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Well, as they say, better late than never. Two columns ago, I promised to share my "fail-safe, money-back guaranteed formula for getting kids to eat everything on their plates." Then, as if I was in my 60s or something, I forgot and wrote a column about kids who argue constantly with their parents. Consider this my mea culpa or, as the young say, "My bad."
Yes, it is possible to get kids to eat everything on their plates — spinach, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, you name it. Why, in the American Southeast, it is common for toddlers to eat livermush. Compared to livermush, broccoli is like ice cream (to me, anyway). Nonetheless, a kid who scarfs down livermush will refuse broccoli.
Why do so many of today's kids have picky palates? Some people with capital letters after their names say it's because their taste buds send weird signals to their brains when they eat certain foods. That explanation cannot be verified; therefore, it is a theory, and a bad one at that. So what if something initially tastes weird? When I was a kid, I thought spinach tasted weird. I ate it anyway and learned to love it. My parents didn't give me a choice. That's the real reason kids have picky palates — parents give choices.
Since the parenting revolution of the 1960s, experts have been encouraging parents to give children choices. And so today's parents complain about children who argue with them about "everything." They also complain that their kids won't eat what's put on their plates. "My child won't eat anything but (some form of junk food)." Here's the simple, tested, certified, three-step plan:
1. Fix the picky eater what you want him to eat for breakfast and lunch. If he does not eat it, wrap it or toss it. Do not allow him to snack between meals, even if he's eaten nothing all day. You have to stop wanting him to eat. He will live, I assure you. My lawyer said I could tell you that.
2. Prepare the evening meal with no consideration of said picky eater's food preferences. On his plate, put one level teaspoon of each food, as in one teaspoon of roast beef, one teaspoon of mashed potatoes with a few drops of gravy ("He loves mashed potatoes and gravy!") and one teaspoon of broccoli. The rule then becomes: When the child has eaten everything on his plate, he may have seconds of anything, and the second helping of whatever — in this case, mashed potatoes and gravy — can be as large as his eyes are big.
3. It will take a week or so and much complaining and maybe even pitiful wailing in the interim, but he will eventually begin eating the green, weird-tasting thing. At that point, begin slowly increasing the portion size of the green thing, but do not increase the portion of the thing(s) he loves. Keep them at one teaspoon. Within a month, he will be eating a regular-size portion of foods his palate would not accept previously, upon which you can begin increasing the portion size of things he loves but not past the point where he can eat his favorite things and not be hungry.
Voila! The key to the success of this fail-safe formula — the variable that makes it fail-safe — is that the child's parents do not sit at the table encouraging him to "just try" the food he hates. They must act completely nonchalant. If need be, they can feed him and then sit down to a pleasant meal. What a concept!
By Ron Huxley, LMFT
In today's commercial society kids are bombarded with "buy me" messages. Parents, trying to live frugally, are faced with their child's demands for expensive toys and clothes. In addition, many parents feel the pressure to keep up with other parents who buy their children everything and may even feel shame for not being able to do the same for their children. The reality is that you can give your child "wishes" even though you can't or choose not to give them all their "wants":
Wants List is a parenting tool that keeps a lid on children's endless list of wants. A child's want of a new bike, toy, or clothes item is, in itself, not wrong. Everyone has things they would like to have. But when these wants get out of control, parents need to limit their children's excessive cravings. The demand for things often increases between the ages of 7 to 10. This is due developmentally to the cognitive changes in a child that allows them to be more aware of other circumstances that are different from their own. The result is often alot of comparisons between what one does and does not have compared to other children.
One way of dealing with these demands is to ignore them. Viewing a child's wants as a cognitive exercise of comparisons and not feeling the need to respond to these cravings is one way that parents can cope with a child's wants. Another way of dealing with a child's wants is to make a family "want list." This tool allows wants to be expressed openly without any feeling by the parent to fulfill them all. Whenever a child states that they simply "must have the hot, new computer game" or the "colorful, new doll" have the child write the thing on the want list and place it where everyone can see it, like on the refrigerator. Instead of reacting to a child's demands, the parent can redirect the child to "Go, write it down on the want list." Parents can put things down on the want list too. This demonstrates that parents often make do without things they want as well. Use the want list as next years birthday or Christmas list but don't be surprised if the child no longer wants those items anymore.
Wishes are a parenting talk tool that acknowledges children's wants without giving into their demands. Everyone has needs, wants, and desires. For example, hunger is a need, a turkey sandwich is a want, and a full turkey dinner with all the trimmings is a desire. Let's face it, most parents cannot give their child all of their wants all of the time. Even if they could, it would probably be a bad idea. Unfortunately, children may have to settle for getting a need filled instead of a want or a desire. Using the food example, the child may have to settle for the turkey sandwich or whatever leftovers are left in the refrigerator instead of the full turkey dinner.
Wishes are unique in that they acknowledge a child's desires as healthy and valid even when they can not have them. For example, a child who desires to have a pair of two hundred-dollar tennis shoes may have to settle for a less expensive pair. When children realize they cannot have the expensive shoes they often sulk, tantrum, or become verbally abusive to their parent who "never does anything nice for them." To avoid this power struggle, parents can state, "Wow! Those are great looking shoes. And wouldn't it really impress your friends when you show up at school with those shoes. I bet you could jump at least 8 feet straight up in the air with those shoes. But unfortunately I only can afford those shoes over there. Which one of those shoes would you like?" Another example would be in the situation where a parent and a child are on a trip and the child begins whining for something to drink and nothing is available for miles. The parents might use this tool to fantasize what it would be like to drink a tall, cold, thirst-quenching, sparkling, glass of soda. The parent can use humor as a parenting tool here. The actual desire can be met now in fantasy and later when they get near a store.
Personal Safety
Most of the rules you have for your child are to protect them from accidental injury and from other people. The National Crime Prevention Council advises that one of the most important ways to protect your child is to teach them to be wary of dangerous circumstances. This can include recognizing suspicious behavior from other children and adults and learning to say no if they are asked to keep a secret or disobey their parents. A common rule that most children are taught is not to talk to strangers and to run away for help from a trusted adult if they are approached.
Family Rules
Rules at home are typically made to help siblings and family members get along and to respect each other's belongings. Family rules could include speaking politely, eating at the dinner table and not wearing shoes inside. They could also include your child's responsibilities, such as making his bed, cleaning his room, helping with the dishes and finishing his homework before playing on the computer. The Raising Children Network recommends that parents should keep rules consistent among all children so that each child will know what is expected of them. Additionally, adults in the household should also follow family rules. That will help your child be respectful at home and take responsibility for his behavior.
Social Interaction
Children learn social rules both directly and indirectly while playing with their siblings and other children. The website Childhoods Today notes that many of the social rules that guide children during play are unwritten as children learn how to have fun with their playmates. They might learn that if they do not share their toys, for instance, other children will not play with them. You might also have rules that help your child develop social skills. For example, rules such as including a younger sibling during playtime, helps your child develop patience, cooperation and compromise with others. These rules for social interactions during childhood are important for lifelong relationships.
Playing Sports
Playing a team sport allows your child to learn and develop skills that help boost his self-esteem, leadership and time-management abilities. Sports involve rules to play the game and rules of interaction between teammates and competing teams. This includes treating coaches and players with respect, giving everyone a fair chance to play and working together as a team. The Raising Children Network notes that watching sporting events also has rules. The way you speak, cheer and show disappointment during a game teaches your child sportsmanship. These rules are important to teach respect, encouragement, discipline and cooperation in all life situations.
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WHEN IMPULSES RULE a CHILD'S LIFE
By David Lewis , Ph.D. on December 27, 2013 - 3:50am
Billy, an impulsive 11-year-old, is viewed by his teachers as somewhat lazy, easily distracted and lacking in motivation.
His parents, convinced their son's poor performance was due to a 'mental' problem, insisted he be as tested by the school's psychologist. When she reported Billy was a perfectly normal little boy they refused to accept her diagnosis. They went to three further psychologists all of whom confirmed their colleague's original findings. Still dissatisfied they sent him to a yet another specialist who finally provided the diagnosis they sought. Billy, he said, was suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). Given the appropriate medication their son could well turn into a straight A student.
"We always knew it," they told his teachers triumphantly. "Our son is not lazy - he's sick."
They are far from unusual in this desire to explain away behaviour which, even a decade ago, might have been viewed as a normal part of growing up as a medical condition for which a cure must be found.
In the US, ADHD is now the second most frequent long-term diagnosis made in children, beaten only narrowly by asthma. Data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention indicate it has been diagnosed in up to 15% of high school-age children and that the number of youngsters being medicated for the disorder has risen from 600,000 in 1990 to 3.5 million today. By contrast, world-wide, ADHD affects only around 5% of children, the majority boys. (1)
It is, of course, essential that children with a genuine illness are speedily diagnosed and effectively treated. Medication, in such cases, is often an essential first step on the road to recovery.
The trouble is that between obviously healthy and manifestly sick youngsters there is a grey area which is growing in size with every passing year. Since, in the absence of pathology, there are at present no tests or scans that can detect mental illness, diagnosis tends to be subjective. What one psychologist considers perfectly 'normal', another may view as highly abnormal.
In a recent interview with the New York Times Dr Keith Conners, a psychologist and professor emeritus at Duke University, who for more than 50 years has led the fight to legitimise the disorder, called this increase:
"A national disaster of dangerous proportions…a concoction to justify the giving out of medication at unprecedented and unjustifiable levels." (3)
The most widely used form of treatment is to use drugs, such as methylphenidate atomoxetine, and dexamfetamine. Unfortunately, around one in five ADHD sufferers fail to respond to drugs (4) while in many other cases the response is only partial. Furthermore, all drugs have side effects, can also be habit forming and open to abuse. Long-term follow-ups have found that when children stopped taking the drug their clinical symptoms of ADHD reappeared.
Problems such as these have led some therapists, especially in the US, to start using a form of treatment known as EEG-Neurofeedback training.
This involves teaching sufferers how to control their 'brain waves' by playing computer games via sensors attached to their head. (5) The results appear promising, with improvements being found in around 40 percent of cases at six month follow-up.
In a recent study in my laboratory* two teenage boys played a computer game involving a race between a red and a blue caterpillar. Thin wires ran from electrodes pasted to their scalps to a control box. This detects electrical activity in their brains and uses these 'brain waves' to move the caterpillars across the screen.
Mark, aged 13 has been diagnosed with ADHD his friend, 14-year-old Ryan exhibits no such symptoms. During the game, Ryan's red caterpillar speeds quickly along the track as he reduces his output of slow moving 'theta waves' while simultaneously increasing faster moving 'beta waves'. Mark's brains produces higher levels of theta and lower levels of beta waves his blue caterpillar barely moves off the start line.
Over a period of time, however, Mark trains himself to reduce his theta and boost his beta waves. In doing so he learns to control his impulsive behaviours.
While researching for my new book, Impulse, I came across several examples of behaviour which our forefathers would have shrugged off but which present-day parents see as requiring medical intervention. Given the lifestyle of many youngsters these days this may not be so surprising.
Many youngsters are discouraged from engaging in activities, such as exploring, getting into and out of scrapes, climbing trees and falling over, that earlier generations accepted as a normal part of childhood down. Even the amount of time they have for exercise is so constrained these days, especially for urban children, by parental concerns for their safety. Some children may be exhibiting the symptoms of hyperactivity simply because they're not getting enough physically demanding exercise!
Taking risks and learning from the consequences of their mistakes is an essential part of growing up and developing independence.
The teenage years, especially, are the most intense and exciting of a child's life. They'll be unhappy, do silly things, take reckless decisions and make foolish misjudgements of people and situations.
But if they behave impulsively and fall flat on their faces from time to time, this doesn't mean they need a diagnosis or a pill. It just means they're being kids.
* Mindlab International is purely a research laboratory and does not offer any neurofeedback training. There are, however, many practitioners in both the USA and UK
(1) Polanczyk, G., de Lima, M. S., Horta, B. L., Biederman, J., Rohde L. A., (2007) The Worldwide Prevalence of ADHD: A Systematic Review and Metaregression Analysis. American Journal of Psychiatry, 164(6), 942–948.
(2) Faraone, S. V., Biederman, J., Mick, E., (2006) The Age-Dependent Decline of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Meta-Analysis of Follow-Up Studies. Psychological Medicine, 36(2), 159–165.
(3) Schwarz, A. (2013) The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder, New York Times, Dec 14
(4) Charach, A., Figueroa, M., Chen, S., Ickowicz, A., & Schachar, R. (2006) Stimulant treatment over 5 years: effects on growth. Journal of American Academic Child Adolescent Psychiatry, 45: 415–421.
(5) Lansbergen, M. M., van-Dongen-Boomsma, M., Buitelaar, J. K., Slaats-Willemse, D., (2010) ADHD and EEG-Neurofeedback: A Double-Blind Randomized Placebo-Controlled Feasibility Study. Journal of Neural Transmission, 118(2), 275-284


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Apple's new iMac confirmed to be incompatible with VESA mountsIn somewhat of a regression in function from its predecessors, it has been confirmed that Apple's new iMac line of all-in-one desktops are not compatible with mounts certified by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA).
Although the new iMac is thin and light, making it a prime candidate for various alternative mounting positions such as on a wall, Apple did not design the unit to be used with VESA-compatible mounts. The company has previously offered VESA support on earlier iMacs and the current Thunderbolt Display.
Apple blog MacTrast received confirmation of the change in email form on Thursday, confirming what many suspected as there has been no mention of VESA compatibility since the iMac was unveiled in October.
"The new iMac is not VESA mount compatible at this time," said an Apple representative. "We appreciate your feedback on this feature and will take it into consideration."
The statement is in line with an on the Apple Online Store product page for a VESA mount adapter kit does not mention the 2012 iMac as a supported model.
It is unknown why Apple chose not to offer VESA mount support, but it can be speculated that the radical new design of the iMac was a contributing factor. In lieu of an Apple-made product, third-party manufacturers are working on VESA adapters that attach directly to the built-in stand.
On Topic: iMac
- Apple rumored to launch 27" iMac with 5K Retina display at October media event
- Apple's next product splash slated for second half of October
- Rumor: Apple could launch new 27-inch iMac with 5K Retina display this fall
- Another Apple page briefly mentioned mysterious 'mid-2014' 27-inch iMac
- Apple's focus on value in 2014 has sent Mac sales surging

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In 2007, when Public Citizen ranked the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners (NSBME) among the five worst medical boards in the U.S., the distinction was nothing new for the troubled board. The NSBME's dismal record in fulfilling its mandate to protect patients from unfit doctors has been the subject of public controversy for years. In 2002, KVBC-TV reported that the legislature was about to "discipline the discipliners" after the station ran an exposé of the Medical Board's lax approach to physicians with multiple malpractice claims. Two years later, Reno Gazette Journal reporter Frank Mullen wrote a series of articles detailing the Medical Board's continuing failure to reign in dangerous doctors. As you can see from the summaries below of a selection of cases from 2005 to the present, the Board's long-term dysfunction has enabled crowds of physicians to keep on injuring patients despite multiple complaints against them.
In considering the Medical Board's mishandling of these cases, remember that the Board refuses to act on the overwhelming majority of complaints. In 2008, for example, the Board opened over six hundred investigations, mostly in response to complaints from the public. However, it took disciplinary action in only 27 cases, and these actions did not, for the most part, prevent the doctors involved from conducting their business as usual.
During 2008 and 2009, after a series of high-profile scandals, including the exposure of up to 50,000 patients to serious diseases at endoscopy clinics in Nevada, the state's historical indifference to health care regulation came under renewed scrutiny. It is too soon to tell if the Medical Board will change its ways in the face of public outrage. However, it is plain that Nevada has become a magnet for incompetent doctors, and it will take years for state officials to clean up the mess that developed over decades as lawmakers and regulators sought to promote the interests of profiteering charlatans rather than fulfilling their mandate to protect the public.
Dr. Conrad Murray, who served as the late Michael Jackson's personal physician, was charged with manslaughter on February 8, 2010 in connection with his role in the pop singer's death on May 25, 2009. Murray, who lives in Las Vegas, is licensed to practice in Texas, California, and Nevada. Noting that he had yet to be paid by the singer's estate after he reportedly provided Jackson with a fatal dose of propofol, a powerful anesthetic that is only supposed to be administered in a medical setting, Murray reopened his cardiology practice in Houston in November 2009 in order to meet his mounting legal bills.
On February 9, 2010, the day after Murray was charged in California, the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners indicated that it would take no action against him even though the Medical Board of California had already initiated proceedings against his license there. According to Fox News, Douglas Cooper, Interim Executive Director of the Nevada Medical Board, said that no action was needed in Nevada because Murray's guilt had not been established, and it did not seem that Murray was treating patients in Nevada. However, Murray's lawyer almost immediately announced that Murray had recently returned to Las Vegas, where he planned to resume practicing medicine in another doctor's office.
Several weeks later, the Board backtracked from its previous announcement. Since it had long been public knowledge that Murray had fallen behind on his child support, the Board decided to file a complaint against him, not for his improper administration of a controlled substance, or for any other violation of standard medical care, but for failing to disclose that he had failed to keep up with his child support payments. Cooper reportedly said that Murray could lose his licence as a result of this complaint, but it unlikely that the Board has ever revoked a doctor's licence for a similar offense. In any event, indications are that Murray is continuing to treat patients in Nevada, and the Nevada Board's inconsistent response to his case will undoubtedly strengthen his lawyer's efforts to have the complaint dismissed.
If it turns out that Murray improperly prescribed controlled substances to Jackson, the case would not be unusual in Nevada. In 2008, the Las Vegas Sun reported that the number of deaths caused by prescription drugs in Clark County exceeds the number of deaths caused by street drugs, car accidents, or firearms.
In 2005, when homeopath James Forsythe, MD, was indicted by federal officials for drug-smuggling and other violations, the Reno Gazette Journal revealed that at least 19 people had filed complaints against him with the Medical Board, and a state investigator described him in a sworn affidavit as "one of the five most serious physician offenders known in the state of Nevada." At the time, Forsythe's record showed that only one disciplinary action had been taken against him. In 1995, he was fined $1,000 for overbilling for medical tests and was also forced to pay the Board $44,000 that was supposed to be "used by the Board for future protection and awareness," but there is no evidence that the Board made any effort to protect the public from Forsythe or to make anyone aware of the dangers he posed.
The incapacity or unwillingness of the Medical Board to take action against renegade physicians is evident in Forsythe's brazen manipulation of the media before, during, and after his trial in 2007. Contrary to a press release that he circulated among local news outlets and various "health freedom" web sites in August 2007, Forsythe was not cleared of drug-trafficking and other charges at that point, nor did the FDA ask him to author protocols for the proper use of human growth hormone. His trial began in Reno on October 23, 2007, and he was acquitted on November 1. While Forsythe skated away from the charges against him, the proceedings were significant because they revealed that he had improperly diagnosed a patient, who was actually an undercover FDA agent, with hypopituitism without conducting relevant tests, obtained human growth hormone by claiming in a letter to U.S. Customs that he needed it for "personal use," and sold it directly to the patient rather than writing a prescription that could be filled at an ordinary pharmacy.
Having ignored his questionable activities for years, the NSBME finally took action against Forsythe in January of 2009, charging him with malpractice after he began treating a patient for prostate cancer without performing any laboratory tests.
In September 2007, the Medical Board found homeopathic MD Frank Shallenberger guilty of one count of medical malpractice as a consequence of his mistreatment of David Horton, who died after Shallenberger misdiagnosed his colon cancer as hemorrhoids, treated him with witch-hazel and other ineffectual remedies, then, after the cancer had spread, unsuccessfully tried to combat the disease with Insulin Potentiation Therapy, a controversial treatment that has never been accepted by mainstream oncologists.
In contrast to what happens at most medical boards, where previous misconduct is usually taken into account, the NSBME ignored the fact that Shallenberger had been forced to surrender his license in California in 1995 after the medical board there found him subject to multiple disciplinary actions due to "gross incompetence," "repeated acts of gross negligence," and "acts of dishonesty and corruption which are substantially related to the qualifications, functions, or duties of a physician and surgeon." Consequently, for his direct contribution to Horton's death, the Nevada Board fined him only $5,000 and ordered him to pay $6,500 in legal costs.
At the same meeting, the Board dismissed a second complaint against Shallenberger, maintaining that it could not discipline him for mistreating a patient with severe cognitive impairments because he also holds a homeopathic license, and homeopaths in Nevada do not have to conform to ordinary standards of medical care even when they are also licensed MD's.
In August 2009, the Medical Board responded to yet another complaint against Shallenberger, charging him with two counts of malpractice for misdiagnosing and mistreating a patient by ignoring laboratory results and improperly prescribing medication. Since Shallenberger got off so lightly in the earlier cases against him, and since the Medical Board tends to overlook previous misconduct, it's unlikely that this latest complaint will put a dent in his lucrative practice. While Shallenberger specializes in helping people to stop or even reverse the "disease of aging," he attracts patients from around the world by offering seemingly magical treatments for other maladies such as diabetes and cancer. Some of his breakthrough nostrums include, along with Insulin Potentiation Therapy (IPT), ozone therapy, darkfield blood analysis, bioenergy testing, and Lifewave Energy Enhancing Patches.
Dr. Kevin Buckwalter's dangerous incompetence was first brought to the attention of the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners in 2005. However, the Medical Board did not prevent Buckwalter from prescribing thousands of pain pills to known drug addicts over the next three years even though numerous complaints had been filed against him. In 2008, after the Las Vegas Sun reported on Buckwalter's dangerous practices, the Medical Board finally stripped him of his license. By that time, he had been implicated in the deaths of eight patients, including a newlywed couple who both died after Buckwalter prescribed them excessive amounts of painkillers without reviewing their medical records or subjecting them to any physical examination.
In November 2009, the Medical Board reportedly backed off an agreement it had reached with Buckwalter's lawyer that would have allowed him to reapply for his medical license after a two-year revocation. According to the Las Vegas Sun, "Board member Dr. Michael Fischer, who made the motion to reject the settlement, refused to say whether the panel viewed it as too lenient or too strict. Board officials said members could not comment on the case because it hasn't been resolved."
On March 11, 2009, a federal grand jury indicted Dr. Mark Kabins in connection with his involvement in a complex conspiracy to defraud Melodie Simon, a patient who became paralyzed after routine spine surgery in 2000. The case, whose participants have come to be known as the "Medical Mafia," evolved from charges against attorney Noel Gage and medical consultant Howard Awand, who allegedly arranged secret deals with doctors, lawyers, and others that enabled the co-conspirators to siphon off millions from settlements at the expense of injured patients.
According to LasVegasNow.com, other doctors who have been subpoenaed or targeted by the U.S. Attorney's office include Dr. Mark Kraft, Dr. Raimundo Leon, Dr. Brian Lemper, Dr. Jim Thomas, Dr. David Oliveri, Dr. Michael Prater, Dr. Witold Iglikowski, Dr. Benjamin Venger, and Dr. John Thalgott. Of these, two physicians, Venger and Thalgott, have testified for the prosecution, acknowledging that they participated in order to get kickbacks from Gage and shield themselves from potentially damaging malpractice claims.
Although Kabins pleaded guilty to fraud in November 2009, the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners did not take action against him until February 2010, when it charged him with three relatively minor violations. Since doctors in Nevada who have engaged in serious wrongdoing typically receive inconsequential fines, it is highly unlikely that Kabins will miss a day of work as a result of his misconduct. The NSBME also filed a complaint against Dr. Benjamin Venger and found him guilty of malpractice in part for his untruthful testimony in the Simon case. But while Venger was put on probation, neither he nor any other doctor involved in the scheme has been prevented from practicing medicine. In keeping with this history, the Board filed a complaint against Dr. John Thalgott after he admitted offering false testimony in exchange for kickbacks in the Simon case. Then the Board resolved the matter by requiring Thalgott to make a $5,000 donation to an unnamed charity in addition to paying legal costs. While the Board failed to provide any rationale for this illogical agreement, it is certainly ironic that Thalgott could end up writing off his penalty on his next tax return.
Dr. Albert Yeh, a Las Vegas-based physician who runs clinics in Arizona and Nevada, was charged on July 14, 2009 with operating a massive illegal drug operation and insurance scam . According to DEA officials, Yeh wrote hundreds of illegal drug prescriptions and collected over $3.5 million in fraudulent insurance claims. Testimony provided by Yeh's medical assistant, Brian Espinoza of Henderson, indicated that Yeh typically wrote over 100 prescriptions every Tuesday, so many that Tuesday came to be known as "Yeh Day" at local pharmacies.
Dr. Depak Desai, who served on the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners from 1993 until 2001, was ordered to pay $2,500 in 1996 to settle a complaint against him for falsely advertising that the doctors on his staff at the Gastroenterology Center of Nevada were board-certified. But the real threat that Desai posed to the public did not come to light until the Southern Nevada Health District announced on February 28, 2008 that as many as 50,000 people may have been exposed to hepatitis C and other blood-borne diseases due to widespread mishandling of syringes at the Southern Nevada Endoscopy Center over the previous four years.
Desai owns and manages the clinic along with other lesser partners. During the investigation into dangerous procedures at Desai's business, doctors, nurses, and other staff acknowledged that the improper use of syringes, as well as failure to clean medical equipment, was routine despite obvious risks to public safety. The Medical Board could have suspended Desai's medical license on an emergency basis, as it sometimes does when it receives reports that doctors have been engaged in reckless conduct or criminal activity. Instead, Board President Dr. Javaid Anwar, Desai's long-term friend and associate, and Executive Director Tony Clark brokered an agreement that allowed Desai to suspend his practice temporarily while keeping his license free from any record of disciplinary action. Anwar and Clark both insisted that the agreement reached with Desai had nothing to do with his previous service on the Medical Board or with the high-level political connections that earned him an appointment to Governor Jim Gibbon's healthcare advisory team.
Although nearly two years have passed since the endoscopy scandal broke, Desai has so far managed to stonewall the proceedings, in part by claiming that he suffered a stroke that has prevented him from testifying in his own defense. In 2007, in a malpractice case against him, Desai also claimed that the effects of a stroke had deprived him of his capacity to offer testimony. However, the tactic backfired when it was discovered that Desai was still at work performing endoscopy surgeries.
Perhaps as a result of this failed legal strategy, Desai's lawyer submitted an affidavit to the Nevada Medical Board on February 5, 2010 stating that Desai was no longer "competent to safely practice medicine due to physical and mental impairments arising from a series of strokes." Confronted with this unequivocal statement, the Board apparently had no choice but to revoke Desai's license. The consequences of the Board's action remain unclear since Desai's lawyers could use it to counter doubts raised about his real condition. While his lawyers contend that the doctor is too disabled to "read a wristwatch," the Las Vegas Review Journal reported on Febrary 25, 2010 that friends and acquantances who had recently seen Desai at the Hindu Temple in Summerlin said that "he often shows up and seemed fine." Now that the doctors on the Medical Board have, in effect, corroborated Desai's claims about his inability to assist in his upcoming trial, the Board may be, once again, helping a colleague evade legal responsibility.
In the midst of ongoing investigations into Desai's clinic, other irregularities have come to light including possible insurance fraud. Testimony in a malpractice suit against Dr. Clifford Carrol, one of Desai's partners, revealed that the Nevada Endoscopy Center may have routinely overbilled for anesthesia during procedures while also failing to spend the time required to conduct adequate exams. In 2008, Carrol paid a $2 million settlement to Kevin Rexford, a patient who developed terminal colon cancer after the doctor failed to detect the disease in an earlier stage during a hasty exam. Although Carroll spent only a little more than three minutes on what should have been an eight-minute exam, he billed the insurance company for a much longer period of anesthesia, thirty-one minutes, in an apparent effort to maximize the revenue derived from the procedure.
According to the Las Vegas Sun, "The clinic committed three fundamental errors in the case, said Dr. Russell D. Yang, a gastroenterologist and associate professor at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California who is working on Rexford's behalf: failure to identify the signs of colon cancer, technical failure in performing the endoscopy, and institutional failures in quality assurance." Carrol's errors were apparently due to his drive to perform as many profitable procedures as possible in the shortest amount of time. In his deposition, he acknowledged that he usually performed between 30 and 33 procedures each day and once managed to set a record of 50.
The lapse in quality assurance that occurred in the Rexford case was apparently missed in a review by Quality Care Consultants, which is co-owned by Dr. Ikram Khan, former Medical Board member and advisor to Governor Gibbons, and Dr. Javaid Anwar, former president of the Medical Board and a current Board member. Quality Care Consultants evaluated Desai's Endoscopy Center in 2007 to see if it measured up to industry standards. While acknowledging being "paid in full," Anwar did not disclose whether his company had detected any of the dangerous practices that health officials now say went on at the clinic for years, nor did he say whether Quality Care Consultants had given Desai any tips on reducing costs. Saving money was reportedly Desai's main reason for rejecting standard procedures despite the health risks involved.
Like Anwar, Medical Board member Dr. Stephen Daniel McBride was also forced to recuse himself from all matters related to the Endoscopy Center crisis due to his ties to Desai. As Paul Harism reported in the Las Vegas Review Journal, it turned out that one of McBride's links to Desai was that McBride was Chair of the Nevada Mutual Insurance Company, which provides malpractice insurance to physicians, while Desai served as a board member. Under a barrage of criticism for the obvious conflict of interest between his position on the investigatory committee of the Medical Board and his efforts to defend physicians against malpractice claims, McBride apparently gave up his seat at Nevada Mutual, as did Desai, who reportedly withdrew after charges against him were made public.
In light of McBride's leadership role in the malpractice insurance industry, it would be helpful to learn more about his input into in the Medical Board's 2005 decision to delete all information related to malpractice claims from its web site, as well as his connections to "Keep Our Doctors in Nevada," one of the leading groups lobbying for tort reform in recent years. And it would likewise be enlightening to find out how many of the doctors disciplined by the Medical Board during McBride's tenure signed up and paid for the continuing medical education courses offered on Nevada Mutual's web site.
McBride has much in common with Dr. Rudy Manthei, DO, former president of the Nevada State Board of Osteopathic Medicine. Like McBride, Manthei helped to promote caps on malpractice insurance claims while simultaneously participating in the investigation and determination of malpractice complaints against physicians. Manthei not only chaired Keep Our Doctors in Nevada, the principal group lobbying to reduce patients' rights, he also served alongside Deepak Desai on Governor Jim Gibbons' healthcare advisory team.
During Manthei's term as president, the Osteopathic Board fell into disarray, due in part to fiscal problems that developed after its Deputy Assistant Director, John E. Delap, began to siphon funds to feed his gambling addiction. Dr. Larry Tarno, Executive Director of the Osteopathic Board, later acknowledged that the shortage of funds that developed between 2002 and 2005, when Delap had access to Board accounts, forced him to terminate the only investigator on staff. Two years later, after the charges against Delap came to light, Tarno was quoted in the Las Vegas Review Journal, "We have not had a formal investigator since then... This has put me in a position of having to curtail activities of investigations. We have gotten some complaints from people that we're burying things." Manthei apparently left the Osteopathic Board in 2007, but his brother, Dr. Scott Manthei, was appointed to the Board in 2008.
From news accounts, it appears that Rudy Manthei hasn't lost his political clout. In August 2009, Manthei was charged with two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor after he allowed underage partiers to drive away from his home after he had served them alcohol. However, in contrast to what normally happens in similar cases in Henderson, Manthei seems to have convinced police to let him off.
Dr. David Linden, who is licensed both in Nevada and in Oklahoma, was featured in a major story in the New York Times in 2007 after the FDA found that he had imprisoned a subject of a research study at his psychiatric clinic in Oklahoma City. The Times also reported that Linden's Oklahoma license had been suspended in November 2006 for three months by that state's medical board because two of his patients had contracted herpes from him due to improper sexual contact.
While Linden's 90-day suspension for such egregious misconduct might have seemed too light to most people, it apparently seemed too harsh to the Nevada State Board of Medical Board Examiners (NSBME), which elected not to prevent him from practicing psychiatry even for a day, but chose instead to place him on probation. Now it seems that the NSBME's efforts to protect Linden from himself, instead of protecting his patients, have backfired: He is back in the public eye after having been arrested on February 28, 2008 for passing over $300,000 in bad checks in Las Vegas casinos.
Dr. Kurt Buzard, an ophthalmologic surgeon, was arrested in Las Vegas in 2003 for cocaine possession. Travelling in a speeding convertible with an unidentified female companion, Buzard was wearing a dog collar, a sheet, and little else when he was pulled over by police on August 24. Apparently unaware that Buzard had faced similar drug charges in Colorado in 1985, the police ordered him to appear for booking three weeks later.
In June 2006, long after Buzard had cut a deal that allowed him to avoid jail time on the cocaine charge, the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners publicly reprimanded him for bringing the medical profession into disrepute. Ultimately, having enabled Buzard to continue performing eye surgeries for almost four years despite his substance abuse problems, the Nevada Medical Board reached an agreement with him to inactivate his medical license. According to the agreement, Buzard's license has not been revoked or suspended, and he is free to apply to re-activate his license in the future.
In June 2006, the Nevada Medical Board revoked Dr. Harriston Bass's license at an emergency meeting. The Board had also revoked his license in 1993, after finding him guilty of gross and repeated malpractice that led to the deaths of two of his patients. However, the Board stayed the revocation, placed him on probation, and enabled him to continue treating patients in Nevada for more than a decade. Although the Medical Board removed information about malpractice claims from its web site in 2005, John L. Smith, a columnist for the Las Vegas Review Journal, reported that Bass, who became a prison doctor while under probation, was sued by an inmate at the Southern Nevada Correctional Facility in 2001.
Bass's troubled history again resurfaced after Gina Micali, a patient at his PT Cruiser-based mobile clinic, Doc's 24-7, died from a prescription drug overdose on October 6, 2005. Authorities alleged that Bass sold Micali 300 hydrocodone pills two days before her death and also wrote her a prescription for the drug even though he was not licensed to dispense controlled substances. Bass was found guilty of second-degree murder on March 5, 2008 in Las Vegas.
The Medical Board revoked Dr. Doyle Stuart Steele's license to practice medicine in November 2007, five years after it found him not guilty of medical malpractice in the first complaint filed against him. During that period, Steele was ordered to undergo a mental evaluation after questions were raised about his competency in 2004, and a second complaint was filed against him in January 2005. That complaint alleged that he had failed to report hospital sanctions against him and that he had engaged in sexual relations with one of his patients.
In July 2005, Steele and his colleague, Dr. Richard Groom, were sued by the family of a man who was killed when one of their former employees, for whom they had reportedly prescribed over 5,000 painkiller pills during the previous year, ran him, along with a woman who was seriously injured, down on June 6, 2004 as they stood on the side of a Las Vegas highway. Meanwhile, on July 1, 2005, the Medical Board suspended Steele's license pending the outcome of an investigation into whether he had improperly prescribed controlled substances to three patients, including one with whom he had allegedly had sexual relations.
In December 2005, Steele was arrested for writing Oxycontin prescriptions for drug dealers in Virginia and for trading drugs for sex in Las Vegas. Late last year, after Steele was sentenced to seven years by a Virginia judge, the Nevada Medical Board finally stripped him of his license. However, in a statement to the press on Steele's case, a Medical Board spokesperson stressed that the revocation was not necessarily permanent: ""People who redeem themselves and re-educate themselves and pay their debt to society would be welcome to re-apply," the board spokesperson said."
In June 2007, Dr. Stephen Seldon and his wife, Deborah Seldon, received national attention when they were charged on various counts by federal authorities after they allegedly injected patients with a cheap substitute for Botox that is not supposed to be used on human beings. Two years later, Stephen Seldon was sentenced to 46 months in prison, while Deborah Seldon received 30 months after the two were found guilty of multiple counts of mail fraud and one count of improper sale of adulterated drugs.
In a departure from its usual practice of treating these types of violations extremely lightly, the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners revoked Seldon's license in December 2008. The difference in the Seldon case could have been media coverage or the fact that the couple faced federal charges. Seldon was, however, clearly treated much more harshly than other physicians similarly charged. For example, in March 2007, after finding Adelaida Resuello, MD guilty of similarly substituting an unapproved botulism toxin for Botox, and also for assisting an unlicensed person to inject the poison into patients, the Board fined her a paltry $2000 and placed her on probation. And when the Board found Gregory Bryan, MD guilty of injecting people with fake Botox, and of improperly supervising a physician's assistant, it fined him a mere $1,000 and ordered him to take a few courses on charting and medical ethics.
Likewise, in contrast with its historically lackadaisical attitude, the Medical Board went so far as to have one of Seldon's medical assistants arrested for providing Botox injections even as Board members acknowledged that the practice of allowing assistants to perform the procedure was widespread in Nevada. The Board's inconsistent enforcement of existing statutes backfired when the arrest caused general confusion about whether medical assistants could provide flu shots, a question that became especially pressing since it arose at the very moment that public health officials confronted the challenge of distributing H1N1 flu vaccine. The Board then went on to exacerbate the problems caused by its incompetence by attempting to adopt an emergency regulation that was later overturned because the discussion had been cut short by members' desire to break for lunch.
Among other problems, Dr. Anthony's record includes a conviction for negligent homicide in Utah in 2002 in the death of a woman from Bunkerville, Nevada after she received a liposuction treatment from him. Anthony caused the woman's death when he provided injectable painkillers to her husband, who had no medical training, and advised him to inject his wife at home because she did not want to return to Anthony's office. That same year, the DEA revoked Anthony's registration on the grounds that he was not authorized to handle controlled substances in Utah. In December 2009, after Utah's Medical Board revoked Anthony's license, the Nevada Medical Board filed another complaint against him. However, it is not clear from public records whether he is continuing to practice in Nevada or any other state.
The NSBME's Faulty Radar
The recent cases summarized above only include those in which the NSBME took some sort of disciplinary action against physicians whose subsequent wrongdoing landed them in the news. But since the Medical Board addresses only a tiny fraction of the hundreds of complaints that it receives each year, it is virtually impossible to gage how many incompetent doctors are currently treating patients in Nevada. Nonetheless, having come under scrutiny, former Board President and current member Javaid Anwar justified making malpractice information more difficult for the public to obtain. According to the Las Vegas Sun:
Dr. Javaid Anwar, president of the State Medical Examiners Board, and fellow board member Donald Baepler both said malpractice claims and settlements are misleading barometers of a physician's competence. Insurance companies often will settle malpractice claims for hundreds of thousands of dollars even if the doctor wasn't really at fault to avoid the possibility of losing millions of dollars at trial, Baepler said...And Anwar said a physician with only one malpractice case could have been involved in a far more egregious situation than a doctor with 10 claims..."The number of lawsuits is not a good way to judge how good a physician is," Anwar said. "Sometimes they simply go after the doctor with the deepest pockets."
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Blogging Domino: 03.07 - Wary Meyers Decorative Arts
We really enjoyed the fact that Domino showed off their sweet apartment in Portland, Maine in the March "Green Issue".
Domino featured the fact that they are "curatorial collectors"; that they spend time each day checking estate sales, flea markets, vintage shops and dumpsters for their finds. Thier place in the "green" theme is secured by the fact that they make used items very fashionable, what they work with is "salvaged chic".
A quote from the article: "It's not that we are against new stuff, per se", Linda explains, "It's just that there are so many exquisitely designed pieces out there that are crying out for the chance to live new lives. They're so much better ff with us and our clients than in a landfill!".
We love that they love one of our all-time favorite used decor book finds (that we look at all the time) - the 1974 version of the House Book by Terence Conran. It's absolutely worth searching out and finding a spot on a book shelf for it - tons of inspiration.
For lots more of Wary Meyers work visit their site which is loaded with good photos (and pick up the March issue of Domino for new photos and resource info).
PS: AT:SF did a post on a photo wall mural from the Wary Meyers article in Domino, click here to check it out.
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Does anyone know where the glass coffee table they use in many of their interiors is from? It looks like what I'm searching for, and fingers crossed, is it affordable? Or a common flea market find?
laura, are you talking about the mies van der rohe table? this one:
as you can see, no, it isn't cheap. but if you're lucky, they occasionally show up second-hand, but almost never with a cheap price tag.
I loved seeing their space in Domino magazine. I first heard of them last year (October) via Lena Corwin's blog and then, SFGirlByBay in January. It was great to see them in Domino, I loved looking at their home in Maine. I assumed they lived in NYC for some reason.
I'm hoping they release a book at some point, I'll be first in line to purchase a copy - I find their work so inspirational and highly creative - not text book by any means, very authentic.
Their home is like a visual travel diary of sorts, if that even makes sense...
The printed fabric on their dining room walls makes me hyperventilate with longing. The article said it was a flea-market find. Sigh!


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A shocking fall from grace left the Dallas Stars on the outside looking in at the 2009 NHL playoffs.
Off-Season Game Plan looks at what the Stars could do this summer in an attempt to return to their more typical postseason position.
Last season started off on the wrong foot, due in some part to Sean Avery, but even after Avery was gone, the Stars couldn't get in a groove. Injuries played a part, and ineffective goaltending from Marty Turco played a part, so there is reason to think that good health and a bounceback season from Turco would be enough.
On the other hand, taking a stand-pat position when coming off a 12th-place finish in the Western Conference isn't going to raise expectations much.
Complicating matters for the Stars is that owner Tom Hicks has run into some financial challenges that may prevent Dallas from spending right to the salary cap.
Co-General Manger Brett Hull admitted as much, telling the Dallas Morning News, "I can guarantee you it isn't going to be to the cap," when discussing next season's budget.
Even on a budget, the Stars have a playoff-calibre roster, when healthy, so making a few savvy acquisitions in the off-season (perhaps something that works out a tad better than the Sean Avery fiasco) could result in a fairly dramatic turnaround for next season.
Now, it's up the league's only co-GMs to make the right moves.
GM/COACHLes Jackson and Brett Hull/Dave Tippett
Top Prospects: Jamie Benn (46-36-82, plus-27 in 56 GP; Kelowna-WHL), Ondrej Roman (10-22-32, plus-21 in 32 GP; Spokane-WHL), Tom Wandell (15-26-41, plus-15 in 51 GP; Timra-SEL), Perttu Lindgren (5-19-24, minus-5 in 49 GP; Lukko Rauma-FNL)
His career progress was steady, if a little slow, then Loui Eriksson broke through in his third season as a first-line finisher. Just as important, Eriksson is a reliable two-way player and he was far and away the Stars' leading sniper even though he wasn't typically on the first power play unit.
Following his breakout 2007-2008 season, Mike Ribeiro's all-around game slipped some without Brenden Morrow riding shotgun on his wing, but there's no reason to complain about 78 points from the playmaking pivot.
Injuries forced Steve Ott into a more prominent role and he thrived, scoring a career-best 19 goals and 46 points. He's still an agitator, but his improved offensive production makes him much more valuable if he can build on his career season.
A string of injuries limited Brad Richards to just 56 games and he continues to have challenges defensively (he hasn't been a plus player since the lockout), but he can handle a heavy workload and he forms an offensively capable 1-2 punch down the middle with Ribeiro.
After a terrific performance in the 2008 playoffs, team captain Brenden Morrow only played 18 games last season and the Stars missed his relentless presence. If Morrow and Richards return healthy next season, that would be an obvious upgrade to a Stars offence that frequently had trouble scoring.
James Neal ranked second among NHL rookies with 24 goals, providing a sense of optimism that he could develop into a power forward. However, the 21-year-old will likely have time to grow into the role once the Stars have a full lineup.
Smooth-skating Mike Modano will be 39 next season, the final year on his contract. His minus-13 rating was worst on the team, though some of that can be attributed to frequently being saddled with inexperienced wingers. Modano still has the skills to contribute, but more as a role player, who can be used in any situation, but isn't necessarily going to warrant first-line power play time at this stage of his career.
While Fabian Brunnstrom has natural offensive talent, it remains to be seen if he's going to develop enough of an all-around game to land a regular spot in the lineup. He could be a 30-goal scorer, he could be minus-20; he could be both.
He doesn't provide much offence, but Brian Sutherby is a fine checking centre, with good size and toughness; the kind of role player every team needs.
Toby Petersen is a solid enough depth player, but with 55 points in 220 games since breaking into the league in 2000-2001, he's going to forever be in a battle for a roster spot.
Tough guy Krys Barch isn't a true heavyweight, but don't tell him that, as he doesn't pick his spots when dropping the gloves. He was also competent in his limited ice time, though he may not get in 72 games again if Stars forwards have better health.
In an effort to balance out the scoring, the Stars may want to dip into the free agent market, if they have the budget to do so. With an overflow of left shots up front, the focus needs to be on right-shooting scorers, which should make one of Steve Sullivan, Brian Gionta, Ales Kotalik and Jason Williams appealing at the right price. If healthy, Jere Lehtinen would figure to be an option to return as well.
The Stars' best prospect that could make the jump, and make an impact, could be Jamie Benn, who is following up a strong regular season with an outstanding playoff for Kelowna in the Western Hockey League.
Top Prospects: Ivan Vishnevskiy (6-13-19, minus-5 in 67 GP; Peoria-AHL), Philip Larsen (2-15-17, plus-7 in 53 GP; Vastra Frolunda-SEL).
When he first broke into the league, there wouldn't have been any thought to him making an NHL All-Star Game, but he did in 2008-2009. While he's not necessarily an All-Star calibre defenceman, he's very valuable thanks to his combination of mobility and willingness to battle physically.
Trevor Daley continues to make steady progress and he's become a solid top-four defenceman though, like Robidas, he's under 6-feet tall as well and doesn't play with the same edge as Robidas.
While Robidas and Daley are solid, they don't have the same kind of offensive potential that Matt Niskanen possesses. Niskanen needs to get stronger, his work in the defensive zone is inconsistent and his minus-11 rating was worst among Stars defenders last season. Nevertheless, he scored 35 points to lead Stars defencemen and he's still just 22 years-old.
Nicklas Grossman has shown promise as a possible part of a shutdown pairing, with his willingness to play the body and block shots, but he's not there yet. He'll just need some time to develop into a more prominent role.
Journeyman Andrew Hutchinson is serviceable as a depth defenceman because he has decent size and can handle the puck, but he hasn't ever played well enough defensively to establish a regular turn on an NHL blueline.
Though he hasn't yet established a regular spot in the lineup, Mark Fistric provides much-needed size and nastiness. He doesn't try to do too much with the puck, which is probably a good strategy.
Top prospect Ivan Vishnevskiy played well enough in his brief late-season audition to warrant consideration for a regular spot on next year's team.
If the Stars are inclined to hit the free agent market, they could benefit from a few of the premier free agent defencemen like Jay Bouwmeester, Mattias Ohlund, Mike Komisarek or Francois Beauchemin as all have size, experience and the ability to handle major minutes.
Top Prospect: Richard Bachman (14-11-10, 2.63 GAA, .914 SVPCT in 35 GP)
It was an incongruous season for Marty Turco, as he played a career-high 74 games, despite posting the highest goals against average (2.81) and matching the lowest save percentage of his career (.898). He'll be 34 by next season and is heading into the final year of his contract, so the Stars could start looking at other alternatives in goal, whether that means a more accomplished backup to push him or perhaps signing a free agent replacement while shopping Turco.
Tobias Stephan was only granted five starts over the entire season and didn't do much in those games to generate excitement about his NHL future.
There aren't any blue chip goaltending prospects in the organization, so the Stars may want to sign a couple of goaltenders in the off-season, just to add organizational depth, with Swedish free agent Jonas Gustavsson certainly one reasonable target.
DRAFT8th - Magnus Paajaarvi-Svensson, Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Nazem Kadri, Jared Cowen.
Needs: One top six forward, depth forwards, one top four defenceman, another defenceman, backup goaltender What I said the Stars needed last year: Depth forwards, depth defenceman Who did they add? James Neal, Fabian Brunnstrom, Sean Avery.
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Apr 23, 2014, 8:48 AM EDT
The Champions League will make Liverpool more attractive, says its managing director, and the club will spend money to fortify its team.
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Senate Votes to Allow American Military to Detain U.S. Citizens Indefinitely.
A provision of the National Defense Authorization Act would put the U.S. into a permanent state of martial law, allowing military policing of American citizens.
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Introducing: Tokyo Quartet
東京カルテット (Tokyo Quartet) is a colourful new band that will make their debut next month!
Vocal: 清人 (Kiyoto) [ex-CELLT, ex-楽團孤独 (Gakudan Hitori) , ex-江戸川パラドクス (Edogawa Paradox)]
Guitar: 拓海 (Takumi)
Bass: 未夢 (Mimu)
Drums: ふじ丸 (Fujimaru) [ex-R指定 (R-Shitei), ex-江戸川パラドクス (Edogawa Paradox)]
The quartet already have their first single planned! 「ミラクル☆電波」 (miracle☆denpa) hits the stores on July 18th in four colours, each corresponding to one of the members.
Red Edition - 1,050 yen
1. ミラクル☆電波 (miracle☆denpa)
2. 目隠しメリー (megakushi merry)
Blue Edition - 1,050 yen
1. ミラクル☆電波 (miracle☆denpa)
2. 人生綱渡り (jinsei tsunawatari)
Green Edition - 1,050 yen
1. ミラクル☆電波 (miracle☆denpa)
2. 恋色ニート謝罪。 (koi iro neat shazai)
Peach Edition - 1,050 yen
1. ミラクル☆電波 (miracle☆denpa)
2. サクラ乙女 (sakura shoujo)
The first 200 people to buy all four editions of the single in the period between July 18th and July 24th will receive a 「ミラクル☆電波」 (miracle☆denpa) live performance DVD as a present.
This release is coupled to six instore events. Each of the events is one hour long.
July 18 @ Like An Edison Tokyo
July 21 @ Skull Rose Fukuoka
July 27 @ Like An Edison Osaka
July 28 @ Visual Cafe SEVEN
July 30 @ Nagoya fiveStars
August 4 @ little HEARTS. Sendai
Tokyo Quartet's first live is planned for July 9th at Ikebukuro EDGE. Other artists participating at the event are サウイフモノ (Souiumono), 2the DISCOLAND, POPCORE, コドモドラゴン (Codomo Dragon), ROGUE and the LEM. Tickets are 3,000 yen.
From July 20th to August 26th, the band will serve as opening act for Called≠Plan's 『ヨゾライオン』 (yozo lion) oneman tour.
Source: OHP, vkdb
ROGUE's new single
On March 7th, ROGUE will be releasing their second single entitled, "CONTRAST".
The single, which will cost 1,500 yen, will contain three tracks.
2. ペルソナ (Persona)
ROGUE's first single, "Qualia", was released back in May of 2011. The band officially started activites about a month later, on June 3rd with a sponsored event.
They are a four member band:
Vocals - ミナミ (Minami)
Guitar - - 祐 (Yuu)
Bass - RIO
Drums - Jr
You can catch ROGUE at any of their upcoming shows.
February 28th @ Shibuya STAR LOUNGE
March 3rd @ Ikebukuro BlackHole
March 9th @ Shinjuku RUIDO K4
March 26th @ Nagoya MUSIC FARM
March 27th @ OSAKA HOLIDAY
March 29th @ Shinjuku RUDIO K4
April 15th @ Shinjuku RUIDO K4
April 21st @ Ikebukuro CYBER
If you haven't heard them before, but want to check them out, you can see a sample from the "Qualia" release.
Source: OHP, Visunavi
Last lives for Kentz, featuring a few revivals
兼継 (Kentz), who is probably best known as the drummer for「あゃ」 (Aya), but was also in Le:view, Mars, Lusus, Sepia, GeNe, and did support for chariots, has announced two more performances, until he takes his leave from the stage. With his leaving, comes a few revivals from some old fan favourites!
The photo above is Kentz during his support stint with chariots; he is second from the right.
Planned for April, the events are titled "DREAMER with DEAR FRIENDS". They are sponsored by KISAKI, and will be organized by UNDER CODE PRODUCTION.
Date: April 21st @ Ikebukuro CYBER
Featuring: Aya, chariots, NEGA, BIOSPHIA, REALies, 水鏡 (Suikyou), ROGUE, yazzmad
Date: April 28th @ ESAKA MUSE
Featuring: Aya, chariots, VII-Sense, Dali, Anjyu, REALies, Vior gloire
Both shows cost 3,200 yen to attend, and ticket sales begin February 25th.
In his blog Kentz wrote,
Because of various reasons the announcement is a little dealyed, but I am sincerely grateful to the bands who are participating, the staff, and all those associated with the events.
This will be the last live I do in my life.
We have lots of things planned for the events, so invite your friends, and come hang out with us!
Source: Kentz's Blog, RISKNOTE Twitter


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The Medinah Athletic Club (now the Intercontinental Hotel) from under the Wabash Ave Bridge, 1931, Chicago. Henry C. Jordan
Lighthouse at Dawn, 1935, Chicago. Don Wallace
East from the Merchandise Mart, 1934, Chicago.
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Chicago Snow, 1936, Chicago. Hendrick Dahl
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The Los Angeles Clippers are still hoping to get a deal done with the Boston Celtics, which would land Doc Rivers in LA. While Rivers remains the Clippers' primary candidate, the team is also engaging in separate talks with other coaches, in order to show the Celtics that they are not afraid to walk away from the blockbuster deal and to have something to fall back on.
Lionel Hollins has already interviewed with the team and impressed, but the Clippers will interview other coaches as well, according to ESPN:
So the Clippers, in what NBA coaching sources are terming a "separate process," have moved ahead with their coaching search just in case, for one reason or another, they'll be unable to pry Rivers out of Boston. They've arranged sitdowns this week for Byron Scott (Tuesday) and Brian Shaw (Wednesday) with Clippers owner Donald Sterling. Lionel Hollins, the other finalist for the Clippers' job before the pursuit of Rivers got serious, already met with Sterling.
It's important to note that all these three candidates are merely a backup plan for the Clippers. The Celtics are making concessions and could make a deal happen in the next couple of days.
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Dirty King Air stacks are taken to the cleaners
A visit to Frakes booth will not only reveal how to avoid getting ugly exhaust stack soot stains on turboprop nacelles but also how to prevent oil stains from forming. For while Joe Frakes is famed for his company's replacement exhaust stacks, Wayne Butterfield is sharing his booth to publicize systems dedicated to eliminating oil residue and other exhaust stains from King Air nacelles.
Clean running exhaust stacks prevent a build-up of smoke stains that can disfigure an otherwise pristine executive turboprop aircraft within a matter of hours. Frakes' solution to the problem is to substitute his refined stack design produced from a highly polished metal and supplied with a seven-year warranty.
Experience has shown that the Frakes stacks, already fitted to some 800 King Airs, reduce soot stains on nacelles and wings by 90 percent and users report a very low cracking rate. But although produced primarily for the King Air line–from the 90 through 300 series–the company also supplies stacks for the Cheyenne and Rocket Malibu, while the new Quest Kodiak has Frakes stacks as standard.
Butterfield Industries has tackled different King Air staining problems caused by dumping hot engine gases and oil from accessory drains. Instead of allowing oil to vent aft of the wheel well to collect on the trailing edge of the flap, Butterfield has designed an air/oil separator system that enables oil to be collected at the base of the nacelle. The residue can then be drained between flights rather than expelled into the atmosphere.
Butterfield's redesign of the King Air's engine lip anti-ice system also eliminates sooting on the underside of the nacelles, gear and gear doors. The company has supplied more than 400 kits to King Air operators and is working on Socata TBM and other turboprop singles.
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