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Perhaps you wonder what I've been doing with my spare time lately. Well, I've been mastering the creation of metal daisies.
Here's a photo of some of the 50-or-so metal flowers I've made. Keely's wedding colors are sage green and chocolate brown, so I made my flowers as close as I thought I could to those colors.
The daisies are made from aluminum flashing. Each has two layers of petals and a fancy button at the center.
The tall sprays are made from some tiny brooches I bought on eBay. I popped the pins off their backs and wired them to stems in groups of three.
And the two little flowers with orange centers and turquoise-beaded edges are buttons.
These will supplement the brooches in the bouquets for Keely's wedding (a smaller brooch bouquet for the maid of honor and a larger one for the bride.)
I think Keely said that she might still attach some leaves. The stems will be wrapped with ribbon.
These photos don't really do it justice -- the flash was too harsh. It's very pretty. I was really amazed and happy that it looks so good. We're going to make the bride's bouquet this weekend.
I still have to make a few more flowers for the decorations. I will probably post a tutorial later about how to put them together, as I think my method is a big improvement over the instructions I started with. I'll also try to do a tutorial about how Keely wired the brooches and put the bouquet together.
Don't hold your breath, though. The tutorials aren't likely to appear until well after the wedding!
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A recent study has come up with some shocking news: life expectancy of the least educated white Americans, both men and women, is going down. White women without a high school diploma now live five years less on the average than they did 20 years ago: for white male dropouts, the decline is three years.
This is a calamity matched only by the six-year decline in longevity among Russian men in the waning years of Communism there. But that decline, blamed on rampant alcoholism, has been mostly reversed.
What's going on here? No one really knows, but my bet is that the cause is economic -- the collapse of the industrial, steady, low-wage jobs that once supported even the least-educated Americans. These people once were lower middle-class. Now they're just poor, the losers in the global economy, increasingly cut off from jobs, a steady income and, not incidentally, decent health care.
In a sense, we've been here before. What's happening to this new white underclass is a repeat of what happened to the black American underclass in the wake of the collapse of urban industry. That destroyed economy hit inner-city blacks 30 years ago, with results that echo today. Now, it's hitting whites, with results that mostly are yet to come.
So far as I can see, blacks never experienced the severe dip in longevity afflicting low-income whites today. According to the Center for Disease Control, average life expectancy for black men dipped by a year or two between 1984 and 1989, largely due to HIV and homicides. But black life expectancy is still shockingly low -- an average of 67.6 years for black men, as opposed to nearly 75 years for white men, according to a UCLA study. Black women live nearly 75 years on the average, but this is still five years less than the 80-year average for white women.
I wrote about this in my book, Caught in the Middle, on the impact of globalization on the Midwest. In a chapter entitled "Left Behind," I described the plight of urban blacks, the descendants of Southerners who came north in the Great Migration between 1915 and 1970, to escape Jim Crow laws down south and to find jobs in the booming factories of Chicago, Detroit and other cities. Since the '60s, the departure of this industry destroyed jobs, mostly held by men, and stranded families in a familiar cycle of unemployment, bad schools, crime, drugs, single-parent households and, increasingly low life expectancy.
More recently, this industrial collapse swept through the Midwest, hitting white workers and their communities as hard as black workers and towns. Most of all, the Midwesterners now being "left behind" are rural whites, a clan about as far from urban blacks as one can imagine but now sharing the same pathology -- poverty, bad health, reliance on government handouts, high dropout rates, drugs, down-home religions, broken families, empty futures.
Charles Murray and other writers have remarked on this growing gap between rich and poor white Americans. Murray called them virtually separate nations, with radically different patterns of marriage, work habits, education, religion, politics, even diet and TV watching. Some of Murray's past work is suspect -- he once found whites genetically superior to blacks. But his latest book, Coming Apart, argues that "our nation is coming apart at the seams -- not ethnic seams, but the seams of class." My own reporting in the left-behind stretches of the industrial Midwest supports much of this.
Murray doesn't think economic distress has much to do with this. He's wrong. The economic disasters that struck inner-city African Americans 30 years ago is happening again to whites, in both cause and effect. There's no reason to think these effects will stop with the decline in longevity among the first-hit and the worst-hit.
The latest longevity findings were in a study led by S. Jay Olshansky, a public health professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. They showed that white female high school dropouts lived only 73.5 years on the average in 2008, down exactly five years from the 78.5 years they could expect in 1990. For white male dropouts, the drop was three years, from 70.5 years in 1990 to 67.5 years in 2008.
In the same period, both black and Latino life expectancy rose at all levels of education.
Other studies have shown vast differences in life expectancy between education levels, incomes, race and other factors. If the average white male dropout can expect to live only 67.5 years, white men with a college degree have an expectancy of 80.4 years, a 13-year gap. Those white women dropouts, with an expectancy of 73.5 years, are ten years behind white women with a college degree.
It gets worse. A National Institutes of Health study reported that black men live on the average eighteen years less than Asian females. Some geographical differences take this to even greater extremes: Native American men in one impoverished area of South Dakota live only 58 years on the average, fully 33 years less than the 91 years expected by Asian females in Bergen County, N.J., a high-rent district just across the Hudson River from Manhattan.
Genetics may have something to do with it. But not as much as economics and the fallout from economic differences. Poor people get less schooling, which leads to worse jobs, which leads to poorer lifestyles, which leads to stress, which leads to more smoking and drinking, which increases the chances of joblessness, which means no health insurance, all of which adds up to the kind of debilitating despair that never lengthened anyone's life.
Will life expectancy figures for whites begin to dip toward those of blacks? Possibly. The relatively short life expectancy for black men, for instance, is the result of two centuries of reduced life chances, in which the average man moved from slavery to sharecropping to a hard but relatively secure life on assembly lines, to unemployment when those lines closed, followed by several decades now of insecure employment, no health insurance, a vanishing role as the family breadwinner, bad diet and, increasingly, heavy drug use. White men in the Midwestern industrial belt enjoyed decades of economic stability, but for many of them, that's gone now. The least educated were hit first, and the longevity statistics illustrate the result.
Richard Longworth is a Senior Fellow at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He is the author of Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism, now out in paperback (Bloomsbury USA). He writes at The Midwesterner: Blogging the Global Midwest, where this piece originally appeared.

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A Pierce County man pleaded guilty today to two counts of forgery after falsely claiming that two bicycles worth $17,000 were stolen from his garage.
John L. Southerly, of Fox Island, was sentenced in Pierce County Superior Court to 45 days of electronic home monitoring and $800 in fees.
In May 2011, Southerly told his insurance company that two Specialized Epic bicycles and accessories had been stolen. He filed a police report with a Pierce County sheriff's deputy, saying that he'd left his garage door open and discovered that the two bikes, valued at $17,562, were gone.
Southerly told his insurer, Travelers Indemnity Co., that he'd bought both bikes from an Arizona company. When Travelers asked for copies of his receipts, Southerly sent an email that was purportedly from the bike company. The bike company email came from a Gmail account. Attached was an invoice for each bike. Southerly later also filed a sworn statement of proof of loss for the bikes.
Travelers sent an investigator to talk to the bike shop owner and try to verify that the invoices were authentic. No, the owner said, pointing out discrepancies.
Then, last June, Travelers received an email from a different Gmail address.
"This is Detective Harris," it began. "I work out of the Tacoma office. I am trying to follow up on a case that involves Mr. Southerly..."
The email didn't contain contact information for this "Detective Harris," or even specify which law enforcement agency the detective supposedly worked for.
Travelers denied Southerly's claim and turned the case over to the state insurance commissioner's Special Investigations Unit. It quickly determined that there was no "Detective Harris" working for the Pierce County Sheriff's Office, the Tacoma Police Department or the Lakewood Police Department.
With search warrants, the Special Investigations Unit determined that both Gmail accounts listed Southerly's real email as a secondary contact and were sent from Southerly's IP address.
Southerly, who did not show up for a scheduled court appearance earlier this year, was arrested in August while leaving a gym after a workout.
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Cameron Diaz + Jason Segel Open Up On Filming 'Sex Tape' Sex Scenes
Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel are starring in an upcoming movie all about a sex tape, appropriately called 'Sex Tape,' and they revealed what it was like to film their bedroom scenes together.
"I think we were really kind of spur of the moment with it," Jason told Entertainment Weekly, according to E!. "What was really amazing about doing it with Cameron is, I think, she and I come from a similar place when it comes to comedy. We don't have a tremendous sense of pride or shame."
He continued, "It was really like doing it with a buddy, which was cool. And the thing about the sex tape, they need to be embarrassed that it gets out…we really didn't want it to be sensual or sexy."
It's not hard to imagine that actors with comedy masterpieces like 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' and 'There's Something About Mary' under their belts excelled at acting out a hilariously embarrassing sex tape.
"You wanted it to be kind of ridiculous, and absurd and humiliating," Cameron said of the fake tape.
When asked about how they worked out the logistics of the on-camera movements and positions, she added, "We kind of made s--- up as we went along."
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Richard A. Destito, a 1998 graduate of SUNY Canton and real estate investor and entrepreneur, will talk about changing the way people think and feel about urban living March 6. Destito has received local and national media attention for his creative approach to revitalizing one of the poorest neighborhoods in Syracuse.
"We use this series to raise campus and community awareness about environmental and sustainability issues and how they touch each and every one of us in our careers and lives," said Matthew J. Burnett, assistant professor of Graphic and Multimedia Design at SUNY Canton, who created the series. "This year, the speaker lineup includes a SUNY Canton alumnus with a fresh take on community development in urban centers, and a new star in LEED architecture who works in the Adirondacks."
Jesse Schwartzberg, founder of the Saranac Lake-based green design and consulting firm Black Mountain Design Build, will discuss "Making the Home That You Want with Maximum Energy Efficiency" March 20. Schwartzberg was a consultant on the first LEED-platinum status home in the Adirondacks.
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On Wednesday the Senate Intelligence Committee issued a devastating report that blamed the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton's State Department for security failures leading up to the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack.
While the Big Three (ABC, CBS and NBC) networks covered the report for a day, they found another event far more compelling -- the First Lady's 50th birthday bash, spending twice as much time on the White House party than Benghazi.
Starting Wednesday, January 15 through this morning (January 20), the ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news shows collectively spent just under 15 minutes on the Benghazi report (14 minutes, 49 seconds), vs. nearly a half-hour on Michelle's birthday (28 minutes, 4 seconds). There were 20 stories/segments on the First Lady's birthday vs. 10 on the Benghazi report.
ABC was the most wildly out of line -- 10 minutes on Michelle's birthday vs. just 2 minutes on Benghazi. NBC spent twice as much time on the birthday (12 ½ minutes) as Benghazi (6 ½ minutes), while CBS actually gave slightly more time to Benghazi (6 minutes) vs. Michelle (5 ½ minutes).
The following NBC montage is representative of the tone of the Big Three's birthday coverage:
ABC started pre-partying two days before Michelle's actual birthday on Friday. ABC's Lara Spencer, on Wednesday's Good Morning America, focused on a People magazine interview "just before her 50th birthday" on "her take on plastic surgery and Botox." Spencer then gleefully teased: "The big day is fast approaching." Through Monday morning ABC had devoted five full reports and two briefs to the First Lady's birthday.
NBC started their celebration on Thursday's Today show with White House correspondent Kristen Welker, as she excitedly declared: "For days they've been gearing up for a big bash here at the White House. Guests were told to wear comfortable shoes and to be prepared to move around a lot, an indication there will be no shortage of dancing here. You can also bet there will be a long list of celebrities to pull off a party fit for a First Lady."
NBC kept the party going with segments on Friday, Saturday and even Monday morning, where Today show weatherman Al Roker gushed about his time at the Saturday event: "It was a house party that happened to be in the White House. My wife Deborah and I went. And it was – yeah, there were all these stars, which was kind of terrific...Beyonce was performing, Paul McCartney was talking or was kind of grooving with Stevie Wonder...It was unbelievable...I actually got to boogie a little with the First Lady." Through Monday morning NBC had spent a total of four full reports and four briefs to Michelle's birthday party.
In contrast CBS acted like the responsible adult in the room as they devoted slightly more time to Benghazi than to the White House shindig. But even they couldn't help being swept up in the excitement as Norah O'Donnell, on Friday's CBS This Morning, squealed: "This is a big morning for First Lady Michelle Obama. Today, she turns fifty years old, and she's getting ready for a big party. As Chip Reid reports, parts of the celebration are still secret but dancing shoes are a must." In total CBS issued two full reports and three briefs on Michelle's 50th birthday.
The overall disparity in coverage the Big Three networks gave to a White House birthday party for Michelle Obama compared to the damaging Benghazi report should tell viewers all they need to know about how far in the tank the ABC, CBS and NBC are in for the Obamas and Hillary Clinton.
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An eager crowd packed L'etage Tuesday night for this month's edition of Camp Woods Plus, Philadelphia's only alternative sketch comedy showcase. Joining Camp Woods this month was New York duo We're Matt Weir and local sketch group The Judo Range.
The Judo Range opened the show with a mix of new sketches and material previously seen at their Philly Improv Theater show and The Theme Show. Their set was tight, and the strongest I've seen from them overall – getting solid laughs with sketches about the secrets behind national monuments, a plumber giving a priest advice on how he can "clean his pipes" and the origin of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The highlight of their set was a delightfully bizarre sketch called Chris McGrail's Shaving Corner in which McGrail bestows some wisdom on the fine art of shearing. The Judo Range is a group beginning to find and develop its voice and figure out who they want to be on stage. Their sketches blend dark humor and some edgy topics with a surreal slant that will be fun to watch grow as the group continues to develop.
The last time I saw We're Matt Weir they were asking Philadelphians to put their mother fucking hands in the sky if they loved weed in front of Mayor Michael Nutter (and a packed house) at Philly Improv Theater. Less than two months later, the duo was back (with a little help from some friends) with a brand new set of hilarious material. The Matts opened the show by slapping a volunteer from the audience with some cash and continued with sketches that explored a man's search to find love despite his obsession with his own status as a worker in a sludge pit, an overly self-loathing stand-up comedian dumping his problems on the audience, a friendly hip hop group, and a nosy cooking show host that ends up looking for secrets of the wrong home cooked meal. We're Matt Weir combines high energy performances and offbeat premises or twists with strong joke writing to put on a consistently great show. Their style also uses many sketches that have the characters directly addressing the audience – making them feel a part of the show the entire time.
Camp Woods closed out the show, as always, with a set that well-represented their wide range of talents and showcased their unique style and comedic point of view. The set opened with a fantastic sketch about a group of heroes known as The Fart Fuckers set to embark on a quest. The sketch revealed the heroes were toys being played with by three brothers, one of which inserts his real life father issues into his characters actions and words. The sketch showcased Camp Woods' ability to pinpoint a dark issue or deep emotional problem a character has that manifests itself in a hilarious way that makes for a brilliant sketch. This is a tool they have used before, and will surely will use again, as it creates a sketch that is not only funny on the surface, but also has a deep, emotional backbone. The set took a turn for the bizarre with a pair of sketches featuring Mr. Abernathy, a man who tricks his neighbor into stealing a dog, and an Admiral with a strange problem that makes his saliva dissolve human hair. The sketches worked well, anchored by strong performances in those roles by Billy Bob Thompson (as Mr. Abernathy) and Brendan Kennedy (as the Admiral) as well as Sam Narisi and Madonna Refugia in the sketches supporting roles. Next we saw JP Boudwin as the Communist Math Teacher – who learns a little something from his students about America followed by Pat Foy as an Austin Powers impersonator who slowly realizes his life may not be as great as it used to seem. The set closed with a mourner (Rob Baniewicz) being consoled by a chain of stand-up spooners who may or may not actually know the deceased. The final sketches were full of great individual jokes as well as characters with a strong hook that comes through in their actions. With Camp Woods, it's always show and not tell – as the characters' true feelings and real personality come through in what they do and how they do it – never in exposition.
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Three weeks ago, production wrapped on Before Midnight, the third entry in the incredibly well regarded Before Sunrise/Sunset series directed by Richard Linklater. The fascinating thing: nobody even knew the picture had been written or was in production. The films, for those unfamiliar, follow Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) as they meet, talk and fall in love all in a day and night.
At the press junket for Sinister earlier today, I had the opportunity to speak with star Ethan Hawke about the recently shot and wrapped Before Midnight. Hawke was more than willing to open up about the newest entry in the series, the writing process behind the films and whether or not Before Midnight will be the last in the series. For Hawke's thought on the film, hit the jump.
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Ethan Hawke: [Before Midnight's] really a continuation. For me, we just filmed it a couple days ago and I'm still kind of high from the experience. The hardest thing will certainly be… that the first two have a real following. People care about these characters and we really feel an obligation not to let people down about it. But at the same time, there's no way we're going to make everybody happy so we just had to try to go about with the same approach and same attitude. I love this movie. And I feel like in a strange way we may have come to the end of the story.
So this is the last one. I can't expect another "Before" film every six or seven years?
Ethan Hawke: We'll see. We'll see. You never know but it feels like the story's reaching its resolution.
What's the writing process now like between you, Julie Delpy and Richard Linklater?
Ethan Hawke: It's an unbelievably weird experience. On all the movies it's happened really organically and each one in a completely different way. But the short answer is that we usually, the three of us, have gotten together and figured out an outline of where the characters are right now and an outline of what the movie would be. Then we go off separately and write a lot and come back together and compare what we've written. And kinda take the greatest hits of everybody's work.
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Release Date: October 10, 2013
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Rina Das Eiden, PhD, senior research scientist in the University at Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions, has been recognized for her scientific accomplishments with an invitation to serve on a National Institutes of Health review panel.
Eiden will serve as a member of the Psychosocial Development, Risk and Prevention Study Section for the NIH's Center for Scientific Review.
In this role, she will review grant applications submitted to the NIH, make recommendations on the applications to the appropriate NIH national advisory council or board and survey the status of research in their fields of science.
"An appointment such as this is an honor and is a testament to a researcher's scholarly impact," said Kenneth Leonard, RIA director. "Dr. Eiden is very deserving of such recognition due to her significant research on how alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use among parents impact infant and child development."
RIA is a research center of the University at Buffalo (UB) and a national leader in the study of alcohol and substance abuse issues. RIA's research programs, most of which have multiple year funding, are supported by federal and private foundation grants. Located on UB's Downtown Campus, RIA is a member of the dynamic Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and helps promote UB's strategic focus on research initiatives.
Cathy Wilde
Communications Director
Research Institute on Addictions
Tel: 716-887-3365


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Thanks to Hollywood Jon, I now have a DCOE for the digger. Hope this weekend I'll start fabbing up my intake to the supercharger. All my parts to make this happen are starting to come together.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
The Weber is here!
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Labels: Digger
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Art for art's sake
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Monday, March 28, 2011
Digger Monday
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Labels: Digger, stolen pic
Friday, March 25, 2011
tIt's Friday... the old days
Where did tittie lane go? Most shows had one. If you were a chick and didn't want to show 'em, you didn't walk down it. Kinda disappeared in the mid to late '90's here. Ah...the good old days. It's time we bring this fine tradition back!
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Labels: fuck political correctness, tits
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Allentown Bike Extravaganza
There were plenty of good deals, but unfortunately nothing I needed. The bike show was pretty good, glad to see the fat tire bikes are slowly disappearing. These were a few of my faves from the show.
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Labels: shows
Monday, March 21, 2011
Digger Monday!
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Labels: Digger
Friday, March 18, 2011
Killing time gas tank
Sometimes we have a couple hours to kill at work. Out of sheer boredom, I started this tank. I had an old mustang I couldn't even give away, maybe cause of the yellow paint so I figured I'd hack it up. Hopefully Saturday will be slow and I can work on it some more.
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Labels: fab
Tits Friday
Sometimes you just need to look at things from a different perspective.
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Labels: tits
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Happy Saint Paddy's Day!
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Batt's Boyz
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Monday, March 14, 2011
Digger Monday
Ol' Johnny stumbled upon Bill Gardner's LowLife. Pretty much all original except it's missing the turbo. Last I heard it was up for sale, cheap.
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Labels: Digger
Saturday, March 12, 2011
My boys win!
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Labels: NHL
Friday, March 11, 2011
Judson Supercharger
Rebuilding my 36hp Judson. I bought this about 20 years ago. Had it on a VW trike for awhile. Always toyed with the idea of putting this on one my of Triumph scoots. Right now they're bringing stupid money, so it's going up for sale to help fund the digger.
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Whatever the aim, be it seascape or city destination, weekend getaway or expedition to the ends of the earth, Louis Vuitton is continually reinventing The Spirit of Travel. Horizon luggage is now available in a Check-in size to enhance the long-haul travel experience. This sleek, lightweight luggage featuring four silent wheels and a secure lock will accompany you wherever you go.
Alongside the five new Check-in size models, three Cabin size designs have been added to the Horizon collection. The Monogram and Damier Graphite canvas versions can be customised with your initials, while the Epi leather option comes in precious black or denim blue. Explore new horizons.
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July 29 - 30, 2013 - The Hotel Kabuki, San Francisco, California
The return on our investment in time and moneyfor the shows like this one, proves to us why we have continued to participate. These smaller more intimate venues have resulted in leads with substance and higher future business potential.
A terrific forum for the exchange of ideas, well attended with decision makers in both DoD and industry
This has been an outstanding conference, primarily, due to the quality of presentors and invitees.
IQPC has been hosting events developed for Senior executives for more than thirty years. We serve businesses representing over 15 industries at more than 1500 conferences around the globe. Our client list includes corporations like Ricoh, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Walmart, Carlson, Mercedes Benz, ABN AMRO, IBM, Cisco, Wachovia, Pfizer, Chevron Texaco, Cingular and T-mobile just to name a select few. Senior executives travel from around the world to our events looking to garner best practices and concrete solutions to assist them in improving their organizations. IQPC provides many different platforms for sponsors to increase their market share and awareness to their target audience through leveraging different sponsorship opportunities involved with our events. Please contact our sponsorship team to discuss which package will best help you achieve your marketing goals.
Because we know that each Sponsor has a different message, business development goal and branding initiative each Sponsorship package is tailored to your corporate strategies. Though most Sponsorships offer multiple levels and types of exposure, there are a few main ways for you to highlight your corporate strengths.
As a Sponsor your company will gain second to none exposure to those executives at the point in time that they are seeking systems, information and solutions for improving their firms strategies. The delegates in attendance will relate your firm's solutions to the high quality of information and best practices that make up the conference. In short your systems and services will be associated with the best of breed initiatives and case studies. For a select few Sponsors there will be opportunities to support high level content and the speaker faculty of the program. These highly selective sponsorships allow your firm to establish tremendous capability & expertise in your specialty as well as highlight successful work completed with your clients.
Branding is often a major initiative for our clients who are seeking to get the message out about their offerings. As a Sponsor your firm's logo will appear alongside of the global leaders associated with best practices in this area. IQPC leverages multiple media outlets including online, direct mail, email, press releases and media partnerships to publicize the event. We offer some key platforms for you to get across your brand image to our customer base and your prospects.
Networking and information sharing are two major aspects of the conferences and IQPC builds in many opportunities for Sponsors to enjoy & benefit from meeting the leaders in the space. As a Sponsor your company will have access to all onsite networking functions at the conference. They include two Breakfast sessions, four refreshment break sessions and two conference wide luncheons. The exhibit hall is designed to be the heart of the event a place to network meet and share strategies with key decision makers involved in and our sponsors will receive premium booth location during the show. Additionally IQPC offers a selection of Sponsorships that enable our clients to increase their opportunity to develop new relationships during our events.
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Mitsubishi Triton
Engineered beyond tough.
Double Cab models provide ample load capacity with 1520mm in length, 1470mm in width and 475mm in depth. Featuring 6 inner cargo bed hooks and a rear gate with an easy to use single handle, the extra reinforcement in the construction of the spacious cargo bed makes it even more durable. Couple this with impressive power and torque and you can be confident that Triton will move whatever you need to with ease.
Exterior Features
It's not afraid of a hard day's work
For almost 40 years the Mitsubishi Triton has helped Australians get the hard jobs done. Engineered to deliver power, performance, 5-star safety, towing and the latest technology, this is one tough ute that nothing can frighten. The GLS and GLS Premium 4x4 Double Cabs are the ultimate sports trucks, with a standard sports bar, 18" alloy wheels, LED Daytime Running Lamps and an array of MiTEC safety and connectivity features.View Inventory Book a Test Drive
Interior Features
Spacious Cabin
Mitsubishi Triton Double Cabs offer a spacious cabin with generous rear seat legroom and a reclined seatback angle providing plenty of leg, shoulder and head room in the front and back, to easily carry five adults. With convenient features like Smartphone tray and USB charging sockets in centre console for front seat and rear seat passengers (GLS and GLS Premium models).View Inventory Book a Test Drive
At the core of Triton sits this refined and super-responsive 2.4L DOHC MIVEC 16 valve common rail intercooled diesel engine. An aluminium cylinder block, and strong yet lightweight materials reduce weight, and with a compression ratio of 15.5:1, it's among the quietest and most efficient diesel engines on the market contributing to better torque and speed power across the whole rev range. In fact, we know it will exceed your expectations. Peak power is 133kW at 3500rpm, while torque is an impressive 430Nm at 2500rpm across both manual and automatic transmission models. The lightweight engine achieves low fuel consumption and CO2 emissions across the range, while also delivering outstanding power and performance.
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Safety Features
Active Stability & Traction Control
Active Stability Control (ASC) intuitively recognises over-steer or under-steer and applies brake force to appropriate wheels to keep you online through corners. While Active Traction Control helps you maintain traction on the most slippery or rugged of surfaces. This system automatically controls the engine output, so driving wheels are prevented from spinning. Sensing loss of traction in an independent wheel, ATC applies braking force to that wheel and sends power and torque to other wheels with traction to keep you moving.
Trailer Stability Assist
To prevent 'trailer swing' when towing at speed, Trailer Stability Assist (TSA) will control individual wheel slip to stabilise the trailer. The system detects when the trailer is starting to oscillate and automatically warns drivers behind by flashing brake lights on both the car and trailer.
Mitsubishi Motors Intuitive Technology, or MiTEC, is an integrated system of brilliant innovations in action, working in unison to guide and protect, alert and connect, even entertain. It thinks like you, reacts like you, before you even know it. Delivering unsurpassed safety and next generation features to the modern-day driver.
Disclaimer: Please drive safely and never rely solely on these systems while driving. Drivers are fully responsible for their own safe driving.
- Ultrasonic misacceleration Mitigation System (UMS)3
- Blind Spot Warning (BSW) & Lane Change Assist (LCA)4
- Rear Cross Traffic Alert (RCTA)5
- Lane Departure Warning (LDW)+
- Hill Descent Controll (HDC)Π
- Multi Around Monitor#
- Forward Collision Mitigation (FCM) with pedestrian detection6+
- Auto High Beam (AHB)Π
- Hill Start Assist (HSA)
- Auto Rain Sensing Wipers+
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- Trailer Stability Assist (TSA)
- Anti-lock Braking System (ABS) & Electronic Brakeforce Distribution (EBD)
Triton Range
Single Cab
Available in 4x2 and 4x4
- 2.4L MPI Petrol / 2.4L MIVEC Diesel
- 5 or 6 speed manual / 6 speed automatic transmission
- Cab Chassis
- Heavy Duty Suspension
- Active Stability and Traction Control
- 5 star ANCAP
Note: Engine and transmission combination dependent on model
Club Cab
Available in 4x4
- 2.4L MIVEC Diesel
- Cab Chassis or Pick Up
- Easy Select 4WD
- Reverse Camera (GLX+)
- Rear Parking Sensors (GLX+)
- Smartphone Link Display Audio (GLX+)
- Forward Collision Mitigation with Pedestrian Detection (GLX ADAS, GLX+)
- Lane Departure Warning (GLX ADAS, GLX+)
- Heavy Duty Suspension
- Trailer Stability Assist
- 3 tonne towing
Double Cab
Available in 4x2 and 4x4
- 2.4L MIVEC Diesel
- Pick Up (with Cab Chassis option on GLX 4x4)
- Super Select II 4WD with Off Road Mode and Hill Descent Control (GLS & GLS Premium)
- Rear differential lock (GLS Premium)
- Forward Collision Mitigation with Pedestrian Detection (GLX ADAS, GLX+, GLS, GLS Premium)
- Lane Departure Warning (GLX ADAS, GLX+, GLS, GLS Premium)
- Blind Spot Warning with Lane Change Assist (GLS, GLS Premium)
- Rear Cross Traffic Alert (GLS, GLS Premium)
- Smartphone Link Display Audio (GLX+, GLS, GLS Premium)
- Reverse Camera (All Pick Up models)
- Rear Parking Sensors (All Pick Up models)
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Topic: error installing in freebsd
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- iRedMail version: 0.8.6
- Store mail accounts in which backend (LDAP/MySQL/PGSQL): Mysql
- Linux/BSD distribution name and version: Freebsd 9.2
- Related log if you're reporting an issue:
Hi all after trying for several days to install,every time i get a little bit further.
After solving probs with mysql and apache now i have the lates error and don't know how to go fom here.
Is htere anyone who can help me to solve this?
Could give you acces by teamviewer if that's easier.
This is the latest error.
libtool: link: ( cd ".libs" && rm -f "libsql.la" && ln -s "../libsql.la" "libsql.la" )
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There are many things that you need to manage when it comes to medical supplies and following ideas help you in making informative decisions. An effective health supply management is the result of effort to retrieve and integrate significant medical details, alongside best practice knowledge of medication coverage billing and coding professionals. It isn't tough to think the possibility of an accident, while you being in other city, state, or nation. You are rushed to nearby health care clinic and the attending doctor has no knowledge of the current pharmaceuticals or medicines you may be sensitive to. In such cases, you need to give sufficient information to the physician.
manage your medical supplies
Here are some guidelines to manage your medication supplies:
Familiarize: If you see carefully, you could find a lot of waste in the drugs industry and it is mainly due to people are unfamiliar with the product and hence curious about its details. Medicine not supposed to stored or keep open for a longer time. Most medicines require to remain unopened, so as to make sure a sterile environment, until the time for use. If it is opened, you can't save it for future use. To reduce waste, increase knowledge, and avoid curiosity, you can keep some products on hand for practice and training purposes
Standardize: It's vital that, if products used in an international standards, all supplies in your kit should be tagged with multi lingual formats. You could also ask for a guide or label installed to the medical kit with details written in English translated to other applicable languages.
Simplify: If you keep your inventory or record system simpler, you can enhance the compliance and quality of your drugs suppliers. There are enough example demonstrating supplies ordered based on desires and hunches over accurate catalog count.
manage your medical supplies
Protect: You need to store your medical supplies in a durable container and most soft goods and manufacturers don't plan for their materials to be kept in the shipping box they are transported. Ensure to take medical supplies from the original storage box and preserve them in a see-through box or container. It might eat up your time in the beginning, but definitely reduce waste by avoiding over-stocking and breakage.
Minimize: Few supplies required at the moment and if it is needed, you actually order more than intended and store them in a closet. When it is preserved in the obscure place, it becomes hard to keep track of what all items been stored. Reduce your distance between the storage areas as much you can and it is vital to keep medical equipments close as well as easily accessible.
Track: Do not simply give the orders, without checking whether it is over or needed urgently. Be strict, when it comes to your ordering abilities. You need to manage the supplies orders to avoid preferential booking from one supplier to the next. There could be some exceptions for specific supplies, like preferred PPE, glove type and you need to follow strict standardization.
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"We're telling everyone to make sure that you are prepared for longer lines"
Paul Joseph Watson
November 1, 2013
Volunteers working for food banks are "panicking" over the demand they are likely to face later this month from Americans on food stamps who have seen their benefits slashed.
From today, $5 billion will be wiped off the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program as a result of a planned stimulus withdrawal. Almost 50 million Americans who are supported by the program, 21 million of them added to the rolls since 2008, will suffer an average loss of $36 dollars a month, which equates to a deficit of about one week of meals per month.
The impact of the cut won't really begin to be felt until three weeks into the month of November since that's when most people have typically exhausted their food stamp credit.
According to Margaret Purvis, the CEO of the largest food bank in America, members of her Food Bank for New York City organization, are "panicking" over the decrease in benefits, fearing a rush of hungry Americans
"We're telling everyone to make sure that you are prepared for longer lines," Purvis told NBC News.
Purvis invoked the threat of the food stamp cut causing unrest earlier this week when she told Salon.com, "If you look across the world, riots always begin typically the same way: when people cannot afford to eat food."
Her comments were echoed by Jim Weill, president of the Food Research and Action Center, who stated, "It's going to send people into a charitable system that's already overwhelmed and screaming for help itself."
A bipartisan group of Democrats and Republicans voted to end the stimulus program that paid for the temporary food stamp increase, preferring to spend the money on education and school nutrition programs.
The cut won't just affect those who are unemployed since over half of food stamp recipients have jobs but don't make enough money to be able to pay all their bills and cover groceries.
"It's always, 'I've got to get something for my kids.' They're not coming in and asking for snacks or this or that. They're asking for things like milk and cereal," said Purvis, adding that parents are struggling to feed their children breakfast.
The cuts "will be close to catastrophic for many people," Ross Fraser, a spokesman for Feeding America, the nation's largest domestic hunger-relief charity, told CBS News.
As we saw earlier this month, a glitch in the system which temporarily halted EBT purchases for just a few hours led to looting and mini-riots at several Walmart stores.
Reacting to the downtime, food stamp recipients warned that if the glitch was to re-occur it would lead to Rodney King-style riots, a reference to the 1992 L.A. riots which resulted in 53 deaths, 2,000 injuries and over $1 billion dollars in property damages.
Fox News' Neil Cavuto suggested that the Department of Homeland Security's recent $80 million dollar outlay on armed guards to protect government buildings in upstate New York was related to potential food stamp riots.
As we reported on Wednesday, the DHS has also purchased half a million dollars worth of fully automatic pepper spray launchers and projectiles that are designed to be used during riot control situations.
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by John Jackson Miller
estimates for October 2011 comics orders by comics shops in North America are now online here at The Comics Chronicles, and as speculated upon last week when Diamond Comic Distributors provided the first taste of data for this second full month of the DC relaunch, it was a record-setting time in many ways:
• Highest dollar sales for the Top 300 comics. Retailers ordered comics in the Top 300 worth $25.36 million in October, the highest total for that figure since the Diamond Exclusive Era began in the mid-1990s. The previous record was held by October 2008, with $24.9 million in orders. The totals in the early 1990s were likely higher, even given inflation.
|Number of titles from each publisher in the Top 300, 1997-present.
• Largest number of issues reappearing in the Top 300. I haven't really kept this statistic before, but there always a few titles from the previous month that reappear on the list. As mentioned, this month dwarfed any previous experiences, as 51 out of the 52 DC reboot titles that appeared on the charts in September 2011 reappeared. (The only which didn't make the Top 300 again is Men of War, but that is not necessarily because of a lack of demand — if most of its print run was reported by Diamond as sold in September, it might not have charted again.)
Usually, when titles reappear, it's because of reorders; in the DC case, 41 titles from September were made returnable, with their reported sales levels reduced. Squaring up September and October finds that Diamond reported sales of 670,000 copies of those September #1s in October; that's an addition of 19.5% on top of the 3.43 million copies those comics sold when they first came out. It's not clear whether those are all reorders being reported, or Diamond logging the returnable over-run copies as sold. But the reappearance of so many DC titles on the charts directly led to the next record...
• Fewest publishers with titles in the Top 300. Often when the major publishers are prolific or producing many blockbusters with reorder activity, the number of publishers who make up the Top 300 shrinks. This month, only 13 publishers made the Top 300, the lowest level since the folding of Heroes World Distribution in 1997. The previous low, 15 publishers, had been seen in June of the last two years. And the large number of major publisher titles in the Top 300 led to the next record...
• Highest orders for the 300th place title. I've talked here before about the 300th place title as a benchmark for how comics are performing at the farther end of the sales spectrum. This month, Robert E. Howard's Savage Sword #3 from Dark Horse set a record for the highest number of copies ordered at that position, 5,167 copies. It beats a nearly 15-year-old record, Archie's Cheryl Blossom Goes Hollywood from November 1996.
As a consequence of there being so few publishers in the Top 300, Diamond's supplemental tables listing top independent and small press performers dug especially deep, as readers will see here; the table has 45 entries below 300th place, going all the way down to 425th place. We see again the strength of the long tail in periodicals from this, as the next 125 comics after 300th place add 400,000 copies worth nearly $1.5 million to overall sales, or between 5-6% again what the Top 300 sold.
There are some superlatives that don't rise to the level of records, but are noteworthy nonetheless. Trades were off this month, but the Top 300 comics plus the Top 300 trades posted their highest dollar sales since July 2009. Unit sales within the Top 300 comics were no record, but at 7.59 million copies was at the highest level since December 2008. It was, in fact, the best the best October for periodical units since 1997. And with them, the unit sales total for the Top 300 turned positive for the year.
Finally, something Comichron doesn't normally track is worth mentioning. Many have expressed interest in how the DC reboot titles would fare across time. I have described here in the past how the month-to-month sales reports that Diamond provides aren't a perfect measure of any title's individual, ongoing performance; there's too much statistical noise. If any title shipped in Week 3 of September and shipped in Week 4 of October, those titles would appear from the charts to have sold less in October even if the eventual sales are identical. (We already know that a fifth week adds 11% in unit sales to the market.) Since I'm not prepared to go digging around in the shipping files to add a column for weeks-on-sale, I don't tend to make those comparisons here very much.
But anyone can compare the numbers from the two months, and this is what they'll find in aggregate: Diamond reported orders for the 52 DC reboot titles of 3.43 million copies in September (this includes the copies of Justice League shipped in August). The October orders for those 52 titles were 3.22 million copies, a second-issue drop of only 6%, line-wide. That is a much lower figure than most new series see, and, in fact, we find that a number of titles — from Catwoman to Detective to Red Hood — had higher first-month orders for #2 than they had for #1.
Now, there are again caveats, in addition to those already mentioned: the September #1s had additional sales in October, as well, to the tune of 19.5% of their September totals. But to compare apples to apples, at this point we have to look at initial, first-month demand — and here, it looks like, by the time retailers were ordering for October, they approached the market with a certain amount of additional confidence and cash.
The aggregate totals:
TOP 300 COMICS UNIT SALESOctober 2011: 7.59 million copies
Versus 1 year ago this month: +31%
Versus 5 years ago this month: +24%
Versus 10 years ago this month: +18%
Versus 15 years ago this month: -27%
YEAR TO DATE: 58.96 million copies, +1% vs. 2010, -12% vs. 2006, +8% vs. 2001
October 2011 versus one year ago this month: +32.12%
TOP 300 COMICS DOLLAR SALESOctober 2011: $25.36 million
Versus 1 year ago this month: +22%
Versus 5 years ago this month:+33%
Versus 10 years ago this month: +40%
Versus 15 years ago this month: +1%
YEAR TO DATE: $202.85 million, -1% vs. 2010, -1% vs. 2006, +34% vs. 2001
October 2011 versus one year ago this month: +24.37%
TOP 300 TRADE PAPERBACK DOLLAR SALESOctober 2011: $5.78 million
Versus 1 year ago this month: -19%
Versus 5 years ago this month, just the Top 100 vs. the Top 100: -28%
Versus 10 years ago this month, just the Top 25 vs. the Top 25: +32%
YEAR TO DATE: $56.84 million, -9% vs. 2010
October 2011 versus one year ago this month: -12.9%
TOP 300 COMICS + TOP 300 TRADE PAPERBACK DOLLAR SALESOctober 2011: $31.14 million
Versus 1 year ago this month: +11%
Versus 5 years ago this month, counting just the Top 100 TPBs: +20%
Versus 10 years ago this month, counting just the Top 25 TPBs: +35%
YEAR TO DATE: $259.69 million, -11% vs. 2010
October 2011 versus one year ago this month: +11.93%
OVERALL DIAMOND SALES (including all comics, trades, and magazines)October 2011: approximately $40.8 million (subject to revision)
Versus 1 year ago this month: +11%
Versus 5 years ago this month: +33%
YEAR TO DATE: $339.4 million, -2% vs. 2010
The average comic book in the Top 300 cost $3.41, with the average comic book ordered by retailers costing $3.34. $2.99 was the median and most common price of comics.
As mentioned here earlier, 2011 now has at least a shot at matching or beating last year's $418.6 million total; November 2011 has those five shipping weeks, and the hurdles for beating November and December 2010 are lower. We'd need to get year-over-year improvements in the 10% range again to hit the break-even point. But it's reachable, especially if trade paperbacks pick up. Trade paperback sales tend to echo the popularity of whatever comics were coming out six months earlier, for obvious reasons; we're getting out of the weak winter and more into the stronger summer season for reprint fare.
Finally some quick housekeeping notes: Comichron now has a Facebook page — and you can also follow us on Twitter.


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PS4 system update 7.00 is out now
PS4's latest big firmware update has finally arrived.
Firmware headlines
New Nintendo Switch firmware is now live
There are definitely more words in this post than there are the entirety of Nintendo's patch notes.
PS4 System Update 4.0 releasing today, includes HDR and updated Quick Menu
The long-awaited 'Shingen' update brings High Dynamic Range to the masses.
New PS4 firmware update 3.11 is live
Another stability update for your console.
PS4 Firmware Update 1.75 is out now
Sony's released PS4 Firmeware Update 1.75, adding 3D Blu-ray support and more.
Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD fixed with optional PS3 firmware 4.31
Sony has released a relatively minor, optional firmware update for the PlayStation 3, which brings the system up to version 4.31.
PlayStation Vita updates to Firmware 1.60 on Wednesday
Sony's will release on Wednesday Firmware 1.60 for PlayStation Vita in Japan, the first significant update to the handheld since its launch in Japan last December.
Vita to feature less "intrusive" firmware upgrades
We just can't get enough of the PlayStation Vita, and it's still several months away from release. Aside from a couple of notable exceptions, every detail seems to make us want the handheld even more. Now, Sony has spoken up, admitting that there were some problems in the PS3 networking side of things, and promising […]
New 360 boot animation filmed off debug screen
You know that unconfirmed 360 Firmware Kinect upgrade? This is what it looks like when it starts up.
Report: 360 getting USB storage support in spring firmware update
If this Joystiq report's to be believed, the next big 360 firmware update is to add save support for USB devices.
Sony's John Koller talks 3D integration on PS3, calls it "fantastic"
John Koller, Sony's head of PlayStation marketing, has weighed in on all the 3D hype at CES 2010 and reiterated Sony's stance that 3D integration on PS3 is "as simple as a firmware update".
PS3 firmware 3.10 to introduce Facebook functionality, other tweaks
Not to be outdone by the Xbox 360's upcoming social media frenzy, Sony's been doing a little super-poking around of its own. The result: PS3-powered Facebook updates.If you so choose, the PS3 will soon be able to update your Facebook status each time you earn a Trophy or make a purchase on the PlayStation Store. […]
PSP firmware 6.10 introduces Bluetooth tethering, music stuff [Updated]
Update: It's live. Make with the downloading.Over on the PlayStation blog, PSN Operations Director Eric Lempel brings word that PSP firmware 6.10 is just about cooked through. No date yet, but it's coming "soon."Along with a couple of music-centric features, the update adds bluetooth tethering, which allows you to sync your PSP with your cell […]
360 firmware update goes live
Microsoft's put live a promised 360 firmware upgrade. Sign into Live now and you'll be prompted to download it.There were some reported issues with connecting to Live after applying the update, but these have now been resolved. More on that here.The update's a preparatory thing for Twitter, Facebook and Last.fm. No new features are included.
Rumour - PSP Firmware 6.00 in developers hands
According to a report by French site PSPGEN (via MaxConsole), PSP Firmware 6.00 is already in the hands of developers.The French site does have an image showing what update the PSP is running on, but other then that, there is no more info on that end.Go catch whatever info there may be through the first […]
Sony: PS3 firmware 3.0 is the "last major update for 2009"
Do you constantly fret about keeping your PS3 up-to-date and purring like a Blu-Ray-compatible kitten? Well then, you'll be happy to hear that you've got the rest of 2009 off, as PS3 firmware 3.0 is the last major update Sony's doling out in 2009."This is a big and significant update, so you would be correct […]
XMB battery glitch "definitely being corrected"
Sony's Eric Lempel has told PC World that the XMB glitch the causes the battery meter to cover PS3's clock is going to be fixed."I personally don't like that either, and it's something that's definitely being corrected," he said.Thank gravy for that. Lempel added that the major update coming to PS3's UI later this year […]
360 Firmware update out now! (It doesn't do anything)
Microsoft, probably seething with rage at being left out of the console software update party this morning, has released a Firmware update for Xbox 360.Don't shit yourself just yet. It doesn't do anything you'll notice."This update addresses interruption issues that some Xbox Live users may have experienced when playing a limited number of Xbox 360 […]
PSP 5.01 firmware update coming soon
This PlayStation Blog entry explains that PSP users who have a 8Gb or 16Gb Pro Duo Memory sticks are having problems downloading content from the new PSP store (issued in firmware 5.0) and thus firmware 5.01 will be winging its way to us in due course. There. Long sentence I know, but I wanted to […]
Firmware 2.41 is live
The PlayStation Blog is reporting that firmware 2.41 is now live. Sony's Eric Lempel:"Hi, everyone. As many of you know, we released PS3 firmware update v2.40 last week, but had to take it offline temporarily because, for a limited number of users, the XMB wouldn't display after the update was installed. We've been able to […]
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Reducing hospital readmissions for heart failure
Nurse-pharmacist teams key to better outcomes
Sacramento resident Gerald Ferguson, 64, isn't sure how long he's been suffering from congestive heart failure (CHF), but he does know when the condition got his attention.
"I woke up in the middle of the night and my heart was pounding, and I was breathing like I was running out of air," Ferguson said.
A trip to UC Davis Medical Center's emergency department soon confirmed that he had a serious, potentially fatal, condition. He was quickly admitted and his condition stabilized. And although he was discharged a few days later, that wasn't the end of his problem. Ferguson now had to manage his chronic disease.
Controlling CHF
Congestive heart failure is a very common condition, which the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute estimates affects about 5.8 million individuals in the U.S. alone. It is a leading cause of hospital stays among people on Medicare.
The condition can stem from previous heart attacks, long-term high blood pressure, a congenital valve defect or even genetic problems with heart muscle proteins. As a result, the heart can't pump enough blood to meet the body's demands. Patients feel weak, congested and fatigued. Poor blood flow causes fluid buildup around the heart, lungs and other parts of the body.
CHF is fatal, but before it kills, it often destroys quality of life. Patients can be too weak to perform the simplest activities: getting dressed, going to the store and walking to the mailbox. However, with proper management, people can regain these capabilities and spend less time in the hospital.
Comprehensive approach to care
" Heart failure is a complex condition, and you need everybody involved: pharmacy, nursing, social work, physicians and clerical staff."
— Kathleen Tong
Patients with heart failure have complex medication regimens and dietary restrictions requiring frequent medication adjustments and monitoring. They also often have difficulty in adhering to complex treatment, which may lead to a more rapid progression of their disease and problems that require emergency care or hospitalization.
In 2011, UC Davis assistant professor of cardiology Kathleen Tong established a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to heart-failure care that has reduced UC Davis Medical Center readmissions to as low as 13 percent in 2013 – well below the national average of 24 percent.
The program excels at identifying heart failure patients and following up. This means providing timely case management, education and ongoing assistance.
"By educating patients, we empower them to take better care of themselves," Tong said. "We help them with medication adherence and understanding what the drugs do. We counsel them on lifestyle choices and help them understand the symptoms that indicate their heart failure is getting worse. All of this helps to keep them healthier and out of the hospital."
But it's only half the battle.
Tong has found that it's equally important to have dedicated nurse and pharmacist teams available across the continuum of care – in the hospital, cardiac specialty clinic and primary care offices – to meet the diverse needs of low- and high-risk patients and help them successfully manage their conditions.
The teams help resolve a wide range of patient and operations-related difficulties. They help patients make follow-up appointments, facilitate communication between health-care providers, alleviate confusion over prescribed medications and address transportation issues.
"Heart failure is a complex condition, and you need everybody involved: pharmacy, nursing, social work, physicians and clerical staff," she said.
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Ferguson only spent a few days in the hospital, but he had to make a deal with Tong to get discharged.
"She told me I could get out on Friday, but only if I came to the clinic on Monday," Ferguson said. "I said, 'Doc, under the circumstances, I don't think you have a lot to worry about.'"
Though no one wants to be diagnosed with a chronic heart condition, Ferguson appreciates the straight talk.
"I didn't want the information sugar-coated," he said. "I wanted the cold, hard facts. It's the only way I could deal with conducting my life."
For Ferguson and other CHF patients, the cold hard facts mean multiple medications, including diuretics to keep fluid levels down. Patients must also restrict alcohol, and liquids of all types, as well as reduce salt intake and stress. The heart failure clinic staff follow up periodically to ensure he's on track.
"We want to teach patients how to improve their lifestyle in practical ways," Tong said. "Not everyone can afford to shop at Whole Foods. But we point out to patients, for example, if they eat frozen green beans instead of canned, they can really reduce their salt burden."
Equally important, the clinic helps patients like Gerald Ferguson learn about their condition and make tangible changes to improve their health and well-being.
"I've known a number of people with congestive heart failure," Ferguson said. "Those who listened to physicians and took care of themselves are doing alright, and those who didn't are feeding tulips. That's not something I want to be doing."


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My name is Jeff, 52 yrs. old and living in Charlotte, NC. I started skating in the early 70's and use to skate pools and half pipes all the time. My friends and I were on the local skate park team in Ohio. We lived and breathed skate boarding and would travel the US in search of the ultimate skate experiences. In the summer of 78 we hit AZ and southern CA for two months and returned home to the news our park was closing. It was happening all over the US and was pretty much the end of an era. We all went our separate ways, college, military or real life jobs. A couple of my friends moved to FL or CA and continued the lifestyle and are still very much involved in skate boarding, either teaching or sponsoring current pros like, Andy MacDonald and Mimi Knoop, to drop a couple of names.
Anyway, I got in touch with my old friend and told him I wanted to start skating again after more than 30 years. He said cool, btw, he skates Bucky Laseks pool at least once a week, and he would hook me up with a new ride. He sent me a, Grind for Life deck with Jessup grip, since he's friends with Mike Rogers, on top of Indy 161's and rolling with Bones limited edition Skatopia's. Awesome ride.
Recently, I have been to the local skate park in Charlotte, NC to see if I could still do it and to my surprise, I could still ride the vert. Not as well as I'd like, but okay for an old man.
To paraphrase the late great Jay Adams, You didn't get to old to skate, you got old because you didn't skate, or something like that. Well now I dream skating again and go to the park as often as I can, but it's not enough, because of time and distance.
Solution, build a half pipe in my backyard. I'm doing the research and I'll be posting my questions in the forum.
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The reformers decided upon the Westminster Confession of Faith 350 years ago. Where did they receive such revelation?
In order to answer your question I need to make certain distinctions.
First of all, we cannot quite say that "the reformers decided upon the Westminster Confession of Faith [WCF] 350 years ago," unless it be clear that we are not talking about such men as Martin Luther and John Calvin, men greatly used of God during the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century. The Westminster Assembly (during which the WCF was written) took place in the 17th century after such men had passed from the scene. In addition, it was only those later "reformers" living in England and Scotland who formulated this confession.
It is also important to acknowledge that the Westminster Divines (the word "divine" simply means "minister" or church "elder") owed a huge debt to others. The body of ministers and elders who met for years as the Westminster Assembly had the creeds and catechisms of those who had gone before them. This included such great formulations as the Belgic Confession, and the Heidelberg Catechism (which are still adhered to by many today).
But that is not all! They also had before them the Apostles' Creed, the Nicean Creed, and the Athanasian Creeds of earlier church history. And while the WCF is justly celebrated for the way in which that rich heritage is carefully preserved (and much more succinctly stated), it would not be right to give all the credit to the Westminster Divines.
You ask: "Where did they receive such revelation?" The answer to that is that they received it in the same way that the church of God has always received it. They received it through the inspired prophets and apostles. It is for this reason that the Apostle Paul says the church is "built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets."
The Old Testament prophets and New Testament apostles, of course, received God's revelation directly from God. We (along with those who attended the Westminster Assembly) receive it indirectly through their inspired writings.
That is why the Apostle John says "that which we have seen and heard we declare to you" (1 John 1:3). And it is this which makes the WCF such an outstanding document.
Just recently our church has published this Confession in a hardback book, with all of the proof texts that support the Confession written out in full. I would suggest that you get a copy of this book. [It is available in PDF format here.] Then you can see for yourself why so many others have found—as I have—that it is the most consistently biblical creed that has ever been written.
Thanks for your interesting question.
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