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Ballot measure: Palo Alto sucked into statewide marijuana debate
Original post made on Oct 12, 2012
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, October 12, 2012, 9:58 AM
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a resident of Charleston Meadows
on Oct 12, 2012 at 10:13 am
If the weekly really wants to do something useful on this measure, how about creating a map which shows which locations would be open to dispensaries under this measure? Given the ranges, its probably going to be a small number of locations.
a resident of Barron Park
on Oct 12, 2012 at 11:12 am
Pot shops are a bad idea which Los Angeles and San Jose are both trying to get away from.
Why go looking for trouble and putting City lawyers at odds with federal prosecutors? That will end up with the City footing a giant legal bill and pot shop operators laughing all the way to the bank.
Tim Gray favors pot shops; consequently, I do not favor Tim Gray.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Oct 12, 2012 at 12:23 pm
Having been to Amsterdam recently (my husband goes there regularly). I have to say that this pot dispensary thing is not a good idea. Even Amsterdam is thinking about getting rid of it, and for good reason: it has brought more crime, especially the violent variety, and mostly the tourist variety. Last year, Amstrdam changed its laws to prevent tourists from buying or using marijuana. A tourist can no longer go to a "coffee shop" there ( if you really want coffee or a drug-free snack, you go to a cafe). It has also brought in harder drugs: my husband witnessed a dealer being shot in the back of the head by a competitor or angry customer a couple of years ago.
Does anyone really want a dispensary in their neighborhood? Too many of the " medical" users simply have back,pain and have managed to find a doctor willing to,prescribe marijuana. This really cheats terminal cancer patients and other seriously ill people who have a legitimate need. It also attracts people feigning pain to procure the drug, as well as criminals attempting to loot the dispensary and who knows what else in a once-peaceful neighborhood.
Something like this is really going to ruin Palo Alto once and for all.
a resident of another community
on Oct 12, 2012 at 2:09 pm
I keep reading about "legalizing marijuana for recreational use", but what it appears that they're really trying to do is legalize marijuana as a far safer alternative to alcohol.
According to the CDC, alcohol kills 80,000 people every year in the U.S. while marijuana kills none. And marijuana's addiction potential is about on par with coffee. Since marijuana is far safer and far less addictive than alcohol, we could GREATLY reduce the amount of harm and addiction in society by giving people the right to switch from the more harmful drug, alcohol, to the less harmful drug, marijuana. And that would be a good thing.
The only thing is though, people can't switch to marijuana if marijuana's illegal. That's where we come in - we have to tell *our* legislators to legalize marijuana like wine.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Oct 12, 2012 at 3:00 pm
Marijuana has never been legal in Amsterdam, so stop using it as an example of what happens when it is legal.
Sometimes I think that politicians are under the control of some parasite that is lodged in their brain. A major revolt is underway and freedom is being restored to this once great land.
Freedom has never been advertised as safe. If you don't like the idea of freedom, leave! get out now!
a resident of Charleston Meadows
on Oct 12, 2012 at 5:19 pm
Dear Bruce and others that have a concern about my answer to the Daily Post about my answer to the Daily Post:
I was asked how I would personally vote on the Medical Dispensing and I stated that I would vote for it. That is Citizen Gray who, having years of experience in the healthcare field, feels that providing a safe and well-controlled dispensary near a major cancer treatment campus is appropriate. To me, it is no different that the chemotherapy clinics that we have, as we are not talking about pot clubs where people hang out, but where chronically ill people with great pain go to get pharmacy dispensed medicine to ease their pain. We have pharmacies in various locations, and this can be a clinical setting just the same.
Both Bruce and Citizen Gray will have one vote at the polls. I stated my current feeling based on the principal that I side with compassion over fear as a spiritual belief. There is room for others Citizens to participate in the conversation and, once the votes are tallied, the will of the people will be heard.
Candidate Gray wants to stay focused on creating a financial balance for Palo Alto, and stand up for moderated progressive growth as allowed within out Comprehensive Plan -- not the numerous examples of excess that I feel threatens to destroy the character of our neighborhoods. Moderation is needed, and we need to respect the diversity of opinions on many different topics, and stay focused on the big-picture issues that impact our quality of life.
When all the Citizens' votes are tallied, then Councilman Gray and the other representatives will simply implement the will of the people as expressed in the ballot box. No more and no less.
I know how you feel in wanting to preserve our safe neighborhoods. I had the same concerns, until I learned that far from presenting any risk to my children, measures can be in place that would make it no more disruptive than someone traveling to Stanford to get chemotherapy. Voters have already expressed the will of the people to allow this very important remedy to unfathomable pain and suffering of people fighting for their life.
Should our community accept the Medical Dispensaries, we can trust Chief Dennis Burns and his department to implement world class community protection. I have great faith in Dennis Burns and the Palo Alto Police. Just as good laws govern the Walgreens pharmacy, so will good laws govern anything that is established in our town.
I offer complete respect for others who hold a contrary opinion. I offered my opinion, but my advocacy is for Balance in the City's Finances and balance in Palo Alto's growth. Our sky's are not for sale. Our parks are not for sale!
I plead with you to be tolerant of a diversity of personal opinions, and know that Candidate Gray will stay focused on doing the hard work to promote financial balance in City Operations. Candidate Gray will demonstrate absolute loyalty to the will of the people -- without regard to the tally of the votes of the individual citizens.
Thank you for having room in your heart for a personal opinion that may be contrary to how you feel. We can agree to disagree on some things. Thank you so much for your time in reading this.
Timothy Gray
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Oct 12, 2012 at 6:43 pm
Marijuana IS legal in Amsterdam, but only for citizens now. The locals are considering making it illegal again. I was just there in May, and that is what my husband's Dutch clients told us.
I think Thomas Jefferson said it best: "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
Personally, I suspect a middle class revolt is brewing, and that a full-fledged revolution is less than twenty years away. We have lost too much and gained nothing economically, security-wise, and liberty-wise.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Oct 12, 2012 at 7:42 pm
Tim Gray, thank you for your informative post. I don't particularly agree with you on the pot clubs issue, but I didn't find anything to fault you with in your explanation.
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 12, 2012 at 8:43 pm
Any patient who needs THC can obtain a DEA/FDA legal prescription for Marinol
Drug users should be treated as a public health problem-not a criminal problem.
Dealers in drugs who gain a significant profit should face the death penalty-this death penalty should apply to MDs as well a drug gang dealers-because the major drug problem in the US involves prescription drugs
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Oct 13, 2012 at 6:17 am
Marijuana is not legal in Amsterdam. It is tolerated, just like driving 5 miles per hour over the speed limit is tolerated.
The crime surrounding the "tolerated" marijuana in Amsterdam is caused by people from neighboring countries where it is not tolerated and Amsterdam supplies the source for smuggling.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Oct 13, 2012 at 6:46 am
The War on Drugs failed $1 Trillion ago! This money could have been used for outreach programs to clean up the bad end of drug abuse by providing free HIV testing, free rehab, and clean needles. Harmless drugs like marijuana could be legalized to help boost our damaged economy. Cannabis can provide hemp for countless natural resources and the tax revenue from sales alone would pull every state in our country out of the red! Vote Teapot, PASS IT, and legalize it. Voice you opinion with the movement and read more on my artist's blog at Web Link
a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Oct 13, 2012 at 9:42 pm
@Tim Gray -- thank you for pointing out your position. I am glad I heard it before election day; I nearly voted for you. Now I will not.
Here is why: you are naive. Nobody really believes that the pot clubs have anything to do with compassion or medical need. I doubt the cancer center at Stanford prescribes it. (even if they did, this is about 1% of the pot club users. Read the back page of the Metro and you can get a sense of the customers for Pot Clubs)
This issue is entirely a sham for recreational marijuana usage. You either know this, and are lying, or you don't know it and are a fool.
One lost vote for Tim Gray.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Oct 14, 2012 at 12:04 pm
Marijuana is legal in Amsterdam, but only in one restricted area (near the red light district). One may not use marijuana outside of a "coffee shop".
As I said previously, I was just there in May, my husband goes there often and has a lot of Dutch clients. This is a topic of conversation that frequently comes up.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Oct 14, 2012 at 8:22 pm
Is it irrational of me to somehow associate this issue with denizens of the hookah lounge on University and all the images of murder and arson and life sentences that it conjures up?
a resident of Greenmeadow
on Oct 15, 2012 at 6:08 am
Jan H.--you are behind the times and providing false information about marijuana use in Holland.
Web Link
" New law to come in shortly in three provinces first including Maastricht and Eindhoven (covering other provinces including Amsterdam in 2012) only allowing registered members of clubs to go to the cannabis cafes, only Dutch residents who are at least 18 years of age can register but all foreigners will be banned including those from EU states"
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Oct 15, 2012 at 5:23 pm
FYI: Holland is only one province in the Netherlands.
a resident of Greenmeadow
on Oct 15, 2012 at 7:01 pm
Holland is used as a pars pro toto to refer to all of the Netherlands. It may not be liked but it is accepted. But what is your point, jan?
a resident of Barron Park
on Oct 15, 2012 at 7:05 pm
Cedric de La Beaujardiere is a registered user.
@musical: since you asked, yes, your statement is irrational. Hookah lounges are for smoking flavored herbs or tobacco, not pot. That criminal matter was the case of one person of bad character, who happened to be the owner of the lounge. He could have just as easily been the owner of a book store, but we wouldn't ban books over it.
If you want to use the politics of fear, at least find yourself a legitimate related example. I'm sure one can find examples of bad things that happened around pot dispensaries, as well as bad things that happened because there were no nearby pot dispensaries.
I am neither advocating a "yes" nor a "no" vote. But to help people educate themselves on this issue, two related programs recently aired on KQED:
Talk of the Nation on October 12, "Feds To Debate Marijuana As Medicine" (transcript and audio at Web Link).
The California Report on the weekend of October 12-14 "A Fight for Marijuana Dispensaries in San Diego" (Web Link). The rest is a quote from the CA Report's broadcast:
Vey Linville has severe emphysema. He needs bottled oxygen to survive. When Linville was first diagnosed, doctors told him without a double lung transplant, he'd soon be dead. Linville got his affairs in order.
Then one day when he was searching on the Internet, he discovered a treatment for breathing problems that used to be widely prescribed in the 1800s, Tincture of cannabis. Linville found a recipe for it, and decided to make it himself.
"And I went out and joined one of the clubs, one of the dispensaries, and was able to buy approximately a quarter pound of concentrates, that I put in a small amount of alcohol, and consumed over about 10 weeks," Linville recalled. "And instead of dying as expected, here I am, six years later, doing better and better."
These days, Linville uses just a few drops of the tincture in his tea. But getting any amount of marijuana is difficult, because nearly all dispensaries in San Diego County have been closed.
Linville said that puts him in a tough spot.
"It's immoral to make me choose between suffocating and doing business with a drug dealer," Linville argued.
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 15, 2012 at 7:29 pm
THC is available from your MD by prescription and from any pharmacy
It is the legal drug Marinol-which is FDA approved and tested.
Smoking anything damages your lungs, heart and health.
Pot heads want these federally illegal drug dealers so they can get stoned
Drug dealers want these stores so they can sell meth, cocaine and heroin outside to customers
These stores will bring reduced property values,violent crime and drug dealing to Palo Alto.
Any legitimate patient can get Marinol/THC from their MD
Why don't the pot heads address the fact that Marinol is a legal drug and has been for years?
a resident of Greenmeadow
on Oct 15, 2012 at 8:01 pm
Sharon, please provide some proof regarding your claims about "potheads" & "drug dealers" in palo alto, because it sounds like a fantasy and/or fear tactics to me
a resident of Midtown
on Oct 15, 2012 at 9:50 pm
@ Posted by George, a resident of the Greenmeadow neighborhood, 1 hour ago
Talk with anyone from the LAPD, PAPD any Emergency room MD @ Stanford and LA or any recovering addict and they will tell you that these pot shops are collection point for drug dealers.
There are lots of pot heads in PA ,it is the kids we worry about-if adults want to damage their brains-fine-as long as they do not drive or work in-banking-security-medicine-law-pilots-police-teaching etc
If the pot head is a farmer without a tractor-fine-not many manual farmers in PA
a resident of Greenmeadow
on Oct 15, 2012 at 11:24 pm
Sharon-I asked for proof.not more conjecture, hearsay and fear tactics.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Oct 16, 2012 at 1:00 pm
Yes, only residents over 18 in Amsterdam can use marijuana in restricted areas. It has not been available to foreigners for a while. They have considered doing away with allowing it at all, because of the nastier drugs and crime it has brought in
However, at a flea market across the canal from the "marijuana-legal" area, vendors were selling cannabis lollipops and other marijuana-laced treats.
BTW, people in the Netherlands do NOT like their entire country referred to as Holland. They feel it shows American ignorance, just as the Flemish do not like their language referred to as Dutch, even though the differences are very subtle.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Oct 20, 2012 at 8:33 am
I just love the direction Palo Alto is headed. Soon Obama will be showing up to Palo Alto not to receive money but to sue the city and bust the Cartel run pot clubs.
Medical MJ is a joke you can pay a doctor to give you a card for any bogus ailment you can conjure up. Have any of you been to one of these shops????? Most of the clientele are young and healthy. Not Cancer patients or people with serious illness.
Opening Pot shops in Palo Alto will only further the Agenda of these federal criminals in to creating normalcy and complacency so they can be left alone to make their millions from addicted Americans. The Marijuana industry is the new Tobacco industry.
Least we forget what it was like to have smokers blowing smoke in your face.
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a resident of Embarcadero Oaks/Leland
on Jan 24, 2007 at 12:07 pm
pretty stupid that a pet store specializing in food wouldn't give you a price for FOOD over the phone. is it confidential or something?
what would a store have a phone for if not to answer questions about their items?
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There's building excitement over new gaming hardware in 2013. As well as the big two expected announcements from Sony and Microsoft, the recent Consumer Electronics Show saw new hardware from Nvidia break cover, as well as new lines of 'living room' PCs designed for Steam's big picture mode, and more.
will be interesting to see if all these new consoles result in a lot of new flops as they squeeze one another out.
Really hope steam/valve brings the other companies into line. I want summer sales on PS3 damnit :p
The cost of gaming in 2013 will be high for all type of gamers that can't live without new tech.
Really, the big budget games are expaning to include more game types to get more sales. That's great for some, not all.
I'm just interested in what the launch line-ups will be and whether that'll be enticing enough to make the purchase. I remember PS3 being pretty weak, 360 was really not much better either. I did get the 360 day one (mainly because of Oblivion) but held off on the PS3 until KZ2, simply because there wasn't enough to justify the hefty price tag. I think the so called 'Steam Box' is an interesting and alternate solution as well. Not too much interested in the rest though.


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Next season, after a couple of trades during the summer, this team will gel. I expect the Knicks will be a top team in the East amongst other teams like the Pacers and Pistons. I don't see Lenny Wilkens in the picture, hey he did his job and got the Knicks into the playoffs, but he's not the coach of the future. Wheather or not Thomas will coach, I don't know, but not Wilkens.
They need to come up with new plays on both offense and defense, their current playbook is just totally incapable of handling what top teams bring to them.
My biggest fantasy of the offseason would be to acquire TMac, he would fit this team like a glove, but my head might be in the clouds on that one. Bottom line is that they will be much improved, for now I would like to see them pull off a win in game 4.


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text: Industrial Replicators. If nothing else, by itself, it would change the way we dealt with the physical world in a way that 3-d printing is currently dreaming about doing in forty years. But, to make a replicator work, you need amazing computers and components that could be rearranged to make holodecks and transporters...and maybe gravitic deck plates, deflectors, fusion generators and a miriad of other cool stuff. But, again, even without that, the replicators would revolutionize everything....That's what I want.


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I hope you're all having a great summer! This year at Camp Of Champions has been the best yet. The park's amazing and we've got tons of new features--four new forty-foot flat boxes, a big Nomis box which is basically a dance floor, a bunch of new rails, big jumps, and a dope half pipe. Needless to say I'm having one of the best summers of my life.
I also wanted to let everyone know that the DC SNOW team is coming to Camp Of Champions for Session E (July 14-20), so you're going to see the likes of Devun Walsh, Travis Parker, Todd Richards, Aaron Bitner, Priscilla Levac, and hopefully Edie Wall. Try that line up on for size man, it's going to be a blaster--as Travis Parker would say. The DC team is going to be doing catalog shoots, boot testing, and hanging with all the kids. It's going to be GTWTBs--Good times with the Bros)
I hope all's well with everyone and don't miss out on Session E. There's still room and you don't want this opportunity to slip, so hit up Camp of Champions in Whistler this summer get your shred on with us--there's still time to sign up.
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Many electronic devices -- from notebooks to cell phones -- rely on
batteries for operation. Rechargeable batteries account for much of the weight in
today's electronic devices so the size of the battery has to be tempered with
battery life to get an ideal product.
Stanford assistant professor of materials science and engineering Yi Cui,
graduate student Candace Chan and five other researchers made a breakthrough
for lithium-ion batteries. The researchers used silicon nanowires in the
battery anodes to design new
lithium-ion batteries that can hold ten times the electrical charge of current
batteries of the same size.
Cui told the Stanford News Service, "It's not a small improvement.
It's a revolutionary development." Cui and his team were able to get the
greatly increased electrical storage capacity by growing silicon nanowires on a
stainless steel substrate, which provides excellent electrical conduction.
Researchers say that the amount of energy a currently lithium-ion battery
can store is dependent on the amount of lithium it can store in its anode
typically made from carbon. Silicon has a higher storage capacity than carbon.
The use of silicon in lithium-ion batteries had been attempted before but the
growing and shrinking process caused by adding and removing lithium caused the
silicon to break down severely degrading the performance of the battery.
Chan says, "The people kind of gave up on it [silicon] because the capacity
wasn't high enough and the cycle life wasn't good enough. And it was just
because of the shape they were using. It was just too big, and they couldn't
undergo the volume changes."
The silicon nanowires used in the researcher's batteries are tiny at about
one-thousandth of the thickness of a sheet of paper and are able to inflate to
four times their normal size as they take in lithium without breaking during
the duty cycle of the battery. The researchers say that the infrastructure
behind silicon is mature meaning the new technology could be pushed to market
Cui has filed a patent application and is considering starting a company to
product batteries based on the technology or collaborating with an established
battery maker. This development could also mean much smaller and lighter
batteries than we have today that store as much electricity, which would be a
huge boon for mobile electronics.
Cui sees the new and improved lithium-ion batteries as being particularly
interesting to electric vehicle makers such as GM with its Chevy
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Football is almost back.
Thank God.
In 24 hours every prep football team in the state of Washington kicks off its 2013 season — 16 hours for Mount Vernon (more on that later) — with the first practice of the fall. And I couldn't be more excited … well fellow Herald writer David Krueger might be a little more excited.
Lakewood takes on Arlington at its 7-on-7 tournament. Words can't describe how excited I am to be watching football! pic.twitter.com/l8yxxIjIV7
— David Krueger (@Krueger_David) July 27, 2013
Every year we take on more and more on the first day of practice and this year is no different. My day begins at midnight as the Mount Vernon football team kicks off its season at 12:01 a.m. — the earliest any team can start — as the Bulldogs try to turn things around after tough turn in their first year back in Wesco last year. I'll be there and I'll tweet the mayhem.
Then in a more decent hour we'll start visiting camps at 8 a.m. at Kamiak and Snohomish. The Knights have high hopes with plenty of all-confernce returners, including running back Austin Hall, and Snohomish starts a new era under coach Kai Smalley.
Here's a complete look of the camps we'll be at and the reporters who will be at them. Follow the reporters for photos and news from the camps. Also we'll have reports from all the camps throughout the day at www.heraldnet.com/prepzone.
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Mount Vernon (Aaron Swaney)
8 a.m.
Kamiak (Swaney)
Snohomish (David Krueger)
10 a.m.
Mariner (Swaney)
Cascade (Lommers)
1 p.m.
Meadowdale (Lommers)
2 p.m.
Marysville Getchell (Swaney)
3 p.m.
Marysville Pilchuck (Krueger)
3:45 p.m.
Mountlake Terrace (Lommers)
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Davis plans to coach the school back to contention with every decision he makes.
"We've had some difficult troubles, but I believe we are making decisions to heal Hector," Davis said. "There's been a lot of challenges, but we will continue to be a great school district."
Davis first came to the school district in 1996 as a boys basketball coach and math teacher after earning a bachelor's and master's degree in math education from Arkansas Tech University.
After his sixth season with the Wildcats, Davis pursued coaching opportunities at Dardanelle, Dover and Harmony Grove. Somehow, he knew he belonged at Hector.
"Although I was away for eight years, I came back every year because this town is great," Davis said.
He returned to Hector as high school principal in 2010 and was named superintendent in 2011, giving him a new look at the school system.
"Every problem is yours, so your scope has to grow," Davis said. "You better understand decisions and view them from the biggest possible perspective."
Though his position allows him to continue to help students, he misses being in the classroom.
"I miss the closeness to young people," Davis said. "You don't get the daily contact, but you still do everything you can to help your school."
Davis comes from a family with a background in education. His father was superintendent at the Humphrey School District for nearly 20 years, his mother was a home economics teacher and his sister is a teacher.
"I didn't have a choice," Davis joked. "It would have been difficult to advance without their support."
His wife Tina, their two daughters and the residents of Hector also provide encouragement.
"People have been supportive, and we are rallying in every way," Davis said. "I am really grateful. Hector is a special place to me, and it's been a wonderful place to work."


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The relationship between the federal government and Native American communities has swung wildly from extreme to extreme, with policies concerning Indians usually in place only long enough to wreak havoc on tribes and individual Indians before being declared a failure and a new and sometimes completely opposite policy being implemented.
Attempts to exterminate Indians gave way to the indifference of the Reservation Period and the loss of significant tribal lands through the Allotment Era. In the late 1920s, Congress commissioned a report that deemed that approach a complete failure and led to the passage of the Indian Reorganization Act, which supported the adoption of tribal constitutions that still guide the operation of many tribal governments, including the Southern Ute Indian Tribe.
Despite these efforts to support tribes as governments, in the 1950s, federal policy drastically shifted back to eliminating tribal governments, during which time some tribes lost their legal status as tribes, many Indians were relocated to urban centers in the hope that they would lose their Indian identity and state jurisdiction was extended over Indian lands.
Once again, this approach was determined to be a disaster for tribes President Nixon called it wrong and was largely abandoned by the late 1960s.
A major policy shift toward strengthening tribes occurred through the adoption of the Indian Self-Determination Act (Public Law 93-638) in 1975. The ISDA (or 638 as it is known in Indian Country) stated that Indian communities could contract with the United States to take over and run any federal program providing services to Indians. In theory, the federal bureaucracies providing such services, primarily the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service, would fade away as Indian communities took over the functions of these agencies.
Where this transition has occurred, Indian communities have shown a remarkable ability to redesign and improve the often archaic services provided by federal agencies. For example, Indian-run health-care programs have been able to provide physicians and clinics in such remote locations as Navajo Mountain, where the IHS never provided such services. Indian communities have also proved much more effective in financial management of these programs.
Despite these successes and the good intentions of the self-determination policy, its effectiveness has been hampered by some of those charged with implementing it.
The problem at the heart of this transition has always been that the federal bureaucrats who were responsible for transferring programs to the control of Indian communities were the very people who would lose their jobs if the ISDA was successful. Consequently, there has been 40 years of resistance and foot-dragging by the agencies, requiring Congress to step in repeatedly to amend the ISDA and take action to ensure that the agencies did their jobs in transferring programs to Indian communities.
One of the main struggles has been over a type of funding called contract support costs, or CSC. Under the ISDA, Indian communities that contract to take over a federal program receive money to ensure that Indian communities do not need to divert direct service funds to pay for administrative functions that the federal government was able to provide through other means.
The federal agencies have never taken steps to ensure that Indian communities received 100 percent of the CSC funds stated in their ISDA contracts. Tribes have fought for decades to receive the money that the government promised, in writing, to pay in the ISDA contracts. In response, the federal agencies have argued that, unlike their relationships with other federal contractors, they do not have to keep their contractual promises to Indians and can simply choose not to pay.
In other cases, the agencies have tried to force language into ISDA contracts, against the wishes of the Indian communities and in clear violation of the mandate of the ISDA, through which the Indian communities would forever give up their claims to CSC funding.
The federal courts have repeatedly rejected agency efforts to eliminate adequate CSC funding for Indian communities. June 18 saw a new decision from the United States Supreme Court, in a case called Salazar vs. Ramah Navajo Chapter. In that case, the court told the federal agencies that if Congress appropriates enough money to pay the amount owed by the government for an ISDA contract, the agencies must pay 100 percent of that amount.
In a related case, on June 25, the high court turned down the governments petition seeking review of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Sebelius vs. Southern Ute Indian Tribe. The Court of Appeals had ruled in favor of the Southern Ute tribe and held that the agencies could not force an Indian tribe to accept ISDA contract language giving up a statutory right to CSC funding. By refusing to review that decision, the Supreme Court upheld the lower courts ruling.
Although Indian Country still faces challenges in this era of self-determination, these cases mark great victories for Indian communities and support the efforts of many tribes to operate their own programs free from the often overbearing hand of the federal government.
Steven C. Boos is an attorney with the firm of Maynes, Bradford, Shipps & Sheftel in Durango. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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romil01 Posts: 75Now that the ATS has been out for a few months, I would have thought people would be posting their buying experiences...nothing so far though. I'm curious how much Cadillac is taking off the MSRP when they sell these. The lease right now is pretty attractive.
I just leased the ATS 2.0 with the Cue and sound package for 36 months,
10k mi. yr.
Had my GM earnings upped to $3k, and also had the $1k owner loyalty cash. Used all of that for the down payment, so I had no money out of pocket given.
sewellmgr Posts: 17Wow thats great! I hope you enjoy the ATS (it is now my all time favorite car). The GM Card is the single best thing available to anyone interested in the Cadillac line-up. About 1-2 times a year they come out with a 'top off' offer and they up your earnings to the next tier.
One person I works with is on his 3rd Leased Cadillac in 3 years because he always carries a minimal balance on his card. When the top off comes it has been working out so it is just enough to put him into another equity point.
Enjoy the ATS!
Yes, we've also used this GM card for years. This last top off just happen to
come at the right time. This lease by far was the best one yet.
See "ATS lease questions" forum for the details of my lease and payments.
Eric, Great deal! When did the top off and bonus cash offers expire? Was the GM card the only discount applied to the car or did you get any other incentives?
Top off and Bonus loyalty cash were the 2 incentives used, and both
expire at the end of Feb.
Eric, do you mind detailing your car's MSRP and lease terms?
See "ATS lease questions" forum for the details of my lease and payment.
Post # 40.
will110 Posts: 2I'm going to lease a 2.0 Turbo soon (probably this week).
Here's where I've got the dealer right now (In Nashville, TN) -- Any thoughts on whether I'm getting a good deal?
Negotiated Price =$36,791 (MSRP = $37,795/Invoice = $36,411)
36 mo/15K mile lease
$2,000 down
Heated Seats (driver and passenger)
CUE and Surround Sound
Premium Floor Mats
Black Raven
Black Interior
6 Speed Auto
No Sunroof
kainnyc Posts: 80That sux they offered that to me at 299$ 10k miles plus 3k! 3 days later a 47k luxury trim at 449$ 2k for fees 12k miles! I said call me when u get to 399$
jimmy62 Posts: 6Bought 2013 ATS 2.5L LUXURY on July 25. MSRP on window sticker was $41,475. The check I gave the dealer was for $36,064. Installed options: CUE, red paint, cold Wx pkg, hwy safety kit, front tag holder. Ardmore, OK. Vehicle registration and first tag cost $1,285 at the Oklahoma Tax Commission office.
weiliwang Posts: 1Hi, I got a deal on new 2013 Cadillac ATS, basel model, price 30460, drive out 32690. Is it a good deal? Thanks!
backy Twin CitiesPosts: 18,910
I had a disappointing experience with Cadillac. They are offering a $100 Visa gift card for test driving a new Cadillac. So I signed up for it on the web site, selected the dealer closest to me from a list of dealers provided, and said I wanted to drive an ATS. This is the last weekend for the promotion. I promptly got an email from that dealer, listing current deals on the ATS. No word about the test drive. This morning I got another email from the dealer's Internet Sales Manager--again no word about the test drive. But it had his cell phone number so I called him and left a vmail re coming in today for the test drive. He called back a few minutes later and told me they "ran out" of gift cards, but maybe another dealer in the area would have them.
First of all, you don't get the gift card when you take the test drive. You fill out a form, and then you get the card "4-6 weeks" later. So, how can they "run out" of gift cards? They can make more, right? There was nothing on the web site about dealers having a limited number of gift cards.
I had seen the ATS at my local auto show a couple of weeks ago and liked what I saw, somewhat of a surprise to me because I hadn't much liked any Cadillac in the past. So I thought it would be worth a test drive, especially for a $100 gift card.
Cadillac blew it on this one. For sure, I will never step inside that dealership, Key Cadillac in Edina, MN. But I will check out the new A3 during a special event this Thursday, with food and drink and music and a free test drive. No gift card, but I'll probably like the A3 a lot better than the ATS. :P


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****ing awesome.
Winning at Barclay's inaugural game would be beyond righteous.
Real talk, it's just a game, and truly, the overall success of both teams respectively over the course of the season will truly define who is the top dog of NY and who is getting bent over as a fan base.....
But what a way to kick it off.
Personally, I think the Nets are going to be extremely good. I believe we have the potential to be as good or better, though.


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INTERPOL and Hong Kong Customs join forces to improve regional police and customs anti-counterfeiting co-operation
HONG KONG, China – Greater emphasis on the leadership role of police and customs and the benefits of working collaboratively is the focus of the 2010 International Law Enforcement Intellectual Property (IP) Crime Conference which opened today in Hong Kong.
The conference is the first to be held in Asia and brings together some 500 law enforcement specialist IP crime investigators, prosecutors and private sector investigators from 48 countries. Co-hosted by INTERPOL and Hong Kong Customs in partnership with Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL), the three-day event (October 19-21) concentrates on collective efforts to work together to break organized crime. It will include a series of operational workshops to enable subject matter experts to discuss how all those affected by counterfeiting and piracy can better work together to break up the organized criminal gangs which manufacture and distribute fake goods on a regional and increasingly global scale.
The Under Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, Mr Gregory So, highlighted at the opening ceremony that co-operation among jurisdictions and timely intelligence exchange are pivotal to the fight against transnational organized IP crime. "To stay ahead of such challenges, we need to help each other to prevent IP criminals from profiteering between regions. More precisely, we need cross-sector co-operation amongst law enforcement agencies, IP crime affected industries, rights holders and relevant stakeholders to share efforts, intelligence and resources to counter transnational organized IP crimes effectively," said Mr So.
"Organized criminals play a central and omnipresent role in every aspect of transnational IP crime," said INTERPOL President Khoo Boon Hui. Mr. Khoo reported that with 145 (77 per cent) of INTERPOL's 188 member countries now affected by organized IP crime, 48 per cent of all IP crime cases were transnational, with 12 per cent of cases linked to other areas of organized crime. "The need for police and customs to work together to combat this dangerous criminality which increasingly impacts on the health and safety of consumers has never been more important. This collaboration has already proved to be a winning formula in South America and will work for us in other regions."
Hong Kong Customs Commissioner Richard Yuen confirmed that organised IP criminals are using increasingly sophisticated manufacturing and distribution networks to move their pirated goods around through physical boundaries like ports and airports or virtual boundaries on the Internet. "To protect society against the harm of counterfeit goods and support economic growth through promotion of innovation and creativity, IPR enforcement agencies must work together within and outside the national boundaries, so that we can effectively counteract and combat the international IPR criminal syndicates," said Commissioner Yuen.
"There are no simple answers to the complex problem of organised IP crime, but solutions can be developed through co-operation and partnership," said Charlie Abounader, President Product Safety, Underwriters Laboratories. "This unique operational forum enables a wealth of information, experience and expertise – from both the public and private sectors – to be shared and channelled into a common goal, which is to defeat transnational IP crime".
Notable participants from Asia, including Mainland China, were joined by others from Africa, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas, including the Attorney General of the United States, Mr Eric H. Holder, who delivered a key note address.
Key features of the conference will include hands-on and interactive training provided by Hong Kong Customs in a simulated Internet crime scene, as well as access to the online International IP Crime Investigators College, an INTERPOL driven initiative in partnership with UL University delivering leading edge training to equip investigators with the necessary skills to effectively combat current and emerging threats from IP crime.


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McRae a pioneer at designated hitter in KC
Slugger set standard for position after trade to Royals
By Dick Kaegel / MLB.com
"If we had two platoons in baseball, I'd be a superstar," a jubilant McRae was quoted as saying afterward.
In those days, McRae was a bat off the bench for the Reds. Little did he realize that, a year later in 1973, the American League would incorporate a sort of platoon system with a designated hitter batting for the pitcher, and that he'd become known as the definitive DH.
"I did say that," McRae recalled, "and I was just joking around, but I didn't get to play. I was the No. 1 pinch-hitter on the club, so I got important at-bats and I had important hits. The reason I didn't play was because of the injury and my defensive liabilities. There was always somebody on the club that played better defense than I did."
The injury was the broken right leg he suffered in 1969 when he slid into a catcher while playing winter ball in Puerto Rico. Originally a second baseman, he missed the 1970 season and returned to play outfield. The leg hindered his defense, restricting his running and throwing, but he could still hit. In effect, he was a one-way player when the AL -- with attendance sinking alarmingly -- passed the DH rule.
"I was in the right place at the right time," he said, laughing.
That was because the Reds, tired of hearing McRae complain about not playing more, had traded him to the Kansas City Royals on Nov. 30, 1972, and the AL owners approved the DH rule on Jan. 11, 1973.
"Yeah, I wanted to play and I was traded because I was unhappy, which was a blessing in disguise," he said. "It was great for me, but I was complaining so much they were going to trade me anyway. If I stayed there, I was going to be a pinch-hitter all my life, and how long can you stay in the league being a pinch-hitter? You have a bad year and it's easy for them to find somebody else."
McRae took away something valuable from Cincinnati, however: what he learned from teammate Pete Rose.
"I kind of patterned my play after Pete Rose. He was an aggressive kind of player," McRae said. "And his attitude -- when he came to the ballpark, he didn't give an inch. He was always ready to play, very enthusiastic about a ballgame, never tired of playing. So I picked up quite a bit from him."
Rose was always ready, no matter what the score or the stage of the season.
"He took all his at-bats seriously. He didn't want to leave a game, he wouldn't miss a game. Regardless of what was going on, he was enthusiastic about that game that day," McRae said. "He knew everything about the game. Not only did he know his stats and his team's stats, he knew the stats of other teams and other players. He kept up with everything. He was very aware of most things that were going on in either league.
"He may never have seen a player play, but he would know his name and what he could do. So he was a baseball guy all the way."
Under Royals manager Jack McKeon in 1973-74, McRae eased into the DH role. Although mostly an outfielder in '75, he became a DH fixture in '76, Whitey Herzog's first full season as manager and the Royals' first time in the playoffs.
"At first, nobody liked it because you were considered a one-way player, a half ballplayer, you could say," McRae said. "And they thought it would affect the pay. Nobody really wanted to do it, because you didn't know how you'd stay in the game, or if you'd feel like a pinch-hitter when you went to bat.
"But the reason I accepted it was because we had a better team with me DHing, because I couldn't play as well as any of the guys that were in the outfield. It didn't make sense for me to be in the outfield and hurt the ballclub when we had guys that were better defensive players than myself and that would increase our chances of winning. It was a no-brainer. I think we had [Tom] Poquette in left, Amos [Otis] in center and [Al] Cowens in right, and I couldn't play as well as any of them defensively."
McRae refined the job of DH. He became a prototype for the position. There was really no one to pattern himself after, so he improvised.
"You watch a little bit just to get a feel for what the pitcher's doing. You never get away from the game," McRae said. "I would go in the tunnel and run before my at-bats, and I would go in the clubhouse and listen to the game on the radio or watch on TV if it was on. But you had to be in the game so you had the rhythm of the game. So I was never out of the game."
He got so good at it that Phil Elderkin, the Christian Science Monitor's baseball expert, wrote in 1981: "What he has become in the last few years is the American League's ultimate designated hitter."
Minnesota's Tony Oliva and Detroit's Willie Horton were early successes at DH. Some clubs tried ex-National League players who were late in their careers, such as Frank Robinson at California and Orlando Cepeda at Boston, with good if short-lived results.
But McRae was the pioneer who lasted more than a decade at the task.
According to Baseball Reference statistics, as we approach the DH's 40th big league season, McRae still holds his own against later prominent DHs. His 1,476 games as DH is second only to Harold Baines' 1,643; he's third in hits with 1,555, behind Baines' 1,690 and Edgar Martinez's 1,607, and fifth in RBIs with 823; David Ortiz's 1,094 tops the list.
Hal McCoy of Fox Sports Ohio recently published an all-time ranking of DHs and put McRae seventh behind Martinez, Frank Thomas, Paul Molitor, Baines, Ortiz and Jim Thome. All of them, of course, came along after McRae blazed the trail.
McRae hit .294 as a DH, four points higher than his overall average, with 5,916 of his 8,058 plate appearances coming in that role. He was named DH of the Year three times by The Sporting News.
By coincidence, McRae also was a .294 hitter in the postseason, but in four World Series -- two with the Reds and two with the Royals -- he stroked .400 (18-for-45). But in the Royals' 1985 World Series triumph over St. Louis, the DH was not used -- it was used in alternate years in the Fall Classic at that time -- and McRae got to the plate just twice as a pinch-hitter.
Not that he regretted it at all.
"That year I had played with an injury -- I had a torn muscle in my thigh -- and I played about six weeks with that," McRae said. "And luckily we didn't have the DH, because I was worn out from going through the pain every night. So it was a good thing. The last [playoff] game in Toronto when we clinched, I was relieved when we got back to the hotel, because I didn't have to play anymore."
He'd injured his thigh sliding into second base to break up a double play, and it wouldn't heal up.
"If I reached for a pitch, if I swung and missed a pitch, it would always bite," he said. "So I got closer to the plate and tried to pull everything to keep from reaching and missing. So I was sort of relieved when it was over. I had two hits that night in Toronto in the clincher, but not disappointed when I couldn't play."
McRae was 39 that year, and his career was winding down. He'd play in 1986 and part of '87, then retire as a player. But his student-of-the-game approach as a DH led to jobs as hitting coach for Montreal, Cincinnati, Philadelphia and St. Louis, and as manager for Kansas City and Tampa Bay.
Retired in Bradenton, Fla., he's mostly interested in hitting golf balls these days.
Although the DH still has not been accepted by the National League, McRae thinks it's here to stay.
"I think the DH is good for the game, because when pitchers bat, most of them can't hit, most of them make outs," he said. "So you put more excitement into the game by getting a more productive player to fill that role."
Someone like McRae.
Dick Kaegel is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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This business unit will now become Pandrol CDM Track, Pandrol says, adding that the addition of CDM's products and systems will enhance Pandrol's existing product portfolio for global track infrastructure markets.
CDM is a manufacturer of noise and vibration products for ballasted and slab track, as well as embedded rail.
Pandrol, known for track fasteners and resilient track systems, is part of the Delachaux Group.


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Pleasanton Middle and Valley View are Title I schools, meaning they receive extra federal money to help improve test scores for disadvantaged students. Failing to improve could trigger a series of increasingly serious interventions for schools that remain in what's called "program improvement." Those interventions begin with revising a plan for the school and giving parents the option to transfer their students to schools that are not program improvement, with the district providing transportation.
Scores for poor readers at PMS have jumped for 25 out of 34 students that were put into a special program called "Read 180," and some students have improved their reading skills two to three times what's predicted under the program.
An after-school intervention called "Language for Learning" has been initiated for Spanish speakers and poor readers at Valley View with good results, according to its teachers.
Those schools aren't the only ones that could end up in program improvement due to increasingly tough standards laid out in the federal government's No Child Left Behind (NCLB) act. Lydiksen and Alisal elementary schools are working to improve scores for students with poor reading and math skills. And district data show both elementary schools and middle schools did not meet the improvements mandated for this year under NCLB, although 10th-graders did.
Superintendent Parvin Ahmadi noted that other high-performing districts including those in San Ramon, Fremont and Palo Alto are facing similar problems in meeting NCLB standards.
Meanwhile, the board also learned that California is moving forward with plans to adopt sweeping changes in how and what students are taught and changes in testing as well.
Common Core State Standards is a nationwide initiative designed to prepare students for college and for work, with emphasis on the tools needed for success, according to a report presented by Jane Golden, director of curriculum and special projects. CCSS was adopted by California in 2010, and 46 other states have also approved the program, which was created to make students more competitive with their peers in other counties.
Students will do more writing in general and more writing from non-fiction sources. They will be required to show a growing ability to use language from vocabulary and syntax to the development and organization of ideas.
They'll also need to learn to make sense of math problems and persevere in solving them, along with showing their growing abilities to reason abstractly, construct arguments and critique the work of others.
Teachers will be required to begin integrating CCSS into their classes in the 2014-15 school year, and that year will also begin the phasing out of paper-and-pencil tests in favor of computerized testing.
"This is a huge challenge," said Golden, who outlined the standards to the board. "I lay awake at night wondering about what a monumental challenge (this is). Our teachers can do this."
The goal is to phase in math by 2016 and English language arts by 2018. Meanwhile, the district will need to buy materials to bridge the gap between older courses and CCSS. That'll cost $200,000, according to Golden, who said that didn't count teacher training sessions or substitutes to replace them while they're off learning, or $9,000 apiece for two years for two teachers on special assignment who will help integrate the new model into the district.
Golden also said that many of the district's textbooks are due to be replaced, noting that English coursework in particular needs to be upgraded with bridge materials in mind. School board members, however, hoped that some of the materials would be available online.
"I'd really like us to consider making a move to a delivery system that doesn't require texts," said Board President Joan Laursen, who was echoed by Board Member Valerie Arkin.
Golden noted that the district is buying $300 notebooks with Internet access for students.
"I think we're due for new standards in the state," added Board Member Chris Grant.
As the district moves toward spending money on new materials, the board voted to cut the equivalent of more than 18 CSEA (California State Employee Association) members, including the equivalent of four custodians, three library/media assistants and three site technology specialists, among others. Some schools have come up with money to fund a few of those positions on their own, but the net decrease is about the equivalent of 14.7 jobs due to state budget reductions. That's in addition to final pink slips due to be issued for teachers next month.
"These reductions and cuts may change at some point in the future," Board Member Jeff Bowser noted, with Bill Faraghan, assistant superintendent of human resources, saying that, should there be an improvement in budget numbers, "There's nothing that prevents us from rescinding a layoff."
The district had little news on state funding as it awaits Gov. Jerry Brown's May revise, although Luz Cazares, assistant superintendent of business services, noted that the state is down about $900 million from revenue projections it made last year.
"As you know, April is a good month," Cazares said. "We're looking forward to where the income taxes come in, relative to the projected levels."
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Too many ominous and negative posts today, here is video of Rizzo hitting a bomb today in Pittsburgh. I hope everyone that can't see the game because they are at work (like me) appreciate this one!
Cubs lead 2-1 in the Top of the 4th, Rizzo 2-for-2 with HR, and two RBI's.
– George


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It is a little known fact that some of the most famous sayings in the world were probably murmured by wizards and witches but for the most part some of the things that come out of wizard folk is quite insane.
Your prompt for this week is to write a drabble integrating the quote below:
Keep in mind that whoever says the quote above doesn't have to be the exact author of the words [in this case, Ms. Fabricant] it is just for fun; I want to see where you guys go with the prompt. Go crazy! XDPeanut butter [is] the pâté of childhood. ~ Florence Fabricant
In fact, you dont' have to integrate the quote verbatim, but it should be implied that you used it for your inspiration!
The following form must be used when submitting your drabble responses to this post -
Winners will be awarded 15, 10, and 5 points respectively.Name:
All drabbles must be less than 500 words; All standard grammar rules, and MNFF submissions guidelines apply.
The challenge will be up for a week, and be closed exactly a week later (March 26thth)
MithrilQuill and I will be judging them and posting results a couple of days later which may or may not extend into a week or two. >.>
Teh Ebil Gato Loco is a very busy ebil genius. She has people to boss around, plans to put into action...that sort of deal so she forgets to be a good barmaid.
All questions should be referred to the Question Corner - Do not post questions here. Only drabbles!
Other than that...have fun!
~Gato Loco & Mith~


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What are kidney stones?
Symptoms of kidney stones
Evaluation of kidney stones
Treatment of kidney stones
Prevention of kidney stones
What Are Kidney Stones?
Kidney stones are crystals that precipitate from urine. This happens for a number of reasons including dehydration, dietary excess, and inherited metabolic abnormalities. If the crystals are small enough, they flow out with the urine without causing symptoms. If the crystals grow large enough, or aggregate sufficiently, they may not be able to pass easily and then cause symptoms. Kidney stones can be made of a variety of substances, most commonly including calcium, oxalate, and uric acid. Some stones, particularly in the presence of a chronic urinary tract infection, can grow to be very large and fill the inside of the kidney (staghorn stone below).
Symptoms of Kidney Stones
Kidney stone symptoms are generally due to the obstruction of urine flow once the stone leaves the kidney and starts down the ureter toward the bladder. The kidney continues to make urine despite the obstructed flow, stretching the lining of the inside of the kidney. With the stone acting like a cork, blocking normal urine flow out of the kidney, the result is the severe pain known as "renal colic." Often, hydration and pain meds are all that is necessary to help pass the stone. It is important to know that obstruction with fever is an emergency. Anyone with fever and flank pain must seek medical care immediately. Sometimes a large stone may be lodged in the kidney and cause a chronic dull ache in the flank, or intermittent symptoms for many years.
Evaluation of Kidney Stones
In patients with stones, urine analysis often demonstrates the presence of microscopic blood. CT scan is the best imaging study to evaluate for the presence, location, and size of kidney stones. Plain X-rays are often used, too, but not all stones show up on these films. In particular, uric acid stones are radiolucent, meaning they will not show up on plain x-rays. IVP (intravenous pyelogram) is an older, but useful, study in which IV contrast is given before a series of plain x-rays. This study can delineate the internal anatomy of the kidney before some types of kidney stone procedures. If one has recurrent kidney stones, a metabolic evaluation can be performed to determine what a person might do to reduce their risk of further stones. This study involves a 24-hour urine collection and analysis, as well as a blood draw for calcium and sometimes parathyroid hormone levels. If a kidney stone is passed or removed, it can be sent for chemical analysis, as this information can assist with recommendations to prevent further episodes.
Treatment of Kidney Stones
- Observation - not all stones require treatment. The risks of treatment should be weighed against the benefits. Most stones 5mm or smaller will pass spontaneously.
- Medical Expulsive Therapy - certain medications help stones pass through the ureter. The most commonly used drug for this purpose currently is tamsulosin (Flomax). Other drugs used include calcium channel blockers and steroids, but the benefits are debatable. Drinking plenty of fluid and taking a good pain medication is probably the most important means to help a stone pass with the least possible misery.
- Extracorporeal Shockwave Lithotripsy (ESWL) - focused sound waves are used to break up a stone into pieces that can be passed more easily. This is a non-invasive treatment, but requires general anesthesia. Stones most appropriate for this treatment are in the kidney or upper ureter, visible by plain x-ray, and are less than 1.5cm in greatest dimension.
|Ureteroscopy - Many stones are best-treated endoscopically, meaning with a scope. Long, narrow scopes can be passed up the ureter to the stone. The stone is then fragmented with a laser and the fragments washed out or snared with a basket and retrieved.
|Laparoscopic Stone Removal - Occasionally, a large stone burden is best approached laparoscopically. This is often the best approach when a patient also has an obstruction of drainage from the kidney into the ureter, known as ureteropelvic junction obstruction. Both the stones and the obstruction can then be treated in one operation
Prevention of Kidney Stones
Ask anyone who has had a stone and you will be convinced that the preferred means of treating a kidney stone is to prevent it from forming in the first place. Kidney stone formation and growth are dependent on the concentration of substances in the urine. The easiest way to reduce the risk of crystal formation is to increase the amount of urine in which to dissolve the same amount of minerals - drink more fluids! Water is a great option, but if water is not particularly palatable, drink lemonade-flavored Crystal Light, which contains citrate, a potent kidney stone inhibitor. To make specific recommendations about how one can reduce their risk of recurrent kidney stones, a metabolic evaluation must be performed. The information is obtained from a blood draw and a 24-hour urine collection. With this information, certain dietary changes can be recommended. Often, a diet with reduced oxalate can help decrease recurrence of the most common types of stones. There are several good books about preventing kidney stones and even a cookbook for those who need a low-oxalate diet. If one has high calcium in the urine, then a medication may be provided to decrease it. If one makes uric acid stones, then allopurinol can be taken to decrease uric acid production and thereby decrease the rate of stone recurrence. Other medications that makes the urine less acidic (Urocit-K) can be both stone treatment and prevention.


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The iPhone
4 is launching officially tomorrow. Pre-orders are
arriving today and some lucky pre-order customers received their
phone yesterday.Every year the iPhone launch frenzy seems to
only grow more massive. This year pre-orders quickly
sold out. So what's the fuss about? We're about to
find out. Today we present to you a pair of early reviews and
the first teardown of the phone. The overall message?
Most will be willing to put up with some minor software or network
bugaboos in exchange for the iPhone's unparalleled hardware and
packaging.Without further ado, let's first begin with perhaps
the first complete teardown of the phone. iFixIt has
taken a shiny new iPhone 4 and torn
it into tiny pieces. While the most expensive
iPhone 4 has a capacity of 32 GB, the unit only has 29.06 GB of
Samsung NAND, leaving you 28.77 GB after the 301 MB install of
Apple's OS and supporting software.According to the report,
the case design's modifications mean that it will be easier to remove
the rear panel (to replace the battery, for example) but harder to
replace the front glass. Moving on, there's a 3.7V 1420 mAh
Li-Polymer battery, 512 MB of Numonyx RAM (as
rumored), and an A4 processor with 1 GHz Cortex A8 Core onboard
(although the final clock speed dictated by the OS is unknown).
Other previously mentioned improvements include dual microphones, a
5-megapixel camera with LED flash, and a new screen made of
Corning Gorilla
Glass, a chemically strengthened alkali-aluminosilicate thin
sheet glass that is reported to be 20 times stiffer and 30 times
harder than plastic.IFixIt seems
pretty impressed with the design. They write:
what can only be described as a work of genius, Apple has integrated
the UMTS,
GSM, GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth antennas into the stainless steel
inner frame.The dual purpose stainless steel inner
frame/antenna assembly addresses possibly the two biggest flaws
concerning previous iterations of the iPhone: continuous dropped
calls and lack of reception.
those who reviewed the phone had similar reactions. All
Things Digital and Wall
Street Journal editor
Walt Mossberg loved the Retina display, scratch proof casing (which
survived several 3 foot drops on hard surfaces), and improved
camera. He says the multitasking might fall a bit short as only
some apps are allowed to truly multitask, in order to save battery
life. He explains:
fact, for many scenarios, such as games, Apple's version of
multitasking is really just fast switching among open apps that save
their place. And, even to achieve this, the apps must be updated. For
some users, this limited version of multitasking will be a
biggest complaint, though was the
network. He states:
most important downside of the iPhone 4 is that, in the U.S., it's
shackled to AT&T, which not only still operates a network that
has trouble connecting and maintaining calls in many cities, but now
has abandoned unlimited, flat-rate data plans. Apple needs a second
as with its predecessors, I can't recommend this new iPhone for
voice calling for people who experience poor AT&T reception,
unless they are willing to carry a second phone on a network that
works better for them.
everyone else, however, I'd say that Apple has built a beautiful
smartphone that works well, adds impressive new features and is
still, overall, the best device in its class.
also reviewed the
device. Joshua Topolsky bragged about the iPhone 4's battery
life and managed to squeeze out 38
hours on
a charge. The site was disappointed though at the lack of
widgets. The thing that most ticked it off though was
notifications. Topolsky writes:
at version 4 of this OS, and we're still plagued by these intrusive,
productivity-freezing alerts. If you're as busy as we are, then you
know what it's like to get invite after invite for your calendar,
text messages, and push notifications that just stall the phone out.
While every other modern OS-maker has figured out an elegant way to
deal with notifications (including the forthcoming Windows Phone 7),
Apple clings to this broken system. Why? We can't really say.
to the hardware, Engadget showed the iPhone 4 a
whole lot of love. Topolsky says the camera works great in low
light conditions, video calling is slick, and that you "won't
find a better display on a phone."
site concludes its iPhone love-fest commenting:
can't overstate how high-end the design of the iPhone 4 is. The 3GS
now feels cheap and chubby by comparison, and even a phone like the
HTC Droid Incredible -- which just came out -- seems
not going to beat around the bush -- in our approximation, the iPhone
4 is the best smartphone on the market right now. The combination of
gorgeous new hardware, that amazing display, upgraded cameras, and
major improvements to the operating system make this an extremely
formidable package.
the iPhone 4 really the "best phone" on the market?
That's up to you to decide, but that's the opinion being voiced by
early reviewers. And, hey, it even comes with free