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Topographical Disorientation, also known as Topographical agnosia and Topographagnosia, is the inability to orient in the surrounding as a result of focal brain damage.[1] This disability may result from the inability to make use of selective spatial information (e.g., environmental landmarks) or to orient by means of specific cognitive strategies such as the ability to form a mental representation of the environment, also known as a cognitive map. It may be part of a syndrome known as visuospatial dysgnosia.
Classification Edit
Topographical Disorientation is the inability to orient in the surrounding as a result of focal brain damage.[1] Topographical Disorientation has been studied for decades using case studies of patients who have selectively lost their ability to find their way within large-scale, locomotor environments. Several dozen case reports of topographical disorientation have been presented over the last century. Studying these people will aid in the understanding of the complex, multi-component behavior of navigation. Topographical Disorientation may result from a stroke or part of a progressive illness, hemispatial neglect, dementia, Alzheimer's disease.
Egocentric disorientationEdit
Egocentric disorientation is marked by the inability to represent the location of objects with respect to self. This is usually due to lesions in the posterior parietal lobe. Patients experience no difficulty recognizing or naming people or objects. They are unable to accurately reach for visual objects or state the relationship between two objects (above, below, left, right, nearer or farther).[1] In a case study presented by Stark and colleagues, a patient named GW described the inability to accurately reach for visual targets despite normal vision. She had no difficulty recognizing and naming objects presented to her, but was unable to point to locations of targets defined by visual, proprioceptive, or audio input. The loss of an egocentric spatial representation system left her unable to position herself in space. Most indicative of her disability is that she often turned in the wrong direction when greeted by someone who she was not facing [2]
Heading disorientationEdit
Heading disorientation is marked by the inability to represent direction of orientation with respect to external environment. This is usually due to lesions in the posterior cingulate. Patients show no signs of visuo-spatial agnosia. Patients are able to determine their location using landmarks, but are unable to determine which direction to proceed from those landmarks in order to reach their destination. They are also impaired in map drawing tasks and are unable to describe routes between familiar locations.[1] Takahashi and colleagues presented three cases of focal brain damage to the right retrosplenial region through a cerebral hemorrhage that caused a loss in sense of direction. All three patients showed normal visual perception, were able to identify familiar buildings and landscapes, were able to determine and remember locations of objects that could be seen from where they were standing, but were unable to recall direction from selective familiar landmarks. Symptoms of topographical disorientation disappeared in all three patients after two months.[3]
Landmark agnosiaEdit
Landmark agnosia is marked by the inability to recognize salient environmental stimuli such as landmarks. This is usually due to lesions in the lingual gyrus. Patients are able to draw detailed maps and visualize places familiar to them before the illness. They can distinguish between classes of buildings, such as house or skyscraper, but are unable to identify specific buildings, such as their own house or famous landmarks. Patients can navigate using strictly spatial information and specific details of landmarks such as house number or door color.[1] C. A. Pallis described a patient, A.H., who presented with color, face and landmark agnosia as a result of a cerebral embolism. [4]
Anterograde disorientationEdit
Anterograde disorientation is marked by the inability to orient in new environments. This is usually due to lesions in the parahippocampus. Patients were able to navigate through and draw maps of environments learned at least 6 months before the damage.[1][5] Teng and colleagues tested a profoundly amnesic patient who has complete bilateral damage to the hippocampus and extensive damage to adjacent structures in the medial temporal lobe. The patient was able to recall the spatial layout of his hometown where he moved away from 50 years ago, before he became amnesic. The patient has no knowledge of his current neighborhood, where he moved to after his injury. The finding indicates that the medial temporal lobe is not needed for the retrieval of spatial maps learned prior to injury. However, the hippocampus and other surrounding structures are essential for the formation of long-term declarative memories, including spatial memories.[6]
Topographical Disorientation is usually diagnosed with the use of a comprehensive battery of neuropsychological tests combined with a variety of orientation tasks performed by the participants in both virtual and real surroundings. Performance on certain tests can identify underlying neurological disorders and verify the disorientation as a selective impairment. Brain imaging is used to determine regions of brain damage, if any. Navigational skills can be assessed by tests pertaining to memory, visual-perceptual abilities, object recognition, mental rotation, imagery abilities, and spatial abilities. More direct testing of navigation involves asking the patient to describe a route, read a map, draw a map, follow a route, or point out landmarks.[2][3][4][5]
Treatment for topographical disorientation have been achieved through a case by case basis. Prognosis is largely dependent on the organic cause. Neuropsychological assessment followed by an assessment of unaffected cognitive abilities can be employed in therapy. Treatment for recovering navigational skills require strengthening unaffected navigational strategies to bypass defective ones.
Developmental topographical disorientationEdit
Developmental Topographical Disorientation (DTD) refers to the inability to orient since childhood despite any brain damage, neurological condition or general cognitive defects. Individuals affected by DTD are unable to generate a mental representation of the environment (i.e. a cognitive map) and therefore unable to make use of it while orienting (a process that usually people go through while orienting). Not to be confused with healthy individuals who have a poor sense of direction, individuals affected by DTD get lost in very familiar surroundings, such as their house or neighborhood, daily.[7][8]
See alsoEdit
- Cognitive map
- Hippocampus
- Grid cells
- Head direction cells
- Navigation
- Path integration
- Place cells
- Visuospatial ability
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Aguirre GK, D'Esposito M (September 1999). Topographical disorientation: a synthesis and taxonomy. Brain 122 (9): 1613–28.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Stark, M (1996). Impairment of an egocentric map of locations: implications for perception and action 13 (4): 481–523.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Takahashi N, Kawamura M, Shiota J, Kasahata N, Hirayama K (August 1997). Pure topographic disorientation due to right retrosplenial lesion. Neurology 49 (2): 464–9.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Pallis, CA (1955), Impaired identification of faces and places with agnosia for colours, 18, J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, pp. 218–24, PMID 13252431
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ross ED (April 1980). Sensory-specific and fractional disorders of recent memory in man. I. Isolated loss of visual recent memory. Arch. Neurol. 37 (4): 193–200.
- ↑ Teng E, Squire LR (August 1999). Memory for places learned long ago is intact after hippocampal damage. Nature 400 (6745): 675–7.
- ↑ Iaria G, Bogod N, Fox CJ, Barton JJ (January 2009). Developmental topographical disorientation: case one. Neuropsychologia 47 (1): 30–40.
- ↑ Bianchini F, Incoccia C, Palermo L, et al. (May 2010). Developmental topographical disorientation in a healthy subject. Neuropsychologia 48 (6): 1563–73.
Further readingEdit
- Aguirre GK, Zarahn E, D'Esposito M (February 1998). Neural components of topographical representation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95 (3): 839–46.
- Brunsdon R, Nickels L, Coltheart M (January 2007). Topographical disorientation: towards an integrated framework for assessment. Neuropsychol Rehabil 17 (1): 34–52.
- Paul Dudchenko (2010). Why people get lost: the psychology and neuroscience of spatial cognition, Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press.
- Kirshner HS, Lavin PJ (November 2006). Posterior cortical atrophy: a brief review. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep 6 (6): 477–80.
- Lim TS, Iaria G, Moon SY (December 2010). Topographical disorientation in mild cognitive impairment: a voxel-based morphometry study. J Clin Neurol 6 (4): 204–11.
- Jonsson, Erik (2002). Inner navigation: why we get lost and how we find our way, New York: Scribner.
- Takahashi N (August 2011). [Agnosia for streets and defective root finding]. Brain Nerve 63 (8): 830–8.
- Wilson BA, Berry E, Gracey F, et al. (August 2005). Egocentric disorientation following bilateral parietal lobe damage. Cortex 41 (4): 547–54.


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The Importance of Health History and In Home Care for Elderly
As we get older, we tend to require more assistance with managing our physical health. Whether we need daily medication to keep blood pressure lower or we need help with mobility, there's usually a form of daily assistance that is needed to stay healthy as we age.
Since there are a wide range of medications that can be prescribed, it is very important to know one's healthy history. It is a great idea to keep a running list of daily medications so that if there is a medical emergency, a nurse or doctor will be better prepared to properly diagnose or medicate any new conditions. It is important to know which medications are already prescribed to avoid possible complications with any new forms of medicine.
When it comes to personal health history, it is very beneficial to know your family medical history. Families tend to have a lot in common, such as genes, habits, and environment and lifestyle choices. By being aware of any patterns among family members, healthcare professionals can better determine whether a person, other than their relatives, or future generations may be at risk for developing a certain condition.
Knowing your family medical history can determine whether you have a higher-than usual chance of common disorders such as heart disease, high blood pressure, certain cancers or diabetes. Determining a family's health patterns may discover that a person has a heightened risk for certain disorders because it reflects a person's genes and other shared risk factors. Knowing one's family history allows for taking the necessary steps to reduce his or her risk. Those with high-risk of cancer may receive more frequent screenings, and this may begin at an earlier than usual age. A person with a risk of heart disease may be encouraged to attend regular health checkups and testing. Lifestyle changes in diet and exercise might also be in order to prevent diabetes or heart disease.
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You are right to wonder why a hefty tax increase and claims to have gotten spending under control have not brought stable finances to state government. Sometimes a jarring example will help explain something as complex as Connecticut's troubled, growing budget.
Imagine snagging a $100,000 a year pension after only a few years of work. It's happening now in Connecticut. Democratic and Working Families Gov. Dannel P. Malloy nominated 15 lawyers to serve as judges of the Superior Court, though there appears to be no shortage of judges. Three of those nominees are in their 60s.
The oldest of the three, at 67 years old, will in three years receive a pension of two-thirds of his $147,000 annual salary, or about $100,000 a year for life. It would be hard to think of another institution with such a generous and costly pension arrangement. Connecticut law awards a judge a pension of two-thirds of his annual salary when he turns 70. It does not matter if a judge served 20 days or 20 years, the judge wins the pension lottery. Life spans being what they are, especially for the college and graduate school educated, the taxpayers probably are on the hook for well over $1 million for each judge. In addition to receiving his pension, the judge may supplement his income by more than $1,000 a week by carrying on some duties after retirement.
A judge's work is to address fairness and proportionality in reaching decisions and imposing penalties. This pension bonanza for only a few years of service seems disproportionate. It widens the gulf between those who fund government and those who extract an unfair benefit from it.
There's an easy solution. The General Assembly could adopt a sliding scale that would balance the years of service with the pension benefit, like the rest of the world. Our leaders will enact many laws this session. That would be an easy one, easier than providing judges the millions in raises they want.
Legislators have spent a lot of time in the past week discussing, whispering and cringing at the bewildering statements that state Rep. Ernest Hewett, D-Groton, has made on the sensitive topic of sexual harassment. It has been an unattractive display that must make any parent with a child working as an intern at the Capitol apprehensive.
Hewett, serving his fifth term in the House, made a lewd comment about a snake under his desk to a 17-year-old girl testifying about her experience at the money pit named the Connecticut Science Center. Others took note and acted. Speaker of the House Brendan Sharkey did not dither. He removed Hewett as one of his seven deputies, denying Hewett a $6,446 annual stipend above his $28,000 base legislative pay.
Hewett's subsequent comments on the temptations of female interns erased any ambiguity he claimed for his public hearing remarks. The stories flowed. In an institution that likes to mask its troubles, state Rep. Mae Flexer, D-Danielson, deserves full marks for brave candor. She disclosed that Hewett's leering behavior toward women is well-known in the Capitol village.
It may be that women at the Capitol have had enough, though the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women seemed oddly muted in its reaction. Open season on interns should not begin when legislators and staff members step onto the marble floors of the Legislative Office Building.
State Rep. Edward Moukawsher, D-Groton, seemed defiantly oblivious to Hewett's actions and reputation. He wrote a letter to his local newspaper, The Day, wondering what all the fuss is about. Moukawsher declared Hewett the victim of injustice.
The Moukawsher madness allows us to end, however, on an uplifting note. In 2011, Moukawsher ran for judge of probate in his home territory to fill a vacancy caused by the death of the incumbent. In the Democratic primary, Moukawsher, whose name is known in the region, received less than 6 percent of the vote. That's a Monster Raving Loony Party number on the fringes of a British election result.
The people often know best. A judge can do real harm. In southeastern Connecticut, Democrats knew Moukawsher and a judgeship should not be joined.
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He's a 26 year old teacher. I don't think there's much he hasn't done in ways of decisions like that. And this is completely off topic now. There's no need to delve into Langus' criteria for choices he makes, if he doesn't feel so inclined to read your story, you can't really make him.
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I suppose you're right. And now I have a deep, philosophical discussion on my reasoning behind this story going on at the Junk Guild, so I'm cool.
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FANTASTIC fic .. I'm @ 32/36 ch. now
VERY big though - 550k+ words
it's a billion trillion times better then canon, it has A REAL bloody WAR omg (^^), proper vasto lorde (remember the whole stronger then a captain deal ? want to see Primera live up to it's name ? new Segunda Etapas ?), conspiracies, betrayals and reasons for it, characterization, everything you ever wanted in Bleach .. everyone gets to do something
in terms of proper serious epic fics it's easily one of the very best I've ever read anywhere, much less just Bleach
P.S. has a little romance (basically just mentioned, but I dunno what'll happen in the end .. it's no big spoiler, so can name em here - Ichiruki & Byakuya/Yoruichi), but mostly it's plot and action
P.S.S. the Gin thing in the heading is probably because Gin gets a lot of 'screen-time' (for good reasons) and Rukia is because he spends a lot of time tormenting her (and she herself gets to do a lot as well .. in fact she's possibly the main character, but hard to say - everyone and their Grandma get to bathe in the spotlight) .. not even remotely Gin/Rukia shipping
canon up until the ~HM rescue arc (somewhat) .. the war itself is completely different
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Im TRYING to come up with a name for my OC's sword, its release is "Defend and Strike ____" and the shiki is a sword and a shield (medieval like), gives him great defence and such, but his bankai jumps his defence to a whole new level.
His Bankai covers him in armor, more mystical sword and shield, and the main ability of his bankai is that what ever he blocks, aslong as he is blocking it, he can strike back Just as hard, if not a little harder.
lets say if Konomaru's bankai strikes down on him, if he blocks it, he can strike back as powerful as the attack, this is how he beats Kenpachi.
But i cant come up with a name ><, my OC's name is Vahan (means SHield)
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@Kuma - Fanfictions and OC's are pretty much the same thing...
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right my friend has been having trouble coming up with a look for his OC's shikai and im not letting him touch my idea of bladed tonfa's
his oc's zanpacto name is "Kaminari taka-Lightning Hawk" and some of the rough ideas he has were
;Take Flight Kaminari taka!
Tsubasa no shōgeki- the shock of the wings
;Bankai! Tsubasa no shōgeki!
Kaminari taka no tsume-claws of the lightning hawks
;Bankai! Kaminari taka no tsume
he wants his oc to be crap at kido yet good at shumpo, and shumpo baced attacks, i suggested gauntlets of sorts he refused, he sugested 2 longswords, i dismissed the idea usuing logic (logic in bleach LOL)
I am however faced with the oppisite problem, i have the design, i just dont have names, its an eletric type like his (he got the idea from me) two bladed tonfa's. The blade is straight with the handle produced sideways attached to the blunt edge of the blade sideways if you can imagine.
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Retrieving multiple cases is supposed to be an adequate retrieval strategy for guiding partial-order planners because of the recognized flexibility of these planners to interleave steps in the plans. Cases are combined by merging them. In this paper, we will examine two different kinds of merging cases in the context of partial-order planning. We will see that merging cases can be very difficult if the cases are merged eagerly. On the other hand, if cases are merged by avoiding redundant steps, the guidance of the additional cases tends to decrease with the number of covered goals and retrieved cases in domains having a certain kind of interactions. Thus, to retrieve a single case covering many of the goals of the problem or to retrieve fewer cases covering many of the goals is at least equally effective as to retrieve several cases covering all goals in these domains.
This paper shows an approach to profit from type information about planning objects in a partial-order planner. The approach turns out to combine representational and computational advantages. On the one hand, type hierarchies allow better structuring of domain specifications. On the other hand, operators contain type constraints which reduce the search space of the planner as they partially achieve the functionality of filter conditions.


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Rick Majerus, the college basketball coach who led Utah to the 1998 NCAA final and had only one losing season in 25 years with four schools, died Saturday. He was 64.
Utah industrialist Jon Huntsman Sr., the coach's longtime friend, confirmed in a statement released through the Salt Lake Tribune that Majerus died of heart failure in a Los Angeles hospital.
Majerus said Nov. 19 that he wouldn't return to Saint Louis University because of the heart condition. He ended the school's 12-year NCAA tournament drought last season with a 26-win team that won its opening game and took top regional seed Michigan State to the wire. The Billikens were ranked for the first time since 1994-95.
Majerus was undergoing evaluation and treatment in California for the ongoing heart trouble and the school announced he was on leave in late August.
Majerus had a history of heart problems dating to 1989. He had a stent inserted in August 2011 in Salt Lake City and missed some games in the 2011-12 season after gashing his leg in a collision with players.
Majerus was 95-69 in five seasons at Saint Louis and had a 25-year record of 517-216. He had his most success at Utah, going 323-95 from 1989-2004. He was at Marquette from 1983-86, and Ball State from 1987-89.
"Rick left a lasting legacy at the University of Utah, not only for his incredible success and the national prominence he brought to our basketball program, but also for the tremendous impact he made on the young men who were fortunate enough to play on his teams," Utah athletic director Dr. Chris Hill said in a statement.
"His standard of excellence extended beyond the basketball court and into the academic and personal success of his players," Hill said. "He will be deeply missed, and we grieve for his family and all of his friends."
Majerus took 12 teams to the NCAA tournament and four to the NIT, with the 1998 Utah team losing to Kentucky in the NCAA championship game.
In December 2004, USC hired Majerus to replace Henry Bibby, who had been fired four games into the season. But five days later Majerus backed out of the job. Years later Majerus told The Times that he reversed course to care for his mother, who had recently been diagnosed with cancer. USC wound up hiring Tim Floyd, and Majerus worked as a TV commentator before returning to the game with Saint Louis.
Majerus, the son of Alyce and Raymond Majerus, was born Feb. 17, 1948, in Sheboygan, Wis. His father, an influential labor leader and an activist with the Democratic Party, moved the family to Milwaukee when Majerus was 7.
Majerus, who was not married and had no children, is survived by two sisters. His father died in 1987 and his mother died last year.
An earlier version of this article omitted mention of Majerus' survivors and said he had never been married, which he had been.


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Right now we're all about the pumpkin here at Product Girl so we thought we'd share pumpkin-inspired picks for the month.
- MyChelle Incredible Pumpkin Peel – this organic peel does wonders for your skin! It is a pumpkin, pineapple and ginger puree means business as it exfoliates skin and dissolves all the impurities away. For me, this stuff seriously rivals ExfoliKate and it is easier on my wallet.
- Desert Essence Organics Pumpkin Hand Repair Cream – how often do you see a pumpkin scented hand cream? Never! I love the scent, it's not overly sweet or spicy, it's just natural…. just pumpkin with a hint of spice for good measure. After all, what's pumpkin without cinnamon? This line's hand cream is fantastic. The thin, creamy texture is absorbed instantly into the skin and does not leave hands feeling greasy whatsoever. Plus, with continued use, the condition of the skin improves over time.
- Slatkin & Co. Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin Home Fragrance Oil – again, what is pumpkin without cinnamon? I love the oils at Bath & Body Works to give my apartment a little ambiance and this one is a great one for fall and winter. Plus the scent is currently available in other products such as diffusers, wall plugins, candles and even bath and body products. I prefer the home fragrance oils because it lasts longer and it fills up a room better.
- Philosophy Pumpkin Spice Muffin Shampoo, Shower Gel & Bubble Bath – Philosophy's shower gels are a bath ritual for Laurie and this scent smells like a pumpkin pie baking right in your bathroom, yum! And the lip gloss, well that's like eating pumpkin pie. Even better…
- Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte – We love Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Lattes! They may be the forgotten latte now, given the red cups have pushed them out of the way but fear not, they still make them!
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EditorsNote: Update: moves are official Penguins fire Bylsma, name Rutherford as GM
The Pittsburgh Penguins announced the firing of coach Dan Bylsma on Friday, the same day it named Jim Rutherford as general manager.
The Penguins fired general manager Ray Shero after being eliminated from the playoffs, deciding to hold on to Bylsma and leave it up to the new GM to decide on the coach's future.
Rutherford decided to part with Bylsma.
The Penguins won the Stanley Cup in 2009 after Bylsma took over as coach midway through the season. Under Bylsma, the Penguins went 252-117-32 in the regular season. Bylsma also won the Jack Adams Award as NHL coach of the year in 2011.
Pittsburgh advanced to the Eastern Conference finals last season, but were ousted in the second round by the New York Rangers this year.
Earlier, Rutherford was officially named the team's new general manager.
Rutherford, the Carolina Hurricanes' former GM, left his advisory/president role with the team to take the Penguins' job.
Rutherford, 65, was the franchise's general manager for 20 seasons. The Hurricanes won the Stanley Cup in 2006. He recently took on his new role with the team after the regular season when Ron Francis was promoted to general manager.
Rutherford was the longest-tenured general manager in the NHL. The franchise has a regular-season record of 570-521-167-20 since moving to Carolina from Hartford (the former Whalers) in 1997.
Other candidates for the Penguins' job included the team's assistant general manager Jason Botterill, Tampa Bay Lightning assistant GM Julien BriseBois, Nashville Predators assistant GM Paul Fenton and NBC analyst Pierre McGuire.
The Penguins also contacted agent Pat Brisson for the job, but he decided to stay with agency CAA. Brisson represents several high-profile players including Sidney Crosby, Patrick Kane, Anze Kopitar, John Tavares and Jonathan Toews.


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- We will try to get other goodies to return with your MOCs if we can - who doesn't like surprises?
You can have up to three pictures taken. The pictures can be of three different MOCs, the same MOC in three different poses, or some combination therof. If she has the time/is feeling generous, you might get more pictures. Pictures can be standard photographs (Example) or fancy (Example). Only one MOC can be in each photo. No group shots of multiple MOCs will be taken. PM Nukaya to let her know which MOCs you want pictures of and if you want standard or fancy. Any questions about the process can be directed to Nukaya as well.
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- MOCs often break in transit and a ziploc bag will contain the parts and keep them from getting mixed up.
- If your MOC is especially large, break it up into sections and put each in a bag.
- Each ziploc should have your username and the name of your MOC. This can either be written on the bag in permanent marker or written on a slip of paper and inserted in the bag.
- DO NOT use packing peanuts or similar packing - they make a big mess. Bubble wrap and tissue paper or newsprint are best.
- Include two copies of your return address in the box.
- Pictures of the completed MOC should be included, as well as a few simple building steps if necessary.
Put your username and the MOC name on the pictures to help keep things from getting mixed up.
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Portland, OR 97220
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Falls Church, VA 22041
- PM Black Six with your answers to the above questions so I can keep track of everyone's MOCs.
- Also include what MOCs you are sending, as well as descriptions of the creations (for MOC cards), links to BZPower topics, Brickshelf galleries, or any other pictures or info on your MOC.
- Figure out how much money you need to include/send.
- Package up your MOCs, along with pictures, return address info, and money (if not sending via PayPal)
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- Please note: failure to follow the above instructions and recommendations could significantly delay the time it takes to get your MOCs back. We will do our best to return everything, but if we are missing information or payment, it will take longer.
Can I send art?
Yes! Follow the same process as above. If you are sending artwork, we suggest getting a large printout from somewhere like Staples or Kinkos and send it in a shipping tube
I want to build something new, but don't have enough time for BrickFair Alabama. What do I do?
You can send some existing MOCs you have to BFAL and then your new stuff to the next event you're able to. If there's enough room, we'll combine everything and send you one box back, otherwise you'll recieve multiple packages when all is said and done.
I want to send stuff but don't want to wait until August to see it again. Can I get it back after each event?
Yes, if you include return shipping we can send it back to you after an event and you can then ship it to the next one. This will likely be more expensive though, and we do not recommend it.
Where do I ship things if I don't want to send them to BrickFair Alabama Bricks Cascade BrickFair NE?
We will have shipping information for other events in the near future.
Can I just send one MOC and still get the perks?
Yes, you aren't required to send multiple MOCs. But the more the merrier!
Will perks be rewarded to pieces of art?
You bet!
Do we get perks if we bring MOCs in person to multiple events?
Yes, if you bring them it still counts as long as you let us know in advance so we can keep track of them.
My printer is broken so I can't include pictures, what do I do?
While we really prefer it if you include at least a couple actual pictures, you can send us links to them on the Internet. In fact, we suggest everyone sends us additional pictures digitally, via BZP topics, Brickshelf galleries, or otherwise. We'll have smart phones and laptops on hand to look them up on, and having more angles will make it easier to reassemble your MOCs.
I live in (insert country here). Can I participate? How much do I have to pay?
Yes, everyone is welcome to participate! Please note, all costs above are in US Dollars. You will be responsible for paying the shipping costs from your country to the first event your MOCs will be displayed at. Then you need to include the appropriate amount based on the rules above to get your MOCs to additional events. Finally, you will need to include the same amount it cost you to send your MOCs to us, but converted to US Dollars. We suggest using PayPal for sending the money as it's less of a pain to deal with customs and will handle the conversions for you. Most importantly - check with your post office to find out how long it will take your MOCs to be delivered and send them with as much time to spare as you can.
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New Line Home Entertainment has announced a new Platinum Series edition of "The Mask" which stars Jim Carrey. The disc will be available to own from the 17th May, and should retail at around $19.97. The film will boast a new anamorphic widescreen transfer along with both Dolby Digital 5.1 EX and DTS 6.1 ES tracks.
Extras will include:
- commentary with director Chuck Russell
- second commentary with filmmakers and New Line Cinema's Bob Shaye
- Introducing Cameron Diaz featurette
- What Makes Fido Run featurette
- Cartoon Logic featurette
- Return to Edge City featurette
Completing the set will be the deleted scenes featured on the original DVD release. English and Spanish subtitles will also be provided.
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Positioning and the CascadeMarch 04, 2004
Two quick CSS tricks that I've been relying on more and more lately:
- Applying positioning to a parent element, to allow absolute positioning of a child element within the parent.
- Context-sensitive elements. Chaining classes by applying two or three or more to the highest parent element possible allows cascading down to deep child elements.
Something I've only recently wrapped my mind around is that if you position a parent element by using absolute or relative positioning, you can absolutely position any child elements from the edges of the parent.
Too abstract? Try this: apply
position: relative to a
<div>, without supplying a
top or
left value. Then apply
position: absolute; to the
<p>s inside it, with
top and
left values. Sort of like this:
#parent {
position: relative;
height: 200px;
#parent p.first {
position: absolute;
top: 20px;
left: 200px;
#parent p.second {
position: absolute;
top: 40px;
left: 150px;
Why's that useful? Instead of the
<p> elements starting from the top left of the browser window, they start from the top left of the containing
#parent. You get the benefits of absolute positioning with none of the mess of fixed elements. Especially useful for fixed-width pages that are centered. Like this one. Here's an example:
More on this trick tomorrow. §
This one is a bit harder to explain, but the basic mechanism works like this. You can apply a bunch of classes to a single element. The higher up the element is in the document tree, the more each class can control. By applying them to a top-level element like
<body>, you give yourself a bunch of different ways to get at the elements contained within. (Ryan Carver explains it in a bit more detail.)
<body class="weblog homePage blue">
Using this example code, you can reference deep elements with fairly simple selectors, and customize items based on which page they sit on. For example, let's say you change the
blue class in the above code to
red. One simple class change in the body tag, and you can change the colour of your entire site by referencing each child element:
.red h1, .red h2 {color: red;}
.red #sidebar {color: red;}
Of course, if you don't want red, you can go green:
.green h1, .green h2 {color: green;}
.green #sidebar {color: green;}
The power starts becoming apparent when you set up a style sheet with a bunch of variations like this, and changing between each is as easy as modifying a class.
Similarily, we could hook into the
weblog class and style pages that are specifically weblog content differently from those pages with, say,
static or
permanent classes. And we can combine both colour switching and page-sensitivity on the same site.
There are really interesting implications from this, particularly from a code viewpoint. Instead of littering your source with inline scripts, a simple body class switch is all that's needed. By passing a few variables on to the page (and you can almost view each of these classes as variables, incidentally) you have some incredibly flexible control over how the page is rendered.
Still exploring this one. More coming in the next few months as various projects launch. §
Reader Comments
The cascading classes trick at first appears to be simple, however could this allow development of a new type of style-switcher? You could simply use the DOM to alter those classes. Just food for thought.
Jonathon – no. By applying three classes to the body element, I can usually remove a ton of classes elsewhere in my code. Because I'm cascading down I can build bigger selectors like ".blue #header ul a:hover" instead of, say, giving all links in the list their own class. This is a bad example, but until I write the followup article, it won't be immediately clear unless you start using it.
Stephen, I think that might work. Changing the class manually works just fine, automating it should too. Nice idea.
I've tried that before, the DOM switcher idea, and ran into text-reflow problems with certain browsers, in certain situations. I believe the worst was I.E. (surprise!).
As an additional hint: Use *always* 'body:position:relative' if you use positioning at all on your site.
See: http://184.108.40.206/search?q=cache:HTnsWwY8qJwJ:www.mozilla.org to understand why. ;)
That positioning trick is quite useful, and I tend to use it in the situations described (centered column or unknown coordinates). Absolute positioning seems to be a wee bit forgotten these days, though it's one of the more powerful features of CSS.
The second trick is somewhat new to me, though I have used single classes on the body to style, say, headings and navigation differently in different sections. The example you give is interesting, and I'm sure the follow-up will shed a little more light on its use.
While both these techniques are quite helpful, one thing I'd like to see is the ability to group classes together under other classes (or IDs/elements for that matter). Something like this:
with(body.webLog) {
p { … }
a { … }
h2 { … }
with(body.misc) {
with(.foo) {
p { … }
Not sure how that'd be best executed, but I'd like to see it happen.
I had no idea you could apply multple classes like that. I can see how the cascade is usefull.
I have used this kind of class on the body, to make the active tab (or whatever nav) appear different than it's brothers. It's easier to do this with systems like MT, than to put a 'class="active" ' on the or of the element.
Even better have multiple flags, so to speak, applied the body.
Also, multiple classes are usefull when you want to apply two different styles to an element. Say you have a style for .indent and .purple and want to apply them both to a single . In the past, I would have made a new .purpleindent class, but no more.
Multiple classes are useful ways to get around IE's lack of good selectors. You can use things like "first" "last" etc without interfering with the rest of your styles.
My mistake. I was misreading things. I actually use this selection method as much as possible. I just don't find much use for it on the body tag.
The cascade method seems pretty useful to me and although I know about it for some time I haven't been using it much. It should simplify CSS files since some redundant classes could be removed.
While I've known about the absolute positioning trick for a while now, the notion of applying multiple classes to a single element is completely new to me. I just didn't know that this was legal syntax. Sure, I've always wanted to be able to do something like this, but I'd never read anywhere that it could be done.
Thanks for clearing this up, Dave! Multiple classes on a single element should certainly make our CSS files much more concise when applied properly.
I came up with something conceptually similar to style different themed sections of a website, though I didn't take it as far as you have. It worked quite well to have the class on the body tag, so I could, then, affect huge changes in the pages by simply doing something like body.sectionname #content {attrs}. It was one of my better moments. ;)
I await part 2 of the article to see what the great mind of Dave reveals. I'm sure it will be useful! :)
Nice work!
I've been familiar with both of these concepts for a bit, and while I've not used the multiple classes, I have found the positioning quite useful. Also, if one did not know how this worked, I'm sure it would be rather frustrating. Very nice.
Interesting positioning trick, but I question the usefulness of the cascading technique. Doesn't sticking so many class identifiers in your tags harken back to the days when content and presentation were one and the same? Granted, linking everything to a stylesheet does make things more flexible, but it's still an awful lot of extra classes (and CSS).
I've used the first happy discovery for some time in building (horror of horrors) Windows-like applications – complex forms with subsections corralled into their own little labelled boxes within the main application grid. By nesting two divs within a parent div for each such subsection, you can build (for example) a gray 3D box with a little blue offset label. Whether or not following the Microsoft look is a good thing is debatable – that my users are comfortable with that look is an argument in favor of it, and I've found that using CSS tricks like this one has been invaluable in putting my Web apps together. I was first turned on to using CSS in this way by CSS Zen Garden, btw.
In the little 'css' challenge I did in my blog a couple of people applied the positioning trick to acheive the layout in question.
Check here for an example…
Jeff - That's odd…
I never really seem to have problems concerning negative margins…
Just take a look at my website…the top right logo is fully negatively positioned (sounds odd, but you know what I mean).
I haven't tried to use 'em' as a size in those cases…but what you could do is try to make the margin-top of the div em too, as you have tried to put
div {
position: relative;
in…right? (or absolute…as long as IE has something to work with.)
This example illustrates a Firefox bug I've been dealing with for a long time (since Firebird as well).
In Firefox, go to the paragraph that begins "Why's that useful?" Select text, and continue to drag the selection over the div that's right below it. Suddenly, the entire selection skips down a page.
It also occurs if you select the text below the div and drag up…but it still skips downward!
Yeah, it's a browser problem. But browser problems are often *our* problems, too.
If you look at Ryan Carvers weblog at www.fivesevensix.com, you'll see how he used the multiple classes trick to style www.onetruefit.com for Lee jeans. I's starting to use it on my companies site to apply a style to a sub-division of the site, and then allow common style elements to be used without having to write redundant styles.
It seems to me that the only reason to use multiple classes in the body is to allow for the co existence of various styles within one style sheet. Otherwise why not just use #body #header ul a:hover instead of .blue #header ul a:hover?
Using the multiple classes does allow for more separation of the style elements so you could change .blue whch could hande color but not change .weblog which could handle typography elements.
Using the cascade is a great way to style the actual elements without having to add classes I use it almost exclusively using classes only for instances that IE doesn't support like adjacent sibling selectors, and :first pseudo classes for example.
In fact a good way of shoe horning a good CSS positioned section into an olf Table and Font tag ridden page (I have to do this way to much for work) is to enclose it all in a ided DIV or ided TD and cascade everything div#styles ul#header li a:hover. This way ULs outside the #styles div won't be touched by your new styles.
The class trick has been used by Douglas Bowman (of stopdesign.com) for a long time now….
Also, the dynamic changing of classes is very easy in php for example.. just put an echo in to print a certain variable…nothing to it.
Another trick extending the absolute in relative, is to use minus margins…they're a great way to have a footer or header that scales along with the content.
AkaXakA - Except that browsers interperet magrins, especially negative margins, differently. I've had times when trying to extend this code with that technique that came out amazingly broken…
<h1> some text </h1>
<p> some text </p>
Make a border on the div, then negative margin the h1 to -1em and set it's size to 1em. Should place the text right on top of the border of that div, right? Pft. Sometimes in other browsers (IE I hate you) it simply wouldn't show up - like I had set overflow: none. Even changing overflow around didn't help either. Be wary wtih negative margins.
We've been doing something similar for awhile where I work. We have different types of "containers" and change the styling of content within those containers using the cascade. I.E. class="container" or "container panelgroup" or "container menu", etc. It's been quite helpful in keeping the majority of the code pretty generic and semantic but still getting a great degree of flexibility in styling.
I think the "cascading" technique might also be another way to provide the "defining of color constants" that many designers would like to see in CSS.
ie, define a color once in your css, then have it apply to various different elements. If you later need to all instances of the color to another color, you can do so by modifying just one line of CSS.
One advantage to this approach is that you avoid the confusion of multiple definitions of a single class (eg, one grouped with others for shared properties, and another by itself for idiosyncratic properties), which is the present method of doing this.
Sure you have to assign the extra classes in the html at first, but by that, what you are actually doing is defining design relationships between elements, which seems to be a good thing.
Of course, it only allows single-purpose constants (you would have to define different constant-classes for background-colors and foreground-colors), but still, that also strengthens your element relationships.
Most people talk about CSS "constants" (or "variables"–they use the word interchangably) with reference to colors, but it has obvious applications for other properties too.
Er, did I make sense, or should I provide an example? I haven't really tried it yet, so for complex sites it might be more inefficient than the prevailing approach.
Hasan - that's valid shorthand, actually. 'normal' applies to font-weight in this case. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/fonts.html#propdef-font
Joseph - bingo! That's exactly what I used it for on one recent job. The colour sheme is controlled by one style sheet that dumps all fore- and background colour information into a quick series of rules. (You need a few more than you'd think actually, due to varying colour combinations) Adding a new colour scheme is all of 5 minutes work, most of it in coming up with a pleasing scheme in the first place.
I didn't actually end up making full use of the cascading trick described above, though I could have. For an example, let's say you have an 'information' section and a 'working' section. The first is just static content, the second actually expects interaction from the user. You want to style each a bit different, so the information section is blue, the working section is orange.
.information #navigation, .information h1 {
color: #fff; background-color: red;
.working #navigation, .working h1 {
color: #fff; background-color: red;
If you set up the style sheet this way, the only thing needed to trigger the color change is a body class:
<body class="information">
<body class="working">
Simplified, but when you extend it to a whole whack of rules at once, it's incredible how easy it is to shift the whole look through one selector. Doubly so if you're controlling the layout the same way.
Dave, I was looking at your parent-child element positioning example and something didn't look right. It took a minute, then I saw it…font: normal italic 14px Georgia? Thought you would want to know.
I use a PC, and the example renders fine (it turns out) in IE6 and Opera7.23, but is showing as normal 9px in FireFox0.8 and Netscape7.1. Is this a known bug? What's the dilly, yo…er, what gives?
Just in case anyone hasn't read it, Doug Bowman wrote extensively about the absolute within relative positioning idea a while ago:
I've been using the positioning 'trick' for a while as well and it fits my way of thinking completely. I am sure I am not the only one who highly dislikes any constraints you're putting yourself up with when designing a layout. Relative positioning is, for me, the most comfortable way of doing so.
I wouldn't want to call this a trick though, I recall reading this in the specifications. Or maybe not :)
Dave- figured it out. The spec you cited gives an incorrect example! The syntax is font-style, font-weight. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/fonts.html#propdef-font The css doesn't validate. http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css2&warning=2&uri=http%3A//www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/03/04/positioning_/
I know it's nitpicky, but it was bugging me. Thanks.
Ah, you're right too. I confused my order, whoops.
What's interesting is that the example on the spec you mention *does* actually validate [validate through textarea], but that's because the validator reverses the order of the bold and italic keywords!
Even more confusion! You're code should be valid because "A double bar (||) separates two or more options: one or more of them must occur, in any order."! http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/about.html#property-defs And more!.. the style you actually wrote was 20px, not 14! lol Anyway, many thanks for your kind replies, I'm sure you'll agree I've bugged you enough.
Forgive me if this has been suggested – I don't have time at the moment to read every comment.
That being said, I've used the multiple class trick with Movable Type to create a different style for each blog category. FOr exampl, say I want a different background image per category. Maybe I want a guitar image when I'm talking about music, and some cards when i'm talking about poker. You can set up your MT templates to apply the category name as a class, so that you get something like:
div class="blogEntryBody music"
div class="blogEntryBody poker"
That way, you can assign styles that apply to ALL categories (fonts, colors, width, height, etc.) to DIV.blogEntryBody and those special styles (such as background image) to DIV.poker and DIV.music.
Very handy (even though i'm not currently using it myself). :)
Thank you so much. The first tip was like a lightbulb coming on. I just went back through a css file I was working on and stripped away tons of bad hacks.
Why didn't I ever see it like that? Again, thanks.
Wow, the positioning thing actually works :-).
I made a box model, with rounded corners using several div's to apply the images to each corner. When i wanted to make a footer, the images went to the top of the body, killing my boxmodel.
I have a question though: if you don't apply any positioning to a div, then what is it set to?
Thx for your solution…


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Here's a photo of an ultra-orthodox Jewish man wrapped in a plastic bag in his airline seat. His reasoning (if one might apply such a word) is unclear but apparently this is done to ensure the Bagged One does not become impure in the eyes of God just in case the plane flies over a Jewish cemetery.
Yeah, I know. What do you mean the cabin is pressurized? That's no good. Gimme a giant see-through plastic bag with a breathing hole poked in it somewhere. That's how you block out the magical nasty.
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lol. Proof that religious faith is just bat-shit schizophrenia. I wonder how they flew over cemeteries before the aeroplane?
I thought they were the ones changing into bats...I've got them all mixed up again, never could make sense of those religious types
I want to know how he got though the TSA. I had to argue about a pair of heels once where the heel part was metal.
I guess cabin pressurization isn't hermetically sealed enough. (It doesn't work like a spacecraft, that's airtight; instead they bleed compressed air out of the jet engines' compressors, cool it, mix it with recirculated cabin air (that way everyone can get the cold brought on board by the guy in 27-B), and let it go into the cabin. It eventually leaves the aircraft through an outflow valve, but by constricting this, they can cause the pressure to go up in the cabin.
So in spite of the aircraft being pressurized, air is flowing from the outside through the plane, and back outside constantly. This allows the cooties (or whatever) from the overflown graves to get to you.
Hey not bad - Man Burka
grave cooties..gah wtf. is there no sanctuary anywhere!
And I thought my son had it bad with his OCD, this takes it to a new level :)
If you are that fucking crazy you should not be allowed on a plane.
Just what can you not convince your self to do?
I can hear security now.... "I'm sorry sir, but you're bull goose loony and must take a tricycle to wherever you're going."
Crazy. That's the only word which fits.
Body bag for the brain dead.
Hope he farts in there.


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Robot Band From the Future Performs Motorhead's "Ace of Spades"
This is what happens when mad science and rock n' roll collide: ladies and gentlemen, throw your horns up for Compressorhead, "the world's heaviest band," a title that has less to do with their overall sound and more due the fact that every member of the band is 100% metal. Literally.
Compressorhead is a touring, three-piece rock band consisting of a four-armed drummer reminiscent of Mike Portney and Dave Lombardo, a 78-finger guitarist with the stage presence of Dave Murray from Iron Maiden, and a bass player known as Bones who was "influenced" by various bass legends from Robert Trujillo to Charles Mingus, according to his bio.
Unfortunately, the band does not have the staple iconic vocalist to front their metal act, since we imagine it is difficult to program a robot to chain smoke and drink large quantities of booze, though we'd imagine programming it to smash guitars would be a breeze. Robots do not go to rehab, though, they go to the recycling bin.
Perhaps the only band in the world that demands both a forklift and a "competent and sober audio operator" in its tour rider, Compressorhead is currently gearing up to play the 2013 "Big Day Out Festival" with stops in Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne.
Rumor has it that Compressorhead's groupies are required to attach ground wires to their nipples before partying with the band. When we say "rumor," we mean "thing we made up because we think it's a funny idea."


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New Mexico Tech Bureau of Mine Safety Presents Awards, Oct. 23, 2007
by Terence Foreback
SOCORRO, N.M., Oct. 23, 2007 -- New Mexico Tech's Bureau of Mine Safety in conjunction with the New Mexico Mining Association (NMMA) recently celebrated the safety accomplishments of several New Mexico mining operations by presenting them with awards of merit at the NMMA annual convention. The awards were presented by New Mexico State Mine Inspector, Terence Foreback.
Foreback said, "Presenting these awards was particularly gratifying because of the excellent safety record that New Mexico's miners have registered during 2006 and 2007. We are changing a generation of thinking that said zero accidents at a mining operation was not an obtainable goal, to one that says it is the only acceptable goal."
Nine mining companies with operations in New Mexico were presented with awards based on their efforts related to maintaining and improving the safety and health of their workforce.
The San Juan Coal Company / BHP-Billiton won the Safety and Health Innovator Award for 2007. This award is given to the operator that has best implemented innovative safety processes. San Juan Coal has implemented underground tracking systems, communications systems, underground shelters and escapeways far exceeding regulatory requirements.
The Lee Ranch Coal Company won Outstanding Safe Operator of the Year award. This operation, with over 250 employees worked over one million man hours and more than a year without a single injury. Other Safe Operator of the Year awards were given to seven other mining companies representing different types of mines (see Table below). The awards' criteria for evaluation included the safety record of the mine in relation to the number of man hours worked for the period of July 2006 through June of 2007.
|Company Name
|Mine Name
|Underground Coal
|San Juan Coal Company
|San Juan South Mine
|Surface Coal
|Lee Ranch Coal Company
|Lee Ranch Mine
|Underground Metal
|Molycorp. Inc
|Questa Mine and Mill
|Underground Non-Metal
|Washington TRU Solutions, LLC
|Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)
|Open Pit Metal/Non-Metal
|St. Cloud Mining Company
|St. Cloud Mine
|Open Pit Stone
|Chaves County Road Department
|Chaves County Portable
|Sand & Gravel Bank or Pit
|St. Cloud Mining Company
|Lordsburg Mine
|Metal/Non-Metal Mills
|Rio Algom Mining LLC
|Ambrosia Lake


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No wonder Augie Nieto is so happy these days. He gets to have beer, wine and medicinal marijuana.
The medicinal marijuana helps Augie sleep at night. As for the beer and wine, that goes through a feeding tube straight into his stomach, but not before a taste test.
"I put great wine in my mouth and then spit it out," Augie says. "I then put box wine in my belly! It is a concept called selective opulence!"
Six years after he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease, Augie's mind—and his spirit—are still intact.
"I am having a blast!" Augie says, and by "says," Augie actually is talking through a TypeRight software program created by DynaVox. By moving his socked feet on a ball at the base of his chair, Augie can type up to 40 words a minute, which is faster than some people can type with two able hands. He also has an eye-tracking device to help him communicate, along with an iPhone attached to his wheelchair to give him Internet access.
"I have a transformed life," Augie says. "Who could ever imagine a life where you could not move your body, can't eat or drink, breathe on your own, yet I have never been busier and more fulfilled."
Augie, who founded Life Fitness and introduced the Lifecycle exercise bike to the health club world, remains active as the chairman of Octane Fitness. He met with some of the Octane Fitness staff in December at the Athletic Business conference in San Diego.
Also at the conference, Augie kicked off preparations for the sixth annual Bash for Augie's Quest, which will be held March 18 at the San Francisco Marriott as part of the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) conference and trade show. The theme for this year's bash is Make a Muscle, Make a Difference.
Along with his wife, Lynne, Augie serves as co-chair of the ALS division of the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). Through Augie's Quest, a fund-raising initiative that began in 2006, the Nietos have helped raise more than $26 million for ALS research.
That money already is making a difference. There's a new drug that has slowed the progression of ALS in the animal model, Augie says, although he could not get into specifics about the drug.
"When I was first diagnosed [in March 2005, at the age of 47], all I could see was the wheelchair," Augie says. "Now, all I can see is the person. For the first 25 years of my adult life, I was trying to get the world to embrace building their muscles. Since my diagnoses, I am trying to prevent ALS victims from losing their muscles! It is the irony of my life.
"ALS is like running a marathon," he adds, "not knowing where the finish line is, not knowing where the hills are or where the water stations are."
It's interesting that Augie speaks in terms of marathons. His business model at Life Fitness was sprint and recover, which also was one of the chapters in his book "Augie's Quest: One Man's Journey from Success to Significance." Yet Augie is used to marathons—he has run 21 in his life—and without that training, his battle would be more difficult, he says.
"The hardest thing that I deal with [is] the constant change," he says. "Every day, I wake up weaker than the day before. You try to adjust to the new limitations, and just when you figure it out, it changes again."
Augie doesn't often use the DynaVox voice system to relay what he is saying, but he did use it for a short time while thanking everybody who came to the event in San Diego, which attracted some of Augie's old friends from Life Fitness. While there, Augie breathed with the aid of his BiPAP apparatus, which he had removed from his nose and mouth for only a short while. The system, which forces air in his lungs, is on 20 hours a day.
It takes three hours for Augie to get ready in the morning, including two hours of treatment for his lungs and one hour of treatment at night before bed. In addition to Lynne and a personal assistant, Augie has a team of nurses to give him the required 24-hour care.
Augie says he does not feel pain when he moves his feet to communicate. One day, though, he will not be able to move those muscles. That's when Augie will use the eye-tracker system full-time.
Besides his legs and facial muscles (he can nod and smile at you after saying something clever), Augie says he still has the use of a certain part of his anatomy.
"My Willy still works!" he notes with the capital "W" included in the text on his screen. "I have been telling my wife that my Willy is an involuntary muscle!"
After typing those sentences, Augie turned on the automated voice so that his nurse, his personal assistant and two other women from the MDA could all hear the message. You better believe Augie was smiling then.
None of Augie's physical limitations or the challenges that ALS brings can hold him back. Last August, he traveled 18 hours from his home in Corona del Mar, CA, to Sun Valley, ID, to attend the wedding of his daughter, Danielle. The Nietos have three other children: Austin, Lindsay and Nicole, who will be married in September.
"It was a wonderful event!" Augie says, with the exclamation point noted. "It makes life worth living! I get energy from events like this!"
When Augie and Lynne travel these days, they travel "like a rock band," he says. After the event in San Diego, Augie and Lynne flew to their boat in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. It takes seven crates to transport all of Augie's necessary equipment.
A funny thing happened on that boat in Puerto Vallarta. While Augie was being transported from the boat, the lift that carried Augie and his 400-pound wheelchair stopped, leaving Augie suspended in midair over the bay.
"I can't even wave to the party boats as they pass by!" Augie says.
Augie, who turns 53 on Feb. 15, is still at the forefront of the industry. At the IHRSA show next month, Life Fitness will unveil its Augie's Quest LifeCycle, complete with the Augie's Quest logo and Augie's Success to Significance inspirational message. Also at IHRSA, a book outlining the history of the health club industry will be released. The proceeds from both the bike and the book, which is dedicated to Augie, will go to Augie's Quest.
"I continue to be amazed with the love and support!" Augie says. "My biggest fear is to be discounted! I want to remain relevant! I'm planning to live 30 more years! As long as I can communicate, I can visualize living that long!"


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July 17, 2008
LONDON, United Kingdom - Born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and raised in the United States, Josh West '98 came to Yale never having touched an oar. Today, he is poised to make his second appearance at the Olympic Games for Great Britain.
West started rowing as a freshman at Yale at age 17 under Freshman Coach Justin Moore and Varsity Coach Dave Vogel. He participated in the 4-mile Varsity Eights version of the Yale-Harvard Regatta his senior year. At Yale, West majored in geology and international studies.
After Yale, West attended graduate school at Cambridge University and joined the Cambridge University Boat Club. He earned a spot in the Blue Boat for The Boat Race against Oxford University all four years from 1999 to 2002. West and the "Light Blues" bested the "Dark Blues" in two out of four encounters (1999 and 2001). In 2000, West lined up against former Yale teammates Alexander Reid '99 and Eirik Lilledahl '98, who were the stern pair of the victorious Oxford crew. At 6-foot-10, West has the distinction of being the tallest competitor in the history of the University Boat Race.
West's success at Cambridge has lead him to represent Great Britain on numerous occasions, the highlights of which are listed below.
Olympic Games
2004 9th M8+
World Rowing Championships
2007 Bronze M8+
2006 5th M8+
2005 4th M8+
2003 Silver M4-
2002 Silver M4-
2001 5th M8+
West completed his doctorate at Cambridge in 2005 and currently teaches and does research at Oxford.
The rowing competition at the 2008 Olympics begins on August 9.
Report filed by Dominique Fenton '10, Yale Sports Publicity


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Hey Guys. Don´t you think it is different which board you ride? I mean, I realy think the Airush Sector V3 60 is an interesting lighwind fun board and for this board (and I´d guess a lot of the directionals and race boards) does realy the Speed 15 give much more low end vs the Speed 12??
I mean you do hear that for a specific wind a 10 LEI would pull the same on a Airush Sector as a 14 LEI using a TT-board.
With the TT boards both normal and Lightwind TT:s I would agree with you that the Sp15 would be much better, depending on rider weight.


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Welcome to the May Carnival of Natural Parenting: Growing in the Outdoors
This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Code Name: Mama and Hobo Mama. This month our participants have shared how they encourage their children to connect with nature and dig in the dirt. Please read to the end to find a list of links to the other carnival participants.
With the arrival of spring, we have been spending more time outdoors. In the last month, the weather has been incredibly beautiful. It hasn't rained at all, can you believe it? (In case you don't know,I am writing from England!)
In April, we enjoyed the flowers in our garden. My daughter has been waiting for them eagerly. Four year olds are not very patient. After a long winter when we began to see the daffodils in our neighbourhood, I explained to her that the flowers in our garden will blossom very soon.
She had sown the bulbs back in November so she was proud to see them.
On the way to her preschool, there is a tree. When we saw the first signs of spring on its branches, we began to examine them carefully. As the leaves grew, we felt them and enjoyed the softness. A few weeks later, the flowers blossomed. A gorgeous magnolia tree!
We take our children out rain or shine. I believe there is no such thing as bad weather. As long as we put on appropriate clothing, we will be fine.
We like walking in the woods, jumping in the puddles, finding insects, snails and mushrooms, looking at them with a magnifying glass.
There is a beautiful park close to us. It is our second address.We like playing in the playground and then going to the rose garden to have a picnic.There is also a sensory garden where people are encouraged to touch and feel the plants. Great for children!
I want my children to feel that they are part of the nature. Nature has restorative powers both mentally and physically. It boosts our health, wellness and creativity. It bonds us with other people and the animals surrounding us.
Visit Code Name: Mama and Hobo Mama to find out how you can participate in the next Carnival of Natural Parenting!
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 22 diseños de 4 diseñadores freelance.
APSD - The Association of Property Scene Designers http://www.apsdmembers.com
The Association of Property Scene Designers (APSD™) is an International organization created for the New Generation of Home Stagers.
As times change, markets change and people change, education and services must keep up with these needs and change accordingly.
The Home Staging Industry has been around since the 1970's and needed to have an update from the teachings of "vignettes" and "accessories." Now, we live in a time where people want to and need to sell houses fast for the most amount of money possible and Home Stagers want to run effective 6 figure businesses.
APSD™ offers various levels of Professional Home Staging, Design, Marketing, Home Staging Business Training & Membership programs. Specifically, APSD™ Members, APSD™ Home Stager, APSD™ Master Home Stager, APSD™ Stager Pro, APSD™ Property Scene Designer and APSD™ Property Scene Designer Trainer.
Female 35-55yrs old - independent - ready to start their own business and live life on their own terms - currently look up to APSD and it's founder, Karen Schaefer, as a way to accomplish their goals
Looking for a fun, creative, exciting banner ad for an upcoming Home Staging Training Event. http://www.apsdmembers.com/stage/event.asp.
This banner will be used for PPC advertising, Banner Website advertising on 3rd party sites and Affiliates.
Size and Format: upon final approval - need the following dimensions in .GIF and original .PSD file formats:
728x90 / 300x250 / 468 x 60
Text on Banner ad:
Main headline - "Karen Schaefer's Home Staging Training Event 2011"
Bullet points: "Business Systems - Compelling Marketing - Income Strategies - Hands-on Staging"
sub-points: http://www.apsdmembers.com/stage
Picture: attached headshot (crop to bust if needed)
DON'T include the apsd logo (Globe) found on the above mentioned webpage - however, you can use the color scheme if you think it works well.
The banner should elicit a visual sense of 'stardom' and 'leadership' in the Industry for Karen.


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CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina and VALAIS, Switzerland, November 5 /PRNewswire/ --
Lantibio, Inc. and TRB Chemedica announced today the signing of a licensing agreement with a subsidiary of Alcon, Inc. (NYSE: ACL) for the US development, marketing, and manufacture of a Dry Eye Syndrome product. The product consists of a TRB patented formulation containing sodium hyaluronate and is currently being studied in the US under an IND by a subsidiary of Lantibio. An ongoing multi-center Phase III pivotal study is being conducted under the FDA's Special Protocol Assessment program. Lantibio expects to file an NDA in 2008 for the product as a treatment for Dry Eye Syndrome.
In Dry Eye Syndrome, it is hypothesized that the product, administered via ocular instillation will hydrate the surface of the eye preventing dryness and long-term ocular injury. Sodium hyaluronate is a known natural molecule with viscoelastic properties that in preparation with specific ions and chelators, lubricates the eye and hydrates the ocular surface.
Under the terms of the agreement, Lantibio will conduct the development program and filing of the NDA, while Alcon will assume responsibility for subsequent marketing, sales and manufacturing for the US market. Terms of the agreement include up-front and development milestone payments, as well as royalties to be paid to Lantibio and TRB by Alcon on sales of the approved product.
"We believe this product will bring significant relief to patients with Dry Eye Syndrome and look forward to completing our clinical study and to filing an NDA with the FDA for approval in the US," said Andrew Schiermeier, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of Lantibio, Inc. "We are delighted by this agreement, and could not hope for a better partner than Alcon, the world's leading eye care company, to lead a broad and successful launch in the US market."
"TRB Chemedica is pleased to be associated with Alcon and Lantibio, through the signature of this licensing agreement, to bringing to the USA Dry Eye Syndrome patients our high-value eye drop therapy based on a unique hyaluronic acid and essential ions patented formulation," said Dr. Guido DiNapoli, founder and owner of TRB Chemedica. "TRB Chemedica is looking forward to working in close collaboration with Alcon and Lantibio."
The most common causes of Dry Eye Syndrome are ocular surgery, environmental factors such as dust and pollutants, and hormonal changes associated with menopause. Symptoms of dry eye syndrome include burning, itching, irritation, photophobia, and a feeling that there is a foreign body in the eye. If left untreated, it can cause permanent damage, including impaired vision. In 2003, Morgan Stanley Research estimated the prevalence of dry eye syndrome in the United States at 5.5 million diagnosed cases.
In a related affliction, Sjogren's syndrome patients suffer dry eyes and dry mouth. Sjogren's syndrome is one of the most prevalent autoimmune disorders, striking as many as 3 million Americans. More than 90 percent of Sjogren's syndrome sufferers are women and while prevalence increases with age, the average age of onset is in the late 40's.
About Lantibio & Paramount BioSciences
Lantibio, Inc. is a private pharmaceutical company funded by Paramount BioSciences and devoted to the discovery, development, and commercialization of products for the treatment of ocular disease and serious respiratory diseases. For more information on Lantibio, Inc., visit the Company's web site at http://www.lantibio.com. Paramount BioSciences, LLC is a global pharmaceutical development and healthcare investment firm that conceives, nurtures, and supports new biotechnology companies. For additional information about Paramount BioSciences, please visit www.paramountbio.com.
About TRB Chemedica
TRB Chemedica is a privately-owned Swiss pharmaceutical company with more than 20 years experience in research, development, manufacture and commercialization of innovative niche products in rheumatology, ophthalmology and neurology. TRB Chemedica has developed an expertise on the viscoelastic biopolymer, hyaluronic acid, manufacturing sterile finished products in its Swiss-based GMP facility. The company's product pipeline will help to fuel growth in each of the targeted therapeutic areas as well as introduce it into new areas of therapeutic focus. TRB Chemedica products are currently sold in more than 40 countries worldwide through wholly-owned subsidiaries, present in various countries in Europe, South America and Asia, and a growing network of licensing and distribution partners. For more information on TRB Chemedica visit the Company's web site at http://www.trbchemedica.com.
Caution Concerning Forward-Looking Statements. This press release might contain forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on current expectations of future events. If underlying assumptions prove inaccurate or unknown risks or uncertainties materialize, actual results could vary materially from Lantibio's expectations and projections. Risks and uncertainties include success of clinical trials for Lantibio's products, intellectual property risks, need for additional financing or capital, ability to develop and successfully commercialize our products, ability to enter into licensing agreements, and the ability of the competition to render Lantibio's product candidates or technologies obsolete or noncompetitive. Lantibio assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of new information or future events or developments, except as required by law.
CONTACTS: For further information on Lantibio please contact: Andrew Schiermeier, Ph.D. Chief Executive Officer, Lantibio Inc. Telephone: +1-212-554-4305 e-mail: email@example.com website: http://www.lantibio.com Luis Molina, Ph.D. President/CSO, Lantibio Inc. Telephone: +1-919-960-0217 e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com website: http://www.lantibio.com For Further Information on TRB Chemedica, please contact: Marco Betancourt Director of Business Development, TRB Chemedica S.A. telephone: +41-22-703-49-00 e-mail: email@example.com website: http://www.trbchemedica.com Web site: http://www.lantibio.com http://www.trbchemedica.com http://www.paramountbio.com
Andrew Schiermeier, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, +1-212-554-4305, email@example.com, or Luis Molina, Ph.D., President and CSO, +1-919-960-0217, firstname.lastname@example.com, both of Lantibio Inc.; or Marco Betancourt, Director of Business Development of TRB Chemedica S.A., +41-22-703-49-00, firstname.lastname@example.com


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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
7 Statistics Meant To Please Singles (On Valentine's Day)
1 – Those in "low quality" relationships (as the study puts it ) are more likely to break up on VDay. Couples are 2.55 times more likely to break up during Valentine's Day.
2 - One out of four Americans prefers spending Valentine's Day with a pet rather than a partner.
3 – Women are more attracted to guys who don't say "I love you" or at least show uncertainty about it.
4 – There is a 4.0% higher chance of a car accident on Valentine's Day.
5 – 14% of women will send themselves flowers on 14th February.
6 - 53 % women who would end their relationship if they didn't get something for Valentines day.
7 – Divorce Rates increase with 40% on Valentine's Day.
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what's next?
how about gendering animals? Fish are aquagender and have a fetish for water, dogs are caninegender, cats are felinegender, guinea pigs are cucumbergender or carrotgender….
Or food. If you like hot dogs you are sausagender and have more genders depending on the things you like on your hot dog. Same with pizza. For example you can be pizzagender and if you like more than one kind of pizza you are pizzafluid.
Or what about jobs? If you are a doctor you are doctorgender and if you get another job you are jobfluid. Or you can be a (oppressive) monojobber with only one job you entire life.
Or books/video games/. Are you a fantasygender, scifigender or a genrefluid? Are you straight but love gay movies? Congrats you are a hetero gaymovieromantic.
And every new gender comes with new exiting pronouns. 😀
Yay more genders, more flags, more queer things, more labels!
It is true, and very much to the point, that women are objects, commodities, some deemed more expensive than others - but it is only by asserting one's humanness every time, in all situations, that one becomes someone as opposed to something. That, after all, is the core of our struggle.
Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating
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- Project Unbreakable
- Protection Against Stalking
- Rape Crisis, England and Wales
- Rape Crisis, Scotland
- Rape Is
- Refuge
- Rotherham Women's Counselling Service
- Southall Black Sisters
- Survivors (for men who have been raped or sexually abused)
- Take Back the News
- The Map of Gaps
- the nia project
- The Truth About Rape
- This is not an Invitation to Rape Me
- Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter
- Voice4Victims
- Women and Girl's Network
- Women's Support Project
What About the Men?
- A Call to Men
- A Radical Profeminist
- Adonis Mirror
- Ben Barker
- Boys to Men: Exploring How to Get There in One Piece
- Jackson Katz
- London Pro-Feminist Men's Group
- Men Against Violence Against Women
- Men Standing Up
- Men's Feminist Book Group
- Responsible Men's Blog
- Robert Jensen
- Rus Ervin Funk
- The Masculine Mystique
- White Ribbon blog
- White Ribbon Campaign
- XY: men, masculinities, and gender politics
- Zero Tolerance
What About the MRAs??
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