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Prescription painkiller addiction has become a growing problem across the country and right here in the Poconos, according to one local independent pharmacist.
Prescription painkiller addiction has become a growing problem across the country and right here in the Poconos, according to one local independent pharmacist.
Among the more addictive painkillers is oxycodone, which two major drug rings were busted this past week for illegally trafficking in the Poconos, according to federal and state authorities.
The 15-month multi-agency investigation lead to about 50 arrests and the break up of three rings that were raking in millions of dollars in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
The leaders of the two Pennsylvania rings had a New York doctor's office manager write and supply the oxycodone prescriptions, and then had ring members fill the prescriptions at northeastern Pennsylvania pharmacies. The ring members used insurance or medical assistance cards to buy the prescriptions and then sold the pills in the black market.
While the ring members have not been identified as addicts, oxycodone is popular because it's highly addictive and worth much on the streets, said one Stroudsburg pharmacist, the only member of the local pharmaceutical community available for comment Friday and who chose to remain anonymous due to past robberies at his business.
"People have come in and asked us to fill prescriptions they have at other pharmacies, claiming those other pharmacies have run out," he said.
"For example, they'll ask us to fill one scrip with 200 oxycodone pills, when we have instructions to fill only 20 pills, or they'll come in with three or four different prescriptions and ask us to fill smaller amounts.
"That's usually a warning sign that something's off, that this person might be an addict," he said. "Sometimes, it's more obvious by how they act or dress. You shouldn't need so much oxycodone for lower back pain."
Many addicts are children or young adults who've experimented with their parents' or grandparents' painkillers and become hooked, said spokesman John Norton of the National Community Pharmacists Association.
These addicts then go "doctor-shopping" or visit a series of pharmacies in efforts to get prescriptions filled to feed their habits.
"This makes it harder for people with genuine pain who aren't addicts," Norton said.
Many pharmacies now electronically monitor customers' prescription and health records in efforts to keep better track of whether customers have legitimate pain issues and where they've previously had prescriptions filled.
"After a period of time in the pharmaceutical practice, you get better at spotting questionable customer behavior," Norton said. "We work with and support law enforcement in strengthening penalties against violators. Some states, like Florida and Ohio, have laws making it harder for people to get their hands on these drugs."
The Stroudsburg pharmacist said he has doctors call him ahead of time to verify prescriptions for legitimate patients. But apparently, not even this is completely foolproof.
The New York doctor's office manager recently arrested as part of the illegal oxycodone operation called pharmacies to verify prescriptions for people posing as legitimate patients.
"It's a challenging, chaotic world for pharmacists out there," Norton said. "As long as painkiller addiction exists, we can do only so much to guard against the illegal activities it spawns."


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CARLSBAD, CA -- Companies and organizations should be more involved in helping increase the physical activity levels of their employees, according to a survey conducted by morefocus, an online research organization.
Seventy-seven percent of respondents who participated in the wide-ranging survey said that physical fitness is something that employers should more actively encourage with their employees. Sixty-four percent also said that children do not get sufficient exercise at school.
"It's very interesting to see how people feel about mixing a personal thing like physical fitness with work and school," says Dr. Regan Carey, morefocus research director. "There are more and more companies that offer gym membership discounts or even have a gym on site, but clearly most people don't think it's enough."
The research also found that 73 percent of those surveyed have regular exercise habits that include exercising at least once a week, but only 20 percent said they get enough exercise.
When asked why they don't exercise more often, 39 percent said it was because they didn't have time, while almost as many, 37 percent, said they don't have the motivation.
The survey also explored people's attitudes towards alternative exercise. Thirty-two percent of those surveyed said they had practiced a form of alternative exercise such as yoga, Pilates or Tai Chi. Twenty-nine percent of those who had not tried alternative exercise said it was because they hadn't had the opportunity but they would like to. Fifteen percent said alternative exercises don't work as well as traditional exercises, while 9 percent found it boring. Money came into play for 11 percent of respondents who said they didn't think they could afford an alternative exercise program.
"Yoga especially has become more present in the mainstream in the past few years as a sort of trendy way to exercise," says Carey. "But our research indicates that alternative exercises like yoga and Pilates are still not the exercise of choice for most people."


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Chinese gold does not let gold market participants sleep soundly and sparks rumours here and there. Some analysts believe Chinese gold reserves may exceed 3500 tons turning the Asian Giant into a more powerful country than already was.
Latest official data were published far back in 2009, and now one can only make guesses about the Chinese impact on the world gold market. At that moment Chinese gold reserves were 1050 tons. Is it possible for this number to have tripled during the last 6 years?
On the basis of gold production data and information provided by gold associations, the Bloomberg agency has estimated the approximate amount of gold reserves in 3510 tons. That would situate China in the 2nd place in the world top gold reserves rank after U.S. One of the theories why the Asian nation is concealing this information is precisely to become a competitor of USA in the market.
The reason why China could soon update this information comes from the expansion of the yuan worldwide. The country aims to introduce its currency in the International Monetary Fund basket to boost its presence in the general market.
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|A spicy sausage dip made with Monterey Jack cheese, cream cheese, and Rotel tomatoes.
White RO*TEL DipThis is another great dip for keeping your guests at bay while you cook out, for football night, your next party, or simply for movie night in with the family. We keep it warm in the crockpot and scoop out single servings into small custard bowls with white corn tortilla chips on the side. Use regular sausage, bump it up with a spicy version, substitute regular, cooked ground beef, or try it with small, cooked shrimp.
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Prep time: 10 min |Cook time: 10 min | Yield: About 6 to 8 servings
- 1 pound of hot pork sausage (like Jimmy Dean)
- 2 (8 ounce) packages of cream cheese
- 2 cans of RO*TEL diced tomatoes, undrained
- 1-1/2 cups of Monterey Jack cheese
- Optional Stir-ins: Chopped jalapeno, chopped green chilies, horseradish
Brown sausage and drain; set aside. In a large bowl, add the cream cheese and microwave on low for a couple of minutes, until softened. Stir in the RO*TEL and sausage and microwave another couple of minutes on medium; stir. Stir in the Monterey Jack cheese, and any additional stir-ins; microwave another couple of minutes on medium until well mixed and thoroughly warmed through. Transfer to a small crockpot to keep warm, stirring occasionally. Serve with corn chips or tortilla chips.
Cook's Notes: You can also brown the sausage and then add everything to the crockpot and let it do the warming work - it just takes a bit longer to get hot, so I prefer to microwave it first.
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No longer content to play a role only in Bible Belt politics, the Almighty has entered the fray in Republican Sharron Angle's bid to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada.
So far, there's no word on God's positions on legalized gambling and prostitution, but he is weighing in on abortion and school choice. (Surely I jest.)
The top of a Sunday Page 1 story in the Las Vegas Sun:
RENO -- Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle describes her motivation for seeking elected office as a religious calling.
Politics, including her bid to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, is God's purpose for her life -- one he has long been preparing her for, she says.
"When God calls you, he also equips you and he doesn't just say 'Well, today you're going to run against Harry Reid.' There is a preparation," she said during a recent interview on the Christian Broadcasting Network. "Moses had his preparatory time. Paul had his preparatory time. Even Jesus had his preparatory time, and so my preparation began on a school board."
Now, at first glance, Angle's comments don't surprise me. For a Southern Baptist politician to suggest that she's following God's calling in her life impresses me as, well, exactly what you'd expect an evangelical to say.
The bigger question is this: Is she heeding God's general direction in her life or saying that God handpicked her to unseat Reid?
The Sun story and an earlier Associated Press report provide little insight into that. To be fair, Angle appears to be cherry-picking friendly interviewers and avoiding mainstream media questions about her religious beliefs.
Nonetheless, the Sun used Angle's CBN interview remarks last week to focus on her public policy positions concerning separation of church and state:
A Southern Baptist active in her church, Angle's religious convictions have informed many of her positions throughout her years in politics. She believes abortion is a violation of God's will and should be banned in all cases. She argued for the religious freedom of private and home schools. And she has said that public policy should support the "traditional" family structure as described in the Bible, in which one parent stays home with the children while the other works.
Note the scare quotes around "traditional." Some of that space might have been better used to explain precisely what Angle means by a traditional family structure. Moreover, the reporter might have included the specific Bible chapter and verse that refers to one parent staying home with the children while the other works.
The story then goes into a lengthy exploration of "a religious political movement -- Christian Reconstructionism -- seeking to return American civil society to biblical law":
The movement's more extreme beliefs are based on a strict interpretation of Mosaic law described in the Old Testament and include the execution of homosexuals and unchaste women and the denial of citizenship to those who don't adhere to Reconstructionists' religious beliefs. Angle has never advocated those views.
Angle has never advocated those views. But what the heck? Let's bring them up anyway.
Now, given the amount of ink devoted to this movement, you might assume that Angle has subscribed to it. Well, not exactly. But she does consider her candidacy a calling from God.
In general, the Sun story reports too many details as fact -- about Christian Reconstructionism and Angle herself -- for my tastes. In this kind of politically and religiously charged story, I prefer over-attribution to facts hanging out there with no sources.
So, there you have it. A Southern Baptist running for high political office in the home of Sin City.
Her opponent: Oh, he's a practicing Mormon who said in 2001 that you can't "separate your religion from your politics; it's part of your personality. It is part of who you are." He also describes himself as anti-abortion.
For now, though, it's Angle's faith -- not Reid's -- that's making headlines. And that's just fine with the Democrat, according to a Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist who wrote about Angle's calling from God:
Of course, Reid's camp is having a field day with this. In hardball politics, this is batting practice.
There's a reason Angle's poll numbers are tanking despite Reid's resounding unpopularity and Nevada's high unemployment rate. But you can't blame the good Lord or the Searchlight senator for it.
Given the subject matter, just a reminder: GetReligion is interested in the media coverage and journalistic issues related to this Senate race. Please take political comments somewhere else.


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jmdirt wrote:Since its 4/20 today:
Can we all agree that anyone using the rhetoric "pot its a gateway drug" should be ignored. Dropped the canned blah-blah and show us some data. Since there isn't any, maybe they can use the data on beer being a gateway drug.
I think it can be a gateway drug, but not for the reasons usually given. Nowadays to buy weed you have to go to a drug dealer. More often than not he will sell other drugs apart from weed. To smoke it, some people end up spending more time with people who take coke and maybe even heroin, and eventually do so themselves. In other words, it can be a gateway drug because of who you have to frequent and associate with to buy it.
Make it legal and this doesn't happen anymore, as it is available in pharmacies and whatever.
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Stacey Higginbotham, a writer for GigaOm is reporting that Facebook is experiencing a substantial outage,"going dark for up to 80 minutes for some people." The site is loading for me, although at a rather slow clip. A quick twitter search revealed it is still apparently out for some people starting from from
8:40pm 7:00pm EDT.
I agree with Higginbotham that it's been a bad month for Facebook, first with its IPO crashing and now with the site appearing to have its own set of problems. On a more positive front, Facebook's stock was up $1.41% today to close at $29.60, but is still 23% below its IPO price.
Higginbotham notes that she "emailed the crew responsible for keeping Facebook up and running for comment, but for a site with almost one billion users, Facebook has proven to be remarkably resilient. Facebook has had its share of hiccups, as well as outright outages such as this one in 2010 caused by database error. It also went down briefly earlier this year. I expect we'll soon hear from the company on what caused its latest problem, given it's openness around its engineering efforts. Remember, delivering five nines (99.999 percent) reliability on the web is hard, so hard it may indeed be a pipe dream."
Please leave a comment below if you are experiencing any issues with the site.
More details as I learn more. (You can also follow my twitter feed @rUv)
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Update 2:15pm EDT - Anonymous released a new statement saying "#Anonymous' Operation #Facebook: Is it payback for #CISPA?"
Update 10:30am EDT - Facebook shares down -1.63 (-5.51%) to 27.97
Update 9:15am EDT Anonymous Claims Responsibility For Facebook Website Crash
Update 9:00am EDT - June 1: In an email statement, Facebook commented. "Some users briefly experienced issues loading the site. The issues have since been resolved and everyone should now have access to Facebook. We apologize for any inconvenience."
Update 11:15pm EDT - May 31: Looks like the flow of outage reports has let up. Facebook appears to available for most again.
Update 11:11pm EDT: On Twitter "RIP Facebook" was among the top 10 trending topics in the U.S. and worldwide.
Some great updates coming from TechCrunch.
Update 9:26pm EDT: Looks like things weren't quite fixed. 2 hours in and some users in the US and around the world are still experiencing outages, including those who regained service around 6:00pm.
Update 9:00pm EDT: 95 minutes after the site started to sputter it looks like most of those users who lost service have now regained it, though there are still reports of outages.
Update 8:46pm EDT: 80 minutes after the outage began we're hearing reports that users in the United Staes, Brazil and Tunisia and likely other locations lost service, but the site seems to be coming back to life for others, including me.
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Bedford were thrashed 50-6 at Headingley on Sunday afternoon by Championship high flyers Leeds who ran in six tries. The Blues could not click into gear at all on a chilly Sunday afternoon as their hosts played almost all of the quick flowing and expansive rugby. Errors, poor handling and indiscipline cost Bedford who will want to forget about this game quickly following an upturn in form of late.
They could not cross the whitewash and only had two James Pritchard penalties to show for their afternoon's work.
Blues suffered a disastrous start when Jonah Holmes' run from deep saw him dissect the entire visiting team and charge through under the posts with barely a minute played.
Glyn Hughes converted for an early 7-0 lead but Blues, to their credit, responded with a spell of pressure immediately and Patrick Tapley was unlucky not to go over in the corner.
Bedford had to make do with a James Pritchard penalty to get their first points on the board but Hughes responded with a kick through the uprights of his own to hand Leeds a 10-3 advantage.
It should have been 13-3 shortly afterwards but Hughes was horribly off target from right in front of the posts, but his team continued to press and David Doherty was just pushed out of bounds as he tried to touch down near the flag.
Hughes rediscovered his kicking boots with a much trickier effort with just over ten minutes left in the half as his side opened up a ten point lead.
Blues could not afford any more daylight between the sides but their task was made more difficult when Joe Vandermolen was yellow-carded for a high tackle.
Leeds took advantage of the numbers game with Ben Hooper barging over following a scrum for their second try and an 18-3 lead after Hughes missed the extras.
Pritchard dissected the posts for Bedford moments later but Blues' indiscipline was costing them and another Hughes penalty rounded off the half with Leeds 21-6 in front.
Mike Rayer's men had a mountain to climb but they didn't learn the lessons of the first half and conceded another early try shortly after the restart.
Ryan Burrows fed Richard Beck who in turn released to Doherty who sprinted away for a fine score under the posts.
Hughes converted and quickly added another penalty to stretch the lead to 31-6, with Leeds then going over for a bonus point try thanks to Rob Vickerman who crashed down in the corner. The conversion was missed but the damage was long since done.
Paul Tupai, returning to the Blues fold following suspension, was then binned as a miserable afternoon in Yorkshire drew to a close with a nasty injury to Blues man Tom Jubb - who was carried off.
There was still time for a Carnegie penalty try though - following a huge scrum - and another Vickerman try after a darting run. Both were converted by replacement Alex Lozowski as the hosts brought up their half century.
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- body mass: around 1 lb
- equipment mass: let's say 1 lb
- rolling resistance coefficient: 20% seems reasonable. This was really seat-of-the-pants.
- wind drag coefficient: 10% seems about right
- distance 0.1 miles. Exact starting location, the placement of the finish, and line through the corners are all factors
- altitude gained: 15 feet sees consistent with individual reports
- wind speed: Zero was assumed. Given variable winds reported at Redwood Estates, a conservative estimate of error of this estimate is probably 1 mph
- transmission coefficient: based on differences in chainline, I'll say 1%. This doesn't affect the derived Powertap-equivalend power, but it does affect the significance of comparisons in power from one ride to the next.
- time: 2 seconds seems good: 1 second with recording the finish time, and 1 second for a delay in starting from when the horn was honked
- acceleration: I may have crossed the finish as fast as 15 mph
- body mass & equipment mass: I'm assuming each affects power the same. These affect climbing power, rolling resistance power, and acceleration power. The resulting changes are:
- climbing power: ΔP = 1.7 W
- rolling resistance watts: ΔP = 0.08 W
- acceleration power: ΔP = 0.02 W.
- rolling resistance coefficient: changes rolling resistance power in proportion to error: ΔP = 2.2 W.
- wind resistance coefficient: changes wind resistance power in proportion to error: ΔP = 1.8 W
- distance: this affects wind resistance, rolling resistance, and acceleration power. First, a 0.1 mile difference out of 5.35 miles is a 1.87% difference in speed. From this:
- Wind resistance increases by approximately 3 × 1.87%, +5.71%: ΔP = 1.0 W.
- rolling resistance increases by 1.87%: ΔP = 0.21 W.
- Acceleration power increases by approximately 2 × 1.87%, ΔP = 0.01 W
- altitude gained: weight × height / time: ΔP = 1.5 W
- wind speed: wind resistance changed proportional to twice the ratio of wind speed error to bike speed: ΔP = 3.6 W.
- transmission coefficient: error in power = error in transmission coefficient × total power: ΔP = 2.6 W
- time: the time error was 0.10%. This affects climbing and rolling resistance power by the same fraction. Wind resistance power is affected by 3 times this proportion. Acceleration power is affected by twice this proportion (an insignificant contribution). In total: ΔP = 0.31 W
- acceleration: changes acceleration power by up to +125%: ΔP = 0.4 W
Okay.... drum roll....
So my estimate of 263 W could in effect be anywhere from 257 W up to 269 W. Given the 8 W difference from OLH distance to Soda Springs distance, that would be an effective OLH power of as high as 277 W powertap-equivalent. Were I to have extracted that value, given my present fitness, I'd not be concerned, especially since there's similar error bars on that 290 W estimate from my Old La Honda climb this summer.
So the end result is: don't place too much importance in these sorts of physics-based power estimates. There's too many variables, too many sources of error, even for something as straightforward as a steep hillclimb.
Perhaps surprising in the strong influence of wind resistance on the error estimate: that term alone increased the uncertainty by 1.2 W. And we made a seemingly trivial estimate of the uncertainty in the wind speed: only 1 mph, essentially impossible to detect without instruments.
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Thier only about the size of me. Besides there'll be 4 people to help. And if you guys don't then I will, by myself.
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Thier only about the size of me. Besides there'll be 4 people to help. And if you guys don't then I will, by myself.
"Last time I checked there a LITTLE bit biger than you........" said Shade
A rat scuttled by. "Sparky!" Robin started to say. He turned to see a V-wing.
{It would be nice if some one found my squad}
"Hey, we got a body! Over here, I think hes just unconcious." Kal said, looking at the commando who was in an odd looking bush.
(just some guy.)
{Could you find my squad.}
(ok, so some guy from your squad. whatever.)
(The chunks arethe size of me)
(sure I'll find your squad)
Well I'm off anyone gonna help?
(the whole point of that post was to find a mamber of your squad, the guys unconcious.)
"Some one needs to watch this guy. I can do either." Kal said, looking around
{Ohhhh, okay}
So I take it no one's coming with me... Ok I'll just go myself
[3 hours later Des comes back carrying the wing of an arc-170 in the same net as before]
Fierfek, my back, at least this things still got a gun attached. I'm gonna work on hooking up this gun for a turret so we can protect our base.
A dead body was laying to the side of it, "Its a pilot!"yelled Doc. He ran to the side of the body, and felt its neck. "Dead,"said Doc.
(did we find you already?)
(is that the dude i found?)
(im confused.......)
(me too, karson, who are you talking about? and where are you?)
{It is the dude you found, you saw him from a distance Doc didn't; he is dead the dude is}
(I Was standing right over him.)
{Oh well lets pretend he is dead.}
Kal looks around. "I hate this place" he mutters.
Aye I can agree to that one!
( By the way just to throw it out on a limb here but would anyone be interested in a Halo 3 role play after this one)
(NOOOOOOOOOOOT UNTIL I BEAT THE GAME. which is currently imposible because of my conspicuous lack of a repaired 360)
That really sucks, I feel for you to man cause mine is broken too. But when y'all feel like it just let me know and we'll finish this one up and start a halo roleplay okay...)
{Mine is broken to;I think you need to start with Halo1, my friend.}
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Plan to mow the lawn often, allowing it stay longer than may seem convenient — longer grass is healthier grass. The general rule is to cut off no more than a third of the grass blade. This helps prevent damage to the lawn as well as keeping weeds from taking root. It's also important to remove any weeds, then prevent new ones from growing. In spring, consider spraying a pre-emergent herbicide on your lawn to prevent crabgrass and other types of weeds from sprouting from seed. During other seasons, broadleaf weeds like dandelions can be pulled by hand or sprayed with weed killers. The best time to water your lawn is early in the morning, allowing the sun to help dry the grass. Make sure to thoroughly soak the lawn so that the water penetrates several inches into the ground.
Lawn care also requires feeding; look for a mixture of fast- and slow-release fertilizers that include nitrogen. Some lawns also benefit from aeration, which creates small holes to let air, water and nutrients penetrate the grass roots. Although most homeowners can manage these tasks on their own, a full-service lawn care company can handle them on a regular schedule, taking the guesswork out of maintaining a beautiful lawn.
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Landscape contractors work from outdoor architectural or design plans to build and install hardscaping or softscaping for the client, much as a general contractor uses architectural designs to build a house. Landscape contractors are experts in soil drainage, grading, hardscaping (installing concrete paths and retaining wall, building ponds, etc.), and planting. They have heavy equipment such as excavators and tractors to prepare the land as needed.
Some landscape contractors are also landscape architects or landscape designers. The titles can be compared with those in home construction: A building or landscape architect must earn a specialized architecture degree and pass an exam to have a license. A designer — whether an interior designer or a landscape designer — does not usually require a license to work. Landscape contractors are not required by law to work from plans designed by a landscape architect, so you may work directly with the landscape contractor to specify the work you'd like done. The national average cost for large-scale landscaping projects is $10,160. Pricing can vary greatly depending on the project scope, materials and design.
How do you look after your lawn?
Having a beautiful lawn doesn't just happen by magic. A multi-pronged approach to lawn care will result in a healthy lawn that will have your neighbors green with envy. The national average price for multi-service lawn care ranges from $40 to $50. Whether you tackle the project yourself or hire a lawn care professional, looking after your lawn requires consistent work. A baseline of lawn care is keeping your grass mowed and your irrigation system working properly. Fertilizing plants and grasses, as well as trimming and pruning foliage, may promote the health of your plants and lawn. Many lawn care pros offer different packages with varying monthly fees depending on your lawn size and the services you desire. Here are a few examples of average lawn care prices:
- 1,000- to 2,500-square-foot lawn: $60-$90 per month
- 5,000-square-foot lawn or larger: $110-$150 per month.
- Includes lawn maintenance, cleanups and irrigation repairs. The company trims shrubs, pulls weeds, blows out yard waste, fertilizes and does minor irrigation repairs.
- Up to 8,000-square-foot property: $30 per week/$120 per month.
- 8,001- to 15,000-square-foot property: $35 per week/$140 per month.
- 15,001- to 20,000-square-foot property: $40 per week/$160 per month.
- Includes mowing all turf grass areas; trimming grass away from fences, structures, trees, and lawn edges; and clearing or blowing all grass trimmings from driveways, sidewalks, curbs, etc.
How do you find a good landscape architect?
Hiring a landscape architect is an investment in your home. Landscaping can reduce water bills, improve your home resale value, add to your daily living experience and significantly boost curb appeal. A landscape architect will draw the designs for your new landscape; you'll want to hire a landscape contractor to carry out the plans. Many companies provide design-build landscaping services, with a company architect creating plans for your vision and the landscape contractor executing the vision. With the proper academic background and licensing, a person can be both landscape architect and landscape contractor. Here are a few tips for finding a great landscape architect:
- Research online portfolios and find several landscape architects whose work interests you.
- Read online reviews of client experiences.
- Research whether the landscape architects you are interested in are currently licensed and in good standing with the licensing board, and check whether any complaints have been issued against them. Each state will have their own searchable database. For example, you can search for California landscape architects via the state's Department of Consumer Affairs.
- Request bids from your selected landscape architects.
- Hire the one you like the most, taking care to have a clearly written contract outlining scope of work.
For more, check out our tips for smart hiring on Thumbtack.
What should you look for when hiring a landscaper?
Landscaping can be costly — though it usually pays off in curb appeal and home resale value — so finding a landscaper who is worth the investment is important. When hiring a landscaper, look for proven success with the type of results you want. For example, if you know you want a drought-tolerant yard, research websites, reviews and portfolios that showcase beautiful drought-tolerant yards that the landscaper has installed. In addition to relevant experience, you'll want to find a landscape contractor who has good client reviews. Good communication skills are another important quality in a landscape contractor, since everything from plant selection to hardscape installation needs to be discussed and agreed upon. A landscape contractor who is reliable, easy to understand and able to listen to what you want will help make the process seamless and enjoyable.


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Where Did Your Favorite Company Go?
Every morning in the 30 days leading up to Comic-Con (from June 18 to July 17), we're going to offer our "Toucan Tip of the Day," a tiny tidbit of terrific information that we hope will help you enjoy the show just a little bit better. Sign up for our RSS feed (click the button on the right sidebar) to get all of our tips and stay informed on upcoming news about Comic-Con 2013! To view all of our Toucan Tips, please click on the "Tip of the Day" link under Categories at the top of our sidebar on the right.
If you've looked at our CCI 2013 Exhibit Hall map (click here in case you haven't . . . and shame on you; there will be a quiz!), you may have noticed that some of the companies have moved out of their traditional spaces this year. The floor has been slightly rearranged to remove some of the crowding issues we've encountered in the past. The video game companies have moved from the bayside of Hall G over into Hall A. The art dealers have been moved closer to Artists' Alley and the Illustrators Area; look for them beginning at aisle 4200. The vinyl and collectible toy area has also moved and has been expanded. You can find them with the other artists in Hall G. So if your one big thing about coming to Comic-Con is visiting these great booths, look for them in their brand new locations, all highlighted with color on the Exhibit Hall map.


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169 Riverside Drive, Binghamton, NY 13905
Phone: 607-798-5847 Fax: 607-798-5192
Lourdes Cardiac Rehabilitation Program is a customized plan of exercise, education and counseling created to help patients with heart disease return to a normal way of life after a heart attack, coronary bypass surgery, angioplasty, stabilized angina, valve surgery or heart transplant. It is a link between hospitalization and normal living.
The program's staff of specially trained Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certified cardiac nurses, exercise physiologists, dieticians, and pharmacists provide a coordinated team approach to meet the needs of each patient. Based on a patient's medical situation, lifestyle and abilities, an individualized program of exercise, education and counseling is established for each patient.
Through exercise and education, the program will enable a patient to resume a lifestyle compatible with his or her cardiovascular fitness level. The benefits of regular activity in cardiac patients are now widely recognized.
The program runs between 6-12 weeks with three sessions per weeks. Each session involves warm-up, dynamic aerobic exercises, strength training, cool-down, education, and group discussions.
Because cardiac rehabilitation is a medically supervised and monitored program prescribed by a physician, it is covered by Medicare and most medical insurance contracts.
Patients attend 1 to 1 1/2 hours of exercise on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for the duration of the program (between 6-12 weeks). A variety of cardiovascular equipment is used to exercise the heart muscle, which may help to improve heart muscle function and improve blood pressure control. Equipment includes:
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Strength training equipment (such as hand weights) is also used to help strengthen large muscle groups.
Not only will patients improve heart muscle function though this program, they will also realize the benefits of weight loss and blood sugar control (if they are diabetic). (Blood sugar is measure for diabetic patients before and after each session.)
Education is an integral part of the Cardiac Rehabilitation program. We provide information to help patients understand the risk factors for heart disease and how daily routines can be modified to reduce or eliminate risk factors.
The education portion of the program is conducted each Wednesday before the exercise portion of the program. Topics include:
- Anatomy and Physiology of the Heart
- Angina
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- Intervention for Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)
- Exercise Guidelines (at our facility and at home)
- Depression
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- Additional Topics Related to Heart and Coronary Artery Disease.
We offer counseling on heart disease risk factor modification:
- Diet Changes
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- Medication & Exercise Compliance
- Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety
We are also able to refer patients to one-on-one counseling with our Social Work Department, if needed.
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The Cardiac Rehabilitation Department is located on the Main floor of the Ambulatory Care Center. The new state of the art facility overlooks a beautiful wooded area on the Susquehanna River.
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It was clear when the first volleys were fired at GDC that Microsoft, Sony, and the arrayed forces would clash in a brutal, blood drenched E3. They're sort of circling each other at the moment, like in the music video for Bad. We know where it all ends up, because we can fling our awareness forward in time.
Occasional internal bombast notwithstanding, I don't know where Nintendo's Revolution fits into this grim Main Event. Because the machine has features which are either unripe or outside the ordinary continuum of expectation, I have no mental scheme which can position it against their competitors. As a result, and you've no doubt seen this as well in other forms of media, a brawl that is between three parties is almost always depicted as one between only two, and Nintendo is marginalized further in this generation. There is a kind of narrative in place and the players can largely be presumed.
It's clear to us that Microsoft aims to create a kind of electronic wrecking ball with the vigor to simulate each hair follicle, even on an extraterrestrial hair beast. We don't actually know it's true, but it is the general presumption that it is Sony's aim is to subjugate mankind, presumably beginning with their business competitors - so we at least have a starting position, estimated momentum, and the direction their force is projected.
Whenever Nintendo says anything, the only impression you get is that they want to make good games and they don't think that better hardware is necessarily the optimal route. That's actually fairly subversive, given the known trajectory of the industry. Comparatively, it's a nuanced position - but you and I are perfectly capable of understanding it because have had these conversations ourselves. I don't know how far such a notion can be propelled into the viscous expanse of media consciousness.
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NASHVILLE, Ga. (AP) - Authorities in south Georgia are investigating the theft of a confederate flag and flagpole that were stolen from a courthouse memorial.
WALB-TV Thursday (http://bit.ly/V7RDOX ) reported the confederate flag memorial at the Berrien County Courthouse in Nashville had been in place for 10 years before the flagpole was sawed off its foundation and stolen.
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MLB rumors: Stephen Drew to Yankees? Don't count on it
Looks like the New York Yankees aren't going to sign Stephen Drew, no matter how much a deal might make sense for both sides.
Told #Yankees are not considering any more mjr lge fr agt deals. So that would mean no on Drew.
- Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) February 16, 2014
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Already this offseason, New York has inked free agents Brian McCann, Jacoby Ellsbury, Carlos Beltran and and Masahiro Tanaka. SN's Jesse Spector says adding Drew to that list would make sense for the Yankees "as insurance/an eventual replacement for Derek Jeter, and part of the infield picture otherwise."
Jeter, who is coming off a year of serious injuries and turns 40 in June, recently announced that 2014 will be his last season.
Drew, who turns 31 in March, had a .333 on-base percentage with 13 home runs for the Boston Red Sox in 2013. He is considered strong defensive player, but he has had trouble landing a deal because clubs are reluctant to part with a draft pick in order to sign him. He rejected a one-year, $14.1 million qualifying offer.


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NPR political editor lashed out at critics, but reporter Welna seemed to see their point
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Responding to listener criticism in his April 28 Q&A column, NPR political editor Ken Rudin mocked the "dozens and dozens" of emails he received criticizing NPR congressional correspondent David Welna. On April 25, Welna had reported: "Democrats call a simple majority rules change banning judicial filibuster the 'nuclear option.' "
In fact, the term was coined by Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) to describe a parliamentary maneuver Senate Republicans have threatened to employ that would ban Senate filibusters for judicial nominees. But since GOP strategists have found that voters dislike the term "nuclear option," they have urged Senate Republicans to adopt "constitutional option" instead. Welna's report was one of numerous examples that Media Matters for America has compiled of journalists echoing the Senate Republicans' line that "nuclear option" was the Democrats' term.
In his column, Rudin mocked the emailed criticism, which he described as "often using the exact same language." He characterized the blogs' criticism (in addition to Media Matters, at least two blogs -- here and here -- had noted Welna's statement) as tantamount to an accusation that NPR had joined "the vast right-wing conspiracy":
Some Web logs took NPR to task by saying we were parroting the GOP line by attributing the quote to the Dems, when after all it was Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) who coined the phrase. All David was doing was saying that Democrats were calling it the "nuclear option," which they were. Welna didn't say that the Dems originated the term. He didn't get into its etymology. But suddenly, according to a bunch of blogs, NPR was "bamboozled," joining the vast right-wing conspiracy in attributing the phrase to the Democrats.
But perhaps Welna agreed with his critics. On the April 26 edition of Morning Edition, he filled in the previous day's missing information in a discussion with host Steve Inskeep:
INSKEEP: Remind us what lawmakers mean when they talk about a "nuclear option" here.
WELNA: Well, that expression was first attributed to former Republican Senate leader Trent Lott, and it refers to a parliamentary maneuver under which, if Democrats were to try to block a vote on a judicial nominee, a Republican could rise in the Senate chamber to ask that it be ruled out of order. The Republican chairing the session could rule it as such, and that ruling could be upheld by a simple majority vote. Now, it normally takes a two-thirds majority, or 67 votes rather than a simple majority of 51 votes, to change the Senate's rules. And so the nuclear option refers to the possibly hugely disruptive impact using this maneuver could have on relations between Republicans and Democrats in the Senate. Democrats -- who today are the only ones who still use the term nuclear option; Republicans have found it a little too unflattering -- the Democrats say that they would use the Senate's rules to slow down much of the Senate's business in retaliation if the nuclear option were exercised.
Nor apparently was Welna simply taking the opportunity afforded by Inskeep's question to provide more information. His subsequent reports on the "nuclear option" have either noted the term's Republican origins or avoided attributing it to either party.
From the April 28 edition of All Things Considered:
WELNA: [Senate Minority Leader Harry] Reid [D-NV] said no proposal from [Majority Leader Bill] Frist [R-TN] would be acceptable if it did not take the nuclear option off the table, a term first coined by a Republican but now used only by Democrats in the Senate to describe doing away with judicial filibusters by a simple majority vote.
From the April 29 edition of All Things Considered:
WELNA: Rather than changing the rules of the Senate with a simple majority vote, doing away with judicial filibusters, the so-called nuclear option that Frist has been threatening to implement for months, Frist proposed another plan.
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Trey Burke might be the best player in the country. He showed it on Friday when he was shut out in the first half and scored 23 points in the second to rally Michigan past top-seeded Kansas in the Sweet 16.
ARLINGTON, Texas — He's chased opponents around the court so much it must feel like he's run a marathon by the end of the games. He's banged into so many screens it must feel like he's been in a boxing match at the end of games.
Scottie Wilbekin has taken on the best offensive players in the country throughout this season. Today, he faces his toughest challenge yet.
Trey Burke might be the best player in the country. He showed it on Friday when he was shut out in the first half and scored 23 points in the second to rally Michigan past top-seeded Kansas in the Sweet 16.
"He obviously took over the game," Florida coach Billy Donovan said. "When you're dealing with him, it's a long process. You can do a great job on him for 10 minutes, a great job on him for 25 minutes. He has the ability to just explode at any point in time."
Burke's explosion in the second half was punctuated by a game-tying 3-point shot from NBA range that sent the game to overtime. It was one of those shots you've seen a lot, are going to see a lot today and are going to see during NCAA games in the future.
"I had about 200 messages," Burke said. "I had a lot of messages from people who said they thought we were going to lose, down 10 with two minutes to play. Most people would turn the channel."
Today, he faces Wilbekin and vice versa in a matchup of will and quickness and basketball IQ. Florida knows it can't beat Michigan without making Burke uncomfortable.
And that will be Wilbekin's job. Donovan has preached ever since the end of the Florida Gulf Coast game that his post players don't get enough credit defensively because of switches and taking away the inside.
But it was on Wilbekin to keep FGCU point guard Brett Comer from penetrating, and it will be his job again today to contain the Big Ten's player of the year.
"It's tough, but I'm used to it," Wilbekin said. "I've been playing basketball my whole life. But he's probably the toughest (guy I've faced) as far as being able to do so many things so well on offense.
"He's probably the best player I've faced. I'm just used to it. I don't look at it any other way."
Let's face it. This isn't a game of one-on-one. There will be a lot of chess pieces out on the floor in steamy Jerry World.
But it's the Wilbekin-Burke battle that will garner the most attention.
"Really good defender," Burke said. "Just from watching film and watching Florida last year, I understand that he's kind of one of their best defenders."
And that's what makes it interesting. It's what we gravitate to the television for during this time of the year. It's a classic matchup, offense vs. defense.
Nothing new to the Florida point guard. He's chased Marshall Henderson and Mark Lyons and Phil Pressey around the country. He's been assigned to SEC player of the year Kentavious Caldwell-Pope of Georgia and was plumb worn out after chasing Alabama's guards around the court in Nashville.
And now, here comes the best yet.
"We have to slow down Burke," Wilbekin said. "He's the start of their offense and the end of it. They give him the ball to start the offense and then he gets it when the shot clock is running down."
It was obvious that the player Burke reminds Donovan of is Pressey from Missouri because that was the name the players used in the news conferences.
"We have to make him feel uncomfortable," UF senior guard Mike Rosario said.
If Florida is going to advance to the Final Four, it won't have to do what Kansas did in the first half Friday.
But it can't let Burke do what he did to Kansas in the second half.
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ATHENS, Greece — Greek police arrested one of the country's most wanted men — a fugitive convicted of terrorism — during a shootout Wednesday in Athens' central tourist district that left four people wounded, authorities said.
Police said the wounded included two foreign tourists, a police officer and the fugitive, Nikos Maziotis. The 43-year-old has been on the run along with his wife Panagiota Roupa since June 2012 following their release from jail in 2011 after serving the maximum 18 months in pre-trial detention.
Maziotis and Roupa were convicted in absentia last year and sentenced to 25 years for participation in Revolutionary Struggle, a group active between 2003 and 2009 and best known for firing a rocket-propelled grenade into the U.S. Embassy and bombing the Athens Stock Exchange. Neither of those attacks caused injuries.
In January, authorities announced a 1 million-euro ($1.3 million) reward for information leading to each of the couple's arrest. Roupa is still at large.
It wasn't immediately clear how Wednesday's shootout began in the crowded Monastiraki district, near the city's main Syntagma Square and historic Plaka district.
Local media reported that police were alerted by a store employee about a suspicious customer who appeared to be carrying a gun. The customer, who turned out to be Maziotis, allegedly opened fire and tried to make a getaway in a taxi, but was stopped a short distance away by police and again opened fire.
Maziotis was undergoing surgery for a gunshot wound to the shoulder in a central Athens hospital under heavy police guard. Police were searching for suspected accomplices, and for where he might have been staying in Athens.
Photographs from the scene of the shooting showed the suspect lying in a pool of blood on a sidewalk, his hands handcuffed behind his back, before he was taken in a police-escorted ambulance to a nearby hospital.
Police said the others wounded were a police officer and two bystanders, both foreign tourists. Witnesses at the scene told the AP that an Australian tourist was lightly wounded in the leg. The other tourist was a German who was also lightly wounded, authorities said.
"The whole thing lasted about half an hour. We saw a lot of police running through the streets and later we heard the shots," souvenir store employee Makis Tourounias said.
"There wasn't much panic. Store owners and police were telling people to come indoors. But not everyone realized what was going on."
AP writer Derek Gatopoulos and photographer Thanassis Stavrakis in Athens contributed to this report. Follow Elena Becatoros at http://www.twitter.com/ElenaBec


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May 1, 2000
What A Week It Was
The Gauchos started the week with a make-up game against the USC Trojans on Tuesday and fell 9-3. Troy Kinto started and only lasted 1.1 innings to take the loss and fall to 2-2 on the season. The Gauchos then went to Fullerton to take on the Cal State Fullerton Titans in a three game Big West Conference series , and managed to take one of the three games. The Gauchos took the final game on Sunday, 11-7. Joe Isaacson earned the win in relief and Dave Molidor and Jeff Bannon added solo home runs to pace the offense. The Gauchos dropped game one 6-1 as Gabe Neboyia went the distance for the loss (4-6). The Gauchos struck out a season high 15 times in that game. The second game saw the Gauchos fall 4-1 as Jeremy Sugarman went six innings for the Gauchos in the loss and he dropped to 2-4 on the season.
Big West Race Heating Up
No single team is running away in the Big West this year as in years past. At this point in the season, Cal State Fullerton is leading the race by one game, but five other teams are as close as four games from the top spot. Nevada overtook Long Beach State for second place with a 14-7 record, one game back, and Long Beach State is two games back at 13-8. The Gauchos and Sacramento State are tied for fourth, three games back with a record of 12-9. Cal Poly rests in the fifth slot, four games out with an 11-10 record.
Do Not Walk This Way
Do not go to the plate expecting to draw a base on balls if you are facing the Gauchos pitching staff, instead, make sure you are swinging the stick. Over this past weekend, the Gaucho staff allowed only five walks while striking out 15 batters. Thus far, the Gauchos have averaged less than four (3.61) walks over nine innings and averaged better than six strikeouts per game.
Carter Playing Big In The One Slot
Junior Jeff Carter has been the consistent left fielder and leadoff batter since early on in the season and he has done his job to get on base. Carter is batting .333 on the season and .353 against Big West foes. Furthermore, Carter has a .445 on base percentage overall and .455 in the Big West. Against Cal State Fullerton, Carter reached base five times, with four hits, one walk, three RBI, and two sacrifice bunts. Carter leads the Gauchos with six sacrifices overall.
Isaacson Walks The Walk, But Does Not Talk The Talk
Senior Joe Isaacson dropped his ERA with impressive performances over the weekend against Cal State Fullerton. Isaacson came in relief in Saturday and Sunday's games allowing eight hits, two runs, six strikeouts and no walks over 6.2 innings. Isaacson's ERA now stands at a team leading 3.16 overall and 2.45 in the Big West. He has a better than 9:1 strikeout to walk ration and lefties are batting a meager .161 of him.
Injury Front>
The injury report is far from all quiet. Pitcher Chris Quiroz is out for the season with shoulder troubles as is Jared Schumaker out for the season with a dislocated shoulder. Chris Crawley and Dan Kemper also have shoulder problems and could be out for an extended period of time. Ryan Spiborghs' status has been changed to out for the season as he was fitted for a cast in the middle of April. Phil Galer, a Sunday starter the last couple of weeks came out of Sunday's game against Cal State Fullerton after throwing 2.2 innings due to soreness in his right elbow. His status is day-to -day and may not be able to pitch next weekend against New Mexico State.
On The Horizon
The Gauchos hit the road again this weekend as they travel to Las Cruces to take on New Mexico State Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Friday and Saturday's games begin at 7:00 p.m. and the finale on Sunday will get under way at 1:00 p.m. The Gauchos will then come home to host Loyola Marymount in a make-up game that was cancelled earlier in the season due to wet conditions. The game is scheduled for Tuesday, May 9th at 2:00 p.m. at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.


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A second application for a further 1.8GW will go before UK permitting authorities next year. Smart Wind is a 50:50 partnership between Mainstream Renewable Power and Siemens Financial Services.
The 3GW of proposed capacity will comprise four distinct wind farms: Heron Wind, Njord, Optimus Wind and Breesea. All four projects are jointly owned by Mainstream Renewable Power, Siemens Financial Services and Dong Energy, with each party holding a third of each project.
Dong's involvement as a co-developer of the first four projects has been agreed since development rights were originally awarded by the Crown Estate in 2010.
Commenting on plans for Hornsea's first two phases, Smart Wind general manager Barry Hopkins said: "This is a great milestone for Smart Wind and the Hornsea zone. With Heron Wind and Njord due to be submitted for planning this summer we are now focused on taking Optimus Wind and Breesea successfully through to the Planning Inspectorate next year."
For a longer version of this article, see Windpower Offshore