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The February 2007 AAII Journal article by Christine Fahlund, "Invest or Delay? Strategies for Taking Social Security Benefits," was the best I've seen in helping to decide when to take Social Security benefits. Three additional points not discussed, which I believe skew the decision toward taking early Social Security benefits, are: (1) Considering the present value of drawing early benefits seems to me to push the break-even point out even further; (2) Expect the government to continue to tinker with limiting benefits to those who have other retirement income; (3) Quality of life in the early retirement years is at its peak and if taking early Social Security benefits permits greater enjoyment of life quality, then this would be a very important factor to consider.
I cannot determine what allocation model is a match for the Model Mutual Fund Portfolio [last updated in the February 2009 Model Portfolios column]. It seems like it is missing a lot and is focused on large-, mid- and small-cap markets. I'd like to use and follow the portfolio, but am concerned it's not broad or diversified enough. Can you comment on that? Also, do you believe the portfolio is appropriately positioned for whe
Ted Sils
James Cloonan Responds:
The Mutual Fund Portfolio is intended for the equity portion of a portfolio or for part of that portfolio for those who also wish to choose some individual stocks of their own. It assumes that the individual investor also invests in sufficient cash and debt to adjust to their personal risk tolerance.
Even if the funds in the portfolio were the only equities held, the equity portfolio would be very well diversified—more so than an S&P 500 index fund. I don't know which stocks will lead a rebound, but the managers of these funds have been excellent at choosing stocks in the past. The overall portfolio has a bias toward value as compared to the S&P 500 and, particularly if the turnaround is slow, I think the odds favor value stocks recovering first.
I think this article makes a lot of sense. I recommend staying the course but being prudent and cutting distributions as much as possible until things start looking better. There is no question that a 30% drop is a killer. I have also wondered if you only sell bonds in a down market, do the same rules of this article apply? I have always assumed that if you kept five years' worth of distributions in a short-term bond fund that you would never sell down and, therefore, never have a problem (assuming the market does come back within five years).
AAII Member
I think this is the same sort of marginally useful hypothetical that we frequently get from the financial planning community at large—assumed uniform annual rates of return and expenses, neither of which actually happen. Also, selling assets to generate cash, regardless of market situation, when cash flow is what should be produced. Fahlund's article is interesting reading, but the theory is out of touch with reality—reality requires paying expenses every month while in retirement regardless of market situation.
Dana Barfield
My unease, or even "dis-ease," with this presentation is the same as that of the earlier commentator.
People such as Harry Dent Jr. and Roubini (if I understand them correctly) foresee a massive, long, U-shaped depression. It seems there is no end in sight to the continuing decline of the market. Dent predicts a Dow bottom of 4500 to 3800.
I would have been much more comfortable with the article's analysis if this kind of disastrous scenario had been included. The present situation seems worse to me than any similar decline since my childhood in the 1930s.
AAII Member
Who had a 30% decline? The S&P 500, which is our core holding, declined nearly 40% in 2008! However, we are resisting the urge to bail. As I see it, that would be the worst thing to do. All of this is just a bunch of chickens crying "the sky is falling!" As soon as they discover it's not the end of the world, everything will return to the mean.
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Front Range > Mount Sniktau > Climber's Log
Mount Sniktau Climber's Log
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|SW Ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 25, 2007
|The wife and I did this as a quick trip just to get out for the afternoon. Started late but the weather held off on this bluebird day.
|Posted Aug 25, 2007 11:47 pm
|Loveland Pass
|I climbed this several times....Well if you consider from Loveland Pass as climbing it??????????? But I do enjoy using this route as a great warm up and keeping in shape. I average 3 times a year with this super easy route
|Posted Aug 13, 2007 11:09 am
|Jason Moore
|Foggy Morning
Date Climbed: Jul 28, 2007
|Jon Nelson and I hiked Sniktau from the pass. The weather was great- the big rainstorm from the night before left plenty of fog in it's wake, so we had a nice break from the sun. Looking southeast at the lake 1000 feet below was quite a sight. Nice mellow warmup hike though the next hike won't be- Mount Powell.
|Posted Jul 30, 2007 1:53 pm
|Nice quick hike
Date Climbed: Jul 18, 2007
|Quick little recovery hike today. Did Sniktau from Loveland in about 45 min, then traversed over to Grizzly and ran back to Loveland. A little under 3 hours round trip. Storms were moving in early today... thunder by 11am.
|Posted Jul 19, 2007 4:10 pm
|Standard route
Date Climbed: May 26, 2007
|Quick, easy hike with the CMC. Good warmup for the backpack up to Missouri Gulch later that afternoon.
|Posted May 28, 2007 4:24 pm
|Loveland Pass
Date Climbed: Apr 28, 2007
|Some of my friends were skiing with the masses at A-Basin, I decided to solo this 13er instead and lose the crowds.
|Posted Apr 30, 2007 10:07 am
|Route Climbed: Southwest Ridge
Date Climbed: Apr 15, 2007
|Hour and a half drive from Denver, took 2 hours to reach the summit and 1 hour to descend back to Loveland Pass. An awesome short hike.
|Posted Apr 15, 2007 4:26 pm
|Eric Holle
Date Climbed: Mar 5, 2007
|Climbed in combination with Grizzly from Loveland Pass. Climbed with my brother Paul, and friend PJ.
|Posted Mar 9, 2007 3:43 pm
|pass romp
Date Climbed: Dec 2, 2006
|climbed a couple thirteeners from loveland pass with jamie. wasn't a good day for me physically. need to start taking my running much more seriously!
|Posted Dec 5, 2006 7:51 am
Date Climbed: Oct 1, 2006
|Nice hike. Little windy up on the ridges. Perfect for a quick outing on my way back home from Denver.
|Posted Oct 2, 2006 3:48 am
|eric b
|This kids from the east so getting use to the altitude was the main purpose of this in preparation for the class 4 kelso ridge on Torreys
|Posted Sep 27, 2006 9:39 pm
|Sniktau in April
Date Climbed: Apr 28, 2006
|This was the second time I tried Sniktau. The first time, the year before, my hiking partner and I got pinned down in a nasty wind/snow storm on the top of the ridge. This year, we were more prepared with cold weather gear and managed to knock this 13er down.
Be warned: don't underestimate the wind on this peak and ridge!
|Posted Sep 14, 2006 4:06 am
|Fun and Easy
Date Climbed: Sep 3, 2006
|I liked this short hike. It was easy to get to, and it was just strenuous enough to keep away the hordes of visitors to Loveland Pass. The views were great for a 13er, Grays and Torreys are right there, Longs Peak, the Mummy Range, the Never Summers, the Gore Range, and much more.
|Posted Sep 4, 2006 12:33 am
|Sunsetus Maximus from SW Ridge
Date Climbed: Jan 10, 2004
|I took what might be my best Colorado sunset photo ever from Sniktau; peaks forever in golden light.
|Posted Jun 26, 2006 8:36 pm
|Fall Hike
Date Climbed: Oct 23, 2005
|Climbed this one after the season's first snowfall on scattered patches of snow. It gave me an excuse to play with my new ice axe so that made it worthwhile. Back down on the pass, I saw two boarders helping their buddy back to the car after he blew out his knee. So worth it to end your season for a 6" jump onto 2" of packed ice in October!
|Posted Jun 20, 2006 7:24 pm
|Woodie Hopper
|SW ridge
Date Climbed: May 27, 2006
|Climbed with my wife. Great weather, not much wind until we turned around. We had the summit to ourselves- won't happen unless you get an early start. Nice hike.
|Posted May 27, 2006 10:17 pm
|Bob Sihler
|SW Ridge
Date Climbed: Apr 5, 2006
|less snow than I expected, timing was good because storm with high winds and blowing snow came in as I returned to Loveland Pass-- definitely a reminder to go prepared even on short, easy treks
|Posted May 24, 2006 12:39 am
|SW Ridge
Date Climbed: May 18, 2006
|A quick 90 minute up and back jaunt. Good mountain for conditioning with views!
|Posted May 18, 2006 10:14 pm
|Route Climbed: Southwest Ridge
Date Climbed: Apr 1, 2006
|This was a quick outing for Haliku and me. The route was windswept and straight forward. Overall, this was a leisurely ascent with great views.
11/28/09 - A quick outing with my wife. Her first intro to "winter" climbing.
|Posted Apr 1, 2006 8:20 pm
|Southwest Ridge
Date Climbed: Mar 25, 2006
|Got an early 7:00am start to beat the crowds at Loveland Pass. Great views from the ridge. Sat alone on the summit for about a half hour soaking it all in!
|Posted Mar 25, 2006 10:23 pm

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Is Terry Collins On A Short Leash ?
By Steve Keane at 3 January, 2013, 9:52 am
So let me start out by welcoming everyone back to the newly redesigned Eddie Kranepool Society and to wish you all a very happy and healthy 2013 and to give a big thanks to Joe McDonald for this fantastic new layout of the blog. I haven't posted here in a few days as the holidays were very hectic in a good way by spending a lot of time with family and friends, so it was good to step away from the keyboard for a while.
I didn't step away from reading all the sports news though, even while we were getting set to head out for some New Year's Eve revelry in the Pocono Mountains (it's as far from the madding crowds of Time Square as you can get. I still don't understand why people love to stand in the freezing cold to watch that ball drop, in fact I don't know any native New Yorker who has ever ventured out there, but I digress) as my iPad was burning up with stories of 7 NFL coaches given their pink slips. Some like Andy Reid in Philly and Lovie Smith in Chicago were very successful but they're message was growing stale and it was time in the eyes of ownership to get a new voice and a new way of doing business in to run their teams.
Just a week before the Brooklyn Nets fired their head coach Avery Johnson, who just came off winning Coach of the Month honors. As puzzling as that is, how about Mike Brown of the Lakers getting the boot after 5 games this season? WHOA! Some owners mean business. Here is what Prokhorov had to say when he canned Johnson:
"I think we have very talented players but they are capable of much more than what we have seen in the recent weeks," Prokhorov said. "I respect Avery and really I wish him well, but sometimes chemistry just isn't right. It happens.
"I think the main question is why we were unable to bounce back and to play like champions."
I bring all these coaching changes up because as I sat in the sauna over the weekend (some sight eh?) I thought about Terry Collins and wondered just how long does he have to keep his job as Mets manager in 2013?
Oh I know what your muttering to yourself about my sanity and what an asshole I am (for some that was even before reading this post) I totally understand that the talent level of the Mets entering the 2013 season is not pennant race quality but before you flame away on me ask yourself this, "Has Terry Collins made a positive impact on this team" Sadly I say NO!
I have been a proponent of Collins from the day he was hired. I felt then and still do that Collins is an outstanding baseball instructor and he would make the Mets better fundamentally and more professional. I still think he is a top notch instructor but I feel he's failed on the other two skill sets I felt he was bringing to the job. Not only that, it seems to me the Mets clubhouse is lacking in discipline as we have seen the last two seasons under Collins leadership the team has folded it's tent after the All Star break. The 2009 and 2010 version of the NY Mets gave up in the second halves of the seasons as well, and Jerry Manuel was run out of town, justifiably so. So what's the difference between Terry Collins and Jerry Manuel?
Collins came to the Mets manager's job with a soiled reputation as a non-communicator in his past three managerial jobs. The stories out of Anaheim were about player revolt and in Houston; Collins Astros teams were involved in a civil war between hitters and pitchers. There have been rumblings about the Mets relievers feeling a disconnect between the manager, pitching coach and themselves.
Collins lost me the night of September 20 th of last season when the Mets were destroyed by the Phillies at Citi Field by a score of 16-1 and visibly upset Collins sat for his post-game presser ready to explode, and when asked by Kevin Burkhardt if the team had quit, Collins deservedly threw them under the bus by telling Burkhart to go ask them. Word was many players were upset with the manager for hinting that the team had packed it in and instead of Collins challenging his detractors, he apologized. I took that as a sign of insecurity by the Mets skipper and he should have stuck to his guns as the team did respond to being called out by actually playing its best baseball of the second half in winning 7 of the next 8 games.
With every second half sleep walk defeat by the Mets, Collins would go into Rick Kotite mode in his post-game pow-wow to the point that it was offensive to me as a Mets fan. I was so tired of hearing that the team played hard and that Collins had seen some positives, all he did was make me think he still had Anaheim on his mind and was afraid to speak out and show anger thinking that media and fans would say he was melting down again.
Collins enters 2013 without a contract extension and quite frankly I feel he's only back for this coming season because the Skill Sets don't want to pay two guys for the same job. When the season ended in 2012, I thought there was a chance that Collins would be re-assigned to either a front office position or back to where his strength is, working with minor leaguers, but Sandy Alderson has kept him on board for the coming season but for how much of the season? Personnel aside, if the Mets start off badly and show the same listless way of playing baseball as they did in the last couple of second halves of the season, many Mets fans will get their wish of seeing Wally Backman manger the Mets . As Prokhorov said, "sometimes the chemistry just isn't right, it happens"
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The city will begin writing higher-priced parking tickets Dec. 1.
Parking in a spot longer than the allowed time will now cost drivers $25, which is $10 than the current fine.
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text: bswitzer blogged in http://kwlug.org/node/750 : > All tests were performed under the Windows 7 that came with the 1201n, > writing to the ext3 partition. Wait, what? ext3 on Win7 ? > Source file is on a Windows XP machine (Pentium D, 2.80 > GHz, dual-core), reading from an ext3 partition. What again? What manner of Windows drivers are you using? The only ext drivers I know of only understand ext2 at best... --Bob. -- Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> http://sobac.com/sobac/ SOBAC Microcomputer Services Voice: +1-519-669-0388 6 James Street, Elmira ON Canada N3B 1L5 Cel: +1-519-635-9413 Software --- Office & Business Automation --- Consulting > On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 15:04 -0400, webhost at kwlug.org wrote: > Greetings mail-forum-merge, > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Recent content - 1 new post > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > 1. (My) Home Network Speed Test Results: wired vs 802.11n 5GHz 300Mbps > wi-fi - copper wins, hands down. > Published Blog entry by bswitzer > [ http://kwlug.org/node/750 ] > > So, having acquired a new laptop, an ASUS Eee PC 1201N [1] (Pros: dual > core, bluetooth, hdmi out, 802.11n; Cons: not gigabit, not 5GHz 802.11n, > takes 2x4GB memory but will only use 4GB of it, very poor battery life, > $60 additional power adapters!), it seemed time to upgrade my wi-fi > infrastructure too. Something gigabit with 802.11n and USB. So I also > picked up a Netgear WNDR3700 Rangemax™ Dual Band Wireless-N Gigabit > Router [2]. Eventually, I discovered that the 1201n's network adapter > was not gigabit, so picked up a Sabrent USB-G1000 USB 2.0 to Gigabit > 10/100/1000 Ethernet Adapter Network RJ-45 Converter [3] [I was curious, > more than anything else, and figured USB 480Mbps had to be significantly > faster than full duplex Ethernet 100 Mbps - NOT], and discovered that > the 802.11n was 2.4GHz only (there are something like 29 2.4GHz wi-fi > networks I can reach from my Dining Room, surprisingly, many of them > 802.11n). So I also had to pick up a Netgear WNDA3100 RangeMax Dual Band > Wireless-N USB 2.0 Adapter [4]. The house backbone is already on gigabit > switches. I've got Rogers Express for my ISP (phone lines too poor for > ADSL), which is to say, 10 Mbps up / 512 Kbps down. Not that the ISP > really makes any difference for our purposes here - anything internal > will be far faster than out the ISP, and it's very, very, seldom that > any website comes even close to the download speed limit. Ubuntu > torrents do, but that is a very rare exception. > - most of the time, the 2.4GHz wi-fi will only connect at 65 Mbps. There > are just too many other 2.4GHz nets around. The 5GHz always gets 300 > Mbps. I'm perhaps 6' away from the router at the time of these tests. > - in some senses, OpenWRT has been a boon, in others, not so much. > Although I always expected to go to OpenWRT, what drove me to it from > the stock Netgear firmware, within the month, is simply that the stock > firmware could not set the time - ntp is only used out the WAN port, and > I'm not using the WAN port! [Not having the time set is unacceptable, > let alone stupid - trying to examine log files with different times is > just ... silly.] After a ridiculously large amount of reading, I > traversed the OpenWRT learning curve, and OpenWRT 'just works.' [See > forum threads at openwrt.org [5] for everything you need to know for > OpenWRT on the WNDR3700 - search for threads with 'WNDR3700' in the > title.] If I had to do it again, today, it might take me, perhaps, 10 > minutes - AFTER confirming the device was supported, and found and > downloaded the firmware. Add another 10 to enable the radios and set up > wi-fi. Amazing. > - the only reason OpenWRT is not a boon at the moment, is I'm not really > using it for anything the stock Netgear firmware, also OpenWRT, by the > way, doesn't give me. Except, of course, it gets the time. It's all just > routing (to the NTP server), so why the heck Netgear has it only on the > WAN port ... > - some day I'll switch DHCP, DNS, NTP, PXE, and the like, onto the > router, and kill my CentOS server, but no time for that today. Given the > slow speed of the router, relative to today's CPUs, that is, there may > be little point to hanging a 2TB USB drive off of it, for backups and > video - I don't expect it will keep up, especially to the GB. While > still serving the internet. Of course, I could be wrong. Perhaps I'll > find out some day. > - OpenWrt allowed me to play with channels, and use 2 channels at once > [See 802.11n on Wikipedia [6]]. In my area, there are a lot of nets on > channel 11, and even more on 6. Channel 1 also has enough to be > annoying. For 2.4GHz I tend to get double speed on channel 5, doubled > with channel 3. Less so doubled with 9. Curiously, the built-in wi-fi of > the 802.11n tends to double at 150 Mbps, while the USB adapter doubles > to 130Mbps. > - Not that 2.4GHz is practical, speed wise, but with the USB adapter, > and thus 5GHz, 300Mbps isn't so bad. > - Nothing, as you will see, compares with copper. Sadly. > Network speed is VERY important. I can sling GB's of backups around the > home network at night. Casual tests in the past have shown that > transfers go from days to hours, 100Mbps to Gigabit, full duplex both. > All tests were performed under the Windows 7 that came with the 1201n, > writing to the ext3 partition. Data file was a new 10GB vm disk file, > except for the SD card where it was 2GB, due to the (Windows) FAT32 file > size limitation. Source file is on a Windows XP machine (Pentium D, 2.80 > GHz, dual-core), reading from an ext3 partition. All hard drives SATA - > 300 Mbps / probably 5400 RPM source, 1201n is proably 4200 RPM. > - all results, MBps. > > > 1.08 - ISP, www.bandwidthplace.com [7] > 2.32 - 802.11g, 2.4GHz, 54Mbps (linksys usb) > 3.34 - 802.11n, 2.4GHz, 65Mbps (1201 internal) > 3.46 - SD to same SD copy. {OUCH! wi-fi is faster!} > 3.98 - 802.11n, 2.4GHz, 130Mbps (netgear usb) > 4.29 - SATA to SD (1201 internal) > 4.79 - 802.11n, 2.4GHz, 150Mbps (1201 internal) > 6.08 - 802.11n, 5GHz, 300Mbps (netgear usb) > 7.60 - 100 Mbps wired > 7.90 - 1Gps wired (usb) > 8.72 - SATA to same SATA (1201n) > 9.00 - 100 Mbps wired - anomalous result, from 20 days earlier > 10.19 - SD to SATA (1201n) > 17.40 - (Source) SATA to same SATA > > > NOTE: Nobody should take these test results for their absolute numbers. > Too many variables - these results are for my particular set of > circumstances / hardware, at that particular time. I do think, however, > that you can bank on the speeds relative to each technology. IMO. You > could tweak any given technology to achieve better results, no doubt, > but generally, for the average user, I expect one can reasonably rely on > these results, relatively. > Personal Conclusions: > - since the 1201n has such poor battery life, and so I'm trailing around > a power adapter anyways, and since I have wired enough jacks in my home > and have sufficiently long ethernet cables, wi-fi is pointless. > - given a netbook, without a Gbps wired ethernet port, the USB gigabit > adapter is pointless. The 300 KBps gained isn't worth any cost. Too many > other slow technologies are present. But, one doesn't acquire a netbook > for extreme speed. > - the SD results were interesting. Especially SD to itself (read & > write), Sata to SD (write), and SD to Sata (read). > - 802.11n 2.4GHz is probably pointless, given the number of wi-fi homes. > Go 5GHz or don't bother. CHECK THAT YOUR POTENTIAL LAPTOP PURCHASE IS > DUAL BAND / 5GHz. DON'T REPLACE YOUR CURRENT WI-FI ROUTER, OTHERWISE. > - since so much of 802.11n is still 2.4GHz, no point in replacing your > cordless phones, except to 1.9GHz DECT. Both keeping your 2.4GHz phones, > and replacing them with 5GHz phones, is self-defeating. > - copper, particularly Gigabit, really is worth the effort. Particularly > once you get over the unnecessary FUD of running cable or poking holes > in your floor. Myself, I just made small holes in the corner of a room - > didn't even try to go up the wall (studs), or went down the heating > ducts. Haven't looked back, since. Except, to pointlessly try 802.11n, > largely wasting the $. > - the results show, clearly, that 300Mbps is a fantasy. It may be true, > but the associated overhead means that comparing wi-fi speeds to wired > speeds is, IMO, fraud on the part of the industry. One would reasonably > have thought any wi-fi over 100 Mbps would be faster than wired 100 > Mbps. NOT! > YMMV. > Hope this is useful for anyone considering a network upgrade, > particularly in wi-fi, and wondering if the speed gain will be worth the > $ spent. Not likely. But my results should at least give you an in-home > ballpark of what you might be looking at. > Comments welcome. > > [1] http://ca.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=sZ0sI6WqjnCHGFta > [2] > http://www.netgear.com/Products/WirelessRouter/WirelessRoutersforHighPerformance/WNDR3700.aspx > [3] http://sabrent.com/#itemName=NETWORK&itemID=103§ion=Product > [4] > http://netgear.com/Products/WirelessAdapter/WirelessAdaptersforHighPerformance/WNDA3100.aspx > [5] https://forum.openwrt.org > [6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.11n > [7] http://www.bandwidthplace.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Recent comments - 1 new comment > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > 1 new comment attached to Blog entry posted by Raul Suarez: Installing a > Lexmark x1155 using the z600 driver > 1. Oops, I didn't notice that by Raul Suarez > http://kwlug.org/node/742#comment-748 > >


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"The Newport Folk Foundation played a pivotal role in the resurgence of Cajun-Creole music when its future looked bleak. At the 1964 Newport Folk Festival, a performance by a Cajun trio that included Dewey Balfa turned out to be a turning point when an audience of 17,000 gave them a thunderous, standing ovation
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The pre Physical Therapy program at Clarkson University is for highly qualified and motivated in coming high school students who wish to pursue a career in physical therapy. Students who apply to the undergraduate programs at Clarkson University can also apply to this program at the same time by completing all required material for the freshman application for undergraduate admission and checking the box on the application for pre-physical therapy as a "special advising option" in addition to selecting the undergraduate major of your choice.
The pre physical therapy program is not a major; it's a series of core coursework (biology, chemistry, physics, math, statistics and psychology) and two physical therapy seminars. In fact, you're free to pursue any major. You might, for example, study engineering and management to gain a better understanding of how physical-therapy equipment works and how the mechanical principles apply to the human body. Or you might choose to study psychology to learn how to motivate and direct patients and their families. Whatever you study, the specialized knowledge and skills you acquire as an undergraduate will broaden your career opportunities as a physical therapist.
Clarkson pre-physical therapy students also enjoy the following advantages:
- At least 50% of the available seats in each cohort will be held for Clarkson University pre-PT undergraduate students who successfully complete all of the necessary pre-requisite requirements.
- A physical therapy program adviser. In addition to your major adviser, you'll be assigned a second faculty adviser from the Department of Physical Therapy. This extra mentoring relationship adds another dimension of support to your experience. You and your PT adviser will work together to define your career goals, balance your PT course requirements with major requirements, and make a successful transition to the Doctor of Physical Therapy program.
- A solid foundation in Problem-Based Learning, which is a cornerstone of the graduate program. The pre physical therapy courses will introduce you to this student-centered, collaborative and self-directed education model. Problem-Based Learning (PBL), based on patient case studies, more closely resembles actual clinical experience. It better prepares you to be a self-motivated lifelong learner, which is essential to being a competent healthcare professional.


text: Little does this woman know what happens to her brain when she licks the ice cream. from www.shutterstock.com January 1, 2017 Health Check: does my brain really freeze when I eat ice cream? Yossi Rathner, Swinburne University of Technology and Mark Schier, Swinburne University of Technology It's a long, hot summer's day and you're looking forward to an ice cream. But within seconds of your first bite, you feel a headache coming on: a brain freeze. What's going on?


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The odds look good for Marion County to send a horse to the Kentucky Derby winner's circle.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The odds look good for Marion County to send a horse to the Kentucky Derby winner's circle.
At least 14 of the 19 Run for the Roses contenders once called the Ocala area home before starting racing careers throughout the country. Those careers have now culminated in a run in the $2 million, 1 1/4-mile race and a shot at racing history.
Ocala-area farm ties to Derby horses run the gamut, from morning-line odds favorites Orb and Verrazano to 50-1 long shot Falling Sky. The field is typically 20 horses but Black Onyx, broken at Kinsman Farm in Ocala, was scratched Friday.
Here's a look at the 14 horses with local connections:
Niall Brennan, of Niall Brennan Training Stables in Ocala, broke and gave early training to three horses: Orb, Revolutionary and Palace Malice.
"But the Derby is a funny race … in that it comes come down to the conditions of the race," Brennan said.
Although Orb is undefeated in his last four races and won the Florida Derby, Brennan is quick to point out that past traffic problems have kept favored horses out of the winner's circle.
"(Orb) is a good striving colt, but you don't want to get bounced around … and get shuffled to the back," he said of the 7-2 morning-line favorite. "If he gets a good break (from his outside 16 post) he'll be alright."
At 10-1 morning-line odds, Revolutionary will start from the three post. Brennan said Revolutionary might be the most maneuverable of the bunch.
"He's a very athletic, wiry horse who can weave through traffic," he said of the March Louisiana Derby winner.
Sired by War Pass, Revolutionary would do best sticking to the middle of the pack and making his move later in the race, Brennan said of the colt, now trained by Todd Pletcher.
At 20-1, Palace Malice is another story altogether, Brennan said. A May colt, Palace Malice is talented, but a "very young" horse that could lose focus, Brennan said. Also now trained by Pletcher, Palace Malice will race with blinkers to avoid distractions.
Palace Malice will come out of the center 10 post. The horse, which took second place in the Blue Grass Stakes, "has a great future," Brennan said.
With two connections in the Derby, Ocala-based J.B. McKathan is hoping either Blue Grass Stakes winner Java's War, at 15-1 morning-line odds, crosses the wire first, or Golden Soul ends up in the winner's circle.
McKathan broke both horses for owner Charles Fipke.
Java's War will be starting from the precarious 19 post, with a lot of ground and traffic to cross to get into the thick of things.
But despite the outfield post draw, McKathan isn't worried. He said the War Pass colt's running style will keep him out of trouble.
"I don't really think that it matters (about his post) … He sits back and waits … and he closes big time," McKathan said.
McKathan predicts that if pace setters establish a fast pace, that will help him as other horses will run out of steam.
As for long shot Golden Soul, at 50-1 morning-line odds: McKathan said observers shouldn't count out the Perfect Soul colt ridden by three-time Kentucky Derby winner Calvin Borel and coming out of the four post.
McKathan said he's not worried about traffic because the colt typically comes from off the pace.
Golden Soul, however, may be in over his head, not having won a race since he broke his maiden last year. He's also been beaten by Derby contenders Revolutionary and Mylute (both with Ocala-area connections) in the March Louisiana Derby, and Palace Malice in the February Risen Star.
The colt had the lowest number of entry points among contenders to qualify for the Derby.
McKathan said luck may play more of a role than many people realize.
"And you can have a bad trip from the five hole, and you can have a bad trip from the one hole," he said.
Also with two contenders is Ocala-based Eddie Woods, who broke Normandy Invasion, out of the five post, and Charming Kitten, starting from the 15 post.
Normandy Invasion's morning-line odds are 12-1. The Tapit colt came in second in the April Wood Memorial behind fellow Derby contender Verrazano.
Verrazano was broken locally by Ocala horseman J.J. Pletcher, father of Todd Pletcher, who has five horses in this year's Derby.
Woods said Normandy Invasion had a rough trip in the Wood Memorial, but noted that the colt shouldn't be underestimated.
Along with being bumped at the break, "if the Wood had been run with more pace, he (Normandy Invasion) would have won," he said.
Woods predicts a significantly faster pace in the Derby, which would only help Normandy Invasion.
Woods also broke and trained Charming Kitten, which finished third in the Blue Grass and second in the March 3 Palm Beach Stakes at Gulfstream.
Traffic won't be a problem for him, Woods said, seeing as how he runs on the outside.
The Kitten's Joy colt will be ridden by Derby-winning jockey Edgar Prado.
The colt, at 20-1 morning-line odds, should settle a few horses from the leaders "and hope he holds on."
Ocala-based James Crupi will be pulling for Overanalyze, a 15-1 morning-line odds colt he broke and trained for Repole Stable.
"I think his pedigree will make him go the distance … and that's half the battle," he said of the April Arkansas Derby winner.
His prediction for the Dixie Union colt is that he stick to the four, five or six spot before trying for the lead.
Mylute, owned by Ocala-based GoldMark Farm and Whisper Hill Farm in Citra, will come from the six post.
At 15-1 morning-line odds, the second-place Louisiana Derby finisher has had two starts this year, the latest in late March.
"That was all to set us up for this best effort here on the first Saturday in May," said Todd Quast, general manager of co-owner GoldMark Farm.
Statistics appear to be in Quast's favor: The past six Kentucky Derby winners all came into the race with only two starts that year.
One of the Derby favorites, at 5-1 morning-line odds, is Goldenscents. The horse was broken and trained by Williston-based Greg and Karen Dodd.
The Into Mischief colt has won four of his six starts, including the April 6 Santa Anita Derby and Jan. 5 Sham. Starting at the eight post, his trainer is Doug O'Neill, who also trained last year's Kentucky Derby winner, I'll Have Another.
"He's doing well, and we're feeling good about his chances," O'Neill said. "We think it is our time."
Itsmyluckyday, broken by Eisaman Equine in Marion County, and partly owned by Marion Hills farm in Ocala, will come out of the 12 post.
Barry Eisaman also broke I'll Have Another.
Eisaman said Itsmyluckyday should settle into the five, six or seven position and wait for the stretch to make his move. He said the horse, which he describes as calm and smart, has tactical speed and can stay out of trouble amid the traffic. His morning-line odds are 15-1.
Falling Sky, a 50-1 morning-line long shot, was one of four Derby contenders that was sold at Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. in Ocala.
Falling Sky, which finished fifth in the Arkansas Derby, will start from the 13 post. The Lion Heart colt sold for $425,000 this year. His other OBS graduates include Goldencents, Revolutionary and Itsmyluckyday.
J.J. Pletcher broke and trained 4-1 morning-line favorite Verrazano. The More Than Ready colt is undefeated in four starts, most recently winning the April 6 Wood Memorial by three-quarters of a length.
Verrazano is one of five Derby contenders this year for Todd Pletcher.
Pletcher said Friday the colt was training well.
As for his racing style: The speed horse, coming out of the 14 post, has consistently grabbed the lead early and held onto it to the finish line.
Ian Brennan, trainer at Stonestreet Training and Rehabilitation Center, broke and trained Oxbow.
The Awesome Again colt's last win was the Lecomte Stakes in January.
Brennan said the horse should settle into the five or six spot and stay out of trouble. The 30-1 morning-line odds colt is trained by D. Wayne Lukas. This is his 27th Derby. Lukas said the horse's energy level was peaking.
Brennan's brother, Niall, has three entries in the Derby.
"There's some brotherly rivalry there," Ian Brennan said. "That's true."
Reach Fred Hiers at email@example.com and 352-397-5914.


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By Blerona
I was so excited to create my first Ribbon Hair Bow that I decided to do another one! But with a different technique. So check it out!
10″ – 5/8″ of Grosgrain Item# 00305 (Orchid)
12″ – 7/8″ of Grosgrain Item#00306 (Orchid)
- 15″ – 5/8″ of Grosgrain Item# 00305 (French Pink)
20″ – 5/8′ Garden Flower Ribbon item#43007 (White Combo)
20″ – 5/8′ Garden Flower Ribbon item#43007 (lt Ivory Combo)
1st step: Cut both flower ribbons in half, you should 4 pieces of 10″ ribbon. All together you should have five strips of 10″ ribbon, one strip of 12″ ribbon, one strip of 15″ ribbon.
2nd Step: Take the 12″ orchid piece of ribbon add glue in the middle and fold like the breast cancer ribbon. Then add glue on top of that and fold the ribbon over that, making a bow. Like the Photo above.
3rd Step: Take the 10″ of orchid ribbon and glue the ends together. Then take the four strips of 10″ flower ribbons and do the same thing.
4th Step: Now for all the ribbons that you glued the ends together with, add glue in the middle of each and create an 8, like the photo above.
5th Step: For the 14″ of French Pink ribbon, follow step 2 and create a bow. Then pile and glue the ribbons on top of each other on different angles. Creating a flower.
6th Step: Sew everything together, cut the ends of the purple and pink ribbon making a V and sew a clip on the back. I also added a little embellishment in the middle with scrap trim from this project, but you can also add a button.


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copyright the Chronicle April 1, 2015
by Nathalie Gagnon-Joseph
DERBY — Companions Ryan Lewis and Marcia Brown bought Derby's Village Pizza two months ago. After a month of renovations, the restaurant, now called Lewis Village Pizza, is open again.
"I always told people that one of these days this is what I was going to do," Mr. Lewis said Tuesday.


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CAMEL Code Dispute Pits Feds vs. States
CAMELs aren't usually a source of controversy in a place known for basketball and tobacco. At issue is the NCUA's fight with state regulators over the release of the CAMEL rating of State Employees Credit Union.
News Update:
Feb. 10, 2012 - NCUA Says Dual Exams Over, For Now
The NCUA said it is protecting the safety and soundness of the credit union system while the North Carolina credit union regulator and the nation's second largest credit union say it is about transparency.
All sides are holding fast to their position and North Carolina's 51 other state-chartered credit unions (all of which are federally insured) will have to pay for an additional examination because the NCUA will no longer perform joint exams with the state regulator.
NCUA Region III Director Herbert S. Yolles wrote all North Carolina state-chartered federally insured credit unions that the disclosure of the CAMEL rating was "an unacceptable release of exempt records of the NCUA rules and regulations."
Yolles added that federal law and his agency's regulations ban credit unions from disclosing information from examination reports, operating reports or condition reports "prepared by, on behalf or for the use of one of the federal agencies responsible for the regulation or supervision of financial institutions." The release of CAMEL ratings "could cause great harm to the NCUSIF, all insured credit unions and their insured and uninsured depositors," he said.
In October, after receiving permission from its state regulator, State Employees CU announced that it had received a CAMEL 2 rating in its latest state examination, which was not conducted jointly with the NCUA. The Raleigh, N.C.-based credit union has assets of $23.4 billion
North Carolina Credit Union Division Administrator Jerrie K. Jay told Credit Union Times that her agency had made its decision to let the credit union release its CAMEL rating after consulting with the state attorney general.
"Under state law, at my discretion I have the right to give permission to release a CAMEL rating. I worked with the attorney general's office, and we didn't see how what we did violated federal laws," she said.
North Carolina Credit Union League President/CEO John Radebaugh said he is not giving up hope that there will be a resolution because the current situation will cause credit unions to spend more time and money on examinations and is a threat to the dual chartering system.
NASCUS President/CEO Mary Martha Fortney said her organization "is very concerned about any conceived or perceived threat to dual chartering in North Carolina," and it has been working to try to resolve the dispute. She declined to provide details on the nature of their involvement.
Fortney added that the "prevailing sentiment in most states is that the CAMEL rating should remain confidential. However, it is not uncommon for law to vest the regulator with the discretion to release information deemed in the public interest."
State Employees President/CEO Jim Blaine said although his credit union has had separate state and federal examinations during the past several years because of its size, it is "unfair for the NCUA to punish other credit unions in the state and make them incur added expense. The NCUA is penalizing them because we did something that was legal under our state charter."
Blaine added that they sought permission to release their CAMEL rating "because we want to provide full disclosure to our members and other consumers."
His view is shared by two prominent former NCUA officials.
Former NCUA Board Member Geoff Bacino said that "because there are already several private companies that do ratings of credit unions, and there is extensive information available in Call Reports, people can already get a good idea of a credit union's health. Knowing the CAMEL rating would just add another piece of data."
Chip Filson, who once ran the NCUA's Examination Office, recently wrote that if the agency allowed its own and state CAMEL ratings to be released, regulatory decisions could be better monitored by credit unions and credit union watchers.
"This is an example of NCUA's efforts to monopolize the control of information so others cannot challenge its judgment and assertions in the light of day and with open discourse. NCUA wants to keep its power unchecked, unregulated and unchallenged," he wrote.


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Falco sparverius
IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern
Christopher L. Wood
North America's littlest falcon, the American Kestrel packs a predator's fierce intensity into its small body. It's one of the most colorful of all raptors: the male's slate-blue head and wings contrast elegantly with his rusty-red back and tail; the female has the same warm reddish on her wings, back, and tail. Hunting for insects and other small prey in open territory, kestrels perch on wires or poles, or hover facing into the wind, flapping and adjusting their long tails to stay in place. Kestrels are declining in parts of their range; you can help them by putting up nest boxes.
American Kestrels favor open areas with short ground vegetation and sparse trees. You'll find them in meadows, grasslands, deserts, parks, farm fields, cities, and suburbs. The southeastern U.S. form breeds in unusual longleaf pine sandhill habitat. When breeding, kestrels need access to at least a few trees or structures that provide appropriate nesting cavities. American Kestrels are attracted to many habitats modified by humans, including pastures and parkland, and are often found near areas of human activity including towns and cities.
American Kestrels eat mostly insects and other invertebrates, as well as small rodents and birds. Common foods include grasshoppers, cicadas, beetles, and dragonflies; scorpions and spiders; butterflies and moths; voles, mice, shrews, bats, and small songbirds. American Kestrels also sometimes eat small snakes, lizards, and frogs. And some people have reported seeing American Kestrels take larger prey, including red squirrels and Northern Flickers.
American Kestrels do not use nesting materials. If the cavity floor is composed of loose material, the female hollows out a shallow depression there.
American Kestrels nest in cavities, although they lack the ability to excavate their own. They rely on old woodpecker holes, natural tree hollows, rock crevices, and nooks in buildings and other human-built structures. The male searches for possible nest cavities. When he's found suitable candidates, he shows them to the female, who makes the final choice. Typically, nest sites are in trees along wood edges or in the middle of open ground. American Kestrels take readily to nest boxes (see Backyard Tips).
American Kestrels normally hunt by day. You may see a kestrel scanning for prey from the same perch all day long—or changing perches every few minutes. A kestrel pounces on its prey, seizing it with one or both feet; the bird may finish off a small meal right there on the ground, or carry larger prey back to a perch. During breeding season, males advertise their territory by repeatedly climbing and then diving, uttering a short series of klee! calls at the top of each ascent. Courting pairs may exchange gifts of food; usually the male feeds the female. Early in the pairing-up process, groups of four or five birds may congregate. You may see American Kestrels harassing larger hawks and eagles during migration, and attacking hawks in their territories during breeding season. Kestrels compete over the limited supply of nesting cavities with other cavity-nesters, and sometimes successfully fight off or evict bluebirds, Northern Flickers, small squirrels, and other competitors from their chosen sites.
The American Kestrel is the continent's most common and widespread falcon but populations declined by about 50% between 1966 and 2015, according to the North American Breeding Bird Survey. Partners in Flight estimates the global breeding population at 4 million, with 39% spending some part of the year in the U.S., 10% in Mexico, and 13% breeding in Canada. They rate an 11 out of 20 on the Continental Concern Score and are not on the 2016 State of North America's Birds' Watch List. Current declines stem from continued clearing of land and felling of the standing dead trees these birds depend on for their nest sites. The American Kestrel is also losing prey sources and nesting cavities to so-called "clean" farming practices, which remove hedgerows, trees, and brush. An additional threat is exposure to pesticides and other pollutants, which can reduce clutch sizes and hatching success. For kestrels in North America, a larger problem with pesticides is that they destroy the insects, spiders, and other prey on which the birds depend.
Resident to long-distance migrant. In North America, the tendency for kestrels to migrate decreases from north to south, with southernmost populations resident year-round. While some American Kestrels migrate to Central America, the great majority spend the winter in the southern United States. Kestrels can often be seen along mountain ridges and at hawk watches during fall migration.
Consider putting up a nest box to attract a breeding pair. Make sure you put it up well before breeding season. Attach a guard to keep predators from raiding eggs and young. Find out more about nest boxes on our Attract Birds pages. You'll find plans for building a nest box of the appropriate size on our All About Birdhouses site.
Scan fence posts, utility lines and telephone poles, particularly when driving through farmland. Or catch them by the hundreds at coastal migration sites—such as Cape May, New Jersey, or Kiptopeke, Virginia—in September or early October. Particularly in summer, listen for their shrill killy-killy-killy call to be alerted to when they're around.
Raptors of Winter, All About Birds, January 12, 2015.
Raptors and Rat Poison, Living Bird, Summer 2015.
ID Tips for Raptor-Watching Season: Use Tail and Wing Shape, Living Bird, Autumn 2016.
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General Information
Name: Uchiha Itachi
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Clan: Uchiha
Itachi was a fairly tall young man with onyx eyes, black hair with bangs that framed his face and a low ponytail that reached into his upper back. The ponytail was, however, later obscured by the high collar of the Akatsuki cloak he wore after joining the organisation. Being brothers, Itachi and Sasuke had a similar appearance. Naruto nearly mistook Itachi for Sasuke when they first met, while Tobi commented upon their resemblance when he first encountered Sasuke. Itachi's most distinguishing characteristics were the long pronounced tear troughs under his eyes.
Ever since his first appearance, Itachi had always been inscrutable. Flashbacks showed that he used to be a compassionate brother, but his initial appearances depicted him as an Akatsuki criminal only interested in the organisation's success and secrecy before all else. Later his interest in Akatsuki was revealed to be an act, and his true intentions for joining the organisation were to spy on it from within. Nonetheless, Itachi and his partner, Kisame, cooperated better than most Akatsuki partners, and despite the differences in personalities, appeared to have mutual respect for one another.
While a member of Akatsuki, he possessed incredible control of his emotions, constantly displaying an emotionless personality. He only showed surprise when opponents proved more powerful or skilled than expected, and even then didn't lose his composure. After his death, he has also been shown to have a sense of humour, such as questioning Naruto's claim that no one could survive Nagato's attack when Naruto clearly did, and calling his younger brother a "snake expert" while fighting Kabuto Yakushi.
Village Information
Village of Birth: Konohagakure
Village of Alliance: Konohagakure
Rank/Chakra Information
Ninja Rank: Kage
Specialty: One Tomoe Sharingan | Crow Summoning
Crows (烏, Karasu) are the characteristic summon of Itachi Uchiha. At some point in time, Itachi made a contract with crows which allows him to summon them as he wishes. He mainly used them combined with his genjutsu as well as ninjutsu while fighting — often de-materialising into a flock of crows or summoning them from underneath his cloak to blind his target. He also used a variation of the Clone Technique called the Crow Clone Technique where he uses his crows as a medium to create a copy of himself which when hit, disperses back into crows.
Lightning Release C Rank Fire Release Started Wind Release B Rank Water Release B Rank Earth Release B Rank
Training Record | CJ
Ninjutsu Require Training Taijutsu Started Summoning Crows Summoning Bald Eagles Custom Jutsu CJ
Background Information
Itachi was born into the Uchiha clan as the eldest son of Mikoto and Fugaku Uchiha and was praised by all as the best of his generation, a genius above all others, even by the standards of the battle-adept Uchiha clan, Itachi's prowess far outshone their own. However, few could understand him. When he was only four, Itachi had already witnessed countless lives lost due to the Third Shinobi World War, which emotionally traumatised him and turned him into a pacifist. During the Nine-Tails' attack on Konoha, Itachi was left alone to take care of his infant brother Sasuke and promised to protect him no matter what. In the anime, it was shown that during their childhood, Itachi made a game of collecting paw prints of cats with his brother. The last paw print to be collected was Nekomata's, who Itachi had defeated and asked him to fight Sasuke with all his might when Sasuke got older.
At age 7, Itachi graduated from the Academy at the top of his class after only one year, mastered the Sharingan at age 8, passed the Chunin Exams at age 10, enrolled in ANBU half a year later and became captain by 13. At some point in time in their childhood, Sasuke helped Itachi on one of his missions to capture a giant boar. Itachi told Sasuke to avoid his vital points. He then threw kunai with explosive tags around the boar, to confuse it and to give Sasuke an opportunity to shoot the boar. Sasuke, however, missed completely. After Sasuke apologised, Itachi told him he needs to train more.
Itachi was praised highly by his father, who saw the family's future in Itachi and hence inadvertently neglected his younger son. However, during this time Itachi showed great affection towards his little brother and even encouraged his father to come to the Academy enrolment ceremony for Sasuke, something their father had otherwise forgotten, caught up an important mission that would establish Itachi a place in the ANBU ranks.
When the Uchiha clan began planning to overthrow Konoha, Itachi, as an ANBU, was tasked with spying on the village. Knowing that a coup d'état would only escalate to the beginning of another ninja-world war, Itachi began spying on the Uchiha instead, passing on information to the Third Hokage and Konoha elders. Though the Third Hokage ultimately decided to reason with the Uchiha in order to dissuade them from their actions, Danzo Shimura met secretly with Itachi Uchiha and inveigled him into choosing the lives of his clansmen or that of his little brother. During this time he began to act strangely, not attending the clan meetings, speaking out against the clan, and becoming the prime suspect for the murder of his best friend Shisui Uchiha, who was drowned in the Naka River. In reality, Shisui died after he entrusted his left eye to Itachi, the other having been taken by Danzo. Due to this the clan lost hope in Itachi, and his father began shifting his focus to Sasuke instead. Meanwhile, the Third's attempts to negotiate a bloodless end to hostilities between the two parties were proving ineffective, so against Hiruzen's wishes, Danzo Shimura and the Konoha Council ordered Itachi to wipe out the Uchiha clan.
Before the fateful night arrived, Itachi discovered the existence of Tobi — under the guise of a vengeful Madara Uchiha — who was attempting to rekindle the flames of war in Konoha. In return for not attacking Konoha, Itachi offered to help him claim vengeance against the Uchiha for turning their backs on him decades earlier to which Tobi agreed. Itachi slaughtered his entire clan overnight, including his friends, superiors, family, and lover; prior to killing his parents, the two people whom he was most hesitant to kill, they stated that they were still proud of their eldest son, and requested that he took care of Sasuke before allowing a tearful Itachi to kill them. When Sasuke returned late from a training session, Itachi spared Sasuke because he loved his little brother, and as per the agreement between him and Danzo, did not want to take the life of the person most important to him. He lied to his brother, making himself out as a villain who had killed their innocent family only to test his capacity, and told Sasuke he was not even worth killing. In addition, Itachi told him, "You've always wanted to surpass me. That's why I'm going to let you live… if you wish to kill me, then hate me, despise me… and by all means flee, cling to your wretched life". Itachi also revealed to Sasuke the secret meeting place of the Uchiha, where Sasuke can learn the true history and purpose of the Sharingan. Itachi told him that in order to awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan, Sasuke had to kill the person closest to him, and that when they met again, they should have the same eyes.
Sasuke managed to stand back up, awaken his Sharingan, and pursue Itachi. Upon reaching Itachi, he managed to knock off his forehead protector. Itachi shed a tear as he was picking up his forehead protector, then proceeded to incapacitate Sasuke, who awoke in the hospital, only remembering up to Itachi's speech. By doing all this, Itachi hoped Sasuke would take vengeance on him and become a hero to Konoha, thus redeeming the Uchiha name. Hoping that his little brother would someday be powerful enough to kill him, Itachi left the village as a traitor. Knowing that Konoha would still want to eliminate Sasuke, Itachi pleaded with the Third Hokage to keep Sasuke safe and threatened Danzo not to harm Sasuke or else he would reveal everything he knew about Konoha's secrets to enemy nations.
Itachi joined Akatsuki in order to keep an eye on the organisation, along with Tobi, in case either ever acted against Konoha, all the while planning for his death at Sasuke's hands. During his time in Akatsuki, Orochimaru tried to steal his body to gain the Sharingan, but Itachi trapped him in a genjutsu and severed his left hand. Itachi was further partnered with Kisame Hoshigaki, who initially tried to intimidate him. However, they eventually became good partners. Sometime after Orochimaru fled, Itachi helped recruit Deidara by beating him in battle using only genjutsu, to which Deidara swore vengeance. At some point in time, Itachi contracted a fatal illness. He kept himself alive through the intake of various medicines and sheer "willpower", in the hopes of living long enough to die by Sasuke's hands.
Search for Tsunade Arc
After the Invasion of Konoha and the death of Hiruzen, Itachi and Kisame infiltrated Konoha to find Naruto Uzumaki, the Jinchuriki of the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox. However, Itachi has an ulterior motive in using his appearance to remind Danzo, Koharu, and Homura that he is still alive and not to think of harming Sasuke with Hiruzen dead. While Itachi stops for tea after Kisame suggested it, they attract the attention of Kakashi Hatake, who had Asuma Sarutobi and Kurenai Yuhi follow them. Making it out of Konoha with Asuma and Kurenai still in pursuit, seeing no more need to conceal their identities, Itachi and Kisame proceed to overpower them and Kakashi. After a short skirmish, learning that he is aware of them, Itachi activated his Mangekyo Sharingan and used Tsukuyomi on Kakashi before instructing Kisame to silence the Konoha ninja until Might Guy arrived and deflected Kisame's attack. Learning that the ANBU have been informed of them presence Itachi tells Kisame to fall back to avoid further confrontation as dealing with four jonin-level shinobi would be problematic enough, before they track Naruto down to a hotel where he was staying with Jiraiya at the time. To ensure the Sannin does not meddle, Itachi uses a genjutsu on an attractive woman to draw Jiraiya away from Naruto. As he and Kisame confronted Naruto, Itachi is confronted by Sasuke before Jiraiya arrives with Itachi learning that the Toad Sage told Kakashi about Akatsuki. Allowed to fight his brother, Itachi uses his Mangekyo Sharingan to easily defeat Sasuke while him easily reaffirming Sasuke's need to get stronger. Jiraiya takes over the fight from there, using the Summoning: Toad Mouth Bind technique to trap the Akatsuki members before Itachi risked his health by using Amaterasu to allow himself and Kisame to escape.
Sasuke Retrieval Arc
At the end of Part I, Itachi made a cameo appearance as a silhouette during an Akatsuki gathering where they discussed Orochimaru's taking of Sasuke Uchiha as well as both capture of Kurama for the furthering of their plans.
~Part II~
Kazekage Rescue Arc
While Akatsuki was sealing the One-Tailed Shukaku, the members discovered that Team 7 and Chiyo were en-route to their location. Itachi volunteered to distract them, so Pain used the Shapeshifting Technique on Yura to create a body-double for Itachi. The lookalike, under Itachi's control, engaged the Konoha ninja. Itachi was impressed by Naruto and Kakashi's improvements in strength. However, because the clone had only a portion of his ordinary strength, it was killed by Naruto's Big Ball Rasengan. Nevertheless, he was able to buy enough time.
Itachi Pursuit Arc
As Sasuke defeated Orochimaru, Itachi sensed something odd yet assured Kisame that it was nothing. Following Kisame's capture of Son Goku's jinchuriki, Roshi, Itachi and Kisame met with the rest of Akatsuki. There, they discovered that Sasuke, after being trained by Orochimaru for two and a half years, had killed his teacher. Sometime after Son Goku was sealed, Zetsu informed them that Sasuke had been killed by Deidara's C0. However, though asked by Kisame if he was troubled by his brother's death, Itachi remarked that Sasuke is still alive.
Itachi talks with Naruto
Knowing that his end was near, Itachi sent one of his shadow clones to meet Naruto, who was looking for Sasuke. Although he only wanted to talk, Itachi is forced into defending himself as he asks why Naruto cares so much about a traitor like Sasuke. Upon hearing Naruto's intent to bring Sasuke back to Konoha, along with finding a way to stop Sasuke without killing him should he ever attack their village, Itachi smiled and is content with the youth's resolve. He then has one of his crows enter Naruto's body, telling the boy that he hopes he may never need to use it.
Itachi and Sasuke's battle
After his business with Naruto was done, another of Itachi's shadow clones went to meet with Sasuke. Sasuke exhibited an improvement in his abilities during their confrontation, so Itachi agreed to have their final battle at the Uchiha Hideout. He waited there for Sasuke's arrival, instructing Kisame to not let the other members of Sasuke's team interfere with the fight. Itachi and Sasuke met face-to-face and, while exchanging genjutsu, had a conversation about Madara Uchiha, and Itachi's "true" motives of wanting to take Sasuke's eyes. When Sasuke managed to escape Itachi's Tsukuyomi, the genjutsu battle ended and the ninjutsu battle began.
Itachi used Amaterasu, but Sasuke uses Orochimaru's power to shedding his skin to catch his brother off guard with a Fire Release: Great Dragon Fire Technique at Itachi's direction above although he only managed to burn one of Itachi's arms. Out of chakra, he told Itachi about his final jutsu that, like Amaterasu, was impossible to avoid. Sasuke then used his trump card, on Itachi.
Itachi fights Orochimaru
However, with only his Akatsuki cloak burned off, Itachi managed to survive by using his Susanoo to defend himself. With Kirin having expended all of Sasuke's chakra, Orochimaru gained control and reappeared through his Eight Branches Technique. However, Itachi was easily able to cut off the seven snake heads, leaving only one behind whose mouth Orochimaru appeared out of. Orochimaru thanked Itachi for pushing Sasuke so far, thereby setting him free and allowing him to take control of Sasuke's body. Itachi, however, stabbed Orochimaru with the Totsuka sword to seal him away with Susanoo, removing the cursed seal from Sasuke's body.
As Itachi began to weaken, the Susanoo started to fade and Sasuke saw an opportunity to strike. This was in vain, as Susanoo was still able to protect Itachi with the Yata Mirror. His last option gone, Sasuke was pushed against a wall as Itachi stumbled closer to him, seemingly reaching for Sasuke's eyes.
Overall Skill
Even at a young age, Itachi's intellect and talent showed their brilliance in everything he did, as even his teachers said his progress hardly required any help. In the few battles he had been seen, Itachi was shown to be an incredibly powerful ninja and has gain praised from allies and foes alike. Instances of this includes his battle against Kakashi, Kurenai, and Asuma, Kakashi commented that Itachi wasn't fighting with even half his strength, Kisame Hoshigaki acknowledged Itachi as the stronger of the two despite his pride in his own strength and Tobi stated that Itachi never ceased to amaze him. Despite his impressive abilities, he never underestimates his opponents.
Itachi's only hindrance to his abilities was his below average stamina. Regardless, even with his failing health and his own preplanned death as inhibitions, Sasuke was still unable to defeat Itachi, who inevitably succumbed to his disease. Despite the stress his body was under that was slowly killing him he was still able, in his last moments, to perform his own fuinjutsu.
Being a technical pacifist due to his traumatic experiences from the Third Shinobi World War, Itachi did not actively take part in battle, typically only acting in self-defence and trying to incapacitate his enemies instead of killing them if possible. As a trained Konoha ANBU, Itachi is also proficient in kenjutsu.
Itachi was a master of the Sharingan, and had great prowess with all of the three main types of jutsu. Itachi's signature moves were techniques that involved the usage of crows, able to summon a large flock of them and use them in both in ninjutsu and genjutsu. This is seen primarily with his creations of clones which dissolve into crows, and crows that hide as shuriken.
Traditional to the Uchiha clan, Itachi could use Fire Release techniques, including the clan's giant fireballs the intensity of which was enough to bother even Samehada. He could also infuse shuriken with fire for a devastating two-fold attack. He was also proficient with Water Release. Itachi could catch his opponents off guard with drilling masses of pressurised water and large water dragons.
Even in his youth, Itachi could perfectly hit an intricate set of nine targets, one of which was hidden in a blind-spot, by accurately deflecting one kunai off another to ensure they struck mark. During his fight with the controlled Nagato, he was able to blind Nagato's summons despite the shared field of vision granted by the Rinnegan. Itachi was also very skilled with shuriken, with Sasuke stating that Itachi was best with such tools, even more so than their own father.
Itachi has been shown to be analytical and perceptive, being able to deduce the inner workings and weaknesses of powerful techniques, even while under pressure. He orchestrated his battle against Sasuke to bring about his desired outcomes, and even account for the possibility that his plan wouldn't go as intended by sealing his power into Sasuke and placing a special crow inside of Naruto Uzumaki. Even Tobi himself admitted that if he hadn't kept a few secrets from Itachi he would be dead.
On top of his perceptive skills, Kabuto also noted that Itachi possessed skill in deception due to Itachi's ability to read people's feelings.
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Lost: Itachi does not lose.
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University of New Mexico hospital officials first disclosed in 1998 that children appeared not to have been given the newest drug therapies for acute lymphoblastic leukemia from 1989 to October 1996.
A copy of the state-commissioned actuarial study, obtained by the Journal, found the states previous actuarial studies allotted only $19.6 million for future settlements of pediatric oncology cases.
But the pending class-action lawsuit has changed the states potential liability, the study stated.
After discussion with the State, the State determined an unfavorable outcome is reasonably possible, stated the study by AON Risk Solutions.
Because the university is a state institution and because the state is self-insured, taxpayers are footing the bill for the litigation, which is now 11 years old.
Burckle said this week the new projections werent a surprise given the payouts of the past.
But he cautioned that the $120 million estimate was just that, and could change as the case continues.
Thats our maximum exposure (projected) and we certainly dont expect to pay that. The estimate was based on the states $1.05 million cap per tort claim.
Burckle said his agency isnt seeking any additional funds from the state Legislature in next years budget to help pay for the possible losses.
Were looking at how much we need to set aside, he said.
A hearing about whether there should be a class certification is still about a year away in state district court in Albuquerque.
Lawsuits against UNM and child cancer physician Marilyn Duncan began to mount after UNM announced in 1998 that about 110 children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia from 1989 to 1996 didnt receive recommended care.
Duncan, who was chief of the UNM pediatric oncology clinic, has contended the treatments she gave to children were medically appropriate and effective. She was forced to leave UNM in 1998 and retired. She later surrendered her license to practice medicine in New Mexico.
Her attorney, Al Park, declined to comment.
None of the claims or lawsuits filed against UNM and Duncan has gone to trial.
But a potential class action lawsuit filed in 2001 by Albuquerque attorney Jacob Vigil on behalf of two parents whose children died is still pending.
That lawsuit contends the patients and their families share some common issues, such as not being adequately informed by UNM about the treatments they were receiving and about the risks of treatments proposed. Patients and their families were also dissuaded from seeking second opinions, the lawsuit alleges.


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