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Throughout this process I have rigorously investigated my diagnosis and treatment options and have battled with medical professionals and insurance companies to pursue a path of active improvement of my health (as opposed to simply taking Tamoxifen and crossing my fingers). This active involvement has not resulted in my feeling empowered but rather anxious and exhausted. We must be able to trust our physicians as most people do not the time, money, energy or education to co-direct their care. It is patently unreasonable and grossly unfair to expect the elderly, the frail, the poor and the chronically ill to successfully investigate and direct their treatment. Medical professional are paid tremendous sums of money and are given huge deference in our society and although there many are gifted, caring professionals, too many have abdicated their role as health care leaders and are simply technicians repeating the sales pitches of pharmaceutical and device manufacturers. We cannot release them of their responsibility to plan and provide evidence-based, carefully administered care. For too long, we have allowed the medical industry to put profits in front of patients; expecting patients to research and negotiate their own care is one more way that we further this injustice.
generally i love my primary dr, but three years ago, after almost two months of seeing her twice, seeing another dr in her practice twice (she was not there), seeing a second other dr in her practice once (she was not there), going to a walk-in clinic (she was not there) and being prescribed hydrocodone for the pain (which was the first thing that came even close to reaching the amt of pain i was having), and still getting no sustained relief from what i was describing as the most excruciating sinus headaches i had ever had in my life, i finally more or less demanded that she send me to an ENT specialist, who immediately did a CAT scan, said there was nothing wrong with my sinuses, and told me to get to a neurologist. i called my primary dr's office for a referral and was sent to my first neurologist.
i felt that my primary dr should have thought of sending me to an ENT specialist much earlier; i don't see why i should have had to decide all by myself that it was time for me to see an ENT specialist. it turned out to be migraines!
i almost quit going to my primary dr because she is gone so much, but my sister persuaded me to give her another chance because i've been with her for eight years, usually she is right on track, and it is such a hassle to change drs.
i loved my first neurologist too, but when i called to renew a prescription, was told for the first time that she was on medical leave, then was told repeatedly for a year that no one had any idea if/when she might be back, i got mad and went to my second neurologist, who was very highly recommended by every other dr i knew. it turned out she was pregnant; maybe that was info more personal than she wanted to give out, but i really felt like i had been given the run-around when no one seemed to be able to tell me anything, including if/when she might be back.
i loved my second neurologist too, but when i complained for at least two months about severe eye pain after i started taking topamax as a migraine preventive and asked if topamax could be the cause, he reassured me that it could not possibly be the topamax and said i should go to an ophthalmologist, who found nothing wrong with my eyes and said i should get back to my neurologist immediately, who said he didn't know what it was be but that it could not possibly be the topamax. i finally looked up the side effects of topamax myself and found that indeed it could be the topamax, quit the topamax on my own, and got instant relief.
after that, i felt i could no longer trust his expertise. i didn't necessarily expect him to know about this side effect, because it is a very rare one, but i thought after i complained repeatedly about the eye pain, he should have looked up the side effects just to make sure instead of sending me to the ophthalmologist, and then when i continued to complain about the eye pain, he really should have looked up the side effects. i don't see why i should have had to track down side-effect problems and decide what to do about them all by myself. i could have gone blind! so now i'm back with my first neurologist, but i made sure she knew why i had left the first time. she did apologize.
i guess i fall in love with my drs too easily. i want to trust them, and i don't think that's unreasonable. i'm willing to cut my primary dr some slack because no one can be expected to pick up on everything right away; however, i had been seeing my second neurologist for two years and was truly appalled -- and really frightened -- by what happened with him. he's a specialist, for goodness sake, and i hold them to a higher standard, justifiably or not.
usually i'm very patient (i'm not sure if that was an intended pun or not, it came out with no forethought) -- i don't expect my drs to know every single thing there is to know -- but i've gotten more aggressive as my aches and pains have gotten more serious!
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Lovely pictures. I'm amazed the colt held still. He'll be so easy to train. He's also growing huge!
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My attorney contacted me today; she and my WW's attorney have been discussing mediation.
Wait, what?
I am waiting with baited breath, since I told my attorney to go for everything basically. Or as she put it, "abbondad, with your permission I'd like to hit her hard."
I trust this^^^^^is still the direction. All the cards seem to be falling in your direction. Does your lawyers direction seem appropriate to you?
My attorney contacted me today; she and my WW's attorney have been discussing mediation. Who knows. Maybe we can get through this expeditiously with minimal trauma. (I know, famous last words...)
No. Mediation.
You keep giving her/the universe the benefit of the doubt and getting run over for it.
Minimal trauma for HER is why it would go to mediation. Please don't roll over here - you've come so far!!
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Really, I can not believe people are saying that you should really take it to court without trying to negotiate with lawyers before hand. Have any of you gone to trial? It sucks. I don't know a single person IRL that has other than me and I got screwed. Every other person was able to negotiate through lawyers.
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We have two children and a very uncomplicated financial situation (with very limited funds, I might add--another reason to avoid court/trial).
yes, we did too. But like NG, my ex refused to cooperate at all and refused to pay a cent in alimony despite me being a SAHM for 9 years. And while I got minimal alimony, I got screwed in many other ways. I would have been MUCH better off sticking with what we negotiated and no alimony.
And it is KILLING me that we are going to have to go to trial soon to get CS modified because the asshole judge didn't put child care in the CS calculation and that my ex took a pay cut so that it looked like he made $40K less than he actually does now.
Saw my attorney today. Apparently WW and her attorney have done zero since being served. No documents submitted. I am sure my WW is not the best client, as she does what she wants to.
That was Sept 3rd. Why is mediation the first thing brought up after AD's attempt failed so miserably? I just want AD to be sure that he *sticks to his guns* and operates from a position of strength.
T/j mp, yep, BTDT. A week after I filed, XW attempted to have me removed from the home ex partee(no witnesses, no trial) citing DV. Fortunately, my mom's BF worked within the system and I got a heads up. We filed for a trial and got one, otherwise I would have been removed from the home and de facto custody would have been hers. I *won* that case. She got slapped down pretty had for the attempt. End phase 1.
Phase 2. Trial (custody) scheduled for 8 months down the road "in hopes that you will find a way to resolve your dispute amicably". We were forced to live together for that period of time.
FWIW, during the time leading up to my filing, during one of our M/C sessions our therapist(licensed psychologist)suggested that my XW might have Borderline Personality Disorder and wanted to further diagnose her. That was the last time we saw him.
Anyway, XW had a child from a previous M and was *positive* that I had no chance at custody. She began openly dating. Men would show up at the house to take her out on dates. They were only a distraction though, her main AP, she went to on the weekends. We had established an in house EOW schedule. On her weekends with the kids, they *went* to grandma's house where she would leave the kids and go stay at her AP's house. Literally the guy next door to her Mom and Dad. Actually the farm next door so her parents didn't even know.
I had to bite my lip, allow the behavior and document and journal. Give her enough rope to hang herself. No more confrontations per lawyers advice. Let her prove that her priority was herself and not the children. Wasn't easy. I had a long uphill battle if I was to save my son. She was right, the courts are not predisposed to splitting kids, but I had to try. I wish I could have gotten DSD out also, but XW had so browbeaten her XH that he wound up testifying at trial on her behalf.
Her idea of mediation was *I only married him for the child support anyway*, so you can imagine how far we got. I even offered to take custody and she pay nothing, but was laughed at.
On to trial. Week long process, many, many witnesses. My journal and calendar were accepted into evidence after I was able to *prove* the accuracy of some of the events through corroborating testimony of unbiased witnesses. Witnesses included my mom, her mom, both personal physicians(medical records unsealed "in the best interests of the child"), my sons therapist(the court had already ruled I was ineligible to even ask for custody of DSD), our M/C, our priest, daycare provider, receptionist at the rec center, our bankers to go over the financials, both of our supervisors at work. That's all that come immediately to mind other than the private detective I had hired to follow her. We live in a no fault state. I didn't hire him to prove the affair, but to show what she was doing with the children when she had the time to be with them alone.
Deliberations took 2 months. Still living with her. In spite of all that had been revealed, no remorse. In fact, I had now ruined her life with AP by exposing her A to her parents. Oh was life sweet at home./sarc
Phase 3 I won. Primary custody of DS and child support from her. She appealed and got an emergency ruling to keep me in the home while the appeal went through. Odd, because I did not have any intention of moving. I was so beaten down by her that I was still fantasizing about R. Her treatment of me and the children worsened.
The court of appeals can only rule on the evidence provided at the district court, so this time it was only a 1 day hearing. Unfortunately the ruling took 4 months. More abuse. I won.
Phase 4 Emergency ruling keeping me in the home with DS, DSD and her while she appeals to the state supreme court. No hearing this time, just a 6 month wait for the ruling. I'm still hoping for that miracle. 3-2 split vote confirming the ruling. I *won* again.
50 thousand dollars, a completely devastated psyche and a son who lives with me. DSD was never allowed to come to our house for visitation. End t/j
Worth it? Oh hell yes. Would I wish it on anyone else? Never. Stay away from the courts. millionpieces is absolutely correct that having 1 person ruling on the fate of your life is devastating and can go any direction in spite of evidence. AD, go at her hard. Get the best you can with your lawyers advice. Be willing to compromise somewhat, but not for a whit's less than you deserve.
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*I have NO INTENTION of this going to court for a judge to decide.*
While I was one fingering my lengthy diatribe. GOOD, just don't settle for less than you deserve. Let your lawyer arrive at a "negotiated" settlement if at all possible!
[This message edited by 5454real at 11:35 AM, September 6th (Friday)]
Get the best you can with your lawyers advice. Be willing to compromise somewhat, but not for a whit's less than you deserve.
THIS is my intention.
BTW, her "weekend" with the kids bullshit has started once again. Texted me that she WILL pick them up tonight and that I WILL pick them up from her place Monday morning and take them to school.
So, a complete repeat of last week. My text back was the same: No. If you have the kids Friday til Monday, that includes YOU taking your CHILDREN to SCHOOL. Otherwise I am glad to take the kids Sunday night and get them to school Monday morning.
No response.
I hope she brings them home Sunday, and be ready to NOT allow her into the house, and also tell her she needs to figure out something else to do with them, than bringing them back home, so they can play with the neighbors, while she noses around YOUR home.
((((and strength))))
and also tell her she needs to figure out something else to do with them, than bringing them back home, so they can play with the neighbors, while she noses around YOUR home.
TN, I have to disagree. By doing so, she is proving the better environment is at AD's. I agree that the nosing around the house bit has to go, but she continues to prove AD is giving the children a better home.
A custody battle is damned ugly.
AD, my story was not meant to scare you. It's a little extreme as these things go, I'll admit. Just to prepare you for what could be. Better to know and all that.
Eyes on the *prize*.
It all sucks.
AD, just curious. Since you are documenting, where/what is the current split of time. It seems to satisfy you and she is struggling to make it. The reason I'm asking is that the court would be heavily inclined to let the existing visitation stand. It's what the kids are used to.
Well, therein lies the problem: there IS no set schedule. Her job takes her away when she has too. Averaged over the last month I've had them probably 60-70% of the time. (Over the last year it's been around the same.)
It only satisfies me insofar as I have the kids a great deal of the time. Yes, she is struggling to get even close to 50% due to her job, but even if she is given 50% she won't sustain it. She has proven this--even when she did not have such an unpredictable job.
So what will happen if she IS given 50%:
1) she will try to sustain it with her current job, she won't, and I will go to court to adjust, or 2) she will quit her job, and still won't be able to reliably have them 50%, and I will go to court to adjust.
She just can't be a "real" single mom. She wanted to be a single "girl." With me on the side for husband duties.
In any case, yes, the kids are used to being with me during the school week and her on the weekends. Even before the affair, she worked till night and I had had them from 2:00 after school. So she came home and put them to bed.
My guess is she's gotten word from her attorney about my filed motion for exclusive rights to the home, a set co parenting schedule, temporary spousal and CS, a (truthful) claim that she becomes upset easily and can't handle the kids, AND that the kids may not meet her AP as she has exposed our son to him via the nude pic.
Oy vey. Shit's gonna hit the fan within three days, I predict. I just don't know what it will be. I am staying away from her.
DS called in hysterics last night from her place, saying something about not wanting any more medicine. I spoke to wife and asked her to explain what he was talking about and why he was so upset. She said "I'll handle it" and hung up.
I had my suspicions and have now confirmed: she has gone behind my back and had a prescription filled for Celexa, an anti-depressant/anti-anxiety med. No consulting with me.
She claims that she has not yet started him on it. I tried explaining to her on the phone just now that such a unilateral decision regarding administration of new serious medication to our child is unacceptable and intolerable. She hung up on me.
I am very distressed at this and have emailed my attorney.
[This message edited by Abbondad at 8:24 AM, September 7th (Saturday)]
Curious. And very underhanded.
She (the doctor) recommended to me that my son should not begin a new med at this time.
I immediately informed my wife of this. My wife apparently called the doctor after and requested that my son should in fact be put on a new med.
So yes, very underhanded.
WW claims that she has not yet begun administration. But I assume she will, regardless of my feelings about it after I call the doctor.
Follow up. Send a text telling her that you do not approve of the administration of this medication at this time. You were not consulted and have not had a chance to discuss with your sons doctor the necessity of this prescription as your son has not exhibited any signs of depression or anxiety while in YOUR care at a level to necessitate a prescription.
Mrs AD. As our child XXX is already in therapy and his counselor has not indicated the need for an antidepressant/anxiety medication, I find it odd that you would feel the need to further medicate him while he is in your care. Since I was not consulted prior to the appointment where he was prescribed this medication, may I please have the name of the consulting physician? I would also request the date when my son was prescribed this medication without my knowledge or approval. Please do not begin to administer this medication prior to my being able to consult with the aforementioned physician. I would like his opinion first and have a concern about possible negative side effects and a possible adverse reaction. As you know he is already taking XXXXXX and there could be an interaction with serious consequences. Further, I request that you cease and desist making unilateral decisions regarding the care of our children. Thank you. cc AD's lawyer
As our child XXX is already in therapy and his counselor has not indicated the need for an antidepressant/anxiety medication, I find it odd that you would feel the need to further medicate him while he is in your care. Since I was not consulted prior to the appointment where he was prescribed this medication, may I please have the name of the consulting physician? I would also request the date when my son was prescribed this medication without my knowledge or approval.
Please do not begin to administer this medication prior to my being able to consult with the aforementioned physician. I would like his opinion first and have a concern about possible negative side effects and a possible adverse reaction. As you know he is already taking XXXXXX and there could be an interaction with serious consequences.
Further, I request that you cease and desist making unilateral decisions regarding the care of our children.
Thank you.
cc AD's lawyer
If at all possible, contact your lawyer now. She will have a much better idea of how to handle this.
Your STBXWW actions are very concerning. No way a competent lawyer for her would recommend doing this unless they are trying to *show* that she is capable of doing this.
It's very familiar to me AD. Her actions are very similar to my xw.


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Hi. This is the only thread I have been able to find that speaks to this problem—we are having multiple cases of this problem in our ediorial department. We are using 5.5. I don't know enough about the code to fix this in TextEdit. My main concern is not losing all of the editing done to the files. Any ideas?
What is happening is that InCopy is appending an entire second copy of the document after the document close tag (</Document>).
Here is how to fix this issue:
I search for the header instead of the </Document> tag because it is always at the top of the document (convienient) AND sometimes we get corruption that is a little different. Sometimes the error is "Not Well Formed." The procedure to fix is the same except the second header doesn't start after the </Document> tag, but just randomly in the middle of the file. Then I have to try to figure out where the junk text is and figure out where it ends. Much trickier, but doable. And much better than rebuiling…
This was my first experience with the error message: "Junk After Document Element"
Last night my editor made substantial edits, including copy/pasting in InCopy, to a multi-page Table list with Paragraph and Character styles. This morning when attempting to update the link in InDesign, nothing would happen, and I got the above error message.
Working in CS5 on a MAC workflow through a server. 10.6.8 on both desktops.
Kevin you are a lifesaver. Just as you said, the code duplicated in the .icml file. Thanks for walking me through the fix on the phone.
Thanks, Kevin. This is helpful. I would like to see Adobe address this bug in the application. We were on the phone with tech support for quite a while yesterday discussing the problem. Today we are sending them copies of the corrupted files to examen. I hope this leads to some fixes, but who know.
Have any of you that have posted on this thread reported your problems directly with Adobe Tech Support? We have opened several case files with them in the past two minths, and they have not followed up. Have any of you had success in getting Adobe to recogize there is a flaw in the software that needs to addressed?
This is Tyler, and I work with Jim. We know how to fix the files when they are damaged, but I am wondering if someone has heard from Adobe as to a solution, fix, etc to prevent this further corruption? We confirmed the icml corruption is also an issue with InDesign and InCopy CS6 version 8 as well.
If anyone hears from Adobe with a solution, let us know.
Unfortunately, we have not gotten anywhere with Adobe. We were promised calls back—no one called. In fact, we had someone promise to call within 30 minutes on Friday—no one has yet called back. They said our case was forwarded to a Senior engineer, and they would be in touch—again, no one has ever called us back. We have forwarded them damaged files per their request—still no one has ever responded. Each time we call back to check in, they want to start over the process as if we have never contacted them (putting us through the same rigamarole as before: uninstalling, reinstalling, etc. If this continues, we may ask for our money back or put in an appeal with our credit card company to have the charges reversed. This has been unacceptable and apparently Adobe is unable/unwilling to be held accountable for their software.
We would love to be able to continue our workflow with inDesign and Incopy, so if anyone knows how to get ahold of someone in Adobe who can actually help, or hears of a long-term preventative fix, let us know. Otherwise, we may have to scrap InCopy as defective software and go with something else.
Has anyone by chance encountered a preventative solution to this? If so, please post to the board.
We are still experiencing the problem on a regular basis, and Adobe has not come up with a long-term fix.
For now, we have switched our editors over to making edits in InDesign since InCopy has been so unreliable.
if you are still encountering the issue, keep submitting files and details to Adobe.
We are running ID and IC 7.5.3, and it has not resolved the issue. We also tried CS 6, and we were able to cause corruption in the icml files with this version as well (locally and when using files on the server)
Angie, can you tell us a little more by what you mean, "We found that some issues were caused by one or the other shutting down before the file transmission to the server was complete." Can you be little more specific? What did you do as a workaround? This might be helpful to us.
Right now, we have switched all of our editors to making edits in ID instead of InCopy. We have been sending corrupt files to Adobe, but there still has not been any resolution.
An outside typesetter is working on an indesign file, creating the icml and icma files, and uploading them to the server.
Some of our files are large and require a great deal of bandwidth to up- and download.
If he prematurely interrupts the file transfer for some reason (shuts the laptop lid, quits indd, temporarily loses connection with the server) then the transmitted file is truncated and the error occurs.
This has happened twice for different reasons. A hard drive was bad. Another time the connection timed out.
To work around this we have been sending large assignments via file transfer applications rather than directly uploading to the server.
This seems to (knock wood) have helped.
We have ruled out this is the issue for us as both local users (over stable Gigabit Ethernet connections) and remote users (over stable Internet connections) have experienced corruption. Our files are on the smaller side. Also, we have experienced icml corruption when working on the files locally as well (with the server disconnected and removed from the equation), so we think it is an InCopy issue.
Wish I had an answer for you Tyler, but I don't, especially if you're having the issue with local files (and thus have ruled out a wonky network or server or permissions).
I'm jumping in to say that I have personally taught and supported hundreds of companies of all sizes using InCopy/InDesign workflow (which equates to probably 1K users) all using the server/folder method and have only run into that sort of document corruption ("not well formed") at two clients, back in CS2 days. I don't remember the cause but the fix was reinstalling the software.
95% (at least?) of all my IC clients these days are well past CS2 of course and I simply don't hear of that anymore. I'm not denying your struggle with it, just jumping in to "defend" InCopy a bit. What you and A.Loko dealt with is VERY unusual, in my experience. (and I'm glad you found the problem A_Loko!) ... That's all.
A few months back -- maybe last year? -- someone posted here about another problem they ran into, where editors save changes but the designers don't see updates, something like that. Equally knotty and frustrating, and a lot of user jumped in w/suggestions, the thread had over 50 replies I think. In the end, the problem turned out to be that when the designers exported multiple stories to InCopy from the layout (and InDesign automatically assigned the stories filenames by pulling the first couple words from each story as usual), in some of the stories, the first word or two had special characters like diacritics, and InDesign included those (stupidly) in the filename. It was no problem on the Mac side, but on the PC server it ignored those characters since they weren't legal, and thus confusion abounded. We didn't figure this out till the user posted screenshots of the Links panel and the Assignments panel.
So I'm wondering ... assuming you are fully updated software wise, and the network is healthy (you don't run into corruption working over the network with "normal" ID files or Word docs etc.), if maybe the issue has to do with fonts (corrupt/old font?) or corruption in the content (old content, Saved As repeatedly over the years?) or something glitchy in the Word docs (symbol/faux character/formulas?) that you're importing into the stories, or a conflicting plug-in etc.?
I appreciate your insight AM. However, there are more than just a customer
or two struggling with this. Before I posted the procedure to "fix" these
files. I was contacted privately several times to help others that have
(still) never posted here. We have had old and new computers with multiple
OS versions, multiple network segments with various network equipment
(Cisco/ Dell), multiple users, multiple dot releases of InDesign/ InCopy
and have had this issue across all of those variables. The corruption
manifests with several different error messages ("not well formed", "junk
after document element", etc…) but the problem with the files is
essentially the same–errors in writing the xml.
It certainly LOOKS like InCopy has an issue and Adobe is unresponsive.
Adobe is now confirming this is indeed a bug. If there are any users that are still experiencing this issue, please email me offline at tyler - a t - wipfandstock - d o t - c o m, and I will give you additional details. I highly recommend contacting Adobe tech support to initiate a tech support case and make sure they escalate it to Tier 2.
In the meantime, we are trying to switch our editors over to using InDesign to make the necessary edits to our typesetters files (yes, it is way overkill as a glorified text editor but it works without corrupting the files!)


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While I was studying abroad in Mexico, last semester I had the opportunity to explore Mexican Culture through photography. At first my project focused mainly on the education system in Mexico, but as I spent more and more time in Mexico I felt that it was also important to explore everyday Mexican life and culture. Although I spent six years of my childhood living in Mexico, there was a lot that I did not expect to learn while I was there. These changes in my perspective also factored into the way that I viewed and photographed Mexico. Not only did I find myself taking pictures of the culture and society, but I also feel that I photographed different things that I identified with as a child but now viewed differently.
In Mexico, I was studying at Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado De Puebla and took classes on Mexican Culture, Mexican Literature, and a course on the Sociology of Education (using Mexico as a Case Study), all while doing a service learning course where I would go to a school to teach English twice a week. As I took these courses I realized that there was a lot more that I needed to explore in my photography. There was no way that I could just photograph the children I taught without photographing the religious influences or without giving a historical context. My classes about Mexican Culture and Mexican Literature gave me a better understanding of these things and made me think my subjects in a greater context.
These classes also introduced me to other Mexican photographers, which I was able to study to draw inspiration for my own photography. Being so close to Mexico City, I was able to go to various Art Museums and see these photographs up close. I was able to study these artists and see how they portrayed Mexican culture and how they use the people and traditions to convey their message. I mainly studied Manuel Álverez Bravo because his works look at the different class struggles in the 1920s through the 1990s. Through this time a lot of different class and political changes occurred in Mexico and he was able to show how those changes transformed the people.
Being in Central Mexico, Puebla, it was very easy to travel throughout the country and see how each region has developed its own culture. It was interesting being able to photograph all of these differences because it shows the diversity in the cultures and traditions. As I shot I felt that it was important to include these to show that it is not what people think it is.
Coming back to SLU, I began to develop the 30 rolls of film that I shot and will hopefully be finished developing by Mid October so that I can begin printing and choosing images by November. This project has been approved to be part of my SYE Honors Project by the Global Studies Department, where I will continue to study Mexican Identity through a political and economic lens.


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Safety Tips: SleddingSledding with friends and family members has been a winter ritual for generations. Anywhere there's snow and a hillside, you can find people sledding. You probably went sledding as a kid, and you'll want to share this fun activity with your kids. But sledding can also cause injuries, some of them pretty serious. To keep your kids safe while sledding, make sure they follow these safety tips. Why Sledding Safety Is ImportantThough it may seem like harmless fun, sledding injuries send tens of thousands of kids to hospital emergency rooms each year. More than half of all sledding injuries are head injuries, which can be very serious and even deadly. Statistics also show that sledders are more likely to be injured in collisions than skiers or snowboarders. Choose the Right Sledding HillWhen hills get coated with snow, they may all look like great locations for sledding, but be very careful when choosing a location for your kids to sled. Not all hills are safe. Here are a few guidelines to follow when it comes to picking the right spot to sled:
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Should the role of college change? Holden Thorp, chancellor of the University of North Carolina, thinks so. That's why he's dedicated to transforming his school into a laboratory for entrepreneurs.
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA — At the age of 17, Holden Thorp placed fifth in a nationally televised Rubik's cube competition on the ABC show That's Incredible!
At 24, he received a doctorate in chemistry from the California
Institute of Technology after studying for three years instead of five.
And at 43, he was named chancellor of the University of North Carolina, becoming one of the country's youngest university presidents.
Thorp is trying to turn this 29,000-student public university into an
engine of economic innovation. A business owner who has twice launched
$25 million pharmaceutical startups, Thorp has streamlined the process
for faculty members to turn their discoveries into private companies. He
has made "entrepreneurship" a minor for all undergraduate students.
And Thorp has co-written a book, Engines of Innovation: The Entrepreneurial University in the 21st Century,
with the university's "entrepreneur in residence" — a former venture
capital banker. It calls for the top 125 U.S. research universities to
revitalize the American economy.
"The jobs of the near and distant future," he told me, "are going to be for those who create them for themselves."
As high-paying jobs have flowed overseas, American universities are
being increasingly seen as economic engines for states, regions and the
country as a whole. Across the U.S., communities with universities and
colleges fared better economically during the recession than those
without, according to the Wall Street Journal.
And as other employers have disappeared, universities and colleges are
increasingly considered sources of economic — as well as intellectual
Here in Chapel Hill, UNC spends $2.4 billion a year and employs
12,000 faculty and staff. Together with nearby Duke and North Carolina
State, UNC completes "The Research Triangle," a hub of universities,
research parks and 30,000 small businesses that have helped make
Raleigh-Durham the fastest-growing metropolitan area in the United States, increasing in population by 40 percent between 2000 and 2009. One business magazine predicted Raleigh-Durham will be the country's fastest-growing metropolitan area through 2025.
Beneath the positive regional trend runs a grim truth. Thorp's
efforts to reimagine UNC are being driven by staggering funding cuts.
Since 2008, UNC has lost $230 million in state aid, cut $50 million in
costs, increased class size and frozen faculty pay. One reason for
making it easier for professors to start businesses is to slow the
number of faculty leaving UNC, often for better-paying private
universities with multibillion-dollar endowments. As in other parts of
American society, academia is splitting into the flourishing haves and
the struggling have-nots.
Most troubling of all, UNC, long a model of affordability and
excellence, has sharply increased tuition over the last decade. Since
2000, tuition and fees have risen by 150 percent for students across
North Carolina's university system. And despite protests from students,
parents and fomer trustees, UNC's board is expected to approve
another tuition increase tomorrow. The situation is not unusual. Across
the country, the state university funding model is collapsing.
Thorp argues that UNC and other state universities play a vital role
in preserving the American middle class. For the 11th consecutive year,
Kiplinger's recently ranked
UNC as the best-value public university in the United States. Its
$7,009-a-year in-state tuition is the second lowest of leading state
universities. Only 35 percent of its students take student loans. And
the average post-graduation student debt burden is $15,500. UNC is an
engine of social mobility, Thorp argues, that helps prevent the middle
class from splitting.
"You stop it through access to education," he said. "We've got the best financial aid profile in America."
After providing billions of dollars in research grants to
universities, members of Congress, foundations and taxpayers are
demanding that academics do more to address real-world problems.
Economists argue that the United States must combine its two strongest
remaining economic assets — the world's best research universities and
venture capital system — to reinvent the American economy.
"The bill has come due," said Buck Goldstein, Thorp's co-author and
the UNC's "entrepreneur in residence." "All of the stakeholders are
demanding more impact." (A business Goldstein founded was later
purchased by Thomson, the parent company of Reuters.)
Some academics deride the approach. They say that encouraging
professors to create "spin-off" companies is the latest example of a
gluttonous private sector devouring public resources. Business pursuits
divert resources from pure scientific research, graduate students are
used to help professors start businesses and researchers distort studies
involving subjects where they have a financial interest.
Thorp and Goldstein insist they are not backing the commercialization
of academia. Their definition of entrepreneurship is a broad one, they
say, that includes social entrepreneurship.
"It's not Donald Trump," Goldstein said.
Former Harvard University President Derek Bok, whose book Universities in the Marketplace: the Commercialization of Higher Education,
looked at the phenomenon, said those abuses have so far occurred only
on a small scale. He called for strict vigilance of faculty business
ventures — but also for a lowering of expectations. Bok cautioned that
universities are not "some kind of magic bullet that is going to do a
whole lot for America's competitive position" in the world economy.
Private companies started by professors and researchers fail at the
same rate as other firms, according to Bok. Universities receive
royalties for intellectual property developed by their staff, but aside
from MIT and Stanford, the payments total only a few million dollars a
year. Thorp's first $25 million startup, in fact, went out of business.
A handful of academic blockbusters do exist. The top earner is an
anti-AIDS drug developed by professors at Emory University. Second is
Gatorade, a drink developed by professors at the University of Florida
to hydrate its football players.
Thorp cited UNC chemistry professor Joe DeSimone as a best-case
scenario. Last year, a private company DeSimone founded with the help of
his university research received a $10 million investment from the Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation. The funding will help the company, Liquidia Technologies,
develop new vaccines for malaria and other diseases. The startup also
works with Procter Gamble and other multinationals.
A visit to the company's gleaming, new high-tech offices provides a
glimpse of the potential of UNC's model. Ben Maynor, a 37-year-old North
Carolina native with a Harvard undergraduate degree and a doctorate
from Duke in chemistry, said he assumed he would have to move to Boston
or Silicon Valley to find work. Instead, Liquidia allowed him to stay
home. The company employs 50 people and hopes to expand in North
Carolina, not overseas.
"We have a new social contract with society," said DeSimone,
referring to the federal research grants universities receive. "Those
dollars are precious. We've got to funnel them into solving some of the
world's biggest problems."
Thorp is right. Universities must change. We can no longer afford to
have our greatest thinkers enjoy the "life of the mind" in isolation.
The question is whether their gifts can meet the needs of a beleaguered
This article also appeared on Reuters.com, an Atlantic partner site.
Article source: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/02/the-jobs-university-how-to-turn-our-schools-into-engines-of-innovation/252893/


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W czasie suszy szosa sucha.
A way is dry when there's drought.
Król Karol kupił Królowej Karolinie korale koloru koralowego.
King Karl bought Queen Caroline coral-colored bead.
Stół z powyłamywanymi nogami.
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Hiding in seams of a coat, three lice entered in a marching formation
Co wydrze wydrę wydrze? Wydrę wydrze wydrze wydra.
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Nie pieprz Pietrze wieprza pieprzem, bo przepieprzysz wieprza pieprzem.
Peter, don't pepper the boar because you might over-pepper it.
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Kim Kardashian bodysurfs with The Pussycat Dolls' founder Robin Antin, who is 50, on the beach during Kourtney's birthday week in Mexico! The girls even styled up little Mason Disick in a hat that matched his mommy's, with an orange ribbon on it that matched his aunt Kim's swimsuit. Kim wore a bright orange bikini and walked on the beach with her nephew Mason and pregnant sister. The family was in Mexico to celebrate Kourtney's birthday. Kim looked very happy to be in the water.
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Robert Moffit age 60, and Margaret age 58 of Leesburg Florida were killed in a crash Tuesday night four miles west of Buffalo. What follows is the updated information from the Wyoming Highway Patrol:
The crash occured 4 miles west of Buffalo in Johnson County. Moffitt's tractor trailer combination was pulling a flatbed trailer loaded with bags of bentonite. As Moffitt descended down a long steep grade on Powder River Pass his tractor trailer brakes overheated as he was in to high of a gear for the steep grade. This resulted in a loss of braking. For reasons unknown, Moffitt failed to use the primary runaway truck ramp and the secondary runaway truck ramp, both of which are marked and signed for truckers to use in just this situation.
After passing the runaway truck ramps Moffitt attempted to negotiate a left hand curve in the roadway near the bottom of the pass, however was traveling at too fast a speed and the tractor trailer combination rolled onto it's right side. The combination then went through the guardrail where it dropped 150 feet coming to rest in Mosier Gulch. Due to the severity of the crash no vehicle information is available at this time.


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Demi Lovato Dishes on Cutting, Depression, Britney Spears
by Hilton Hater at .Demi Lovato is featured on the cover of the latest Self, delving into issues both personal and professional with the magazine in one of the singer's more revealing interviews.
Why did she cut herself back in the day? "There were times I felt so anxious, almost like I was crawling out of my skin – that if I didn't do something physical to match the way I felt inside, I would explode… I cut myself to take my mind off that. I just didn't care what happened. I had no fear."
How is she recovering? "I make time for myself and meditate. I've spent the past two years getting over an eating disorder and issues like self-harming and bipolar disorder. I have to work on this stuff every day. I'm reminded of that whenever I eat or feel down."
What is her new perception of beauty? "I used to feel my most beautiful when I was on the red carpet or at events or something where I'm all dolled up. Now I feel like the moment when I feel most beautiful is when I'm able to hang out with a guy without my makeup on or lay on the beach with no makeup on and not even worrying about what my hair or what I look like before I fall asleep."
How does she feel about her fellow X-Factor judges? "Britney is such a sweet girl! We've gone through a lot of the same things, so we have a connection. Simon's so funny and so cool, and LA - he's really awesome."
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I so look up too Demi... she has been through so much... I can relate too her so well... because of the fact that I have had depression for a long period of time.. and I'm gaining more understanding of it.. I wanna help people who have it and help provent it... I am creating a documentry about this scary topic... too help people understand it... Demi gives me more inspiration to compleat this project!
demi is my inspiration i feel good,every morning when i,wake up cuz i immedialty think of her. she is an inspiration for me, and m so proud to have a role model like her! she get through soo much things and she is just so strong so haterz, u suck, lola u r so stupid u,should delete ur comment cuz ur mean and useless. alissandra what u say is so,beautiful, u r a true lovatic , never forget u r beautiful, no matter what mean people can say. iv never saw,ur face but who cared, what u say,prove that u r someone so,beautiful and so,nice! take care, always be proud to be who u r, always b proud to be a lovatic!!!!!!!
@lola- it's the shame you spout out that irrepairably damages people. Demi's very brave & strongt & inspirational many. Because I know the shame you spout is yours & no one else's I hope you get help so you stop harming yourself & others. Don't put it on others. @alissandra & @shay - keep up the great work, you've every reason to be proud!
i did this too i cut my self cause of bullying and weight issue and make up . i know it sounds harmful. but you guys don't know what its like to be bulled cause you guys never been .i got threw it by listening to Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, demi lovato, beyonce Knowles, Jill Scott, and so much more . i realize its the inner beauty that counts not whats on your face , cause that's only a mask the real you is from the heart. don't give up on someone who says you cant do this or that cause you can make a difference if you only knew how powerful you become . its called life lessons deal with it and move on .
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The old world charm is evident in this Cottage Desk with Hutch and chair. Finished in black sand through wood, the desk features three side storage drawers with wood pulls, a pull out shelf for computer keyboards, and ample work space. The hutch boasts a large area for your computer, books, treasures, or knick-knacks. The chair features a neutral fabric seat and horizontal slat back design. |
Manufacturer Information
Home Elegance
Home Elegance is one of the most successful producers of home furnishings. Their offerings include bedroom sets, beds, dressers, armoires, nightstands, daybeds, and accent furniture in traditional and contemporary designs.