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Thursday, October 27, 2011
"The U.S. Supranational Emergency State has no justification for what it is doing to the American people. The purpose of its national emergency rhetoric is to keep the American people in an unwarranted state of fear, justify the violation of individual rights, mobilize public support for military invasions of other countries, expand executive power, and defend state secrecy laws as well as the CIA's censorship of the truth."
Posted by Saman Mohammadi
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the destruction of the American Constitution. On October 26, 2001, the Bush administration and U.S. Congress passed the Patriot (Traitor) Act and used the false flag 9/11 attacks to sell it to the American people.
The prediction that the Traitor Act would help the U.S. National Security State completely take over American society has come true. Useless government agencies like the TSA, FBI, IRS, DEA and CIA have been given carte blanche to spy on Americans and crush dissent.
In the last few years, illegal TSA checkpoints have been set up across America to control the movement of people and create a false sense of security in the public mind. Their intent is to get Americans to slowly conform to the new totalitarian society in which government officials treat people like mindless cattle and monitor the individual's every move.
It is wrong to call America's totalitarian beast "a National Security State." It does not provide security and it is not even national. A more fitting term is "Supranational Emergency State." Let me explain.
America's Emergency State depends on national emergencies like the 9/11 attacks to strengthen its authority and justify its unconstitutional powers. America has been in a state of national emergency since September 23, 2001, when President Bush issued Executive Order 13224 to declare a national emergency.
National Emergency rhetoric is Washington's version of the religious rhetoric used by the Islamic Republic of Iran. Both types of rhetoric have the same function: keep the people dumb and afraid, which is what self-serving politicians, government officials and religious tyrants all desire.
"National Emergency" conjures up feelings of panic and fear. The thought of Emergency signals to the survival instinct in us, "There is no time to think. Just listen to authority and follow the herd, and you will be safe."
In this state of mass anxiety, the people can be easily manipulated and exploited by the psywar specialists in the U.S. shadow state. They regularly utilize the strategy of fear to whip up the American people into a highly emotional and warlike state.
The tyrants in Tehran have a much easier time at achieving the same psychological effects in Iranian society because they use religion. Also, unlike America, Iran's national existence is truly threatened by foreign powers so they are more justified in employing mass psychology tactics against the people.
But the U.S. Supranational Emergency State has no justification for what it is doing to the American people. The purpose of its national emergency rhetoric is to keep the American people in an unwarranted state of fear, justify the violation of individual rights, mobilize public support for military invasions of other countries, expand executive power, and defend state secrecy laws as well as the CIA's censorship of the truth.
The rhetoric of national emergency also supports the dominant ideology of the day which is counter-terrorism.
The ideology of counter-terrorism cannot be maintained without the periodic announcement by the federal government that it "foiled a dangerous terrorist plot against America," or that, "the FBI captured a group of terrorists." This government tactic helps to keep alive the fear of terrorism and reinforces the popular belief in the ideology of counter-terrorism.
False Flag Terrorism is the most fundamental government strategy in the West's war of terror. For the Anglo-American shadow state, there is nothing like dead bodies on American soil. The mass murder of innocent people is a sight of much pleasure for the killers in the Israeli, British and American shadow governments.
There are more peaceful ways to wield the psychological weapon that is national emergency rhetoric. For example, power-craving politicians, government officials and the state-run media use the threat of national disasters such as a hurricane to scare the American people beyond any reasonable measure and invoke their own authority which is totally illegitimate.
But there is a rationale behind all the orchestrated madness. The state managers of terror in America, Israel and the West are not building a supranational emergency state for no reason. The shadow CIA, shadow MI6 and other state intelligence agencies are building a global police state to contain social unrest, popular uprisings and urban riots. They anticipated the global political awakening and movements like Occupy Wall Street, and planned ahead of time to destroy resistance to their policies.
Their new global authoritarian regime won't be announced to the global public until it is completely constructed and ready to go. At which point, it will pretty much announce itself.
Do you see the genius of not telling people about a world government until the point of no return has been reached? The sociopathic elite tower above mass reality. They are in tune with the cosmos, not CNN or football.
There are deep philosophical reasons why Western governments and the establishment media treat the people like they are not even there. In their minds the people don't even exist. Informed media puppets and government officials obviously know that the deeper agenda includes the mass extermination of the global population.
Since this is the global agenda, why bother telling the people about anything? They are going to die anyway, so let them enjoy their last few years on Earth. This attitude explains why there is so much entertainment on television while the truth is blacked out.
There is a faint hope that an organized global resistance will emerge, but all the odds are set against us. A lot of so-called activists and reformers still avoid discussing 9/11 truth. Their activism is a joke. If they are afraid of a social taboo then they can't be counted on to resist tyranny.
Resistance to the illegitimate supranational emergency state will be crushed with guns, concentration camps, torture, government thugs, mercenaries, bioweapons, state terror, military checkpoints, and media propaganda.
The Occupy Wall Street protesters have yet to realize that the evil mass murderers who control Washington and Wall Street will not give up power easily. They want blood and violence. And they have a brainwashed army of goons who are ready to crack skulls and kill people who disobey government commands.
They are also in the process of starting a third world war to distract the people of the world from the real struggle for economic justice, freedom and the future of mankind.
The global chaos and dynamic instability that will result from a world war will be used by the satanic architects of the global regime to sell their nightmarish world government to the remaining world population.
Before we reach that point, however, global martial law will be declared by governments. Read Paul Joseph Watson's 2010 article, "PDD 51 & New Executive Order Give Obama Dictator Power," about how this global policy will be implemented in America.
I'll finish by reminding you that we are all in the middle of a total war that is being waged between the dark forces of Satan and the civilizing angels of God.
The souls of men and women everywhere are up for grabs.
So prepare for the epic mental and spiritual battle that is ahead, and fight back, or risk being slaughtered by Satan's new global dictatorship.
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Domo Nabs Another Omniture Alum as Chief Scientist
Former Omniture CEO Josh James, now running the upstart business intelligence software outfit Domo, has just hired another one of his old buddies from Omniture.
Domo is expected to announce shortly that it has hired former Omniture CTO Brett Error (picture from his Twitter account). His title will be chief scientist and chief strategy officer.
Error spent 14 years as CTO of Omniture, now a unit of Adobe, and led its product development. He was also responsible for integrating technology from Omniture's various acquisitions.
It's the second major hire by Domo of a former Omniture exec in recent memory. Last fall, Domo named Chris Harrington, Omniture's former president, as its president.
James led Omniture from 1996 through its IPO and subsequent acquisition by Adobe in 2006. He then bolted that company in 2009. It wasn't long before he was out raising money, bought a software company in his home state of Utah and turned it into Domo.
Domo has a lot of investors very excited and betting that James and Co. can do it again. In March, Domo raised a $60 million Series B round led by GGV Capital and including Greylock Partners, among others. That deal gave Domo an implied valuation of $310 million.


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Chinese Chicken Salad
Asian-inspired salads are available at restaurants of all varieties – from those with white tablecloths to those with drive-through windows. Bring the flavor home with this easy Chinese Chicken Salad. Whenever I serve this to guests or take it along to a get together with friends I'm asked to share the recipe. The combination of savory chicken, creamy dressing and crunch is sure to be a hit at your next summer picnic or salad supper.
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I love this picture—"Girls Laughing, Uganda"—the photo of the day from National Geographic. It seems like an illustration of the Thanksgiving psalm I've included below: "Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth." Surely if these girls from Uganda can find something to laugh about, we can, too.
My prayer for you this day is that it would be a day filled with "gladness" and "joyful songs," with much to be grateful for, and if you need some words to get you started, here they are:
Psalm 100
A psalm. For giving thanks.
1 Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.
2 Worship the LORD with gladness;
come before him with joyful songs.
3 Know that the LORD is God.
It is he who made us, and we are his;
we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and praise his name.
5 For the LORD is good and his love endures forever;
his faithfulness continues through all generations.


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Greg Stein
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Greg Stein is an engineer at Google, working on their open source efforts.
Prior to that, Stein was a director of engineering at CollabNet where he managed the Subversion project and releases of their SourceCast product. He also worked at Microsoft as a development manager, in the Commerce Server and Site Server groups. Stein was a co-founder and the corporate technologist of eShop, one of the first electronic commerce software companies, before its acquisition by Microsoft.
In Stein's spare time, he works on many open source projects, such as Subversion, WebDAV, and Python. He also spends time with Apache projects and is the current chairman of the Apache Software Foundation.
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Legal information related to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 amended U.S. copyright law allowing service providers, such as The Evergreen State College (Evergreen), to limit its liability for information residing, at the direction of a user, on a system or network that the service provider controls. Evergreen in providing computers, storage, or network connection is a service provider. Any College employee, student, or guest in providing content is a user. Evergreen claims this limited liability and provides the following information.
Evergreen has an agent authorized to receive claims of copyright infringement, initiate takedown, receive counter-claims, and initiate restoration as appropriate. This agent informs users of this policy that terminates service for infringements. The college has registered this agent with the U.S. Copyright Office.
This agent is advertised through Evergreen's website. The college requires each web server and other information servers liable to copyright concerns to list on the "front page" a link or reference to the web page identifying the college's DMCA agent .


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Ancestor Veneration, Worship, Reincarnation, and Idolatry
March 13, 2011 3 Comments
In the event of death or "passing on" (knock on wood (or paper proxy)), it seems reasonable that "spirits" would make every effort possible to help, and assist their loved ones left behind. Unfortunately experience has shown that this is less of an investment providing tangible economic results and more an exercise in developing individual spirituality. In collecting tribal african art one is sure to find the crossroads of ancestor based historical, and colonial religious values. The main issues surrounding ancestor veneration stem from the fact that there are overlapping elements included in the concepts of "worship" and "idolatry", and continued fallout based on historical characterizations, fueled by the unadulterated demonization (necromancy, zombies) of "other religions" by proponents of major religions.
Understanding Veneration
"I do not ask for their intervention … I ask and challenge myself that I can meet the standard or benchmark of their love and sacrifice, revealed to me in my own life.
I do not ask that they go before me in my journeys, yet I continue to learn from the lessons they taught me. Teachings I may never totally grasp, yet with different circumstances I continue to find similarities in strengths, and weaknesses. As time passes, we mature, and face similar challenges. I have the benefit of witnessing the fights and struggles of my ancestors, and believe I benefit from lessons they took to heart from earlier ancestors, who learned and shared from their elders. I believe in the knowledge that is unique to those raised in my family.
I may or may not build shrines to my ancestors, for I represent them physically, and to my loved ones I represent a portion of their spiritual essence as well."
"African ancestral veneration is a religious piety that centres in honouring, loving and remembering the dead, while at the same time asking for their mediatory help. It is still widely and popularly practiced in modern African ethnic groups. In early Christianity, the same practice of religious piety was slowly developed and transformed into a new form that is called devotions to the angels and saints. In addition, African ancestral veneration is never a religion in itself but an aspect of a complex religious systems."[1]
Ancestor veneration remains among many Africans, sometimes practiced alongside the later adopted religions of Christianity (as in Nigeria among the Igala) and Islam (among the different Mandé peoples and the Bamum) in much of the continent.[2]
This seems like the easiest concept to refute since an idolater is defined as a "worshiper of idols". The "burden of proof" in refuting the issue of worship however lies not in the base definition of worship, but rather in the typical understanding of what constitutes a reasonable act of worship. Worship by definition is "an expression of reverence", or "extravagant respect or devotion". Using this low standard would pretty much cover any acknowledgement of an intermediary figure to a supreme being. The representation of this intermediary would itself constitute an act of idolatry and by extension members of every "other religion" would be categorized as idolaters. It would seem therefore that the act of idolatry can be more clearly, simply reduced to the worship of a manmade image, carving, or representative structure, which is thought to possess Godlike attributes, and powers. In the Catholic church for example, statues representing saints serve many functional purposes, but the substance and roles of intermediaries are arguably similar to the roles of Orisha used in the Yoruba spiritual system. Few if any African Tribal religions therefore can be seriously considered based, or rooted in idolatry.
African ancestral veneration is not idolatrous because of the following three major reasons.
1) African ancestral veneration does not consist of the worshiping of lifeless images or eidōlon or idols of emptiness. Instead, it primarily consists of venerating, honouring and loving human life – the spirits of the dead – that still survive after its corporal death and continue to live and engage an enduring communion with their living relatives. This belief is also very fundamental in the Christian faith (cf. the dogma of communion of Saints).
2) African ancestral veneration is not of worshipping demons hiding in images – statues, paintings or sculptures – as often claimed by the early fathers of the Church when talking about the danger of idolatry. Instead, it is of veneration of the living spirits of the dead. They are not demons or evil spirits and are distinctly different from demons and evil spirits. The carved images of ancestors – found in some traditional societies of Africa are not intended to be representational or abstract but conceptual and evocative. By means of stylized form and symbolic details, the ancestral carved image conveys the characteristics of the ancestors and helps to make the spiritual reality of the ancestors present among the living. Thus, the carved ancestral icon enables the world of the living community and the world of the ancestors to come together for the benefit of human life.
3) African ancestral veneration is not of the worshipping of creatures in place of God, since the living souls of the dead are never viewed, approached or treated as God.[3]
Aspects of Reincarnation
"it is in India and Greece that the doctrine of rebirth has been most elaborately developed. This belief is shared by all the other major religions of India, Hinduism, Buddhism, Gains, Sikhs and Sufis. [In ancient Greece, belief in rebirth formed part of the philosophical teachings of Pythagorean, Empodocles, Plato, and Plotinus. In modern times, religious teachers like Ramakrishna, Aurobindo or schools of thought, like Theosophy or various new "esoteric" "occultist" religious movements, like New Age or humanistic psychology: thinkers like C. G. Jung and Fritz Perls, hold onto belief in reincarnation.]"[4]
While several tribes believe in certain aspects of reincarnation there are various "flavors" and distinctions :
"According to the Chewa people in Kenya, for instance, ancestors after death reincarnate into their descendants' offspring. It is generally believed that the Chewa ancestors come back to the living community on earth through the infant naming ceremony. Thus naming a child after a particular ancestor symbolizes the mystical union between the ancestor and the living community. According to the BaManianga people in Kongo, a living person consists of three elements: nitu – the physical, visible, mortal body; kini – the invisible body, a shade or reflection of nitu; and mwela – soul which has no form. A Manianga scholar, named Fukiau-kia-Bunseki, states that mwela separates itself from nitu and kini at death and looks for a chance to reincarnate into an about-to-born-baby. The BaManianga people (plural of Manianga), indeed, believe in reincarnation of mwela, yet some of them say that this reincarnation is true to the extent of physical resemblance. Thus a son may look, smile, talk or walk like his father or grandfather without having his father's mwela. Since this kind of reincarnation has to do only with physical resemblance, it is traditionally believed that the spirit of a dead person may continue to reincarnate in several generations to come. Thus, the reincarnation of a mwela is not seen as an event that occurs just one time but is a continuing trend. In other words, it can be understood as the process of ceaseless duplication of the soul – mwela. The Akan people in Ghana also widely believe in the possibility of the reincarnation of the human soul. According to their traditional belief, all people, especially ancestors reincarnate themselves into the world – mostly into their own clan or descendants – in order to complete their purpose of being, called nkrabea. Nkrabea, they say, is a reason and a purpose for every person to be born. It is a duty and mission given by Nana Nyame – God – that must be accomplished in the mundane life of every person. Two of these missions are to live an ethical life and to produce offspring. If the person fails to fulfil this mission, he/she must be reincarnated as many times as necessary in order to achieve what was mandated by Nana Nyame in the beginning."[5]


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The workshop for the Nevada WoodChucks was a success, at the end all of the people had a usable traditional spokeshave with a tanged blade. When I teach workshops, I build one to show the various steps, but in this case I didn't have an opportunity to finish the one I was working on as I had to help a couple of new students with their project.
I did manage to finish mine when I returned home. It is fancier than most I have made, I usually go for an earlier style like here.
Joe has taken my class before and here he is concentrating on his task of smoothing the throat.
Ed, a vetern of several workshops I have taught in Reno goes about forming the throat of the spokeshave, good two handed technique.
Rod [on the right], another repeat offender brought a friend to audit the class.
Jim is a first time participant in one of my workshops. I spent additional time with him and Skip another first timer.
Charlie, my youngest student ever [6 years old] had an impressive set of tools, his dad Chuck a turner said his son owned all the bench tools. Photo below shows a trusting father, with a bit of concern in his look.
Chuck and Charlie watching Rod at work on his spokeshave.
I demonstrated how to use a burn auger and a video was made so here it is. We turned the fan on after the first one to prevent the smoke alarm from calling the local fire department.
The spokeshave blades required sharpening, which was done with a file. Two of the blades proved to soft and needed to be heated cherry red, quenched in water, polished bright and heated to temper with a straw color, then quenched. The spokeshaves were all finished with Moses T's Gunstocker's Finish.


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Michael McGrath is Senior Technologist in Intel's Digital Health Group. He is also a co-Principal Investigator in the TRIL Centre focusing on development technologies to support independent living research. Michael McGrath joined Intel in 1999. Terrance (Terry) J. Dishongh, Ph.D., is currently a Senior Principal Engineer in Intel's Digital Health Group. The authors can be contacted at [email protected] and [email protected], respectively. Courtesy Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
Biomedical and clinical research and development projects have a growing need for technology solutions that are highly flexible, extensible, easy to use, and provide a comprehensive range of capabilities. The availability of such resources allows researchers to focus on the "R" instead of the "D" in "R&D" during the lifecycle of their research project. The technology development overhead that many biomedical researchers must address can detrimentally impact the pace and scope of the research projects. This problem has been compounded in recent years due to the growing interest in moving from laboratory to data collection and observation in home environments. A variety of applications have been reported in the literature including physiological monitoring [1-3], physical rehabilitation [4], activities of daily living (ADL) monitoring [5, 6], falls detection [7, 8], cognitive function [9], and social engagement [10, 11]. These applications typically comprise hardware and software components interconnected to form customized applications to address the needs of a specific research hypothesis.
Many biomedical applications utilize wireless sensing capabilities in the form of body-worn sensing or non-contact sensing to acquire data of interest and to transmit them to an aggregation device. Fusion of both body-worn and ambient sensors has been reported to improve accuracy of inference based on activity or behavior identification [12, 13]. Typically, multiple parameters are of interest including physiological [14, 15], kinematics [16, 17], ambient [18, 19], and environmental measurements [20].
To address the need for multisensing capabilities while minimizing the complexity of the hardware and software components, platform-based approaches have emerged where the sensing capability of the sensors can be modified by changing the sensing element, normally in the form of a daughterboard that connects to a common baseboard that provides the computational and communications capabilities. Chen et al [2] report a sensor node platform for wireless biomedical sensing. They utilize a flexible expansion connector that supports additional daughterboards, including ECG with TinyOS firmware. DuboisFerrière et al [21] describe the TinyNode, which features two types of add-on boards. The Standard Extension Board (SEB) includes footprints for two optional sensors: a relative humidity and temperature sensor and a photodiode light sensor. The MamaBoard features a variety of external communications including, LAN, WLAN, and GPRS options with support for data storage via an SD card. The platform also features an XE1205 from Semtech with a reported four- to eight-fold communications range performance improvement over MICA2 and TelosB sensor nodes. Nokia has reported a wearable sensor platform called a Nokia Wrist–Attached Sensor Platform* (NWSP) that is based on a highly flexible Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) [22]. The platform features an accelerometer, a gyroscope, and magnetometer sensing capabilities in a wristwatch-like form-factor.
For a body-worn sensor platform, size is a key consideration. IMECs Human++ research program has developed a highly miniaturized and autonomous sensor system for body sensor network applications [23]. The platform combines wireless ultra-low power communications, 3D integration, MEMS energy scavenging techniques, and low-power design techniques. Two-channel Electroencephalography (EEG), two-channel Electrooculography (EOG), and one-channel Electromyography (EMG) for sleep-monitoring applications and wireless ECG monitoring have been demonstrated [24].
From a software perspective, platforms for wireless sensor networks have been reported in the literature [14, 25, 26]. Walker et al describe a Java and Java Agent based Development (JADE) platform; it is designed to provide sensor network integration and application development capabilities [27]. Other Java platforms include SunSPOT from Sun Microsystems [28].
The Arduino open-source electronics prototyping platform has become popular especially for undergraduate teaching purposes. A number of research applications have been reported, including e-Textiles, that are based on the integration of accelerometers for motion capture and human motion capture in combination with tactile feedback in response to specific postures in real-time [29, 30].
A number of options exist for high-level application program development with associated benefits and difficulties. Typically there is a choice between traditional syntactically-oriented software languages such as C/C++, Java, Python, etc., bespoke SDKs; e.g., Eclipse, and graphical development environments (GDE). Both the C-type programming and to a lesser extent the SDK approaches are complex and time-consuming. Firstly, they often result in applications that are harder to debug, integrate, and evolve. Secondly, they restrict researcher access to the development process. Graphical programming approaches can deliver a common interface to the sensor/network with which all users will be able to interact. These interfaces generally take the form of drag-and-drop development environments where functional blocks are selected from a palette of tools and connected on a drawing area to describe data flow through a system or application. The environment can cater for users with widely varying levels of technical expertise by enabling design and development work to be carried out at several levels of abstraction. Using a GDE, a developer can build a working system graphically by dragging and dropping blocks onto a diagram (resembling a data-flow diagram). Typically, each block features a number of input and output pins, with connections made between blocks by clicking and dragging from a pin on one block to a suitable pin on another block.
LabVIEW from National Instruments, has been popular for many years, particularly for applications that required data acquisition via an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) or device actuation via a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). LabVIEW provides a GDE with a drag and drop capability for functional blocks wired together to form a functional application. It has been used for a variety of biomedical-type applications including interfacing pulse oximeters [31], ECG signal analysis [32], tri-axial accelerometers and galvanic skin response (GSR) [33], and gyroscopes for gait analysis [34]. Other graphical programming environments that have been developed for biomedical applications include Scicos: these can be utilized for signal processing, systems control, and for studying physical and biological systems [35]. The BioEra environment provides a graphical block-based environment that can process dozens of channels simultaneously in real-time from various devices, including EEG and heart rate monitors [36]. BrainBay is a bio- and neuro-feedback environment, again based on a block-type development environment designed to work with the OpenEEG hardware platform [37]. Simulink from MathWorks provides an interactive graphical environment that has been applied to a variety of sensor simulation applications [38, 39].
To address the issues associated with technology development such as rapid prototyping, reuse, extensibility, distribution, etc., the TRIL Centre [40] has developed a modular, extensible, and reusable technology approach based on an open research platform concept called BioMOBIUS. The TRIL Centre is a collaboration between Intel Ireland, University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, and the National University of Ireland at Galway, with support from IDA Ireland. TRIL grounds its research in ethnography and clinical efficacy, with a common set of research tools based on BioMOBIUS, and takes the research out of the lab into homes of older people. BioMOBIUS enables TRIL researchers to carry out their research in an effective and efficient manner and to have the ability to share their research solutions in a logistically effective manner. A modular, abstracted approach reduces the learning curve and prompts rapid application prototyping and reuse, thereby lowering development costs and reducing the barriers to technology adoption. The software components of BioMOBIUS are made freely available to the biomedical research community by the TRIL Centre.
The BioMOBIUS research platform comprised of both low-level and high-level software development environments is fully integrated with the SHIMMER sensor platform [41, 42]. ("SHIMMER" is short for "Sensing Health with Intelligence, Modularity, Mobility and Experimental Reusability".) BioMOBIUS also supports a number of other third-party sensors and off-the-shelf devices. This integration of software and hardware provides a unique set of capabilities that enables developers, engineers, and researchers to rapidly develop research applications to investigate a variety of research hypothesis and to rapidly modify the applications based on the evolving needs of the researcher and end user. The key features of the platform to enable such capabilities are as follows:
- Ease of hardware integration.
- Software component reuse.
- Highly extensible both from a hardware and software perspective.
- High quality user interfaces (UI).
- Supports data acquisition rates appropriate for kinematic and physiological data capture.
- Provides real-time data processing and data presentation.
- Data persistence to file and database.
- Stability and reliability.
A typical BioMOBIUS application includes SHIMMER sensors, processing functionality, and a UI. The sensors monitor biomedical indicators such as gait stability, and the processing functionality converts the sensor data into meaningful information. The UI allows clinicians to view the information and adjust the application settings or it allows the home-based participant to view feedback information on performance; e.g., attention level measurement via GSR.


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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...While I love a good salad, I must admit I have a problem with familiarity. This salad, developed by Martha Stewart, immediately caught my eye because of the ingredients used to make it. I had never seen snow peas used in this way and because the recipe was so easy to prepare, I made it the same day I found it. I have prepared it several times since then. I love the crunch of this salad and the play of tarragon and shallots against the crisp fresh peas is a real taste treat. I suggest you stack the peas and use scissors to cut them into thin strips. Once the peas are sliced, assembly of this salad is a breeze. I like to chill it for several hours before serving. The salad is not a great keeper because the dressing it is tossed with, gains strength and will overpower the lovely flavor of the snow peas within 24 hours. If you are looking for a different type of salad, you might want to give this one a try. Here is how it is made.
Snow Pea Salad with Shallots and Tarragon...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite courtesy of Martha Stewart
2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons champagne or white-wine vinegar
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
Salt and pepper
2 tablespoons minced shallot
1 pound snow peas, thinly sliced lengthwise
2 tablespoons chopped fresh tarragon
Combine mustard, vinegar, and oil in a large bowl. Whisk. Season with salt and pepper. Add chopped shallots, snow peas, and tarragon. Toss to combine. Chill. Yield: 4 to 6 servings.
Cook's Note
To store, refrigerate, covered, up to 6 hours.
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You can edit an A record in your DNS (Domain Name System) zone file for a domain registered with GoDaddy. An A record connects your root domain name to an IP address and lets web browsers find your website. A records are commonly used to point to a hosting account, or to create a subdomain. If your domain is not registered with GoDaddy, you can edit an A record using DNS hosting.
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- Log in to your GoDaddy account and open your product. (Need help opening your product?)
- From the Domain Manager, select your domain name from the list to access the Domain Settings page.
- Scroll down to the Additional Settings section and select Manage DNS.
- On the DNS Management page, next to the record you wish to edit, click the pencil icon.
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- Edit the fields as needed:
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Perennial to trees, from membranous bulb, fibrous corm, scaly rhizome, or erect caudex
Stem generally underground
Leaves generally basal, often withering early, alternate, generally ± linear
Inflorescence various, generally bracted
Flower generally bisexual, generally radial; perianth often showy, segments generally 6 in two petal-like whorls (outer sometimes sepal-like), free or fused at base; stamens 6 (or 3 + generally 3 ± petal-like staminodes), filaments sometimes attached to perianth or fused into a tube or crown; ovary superior or inferior, chambers 3, placentas generally axile, style generally 1, stigmas generally 3
Fruit: generally capsule, loculicidal or septicidal (berry or nut)
Genera in family: ± 300 genera, 4600 species: especially ± dry temp and subtropical; many cultivated for ornamental or food;
some TOXIC. Here includes genera sometimes treated in Agavaceae, Amaryllidaceae, and other families.
Perennial; bulb ovoid to ± elongate, outer coats white to brown, often very fibrous
Leaves basal, linear, reduced to scarious bracts in inflorescence
Inflorescence: panicle; flowers 1several per node
Flower: perianth segments 6 in 2 petal-like whorls, free, white, purple, or pinkish, persistent in fruit and twisted together above capsule; stamens 6, attached to bases of perianth parts, anthers attached at middle; ovary superior, chambers 3, style slender, stigma slightly 3-lobed
Fruit: capsule, stalked, loculicidal
Seeds ovoid, black, 12 per chamber
Species in genus: 5 species: w North America, especially CA
Etymology: (Greek: green milk or juice)
Reference: [Hoover 1940 Madroño 5:137147]
Bulb 2.53 cm; scales white to brown, membranous
Leaves basal, 25 mm wide, linear, wavy
Inflorescence 1040 cm; branches few; pedicels 410 mm, slender, generally > flowers
Flower open during day; perianth deep blue to purple, segments 57 mm, recurved; stamens ± = perianth, anthers 1 mm, yellow; style exserted, 56 mm
Fruit 3 mm
Ecology: Open woodland, sometimes on serpentine
Elevation: ± 300 or ± 600 m.
Bioregional distribution: e Outer South Coast Ranges.Varieties intergrade but apparently retain distinctions in a common garden, produce fertile seeds when artificially crossed.
See the CNPS Inventory for information about endangerment and rarity.
Inflorescence 2540 cm
Chromosomes: n=30
Ecology: Woodland
Elevation: ± 300 m.
Bioregional distribution: ne Outer South Coast Ranges (eastern side Santa Lucia Mtns, Monterey Co.). Threatened by trampling, grazing, vehicles
Horticultural information: In cultivation.


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Continuing along in our occasional series on 'Welcoming All Families' to our childbirth classes, this two part guest post is written by Pam Vireday, creator of the Well-Rounded Mama blog. Today, Pam shares how to promote optimum outcomes at the births of plus sized mothers. Click here to read the first post in the series, where Pam shared how to create childbirth education classes with women of size in mind. - Sharon Muza, S&S Community Manager
In part one of the series, we discussed how birth professionals can make women of size feel more welcome by creating a size-friendly space, by addressing special needs, by finding size-positive images and birth stories, and by addressing potential risks in a proactive, non-judgmental way. Today, in part two, let's discuss ways to promote optimal outcome in women of size.
Nutrition and Exercise
photo courtesy of Pamela Vireday
Many women of size find they feel better and have more stable blood sugar when they combine carbohydrates with protein instead of consuming carbohydrates by themselves. Modestly limiting carbohydrates at meals, eating smaller and more frequent meals, and using whole grains instead of refined carbs may also help promote euglycemia.
An even more powerful tool for optimizing blood sugar is exercise. Intensity of exercise is far less important than regularity of exercise, with daily exercise being optimal. Many women of size find walking, swimming, prenatal yoga, and water aerobics particularly friendly to larger bodies.
Nutrition Diaries
One of the most trying things for some fat women is the pregnancy nutrition diary. If used, these must be done with care.
After years of having every bite nit-picked, pregnancy food diaries can be very triggering for women with long histories of dieting or eating disorders. In addition, many providers don't believe women of size no matter what they say. As one mom shared, '[My midwife] refused to believe what I recorded. She flat-out accused me of lying, telling me that I 'must be living on ice cream and donuts.' This can be very disillusioning.
If you decide to use food diaries, question your assumptions about what fat women 'must' be eating. Some people eat normally and are still fat, while some thin women have terrible habits and yet are thin. Leave out assumptions, scolding, and lecturing, and find a way to neutrally help women analyze their own intake and gently adjust if needed.
Prenatal Weight Gain
Current weight gain recommendations from the Institute of Medicine are 11-20 lbs. for obese women, and 15-25 lbs. for overweight women. However, many care providers these days are strongly pressuring obese women to diet to restrict weight gain, or even to deliberately lose weight during pregnancy.
This is a dilemma for women of size, because research suggests that very low gain or gestational weight loss may actually increase the risk of small-for-gestational-age or premature babies. Some research suggests differing weight gain recommendations for differing classes of obesity, but studies on limiting weight gain have many design flaws, so providers must tread carefully to balance potential benefits and risks.
Another alternative is to take a Health At Every Size® approach. Good nutrition and regular exercise is promoted, but without the scale as a goal. The finger-wagging, shaming approach of most dietary intervention is absent, and although particular weight gain goal ranges can be encouraged, good nutrition is put ahead of rigid goals. Many women with a long history of dieting find a Health At Every Size® approach very freeing because it still emphasizes healthy behaviors, but without the scale as judge and jury.
Weight gain among women of size is extremely variable. A lot depends on the woman's individual circumstances. Differing amounts can be normal as long as you are eating nutritiously.
As one big mom notes:
Talk about weight gain, but explain that every body is different. Some people gain lots and have healthy babies. Some people gain very little or even lose and have healthy babies. Don't focus on the scale, but on healthy eating and assure people their bodies will then do what they need to do.
Another mom agrees, saying, 'Providers can get across the point that excellent nutrition is key to a healthy pregnancy and birth without making mom stress over it.'
As one big mom notes:
Talk about weight gain, but explain that every body is different. Some people gain lots and have healthy babies. Some people gain very little or even lose and have healthy babies. Don't focus on the scale, but on healthy eating and assure people their bodies will then do what they need to do.
Another mom agrees, saying, 'Providers can get across the point that excellent nutrition is key to a healthy pregnancy and birth without making mom stress over it.'
Finding a Size-Friendly Caregiver
Finding a size-friendly caregiver is critical to having a positive birth experience. Unfortunately, bias and mistreatment are not uncommon. Some of it is egregious mistreatment, while other examples show a more subtle bias. In particular, many well-meaning care providers overutilize interventions in the labors of women of size.
Research shows that obese women are induced at much higher rates, experience a higher rate of interventions, and that caregivers have a lower threshold for surgical intervention in their labors. Although it is commonly believed that obesity predisposes to a cesarean, recent research suggests that cesarean rates can vary dramatically within the same weight class, depending on how the labor is managed. This suggests that labor management and attitudes may be more of a factor in c-section rates than obesity itself.
High-BMI women need to ask careful questions about special protocols they may be pressured into (like early inductions for suspected macrosomia, early amniotomy, internal monitoring, or early epidurals) and how much wiggle room there is for working around these.
One plus-sized postpartum nurse states bluntly:
As far as labor, the best advice I could give another [plus-sized] mom is to STAY MOBILE!!!!! Staying in bed, getting an epidural too soon, not being able to change positions frequently [equals] dysfunctional labor and c-section.
One plus-sized postpartum nurse states bluntly:
As far as labor, the best advice I could give another [plus-sized] mom is to STAY MOBILE!!!!! Staying in bed, getting an epidural too soon, not being able to change positions frequently [equals] dysfunctional labor and c-section.
Other tips for lowering an obese woman's chances for a cesarean can be found here and here.
Like other women, women of size need information on patient rights, how to advocate for themselves, their right to decline procedures, and information on filing a complaint if needed. Knowing that they have the right to stand up for themselves and say 'no' is a new concept to far too many plus-sized women.
Pay Attention to Fetal Position
There is some research and anecdotal evidence that suggests that women of size have a higher rate of malpositioned babies, and that this may play a role in their increased cesarean rate. Talk with women about fetal position, discuss ways to promote optimal fetal positions, and mention the possibility of chiropractic adjustments for those who are interested.
Since some very heavy women have pendulous bellies which may make it harder for the baby to engage in the pelvis, include some information about the 'abdominal lift and tuck' exercise, as well as other positions that can help babies to engage during labor.
Birthing Positions for Women of Size
Encourage women of size to experiment with finding useful laboring and birthing positions that work with their bodies. Remember that like all women, women of size will vary in how athletic and flexible they are. Explore each position without judgment.
Many women of size find the all-fours position or a forward-leaning kneeling position useful. If the woman has an epidural, side-lying can be extremely helpful. Although 'soft tissue dystocia' is an unproven concept, if there is any question of pelvic capacity frequent position changes and asymmetric positions like lunging may be helpful. A birth ball (appropriate for height and weight) can also help relax the perineum, open the pelvis, and allow easier rotation among positions.
Many women of size report loving laboring in water. The buoyancy of the water allows position changes with greater ease, and eases pressure on the knees. The pain-relieving effect of water is another bonus, since epidurals can be harder to place in larger women.
Further information (and pictures) on birthing positions for women of size can be found here and here. Some care providers actively discourage mobility in women of size, so having a supportive caregiver is key. Practice multiple positions beforehand, emphasize the importance of frequent position changes, and promote having a labor support person who can help women utilize position changes more easily.
Although women of size are more at risk for certain complications, remember that women of all sizes can experience complications. All women benefit from the same basic advice for excellent nutrition, regular exercise, reasonable weight gain, choosing good providers, attention to fetal position, and use of flexible birthing positions. Emphasize proactive health behavior across the board.
What has been your experience in helping prepare women of size for birth? How have the women you might have had in your classes or practice found the experience of pregnancy and birth as a large sized woman? Do you have suggestions to add about your observations and favorite resources? Please share with our community.- SM
Plus-Sized Resources
Finding Size-Friendly Care
General Size Acceptance and Health At Every Size'® Resources
Books on Health At Every Size®
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Pamela Vireday is a childbirth educator, writer, woman of size, and mother to four children. She has been collecting the stories of women of size and writing about childbirth research for 17 years. She writes at www.wellroundedmama.blogspot.com and www.plus-size-pregnancy.org.
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Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE has been an active perinatal professional since 2004, teaching Lamaze classes to thousands of families and doula-ing through her private practice in Seattle, WA. Sharon is also a trainer of new birth doulas and childbirth educators. She blogs professionally on perinatal topics. Sharon enjoys facilitating discussion around best practice, current research and its practical application to maternal infant health and community standards. To learn more about Sharon, you are invited to visit her website, SharonMuza.com.
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Mary: "Um, yes, sir."
Mr. Veefdubya: "That's unbelievable! And disrespectful! And rude!"
Mary: "I'm sorry, sir, we..."
Mr. Veefdubya: "It's a national holiday! You should be at a parade! Or cemetery! Or a nursing home! You should be honoring and thanking the veterans who sacrificed for our freedom! I'm a veteran, and I'm personally offended that you're open on Wednesday!"
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Jen Morrow
On the morning of June 4, 2010 (just one month after my 30th birthday), I went into cardiac arrest at my home in California. I don't have any memory from that morning, and my memory from that whole week is fuzzy. From what I have been told, it was a typical Friday morning. I was up helping my two children get ready for school. Suddenly, I didn't feel well, and I lied down on my kitchen floor to catch my breath. I was lying face down and gasping for air, so my son ran to get my husband who was getting ready for work at the time. He remembers that when he got to the kitchen I asked him for water, I sat up for a moment and told him I felt light headed and needed a moment. I eventually stood up on my own and walked to the bathroom. I then became very dizzy and lied down on the bathroom floor. I started gasping for air, and my eyes were wide open and glazed over. My skin turned gray and cold, and my pulse was faint.
By this time my parents (who live across the street) had come over. My father took my kids out of the house and my mother called 911 while my husband watched my vitals. He knew he couldn't start the CPR unless my breathing had completely ceased. My mother explained to the 911 operator what was going on as the paramedics were on there way. At one point I let out a long gasp and my breathing and heart stopped. Just as my husband was about to start CPR I took in a huge breath of air and start gasping again.
When the paramedics arrived, they shocked me with the defibrillator approximately five times. In the ambulance on the way to the hospital I stopped breathing and had no pulse, and so the paramedics began CPR. Upon arrival to the Emergency Room my body temperature was down to 92 degrees. I was shocked approximately 12 more times with the defibrillator.
My diagnosis was "fatal," and I was given a time line of four hours. When I had arrived to the ER my potassium was very low, and I was going through Ventricular Tachycardia and Ventricular Fibrillation. To this day, no one knows why. I continued to experience several more cardiac arrests that morning, and each time I was shocked yet again to bring my heart to a normal rhythm. I was moved to Intensive Care Unit, placed in a medically induced coma and received therapeutic hypothermia treatment.
The physicians advised my family that if I survived, I would be brain dead. When the physicians performed tests and monitored me they could not find any damage to my brain. My amazing friends and family all came to visit me and talk to me while I was in a coma. I don't have any memory of it, but am told I had reactions to them, such as increased heart rate and smiling. I would open my eyes, but they were glazed over and I would just give an empty stare upward. As the days passed I remained stable, with no signs of brain damage. Several procedures followed including a tracheostomy, and on June 13, I opened my eyes while my dad was in the room with me, and for the first time I reacted when the nurses asked me questions.
On the 14th I was moved out of ICU to a hospital room. When I woke up, I could not understand why I was in the hospital and wanted to know where my kids were. Mentally, I felt fine, and I thought I was perfectly fine until I realized my hand and arm movements were extremely erratic. Unable to speak due to the tube down my throat, I tried writing and was shocked to see that the penmanship wasn't my natural style. Rather, it was closer to a toddler's attempts at writing.
I couldn't remember anything from the week before my cardiac arrest. I had also forgotten other small details until someone would discuss them with me. Then I would slowly start to remember once I gave it the effort.
On June 21, I left the hospital. Then on July 6, at a routine cardiology visit, I was surprisingly admitted to the hospital again – this time for an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD). The doctor knew it was too risky to let me live my life without one, but I wasn't sure of that yet. I thought, "I'll get more potassium in my diet and lower my stress, and I'll be fine." With so many cardiologists entering my hospital room, I soon realized that my plan wouldn't be enough.
Additional tests ruled out Long QT Syndrome, arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, heart disease and a range of other syndromes that might have explained my SCA. My family has a history of heart disease and diabetes (neither of which I have), and I have never had any problems with blood pressure or cholesterol.
Looking back when this all started, I was going throughout the day moderately snacking, though I didn't have a good source of nutrition. I was also stressed from final exams and just everyday life. All of these can be factors in what happened to me. At this point I am content to be alive and here for my children, ages 9 and 6. I'm currently on a beta-blocker medication and make sure to consume more potassium. As to be expected, I was a bit depressed immediately following my release from the hospital. However, I have a wonderful support system and I know that my children need a strong mom in their lives.
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Charting a Diplomatic Course
By Robert Schroeder
NLU Alumni Magazine
When Hurricane Ivan slammed into the island nation of Grenada in 2004, NLU alumnus Denis Antoine (photo, left) was far removed from the violent winds that lashed the beach shores of the Caribbean country. But as calm settled over the besieged lands, Antoine found himself in the eye of the recovery efforts.
With all communications to the islands wiped out, the British Royal Navy reached out to Antoine, the Grenadine Ambassador to the United States from 1995-2009, for permission to dock in the foreign waters on an aid mission.
"That was a very telling moment in my career," Antoine said. "When the families of loved ones are calling on you and you aren't sure what to say because you can't reach the point of access in your country…you have such a critical role to play."
Today, Antoine is channeling his diplomatic background as the chair ex officio of the Young Americans Business Trust (YABT), as well as the Ambassador at Large and Director of International Programs and Exchange at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC). At UDC, Antoine directs the Global Affairs Institute, which brings in foreign ministers and officials for training in management and human resources allocation. As a member of the YABT board, Antoine is leading an effort to push youth entrepreneurship in developing nations in the Americas through business labs, seminars and workshops.
Antoine says he sees a need for the YABT to more quickly introduce Web 2.0 technologies to aspiring business leaders in developing nations.
"There has to be a critical focus on the impact not only of social media but the use of technology in business," Antoine said. "We need to declare for young people to be on the front line, since they are more attuned to the use of technology."
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Sanofi Pasteur recently began limiting monthly orders for two of its combination vaccines and likely will continue that practice through September, according to a company source.
In a letter(www.vaccineshoppe.com) sent last month to health care professionals, Sanofi said a manufacturing delay is responsible for limiting supplies of the company's combined diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis adsorbed, inactivated poliovirus and Haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate (DTaP-IPV-Hib) vaccine, marketed as Pentacel, as well as its diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis vaccine adsorbed, marketed as Daptacel. The order limitations are intended to maximize availability of the existing DTaP supply and minimize the impact on physician practices.
The letter also noted that because there is another DTaP vaccine manufacturer -- GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) -- "little to no impact to the routine childhood immunization schedule is anticipated." Indeed, no change in routine vaccination recommendations has been made at this time.
The CDC estimates(www.cdc.gov) that Sanofi's single-antigen inactivated polio and Hib vaccines currently are in sufficient supply to address historic usage of Pentacel, as well as their use as single-antigen vaccines, and that GSK's vaccine supply is sufficient to address the need for DTaP-containing products.
According to Rob Perry, director of U.S. communications for GSK, the company will fill Sanofi's gap with its diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis absorbed, hepatitis B (recombinant) and inactivated poliovirus vaccine, marketed as Pediarix, and its diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis vaccine adsorbed, marketed as Infanrix.
"GSK does project our production and supply of single antigen and combination DTaP products are sufficient to meet current estimates of the supply shortfalls on other DTaP products," Perry told AAFP News Now. "We're committed to closely working with the CDC to continue appropriately monitoring and addressing this issue."
Sanofi customers with questions about the shortage may call the company toll-free at (800) 822-2463.
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Volunteer Services Program
Welcome to the Albuquerque Police Department Volunteer Services Program.
Our mission is to utilize citizen volunteers to assist the Albuquerque Police Department in improving the quality of life in our community.
Even though volunteers are not commissioned police officers, the duties that they perform are crucial to the day-to-day operation of the Albuquerque Police Department. Sworn officers currently handle some of the administrative tasks that volunteers can perform. By assisting with these tasks, volunteers free up officers to handle calls for service, to serve proactively in the community and to handle investigative responsibilities.
- Must be 18 years of age or more.
- Must be a United States citizen.
- Must have a valid New Mexico Drivers License.
- Must have lived in the community for a minimum of one year.
- Must agree to donate 4 hours per week to the program and commit for six months, OR be willing to serve as a back-up as needed.
- Must have own transportation.
- Must be willing to submit to a background check and to supply references.
- Must sign a confidentiality statement.
- No felony convictions. Criminal activity in which applicant has been convicted of, pled guilty to, or entered a plea of nolo contendre to any felony charge, been involved in any prosecution diversion program (PPP) as adjudicated for a felony crime committed will be permanently disqualified. Felony arrests will be evaluated on a case by case basis.
- No misdemeanor convictions within the last 3 years from the date of initial applying to become a volunteer. Candidates who within 3 years preceding their application date, have been convicted of, pled guilty to, or entered a plea of nolo contendre to any violation of federal law, state law, or local ordinance that would be classified as a misdemeanor crime, will be disqualified until the appropriate time passes (does not include minor traffic violations). Misdemeanor arrests will be evaluated on a case by case basis.
- No DWI convictions within the last five years from the date of initial applying to become a volunteer, whether from an administrative sanction by a Motor Vehicle Department, criminal conviction, or military disciplinary action. Multiple DWIs in the most recent 10 year period disqualifies an individual as an applicant. (Multiple is defined as 2 or more DWIs). DWI arrests will be evaluated on a case by case basis.
- An applicant cannot have been convicted of a Domestic Violence Act. Domestic related arrests will be reviewed on a case by case basis.
- No use in the last 3 years of any illegal drug that would amount to a misdemeanor crime if found in possession (includes marijuana).
- No use in the last 5 years of any illegal drug that would amount to a felony crime if found in possession.
- Must not be in collections for an amount over $500.
Areas Currently Utilizing Volunteers
- Main Police Station and several substations
- The Albuquerque Family Advocacy Center
- The Albuquerque Police Academy
- Chaplain Unit
- Citizens Police Academy
- Court Services
- Crime Analysis
- Crime Lab - ICRIS Section
- Crime Lab - ID Unit
- DWI Seizure Unit
- Property Crimes
Areas Requesting Volunteers
- Planning Section
- Inspections/Accreditation Unit
- Court Services
- Chaplain Unit
Join Us
Would you like to join the team? If you are interested in becoming a Volunteer:
Download, open, and print the following documents:
Volunteer Police Chaplain
Application for Volunteer Police Chaplain
Complete the documents and return to APD Volunteer Services at 5408 2nd Street NW, Albuquerque, New Mexico or fax the documents to (505) 768-2134.


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Economic stimulus funding for health IT means CIOs have a role in fixing the U.S. health-care system.
The U.S. economic stimulus package is the biggest thing that's ever happened in health IT.
That's what Dr. Mark Leavitt says about the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) of 2009, which promises to spend nearly $20 billion on technology use in health care.
Leavitt, chairman of the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology, which certifies electronic health records (EHRs), recently compared the challenge of creating a nationwide network of interoperable EHRs by 2014 to NASA's manned spaceflight mission to the moon in the 1960s.
The federal government plans to kick its purchasing power into high gear by offering Medicare and Medicaid bonuses to physicians and hospitals that demonstrate "meaningful use" of interoperable, certified EHRs starting in 2011. The stimulus package also provides billions of grant dollars to federal and state organizations for research and the promotion of health-IT adoption.
One ramification is that state CIOs will begin paying much more attention to health projects, predicts Erica Drazen, managing partner of emerging practices at research firm CSC Global Healthcare Sector. The states pay for a lot of care, she noted, and if there continue to be islands of automation that can't share data, states won't see the quality or cost improvements they hope to achieve. "For states that have made progress on health-information exchange, this is their time in the limelight," she said. "For ones that haven't made much progress, it is time to step up."
The sudden flurry of activity has put a spotlight on public-sector CIOs who have been working in the field for years. The following are profiles of five federal, state and municipal IT leaders; their ongoing efforts to make use of health IT; and their thoughts on the stimulus act's impact on their work.
Dr. Theresa Cullen remembers a day more than 20 years ago when she saw 80 patients in her primary-care practice on the Tohono O'odham Nation reservation in Arizona.
That day she decided technology had to play a larger role in her practice. "I realized we were pedaling as fast as we could," said Cullen, now CIO of the federal Indian Health Service (IHS). "We had to take better advantage of any resources available to us."
Dr. Theresa Cullen, CIO, federal Indian Health Service/Photo by Cade Martin
The IHS faces daunting challenges: It does cradle-to-grave care for 3.3 million American Indians and Alaska natives in the most remote areas of the country. Its population has the highest disease burden and the lowest life expectancy of any U.S. group, according to Cullen. Although the IHS operates 518 hospitals, clinics and other facilities, about 70 percent of its work is primary care. "We face fiscal and human-resource constraints that forced a recognition that we need to leverage IT," Cullen said.
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Cullen was involved in piloting the IHS clinical information system called Resource and Patient Management System (RPMS), an open source system that uses the same kernel as the Veterans Health Administration's VistA EHR. As CIO since 2006, Cullen has overseen the continued growth of RPMS, including the 2007 rollout of a clinical decision support aid called iCare.
The tool employs a graphical user interface and easy-to-build templates to help doctors and case managers identify patients who need special attention, and compares their charts to clinical quality measures. The main targets are chronic illnesses like diabetes, obesity and heart disease.
"Let's say I am going to see 20 patients today," Cullen explained. "I can run their records beforehand against 24 agency-defined clinical quality measures, and perhaps another 10 that the community has defined as important."
The tool also sorts through patients' records and looks for indications of diseases by predefinitions. "When you log on in the morning, it tells you that three people you saw yesterday meet the criteria for a certain condition," she said. "The providers are not forgetful. They are just overwhelmed. This generates reminders for them."
ARRA provided $85 million for the IHS to use on health IT. Cullen's goals include upgrading the agency's wide-area network to enable more telemedicine and teleradiology work.
"It is a very exciting time, but also a burden because we want to leverage these funds in a way that provides good value and helps the Indian people," Cullen said. "But we also have to be good stewards of the taxpayers' money in terms of application planning."
That's why she likes that RPMS is an open source system that's starting to be reused elsewhere. "We have partnerships with community health centers in West Virginia and Hawaii that are starting to use the software, and we get good input from them that helps us guide development," she said.
Cullen believes that in some ways the IHS has had to play the unfortunate role of test case for the rest of the country. "We have had to deal with childhood obesity and a diabetes epidemic before the rest of the population," she said. "We have been using IT tools and have been aggregating data to help with our response, and the lessons we've learned could extend out."
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CIOs often note that making EHRs ubiquitous is really just the first step; EHRs by themselves won't automatically transform health care or lower costs. What could achieve those goals is a focus on quality initiatives to deal with issues like chronic disease and resource utilization.
Those types of quality initiatives are already under way at New York City Health and Hospitals Corp. (HHC) under the direction of Dr. Louis Capponi, the system's chief medical informatics officer.
The largest municipal hospital and health-care system in the country, the HHC has a $5.4 billion budget and serves 1.3 million New Yorkers and nearly 400,000 who are uninsured.
Working with the HHC's CIO, Frances Pandolfi, Capponi has overseen a gradual improvement and customization of the EHR system that was initiated in 1991 and is now used at all 11 HHC hospitals and community clinics. "Some health systems may find themselves begging clinicians to use their system, but we have an enthusiastic user community," Capponi said. "These early adopters are sophisticated, and things have been implemented in a highly customized way." Among other undertakings, he led a two-year effort to train more than 3,000 nurses to use the HHC's electronic medication administration record.
Dr. Louis Capponi, chief medical informatics officer, New York City Health and Hospitals Corp. Photo courtesy of Dr. Louis Capponi
Several years ago, Capponi and HHC colleagues began working on an electronic patient registry to improve health outcomes for approximately 50,000 diabetic patients in the system. Patient information is mined from the EHR and sent into a clinical data warehouse. Then a Web-based application allows care coordinators, nurses and physicians to study outcome data concerning the population of diabetics. "They are used to seeing one patient at a time," Capponi explained. "This gives them a bigger view."
The registry helps clinics measure their performance at helping patients control blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol levels. They can see whether patients are getting essential eye and foot exams. Decision-support tools are available to help doctors follow best clinical practices. The Web application has been live since 2006, Capponi said. "And we are already seeing improvements in some of these indicators."
Although the HHC may be a pioneer in some uses of health IT, Capponi hopes the system can benefit from ARRA. "We want to take advantage of a service-oriented architecture to add more decision-support tools and integrated workflow engines," he said. "Health IT is still in its infancy. The goal is to make health care more efficient. We need the tools to enable us to gain the efficiencies that you have when you buy a book on Amazon or book your own travel online. Those technologies are not being widely used in health care as they are in other industries. That's why the stimulus is so important."
The HHC also is committed to data interoperability and is involved in the design of three regional health-information exchanges. "As a safety-net hospital group, we see a lot of the same patients as the city's academic and nonprofit hospitals," Capponi explained. "We want to make the sharing of patient data as seamless as possible." But for that interoperability to happen, he said, there must be standards to facilitate the communication, just as in the 19th century when the growth of the railroads required all tracks be the same width.
For health IT leaders in the U.S. military, a longstanding goal -- not to mention a huge task -- has been to improve the electronic health-information sharing between the Military Health System (MHS) and the Veterans Health Administration.
Facing a congressional mandate that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense systems be made fully interoperable by Sept. 30, 2009, the departments say they are seeing considerable progress.
Making those systems work together is a top priority for Chuck Campbell, who has been CIO of the MHS since September 2007. "We are already sharing a lot of data, and the secretaries of the two departments are working on how we can share even more seamlessly," he said.
While applauding the progress, a March 2009 U.S. Government Accountability Office report criticized the joint-agency effort for not identifying results-oriented performance goals and not completing all necessary activities to set up an interagency program office that would be accountable for fulfilling the departments' interoperability plans.
Chuck Campbell, CIO, Military Health System. Photo courtesy of Chuck Campbell
Campbell, who previously served as deputy CIO of the Veterans Health Administration, claims that the involved agencies will meet the provisions of the September mandate in terms of sharing clinical data and will continue to streamline data transfer between MHS's Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application and the VA's VistA.
Work on interoperability began in 2002, with the creation of the Federal Health-Information Exchange, which sent data on separated or retired military personnel to the VA, Campbell explained. Next, a bidirectional health-information exchange was tackled because 3.2 million people are eligible to be seen in both systems. A more recent development is a clinical data repository connecting the two clinical systems in a "computable" way. For instance, if a patient goes to a VA facility to fill one prescription and goes to the MHS for another, the system automatically searches both databases to ensure there's no negative drug interaction, he said.
A new goal for the MHS and VA is to build enterprise services that can be used by both. It should save time and resources, Campbell said. Another objective is to work with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on the development of a national health-information network. "We want to provide access to our data for those who need it," he said. "When you combine the VA, MHS and Indian Health Service, we represent a lot of beneficiaries. We can play a major positive role."
In March, the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs announced the formation of a working group to pursue a joint lifetime EHR for service members, veterans and their families. The goal is not to replace any of the existing systems, but to create a virtual record that pulls data from both the VA and DoD systems in a Web services approach using service-oriented architecture.
Kathy Frye has learned that some health-IT projects involve breaking down barriers between government agencies and health providers. As the CIO of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Frye said those projects may sometimes involve redesigning business processes, but the results are often worth the effort.
Five years ago, she was deeply involved when the Cabinet's Office of Information Technology sought to improve collaboration by modernizing and integrating siloed legacy systems in the health and human services arena. For several years she had served as the division director of systems development for the Cabinet, then as deputy CIO from 2006 to 2008, before being named CIO in November 2008.
Kathy Frye, CIO, Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services. Photo courtesy of Kathy Frye
One project she's proud of is KY-CHILD (Kentucky Certificate of Birth, Hearing, Immunization and Lab Data), a Web application launched in 2006 that integrates data from the Office of Vital Statistics, the Commission for Children with Special Health Care Needs, the Kentucky State Public Health Laboratory and the Division for Adult and Child Health.
KY-CHILD allows electronic collection and submission of data related to birth certificates, and newborn metabolic and hearing screenings. The centralized database has eliminated some redundant data-collection systems and manual data entry.
"Now if a child is born in one hospital, but then is transferred for care, the second hospital can look up those records in a Web-based system," Frye explained. "Each child has a unique identifier, and all information about [him or her] is available through a single, integrated Web application."
The project, which won an American Council for Technology interagency solution award in 2007, required working closely with external and internal business partners, including birthing facilities in large and small hospitals statewide. "We had to take the time to listen to their concerns in designing the system," Frye said, because sometimes it meant the hospitals had to change their business practices.
The data gathered in KY-CHILD may become part of a larger effort. Kentucky is planning to use a Medicaid transformation grant to help pay for building a statewide health-information exchange, with the goal of gaining efficiencies and driving down costs. Funding from the stimulus package also may help. "Because some of the stimulus funding is time-limited, there's a sense that we have to work quickly," Frye said. "But we are very excited about it."
State government Medicaid systems are a crucial player in health-data sharing because they insure so many people. One state that has taken the lead in offering physicians access to electronic claims information is Tennessee. Its managed-care Medicaid system, TennCare, is one of the largest players in Shared Health, a public-private health-information exchange.
"We have our entire managed care population of 1.1 million on it and 3,000 registered providers," said Brent Antony, CIO of the Bureau of TennCare.
The Shared Health project was launched in 2005 as a Web-based tool to let providers view claims-based data about their patients, including prescription information.
"We thought this would prompt more questions for providers," Antony said, "because it would offer them details that they may not be aware of."
Brent Antony, CIO, Bureau of TennCare. Photo courtesy of Brent Antony
The claims-based EHR contains diagnoses, procedure or visit information, and prescription histories. It also offers some nonclaim information, such as lab results and immunization records provided by the state public health department. Shared Health published results of a 2006 study that it claims demonstrates a 17 percent efficiency gain among practices using its clinical health record.
The software is a conglomeration of several off-the-shelf products built on top of an Oracle data warehouse.
Some aspects of the system have been popular with clinicians from day one, Antony said. They find it valuable and relatively easy to look at pharmacy claims data, which helps them avoid drug-interaction problems. Other aspects needed to be refined. "Doctors were not thrilled about looking through 48 months of claims data on a screen," he said, "so we added clinical decision-support tools to help them drill down through all that data."
Antony, who previously held IT leadership positions with Boston Children's Hospital and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, talks weekly with Shared Health's CIO about future plans and new functionality, and gets regular reports on usage statistics.
Antony also works closely with state CIO Mark Bengel on statewide e-health initiatives. "This can't be done solely from the Medicaid office," he said. "We have a very health-savvy governor in Phil Bredesen, and this has been one of his focus areas." He said both Bredesen and Bengel realize that a large portion of state dollars is going to health care and that by improving health-care delivery, there's potential for great cost savings.
The Tennessee Office of e-Health Initiatives has a grant program to encourage EHR adoption in the state, and Antony expects the stimulus funding to enhance those efforts.
So far, TennCare has a head start on most states' health IT efforts in their Medicaid organizations, Antony said, not so much in terms of functionality, but in how broadly deployed it is. "We have an electronic health record for a sizable chunk of the state's population," he said. "We had to build that critical mass to make it work into clinicians' workflow."


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The IndieCade International Festival of Independent Games kicks off in Culver City, California tomorrow, October 1, a four day blowout of events, exhibitions and keynotes that highlight the best of independent games. You should go!
For game enthusiasts who may find themselves in the greater Los Angeles area, you'll be lucky enough to have access to indie game exhibitions for a nominal entrance fee. That means more than two dozen selected independent games, all of which will be on hand at the Wonderful World of Art Gallery, Culver Hotel Mezzanine and Gregg Fleishman Gallery daily from 10 AM to 7 PM.
Also attending this year's IndieCade will be game development luminaries such as Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi, Will Wright, Henry Jenkins, Jenova Chen and many, many more. Some will even give thrilling keynote speeches! Hearing those in real-time might cost you a little more.
More information on IndieCade 2009 is available at the official site. I'll be there. Will you?
IndieCade 2009 [Official Site]


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Join the weekly Classic Castle set review discussion. Please post your opinions on the set play ability, piece selection, design, etc. Which sets stand up to our catapult of critique and which ones crumble in shame!
This week's set is 7041 Troll Battle Wheel.
This wheel driven siege machine was released for the Trolls in 2008
Three crown soldiers defend their spike covered battlement with a catapult. Two trolls propel the giant siege wheels. A third troll controls the siege tower and its' firing projectile.
Various accessories such as a banner, pikes, troll swords, crossbow, shields, sword, and flags are included.


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LaShawn Hill charged with sexual abuse of two special needs students
A former Boston teacher's aide has pleaded guilty to sexual abuse of two special needs students in different schools last year.
The Suffolk District Attorney's office said 34-year-old LaShawn Hill pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count each of indecent assault and battery on a child, lewd and lascivious conduct, and lascivious acts with a child.
Prosecutors said Hill inappropriately touched a developmentally disabled boy about 7 years old in a school bathroom in March 2011. Prosecutors said Hill was found in December 2011 in a theraputic recreation room at a different school with a 14-year-old severely autistic boy. They said Hill's pants and the boy's pants were unbuckled.
Hill was sentenced to one to three years in prison, followed by five years' probation including avoiding unsupervised association with children and electronic monitoring.


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Parent Child Information Centre
Start Date: 8/10/2020 1:00:00 PM
End Date: 8/10/2020 3:30:00 PM
Location: Sault Ste. Marie
Parent Child Information Centre drop-in.
Date: Monday to Friday 1:00pm - 3:30pm
Where: 294 Willow Ave, Sault Ste. Marie
Staffed by a public health nurse. Infant weight checks, breastfeeding support, screening and support for Postpartum Anxiety and Mood Disorders, nutrition screening for your toddler and preschooler
If you live in Wawa, Blind River or Elliot Lake, please call your local office.


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Maggie O'Sullivan
Maggie O'Sullivan was born in Lincolnshire to Irish parents. Poet, artist, editor, publisher, she has performed and published her work since the late 1970s.
Arshile Gorky, "Study for "Nighttime, Enigma and Nostalgia"
"Elegy" (after Arshile Gorky)
You measured things by weight.
You loved the feel & shape of apricots
the wave & sway of fields of grain
the strength & pressure of waterfalls
the flow & shimmer of rivers
the luxuriance of orange, amber & terracotta
on naked paper
the drift & wing, flutter & rustle
of birds & leaves.
You loved the surreal
the song
the edible
and, above all,
Your palette unfurls a flirtation
of glow & shadow,
a tenderness of breasts,
a poignant sweet incense of lemons
figs olives honey &
cherry trees in blossom.
The sanctuary holds all.
The bitter-red roses,
the scarlet-red crest of the cock,
the shivering silver sickness of poplar leaves
and the pallid hands, distorted, flat
as icons. [...]
Malevich, "White on White" (1918)
white on white
white square on white ground
white ground on white square
groundlight on white
white on light
white nothing
nothing within nothing
within nothing nakendess
white nothing
nothing revealing
nothing reveals nothing
yielding nothing
nothing yields nothing
* with many thanks to R O'B


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FRAMINGHAM - A usually peaceful and erudite curator, Jessica Roscio hopes visitors venture into recently installed "minefields'' at Danforth Art.
Relax, there's nothing dangerous underfoot in these two exciting new exhibitions at the downtown art museum. But visitors might be surprised by many artists' imaginative use of materials and startled by their bold creativity.
As usual, the paired shows, "Off the Wall" and "Community of Artists,'' have been drawn from hundreds of artists who are members of the museum and whose works have been selected, respectively, by guest curator Jennifer Gross and Danforth Executive Director Katherine French.
"We're really hoping people come in and immerse themselves in this aesthetic experience,'' said Roscio.
Without specific themes, such exhibits often reflect the curators' personal tastes and interests in sampling, said Roscio, "some of the best regional art around.''
After viewing about 1,500 works by 500 artists, Gross selected just 53 works by 37 artists, roughly half as many participants as in recent shows.
The chief curator and deputy director of curatorial affairs at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, she chose varied works in many media that, she said, "I believe reflects well the singular ambition of the individual artist.''
Gross has selected a remarkable range of paintings, photographs, prints and drawings, installations and works that define easy definition.
Visitors to the central Pigors Gallery will likely be dazzled by a constellation of striking works that just seem to explode – as the show's title promises – "Off the Wall.''
Self-taught Ashfield artist Jamie Young's gorgeous 5-by-5-foot oil "One More Day'' combines a realistic depiction of blossoming flowers infused by her expressionist's willingness "to let emotions and mystery direct the work.''
Hanging on an adjacent wall, Worcester artist Anne Harris' vibrant, "Mountains over Bash Bish'' uses oil and house paint on a 6-by-11-foot unstretched canvas to capture the brilliant hues and visceral textures of a landscape inspired by the state park in southwestern Massachusetts.
Framing the gallery entrance, Julia Talcott's two subtly tinted-linocuts, "Log'' and "Nature Girl,'' mix precise natural imagery with hot red suns that bring them alive in dramatic ways.
Prominently positioned by French, who hung the show, the three works reflect Gross' approach: "Whether this was technique, beauty, innovation, political or social expression, I was drawn to works that capture the integrity of a unique vision.''
Gross selected three prizewinners and six honorable mentions: Talcott, of Newton, for "Log,'' Jodi Colella, of Somerville, for her charcoal drawing "Traces I,'' and Deborah Baronas, of Barrington, Rhode Island, for her installation "Into the Shade.''
Honorable mentions winners were: Lesley Cohen, Sara Fine-Wilson, Katherine Gulla, Carolyn Newberg, Gerri Rachins and Jenny Wiener.
Leading a tour of the exhibits, Roscio said artists in both shows "spanned the spectrum'' in their choices of subjects, styles and material.
She felt Gross, the former curator of modern and contemporary art at the Yale University Art Gallery, was drawn to works in varied media that displayed "a classic, linear graphic feel.''
Much of this show's fun and fascination will come from serendipitous encounters with artists who have loaded their works with sly surprises and unexpected delights.
Viewers of Wellesley artist Anne Lambert's whimsical installation, "Copy Cats (take one home),'' are invited to take away a photocopy of a cat picture. Look closely at Natick photographer Steve Miller's image of a nude female, titled "Porcelain,'' and consider what she meant by the tattooed words on her arm, "Memory is a dead end,'' and then ask whether it's a sly joke photoshopped in on his part.
Nearby, Esther Pullman, of Cambridge, plays with colors and viewers' perspectives in three related photos of a house from varied points of view, " Upside Down,'' "Outside In'' and "Inside Out.''
Organized by French, the considerably larger "Community of Artists'' showcases 187 works by 183 artists who were among the 500 who submitted work for both shows.
Partially as a result of its size, this exhibits feature a very wide range of work from starkly realistic photos to abstract paintings, from inventive multimedia pieces to, in French's words, "strangely maniacal rabbits which hop surrealistically'' from gallery to gallery.
It also includes numerous works by local artists.
Framingham photographer Lynne Damianos conveys both grandeur and solitude in her brooding "Boston Skyline,'' while Marie Craig, of Natick, merges the exactness of Western-style landscapes with an Eastern sense of nature's transitory beauty in her photo, "Refraction (Beijing).''
In her oil painting, "Shower in the Turquoise,'' Carolyn Evans, of Natick, transforms a gentle rainstorm into a torrent of luminous yet subtle colors while Framingham painter Nan Hass Feldman depicts a "Living Room in Paris'' in a swirl of hot reds, fecund greens and soothing yellows.
Self-taught photographer Dennis Stein, of Medfield, reveals the intricacies of a moth's wings in stunning close-up while Michael Stepansky, of Holliston, gives what's probably an everyday childhood moment a Diane Arbus spookiness in his black-and-white image, "Education.''
Several works defy conventional definitions.
In his imposing 5-by-5-foot paining, "The Dual Caddy Dreamtime of Mojo Krome,'' Ken Tighe, of Natick, has painted a powerful, multilayered portrait that raises profound questions about race while Holliston artist Michael Frassinelli's intricate photo assemblage, "Selfie,'' is strange, scary and very much an ironic reflection of contemporary narcissism.
Jessica Roscio was right. Together, these two shows are minefields that explode with strikingly original works that will blow you away.
Chris Bergeron is a Daily News staff writer. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com or 508-626-4448. Follow us on Twitter @WickedLocalArts and on Facebook.
"Off the Wall'' and "Community of Artists''
WHEN: Through Aug. 3
WHERE: Danforth Art, 123 Union Ave., Framingham
INFO: 508-620-0050; www.danforthart.org
An explosion of art at the Danforth
FRAMINGHAM - A usually peaceful and erudite curator, Jessica Roscio hopes visitors venture into recently installed "minefields'' at Danforth Art.


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Former Weezer bass player Mikey Welsh, 40, was found dead in a Chicago hotel room Saturday afternoon, officials said.
A drug overdose is suspected as the cause, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner. An autopsy Sunday was inconclusive, pending toxicology tests.
Staff at the Raffaello Hotel, at 201 E. Delaware Pl., reportedly found Welsh on the floor of his hotel room after he was late checking out Saturday afternoon.
U.S. & World
The band, which is scheduled to headline the Riot Fest show at the Congress Theater in Chicago Sunday night, posted a message about death on their Facebook fan page. It reads:
Dear friends and fans,
It saddens me and the guys in Weezer so much to say that our beautiful, creative, hilarious and sweet friend Mikey Welsh has passed away at the very young age of 40. A unique talent, a deeply loving friend and father, and a great artist is gone, but we will never forget him. His chapter in the weezer story ('98 - '01) was vital, essential, wild, and amazing.
Mikey was never one to shy away from the absurd, dangerous or strange, and he did so with a gusto few others had. No one had quite the stage presence of Mikey, nor have there been many who pulled the types of shenanigans he did at shows. If it rocked, he had to try it - and he always found a way to pull it off.
When he emerged from his nervous breakdown that spelled his exit from the rock n roll world, he took on a new role as an astonishing and pure visual artist. It was a glorious flowering of a talent he always possessed, but he had chosen to rock out first, paint later. Our more recent meet-ups at weezer shows, including recently at the Weezer/Flaming Lips show at Jones Beach were always a great time. We will miss him terribly. Our deepest heartfelt condolences go out to his family and friends. The world has lost a truly one of a kind guy.
The band's note indicated they would still be playing their show at the Congress Theater later Sunday.


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Hola, amores! Today is the day that Husband and I are jetting to Spain, and I am over the moon. Here is our itinerary:
3 days of tapas, museum-going, shopping, and sight-seeing in Madrid
4 days of exploring the old city of Sevilla, with lots of salsa dancing
1 day trip to the Algarve in Portugal and enjoying the beautiful drive along the coast
1 day in Trujillo, a quaint village outside of Madrid
Cannot wait to catch up with you all and share lots of photos and stories when we return! Besos!