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Dear Tom and Ray: I was shopping for spark plugs for my 2002 Dodge truck from a company that has a site on the Internet. They had spark plugs for carbureted engines and fuel-injected engines. I bought plugs for injected engines. Is there a difference? – Tony
Tom: Every engine has unique requirements for spark plugs, Tony. It's not really based on whether the engine is carbureted or fuel-injected; it's based on the way the engine was designed.
Ray: For one thing, engines have different physical characteristics. For instance, some engines have thicker cylinder heads and require longer plugs with more threads to get the tip of the plug into the combustion chamber.
Tom: The amount of room on top of the cylinder head is another consideration. Older engines had only two valves per cylinder, so there was plenty of room for a nice, fat spark plug to stick its nose into the cylinder. But the majority of engines today are multivalve. You could have four or five valves cut into the top of each cylinder now, leaving much less room to fit a plug there. So most newer engines call for smaller, thinner plugs.
Ray: The other reason plugs are specific to engines is because the vehicle's engineers designed the plug as part of a system needed to create a very specific pattern of combustion. They may want a spark plug with a hotter spark, or one that sits farther down in the combustion chamber to produce the precise shape, size and duration of flame they're looking for in there. Those details affect an engine's power, gas mileage and emissions.
Tom: For those reasons, there are hundreds of different spark plugs on the market. The only way to know which one you need is either by removing an old one and reading the number, or by looking up a car's year, make, model and engine size in a parts locator, and getting the plug number that way.
Ray: Perhaps what you were seeing was a general "spark plugs for Dodge trucks" page on a website. Over time, there certainly have been both carbureted and fuel-injected engines used in those trucks.
Tom: But not in 2002. By then, every car and truck sold in the U.S. was fuel-injected. That means there's only one correct spark plug type for your truck, Tony. I hope you got that one.
Dear Tom and Ray: General Motors recently unveiled the 2015 Chevy Tahoe, Suburban and GMC Yukon. The three SUVs continue to have the gear shifter positioned on the steering column instead of the floor-mounted center console, like the Traverse, Equinox and Acadia. Is this solely a cosmetic design decision, or is there an engineering reason for this choice? – Bob
Tom: It's partially cosmetic, partially historic and partially practical.
Ray: The practical reason is that putting the shifter on the steering column leaves more room for a large center console between the seats. People like to use center consoles to store all their stuff.
Tom: Not just cups of coffee and quarters for parking, but, increasingly, purses, bags of Cheetos, laptop computers and the occasional medium-size household pet.
Ray: And some of these center consoles – like the Suburban's – have gotten so big that you can rest your lunch tray on top of it and stash a backup Chevy Spark inside for when you're tired of getting 16 miles to the gallon.
Tom: Putting the shifter on the steering column also gives Chevy the option of offering a bench seat up front instead of two bucket seats. A bench seat – with the proper seat belts and all – allows three people to sit across, instead of two. So instead of carrying only eight people, and having to ask the other team to pitch to themselves, you can carry a full baseball team in your Suburban.
Ray: In terms of engineering, it really doesn't matter where you put the shifter. It can go almost anywhere, within reason. You just need to have some way to transmit the position of the shifter to the transmission itself.
Tom: That can be done with a cable, with rods or, these days, with an electronic signal.
Ray: The final issue is historic precedent. The column shifter was a staple for many decades. And apparently there is a group of buyers that still like it that way.
Tom: Well, I don't want to speak for them. But everybody knows you can't snuggle in the front seat with a gear shift in the way.
Ray: Well, you can. You just can't snuggle pain-free.


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"Beasts of the Southern Wild" isn't a heartbreaker, it's a heartwrecker.
Once 6-year-old Quvenzhane Wallis insinuates her adorable self into your affections, you're toast. You're done for. The movie will have its way with you, and her plight will pretty much make a soggy hash of the sympathies of any parent in the audience.
What is seldom understood in America is exactly how many independent tiny-budget films are made in America in circumstances roughly analogous to those of director Benh Zeitlin's film. Most go nowhere -- cable TV at a godforsaken hour, if they're lucky.
But sometimes at a film festival, people will see them and emerge from the theater affected, even shaken, and ready to tell the world about what they just saw.
That, at the Sundance Film Festival, was the case with "Beasts of the Southern Wild," an unlikely film in any brief description but a bit of a powerhouse once the adorable little girl in the center of the film has staked her claim on your emotions.
Quvenzhane (pronounced Cu-VON-jon-ay) Wallis is, to understate considerably, not a professional actress. Which is why the most sophisticated filmgoers have never had the slightest trouble being so profoundly charmed and moved by her. When you spend an entire film wanting to walk into the screen and give its 6-year-old heroine a hug, you're at the film's mercy.
And that's what happens in "Beasts of the Southern Wild," despite what begins as a kind of clumsy peace where the starkest realism and a kind of magic realism are supposed to coexist comfortably.
Quvenzhane plays Hushpuppy, a feisty little thing who lives on her own in a godforsaken and pitilessly poor and mythical part of Louisiana called the Bathtub. Because of the location of the levees, it is at the mercy of the not-so-tender waters, which are always liable to flood.
To Hushpuppy, in her voice-over narration, it's "the prettiest place in the world." To the audience, it seems the very symbol of geographical suffering and abandonment.
She lives in one converted house trailer. Daddy (Dwight Henry) lives in another a few feet away. He drinks hard, staggers around and treats Hushpuppy as roughly as a father could possibly treat a child with such imploring and watchful eyes. What we eventually learn is that he is grievously ill and everything he is doing -- including letting her live alone and knock back moonshine with him -- is to toughen her up for the life to come.
In the magic realist framework of the tale, we also see the vast world that is connected to this tiny, suffering, impoverished patch of American geography and, in a poetic way, redeems it by its existence. We see glaciers melt and prehistoric creatures roam. They're called Aurochs, and they look like wild boars with very unconvincing horns.
Hushpuppy's narration is all-important. It is there we get Hushpuppy's voice, which is, to be sure, an unrealistic literary conceit, but not so much that we reject it. It makes her both lovable and, in her innocence, that much more vulnerable.
She tells us, at one point, that the people in the Bathtub have more holidays than the rest of the world, never suspecting that is because employment is virtually nonexistent. "Up in the dry well, they got none of what we got."
A local medicine woman called Miss Bathsheeba tells the local kids that "every animal is made of meat."
"Everything is part of the buffet of the universe."
But "every day the fabric of the universe is becoming unraveled. Y'all better learn how to survive now."
And that Hushpuppy does, through flood and her father's illness -- where, at one point, they find him, take him to a hospital and "plug him into the wall."
If "the whole universe depends on everything fitting together just right," as Hushpuppy says, she and her Daddy have to struggle horribly to get it all to fit -- flood, illness, a wife and mother who abandoned them.
By the time of the denouement, dry wells in the corners of one's eyes are virtually impossible.
It is, in fact, the childlike literary quality of Hushpuppy's narration that makes everything else seem to "fit together" in this cinematic universe. When we finally see a symbolic confrontation of Hushpuppy and the extraordinary prehistoric Aurochs, we're able to accept that this all-too-tragically real life and place is also the place of magic and myth so beloved by William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, etc.
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The 2008 election results did not fundamentally change American foreign policy. The real change began a few years ago in Afghanistan and Iraq.
It began with colonels and captains fighting terror on the ground. They found that they could clear a town of the bad guys, but they had little capacity to establish rule of law or quality of life for the people they were trying to help. They quickly realized that the big challenge in this new era is not killing the enemy, it's repairing the zones of chaos where enemies grow and breed. They realized, too, that Washington wasn't providing them with the tools they needed to accomplish their missions.
Their observations and arguments filtered through military channels and back home, producing serious rethinking at the highest levels. On Jan. 18, 2006, Condoleezza Rice delivered a policy address at Georgetown University in which she argued that the fundamental threats now come from weak and failed states, not enemy powers.
In this new world, she continued, it is impossible to draw neat lines between security, democratization and development efforts. She called for a transformational diplomacy, in which State Department employees would do less negotiating and communique-writing. Instead, they'd be out in towns and villages doing broad campaign planning with military colleagues, strengthening local governments and implementing development projects.
Over the past year, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has delivered a series of remarkable speeches echoing and advancing Rice's themes. "In recent years, the lines separating war, peace, diplomacy and development have become more blurred and no longer fit the neat organizational charts of the 20th century," he said in Washington in July.
Gates does not talk about spreading democracy, at least in the short run. He talks about using integrated federal agencies to help locals improve the quality and responsiveness of governments in trouble spots around the world.
He has developed a way of talking about security and foreign policy that is now the lingua franca in government and think-tank circles. It owes a lot to the lessons of counterinsurgency and uses phrases like "full spectrum operations" to describe multidisciplinary security and development campaigns.
Gates has told West Point cadets that more regime change is unlikely but that they may spend parts of their careers training solders in allied nations. He has called for more spending on the State Department, foreign aid and a revitalized U.S. Information Agency. He's spawned a flow of think-tank reports on how to marry hard and soft pre-emption.
The Bush administration began to implement these ideas, but in small and symbolic ways. President Bush called for a civilian corps to do nation building. National Security Presidential Directive 44 laid out a framework so different agencies could coordinate foreign reconstruction and stabilization. The Millennium Challenge Account program created a method for measuring effective governance.
Actual progress was slow, but the ideas developed during the second Bush term have taken hold.
Some theoreticians may still talk about Platonic concepts like realism and neoconservatism, but the actual foreign policy doctrine of the future will be hammered out in a bottom-up process as the U.S. and its allies use their varied tools to build government capacity in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, the Philippines and beyond. Grand strategists may imagine a new global architecture built at high-level summit meetings, but the real global architecture of the future will emerge organically from these day-to-day nation-building operations.
During the campaign, Barack Obama embraced Gates' language. During his news conference on Monday, he used all the right code words, speaking of integrating and rebalancing the nation's foreign policy capacities. He recruited Hillary Clinton and James Jones, who have been champions of this approach, and retained Gates. Their cooperation on an integrated strategy might prevent some of the perennial feuding between the Pentagon, Foggy Bottom and the National Security Council.
As Stephen Flanagan of the Center for Strategic and International Studies notes, Obama's challenge will be to actually implement the change. That would include increasing the size of the State Department, building a civilian corps that can do development in dangerous parts of the world, creating interagency nation-building institutions, helping local reformers build governing capacity in fragile places like Pakistan and the Palestinian territories and exporting American universities while importing more foreign students.
Given the events of the past years, the U.S. is not about to begin another explicit crusade to spread democracy. But decent, effective and responsive government would be a start.
Obama and his team didn't invent this approach. But if they can put it into action, that would be continuity we can believe in.
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"+" (plus) Character In Files On Xbox?
Posted 15 September 2003 - 10:12 PM
I can not transfer a file from the Alter Echo DVD (/ODB Data/ODB Media/xvg/Object_Gunshhip_Fly_by_24+.xvg) to my drive, and it seems because of the "+" character. I tried storing other files with "+" in the name, or renaming files to something with "+" and that was denied also. I tried storing with ftp to several ftp servers (XBFileZilla, EvoX, Avalaunch). Avalaunch for example has the "+" character available when pulling up the software keyboard when renaming.
I kind of thought that Alter Echo file was bullshit since "Gunshhip" was spelled wrong, but well, you never know?
Posted 16 September 2003 - 06:46 AM
Anyways, have a look here how you can fix it.
Posted 16 September 2003 - 08:22 AM
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Posted 16 September 2003 - 02:27 PM
Posted 16 September 2003 - 02:31 PM
slap me if im asking a stupid question!
Posted 16 September 2003 - 02:58 PM
So far, as far as I'm aware 3 games have had invalid filenames:
1. Enter the matrix - too long (patch available)
2. Alter Echo - + symbol (patch manually using hex editor)
3. Furious karting - french C symbol - no patch out yet
The way they are patched, and the opnly way they can be put on the HDD is by renaming offending files, then changing all links to them using a hex editor. Once done, process can be automated into a patch.
If these are 3 rogue games, then cool, but if this is a new copy protection then hmmmmmn, new app needed.
Not too hard though (although I've never coded Xbox stuff) - I don't think
1. If a file wont copy, rename to a file that doesn't exist (even 000001.xxx or summin)
2. Scan through ALL files and replace all instances with new filename
3. Upload all modied files
If someone can make a DVD-Xbox_HD app that does this it'll be great
Only a matter of time ...
Posted 16 September 2003 - 05:54 PM
Posted 17 September 2003 - 09:33 AM
|QUOTE (crs @ Sep 16 2003, 06:54 PM)
| As I said, that's what I did, I searched all files on the DVD for references to that particular file, altered the references with a hex editor to a different filename, renamed file in question. And this should be easy to automate and/or make a patch for games incorporating this kind of trickery. Actually I am surprised it has not been used more often yet, if it seems to be this effective (atleast initially until people learn).
How did U search for references (what software) - I used WinXP seasrch function and it doesn't seem to work
Am I being dumb?
Posted 18 September 2003 - 05:16 AM
|QUOTE (whiffin @ Sep 17 2003, 10:33 AM)
| How did U search for references (what software) - I used WinXP seasrch function and it doesn't seem to work
Am I being dumb?
You need to use a hex editting program (like Winhex) in order to see the guts of each file and then you can edit specific bytes. As in the case of Alter Echo, change the + to some other character the Xbox file system can deal with.
Posted 18 September 2003 - 02:12 PM
But i need to know which files to change
So I need a search program that'll go through all files and look for a particular string - I can then open these files and hex-edit the appropriate characters etc ....
Will Winhex allow me to search 40,000 files for a string as a batch job?
Posted 19 September 2003 - 02:07 PM
Posted 20 September 2003 - 09:13 AM
|QUOTE (whiffin @ Sep 18 2003, 03:12 PM)
|So I need a search program that'll go through all files and look for a particular string - I can then open these files and hex-edit the appropriate characters etc ....
AFAIK, the only way to do it is manually check every file, or do an educated guess.
ie. There wouldn't be any reference to files in audio/movie/graphic etc files.
Posted 20 September 2003 - 10:02 AM
In furious karting I think there is 40,000 files - even an educated guess is gonna be a long job
There must be a search app out there ?!?
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If you don't think the words "Transformers" and "realistic" belong in the same sentence, then maybe you need to have a conversation with Mark Wahlberg.
Wahlberg, star of Michael Bay's Transformers: Age of Extinction, claims the new movie is "a little bit more believable" than previous installments of the franchise, while remaining familiar to fans.
"When we saw parts of the movie, and how it's come together, you know, you have a whole new cast, you have a whole new threat, new enemies and all the things that you liked, with all the explosions and the action, but it's just a little bit more realistic, a little bit more believable, I think," he told IGN.
"Recruiting the Dinobots — it's pretty elaborate in how it happens," he added. "[It's] not like Optimus has a whistle and they come running, he's really got to convince them to come onboard and fight this fight, and it's pretty cool how it's done. I think people are definitely going to get their money's worth, it's well worth the wait. And I think, for the die-hard fans, they're going to have a whole new thing to look forward to in the future."
Transformers: Age of Extinction arrives June 27.
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Cause shape shifting robots from outer space is completely realistic..
Well, 'realistic' isn't really in Michael Bay's wheelhouse (alien living machines disguised as vehicles aside… most of his action sequences defy the laws of physics) and now you've got dinosaurs thrown in the mix so 'realism' isn't why I'll be seeing this.
Still, I'm curious to see where they take their franchise & as a fan of Wahlberg, I'm definitely looking forward to see what he brings to the table.
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Wait…this franchise has "diehard fans?" News to me…
"[It's] not like Optimus has a whistle and they come running, he's really got to convince them to come onboard and fight this fight…"
Good analogy for Michael Bay's career.
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Pakistan's northern tribal (Pushtun) region has long been noted for two things. First, the tribesmen are heavily armed and unwilling to submit to control by the central government. In the last half century, since Pakistan became an independent state, the government has slowly gained a degree of control over the cities and towns in the tribal areas. But out in the countryside, most of the tribal peoples have never seen a Pakistani soldier or government official. And the tribes want to keep it that way. The other major feature of the tribal areas is the popularity of Islamic fundamentalism. This is where the Taliban was born, away from any government control and in an atmosphere of Islamic militancy. One thing the government has managed to avoid is the establishment of terrorist training camps in the north. With one exception. There are such camps in Pakistani Kashmir. In 1947, it was Pushtun tribesmen who invaded Kashmir and seized control of that portion of Kashmir that remains under Pakistani control. But the tribesmen had help from the Pakistani army and army intelligence, which still has, so to speak, a veto power over Islamic radicals in Pakistani Kashmir. There are terrorist training camps in Pakistani Kashmir, but not as many as were in Afghanistan. In fact, Kashmiri militants often sent some of their recruits for training in Afghan camps. As a result of the working relationships established with al Qaeda during those visits, there probably are a lot of al Qaeda and Taliban personnel in Pakistani Kashmir. American Special Forces and CIA personnel are not allowed to roam freely in Pakistani Kashmir as they are in the rest of northern Pakistan. And the al Qaeda and Taliban have noted that these armed Americans, and the large rewards they offer, are making northern Pakistan a dangerous place for Taliban, and especially al Qaeda, members. So these terrorists have probably moved to Pakistani Kashmir to avoid some local chief deciding that the American rewards are too generous to pass up. For the past two days, there has been a lot less artillery fire along the Line of Control in Kashmir.
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Posted on 07/25/2014 6:05:23 PM PDT by mandaladon
President Obama's approval rating declined this week by three points to 39 percent, down from its previous posting of 42 percent, according to the latest Gallup polling data.
The new data, which Gallup collects daily and has a margin of error of plus of minus 3 percentage points, reflects how American voters feel about the job Obama is doing in the White House.
The decline in approval comes at a time when the White House has fumbled its response to the growing crisis on the border, Russia's provocations in the east and the increasingly violent civil war in Iraq.
Of the 1,500 adults surveyed by Gallup, roughly 54 percent say they disapprove of Obama's performance in the Oval Office.
The president's current approval rating almost matches his all-time low in October 2011, just after Standard and Poor's downgraded the U.S. credit rating and a jobs report that showed little to no growth, of just 38 percent, according to Gallup.
This obviously isn't the worst approval rating for any U.S. president, as George W. Bush left the White House in 2008 with an approval rating of only 34 percent, according to the same source.
Still, it's rather remarkable to see that Obama's approval rating has declined to levels not seen since around the time of the downgrade, the passage of the extraordinarily contentious Affordable Care Act and the November midterm red wave of 2010
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I'm hoping for 29%.
Just think how low his numbers would go if the media
was AGAINST him, like they were against GWB.
"Just think how low his numbers would go if the media
was AGAINST him, like they were against GWB."
He doesn't care. He's not running for anything, again. It's full steam ahead with the agenda. God forbid that Democrats don't get ousted in significant numbers this November.
But the voters still love their boy. It's just everything he does to them that they don't like. The people living in this country are suffering from a severe case of battered wife syndrome.
As long as the Dems keep the gravy flowing, the Entitlement Army will keep the votes flowing.
"But the voters still love their boy. Its just everything he does to them that they dont like. The people living in this country are suffering from a severe case of battered wife syndrome."
Just wait until the real fighting with Russia starts, now that we are sending US troops in Ukraine as "Advisors". The libs will wrap themselves in the same flag they have been burning for 30 years.
I wasn't sure if the actress Rue McClanahan was alive or dead so I checked a Wikipedia entry which led me to this:
[1] In a July 2008 interview, she weighed in on the 2008 Presidential campaigns. Regarding Barack Obama, she said:
This is the damnedest election I've ever lived through, and Obama is the most amazing candidate I've ever bumped into. The man has unshakable integrity. He's the nearest thing to Lincoln we've seen.
He doesn't care. He has no effective opposition party.
"The people living in this country are suffering from a severe case of battered wife syndrome."
Nah, they are suffering from abject stupidity coupled with the "gibbsmedat syndrome."
Interesting. 39% happens to be the percentage of Americans with an IQ below that of a handball.
Rue McClanahan spent too many years hanging around Bea ("Maude") Arthur, who was Ed Assner in a skirt. It addled her brain, if she ever had one.
I'm hoping for 2.9%.
And then Gallup said that if the election were held today Romney would win by 6 points!
An even better measure is to check the source of income of those that voted for him.
"I'm hoping for 29%."
The MSM relentlessly hounded GW while they continue to
bolster Obama. If the media was truly balanced there is
no doubt in my mind Bush would have had higher numbers
while Obama would now be wishing to reach as high as 29%.
Makes no difference. His rule is not based on appealing to voters concerned with issues, but rather on the ragtag coalition he has cobbled together to keep him and his fascist brethren in power. It's the new paradigm.
Never happen. The media give him 37% just for showing up (Pres__ent).
He is the worst.
Here is the Oval Office occupant's approval breakdown according to various demographics, according to Gallup:
Men: 40%
Women: 46%
Age 18-29: 50%
Age 30-49: 43%
Age 50-64: 43%
Age 65+: 35%
Eastern: 52%
Midwest: 39%
South: 40%
West: 44%
White: 32%
Non-White: 69%
Black: 87%
Hispanic: 55%
High School Graduate/Less: 40%
Some College: 42%
College Graduate: 44%
Post Graduate Degree: 51%
All College Graduates: 47%
Not a College Graduate: 41%
Less than $2,000 monthly income: 48%
$2000 to 4,999 monthly: 41%
$5,000 to $7500 monthly: 41%
over $7,500 monthly: 42%
Democrat: 81%
Independent: 36%
Republican: 10%
Liberal: 70%
Moderate: 48%
Conservative: 23%
Liberal Democrat: 85%
Moderate Democrat: 75%
Conservative Democrat: 67%
Pure Independent: 32%
Liberal/Moderate Republican: 18%
Conservative Republican: 8%
Attend Church Weekly: 39%
Attend Church Weekly/Mnthly: 46%
Attend Church Seldom/Never: 45%
Married: 39%
Not Married: 47%
You can see from the numbers above he is UNDER WATER with everyone except kids, Easterners, blacks, Hispanics, people with post-graduate degrees and Democrats.
His "base" is shrinking.
Not that he gives a damn.
I'm starting to see Democraps talking about that which is a good sign. I guess it's starting to sink into their cement stuffed skulls that "protecting the party" isn't going to do them any good when there isn't a country. The way this has to go though is BOTH parties need to get involved otherwise you know Democraps, they will blame this entirely on Republicans and racism for the next 100 years. What needs to happen above all else is one Republican needs to stand up along with a Democrat and say "Enough is enough. We understand this guy is an Islamic foreign agent. What are we going to do about it? He has to go" If Republicans on the other hand wait until they win the Senate and THEN do it, two things will happen: Democrats being the backstabbers they are will blame it on racism and we will get another radical in office. OR they can get Democrats involved ON CAMERA saying THIS GUY HAS GOT TO GO. I know a LOT of liberals and they are waking up bigtime to this jackass, and the Republican party is NOT taking advantage of that! BIG MISTAKE
I was young and stupid and a democrat once, then I became a Christian. A simple commercial could change their vote.
Show pictures of babies, children, teens, 20, 21, 22, ... 30,...yr olds and the words
YOU ARE IN DEBT 117 TRILLION (or more) AND GROWING
17 trillion in debt and 100 trillion in unfunded mandates. (Might have to explain that to public school graduates)
OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS HAVE INCREASED THE DEBT OVER 7 or more TRILLION IN THE LAST 8 years, more than all the prior presidents put together. You (pictures of college students, young families, young women....) will be slaves to the government.
Even the illegal aliens will want to leave.
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Eating disorders can take months, even years, to treat effectively. But ED nurses who can identify patients with such a disorder can help get them on the right track to healing. A big challenge, however, is that patients with eating disorders often go to great lengths to conceal the problem.
Recognizing eating disorders in the ED, helping patients understand they are ill and steering them to ongoing mental and physical care requires preparation far in advance of the patient encounter, experts say. For most eating disorders, recovery is a very long-term process, said Bobbi OBrien, RN, PhD, clinical psychologist at Eating Disorders Associates in Torrance, Calif. You can get through the acute part, the medical part, pretty quick. But the rest psychiatric issues, body image, self-esteem, co-occurring depression or anxiety disorders, family dynamics that can take 10 years or more.
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Psychiatrys diagnostic manual, the DSM-IV-TR, recognizes three main categories of eating disorders: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and eating disorders-not otherwise specified. Patients with anorexia have an obsessive fear of gaining weight, and so dangerously limit food intake. They might alternately purge nutrients by using laxatives or diuretics, or by inducing vomiting. Patients with bulimia, meanwhile, will eat in binges, followed by behaviors such as purging or fasting to compensate for the overeating. (In binge eating disorder, mentioned briefly in the DSM, no such compensatory behavior occurs.)
Less commonly, patients might suffer from other aberrations in eating behavior, said Jeff Solheim, RN-BC, MSN, CEN, CFRN, FAEN, a national consultant, nursing educator and former ED nurse. These include diabulemia, in which type 1 diabetics manipulate their insulin levels for weight loss; pica, in which patients eat nonfood substances such as dirt, hair, feces or plastic; and orthorexia, when patients obsessively pursue a pure, healthy diet. Patients also might suffer from nocturnal eating disorders, in which they are compelled to eat at night.
A recent study at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, involving ED patients ages 14 through 20, found that 16% screened positive for some type of eating disorder. That figure compares with prevalence estimates in the general population of up to 1% for anorexia, 3% for bulimia and 5% for other eating disorders, the researchers noted. Those who screened positive in the study for a disorder were three times as likely to be female, obese and/or depressed, researchers reported online in May in the International Journal of Eating Disorders.
The stereotype about who suffers from the most common eating disorders typically an adolescent or young adult female might cloud a nurses assessment, OBrien noted. Her patients have ranged from 12-year-olds to people in their 50s who still struggle with their condition. Meanwhile, males who are trying to stay at a specific weight as horse jockeys, or for sports like wrestling or boxing, might be misusing diuretics or exhibiting other purging behavior, Solheim said.
An estimated half of eating disorders may go undetected in clinical settings, a statistic that gnaws at Solheim. It just breaks my heart, he said. Here are people who desperately need help and we miss it.
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For nurses who suspect an eating disorder, asking the patient is the first step, said Maria C. La Via, MD, medical and clinical director for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Eating Disorders Program. Height and weight and orthostatic blood pressure and pulse can be key indicators. And depending on the suspected eating disorder, labs can be as helpful as vital signs, La Via said. For patients who purge, an electrolyte panel might show potassium or chloride deficiencies or elevated carbon dioxide levels. Bradycardia could indicate electrical problems in the heart, as would ECG findings of low voltage or prolonged QT interval all tipoffs of a possible eating disorder.
In anorexia, cardiac insufficiency is a major concern, Solheim said, as over time the heart loses contractility and mass, putting patients at eventual risk of heart failure.
Other clues include loss of bone density (perhaps evident from a stress fracture or other unlikely fracture); sunken eyes (due to dehydration); esophagitis (from repeated vomiting); lanugo (a layer of fine, fuzzy hair on the body); and in females, lack of menstrual periods. A scabbed or calloused knuckle a result of forced vomiting also might indicate anorexia or bulimia.
Overall, bulimia and binge eating disorder can be harder to detect in part because patients who binge might be of normal weight or overweight. OBrien said that compared with other patients with weight problems, binge eating involves a psychological element like feeling pressured, driven, out of control, ashamed or guilty.
Nurses who suspect binge eating disorder can ask about patients eating patterns in a typical day and whether they overeat compared with other people, she said. Structured interviewing tools like the Eating Attitudes Test or the Eating Disorder Inventory also can be helpful.
Solheim urges ED nurses to overcome any discomfort they have in confronting a potential eating disorder. You should ask very pointed questions, such as Whats your ideal weight? How do you get there? Have you had episodes involving eating that you cant control?
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When an eating disorder is identified, Solheim advises ED nurses to focus initially on two aspects of care. One is the safety of the patient, who might be prone to further self-harm. (Self-mutilating behaviors such as cutting sometimes accompany eating disorders.) The other, of course, is treating urgent physical symptoms.
Its vital, especially in patients with severe illness, to enlist the aid of specially trained professionals to minimize risks such as refeeding syndrome, a potentially dangerous metabolic complication that can result from nutritional support. Caloric intake must be increased gradually, with close monitoring of vital signs, fluid shifts, weight and electrolytes. Also, administering IV fluids at a typical rate might in some patients precipitate heart failure, experts note.
La Via suggests ED nurses be upfront with patients and their loved ones if an eating disorder is suspected, discussing medical findings and the possible long-term impact on health. A hospitals psychiatric resources also should be tapped to assist with assessment and referral.
OBrien, whose clinic oversees the Medical Stabilization Program for Patients with Eating Disorders at Torrance Memorial Medical Center, urges EDs to foster relationships with specialists who can evaluate and place patients for ongoing care and to develop a list of various types of eating disorder treatment resources available locally.
Such programs include:
Minimally restrictive outpatient therapy without meal monitoring
Intensive outpatient therapy requiring four or five hours of participation a day and possibly some meal monitoring
Partial hospitalization from morning till evening, with meal monitoring and therapy
residential treatment, with round-the-clock supervision as well as therapy
While EDs are not the optimal place to treat an eating disorder, they are very often the first, OBrien notes. For a lot of people, that is their way of crying out for help to go to the ED with some kind of symptom, she said. They hope they [ED personnel] will do something about it, because their parents or their husband isnt doing anything about it.


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One day after Bernie Mac's shocking death, we learn of the passing of another African-American star. Academy Award-winning soul music legend Isaac Hayes died in Memphis on Sunday at age 65.
Hayes made history by winning an Oscar for "Theme from 'Shaft'" — the first African American to do so.
He also won a Golden Globe Award and a Grammy Award for the all-time classic.
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Younger fans may know him for supplying the voice of the character Chef on the hit cartoon series South Park. A devout Scientologist, he would later resign from the show citing religious reasons.
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RIP Isaac!
So more Shaft here...
Loved the theme from Shaft. Was introduced to it in the mid seventies when I was playing in a jazz-rock band in Tampa, Florida. Not sure I ever got to hear the original.
As a jazz-rock piece it was certainly fantastic: wonderful bass line, horns blasting, synchopated percussion...
So much fun.
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We have lost so many talented black musical voices, Luther, Barry White, Gerald Levert,Marvin Gaye, and the list goes on. I can't think of another black male musican who have met the standards of these great voices. Isaac was a great talent. Music was music in these guys day.
You will greatly be missed Mr.Hayes. My condolensces to your family and friends. GOD Bless.
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St. Johns County Commissioner Karen Stern says she will meet with county management this week to determine what role, if any, the county should play in resolving Flagler County's dilemma over the future of its portion of Flagler Estates.
Last week, Flagler County Commission discussed possible ways to deal with the lack of infrastructure on the Flagler County side of the 1960s subdivision that straddles St. Johns and Flagler counties. According to Flagler spokesman Carl Laundrie, one suggestion discussed was to offer the property to St. Johns County through annexation. Among others was a suggestion to have St. Johns provide services to the area until they could be provided by Flagler.
The commission also discussed and rejected the possibility of creating a Community Redevelopment Authority that would allow a portion of property taxes levied within Flagler Estates to be used to fund infrastructure improvements, Laundrie said.
No St. Johns commissioners were present at the Flagler meeting, although Stern said staff members of both counties have been talking and she has informally talked to a commissioner there to get an idea of the problem and potential solutions.
Stern represents District 2 and the St. Johns part of Flagler Estates is in her district.
She said Sunday she does not favor annexation. She also is disappointed that Flagler turned down the CRA possibility. She said CRAs in effect by the St. Johns County Commission include West Augustine, Vilano Beach and the Flagler Estates portion in St. Johns. All will help with infrastructure needs within those regions.
Stern said she hopes Flagler reconsiders the CRA idea.
Her plan is to talk to County Administrator Ben Adams and Assistant County Administrator Scott Clem about potential assistance, if any. Any final decisions would have to be at the County Commission level, she said.
"We have not discussed this as a board and I really feel like we should," she said. She did not say when that would happen, although the commission meets today.
Stern said an inter-local agreement for providing emergency services upon request already exists with Flagler and other nearby counties.These services include fire, law enforcement and rescue.
St. Johns County's side of the development is growing, with more than 1,000 residents among the approximately 4,500 lots. But Flagler's side has never been opened because its nearly 2,000 lots lack access to Flagler County.
Gerry Durchholz, president of Flagler Estates Road and Water Control District Board of Supervisors, said his agency has no more jurisdiction over the Flagler side because Flagler County wanted out in 2004. The district is allowed to tax property owners for the maintenance of roads and ditches.
Any reinstatement of the Flagler side would require legislative action, said former state Rep. Doug Wiles, who co-sponsored the bill that led to the Flagler side being taken out of the District.
Durchholz said there's been no discussion by the supervisors about providing services to Flagler County's side. He said the state law enacted in 1999 allowed the Flagler side to be removed from the Road and Water Control District and by 2004 that was accomplished. Until then, the District had provided road and ditch maintenance, he said. But with no assessment collected by the District and the county's takeover of the land not in private hands, no maintenance has been done by the District.
Durchholz said the annual land owners meeting is Saturday at 10 a.m. He said if there is any discussion of the Road and Water Control District's relationship to the Flagler side, it likely will be about the continuing legal fight between Flagler and the District over $573,730 in funds collected for services by the district.
Wiles, a St. Augustine resident, was in the state House of Representatives when the problem of Flagler County landowners not being able to develop their land came up for discussion.
The result was legislation in 1999 by Wiles and Sen. Jim King, R-Jacksonville, to direct the District to get a feasibility study to determine how to provide services to the Flagler side. It also said the District should enter discussions with both counties about the services it provided.
After the bill was passed, neither the county nor the District wanted it, Wiles said. Flagler County was against the dissolution of the District on Flagler's side because of the costs it would incur in infrastructure and the District petitioned the governor to veto the bill because of the impact on the District, loss of revenue from Flagler landowners, and the cost of the feasibility study, he said.
The study was completed in 2001 by Northeast Florida Regional Planning Council and agreements were reached with St. Johns County for services to the area.
But nothing happened on the Flagler side.
Wiles said he and King agreed that if no agreement for providing services for the Flagler side was reached, then the "fair resolution" was the gradual phase out of the assessment by the District to those landowners.
Wiles said he believes the effort now being made for some kind of agreement is what should have happened five or six years ago.
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The Last Blog Post | Just Looking Signs Off
This will be the final posting of Just Looking, the New England art blog I have been writing here on the Yankee website since 2008. I will miss the opportunity to share visual experiences online, but I will continue to contribute to Yankee Magazine as I have since 1982.
I first began writing about art in 1978, reviewing local exhibitions for The Portland Independent, a short-lived alternative weekly. Those reviews came to the attention of Maine Times, a statewide weekly, and I became a feature writer and art critic for Maine Times in 1981. Around 1991, I wrote a series of artist profiles for Yankee that are still among my favorite arts pieces, profiles of painters such as George Nick, Wolf Kahn, Janet Fish and Lois Dodd.
In 1990, a selection of my art reviews, essays and artist profiles were collected in the book Maine Art Now, a lousy name since Now now means the 1980s. A sequel to that book, entitled Maine Art New, has been written by me and a dozen other art writers and, though my Just Looking bio promised it in the fall of 2012, we hope it will finally be out by the end of this year.
One of the first Just Looking blogs I posted was about other art blogs, the best being New England Journal of Aesthetic research, a high falutin' name for a very personable column by Boston Phoenix critic Greg Cook, one of the contributors to Maine Art New. Lately, Greg has been too busy with a new job at WGBH to post daily as he did for years, but I still enjoy his irregular blogs, which as often as not have to do with parades and festivals and other colorful events in the public life of the region.
One of the things I learned from Greg Cook is the fun of taking photographs of art in public places. My digital snapshots are not high resolution enough to be used in print, but I did get a kick out of posting them online on Just Looking, where they reproduce quite nicely. So, for my final blog, I decided to share a few of the snapshots I have taken in the past year or so, just as a way of calling attention to how much art there is in our everyday environment, if we are just alert enough to see it.
Here, for instance, is one of many pictures I have taken of Jaime Gili's Art All Around, abstract designs painted on oil tanks in South Portland in an effort by the Maine Center for Creativity to brand Maine as an art venue. Since you can really only see the oil tanks from the highway, I figure the best way to photograph them is from the car.
The most celebrated and controversial work of public art in recent years has been the Maine Labor History Mural by artist Judy Taylor. The labor mural became a cause célèbre for artists and workers when Maine Gov. Paul LePage ordered it removed from the Maine Department of Labor as being too pro-labor. I shot these pictures when it was re-installed at the Maine State Museum.
Close behind the labor mural in terms of controversy was Tracing the Fore, a site-specific work of earth art designed by Boston landscape designer Shauna Gillies-Smith for Portland's Boothby Square. Tracing the Fore became an Old Port eyesore when the grass failed to grown as anticipated. Eventually, the ill-fated work of public art was removed.
Robert Indiana's EAT is not as famous as his iconic LOVE, but I love the way it animates downtown Rockland when the Farnsworth Art Museum installs it on its roof each summer. Originally designed for the 1964 New York World's Fair, EAT is one of Indiana's finest word art images. It was inspired by the fact that "eat" was the last word his mother spoke.
Wally Warren up in rural Ripley is an artist who recycles junk and debris from the local dump into fanciful cityscapes and he has transformed his entire yard into a colorful roadside attraction of whirligigs and found sculpture. I visited Wally to write a profile for Maine Art New, but I also shared his imaginative creations on Just Looking.
For more subtle art in public places, I love Tim Clorius' Cloud Fence down in Portland gritty Bayside neighborhood. Tim is both a fine artist and a graffiti artist. With Cloud Fence he seemed to appropriate his fine art imagery for public art purposes.
If you take a look around your own city or town, you will likely find that art is everywhere if you just open your eyes and your mind enough to recognize and appreciate it. Keep looking.


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The Cougars know all about jumping ahead - See move to independence, exclusive 8-year contract with ESPN, and scheduling of elite programs like Notre Dame and Texas, September 2010
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Yes, some BYU games will be on ESPN. To my knowledge, ESPN won't be televising every BYU game over the next 8 years.
I'm also sure ESPN will be broadcasting other teams besides BYU, so I don't know how exclusive applies.
BYU has done well do get some elite programs like ND and Texas. But BYU also gets Idaho State, Idaho, Central Florida, New Mexico St. and USU, compelling match-ups, which, surely will have many eyes glued to the TV.
I'm not saying BYU's move to independence is good or bad. But the stance that BYU has somehow risen out of the ashes of the MWC and has doors opened to them that were beyond possible prior to independence is incorrect, in my opinion.
Until BYU gets a BCS deal like Notre Dame, they are still fighting the same uphill battle they were in the MWC. They will likely have more money than before, but they still essentially have to go undefeated to bust the BCS. With Utah and TCU moving on, their path is likely a little easier as they only have BSU to compete with, but still uphill.
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BYU's BCS deal won't be quite as good as Notre Dame's, but it will be very similar to the deal they already had in the MWC - finish as the highest ranked non-AQ program with a BCS ranking of 12th or better. That is still doable with an 11-1 record.
Do you really think Utah's path to a BCS game got any easier being in the PAC 12? Sure, the Utes can do that with 2 or 3 losses, but the Utes will have to win the PAC 12 title to do that. Since the Utes have only won six conference titles in the weaker WAC/MWC conferences in the last 50 years, how realistic is it to think that the Utes will be winning PAC 12 titles anytime soon?
btw, exclusive means a contract strictly between BYU and ESPN, similar to Notre Dame and NBC. Most of BYU's home games will be televised on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU, with the remainder being broadcast on BYUtv, which is already working on I-Phone apps so BYU fans will even be able to watch BYU games on their mobile devices.
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You're right, BYU's situation is similar to what it was in the MWC, and that is what I said in my post. I also pointed out that I think it will be a little easier because their only true competition for that spot is BSU, now that Utah and TCU are out.
As for Utah, that's a legitimate question. 50 years is certainly a long time to only rack up 6 titles, but Utah's 3 titles in the past 9 years, is probably a more accurate assessment of the current state of Utah football. Yes, I do think that Utah's path to a BCS bid will ultimately be easier. It is a very difficult thing to have a 1 or 0 loss season. It also raises Utah's ceiling to actually have a chance to play in the BCS championship game, which, realistically, is out of reach of a mid-major team.
BYU's contract is nothing like Notre Dame's with NBC, which is a truly exclusive contract. The fact that another tv entity will be televising BYU home games means it is not an exclusive contract.
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Nice to see that the tds are having another bad day. If you are so much better
off as an Indy-lol why do you have such jealous fits every time something nice
happens for the Utes? And quit comparing yourself to Notre Dame, they are
exclusive with NBC! And the most followed team in the country, you lost to Utah
State, imagine what Espn will think if the Aggies roll you again?
Go Utes!
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Nicholls volleyball beats UNC-Asheville
MACON, Ga. -- After falling in the first set, the Nicholls State Colonels volleyball team rallied back to take the next three sets and the match, 3-1, over UNC-Asheville in the Bear Brawl Saturday morning at the University Center on the campus of Mercer University.
In addition, for the second straight tournament, senior Atina Porter, was named to the all-tournament team.
The Colonels (5-6) defeated the Bulldogs (1-10) by scores of 27-30, 30-26, 30-26, 30-23.
Porter led Nicholls with a match-high and season-high 33 kills (.349 hitting percentage) against the Bulldogs. She also recorded 16 digs, one solo block and two assisted blocks.
"Atina came up big for us today," said coach Chris Laird. "Her hitting percentage and net play helped us out tremendously on the court. She is a phenomenal leader who is important to the success of this team."
Kindra Halverson added another 13 kills for the Colonels, while Enjoli Ford finished with 18 digs. Chelsea Dockrey and Casey Wirwille had 14 and 12 digs, respectively.
As a team, the Colonels finished with 64 kills (.224 hitting percentage) and 75 digs.
UNC-Ashevilles Raquel Miotto, who joined Porter on the all-tournament team, led the Bulldogs with 20 digs. The first set featured back-and-forth action, including seven lead changes and 17 ties.
After a Porter kill gave Nicholls a 21-20 lead, the Bulldogs Elif Unlu responded with a kill of her own to tie the game for the final time at 21-21. UNCA then went on to score nine of the next 14 points to win game one, 30-27. In the second game, the Colonels jumped out to take a quick 5-0 lead. The Bulldogs then went on a 16-11 run to tie the score at 16-16.
Unlike last game; however, it would be Nicholls to outscore UNCA, 13-9, to take the match 30-26.
Game three had the score tied at 10-10, before the Colonels went on a 12-7 run to take a 22-17 lead. Not to be outdone, the Bulldogs came back and scored six consecutive points to go ahead 23-22.
However, Nicholls scored eight of the next 11 points, giving the Colonels another 30-26 victory. The fourth game saw Nicholls take an 11-4 lead and never look back as they went on to cruise to a 30-23 win.
Colonels golf team in first place
SHREVEPORT -- The Nicholls State mens golf team is currently in first place, while the women are tied for fourth place after day one of the Centenary Fall Classic Saturday. NSU currently hold the top spot on the mens side with a 290, followed by McNeese State (292) and Oral Roberts (294) at Nos. 2 and 3. NSUs James Terrebonne is in third with a 69.
On the womens side, Nicholls (320) and Louisiana-Monroe tied for the fourth spot, Jessica Marquart (76) currently leads all Lady Colonel golfers in fifth place.
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I dyed this one myself.
It was incredibly easy! I used the ice dyeing method. Scrunch up your wrap and lay it on a cookie sheet in a big tub. Completely cover it in ice then take whatever color you want and sprinkle the dye over the ice. Let it melt completely and follow the instructions on the dye packet when its done. I believe mine was a rinse in cold, then wash on hot. Like I said, super easy and cheap!
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Salior Chibi Moon Pony Anthro by colormistWatch
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I was looking through my gallery for some suitable submissions for the Quest for Improvement and realized I didn't submit the rest of these Sailor Pony pieces.
Not that anyone wants to look at them...>_>
Sailor Moon © Sailor Moon... lol
MLP © Hasbro
Not that anyone wants to look at them...>_>
Sailor Moon © Sailor Moon... lol
MLP © Hasbro
Is that a mini Pegasis?
Yup, that's Helios from SMS series. He kind of looks like Star Catcher, from the G3 line of ponies.
Oh... my... god! *has total spazz attack* That is SOOO awesome! Chibi Moon looks amazing as a pony anthro! <3
The whole idea is just too adorable! And bebe Helios is scrumptious!!
*Runs off with the little alicorn*
I luvvvvvvvvv sailor moon!! it was my fav movie when I was younger xDD now I like it too
and this pic is great
and this pic is great
she looks surprised that he's a pony too lol
hahaah great expression
Oh wow I adore this one, lovely work on everything here, flawless.
i remember these one, i think it was on the arena, really cool!
My favourite part of this picture has always been the little Pegasus. He's so adorable ^.^
That wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that the pegasus' name is Helios, would it?
I like him too. He's just too cute. :3
I like him too. He's just too cute. :3
Aww this is so cute! In fact all your pony-senshi are! I really like how you included pegasus in this one too!
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Tuesday's cold snap spares crops
Published: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 5:58 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 5:58 p.m.
Tuesday's cold temperatures did not cause any more damage to area crops already suffering from the April 11th freeze, said Marvin Owings, Cooperative Extension director for Henderson County.
Temperatures fell to about 30 degrees early Tuesday, but high winds kept frost from settling on the crops.
Owings spent the day Tuesday assessing the fruit in Dana and Edneyville.
"I really haven't seen any (new) damage," he said.
J.D. Obermiller opened his pick-your-own strawberry farm Tuesday in Horse Shoe, where temperatures lingered around 32 to 33 degrees and briefly dipped to about 30 degrees.
At 5 a.m., Obermiller began irrigating his crop to prevent freezing.
"Things are looking good," he said Tuesday.
Adam Pryor said the damage had already been done from the freeze two weeks ago, when he lost about 80 percent of his apple crop.
"It didn't get cold enough (Tuesday) and there was plenty of wind in the area to prevent frost," Pryor said of his 110 acres of orchards in the Edneyville area. "I don't think it hurt anything."
Local farmers won't have to worry about freezing temperatures any time in the immediate future, according to local weather forecasts. The National Weather Service predicts nighttime temperatures in the mid-50s for the remainder of the work week.
"I hope we will have decent weather here on out," Pryor said.
Highs today are expected to be near 68 degrees with a 30 percent chance of morning showers. Tonight, there is a chance rain will return and lows will reach 51 degrees.
Tomorrow, there may be a few rumbles from thunderstorms, with highs climbing into the upper 70s. Winds are expected to be between 7 and 15 mph, with gusts as high as 33 mph.
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