South Africa: A National Health Controversy Takes on Regional Dimensions
Posted on July 04, 2008 in Prescriptions
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A Great Southern Cook- Edna Lewis
Posted on June 28, 2008 in Causes of erectile dysfunction
From an article in the February 14, 2006 L.A. Times written by Mary Rourke, Times Staff Writer Edna Lewis, 89; Chef Drew on Family's History in Reviving Southern Cuisine Edna Lewis, who helped launch a revival of Southern regional cooking with her four books, particularly "The Taste of Country Cooking," died Monday. She was 89. Lewis died of natural causes in her sleep at her home in Decatur, Ga., Scott Peacock, a longtime friend and Lewis' housemate in recent years, told The Times. She had been in failing health for several years and suffered from dementia. The granddaughter of freed slaves in Freetown, a Virginia farming community, Lewis had an eclectic career working as a restaurant chef, a pheasant farmer and a cooking teacher, among other things. But her cookbooks brought her national recognition. Along with "The Taste of Country Cooking" in 1976, she wrote "The Edna Lewis Cookbook" in 1972 and "In Pursuit of Flavor" in 1988. She and Peacock wrote "The Gift of Southern Cooking" in 2003. "Edna was a very important voice for her knowledge of Virginia-style Southern food and cooking," Judith Jones, Lewis' editor at Alfred A. Knopf publishers, told The Times in 2003. "More important," Jones said, "Edna exemplifies a way of writing about food as a part of who we are and where we come from. It is food writing as memoir." Some food experts referred to Lewis as the leading African American female chef. Others placed her as the dean of all Southern cooking. Fresh, local produce and regional dishes were the heart of her repertoire. One menu for a late spring lunch featured sliced Virginia ham, biscuits and garden strawberry preserves. "Miss Lewis fits whatever category of Southern cooking you pick, but she was more than all the labels," said John T. Edge, director of Southern Foodways Alliance, based at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. In several of her books, she wrote about her early years in Freetown. Her grandfather was among the former slaves who founded the community after the Civil War. Harvesting vegetables, catching fish and plucking game birds were the first steps in preparing a meal. "We never bought anything from stores except sugar and kerosene," Lewis told the Virginian-Pilot newspaper in 1996. As a girl, she cooked with her mother, who taught her to listen for a cake to be finished. "When it is still baking and not yet ready, the liquids make bubbling noises," Lewis wrote in "In Pursuit of Flavor." Lewis' father died when she was 9. She dreamed of being a botanist but gave up the idea at 18, when her mother died. She moved to New York City looking for work in the early 1940s. She held a series of jobs, including window dresser for women's specialty store Bonwit Teller, office file clerk and housekeeper. She often cooked for her friends. One of them, John Nicholson, owned an antique shop. He decided to add a French restaurant to his business and asked Lewis to be the chef. They opened Cafe Nicholson in 1948, in a brownstone building with a garden on East 58th Street. Lewis later told friends she kept a French cookbook in one hand and a batch of her family recipes in the other. "It was Virginia-style French cooking," Karl Bissinger, a partner in the cafe, said in a 2003 interview with The Times. "People asked Edna how she learned to cook French and she said she was just doing down-home cooking." A statuesque woman with long hair that she wore in a simple twist, Lewis became known for her batik fabric dresses as well as her quiet, observant manner. She rarely spoke of her personal life. She was proud of her heritage but showed it in subtle ways, Jones said. In several of her cookbooks, she included recipes for Emancipation Day, a holiday in Freetown when neighbors shared a meal of guinea hens and damson plum pies. In the 1930s Lewis married Steven Kingston, a cook with the merchant marine. They were political activists who joined the Communist Party. "I was a radical," Lewis told Bon Appetit magazine in November 2001. She worked in the office of the Daily Worker, the Communist newspaper. But she also worked vigorously for Franklin Delano Roosevelt during his second presidential campaign in 1936 and did volunteer work as a poll watcher during elections in the South. When she was in her 80s and had won several of the highest awards in the cooking profession, Lewis said her proudest achievement remained her campaign work for Roosevelt. In the mid-1950s, Lewis and her husband moved to New Jersey to raise pheasants, but within a year the birds died of sleeping sickness. Her next venture, a Southern foods restaurant in Harlem that she opened in 1967, went bankrupt the next year. "It was a spotty career," said Barbara Haber, who featured Lewis in her 2002 book, "From Hardtack to Home Fries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals.""If an opportunity came, Edna went with it," Haber said. "She didn't have a career plan." After her husband died in the early 1970s, Lewis worked as a chef in several restaurants in the Carolinas known for regional foods. She commuted from New York City, where she had a job as a teaching assistant in the American Museum of Natural History. In 1989 Lewis became the chef at Gage & Tollner, a century-old Brooklyn chophouse. She expanded the menu to include some of her own recipes
Various happenings
Posted on June 24, 2008 in Generic biologicals
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Bird Migration on radar
Posted on June 15, 2008 in Generic biologicals
We've been socked pretty good these past few weeks by very cold temps, culminating in that nasty Nor'Easter at the beginning of this past week. Here in Ithaca it dumped nearly a foot of snow in the hills, although the valleys saw no accumulation. Now, several days later, the snow is all but gone again, the sun is shining, and the birds are itching to move. It's been a very weird spring. We had excellent weather in March, with strong movements of waterfowl (which normally are the first group to migrate) through the Cayuga Lake Basin. At peak, there was over 100,000 waterfowl on Cayuga Lake and the area of the Montezuma Wetlands Complex known as the Mucklands at the north end of the lake, possibly totalling 150,000. The numbers were staggering. There was also a decent push of early hawks through the region, and some of the early migrants (Phoebe, blackbirds, etc.) arrived. Then the cold hit, and very little new birds trickled in. Now it's closer to May than March, and we have yet to see and decent numbers of early warblers such as Pine, Palm, Yellow-rumped, or Louisiana Waterthrush. That's going to change shortly. Here's a few images pulled from regional radars tonight on www.wunderground.com. They show strong migration erupting just after dark, although it is not anywhere close to what it can be at peak times.
Catchin' up on $4 generic drugs
Posted on June 10, 2008 in Generic drugs
Other pharmacies will soon be jumping on the $4 generic drug program. The Snyders Drug Store in Mankato has posted a handwritten sign saying "We will beat the price on any $4 generic drug." What does that mean? Their price is $3.99. Whether the chain will adopt the $3.99 price across all its stores is under consideration. Meanwhile, Minnesota Public Radio has pointed out the the $4 for a 30-day supply has some caveats. Some medications on the list will actually cost more. (Why are we not surprised?) The blame, apparently, is on a 70-year-old state law prohibiting the sale of drugs below cost. Minnesota is not unique in this exception as at least eight other states have similar laws, including California, Colorado and Wisconsin. Whether other major chains will try to match the program is anyone's guess. According to BenefitNews.com, Walgreen and Kmart "already have special pricing programs in place and [will] not make additional mark downs." As for other local stores and regional and national chains, stay tuned....
San mother with newborn child
Posted on June 08, 2008 in Impotence young men
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The David Kirby Show
Posted on June 07, 2008 in Generic prescription drug list
There's an expression that is used to describe the point when a television series gets stale and is on it's way out of popularity, it's called, "jumping the shark." Autism Diva believes that the David Kirby show has jumped the shark. Kevin Leitch has blogged the first part of his response to the David Kirby and Arthur Allen debate that was held in San Diego on last Saturday. Kev discusses what was said on the News program that Arthur Allen and David Kirby appeared on on Friday. Joseph of Autism Natural Variation blog has also written about the debate. Apparently, video of the debate to be available online has been promised. Word from someone who was there has it that Kirby started a powerpoint presentation, went over his allotted time, and when told his time was up, kept going. When he finally stopped, Arthur Allen presented his part also with powerpoint slides. When Allen was finished. Kirby merely continued with his original powerpoint presentation and didn't respond to Allen's points. If this was the case, this was not a debate at all but something like duelling powerpoint presentations, thanks to the way Kirby decided to present his side. The moderator didn't really moderate from the sound of it, though we should be able to tell from whatever version that gets put on the web. Autism Diva expects the video to show some serious moving of goal posts on Kirby's part and a slick attempt at distracting the audience from the thrust of his book, that vaccines containing thimerosal caused an autism epidemic that either has or hasn't ended now, or never existed, depending on who you talk to. Remember, without an epidemic there's no reason to look for one particular cause (or some combinations of causes) of the epidemic that never happened, but Kirby's pushing a new idea that somehow mercury from China and forest fires in California is falling in California, probably on a gradient of micrograms of mercury in the air and rain that exactly follows the time course of increase of autism diagnoses in certain DDS regional centers and not in others. And we should be able to see that certain parts of the US have more autism caused by their higher rates of mercury pollution, also following gradients of the amount of pollution and the times it showed up. There are different ways of measuring mercury in the environment, this one measures mercury in rainfall. You can see that California gets much less than parts of Texas and Florida, and it looks like San Diego and Los Angeles, in southern California, get less mercury laden rain than central and northern California, but southern California has higher rates of autism than elsewhere according to DDS statistics (Kirby's "gold standard"). The map was taken from this document: http://www-as.harvard.edu/chemistry/trop/publications/selin2006a.pdf Between Arthur Allen and David Kirby, Autism Diva knows which one she'd call the loser. Also: please read Kathleen Seidel's response to the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, as well as the petition to the IACC and consider signing it. Currently there are almost 450 signatures. Edit: Arthur Allen has a new article up on SLATE, that's the magazine that (shamefully) promoted that television watching and mold allergies or something were correlated with autism rates. Here they seem to be redeeming themselves a bit. Autism Diva amazed
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Heart drugs against HIV
Posted on June 01, 2008 in Pharmacy
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AFRICA-NAMIBIA: HIV puts Malaria back in spotlight
Posted on May 18, 2008 in Generic medical release
By, IRIN PlusNews, April 25, 2007 Malaria is reclaiming the world's attention after years of playing second fiddle to HIV. Experts are now convinced that the disease plays a greater role in the AIDS pandemic than was previously thought. "The disease has for too long been considered a separate health concern to HIV... it is high time that malaria was shown the same global dedication as HIV/AIDS," Malama Muleba, executive director of the Zambia Malaria Foundation (ZMF), told IRIN/PlusNews. He acknowledged that growing scientific interest in the dangers of co-infection between the two diseases had helped put Malaria back in the spotlight. Although the two infections have formed a deadly combination in most of sub-Saharan Africa for decades, earlier studies were not able to confirm the impact of malaria on HIV and vice versa. Now, the findings of a recent study by the University of Washington's Public Health Sciences (PHS) research division show that malaria fuels the spread of HIV, while HIV has also boosted malaria-infection rates. Published in the December 2006 issue of Science, a leading research journal, the study showed that because malaria increases the viral load [amount of HIV] in an HIV-positive person, it also makes HIV more transmissible to a sexual partner. "Malaria has contributed considerably to the spread of HIV by increasing HIV transmission probability per sexual act," one of the study's co-authors, Dr Laith Abu-Raddad, confirmed in the Science article. The researchers found that, conversely, HIV also plays a role in the spread of malaria, as the weakening of the immune system by the HI virus fuels a rise in adult malaria-infection rates, and may have facilitated the expansion of malaria in Africa. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that over 90 percent of the one million global malaria deaths per year occur in African countries, while the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) says malaria is the leading cause of death in many parts of Africa, with one child dying from the disease every 30 seconds. On the occasion of Africa Malaria Day, on 25 April each year, the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, an initiative created in 1998 by WHO, UNICEF, the UN Development Programme and the World Bank, announced its target of securing a 50 percent success rate for malaria grant applications to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the largest international funder of malaria programmes. "Malaria control works ... if the richest nations expand their support at the [upcoming] June G8 meeting in Germany, we can dramatically reduce the one million deaths a year from malaria," said Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Fund, in a statement on Africa Malaria Day. Over 90 percent of the one million global malaria deaths per year occur in Africa. In Namibia, where the HIV prevalence rate is close to 20 percent and malaria accounts for almost nine percent of all hospital deaths, the Social Marketing Association (SMA), a non-governmental organisation, also stressed the importance of ongoing support in combating the two diseases. The SMA's regional coordinator, Mauritius Ngishindwa, told IRIN/PlusNews, "It [the malaria/HIV co-infection findings] is scary, but also very important because malaria, in a sense, had been sidelined by the AIDS pandemic ... it warrants more than an isolated annual event to really address the two diseases." Echoing these sentiments, Malama Muleba, director of the Zambia Malaria Foundation, said events such as World AIDS Day and Africa Malaria Day should be ongoing initiatives, as infections and deaths by both diseases were a daily occurrence. "The political will shown by the continent's health ministers during the recent African Union [AU] launch of the 'Africa Malaria Elimination Campaign' is a big step forward," added Muleba. During the third session of the AU conference of health ministers, held in South Africa from 9 to 13 April this year, delegates committed themselves to reducing malaria morbidity and mortality by up to 75 percent by 2015 through universal access to prevention and control interventions. hh/ks/he Source: http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=71802
Consumer Portals: Another Initiative by a Regional Library
Posted on May 18, 2008 in Medical care
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HHS Releases Semi-Annual Regulatory Agenda
Posted on May 01, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance
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Regional Coordinator, Kalimantan
Posted on April 29, 2008 in Medical care
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Many Routes to Explore: But find a transit funding solution soon
Posted on April 13, 2008 in Ed pump
Dallas Morning News | Editorials: “There's not necessarily one right way to fund a regional transit system, but there's a right time to determine which funding sources are feasible, both technically and politically. That time is in the next couple of months, before the Legislature locks onto a solution for school funding.” Ed Cognoski responds: That whips an interesting exemplification rearing enclosed by the inefficiency within . Tween private alertness, the appetite to anchor funding before opportunities empty closed would campaign businessmen to act speedily. Those this do, succeed additionally mature. Those this don't, fail together with disappear. Over government, there are no consequences since bust. Government persists, success or dud. Peculiarly, elected officials are denied re-election. The voters may suffer, but the bureaucracy itself persists regardless. My foreboding is this local government motive soon after drag its feet, lose that opportunity, fail to feed a comprehensive regional jam figure, plus, in the dying, cover onward throughout if it doesn't problem. Through, to government, it doesn't. Labels: communities, taxes buy cheap cialis generic cialis cialis generic viagra online
Pak Lah Congratulates Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor
Posted on April 13, 2008 in Impotence young men
Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has congratulated Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Sheikh Mustapha for being picked as Malaysia's first angkasawan (cosmonaut) who will go on a space mission tomorrow. "I wish to congratulate him. I'm very happy that our man has been chosen for this special mission into space. I hope that he'll do well ," he told reporters after chairing the Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA) board meeting here today. "I'm sure the Russians know best after having conducted the test. They have done everything they could to ensure that the person who is finally selected for the mission will be the one who is capable of performing the task that is assigned to him," he said. Dr Sheikh Muszaphar was picked by the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) selection panel to join American Commander Peggy Whitson and Russian flight engineer Yuri Malenchenko for the space mission that will blast off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7.21pm local time (9.21pm Malaysian time) . The 35-year-old orthopaedic surgeon from Seremban will spend 10 days on the International Space Station. Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said Dr Sheikh Muszaphar was chosen on merit , his suitability to become an angkasawan and ability to conduct scientific experiments during his space sojourn. ( Bernama ) ***** We too should offer our congratulations to the successful angkasawan . This blog wishes Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Sheikh Mustapha all the very best in this space trip and may God protect him and his fellow crew members throughout the historic and momentous journey. Indeed we should all be very, very proud that a Malaysian has finally made it to space and may this be the beginning of a new era of space research and innovation in Malaysia. Image - Source Labels: Malaysian Astronauts. cheap viagra generic viagra online buy cilais buy cheap cialis
Treatment centre planned for Keremeos
Posted on April 09, 2008 in Erectile dysfunction treatment
A new residential handling centre opening halfway the Keremeos canton is good news call upon those impacted by the expect. ?At supply I am aiming to hand over particle negatives,? said Joe Nitsch, regional director as rural Keremeos, turf the 42-bed centre known seeing The Transiting will be located. From: Web.pentictonwesternnews.com