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Talking about concussions
Info session on sport concussions on Wednesday
Saturday, Feb 15, 2014 06:00 am
Concussion Discussion
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
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Tickets are free but seating is limited. Please call 418-7361 to register and to reserve your seat.
Dr. John Neilson believes �the easiest headache to treat is the one that doesn�t happen.�
That�s why the pediatric neurology resident at the Stollery Children�s Hospital wants to get to the root of the problem � traumatic brain injuries � and prevent them from happening.
As part of a free information session hosted by the Sturgeon Community Hospital Foundation and the St. Albert and Sturgeon Primary Care Network, Neilson will be directing a discussion on concussion in sport on Feb. 19.
He will be joined by Dr. John Clarke, a physician who specializes in sports medicine. The talk will take place at the Sturgeon Hospital on Wednesday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Concussions are a brain injury that occurs when the brain moves or twists and hits the inside of the skull from a direct or indirect force to the head. It is the most frequent form of traumatic brain injury.
�It�s a topic that is very much in the public eye primarily because of high profile people such as Sidney Crosby, the NFL lawsuit and the NHL lawsuit. But also because concussion is on the rise dramatically,� said Neilson, whose field of practice and research is in headache, migraine and concussion.
A position statement by the American College of Neurology on sports concussion stated that emergency department visits for sports and recreation related traumatic brain injuries (including concussions) among children and adolescents has increased by 60 percent over the last decade.
Neilson said the data could be extrapolated to traumatic brain injury trends in Canada.
The aftermath of a concussion can include headaches, memory loss, trouble concentrating, poor judgment and problems with balance and coordination.
Neilson said the info session will focus on secondary prevention strategies � preventing further injury or detriment � as well as the use of protective equipment, recognition signs of a concussion and what to do once you suspect it.
According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, from 2003 to 2004 sports and recreational activities were the third leading cause of traumatic brain injury admissions in Canadian hospitals.
Neilson said concussions aren�t just limited to contact sport.
�One of the worst concussions I saw was from swimming. She was doing the back stroke and so was the other person that she ran into,� he said. �It�s not always just the hockey player or the football player.�
Concussions can also occur in �day-to-day life accidents� such as children bumping heads while playing together.
Neilson said the talk is for anybody who wants to know more about concussion, whether it be parents, coaches, teachers or the players themselves.


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Mary Cassatt: Where Are The Female Artists?
This semester in school I'm taking an Art History class. Full disclosure: I actually did not choose to be in this class, but because of scheduling conflicts was funneled in. In fact, I'm artistically challenged.
This has always been a point of contention for me. I love the arts. I've been surrounded by art, music and theatre my entire life – in fact, my Grandmother and Mom are both visual artists and my Dad and Brother are both in the theatre industry. And yet I'm thoroughly untalented. I pick up a paintbrush and I swear the paper tries to escape from my manic clutches.
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LOGAN INTERNATIONAL Boston fans' hearts were fleetingly all aflutter Wednesday after multiple local websites reported that Al Jefferson was interested in returning to Boston when free agency hits next summer.The Celtics drafted Jefferson No. 15 overall in 2004 out of Prentiss, Miss., and with many questions about the future of the Jazz frontcourt, these are questions we'll start hearing more and more.
"This will always be my home away from home," Jefferson told WEEI. "Danny Ainge gave me a chance when nobody else did. If that situation were to happen, I'd love to do that again. But right now, like I said, it's all about taking care of business and finishing out the season right."
Of course, that was picked up by other outlets, including SLAM Online, and by the end of Wednesday, Jefferson was genuinely concerned that he had been misrepresented in his comments.
To be clear, everyone in Boston quoted Jefferson as saying both that he enjoyed his time in Boston, and that he felt he had a good situation in Utah.
Following the Jazz's 98-93 loss at TD Garden, Jefferson was unequivocal.
"Utah Jazz are my first choice," he said, "and the only way I won't be there is they don't want me there."
Jefferson is in the final year of a five-year, $65 million contract and will make $15 million this season. It remains unclear whether the Jazz will a) be able to afford Jefferson on the open market or b) opt to pursue a long-term deal given the development of young centers Derrick Favors (until he stops playing like a center, we'll call him a center) and Enes Kanter.
Rotation, rotation • Ty Corbin has significantly trimmed his rotation, and key players from a year ago namely DeMarre Carroll and Alec Burks are the primary victims. However, other interesting things are happening. For example, as the use of the "big" lineup has become more common, Marvin Williams has played 25 minutes or fewer in three of the last five games.
In Monday's triple-OT win in Toronto, Kanter was held to just 12 minutes, the same number he played on Wednesday in Boston.
"I'm playing guys a few more minutes this early in the season than I like to," Corbin said, "but it's just where we are right now on the road and the rotation's been tight." The guys have been going pretty good and they feel pretty good right now. But we got so many games on the road coming up, that I may have to loosen that a little bit."
The Jazz have been significantly more effective playing Favors, Millsap and Jefferson together, but said Wednesday he doesn't yet see that as an option for a primary starting unit. As for the rest of the rotation, Corbin said it is, of course, subject to change.
"We got so many games on the road coming up," Corbin said, "that I may have to loosen that a little bit."
On to Philly.
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Recently I played the iCivics game. It's a website that has a game about the courts. It's a really fun game, and teaches you a lot about the three branches. It has everything you need to know. My favorite game is called Do I Have a Right? You are the head of a law firm that works on cases having to do with constitutional rights. You get to hear people talk about life situations, and then decide if it has to do with their "rights" (constitutional rights). If it does, then you can try to win the case. If you win, you get points for buying more attorneys. And if you lose, you have to try again. But it's a really fun game. You should check it out and see for yourself.
Today I went to the Superior Court to see an actual civil case and be there! But there were not many trials today. I did see the end of one about choosing a guardian for a teen. Then I also went to another court for homeless people, called the Community Justice Center. It was really interesting. I mean a judge can change lives each day. And there is so much conflict too. At the courts you have a judge, court clerk, evidence table, court reporter, witness stand, prosecution, defense, a bailiff, and you can either have a jury or not. It was cool to be able to get an inside look at a courtroom.
Hi! My name is Gaia. I'm currently a student at James Lick Middle School, and I'm in this special program called SPARK. SPARK is a job internship for young adults in middle school. It's in schools all over the U.S. and it's an interesting experience. For instance, I wanted to learn more about the courts, so I get to go to the State Building in San Francisco once a week and meet with Debbie Genzer, Senior Court Services Analyst in the Court Programs and Services Division.
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I have a tablet that I like very much, but when it comes to installing programs on it, I get confused. There are things I'd like to put on it, but I can't find a way to buy them. For example, I wanted to try out one that my daughter uses on her iPad, but I can't find a way to download it. And there are things I use that my sister can't find a way to get for her Kindle. I talked to the guy at the place that fixes my laptop and he says it's because they are from different app ecosystems, whatever that means. Then he said something about walled gardens. To me ecosystems sounds like biology class and a walled garden like something to do with your yard. Can you put all that in English for me?
You've hit a nerve with me, Penny. I absolutely hate the term ecosystem when used with apps and technology products, but it looks like it's here to stay, right along with using impact as a verb. As in, "The ecosystem for your device will impact upon your enjoyment."
For the purposes of your tablet, ecosystem means the selection of products (like apps) and services available for that device. It could also refer to the types of devices available that use those products and services.
For example, the Apple ecosystem would include iPad and iPhone devices as well as apps, music and books purchased from the iTunes store and the iCloud. Because Apple has what is called a "walled" garden, you must get your apps from Apple through iTunes. You cannot download the app for the Apple store to any tablet but an iPad. You could browse through the store online, but you will not be able to download unless you have a compatible device.
Amazon Kindles operate in similar fashion, though they do make an Amazon app available that you can read on other devices. But you cannot access features like Prime Video or the Kindle Owners Lending Library on any device but a Kindle. You purchase apps for the Kindle in the Amazon App Store. (You can modify a Kindle's settings to allow you to install Android Apps from other sources.)
Both of these devices really operate as appliances that access their ecosystem. So when choosing tablet, it would be important to consider if you have purchased a lot of iTunes music or maybe have a whole lot of eBooks from Amazon.
Android is different in that Google makes that operating system available to all manufacturers, so you'll see an endless variety of devices running on Android and all of them will be slightly different. You'll find apps for Android devices in the Google Play Store, which you install as an app on your device.
The same is true for Windows tablets as well as all Windows 8.1 computers, you'll find apps just for those devices in the Windows App Store. (though you'll also find full desktop PC programs in that store that will only install on devices capable of running them.)
The big difference between the traditional PC and a tablet, is that with a tablet you really aren't buying just the hardware. Your apps and music and eBooks may be available through your tablet, but they really live in the cloud that is part of your ecosystem. Yep, every ecosystem needs clouds and that's a big part of choosing your tablet. In the past, if you lost your laptop, you lost everything on it. And unless you had done a recent backup, you were out of luck. If you drop and break your iPad, Kindle or Android tablet all of your stuff is safe in the cloud. You don't have to repurchase anything. You can buy a new device, turn it on, sign in and have instant access to your apps, books and music.
Your iPhone or Android phone would also be part of that ecosystem and you can use many of your apps and access your music, books and videos from those devices as well. And with Amazon's phone expected to arrive by fall, you may even be able to access some Amazon Prime Video features not previously available on phones.
The downside to this security is that your garden is walled. So no bringing in apps from the outside and no putting those apps on other devices. On the bright side, most really popular apps are available on multiple devices.
Another analogy I like to use is that apps are like vacuum cleaner bags, belts and filters. You have to buy the ones that fit your model.
Hope that helps.
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By Joe Williams St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Blame it on the Fockers.
After the critical and commercial success of "Meet the Parents," Robert De Niro tried to milk laughs from lesser comedies. But certain things can't be milked.
It's nearly tragic to see America's Greatest Living Actor on the guest list for "The Big Wedding," the latest limp comedy about seniors behaving badly.
Although the title implies that this is a sentimental, special-occasion comedy like "New Year's Eve" (an all-star fiasco from which De Niro emerged relatively unscathed), it's more like a crass kinsman who pukes in the punchbowl. In his first scene, De Niro upchucks a half-dozen slang terms for oral sex, and it goes downhill from there.
De Niro plays Don, an inexplicably affluent sculptor who bungled his marriage to Ellie (Diane Keaton). After a 10-year spiritual odyssey overseas, Ellie returns for the wedding of their adopted Colombian son Alejandro (miscast British actor Ben Barnes) at the big lakeside home that Don now shares with Ellie's former friend Bebe (Susan Sarandon).
Three days before Alejandro is due to marry Melissa (romantic-comedy kiss of death Amanda Seyfried), he requests that his adoptive parents pretend to be married again for the benefit of his strictly Catholic biological mother, Madonna (Patricia Rae), who is on her way to the States for the first time.
So on the flimsy basis of respecting the sensitivities of a stranger who doesn't speak English, Ellie moves into the house and Bebe moves out, and then poses as a caterer to keep an eye on recovering-alcoholic Don.
As if that weren't sitcom-y enough, Ellie and Don have two other adult children: lawyer Lyla (the ubiquitous Katherine Heigl), whose marriage is faltering because she can't have children; and doctor Jared (Topher Grace), a 30-year-old virgin who develops funny feelings for Madonna's manhandling daughter Nuria (Ana Ayora).
Adapted from the 2006 comedy "Mon frere se marie" and credited to a neophyte writer/director named Justin Zackham, "The Big Wedding" doesn't have a single moment of recognizable humanity.
On the plus side, it's short, and Robin Williams as a racist priest is blessedly limited to an extended cameo.
Perhaps we'll get more of Williams, along with bickering bridesmaids and a flamboyant wedding planner, in the inevitable bonus-packed home video — which would make the perfect wedding gift for someone you despise.
"The Big Wedding" (1½ stars)
Fallout from "The Fockers" franchise, this unfunny sitcom has nothing to recommend it. Robert De Niro heads a cast that mixes capable veterans (Susan Sarandon) with poor choices (Amanda Seyfreid). Luckily, it's short. With Diane Keaton, Topher Grace, Kathryn Heigle and Robin Williams in a brief cameo.
Rated: R for language, nudity.
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Not very successful in breastfeeding 1st baby....will I have problems next time?
Hi all! I have a 14 month old daughter and I was able to breastfeed her partially for 7 months. I had low milk supply (I tried teas, oatmeal, pumping and nursing constantly). She had attachment problems and I had to wear a nipple shield whenever I breastfed her. Are problems likely with breastfeeding when I have another baby?
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12th January 2013 07:29 AM #2
Hi NataliesMum,
I'm sorry to hear you had difficulties breastfeeding your daughter but well done on mix feeding for 7 months - this will have given your daughter lots of the wonderful benefits of breast milk.
Just because you have previously struggled with breastfeeding does not mean you will have difficulties next time. Indeed, it is likely that you will be a lot more prepared next time around. I would also highly recommend getting in touch with a lactation consultant before your next baby is born. This health professional can then help you with proper positioning and attachment.
One of the most important factors with breastfeeding successfully is getting a good latch. This can take some help and practice. It may help you to get in touch with a local support group of other mums.
If you and your baby do not establish a good latch then it is likely to cause nipple discomfort. This can lead to you using a nipple shield which is then likely to result in less milk production and, therefore, the possible need to mix feed. It is a vicious cycle and this is why it is so important to get someone to check your latch and help you in the early days. It's also best to breastfeed on demand - and this helps to establish a good milk supply.
So, I'm wondering if your low milk supply was due to using nipple shields? Also, was your baby checked for a tongue tie as this can cause a baby to not latch on fully and so to cause nipple pain in addition to the need to nurse for hours on end.
I believe you can have a successful breastfeeding experience next time around! Please continue to ask any questions here.
Best wishes,
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Thank you for the response. It is good to know that I won't necessarily have difficulties the 2nd time around.
We did actually have help from multiple lactation consultants in the hospital for latching problems. They said I had a small nipple and gave me the nipple shield to use. Even they had difficulty getting her to latch...we tried every position and trick. After she was home, I got her to latch once and then she wouldn't breastfeed again for another 2 weeks. In that time I pumped every two hours, drank tea, ate oatmeal and anything else that would help.
My daughter was in the NICU for a week because we both had a fever during delivery (luckily the fever broke within a couple of hours of her being born.) She does did not have tongue tie. I honestly think the low supply was greatly due to the fact that I was not allowed to breastfeed her until 17 hours after her birth (and the wide array of medications I was given during my stay). They let me hold her for a few minutes, take a couple of pictures and then took her to the NICU and wouldn't let me try until the following afternoon.
17th January 2013 07:05 AM #4
I agree - skin to skin contact and breastfeeding within 20 minutes of birth can make such a difference. I'm sorry you had such a difficult time - it must have been stressful, which does not help when you are starting to breastfeed.
I hope you have a much more positive breastfeeding start next time.
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Bursitisis the swelling and irritation of a bursa. A bursa is a fluid-filled sac that acts as a cushion between a muscles, tendons, and joints.
Bursitis is often a result of overuse. It can be caused by a change in activity level, such as training for a marathon or by being overweight.
Bursitis can also be caused by trauma, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, or infection. Sometimes the cause cannot be found.
Bursitis commonly occurs in the shoulder, knee, elbow, and hip. Other areas that may be affected include the Achilles tendon and the foot.
- Joint pain and tenderness when you press around the joint
- Stiffness and aching when you move the affected joint
- Swelling, warmth or redness over the joint
Your doctor will talk to you about strategies to help you resume your normal activity.
Tips to relieve bursitis pain:
- Use ice 3 - 4 times a day for the first 2 or 3 days.
- Cover the painful area with a towel, and place the ice on it for 15 minutes. Do not fall asleepwhile applying the ice. with the ice on. You can get frostbite if you leave it on too long.
- When sleeping, do not lie on the side that has bursitis.
For bursitis around the hips, knees, or ankle:
- Try not to stand for long periods of time.
- When standing, stand on a soft, cushioned surface. Stand with an equal amount of weight on each leg.
- Placing a pillow between your knees when lying on your side can help decrease your pain.
- Flat shoes that are cushioned and comfortable often help.
- If you are overweight, losing weight may also be helpful.
You should avoid activities that involve repetitive movements of any body part whenever possible.
Other treatments include:
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen
- Physical therapy
- Exercises you do at home to build strength and keep the joint mobile as pain goes away
- Removing fluid from the bursa and getting a shot of corticosteroids
As the pain goes away, your doctor or nurse may suggest exercises to build strength and keep movement in the painful area.
Surgery is rarely needed.
Outlook (Prognosis)
Some people do well with treatment. When the cause cannot be corrected, you may have long-term pain.
Possible Complications
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Call your health care provider if symptoms recur or do not improve after 2 weeks of treatment.
Avoid activities that include repetitive movements of any body parts whenever possible.
Silverstein JA, Moeller JL, Hutchinson MR. Common issues in orthopedics. In: Rakel RE, ed. Textbook of Family Medicine. 8th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 30.
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Brevard, N.C. - The Brevard College Athletic Department and Coach Paul Thomson are pleased to announce the commitment of Sara Elise Labus to attend Brevard College and play tennis for the 2009-2010 season.
Labus, a 5-5 athlete from Dunwoody, Ga., lettered all four years in high school at Dunwoody High School under Thomas McFerrin and Roger Gay. The daughter of James and Louise Labus, Elise played #1 singles as a Wildcat.
"Elise is going to make a solid addition to our program," Coach Thomson commented. "She likes to grind it out on the court and keeps a lot of balls in play. Elise will come in with a strong work ethic and add depth to our lineup."
The Tornados women's tennis team went 17-6, 5-3 in the SAC, earning the #4 seed in the 2009 Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Tennis Championships where they defeated Mars Hill and Tusculum before falling to Carson-Newman in the Championship match, during their inaugural season as members of NCAA Division II and the South Atlantic Conference.


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Houston native (played at Milby HS in Houston), was a lowly regarded prospect coming out of Alcorn Stare so to see him thrive as he did was a good story. I remember hearing stories about how he was a gym nut, and always spent a lot of time working out - that work paid off, as he was in good enough shape to play in the league and be productive in the league as long as he has been. Very accomplished track guy as well as a great dancer.
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how long until Zygi Wilf sends down a private jet to convince Driver to un-retire?
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"I just kind of knew in his eyes," Driver told Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Tom Silverstein. "When you've known a guy for so long and you're friends, it's hard for him to tell you that they're not going to bring me back. I just kind of looked at him, and I just kind of knew that that's what they were going to do.
"I just wanted to make it easy on the organization, not put any pressure on them and just be able to walk away on my own terms and not have them say, 'We're not going to bring you back.' "
Class act all the way to the end. You hardly ever see this anymore. Man he will be missed. I have my fingers and toes crossed that NFLFilms makes a Driver DVD have his story about growing up, and of course countless highlights and dance moves. Man that would be awesome.
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Didn't you just contradict yourself there...
And the gif wasn't sarcastic, summed up my feelings. I'm better at using pictures to describe emotion than words.
. Won't do it again in "formal" threads if it's frowned upon though...
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Good career and about right time he called it a quit. Best of luck in retirement.
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Honestly, my feelings when i heard this was about time. The guy hasn't been a major contributor these past 2 seasons and hit an age wall HARD this past season. I came to terms some time ago that the Driver i came to know and love as a player was long gone.
With that said, i can't even begin to stress how much I'll miss Driver the person on this football team. Was always a leader by example for the younger guys and just wanted to play the game he loves in any way to help the team and an example is him asking the Coaches to play ST's late this season. One of the best "Packer People" that has come through this historic football team. He will be missed.
This is exactly how I reacted. Although I'd bet we'll see DD around Green Bay a lot.
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KIRKLAND, WA -- INRIX, a provider of traffic information and driver services, is offering a mobile application for iPhones and iPads that might help operators and their routemen avoid traffic.
Called INRIX Traffic, the app plans routes by suggesting optimal departure and travel times, along with the quickest routes and personalized traffic alerts. It also analyzes such variables as sporting, concert and local events, and provides alternate routes around the event locations to evade delays.
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Rob Machado just gave his homebreak of Seaside Reef one of the best pro junior events around. And his beloved break gave right back, with two days of classic Seaside conditions, giving North America's top youngsters the sections and lips needed to do damage.
Evan Geiselman stood out the entire event, as he usually does when he is fully dialed in. As Pat O'Connell said, "Evan puts a smile on my face."
The young Floridian's super suave rail work transitioned him well from the outside reef to the inside sandbar where he could throw his tail at will. And when Evan starts things off with those precise fronthand air reverses it usually means lights out. Evan nabbed the score and wave of the event in his semifinal heat today by stalling out a fronthand reverse and holding it backwards for a good few seconds, toying with hydrodynamics. It rang in at 9.5. As Evan said of the score and his first victory since winning the 2010 ASP North America Pro Junior Series Title, "I like to think I can pull out a big score anytime I need to. I haven't really started off the year how I wanted to. So this feels good."
Evan is chasing Kolohe Andino's lead in this year's series and put himself in much better position today for a potential repeat, trailing now by. And Kolohe finished right behind Evan today, just barely taking that runner up spot by half a point. Kolohe was surfing incredibly precise and technical, Mick Fanning-esque in that sense. It's quite apparent that Evan and Kolohe feed off the other's surfing. They like to push each other's limits and have the abilities to do so. In the final Kolohe launched a massive and incredibly inverted fronthand air reverse. It seemed like he was so high up he didn't know how to land it. He got close, but it didn't even matter because of where it put the pro junior level at.
All the pro juniors were lighting up the entire event. Chase Wilson linked a good left at the buzzer of his semifinal all the way through to the sandbar and capping it with a straight lien to move from third to first for a finals appearance. Dane Zaun's frontside air reverses were on point more than they were off, which meant he was landing some big ones. Keanu Asing was throwing big boy, straight-up snaps on his backhand. Lakey Peterson comboed the field in the Girls final. She was tossing the fins and laying down serious carves.
The North American Pro Juniors lit up Seaside and the status of pro junior surfing is blowing through the roof—Evan Geiselman and Lakey Peterson being crowned the champions today. The Machado Seaside Classic, as I'm calling it, adds another event for the pro juniors to continue to raise the levels of their surfing. Cardiff cougars were out and about while Reef girls were hanging and doing what they do best. Tanner Hendrickson played in the final of the ping pong tournament against Rob and took home a Bob Hurley surfboard. Rob summed up the inaugural event best himself: "The kids are ripping, the sun is out, the waves are pumping. I've been looking for a reason to complain and I haven't found one. The Marshall boys were out there surfing blown up Reef sandals. I'm super stoked on this. Good old Seaside pulling through."—Ryan Brower
Men's Rob Machado Seaside Pro Junior Final Results:
1 – Evan Geiselman (USA) 11.17
2 – Kolohe Andino (USA) 10.67
3 – Chase Wilson (USA) 8.47
4 – Dane Zaun (USA) 7.26
Women's Rob Machado Seaside Pro Junior Final Results:
1 – Lakey Peterson (USA) 14.76
2 – Nage Melamed (HAW) 11.10
3 – Leila Hurst (HAW) 6.60
4 – Taylor Pitz (USA) 6.40
Head to the next page to read the ASP press release from today.


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2010: Selected to the All-MAAC First Team for the second consecutive season...Played in all 16 games, making 15 starts...Paced the Jaspers in goals (38) and points (50), the third-highest single-season totals in program history...Ranked second in the MAAC with 2.38 goals per game...Also led the team with nine man-up goals while also collecting 30 ground balls...Became the fastest player in program history to reach the 100-point plateau, reaching the mark in his 32nd career game...Finished career in fifth place on Manhattan's all-time list with 81 career goals...Recorded at least one point 13 times, and had 12 multi-point games...Registered nine hat tricks...Notched a pair of man-up goals in the season opener at No. 5 Johns Hopkins on Feb. 19...Had five points (three goals, two assists) against Robert Morris on Feb. 27...Had another five-point (three goals, two assist) game against Detroit on March 20...Collected six points (four goals, two assists) in a 15-6 win over VMI on April 3...Tied a school single-game record with seven goals in the Jaspers' 14-8 win over Saint Joseph's on Senior Day (April 24)...Also secured four ground balls and caused two turnovers in that game...Tallied the game-winner in Manhattan's 10-6 victory at Marist on April 28, part of a three-goal effort...Scored four of Manhattan's five goals at Siena on May 1...Gathered three ground balls against Mount St. Mary's in the MAAC Tournament on May 7.
2009: Named MAAC Offensive Player of the Year and First Team All-MAAC after a spectacular first season in Riverdale...Started all 18 contests...Tallied 43 goals and 55 points, the second-highest single-season totals in program history...Also recorded eight man-up tallies and collected 42 ground balls...Led the MAAC with 3.06 points per game...Finished second in the conference and 14th in the nation with 2.39 goals per game...Recorded at least one point in every game, including 15 multi-point efforts...Had at least two goals in each contest during an 11-game stretch from March 21-May 1...Selected MAAC Offensive Player of the Week on March 3 after scoring four goals in back-to-back games against Robert Morris (Feb. 27) and Detroit (Feb. 28)...Had five points (four goals, one assist) against Robert Morris and seven points (four goals, three assists) in the win over Detroit...Registered his third four-goal game of the season and added a career-best seven ground balls against Siena on March 28...Scored three goals on six other occasions...Had a five-point day (three goals, two assists) in the win at Saint Joseph's on April 11...Notched two goals and six ground balls in the home wins over Sacred Heart (April 1) and Providence (April 22).
2008 (at Onondaga CC): Served as team captain...Named to the NJCAA All-Region III First Team.
2007 (at Onondaga CC): Helped lead the Lazers to their second consecutive undefeated season and NJCAA National Championship...Earned an Academic All-American selection.
Before Manhattan: Owego Free Academy's all-time leader in goals and points...Ranks among New York State's all-time leaders in career goals and career points, as well as single-season goals (twice)...A three-time Section IV All-Star...Served as team captain twice...Played four years of junior ice hockey.
Personal: Son of Robert and Cathy...Has one sister, Lori...Majoring in marketing...Has served as both a coach and a referee for youth lacrosse...Born on December 31, 1987.
|Owego, N.Y.
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In the 1820s, Carnival in Cologne, Germany, underwent a series of reforms, ostensibly to bring the festival back to the people. Among the traditions that developed was the Sitzung, a theatrical variety-show event, with music, comic speeches and sketches, dance troupes, and various additional Carnival-related entertainments. The shows, and Carnival itself were, and largely have been since that time, mostly overseen by a Festival Committee and the official Carnival Societies it recognizes. In 1984, a group of mostly students decided to create their own version of a Sitzung, an alternative version, the Stunksitzung. From three inaugural performances, it has grown to presenting over forty performances a year to sell-out crowds of one thousand people per night and to being a popular annual television event. This dissertation considers the history of the Stunksitzung within a frame of Mikhail Bakhtin's work on Carnival. I examine over two-dozen performance pieces of the Ensemble, and compare and situate the production and its history within Cologne Carnival, in particular the broader dichotomous status of the official versus the alternative, interrogating how alternative the production is, has been, and continues to be. Ultimately, I frame the Stunksitzung within the larger context of Carnival and the particular status it holds in Cologne.
A heterodyne detection fiber optic based wind lidar system has been developed and tested, which benefits from unique field programmable gate array (FPGA) signal processing techniques and leverages devices from the telecommunication industry to make it particularly cost efficient. A narrow band stabilized fiber laser, polarization maintaining fiber amplifiers, acousto-optic modulators and an optical circulator comprise the transmitter which is coupled to free space using refractive optics. The collinear propagating lidar return signal that scatters off of atmospheric aerosols and in a heterodyne arrangement beats with a local oscillator and is then detected using a shot noise limited polarization maintaining balanced receiver. The system, which operates at a 20 kHz pulse repetition rate and acquires lidar return signals at 400 MSample/second, accumulates signals that are as much as 20 dB lower than the receiver noise power by using embedded programming techniques. For this reason two FPGA embedded programming approaches are considered and compared. In the first approach, the acquired return signal is gated in time and the square modulus of the fast Fourier transform is accumulated for each range gate, producing a series of power spectra as a function of range. Wind speed estimates based on numerical estimators can then be made after transferring the range gated accumulated power spectra to a host computer, enabling line of sight wind speed to be calculated as a function of range gate and stored for additional processing. In the second FPGA approach, a digital IQ demodulator and down sampler reduces the data flow requirements so that an autocorrelation matrix representing a pre-selected number of lags can be accumulated, allowing for the process of range gating to be explored on the host computer. The Fourier transform of the autocorrelation produces the power spectrum and, in the same manner as the first approach, estimates can then be made regarding the line of sight wind speed. The added feature of the second approach is that it allows for an additional capability to adjust the range gate period dynamically as the state of the atmospheric boundary layer (e.g. backscatter coefficient and stability condition) changes. A simple manual beam scanning technique is used to sample three line of sight directions and, by making suitable assumptions regarding the coherence of the averaged wind fields, the three dimensional wind field vector (representing both the horizontal wind speed and direction and the vertical wind speed and direction) is calculated and graphically displayed on time-height cross section plots. Precision in the velocity measurements is estimated to be on the order of 0.08 m/sec and the precision in the measured horizontal wind direction is estimated to be to be about 2 degrees, where both of these estimates are made assuming a relatively short 3-beam cycle time (less than 2 minutes) and a typical backscatter coefficient and atmospheric stability condition. A comparison to other observed wind information is presented which indicates that this lidar will open new doors for the practical characterization of microscale meteorology.
This dissertation investigates the syntax-prosody interface in Standard Arabic, focusing on the ambiguity of a modifier (relative clause or adjective phrase) in relation to the two nouns in a complex noun phrase. Ambiguity resolution tendencies for this construction differ across languages, contrary to otherwise universal parsing tendencies. One explanation proposed is Fodor's (2000) Implicit Prosody Hypothesis: that readers mentally project onto a text a default prosodic phrasing (possibly different between languages), which then influences their syntactic ambiguity resolution. Since implicit (silent) prosody cannot be directly observed, previous research has had to infer it by analogy with overt prosody. But the phonology and orthography of SA permit use of novel methods for tapping into the silent prosody of readers. Liaison phenomena sensitive to prosodic boundaries make phonological phrasing in SA very easy to detect. Also, liaison is indicated by diacritics in the `vowelized' version of SA orthography. Thus, clear data on prosodic phrasing patterns in SA complex nominals can be related to their preferred syntactic/semantic interpretations. Six experiments are reported: three production experiments and three perception experiments. Participants in Experiment 4 silently read sentences in unvowelized orthography, and added diacritics as they thought appropriate. The inserted diacritics gave evidence of their implicit prosodic phrasing of the sentence. Experiments 5 and 6 investigated Arabic speakers' preferred overt prosodic phrasing when the modifier was forced to attach to either the lower or the higher noun, providing standards for comparison with the prosodic phrasing preferences in silent reading in Experiment 4. The orthography was put to a different use in assessing modifier interpretation under varying prosodic conditions. In Experiments 2 and 3, vowelized text was presented, establishing one or other of two relevant prosodic patterns. Participants read aloud, and then indicated their interpretation of the sentence. This provided standards for comparison with modifier interpretation (attachment preferences) in silent reading of unvowelized texts (lacking prosodic disambiguation) in Experiment 1. Results obtained from these experiments provide new information concerning the constraints that apply at the syntax-prosody interface in SA, and also support the hypothesis of an effect of implicit prosody on syntactic interpretation during silent reading.
In this research, we introduce middleware routing algorithms components for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs). Unlike the conventional networks, MANET is a decentralized radio wireless network that can be established in situation where no infrastructure exists or where deployment of infrastructure is expensive or inconvenient. This inherent flexibility makes it attractive for applications such as military operations, vehicle to vehicle networks, sensor networks, etc. Hence, MANETs require special type of routing algorithms to operate efficiently in such dynamic environment (i.e., wireless channel, bandwidth constrains, nodes resources, etc ...). In this thesis, we propose an add-on generic solution to on-demand ad-hoc routing protocols to enhance the routing protocols performance with minimum control overhead. Our Solution, namely, Destination Assisted Routing Enhancement (DARE), is based on the new idea of transmitting frequent destination beacon packets. These beacon packets are able to refresh the routing cache tables and announce the destination node existence. This methodology results in dramatically minimizing the initialization (learning/optimization) connection set-time as well as the network overhead. Comparison v between the traditional Dynamic Source Routing protocol (DSR) and the DSR with DARE (DSR-DARE) are presented to show the potential of DARE middleware. Second, we propose middleware protocol components in order to improve the real-time applications at the receivers' side; we propose an algorithm that gives the receiver dynamic ability to move from one multicast session to another based on the receiver capabilities and the path conditions leading to it. Our Multicast Multi-Stream (MMS) solution is added as an extension to the traditional Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) protocol. Then, we present cooperative video caching technique in MANETs in order to reduce the average access latency as well as enhance the video accessibility. Efficient video caching placement and replacement strategies are developed at some of the distributed intermediate nodes across the network. The simulations results have shown that the system has better video perception (i.e. Quality of Service).
One of the hallmarks of auditory processing disorder (APD) is difficulty listening in background noise. This difficulty maybe related to the function of the medial olivocochlear (MOC) efferent system, which is hypothesized to provide an anti-masking effect that might aid in speech processing in noise. To test this hypothesis, we investigated the efferent anti-masking hypothesis via efferent-induced changes in the baseline levels of distortion product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAE) in a group of subjects suspected of having APD with speech-in-noise deficits matched for age and gender with a control group with less speech-in-noise deficits. There was no significant difference in audiometric thresholds between the groups. We examined not only the typical composite DPOAE, but also the two major components (overlap and reflection components), which determine the overall DPOAE level. We hypothesized that the group with speech-in-noise deficits would show reduced efferent effects relative to the control group. The findings did not support the efferent anti-masking hypothesis as efferent-induced changes in the composite DPOAE signal and the overlap component did not differ significantly between the two groups, but the statistical power was low. The separation of the two DPOAE components was beneficial in detecting efferent effects at the high frequency region where the DPOAE levels were lowest, and efferent effects were variable. The mean baseline levels and SNR of composite DPOAE and the overlap component were lower in the group with speech-in-noise deficits than the control group. This difference was not significant, but the statistical power was low. In addition, no significant correlations were found between performance on speech-in-noise tests and DPOAE change due to efferent activation across groups. Factors that might explain why the efferent anti-masking hypothesis was not supported are discussed.
Cluster analysis is an active area of research with applications in various fields including information retrieval, social sciences, bioinformatics, object recognition, and image segmentation (Jain et al., 1999). However, most algorithms are intended for numerical (continuous) data where proximity among data objects is naturally defined by virtue of their numerical properties. Although these algorithms can be used on categorical data, they are not designed to handle data properties typically found in this data type such as high dimensionality and lack of inherent relationships among attribute values. During the past decade, several algorithms have been designed for categorical data such as K-modes (Huang, 1998), STIRR (Gibson et al., 1998), CACTUS (Ganti et al., 1999), ROCK (Guha et al., 1999), COOLCAT (Barbara et al., 2002), LIMBO (Andritsos et al., 2004), CLICKS (Zaki et al., 2007), and others. Some of these algorithms exploit attribute relationships through data summaries such as attributes occurrence and co-occurrence frequencies while others use information entropy and links among data objects. In this thesis, we focus on using data summaries and spectral analysis to detect clustering structure in categorical data. Spectral techniques provide a relaxed solution to the discrete clustering problem which has been shown to be NP-hard (Drineas et al., 2004). Formulating the clustering problem as a graph partitioning problem and then finding the minimum normalized cut leads to a solution based on eigenvectors of the similarity matrix (i.e. Laplacian matrix). Spectral methods have been used in various algorithms and have been shown to find non-linearly separable clusters. Equally important, spectral analysis encompasses techniques for handling high-dimensional data since input data is projected into a lower-dimensional space where all computation/comparisons can be performed. Our approach is to extend spectral techniques to data summaries which are relatively less expensive to compute than data object similarity matrix for very large data sets. Our goal is to combine the benefits of spectral analysis with the relative low cost of computing data summaries. We have developed three algorithms for clustering categorical data using data summaries. Two of them use spectral techniques. Our test results on standard data sets and synthetic data sets show that our algorithms are competitive with current spectral and non-spectral algorithms for categorical data. Our algorithms provide a solution to the categorical data clustering problem that produces quality clustering and is scalable to large data sets.
Previous data suggest that patients with schizophrenia have preferential magnocellular (M) versus parvocellular (P) visual dysfunction. The goal of Experiment 1 was to characterize M–stream impairment in the patient population using a novel approach. Contrast thresholds at varying luminance levels were investigated. M– and P–biased responses were examined by using scotopic and photopic luminance conditions, respectively. Patients exhibited contrast threshold deficits during scotopic conditions, indicative of M–stream dysfunction. Further, the pattern of contrast threshold responses at photopic levels indicated relatively preserved patient P–pathway functionality. Experiment 2 used separate behavioral and electrophysiological paradigms to investigate contributions of low level visual pathway dysfunction in patients to emotion perceptual processing deficits. Contrast response curves for the dorsal (P1) and ventral (N170) pathways were elicited in response to contrast manipulated emotional faces. Results showed that the dorsal P1's pattern of response was impaired in patients while their N170 contrast response curves remained intact. Contributions of visual pathway dysfunction to impaired emotion recognition and affect–related processing, as indexed by the P250 amplitude, were then assessed. P250 activity in patients was reduced at all contrasts. Overall, across groups, the P1 component predicted both P250 amplitude and emotion recognition ability. Taken together, these data support the hypothesis that emotion recognition deficits in patients result from M/dorsal stream dysfunction. Experiment 3 examined the spatial–temporal oscillatory dynamics of schizophrenia patients during processing of complex visual stimuli. FFT spectrum activity and underlying generators of the delta, theta and alpha oscillatory frequencies were first assessed. Activity in the pre and post–stimulus intervals, and the ratio between them (event-related de/synchronization: ERD/ERS) were also evaluated. FFT data revealed controls had significantly greater alpha band activation in posterior electrodes as compared to patients. Conversely, patients exhibited greater theta–band activation over anterior electrodes versus controls. Topographical analysis suggested patients had abnormal underlying neural generators that gave rise to impaired theta and alpha–band activity. Further, instantaneous delta–band activity was significantly greater in patients during pre and post–stimulus intervals, possibly reflecting an overall generalized deficit. Finally, the data revealed that patients had a substantially reduced alpha ERD, highlighting their impairment in low level visual cortical gating mechanisms during processing of visual sensory inputs.
This dissertation is an analysis of the concept of a person. According to this analysis, persons are beings capable of being responsible for their actions, which requires possession of the capacities for self-consciousness, in the sense of critical awareness of one's first-order desires and beliefs and concern, meaning emotional investment in the satisfaction of one's desires and truth of one's beliefs. The persistence of a person over time requires uninterrupted maintenance of those capacities. This view is in conflict with the more popular account of persistence in terms of the continuity of distinctive psychological states. Furthermore, this account of personhood has the consequence that contrary to most alternative conceptions, the possession of rights to life and good treatment and the concern for others are neither necessary nor sufficient for being a person. In chapter one I explain and argue for my account of personhood in terms of self-consciousness and concern, illustrating that a being lacking either capacity would not be capable of responsible action and therefore would not be a person. In chapter two I argue for the claim that the persistence of a person requires only that those capacities are maintained uninterruptedly. Chapter three concerns the ontology of persons. There I argue for a Reductionist view of persons and defuse the objection that such a view necessarily slides into Eliminativism. In chapter four I draw a distinction between the concepts of 'person' and 'self,' arguing that the latter is not unique to persons and is best understood in neuro-cognitive terms. The fifth and final chapter deals with the implications of my account of personhood for ethics, as regards rights and concern for others.
An important aspect of the modern Lebanese state is the arrangement of personal status laws, which consigns matters of marriage and its consequences to the several Islamic, Christian, and Jewish religious authorities. With the absence of civil jurisdictions, some individuals choose to get married under the civil laws of countries, such as France, Cyprus, and Turkey. Recurrent attempts to make civil marriage in Lebanon legal have proven to be controversial and ended ultimately in failure. The problem of marriage has accompanied the system of personal status since the formation of the Lebanese state under French Mandate after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. This dissertation aims to offer an account of what is at stake in marriage. Based on ethnographic and archival research in Lebanon, it analyzes the terms of the controversies over legal reform, opinions about civil marriage, as well as the decisions of the Maronite Catholic, Sunni Islamic, and civil courts in matters of personal status. It argues that at stake in marriage is the very assumption upon which the modern Lebanese state rests, namely, that Lebanon consists essentially of a variety of religious communities each possessing a distinctive personal status. The formal articulation of that status is the several religious personal status jurisdictions that oversee marriage. This assumption gives rise to a specific configuration whereby marriage, religious communities, and the state, are interconnected. Rather than adopt a perspective that sees in the problem of marriage an opposition between secularism and religion, this study seeks its conditions in tensions internal to the secular itself, in the ambiguities between moral autonomy and religious belonging, freedom and equality, religion and law.


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text: Cover by Adriano Batista. by Brian Reed & Walter Geovani Red Sonja and Dynamite begin their march towards issue #50! As the mystery of the Blood Dynasty unfolds, each and every issue will be hurtling towards the amazing events in store as Dynamite hits the landmark 50th issue! As always, Red Sonja features the writing of Brian Reed and powerful art of Walter Geovani. Cover price $2.99.


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Big Ten Recognizes Fall Academic All-Big Ten Honorees
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2012 Fall Academic All-Big Ten
The Big Ten Conference on Thursday recognized a total of 816 fall sports student-athletes who have been named to the Academic All-Conference team. The list of honored student-athletes features 72 field hockey players, 259 football players, 58 men's and 127 women's cross country runners, 78 men's and 147 women's soccer players and 75 volleyball players. To be eligible for Academic All-Big Ten selection, student-athletes must be letterwinners who are in at least their second academic year at their institution and carry a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or higher.
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About Imran, he reportedly said: "He's an absolute knob is Imran Khan, that's the only way to describe him."
doing plenty for grassroots cricket doesn't give you a free pass to say whatever the hell you want. first impressions of paul marsh: you moron.Paul Marsh Paul Marsh @Marsh_Paul
For all the criticism going Greg Ritchie's way, understand that he has raised many thousands of dollars for grassroots cricket over many ...
Paul Marsh @Marsh_Paul
years with the same style of speech. It is not meant to offend it is meant to make people laugh & he does that better than most #perspective
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To be clear I'm not defending racism. I know Greg well, I don't believe he's racist & he's done plenty for grassroots cricket
(to a greater extent, you could say he's not doing a lot for grassroots cricket by offending the entire australian muslim community and hiding behind the pathetic "hey you choose to be offended!" defence )
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Will say this once and then nothing else. Defamation laws quite clear in Aus.be careful.
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TBF, leaving aside the obviously dodgy overtones, the joke wasn't awful.
The comment to Wessells is just...wow...tho. As one understands South Africans consider "kaffir" as roughly on a par as we do the n-word. Poor form and a worse defence for poor form.
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- As featured in The Independent.
"I don't think that they'll come close to us to be honest."
- Steve Smith before the Ashes
What's appropriate (or what's permissable, rather) in a changing room isn't necessarily so for a public audience.
Just to echo what others have said about Kleinveldt: not a test bowler. Jerky action and it's never going to generate much more pace than he gets now. Looks to use the same dietician as Philander too.
But yeah you're right; said team clown wouldn't then go ahead and re-tell those jokes to a public audience.
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got tv on in the background did they hit kepler up about it at all?
Nah they didn't - thankfully.
Going on record to say Kleinveldt shouldn't be playing Test Cricket, in fact hopefully this is his last Test match. He could end up a decent ODI player though.
Staid, boring, and a reminder of hell on earth coming in the following four days, but the cricket being on makes them somewhat more bearable.
As Brumby said, there's a time and a place, and when someone like Ritchie defends his Muslim joke by saying "It's just a little humourous joke to indicate that they're not my favourite people of my choice" then it's safe to say there's basically no chance of him being anything than a bigoted **** who deserves nothing but contempt. That doesn't mean all race-related jokes are actually racist though; obviously they require a certain closeness and environment - you need to know the guy taking the piss isn't actually serious or it's offensive - but looking for ways to get offended out of context will just make you constantly sour.
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16th May 2011 10:56 AM #1
Obstetricians supportive of Vaginal Birth After Caesarean
On Pregnancy Birth and Beyond's VBAC article page Andrea asked if I had a list of obstetricians supportive of Vaginal Birth After Caesarean. I don't but I was hoping that people could list supportive obstetricians here on the forum. I am hoping to build a valuable resource here. Looking forward to reading your recommendations.
28th January 2012 11:37 PM #2
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i found Dr Andrew Bisit to be very supportive of VBAC. I was under his care at John Hunter Hospital but he has moved on to Royal Womens at Randwick. i was also under Dr Nandini Somanthan at John hunter for my last birth. She is also very supportive.
29th January 2012 12:13 PM #3
Thanks for getting our list off to a great start. Dr Andrew Pesce (Westmead Public and Private) is supportive of VBAC2.


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Separating spin from reality
According to political-class pundits, the race for the White House was turned upside down by a single debate. The reality, however, is that a very close race shifted ever so slightly from narrowly favoring President Obama to narrowly favoring Mitt Romney.
Either way, it remains too close to call.
The difference is that voters base their decisions on the substantive issues in the world around them. The political class is distracted by superficial imagery, an obsession with the game of politics and the sound of their own voices.
While it might be boring to those in the political class, Election 2012 has been stable all year. Oh, sure, there have been occasional mini-surges where one candidate gained a little ground temporarily. But it's been close all along.
That's because elections primarily are about fundamentals. In January, the most important fundamental was that the president's job-approval rating had been stuck around 47 percent or 48 percent for two full years. That's good enough to be competitive but not good enough to ensure victory. An Electoral College analysis in January showed that four states were likely to be decisive — Ohio, Virginia, Florida, and North Carolina.
Fast forward to the final month of the campaign, and nothing has really changed. The president's job approval has barely moved because nothing in the real world has caused people to think differently of his performance. Voters are not better off than they were four years ago — but they're not worse off, either.
As a result, the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll shows that the two candidates have been within 3 points of each other in 89 of the past 100 days. Considering the 3-point margin of error, that's a tossup almost every day. All four of the key states are just as close as the national numbers, and they're still just as important as we expected they'd be back in January.
In other words, nothing has really changed for 10 months, but that isn't unusual.
In 2004, on the night after John Kerry wrapped up the Democrat nomination, he trailed George W. Bush by 3 points. Ten months later, he lost to President Bush by 2.5 points.
In 2008, after wrapping up the Democrat nomination, Barack Obama led John McCain by 5 points. On Election Day, Obama won by 7 points. Fundamentals matter more than campaign consultants.
This background helps put the recent debate performance in context. Before the debate, the president was narrowly ahead. After his poor showing, he was narrowly behind. But for all the noise, only about 2 percent of voters changed their opinion from grudging support of Obama to grudging support of Romney. For the other 98 percent, nothing changed beyond the fact that they might feel a bit better or worse about their candidate.
While impossible to measure precisely, it is likely that the shift took place among voters who were disenchanted with the president but unsure whether Romney would be any better. After the debate, some may have concluded that Romney looked like a plausible president and was worth a shot.
Where will it go from here? If nothing changes in the real world, the race will remain close until Election Day. If perceptions of the economy or events in the Middle East shift, the election could shift, as well. But the bottom line is that whatever changes take place will be driven by voter perceptions of reality, not the petty preoccupations of the political class.
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Related story: California's retiring state workers cash in vacation for big bucks
Retirement doesn't just bring a watch for employees leaving many local cities - it can mean hundreds of thousands of dollars in cashouts for unused vacation, sick time and other benefits.
The costs of those payouts threatened to overwhelm San Bernardino's ability to pay employees in the weeks after the city authorized a bankruptcy filing.
The city paid more than $1.6 million to 67 employees who left between that July 10 announcement and Aug. 6, when the City Council suspended payouts because, members said, they just couldn't afford them.
"The taxpayer simply can't afford that kind of cashout," said Mayor Pat Morris. "I think it's remarkably overreaching, what we've done, unlimited accumulation of sick time and then administrative leave time and vacation time. That just - I've been stunned by the kind of payouts we've obligated ourselves to."
San Bernardino is hardly the only place wrestling with millions of dollars in liability for accrued employee time, but its near-crisis illustrates how serious the problem can get.
The largest single payout from July 10 to Aug. 6 was $98,704, according to the City Attorney's Office. But at other times, employees have retired with more than $300,000, Morris said, which quickly multiplies across a large work force.
"We're a city that's remarkably modest in terms of our income," he said. "Even as we escape this (bankruptcy), public agencies can't afford this kind of largesse. ... (In future contracts) I pray that we're a little more diligent about overseeing these resources."
Each city negotiates agreements on payouts with each of its employee unions. For instance, vacation time for San Bernardino police officers - often pointed to as among the most highly compensated - is capped, police union President Steve Turner said.
He points to a side letter to the union's contract, which in 2009 increased those limits by 15percent- in exchange for reductions in other areas of the agreement - to a maximum of 460 hours for employees with at least 21 years of service.
"One way or another, the city's going to pay that time," Turner said. "If they use the vacation, then you're paying employees to not go to work. ... Police officers are already picking up the slack from not having enough officers, and they don't want to leave the city when they're needed."
And taking away that policy would make the city less competitive, lowering the quality of employees, Turner added.
Different approaches, different places
But most private companies don't offer anything like that, said San Bernardino County Supervisor Neil Derry, who in 2010 proposed an ordinance that capped pay for non-unionized employees, the last group of county employees that didn't already have a cap.
"We provide vacations to help people re-energize so they don't burn out, so they could come back ready to rock and roll, not so they can accrue it for years at a time to spend all at once and use it to expand or spike their pension," Derry said.
He referred to the practice of cashing out time in the last year of employment so the highest year's salary, used to calculate pension payments, is artificially high.
The county's approximately 550 exempt employees - primarily administrators, department heads, managers, administrative analysts, staff of elected officials, and executive secretaries - had collectively banked between $7.5 million and $8 million in accrued exempt vacation hours, county spokesman David Wert said at the time.
The cap on the county's so-called exempt workers passed unanimously.
Then-Upland City Manager Robb Quincey had 1,600 hours of leave time accrued in 2011, which he cashed out for nearly $140,000 in take-home pay - it was $200,000 before taxes - after the City Council put Quincey on leave after learning he had unilaterally settled claims against the city in order to cover up a domestic dispute in which he was involved.
Incidents like that may offend a sense of justice, but the fact that these are liabilities Upland must account for worry Mayor Ray Musser.
"We must put it on there as a liability because we owe the money, and only rightfully so," Musser said Thursday. "The less liability we have, the best for the city. I'd like to see accruals down as low as possible."
But Musser has also seen the other side in his personal life.
"My son had cancer at age 49 and spent 3 1/2 months in the hospital," Musser said. "Would you not want coverage for that incident?"
In San Bernardino, where 100 layoffs have been authorized and more are expected, the city has paid 33 of the employees who have left since the suspension of payouts, according to Human Resources Manager Diana Leibrich.
Laid-off workers are the first priority, with those voluntarily leaving coming second, said Acting Assistant City Manager Gwendolyn Waters.
For those who remained, the suspension of payouts has led to little outrage from rank-and-file employees, even those like Charles Greenwood, who has criticized some of the city's other moves since filing for bankruptcy and before.
"Most people save it up because we're kind of workaholics," said Greenwood, an employee of the Integrated Waste Division who estimated he'll retire in 10 years. "If (accrued time) is still there (when I retire) I guess I'll cash it out. It's agreed upon and we earned it, but I also understand we're in bad times right now. Hopefully we can right the ship."
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Creating an international experience at home
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Sara Lopez Mosquera loves cooking dinner with her friends. The junior business student from Madrid, Spain, makes dinner – mostly Spanish dishes -- most days for her friends from Germany and France.
Her roommate is from Vienna while her suitemates are American. Lopez Mosquera came to USC to live the U.S. college experience, and so far, she's found the International House at Maxcy College to be the perfect fit.
"I wanted to know people from many countries and to increase my understanding of culture as much as I could," Lopez Mosquera says. "I love the experience of having my friends just next door."
Austin Solheim, a sophomore international business and accounting major, chose to live (and work) in Maxcy because it was "the best choice."
"I really wanted to work with international kids and get an international experience while still living here," says the resident mentor.
This year is the first year for the "Maxcy House," a living and learning community meant to bring American students and international students together under one roof.
"What we're trying to do is to create a community where international students feel very comfortable on the USC campus but also for USC students who are American to have experiences of traveling overseas and having a feeling of being in a culturally diverse environment here," says Lee Walker, faculty principal for Maxcy.
The newly renovated residence hall now houses 160 students, including the French and Spanish houses, and a group of international business students from Hong Kong. The community is made up of about 40 percent international students, from Brazil to India and Germany to Taiwan, and 60 percent American students, mostly freshmen and sophomores, from different academic disciplines.
So far, it's been a success, Walker says. He points out that USC's French group, for example, moved its meetings from off-campus to the Maxcy lounge area, which has become a center for French activity on campus. Every week, there's a French conversation hour where students come to speak only French.
Because it's a living and learning center, international programming is a part of the living arrangements and a part of educational experiences Walker and his staff are trying to create.
During movie nights, for example, residents in Maxcy might watch a German film or have a French immersion night, creating a chance for residents to interact but with an international flair, Walker says.
Part of Maxcy's curriculum centers around bringing in speakers and having international guests stop by to participate in conversations with students about study abroad and traveling, among other subjects, so "students have a chance to see that traveling overseas and the kind of appreciation that you get for diverse cultures is really an important part of your life development and the choices you make about your career," Walker says.
Walker is also teaching the Maxcy study abroad class that will travel to Costa Rica in May. The course will explore many disciplines, crossing health, economics, politics and several sciences, Walker says.
Part of the academic side of Maxcy also involves getting students involved in research projects at the university. Graduate students or faculty members conducting research and looking for a helper with an international or language skill can turn to Maxcy students, Walker says.
"At the learning center, what we are trying to emphasize is being at a research institution. And what is really unique about being at a research institution, is having the ability to do research," Walker says. He says hopes Maxcy can become a resource for the wider unversity community.
The Maxcy community is part of the university's push through USC Connect to continue learning beyond the classroom. It connects Study Abroad, service learning, International Programs, University Housing and many others.
"I'm trying to facilitate the ability of students to integrate academic life with residential life and to allow them to see the synergies between those two," he says.
For Walker it has been exciting to see students like Lopez Mosquera and Solheim who are very interested in having a cultural experience, something that has become more important in today's globally focused world.
"As the world becomes smaller, it really becomes important to have a great understanding of diverse cultures and different languages," Walker says.
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What We're Loving: The Backwoods Bull, the Ballet, the BootBy The Paris Review
If you are afraid of public speaking, and ever called on to do it, I suggest that you avoid reading "The Backwoods Bull in the Boston China Shop," from the August 1961 issue of American Heritage Magazine. In this lively article, the dean of American studies, Henry Nash Smith, tells how Mark Twain—perhaps the most popular after-dinner speechmaker of his time—flubbed what was supposed to be the comic relief at an 1877 banquet in honor of John Greenleaf Whittier. Twain made up an anecdote about three grifters passing themselves off as Whittier, Emerson, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Apparently, it bombed. According to Twain's friend and editor William Dean Howells, "Nobody knew whether to look at the speaker or down at his plate. I chose my plate as the least affliction … [Twain] must have dragged his joke to the climax and left it there, but I cannot say this from any sense of the fact." Twain was so mortified that he wrote a letter of apology to the three venerable grandees, and they were nice about it, but a week later he told Howells, "I see that it is going to add itself to my list of permanencies—a list of humiliations which extends back to when I was seven years old and keeps persecuting me regardless of my repentancies." Thirty years later he was still trying to decide exactly how bad the speech had been, even reading it aloud to gauge its offensiveness. I am indebted—if that's the word—to Sadie Stein and her father for digging up this historical gem. It is the stuff of nightmares. —Lorin Stein
My decision to take up ballet at the ripe old age of thirty-one (572 in ballet years) is not without its challenges. The parts of my body that should be loose are tight, and the places that should be firm wobble; if I land one pirouette out of ten it's a victory. I'm grateful, then, for Eliza Gaynor Minden's The Ballet Companion, which not only visually breaks down basic steps (with a blessed glossary of all that French), but gives pointers on class etiquette and attire. Gaynor Minden also writes beautifully about the history of ballet (forget the tutu—bring on the seventeenth-century six-foot hoop skirt!), as well as provides a detailed list of ballets to see before you die. If after reading you still need a reason to pull on those leg warmers, remember: it's never too late for a bracing dose of humility. —Rachel Abramowitz
A few years ago, two of our uncles took my sister out to a French restaurant in Manhattan. One uncle was pushing her to order the duck confit. The other uncle turned to her and said, "Don't do it. It's too rich. He made me do it once and I threw up. You'll throw up, too." The first uncle assured her, "You'll definitely throw up, but you should still get it." She ordered it and threw up right on schedule. We are a family of eaters, sometimes at any cost. But to A. J. Liebling, perhaps the best eater of the twentieth century, my sister's fowl adventure would have been child's play. I've spent the past week immersed in his Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris, a memoir of Liebling's years in the city and, of course, the food he consumed there; he was unapologetically obsessed with eating. He was even lucky enough to have friends who could keep up with him, such as Yves Mirande, the French playwright, who, by Liebling's account, could tuck away in one meal the contents of a New York–size kitchen. "In the restaurant of the Rue Saint-Augustin, M. Mirande would dazzle his juniors, French and American, by dispatching a lunch of raw Bayonne ham and fresh figs, a hot sausage in crust, spindles of filleted pike in a rich rose sauce Nantua, a leg of lamb larded with anchovies, artichokes on a pedestal of foie gras, and four or five kinds of cheese, with a good bottle of Bordeaux and one of champagne, after which he would call for the Armagnac and remind Madame to have ready for dinner the larks and ortolans she had promised him, with a few langoustes and a turbot—and, of course, a fine civet made from the marcassin, or young wild boar, that the lover of the leading lady in his current production had sent up from his estate in the Sologne. 'And while I think of it,' I once heard him say, 'we haven't had any woodcock for days, or truffles baked in the ashes.'" —Clare Fentress
You've caught me at SXSW—strange to see it without the hashtag—where I've spent the past few days overhearing musicians as they talk shop. ("Dude, sick whammy pedal. Is that the new one with true bypass?") It's quality eavesdropping, but none of it rivals the dudely conversation on offer in the "Tight Bros from Way Back When" tape, one of the gnarliest cultural documents to emerge from the late eighties. This is a forty-minute taped phone call between two bona-fide California metalheads, Kurt and Derek, that touches on a whole host of topics: police evasion, the occult, Jimmy Page, gravedigging, psychedelics, pyrotechnics, longstanding grudges ("From second grade to now I've fought this guy like two hundred times. And I've lost three of those times"), and many more. Its first twenty minutes—in which Derek explains how his car got the boot, and how he went to extralegal measures to remove it—make for some of the most memorable storytelling this side of Iron Maiden. "Imagine standing up, right? These bolt cutters were half my height, bro … I'm cruising down the street in broad daylight with these bolt cutters slung over my shoulder, like I'm carrying some skis or somethin'? … I snapped the lock on the boot. It made the gnarliest sound, dude. I summoned the power of all the gods." The tape has been floating around musical circles for years; at the risk of sounding like Indiana Jones, it belongs in a museum, or at least a top-notch oral history archive. —Dan Piepenbring Read More


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Poll: Franken holds high approval ratings in Minnesota
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), who won his seat by the smallest of margins in 2008, is looking like a pretty strong favorite in 2014.
A new poll from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune shows Franken's approval rating rising to 55 percent — extremely positive territory for a member of Congress these days — while fewer than one-third of respondents disapprove of him.
Franken remains somewhat undefined, though, and even many who approve of his job performance aren't sure what they think of him personally.
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A renal scan is a nuclear medicine exam in which a small amount of radioactive material (radioisotope) is used to measure the function of the kidneys.
Renogram; Kidney scan
The specific type of scan may vary. This article provides a general overview.
A renal scan is similar to a renal perfusion scintiscan. It may be done along with that test.
You will be asked to lie on the scanner table. The health care provider will place a tight band or blood pressure cuff on your upper arm. This creates pressure and helps your arm veins become bigger. The inner elbow is scrubbed with numbing medicine (antiseptic) and a small amount of radioisotope is injected into a vein. The specific radioisotope used may vary, depending on what is being studied.
The cuff or band is on the upper arm is removed, and the radioactive material moves through your blood. The kidneys are scanned a short time later. Several images are taken, each lasting 1 or 2 seconds. The total scan time takes about 30 minutes to 1 hour.
A computer reviews the images and provides detailed information about how your kidney works. For example, it can tell your doctor how much blood the kidney filters over time.
You should be able to go home after the scan. You may be asked to drink plenty of fluids and urinate frequently to help remove the radioactive material from the body.
Tell your health care provider if you take any nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) or blood pressure medications. These drugs might affect the test.
You may be asked to drink additional fluids before the scan.
Some people feel discomfort when the needle is placed into the vein. However, you will not feel the radioactive material. The scanning table may be hard and cold. You will need to lie still during the scan.
A renal scan tells your doctor how your kidneys work. It also shows their size, position, and shape. It is may be done if:
Abnormal results are a sign of reduced kidney function. This may be due to:
There is a slight amount of radiation from the radioisotope. Most of this radiation exposure occurs to the kidneys and bladder. Almost all radiation is gone from the body in 24 hours. Caution is advised if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.
Extremely rarely, a person will have an allergic reaction to the radioisotope, which may include severe anaphylaxis.
Fulgham PF, Bishoff JT. Urinary tract imaging: Basic principles.In: Wein AJ, ed. Campbell-Walsh Urology. 10th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 4.


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