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Fifty-two percent of hospital purchasing agents and pharmacists reported they'd bought drugs from so-called "gray market" vendors during the previous two years, according to a just-released survey of 549 hospitals by the Institute for Safe Medication practices, an advocacy group.
Gray-market suppliers are those that operate outside official channels, often buying drugs from uncertain sources and reselling them at a steep profit. A report issued last week by a one hospital association found their average mark-up was 650 percent.
Pressures from demanding doctors and desperate patients helped fuel the transactions, making hospital staffers feel like they had no choice but to buy drugs in short supply at steep prices.
"Our physicians DO NOT want to hear that a drug is 'unavailable,'" wrote one hospital pharmacist who submitted comments to the anonymous survey.
That doesn't surprise Jennifer Reddan, director of drug policy for the Indiana University Health System, who said that purchasers know they may be providing a market for unscrupulous suppliers, but have a difficult time turning down vital medications for cancer patients, say, or premature babies.
"We are in such a tight situation with some of these drugs," she said. "I hate it."
More than half of respondents to the ISMP survey, some 56 percent, said they were bombarded daily with solicitations from up to 10 gray market vendors, with requests coming by phone, e-mail and fax.
About a third of respondents from critical access and community hospitals who had purchased drugs from gray-market sources said they paid at least 10 times the contract price for the medications.
"I think it is criminal that pharmacies are 'held hostage' to these scalpers who charge excessive fees to obtain critically needed medications," one hospital staffer commented in the survey.
Worst-ever drug shortage
The new focus on gray-market suppliers comes amid the worst drug shortage in U.S. history. Last year, 211 vital drugs were reported in short supply, according to the University of Utah Drug Information Service. As of July 31, 180 drug shortages have been reported this year, with estimates that number could double by the end of 2011. Most are drugs to treat cancer, sedate patients during surgery or treat critically ill patients during emergencies.
Federal Food and Drug Administration officials have struggled with the shortages. The agency has no power to compel manufacturers to make certain drugs, or even to inform health care providers in a timely manner. The agency says the shortages are caused by a variety of factors, including manufacturing problems, raw materials shortages, firms that simply stop making drugs and overall production delays.
Gray-market suppliers take advantage of the ongoing shortages, monitoring drug availability and then exploiting the vulnerable supply chain, said Mike Cohen, president of the ISMP. There are worries that the drugs may be of questionable quality, may not be handled properly or may even be counterfeit or stolen.
The ISMP report calls for aggressive reforms to address the gray-market problems, including greater authority for the FDA to address the problem, a national pedigree law to replace a hodge-podge of state rules and stricter control of illegal activities such as counterfeiting and theft.
The root of the problem, however, is the shortage itself, Cohen said.
"Until we tackle that problem, there's always going to be a gray market," he said.
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Six per cent of people in need of adult social care feel socially isolated and have little contact with friends, family or neighbours, according a survey from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC).
The poll of more than 70,000 people who use social care services in England found that a further 16% of people felt as though they had some social contact but not enough.
A third felt as though the amount of time they spent with others was "adequate" and 44% said they had as much contact as they would want.
David McCullough, chief executive at Royal Voluntary Service, said: "The risk of being isolated from society increases as you get older and it substantially increases for those faced with additional challenges such as poor health and mobility."
"The challenge is to identify the tell-tale signs of isolation and the resulting loneliness, early. Many older people would not identify themselves as being socially isolated or lonely but for those around them, the warning signs are more apparent.
"We would encourage friends, family, carers and neighbours of older people to ensure that their relative or friend remains connected with the community through voluntary sector organisations who can provide vital support through local volunteers.
"The earlier this connection can be made the quicker the effect of loneliness can be lessened or avoided all together."
The HSCIC survey also found that almost one in 10 social service users think that their quality of life is bad.
Three per cent said that their life was "very bad" or "so bad, it could not be worse" and a further 6% said their quality of life was "bad", according to the survey.
The survey related to the year 2013/14 when there were 1,267,000 people receiving adult social services in England.
Care and support minister Norman Lamb said: "In our busy lives it can be easy to forget that thousands of people can often go for days without speaking to the people they care about or even having contact with anyone at all.
"We know that loneliness can have a significant impact on people's health - increasing the risk of heart disease and putting people at greater risk of blood clots and dementia.
"By highlighting areas where social isolation is high, better services and care can be targeted at those who need it most.
"But we can all play our part in making sure that those who are isolated feel part of the community again.
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Mrs Goshawk (fl. 1915-1921) was the wife of Mr Goshawk, and the mother of the nine Goshawk sisters, including Diadema, Romilda, Tangwystl and Miranda Goshawk.
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General Dynamics Corp. had a respectable year in 2010. Revenues were up, albeit slightly, and contracts steadily rolled in.
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The company, based in Falls Church, Va., brought in $32.5 billion in 2010, up 1.6 percent from $32 billion in 2009. Its net income was $2.6 billion, up 8.3 percent from $2.4 billion the year before. Those accomplishments earned it the No. 5 spot on the Top 100 list with $5.5 billion in prime contracts.
A major contributor to its success was the company's Information Systems and Technology group, which earned the highest level of revenue in its history – about $11.5 billion – and retained top billing as GD's revenue leader. It grew 7.5 percent from $10.8 billion in 2009.
One of the wins that contributed to its growth last year is a $228 million contract, awarded in March, to modernize the Federal Aviation Administration's Voice Enterprise Services program, which involves moving the system to voice-over-IP and IP telephony technology. In June, NASA awarded General Dynamics C4 Systems, a part of IS&T, $642.2 million to modernize its Satellite System Ground Segment. That means GD will implement a new architecture to ensure global space-to-ground telecommunications and tracking coverage for the space network, which supports all NASA flight missions, including the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station.
Gerard DeMuro, GD's executive vice president in charge of IS&T, attributes the division's success to the sum of its parts.
"If I had to cite one thing, I think it's a demonstration of the relevance of our portfolio, domain expertise that our teams have and understanding customer needs, and fashioning very cost-effective, high-value solutions for those customers," he said.
GD's progress on the military's Joint Tactical Radio System and Warfighter Information Network-Tactical will also continue to be key contributors to the group's success, DeMuro said, but the company is also looking to areas of growth potential.
"Cyber is an integral part of everything that we do," he said. "Given the world environment, I think that that will continue – to be able to monitor, sense and detect what's going on in your network, protect and defend it. There are tremendous opportunities there."
Acquisitions will also be important to sustaining an upward revenue tick. Last year, GD made two purchases. In June, GD United Kingdom Ltd. acquired Kylmar Ltd., an English firm that makes sensor and optical surveillance systems for military and security applications. A month earlier, it acquired Missouri-based EBV Explosives Environmental Co., which handles explosives disposal.
"We continue to look for opportunities where we think we have some gaps in our portfolio vs. future customer needs and issues," DeMuro said.
But GD doesn't only have to drum up business to prosper. It has to fight in a competitive market for budget-tightened dollars.
"We're not going to lose our focus on executing for our customers," DeMuro said of the company's approach. "The market forces are really driving all of us to be as aggressive as we can and as efficient as we can in providing these services and systems to the government."
Besides, the challenge is not new, he added. "Other than the dialogue that we're seeing around budget cuts, if you go back and look at the trend line in [IT] services and even to some extent the communications systems that are used for DOD, the budgets were far more robust in the middle of the last decade than they are now, so we have seen flattening budgets lines for some time. I think this is just a continuation of this trend."
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GigaSpaces is jostling for headroom in the increasingly crowded cloud application platform arena with its new Cloudify offering. Described in grand terms as the first platform for service-based application delivery to offer on-boarding with zero code changes, GigaSpaces says mission-critical apps in any cloud type are supported.
"Enterprises increasingly want to move to the cloud — whether private or hybrid — to gain the benefits of agility and cost reduction. However, deploying mission-critical applications to the cloud can present significant challenges," said Adi Paz, EVP marketing and business development at GigaSpaces. "Today, achieving cloud benefits requires vast investments of time and resources to rewrite applications, and so the bulk of enterprise business apps have still not made the move. Cloudify eliminates these barriers. "
The company asserts that it has received high-level industry partner trust to back up the validity of its new launch and specifies that GigaSpaces has recently entered multiple partnerships based on these capabilities, including partnering with Microsoft to deliver a specialized edition, Cloudify for Azure, which is designed to enable on-boarding Java applications onto the Azure cloud. Other collaborations include work with Citrix and Rackspace to create an open PaaS solution with OpenStack (CloudStack included).
These are the factors that GigaSpaces is using to justify Cloudify as the only platform that supports any cloud, with specific integration with the most diverse array of cloud environments. "Moreover, Cloudify makes it possible to take any application and run it in a local development environment and then move it to your cloud of choice, whether private or public, completely seamlessly with only a simple configuration switch," said the company, in a press statement.
Cloudify was designed on the principles of using a recipe-based deployment mechanism so that it can deploy any middleware stack (Java/Spring, JEE, PHP, .NET, Ruby on Rails, or others), whether a relational or non-relational data store is employed (e.g., MySQL or Apache Cassandra), or if other middleware components are added. In addition, Cloudify provides support for application services based on the GigaSpaces XAP stack.
The choice-enabler is Cloudify's Open Cloud Driver, which provides an open plug-in that leverages and extends the jclouds framework. Cloudify comes with a set of ready-made plug-ins that support common public and private cloud environments. Unlike other cloud platforms, Cloudify was designed to also support non-virtualized environments, enabling deployment of a fully elastic application on top of bare metal machines. This is important (so says GigaSpaces) for network-sensitive applications that want to leverage the cost benefits and agility of cloud-based environments but are not ready to take the performance hit that often comes with virtualizing the network environment.


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For those who haven't come across this link there are a number of Australian newspapers which have a free search engine at http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home
The original images can be saved. Christine, a friend in Canada, searched on key words to bring up '6 Jun 1831 – The beautiful suspension bridge over the river Yore at Middleham, in Yorkshire, fell in December. A number of cattle, passing over at the time, it is supposed caused the accident.
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Mention the word mummy, and you probably think of the shiny case of King Tut or the linen-bandaged walking dead in a George A. Romero film. But if you haven't seen a real mummy (a.k.a. a body whose skeleton and skin have been preserved) since you were on a school trip, this is a good time to get reacquainted. In recent decades, excavators have dug up remarkably well-preserved mortal remains at locations across the globe -- in Italy, Peru, and the Philippines -- that have changed a good deal of what we know about the history of preserving the dead. So come with us on a crash course of the world's most "magnificent" corpses.
Catacombs of the Capuchins in Palermo, Italy
Around 1599, Capuchin monks discovered that the catacombs under the church of Santa Maria della Pace (Our Lady of Peace) on the outskirts of Palermo were ideal for preserving the dead. For the following three centuries or so, monks drained and dried more than 6,000 corpses in the subterranean corridors beneath the monastery, dressing them up in their Sunday best and propping them up along clammy corridors. Later generations of monks apparently doctored the mummies because while some of them are now vile, decomposed, and contorted, their clothes are usually stuffed with hay and their skeletons are often held together by wire. Other mummies are lifelike, though, including one girl who's been nicknamed Sleeping Beauty. But make no mistake: This is as far from a Disney fairy tale as you could get. Admission about $4.20, Piazza Cappuccini 1, Palermo, 011-39/091-212-117, catacombepalermo.it.
El Brujo Archaeological Complex near Trujillo, Peru
In the mid-2000s, excavators at El Brujo, an archaeological site about 435 miles north of Lima, were startled to dig up a mummy that was covered with well-preserved tattoos. They named her the Lady of Cao, after the Huaca Cao Viejo, the nearby temple-like structure built by the Moche, a pre-Inca culture. Then in 2009, they opened the Museum of Cao, displaying the 1,700-year-old corpse along with the grave goods (such as war clubs and gold jewelry) found near her tomb. The museum presents theories suggesting that Senora Cao was a dignitary or a member of royalty and illustrates how her people, the Moche, excelled at making ceramics and other crafts in the pre-Colombian era. Best to visit with a guide from Trujillo (the nearest town, about 37 miles south) with a vehicle to take you on the unmarked dirt roads. Admission $4.20, private tours start at about $70 for two people, 011-51/44-291-894.
South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy
Watch where you hike. In 1991, a pair of Germans walking through the Tyrol Mountains near the Italian border chanced upon a human figure poking out of a thawing glacier. Authorities later used CSI-style forensic analysis on the body, nicknamed Ötzi, to determine that it had been shot in the shoulder by an arrow and then mummified by natural processes. The 5,300-year-old body is on permanent display at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, along with the clothing remnants, shoes, bearskin hat, quiver, flint dagger, and copper ax discovered around him. Come face-to-face with Ötzi, and you'll experience the closest you may ever come to time travel, given how he is unusually well preserved. Admission about $13, Via Museo at Via Cassa di Risparmio, Bolzano, 011-39/04-7132-0100, iceman.it.
Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo, Egypt
For an audience with 11 ancient emperors, step into the dimly lit Royal Mummy Room and the adjacent exhibition The Journey to Immortality on the upper floor of the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities. "Silence, please!" barks the museum guards, insisting on respect for the earthly remains of famous conquerors Seti 1, his son Ramses II, and Queen Hatshepsut, who was identified in 2007. The desiccated bodies generally look peaceful -- sleepy almost -- and many still have hair. If you look up Ramses V's nostrils, you can see a hole in his skull, a vivid example of how the mummification technique involved scraping out brain matter. Afterward, be sure to pop into easily missed Room 54 to see cat, monkey, and crocodile mummies. In ancient Egypt, animals could be venerated as if they were people. Admission $10, separate ticket price to see mummies $16.80, Al-Mathaf al-Masri, Maydan Tahrir, Downtown, Cairo, 011-20/2-579-6974.
Museo Arqueológico in Azapa Valley, Chile
Despite widespread belief to the contrary, Egyptians may not have been the first ancient civilization to preserve their dead. Mummies from 5,000 to 2,000 B.C. -- at least 2,000 years older than the Egyptian mummies -- have been found in what is now northern-most Chile. The Chinchorro people embalmed their dead, swapping out internal organs and muscles with clay, reeds, and other materials. Skin was, um, reupholstered and given a black or red finish. Four of these mummies, roughly 4,000 to 7,000 years old and mostly discovered in 1983, are on display in the Azapa Valley's superb Museo Arqueológico San Miguel de Azapa (Museum of Archaeology in San Miguel de Azapa), which covers Peruvian history from 8,000 B.C. up to colonial times. Lean into the glass cases to see how some skin and hair remain on the bodies. Admission about $2, Camino Azapa, eight miles from Arica, 011-56/58-205-551, uta.cl.
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Juan Rexach was one of the most important fifteenth-century painters in Valencia. His work, while firmly Spanish, contains elements from other artistic centers in Europe, particularly Flanders. The crucified Christ is painted in a style that is reminiscent of Gerard David, and the distant architecture is Northern in origin. The beautiful and typically Spanish composition of the Madonna and Child enthroned with angels became a popular subject in Valencian painting of the period. Fortunately, the late Gothic ogee arches above each compartment have been preserved. It is clear from the framing and arrangement of subjects that this must have been the top central section of a large retable.
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It's baseball, softball, and track time for Bronco and Lady Buckaroo basketball teams after losing in their respective state tournaments last week.
The first to end their season somewhat unexpectedly were the Lady Buckaroos, who took high expectations to the 1A state tournament in Richfield, only to be undone by one low scoring quarter in each game.
After winning their final season game against Green River to forge a first place region tie, the Lady Buckaroos won the coin toss to capture the number one seed from the region and faced the number three seed Altamont Longhorns.
The Longhorns had wins over San Juan and Whitehorse earlier in the season, but recently had recorded a loss to Green River that gave the Lee Chadwicks forces hopes. But it was not to be as the Lady Buckaroos started the game hot, but soon turned cold and couldn't get the ball to go in the hoop.
After forging a 9-4 lead after one quarter, the Lady Buckaroos only scored four points in the second while Altamont racked up 19 to take a lead they never relinquished, recording a 46-35 loss onto the Bucks.
Swayzi Slade led the Lady Buckaroos with 16 points. Dropped into the consolation bracket, the determined gals from Monticello jumped on St. Joes early, forging a 16-9 lead at one point before going cold again and before they knew it, they were down 39-25 with just four minutes left in the game.
It didn't help when senior Kendyl Boyd left the game injuring her knee. But led by Slade, Abby Chadwick and Martha Beh, all of whom will be back next year, the Buckaroos staged a furious rally, closing within two points by the end of the game.
However, when a Chadwick three point try fell short with just seconds remaining, so had the Buckaroo rally and their season, 42-39.
The Lady Buckaroos ended the season with a 9-10 record and great expectations for next year.
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The Lady Raiders of Whitehorse saw their great season end after going 1-2 at the 1A tournament. The 17-6 Raiders won their first game over the Milford Tigers, 47-43, before dropping consecutive contests to the Rich Rebels 53-34, and 50-47 to Intermountain Christian in two overtimes. Maray Filfred led the Lady Raiders with 49 points in the three contests.
Next to end the season were the San Juan Lady Broncos, who fell in the infamous annual 2A sudden death play-out game.
Can you tell I don't like the play-out format? The Lady Broncos entered the play-in game against Kanab having won six of eight games and were playing well. Starting slow, the third-seeded Lady Broncos fell behind to the third-seeded Lady Cowboys by 10 after the first quarter, but slowly and patiently worked their way back to get within five points by the fourth quarter.
But the schoolgirls from Kanab put the clamps on and pulled away to a 49-38 win, ending the 9-13 Lady Broncos season once again in sudden death.
Jolene Kirk kept the Lady Broncos in the game with 13 points while Kelsi Meyer added 11.
Finally, the San Juan Broncos of coach Ryan Nielson, whose season ended once again in play-out fashion. Really, isn't there a better way to conduct the tournament than send the teams home after one game? The only classification in the state to do so?
Anyway, the boy Broncos dropped a 63-38 contest to South Summit to end their season. After battling to a 12-12 first quarter tie, the 10-11 Broncos couldn't stay with the Wildcats and try as they might, couldn't come away with the victory.
Cameron Shumway was the only Bronco to hit double figures with 14.
The Buckaroo boys are still playing, and playing well, one might add. Friday night saw the boys last home game against a game Dolores Bears team.
The five seniors on the team, Josh Anderson, Sean Getter, Hendrick Benally, Tyler Ketron and Steven Redd, started the game for the Bucks and leaped out to a 9-0 lead. After one quarter the Bucks led 13-8 which they extended to 30-20 by halftime.
But the determined Bears fought their way back and actually forged a 35-34 lead with 3:24 left in the third quarter.
But lead by big man Dallin Duncan, who finished the night with 16 points, the Bucks scored eight straight points and went on a 16-2 run to finally put the Bears to rest, 59-52.
Ketron contributed 15 Buckaroo points while Steven Redd helped with 13 points.
The 16-2 Buckaroos end the regular season this week at Green River Thursday, where a win, coupled with a Whitehorse win over Monument Valley the same night, will cause a Buckaroo-Raider PLAY-OFF (rather than play-out) game to determine first and second seedings at state.
The play-off game will be Friday at San Juan High School at 6 p.m. State follows next week in Richfield.
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Last week I wrote about Buckaroo wrestling demeanor. This week a little Buckaroo Basketball Behavior. Friday night against the Dolores Bears, the Bucks had a decided height advantage. Dolores is guard heavy and those guards penetrated all night, only to get stuffed on more than one occasion.
After the Bears, however, had forged a slight lead, Steven Redd, Buckaroo senior forward, got one particularly reverberating block on the slight Bear guard, swatting the ball decisively out of bounds.
Rather than scream and flex and strut and basically call attention to himself like one is most likely to see anywhere on TV basketball these days, Redd reacted by getting himself ready for the inbounds play which the Bears were setting up.
No other reaction whatsoever from Redd as the crowd howled. Stocktonesque, don't you think? Now that is class, if you ask me. And to the freshman Bear guard's credit, no reaction either.


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Emergency room visits by children with concussions and other traumatic brain injuries from sports or other recreational activities have jumped over the last decade, a new government report shows. Doctors are divided whether it means more kids are getting hurt or parents are being more careful about their children's head injuries.
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Between 2001 and 2009, emergency room visits for traumatic brain injuries, or TBIs, in American youngsters under the age of 20 were up a full 60 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC found that 153,375 youngsters were seen in the ER in 2001, versus 248,418 in 2009. Bicycling and football topped the causes of head injuries in young people.
"There could be an increased incidence because more kids are getting up off the couch and participating in physical activities," the study's author Dr. Julie Gilchrist, a pediatrician and researcher at the CDC's Injury Center said. "But we're hoping that the increased numbers represent an increased awareness among parents that their children need to be evaluated for suspected brain injuries."Story: Q&A: Concussion crisis a game-changer, authors reveal
Either way, Gilchrist hopes parents are even more vigilant about their children's head injuries. "We aren't putting out this paper to scare people," Gilchrist explained. "We certainly believe children need to be active and find physical activities that they can enjoy throughout their lifespans. And we believe parents should encourage this."
Even if the rise in ER visits reflects increased parent awareness, experts agree the actual number of concussions kids suffer each year is much greater than the number seen in emergency rooms. While some kids are seen by family physicians, many still go undiagnosed and untreated.
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"We do know that a large proportion of concussions are not seen in the emergency department," Gilchrist said. "And that's appropriate -- if there aren't any red flags for a more severe brain injury or structural injuries such as a skull fracture or a subdural hematoma."
Dr. Douglas Smith, professor of neurosurgery and director of the Center for Brain Injury and Repair at the University of Pennsylvania, estimates there could be as many a 3 million traumatic brain injuries each year. "Moderate and severe injuries make up about 20 percent of that; the rest are concussions."
The new report isn't the first to find a rise in concussion-related ER visits. A 2010 study published in Pediatrics found that the number of 8- to 13-year-olds seen in the ER had doubled over a 10-year period, while visits among 14- to 19-year-olds had tripled in the same time period.
Brain injury experts were mixed in how they interpreted the new findings.
For Kevin Guskiewicz, a long time concussion researcher, the numbers indicate the injuries are being taken more seriously.
"I think that there has been a culture shift regarding this injury," said Guskiewicz, professor and chair of exercise and sports science and co-director of the Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center. "A lot of that has to do with the amazing job the CDC has done educating the public. I'd also say that the media has done a very good job in helping create awareness about this injury."
In fact, there's a national movement to protect young athletes from concussion injuries. At least 30 states have laws requiring coaches to pull injured kids from games and another 15 have legislation pending. "The laws have three components: education; stipulation that an athlete can not return to play on the same day as a concussion; and a requirement that the concussed athlete must be released back to participation by a health-care provider," says Guskiewicz.
Because kids now realize that a concussion diagnosis could keep them out of a game, they may not report an injury to their parents or coaches and may find creative ways to hide it, Smith warned.
"For them, getting sat out of the game is punishment," he said.
That makes it even more important for parents to be alert to a head injury.
"Symptoms can evolve over time," Gilchrist said. "A child might be having a difficult time on Monday and if the parents don't know the signs and symptoms they might not recognize this is related to a hit that occurred on Friday."
Symptoms can vary with each injury, but Gilchrist offered some common ones, including:
- A child looking dazed or confused or forgetful
- A child who is moving clumsily or who answers slowly
- A loss of consciousness (no matter how brief)
- Personality or behavior changes
- Difficulty recalling events that occurred either before or after the hit or fall
Kids who have sustained a concussion might report any or all of the following: headaches or a sensation of pressure in the head, nausea, vomiting, balance problems, dizziness, double or blurred vision, sensitivity to light or noise, a feeling of sluggishness, haziness or grogginess, confusion, memory problems.
Linda Carroll is a regular contributor to msnbc.com and TODAY.com. She is co-author of the new book "The Concussion Crisis: Anatomy of a Silent Epidemic"


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Profound Clairvoyance or Blatant Obviousness?
Zahir Ebrahim
February 19, 2008.
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On February 19, 2008, Pakistan's largest English language daily Dawn and the world press identically reported in a story boldly headlined "Indian official warns over Pakistan nukes", that: "The nature of the dangers which nuclear weapons pose has dramatically intensified with the growing risk that such weapons may be acquired by terrorists... The mounting concern over the likelihood that in a situation of chaos, Pakistan's nuclear assets may fall into the hands of jihadi elements ... underscores how real this danger has become ... India has to be deeply concerned about the danger it faces".
As usual, neither Pakistan's Foreign office, nor Pakistan's newsmedia appear to be adequately equipped to effectively deal with this propaganda mantra of 'loose nukes'. The rising crescendo of this mantra which will be dutifully harvested to eventually see NATO and UN troops taking over our 'nuke' safety to come 'save' us and the world, was fully dismantled in this rebuttal-report by Project Humanbeingsfirst: "Response to Zia Mian's 'How Not to Handle Nuclear Security'", available at http://humanbeingsfirst.org.
This report on 'nuclear security' was forwarded to the Foreign Office through a retired military contact person, but that august Office does not seem to have benefited from it. Even almost two months later, right in the middle of Pakistan's most important election, indeed on election day itself, the matter surfaces again. The prime reason for this was also preemptively deconstructed in this stark warning to the nation by Project Humanbeingsfirst: "Wakeup to the grotesque reality of the 'Grand Chessboard'", available at http://humanbeingsfirst.org.
All this analytical deconstruction of reality is of course under the premise that lonely 'Alice' is wide awake while the mainstream has been complicity sold the 'Mad Hatter's' reality at the 'unbirthday party' enthusiastically singing the 'imperial' war song without noticing its absurdity.
To understand just how absurd, the fact that the trumpeting elephants in the bedroom are also loudly singing the 'imperial song' and yet remain unnoticed – as examined in the following two dismantling-reports of Benazir Bhutto's assassination by Project Humanbeingsfirst: "Perpetuating the fiction of Who Killed Benazir Bhutto" and "Who Killed Benazir Bhutto? In her own words!" available at http://humanbeingsfirst.org – with all mainstream news sources choosing to ignore the subject matter entirely, is telling in and of itself of either co-option or complicity.
The perpetuation of this absurdity can further be witnessed in the opinion piece in the same edition of Dawn ('US poll fears') by the Rand Corporation's 'antiterrorism expert', Farhana Ali, that entirely omitted any aspect of this hidden-only-in-plain-sight reality. While voices of 'empire' deftly spinning "imperial mobilization" as its 'war on terror' continually get prominence in the victims' own newspapers and are loudly echoed by its own politicians and ruling elite who now claim to be more 'white' than the 'white man' willingly carrying more of its 'burden', contrarian voices of reasoned-sanity able to penetrate through the mass-deception and 'technique of infamy' are conveniently shut out.
Thus it is not surprising that Zardari itches to join his late iconoclastic wife in cleaning out "the very petri dish of international terrorism" : 'The Pakistan People's Party (PPP), if it comes into power, must persuade the people that the fight against militants is "our war", not just America's war, party Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said on Saturday.' (Daily Times, February 17, 2008, 'Taliban fight is our war: Zardari')
Well, the proof of the pudding (prognostications) is in its eating (coming true). The following was 'clairvoyantly' predicted by Project Humanbeingsfirst in its bold wakeup call to the Pakistani nation two months ago. While almost all pundits of Pakistani politics everywhere, including Pakistan's own newsmedia and its intelligentsia, were crying hoarse of 'rigging' at the polls until today – the day after elections – Project Humanbeingsfirst seems to have been the only analytically deconstructing voice to have suggested to the contrary as far back as December 21, 2007 in its wakeup call:
" ... This mantra of elections is replete with red herrings craftily synthesized to maintain Pakistan as a servile client-state in order to carry on with the same bold 'imperial designs' on the 'Grand Chessboard'. It is merely the rebottling of the same old wine in a different bottle. It will surely be legitimately conducted, with no apparent riggings, and duly approved by all the impartial international observers to give the artful elections an official international legitimacy.
It is quite immaterial who wins in these elections. The laws and the judiciary of the nation have already been reconstituted under the umbrella of 'emergency' to enable the nation to carry on unfettered in its primary objective of fighting the 'War on Terror' as an obedient patsy client-state – and hence to carry on in its own devilishly crafted suicide! ..." (http://humanbeingsfirst.org)
And we see exactly the same come true today, February 19, 2008. Witness Dawn's reports: US hopes polls lead to 'civilian democracy', and 'Heavyweights knocked out'; The Nation's reports: Pakistani people have spoken- US, and Foreign observers satisfied over free and fair elections; The Daily Times report: Foreign observers satisfied. Hopefully, nothing further that the rational and awakened mind prognosticates, will ever come true.
Thus perhaps it is better to continue wishing upon the well and not examine Kosovo's independence yesterday at the hands of NATO that was immediately accepted, never mind aided and abetted, by the United States and the EU after NATO and UN forces had been invited in on a 'peace mission' with a UN resolution in 1999. There is certainly no reason to fear Baluchistan – sharing similar grievances and step-sisterly treatment – meeting a similar 'independence' along similar pretexts that will initially invite NATO in to come 'save us' from the 'Taliban' and the 'loose nukes' about to fall into their inglorious hands! The next step – repartition, as examined in the wakeup call. At that time, the repartitioning of Pakistan will make as much sense, and will garner as much world sympathy and support, as Serbia's partition today.
This is the great slight-of-hand devilish power of the New World Order – make things so bad for the peoples through state-sponsored terrorism and the 'war on terror' which legitimizes any inhumanity and any level of destruction including nuclear attacks on non-nuclear nations, that the terrorized peoples will rush to the State (or the world's Policeman) seeking mainly only their security, willingly giving up anything and everything in return including their inalienable Rights as Human Beings First! Far fetched? That is how the Americans and their brethren in the EU and the UK have lost their "essential liberties". For the Global South, while the modus operandi remain the same, the baby-steps are mere 'pawn' moves on the 'Grand Chessboard'. Study the geostrategic game of the 'hectoring hegemons' with the imperialist's mind and its doctrines, and the baby-steps become obvious. Keep solely focussing on each baby-step as it unfolds by sheer 'happenstance', and the accurate predictions of the next baby-steps appear clairvoyant!
The newly elected team (and their next legatees) will surely ensure that Pakistan's pathetic 'descent into oblivion' transpires, as by their own admission, they accept that the fabricated 'fight against militants is "our war", not just America's war'.
None other than America's favorite son's prophetic words appear to be of most relevance in describing this phenomenon of the 'Negro' that has been transpiring in this nation since its 'wretched' inception:
"The white establishment is skilled in flattering and cultivating emerging leaders. It presses its own image on them and finally, from imitation of manners, dress, and style of living, a deeper strain of corruption develops. This kind of Negro leader acquires the white man's contempt for the ordinary Negro. He is often more at home with the middle-class white than he is among his own people. His language changes, his location changes, his income changes, and ultimately he changes from the representative of the Negro to the white man into the white man's representative to the Negro. The tragedy is that too often he does not recognize what has happened to him." (Martin Luther King).
The seeds for this 'Negro' phenomenon were deftly cultivated in our fertile obsequious soil by Lord Macaulay when he imaginatively synthesized the 'Indian babu' or 'brown sahib' who would "form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect."
This phenomenon, of dominant civilizations constructing 'native informants' in order to colonize its victims with their own kind, like "hegemony", is hardly new however. It is in fact "as old as mankind".
And its blanket recognition in every generation in every age seems to have become a first necessity of self-defense for its victims – at least among those who still have any dignity and self-respect left. This is all the more essential today in the age of neo-colonialism where the 'baboons' du jour seek "full spectrum dominance" using the best techniques and methods of Machiavelli, game theory, and devilish machinations, including multi-faceted 'technique of infamy' of inventing multiple lies and covert-ops to keep the peoples occupied debating which of them might be true while fait-accompli proceeds in the backdrop of vacuous debates and red herrings. In an age where "Deception is the mind of the State", effective self-defense by a people can only begin by anticipating and unraveling that deception. That's just how it is!
[Addendum: February 23, 2008: As if to deliberately lend further substance to the deconstructed reality outlined here, the following two news reports appeared in today's Dawn: "Musharraf has a role in new set-up: US" and "Pressure on Asif, Nawaz to work with president". The titles are revealing in and of themselves and need no further elaboration per se except to carefully note that it is a public relations campaign to justify to the Pakistani public what is already the foregone, very calculatingly played out machinations to affect the movement of a patsy 'pawn' on the 'Grand Chessboard'. And the following oped in the Nation yesterday (February 22, 2008), "After the election", is among the first to appear from the editorial writers of a major English language daily in Pakistan that finally seems to have found the courage to start 'clairvoyantly' seeing the structural reality of these elections that shouts 'status quo': "... The President is actually ideally placed for a repetition of 1988, only earlier. He should dissolve the National Assembly as soon as he feels that the electorate is now likely to give him the Parliament he wants, which is one with the power of validating his actions under the PCO and Emergency, and which will let him pick as PM a rank outsider, who will disappear as graciously as Shaukat Aziz. The President has the dissolution power, so he will find enough opportunity. The first reason he will have is that of the War on Terror. Joining the self-serving American and European choruses of "not enough" will be the President of Pakistan, who will use this as a ground of dissolution." Thank you Nation for showing some journalistic integrity by way of attempting to see past the manifest 'katputli tamashas' on the 'Grand Chessboard'. When will others follow suit in seeing the elephants collectively trumpeting in the newlywed's bed? ]
[Addendum2: March 29, 2008: More clairvoyance? The following headlines in today's and yesterday's Dawn scream out the grotesque reality on the 'Grand Chessboard' that is to culminate in a premeditated nuclear war on Iran with Pakistan being dragged into it just as compellingly as both Afghanistan and Iraq. The writing's on the wall, with the new incoming administration in Pakistan once again, like the previous administrations over the past 9 years, either willingly as idiotic patsies, or complicitly as sharing in the aims of the 'hectoring hegemons', are diligently working on their portion of the plan to "birth-pang" the entire "Global Zone of Percolating Violence". In either case, their monumentally criminal deconstruction of Pakistan is proceeding with haste as predicted:
Unless there are any 'ma ka lals' remaining in Pakistan, this 'wretched' country – my only nationality and geophysical identity – in a very short time will descend into a situation of exacerbated Muslim on Muslim violence as is even unfolding once again in Iraq today under orchestration, for which the President of United States expressed his satisfaction in these words: . Similar words have been written for Pakistan. May the treasonous, wherever they may reside, never find peace; every time they look in the mirror, may they only see images like these happening to their own kin. What else can a powerless plebeian efficaciously do – but to show the hegemons how life might be for them under the Biblical Golden Rule 'do unto others as you have others do unto you'? ]
[Addendum3 September 10, 2008: Observing the events of the day being rehearsed with all the pomp and majestic show – complete with horse-drawn buggy and kisses on the cheeks and all – before the applauding world with Mr. Zardari taking the highest oath of office in Pakistan, reminded me of the opening wedding scene from Mario Puzo's movie the Godfather, attended by the motley of morality-challenged, all dressed in their finest Sunday outfits. The only thing that appeared to be missing during the festivities in the non-movie version was the camera zooming into private meetings in beautifully shuttered oak and mahogany paneled darkened rooms behind closed doors on how the "territory" was to be divided up, who would get what loot, and who would be assigned to make which offer that couldn't be refused! Even the fictional Michael Coreleone could not go so "legit" as the real life enactment! Once made "legit" and cleansed into a "virgin", is it slanderous to recall the past? None of the afore-stated staid recollections from newspaper reports even begin to scratch the real surface of the actual experiences of many Pakistanis under Asif Ali Zardari during the two short hereditary reigns of his beloved wife. His popular nom de guerre of "Mr. ten percent" among the general public hardly did him justice. And neither could Al Capone ever be charged for anything other than tax evasion! Even that opportunity no longer exists – so long as the godfather dutifully continues America's "war on terror"! See: Happy-Happy Zardari: A monologue on Hope and Voluntary Servitude ]
The author, an ordinary researcher and writer on contemporary geopolitics, a minor justice activist, grew up in Pakistan, studied EECS at MIT, engineered for a while in high-tech Silicon Valley (patents here), and retired early to pursue other responsible interests. His maiden 2003 book was rejected by six publishers and can be read on the web at http://PrisonersoftheCave.org. He may be reached at http://Humanbeingsfirst.org. Verbatim reproduction license at http://humanbeingsfirst.org/#Copyright.
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I read someplace that to learn a-word-a-day and use that word at least once that day is good brain exercise.
Today I learned the word "sphincter" which the dictionary tells me it is an annular muscle surrounding and able to contract or close a bodily opening.
If I translate that right, a sphincter is the "O" ring of your ass-hole.
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I must have been about five when my brother and I built what we thought would serve as a handy container for Santa's collection of assorted vintage beers. Apparently we got it into our heads that he was an avid drinker. It was a cardboard box with a cut-out reindeer head taped to the side, a feat of what seemed at the time an achievement of artisan carpentry that could have provoked Jesus to throw his messiah badge away in lugubrious defeat. In retrospect it was probably a bit naff. Our parents were now faced with the question of what to do with it on Christmas Eve. In the end they settled on the plan to forge a note from Santa claiming that he thought is was so good, he didn't want to separate us from it, and so had it magically duplicated, and kept one of the duplicates for himself.
You could probably imagine our reaction the following day. "Holy f**king shit! This object before me is ostensibly some product of MAGIC! Jesus s**tting Christ! Am I to understand that Santa, patriarch of the expatriate leprechauns, magically duplicated his Christmas present!? I don't f**king believe it!" Well, I did believe it, but at the same time I was aware of the fact that if it hadn't been true, I would still be faced with the exact same spectacle. And why for that matter did Santa think I would have any need for a beer crate? I didn't drink; I was five! In fact, as far as lets-make-our-kids-believe-there-is-an-obsessive-compulsive-inverese-burglar charades go, this was spectacularly lazy one. But anyway, I'm veering off topic.
It was probably only a year or so later that I learned that none of it was real. Rather than being disappointed or confused, I was rather relieved. Never having witnessed magic before, that Christmas served as a sort of experiential anomaly. It may have been round about this time that I realised there could be no such thing as magic.
So where does God fit into all this? Well, to tell the truth I wasn't all that interested in him. My father was (and is) a geologist, so I grew up with tales of Palaeozoic fauna, rather than burning bushes, and never questioned the possibility of the Genesis myth, not that I had any idea what Genesis was. When I was eventually introduced to religious myths they were treated no differently to Grimm's fairy tales. It was only in my early twenties that I discovered that as someone who didn't believe that this bollocks was true, I was in a minority. But having been brought up in a devastatingly secular environment with a scientist for a father, I guess there wasn't a chance in hell that I would be anything but an atheist.
So my descent into atheism wasn't all that interesting; nothing involving a priest, a discarded and bloody candlestick and a weathered note from a long-lost, presumed-dead relative. In retrospect, it was a rather dull affair and probably not worth recounting. Oh well.
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In spinal fusion surgery, there are three big advantages to an intra-operative sliding gantry CT. First of all, the patient does not have to move during the surgery and can be operated on using a standard surgical table. The CT scanner simply slides on rails over the patient, providing imaging on demand. The CT scanner can then be moved out of the way when not in use, giving the surgeon full access to the surgical site. Secondly, the images that are required for the surgical navigation-aided stabilization procedure are generated in the patient's final surgical position. This results in highly accurate images and therefore more precise surgical navigation and screw placement. The third advantage is that the position of the implants can be controlled immediately. Spine surgeons can see whether the screws or rods are compressing any structure and act without delay. This can spare the patient from complications and the potential for costly additional surgeries. With intra-operative CT, there are even workflow benefits: Thanks to the integration of the CT scanner with the neuronavigation system (for example, Brainlab), the coregistration procedure with CT images occurs automatically.
Patients who need spinal fusion surgery are not the only ones to benefit from intra-operative CT.
Neurosurgeons want to resect brain tumors and their margins as accurately as possible and prevent damage to the normal brain. But a neuronavigation system is only as reliable as the images that it draws on. During surgery, however many things can change. When resecting glioma tumors, the brain is known to shift. In meningioma patients, the surgical field changes as a result of the bone drilling that needs to be performed. Using intra-operative CT allows the dataset for the neuronavigation system to be updated whenever necessary. The result is that it becomes easier to preserve delicate structures – and at the same time, neurosurgeons can be more confident that they have removed the tumor and its margins as completely as possible.
Neurovascular surgeons can monitor the results of complex aneurysm-clipping surgeries with intra-operative CT: They find that CT angiography and CT perfusion scans can be helpful. CT angiography visualizes the site and shows whether or not the vessel patency has been preserved. With CT perfusion scans, neurovascular surgeons can view the distant perfusion in order to evaluate whether the clipping had a detrimental effect on other brain regions.
Compared to most mobile CT vendors, which primarily focus on visualizing bones (that is, the spine) in non-obese patients, the soft-tissue contrast offered on Siemens intra-operative CT systems is far superior, and enables the visualization of tumors and nerve structures in greater detail. Equally superb is their ability to perform CT angiograms, CT perfusion imaging, metal artifact reduction, Dual Energy capabilities, and iterative reconstruction methods to reduce dose. Siemens intra-operative CT is the modality of choice for those neuro and spine surgeons who need to see more than just bone in a wide variety of patients, from pediatric to obese.
CT image guidance in trauma surgery
In trauma surgery, every minute counts. A dual room with a SOMATOM Definition Edge sliding gantry CT with Adaptive 3D Intervention Suite and an Artis zeego angio system is the ultimate solution. Using a mobile operating table with a shuttle system, you can transfer the patient to the CT and then to the hybrid OR without having to reposition the patient.


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Aspose.Total for Java
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Aspose.Words for Java
Aspose.Words for Java allows the developers to perform a great range of document processing tasks directly within Java applications. It supports most popular word processing formats including DOC, OOXML, RTF, HTML and OpenDocument. With Aspose.Words, you can generate, modify and convert documents without using Microsoft Word.
Aspose.PDF for Java
Aspose.PDF for Java is a PDF document creation API that enables your Java applications to read, write and manipulate PDF documents without using Adobe Acrobat. It is a standalone API that offers great deal of features including PDF compression options, table creation and manipulation, extended security controls and custom font handling.
Aspose.Cells for Java
Aspose.Cells for Java offers Excel file generation, conversion & manipulation. API enables Java applications to create and manage Excel spreadsheets without using Microsoft Excel. Aspose.Cells for Java is an incredibly feature rich API that offers much more than just basic data export functions.
Aspose.Email for Java
Aspose.Email for Java is a set of Java APIs to read and write email message files in various formats without Microsoft Outlook. It provides classes to read and manipulate Outlook MSG, EML, EMLX, OFT files – add attachments, recipients, update subject, body, and other MSG file properties.
Aspose.Slides for Java
Aspose.Slides for Java is a unique presentation management API that enables Java-based applications to read, write and manipulate PowerPoint presentations. Developers can generate, modify, copy, convert, render and print presentations without installing Microsoft PowerPoint.
Aspose.Imaging for Java
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Aspose.BarCode for Java
Aspose.BarCode for Java API allows developers to quickly add barcode generation and recognition functionality to their Java applications. It supports Java SE, Java EE and Java ME platforms, and a multitude of linear, 2D & postal barcode types.
Aspose.Diagram for Java
Aspose.Diagram for Java is a non-graphical and well-structured API allowing developers to load existing diagrams, create diagrams from scratch, save a diagram in any supported file format or manipulate Microsoft Visio drawings within Java applications without using Microsoft Visio.
Aspose.Tasks for Java
Aspose.Tasks for Java is a project management API that enables Java application developers to provide Microsoft Project document manipulation capability in their applications – all without using Microsoft Project. With this powerful API, developers can control various stages of project management such as project planning, definition and tracking.
Aspose.OCR for Java
Aspose.OCR for Java is an optical character recognition Java API allowing programmers to add OCR technology to Java applications quickly and easily. It provides simple set of classes to recognize characters from most commonly used image formats.
Aspose.Note for Java
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Aspose.CAD for Java
Aspose.CAD for Java enables the Java developers to convert AutoCAD DWG and DXF drawing files to PDF and raster images. It is a native API that does not require AutoCAD or any other software to be installed.
Aspose.3D for Java
Aspose.3D for Java API is built to create, edit, manipulate and save 3D formats. It empowers Java applications to connect with 3D documents without installing any software package on the computer, and assists the developers in modeling and creating game worlds & scenes for design visualization.
Aspose.HTML for Java
Aspose.HTML for Java is an advanced HTML manipulation API that allows creating, loading, editing or converting (X)HTML documents within the Java applications. The API also provides a high fidelity rendering engine for PDF, XPS and a number of raster image formats.
Aspose.Page for Java
Aspose.Page for Java is a PostScript and XPS document parsing and processing API. Developers can easily convert PS & EPS files to PDF and raster image formats. API also allows the developers to create, parse and save XPS files without any dependencies.
Aspose.PSD for Java
Aspose.PSD for Java is a premise API for Photoshop formats manipulation. Developers can easily create, load, convert and modify PSD & PSB formats. API can perform different operations like adding watermarks, compression, rotation, scaling and more without the need of Adobe Photoshop installed.
Aspose.OMR for Java
Aspose.OMR for Java is an API to recognize optical marks from OMR digitized sheet images as well as from different image formats like BMP, JPG, TIF, TIFF, GIF. API captures human-marked data from document forms like surveys, questionnaires, MCQs etc. The base of recognition is template markup having a graphical mapping of the elements to be recognized from the scanned images.
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Generate Word reports using mail merge
Create Excel dashboards with charts & Pivot Tables
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Create & manipulate PDF documents
Create presentation files with new slides or by cloning existing ones
Convert Windows metafiles (WMF) to other graphics formats
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Export Visio Drawings to PDF, XML, Image, XPS, HTML and more
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Aspose.Total for Java brings to you a toolkit of handy utility APIs allowing you to add barcode and OCR functionalities to Java applications, create & consume recurrence patterns and utilize network protocols including SMTP, POP3, MIME, IMAP, FTP, DNS, ICMP and WHOIS.
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Aspose.Total for Java is built using managed code that does not need Microsoft Office to be installed on the machine to work with supported document formats. It is a perfect Microsoft Office automation alternative in terms of supported features, security, stability, scalability, speed and price.
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Coronado High (CHS) Class of 2004 Alumni List
Help us Update the Coronado High 2004 Class List by adding any names missing from the list below:
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16-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Monday, January 22, 1912: Ruth and I went up to Oakes' this evening. I didn't care very much about going as I had my lessons to study and don't do so much as it is.
Her middle-aged granddaughter's comments 100 years later:
Brrr. . . it sounds like a cold walk in the dark.
Grandma and her sister Ruth would have walked down the road that went past their house to the farm where their friend Rachel Oakes lived.
Rachel's brothers, Alvin and James, may have also been there. The previous spring Ruth dated James—but he hasn't been mentioned in the diary in months, so I don't think that they were still dating.


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Rental Assistance
The Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8) Program allows low income citizens to find their own places to rent in Albuquerque.
Voucher holders are free to choose any house that meets minimum health and safety standards where the landlord is willing to participate in the Section 8 program.
Once a family finds a home that they wish to rent, Albuquerque Housing Authority must inspect it to make sure that it meets HUD's housing quality standards. Albuquerque Housing Authority also checks to make sure that the rents are reasonable and within the fair market rent range for Albuquerque. Households assisted through the Section 8 program pay 30% of their income toward the rent. Albuquerque Housing Authority pays private landlords the difference between what participating households pay and the rent for the units. Through this program, over 5,000 Albuquerque families receive rental assistance.
Room to Move
We can't imagine why anyone would want to leave Albuquerque, but Section 8 voucher holders can choose to be "portable." Section 8 vouchers come with portability rights that allow voucher holders to leave Albuquerque Housing Authority's jurisdiction and use their voucher anywhere in the U.S. or its territories where there is a housing authority with a Section 8 program.


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I need to access the Web via my Android phone's cell radio only occasionally. Therefore, I am not interested in a monthly plan (and certainly not in a 2-year minimum contract).
I thought that finding a prepaid web access card (or plan) for Android phones would be as easy as finding one for voice but it turns out way more difficult than I had hoped for:
- T-Mobile's attractive
Web DayPassworks with phones, but not with Android ones.
- Verizon's Prepaid Mobile Broadband is not intended for phones at all (Android or not).
What are my options really as far as minimizing the cost of occasional web access via my Android phone, legally and reliably ?
At this point, I am flexible as to whether the solution is for CDMA or GSM (it is still much less expensive to buy a new phone than to sign for a 2-year contract)


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Lackey has another rough outing in loss to O's
For second consecutive start, Red Sox right-hander allows six runs
BOSTON -- If the Red Sox needed a sign that things probably were not going to go their way Friday night against the Orioles, they got it on the first pitch of the game. Baltimore's Nick Markakis lofted a fastball from John Lackey down the left-field line and went into second base with what appeared to be a stand-up double.
Boston manager John Farrell challenged the fair call, but after a review of two minutes and 56 seconds, the call on the field stood. Three batters later, after moving to third on Chris Davis' groundout, Markakis scored the game's first run on Adam Jones' infield single.
It was going to be that kind of night for the Red Sox, as they fell to the Orioles, 8-4.
On a frigid night at Fenway Park -- with a first-pitch temperature of 39 degrees and an 8-mph wind from the east, off the ocean -- the Red Sox struggled to find a rhythm. They had runners in all but the third, but struggled to push them across. They had 11 hits, but left 12 runners on base
"We had lots of chances," said catcher A.J. Pierzynski. "A lot of chances. Unfortunately, we didn't get that hit. We got a couple of hits and we got him out of there early and got in the bullpen and we had more chances. But unfortunately every time we scored, it seemed like they came back and scored. Just one of those nights where things didn't work out."
Lackey allowed runners in all but one of his innings. He faced eight batters in a three-run third and seven in the two-run fifth. Lackey went 5 1/3 innings, giving up six runs for the second straight start. On Friday, he yielded 10 hits and four walks with six strikeouts and a wild pitch. He took the loss, falling to 2-2 with a 5.25 ERA.
"I thought he had good stuff tonight," Farrell said. "He managed their lineup with a couple of walks that were instead of giving in. They had a number of ground balls that found some holes; bunched some hits together. Doesn't get a break in that first inning, on the double, then the infield base hit by Jones. The [two runs in the fifth] inning that was a little bit too much at that point to overcome."
Lackey's four walks were more than he had allowed in his three previous outings, when he gave up three over 18 2/3 innings.
"Honestly, they had a couple walks, but they were in spots that wasn't that big a deal, against guys I didn't really want to give in to," Lackey said. "I felt OK with it."
O's No. 9 hitter Jonathan Schoop led off the third with a single, scoring on Markakis' double. With one out, Davis walked. After Jones singled, Nelson Cruz's single scored Markakis and Davis, giving Baltimore a four-run lead.
The Sox got a run in fourth, sending six batters to the plate. Mike Carp led off with a double, scoring on Brock Holt's single.
Boston added two more runs in the fifth, cutting Baltimore's lead to 6-3. Daniel Nava led off with a double, scoring on Dustin Pedroia's single to right. With two outs, Xander Bogaerts walked and Pierzynski singled to center scoring Pedroia.
Orioles starter Chris Tillman earned the win, going five innings, giving up three runs on seven hits and four walks with five strikeouts. He improved to 2-1 with a 1.71 ERA.
"You're trying not to use four or five guys out of the 'pen in the first game," said Orioles manager Buck Showalter. "That was something I was thinking in the dugout. … It was a challenge for [Tillman], but he deserved that. If the guy hadn't had a fister base hit, I probably would have gotten him there, but it's tough to take Tilly out there after that."
The O's added a run in the seventh off Red Sox righty Burke Badenhop, who retired the first two batters he faced before giving up consecutive singles to J.J. Hardy and Steve Lombardozzi and a run-scoring double to Schoop, pushing Baltimore to a 7-3 lead.
Schoop, the O's rookie, went 4-for-5, a career-high in hits, with two doubles, two RBIs and a run scored.
"As intense as those games are at this level, you do step back and watch Jon," Showalter said. "It's fun to watch. He's got a great look on his face. He's just real sincere, earnest look. He's not giddy. That's what I like about him. He's going to be a good defender whichever infield position he ends up playing. He's just now getting his clock kind of settled in at third base. I think we're seeing some of the results of that."
The Sox got a run back in the bottom of the inning, when Mike Napoli led off with a double off the wall in left-center off Brian Matusz, scoring on Bogaerts' one-out single to left.
Boston had been 0-for-3 in challenges this season, but finally got a reviewed play to go in its favor in the eighth. Holt led off with a grounder to second baseman Lombardozzi and was initially called out. Farrell asked the umpires to review the ruling, and after a review that last one minute and three seconds, the call was overturned. However, after three consecutive groundouts, Holt would be stranded at second base.


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Paul Walker Gossip
Paul Walker gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Furious 7's first weekend
$147 million domestically over the weekend… I want to like Furious 7, I really do, because in theory this is the kind of dumb fun action movie I cut my teeth on. But Furious 7, though wildly successful and spurring the franchise to new heights, actually shows exactly what's gone wrong in this franchise, and demonstrates how far from its roots it has gotten. Full Story
Paul Walker photo shoot
Once in a while I get an email from an ardent Paul Walker fan requesting more Paul Walker. Since his pictures don't really generate a lot of interest, the paps don't spend a lot of time on him. They can make more money on someone else. Walker was in Hawaii yesterday shooting an ad for Davidoff. Full Story
Rock, Shrek, Paul
The Rock Dwayne Johnson has joined the Fast & Furious franchise. Here he is with Vin Diesel who I call Shrek because, obviously, and Paul Walker today in Moscow promoting the upcoming Fast Five which will make a stupid amount of money and that'll be an excuse to make another one and…what else does Paul Walker do? The trailer is… ridiculous. Full Story
Shrek & The Rock make a movie
There will be a fifth Fast & Furious movie. Yes, I agree. Oh lawd. But the People rushed the fourth one with the return of Shrek and Paul Walker. The People supported the franchise. And so the People are getting another. It will be called Fast Five. And Shrek and Walker this time will be joined by Dwayne The Rock Johnson who, apparently, is taking a break from family features. Full Story
Shrek drive fast car
Q: why do they keep making these movies?A: Paul Walker has no career otherwise. Same goes for Vin Diesel. Unless he wants to star in the live action version of Shrek. Because these are his only two options: 1. Driving fast and grunting or 2. Painting himself green and hanging out with Donkey. Q: why do they keep watching these movies???A: good taste is dead. Full Story
What happens to a Demon Bitch when the hormones are raging? In Alba's case, the bitch get bigger! Jessica Alba's Elle Magazine interview – she called out Zac Efron the other day for being effeminate and it turns the out the new fairy It Boy of Hollywood wasn't the only recipient of her wrath. Full Story


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|inflatable movie screen
|Brand Name:
|produce time:
|7-15 working days,according the order
|1 pcs
|0.55mm pvc tarpaulin
|Shipping Way:
|by sea/by air/by express
|according the actual weight
|3 years
|ce/ul certificate
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|T/T,western union,paypal
|digital printing,silk printing
|pvc bags for items,carton for blowers
|logo print:
|free logo print
Our high quality control
All the products are manufactured to be safe and durable.
1.All seams are doubled and fourfold at the corner and at bottom stress point. Double stitching inside and double stitching outside,
2.All high stress points are re-inforced where applicable.5-6stitches in one inch. and to make sure our inflatables are strong enough.
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6. All deflate positions have bidirectional zipper and the zipper will be cover with velcro flap, So they can help you deflate. the inflatable more quickly.We do reinforcement for all the zipper joints, and above the zipper, there is a zipper cover by velcro material which is help to disperse the zipper's stress. We may also make a inside PVC piece to protect the zipper.
7. All inflatables from Kidfun Inflatables Industry Limited have strong tie down systems. Our products will have at least 6pcs anchorrings to fix the inflatables. For some big games more anchor rings on top and bottom. They make the inflatable steady enough. All bottoms of wall from out inflatables have a buffer material to stop the kids stuck on the gap and also when players stand.
Our printing machine
Digital print, silk print, or hand painting. We have top skill worker to finish the artwork and printing. We imported the Korean painting machine, it print quickly and in good quality. The quality of print ink also meets the standard of SGS. Further more, we make a liquid protecting film on the surface of digital printing, the liquid protection is also imported from abroad. The high level painting makes AOQI product will not be sticky and color fade, but sustain a long time.
1. We have 3 kinds of printing, Digital print, silk print, or hand painting
2. Our digital printing meets the standard of SGS,it print in good quality. It will not be sticky and color fade, but sustain a long time.
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4. Our hand painting make by our top skill worker,they print are also very attractive.
Our top-ranking digital printing machine makes the printing artwork more clear and vivid.
You will never regret to Choose Us! Why?
- Kidfun Inflatables is a Factory who is specialized in inflatable products for 9 years, strict quality control and offer ODM/OEM service.
- We have a team of professional designers who have been designing inflatable games for many years, designing according to EN14960 Standard
- We also have a professional workers who produce inflatable all are suitable for Europe and America Safety Standard, very safe and eviromental.This is very important to our products because most of our products are used by children.We aim to produce good quality inflatables which you will not fear about doing inflatable business with us.
- Our sales people who are very knowledgeable, friendly and helpful, please feel free to approach us with any questions, concerns, ideas or suggestions
"Customer first,service first"is our principle,let each of customer get the best product and the best quality of service is our aim.