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Appeared in 36 games and started 28, averaging 8.9 points, 4.9 rebounds and 1.1 blocks per outing Led the team and ranked sixth in the ACC in field goal percentage (.513) Also tops on the squad in free throw shooting (.740) Blocked at least one shot in 23 of 36 games and had multiple blocks on 11 occasions, finishing eighth in the ACC in blocks per game (1.1) Had double-digit points in 17 games, good for third on the team Opened the season with a double-double against North Florida - 11 points and 14 rebounds Just missed another double-double against Coastal Carolina with 14 points and nine boards Scored a season-high 18 points on 9-of-14 shooting in the quarterfinals of the Rainbow Wahine Showdown against Washington State Made it four games in a row scoring in double figures with 10 points against Illinois in the semifinals Made a season-high seven free throws against UNLV on Dec. 12 Came off the bench to score 16 points on 7-of-10 shooting against Gardner-Webb on Dec. 31 Had 16 points and eight rebounds in the win at Boston College on Jan. 9 After coming off the bench for five straight games, returned to the starting lineup against NC State on Feb. 21 and started each of the final 11 games of the season Scored in double figures in three of her first four games after returning to the starting lineup, including 14 points and eight rebounds at Duke on Feb. 27 Had 11 points and eight boards in the ACC Tournament first round win over Clemson Averaged 10.3 points in three NCAA Tournament games Scored 12 points in the first round win over Fresno State Had 13 points and six rebounds in the Sweet 16 loss to Stanford.
Appeared in 29 games and started 23, averaging 8.9 points and 6.0 rebounds A strong presence in the post for the Tar Heels Led the team and finished fifth in the ACC in field-goal percentage, making 51.6 percent of her attempts (112 for 217) Just missed double-doubles in two of the first three games of the season Had 15 points on 6-of-10 shooting with eight rebounds against Coastal Carolina on Nov. 18 Scored nine points and pulled down 11 boards at UNLV on Nov. 22 Came off the bench to get her first double-double of the season against St. John's on Dec. 6, scoring 12 points and grabbing 10 rebounds Going head-to-head with South Carolina's Kelsey Bone, had 17 points, including two free throws that put the Tar Heels ahead for good, and six rebounds in UNC's 93-85 win on Dec. 20 That performance started a run of six double-digit scoring outings in nine games between Dec. 20 and Feb. 1 Had one of her best games as a Tar Heel against Maryland on Jan. 17, scoring 17 points on 6-of-10 shooting and grabbing seven rebounds Also made 5 of 6 from the foul line in the victory Recorded her second double-double of the season at Virginia on Feb. 15, finishing with 12 points and 10 rebounds Played some of the best basketball of her career in the postseason, starting with a 16-point, 12-rebound performance against Maryland in the ACC Tournament The 12 boards marked a career high After scoring 17 points in the pre-NCAA win over North Carolina Central, played perhaps her best game at Carolina in the NCAA first round matchup with Gonzaga Finished with a career-high 19 points on near-perfect 9-of-10 shooting against the Bulldogs and added nine rebounds.
Appeared in all 35 games, averaging 7.2 points, 4.4 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per game Valuable contributor off the bench as a key post player Earned ACC All-Freshman team honors Scored six points and four rebounds in her UNC debut on Nov. 14 Had a breakout performance in the win at Oklahoma on Nov. 23, finishing with 12 points and six rebounds Earned ACC Rookie of the Week honors for her efforts Followed that with her first career double-double with 12 points and 11 rebounds against Wofford on Nov. 25 Scored 15 points on 6-of-8 shooting in the win over Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Dec. 15 Scored 16 points and grabbed six rebounds in her ACC debut against Clemson on Jan. 8 Just missed a double-double against NC State on Jan. 11, finishing with 15 points and nine rebounds Made it three straight double-digit scoring games with a season-best 17 points in the Virginia win on Jan. 16 Started a run of four straight double-figure scoring performances with 12 points in the win at NC State on Feb. 23 Had 10 points in each of the next three outings Scored 10 points and grabbed seven rebounds in the ACC Tournament quarterfinal win over Clemson Had three points and seven boards in the semifinal loss to Maryland Finished with eight points and four rebounds in the NCAA Tournament loss to Purdue.
Coached by Rick Butler McDonald's All-American Two-time district player of the year Four-time all-district first team WBCA All-America selection 2007 and 2008 Washington Post First-Team All-Met Honorable mention All-Met in 2005 and 2006 Parade Magazine fourth-team All-America in 2007 Four-time Fredericksburg Freelance-Star Player of the Year Born Chalysa Janee Shegog on Feb. 22, 1990, in San Diego, Calif. Daughter of Darnell and Theresa Shegog.
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"American Presidents: Presidents of the Heartland," a lecture series featuring Presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower, will be presented in Herod Hall Auditorium on Wednesday, March 24, from 7 to 9 p.m., as part of Northwestern Oklahoma State University's Cultural Heritage Lecture Series.
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The event is free and open to the public.
The lives, times and accomplishments of these two remarkable presidents will be presented by guest speakers from the National Archives Libraries.
Dr. Samuel Rushay, Jr., supervisory archivist from the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence, Mo., will speak about Truman, the 33rd president of the United States.
Rushay is the author of "Harry Truman's History Lessons," which appeared in the spring 2009 issue of Prologue. He published "Harry Truman's Masonic Career as Revealed in the Truman Library's Collections" in the summer 2009 issue of The Missouri Freemason.
A Columbus, Ohio, native, he holds a doctorate in U.S. history from Ohio University, where he wrote his dissertation, "The Farm Fair Dealer: Charles F. Brannan and American Liberalism," under the direction of Truman biographer Alonzo Hamby.
Rushay, his wife Laura, and their two children live in Liberty, Mo.
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Rives was born in Oklahoma, but spent most of his life in Kansas. He is a graduate of Wichita State University and Emporia State University, where he earned his master's in American history in 1995.
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I have been a little nervous running my AC. I think the compressor is going and I am wondering what your guys thoughts are about when to replace it. The car has 102k on it and I already replaced the compressor clutch. The compressor has never been replaced as far as I know.
I have not put my gages on it yet so I don't know what the high and low pressures are. It still is cold when I do use it but I think I can hear it making noise. Is there a sign with the pressures of a failing compressor? Any other way to tell? Is it a good idea to just run it until it ceases (hate to do that).
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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There is no way to know when it is going to fail in advance of the failure. If you are concerned, then replace it before it fails, because it will be a lot less expensive. No clean up to do from the failure debris in the system. Murphy's Law says that if you do replace it prematurely (before it fails) that some other component of the car is also going to prematurely fail, so you will be spending even more money at close intervals. Your choice to defy Murphy's Law.....
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Lately, healthcare leaders at rival organizations seem increasingly likely to pick up the phone, call each other, and ask if they'd like to meet for a drink.
But these aren't social calls. These folks are trying to find opportunities to improve care.
Last week, for example, I wrote about CEOs from four small rural hospitals in Central West Texas that dropped their town rivalries to collaborate on the purchase of a single electronic medical record system that would bridge their hospitals, and eventually their clinics and physicians, with their patients' health histories.
This week, members of two California health information technology groups, which used to fiercely wrangle, will join hands to form Cal eConnect; as one entity they will provide leadership and oversight so that California health providers get every penny of the $3 billion in stimulus funds available for meaningful use. That's the biggest pot of HIT change of any state in the country. Cal eConnect will get $38.8 million in federal funds routed through the state to make it all happen.
There's more. I recently heard that two major hospitals in Nebraska, which normally vie for patients—the Methodist Health System and the Nebraska Medical Center—agreed to a special project that would improve patient care through the creation of a unified accountable care organization (ACO).
The idea is that by having their physicians and surgeons, nurses and other providers track patients from the hospital to the physician's office to the home, each system will drastically reduce avoidable hospital readmissions and improve patient compliance.
I spoke last week with Ken Klaasmeyer, vice president for MHS' Methodist Health Partners, and Rita Potter, director of managed care for the Nebraska Medical Center, who told me their hospitals are the only competing systems in the U.S. attempting to share information for an ACO model.
Combined, the two organizations have 50% of the healthcare market of the greater Omaha region, so it stands to reason that they would share patients and that both would stand to gain by tracking care better.
Klaasmeyer and Potter explained that their joint effort would encourage a variety of providers at both facilities to better manage their patients' care through educational classes, appointment reminders, follow-up visits, well-being phone checks and many other strategies.
Health system personnel can make sure patients fill their prescriptions, schedule and keep their appointments, and anticipate any adverse reactions they may have to their regimens.
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"We want to know, 'how do we encourage the patient to become complaint?' That's the $64,000 question. Maybe it's a phone call, or having the doctor make a house call; nothing is off the table," he says.
Potter and Klaasmeyer note that the process and reimbursement of these services is all new for both facilities. Nevertheless, the facilities expect that the amount of money spent establishing this program will be recaptured when chronic care patients aren't readmitted—care which the federal government is increasingly reluctant to reimburse.
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The national media recently featured stories about the research of Johns Hopkins University and Institute of NanoBioTechnology affiliated faculty members Jeff Bulte and Dara Kraitchman and other colleagues. The news was based on a technical report in Nature Medicine explaining how magnetocapsules—tiny capsules about 350μm in diameter made from a matrix of seaweed extract and iron—could help prevent the rejection of insulin-cell (islet) transplants in diabetics.
The semi-permeable magnetocapsules have pores large enough to allow the insulin to pass through but small enough to prevent antibodies directed against β-cells from the pancreas from entering and attacking. Magnetic resonance imaging was used to track delivery and engraftment.
The capsules were tested in the abdominal cavity of diabetic mice and in the liver of swine with promising results. In the mice, blood sugar levels returned to normal within a week. In swine, the capsules were reported to be releasing usable levels of insulin for at least three weeks.
Bulte, a professor of radiology and chemical and biomolecular engineering, says this research demonstrated the potential that the magnetcapsules may reduce the need for anti-rejection drugs in people with type 1 diabetes who have received islet transplantation.
The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. A list of Bulte's and Kraitchman's research interests may be found at http://inbt.jhu.edu/facultyexpertise.php.
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Anderson: Well, that leads me to ask you a question that just came in on the Web from one TDoff, who—I think perhaps in a slightly tongue-in-cheek manner, but [that's] not definite—says: "Who do you think Leon Panetta will appoint to replace Hosni Mubarak?"
Scheer: Well, that is the danger. I mean, again, [paraphrasing] Ron Paul to Wolf Blitzer, you know, he says I suspect these people in our government and the State Department and everything are running around now trying to find a new guy to back. That is not, as Ron Paul said, our business. How would we feel if a bunch of Egyptians were running around our country, saying, "I'm worried about your next election, let's reorganize it, we know who the best people are; after all, you know, we've studied your culture, we've studied your society. We have our intelligence agency." I think it's an absurd … I'm sure … first of all, Panetta is actually one of the better people we've had, so he's probably got some sense about it.
But I do think these people tend to be very cynical. If you read the WikiLeaks cables, for instance, there's very specific language in there of contempt for the very military people, and the others, that we were backing. Our government has known all along how bad Mubarak was, but they also … in fact the general who's now the key guy, the defense minister, is described as Mubarak's "poodle" in the WikiLeaks cable. Poodle! OK? So, now, that's a concern. Because, after all, the military has power. And if that poodle becomes the poodle of another dictator, or a dictator himself, that will be very bad.
And I think our cynics, our experts, whatever you want to call them, who have been having dinner with these people for 30 years and have been underwriting them and advising them and everything else, need to get the word out—"No. We're talking about real democracy here. We're talking about the ordinary Egyptians being able to make their history. Now, you know, if you're on the wrong side of that, we don't want to give you aid. We don't want to cooperate; we won't give you all the war toys. If you're on the right side of that, and you behave in a decent fashion towards your own people, yes, we'll continue cooperating." That's the leverage the U.S. has right now. And I think if Barack Obama is consistent with his speech, when he quoted Martin Luther King, and our soul, we seek freedom and this is a universal yearning of people. We've seen an incredible outpouring of decency in Egypt. Decency. People willing to risk their lives for the freedom of other human beings, for a decent society, and doing it in a nonviolent … this is one of the great victories of nonviolence. This is, you know, Gandhi exponential; this is Mandela at the end; this is Martin Luther King; this is resistance of a really noble order.
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Scheer: Well, I think there's the basic problem now—assuming that the military doesn't install another dictatorship, and I think they'd be … I don't think they're going to do that; I hope they don't. I think economic development, economic justice—that was very clear here. You had a significant number of people in the elite in Egypt; you know, the one and a half million people who worked for the government, and certainly the ones on the higher level, the capitalists, the big investor class. They were doing just fine during this period, but the average Egyptian is living a very poor life … quality of material life. And you have a lot of people who've got an education but they can't find decent jobs, and so forth. And it's not just in Egypt; it's true throughout much of the developing world. But in Egypt it's really stark, and they're living in a neighborhood where other people are oil-rich and can have a lot of luxuries, and so forth.
I think the real pressure now on whatever government comes in in Egypt is going to be to deliver some progress. Because people want it, they want economic progress to be married with political progress. They want to see some results. And Egypt has a well-educated work force, and what they need is investment. And to the degree that we do foreign aid, it should be to support economic development, not just support the military. And what we've done is primarily support a bloated military; I don't know what they need this big military for. Who are they going to go to war with, or what are they going to fight … you don't need a big military to fight terrorists, if that's what your real goal is. They need a big military to suppress—and a big police force to suppress—their own population. Well, hopefully they're not going to be in the suppression business now.
And so, yes, I'm for transferring much of that military aid to economic aid. And here I differ with Ron Paul; I believe in substantial economic aid. But I also believe—and here I agree with Ron Paul—I believe in a lot of trade and investment. That's what our founders had in mind, as he pointed out: diplomacy and trade. And yes, we should embrace an expanded economic connection with Egypt, not because they have oil to exploit, which they don't, but because they have a lot of people that deserve a shot at a good life, and they're hardworking and they're decent people, and we should become their economic partners.
Anderson: I think [that] next to your next column we should have a graphic that has "agrees with Ron Paul on these points" and "disagrees on these," so readers can keep up. …[Laughter]
Scheer: Well, let me defend … Kasia, I think that I get your drift there, but let me just say, I … after all, the Republicans control the House. And the conscience of the Republican Party now, for better or worse, [is] really the libertarians, because at least they're consistent. At least they say, "No, I don't want big government on the social side and I don't want big government on the military side." And I think it'll be a breath of fresh air if we can have that debate and that discussion.
And we claim that our military people always were so concerned about Egypt—as long as they were buying a lot of weapons, and as long as they had a big army, and so forth—will they be concerned about Egypt as far as feeding the hungry, as far as education? And if that assistance and that support comes from investment and business activity, and we treat Egypt as a potential—you know, like Brazil, potentially a very big economy, a very forceful, energetic economy—that's a good thing. But if we treat it as a pawn in some kind of Mideast war and politics, then it'll be a very bad thing. And so, yeah, I like the fact that there are principled people on the Republican side, and so Ron Paul is an example of that.
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Great words from Scheer, especially "are WE ready for democracy!"
However praising "Obama rose to the occasion" ... you might say he also cashed
He contributed nothing to the ouster of Mubarak.
He doesn't have the guts to change the Pentagon's unscrupulous billion dollar
A formidable speaker who rarely acts on his words. Expect nothing from this
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Bob is so brilliant, i think making the site a more multi media experience is a fantastic idea.
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Apparently Tina Brown's latest idea is to get in on the HuffPo's immunization trooferism racket. Well, at least the author isn't married to a racist assh…er, wait.
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Good lord.
My "favorite" part of the article:
Everyone from your doctor to your neighbor to the barista at Starbucks will tell you it's a good idea to get a flu shot,
Yes, because those three people have equivalent medical knowledge! I often ask my barista for medical advice. Financial advice, too. Hell, I don't enter into a relationship without their approval. They're going to pick my kids names!
particularly if you're pregnant or elderly. But how much do we really know about the vaccine?
Well, I'd say most people know less about it than the trained medical professionals telling us it's a good idea to get our damn selves vaccinated.
Bonus points awarded for the many links that make it look the article is competently sources when in fact it is not.
Unless you're a completely ignorant anti-vaxxer, you're a conspiracy theorist. There is no way to be an anti-vaxxer without subscribing to the belief that there's some form of conspiracy to inject people full of things that are harmful while lying to them and telling them that it's helpful.
Once you move into the realm of a conspiracy theory so vast that the bureaucracies of every major Western nation along with all of the research departments at every major university must be active participants in the Big Lie to make it work, the idea that your own general practitioner is either a deluded fool or an active tool of Big Pharma is not a very large step to take.
(There are some anti-vaxxers who are just plain ignorant about vaccines – they have no idea what the vaccines are, they just read something by Jenny McCarthy or someone similar about how vaccines are bad and absorbed it into their worldview. But those folks are actually reachable, if annoying to actually carry on conversations with.)
At least Jenny McCarthy has the excuse that she was driven by her own family distress to read causality into coincidence and to follow the false insight into the rabbit hole. She's a blight upon our society, and there's a Jenny McCarthy Body Count for a reason, but you can sympathize with the pain that led her embarking on her mad, misguided mission. What's these peoples' excuse?
I often ask my barista for medical advice.
Well they must be expert proctologists, at least*
*the obvious joke being left as an exercise for the student, as befits a blog so infested by academics :)
I'd respond to this, but I have to run down to Starbucks to have a polyp examined.
It appears that the 'study' from Germany was an unofficial, unscientific online poll conducted by an anti-vaccine website.
There was a legitimate German study from last year that compared health outcomes between vaccinated and unvaccinated, and it found that unvaccinated children were more likely to be sick with vaccine preventable diseases!
Is anyone surprised? If so, I'd have to ask why. Tina Brown is a woman who hired Sully and McMegan after all.
How much do we really know about math?
Fuckin' magnets–how do they work?
Tide goes in, tide goes out. You can't explain that.
The tides are like the square root of a million – we'll just never know.
Tides are like the Pythagorean theorem – there is no solution.
Apparently, now that Newsweek is dead, Brown is trying to kill off her other project.
Sadly, taking an anti-vax position isn't likely to hurt your ability to get eyeballs.
Actually far from it – it drives traffic to the site as people link to it and say "oh god – more anti-vaxxers". Posting anti-vax articles is basically the HuffPo's way of trolling for clicks.
Then what is this site's posting of HuffPo's posting of antivax nonsense?
Oh shit, we're down the rabbit hole on this!
Moron alert
I looked up Tina Brown (for the first time in my life) and found she's married to Harold Evans. What racist ass-hattery has he perpetrated? Just curious.
The reference was to Deirdre Imus. I was thrown for a while, too.
CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden acknowledges that the venerable flu shot is only 62 percent effective in reducing symptoms of the disease. In other words, for every 100 people who get the flu shot, 38 of them will get the flu anyway.
Why do we hear so much about the flu shot and comparatively little about
While it's crucial to prevent and contain potentially deadly epidemics, there has been conflicting evidence to prove that the flu shot serves that purpose.
Each of these individual quotes caused a separate burst blood vessel in my brain.
Same. When I came across that first quote, I gave up. I'd rather stick my dick in a light socket that read things that stupid.
I don't think he's talking about Tina Brown's husband. I'm pretty sure he meant Deirdre Imus who actually wrote the article.
Also – I noticed that the Daily Beast has a rebuttal article up from Ken Sepkowitz. Who is apparently an actual infectious disease researcher and practicing physician. Why would I trust him? I'd rather get my medical advice from someone who is known for medical charity work than someone who is actually an expert in the field.
His piece is fine, but it's not a "rebuttal" in the sense of responding to hers. It's a contrasting viewpoint. (Insert headline about the shape of the earth here.)
Yeah – I should have put the word "rebuttal" in quotes – that's how they labelled it, but it's clear that it isn't actually a rebuttal of Imus's article.
His article is actually directly above the anti-vaxx nonsense by Mrs. Imus on the home page:
It contains such perfectly reasonable statements as:
"The anti-vaccine crowd—and the related flat-earthers like those who "disagree" with the evidence supporting global warming or who view evolution as nothing but poppycock—have adopted a very strange angle. They stand squarely on the unstable ice of the irrational and unscientific, yet come at their adversaries by accusing them of flabby science."
The cognitive dissonance is high at Newsweek Jr.
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I would have thought 62% effectiveness means 62% lower than without shots (which of course isn't 100%). In fact, I'm pretty sure I'm right.
even CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden acknowledges that the venerable flu shot is only 62 percent effective in reducing symptoms of the disease. In other words, for every 100 people who get the flu shot, 38 of them will get the flu anyway.
Also, I suspect it's more about cases of the flu than about individuals, but that's a smaller criticism. Unless where Imus lives, everybody gets the flu every winter.
You are indeed correct (http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/vaccineeffect.htm – I'd link the Monto cite directly but it's probably paywalled off campus), but basic logic should have informed the article writer of this fact: if the vaccine being 62% effective means that 38% of people who are vaccinated get the flu anyway, then 100% of unvaccinated people will have the flu, which would probably be something we would've noticed pre-vaccine, what with civilization ending and all. If not deploying the vaccine means every person in the country will have the flu at some point in the course of any flu season, then even a vaccine producing say, a 10% reduction in the flu rate would seem a rather desperate necessity.
The statement presented, "the venerable flu shot is only 62 percent effective in reducing symptoms of the disease", means that if you are vaccinated and are infected with the flu, you have a 62% chance of having less severe symptoms.
It's plain English – the statement is about symptoms, not the rate of infection.
The formatting makes it seem like the author isn't quoting directly, and the clause following makes any paraphrase untrustworthy. I assumed they were referring to actual infection rate because of the second clause and because the numbers are quite close to this: "Preliminary data for the 2010-2011 influenza season indicate that influenza vaccine effectiveness was about 60% for all age groups combined, and that almost all influenza viruses isolated from study participants were well-matched to the vaccine strains (Unpublished CDC data)." Where effectiveness does refer to infection, not symptoms, but that's probably an unwarranted series of jumps on my part.
I won't rule out the possibility that Imus wrote something other than what she meant to write, but even if she meant to reference the type of statistic you mention she would still be wrong. That statistic would be derived from comparing the infection rates of vaccinated people to those who had not been vaccinated.
From what I can see, infection rates for the flu over the last couple of flu seasons are @42%. For her to be correct, the flu vaccine would have to be ineffective.
I wasn't saying she was right – I was just explaining why I had discussed the infection rate comparison above on this thread, rather than symptom reduction.
The evidence that flu shots work is real, but the effect that has been found is not incredibly large. It's good to get one, especially for herd immunity effects, if you ever spend time with kids or old folks – but you could easily still get the flu. The demonstrated effects in the literature are relatively marginal.
So, flu shots are distinguishable from normal vaccinations, which can be demonstrated to be incredibly effective. Folks who only talk about flu shots are annoying, and probably verging on anti-vaxxers, but there is a fair distinction to be made.
Of course, the evidence that flu shots are harmful is simply non-existent, and the sort of scare-mongering that Imus engages in here (Guillain-Barre!) is straight anti-vaxxerism.
Folks who only talk about flu shots are annoying
Discouraging people from getting flu shots is a lot more than annoying–it leads to additional deaths from the flu. And it increases the general unease about vaccinations, leading to more deaths.
Of course, the evidence that flu shots are harmful is simply non-existent, and the sort of scare-mongering that Imus engages in here (Guillain-Barre!) is straight anti-vaxxerism.
No the evidence isn't non-existent with regard to incidents of Guillain-Barré Syndrome after flu shots, although cases are rare. Imus was right that it happens in "extreme cases", so I wouldn't characterize that particular as scare-mongering. The CDC has a page dedicated to GBS in the Seasonal Flu section of their website. Here's the most relevant part:
In 1976 there was a small increased risk of GBS following vaccination with an influenza vaccine made to protect against a swine flu virus. The increased risk was approximately 1 additional case of GBS per 100,000 people who got the swine flu vaccine. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) conducted a thorough scientific review of this issue in 2003 and concluded that people who received the 1976 swine influenza vaccine had an increased risk for developing GBS. Scientists have multiple theories on why this increased risk may have occurred, but the exact reason for this association remains unknown.
And under the the heading The following groups should not receive the flu shot, the CDC includes this group:
People with a history of Guillain–Barré Syndrome (a severe paralytic illness, also called GBS) that occurred after receiving influenza vaccine and who are not at risk for severe illness from influenza should generally not receive vaccine. Tell your doctor if you ever had Guillain-Barré Syndrome. Your doctor will help you decide whether the vaccine is recommended for you.
GBS has only been associated with the 1976 flu vaccine. The background rate for GBS since then has not changed with administration a flu vaccine.
Also demonstrated effective in reducing upper respiratory illness: gargling with warm saltwater once a day. It's kind of gross at first, but you get used to it.*
*I realize they said the same thing about Magic Cream Shave, but it's true in this case.
In the US Submarine Service, where each ship had only a corpsman, gargling with warm salt water was a staple, to the extent that we joked about compound fractures and other extremes: just gargle with warm salt water! The equivalent to "take two aspirin and call me in the morning."
I'd be more tolerant of people and their stupid rationalizations for not getting flu shots if they would also avoid coming to overcrowded ERs expecting IVs, Tamiflu, and ibuprofen (the latter which they also frequently don't bother taking at home) for their cough+fever+headache+bodyaches, i.e. the flu.
I got the flu twice. Once when I did not get the flu shot and after 4 days of it I felt so bad that I said I rather be dead than to continue to feel like this. It started to break the next day. The second time I had the shot. It was bad, but not near as bad as the first time. Did it give me some immunity? Who knows. When they point out the effectiveness, I think they mean how well they were at predicting the flu viruses that would promulgate that year, not that the shot won't work if it is for the right virus and you get that virus. The shot usually covers several viruses. Immunologists go to China about a year ahead of time and study duck crap, etc, for the viruses and make predictions based on what they find. Most of the time they hit the right ones or at least say 2 out of 3 of the viruses. That is the 68% effectiveness. So right antivirus compared to virus exposed to and you should be good to go.
The wild influenza virus takes about five days to incubate. The human immune system takes about two weeks after innoculation to build up enough antibodies to fight the wild virus. If someone says they had the flu the day after they got the shot, it doesn't mean the vaccine caused the flu, or that the vaccine doesn't work.
Someone up-thread noted the stupidity of this remark:
the venerable flu shot is only 62 percent effective in reducing symptoms of the disease. In other words, for every 100 people who get the flu shot, 38 of them will get the flu anyway.
Seeing as, on average, only 5-20% of the population gets the flu anyway, this means that the vaccination causes from almost double to seven times more people to get the flu than no vaccination at all! OH NO! THE FLU VACCINATION IS CREATING A FLU EPIDEMIC! WITH MERCURY!
There was a troll on a forum I used to browse who was convinced that live attenuated virus vaccines were the singular source of any number of outbreaks, and that their continued use was due to scientists not wanting to admit they were wrong/the incredible amount of money pharmaceutical companies make off of vaccines/a desire to decrease the number of poor people or the total world population.
Don't doctors make more money treating disease than preventing it? If there was a conspiracy, it would be doctors discouraging immunization.
Ah, but if vaccines don't prevent disease they can continue to make money treating the sick while selling unnecessary vaccinations to the healthy. You miss the real diabolical genius here.
I like the bonus health advice about eating *organic* fruit and veg — we have zero evidence that organicness has any influence re flu, but it fits the uderlying ideology of bodily purity that informs this bullshit.
Vitalism is so 18th century.
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Obviously this theme has been approved and is generating a few sales.
I liked this layout and spent many hours creating an Autumn design using the same HTML /CSS layout.
The banner has been significantly changed yet the template was rejected. In my mind people shopping for these designs are NOT designers and would appreciate the variations in banners. As for the 'filler content', yes, this is exactly the same on both themes, but this is going to replaced by the new site owner. I think if this is buried in with the Architecture theme it won't make sense… this new design has nothing to do with architecture.
Anyways, I would be happy to hear others opinions. C
I agree with you, but I thought this was allowed? I think it was a max a 4 alterations in the design.
Your Autumn design looks great, though!
I thought this was allowed also, to an extent. There are other theme authors who have multiple themes based on the same code, just changed the colors. Even less changes then your Autumn theme!
I don't understand why it wouldn't have been accepted. It's a great-looking theme and altered enough to read as a different template, at least in my book.
Hope you get this sorted out!
I agree and really like that autumn design.
I think this should be allowed too. Your new design is definitely enough change to call it a new template. The black and white template wasn't really a design overhaul, just color options, which should probably included as one template, but you are right, that second template is changed more than enough to appeal to a different customer.
ok, so I'm not crazy and should have a case
Thanks for the feedback!
Hey guys,
I'll let Mark give you his specific reasonings for rejecting this item, though I'll support his judgment.
The issue with themes like this is, "Where do you draw the limit?". This template is exactly the same as the first one except for the background image (and how the navigation is shifted up 200 pixels or so).
For that matter, I could create a template, then make ten additional versions that are identical except for one background image and sell them.
Now imagine that every author on this site did that as well. We'd become infested with clones.
Why not include this as part of your first template and then make a request for a price increase to $15?
But, as I said initially, Mark has his reasons for rejecting the template. He's been doing this for a long time and I will 100% support his decision.
Hey guys…
Jeff is pretty much right.
The thing is Envato marketplaces do have a variation policy. Allowing up to 3 variations to be accepted. BUT a variation and the same file with a different face are two completely different things.
Cdavies…both of your sites are nice…but second one you submitted was not accepted because it was a clone of the first one, with a different background image in the header. And a shift of navigation. This, as Jeff said would be better off getting added to the current file you have, and asking for a price bump for making a "pack" of themes rather than 1 theme. Many authors are uploading themes with different color options, or different looks bundled together.
A variation is a site, that is noticeably based on another file yet different enough to be…well…different. You were on the right track with the background and navigation modifications…but a variation on your theme needs to be something that a buyer cant do by changing the image's path in one line of code…
Take your second file, and modify the content a bit…maybe make a thinner banner…make a portfolio sub-page, add a sidebar, add jQuery, that differs from the first, if the first had any…things like this can all be considered viable options towards creating a variation…but the site needs to be different enough to be sold a separate, different file.
Lastly, I'm sorry this happened to you a second time
Not a problem TF Staff… your variation suggestions won't be hard to accomplish. Thanks for explaining this.
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i love how it was jews that gave obama the election but the christards still want to go to war for them. fucking drones.Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27214704
You are VERY confused. It was not he Israelis who voted for Obama, it was that very particular species known as "American Jew" who unfortunately are not Jews anymore and for the most part are leftists. They traded their own knowledge, culture and Tradition for a political ideology, which is very sad indeed.
For your information, Obama is very unpopular in Israel, and that is what matters. He is seen as an enemy of Israel.
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Jews traditionally vote and act against the interest of every country or society except theirs. The Zionists may not control or be behind everything (that's impossible) but they have successfully tried to manipulate, control and suck all the other nations since hundred of years. Tell me which other nation has more influence and control over finance, media, lobbing, politics and defense industry. America is a Zionist colony, we have seen how Bibi Satanyahu is more respected in your congress then your own president and how AIPAC rules them all. Their group interests are against the rest of humanity,they are programmed to play that role, there are dangers for us on many levels, but their ideology is one of the biggest.Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27155663
Yes, and Bulgarians vote and act in the interest of other countries but theirs. Yeah, right.
Yes indeed you fucking Portuguese Jew, we give more money to EU then take back from them, we have the second smallest deficit in Europe, we are not parasites, and we have fought wars only for liberation and national union, yes we are a small banana republic but with 1400 years of history and culture.
And foul-mouthed too...
You just described yourself in public. Stay in Bulgaria, please.
You were the first to insult (look the bottom of your post) and now you call me foul-mouthed and me describing the truth for my country looks foolish to you, you really are a Jew aren't you.
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|More white evangelicals than American Jews say God gave Israel to the Jewish people
|The Qur'an Says That Allah Gave The Land of Israel to The Jews And Will Restore Them to it at The End of Days
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|Sheikh Ahmad Adwan, a Muslim scholar Says 'Allah Gave Israel to The Jews, There's No Palestine'
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Reaching any milestone of 50 years is usually a cause for celebration! Whether you are celebrating a 50th birthday or 50 years of successful marriage, it's time to pop the champagne and propose a toast to five wonderful decades. One Ohio woman won't be celebrating this milestone the same way in the future. According to an article on the website of the Office of the Inspector General, Social Security Administration's (SSA), the 50 identities she stole may lead her to a party of one in prison.
Let's lift a glass in celebration to the SSA, for tracking down just one of the fraudsters responsible for committing unemployment fraud. (Cheers!) A Whitehall resident recently pleaded guilty to using 50 identities in her scam to file phony unemployment benefit claims. She filed claims in Alaska, Minnesota, Montana, Arizona, Utah, Ohio, Colorado and Pennyslvania between February 2009 and December 2012, netting nearly $80,000. (Nice scam – three years and eight states. Bonus points for such a reaching fraud.) The case is a product of cooperative efforts from the Department of Labor and the SSA.
According to the investigations, the woman played her fraud much like that of others cashing in on benefits. She obtained 50 personal identities, using them to file for unemployment benefits across the eight states. Once she received the check in the mail, she would use the identities to open bank accounts online, deposit the money and then use ATMs to retrieve the cash. (Sounds simple enough!) As if lying for unemployment benefits isn't bad enough, the fraudster collected Social Security benefits in her own name. Court documents reveal that earnings made through identity theft scam were not reported to the SSA. (So she scammed eight states AND collected Social Security benefits. Sounds like a bit of "boundary blindness" to me. Isn't it time agencies had a little more visibility into the benefits they are providing? We give out hundreds of billions of dollars, and we can't even track it across programs.) The woman faces over two decades of jail time if convicted.
I guess 50 isn't a celebration for everything. I don't think that I'd be dancing with joy after the federal government discovered my fraud scam targeting almost a fifth of our 50 states. No matter what her sentences, she will forever remember the bad luck associated with the number 50.


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Kirschstreusel (German Cherry Streusel Tart)
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Recipe by Muffin Goddess
Tart cherries and a streusel topping in a yeast-based shell. Adapted from Culinaria Germany, with the addition of a powdered sugar glaze for drizzling. Cook time includes rising time for the dough. Untried by me, posted for ZWT.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 354.88 ml flour
- 9.35 g of a cake yeast (half a cake, can be subbed with packet yeast per packet directions)
- 29.58 ml sugar
- 0.25 ml salt
- 29.58 ml butter
- 78.07 ml milk
- flour, for kneading
- 453.59 g tart cherries, pitted (drained canned cherries could be used instead)
- 113.39 g butter, cut into small pieces (one stick)
- 118.29 ml flour
- 113.39 g sugar
- 354.88 ml powdered sugar, sifted
- 3.69 ml vanilla extract
- 29.58-44.37 ml water or 29.58-44.37 ml milk
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- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 10" springform tart pan.
- Sift flour into a large mixing bowl, and make a well in the center. Crumble the yeast into the well, then sprinkle the sugar and salt over it.
- Put the milk in a small saucepan with the butter. Gently heat the milk and butter until the butter has melted. Pour this over the flour/yeast. Knead the mixture by hand until it forms a smooth dough.
- Cover dough and allow to rest in a warm place for about 30 minutes, or until dough has doubled in volume.
- Place risen dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead it again.
- Roll dough out and place it into the prepared tart pan, pressing the dough up the sides of the pan.
- Place the cherries in the prepared shell. In a medium bowl, combine the flour and sugar. Using a pastry blender or two forks, cut in the butter until mixture becomes crumbly. Sprinkle crumbly mixture evenly over cherries.
- Bake tart in a preheated oven for about 30 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for approximately 10 minutes.
- In a small mixing bowl, combine the powdered sugar, vanilla extract, and 2 tbs of water or milk. Stir until smooth. If needed, add more water or milk, 1/2 tsp at a time, until desired consistency for drizzling is reached. Drizzle glaze over slightly cooled tart.


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Appears to be random and similar to the DC shootings. :gah:
Task force formed to find shooter in highway gunfire | The Detroit News
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Appears to be random and similar to the DC shootings. :gah:
Task force formed to find shooter in highway gunfire | The Detroit News
one more reason to not go to detroit.
Another excuse to consider a renewal of the AWB... GREAT, JUST GREAT.
There's something in the water... The world's going nuts.
Unless the person is doing his deeds out in the wilds alone, and unless he's taking out every victim, then he's going to get seen and ultimately caught. No doubt about it. The fact he's doing it in traffic suggests it won't be long.
Hopefully enough "near" witnesses can divulge sufficient details to narrow the field. It would be classic, if the perp happens to own a "dark Mustang with stripes" and continues to drive the thing. Can't be too many of those around.
Tough situation, getting fired upon while out and about from an unknown direction. Hard to gain cover if the source of fire is unknown.
Unfortunately at this time they really don't even have a good description of the vehicle. Listening to the news yesterday on the drive home from work they described the car as a Chevy Caviler or Ford Mustang. Those are two very different cars. They also think a semi-auto rifle is being used as opposed to a handgun. This will be interesting to follow and I am gald I don't travel along that highway or have any need to in the near future.
This guy ain't a "Sniper" that's a catchy term the media throws around to sell papers,he's just another Idiot that is taking out his aggression on innocent people,the fact that he isn't very "stealthy" will get him caught pretty quick
The sheriff made sure to say the shooter was not a sniper because the term sniper implies shooting skill - that made me chuckle at first, but then wondered if that is going to make him say "oh yeah, watch this..."
The vehicle has been a Cavalier, a mustang, a dark colored sedan, a dark colored sports car, a mustang with stripes, and a "dark car with a stripe on the side" - so I'm not sure what exactly to keep an eye out for! Suspect was described in one report as a "clean shaven white male in his 30s" - which is pretty vague as well.
This is happening practically right in my back yard, so I'm a bit concerned. Maybe I can get a roof mounted machine gun to return fire? ;)
This is a little too close for comfort, I do hope they catch him soon. I'll be interested to find out who/what he is.
Antis will use any and all mass shootings, "successful" (to mean deadly or injurious), or not; to resurrect the AWB.
It's a perception/feel good thing. Has little to do with facts, types of weapons used, or any other logical reasoning.
25 reported shootings and $102,000 in reward money, and counting.
FBI, ATF boost Michigan roadway shootings reward to $102,000 | news - Home
Sure hope they catch this guy soon..
That article certinally dosn't give much info. If it IS him I hope he's put away for many, many moons.
Suspect in Michigan shooting spree facing charges of intent to commit murder | news - Home


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Teamwork is fine, says the Queensland Nationals senator, but he will choose which side he plays for. David Humphries and Mike Seccombe report.
WORKING as a team. The catchphrase has become even more central to John Howard's rhetoric since his Coalition scooped the prize pool which included a Senate majority in his fourth-straight election win last October.
It was at the core of the Prime Minister's reference to the Coalition party room last week, when Howard told the assembled Liberal and National MPs they "should be thinking about value and commitment to the party room and not to other affiliations".
The warning on where loyalties lay pointed directly at the Senate newcomer Barnaby Joyce, the Queensland National who has made no secret of his willingness to cross the floor and deny the Government its tiny Senate majority if legislation does not suit his Queensland party.
By quirk of coincidence, Joyce was talking yesterday in his parliamentary office about Coalition teamwork at almost the same time as the Prime Minister was assuring ABC radio listeners that "we're working together as a team" and that all Coalition MPs were "perfectly entitled to consult members of their party organisation" - again, a reference to Joyce.
The difference was that Joyce had a rather different take on teamwork. "I've got a letter about teams," he said, with disdain in his voice and resentment across his face. "It comes from the Prime Minister and it says vote for John Howard's team, being the National Party member in the lower house and the Liberal Party Senate ticket. I was not on that [ticket] so one can only presume I mustn't be in the team."
Joyce was an unexpected winner of a Senate seat from a National Party ticket that has been separate from the Liberals in Queensland for 25 years. And, now, just as his qualified support for the full sale of Telstra seems as good as locked in, the Queensland Liberals last week went and selected another separate Senate ticket.
"So we now have to go into bat on a campaign of product differentiation," an angry Joyce said yesterday.
"We didn't bring that on; they did. And the smart political move would have said, at least if you're going to do a bad decision, wait until after the sale of Telstra before you do it."
To Joyce, talk of Coalition teamwork is "rubbish", as is the suggestion that Telstra's sale won't change voters' allegiances. "When 500 people write you personally written letters, where 10 per cent of the mail - and this is coming from the mailman down here - is coming to this office, and people say it's not a vote-changer. That's a big vote-changer."
But the view in senior Queensland Liberal ranks is that Joyce's Telstra protests more reflect Liberal and National tensions in Queensland, where no coalition exists at the state level and where Senate tickets have gone their separate ways.
One senior Liberal accused Joyce of trying to force a "shotgun wedding". Clearly, both sides are engaged in the risky political sport of brinkmanship.
"Joyce's dominant driving force," the Liberal said, "is parochial, Queensland-based National Party interests. What he's doing - and he's made no secret of it really - is leveraging these important national issues, like Telstra, IR [industrial relations], VSU [voluntary student unionism] and against the local imperatives of state politics."
The Nationals can see their regional base shrinking relative to expanding urban areas and the Liberal Party refuses to talk coalition until they agree to a "territorial settlement" - code for the Nationals getting out of the Gold Coast and big coastal cities.
The Liberals claim Joyce is being urged by Terry Bolger, the immediate past president of the Nationals, and by Lawrence Springborg, the Queensland Opposition leader, to up the ante "by saying if you don't give us a coalition, Joyce won't give Howard what he wants in the Senate".
The two parties have run separate Senate tickets since 1980. It once gave an advantage to the Nationals, who routinely picked up two senators to the Liberals' one. But the fall of the Bjelke-Petersen regime and the outcome of the inquiries into its corruption reversed the position in the early 1990s.
"Their primary vote gets smaller every time," says a Queensland Liberals numbers man. Last year, the Nationals got 6.6 per cent of the Senate vote and the Liberals 38.3. Continuance of the trend would see the Nationals without Queensland Senate representation within 10 years, which might explain why Joyce yesterday declared himself a one-term senator.
"Do you think I enjoyed this last week?" he asks, seemingly genuinely bemused that anyone could actually want to be a senator. "I had an accountancy practice [in Queensland's
St George]. My kids used to come in during the day. You could go to the pub next door for a pot, and talk to reasonable people and, to be completely frank, make a shitload more money than I'm making here."
Joyce predicted he would quickly get to a point where he had fulfilled the ambition to represent his nation. His life, he said, would be a series of six-year cycles. "You're in primary school for six years. You're in high school for six years. I was at uni for about six years. I set up my business over about seven years. The Senate? I think we'll talk six years."
Certainly, resentment of the Liberals is rarely far from Joyce's rationale.
"We're always the whipping boy if any decision goes wrong," he said. "The Liberal Party doesn't exist when a decision goes wrong. But when it goes right, they claim the victory."
The same will be so of any Telstra sale, he says. If the sale is unpopular, the Liberals would go around regional Australia telling voters that the "bloody National Party sold you out". National Party survival might well depend on its approach to Telstra, he said.
"The key performance indicator in any party is to win seats, and if you do something that is going to lose seats, that's not a very good idea," Joyce said. "The people who are letting us down are the people who do not want a coalition in Queensland. That is who is letting the show down.
"It is the people who won't organise a coalition for the pending state election in Queensland." Liberals, he said, were just being duplicitous.
All the same, Joyce says he will follow the view of his party's Queensland management committee on Telstra, even though he says the real test is that of ordinary men and women. "If they were for it, we'd sell it. If they were ambivalent about it, we'd sell it. But if they are red hot against it [ he pauses], that makes it nice and simple."
It's not that Joyce - labelled Barnaby Rubble, Backdown Barnaby, the boy who cried wolf, and other more offensive descriptions after just two weeks as a senator - won't have a bar of Liberals. He likes to keep at arm's length.
The insults make no difference, he says, because "there's only one person at the end of the day you sleep with and that's yourself".
"God knows, I don't want Bill Heffernan in the bed," he said of the Liberal hard man who ruffled his feathers in his first Canberra week.
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