators from manual and electronic records after obtaining ethical approval from the Research and Ethics Committee in the College of Medicine and Health Sciences at Sultan Qaboos University (MREC#492) and from North Al-Batinah governorate.
Descriptive statistics were used to summarize the data. For categorical variables, frequencies and percentages were reported. Differences between groups were analyzed using Pearson’s χ2 tests (or Fisher’s exact tests for cells <5). For continuous variables, means and standard deviations (SD) were presented and analyses were conducted using Student’s t-tests. An a priori two-tailed level of significance was set at 0.05. Statistical analyses were performed using STATA version 12.1 (College Station, Texas, USA).
The overall mean age of the sample was 51±13 years, ranging from 15 to 87 years; the majority (61%) were females. The mean duration of DM in the sample was 4±3 years, ranging from 1 to 18 years. The majority of the patients (77%) attended a diabetic clinic at least 4 times/year; only 16% of them had type 1 DM.
The first set of analyses examined the measurement of BMI and showed that BMI was not measured in 88% of the sample. The mean BMI among the 58 patients who had their BMI measured was 29±6, ranging from 15 to 39. On other hand, 96% of the patients who were included in the study, had their BP measured at least twice/year. However, only 19% of the patients with DM had controlled BP with readings <130/80 mmHg. Diastolic BP was <80 mmHg in 121 patients and systolic BP was <130 mmHg in 209 patients. More than two thirds of the selected patients had no HbA1c result as shown in Fig. (1).
Glycated hemoglobin (A1C) results.
Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c) results.
Albumin creatinine ratio (ACR) results.
ACEI = Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor.
ARBs = Angiotension receptor blockers.
Among the reported HbA1c levels (165 patients), the mean was 8.4±2.2%, ranging from 5 to 14% and only one third (53 patients) had met the target of <7%. There was no statistically significant difference in HbA1c among patients from different clinics (p > 0.05).
About 40% of the patients had their LDL-C levels ordered and results are shown in Fig. (2). Among the reported LDL-C levels, only one fourth (51 patients) of the patients had met the goal of <2.6 mmol/L. There were statistically significant differences in LDL-C among patients from different clinics (p<0.001). Three quarters of the ordered and reported sample had high LDL-C (≥2.6 mmol/L) and only 58% of these patients were on a statin.
Out of the 500 patients, creatinine was measured in 314 patients (Fig. 3). As can be seen from Fig. (4), ACR results were available for only 28% of the patients and those patients were from only 2 out of the 6 health centers included in the study. It is apparent from Table 2 that only about 20% of the patients had ECGs. Only 39% of the patients had foot examination, while 2 health centers did not document any foot examinations at all. On the other hand, in 1 health center, 98% of patients had documented foot examination. It is also noticeable that only about half of the patients had an ophthalmology review.
Medications were not changed despite HbA1c and BP values above the goals recommended for patients with DM. None of the patients in the study were on long acting insulin. A total of 24% (n=118) of patients had all values of HbA1c, BP and LDL-C. Overall, none (0%) of the patients with DM had control in the 3 mentioned standards (<7% HbA1c, <130/80 mmHg and <2.6 mmol/L LDL-C).
This study offers insight into the quality of DM care in primary health care settings in the north Al-Batinah governorate of Oman. Information on DM care indicators has not been previously available on an extensive scale in Oman. The results of this study show that nearly 24% had their BP, LDL-C and HbA1c levels measured during the study. Disappointingly, the proportion of the patients meeting the controlled levels of these 3 parameters is zero.
A previous study showed that the control was extremely low (2.4%) for meeting internationally recognized goals for the 3 DM-related outcomes . Furthermore, our results are also consistent with the systematic review of the management of type 2 DM in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region (based on glycaemic-, BP- and lipid- control indicators) which concluded that management of DM care is suboptimal in the Middle East . Our results are also consistent with those of others at an international level which found that the initial control was <10% in these 3 parameters [23, 24]. Our results and those of other studies, hint towards the fact that optimal DM care should be based on more aggressive targets as patients with DM are at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease.
In the SANDS randomized trial, development of sub-clinical atherosclerosis in adults with type 2 DM treated to reach aggressive targets LDL-C of ≤1.8 mmol/L and systolic BP ≤115 mmHg vs standard targets of LDL-C of ≤2.6 mmol/L and systolic BP of ≤130 mmHg was assessed by measuring carotid artery intimal medial thickness (cIMT) as the primary end point. Reducing LDL-C and systolic BP to lesser targets lead to regression of cIMT and greater reduction in left ventricular mass in patients with type 2 DM .
Additionally, with the advent of better therapeutic strategies, achievement of aggressive targets is feasible. For example, the new monoclonal antibody to proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 serine protease (PCSK9), REGN727 was well tolerated and accomplished considerable further LDL-C reduction in patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia and elevated LDL-C treated with high-dose statins, with or without ezetimibe [26, 27]. Although phase III studies related to this and similar antibodies are still eagerly awaited, it would be interesting to assess the efficacy of these antibodies for more aggressive lowering of lipids especially in patients with DM.
With regards to aggressive lowering of BP, caution should be exercised. As newer and more efficient drugs have been developed, it is possible to reduce the BP to very low levels. However, recent studies have shown that aggressive BP control might not be in the best interest of the patient. Low levels of diastolic BP have been associated with more cardiovascular events (a J-curve effect). In their study, Murphy et al, observed a J-curve effect for cardiovascular complications, for diastolic BP <80 mmHg and systolic BP <130 mmHg in a sub-analysis of the PROVE IT-TIMI 22 trial . There was a trend in rounding up the BP reading to nearest 10th like 80, 90, 100. The trap in such rounding ups is to acknowledge the consequences of small measurement inaccuracies. Errors of 5 to 10 mmHg commonly occur as a result of improper BP technique . Hence, health care professionals should be trained to record BP correctly.
One of the disturbing trends observed in the study was the poor availability of reagents, which in turn made unavailable the test results of some of the key tests associated with the management of DM, for example, HbA1c, lipid profile, creatinine and ACR Figs. (1-4). These deficits need to be addressed through proper health policies. In fact, availability of proper strategies improves management of DM. In a study by Nyomba et al., it was observed that availability of glucometer reagents increases the frequency of self-blood glucose monitoring and improves glycaemic control in patients with DM .
Health care professionals are key players in the optimal management of DM. However, our study shows that in many cases, specific tests that are key for DM management were not ordered. It is therefore, imperative that all health centre physicians involved in the management of DM be familiar with multiple laboratory tests that are used to diagnose and manage patients with DM. Our study shows that key tests like determination of HbA1c (Fig. 1), was not ordered in 39% of the patients. In fact, strict guidelines should be adhered to in the management of DM. Further, guidelines should undergo periodic updates. For example, for the management of DM in the United States draft guidelines were posted on the Internet and presented at the 2007 Arnold O. Beckman Conference. The document was tailored in response to oral and written comments, and a revised draft was posted in 2010 and again modified in response to written comments .The National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry and the Evidence-Based Laboratory Medicine Committee of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry jointly reviewed the guidelines, which were accepted after revisions by the Professional Practice Committee and subsequently approved by the Executive Committee of the American Diabetes Association . Attending health-care professionals at health centres should be familiar with the updated guidelines. In order to facilitate this process clinical workshop(s) should be conducted from time to time by a central organization.
Our study show that at present there is a lack of adequate DM care in the north Al-Batinah governorate of Oman. This is primarily attributed to a lack of implementation of the existing guidelines to manage this debilitating condition. However, suitable measures should be provided by the authorities to address the problem with urgency. In addressing the sustainability of an effective DM program, patient and clinician barriers should be considered, which in turn would reduce the considerable burden of DM on Omani society.
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Benign prostate enlargement (BPE) is a common condition in men over the age of 50. It is not cancerous and usually does not pose a serious health threat. BPE is also known as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The prostate is part of the reproductive system and its function is to add fluid to sperm before ejaculation.
As men age, the prostate grows and can begin to pinch the urethra, which can make it difficult to urinate. Symptoms of an enlarged prostate include difficulty urinating, feeling the need to urinate frequently, and a weak or slow urine stream. Treatment for an enlarged prostate can range from watchful waiting to medications or surgery. To help ease symptoms, men should limit their intake of fluids, alcohol, caffeine, and over-the-counter decongestants and antihistamines.
Some people take herbs such as saw palmetto for prostate enlargement, but there is no evidence that these herbs are effective. Having an enlarged prostate does not increase the risk of prostate cancer, but men can have both conditions at the same time. Obesity and diabetes may increase the risk of developing an enlarged prostate. It is important to learn about enlarged prostate and if it is dangerous to your health.

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Investors had a three-day weekend to brood over disappointing job growth in March. When they got back to work Monday and delivered their verdict, it wasn’t good.
Stocks closed sharply lower, sending the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor’s 500 index to only their second four-day losing streak this year.
The Dow Jones industrials finished down 130.55 points at 12,929.59, its first close below 13,000 since March 12. The Standard & Poor’s 500 ended the day off 15.88 points at 1,382.20. The Nasdaq composite closed down 33.42 at 3,047.08.
“I think the prior months’ jobs data, and some of the other items that were positives on the macroeconomic side that have come out, had gotten expectations up for perhaps the recovery accelerating,” said Jason Arnold, a financial analyst with RBC Capital Markets. “The jobs data on Friday threw the monkey wrench into the equation.”
The Dow and S&P had four consecutive trading days of declines at the end of January, but the losses then were smaller. The Dow lost 124 points over that stretch. It has lost about 330 this time.
Stocks had their best first quarter since 1998 but have stumbled this month. Last week, the Federal Reserve suggested it is disinclined to take further steps to help the economy, and the European debt crisis flared in Spain.
Then on Friday, with the stock market closed for Good Friday, the government said the country added just 120,000 jobs in March, half the pace from December through February.
After a long weekend to think it over, investors sold stocks broadly. All 10 industry groups in the S&P 500 fell Monday, with financial stocks the worst performers. Bank of America fell 3.2 percent, and Citigroup was off 2.4 percent.
Of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow, only two, McDonald’s and Hewlett-Packard, finished higher. Traders at least didn’t sell in great numbers: Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was 3.1 billion shares, the lightest in almost a month. Most school districts in New York and New Jersey are closed this week for spring week.
Investors bought bonds, sending the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note to 2.04 percent, down 0.02 percentage point from Friday. Yields also fell for longer-term U.S. bonds.
Rex Macey, chief investment officer at Wilmington Trust Investment Advisors, cautioned that the jobs report reflected only one disappointing month.
Like a doctor, he said, “I’d order up more tests before declaring this as a trend.”
The next test will come quickly. Alcoa, the aluminum company, reports its first-quarter earnings today, the first of the Dow 30 to weigh in. Two major banks, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, report Friday.

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Excessive hunting has put a bird species native to the Ndora-Aegela forests in Flores, East Nusa Tenggara, at risk of extinction. Local people still hunt protected birds in forests across the island, despite a ban on such practices. Located in Ulupulu village, Nangaroro district, Nagekeo regency, the forests are currently managed by the Nagekeo Forestry Agency.
A profile of the Wallacea ecosystem, compiled by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF), has determined that the Ndora-Aegela forests are a key biodiversity area. Apart from its function as a water catchment area, a number of birds native to Flores are found in the forests.
On March 14, Burung Indonesia staff member Samuel Rabenak conducted a short survey in the Ndora-Aegela forests.
Rabenak said it did not take him long to spot two birds native to Flores, namely the Flores crow and the Wallace hanging parrot, locally known serindit Flores. Serindit Flores is listed as an endangered species.
Rabenak said the discovery of serindit Flores was good news for bird lovers and conservation activists overall. He said the Burung Indonesia team had also discovered several other bird species such as the Flores green pigeon, which is listed as a vulnerable species.
Many other bird species were found including the Flores lorikeet, the russet-capped tesia, the chestnut-capped thrush, Flores minivet, the yellow-ringed white-eye.
Rabenak said the discoveries could offer an alternative destination for bird watchers in Flores. To date, Ndora-Aegela has not received much attention from bird watchers, who tend to focus their attention on the Mbeliling forests and the Ruteng Ecotourism Park in West Flores.

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While serving as the honorary crueltymaster ringmaster at a performance of the Atlanta-based UniverSoul Circus, Clayton County Commissioner Eldrin Bell made a grand mistake by making a grand entrance on an elephant. It seems as though the commish might need a refresher on state law, because riding an elephant is illegal in Georgia.
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The transient phenomenon of chip generations and behavior in the gear hobbing process are investigated by using a high-speed video camera. The chip behavior generated in gear finish hobbing process is very complicated and one can not identify each chip from specified cutting edges. The authors have built up a new simulation method of the hobbing process using a flying tool and a special-shaped workpiece, which consists of one tooth space. Visual evidences of the chip interference on the rake face and some conditions of contact between generated chips and the work surface were visually obtained. In the case of dry cutting conditon with a high-speed steel (HSS) flytool without coating on the rake face, the flytool cuts the workpiece frequently with the stuck chip generated in the previous revolution on the rake face. The newly generated chip pushes out the previous stuck chip, which flies away eventually. The chip flow on the rake face interferes strongly at the corner of the cutting edge when both top and side cutting edges produce different chips at the same time, and the chips flow out in changing the shape. The moving speed of the chip was also measured.


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Drs. Junjie Yao, Pei Zhong and Glenn Preminger received a MEDx grant in support of the colloqium 'Translate Photoacoustic Imaging to Guide Shockwave Lithotripsy of Kidney Stones”.
The proposed colloquium aims to assemble a multidisciplinary group of Duke investigators to initiate the collaborative development of a novel imaging platform for real-time monitoring of renal vascular damage during shockwave lithotripsy (SWL).
Kidney stone disease is a major health problem. SWL is the first-line therapy for the management of most kidney and upper urinary stones. However, modern lithotripters have high propensity in causing vascular injuries in the treated kidneys, and currently, tissue injury during SWL cannot be monitored by fluoroscopy or ultrasound imaging. Therefore, there is a pressing need and strong clinical incentive to develop novel imaging modalities that are compatible with contemporary lithotripters, for real-time assessment of vascular injury during SWL. photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is uniquely matched to address this unmet clinical need, with its intrinsic high sensitivity to bleeding and high spatial-temporal resolutions. This proposed colloquium convokes interdisciplinary expertise in biomedical imaging, shockwave physics and engineering, and urologic surgery, echoing the very purpose of the MEDx colloquium to combine elements from engineering and medicine to solve a pressing clinical problem. If successful, the proposed technology has the potential to fundamentally change the clinical practice of urologists in administrating SWL, by providing a much-needed real-time feedback about the conditions of renal tissue to minimize adverse injury.


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Discussion in 'Photos' started by Nitzo, Dec 22, 2010.
very kind of you! B E A fucking Utiful : o )
Ho-leee flat Batman.
Where is the rest of the bike?
At Blue Mountain Ski Area, PA.
Steep hills, Western Norway.
My new favorite
Hvor e de henne?
Dette er fra Aursjøvegen på tur ned mot Eikesdal.
This is Aursjøvegen on the way down to Eikesdal. Near Sunndalsøra.
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Bought it today so my first pic is my favorite.
Steptoe Butte, Washington It now costs $10 to ride to the top. Shot June, 20015
Jackson Lake and the Tetons
Pick up day....now let's see what everything on this bike can do. Much much different than my 2013 F800GS...WOW
Lamar Valley in Yellowstone
Bad bike. Bad. I told you not to take a selfie with the moose.
This is one of my favs that reminds me of good times:

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Gallagher Hotels has offloaded the gaming-focused Triple 8 Hotel in Chinatown to the ever-active Oscars Hotels.
Patrick Gallagher bought the operation with a seven-year lease in 2015 from Iris Group for circa $7.25 million, representing the two businesses’ fifth asset transfer, and not their last.
Located in Dixon Street Mall, the Triple 8 is within a strata title, holding over 700sqm on a single level. It has the uncommon benefit of the lessee owning both the hotel licence and the 30 gaming machine entitlements.
Bill and Mario Gravanis’ Oscars Group employs a similar approach to Gallagher, maintaining a diverse mix of lease and freeholds, and both large and small operations.
Busy juggling new challenges such as the purchase of the Chelsea Hotel in Chatswood from Solotel, Gallagher says the off-market sale suits his plans.
“We have some other exciting areas to redeploy the capital, and decided to sell when the opportunity arose,” he says.
“It’s been a great business for us and so easy to operate, and we wish Oscars every success with it moving forward.”
Variations mean there is only three years remaining on the lease, and sources say the operation transacted for around $5.5 million.
Oscars is understood to be eager to renew the lease agreement, but if unable will have the option to relocate the licence and gaming, or shift some of the entitlements to other pubs it runs that don’t have their full complement.
The sale was conducted through JLL Hotels’ national director John Musca, who suggests the $100+ million in off-market hotel transactions and agreements JLL holds demonstrate that off-market continues to be a popular method of sale.
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F1 fans, mark your calendars: the Formula 1 Grand Prix du Canada is coming back to Montreal and it's going to be wild! From June 7th to June 9th 2019, start your summer at one of the most attended race weekends in the world!
Taking place on the Gilles Villeneuve Circuit, 20 drivers will compete to win the prestigious title in Montreal. With over 4 km of race tracks, 70 laps and speeds of up to 350 km/h, you know this weekend is going to be filled with non-stop action and more adrenaline you could ever imagine, enough to make you understand the meaning of Grand Prix Fever!
But what makes the Grand Prix weekend even more exciting is all of the activities you will find on-site! If you are planning on attending with your family and children, you'll be happy to hear the Family Grandstand is free for children under 15! Nearby you can enjoy many activities at the FamilyZone, suitable for all ages. Such an amazing way to enjoy the Grand Prix with your little ones!
If you're looking to cool down, take a break, and refresh, then the Heineken Terrace is where you'll want to be. Located on the edge of the lagoon, you will be able to enjoy a cold beer and relax before you head back to the race. The Beach Zone, located behind the Podium and accessible to everyone with a ticket, will even have music with DJs, beach games, and a bar-terrace.
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If you are more into shopping and want to get your hands on an official jersey, t-shirt or cap, redirect yourself to the Park & Cosmos zone. There you will find booths with official merchandise and tons of memoribilia to choose from! Within the zone you will also find the Monster Energy Compound. Get this: during the entire GP weekend you will be able to witness acrobatic motocross exhibitions - more fuel, more adrenaline. This is what Grand Prix weekend is all about!
Obviously, you're going to Grand Prix for the cars! Come take a closer look at the cars taking part in the support series at the Support Races Paddocks. You will find them located right behind Grandstand 15. This is your chance to learn more about motorsport and enjoy the sounds of the world's most powerful cars. Start your engines!
This year’s edition is also bringing something new to the table: the parternship between SportPesa and Racing Point. SportPesa is a growing global technology and entertainment company. Announced earlier this month, the partnership is truly exciting for the Canadian F1 universe. In fact, SportPesa Racing Point is the only Canadian team in the run for 2019. Our very own Lance Stroll will be one of two drivers behind the wheel of the unique pink F1 cars!
Sounds like this year’s edition will be insane and packed with so much action! If you’re a Formula 1 fanatic, you’ll definitely want to check out some of the exclusive events taking place (tickets are available on the Canadian Grand Prix’s official website.) Summer can’t come fast enough!


Join us on Wednesday, May 23 from 9am to Noon as we celebrate the kick-off of the SOLVE Summer Waterway Cleanups in partnership with Water Environment Services. We will be removing harmful litter from the 3 Creeks Natural Area, helping to keep our streams, rivers, and communities clean and healthy!
All cleanup supplies will be provided, just dress for the weather and bring a filled, reusable water bottle.
Volunteers will meet starting at 8:45am at:
3 Creeks Natural Area
7300 SE Harmony Rd
Parking is available at the North Clackamas Aquatic Park. Look for the SOLVE signs to find the check-in table.
Join PP&R and Friends of Woods volunteers to help maintain our trails in the park. Tools, gloves and snacks provided!
Please dress for the weather, wear sturdy, closed toed shoes and bring a water bottle. This is a family-friendly event and all ages are welcome but children must be supervised by an adult.
For more info, contact Mary at firstname.lastname@example.org or 503-823-9423. Activities include: Trail maintenance
Meet at 9550 SW Wood Pkwy Portland
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Join the Weed Warrior effort to restore a healthy habitat at Mt. Tabor Park.
The Weed Warrior Stewardship Coordinator and volunteer crew leaders will share their knowledge of the natural habitat, demonstrate how to remove non-native vegetation, and help keep us organized, safe and motivated!
We will make sure that you are comfortable and contribute in ways that match your skills and interests. Wear comfortable clothes that are appropriate for working in natural areas: long pants, long sleeves, brimmed hat to protect from sun/rain, and closed-toe sturdy shoes. Bring a water bottle. We provide you with tools, gloves, and snacks.
Meet at SE 69th and SE Yamhill, Portland, Picnic Site A.
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Do you enjoy the outdoors and meeting new people? Grassroots Hillsboro keeps the community engaged and keeps our parks healthy and beautiful. Gather once a month at a different park to help enhance the habitat or to beautify the park. Tee shirts, snacks and water are provided for volunteers. Instruction is provided in both English and Spanish.
Meet at 1717 SE Walnut Street, Hillsboro, OR. Google maps - https://goo.gl/maps/RZbZxodsZNP2
Grassroots es un nuevo programa diseñado para unir a la comunidad por medio de proyectos que ayuden a mantener nuestros parques limpios y bellos. Nos reunimos una vez al mes en parques diferentes y los participantes reciben una playera, botanas y agua. Este es un programa bilingüe y para personas de todas las edades.
Join volunteers for this monthly 4th Saturday Cleanup in Northwest Portland starting at the Northwest Portland International Hostel. Coffee and snacks provided by the Hostel Cafe.
Volunteers should come prepared to work rain or shine, please dress for the weather and wear sturdy shoes.
Activities include: Litter Cleanup.


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|Title:||Atmospheric volatile organic compounds levels in furniture-manufacturing city in Turkey||Authors:||Çalışkan, Burak
Durmuş, Hafize O.
Gaga, Eftade O.
Cindoruk, Sabahattin Sıddık
Hardboard waste combustion
Pearl River Delta
|Issue Date:||2022||Publisher:||Elsevier||Abstract:||& nbsp;Air pollutant emissions originated from industrial processes, combustion, and vehicles, significantly impacting air quality levels. In this study, Inegol-Bursa/Turkey, the city stands out with its furniture manufacturing sector, burning of hardboard wastes and dense traffic. Atmospheric volatile organic compound concentrations at 25 different points in Inegol city of Bursa were determined with passive air sampler. The city was classified according to its characteristics (organized industrial zone, residential areas, wastewater treatment plant, fuel-oil station and furniture industry zone). Different volatile organic compounds (45 species) were investigated in the atmosphere of the city. Volatile organic compound concentration in city air ranged from 17.1 to 133.6 mu g/m(3) and an average value of 59.5 +/-& nbsp;32.7 mu g/m3. Volatile organic compound concentrations were found to be higher, especially in industrial districts and near motorways. Lower concentrations than average volatile organic compound value were determined near the waste-water treatment plant, fuel-oil station and residential areas. The average of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylenes concentration for the city was determined as 34.7 +/- 19.5 mu g/m(3). The highest concentration of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylenes was found in industrial zone (89.8 mu g/m(3)) where the furniture industry and uncontrolled combustion were dominant. Benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylenes concentrations obtained in this region were 2-6 times higher than the other sampling sites. In addition, cancer risk was calculated within the study's scope and the district risk was found to be at probable risk level.||URI:||https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2022.101163
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One junior describes a softball season of parking lot Subway sandwiches and seemingly endless rainouts
Junior Katie Gould, a utility player for the softball team, just wants to get back on the field. The softball team has had their past six games canceled or postponed due to weather or opponent COVID concerns, but when the team has been able to play, Gould has made a huge impact for the Bears. Gould leads the team with 14 runs and is tied with teammate junior Nicole Hay for the most hits with 18. Through 14 games, she has a batting average of .383 and a slugging percentage of .447. Gould sat down with Student Life to talk about her introduction to softball, strange bus ride experiences and why she’s excited for her senior season.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Student Life: Why softball? Did you try other sports, or were you always sure that you wanted to play that specifically?
Katie Gould: Growing up, I played soccer, basketball, volleyball and softball, so I was a very multi-sport kid. And then once I got to high school, I realized that I have to start choosing, because my weekends were getting busy. It’s hard to play two sports in high school. So I was between soccer and softball in the end, and I don’t know if there’s an exact moment, but I think I just liked softball a little bit more.
SL: I’m sure your parents were pretty busy on the weekends then, driving you to all those games! Did you have a softball league near you?
KG: My hometown had a recreational softball league that I played in until I was 10. And then I went to play travel ball—basically like the club version.
SL: So was playing college ball always you wanted to do? Or was that something that evolved over the past few years of high school?
KG: Yeah, it was always a goal of mine to play in college. And I did the whole recruiting process of high school, emailing coaches, sending skills videos and stuff like that. As I got older, in junior and senior year of high school, I realized that I want to focus more on academics and that’s how I started to narrow down schools like Wash. U.
SL: Did you visit Wash. U.? Is there anything that specifically drew you to it?
KG: I’m from Los Angeles, and Wash. U. wasn’t that popular out there, so I had never heard of it until I had a softball tournament in St. Louis. The coach from Wash. U. was there, and that’s when I first heard of the name. And then I visited the campus when I was here for that tournament, and then I stayed in touch with the coach. It was more just a coincidence of having a tournament in St. Louis, because I don’t think I would have heard of the school any other way.
SL: Wow. So you come for a tournament and ended up here for four years! And I’m also from a state where no one really knows where Wash. U. is.
KG: Yeah, I even have to explain what state St. Louis is in to people too.
SL: So talk to me about this season so far. It’s definitely been unique playing a lot of non-UAA teams, but at least you guys have been able to play, right?
KG: I’m very thankful to have a season. Like my friend at N.Y.U., they didn’t have a season this year, so I’m just glad to have games. It is definitely different from my freshman year—then, we didn’t have any bus trips, and we only flew to different places to play. And then this year, we can’t do overnights, so the games are just day long bus trips to play. So it’s definitely a whole different vibe, but I’m just glad to play.
SL: Yeah, how are those day-long bus trips? I know you’re not able to eat or drink on them—there are a bunch of restrictions, right?
KG: Yeah, on one of our trips, we had to pick up Subway, and then we weren’t allowed to eat it on the bus. We pulled over to a gas station parking lot, and our whole team was just on the ground in the parking lot, eating, because we weren’t allowed to eat on the bus.
SL: It’s just another marker of how much things have changed over the past year. Looking at your schedule though, you haven’t been able to get in too many games even having a pretty busy schedule—a lot of your past couple games have gotten canceled.
KG: The first few games were canceled because it rained here, so our field was unplayable. And then we had some away games, but it was raining there as well. And then the next set of games against UChicago, the school had a stay-at-home order because of a rise of COVID cases. And then the last one was it snowed yesterday, so we couldn’t play in that.
SL: Seems like you’ve just had a string of bad luck.
KG: Very bad luck to have a game for the only snow day of April.
SL: I’m sure you’re all eager to play after practicing. You talked a little bit about the bus restrictions—what other restrictions have been hard this season?
KG: Staying distanced has been a challenge. For example, usually when someone hits a home run, we all run out to like home plate and celebrate. There’re a lot of high fives, a lot of head pats, and we can’t really do that this year. So it’s a challenge of still being energetic and excited for each other, but from a distance. I guess that has been a bit of a challenge, having that enthusiasm but safely.
SL: Yeah. Do you feel like you’ve still been able to maintain that enthusiasm, especially for the underclassmen who don’t know anything else?
KG: I think we definitely have still kept that enthusiasm, maybe even more than past years since we know that there’s already an obstacle in the way. Like, we wear masks when we play obviously, and communication is always a challenge on the team. I think we’ve done a really good job this year of being even more clear with that communication. We do a lot of hand signals since you can’t really see if someone’s talking to you if it’s really loud on the field.
SL: And right now, there are only two seniors on the team. Next year, I know that you guys have a bunch of freshmen coming in. So are you excited to be a senior with such a big freshman class and take a leadership role?
KG: Yeah, I’m definitely excited to have more people on the team and 10 new people to get to know. And I’m excited to help lead the team— it’ll be interesting, but nice.
SL: What are you most excited for? Are there any fun softball traditions that you want to bring back with fewer restrictions in the future?
KG: We were able to do it this year, but there’s a tradition for the freshmen to decorate the locker room and add a bunch of stuff. The freshmen this year added a blow-up palm tree. And like my year, we hung up flamingos and wrote little notes to everyone on their lockers. It’s a tradition I always want to keep around because it makes going in the locker room fun. This year we have capacity limits in the locker room, so only three people can be in there at a time. I think I just miss right before practice or lift when we would all sit in there and talk or some people would be half asleep. I’m glad to be able to bring that back when COVID restrictions are over, and I want the freshmen this year to experience that since they haven’t yet.
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Bush, which is now owned and solely distributed by Argos, has developed two smartphones which they describe as ‘budget-beating’.
Argos will sell these devices for just £49.99 and £79.99, and will add other wallet-friendly devices to its roster too, with a view to weaning people off their feature phones.
Both Bush devices run on Android, with the cheaper model offering a 4-inch display, 4GB of internal storage and a 5-megapixel camera, as well as two changeable covers to allow users to change the aesthetic of their device. The sub-£80 model has a slightly larger 5-inch display and 8GB of internal storage, which means that just about anyone can make the move away from feature phones with minimal expenditure.
Argos mobile phone buyer, Nick Clarke, said “The new Bush smartphone is the answer for technology beginners or digital veterans on a budget. Affordable and easy to use, people can use these phones for both their work and personal life as it holds two SIM cards, making it one of the most flexible smartphones on the market.”
Keen to stay ahead during lean times, Argos has added a number of other budget-friendly devices to its range too, including the 4G enabled Alcatel OneTouch Pop 2, which retails for £99.95 SIM-free and offers a ‘power bank’ in case your battery runs low.
If you’re the type to break devices, then the company’s Kazam Trooper 2 might be a better option; Argos is offering the 4.5-inch smartphone for £49.95 and that includes a free screen replacement within the first 12 months, making this an ideal first phone for youngsters and the terminally cack-handed alike.
Finally, not to be outdone, Bush has also added two tablets to its Argos arsenal, one with an 8-inch screen and a slightly larger model with a 10-inch display. The MyTablets both run on Android and offer high-definition displays and quad-core processors, as well as sleek aluminium casing.
If these sound like the sort of budget-friendly tech that floats your boat, head over to Argos now to check out the full range.


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The comfortable Alpers Lodge & Conference Centre in Newmarket district offers non-smoking rooms with views over Eden Park.
The hotel lies within 10 minutes' walk of Mount Eden, Eden Garden and Newmarket. The property is set within 2 km distance from the city center.
Auckland War Memorial Museum is 1.6 km from the hotel and Ellerslie Racecourse is 2.7 km away.
Remuera train station is a 5-minute walk away. The property is located within a 15 km distance of Auckland International airport.
Alpers Lodge & Conference Centre provides guestrooms appointed with a DVD player, cable TV, heating, a microwave and a kitchenette. They also have a toaster, an electric kettle and a fridge available for self-catering.
Eat & Drink
Guests can have breakfast in the restaurant every morning. Offering european meals, White Lady on Broadway is around 200 meters away.
There are car and bicycle rental services on site.
Wireless internet is available in the entire hotel for free.
Free private parking is possible on site.

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MADISON (AP) -- Republican Tommy Thompson, a former Wisconsin governor, giving money to Democrats?
That's what federal election records show, as Thompson donated $250 to the campaign of Democratic Michigan Senator Carl Levin and $100 to Democratic North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue in 2008.
Thompson and three other Republicans are running for the U.S. Senate in Wisconsin. Eric Hovde, one of those candidates, has been criticized for giving Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle $500 in 2005 for Doyle's reelection campaign.
Darrin Schmitz, Thompson's spokesman, said Thursday the donations Thompson made to Democrats were "small, courtesy contributions to people he worked with as secretary or governor."
Records show $12,000 in donations to Republicans running in Wisconsin and no Democrats.