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Culturally Competent Coaching May Help Reduce Heart Disease & Diabetes Risk in South Asians
Findings presented at the American Heart Association Epidemiology and Prevention/Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism 2013 Scientific Session
A study conducted at the South Asian Heart Center at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Calif., and the Palo Alto Medical Foundation showed that providing culturally competent coaching to South Asian patients may be an effective way to reduce their risk for developing coronary artery disease. The findings were presented as a poster at the American Heart Association Epidemiology and Prevention/Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism Conference in New Orleans, March 19-22, 2013.
"Coronary artery disease affects the South Asian Community four times more than the general population, even for lifelong vegetarians who do not smoke and are not overweight," said Powell Jose, M.D., division of Patient Outcomes and Clinical Research, Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, and poster presenter. "Diet and lifestyle counseling had not been previously validated in the South Asian population, which makes these results even more encouraging as we continue to address this community's increased risk for coronary artery disease."
The study examined 703 patients at the South Asian Heart Center who opted to enroll in the Heart Health Coaching program and were either partially coached (n=145) or fully coached (n=558) for an entire year. A third group (n=33) consisted of patients who did not participate in the program. The level of coaching was dependent on participant receptivity to phone calls or e-mails from trained volunteers throughout the year who provided culturally competent health education on diet, physical activity and stress reduction. To measure the physical impact of the coaching, fasting lipids were obtained and measured with mean differences calculated from baseline and the last available follow-up lab test.
Study results showed that in the fully coached group, there were significant improvements (p<0.001 for all) in total cholesterol (TC) (-5.5±28.4mg/dl); LDL (-4.1±24.3); HDL (1.9±6.4); triglycerides(-16.1±67.3); and TC/HDL ratio(-0.31±0.83). The partially coached group demonstrated reductions in total cholesterol (-5.2±27.8, p=0.03); LDL (-8.1±28.0mg/dl, p<0.001); and TC/HDL ratio (-0.42±1.01, p<0.001) with a trend towards increased HDL (4.9±31.3, p=0.06). Non-coached participants did not have any statistically significant differences for any lipid measurement. There were also no significant differences in mean age (43, 42 and 43), mean BMI (25.8, 26.5 and 26.2), or baseline lipid values across the three groups (completers, partial completers, and non-completers, respectively).
"From a clinical standpoint, for every one mg decrease in LDL, there is a two percent decrease in that person's risk of a cardiovascular event, which further emphasizes the importance of the coaching," said César Molina, M.D., FACC, founder and medical director of the South Asian Heart Center at El Camino Hospital. "Physicians have limited time to provide patients with this type of detailed follow-through, so coaching can prove to be an effective resource for them to achieve improved outcomes in their patients."
A secondary analysis examined lipid values and BMI in 492 South Asian participants (21.7% women) who completed the program with a comparison control consisting of South Asians with no prior exposure to the South Asian Heart Center or the coaching program, created using electronic health record data from a healthcare organization within the same geographic region. The analysis showed that baseline characteristics were similar, yet for those who participated in the coaching program, there was an improvement in the lipid profile and BMI, with significant reductions in total cholesterol (-2.33mg/dL, p=0.001); LDL (-1.45 mg/dL, p=0.04); HDL (1.16, mg/dL, p<0.0001); Triglycerides (-9.61, p=0.002); TC/HDL ratio(-0.15, p<0.0001); and BMI (-0.12, p=0.005) versus those who had never come into contact with the program or the Center.
"Study results showed that even partial coaching could have health benefit for patients, as seen with improved total cholesterol and LDL levels," said Ashish Mathur, executive director, South Asian Heart Center at El Camino Hospital. "Our heart health coaches are non-medically trained volunteers who monitor and motivate over phone and email, making this a cost-effective method for risk reduction in a vulnerable population. We hope to use these findings to enhance our own coaching program and provide guidance to other communities facing similar challenges, not just in California, but nationally and across the world."
About the South Asian Heart Center
The South Asian Heart Center at El Camino Hospital is the first major non-profit devoted to combating the growing epidemic of heart disease among people from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka through a unique preventative program. Offered at a minimal, subsidized cost, the Center assesses the risk for heart disease and diabetes using an advanced screening process that keys in on risk factors specific to this population, and helps participants manage and mitigate their risk through education, nutrition counseling, lifestyle recommendations, and case-managed follow-up.
About El Camino Hospital
El Camino Hospital is an acute-care, 443-bed, nonprofit and locally governed organization with campuses in Mountain View and Los Gatos, Calif. In addition to state-of-the-art emergency departments, key medical specialties include heart and vascular, cancer care, urology, orthopedic and spine, genomic medicine, and the only Women's Hospital in Northern California. The hospital is recognized as a national leader in the use of health information technology and wireless communications, and has been awarded the Gold Seal of Approval from The Joint Commission as a Primary Stroke Center, as well as back-to-back ANCC Magnet Recognitions for Nursing Care. To learn more, visit their website, find them on Facebook, follow on Twitter, or view videos on YouTube.
About Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Founded in 1930, the Palo Alto Medical Foundation for Health Care, Research and Education (PAMF) is a not-for-profit health care organization dedicated to enhancing the health of people in our communities. PAMF is a nationally recognized leader patient-centered care, and a pioneer in e-health and innovation. Part of the Sutter Health network of care, PAMF's 1,100 affiliated physicians and 4,300 employees serve approximately 800,000 patients at its medical centers and clinics in Alameda, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties. PAMF's South Asian Health Program (PRANA – Prevention and Awareness for South Asians), helps improve South Asian health and reduces disease risk through culturally tailored programs, health related resources and educational services. For more information, visit: www.pamf.org, visit the PAMF blog, and follow PAMF on Twitter and Facebook.
Media Contacts:
Chris Ernst
El Camino Hospital
Cynthia Greaves
Palo Alto Medical Foundation
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Phi Alpha Theta
Each year the Gamma Zeta chapter of Phi Alpha Theta offers the opportunity for induction to qualified students. Students need not be majors or minors in history to be qualified.
- completed three courses in history.
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- a GPA in the top 35% of his or her class.
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Thanks, Defiler. Witnesses can attest that as cool and calm as I look in the pic, I was actually shaking like a leaf. Only two minutes before had I seen the DP Deluxe and compared the two.
After thinking about all the time in it, and the even longer set-up and planning, and always wondering in my mind if my efforts would be laughable or a waste of time, the only emotion besides WooHoo! I could muster was shock and shaking. Notice the thousand-yard-stare.
The only thing I can say is that I built this all scaled to the GI helmet I used as the crown. This supports my theory that the original possibly used a pull of the same. Had I used a crown of my own making, no doubt the helmet would have turned out radically different and laughable.


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Balloons as air bags: is there any hope?
It's time to write about Mythbusters again! Last night on the show, the team tested a myth that balloons can take the place of an air bag in the front seat of your car, and if you have the right configuration of balloons, you'll be protected from the damaging effects of a crash.
If you watched the show, you'll know that this myth was thoroughly busted. The maximum acceleration a human body can take and still survive is , and no matter what configuration of balloons they tried, they were unable to reduce the acceleration to any less than about . This got me thinking about why that might be the case. Physically, keeping a body's acceleration below a certain threshold is just a matter of spreading that acceleration out over a long enough distance. It's easy to see that by looking at the relevant equation:
For a car crash, you'd be given , the initial speed, and , the final speed, and so if you want to be small, you have to make large. Specifically,
For an initial speed of and , that works out to about . Essentially, your body has to decelerate for at least further after your car crashes, otherwise you die. This is how seatbelts and airbags work: they apply enough resistance to slow you down before you smack into the dashboard, but not so much to stop you within that critical distance. Smacking into the dashboard (or windshield), of course, pretty much stops you on the spot. That's bad.
Now, is not actually that far. A typical car will give you significantly more space than that in the passenger seat (where this myth takes place), probably about to the windshield and from your midsection to the dashboard. So with an appropriate mechanism to slow you down (again, hint: seatbelt, airbag), you'll be okay in a crash. Balloons, though, are probably not that mechanism. They're designed to hold their shape, not to squish like an airbag, which is really more akin to a pillowcase.
In fact, let me throw a bit of math at this. A balloon is roughly a pocket of ideal gas. When it gets compressed quickly, as it would in a car crash, it doesn't have time to exchange heat with its surroundings and thus it will approximately follow the PV relation for an adiabatic process, , where for helium. Now suppose the balloon is a box (if a cow can be a sphere, a balloon can be a box!) and that it's getting compressed in one dimension. The pressure of the balloon as a function of its current thickness is
This means the force it exerts, , scales as . That's pretty fast. As you can see from the graph, every time the balloon is compressed by a third, the force doubles. Would a balloon even be able to stop a person before its restoring force gets high enough to provide that acceleration?
Well, the work needed to compress the balloon to a given thickness is
(the negative sign comes because I'm calculating work done on the balloon, but is force exerted by the balloon). Now suppose you have a person's torso flying at this balloon at . It has a kinetic energy , and can accordingly do that much work. Setting the expressions equal, we get
The acceleration of the torso at this balloon thickness is in turn given by
Umm... isn't that a fun-looking formula?
Fortunately, it's time to plug in numbers. I'll guess (see this video), , for a face, and treating the whole stack of balloons as a single large balloon, . With these numbers, I get a final acceleration of , or — well over the critical value for death! This happens as the stack of balloons is squished to a fifth of its original size, and is subjected to more than five times atmospheric pressure.
Only if you bump the thickness of the balloon stack up to about do you get under the survivable limit.
Of course, in reality the balloons would pop long before this happens. They can't take much of an increase over atmospheric pressure. So what happens when a balloon pops? It breaks the rubber which was providing resistance to the person's head, and that means no more cushioning from that balloon. So breaking balloons actually means you can fly further forward in the car without being slowed, and that in turn gets you closer to the windshield, dashboard, and death by "instant" acceleration.


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Man sentenced for trying to kill his wife
Frank Manivong, 54, was sentenced to 17 years after he pleaded guilty to attempted murder and assault with a weapon
ANCHORAGE – A man was sentenced Friday for trying to kill his wife in front of their children.
A judge sentenced 54-year-old Frank Manivong to 17 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to attempted murder and assault with a weapon.
Frank Manivong was charged with attempted murder and assault after shooting his wife Vilaykhone Manivong at their Mountain View apartment last March.
Police responded to a shooting around 5:15 a.m. on March 4, 2013, and found Vilaykhone Manivong lying in a bedroom, charging documents say. She had gunshot wounds on her right forearm, chest and near her neck.
James Soukkaseum, a neighbor interviewed by detectives, said Frank Manivong called him saying he wanted Soukkaseum to come over and watch his children because he would be going to jail after shooting his wife, charging documents say.
Soukkaseum tried to pry the rifle from Frank Manivong's hands, but at least one shot was fired. Soukkaseum was then able to wrestle the rifle away from Frank Manivong, unload it and call 911. Vilaykhone Manivong was transported to a local hospital and survived the attack.
Frank Manivong said he hadn't gotten along with his wife for years because she was disrespectful, court documents say. When he came home in the morning, he said she started yelling at him for being out all night.
She wouldn't stop yelling and felt he had no choice but to shoot her, he said.
Their two young children told investigators they were woken up by their parents' arguing and both said they saw their father shoot their mother.


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Keith Urban And Nicole Kidman Entertain Patients at a Children's Hospital
Keith and Nicole open their hearts and raise their voices for sick kids
Friday, the 13th might have scary connotations for some people, this past Friday, it became a memory for the ages as Keith Urban and his lovely wife, Nicole Kidman, gave kids at a children's hospital in Melbourne, Australia quite a gift.
The couple was back home 'down under' for a fundraising event for the 'Swisse Celebrate A Life Ball' and found time to visit the Monash Children's Hospital in Clayton. Urban and Kidman spoke to the young patients and posed for autographs.
Somewhere during the speaking and picture taking, Urban found his guitar and started singing and playing "Amazing Grace," at which point Kidman joined in and asked the crowd to do the same. It was really sweet – and you might die a little when you hear Keith and Nicole get their harmony on. Kidman makes a lot of trips to hospitals to see children and says, "It's one of the most important things I do. I have been doing it since I became well known in the movie industry."
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Let's not dodge it at all, but the ZTE Chorus for Cricket Wireless is simply that modern smartphone that potentially will make consumers go bonkers. Initially, its quaint and compact appearance easily makes us believe that it's none other than a low end phone, but it's worth noting that you'll need to fork over $99.99 to pick this Android powered device without a contract.
However, we're horrified to find that it's packing a 3.2" QVGA RESISTIVE display – yeah, you heard that folks, it's a RESISTIVE panel! Rather uncommon in this age, we're finding ourselves using the edge of our finger nails to type a message on it.
Alright, so let's look away from the obviously forgettable display, which is nowhere close to being detailed by today's standards, but its plastic casing is an unbelievable fingerprint magnet – though, we do like its sparkly looks thanks to the metal speckles blended into the piano black plastic. In the rear, the ZTE Chorus features a 2-megapixel camera, but no flash whatsoever.
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(CNSNews.com) - The United States president who spends much of his time on fund-raising jaunts far from Washington told Americans in his Saturday radio address, "I'll never stop trying to work with both parties."
But the day before President Obama said that, he once again talked about how nice it would be if he could just do things "on my own."
"If I had the power to raise the federal minimum wage on my own, or enact fair pay and paid leave for every worker on my own, or make college more affordable on my own, I would have done so already. If I could do all that, I would have gotten everything done in like my first two years."
In his Saturday radio address, Obama complained that Congress is doing too little for "working families," and he urged Americans to complain about it:
"I'll never stop trying to work with both parties to get things moving faster for the middle class. And I could use your help. If you see your Member of Congress around home this month, tell him or her what's on your mind. Ask them why they haven't passed bills to raise the minimum wage or help with student loans or enact fair pay for women.
"And when they return from vacation next month, instead of trying to pass partisan bills on party lines, hopefully we can come together with the sense of common purpose that you expect. And in the meantime, I will never stop doing whatever I can, whenever I can, not only to make sure that our economy succeeds, but that people like you succeed."
But when Congress returns from vacation in September, it appears that President Obama will have made another big move on his own -- on immigration.
He's expected to unilaterally expand his DACA program -- Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals -- to the parents of young people who were brought to this country illegally as children. The anticipated second wave of deferred deportations could apply to as many as five or six million illegal immigrants.
The president told reporters on Friday, "'[W]hile they're out on vacation, I'm going to have to make some tough choices to meet the (immigration) challenge -- with or without Congress."
On Sunday, White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer said Obama is still waiting for recommendations from Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson: "So let's wait and see what those are before we make judgments about them."
But whatever Obama decides to do, "It will be at the end of the summer," Pfeiffer said.


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Published in the Jan. 19 issue of The Blood-Horse
In the spring of 1969, a magical seed was planted in the equine garden known as The Meadow, located in Caroline County, Va., just north of Richmond. From that seed the following spring would sprout a legendary creature who would one day transcend the Sport of Kings and forever alter the course of racing history. But the harsh winds of 30 winters have since eroded this hallowed ground that once nurtured the immortal Secretariat. The pastures and training track that once shook from the pounding of "Big Red's" mighty hooves have been still for two decades. Only 400 of the farm's original 2,000 acres are as they were then. The training track and adjoining barns have remained somewhat intact, but are decaying with every passing year. There are no longer horses frolicking about or even photographs on an office wall to keep the memories alive. All that remains in Caroline County to remind one of The Meadow's illustrious past are the aging, but still-fertile, minds of several former grooms, to whom those glory days of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s have all but faded from their minds. They have moved on with their lives--two work full-time as janitors, two have retired, and one dabbles as a handyman, occasionally doing lawn work and fixing small engines and lawn mowers. Charlie Ross, 66, passes The Meadow every day to and from his job at the All American Truck Plaza, just off Interstate 95, directly across from King's Dominion amusement park. Ross has been employed there as a janitor for the past eight years. For someone who worked at The Meadow for 37 years, taking care of some of the best-bred yearlings in the country, Ross admits, "It was strange at first going from the horses to cleaning showers." One of the yearlings who was turned over to him in the early spring of 1971 was a powerful chestnut colt by Bold Ruler, out of Somethingroyal, who had already been given the name Secretariat. Ross spent nearly a year grooming Secretariat, watching him trim off pounds of baby fat and develop into a racehorse and eventually into a legend. But the big chestnut with the three white legs and long, elegant strip of white running down his face was but one of many horses to pass Ross' way. Although he does admit to feeling good about his role in Secretariat's life, in the world of Charlie Ross, there is not much room for sentimentality. His only personal link to Secretariat these days is a copy of Ray Woolfe Jr.'s book, which tells Big Red's story in text and photos. Any other pieces of memorabilia collected over the years are long gone. On the afternoon of Dec. 20, 2001, Ross left work at the usual time of 3 o'clock, got into his 1999 metallic blue Toyota pickup, and headed east on two-lane Route 30 toward his home on nearby Sadie Lane. But today was different. Instead of driving past the dirt road entrance of The Meadow's old training complex, Ross hung a right and drove along the outside of the track to an opening in the rail. On the other side of the track was the indoor training barn and the European-style stable area, with the three outdoor barns forming three sides of a square. The fourth side, completing the square, was a large open shed, in which still stood the old hotwalking machine. Ross looked at the peeling paint of the training barn that was now more gray than white and just shook his head. "It's been a lot of years since I've been here," he said. "It feels strange to be back. There was a time when I used to be here more than I was at home. There sure was no paint peeling off back then like it is now. We used to paint it every year. This was a beautiful place to work, and Mr. (Christopher) Chenery was a wonderful man to work for. So was Mrs. Tweedy (Chenery's daughter Penny, who took over the farm after her father's death in 1972)." Ross, who has a noticeable limp due to arthritis, walked alongside one of the barns, passing one stall after another. When he came to the end, he unhooked the top door of the first stall and said, as if he were unveiling a priceless work of art, "This was Secretariat's stall." Inside, several of the ceiling boards had come loose and were split and rotted. In the back left corner hung a veil of cobwebs, and in the front left corner stood an old broom. Ross just stared inside, then took a few steps forward and rested his arms atop the bottom stall door. Although he said nothing, one couldn't help but imagine the flood of memories that were rushing through his mind. "See these two holes," he said, pointing to a pair of nail holes in the open top door. "This is where I hung the plaque that read: 'Secretariat, by Bold Ruler out of Somethingroyal.' Yeeeaaah, it does bring back memories. I remember when I used to stand outside this stall in the sunshine, just as I am now. "I got Secretariat in the spring, along with five other yearlings, and I remember liking him when I first saw him. He was built real strong, and because he was so big and powerful, it took him a while to get it together. He was a very quiet horse to work with and I didn't have any problems with him. He had no bad habits; no biting, no kicking or anything like that. Meredith Bailes used to ride him a lot and he thought he might be something, but he really never showed anything to make us believe he was gonna become such a great horse." Ross recalled going to the Preakness on a rented bus with other farm employees. He also attended the Belmont Stakes with his wife, but was blocked by the huge crowd and had to watch the historic event on a TV monitor in the clubhouse. As Ross returned to his truck, he seemed to be engulfed by the quiet, as the only sound came from the winter winds howling through the naked tree limbs. "Yeah, I made a lot of tracks around this old place," he said. "But there's nothin' around here no more. It's really sad. I still think about Secretariat now and then, especially when I watch the races on television. But I have another job now, and as long as I'm working, I'm happy." Just up the road from Ross' house is the home of 66-year-old Bannie Mines, who along with Howard Gregory and Lewis Tillman, took care of Secretariat when he was a foal and weanling. Tillman died several years ago, but Mines and Gregory are still going strong. Mines lives in a small house on Riva Ridge Road with his daughter and grandson, for whom he babysits while his daughter is at work. A few doors down lives Raymond "Peter Blue" Goodall, who was Riva Ridge's groom when he was a yearling. Gregory lives several minutes away, across Route 30, on Gregory Road. One of his neighbors is 74-year-old Wilbur "Bill" Street, who spent most of his time at the track, but did team up with his brother Harry to van Secretariat from the farm to Hialeah in January of 1972 to start his racing career. Mines says he doesn't do much else other than some yard work and watching television. Gregory, although 76, is still sharp and loves to keep busy, mowing lawns, doing a little landscaping, and fixing engines.Continued...
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My nest egg lasted for an even shorter time the following semester, and I took a part time job to help make ends meet in the fall of 81, working the graveyard shift at a 7 Eleven (sharing with a different roommate the following fall - who had money problems of his own, and bailed on college after a semester). Unfortunately, I had a harder time keeping up with the school workload as a result, and grades started to slip.
The spring semester was even worse. I quit the job, the roommate left school, and my interest in my schoolwork fell to an all-time low, along with worries about making rent payments, eating and affording the endless flood of art materials. In the summer of '82, with my enthusiasm lagging for the continuation of my studies at Kendall, I came to a difficult decision to leave school, and try my luck on the job market.
At the time, my dissatisfaction with Kendall was rather vague. A lot of what was being taught seemed very old fashioned. The 'star graduates' every year seemed to have portfolios that looked identical. There seemed to be a big emphasis on turning out illustrators whose work closely resembled their teacher's ideas of what made 'good illustration', in other words, photo-realism, clones of styles that were popular in the sixties and seventies, and little attention seemed to be paid towards discovering an individualistic style. At the time, I'm sure the industry was going through some big changes, and the school was just having a hard time keeping up with them.
I did learn some invaluable lessons in a few of the classes. I loved life drawing class, and picked up some good anatomy skills, some rendering tips, and composition ideas. Perspective class was pretty interesting, although I wish I held on to a bit more of the knowledge that I briefly picked up there. Art history was interesting, and I enjoyed my creative writing class. The worst classes, to me, though, seemed to be the 'Design' curriculum. The teachers seemed to have no overriding concepts to teach about what made a 'good' design or composition and what made a 'bad' design or composition. It just seemed to be a random series of 'craft projects' with the inevitable 'group critique' at the end of each one, usually resulting in a waste of art materials and time that ended up in the trash at the end of the semester.
In the late 80s, when working at a design firm, I would come across Kendall graduates applying for work, and would be amazed to see that teachers were still pushing the same outmoded ideas years later (based on what I was seeing in portfolios). And of course, I was still paying off student loans for those first two aborted years well into the next decade.
I don't regret leaving Kendall when I did. I do wish I had looked into other colleges, perhaps with a wider spectrum of disciplines and options. A broader education would have probably been more beneficial in the long run. But who knows, I'm not sure if these things (art, discipline, work ethic, stick-to-it-iveness, whathaveyou) can even be 'taught', as much as they just need to be 'learned'.
No artwork has survived from my two years in 'art school'. I remember hanging on to one oversized pencil drawing of a brass oil lamp for years, but even that eventually found its way into the dustbin.
As I left school in the summer of '82, I had no idea what I was going to do with myself. I had vague notions of breaking into the 'comic book' business, and even went so far as to send out some sample art to Marvel (getting back some kind and encouraging rejections). I spent the summer on the brink of disaster. Broke, behind on rent payments, eating dinner at my girlfriend's apartment when I could wrangle an invitation. I'm sure I was a source of disappointment and worry for my parents, but I got little sense of it at the time. I'm sure they had other things on their mind, what with their #2 son driving off to California to be an 'actor' that summer (and two more girls in high school at the time, and my mother contemplating divorce).
After a couple of sad summer jobs (security guard, burger flipper), I eventually went back to the only skills I had in my possession, graphic art, keylining and paste-up, and using some of my 'kendall art samples' got a job with a small graphic art shop in the fall of '82.


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Governor Rick Perry comes across as a guy who is not afraid of anyone. This is an admirable trait, but it may not be beneficial if the person who is raising problems has the name of Rick Perry. A study of emails sent from his office by an executive aide to a group of men who happened to be lobbyists is raising controversy. "If you've been working offline on some changes or under the table with someone else, get your comments to me ASAP."
It gets worse. The day before Governor Perry signed the controversial order which mandated that adolescent girls get the Merck HPV vaccine, his assistant budget director sent an email which stated: "the first line sounds almost like a Merck commercial."
We suggest to candidate Rich Perry that he place under lock and key that guy whose name is Governor Rick Perry.


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This attractive 100+ year old colonial sets on a 4.7 ac lot. A covered 'rocking chair' front porch creates a warm welcome. The center hall entrance leads to a parlor with original wood floors & 10 ft ceilings. Solid wood wainscoting walls enhance the dining rm. The kitchen has been completely remodeled. An addition has been added to the rear of the house expanding the breakfast rm, family rm & added a mud rm & covered rear porch. The addition was constructed to accommodate a future 2nd floor master bedrm suite with private bath. Four large bedrms, main bath & laundry area are on the upper level. Ext features incl: in-ground pool, several out-buildings & a small fruit orchard. Newer upgrades incl: roof, 200 amp electric & well pump. A little TLC will bring it back to its original splendor.
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Sucks. Why we MUST use this new one, why cant choose which one I wanna use?!
Everything is too small, I can hardly read stuff on my 27" screen… And it should be centered. Sometimes I wonder if they have retards in their design department
I like it very much, I'm a fan of simple.
Why isn't it on the center? I like it simple, but I don't really like it non-centered.
To be honest I prefer the last version…This new version is just horrible/terrible. It's way to simple now. And the layout lost the beauty for me.
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urgh, it looks really flat, I don't like it… very Windows 8…
Very flat with a flat hierarchy. This style suits those sites where there is minimum content, not youtube. Looks like a very bad newspaper website. I am talking about the home page now, the single video page is quite OK plus minus.
It sucks, on my computer everything is pushed to the "left." this happens across multiple browsers. I guess my resolution is too high to use youtube. Does it look this way to anyone else? There's a big white empty space on the right. At first I thought it was a problem with my browser. Center it youtube.
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so my brakes worked fine when i got my new car. they were worn down so they needed replaced, but they were not "faulty". the calipers were fine, they pushed in and stayed in, the rotors were fine.
I did the rear pads and rotors, they were fine.
did the fronts, and now the passenger front brake, pops, you hear a pop, like it pops in or out and is stuck, and the tire, locks up and burns a little rubber for a split second.
i have been driving before this and they were fine, its not my calipers. it has something to do with the install. but we tried to do them all the same. lube them good.
could it be that little metal guide?
problem with the way we put them on?
also, the outside pad comes out easily, whereas the inside one u have to force it in a little, and force it out a little, when taking the pad off or putting it on.
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: My mom will never drop-it, will she?
My mom has never been a fan of my hair.
I am a grown woman now (weird to say that out loud!) and people compliment my hair all the time. I love my hair. I have never wanted straight hair...
But my mom doesn't like it. I am at the point where I cannot go to my mom with any kind of problem because she'll blame my hair...(according to her, my hair is the reason I have a hard time finding jobs or boyfriends...forget the fact that the economy sucks right now and I'm in a field where I pretty much just meet gay guys...oh, no...it's all about my hair!)
The other night, we were watching my cousin's 3-year-old daughter. (My uncle had passed away that morning...even when we're in mourning...she still finds time to criticize!)
We gave her a bath and my mom was combing out her hair and blowing it out before she went to bed. (Her hair is pretty straight.)
Mom: (to me) I used to LOVE doing this to your hair...I'd comb it and blow-it out and make it SO straight and SO shiny...that's probably why you wear your hair the way you do now...because you're rebelling...
Okay, how am I rebelling by WEARING MY HAIR THE WAY IT GROWS OUT OF MY SCALP NATURALLY??????
Am I walking around with a pink mohawk?
It's SO frustrating and upsetting.
She then kept going on and on about how much she LOVES straight and shiny hair...
And it made me want to grab that little girl before she can start criticizing something about her...


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May 8, 2012 - By Christina George, Staff WriterTo assure compliance with a new state statute that requires school districts to have public involvement when building new facilities, Fremont County School District 24 has put together a stakeholders group to help lead the effort.
"For capital construction, it's now required for public meetings to be held and be advertised," Shoshoni superintendent Tammy Cox said. "It's something we would have done anyway."
School District 24 is in the early stages of planning for its new kindergarten-through-12th-grade school, and the public involvement requirement got under way with the first meeting held last month with the formation of a capital construction advisory committee.
According to Senate File 9, the "School Facilities Department shall require school district boards of trustees to incorporate a collaborative committee process, advisory to the board, which assists the school district with planning district remedies for school buildings, ranging from site selection to project planning to design."
Collaborative committees are to assist school boards with informing the respective community and in developing community-based input into project development.
The SFD suggests taking meeting minutes, and findings should be memorialized and that information forwarded to the department to be included as part of the project record.
Depending on the size and scope of the building project, follow-up or additional meetings may be required.
Cox said the advisory committee met on April 19 to discuss how best to keep the public updated about the building project and ways to go about assuring community involvement. Mark Antram, an assistant superintendent in Casper, facilitated the meeting.
Individuals representing areas including Shoshoni proper, Lysite and Missouri Valley, were invited to participate.
"The meeting went very well," Cox said. "Sixteen community members were able to attend as well as two members from the Wyoming School Facilities Department."
"It is my hope that this group will continue to take the lead as we move forward," Cox continued. "I am hoping this group will act as a liaison between the district and the community."
According to minutes taken of the April 19 meeting, the advisory committee plans to survey the community on potential locations for the new school. There will also be a step taken to explain options for disposition of the existing school once the new school is open.
There was discussion about how to disseminate information to the public as well as how to get students engaged in the design and having a diverse group of kids involved.
The committee said it is committed to a positive way of "pulling" the community into the project, according to the meeting minutes, as well as committed to having an open, transparent process.
Multiple studies were conducted on the original 1937 school and its multiple additions, which revealed the facility was no longer deemed suitable for educating students.
The Wyoming Legislature allocated $5,000 to Shoshoni for planning and another $200,000 for land acquisition. Both funds are now available. Another $4 million for design and about $45.2 million in capital construction will be allocated on July 1.
The project consists of a 95,000 square-foot facility and new sports fields.
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Lake City Police Search For Armed Suspect
Published May 28th, 2010
Police are searching for a suspect accused of shooting a lake city man last night.
Investigators say Earl Emanuel Gardner, 38, got into an argument and then shot Antonio Dortly twice.
Gardner is wanted on charges of attempted murder, aggravated battery, discharging a weapon in public and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Police say he is considered armed and dangerous.
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A week after losing out at Dover through a controversial restart penalty at Dover, Jimmie Johnson made sure nothing got in the way of victory at Pocono.
03 June 2013
Tony Stewart claimed his first win of a hitherto under-par 2013 season at Dover International Speedway after engine issues, mechanical problems and penalties beset the top runners.
27 May 2013
A final debris caution triggered a round of pit stops that caught out long-time leader Kasey Kahne and left Kevin Harvick racing away to victory at the end of a five-hour Coke-Cola 600.
19 May 2013
Jimmie Johnson is a million dollars richer after winning the 2013 All-Star Race for the fourth time in his career, setting a new record in the process.
12 May 2013
Matt Kenseth won the Southern 500 at Darlington Speedway with his team mate Denny Hamlin completing the race in second, on a night dominated by Joe Gibbs Racing.
06 May 2013
The name of Front Row Motorsports was always more aspirational than it was likely to be accurate, but at Talladega David Ragan delivered a surprise maiden victory for the team.
28 April 2013
A flying restart for Kevin Harvick in a green-white-chequered climax to Saturday night's race allowed him to steal the win from Juan Pablo Montoya, Clint Bowyer and Jeff Burton.
22 April 2013
Matt Kenseth held off Kasey Kahne to claim victory in Kansas, but his JGR team mate Kyle Busch was among those to suffer on the slippery resurfaced speedway.
14 April 2013
Martin Truex Jr. tried but in the end no one had an answer for Kyle Busch at Texas this weekend, as the Joe Gibbs Racing driver completed his sweep of Nationwide and Cup races.
08 April 2013
Jimmie Johnson dominated on his way to winning his eighth Cup race at Martinsville, beating Clint Bowyer to the line to reclaim the lead in the Cup standings.
25 March 2013
Kyle Busch emerged as the winner of Sunday's Auto Club 400 Sprint Cup in California, thanks to two leading rivals taking each other out in the final corner.
18 March 2013
Kasey Kahne took victory in Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Bristol Motor Speedway, which saw a number of tyres and drivers blow under the pressure.
11 March 2013
Matt Kenseth took his first win for Joe Gibbs Racing in only his third Cup outing with the team, after holding off Kasey Kahne in Las Vegas.
04 March 2013
It's been far too long - 70 races to be precise - but at last Carl Edwards was back where he belonged in victory lane on Sunday, with a Cup win at Phoenix.
25 February 2013
Jimmie Johnson lay down the championship gauntlet early, declaring his intentions to win a sixth 2013 Sprint Cup title by clinching his second Daytona 500.
17 February 2013
Richard Childress Racing's Kevin Harvick emerged with his third win in the Daytona Unlimited, after an early accident claimed a third of the field.
19 November 2012
In a finale far more nerve-wracking than it had any right to be, Brad Keselowski clinched the 2012 Cup title and Jeff Gordon won the race after technical issues befell Jimmie Johnson.
12 November 2012
Brad Keselowski leads the 2012 Chase going into the final race of the season after Jimmie Johnson crashed out of Sunday's race at Phoenix, won by Kevin Harvick in a chaotic finish.
05 November 2012
Victory in Sunday's AAA Texas 500 Cup race came down to the two leading title contenders, and it proved a "bare knuckle, gloves off" duel between Jimmie Johnson and Brad Keselowski.
29 October 2012
Jimmie Johnson was in calmly dominant mood at Martinsvlle on Sunday for the seventh Chase race of 2012, as victory put him into the lead of the 2012 Chase over Brad Keselowski.


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[MLS CUP PLAYOFFS: Houston-D.C. United] The Houston Dynamo took a huge step toward defending its Eastern Conference crown, scoring three unanswered goals from
Andre Hainault, Will Bruin and Kofi Sarkodie in the second half to secure a 3-1
win over D.C. United in the first leg of the Eastern Conference final before a a BBVA Compass Stadium record crowd of 22,101.
Houston's superior depth was the difference as reserves played key roles on all three goals, while D.C. United, already shorthanded, lost two starters in the first half with injuries.
But a non-call at the end of the first half that could have given D.C. a man advantage changed the game and was its focus in the postgame discussion.
-- Already without injured star Dwayne De Rosario and goalie Bill Hamid and Andy Najar, both suspended, D.C. United lost Chris Pontius in the 12th minute and Marcelo Saragosa in the 40th minute with injuries. Raphael Augusto, who had not played a game since arriving on loan from Fluminense in July, was brought on for Saragosa. Early in the second half, Argentine Emiliano Dudar, who hadn't played in more than two months, had to come on in place of center back Brandon McDonald.
-- United, which has never won in nine games in Houston, took a 1-0 lead in the 27th minute when Lionard Pajoy rifled a shot off the far post, and rookie Nick DeLeon put the rebound away.
-- D.C. United screamed for a red card in stoppage time when Hainault took down Raphael Augusto outside the Dynamo penalty area. Not only did referee Ricardo Salazar not show a red card, he didn't not even call a foul.
-- D.C. United assistant Pat Onstad was ejected for arguing the call, and D.C. head coach Ben Olsen confronted Salazar after game. "What do you want me to say? What can I say about it?" Olsen said. "Everybody in the stadium, everybody on our bench, everybody on their bench, everybody at home saw that it's a red card. It's a takedown. It's a red card. I don't know what to say about it. It's very, very frustrating."
-- Houston evened the score in the 51st minute when Hainault scored from close range after a short free kick was played by Brad Davis to Oscar Boniek Garcia, whose pass found the Canadian free at the far post. Hainault was inserted in the starting lineup after Jermaine Taylor was injured in the series with Sporting Kansas City.
-- Giles Barnes, who entered the game for the injured Angus Moffat in the first half, set up the second goal with a strong run in from the left wing and fed Bruin for the go-ahead goal, the Indiana product's fourth in four playoff games.
-- On the third Dynamo goal, Raphael Augusto failed to shut down Luiz Camargo, who was playing in place of Ricardo Clark, and Luiz Camargo fed Sarkodie, who blasted a shot from a tight angle past Joe Willis.
-- The win extended Houston's home unbeaten streak to 30 games in all competitions, dating to June 18, 2011. The Dynamo are now 8-1-0 all-time in home playoff games, outscoring opponents 18-6.
Second leg: Sunday, Nov. 18, 4 p.m. ET in Washington, D.C.
Nov. 11 in Houston
Houston 3 D.C. United 0. Goals: Hainault (Garcia, Davis) 51, Bruin 68, Sarkodie (Luiz Camargo) 81; DeLeon 27.
Houston -- Hall; Sarkodie, Hainault, Boswell, Ashe; Moffat (Barnes 25), Luiz Camargo, Davis (Creavalle 88); Garcia, Bruin (Ching 88), Kandji.
D.C. United -- Willis; Russell, McDonald (Dudar 56), Jakovic, Korb; DeLeon, Kitchen, Saragosa (Augusto 40), Pontius (Neal 12), Boskovic, Pajoy.
Referee: Ricardo Salazar.
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Two teens shot in Beaumont
By THE ENTERPRISE
January 20, 2010
Posted: January 20, 2010, 7:03 AM CST
Two teens were shot late Tuesday, but did not suffer life-threatening injuries, reports the Beaumont Police Department.
At about 11:49 p.m., officers responded to a report of gunshots in the 4200 block of Ector, said a news release from the BPD. Once there, officers found a 17-year-old male and a 19-year-old male, that had both been shot. One was injured in the upper chest, and the other in the hand. Both were taken to Christus St. Elizabeth hospital.
Officers said the shooter was taken in for questioning. It is believed that the shooter was a homeowner protecting his home against a home invasion, the release said.
The incident remains under investigation.
BPD: Shooter might have been protecting family during home invasion
Beaumont police say it appears a man who shot two teenagers might have been protecting his family during a home invasion robbery.
Officers responded to a report of shots fired at about 11:50 p.m. Tuesday in the 42 hundred block of Ector. Dispatchers heard shots fired during some of the calls they received. They discovered two men, 17 and 19, had been shot. One was hit in the upper chest and the other in the hand. They were taken by ambulance to Christus Hospital St. Elizabeth where they were treated for non-life threatening injuries.
The man who fired the shots was taken to the police station for questioning. Investigators believe he was protecting his home and family during a home invasion robbery.
The investigation is continuing and police have not made an arrest.
This occurred in the 'southend' of Beaumont which is considered by many to be in the 'bad' part of town where gangs roam.


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Help, I was so stupid. I let the oil cap open and try to add some oil, a 1 inch long and 1/4 inch wide plastic piece on the bottol fall into engine through the oil hold.
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Help, I was so stupid. I let the oil cap open and try to add some oil, a 1 inch long and 1/4 inch wide plastic piece on the bottol fall into engine through the oil hold.
what should i do now :eek:
I need any common will be helpful
Well; I would drain all oil from drain plug; see if object comes out. If its too large and doesn't come out; then I'd remove the filter and see if it comes out there. And if still no, then remove the oil pan and take it out of there... Ideally do all this without running the engine before. But I'm no engine mechanic...
I don't know where on the engine the filler tube goes but would remove the covers and find out. Then remove it where it attach's to the engine and check the tube. Hopefully it is in the tube. And check the hole in the engine for it. If it is not there then you will have to take the sump off. The procedure is in the how to install a deeper sump, maybe a good time to do that? Luckily its plastic, but I still would not start the engine.
I already ran the engine, nothing happened. is the oil is hot enough to melt the plastic?
I don't know if it will ruin the engine, since it is steel? else it will caught by the filter.
I would remove the oil pan and find the offending piece. Why take the risk of it damaging something?
So should I dirve? will it be fine with short distance? so that i can drive to goodyear autoshop.
wondering how much will it cost, and wondering the job that any autoshop will do.
people say, it will never be the same once you open it up and put it back in.
Hello tian6869,
After the piece of plastic fell into the filler, did you continue to add oil? It would be best if you hadn't however even if you did, the plastic is still most likely residing in the largely horizontal oil filler pipe.
Remove your engine cover and you can follow the pipe from the filler area to the engine. Remove the pipe and the plastic piece is almost sure to be hung-up in the corrugations.
If you aren't slightly mechanically inclined and you can answer "no" to my first question, you should feel safe to drive it to a nearby mechanic. Explain to him that you want him to retrieve a plastic tab which is probably located in the horizontal engine oil fill tube; once he has the engine cover off the task at hand will be obvious.
Hope this helps!
Better be safe than sorry, have it towed to a Porsche dealer is my advice too!
"Sir! We're surrounded!" - "Excellent! We can shoot in any direction!"
A good car will get you from point A to point B. A great car... will just get you into trouble!
Yes the engine is steel and who knows if the oil gets hot enough to melt the plastic....but wither way, anyone should know the clearance between a piston and its shaft is basically zero.....so just imagine what would happen if the plastic piece got into that shaft?
I am not saying doom and gloom here and I am not even saying the plastic (would get to the piston) is lodged in your block, I am just saying that before I would start a $60,000 car with ANY risk whatsoever, I would call 1-800-PORSCHE and risk a $500 bill to retrieve it. Your insurance will not cover a damaged engine and you can bet Porsche would find the problem if you brought it to the dealership with a "problem."
SO the answer is simple (for me)......do NOT start it any more. Have it towed!
NOW..what are you waiting for?
While the chances this plastic bit would end up in a cylinder are pretty remote - the motor uses a very complicated and sophisticated oiling/lubrication system that employs three separate pumps with quite high pressures, to feed oil directly where it's needed. The more likely scenario is that it will get stuck in the system someplace, or lodge in one of the pumps - either way, you're looking at oil starvation to some section of the motor... so don't start it again, and have it taken to someplace that knows what they're working on.
Well I admit do not know anything about the lubrication/oil system. But nonetheless, if I dropped something in the oil filler area, I would freak out and call a tow truck without even thinking. Just me.
may be it is good time upgrade to 3.8L for 3K-5K?
since they are going to take out the engine anyway
who should i contact for 3.8L engine swap?
The engine doesn't have to be removed just the lower oil pan. Get it towed to the dealer or a good indie and let them sort it.
Just because it is a little piece of plastic in a metal engine doesn't mean that it cannot do any harm. Every day I work on huge pumps/motors that cost hundreds of thousands/millions of dollars and a surprising amount of the time, the reason they ended up here is because of little pieces of plastic. A lot of times people leave the plastic hose caps in the system or forget to take a rag out after they were working on it. Sometimes you get a clogged filter, other times you get what is pictured below.:(
Have it towed.


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Three types of cheese are added to this ziti casserole!
- 2 (10-oz.) pkgs. frozen chopped spinach, cooked and drained
- 15-oz. container ricotta cheese
- 3 eggs, beaten
- 2/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 16-oz. pkg. ziti pasta, cooked
- 26-oz. jar spaghetti sauce
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- 16-oz. pkg. shredded mozzarella cheese
How to Make It
Combine spinach, ricotta cheese, eggs, Parmesan cheese, salt and pepper; set aside.
Combine pasta, spaghetti sauce and oregano; place half the pasta mixture in an ungreased 13"x9" baking dish. Layer with spinach mixture and mozzarella. Add remaining pasta mixture. Cover with aluminum foil and bake at 375 degrees for 25 minutes. Uncover and bake 10 more minutes or until bubbly. Remove from the oven and let stand for about 10 minutes before serving.
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Fashion, Media, Step Up to Support the Lupus Foundation of America
Leaders from fashion, entertainment, and media were among the nearly 700 guests who stepped up to support the millions of individuals around the world affected by lupus during the second annual Lupus Foundation of America's (LFA) Butterfly Gala in New York City. The LFA recognized: Stephen I. Sadove, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Saks Fifth Avenue, and Natalie Morales, NBC News Anchor, "Today" and Co-host, Third Hour, for their leadership and dedication to increasing public awareness of lupus.
GRAMMY®-nominated recording artist, Oleta Adams, opened the program and brought the crowd to their feet with her powerful rendition of "New York State of Mind." Oleta also moved the audience by sharing that she has been living with lupus for 10 years.
"Lupus has affected every area of my life, and it was very empowering for me to share my personal story," said Oleta Adams. "I want people to have a greater awareness and understanding of lupus. We need to bring attention to this disease to further research and the development of new treatments for individuals with lupus. "
Stephen I. Sadove, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Saks Fifth Avenue was recognized for Saks' long-standing partnership with the LFA, and the company's financial support, which has helped the LFA expand its reach and capacity to serve the lupus community. Natalie Morales, NBC News Anchor, "Today" and Co-host, Third Hour was honored for her personal interest in, and NBC's focus on, increasing public awareness of issues touching the lives of women and children.
During the program, musician and LFA Global Ambassador Julian Lennon joined the LFA in presenting the first Lucy Vodden Research Grant Award to Hermine Brunner, M.D., associate professor of pediatric rheumatology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Dr. Brunner is a pioneer in the study of childhood pediatric lupus, and the grant will fund research to validate a Quality of Life tool for children with lupus.


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Guerrero: I'll end Mayweather's reign as P4P king
Four-division and six-time world champion Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero (31-1-1, 18 KOs), and pound for pound king Floyd "Money" Mayweather Jr. (43-0, 26 KOs) are finally going to step in the ring on May 4, 2013. The contracts were signed by both Guerrero and Mayweather after months of anticipation. "Floyd Mayweather is a great fighter, one of the best to ever lace up the gloves, but on May 4th I'm going to end his reign as pound for pound king," said Guerrero. "I believe God has put me in this incredible position for a reason. This is bigger than boxing. It's about humbling a man everyone perceives is unbeatable. When I come out victorious on May 4th, everyone will know that if you put Jesus Christ first in your life, anything is possible. I'm dedicating this fight to knocking out blood cancer with Be The Match. This organization saves lives by finding matching donors for patients who need a bone marrow transplant. My wife had leukemia and needed a marrow transplant — and she found her donor through Be The Match. Now she's cancer free. I want to use my platform as a fighter to help Be The Match save even more lives by getting more people to join the Be The Match Registry like I did. You could be someone's cure. Find out how at BeTheMatch.org."


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ADHD is no longer just a problem in the classroom, is it also a problem while on the clock.
New numbers from the drug maker Express Scripts shows that since 2008, the number adults using ADHD medication has almost doubled.
Dr. Christine Le with Kelsey-Seybold says that she is seeing more and more of her adult patients being prescribed ADHD drugs, "Most of the time children have the hyperactive type of attention deficit. In adults the symptoms that are noticed the most tend to me inactivity."
Many parents first notice they have a problem when their children are diagnosed. Dr. Le says ADHD is mostly hereditary, "When the children have gotten tested and do well with attention deficit medicines their parents might say you know, I used to have these problems too."
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Fox Celebrates National Dog Day, Not Women's Equality Day
Fox News' morning programming ignored Women's Equality Day, yet took time to highlight "National Dog Day."
In 1971, Congress passed a joint resolution designating August 26 [1] Women's Equality Day, on the date of the 1970 Women's Strike for Equality [2]. The commemorative holiday celebrates the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which gave women the right to vote, and is intended to call attention to women's ongoing struggle for equal treatment in the United States.
In advance of the holiday, President Obama issued a proclamation [3] highlighting how far equal rights for women have progressed since the 19th Amendment was ratified. He noted that legislation such as the Violence Against Women's Act [4] and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act [5] continued to advance women toward equality, and reaffirmed the need to "renew our commitment to securing equal rights, freedoms, and opportunities for women everywhere," through further action such as the proposed Paycheck Fairness Act [6].
Fox News failed to mention Women's Equality Day on the morning of August 26, yet took the time to cover National Dog Day, airing pictures of Fox & Friends hosts' pets:
Over 40 years after the Women's Strike for Equality, women have not reached parity in America. Women continue to make less than their male counterparts, earning just 80.9 percent [7] of what men earn -- a gap of about $163 dollars less per week. In fact, the gap between men and women's earnings widened in 2012.
Furthermore, research has demonstrated the benefits that programs that provide women with affordable access to universal preschool [8], paid family and medical leave [9], and affordable contraception [10]could achieve for women's employment and the economy. But Fox has repeatedly ignored how such programs could assist women and their families and dismissed the hurdles that women continue to face in pursuit of full equality, instead turning to [11] demonizing [12] these [13] programs [14] and fearmongering [15] about how greater equality for women is leading to the dissolution of society.
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Today, the Washington Times ran an op-ed by science-denier-for-hire Steve Milloy titled "2012 GOP guide to the climate debate." Based on the number of errors and irrelevancies masquerading as serious concerns I discovered while reading it, the Washington Times should have titled the op-ed "How to lie to voters about climate disruption."
Here's a brief rundown of all the problems I found. I'll be dealing with a few of the worse errors in greater depth in a follow-up post.
- "Al Gore and his enviros duck debating so-called 'climate skeptics.'" – So debates like Dessler vs. Lindzen or Lambert vs. Monckton don't count? It's true that debates like these are rare, but that's because debating a climate disruption denier is about as effective as debating evolution with a young-earth creationist or a proponent of "intelligent design."


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TORONTO, CANADA – With the release of a documentary short today, Zulu Alpha Kilo and Audi Canada have put the final touches on the Audi quattro® Experience. This one-of-a-kind interactive installation put participants in the driver's seat of a custom-made 1:32 scale Audi A4 quattro® slot car for the chance to test their on-track skills.
Using the world's first iPad enabled slot car controller, visitors to the installation were able to take their A4 for a wild test-drive around hairpin turns, down long highway straightaways and through icy mountain passes – terrain that would get the better of lesser vehicles.
The project involved a number of innovations to marry the worlds of slot car racing and technology with the Audi brand:
- A handcrafted 140 sq. ft. (20' by 7') custom slot car track
- 3D printed 2013 Audi A4 vehicle shells fit with Audi quattro® all wheel drive slot car chassis and custom in-car cameras
- Custom iPad app integrating live in-car camera feed and digital voltage modulator to control vehicle acceleration
- High definition bird's eye view race cam with integrated Facebook, Twitter and YouTube share function
The film, entitled Painting Coconuts, captures the entire build through the eyes of track maker David Beattie of Slot Mods USA. Set behind the scenes leading up to launch of the Audi quattro Experience, the film offers a unique look into Beattie's personal story, his passion for the art of custom track design and the sport of slot car racing. It also delves into his process and the challenges his team faced to execute a project with so many innovative features. The film was directed by Tamir Moscovici (Urban Outlaw).
Zak Mroueh, President and Executive Creative Director of Zulu Alpha Kilo, said, "This was the perfect opportunity for us to reimagine what a test drive could be, and bring a truly unique and memorable experience to Audi fans."
Jennifer Dobbs, Audi Brand Marketing Manager, said, "In every way, this innovative experience brings to life our passion for design, craftsmanship and sportiness. It's also a perfect embodiment of the progressive ideals of the Audi brand and our desire to delight our customers in Canada."
More information, including final race leaderboard and full-length documentary Painting Coconuts, is available online at www.experiencequattro.ca.
Additional Background on The Audi Canada Slot Car Build (compiled by Fourtitude)
If you happened through Toronto's bustling financial district while this display was active, you would have had the chance to experience the Audi A4 and its quattro all-wheel drive system in an intriguing way that was sure to stick with you. Of course you'd get to drive with one of those cool iPad controllers, but you'd also get to post footage of your actual drive on Facebook as it was hosted by an Audi Canada account.
In doing so, you'd also get an experience not many are able to afford. A starter custom track configuration from Slot Mods USA begins at a mere $50,000. Why so much? Each configuration is painstakingly built with grandstands and structures, aluminum armco railing, period correct signs and banners, landscaping, trees, of course the cars like those on the road as well as the Barn Find ur quattro and R8s at the Audi dealer. There's and all of the controlling and power supply needed to animate the build. That Audi's went further with iPad integrated controllers and car-mounted mini-cams only adds to the complexity.
Slot Mods USA has built track configurations for well-known and well-heeled car enthusiasts around the world. The likes of Jay Leno and Bobby Rahal have them, and United Autosports owner Zak Brown has a sizable setup of his own, albeit less the iPads.
We've included two videos below. First up is the aforementioned 'Painting Coconuts' documentary that documents the build of the track and focuses on the story of David Beattie and Slot Mods. Next up is a short put together by the agency and focuses more on the marketing project and the creation of those custom laser-scanned and 3-D printer created quattro-driven 1:32 scale Audi A4 slot cars. Once you've watched these two, make sure to head over to Experiencequattro.ca in order to get even more behind-the-scenes detailing about this very custom build.
About Zulu Alpha Kilo:
Zulu Alpha Kilo is based in Toronto, Ontario. Founded in July 2008 by world-renowned Creative Director Zak Mroueh, the agency has a staff of 54. Clients include Audi Canada, Bell Canada, Coca-Cola Canada, Corona, Service Inspired Restaurants and Workopolis. Everyone in the company belongs to one company-wide creative group, and free-spirited, collaborative ideation is one of the agency's core principles.
About Audi Canada
In 1971, Audi was first introduced to the Canadian market. Today, a network of 41 Audi retailers sell and service a range of premium vehicles nationwide. Headquartered in Ajax, Ontario, Audi Canada markets a line of luxury cars built in plants in Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm, Germany, as well as Slovakia, Belgium and Hungary. The parent company, AUDI AG, resides in Ingolstadt, Germany. Additional information on all Audi models and history can be found at www.audi.ca


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Raffles with in vitro fertilization treatments as the prize. The definition of "a new thought." Buy a ticket, take your chances to win a procedure that can cost $10,000 to $15,000. There's publicity for the clinic, for sure, and just maybe, a baby for a previously childless couple. How you feeling about that? Are the ends justifying the means? Is it all good, no matter what? Or, are you feeling creeped out at something that seems a little over-the-line?
I first learned of IVF as a prize last September when this headline ran across my Yahoo! page:
As they say in romance novels, I gasped.
Five hundred and fifty people ran a 5K race in Draper, Utah hoping to score a single chance at parenthood. I thought of the desperation of the runners zipping past cheering onlookers…OMG. The winners' hopeful joy; the losers' sad trips home. Surely this must be some twisted variation on The Hunger Games", or perhaps a long lost Ray Bradbury tale.
Fifty-seven couples spent $35-$40 to register for the Utah event, and each received only one raffle entry. Supporters for each couple also ran, and each submitted their raffle ticket to boost the odds. The race reportedly raised $35,000 for a nonprofit North Carolina fertility center.
I'd thought this event was an anomaly until the NY Times devoted precious front-page, Sunday morning real estate in late October to examine IVF giveaways. Pamela Madsen, a founder of the American Fertility Association, told the Times,
"It is against the law to raffle off a puppy, but we're allowed to raffle off the opportunity to have a baby? What if they were raffling off chemotherapy? Would we be O.K. with that?"
Except…chemo is generally covered by insurance. IVF treatments, not so much. That's why the thought that IVF prizes might go to people already blessed with lots of money and coverage for fertility testaments can churn stomachs. Case in Point: The NY Times story revealed that the North Carolina charity benefitting from the Utah 5K now regrets its participation. It seems that race administrators failed to pre-screen entrants to assess financial need. Nobody checked to ask about applicable insurance coverage, either.
Even so, the race dubbed Footsteps for Fertility grew out of a Utah woman's love for her NotMom sister, not some marketing exec in a conference room. And most importantly, there's no baby guarantee for the winning couple.
The 5K winner said, "I don't know what a better prize could have been. It's not like they were raffling off a baby." Only 40% of women under 35 become pregnant from a single IVF treatment, and those odds drop to 20% when the women is age 40.
One more thing: This new thought goes beyond the USA's fruited plains. Controversy over IVF giveaway contests is also bubbling in Britain, and a government official in Australia proposes banning the events altogether. The United Kingdom scores extra gold stars, however, because its National Health Service requires anyone receiving free IVF treatments to meet strict criteria, including being under 40, in a stable relationship with financial hardship, and no living children,
"Financial hardship" circles us back to America's flawed medical system. The one that tends to save its best magic for citizens with the most money, whether the goal is to save a life, or create one. A strange confusion of ethics, dollars and dreams.


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One of the big confusions that people have to keep in mind about VHDL is that unlike most "programming languages", it's not really designed for computers to parse. It's more designed as a description language for documentation (for humans, or at least engineers) to read.
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Ahead of their full seasonal showing at the forthcoming London fashion week, Acne have jumped on the bandwagon of that bastard child of the fashion industry: pre-fall. Potentially giving a hint as to the direction that their autumn / fall 2011 collection, this is an offering that swings more to the lines of the 60s than to the 1970s revival as their spring 2011 collection did. Pay attention to the pre-fall collection's full skirts, though overlook the jewel embellished pieces until you get a full hint of autumn / fall 2011: the punk revival aside, we can't see encrusted pieces making a comeback any time soon.
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