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Four steps forward, one giant step back. Each time the Milwaukee Bucks have gone four games over .500 this season, a team with a losing record has awaited on the schedule, presenting them with a tremendous opportunity to go five games over for the first time since 2010. After a 113-108 loss Friday night to a Cleveland team that entered the game with an 11-32 record, Milwaukee has now suffered three bad losses immediately after reaching four games over. 500. Friday's loss hurt the most. Leading, 79-59, in the third quarter, the Bucks were playing one of their best stretches of basketball of the season. Moving the ball beautifully and knocking down open jump shots, Milwaukee was on its way to an easy but important victory. Then the wheels fell off and the Bucks started leaking oil while the Cavaliers began to look like a team far superior to their record. Though Milwaukee was not good on the defensive end after the first quarter, the Bucks built their big lead because their three-pointers were falling a season-high 14 - and turnovers were limited. "Second, third, fourth quarters we gave them 30-plus points," Bucks coach Jim Boylan said. "If you are going to do that, you are playing with fire. That's what we talked about at halftime. We needed to tighten up our defense." It never happened. Cavaliers All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving almost single-handedly brought Cleveland to within nine by the end of the third quarter, shaving 11 points off Milwaukee's lead in the final 6:11 of the period. But when Cleveland eventually took the lead in the fourth quarter, Irving and his fellow starters were on the bench. Newly acquired center Marreese Speights, former Bucks guard Shaun Livingston and the Cavaliers bench whipped the Bucks for most of the fourth quarter. And with Milwaukee having little threat of an inside game, its chances of preventing a crushing loss died as the jump shots fell short and turnovers led to easy transition baskets on the other end. "I told the guys during a timeout that we are going to fight for it," Boylan said. "If we wanted it, we were going to have to really, really fight for it. We tried. We had some opportunities and it didn't go in for us. A couple bounced around the rim. "You live by the jump shot, you die by the jump shot. It was a little bit of a struggle making them in the fourth." If the Bucks want to become anything more than an average basketball team this season, they are going to have to figure out a way to take care of business against teams like Cleveland especially when they enter the matchup riding a wave of momentum. Milwaukee has now lost a combined four games to Cleveland, Charlotte and New Orleans three of the NBA's four worst teams. Be it mindset, mental approach or effort in games against inferior opponents, the Bucks have to figure out what's ailing them. If they don't, there will be no serious momentum gained and the season will continue to be small steps forward before a giant step back. Follow Andrew Gruman on Twitter.
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Snoop Dogg has a new obsession – Charlie Sheen. His friends were amazed when Snoop became fascinated by Charlie as soon as they met, and insisted Charlie come along and hang out with him at Trousdale where he was set to perform. The two guys only had eyes for each other in a private back room. They puffed some weed and talked endlessly – not about drugs- but about politics, war, California laws, unemployment etc. Snoop was SO into Charlie he had to be dragged onstage to sing. The two have become best buddies. It's nice to know Charlie has a friend. Since Charlie bombed in his first show in Detroit, we're betting Snoop will fly in and bail him out ASAP.
Posted by Janet on April 3, 2011
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By Rick
On April 3, 2011 at
His saga is too strange for words. The fact that the last gasps of his self-destructing career are being witnessed live and in person is somehow fitting.
By Patrick
On April 3, 2011 at
If this was really just performance art like a Kaufman sort of put on then Charlie would have an exit strategy. You can't cheat 10,000 people live night after night without serious ego damage.
He is about to find out where his shit is really at with peoples perception of him.
Pink Floyd live it ain't.
By Vivian
On April 3, 2011 at
Charlie is demented. All those years of doing drugs has completely destroyed his brain and ability to think rationally. I would say he's in the early stages of Alzheimer's. The first clue was the fact that he misplaced his watch then when batshit accusing the hooker of taking it. Old people do that all the time.
By Reta
On April 3, 2011 at
You're all 100% correct. His "show" was a HUGE bomb and I look for the rest of them to somehow be canceled and refunded, which is the RIGHT thing to do and would be the only saving grace to whatever is left of ol CS. He needs to do the decent thing and not scam anybody else and return the money from the first "show". That nasty crack he made to the guy from the stage about having already got the sucker's money was beyond nasty and uncalled for. Charlie is proving he is a soulless bastard and he better watch out because he doesn't know who he's pissing off out there in those hoards of "crazed followers". People don't like to be cheated, jerked around, and made fools of. he's doing to the public now exactly what he did to his team on his show. Bend over everybody and smile!
By Palermo
On April 3, 2011 at
Why does anybody want to pay good money to watch a mentally ill person on stage? He's not a stand up comedian, they act like that was what it was going to be
By Walt Cliff
On April 3, 2011 at
In all seriousness, I feel that most the public got exactly what they wanted. There are people that went there to see him stumble and fail miserably. They got the show they wanted but still wanted their money back.
One of my guilty pleasures was 2.5 Men. What an incrediblely talented cast. I enjoyed each and everyone of them. I heard they made Jon Cryer's character less lovable because Charlie thought he was getting too popular. Who knows? Although, I am a fan of all of them.
I wonder if it was the drugs or the stress or both that brought on Charlie Sheen's mental illness? If you think about it, there are others out there that are mental ill (by whatever means) and are functioning at about 80% and somehow getting by with it. Charlie is a functioning mentally ill person that needs medication and maybe a week or two rest in a hospital facility. Look at Courtney Love. I think her mental issues are a direct result from her crappy childhood. What about Randy Quaid? He has a long long history of bullying and lying. He seems to be getting worse and worse and yet, he is functioning somehow. There are so many others out there celebrity and non-celebrity that are functioning fruitcakes and need medical help.
I would love to know why Charlie (especially him) and Brooke are not required to have a mental evaluation before being with any of his children. ???? We all know something is wrong. Even his dad, Martin Sheen, spoke of wishing Charlie "clarity". Aren't they concerned for the welfare of the little children?
Hope he can get the necessary help he needs and soon.
By Denise
On April 3, 2011 at
Hopefully Mr. and Mrs. Martin Sheen have hired someone to tape Charlie's "shows" as evidence for their application for a conservatorship/guardianship.
And what kind of friends/business managers/handlers does this guy have who would enable him by lining up a tour based on the ramblings of a man who is clearly going off the rails?
By Leo
On April 3, 2011 at
For weeks, Charlie has been on a non-stop spinning wheel, talking and being just about everywhere. I can easily believe that when something out of the ordinary scope of things get attention, it is human nature to see how far it can go, but it is a better idea to stay out of the way when a fire is blazing,or a siren is going off. The idea that people who under the most normal of circumstances would Never even consider purchasing a ticket to a show or performance unless they were familiar with the performer as an artist that they could sing along or laugh along with. The idea that promoters would give Charlie so many shows without the benefit of at least seeing the 1st show and reviews were like inviting the public to see the meltdown equivalent of Death riding on a Lifesaver. Charlie was in No mental shape to obligate himself to do all of these shows, and the brutal reviews and the anger of the audiences that he is insulting, and jeering, by informing them that he already has their money when he is a multi-millionaire is Not going to make his tour any easier, and hanging out in the "Wacky Weed World" of Snoop Dogg is Not the best influence that he can be under. Just because Snoop is able to do his "mind altering thing" does Not mean that Charlie can press a pause button to keep up with Snoop's out-there straight talk. It is Not too late for Charlie to accept help from family and friends who mean him well. Look how far Robert Downing Jr. has come from the roller coaster, winding curves that he was traveling on just a few short years ago. To make a long story* longer, I second the emotion that Charlie gets some much Needed Help, and Rest,and Soon. PEACE!!
By Bettye Bluejay
On April 3, 2011 at
The tickets were clearly printed with "no refund" caveat. One, maybe two more shows, and Charlie's done, fried, cooked.
By The American
On April 3, 2011 at
……….this tells you something.
By Reta
On April 3, 2011 at
I believe Robert Downey Jr was just having a drug issue and didn't or doesn't have a mental problem. Once you get clean, your problem goes away.
Charlie, on the other hand, obviously has a HUGE mental problem, very much obviously bi-polar if not more. Add to that drug and alcohol problems. Downey NEVER made a spectical of himself in public and his only enemy was himself until he got clean, Charlie, even clean will still have major issues to deal with because he is delusional and think he's is somehow God's gift to the entertainment world. NOT! I have NEVER found him entertaining or particularly good, in fact, irritating and a really good reason to change channels. Too bad for Jon Cryer. Dude's gotta get a better gig.
By Mel Zipskin
On April 4, 2011 at
Snoop,a ghetto Valley Boy and Sheen a cracked out Hollywood kid are a perfect match.Two very down low closet cases.
Everybody knows pimps and those who claim to be pimps, are bisexual/gay their misogyny is a farce. Men who place knives to the throats of their twins mother (Charlie) truly hate women.
El perfecto. When does this bitch, er, I mean, "song" drop?
By Walt Cliff
On April 4, 2011 at
Hey Reta. I had completely forgotten about Robert Downey's drug issues. He has come a long long way and done incredible well. I wouldn't ever consider him crazy either.
Clearly Charlie Sheen's mental issues are are not being addressed and he needs help.
By Leo
On April 4, 2011 at
When you are right, you are right!!
When Robert Downing Jr.'s name was mention,it was
with the comparison of being seen so many different times standing in front of a judge, looking bewildered,and with complete disappointment in himself. As you stated, there was Not so much of a mental issue as with Charlie's present behavior. There were other comparisons of other "late celebrities" but because they ended in drug related deaths, there was a better comfort zone using the name of Downing Jr.,someone who has survived the uncertain drama of ill responsible behavior as seen through the headlines,and has continued to do "well" for himself regarding personal life and career.
I enjoy reading the views of others, even if their opinions, or comments are not the same as my sentiments. Often times there can be a happy medium between the two different views.
By Casonia..Hells Kitchen would all be about holding your tongue and..Listening and gather understanding in the direction he wants to take you..Learning his food and being gone for 8 weeks!
On September 16, 2011 at
Smoking the weed yes indeed. SORRY CHARLIE THE TRUTH IS OUT.
By Casonia..Hells Kitchen would all be about holding your tongue and..Listening and gather understanding in the direction he wants to take you..Learning his food and being gone for 8 weeks!
On September 16, 2011 at
By Casonia..Hells Kitchen would all be about holding your tongue and..Listening and gather understanding in the direction he wants to take you..Learning his food and being gone for 8 weeks!
On September 16, 2011 at
Good to open your mind and try new things and snoop is wonderful and… LOVES HIS MUSIC ALWAYS AND FOREVER LINKED TO TWO-PAC?


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In our recent post on the Steinwinter, Jetto's truck from TV's "The Highwayman," I mentioned that Manfred Steinwinter was influenced in his design after seeing the Büssing Decklaster, another cantilevered cabunder design from 1965. According to onlinetruckers.org, both front axles steered, and the whole rig ran on air suspension.
Büssing, which claims to have built the world's first six-cylinder truck engine in 1909, was around from 1903 to 1971, when it was taken over by MAN. I've yet to find out exactly how long Büssing produced the Decklaster, but it seems to have lasted beyond the takeover. The one above seems to appear at truck shows around Europe.
I also happened to come across reference to several other cantilevered cabunders, including this Butler Brothers timber truck at BigLorryBlog.
Several other references (including one from oldmertz in the last post) also mentioned the Strick cabunder, a pair of 1970s prototype from the Indiana-based trailer company. this one appears to be based less on maximizing the length of the load as it is on minimizing the truck itself to haul more weight within certain limits. According to an old issue of Lee Wittmann's Truck Stuff newsletter, both prototypes are still around – one in Germany, the other in the hands of one of the developers.
The industry ultimately benefited from the Cab Under as it dramatically illustrated the need for increased load capacity per truck & driver. This was just one of the many elements in opening the subject of transportation productivity. In time, length and width laws were changed benefiting shippers and ultimately consumers.
Finally, I came across this cantilevered cabunder on a German heavy equipment forum. Colonia appears to be a prominent construction company, and the cab here appears to have started life as a 1980s Ford Granada (European market) station wagon. I'm guessing that it's a one-off.
UPDATE (5.October 2009): BigLorryBlog has a little more information on the above and on the Steinwinter.
Well, that just goes to show you there's always something stranger! How about that, a cargo truck with the driver visibility of a Ford Fiesta! That Colonia thing, well, I just don't understand that unless someone was really serious about the whole "drives like a car" thing.
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The duo are merciless, showing how a change of tempo alters the meaning of songs punctures the pretensions of Radiohead. The lyrics of Alanis Morissette are used as an example of why songs should not be written under the influence and a deconstruction of Florence and the Machine reveals her mundane inspirations.
The humour is not limited to verbal and includes a terrific slapstick routine of Lady Gaga trying to learn formal dance instead of her usual robotic movements.
There are inspired moments too; Noel Coward's "Been to a Marvellous Party" becomes jaded when performed in the emotionless style of Lily Allen and the Pussycat Dolls make a great bawdy music hall act.
The concept of two toffs slumming would be a comedy of embarrassment if the duo were not musically talented. Mannish plays excellent keyboards and Frisky provides vocals and charisma. More importantly they secure such a level of audience participation that a good time is guaranteed.
However, as the title of the show is The College Years, perhaps the duo need to turn their attention away from pure pop to more adult-oriented acts. Coldplay, U2 and REM are ripe for parody and would make an excellent show, perfect.
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Posted on 01/31/2013 11:52:13 AM PST by jazusamo
With the revelation that All Nippon Airways replaced defectivelithium ion batteries 10 times,Japan Air Lines replacedquite a few, andUnited Airlines replaced multiple batteries, in the months preceding the smoke emergency that grounded their Dreamliners, is there anything that can be said about the technology that can overcome its now-horrible reputation?
Boeing has worked on the 787 for 10 years or so, with an ample amount of time to determine what kind of battery technology would be functional with thesuper-efficient jet with exceptional environmental performance. Had the Chicago-based manufacturer and its airline customers concerned themselves more with achievable plans that built on proven fossil-fuel designs and economic sensibility rather than appeasement of environmental activists, and the accompanying millions of dollars in government subsidies for such, they might not be burning through millions of dollars in costs and lost productivity due to idle airplanes right now. Thats in addition to the public image hit they are taking.
There are those who will pooh-pooh the idea that Boeing overreached in its pursuit of green technology, and will argue that the aviation industry always seeks to lower its costs (like any business), especially the biggest ones: labor and fuel. This is true, but when it comes to what powers their aircraft, in a true free market not distorted by government giveaways, businesses such as Boeing would certainly err closer to the tried-and-true rather than the experimental. But because of those massive deformations in the marketplace, behemoth Boeing is in the business of political ingratiation as much as it is in the business of making aviation and aeronautical equipment.
Corporations, including Boeing and the major U.S. airlines, are under morepressure than ever to adoptsustainability practices that include efforts to reduce carbon dioxide, despite the fact that has little to do with effects on global climate. Green investors such as Walden Asset Management and Calvert Investments buy stock in the companies and then exercise influence as activist shareholders, joining outside environmental pressure groups to sway company decision makers without regard to whether their agenda aligns with profitability goals for the overall stock ownership.
In the case of Boeing, such initiatives are an even larger magnet for government relations minions to chase politicians and cabinet agencies to get pieces of the subsidy pie. The company is already lobbied up to gain contracts and protect interests in obvious places like the Department of Transportation and the Department of Defense, so a regulatory push to promote green technologies is just another opportunity to influence the decision making in Boeings favor.
Boeing is renowned for its ability to get what it wants in Washington. At the Center for Responsive Politics Boeing ranks as a heavy hitter, which means it is among the 140 biggest overall donors to federal elections since the 1990 election cycle. So donations from its political action committee and employees are significant. For the 2012 campaign cycle, Boeing staffers and entities gave more than $3.1 million in contributions, ranking it 82nd overall among giving from corporate entities (according to CRPs compilation of federal data).
Boeings lobbying acumen is even stronger, spending over $15 million in 2012, placing the company 12th for such expenditures, according to CRP. More than $16 million was spent the previous year. Overall Boeing has spent nearly $172 million on lobbying since 1998, exceeding $10 million for the first time in 2007, and never spending less than $15 million in any individual year since then.
What does Boeing lobby for? Everything. A review of its federal disclosure form for the 4th quarter of 2009 President Obamas first year in office shows the company lobbied on the issues of aerospace, aviation, budget and appropriations, defense, environment, financial institutions, foreign relations, health care, homeland security, intelligence, labor, tariffs, taxation, trade, and education. Boeing shows intense interest in nearly every appropriations bill, tax change, foreign relationship and regulatory issue that affects its bottom line.
State and local governments are not left untapped either. In 2001 former CEO Phil Condit announced Boeing would relocate its headquarters from Seattle, where it was founded in 1916, and put it up for grabs ultimately in an auction between Chicago, Dallas and Denver. The Windy City and the State of Illinois wound up the winners with a handsome bid of $63 million in incentives, far exceeding its competitors.
In fact, Boeing is such a master at tapping the public purse that they teach others how its done. In 2004 former vice president of state and local government relations Robin Stone, at a meeting of the State Government Affairs Council, co-taught dozens of corporations government relations executives how to extract incentives and tax breaks in a presentation titled, Turn Your State Government Relations Department from a Money Pit into a Cash Cow. The cash-cow workshop advised government relations executives from some of the largest U.S. corporations, including Walmart, Proctor & Gamble, Bank of America, and Microsoft, to provide government with justification [a] quid pro quo for granting incentives.
The man who made the co-presentation with Stone, Michael Press of Ernst & Young (which helped Boeing vet the cities in the headquarters search), said the purpose of the talk was to instruct corporate lobbyists to not view their government-relations departments as a necessary administrative cost center, but rather as a source of value. But one North Carolina lawmaker knew what was meant.
Cash cow? You got that right, said N.C. Rep. Paul Stam, a Republican. They look at [government] as just turning on the spigots.
So as masters of the government manipulation game, Boeing views the demonization of fossil fuels (and commensurate regulations that have driven up their costs) and the promotion of green technologies not as challenges, but as opportunities. The lobbyists get their marching orders and go to work. Thus we see on Boeings federal disclosure forms that they intervene on measures such as the FAA Reauthorization Act, Export-Import Bank Issues, the American Clean Energy and Security Act, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, the Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit Expansion, Amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 on Alternative Simplified Research Credit, Temporary Bonus Research Credit for Energy-related Research, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the stimulus), and Trade related aspects of climate change. And that is just a small fraction of Boeings lobbying interests.
So its no surprise that the European Union asked the World Trade Organization in October for permission to raise $12 billion in tariffs on U.S. goods and services (Wall Street Journal, subscription-only), due to damage it says is a result from subsidies to Boeing (a similar case is being pushed by the U.S. against EU-based Airbus). The WTO determined that at least $5.3 billion in both state and federal subsidies were awarded to Boeing between 1989 and 2006.
It is impossible to isolate out, or calculate, any subsidies that went specifically for the Dreamliner, especially on the federal level. But the State of Washington and some of its local governments dished out $3.2 billion-plus to prevent Boeing from taking 787 (called 7E7 at the time) production elsewhere, most likely where non-union labor costs would be lower. In 2010 Boeing did set up a second assembly plant in a right-to-work state, South Carolina, that won the company an estimated $900 million in state incentives.
As NLPC reported earlier this month, the much-delayed 787 has been promoted as a super-efficient airplane. It was designed in response to airlines demands for an energy-saving aircraft, that provides unmatched fuel efficiency, resulting in exceptional environmental performance, and as the London Telegraph explained it, represented the promise of greener flying.
Now the Dreamliner is idle and a lot of blame is being thrown at a battery that wasnt prepared to handle the tasks it was assigned to do. Unfortunately billions of dollars coerced from taxpayers, in an atmosphere that represented something far from a free market, were used to drown out common sense and distorted the simple customer-vendor relationship.
Interesting article by Chesser regarding the 787 Dreamliner battery problem, green energy faction, lobbying and subsidies.
We lost a space shuttle because NASA bowed to the same pressure and altered the composition of the foam insulation on the external fuel tank. It had been changed in 1997 to exclude the use of freon, which eliminated the preferred material chosen by engineers.
On the issue of the headquarters relocation mentioned in the article: I wonder if moving to a city that has had 40+ murders this month alone makes wonder if the $63MM was worth it? What happens if/when a Boeing employee or family member is killed? Will they remember why Dallas or Denver were such bad choices?
Excellent point...Fortunately this battery problem hasn't caused a crash, as yet, but the incident that took place in Japan was real close.
Boeing has been working on the P-8 for six years and it doesn't work, either. Like the 787, the P-8 was supposed to be "more environmentally sensitive." That goal has been achieved; when an aircraft can't fly, it is indeed more environmentally sensitive. The process is broken.
But American engineers fixed the problems and the 727's are looked back on with great fondness by many.
I'm confident the Boeing engineers will fix the problems..and this to shall pass.
Didn't we lose TWO shuttles to the loss of heat shielding due to the change in the composition of the glue?
Delta took a different approach to lowering fuel costs, they bought a refinery outside Philadelphia.
I agree, they'll fix these problems but it's going to cost big bucks and the battery problem is something they were aware of.
"...and will argue that the aviation industry always seeks to lower its costs (like any business), especially the biggest ones: labor and fuel. This is true..."
So one builds a more fuel efficient plane that more people will buy so they can make more money. I know they had a LOT of problems because of them parting out so much to other countries - but that was also done to promote the bottom line "Okay, your country can make the landing gear but you have to order 10 planes from us."
I have NO IDEA why the writer brings this Lithium batteries into the fray when he blames Boeing for being "Green". Perhaps they are lighter than other batteries? Run things that used to be run by the engine power? That would have been interesting to know - then one might be able to agree that they pushed the "fuel efficiency" thing a bit too far for current technology.
No, the first shuttle was due booster O-rings that were too cold to work properly. Also, the joints did not have sufficient o-ring redundancy, which was changed after the accident.
No, we only lost two. The first was the contraction of the O-rings in the SRB segments due to cold weather. The rubber was too stiff and the hot gasses just blew right through the sidewall of the booster at the joint the O-rings were suppose to seal. NASA wanted a launch outside of the given safety parameters and the engineers refused. Eventually they were forced to sign off on it under duress, but got the head idiots to sign and letter agreeing Morton Thiokol engineers were absolved of any blame.
We lost the last one not so much because of the glue, but the foam insulation tiles that lined the main fuel module. It came off at just over mach 4 and the supposedly too-light foam that would not be a threat to the space shuttle itself put a 3-4" hole in the leading edge of her wing, which of course burned right through her during re-entry.
Ah, you know what... I conflated the two because the 2nd one was lost on re-entry DUE TO a problem at launch.
He's written about it in prior articles and LI batteries are lighter.
Here's one:
"As a complement to the constant push by the Obama administration and environmental groups to kill fossil fuels by artificially driving up their costs via regulations, they have promoted the increased use of electricity (as though fossil fuels have nothing to do with its generation) as a replacement. The implications of that have led to seemingly desperate, and still elusive, attempts (through billions of dollars in research and subsidies for Obama-crony green companies) to make storage of electricity viable. And with lithium-ion the major technology of choice for battery advancement, that too has become a concern for safety in a seeming trade-off for efficiency."
The quick fix is asy, replace the batteries with older, proven technology.
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Natural and Alternative Treatment Study Report: Menopausal Symptoms: The Benefits of St. John's Wort Combined With Black Cohosh
In 2002, evidence from the Women's Health Initiative study showed that hormone replacement therapy does not protect against heart disease (as previously thought) and, furthermore, can have serious adverse consequences. Use of hormone replacement therapy has drastically declined since that time, and women have been eager to find alternative therapies for their menopausal symptoms.
The herb black cohosh is one of the prime candidates. Although study results have not been consistent, there is considerable promising evidence that extracts of black cohosh can improve hot flashes and perhaps other symptoms of menopause.
Another herb is a logical candidate: St. John's wort. Psychological disturbances are common in menopause, and standard antidepressant drugs have been found helpful. Because a very large body of evidence shows that St. John's wort is as effective as standard antidepressants for the treatment of all but the most severe forms of depression, it is reasonable to assume that St. John's wort might be useful for depression caused by menopause as well. For this reason, researchers have tested formulations containing proprietary formulations that combine extracts of both black cohosh and St. John's wort.
In 2006, German researchers published the results of a double-blind study that enrolled 301 women experiencing depression as part of their overall menopausal symptoms. The results showed that use of a proprietary black cohosh / St. John's wort combination treatment was significantly more effective than placebo for both problems.
A subsequent double-blind, placebo-controlled study, published in April of 2007, tested a similar formulation of black cohosh and St. John's wort in 89 women with general menopausal symptoms. The results, as reported by these Korean researchers, indicated improvements in hot flashes as well as overall menopause symptom scores. In addition, the combination therapy appeared to raise levels of HDL ("good") cholesterol, an unexpected benefit.
For more information, including dosage and safety issues, see the full black cohosh , St. John's wort , and menopause articles.
Chung DJ, Kim HY, Park KH, et al. Black cohosh and St. John's Wort (GYNO-Plus(R)) for climacteric symptoms. Yonsei Med J . 2007;48:289-94.
Uebelhack R, Blohmer JU, Graubaum HJ, et al. Black cohosh and St. John's Wort for climacteric complaints: a randomized trial. Obstet Gynecol . 2006;107:247-55.


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WASHINGTON, DC — 2012 Green presidential nominee Jill Stein and other Green leaders will gather with party members at the Green Party's 2013 Annual National Meeting, which will take place July 25 to 28 in Iowa City, Iowa (http://www.gp.org/meetings/Iowa2013).
Most events at the meeting will be held at the Iowa Memorial Union, which serves as the student union building for the University of Iowa (http://www.uiowa.edu / Campus Map: http://www.uiowa.edu/~maps/i/imu1.htm).
The Green Party's web site has Media Credentialing page (http://www.gp.org/committees/media/press.php) for journalists interested in covering the meeting. Bloggers are also encouraged to register and attend.
"Iowa is significant for Greens not only because we have an active Green Party, but because, as the first state for caucuses in presidential elections, it might have America's most politically aware population," said Holly Hart, Secretary of the Iowa Green Party (http://www.greens.org/iowa).
Since the 2012 election, Jill Stein and running mate Cheri Honkala have set up a Green Shadow Cabinet, which includes nearly 100 prominent scientists, community and labor leaders, physicians, cultural workers, veterans, and others and provides an ongoing opposition and alternative voice to the dysfunctional U.S. political establishment (http://greenshadowcabinet.us).
Some the events planned for the meeting (details tentative):
- Keynote address by Dr. Stein, on Saturday, July 27
- Panel on policy-making on Thursday night, July 26 featuring other national and state level officials, elected or appointed, who have a strong record of supporting Green policies and candidates. Confirmed: Francis Thicke, Iowa farmer, member of the Iowa Environmental Protection Commission, the Iowa Food Policy Council, and the Iowa Organic Standards Boards. Others to be announced.
- Panel featuring Green officeholders from across the country, on Saturday.
- Press conferences, Thursday afternoon and Friday morning, with Green officeholders, candidates, local activists, and other guests.
- Green "Campaign School" for candidates and campaign workers, workshops on various topics of interest (including anti-oppression training), as well as plenary sessions of the Green National Committee and various committee meetings.
Many of these events will be aired and archived on the Green Party's Livestream Channel (http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus).
Meeting web site: http://www.gp.org/meetings/Iowa2013
Media Credentialing: http://www.gp.org/committees/media/press.php
University of Iowa map: http://www.uiowa.edu/~maps/i/imu1.htm


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- This morning, Randall Munroe posted XKCD #1305: Undocumented feature. The strip describes an old product support forum, now accessible only through arcane and archaic means, which has become a hangout for a select group of individuals. Eventually, he predicts, the forum will pass from living memory, and no one will remember that it even existed.
- When even Clippy can connect to hurting, lonely people, it's easy to wonder how people might respond to Siri. Thankfully, Apple had the insight to consider this and respond appropriately.
- It's worth noting that this is not the first time people have bared their souls to a computer "person". Consider how people responded to ELIZA when it was released to non-technical users:"Weizenbaum tells us that he was shocked by the experience of releasing ELIZA (also known as 'Doctor') to the nontechnical staff at the MIT AI Lab. Secretaries and nontechnical administrative staff thought the machine was a 'real' therapist, and spent hours revealing their personal problems to the program. When Weizenbaum informed his secretary that he, of course, had access to the logs of all the conversations, she reacted with outrage at this invasion of her privacy. Weizenbaum was shocked by this and similar incidents to find that such a simple program could so easily deceive a naive user into revealing personal information."—From Eliza to A.L.I.C.E., Dr Richard S. Wallace
Baring your soul to Clippy
In response to an XKCD strip about an insular community born from a defunct but still active product support forum, Colin Birge shared the story of someone's touching conversation with Clippy.
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What a much more "typical" day in the ol' AD household.
It's Monday at 8:01pm and I'm sitting in the dark in the kings bedroom writing this on my phone. I just brought him up to bed.
It is 6 days removed from his vns surgery implantation and things are slowly starting to get back to "normal" around here (whatever that means).
The wife reported that he napped a lot less today (only one 45 minute around 11am). And was a lot more "with it".
They went for a SHORT walk in the park and then went over my wife's sisters house for a little while this afternoon.
That visit ended when he made it crustal clear he wanted to leave when he hit his aunt. :(
When I got home he was raging a bit as well. And he was a bit weepy.
And as bizarre as this may sound... it was good to see.
Less zombie / sleepy behavior and more autistic behavior is a good thing in my book :) It means he's healing and heading back to normal Kyle I think.
I think finally 6 days after surgery he's feeling himself enough to know that his bandages are finally pissing him off and that he's in some pain/ discomfort from the 2 wounds.
After writing my post yesterday about the king's recovery I've learned a few things from chatting with others who've had the VNS Surgery and from joining a VNS surgery group on Facebook.
Here's one thing I've learned...even though for many it's a send you home the same day "procedure" and for Kyle and most children it's a one night in the hospital "procedure" it's still SURGERY and for many it kicks your ass big time.
Many I've chatted with said they were in pain & discomfort for 1-2 weeks after surgery and some were sent home with Vicodin for their pain.
I guess, stupid me, heard it called a "simple procedure" and thought he'd be back to normal in 2-3 days.
And Kyle was only sent home with instructions to give Tylenol as necessary, no Vicodin.
For the first 4-5 days even Tylenol kinda wasn't necessary cuz he was totally out of it.
But today I think he was well enough to know that he didn't feel well...if that makes any sense. And I expect the next few days to be filled with some rage and some Tylenol and maybe some Advil as well.
8 days til we turn the device on so hopefully he's totally back to pain free normal before then...
That's all.
8:18pm now and he's asleep and I'm gonna watch my new tv obsession "Under the Dome".
Just started watching it...Trying to catch up...
Goodnight all!
I'm a 47 year old neurotypical dad with a 14 year old son with severe, non-verbal autism & epilepsy. I created this blog to rant about autism & epilepsy while celebrating my son who I affectionately call "the king" :-). For the full Autism Daddy experience like my Facebook Page at www.facebook.com/AutismDaddy
Monday, August 26, 2013
Sunday, August 25, 2013
VNS Surgery Update... 5 days after surgery
This nonverbal thing is really hard sometimes. My son not being able to tell me how he feels really sucks...
Today is Sunday at 5:55pm. The king had the vns surgery on Tuesday morning.
And just like with his hernia surgery in Sept 2012 he had us fooled.
This time he was fine in the hospital, fine the next day. Thursday & Friday he was a bit extra sleepy and mushy. And yesterday (Saturday) he pretty much slept the entire day. And when he was up he was kinda wobbly and unsteady when he walked.
As usual I freaked out and started googling stuff and as usual the wife was concerned, but calm.
WIFE: "He just had surgery. He's only 10 years old. Everybody recovers differently. Think about how many days my dad was out of commission from that small procedure that time..."
We called the surgeon and he didn't sound too concerned. Didn't have any answers for us either, he said -- "anesthesia & morphine from the surgery should be out of his system by now. so I doubt it's that..."
But again he didn't sound too concerned. Not like "go to the ER now" concerned but more like "come see me on Monday if you want" concerned.
Then yesterday evening he vomited a little.
After that he seemed a lot better, but still tired.
We called our pediatrician as well to run everything by him and again he didn't sound too concerned either. "How's his color? Any fever? How's his mood?"
All great. Good color, no fever, great/happy mood when he is awake...
"Come see me Monday if you're still concerned"
So we let him sleep in our bed last night so we could watch him closely.
Today has been more of the same. He's a bit more awake. And a bit more "with it" but his balance is still off.
And all this isn't too far off from where Kyle was before the surgery...
The week before when we were on vacation he was sleeping a lot and a bit zombie like when awake because of his anti-seizure meds...but we made a med adjustment midweek that week which woke him up a bit...but brought on a few more small seizures...a trade off we accepted.
Maybe he's just back to the meds making him sleepy, wobbly, etc
Or maybe with the trauma of the surgery he could be having more seizures...maybe the ones that are hard to see the "silent seizures".
That could explain some of this. He sometimes sleeps a lot after a seizure cluster.
This is why they don't turn the vns device on for weeks so you can separate what's complications from the surgery VS. issues with the device.
But with Kyle it's so hard because there's no normal. All summer he hasn't had a baseline of normal. We've been tweaking meds all summer. He'd have a week with a lot of bad (complex partial) seizures in his sleep so we started a new med to try & combat that. We'd go up slowly on that med and he'd be napping in school. Then when he was too zombie like we started going down on that med.
Anyway he seems a bit better this evening and I need to stop googling things and watching him like a hawk.
The wife actually kicked me out this afternoon, told me to go see a movie. I went to see the new comedy "The World's End".
Great movie which took my mind off of all of this crap for exactly 1 hour and 49 minutes. And then I got back in the car, got that pit in my stomach, and texted the wife to get the update.
And I got Breaking Bad & Dexter which will take my mind away for 2 hours tonight.
Anyway, that's my quick update.
And as usual, all the family is checking in asking how Kyle's doing and are shocked when we tell them the truth that he's still kinda off 5 days removed from "minor surgery"
And I can tell by the sound in their voices that they are thinking that when it's turned on that this vns device is gonna be some miracle and take all of Kyle's seizures away.
And I don't want to be Debbie Downer, but i want to bring their expectations down and tell them it's probably gonna take a while and it's only significantly successfully in half the people that get it.
Anyway I'm rambling. The main takeaway here is that the king had vns surgery on Tuesday and still isn't completely back to himself (whatever that means) on Sunday at 6:36pm which is longer than I expected...
The other takeaway here is as usual the wife is the calm one, the voice of reason ("do you want to bring him to the ER right now? then there's nothing we can do now so while he's napping I'm gonna cook why don't you clean out the garage")
The last takeaway?
This nonverbal thing is really hard. My son not being able to tell me how he feels really sucks.
Can't wait to go to work tomorrow to get my head out of this for 8 hours... :)
...unless we end up back at a dr's office... :(
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
I was asked a few months back to review a communication IPad app called Autismate.
I said yes because I haven't really done reviews before and thought it might be interesting to start doing them...
But then I put it off for weeks partially because we were going thru a lot at home with the king...but mainly I put it off because I felt it wasn't an app that would be appropriate for my son Kyle.
Unfortunately most of these types of apps are still way over Kyle's head who's still working on PECS with one "desired" item & one "undesired" item.
And the types of drawings that are in these apps mean nothing to Kyle.
He has a hard time generalizing so a drawing of teeth brushing will mean little to him; a pic may mean a little more, a pic of him doing the activity would probably work best of all.
So I assumed this app would be way over Kyle's head and mainly for that reason I put it off for weeks...
But I promised these guys a review and I figured I would review it with many of my readers and their kids in mind because I'm sure many of your kids would find this app appropriate.
So I downloaded the app from the iTunes Store and starting playing around with it.
And it's pretty darn cool!! And it uses the iPad technology to the fullest. And while it's still over my son Kyle's head right now...it's a lot closer than any other app I've seen before.
Here's why...
Yes it has all the grids and PECS style pics and sentence building features like proloquo2go does... (but this one is $70 cheaper...)
But this one does a whole lot more. Everything is based on locations. It comes preloaded with pics of a house and in that house are pics of a kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom.
And on each of those pics are "hotspots". You touch the fridge and a pic of an inside of the fridge will pop up. You touch the sink and it will say "I have to wash my hands" or will show a video of a kid washing his hands.
And all that is great and different, especially the video part, but what really sets this app apart for me is the fact that you can take your own pics of your own house, and your own kitchen, bathroom, etc. Then you can record your own voice saying the phrases...and record video of your own kid (or yourself) doing the task.
For a kid like my son who has a big problem generalizing, this is HUGE to be able to have a communication app that will have pics & videos & voices that he is completely familiar with.
You have to be familiar with Ipad functionality to customize everything and it will take some time, but the app is pretty intuitive. And once you set up your "home" and all the rooms in it, you can then move on to other locations...school, Grandma's house, Trader Joe's, Walmart and customize all your pics, videos, phrases, from these locations.
You can also mark the GPS location of all your places so when you open the app at a particular location (and that location has wifi) Autismate will recognize where you are and the closest location to the current GPS position will appear.
That's what I mean about using the capabilities of the Ipad to the fullest.
A few weeks ago, the wife and I slowly began setting it up, taking pics of the rooms in my house. I wasn't thrilled with the quality of the pics I was getting from the iPad camera (not the app's fault) so I grabbed my digital camera took the widest, brightest pic of each of the rooms in my house and then I downloaded into my iPad.
We used these pics, with her voice, and iPhone video of me doing some of the tasks (like brushing my teeth). We did all of this while Kyle was asleep. And she & I had a blast, goofing on each other as we were recording the voices & shooting the videos. (if only you could keep the bloopers / outtakes!)
In the morning we showed it to Kyle and while there weren't any miracles, it looked like he recognized the pic of his bathroom, the sound of mom's voice, and the videos of dad. We got a couple of smirks from him before he pulled the ipad from us and put on an episode of Dora the Explorer.
But its baby steps for Kyle and we saw a sliver of something with this app that we've never seen with any other communication apps. Our school district actually "bought" us the proloquo2go app last year and it's just been sitting there barely used for a year...but this one I really can see the potential for Kyle to "get it"
Ok so to finalize my review and make it more "official" here's some other things that the Autismate app features...
--Visual scenes can be personalized to each user (Scene Based AAC)
--Full Sentence Builder (Grid-based AAC)
--Video Modeling
--Photo Schedule with Timer (very useful for kids who need routine and a visual schedule)
--Visual Stories
--Content Library – More content is always being added and will be accessible to existing users.
--GPS Enabled – Use GPS to tie certain scenes to your physical location
--Capable of Building Multiple User Profiles (could be used by a teacher and customized for a few different students)
--Over 10,000 Symbols included
But as you can tell it's the personalization that has me the most excited.
AutisMate is available on the iTunes Store for $149.99. That may seem like a hefty price, but it's within line of other autism therapy apps, like the $219.99 Proloquo2Go. It's also way cheaper than the old, pre-iPad therapy / AAC machines, which used to cost up to $15,000.
And if you are not sure if Autismate is for you, you can now get a free LITE version of the app by going to
So there you go, there's my first review. What did you all think? How'd I do?
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
(originally written & published on August 20, 2013)
If you've been reading my Autism Daddy Facebook page today you'll know that my son Kyle had VNS Surgery today for his seizures / epilepsy. If you don't know what VNS Surgery is, read this.
It's 10:18pm and I'm writing this on my iPhone in the hospital while the king is sleeping peacefully next to me.
Wifey is sleeping on the couch behind me. We are taking shifts staying up to watch Kyle to make sure he doesn't try to pull at the bandages while sleeping or have a seizure in his sleep.
So how did we end up deciding to do the VNS Surgery?
Well autism has taken a major back seat to epilepsy the past few months in the ol' AD household and we've been doing a lot of med tweaking and dealing with some side effects, mainly major sleepiness and some zombie like behavior when awake.
And even with all these meds in his system he was still having seizures daily. Not scary looking tonic clonic seizures, mostly small silent seizures or seizures where he gets this cute smile on his face and kinda zones out for 10 seconds. And sometimes in his sleep we'd see bigger "complex partial" seizures.
But the point is with all the meds he was on he still having seizures daily...most days enough to count on 2 hands.
So here's the deal. Kyle has epilepsy. He has a type of epilepsy called Lennox Gasteau Syndrome which is a hard to treat with meds form of epilepsy. He's on his 4th medication and is still having seizures.
And I live in the NYC Metro area and Kyle has a great neurologist and we recently saw a "Top Doctor" manhattan neurologist for a second opinion.
And both docs say that if after trying 3-4 different anti-seizure meds you're still having "breakthrough" seizures and if you're seizures aren't under control, the odds of you finding a med that will work are slim to none. You have "refractory epilepsy"
Your options then are...
1) keep trying more meds anyway
2) Brain surgery (scary, scary stuff!)
3) Ketogenic diet
4) VNS Surgery.
And I know what you're thinking and many have asked. "Have you tried the Ketogenic diet?" "Wouldn't you try the diet before opting for surgery?"
And my answer is no, not for Kyle. If you've been reading my page for awhile you'll know that Kyle had major eating issues. He stayed the same weight for almost 3 years and his diet was extremely limited. And we had to force him to eat every day and it was excruciating.
But since November 2012 he's put on over 25 pounds, probably mostly due to a side effect of one of the antiseizure meds he's on (depakote).
This is a side effect we welcomed with open arms! The king now has an appetite! He's trying new foods! He looks the healthiest he's looked in years!
To put him on the Ketogenic diet, which is one of the most restrictive diets out there (kinda like a much much stricter, modified Atkins diet) would be tough.
If my kid was verbal and understood why I was denying him all the foods he loved it would be extremely difficult. To deny my nonverbal autistic kid the foods he loves and he doesn't grasp the reason why is (in my opinion) virtually impossible and kinda cruel.
So in the wife and my opinions, the diet is off the table. You may not agree with us, but we stand by that.
So the diet is off the table, brain surgery is scary shit so if we can avoid that for now we will.
And that leaves us with trying more meds or VNS surgery.
Now let me tell you that my wife was all gung ho to move forward with the VNS Surgery months ago. So much so, that when we had an appointment with a neurosurgeon in July she asked him to pencilled in a date for the surgery which was today Tues August 20th. Her reasoning for doing it then? We get our annual lake vacation in the week before which Kyle loves, and the surgery and recovery would all get done before school starts again in September.
I was a lot more apprehensive about the surgery. Why? Because of some of the comments & feedback I've gotten from some of y'all when I've written about it. And because I started googling it.
And I read about some possible side effects. And it is still SURGERY which is always scary.
And what if what's the device is inplanted and turned on and working, what if he's in pain or it feels weird and he can't tell us.
And when I mentioned this to the wife she said, "who knows what he's feeling now with the meds? maybe he's in pain now? maybe he's got a massive headache and can't tell us?"
"and he's sleeping his life away..."
And that's the reason why we don't want to try any other meds... He's sleeping a lot.
The cocktail of meds he's on now make him very sleepy. He's been napping 60-90 minutes at school pretty much every day this summer. Then he'll have a late afternoon nap, and he'll still go to bed for the night around his normal time.
And the hope of the VNS Surgery, even if it is somewhat successful, is that we can get him off some of these meds...or at least down to a lower dose so he can get his life back...get back to his normal hyper stimmy autistic self.
I never thought I'd say that, but after seeing zombie boy this summer I'll take stimmy autism Kyle back. The happy version, not the 2011 "summer of rage" version. :-)
So all summer we've had that August 20th date hanging over our head. We had our vacation last week and had the surgery today and so far so good.
And that's where we are at.
We leave the hospital tomorrow and he hopefully has a few days at home to recover and will be back to normal.
One thing to note is that the device is not "turned on" during the surgery. That happens 2 weeks later in the surgeons office. The reason for that is this way they can more easily tell if something is a complication from the surgery vs a complication from a setting on the device.
So 2 weeks from today they turn it on and then every 2 weeks they adjust the settings of the stimulation that is being sent and we monitor his seizure activity to see which setting is the most effective.
Then we start reducing meds and seeing if seizures come back...and tweak and adjust as needed.
So this is all gonna take awhile, but we are glad to have the ball rolling.
Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers and kind words on Facebook today and in the days leading up to the surgery.
That's it. Over and out.
Now I'm waking up the wife so she can start her shift watching kyle and I can get some shut eye.
G'night all!
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