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Antigovernment activity increased in 2011, and in September, a number of small, loosely organized protests opposing the 32-year rule of President José Eduardo dos Santos took place in Luanda, leading to a ban on demonstrations in the city center. Throughout the year, speculation rose as to whether dos Santos would lead his party in the 2012 presidential elections. Violent deportations of migrants from the Democratic Republic of Congo by Angolan security forces continued in 2011.
Angola was racked by civil war for nearly three decades following independence from Portugal in 1975. José Eduardo dos Santos took over as president in 1979 after the death of Angola's first post-independence leader, Agostinho Neto. Peace accords in 1991 and 1994 failed to end fighting between the rebel National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and the government, controlled by dos Santos's Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). The death of UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi in 2002 helped to spur a successful ceasefire deal later that year, and UNITA subsequently transformed itself into Angola's largest opposition party.
The conflict claimed an estimated one million lives, displaced more than four million people, and forced over half a million to flee to neighboring countries. Many resettled people have remained without land, basic resources, or even identification documents. The resettlement process was slowed by the presence of an estimated 500,000 landmines and a war-ruined infrastructure.
Legislative elections, delayed repeatedly since 1997, were finally held in September 2008. The ruling MPLA took 191 of 220 seats, and UNITA won 16 seats, placing second among 14 parties. While domestic and international observers found that the results reflected the people's will, the campaign was marred by political violence and pro-MPLA bias by both the state media and the National Electoral Commission (CNE), which denied the opposition access to the voter registry and obstructed the accreditation of domestic monitors who were not aligned with the government. In addition, the government delayed releasing state funding for opposition parties, and the MPLA abused state resources. Voting in Luanda—home to between one-quarter and one-third of registered voters—was marred by serious irregularities, including the late delivery of ballot papers and the failure to open 320 polling stations. UNITA accepted the outcome after an initial challenge of the Luanda results was rejected by the CNE.
In 2010, the MPLA-dominated parliament approved a new constitution that abolished direct presidential elections, stipulating instead that the leader of the largest party in the parliament would become the president, starting with the next elections in 2012. The last presidential election had been held in 1992, and a vote due in 1997 had been repeatedly postponed. Throughout 2011, dos Santos refrained from stating if he would lead the MPLA in the 2012 elections, resulting in significant speculation about his successor; the MPLA is almost assured victory. In September, rumors abounded that Manuel Vicente, the chairman of the national oil company Sonangol, would top the MPLA slate in 2012.
Attempts in March to organize protests against dos Santos's 32-year rule—said to be inspired by the early 2011 popular uprisings in the Arab world—were largely stifled by the government. In September, a series of small, loosely organized antigovernment protests took place in Luanda, marking a rare, if relatively minor, spate of open opposition to dos Santos's rule. In several instances, groups of a few hundred people, including many youths, organized demonstrations by text message and social media. In response, the Luanda provincial government banned demonstrations in the city center, and security forces violently dispersed the protests and arrested dozens of demonstrators, 18 of whom were jailed for between 45 and 90 days by an emergency court. Later that month, the government organized a pro-MLPA rally in Luanda attended by tens of thousands of people. In October, the Supreme Court ordered the release of the jailed protesters.
Angola is not an electoral democracy. The long-delayed 2008 legislative elections, while largely reflective of the people's will, were not free and fair. The 220-seat National Assembly, whose members serve four-year terms, has little power, and 90 percent of legislation originates in the executive branch. Under the 2010 constitution, the largest party in the National Assembly selects the head of state. The president is to serve a maximum of two five-year terms beginning in 2012, and directly appoints the vice president, cabinet, and provincial governors.
While five political parties are represented in the National Assembly, the ruling MPLA dominates Angola's party system. UNITA is the largest opposition party.
Corruption and patronage are endemic in the government, and bribery often underpins business activity. In 2009, President José Eduardo dos Santos called for a crackdown on corruption, declaring that MPLA members had squandered large portions of the country's oil revenues; the president himself is alleged to be one of the country's richest men. A December 2011 International Monetary Fund report stated that $32 billion in government funds from 2007 to 2010, believed to be linked to Sonangol, could not be accounted for. Angola was ranked 168 out of 183 countries surveyed in Transparency International's 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index.
Despite constitutional guarantees of freedom of expression, journalists are driven to self-censorship by the threat of dismissal, detention, and prosecution. The state owns the only daily newspaper and national radio station, as well as the main television stations, and private media are often denied access to official information and events. Libel and defamation are punishable by imprisonment and fines. Journalists endured harassment, attacks, and detentions by security forces in 2011. In October 2011, William Tonet, editor of the independent weekly Folha 8, was convicted of libel, given a suspended one-year jail sentence, and fined a massive 10 million kwanza ($105,000) for a series of 2008 stories alleging corruption in the acquisition of diamond mines by close dos Santos associates. In March 2011, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported that authorities were barring journalists from covering opposition activities, including hearings in parliament and UNITA party meetings; authorities also restricted journalists' access to the August Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in Luanda. Also in March, police detained journalists attempting to cover an antigovernment demonstration in Luanda, and security agents raided the printing presses and blocked the distribution of three independent weeklies that had run headlines about a scheduled protest. Authorities have consistently prevented the outspoken Roman Catholic radio station Radio Ecclesia from broadcasting outside the capital.
In May 2011, the government scrapped legislation that would have criminalized the electronic publication or distribution of information that could "destroy, alter, or subvert state institutions" or "damage national integrity or independence." The legislation had drawn vociferous opposition from civil society organizations and local press outlets. The government announced plans to instead incorporate clauses about internet crimes into an ongoing reform of the penal code.
Religious freedom is widely respected, despite colonial-era statutes that ban non-Christian religious groups. The educational system barely functions, suffering from underpaid and often corrupt teachers and severely damaged infrastructure.
The constitution guarantees freedoms of assembly and association, although these rights are not respected in practice. In March 2011, authorities arrested several opposition leaders and members of civil society the night before a planned antigovernment protest, while using state media outlets to warn that participants would be prosecuted for inciting violence and division; the protest did not take place. According to Human Rights Watch, opposition politicians and human rights lawyers also received death threats in advance of the protest. The antigovernment protests that successfully went ahead in March and September were violently dispersed by security forces, and dozens of protesters were arrested. In May, between 15 and 20 activists were arrested while participating in an anti-poverty protest in Luanda organized by the Revolutionary Movement of Social Intervention on the social networking site Facebook.
Hundreds of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) operate in Angola, many of them advocating for political reform, government accountability, and human rights protections. However, the government has occasionally threatened organizations with closure. In August 2011, authorities restricted the activities of a number of local and international NGOs relating to the SADC summit, including refusing NGO activists from across southern Africa entry to Angola at the Luanda airport, and confiscating publications on the human rights situation in Zimbabwe. The right to strike and form unions is provided by the constitution, but the MPLA dominates the labor movement, and only a few independent unions exist. Some 85 percent of the population engages in subsistence agriculture.
The judiciary is subject to extensive political influence, particularly from the executive, though courts occasionally rule against the government. The president appoints Supreme Court judges to life terms without legislative input. The courts in general are hampered by a lack of training and infrastructure, a large backlog of cases, corruption, and conflicts of interest. While the government has sought to train more municipal magistrates, municipal courts are rarely operational, leading to the use of traditional or informal courts.
Lengthy pretrial detention is common, and prisoners are subject to torture, severe overcrowding, sexual abuse, extortion, and a lack of basic services, including food and water. However, in 2010, seven police officers were each sentenced to 24 years in prison for killing eight suspects in Luanda's Sambizanga township, marking the first time a police officer had been convicted of an extrajudicial killing. According to Amnesty International, Angolan jails contain a number of political prisoners, mostly members of peaceful activist groups and advocates of regional autonomy. In March 2011, 30 political prisoners—activists for autonomy in the Lunda Tchokwe region—were released after being arrested and detained in 2009 and 2010.
An estimated four million weapons in civilian hands threaten to contribute to lawlessness, and both government and private security personnel have committed murders and other abuses in connection with the diamond-mining industry.
In 2006, the government signed a peace agreement with secessionists in the oil-rich northern exclave of Cabinda, hoping to end a conflict that had continued intermittently since 1975. While between 80 and 90 percent of the rebel fighters have reportedly joined the army or demobilized, some violence has continued. The military continues to arrest Cabindans for alleged state security crimes. Most of these detainees are allegedly denied basic due process rights and subjected to inhumane treatment. Citing continued attacks by rebels, the military restarted a counterinsurgency campaign in Cabinda in March 2011.
Minefields from the civil war continue to restrict freedom of movement, as does the country's rigid system of entry and exit visas. Tension involving refugees and migrants along the Angolan-Congolese border have led to a series of tit-for-tat expulsions affecting tens of thousands of people. In October 2011, Angolan soldiers allegedly attacked a village of Congolese migrants near the border, forcing 3,400 people to return to their home country. Between April and October 2011, the International Committee for the Development of Peoples reported that over 38,000 Democratic Republic of Congo nationals had been deported from Angola, with several thousand alleging physical and sexual abuse at the hands of Angolan authorities.
Since 2001, security forces have evicted thousands of people from informal settlements in and around Luanda without adequate notice, compensation, or resettlement provisions, ostensibly for development purposes. In August 2011, authorities cancelled the planned evictions of some 750 families from the Arco Iris neighborhood in Lubango.
Women enjoy legal protections and occupy cabinet positions and 37 percent of National Assembly seats, but de facto discrimination and violence against women remain common, particularly in rural areas. A new law on domestic violence, which included a broader definition of sexual violence, took effect in July 2011. Child labor is a major problem, and there have been reports of trafficking in women and children for prostitution or forced labor. A recent study by Angola's National Children's Institute and UNICEF found "a significant and growing" trend of abuse and abandonment of children who are accused of witchcraft after the death of a family member, usually from AIDS.


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A Castleton constable and part-time police officer is facing a charge of deer baiting.
Scott Stevens has been placed on administrative leave.
The Rutland Herald reports that a game warden issued him a citation for allegedly baiting deer near his tree stand in Castleton.
Stevens serves as a part-time police officer in Castleton and neighboring Fair Haven, and is scheduled to appear in court next month.

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NORRISTOWN (AP) - Authorities in suburban Philadelphia say they have arrested one man and are searching for two others in the death of a man whose car was fired upon during a robbery.
Police and prosecutors in Montgomery County said 25-year-old Andrew Polen of West Norriton Township was riding in a car being driven by a friend that was targeted for a robbery in Norristown on Monday night.
Authorities said one suspect fired multiple gunshots at the car, hitting Polen, who later died at Mercy Suburban Hospital. Police recovered five cartridge casings.
Eighteen-year-old Rontrey Wilkins of Norristown is charged with murder, robbery and firearms offenses.
Court documents indicate that Wilkins requested a public defender, but the office said Tuesday it hadn't yet been notified; a listed number for Wilkins couldn't be found.


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[Writing] is an awareness that demands cynical optimism, uncompromising integrity, allegiance to only the work… and most of all, courage to explore the darkest places of oneself.
—"Mortal Dreads" Harlan Ellison
—Old Journalism Saw
I recently experienced two starkly different media treatments of the dark side of human nature.
The first was painful to the point of nausea. I was at the gym watching the bank of televisions hanging in front of the workout stations. At one point, four of the nine screens were showing horrific footage of an angry father repeatedly striking his teenage daughter with a belt, the young girl screaming and cowering as he beat her. An eight-second loop of a particularly gruesome blow across the girl's back and her subsequent bloodcurdling scream were played over and over again. It was, in the parlance, the money shot, and I must have seen it twenty times in ten minutes.
What amazed me, in part, was that so many different programs were showing the footage at the same time regardless of its relevance to their "mission statement": a celebrity gossip show, a cable news politics talk show, local news programs and a financial news network. There was nothing at all celebrity, political, local or financial about the footage. The tape was simply infinitely repeatable titillation and shock, shown without context or any particular relevance to the audience.
The talking heads were having a field day, practically salivating over the savagery of the images. The most oft-repeated line of the broadcasts was a request for viewers to watch the footage one more time. Reporters chasing down the "story" caught the angry father in his car. He issued a blanket denial, and apologized for the inconvenience that the tape's release might have caused his community. The young girl was shown on a morning talk show tearfully recalling her ordeal.
But the tape's real reason for existence was ignored entirely. The daughter covertly filmed the abuse seven years ago and released it because she felt her father, a Texas family-law judge, had serious emotional problems and needed help. At no time, in any of the broadcasts I saw, or looked up later, did I hear mention of the root causes, lifelong impacts or frequency of childhood abuse. (Not that those explanations don't exist in broadcasts somewhere, just that it struck me as noticeably absent in my exposure to the footage as I watched it.)
Overall, it was a sickening and context-less exposure to one of the darkest places- family abuse–of human behavior. I felt worse about the human race after seeing it. There was no redemption, no justification, no value whatsoever in watching a young girl being beaten. It was violence and darkness for the sake of entertainment.
The other example of the dark side I recently encountered was a naked, cancer-stricken man trying to commit suicide by freezing himself to death in the woods in the middle of winter; but instead of killing himself, he inadvertently causes a mentally challenged young man to fall through the ice of a frozen pond, putting both of them in mortal danger.
I was stunned by the severity and suddenness of their predicaments. I watched, in microscopic detail, as both characters teetered on the edge of death; I ran the length and breadth of their lives in an instant, and was heartbroken at the sadness and horror of their situations. Both characters approach their deaths with a mixture of confusion and disbelief (I won't give away who, if anyone, dies).
That incident is George Saunders's short story, "Tenth of December", published in the October 31st, New Yorker. But this incident, the graphic and shocking suicide attempt and the tragedy facing the young man and his family, didn't cause me to recoil in horror. Rather, it gave me pause, a chance to meditate on the frail and arbitrary grip we all have on life, survival and death. I felt compassion. I gained an understanding of what was happening to each character and how their journeys related to my own. I grew as a person and gained a new perspective on the "mortal dreads" we all face. It was an edifying experience.
So why did those two human tragedies, unfortunately common enough to be recognizable in my own life, affect me in such different ways: one filled me with revulsion and disgust; the other enlightened and enriched me. They both struck a sensitive chord. Both were gruesome and exposed the dark side of life. Each was terrible, graphic and abhorrent and widely distributed through the media. They both examined themes of family abuse and survival in the face of tragedy.
It's an important question as I contemplate my professional past and future. I've covered a lot of human depravity and darkness in my career as a true-crime and corruption reporter. I have written about, filmed and aired some of the darkest, most sinister and godawful examples of humanity. I've made a living off of the dark side, exploiting the "human dreads" and showing the evil that men can do.
And I have to ask myself: what for? Was there anything good that came out of my work, or was it just for titillation's sake? And how can I find a way to make all of that misery mean something in the future? How do I, as an aspiring storyteller–and as a decent human being–take the rich vein of human darkness and turn it into a worthy, thoughtful, useful work?
The first answer I've come up with concerns the limits and abilities of each medium. My exposure to the Texas abuse case was limited to television. I only saw the images of what was happening. My interaction with the material started and ended on the surface; I was not able to see beyond the two-dimensional images streaming before me.
Setting aside my cynicism about the content decisions of broadcasters, the medium is incapable of doing anything other than showing me images. That restricted not only the context that the broadcasters choose to give me about what was happening on screen but it constrained the information they could give me.
The only information I have is that which I can see. There is no way that a television broadcast, even with the best intentions, can provide expositive information on the thoughts, emotions, history or consequences of what was happening between father and daughter. It is simply not possible to do so with only audio and visual tracks. I have no way of physically going any further.
Television, and visual media in general, freezes and isolates time. I will never know how this moment is informed by their past interactions, how their personalities and emotional proclivities determine their actions and it is impossible to see, in this instant, how this will affect their futures. It is an image without the possibility of change or deeper comprehension. It floats by, stimulates my brain and disappears. All that I am left with are the images and the emotions they have invoked.
Whereas literature, in this case, a masterfully written short story, can give me the information I need to see the context, history, impact and consequence of this dark moment. Saunders, in a phrase about a long-dead stepfather, lets me into the motivations behind the character's suicide attempt. The young boy daydreams of a chivalrous exchange with a classmate, and instantly, I see him as a damaged, isolated child with a history of family failure and disappointment.
Words, and the mental act of processing them, provide a depth and richness that extends beyond the moment; rather than freezing time, literature frees time from the constraints of literal meaning. Without the stern, verbatim prompting of the image, I am free to imagine and extrapolate meaning outside of the material in front of me.
Intent on the part of the content producer also plays a significant role in my understanding of these two experiences. It is clear from the visual and audio prompts–slow-motion blows and highly dramatic music–that the television producer wants me to react to the visceral and the violent in the act I am witnessing.
The producer is providing cues that focus on the physical and that's exactly what I do. It is a trick I know well from my true-crime days: slow the music down when the victim's family is on television, speed it up when we see the killer; push the camera into the crime scene, pull it out on the surroundings. It is not a cynical ploy to intentionally manipulate the audience (most of the time) but rather, the craft of the form. That's what works best in eliciting a reaction from the audience.
But the writer doesn't want that. The writer wants me to consider the larger picture, if you will, of the drama he is creating. He wants me to understand not just what is happening now, in the snow and ice, but what lead to this moment and where this moment will lead.
The writer intends for me to take in this incident totally, and extrapolate a meaning that goes beyond what is happening to the characters but also addresses the fears, concerns and hopes of my existence. So the writer uses the necessary tools, back story, metaphor, symbolism, language, to evoke the response he wants me to have.
Unfortunately, this magical transformation of words into a repository of universal meaning is not something I have the experience or ability to do.
So where does that leave my career aspirations, then: create meaningless and manipulative imagery or try to establish the literary craft? (Or go into organic beekeeping?) I don't know. I make good money working in television, and writing fiction is emotionally hard on me, mostly thankless and probably not very financially rewarding.
But I think the answer lies in something I heard George Saunders himself say at a New Yorker Festival panel in early October. (The panel was TC Boyle, George Saunders, and Joyce Carol Oates talking about writing the Dark Side. It was as mind-blowing, ohmygod I've died and gone to literary heaven as it sounds.)
Saunders said–I am paraphrasing here–that writing about the dark side takes emotional fortitude. He said that there are lots of talented people working in media, simply too afraid of the challenges that writing meaningful fiction presents. In order to break through to the "truth" takes courage, imagination and persistence and a lot of creative types don't do it.
He hits the mark, but then I would have to explore my own dark side to find a way through that fear. And I don't know if I have the fortitude for it.


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Sunday Sweets: Take It Away, Movie Guy!
In a world... where Nazis are everywhere...
"Doctor Chones. I see you haf found se ark. Now, you vill die!"
One man... stands against an army.
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"It's showtime!"
He must FIGHT for survival...
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"I'm pretty good with a bo staff, which is flippin' sweet!"
And face a terrible choice:
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"Oh! Oh! You ready to blow?!"
"Yeah, I'm ready to blow!"
To kill... OR BE KILLED.
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"I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never, ever possibly destroy us. Mr. Stay Puft."
He knew... TOO MUCH.
"I know...too much!"
He went... TOO FAR.
"I went...too far!"
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[pew pew!] "DON'T RUN. WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS." [pew pew!]
With his world falling apart...
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"They're under the ground! They're under.. the ground!"
And DANGER at every turn:
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"Run awaaaaay!"
Everything he knows... IS ABOUT TO CHANGE.
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"I'm not finished."
This summer, FEEL the passion, SMELL the romance, and TASTE the explosions in:
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Game... Of Thrones!
Wait. Isn't that a TV show?
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college44 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 368 designs submitted by 132 freelance designers.
Need a new logo or design for an existing nightclub located in Austin Texas. The name of the club is "SIX" or "Six Lounge". We currently just spell out "SIX". We are looking for other creative ways to visualize "SIX" on T-shirts and Hats. Any variation of "SIX" either by numbers, letters or symbols. You can look at our current logo at http://www.sixlounge.com
The design will need to be put on shirts and hats. You can see what we are all about at http://www.sixlounge.com. We will be rotaing these designs over the next year so we will probably offer the top three or four designs.
- Item 1...Must be simple and in one color. Either black on a white background or white with a black background. We would like the word "lounge" and "Austin, Texas" incorporated into the logo but it is not a must.
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Rafa Nadal had to work for his place in the quartefinals of the BNP Paribas Open. The top seed fended off the always dangerous David Nalbandian, who now has a 2-1 record against the Spaniard (with two wins in 2007 — Madrid and Paris).
Another kit: Nadal and Nike came up with another variation of his Bold Crew Men's Tee, this time in white/neon turquoise/charcoal.
Scoreline: Nadal saved five match points (four on his own serve, one on Nalbandian's) to take the second set to a tiebreaker. The third set did not start until 1:30 a.m. The final score: 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-0. After this test, Rafa will face Juan Martin del Potro in the quarters. Del Potro beat John Isner 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3) in the battle of the beasts.
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) Trey McKinney Jones scored 15 points Sunday for the Miami Hurricanes, and the Atlantic Coast Conference leaders won their seventh game in a row by beating Florida State, 71-47.
The blowout victory before a capacity crowd was the second in a row for the 25th-ranked Hurricanes, ensuring a significant jump in Monday's poll. They drubbed No. 1 Duke on Wednesday.
Miami (15-3, 6-0) is off to its best start in the conference, alone atop the standings, and is 9-0 at home. Florida State (11-8, 3-3) fell to 0-3 this season against ranked teams.
The Seminoles endured repeated long scoring droughts against Miami's man-to-man defense and shot a season-low 31 percent, the fourth time in the past five games they've been under 42 percent.


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Tom Wolfe, Chairman, CEO and President of Ziebart International Corp. addresses the company's board of directors and guests at 55th celebration at Ziebart's Troy headquarters.
Ziebart International Corp., a global leader in automotive detailing, films and protection services, was honored June 20 by elected officials for its 55th anniversary in business and for its new product Z-Shield paint protection film introduction.
"This milestone is very significant to the company and its employee-owners," said Thomas E. Wolfe, CEO. "Ziebart is one of very few franchise businesses to be in existence for more than a half century. Most importantly, our company continues to grow nationally and internationally with 400 stores in the USA and 32 countries around the world."
The company was founded in Detroit and moved its headquarters to Troy. City of Troy Mayor Pro-Tem Dave Henderson and several council members offered Ziebart a proclamation. Executive Matt Gibb presented a letter from Executive L. Brooks Patterson saluting the company for its growth and success. The State Senate also will honor the company with a resolution citing the company's growth in Michigan.
"Ziebart is an iconic brand and we are continuing to innovate and offer new products and services to keep vehicles looking their best and protecting them from the ravages of the roads and daily use," said Wolfe.
The company is employee-owned and is launching a reintroduction of its brand along with its latest product — a clear film that covers a vehicle's front end and other areas vulnerable to potential stone chips, road debris or scratches.
"This is simply the best paint protection film and professional installation process we have ever offered our customers," said Daniel C. Baker, President of Ziebart Corporation (U.S. subsidiary of Ziebart International). "We have spent years and an unprecedented amount of resources to develop, refine and deliver to our franchisees and our customers Z-Shield paint protection film. It's an optically clear film protection for all or any part of your vehicle that is formulated to resist chips and marks from stones and road debris."
Baker likened the Z-Shield paint protection film product to a plastic film smartphone protector, except this paint protection film is almost as smart as your phone given its self-healing attributes. He said the company is excited about this new product introduction coinciding with its anniversary year in business in June 2014.
The Z-Shield film comes in gauges of 0.6 mil and 0.8 mil and carries a national warranty backed by Ziebart.
Baker said the newest 0.6 mil film has been engineered and manufactured to "self-heal" from minor scratches such as abrasions from automatic car washes and keeps paint finishes looking new.
Kurt Ziebart, the corporation's late founder, rust protected his first vehicle in 1954 and established the business in Detroit in 1959.
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How to change the electricity market in 8 words or less
How to change the electricity market in 8 words or less
The centerpiece of the VERGE concept -- the one thing, if you can call it that, that will bring together the already-happening convergence of energy, buildings, IT and vehicles -- is the smart grid.
Rather than our long-established, one-way, utility-to-customer model, VERGE relies on the creation and widespread adoption of a two-way grid, and one that connects not just businesses and homes to their energy providers, but connects utilities, businesses and individuals to the energy-using devices within their four walls.
So it's fitting that the kickoff to the final day of our VERGE DC event centered around utilities. Jon Wellinghoff, the chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, began the morning in conversation with Joel Makower, and the two were then joined by three other experts, from utilities and green power purchasing companies:
- Chris Gould, the Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Chief Sustainability Officer at Exelon;
- Steve Kline, the VP & Chief Sustainability Officer of Pacific Gas & Electric; and
- Kathy Loftus, the Global Leader of Sustainable Engineering & Energy Management at Whole Foods Market
Uptake on smart grid technologies is still slow in the coming, so Makower asked Wellinghoff what opportunities there are in smart grid -- what would sell them on smart grid, and what would make it easier to build new business opportunities around smart grid?
"I tell them two things: One, to the extent that their business enterprises are in regional transmission organization areas where they can participate in demand response, they should investigate and see how they can take advantage of that," Wellinghoff said. "Two, to the extent that they're not in an area they can do that now, they need to go to their state regulators and legislatures and make sure that changes. They should have the choice to participate in those wholesale grid activities that [other regional utilities can]."
And those utilities' customers can also help spur progress, asking their state commissioners and legislators for, Wellinghoff said, the ability to get retail access to the grid, to choose their own energy providers, and the right to sell negawatts and negawatt-hours back to the grid when they're generating their own energy.
If it's not abundantly clear already, making those changes on a nation-wide scale is a tall order. But PG&E's Steve Kline shared his company's experience with trying to envision and implement some of those changes on stage at this morning's event.
(PG&E, by the way, has had more incentive to deal with these issues than many utilities because of the huge number of individuals generating their own energy: Kline said that 30 percent of the nation's solar installations are located within PG&E's service area.)
Kline said that PG&E has created a tiered rate structure that strongly incentivizes conservation, but that California's impressive history of keeping total demand flat hints at what will happen when net-zero energy buildings and widespread, small-scale renewable generation causes that demand starts to actually decline.
"If you think about a world in which load is actually declining, even in a decoupled environment like ours, where we don't make money when we sell more, suddenly the rate-making model breaks, because you're loading more and more charges into a declining amount," Kline said. "Over time, you're going to need to obviously give a strong price signal, but also create something like a systems operations charge or 'integration charge' that allows to providers to get a fixed-costs recovery for the grid, and provide a price signal."
Kathy Loftus at Whole Foods spoke a bit about the challenges that company has faced in incorporating green power into its stores nationwide. Depending on how long a utility has been deregulated, how long they've focused on energy efficiency, and other factors all impact stores in that utility's coverage area ability to buy green power from the grid.
Given a recurring theme of frustration from everyone on stage -- regulators, utilities and customers -- Makower challenged the panelists to say, in four words or less, what it will take to make green power and smart grids possible?
Jon Wellinghoff: An act of Congress.
Chris Gould: Two words: Demand competition.
Steve Kline: One word: standards.
Kathy Loftus: One word: Co-opetition.
Wellinghoff would like to see Congress pass a law to provide all utility customers to have retail access to the grid, and to give customers choices about where they get their energy.
Gould stressed the fact that the real power lies with the consumer. Utilities in different areas have different interests, so without offloading the responsibility of the utility onto their customers, the end users have the biggest voice and the biggest capability to demand change.
Kline's belief is that uniformity across the nation -- which would almost certainly require an act of Congress -- is the linchpin of smarter grids. The grid can't function well if systems don't talk to each other, and having a single standard that everyone can build toward would make adoption a relatively simple task.
Loftus said that you can't put the genie back in the bottle in terms of how the grid is structured, but until we get to full competition in the utility marketplace, whether in the form of an act of Congress or otherwise, then utilities and their customers need to come to the table to figure out how to work together to look at success stories in smarter, cleaner grids and determine best practices.
Talk about deregulation of energy markets, especially where I sit in California, brings to mind the dark days of the late-1990s and early-2000s, and the specter of Enron.
Wellinghoff talked about Enron's role in pushing for deregulated energy markets across the country, and it had great success in California. Unfortunately, from there it led to massive market manipulation and fraud.
"[But] just because we had the Hindenberg, we don't stop commercial air travel," Wellinghoff said. "Ultimately, we have to look again at how we can put that back together, this time in a way that ensures that [massive fraud] doesn't happen again."
He added: "[Enron] wanted to unbundle everything, make everything competitive. I do think that concept is still sound. What wasn't sound is that there wasn't a regulatory infrastructure in place to ensure there was no fraud."
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Honeywell Strengthens Wireless Solutions Offering With Cisco
Otherwise known as: "Industry Leaders Expand Customer Choice and Reduces Total Cost of Ownership".
A press release out of Honeywell's Baveno, Italy site late last month told of Honeywell's announcement that it is offering wireless access point[s] (the Aironet 1552 Access Points to be precise) from Cisco – "global leader in networking", as part of Honeywell's OneWireless™ solution of industrial wireless products and services.
The Press Release stated that "These solutions provides customers seeking to implement a long-term, plant-wide wireless infrastructure at their industrial facilities with industry leading technology and support from two of the largest and most established wireless solutions providers in the world."
It was all about Cisco's new Aironet 1552 Access Point together with Honeywell's OneWireless network, providing wireless coverage for both Wi-Fi applications and ISA100.11a field instruments under a single infrastructure and minimizing total cost of ownership.
Honeywell stated that the addition of Cisco's technical capability and experience in mesh infrastructure and Wi-Fi applications will offer industrial automation customers an unparalleled level of choice and expertise when devising future proof wireless solutions to best suit their plant needs.
"The process industry's appetite for wireless applications continues to increase at an exponential rate, with needs extending far beyond field instruments," said Raymond Rogowski, global wireless marketing director, Honeywell Process Solutions. "With Cisco's wireless technology in HPS' process control systems, new and existing customers in the oil & gas, refining, chemicals and power sectors will have the most comprehensive selection of products and services available to them when planning and implementing wireless network solutions at their facilities. Cisco's position as a global leader in network technology also ensures that customers will always have the very latest technology at their fingertips."
"The addition of Cisco's access point to Honeywell's wireless network offering continues the theme of OneWireless as a cost effective, plant-wide wireless mesh infrastructure capable of supporting technologically advanced applications such as rotating assets, VOIP, and security systems. As an industry leader, Honeywell is strategically committed to supporting the huge growth in industrial wireless applications, this access provides an additional pillar to moving the industry forward quickly."
To get more information on the Press Release, click here.
I think this is just another validation of Cisco as, in my opinion, THE market leader in Converged Networking, where we see Business and Plant/Manufacturing networks converging over time.
On the the final day of the EMEA HUG (Honeywell Users Group) this year, the comments were very positive:
"It is a sign of barriers coming down", says Honeywell's Diederik Mols, presenting with Cisco Systems' Michael Fabian at HUG. "It's a great step forward," he says. "Every company has an IT infrastructure in the business environment but in the process area the engineers are responsible and the IT function has been excluded."
However, wireless technology has changed that.
"The moment you're leveraging the WiFi network for running mobile computing devices that's IT's core competence." he adds.
Leading Manufacturers seem to be going faster than laggards when it comes to this technology, and that means there will be winners and loses in the manufacturing world – are you a winner? As always, let me know your view!
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OAKLAND — Police on Wednesday stopped searching for a missing 31-year-old Oakland woman who authorities now believe committed suicide.
Erica Maskaleris, the owner of a computer consulting company, went missing March 7.
Authorities were led to believe that Maskaleris may have jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge after tracking her cellphone to the bridge, where the signal stopped the day she disappeared, according to Oakland Police.
There is also surveillance video that puts Maskaleris on the bridge last Thursday, police said.
Maskaleris' body has not been recovered.
In a statement issued Wednesday afternoon, family spokeswoman Mary Lim-Lampe said "the family of Erica Maskaleris has been notified by the police that they are suspending their search as they believe Erica to be deceased. No other details will be released."
Dozens of people distributed hundreds fliers over the last six days in hopes of finding her.
"We thank the community of First Congregational Church of Oakland for all their love and support. We thank all the volunteers for their help in the search for Erica. Finally, we thank the Oakland Police Department for being so diligent in their service to our family," the statement says.
Authorities said police told Maskaleris' family Tuesday that police were investigating her death as an unconfirmed suicide.
California Highway Patrol Officer Andrew Barclay, whose said his office was working with Oakland Police in the investigation, said the family was cooperative.
The video from the bridge was recorded several hours after an Oakland bakery's surveillance video captured Maskaleris walking in the 3400 block of Telegraph Avenue on March 7, police said. Maskaleris had been booked on a flight to Texas last Thursday night to visit her brother Steve Torres. She did not make the flight or call to cancel. Torres was not available for comment Wednesday.
Maskaleris is a native of Fresno who moved to Oakland about seven years ago. She founded GeekoSystems, a computer consultation company based in Oakland, with her husband, Josiah Maskaleris, in 2009.
He died of cancer Feb. 8, 2012. Until she went missing, she had been operating the company with a business partner. Friends have said she did not seem distraught or despondent recently.
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Two men became the new proud owners of a rare 1913 Liberty Head nickel, which was hidden in a closet for 41 years after its owners were mistakenly told it was fake.
Larry Lee, 63, from Panama City, Fla., and Jeff Garrett, 54, from Lexington, Ky., paid $3,172,500 for the coin from Heritage Auctions in Schaumburg, Ill., on Thursday.
"I love rare coins," Lee told ABCNews.com. "For anyone connected to coins, this is like a dream come true." Lee and Garrett bought the coin in partnership.
Garrett, who was one of a team of experts brought in to authenticate the coin in 2003, said he'd been excited about the coin ever since he first handled it.
"We've both always dreamed about owning these coins," he said. "This is probably the greatest coin I've ever handled."
While five Liberty Head nickels are currently known to exist, the story of this particular coin added a new dimension to its allure for Lee and Garrett.
The coin's former owner, George Walton, died in a car accident in 1962. His family recovered the nickel from the car wreck but was told that the coin was counterfeit. Walton's sister kept the coin anyway, stowing it away in a closet with the label "It's not real."
Walton's sister's four children inherited the coin and brought it to auction this year, after learning more about its authenticity at the 2003 American Numismatic Association World's Fair of Money in Baltimore.
Attempts by ABC News to contact the heirs were not successful, but Cheryl Myers, one of the four heirs, told the the Associated Press, "The sad part is my mother had it for 30 years and she didn't know it."
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Decades later, Lee said he couldn't believe he owned the now authenticated coin, and that he got it at such a great price. "The coin at that value is severely undervalued. I was willing to pay $4 million.
"This coin has been rare forever. This is like the holy grail of the coin business."
Lee said the coin would be on display next month in New Orleans at a American Numismatic Association exhibition, where he wants as much of the public to see it as possible.
But he doesn't have any other future plans for the coin. "I just wanted to own that coin," he said.
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Japanese stocks fell Monday in a mixed session for Asia, as concerns about an escalating conflict in Iraq drove the yen higher.
Iraq's descent into chaos, and concerns about a broader civil war, pushed oil prices higher and sent investors to the yen, Asia's safe-haven currency. A radical Sunni militia on Sunday claimed it had executed hundreds of Shiite Iraqi soldiers in a move that analysts said was intended to provoke further sectarian fighting.
Nymex crude oil for July CLN24, -50.50% gained 0.4% to $107.33 a barrel, adding to a 4.1% surge over the course of last week. The yen also rose in Asian trade, with the dollar USDJPY, -0.13% last at ¥101.93, compared with ¥102.04 late Friday in New York.
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Australia's S&P/ASX 200 XJO, +0.28% ended up 0.1%, though some miners fell amid declining prices for spot iron ore, which slid 0.7% on Friday to a 21-month low. Concerns over the use of iron ore as collateral for finance deals and allegations of fraud involving commodities stored in China continue to rattle the market.
Atlas Iron XJO, +0.28% fell 4.2%, and Arrium AU:ARI lost 4.8% after it was downgraded to sell from hold by Deutsche Bank.
South Korea's Kospi 180721, +0.01% was up 0.1% to 1,993.59, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index HSI, -0.81% lost 0.1% to 23,300.67, and Singapore's Straits Times Index STI, -0.52% was up 0.1% late in Asia.
Trading was quiet on Monday, ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's upcoming policy meeting. Scheduled to conclude on Wednesday, the meeting will provide a monetary-policy update for the world's largest economy.
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CHICAGO - Bobby E. Wright Comprehensive Behavioral Health Center, Inc. (BEW Center) violated federal law by failing to accommodate and then firing an employee with a mental health disability, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit it filed yesterday. BEW Center is a health center located in Chicago that provides services to persons with mental health, behavioral, emotional, and substance abuse problems.
According to the EEOC suit, BEW Center refused to accommodate the employee who requested time off to seek treatment her depression and panic attacks from her doctor. Instead, the EEOC said, BEW Center required the employee be treated by its doctor. The EEOC also alleged that BEW Center discharged the employee because of her disability.
The EEOC filed suit under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement with BEW Center through its conciliation process. The case, EEOC v. Bobby E. Wright Comprehensive Behavioral Health Center, Inc., N.D. Ill. No. 12-cv-07695, was filed Sept. 26 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, and has been assigned to District Judge Milton Shadur. Supervisory Trial Attorney Diane Smason and Trial Attorney Brandi Davis will litigate the case on behalf of the EEOC.
"Mental health disabilities have long been misunderstood by society," said John Hendrickson, regional attorney for the EEOC's Chicago District Office. "Unfortunately, this leaves people with mental health disabilities vulnerable to discrimination. Employers must recognize that simple accommodations like a short time off work can open the door for employment for these people. Of all employers, one would expect a center focused on mental health to understand this."
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The Independent Electrical Contractors' (IEC) membership and education departments will be consolidated to synchronize the efforts of both areas. As part of that decision, Bill Mathisen, IEC national executive vice president, selected Lisa Washington, vice president of education, to spearhead the new department as vice president of member and chapter development.
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The Empire State Building hates America.
Next Monday, the iconic skyscraper will shine the national colors of whichever team wins the Women's World Cup Final between the U.S. and Japan, according to CNBC's Darren Rovell.
So if Abby Wambach bangs home another game-winning header, red, white, and blue will sit atop the city.
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Walking Gently on the Earth
We are not just interconnected—we are interdependent. Our choices affect others across the globe, and we must take that into account as we decide how to eat, shop, and live. Lisa Graham McMinn and her daughter, Megan Anna Neff, begin with this point as they invite readers "to think deeply about living well in a modern and complex world." They've written a "primer" for Christians on environmental issues and ethical decision-making.
Walking Gently Upon the Earth explores agricultural practices, food and consumer choices, global warming, and energy consumption. The authors also take on controversial issues such as family planning and U.S. food subsidies.
This is a good entrée for those new to "creation care," but it's also a radical book. It challenges long-standing evangelical beliefs that the material world is a temporary, expendable home, and that Christians ought to focus on saving souls.
The authors remind us of the commandment to love our neighbors as ourselves, and point out that we cannot care for their needs unless we care for Earth.
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Each week a global thinker from the worlds of philosophy, science, psychology or the arts is given a minute to put forward a radical, inspiring or controversial idea – no matter how improbable – that they believe would change the world.
This week, IBM's Jeff Jonas imagines a way to ration the use of car horns.
"Automobile horns are obnoxious – it is noise pollution. I say you only get a few honks a month and after that there is a surcharge. You are going to have to pay for it if you want to use the horn more than that.
Here is how it is going to work: As all these new cars come out and more and more of them are going to be connected to the net – and it is going to be cheap and easy to put a sensor on your horn, counting each and every time you toot the thing.
Then some big database in the sky is going to collect all of this data – these statistics – and start charging people accordingly.
This is going to make the world a better place. Why? It is going to reduce noise pollution. It is also likely to reduce the incidence of road rage because there is going to be less provocation.
And then there is a bonus of course: this big database in the sky. You could listen to others honking at you if you put the right sensors in the car and this could be compiled to find out which drivers are the most dangerous and also probably the most irritating."
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The Transportation Security Administration plans to dramatically expand its program to get travelers through airport checkpoints faster by inviting them to pay a nominal fee for voluntary background checks.
TSA's Pre-check program offers travelers separate lines at checkpoints, where they leave on shoes and light coats and keep laptops in their bags. The free program operates at 40 airports and now covers members of frequent-flier programs for Alaska, American, Delta, Hawaiian, United, US Airways and Virgin America airlines. Airlines invite frequent-fliers to apply with little more than the information provided when buying a ticket.
But TSA Administrator John Pistole announced Friday the agency will expand eligibility for the program to include travelers who pay a one-time fee of $85 for five years, to cover an application with identifying information such as address and birthplace, a background check and fingerprinting.
Enrollment centers are initially scheduled to open in the fall at Washington's Dulles and Indianapolis airports, but the program is expected to expand at numerous locations nationwide.
"This initiative will increase the number of U.S. citizens eligible to receive expedited screening, through TSA Pre-check," Pistole said.
The expansion is part of Pistole's shift from blanketing everyone with the same security to focusing the most scrutiny on the riskiest travelers. By sorting out trusted travelers for less intrusive screening, the agency hopes to narrow its focus on potential terrorists.
"That's our way of dealing with risk-based security and saying let's get away from the one-size-fits-all, and let's focus on the those that we can pre-screen ... so we can expedite your physical screening at the checkpoint because we have a high confidence that you are not a terrorist," Pistole said Friday at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado.
Pistole's goal is to expand the program to cover 25% of travelers by the end of the year and perhaps 50% by the end of 2014. So far, 12 million travelers have used Pre-check since it began in late 2011, but about 1.8 million people fly every day.
Easing checkpoint security for more travelers is also expected to reduce criticism of TSA.
At the Aspen Security Forum on Thursday, retired admiral Dennis Blair, a former director of national intelligence overseeing the National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency, argued that airport checkpoints inconvenienced more people than NSA collecting information about phone calls.
"There has been more inconvenience and damage to Americans by the no-fly list and by taking off your shoes off in the airport than this program," Blair said of the NSA phone program.
Under the expansion, Pre-check would resemble Custom and Border Protection's popular Global Entry program for international travelers. Participants in Global Entry pay a one-time fee of $100 for five years, fill out a travel questionnaire and submit to a background check and fingerprinting.
If the application is approved, Global Entry participants whisk through Customs by swiping their passport at a kiosk and then handing a printed receipt to a government officer.
TSA already recognizes Global Entry participants for Pre-check and that will continue. But Pre-check is an option for travelers without passports and is projected to have more enrollment centers than the 39 that Global Entry has. Pre-check application processing is expected to take about two to three weeks.
Erik Hansen, director of domestic policy for the U.S. Travel Association, which promotes travel and conducts research, said the expansion is important for regular travelers who aren't frequent fliers or who don't live near a Global Entry enrollment office.
"This is a huge development for Pre-check and it has big implications for ordinary travelers," Hansen said. "It's going to be something that expedites the screening process for everyone."
The U.S. Travel Association surveyed travelers in 2010 and 2011 and found a willingness to pay a fee for faster screening.
"If you can get the travelers who travel two to three times per year, that's the majority of the flying public," Hansen said. "If you can target them, that's going to put a lot more people through the expedited screening lane and it's going to shorten the regular screening line for everybody else."
Airports, which have to find space for TSA checkpoints, also welcomed the expansion. Deborah McElroy, interim president of Airports Council International-North America, an advocacy group for airports handling 95% of travelers nationwide, said the program will mean better efficiency and customer service at many checkpoints.
"ACI-NA looks forward to working with TSA to expand this program to additional airports nationwide as soon as possible," McElroy said.


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ICD-10 Code C50.111
Malignant neoplasm of central portion of right female breast
Valid for Submission
C50.111 is a billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of malignant neoplasm of central portion of right female breast. The code is valid for the year 2019 for the submission of HIPAA-covered transactions.
|Short Description:
|Malignant neoplasm of central portion of right female breast
|Long Description:
|Malignant neoplasm of central portion of right female breast
Code Classification
Code History
- FY 2016 - New Code, effective from 10/1/2015 through 9/30/2016
(first year ICD-10-CM implemented into the HIPAA mandated code set)
- FY 2017 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2016 through 9/30/2017
- FY 2018 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2017 through 9/30/2018
- FY 2019 - No Change, effective from 10/1/2018 through 9/30/2019
Information for Medical Professionals
Code Edits
The Medicare Code Editor (MCE) detects and reports errors in the coding of claims data. The following ICD-10 Code Edits are applicable to this code:
- Diagnoses for females only - Medicare Code Editor detects inconsistencies between a patient's sex and any diagnosis on the patient's record, this code applies to FEMALES only .
Diagnostic Related Groups
The Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs) are a patient classification scheme which provides a means of relating the type of patients a hospital treats. The DRGs divides all possible principal diagnoses into mutually exclusive principal diagnosis areas referred to as Major Diagnostic Categories (MDC). The diagnosis code C50.111 is grouped in the following groups for version MS-DRG V36.0 applicable from 10/01/2018 through 09/30/2019.
Convert C50.111 to ICD-9
The following crosswalk between ICD-10 to ICD-9 is based based on the General Equivalence Mappings (GEMS) information:
- 174.1 - Mal neo breast-central (Approximate Flag)
The following clinical terms are approximate synonyms or lay terms that might be used to identify the correct diagnosis code:
- Carcinoma of central portion of breast
- Infiltrating duct carcinoma of female breast
- Infiltrating duct carcinoma of right female breast
- Infiltrating ductal carcinoma of central portion of right female breast
- Malignant neoplasm of central part of female breast
- Neoplasm of central portion of female breast
Information for Patients
Breast Cancer
Breast cancer affects one in eight women during their lives. No one knows why some women get breast cancer, but there are many risk factors. Risks that you cannot change include
- Age - the risk rises as you get older
- Genes - two genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, greatly increase the risk. Women who have family members with breast or ovarian cancer may wish to be tested for the genes.
- Personal factors - beginning periods before age 12 or going through menopause after age 55
Other risks include obesity, using hormone replacement therapy (also called menopausal hormone therapy), taking birth control pills, drinking alcohol, not having children or having your first child after age 35, and having dense breasts.
Symptoms of breast cancer may include a lump in the breast, a change in size or shape of the breast, and discharge from a nipple. Breast self-exams and mammography can help find breast cancer early, when it is most treatable. One possible treatment is surgery. It could be a lumpectomy or a mastectomy. Other treatments include radiation therapy, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, and targeted therapy. Targeted therapy uses substances that attack cancer cells without harming normal cells.
Men can have breast cancer, too, but it is rare.
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Breast cancer Breast cancer is a disease in which certain cells in the breast become abnormal and multiply uncontrollably to form a tumor. Although breast cancer is much more common in women, this form of cancer can also develop in men. In both women and men, the most common form of breast cancer begins in cells lining the milk ducts (ductal cancer). In women, cancer can also develop in the glands that produce milk (lobular cancer). Most men have little or no lobular tissue, so lobular cancer in men is very rare.In its early stages, breast cancer usually does not cause pain and may exhibit no noticeable symptoms. As the cancer progresses, signs and symptoms can include a lump or thickening in or near the breast; a change in the size or shape of the breast; nipple discharge, tenderness, or retraction (turning inward); and skin irritation, dimpling, or scaliness. However, these changes can occur as part of many different conditions. Having one or more of these symptoms does not mean that a person definitely has breast cancer.In some cases, cancerous tumors can invade surrounding tissue and spread to other parts of the body. If breast cancer spreads, cancerous cells most often appear in the bones, liver, lungs, or brain. Tumors that begin at one site and then spread to other areas of the body are called metastatic cancers.A small percentage of all breast cancers cluster in families. These cancers are described as hereditary and are associated with inherited gene mutations. Hereditary breast cancers tend to develop earlier in life than noninherited (sporadic) cases, and new (primary) tumors are more likely to develop in both breasts.
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ICD-10 Footnotes
General Equivalence Map Definitions
The ICD-10 and ICD-9 GEMs are used to facilitate linking between the diagnosis codes in ICD-9-CM and the new ICD-10-CM code set. The GEMs are the raw material from which providers, health information vendors and payers can derive specific applied mappings to meet their needs.
- Approximate Flag - The approximate flag is on, indicating that the relationship between the code in the source system and the code in the target system is an approximate equivalent.
- No Map Flag - The no map flag indicates that a code in the source system is not linked to any code in the target system.
- Combination Flag - The combination flag indicates that more than one code in the target system is required to satisfy the full equivalent meaning of a code in the source system.


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Leak Detector Complies with New ASHRAE Standard
The Digital Refrigerant Leak Detector (RLD400) from General Tools & Instruments has been certified by an accredited independent test laboratory to comply with the new Halocarbon Refrigerant Leak Detector Standard 173-2012 of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). The action means the instrument has been certified at a leak rate of less than one gram per year. General's RLD400 is also certified to comply with SAE J2791, J2913, and J1627 standards, and the new European standard EN14624:2012. It is the only instrument of its kind to meet all five standards.
The RLD400 offers advanced detecting power and affordability; with its proprietary semiconductor sensor, it is built to detect all commercially available HFC, HFO, HC, HCFC and CFC refrigerant gases, including many new ozone layer-friendly blends, such as R-22 and R-1234yf, approved under the EPA's Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP). generaltools.com
A More Efficient Compressor from Bitzer US
Bitzer US, Inc. has begun producing the new Ecoline reciprocating compressor series at its Atlanta area manufacturing plant. Sources report that, with the new series, Bitzer is transferring all the advantages of the proven Ecoline series for R134a refrigerant to an even broader range of applications, as a way to provide customers with significant added value. The compressors are approved for R134a, R404A, R407A, R407C, R407F, and R507A and are offered in sizes ranging from 1/2HP to 50HP.
The new Ecoline series offers higher efficiency levels and simultaneously expanded application limits — and can still fit into existing systems as a replacement. The coefficient of performance was improved throughout the series by 6% (at nominal rating points) and, at low condensing temperatures, which are important for seasonal efficiency, the increase was up to 12%.
The New Ecoline compressors with Motor Version 2 are now universal refrigeration compressors — for full applicability in low temperature applications and medium temperature applications. Motor versions 1 or 3 are provided for heat pumps, medium temperature applications with R134a, and special applications. Each new Ecoline compressor is compatible with its predecessor model, with an unaltered mounting hole pattern and the same pipe connections, offering efficiency gains even when servicing existing systems. All new Ecoline compressors are suitable for operation with external frequency inverters. bitzerus.com


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To have as a separate dining room with large dining table and chairs in the center around it, has always been the privilege of the wealthy. Ancient rule, stay at home, no matter what the occasion (sad or hilarious) felt the best hospitality in the abundance of food offered. That is why we pay close attention to the dining room, a dining with guests, a place which should represent a good steward in the light.
Dining room has gained longevity history, starting from the palace feasts, to reach its modern form - the dining area. The impressive appearance of the Victorian dining in Cambridge inspires awe with massive, decorated with carved tables and chairs.
In the 20 th century with the emergence of the profession of designer and definition of style, the dining room underwent numerous transformations as space and characteristics of the furniture in it. Those in museums dining furniture groups in kraft & B style art, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, modern, postmodern, minimalist lovers are today. The desire to invent something new, unprecedented, sometimes leads to incredible experiments.
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For people with opportunities could outline some characteristics of modern day admission for groups of dining tables and chairs. Above all, modern furniture designers tend to clean straight lines. This appealing and manufacturers of furniture, for easier and faster manufacturing process. Today increasingly pay attention to nature and we need to bring in items from her home. That is why fashion is natural materials like solid wood, glass and metal in pure form, in various combinations.
People who like to wear extravagant and elegant at the same time, appreciate the original idea of the designer and easily perceive the unusual idea, as it artfully combined with other forms of art. Dining, built on advanced general rule, only people succeed with respect to art, people who do not like traditional print on respect for the inventory items inherent in the dining room.
For such an environment is characterized with original furniture, swanky extravagant shape and bright color, designed by famous designers. As decoration of dining can be expected to value antiques placed in close proximity to the last cry of modern design.


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Pistons Beat Celtics 87-77
Brandon Jennings made the most of his first game with the Detroit Pistons on Sunday night. Brad Stevens' third game with the Boston Celtics was just like his first two.
Jennings had 14 points and four steals in 31 minutes and Andre Drummond and Josh Smith added 15 points each to help the Pistons keep the Celtics and their first-year coach winless with an 87-77 victory.
"I'm ready to play now," Jennings said after missing the team's first two games and most of the preseason with a jaw fracture related to a wisdom tooth.
The Pistons (2-1) trailed 65-63 early in the fourth quarter but went on a 10-0 run to take the lead for good and win their second home game in as many tries. Drummond added 12 rebounds for his second straight double-double and Greg Monroe grabbed 10.
Jennings had two steals after the Celtics cut the lead to 79-77 with less than 2 minutes to play. He got the first steal to Rodney Stuckey, who was fouled and made two free throws to give the Pistons some breathing room. Detroit held Boston scoreless the rest of the way.
"It was good to see him out there and the effect he can have on the team," coach Maurice Cheeks said of Jennings. "He brings a little electricity to a game."
Rookie Kelly Olynyk scored 15 points and Avery Bradley and Jordan Crawford added 13 each for the Celtics (0-3).
"We had stretches where we played well defensively," Olynyk said, "but there were too many times when they got away with a couple of big runs."
The Pistons outscored the Celtics 10-5 in the last 5 minutes of the first half and took a 45-35 lead. Boston made just five field goals in the second quarter and had that many turnovers.
The Celtics finished with 24 turnovers and Detroit had 21. Cheeks said turnovers - the Pistons had 60 in their first three games - remain a concern.
"Our defense is usually pretty good but when we have turnovers, it's tough to get back and defend," he said. "It's something we have to keep working on."
Detroit was much more effective on the glass, where it outrebounded Boston 44-37.
"We had our opportunities," Stevens said. "They pounded us in the paint all night and that really hurt us."
Detroit outscored Boston 54-38 down low.
Jennings, who came to Detroit during the offseason in a sign-and-trade deal with Milwaukee, wore a facemask that covered his chin. He took the mask off in the fourth quarter because it was uncomfortable. His jaw remains closed with a series of bands while the fracture heals.
"I'm not used to playing with something on my face so it was my decision to take it off," he said.
He fell to the court after colliding with Brandon Bass in the final seconds of the first half but showed no ill effects when he returned for the third quarter.
This program aired on November 4, 2013. The audio for this program is not available.
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Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh: "We think that the path of negotiations and peace talks has reached a dead end. The resistance (i.e., terror campaign, 2000-2005), which liberated Gaza [in 2005] and protected Gaza, can liberate the West Bank and the rest of the Palestinian lands, Allah willing. The liberator of Gaza, with the help of Allah, can liberate Jerusalem, the West Bank and the rest of Palestine (i.e., Israel)."
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Oracle looks to mobile and iTunes interfaces
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OpenWorld 09 Oracle is increasing its focus on mobile and interface construction in the next planned releases of its Java IDE and underlying framework.
The database giant's announced its Application Development Framework (ADF) Mobile Client to build native Java applications for BlackBerry and Windows Mobile devices.
Oracle kicked off with a developer preview during its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, California.
The Mobile Client will let developers using its JDeveloper Java development toolkit, which is based on ADF, quickly get applications to market, Oracle said.
The client will mean developers can re-use their JDeveloper skills to extend Oracle applications with native mobile user interfaces while using the synchronization and security services of Oracle's database and middleware running beneath the applications.
ADF, meanwhile, is being updated. Features will include new user-interface components Oracle said would provide a cleaner and more modern-looking user interface.
Translated, that means a nod to Apple and iTunes. Components will include something called Carousel to display collections of data using an iTunes-style interface, Oracle said.
Components will also provide improved search, charting and contextual information, and there will be new animations for graphs and other UI components.
Other improvements will tackle improved data control for POJO and EJBs. Oracle did not say when the updates to JDeveloper and ADF will be released.
ADF is Oracle's meta programming layer that sits beneath JDeveloper. ADF provides a framework for programming and simplifies development by enabling a drag-and-drop and has been Oracle's strategic choice for programming in Java Enterprise Edition for years. Oracle claimed more than 44 per cent of ADF users have upgraded to the latest release from older releases.
Even more reason for Oracle to stick with ADF at the expense of Sun Microsystems' Netbeans, which Oracle will come to own if Oracle's $5.6bn acquisition of the Java software and systems company is finally approved. ®
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