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Do You Travel?
Yes! We have locations in Atlanta and Chattanooga but most of our projects are some distance away. We have created projects in New Hampshire, New York, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Georgia, California, Tennessee, Missouri and several other states. Most of our work is located in the southeastern United States but we will travel to most locations in the continental United States.
Do You Design Only For Kids?
We have a lot of fun designing for kids but we create themes for all age groups and audiences. We can create something you'll be happy with for your particular group whatever their age!
How Do We Start Planning A Theme?
First of all, evaluate your space. Do you have a large open space such as a gymnasium, theatrical stage or common area or is your space a little smaller such as a hallway, classroom or office? Obviously, larger 3-D props and scenery will fit better in more open spaces but there is always creative ways to change smaller spaces with 3-D elements as well. If you have a small space, you may want to think about muraling, supported by smaller 3-D elements. If you look through our photo gallery you will see examples of theming in all types of spaces.
Next, establish an idea for an overall theme. If you're working with kids your theme will be much different than a theme aimed toward adults or teens. This is where your imagination can run wild! We can create themes based upon any "genre": tropical, jungle, sports, space, Medieval, pirate, western, Tuscan, Oriental, nostalgic, storybook, animated, theme park, etc. There's a lot to choose from or dream up!
We have worked with many of our clients in establishing ideas for themes. We'll be happy to jump into that process with you!
How Long Does The Process Take?
That can depend upon several factors. However, if you have a space ready for theming, an idea firmly in mind and budget approval from the "powers that be," the process from start to finish can take 2-6 months depending upon the scale and scope of your project. Keep in mind that you may have to compete for scheduling with our other clients so call early and schedule soon!
How Much Does Theming Cost?
There are several factors that figure into cost. If you have a very large space and want to fill it with lots of 3-D props and scenery you can expect to pay more than someone who only wants a small hallway muraled and themed. Once we consult with you and gain an understanding of the scope of your project, we can give you a fairly accurate estimate of the cost. You can use our Price Guide to help you estimate your own mural costs. Contact us if you would like to receive our more complete Pricing Guide.
Can We Have Our Theming Done In Phases?
In many cases this is acceptable. You may have different hallways, buildings or classrooms that will be completed at different times or perhaps you want to use a themed area to help you raise money for theming other areas. We can help you with ideas regarding this type of plan.
How Much Do You Charge For A Consultation?
Currently we only ask for our travel room and board expenses to be reimbursed. In many cases we can consult with you over the phone and through e-mail using digital photos and video. This is the most economical way for consulting.
Who Are Your Clients?
While churches make up a large part of our theming clients, we can design themes for any business, organization or venue. Theming is popular in hotels, retail areas, shopping malls, amusement parks, fairs, festivals, resort areas, theatres, museums, restaurants, convention centers, hospitals, assisted living facilities, recreation centers, skating rinks, salons, offices, bowling alleys, tourist attractions, miniature golf courses and many other locations. In addition, we create museum exhibits and custom props, scenic art and backdrops for photography studios, theatres, film sets and other performing arts spaces.
What are DIY Themes?
In situations when the space or the budget is small it makes economical sense to do the installation work yourself. We work with you designing the right art for your space and then we will ship the art to you. You do all of the installation with our guidance and consultation.
Do You Have a Catalog?
In 2018 we will be designing an online store where you can purchase single art pieces to build your own themed rooms. This store will have a catalog of hundreds of art pieces you can purchase to build your own themed environment.
What Materials Are Used In Your Themed Environments?
Materials depend upon the particular theme we have designed, its application and the audience intended to interact with it. We use materials found at most construction sites: wood, EPS foam, plastic, cloth, metal, etc. The majority of our painting utilizes non-toxic water-based latex, acrylic and theatrical paint. These paints are non-toxic and safe around humans and pets. For outdoor use, or in special indoor cases, we may use oil or solvent-based paint.
How Durable Are The Elements In Your Themed Environments?
We design our themes with interaction in mind. Themes that involve direct contact with children are created with that level of durability as a goal. Stage sets that may have no direct contact or abuse from human interaction might be created "softer." Everything we create is designed to last many years in whatever application and environment it is being used for.
Will You Build Or Renovate Our Building?
Currently we do not build buildings, rooms, install carpeting, install special flooring or ceilings or apply roofing or siding. If you wish, we will be happy to work with you in locating companies that do these services in order for you to prepare for us to theme your facility.
May We Contact Your References?
Most certainly! In fact we suggest you contact the references of any theming company you may be considering working with. We will be happy to send you references and any other information you may need to help you make your decision. We suggest you do as much research as possible while you are planning your theming project. If you check references, review work, participate in consultations and do cost comparisons we think you'll find Imagination Atmospheres will come out on top in all areas!


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Stay away. This is the 3rd or 4th time I made the mistake of staying at this hotel and will not make that mistake again. Every time I go it becomes more obvious that the owners do not care about anything except making a buck. We stayed on a very busy weekend (this was the only place available) we were barely able to make it in without falling due to the fact that in two spots of a otherwise bare sidewalk were two mounds of snow you had to walk through with your suitcases. All towels, bedding, comforters, sheets are threadbare and of the poorest quality to begin with, the wall have no sound proofing and we could hear the person in the next room snoring, the next day we heard their entire conversation, word for word so do not expect any privacy. The bathroom floor was covered with black hair (Gag) and the sink was missing several parts. This luxury does not come cheap at $68 a night, a more realistic price would be $28 a night. I wonder if the owners would ever stay in their own hotel? Doubtful. Most hotel rooms offer a hot Continental breakfast not just donuts. On a positive note the restaurant next door (same owners) and a very good breakfast reasonable priced, great food and good service, too bad that can't carry over to the hotel. :(

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There are lots of reasons for "dysfunction," including neurological disorders, post-surgical complications, endocrine or medical disorders, side effects of medications or drugs; most often the reason is sociologic or psychologic, which includes everything from unsuitable stimulation, poor relationships or communication, history of sexual trauma, and more.
And as we grow older, vascular and hormonal changes don't make orgasm any easier.
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Roast the nuts: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Place a cup of the chopped almonds with 1/4 cup corn syrup in a 2-quart heavy-bottomed saucepan and place over low heat to liquify the corn syrup. You only want to heat the mixture until the corn syrup is thin enough to coat the nuts evenly; this will take 3 to 4 minutes. Remove the saucepan from the heat. Using a large slotted spoon, allow the excess corn syrup to drain as you scoop the coated nuts onto a parchment paper-covered baking sheet. Repeat method with the pistachio and the hazelnuts. Be sure to spread them in an even layer so they will roast evenly in the oven.
Bake until they are evenly caramelized, 15 to 20 minutes. To test for doneness, you can also break a nut in half and check to see if it is light brown on the inside. Keep an eye on the nuts because the sugar will burn very soon after it caramelizes. Remove the baking sheet from the oven and place on a wire rack. When the nuts are completely cooled, break apart any that are clustered together.
Fill a cornet half full with the tempered bittersweet chocolate. Pipe a chocolate circle 3 1/2 inches in diameter onto a parchment paper-covered baking sheet. If you do not have a cornet, you can use a spoon; drop a spoonful of the chocolate onto the parchment paper and spread it into a 3 1/2-inch diameter circle with the back of the spoon. In either case, keep the thickness of the circle as even as possible. Make about 5 circles. Then, create your own design as you top each circle with the nuts and fruits. Work quickly, or the chocolate will set before you've accomplished this. If the nuts and fruit do not stick to the chocolate, lightly dip them in the bowl of tempered chocolate and "glue" them to the top of the disk. When you finish these, repeat the process until you have used all of the tempered chocolate, nuts, and fruit.
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Egy Hét Pesten és Bud√ɬ°n
Károly Makk
Hungary, 2003
Review by Ian Johnston
Posted on 15 January 2008
Source Second Run DVD
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What brings a director to revisit characters and the actors that play them from an earlier period in his or her filmmaking career? There may be a need to redefine what those characters represented in the earlier film, to provide some sort of final summary in terms of the director's changing understanding of the characters and themes, of the social/political changes that have occurred since, and of changes in the director's own filmmaking practice. This is the sense, for example, of Ingmar Bergman's magisterial Saraband, where he returned to Johan and Marianne, the protagonists of one of his greatest international successes, Scenes from a Marriage.
Of course, there are less exalted reasons for this strategy. It can be the means for a director who has hit an artistic and economic slough to reconnect with the successes of his/her past. Why, otherwise, did Francis Coppola make the flaccid and supremely unnecessary Godfather Part III? Wim Wenders, too, offered a recent, weak variation on this phenomenon with Don't Come Knockin', a rather sad attempt to revisit Paris, Texas, where Sam Shepard, the source for Paris' screenplay, was drafted in this time as the lead actor.
Károly Makk's A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda falls somewhere in between these two extremes. In his case, he's reconnecting with what is generally considered to be his greatest film, Love, made more than thirty years before but set another fifteen years before in the even more repressive fifties. Interestingly enough, the impetus for the film didn't originate with Makk himself but with English producer Marc Vlessing. They'd made an English-language film together, The Gambler, and Vlessing was keen now to produce a Hungarian-language film with Makk. He was particularly interested in exploring the connections between the contemporary post-Communist world and the Communist past, an area that he felt modern East European films were neglecting. I guess, given the plotline in A Long Weekend, that Vlessing's interest was in the acts of betrayal that were required to survive under Communism, and in particular the betrayal involved in collaboration with the security services. Countless cases of this kind have been uncovered since the fall of Communism, often involving leading contemporary politicians (for example, two Hungarian prime ministers of the nineties), and these cases have also arisen among artists and writers. There was an enormous controversy in Germany in the early nineties when it was revealed that Christa Wolf, the most renowned novelist to come out of the Communist G.D.R., had acted for a short period of time as an informant for the Stasi, the East German secret police.
A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda uses the same two lead actors from Love, Iván Darvas and Mari Törõcsik, although apparently the idea of using extracts from Love as flashbacks came from Makk's editor and was not initially built into the structure of the film. In Love Darvas had played János, a political prisoner, and Törõcsik his wife Luca, who almost collapses under the strain of keeping up appearances both towards the outside world and towards her invalid mother-in-law. It's a subtle and moving film that, through its fractured editing style, burrows deep into the emotional situation, and in its final section offers a kind of redemption for its characters in the love that János and Luca redefine for one another upon János' release.
In A Long Weekend Darvas' and Törõcsik's characters bear their own names, Iván and Mari, but in spite of this – and in spite of Makk's insistence that there are subtle differences between the characters in the two films – we should essentially read them as the same. Iván is now a dapper and refined elderly gentleman, a retired businessman living in a wealthy mansion in Lugano with his English wife. (Truth to be told, these scenes with his wife, played by Eileen Atkins, seem rather forced, suffering from the lack of conviction – or confidence? – you often get from English-language scenes in foreign-language European films.) Here, Iván gets a call from Hungary, telling him that Mari is seriously ill in hospital, and he decides to return to Budapest, the capital city formed from the Buda and Pest of the film's title that lie on opposing sides of the River Danube. It's Iván's first return to his native country since his escape decades before, and it's obviously with mixed, conflicted feelings that he stages this return. But it's equally significant that he doesn't tell his English wife of his plans to return before his actual departure, a sign of the estrangement and tension between them, or at the very least of her inability to understand why he would want to return to the country that treated him so badly.
The film seems to be leading to the reuniting of the two lovers Iván and Mari, but things never quite develop this way. It's partly because of the revelations Mari has in store for Iván, firstly her own collaboration with the authorities and her involvement in, indeed responsibility for his imprisonment, and then the news that he is the father of her daughter Anna. In a sense Mari's betrayal of Iván – which, it should be added, was never intentional – is replicated in Makk's betrayal of the original audience of Love, in his almost cynical refutation of the earlier film's lyricism, romanticism, and idealism. But it's also true that Makk never really focuses on the dilemmas that Mari suffered in the past or any guilt or remorse she may feel in the present, just as he never makes Mari central to the story of A Long Weekend in the way that Luca was in Love. This is a pity as Mari Törõcsik never ends up being used in the film as much as she might have been. You can be very conscious of this when considering what may well be the film's best scene, when Mari sits alone in her hospital room, effectively abandoned by Iván and Anna, and applies makeup to her face. The whole scene is suffused with the grace, elegance, and beauty that the actress brings to it.
The impulse on producer Vlessing's part for making this film may have been the desire to document the betrayals and moral failings of the past, but to be honest Makk hardly seems interested in this. More at issue for him is a distaste for the Hungary of the present. Hungary's new, post-Communist age is one of crass materialism, whose drift in values – epitomised by Anna's ex-boyfriend – hardly seems an advance on the political repression of the Communist era. The modern age is also an unstable one, prone to sudden, irrational acts of violence, such as the pedestrian rage witnessed by Iván. A man almost knocked down by a careless woman driver pulls out a gun and fires into the windscreen. (Here, coincidence is stretched a little too much—the woman victim turns out to be Iván's own daughter.) Makk exploits this violent subtext at the end of the film when the now contrite gunman and his victim meet again outside the bank where Iván is to change money. Anna's ex-boyfriend is working inside, underlining the intertwining of the business and criminal worlds, and the whole scene literally explodes with a drive-by machine-gunning. It's rather overblown and out of keeping with the low-key character-based drama of the film, but it does stress the violence and insecurities of contemporary Hungarian society. It also makes a clear linkage between past and present through the figure of a former Communist security officer, a man intimately involved in Iván and Mari's story, who is seen as someone still a powerbroker, still working behind the scenes.
But in the end A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda is not the story of the reunion of Iván and Mari, or even so much the story of Iván's confrontation with the Hungary of the present and of the past. Rather it's the story of Iván's encounter with his daughter Anna, and the way they manoeuvre around one another, getting closer and pulling away, getting the measure of and learning to love one another. Hence, it's a story that leaves Mari on the outside. It never adopts Love's very productive technique of switching narrative interest from one partner to the other, perhaps to Weekend's ultimate disadvantage. The film's perspective is always that of Iván's. His final rejection of Hungary is accompanied by the loss, in different forms, of his lover from the past and his wife in the present, but the film refuses to leave him so bereft, offering him through the reconnection with his daughter a release from the pain of his past.
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From the proposal to the honeymoon, there are a million wedding decisions to make. Most assume this is the bride's day, so she gets to call all the shots. However, that's neither true nor desirable.
Today, most grooms are heavily involved in the wedding planning, and that's a good thing. It helps keep you from doing too much and becoming overwhelmed. More importantly, a little teamwork on the wedding decisions gives the event the personality of the couple, rather than just you.
Here are a few key areas where relinquishing some of the responsibility to the groom will really pay off:
Wedding party gifts, the rehearsal dinner, his wedding band, and where to rent a tux are all obvious wedding decisions handled by the groom, so start with those. The groom should also handle everything that's required for the groomsmen and should invite and accommodate family members from his side.
Of course, you get input on these fronts, including veto power. However, at the end of the day, let him take the lead on these decisions and get the ball rolling on collaborative wedding planning.
Beyond the big things your groom always takes care of, he can get involved with the other wedding decisions a bride would usually handle. He can make spreadsheets, manage budgets, interview and follow up with vendors, reserve hotel blocks, arrange transportation, arrange for portable toilets or rental tables and chairs, and more. In this way, he can help make judgment calls based on logistical factors, rather than clash with your tastes or pretend he has a preference on something he doesn't care about.
No matter what stage of wedding planning you're in, it helps to sit down and make a very detailed list of what has to happen. Start with a big item, such as booking a venue, and break it down into daily, actionable steps:
Do this with each task, and you'll be surprised at how many subtasks you'll find.
In this day and age, you may as well dispose of gender stereotypes. If your guy cares about flowers and centerpieces, let him help choose those things. If he's a beer aficionado or wine enthusiast, have him stock the bar. If he's into graphic design, have him put together your save the dates or design the program. There's no standard division of responsibility when it comes to wedding planning. The key is to have both the bride and groom contribute in a way that is meaningful and helpful.
Your wedding is truly a test of how you work as a team, so put some effort into finding your groove. Whether it's dividing and conquering by working independently on separate tasks or staying up until the wee hours of the morning debating details and making a collaborative decision, the end result will be far more rewarding if both of you invest time and attention.


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What is teaser Tuesday? It's a meme hosted by A Daily Rhythm (previously Should Be Reading).
Grab your current read, flip to a random page, share two teaser sentences, don't include spoilers.
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Publication date: May 19th 2015
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"Without falling into a pit along the way? I'm astonished." He only then looked up at me and frowned. "Or did you fall into a pit?"
I looked down at myself. My skirt had one enormous ugly stain, from the vomit – I'd wiped if off best as I could in the kitchen, but it really hadn't come out – another from where I'd blown my nose. There's three or four dripping stains from the stew, and some spatters from the dish-pan where I'd wiped the pots. The hem was still muddy from this morning, and I'd torn a few other holes in it without even noticing. (5% Kindle)
After all the amazing reviews I've been seeing, I figured I give it a go! Just started it but I'm enjoying it so far. Agnieszka is such a klutzy girl and kind of walking disaster, I love it.
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#1 Cause of Back Problems
Do you or someone you love suffer from back pain?
Chances are that the answer is "yes", but I'll bet
that you don't know the #1 cause of this issue…
It's sitting! That's right, who would have thought!
1 out of every 2 back pain sufferers tends to spend
way too much sitting during the day.
Makes perfect sense, so many of us sit hunched over
a keyboard like some kind of cubicle monkeys nowadays.
But that's not all…
Sitting too much can also contribute to your becoming
obese and increases the likelihood of you developing…
Diabetes…Heart Disease…and other potential fatal afflictions.
Evolution Makes The Rules…Your Job Doesn't
The 20th century is over.
It was a wonderful century full of industrial and economic
progress, but that progress brought many health problems
along with it.
You see, the modern industrial world requires us to be
obedient little worker bees…this beings in public school.
We are taught to sit, be quiet, listen, and answer…but only
when spoken to. We learn to do this for about eight hours
per day, while mom and dad are at work.
This way, we learn to sit still and follow orders, so that
we can one day go sit in an office and follow orders in
order to receive a paycheck and make a living.
This would not be as bad as I'm making it sound here if it
weren't for one insurmountable issue…
Our tens of thousands of years of musculoskeletal
evolution requires us to move around all day long,
like our hunter-gatherer ancestors did…
The average American spends about 10 hours per day sitting.
I know from experience. My mom was a 14-hour per day sitter,
today she struggles from horrible back problems and we spend
at least two-to=three full days per month merely traveling
from back specialist to back specialist in hopes of relieving
her constant pains. I don't want you suffering the same way.
The Scary Science of Sitting
Once you first sit down, your body immediately begins the
relaxation process. The blood flow slows and the muscles
loosen…thus you immediately stop burning fat.
Remember, your body IMMEDIATELY begins storing fact for
evolutionary survival purposes. Back when we lived in caves,
hunting, gathering, and foraging for food…we never had easy
convenience stores and ready-made nutrition.
So when we ate, our bodies adapted to store fat for long
periods of time, just in case we didn't eat for days on end.
In other words, EVERY…SINGLE…TIME…that you sit down, your
internal machinery slows down and starts storing fat.
Studies show that those sitting 10 hours per day or more,
doubled the likelihood of developing heart disease.
The same holds true for diabetes, sitting increases insulin
production. Insulin is the trigger for diabetes.
Stand Up For Your Life
Walking, on the other hand, forces the discs in your back
to expand and contract, allowing you to more easily and
readily absorb nutrients into your bloodstream.
Meanwhile, sitting causes these discs to compress. If you've
ever had disc-related back pain issues you know just how bad
and painful of a problem this can become.
A spine that doesn't regularly stretch, expand, and contract
eventually becomes frail, brittle, and useless.
Once you reach this level of musculoskeletal degeneracy,
even the most simple task can lead to serious back injury.
Even something as simple as picking up a cup of coffee,
or bending over to pet your pup or hug your grandchild.
While sitting, your discs lose their sponginess and
collagen hardens around the supporting tendons and ligaments.
The sponginess of the discs between your vertebrae is
necessary in order to maintain a healthy back as you age.
Standing up also forces your muscles to flex and tense up,
while sitting deteriorates them, for the same reasons as
those above.
In kinesiology, the study of body mechanics, this is called
hypokinesia, which means "decreased bodily movement."
Today, it's considered one of the "Silent Assassins" of
Americans over the age of 55. Once your muscles go weak,
you lose stability. This causes people with hypokinesia to
fall and end up with major hip problems and worse…
All those sad stories you hear about people falling, hitting
their heads and then dying in their own bathtubs…are almost
always the result of advanced hypokinesia!
Remember, your body is an adaptive mechanism…
It learns from your behavior. If you sit too much it will
adapt and issues such as: poor circulation, bone weakening,
and even brain damage (due to decreases oxygenation) will
become the norm.
You are a hunter at the core. You don't need to go out
and actually do it. Just remember it and move around
each day, like a proper professional hunter would.
Sit vs. Stand…The Final World
Stand up! It might take some time to adapt to standing while
at your computer, but it will pay off. Get a computer desk
with enough height adjustment so you can stand instead of
sitting while working at your computer.
This will get you moving around more as well!
When sitting, take a break every hour. Stretch or just walk
for five minutes – any kind of movement helps. You might think,
"Even though I have to sit and work for 10 hours straight, I
will exercise for one hour after that to reverse the effects."
But exercise can't reverse the effects of 10 hours of sitting!
Sitting tells your body to shut down all of its processes.
Do you think exercise compensates for not sleeping enough?
So why would you think it will compensate for sitting all day?
Try sitting on something wobbly like a Pilates ball while at y
our desk. This gets your core muscles working. If you must sit,
at least sit correctly as shown in the picture.
Do this if you are retired, as well. Heck, this is MUCH MORE
valuable advice if you are retired.
Go for a brief walk each morning and night…
Watch television and check email while standing up…
Cook your food, forcing yourself to stand while doing the prep.
Today, many young people sit all day without thinking about
what that's doing to their back and to their bodily functions,
and how it will show up when they get older. This is also a
huge factor as to why our children are getting fatter and fatter.
People are not aware of the dangers of hypokinesia.
They should be.
That is why I've chosen to write about it today and will
continue to do so in the future.
Please share this information with a loved one who sits
too much for their own good.
Standing Up For Your Back,


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Three Mile Creek is no longer a retail store. It is now Ryan's Log Furniture. I am the former craftsman for Three Mile Creek. I am also a son of Mike and Rhonda Mounce, owners and founders of Three Mile Creek.
I have purchased the wood shop and am still handcrafting the same high quality log furniture. For more information on our products, or to set an appointment, call or text me at (573) 241-1278.
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Home > About Mercy Health System > News > 2013 > Nazareth Hospital Names Donald S. Ostrum, MD, Dr. Skromak Award Winner
Published on April 09, 2013
NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA (April 9, 2013): Donald S. Ostrum, MD, Chair of Radiology and a member of Nazareth Hospital's board, received the Dr. Stanley J. Skromak award at Nazareth's Doctors' Day Celebration. This award is presented annually to a Nazareth Hospital physician who exemplifies dedication to the medical profession, fosters medical education, demonstrates exemplary patient/physician interaction, shows courtesy and respect towards everyone, and who is a true "doctor's doctor." The 2012 recipient was Dr. James V. Mackell, Jr., MD, FAAOS.
Dr. Ostrum is a graduate of Temple University Medical School and completed his residency in diagnostic radiology at Albert Einstein Medical Center. He joined the staff of Nazareth in 1991.
The award is named for Dr. Stanley J. Skromak, one of the founding physicians at Nazareth Hospital, and Medical Staff President during the 1960s. Dr. Skromak was noted for his medical knowledge and friendly approach to his patients.
"Dr. Ostrum is committed to improve quality and patient care. He is a true champion of our core values. We congratulate Dr. Ostrum for his achievement," said Mathew Mathew, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Nazareth Hospital.
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Microsoft will purchase business social network LinkedIn for $26.2bn (£18.5bn) as it strengthens its focus on cloud-based business-oriented services.
The deal, expected to be closed later this year, is the biggest acquisition yet for Microsoft under the leadership of CEO Satya Nadella, who took over in 2014.
Even though Microsoft said LinkedIn will remain a separate entity, it clearly has plans to tap into the rich data pool available through the social network with its 433 million professional users.
"LinkedIn and Microsoft really share a mission" to help people work more efficiently, said Microsoft CEO Nadella in a conference call with analysts. "There is no better way to realise that mission than to connect the world's professionals."
He further elaborated that in future, people could be scheduling meetings through Microsoft Outlook calendar, which would automatically offer them background information about every participant of the meeting including their education, shared connections and experience.
Moreover, the combined data pool of the both firms would allow Microsoft to more efficiently mine information for marketing purposes.
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FIFA 16 Defend & Attack Guide
Hello everyone, I've seen so many posts on some FIFA 16 forums, which named "How do i defend?", "How do i stop the opposing player from walking through my defence?", "How do I score in this game?". And I can't blame you, FIFA 16 is probably the hardest FIFA to date, and it took me a while to get used to it.
So I have decided to write a little guide, I made a guide for the new tactical defending when it came out and it was a very popular guide on the FIFA forums, so hopefully I can assist some of you. This guide will NOT cover high pressure tactics or any custom settings for the game, this is all about how to play it. I couldnt give you tips on those settings even if I wanted to, because i don't use them.
As far as I'm aware there are 4 types of effective defending, they all work in different parts of the pitch and against different type of opponents. So its best to use a combination of the four.
Manual defending:
This is when you are controlling the closest player to the ball carrier, jockying him and waiting for him to make his move. This tactic is best used against someone who is a decent dribler (not talking about skill moves), and its best used either down on the wing or directly infront of your own box. Using just the teammate contain in these areas of the pitch is dangerous, on the wing its dangerous because a decent dribler will easily get past the AI if you are just using the contain button, and infront of the box its very easy to shake the defender off long enough to get a good shot off. Here is a checklist of what to do, and what not to do when using this method.
Stay off the sprint button unless you have to, if you sprint in either direction, and the attacker makes a sharp turn.... you are gone.
In 1v1 scenarios where hes through on goal, just try to jocky backwards in a straight line, dont commit to either side unless you absolutely have to, most attackers will turn one way and then do a sharp turn the other way, if you as a defender committ to either side too early, he will most likely get past you.
Dont be aggressive, in a perfect scenario you want the attacker to run into you, not the other way around. If you try, and miss, hes past you. The only time I would go aggressive in to get the ball is if he does a sharp turn/skill move that i notice very early, so that I can move my defender where the attacker exits his move, this will often result in me getting the ball. But against a player with high dribbling, he can sometimes skip past you.
Its ok to use the secondary press aswell on the wing, but dont do it infront of your own box. But on the wing you can really box the attacker in and he will be stuck there.
Do not use the contain button when applying this method. In all fairness, never use the contain button, its bad.
Auto defending:
This is where you basicly use the secondary press to charge the ball carrier, and then use your controlled player (preferably a CDM or CM) to move and cut off his best passing option. Use this tactic anywhere on the pitch except when hes close to your own box, or past your midfield only facing your defensive line.
If you are at a point where using the secondary press will bring out one of your back 4/3 (depending on formation), dont use it.
This tactic works really well against passing playstyles, players who pass a lot. They usually dont focus much on dribbling and will assume they cannot get past the player charging them, so they will go with the passing option instead, this is when you can intercept the ball.
Semi defending:
This is just an advanced variation of the auto-defending. Here you basicly take your defender, run him towards the ball carrier manually, so that the opponent thinks you are going to manually defend against him, but as soon as your defender gets close , you switch to a player further back on the pitch, press the secondary press button (which will make the closest player contain the ball carrier, aka the guy you just ran close to him) and then you try to intercept the pass from further back. The good thing about this type of defending is that you will pressure the ball carrier faster, giving him less time to decide. You will also deter him from trying to skill past you, since he thinks you will manualy jocky. But, it will give you less time to position yourself for interceptions. This is proably a more advanced type of defending, I dont use it much. It really requires you to spot passing options early, so you know which man to switch to and position him perfectly in a very short amount of time.
Agressive defending:
This is where you use your midfielders to basicly try and ram down the ball carrier, as soon as a pass is made, use your right stick to switch to the closest player, run towards the reciever and try to guess which way he will turn.... run... or pass and either tackle him or intercept. This tactic adds a lot of pressure, but a skilled player can really take advantage of this and create lots of space for himself on the pitch. However, this tactic is very good when the ball carrier is infront of your box and your midfield is close, use your CDM/CM to harass the ball carrier while he is facing your back 4. The better you are at reading the game, the better this tactic will work. This tactic, when done properly will often win you the ball back earlier.
General advice:
There is a lot of replies to struggling players that the shouldnt control the back 4 manually. And I agree, to a certain extent. When its the only possible option, you HAVE to do it, and if you have the time, rather use the left or right back than the CBs. Just remember to keep cool and dont stress to get the ball back. You have already let your opponent get infront of your box with only the back 4 to help you out, you are in NO rush to get the ball back, just play it cool and keep him from scoring. Losing your head in this situation guarantees a goal against you.
Sometimes your defenders might be out of position while the opponent is coming down on your half, if you notice a gap in your defence, instead of trying to harass the ball carrier manually, try to use AI contain and manually select a player and move him into the gap so its filled. The way attacking players work in this game is that they will automaticly seek out holes in the defence, so if you let that gap stay open, a striker will rush through it and be clear on goal if he recieves a decent pass.
Stringing together passes is very different this year, and its harder. Here is a few tips for successfull passing.
The through ball is less useful this year, this was hard for me to get used to. I very often used this during build up, but this year it works a bit differently. It will often go further than you want it to, and it will very often get intercepted. The general rule for through balls is this, ONLY use it towards players with free space ahead of them. And when a player is making a run between defenders, if it goes too far and the keeper gets it, its not because you put too much power on it, its either the passing skill of the passer (and ofcourse, bad luck from the game engine) OR its just that the pass is miss-timed in regards to the run made, this will result in a bad pass. If you time it correctly, the pass will be perfect.
The normal pass is still extremely effective, and should be your most used pass, its easier to recieve and quick to execute.
The driven pass is the new addition in FIFA 16, and its great. Use this towards ANY player that has a defender near him or close to the passing lane. (player stats becomes very important here). As a rule of thumb, 90% of the time you pass to your strikers, you will want to use this type of pass, or else it will be intercepted.
If you have the time, face the player you are passing to, this will make the pass more accurate and easier to recieve. This is not always possible, but try to do it as much as you can.
When you recieve the ball you do not want to hold the sprint button unless you have lots of open space to run into. holding LT will make you recieve the ball more smoothly, and less chance that it bounces off you a bit and a defender snags it. And if its a normal pass, remember to run towards the ball, this will prevent interceptions and give you more time to turn/pass. When recieving infront of the box against an agressive defender, who rushes a CB out to get you, you can just hold LT and wait, see which direction he comes from and turn the opposite side for a free chance on goal.
Dribbling this year is also very different, skill moves are less effective, as a result I dont use them as much as I used to. I do however dribble... a lot. Mastering the skill-dribble (LT+RT) will let you create space for a shot, or even walk past AI contain. But the most effective technique is switching directions while alternating sprint and LT button. This will give you a slight speed boost to either side, so you can dart past defenders with ease. This is very powerful when coming in from the wing, but you do need some speed going into it, if you try this from a stand-still, the defender will read it and catch you. If you however manage to get your player past the point of acceleration, you can pretty much change direction slightly, and the defender has a 50-50 chance to catch you, by guessing which way you will go. Once you get past a defender or two, the player will usually start to panic, at this point he will overcommit too easily, and ive gone past 5-6 players and put the ball past the keeper followed by a rage quit soo many times its not even funny. This is also a great technique to create some space for a pass in the midfield, once you go past one player, you will have lots of room to run into, and a lot more passing options. Just constantly holding the sprint button this year is NOT a good idea.
If you master this technique in division 10-4, your game will change dramatically. I think I figured this out when I was in division 9-8, and i went straight down to division 3 with 3-8 goals in average per match. This is also why you want to jocky defend against players down on the wing or infront of the box, because this technique will let you go past AI contain pretty easily aswell. If you try to Auto defend against someone who knows how to do this, you are in big trouble
Crossing in this game is very different from previous FIFA versions, you have probably noticed the keeper catching everything. The best ways to cross in this game is early crosses, cross it before you reach the edge of the box, hold LB and cross it in. Power depends if you are aiming for the middle or backpost. (depending on where you have a player on the run). If your attackers are too far behind when you are ready to cross you have two options, either go further down the pitch and do a power cross (double tap the cross button, or triple tap it for a low cross, remember to have your player face across the goal. Or you can cut in slightly, let your players advance towards the box, and then cross.
Scoring Goals:
When it comes to shooting, you can pretty much score from any angle this year. Even near post when coming in from the wing. But my absolute favorite way to score this year is cutting in from the wing and doing a driven pass into the box. If you have a striker with good positioning and finishing this will result in tons of goals.
More FIFA 16 tips tricks will come at a later point, a bit busy. Feel free to add tips for those who struggle, leave your wonderful ideas below, please, if you don't agree with me.


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I've been craving biscuits lately. Well, I should say I always crave them, it's just that I don't eat them all the time because I don't want to look like one. I don't want to get a muffin-top, or I guess I should say a biscuit-top. Whatever. I don't want that thing that bulges over the top of my jeans to be referred to as a fattening food product, thank you very much. Now, how come men don't have a derogatory name attached to their bulge that we use in our daily vernacular like us women have? There are a lot of men out there that have what I call "keg-tops" and we should use it! Anyway, I'd rather be accused of having a muffin-top than a keg-top. Biscuit-top doesn't sound too good either though… where was I? Oh, yes, biscuits. Well, I've had a difficult time finding a place where I can get a homemade biscuit, meaning made from scratch with butter and buttermilk, not water and a box mix. So I just suck it up and settle for the lesser biscuit from a box. Why, you ask? Because I can't resist the texture of that puffy, flour-ey goodness! I like to smear butter all over my biscuit while it's still warm and watch it melt into all the places that melting butter can go, and I like to drizzle a golden stream of sweet honey all over it, then sink my teeth into that warm, puffy softness. The taste of that sweet honey mixed with creamy butter on a cloud of flour is, well, heavenly!
So I've been heading over to Eggs 'N Things on Moorpark Road in Thousand Oaks when I want my biscuit fix since theirs are pretty decent and since it's close to me. I can power-walk there in five minutes and get in a really great work-out! Anyway, I went there last Sunday morning and to my dismay, it was packed with all these… people! *Sigh* I thought they were all in church. So I sat at the counter instead of a table since I didn't want any disruptions, and took a look at their menu.
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Glasgow Gears Up For Great Scottish Run
3 Oct 2014
The wait is almost over for one of the most hotly anticipated running events in Scotland – the Great Scottish Run.
Gebrselassie Relishing Return To Glasgow
24 Sep 2014
Haile Gebrselassie has spoken of his delight to be returning to Glasgow for this year's Great Scottish Run on 5 October.
Great Scottish Discount For Women
16 Sep 2014
With just three weeks until the Bank of Scotland Great Scottish Run on 4/5 October, women are being offered an extra incentive to sign up for the event.
Gebrselassie To Defend Great Scottish Title
11 Sep 2014
Haile Gebrselassie will return to Glasgow on 5 October to defend his title at the Great Scottish Run.
Pavey Confirmed For Great Scottish Run
2 Sep 2014
Following her Commonwealth Games success, Jo Pavey is set to return to Glasgow on Sunday 5 October for the Great Scottish Run.
Great Scottish Run Aims To Be Sweeping Success
20 Mar 2014
The GB men's curling team helped launch this year's Bank of Scotland Great Scottish Run with last year's winner of the female half marathon Susan Partridge. The Half Marathon and 10K races will be held on Sunday 5 October this year.
Entries Open For Great Scottish Run
4 Feb 2014
Entries for the 2014 Bank of Scotland Great Scottish Run 10K and Half Marathon are now open!
Emperor Reigns In Glasgow
7 Oct 2013
Haile Gebreslassie lived up to his nickname of the Emperor as he put on a commanding performance in the Great Scottish Run Half Marathon yesterday (6 October).
Great Wait Almost Over
4 Oct 2013
The wait for one of the highlights of the Scottish running calendar is almost over.
Scots Trio To Face Off In Glasgow
26 Sep 2013
Three of Scotlands brightest running stars will go head-to-head at the Bank of Scotland Great Scottish Run on Sunday 6 October.
Great Incentive For Early Entrants
17 May 2013
Organisers of the Bank of Scotland Great Scottish Run are offering the first 6,000 entrants a discount on the 10K and half mrathon races.
Make A Splash At Great Scottish Run
15 Mar 2013
Olympic swimmers
Great Scottish Run Set For TV
31 Aug 2012
The Bank of Scotland Great Scottish Run is to be broadcast on television for the first time this year.
The Road To Recovery
29 Aug 2012
A team of runners recovering from alcohol and drug addiction will be competing in this Sunday's Great Scottish Run
Pacemakers Required For Great Scottish Run
25 Aug 2012
Pacemakers are required for this year's Great Scottish Run Half Marathon and 10K.
Stars Sign Up For Great Scottish Run
18 Aug 2012
A host of celebrities have signed up for next month's Great Scottish Run.
Family Fun At Great Scottish Run
15 Aug 2012
The Great Scottish Run will be truly inclusive this year with the addition of new races for runners of all ages.
Runners Prepare To Be First Pasta Finish Line
10 Aug 2012
A pasta party is to be held in preparation for the Great Scottish Run next month.
New Family Mile Means Running For All
20 Apr 2012
The events taking place on Great Scottish Run Saturday (September 1, 2012) have been extended to include four new events a Toddler Dash, a Family Mile, a Junior Mile and an invite-only Elite Mile. The new events join the popular 3k challenge on the Saturd


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The Crime Stoppers Story – By Greg MacAleese (Founder)
The two criminals who shot down Michael Carmen at his gas station in July, 1976, didn't realize that they would be responsible for a world-wide anti-crime movement that has resulted in the solution of more than 425,000 major crimes. They didn't realize that as a result of their cold-blooded killing more than 75,000 criminals would find themselves behind bars. Nor did they realize that their crime would become the model of two major television network shows. No, the two criminals who shot Michael Carmen at point-blank range with a .12 gauge shotgun did not realize that their crime would serve as the catalyst for the creation of Crime Stoppers.
Michael Carmen
Michael Carmen was a young University of New Mexico student, who was working a small gas station in Albuquerque's Northeast Heights in July, 1976. He was only two weeks away from marrying his high school sweetheart. On the night he was killed, he was working an extra shift because one of his friends needed the night off.
On that fateful night, two men robbed Michael's gas station and then-for no apparent reason-fired a shotgun blast from less than 10 feet into his abdomen. Remarkably, Michael lived for more than four hours after the shooting. Several times he tried to tell detectives who it was who shot him but he didn't have the strength. He died on the operating table without being able to make a dying declaration.
I was one of the detectives working that case. The murder seemed so senseless at the time. It still remains senseless today. But I told Michael Carmen's mother that we would bring his killers to justice. And yet after six weeks of trying to piece evidence together to solve the murder, we were no closer to a solution than we were the night he was killed.
First Reenactment
It was really out of desperation that I approached Max Sklower, then general manager of KOAT-TV in Albuquerque, and asked him if we could reenact the crime for one of his newscasts. My reasoning for reenacting the crime was simple. I felt we had an eyewitness to Michael Carmen's murder somewhere in the community. But how was I going to reach out in a city of some 350,000 people and pluck out an eyewitness?
The only logical approach was to get the media to do it for me. Then it came to me that if we reenacted the crime, we might be able to trigger the memory of a potential eyewitness, someone who might have seen part of the crime committed but not understood what he or she was witnessing.
I did not take much of a sales job to convince Max Sklower to broadcast a reenactment of Michael Carmen's killing on KOAT-TV. He quickly agreed.
On September 8, 1976, the first crime reenactment was broadcast on KOAT-TV's 10 o'clock news. The next morning I received a call from a young man who told me that he had watched the reenactment on television. He said he remembered walking home from a party on the night Michael Carmen was killed and that he had heard a loud bang, almost like the noise made by a large firecraker.
He said shortly after the blast, a car heading west from the gas station passed him at high speed. The caller said there were two men inside the vehicle, but that he couldn't recognize them. But, he added, he though he had seen the car before and that it belonged to a resident in a nearby apartment complex.
The caller's information was the missing link we needed to solve Michael Carmen's murder. By finding the killer's getaway vehicle, we were able to trace it back to one of the two gunmen.
The second offender was caught a short time later. It took us just 72 hours to solve Michael Carmen's murder, once we received the caller's tip. Six other armed robberies were also solved as a result of our investigation.
Birth of Crime Stoppers
As a result of our first televised reenactment, I was able to convince the Albuquerque Police Department that we needed this kind of program on a regular basis. I know that most major crimes were solved not by brilliant investigation on the part of the police, but as a direct result of information provided by the public. However, many citizens were reluctant to provide this information for two reasons – Fear and apathy.
So I designed Crime Stoppers to overcome these two barriers. For those people who were afraid of retaliation from the criminal element, I created a system that would allow callers to Crime Stoppers to remain completely anonymous. And for these citizens who were apathetic, I established a system that would provide cash rewards for information leading to the solution of a major crime.


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Dates: June 18th – June 22nd, 2018.
Location: Hockessin, Delaware
Description: A partnership program between Delaware Youth Leadership Network and Schoolyard Ventures, the Experiencing Entrepreneurship Summer Program gives teens the opportunity to become entrepreneurs and to build the skills and mindset required to solve real-world problems. Students will learn from experienced entrepreneurs how to use entrepreneurship, not only to generate revenue but to improve the world. Since 2009, Schoolyard Ventures has helped over 3,000 students launch ventures ranging from app development companies and microfinance projects to fashion labels and food startups.
The program is designed for students 14 to 18 years of age and the application is open to any high school student able to travel to Hockessin, Delaware
Limited financial aid is available – please inquire.
Application Process: Interested students should apply via the link below. Phone admissions interviews will be scheduled with students after their application is received.
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The SV program has surrounded me with mentors who have launched successful businesses, as well as amazing students in the process of launching companies. I couldn't have asked for a better environment to become a great entrepreneur.
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It has really helped me build my mental toughness.
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Unlike traditional school learning, SV has helped me focus on my areas of interest and set goals based on what I want to achieve in life. Once those goals were set, SV helped me stay motivated to achieve them and surrounded me with mentors and staff who are rooting for me to continually do better.
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I've been saying that I want to be an entrepreneur for as long as I can remember. But now, after going through the SV program and being mentored by successful entrepreneurs, I can put my life in perspective – the idea of being an entrepreneur as a career is now realistic. I love this program!
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The SV program has been an amazing ride! There's no way I would be where I am if it wasn't for the program.
I came to SV as a 15 year old without a business idea. Less than 18 months later, my company Detrapel has sold over $50,000 worth of product. The program helps you build skills to succeed in life like no other program can.
If you're a teen thinking about going into business as a career or launching your own business, you NEED this program. There's no where else you can get a real-world experience like this at such a young age.
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The program is the perfect place to learn how to implement your ideas.
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For those who have an ABI, the cessation of driving is one of the most challenging consequences, as the ability to drive is often seen as a key determinant of an individual's level of social engagement and general independence (Lane & Benoit 2011). Individuals with ABI often return to driving in an effort to feel independent, even if they are not fit to do so (Liddle et al. 2011, 2012) (Leon-Carrion et al. 2005). Driving a motor vehicle requires effective function in multiple domains that may be impaired by the injury, including perception, cognition, communication, and coordination. In particular, driving depends on functional vision and rapid reliable responses, as well as the ability to make quick decisions and remain attentive despite distractions. Individuals with ABI may have difficulty driving due to deficits in monitoring simultaneous inputs (Formisano et al. 2005; Masson et al. 2013; Ortoleva et al. 2012) and anticipating dangerous situations (van Zomeren et al. 1987). Adjusting to post-injury abilities can also be an issue among returning drivers, as some individuals were less likely to modify their driving style and behaviour following ABI, particularly younger male drivers (Labbe et al. 2014). All of these factors contribute to the increased likelihood that individuals with ABI will be involved in more accidents than the general population (Bivona et al. 2012; Formisano et al. 2005). Schanke et al. (2008) argued that this is due to a lack of adequate compensation for the post-injury cognitive deficits, particularly those relating to executive function.
Individual Studies
Table: Return to Driving (Intervention Studies)
Table: Return to Driving (Non-Intervention Studies)
In the literature, 32% to 75% of individuals returned to driving following ABI (Fleming et al. 2014; Formisano et al. 2005; Hawley 2001; Leon-Carrion et al. 2005; Liddle et al. 2012; Perumparaichallai et al. 2014; Pietrapiana et al. 2005). Those who returned to driving showed improved community reintegration and reported less barriers to their independence (Fleming, Liddle, et al. 2014; Rapport et al. 2006). However, those who did not return to driving needed to find alternate means of transportation, and thus their caregivers reported higher levels of strain (Fleming, Liddle, et al. 2014).
A number of factors are associated with return to driving among individuals with ABI. An individual's pre-injury driving experience and the chronicity of their injury were predictive of their subsequent return to driving (McKay et al. 2015); although the evidence regarding injury severity was conflicting (Cullen et al. 2014a; Ross et al. 2015). Performance on tests of visual attention, working memory, processing speed, and task switching (Perumparaichallai et al. 2014) as well as psychomotor speed and cognitive flexibility (Cullen et al. 2014a) were correlated with return to driving. Those who resumed driving scored higher on the Mayo-Portland Adaptability Inventory (Fleming, Liddle, et al. 2014) and the Functional Independence and Assessment Measures (Cullen et al. 2014b; Hawley 2001; Leon-Carrion et al. 2005) than those who did not resume. Deficits of vision and mobility, as well as recurrent seizures, were significant limiting factors in return to driving (Hawley 2001). Moreover, pre-injury behaviours play a role in post-injury driving fitness. Driving violations and accidents, risky driving styles, and risky personality before injury all decreased the likelihood of driving fitness after injury (Pietrapiana et al. 2005).
Following ABI, it is imperative that individuals are evaluated before they return to driving, as they may pose a risk to themselves and others on the road. While 66% to 79% of individuals passed initial driving assessments following ABI (McKay et al. 2015; Ross et al. 2015), one study found that 30% were driving upon admission to rehabilitation despite not being fit to do so (Leon-Carrion et al. 2005). As well, individuals with ABI performed poorly on driving simulations and related assessments when compared to healthy controls (Lew et al. 2005; Masson et al. 2013). Careful clinical review can identify appropriate augmentative and/or compensatory strategies to target the specific deficits and adapt the related tasks. Participation in a multidisciplinary neurorehabilitation program has been shown to improve driving-related deficits, and thus increase the rate of individuals returning to driving following ABI (Leon-Carrion et al. 2005; Perumparaichallai et al. 2014).
There is Level 4 evidence that participation in a multidisciplinary rehabilitation program increases the number of patients that return to driving post ABI.
Pre-injury driving accidents, violations, and behaviours are predictors of post-injury driving fitness.
Accidents are more common among individuals with ABI who return to driving, which may be related to patients prematurely returning to driving.
Participation in a multidisciplinary rehabilitation program increases the number of patients who return to driving post ABI.
Return to driving is more likely for individuals with less severe injuries.


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The mission of the Israel Policy Forum is to promote Israel's future as a Jewish and democratic state by advancing a diplomatic resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.IPF combines the work of a think tank with that of an advocacy organization. It fosters the development of pragmatic policies for advancing a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and promotes those ideas through targeted advocacy initiatives in the Jewish community and in Washington. IPF is centrist and pragmatic. IPF rejects the notion that when it comes to Israel advocacy that American Jewish community is comprised of individuals who are either entirely uncritical or entirely disengaged. Instead, we elevate the voices of credible Israel advocates who are dedicated to supporting Israel's security while safeguarding its future as both a Jewish and democratic state.
Position Description
Israel Policy Forum (IPF) is seeking interns for the spring semester 2014 to assist the organization's growing policy products, educational programs and advocacy initiatives. IPF is a fast-growing nonprofit, nonpartisan American institution dedicated to supporting active and sustained U.S. diplomatic efforts in the Middle East. Originally founded in 1993 following the signing of the Oslo Accords, IPF today serves as a base of support, primarily (though not exclusively) from mainstream leaders in the American Jewish community, for diligent, pragmatic U.S. diplomatic efforts to achieve a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and comprehensive stability and security in the broader Middle East. IPF is both a think tank and an advocacy organization that 1) Promotes policy ideas, commentary and analysis in support of responsible U.S. diplomacy and 2) Educates and mobilizes the American Jewish community in support of these policies.
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- Solid organizational skills
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No one in this world wants to look old, and the feeling is worse if that is early. The major sign of aging comes with forehead wrinkles. Just when you start seeing the fine lines on your face or forehead, you must understand that it is time to get in action. Forehead wrinkles can pull down your look and make you look old before time. But thankfully there are various remedies that will help you get rid of the problem of wrinkles easily. Start treating the fine lines as soon as you experience them to get rid of the problem permanently. But before discussing on How to get rid of forehead wrinkles, it is important to know its causes.
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- Excessive smoking– excessive smoking causes the thin skin to get premature fine lines. It develops heat in the body and lowers the level of vitamin C in the blood making the skin look old.
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- Use the petroleum jelly– petroleum jelly is said to be a great way of making the skin look nourished and young. It removes the dryness from the skin and repairs the damaged tissues. Apply petroleum jelly soon after washing your face.
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- Facial exercise– there are various facial exercises that will help you in getting rid of the wrinkles permanently.
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Apart from all the above-given remedies, you must also try to avoid the causes of forehead wrinkles. Hope these remedies will help you in answering the question of How to get rid of forehead wrinkles.


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Remaining unapologetic about his use of the helicopter to attend two of his son's baseball games and a political dinner with GOP campaign contributors from Iowa, Christie said that he has reimbursed the state about $2,100 and asked the state Republican Party to pay about $1,200 for his trip to see the donors.
Christie said of the two baseball game trips that he was just trying to balance his role as governor and as a father.
RELATED: See a list of state police helicopter flights for Gov. Chris Christie and Lt. Gov.Kim Guadagno, released by the governor's office.
"I'm governor 24-7 ... but I am also a father. And the fact of the matter is sometime when you are a governor, you do not control your schedule," he said at a bill signing ceremony in Denville.
Christie's reversal came a day after a spokesman said the governor would not make a reimbursement, defending the trips as appropriate. On Thursday, Christie said state police told him he wasn't required to reimburse the state for use of the helicopter, but told reporters, "I also understand this is a really fun media story for all of you."
"I want to make sure the public understands that I'm doing this because of the duty I feel to them to have my attention," Christie said.
After seeing his son's game Tuesday, Christie and his wife used helicopter to fly 75 miles to the official governor's mansion in Princeton for dinner with a group of top GOP campaign contributors from Iowa, who tried unsuccessfully to persuade Christie to run for president in 2012.
He also used the helicopter to fly from the Statehouse in Trenton on Friday to see another of his son's game.
"I'll be a governor for a lot less of a time than I'll be a father," Christie said. "It's not a good enough excuse for me to say, `Well, I was just governor, so you'll have to understand."
While the flights can cost $2,500 an hour, State Police Superintendent Rick Fuentes on Wednesday said Christie's use of the helicopter didn't cost taxpayers anything extra because the pilots need to put in flying time anyway to keep their skills sharp.
Since taking office in January 2010, Christie has used the helicopter 33 times. Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno used it once and one trip was used to transport staff between press events.
A list released by Christie's office on Thursday showed the most common use was for trips to New York City, which were made on nine occasions. When done by car, such trips can be disruptive because troopers shut the Lincoln Tunnel to other traffic for security reasons.
Associated Press writers Angela Delli Santi in Trenton, Josh Lederman in Denville and Geoff Mulvihill in Haddonfield contributed to this report.


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North Americans: "Lux"
Extraterrestrial imagery, and all the glances into uncharted territory it implies, runs wild throughout the music of North Americans, the solo project of Los Angeles-based Patrick McDermott, who also runs Driftless Recordings. "Lux" is taken from Legends, the moniker's second voyage, and it's a multi-tiered, densely constructed work. The majority of Legends was recorded throughout McDermott's 2014 travels, often when he was just on the brink of falling asleep, using that fine edge between consciousness to focus on crafting overwhelming sounds that drift between Pop-indebted drones and surf-tinged New Age. As the majority of the tunes began to form, the imagery that goes with it takes on a life of its own. To visualize the phenomenon McDermott drafted Ryan "Ghostdad" Sciano to make a video game entitled Legends as well, taking the music of the album and giving a hefty dose of the uncanny valley.
Legends is out soon on Driftless Recordings.


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gossip girl real nyc stories revealed.
i'm catching up on this week's new gossip girl and that dan humphrey quips like no other ("cater waiter at a seder!" ha!).
i also caught the commercial for gossip girl: real nyc stories revealed, hosted by jessica szhor. the show will premier this coming monday. i went to a preview party for this show last week and i'm curious to see how it will turn out. it's a micro-series during the commercial breaks of gossip girl that chronicles the lives of real upper east side girls.
the series is sponsered by dove, a la last spring's alicia keys series during the hills.
watch the trailer here:


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Attention Carly's Angels: The moment you've been waiting for has arrived. After hearing Carly Rose Sonenclar sing amazing cover after cover, the singer performed her first original song -- and it does not disappoint.
Titled "Unforgettable," the former "X Factor USA" runner-up took to the stage this past weekend at IPlay in Freehold, NJ, where she recorded the piano-based pop song -- which she co-wrote -- in front of a live audience. Watch Carly's full performance in the video above.
While we have to admit that the volume of the performance was a tad loud, the song still showed off her crazy-good vocals, hopefully giving us a taste of what's to come. Nice job, Carly.
Tell us, Carly's Angels: Are you a fan of Carly's first song? What did you think of her performance? Sound off in the comments or tweet @HuffPostTeen!