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Funding AAC
Most Tobii Dynavox Speech Generating Devices (SGDs) are covered by Medicare/Medicaid and private insurance. Navigating the maze of paperwork required to secure funding for a Tobii Dynavox product may seem like an overwhelming task – but it doesn't have to be.
Along with the help of your Tobii Dynavox Consultant, you can count on the knowledge and experience of the consultants in our Funding Department to work with you – every step of the way.
To make the process a bit easier, we provide you with the option to complete your funding packet online! Through our new secure website the Tobii Dynavox E-Funding Page, you can fill out and submit forms using your PC, MAC, iPad, iPhone or Andoid device.
5 Steps of the Funding Process
- Consult an SLP
Your Speech-Language Pathologist will conduct an Augmentative and Alternative Communication/Speech Generating Device (AAC/SGD) assessment to determine your communication needs. The SLP will help you determine what type of device is most appropriate for you. In addition, your Local Sales Consultant can provide valuable help to you during this stage of the process. Once your needs are established and a device has been selected, the SLP will complete the AAC/SGD report.
Need help finding a SLP?
Speech-Language Pathologists (SLP) work in a variety of areas, including schools, hospitals, and independent clinics. When choosing an SLP to evaluate a person for an augmentative/alternative communication (AAC) device, it is important for them to be knowledgeable in AAC. Some important questions to consider before and after the assessment/evaluation can be found on the ASHA website.
Assistance for locating an SLP with experience in AAC can be found on the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) website. The maintained directory can be found Here.
ASHA ProFind provides a searchable directory to find SLPs near you who specialize in Augmentative Alternative Communication (AAC). Click here to get started.
- Physician Prescription
After consulting with your SLP, you or your therapist will need to forward a copy of the speech evaluation to your physician. The physician will need to complete and sign a prescription and complete any state Medicaid required forms. It is also recommended to ask your physician to write a letter of medical necessity and provide documentation of your most recent Face to Face.
- Complete & Submit Funding Packet
Complete the Tobii Dynavox funding packet, which consists of the Client Information Form, The Assignment of Benefits Form, The Speech-Language Pathologist Evaluation, The Physician's Documentation of a Face to Face Visit, The Physician's Prescription and copies (front and back) of your insurance card(s). Note: Additional documentation may be required for your specific insurer.
Email (firstname.lastname@example.com), mail, or fax (1-866-336-2737) the packet to your Tobii Dynavox funding coordinator. They will review the packet to ensure it meets the criteria for your specific insurer and then they will submit it to the insurance company.
Mail to: Tobii Dynavox
Attn: Funding Department
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- Insurance Processes Packet
Once the funding packet has been submitted to your insurance carrier(s), the next steps are dependent on the insurance carrier. Most insurers follow a similar process in reviewing funding applications prior to authorizing.
If your insurance denies your request, don't worry, we are here to help you appeal the decision. Please refer to the Appeals Overview documents for next steps.
NOTE: If your approval is for a trial, we will ship a rental device to you. At the end of the trial period, your therapist will need to write an addendum to their evaluation detailing the results of the trial period. Once we receive the addendum, we will seek approval from the insurance carrier for purchase
- Approval and Shipping
When notified of approval by your insurance carrier, your Tobii Dynavox funding coordinator will proceed with the order and the equipment will be delivered to your address.
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Friday, April 8, 2011
I Will Drawing That For You! Day 4
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Late last night when I was home in bed, Miss O'Leary took a lantern to the shed, and when the cow kicked it over, she winked her eye and said "There's gonna be a hot time in the old town tonight!" Fire fire fire!
- April 8, 2011 at 12:22 AM
- Jed Henry said...
Dinosaur fire truck brigade.
- April 8, 2011 at 7:21 AM
- buttercup said...
Kielle: A capricorn in a cubicle getting fired for typing with his horn (and the boss is holding a paper that has gobbledegook on it!)
Ada A huge forest being burned down by Giants to create a bonfire to cook their food in it.
Tessa: A dog that's jumping through a hoop on fire.
Ryan:The ruins of an ancient city were unearthed, and someone was discovered still living there. They had a torch with a single spark.
- April 8, 2011 at 7:38 AM
- Erin Shakespear said...
Nate, you ROCK! Zoe LOVES those pink robots! I posted about your Insane Awesomeness over at my blog, Shakespear's Stage...
Hmmmm....fire, eh? How about that Joy of Painting guy...you know the bushy haired guy who says things like, "I think a happy little tree lives right here."....how about him starting a forest fire? Maybe he's a bit of a pyro? :)
- April 8, 2011 at 8:39 AM
- Q said...
I was going to say "Fire in a library," but that's not G-rated. That is horrifying.
A superhero whose power is creating fire, but he can only create enough to light one candle at a time. How will he defeat the evil Dr. Schrøllenkommenaßaiatyzschenietzchåklœj?
- April 8, 2011 at 8:43 AM
The Cannon Ball Callaghans: Death Defying Feats of Genius by a Family of Fearless Mole Rats.
[Essentially: Mole rats who wear jaunty one-pieces (maybe one of them has a mustache) and fire each other out of cannons]
- April 8, 2011 at 8:52 AM
For the turquoise-fletched penguin and his mob, fire is the worst enemy.
or to go with the superhero idea, a kid whose power is to roast marshmallows.
- April 8, 2011 at 9:22 AM
A cockatrice and a wombat doing an irish jig so fast that the dojo sets on fire.
- April 8, 2011 at 9:35 AM
- Enna Isilee said...
Fire breathing rabbits and foxes/wolves cowering in fear.
- April 8, 2011 at 9:40 AM
- Cathy said...
A phoenix rising from a bottle of hot sauce.
- April 8, 2011 at 10:37 AM
- megwrites said...
The seashore--with the ocean made of fire instead of water. The kids at the beach wear heat resistant armor. (To be honest, I can't decide whether this is a creepy idea or not--just trying to be imaginative here :)
- April 8, 2011 at 10:52 AM
- Leea said...
I love this game!
- April 8, 2011 at 1:00 PM
- Lindsay said...
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- April 8, 2011 at 2:09 PM
- Lindsay said...
Someone swapped Timmy's pen with a fire shooting pen during the spelling test. Ms. Scrathers was not too happy.
- April 8, 2011 at 2:11 PM
A charizard party, in which they drink tea and dance around in rainbow tutus.
- April 8, 2011 at 3:05 PM
- Chris said...
I'm taking us back to last year's marathon: Mermaid Fire Brigade, page 11. (The second fire they have to fight.)
- April 8, 2011 at 3:07 PM
Two peacocks preening around a fire while their tails catch on fire... oh, that's mean! Probably include a fire extinguisher nearby. :)
- April 8, 2011 at 3:30 PM
- calico cat said...
A girl with hair that is fire.
- April 8, 2011 at 3:42 PM
A fast food place advertising "Free Itty-bitty Red-hot Enchiladas!" Or anything else that makes up the acronym FIRE.
- April 8, 2011 at 5:52 PM
A fire-breathing anteater chomping on the Empire State building
The fire station in a world of matches
- April 8, 2011 at 6:08 PM
- Botterfly Girl said...
A hot dog, roasting smores over a fie. (With another hotdog dancing behind him)
- April 9, 2011 at 3:00 PM
a world where everything and everyone is made of fire! even the water!
- April 9, 2011 at 4:58 PM
- the mighty guin said...
The Muse of Fire, as mentioned in Henry V by Shakespeare (always a fun mental image - what would she look like?).
A hand, gripping the edge of a cliff a la Gandalf, with fingers dug deep into the soil of the cliff. And little threads of smoke and small bits of flame starting from the grass around said fingers.
The Burning Ring of Fire that the Man in Black keeps going on about!
- April 9, 2011 at 7:28 PM
- Melissa said...
Squirrels roasting marshmallows over a driftwood bonfire on a rocky northern beach.
- April 9, 2011 at 10:07 PM
- Mickey said...
Fire dragon discovers hairspray.
- April 9, 2011 at 11:28 PM
- Ryan said...
Marshmallows roasting children over a fire.
- April 10, 2011 at 4:58 PM

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Beyonce Dazzles in Red McQueen for Vogue Spread, Says New Album is 'More Sensual'
Beyonce covers the March 2013 issue of Vogue! It's her second turn on the cover of the fashion bible, this time for the Power Issue.
The images from the spread are as high fashion as it gets, shot by Patrick Demarchelier and feature the whimsical clothes of Alexander McQueen (like the red, tiered organza dress, where she is standing and being photographed on the sly); Marni (the black wool-and-silk blend top paired with striped pants); and Oscar de la Renta (the confectionary red ruffled gown she wears while laying down, pictured above).
The ensembles in the spread are a far cry from the too-casual pantsuit in which she showed up to the 2013 Grammys. These fashions are suitable for Bey, not that color-blocked, "I'm on my way to lunch" suit she donned.
The writer reveals Bey is still tinkering with her fifth solo album, since she is a perfectionist. "I'm going to be tweaking," the singer said. "I still have things to figure out." No rush, Bey -- we want it when you think we're ready to have it.
Becoming a mother and the transformation that her body went through is impacting this new album, the follow up to '4.'
Bey says her new music "is a lot more sensual... empowering. Right now, after giving birth, I really understand the power of my body. I just feel my body means something completely different. I feel a lot more confident about it. Even being heavier, thinner, whatever. I feel a lot more like a woman. More feminine, more sensual. And no shame."
Who runs the world? Girls, that's who. But more specifically -- Bey runs the world.
The singer shared that her daughter Blue Ivy has forever changed her, which is not a new or novel concept. Bey confessed that her true maternal chip clicked around eight months, which was around December 2011, since baby Blue made her grand entrance in January of 2012.
"I felt very maternal around eight months," the queen reveals. "And I thought I couldn't become any more until I saw the baby... But it happened during my labor because I had a very strong connection with my child. I felt like when I was having contractions, I envisioned my child pushing through a very heavy door. And I imagined this tiny infant doing all the work, so I couldn't think about my own pain. We were talking. I know it sounds crazy, but I felt a communication."
She also reveals how it was giving birth. Like the actual process. "My family and my closest people were there when I gave birth," the diva revealed. "Everything that scared me just was not present in that room. So for me to really let go and really appreciate every contraction... it was the best day of my life."
Now that's how you give birth, ladies. Bey is superhuman, ain't she?
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It's been nearly a year coming, but it has been worth the wait. Import/Export - the debut album from Open Mouth – is a triumph in so many ways. Since the hiatus of Miss Black America last June, Seymour Glass (operating under the moniker of Open Mouth) has been writing songs for his solo album – a daunting task for anyone who has for years relied on other band members for input and criticism. He's managed to develop the songs, and Import Export is the result of a natural progression from the angst-ridden verses which marked Miss Black America's term as Britain's Best New Band™.
Here, with Open Mouth, Seymour trades in his vehement punk-rock roots of Miss Black America for quieter acoustic soundscapes. The songs still bear the mark of Seymour's inimitable vocal style, but the instrumentation with Open Mouth relies more heavily on acoustic and heavily-delayed Nick McCabe-style electric guitars. Perhaps you've heard his debut single (which scored eight-out-of-ten on this website, no less), or seen him play at one of his many gigs over the past year. For those that haven't, DiScover Open Mouth - you won't be disappointed.
If you were to pigeon-hole Open Mouth then you'd lump him into the singer songwriter bracket. That's not a fair reflection of his sound, though, as Seymour explains:
"With Open Mouth there's been no conscious decision to sound like anything or to react against anything else. Maybe there has been a reaction against other singer songwriters because I do want to subvert people's expectations of what one should sound like. I'm nothing like Blunt or Morrison. What I do isn't to everyone's tastes, and I can understand why a lot of people think my voice grates."
"The lyrics are political. I hope they don't come across in a preachy way, because there's always the danger that you'll be accused of trying to be like the Manic Street Preachers".
The lyrics on Import/Export deal with love (or rather the mess of it) and politics:
"With Open Mouth some of the lyrics are political. I hope they don't come across in a preachy way, because there's always the danger that you'll be accused of trying to be like the Manic Street Preachers if you write political lyrics. The lyrics are more about political isolation than it is direct politics. The only person that's been worth listening to, politically, in the last few years has been Billy Bragg. The lyrics on this album are a culmination of everything I've wanted to say to people over the last few years. Writing songs for me is like taking a poo – you get constipated with ideas and then you get into the studio and they all come out. I never rehearse them, they're all written in my head".
He's had a hectic live schedule, too, with nearly 50 Open Mouth shows in the space of a few months. A couple of shows were seen and written about positively by us (here and here), but Seymour admits that slipping into the solo role has been hard work:
"In every line-up of Miss Black America I was always the person with the least technical ability, and I was never really confident as a frontman. At the same time though, once I actually start singing I'm quite happy to do it, but you don't quite get the thrill of throwing yourself around like you do when you're in a band."
"It was absolutely necessary that I recorded and released this record.".
As far as commercial success goes, the past has taught Seymour to simply not-give-a-fuck:
"With Miss Black America we believed that if we were energetic and obnoxious enough then we'd become the biggest band in the world. But we refused to sign to a big label and it fucked us over completely. It will gut me until the day I die that we didn't sell more records, but with Open Mouth I don't really give a shit. It was absolutely necessary that I recorded and released this record. We've only pressed 1000 copies, and I don't even think we'll sell them."
And what of the future?
"I don't want to say that Miss Black America are over, but I'd be happy if it was years before we played together again. I'm really excited about everything else that's going on at the moment. I have ideas for the second Open Mouth album, and I'm really excited about Ten City Nation (his new band featuring Mike and Neil ex-Miss Black America). With the second Open Mouth album I'm going back towards 'Human Punk' territory with the lyrics. I've done politics on this album and I'll be doing religion on the next. I'll be getting guest musicians on there as well, like Matt from Miss Black America, Laura from She Makes War and I'm trying to get Greg from The Dawn Parade on there as well."
DiScover Open Mouth at his MySpace. It has songs on it, and stuff. If you like what you hear, the debut album is released via R*E*P*E*A*T Records on the 14th May. You can buy it direct from the label for £5, with a percentage of the profits from the album going to War Child. Read our review of the album here.
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A couple of weeks ago we had our first flurries:
We were excited, but today we woke up to this:
Except that it was a really heavy, wet snow that brought down a lot of branches. My parents had some serious tree fatalities. :(
This afternoon we made this:
Halloween snowman would be so much funnier given the date. Poor Pedro's worried his costume's going to be stolen tonight. It's so cold out though, I really doubt it (and if it is, I really hope there's another one at Target).
Here's Juan Carlos "holding" our little Snow Vader.
The funny thing about Colorado is-the snow will all be gone by tomorrow afternoon and the sun will be out. I love it!


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1) AddedExt JS 3 Compatibility Layer2)Added ext3-compat.js and ext3-core.compat.js files reference
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4) Removed the Extjs3 reference
5)Changed Ext3 grid(with paging toolbar) to Ext4
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A judge on Thursday handed down a 35-year sentence to a small-time American drug dealer-turned-terrorist plotter who helped plan the brutal 2008 attack on Mumbai, India.
"I hope it will keep Mr. Headley under lock and key for the rest of his life," Judge Harry Leinenweber said.
David Coleman Headley's meticulous scouting missions facilitated the assault by 10 gunmen from a Pakistani-based militant group, which killed 160 people -- including children.
"I don't have any faith in Mr. Headley when he says he's a changed person and believes in the American way of life," said Leinenweber in imposing the sentence, which was in the range of what prosecutors had requested for Headley's widespread cooperation.
The attackers arrived by boat on Nov. 26, 2008, carrying grenades and automatic weapons, and fanned out to hit multiple targets, a crowded train station, a Jewish center and the landmark Taj Mahal Hotel. TV cameras captured much of the three-day rampage live.
Before Leinenweber imposed the sentence, a victim shot in the attack gave emotional testimony during the morning hearing. Linda Ragsdale, a Tennessee children's author, spoke through tears describing how she lost friends in the attacks and her own injuries. She said she was haunted by the sounds of people suffering and her recovery from the wounds continues.
"I know what a bullet can do to every part of the human body," she said. "I know the sound of life leaving a 13-year-old child. These are things I never needed to know, never needed to experience."
The attack heightened the strain in a historically antagonistic relationship between India and Pakistan, which have fought three major wars. Indian officials accuse Pakistani intelligence of helping to plan the assault -- an allegation Pakistan denies.
The maximum sentence Headley, 52, faced Thursday was life in prison. He agreed to cooperate and plead guilty in 2010 to 12 counts to avoid what would have been his maximum sentence: death. He also secured a promise not to be extradited to India.
"The damage that was done was just unfathomable," the judge said. "Mr. Headley is a terrorist."
But no matter the sentence, said Leinenweber, "it's not going to deter terrorists. Terrorists don't care what happens to them."
Last year, India secretly hanged the lone surviving gunman, Mohammed Ajmal Kasab.
Citing what they described as valuable intelligence Headley provided authorities about terrorist networks since his arrest, prosecutors had asked for a relatively lenient sentence of between 30 and 35 years.
The charges included conspiracy to aid the Pakistani-based group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, or the Army of the Pure, that mounted the attacks, as well as conspiracy to commit murder in India, and aiding and abetting in the murder of six Americans.
Chicago Man Gets 35 Years in Mumbai Terror Attack
David Coleman Headley, 52, faced a maximum life prison term
A judge on Thursday handed down a 35-year sentence to a small-time American drug dealer-turned-terrorist plotter who helped plan the brutal 2008 attack on Mumbai, India.


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Carpeteria, your keen eye has been most helpful - list updated.
DSJ had Richard Crenna on 1/19/03 and James Coburn on 11/19/02
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This piece of trash seeks to vilify and denigrate the late President Reagan who is in his grave scarcely two weeks.
It appears that there are no longer any standards of decency in this country. It's too bad that Al Qaeda doesn't send their people here to cut off the heads of people like those who create and publish trash under the guise of freedom of speech. It's more like freedom to vilify.
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Author John Grisham's legal potboiler "The Firm" began life as a best-selling novel in 1991, and was then turned into a critically-acclaimed 1993 film starring Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman. Now, the story that made Grisham one of the world's most widely-recognized authors is returning as a NBC drama series premiering this Sunday, Jan. 8.
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Grisham: It certainly gave me great hesitation because 'The Client' was such a dreadful show and a painful experience. But 'The Client' did not last long for a lot of valid reasons. I didn't want to do it again for a long time and forgot about television over the years – and never really forgot about the film, but films have become very, very difficult to make for a bunch of different reasons. I was not excited about 'The Firm,' didn't really think about 'The Firm' as a TV show until Luke Reiter appeared on the scene and showed me a script, and when I read Luke's script a couple three years ago I thought it was very good and kind of got excited about the idea of a weekly drama.
Reiter: We're picking up 10 years later and so the show really is the next chapter of the story. For people who know the novel, people who know the film and love it – and I started from a place of being a huge fan of the original material – we're trying to carry on the spirit of that storytelling and continue the story of whatever happened to Mitch and Abby McDeere. I've written legal dramas for most of my career and so the difference here I think – largely because of John's involvement – is that we're really trying to create a legal thriller every week. All that action, all that suspense, all of the adrenaline rush that people have come to love and expect form a great John Grisham novel, we're trying to incorporate into the stories that we're telling every week both in the stand alone cases that begin and end in every episode and in the big central conspiracy that arcs over the first season.
On the direction of the series, and actor Josh Lucas taking on role of Mitch McDeere:
Reiter: Having taken or participated in taking down the law firm up in Bandini, Lambert and Locke in Memphis, Mitch felt that he was free and clear, that he had come up with a fairly ingenious solution that assisted the feds in taking down the law firm but did not incur the wrath of the Moralto mob. And what you find out at the beginning of our story is that while Mitch thought he was free and clear, some things happened that he did not anticipate that actually make him and his family the target of the Moralto family's rage and desire for revenge. And so the family for the last 10 years has been on the run and what's happened now, where we find them is the head of the Moralto family out of Chicago, Joey Moralto, Sr., has recently died in prison. Mitch now believes the threat is behind him, that perhaps this is the event that should be the impetus for his family to come out of hiding to reclaim their lives, to reclaim their future. They resurface in Washington, D.C. with Mitch intending to start a solo practice in the area – they're living in Northern Virginia. And so we find the McDeeres after quite an experience over the last 10 years trying to get back to the life that they put on hold when they went into witness protection only to find that some of the past dangers are still out there, and there are a series of new complications ahead of them that we unfold over the course of the season.
Grisham: I love suspense. That's what I write, that's what I like to watch, that's what I think about. I'm always trying to create a story that will keep readers up all night turning pages, skipping work, skipping meals – that's what I strive to do whenever I have a good suspenseful story. The TV show pilot is very much the same way. It's a lot of action, but also a lot of good drama where you see the characters stop and think and reflect, and they're real people. And it's a really good cast. Josh Lucas is terrific – he's got all the makings and mannerisms and charisma of a real star. He's very, very good in the role and it's been a lot of fun watching somebody else's sort of vision of these characters ten years after we last saw them. And that's where the story picks up: a lot of good legal intrigue. A lot of courtroom stuff, lawyer-client problems, big law firm intrigue, all the stuff I love to write about.
On Grisham's level of hands-on involvement:
Grisham: I don't read every script. I've read a lot of them. My involvement has been so far to talk to Luke, pass along big ideas about where the series might go – again, reading some of the scripts, but I don't like to spend a lot of the time reading scripts. I don't care what they're adapted from. But after the initial script and the two or three that followed, I realized that the series was in really good hands and I still feel that way today. I've seen the pilot. I saw it a couple of weeks ago and Luke has offered to send me each episode as they finish them and I don't want to see them. I want to see the pilot but I want to sit back on Thursday night with everybody else and watch the show.
Reiter: John, you're being a bit modest just in that the macro picture of the show of how we're approaching it, the way that we came into the story and also the big central conspiracy at the heart of the show has really greatly benefited from my work with John and just talking with John about the characters and the series and where it's going. The central conspiracy was very much a collaboration in concept between John and I and we are working hard over here in the writers room every day to carry out that vision.
On how courtroom authenticity is important to both Grisham, an ex-trial lawyer, and Reiter, a former assistant district attorney:
Grisham: I can read five pages of a book about a trial or thriller or whatever and normally I can tell you if the author is a lawyer or was a lawyer because there's just a certain amount of authenticity that you naturally bring the process when you've lived it and when you know what you're talking about. I certainly lived it for 10 years – not a long career but long enough, and what's really beneficial in working with Luke is the fact that he did too. He's been in courtrooms, he's worked the tough cases and that is something that's invaluable. It's something you really can't teach and something you really can't research. You just know it because you've lived it – and that, again, has really helped the process.
Reiter: I think everything that I write, the way I approach stories are certainly impacted from some of those early experiences. I've said before that writers and lawyers have one critical trait in common and that is the ability to think about the same thing for an irrational amount of time. And so certainly just having that perspective on the way I approach stories from my time as an attorney makes a big difference. And it's really helped in the writers room as well. I mean, among the other writer producers on the project we have a former federal prosecutor, USC law professor, Chief of Staff for the Lieutenant Governor of California. We've got a guy who handled homicide cases from the defense perspective in New York. So we've got those voices helping us shape where we're headed.
On why Grisham just wants to sit back and watch a TV show he'll enjoy as a viewer:
Grisham: I'm not worried because I'm convinced the show is going to be a success, but also personally I've had so much success because of that one book that nothing could worry me about it now. The book was published 20 years ago in '91. The movie came out two years later in '93. It was a big box office success, it had a big cast, and it's still the highest grossing movie domestic and worldwide of any of the eight or nine films that have been adapted from my books. And it's sold now between 15 and 20 million copies in 40 languages. So believe me, I've had my share of success from the original story. And what we're doing now is, to me, just pure fun to watch it on TV. I'm not worried about success or failure, I want to see because of all the hard work that Luke and the cast and crew have put into it.
"The Firm" debuts with a special two-hour premiere this Sunday, Jan. 8 at 9 p.m. ET on NBC.


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Why This Book?
When I wrote Latter-day Liberty last year, it was meant to be a standalone volume, not part of any series. I still stand by every word written in that book, and consider its contents of the utmost importance not only for Latter-day Saints, but for every person, regardless of their religion. Individual liberty is inexorably linked to agency, and these fundamental principles should guide not only our personal lives, but also our interactions with others both directly and indirectly through government. What I perceive to be widespread ignorance on that subject will hopefully be increasingly corrected over time through the ideas presented in my book, as well as like-minded efforts by others working to advance the cause of liberty.
In the first few weeks after the book was published, I was asked by many friends and supporters if I was thinking of writing another. Given the time and energy required to write a book, I often replied that while I had a few ideas in mind, I probably would not attempt a second book for a few years. I have a young family, a busy career, and a significant time commitment to political activities and interests. The last thing I needed was to tackle another writing project so soon.
In what has become a long-standing cycle of course corrections in my life, I soon thereafter realized that my initial intentions would not last long. Just one month after the publication of Latter-day Liberty, the idea and structure of this book illuminated my mind with exceeding clarity while driving home one evening; I couldn't pull out my iPhone fast enough to make an audio recording of everything I was thinking. Once the brain dump was complete, I realized that I had the blueprint for what was the obvious and necessary companion to my first book. It made sense, and I felt foolish for not having previously realized that in Latter-day Liberty I had presented only one half of the equation for liberty.
This book does not reflect a change of position from the principles and policies enumerated in Latter-day Liberty. That book deals with a subject that merits its own focus and discussion in order to fully understand just what liberty is, and how it applies to government and politics. In a sense, it can and should stand alone to allow for a narrow study of the specific issues it presents. Amplifying that understanding, though, requires expanding the discussion to related concepts which influence the degree to which our liberty can be attained and enjoyed. This book serves, then, as a companion volume to address the other side of the equation, for with increased liberty comes the obligation to assume more responsibility.
Latter-day Responsibility will provide additional and needed context to help the reader understand what we must ourselves do while also working to restrain the government and defend individual liberty. Just as it's pointless to enter a fight without armor and training, so too must we understand the ideas I'll be incorporating in this book before battling the state.


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At long last, a business need you probably didn't even know existed is being met: San Francisco may be getting its own cat cafe.
Before you start fostering fantasies of Whiskers donning an adorable tweed blazer and becoming the first poet laureate of the feline world, you should know that the cat cafe isn't a place to serve your own fuzzy friends a catnip-flavored frappe.
Rather, the cleverly named KitTea is more of a pet rental business for people who don't have the time, money, or cat-friendly landlords to get a cat of their own.
Cat cafes have been a trend Korea and Japan since 2005, one that has spread worldwide over the last two years with locations springing up in cities such as Budapest, Vienna, Paris, Munich, Madrid, London in the last two years.
KitTea founders Courtney Hatt and David Braginsky say the San Francisco store will let patrons "sit back, take a deep breath and relax with a cat on your lap and a kettle of tea steeping by your side."
There's only one catch. The owners need to find the right building to lease, the right neighborhood in which to lease it, and the property manager that will allow this kind of thing inside their storefront.
Not to mention the myriad food and safety regulations.
Hatt said the company has not made a formal proposal to the city just yet. Hatt and Braginsky will finalize their permits once they find the right location.
She said the city authorities have been helpful in guiding them along the right path. However, appeasing the proper food and safety authorities is a different story.
"We are in communication with one of the managers at the San Francisco Food & Safety Program, his immediate response was 'No' when we mentioned cat and tea in the same sentence, since tea is considered food," said Hatt in an email.
Hatt said KitTea is working around this by splitting the cat oasis and the cafe into two separate sections divided by a closed off hallway. Patrons will buy their tea and head down the hall into the oasis if they so choose.
"This concept received a confident thumbs up from our contact at the Food Safety Program," said Hatt.
Hatt says they still need to discuss with the San Francisco Environmental Health Department to see what permits are required for housing cats all day and night in the cafe.
So where would they put it?
Hatt says her "dream space" has a minimum of 1,600 square feet, features lots of natural light, with a lease that doesn't break the bank.
"Commercial real estate is not easy hunting in San Francisco these days! So many amazing spaces are just completely out of our price range and are likely more affordable for say The Gap," said Hatt.
Hatt said they have narrowed their neighborhood search down to Hayes Valley, The Mission and The Lower Haight.
There are just so many questions beyond just the location: How many cats, what kind of cats, where are you getting these cats, how many humans will be allowed near said cats at a time, how are you caring for them, and when can we play?
The answers to many of those queries rest in KitTea's FAQ page.
KitTea says it will partner with a local San Francisco cat rescue shelter to pick approximately 10 cats that "will be selected based on their personalities and whether they have been socialized to be comfortable around both humans and other cats."
The 10 cats lucky enough to get drafted into this "cat oasis" will experience "the ultimate nirvana in comparison to being left in a cage with an uncertain future," so long as said nirvana is in accordance with the guidelines set by the The Association of Shelter Veterinarians.
And if the cats are cool with sharing the proposed 1,600 square foot nirvana with potentially 30-35 humans at max capacity.
San Francisco may have the first one in the United States so long as it beats the proposed cat cafe of Boston to the punch. In the case of Boston, that means finding a way to satisfy those pesky regulators on the Boston Board of Health.
Time will tell if Hatt and Braginsky's project will find a footing in the city. But, considering San Francisco's increasingly Internet-based culture, a cafe experience centered around the unofficial mascot of the World Wide Web is a natural fit.
KitTea is targeting a spring/summer 2014 debut.


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This is a thing I've been following since last year. Willow Brugh has just taken a shot at simplifying it for stupid people like me.
Some friends of mine have been advocating for this rad thing called IndieWeb. It's a way of regaining control of your information, data, and profile online. This is my first pass at explaining what it is they're up to.
I post it here both because it's interesting and because I have a strong urge to use it as the basis for developing this site in the future. This will involve depressing and time-consuming stuff like moving the site hosting and learning how WordPress works under the bonnet a little more. This site will never be the full eight-posts-a-day churn that it once was — curation blogging is probably best served on a socially connected system like Tumblr in any case — but when I do write new material for public view, I intend that most if not all of it be for a site I own. I don't think we should be writing new material for stack algorithms to chew on and digest for ad technologies. (Unless that's the specific intent.)
Anyway. Here's what we're talking about, when we talk about IndieWeb.


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Ankh wrote:I do have a silly question now that I am thinking about. What was the reasoning for the colour(sky blue?) used for the dust jacket and inside of the covers?
Jim Eshelman wrote:Ash wrote:It won't let me vote, but I'd vote for the current design.
That's strange. I even enabled the right to REvote, so it should let you vote (or change your vote) even if you've already voted.
Are you using some variant browser?
EDIT: I just tested your permissions, Ash, using both IE and Chrome, and don't get voting buttons either way. I'll try to figure out why. (Anybody else not getting voting options?)
Shamati wrote:I wonder if anyone knows a store in the EU that sell this book??
Jim Eshelman wrote:Shamati wrote:I wonder if anyone knows a store in the EU that sell this book??
Amazon has it at about half price right now. If you ordered it, the shipping would probably only bring it to about the usual full price.
Shamati wrote:Did you ever think about releasing the book in some kind of digital format?
wanderer-exile wrote:Have you considered going the print-on-demand route.
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Conservationists work to save endangered plants
Correll's false dragon head is a lovely wetlands perennial native to Texas, Louisiana and northern Mexico. Lavender flowers that resemble snapdragons top slender 5- to 7-foot-tall stems from late spring to late summer.
But the pretty wildflower is in trouble. Populations of Physostegia correlli have sharply dropped with the loss of wetlands habitat and an increase in herbicide runoff and invasive species. Currently, it's found only in a few sites in Texas and one in Louisiana, and its status in Mexico is unknown, says Anita Tiller, botanist and conservation manager at Mercer Arboretum and Botanic Gardens in Humble.
Mercer has taken this endangered member of the mint family under its wing. It's one of 39 botanic institutions that belong to the Center for Plant Conservation, an organization founded in 1984 to prevent the extinction of U.S. native plants. One in 10 native species is on conservationists' radar.
From its base at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, the center coordinates the only national program of off-site conservation of rare plants to ensure they are available for restoration and recovery. Currently, more than 750 species are in the center's national collection of endangered plants. Tiller keeps an eye on 24 of them in Mercer's endangered species and native plant garden.
As primary custodian of Correll's false dragon head, Mercer maintains its seeds in a frozen seed bank. Austin's Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and the USDA Center for Genetic Resource Preservation in Ft. Collins, Colo., keep backup collections. Correll's false dragon head - a close relative of obedient plant (P. virginiana) we grow in our gardens - can also be propagated by cuttings and divisions.
The great effort to throw a lifeline to endangered plants goes beyond saving pretty blooms.
"Once a plant species becomes extinct, a part of our heritage and undiscovered medicinal gifts as well as other benefits are lost," Tiller says.
Correll's false dragon head shows medicinal promise. Recent laboratory tests at the School of Renewable Resources of Louisiana State University's medical plant lab have detected that its extracts slow the growth of certain tumor cell cultures.
For more see on plant conservation, see www.hcp4.net/mercer and www.centerforplant conservation.org.


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'70s redux: Relic could be trendsetter
ADDRESS: 1832 Yorktown Drive
SIZE: 2,483 fin. sq. ft.
NEIGHBORHOOD: Rutledge
CURB APPEAL: 6 out of a possible 10
LISTED BY: Janice Bloxsom 295-4663 x109
One would think after reading the papers that Charlottesville neighborhoods consist almost entirely of modern, high-end monoliths or dilapidated gentrification projects. But those are only in the news because of Charlottesville's ongoing expansion and highly touted desirability.
But driving around Greenbrier, one can catch a glimpse of an original neighborhood. Real estate turnover is low, and the houses look as if they haven't changed much since they were built. Several sport new additions, but even they have to compete with the creeping ivy and tall trees that surround everything.
The pleasant five minutes it took to drive from the Downtown Mall to this house precluded any road rage. From this neighborhood nestled between the 250 Bypass and Rio Road/ Park Street, one could easily get almost anywhere in town without encountering congestion.
Because of the hilly terrain, few of the houses are actually level with the street. Driveways jut up and down at sharp angles. Here, we pulled in below the house and then had to walk back up to get to the front door. New soft yellow paint adds a bright touch to an otherwise plain exterior, but with nary a window on this side, it's impossible to guess what secrets the inside of the house holds.
Anyone who grew up in the '70s or watches Brady Bunch reruns will recognize the distinct split-level style. Unfortunately here, as in the '70s, wood paneling covers the stairwell and makes it dark and uninviting. Surely some of that yellow paint and a little wall rearranging could make the entrance a little more entrancing.
The first level (up a small flight of stairs) is split right down the middle into two areas of equal-size. Neither grand nor shabby, there's a lot of space up here. Either side could be used for living/dining, as it's fairly open and joined at the center by the kitchen. The back of the house opens up, with sliding glass doors to a deck. At this height, the view is almost of the canopy of trees, and that gives it a giant tree house feel.
Upstairs (two more narrow flights of stairs) the space offers a master suite on one side and two bedrooms and full bath on the other side. Fewer windows up here makes for total privacy, but one might consider some skylights to increase the light. Or at the very least, rip out the '70s psychedelic carpeting and put down some sisal.
Back downstairs (past the front door) to the terrace level, or ground floor, more space awaits. To the left, a decent-size space with romper room possibilities could be an office/storage/entertainment area. Sliding glass doors open to the driveway. One imagines that during rainstorms or a return trip from Sam's Club this would become the shortest route inside. So perhaps a little architectural reworking might be in order here to make it all a little more dynamic.
On the other side of the stairwell, a half bath, laundry room, and storage put this house over the top in terms of usable space. A private deck with southern exposure, cordoned off by a tall, informal hedge, had "hot tub" immediately leaping to mind.
So, either taken "as is" or as a "with potential" proposition, this place has many attributes. Lacking the current social requirements of tall ceilings and that "Forest Lakes flow," the house seems rather dowdy and unloved. But now that Charlottesville has made national headlines as the number one finest place to live, this throwback to the '70s could easily become someone's castle of the new century without spending a millennial fortune.


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Tomorrow is the anniversary of Daphne du Maurier's death. She was 81 when she died in 1989. By that time, she had written numerous novels, short stories and even some non-fiction. Her work had been adapted for film by such legends as Alfred Hitchcock: Rebecca and The Birds, and others.
Although she wrote historical fiction, she is most well known for her macabre stories. She had a way of knowing what would touch a nerve in her readers. Some of her work could be categorized as horror, psychological thriller, apocalyptic, or suspense.
I'm a huge fan of du Maurier. I can't get enough of her work. I decided to host the Daphne du Maurier Challenge. I really think this will be a fun one. If you've never read du Maurier, you're in for a treat. If you have, you probably want to read more of her!
You can definitely overlap this challenge with others. In fact, she can fit into so many other challenges: Short Story, All About the Brontes (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte), Classic, Apocalyptic (The Birds), Non-Fiction, British, Mystery (My Cousin Rachel), Science Fiction (The House on the Strand), Carl's RIP Challenge. I can't think how many others.
You can find a list of her work on her Wiki page or this list from Fantastic Fiction. I've also reviewed a number of her books and short stories:
- Don't Look Now and Other Stories
- The House on the Strand
- The Old Man and The Blue Lenses
- The Birds
- The Apple Tree
- My Cousin Rachel
- The Pool and Kiss Me Again Stranger
- Daphne by Justine Picardie
Now you can decide how you like your du Maurier. I have several categories. You can focus on one form or mix them up. Here are the categories:
Dreaming of Manderley (Novels)
Participants in this category will read 3 of Daphne du Maurier's larger works, her novels or non-fiction. You can also count a collection of her short stories as one book.
Don't Look Now (Short Stories)
Since this are smaller works, readers can choose 6 of her short stories to review.
Daphne du Maurier Presents (Film)
Although the most well known, Hitchcock was only one director to use du Maurier's work in film. Daphne's IMDb page is quite impressive. Besides The Birds and Rebecca, some of the books that made it to film include Frenchman's Creek and Don't Look Now.
Participants in this category will watch 3 films based on du Maurier's work. Often you can rent these for free from your local library. If you happen to have cable or satellite, TCM sometimes plays these films. They post the monthly schedule online.
(Not necessary but would be great: a comparison of book and film.)
Inspired By... (Other works)
This category includes works not written by du Maurier. She used books like Jane Eyre (Rebecca) and Wuthering Heights (Jamaica Inn) to inspire her own writing.
Other writers were inspired by du Maurier:
Mrs Dewinter by Susan Hill (Fiction)
Daphne by Justine Picardie (Fiction)
Daphne du Maurier: A Daughter's Memoir by Flavia Leng (Memoir)
These are just a few books. There are many others.
Participants in this category will read 3 of these works.
Dame Daphne (Combination)
Maybe you can't decide what to read or want to read a bit of everything. Participants in this category will read or view 3 from the categories above (2 short stories count as 1 book).
I've created a blog for posting links for reviews: Daphne du Maurier Challenge blog. Once the challenge starts, you'll be able to post your links there.


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The original bad boys of rock, the Rolling Stones, were captured in dozens of one-of-a-kind pictures that were revealed exclusively to NBCLA.
The never-before-seen photos are part of a rock 'n roll treasure that Patti Daley has stored in boxes under her bed for the past 40 years.
Daley was the ultimate insider: she dated Jesse Ed Davis for more than a decade. He was one of the most sought-after session guitarists during the Golden Age of Rock.
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Daley said they struck up a friendship with Mick Jagger and other members of the Stones in the late 1960s.
And with her camera always at her side, she captured incredible, candid moments of the rock icons.
Among her collection, a series of shots of Jagger and drummer Charlie Watts in Daley's New York City hotel room in 1971. In one photo, a tired, but very youthful Jagger is talking on the phone.
"Anytime Mick and the boys were in the same town as us, they'd drop by our hotel room," said Daley. "They'd usually stay for days, just hanging out and playing music."
In another shot, Davis, Watts, legendary artist-musician Klaus Voorman and Voorman's girlfriend Cynthia Webb are sitting on a hotel bed, with Davis appearing to light Watts a joint.
Daley laughs, adding, "That photo is so funny because Charlie was one of the pure ones of all those crazy maniacs."
She also has a notable black-and-white photo of Keith Richards from 1964. Patti believes it was taken backstage at the Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino, the first time the Stones ever played in the United States.
By flipping through her photo albums, it's obvious the couple had a close relationship with Ronnie Wood.
Daley has more than a dozen of photos of the rhythm guitarist, and they are shots that only an insider could get.
Among her favorite, a series of three pictures she took of Wood inside her hotel room hamming it up for the camera.
She also has several shots of Wood on tour with Faces in 1975, just months before he parted ways with Rod Stewart and officially joined the Stones.
"It was just my life at the time," remembers Daley. "They were amazing people, and the music was magic. The music was so good."
Follow @TaraWallis for the latest on Rock 'N Roll Treasure.
Editor's Note: This is part three of a three-part series of reports entitled "Rock 'N Roll Treasure."
Read Part 1: " Exclusive: Rock 'N Roll Treasure Revealed"
Read Part 2: "Newly Released Pics Show Post-Breakup Beatles in LA"


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Despite strong U.S. equity market returns in early 2012 that sent the Dow back above 13,000 by the end of February, indications are that many Americans remain investment spectators, reluctant to participate in the equity market rally, a Franklin Templeton global poll has found.
The survey, the Franklin Templeton Global Investor Sentiment Survey, conducted earlier this year, polled more than 20,000 individuals in 19 countries. It was designed by the Duke University psychology and behavioral economics professor Dan Ariely (left), and examines what factors are influencing investors' outlooks and behavior.
U.S. respondents' perceptions of the economic landscape, both for the U.S. and globally, skewed toward the negative. Half of U.S. respondents believe the U.S. economy has deteriorated since last year, in spite of the fact that the Dow Jones Industrial Average had positive returns in 2011, as well as in 2010 and 2009.
Such negative perceptions were even more pronounced when Americans looked globally, with 54% indicating a belief that the global economy deteriorated in 2011. U.S. respondents' perceptions of the global economy were in line with those of global respondents, 51% of whom believe the global economy deteriorated last year, but more negative than countries like India and Brazil, for example, where just 12% and 34% of survey participants, respectively, held this negative view.
Investor skepticism appears to be tied to the extreme volatility witnessed in 2011, in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average had 104 days of triple-digit swings-representing a significant portion of the 252 total trading days last year. Indeed, when asked about the importance of various market scenarios when deciding to purchase an equity investment, market stability was most frequently identified by U.S. respondents as an important factor.
"The market volatility that has persisted since 2008 is keeping many investors on the sidelines, and their ability to view positive equity market performance constructively has been thwarted by the market ups and downs that are at odds with the stability they are seeking," John Greer, executive vice president of corporate marketing and advertising at Franklin Templeton Investments, said in a statement. "But the reality is that investors who have been waiting for 'the right time' to get back into the equity market have been missing out on the market rally we've witnessed over the past few years." Near-term pessimism appears to be leading many Americans to keep their investments close to home for the immediate future. When given the choice to invest in only one region next year, 82% selected the U.S. or a combination of the U.S. and Canada, while Asia and Europe, for instance, were chosen about 10% and 4% of the time, respectively. Home country bias among U.S. respondents was stronger than among global respondents, 56% of whom would select their own country in this scenario.
Home country bias may be generated by two main factors. "The first is an overly optimistic belief about one's own economy," Ariely said. "The survey shows us that respondents in almost every country had an expectation of performance in their country that is higher than what would be statistically realistic. The second reason is most likely due to procedural difficulties in investing outside the country—such as less knowledge about how to access these markets, not having recommendations for such products and of course having fewer products available."
While U.S. respondents are largely country-centric in their current investment strategies, they did, however, indicate a desire to modestly increase their investments outside their local market over the next 10 years. A majority (75%) of U.S. respondents currently have a limited portion (20% or less) of their portfolios invested outside the U.S. When asked to look out 10 years, however, 37% of investors anticipate holding more than a fifth (21% or more) and 23% anticipate having more than two-fifths (41% or more) of their portfolios invested outside the U.S.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's health secretary is in the hot seat this week as House Republicans get a chance to question her about the troubled rollout of the health care law they long have tried to repeal.
The GOP-run House Energy and Commerce Committee hears from Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Wednesday about the troubled launch of healthcare.gov, the online portal access insurance exchanges.
The committee's second-ranking Republican, Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, wants to know how much has been spent on the website, how much more it will cost to fix the problems, when everything will be ready and what people should expect to see on the site.
She tells "Fox News Sunday" she's concerned about protecting the privacy of information that people submit.
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Ah, the joys of Spring and Summer. The return of swimming, hiking, Frisbee in the park, all reasons to look forward to the season. But the return of fleas? Not so much. Not only are these blood-sucking parasites unsightly and creepy, they can also cause some serious diseases. So, how can you keep your dog flea-free this season, and which dog flea and tick control is the best? Here are a few ideas to consider ...
1. Spot-on Treatments
While spot-on medications seem like they would only work on the spot they are applied to (in the same way a collar works), they are actually very effective at covering the animal's entire body. The drops work by a process of translocation, by which the medication is spread over the body by way of the oil glands. They are not affected by bathing, swimming or rain and will kill and repel fleas for several weeks before reapplication. They may also work to interrupt the flea life cycle while it is in progress. Before choosing a particular spot-on product, read all labels carefully to be sure you are choosing the one most appropriate for your dog's age and size.
2. Oral Medications
If you need help controlling a serious flea infestation, using oral medications along with spot-on treatments will help. Once a month flea control pills (in small tablet form) work to disrupt the life cycle of fleas, but do not kill adult fleas on contact. Some are made to be easy to administer, even for pets that are difficult to medicate, with flavor added to make them more like treats so they are accepted gladly -- or at least easier to hide in your dog's food. With the oral medication, you won't have to be concerned about small children coming into contact with the dog immediately after administration, as you might with spot-on treatments.
3. Flea Shampoos
Bathing your dog with a special medicated shampoo that kills fleas and/or ticks on contact can be an inexpensive (though labor-intensive) method of protecting your dog during flea season, or year round. You will need to repeat the process more often, about every two weeks, as the effective ingredients in these shampoos won't last as long as a spot-on or oral medication.
4. Flea Collars
Collars that repel and kill fleas are another option. Their effectiveness may depend on how invasive the fleas are in your dog's environment, and the collar needs to make contact with your dog's skin in order to transfer the chemicals onto the fur and skin. When adjusting the collar around your dog's neck, make sure there is just enough room to fit two fingers under the collar. Cut off any excess length of collar to prevent your dog from chewing on it, and watch for signs of discomfort (e.g., excessive scratching) in case an allergic reaction to the collar occurs. Make sure you read labels carefully when choosing a collar to make sure it is size and age appropriate.
5. Flea Dips
A dip is a concentrated chemical that needs to be diluted in water and applied to the animal's fur with a sponge, or poured over the back. This is not like a shampoo bath, so you will not rinse your dog off after applying the dip product. These chemical products can be very potent, so labels need to be read carefully before use to make sure that it is appropriate for your dog age and health. Misuse can lead to toxic reactions, in both pets and in the people treating them, so they are generally only used for severe infestations, and only infrequently. Because of the chemical potency of dips, they should not be used on very young animals (under four months) or on pregnant or nursing animals. Ask your veterinarian for advice before treating puppies and pregnant or nursing pets.


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Uncharted 2 and Brutal Legend launch in the US
It's passed the Witching Hour all over America, and both Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Brutal Legend are now on sale Stateside.
Naughty Dog boss Evan Wells is pumped enough to be twitpiccing shots of a midnight launch queue in Culver City, while Mr Schafer just dropped word that he's on his way to his local Gamestop.
The games are two of the most highly anticipated this holiday season, and reviews show why – Uncharted 2 is still the highest-rated PS3 exclusive ever. Brutal Legend's first scores hit yesterday, but that chances of this not being worth your money are a tad remote.
Buy both. Go nuts. But whatever you go, buy both.
Uncharted 2 releases in mainland Europe tomorrow and the UK this Friday. Brutal Legend is available now in the UK.


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Written by In Defense Of Animals (IDA)
With a budget of $32 billion, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the world's largest funder of biomedical research. It is also the world's largest funder of experiments on nonhuman animals.
NIH wants you to believe that the animal experiments it funds with your tax dollars are about cures and vaccines, and comply with the NIH's mission "to extend healthy life and reduce the burdens of illness and disability."
And that is why In Defense of Animals has researched and compiled our Top 10 List of the Most Ridiculous Research on Animals for 2011 – to show you what real animal research looks like.
Culled from articles published in 2011, these are real experiments were funded by the NIH, approved by federally mandated oversight committees, and published in several of the literally thousands of peer-reviewed journals. These experiments – the cream of the crop – show that your tax dollars and animals' lives are frivolously wasted on research that adds nothing to medical progress and tells us nothing we care to know - or didn't know already. One can only wonder what happens in the experiments that don't get published...
This Top Ten List - comprising only the tip of the iceberg - relaunches IDA's Real Ridiculous Research campaign. Every year, NIH spends billions of tax dollars to underwrite experiments on animals. IDA's RRR campaign will, on an ongoing basis, expose to the public, Congress, NIH Advisory Councils and the media how the NIH is (mis)using scarce taxpayer dollars on wasteful and stupid animal experiments.
In an elaborate study of the obvious, University of New England researchers injected rats' knees with a substance that causes arthritis and then discovered that those rats would run less on their exercise wheels due to chronic pain. As a sad side note, the arthritis seemed to have a larger debilitating effect on those rats that had run more often.
Why did researchers ruin the best part of these animals' miserable lives to discover something we already know? They did it in an attempt to create yet another "animal model" of chronic pain in humans, even though they should know that animals of different species – and even different strains of the same species – can react differently to the same diseases and drugs.
This study was funded by an "R15" grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. R15 grants are meant for institutions that have not been major recipients of NIH support. One of the aims of an R15 grant is to "expose students to research." Consequently, like F31 and T32 grants, R15 grants can breed the next generation of animal experimenters.
Experimenters at Florida State University put rats in an open space with nowhere to hide – a stressful situation for a rodent – and identified which ones ran around more than the others. Then, they psychologically traumatized some of them by putting them in a cage with a bigger, more aggressive rat to be manhandled, either once or on several consecutive days. Some male rats who were attacked and defeated by more aggressive males became socially withdrawn and appeared to experience less pleasure than other rats.
So what did these experimenters find out about these defeatist rats? These were the rats who were more active in an open space and were more anxious about being beaten up by another rat, even when that had only happened on one prior occasion. In other words, some rats are just naturally more anxious.
This study was funded by two grants from the National Institute of Mental Health. One of these grants was an R21 grant. The scope for an R21 grant are "novel studies that break new ground," "High risk high reward studies that may lead to a breakthrough" or "result in novel techniques, agents, methodologies, models or applications that will impact biomedical, behavioral, or clinical research." If this is NIH's idea of "breakthrough" or "high risk high reward" science, one can only imagine what its "normal" science looks like.
Rather than addressing the real issue, Emory University experimenters created "single-mother" prairie vole families by removing the father from some prairie vole families. While they found that the single mothers spent just as much time caring for their children as the mothers with mates, they did find that the children of single mothers spent less time caring for their children than those raised by two parents.
Isn't it a little offensive to suggest that studying prairie voles is "a fast, easy, and ethologically relevant way of studying human-relevant family dynamics" without giving any evidence that these same results have been found in humans?
This study was supported by four separate NIH grants. Believe it or not, one of them was the Yerkes "Primate Research Center Grant," now in its 52nd year of taxpayer funding.
This study on prairie voles was also funded by a T32 institutional training grant from the National Institute of Mental Health that focuses largely on training nine predoctoral fellows in basic science, including various "animal models," does not provide clinical training, and includes participating faculty from the Yerkes National Primate Research Center.
Two other grants from the National Institute of Mental Health also supported this study.
Scientists at Lehigh University and the University of Minnesota found that putting hamsters on a diet had no significant impact on their abilities to perform or enjoy sexual intercourse, although they appeared less motivated to initiate it. Female hamsters who had been fed 75 percent of what they would normally eat for 8-11 days tended to spend more time with food and less time with male hamsters when given a choice between them. They also hoarded more food – big surprise.
This study was supported by three NIH grants; two from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and one from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
One of the NIDA grants was an F31 grant, meant to provide research training to predoctoral students "leading toward the research degree (e.g., Ph.D.)." In this case, the predoctoral student received her taxpayer-assisted Ph.D. in 2011 from the University of Minnesota and is currently a post-doctoral research associate there. In March 2012, she gave presentations to a Minnesota high school district Career Day and the University of Minnesota's Biological Sciences Club.
In another example of an F31 grant breeding the next generation of animal experimenters, a recipient of an F31 obtained her taxpayer-assisted Ph.D. from Oregon Health & Science University in 2011. One of the papers supported by this grant, published in 2011, involved exposing pregnant mice to methamphetamine to see its effects on their offspring's cognition in adolescence. This F31 awardee is now an Assistant Professor of Psychology at a different university, where she plans to expand these neonatal methamphetamine exposure experiments in pregnant mice to other drugs of abuse in this "rodent model." She can also teach and mentor another generation of animal experimenters in her position as an Assistant Professor of Psychology.
Of the 1,232 F31 predoctoral grants funded by NIH in Fiscal Year 2011, 47 percent (574) involved experiments on rats, mice or nonhuman primates.
Inspired by the incredible variety in bitter substances, Ohio State University experimenters decided to see what would happen if they cut a couple of the nerves that connect taste buds to the brain. The experimenters slit the throats of ten rats so that one nerve could be cut and punctured the eardrums of ten other rats so that the other nerve could be severed. The experimenters performed both procedures on the ten unluckiest rats. The ten "luckiest" rats just had their throats slit and their eardrums punctured, with the experimenters leaving their "bitter taste" nerves intact. How merciful.
What did these experimenters learn? The nerve that was more sensitive to bitter stimuli was also more important in learning to avoid bitter stimuli – go figure.
This study was supported by two grants from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders, one of which is currently in its 22nd year of funding.
When a famous primatologist and a prodigious upstart at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center get a paper published on contagious yawning in chimpanzees, well, you just can't help but yawn too. That is, before the outrage might kick in. Taxpayers paid for a substantial "Career Development" grant to support this – and all we got was a lousy experiment suggesting that empathy makes chimpanzees more likely to catch a yawn from familiar chimpanzees than strangers.
Wondering if these researchers caught contagious yawns from the chimpanzees too? Given that they go to work at a place where our fellow primates are imprisoned and tortured on a daily basis, probably not. It's even less likely given that Frans DeWaal is co-author; despite his repeatedly finding that chimpanzee behavior and society is so close to humans, he has refused to speak out against the invasive and lethal experiments his own institution has conducted on chimpanzees. Perhaps Dr. DeWaal could take a cue from the chimpanzees and develop some empathy.
This experiment was funded by both a "K12" career development grant awarded to Emory University Yerkes Primate Research Center Grant, which is currently in its 52nd year of taxpayer funding.
Scientists at the University of Utah implanted pressure sensors in the tracheas of young alligators and ran a cable through their throats, fixing it to their upper jaws "with several layers of duct tape," in order to describe their vocal behavior. The scientists found that alligators have only two ways of changing the frequency of their voices, whereas mammals have three.
One of the two NIH grants that supported this study was awarded for the development of an airway simulator that could be used by doctors to describe and diagnose various diseases that affect breathing. Our suggestion? Start studying human anatomy and leave the alligators alone.
This study was supported by two grants from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, Merck Research Laboratories and Northeastern University, Boston, demonstrated that male marmoset monkeys can be conditioned to associate an arbitrary odor – in this case, lemon – with sexual experience. After conditioning, the odor of lemon caused male marmosets to become sexually aroused, even in the absence of a female marmoset.
In order to rationalize their experiment, the researchers stated that sexual conditioning had been conducted in a wide range of animals, including fish, birds, rodents, stallions, and humans – but it had never been done before in nonhuman primates. A true breakthrough.
This study was funded by two grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Primate Research Center Grant, which is now in its 51st year of taxpayer funding.
Inquiring minds at Albany Medical College played music to a group of unsophisticated rats, who preferred Beethoven's "Fur Elise" over Miles Davis's "Four" and preferred silence over any music at all. When they sweetened the deal by adding cocaine to their least preferred options, however, they found that rats would reverse their preferences, even choosing jazz over classical.
In another study published in 2011, the same experimenters supported by the same NIH grants again used Miles Davis" "Four," but this time exposed rats to methamphetamine to determine the drug's effects on rats' learned conditioning.
These studies were supported by two grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. One of the grants was a T32 institutional training grant regarding the pharmacology and neuroscience of drug abuse. At least six pre- and post-doctoral fellows, who could become members of the next generation of animal experimenters, have been trained and supported with this grant.
Here's a question that really deserves a published study: how many taxpayer-funded NIH grants does it take to "find" what has been known for many decades? Seven.
Researchers at Tulane National Primate Research Center recently acknowledged that daily uncontrollable stress is a basic part of an animal's life in a laboratory, regardless even of which experiments are performed on them. In their words: "It is widely accepted that procedures that are performed as part of routine husbandry have the potential to affect both physiological and behavioral parameters that are associated with stress."
Unsurprisingly, rhesus monkeys showed "abnormal behaviors," stereotypies like rocking or pacing back and forth, while watching another monkey be physically restrained and injected with anesthetic, and they exhibited these abnormal behaviors less when they were sharing a cage with another monkey.
What is surprising is that "there is widespread hesitance to pair-house adult male rhesus macaques," despite the evidence that it is better for primates on the whole than social isolation. What is perhaps more surprising – and disturbing – is that in this day and age, experimenters continue to waste precious tax dollars on studies "finding" what has been known for many decades: that monkeys are highly social and intelligent animals who are greatly harmed by social isolation and seeing their friends suffering.
This study was supported multiple NIH grants. Believe it or not, it was funded by two National Primate Research Center Grants: the one awarded to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, now in its 51st year of taxpayer funding, and Tulane University's, which is also now in its 51st year of taxpayer funding.
This study was also supported by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, as well as four additional grants from the National Center for Research Resources.
NIH is (mis)using scarce taxpayer dollars on wasteful and stupid animal experiments.
But how do these experiments get funded? Through a fundamentally broken NIH funding system that has:
- Resulted in a glut of researchers and scientific misbehaviors as fierce competition for funds increases;
Called into question in a March 29, 2012 scientific expose in the journal
Nature the reliability of highly-prestigious, highly-cited preclinical
Been blasted by past NIH Directors, thousands of NIH-funded researchers and eminent scientists as
- preventing innovative, risk-taking research;
- Spawned predoctoral grants in which taxpayers help fund "underrepresented" researchers' obtaining Ph.D.'s by experimenting on animals, thus breeding the next generation of animal experimenters;
- Created institutional training grants that have the potential for breeding even more new animal experimenters;
- Funded so-called "breakthrough" grants that instead of revolutionizing science, continue the status quo;
- Funded the National Primate Research Center System to the tune of $1.5 billion over the past 20 years simply to keep the Centers open (half of the Top 10 List contains experiments conducted or supported by these Primate Centers)
- Made a mockery of the 3R's (Reduction, Refinement, Replacement of animals) as well as the 1993 NIH Revitalization Act with mandated that NIH fund non-animal methods of research
- Compelled IDA to request that Congress re-open and expand its investigation of the NIH's management and oversight of billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded grants.
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