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The Grand County Rural Health Network presents its first Bulls, Boots, and BBQ fundraiser this Saturday, Aug. 24. The fundraiser is an "olde-fashioned hoedown to benefit modern-day healthcare pioneers."
The concept is to honor the past, present, and future of health care in Grand County, while raising money for a local nonprofit that improves the future of our health care by educating the community on health issues and ensuring accessibility and efficiency of the health care system.
Tickets are all inclusive, including: two drink tickets; BBQ dinner; unlimited mechanical bull riding and olde-time photo booth; performance of Doc Susie by Grand County Characters; and live music by Hunker Down.
The fundraiser will also have a live and silent auction, as well as door prizes.
The Grand County Rural Health Network is also honoring a health care professional at the event, keeping with the theme of honoring the past, present and future of health care in Grand County. Therese McElroy will be honored with a lifetime achievement award for 50 years of nursing, most of which has been in Grand County. The award will be presented to Therese around 7:20 p.m.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Smithsonian is celebrating Black History Month with a series of programs in February.
Throughout the month, the National Museum of American History will present performances by historical characters in "Join the Student Sit-Ins." Visitors will meet a civil rights activist from 1960 and take part in a training session based on an actual civil rights manual to prepare for a sit-in. The performance is presented Tuesdays through Saturdays at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
On Monday, the National Museum of American History will mark the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation by hosting a webcast for high school students. Scholars will reflect on the abolition movement of the 19th century.
Events are also planned at the National Air and Space Museum and other sites.
(Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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The purpose of this thread is to have a central place where we can keep a history of the upgrades we do to our gaming rigs. You can start with your current rig and track upgrades starting now or you can dig through your old receipts from the last year or two and start off with some history.
You could also optionally link your post here in your sig for quick reference for yourself and others.
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- You do NOT need to be a Fragging Frog to use this thread. All PCPER members are welcome to maintain a post here.
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Well I think I figured the starting issue, was running it too rich & the spark plug was black as dogs balls, so have taken that out & changed it over for a NGK plug today & bam started first go, but then after 10 minutes of the boy ripping it up in the backyard it just stopped & havent been able to start it again yet today.
Did a bit of google searching & some people suggested in other threads people had posted with same issue that the jets/carb could have some junk it it blocking the fuel ?
This really is all kinda chinese to me (well the quad is chinese anyways) , what you all think ? Beyond my abilities, bite the bullet & just take it to a bike shop & see if they will look at it ? I did get it for pretty cheap, only $200 new on auction so I did expect it to have a few issues occassionally as its not a high end quad bike.
Below is a link to the quad I purchased
Update, well after leaving it for about 4 hours, I just got it started first go, some more reading says it also could overheat if Im running too lean or its a hot day ?
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Type 2 diabetes usually occurs as a result of genetics and lifestyle. It is marked by abnormally high levels of blood sugar, known as glucose. Glucose is the primary source of energy for our cells that the body makes from food we ingest. The onset of type 2 diabetes is triggered when the body is no longer able to properly use insulin, the hormone that helps cells take in glucose from the blood. When glucose stays in the blood stream instead of moving into the cells, nerves and blood vessels can be damaged. This increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, blindness, kidney disease, and circulation problems.
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Prediabetes is a condition that precedes the onset of type 2 diabetes. It is characterized by blood glucose levels that are elevated, though not high enough to be classified as diabetes. Doctors usually refer to prediabetes as impaired glucose tolerance or impaired fasting glucose. The American Diabetes Association (ADA) recommends screening for all adults 45 years old and older. Also, if you are younger than 45 and are overweight or obese and have risk factors for diabetes, you should be screened. Risk factors include:
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- Oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT)—Again, you fast overnight and have your blood glucose measured after the fast. Then, you consume a sugary drink and have your blood glucose measured two hours later. Results in the range of 140-199 mg/dL (7.8-11 mmol/L) indicate prediabetes.
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If you do have prediabetes, you can take steps that may slow or avoid the progression to type 2 diabetes. It will take a lot of effort on your part, but the potential benefits—being healthy and living longer—are worth it.
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They brought you up. Now it's your turn to care for them, which will bring unique challenges, and very possibly some surprises. Learn how four families make it work, and how you can, too.
In an ideal world, your mom and dad would live to a robust old age and never need your help beyond programming their DVR. In reality they'll likely require significant support at some point. A bad fall, a stroke, or a debilitating illness might mean you'll have to set them up in a nursing home or an assisted living facility. But over half of people who need care receive it at home—and 80 percent of the time family and friends provide it. Another 25 percent live in the home of the caregiver, usually an adult child.
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Scenario: Mom Comes Home
Rosa Hymes was already living with her daughter, Alexa St. Julian, in Pearland, Texas, to be there after school for Alexa's two kids, then 11 and 13. But everything changed just months after Rosa moved in when she had hip replacement surgery. Complications took a year to resolve and ultimately resulted in an amputation. Today, Rosa is wheelchair-bound and still lives with Alexa and her family.
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Costs The aide charges $100 a day. Most of Rosa's hospital bills were covered by Medicare, although some medication, including $7,000 worth of at-home IV therapy, was not and ended up on Alexa's credit card. Alexa's income has also dropped substantially because of the time she took off during Rosa's hospitalizations.
Key to Success Alexa accepts every offer of help that comes her way. "Whether it's a relative flying in or a church member bringing us dinner one night, I say yes," she explains. "I have a very supportive husband, and my sister has been there for all of the big medical decisions." Alexa has also given her house keys to two trusted neighbors. "If I'm out and can't reach my mother," she explains, "I'll call and ask them to check on her."
Scenario: Alone, with Help
After their father died suddenly from a stroke, sisters Alison Trost of Mendota Heights, Minnesota, and Lynn Pitet of Cody, Wyoming, worried about their mother, Helen Trost. She lived alone in her home in Mankato, Minnesota, about an hour and a half away from Alison's house and a 14-hour drive from Lynn's. Helen was determined to stay put, but her eyesight was poor, so she had trouble taking her medications and couldn't drive. "My mother had a busy life with lots of friends and activities, but Lynn and I felt we needed to keep better tabs on her," says Alison, who is a part-time dental hygienist. (Lynn works full-time at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody.)
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Costs The QuietCare plan (quietcaresystems.com) was $500 a month, not covered by insurance. The apartment is about $1,800 a month, with an extra $40 for an emergency pendant.
Key to Success "It's so important to talk to your parents before a crisis occurs," says Lynn. "You don't want to be forced into making a decision in a hurry. Plan ahead when you have the luxury of time to sort things out." To find out about nursing home options, check out the U.S. Administration on Aging's eldercare locator at www.eldercare.gov.
Scenario: Maximum Assistance
Della McCann had cared for her father until his death and expected she'd do the same for her mother, Wendy BowKwong, who was living with Della, her husband, and their two kids. "In Chinese culture it's normal for the generations to be together," says Della, who resides in Mamaroneck, New York. In the years that followed she nursed Wendy through a heart attack, depression, and colon cancer, all while her children were tweens. But when Wendy developed dementia and her behavior became erratic, Della felt she couldn't care for her at home.
The Solution Della enrolled Wendy in an adult daycare program, but the center couldn't handle her, so the doctor recommended a nursing home. "At first I resisted, and I cried a lot," Della recalls. "I'm an only child, and I was brought up to believe that you didn't have someone else take over your parents' care. It just isn't done. But I worried about my mother's safety, and about the effects of caring for her on my family."
Costs A nursing home room is about $5,500 to $6,500 per month. In Wendy's case, with her savings exhausted, Medicaid is now covering the fees, as it does for 70 percent of nursing home patients.
Key to Success Della makes the 10-minute trip daily to visit her mother. "You need to be involved with your parent's nursing home the same way you are with your kid's school," she says. "I'm my mother's advocate. Also, people should talk to others in the same situation, and if that doesn't help, get therapy. There's so much guilt associated with these decisions. The worst day of my life was when I told my mother she should go into the nursing home. But my relationship with her got so much better once she settled in. It's such a loving place. We even had my daughter's wedding there so my mom could share it."
Scenario: Everyone Pitches In
After Joan Rodriguez's mother, Alicia Ferguson, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, Joan and her four siblings took turns staying overnight with Alicia in her home for a year. But as the disease progressed, so did her mom's needs. Joan had recently retired early from a career in long-distance communication to start up her own business. Instead, she decided to care for her mom in her home in San Jose, California. She was able to do that for eight years, until her mother died.
The Solution When her mother moved in, Joan's two daughters were in their early 20s and her son, Darin, was just 13. "The way I dealt with all of the different roles in my life was simply to include my mother in as much as I could," says Joan. "When Darin was young, my mother cared for him a lot while I worked so he had a special bond with her. He never squawked about having her with us at different functions."
Costs Though most medical needs were covered by insurance, Joan didn't work outside of her home while her mother lived with them, which strained finances dramatically.
Key to Success The family became a team. When Alicia was diagnosed, Darin, who was away at college, transferred to a local school so he could live at home and help. Joan's siblings relieved her at least one day a week. Helping her mother, Joan says, changed her life. "I used to work long hours and always wanted more of everything," she says. "I learned to slow down and appreciate a different kind of 'more.' I was able to help care for my three grandkids. And I discovered a love for gardening. I'm so grateful for the time I had with my mother."
How to Plan for the Future
Yes, your parents deserve to have the best. But it's also essential to take steps to manage the overall cost of care, for their sake as well as yours.
Ask the Hard Questions
It's important to know what care arrangements your parents might want, how much money they have, where it is, and how you can access it in a crisis, says Dan Taylor, author of The Parent Care Conversation (Penguin). You should also have a list of essential information (keep it in a safe place), like bank account numbers, computer passwords, and names and contact numbers for their lawyer, accountant, financial adviser, and doctors.
Arrange Legal Backup
A durable power of attorney gives you or someone your parents choose the ability to make decisions if they can't. There should be one for healthcare and one for legal and financial decisions. Locate a lawyer through the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Inc. at naela.org.
Discuss Health Insurance
Most older Americans are covered by Medicare, and some have additional insurance, but both are limited. A long-term care insurance plan can fill in the gaps. For more info, go to the National Council on Aging's benefitscheckup.org and medicare.gov. Those in a low financial bracket may be partially or completely covered by Medicaid. Visit Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services at cms.hhs.gov.
Insist on a Living Will
Your parents should appoint someone to decide when to stop life support. The nonprofit organization Aging with Dignity offers single copies of living will forms called "Five Wishes," which are accepted in most states, for $5 each. Go to agingwithdignity.org.
Originally published in the July 2010 issue of Family Circle magazine.


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Creighton Head Coach Bruce Erickson
"They're as good an attacking team as I think that we have seen that we have seen all year. I don't think that we played quite the way that I thought that we would."
When asked about his game plan
"They play with no outside mids so we wanted to be able to win balls and play into that space. By the end of the game we started to really get involved into that space that we wanted to.
"We have played teams as talented as them, but they don't play this way; they don't put a whole game together like this."
Jaimie Thompson, Goal Keeper
"We have played teams that have been really great at defense, or attacking or strong in the midfield, but it a team like Santa Clara that combines all three on the field to put it at you."
When asked about the intimidation of playing Santa Clara
"After watching the selection show, there was the initial thirty seconds that we were petrified. After that thirty seconds, everybody thought that in conference we had the skill and the upper hand, but I think that this is the first time that our ladies really got together and put their hearts into it."
"On one hand I am really happy that we got the experience to play this game because now we know what level we have to be at next year, we know what kind of game we have to play to be able to get to the championship. But on the other hand I am really sad because we could have played a lot different, we should have played a lot different."


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Setup in as little as 10 steps. Faster processor and more memory than the Mac mini client. Lots of storage for SMBs or a home network. New features add to the ultra-easy Mac experience. Powerful command-line option for advanced tasks and management.
Tricky Active Directory integration. Not for heavy-work-load environments.
Bottom Line
One of the most aesthetically beautiful business servers we've ever seen, this tiny, peppy machine makes for a quiet desktop server that's perfect for light-duty home and SMB server tasks.
With the Apple Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server ($999, list), the sort of flawless design and ease of use we expect from Apple comes to a space that usually offers neither: the server market. Apple's home/SMB server is strong on looks and drop-dead simplicity (for a server, anyhow) and, as you'd expect, less so on tricky functionality such as integration with Windows Active Directory. The resulting machine isn't for heavy-processing workloads, such as a database or e-commerce server with a lot of daily transactions. It's best employed as a Web server and e-mail server or for daily business processes (such as file and printer sharing). If that suits your home or SMB, this elegant little server is a great choice for a small network or workgroup that is all Apple-based or mixed with Windows 7 or XP machines. I'm impressed; I'm also impressed with OS X Leopard Server; I'll evaluate that here, too, since it's the brains of Apple's clever server.
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There's no question that Apple is offering the Mac mini server as an easy-to-set up alternative to Windows Small Business Server (SBS). With Windows SBS, some Microsoft server skills are required for flawless deployment; Apple, conversely, has made it simple to get a server up and running without need for an IT person or VAR.
The Mac mini server has big potential as a home network server; I can see the Mac mini server giving Windows Home Server ($180 direct, ) a run for its money since it's built for multimedia, with OS X's Quick Time Streaming Server, and the new Podcast Producer 2 software included. For small businesses with light-duty needs who don't have an already in-place Windows Server with Active Directory deployed, this is a strong challenger to Microsoft's Small Business Server (SBS). The Mac mini server is easier to set up (particularly when it comes to weightier stuff like RAIDthough only RAID 0 and 1 are supported). Plus, its 1TB drive capacity is serious storage space for the money.
It's worth noting that the Mac mini server isn't for larger-scale businesses. It lacks some enterprise-friendly features, such as dual Ethernet ports for multihoming and link redundancy. Additionally, the SATA drives aren't as potent as SCSI or SAS drives for enterprise-level work. But since the Mac mini server's target is the SMB (and smaller SMBs at that), the lack of such features isn't a big deal.
The Apple Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server offers nearly identical energy efficiency and hardware as the consumer Mac mini ($699 list, ), but three key features differentiate it from its brother: a 2.66-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor (vs. 2.4-GHz); dual 500 GB 7200-rpm drives (vs. a single 320GB HDD), 4GB of RAM (vs. 2GB); and of course, the updated, easy-to-use Mac OS X v10.6.3 Server operating system. Unlike the consumer Mac mini, the Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server lacks an optical drive, but it can remotely access optical drives on other Macs and PCs. 4 GB of RAM keeps the server peppy, and there's an option to upgrade to 8GB ($400 extra) if you plan to use it for hard-core business purposes.
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Apple gets a lot of criticism for its prices, but that doesn't apply here. For a starting price of $999, you get the Mac mini and unlimited client licenses; Windows SBS costs $1,089 (for Standard edition), and doesn't include client licenses (connecting five additional devices or users to the server requires that you cough up an additional $385). The unlimited client licenses bundled with the Mac mini server are a great value for small businesses. If you are not going the OEM/reseller route, and choose to install SBS on a bare bones server, then you have to factor in hardware costs. A typical SMB server like the Asus Server TS500-E6/P4 ($699.00 direct, ) which is sold bare bones, runs $713 bucksan additional cost. That's nearly $2,200 to get set up for five licenses, versus the Mac mini's $1K, for unlimited licenses. That's a great deal from Apple.Next: Easy Setup


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250 GTO celebrates 50th anniversary in the hills of Champagne-Ardenne
It was produced in a limited edition of 36 cars and is today one of the most expensive historical cars in the world, with prizes of sometimes over $ 30 Million. One of these cars – restored and certified – left the Ferrari Classiche department just a couple of days ago in its original splendid form.
Now the 250 GTO celebrates its 50th anniversary where it celebrated its first victories. On Tuesday the event's 23 protagonists started their engines on the legendary Gueux race track to arrive at the Hautvilliers Abbey at night, where the official gala dinner with Chairman Luca di Montezemolo and another important protagonist was held: the F12berlinetta, the latest creation from the manufacturer in Maranello.
So it's a busy week for the 250 GTOs, who, after some laps on the legendary race track of Monthléry, went on to discover the splendid castles of Villlandry and Chambord at the Loire.
On Friday, 6 July, on a really special day, the 23 cars will be guests at the famous "Le Mans Classic" event and parade on the legendary track, exactly there, where the 250 GTO once gained two victories.


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With public approval ratings that have sunk to levels even below those of former president Chen Shui-bian's (陳水扁) at his nadir and assailed by both the pan-green and pan-blue camps over his government's execrable performance in recent months, President Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) ongoing trip abroad could revamp his image. However, based on his performance in New York, where he made a brief stop earlier this week, that is unlikely to happen.
Foreign trips are a tried, tested and, above all, convenient opportunity for struggling national leaders to garner support by reaching out to overseas compatriots and brushing elbows with influential figures.
However, Ma, whose approval ratings are approaching single-digit figures — in striking contrast with his 90 percent support rating in his re-election as Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairman last month — did not feel that it was necessary to reach out in this way.
On arriving, Ma was greeted by American Institute in Taiwan Chairman Raymond Burghardt and later met with several high-ranking US officials. However, when it came to interacting with overseas Taiwanese, he skipped it completely. He instead chose to dine with the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, an organization for people who have no connection whatsoever with Taiwan. Of all the people he could have met while in New York, this is the group he chose to spend time with.
One can only guess at the reasons, but one thing is certain: public dissatisfaction with the Ma administration is now such that even the blue camp is unlikely to welcome him back with open arms, which leaves him with only organizations of overseas Chinese who have never lived in Taiwan and whose association was created when Taiwan was under Japanese rule.
It is also possible that his entourage was seeking to protect him from the protests that were expected to erupt during his visit and that did materialize, both during his dinner with the association and later at New York University.
Apprehensions were such that even the press corps that accompanied him on his visit was not allowed to attend the dinner. Instead, reporters were told to go shopping. Journalists — even those in the pan-blue media that have always stood by Ma — were disgruntled. It seems that the media, at least the Taiwanese media, is now something to be dreaded by the Ma administration.
Given all this, it is tempting to conclude that Ma did not embark on his foreign trip to improve his image with the electorate, but rather to run away from the mess at home, just as he did on Aug. 3 when an estimated 250,000 people protested on Ketagalan Boulevard over the abuse of cadets in the military. Instead of facing the heat, Ma scurried away to Alishan.
As he is wined and dined by overseas Chinese and foreign leaders, smiling and behaving as if everything is fine, the nation's military is facing one of its most serious crises. Such is the severity of the situation that a real leader, someone who actually takes to heart the fate of the country, would have canceled his trip abroad to take charge of the domestic situation.
Ma's indifference and his callousness in the face of the public's suffering are traits that even his wife, Chou Mei-ching (周美青), has mentioned in public. Now he has gone beyond that and is failing to meet his responsibilities by running away.


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Sensational claims about the 'inappropriate influence' of secretive lobbies within the Vatican have transfixed the Italian media all week.
With Italy still reeling from the news of Pope Benedict XVI's resignation, disparate cabals within the Holy SEE are now being blamed by the media for at least being part of Pope Benedict XVI's decision to resign.
Although these eye-popping claims grab the headlines, to date no paper has come forward to explain precisely how, when or where these lobbies, which are said to include a gay lobby, have influenced internal Holy See affairs or Benedict's resignation.
According to the Irish Times, the rightward leaning news magazine Panorama and the Rome newspaper La Repubblica have reported that pope was dismayed by an internal report into the so-called 'Vatileaks' scandal released on December 17th last year.
The report, originally commissioned by the pontiff and prepared by Cardinals Julian Herranz, Jozef Tomko and Salvatore De Giorgi, has apparently confirmed the popular image of a Holy See riven with rivalries and rampant careerism.
The cardinals' report claims that various lobbies still unnamed within the Holy See are consistently breaking the sixth and seventh commandments, in particular 'thou shalt not steal' and 'thou shalt not commit adultery.'
The 'stealing' is reportedly related to improprieties within the Vatican Bank, IOR, and the sexual offences are allegedly related to the influence of an active gay lobby within the Vatican. But what effect, real or imagined, either lobby has had on the wider church has still not been clearly addressed in any report to date.
The cardinals' 300-page report, which paints a picture of a dysfunctional Holy See riven with financial, sexual and political improprieties, reportedly became the last straw for the pope, copper fastening his long-meditated intention to resign, according to the Italian press.
The Vatileaks scandal culminated with the arrest and conviction of the pope's own butler, Paolo Gabriele, who was found guilty of having stolen confidential documents from the papal apartment last year.
La Repubblica also claims that the cardinals report speaks of the vague but inappropriate influence of various lobbies, some of them of a 'worldly nature,' reflecting an 'outside influence.'


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THURSDAY, Nov. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Former President George Herbert Walker Bush, who has been struggling with bronchitis and a lingering cough, was in a Houston hospital Thursday.
But his doctor said the 88-year-old Bush was improving and should be released from The Methodist Hospital by the weekend, the Houston Chronicle reported.
Bush, who was president from 1989 to 1993, and is the father of former President George W. Bush, has been in the hospital several times recently for treatment of bronchitis, the Associated Press reported.
The doctor in charge of his care, Dr. Amy Myunderse, said the elder Bush's condition was never life-threatening.
"Anytime someone the president's age has bronchitis, there's concern about possible pneumonia," Myunderse said. "But Mr. Bush's condition never progressed to that level."
Dr. Sumita Khatri, a pulmonologist at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, said that as "someone gets older they are at more risk of getting chronic medical problems."
Khatri, who is not involved in Bush's care, added that, "these problems increase the likelihood of getting infections like bronchitis. This can lead to pneumonia if it's bacterial."
Pneumonia is a much more serious condition, which is fatal in many elderly people.
Khatri noted that Bush suffers from Parkinson disease, which is a neurological problem that can effect muscle tone, including in the muscles in respiratory system.
Bush's condition appears not to be one that can be treated at home, which is why he is in the hospital where there is care and monitoring round the clock. Doctors want to see that the condition is "turning the corner and not progressing to the lower lungs and becoming pneumonia," Khatri said.
Dr. Len Horovitz, a pulmonologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, added that "one thing people need to know is that over the age of 65 people should get a pneumonia vaccination."
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A digital "wizard" takes applicants through the process in about five minutes, allowing them to avoid the 390-page federal voting assistance guide, and provides a preprinted, stamped envelope for the application that must be signed and mailed back to the appropriate voting registrar, the program's Carey said.
Several states allow signed applications to be faxed or scanned, then emailed in, including Florida, where 14 counties used online ballot delivery for yesterday's presidential primary election. Some 800 service members downloaded ballots for the election, Carey noted.
Service members should update their address on the site every time they change duty stations and before deployment or upon their return, Carey said.
"The big thing is sending the ballot back," he emphasized, noting that delivery can encounter delays. "As soon as you get your ballot, try to send it back."
Most states allow registration very close to Election Day, which is Nov. 6 for federal offices. However, because most ballots are due back by the election, Carey recommended using a federal write-in absentee ballot, available on the website, for those who haven't received their postcard application within 45 days of the election.
The FVAP website includes deadlines for registration, state voting laws, sample ballots and absentee ballots for every state, Carey said.
"We've really expanded the online delivery systems by working closely with the states," he said. "We can reduce delays from 20 to 30 days to 20 to 30 milliseconds."
Several states, including California, are moving toward full online applications by automatically using driver's license signatures, he said.
Program officials are working to make voting easier for troops and civilians overseas, whether by working with states to improve voting laws, or by easing the process, Carey said.
"We have worked closely with all the states," he said, including sending letters about legislation affecting voting to every state. Carey has testified before legislatures in Minnesota, South Carolina, Texas and New York already this year.
"We will go wherever we need to, to get these laws changed so that the military and overseas voters can have adequate opportunities" to vote, he said.
The program's workers also are making practical improvements, including sending computer printers and ink cartridges to all combat outposts and forward operating bases to ensure an easy application process, Carey said.
And the efforts are paying off, he added. After sending 2.2 million emails about absentee voting in January, 60,000 postcard applications have been downloaded so far this year, compared to 90,000 in all of 2010, Carey said. The program also d sends out regular voting tips to people who "like" the Federal Voting Assistance Program's Facebook page, he said.
"We've really had a banner year this year in getting the word out, letting people know they have these opportunities and how to successfully use them," Carey said.
A Pew Center report issued last week shows substantial improvement for military and overseas voters, Carey said, concluding that this year will see substantially fewer registration and absentee voting problems than in the past.
Some problems the program has worked to alleviate include getting laws passed in every state requiring that absentee ballots be mailed out at least 45 days before an election and doing away with requirements that a notary public or a voter from the same state must witness an absentee vote, Carey said.
"The problem is, these are very complex election systems that develop over decades," he said. "It's not like we can change one small part without changing the rest."
But, he added, "that's what we do -- we work with these state legislatures to help them figure out how to do that."
Most importantly, Carey said, more service members are voting, with participation up 21 percent between 2006 and 2010, including a 33 percent rise in voting among 18- to 24-year-olds, who traditionally have the lowest voter turnout. In 2010, voting among military members was 46 percent, compared to 45.5 percent in the civilian population, he said.
"Everyone has a right not to vote," he said. "But if they want to vote, we want make sure they have every opportunity to vote."
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WikiFur:This week's featured article/Week 27, 2008
Uncle Kage (Dr. Samuel Conway) is Chairman of Anthrocon, and regularly attends many other furry conventions. He has been a guest of honor at numerous conventions, both in and out of the furry world, including Albany Anthrocon, Feral! 2001, ConClave, Duckon, Eurofurence, and I-CON. He holds a doctorate in chemistry from Dartmouth College, and is a professional scientific researcher.
Uncle Kage's name is actually an abbreviation of Kagemushi Goro, or the Samurai Cockroach, his selected fursona. Kage has also claimed that his cockroach fursona is also part wolf. In 2001, Uncle Kage went incognito to Mephit Furmeet 5 as "The Unknown Furry", wearing a cheaply-designed fursuit, including a mask made from a paper bag.
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New York Guard Brigade Prepares to Deploy to Afghanistan
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2007 - New York National Guardsmen will start deploying to Afghanistan late this year, Defense Department officials said today.
About 1,700 Guardsmen of the 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team will relieve South Carolina National Guardsmen of the 218th Brigade Combat Team as the primary trainers of the Afghan National Army. The New York brigade is based in Syracuse.
"Thousands of New York Guardsmen have answered the call from serving at Ground Zero when the Twin Towers fell to commanding combat troops in Central Iraq and now to the mountains of Afghanistan," said Army Lt. Col. Paul Fanning, the public affairs officer for what will become Combined Joint Task Force Phoenix 7.
Units in the brigade from all over the Empire State will deploy. While the brigade has not deployed before, about 25 percent of the Guardsmen have deployed to support the war on terror, Fanning said.
The first soldiers from the New York brigade will deploy late this year. The majority will move to the country in mid-2008, officials said.
Combined Joint Task Force Phoenix 7 will include a Training Assistance Group the 106th Regional Training Institute based at Camp Smith in the Hudson Valley. It will also contain mentoring teams drawn from Guard combat and combat support units, security force personnel from the western New York-based 2nd Squadron, 101st Cavalry, and the Plattsburgh-based Company B, 2nd Battalion, 108th Infantry. The 427th Forward Support Battalion from various armories statewide will provide logistics support.
More than 6,000 members of the New York Army National Guard have been called to federal active duty for service -- mostly in Iraq or Afghanistan -- since 2003, Fanning said.
*Related Sites:*
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- A better screen, 2048-by-1536 resolution, 4x the pixels
- More power (if only to drive the display)
- A better camera, 5MP
- 4G mobile speed (for the models with mobile connection beyond wifi)
- Dictation
It's 50 grams heavier, which should be around "just noticeable". It's the same size, except for just 0.6mm thicker, so the iPad 2 cases should fit.
It's about the perfect form and size for the purposes, but I wish one day they'll make one at half the weight, because you really need support for this thing when using it for more than a few minutes.
(I think I'll wait this time for the UK version to come out, hoping that the time difference will be rather less than the over two months it was with the first model.) [Update: well, times they are a-changing, it seems that in the UK it will come out about the same time as in the US! In a week or two, nice.]
Apple is also strongly stressing the powers of content-creation of this iPad, hitting the "post-PC" button many times. I am not sure how fast and for how many tasks we can get used to going without keyboard and mouse, time will tell.
The 4G networks are just starting to appear around the world, but the connection speeds should be quite a leap up, if one chooses to connect via iPad directly. I prefer to save a contract by connecting via my iPhone in the instances I need to connect outside of a wifi hotspot. The iPhone 4S is not 4G-enabled, sadly, but one supposes that the next one in the fall will be. (Whether that will be an "iPhone 5" or simply "iPhone" is a matter of tense anticipation.)
The dictation sounds wonderful, given the clumsiness of typing on a screen, but I'm not so optimistic about how well it will work for people like me, who are not native English speakers, previous systems have been less than great for many of us. It's very frustrating, you think you have said a perfectly clear English sentence, and still 95% of the time a couple of words are messed up.
Apple again decided not to stream the keynote speech live (I wonder if they have given up that), but amazingly they posted the video less than half an hour after the end. That's some fast editing there!
Sadly, despite all the HD video capabilities (creating or consuming), 64GB is still the largest memory size. I think that's a bit lame. I think the three sizes should all have been bumped up to double. Memory is dirt cheap these days.
Update: Here's a mainstream media commentary, some of it is interesting, thanks to TCGirl.
The new iPad "looks the same as the old one [but] you're getting a considerably improved screen, improved camera and processor," he says. "I don't think they passed the 'wow' factor but I don't think they have to. They improved the iPad considerably over what it used to be and I think that's your 'wow' factor. If you're not happy with that, you might be a little jaded."


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Feels great in the hand, Awe-inspiring zoom
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Paul Splittorff
Paul Splittorff is one of the few people that have played a key role in helping define what it means to be a part of the Kansas City Royals from the beginning – literally the very start of the organization. Paul was selected by the Royals in the 25th round of the June 1968 Baseball Draft, the year before the the club played it's inaugural major league game. He is the gem of the Royals first draft class.
After signing with Kansas City, Paul made his professional debut with the Class-A Corning Royals of the New York-Pennsylvannia League. He led that pitching staff with eight wins – the first ever minor league team of the Kansas City Royals Organization.
- Splitt is the first Royals pitcher to post a twenty win season (1973 20-11)
- Splitt is the first pitcher to win a post season game for Kansas City (1976 ALCS Game 2)
- Splitt is the winning pitcher from the game that won Kansas City's first AL Pennant (1980 ALCS Game 3)
- Splitt is first on the Royals all-time wins list (166)
Tonight Paul Splittorff is first in the thoughts and prayers of all Royals everywhere.
(Curt Nelson, Director – Royals Hall of Fame)
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Thank you #34always carried himself with dignity and class. I got to meet him in 1979 at Kauffman. With those glasses he reminded me of someone's insurance saleman, but his competitive fire on the mound made him great fun to watch. All the prayers of all Royals fans everywhere are wi him and his family. I personally hope he makes it back into the booth as soon as he can. Thanks #34 for all the great memories and God Bless!


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Someone on Stackoverflow asked where Googlebot crawls from, and I needed a place to put the map. So, here it is:
Your mileage my vary, but in the case of one of my websites, the crawls emanate from Illinois (46.35%), Arizona (15.68%), Wisconsin (14.95%), Virginia (11.85%), and California (11.17%). The web servers that have been subject to these crawls are located in Virginia.
Again, others will have different experiences, but this is what we observed over the course of March 2014.


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Lyrics:First verseYou loved me once! dear heart, do you remember Our summer days, the autumn's purple bloom? And then our parting in the bleak December; And what you whispered in the trembling gloom? All, all is gone! Those hours of golden glory! The flowers are dead you plucked for me of yore. I stand and listen: 'tis the old, old story. The winter comes, and you are here no more. The days grow dark, and yet, ah! happy hearted, I hear a sweet bird singing at the pane. The leaves are dead, I know that we are parted; And yet I feel that we shall meet again. The wind is drear, The snows are deeply lying: But yet I see the sunshine on the hill, Love, love! I hear your distant voice replying; Heart of my heart! Heart of my heart, I know you love me still! Heart of my heart, I know you love me still!
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Great band.
I wish they would come to Canada
Great band.
I wish they would come to Canada
I'm with ya...I'd so hop the train up to Vancouver, or pop down to Portland, OR, if that's the closest they get to Seattle.
They haven't played here in forever....I really miss seeing them
Kim, for real (not hubby posting as me)
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
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I reject your reality and substitute my own.
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Still hoping they'll make it to Winnipeg... Saw them in 2009 in Regina, didn't follow them to Edmonton... :P
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Really appreciate this post. Its hard to sort the good from the bad sometimes, but I think youve nailed it!


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Distorts a group or component to resemble an axonometric projection when viewed from above.
Precisely position camera relative to object.
Like Sketchup's native Top View but has the same relation to the previous view as Top View has to Front View. Useful to set plan views that are aligned to a building or other content instead of having north up.


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Last week I was quite surprised to learn from Hogs Haven that the Washington Redskins Marching Band was no longer playing "Hail to the Redskins" after touchdowns. A recording was played instead. I read that and was thinking whiskey tango foxtrot?! What's the point of having a marching band if you aren't going to have them play after touchdowns? The Skins are one of only two NFL teams (the other is the Baltimore Ravens) to have a marching band. Back in the glory days, they were a big part of the beloved RFK Stadium experience.
Good news came into today's Post (
'Hail to the Redskins': How the team's marching band got its fight song back) – the band will play after touchdowns again. Good to see this tradition restored. Thanks and congratulations to Hogs Haven for helping get this done.
Now watch the Skins score nothing but field goals (or get shut out) against the Seattle Seahawks this Sunday evening. Actually, I have no idea how the game is going to play out. Im conditioned as a DC fan to expect a crushing loss come playoff time. I have been expecting them to lose for weeks.
As for the recording, you all know the one I mean — this one, when was it recorded? Who performed it? We've been hearing it as long as I can remember, but we don't know who did it. I'll ask Dan Steinberg if he knows.
One more thing — I kind of want the Redskins to come out in the white-burgundy combo at home tomorrow. While the burgundy-gold set has grown on me, wearing the Gibbs Era uniforms would be a nice touch.
UPDATE: D.C. Washington is singing the Star Spangled Banner State of NoVa, The Post. Between D.C. and Bob McDonald (mostly Caps games) we're spoiled here with anthem singers.


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This nitrous backfire may have only lasted a few tenths of a second, but we imagine that was far too long for the unfortunate Harley owner shown in this video.
We are guessing you are watching the last time this guy feeds a poorly running Harley nitrous, at least without a lot of flame resistant safety equipment. Amazingly the only negative effects from this brief brush with fire was a burnt air cleaner and a few weeks without eyebrows.


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Warning: The Supreme Court May Be Hazardous To Your Health
Warning: The Supreme Court May Be Hazardous To Your Health
July 11, 2012 by John Myers
PHOTOS.COMPatients have to take a number at Canadian health clinics.
Unless you are living in a cave, you know that last month the Supreme Court made one of its most controversial decisions since Roe vs. Wade.
Conservative Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the four liberal members of the court and upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Many Americans who were upset about the decision vented that anger on Twitter. I find it bizarre that many Americans tweeted about moving to Canada to enjoy better medical care.
Im moving to Canada, the United States is entirely too socialist, tweets @wallyweldon.
The supreme court upheld Obama Care. Thats it. Im moving to Canada! tweets @lucasdargis.
As an American who has spent more than half my life living in Canada, I want to say this to wallyweldon and anyone else who is packing his bags: Stop! Even if Obamacare remains, the quality of medicine has a long way to fall before it will reach the rock-bottom levels that my wife Angie and I live with in Canada.
A Typical Trip To The Doctor
The red light on the old alarm clock read 7:00. The morning newsbegan with the top stories. It was the first Monday of the month, so my wife and I began our pilgrimage to the emergency clinic in Calgary, Canada. My extended family saw one doctor for 40 years; but because he retired and there are so few doctors in family practice, we now have to visit day clinics.
This particular Monday was during winter. A blizzard had rolled in off the Rocky Mountains, making the roads almost impassable. We felt strong enough to walk 3/4 of a mile in snow-drifted sidewalks to the clinic to get the prescriptions we need for Angies lupus and my asthma.
The real emergencies the clinic deals with every day are a shortage of doctors and waves of patients. Some of the patients, like us, just want a refill of a prescription; others are junkies, looking for a sympathetic doctor to give them their fix.
It might seem ridiculous to walk through a blizzard to get refills of medications that we have both been taking for years. But thats universal healthcare in Canada.
You cant simply phone your doctor and ask him to call in a refill. That is against the rules. Under the guidelines here, prescription renewals have to be personally handed out during an office visit. This allows the doctor to pocket the same fee he would get if he were attending someone with a broken leg.
By 8 a.m., we saw the illuminated lights of the clinic through the falling snow.
The clinic doesnt open until 9 a.m. but a line had already started on the front steps of the clinic. There were no benches, so the people in line huddled beneath the snow.
We were lucky that day. The snowstorm made it difficult for people to arrive early. Only four others were ahead of us; more than a dozen were behind us.
There was a complication. The snowstorm had delayed the clinic staff. At 9:15 a.m., the doors opened. We dutifully walked in and collected our numbers just as I did as a kid at the barbershop. Over the next half hour, we sat and waited for our number to be called.
Checking in allows us to be seen by the doctor of the day. Chances are about one in two that we have met him before, because they rotate in the city.
At 10 a.m. we were called to the examining room. The handsome doctor with a Polish accent seemed genuinely to care. (Often, the doctors are desperately tired or simply fed up with their job.) He took a few minutes to learn about our ailments. Then he passed us our prescription slips. At 10:30 a.m., three hours after we began, we began the walk home.
Medical care in Canada seems like the Dark Ages. It has been especially hard for us because, just more than a decade ago, we would make appointments in Spokane, Wash., to see our doctors at Rockwood Clinic. There, fine coffee was served in china cups, and rarely was the length of the waiting-room stay more than a few minutes.
No Free Car Wash
Two decades ago, I was sitting in the showroom of Sutherland Mercedes, a car dealership in downtown Spokane. The shop in the back was changing the oil on my 20-year-old 300D Mercedes-Benz.
As I sat in the corner, a respected cardiologist was looking at a new car with his second wife. She couldnt have yet been 30; he was pushing 60. The salesman showed them the most expensive Mercedes sedan on the showroom floor. The wife loved it. To close the deal, the salesman mentioned that, if they bought the car, they could have free car washes from the dealership for as long as they owned it.
You hear that? gushed the wife. Free car washes!
I had to stifle myself. Across that very street was the Lincoln dealership with the then-new Town Car. If you bought it, you didnt get a free car wash. However, the Lincoln cost half what the Mercedes did.
That sums up healthcare in Canada. Almost everyone up here thinks Canada has free healthcare. The truth is Ottawa and the provinces foot the bill for universal healthcare. It is a spending program that has made Canadas government debt levels soar.
Canadians have become so indoctrinated that even intelligent people dont account for the fact that the average family in Canada pays roughly 50 percent of their income in taxes each year just to fund the healthcare system.
To meet the growing expense, governments will have to raise taxes and even further reduce the quality of healthcare. While this is not a winning blueprint for a society, it seems that the U.S. Supreme Court is willing to embrace it.
Perhaps the justices should have read this quote in The New York Times on Feb. 28, 2006: This is a country (Canada) in which dogs can get a hip replacement in under a week and in which humans can wait two to three years.
Calgary has many great things going for it. It is a hub for energy and a progressive city in so many ways. Yet I miss the United States and the healthcare system. In the United States, doctors had the time to treat patients like patients not just a number in line.
Yours in good times and bad,
John Myers
Editor, Myers Energy & Gold Report
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Allison Williams of "Girls" cast as NBC's Peter Pan
Allison Williams, who plays Marnie on "Girls," has been cast in the title role of NBC's "Peter Pan Live," to air Dec. 4. She will star in the live staging of the musical opposite Christopher Walken, previously announced as Captain Hook.
Williams, daughter of Brian Williams and a classically trained singer who has performed on HBO's "Girls" and elsewhere, will take on the iconic role originated in 1954 by Mary Martin.
It was rumored that Kristin Bell had been offered the role but was unavailable. Instead, the "Girls" star will go boyish as Peter. Examples of Williams' singing are numerous on the web, notably her cover of Kanye West's "Stronger" on "Girls." (Lyrics not suitable for the younger Peter Pan audience.)
From the NBC release:
"Allison Williams is a major find," said executive producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. "She will reinvent the iconic role of Peter Pan with her wit, her warmth, her dynamic flying and her wonderful musical abilities. The score will be sung beautifully and introduced to a whole new generation of families."
"I have wanted to play Peter Pan since I was about three years old, so this is a dream come true," said Williams. "It's such an honor to be a part of this adventure, and I'm very excited to get to work with this extraordinarily talented team. And besides," added Williams, "what could go wrong in a live televised production with simultaneous flying, sword fighting and singing?"


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Fresh off the news that a "Gossip Girl has" fallen for "Green Lantern" comes word that Peter Sarsgaard is in talks to be his arch nemesis.
Sarsgaard, fresh off his great performance in "An Education" and having just finished up the Tom Cruise-Cameron Diaz action-comedy "Knight and Day," is in talks to play Dr. Hector Hammond in the new "Green Lantern" film, reported Screen Crave. His addition can only make the movie better.
Hammond is "the pathologist son of a senator who is seen as a disappointment in his father's eyes. He becomes infused with psychic powers when he discovers a meteor," according to Heat Vision. Of course you can find several different versions of his bio, along with pics of his giant melon head, but HV knows where of they speak.
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Ryan Reynolds will play Hal Jordan/Green Lantern, and yesterday it was learned that Blake Lively will portray Hal Jordan's love interest and boss, aeronautics exec Carol Faris.


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After the developers' release of iOS 4 was cracked earlier this month, the same team has pulled their finger out and released PwnageTool 4.01 for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G and the second-gen iPod Touch.
You'll need to have jailbroken your 3GS previously to make PwnageTool 4.01 work, but if you know what you're doing then definitely do check it out. I shouldn't have to tell you the first rule in gadget-hacking ("safety first"), so godspeed. [Dev-Team Blog]
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UPDATE: I didn't see Rosa's post on PwnageTool 4.0 two days ago, however the Dev Team's 4.01 update now supports iPhone 3GS, if you were wondering what the difference was.


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The Tax Map is a graph of the United States Tax Code, represented as a network. In the network each node represents a section of the tax code, while each edge represents a reference from one section to another. (More explanation can be found in the Colophon)
As anyone who has ever attempted to do their taxes will tell you, the tax code is a mass of rules and exceptions that seem to require an advanced degree in n-space topology to digest. I wondered how that complexity would bear out if one were to look at the mere structure of the tax code, stripped naked of its rules and semantics. Thus was born The Tax Map.
Nature is full of objects built of fractal geometry, the world of objects built by man with regular shape and pattern. Even chaos - white noise - can be said to have a pattern, that of no pattern whatsoever. We find none of these in the structure of the tax code. It is not purely chaotic, but nor does it have a discernable pattern. When first looking at it, I was reminded of nothing more than the images of spider webs woven by spiders on drugs. It has the base structures of a man-made object, but some of the fractal geometry of a natural object, which, in a way, makes sense. After all, it is made by man, but evolved through various sessions of Congress.
I provide three views of The Tax Map. The first is the starkest, having no structure imposed by the semantics of the tax code. It presentation is determined only by the connectedness of the sections of the code itself. The second and third have some external structure infused into them, based on location within code. For these, the sections of the code are clustered together by chapter. These chapters are highlighted in the third image for the benefit of the viewer. To learn about how the images were created and the meaning of the symbols used in them, go to the Colophon.


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