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In the 2006-2007 season, Leung was predominantly a bars specialist, although she also contributed to the beam and floor line-ups. She competed on bars in every meet. At the Penn State quad meet, she scored a 9.425, and her season high score was a 9.475 at the Ivy Classic. Both times, she earned the 2nd highest score on the team. During her rookie season, Leung competed in all but one meet. Her top performances came during two of the most important meets of the season, the Ivy Classic and the ECAC Championships. At the Ivy Classic, Leung earned her career high score on the floor exercise, 9.650, contributing to the Bulldog's victory over their Ivy opponents. Leung scored her hightest mark of the season on the vault exercise, 9.400, and her second highest score on the bars, 9.425, at the ECAC Championships.
Leung came to Yale from West Valley Gymnastics. In 2004, she qualified for California state and regional competitions and was an alternate to the Level 10 Junior Olympic National Championships. She graduated as valedictorian from Washington High School.


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Yankees deny claims made by A-Rod's attorney
BOSTON -- A warning was issued during Alex Rodriguez's 4 1/2-minute interview in Fenway Park's visiting dugout on Friday, in which the embattled Yankees slugger spoke of a "bumpy road" ahead in which he "would expect bigger and bigger stories to come out every day."
Rodriguez's comment proved to be prescient on Saturday. An attorney for Rodriguez voiced numerous claims in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times, among them that the Yankees supposedly concealed the results of an MRI that showed Rodriguez was injured during last year's postseason.View Full Game Coverage
BOSTON -- A warning was issued during Alex Rodriguez's 4 1/2-minute interview in Fenway Park's visiting dugout on Friday, in which the embattled Yankees slugger spoke of a "bumpy road" ahead in which he "would expect bigger and bigger stories to come out every day."
Rodriguez's comment proved to be prescient on Saturday. An attorney for Rodriguez voiced numerous claims in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times, among them that the Yankees supposedly concealed the results of an MRI that showed Rodriguez was injured during last year's postseason.View Full Game Coverage
Joseph Tacopina, who recently was retained by Rodriguez, also claimed that the Yankees and Major League Baseball have been working together to sideline Rodriguez and nullify his contract, which has $86 million remaining after this season.
"They rolled him out there like an invalid and made him look like he was finished as a ballplayer," Tacopina told the newspaper.
Rodriguez eventually had an arthroscopic procedure to remove a torn labrum and left hip impingement in January, performed by Dr. Bryan Kelly of the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. Tacopina claimed that prior to the procedure, Yankees president Randy Levine allegedly told Kelly, if Tacopina is to be believed, "I don't ever want to see him on the field again."
Levine swiftly denied Tacopina's claims to multiple news outlets and challenged Rodriguez to authorize the Yankees to release his medical records, which Levine said would prove that the Yankees never withheld information about his physical condition.
"Each and every one of these allegations is specious and completely false," Levine told the Times, adding, "It is pretty sad that any lawyer would make such ridiculous statements."
Robert Manfred, an executive vice president with Major League Baseball, told the Times on Saturday that baseball's investigation began because the names of players linked to the Biogenesis clinic in Florida were made public and said Rodriguez was treated "exactly the same" as the other players.
"The bottom line on this is," Manfred said, "I have yet to see Alex Rodriguez or any of his representatives say that Alex Rodriguez didn't use PEDs. They've adopted a strategy to make a circus atmosphere of irrelevant allegations. ... I don't know why anyone who represents Alex Rodriguez has any credibility or standing to complain about anyone's conduct, let alone ours."
Speaking after the Yankees' 6-1 loss to the Red Sox at Fenway Park, Rodriguez said, "I haven't seen the Times article. I've just come out of a game, so I'm going to defer to my lawyer to handle those matters."
Rodriguez has been suspended for 211 games by Major League Baseball but is continuing to play under appeal until his case can be heard by an arbitrator.
He struggled in the 2012 postseason and was benched by manager Joe Girardi against the Orioles and Tigers. Asked on Friday how much better his swing is this year compared with last year, Rodriguez said, "I shouldn't have been out there last year."
After Saturday's game, Rodriguez sidestepped a question asking if he believed the Yankees had knowingly played him through an injury in the playoffs.
"I don't even want to think about what happened last year," Rodriguez said. "I just want to focus on what's happening this year and try to come out tomorrow and win a series."
Girardi reiterated on Saturday that he had no reason to think that Rodriguez was hurt during the postseason.
"No, I didn't. We didn't know," Girardi said. "From everything I knew, he felt good. Then the one day came up, the day that I pinch-hit [in Game 3 of the American League Division Series], he just said his hip wasn't firing. That was the first inkling for me that maybe there was something wrong -- but [Rodriguez said] it was his right hip."
Girardi added that he always goes out of his way to make sure a player's health is not impacted.
"You're in a situation during the playoffs that you need guys to play," Girardi said. "I don't ever want to ruin anyone's career. That would break my heart.
"I've often talked about -- and sometimes maybe I take some heat -- with the way I handle a bullpen, but I am not ruining anyone's career. That's not who I am. I never felt that anyone ever put me in jeopardy, and I don't want to do that."
Asked if he thought Girardi was involved in any aspect of what Tacopina said in his interviews, Rodriguez said, "I love Joe. Joe and I have an amazing relationship. I have the utmost respect for Joe, and that's unwavered."
Levine told the Times that he never made the comment regarding not wanting to see Rodriguez on the field, and added that there are transcripts of telephone calls with Kelly to support that claim, if Rodriguez gives permission to release them.
Even as Rodriguez and his attorneys confront the Yankees' front office, Girardi said that he has been able to separate Rodriguez's duties as a baseball player from all of the off-the-field noise.
"It's something that I'm sure as time goes on, we will understand more and more," Girardi said. "For me, it's too early to digest. I have to worry about this; what we're doing here. I can't worry about accusations and stuff flying all over the place. My main job is to make sure his focus is on the field when he's out there, and I will do that."
Rodriguez said that he does not feel distracted, adding that he did not know why his lawyer was speaking about these topics at this time. He answered cautiously when asked if he still believes the Yankees have his best interests in mind.
"I can't speculate for what their thought is," Rodriguez said. "I know I've been here for 10 years. We won a championship. There have been some ups and downs, but I'm happy about where the team is right now. I think we have an opportunity to hopefully get to the postseason. That's our goal."
Bryan Hoch is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @bryanhoch and read his MLBlog, Bombers Beat.


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Back to School Guide for Nursing Students
It's that time of the year again. Summer is coming to a close, the leaves are turning, and you are beginning to spend your money on books instead of bathing suits. Whether you can't wait to get back to the daily grind of studying and late nights, or you wish summer would last another three months, you need to be ready for that first day of class. Make the most out of the first semester with our helpful Back to School Guide.
Get in the Right Mind-Set
Whether you spent the summer lounging on the beach, volunteering for the Red Cross, or waiting tables at your local diner, you probably didn't spend a whole lot of time thinking about classes, books, and term papers. Now is the time to get back into "school mode." Here are four ways to start thinking like a student again:
1. Read Up on the Latest Nursing News. To start thinking like a nursing student again, reacquaint yourself with the most up-to-date nursing news. Did you hear about the nurse who is battling cancer while remaining at her job? What do you think about the fact that doctors can refuse abortions? Should the government be able to limit contraceptive information?
You peers and professors alike will be impressed with your knowledge of the latest nursing news, and keeping up with the times will help create a pattern that will turn you into a better nurse in the end.
2. Cut Out the Trashy T.V. You spent the summer watching re-runs of "Grey's Anatomy", but that doesn't exactly have anything to do with being a student. Turn off the TV, or substitute your usual two hours of "I Love New York" for an hour of "Hopkins," the new mini-series on Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Turning off the boob tube will leave more time for studying, office hours, of volunteer work – all of which will benefit you more than finding out who gets kicked off the latest reality show.
3. Meet Your Professors. Many professors hold office hours even before classes begin. Make the extra effort to introduce yourself, ask questions, and show your interest in the class. Your professor will remember you, and you will be taking the first step toward acquiring the all-so-important reference.
4. Start a Study Group. Never underestimate the power of networking! Post a flyer or send an email about starting a study group before the class has started. A study group can not only help your through the class, it will also guarantee that you have familiar faces on the first day.


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Summer is just around the corner and things are really heating up with the Unity BlackBerry 10 Open Beta announcement and many new exciting offerings in BlackBerry World! Unity is making it easy for any developer to bring their games to mobile devices – including the BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10 smartphones – and the upcoming BlackBerry Q5 smartphone. Unity is a powerful engine for gaming that let's you have some amazing experiences in mobile and beyond.
You might recognize many of the titles developers have already brought to BlackBerry World that are built on the Unity platform:
Air Attack, CreaVures, Dark Nebula: Episode One, Fractal, Gravity Lab, Psychoban, Roboto, Samurai II Vengeance, SHADOWGUN and Sushi Chop
But in true BlackBerry World Wednesday fashion, here's a list of many of the new titles to hit the BlackBerry World storefront this week. Head on over to BlackBerry World and kick off your summer with these awesome apps and games:
BlackBerry Z10 Apps:
Business & Finance:
- SAP Customer Financial Fact Sheet (SAP AG)
- SAP RealSpend (SAP AG)
- SAP CFO Vantage (SAP AG)
- mySunLife (Sun Life Financial)
- Cut the Rope (ZeptoLab UK Ltd.)
- Modern Combat 4 (Gameloft Inc.)
- Team Stream (Bleacher Report)
Navigation & Travel:
- Qatar Airways (Qatar Airways)
Health & Fitness:
- Endomondo Sports Tracker for BlackBerry 10 (Endomondo)
BlackBerry Q10 Apps:
- Where's My Water? (Disney)
- Where's My Perry? (Disney)
- Worbble 1.0 (Milestone Interactive Private Limited)
Photos & Video:
- Arab Idol (MBC Group)
- Pocoyo TV (Zinkia Entertainment S.A.)
- ColorUp Pro – Color Splash Editor (esDot Development Studios)
- XENOZU Player for YouTube (XenZu Technologies LLC)
News & Information
- Le Parisien (le Parisien)
- Rediff News (Rediff.com)
- Top Gear – News For BlackBerry 10 (BBC Worldwide)
Shopping Tools & Utilities:
- Shopping List – myShopi (Agilys)
- CNBC Alarm Clock (CNBC)
Food & Drink:
- OpenTable (OpenTable)
BlackBerry Dev Picks of the Week:
Here are the top 5 'must-haves' apps according to our developers here at BlackBerry:
- Haunted Factory Hidden Objects Quest Kids Game (WHRMedia) "Sports application game– it's more interesting because the application provided a story line."
- Zeeek Run (Midgar Studio) "Amazing game with cool graphics and powerful sound make this game really attractive." "Great runner game and have a lot of levels."
- Basic Theme for BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10 (rak theme) "Great app to spice up your Z10 and Q10 display. It has numerous themes you can apply for your phone."
- Wallpapers Cafe (nextGen) "Nice wallpaper app with lots of HD quality image selection to choose for your devices.
- 50 Home Workouts (Qubical) "With this app you can manage task, organize the way you want to, plan your time and locate your task, really complete and simple for organize your time and schedule."
Latest App News: Keep an eye out for MTV News, Money Center and Sesame Street apps which will be available on the BlackBerry Z10 and Q10 in the upcoming weeks. Also coming soon to the BlackBerry Q10: Vueling Airlines, Yellow Pages, Ultimate History Quiz, Manulife Insure Right and Fly Porter apps.
For a look at all BlackBerry 10 apps, head to BlackBerry World. and let us know what your favorite apps and games are on BlackBerry 10.


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Morgan, Staff Share NCAC Honorby Brent Harris • March 5, 2011 Share:
The award will have Clyde Morgan's name on it, but the head track and field coach for the Little Giant program is more than willing to share the 2011 North Coast Athletic Conference Men's Indoor Track and Field Coach of the Year Award with his staff.
"We've accomplished this success of winning the NCAC Indoor Championship as a team, and that includes the coaching staff," Morgan (left) said. "It started a week ago when Coach (Steve) Rogers and Coach (Steve) House took our three pentathlon athletes to Oberlin to compete and score the first team points for us. Coach (Roger) Busch has done great work with our distance runners from cross country season straight into track season.
"We knew in our recruiting that the pole vault would be one of our strengths with our young athletes, and the work Coach (Horace) Turner has done with them is outstanding. We also have a legendary coach like Coach (Rob) Johnson continue to provide his instruction and expertise for our athletes."
The NCAC Indoor Coach of the Year Award is the first for Morgan and his staff. Wabash claimed its first conference title at the 2011 indoor championship meet at Oberlin. Twenty-three of Morgan's athletes came home with all-conference honors, while senior Matt Scheller was named the NCAC Men's Most Outstanding Field Athlete. Scheller won the shot put and weight throw, setting a new school record with his winning mark in the shot put.


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"Wizard Wars" (10 p.m., Syfy): Pulling a rabbit from a hat is, well, old hat. This show instead challenges teams of magicians to create amazing, impromptu illusions with an array of random objects, including Spam and Super Soakers.
"K. Michelle: Rebellious Soul — The Musical" (10 p.m., VH1): Think of this as a hip-hopera. Directed by Idris Elba, it's a theatrical presentation of the latest album by the R&B artist and reality TV star.
"Cleaners" (Crackle): Emily Osment and Emmanuelle Chriqui return for Season 2 of this suspense thriller. They play a pair of contract killers who have headed to a small island in the Caribbean, where they hope to have a major payday. But FBI agent Frank Barnes (David Arquette) has other ideas.
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Dustin Lynch Performs 'Cowboys and Angels' Acoustic – Exclusive Video
Add Dustin Lynch to the list of country stars finding their way into the Taste of Country Nights studio. The 'Cowboys and Angels' singer stopped by recently to play his hit song 'Cowboys and Angels' for listeners nationwide. The tender acoustic version of the song makes one of the more well-loved singles of the year a little more memorable.


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A guard, or guardian, is an individual who is assigned to watch over or protect something. On the Federation planet of Ardana, the term sentinel was used to describe the guards found in the cloud city of Stratos. On Starfleet starships, this task is usually given to a security officer, often one with a lower title than security chief.
The Malcorian Lanel once helped William T. Riker escape by distracting the guard outside the room where Riker was being held. Before she helped him, however, she made him fulfill one of her fantasies: having sex with an alien. (TNG: "First Contact")
While investigating a five-year-old murder, Odo posted a guard in the Deep Space 9's infirmary to guard Quark, who was the only lead but was struggling for life. (DS9: "Necessary Evil")
A guard was assigned to protect the quarters of Gul Dukat while he was aboard Deep Space 9 in 2370 assisting Benjamin Sisko with an investigation into weapons smuggling. He was able to provide a description of two individuals who assaulted him in the process of abducting Dukat from the space station. Those individuals were later identified as members of the Maquis. (DS9: "The Maquis, Part I")
Two Jem'Hadar guards were posted in the station's brig while Kira Nerys and Rom were being held there, the latter scheduled for execution the next day. However, Quark and Tora Ziyal disabled the officer stationed in the security office and Quark shot both guards. (DS9: "Sacrifice of Angels")
Notable guards Edit
- Athan, 2151 (ENT: "Terra Nova")
- Tholos, 2151 (ENT: "The Andorian Incident")
- Foster, 2153


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games I've seen boozer, he's been real good
*Random NBA Thoughts That Aren't Worth A Thread Themselves*
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bada wrote:Quazza wrote:Boozer's a MUCH better defender than Al. He's a great low post, one on one defender
Are you sure about that Quazza? Boozer has always been a very poor defender in my eyes. Especially for a guy so strong on physical but again he seems to be one of those guys that only cares to play one half of the game (offense).
Boozer has always been weak defensively, his greatest knock.
AJeff used to be a very good defender,I realisethat now he is struggling after his surgery, but the guy is capable of being a very good defender and can block shots well
Yeah I have nothing bad to say about the Jefferson for Boozer swap that the Jazz essentially made this offseason. I think that Jefferson will have newfound energy from a) playing for Jerry Sloan b) Being on a playoff team c) Playing with Deron Williams and d) not having to be a center anymore. Plus I don't trust Boozer at his price tag.
Hey guys, just wanted to know if anyone knows where I can download old nba games? I know bigs had a thread about a year ago on this, but searching for such threads is not as simple as it was in the old forum setup and so I'm asking in this thread. I want to get gaems from a few years ago, like when Vince Carter was in Toronto and at his best, like TMac when he was in Orlando and at his best.
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SMH, Glen Davis from the Celtics looking very suspect in this video.
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warriorsstepup wrote:SMH, Glen Davis from the Celtics looking very suspect in this video.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UUwkG1UFGU
LOL i think all the NBA players are trying to do this... LeBron and Odom were teaching each other how to "duggie" at a party in vegas... lol so ridiculus.
Durant, how is this fair, he definitely MVP of this league, lol.
Talk about a head case, good way to start messing up your career.
NEW YORK -- Indiana Pacers draft pick Lance Stephenson, after pushing his girlfriend down a flight of stairs, grabbed her and hit her head on the bottom step, prosecutors said Monday.
A judge released Stephenson, 19, without bail late Sunday night after his arrest on assault, menacing and harassment charges. Prosecutors had asked for $7,500 bail.
Authorities say the confrontation occurred around 5 a.m. Sunday when the victim, Jasmine Williams, was returning home to her apartment building with two friends. Witnesses said Stephenson was waiting for her and yelled, "Are you kidding me?" before pushing her down the stairs.
A criminal complaint provided Monday by the Brooklyn district attorney's office said that as Williams lay at the bottom of the stairs, Stephenson picked up her head and slammed it on the bottom step.
When police arrived, Stephenson told them the woman had fallen down the stairs, prosecutors said. The complaint said Williams suffered head and back wounds, and possible damage to her neck.
Pacers president Larry Bird has said he was aware of the situation. Stephenson attorney Alberto Ebanks didn't return phone and e-mail messages Monday.
Stephenson was one of the nation's top high school prospects. He played one season at Cincinnati before applying for early entry to the NBA draft.
His next court date is scheduled for Oct. 19, according to New York-area media reports.
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theres no way your "head case" line was no pun intended
Beast Mode wrote:theres no way your "head case" line was no pun intended
Good catch , lol, I did not notice until u mentioned.
Surprised that the Jazz are just laying down and dying the last couple nights..oh well!
Oh, by the way...what's up with Kirilenko's hair?
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That hair is an absolute shocker, isn't it? I liked Bill Simmons tweet, where he asked if someone has published a list/blog of the worst 75 Kirilenko hairstyles, haha.
I think the Jazz will be OK. Deron/Jefferson is one of the best guard/big man combos in the league, they just need time to get their act together as a team. Millsap is underrated too. The Jazz's problem lies with giving Raja Bell 35min a night. I'd rather have Korver at SG, but I guess you can't have it all.
I think the Jazz will be OK. Deron/Jefferson is one of the best guard/big man combos in the league, they just need time to get their act together as a team. Millsap is underrated too. The Jazz's problem lies with giving Raja Bell 35min a night. I'd rather have Korver at SG, but I guess you can't have it all.


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The Wal-Mart on Post Road held a grand re-opening ceremony Friday after adding to its produce and refrigerated sections. The additions included three more aisles of produce and two more aisles of frozen and refrigerated products, said Alexis Tulli, the store's assistant manager.
"The additions will allows us to better service the Warwick area," she said.
Store Manager Jason Olivier said after 16 years of serving the area, the store is "happy to offer a bigger grocery selection." He added, "If it wasn't for the support of the city and the customers, we wouldn't be here."
In conjunction with its re-opening, Wal-Mart donated a total of $75,818 to Rhode Island charities, including the Rhode Island Family Shelter in Warwick.
Patti Macreading, executive director for the Rhode Island Family Shelter, accepted a check for $25,000 from Wal-Mart, which she will put toward buying new coolers and updating the shelter pantry.
Wal-Mart also made a $25,000 contribution to Gotta Have Sole, a non-profit that collects and buys new shoes and donates them to homeless shelters in Rhode Island and the New England area. Lori and Danny Lowinger accepted the check on behalf of their son, Nicholas, 14, who started the charity after visiting the R.I. Family Shelter when he was younger. Nicholas saw children his age without shoes to walk in, so he donated the shoes off his own feet and with the help of his parents, set up his own non-profit. Gotta Have Sole now donates new shoes to homeless shelters all over the New England area.
Lori Lowinger, grateful for the donation, said, "If it wasn't for places like Wal-Mart, we wouldn't have the same impact on our community."
Wal-Mart remained opened during renovations and managed to raise $25,818 for the Hasbro Children's Hospital in honor of Tony Torres and Evan Hudson, both 11 and patients at the hospital, who accepted the check on the hospital's behalf.
Tulli, also a member of Wal-Mart's Rhode Island State Giving Council, said that she and others on the council try to spread the donations to several shelters and organizations around the state "because they need it the most."
Mayor Scott Avedisian and Councilman Raymond Gallucci cut the ribbon for the store's grand re-opening.
"Thank you to Wal-Mart for the renovations and serving the community," the mayor said, continuing, "If you've been counting, that's almost $76,000 in total donations to this city; that is an amazing feat."
@C_Cutline:INSPIRING A COMMUNITY: Wal-Mart store manager Jason Olivier (left) and assistant manager Alexis Tulli (center left) cut a check to Hasbro Children's Hospital, care of Evan Hudson (bottom left) and Tony Torres (right), who inspired the store and the community it supports to raise over $25,000 for the hospital. (Warwick Beacon photo)


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My inner b*tch went back to hibernating today. I think all the gluten from last week is finally out of my system. I don't want to get like that again.....very depressing. All these chemicals and gluten in food is poison.
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Smylinacha replied to Smylinacha's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & SymptomsI have no reactions with anesthesia. Actually when I get put under they have to give me a lot to keep me under. After the twilight I left after my husband brought me home and went shopping. I am taking Musinex D right now which is helping. I am better today....stabbing migraine is just a dull ache now but I am irritable and depressed. Been sick 3 days of my 4 day weekend and the weather still sucks. When I eat gluten and don't feel well I want to pack my bags and get away. Guess I have more gluten in me that has to leave my system. My last day off tomorrow and I better feel better.
I get irritable and depressed. My husband said he can't wait until the gluten is out of my system. I had to go back on for the endoscopy. He said I have been a b*itch. He is right but he also doesn't admit that he is a PITA and caused me anxiety so that makes me worse. But yeah, my mood changes. And not for the better.
Yesterday was my endoscopy. I was eating heavy gluten for a week and starting last Monday I have had migraines and sinus pressure really bad. Went off the gluten today. Whether I have celiac or not, I know I feel better gluten free. Just today my rashes disappeared. But the migraine and sinus pressure is still there.....to the point where I had to go to bed this afternoon, after doing a Nettie pot, taking a fioricet and ice packs. Just took my second fioricet now. Anyone with migraines and when will it subside? I don't remember having them this bad.Do I still have gluten in my system that has to leave? Last two plus months have been bliss with no headaches whatsoever until I glutened up this week. I am not talking a piece of bread a day, EVERY meal was loaded with gluten last week.
Eating Gluten Free After Wheat...
Smylinacha replied to BZBee's topic in Coping with Celiac DiseaseThe only thing I really miss is McDonald's Big Macs:-) I was gluten free for a little over two months and went back on for an endoscopy. I felt like I was polluting myself. Back on gluten free again and I think lots of gluten free stuff tastes good. Plus I am eating more fruits and veggies....It is a better lifestyle.
Had My Endoscopy This Morning
Smylinacha replied to Smylinacha's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & SymptomsYou got that right....gluten is my enemy. And it would be great to have an official DX but if my thyroid labs are better, belly problems better, nasty rashes and sinus headaches go away...all by being gluten free then that is good enough. Only our bodies can tell us the truth:-)
Hi, Went in this morning for my endoscopy. The doctor gave me the pictures and said I looked good but need to wait for the biopsy results to rule out celiac and h-pylori. He said if the results are negative I could still be gluten intolerant so I should go back to gluten free which I gladly did today. The glutening was horrible, especially last night eating diner food.....came home doubled over, looking like I was pregnant and I itched all last night. No gluten today and already I feel better. Felt so good after the endo, I went shopping but my husband yelled at me for getting in the car and driving off but seriously I felt fine, even after waking up in recovery. He drove me home and then was busy with his buddies in the garage so I planned my escape:-) The Dr also said if gluten free makes me feel better than stick to it. I think something is up because pizza, bread, pasta and cookies and beer totally ruin me. So now I wait for the result.
New Planet has awesome gluten free beer! Angry Orchard hard cider is also gluten free. Believe me, I was a major microbrew girl until this happend. I will be going for my endo tomorrow. I went gluten free for a while and felt better but had to gluten up again for the test tomorrow.
Day 5 Of Glutening...weird
Smylinacha replied to Smylinacha's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & SymptomsSo if my endo comes out fine, should I go and see an allergist? I was tested years ago but not for food - it was all grasses, dust and outdoor stuff. And I definitely have malabsorption because I've dropped weight and not that food goes right through me but I can see it undigested at times when I go to the bathroom (TMI - sorry).
Glutening Pain Location
Smylinacha replied to GFreeMO's topic in Coping with Celiac DiseasePrior to going gluten free my entire low area of my abdomen and lower back was sore - no sharp pains, just felt "black and blue" on the inside. My upper stomach felt like there was a bunch of pressure and gas. It would release if I drank something carbonated to get the burp out. I was also constipated as well so it hurt down by my tail bone also. Add in joint pain and heaches. I am back on gluten for my endo on Friday and I don't have "soreness" right now but I am having a 'stitch" in my right side - it's not constant but I can feel it if I have to move around alot. I havent' od'd on gluten but making sure I get some into my system every day. Prior to all this, I ate nothing but garbage - all processed junk.
I Got Glutened, Quasi-On Purpose. Bad Cathy...
Smylinacha replied to clafran's topic in Coping with Celiac DiseaseI know the feeling! Were you ever dx'd by a doctor or did you just decide to go gluten free? I have a bunch of symtoms and pretty much self dx'd myself because when I went gluten free for close to 3 months, almost every symptom went away. I accidentally glutened also - eating out at restaurants - I can totally identify with the "hangover" feeling. Not sure what it was that I ate and I had wine instead of gluten free cider and back in the day I could easily drink 3 nice glasses of wine and feel fine. Now I get very ill from just one glass. I am back on gluten again so I can get an endoscopy on Friday. My tummy is starting to hurt but not like it did before (although I am eating gluten, I am eating fruits, yogurt and taking a good probiotic - something I never did before - never touched fruit or veggies - just at processed junk 24/7). And all my other symptoms - fatigue, bags under eyes, rashes, itchy eyes, achey joints - all came back.
I am back on gluten now for my upcoming endoscopy but soy will make me sick and give me a headache. Milk and ice cream would bother me but not cheese or eggs. Sugary things bothered me too...I was reading that people with gluten problems can have soy, dairy and fructose problems also.
Well completed day 5 and my guts don't hurt like they used to. I have eaten plenty of gluten and basically tripled my food intake. The only pain I have started today....feels like a "stitch" in my lower right side....it happens when I move around a lot. The constipation is coming back and the pressure in my upper stomach is still there. I am EXTREMELY itchy......like an allergy......I get a bright rash near one of my old incision sites from when I had my gallbladder out. This would happen before I gave up gluten for 2 months. I have to put hydrocortisone cream on it and take a benedryl. Plus my eyes are sticky and itchy, my sinuses are clogged and the morning headaches and sore joints are back. Bags under my eyes are starting and I am gonna sleep good tonight cuz I am extremely tired. Not sure what I will do if the info comes back negative.
SSorry you have EE. But at least there is a medication for it. Not sure what this is as it isn't painful but just pressure. Not as bad today and don't know why. Gluten day 5 and my stomach isn't as bad as I thought but I have all the other symptoms which I will post. As form the h-pylori, no bloody vomit or stools. Keep us posted on your results on Friday and thanks form the reply as I will do some research on EE :-)
Can Celiac Symptoms Come And Go
Smylinacha replied to LT1313's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & SymptomsWow! Glad your mom remembered and told you! Good luck with your test. I am a smoker....about 5 a day and more on the weekends. I cut back last year from 1.5 packs a day....the symptoms started last year but the weight loss started about 2 years ago. I kept thinking it was because of my active dogs as I was always doing something with them. Then I thought it was stress due to a bad boss. Well dogs are under control, I have had a new boss for 6 months and if I eat breads and pasta I feel horrible. Doing that now for my test on Friday. Keep eating all the gluten you can until your test.


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6 layer cake (10″) squares–my sample was made from "Terrain."
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All seams are ¼". Press between each step. RSO=right side out. Use strong thread. (Test it by seeing if it breaks easily.)
For the center of the front and back of the purse, cut (2) 7 ¼" squares. For a fun touch {if possible}, fussy-cut the squares with a motif in the center, such as a flower.
For the triangles that frame the center square cut (4) 5 5/8" squares in half diagonally, yielding 8 triangles total. Sew 2 matching triangles to opposite sides of a center square. Sew 2 matching triangles to the remaining sides. Or, if you prefer, use 4 different triangles around the center.
Cut (2) 10" squares of cotton batting. The 2 remaining layer cake squares will serve as the purse lining. Lay the batting on your sewing table. Place a lining square on top of it right side up. On top of that, place a pieced block right side down. Pin the stack so the edges are even. If the pieced block is slightly smaller than the batting and lining squares, trim them to match.
Beginning near the center of the lower edge, sew around the block through all layers. Leave a 5" opening for turning it right side out. Backstitch as you begin and end so that the stitching will hold when you're turning the block.
Trim the corners almost to the seam line and turn the piece RSO. Press it, folding the opening to the inside ¼". You don't need to sew the opening closed yet. You've created one side of the purse. Now, repeat the above steps to create the other side.
Sew a little square of hook and loop tape at the top center of the lining side of each.
Once the 2 pieces are complete, match the edges and pin them together RSO, with the gaps that you pressed under on the bottom edge. Topstitch a SCANT ¼" from the sides and lower edge of the purse through all layers. Backstitch as you begin and end. The lower edge gap should be caught (and closed) in this stitching.
Cut a piece of ribbon to measure 24" in length. Fold under ¼" at each end and topstitch. Place one end of the ribbon at a top corner of the purse, 1" down from the top, RSO, with the ribbon folded around the purse seam allowances. Sew through all layers from the lower edge of the ribbon to the top of the purse, and then sew it again or backstitch to make it secure. Repeat for the other corner of the purse with the other end of the ribbon, and your Little Church Purse is finished. (But who could resist adding an embellishment here or there?!)
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Ronald Kiel necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 89 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
As a company we specialize in business development, investment and corporate finance consulting.
A new project concerns a spin off from an insurance company.
We're in the process of starting a new ICT and outsourcing business. Our solution will allow our customers to redesign their back office support and processes and significantly cut back on processing costs.
Our main group of customers are large intermediaries that act between end-customers (consumer and business) and insurance companies. We are strictly B2B
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Rushdi Abuseedo needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 74 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
We are a music company that produces educational materials for people that want to learn music.
Our target audience are people who are familiar with the Oud, generally from the middle east or have been exposed to middle eastern music.
Logo should be modern , and professional.
The logo will be used for the web , and may be used for documents and business cards.
Shape should include a creative, attractive variation of the Oud.
Shading, effects, gradient welcome, please express creativity or simplicity.
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nikb needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 131 designs submitted by 41 freelance designers.
A logo for a small, flexible, innovative firm that provides custom software and hosted web applications.
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We are a small startup company that develops custom software and web-service solutions.
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Hang Huge Axles Under AnythingPosted in How To: Transmission Drivetrain on July 1, 2012
Looking back at it now, it seems inconceivable that we began this swap three years ago. You first saw it in "Jeep Full Size Axle Swap," (May '09). We told you then that we were swapping a Dana 60, Dana 70, and NP205 for a Dana 60, Dana 70, and NP205. We also worked the math and figured out how to run HMMWV tires and wheels under our M-715. The plan was to just do it at home, but we finally realized a driveway with a big incline, crawling on our backs, and huge parts didn't mix. So, we took the truck and parts to Higher Ground 4x4 and Fabrication to get some help and we got the front axle put in it for the feature "Mix and Match 1-Ton Axles," (Apr. '12).
Swapping axles is never an easy undertaking, and this particular swap was more difficult than most due to our rag-tag parts selection. We took the project to Off Road Evolution in Fullerton, California,for the final chapter of the swap. The crew there helped us put our drawn-out, three-year project to bed in about three days, and we picked up a few more pointers on axle swaps along the way.


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A 19th-century self-propelled torpedo, one of the first ever to be developed and used by the Navy, has been discovered by specially trained dolphins off the San Diego coast.
The 130-year-old Howell torpedo was found in March near Hotel del Coronado during a mine-training exercise. The Navy trains and uses dolphins to find and mark the location of underwater objects as part of its Navy Marine Mammal Program.
"A diver went down and began to sweep the dust and debris off, and they realized that they had found something significant," Christian Harris, operations manager with the Navy Marine Mammal Program, said Monday. "Subsequently, it was recovered, and that's when the light went on that what the dolphins had discovered was a really old marine artifact."
Old and rare.
Only 50 Howell torpedoes were produced, and just two of them have ever been recovered. The Howell torpedo, an 11-foot-long brass torpedo, was developed between 1870 and 1889.
It was driven by a 132-pound flywheel spun to 10,000 rpm before launch. It had a range of 400 yards, a speed of 25 knots and a warhead filled with 100 pounds of gun cotton.
The Howell torpedo, named for its inventor, Lt. Cmdr. John A. Howell, was used by Navy battleships and torpedo boats until 1898. The first torpedo that could be released into the ocean and follow a track, it eventually was replaced by the Whitehead, the Navy said.
It is unclear how the torpedo reached its location. Two of three sections, the tail and midsection, were found. The warhead part of the torpedo could not be located.
During training and the actual hunting of mines, a dolphin waits to receive a cue from its handler before it begins to search a specific area. Once the dolphin completes its search, it reports back to its handler, giving one response if a target object is detected and a different response if no target is found.
In March, during a routine training exercise, a dolphin discovered a mine-like target in the water. The animal's handler then sent the dolphin to mark the object's location so Navy divers could follow up.
"We find things all the time," said Braden Duryee, operations manager with the Navy Marine Mammal Program. "(The dolphins) are very good at finding things, and we find some off things. But it was just one of those days where the animals found it. It was kind of in our way."
At first, the recovery team thought the object was an old tail section off an aerial drop mine.
"Realizing that we were the first people to touch it or be around it in over 125 years was really exciting," Harris said.


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I found myself today with the urge to finally, once and for all, find out what this "nofollow" business is. I have tried before, but either never understood it, or understood it only to discard the information. My understanding now is that the "nofollow" attribute tells search-engine crawlers whether or not I endorse the site to which I am linking. That is, if I have found a site which has helped me, and I want to give "love" back to the site, I then write a post, linking to it, NOT including the "nofollow" attribute.
The reasons why a blog might want to deal with this concept is simple: If you have a blog which has become somewhat of an authority in a specific topic, and you get a whole lot of comments, what is to hinder unscrupulous commentators from adding their own links to comments, which will then be indexed by search engine crawlers (they only see the html-source, where a link is a link, unless you mark-up specific links differently so that they stand out. That's what "nofollow" is for.
However, when I was done reading (I searched Google, opened up a lot of tabs), I found "related links" at the bottom of one page (oh what a scourge on my time they are ;)) which lead me to another topic, "9 Easy Ways to Get More Blog Comments", which offers up a slew of plugins which might make a difference.
One of these being the "Show Top Commentators" plugin, which purportedly gives "love" to the most active commentators of the blog. It's a great idea but I'm just not so sure about giving the most active commentators the most love, since the quality of the comments should come into play as well. Of course, then you'd need a rating system, and a policy of who gets to rate comments, and soon it would be chaos. Having only the author rate comments could create a biased environment, running the risk that only positive comments would be rewarded. On the other hand, letting users rate each others comments… well let's just say that it could work if only registered users were allowed to rate comments (although not their own). The sad truth is that a small portion of the unregistered commentators could not be relied upon to be honest, and would thus skew the statistics, knowing that, as they are unregistered, there is no effective means of tracking them and hindering their attempts at self-aggrandizing or sabotaging other user's comments. I am however unaware of any such plugin which would work on ratings rather than volume.
Another (potentially) cool plugin, is WP-PostRatings which would give registered users, and possibly anonymous guests as well, the ability to rate blog posts. As with the "Top Commentator" plugin, this could be misused, this time by rivaling authors in the same niche. But that may just be the pessimistic side of me talking
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Joshua LaGrange is traveling quite a ways for his first professional MMA fight since 2010.
The Yreka fighter, who trains at Dosomthin Athletics, is fighting at 155 pounds in a main card bout at WFC 23 on Saturday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The match is a last-minute affair, with LaGrange originally set to fight nearby at Seven Feathers Casino in Canyonville, Oregon, on June 14.
But, four days before that fight, the event was canceled and LaGrange scrambled to find another fight. He had around three fights from which to choose. LaGrange said that WFC 23 seemed like the best opportunity to prove himself against solid competition.
LaGrange said it was a bit of a setback when the bout in Oregon was called off on such short notice. After all, he said, he and his fellow fighters had invested time and money into training for the bout and it was disappointing to learn there would not be a paycheck for all the time and effort spent.
So, when the opportunity to fight in Louisiana came about, LaGrange said he jumped at the chance.
"It's nice to have been able to get a fight so quickly," he said.
LaGrange is currently 2-2 as a pro fighter. LaGrange lived in Yreka for around five years and trained at Dosomthin before moving away and stopped competing in MMA.
When he was living in Susanville, California, he began to give kids MMA lessons at a local gym and began working and sparring with adults. That made him realize how much he missed and enjoyed MMA.
He moved back to Yreka last August and began training again at Dosomthin. LaGrange said his opponent on Saturday is from Baton Rogue, is 19-years-old and is 2-0 overall.
LaGrange believes his experience, especially his ability to fight on his feet, will serve him well.
"I feel my experience will help me," he said.
LaGrange is leaving early Thursday morning for Louisiana and said he's excited to head to a state he has never been before.
He believes that a win "will open more doors for me," and hopes it will lead to more fighting opportunities.
LaGrange said he has been working hard to get ready for his return to the ring and said that Dosomthin has done a great job in preparing him.
A big help, he said, has been the chance to train with fellow local pro fighters D.J. Linderman and Beau Hamilton, LaGrange said. He said that they have been great training partners for him.
Yreka MMA Fighter Joshua LaGrange set to fight in pro bout in Louisiana on Saturday
Joshua LaGrange is traveling quite a ways for his first professional MMA fight since 2010.


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Bohus Bergsprängning has created a 22-meter deep shaft and a 7-meter long cross tunnel in Röda Sten in Gothenburg. The shaft was made entirely without blasting, instead using a wire saw from Atlas Copco.
When regional company Gryaab needed an evacuation tunnel from its existing tunnel in Röda Sten in Gothenburg, the job went to Bohus Bergsprängning. The shaft was 22 meters deep. A seven-meter long cross tunnel, measuring 2.5 by 2.8 meters was cut between the shaft and Gryaab's tunnel. All with no blasting at all.
" The cross tunnel could not be blasted. Vibrations could have damaged sensitive equipment in the existing tunnel. For this reason, and taking the surroundings into consideration, because there is a quayside here that is popular in summer , we proposed to the customer than the entire job should be completed using a blasting-free method. "
This project is unlike anything that Bohus Bergsprängning has done before. "Cutting down beside a tunnel and then creating a sideways tunnel, just with a saw – as far as we know nobody has ever done that before," says Andreas Haugerud
Roger Johansson, Managing Director of Bohus Bergsprängning, is happy with the way the project has gone.
"We have cut many shafts out before, but we have always blasted. So this has been a very unusual job for us. The work took about six months to complete and it has gone well throughout. We had to make a lot of narrow cuts and it took care and concentration, but it went very well."
The only problem during the course of the work was that the rock did not hold together as expected when the pieces were to be lifted out. This meant that more – smaller – pieces had to be lifted, which took longer than planned.
Bohus Bergsprängning used a SpeedCut 100 wire saw from Atlas Copco for this project. The company has two wire saws of this type among its equipment.


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Guardians of the soul and funk tradition, Tony! Toni! Toné!, will take command of the stage at the Wolf Creek Amphitheater on Saturday, May 4, in the first of four concerts in an Old School Series. The multi-gold record and double platinum album-holding group will perform their hit R&B singles along with Whodini, Silk, and Chubb Rock. Comedian J.J. Williamson will round out the list of music talent.
Tony! Toni! Toné! released their fourth album, House of Music, in the fall of 1996. They continued to produce hit singles such as the memorable "Feels Good," "Anniversary," "It Never Rains in Southern California" and "Whatever You Want" all topping the R&B charts.
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Manual Air Management - Is the most basic and simple way to control your air suspension. With this system you no longer need to worry about wiring and mounting electronic valves to your tank, freeing up some usable room in your vehicle. Height control is adjusted with the push of the 1/4″ paddle valves which can be custom mounted on to your dash or mounted to the supplied stainless steel panel.
AutoPilot V2 Air Management - Is slightly more advanced than the manual air management. This system features the sleek V2 controller with a display readout that shows individual corner air pressure and tank pressure. The controller connects to your wire harness with just one wire and fits in the palm of your hand. APV2 also features eight different presets to allow you to tailor your ride height needs. As you drive the V2 controller constantly monitors your pressures and adjusts accordingly to your presets, Built-in diagnostics alert you to leaks, low pressures, communication failures, and valve dysfunctions.
3P Air Management - Is Airlift Performance's all new and most advanced pressure based air suspension control system. The 3P management also features a fully integrated manifold, by combining the ECU, pressure manifold and bluetooth module into one compact unit the new manifold takes up less space than multiple components. The manifold has a 32-bit processor that provides sophisticated height and pressure algorithms to give you the most precise control over all four corners of your vehicle. The controller features a brilliant TFT color display with adjustable backlight and illuminated preset buttons. Shown in the full color display is your tank pressure, 4-corner active height and pressure readings, as well as a full menu selection. Each 3P management system also works with the free mobile app with no additional hardware required to buy and install. This system has also been designed to be installed as simply as possible with plug and play harness connections between the controller, manifold, and power supply.
3H Air Management - Includes all the features that the 3P will give you plus the addition of height sensors. Height sensors give the system the ability to automatically adapt to changes in vehicle load. Air Lift Performance has created an improved and advanced height sensor arm utilizing a angular design which will increase the sensors life span compared to straight-arm designs. The wiring harness's for these sensors also have very small connectors meaning that you do not have to drill large holes, or any holes at all in your vehicle to route them to the manifold harness. Also included are fully adjustable sensor linkages that can be measured and cut to exact lengths to properly operate in the suggested range of motion in which a template is supplied in the installation manual.
Air Line Size - Two options are available when choosing air line size. 1/4" air lines will provide you with more accuracy when manually stopping at your desired height as well as a more flexible line to run throughout your car. 3/8" lines will move more air for quicker height adjustments but will in turn be slightly less precise with manual height adjust as well as slightly less flexible for installation.
Tank Size - Air tanks are available in 2.5, 4 and 5 gallon sizes with multiple port configurations to suit your needs. With the 4 gallon being the most popular size, it's offered in a 5 or 7 port option. Extra ports are perfect for those who opt to run accessories off their system such as air tools, gauges, or dual compressor set ups. (please note that the single compressor manual kits will require use of 4 ports & single compressor V2/3H/3P will require use of 3 ports) With performance in mind, all tanks are made from aluminum for a huge weight savings over standard steel air tanks.
Air Compressor - The compressor is used to fill your tank with pressurized air until its ready to be used to raise or lower your vehicle. We offer two of the most popular options ideal for air suspension systems; VIAIR380C and VIAIR444C. These can be run as a single or dual compressor set up. (See photo above for fill times)
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by Peter Lawson
This chapter is an exploration of some of the suggestions and debates that have surrounded the issue of national health care in the United States over the past few decades. In particular, this chapter will be an attempt to clarify some of the most common positions (both pro and con) surrounding the potential for a national health care system in the United States. Every effort will be made to present data from an objective point of view in order to allow readers to evaluate the strength of the arguments made. In the interest of concision and brevity this chapter will divide this complex issue into two distinct domains of discussion: moral, ethical and philosophical positions, and economic challenges. While this chapter will attempt to synthesize and summarize a variety of positions and opinions in regard to the issue of a national health care system, it should not be considered an exhaustive exploration of all the potential arguments regarding this issue. With this in mind, a number of interesting and potentially illuminating references will be provided at the end of this chapter, which could guide a reader in further research.
According to US Census data for 2001, the number of Americans without any form of health insurance was 41.2 million or 14.2% of the population. This number rose by 1.4 million from the previous year. Alarmingly, nearly 11.2% of children (8.5 million) under the age of 18 were without health coverage in the United States. While these data in their aggregate form seem to point to something of a crisis in health insurance coverage for millions of Americans, a closer look at some seemingly paradoxical demographics of the uninsured adds another layer to the picture. For example, consider the following excerpt from a US Census Bureau report on health insurance in 2001.
Among the entire population 18 to 64 years old, workers (both full- and part-time) were more likely to have health insurance (83.0 percent) than nonworkers (75.3 percent), but among the poor, workers were less likely to be covered (51.3 percent) than nonworkers (63.2 percent).1
As poor workers become ineligible for governmental insurance programs (such as medicaid) due to income limitations, they are still likely to be working in jobs that do not provide insurance benefits. This same document reports that, among the poor, the overall rate of those without health insurance was 30.7 percent, more than double the rate for the population as a whole.2 The uninsured face numerous threats to their health and are at increased risk for mortality and morbidity (for a more detailed examination of the issues surrounding the uninsured, see Eagan and Olds this volume).
Few would argue that these rates of persons without health insurance are acceptable. However, a sometimes acrimonious debate has surrounded this issue and its potential solutions. One such heavily debated suggestion to deal with the nations uninsured and underinsured has been some form of a national health care system. But before beginning a discussion of some of the various proposals that have been made and the arguments that surround them, it may be useful to examine a number of key ethical, moral and philosophical positions which underlie these arguments.
Though the discussion surrounding a national health care system in the United States can quickly turn into one that is dominated by political and economic considerations of feasibility and implementation, the issue itself is grounded in a set of ethical, moral and philosophical considerations. Various experts and pundits have weighed in on the debate surrounding calls for a national health care system precisely because this issue forces one to consider some of the most intrinsically difficult questions within the political and economic philosophy of the United States: the role of the state in private life, the appropriate position of the government vis a vis the market, and rights of individuals within a capitalist marketplace. Though the scope of these complex issues is certainly beyond the capacity of this chapter, some of the broad strokes of these issues may be useful for the development of the discussion at hand.
A recent meeting of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland produced a resolution in which health care was deemed a basic human right.3 This resolution represents a recent incarnation of decades of international recognition of the key role of health within a conception of basic human rights. Article 25 of the United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights, drafted in 1948, states:
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.4
One of the strongest statements of health as a basic human right was generated at the International Conference on Primary Health Care in Alma Ata, USSR in 1978. Article I of the Declaration states in part "The Conference strongly reaffirms that health, which is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, is a fundamental human right…"5 Here the definition of health stretches into what some might consider utopian territory; however, the essential statement that health itself is basic human right echoes that of the UN's Universal Declaration on Human Rights. Numerous national and international organizations have declared health and access to health care to be basic human rights. For example in 1998, "Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General of the World Health Organization, called on the international community to enshrine health as a basic human right."6 While the conception of health and access to health care as a basic human right may beg the question of the responsibility of the state to provide protections for such rights, suffice to say, that within these broad international agreements, it is assumed that the state functions, in part, to ensure and maintain the rights of its citizens.
Yet notions of health and health care as basic human rights are by no means monolithic or unchallenged within the discourse of health care provision. An alternative vision of health care as a commodity is also articulated and merits our attention. Various policy advocacy groups and think tanks have offered a view of health care as a service most efficiently and effectively provided through a free market. For example, Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) advocates for free market solutions to solving the dilemmas of health care in the United States. From a neoclassical, liberal economic position, governmental regulation or intervention in the market is something to be avoided. From the libertarian perspective advocated by organizations like PRI, governmental interventions "create dependency on the state, and allow the government to have excessive influence and control over people's lives."7 In a commentary published in The Washington Times, Michael Hurd succinctly argues
Health care is not a right -- no matter how often you hear otherwise. Health care is the consequence of heroic efforts on the part of individual doctors, who have every right to charge what the market permits. If we take away the right of medical professionals to set their own fees, we will undermine their independence and chase the best ones into early retirement.8
Here the rights to which Hurd refers are based on specific liberal conceptions of the free market and the rights of individuals to participate in that market. In Hurd's argument, rights are intrinsically tied to the rationale of the economic exchange taking place, and not a notion of basic human rights (as described above).
Hurd's economic argument leads us to a series of economic questions that are better addressed through the lens of a specific proposal for a national health: How much would such a specific national health initiative cost? In what sectors of the economy would potential burdens be born? What other economic impacts (both positive and negative) might arise from the implementation of a national health care system? In order to address these issues, we will now turn our attention to one suggested form of national health care (the so-called single payer system) while bearing in mind that a number of other national health plans have been suggested with widely different mechanisms and potential economic effects.
Cost is inarguably one of the central features in any discussion of the existing health care delivery system in the United States or any potential replacement or reform of the existing system. The United States spent $1.4 trillion on health care in 2001, or 14.1 percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). According to one recently published study, this figure is expected to grow to $3.1 trillion by 2012, an amount which would constitute 17.7 percent of the GDP.9 Critics of the current health care delivery system note that many other industrialized nations spend considerably less on health as a percentage of GDP while maintaining health care services for all citizens; none spends more as a percentage of its GDP. In 2000 for example, Canada spent only 9.1 percent of its GDP on a national health care delivery system which provides health care for all Canadians.10 Let's consider some of the discussion surrounding the economics of a national health care system for the United States, focusing on the proposal for a single-payer system.
While numerous ideas have been suggested to reform the US health care delivery system, one of the most cogently argued cases for a single-payer health care system in the United States was published in 1989 by David Himmelstein and Steffe Woolhandler in the New England Journal of Medicine.11 As presented by the authors, a single-payer system would provide health care coverage for all Americans by setting federally mandated fees for services and paying these through a single source (i.e. the federal government). Because many of the current health care dilemmas faced by patients and providers alike are focused around economic issues, it is not surprising that Himmelstein and Woolhandler make economic considerations central to their argument. Himmelstein and Woolhandler argue that "the public administration of insurance funds [through a single-payer system] would save tens of billions of dollars each year. The more than 1500 private health insurers in the United States now consume about 8 percent of revenues for overhead."12 Under the single payer system proposed by Himmelstein and Woolhandler, federal regulation would control costs by eliminating redundant administrative bureaucracy and profit from the system. The authors argue that despite the need to levy taxes in order to support the system, the long-term benefits would balance initial costs, since the current high cost of health care is already borne by citizens, employers, and the government (through programs like Medicaid and Medicare).
Critics of a single-payer system argue that "the evidence demonstrates without doubt that socialized medicine is inefficient and more expensive than the free-market alternative."13 Citing the tax burden of the National Health Service in the UK, Conrad Meier argues
England's single-payer health care plan has turned into a tax burden far worse than what we've experienced to date in this country. The burgeoning costs—in the form of high income taxes, insurance taxes, premiums, lower wages, reduced productivity and job opportunities, plus extra fees and hidden taxation—have become a stranglehold on middle- and low-income consumers.14
While it should be noted that the UK system is not, in fact, a single-payer system (in the UK the government controls and regulates all aspects of health care, under a single-payer system the government would provide remuneration and set fees), the sort of argument Meier mobilizes forms the bulk of economic arguments against the implementation of a single payer system in the United States.
There is nothing approaching consensus concerning the economics of a single-payer systems. Proponents argue that additional cost incurred in the provision of health care for all citizens would recouped through increased efficiency and the elimination of for-profit insurance coverage. Opponents of a single-payer system argue that such a system would increase inefficiency and costs by placing the burden of a massive centralized bureaucracy in the hands of the federal government. Interestingly, economic arguments opposing a single-payer system often blend economics with ethics and morality. As Meier suggests
The propaganda produced in support of single-payer health care ignores the truth and is designed to motivate people through the use of scare tactics; distorted and often fabricated information; and undocumented facts and figures on how much such a plan would cost in premiums, income taxes, lost state revenue, job dislocation, individual freedom, and human suffering.15
Certainly this criticism could be levied against Meier's own analysis which notably contains no citations or references to empirical data. These data are strikingly absent, as is independent, non-partisan research and analysis on the subject, and more efforts toward this end will likely be necessary before a reasonable conclusion can be reached about the future of a national health care system in the United States.
1. http://www.census.gov/hhes/hlthins/hlthin00/hlt00asc.html
2. ibid
3. International Labour Organization. Resolution Concerning Health Care as a Basic Human Right. Joint Meeting on Social Dialogue in the Health Services: Institutions, Capacity and Effectiveness. October 2002. Geneva. http://www.ilo.org/public/english/dialogue/sector/techmeet/jmhs02/jmhs-res.pdf
4. United Nations Universal Declaration on Human Rights. 1948. http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
5. World Health Organization. Declaration of the Alma Ata Conference. http://www.who.int/hpr/archive/docs/almaata.html
6. www.who.int/inf-pr-1998/en/pr98-93.html
7. http://www.pacificresearch.org/issues/social.html
8. Hurd, M. Rhetoric Notwithstanding, Health Care Is Not A Right. The Washington Times. April 6, 1993. http://www.drhurd.com/medialink/health-care-not-a-right.html
9. http://www.seniors.gov/articles/0203/health-costs.htm
10. http://www.2ontario.com/welcome/ooql_402.asp
11. Himmelstein, D., and Steffe Woolhandler. A National Health Program for the United States: A Physicians' Proposal. The New England Journal of Medicine. January 12, 1989.
12. ibid
13. http://www.heartland.org/archives/health/may02/myturn.htm
14. ibid
15. ibid
Additional Reference Sources
Heritage Foundation. www.heritage.org
The Heartland Institute www.heartland.org
The Pacific Research Institute www.pacificresearch.org
Physicians for a National Health Plan. www.pnhp.org
The Universal Health Care Action Network www.uhcan.org


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Developer and hacker, James Whelton has managed to "Jailbreak" the iPod nano, getting past its cache comparison and installing a rather simple tweak that can remove default apps and replace them with 'blank spaces' on the nano's springboard. This can open up the iPod Nano to more hacks and mods from other hackers, including the ability to potentially view Movies or TV Shows, set Calendar Events and set a passcode lock.
Whelton pointed out some hidden strings that he discovered in the iPod nano OS as well.
Next is the discovery in some of the device's plists of reference to support of Movies, TV Shows, Apps, Games, vCards, Calender events and so on, with a few other cool things like a passcode lock. With the bypass I figured out, I hope to enable these pretty soon. It seems like the OS is a rehashed version of the previous nano's OS.
Details on how to jailbreak the iPod nano are said to be released in a few days. It'll be interesting to see what Team Jailbreak will do with the newly hacked Nano. Would you want Movies and TV Shows on such a small screen? Are there any particular mods you would like on the sixth-gen nano?
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The downfall of the game is really not making it possible to play with friends so competitions and aerial combat between players can be performed. The adventure is thrilling for a while but because of the length involved it can soon become tedious.
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For millennia, man has dreamed of zooming through the air like a bird or much recently, like a superhero. The idea behind a jet-pack strapped to the back as the means to this propulsion and flight has initiated a lot of research which has until now not given any satisfying results. Even if the dream hangs on but the reality fails, man still dreams of that jet pack flight.
This is the thrill of Dark Void where the character is seen zooming through the air and fights the baddies in the form of aliens and other creatures. The game lasts about eight hours and there is no multiplayer mode available, playing alone can be quite disappointing in the long haul. It does not help that most of the time, the jet pack is not even used.
There is a lot of versatility to this game, like the flying and zooming, to the shooting and trekking. Then the flying itself can be tricky to control, but once the player gets more and more familiar with the controls, it soon gets easier and easier. But while learning to fly, the usual bad take off and crashing on landing is to be expected. After getting really good at the zooming, the gamer can effectively battle the UFOs which are also just as maneuverable as the flying character.
There is a lot of action, that is definite, but the appeal for the gamers was in the flying with the jetpack strapped on the back. The developers however, decided that this should be overshadowed by other acts of defense like running, jumping, shooting, the usual thing in the basic shoot 'em and kill 'em games marketed all over the place. It is true that this is a thrilling game, but it just falls short of the expectations, and that is the sad part.
The downfall of the game is really not making it possible to play with friends so competitions and aerial combat between players can be performed. The adventure is thrilling for a while but because of the length involved it can soon become tedious. But there is no denying it, this game is fun to play, up to a certain point, and then disinterest can set in rapidly.
Playing alone for a long time can also start off as fun but eventually the interest wanes and soon boredom can set in. Even though this is an exciting game, it still needs a lot of improvement, hopefully on the multiplayer modes.
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We Are Living in a 2% World
No matter what we do, no matter how often we do it, above trend GDP growth isn't happening
You know that we are living in a material world
And I am a material girl
-- Madonna "Material Girl"
Over the past few days we got the latest gross domestic product figures for the third quarter and we saw that GDP grew at a 2.7% seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR). The first estimate came out in October and had growth pegged at 2% SAAR. This clip from the Bureau of Economic Analysis' press release tells us why:
The "second" estimate of the third-quarter percent change in GDP is 0.7 percentage point, or $21.9 billion, more than the advance estimate issued last month. This primarily reflects upward revisions to private inventory investment and to exports that were partly offset by downward revisions to personal consumption expenditures (PCE) and to nonresidential fixed investment.
So the revision was a result of inventory build heading into the fourth quarter, along with export growth. That makes sense since most of that inventory build was probably seasonal in preparation for the holiday shopping season.
And the early reports on the holiday shopping season have been mixed. The consensus explanation is that Hurricane Sandy hurt retail sales for November. But that probably isn't the whole story. Explanations are rarely as simple and neat as we'd like them to be. This Los Angeles Times story asks if the Sandy story is all there is to the November explanation:
"A lot of retailers are using Sandy as a very convenient excuse to dismiss their poor sales performance. Not all these retailers have all their stores situated in just the Northeast," said Britt Beemer, a retail expert at America's Research Group. "A lot of retailers are going to have to admit that Black Friday, as incredible as it was," favored merchants offering enormous discounts.
This has been part of a pattern that retailers have been following for years, but with this last recession they have only gotten more aggressive in their Black Friday promotions. What's really in it for retailers? They're keeping stores open longer with more cheap deals and hurting their own margins in the process. More expense for less revenue isn't a viable strategy.
But there are also new trends taking place as well. The first is a chart from Google Insights on the term "homemade Christmas gifts." Note the increase in search traffic over the past few years after the recession:
One of the other trends that has been picking up momentum is layaway. Here's another Google Insights chart that looks at the search frequency for "layaway:"
The use of layaway for purchases and the rise in homemade gifts points to deflation; a deflation in attitude.
Layaway purchases allow you to make payments over time, but you're not using credit to make a purchase. Plus, it's a total "me, here, now" behavior: If you miss your layaway payments, what's the worst that can happen? You don't get your stuff from the store, the store restocks the merchandise, and life moves on. There's no FICO score impact, no pesky calls from a collector about money you owe. It's freeing.
And homemade gifts are all about saving money. Both of these behaviors are by-products of a reduced desire to accumulate debt. And that's bad news for the Fed because the only thing the Fed can affect is the cost of money (i.e. interest rates). They can't make people borrow it.
Here's a hypothesis I'd love to see tested, but never will be: How would the market and overall economy react if at the next Fed meeting, the statement came out that the Fed was throwing in the towel on QE? The consensus reaction would be horrible and markets would collapse.
But what if it didn't? What if the world just kept turning? What if people kept getting out of bed each day, doing the stuff they did the days and weeks before? Because, let's face it: The crisis was over in early '09. The Fed quelled the panic and since then, what have we seen? A slow, 2%-ish recovery with deleveraging, increased multifamily housing in more densely populated neighborhoods, and an emphasis on grass-roots growth driven by small businesses.
So add it all together and what do you see? Hopefully a macro backdrop that looks better five years from now than what it does today. But we need to resist the tirades and longing for a debt-fueled, high-consumption world that no longer exists.
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As ethanol production has become an important component of corn demand, the link between corn prices and crude oil prices has become "quite strong," says Mississippi State University Economics Professor John Anderson.
"If you look at price charts for December corn and crude oil, they look basically the same."
And even though corn prices have fallen sharply along with oil prices, he said at the annual meeting of the Mississippi Agricultural Economics Association, "I think what we're seeing in the market is the expectation that this is a long run situation, and that it will be difficult to build stocks in this environment of strong corn demand.
The corn stocks-to-use ratio is now below 10 percent, Anderson says.
"We've been that low before, in the 1970s and mid-1990s, but there's a marked difference in the price of corn between then and now. Every previous corn price record has been completely wiped out this year, with corn prices on some futures contracts exceeding $8 per bushel."
Renewable energy has been a major national topic as oil prices moved higher, topping out at more than $140 per barrel, Anderson notes. But it has been less in the forefront in light of the worldwide financial crisis.
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 and the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 increased the mandated levels of ethanol production, based on the Environmental Protection Agency's projections of gasoline production.
The 2007 act stipulated "a very significant step up" to 9 billion gallons of ethanol for 2008, or 7.8 percent of gasoline production. In 2009, the mandate is for 10.5 billion gallons of non-cellulosic ethanol and .2 billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol.
U.S. ethanol production has been "well above levels established in the legislation," Anderson says.
But it wasn't all gravy for ethanol producers. "Higher corn prices put a squeeze on them. As long as oil was going higher, they could deal with higher corn prices. When oil started falling, though, their profits were adversely affected and the value of their stock dropped dramatically. Ethanol producer Archer Daniels Midland, a very diversified company, took a significant hit on its stock.
Over time, Anderson says, "I feel the Renewable Fuels standard will support corn for ethanol, even as corn prices increase. This will likely mean more rationing of corn form other users, such as livestock producers and export customers, in response to the higher prices."
In 2004-05, 12.4 percent of the U.S. corn supply went to ethanol; in 2008-09, it is projected at 31.8 percent.
The uncertainty of the corn supply has potential important effects on the feed, export, and ethanol sectors, Anderson says.
"If there is any corn supply shock, the effect of the renewable fuels mandate on price — particularly in the livestock sector — can be considerable."
Public acceptance of ethanol/gasoline blended fuels may also be a factor in production and usage going forward.
"According to the Department of Energy, ethanol has only two-thirds the energy yield of gasoline," Anderson says. "E10 ethanol/gasoline blend has 3.3 percent less energy content than regular gasoline.
"Most consumers probably won't notice the difference in performance with an E10 blend, but at E20 and higher they are likely to begin to notice."
Oil companies are also sending different messages about ethanol, Anderson notes.
"Some gas pumps have stickers that say, 'No ethanol in our gas,' while others say, "Enriched with 10 percent ethanol.' So, the marketing approach is not consistent."
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