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Milton 10, Parkview 0: Pitcher Alex Schnell tossed a complete-game shutout for the Eagles, who made the finals for the first time since 2004. Parkview, the 2-time defending state champion, was held to one hit in a game that was halted in the sixth inning. Dylan Cease's 2-run homer gave the Eagles the final scoring margin and allowed the mercy rule to take effect. Milton jumped all over Parkview in the first inning with a 7-run outburst. Milton advances to play rival Roswell in the state finals series.
Roswell 7, Walton 6: Syd Hopkins doubled to drive in two runs in the third inning to put visiting Roswell ahead 2-0. Lawson Dunkin had an RBI double in the fourth making it 3-0 Hornets. Walton cut it to 3-2 in the bottom of the inning, but Hopkins hit his second two-bagger of the game and sparked a four-run fifth inning that resulted in a 7-2 Roswell lead. With a two-out rally and a Chase Burks two-run homer, Walton cut the lead to 7-6 heading into the seventh inning. Roswell's last state title came in 1986.
Pope 7, Starr's Mill 6: Starr's Mill's Garrison Elliot hit a 2-run single to tie the game at 5 and force extra innings. In the top of the eighth inning, Starr's Mill had a runner on second base with no outs when lightning forced a delay. Play resumed and the Panthers loaded the bases and scored the go-ahead run off of a balk by Pope's Braden Zarbnisky. In the bottom of the inning, Patrick Wiseman drove in Jared Parker to make it 6-6 and Lowe singled in Wiseman to clinch a walk-off win.
Redan 3, Troup County 2: Troup County took a 2-0 lead in the first inning after Jacob Ozley's RBI double. In the bottom of the sixth, Redan grabbed its first lead of the game after sophomore Bakari Gayle drove in the go-ahead run. Redan's starting pitcher, Darian Osby, went six scoreless innings after giving up two in the first. Troup threatened in the final inning, but Osby forced a fly ball to leftfield that was secured by Gayle for the final out, sending Redan to its first state championship.
North Hall 4, Blessed Trinity 0: North Hall's Colton Duttweiler and Preston Graham combined to toss a 2-hit shutout in Game 3. The Trojans opened the scoring in the fifth inning on a Blessed Trinity wild pitch. North Hall added three runs in the sixth inning, including two on a home run by Stephen Murray. North Hall clinched its first trip to the state championship.
Lovett 7-2, Benedictine 1-3: Pitcher Mitch Stallings went the distance for Lovett in Game 1, striking out 10 and giving up five hits. The Lions were led at the plate by Grant Haley (2-for-4, one RBI), Sean Reagan (1-for-3, solo homer) and Nick Boden (1-for-3, 2-run homer). Benedictine scored the game-winning run in the sixth inning when Brad Stewart scored on a single by Chipper Wiley. In a losing effort, Lovett's Pearce Howell pitched a complete game and struck out 14. Game 3 will be played Wednesday.
Westminster 5, Pepperell 1: The Wildcats earned the sweep on the strength of a complete game by pitcher Conrad Cornell, who struck out five, gave up five hits and one unearned run. Visiting Westminster got on the board in the third on a 2-run single by Nelson Douglas. McClain Bradley had a RBI single in the fourth and Jake Johnson singled in a run in the fifth. Johnson added two stolen bases. Bradley Adams drove in Pepperell's only run. The Wildcats will attempt to win their first baseball state title since 1975. It would be their 12th state championship of this school year.
May 21st, 2013
9:50 pm
Pitching wins championships. Milton is loaded and Parkview found out the hard way. Game three starter almost threw a no hitter in 10-0 Milton win.milton vs rival on Saturday for state title.
May 22nd, 2013
6:49 am
Is Darian Osby related to that Osby clan which was so good at Cedar Grove 25-30 years ago? There was a Patrick Osby, and at least one more.
May 22nd, 2013
8:36 am
Looking forward to the Region 6AAAA Marist / Redan rematch. Should be interesting..Marist leads the series 3-1 this year. A baseball championship would be Marist's 8th of the 2012-2013 school year. Not bad for a true AA school playing up to AAAA!
May 22nd, 2013
8:54 am
Where is the Milton/Roswell final taking place?
May 22nd, 2013
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May 22nd, 2013
12:42 pm
AAAA Fan student populations shouldn't matter when it comes to classifications with private schools since they can recruit kids. I know because mine was approach by two. Marist has the pick of the litter across North Georgia.
May 22nd, 2013
2:27 pm
"Marist has the pick of the litter across North Georgia." Really — then name one pitcher on the current Marist baseball team who is likely to be drafted from high school, because "the litter across North Georgia" has several.
May 22nd, 2013
2:28 pm
Nort Hall beat Blessed Trinity, which beat Marist, Redan, and Roswell. All of which are in the finals of their respective class.
May 22nd, 2013
3:13 pm
Lovett beats BC 9-2 to advance to the AA finals.
May 23rd, 2013
7:18 am
Really terrible coverage of the playoffs by the AJC. Do you guys not know what a hotbed of prep baseball this area is?
May 23rd, 2013
8:10 am
From the Sidelines, you must be from the nut house… I am surely not a Marist fan but have seen them play this year and they are actually down from the past few years. I didn't see this pick of the litter across N Ga that you know so well. Those kids work hard and have gone a lot further than I ever expected to see them go.
May 23rd, 2013
8:58 am
Marist plays up to avoid the other private schools like Buford, Lovett, St. Pius and Wesleyan! They beat up on Dekalb County Schools in every sport because they can out coach 80% of all the talent that Dekalb has!
May 23rd, 2013
11:39 am
If Marist did not play up and instead played in its true classification (AA), then it would not be in the same classification as Buford or SPX. (And in any event, Buford's baseball team is nothing much.) And yes, Marist did schedule non-region games against Parkview, Brookwood, Columbus, and Greenbrier just to avoid having to play Wesleyan! Good luck to Marist in its game against DeKalb's Redan, another Region 6AAAA team.
May 23rd, 2013
1:30 pm
Anyone seen that HS pitcher Mike Hunt? Everyone wants Mike Hunt on their team…


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T. Boone Pickens is quite a focused hedge fund manager. He mainly invests in the energy market, especially in the oil and gas industry. Recently, he increased his stake by more than 60% in Range Resources Corp (NYSE: RRC). As of December 2012, Range Resources accounted for nearly 8.5% of his total portfolio. Let's take a closer look into Range Resources to see whether or not we should follow T. Boone Pickens into this company.
Business snapshot
Range Resources, incorporated in 1980, is a Texas-based independent oil and gas company involved in the exploration, development, and acquisition of oil and gas fields in the Appalachian and Southwest regions of the U.S. As of December 2012, Range Resources had around 6.5 trillion cubic feet in proved reserves, with around 74% of that natural gas. Its reserves had a life index of around 21 years, with a total pre-tax PV of $4 billion at a 10% discount on future net cash flows. The majority of its proved reserves and production -- 88% of the total proved reserves and 83% of the total production -- were from the Appalachian region. The Southwestern region only accounted for 12% of the total proved reserves and 17% of the total 2012 production. At the end of 2012, around 68% of its 2013 production was hedged.
Fluctuating performance with negative free cash flow
In the past five years, Range Resources had quite a fluctuating performance. Revenue dropped from $1.32 billion in 2008 to $907 million in 2009, and then it consistently increased to nearly $1.46 billion in 2012. In 2012, it only generated $13 million, or $0.08 per share, in profit. The small profit in 2012 was due to huge operating expenses, interest expense and depletion, depreciation and amortization expenses.
Like other oil and gas companies, Range Resources generated consistently positive operating cash flow but small and negative free cash flow. In 2012, the operating cash flow was $647 million, while the free cash flow was -$1 billion. The negative free cash flow was due to the increasing capital expenditure, especially on drilling activities. In 2013, the company intended to spend another $1.1 billion on drilling activities.
What makes me worry is its financial strength. As of Dec. 2012, Range Resources had nearly $2.6 billion in total stockholders' equity, only $252 million in cash, and nearly $2.9 billion in long term debt. Thus, in order to fund its 2013 capital expenditure and repay borrowings, Range Resources has to issue either more debt or more equity. Indeed, in the beginning of March the company announced that it would offer $500 million senior subordinated notes due 2023 in a private placement to repay borrowings under its senior credit facility.
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At $82 per share, Range Resources is worth around $13.4 billion on the market. The market values the company quite expensively at 20.3 times EV/EBITDA. Range Resources has a much higher valuation than those of its larger peers, including Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) and ExxonMobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM). Chesapeake is trading at around $22 per share, with a total market cap of more than $14 billion. It is valued at a much cheaper valuation of only 6.26 times EV/EBITDA. ExxonMobil is the largest company among the three and has the lowest valuation as well. At $89 per share, ExxonMobil is worth around $400 billion on the market. It has an EV multiple of only 5.48.
Interestingly, although Range Resources has a significantly higher valuation, it is the least profitable among the three. It generated only 11.4% operating margin, while the operating margins of Chesapeake and ExxonMobil were 13.5% and 13.4%, respectively. Range Resources also pays the lowest dividend yield at only 0.2%. While the dividend yield of Chesapeake is 1.6%, ExxonMobil pays its shareholders the highest dividend with a yield of 2.5%.
My Foolish take
With a significantly high valuation, low dividend yield, not-so-strong balance sheet, and fluctuating operating performance, I personally do not think Range Resources should be in the portfolio of any value investors. Among the three, I would prefer Chesapeake due to its highest profitability, decent dividend yield, and low valuation.
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Frequently Asked Reservation Questions:
How Do Reservations Work?
Family Camping reservations are not made through the State Park. These reservations are made through a company called Reserve America, who has a contract with the State of
Reservations can be made with a credit card from 2 days to 7 months in advance. The
March 2nd- Sept. 30th: 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. 7 days a week
Oct 2nd - Feb 28th: Monday-Friday 9 a.m- 5 p.m, Saturday-Sunday 9 a.m. - 3 p.m
In the busy and hectic summer weekends and holidays reservations are the best way to assure yourself a campsite. You will be charged up-front for the number of days you intend to stay at the park.
What is a Hook-up Site?: These sites are known as 31 foot Standard Hookup sites on Reserve America. They have water and electrical hookups. We do not provide Sewer hookups but there is a dump station inside the campground. We ask that you refrain from cheating and dumping sewage into the grey water line because it will only clog the line which will result in unnecessary man hours for repair and inevitably the cost will trickle down to the visitors in the form of higher fees.
The paved area of the site is 30 feet long and 30 feet wide. We ask that you park normally in your site. If you park sideways then you may not be able to vacate your site if there are other RV's parked on either side of you.
We do allow tents on the hook-up sites but you will not find the same seclusion here as in the non-hookup sites.
What is a Non-Hookup Site?: Known as the 31 foot Standard Developed site on Reserve America, these sites only have access to water. There are no electrical hookups here.
The paved area here is roughly 30 feet long but only one car length wide. Trailers are allowed but may have difficulty maneuvering.
Can I Reserve Both of My Sites Side By Side?: Sites at Lake Perris are now SPECIFIC. When you make a reservation at Reserve America then you are making a reservation for a specific site number so be sure to specify that you want them side by side. At our parks there are some sites that are side by side but the numbers will not be consecutive. Example: RV sites 120 and 122 are side by side but the numbers are not consecutive. Be sure to pay attention to the campground map when making reservations.
My Reservation Said That I Paid For THREE Vehicles: Reserve America only asks you to estimate the number of vehicles that will be in your site, they do not charge the fees for extra vehicles and watercraft.
Campsite fees include 1 vehicle and one tow (car, 5th wheel, or trailer). Any vehicles up to the maximum of three will pay an additional day use fee for each day they are at the park. The tow is not charged but counts as a vehicle in the site. Boats and Personal Water Craft are charged their daily fees but do not count against the number of vehicles in the site, each trailer does.
What Are The Fees?:
Park Fees and Pass Information
Family and Horse Camp Fees
Group Camp and Picnic Fees
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Where Do I Call to Make Reservations?:
Camping: Reserve
Cancellation: 1-800-695-2269
Picnicking: Regular Picnicking Areas can not be reserved. They are available to the public on a First-Come First-Serve basis. If you plan on a group of more than 25 people you will need to reserve a Group Picnic area.
Group Camp and Group Picnic: You must make Group Camp and Group Picnic reservations in person or through the mail. They can not be reserved over the phone and reservations are made on a First-Come First-Serve basis. In Person reservations take priority over Mailed reservations and payment must be in full.
Horse Camp: You must make Horse Camp reservations in person or through the mail. They can not be reserved over the phone and reservations are made on a First-Come First-Serve basis. In Person reservations take priority over Mailed reservations and payment must be in full.
Can I Call the Park Directly to Make My Reservation for Camping?: Reservations can not be made by calling the park directly. You need to call Reserve America or use their Online system.
How Do I Make Reservations Online?: You need to go to www.ReserveAmerica.com
What if I Need to Cancel My Reservation or I Want to Leave Early? Can I Get A Refund?: Cancellations may be made prior to check in time on the day of arrival, if you made reservations online you can cancel online. If you made reservations over the phone you must cancel over the phone. To cancel a reservation after that time, call
If you have reserved a number of days for camping and you have to leave the park permanently earlier than expected, be sure to check out at the Campground Kiosk. If we are informed of your permanent early departure and collect your vehicle Campground Tags, then we can inform Reserve America of your early check-out and you may be entitled to a refund for the days that you did not use, however, you will be subject to the same fees as for a late cancellation.
Can I tow an innertube behind my boat? YES!!!!!!! The rules have been changed and you can now tow an inflatable. Riders must wear a coast guard approved life jacket and the vessel must have a spotter with an orange flag observing the riders. The spotter can not be the driver of the vessel and must be over 16 years old.
Can I tow an innertube behind my boat? YES!!!!!!! The rules have been changed and you can now tow an inflatable. Riders must wear a coast guard approved life jacket and the vessel must have a spotter with an orange flag observing the riders. The spotter can not be the driver of the vessel and must be over 16 years old.


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I don't think I will be posting this week because I am in Atlanta with my kids visiting my parents for my father's 70th birthday. The kids haven't been here in two years, and we are thoroughly enjoying being with family and seeing some old friends. I also am enjoying the rain. (My mother is not happy about it because her roof is leaking.)
We took Lilina to see the American Girl store on Saturday and went to my parent's church on Sunday to see all their friends. We are hoping to hit Lake Lanier's water park on Wednesday with my brother's family. And then we will be celebrating my dad's big birthday at the end of the week. I am making him the best coconut birthday cake! (We used to make the Rich's coconut cake but it was so complicated, and I think this one tastes even better.)
Michael is home in Phoenix — having the best time ever being alone! What I wouldn't do for 10 days alone in our house. I would CLEAN and de-clutter! What would you do with 10 days alone in your house?
P.S. I did cry when the announced Prince William and Kate's baby was born safely and was a boy! I can't wait to see him. I remember when Princess Diana brought out baby William!
(Lots you guys can still discuss: What would you do if alone for 10 days in your house? What would you do in Atlanta if visiting for the first time in two years? What did you think about the new royal baby? Are you glad it's a boy or did you want a girl to shake things us? I thought it was going to be a girl.)
July 23rd, 2013
3:49 am
TWG – my girls and I are headed to ATL for the first time in 18mo later this week! The redhead is too staying home but working on refinishing our deck. Ten days alone…I would probably read, stock my freezer (MN winters are coming), and de-clutter a room or two. As for my 10 days in Atlanta, I'm hoping it doesn't rain the entire time. We are doing little to nothing other than visiting friends and can't wait!! Enjoy your trip.
July 23rd, 2013
5:37 am
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July 23rd, 2013
6:47 am
We just returned from a week at the beach. The weather was beautiful. We got rained on twice….but plenty of sunshine in FL!!!
I was hoping for a Royal baby girl. There's been plenty of boys, we need a girl to shake things up. Maybe the next one will be a little girl.
10 days alone. No thank you. I'm good for about 3-4 days alone, then I start missing the "noise" in my house….I don't think I've ever been left alone that long. However, I would start re-painting the inside of the house. We are due for a new color, and after a week at the beach, I've decided I'd like one or two beach themed rooms….a place for all my beach trinkets and pictures. I want to make some posters of our trips.
I plan on putting a book together this year for Christmas presents. "Our Family – 2013″. My neighbor's mom does that every year, and it is so cool to see pictures from that year all in one book. Everyone gets one as a present. So I guess if I was alone for 10 days, I would organize pictures. LOL
July 23rd, 2013
7:38 am
Hope you have a great time. My daughter's family went to tube at Helen and she was dismayed about how,crowded it was. Of course, she is more accustomed to other, less touristy rivers in N Ga.
July 23rd, 2013
7:48 am
Enjoy your vacation. It would be a treat to have 10 days to myself! I would read and organize the house – gather a ton of unneeded things and donate them. I'd schedule a massage and enjoy some peace and quiet. Hope your husband is enjoying his time alone.
July 23rd, 2013
8:03 am
I don't want 10 days alone unless I'm going to our place in Jamaica; I don't care about the royal baby any more than I care about a baby being born and named after a compass. It's just the two of us now so cleaning isn't what it used to be even though we continue the maid service. And, with the last one gone, I've had to hire a lawn service (simply cannot do it myself and it look worth a tinker's damn). Otherwise, enjoy your time in Hotlanta. If it were my first time visiting in two years I would make the rounds of the bars and clubs where I have enjoyed listening to, and playing, music.
July 23rd, 2013
9:55 am
I would clean, read and sleep..I would reorganize my dresser drawers..I would do some crafts..I say this, but not really sure what all I would do..I don't really want 10 days away from my two..The girl has been in FL. with her parents since the first of June and I miss her something terrible..
If I were in Atlanta visiting for the first time in a couple of years, I would try to go see something at the Fox Theatre..Just walk around and look..Do whatever I enjoyed doing while I lived here…
As for the royal baby, I'm thrilled for them..I love babies and am happy for all new parents..It doesn't matter to me one way or the other that it was a boy..Wishing them many happy years..
July 23rd, 2013
10:11 am
That make sense because I hear Kate Middleton cried when Theresa's kids were born as well.
July 23rd, 2013
11:39 am
If I were home for 10 days, I'd eat and eat and eat :) I have an adult child, who has moved out. It's just me and my clean home. I'd probably make a run to pick up shoes or something. I'd watch cable and order movies.
I was born and raised in Atlanta and aside from the obvious places and landmarks, I can't think of anything "special" I'd do, because everything seems normal. Going to Six Flags, Stone Mountain, Zoo Atlanta are all "just things to do." Nothing touristy about them :)
I don't get the hoopla surrounding the royal baby, he's a baby, born healthy (for which I happy), but he's just a baby to me. God made sure the baby was born in good health and safely! Frankly I'm sick of hearing about it.
July 23rd, 2013
12:28 pm
does that imply that god made sure other babies were born poor, and in bad health with diseases?
July 23rd, 2013
12:40 pm
10 days alone at home? Why didn't he come with you? If I had that much time alone, I would definitely clean and declutter. And if I didn't have to work, I'd catch up on a ton of shows on the DVR and read as much as I could!
July 23rd, 2013
1:35 pm
I have to laugh at all the posters who would clean if left alone for 10 days.
It makes me wonder…..1) how messy is your home that you need 10 days to clean, and 2) when was the last time you "de-cluttered" your home.??
If I were left alone for 10 days, the LAST thing I would spend my time doing is cleaning. I'd be in a car so fast, hitting up Savannah, Hilton Head, etc with my girlfriends…..
July 23rd, 2013
2:02 pm
@Mayhem..My house will never pass a white glove inspection and that doesn't bother me..It's not filthy either..It's just that with a two hours each day spent getting to and from work, then cooking, washing clothes and spending time with the boy, I don't spend hours each day cleaning..Then on the weekends, we have my great nieces baby (13 months)..We go out of town a lot of weekends..Plus in 6 weeks, I will have a newborn to babysit for..Kids grow up fast, housework will still be there after they are gone..I have been to Savannah and Hilton Head lots of times and am not really interested in going back..I would much rather be in the mountains.. :) As for "de cluttering" I usually keep a storage tub in the bedroom and once I decide I no longer want something, it goes in there, when tub is full, it goes to the Goodwill..
July 23rd, 2013
2:10 pm
Thank you, @Becky. Not all of us have time to make our house spotless and sparkling. Ours is no dump but could use a declutter and bit of a clean. Not always a priority with work, kids, etc.
July 23rd, 2013
8:35 pm
@ A…haha! I have been all over the place this summer and the reason my husband did not join me is because he was out of vacation time. His accrues again at the end of July. He gets 4 weeks on his anniversary date. Perhaps TWG's husband cannot get away or has other work things he needs to attend.
@ Mayhem, I am with the other posters on this…a clean house is simply a clean house. I lived in a spotless house, growing up. There was also not a lot of fun nor love. My Mom was OCD. My house gets picked up but I do have clutter and it needs to be cleared out once in a while. I would rather do most anything besides clean but alas, I do bite the bullet and take time for every so often. My husband grew up in a family that did not know about cleaning. Thus, he does not help the situation. I stressed about this for years and finally gave up!
I was home for a week, in February. My husband worked, with other men from our church, on updating a youth camp in preparation for summer. I will be in Houston all week for work. I am used to spending time by myself and am fine with it, once in a while.
July 23rd, 2013
8:53 pm
MJG- glad to see I'm not the only one late to catching up on the blog!
We spent the past couple of days in Cloudland Canyon State Park. Wow! It's gorgeous- even you non-campers should consider going. Their cabins are great and the park has some great hiking trails to beautiful falls. It's also super close to Chattanooga (so I guess this advice falls more into the category of "near Atlanta") so if you're planning a trip there but want a bit of nature, definitely stay at the park. The cabin had two rooms, each with two queen beds and their own bathrooms as well as a full kitchen, living area and screened porch. We'll invite another couple or family with us next time. Our son and I went hang gliding yesterday. What an awesome experience!
In Atlanta for the first time in two years, I would revisit: the new ferris wheel downtown (I personally can't wait to go! http://www.skyviewatlanta.com), the Aquarium (there's the new dolphin exhibit and it's cheaper if you go after 6pm), and the Botanical Gardens has a awesome exhibit right now.
July 23rd, 2013
8:57 pm
Oh and if I were home by myself for 10 days? I probably wouldn't do anything around the house! Seriously, that will be there when everyone gets back! OK, maybe a little cleaning and I do have painting our half bath on my to-do list but I'm thinking my list would include things like hanging out with friends, going to dinner at places that I wouldn't drag the rest of the family, catching up on blogs late at night (oh, right, I'm doing that now… my husband and son both left for the evening), reading a book, maybe catching up on a movie or two, yard work (because after 10 days it would be a jungle), and somewhere in between I'd work & eat a lot of take out food… because I assume that's what Michael is doing vs. coming out here on vacation (oh and cleaning the pool!… oh ya, if I were him and had a pool all to myself, I'd totally skinny dip too!)
July 24th, 2013
8:38 am
Uh, you actually cried over the birth of a total stranger's baby born thousands of miles away in another country? Really? You would get dehydrated if you worked in labor and delivery.
July 25th, 2013
8:00 am
Try 6 weeks away! I have not gotten nearly all I wanted accomplished on getting the house down, but part of that is b/c I took time to watch movies.
July 25th, 2013
10:59 am
I've spent weeks at a time alone at home often over the past few years when my husband was working on his out-of-town project — after a while, you get into a routine, and no, it didn't involve fits of cleaning and organizing — not that I couldn't have used it!
Have a wonderful time back in Atlanta, TWG! I know the kids are excited to see friends and family, just as you are! And happy birthday to your dad!


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New York Times environmental reporter Justin Gillis on how often he feels it's necessary to quote climate change skeptics in his articles:
I quote the climate skeptics or deniers — whatever term you prefer — when they're relevant. So when I'm doing a piece about the science itself and what the latest scientific findings are, especially if that's a short piece, I don't necessarily feel obliged to quote the climate skeptics the same way that if you were doing a story about evolution, a New York Times reporter wouldn't feel obliged to call up a creationist and ask them what they think. On the other hand, the climate skeptics are politically relevant at this point in American history [in a way] the creationists are not, for example, so we have a fair chunk of the Congress … that sees political traction right now in questioning climate science or purporting not to believe it and so, in a political story or in a longer story, I usually do give some amount of space to the climate skeptics.
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For 25 years Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Team in Training has raised $1.33 billion for patient advocacy, study treatments and support programs. A Kansas City group joined the effort because of one baby boy who has really never known life without tubes, needles and medicine.
Most of Isaac Hilker's life has been captured in the foreground of a hospital. Life quickly changed for the Hilker family after returning from a vacation.
"He was diagnosed at eight months. It was out of the blue. He went in for a routine doctor's check up and they thought he might be anemic so they ran some blood tests and called the next morning and said they thought he was leukemic and to get to Children's Mercy downtown right away," Tyler Hilker, Isaac's father, said.
Little Isaac's father now spends his time either crib side or trail side, training for the Kansas City Marathon in Isaac's name.
"But to know these other people are working hard for Isaac who is working really hard, that's awesome," Hilker said.
His employer, VML, formed a corporate team in training where runners raise donations and sponsorships from businesses like Garry Gribble's Running Sports for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
"When we do these team runs we always run it back for our patients in the hospital," said Katie Pierce, Hilker's training partner and co-worker. "We go through it with them, totally go through it with them. When they post pictures, I cry right there with them."
The pictures aren't always easy to look at. Isaac, now two, is fighting a treatment complication.
"By the time we reached his one year treatment milestone he had spent almost a third of his life in the hospital and now we're back, but he's recovering," Hilker said as he fought back tears.
While doctors said little Isaac's in remission, the statistics say something different.
"This type of leukemia is known for coming back a year or two later and by then it's immune to all other chemotherapy drugs and so the only option is a bone marrow transplant," Hilker said.
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Team in Training is a big punch in Isaac's fight to beat the opponent that is cancer.
"Leukemia and Lymphoma Society helps fund one of the studies Isaac has been on," his dad said.
It also pays for quality of life programs, which can often make the difference in an unbearable situation.
"Every four minutes somebody new is diagnosed with a blood cancer and every 10 minutes somebody dies - that's a lot of people," Hilker said as the gravity of those statistics made him stop and step away to regain his composure.
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LAKE CHARLES – Six 3-pointers from Ashlyn Baggett led McNeese State in a team season-high of 14 made from behind the arc that gave the Cowgirls an 80-54 win over the Northwestern State women's basketball team Sunday afternoon in Southland Conference action.
The three Baggett sisters (Ashlyn, Caitlyn, and Allison) combined for 11 of the Cowgirls (12-9, 7-3 SLC) 3-pointers. Caitlyn was 3-3 and Allison was 2-8 on the day.
Jasmine Upchurch tied Ashlyn Baggett for the game-high with 24 points. Upchurch was 9-18 from the field and 6-7 from the free throw line. Janelle Perez was the second leading scorer for NSU (7-13, 3-7 SLC) with 11 points.
"You have to give them credit, they shot the ball extremely well today," said co-head coach Brooke Stoehr. "When you knock down that many shots, things are going well for you.
"I felt they got a couple of open looks early, and they just got into rhythm," she said. "We have to do a better job of closing out on our switches. We just have to do a better job defensively. "
McNeese had four players in double-figures with Ashlyn Baggett's 24 points. Caitlyn Baggett scored 13, Cecilia Okoye had 11, and Allison Baggett finished with 10 points.
Upchurch was the game's leading rebounder with seven and Danielle Westerfield grabbed six boards in her third start of the season.
The two teams finished with 13 turnovers each, but the Cowgirls were able to capitalize for 19 points compared to the six NSU scored.
NSU will return home for Thursday for the annual Chili Cook-off when it takes on Oral Roberts at 5:30, and then Saturday when the Lady Demons take on Central Arkansas in Prather Coliseum.
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Hundreds of fans came out on a cold, damp day to wish the North CarolinaCentral Eagles the best on Wednesday as they departed for San Antonio and aspot in the NCAA Tournament.
"To have our fans out here, to have this support, it's amazing,"said point guard Emanuel Chapman. "It's tremendous."
The Eagles play Iowa State, the No. 3 seed in the East Region, on Fridaynight at the AT&T Center in San Antonio. N.C. Central will play right afterUNC plays Providence in another East Region game.
The two winners play on Sunday.
While being in the NCAA Tournament is common for UNC, it's a first-timeexperience for the Eagles.
N.C. Central moved up divisions, from the CIAA to the MEAC, and won theconference tournament this year to grab the league's guaranteed spot in theNCAA Tournament. It's the first time the Eagles have made the Division I field.
"I want themto remember what has gotten them to this point," Coach LeVellel Moton saidWednesday. "Life is about embracing who you are. We are not a team that isgoing to try to outscore you. We are not a sexy team where everyone loves thethree-point basketball.
"We're agrimy type team."
Iowa State is 26-7 and won the Big 12 Tournament.
But Central has had a dream season, beating N.C. State in the regular seasonand sweeping the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference's regular season andtournament titles.
N.C. Central has won 20 straight games and the Eagles' 28-5 record tiesfor a school record for wins. NCCU won the 1989 Division II national title witha 28-4 record and also went 28-5 in 1951.
Guard Jeremy Ingram, a senior, leads the team with 20.6 points per game.
N.C. Central has played some top teams this season, losing to Wichita Stateby 11, for example.
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Messaging app seeks to bring voices back to phones
Longtime technology guru Ray Ozzie wants to bring back the emotions of the human voice to phones.
Starbucks testing beer-flavored lattes
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But needless to say, it was *clean*!!
Yeah. Not anymore.
Today was just a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day! (I think I'll use that one as our read-aloud tomorrow morning now that I think about it. Hmm... There could be a good lesson to be pulled out of the end. Something along the lines of how we can start fresh today since yesterday sucked so badly! I'll work out the kinks in that lesson tonight. Ha!)
I don't know what side of the bed these kids woke up on today, but after lunch EVERYTHING just went downhill. I honestly haven't felt this way since my first year teaching. During our before-we-pack-up-to-go-home meeting today, we did some reflecting on our day... The kids were very receptive to our little discussion, but holy mother of days that I never want to repeat again in my life!
This is how my day ended:
And it's all still there... School ended 20 minutes ago. :( I told the kids that I was so upset with today's overall behavior today that I didn't even want them to help me clean up. I think that sealed the deal for them. "Oh my gosh! We must have messed up if she won't even let us clean up!" was the look on all of their faces. Well, almost all of them. There was that one kid who couldn't have cared less if I was lit on fire and burning to death. But 17 out of 18 "I'm sorry" faces was better than I had hoped.
The worst part: Two kids were absent today... one was my biggest trouble-maker. I thought for sure that we were going to have less issues today. It's funny how I actually missed him. At least I know what to expect out of him all the time. Ha!Ha!
Here's to hoping that tomorrow actually IS a much better day!
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Wall Street reform stalls -- again
Senators voted against ending debate and moving forward with the financial-reform bill.
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Democrats in the U.S. Senate lost out today on their move to end debate on financial reform and hold a final vote on the sweeping bill.
In a surprising turn, the Democrats' proposal to end debate was killed, with the 57-42 vote falling short of the 60 votes needed.
Interestingly enough, it was disagreement among Democrats that caused the vote to fail. All 59 Democratic senators had been expected to support the vote, but in the end several voted against the bid.
Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., voted no because she wants an amendment included that bans banks from affiliating with investment firms, The Wall Street Journal reported. Similarly, Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., also wanted his amendment to receive more consideration.
The overall financial reform would bring about some big changes on Capitol Hill. It would form a consumer protection agency at the Federal Reserve and keep a closer eye on hedge funds and derivatives. Finally, it would change the way the government handles financial firms that are about to go under, Bloomberg reports.
Republicans said they were worried that the bill makes government too big and doesn't restrain Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac(FRE). Democrats say something must be done to prevent future financial crises and mega-bailouts like we've seen over the last few years.
As we come down to the wire, one of the biggest hang-ups continues to be how to handle derivatives reform. The bill requires banks to spin off their derivatives operations into separate companies, but Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., proposed this week to delay that requirement for two years, The Associated Press reports.
The proposal was Dodd's attempt to break an impasse, the AP reported, but in an unusual twist, liberal Democrats and Wall Street bankers got together to oppose him.
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Getting this vote together has not been easy. And the Senate has been busy wrapping up many little pieces before getting to the final decision. Here's what senators have done recently:
- Approved an amendment that would prevent U.S. taxpayers from bailing out other countries.
- Voted to maintain the consumer protection powers of the Federal Trade Commission (just in case the new agency stepped on the FTC's toes).
- Voted to give people free access to their credit scores. Right now, we can access our credit reports, but not our credit scores.
- Agreed to cut a $50 billion fund from the bill. This fund, paid for by banks, would have been used to bail out future failing banks.
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UVM drops fee, sees more applicationsThe Associated Press | March 10,2013BURLINGTON A decision to waive an early-application fee is being credited with helping to increase the number of students applying to the University of Vermont by 2.7 percent.
The growth is part of a plan by UVM President Thomas Sullivan to make the school more selective by accepting a smaller percentage of the number of students who apply.
In addition to the decision to waive the $55 early application fee, UVM officials believe there has been a positive buzz about the school among students and high school guidance counselors.
That buzz continued through a very good summer visit season and into the fall, said Chris Lucier, the schools vice president for enrollment management.
As of last week, 22,277 students applied for admission to UVM, just below the all-time record of 23,365 set in 2009.
Of the total number of applicants this year, 2,118 came from Vermont students, a decrease of about 5.5 percent from last year.
Lucier said he could not explain why there was a drop in Vermont applications, but he expected a rebound. This year we will likely have the third- or fourth-most applications from Vermont students since 1980, he said.
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(f) Adequate enclosures to segregate the zone from customs territory for protection of the revenue, together with suitable provisions for ingress and egress of persons, conveyances, vessels, and merchandise;
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My Obamacare odyssey takes another strange turn
After weeks of trying to sign up, I finally get through, only to be told it will take three weeks to process my application.
This post comes from John F. Wasik at partner site The Fiscal Times.
While Obama administration officials apologized for HealthCare.gov foul-ups and sought to spin the president's flawed promise that if people liked their health plans they could keep them, I actually made some headway in getting into the federal insurance marketplace.
Although I didn't get in through my online log-in -- that interface was still broken as I write this -- I did manage to "talk" my application to a telephone ( 800-318-2596 ) representative and get some sample policy premiums. Some 700,000 applications for insurance were submitted to the state and federal online marketplaces since the beginning of October, Marilyn Tavenner, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services told a Congressional committee last week. I was one of them.
I managed to submit my application to a patient customer service representative ("Sasha"), who walked me through questions on income, family members, Social Security numbers, disclosures and birthdates. There were also some questions about physical limitations and foster care, which, fortunately, were not issues for us. The whole process took about a half hour.
The moment of truth with HealthCare.gov comes when you finally get to see a range of premiums to determine if the program will be competitive with private insurance. As I've noted in previous posts, I have a catastrophic health plan that currently costs $7,128 a year ($594 monthly) for premiums, but doesn't cover doctor's visits, immunizations or prescription drugs. All of the plans on HealthCare.gov cover these basic services. My out of pocket limit is $6,350 on the individual private plan; it's the same for the HealthCare.gov policies ($12,700 for a family policy).
Since drugs, immunizations and doctor visits are covered in the federal exchange -- the bulk of our ongoing medical expenses for my family of four -- we're immediately ahead of the game. That's roughly a $1,200 annual savings for us. Maternity and hospitalization are also part of the basic benefits that will be covered by the exchange-offered plans, although it seems like maternity should be optional. We won't need the benefit; those who opt out should get a premium break.
I'm also hoping that the exchange plans will have minor annual increases; my private premium has risen 10 percent to 20 percent each year over the past five years.
Pricing different levels of care
In order to gauge total savings, though, we have to examine the offerings within the five exchange plan levels. Depending on how much you want to cover in terms of out-of-pocket expenses, you can choose a plan that suits your budget. There are five levels of coverage: Catastrophic, Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum.
The first two tiers are bare bones, covering up to 60 percent of total health expenses. Silver, Gold and Platinum cover 70 percent, 80 percent and 90 percent, respectively.
Then you need to see specific offerings within your state program. More populous states have several insurers and co-ops competing while smaller states may only have a few policies listed.
In Illinois, there were a wide variety of plans within each level. Here's a sampling:
These premium amounts, however, are not necessarily the final amount those buying insurance on the exchanges will pay. As the Kaiser Family Foundation estimated in a report released Tuesday, some 17 million people will be eligible for tax credits that will reduce (or, for some 7 million people, potentially eliminate) the cost of their insurance. My family doesn't qualify for the subsidies because of our income, so the premium ranges I'm seeing are likely good estimates.
What I don't know is why there's such disparity between insurers within a given plan level. Most of the prices I quoted were for Preferred Provider Organizations (PPO), although you can also get quotes from Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO), where the choice of providers is limited to the insurers' networks and the mode of care is constrained. The premium quotes I saw were estimates, so there's more to this story.
By the way, if you can't submit an application online or don't want to deal with the phone reps, Sasha told me of a back door to see sample policy rates: Go to the search box on HealthCare.gov and enter "plan estimates without applications," then enter your state. Some policies will pop up, so you can get some idea of what to expect.
At first blush, the $435 Bronze monthly premium looks appealing, although I will need more information on whether my doctor and providers are within the insurer's PPO.
We should come out ahead on out-of-pocket expenses since in our worst-case year we spent some $15,000. My back-of-the-envelope guess without seeing actual policy documents is that our family could save from $2,000 to $4,000 annually with the cheapest HealthCare.gov policy. That's real money, especially considering that my current plan doesn't cover doctor's visits, drugs or clinical diagnostics. But I always reserve judgment until I see the fine print.
Can I get a comparable or better deal through an insurer on a private brokered exchange? When I first tried to compare the HealthCare.gov rates with an online private exchange I've used in the past -- ehealthinsurance.com -- I ran into an unexpected irony: Their server was down, too.
Still, it's vexing to me -- and millions of other Americans in my situation -- that the government didn't hire some competent contractors to get HealthCare.gov up and running. They had three years. Meanwhile, the political liability is still ballooning for the Obama administration and fellow Democrats.
To date, my customer service experience with HealthCare.gov has been worse than that with my cable television/internet provider, which has often been dreadful over the years. I was told by the HealthCare.gov rep that my application would take three weeks to process. It takes less time to order a whole house of appliances, have them delivered and installed -- with a cable hook-up.
That's not an encouraging sign for a program that will need to attract millions of customers to work as intended and has struggled to get those sign-ups so far. Through the first month of the exchange's existence, nearly 60 percent of "potentially eligible adults" said they were aware of the marketplace, although only one in five actually enrolled, according to a survey by the Commonwealth Fund (.pdf file).
An even greater concern is the report that only one-fifth of site visitors were in the coveted 19-29-year-old demographic, a key group that can help balance overall expenses and premiums.
The troubles thus far don't mean that the health care marketplaces can't work — or provide lower-cost insurance. Yet potential customers throughout the entire country are still on hold. Will they hang up for good before the system gets fixed?
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Congrats, your identity has probably already been stolen. Why would anyone in their right mind willfully enter all this info into a system that has been proven to lack even the most basic security measures?
Ahh it's counter intuitive to say that premiums will go down. The more unhealthy preexisting condition people get on the faster and more insurance companies will have to pay out claims. This will increase premiums and not lower them. If the rates are now before people are filing claims, then what do you think they will be when more and more claims get paid out?
Interested in knowing: you said you had bare bones and applied for bare bones catastrophic coverage, but what is the deductible - I read nothing about that? And you do admit that though you seem to promote a good warm fuzzy feeling about it positively being better for you - you sate you won't be sure until you read the fine print.
Suggestion: why not wait the three weeks for you to get the "all" the real info (fine print and all) and then give me all of the information upfront including the deductible. After all - then you will have all the facts and then you can say if it is better or not. But telling me you have some facts and are waiting to check the fine print why you give a glowing stellar "Good job" pass on this is nonsense.
He talks of premium increases over the last 4-5 years ranging from 10-20% per year. Over the last 4, all those massive increases were due to OBAMACARE. Once the law was passed, the Insurance companies immediately began raising rates to cover all the goodies the law required be "given" away from the start. You know, all those positives Obama talked about non-stop, hoping that when the lousy part of the law started to take effect, NOW, you wouldn't mind paying through the nose. Things like;
Kids on policies till 26, and;
No pre-existing conditions, and;
No-limit coverage (lifetime caps).
Yet limo-liberals seem to believe that we will believe their spin that all of this should come to us at NO COST. Duh ! ! !
There is no FREE Lunch boys and girls. Everything you get, and now there will be less quality and choice, but you will not only need to pay more for it, but you will now be required to pay a portion of someone else's as well.
But the BAD news is, this is only getting started. Just wait until the other dozens of shoes drop as this "plan" the Socialist Party rammed down our throats unfolds.
I came across Nancy Pelosi being interviewed by Charlie Rose the other night and I could only watch for a couple of minutes since she made me gag! She was arguing with him and defending Obamacare to the hilt and saying that only 5% of people will lose their insurance and the insurance they will get will be SO MUCH BETTER THAN WHAT THEY HAD. Well, I have a hot news flash for Pelosi: PEOPLE DON'T WANT "BETTER" INSURANCE, THEY WANT "AFFORDABLE" INSURANCE!
It was so sad to see this puppet of Obama trying to defend this fiasco of a health care program. She was like a rat on a sinking ship trying to cling to a scrap of wood to stay afloat as the ship goes down.
A guy like me doesn't need the maternity part that I'm being forced to buy. I don't need the pediatric dental stuff because my kids are in their thirties. Liberals are such fools.
I wonder how much other hidden BS there in this socialist plan with thousands of unread pages.
I'm not signing up for this crap. This is about as goofy as the article that I read about queers getting hitched at West Point. This stuff is not for me, and this guy is not my president! RIP/USA.
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - For 15 million Americans with food allergies, what they eat could kill them. The problem seems to be on the rise too. The CDC reports an 18 percent increase between 1997 and 2007. Now, doctors discovered something that is helping some beat their allergies.
Hannah Gooch loves the ukulele and a food that could have killed her.
"I really like how they taste," Hannah Gooch told Ivanhoe.
Hannah was allergic to eggs, but not anymore.
"It's a huge thing. I mean it makes me kind of teary thinking about it," Necia Joy Gooch, Hannah's mom, told Ivanhoe.
She took part in an egg allergy study led by Dr. Wesley Burks, Professor and Chair in the Department of Pediatrics at North Carolina Children's Hospital.
"There's no proactive treatment and that's the reason this study was done," Wesley Burks, MD, told Ivanhoe.
Kids with the allergy ate egg protein every day.
"They'd give me a dose of egg protein in powder," Hannah said.
"We mixed it with applesauce," Necia Joy said.
About once a year, they would eat a real egg to test their tolerance. At the end of three years, 45 percent of the kids were able to add egg to their diets.
"They just said Hannah can have egg and we were all surprised" Necia Joy explained.
Dr. Burks said the results are promising.
However, "more phase two and then more phase three studies need to be done before we can say yes, it's the right thing to do," Dr. Burks explained.
It's changed Hannah's life. Now she can focus on her music, not her old allergy.
Dr. Burks said further studies testing the egg allergy treatment are in the works. He said if successful, it could be applied to other common food allergies, like milk and peanuts.
BACKGROUND: Eggs are the most common food allergy in children. Egg allergy can occur at infancy. Most children outgrow their egg allergy before they hit adolescence, but in some instances it can continue into adulthood. Egg allergy symptoms will usually occur a few minutes to a few hours after eating eggs or foods containing eggs. Symptoms can be mild to severe and include: hives, skin rashes, nasal inflammation, and vomiting or other digestive problems. Egg allergy can also cause a life-threatening reaction called anaphylaxis, although it is very rare. (Source: www.mayoclinic.com)
CAUSES: All food allergies are caused by an immune system overreaction. The immune system mistakes certain egg proteins as harmful. Whenever someone comes in contact with egg proteins, immune system cells recognize them and signal the immune system to release histamine and chemicals that cause allergic symptoms and signs. Egg yolks and egg whites can both cause allergies, but allergy to egg whites is the most common. (Source:www.mayoclinic.com)
HIDDEN SOURCES OF EGG PRODUCTS: Even if a food is labeled egg-free it still could contain some allergy causing egg proteins. Foods that contain eggs can include: marshmallows, mayonnaise, meringue, sauces, frostings, processed meat (like meatballs and meatloaf), pudding, salad dressing, pastas, root beer, and some alcoholic drinks. Nonfood products that contain egg products can include: medications, shampoos, cosmetics, and finger paints. (Source: www.mayoclinic.com)
NEW TECHNOLOGY: The study at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine found that by eating small amounts of egg every day for many months lowered the number of allergic reactions in 75 percent of egg-allergic children; 28 percent were able to incorporate egg into their regular diets after two years on the treatment. The intent of the study was to develop a new treatment for egg allergy since the only option so far has been to avoid eggs altogether. The study enrolled 55 children and adolescents between the ages of five and eighteen who had egg allergies. Participants were given small amounts of powdered egg or a placebo to mix into food, eventually building up to the equivalent of a third of an egg. Children on the treatment did experience allergic reactions to the egg powder during the first couple of months of the study, but none had a severe reaction. At the 10 month mark, researchers administered an "oral food challenge" to test the study participants' reactions to eating 5 grams of egg powder, which is equivalent to an entire egg. Fifty-five percent of participants on the treatment passed the challenge without significant allergic symptoms. None of the participants on the placebo passed the challenge. Researchers gave another challenge after 22 total months on the treatment. They were given 10 grams of egg powder, which is equal to nearly two eggs. Seventy-five percent passed the challenge. Those who passed stopped doing the treatment. After two years, those who had discontinued the second challenge were administered a final test. They were given 10 grams of egg powder and one cooked egg; 28 percent of the original treatment group passed and were able to integrate eggs into their lives. Dr. Wesley Burks says, "Now, at the end of the third year of treatment it was 45 percent that were able to come off the food and incorporate egg into their diet." Researchers believe that the study brings hope for treating egg and possibly other food allergies, but further research will be needed. (Source:www.unchealthcare.org)
Wesley Burks, MD, Chair of the Department of Pediatrics, Physician, and Chief at North Carolina Children's Hospital, talks about a new study that could mean the end for egg allergies.
Doctor if you could, tell us a little bit about this study. Why did you choose to do a study on egg allergies?
Dr. Burks: We know that about 15 million people in the U.S. have food allergy; of that 15 million about 4 million of them are kids. The three foods that cause most allergic reactions are milk, egg, and peanuts. One of the most problematic, accidental reactions are from eggs and that is why we chose an older group of kids that were not going to outgrow their egg allergy to see if we can make it go away.
What are some of the symptoms that go along with egg allergies that make it dangerous?
Dr. Burks: The symptoms of any food allergy are related to the skin, the respiratory tract, and the GI tract. Skin symptoms include hives or whelps and can be an itchy, red rash. Respiratory symptoms are coughing, wheezing, or swelling of the throat. The GI symptoms include vomiting; sometimes maybe severe abdominal pain or diarrhea.
How long does the symptoms last?
Dr. Burks: After a child accidentally ingested an egg, literally within seconds to minutes or at the most within 2 hours, they will begin to have symptoms. It may be just skin or it may be skin, respiratory, and GI. The symptoms typically last somewhere between 2 and 4 hours. They will not go on into the next day because the body begins to get rid of the foreign antigen. That is what that allergic reaction does; it helps get rid of the food.
It is hard to avoid eggs, because it is in everything we eat almost. What are some of the treatments, if any, for egg allergies at this point?
Dr. Burks: Right now, the best treatment is an appropriate diagnosis to help the child and family know that they are truly allergic to egg and not allergic to other things. Then, we help them avoid it. There is no proactive treatment and that is the reason this study was done, to develop an active treatment.
Can you explain the process of the study?
Dr. Burks: These are children older than 5 years of age who had had long-standing egg allergy. We did not expect them to, based on this criteria, outgrow their egg allergy anytime during the study for the next 3 years. As we entered the blinded study, several centers were involved through the Consortium of Food Allergy Research; 40 children received treatment and 15 received placebo. The paradigm of treatment is starting out at a very low dose and building up to a daily dose, but receiving a new dose about every 2 weeks. It took about 4 or 5 months.
What did you see in the kids with the small doses? Was there any reaction at all during the process? I noticed after it said 10 months that it lowered the threshold for the allergic reaction, but did they have any symptoms on a day-to-day basis?
Dr. Burks: For the daily dosing, you basically take an egg white powder and mix it in food. Less than 10 percent of the kids had local side effects to actually taking the treatment. A few had to drop out, but that was a really small number. So, we were able to build each child up to a specific dose and then at the end of the 10 months, we did a food challenge to find out how much egg they would tolerate while they were on treatment.
How did that go?
Dr. Burks: We saw that out of the group that was treated, of those 40, over half of them were able to tolerate the whole challenge that we did with the egg. None of those in the placebo group were able to tolerate the challenge. So, there was a significant difference in those on treatments and to those not on treatments.
Then you used another food challenge after 22 months. Is that correct?
Dr. Burks: The study design was that those that were already on treatment, those 40 for the first year, continued on treatment for a second year. Those that were on a placebo, we just observed until that second year. At the end of the second year we did another challenge. Now, 75 percent of them tolerated that challenge.
What was your reaction when you saw that?
Dr. Burks: We had expected that it would be an incremental amount, not 50 percent greater the second year that would tolerate the challenge. However, then we wanted to try to find out if that treatment can be permanent rather than just sustain the change in threshold while you are on the treatment. We took them off the treatment at the end of those 22 months. So, 75 percent were able to tolerate the food while on treatment, but we stopped the treatment and then that number goes back down to about 27.5 percent. So, many of them lost that protection just in that month.
So it seems like it can help a lot of people, but is it ready to be widespread yet?
Dr. Burks: If you think about the normal development process of a new drug, which what is being done is in fact using a food as a drug to treat someone and walking through the FDA where there is a Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3 process. This study is kind of the in the middle of a Phase 2 process. We want to know more about the safety of which this study did and we have proven the efficacy in a blinded study. More Phase 2 and then more Phase 3 studies need to be done before we can say that it is the right thing to do.
So do you have plans for that next phase?
Dr. Burks: So, the Consortium of Food Allergy Research has plans with egg and other allergens to go to the next step. There are also national organizations, like The Food Allergy and Research and Education (FARE), a nonprofit foundation, and others are looking at ways to try to gather the support to do that next series of Phase 2 and Phase 3 studies. So, we really could have a product that would be approved that can be used for treatment.
What would treatment be like? Would it be like a daily pill that they would take that would contain some of that egg powder? What would be the end goal for treatment if this works?
Dr. Burks: The first goal really would be for the development of a treatment that would protect a child from an accidental reaction. The second goal would be to develop a treatment that we can actually give someone for a period of time and make that disease go away. It may be a daily powder put on food or a capsule or some other way. I think that is what remains to be determined in the rest of those phases 2 and phase 3 studies.
When can we expect those to start or have they started?
Dr. Burks: I think some have already started, nationally and internationally, trying to develop other protocols so we can get a better idea.
What are the implications of this for other food allergies, like nuts and some of the more common ones?
Dr. Burks: If this paradigm works for egg allergies, which there are indications that it does, there is not any reason to believe that we cannot do this same type of process for milk, peanut, for other tree nuts, and for shellfish. Based on previous similar studies, that same paradigm will work for those other foods.
So this is pretty exciting stuff then?
Dr. Burks: I think the two things that we get out of the study: one is that there is promise for the development of a treatment; that this is an exciting development that really is in the middle stages of a new product being developed; and the second thing is that it really is still in the development. We are not ready to do this clinically yet. It is not something to be used in practice at this time. It does give us promise, but we are not quite there yet.
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Sea otters swimming in Southern California waters will be considered a threatened species and receive additional protection starting early next year.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday that it will officially end its otter relocation program that started in 1987 to replenish Southern California's dwindling otter population. At the time, the agency translocated 140 otters to San Nicolas Island in the Channel Islands but the move was deemed a failure as many left within a few days to return to the coast.
The program's intention was to have a sequestered otter zone at San Nicolas where otters would be protected from oil spills, accidental deaths from commercial boating and other dangers. Coastal waters from Pt. Conception in Santa Barbara County to the Mexican border were considered an "otter-free zone" and scientists would capture and relocate otters found there using non-lethal means. However, securing a habitat at San Nicolas and moving otters from the zone proved to be ineffective and U.S. Fish and Wildlife abandoned the program in 1993.
"San Nicolas is very remote and there are lots of prey for [the otters]," said Lilian Carswell, southern sea otter recovery coordinator for U.S. Fish and Wildlife. "Trying to enforce the management zone proved tough because we were expecting them to stay where they were."
Although the relocation program had been dormant since 1993, fishermen sued U.S. Fish and Wildlife demanding that agency revive its capture and relocate technique after about 152 otters swam en masse across the "otter-free zone" in 1998.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife won the lawsuit and declared that it would no longer restrict the otters' movement. But it left in place the lower level of protection for the species. As a result, environmental groups including Los Angeles Waterkeeper and The Otter Project sued the agency in 2009 demanding stricter protective regulations.
"Trying to tell a marine mammal to stay on one side of an imaginary line across the water was a dumb idea," said Steve Shimek, executive director of The Otter Project, in a statement. "This rule will not only protect sea otters from harm, but because of the otters' critical role in the environment, it will also help restore our local ocean ecosystem."
As a result of the suit, as of Jan. 18, 2013, sea otters can freely swim into the "otter-free zone" without threat of being removed. And, any proposed development along the coast will have to consider the impact to sea otters, protected under the Endangered Species Act and Marine Mammal Protection Act in Southern California as of early next year – the same protection currently granted to Central Coast otters.
The otter's absence in Southern California waters has contributed to a proliferation of sea urchins that depleted kelp forests.
"Without the southern sea otter keeping local urchin populations in check, we are forced to temporarily mimic its role in the kelp forest with our volunteer divers," Liz Crosson, executive director of L.A. Waterkeeper, said in a statement.
There are now about 80 otters living south of Pt. Conception and about 2,800 that inhabit the coastline from San Mateo to Santa Barbara counties, according to U.S. Fish and Wildlife. Sea otters used to occupy much of the Pacific Rim but were almost exterminated during the fur trade. Only a small population north of Bixby Creek in Big Sur remained in the 1930s, and they have been expanding from that core group since.


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13 Responses to "Chris Brown & Rihanna's New Matching Tattoo"
dang! another tattoo, dey aint that addicted to each other… are dey??
i love both there tattoos !
there acctually quite different !
The tatts are similar but on the same spot of the right hand. Rihanna as a Covergirl and face of Gucci really should slow up on the tatts.
the tattoo look cool on chris but it just looks a little to rough for a girl like rihanna, i dont think it looks right on her.
I hope that crap isn't permanent. SMH
chris brown tat looks cool. Jaz u make a great point on rihanna being the face of covergirl and everything. she DOES need to slow up on these tats.
yaal are mean why do you care if he gets a matching tatoo i mean coe on now it's their body. so what if they have matching tatoo's and yeah riri should slow down on the tat's a little bit but i mean it's her bdy and ehr decision. i support you guys no matter what. whenever i am old enough to get tat's i might and was thinking about getting one like chris. and yeahh i love tat's on chriis!?!? don't really pay attention to riri's that much. but yeah why do you guys care i mean it's they body let them makr the decision.
I love their tattoos they are so cute.
whatever they are. lol
well I don't like the tattoos its an ugly design
butt I guess
I think there a cute couple rihanna just needs
her long hair back
wtf she doesn't even have that much tattos
I dont know what you guys are smoking
well its really and ugly design if u paid any attention to it and it really does look good on chris and rihanna really needs to stop wit the tats cuz she the face of covergirl and most covergirls dont got tats thats wat everyone is tring to say but they were a cut couple and rihanna needs her long hair ur rite about that bu they shoudnt get back together cuz thats too much
i luv there union i think they should be careful of people and make there union a reality.