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Feb. 26, 2008 -- A relatively new treatment for uterine fibroids is a reasonable alternative to hysterectomy for women who want to avoid surgery, new research shows.
Outcomes among patients who had the treatment, known as uterine artery embolization (UAE) or uterine fibroid embolization (UFE), were compared to those of hysterectomy patients in the trial from the Netherlands.
Both groups reported significantly improved health-related quality of life two years after treatment, but nearly one out of four women initially treated with UAE ended up having hysterectomies because of treatment failure.
"For those women seeking absolute certainty of being asymptomatic after treatment, I would recommend a hysterectomy," study researcher Jim A. Reekers, MD, PhD, says in a news release. "But for women who wish to retain their uterus and who desire a fast recovery, I would definitely recommend UAE."
Fibroid Treatment Options
As many as one in four women have symptoms from uterine fibroids, which are benign tumors of the uterus.
Symptoms of uterine fibroids can include heavy, painful menstrual bleeding, pelvic pain or pressure, and frequent urination.
According to the National Women's Health Information Center, uterine fibroids are the reason for about one-third of the 600,000 hysterectomies performed in the U.S. each year.
Introduced just over a decade ago, uterine artery embolization is a minimally invasive catheterization treatment designed to choke off uterine fibroids.
A small tube is inserted into a leg artery and guided into the blood vessels feeding the uterus. Tiny particles are then strategically injected to block the blood supply that feeds the fibroids.
In most cases, the fibroid tissue shrinks or dies, leading to relief of symptoms. Recovery time after UAE is typically around a week, compared to six weeks with hysterectomy.
This is also far shorter than recovery times for another surgical fibroid treatment known as myomectomy, in which the fibroids are removed but not the uterus.
The EMMY Findings
Reekers and colleagues report two-year follow-up from their Embolization versus Hysterectomy (EMMY) trial in the March issue of the journal Radiology.
The study included 177 women with uterine fibroids and heavy menstrual bleeding, half of whom were initially randomly assigned to treatment with UAE and the other half to hysterectomy.
During two years of follow-up, no significant differences in health-related quality of life were reported among the two treatment groups. Nine out of 10 patients in both groups reported being at least moderately satisfied with the treatment they received.
However, 24% of women who had undergone embolization did end up having hysterectomies.
Georgetown University interventional radiologist James B. Spies, MD, tells WebMD that the UAE failure rate was higher in the EMMY study than in many others.
In Spies' own UAE study involving 200 patients, the symptom-recurrence rate was still 20% with the nonsurgical treatment five years after treatment.
Spies says UAE has proven to be as effective as any uterus-sparing treatment, including myomectomy, for the long-term relief of symptoms related to fibroids.
"Women now have a choice, and they can weigh the factors that are most important to them before making a decision about treatment," he says.
Another UAE researcher tells WebMD that myomectomy offers the best chance of preserving fertility, while hysterectomy is the best choice for patients who aren't concerned about fertility, recovery time, or surgical complications and want to make sure their fibroids don't come back.
"Obviously, there is no re-treatment after hysterectomy because once the uterus is gone, it's gone," Scott C. Goodwin, MD, of the University of California, Irvine, tells WebMD. "But UAE has been proven very effective for women who want a shorter recovery time with fewer treatment-related complications."


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Trek Signs with Astana
Trek Bicycle Corporation today announced that the Astana Cycling Team has chosen Trek to be the official team bike and clothing supplier for the 2008 season and beyond. Starting on January 1, 2008, Team Astana will rely on the proven technology of Trek OCLV Carbon to provide them with the lightest, fastest, and best handling bikes in the pro peloton.
Riders like defending Tour de France Champion Alberto Contador and U.S. Road Champion Levi Leipheimer will count on the cutting-edge technology and superior ride characteristics of the all-new Madone for all-around workhorse duties in races like the Tour of California, Tour of Georgia, and Tour of Missouri, as well as at the highest level of professional events on the calendar. For time trial events, Astana riders will race against the clock aboard the fastest bike on the circuit, the wind-cheating Equinox TTX.
"We're excited to be part of the new Astana and to continue racing at the sport's highest level," notes Trek's President, John Burke. "What counts here is having the best riders on the best bikes. We have faith in Johan [Bruyneel] and we're fired up about working with riders like Levi and Alberto."
Editor's Note: This announcement was almost a foregone conclusion after a huge portion of the Discovery program moved over to Astana
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Tulane archive takes the guesswork out of historic renovations
September 26, 2013 8:45 AM
Alicia Duplessis Jasmin
The planning stage for renovating the historic Saenger Theater in New Orleans, after it was damaged in 2005 during Hurricane Katrina, began at the Southeastern Architectural Archive at Tulane University.
While Tulane already had several of Weil's documents, Rylance says the collection has now grown to include drawings discovered onsite during the theater's yearlong rehabilitation.
"When construction began, the original drawings of the theater's internal stonework were discovered in a closet," says Rylance. "The drawings were since donated to the archive where they will be preserved along with the rest of Weil's work."
The drawings are stamped by Weil's office but are by sub-contractors for the project, Albert Weiblen Marble and Granite Works.
On Friday (Sept. 27) the theater, located on Canal Street in downtown New Orleans, reopens with comedian Jerry Seinfeld.
'Not the only one'
The Saenger renovation, says Rylance, isn't the first time the archive has been useful to architects working to restore a landmark.
The New Orleans Lakefront Airport, which also was heavily damaged during Katrina, recently was restored in a $100 million project using drawings held by the archive of the original structure built in 1934.
In addition to design sketches, Rylance says there are mechanical, electrical and structural documents that may be helpful.
"People often take for granted the need to restore historic buildings, but we sometimes take for granted the importance to preserve construction documents," says Rylance.
On exhibit at the archive now through Nov. 1 is a display that focuses on the history of the Superdome. The exhibit is open to the public from Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.–noon and 1–5 p.m.
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New And Improved Products Straight From The Manufacturers
We decided to quiz some top shock makers about their new products for 2006. We were surprised to learn that none of them were sitting on their past successes and have been busy designing and producing new and exciting products for this racing season.
With all the advancements teams have been making with setups over the past few years, shocks are the next area of increased performance. Not only are the selections getting larger, but also refinements to the products are making shocks more tuneable for more of the market. Let's take a look at what is available as we let the companies speak for themselves.
AFCO's latest and greatest shock is a gas pressure monotube shock dubbed the "M2." The M2 is the company's second offering of a monotube gas pressure design. However, when compared to the previous M1, the new M2 is a revolution more than it is an evolution. The engineers started with a clean slate on this shock.
The M2 provides the advantages of a gas pressure design while at the same time offering many capabilities of a twin-tube shock. The central components AFCO has incorporated to achieve this goal are a gas pressure bladder and a base valve.
The AFCO bladder design, as opposed to a floating piston design, gives the damping authority back to the shock piston, where it belongs. At extremely low gas pressures, this shock continues to work without cavitation and operates very much like a twin-tube shock with no added rod pressure.
The use of a bladder in the AFCO M2 shock reduces the amount of moving parts and friction. As the shaft and piston move, the M2 bladder can instantly react by simply flexing and changing shape. This allows the M2 shock to be hypersensitive to high-frequency movements.
AFCO uses low-friction seals and bearings that are designed to work together. Attention was also paid to improving fluid dynamics in components such as the piston orifices and the connection to the canister. These efforts resulted in a piston design with unique port configurations and custom manufactured high-flow fittings, which also feature 360-degree rotation for easy mounting.
The piston also features an energized O-ring seal that uses the fluid pressure in the shock to continually adjust the sealing force of the piston against the shock bore wall. This lets the shaft move freely, especially at low speeds, and still provides a tight seal when pressures increase at high shaft speeds.
The M2 has a double adjustable design, which means there are adjusters for compression and rebound control. The M2 has 40 clicks of rebound adjustment and 24 clicks of compression adjustment. The spring-loaded adjuster knobs are 100 percent sealed from the elements.
The M2 uses an internal valve to isolate the compression and rebound adjustments, so changing one side does not affect the other. The adjustments provide increased levels of control in the critical low-speed and transitional areas of the damping curve, or the nose end of the equation.
For 2006, Bilstein is introducing a new ultra-lightweight shock for the Sprint Car and Midget market, as well as new high-tech products for dirt and asphalt Late Models.
The new aluminum ASB Series shock weighs only 2 pounds. The gas fill valve has been recessed to keep it out of harm's way and a threaded rod guide was built for rapid repair and revalves. The biggest advantage provided to the Sprint or Midget racer is Bilstein's famous non-fade performance and proven reliability in an ultra-lightweight shock.
The linear or digressive valve stack possibilities with this shock are nearly infinite, and due to the small-diameter piston rod and low-seal drag, rod pressure can be run as low as 12 pounds. The ASB is available in a take-apart threaded version in 6-, 7-, and 8-inch strokes. A sealed, smooth, 7-inch stroke body version will be available later this spring for torsion-front Sprint Cars. Valve kits, nitrogen gauges, and coilover kits are also available.
The new BG Series for asphalt Late Models features an aluminum 46mm threaded body topped by a whopping 60mm gas chamber. Reduced seal friction, along with the huge nitrogen compartment and a base valve, results in rod pressures as low as 6 pounds while the oil maintains perfect stability.
That means maximum traction with no shock fade from the first lap to the last. The BG will initially be available only in a 7-inch stroke version. However, when the new BG shock was displayed at the PRI Trade Show in December, there was a lot of interest from the big-block modified and dirt Late Model markets as well. So plans are in the works for an 8-inch and 9-inch stroke model.
Bilstein is really excited about its new adjustable components for the existing SN and ASN Series take-apart shocks. The company will introduce its rebound adjustable shaft and compression adjustable canister in the late spring. When designing the new components, Bilstein gave the racer adjustments between clicks that really matter.
Compression side adjustments are handled through the canister. Additional advantages to the canister include an increase in the size of the gas chamber as well as the room provided for a base valve. Both features result in consistent non-fade performance while lowering rod pressures to the 10-12 pound range. Bilstein will offer shocks that are rebound adjustable only or double adjustable, and will retro-fit the customer's SN or ASN Series shocks with either or both of the new components.
Ohlins Racing Shocks announces a new affordably priced shock absorber. When rules dictate a $200 or less retail price for shock absorbers, hlins USA has the answer-the new CCJ shock absorber.
The all-new CCJ shock utilizes the same 46mm main piston diameter as the Nextel Cup winning WCJ. The CCJ overall design is based on proven performance.
The CCJ also uses a 14mm shaft diameter versus the more common 16mm shaft that is found in most Ohlins shock absorbers. This provides better balance between shaft displacement and gas reservoir volume available in the main body tube. The CCJ is delivered as a complete-emulsion, steel-bodied shock absorber with no external adjustments.
Racers can add their own shim stack selection, oil, or optional gas-separating piston to suit their applications. By adding the optional gas-separating piston, the CCJ becomes a full DeCarbon principle monotube shock. Coilover spring mounting hardware is also easily added to the threaded body for coilover applications. All optional pistons in the hlins 46mm range will work with the CCJ, providing a wide range of tuning options.
The LMJ Series remains virtually unchanged for 2006, with the exception of a jam nut under the spring collar to allow for more positive locking of the spring collar. The LMJ remains the only top-level shock absorber available off-the-shelf that is prevalved for dirt Late Model applications.
The LMJ Series shocks are two-way adjustable, with a remote reservoir giving the racer the ability to adjust the rebound and compression strokes without removing the shock from the car. Approximately 20 clicks are available for compression-damping adjustment, and 35 clicks are available for rebound-damping adjustment.
LMJ Series shocks also use the same piston and shaft diameter as its Nextel Cup brother, the WCJ Series, which means there is a vast array of optional pistons, shaft jets, adjustment needles, and jets available for the advanced shock tuner. Look for an optional two-way compression adjuster kit, additional piston recommendations, and more optional tuning parts in the summer of 2006.
Other Ohlins shocks for oval track racing include the WCJ Series for non-coilover application, the MCJ for non-remote reservoir coilover applications, and the more economical STJ Series, which is available in adjustable and non-adjustable versions. All Ohlins shock absorbers are owner-rebuilt and tuneable with shim kits and tools available from any Ohlins dealer.
QA1 introduces its enhanced premium line of large-body twin-tube shocks. Available in aluminum smooth-body (60 and 65 Series), aluminum threaded-body (62 and 67 Series), and steel smooth-body (50 and 57 Series) configurations, each of these shocks is racer revalveable and rebuildable. Deflective disc valving is incorporated into each shock, along with CNC precision-machined aluminum pistons and base valves.
The premium piston incorporates dual bleed circuits for standard or custom valvings, including extreme-split valvings. Tunable to standard or custom valvings, the premium aluminum base valve also adds to the superiority of these shocks.
The 65, 67, and 57 Series maintain the legendary Carrera Racing Shocks curves, providing softer low-speed valving for faster weight transfer and increased traction. The 60, 62, and 50 Series provide stiffer low-speed valving for greater suspension control over rough or very fast track surfaces. These shocks provide consistent, fade-free performance with no valving overlap and are made in the U.S.A., individually dyno tested, and serialized.
QA1 provides rod ends to motorsports, with over 5,000 part numbers in stock and ready to ship. Also available from QA1 are spherical bearings, springs, coilover kits, and other suspension components.
QA1 Motorsports is proud to introduce its new patent-pending steel gas-pressurized monotube shock absorbers. These shocks feature a 46mm piston and are available in non-adjustable (21 Series) and rebound adjustable (24 Series) styles. Both series have deflective disc valving and are racer revalveable and rebuildable.
Advanced ring shim technology allows preload adjustments of the valve stack to be made easily and precisely, resulting in a huge selection of valve curves. The unique two-piece body design allows for quick and inexpensive repair of damaged bodies and bent piston rods. The 21 and 24 Series shocks are available with the option of a base valve to significantly reduce rod force.
The 24 Series has infinite rebound adjustment, affecting the weight transfer characteristics of the car going into and coming out of corners but not affecting the ability of the tire to follow the track at high speeds. The adjustment primarily affects low-speed rebound, and this effect decreases as the piston speed increases.
For IMCA drivers, QA1 offers the 21A Series steel monotube shocks. These shocks feature the same technology as the 21 Series of non-adjustable steel monotube shocks; however, to comply with IMCA rules, they are revalveable and rebuildable only by QA1 Authorized Service Centers.
QA1 monotube gas shocks are made in the U.S.A., individually dyno tested, and serialized.
Pro offers its Patented Adjustable Pro Shock, which is adjustable in four different stages: a) low-speed bleed, b) the rate of seat pressure to blow-off valve, c) rate of spring operating valve, and d) high-speed jet.
The Pro Shock adjustable shock easily adjusts all four stages to create an acceleration curve to match all normal valvings. Pro Shock Adjustables are infinitely adjustable. You can adjust and stop at any desired amount of damping. Put the shock on the dyno and set the exact poundage you are looking for while you dyno. It's just that easy.
The Rebound Adjustable A and AC come in 5-, 6-, 7-, 8-, and 9-inch stroke lengths in large-body shocks. You decide the compression dampening you need to use and then change the rebound dampening by turning an Allen screw. This screw is infinitely adjustable, so you can stop the index pin at any point between the numbers on the plate.
The all-new 46mm Pro Gas high-pressure steel monotube gas shock is available for 2006. This new shock is available in two stroke lengths (7-inch and 9-inch) and 7 popular valvings (3, 4, 5, 6, 3/5, 4/6, and 5/3). The Pro Gas uses a high floating piston to avoid dumping and cavitation and separates the gas and fluid.
The Pro Gas variable pressure Canister shock is unique in that it is the only shock that can be run with high gas pressure as well as any amount of low pressure (down to zero gas pressure). The Pro Gas Canister shock continues to function at 100 percent dampening.


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Currently you have to drive to Birmingham to take the train. A spur that serves Huntsville and Nashville would make it easier for people here to visit other southeastern cities and vice versa -- and might spur price competition between the airport and rail service. It's only $39 to ride between Atlanta and Birmingham round trip.


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Comparison of kinetic theory and discrete element schemes for modelling granular Couette flows (1999)
Discrete element based simulations of granular flow in a 2d velocity space are compared with a particle code that solves kinetic granular flow equations in two and three dimensions. The binary collisions of the latter are governed by the same forces as for the discrete elements. Both methods are applied to a granular shear flow of equally sized discs and spheres. The two dimensional implementation of the kinetic approach shows excellent agreement with the results of the discrete element simulations. When changing to a three dimensional velocity space, the qualitative features of the flow are maintained. However, some flow properties change quantitatively.


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Ten Tips for Happy Dating
When you think of dating happily, you may think of spending time with an interesting and neat person, doing lots of fun and exciting things together, and connecting intimately. Yet those are only a few of the things that go into a groovy dating experience.
Here are ten more things that, although they may not pop immediately to mind, are also keys to having rewarding and fun dating experiences:
Be realistic: If you're looking for the perfect date or mate or state, you're in trouble for two reasons: First, perfection is unlikely, if not impossible. Second, if a perfect person were to exist, he or she would most likely be looking for a perfect person, too.
So ask yourself about your expectations: Are you being reasonable? Are you asking too much of yourself, too much of your date, or too much of the situation? Best friends are really helpful in the reality check department, so when in doubt, it's okay to say, "Am I being realistic here, or have I overdosed on romance pills?"
Be specific: Often, when people talk about the opposite sex, they either go all gooey and soft focus or become harsh and judgmental. Neither stance is particularly helpful. Look carefully at the details. Being specific is one of the best ways not only to problem-solve but to be realistic as well.
Take responsibility: All of us make mistakes — sometimes because we're thoughtless, sometimes because we're clueless, often out of ignorance. But when it's clear you blew it, even though every instinct is saying play dumb, accept responsibility.
Be active: Don't wait for someone to call you. Either make the call, take a walk, scrub the floor, scrape gum off your shoes, or jog. Don't wait for someone else to make your day or make you happy or get the ball rolling. This is your life, not a dress rehearsal.
Don't settle: A life is a series of compromises — going left when you wanted to go right because the taxi cut you off, taking the chicken on the buffet table because the prime rib was all gone, going to the prom with your best friend because you thought your dream date would turn you down.
There's nothing bad or wrong about being flexible. The trick is knowing when to compromise and when to go for it.
To do that, you have to know what's really important to you, and once you know that, don't settle. If you don't have what you want, make sure you do know what you want — being both realistic and specific — and then go for it. You can always reevaluate. What most people regret is not the mistakes they made but the chances they didn't take.
Reevaluate often: Something that made you happy or behavior that pleased you or someone who rang your chimes once may or may not be in for the long haul. The only way of knowing the short term from the long term is to be willing to take your own emotional pulse from time to time.
Write stuff down: A log (not a Captain James T. Kirk kind of log, but a feelings log) can be really useful and helpful to pinpoint important times, beginnings of issues, and changes in the relationship.
It's a great way to keep us honest and focused, and as long as you don't leave it around for someone to find and read, there is no downside here. A log also is a way of taking responsibility privately so we can practice before we take it publicly.
Be creative: You're not like anybody else on the planet, and neither is your date, so why do the two of you have to follow anybody else's rules or precedents about what you want, how you act, where you go, or how you communicate? If it's okay with the two of you — and it's not illegal — then why not?
Be aware: Pay attention to your date and to your own responses. You don't have to constantly monitor as though your date were in dating ICU and liable to expire at any moment, but be willing every once in a while to step out a bit and see what's going on.
How are you? How does the date seem to be doing? Are you happy? Is it fun? Are you being attentive? Do you need more sleep? Are your senses being dulled?
Being dense is a tough way to lead your life and dangerous when you're dealing with someone else who wants you tuned in.
Analyze fear: It is impossible to be completely without fear, and that's okay: Fear warns us. After all, it would be stupid to cross the street without looking or do a header off the Empire State Building.
We can look at our fear, our assumptions, our anger, our patterns and decide to try to do something different. The moment we do that, our fear no longer controls us. We're in charge of our own life, and paradoxically, these moments are most likely to happen when we let another person into our intimate life.


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Death of netbook exaggerated, says researcher
Down, but not out
Don't write off the netbook just yet, market watcher IDC has advised.
Yes, the gadget has taken a blow from tablets like the Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab, but it's not a mortal one.
Growth will continue, the researcher reckons, but at a "somewhat slower pace". So, it says, some 38.7m netbooks will ship this year - 10.3 per cent more than in 2009. But the compound growth rate over the next four years will slow to 4.3 per cent, taking 2014's netbook shipments total to just 42.4m units.
That compares with the most bullish netbook shipments forecast we've seen, 43m units in 2010, from ABI Research. That said, even than forecast was a big reduction from the full-year shipments estimate of 58m units ABI made back in May.
Market watcher ChangeWave last week charted the decline in consumer demand for netbooks over the last 18 months or so.
IDC said education still shows a keeness on netbooks absent from the consumer market, and while tablets may tickle Western tastes, they will play less well in the much more price-sensitive developing world
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More than two weeks after telling Rolling Stone that she would undergo hormone replacement therapy to transition to life as a woman named Laura Jane Grace, the Against Me! singer formerly-known-as-Tom Gabel made her live debut in front of a stoked San Diego crowd Friday night. According to Rolling Stone, the band played six new songs, among them a "rollicking anthem" called "Transgender Dysphoria Blues."
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Dear Credit Card Adviser,
My son and his family recently moved to the U.S. after living abroad for 11 years. His wife does not have a Social Security number. Can she qualify for a credit card? Are there other actions she can take to boost her credit history?
Dear M.,
This is a trickier question than it seems, with many parts. Let's start with your son's wife, or your daughter-in-law, and discuss how to get her a credit card.
Depending on the creditor, she may or may not need a Social Security number to apply for a credit card. Capital One and Chase require this number on their credit card applications. Discover and Bank of America accept Social Security numbers, but they also will take a taxpayer identification number issued by the Internal Revenue Service.
American Express accepts several forms of identification: Social Security, taxpayer ID, a foreign driver's license or a foreign-issued passport. Citi doesn't require a Social Security number, but applicants who don't have one may be asked to show a government-issued ID at the closest Citi bank branch.
Your daughter-in-law also can be added as an authorized user on many credit cards without an SSN.
Now, let's look at her credit history. Unfortunately, your daughter-in-law's foreign credit history can't be transferred to the U.S. But she can start building one here even though she doesn't have a Social Security number. It's best to have one, though, to ensure her credit information is recorded accurately, says Maxine Sweet, vice president of public education at Experian.
"Name and current address are the minimum requirement, but we strongly encourage the lender to provide the SSN, date of birth and previous address if it was within the last two years," she says. "That additional information can be very important in helping us match the account to the correct consumer."
TransUnion also builds credit histories on individuals without a Social Security number. Equifax didn't respond to emails asking about their minimum identification requirements for a credit report.
Getting a Social Security number isn't easy. Generally, only immigrants OK'd to work in the country by the Department of Homeland Security qualify for an SSN, according to the Social Security Administration website. There are exceptions, so contact the agency for more information.
Now, here's a potential problem you probably didn't anticipate: Your son may have a hard time getting a credit card, too. If your son didn't maintain any open or active U.S.-based credit -- such as a mortgage, credit card or other loan -- while he was abroad, a lender probably won't be able to pull his credit score. He may not even have a U.S. credit file anymore.
A U.S. credit report from Experian, Equifax and TransUnion is based on payment history on mortgages, car loans, student loans, personal loans, credit cards and other loans he got here. If he doesn't have any activity on these types of accounts in the past year or so, his credit report has gone stale, says John Ulzheimer, president of consumer education at SmartCredit.com.
"At that point, the credit report will cease to be scoreable under any credit score criteria," he explains. Credit scoring models need recent activity to calculate a credit score. No activity, no credit score. No credit score, no new credit in most cases.
That's not all. The credit reporting agencies don't maintain credit files indefinitely. By law, negative credit information must fall off credit reports after seven years. Bankruptcies disappear after 10 years. Sounds good, right? But Ulzheimer says credit reporting agencies will eventually drop the good stuff, too. After 11 years, your son's credit history may have vanished.
Your son should see if he has a credit report. If he does, he should give it a thorough read and make sure there aren't any errors. He can pull his credit reports from each of the bureaus for free once every 12 months at AnnualCreditReport.com. If he finds he has little or no credit history, he will need to start building credit again the same way a young adult does: through a secured credit card or as an authorized user.
Secured credit cards require an upfront deposit to act as collateral against the line of credit. The deposit equals the credit limit, and it's placed in a money market account or certificate of deposit while the account is open. Typical deposits run between $300 and $500. The problem is that you need at least six months' worth of activity on the card before a FICO credit score -- the most widely used score out there -- can be created.
This is where you, as a parent, can help out, if you have good credit history. Adding your son (and daughter-in-law) as an authorized user on a credit card (or two) will immediately populate his credit file with the card's payment history. That means he'll have a calculable credit score, too. He'll be able to apply for credit in his own name and build from there. Good luck to the whole family!
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Mad Dog Mcrea + Gaz Brookfield at Bridgwater Town Hall, Friday 20th December
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Anna Politzer made this wonderful large scale design called Big Birthday Improv Quilt. The graphic horizontal piecing, with the contrasting vertical lines, makes for a striking and eye catching quilt.
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The Newtown man who took six survivors of the Sandy Hook shooting into his home on the tragic morning of Dec. 14 is being harassed by conspiracy theorists, according to Salon.com.
Gene Rosen, a 69-year-old retired psychologist who lives across the street from Sandy Hook Elementary School, told Salon that he is getting phone calls and emails accusing him of lying when he shared his story of taking four girls and two boys into his home after the shooting.
As he was leaving his house on the morning of Dec. 14, he saw the children from Victoria Soto's class sitting at the end of his driveway. They had just run from the school to escape Adam Lanza, who shot and killed 20 first graders and six staff members, including their teacher.
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He said he decided to talk to the media in the days after the shooting to tell stories of the children's bravery and to help himself get through the tragedy, he told Salon.
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Catching up with Justin "Big Chief" Shearer and Shawn "Murder Nova" Ellington
Now entering its second season on the Discovery Channel, the show Street Outlaws can be considered a modern-day hit, especially among performance-car lovers. Part of the charm of this semi-reality show about a group of street racers in Oklahoma is the cars, which run the gamut from a murdered-out Chevy Nova with twin-turbos under the hood to a sleeper-looking Chevy C10 pickup with a camper shell and a big-block snorting nitrous oxide. It doesn't get more outlandish than the rides and egos fighting and racing for the top spot on "The List" of 10 fastest cars in Oklahoma.
Two of the largest personalities on Street Outlaws belong to Shawn Ellington (aka Murder Nova) and Justin Shearer (aka Big Chief), old friends who opened a speed shop called Midwest Street Cars years ago and who still have blue-collar day jobs.
When you let off the trans-brake, it's 100 percent real. There's no acting there.
HOT ROD Drag Week™ fans will remember Shawn's menacing black Nova from the '08 Drag Week™ because it looked fast — but it died before the racer caravan left the parking lot on Day 1. The Nova has changed quite a bit since then and has claimed the top spot on the list of fastest street cars in Oklahoma for several years now. Justin has also spent time as king of the Oklahoma streets but has been updating his '69 Pontiac GTO with turbos for the last year. We tracked both of them down during the '13 SEMA Show for this interview, and when they weren't busy signing autographs they answered our every question, never hesitating to voice their opinion. You might not agree with their views, but you have to respect the fact that they aren't scared to voice them, and their show is entertaining as hell.
HRM — We haven't talked to you since your trip to Drag Week™.
Two of the largest personalities on Street Outlaws belong to Shawn Ellington (aka Murder Nova) and Justin Shearer (aka Big Chief), old friends who opened a speed shop called Midwest Street Cars years ago and who still have blue-collar day jobs. — We liked that one. We liked the article where we went to Drag Week™ and got ruined and did terrible and blew everything up and went home early.
HRM — The car looked insane. No one had a murdered-out race car back then.
BC — It was always insane, except for the fact that if you look really close at that picture in the mag there's just oil smoke rollin' out the back of it at the starting line.
MN — [Laughing] There's a couple of pictures where I'm at the starting line up on the transbrake, and it's just boiling smoke, and his face [motioning to Big Chief] is just like this [makes a wince].
BC — It was no good.
MN — We knew it was over.
HRM — So you've learned a little bit since then. Is the plan to come back to Drag Week™ again?
MN — That's the plan.
HRM — Round 2? When?
BC — Hopefully in 2014. My car is finally finished. It was built for Drag Week™ with help from Jeff Lutz and guys like him, and I think we can be competitive—under a different format. Now if I gotta go head-to-head with Tom Bailey or somebody on a test 'n' tune tree, while he sits there for 45 minutes and lets Steve Morris use the laptop at the starting line, yeah, he can probably outdo me. But you put us on a heads-up tree, and I'll knock his d**k in the dirt.
HRM — We haven't seen Morris at the starting line with the laptop, but yeah, the turbo cars do spend a good amount of time spooling at the starting line.
BC — It could happen, though.
MN — And nobody's gonna complain about it.
BC — Guys like that are gonna mount a laptop in the trunklid so that their guy can be standing there tuning on the starting line while they are on the beams. It's horses**t—it's not a real race. Get those guys nerves up and goin'; let me f**k with them on the tree, and it will be a good time. Or have a lightweight class and a heavyweight class for guys like us with our real street-type vehicles, and they can run their Funny Cars with headlights and we'll be good.
HRM — You did say real street cars, which implies real street racing, so now we have a few questions about your show. Is it real street racing we are seeing, or are you guys shutting streets down to film?
MN — When you let off the transbrake, it's 100 percent real. There's no acting there.
HRM — But the flashing lights at the end of the street never seem to move…
BC — Here's the deal…
MN — There's a deal…
BC — We went to Compton [California]. Longbed Lou can attest to it. We went to Compton and stood right in front of them guys and they said we were fake. I asked them—I said you're tellin' me that if 10 minutes from now you make a hit in your car on this street, the cops showed up, and a guy from Discovery Channel tells the cops, "He's with me." That you're gonna say, "F**k that, that's fake, take me to jail!" You're a moron. Now what if someone shows up and says, "We'll shut down all the regular streets you race on and let you race on them," anybody would do that. I'm not sayin' that's what we do, but you'd be a moron not to. We don't race because it's illegal, that's [dumb]. Nobody wants to go jail.
MN — Nobody enjoys runnin' from the cops.
BC — We have families. We don't want to go to jail. We street race because it's a bulls**t surface that actually means something to try and get a car like ours down it. If you can get down that street, hats off to you because you're a bad motherf*****r. If you have to have a glued track to get your million-dollar car down it, well, you're just like every other rich guy in the country. We called Tom Bailey's people to come street race us. We were gonna let him do it legally. We were gonna do anything we needed to, to get him to come, and he wouldn't show.
MN — We begged Larry Larson to come.
HRM — What did they say?
MN — He's got too much to lose.
BC — I understand their deal. It's not an excuse. They have a lot of big sponsors, big name guys that help them out. Their bottom line was, "If we come to you and we win, who cares? We are supposed to win. If we come to you and we lose, then the whole world ends because we lost to the morons on Street Outlaws."
HRM — So it's an ego thing.
BC — Well, yeah, that's what Drag Week™ is. The whole thing is an ego thing. You don't actually beat anybody. You just go out there and measure your giant time slip.
HRM — But you have to admit surviving 1,000-plus miles in your street car…
MN — It's amazing!
BC — That part is the realest thing about Drag Week™.
HRM — On the show, Street Outlaws, none of the cars seem like real street cars. In one episode, we watched Chuck trailer his Mustang to a road, roll it out of the trailer, make a hit, and then put it back in the trailer. You two were dressed up like cops and hassled him. The car didn't look like much of a street car.
MN — It's not. These are not street cars; they are street-raced cars.
BC — Me and [Murder Nova] are the only ones on the show that built our cars for actual street driving. Everyone else built 'em to race on the street. Our plan is to get up there, at the very top of the Fastest Street Cars in the World list.
HRM — On the show you guys have the Top 10 list of fastest street cars. Is that something you had before someone came to you and said, "let's make a TV show," or was it developed for the show?
BC — I've had the Top 10 list since 2007, and it's always been illegal, and it's always been underground, and it's always been real, and the guys that are on the list have always been on the list at some point in time. When the show showed up, they said, "How do you do it?" and we said, "This is how," and they were like, "Oh, we want to use the list." There's a real list that no one knows about.
BC — That list is still there and still in effect, and [Murder Nova is] still number one. There's another list we had to come up with for the show with the same rules and same everything.
HRM — You needed characters for the show?
BC — No, not necessarily characters, we just needed a different place to put people because you have a guy who got knocked off the list late last year because his truck broke down or whatever and it's taken him three months to rebuild it and now it's the fastest thing in the whole world. We're not gonna make him start at number 10 because the show is only eight weeks long. The list has always been around; it's always been the same cats. There's always been list races. I was number one for a long time. Shawn has been number one for a long time.
HRM — How quick is your car? We've seen videos of it testing at the dragstrip, but the scoreboard is always turned off.
MN — We don't take it to the track very often. If we do, we are just testin' and tuning for the street. But it will run as fast as we need it to.
HRM — Fair enough.
BC — We are hopin' that both cars in 2014 can knock down a 6 at some point, drivin' 'em wherever we want.
MN — They're close now.
BC — They're really close now.
HRM — A 6-second pass? That's legit.
BC — At 3,500 pounds, not 2,700 pounds.
HRM — We have a few of those super-lightweight cars at Drag Week™ now, and there's been some controversy over them.
BC — To some, yeah. But then there are guys like Jeff Lutz who just want to race and don't give a s**t.
HRM — We see both sides of the argument, but the class is called Unlimited.
MN — That's right. I agree.
BC — What's the class technically called?
HRM — It's called Unlimited, and there are no rules other than NHRA safety mandates for the weight and e.t. each car is capable of.
BC — Just Unlimited? So it's not called Unlimited Street?
HRM — No. If the car meets NHRA safety specs and has a VIN tag, is insured, and licensed in a state then it can come race at Drag Week™.
BC — How can you register a car that was never built?
HRM — Well, that's the thing. It depends on where you live. For example, you can get almost anything registered in Texas. In New York, New Jersey, or California — not so much.
BC — As much as Larry Larson gets on my f*****g nerves, he is Unlimited Drag Week™, and if he's not there for everyone to kick his ass, I feel like what's the point of havin' it?
HRM — It was very weird not having Larry at Drag Week™ in 2013.
MN — Why wasn't he there last year?
HRM — Well, he gave us a few reasons.
BC — I don't believe anything that anyone has said. I know why he wasn't there.
HRM — He said he was very busy working on Steve Matusek's car.
MN — OK, nobody believes that.
HRM — Reason number two was that he wasn't happy with the plastic cars coming into the class.
MN — There ya go.
HRM — Maybe he's smarter than Michael Jordan and decided to go out while he was on top?
MN — I don't think he's out. I heard he's building another car, and it's gonna be a composite car.
HRM — Here's the thing: We've had guys with cars that 3 miles down the road on Day 1 are dead. The road is the great equalizer at Drag Week™.
BC — We didn't even make it to the road in 2008.
MN — We didn't even make it 3 miles.
BC — We didn't even make it to the end of the quarter-mile.
MN — Hey, we took a chance. We knew the car was hurt before we even went up there.
BC — We had the pistons overnighted to the next track.
MN — I was supposed to just idle it down the track on Day 1, but I can't do that.
HRM — What was wrong with the Murder Nova back then?
MN — It had a hole in a piston.
HRM — Hey, well, showing up is half the battle. Just starting Drag Week™ is big. Finishing is huge. It will change your life.
MN — We are fans of Drag Week™. We really want to do it.
BC — Drag Week™ was one of the best times we've ever had.
MN — Our hats are off to everyone that does it because it's amazing what they can get those cars to do. We want to be a part of it. I may drag it through the mud every once in awhile, but to a certain group of people that's the standard of street cars. In my opinion, that's not really true, but it's amazing what Drag Week™ does.
Top 10 List
The point of the Street Outlaws show is to determine the fastest street-raced cars through a series of heads-up races. The top 10 cars occupy spots on "The List." Racers can call each other out in order to win and move up the list or lose and fall down or off the list completely. The list may change by the time this issue lands in your hands, but you can at least get a clue as to the variety of rides on it.
- "Daddy Dave" (Dave Comstock), '96 GMC Sonoma
- "Murder Nova" (Shawn Ellington), '69 Chevy Nova
- "Doc" (James Love), '71 Chevy Monte Carlo
- "Monza" (Jerry Johnson), '72 Chevy Camaro
- "Dominator" (Joe Woods), '67 Dodge Dart
- "Chuck" (Charles Seitsinger), '89 Ford Mustang
- "Varley" (Wayne D. Varley), '80 Ford Mustang
- "Third-Gen" (Derek), third-gen Camaro
- "Andrade," '82 Olds Cutless
- "Farmtruck and AZN" (Sean Whitley and Jeff Bonnett), '70 Chevy C10


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Fourth annual event celebrates Kansas' tradition of upland hunting and conservation
WICHITA – Kansas Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever will host its fourth annual state habitat convention March 7-8at the Great Plains Nature Center in Wichita. The two-day event is designed for landowners, conservationists and hunters interested in improving wildlife habitat, and will also celebrate and discuss avenues to enhance the upland hunting tradition in the Sunflower State.
Open to the public, the state meeting is an opportunity for local sportsmen/women and chapters to meet and discuss concerns and opportunities regarding upland wildlife in their area. The habitat-heavy event will also focus on youth, women, and dog enthusiasts within the state.
"We have an outstanding event this year thanks to our volunteers and our partners," said Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever Western Kansas regional representative, Chris Blackledge. "I am greatly looking forward to meeting with individuals from across the state who are ready and willing to help ensure Kansas' upland hunting heritage."
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Dave Nomsen, vice-president of governmental affairs for Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever, will discuss issues in Washington D.C. that affect conservation. Additionally, he will update attendees with news about the Federal Farm Bill.
Jake George, private lands coordinator for the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism,will be on hand to discuss Walk-In Hunting Access programs that are opening up more great locations to the public each year around the state.
Jim Pitman, small game coordinator for the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism, will be discussing bag limits and population dynamics for hunting regulations.
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All sessions at the Great Plains Nature Center and the Wichita Marriott are open to the public for a price of $65. Ticket price includes Friday's Pheasants Forever Kansas Hall of Fame Reception, State Habitat Convention Saturday and the Partners in Conservation Banquet Saturday evening.
For more information, contact Chris Blackledge at (620) 767-2121, cblackledge@pheasantsforever.
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