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Alternative Names
PVL; Brain injury - infants
Periventricular leukomalacia (PVL) is a type of brain injury that affects infants. The condition involves the death of small areas of brain tissue around fluid-filled areas called ventricles. The damage creates "holes" in the brain. "Leuko" refers to the brains white matter and "periventricular" refers to the area around the ventricles.
PVL is much more common in premature infants than in full-term infants.
A major cause is thought to be changes in blood flow to the area around the ventricles of the brain. This area is fragile and prone to injury, especially before 32 weeks of gestation.
Infection around the time of delivery may also play a role in causing PVL. The more premature your baby is and the sicker your baby is, the higher the risk for PVL.
Premature babies who have intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) are also at increased risk for developing this condition.
Exams and Tests
Tests used to diagnose PVL include ultrasound and MRI of the head.
There is no treatment for PVL. Premature babies' heart, lung, intestine, and kidney functions are closely monitored and treated in the newborn intensive care unit (NICU) in order to reduce the risk of developing PVL.
Outlook (Prognosis)
PVL often leads to nervous system and developmental problems in growing babies, usually during the first to second year of life. It may cause cerebral palsy (CP), especially tightness or increased muscle tone (spasticity) in the legs.
Babies with PVL are at risk for major nervous system problems, especially involving movements such as sitting, crawling, walking, and moving the arms. These babies may need physical therapy.
A baby who is diagnosed with PVL should be monitored by a developmental pediatrician or a pediatric neurologist, in addition to the childs regular pediatrician.
Volpe JJ. Neurology of the Newborn. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2008:chap 8.
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Portland State University: Student Disciplined for Phone Call to Library Employee
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On March 16, 2011, Portland State University student Rachel Cain had a telephone conversation with a PSU library employee concerning a library policy. Cain was not satisfied and left a phone message for the employee, criticizing the employee's professionalism. Cain was later notified that her phone call had been reported to PSU's student life office, and on March 23, Cain was charged with "Obstruction or Disruption of University Activity or Process" and "Failure to comply with a University Official's requests." She was found responsible for both charges, charged a $10 discipline fee, and asked to sign a "Behavioral Agreement." Cain appealed, and following intervention from FIRE, PSU dismissed Cain's charges in August 2011.
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by Honeywell Posted 3rd Nov 2017 at 8:09 AM - Updated 6th Jan 2018 at 4:08 PM by Honeywell
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This is a new mesh, and means that it's a brand new self contained object that usually does not require a specific Expansion pack (although this is possible depending on the type). It may have Recolours hosted on MTS - check below the description for more information.
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Holiday Roof Lights:
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I love the creator themes and I enjoy them even more when I get excited about an idea - like roof lights for the Seasons and Celebrations theme! I repurposed some Maxis meshes and made them into roof deco so you can go all out decorating your Sims houses this season.
***These are cloned from roof decorations so you'll need any expansion pack Seasons or higher for them to work.***
- Collection File
- Player/Live mode friendly (deco hides with the roof off)
- Covers Hipped and Mansard rooves
- 45°, 35° and 15° angles for Gabled and Shed rooves
- DIY wall set that's building cheat friendly Note: These are cloned from curtains and require Goggalor's ALL shiftables to be height adjustable. I recommend installing all of them (so everything in game shifts) but if you'd rather not all you need Lee's shiftcurtains2 here for the DIY wall lights to shift.
Video: Some babble and demonstration. Unfortunately the video quality turned out poor - the lights are pretty in game.
- The wreaths and pine tree are lighted but the roof lights aren't (too much light with every tile lit up!). I recommend using invisible lights where needed. Nix has a lovely set of invisible lights here .
- These won't be replaced with a Maxis object if you remove these from your download folder.
- The Gable Wreath is the master for the set.
Everything is located in Lighting / Miscellaneous and is priced to sort in a logical order for ease of use.
Lights: §10 - §38 / 1 subset
Wreath: §300 / 2 subsets
Pine Tree: §300 / 2 subsets
TERMS OF USE: None. Happy holidays and thank you for downloading.
Polygon Counts:
Lights: Range from 238 to 745 (see chart)
Wreath: 1182
Pine Tree: 1167
These aren't particularly high poly but they're not low. If you need to limit your landscaping for performance reasons you'll probably want to limit how many of these lights you place too.
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The pine tree was cloned from Gwenke's seasonal shrubs and was a life saver! SimPE, Maxis for the meshes and textures and MTS as always for hosting, the knowledge and for the inspiration too.
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Quenneville sensed chance for fast start in campby Tal Pinchevsky
With the only four-win team in the NHL heading into the second week of the 2012-13 season, Chicago Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville isn't overlooking the importance of his club's quick start.
Chicago opened the season with three wins against teams that played in the 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs, including the Phoenix Coyotes, who eliminated the Blackhawks in the opening round. Then Thursday, the Blackhawks came from two goals down to defeat the Dallas Stars, 3-2, in overtime.
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October 25th, 2009 was one of the happiest days of my life! I woke up and my period still had not come. I was very cautious but my body had been sending me quite a few signs including: sore boobs, heartburn and of course no period.
So finally I listened to my body and took the last test I had. Being the anal person I am, I peed into a cup. Then unwrapped the pregnancy test and read the directions. I was supposed to place the applicatr tip in the pee for no more than 20 seconds, so I did. It stated that I should read the results within 3 minutes. At the 2 minute marker, I saw a shadow line; I thought it was just my eyes playing tricks on me. So I called daddy in and he saw both the lines!
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Apple Inc. said Tuesday that it has been attacked by hackers who infected a small number of the company's Mac computers. WSJ's Jessica Lessin reports. (Photo: Getty Images)
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Carr completed 7-of-11 passes for 45 yards, including a scoring strike to tight end Crockett Gillmore, and Fales went 6-of-7 through the air en route to 104 yards with an interception.
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Cyanotic heart disease
Alternative Names
Right-to-left cardiac shunt; Right-to-left circulatory shunt
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Normally, blood returns from the body and flows through the heart and lungs.
- Blood that is low in oxygen (blue blood) returns from the body to the right side of the heart.
- The right side of the heart then pumps the blood to the lungs, where it picks up more oxygen and becomes red.
- The oxygen-rich blood returns from the lungs to the left side of the heart. From there, it is pumped to the rest of the body.
Heart defects that children are born withcan change the way blood flows through the heart and lungs. This abnormal blood flow is called shunting.
- The blood that is pumped out to the body is lower in oxygen.
- Less oxygen delivered to the body can make the skin look blue(
Many of these heart defects involve the heart valves. Heart valves are found between the heart and the large blood vessels that bring blood to and from the heart. These valves open up enough for blood to flow through. Then they close, keeping blood from flowing backward.
Heart valve defects that can cause cyanosis include:
- Tricuspid valve (the valve between the two chambers on the right side of the heart)
may be absentor unable to open wide enough.
- Pulmonary valve (the valve between the heart and the lungs)
may be absentor unable to open wide enough.
- Aortic valve (the valve between the heart and the blood vessel to the rest of the body) is unable to open wide enough.
Other heart defects that may cause cyanosis include:
- Coarctation or complete interruption of the aorta
- Ebstein's anomaly
- Hypoplastic left heart syndrome
Tetralogy of Fallot Total anomalous pulmonary venous return Transposition of the great arteries Truncus arteriosus
Cyanotic heart diseases may be caused by:
- Chemical exposure
- Genetic and chromosomal syndromes, such as Down syndrome,
trisomy 13, Turner syndrome, Marfan syndrome, and Noonan syndrome
- Infections (such as
rubella) during pregnancy
- Poorly controlled blood sugar levels in women who have diabetes during pregnancy
- Medications prescribed by your doctor or bought on your own and used during pregnancy
- Street drugs used during pregnancy
Some heart defects cause major problems right after birth. Others cause few, if any, problems until adulthood.
One symptom is cyanosis, which usually seen as a bluishcolor of the lips, fingers, and toes. It may occur while the child is resting, or only when the child is active.
Some children have breathing problems (dyspnea). They may get into a squatting position after physical activity to relieve breathlessness.
Others have spells, in which their bodies are suddenly starved of oxygen. During these spells, symptoms may include:
- Anxiety
- Breathing too quickly (hyperventilation)
- Sudden increase in bluish color to the skin
Infants may get tired or sweat while feeding and may not gain as much weight as they should.
Fainting (syncope) and chest pain may occur.
Other symptoms depend on the type of cyanotic heart disease, and may include:
- Feeding problems or reduced appetite, leading to poor growth
- Grayish skin
- Puffy eyes or face
- Tiredness all the time
Signs and tests
The doctor will listen to the heart and lungs with a stethoscope. Abnormal heart sounds, a heart murmur, and lung crackles may be heard.
Tests will vary depending on the cause, but may include:
- Chest x-ray
- Checking oxygen levels in the blood using an
arterial blood gas testor by checking it through the skin with a pulse oximeter
- Complete blood count (CBC)
- Looking at the heart structure and blood vessels using
echocardiogramor MRI of the heart
- Passing a thin flexible tube (catheter) into the right or left side of the heart, usually from the groin (
cardiac catheterization)
- Transcutaneous oxygen monitor (pulse oximeter)
- Echo-Doppler
Testing the heart's electrical system
Some infants may need to stay in the hospital after birth so they can receive oxygen or be put on a breathing machine. They may receive medicines to:
- Get rid of extra fluids
- Help the heart pump harder
- Keep certain blood vessels open
- Treat abnormal heartbeats or rhythms
The treatment of choice for most congenital heart diseases is
Your child may need to take water pills (diuretics) and other heart medicines before or after surgery. Be sure to follow the correct dosage. Regular follow-up with your doctor is important.
Many children who have had heart surgery must take antibiotics before, and sometimes after having any dental work or other medical procedures. Make sure you have clear instructions from your child's heart doctor. It is very important to have your child's teeth cleaned regularly.
Ask your child's doctor before getting any immunizations. However, most children can follow the recommended guidelines for childhood vaccinations.
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The outlook depends on the specific disorder.
Complications of cyanotic heart disease include:
- Abnormal heart rhythms and sudden death
Chronic high blood pressure in the blood vessels of the lung
- Heart failure
Infection in the heart
- Stroke
Calling your health care provider
Call your health care provider if your baby has:
- Bluish skin (cyanosis) or grayish skin
- Breathing difficulty
- Chest pain or other pain
- Dizziness, fainting, or heart palpitations
- Feeding problems or reduced appetite
- Fever, nausea, or vomiting
- Puffy eyes or face
- Tiredness all the time
Women who are pregnant should get good prenatal care.
- Avoid using alcohol and drugs during pregnancy.
- Tell your doctor that you are pregnant before taking any prescribed medications.
- Get a blood test early in the pregnancy to see if you are immune to rubella. If you are not immune, you must avoid any exposure to rubella and should get immunized right after delivery.
- Pregnant women with diabetes should try to get good control over their blood sugar levels.
Some inherited factors may play a role in congenital heart disease. Many family members may be affected. If you are planning to get pregnant, talk to your health care provider about screening for genetic diseases.
Webb GD, Smallhorn JF, Therrien J, Redington AN. Congenital heart disease. In: Zipes DP, Libby P, Bonow RO, eds. Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, 11th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 65.
Bernstein D. Cyanotic congenital heart disease: Evaluation of the critically ill neonate with cyanosis and respiratory distress. In: Kliegman RM, Behrman RE, Jenson HB, Stanton BF, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier;2011:chap 423.
Perloff JK, Child JS, AboulHosn JA. Congenital Heart Disease in Adults. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2009.


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The Senate Commerce Committee held yet another hearing yesterday about "cleaning up" content on broadcast TV, cable & satellite TV, and the Internet too. One Senator after another, as well as some of the typical media critics who get called to testify at these things, made the claim that parents are helpless in the face of all the media that bombards their kids these days. But what's so troubling about such calls for increased media regulation / censorship in the name of "protecting children" is that it ignores the fact that parents have many constructive alternatives to censorship at their disposal.
Let's start with some basics.
First, parents can place limits on the overall number of viewing or listening hours for various media. They can also limit child viewing (and websurfing) to a single TV (or computer) in a room where a parent can always have an eye on the screen, or be listening in. Importantly, they can also get TV's out of their kids' bedrooms. When parents bring media devices into the home, and even let their children have TV sets in their bedrooms, then they should not claim they are powerless to stop what their children see. According to a March 2005 Kaiser Family Foundation report entitled Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-Olds, 68 percent of 8-18 year-olds have televisions in their bedrooms. Surveys taken from 1996-2000 by the Annenberg Public Policy Center offered similar findings, with between 55-60 percent of 12-17 year-olds having televisions in their bedroom. Any way you cut it, a lot of kids have TVs in their bedrooms. Presumably, they didn't put them there themselves. Their parents must have had some say over the matter or at least provided the money necessary to purchase the sets.
Parents can also tap the many new screening and filtering technologies at their disposal to limit their children's access to certain content. In striking down the Communications Decency Act's effort to regulate underage access to pornography, the Court argued in Reno v. ACLU that a law that places a "burden on adult speech is unacceptable if less restrictive alternatives would be at least as effective in achieving" the same goal.
Many "less restrictive alternatives" are available to parents today to help shield their children's eyes and ears from content they might find objectionable. In addition to the "V-Chip" capabilities integrated into all televisions today, which give parents to ability to screen content by ratings, cable and satellite set-top boxes offer locking functions for individual channels so that kids can't watch without a password. Parental controls are usually just one button-click away on cable and satellite remote controls. Every digital set-top box includes parental screening capabilities with password protection. Parents can also request that cable companies block specific channels entirely.
VCR, DVD players, personal video recorders (PVRs), and home computers also give parents to ability to accumulate libraries of preferred content for their children. If certain parents believed that their children should only be raised on reruns of "The Lone Ranger" and "Leave it to Beaver," then these new media technologies can make it happen. To use a personal example: My wife and I have developed a strategy of designating a specific television in our house for almost all our children's media consumption and then using a PVR to amass a large library of programming we believe is educational, enriching and appropriate for them. Dozens of programs can be cataloged and achieved in this fashion and then supplemented with DVDs and computer software. Needless to say, such content tailoring was not an option for families in the past.
Even mobile content can be filtered or controlled using innovative new technologies. Firefly Mobile, for example, is already marketing a tiny, voice-only phone for kids with just 5 buttons on it. Two of the buttons have small icons symbolizing mom and dad, allowing the child to call them directly via pre-programmed numbers. It comes in a number of colors and contains a variety of accessories geared toward kids. But the important thing here is that it gives parents a great deal of control over what their kids can access on their cell phones. The Walt Disney Co. and Sprint Corp. also recently announced that they would soon start marketing a wireless phone service tailored to youngsters. Another such phone called the TicTalk is being marketed by wireless company Enfora and the educational toy maker LeapFrog Enterprises.
Parents can also pressure media providers and programmers directly through public campaigns, or indirectly through advertisers. Groups like the Parents Television Council, Morality in Media, and the National Institute on Media and the Family can play a constructive role in influencing content decisions through the pressure they can collectively bring to bear on media providers. Morality in Media's website, for example, outlines several strategies parents can use to influence advertisers, programming executives and cable operators before resorting to censorship. Likewise, the National Institute on Media and the Family's "MediaWise" website offers occasional columns and newsletters for parents that include information they can use to make more informed judgments about the content their children consume. In particular, the Institute's website offers a free "KidsScore" system that rates thousands of movies, TV shows, video games. All content is alphabetized and easy to search.
Meanwhile, industry-led groups and other organizations have developed new parental empowerment tools and websites to help families learn more about media content, parental controls, and ratings systems:
* "TV Watch," a collation of 27 prominent individuals and organizations representing more than 4 million Americans, sponsors initiatives such as the "1-2-3 Safe TV" tool kit for parents. The group circulates materials that provide parents easy-to-understand primers on how to safeguard their children against objectionable content. The effort was spearheaded by media operators such as Viacom, News Corp. and NBC-Universal but also includes groups as diverse as the American Conservative Union, the Black Filmmakers Foundation, Center for Creative Voices in Media, The Creative Coalition, the Minority Media & Telecommunications Council (MMTC) and the US Chamber of Commerce.
* The "Pause-Parent-Play" coalition offers a wonderful compendium of websites and services that parents can use to learn more about the media there children might want to see, hear or play. The effort is sponsored by an amazingly diverse coalition of companies and associations, including: WalMart, the Girl Scouts, YMCA, Microsoft, Comcast, Time Warner, News Corp., the Electronic Software Association, Viacom, NBC-Universal, and the MPAA and RIAA. The coalition's website features numerous links answering questions about how TV ratings and screening tools work (like the V-Chip and cable / satellite set-top boxes). These TV screening and filtering tools seem to be the source of some confusion for some parents, but the links provided on the Pause-Parent-Play website help parents better understand how to use these technologies. There's also a "Get the Facts" section on the site that offers detailed explanations of how many of the current ratings systems work.
* The National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA), the cable industry's trade association, sponsors a $250 million public service campaign called "Cable Puts You in Control." As part of the effort, the industry airs numerous educational ads and distributes materials to subscribers. These materials are also made available to consumers via in-store displays as retailers such as Best Buy and Circuit City. The effort also includes an education website: www.controlyourtv.org/. This site includes a variety of educational links and videos showing parents how to block access to certain channels or programs that they might find objectionable.
* In November 2005, the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA), the wireless industry's trade association, unveiled new "Wireless Content Guidelines" that industry members would follow "to proactively provide tools and controls to manage wireless content offered by the carriers or available via Internet-enabled wireless devices." Under the guidelines, wireless carriers pledged not to offer any adult-oriented content until they have created controls to allow parents to restrict access. The guidelines propose the creation of a Content Classification Standard, which will divide mobile content into two categories: "Generally Accessible Carrier Content" and "Restricted Carrier Content." Ratings will then be developed using familiar categories and criteria employed by existing movie, television, music and games rating systems and then tools will be developed that will "ensure carrier-offered content either excludes or requires parent or guardian permission to access any material inappropriate for subscribers under 18." Under the second phase of the plan, wireless carriers will implement Internet Content Access Control technologies to let consumers block access to the Internet entirely or block access to specific websites that they might find inappropriate.
* Finally, at yesterday's Senate Commerce Committee hearing, Jack Valenti, the former CEO of the MPAA, announced that all media companies "who make and dispatch visual programming" were launching a joint 18-month marketing campaign "to inform and persuade the American people that they have the power" to control the content that appears on their television screens.
This unprecedented $250-$300 million campaign includes participation from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA); the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB); the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA); the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA); Viacom; Time Warner; television broadcast networks ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC Universal; and satellite TV providers DirecTV and EchoStar's Dish Network. The Ad Council and various advertising agencies will assist the effort to help craft "simple messages" that would then be broadcast and cablecast by all these media providers over at least an 18-month period.
In sum, the combination of the V-Chip, various ratings systems, set-top box parental controls, new Internet and mobile media filtering / screening technologies, and other technological tools like personal video recorders, mean that parents now have multiple layers of technological protection at their disposal. And these industry-led educational efforts prove that the media operators are taking steps to help parents make content determinations on their own.
So, next time your hear the media critics and censorship proponents say that parents do not have the tools at their disposal to make informed decisions about what their children watch on television, give them this list! If all this isn't good enough for them, then it just proves that what they are really out to do it ban all the content they don't like from TV altogether. In a free society, however, citizens should be given the right to make such choices on their own. And government should not be called in to assume the role of surrogate parent and make these choices for us. Luckily, the new technologies and services mentioned above make that job easier for parents.
Finally, and perhaps most sensibly, parents can always sit down with their children, watch controversial and provocative programming with them, and talk to them about what they are seeing or hearing. For those parents willing to accept the reality that children will be confronted with many troubling or sensitive topics from peers at school, or from other sources outside their control, this option makes a great deal of sense. Most parents already do this, of course. A recent survey of media usage by children under 6 years of age found that 69 percent of parents were in the room when children were watching TV. At the end of the day, there is simply no substitute for talking to children in an open, loving and understanding fashion about the realities of this world, including the more distasteful bits.


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Ovechkin With Love
His may be the perfect face of the NHL: broad, broken-toothed, misshapen by countless on-ice collisions—an affable Slavic caveman with an NHL scoring title, a dazzling highlight reel, and the capital of the Free World in his gloved, bloodstained hand. If only he had a Stanley Cup to go with it. Michael Idov tracks down Alex Ovechkin enjoying the off-season in Moscow—brooding, training, and finding solace in the arms of his Mother Russia
If Alexander Ovechkin's first name is perfect—"the Great" attaches easily enough—his last name couldn't be more ironic if Alanis Morissette wrote a song about it. It means "little lamb." Little, I repeat, lamb. Not only little, but a female one. In Russian, an ovechka is a girl lamb.
The man himself looks more like Jaws, the henchman from the Bond films, with a touch of Jaws the shark. His face, a wide, flat Slavic canvas, has been creatively re-arranged by dozens of amateur surgeons so that the nose now sits slightly off center and the wide-set eyes appear asymmetrical; when Ovechkin grins, which is often, a diagonally broken incisor flashes like a fang. One wonders how he avoids impaling his own tongue on it. One wonders how he does a lot of things.
Ovechkin is the best hockey player in the world, which means he's just now getting famous enough to be recognized by people who don't watch hockey. But we're in Moscow, his hometown and off-season playground. There should be a mob gathered around him already. Russia doesn't produce too many bests these days; its biggest contribution to world culture in the past decade was a duo of singing bobby-sor goths who pretended to be lesbian on Leno. Ovechkin is as big a deal as it gets. Yet here he sits, all 233 pounds of him, on an outdoor patio of a café looking onto the crowded Pushkin-skaya Square, unrecognized by anyone but me—and that's only because he has rather touchingly described over the phone what he'll be wearing: a black baseball cap, gray shorts, and a big gold cross.
"How are you doing!" he bellows in Russian, using the polite form of "you," vy. "Hey, young lady!" A blonde waitress rushes over a quintessential Moscow menu: pasta, sushi, and frat-party cocktails. It's daytime, and Ovechkin seems a tad wary of the press's presence when he orders a mug of beer. I order one, too; Alex beams and immediately switches to the familiar ty.
The waitress doesn't recognize him, either, which doesn't stop her from checking him out. It's easy for Ovechkin—a.k.a. Ovie, a.k.a. the Great Eight—to go incognito here. A unique presence in his adopted hometown of D.C., in Moscow Ovechkin blends in. He could easily be one of those lumpen youths milling about Pushkin-skaya in similar logo-stamped wife-beaters and with similar heavy gazes, the guys you wouldn't want to meet at night in the ill-lit underpass below the square.
Ovechkin is not a thug, but he's got thug appeal. Fans love to see him hit. YouTube is lousy with clips like "Ovechkin Smokes -Chelios," "Ovechkin Takes Out Sidney Crosby," and finally "Alexander Ovechkin Makes Chuck Norris Cry." The Russians didn't used to play like this. The hockey branch of Dynamo, the USSR's mammoth "sports society," where Ovechkin played, was never famous for producing bruisers, but Ovechkin's brutish force makes sense: Russia is a bruiser kind of country now.
The more sophisticated type of hockey consumer loves Ovie for his stickwork, which is so nimble as to approach fencing. The pat sportscaster line about Ovechkin is that he "loves to score." At first glance, this is a kind of silly distinction—who doesn't?—but when you watch the man in action, you begin to understand the all-consuming hunger this cliché papers over. Ovechkin lunges for the goal from any position, any angle: off his balance, facing backward, flat on his ass. It's hard to say whether these are Hail Mary passes or well-considered moves; Ovechkin operates on a kind of genius plane where the two categories blend.
The third and most passionate kind, however, is the Washington fan. Fair-weather, for sure: The capital wasn't much of a hockey town until Ovechkin came along. But D.C. loves Ovie with the hysterical ardor of a rescued damsel. Barack Obama promised Caps owner Ted Leonsis that he'll come to a game this season. The local sports network, CSN Washington, runs things like "8 Days of Ovechkin." A local blog follows his whereabouts and posts sightings. He gets black-tie parties thrown for him and keys to the city thrown at him. (His acceptance speech: "Today is a big day. I have a key for the city. And I'm the president this day in the city, so everybody have fun—and no speed limit.") If you live in D.C., Ovechkin is hockey.
But for all his wild talent and bearish charisma, there's a whiff of unpredictability about Ovechkin. He can get carried away (it's pretty unusual for a team's captain to amass the most penalty minutes). He can wilt when things don't go his way, like he did in the '08 playoffs. Nobody doubts Ovechkin will be one of the sport's all-time greats, if not the greatest—but that's only if he doesn't derail himself in the process. Unlimited potential tempered by dark petulance: There's only one place where they still make 'em like that. A D.C.-bound Muscovite and a Latvian-born New Yorker, we clink our Siberian Crown lagers to the Motherland.
There are two easy narrative arcs to an athlete's life: "scion to a dynasty" or "up from the mean streets." Ovechkin manages both. On the one hand, he was an heir to Soviet sports royalty: His mother, Tatyana, was a basketball star and an Olympic gold medalist twice over, in 1976 and 1980. His father, Mikhail, had played serious soccer. Both parlayed the experience into great careers within the vast Soviet sports machine, with Tatyana presiding over the Dynamo women's basketball team. By the standards of the time and place, the family was more than comfortable.
At the same time, though, the world around him was rough and getting rougher. Ovechkin was born in 1985, the year the Soviet Union began its collapse. Soon after his birth, the family moved to the capital's outskirts, into the tenth and top floor of a homely brick building in a tough neighborhood. Its public school, number 596, was famous for armylike discipline and a tyrannical principal, and not much else. (It is now famous for one more thing: Ovechkin's portraits line the walls of its auditorium.) "I'm not a real central-Moscow kid," says Ovie, waving at the opulent storefronts along Tverskaya Street from our café perch. "I'm not used to luxury stuff." At the tail end of the Soviet Union, neither was anyone else.
Ovie's schooling would fall on what the Russians now like to call "the roaring 1990s," a carnival of raw greed and criminality. Moscow '92 was Chicago '29, with less sausage. Nascent capitalists got gunned down in the streets by former Young Communists. "You did what you had to do," shrugs Ovechkin. The country had found new icons: the banker, the gangster, the dollar itself. In a 1992 survey of Russian high school students by two Western academics, 60 percent of girls said they would exchange sex for hard currency. Such was the world into which Ovechkin would be released. For a guy with not much in the way of academic achievement—and Ovie, let's be honest, was a genius only on the ice—career options were limited: Driver. Bodyguard. Hit man.
Luckily there was hockey. There was always hockey, despite the family's basketball gene. Tales of Ovechkin's childhood brim with prophetic apocrypha: When he was 2, he grabbed a toy hockey stick at a store and wouldn't let go; at 5, he glimpsed a Dynamo game on TV and cried until Dad switched the channel back; at 10, he hit a goalpost so hard the puck broke in half. (His coach kept the halves as a kind of religious arti-fact.) Hockey got him out of P.S. 596, where he made it through eight and a half grades -before switching to Dynamo's "sports school." The twice-daily training sessions—morning and night—left little time for anything else. He'd be up at 6 a.m., eat a bowl of porridge served by Dad (Tatyana was often on the road with her team), and head into the dawn. When he got home from hockey, he played more hockey—with neighbors' kids, in the yard, in a hallway with the furniture moved to one side. "You dive into sport with your head and arms and legs, and there's no time for anything else," he tells me. "There's no other career."
By the time Ovechkin reached his teens, his eldest brother, Sergei, had died in a car crash at 25. His first coach, Vyacheslav Kirillov, was dead from heart failure at 29. His friends were getting high and getting dead. College was a distant fantasy. When I ask Alex where his school peers ended up, he recalls only one success story: a guy who "plays in a rock 'n' roll band." And the rest? "Some are in prison. A lot of them are dead. Drugs and all that crap. When you leave school and try to find work, your priorities immediately change. That's when the drugs get you."
The stakes were real. Hockey was both a destiny and a salvation. He had the talent—untrammeled, electric talent that seemed to require reining in more than training. At 17, Ovechkin became the youngest-ever member of Russia's national team. And as befits a guy growing up in the newly materialistic world, Alex quickly realized how much that talent was worth. The dream was clear: the NHL. He loved the Penguins (the future home of his nemesis Sidney Crosby, who played his first NHL game a day after Ovechkin). He was a fanboy and a peer at once. Even as he collected their cards, Alex had a pretty good idea of his own growing ability to go toe-to-toe with any one of them, including his idol, Mario Lemieux. The signs were there. Scouts were circling. Interviews were lining up. In 2004 came the ultimate proof: He was the number one draft pick, Dynamo's first since the fall of the USSR. (The club tried to get the NHL to pay ten times its normal price for his release.) So hot was Ovechkin that the Florida Panthers tried to draft him two days before his eighteenth birthday, making a rather creative case that he had lived through four leap years and was thus, if you really think about it, of age. Then the Washington Capitals came with an offer—$12 million with incentives for three years—nobody could refuse.
On October 4, 2005, a year delayed by the lockout, Ovechkin—his wide cheeks still carrying a sprinkling of teen acne—skated onto the ice in a Caps jersey, against the Blue Jackets. His goal for his first NHL game was, of course, just that: to hit a goal. He hit two, four minutes apart, and checked a guy so hard he broke the glass partition.
The pyramid was Ovie's idea. It is a cheesy joint, decorated with ankhs and hieroglyphics, that functions as a dance club after dark. It's been here forever, which in Moscow's case means since the 1990s, and it reeks of the era: a quick and dirty mock-up of Western excess not quite gotten right. "I used to go to this place a lot when I played for Russia," explains Ovechkin. "I would spend whole days here. I used to date this girl then.... See, they have these sofas on the second floor. So I used to take her up to those sofas, you know?" He glances around the patio—we're practically alone, bored waitress notwithstanding—and looks dismayed. "There used to be a line in front of this place," he adds almost apologetically. "It was the hippest place in town."
These days, when Ovechkin hits Moscow, his nightlife itinerary is more varied. He is 25, single, a multimillionaire, handsome in a brutal way. This summer the Russian edition of Tatler called him the country's most eligible bachelor—a case, perhaps, of belaboring the point. Ovechkin's main hunting grounds are Sunrise, Rai, and Soho Rooms, three of Moscow's flashiest bottle-service clubs. "In Moscow, if you have money, you're king," he says with a lopsided grin. "If you don't—sorry, man, get lost. I mean, it's like this everywhere. But in Moscow, it's much more hard-core."
"There's some quality action at Soho Rooms, real high quality," he says when we start talking clubs. "You should go pick up some telochki." The word literally means "calves" and semantically falls somewhere between "chicks" and "bitches." "Especially if you've got your own table. Just go up to the girls, say, 'I've got a table,' and they'll hop right along."
I do that smug thing married guys do, where you stick out your hand and use the thumb to wiggle the wedding ring on the ring finger.
"Aw, come on, who's gonna see?" pushes Ovechkin.
Right on cue comes a phone call from Ovie's current girl. The ringtone is a song by Zhanna Friske, a Russian pop star with whom local tabloids have been "linking" Ovechkin for ages; the woman on the other end of the line is not, however, Zhanna Friske. Awkward. Figuring he's opened the door, I ask Ovechkin about his relationship with Friske; he cracks up, then switches to robotic press-conference English. We're very good friends. No more questions. "You know," he continues in Russian, "the papers always say I'm seeing this or that person. Zhanna and I laugh at this. Like, I was dating this girl once and came to the airport to pick her up. I go to the restroom, she buys the paper. I come out, and she's like, 'You asshole!' I'm like, 'What?' Turns out there's a picture of me and Zhanna in the paper. I'm like, 'Calm down.'"
In Washington, where he spends most of his time, Ovechkin's life is infinitely more placid. He is on his best behavior there, mindful of his stature. In Moscow, he can't help but revert to his teenage self. Hence the silly Pyramid, hence the giddy telochki talk. "Moscow is a big city," he says. "It's all nerves—something's always happening somewhere. D.C. is a quiet, calm family town." He lives in a house in Arlington, Virginia, he bought his rookie year; his parents, who keep a home base in Moscow, and his brother, Mikhail, who works with the WNBA, are frequent guests. And if Ovechkin's exploits don't reach American tabloids, perhaps that's because he's simply not into American girls. "If you compare Russia and America," he explains sagely, "they are two different worlds. People, cars, clothes. Girls' figures. Especially girls' figures. Why do you think that is, that when an American goes to Russia for a week, he stays for two extra weeks? Girls! And when a Russian goes to America for a week, he leaves in five days. I'm serious! There's a statistic! Ask any American about Russia. You know what they'll say."
The conversation ends abruptly. Ovechkin's dangerous-looking friend Magomet, whom Alex has been texting throughout our talk (he texts nonstop, with prodigious -smileys), has rolled up in an Audi SUV painted a scabrous matte black. For a while, we cruise down Tverskaya. Each time he sees a pretty girl walking by, Ovechkin shouts "BOOM!" at the top of his lungs.
Between the explosions, we decide on our next outing. Once again, the place is Ovechkin's idea: a skating rink. I've never skated in my life.
"I've never skated in my life," I say.
"Great," says Ovechkin. "So we'll all laugh at you."
As the Caps' season nears, Ovechkin finds himself in a unique situation. For all his undisputed genius, he has yet to lead the Capitals to the Stanley Cup or Russia to Olympic gold. He'll tell anyone who'll listen that these are his twin goals in life, and so far he's fallen short on both. The humility is not false. It is learned; there's a difference. In 2009 the Capitals fell to his former idols, the Crosby-led Penguins; this April, with Ovechkin as the captain and everybody's hopes sky-high, the Capitals shockingly squandered a 3–1 playoff lead to the Montreal Canadiens. Ovechkin was crushed. "You know, it's hard for me, but for everybody," he mumbled to the press after the defeat, his shaky English halfway out the window. "We know we can win, but we don't win it. It's pretty hard."
In Ovechkin's life, the Cup is what English professors call a structuring absence. So far he's only won it playing NHL2K10, the video game whose cover he graces in all his gap-toothed glory. Ovechkin is masochistically prone to steering the conversation back to it from anywhere. When the Caps owner Ted Leonsis asked him what he thought of his Hart and Pearson awards (both essentially MVPs), Ovechkin immediately said he would "trade them all for one Stanley Cup." When I mention his feud with a fellow Russian and former roommate, Evgeni Malkin of the Penguins, Ovechkin visibly deflates and says he considers Malkin the winner: "He's got the Stanley Cup, and I don't."
The fate of the Caps depends on whether Ovechkin's palpable hunger will take them farther this season than it did before. Ovechkin himself knows better than to make any promises. "He's still pissed [about 2009]," says Bruce Boudreau, the Capitals' head coach. "He's going to have an extra chip on his shoulder. And he's getting better every year—he is still on the upswing."
Russia, meanwhile, appears patient with her son: The 2008 World Championship he helped win will tide the fans over for a while. On the horizon, however, looms Sochi 2014, Russia's second home-turf Olympics and the first since the fall of the USSR. At the last Russian Olympics, the Americans and Canadians stayed home—and Ovechkin's mother snagged the gold. Knowing Ovechkin even a little bit, the way his brilliance is laced with moodiness, it's not hard to imagine his reaction to anything less than gold in Sochi. It would destroy him.
So far, however, Russia is still his candy store. Next day, we meet at Evropeisky ("European"), a mega-mall complete with an enormous food court, ravelike lighting, and a bank of elevators made to look like golden-domed Orthodox churches that slide up and down. The rink, poignantly, shares the top floor with Barbie's World and Build-a-Bear Workshop.
Ovie can't help himself. He shows up with two very young telochki, Lera and Olesya, that he's picked up at Soho Rooms. They're dressed like snow bunnies and have clearly had at least some skating classes between them. A stray thought visits me that Ovie has brought one of them to keep me company, but before I can figure out which one, it becomes rather obvious he's planning to keep both. Dressed in all white, complete with a white cap, he whooshes down the slushy ice—spraying a frozen margarita's worth on each dramatic stop—twirls, parodies figure-skating moves (impressively), snaps souvenir photos, rolls video, and takes turns making out with Lera while Olesya documents the proceedings and making out with Olesya while Lera does the documenting. While the calves and the lamb cavort, I hug the boards for an hour and a half. The girls giggle. The whole tableau is a high school nightmare come to life. Finally deliverance arrives in the form of a crone entrusted with the task of closing down the rink for the night. She doesn't recognize the hockey star and rudely shoos Ovechkin away, and it's fun to watch him go totally meek when faced with the fury of a Russian babushka.
"So, did you understand anything about skating?" Ovie prods me in the locker room, unlacing his rented skates.
"I understand that I can't do it for shit."
Ovechkin gives me a look of genuine pity. It only lasts a split second. Then, Lera and Olesya hanging off his biceps, he leaves "to grab some food." There are forty-five days left until the 2010 season, and from the looks of things, he's going to spend them well.
This is probably not the most obvious moment to pity Ovechkin back. Yet it's not easy to be where he is: in the gap between star and legend. All the perks are his (the next time I call him, he's midshoot on a Reebok commercial), but true glory is proving slippery. No matter how materialistic this post-Soviet boy comes across, he has signed up for more than this. And so have the fans. Ovechkin's massive fame is still a kind of loan, and it matures soon. This year better be legendary. This year better boom.
Michael Idov is a contributing editor at_New York magazine and the author of the novel Ground Up. This is his first piece for _GQ.


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ED CANNADY: Outstanding recognition of veterans
As a veteran (25th Infantry, 1959-62), I am proud of District 15 for its recognition of veterans at this time and the dedication to such efforts. I appreciated joining Sen. Larry Boggs in having legislation passed to name the new bridge on Oklahoma Highway 9 entering Stigler from the west honoring veterans who gave their lives in defense of this country. To represent their sacrifices, the bridge was named "The Cost of Freedom Memorial Bridge." Ed Tatman and the Stigler VFW Post and the Stigler Class of 1963 took the lead in raising the money and providing an appropriate setting for this signage and event. Secondly, I was honored to be asked to speak at Veterans Day events in downtown Checotah and Keota Public School. I feel honored to be able to participate in these events in that they are designed to honor both current and past veterans for their service and sacrifice for this nation. Our state has had a reputation for being both politically and fiscally conservative, irrespective of political party affiliation. In my seven years as a member of the state House of Representative, I have supported some aspects of this tradition and opposed others. The part I struggle with the most is when we say one thing but do another. This hypocrisy provides the primary setting for the context for this Journal. First, we in government pride ourselves in being fiscally cautious and vigilant on spending that may be seen as frivolous. The recent report in The Oklahoman presents us with disturbing news of extreme pay raises going to state agency administrators while rank and file state employees are told they may be considered only after a thorough study is completed. This seems to ignore the study that was done on this issue last interim. Some of the annual administrative pay raises include the following: Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, $47,000; Department of Mental Health, $40,000; Tourism executive director, $40,000; banking commissioner, $10,000; and secretary of state, $50,000. Other agency administrators' salary increases have not been published, since the agencies do not have to report them to the Office of Management and Enterprise Services until August. Some of the contradictions these present are the fact that many of our state parks under the Tourism Department have been closed or services minimized, and our state troopers are understaffed by at least 30 percent and salaries are ranked 17th to 20th compared to other law enforcement personnel in various cities and counties in the state. Combine this with the fact our state public employees have gone at least 8 years without being considered for raises. This produces the basis for evidence of hypocrisy. This leads me to my next topic of hypocrisy which was evident in an interim study in the House States Rights Committee, which had as its themes "Is the federal government taking over our state agencies?" and "How to protect state sovereignty in uncertain times." The average cost to conduct an interim study is approximately $40,000 for travel and other expenses. While the chairman of this committee, Rep. Moore, R-Edmond, was very fair in allowing questions of the presenters, who primarily consisted of state agency heads or their spokespersons, the theme was that the federal government has been intrusive in their operations. However, each of these agencies receives a large amount of federal money for their operation and many admitted they could not function without this money from the federal coffers. It was estimated in this hearing we receive back from the U.S. government $2 billion more than we send in from our state. As one agency head admitted, without this, his agency's operation would be marginalized. I guess what bothers me most is the above extreme and grotesque pay raises came as a result of their agencies being nursed by the very institution (U.S. government) for which they often express contempt. On a more positive note concerning that interim study, several agency heads testified that they did not have a problem working with the federal government relative to the stipulations on the budget. While this was not the desired message for the committee leaders, when several of us asked questions concerning the Health Care Authority, Department of Public Safety, Conservation Commission, Homeland Security, Department of Human Services about their working relationship with the federal government agencies, they almost uniformly expressed recognition the federal government was a workable partner in their fulfilling their mission for the citizens of the state. My next Journal will provide examples of federal and state cooperative efforts when it comes to school safety — both structural and operational. Ed Cannaday represents District 15, which includes part of LeFlore County, in the Oklahoma House. Write him at P.O. Box 98, Porum, OK 74455, e-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com, call him at (405) 557-7375 or go to his website at www.edcannaday.com.


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Biosafety Program Mission Statement
The mission of the Biosafety Program at MSU is to ensure a safe environment for individuals working with biohazardous materials and to ensure the protection of the community and environment by preventing exposure to biohazardous materials. To accomplish this, the Biosafety Program provides technical advice to Principal Investigators on laboratory containment, security, and safety procedures.
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The mission of the Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) at MSU is to ensure that activities with biohazardous material are conducted safely and responsibly. To fulfill this commitment, the IBC reviews and monitors all research and teaching activities by faculty, staff, and students that utilizes infectious agents, human body fluids or tissues, and recombinant or synthetic nucleic acid molecules.


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Spring has made an appearance! It's been a bit warmer and right now I'm sitting with the window open! (Although I do have the heater on the other side ready just in case.) We had an exceptionally rainy winter, so I'm looking forward to a spring full of green. For a girl who grew up in Minnesota, spring coming in February is something of a miracle.
I remember in elementary school we would always watch for the robins to return as a test of spring. What are you looking for? And what are you seeing? Please post your spring sightings!


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Ford Maverick
The Maverick was originally conceived and marketed as a subcompact "import fighter", intended to do battle with the Volkswagen Beetle and newer Japanese rivals. The Falcon, Ford's compact offering since 1960, had seen its sales decimated by the introduction of the Mustang in 1964, and despite a redesign in 1966, was unable to meet forthcoming federal motor vehicle standards that would come into effect on January 1, 1970. Consequently, the Falcon was discontinued midway through the 1970 model year, and the Maverick repositioned as Ford's compact entry.
The Maverick's styling featured the long hood, fastback roof and short deck popularized by the Mustang, on a 103 in (2,600 mm) wheelbase — and featured simple and inexpensive to manufacture pop-out rear side windows rather than roll-down windows.
Nearly 579,000 Mavericks were produced in its first year. This rivaled the record-setting first year of Mustang sales (nearly 619,000), and easily outpaced the Mustang's sales of less than 200,000 in 1970.
Initially available only as a "2-Door Coup", early models lacked a glove compartment, which was added in 1973. A 4-Door Sedan on a 109.9-inch wheelbase was introduced in 1971 with more rear room and roll-down rear door windows. A station wagon version of the Maverick was created in Brazil in 1978 by a local dealer who customized the four-door sedan.
At introduction, exterior paint carried distinctive names including Anti-Establish Mint, Hulla Blue, Original Cinnamon, Freudian Gilt, Thanks Vermillion — along with more pedestrian names, including Black Jade, Champagne Gold, Gulfstream Aqua, Meadowlark Yellow, Brittany Blue, Lime Gold, Dresden Blue, Raven Black, Wimbledon White, and Candyapple Red.
In the first half of production for the 1970 model, there were two available engine options, a 170 CID I6 and a 200 CID I6. A 250 CID I6 was added mid-year.
Commercials compared the Maverick to the smaller Volkswagen Beetle for $1,995, although the Ford Pinto would later be Ford's real subcompact competitor.
Early 1970 models built from the introduction in April until August 1969 had a few interior features that the later 1970 models built from September, 1969 onward did not. Those early Mavericks featured a two-spoke steering wheel with horn ring that was also found on other 1969 Fords while the cars built in the 1970 model year had a revised steering wheel with no horn ring. Also, the early models featured the ignition switch in the instrument panel while the cars built after September 1, 1969 had the ignition switch mounted on a locking steering column as did all other 1970 Fords in compliance with a new federal safety mandate that took effect with the 1970 model year.
The four-door model was introduced in 1971. Also available was a vinyl roof. Mercury also revived the Mercury Comet as a mechanical clone of the Maverick. A 210 hp (160 kW) 302 CID V8 was also introduced for both the Comet and the Maverick. The Comet featured a new grille, taillights borrowed from the Mercury Montego, trim, and hood.
The muscle car-themed Grabber trim package was introduced in mid-1970. The package included special graphics and trim, including a spoiler. It was offered from 1970-1975. In 1971 and 1972, the Grabber came with a special "Dual Dome" hood. A similar package for the Mercury Comet, the Comet GT, was also offered from 1971–1975 and had "muscle car" trim akin to the Maverick Grabber, plus its own distinctive hood scoop.
A Sprint package offered in 1972 featured a special red, white, and blue paint with matching interior. With similar packages offered on the Pinto and the Mustang, the trim package patrioticly acknowledged the 1972 Olympics and was available for only one year. U.S. versions were given a stylized U.S. flag made into a rear quarter panel decal. The badge was very much in the vein of Olympic symbols, but without being too close, to avoid copyright infringement. Sprints sold in Canada were also red, white, and blue, but had a quarter badge styled from the Canadian flag.
A "Luxury Decor Option" (LDO) trim level was introduced late in the 1972 model year including reclining bucket seats in a soft vinyl material, plush carpeting, woodgrained instrument panel trim, radial tires with body-color deluxe wheel covers and a vinyl roof. The Maverick LDO option (also offered on the Mercury Comet) was one of the first American compacts to be marketed as a lower-priced (and domestic) alternative to the more expensive European luxury/touring sedans from Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi and other makes.
Minor changes were made from 1973-1975. In 1973, the 170 CID engine was dropped, making the 200 CID I6 the standard engine. Additionally, improved brakes and a previously optional chrome grille became standard. An AM/FM stereo, aluminum wheels and a new front bumper were added (the latter to comply with new federal regulations). In 1974, the Maverick was unchanged except for rear federal bumpers and larger trunk with a higher deck. Jumping gas prices and increasing demand for smaller cars resulting from the Arab Oil embargo did cause the Maverick to grow in popularity, selling 10,000 more units than the year before. Production of the Maverick and Comet dropped in 1975 with the release of the Ford Granada and Mercury Monarch as true Euro-style luxury compacts.
The Maverick received minor trim changes for 1975 that included new grilles and the replacement of Maverick nameplates on the hood and trunklid with FORD nameplates spelled out in block letters.
In 1976 the Grabber was dropped, and a Stallion package was introduced. The Stallion option came with special paint and trim. Like the Sprint package four years earlier, Ford offered the Stallion option on several models, this time including the Pinto and the new Mustang II. The Comet GT was also discontinued. Standard Mavericks received another new grille and gained front disc brakes as standard equipment along with a new foot-operated parking brake that replaced the old under-dash T-handle unit. Production continued to drop.
1977 was the final year for both the Maverick and Comet. Both cars remained unchanged except for a police package on the Maverick which was not sufficiently upgraded for police work and sold less than 400 units. The Maverick was produced in Brazil until 1979. Maverick's place in the North American Ford lineup was essentially taken by the 1978 Fairmont.
The Maverick and Comet saw no significant changes towards the end of their lifespan since they were originally meant to be replaced in 1975 by the Granada and Monarch. However, Ford decided to keep selling both sets of cars until the 1978 model year introduction of the Ford Fairmont and Mercury Zephyr, which were built on an all-new "Fox" platform that would serve as the basic platform for many Ford/Mercury/Lincoln designs through the early 1990s.
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How does a New York City publicist and party girl turn into a go to guide for the next generation? In her new book, Spirit Junkie: A Radical Road to Self-Love and Miracles, Gabrielle Bernstein shares the story of how she transformed her life, offering her spiritual journey as a guidebook for overcoming fear, changing perceptions, and creating a life you're psyched to wake up for. Bernstein has traded self-doubt and addiction for a new kind of high. In 2005 she became a student of A Course in Miracles and since then she has been guided to teach those spiritual principles to the next generation of seekers.
From the Hardcover edition.
—Elle Magazine
"Gabrielle is one of my most treasured soul sisters and a true 'Spirit Junkie' in the most fun and exhilarating ways imaginable! I read Gabby's books for spiritual life lessons on how to love myself and others more deeply and with authentic honesty. Open your hearts to this beautiful goddess-diva and, most important, discover the one that lives inside you!"
—Eliza Dushku
"A decade ago, young women like Ms. Bernstein might have been expected to chase the lifestyle of high heels and pink drinks…But now there is a new role model for New York's former Carrie Bradshaws…well versed in self-help and New Age spirituality…Ms. Bernstein is one of a circle of such figures, influenced less by the oeuvre of Candace Bushnell than that of Marianne Williamson."
—The New York Times
"For those ready to give up their addiction to suffering or who simply need to release the general malaise of a too-busy, too shallow way of life, Spirit Junkie is a soothing balm for the soul. Gabrielle Bernstein is a brilliant shining guide for all who seek to have more love, more light and more miracles in their life."
—Arielle Ford, author of The Soulmate Secret
"In this mixture of humor, grief and how-to instructions on achieving enlightenment, Bernstein offers more than just autobiography or a user's guide to meditation . . . A groovy blend of meditative and instructive writing."--Kirkus
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CrestviewHigh School's girls basketball team has plenty to cheer about after winning the championship of the Pace Christmas tournament.
The Bulldogs opened the tournament with a resounding 55-29 win over District 1-7A rival Navarre.
KK McTear led Crestview's attack with 14 points, Nyguaja Collins pitched in 13 points and Jensis Coleman had 14 assists.
McTear remained hot in the Dec. 27 tournament semifinal game, scoring 23 points as Crestview rolled to a 70-28 win over Central.
Arianna Simms and Jasmine Middleton joined McTear in double figures. Simmis scored 16 and Middleton had 12.
Coleman and Collins each recorded a double-double in the tournament championship game, leading the Bulldogs to a 54-47 win over Poplar Springs.
Coleman scored 10 points to go along with 17 assists. Collins had 10 points and 14 rebounds. Simms just missed a double-double as she scored nine points and pulled down 10 rebounds.
McTear, with 16 points, was the leading scorer for the Bulldogs (10-6).


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Ageism in the Workplace
Patricia Brownell
Older workers make important contributions to the workplace, its productivity, and its culture. Work remains important for older adults for financial security, to give meaning to later life, to maintain social networks, and to promote lifelong learning. However, ageist beliefs about the capacity of older adults to remain productive and contributing workers in the workforce can create barriers for older workers. Understanding how older workers experience ageist behavior in the workplace can help employers, policy makers, and social workers learn more about how to address this social problem. Organizations can become more age friendly through enabling workplace programs, supportive management, and proactive human resource managers. Social workers serving older adults in employee assistance programs and in private practice can help them to challenge ageism in the workplace. Finally, legislation such as the Age Discrimination in Employment Act protects the rights of older workers; however, more legislation is needed to address bullying and harassment of older adults in the workplace.
Ageism and Retirement
Lynn McDonald
Retirement is a modest social institution that appeared in most industrialized nations near the start of the 20th century. The aim of retirement was to solve the societal dilemma of an increasingly aged labor force by moving older workers systematically out of their jobs so as to not cause them financial harm (Atchley, 1980, p. 264). Although retirement has been considered benign since its inception, the history of retirement indicates that it is one of the main progenitors of ageism in society today (Atchley, 1982, 1993; Haber & Gratton, 1994; McDonald, 2013; Walker, 1990). Retirement and its accompanying stereotypes have been used as a tool for the management of the size and composition of the labor force contingent on the dictums of current markets in any given historical era. Ever-changing ideologies about older adults that extend from negative to positive ageism have been utilized by business, government, the public, and the media to support whatever justification is required in a particular era, with little thought to the harm perpetrated on older adults. Unfortunately, society has subscribed to these justifications en masse, including older adults themselves. In this article the ageism embedded in retirement is examined to make what is implicit explicit to social work practitioners and policymakers in the field of aging.
Agency-Based Research
Irwin Epstein and Stephen A. Kapp
This entry reviews agency-based research and the unique demands created by the organizational context where this activity resides. Three primary stakeholder groups are identified: administrators and program managers, supervisors, and direct service workers and clinicians. Possible uses of agency-based research by each of the respective stakeholder groups are described. Finally, the role of service consumers in agency-based research is discussed.
American Social Security System
Eric R. Kingson, Dana Bell, and Sarah Shive
This entry examines why our nation's Social Security system was built, what it does, and what must be done to maintain and improve this foundational system for current and future generations. After a discussion of the social insurance approach to economic security and its underlying principles and values, the evolution of America's Social Security system is reviewed—beginning with the enactment of the Social Security Act of 1935, through its incremental development, to the changed politics of Social Security since the mid-1990s. Next, program benefits and financing are described and contemporary challenges and related policy options are identified, in terms of both the program's projected shortfall and the public's need for expanded retirement, disability, and survivorship protections. The entry concludes by noting that social workers have an important role to play in shaping Social Security's future.
Best Practices
Edward J. Mullen, Jennifer L. Bellamy, and Sarah E. Bledsoe
This entry describes best practices as these are used in social work. The term best practices originated in the organizational management literature in the context of performance measurement and quality improvement where best practices are defined as the preferred technique or approach for achieving a valued outcome. Identification of best practices requires measurement, benchmarking, and identification of processes that result in better outcomes. The identification of best practices requires that organizations put in place quality data collection systems, quality improvement processes, and methods for analyzing and benchmarking pooled provider data. Through this process, organizational learning and organizational performance can be improved.
Capacity Development and Building
DeBrenna LaFa Agbényiga
As a profession, social workers must understand and work well within the realms of capacity development. This understanding is important because it provides a foundation for working at the micro and macro levels to engage communities, organizations, systems, and individuals. However, the complexity of capacity development has made it difficult for social workers to fully engage from this stance. This entry discusses the historical development of capacity development and building while linking it to social justice. It also provides a theoretical perspective and methods for understanding and utilizing capacity development and building in social-work practice.
Charitable Foundations
Helmut K. Anheier and Marcus Lam
Foundations are private institutions for public benefit. With a long history that reaches back to antiquity, foundations are experiencing a renaissance and increased attention paid to them by policy makers. Already by the mid-1980s, observers had begun to report the end of the relative decline in the overall size and importance of the foundation sector—a trend that had characterized the previous decades. Some analysts suggest the possibility of a new, third "foundation wave," after a first growth period in the late Middle Ages, alongside the rise of commerce and finance, and a second period of growth in the late 19th century, following the industrial revolution. Political stability, an increase in demand for social, educational, and cultural services of all kinds, and economic prosperity are certainly significant factors behind this growth. Yet a more immediate reason is the way in which foundations have been suggesting themselves as instruments of welfare state reform in the broadest sense.
Child Care Services
Laura Lein
Child care services, enabling parents to commit themselves to paid employment while providing a supervised environment for their children, have a long and complex history in the United States. Child care services can provide children with educational and other advantages, as well as custodial care. In fact, the United States has multiple kinds of services providing child care and early childhood education. Publicly funded services have concentrated on care for impoverished children and those facing other risks or disadvantages, but many of these children and their families remain unserved because of gaps in programs and lack of support for subsidies, while other families purchase the services they need.
Contexts/Settings: Agencies and Organizations in Nonprofit Settings
Jennifer E. Mosley
Nonprofit organizations serve a wide variety of functions and play a particularly important role in providing needed social services in the United States. This entry begins by exploring the roles and origins of the nonprofit sector, reporting on its current scope and scale, and reviewing federal regulations governing nonprofit organizations. Special attention is then given to understanding human service organizations and their financing, including the implications of changing government-nonprofit relationships. Four additional issues facing the sector—accountability, technology, political participation, and diversity, as well as recommendations for meeting future challenges, are also discussed.
Contexts/Settings: Corporate Settings
David Stoesz
Human service corporations provide opportunities that social workers are just beginning to recognize. Although the commercial provision of services has negative features, expansion of the for-profit sector bodes well for those professionals willing to consider it as a practice setting. Corporations have become prominent service providers in hospital management, nursing home care, managed care, child care, welfare, and corrections. Because for-profit firms are often more competitive than nonprofit agencies, privatization is likely to contribute to corporatization human services.


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Accelerated Cure Project is collecting favorite recipes and MS tips to be published in a cookbook. The proceeds from the cookbook will benefit Accelerated Cure Project's mission to determine the causes of MS. If you are interested in submitting a recipe and short tip or saying relevant to living with MS, please adhere to the following instructions:
o Space in cookbook is limited. Recipes will be selected based on when received, content, and interest by our designer.
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