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11 February 2013. Some people with schizophrenia have elevated levels of antibodies to the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) glutamate receptor, according to a new study published online January 23 in JAMA Psychiatry. Led by Johann Steiner of Germany's University of Magdeburg, the study, albeit small, also finds the antibodies in a smaller percentage of major depression cases but not in borderline personality disorder, and notes that the antibody profile of schizophrenia and major depression is distinct from that of NMDA receptor encephalitis, a syndrome whose symptoms overlap with schizophrenia. The results present the tantalizing possibility that a small subset of patients could be especially responsive to treatments that target the glutamate or immune systems, perhaps even early in the disorder.
A role for the immune system in the pathology of schizophrenia has recently been gaining momentum (see SRF related news story). Many schizophrenia candidate genes are immune related and located in the major histocompatibility complex region of chromosome 6p21.3-22.1 (see SRF related news story). In addition, increased inflammatory markers have been identified in blood as well as postmortem brain tissue (Potvin et al., 2008; Fillman et al. 2013).
Just how these immune alterations may lead to disturbances in neurotransmission is not yet clear. Antibodies directed against schizophrenia-relevant brain tissue epitopes such as the NMDA receptor provide an attractive link between the two hypotheses. Interestingly, autoimmunity to NMDA receptors produces NMDA-receptor encephalitis, a recently described inflammation of the brain that primarily affects women in early adulthood and produces a characteristic neuropsychiatric syndrome that shares many symptoms with schizophrenia (Dalmau et al., 2008). In many of the cases, the antibodies appear to have been generated in response to a tumor.
A few studies have examined NMDA receptor antibodies in schizophrenia, with mixed results—some have reported an absence of antibodies in the illness (Masdeu et al., 2012; Rhoads et al., 2011), while others have found elevated levels (Tsutsui et al., 2012; Zandi et al., 2011). However, none of the studies to date distinguished between various NMDA receptor epitopes or different antibody isotypes.
In the current study, the largest to date, Steiner and colleagues examined serum from subjects with acute schizophrenia (n = 121), major depression (n = 70), and borderline personality disorder (n = 38), as well as controls (n = 230), for the presence of different types of NMDA and AMPA receptor antibodies. Three different antibody isotypes were investigated: IgA, IgG, and IgM.
The researchers observed that 10 percent of the schizophrenia subjects (12 of 121) exhibited elevated NMDA receptor antibodies. However, two of the 12 subjects were subsequently found to meet the criteria for NMDA receptor encephalitis, and were reclassified post hoc, dropping the percentage of schizophrenia patients with antibodies to a still statistically significant 8 percent. In contrast, 3 percent of major depression (two of 70) and less than 1 percent of control (one of 230) subjects also demonstrated seropositivity. None of the borderline personality disorder patients exhibited measurable serum antibody titers, and no levels of AMPA receptor antibodies were detected in any of the subjects.
Previous reports of NMDA receptor encephalitis have demonstrated an immune profile that is restricted to elevated IgG antibodies against the NR1a subunit of the NMDA receptor, and consistent with these findings, the two patients in the current study who were initially diagnosed with schizophrenia but later reclassified as having NMDA receptor encephalitis exhibited a similar pattern (Dalmau et al., 2008). In contrast, a distinct and less specific immune profile was observed in schizophrenia and major depression, suggesting a potential way to distinguish them from the syndrome. IgG antibodies against NR1a/NR2b were observed in two schizophrenia cases, while the remainder exhibited IgA or IgM antibodies against NR1a. The two major depression subjects had IgA antibodies against NR1a/NR2b and NR1a, respectively, while the control subject had IgM antibodies against NR1a.
Although they note that larger sample sizes are needed to confirm their findings, the authors suggest that their study may be useful in validating NMDA antagonist-induced alterations in preclinical models of schizophrenia, and conclude that their identification of a subpopulation of patients with NMDA receptor antibodies "may open the door to personalized medicine and render patients susceptible to new specific glutamate-modulating, anti-inflammatory, or immuno-modulating therapies."—Allison A. Curley.
Steiner J, Walter M, Glanz W, Sarnyai Z, Bernstein HG, Vielhaber S, Kästner A, Skalej M, Jordan W, Schiltz K, Klingbeil C, Wandinger KP, Bogerts B, Stoecker W. Increased Prevalence of Diverse N -Methyl-D-Aspartate Glutamate Receptor Antibodies in Patients With an Initial Diagnosis of Schizophrenia: Specific Relevance of IgG NR1a Antibodies for Distinction From N -Methyl-D-Aspartate Glutamate Receptor Encephalitis. JAMA Psychiatry . 2013 Jan 23 ; :1-8. Abstract
PRIMARY PAPERSIncreased Prevalence of Diverse N -Methyl-D-Aspartate Glutamate Receptor Antibodies in Patients With an Initial Diagnosis of Schizophrenia: Specific Relevance of IgG NR1a Antibodies for Distinction From N -Methyl-D-Aspartate Glutamate Receptor Encephalitis.
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Author(s): Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, Children's Bureau
Year Published: 2003
Research shows that children exposed to domestic violence are at increased risk of being abused or neglected. This manual discusses the intersection of child maltreatment and domestic violence with a focus on child protection practice.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 Purpose and Overview
CHAPTER 2 The Overlap Between Child Maltreatment and Domestic Violence
CHAPTER 3 The Basics of Domestic Violence
CHAPTER 4 Child Protection Practices with Families Experiencing Domestic Violence
CHAPTER 5 Enhancing Caseworker Safety and Support in Child Protection Cases Involving Domestic Violence
CHAPTER 6 Building Collaborative Responses for Families Experiencing Domestic Violence
APPENDIX A Glossary of Terms
APPENDIX B Resource Listings of Selected National Organizations Concerned with Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment
APPENDIX C State Toll-free Telephone Numbers for Reporting Child Abuse
APPENDIX D Stages of Change
APPENDIX E Domestic Violence Assessment: Victim
APPENDIX F Domestic Violence Assessment: Child
APPENDIX G Domestic Violence Assessment: Alleged Perpetrator
APPENDIX H Safety Plans
APPENDIX I Developing a Memorandum of Understanding
Suggested Citation: Child Welfare Information Gateway. (2003). Child protection in families experiencing domestic violence. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Children's Bureau.
This material may be freely reproduced and distributed. However, when doing so, please credit Child Welfare Information Gateway.

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Have you only just discovered you're pregnant? Not all women realize they are pregnant immediately, especially if it wasn't planned. If you've only just found out, it's natural to be concerned about things that you did before you knew, such as drinking alcohol or taking drugs. You may be worried that you've harmed your unborn baby. Use your pregnancy as an opportunity to assess your lifestyle and improve your health.
Because of how pregnancy is dated (see This is Day 1 of your Menstrual Cycle), your baby is still only a little over four weeks old. If you have not been taking folic acid, start taking supplements starting today.
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Multimedia: Homecoming Address by Lee Kelly '59
Portland Art Museum Chief Curator and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Bruce Guenther interviews PNCA Alumnus Lee Kelly '59 for the 2009 Homecoming Address, part of PNCA's Alumni Weekend. A significant Northwest sculptor, Kelly has spent over 50 years crafting dynamic works.
This lecture took place at Pacific Northwest College of Art on October 2, 2009. A reception with PNCA alumni took place before the lecture.
2009 Homecoming Address: Lee Kelly '59
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Thesis and Departmental Awards Honor Eleven Graduates
The Departmental and Thesis Exhibition Awards were presented at the 2010 Commencement Ceremony on May 23. Eleven students received a total of fourteen awards.
Departmental Awards
Elyse James – Ed and Sandy Martin Merit Sculpture Award in Honor of Manuel Izquierdo
Erin McCarty – Lloyd Reynolds Award for Illustration
Erica Stacy – David J. Thompson Memorial Scholarship Award for Communication Design
Estaban Camacho Steffenson – C.S. Price Award for Painting
Chad Hinman and Lydia Rosenberg – Intermedia Departmental Award
Crystal Hall – Photography Departmental Award
Anthony Roberto – Printmaking Departmental Award
Tabor Robak – General Fine Art Departmental Award
Anthony Roberto – Liberal Arts Departmental Award
Thesis Exhibition Awards
Anthony Roberto – William Givler Fine Arts Thesis Award
Taylor Rozek – William Givler Design Arts Thesis Award
Anthony Roberto – Abraham and Anna C. Helman Thesis Award for Best of Show
Chad Hinman and Tuna Poanessa – 2010 Liberal Arts Thesis Writing Awards
BFA + MFA Thesis Exhibition
The 2010 Thesis Exhibition, featuring the work of PNCA BFA and MFA graduates, is currently on view at three locations. The Swigert Commons at PNCA Main Campus Building and the Cornelia and William T.C. Stevens Studios feature the works of BFA alumni, while the Goldsmith Building highlights work by MFA in Visual Studies graduates.
A special "First Thursday opening":http://www.pnca.edu/exposure/calendar.php?event_id=1542&list_type=6&cat=1&year=2010 will take place June 3, 6 pm-9 pm at all three locations.
Juried Illustration Show Presents Powerful Work
A jury of Illustration Faculty and local professionals selected 70 works of art from nearly 300 entries for an exhibition of PNCA Illustration students. The work shows enormous growth in the maturity and vision of the program, which is one of the College's largest and most popular disciplines.
The exhibition is hosted at Inscape Gallery + Studio, the studio of Martin French, Illustration Department Chair, at 512 NW 9th Ave. It will be on view for the month of May. Please contact Martin (studio [at] martinfrench [dot] com) before visiting his studio, Monday-Friday, 9 am-5 pm and Tuesday evenings, 6-9 pm.
PNCA and MoCC Integration Receives National Attention
Integration of Museum of Contemporary Craft with PNCA featured in Wall Street Journal article "Hit by the Downturn, Museums Seek Bailouts":http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703691804575254321564633624.html.
2010 Commencement Ceremony
Pacific Northwest College of Art proudly presents the graduating class of 2010. This year, 71 undergraduates receive their BFA in eight different disciplines, and 15 graduate students receive their MFA in Visual Studies. They will be awarded their degrees at the 2010 Commencement Ceremony on May 23. PNCA President Emerita Sally C. Lawrence, who began her 20-year association with the College in 1981, will be the guest speaker.
PNCA will honor Thelma Johnson Streat and Sally C. Lawrence with Doctor of Art Honoris Causa degrees during the ceremony.
Thelma Johnson Streat (1911-1959) was a painter, dancer, designer and educator internationally-known in the mid-twentieth century for her visual and performance art. She is an early alumna of the College, having taken classes at the Museum Art School from 1934-1935.
Sally C. Lawrence began her long professional association with the College, which spanned 20 years, in 1981. She was with the College during its transition from the Museum Art School to Pacific Northwest College of Art, and oversaw the move to its current Pearl District location.
The graduating Class of 2010 will show their Thesis Exhibitions in three locations, May 23-June 26. BFA students will show their work in both PNCA Swigert Commons and PNCA Cornelia and William T.C. Stevens Studios. The MFA Exhibition will take place at the Goldsmith Building in Old Town. All buildings will host a special First Thursday event June 3, 6-9 pm.
Thelma Johnson Streat to be honored at 2010 Commencement
Pacific Northwest College of Art will honor the life and work of Thelma Johnson Streat be awarding her a Doctor of Art Honoris Causa degree at the 2010 Commencement Ceremony. The honorary degree will be presented to her family.
Thelma Johnson Streat (1911-1959) was a painter, dancer, designer and educator internationally-known in the mid-twentieth century for her visual and performance art. She is an early alumna of the College having taken classes at Pacific Northwest College of Art, then known as the Museum Art School, during 1934-35. Streat went on to be the first African-American woman to have her work in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
When she began her professional career as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) artist at San Francisco's Pickle Factory, she worked with muralist Diego Rivera who became one of her most ardent supporters. Streat also pioneered work to promote intercultural understanding with a focus towards youth. She was fascinated with the power of indigenous cultures to teach understanding, tolerance, and appreciation of diversity. As she traveled around the world, her work rose to international success. Her realist paintings also evolved into more abstract pieces as she widely embraced the music, dance, and symbols of the various cultures she lived with and studied.
Visiting Artist Cat Mazza Takes on Global Garment Industry
Gestures of Resistance Visiting Artist "Cat Mazza":http://www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org/exhibitions/index.php?f=2010_01_gestures will be working and performing this week at Museum of Contemporary Craft.
Acclaimed for her Nike Blanket Petition, Cat Mazza joins Gestures of Resistance at Museum of Contemporary Craft as the fifth artist in residence, May 18-22. She embarks on a new project wherein knitted cast-offs of American brands are unmade and cut into strips or unraveled into a stitched sculpture. Mazza will develop a workshop environment that engages visitors in a discussion about the global garment industry. She will work and perform in the Museum each day from 11 am-6 pm. Her Nike Blanket Petition will be displayed in The Lab during her stay.
Sally C. Lawrence to Receive Honorary Degree at 2010 Commencement
Sally C. Lawrence, PNCA President Emerita, will be presented a Doctor of Art Honoris Causa Degree at the 2010 Commencement Ceremony on May 23. The award honors her longstanding commitment to arts education and her close relationship to the College's development.
Sally C. Lawrence began her long professional association with the College, which spanned 20 years, in 1981. This was the same year that the College's name was changed from the Museum School to Pacific Northwest College of Art. In the ensuing years, Lawrence oversaw broad changes at the College when, as a result of a self-study and recommendations from PNCA's two accrediting bodies, the College took steps in the early 1990s to separate itself from the Portland Art Museum. Lawrence eventually oversaw the 1998 move to PNCA's present campus in the Pearl District.
8th Annual Gala Soars Beyond Forecasted Goals
On Saturday, May 8, Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) held its 8th annual Gala, coined by Portland Monthly as the "swingingest art party in Portland!" PNCA's Constellation of Creativity raised $385,000, far surpassing the College's anticipated goal of $300,000. Together with the College's recent Benefit Art Auction with Bonhams and Butterfields, this year PNCA raised more than a half million dollars. The Centennial Campaign for PNCA+FIVE, a $32 million effort to raise funds for PNCA's main campus building, endowment funds, scholarships and special projects is anticipated to end successfully by June 30, the close of the College's current fiscal year. The Campaign was launched in January 2004 and was strengthened by the late Hallie Ford whose gift of $15 million in 2007 established PNCA's Ford Institute of Visual Education (FIVE).
The full press release is available "here":http://www.pnca.edu/news/press/852/pnca-s-8th-annual-gala-constellation-of-creativity-soars-beyond-forecasted-goals.
Oregon Painting Society Takes Tate Modern
Oregon Painting Society (OPS), a Portland-based art collective, participates in Tate Modern's No Soul for Sale: A Festival of Independents, May 14-16. As one of over 70 independent art groups from around the globe, OPS will create a floor installation in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall that will focus on interactive musical sculptures. They will also present a new multimedia stage performance in the auditorium. The No Soul for Sale festival celebrates Tate Modern's 10th anniversary.
PNCA alumni have been active members of the collective since its inception in 2007, including Liam Drain '07 and Julia Perry '10, and current members Barbara Kinzle '07, Brenna Murphy '09 and Jason Traeger '07.
Widely recognized for their group exhibitions and performances, OPS often incorporates witchcraft, New Age spirituality, psychedelia and science fiction into their installation and performance work. PORT awarded them "Favorite Solo Exhibition of 2009" for Radiant Dream Face at Portland State University's Autzen Gallery.
Oregon Painting Society was most recently featured as part of the Portland 2010: A Biennial of Contemporary Art, presented by Disjecta and curated by Cris Moss of Linfield College.
Their installation HexenHouse was "a house, a game room, a garden, a jungle, an ocean under the stars and a metaphysical Hawaiian chill zone," according to group member Jason Traeger '09. It was built predominantly of reused and reclaimed materials in a "collage-like collision of style on a larger scale than ever before." They also continued to incorporate interactive electronic musical elements, leaving the audience to wonder, "Are you playing Hexenhouse? Or is Hexenhouse playing you?"
President Manley Selected for Educations Leaders Institute
PNCA President Tom Manley is one of six Oregon delegates selected to travel to Chicago this July for the Education Leaders Institute (ELI), a symposium convened by the National Endowment for the Arts that helps develop public education strategies driven by the arts.
Since 2007, the Education Leaders Institute invites policymakers, educators, advocates, and artists to develop arts education plans for their respective states. Oregon's team includes a diverse group of representatives from Oregon House District 5, Oregon State Board of Education, Pacific Northwest College of Art, James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation, and Western Oregon University. The group will address the challenge of increasing the arts-based preparedness of classroom teachers.
Read the full "press release":http://staging.oregonartscommission.org/pdf/uploads/50.pdf.
Spring Art and Craft Book Sale
The Gallery at Museum of Contemporary Craft announces their Spring Art and Craft Book Sale May 4-29. Save up to 40% on books, DVDs, catalogs and more! Drop in Tuesday through Saturday, 11 am-6 pm.
Hubbub: Intermediate Sound Show
Student's in Seth Nehil's Intermediate Sound class present Hubbub, a one-night showcase of their audio-works. The show takes place May 7, 7-9 pm in Swigert Commons and is free and open to the public.
Good Food and Hospitality
Students in Mary Preis' Art and Design in Contemporary Society class are organizing a benefit exhibition for Sisters of the Road, a non-profit organization supporting community driven solutions to the calamities of homelessness and poverty.
Chas Bowie on The Great Recession
Writer, critic and PNCA faculty member Chas Bowie penned an essay for "Untitled":http://untitled.pnca.edu/articles/show/744/ to accompany Michael Mandiberg's exhibition The Great Recession, on view in PNCA's Feldman Gallery.
CE Tuition Discount for AmeriCorps Members and Alumni
In gratitude toward community members committed to service and in recognition of AmeriCorps week (May 8-15), PNCA's Continuing Education Program is offering a tuition discount for its summer schedule of classes, "Summer of Making":http://www.pnca.edu/making.
Current AmeriCorps Members and AmeriCorps Alumni are eligible for a 15% tuition discount on summer class and workshop registration through May 31. The discount is applied during the online registration process. Please "contact":http://www.pnca.edu/programs/ce/ce_contacts.php the Continuing Education department with any questions.
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We humans have a significant ability to create using our fantasy. Was this ability given to us by God, a Creator as He created man in His image, according to His likeness, or was this ability developed itself while world became more complex?
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It's part of our character since we were made in His likeness. He's our Heavenly Dad - it's logical that we inherit some of His characteristics.
Furthermore, creativity is unique to humans. If your second explanation were true, animals would also be creating art.
There is a quote on this that I love, from Alexander "Greek" Thomson, a 19th century Scottish Architect.
Just one man's opinion, and a quite eccentric man at that. As you can see in questions like this, there is no real consensus on exactly what being in the image of God means, but I think it is very significant that the first time the Bible mentions people being filled with the Holy Spirit it is in order to carry out the creative work of building the tabernacle:


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I'm redesigning the UI of an online multiplayer game where the red and green colors already carry important meanings, thus they can't be used along with the orange to denote users who are "actively seeking a game", "not actively seeking but accepting a game" or "not accepting any game".
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How about this?
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I think simple tick, exclamation and cross marks can serve this better in their respective colors that is gree, orange, and red.
Or you can use emoction like things , forexample: :) for available :| don't know :( No
So there can be many more such ways while you should take care of colors.
Just a strange idea that sprang to my mind for some reason - maybe two open eyes for seeking, one open and one closed for accepting, and two closed eyes for not accepting? Or some variation on this - like two open, two closed, and blindfolded?
My first thought was hand gestures - e.g. a "thumbs up" for availability (though that's offensive in some cultures). However, "actively seeking" vs. "not seeking but accepting" makes it hard to find something appropriate.
Next idea: Two interlocking rings:
Using an exclamation mark and question mark to suggest urgency and helplessness, and a checkmark for "I'm ok".
Is your UI such that you can use position as well as symbols to denote availabilty? You could use a filled circle for "actively seeking", a hollow circle for "not seeking but accepting" and an "X" for "not accepting". Then each could have it's own position, which would make it easier to recognize:
It's simple, you use red, green and orange and a icon representative to the function.
You can give the other thing that uses the colors a different icon (if necessary), but simply having a unique icon that switches between those color states should be sufficient for visual distinction. Usability wise only the colors really deliver the message, so what icon you use is more a stylistic choice.
Like Hafiz, I think using established symbols would be most well known to the users. However, using check and cross marks might be preferred.
The downside of this is that check marks are not fully transcultural.
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Not saying that should should put these up on your website, but if you look for icons on google, you'll be able to find something easily. Hope this helps


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The investigation into the hit and run death of Barbara Bolen the evening of Feb. 27 east of Auburn on Highway 136 has yielded some specific information regarding the vehicle being sought.
The vehicle is a silver or light gray colored Kenworth truck model T-800 or similar. It would have damage to the passenger side front of the vehicle around the fender and headlight.
The Nemaha County Sheriff's Office is asking anyone who has seen a truck matching this description to call them or the State Patrol. Anyone who has seen a truck with the described damage, or a truck of that type that has been absent from its normal place and is either still absent or has returned with repairs to the right front are asked to call.
Several individuals have come forth with possible leads, which have been investigated, but none of the trucks investigated is the suspect vehicle.
The Nemaha County Sheriff's Office can be reached at 402-274-3139. The Nebraska State Patrol can be reached at 402-471-0112.
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College football's award "watch" lists are out—and given the length of them, we should watch out for seemingly every player in the country.
The Count tallied watch lists for postseason awards given to players at a specific position or two, and compared them with the estimated number of starters at that position nationwide. The resulting list shows that although football is cutthroat on the field, award watch-list slots are like ribbons at an elementary-school field day: Nearly everybody gets one.
All three of Iowa's starting linebackers made the Butkus Award watch list, as did those at Brigham Young and UCLA. Nine of 14 centers in the Southeastern Conference are on the Rimington Award list, which might make the other five wonder what they are doing wrong.
Despite this spirit of inclusiveness, two of the last three winners of the Davey O'Brien Award for best quarterback didn't make its preseason watch list: Auburn's Cam Newton in 2010 and Texas A&M's Johnny Manziel (pictured) in 2012.
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WATERBURY -- When practice began for the 2013-14 boys basketball season, senior Tyshon Rogers looked up at the banner on the wall at the Crosby Palace that lists the school's all-time leading scorers. He saw the name of the No. 1 guy, B.J. Monteiro, and made note of the point total: 1,833.
"I never thought I could break that record," Rogers said Wednesday night after he did, indeed, break the record. "I looked at the board and thought, 'That's a lot of points. I don't know about that.'"
The record-holder, Monteiro, who played with Rogers in the summer pro-am league, knew that his record was destined to fall.
"B.J. told me to break the record," Rogers said, "and I am happy that I did it today."
Rogers scored 30 points Wednesday night to lead Crosby (10-0) to a blowout victory over Kennedy, 82-43, at the Taglia Gymnasium.
What should have been a close game was not. A city clash between two of the best teams in the Naugatuck Valley League became instead a Tyshon Rogers party.
Rogers needed 23 points to become Crosby's all-time leader. He passed Monteiro on a free throw with 2:37 left to play in the third quarter. The game was stopped, and more than a dozen family members came onto the court to celebrate.
"This means a lot for us," Rogers said. By "us," he meant all of Crosby High basketball. The record-breaking, he said, is a Crosby milestone. "My teammates help me score, and when I don't score, they score for me. It feels great."
At the suggestion of coach Nick Augelli, Rogers shook hands with every one of his teammates in the locker room after the game. "I told
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him, 'They are the ones who get you the ball,'" Augelli said.
The coach has praised Rogers from the moment he played his way into the Crosby lineup early in his freshman year. Rogers, the coach said, is the new leading scorer "and he's still going. He and B.J. are two different types of players. Every player is unique, but Tyshon plays hard in the game and plays hard in practice.
"I tell the guys all the time, 'When you practice, practice like Tyshon.' He is a pleasure to watch and a pleasure to coach. This is a great accomplishment for a great kid, who has a great future ahead of him."
Oh, yeah, about the game. Crosby had only two points for more than four minutes until Rogers hit a 3-pointer. Then the Bulldogs were gone. Kennedy (8-2) stayed close for a few minutes, and then it was all Rogers and all Bulldogs.
Lex Perez had 18 points, with six assists and three steals, while Aseim King added 12 points, five assists and three steals. Don Jarrett led Kennedy with 13 points.
But this night was about the Bulldogs, a little, and Tyshon Rogers, a lot.
And dare we mention it, Rogers is only 159 points away from the rarest of high school scoring milestones, 2,000 points.
"I think about it, but not too much," Rogers said. "I just want to win games."
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"SkyPAC is not only a venue to feature big acts, but also put local artists and local performers on a really big stage, maybe for the first time," said Rudloff.
SkyPAC is now one year old, and as they look back, some here say it has already come so far.
"A year ago, we had programs planned. We had all sorts of national touring acts coming in, in hopes the community would come, and what we found out in this first year is the community is coming. the seats are full," said SkyPAC Education and Visual Arts Director Andee Rudloff.
Packed seats certainly help revenue, but officials say its success wouldn't be possible without the generosity of the community.
"Donors are the life blood of SkyPAC. What we don't earn through ticket sales, is what we get from our donors. The community has embraced SkyPAC so much. To date, we've raised more than three million dollars," said SkyPAC Development and Communications Director Laura Holderfield.
To show their appreciation, SkyPAC hosted a Founders' Dinner right on their stage tonight, because they say without them, there would be no stage at all.
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Some of those first-time artists are the children from area schools, like those who recently participated in the Scholastic Art Program.
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One of the challenges has been how to make HearthMasters a vital program. HPBA has tried a variety of ideas, including a newsletter, a mentoring program, and a variety of social events at the trade show, including a breakfast, a lunch, and a lounge on the show floor. Unfortunately, these ideas have generally not gained traction.
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Also as an employer, you have various legal responsibilities of which you need to be aware. You may be required to withhold certain payroll taxes, sometimes called nanny taxes, from the nanny's paycheck, and pay them over to the Internal Revenue Service. You may be liable for state taxes as well. There also are state and federal statutes that apply to the business relationship between you and the nanny, perhaps in much the same way that your own workplace may be regulated.
Please keep in mind that this article is meant only as an overview of your potential tax and legal liabilities. Consult a tax expert or lawyer for specific advice on what you are or are not required to file or pay if you hire an in-home childcare provider.
The Employment Agreement
Once you have settled on your preferred nanny candidate, it is advisable to formalize your professional relationship with an employment agreement. Unlike the application, this should be a comprehensive document, with as many terms of your agreement memorialized in writing as possible. The main reason to have a contract with specific terms is to help prevent your nanny from accusing you of breach of contract if you decide to terminate the employment relationship. A discussion of some of the more important parts of the agreement follows.
Be sure to specify the people who are to be bound by the agreement. This means the nanny, you, and your spouse (if applicable). Include the addresses of all parties.
Responsibilities of the Childcare Provider/Job Description
Describe what tasks you want the nanny to perform relative to the job of providing childcare. (Additional housework is discussed in a later section.) Be thorough in including the general categories of activities you wish the nanny to undertake, but leave flexibility in the particulars. For instance, require that the nanny facilitate learning, but do not limit the methods by which she can accomplish this. Provide examples of educational activities, but state that the list is not limited to those that are specified.
Start Date/Contract Term
Differentiate between the date the contract is entered and the date that employment is to start. If they are two separate dates, both should be included in the contract. The agreement date is the date that the employment relationship is entered. The start date indicates when the nanny's care-giving responsibilities and the parents' duty to pay the nanny begin. Also, provide either an end date or a specific time period for the life of the agreement. A one- or two-year term is fairly typical.
Pay Rate/Overtime
Wages should be very specific. The pay rate should be expressed in hourly, daily, or weekly terms. If the nanny may be expected to provide babysitting services above and beyond her normal work hours, overtime pay should be designated in writing. If possible, explain in the contract the circumstances under which overtime work would be requestedfor example, the amount of advance notice that the nanny could expect before being called upon to stay late at work.
Employment taxes in the nanny situation are discussed in this article. For purposes of the nanny agreement, you will want to set out which party is responsible for remitting the necessary taxes from the nanny's pay to the proper state or federal agency. Certain taxes must be withheld by the employer while others may be paid by either party on behalf of the nanny. The latter type of tax can be withheld and paid over by the employer only if the nanny agrees.
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For the first time in Pakistan's 65-year history, a democratically elected government completed its full five-year term in March. A caretaker government soon will be appointed to supervise elections to be held in May. However, this milestone does not make Pakistan a democracy.
Most of the earlier government changes in Pakistan were by military coup, resignation, dismissal, and even murder and suspicious plane crash. Whenever the government changed by election, however corrupt, hopes were raised for democracy in Pakistan. Following such a change of government, Charles H. Percy, a former senator from Illinois and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote in the winter 1992-1993 issue of Foreign Affairs: "Despite the continuing clout of Pakistan's military, its overt return to power seems unlikely."
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Each semester CMC commits to providing an educationally stimulating experience. Every semester students participating in the Washington Program are invited to numerous special events. Some of the events from the recent semesters include:
Senator Brian Schatz (D-H) • Brandi Hoffine '06, spokeswoman for the Department of the Treasury • Ben Miller (POM), chief of staff for Representative Jared Huffman (D-CA) • His Holiness the Dalai Lama • Mike Shear '90, White House correspondent for The New York Times • Mike Franc, policy director for the House Majority Whip • James Mann, author of "The Obamians" and write-in-residence at SAIS
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This eye test determines your eyeglasses prescription. During the test, you look at a chart, usually 20 feet away, or in a mirror that simulates 20 feet of distance, and try to read it while looking through a special instrument known as a phoropter. The doctor moves lenses of different strengths into place for the patient to look through. The doctor will ask you which of the choices looks clearer or more blurry, and based on these answers will determine the appropriate prescription for glasses or contacts. This eye test will also identify presbyopia, hyperopia, myopia, and astigmatism.
Slit-Lamp Exam
This test looks at the eye with a microscope shining an adjustable beam of light shaped like a small slit on the eye. The doctor may also dilate your pupils while you are undergoing this exam. The eye test can be used to help diagnose cataracts, glaucoma, retinal detachment, macular degeneration, injuries to the cornea, and dry eye disease.
Non-Contact Tonometry
This eye test is used to help diagnose glaucoma. An instrument known as a tonometer measures the pressure in the eye. The "air puff" tonometer measures the eye pressure indirectly by the eye's resistance to a puff of air.
Applanation instruments can also be used to measure pressure. They are the most accurate, but they require local anesthetic.
An ultrasound eye test uses sound waves to provide a picture of the eye's internal structure. It is useful in evaluating ocular tumors, as well as the retina when it is being obscured by cataracts or a hemorrhage. Measuring the length of the eye by ultrasound or other means is part of preoperative evaluation for cataract surgery and determination of the optimal cataract implant power.
Visual Acuity Testing
This is a test of visual acuity, your ability to see sharply and clearly at near and far distances. For children who cannot yet read, there is the Random E's Visual Acuity Test. The child is asked to identify the direction that the letter "E" opens to by holding out three or four fingers to mimic the letter. You can practice this at home with your child before the test. This eye test is safe, there are no risks involved, and it works just as well as most other eye tests.


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Should I edit out the (thankfully obsfucated) e-mail address from this post? Is this something we should allow on the site going forward?
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Let $V$ be a geometrically irreducible and reduced scheme defined over the real numbers, and let $K = K(V)$ be its function field.
If $V$ does not have any real points, is it true that $K$ is not formally real? It seems this is a theorem due to (E.) Artin but I cannot find a modern reference and my German needs a little work.
If $V$ does have real points, is $K$ necessarily formally real?
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In career development, inter-personal skills have main worth. In any business/non-business organization requires always improvement in inter-personal skills of employees. I need to outline, few techniques to help a person to improve his inter-personal skills. Kindly, suggest me in this regard.
From How to Win Friends and Influence People:
While these aren't always going to apply or be a great thing to do, they are ideas of how to build relationships which is usually another way to describe interpersonal skills. Emotional Intelligence may be another idea for something to study to help improve how one handles emotions and other people.
To provide balance, also consider looking at The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Both books are classics but are very different in their approach. The first is about techniques to influence other people (which might be perceived as insincere and therefore backfire.) The second is about attempting genuine personal change (which is harder to accomplish.)


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I tend to up-vote users who answer my questions with reasonable answers as a norm for taking the time to actually post an answer. It is rare unless the answer is not relevant at all for me not to do this, however this sometimes means I reach my vote limit quite quickly.
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Great find. Thanks!
Hopefully this one will work. There was a huge problem last time: http://deals.woot.com/deals/details/f0564d0a-8fca-4624-9c38-cb4e9dd5fd8e/apple-itunes-100-egift-card-email-delivery#13
Received an email saying that my order was cancelled. Appears that this is a reoccurring issue with this deal at Walmart.
Tried several times using different payment methods. I get a stupid "Error processing your recent order" email every time.
Walmart cancelled my order within minutes. Scam.
I checked out with PayPal and the deal worked for me. Thanks.
@tienneb: I tried using Paypal as well. Failed both times. Even shows "cancelled" on my Paypal account.
Worked for me just now using PayPal. Previously on other Wal-mart orders, I got the cancellations too.
Just worked for me - Paypal payment type.
Thanks Woot, for reminding me why I don't often do business with Walmart. My order was cancelled twice.
Just buy it from bestbuy they seem to always be running a similar deal. Or if you live near a costco or sams club (yes i know owned by walmart) they seem to have similar deals in store. =/ Can't believe they are cancelling orders.
EDIT: seems BB promo is over for right now. But they run them every couple of months. Other two are always in store. Though I don't think it's as high a discount.
Shop through a points portal like http://www.skymilesshopping.com/ and earn up to 3 points as well.
Mine got cancelled too.. this sucks.
I just received my confirmation code from Walmart
It seems very hit or miss which suggests that their payment processing is just overloaded (and if the request times out, it gets cancelled).
I got cancelled once so far... just made attempt #2 (hopefully I'll eventually get one through if I try again).
Just got my code - I would recommend trying again. The payment system is probably getting nailed with all the holiday shoppers.
Going on SIX attempts over a four hour span. Failed every time.
got it first try.
Is it possible to buy ipad or ipod with itunes cards?
Took me all of three minutes to order it and get an email confirmation. We'll see how long it will take to get the code.
Couldn't pay with my Amex. Tried three times. They won't try it again after three failed attempts. My card is good. Their website sucks. Walmart is horrible.
I received a confirmation email every time I tried. But about 5 minutes later, I'd get another email stating that there was a problem with the order and it had been cancelled.
Got mine to go through with PayPal on the first try. Even already got my code. Keep trying!
@patentdude: FYI: It took 19 mins for me to receive my code after ordering it.
Worked immediately on my first try. I used Paypal as a "guest" checkout.
@bund9032: I did the same thing and it worked fine. Maybe using Paypal is the key?
Walmart is horrible but it worked for me....first try. Bought 2. and redeemed within minutes. Also I used my AMEX....not PayPal.
I used my visa and got my code about 20 minutes later.
Great, thanks.
Ordered twice with AMEX. Cancelled at work, cancelled when trying on my mobile phone. Just tried from home.. Lets see..
Do you not see the irony of referring to Walmart as "Community Sourced"? Yeesh.
Ordered with credit card and received the code within 20 minutes. Thanks.
For those who walmart canceled on BB posted the deal again.
Don't do it!!!!! It's a scam. I ordered the cards 2 days ago. I was originally told I would get an email with the itunes info in 20 minutes to 2 hours. I never got the email. The next morning I called and they told me how to "resend" the email to myself and said it should appear within 24 hours. Still nothing. I have now been on the phone with Walmart for 45 minutes and they are telling me it could be another 48 hours. No, they can't do anything but tell me to wait-- can't even refund my $$!!!
Got my code within 20 minutes. Did you check your spam folder?
Bought another one yesterday. Still working.
I bought 3 already and got the codes in minutes.
@tj1867: Same thing happened to me - now late January and nothing....
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Darrin L. Reed, 44, of Woodhull, died Satu rday, March 30, 2013 at Heartland Health Care Center in Galesburg, after a courageous 7 ½ year battle with brain cancer. Services are 2 p.m., Friday, April 5, 2013 at Alpha United Methodist Church. Burial is in the Woodhull Cemetery. Visitation is 4-8 p.m., Thursday at Peterson-Wallin-Knox Funeral Home in Woodhull where memorials may be left to the Alpha Methodist Church or his Children's College Education Fund. Online condolences can be made at www.petersonwallinknox.com.
He was born September 14, 1968 in Galesburg, to Dale and Nancy Ingram Reed. He graduated from AlWood High School in 1986 and received his associate's degree electronics from Southern Illinois University. Darrin married Erica Barton June 17, 2000 in Alpha.
He was employed at Bob's TV & Appliance in Kewanee, Microage in Galesburg, and as a test technician at Maytag in Galesburg until it closed in 2003. Darrin then received his certificate in web design from Blackhawk College.
He was a member of the Alpha United Methodist Church. He enjoyed watching movies, science fiction, fixing cars, riding his motorcycle, computers, video gaming, Wii, entertaining people and making them laugh and especially enjoyed his children.
He is survived by his wife: Erica; one daughter: Leah; one son: Devin, both at home; his parents: Dale and Nancy Reed of Galesburg; one brother: Gary Reed of Galesburg; ; three nieces and one nephew: Elizabeth, Jennifer, Jaiden and Jared Reed; father-in-law and mother-in-law: Gary and Judy Barton of Alpha; one sister-in-law: Gail (Colin) McNiece and their children: Ella, Cole and Neala, all of Scituate, Massachusetts.
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South Sudan accuses Khartoum of doing nothing to stop deadly attacks by Arab nomads on communities near the border.
Dozens of shops and thousands of dollars' worth of property are destroyed in a fire at a market in Aweil, South Sudan.
Hundreds of South Sudanese returnees are given free national ID cards, which will allow them to get jobs and continue their educations.
An NGO in South Sudan is using drama to educate girls about their rights and give them the courage to speak out against child marriage.
Residents in Jonglei state get to have a say on what they think should be included in the new constitution of South Sudan.
After waiting for years for the government to fix bridges on the road to Juba, residents of Kajokeji County take matters into their own hands.
Voice of America launches a new FM transmitter in Juba, bringing 24/7 programming to listeners in the capital of South Sudan.
The international community is funding several projects around South Sudan to improve access to clean water.
South Sudanese youngsters who want to help shape national policy present ideas on how to cut food insecurity to government officials.
Officials in Northern Bahr el Ghazal state in South Sudan plan to give free secondary school educations to more than 150 students each year.
HIV infections are down in South Sudan, but the country has a long way to go to achieve its goal of zero new infections by 2017.
South Sudan in Focus (SSIF) is a 30-minute English-language broadcast and Internet program covering rapidly changing developments in South Sudan and the East Africa region.
South Sudan in Focus airs at 7:30 pm in Juba (1630 UTC) and can be heard on FM stations throughout South Sudan, on shortwave, and on VOA's 24-hour channel in Nairobi at 8:30 pm. The program is hosted by John Tanza in Washington D.C., and a network of stringers around South Sudan, and reporters in Washington, D.C., produce the stories that are heard on South Sudan in Focus.
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The Orange County Rape Crisis Center will host the 7th Annual Shout Out Against Sexual Violence on Wednesday, April 1st at the Robert and Pearl Seymour Center from 6:00-8:00pm. This event, annually hosted during Sexual Assault Awareness Month in April, is an evening of expression including personal thoughts, opinions, and experiences surrounding the issues of rape and sexual assault. Survivors of sexual violence and those who care about them will have the opportunity to read works and perform pieces related to the impact of sexual violence. There will be a period for open mic following the submitted program pieces as time allows. Michelle Johnson, LCSW will close the evening.
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The Portuguese was quick to praise his team, despite seeing their club-record 12-match unbeaten streak come to an end at Anfield, and has challenged them to make a quick recoveryAndre Villas-Boas has called upon his Tottenham squad to regain their foothold on third place and go unbeaten for the remainder of the season following Sunday's 3-2 loss to Liverpool.
Spurs had not tasted defeat in the Premier League since early December and remain firmly in the hunt for Champions League football, sitting seven points ahead of fifth-placed Arsenal with nine matches left to play.
Two Jan Vertonghen finishes had put Tottenham ahead, after Luis Suarez's opener, but a mix-up involving Kyle Walker and Hugo Lloris allowed Liverpool to equalise.
A late penalty from Steven Gerrard then condemned Spurs to their first league defeat in 13 games, a result Villas-Boas felt was "harsh" on his side.
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"After the run we've had, the lads have been brilliant. We will move on and look forward," Villas-Boas told the club's official website.
"Hopefully we will go on another 12-game unbeaten run. That will be perfect.
"Sometimes you can have a bad day and today was a bad day. We came back into it and did very well but it changed very quickly.
"Overall the performance was good and we feel that we could have won. It's harsh result but we have to move on."


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MOSSOR, Donna Lee Kelly, age 70, of Toronto, OH, passed away Sunday, January 13, 2013.
She was born February 7, 1942, in Steubenville, OH the daughter of the late Priscillan (Rickus) McCain.
Her survivors are her husband, Patrick "Kenny" Mossor of the home whom she married February 25, 1962; her children, Kenny Lee (Cindy) Mossor of Toronto, OH, Gary Lee (Julie) Mossor of Tooele, UT, Tina Marie (Mike) Joumaa of Palm Coast, FL and Peggy Lee Mossor of the home in Toronto, OH; grandchildren, Christopher, Tiffany, Brittany and Dustin Mossor, Shawn and Megan Core and Ariyanna Joumaa; great-grand children, Chloe, Kaige and Aiden Mossor; brothers, Terry (Anna) Kelly of West Richfield, OH, Randy (Anita) McCain of WV and Bruce (Diane) McCain of Louisville, OH; sisters, Sandy Lachette of Dover, OH, Shirley (Jewell) Dayton of Smithfield, OH and Brenda Wease of Adena, OH.
A celebration service of Donna's life was held 11 a.m. Thursday at the First Christian Church, Wellsville, OH with Pastor Mark Blakeley officiating.
The family suggests memorial donations in lieu of flowers be made to the First Christian Church, 831 North Main Street, Wellsville, OH 43968.
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6 Transportation Innovations More Baffling Than The Segway
It seems like for every step forward we take in vehicle technology, we take another step back. For every awesome BMW GINA, there's an equally retarded Segway PT.
These are the baffling contraptions that remind us that while thinking outside the box is cool and all, you should probably make sure that there isn't a cheaper, less unintentionally hilarious version already in the box.
#6. The Treadmobile
The best thing about a treadmill (apart from the many hilarious Youtube videos from drunk and/or uncoordinated people trying to use them) is the fact that you can run on them without having to go outside. This is great if you live in a place with terrible weather, if you need to look after kids or if you're a vampire who wants to stay in shape.
Enter the SpeedFit Treadmobile, the revolutionary new fitness vehicle that takes everything you love about treadmills and removes it. To fully appreciate the craptasticosity that is the TreadMobile, check out this handy promotional video.
Apparently, the creator of the Treadmobile looked at a treadmill and thought, "Well, that's pretty good, I guess. But what if we put some wheels on it and, in the process, ruined the only useful aspect of treadmills? It would be fucking awesome, that's what."
Sadly, he seems to have neglected some basic design concepts. First off, this thing is goddamn enormous, making it almost impossible to turn. Second, if it gets hit by a car it is going to get fucking pulverized, as will you if you're unlucky enough to be operating it at the time. Third, if you want to have a friend along for the ride, he or she has to strap themselves into a thong in the back. Alright, maybe that part is kind of awesome.
But by far the most baffling aspect is that this is a machine that moves forward when you run. If you just cut out that middle man and, you know, actually run, you'll save a cool $6,000. Yep, you read that correctly. Six grand.
What You Could Buy Instead:
A pair of running shoes and a top-of-the-line treadmill. And you'd still have $3000 left over.
#5. The HyperBike
It's pretty hard to screw up a bicycle. Two wheels, a metal frame, a pair of handlebars, an uncomfortable seat and some skintight shorts to accentuate your crotch bulge, and you're already a few weeks away from qualifying for the Tour de France.
But one man thought differently. One man thought, "This bike thing is just too damn easy. What can I do to mess that up?" That man is Curtis DeForest, and he is a little bit crazy.
For some reason DeForest doesn't like the idea that bikes don't require an obscene amount of effort, and thus he made an unholy union between a bicycle and the type of wheelchair you probably see in your dreams right after a drug-induced bike accident. And with that, the HyperBike was born.
The big selling point of the Hyperbike as far as Curtis is concerned is that you have to use your entire body to move it, which translates into pedaling with your hands and feet, guaranteeing you expend every available ounce of energy and dignity while reaching your destination.
Even if you have spent years lamenting the ease and maneuverability of the typical bicycle, there's still another huge problem: Where in the hell do you ride the damn thing? It's too wide to use on the sidewalk or in a bike lane. Hell, storing the thing in your garage probably means you have to get rid of a car. It's pretty obvious that the only real world use for a HyperBike is to slowly pedal around a deserted parking lot while a man with a white ponytail talks about how awesome it is.
Despite all of this, DeForest has big plans for the HyperBike, confidently predicting that it will replace the car. We're sure that'll happen too, right after the poached egg replaces the human brain and the intense desire for public ridicule replaces common sense. Given the fact that NASA has decided to fund him, this may have already happened.
What You Could Buy Instead:
A normal goddamned bike.
#4. The Honda UX-3
The Japanese seemingly invented this device so that the world would feel like it owed the Segway an apology. Ladies and gentlemen: the Honda UX-3.
Let's get this out of the way right now: Yes, that model is pretty hot. Feel free to discuss that further in the comments. But what you probably also noticed is how supremely ridiculous she looks riding a thing that looks like a cross between EVE from WALL-E and a sunglasses case. She's obviously keeping herself extremely tense the whole time, since any small shift in weight will result in the UX-3 moving in that direction, making the fact that Honda wants to market this to old people all the more harrowing. We'll take a moment to let that idea sink in.
OK, we're back. Yes, Honda decided to sell a vehicle that requires extremely precise balance to a group of people who are known primarily for a lack of agility and balance. No, we have no idea what they were thinking.
But we can just imagine it now: Old Mrs. Jenkins rolling around the supermarket on her UX-3, garnering strange looks from all of the other customers, when suddenly her arthritis acts up and she clutches her side, which in turn sends her barreling directly into a mountainous cereal display that immediately comes crashing down around her, just like in the movies. Actually, we've changed our minds. This thing sounds awesome.
What You Could Buy Instead:
A motorized wheelchair. Or literally anything else on this list.


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Have done some winter camping but would like to do more and do it smarter. What is the best book to read before doing winter camping?
Qualities of the 'Best Book':
- Fun and easy to read
- Good solid tested info
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Highly subjective question, with a highly subjective answer:
This book: Allen and Mikes Really Cool Backcountry Ski Book is always tops on my list for first time winter explorers. It fits both your criteria. Beyond that, the old standards like Freedom of the Hills have good general and technical knowledge related to all season camping and travel.


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Place to save: mission creep in defense
Sen. Tom Coburn has a singular ability to frustrate and please fiscal conservatives. The Oklahoman's willingness to accept what he's called "revenue increases" has incurred the wrath of anti-tax warriors, but on the asset side of the limited-government ledger, his crusade against pork and inefficiency is relentless. Coburn's had the guts to question expenditures by some of the holiest federal cows.
The senator's latest report, "Department of Everything," explores "areas of the Pentagon budget that have little to do with national security where taxpayer dollars could be saved and deficits reduced." It's a damning document. Regardless of where one stands on the proper role of the U.S. military in a debt-drenched fiscal climate, it makes a persuasive case that the armed services frequently drift from their key missions and core capabilities.
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The 5 Most Embarrassing Past Lives of Famous Musicians
#2. David Bowie Released an Insane Children's Song
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The Artist You Know
Science will never catalog all of the freaky shit David Bowie was into in the 1970s. There's a popular rumor that Bowie's wife once walked in on him having sex with Mick Jagger. He was friends with Iggy Pop when Iggy Pop was still rolling around in shards of glass and regularly exposing his XXXL schlong onstage. During the pair's famous "Berlin years," Bowie got so whacked out on heroin that he started to believe that German electronic music was a worthwhile career direction.
What we're saying is, even when Bowie's trying to be somewhat family-friendly, like in the 1980s fantasy flick Labyrinth, he comes off even more like the kind of guy you don't want the little ones to be around. And to top it all off, he's got two different-colored eyes.
Homochromia is for failures.
The Artist You Don't Know
In 1967, Bowie put out a single so batfuck crazy that one must wonder how there was any acid left for anyone else that summer. Behold "The Laughing Gnome":
Variously classified as a children's tune, a novelty song, and an unethical torture device, "The Laughing Gnome" is a musical conversation with the titular character and his brother, who speak mostly in gnome-based puns ("Do you have a home?" asks Bowie; "No, we're gnome-ads!" comes the reply) and in a sped-up, gibbering voice that makes Alvin and the Chipmunks sound like Barry White and Luther Vandross.
Even Bowie's biographer Paul Trynka would have a tough time casting any kind of positive light on the tune, but not for lack of trying. In the official biography, Starman, he states, "As long as one is happy to abandon all notions of taste, the song is brilliantly crafted," which is kind of like telling someone they're pretty as long as they're in the dark. He then kicked the audacity up a notch by adding that, when it comes to "pseudopsychedelic cockney music-hall children's songs, it reigns supreme."
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Clearly this man has never watched Mary Poppins on acid.
Make no mistake, this is because "The Laughing Gnome" is, mercifully, the only pseudopsychedelic cockney music-hall children's song.
There's a reason for that.
#1. Billy Joel Was in a Drum- and Organ-Based Psychedelic Metal Band
The Artist You Know
The fun thing about Billy Joel, aside from all of the amazing songs he's written, is that his sometimes raucous life offstage is such a departure from the mellow, adult-oriented rock sound that made him famous. The angriest Billy Joel has ever been on record was that one time when he protested the cola wars by writing the shittiest song of his career.
Aside from that, a Billy Joel tune is the kind of song you can take home to mother. See, Mom, this song is about an uptown girl! He can't afford to buy her pearls!
The Artist You Don't Know
Epic Records
Yep, the Ron Jeremy lookalike draped in full gladiator regalia (complete with optional modesty tights) is Billy Joel. The man on the left is, you know, the other half of the band Attila. If you've never heard of them, congratulations, you're a part of the 99 percent all over again.
They were a drum- and organ-based heavy metal band whose sound could best be described as "Holy shit, dude, the only organs heavy metal needs are the sex kind." Their only record was released in 1969.
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If Ian Anderson has taught us anything, it's that unconventional instruments only work with a ridiculously large codpiece.
All Music Guide calls it "the worst album released in the history of rock and roll," and Billy was just as generous by describing it as "psychedelic bullshit." The critical and commercial response to the album was so astoundingly negative that it prompted a young-but-already-short-on-quality-decision-making-skills Billy Joel to guzzle a bottle of furniture polish in a half-hearted attempt to commit suicide.
Obviously, the attempt was unsuccessful. Billy Joel eventually nursed himself back to health by breaking up his awful band, running off with the drummer's wife (fun fact: He wrote "Just the Way You Are" and "She's Always a Woman" about her!), and getting super-duper rich and famous.
Thanks to the Internet, though, that terrible album will always be with us:
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6 Hilariously Awful Examples of Product Placements in Comics
#3. The Incredible Hulk and Sleepy's Mattress Professionals
In 2008, in an effort to educate people on the dangers of not buying their mattresses, Sleepy's Mattress Professionals decided to join forces with The Incredible Hulk, who is a character who does not sleep.
In the comic, Bruce Banner is suffering from a crazy case of insomnia, which is causing more frequent fits of Hulk rage than usual. Bruce tries to science the hell out of the problem, but no matter how many tests he runs, he just can't seem to figure it out. It's like the plot of Fight Club if Edward Norton was a scientist and Brad Pitt was Lou Ferrigno.
In other words, if Fight Club was better.
With sleep eluding him once again, Bruce Hulks out and starts breaking things. Luckily, The Sleepy's Man comes swooping in on a flying mattress to take Hulk down with one well-placed mattress to the foot. You see, The Sleepy's Man knew all along that the only thing Bruce needed to cure his insomnia was a quality affordable mattress. Beyond that, no aspect of the mattress mascot's presence or abilities are ever explained.
G ... Gamma Rays?
Unfortunately, the instant Hulk falls asleep, the pair find themselves transported into a strange dream dimension existing wholly within Hulk's mind, a place where no living being was ever meant to venture. There, Hulk and Sleepy's Man discover that Bruce's insomnia was actually brought about by a Freddy Kruger-esque villain called Nightmare, who, as his name suggests, has the ability to haunt people's nightmares. Nightmare has been living in Bruce's mind and harassing him, in the name of the endless villainous pursuit of shits and giggles.
It turns out the Hulk's greatest fear is David Bowie with shitty hair.
Unsurprisingly, Hulk elects to smash, while the Sleepy's Man provides support in the form of invaluable sleep-related puns. Hulk's stupefying strength and Sleepy's breezy annoyingness prove to be no match against Nightmare on his own turf, until a poorly-aimed sonic Hulk Clap shatters the barrier between the dream world and reality, presumably causing Hulk only a moderate amount of brain damage in the process.
Nightmare gets violently shat out into the real world with them, where Hulk proceeds to beat the everloving Jesus out of him with a durable, dependable mattress, courtesy of Sleepy's Mattress Professionals.
Sleepy's: One way or another, you're going to fucking sleep.
#2. Rush City and Pontiac
In 2006, Pontiac teamed up with DC Comics to produce a six-issue series about a guy named Rush and his Pontiac Solstice, which you may recognize as the convertible people settle for. To give the character a little street cred, he was teamed up with Black Canary, unquestionably one of the most popular characters on the DC roster.
Rush is a former New York firefighter with a mysterious past that nobody cares about, and of course a Pontiac Solstice, which he uses to drive around and search for missing persons that he has been paid to locate, because apparently superheroes and Dog the Bounty Hunter are the same thing. One such mission leads him on a chase through New York City as he tries to save some foreign exchange student from the clutches of the villainous Gearhead, a half-man half-car cyborg who apparently hates the shit out of hotdog vendors.
"Haha, dieeeeeeee!!"
Rush is able to stop Gearhead by deploying a miniature Pontiac Solstice EMP grenade in two of the most confusing panels in the history of comic book illustration.
"... wait, did he shrink? What the hell am I looking at?"
The subsequent electrical explosion causes Gearhead to crash, allowing Rush and Black Canary to retrieve the kidnapped student from the wreckage.
Unlike Pontiac, FedEx obviously contributed zero dollars to this publication.
Rush and Black Canary heroically leave the scene of the accident, only to have Gearhead spring miraculously back to life and come giggling after them.
... why does he need a steering wheel?
Concerned that his brand new Pontiac Solstice will get damaged in the hail of bullets erupting from Gearhead's after-market Gatling gun, Rush sends his convertible screaming into the nearest subway station, a turn of events that we are quite frankly amazed Pontiac was OK with. After all, nothing helps sell a car like driving it into a densely packed crowd of people.
"I still have 34 more payments left on this thing! Get the hell out of the way!"
In an effort to minimize civilian casualties, Rush does what any sane person would do and pilots his rumbling stallion directly onto the tracks and tries to outrun the evening Red Line train.
"The Solstice handles like a dream, even on an enclosed railway!" -Pontiac.
Unfortunately for Rush, Gearhead is just as crazy as he is and chases right after him, having now morphed into some kind of giant metal spider outfitted with an entire arsenal of tools from an automobile assembly line.
"Or should I say disassembly line?! Bwa ha ha ha ha!"
The comic ends shortly thereafter when Gearhead gets abruptly run over by a train. Unsurprisingly, Rush City didn't last much longer (and neither did Pontiac).
#1. The Justice League and Subway and the Olympics
Justice League/Subway: Famous Fans features your favorite heroes from the Justice League teaming up with a handful of Olympic athletes to promote the Subway menu, although the title is a bit misleading considering each "famous fan" was handsomely paid for their involvement rather than contributing their likenesses based on sheer enthusiasm for sandwiches.
In one issue, former Olympians Michael Phelps, Nastia Liukin and Apolo Ohno sit down after a solid day of training to shove handfuls of meatball subs with roughly the same nutritional value as a Big Macs into their faces (as all world-class athletes do), when Batman comes sailing through the wall next to them.
Desperately in need of a meatball marinara sandwich.
Moments later, the villainous Mr. Freeze and Solomon Grundy come marching in through the Batman-shaped hole. The two evildoers clearly do not realize that they are about to be supremely outmatched by a small girl, a pothead and a guy who is seriously awesome at ice skating.
Before the battle can commence, the writers had to include at least one panel of Michael Phelps swimming, since swimming on its own is not the best tool against evil (see Aquaman). So, when Mr. Freeze starts blasting the pool with his ice gun, a child suddenly appears in the deep end for Phelps to dive in and save. However, the situation was apparently not a dire enough emergency to prevent Phelps from stopping to put his goddamned goggles on before leaping into the water.
"It's OK, everyone! The chlorine didn't get in my eyes!"
Taking a page from The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Nastia does a series of unnecessary gymnastic flourishes before dropkicking Mr. Freeze in the back, effectively neutralizing the master criminal.
And making every superhero in the DC universe look a little more lame.
With the crises averted, Nastia and Green Latern share a good laugh about Batman's lack of super powers, to which Batman responds by more or less telling them to kiss his ass. He then demands to know where the plucky Olympians got their extra energy, and Apollo heroically informs him that it all came from fresh avocado slices on their delicious Subway sandwiches. Michael Phelps transforms into Kris Humphries in the last panel to deliver a non-joke about eating more avocado sandwiches than anyone else, and everyone shares a good laugh.
"Ha ha! But seriously, don't pull any of that 'avocado' nonsense on The Joker, he'd have killed you all in nine seconds."
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MGS V: Ground Zeroes price drop announced ahead of launchWritten by: / / 4 Comments
Following reports that Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is only two hours long, and a rebuttal by Hideo Kojima and his assistant claiming such reports were false, Konami has announced a price drop for the open-world action game ahead of launch.
According to Konami, the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One editions of the game will now become available for $29.99 in the US and £29.99 in the UK each (as opposed to $39.99 / £39.99 previously), which is in line with the game's price on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The digital versions of the game on the older consoles remains at $19.99 / £19.99, while the digital versions of the game on PS4 and Xbox One remain at $29.99 / £29.99.
The price change, says Konami "aims to provide as many people as possible an opportunity to experience" Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes on new generation platforms.
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes will be released for PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One on March 18th in North America and March 20th in European territories.
You can see how the various versions of the game stack up to one another in video and screenshot form – see any important differences?
Who amongst you will be picking up Ground Zeroes next month?
Source: VG247