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I think the spoiler is a definate need in order to carry speed through several of the faster corners. I was thinking they'd be similar but none of the straights are long enough to take advantage of a better top speed so aero it is.
I've been running with spoliers at Laguna from the start, and every time I cut back on the downforce I lose more time in the fast turns than I gain on the straights. I think overall, however, I tend to favor more aero just for the handling aspect.
Current best time is now 1:33.801, but everything went right on that lap. I'm still averaging low 1:34's on most laps. Aside from the corkscrew, turn 6 seems to be where I gain or lose the most time on my ghost. It becomes a matter of finding the right entry speed, getting back on the gas early, and using up all of the available track before the car straightens out.
I've also found I'm faster with a five gear setup, and I'm peaking 4th gear right at the top of the hill before braking for the corkscrew.


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Deputies: Woman steals from Target
Woman sought for shoplifting necklaces worth more than $500
ORANGE PARK, Fla. – The Clay County Sheriff's Office is looking for a woman accused of stealing jewelry from a Target store Thursday.
It happened at the Target at 1490 County Road 220.
According to authorities, a Target loss prevention officer told deputies store security video showed a woman enter the store at 12:29 p.m.
Deputies said the woman can be seen removing a large amount of silver necklaces from a spinning display rack and then concealing them in her purse.
An inventory check revealed a total of 20 necklaces missing from the store, worth $504.80, deputies said.
Authorities said the loss prevention employee told deputies copies of video from the Wells Road, Oakleaf and Ortega Target stores show the same woman stealing merchandise and leaving the store.
Deputies described the woman as in her early 20s with a slim build, brown hair and wearing a black shirt and skirt with dark boots. Deputies said she was seen carrying two purses, one of which is large and gray with a black lower bottom portion. The store said she carried that bag when she was in the other Target stores as well, deputies said.
She left the store's parking lot in a silver four-door car that had a missing hubcap on the front, deputies said.
Anyone with information about the woman's identity is asked to contact the Clay County Sheriff's Office.
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While Nairobi's urban sprawl can be intimidating (vast economic disparity means petty theft is a problem, and walking downtown requires a degree of caution), there are some green spaces to enjoy. A particular highlight is the Nairobi National Park, 43 square miles of plains, cliffs and forest surrounding the city. It offers prime game watching (including lion and cheetah), and all with a shimmering urban skyline as a backdrop. Just outside the city, the Karen Blixen Museum, the Out of Africa author's former farm at the foot of the Ngong Hills, is fascinating and its gardens lovely to explore. At the weekend, head out to pretty Lake Navaisha – a popular hangout spot for locals.
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Marking the eighth year in a row for the effort, LGBT-rights advocates testified Tuesday before the Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee in favor of a bill that would prohibit discrimination against people based on their gender identity or expression.
Just as supporters of the bill have made the annual trek to the Maryland State House in Annapolis since the first such bill was introduced in 2007, so too have the measure's opponents, once again out in force.
Because the committee makeup is largely unchanged from last year, the Tuesday's arguments echoed those made in years past, with supporters sharing their personal stories of discrimination and opponents raising a wide range of objections. Those objections range from what they call an "unnatural" concept of gender identity to hypothetical and fanciful horror scenarios – focusing largely on public accommodations like restrooms and locker rooms – that both sexually objectify transgender people and attempt to link them to common criminals, under the guise of "protecting women and children."
SB 212, sponsored by Sen. Rich Madaleno (D-Montgomery Co.), who is gay, and co-sponsored by 24 other senators – meaning it has enough to pass the full Senate if ever brought to a floor vote – has the support of several progressive organizations, liberal-leaning religious groups and leaders, and the state's two largest LGBT organizations, Equality Maryland and Gender Rights Maryland. Among the groups opposing the measure are the Family Research Council, the Maryland Catholic Conference and Maryland Citizens for Responsible Government, a group that unsuccessfully tried to overturn Montgomery County's gender-identity nondiscrimination law after it passed in 2007.
Other backers of the bill include Gov. Martin O'Malley (D), and all three Democrats seeking their party's nomination for governor: Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, Attorney General Doug Gansler and Del. Heather Mizeur (Montgomery Co.). O'Malley, Brown and Gansler all submitted written testimony in favor of the measure, while Mizeur testified in person before the committee.
Mizeur and several of the other witnesses in favor of SB 212 pointed out that four of the state's largest jurisdictions – Baltimore City and Baltimore, Howard and Montgomery counties – have already adopted similar measures. But they also emphasized the importance of passing a statewide law to protect residents living in other Maryland jurisdictions.
"Protection against discrimination shouldn't depend on your zip code," Mizeur told the committee.
Susan Gerb, a transgender woman, testified that she always has to be aware of which county she's in because of the disparity in laws between various counties and the possibility that she could potentially be denied access to services or public accommodations due to her gender identity. And yet, she noted, while she doesn't have the same rights in Harford or Cecil counties as she does in Baltimore County, nearby states like Delaware and New Jersey have in place laws similar to SB 212 that provide protections for transgender individuals.
"This isn't right," Gerb said. "You need to fix this."
One of the more heated moments came when Angela Shepherd, of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, testified in favor of the bill, aiming her biting remarks at the same reticent lawmakers who defeated last year's nondiscrimination bill by a 6-5 vote.
"What are you afraid of?" Shepherd asked pointedly. "What is keeping you from passing this out of committee? It's already passed in other states, and in counties within our own state, without any negative ramifications. … I encourage you to not be afraid, and to continue to dismantle discrimination."
The most passionate testimony against SB 212 came from Peter Sprigg, a senior fellow for policy studies at the Family Research Council, a conservative think tank infamous among members of the LGBT community for its anti-LGBT views.
Sprigg's chief arguments focused on the bill's "vagueness" regarding definitions of "gender identity or expression," and his claim that the bill increases government interference in the free-market economy by preventing employers from enforcing "reasonable dress and grooming standards appropriate to one's biological gender."
The bill does have a provision that allows employers to enforce a dress code or standards of grooming for employees, as long as such standards are related to job duties and are consistent with an employee's gender identity.
Sheila Wareham, another witness opposed to the bill, also claimed the bill was vague in how it defined gender identity. She claimed that the bill would open up a "Pandora's box" and could potentially allow men seeking to sexually assault or otherwise attack women access to women's restrooms and locker rooms by claiming that they are transgender. Wareham also took issue with the estimates supporters gave of the number of transgender people in the state, saying she personally would estimate it at no more than 150 to 300 people in total.
Elaine McDermott of Maryland Citizens for Responsible Government was one of several other witnesses offering testimony almost identical to Wareham's, claiming she was present "to stand for women children and their safety."
Both Sen. James Brochin (D-Baltimore Co.), who voted against the bill last year and has attempted in previous sessions to strip public accommodations out of the bill, and Sen. Jamie Raskin (D-Montgomery Co.) pushed back against McDermott's claims. Raskin attacked her claims of such attacks occurring in Montgomery County by citing County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger, a supporter of the law, who told Raskin he knows of no such assaults in the county.
When Brochin asked McDermott where she thought transgender people should be able to go to the bathroom, she responded: "That's their problem. They chose this lifestyle. They chose something unusual and unnatural. I don't really understand it."
The bill needs six votes to pass the 11-person committee and head to the Senate floor for a vote of the full chamber.


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Liberty University's head football coach Danny Rocco has been selected as one of five finalists for the Division I-AA (Football Championship Subdivision) 2009 Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year Award, and you can help him win it.
This is the second straight year Rocco has been named a finalist.
Vote for Rocco at www.coachoftheyear.com between Dec. 15 and Dec. 29. You can cast one vote per day. On the site, you can also create a "Super Fan" video, which can be personalized and sent to your friends to encourage them to vote for Rocco.
If Rocco wins the award, he will receive $50,000 for his favorite charities, $20,000 for the LU Alumni Association, a personal trophy and recognition in a permanent Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year exhibit at the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind.
Coach of the Year will be determined by a compilation of fan votes (20 percent), votes cast by a committee of College Football Hall of Fame coaches and players (55 percent) and the national college football media (25 percent). The selection committee will evaluate finalists on criteria such as coaching excellence, sportsmanship, integrity, academic excellence and community commitment.
Liberty Mutual will announce the winners at a reception in January in California.


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The Market Wool Bulky Yarn that we offer is processed and spun at a commercial mill in Morocco. It is made from a mix of medium quality wools from the western Marrakech plains and the Anti-Atlas Mountains. Each batch will have varying amounts of wool types, may be blended with small amounts of synthetic fiber to moderate tensile strength, and often has kemp. Because of this, we cannot guarantee consistent dye absorption or quality for this yarn.
However, it is a great, economical option for a strong, durable yarn with moderate shedding. Many weavers throughout Morocco buy yarn like this at the weekly souks, or markets, that are held across the country. They buy it already dyed or dye it themselves with products purchased at the souk or with natural dyes they make themselves.
At Atlas Wool Supply Co., we buy natural, un-dyed Market Wool yarn and dye it ourselves with people and planet-friendly products to ensure that the yarn we sell is as safe as possible for The Anou artisans, our customers, and the environment.
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Wavelength dispersive X-Ray fluorescence spectrometer
High performance WDXRF for rapid quantitative elemental analysis
ZSX Primus
Rigaku ZSX Primus delivers rapid quantitative determination of major and minor atomic elements, from beryllium (Be) through uranium (U), in a wide variety of sample types — with minimal standards.
Powerful, flexible and reliable elemental analysis
The latest instrument in Rigaku's ZSX series, the ZSX Primus continues the tradition of delivering accurate results in a timely and seamless manner, with unsurpassed reliability, flexibility, and ease of use to meet any challenges in today's laboratory.
Low-Z performance with mapping and multi-spot analysis
Providing superior performance with the flexibility for analyzing the most complex samples, the ZSX Primus features a 30 micron tube, the thinnest end-window tube available in the industry, for exceptional light element (low-Z) detection limits. Combined with the most advanced mapping package to detect homogeneity and inclusions, the ZSX Primus allows easy detailed investigation of samples that provide analytical insights not easily obtained by other analytical methodologies. Available multi-spot analysis also helps to eliminate sampling errors in inhomogeneous materials.
SQX fundamental parameters with EZ-scan software
EZ-scan allows users to analyze unknown samples without any prior setup. This time saving feature requires only a few clicks of the mouse and a sample name to be entered. Combined with SQX fundamental parameters software, it provides the most accurate and rapid XRF results possible. SQX is capable of automatically correcting for all matrix effects, including line overlaps. SQX can also correct for secondary excitation effect by photoelectrons (light and ultra-light elements), varying atmospheres, impurities and different sample sizes. Increased accuracy is achieved using matching library and perfect scan analysis programs.
- Analysis of elements from Be to U
- Small footprint uses less valuable lab space
- Micro analysis to analyze samples as small as 500 μm
- Tube-below design is optimized for liquids and loose powders
- 30μ tube delivers superior light element performance
- Mapping feature for elemental topography/distribution
- Helium seal means the optics are always under vacuum
ZSX Primus specifications
|Elemental coverage
|₄Be through ₉₂U
|Wavelength dispersive, sequential, tube below
|X-ray generator
|X-ray tube
|End window, Rh-anode, 3kW or 4 kW, 60kV
|HV power supply
|High frequency inverter, ultra-high stability
|Internal water-to-water heat exchanger
|Sample changer
|48 positions standard, 104 SSLS optional
|Sample inlet
|Air lock system
|Maximum sample size
|51 mm (diameter) by 30 mm (high)
|Sample rotation speed
|30 rpm
|Primary X-ray filters
|Al25, Al125, Ni40, Ni400 and Be (optional, for window protection)
|Beam collimators
|6 auto-selectable diameters: 35, 30, 20, 10, 1 and 0.5 mm
27 mm can be selected instead of 30 mm for SSLS
|Divergence slit
|3 auto-selectable: standard, high, and coarse (optional) resolutions
|Receiving slit
|For SC and for F-PC detectors
|θ – 2θ independent drive mechanism
|Angular range
|Angular reproducibility
|Ultra-high precision
|Continuous scan
|0.1 - 240°/min
|Crystal changer
|10 crystals, automatic mechanism
|Vacuum system
|2 pump high-speed system w/ (optional) powder trap
|He flush system
|Optional, with partition
|Detector systems
|Heavy element detector
|Scintillation counter (SC)
|Light element detector
|Flow proportional counter (F-PC)
|In-out automatic exchanger (1/10)
ZSX Primus applications
Smart Sample Loading System
Rigaku's new Smart Sample Loading System (SSLS) adds a new dimension of flexibility to the ZSX Primus WDXRF spectrometer. For sample types that are amenable to such a process, a vacuum chuck can be used to load samples into pre-loaded sample holders. This sample loading system has two important consequences: time is saved by the operator since they are no longer required to manually load each sample in a sample cup and the number of samples that can be held on the sample deck is increased significantly
Permissible sample types
Rigaku's SSLS can handle samples up to 50 grams in weight and the modular sample deck racks have been designed for different sample diameters. Samples with a diameter of 35 mm can be stored 32 samples to a rack with three such racks sitting on the deck. Samples with a diameter of 40 mm can be stored 24 samples to a rack with a possibility of three of these racks on the deck. In addition, the racks can be mixed so that different sample sizes are easily accommodated on the deck at the same time. Sample types that are amenable to this type of loading procedure include fused glass beads and pressed powders. Both plastic and metal pressed powder holders are permitted.
Sample handling
A precision vacuum chuck is used to safely and reproducibly pick up the samples and place them in the measurement sample holder. Each sample type has a specific sizing ring positioned in the measurement sample holders to assure that the sample is properly positioned for measurement, and the analytical reading surface is never compromised.
Sample tracking
Keeping track of samples has never been easier. A two-dimensional barcode can be attached to the non-analysis surface of each sample. Before the sample is lowered into the pre-evacuation chamber through the input port, the barcode is scanned and the sample information is loaded into the control software.
- Increasesthe number of samples on deck
- The maximum number of samples that can be loaded in the same installation space as compared to the conventional sample changer has been increased from 48 to 104 units (when ∅35mm sample trays are used)
- Flexible combination of sample trays
- It is possible to combine various sample trays (the sample trays for the standard sample holder, for ∅35mm sample size and ∅40mm sample size) in various combinations with a simple software operation for deck configuration.
- Automated analysis interface provided
- By communicating with the automated analytical system control computer, the sample set at the sample transfer position is measured automatically.
- Significantly reduces labor requirements and improves accuracy
- With integrated barcode reader (option), labor requirements are reduced and data transcription accuracy increased.
ZSX Primus overview
Qualitative analysis:
- Automatic peak identification
- Smoothing, background subtraction
Quantitative analysis:
- Matrix correction: Lachance-Traill, DeJohngh, JIS, etc.
- Linear, quadratic and cubic regression, multiple line
- Fundamental parameter method
- EZ scan (qualitative)
- Application template
- Analysis area automatic selection (mask size detection)
- Peak deconvolution (function and standard profile)
- Background fitting (multi-point function fitting, area designation)
- Fixed precision analysis
- Help function
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- Universal standard sample
- Analysis simulation program (analysis depth evaluation, etc.)
SQX program:
- EZ scan (SQX)
- Fixed angle measurement
- Thin-film analysis
- Theoretical overlap correction
- Drift correction library
- Photoelectron FP method
- He atmosphere correction
Sample film correction:
- Impurity correction
- Matching library
- SQX scatter FP method
- Material judgment
- Quantitative scatter FP method
- Quantitative FP theoretical overlap correction
- Fusion disk correction (flux evaporation)
- Charge correction
Program operation:
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Former NASCAR champion Kurt Busch reportedly will join Stewart-Haas Racing next season as the team expands to four cars in the Sprint Cup Series.
Busch told ESPN and Fox Sports he plans to join the team in a multi-year deal, and Stewart-Haas announced a news conference for Tuesday morning "to announce future expansion."
"It's inked," Fox Sports quoted Busch as saying.
Stewart-Haas' current drivers are Tony Stewart, who's out with an injury; Ryan Newman and Danica Patrick.
However, for next year Newman is being replaced with Kevin Harvick, so the lineup would be Stewart, Patrick, Harvick and Busch.
Busch, the 2004 Cup champion, currently drives the No. 78 Chevrolet for the one-car team of Furniture Row Racing in Denver, and he's a candidate to qualify for this year's 12-driver Chase for the Cup championship playoff.
Busch, the older brother of fellow Cup driver Kyle Busch, currently is 12th in the Cup standings.
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When I think of Chanel, a few things immediately come to mind: black/white, camelias, the quilted 2.55 handbag, and of course – pearls – lots of them. Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel believed the light-reflecting property of pearls enhanced a woman's natural beauty by bringing a delicate luminosity to her skin. For Spring 2011, Peter Philips was inspired by Coco Chanel's love of pearls and so he created Les Perles de Chanel.
We got a preview of the makeup collection during the Spring 2011 Ready-to-Wear show but now we have a full look at all the products. I especially love Le Vernis Black Pearl, the Glossimer in Aragonite, the Shimmering Grey eyeliner and the eyeshadows. Les Perles de Chanel will be available in department stores, Chanel boutiques and on Chanel.com in January 2011.
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Now here's a pretty cool shirt from our the guys at Busted Tees. It's called Laser Pointer and it kind of reminds me of something that I'd see from the like of Glennz Tees. It's a simple illustration with lots of wit. The shirt features a hound that has Superman-like laser eyes, because really, that's what every dog needs – Superman-like laser eyes! I bet he can hunt pretty good with those eyes, don't you?
If you like Laser Pointer, you can pick it  up from Busted Tees for $16.99.


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A 51-year-old mentally ill grandmother recently secured a $1.6 million settlement from a New Mexico county that she says jailed her for more than two years, much of which she spent in an isolation cell without a bed.
That grandmother, Jan Green, has bipolar disorder and was charged with two minor incidents of domestic violence — both of which were ultimately dropped, her lawyer says.
While the broad strokes of Green's case sound awful, the details she and her lawyer allege are by turns stomach-turning and heartbreaking.
Green was allegedly kept in a roughly 7-by-8-foot solitary confinement cell for at least eight months, sleeping on a mat on the floor and bleeding on herself because she had been denied sanitary napkins.
Green's bipolar disorder, which can cause extreme shifts in mood and psychosis, allegedly got worse in solitary. She was never treated by a psychiatrist while she was in the Valencia County Detention Center (VCDC).
"I am not a fan of New Mexico," Green, who has since moved to Minnesota, told me over the phone. "The horrific things that I went through there still haunt me."
'I Keep Coming Across Cases Like This'
One would like to think Green's story is rare because the allegations are so unsettling. But Green's case is by no means an isolated incident, according to her lawyer, Matthew Coyte.
"I keep coming across cases like this," Coyte told me, "and it's often involving people who are mentally ill, at least in New Mexico."
Green was held in the VCDC as a pre-trial detainee, meaning she had been charged with domestic violence and was awaiting trial. However, she was found incompetent to stand trial, according to the December 2012 complaint she filed in federal court, hence her lengthy pre-trial detention.
People like Green are "unable to advocate themselves, and the jail takes over, and they disappear for years at a time," Coyte told me. "Is it uncommon? Sadly it's all too common."
Another mentally ill inmate in New Mexico, Stephen Slevin, was also represented by Coyte in a suit claiming he spent 22 months in solitary confinement for a drunk driving charge that was later dismissed. A federal jury awarded him $22 million, but he later agreed to settle the case for $15.5 million. (Plaintiffs sometimes settle cases they win in order to avoid appeals.)
"It's all very similar to Mr. Slevin's case, just a different county [and] a different jail," Coyte told me. " ... I have other cases, too. It's not just the one. It's not just the two. It's lots of them."
A Productive Life Despite A History Of Mental Illness
Green lived a relatively stable life despite her bipolar disorder.
She was never arrested or put in jail, according to her lawyer. She worked full-time in computer tech support, trained and boarded horses, and successfully raised her four children. However, her mental health began to deteriorate in July 2009, and she was accused of hitting her husband with a fan. (It's not clear what caused her mental health to decline, though some research suggests bipolar disorder can have a second "peak" in mid-life.)
She was arrested twice on suspicion of domestic violence that summer. The first time, she was released after a few weeks. The second incident was in September 2009, and she didn't get out of jail until February 2012 when that charge was finally dismissed.
'See Psychiatrist ASAP'
The day after Green's first arrest, a jailhouse medical record noted that she should "see psychiatrist ASAP" and that she was hallucinating. Green was never treated by a psychiatrist during her first brief stint in VCDC or during her longer one that began two months later.
The jail says it made "many efforts to convince Ms. Green to accept treatment at the facility," according to a prepared statement provided to Business Insider. The jail said the medical contractor it previously worked with failed to document these many attempts to treat Green, though.
"Our mistake was the lack of documentation showing that, you know, we actually did provide very good care for her," the jail's warden, Joe Chavez, told the local TV station KOB4.
However, the VCDC didn't have a psychiatrist available to work with the inmates through its medical contractor, Brandon Huss, a lawyer for the jail told me. While that contractor did have a psychiatric nurse practitioner available, it was only a nurse who ever had contact with Green, according to Huss.
And the isolation of solitary confinement just made her sicker, she claims.
A 'Very Cold' Room With A Mat On The Floor
Green was immediately assigned to a solitary confinement cell when her second stint in jail started, according to her complaint. For the next two-and-a-half years, she would spend a significant amount of time there, though there are conflicting reports about exactly how long.
Her lawyer, Matthew Coyte, says he was able to obtain documentation showing she'd spent a little more than 8 months in solitary, though he believes she was in there longer. (Green was briefly shipped to two other jails, where she was not in solitary, but she spent the bulk of her incarceration at VCDC.)
VCDC acknowledged that it periodically put her in solitary confinement (also known as an "observation" cell) because the jail believed keeping her there at times was in the best interest of her and the other inmates.
"Here, the detention center had little choice but to periodically house Ms. Green in an observation cell for her own safety as well as the safety of other inmates," the jail said in its statement. "Ms. Green was not housed in observation or segregation for years on end but rather placed there for periods of time when, because of her condition, her safety and the safety of others was at risk."
While Green's condition allegedly necessitated her segregation from the other inmates, the very act of isolating a mentally ill person could exacerbate their mental illness.
The ACLU has documented several instances of mentally ill inmates who got sicker in solitary confinement, and that was allegedly the case with Green.
"It was a very cold room, very small," she said. "... It was very lonely, and I read my Bible a lot." Somtimes, Green told me, she believed an old friend was in the cell with her, and she would sit and talk to him.
Green's lawsuit further alleges that the jail would deny her feminine hygiene products, causing her to bleed on herself several months in a row. Her cell allegedly became squalid, as dirty food trays and trash accumulated in her tiny living space. The jail "absolutely denies" Green's claims about unsanitary conditions or mistreatment, according to its prepared statement.
Her lawyer alleges she was in a sorry state when she finally got out of jail, though. After more than two years as a pre-trial detainee, Green was finally transferred to the New Mexico Behavioral Health Institute on Dec. 11, 2011. When she got there, she was described as "thin," "unkempt," "disheveled," and showing signs of "psychosis," according to her complaint.
Green started taking medication to treat her psychosis, and within five days her delusional thinking stopped. "It really brought me to reality, the medication did," Green told me over the phone. "And it got me out of the situation, in my mind, that I was having."
By February 1, 2012, she was declared mentally competent to stand trial. A judge dismissed the criminal charges against her and released her from jail about a week later.
'Holding Facilities For America's Mentally Ill'
It seems obvious that Green never belonged in jail in the first place, let alone for more than two years. The jail itself acknowledged that it wasn't the best place for the mother of four.
"It is unfortunate that, because we do not have enough beds in treatment facilities in this country, that detention centers have become holding facilities for America's mentally ill; as such they are put in the untenable position of holding mentally ill people with little choice of what to do with them," the jail said.
Indeed, there has been a shortage of long-stay mental health facilities in America ever since the so-called de-institutionalism movement of the 1960s. The situation appears to be particularly bad in New Mexico. A 2012 study by the Treatment Advocacy Center listed the state as one where there was a "critical shortage" of beds. That report found that New Mexico had reduced its number of psychiatric beds by 60% between 2005 and 2010. In fact, the facility where Green was finally transferred is the only state-owned and operated psychiatric hospital in New Mexico.
While that hospital eventually helped with her psychosis, she says the jail left lasting psychological scars. "I have developed a fear of doors locking behind me now," she told me, adding that she has post traumatic stress disorder and is a weaker person than she once was.
When asked if she was angry, she said she didn't quite know how to answer that question.
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Here's a book I bought to help me understand drying hops.
Amazon: The Homebrewer's Garden: How to Easily Grow, Prepare, and Use Your Own Hops, Malts, Brewing Herbs
I also have a page of hop growing resources here...
plant hops in spring
pick hops late summer early fall
dry them someplace that is dark, hot, low in humidity and/or has good air movement
store hops in cool dry place away from light and air
use them as you would use store bought hops
Detailed notes...
Basic principles of drying hops
- hops are living flowers with leafy cones
- inside the leafy cones is the lupilin we want to flavor our beer
- the object is to remove the moisture from the leafy parts and preserve the volatile lupilin
- you can use hops green (wet hopping or fresh hopping)
- storing them green promotes spoilage (that's what I've read)
- you can expect a 6 to 1 weight ratio from green/wet/fresh hops to dried hops (at least that's what I've found) one pound (16 oz) of green hops = approx 2 oz of dried hops
- drying hops allows you to store them longer deterring spoilage
- heat, low humidity and air movement can help to dry hops
- heat promotes evaporation
- dry air promotes evaporation
- air movement promotes evaporation
- the volume of your crop will dictate how you dry, you might need to build an oast to handle larger crops
- exposure to air and light during storage will change the flavor of the hops
- find a place that has as many of the following qualities as possible (hot, low humidity, good air circulation)
- I use my basement where I have a dehumidifier. Usually 50% humidity or less.
- get some screens (like old window/door screens)
- lay the screens out on something that will raise them off the floor/surface ( I use shoeboxes)
- get a fan to circulate air
- spread the green undried hops on the screens, I try to keep it to one hop cone deep
- after 24 hours they should be pretty dry, I've kept them there for up to a week
- Test, by checking the brittleness of the stem on the inside. If it breaks more than bends, then they are dry enough.
I use a food saver vacuum sealer, because I have one. I'm not sure that it is necessary though.
- package up in one or two ounce packs
- freeze or refrigerate (I've done both)
- take them out when you're ready to use
- if you've dried them well, you should be able to use them in the same amounts as hops you've bought. Yes, that means that when substituting for pellets I use the same amount. 1 oz. pellets = 1 ounce homegrown
- The hop flavor tends to be cleaner and more pure. (subjective opinion ;-)
- They tend to soak up more wort/beer than pellets.
- hard to truly know their bittering potential, but, I try to use the guidelines from the place I bought the rhizomes from


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DENVER — The Raiders downgraded wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey (concussion) and tight end Richard Gordon (hamstring) to out Saturday, meaning neither will play against the Denver Broncos.
It's not a surprise Heyward-Bey won't be playing, given that as of Friday he hadn't passed any of his concussion tests and the severity of the blow he took from Pittsburgh's Ryan Mundy.
Gordon's absence will be felt in that the Raiders use a lot of packages with three tight ends and now will have only two — Brandon Myers and David Ausberry — active.
Gordon is also a core special teams player and leads the Raiders with four special teams tackles.
The Denver Broncos meanwhile, promoted former San Jose State star Duke Ihenacho from the practice squad as well as ex-Cal player Mike Mohamed. Ihenacho is a safety, Mohamed a linebacker.


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Realizing that tech nerds like space, the environment (well, in small doses—and only on a 1080p monitor) and everything else that Mother Nature supplies us with, National Geographic has teamed up with Gelaskins for some natty nature covers.
Not just available for the various iPods and iPhones, they've also got some Kindle 2, Kindle DX and Nook covers plus skins for 13-inch MacBooks and 13.3 - 14.1-inch laptops. My favorite is the slightly naff Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A space ones, but the wild green sea turtle is also pretty special too. Especially if you're a 14 year old girl—though don't let my gender stereotyping put any 46-year old bikers off getting a sea lion case for their Nook. [Gelaskins via Unplggd]


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Updated My Liquor Cabinet Page!
Well, it took two years, a move, completely tearing down and rebuilding my liquor shelves and drinking too many cocktails to count, but, here it is, my updated Liquor Cabinet. I've updated the picture and the full listing of everything in the collection. I must say, listing it all really gives a much better view of the magnitude for me. Time for a drink!


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A Look at Some Human Studies Fortunately, I also found several human studies on Garcinia Cambogia. All of these studies are so-called randomized controlled trials, which are the gold standard of scientific experiments in humans. The biggest of the studies included 135 overweight individuals, which were split into two groups (7): Treatment group: 1 gram of Garcinia Cambogia Extract, 3 times per day, taken 30 minutes before meals.
Placebo group: The other group took dummy pills (placebo). Both groups also went on a high-fiber, low calorie diet.


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Great News! NYS Updates Birth Certificate Policy; TLDEF Calls upon NYC to Follow Suit
Transgender People Born in New York State Can Now Readily Obtain a Birth Certificate That Matches Who They Are, But Obstacles Remain for Those Born in NYC
We are thrilled to report that the State of New York has eliminated barriers to accurate ID by updating its policy on correcting birth certificates for transgender people. The state will now issue a corrected birth certificate after receiving an affidavit from a licensed medical provider stating that a transgender individual has received appropriate clinical treatment.
The previous policy, which had not been updated since the 1970's, required proof of surgery. This left the vast majority of transgender New Yorkers – who have not undergone the extensive surgical procedures that were demanded by the state before it would change the sex designation on birth certificates – with a document that does not match who they are. The state deemed this outmoded requirement to be inconsistent with federal policy, the policies of other states, the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles and medical consensus. TLDEF, in partnership with a coalition led by the Empire State Pride Agenda, has been pushing for this policy change for years.
"This is tremendous news for transgender people across the country who were born in New York State," said TLDEF Executive Director Michael Silverman. "A birth certificate is a fundamental form of identification. This will ensure that transgender people can obtain accurate birth certificates that reflect who they are. It also means they will stop being subjected to harassment and discrimination in areas like employment where identification is essential to proving eligibility to work."
Unfortunately, New York State's policy change does not apply to those born in New York City, which issues its own birth certificates. TLDEF has a lawsuit pending against the City of New York and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, challenging the city's onerous practice of requiring transgender people to undergo surgery before it will issue them birth certificates with corrected sex designations.
"It is time for New York City to follow the lead of New York State by adopting policies that treat transgender New Yorkers fairly and equally," Silverman said. "Transgender people in New York City cannot be denied the right to update their birth certificates to reflect who they truly are simply because they were born within New York City rather than elsewhere in the state. That is unfair, and we will continue to prosecute our lawsuit demanding change until all transgender people in New York State – including those in New York City – are treated fairly."
The Federal Government and the States of California, Iowa, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington, as well as the District of Columbia, have updated their birth certificate policies to recognize that an individual's sex does not depend on surgical status. Last year the American Medical Association passed a resolution in support of policies "that allow for a change of sex designation on birth certificates for transgender individuals based upon verification by a physician that the individual has undergone transition according to applicable medical standards of care." The World Professional Association for Transgender Health has also long supported this approach.


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Using a Power over Ethernet ("PoE") configuration, a single cable may be used to apply camera power and to transfer data between this camera and a PC, keeping cable runs to a minimum. An auxiliary connector is provided for terminating the optically isolated input and output signals – there is one of each. The input may be configured to trigger image acquisition, reset the frame counter, or reset the software trigger count. The output may be configured to indicate acquisition trigger wait, exposure active, flash window, or timer active. Or the output may be controlled via a PC. This camera also has one TTL line that may be configured either as an input or an output. The auxiliary connector may be used to power the camera if PoE is not available.
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Jennifer Hudson says a last-minute decision to watch her fiancé in a wrestling match three years ago saved her life.
The Oscar and Grammy winner said she was with fiancé David Otunga in Florida in October 2008 when her mother, brother and nephew were shot and killed.
"That's one of the things that saved my life," she told Ebony magazine. "I flew out to see him. That's why I'm still here."
The bodies of her mother and brother were found Oct. 24 2008 at their home on Chicago's South Side. The body of nephew Julian King was found days later on the city's West Side. The estranged husband of Hudson's sister, William Balfour, is charged in the murders.
Hudson earlier this week denied rumors that her relationship with Otunga had collapsed and told Access Hollywood at last Sunday's American Music Awards that a Chicago wedding was still in the works.
Balfour pleaded not guilty to the slayings. His trial begins next February.


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text: Several states, including Texas, are petitioning to secede from the United States following the Nov. 6 presidential election in which President Barack Obama won, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney.The introduction to Texas' petition on the White House government website reads:"WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:Peacefully grant the State of Texas to withdraw from the United States of America and create its own NEW government."The petition had nearly 30, 000 electronic signatures by about 4:30 p.m. Monday, passing the 25,000-signature threshold for getting an official response from the Obama administration.Should Texas secede? What do you think the response from the administration will be?Use the comments form below to tell us what you think about Texas' secession petition.


text: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 More Than 800K Messages Call for an End to the Therapy Cap Physical therapists (PTs), physical therapist assistants (PTAs), and their supporters harnessed the power of social media to help generate more than 876,000 social media messages sent simultaneously to call for an end to the Medicare therapy cap. The impressive November 4 blast was part of a grassroots effort to bring even more energy to the issue now that Congress faces a deadline fewer than 60 days away. PTs and PTAs were part of 2,012 people who used a technology called Thunderclap that leverages individual social media accounts for a 1-time simultaneous blast to all participants' friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter. The event was designed to draw attention to the therapy cap issue as the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees work on legislation that could include an end to the caps and the sustainable growth rate (SGR). APTA is urging members to visit the Legislative Action Center to find out how to add their voices to the campaign to end the therapy cap, while patients and nonmembers can access APTA's Patient Action Center to learn how to help. Details on the therapy cap and APTA's grassroots campaign to end it are available at APTA's Advocacy webpage.


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Scott Parker: Todd Bertuzzi a "good man", Steve Moore "thought he was better than everybody else"
A lot of people have asked me what I thought of ex-Avalanche enforcer Scott Parker's comments today regarding Todd Bertuzzi and Steve Moore, and the dreaded incident of 2004 in Vancouver.
In a rambling, semi-coherent, occasionally profanity-laced set of answers to Mile High Hockey's Brett Shumway, Part 2 of his blog on Parker, the Sheriff riffed on the Moore-Bertuzzi incident saying, among other things, Bertuzzi is a "good man" and that Moore "thought that he was better than everybody else", inferring it's because he was a "college boy" who went to Harvard.
Let me just say that the college boy/better-than-everyone-else line is, in my opinion, ignorant of the facts. I covered Steve Moore, and not once, not at all, did I ever get the slightest impression that he thought he was some better-than-anyone-else know-it-all. I thought he was humble in all the traditional ways of hockey, that he cared very much about his team and teammates and worked his butt off on the ice. What Moore was, was fairly quiet. He didn't want to say much or stand out much, because he knew he was just a rookie trying to make his way. If that was mistaken for arrogance, then I think Parker is dead wrong.
Parker, incidentally, wasn't even on that Avalanche team of 2003-04. He played with the San Jose Sharks. He played on two teams with Moore and the Avs from 2001-03, but only briefly, as Moore only played a total of 12 games in those two seasons with Colorado, before playing 57 games for the Avs in '03-04.
I can't even quote the words Parker used in the interview with Shumway when talking about Moore and Bertuzzi, because they contain, among other things, a crude sexual reference about what he thinks of college grads and what he'd do to them to, in his words, equal the IQ level. Parker also tries to explain why he thinks Moore had vertebrae broken, which left me wondering if he believes they faked the moon landing once too.
But I don't want to get into some bigger deal here. If that's his opinion, it's a free country. I don't agree — but so what. I'm not some PC pattycake kind of guy either. I like fighting in hockey, I believe in some of the codes of hockey that some like to call neanderthal, etc., etc. But to try and make Bertuzzi out to be anything other than he was that night – a coward who jumped Moore from behind – is flat out wrong in my opinion.
Parker seems to have confused some of the facts of the whole thing too. In discussing the incident, he seems to think the Canucks hadn't really had a chance to "address" any retribution against Moore after his open-ice hit on Markus Naslund until that night. Except, they did have plenty of chances. One was a follow-up game in Denver in which the Canucks did nothing to Moore, after talking tough in the locker room after the original incident. You know, the time when Brad May said "it will be fun when we get him."
The next game, in Vancouver when the incident occurred, Moore fought Matt Cooke – and won the fight. So now, that's two chances the Canucks had to "address" the incident. I guess it wasn't to their satisfaction, though. That had to come only by punching a guy from behind, then falling on top of him.
That guy being the "good man" doing the punching from behind and falling on him, that is.
By the way, Parker's attitude toward Moore makes me wonder if it was him and maybe some other like-minded "teammates" of Moore that thought they were better than him, and not the other way around.


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The people behind "King of the Hill" and "Office Space" have just sold a sitcom pilot to HBO that focuses on Silicon Valley.
Deadline.com is reporting "Silicon Valley" will be shot next spring.
It's described as a dark comedy. It will be a single-camera shoot live-action comedy, which means no studio audience (ala 30 Rock).
It's set in the high tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, where the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success.
The sitcom is coming from King Of The Hill executive producers Mike Judge, John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky. For now, they have only sold the pilot.
Silicon Valley is already on TV as a reality show. Randi Zuckerberg's series "Start-Ups: Silicon Valley" is airing right now Bravo.


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EU contract law to smooth Single Market for businesses
The European Commission proposed today, in a strategic policy paper, several options for a more coherent approach to contract law. The goal is to bring more legal certainty for businesses and simpler rules for consumers.
Contracts are the basic building blocks for relationships between businesses and consumers. The European Union's Single Market is built on contract laws. However, businesses – particularly small and medium-sized companies – are hampered in cross-border sales because they must follow different contract laws for each of the EU's 27 Member States. Only 8% of consumers buy online from another Member State. In addition, 61% of cross-border sales are rejected because traders refuse to serve the consumer's country. This is largely due to regulatory barriers and legal uncertainty about the applicable rules. To address some of these problems and boost the potential of Europe's Single Market, the European Commission proposed today, in a strategic policy paper, several options for a more coherent approach to contract law. A public consultation on the policy paper will run until 31 January 2011.
"I want a Polish, German or Spanish consumer to feel as safe when doing business with an Italian, Finnish or French company online as when they are at home. And I want Europe's small and medium-sized companies to offer their products and services to consumers in other countries without having to become experts in the national contract law systems of all other 26 EU countries," said Vice-President Viviane Reding, the EU's Justice Commissioner. "I call on consumers and businesses from all 27 Member States to contribute actively to the Commission's public consultation. This is certainly a time of crisis for Europe's economy. But it is also a time where we have an historic opportunity to drive economic growth by easing the cost of cross-border transactions. It is therefore now the time to make a quantum leap towards a more European contract law."
Contracts are essential for running businesses and making sales to consumers. They formalise an agreement between parties and can cover a broad range of matters, including the sale of goods and the provision of a service like the booking a flight or obtaining a loan. In a business-to-consumer contract, for example, an Irish consumer buys an MP3 player online from a French retailer. In this case, Irish contract law would apply if the French retailer has designed his website for Irish consumers.
Europe's Single Market is based on a wide variety of contracts that are governed by different national contract laws. The co-existence of different rules can lead to additional transaction costs, increased legal uncertainty for businesses and lack of consumer confidence. Both consumers and businesses face significant barriers when they seek to take advantage of the EU's Single Market. Transaction costs (like adapting contractual terms and commercial policies or obtaining translation of the rules) and legal uncertainty involved in dealing with foreign contract laws make it particularly hard for small and medium-sized enterprises, which make up 99% of all enterprises in the EU, to expand within the Single Market.
The Commission, therefore, proposed different ways to make contract law more coherent in a Green Paper adopted today. Among the policy options considered are:
- The publication on the web of (non-binding) model contract rules which could be used in Europe's Single Market.
- A (binding or non-binding) "toolbox" for EU lawmakers when they adopt new legislation to ensure better and more coherent rules.
- A Contract Law Recommendation that would call on EU Member States to include a European contract law into their national legal systems, thereby partly following the model of the United States where all but one of the 50 states voluntarily adopted the Uniform Commercial Code.
- An optional European Contract Law (or a "28th system"), which could be chosen freely by consumers and businesses in their contractual relations. This optional law would be an alternative to the existing national contract laws and would be available in all languages. It could apply in cross-border contracts only, or in both cross-border and domestic contracts. It would have to guarantee a high level of consumer protection and legal certainty throughout the life cycle of a contract.
- Harmonisation of national contract laws by means of an EU Directive.
- Full harmonisation of national contract laws by means of an EU Regulation.
- The creation of a full-fledged European Civil Code, replacing all national rules on contracts.
Under the Europe 2020 strategy – launched by President José Manuel Barroso on 3 March 2010, the Commission is currently tackling bottlenecks in the Single Market to drive economic recovery. This includes working on harmonised solutions for consumer contracts, EU model contract clauses and making progress towards an optional European contract law. The creation of an optional contract law instrument is also one of the key actions in the Commission's Digital Agenda for Europe issued on 19 May 2010.
The European Parliament gave its backing to the idea of an optional European Contract Law in a resolution on 25 November 2009. Former Internal Market and Competition Commissioner Mario Monti also identified in his Single Market Report of 9 May the advantages that an optional "28th system" would bring for consumers and businesses.
On 12 May, the Commission convened a new expert group to transform the so-called "Draft Common Frame of Reference" – a first draft for a European contract law developed over the past years under the EU's Research Programme – into a simple, user-friendly workable solution adapted to the needs of consumers and the reality of the business environment. The group, which is composed of legal experts and practitioners from all over Europe, is currently meeting once a month in Brussels. The public consultation started today will help ensure that the group addresses the most important problems faced today by consumers and businesses in the field of contract law.
The consultation will run until 31 January 2011. Its results will help the Commission prepare proposals before 2012.
"Green Paper on policy options for progress towards a European Contract Law for consumers and businesses" (adopted today by the Commission)


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Memorable hunts rarely begin with forgettable rifles. From the long walk in to the long drag out, when you're carrying a T/C Venture or Dimension® under your arm, you're as prepared as you'll ever be to truly make this hunt one to remember.
You can't count on accuracy unless it's consistent. T/C bolt-action barrels are uniquely engineered with 5R rifling — meaning there are 5 lands and grooves instead of the traditional 6 — resulting in less bullet deformation from shot to shot and delivering dramatically superior accuracy every time you pull the trigger.
When you're a T/C Bolt-Action Hunter, before you ever step foot across the tree line, you leave all the compromises behind. These aren't just fields—they're proving grounds, and the T/C hunter only brings a bolt-action rifle that can lead the way.
Most hunters over the course of their lives shoot multiple game from multiple distances using multiple calibers. With the T/C Dimension, you can do all this with the same rifle. Instead of buying multiple rifles, each with a new trigger to get used to, you can set out on all your hunts with the Dimension. Switch barrels — change the game.
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Barbara Sawhill gave an engaging two-hour interactive talk last Friday to TESOL/TFL students on the importance of renouncing a "multi-paged, intricately detailed, iron-clad syllabus" and replacing it with a student-centered, participatory class outline with collaborated class goals between the students and teacher. Barbara teaches Spanish at Oberlin College and is the Director of the Cooper International Language Center.
Barbara renounces the old Factory Model of Education, which in her opinion lacks a context for students' learning. This "Fordist" classoom is out of touch with the world around it and sees students as empty vessels who simply absorb and memorize, rather than experience and create.
As an educator, Barbara sees her job as "making this experience [in the classroom] as meaningful for you [the student] as possible". She insists that as educators, we need to listen and model for students what we expect of them. As learners, we don't need to simply find all of the answers, but learn how to create "really well-rounded, thoughtful questions".
Four questions that Barbara asks her students at the beginning of each term are:
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You can check out her work and ideas at http://languages.oberlin.edu/lab-info/center-staff/ and http://languagelabunleashed.org/ and typical posts like http://languagelabunleashed.org/2010/03/15/the-backwards-syllabus/ Barbara introduces herself at http://vimeo.com/19050537 .You can read about her Spanish class at http://languages.oberlin.edu/courses/2010/spring/hisp205/ and http://languagelabunleashed.org/tag/hisp205/
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Radiation Therapy: Which type is right for me?
There are different types of radiation therapy that are commonly used today. Radiation therapy can be classified according to the various types of radiation particles or waves that are used to deliver the treatment, such as photons, electrons, or protons. Of these, photons and electrons are widely available and thus most often used. Protons are available at a number of institutions in the US and other countries, with new proton therapy facilities under development or in the planning stages. Generally, the three major subtypes of radiation therapy have similar biological effects on tumor tissue, meaning that they all have relatively similar potential to eradicate tumors; however, each type does have certain advantages and disadvantages, and we will briefly discuss the situations and rationale behind why your radiation oncologist may recommend one treatment modality over another. Your radiation oncologist is an expert at deciding which of these modalities is the best choice of radiation therapy in your particular circumstance.
Photon Treatment
Photons can be used in several different types of radiation therapy. This includes orthovoltage radiation therapy, conventional radiation therapy, 3D conformal radiation therapy, Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), brachytherapy, volumetric modulated arc therapy (also known as RapidArc), and stereotactic radiation therapy, also known as radiosurgery, GammaKnife, CyberKnife, or SBRT. Photon beams are the same type of beam that are used in diagnostic X-ray machines, such as those used to take chest X-rays; however, in radiotherapy, much higher energy photon beams are used. Conventional radiation therapy, 3D conformal radiation therapy, and IMRT are generally all delivered by machines called linear accelerators, or "linacs" for short.
Two-Dimensional Photon Therapy ("Conventional" Radiation Therapy)
When 2D, or conventional radiation therapy is used, X-rays films are used to determine how best to position the radiation beams in order to adequately treat tumors. Typically, a machine called a fluoroscopic simulator is used to plan the radiation treatments. The bones seen on the X-ray are used as landmarks to determine where the tumor is and where to position the radiation beams around the patient in order to treat the tumor, but avoid normal organs. Planning can be done rapidly, and the patients can start treatment very quickly, as opposed to other techniques that require more in-depth (and time consuming) planning. This type of treatment is generally reserved for urgent treatments.
3D Conformal Radiation Therapy
With improvements in CT imaging quality and availability, the vast majority of hospitals are using CT (Cat scan-based) imaging to plan treatment for tumors in a process known as 3D conformal radiotherapy. The advantage of CT-guided therapy compared with conventional therapy is that CT-guided therapy allows the tumor and normal organs to be defined in three dimensions, as opposed to using the "flat" image of an x-ray. In this type of therapy, a CT or PET scan, often referred to as a "simulation", is obtained of the person in the position that they are to be treated. The tumor is then outlined in three dimensions on the CT scan. Normal organs that are located near the tumor and need to be avoided are also outlined in 3D (figure I, below). Beams are then arranged to best avoid normal organs, while delivering an optimal dose of radiation to the tumor. Computer software is then used to calculate the amount of radiation the tumor and normal tissues receive in order to assure that all parts of the tumor are covered sufficiently, while healthy organs receive as little radiation dose as possible. The beams of radiation can then be adjusted based on these calculations to further optimize the dose to the tumor and minimize the dose to normal organs. In addition to optimally positioning the beams, the radiation beam is shaped with one of two mechanisms, cerrobend blocks or multileaf collimators. Cerrobend blocks can be individually molded to the shape required or, in some linear accelerators, "leaves" within the machine can be used to form highly tailored beam shapes. Leaves (also known as multileaf collimators, or MLC's) are skinny metal blocks, which are able to move quickly and independently to form different, complex patterns (figure II, below). MLC's are now prevalent and readily available in most developed countries. These leaves are a critical component of IMRT, which we will discuss next.
Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
IMRT is another way to deliver the same photons to treat a tumor, but with the potential to lower the high doses of radiation that healthy structures receive. The process of planning IMRT also begins with a simulation. Similar to 3D conformal therapy, the tumor and normal organs are outlined on the CT with 3-dimensional information (figure III, below). Multiple beams are positioned at various points around the person to optimally deliver the radiation. However, in IMRT, these beams are divided into a grid-like pattern, separating the one big beam into numerous smaller "beamlets." Special software is used to determine the best pattern of beamlets to use from each larger beam, in order to deliver the optimal amount of radiation to the tumor while sparing normal organs as much as possible. To deliver these patterns, the MLC's form numerous different shapes, often 50 or more, during the course of a radiation treatment. The advantage of delivering radiation as beamlets to form these patterns is that very precise control of the radiation is obtained, which can be utilized when a tumor is in a difficult position to treat. For example, if a tumor is directly adjacent to a normal organ or wrapped around a normal organ, IMRT can shape the radiation such that it avoids as much of the normal organ as possible, but still delivers a large dose to the tumor (figure IV, below). This is why IMRT is commonly used in cancers of the head and neck where many critical structures, that may be near the tumor, such as the spinal cord, must be avoided. IMRT has become the most frequently used radiation modality.
The downsides of IMRT are that it can take longer to both plan the treatment course and deliver the daily treatment than 3D conformal therapy due to the numerous shapes the leaves are required to form. Also, because so many small beamlets are being used, the dose of radiation going to the tumor may not be as even as is usually seen with 3D conformal therapy. Furthermore, one of the disadvantages of using a greater number of beams to shape the radiation is that while normal organs are spared high doses of radiation, a larger volume of normal organs receive a low dose of radiation. The implications of the low dose exposure are unknown at this time. Finally, some tumors can move, for example, the lung moves with breathing, making treatment planning very challenging.
An additional type of IMRT that has developed in the past few years is known as Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT). It is very similar to IMRT except, in VMAT, the Linac rotates 360 degrees around the patient while simultaneously delivering the radiation, increasing the number of angles and decreasing the high dose radiation to normal tissues. One common type of VMAT is known as RapidArc. RapidArc has been employed in head and neck cancers, brain tumors, GI cancers, prostate cancers, and lung cancers.
Image-Guided Radiotherapy (IGRT)
During treatment with IGRT, imaging scans are repeated. The scans are processed by computer software to identify changes in a tumor's size and location to allow for changes in position of the patient and/or the planned radiation dose. This repetition of imaging can increase the accuracy of the radiation treatment and decrease the amount of radiation to the surrounding normal tissue.
Stereotactic Radiation and Radiosurgery (SBRT, GammaKnife, and Cyberknife)
Stereotactic radiotherapy involves delivering a high dose of radiation very precisely to a tumor. Stereotactic radiotherapy delivers radiation from numerous different angles to focus the radiation at one small point, like a magnifying glass. This is similar to IMRT, which is discussed above. Stereotactic radiation involves fewer treatments (called "fractions"). By definition, radiosurgery involves a single fraction and is generally reserved for treatment of lesions within the brain. In contrast, stereotactic radiation involves 2-5 treatments (fractions). By using a large number of unique beam angles to deliver the radiation, stereotactic radiotherapy minimizes the effects on the normal tissue, which the radiation passes through, but delivers a large dose of radiation to a single point where all of the beams converge. However, since the dose of radiation to that single point is so high, very precise targeting of the tumor is required.
Due to the constraints listed above, the most common use of radiosurgery, with one fraction, involves tumors of the brain. The brain does not move and hence does not have the problems with motion that other tumor sites can have, and the skull serves as a stable landmark for the location of the tumor. Generally, a head frame or halo needs to be attached to the skull using small screws. This allows the head to be positioned with great accuracy in the treatment machine and allows the precise delivery of the radiation in a single treatment. With the frame on, the person undergoes an MRI scan to localize the tumor and the frame serves as a stable landmark for the location of the tumor. The MRI is then used to plan the radiation treatment using specialized software. The tumor and normal structures are outlined on the MRI and a treatment plan is constructed to avoid critical brain structures while giving an optimal dose to the tumor. Because the MRI was taken with the frame on, the tumor location within the frame should be the same on the treatment machine. The frame is then attached to the treatment machine and radiation can be delivered with sub-millimeter accuracy. Several different machines can be used to deliver radiosurgery, including GammaKnife machines and specialized linacs. Radiosurgery is limited by the need for precise immobilization of the tumor, such as with a head frame (see photo below) and by the size of the lesion that can be treated. Because of its complexity, radiosurgery requires the participation of both neurosurgery and radiation oncology during treatment planning and delivery. Due to the small focal spot of highly intense radiation used in radiosurgery, only lesions under 5 centimeters are treatable with this technique.
Stereotactic Radiation
Stereotactic radiation, also referred to as stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), involves the precise delivery of radiation in 2- 5 treatments. SBRT can be used in many sites of the body, including lung, prostate, liver, brain, and bone. With major improvements in technology, computers, imaging, and immobilization over the past decade, radiation oncologists now have the option of treating some tumors with fewer numbers of fractions. Similar to radiosurgery, computer technology creates and controls numerous beams with MLC's to create very sharp dose gradients with tumors receiving large doses of radiation, while sparing the nearby normal organs. Because of the steep drop-offs in radiation dose, very precise targeting must be performed. Immobilization is critical for accurate targeting and reproducibility in each treatment. Markers, referred to as fiducials, are often placed prior to the simulation to help in accurately locating the same treatment area on a daily basis. Finally, because tumors move with breathing, your radiation oncologist will compensate for respiratory motion during the actual treatment delivery. Stereotactic radiation can be delivered by some linear accelerators as well as the CyberKnife system. CyberKnife is unique in that it is a linear accelerator placed on a robotic arm, giving it many degrees of freedom. The robotic arm enables the CyberKnife to treat tumors from a variety of angles, further minimizing exposure to normal tissues. Additionally, the advanced technology of CyberKnife allows to it track tumors in real-time, overcoming respiratory motion and further reducing normal tissue exposure.
Immobilization devices
Brachytherapy involves the use of a radioactive source, generally one that predominantly emits photons. The source is either implanted into the tumor (interstitial brachytherapy) or placed near the cancer, generally in a body cavity (intracavitary brachytherapy). Prostate seeds are an example of interstitial brachytherapy, where radioactive seeds are placed directly into the prostate using needles. Uterine cancer treated with a removable implant (called tandem & ovoids) placed in the uterine cavity through the vagina is also an example of intracavity brachytherapy. The advantage of brachytherapy is that since the source of the radiation can be placed in, or adjacent to the tumor, the amount of normal tissue affected by the radiation can be minimized. This is because the dose of radiation released from the source is very high near the source itself, but the dose falls off rapidly within a few centimeters. This limits brachytherapy to cancers in locations where a radioactive source can be inserted safely, but still treat the tumor effectively. Brachytherapy is not effective for treating large areas or deep tumors unless the source can be implanted correctly.
Implanting prostate brachytherapy "seeds"
Radiation "seeds" used for prostate brachytherapy
Applicator for cervical HDR
X-Ray of tandem and ovoids apparatus (white & gray piece) inserted for endometrial cancer brachytherapy.
Orthovoltage Radiation
Orthovoltage was commonly used before the development of linear accelerators for the treatment of a variety of tumors. Orthovoltage radiation uses lower energy photons to treat tumors, which are located on the skin or very close to the skin. The lower energy of orthovoltage beams makes them impractical in the treatment of deep tumors compared with the higher energy beams available today with most linacs. However, orthovoltage treatment can be very effective for some skin tumors and other superficial lesions. Orthovoltage units are becoming rare, as many of the treatments that were done previously by orthovoltage units are now treated with electrons.
Electron Radiation
Electrons are a different form of radiation than photons and have different physical properties, but work biologically the same as photons. Linear accelerators, in addition to producing photons, can also produce electrons; consequently electrons are available at most treatment centers. Electrons tend to release their energy close to the skin's surface and are commonly used to treat superficial tumors, such as skin cancers and superficial lymph nodes, which may be involved with tumor, such as in breast cancer. Electrons have the advantage of releasing most of their energy near the skin; hence the radiation does not penetrate much past the skin to deeper normal tissues. However, this also limits the depth at which electrons can be used. This treatment has generally replaced orthovoltage because it can be combined in the same machine as a linear accelerator.
Proton Therapy
Proton therapy is a type of radiation that utilizes a particle, the proton, to deliver radiation while minimizing dose to nearby organs. The prevalence of proton therapy has dramatically increased in the past decade as technology has improved. However, this treatment is still not widely available because the machines that produce and deliver protons, are extremely large (about 3 stories in height), require dedicated space and are very expensive. Smaller machines are in development, which is expected to make this treatment available in more locations.
The advantage of protons is that the depth at which they release their energy can be precisely controlled. As the proton enters the body, it releases small amounts of energy, and slows down. At the end of its path, it releases a large amount of energy, and very little energy is released past that point. Using computer software, the protons can be directed to release their energy precisely within the tumor, without any of the energy exiting out of the back of the tumor. Hence, if the back edge of the tumor is located against the spinal cord, it may be possible to spare any radiation dose to the spinal cord using protons. The disadvantages to protons are mostly related to their limited availability, which may delay or preclude treatment for patients who require expedient treatment. Due to the high cost of proton therapy, some insurance companies may not approve payment of this treatment.
This article has outlined several different types of radiotherapy, as well as some of the various advantages and disadvantages of each. No one type of radiation is perfect for every situation. Radiation oncologists must take many factors into account, including the individual patient, type and location of tumor, as well as the available clinical evidence when selecting the optimal treatment modality for a person. We hope that this article has given you a clearer understanding of the various types of radiation available, and the rationale behind the selection of a specific modality for each individual patient.
Figure I. Shown on the right is a single cross sectional image from a CT scan. The red arrows indicate where the radiation oncologist has circled the kidneys, which have a low tolerance for radiation. The figure on the left shows that by combining these outlines, the kidneys can be seen in a reconstructed image of the person in a standing position, hence the position of the kidneys can be seen in all three dimensions. The radiation beams passing through the center have been position to avoid the kidneys while optimally covering the tumor.
Figure II. Shown in green are the leaves or multileaf collimator (MLC's) used to shape radiation. As you can see, each leaf can be moved independently to form shapes. The kidneys are being shielded (pink and green structures) while maximum dose is going to the tumor (red).
Figure III. Shown is a single cross sectional image from a CT of the head that is being used to plan Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT). The blue line encompasses areas which are at risk for tumor involvement. The red and green lines indicate where the radiation oncologist wants a higher dose of radiation directed because these areas had definite tumor involvement. The light blue line outlines the spinal cord, which indicates to the software that we want to protect the spinal cord.
Figure IV: Demonstrates how the dose of radiation can be shaped to avoid normal organs using IMRT. The highest doses are in red with lower doses in blue and green. Notice that the spinal cord has been protected and is green (red arrow), indicating it is getting a low dose of radiation compared with the red areas where the tumor was known to be, which is covered with a high dose of radiation.


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FORT HOOD, Texas - Army investigators suspect murder-suicide in the deaths of the husband and two children whose bodies were found in a home at Fort Hood.
In a statement Wednesday, the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command says the 43-year-old man is married to a female soldier who recently returned from overseas deployment. He and their two daughters, ages 9 and 4, were found dead in their Fort Hood home Tuesday morning.
The statement says "early indications" point toward murder-suicide, though a final determination hasn't been made. Autopsies are being performed by the Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner.
The statement says identities and other information are being withheld to protect the integrity of the investigation, but agents see no threat to the public.