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Nitrous Oxide For Labor Pain Relief
Janet Oliver
Most women in labor have choices about what they want their birth experience to be. At the Family Birth Center at Maine Medical Center, the patient's safety and desires come first. Whether it is a natural child birth with little to no medical intervention, or one with medication to help ease pain, our nurses and doctors work with each patient individually to help them achieve their goals.
Should you choose medication for relief during labor, it's best to know your options before making a decision. There are benefits and risks of using medications. One type of pain medication available during labor & delivery is Nitrous Oxide Inhaled gas that is self-administered after education provided by anesthesiologist and/or nurse.
Listen in as Janet Oliver, a nurse at Maine Medical Center, discusses the advantages of Nitrous Oxide Inhaled gas to help with pain management during labor.
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Melanie Cole (Host): Should you choose medication for relief during labor? It's best to know your options before making a decision. There are benefits and risks of using medications. One type of pain medication available during labor and delivery is nitrous oxide. My guest today is Janet Oliver. She's a registered nurse with Maine Medical Center. Welcome to the show, Janet. So, tell us a little bit about some of the medications that are available for labor and delivery.
Janet Oliver (Guest): Well, we have IV pain medications which are like Nubain, we have Sensonal. I guess that the Cadillac would be the epidural, which is the most intensive pain medication that you could use; and then, we've started using nitrous oxide.
Melanie: So, people think of nitrous oxide as something you get at the dentist. Tell us about it for use in labor and delivery.
Janet: Well, it's actually been used for a number of years in Europe, since like the 1800s. It was used in the United States a long time ago, and it's making a resurgency. The difference is that the percentage of nitrous oxide combined with oxygen has been readjusted and it's a different percentage that they use nowadays.
Melanie: So, how is it used?
Janet: Well, the best example would be that as you're going into labor, you're not necessarily very uncomfortable, but as you become more uncomfortable, it is a system that you use with a mask that you apply to your face and secure it. It's a very simple process and it is extremely safe.
Melanie: Is it something that people might associate with a midwife-type birth or is it used in hospitals in general, as well?
Janet: Wow, that's a great question and it's being used in huge facilities out on the East Coast--West Coast. The East Coast has started to use it. Small hospitals, large hospitals. It's not associated necessarily with the midwife service, a lot of places are getting on board with this; it's a great option.
Melanie: So, how does it work for the patient and relieving their pain? Does it disrupt the release of oxytocin? Does it interfere with the birth or the feelings that you have during birth?
Janet: This is probably the best part about nitrous oxide. When you get into the other medications, which are intravenously given, or the epidural, there are a lot of medical interventions that we have to do like starting an intravenous, using a medication to keep you labor going. Nitrous oxide is pretty benign. It is not metabolized or stored in your body, so when you start breathing it in and you decide you're reaching the comfort level you want, then you stop using it. It's blown off probably within one or two breaths. The feeling is maybe a little drowsy, some people might get a little lightheaded. I think a lot of people associate nitrous oxide with laugh, with like laughing gas, so you might feel a little silly, but the primary function is to reduce anxiety and that sensation of discomfort.
Melanie: Are there any risks to using it?
Janet: Well, it doesn't affect labor. It doesn't affect your ability to move around, and for a lot of people, that's really important. With all the other options that are available, like IV or epidural, there are a lot of limitations that are put on your ability to move around. It doesn't affect the baby, again, because it's not stored in your system and it's not stored in the baby's system, so once you start breathing, it is basically blown off. It's very short-acting.
Melanie: Are there some women, Janet, that maybe should not use nitrous oxide?
Janet: Good question. It depends on the hospital and the anesthesia department, the integration with the obstetrician; each hospital sets their own guidelines for who and who should not be using it. There are certain people that for whom it is not available, but in the pregnant population, those exclusions are very, very rare. We're talking about people that have major abdominal surgeries recently, people that have had recent eye surgery, where you don't want to shift the balance in the body, but it's pretty easily administered, pretty easily relieves pain, basically active labor, and as a woman needs it.
Melanie: Now, this is not considered anesthesia, right? It's an analgesia-- it's something to make you feel better, but not yet totally take the pain away, right?
Janet: Exactly. And that, according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists, is rated as an analgesic which is at a lower alert level, I could say.
Melanie: So, it doesn't necessarily make it so that you're not aware of what's going on or fall asleep, and does it have any effect on the baby?
Janet: No, it does not. There have been research done, and you have to remember that a lot of the European countries have been using this for over, I'd have to say like 70 years or more and out on the West Coast for about 20 years, so it's no effect on--I'm trying to think--the respiratory system of the baby, no effect on the fetal monitoring, so heart rate. No. It's basically fairly safe. It hasn't changed Apgar scores, which is one of the things that everybody uses to rate a baby's transition from inside mom to making that adaption to being out on their own.
Melanie: If somebody is asking you, Janet, why would they choose nitrous oxide over, say, an epidural or the other types? What would you tell them if they asked you that question?
Janet: You know, I don't think this should be viewed as one or the other. I like to consider labor as going uphill. You kind of start out slow and at the top is the worst. Or, let's say preparing for a marathon. So, I really would think of this as a step ladder. You're going to start with non-medical comfort measures. Changing your position, getting into a tub, and these things you might do at home; listening to music--redirecting yourself. The nitrous oxide, I think, would be the next step because it is not anesthetic and then moving from that, maybe you might decide that it's not working as well as you want, moving on to an IV pain medication, and then moving up to an epidural. I don't think that people need to choose this as a one or the other, and the pain of labor is not something you can rate in the same manner because your satisfaction with your labor process and the delivery is what makes it for the mom. And last, I just want women to know that the best part of the nitrous oxide is that it is controlled totally by you. You control how much you breathe in, when you're breathing it in, when you've had enough, you can stop and start using it; it's just a wonderful option during labor.
Melanie: Really great information and so well put. Thank you so much, Janet for being with us today. You're listening to MMC Radio and for more information, you can go to www.mmc.org. That's www.mmc.org. This is Melanie Cole. Thanks so much for listening.


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Airborne Tops the list of best car Andriod racing games, This game is a Nice Racing game fascinating with smart graphics, When playing it, the reality of the game connects your heart and soul to loving it. Players can work, Pay their ways through career, upgrade their cars, buy new better cars.
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Asphalt 8 airborne, one you would probably find it hard to regret.
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This car racing is another mind blowing Racing game,with a clean graphic,and easy going because developers of this game made it so user friendly, while racing time your gear and change when its time to change,indicator alerts you when its time to make the next drift.
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This game is endowed with a real life graphic atmosphere that triggers the person playing .
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Injustice Gods Among Us Mobile Update 2.0: Giant Leap Forward or Stumbling Misstep?
Written by: Big Ross, CC2K Staff Writer
Big Ross looks at the update that brought MAJOR changes to the mobile fighting game starring the DCU from the makers of Mortal Kombat.
When Injustice Gods Among Us (Injustice, hereafter) was first announced, I (like many I suspect) couldn't have told you what it was about if the name was all the information given to me. Something to do with Greek or Roman mythology? Maybe another God of War clone? Anything but a game, and a fighting game at that, set in the DC Universe (DCU). But that is indeed what Netherrealm Studios gave us. The premise is simple, if not wholly original, and enough of an inventive twist on a question asked since Siegel and Schuster gave us that most well-known of superheroes: "What if Superman became evil?"
I recently bought the console version of the game, but I have yet to play it. I've found enough information online to know that the setup of the game is as follows: Joker drugs Superman and tricks him into killing Lois Lane (and their unborn child!) and Jimmy Olsen. Joker also detonates a nuke and destroys most of Metropolis, killing millions. Superman (quite understandably) loses it, kills Joker, and establishes a new Regime installing himself as overlord of Earth. The choice for the heroes and villains of the DCU is simple: fall in line with Superman, or die. Those who refuse Superman's demand join an Insurgency led by Batman. There is an immensely popular digital comic of the same name that serves as a prequel to the game, which I have never read. But I have been playing the mobile version of Injustice on my iPad. A lot. It's actually just about the only game that I do play on it.
The core mechanic/gameplay is solid and enjoyable. Instead of controlling one character, you have a team of three that you can tag in and out, fighting against computer-controlled teams of three opponents. Characters are represented as cards and are ranked according to three tiers: bronze, silver, and gold, with gold characters, like Batman and Superman, naturally being the most powerful and bronze characters like Catwoman or The Flash being weaker. As you fight and win battles your characters gain experience allowing them to level up and become yet more powerful. As they level up you can unlock special moves and attacks, and even super moves that deal massive amounts of damage onto your opponents. Your characters also have energy bars that are consumed as they fight in matches. Once a character's energy bar is depleted, you either have to wait for their energy to recharge or you can instantly recharge them with special "energy cards". Or, provided you have a big enough team of cards, which you will amass the longer you play the game, you can simply swap out your "exhausted" cards for fresh ones to keep playing. It's one aspect of the game that keeps things interesting. Even if you have a favorite character, this energy mechanic will force you to bench that character for a time and play with other cards in your collection.
A quick word about microtransactions. For better or worse, love them or hate them, they are an integral part of mobile gaming these days. The proverbial genie is out of the bottle, and there's no putting him back in. Once companies learned that they can offer gamers the option to buy things, little, seemingly inconsequential things for relatively cheap prices IN GAME, and make a substantial profit provided enough people choose the option, do you really think they'd ever not do it? Some companies [cough] EA [cough] seemingly take this business model too far and release games that are allegedly unplayable without buying microtransactions. But with Injustice Netherrealm have done it right. There is a currency system in the game. Virtually everything can be bought with Power Credits. You earn Power Credits by winning matches, i.e. simply playing the game. All matches in the game are replayable, so you can play the same battles over and over, grinding through the game and building up your bank of Power Credits until you enough for that Gold Superman card (220,000 credits) or that Red Son Pack (400,000 credits) or whatever it is you have your eye on. But you don't have to wait. You don't have to grind if you don't want to. You can simply purchase Power Credits with real world money via a credit card. But here's the thing. IT'S COMPLETELY OPTIONAL. The game doesn't "force" you to buy anything, it isn't "in your face" bombarding you with microtransactions [cough] Candy Crush Saga [cough] it never feels like they're requisite to playing the game. Hell, for a long time I didn't even know this option existed. If more games handled microtransactions the way Injustice does, public opinion might not be so firmly against them.
I'm a little off track here. I started this meaning to talk about the latest update to Injustice, called Version 2.0. It just became available last week, and it's brought major changes to the game. Most noticeable are the cosmetic tweaks to the user interface. I'll admit I don't like it [grumble] change is bad [grumble], but it's not a huge deal, and I'm sure I'll get used to it. The biggest change to the game is the addition of multiplayer, and it's IMHO where the problems really start.
NOTE: I've seen online that there are A LOT of players who lost all of their progress and card collections after installing the update. This would totally suck. I guess I was one of the lucky ones, because my game updated with all of my cards and saved progress seamlessly. Obviously this is a big problem (I don't know if it really affected 50% of players, as I've seen claims of online), and it remains to be seen how and if Netherrealm will address it.
So, multiplayer. I think I've made my feelings known about multiplayer in general on this website before. But to reiterate: I don't like multiplayer. I almost never play those portions of video games. It's NEVER a selling point for me. A big reason why I play video games is to escape the real world and get away from the people in it. Video games are my "me time", my time to be alone, and I don't need or want other people mucking it up. So, the announcement that multiplayer was the major component of update 2.0 less than thrilled me. But I tried it out anyway, just to give it a shot. Here is my verdict:
It's a horrible failure. See Update Below!
Okay, justification time. I suspect the console version of Injustice is like the Mortal Kombat games or the Street Fighter games or any of the rest, in that all of the fighters are intentionally designed to be more or less equal. To at least exist in a basal state on a level playing field. In those games it's up to the player to give them an advantage; victory is dependent on the player's skill. Sure, there are some gamers who may discover and exploit a trait of a particular fighter, giving them what some may argue is an unfair advantage, but again, it's the player that determines the outcome. In the mobile version of Injustice, in my experience, player skill has little if anything to do with victory. The three-tiered card system, and the leveling system, not to mention the promotion system that allows you to "rank up" already high-level cards to over-powered levels, means victory is ENTIRELY dependent on your cards. And unlike poker, there is no way to bluff your way to victory. If you don't have the cards, the house will win. Always. In the single-player game, there is the rare battle where you are given little to no information on your opponents before the match starts. In all other cases, you can see your opponents, their tier, level, rank, health and damage output. 9 if not 10 times out of 10, if you don't select a team of cards at least equal to or greater than your opponents, you will lose. Back to the multiplayer. I logged on, selected a single match battle, selected my team, and the game went about finding me a "match". Before the battle began, I knew I was going to lose. I knew it. My team consisted of a level 40 elite II Batman, level 38 elite III Superman, and level 40 Batgirl (all gold cards). My opponent's team consisted of level 40 elite II Batman, level 40 elite I Regime Superman, and level 40 elite V Regime Shazam (all gold cards). Any way you match up our cards, he comes out on top. Our Batman cards push, his Superman beats my Batgirl, his Shazam beats my Superman. Oh, I put up a good fight. I launched super moves with Batgirl and Batman and hurled specials as quickly as they charged; I lasted a while, but it was only a matter of time. Unless he simply gave up and stopped tapping his iPad, the outcome was predetermined.
That, in a nutshell, is the problem with multiplayer for Injustice. I don't know the matchmaking logic the game follows. I presume that it tries to pair up teams that are more or less equal, but that is the problem. It likely can't, with any consistency pair up truly equal opponents. One will almost always be more powerful than the other, and it simply becomes a game of chance. Will I get an opponent more or less powerful than I? Might as well flip a coin to determine the winner. And that's when you're able to connect and actually play. I've heard of lots of gamer unable to connect and play more than a single multiplayer match, and I experienced the same problem.
The other problem, which *may* get addressed in a future update, is that matchmaking seems completely random, meaning a player has no control over their opponent. In my opinion this becomes a deficiency in that you can't invite/challenge friends to matches. That was one of the few appealing things about online multiplayer, the ability to play a game with friends physically distant from you.
But for all of that bad, there is some good to this latest update to Injustice. One is that they've raised the level cap from 40. I don't know what the new one is, but all those cards you maxed out can now earn more experience for yet more power. Similarly, the promotion cap has also been raised from V (that's the roman numeral for 5 if you have yet to catch on). Also, they've added "gear" slots for every character. You collect gear by playing and winning online battles, but you can also buy it with Power Credits. I don't know much about gear yet, but it promises to augment your characters giving them bonuses and making them still more powerful engines of destruction. The thing I'm personally most excited about is the option to replay a bunch of the old Challenge Modes.
Challenge Mode is the one feature that I think I like most about Injustice. Every two weeks or so Netherrealm releases a new Challenge Mode. It consists of 5 challenge stages, and each stage contains 12-20 battles. The stages get progressively harder, and each stage has a unique theme or requirement to be able to play, such as "Catwoman must be on your team" or "Only Bronze characters are allowed on your team". Each Challenge battle requires Challenge Credits to activate, and these are earned by winning matches in the regular portion of the game (or you can purchase them with Power Credits). As you progess through a Challenge Mode, you earn rewards like 15,000 Power Credits or a Silver Booster Pack, and the ultimate prize for beating a Challenge Mode is a Challenge Character, a special, limited availability gold character card. Previous Challenge Characters have included Darkseid, Regime Aquaman, Scorpion (from Mortal Kombat), Batman Beyond, and more. Again, you can't simply go in and buy these characters. You have to earn them by beating a Challenge Mode. This both makes them special and adds to the collectability aspect of Injustice. Let me explain. Games like the Diablo and Borderlands franchises have loot systems, where items' power is linked to their rarity. Generally speaking, the most powerful items are the rarest and most difficult to find/obtain. Which makes actually acquiring such an item feel so satisfying. And once you know what items are available, the hunt to collect them all becomes all the more alluring. Some might say "addicting" and indeed, I think games with such a mechanic can scratch the same itch as gambling.
Playing Injustice, with my collection of character cards, I get the same feeling as when I play Borderlands 2. Just as I would grind through that game farming for legendaries, I'll grind through Injustice to amass enough Power Credits to buy a new gold card for a relatively high price (as I did for Batman and Superman), or take my chances with a Gold Booster Pack for a lower price and just see what I get (hello Doomsday and Regime Wonder Woman and the rest). And I'll happily grind through Injustice day-in and day-out to earn Challenge Credits and complete Challlenge Stages to get that John Stewart Green Lantern and Wonder Woman 600 and Batgirl. But I came late to playing Injustice, and it had been out, and steadily churning out Challenge Modes, for months before I jumped on board. So there are so many Challenge Characters I missed out on. And plenty of gamers like myself have been wondering if more of these Challenge Modes would be repeated, as they did for Batgirl (due to popular demand). And that brings me back to what I'm most excited for with the new update.
Recycled Challenge Modes! See Update below!
Sitting in amongst the Booster Packs available for purchase is a Challenge Bundle. Priced at 150,000 Power Credits it will take some grinding to buy, but it's not ridiculously priced like the Red Son Pack (400,000) or Arkham Batman (375,000). As I understand it, buying this bundle will unlock all (or nearly all) of the past Challenge Modes, allowing you to go back and repeat them, or play them for the first time. Also included in update 2.0 is the news of still more new Challenge Modes with all new Challenge Characters (!).
So what's my final verdict regarding this update? Sure there have been bugs and glitches, and some may persist with the online multiplayer, but the one thing this update proves beyond any doubt is that Netherrealm still cares about his game and its fanbase, and is working hard to continue to support this game long after its initial release. That's always a good thing.
UPDATE (4/28/14): Two corrections about this article. The first is I had it completely wrong about how the old Challenges works. It isn't a "Challenge Bundle" but a Challenge Booster Pack. For 150,000 credits you get a randomly selected gold character card pulled exclusively from the assortment of previous Challenges. So no repeating those Challenge Modes, simply pay the price and see which card you get. This is still awesome, as it allows players like me a chance to get Challenge Characters we missed out on, and also allows for ranking up of those characters at a discounted price (as compared to buying them outright from the store).
The second is multiplayer. I was COMPLETELY wrong about this on several levels.
The first is that you don't fight another player in real time. You fight against another player's team as controlled by the game's AI system. Basically, everyone who goes into the multiplayer mode adds their team to the pool of available teams the game uses for matchmaking. Even when you're not online actively playing your last used team remains in the system, available for a challenge. My teams have been challenged a handful of times, and have always been beaten, I don't know if you get a bonus for your team successfully defending itself (I've lost several times to other teams myself so this is possible).
I was also wrong about the "fun factor" of multiplayer. It's actually pretty great. Yes, *most* of the time I can predict if I'm going to win or lose a match before it starts, simply by looking at my opposing team's stats and comparing them to mine. But I've been surprised both ways. There are times I thought I'd lose when I ended up winning (and that's an awesome feeling), and times I got my ass handed to me and didn't see it coming. But that's all okay. The greatest thing about multiplayer is that it offers something different. I've lost count of how many times I've played the same two challenge stages to amass Challenge and/or Power Credits, and it is INCREDIBLY boring. It's just the same opponents over and over and over again. UGGGHHH. Multiplayer offers wholly new teams to face. You never know who you're going to go up against, and while the single-player portion of the game tends to have some sense or method to the teams it chooses, in multiplayer it's entirely up to the player. I've face some pretty motley crews, and I've put some up myself. It keeps the game fresh and interesting.
And let's talk for a moment about the bonuses. There are daily bonuses such as "Win three battles with a team of Bronze characters", or "Win a battle without using any special moves". These give Power Credit bonuses. And then there are the Seasonal Bonuses. I have yet to figure out if the multiplayer season corresponds with the current Challenge Mode, but all players participating are ranked. As long as you're in the top 90%, you'll get something. As you progress higher and higher in the leaderboards for that season, the bonus rewards get sweeter and sweeter. I'm currently in the Top 2%, and I stand to get some Rare Gear, some Uncommon Gear, and a hefty Power Credit bonus.
As a final (perhaps second) opinion, there's little this Update 2.0 does wrong. The major drawback, aside from the possible bugs resulting from the rollout, seems to be the often inability of the game servers to handle the player load. It has been fairly common over the last few days to get a "servers temporarily down" error message, or (worse still) to get online, halfway through a battle and then get booted. If the Injustice devs can figure this out, there will be months of happy gaming to come.
Author: Big Ross, CC2K Staff Writer

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The Recording Academy™ is pleased to announce that Tina Tchen, chief of staff to former first lady Michelle Obama, will chair its task force to examine issues of inclusion and diversity within the Academy and the broader music community. As part of its charter, the task force will identify the various barriers and unconscious biases faced by underrepresented communities throughout the music industry and, specifically, across Recording Academy operations and policies. In an effort to determine pathways toward greater parity at every level of the organization, the task force will look specifically at Recording Academy governance, hiring and promotion practices, membership, awards, and telecast.
"The music industry faces numerous challenges—from combatting long-held biases to making sure women are represented and respected within the community," said Tchen. "This task force is an important initial step by the Recording Academy to demonstrate its commitment to tackling these challenges in a comprehensive way. I am honored to partner with them in this effort and look forward to working with members of the task force as we look to make the music industry a diverse and inclusive community for all."
With a record of advocacy on behalf of women and girls, Ms. Tchen currently heads the Chicago office of the Buckley Sandler LLP law firm, where she is a partner and leader in advising companies on gender inequity, sexual harassment, and lack of diversity. Most recently, she played an integral role in spearheading the formation of the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund, which provides legal support to victims of sexual harassment, assault, and abuse in the workplace. During her tenure in the White House, Tchen was the executive director of the White House Council on Women and Girls, established by President Barack Obama to ensure that the needs of women and girls would be accounted for in the development of all government agency policies and programs.
"In this moment, the Recording Academy can do more than reflect what currently exists; we can help lead the industry into becoming the inclusive music community we want it to be—a responsibility that the Board and I take seriously, " said Neil Portnow, President/CEO of the Recording Academy. "Tina Tchen is an accomplished advocate for women and impact-oriented leader versed in convening disparate stakeholders for a common purpose. In addition, the fact that she lacks business ties to the music industry ensures her objectivity as Chair. We are honored to have her at the helm, guiding the Academy and our industry toward a greater good for everyone involved."
In the coming weeks, the Recording Academy will complete the formation of its task force. With an eye toward assembling a leadership group balanced in perspective and independent of bias, the task force is set to comprise music executives, music creators, academia, and experts in diversity in entertainment. The group is expected to deliver a series of recommendations to the Recording Academy in the months ahead.
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   <select class="form-control" id="pcategory" ng-model="pcategory" ng-options="c.CID as c.Name for c in pcategoryA">
        <option value="">-- Select Category --</option>
    </select>
    <input type="text" class="form-control" id="name" ng-model="name" />
    <input type="text" class="form-control" id="price" ng-model="price" />
    <input type="text" class="form-control" id="quantity" ng-model="quantity" />

this is the angularJS implemetation
// angularJS
         $http.get('/api/product/' + $routeParams.id).success(function (data)
        {

            $scope.pcategory = data.pcategory.CID , // is an object { "CID":1, "Name": "Solid""}
            $scope.name = data.name,
            $scope.price = data.price,
            $scope.quantity = data.quantity

        });

All the field are set except the drop down
        Can someone help please!

A: Add a track by to the ng-options
<select class="form-control" id="pcategory" ng-model="pcategory" ng-options="c as c.name for c in pcategoryA track by c.CID">
    <option value="">-- Select Category --</option>
</select>

And I think you need to switch the model for the id to the full object (not c.CID in the ng-options)
And when setting the $scope variable pcategory set it like so:
 $scope.pcategory = {
'CID': 4,
'name': 'name 4'

};
I created a codepen to describe.  http://codepen.io/mkl/pen/GZvmQE

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Parents have a duty to help their children learn to cope with living in both houses. Ideally, parents will work as a team to make this happen. Ensure that you are truly listening to what your children are saying and how they are reacting so that you know what adjustments you need to make.
Children might sometimes think that they can't show one parent that they are having fun and are happy at the other parent's home. This is something you can combat by letting them know that they are allowed and even encouraged to have enjoy both houses. They need to be reminded that both adults are still their parents and family so joy should transverse both homes.
Since kids thrive on predictability and consistency, a changing routine can be challenging. Let them know ahead of time what the schedule is and what plans you have. This gives them time to adjust to what is going to happen so that they can feel better as the changes occur. Be sure that you differentiate what is certainly going to happen from what may happen. You don't want them to feel let down because things don't go as planned.
Another thing that might make the changes difficult for kids is that they may not feel like they have free access to both of their parents like they did when everyone lived in the same home. Make it clear that they can call, chat or video with the other parent at any point. Give them ways to help this to happen and let them know that you fully support them having a meaningful relationship with the other parent.
It is best if you have clear guidelines and plan for everything noted in the parenting plan. If you and your ex can work together to come up with these terms, you might find that things are a bit easier to live with.


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FBI Employee Accused Of Being Chinese Agent
August 1, 2016 /0 Comments/in US /by Joe Levin
An electronics technician working in the FBI's New York City office since 1997 has been charged with making false statements to the FBI regarding contacts with Chinese foreign nationals, prosecutors say.
Kun Shan Chun (also known as Joey Chun) is named in a four-count complaint issued in March and unsealed Monday in federal court in Manhattan.
He pleaded guilty to the complaint, which charges him with four counts of making false statements related to his foreign contacts.
Chun's public defender said his client was ready to acknowledge what he had done.
"Today Joey Chun accepted responsibility for some mistakes in judgment that he deeply regrets.
The truth is that Mr. Chun loves the United States and never intended to cause it any harm.
He hopes to put this matter behind him and move forward with his life," Jonathan Marvinny said in a statement.
Chun, age 47 and a naturalized U.S. citizen, held a Top Secret security clearance in his role as an FBI electronics technician, allowing him to access sensitive and classified information, court papers say.
FBI policy requires employees to report contacts with foreign nationals and agents of foreign powers.
Since 2006, Chun and some of his relatives maintained relationships with several Chinese nationals who purported to be affiliated with a Chinese company, according to court documents.
Chun was asked to perform research and other tasks in the United States in return for financial benefits, including paid foreign travel, and was in contact with an individual he understood to be affiliated with the Chinese government, court papers say.
Chun allegedly made a series of false statements to the FBI regarding his contacts with the Chinese nationals.
Chun will appear in federal court in Manhattan later Monday, prosecutors said. Information on an attorney for him wasn't immediately available.
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These are pictures from Bill Mozingo. The first series of these are scans of stamped envelopes, either at ports of call or when on board crossing the International Date Line. They allow a partial reconstruction of ports of call 1934-1940. See the page with National Archives records for details of the ports of call July 1937 through June 1941.
All these images are thumbnails, click on any image to see a larger version.
A stamped envelope commemorating a presidential visit to Hawaii, 26 July 1934.
A stamped envelope cancelled at sea on Christmas, 1936.
A stamped envelope posted from Honolulu 11 March 1936.
A stamped envelope posted from Guam 26 March 1936.
A stamped envelope posted from Shanghai 24 April 1936.
Crossing the International Date Line eastbound 17 May 1936.
A stamped envelope posted from Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone, 8 October 1936.
Crossing the International Date Line westbound at 20° 38' N, 23 November 1936.
Stopping at Guam enroute Virginia — Cuba — Panama — California — Honolulu — Guam — Manila — China, 12 June 1937.
The ports of call are the same as those on the March 1940 envelope below.
Crossing the International Date Line at 24° 49' N (direction unknown, but probably eastbound, it was in Japan six weeks later), 9 September 1937.
Posted from the Chaumont in Yokohama, Japan, 27 October 1937.
A letter and stamped envelopes Bill found someone selling on eBay, indicating that the Chaumont arrived in Honolulu 27/28 July 1939 having come from the US west coast.
Another from Honolulu 28 July 1939.
The Chaumont at anchor. The image file name indicates this is in Hawaii.
The Chaumont passing through the Panama Canal.
CHAUMONT CROSSING THE CANAL AT PARAISO C.Z.
A memorandum to the Chief Petty Officer on watch to allow a soldier to look around the ship, signed by W.F. Jones.
According to the description at www.alaskarails.org, someone "boarded the USS Chaumont at Seattle and disbarked at Seward (Alaska)." This seems to have been in March 1943.


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June 1, 2021 Newsletter
Take a look at our June 1, 2021, Newsletter with updates from the Ken Kennedy Institute.
Member of the Month, Dr. Kirsten Siebach, is an Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences. She researches "source-to-sink" sedimentary processes on Mars and early Earth to interpret the history of water and surface environments early in our solar system. She is currently a member of the Science and Operations Teams for the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity, and previously worked on the science and engineering teams for the Phoenix Lander and the two Mars Exploration Rovers.
I study the sedimentary rock record of Mars to learn what the landscape and climate were like billions of years ago, and compare ancient Mars to ancient Earth to understand both planets better.
What is your favorite aspect of your research?
I see ancient Mars as a puzzle and my favorite moments are when we get enough observations from the Mars rovers to piece together part of the story of what was happening. I also really love science communication and sharing the amazing pictures and data from Mars with students and the public.
I really enjoyed a "lightning talk" Ken Kennedy Institute event last February- it was great to be able to meet with faculty from across the University and see how our research is connected.
Read more at kenkennedy.rice.edu/news.
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CNN says it passed on booking Conway for Sunday show
By Rebecca Savransky - 02/06/17 12:39 PM EST
CNN said Monday that it passed on booking Kellyanne Conway as a guest for a Sunday morning political show, needling President Trump's top aide on Twitter.
". @KellyannePolls was offered to SOTU on Sunday by the White House," the CNN Communications account tweeted Monday, referring to its "State of the Union" show. "We passed. Those are the facts."
. @KellyannePolls was offered to SOTU on Sunday by the White House. We passed. Those are the facts.
— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) February 6, 2017
The New York Times reported Sunday that CNN had decided not to put Conway on as a Sunday guest partially because of "serious questions about her credibility."
Mika Brzezinski, the co-host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," also took to Twitter to knock Conway.
.@CNNPR @KellyannePolls you are not the first.
— Mika Brzezinski (@morningmika) February 6, 2017
CNN on Monday was responding to a tweet from Conway, who denied that she was passed over and claimed she wasn't able to go on shows this weekend.
"False. I could do no live Sunday shows this week BC of family," she tweeted.
"Plus, I was invited onto CNN today & tomorrow. CNN Brass on those emails."
Vice President Pence was interviewed on the Sunday morning political shows this weekend, but skipped CNN.
Conway faced backlash this weekend after pointing to a terrorist attack that never happened during her defense of Trump's executive order temporarily barring refugees and people from seven predominately Muslim countries from entering the U.S.
During an interview last week with MSNBC's "Hardball," Conway referenced the "Bowling Green massacre," an event that never happened.
"President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program after two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized, and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre," Conway said during the MSNBC interview.
"Most people don't know that because it didn't get covered."
Conway later corrected herself in a tweet following the interview, which included a link to a 2013 ABC News report that referenced two terrorists from al Qaeda in Iraq who had been living in Bowling Green, Ky. The report said the State Department halted Iraqi refugee requests for six months in 2011 as a result of the case.
Over the weekend, Conway sought to defend herself, saying she "misspoke one word." She called some of those who criticized her for the misstatement "haters."
She also spurred controversy last month when she said White House press secretary Sean Spicer provided "alternative facts" to reporters during his first briefing.
This story was updated at 1:04 p.m.
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You are here: Home / EI2 / Looking Back on 2011
January 9, 2012 by stephenfleming
A new year is a good time to look back at the old year and see how far we've come. It's a classic "can't see the forest for the trees" problem… we're all so busy working on our own individual projects, it's hard sometimes to see the overall growth and vitality of EI2 as a whole.
Below is a necessarily-incomplete list of EI2 accomplishments from 2011:
The Georgia Manufacturing Extension Partnership (GaMEP) staff received two national MEP awards: one for innovation and one for service. We also hosted the first national Advanced Manufacturing Partnership event (at the request of the White House) and our first Next Generation Manufacturing conference. We piloted the Department of Energy's Superior Energy Performance program and helped lead the adoption of ISO 50001 Standard for Energy Management.
Our MBDA Business Center (MBC) won a five-year cooperative agreement totaling more than $2.4 million and was recognized as one of the region's outstanding performing centers for 2011. The Georgia Tech Procurement Assistance Center (GTPAC) helped 4,116 Georgia businesses win $639 million in government contracts. As one of our revenue diversification programs, we also launched the Contracting Education Academy at Georgia Tech, with seven courses approved by the Defense Acquisition University.
The Alternative Media Access Center (AMAC) helped Board of Regents institutions save more than $4.4 million in learning materials for 9000 visually-impaired students in Georgia. Late in the year, Governor Nathan Deal transferred Tools for Life, Georgia's Assistive Technology Act Federal Program, from the Georgia Department of Labor to AMAC. Tools for Life offers options for greater freedom by increasing access to and acquisition of assistive technology devices and services for Georgians of all ages and disabilities so they can live, learn, work, and play independently in communities of their choice. We expect this new program to bring more than $1.2 million in annual funding to EI2.
Through our Strategic Partners Office, we managed Georgia Tech relationships with 243 companies and interacted with 202 faculty members, resulting in $4.1 million of sponsored research to Georgia Tech. At the same time, we participated in 18 economic development projects resulting in 1,594 new jobs in Georgia from company relocation and $63 million in new capital investment.
Our Innovation Partners group won new business in tourism (TRAC), and in foreign direct investment and exporting. We also played a key part in steering the new Huron Consulting study of the economic impact of Georgia Tech, which will be shared with key decision makers in the government and business communities in early 2012.
ATDC grew to more than 500 member companies, making it arguably the largest business incubator in the world. In 2011, we announced a new tier of "ATDC Select" for more personalized coaching and connection building. VentureLab launched 16 spinout companies based on Georgia Tech intellectual property. VentureLab graduates raised more than $100 million in venture capital last year. At the same time, we helped launch Flashpoint, a new business accelerator that's getting great reviews and helping small teams evaluate and build scalable business models for their startups.
As anticipated, much of our growth was in the area of health information technology (IT). Health@EI2 enrolled 889 eligible Georgia healthcare providers, for a contract value of more than $2 million. And we won a Georgia Department of Community Health award for more than $1.7 million for our work in health IT.
Perhaps most satisfyingly, we won an intense national competition for one of 20 U.S. Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge awards from the Small Business Administration, Economic Development Administration, and the Department of Labor, with a value of more than $1.6 million. Within EI2, the winning proposal was an internal collaboration between Health@EI2, Innovation Partners, Strategic Partners, and Industry Services. We also drew in other Georgia Tech units (Institute for People and Technology and the Georgia Tech Research Institute), and even Gwinnett Technical College.
The Global Center for Medical Innovation (GCMI) won a pair of Economic Development Administration grants plus matching money from the Georgia Research Alliance to initiate construction of its medical device prototype development center, which will be completed in April of this year. The center also added its first permanent professional staffers, and Emory agreed to join as a full member in the consortium (along with Piedmont Hospital and the Georgia Research Alliance).
Our commercial real estate remains 100 percent occupied; in fact, our space in Centergy is probably the only commercial real estate in Atlanta with a waiting list! John Toon won Georgia Tech's staff communicator of the year award; personally, I think he and his team earn that every year. And our support staff have been fully occupied bringing on board dozens of new full-time and part-time employees across the state, even through the budget downturn. (They're funded by non-state dollars.)
There's a lot going on! I appreciate your hard work and the great results you achieved in 2011. I hope everyone had a restful holiday, because we're going to need it. 2012 is going to be a great year!
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New evidence shines light on France's most notorious serial killer
By Jan van der Made Issued on 26-11-2018 Modified 29-11-2018 to 17:31
Henri Désiré Landru after his arrest in 1919 Archives départementales des Yvelines
Henri Désiré Landru, a convicted swindler who operated under different names in Paris during World War 1, may have killed substantially more women than the ten whose murders he was sentenced for, according to new evidence.
Sloppy police work, misogyny, and the absence of forensics as we know it today may have prevented investigators from unearthing up to 72 other possible murders.
Today, the Villa Tric, the house where Landru is thought to have killed at least seven women, is still empty. The house is surrounded by a high hedge and its front gates closed with black and red combination locks.
The police simply didn't care enough about these women
Interview Richard Tomlinson
Richard Tomlinson, author "Landru's Secret"
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The villa lies in the fields near the town of Gambais, some 50 kilometers southwest of Paris is not far from a dense forest. A farmer who lives nearby said he is tired of the constant stream of visitors ("five or six every day") looking for Landru's suspected crime scene, leaving footprints in the fertile land and destroying the crops.
"I remember my grandfather talking about Landru," he says, refusing to be filmed.
"He came and went. He was a quiet man, kept to himself."
"The house was quite a long way from the village itself," says Richard Tomlinson, author of the recently published book Landru's Secret – The Deadly Seductions of France's Lonely-Hearts Serial Killer, "so it was easy for him to come and go, and I think a lot of the time he wasn't seen."
The facts: Henri Désiré Landru, was convicted of swindling in July 1914 and sentenced to four years hard labor with exile for life in the French prison facility on New Caledonia in the Pacific.
However, he managed to escape justice and lived under assumed names in different locations in Paris. He was married, had four children, and a mistress.
France's Lonely Hearts Serial Killer
But that was not enough for him. During the First World War, he contacted hundreds of women, often by means of lonely-hearts adverts in newspapers.
He would take them to his country house in Gambais, buying a return ticket for himself, and a single journey for his guest.
At least ten women and the son of one of them disappeared after meeting with him.
The victims (age at the time of dissapearance)
Jeanne Cuchet (39)
André Cuchet (17)
Thérèse Laborde-Line (46)
Marie-Angélique Guillin (52)
Berthe Héon (55)
Anna Collomb (44)
Andrée Babelay (19)
Célestine Buisson (47)
Louise Jaume (38)
Anne-Marie Pascal (37)
Marie-Thérèse Marchadier (37)
The remoteness of the villa was why Landru chose it in the first place.
Evidence proving Landru guilty beyond a doubt was never found. The police did find burnt human bone fragments and scraps of women's clothing beneath a pile of leaves in Landru's shed.
While this material was highly incriminating, it could not be linked directly to the women whom he was accused of killing at Gambais
But the major lead was a list in his carnet - a notebook in which he had lined up the names of ten women and one 17-year-old youth who had all disappeared - and meticulous notes on times and places where he met or took some of them.
On top of that police found possessions of some of the women in a garage in Clichy that Landru rented, including identity papers, wigs, hair clips and shoes.
He was also seen taking money from the accounts of the ladies he "befriended" in some cases with his wife posing as one of the disappeared women forging their signatures.
There were also witness reports, but it was here that things went wrong.
Doctor Jean Monteilhet declared during the trial that took place more than two years after Landru's arrest in 1919, that he had seen a 'thick, nauseous smoke' coming out of the chimney of Villa Tric while passing it on his bicycle.
A few miles onward when he continued through the forest and passed by the pond there, he got a flat tire, and stopped to repair it. After a while, Landru appeared in his camionnette, stopped, dragged out a 'heavy package' and dropped it in the water.
Landru's Secret Pen & Sword History
"The problem with the testimony," says Tomlinson, who spent months sifting through the archives of the French police, digging up court records and eye witness accounts, "is that this incident happens directly between two disappearances [of women] which were on the list, the list of names in Landru's carnet.
"The doctors' evidence just does not fit the chronology in the list," he says.
Police investigations had found that Landru had contacted 283 women, many through 'lonely hearts' ads, but because of the atmosphere of chaos and anxiety caused by the war and a general lack of manpower in the police force the whereabouts of dozens of them remained unknown.
"The police did not trace all of the women. The files Landru kept in his garage and the records in the Paris Police Archives show quite clearly that they didn't trace 72 women," says Tomlinson.
"It doesn't mean that Landru killed those 72 women, but it does mean that the police didn't do a thorough investigation."
Why Kill?
The First World War may have been instrumental in shaping Landru's killing spree.
The prosecution tried to prove that Landru, who was defended by the brilliant anti-death penalty lawyer Vincent de Moro Giafferri, aimed to steal from women with savings, kill them to prevent them going to the police and then sell their furniture and other possessions in order to make a living.
But Tomlinson, in his book, points out that the first two people to have been killed, Jeanne Cuchet and her son André, were poor.
The youngster André was 17, and in January 1915 learnt that he would soon be drafted to fight in the trenches where he would most likely die. His mother was desperate to take him out of the country in order to spare her son the horrors of war.
Tomlinson believes that she blackmailed Landru. In exchange for sex, he had to organize her and André's escape from France to North America.
According to Tomlinson, he had to make them disappear or face a life of hard labor in New Caledonia.
"The killing of André and his mother drove him mad," he says, shaping Landru into the serial killer he would become.
But no matter how many women Landru may have killed, his fate couldn't have been worse: in 1922 he was beheaded by the guillotine.
His arrest, in 1919, would not have been possible without the relentless persistence of the sisters of two of the disappeared women who assembled enough evidence that the police were forced to investigate Landru.
"He was only caught actually as the result of the actions of women, not men in particular," says Tomlinson.
Marie-Jeanne, niece of one of Landru's victims, Anne-Marie Pascal, takes the stand Alamy
Drenched in misogyny
The trial itself was a victory for the women.
"You have to imagine a time and a trial that was absolutely drenched in misogyny, and Landru played on that," says Tomlinson.
"He tells the jury: 'ignore these cackling hens, ignore these women, because they are women. And he tries to intimidate them into silence.
"And you know this because you can see this from the photographs of the trial, but several of them won't have it.
"They stare straight back at him until he has to look away, and they are just determined to send him to the guillotine," he says.
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Dan Gillmor says journalists are uninformed about who controls the platforms they publish on
Dan Gillmor is writing a book (maybe), and he has a lot of questions. The project, which will probably be self published, will probably be called Permission Taken. Gillmor already owns that domain, so why not, he said in a talk at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society last week. (Also, his agent likes the title.)
Gillmor says he's been thinking about the project for about a year, and he's come up with a list of questions that he wants academics and practitioners around the country to help him answer. When Gillmor looks at the technologies, services, and platforms most of us use everyday and take for granted, he asks, in slide lingo,
The answers are not always clear.
Gillmor's goal with the new book is a pedagogical one — he said he considers his students (at Arizona State University) to be his primary audience. He intends for the first few chapters to be a primer for the digitally barely literate on how to protect privacy and shore up digital security in day-to-day life. Some of the later chapters, however, will delve deeper into the nitty gritty.
Some of the ideas that will become a part of the new book Gillmor shared back in October at a symposium on digital ethics hosted by Poynter. Gillmor and other presenters also contributed essays to a book, The New Ethics of Journalism: A Guide for the 21st Century, to be published in July.
Generally, Gillmor doesn't think anyone is fully aware of how vulnerable they are, technologically speaking. Build a back door into every new technology so the FBI can keep an eye on things, he says, "and I promise you it's going to be used by criminals. The more you unharden the fences, the more room there is for really bad actors."
Gillmor is especially concerned about how little he says journalists know about security and the extent to which they retain control over their content once it's published online. "I ask, why are you pouring your journalism into Facebook where you don't control it anymore? Why are you putting it on other people's platforms?" In his slide deck, Gillmor gives the example of a New Yorker cartoon that caused Facebook to temporarily ban the magazine from their site — thereby claiming an unprecedented level of control over what is and isn't acceptable in publishing.
Facebook is a particular concern of Gillmor's, and he points to a tweet in his slideshow in which Loic le Meur quotes a friend employed by Facebook as saying "we're like electricity." "Is Facebook a utility?" asks Gillmor. "What do we do with utilities? We regulate them. Monopolies need regulation. I'm not a fan of regulation, but we have to think about that."
Gillmor expressed similar concerns in his October talk about the level of control held by payment processors. Whether because of pressure from the government or an internal decision, Gillmor says, if the processor deems your content unacceptable, "then you won't get paid." But what journalists really don't like, Gillmor told me, is when he asks them why they insist on building iOS apps that cede control of what is and isn't journalism to Apple. In terms of distribution, they say they have no other option — and even journalists who have considered other options say the risk is worth it.
But some risks are never worth it. "Journalists need to learn more about security right away," says Gillmor. "They are threatening the lives of their sources if they don't." In a recent column about the Harvard cheating scandal, in which the university admitted to scanning portions of employee emails, Gillmor showed exactly what can happen when a news outlet doesn't know enough about how to protect their sources.
It's not just employees and others who want to blow whistles who need to be more careful — such as using external accounts, encryption and a lot of other tools to be safer. (Note: I didn't say "safe", because absolute safety is exceedingly hard to achieve, if it's even possible.)
Journalists, too, need better tradecraft when it comes to their dealings with sources. My impression of the typical newsroom's precautions is that there aren't many.
For six years as a columnist, Gillmor used a PGP at the bottom of each page — a safe, encrypted method by which sources could contact him. He said in six years, it was used twice — once by someone just checking to see if it worked.
For journalists, Gillmor recommends Tor, "a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet." (Committee to Protect Journalists when it comes to educating journalists about the dangers of using certain technologies.
But ultimately, Gillmor says, "It's a crucial issue — and one that has not gotten enough attention inside the craft." These issues fall very low on the priority list for an industry that Gillmor described as being in a constant state of desperation. But the dangers are real, Gillmor says, and with his new project, he hopes to find ways of bringing the convenience of private platforms to services that are both free and secure.
For now, though, "increasingly, journalists who really are appropriately paranoid in the right situations are learning not to use technology," says Gillmor.
If you have a better idea, Gillmor is taking questions — and hopefully, answers.
Photo by f1uffster (Jeanie) used under a Creative Commons license.
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Dart Society Benefit and Auction May 17
The Dart Society will be holding a benefit and auction at the gallery 25CPW in New York City on Thursday, May 17, beginning at 6 p.m. The benefit will honor Joel Simon of the Committee to Protect Journalists, photojournalist Lynsey Addario, and writer and documentarian Sebastian Junger for their commitment to excellence and compassion in the coverage of conflict, trauma and social injustice.
Tickets to the event, which will feature live and silent auctions of photography and books by Dart Society members and their colleagues, are $75 for one ticket and $100 for two. Auction items may be viewed here. Proceeds from ticket sales and auction items will be used to support the Dart Society's outreach programs to journalists covering trauma and to support Dart Society Reports, which showcases the best work in trauma journalism.
Please click on the invitation above (or here) to purchase tickets or to make a donation; if you'd like to send a check, visit the Dart Society website.
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Afghanistan government criticised for closing down TV station
Press freedom groups have condemned a decision by the Afghan government to close down privately-owned TV station Emroz.
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N.E. OHIO FLAP by Richa rd P. Dell'Aquila Richard P. Dell'Aquila and Dale B. Wedge, MUFON
N.E. OHIO FLAP
by Richa
rd P. Dell'Aquila
Richard P. Dell'Aquila and Dale B. Wedge, MUFON S
tate Section
Directors for Cuyahoga, Lake, Geauga and Ashtabula Counties (Oh
io)
have been investigating a series of sightings, beginning about March
1988 and seemingly centered around the Perry Nuclear Plant, and the
CEI coal
burning plant at Eastlake, both on the shore of Lake Erie,
east of Cleveland
, Ohio.
March 4th was a clear, crisp night and the stars were clearly
visible, especial
ly to the north over the lake where there are no city
lights.  Venus and Jup
iter were bright and in close proximity to each
other in the western sky.  A
t about 6:30 P.M., S.B. (name and address
provided to MUFON) and her childre
n were driving home to Eastlake
along the lake shore when they observed a la
rge blimp-like object with
bright white lights at each end, hovering over th
e lake and rocking
end to end like a "teeter-totter."  One light was brighter than the
other and was strobing.  On arriving home, she asked her husband to
accompa
ny her to the beach about 200 yards north for a closer view of
the object wh
ich they later described as "larger than a football held
at arm's length."
She and her husband walked onto the beach.  The noiseless
object w
as gun metal gray and seemed to cause the ice on the lake to
rumble and crac
k loudly in an unusual way which frightened her.  The
witnesses had to shout to be heard by e
ach other, and were surprised
that no dogs were out barking as would have be
en expected.
After observing the object for a while, the couple beca
concerned for the safety of their children in the car when the object
volved slowly about 90 degrees, coming almost overhead (about 1/4
mile high)
and pointing its "front" end down toward them.  They drove
the children home
and continued watching the object from their living
room window which faces the lake.
A neighbor was phoned and she and
her son went to the beach, reporting the s
ame thing.  They took
photographs which did not turn out.
The objec
t began to descend and the witnesses returned to the
beach, where it was now
observed to have red and blue blinking lights
along its bottom edge.  It emi
tted 5 or 6 noiseless, intensly bright
yellow triangular lights from its sid
e.  They intermittently hovered
around the larger object, darted and zig-zagged into the night
velocities far in excess of known aircraft.  Mr. B stated the
triang
ular objects were smaller than a one-seat Cessna and "crossed 50
mile stretc
hes low over the ice in the snap of a finger."  They were
said to be able to
approach the shore, turn abrupt right angles due
east toward the Perry Nucle
ar Plant about 12 miles away, climbing
rapidly and returning again, all with
in several seconds.  By this
time, a Coast Guard patrol vehicle had arrived on the bea
ch in
response to S.B.'s several phone calls.
The triangular object
s came closer to the shore, causing the
witnesses to become concerned that t
he lights on the Coast Guard
vehicle would attract the objects and the light
s were turned off.  The
triangles continued to fly off at high speed northwa
rd over the lake
and eastward toward the Perry Nuclear Plant.  About an hour
they returned one at a time into the large ship, which then landed on
the ice.  Sever
al multi-colored lights now came on for about 5 minutes
on the bottom of the object "in a wave like a movie theater sig
n" and
the brighter white light on the end began strobing red and white.
hen these went off, the ice stopped making noise and everything
became "dead
silent."  The object could no longer be seen within about
a half hour and it was assumed to have gone below the surface.  The
next day, unusually huge
pieces of broken ice were observed in the
area of the landing.
Coast Guard informed Mr. and Mrs. B the following day
that the Army and NASA
, whom S.B. had also phoned, instructed them not
to investigate the matter f
urther or go out on the lake in their
cutter to examine the ice in the area
of the landing, since the matter
was "out of their league and out of their hands."  They informed the
le that all information was being forwarded to Wright-Patterson
Air Force Ba
se and a facility in Detroit, Michigan.  In response to a
Coast Guard inquir
y, Wright-Patterson refused to confirm or deny any
interest in these activit
ies.
On the next night, the same witnesses observed several
triangu
lar objects over the lake for about 45 minutes.  By the time
Coast Guard personnel arrived on the scene, the objects were gone.
On March 7, 19
88, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Lake County
News-Herald carried articles
which attributed a series of reports of
large brightly lit objects over Lake
Erie on the prior weekend to
several witnesses' misidentification of the pla
nets Venus and Jupiter.
The newspaper accounts indicated that the Fairport H
arbor Coast Guard
went to the area and saw a large bright object that seemed to dispurse
smaller, bright m
ulti-colored objects.  But when they called the local
s, they were "informed" that Jupiter and Venus
were in alignment and that th
e colors were the result of "spontaneous
gas emissions from the two planets.
"  One article even attributed this
amazing explanation to a professor of as
tronomy at a local university.
On reading the articles, Dell'Aquila felt it was unlikely
that U.S. Coast Guard personnel, trained in navigation
identification of basic celestial objects such as the planets, could
ve made such a gross misidentification.  Likewise, the statement
to the professor of astronomy was equally unacceptable, in
that no other sim
ilar "spontaneous gas emission" from the planets
cited, of the necessary mag
nitude, had ever been noted, particulary on
this weekend.
In the course of the follow-up investiga
tion by Dell'Aquila
and Wedge, a Coast Guard incident report was found (pres
ently in
MUFON's possession) which states that Coast Guard personnel respond
to several calls reporting UFOs over Lake Erie on the night of March
1988.  When the Coast Guard arrived, the report confirms that a
large object
"dispersed 3-5 smaller flying objects that were zipping
around rather quickly.  These objects had red, green white, and yellow
lights on them that st
robed intermittently.  They also had the ability
to stop and hover in mid-fl
ight."  The incident report confirms Mr.
and Mrs. B's reports, including the
abnormal cracking of the ice as
the object came closer to it and apparently
landed.  "The smaller
objects began hovering in the area where the large obj
ect landed
(about 1/4 mile east of the CEI power plant) and after a few minutes
they began flying around aga
in."  The report states that, "One of the
small objects turned on a spotligh
t where the large object had been,
but [the Coast Guard personnel] could not
see anything, and then the
object seemed to disappear.  Another object appro
ached [these
personnel] approximately 500 yards offshore about 20 feet above
ice, and it began moving closer as [the Coast Guard] began flashing
its headlights, then it moved off to the west."
A subsequent Coast Guard report (also in possession of
MUFON)
prepared after the sightings of the following night attributes the
ightings to misidentifications of the planets Venus and Jupiter and
says, "t
he flashing lights are gases in the atmosphere...Request
incident closed thi
s unit."  In response to a classified advertisement
placed by the investigators, other witnesses contac
ted Dell'Aquila and
Wedge, and have been interviewed as the investigation co
ntinues.
On the same night (March 4th) at about 10:00 P.M., and
tinuing until approximately 10:30 P.M., C.H. (name and address
provided to M
UFON) also reported a UFO near her home, which is a few
miles south of the l
ake shore and just east of the Perry Nuclear
Plant.  C.H. was walking a pupp
y when she noticed the stationary
triangular object in the southeasterly sky.
It was much brighter than
the moon, and seemed to upset the puppy, which she
took back indoors.
Returning outdoors, she reported that the object began s
equentially
flashing multi-colored lights, suspended in rows below the base
triangle.  The witness responded by flashing her cigarette lighter an
the UFO's light pattern became more erratic.  At one point, the
revolved clockwise, turning its apex about 90 degrees to a
horizontal position, but still flashing the
rows of light.  After
several minutes, it turned back counter-clockwise as i
t simultaneously
accelerated away to the south at a high rate of speed, disa
ppearing
behind some trees.  No noise or odor was reported.
At abou
t 10:30 P.M. that night T.K. (name and address
provided to MUFON), took a ph
otograph in his back yard, within a few
miles of the Perry Nuclear Plant, sh
owing a portion of a brightly lit
triangular object travelling across the sky (
Photograph in possession
of MUFON).  This object was later confirmed by Mr.
and Mrs. B and C.H.
to be identical to the triangular objects they were also
about the same time a few miles away, and is also similar to one
reported to Phil Imbrogno as having been near the Indian Point Nuclear
Plant in New York State on the same night.
T.K. and his friend were
outdoors on the night of March 4th,
observing the stars through his telescope.  Venus and Jupiter wer
reported to be in the western sky behind a stand of trees.  While
southward through the telescope, out of the corner of his left
eye, T.K. not
iced a bright, moving object in the sky.  He and his
friend were awe-struck
by the triangular object, but he did have the
presence of mind to take 3 pho
tographs with a small "snapshot" type
camera loaded with Kodak 110 color fil
m, with which they had intended
to photograph stars through the telescope.  Only
turned out.  It is the last in the series, taken while
ng ahead of the object, and shows the front portion of the
triangle.  The ob
ject was described as about 3-4 inches tall at arm's
length and glowing an i
ntense yellow/orange to white, with a bright
orange/red glow behind it.  It
seemed to pulse brighter and dimmer,
moving in a roughly southwesterly direc
tion until it was obscured by
trees.  As it moved, it accelerated, slowed and accelerated again.  No
sound or smell was noted, although his dog had a strong reaction,
running i
n circles and tugging on T.K.'s sleeve, apparently in an
attempt to urge him
away from the object.  Total time of observation
was a few minutes.
Dell'Aquila and Wedge continue to receive reports of
additional UFOs over th
e same period, some supported by photographs,
as the sightings continue to t
he date of this writing.  Supplementary
reports will be provided as the inves
tigation of the flap progresses.
File: LAKERIE.UFO  13868-T
Dir: 12  Sec: 1 - UFOlogy
Rick Dell'aquila
Acc: 9
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The Niagara Apothecary was an apothecary in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, established no later than 1820, and is now a National Historic Site of Canada. It was operated by a series of successive owners, most of whom had apprenticed under the preceding owner. In the 1960s, it was purchased by the Niagara Foundation, which targeted the building and its contents for preservation. It was purchased by the provincially-owned Ontario Heritage Foundation in 1969, which undertook a preservation effort culminating in May 1971, when the property was re-opened as a museum.

The museum is rendered as a typical Confederation-era apothecary. It is operated by the Ontario College of Pharmacy, and receives about 100,000 visitors annually.

Background
In the 1960s, there was increasing interest in Ontario for the historic preservation of buildings to prevent their demolition. In Niagara-on-the-Lake, an economic decline that began in the late 19th century left the town with plenty of its early buildings, no "unsightly factories, warehouses, or tracts of undistinguished workers' housing", and a "pre-industrial, upper-class streetscape". The end of World War II sparked development, so at a town planning board meeting held on 5 February 1962, a proposal was made to establish a local heritage organization. Later that year, after lobbying the Government of Ontario, provincial legislation was passed to charter the Niagara Foundation.

This foundation soon requested the federal National Historic Sites Service to conduct an architectural survey of the town. It was accepted, and became a pilot project for the national inventory of historic buildings. The local survey was conducted by architect Peter John Stokes, who was the "foremost architectural historian" of the province at the time. He identified "interesting old buildings", among them Field's Drugstore, owned since 1921 by increasingly ailing proprietor E.W. Field. From the 1860s until the survey was conducted, only minor exterior modifications had been made to the building, and its interior fixtures and layout had remained "remarkably intact". Fearing that the store would be sold, the Niagara Foundation approached the Ontario College of Pharmacy (OCP) in 1963 to propose a partnership to preserve the building and its contents. The proposal was accepted, with the OCP considering the site for a museum of pharmacy history.

Field retired in 1964, and the partnership rented the store and obtained right of first refusal to purchase the property. Lacking funds to make the purchase when Field died the following year, in December 1965 the partners secured a promise from James Auld, the provincial Minister of Tourism and Information, that the provincial ministry would acquire the property, enabling the Niagara Foundation to exercise its option. Two years later, the Ministry of Tourism and Information still had not acted on the minister's promise, so the partnership undertook its own plans for restoration. The success of the Canadian Centennial anniversary celebrations throughout Canada that year provided impetus to fund similar projects provincially, and in July a provincial grant of $15,000 was made to the Niagara Foundation, which it used to discharge its mortgage.

In early 1968, the Ontario Heritage Trust (OHF) was established, and restoration of Field's Drugstore became its first project. It solicited and received commitment from the federal government to cover half the cost of the restoration project, and on 10 July 1969 the OHF purchased the property from the Niagara Foundation.

Restoration

On 8 August 1962, Stokes had identified and catalogued a number of sites for the survey he conducted of potential local heritage sites. In the catalogue, he noted that Field's Drugstore was "of historic significance to the town" and to "restore if possible". Among the features he cited were the building's façade, intricate wood carving, cabinetry, and "ornate plaster-work".

In April 1970, the provincial OHF and the federal Indian Affairs and Northern Development department signed a contract to fund the CA$38,000 project (). Stokes was hired to manage the project. With little information about the site having been published throughout its history, Stokes referred to photographs from 1905 and later, and the underlying physical attributes present in the early 1970s, to guide the restoration. The goal was material authenticity of the restored site, using paint colours and finishes that would have been present in the 1860s. Missing parts were made by obtaining similar material from another building of the same era using techniques employed at the time.

Objects inconsistent with the historical preservation, such as commercial signs, were removed. The structure was reinforced, and all surfaces were polished or painted. In the weeks leading up to the 14 May 1971 opening of the newly-created museum, pharmacists arranged the artefacts while the renovation crew completed its work. The opening was attended by Fern Guindon (Auld's successor) representing the provincial Ministry of Tourism and Information, James McNulty representing the federal Indian Affairs and Northern Development department, local politicians, Stokes, and some members of the OCP. The next day, the Niagara Foundation hosted the "House Tour and Pharmacy Gala" to a large crowd.

Ownership

The building is located on Lot 64m, a property deeded to William Dickson in 1796 by The Crown. The original pharmacy had been located on Prideaux Street, which was moved to another lot on Queen Street by its owner Rodman Starkwather. In 1833, Starkwather sold his business to James Harvey, who operated it until his death from pulmonary tuberculosis in October 1851. It is thought that during his proprietorship, many of the artefacts currently on display at the museum were imported from England, including the glass bottles. In early 1852, Harvey's heirs sold the business to Henry Paffard, who had been an apprentice to Harvey. In 1866, when also the mayor of the town, arson damaged both his house and the pharmacy. He bought the current building from Edward Campbell in 1869, making significant renovations to it, among them lowering the floor, raising the ceiling, and installing black walnut counters and an ornate dispensary.

After operating the business for 46 years, Paffard sold it in 1898 to his apprentice John DeWolfe Randall. DeWolfe died, likely of a stroke, on 13 March 1914, and the business was purchased by Arthur J. Coyne, who operated it until 1922. He also operated a pharmacy in St. Catharines, and in 1922 decided to focus his efforts there, selling the Niagara-on-the-Lake drugstore to Erland Field. However, Coyne kept about 200 glass bottles and other containers that had been purchased by Harvey. Field would operate the business until 1964, when his ailing health forced him to retire, and he granted the Niagara Foundation and Ontario College of Pharmacy the right of first refusal.

The Niagara Foundation bought the property, and in 1969 sold it to the Ontario Heritage Foundation. In 1970, the Niagara Foundation and Ontario College of Pharmacy signed a contract with the Ontario Heritage Foundation, by which the latter would restore and maintain the building, and the Ontario College of Pharmacy would restore the apothecary and operate it.

History
Because of the unregulated nature of pharmaceutical enterprises throughout much of the 19th century and early 20th century, drugs were sold at many establishments, including bookstores and general stores. Pharmacies likewise engaged in other commercial activities. During its lifetime, the Niagara Apothecary at times sold gasoline, postal insurance, veterinary supplies, marine supplies, ice cream, soft drinks, and tickets for train and boat. From the 1820s to 1840, Starkwather and Brown advertised in the Colonial Advocate the availability of garden seeds "of all descriptions" collected by the Shakers of New Lebanon in New York. It also provided services, such as use of a telephone, and photographic services and supplies.

The records of the Niagara Apothecary suggest "habitual drug use" amongst a subset of its clientele, including those who self-medicated leading to addiction. About 50 clients between 1853 and 1875 regularly purchased narcotic drugs. In many, if not the majority of, cases clients received pharmaceutical drugs "without the benefit of medical authority".

Description
The single-storey building is a clapboard-clad structure in the Georgian style. It is flush with the sidewalk on Queen Street, the town's principal commercial area. The exterior decorations and embellishments are a vernacular commingling of various styles, including Palladian revival entrance, wood trim, and clapboard cladding, and Italianate tripartite facade of display windows flanking the entrance and separated by pilasters.

The interior is furnished and decorated in a style typical of a Confederation-era apothecary. The counters and cabinets, made of black walnut and butternut, are complemented by an ornate wooden dispensary and a crystal gasolier. The dispensary includes a clock, a carved beaver, and two light globes held by female figures. Venetian blinds, hanging from the window valance dating to 1866, were disused for a period when an awning was installed.

The glass bottles, jars, and pots that line the shelves are the same ones that had been taken by Coyne in 1922. He had sold some of them to a private party, and these would later be purchased by the Academy of Medicine in Toronto. The Academy of Medicine loaned these to the Ontario College of Pharmacy for use at the Niagara Apothecary. The remainder were sold by Coyne's widow to the Ontario College of Pharmacy. Other artefacts displayed at the museum were obtained from private donors, the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto, and from the collection of the Ontario College of Pharmacy.

The building is notable for being the only one in the town surviving from Confederation, when the drug store was moved to its present location in 1866.

National Historic Site
The restoration of the Niagara Apothecary has been referred to as "one of the early and great triumphs of heritage preservation in the province of Ontario". It was designated a National Historic Site of Canada on 28 November 1968 and listed on the Canadian Register on 25 March 2008. A plaque was installed outside the building and was unveiled by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother on 5 July 1981.

In a paper published in Material Culture Review in late 1985, author Ernst Stieb described it as "the most authentic restoration of its kind in Canada and perhaps in North America". The museum is operated by the Ontario College of Pharmacy, and is visited by about 100,000 tourists annually. On 5 June 1973, the American Association of State and Local History presented an Award of Merit to the Ontario Heritage Foundation and the Ontario College of Pharmacy for the restoration of the apothecary.

The restoration was consistent with early apothecaries in Ontario, but did not capture the intent of Spafford, who became owner of the drugstore in 1852, to modernize the facility and differentiate it from his competitors. The museum's focus is the historical practice of pharmacy, not the retail operation. The authenticity of the museum is primarily in the use of materials, as the name is ahistorical (the term "apothecary" is anachronistic for the period represented by the museum) and the practice involved other activities.

Notes

References

External links

Niagara Apothecary Museum
Niagara Apothecary at Ontario Heritage Trust
Pills and Potions at the Niagara Apothecary at Day of Archaeology

Apothecaries
Buildings and structures in Niagara-on-the-Lake
Museums in Ontario
Pharmacies of Canada
National Historic Sites in Ontario

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