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51s HOST THE ALBUQUERQUE ISOTOPES
51s T-SHIRT NIGHT (SATURDAY, JULY 14)
The Las Vegas 51s PROFESSIONAL baseball team of the Pacific Coast League (PCL), Triple-A affiliate of the New York Mets, will open a brief four-game homestand on Thursday, July 12 against the Albuquerque Isotopes, Triple-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies, at Cashman Field. All four-games on the homestand from Thursday-Sunday, July 12-15 will begin at 7:05 p.m.
The 51s, under manager Tony DeFrancesco, are returning to action after the Triple-A All-Star Break from Sunday-Wednesday, July 8-11. The 2018 Huntington Bank Triple-A All-Star Game, presented by Gildan, featuring the PCL All-Stars vs. International League All-Stars, will be held on Wednesday, July 11 at Huntington Park (10,100), home of the Columbus Clippers, Triple-A affiliate of the Cleveland Indians.
The 31st annual Triple-A All-Star Game will be televised live on the MLB Network for the ninth consecutive year at 4 p.m. (PDT).
The 51s organization have the proud distinction of being the longest enduring franchise in the history of professional sports in the state of Nevada.
2018 CASHMAN FIELD ATTENDANCE: In 45 dates, Las Vegas total is 215,650 for an average of 4,792. The season-high crowd is 9,321 vs. Salt Lake on July 3 for the Fireworks Extravaganza! The Las Vegas franchise has reached the 300,000 mark in "home" attendance in all 35 seasons (1983-2017). The all-time attendance total now stands at 11,884,437.
Budweiser Dollar Beer Night, presented by Laughlin, will be featured in the series opener vs. Albuquerque on Thursday, July 12. Dollar Beer Night will be featured at every Thursday home game during the 2018 season.
Proper identification and wristbands are required for dollar beer night.
A spectacular post-game Fireworks Show, presented by Findlay Toyota, will be featured in game two of the series on Friday, July 13.
51s T-Shirt Night, to the first 2,500 fans through the gates (open at 6 p.m.), will be featured in game three of the series vs. the Isotopes on Saturday, July 14.
Albuquerque' roster features three of the top 10 prospects in the Rockies organization, according to Baseball America: first baseman Ryan McMahon (No. 2); right-handed pitcher Peter Lambert (No. 5) and second base/shortstop Garrett Hampson (No. 8).
Following the homestand, the 51s will embark on a seven-game road trip beginning on Monday, July 16 in Salt Lake City, Utah against the Bees, Triple-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Angels. The four-game series will conclude on Thursday, July 19. Las Vegas will then travel to Northern Nevada to face intrastate rival, the Reno Aces, Triple-A affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks, in a three-game series from Friday-Sunday, July 20-22. The next scheduled off day for the PCL is Monday, July 23.
The 51s will broadcast all games on Lotus Broadcasting on NBC Sports Radio AM 920 'THE GAME', which will carry live all 140 regular season games. Also, all games will be available on the 51s website (Major League Baseball Advanced Media, MLBAM) at www.LV51.com. Russ Langer, the 10-time Nevada Sportscaster of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association (NSSA), is in his 19th season behind the microphone calling 51s baseball.
All 51s games (home & away) will also be broadcast on MiLB.TV via LV51.com.
Tickets for all 51s home games can be purchased at the SCE Federal Credit Union Box Office at Cashman Field. The box office is open Monday-Friday (non-game days) from Noon to 4:30 p.m. Tickets can also be purchased through Ticketmaster (1-800-745-3000, www.ticketmaster.com).
The individual game tickets for the 70-game home season are priced at $11.00 (reserved, $12.00-Day of Game); $14.00 (plaza, $15.00-Day of Game) and $17.00 (field, $18.00-Day of Game) & the blue dugout seats at $30.00 ($35-Day of Game). The traditional $2.00 discount for Military personnel is offered on plaza, field and reserved seats throughout the season.
Season tickets and mini-plan packages are available by calling the 51s office at (702) 943-7200.
Fans can reserve their spot in the "new" Las Vegas Ballpark by placing a season ticket deposit for just $100 per seat; $100 per seat for club seat and $100 for a group event.
To make a deposit, go to http://bit.ly/LVBallparkDeposit
Customers who place a deposit will be able to select their seats after current 51s season ticket holders. Deposit priority will be based on the time and date of deposit.
Inventory is limited on season tickets and the opportunity to purchase will be determined on a first come – first served basis. Priority order is based on 2018 season ticket holders, followed by customers who make a $100 deposit and finally the general public.
The $100 deposit will be kept on the customers account to secure the priority. At the date of the purchase, the deposit will be applied towards the total cost of the season tickets or group event. All deposits are refundable if customers decide not to purchase tickets.
NOTE: For fans that are currently a SEASON TICKET HOLDER or GROUP BUYER, there is no need to place a deposit for the 2019 season.
Official licensed 51s team merchandise is available on the "Team Shop" section of the website at www.LV51.com.
– Visit the Las Vegas 51s on the Internet at www.lv51.com –
– Visit www.MiLB.com – the official site of Minor League Baseball –


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Douglas G. Greene is an American editor and writer who has made a significant contribution to the scholarship on L. Frank Baum and Oz. Most notably, he collaborated with Peter E. Hanff on the Bibliographia Oziana (1976, 1988, 2002), the primary bibliographic resource on the Oz literature. He also collaborated with Michael Patrick Hearn on a 1976 biography of W. W. Denslow. Among his minor works, Greene's essay "W. W. Denslow, Illustrator" appeared in The Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 7 No. 1.
Beyond the confines of Baum and Oz, Greene is a noted authority on mystery fiction. As author or editor, his eighteen books include:
- Death Locked In: An Anthology of Locked Room Stories (1987)
- John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles (1995)
- Detection by Gaslight: 14 Victorian Detective Stories (1997)
- Classic Mystery Stories (2000)
Greene has also run his own small press, Crippen & Landru, devoted to the mystery genre. He is a professor of history at Old Dominion University in Virginia.
(Douglas G. Greene should not be confused with his identical twin David L. Greene, author of The Oz Scrapbook and other works. Greene and Greene collaborated on an Introduction to the 1973 Hyperion edition of Baum's The Master Key.)

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Shelley Widhalm / Special to the Loveland Reporter-Herald
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The Nappie Project moved into a new warehouse space but can't distribute diapers to additional agencies without more volunteers — just as the Loveland-based nonprofit reached two milestones at the end of 2017.
The nonprofit, which provides diapers free of charge to families in need through a network of partner agencies, celebrated its second anniversary and surpassed the 200,000 mark in diaper distribution in December.
"We've really hit a critical point in our growth. We've more than doubled our first year's distribution in our second year," said Loveland resident Jan Touslee, co-founder of the Nappie Project with Dr. Rachel Konda-Sundheim, a pediatrician in Loveland. "Our ability to expand is based on our resources, and we don't want to say 'no' to anybody."
The all-volunteer agency distributed 62,817 diapers in 2016 and 150,100 diapers in 2017 to 14 agencies in Loveland, Fort Collins and Berthoud. The nonprofit delivered a total of 212,917 diapers over the two years to the agencies, which determine eligibility requirements for the recipients of the diapers and distribute directly to them.
"We know that the need is greater than that. We can do more than that, but we don't have the capacity," Touslee said. "Our ability to provide diapers — and our partners understand that — is dependent on our resources."
The Nappie Project's Founding
The Nappie Project, a member of the National Diaper Bank Network and one of five diaper banks in Colorado, officially became a nonprofit on Dec. 28, 2015, but operated unofficially for a year before that.
Touslee and her husband, Randy, collected and stored the diapers they gathered from family and friends and then delivered them to the two food share sites in Loveland and Fort Collins operated by the Food Bank for Larimer County.
Touslee had learned about the need for diapers while volunteering twice a week at the Loveland food share, something she continues to do. A donor had brought in a package of diapers that the volunteers redistributed to the clients.
"People were so grateful to have them," Touslee said. "It never registered for me that people needed diapers."
Touslee conducted some research and after learning about diaper banks began her unofficial version of one, storing the diapers in her home. She met with Konda-Sundheim in November 2015, and a month later, they had established the nonprofit.
"After we distributed 11,000 on our own, we decided we needed some help," Touslee said about the work she and Randy had done.
The Agency's Numbers
Now, the nonprofit delivers 10,000 diapers a month to the Food Bank and another 3,000 to 4,000 to its partner agencies, including child care facilities, health care facilities, life centers and other nonprofits like the Salvation Army of Loveland & Berthoud. Twenty-five volunteers help with the work.
Clients who come to the food share facilities are grateful for the diapers, said Craig Fowler, manager of the Loveland Food Share.
"The Nappie Project is important because it gives families some relief when it comes to their budget," Fowler said. "Fresh diapers are a necessity, and I compare diapers to food. If you have a baby, you have to have diapers every day."
The food share facilities run out of diapers every week, Touslee said.
"They could use more than we can provide. We also want to provide to other agencies," she said.
Diapers can be just as important as food, said Melissa Benton, board member with the Nappie Project.
"People recognize food as a basic need for a family, but when you have young children, diapers are just as important," Benton said. "Having enough diapers allows a family to continue working and to have their child enrolled in a day care program that requires the use of diapers as part of the child's daily material needs."
The diapers Nappie Project collects come from cash donations, diaper donations and diaper drives, including the Fall 14'er Diaper Drive the Nappie Project started in 2017 and drives hosted by businesses, schools and other entities. There also are drop-off locations in Loveland at the Weedin Insurance Agency and in Fort Collins at Marinda Simpson State Farm Insurance.
The Nappie Project saw fewer diaper donations in 2017 because of fewer drives. In 2016, 46 percent of the diapers were donated, Touslee said.
The Agency's Move
Touslee stored the diapers in her garage and in her home on shelves built by her husband until June 2017. At that time, the nonprofit began renting 400 square feet from Homeless Gear, 1305 N. Duff, Unit 5, in Fort Collins, and Touslee moved 20,000 diapers out of her house.
"My husband is a great shelf builder, but there was no place to build shelves," Touslee said.
The diapers come in bulk and board members, volunteers and community members meet twice a month at Homeless Gear's warehouse to wrap them into bundles of 12 and then box them up for each of the partners, which the volunteers deliver.
Fort Collins-based Ability in Motion, which provides services for adults with intellectual disabilities and cognitive impairment, helps out at some of the wrap sessions.
"We were looking for a way to give back to the community," said Steve Espinosa, administrative director of AIM. "It's awesome. I love how this particular task involves physicality with moving boxes, counting, sorting and the use of both fine and gross motor skills."
Before moving to the warehouse, Touslee held the wrap sessions once a month in her neighborhood of Dakota Glen from the summer of 2016 to the move-in date. Members of her book club and her neighbors helped with the wrapping. The eight to 10 people who came to each wrap session could wrap 7,000 diapers in less than an hour, she said.
The bundles supply the average diaper need for one day — 12 for an infant and eight for toddlers.
According to Nappie Project's fact sheet, one in three families struggle to buy diapers, which can cost $80 to $100 a month.
If families cannot afford to purchase enough diapers, they end up using them longer than they should or rinse and reuse them, Touslee said.
"Essentially we know the need is there and it's greater than we can meet," Touslee said. "Part of the issue is there isn't any federal program that supports, pays for or subsidizes diapers. And most day care centers require disposable diapers."
About the Nappie Project
The Nappie Project works with 14 partner agencies, including the Food Bank of Larimer County, Salud Family Health Centers, Birthline of Loveland, Life Choices, the Salvation Army of Loveland & Berthoud, Little Ones in Need, The Matthews House Community Life Center, The Murphy Center, A Friend4U, Foster and Adoptive Families of Larimer County, La Familia and First Steps Nursery at Ferguson High School.
For details about the project, visit thenappieproject.com.
Nappie Project's Plans
The Nappie Project is working with a Colorado State University intern to conduct a needs assessment to identify and quantify the need for diapers in the Northern Colorado area.
This information will help as the nonprofit grows to serve more agencies and increase diaper distribution. Plans include adding funding streams, developing an annual signature event, creating an ambassador program to educate the community about the need for diapers and expanding the volunteer base to 50 volunteers. Volunteers are needed to help with wrapping and delivering the diapers and to host diaper drives.
"Our struggle is there is a lot of need out there," Touslee said. "There is a huge amount of wonderful nonprofits serving very legitimate needs competing for a small amount of money. If we can inform people and people are aware and people really understand about diaper need, we'll be in good shape, and they'll help us help little behinds get a little ahead. That's our tagline."
Shelley Widhalm is a freelance writer and editor and founder of Shell's Ink Services, a writing and editing service based in Loveland. She has more than 15 years of experience in communications and holds a master's degree in English from Colorado State University. She can be reached at shellsinkservices.com or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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TIME literally is defined as the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.
On the other hand,
DILATION is defined as the action or condition of becoming or being made wider, larger, or more open.
They both together literally
More formally Time dilation is a physics concept about changes in the passage of time, as related to relativity. It is a difference of elapsed time between two events as measured by observers.
This concept first originated from Einsteins Theory of Relativity.
In Albert Einstein's theories of relativity, there are two types of time dilation:
Case #1: In special relativity, clocks that are moving run slower according to a stationary observer's clock. This effect does not come from workings of the clocks, but from the nature of spacetime.
Case #2: the observers may be in positions with different gravitational masses. In general relativity, clocks that are near a strong gravitational field run slower than clocks in a weaker gravitational field.
Before we go any deeper into time dilation, we need to clear our concepts on Newtonian Relativity and Electromagnetism.
According to Newton , velocities are relative to one another. He stated that
"The laws of physics (mechanics) are the same for any observer moving at constant speed."Newton
In other words, we all play by the same physical rules, whether we are 'moving' or 'standing still'.
Indirectly, this tells us that there is no such thing as absolute motion: if there is no physical experiment which can distinguish between an experimenter moving at (absolute) constant speed or sitting at (absolute) rest, the term 'absolute motion' has no meaning.
The only motion that matters is relative motion between objects.
And this is pretty much understandable. When we travel on an airplane we actually
And all the experiments we perform on the airplane will be agreed with the experiments performed on the ground. If you spill coffee on the
Provided!!!! there is no acceleration and the airplane travels at a constant velocity.
If you start accelerating than obviously, you can feel the effects of acceleration.
Now coming to electromagnetism.
Maxwell through the basic laws of electricity and magnetism derived the speed of the light. It was also concluded that whatever reference frame you are
But these two ideas are really conflicting.
This means that either Newton's statements are incomplete or the speed of light may not just be a universal constant.
Soon Einstein realized that this dilemma could be fixed by just a small tweak with Newtons Laws of Motion.
To get rid of all the discrepancies, Einstein suggested that time must slow down to compensate both the theories.
Einstein called this time dilation.
Now in order to proceed further, we need to consider a more simple and accurate clock.
For understanding time dilation we consider a simple light clock that has a photon source, and mirrors above and below to reflect the photon back.
I can assure you that, whatever time you measure from this clock is same as you would measure from a pendulum clock or any other clocks for that matter.
Now lets picture the whole situation :
Allen has planned a short interstellar trip this upcoming winter vacation. his friend Rick, however, decides to sit back and relax and enjoy the lazy winters back at home.
So Allen goes takes his specially made spaceship that can travel very close to the speed of light.
He also has the light clock which ticks away with time t. Now as he is at rest initially inside the spaceship, we can see that the proton goes straight up covering a distance ct.
Now as Allen starts his journey and crosses earth and reaches space,
therefore if Rick were to observe Allen he would now see that the beam of the photon will have to travel a greater distance in order to reach the top mirror as the whole ship is moving ahead with some significant velocity.
This will eventually trace out a triangular path as shown.
Therefore now the time taken for the clock to tick once will change, and hence the new distance will be ct'.
Where t' will be time measured by Rick at rest on back on earth.
so as we can see, we clearly get a right angle triangle, from which we can apply the Pythagoras formula and calculate the relation between the time t (time experienced by Allen on the spaceship) and t'(time experienced by Rick on earth).
This clearly shows that as the velocity of Allen's rocket increases his time will be slower by this factor of gamma compared to Rick's time on earth.
This is pretty mind-blowing and crazy to think! but this is something that is accounted for every day by our GPS Systems which are calibrated accurately by this factor. let us see a particular case,
let us now analyze a specific case,
It's Allen and Rick again. Like the last time, Allen decides to take a short trip to the moon and as usual, the lazy Rick decides to stay back at the earth.
Allen proceeds towards the moon which is 384,400 km away from earth. He travels at 90% the speed of light which is approximately 270000000 m/s.
It takes him 2.846 secs to complete the round trip.
Therefore if he leaves the earth at 5:00:00 pm he would again return back on earth at 5:00:
But his time will not match with Rick's clock back on earth!!!
lets see how,
Traveling at 90% the speed of light means,
Allen's clock on the rocket will be slower by a factor of 2.3, which would imply that the clock on the earth will show the time 5:00:06.54,
This fact just really blows my mind! I mean Allen would theoretically go on a time travel and come back to a future earth (3 seconds though!)
It is thus well understood that for higher speeds and for longer distances the effects of time dilation will be significantly higher.
Now leaving all these hypothetical situations aside, there is real evidence for time dilation in reality.
It turns out that there are particles crashing into the earth's atmosphere at 40-50km above the ground. When they crash into the atmosphere these cosmic rays, turn into muons.
Now it turns out that muons are particles with
So in the absence of Special Relativity, we would predict that the muons could never be detected as they would decay way before they even reach
However, since the muons are traveling close to the speed of light, that means their internal clocks are going slower with respect to the clocks on the ground. That means all their internal processes including the decay time will get slower.
The muons, therefore, decay much more slowly due to the effects of time dilation and therefore
This is a pragmatic example of time dilation in action.
So, we the faster we move through space the slower we move through time.
Due to its malleability time like space deserves its own dimension. In fact, Einstein claimed that the two were one. He called it the space-time fabric.
Einstein also suggested that massive objects like the sun bends this fabric of space-time due to its mass. He also stated that
More massive the object the more they affect the space-time fabric around it.
This is also true for earth's gravity. We are pinned on the earth because the distorted space by the earth's mass pushes us down from above.
Earths gravity thus intensifies as we move towards the center, where the curvature is maximum. An object that falls towards the earth accelerates towards its
It falls faster just right above the surface than it does, say when it is above the atmosphere.
We just saw that
This literally means that time runs slower on Earths surface than it does around the atmosphere.
However, if you measure time with a clock on the surface and on top of a mountain the effects will be really nugatory, in the order of nanoseconds.
Now because different planets have different mass and thus different gravitational strength, they also accelerate objects at different rates. This means a variable passage of time.
We see this effect in the movie Interstellar when they land at the watery planet close to the
The gravity on the surface is so severe that 1 hr on the planet is 7 years on Earth!!!!!
I mean its an ideal place if you wish to complete your
Time dilation even affects biological clocks!
More articles will be coming soon on Time Dilation.
please leave a comment below or ask any question you want to
I would highly recommend a few books that would really help you to know in-depth regarding the cosmos:
- A Brief History of the Universe: From Ancient Babylon to the Big Bang (Brief Histories)
- The Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection, 250 Milestones in the History of Physics (Sterling Milestones)
- Cosmos
- Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Routledge Classics)
- Black Holes: The Reith Lectures
- The Oxford Companion to Cosmology (Oxford Quick Reference)
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The New AA: Dr. Kimball's Self-Help Program for Disillusioned Liberals
You're seeing these sad people everywhere these days, especially in large East-and West-Coast urban areas and on college campuses. At parties they alternate between a melancholy, far-away wistfulness and a muttering "why me?"-belligerence. They're touchy and quick to blame others, and they seem to suffer from night sweats and vague feelings of persecution. Their symptoms worsened suddenly a few days ago when it was announced that Paul Ryan would be joining the Romney ticket as candidate for vice president.
These people are not conservatives. It's not clear that they're liberals, exactly, either, though in recent history they have, as it were, caucused with liberals, that is to say, with people who identify themselves as liberals (never mind how illiberal their policies and sentiments happen to be). Above all, however, they are part of the tout le monde: the people who think of themselves as being on the right side of history (corollary belief: they think history has sides and a direction). They go to the right cocktail parties. They have "advanced" (i.e., establishment) attitudes about art, culture, and morals. They are part of that group Harold Rosenberg memorably denominated "the herd of independent minds."
Tom Wolfe exposed an extreme version of this cohort in his essay on the Black Panthers hosted by Leonard Bernstein in his elegant New York apartment. Wolfe contributed the term "radical chic" to the language to describe the Bernsteins and their wide-eyed guests. What we're dealing with here is not quite radical (though Obama may in fact be plenty radical himself, the semi-beautiful people who support him are not), nor is it wholly chic. It is a sort of "consensus chic," though I appreciate the aroma of contradiction the phrase communicates, since that which is genuinely chic exists self-consciously apart from the consensus of hoi polloi.
First time around, these people voted for Obama, giving themselves a little frisson of self-satisfaction when they pulled the lever and, even more, when the emitted condescension about anyone who happened to vote for John McCain — they didn't encounter such people often, but it always gave them a little thrill of self-satisfaction when they did. It wasn't long, however, before doubts began to accumulate. The seas didn't subside, as promised, nor did the unemployment figures. By now, they're thoroughly depressed. Their man has clearly let them down, and the inadvertent comedy of Joe Biden screaming that Republicans are going to "put y'all back in chains" isn't helping. Even worse is the news that team R&R, the Romney-Ryan express, is surging among young voters.


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I hate football. Especially supporting Aston Villa. I used to say that I was a Villa fan as penance for my sins, but under Martin O'Neill, the optimism of a naive child had returned to me. That was until this week. Losing 1-0 at home in the cup to Leicester, our fabled bogey team, was bad enough, but tonight, we managed to draw 4-4 with Spurs, despite being 4-1 up with half an hour to go. Those of you who don't follow football probably can't empathise and should probably stop reading now, but I'm finding it very hard to express what I feel right now. To see your team, the team you've followed faithfully since boyhood, score 4 goals (a rarity in itself for Villa, and admittedly, slightly undeservedly), and then so cheaply surrender what should be a comfortable win, literally gets the heart going. Marlon Harewood deserves to be kneecapped. Not literally, but maybe at least have his dog kicked off a bridge, Anchorman style. I guess this feeling is the flip side of the highs of corporate joy.
Obviously, most of this is just the emotional outpouring of my heart, post-watching-depressing-yet-exciting-football-alone-in-pub. I still have the utmost faith in O'Neill and wouldn't want anyone else managing our club. On the upside, we didn't lose the game, and on a bigger upside, I'm not a Spurs fan, who still sit 1 point off the bottom 🙂


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Instead of killing my wife for watching Jersey Shore, I'm sitting in a different room digging up the good stuff for another Friday Roundup. Get your clicking fingers ready.
This Week In Mindsilt
I wrote about how I feel about my daughter-to-be.
My review of this week's episode of The Bachelor.
I thanked all the good people who commented on Monday's post and I gave you my secret for working out and getting in shape.
Tweet of the Week
From Donald Glover:
You'd be surprised at what a girl will do if you call it an "art project".
See it here.
Blog Post of the Week
It's not from this week, but Ricky Gervais is in the news right now so I thought I'd share this. It's just one more thing people can use to run him down for no good reason. Not that he cares. I love this man.
Ricky Gervais: Why I'm an Atheist from the Wall Street Journal.
Video of the Week
Comic Bo Burnham sings a song about being an artist and how you feel dirty sometimes.


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Cover art
Alex_g on Nov. 7, 2006
The cover for the comic I'm working on.
comicbookguy2007 at 4:44AM, Nov. 29, 2007
Added as a favorite!!
My Lady of Sorrow at 10:31PM, June 25, 2007
"free with purchase of $45 worth of shotgun shells" that was a nice touch. ^_^
RabbitMaster at 4:26AM, June 25, 2007
Nice Tales From The Crpyt feel to it
IanT at 11:18PM, June 20, 2007
slimredninja at 9:49AM, Jan. 9, 2007
nice stuff
Manio at 4:30AM, Nov. 9, 2006
I mean being a human. Design a character and call him Manio. Weapon is a handgun named Betsy.
Alex_g at 2:58AM, Nov. 9, 2006
Thanks for faving! Not sure about what you mean with beign in the comic, you mean a cameo as a zombie or something? I'v done that with some people before.
Manio at 6:03PM, Nov. 8, 2006
Can I be in the comic?..Just asking faved and 5d
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A bill passed by the House and Senate to expand telehealth services for active duty and retired military personnel and their families will maintain safeguards on state medical licensure, as the AAFP and other health organizations had called for.
Because increasing access to care for veterans and their families is a priority for legislators, they added new telehealth benefits to the TRICARE program in the National Defense Authorization Act,(www.congress.gov) the annual spending authorization bill for the Defense Department.
The final bill calls for telehealth services to be treated as if they were provided in a face-to-face office visit and without cost-sharing in the form of deductibles or copayments. Medical professionals can seek reimbursement for telehealth services for health evaluations, diagnosis, treatment supervision and monitoring of outcomes.
The AAFP lent its support to the measure as long as it preserved state medical licensing laws.
In the initial Senate version of the bill, telehealth services were considered to be only those furnished at the physician's location -- not the patient's -- for purposes such as licensure, payment and liability. Legislators agreed to remove that language from the final version at the urging of the AAFP and others.
"If enacted, this language will supplant longstanding state rules providing that when provider and patient are in different jurisdictions, the law of the place of the patient governs," (then) AAFP Board Chair Robert Wergin, M.D., of Milford, Neb., wrote on Sept. 1(2 page PDF) to the chairs and ranking members of the Senate and House Armed Services committees.
To maintain the integrity of state medical licensure, the AAFP and others sought to preserve existing state laws that use the patient's location to determine where care is provided. The AAFP warned legislators of the consequences of changing this longstanding rule for the 8 million TRICARE beneficiaries.
"Allowing physicians with a single license to treat TRICARE beneficiaries in any state via telemedicine would create episodes of medical care that the state in which the patient resides cannot readily regulate, if at all," the letter stated.
Under the bill that is awaiting President Obama's signature, physicians who provide telehealth services to patients in other jurisdictions will continue to be subject to licensing regulations in the patient's state of residence.
The AAFP noted that the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, an agreement adopted by 17 states, is a more appropriate pathway to facilitate telehealth services across state lines.
Related AAFP News Coverage
Change Doubles Number of Vets Eligible for Care Outside VA
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I think the entire world would be changed for the better if people practiced the "Do unto others only as you would have them do unto you" rule. We have become rude and self centered, lacking in common courtesy. We cut people off in traffic, we don't give up our bus seat for an elderly woman anymore, and we scream at people in public if they forgot the ketchup on our cheeseburger.
I do believe the "do unto others" lifestyle has potential to change the world if it were to be followed by the vast majority of people. If this practice was followed to its truest form, I believe it would help "open the eyes" of people who practice hypocrisy and hate toward others.
I truly believe that if everybody on the planet followed the Golden Rule, it would change the world for the better. Unfortunately that will never happen. Morality and ethics is something that is varied with some people. And some people just don't care about it. That's why such a scenario will never occur.
There are many things people want done to them that others would not want done to them. In short, it is a decent heuristic but cannot be a good basis for public policy or even private action. Ethics cannot be reduced to simple rules or phrases as situations frequently arise that challenge even elaborate systems of justice.
No, there's no reason to believe people would follow the Golden Rule as it goes against hundreds of thousands of years of history and human nature. If more people followed it, it would just mean that more people would be taken advantage of, which wouldn't really benefit humanity as a whole.


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Party Sticks have
bright, festive colors. Cockatiels, any
of the Pyrrhura conures and
other small parrots enjoy chewing and pealing these rolled paper lollipop
sticks; the birds engage in
similar activities in the wild, it's much like stripping bark from twigs.
Size: 2 ¾ "
For all small birds from budgies and
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Consumer Health Digest #11-28
Your Weekly Update of News and Reviews
September 1, 2011
Consumer Health Digest is a free weekly e-mail newsletter edited by Stephen Barrett, M.D., with help from William M. London, Ed.D., M.P.H. It summarizes scientific reports; legislative developments; enforcement actions; news reports; Web site evaluations; recommended and nonrecommended books; and other information relevant to consumer protection and consumer decision-making.
USDA food guidance system changing. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, is changing the form of its food guidance system, which is intended to provide practical advice for implementing the U.S. Dietary Guidelines. From 1992 through early this year, USDA used a pyramid to depict its overall dietary advice. In June 2011, it began using a plate to simplify its graphic and make the recommended food-group proportions more obvious. The MyPlate logo was released with several tips:
The ChooseMyPlate.gov Web site (formerly called MyPyramid.gov) offers a dietary assessment and links to nutrient information. (Click on "Interactive Tools.") After providing a day's worth of dietary information, the user receives an overall evaluation that compares the amounts of food consumed to current nutritional guidelines. To better understand their diet over time, registered users can track what they eat for up to one year. There is also a physical activity assessment that is accompanied by detailed advice.
IOM issues reassuring vaccine report. The Institute of Medicine has reviewed more than 1,000 published research articles and concluded that whereas no vaccine is 100% safe, very few adverse events are shown to be caused by vaccines. In addition, the report concluded that vaccines do not cause several conditions of recent concern:
- The MMR vaccine is not associated with autism or childhood diabetes.
- The DTaP vaccine is also not associated with diabetes.
- The influenza vaccine given as a shot does not exacerbate asthma.
In 1900, for every 1000 babies born in the United States, 100 would die before their first birthday, often due to infectious diseases. Today, effective vaccines exist for many bacterial and viral illnesses. Full copies of the 665-page report, The Adverse Effects of Vaccines, are downloadable free of charge from the National Academies Press Web site.
FDA urged to get tougher on homeopathy. The Center for Inquiry and Committee for Skeptical Inquiry have filed three petitions asking the FDA to address various aspects of the homeopathic marketing.
- One petition asks the agency to initiate rulemaking that would require all over-the-counter homeopathic drugs to meet the same standards of effectiveness as non-homeopathic drugs. Although the FDA has the authority to require homeopathic drugs to undergo testing for effectiveness, it has not done so. This petition also asks the agency to require warning labels on homeopathic products unless they are shown to be effective.
- The second petition asks the FDA to order Boiron to label the allegedly active ingredient in Oscillococcinum in English. This product, an alleged flu remedy, is said to be made by repeatedly diluting an extract of duck liver and heart. However, the label uses a Latin phrase to identify the ingredient even though FDA regulations require labeling to be in English.
- The third petition complains that Boiron's advertising falsely suggests that Oscillococcinum has received FDA approval.
Many homeopathic products—including Oscillococcinum—contain no molecules of the original substance(s).
FDA regulations require the FDA to respond to citizen petitions with 180 days. However, a similar petition, filed in 1994 by Dr. Stephen Barrett and 41 other concerned persons, received no response. Homeowatch has additional information about Oscillococcinum.
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How to create a front page for your favorite phpBB3 theme. If you want to see it in action: atrocitygaming.org In this tutorial I will be using the Prosilver theme. Files needed: phpbb3/index.php phpbb3/styles/<theme>/template/overall_header.html phpbb3/styles/<theme>/template/overall_footer.html phpbb3/styles/<theme>/templates/ucp_header.html phpbb3/styles/<theme>/templates/ucp_footer.html phpbb3/styles/<theme>/templates/ucp_main_front.html Important Info: You will need to study your own theme to make this work, find out which class's, id's are for what, etc. All I show you, is how it works. Start the customization: Open your index.php file. Go to line 124-129, should look like this: PHP: // Output page page_header($user->lang['INDEX']); $template->set_filenames(array( 'body' => 'index_body.html') ); This area is where we will test weather we want your custom page, or your forums. Now insert this in its place: PHP: // Output page $page = $_GET['page']; switch($page): case "home": page_header("Home"); $template->set_filenames(array( 'body' => 'home.html') ); break; case "forums": page_header($user->lang['INDEX']); $template->set_filenames(array( 'body' => 'index_body.html') ); break; default: page_header("Home"); $template->set_filenames(array( 'body' => 'home.html') ); break; endswitch; Save it, and close it. Your done with the index.php file for now. What that did was grab the page variable from the URL. Put it into a switch() function and if $page = "home" it calls for the custom front page which we will create in just a second. If $page = "forums" it calls for the original index page, which is the forum listing. However is $page is equal to neither of those, it defaults to the custom front page. Switch() is just a different way of doing "if then else". Cleaner too, in my opinion. If you want more custom pages just add PHP: case "<page_var>": page_header("<page_header>"); $template->set_filenames(array( 'body' => '<template_path>') ); break; after any other "break;" Now we need to create the custom front page. Create a blank new HTML file called "home.html". Now insert this into that new file: Code:   As you can see its doing PHP function inside HTML comments. This is how phpBB's template system works. All PHP functions are a little modified and you can't actually do anything, very limited in fact. Back on topic. Save the file in your theme folder a "home.html". This is your skeleton. Everything you put on your page should be in between your overall_header and overall_footer files. NOTE: If you wish to change the look of your header/footer for your custom pages, DO NOT save over the original's otherwise it will look like that on your forums as well, save it as a different file and edit your custom page(s) accordingly. As you may of noticed all phpBB variables are called on by this: {VARIABLE_NAME} All caps, and words spaced. At the bottom of this tutorial you will find some everyday variables that you can use in your HTML template. In this tutorial we are going to create a 2 columns with 1 sidebar and the main content on the right. Insert this in between your header/footer. Code:

{PAGE_TITLE}

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 As you can see I added a file and used a variable, I added the sidebar.html file and used the {PAGE_TITLE} variable. This variable was set in the index.php file we edited earlier by this: page_header("Home"); Now because each theme is different, we need to take a look at a template that matches the custom page very well to get an idea of what we need for styles. Open these 3 files: ucp_header.html, ucp_main_front.html, and ucp_footer.html If you haven't noticed these are the User Control Panel templates. Open your User Control Panel with the theme your editing in your browser. Look at where things are and look at the source code. Better yet, if you have Firefox, download the Web Developer Toolbar. If you have it click Information->Display ID & Class Details. This will add information boxes to each element on your page telling you what style it uses to create that portion of the page. This is where I cannot help you. You must study your theme and find out what it uses and where. OK! Now that you know how to create the template and how to add them to the system it's time to go over the HTML template system. You can do anything you want with the templates, just don't make your theme live until you have tested them. The sidebar.html page is just a template page that is exactly like the home.html page. You add your navigation menu, recent posts, etc etc there, but it just makes all your custom pages call upon the same page, making editing A LOT easier and cleaner. Here is a list of common variables that you can use for your templates: Code: {LAST_VISIT_DATE} - Last visit date {TOTAL_USERS_ONLINE} - Total # of users oline {LOGGED_IN_USER_LIST} - Users logged in {S_USER_LOGGED_IN} - Is a user logged in? {S_USERNAME} - Username {CURRENT_TIME} - Current Time {PRIVATE_MESSAGE_INFO} - Private Messages (shows if new one) {U_PRIVATEMSGS} - Link to Message Center {L_PROFILE} - UCP Link Info {U_PROFILE} - Link to UCP {L_LOGIN_LOGOUT} - Logout Link Info {U_LOGIN_LOGOUT} - Logout link with SID {L_LEGEND} - Legend Info (Just says "Legend") {LEGEND} - Legend {U_MCP} - Are you a Mod? / Mod Link {L_MCP} - Mod Link Info Those are just some basics, you can find more by searching google, or looking through the source code of the ./include/ files. AND YOU CAN MAKE YOUR OWN!!! Heres how: By using the "$template->assign_vars(array());" function. This is the simple format: PHP: $template->assign_vars(array( 'VARIABLE_NAME' => $variable_name, 'VARIABLE_NAME_2' => $variable_name_2) ); Somehow the developers were able to issue code ethics. For each variable all words must be seperated with a '_'. All variable names must be short and sweet, not one letter variables. For the assign_vars() function all variables must be organized into column unless a line break is between them (as shown above, they are in columns). aye I know, it's odd, but it bring a format to the coding that everyone can understand to an open source project, which is VERY important. You can do anything with the variable names, BUT add a prefix to the variable that is unique so you don't accidentally overwrite another, like adding your initials then an _ then the variable name, something like that. To add custom PHP scripts just place them in their own file and add an include('<file_path>'); in the switch() function in the index.php file with the right page case. So I can do this if I want to add a recent posts section in my sidebar.html page: PHP: $sql = "SELECT * FROM `phpbb_topics` ORDER BY `topic_time` DESC LIMIT 5"; $result = mysql_query($sql); for($o=0;$o<mysql_num_rows($result);$o++){ $id = mysql_result($result, $i, 'topic_id'); $fid = mysql_result($result, $i, 'forum_id'); $title = mysql_result($result, $i, 'topic_title'); $recent_posts .= "".$title."
"; } $template->assign_vars(array( 'RECENT_POSTS' => $recent_posts) ); And then add in my sidebar.html page {RECENT_POSTS} where I want the recent posts to be displayed. Hope this makes sense, and you learned something. I wrote this at 4:30am if you didn't see the posting time, so any mistakes you see just point them out and I will fix them asap. Thanks! ---- Any questions/comments/complaints just ask, feedback is always a + even if its bad!


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William Eadon
Where did you grow up?
A very, very small town in Ohio.
Where did you live?
I live in Brooklyn, NY in Williamsburg. It's sort of like a playground.
What is your personal soundtrack at the moment?
I'm going through a silent phase right now. It'll subside. I have been shaking to "farewell" by Ayshea
Your star sign?
Virgo. Not a typical Virgo, I had always suspected as any readings never really made sense to me. I just had my charts done, and apparently very scorpio and gemini heavy lotta 8th house stuff which makes me an atypical Virgoan. yeah, whatever. I am still a virgin though,.. does that count? I really believe in saving myself for that one very special person. Almost had ya there for a second. I lied. I'm not really a virgin. I do rescue maidens, and slay dragons though. Damsels in distress is one of my specialties and rock gardening. Mainly the distress part. You see, I leave them in distress. or, once i've left they are in distress? it's open to individual interpretation. And I digress.
Who is your style icon? I like looking at children. They have style. Style always comes from within.What do you do or what would you like to do when you grow up?
All grown up, just not done growing or doing. Are we ever? I wanna laugh till it hurts.


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The Sick Rose were arguably the first European garage band to have the impact globally in the same manner as The Chesterfield Kings (from the Timothy Gassen's book Knights of Fuzz 1980-1995).
Lead garage band in the Eighties, The Sick Rose with his fuzz and farfisa attack impressed the audience with full powered gigs, since the first released Faces LP, dated 1986.
The band performed alive with some legends of the genre (The Fuzztones, Dream Syndicate, The Nomads, Stomach Mouths and so on) and produced four full records but disbanded in 1990...
The Band comes back in 2006 with a new work, Blastin' out, produced by DOM MARIANI, the legendary leader of the Stems.
The new album gains a very good critic response and lead the band to several promotion tours.
Between 2006 and 2008 the Sick Rose toured Germany, Greece, Italy and Spain, opening for Jeff Conolly (Lyres).
Our new album NO NEED FOR SPEED is finally out!
This past fall Dom Mariani, from DM3 / Stems, flew from Perth, Australia to produce our 6th studio album. He did an incredible job! The result is a great album of power pop with many unespected undertones. We're very proud of it and we are dying to play the new songs live at our upcoming shows!
This has been a great week for music on the blog and this band along with their new album are the prefect end to the perfect week, after partying Friday and Saturday, I have put on this album and continued the party mode into Sunday! Full of energy, 60's styled garage fuzz and some jangly Rickenbacker fuelled Power Pop, we are gonna be ripping it up until Wednesday....the party isn't over yet, go buy this album!!!
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MOSCOW — A handful of people hovered curiously around a drab plaza in Tyoply Stan, a neighborhood on the southern edge of Moscow, attracted by volunteers handing out leaflets and a makeshift platform affixed with banners showing a man who despite global renown remains largely unfamiliar here.
Then the man himself appeared: Aleksei A. Navalny, the lawyer turned blogger. Only three weeks after his conviction on charges of embezzlement, followed by his surprising release from jail pending appeal, he has returned to a quixotic campaign to challenge the political system erected by President Vladimir V. Putin, this time as a candidate for elected office.
Wearing jeans and a polo shirt, he strode across the square and told the crowd his name and age — 37 — compelled to introduce himself to those who knew him only as a digital phenomenon railing against corruption. He spoke about his education, his wife, their children and the apartment in Moscow where he has lived for the last 17 years. He then asked them to go the polls on Sept. 8 and elect him the city's mayor.
His campaign slogan, printed on fliers and placards mushrooming around the city, is an exhortation that underscores the stakes, as well as a broader ambition.
"Change Russia," it says. "Start with Moscow."
Even as some suspect a Kremlin ploy to create the appearance of electoral competition, Mr. Navalny's campaign has now, unexpectedly, emerged as the most significant test for the Kremlin since Mr. Putin returned to the presidency last year amid a wave of protests against Russia's authoritarianism and endemic corruption. Those protests were led in part by Mr. Navalny, who now hopes to harness a latent opposition that Mr. Putin has since successfully suppressed — and, perhaps, to ensure his own freedom.
Although victory seems improbable, Mr. Navalny's campaign has injected drama into a moribund political system that has stripped elections of competition and thus suspense.
For the first time in years, no one knows exactly what will happen — whether as a political novice he can overcome apathy and win a significant number of votes, whether the outcome will provoke more protests, even whether he will remain a free man until election day.
"We don't know anything right now," his campaign manager, Leonid M. Volkov, said of the legal uncertainty. Mr. Navalny was officially registered as a candidate only days before his conviction, which if upheld, will bar him from taking office. "We are working like there are going to be elections on Sept. 8 with Navalny on the ballot, and that he's going to win."
The mayoral vote is the city's first in a decade. In 2004 Mr. Putin abolished elections for the leaders of the country's 83 federal regions, which include the city of Moscow, as part of his consolidation of power. They were restored last year in part to quell popular disaffection over irregularities in parliamentary elections in 2011.
The mere fact of Mr. Navalny's candidacy has inspired theories of furtive machinations. Many analysts assume that he was freed after a night in jail to lend legitimacy to what is expected to be an easy victory for the incumbent mayor, Sergei S. Sobyanin.
Such is the cynicism here that analysts argue a poor showing by Mr. Navalny would do more to discredit him than the conviction alone, making it easier for the Kremlin to remove him from public life.
The mayoralty is arguably the country's second-most prominent office, and was for years the personal fief of Yuri M. Luzhkov. Its independence has been eroding for years, though, and suffered a major blow in 2010 when Mr. Luzhkov was fired by Dmitri A. Medvedev, Mr. Putin's predecessor as president. Mr. Medvedev than appointed Mr. Sobyanin, a technocrat who previously served as the elected governor of the Tyumen region in Siberia, as deputy prime minister and then as chief of the presidential administration.
To Mr. Navalny, Mr. Sobyanin embodies an ossified system dominated by the Kremlin that is motivated by profit and self-preservation and out of touch with ordinary people. As he stumps around the city, holding three to five meetings a day with voters, Mr. Navalny emphasizes his roots in Moscow, a not-so-subtle contrast to Mr. Sobyanin's upbringing in Siberia.
"I am the most ordinary Muscovite," he said at Tyoply Stan in a common refrain, adding that he experiences firsthand the shortcomings in transportation, housing, education and health care. His remarks often verge on populism, particularly on the topics of crime and migrant workers, reflecting a sentiment that has unnerved some of the country's liberals. As on his blog, he fulminates against corruption, accusing officials at all levels of siphoning away revenues that could improve services.
"I see the colossal disparity, the inequality, between the massive Moscow budget — 1.6 trillion rubles, second only to New York City, one of the richest cities in the world — and the actual quality of life," he said at another campaign stop, referring to an amount equivalent to nearly $49 billion. "For that money, Muscovites can afford to buy a really great quality of life."
There are four other challengers in the race, including candidates representing the Communists, the nationalist Liberal Democrats and the liberal Yabloko, parties that have continued to run in and lose elections under Mr. Putin. All lack the resources and vital access to state television that Mr. Sobyanin enjoys.
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Even the timing of the vote was Mr. Sobyanin's. It was not scheduled until 2015, but Mr. Sobyanin nominally resigned in June with Mr. Putin's permission and moved up the election, leaving little time for opposition to coalesce.
Mr. Sobyanin's campaign manager, Lyudmila I. Shvetsova, said that the mayor, who himself last ran for office in 2001, was committed to holding a fair election, acknowledging the criticisms leveled against previous balloting. "He did not want to exclude Navalny from the race," she said. "If Navalny had been excluded, the vote itself would not reflect the situation in the city."
Mr. Navalny's campaign, by necessity, has the feel of a grass-roots insurgency. He began holding his rallies without advance notice to the news media to avoid drawing attention that might intimidate prospective voters. So far the authorities have not interfered, though police officers with automatic rifles appeared ominously at one event.
He has recruited volunteers who have set up booths they call "cubes" to distribute leaflets and unfurl banners with Mr. Navalny's name in public spaces, including a bridge over the Moscow River.
"To talk about the field campaign's effectiveness or ineffectiveness doesn't make sense in this case," the campaign's press secretary, Anna A. Veduta, said, "because we don't have alternatives."
Although polls have shown Mr. Sobyanin with a comfortable lead, Mr. Navalny's support appears to be rising beyond his core cadre of educated, Internet-savvy supporters.
"This is, of course, the first time in Moscow that a candidate for mayor has met with the public in such close conditions," said Anna Fedotovna, a retired engineer who attended one of his speeches. "For all these years they gathered in some House of Culture and brought the people the organizers wanted there."
Political campaigns here have become so lifeless that Mr. Navalny's is all the more striking. And it is already having an impact: After his booths appeared, Mr. Sobyanin's supporters began setting up their own, a nod to retail politics that most Kremlin-endorsed candidates have long eschewed as unnecessary.
"It's not a fair election, but somehow it is freer now," said Garry Kasparov, the former chess champion and a critic of Mr. Putin who similarly tried to build support for the political opposition. Mr. Navalny, he added, represents a new generation that has the potential to widen the cracks in Mr. Putin's dominance and pose a real challenge. "He's in the game now."


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Medications can be prescribed to patients with aortic valve disease to manage some symptoms; however, no medicine is available that can cure severe aortic valve disease. Two approaches-surgical or transcatheter- currently exist to replace diseased valves.
Surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) is an open-chest surgery where the surgeon removes the diseased aortic valve and sews in a new one in its place. The heart is stopped during the surgery and blood pressure and oxygen levels are maintained with a heart-lung machine also known as cardiopulmonary bypass. Less invasive surgical techniques have been developed to allow the surgeon to perform this procedure through a smaller incision at the top or to the right side of the chest wall. Both metal (mechanical) and tissue valve prostheses can be inserted using a surgical approach.
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is a relatively new technique that allows implantation of a new valve through a very small incision in the leg or chest wall. Unlike a surgical aortic valve replacement, a TAVR procedure does not remove the diseased aortic valve – rather the old valve is pushed aside, opening space to place a new valve. Only tissue valve prostheses can be inserted using a transcatheter approach.
may be more appropriate for persons who have:
- Active infections of the heart or heart valves requiring surgical removal
- Multiple affected valves
- Severe coronary artery disease that cannot be safely treated with stents and would require bypass surgery
- Need replacement of the aorta in addition to the aortic valve
- A strong case for needing a mechanical valve.
may be more appropriate for persons who:
- Are evaluated as too frail to undergo cardiopulmonary bypass surgery
- Have a heavily calcified aorta ─ sometimes referred to as a "porcelain aorta"
- Have a chest-wall deformity (this can be from prior trauma, prior surgery, or just the way you were born)
- Have received chest radiation ('high dose' radiation for certain cancers can cause scarring in the chest that can make a surgical approach present a higher risk).
- Have severe medical conditions that may make surgery to be a greater risk. Some examples are severe lung disease, various types of neurological disease, and poor kidney or liver function.
Common Complications or Issues
The major complications or issues associated with any valve replacement procedure are listed below:
- Stroke
- Kidney failure
- Bleeding or vascular Injury
- Arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat) such as atrial fibrillation
- Heart block requiring a pacemaker
- Postoperative ileus
- Postoperative delirium (acute confusional state)
- Prosthetic valve malfunction
- Feeling emotional
- Death
Complications of TAVR and SAVR are generally low. The expected frequency of these complications is determined by multiple factors, including the following:
- State of your pre-surgical health and specific things about you that may increase the chance of a complication
- Experience and skills of the surgeon and team performing your valve replacement and the generation and type of the valve and delivery system used
- How the valve is placed (surgical versus transcatheter)
"I was teary in the weeks after my procedure. I spoke with another TAVR patient, a 70-year old former Marine, who called to check-in with me. He asked if I had been more emotional since the procedure, explaining that he had cried quite a bit and was more sensitive in the weeks after his procedure. It was such a relief to me to realize that I was having a normal, expected emotional response."
-- Susan Strong, Transcatheter
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Future Advertising:hands On Search by Aid-dcc Inc./Katamari Inc
Aid-dcc Inc./Katamari Inc. Discloses The Hands On Search Future Advertising
AID-DCC Inc. / Katamari Inc., the maker of the award winning work Award Winning Hands on Search Future Advertising points out, We had invented Hands On Search, which is a tangible search through the combination of the search engine and a 3D printer. Items could be searched verbally and the item would automatically come out of the machine as a miniature model of the searched item. We offered this first to people who need sense of touch the most, the visually impaired. 3D data were gathered from individuals and corporations who wanted to be involved in this project. This allowed the children at schools for the visually impaired to have more experiences..
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Life as We Know It
Holly and Eric were set up on a blind date by their friends, Peter and Allison who are married. A few years later after Peter and Allison were killed in an accident, they learn that Peter and Allison have named them as the guardians to their daughter, Sophie. So they move into their house and try their best to honor their friends' wishes. But raising a child puts a crimp on their style and they don't exactly get along.
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Two single adults become caregivers to an orphaned girl when
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the mission of The Rachael Ray Foundation?
The Rachael Ray Foundation™ supports causes near and dear to Rachael's heart with one simple idea mind: that businesses that do well should do good. Our mission is to
- Help animals in need
- Support Yum-o!-aligned organizations, with its core work areas of "Cook, Feed, and Fund"
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Another day, another Maureen Dowd column attacking Barack Obama as an ineffective president.
This time, Dowd lets author Jonathan Alter do most of the talking. From her Wednesday New York Times op-ed:
Obama is not a needy person, but he needs to think of himself as purer than this town.
He wanted to be, Alter writes, "nontransactional, above the petty deals, 'donor maintenance,' and phony friendships of Washington. Here his self-awareness again failed him. In truth, he was all transactional in his work life."
As Alter observes, "His failure to use the trappings of the presidency more often left him with one less tool in his toolbox."
Obama did not understand why his stinginess with expressions of gratitude and phone calls could sting, or fathom the thrill of letters from the president.
"He fundamentally doesn't relate to their impact because he wouldn't particularly care if he got one," the Obama adviser Pete Rouse explained to Alter.
It's the same sentiment Dowd expressed in late April and early May: Obama is asleep at the wheel. This from the woman who dubbed former Vice President Dick Cheney "Darth Vader."
Robert Gibbs, former press secretary in the Obama administration, responded to Dowd's last column on MSNBC two weeks ago, saying he doesn't read it anymore. ""[I]t's sort of largely the same column for the last, like, eight years," he said.


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The letter requested more information on the drug's treatment of metastatic melanoma.
"Bristol-Myers Squibb is committed to the Opdivo clinical program, across lines of therapy and stages of disease in advanced melanoma, and is working closely with the agency to determine whether additional data currently under review adequately address this request," Jaisy Styles, director of Bristol-Myers Squibb's public affairs, told Patient Daily.
Opdivo was approved to treat melanoma last December and has since seen its label expanded three times to treat lung cancer and, most recently, metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC).
The most recent label expansion comes after a study found that patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma lived an average of five and a half months longer than those taking another kidney cancer treatment, called Afinitor (everolimus). Also, 21.5 percent of patients treated with Opdivo saw a complete or partial shrinkage of their tumors.
While the FDA declined to comment on the Complete Response Letter, a representative did state that Opdivo was granted "breakthrough therapy" and "fast track" status, intended to facilitate its development and review.
"With the FDA approval of Opdivo, the kidney cancer community is now a step closer to achieving long-term survival, which has remained elusive for many previously treated patients with advanced RCC," Styles told Patient Daily. "Bristol-Myers Squibb has a broad, global development program to study Opdivo in multiple tumor types consisting of more than 50 trials -- as a monotherapy or in combination with other therapies -- in which more than 8,000 patients have been enrolled worldwide."
Opdivo highlights Bristol-Myers Squibb's focus on immune-oncology, using the body's immune system to fight cancers. The pioneering approach is what makes Opdivo an approach that the FDA found promising to treat patients with these life-threatening cancers.
"Opdivo is one of few therapies that have demonstrated the ability to extend patients' survival in treating metastatic renal cell carcinoma," FDA spokesperson Sarah Peddicord said.
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mercredi 22 janvier 2020
In Vietnam, economic success underpins literary boom
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mercredi 22 janvier 2020, 20:13 - News in english
jeudi 16 janvier 2020
'Pushing boundaries' : The rise of Samizdat publishing in Vietnam
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le jeudi 16 janvier 2020, 10:37 - News in english
Liberal Publishing House publishes and distributes books Vietnam's government does not wants its citizens to read.
mardi 17 septembre 2019
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À découvrir ! Comment Hun Sen a pris le pouvoir pour plus de trois décennies sur le Cambodge en 1997. C'est la grande Histoire qui sert de toile de fond à un récit vibrant sur le tourbillon vécu par les Cambodgiens modestes.
jeudi 1 mars 2018
Vietnam activist in hiding after book interrogation
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le jeudi 1 mars 2018, 20:09 - News in english
A high-profile Vietnamese writer says she has gone into hiding after being interrogated about her banned book and placed under de-facto house arrest by plainclothes police, vowing Thursday (Mar 1) to continue pressing for democracy in the one-party state.
lundi 11 septembre 2017
How the Latin alphabet ended up in Vietnam
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Visitors to Saigon's Book Street are having difficulty finding a legal parking space as both of the venue's two parking lots have been shut down by Doan Ngoc Hai, leader of Saigon's 'sidewalk clearing' campaign.
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The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam by Christopher Goscha
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This is the finest single-volume history of Vietnam in English. It challenges myths, and raises questions about the socialist republic's political future
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jeudi 12 février 2015
Vietnam releases partially paralyzed blogger on medical parole
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HANOI — A Vietnamese blogger who is partially paralyzed and was jailed for posting articles that oppose the Communist Party says he has been released after two months in prison on medical parole.
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samedi 17 novembre 2012
Throw the book at copiers, say publishers
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le samedi 17 novembre 2012, 09:41 - News in english
Representatives from authorised publishing houses have raised their concerns about the increase in illegally printed books in Viet Nam, which they say are seriously affecting their business and reputation.
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The poet was a familiar figure, striding through Little Saigon, sipping tea, sharing wisdom. He liked to read through the night, not too tired to dissect a bit of homeland politics.
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Book sales likely to remain poor
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mardi 27 mars 2012, 07:13 - News in english
The publishing industry is expected to track last year's poor performance with the demand for books unlikely to increase due to tightening consumption policies, experts said at a recent meeting.
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Vietnam's awakening youth circumvent censorship
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When student Nguyen Hong Nhung saw "Killer with a Festering Head" on someone's smartphone, she wanted the banned comic book too. Though Vietnam's censors had yanked it from stores, finding a digital copy wasn't exactly hard.
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Banned books hot property in censored Vietnam
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le dimanche 29 janvier 2012, 10:33 - News in english
HANOI — From irreverent cartoons to "depraved" short stories, Vietnam's pop culture is attracting the attention of print censors who experts say are struggling to accept an increasingly brash literary scene.
mardi 14 septembre 2010
Vietnam publisher struggles to issue Western classics
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mardi 14 septembre 2010, 09:15 - News in english
HANOI — The title of French author Alexis de Tocqueville's seminal work, "Democracy in America", was not well received by authorities in communist Vietnam, so it appeared under another name.
vendredi 5 février 2010
Vietnam jails dissident writer over attack
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A Vietnamese writer and democracy activist has been jailed for three and a half years for attacking two men during a parking dispute in Hanoi.
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Vietnam jails democracy activist Pham Thanh Nghien
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le vendredi 29 janvier 2010, 19:16 - News in english
Dissident writer Pham Thanh Nghien has been jailed for four years in Vietnam after being found guilty of spreading propaganda against the state.
lundi 12 octobre 2009
Vietnam novelist remains in detention
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le lundi 12 octobre 2009, 08:41 - News in english
HANOI — A Vietnamese writer remained in detention Monday, reportedly arrested for assault after trying to attend the trial of six dissidents, a relative said.
mercredi 23 septembre 2009
Some 9,000 illegal books seized in Vietnam
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le mercredi 23 septembre 2009, 08:50 - News in english
HANOI - Nearly 9,000 illegally printed books, along with hundreds of zincographs and transparent copies, were found and seized in Hanoi's Huu Duc Printing and Trading Limited Company last weekend by the city police and Market Watch Department, said the Vietnam news agency.
jeudi 27 août 2009
Most E-Book sharing sites violate copyright In Vietnam
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HANOI - Many books including the latest editions are available on the internet forums, without the permission of authors and publishers, according to the Vietnam news agency's report.
jeudi 29 janvier 2009
Vietnam's new wave of writers turns away from war
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le jeudi 29 janvier 2009, 09:05 - News in english
HANOI — As communist Vietnam has become more open to the outside world, and less focused on the bitter legacy of war, the country's authors too have moved on, offering readers stories about modern everyday life.
jeudi 22 janvier 2009
Dissident writer reveals Ho Chi Minh's tragic love secret
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le jeudi 22 janvier 2009, 21:03 - News in english
PARIS — An incendiary novel by Vietnam's most popular dissident writer takes on the mythical figure of Ho Chi Minh, claiming the "Father of the Nation" had a secret lover half his age - and that she was raped and murdered by his own Communist comrades.
lundi 17 novembre 2008
A bird that can't fly
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le lundi 17 novembre 2008, 17:11 - News in english
Literary critics say Vietnam's lack of literary leadership is due to outmoded worldviews and historical problems.