Rough Housing with the Rogers: Feeding a Picky Toddler

To all?those Moms who have Toddlers that "eat what we eat" or love all the food groups....I'm jealous. We once had a little boy whom you couldn't feed fast enough. He loved anything and everything as long as he got to eat, which is where Ava at 8 months is at right now. But with Austin turning 2 next month, he isn't too fond of much these days and it's like pulling teeth to get him to try new things. I read in a parenting book that sometimes it takes up to 10 times to introduce something to a toddler before they are?willingly eat it. 10 times!? Really!? I would kinda get sick of throwing that food away for the 9th time and then thinking, well....let me make it one more time.

Funny how you feel all alone and then you start talking to other Moms and sure enough, there are many picky little eaters out there. And I have to mention that I was definitely one of them. Ask anyone who knew me as a child and they would mention Fruit Roll-ups and Candy as my two favorite food groups.

What does Austin eat? Well thankfully he gets a wide variety of food at school and if you don't eat, there is no fruit snacks for back up.

When I pick Austin up from school, it's usually around 5 and by the time we actually get home it's closer to 5:30/5:45. Since it's been a while since lunch and his PM snack, I let him snack on the way home. I'm sure that's a no-no in someone's books but it gives him something to tide over until we get home and it keeps his mouth chewing and not screaming. So I usually give him a treat cup of any of the following :
raisens
mini club crackers
goldfish
yogurt melts
sometimes fruit snacks

When we walk in the door, Austin asks for a glass of milk and applesauce. We buy those Go Go Squeeze applesauces and its something he can eat on his own while I get Ava settled in the high chair and some baby food.

Our meal time is the busiest hour on the planet. We need to eat things fast and Austin as well is looking for a quick bite so he can play before bedtime.
So what do we often resort to?
Mac and Cheese:
I love those mac and cheese cups that you can microwave. Austin especially loves the character shapes because the skinny noodles are harder for him to grab with a fork. Meat and Cheese:
crackers, deli meat and any slices of cheese
Fruit:
Austin loves fruit but things he can grab or fork are the best. Strawberries, peaches or mandarins?(get the dole plastic containers so you can get a handful and put it back in the fridge) clementines (rarely seeds!) Yogurt:
Austin isn't loving the yogurt right now but at one time we were able to give him a frozen go-gurt or dannon fruit smoothies This isn't the whole list of course but it's some of the go-to items that our busy family with a picky toddler use. It's not organic...it's not what Jason and I eat exactly.....but it's a transitional period like everything else with little ones.

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The New Big Niche in Staffing: Multi-Lingual

Demand for foreign languages in staffing can range from needing an in-house supervisor who can communicate with Spanish-speaking industrial workers to filling a translator position for an international law firm.

But bilingual staffing is not as easy as just adding a checkbox to your application. As two very different staffing firms within the niche show, it?s critical to understand the nuances of your particular market.

?Recruiters have to dig deeper than ?Yes, I speak Spanish,? ? says Marcus Elosegui, vice president of KeyStaff, which places professional and light industrial workers in West Palm Beach, Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, and other south Florida cities. Some people can speak both Spanish and English, but can write only in one, for example.

Translation is an even more difficult skill, and translators at the highest levels generally translate only into the language they know best, says Ken Zwerdling, CEO of Foreign Translations and Foreign Staffing. One client, for example, needed French-speaking engineers and contract managers to work on building mining facilities in Africa. Other clients need help with business development in Latin America, for instance.

Foreign Staffing does direct and contract placement for companies all over the world, while Foreign Translations translates documents in multiple languages for companies that do international business. The latter have 3,000 translators in 30 countries who have specialized expertise in areas such as legal documents, technical writing, financial writing, and scientific documentation ? in addition to their language skills.

?We understand what it truly means to be bilingual ? not, ?Hey, my secretary speaks French,? ? Zwerdling says.

The need for bilingual staff can vary by area as well as by position. For example, Spanish skills may be a competitive advantage in West Palm Beach, Elosegui says, ?but in Miami it?s just a baseline: If you want to do business in Miami, you should speak Spanish.?

For some light industrial positions, only basic English is necessary since even the on-site supervisor may speak little English. But for a receptionist position with a company with clients in South America, a worker would need to speak both Spanish and English, and sometimes even Portuguese. ?They want fully bilingual candidates,? Elosegui says.

Providing workers with good language skills can set you apart from competitors, Elosegui says. ?The higher the level of Spanish or Portuguese, the more pay you?re going to get,? he says.

With large markets? diverse populations continuing to grow and domestic companies continuing to expand connections overseas, Zwerdling says this staffing niche is booming. So much so that ?we had to stop marketing for a while.?

And as the global economy strengthens, it will grow even more. ?I see a very big uptrend in the next five years while the economy comes back,? Zwerdling says. ?These companies are going to be scrambling to find people.?

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November 2012: Innovation or ?Just Improving??

?We all continually move on the edges of eternity, and are sometimes granted vistas through the fabric of illusion.? ? ?? Ansel Adams, Autobiography.

What do you want? No, really, when you think about this life you?ve been given, what do you truly want? Most people I talk with, including my coaching clients, offer up such things as reduced stress & struggle, greater productivity, more effective communication, improved relationships, etc. Noteworthy and valid wants, yet all share something in common. They represent things whose outcomes can be defined ahead of time, whose measures of success predicted ahead of time, and whose process of change planned ahead of time. Change like this is therefore step-wise, somewhat mechanistic, the kind we often call continuous improvement; it?s always framed in contrast to what has happened up until now. Rarely does anyone say, ?I want to experience a blow-me-away breakthrough, one which rocks my world, and sends me to possibility I can?t even imagine today. How can you help me with that??? (I?d love to, thank you.)

Believing we need to make things happen (by planning, predicting, measuring, controlling), we?ve become addicted to the goal-driven, control-based, results-guided drain of energy that seems to define our society. Worse, unconscious ways of thinking associated with this belief tell us there?s no other way, so we are unaware we?re blocking ourselves from greater possibility. Moreover, when we try to innovate, we?re left frustrated, because we use the same level of thinking that stops us from innovating, which, as my first coach said, is ?like trying to wash off paint with paint.??? So we can?t say we want anything really big because we can?t see anything really big; we?ve become habituated to thinking small. As a result, we fail to notice the potential all around us.

Opportunities for innovation greet us all the time. We fail to experience them because breakthroughs occur not by making them happen, but by allowing them. And to release control for long enough to simply allow anything would strike our everyday thinking as lazy and unproductive. There?s hope, however, because we humans possess levels of consciousness far deeper than the thinking required to get through an ordinary day. With perspective and with some practice, we can tap into those levels, shifting forever we way we see, think about, and experience possibility in life.

Breakthroughs happen when conditions are conducive to their manifestation, not we want them to happen. That asks for new skills, skills such as curiosity, openness, self-reflection, patience, acceptance, and trust. Those skills fly in the face of all the ?doing? skills we?re so used to. Although we seem to have mental models for curiosity, openness and self-refection, we tend to think of patience, acceptance and trust as elusive and impossible to achieve. In fact, however, they are natural and effortless by-products of a conscious & committed personal practice of curiosity, openness and self-reflection. This practice results in often-dramatic shifts in the way you think, and can make breakthroughs everyday occurrence. Strangely perhaps, you ?cultivate? this shift through a practice of non-doing. Just like cultivating a garden, you don?t ?make? roses grow; they grow fine on their own. You ?allow? them to grow by creating conditions roses love (nutrients, soil, access to sunlight, water). Breakthrough innovation is more like growing a garden than it is like building a house. If you?re ready to become the person you never thought you could be, here?s a path.

Exercise: Toward breakthrough. Create a regular time and place every day for quiet self-inquiry. A half hour each day would be a good start. The more attention you give to this, the more growth you?ll experience in your thinking and seeing. Remember, you?re counteracting the inertia of years of thinking small. Sit quietly. Do nothing. As unconscious thoughts inevitably arise, let them pass. It may take a while, but your mind eventually finds calm. Now listen. Don?t listen for; just listen. If you find you must ?do? something, be curious ? or be grateful ? or ponder what it would mean to trust life implicitly. Although the ?cause-and-effect? link may not be obvious, you?ll soon find that your consciousness has expanded so that the perpetual potential of everyday breakthrough is no longer outside your worldview, but inside. Rock your world!????? (P.S. If you?re a coach, you may enjoy a coaching-related slant on this topic; see my blog entry on the website of the International Coach Federation?s New England chapter.)

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A River Runs Through It? [Life lessons offered by nature]

In the classical view of science, a system responds smoothly to change; it?s said to be linear. Changes in one thing cause changes in other things. All the science we learned through high school actually depended on linear response. We would like to believe life is like this, too, especially since science told us it was. But it is not; life is non-linear. Life is uncertain; openings to new possibility happen in response to always-changing conditions, not in response to a plan. Nature steps into open spaces such as these with her creative process, spreading life as she goes. Nature doesn?t have to try to do this. Remaining open to opportunity (which comes from not trying), she allows the process to do the work. This is how the universe coalesced into galaxies, stars and planets; it?s how evolution continues to mold life in the midst of change and uncertainty. Shifts in available resources create openings; life responds naturally, by creating value in one of three ways:

• by replication ? making more of the same thing, in times that are ?easy;? (reproduction)
• by improvement ? making what already exists better, during times of stress; (evolution)
• by invention ? creating something new, beyond earlier conception, during times of chaos. (innovation)

Life?s inherent uncertainty and unpredictability create opportunity. Creative expression then flourishes by filling the void offered. Without uncertainty, there?d be no room for new opportunity, so no place for creativity to happen. How do you ?use? life?s uncertainty? Do you step into the open space with your creative genius, or do you seek the perceived comfort and safety of the everyday? What?s your relationship to creating value in life ? through doing the same thing, through improvement, through innovation?

You can find two examples of how personally transformative experiences have touched my life here, as a part of my e-book, A Field Guide to Life. See note below for more about this book.

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Openings to New Possibility

My book: A Field Guide to Life: How to Live With Authenticity and Freedom ? The only thing that can stop you from creating and living an extraordinary life every single day is a belief that it?s not possible. This book offers a path beyond that belief, and the ways of seeing and thinking that derive from it, so you can reclaim the authentic power of your deepest longing and create a life you love. Offered as an e-book for purchase, or free of charge as an on-going series of blog articles to which you can subscribe.

An invitation to bold possibility: I love to write about life-changing possibility, yet I am aware that most people will not integrate these perspectives into their lives on their own. I?m here to help. Good ideas are just that ? good ideas. They become your own good ideas only by developing personal felt experience of them. It?s often a struggle creating this personal experience because, left to ourselves, we use the same thinking that got us where we are to get us somewhere else. If, despite workshops, programs and reading you?ve done, life still falls short of your dreams, consider a ?guide for the unexplored territory? of your future. I?ll meet you wherever you may be on your path. Together we?ll challenge the thinking that holds you back, discover what matters most to you and chart a course into the territory of your potential. Contact me, and begin to shift forever your view of what?s possible.

Join The Road Not Taken Community, a no-cost subscription offering giving you an opportunity to stay connected, interact, be challenged, learn. Gain access to articles, newsletters and blog; you?ll find ?new stuff? on a regular basis. This newsletter is found as a blog entry (under Purposeful Wanderings), along with several back issues. I welcome comment on anything you read; this kind of dialogue is an example of how we may all learn together. If you already subscribe to this newsletter, you?re enrolled.

Book of the month ? Living Deeply, The Art & Science of Transformation in Everyday Life, published by the Institute of Noetic Sciences. IONS, founded by astronaut Edgar Mitchell, explores the frontiers of human consciousness through research and education. The theme of this book is simple: ?By fostering curiosity, creativity, and introspection in your life, you can open yourself to expanded dimensions of your being.? It offers an engaging summary of living more deeply, as interpreted by some of the world?s great teachers. It?s an approachable invitation to explore your own inner truth. ? And, if you?re on Cape Cod, you?ll find this book available at the Market Street Bookshop in Mashpee Commons ? 508-539-6985.

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Warmer future oceans could cause phytoplankton to thrive near poles, shrink in tropics

ScienceDaily (Oct. 25, 2012) ? In the future, warmer waters could significantly change ocean distribution of populations of phytoplankton, tiny organisms that could have a major effect on climate change.

Reporting in this week's online journal Science Express, researchers show that by the end of the 21st century, warmer oceans will cause populations of these marine microorganisms to thrive near the poles and shrink in equatorial waters.

"In the tropical oceans, we are predicting a 40 percent drop in potential diversity, the number of strains of phytoplankton," says Mridul Thomas, a biologist at Michigan State University (MSU) and co-author of the journal paper.

"If the oceans continue to warm as predicted," says Thomas, "there will be a sharp decline in the diversity of phytoplankton in tropical waters and a poleward shift in species' thermal niches--if they don't adapt."

Thomas co-authored the paper with scientists Colin Kremer, Elena Litchman and Christopher Klausmeier, all of MSU.

"The research is an important contribution to predicting plankton productivity and community structure in the oceans of the future," says David Garrison, program director in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the research along with NSF's Division of Environmental Biology.

"The work addresses how phytoplankton species are affected by a changing environment," says Garrison, "and the really difficult question of whether adaptation to these changes is possible."

The MSU scientists say that since phytoplankton play a key role in regulating atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, and therefore global climate, the shift could in turn cause further climate change.

Phytoplankton and Earth's climate are inextricably intertwined.

"These results will allow scientists to make predictions about how global warming will shift phytoplankton species distribution and diversity in the oceans," says Alan Tessier, program director in NSF's Division of Environmental Biology.

"They illustrate the value of combining ecology and evolution in predicting species' responses."

The microorganisms use light, carbon dioxide and nutrients to grow. Although phytoplankton are small, they flourish in every ocean, consuming about half of the carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere.

When they die, some sink to the ocean bottom, depositing their carbon in the sediment, where it can be trapped for long periods of time.

Water temperatures strongly influence their growth rates.

Phytoplankton in warmer equatorial waters grow much faster than their cold-water cousins.

With worldwide temperatures predicted to increase over the next century, it's important to gauge the reactions of phytoplankton species, say the scientists.

They were able to show that phytoplankton have adapted to local temperatures.

Based on projections of ocean temperatures in the future, however, many phytoplankton may not adapt quickly enough.

Since they can't regulate their temperatures or migrate, if they don't adapt, they could be hard hit, Kremer says.

"We've shown that a critical group of the world's organisms has evolved to do well under the temperatures to which they're accustomed," he says.

But warming oceans may significantly limit their growth and diversity, with far-reaching implications for the global carbon cycle.

"Future models that incorporate genetic variability within species will allow us to determine whether particular species can adapt," says Klausmeier, "or whether they will face extinction."

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PFT: Eli admits catering to needy WRs hurt his progress

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When he was a younger quarterback, Eli Manning tried too hard to keep people happy. Now, he?s learned that doing his job the right way, and spending less time worrying about others will lead to greater success.

Manning admitted he fell into bad habits as a younger quarterback, trying to satisfy needy veteran targets such as Plaxico Burress, Jeremy Shockey and Tiki Barber, who once questioned his leadership.

?I think early on we probably had receivers who in practice, you?d try to force them to get them balls so they don?t get down or you keep them happy, and I think you create bad habits doing that,? Manning said, via Jorge Castillo of the Newark Star-Ledger. ?As I got older and we got younger, new guys in, it evolved to doing it the correct way, going through the reads, saying you?ve got to earn the right to get open.

?It?s all based on the coverage and on the reads and I?ve got to do that to make sure I?m doing the right things and not getting into bad habits.?

That?s enabled Manning to lead the league in passing yards this season, not despite a series of injuries to his wide receivers, but perhaps because of it.

Other than Victor Cruz, there hasn?t been a steady presence in the lineup, so Manning has had to develop relationships with whoever?s out there.

?As a quarterback you always want to trust your guys and I tell them that I don?t have favorites, I?m not going to force it to one guy,? Manning said. ?I?ve got a read and a progression. If you want to know what my progression is, I?ll be happy to tell you. And I?m going to stick to that. If you?re my first read, it?s your job to get open. If you?re not, then I?m going on to the next guy.

?I?m going to stick to those progressions and have faith that if you?re the first read that you?re going to get open for us.?

And having that kind of confidence, and lack of distractions, has made him a better quarterback and leader.

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Why K-Pop is sweeping the world

The dance hit 'Gangnam Style' has introduced many Americans to the world of South Korean pop music.

By Chris Gaylord,?Staff writer / October 25, 2012

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Korean rapper PSY swept the United States this summer with his catchy dance hit "Gangnam Style." The music video ? with its goofy horse dance ? racked up 467 million views on YouTube and propelled the song onto American radio.

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Since the 1990s, South Korea has become one of the world's premier cultural exporters. The country's pop music, K-Pop, has a massive fan following across Asia. But before PSY, it had found little success in the US.

The Korean music industry revolves around large entertainment companies that scout out young talent, bundle them into boy bands and girl groups, teach them how to dance, and then present these highly polished acts to the world.

"They've really perfected this formula," says Colette Bennett, a writer for CNN's Geek Out blog. "The women are gorgeous. The men are gorgeous. The music is catchy and the dancing is superb."

K-Pop borrowed much of this model from the Japanese music industry, but with one big exception. Most of Japanese culture directly targets Japan. Its large population can support just about any cultural industry.

South Korea, on the other hand, is tiny. In order to reach a sizable audience, Korea's music industry needs to look abroad. So K-Pop specializes in tunes that play well in any language. For example, the boy band TVXQ releases versions of its biggest singles in Korean, Mandarin, Japanese, and English. The group even changes its name depending on where it's performing.

K-Pop's international strategy has paid off. A "hallyu" ? or Korean wave ? has spread across Asia, similar to how the British Invasion brought The Beatles and The Rolling Stones stateside in the 1960s.

But while PSY has opened the door for K-Pop in the US, it arrived with a certain irony. "Gangnam Style," with its quick beat, may be catchy, but Ms. Bennett says that the song caught on because of its zany music video. PSY struts through garbage in a suit, wages a dance-off against an androgynous hoofer, and at one point calls out a miniature look-alike. These comic antics do not reflect K-Pop ? they satirize it.

"He has all the components of K-Pop ? the dancing, the singing, the clothes ? but he also has humor," says Bennett. "And that's a killer combination for Americans."

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Sprint Samsung Galaxy S3 to see Jelly Bean from October 25?

Sprint Samsung Galaxy S3 owners might want to take a look at this one. Android Central Forums member Skunkape60 shared this image with us all a little earlier today that, if genuine, indicates the Android 4.1 update to the Galaxy S3 will start pushing out from October 25. That's tomorrow then. We've got a build number, a reminder to the stores to update their own devices, pretty much everything. 

It also looks like the Sprint update will bring some LTE related improvements too. It does say that it will be rolling out over the course of a few weeks, so be patient. But, from tomorrow, start checking for those updates.

Source: Android Central Forums, More: Hands on with Jelly Bean on the Galaxy S3

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Let it snow! Solar panels can take it

ScienceDaily (Oct. 24, 2012) ? Snow and solar cells aren't mutually exclusive, according to a Michigan Technological University scientist. Photovoltaic panels can be well worth the investment even if you live in a winter wonderland.

True, a layer of snow can cause a solar-cell blackout for awhile. But not many locales enjoy heavy snow for more than a few months. And even in the bleak midwinter, panels don't usually stay snow-covered for long.

"Sometimes snow actually helps solar cells," says Michigan Tech's Joshua Pearce. He's referring to the albedo effect, when sunlight reflects off snow. It can make a panel generate more electricity in the same way that it gives skiers sunburn on sunny winter days.

With researchers from St. Lawrence College and Queen's University, in Kingston, Ontario, and a team of 20 industry partners, Pearce studied the effect of snow on the Open Solar Outdoors Test Field. They created a computer model to predict how much power generation would decline in various amounts of snow cover and on different types of solar modules mounted at different angles, from flat to steeply pitched. Then they validated their model with data from many of Ontario's huge commercial solar farms.

"In most cases power losses are minimal, even in snowy Canada," Pearce said. However, the group has developed a model that can be used to design the most efficient photovoltaic systems, no matter how much snow is in the area.

Pearce and R. W. Andrews have authored paper based on a preliminary study, "Prediction of Energy Effects on Photovoltaic Systems Due to Snowfall Events," published in proceedings of the 2012 38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference. pp. 003386-003391.

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Reclaiming rare earths: Improving process to recycle rare-earth materials

ScienceDaily (Oct. 24, 2012) ? Recycling keeps paper, plastics, and even jeans out of landfills. Could recycling rare-earth magnets do the same? Perhaps, if the recycling process can be improved.

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Ames Laboratory are working to more effectively remove the neodymium, a rare earth element, from the mix of other materials in a magnet. Initial results show recycled materials maintain the properties that make rare-earth magnets useful.

The current rare earth recycling research builds on Ames Laboratory's decades of rare-earth processing experience. In the 1990s, Ames Lab scientists developed a process that uses molten magnesium to remove rare earths from neodymium-iron-boron magnet scrap. Back then, the goal was to produce a mixture of magnesium and neodymium because the neodymium added important strength to the alloy, rather than separate out high-purity rare earths because, at the time, rare earth prices were low.

But rare earth prices increased ten-fold between 2009 and 2011 and supplies are in question. Therefore, the goal of today's rare-earth recycling research takes the process one step farther.

"Now the goal is to make new magnet alloys from recycled rare earths. And we want those new alloys to be similar to alloys made from unprocessed rare-earth materials," said Ryan Ott, the Ames Laboratory scientist leading the research. "It appears that the processing technique works well. It effectively removes rare earths from commercial magnets."

Ott's research team also includes Ames Laboratory scientist Larry Jones and is funded through a work for others agreement with the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology. The research group is developing and testing the technique in Ames Lab's Materials Preparation Center, with a suite of materials science tools supported by the DOE Office of Science.

"We start with sintered, uncoated magnets that contain three rare earths: neodymium, praseodymium and dysprosium," said Ott. "Then we break up the magnets in an automated mortar and pestle until the pieces are 2-4 millimeters long.

Next, the tiny magnet pieces go into a mesh screen box, which is placed in a stainless-steel crucible. Technicians then add chunks of solid magnesium.

A radio frequency furnace heats the material. The magnesium begins to melt, while the magnet chunks remain solid.

"What happens then is that all three rare earths leave the magnetic material by diffusion and enter the molten magnesium," said Ott. "The iron and boron that made up the original magnet are left behind."

The molten magnesium and rare-earth mixture is cast into an ingot and cooled. Then they boil off the magnesium, leaving just the rare earth materials behind.

"We've found that the properties of the recycled rare earths compare very favorably to ones from unprocessed materials," said Ott. "We're continuing to identify the ideal processing conditions."

The next step is optimizing the extraction process. Then the team plans to demonstrate it on a larger scale.

"We want to help bridge the gap between the fundamental science and using this science in manufacturing," said Ott. "And Ames Lab can process big enough amounts of material to show that our rare-earth recycling process works on a large scale."

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Can Controversial Ocean Iron Fertilization Save Salmon?

What's been described as a "rogue" geoengineering experiment is really an effort, however flawed, to restore salmon abundance

By David Biello

ADDING IRON: By adding iron to the Pacific Ocean, as pictured here, the Haida Salmon Restoration Corp. hoped to restore lost salmon abundance--and generate carbon credits too. Image: Courtesy of HSRC

In a bid to restore lost fish abundance, the Haida Salmon Restoration Corp. (HSRC) undertook to mimic the effects of a volcanic eruption by fertilizing the ocean with iron. The idea was to provide the missing nutrient for a plankton bloom that would then trickle up the food web and restore salmon?with the ancillary effects of gathering data on the ocean food web and, potentially, removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

"What if this is a means by which ocean pastures can be stewarded and brought back to health?" asks Russ George, chief scientist of the expedition as well as a controversial businessman with a history of attempting to start CO2-removal schemes ranging from reforestation to ocean fertilization. "This is a tiny village of people trying to take care of their backyard."

Old Masset village on the Haida Gwaii Islands off the British Columbia coast did this by contracting George and others to initiate the largest such intentional ocean fertilization effort to date. It authorized the release of roughly 110 metric tons of iron dust, 91 metric tons of the iron sulfate fertilizer commonly used as a lawn treatment and employed in other scientific experiments, and nearly 20 metric tons of the iron oxide found in soils around the world. "It's micronutrient enrichment," Jason McNamee, operations officer and corporate director for the HSRC, told a press conference on October 19. "We took a bag of iron, and we slapped it over one square kilometer [of ocean]."

To do that, this past July the HSRC team motored more than 300 kilometers west from the Haida Gwaii Islands to an ocean eddy in the fishing vessel Ocean Pearl. The area had previously been scouted by collecting water samples since January and lies outside Canadian territorial waters. The team also used more than 20 autonomous oceangoing robots, including two bright yellow gliders and 20 Argo drifter robots on loan from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to survey the scene?work that is ongoing. Over the course of several days the researchers then released the 110 metric tons into the fishing boat's wake in an attempt to raise the levels of iron in the water from one or two parts per trillion up to five to 10, although both concentrations are estimates.

Satellite images as well as maps of chlorophyll abundance appear to show that the iron did indeed fuel a plankton bloom in August. But questions remain: Was it the right kind of bloom to bury carbon? Will it have any effect on the salmon?

Ocean restoration
The HSRC's basic idea is born out of marine biology as well as observations of the aftermath of volcanic eruptions in the region. For example, a lack of iron limits the growth of microscopic plants in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica and elsewhere, a fact that prompted marine biologist John Martin to famously muse: "Give me half a tanker of iron, and I'll give you the next ice age."

In the summer of 2008 Mount Kasatochi in Alaska's Aleutian Islands blew, sending volcanic minerals, including iron dust, far to sea and prompting plankton blooms across the Gulf of Alaska. At the same time, years and years of decline in returning salmon populations led researchers to expect few of the fry from 2008 to return in later years, only to find a record salmon run in Canada's Fraser River in 2010.

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Female Komodo Dragons Die Young, Housework to Blame

An eight-year study of Komodo dragons (Varanus komodoensis) has revealed some interesting differences between the genders in the world?s largest lizard species. Male Komodo dragons grow much bigger than and live nearly twice as long as females, who apparently spend so much time reproducing and doing the equivalent of housework that it sends them to an early grave.

No, the female dragons aren?t donning aprons and doing laundry, but they do spend six months or more at a time defending eggs in their nests from potential predators. During that time, the females don?t eat and lose much of their body weight. Males, meanwhile, spend their days hunting, fighting and, one presumes, drinking beer and bowling.

The females? defensive behavior alone doesn?t account for the size and weight differences, according to research published September 19 in the journal PLoS One. The researchers?a team from Indonesia, Australia and Italy?tracked 400 komodo dragons on four Indonesian islands from 2002 to 2010 and found that males and females grew at about the same rate until they reached sexual maturity in about their seventh year. After that males kept growing, reaching an average length of 160 centimeters (excluding tails). But the females? growth plateaued at an average of 120 centimeters. The researchers concluded that males kept expending energy for growth, allowing them to compete against one another for mates, whereas the females stopped growing, redirecting all of their energy into building and maintaining nests, reproducing and guarding eggs.

The differences didn?t end at size. The researchers found that male Komodo dragons lived an average of 60 years; female life expectancy topped out at 32. In the eight years of tracking and testing the animals, the researchers were never able to find a female 33 years or older. Although Komodo dragons are cannibalistic (one reason why females have to defend their nests), the researchers found that after the lizards grew large enough to defend themselves the primary cause of death was natural aging.

The researchers say the growth and death rates could be related. Because females die so young, the males might need to keep growing so they can fight one another for the few remaining females or for territory.

This research might also serve to explain why there is such a huge gender gap in Komodo dragon populations. Out of the 2,500 or so wild dragons in Indonesia, only around 350 are breeding females. As the authors wrote in the paper, this new understanding of female mortality and gender-based growth rates could help inform future conservation efforts by allowing scientists to model future population demographics.

Previously in Extinction Countdown:
Komodo dragons? Not in my backyard?Nor Yours

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School "hand hygiene" plan shows no asthma benefit

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - An arsenal of hand sanitizers, hygiene education and good old-fashioned soap failed to prevent asthma attacks among school children in one Alabama county.

For children with asthma, the common cold is the top trigger of symptom attacks. So in theory, cleaner hands at school could mean fewer colds being passed around - and fewer asthma attacks.

But in a new clinical trial, researchers found that kids at schools with a "hand hygiene" plan, including alcohol-based hand sanitizers, suffered asthma attacks just often as their peers at other schools.

The findings are not, however, the final word, according to Lynn B. Gerald, a professor of health promotion sciences at the University of Arizona in Tucson who led the study.

That's because the trial hit an obstacle when the H1N1 "swine" flu epidemic broke out right at the study's outset: All of the schools in the trial became a lot more vigilant about clean hands, Gerald said.

Schools that weren't part of the hand-hygiene program started putting hand sanitizer on the list of school supplies given to parents.

"Hand sanitizer became ubiquitous in schools," Gerald said.

So, she told Reuters Health, it's hard to draw conclusions about whether hand sanitizers, added to old-fashioned hand washing, might prevent some asthma attacks.

The sanitizers and soap used in the trial were provided to schools for free by Akron, Ohio-based GOJO, which makes the Purell brand hand sanitizers.

GOJO "believes there is great benefit in establishing the effectiveness of hand hygiene interventions under real-world conditions and supports scientific studies that take that approach," the company told Reuters Health.

"We agree with the conclusion that the results of this study were highly confounded by increased overall hand hygiene practices, even in the usual-care schools, as a result of the H1N1 pandemic," they said in an emailed statement.

The findings appear in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

VALUE OF INVESTMENT UNCLEAR

Frequent hand washing is one of the keys to protecting yourself from colds and the flu, or from passing the viruses to other people. But soap and water are not always at the ready, and even in school bathrooms soap dispensers may be broken or empty - especially at low-income schools like the ones in this trial, Gerald noted.

Many schools already have hand sanitizer available. At some schools, that's all they use, Gerald said. But no one knows how effective the products are versus soap and water alone.

For the current study, Gerald's team randomly assigned 31 Alabama elementary schools to either follow a special hand hygiene plan or stick with their standard ways for one school year. The schools then switched groups for the following school year.

When schools were on the hand hygiene plan, they were given hand soap for the bathrooms, and alcohol-based hand sanitizer for the bathrooms and classrooms. Students were also taught about good hand hygiene.

Gerald's team then focused on 527 students who had asthma. They found that over the two years, kids had no fewer asthma attacks when their school provided soap, sanitizers and education.

Still, the swine flu outbreak muddied the waters, according to Gerald. Asthma attacks spiked across the schools in the fall of 2009, when the swine flu was at its peak. In October, 41 percent of asthmatic kids in both groups of schools had a symptom attack, versus about 25 percent in October 2010.

And since hand sanitizers became so widely used after the swine flu arrived, the study essentially lost its "control" group.

But while these findings don't mean hand sanitizers are useless against asthma, there's also little evidence that their use in schools benefits kids.

Some other in-school clinical trials have failed to show that hand sanitizers cut down on kids' colds and flu, Gerald and her colleagues point out.

"Hand washing is probably best, and it's cheapest," Gerald said.

"It's unclear right now," she added, "whether hand sanitizers are a worthwhile investment for schools."

Gerald thinks studies should continue to look at the question, though. One reason is the fact that some schools are already using hand sanitizers, sometimes as a replacement for soap and water.

"I think we need to know how they can be used most effectively," Gerald said.

Many parents may be sending their kids off to school with a little bottle of hand sanitizer. That may or may not be helpful.

Gerald suggested teaching your kids about good hygiene in general, whether they have asthma or not. That includes hand washing, "covering up" when you cough, and keeping your fingers away from your mouth and eyes, she said.

GOJO said it "hopes the researchers will continue to study the effect of hand hygiene to reduce asthma rates with future scientific studies conducted in real world settings."

None of the researchers reports any connection to the company, but one of Gerald's colleagues on the work has ties to drug companies that make asthma medication.

(Additional reporting by Ivan Oransky)

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/UDGV5L Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, online October 15, 2012.

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Vettel y Alonso llegan a la India con una puja al rojo vivo por el Mundial

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Noida (India), 24 oct (EFE).- El duelo entre el alem?n Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull-Renault) y el espa?ol Fernando Alonso (Ferrari) por el Mundial de F?rmula Uno llega al rojo vivo al Gran Premio de la India, que se disputa este fin de semana, pues a falta de cuatro carreras solo les separan seis puntos.

En el circuito internacional de Buddh el bicampe?n mundial espa?ol tratar? de recuperar el liderato que le arrebat? Vettel en el pasado Gran Premio de Corea y que Alonso hab?a ocupado durante ocho carreras consecutivas tras auparse a ?l con su triunfo en Valencia.

Vettel, vigente campe?n del mundo, viene disparado despu?s de tres victorias seguidas -Singapur, Jap?n y Corea-, mientras que el espa?ol acab? tercero en Yeongam y Marina Bay y tuvo que abandonar en Suzuka, lo que ha tensado la puja por la corona.

Ahora Alonso, campe?n en 2005 y 2006, deber? sacar su mejor repertorio al volante en el joven circuito indio, que repite tras su debut del a?o pasado, si no quiere perder el hilo del alem?n.

Pero el espa?ol no lo tendr? f?cil en la India, donde en 2011 el piloto de Red Bull, pese a llegar ya con el t?tulo bajo el brazo, consigui? la ?pole? y la victoria sin perder el liderato en toda la carrera, mientras que el asturiano cruz? la meta en tercer lugar.

?El a?o pasado me encant? el trazado (del circuito indio) y no solo porque gan?, sino porque es como una monta?a rusa y se ha convertido para los conductores en uno de los m?s desafiantes de todo el calendario?, ha afirmado Vettel a trav?s de un comunicado.

El circuito de Buddh es la pen?ltima pista que se ha agregado al Mundial -este a?o se inaugurar? el Gran Premio de EEUU, en Austin- y se encuentra en la localidad de Noida, a unos 50 kil?metros de la capital india, Nueva Delhi.

Se trata de un circuito r?pido y largo (5.137 metros), con zonas de notables cambios de rasante y con combinaci?n de curvas, en el que habr? adem?s dos ?reas de DRS y fases con una anchura de hasta 20 metros, lo que aumentar? las oportunidades de adelantar.

La falta de rodaje en el circuito lo convierten en uno de los m?s peligrosos del calendario, pues la suciedad de la pista limita la adherencia de los neum?ticos y hace que, como han declarado algunos corredores, se convierta ?en una pista de hielo?.

M?s all? de la lucha entre Vettel y Alonso -que tienen un colch?n de 48 y 42 puntos respectivamente con su m?s inmediato perseguidor, el finland?s de Lotus Kimi Raikkonen- la cita india podr?a casi sentenciar el t?tulo de constructores en favor de Red Bull.

La escuder?a de las bebidas energ?ticas aventaja en 77 puntos a Ferrari y un buen resultado en el gigante asi?tico dejar?a casi todo el pescado vendido a falta de tres carreras -Abu Dabi, Estados Unidos y Brasil- para cerrar el campeonato.

En Buddh, el mexicano Sergio P?rez (Sauber), que finaliz? und?cimo en Corea justo por detr?s de Lewis Hamilton (McLaren), buscar? adem?s demostrar que su reciente fichaje por McLaren en sustituci?n del brit?nico, que ir? a Mercedes, ha sido un acierto.

El venezolano Pastor Maldonado (Williams) tratar? por su parte de recuperar el esp?ritu del Gran Premio de Espa?a, donde ocup? un impresionante primer lugar, y de seguir sumando puntos, como hizo en Suzuka, a diferencia de Corea, donde qued? decimocuarto.

En la escuder?a espa?ola HRT desean aprovechar el tir?n logrado el a?o pasado por su corredor Narain Karthikeyan, el ?nico indio que participa en el Mundial, e intentar as? alcanzar un resultado equiparable al de 2011, cuando ocup? el decimos?ptimo lugar.

El otro corredor de HRT, el espa?ol Pedro Mart?nez De la Rosa, despu?s de abandonar en Corea por un fallo t?cnico, buscar? mejorar sus ?ltimos resultados en un recorrido en el que no ha corrido nunca.

Las dos primeras sesiones de entrenamientos libres en el circuito de Buddh, de una hora y media cada una, se disputar?n el viernes a las 10.00 y a las 14.00 horas locales (06.30 y 10.30 CET/ 04.30 y 08.30 GMT).

La tercera tanda de pruebas libres ser? el s?bado a las 11.00 (07.30 CET y 05.30 GMT) y la sesi?n de clasificaci?n, a las 14.00 (10.30 CET y 08.30 GMT). La carrera ser? el domingo 30 a las 15.00 (10.30 CET y 09.30 GMT).

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Disaster Recovery Requires Business Continuity

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You?ve planned for every possibility. Your systems are entirely redundant and automated. They?re ready to failover when something happens. And then it does happen. A 7.1 earthquake levels the city you live in. The business? systems come up in Amazon EC2 automatically thanks to some wizardry with the DR product you chose. Your Disaster Recovery plan worked.

Except. There?s a problem. Nobody?s going to work on the system. They?re all trying to find their family. The office is gone and there isn?t anywhere to work. You couldn?t even get electricity or an internet connection if you tried and the 3G network is completely clogged. You can?t even contact your staff.

The reality here is that many IT organizations seem to think that a Disaster Recovery plan is something that is the same as a Business Continuity plan, and that it should be left up to the IT guys to build, and that the ?big one? is something of folklore, but it?s more fundamental than that. The business itself actually needs to make changes and plans for such an event. A DR plan encompasses the processes around bringing up your systems, but it doesn?t cover the human factor in the equation. That?s where a Business Continuity plan comes in, and is oft-ignored.

A lot of enterprises we encounter have an infrastructure team that?s been given the task of building a disaster resilient system, and have done so using tools that are advertised for just such an instance, and it works as advertised on the box. The cloud (such as EC2 or Azure) makes the IT side of DR even easier, but it doesn?t address the entire problem. They?ve got the IT plan, but not much more. It?s likely that the management of their organization hasn?t actually thought of a situation extreme enough where nobody is going to come in to work in a disaster because there are more important things in their life such as family.

Let me get this clear now: Business Continuity is not an IT problem. It?s a company-wide problem. You have likely been given the task of building out a DR system, but now, you should consider it your responsibility to make management aware of the other things they need to handle, otherwise the system will be to blame when it ?fails? because nobody was there to work on it.

They need to plan for who?s going to run your systems while your city is out of action. Who is going to run payroll? Who?s going to respond to inquiries from your website? Where are your staff even going to work? Have you even considered where you will get the PC?s to keep working?

If you have a mirrored data-center at a separate location, that?s great, but you may want to consider getting an office there too, and additional staff at that location that can work when your primary staff aren?t able to.

The cost might look extraordinarily high, but if the business needs to keep running, and making money (like most businesses) it shouldn?t matter. Most organizations are ignorant when it comes to Business Continuity, assuming that a ?major event? is unlikely to happen to them, so they don?t plan for it, or only plan to the bare minimum, ignoring the human factor in the equation.
IT is so critical to business now, so it?s foolish to assume that the business could recover without proper planning.

I?m not suggesting that you, as the IT guy for your company is now responsible for the development of a Business Continuity plan for the Finance or HR team, but you?re now responsible for making others aware of what they need to do. Take it upon yourself, or it?s likely no one else will.

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Mad Max and Family: Bringin' Baby Home

Hi Friends,

We are going to take a break from our regular scheduled post today (Thursday's Kids and T(w)eens) since we are focusing on all things newborn this week.

First, Houstonians: did you have the chance to comment on our blog from Saturday for your chance to win a Whole Foods $50.00 giftcard? ?Tomorrow is your day to enter ... be sure to join us on the Whole Trade adventure this month and enter! ?It's very simple. ?Feel free to spread the love too (and Whole Trade Month is for a great cause!). ?Good luck!

Second, in celebration of my super sister (Super Sadie) we are focusing on Bringin' Baby Home today. Have you brought a baby home? ?How was that like your first few days or week? ?What memories do you have to share with us? ?What about for a second baby? ?Tips and tricks?

Mommy and Daddy aren't too nervous about it this go around (they had plenty of that with me) ... but this time is just balancing both of us. ?Don't worry, Mommy and Daddy ... I'll be here to help! ?We'll be sure to share with you how everything goes. ?Let us know if you have any questions for us too.

Mommy said the key is first of all to have help as she recovers from her C-Section ... and second of all to have a flexible schedule (this doesn't work for everyone, but it works for her). ?She strongly believes and follows Secrets of the Baby Whisperer (E.A.S.Y. Schedule = Eat, Activity Time, Sleep, and You Time) and Baby Wise. ?Not everyone believes in sleep training, but my doctor recommended very similar suggestions too. ?It worked the first night for me! ?Sadie, I hope it works for you too. ?Because Big Brother needs his sleep ... yah know what I'm sayin'?

We are also hoping for lots of kind visitors! ?I can't keep those ladies both entertained each day all day. ?Whew. ?That would be exhausting.

Now ... I'll share with you a few photos from my first few days home ... what do you think?

LOOKING BACK: Mad Max

Wow, can someone cut off the cuffs? ?And throw a boy some pants.

What do you mean you have to / want to go to work today? ?Throwing Asian eyes at you, Daddy.

Mommy's sweet sleeper. ?During the day!

I've come a long way since those Asian eyes. ?No? ?(And just when I lose my leg cuffs, I get arm cuffs).

Ohhh, if I try real hard and stretch, I'm longer than you Hoodie Bear!

-Mad Max

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Engadget Eurocast 002 - 10.25.2012

New week, new set of high profile product releases and service details. As you might have heard, Apple launched a new tablet, Microsoft's Surface and Windows 8 finally see the cold light of day, and Dan wants more data, but isn't sure if he wants to pay so much for it. Also on the agenda is the latest in 3D printing, the financial woes of a mobile giant, and a curious punishment dished out after a patent dispute ruling. Another seven days in the world of the Engadget Eurocast it is then.

Hosts: Dan Cooper, James Trew, Mat Smith
Producer: James Trew

00:32 - Apple announces 7.9-inch iPad mini with a 1,024 x 768 display, A5 CPU and optional LTE for $329
07:24 - Microsoft Surface with Windows RT review
17:09 - EE details UK 4G pricing: Unlimited calls, texts and 500MB of data starts at £36
25:46 - Virgin Media extends free tube WiFi for all until 2013
28:00 - Formlabs FORM 1 high-resolution 3D printer spotted in the wild, we go eyes on
32:32 - Apple loses out in UK tablet design case against Samsung
34:34 - Nokia's Q3 2012: $9.4 billion in sales, 2.9 million Lumias sold and losses trimmed to $754 million

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Gov't consumer watchdog to oversee debt collectors

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Expanding its reach, the government's consumer finance watchdog agency will monitor the day-to-day operations of big debt-collection companies, the agency said Wednesday.

It is the first time that debt collectors have been subject to federal scrutiny of their routine business practices.

The move lengthens the list of industries that face oversight by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The agency was set up after the financial crisis to protect consumers from misleading marketing, unfair fees and other harmful practices.

Debt collectors have long been criticized for hard-knuckled tactics like calling the employers of people who fail to repay debts or filing lawsuits against people who owe relatively little money. Some of the practices may violate federal disclosure rules and protections against harassment and intimidation.

About 30 million Americans have, on average, $1,500 of debt that is subject to the debt-collection industry, the agency said. That information often is reported to credit bureaus, so debt collectors can affect a person's ability to finance a car or the rate she pays on a mortgage.

The bureau already supervises mortgage companies, private student lenders and payday lenders. Those industries were placed under its watch in the 2010 overhaul of financial laws, which established the agency.

Debt collectors are the second group, after credit bureaus, that the agency is choosing to include in its supervision program. The CFPB started overseeing credit bureaus last month.

Under the program of ongoing supervision, regulators can demand information from any larger company, even when there is no indication that the company did something wrong. Supervisors and examiners can review marketing materials, phone scripts, consumer disclosures and other aspects of a business.

Before the CFPB was created, banks faced similar routine oversight by other regulators that focused mainly on their financial strength. In granting the consumer bureau the authority to supervise non-bank companies, Congress vastly strengthened the federal government's tools for identifying and preventing practices deemed harmful to consumers.

The agency can file civil charges or take enforcement action against any company that violates consumer laws, even if the company is not part of its supervision program.

Supervision of debt collectors will begin Jan. 2. Only companies with more than $10 million in annual receipts will be subject to the heightened scrutiny. That includes about 175 debt collectors that account for more than 60 percent of the industry's annual receipts, the agency said.

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Daniel Wagner can be reached at www.twitter.com/wagnerreports .

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Taliban kill 10 Afghan troops

KABUL Taliban insurgents killed 10 Afghan troops in an ambush in western Herat province, police and government officials said Tuesday.

A spokesman for the provincial governor, Muhiudin Noori, said the Afghan troops ? which included both soldiers and police ? were searching late Monday for a group of insurgents who had earlier set up a roadblock, stopping and seizing passing vehicles, when they were ambushed.

Five policemen, including the district commander and five soldiers died in the ensuing firefight, Noori said. There were no insurgent casualties, but police later arrested 25 suspects found in the area, he said.

Also Tuesday, an American service member was killed in an insurgent attack in the east, the US military said. It did not provide further details about the attack. The latest death makes at least 12 American service members killed so far this month and 265 killed so far this year.

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The Herat ambush was the bloodiest single incident for Afghan security forces this year in western Afghanistan ? an area where the insurgents have been less active than in their strongholds in the east and west of the country.

In recent months, Taliban guerrillas have been switching tactics and increasingly targeting Afghan security forces as the international coalition continues its drawdown toward a planned withdrawal of the majority of combat troops in 2014.

Meanwhile, President Hamid Karzai condemned ?in the strongest possible terms? a Nato raid on Sunday in Logar province in which he said four children were killed. A presidential statement said coalition troops carried out the operation in Baraki Barak district in an effort to apprehend two armed militants. But this resulted in the deaths of the four children who were tending to their animals in the same area, it said.

Din Mohammad Darwesh, spokesman for the provincial governor, said the victims were between 10 and 13 years old.

Nato on Tuesday acknowledged that its forces ?may be responsible for the unintended, but nonetheless tragic, death of three Afghan civilians? during the operation in Baraki Barak district. Coalition commander US Gen. John R. Allen expressed his condolences to the families of those killed.

There was no immediate explanation for the discrepancy in the number of victims in the two statements.

In recent months, Karzai has criticised the international military coalition for what he said was the killing of civilians in Afghanistan, for not going after terrorist safe havens in neighboring Pakistan and for not providing the Afghan forces with all the weapons they need.

The criticisms drew an angry response from U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who earlier this month said the Afghan leader should occasionally say ?thank you? to allied forces who are fighting and dying in Afghanistan, rather than criticising them.

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Advanced Dermatology & Cosmetic Surgery, the nations largest dermatology practice, recently acquired multiple practices now strategically ads multiple Dermatologists throughout Florida to accommodate increased patient volume.

ADCS Clinics (?ADCS?) announced it has added six (6) new Dermatologists to their practice, which already consists of over 120 providers. As demand from patients increase to see a dermatologist, so does the time it takes to book an appointment. Adding new dermatologists will help shorten wait times and increase the quality of care.

Dr. Matt Leavitt, Founder and CEO of ADCS, said ?We are very excited about adding this distinguished group of doctors to our practice. They are all board certified, experienced and well respected by their peers.?

?Our careful consideration to add new doctors to certain geographies in Florida (Jacksonville, Winter Park, Sebastian, Vero Beach and West Coast) is based on patients seeking quality dermatological care and increased insurance coverage. We are now in a great position to provide for those patients.? said Dave Morell, President of ADCS.

The new providers to ADCS are:

Dr. Kristen Stewart earned her Bachelor of Science at Villanova University, her Master of Science at Pennsylvania State University and her Medical Degree at Temple University. Her early academic and clinical achievements include membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and being named Hospital Intern of the Year. Dr. Stewart completed her residency in Dermatology at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. She is Board Certified by the American Board of Dermatologists and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology.

Before joining Advanced Dermatology & Cosmetic Surgery, Dr. Stewart served as a physician in the U.S. Navy for over 10 years, first as a flight surgeon and later as a dermatologist. As a military physician, Dr. Stewart was trained in aviation medicine, including Space Operations Medical Training at NASA, and tropical medicine. She received numerous honors and awards during her military career, including recognition by the Deputy Surgeon General of the Navy for being among the top five dermatologists ranked by patient satisfaction.

Dr. Stewart practices general, surgical, and cosmetic dermatology. She has specific interest skin cancer prevention, surveillance, and treatment, as well as acne and anti-aging skin care. Additionally, Dr. Stewart has significant post-doctoral clinical training and expertise in vulvar dermatology, a subspecialty at the intersection of gynecology and dermatology. She is a member of the International Society for the Study of Vulvovaginal Diseases and has authored multiple recent publications related to caring for women with vulvar dermatoses. Active in the Women's Dermatologic Society, she was a representative to the Board of Directors as a resident and is currently co-chair of its Young Physicians Task Force. Dr. Stewart will be practicing out of one of our Jacksonville offices in the St. Luke Hospital area.

Dr. Madeline Gainers earned her medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She completed her dermatology residency at Washington University in St. Louis and her research fellowship at the Harvard Skin Disease Research Center. A graduate of Florida State University and member of Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Gainers has joined Advanced Dermatology and Cosmetic Surgery in the greater Jacksonville area. Dr. Gainers will be practicing in Jacksonville out of the Dunn Avenue and Chimney Lakes offices.

Dr. David Boyd earned his Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Vanderbilt University, his Master of Science in Strategic Intelligence from the Joint Military Intelligence College, and his Doctor of Medicine from the Uniformed Services University. He completed his dermatology training within the National Capital Consortium in Bethesda, Maryland. He was on Active Duty in the U.S. Navy for 25 years, first as a Naval Flight Officer, and later as a Flight Surgeon and Dermatologist. He has been in Jacksonville, Florida since 2008, and retired as a Commander in 2012.

Dr. Boyd is Board Certified by the American Board of Dermatology. His primary interests include the diagnosis and treatment of skin cancer, as well as all aspects of medical dermatology. He has a particular interest in the treatment of follicular-based skin conditions. Dr. Boyd is a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology and a member of the American Medical Association and the Association of Military Dermatologists. He served as President of the Jacksonville Dermatologic Society in 2012. He has held an aca

demic appointment in Dermatology at the Uniformed Services University for more than five years, and has multiple articles and presentations to his credit. Dr. Boyd will be treating patients in the Baptist South and St. Lukes office in Jacksonville, Florida.

Dr. Mary E. "Betsy" Leveritt, recently graduated with highest honors from Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Davie, FL, followed by completion of internship at St. Petersburg General Hospital in St. Petersburg, FL. Subsequently, Dr. Leveritt graduated from her dermatology residency at Wellington Regional Medical Center, in Wellington, FL. Dr. Leveritt will be practicing out of our Vero and Sabastian offices in South Florida.

Dr. Sima?Jain is Board Certified by the American Board of Dermatology.?
Education. She completed undergraduate studies at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore where she earned the distinguished honors of being inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. She continued on to Florida for medical training and earned her Medical Doctorate at the University of Florida. Dr Jain did her dermatology training at the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center.

At the University of Florida College of Medicine, Dr. Jain received her Medical Doctorate with Honors. The academic medical center affiliated with the University of Florida where she received her medical education is consistently ranked as one of the nation's premier health care facilities.

At the University of Illinois Chicago Medical Center, Dr. Jain was trained by national thought leaders in adult and pediatric dermatology, dermatologic surgery, and cosmetic surgery. During her training at the University of Illinois she was chosen to become Chief Resident because of her leadership and excellence in teaching. Alpha Omega Alpha, the prestigious medical honor society, selected Dr. Jain to receive their annual Resident Teaching Award for providing "excellent clinical teaching to medical students." Dr. Jain will be practicing out of our Winter Park, Florida office.

Dr. Rachel Epstein is one of a select few Board Certified, Fellowship Trained Dermatologic Surgeons in the Tampa Bay Area, who specializes in Mohs Micrographic Surgery. She received her Bachelors of Science, Summa Cum Laude, in Biology and Exercise Physiology at the University of Miami. Upon graduating with Highest Honors from Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2007, she completed her internship and dermatology residency at Largo Medical Center, where she served as Co-Chief Resident. Dr. Epstein went on to complete a Procedural Dermatology Fellowship specializing in Mohs Micrographic Surgery, Dermatologic Surgery, and Cosmetic Procedures at Loma Linda University. She also served as a Clinical Instructor of Dermatology at Loma Linda University School of Medicine

Dr. Epstein has been nationally recognized, receiving prestigious awards for her presentations, research and publications. She is an active member of the American Academy of Dermatology, American College of Mohs Surgery, American Osteopathic College of Dermatology, American Society of Dermatologic Surgeons, American Osteopathic Association, Florida Society for Dermatologic Surgeons, and American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery.

Dr. Epstein has a passion for dermatologic surgery and cutaneous oncology. She enjoys getting to know each and every patient and providing compassionate, quality care. Dr. Epstein will be providing MOHS surgery throughout Tampa area.

ADCS, founded in 1989 by Dr. Matt Leavitt, is a dermatology-focused physician practice management company with over 60 company-affiliated dermatology clinics in Florida and Ohio providing clinical, cosmetic, surgical and pathology services. ADCS also provides billing and coding management services for 70 third-party dermatology practices under the Ameriderm? trade name.

For more information, contact: Dave Morell, President of ADCS, 407.875.2080 ext. 1244.

Read the full press release online at PR Web.

Source: http://www.myadvancedderm.com/573762/2012/10/23/advanced-dermatology--cosmetic-surgery-continues-with-expansion-plans-and-adds-new-providers-in-florida.html

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