With school end approaching, some of us will be spending our summer vacations helping our children to settle into their chosen University town. Arizona State University is located in Arizona’s most populous city of Tempe and if you are planning to look for accommodation in this area – you are in luck!

Tempe has an amazing range of places on offer and you can choose from town houses and condos through to family homes and mansions! Instead of paying out rent for your son or daughter, why not make money on buying an investment property? What are the pros and cons – apart from the obvious advantage of having a ready-made manager on hand to supervise the incoming revenue?

There are several factors that are constant for every family sending an offspring to University: (a) you will need to find a place suitable for your child to live in, (b) you need to find one that they will like, but that you can afford. (c) You hope he/she will make their funds last through the semester.

(d) You will not want your child to be so hampered by residential rules that he/she becomes stressed, (e) you will prefer a place near to University to save on transportation, and (f) you hope that fellow renters will not be into drugs, excessive parties or alcohol, etc

Most of these concerns can be eradicated if you buy a modest home and rent it to students – one of them being your child. You will have as much, or as little, control as you feel you need. Many of your worries will disappear into thin air….read on..

For instance (a) you know that your child will have a suitable place to live in, and (b) you will not have to put out money to pay rent as the other rental students will cover your mortgage. (c) You know that they cannot be given notice half way through the semester.

The residential rules (d) can be made to suit your child’s preferences; for instance, if he is an early riser then noise will cease at 11p.m. (e) You can choose a place near to the school or at least walking distance of up to 20 minutes (therefore no car is needed with all that expense and worry of it being wrapped around a lamp-post!). Finally (f) you and/or your child will write the rules about parties etc and have the control over tenant’s behavior.

Not only is this a worry-free suggestion, but it will actually make you money! You will probably find that you like the idea of having a second property financed for you in this way, and continue with the system long after the degree has been awarded!

Let’s get down to a few technicalities, although a good real estate agent will help you with all this. If you have a home already in which you have accrued equity, you can use this as a surety (collateral) for a second home in Tempe. Perhaps you are retired in which case you can use a pension as ‘income’, or maybe you both work and financing is a doddle!

Your real estate agent can advise you on points to be considered when buying a rental property, practicalities such as suitable layouts, bathroom choices, front and back door positions etc. Sometimes a large bedroom with two windows can be made into two smaller bedrooms if there is also a living room available for residents etc. You can send/email a list of requirements to a local realtor and be the first one to hear of such suitable properties.

Now is a very good time to buy any second home, because of the low mortgage interest rate and also the large choice of homes. It is a buyer’s market now, so you can shop around. It is easy to be more practical when you are not choosing a personal home. Having said that, Tempe is a great place to ‘winter’ in when you become retired, so pick a place you like. Tempe is a fun-loving town with many parks, pools and the large Tempe Town Lake to cool off in during the hot summers.

The fact that your son or daughter is going to move away and go to University need not be viewed upon as a financial drain; it may bring great joy into your lives. You will be financing a second home ready for your retirement! Thank goodness they chose Tempe to study in and not Chicago!

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Small Business Opportunities…Research for People That Want to Get Started But Are Afraid of Getting Scammed .

Finding the best small business opportunities could mean eliminating that long metro ride commute…shoveling out knee deep snow…(unless you love it) getting home just in time to eat and passing out just to do it all over again tomorrow.

Thousands are now looking for work from home programs, the idea has caught on like wild fire.

More and more professionals are looking for a way out. Those high-paying professions are taking a toll on many professional’s health and life. Many are turning to class 101 small business opportunity solutions for advice.

Speaking of classes, read below as Dr. Charles king gives his opinion about what you should look for in home based business opportunities.

Let’s hear from Dr. Charles W. King, a PHD from Harvard , and a professor of marketing at the University of Illinois at Chicago; also Author of “The New professionals.”

One of Dr. King’s students asked him what did he think about network marketing (MLM) AKA the home business opportunity industry as being a viable alternative to a traditional business.

Dr. King’s response was, “I don’t know anything about network marketing and I don’t want to know anything about network marketing”. His student looked him in the eye and said, if I responded like that you would have given me a “F” for a grade.

After realizing that he knew very little about the work from home industry; he proceeded to research the business model.

What he found was astounding and shocking.

We will reveal Dr. King’s top 4 characteristics of what a home-based business opportunity must possess later.

Years ago most people thought the only persons that joined MLM opportunities were people that were uneducated and was not business savvy.

According to the Direct Selling Association over 65 percent of the direct marketers are college educated. This fact is attracting more professionals into entrepreneurship than ever before.

Here are 4 major desirable components of a stable non traditional business . (according to Dr. King’s findings)

1. Consumable product or service

2. Unique product or service

3. Integrity and strong leadership in top management

4. At least 18 months in business

There you have it Dr. Charles King’s vital components of a non traditional home based business opportunity.

Can You Imagine?….not having to do a darn thing everyday and not even doing that until 12:00 noon!

We hope this information assists you in moving forward to your dreams.

Your attention on this small investment of time can be huge. Sooner or later, you will have to participate in your very own future’s rescue …Why not Now. Take action on what you have learned by reading, Class 101 Small Business Opportunity.

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Copyright © 2010 Ed Bagley

If you are a Michigan State fan, booster or alumni, watching the Spartans play can be dangerous to your health.

A rabid follower of the Spartans is emotionally vested and seeing them in the first half of their last two games is distressing at best, and depressing at worst. When you spot the opposition 6-3 and 17-7 first half leads, bad things can happen.

First it was a 3-3 Illinois team that went to the locker room with a 6-3 halftime lead only to be outscored by the Spartans 23-zip in the second half. Last week Northwestern jumped out to a 17-0 lead and went to the locker room with a 17-7 lead before the Spartans put together a 28-point second half performance, and 35-27 victory.

So what is it with the Michigan State players? I don’t know. One thing is for sure – when a sportscaster says he was in the locker room at halftime in the Illinois game and would not be doing that again because of what he witnessed being said, you know the players got an earful from coach Mark Dantonio and his staff.

The bad news is that Michigan State’s players are not starting games fast. The good news is they are waking up in the second half and still winning anyway.

All of that may come to a crashing halt against Iowa. The Hawkeyes (5-2) are currently ranked 18th in the AP Top 25 Poll after losing to the 8th-ranked Wisconsin (7-1) Badgers, 31-30. The Spartans (8-0) are ranked 5th. Ohio State (7-1) is ranked 10th, so the Big Ten Conference is alive and well.

Iowa is no pushover.

The Hawkeyes can score – 33+ points a game to Michigan State’s 34+ points per game. Worse yet, the Iowa defense is only giving up 15+ points a game, better than Michigan State’s 17+ point a game average. Iowa’s total defense is ranked 13th nationally, Michigan State’s is ranked 32nd.

The Spartan rushing offense is 28th (gaining 193+ ypg), but the Hawkeye rushing defense is 7th nationally (allowing only 92+ ypg). Michigan State’s and Iowa’s passing offenses are about the same, 34th to 38th, and their passing defenses are pretty close, 52nd (Iowa) to 62nd (MSU).

Passing efficiency? Iowa wins, ranking 3rd nationally, while Michigan State ranks 11th.

The Hawkeyes have built their national reputation on a bruising defense that takes no prisoners, and practices scorched-earth tactics – in other words, trash and burn the opposition. The Spartans are more of a finesse team, with better balance on offense than defense.

Michigan State must travel to Iowa for this game. Could this be the week that the Spartans lose their first game? It is very possible, even though the Hawkeyes have been beaten by both Arizona (ranked 15th) and Wisconsin (ranked 9th).

It is really difficult for me to watch the Spartans. I am a Michigan State University graduate – Class of 1966, prior to the advent of the Internet and techno prompts when the biggest deal was an IBM Selectric typewriter with the ball, it was at least an upgrade from my old Underwood typewriter left over from the 1940s.

In the Illinois game with Michigan State down 6-3 at the half, I left at halftime and went to the YMCA for an hour-and-a-half workout on the treadmill. I made up my mind I would not watch them lose; if they won, that was OK, if they lost, I did not want to see it. I was lucky that day, they won with a great second half comeback that I missed.

I may not even turn on the set when they play Iowa. I would hate to jinx them at this point in time; after all, they are 8-0. Not to mention the fact that Halloween is just around the corner.

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One interesting study is called, “Phase II study of novel antifolate, N super(10)-propargyl-5,8 dideazafolic acid (CB3717), in malignant mesothelioma.” By Cantwell, BMJ Earnshaw, M, Harris, AL – CANCER TREAT. REP. Vol. 70, no. 11, pp. 1335-1336. 1986.   Here is an excerpt: “The quinazoline folate analogue N super(10)-propargyl-5,8 dideazafolic acid (CB3717) is a tight binding inhibitor of thymidylate synthetase and in human tumor cell lines may overcome methotrexate resistance. In a phase I trial, dose-limiting toxicity of CB3717 was renal; responses occurred at doses from 200 to 600 mg/m super(2) and most patients developed reversible biochemical abnormalities of liver function associated with malaise. Three patients had only one course of CB3717, two refused further treatment because of toxicity, and one with pre-existing ischemic heart disease died within 7 days of CB3717 administration. CB3717-related death was considered unlikely. CB3717 has a low level of activity in mesothelioma and induces frequent (but reversible) hepatic toxicity and associated malaise but minimal myelosuppression.”

Another interesting study is called, “New marker for mesothelioma: an immunoperoxidase study.” By A Donna, P G Betta, D Bellingeri, A Marchesini
J Clin Pathol 1986; 39:961-968.  Here is an excerpt: “Abstract – An antibody was raised against a protein isolated from the cytoplasm of mesothelioma cells. It was subsequently used in an immunoperoxidase procedure on formalin fixed, paraffin embedded tissue sections. A representative sample of benign and malignant tumours from all the systems of the human body was examined. All the tumours derived from coelomic surfaces (mesotheliomas of pleura, peritoneum, and ovary, and adenomatoid tumour of epididymis) reacted with the antibody. No other tumour tested in this study expressed the protein. These findings indicate that the antibody may be useful in the identification of mesothelioma cells in both histological and cytological diagnostic routine practice when morphological interpretation is in doubt.”

Another interesting study is called, “Fine needle aspiration cytology of malignant mesothelioma.” By Sterrett GF, Whitaker D, Shilkin KB, Walters MN – Acta Cytol. 1987 Mar-Apr;31(2):185-93.  Here is an excerpt: “Abstract – The results of fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytology in 19 cases of malignant mesothelioma are presented. Adequate material for a diagnosis of malignancy was obtained in 17 cases, and in 8 cases a specific diagnosis of mesothelioma could be made. In four other cases, the findings were either consistent with or suggestive of mesothelioma; in four, accurate distinction from other neoplasms was not possible, and in two cases, adenocarcinoma was suggested. The spectrum of cytologic findings ranged from neoplasms of purely epithelial appearance through more pleomorphic biphasic neoplasms to anaplastic tumors. A combination of epithelial-like cell clusters, pavement-like sheets of epithelial cells with well-defined cell borders and prominent cell separation, dispersed angular cells with dense cytoplasm and some spindle-cell forms was the most specific cytologic pattern for mesothelioma. In four neoplasms, ultrastructural examination of aspirated material provided the additional evidence for a definitive diagnosis. The identification of hyaluronic acid within intracytoplasmic vacuoles, either in smears or in cell blocks, confirmed the diagnosis in three tumors. Only in one case, with a strong clinical background suggesting mesothelioma, was the cytologic preparation sufficient for diagnosis without ancillary diagnostic methods. FNA is of particular value in the diagnosis of pleural mesothelioma in patients who do not present with a pleural effusion. Obtaining material for cell block preparations, cytochemistry or ultrastructural study is generally necessary for definitive tumor typing.”

Another interesting study is called, “Peritoneal mesothelioma. Radiologic appearances correlated with histology.” By Ros PR, Yuschok TJ, Buck JL, Shekitka KM, Kaude JV. –
Acta Radiol. 1991 Sep;32(5):355-8.  Department of Radiology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville.  Here is an excerpt: “Abstract – Previous imaging reports of peritoneal mesothelioma have described a variety of radiologic appearances, but have not included its pathologic classification. We retrospectively reviewed 10 cases of peritoneal mesothelioma representing the following histologic categories: 7 epithelial, 2 sarcomatoid, and one biphasic. By imaging, epithelial mesotheliomas demonstrated diffuse thickening of the peritoneum and mesentery and/or multiple small nodules. The sarcomatoid-type appeared as a mass and the biphasic-type had radiologic and gross pathologic features of both sarcomatoid and epithelial types. We conclude that peritoneal mesothelioma presents with a wide spectrum of radiographic appearances and should therefore be included in the differential diagnoses of diffuse as well as localized peritoneal processes.”

You can expect to have a great experience living in apartments in Provo.  Because not only will you have the best accommodation in the metropolis, you also get to live in a place that’s close to nature.  It’s the place you are sure to enjoy.

Living in Provo is living in a place full of learning.  It has the third largest school in the whole country with a population of over 320,000 students enrolled as of today.  Students learn many things in Brigham Young University including academics, religion and sports.  And if they’re bored, they can simply admire the tallest building in Provo, Spencer W. Kimball Tower, which is housed inside the campus.  Also, if they need to do a few research, they may do so in the city’s public library located at Academy Square which is the former site of the university mentioned earlier as well as an added historic place for the city’s National Register of Historic Places.

Another great thing about the city is that it is an ideal working location.  There are more than a dozen job opportunities available for anyone who is wants to live in the city.  All of which are vary in fields of specialty.  There’s the service industry where you get to choose among the many different shopping centers and boutiques within Provo’s downtown area, the art industry where you can pursue your dreams in the performing arts as you perform for an audience in Covey Center for the Arts, and the technology industry where you get to work in some of the big tech companies in the city such as Vital Smarts, Heritage Web Solutions, Novell and Connect Public Relations.  Also, you can choose to find work in the city’s health industries like Nature’s Sunshine Products, Nu Skin Enterprises and Tahitian Noni International.   

Lastly, the place has a relaxing venue.  And it’s all possible due to Provo’s existing location which is near mountain ranges.  Because of this, you can enjoy doing some outdoor activities such as hiking, skiing, fishing, camping and several others that let you enjoy nature while you appreciate of its beauty.  Best of all, you get to see the different species of animals in the wild like cougars and moose which are frequently seen in the ‘Y’ Mountain.

All of these wonderful sites can be found in the City of Provo.  You can enjoy nature while living a life in the metropolis without going anywhere else.  So, stay in apartments in Provo and you’ll experience a life that you have been dreaming about!

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As soon as you enter Hampton Roads, the city begins to reveal itself. It’s sprawling, muscular and—from the water, at least—somewhat forbidding: a commercial fishing basin, a giant shipyard, an open-air coal pier, a fleet of reserve ships aging on the waterfront. Somewhere—ahh, there—between gray behemoths, are a few downtown office buildings, a narrow park and the barely visible top of a victory arch.

But don’t be put off. Newport News does have accessible marinas, a few lovely spots for dropping anchor, inviting beaches, a vibrant fishing industry, a gorgeous performing arts center and one of the world’s finest maritime museums. And it’s all reachable by water, with a little extra effort—okay, maybe a lot.

There’s history here, as deep as the water just off the shoreline, and it begins with a name. It may well be, as some contend, that Newport News Point—the point of land that marks the end of Hampton Roads and the beginning of the James River—got its name from the good news that Captain Christopher Newport, leader of the Jamestown expedition, had returned with supplies. But I prefer a more likely theory, that one William Newce, a knighted Irishman, arrived shortly after the 1607 settlement and established a seaport that came to be known as New Port Newce.

It was just off this point of land, two-and-a-half centuries later, that two ungainly ironclad warships, the U.S.S. Monitor and C.S.S. Virginia (nee U.S.S. Merrimack) battled to a draw on a fog-shrouded morning in March 1862, marking the beginning of the end of wooden fighting ships. Every time I pass this way I think of that battle, and how so many naval ships, “ironclads” all, are now built just over there, on that near shore, practically within hailing distance; Also not far from here, perhaps the distance of a cannonball’s flight, are the hoary remains of the Monitor itself, resting in a world-class museum.

I’m traveling by sailboat—my Tartan 30, Ode to Joy—from my mooring on the Lafayette River in Norfolk, hoping to take a closer look at what makes Newport News compelling, especially by water. Newport News, a linear city that’s at least 20 miles long but only two to four miles wide for most of that length, parades slowly by as I pick up a gentle northerly breeze, put Middle Ground Light astern, slip past the Monitor-Merrimac Bridge-Tunnel and enter the James. To my dismay, there’s no ideal place for a cruising sailor to tie up—not in the Small Boat Harbor that is home to a commercial fishing fleet (more on that later), not downtown, not along the beach, and certainly not along the industrial waterfront. I feel like I’ll have to keep going to Williamsburg or Jamestown. But I won’t give up yet; there is a way to see this town. I keep moving.

At the coal pier, the ship Energy Enterprise out of New Orleans, and a barge from Baltimore are poised under a gantry taking on black coal that is piled in tall mounds on land (regularly sprayed with water to keep down the soot). Not too inviting here. The city’s dominant feature, stretching for miles along the waterfront, is the giant Northrop Grumman Newport News shipyard. It was founded by railroad baron Collis Huntington more than a hundred years ago to service the ships that unloaded at his docks.

The Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding Co., as it was known then, began turning out military ships by the scores during the war years, becoming the largest individually owned yard in America, until Northrop Grumman bought it not long ago. At one of the piers, towering 20 stories above the water and looking about as big as a reclining Empire State Building, broods the newly commissioned aircraft carrier George H. W. Bush, undergoing post-shakedown maintenance and repair.

Security is tight as a tick here. You don’t even want to think about docking or losing headway. Nice doggy. Don’t worry. I’m just passing. At 3:30 p.m., a siren wails. A shift change, I hope. Miles farther and there’s still no place to stop, but that’s about to change. Just before the James River Bridge I come to the city-owned Leeward Municipal Marina. I’m fond of Leeward. It was where I found my first boat, a sweet little swing-keel Spirit 23, which I bought there and sailed home. Tucked in next to the bridge, the marina is surrounded by a white cement breakwater. I had stopped here by car a few days earlier to see if I could go anywhere on foot. And to my delight, I could. Just up from the marina a stoplight allowed me to safely walk across the approach to the James River Bridge. And right there on the western side of the bridge was a sandy oasis, Huntington Park. On that day it was teeming with beachgoers: families with blankets, umbrellas and coolers, lifeguards and swimmers. Just beyond a refreshment stand I found a ramp, where half a dozen boats were being coaxed off trailers into the water. One could easily anchor out and dinghy in or tie up at the small pier that accommodates ramp users, even go for a swim at the beach.

There’s a fishing pier at Huntington Park that rests on remains of an older James River Bridge, with the Crab Shack Seafood Restaurant—it’s good, I hear—perched over the water. Beyond the beach is an elaborate children’s park called Fort Fun, and then, a not-so-fun place, I imagine, the Virginia War Museum. But what I was looking for and found was a footbridge crossing a small creek. Aha again! If I wanted to get to the Mariners’ Museum by bicycle from the waterfront entrance to Newport News, following the inviting River Road beside the James, I could. This city is opening up a little at a time.

Back in the present, I’m under the James River Bridge and passing by this lovely beach, then several miles of waterfront mansions, as well as the park that surrounds the Mariners’ Museum. An hour later, after spotting the entrance markers to Deep Creek, I drop my sails and motor in. On the port side is Menchville, where several deadrise workboats are moored. Ahead is Deep Creek Landing Marina and the Warwick Yacht Club, both bristling with yachts. To starboard is James River Marina, my destination today, and a place I’m looking forward to revisiting.

Owner Marty Moliken, whom I met eight years ago when writing about the James, is there to help with my lines. For the past 60 years, workboats had tied up at an ancient city pier next to the marina. Finally, this year, the old pier was removed as the city improved the bulkheads and dockage across the creek. Now Moliken has gotten the ball rolling for 40 new slips and a raw bar at the end of the old pier. If the building-permit gods smile on him, he says, it could all be up and running by next summer.

At this point, Barb arrives in the land yacht and begins to unload our bikes. We’d thought of bringing them across by boat. It’s possible to stow them on deck, but they’re not the fold-up types and, frankly, we didn’t want the hassle of loading and unloading them. What I was trying to test out was my theory that we could fairly ?easily get to the Mariners’ Museum from James River Marina—because you just can’t visit Newport News without going to that gem of a museum. We’ll test my theory about biking there in the morning. Now we test the food.

James River Marina owns what has long been a popular local restaurant. Originally named Herman’s Harbor House, it’s now called Slightly Up the Creek. We get a table on the front porch overlooking the creek, and while a fan whirs and the sun sets, we indulge in some very good shrimp and crabcakes. And—we couldn’t resist—some astonishing caramel bread pudding. The western sky is dominated by sail-shaped clouds, with sunset in their bellies.

With bread pudding in our bellies, Barb and I bed down aboard Ode to Joy, falling asleep to the murmurs of conversation and the occasional peal of laughter from the night owls in nearby slips. We awake at dawn, dawdle over cereal and fruit, then pedal off toward the museum.

It’s a nice ride, about three and a half miles through a cozy suburban neighborhood. We choose the long way this time because it leads down to the waterfront and to Museum Drive, which takes you through the heavily forested Mariners’ Museum Park. Archer Huntington, stepson of shipyard founder Collis Huntington, turned his collection of maritime paintings and ship models into the museum, surrounding it with miles of parkland and nature trails, so it’s fun to arrive this way.

We’re lucky to be visiting the museum while it’s showcasing a major exhibit, “Building Better Ships,” that explores (until November 15) the museum’s intimate ties to the shipbuilding company. It was Archer Huntington’s fascination with maritime art that led to the museum’s creation in the early 1930s. At the same time, he hired well known artist Thomas C. Skinner and furnished him with a studio at the shipyard. Skinner turned out dozens of near-life-size canvases of shipwrights plying their trade—laying out patterns in cavernous lofts, punching holes for rivets, pouring molds with red-hot steel, lining up at pay windows at weeks’ end.

The shipyard also filmed those tradesmen, as an aid for training new workers, and those black and white films, recently restored, are now shown side-by-side with the paintings. A painting of workers laying out patterns, for instance, is echoed by similar filmed images. Scenes of workers pouring molten lead into a mold, bending white-hot steel strips into the shape of a prow, or turning a glowing propeller shaft are similarly juxtaposed. This may be, as museum curator Anna Holloway later told me, “the ultimate way of interpreting historic works of art, viewing the paintings and then seeing film footage of these things actually occurring.”

Collis Huntington virtually created the modern city of Newport News by running his railroad there, then creating the shipyard. A small village sprang up nearby and was incorporated in 1896, the same year the shipyard opened. “It was my original intention to start a ?shipyard plant in the best location in the world,” reads a quote from Huntington on one wall of the exhibit, “and I suc-ceeded in my purpose. It is right at the gateway to the sea.” That gateway became a huge embarkation point during the world wars as hundreds of thousands of troops shipped off to Europe. They were welcomed home to the city’s waterfront by a victory arch, built in the style of Paris’s Arc de Triomphe.

The museum’s most compelling feature for me (hardly surprising, since I’ve written a book on the subject) is the?Monitor Center, dedicated to that historic clash of experimental ironclads, the Monitor and Virginia. This sprawling million permanent exhibit presides over not only a full-scale exterior model of the Monitor, but also actual parts of it, plucked from the bottom of the Atlantic beginning in 1987 and now being preserved and displayed here. Indeed, one of the best parts of the Monitor Center—besides watching reenactments of the battles of Hampton Roads and the sinking later that year of the Monitor off Cape Hatteras—is being able to climb up to windows that look down into the Monitor conservation area. There are more than a thousand artifacts here, but the star of the show is undoubtedly the part of the Monitor that even a casual Civil War buff can identify—the massive iron gun turret, which now stews in a bath as 140 years of salt incursion is slowly leeched out of the metal. On days when the water is clear, or when it’s merely being sprayed with a fine mist, you can see the dents caused by enemy cannon shot.

You can imagine what the Monitorgunners, working feverishly inside the turret, unable to see the enemy, must have experienced. One seaman “dropped over like a dead man” when a ball struck a few inches from his head. Another was flung over both guns from the blow.

The latest find is such a simple thing, an oil can that years of sedimentation and the marriage of metals have caused to be cemented to the engine’s condenser. But it reminds you that there were men down in that engine room on New Year’s Eve 1862, struggling to keep the steam engines running as water rose toward the fire grates. The Monitor went down in 240 feet of water off Cape Hatteras, with the loss of 16 crew. Even more poignant are the remnants of an officer’s coat that were found draped over one of the two gun carriages. “This is probably what one of the crew took off to keep from being dragged down as he went into the water,” Marcie Renner, the museum’s chief conservator, told me during another visit. Pretty exciting stuff, slowly materializing after 147 years of submerged history.

On the bike ride back to the marina, we take a faster route, heading west toward Deep Creek, but this time past the modern and growing Christopher Newport University and the impressive I.M. Pei designed Ferguson Center for the Arts, one of the most highly regarded performing arts venues in the region. It’s nice to know that you can stop at Deep Creek or Leeward and go, whether by bike or taxi, to a world-class museum or performing space.

One of the lesser known but more intriguing parts of the Newport News waterfront is the city’s Small Boat Harbor. It can be glimpsed for about a nanosecond while driving over the Monitor-Merrimac Bridge-Tunnel, just off to the east. What you can see, mostly, is the top of fishing trawler rigs, so you’d be right in guessing it’s a commercial fishing harbor. And not just for small boats. Pretty big stuff, really. Crabbers, clammers, scallop boats, pilot boats, Coast Guard boats and all the rest. And, all along Newport News Creek, which creates the harbor, are seafood packing plants.

We’ve got to drive to get there; it’s at the other end of this sprawling town, but luckily we have the car. Harbormaster Doreen Kopacz, who grew up in the Willoughby section of Norfolk, greets me. We take a drive up one side of the creek and down the other. “This is one of thefew spots left that lets commercial people come in,” she says. We loop under the bridge and park where Judy’s Spirit, a 40-foot double rig clammer, is coming in. Charles Stanley Mason and his son, Charles Jr., are back from having done engine work on their boat. Mason, who sits on the pier next to his boat, has been clamming out of the Small Boat Harbor for 22 years, “and we’re getting the best we’ve ever got for ‘em.”

What’s so great about clamming? I ask the elder Charles. He shrugs. “I like to do what I like to do. You know what I mean?” It isn’t easy, not in this era of tight regulations, but that observation gets only another shrug. “Nothing’s like it used to be.”

Charles Jr., a thin beard tracing the ridge of his jaw, enthusiastically shows me the clam rigs, each powered by a four-speed V-6 tractor-trailer motor. “It’s the hardest job I ever had,” he says, explaining how fast the clam scoop flies off the bottom. “You got to pay attention or you’ll hurt yourself.” Right now it doesn’t look very promising for him to follow in his father’s footsteps, he explains, what with the state tightly regulating the clam beds. “If they’d leave the grounds out there open,” he says, “I’d keep doing it till I was as old as my dad.”

Harbormaster Kopacz doesn’t mind taking me around some more, so we continue the tour—soon stopping to watch another boat, Miss Leslie from Poquoson, Va., come in with about 30 bushels of blue crabs. Ken Diggs and his son—you guessed it, Ken Diggs Jr.—gripe like all fishermen do about regulations, but they wouldn’t do anything else for a living. “It’s all I ever did, it’s crazy,” says the younger Diggs. “It’s like I’m the last cowboy.”

There are a lot of last cowboys here, in the so-called Small Boat Harbor, one of the largest concentrations of seafood businesses of its kind on the Bay. Dozens of boats come in and unload while we watch. One of the fish packing plants has a retail outlet, and a nice lady—”What can I get for you, darlin’?”—sells me some very nice shrimp. Perfect for our dinner on board.

Barb and I spend another night aboard, this time anchored at a peaceful spot in Deep Creek, and leave shortly after first light. A fall-like northerly breeze catches our sails as we parade—and then, as the wind picks up, race past—the miles-long city and a shoreline fringed with history. It’s been nice getting to know Newport News, New Port Newse, that mighty and mighty nice city along the James.

As soon as you enter Hampton Roads, the city begins to reveal itself. It’s sprawling, muscular and—from the water, at least—somewhat forbidding: a commercial fishing basin, a giant shipyard, an open-air coal pier, a fleet of reserve ships aging on the waterfront. Somewhere—ahh, there—between gray behemoths, are a few downtown office buildings, a narrow park and the barely visible top of a victory arch. But don’t be put off. Newport News does have accessible marinas, a few lovely spots for dropping anchor, inviting beaches, a vibrant fishing industry, a gorgeous performing arts center and one of the world’s finest maritime museums. And it’s all reachable by water, with a little extra effort—okay, maybe a lot. There’s history here, as deep as the water just off the shoreline, and it begins with a name. It may well be, as some contend, that Newport News Point—the point of land that marks the end of Hampton Roads and the beginning of the James River—got its name from the good news that Captain Christopher Newport, leader of the Jamestown expedition, had returned with supplies. But I prefer a more likely theory, that one William Newce, a knighted Irishman, arrived shortly after the 1607 settlement and established a seaport that came to be known as New Port Newce. It was just off this point of land, two-and-a-half centuries later, that two ungainly ironclad warships, the U.S.S. Monitor and C.S.S. Virginia (nee U.S.S. Merrimack) battled to a draw on a fog-shrouded morning in March 1862, marking the beginning of the end of wooden fighting ships. Every time I pass this way I think of that battle, and how so many naval ships, “ironclads” all, are now built just over there, on that near shore, practically within hailing distance; Also not far from here, perhaps the distance of a cannonball’s flight, are the hoary remains of the Monitor itself, resting in a world-class museum. I’m traveling by sailboat—my Tartan 30, Ode to Joy—from my mooring on the Lafayette River in Norfolk, hoping to take a closer look at what makes Newport News compelling, especially by water. Newport News, a linear city that’s at least 20 miles long but only two to four miles wide for most of that length, parades slowly by as I pick up a gentle northerly breeze, put Middle Ground Light astern, slip past the Monitor-Merrimac Bridge-Tunnel and enter the James. To my dismay, there’s no ideal place for a cruising sailor to tie up—not in the Small Boat Harbor that is home to a commercial fishing fleet (more on that later), not downtown, not along the beach, and certainly not along the industrial waterfront. I feel like I’ll have to keep going to Williamsburg or Jamestown. But I won’t give up yet; there is a way to see this town. I keep moving. At the coal pier, the ship Energy Enterprise out of New Orleans, and a barge from Baltimore are poised under a gantry taking on black coal that is piled in tall mounds on land (regularly sprayed with water to keep down the soot). Not too inviting here. The city’s dominant feature, stretching for miles along the waterfront, is the giant Northrop Grumman Newport News shipyard. It was founded by railroad baron Collis Huntington more than a hundred years ago to service the ships that unloaded at his docks. The Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding Co., as it was known then, began turning out military ships by the scores during the war years, becoming the largest individually owned yard in America, until Northrop Grumman bought it not long ago. At one of the piers, towering 20 stories above the water and looking about as big as a reclining Empire State Building, broods the newly commissioned aircraft carrier George H. W. Bush, undergoing post-shakedown maintenance and repair. Security is tight as a tick here. You don’t even want to think about docking or losing headway. Nice doggy. Don’t worry. I’m just passing. At 3:30 p.m., a siren wails. A shift change, I hope. Miles farther and there’s still no place to stop, but that’s about to change. Just before the James River Bridge I come to the city-owned Leeward Municipal Marina. I’m fond of Leeward. It was where I found my first boat, a sweet little swing-keel Spirit 23, which I bought there and sailed home. Tucked in next to the bridge, the marina is surrounded by a white cement breakwater. I had stopped here by car a few days earlier to see if I could go anywhere on foot. And to my delight, I could. Just up from the marina a stoplight allowed me to safely walk across the approach to the James River Bridge. And right there on the western side of the bridge was a sandy oasis, Huntington Park. On that day it was teeming with beachgoers: families with blankets, umbrellas and coolers, lifeguards and swimmers. Just beyond a refreshment stand I found a ramp, where half a dozen boats were being coaxed off trailers into the water. One could easily anchor out and dinghy in or tie up at the small pier that accommodates ramp users, even go for a swim at the beach. There’s a fishing pier at Huntington Park that rests on remains of an older James River Bridge, with the Crab Shack Seafood Restaurant—it’s good, I hear—perched over the water. Beyond the beach is an elaborate children’s park called Fort Fun, and then, a not-so-fun place, I imagine, the Virginia War Museum. But what I was looking for and found was a footbridge crossing a small creek. Aha again! If I wanted to get to the Mariners’ Museum by bicycle from the waterfront entrance to Newport News, following the inviting River Road beside the James, I could. This city is opening up a little at a time. Back in the present, I’m under the James River Bridge and passing by this lovely beach, then several miles of waterfront mansions, as well as the park that surrounds the Mariners’ Museum. An hour later, after spotting the entrance markers to Deep Creek, I drop my sails and motor in. On the port side is Menchville, where several deadrise workboats are moored. Ahead is Deep Creek Landing Marina and the Warwick Yacht Club, both bristling with yachts. To starboard is James River Marina, my destination today, and a place I’m looking forward to revisiting. Owner Marty Moliken, whom I met eight years ago when writing about the James, is there to help with my lines. For the past 60 years, workboats had tied up at an ancient city pier next to the marina. Finally, this year, the old pier was removed as the city improved the bulkheads and dockage across the creek. Now Moliken has gotten the ball rolling for 40 new slips and a raw bar at the end of the old pier. If the building-permit gods smile on him, he says, it could all be up and running by next summer. At this point, Barb arrives in the land yacht and begins to unload our bikes. We’d thought of bringing them across by boat. It’s possible to stow them on deck, but they’re not the fold-up types and, frankly, we didn’t want the hassle of loading and unloading them. What I was trying to test out was my theory that we could fairly ?easily get to the Mariners’ Museum from James River Marina—because you just can’t visit Newport News without going to that gem of a museum. We’ll test my theory about biking there in the morning. Now we test the food. James River Marina owns what has long been a popular local restaurant. Originally named Herman’s Harbor House, it’s now called Slightly Up the Creek. We get a table on the front porch overlooking the creek, and while a fan whirs and the sun sets, we indulge in some very good shrimp and crabcakes. And—we couldn’t resist—some astonishing caramel bread pudding. The western sky is dominated by sail-shaped clouds, with sunset in their bellies. With bread pudding in our bellies, Barb and I bed down aboard Ode to Joy, falling asleep to the murmurs of conversation and the occasional peal of laughter from the night owls in nearby slips. We awake at dawn, dawdle over cereal and fruit, then pedal off toward the museum. It’s a nice ride, about three and a half miles through a cozy suburban neighborhood. We choose the long way this time because it leads down to the waterfront and to Museum Drive, which takes you through the heavily forested Mariners’ Museum Park. Archer Huntington, stepson of shipyard founder Collis Huntington, turned his collection of maritime paintings and ship models into the museum, surrounding it with miles of parkland and nature trails, so it’s fun to arrive this way. We’re lucky to be visiting the museum while it’s showcasing a major exhibit, “Building Better Ships,” that explores (until November 15) the museum’s intimate ties to the shipbuilding company. It was Archer Huntington’s fascination with maritime art that led to the museum’s creation in the early 1930s. At the same time, he hired well known artist Thomas C. Skinner and furnished him with a studio at the shipyard. Skinner turned out dozens of near-life-size canvases of shipwrights plying their trade—laying out patterns in cavernous lofts, punching holes for rivets, pouring molds with red-hot steel, lining up at pay windows at weeks’ end. The shipyard also filmed those tradesmen, as an aid for training new workers, and those black and white films, recently restored, are now shown side-by-side with the paintings. A painting of workers laying out patterns, for instance, is echoed by similar filmed images. Scenes of workers pouring molten lead into a mold, bending white-hot steel strips into the shape of a prow, or turning a glowing propeller shaft are similarly juxtaposed. This may be, as museum curator Anna Holloway later told me, “the ultimate way of interpreting historic works of art, viewing the paintings and then seeing film footage of these things actually occurring.” Collis Huntington virtually created the modern city of Newport News by running his railroad there, then creating the shipyard. A small village sprang up nearby and was incorporated in 1896, the same year the shipyard opened. “It was my original intention to start a ?shipyard plant in the best location in the world,” reads a quote from Huntington on one wall of the exhibit, “and I suc-ceeded in my purpose. It is right at the gateway to the sea.” That gateway became a huge embarkation point during the world wars as hundreds of thousands of troops shipped off to Europe. They were welcomed home to the city’s waterfront by a victory arch, built in the style of Paris’s Arc de Triomphe. The museum’s most compelling feature for me (hardly surprising, since I’ve written a book on the subject) is the?Monitor Center, dedicated to that historic clash of experimental ironclads, the Monitor and Virginia. This sprawling million permanent exhibit presides over not only a full-scale exterior model of the Monitor, but also actual parts of it, plucked from the bottom of the Atlantic beginning in 1987 and now being preserved and displayed here. Indeed, one of the best parts of the Monitor Center—besides watching reenactments of the battles of Hampton Roads and the sinking later that year of the Monitor off Cape Hatteras—is being able to climb up to windows that look down into the Monitor conservation area. There are more than a thousand artifacts here, but the star of the show is undoubtedly the part of the Monitor that even a casual Civil War buff can identify—the massive iron gun turret, which now stews in a bath as 140 years of salt incursion is slowly leeched out of the metal. On days when the water is clear, or when it’s merely being sprayed with a fine mist, you can see the dents caused by enemy cannon shot. You can imagine what the Monitorgunners, working feverishly inside the turret, unable to see the enemy, must have experienced. One seaman “dropped over like a dead man” when a ball struck a few inches from his head. Another was flung over both guns from the blow. The latest find is such a simple thing, an oil can that years of sedimentation and the marriage of metals have caused to be cemented to the engine’s condenser. But it reminds you that there were men down in that engine room on New Year’s Eve 1862, struggling to keep the steam engines running as water rose toward the fire grates. The Monitor went down in 240 feet of water off Cape Hatteras, with the loss of 16 crew. Even more poignant are the remnants of an officer’s coat that were found draped over one of the two gun carriages. “This is probably what one of the crew took off to keep from being dragged down as he went into the water,” Marcie Renner, the museum’s chief conservator, told me during another visit. Pretty exciting stuff, slowly materializing after 147 years of submerged history. On the bike ride back to the marina, we take a faster route, heading west toward Deep Creek, but this time past the modern and growing Christopher Newport University and the impressive I.M. Pei designed Ferguson Center for the Arts, one of the most highly regarded performing arts venues in the region. It’s nice to know that you can stop at Deep Creek or Leeward and go, whether by bike or taxi, to a world-class museum or performing space. One of the lesser known but more intriguing parts of the Newport News waterfront is the city’s Small Boat Harbor. It can be glimpsed for about a nanosecond while driving over the Monitor-Merrimac Bridge-Tunnel, just off to the east. What you can see, mostly, is the top of fishing trawler rigs, so you’d be right in guessing it’s a commercial fishing harbor. And not just for small boats. Pretty big stuff, really. Crabbers, clammers, scallop boats, pilot boats, Coast Guard boats and all the rest. And, all along Newport News Creek, which creates the harbor, are seafood packing plants. We’ve got to drive to get there; it’s at the other end of this sprawling town, but luckily we have the car. Harbormaster Doreen Kopacz, who grew up in the Willoughby section of Norfolk, greets me. We take a drive up one side of the creek and down the other. “This is one of thefew spots left that lets commercial people come in,” she says. We loop under the bridge and park where Judy’s Spirit, a 40-foot double rig clammer, is coming in. Charles Stanley Mason and his son, Charles Jr., are back from having done engine work on their boat. Mason, who sits on the pier next to his boat, has been clamming out of the Small Boat Harbor for 22 years, “and we’re getting the best we’ve ever got for ‘em.” What’s so great about clamming? I ask the elder Charles. He shrugs. “I like to do what I like to do. You know what I mean?” It isn’t easy, not in this era of tight regulations, but that observation gets only another shrug. “Nothing’s like it used to be.” Charles Jr., a thin beard tracing the ridge of his jaw, enthusiastically shows me the clam rigs, each powered by a four-speed V-6 tractor-trailer motor. “It’s the hardest job I ever had,” he says, explaining how fast the clam scoop flies off the bottom. “You got to pay attention or you’ll hurt yourself.” Right now it doesn’t look very promising for him to follow in his father’s footsteps, he explains, what with the state tightly regulating the clam beds. “If they’d leave the grounds out there open,” he says, “I’d keep doing it till I was as old as my dad.” Harbormaster Kopacz doesn’t mind taking me around some more, so we continue the tour—soon stopping to watch another boat, Miss Leslie from Poquoson, Va., come in with about 30 bushels of blue crabs. Ken Diggs and his son—you guessed it, Ken Diggs Jr.—gripe like all fishermen do about regulations, but they wouldn’t do anything else for a living. “It’s all I ever did, it’s crazy,” says the younger Diggs. “It’s like I’m the last cowboy.” There are a lot of last cowboys here, in the so-called Small Boat Harbor, one of the largest concentrations of seafood businesses of its kind on the Bay. Dozens of boats come in and unload while we watch. One of the fish packing plants has a retail outlet, and a nice lady—”What can I get for you, darlin’?”—sells me some very nice shrimp. Perfect for our dinner on board. Barb and I spend another night aboard, this time anchored at a peaceful spot in Deep Creek, and leave shortly after first light. A fall-like northerly breeze catches our sails as we parade—and then, as the wind picks up, race past—the miles-long city and a shoreline fringed with history. It’s been nice getting to know Newport News, New Port Newse, that mighty and mighty nice city along the James.

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Despite being the capital city of Texas, Austin is a city that prides itself on being far from ordinary. Known as the ‘Live Music Capital of the World’, Austin offers visitors a vacation that is as diverse as it is exciting. After all, as a city with the motto ‘Keep Austin Weird’, a visit to Austin is sure to be a vacation with a difference.

As you might expect from a city referred to as the ‘Live Music Capital of the World’, Austin has a vibrant live music scene with more music venues per capita than any other U.S city. Austin’s music revolves around the numerous entertainment venues that can be found on its historic 6th Street. Originally known as Pecan Street, East-6th Street is the heart of the Austin entertainment district and plays host to a multitude of bars, clubs and music venues. Located along the length of East-6th Street between Congress Avenue and Interstate 35, you’ll find many venues offering live music at one time or another during the week.

Austin is also the venue for an annual film, music and multimedia festival known as South by Southwest, which takes place every spring. Centred around the downtown Austin Convention Centre, each part of the South by Southwest festival is relatively independent of one another with different start and end dates. The musical branch of the festival is one of the largest music festivals in the United States with more than 1,400 performers playing across dozens of venues around the city, while the film branch has quickly become one of the world’s premiere film festivals, focussing on new directing talent.

Zilker Park in Austin is the venue for the Austin City Limits Music Festival, an annual three-day music and art festival. Bringing together more than 130 bands over eight stages, the festival combines rock, country, folk, indie, Americana, hip-hop, reggae and bluegrass artists, and attracts a crowd of around 65,000 music-lovers every day. The festival has been such a huge success that it is often compared to other top rock festivals held in the United States, including Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza and Coachella. Other annual events held in Austin include Eeyore’s Birthday Party and the Austin Reggae Festival – previously named the Bob Marley Festival.

If Austin’s music scene isn’t for you, Austin is also the home of a lot of artists. On Guadalupe, you’ll find a host of local artistic talent selling their works at the Renaissance Market; while every first Thursday of the month, the eclectic shops on South Congress stay open late, with artists selling their artwork on the sidewalks, accompanied by musicians playing in the streets. For a more contemporary view of Austin’s art scene, pay a visit to the Blanton Museum of Art, a 155,000 square foot museum situated on the University’s campus, housing some 17,000 works of art from Europe, the United States and Latin America.

Residents in Austin need little cause to celebrate, and ‘Austinites’, as they are known, take pride in their eccentricities and often celebrate the differences between themselves and other cities in the U.S. The local motto – ‘Keep Austin Weird’ – features on innumerable bumper stickers, tT-shirts and other memorabilia. Famous Austinites include country singer Willie Nelson, cyclist Lance Armstrong, Aactress Sandra Bullock and tennis player Andy Roddick.

When it comes to eating out in Austin, you would be forgiven for expecting the Texas ‘Holy Trinity’ of barbecue, Tex-Mex and chicken-fried steak. However, Austin now possesses a much more sophisticated and international flair, with the Wall Street Journal naming the city as one of the country’s “up and coming culinary hotspots.”

To get the very best experience of this culturally diverse and exciting city, look for a hotel in Austin that is situated in the Central or Downtown areas of the city. Just remember that Austin is a city where it’s considered normal to be a little out of the ordinary!

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The legendary female singer Sade recently refused a Jay-Z collaboration request. She justifies her choice by principles, she loves her musical universe and is not interested in stepping outside.

Its seems that Sade is almost unapproachable, especially when it comes to collaboration with other artists, as she indeed just turned down a Jay-Z collaboration request. The smooth operator hit maker is very protective of her music.  She actually admitted being reluctant to feature with other singers and doesn’t like to work outside of her zone. In the meantime she also rarely allowed rappers to sample her voice but put her guard down in an extremely rare case with Nas and Raekwon. The Big boss of Def Jam, Jay-Z, was disappointed but he wasn’t the first to try and fail….

Let’s remember the Drake’s episode: in February, the Hip Hop artist pursued a possible duet with his music idol, Sade. He thought it would have been a collaboration of musical genius. Sade, however, didn’t see it that way, and politely snubbed the Young Money MC. A quite bitter pill to swallow, when he was already seeing himself hitting the studio with the songstress and possibly bringing her into the hip hop world. While she has admitted to sampling other artists herself, she refuses to be in a situation where she would have to attract a new set of fan…she already has all the loyal following that she could ever need. So she’s choosing a sort of security in her musical comfort zone, rather than jeopardizing her style, admired for more than two decades now. Well, we figured it out : collaborating is one of “her sweetest taboos”.

After the platinum selling success “Soldier of Love”, achieved in February , she finally announces a return to the stage and disclosed her first global tour in 10 years. For those who want to attend this event, don’t be the last to get your tickets to this once in a decade event as its sure to sell out many months in advance of the actual tour even beginning. To give you a head start you can go check out this site for the best seats: Charged.fm http://www.charged.fm/performer/item/27338/sade.

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The US News and World Report ranked the Criminal Justice department at the University of Cincinnati as the 3rd highest ranked in the nation. Boasting of faculty that are considered to be some of the top experts in the field of Criminal Justice, the University of Cincinnati has among the most published instructors available. So if you are serious about taking the next step in your career, the online Master of Science in Criminal Justice could give you the confidence and quality education that you need.

The Master of Science in Criminal Justice degree program is designed to be completed entirely online in just two years; however, the University of Cincinnati does offer an accelerated full time enrollment that would allow you to complete your Master’s degree in only one year. Choose which option will best fit your lifestyle and goals. The curriculum for the program is designed around four core components of criminal justice including theory, administration and policy, research, and a “special topics” element. The complete Master of Science program will include 16 in depth courses plus a chance for you to apply concepts in the courses to every day, real life situations by completing a demonstration project.

The goals or your program will be to help you understand conceptual and theoretical aspects of criminal justice, to apply stringent research skills in assessment of various problems in criminal justice, to identify current trends in a variety of criminal justice areas such as criminology, corrections, and current policies.

The University of Cincinnati does not have an application deadline for the Master of Science in Criminal Justice degree program and offer new classes starting every quarter, so you can begin work on your advanced degree whenever you are ready. However, please keep in mind that you will need to submit GRE scores as part of the admissions process and they must be fairly recent, taken with in the past five years. While a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university is required, candidates are accepted with degrees from any field as long as they can meet the GPA requirements and other standards for admission. And if you have received any credits for graduate level work in the field of criminal justice within the past five years you may be able to transfer up to 12 credit hours of work towards your Master’s degree at the University of Cincinnati if you received a grade of “B” or better for those courses. So, be sure to speak with an admissions advisor if you think you may have some transferable credits, they can go over your transcripts and better advise you on a possible transfer.

The University of Cincinnati not only offers a well respected and supported program in Criminal Justice, they also make getting your online degree affordable with tuition at 4 for Ohio residents and 4 for out of state students. The price is quite comparable with other graduate programs and offers an excellent value for your educational dollars. So if you are serious about a career in Criminal Justice, check out this convenient, quality program from the University of Cincinnati.

Shrimp waste is one of the substantial amount of waste in Indonesia. Each coastal area for shrimp harvest is consumed as food can produce thousands of tons of waste. Waste is often thrown away or, if they are exported with very cheap price. In fact, the liquid waste discharged into coastal waters can harm the environment.

“Shrimp waste if discarded would be detrimental. Waste will enhance the biological oxygen demand in water due to the breakdown in aquatic organisms can be deprived of oxygen at the time. Also, if there is a decomposition of waste in large scale, it will affect the climate on a global scale, “said the student of the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Surabaya.

Of concern, he went looking for references in international journals about the contents of shrimp waste that can be used and useful. From his search, he discovered that the shrimp waste containing compound called chitin, a complex carbohydrate compound found in the foreign shrimp. The compound is further processed in a certain way into a compound called chitosan, will be used to treat hyperlipidemia, a disorder of blood fat that can lead to deadly diseases such as coronary heart disease.

In addition, it also found that the shrimp waste was also used in foreign countries. “Waste of shrimp are exported to foreign countries was processed into new products after the products are exported to Indonesia and sold with high prices,” said Claudia. It was very painful for the people of Indonesia should have been able to process them.

With the knowledge she had, he tried the shrimp processing waste into hyperlipidemic drugs or excess fat (cholesterol and triglycerides) in blood. She did a series of cleaning processes in the laboratory to drying to obtain chitosan compounds that can be used. To do so, she is assisted by several friends and the laboratory.

To conduct the study was apparently not an easy thing. “Pharmaceutical research is not to cost a bit. I should be working on this by selling it to obtain funding. Fortunately, the funding ultimately borne by the campuses,” said Claudia.

After earlier attempts to produce chitosan compounds, laboratory test to examine the effectiveness of chitosan was performed. It is preparing 30 white rats as test object. Rats have made available a high fat content to look fat and showed a high rate of fat in blood tests.

Results of laboratory tests showed that the use of chitosan from shrimp waste is showing good results. The amount of fat in the blood of rats is reduced and the reduction is not different from the reduction jauhb when taking doctor prescribed medication. “This means that chitosan is given quite healthy,” said claudia.

Chitosan is used in the experiments were designed capsule. According to claudia, it does not reduce the benefits of chitosan. Instead it has the practical benefit. “Where will be produced for humans, chitosan is more practical and people want to drink it. If the consume chitosannya directly, the state tends to slack,” said Claudia explained.

The use of chitosan in the treatment of hyperlipidemia will be beneficial in terms of cost. “Once the patent medication, so if 11,000 people spent the day drinking three times the 33,000 will be spent. If the chitosan is, once drank only 3000 up to 3 times the 9000 drinking,” said Claudia. Thus, chitosan may be consumed by more people.

Claudia reveals she is now the center is able to obtain patents from the product. In addition, he also was looking for references from a variety of journals that can chotosan tested its effectiveness in humans. In the future, it is also able to obtain permission from the BPOM (Drug and Food Control Agency) to distribute the medicine. Consumption of this chitosan, like other natural remedies, if used in proper amounts will not cause side effects.

Research on it, Claudia won the Emil Salim Smart Awards from the Climate Leaders Program, a program organized the Foundation of Sustainable Development (YPB) in order to attract young people who are committed to preserving the environment for the vision to carry out its mission. Emil Salim Awards Award Hall of receipt of the Sapta charm, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Jakarta, Sunday (10/24/2010) yesterday.

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