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Executive Summary Epidemiology Motor vehicles are responsible for one of every five deaths among children 1–14 years of age in the United States, and pedestrian injuries account for one fourth of them.1 Compared with occupant injuries, pedestrian injuries are more severe, with a fivefold higher likelihood of death among those injured.2 In 1998, 726 child pedestrians were killed, and at least 30 000 children were nonfatally injured in traffic, which excludes those struck while in driveways, parking lots, or other non-traffic areas. Traumatic brain injury accounts for more than half the fatalities.1 The child pedestrian death rate has declined during the past several decades in the United States. This may be related more to reduced exposure than to a safer environment or better pedestrian skills.3 Since walking is a major form of exercise for children, less walking may be partly responsible for the epidemic of obesity among American children. Much research has been conducted concerning risk factors for child pedestrian injury. Overall, children are more likely to be struck in an urban area on a residential street in the late afternoon or early evening.4 Walking at night or while drunk are risk factors for adult, but not child, pedestrians. Children put themselves at risk during midblock dart-outs, dashes across intersections,5 and while alighting from buses. How and where a child is struck greatly depends on the child's gender and age.6 Boys are more likely than girls to be injured, a matter that may be due more to differences in exposure to traffic than to any intrinsic factor.7 Age is amajor determinant, since it largely determines a child's degree of mobility and independence. Accordingly, solutions are also age dependent. For example, infants (less than 1 year old) are considered pedestrians when they are carried in arms or transported in a stroller, so that their risk is closely related to that of the caregiver, the locus of control. Toddlers (ages 1–2 years) sustain the highest overall number of pedestrian injuries. Their small size and limited traffic experience appear to be factors. Also, they are the most likely group to be injured in a non-traffic location, especially during driveway backovers. However, fatality statistics that are traffic based may under-report these events by as much as 50% in this age group, since driveways and parking lots are not classified as traffic areas.8 Preschool age children (ages 3–4 years) and younger elementary schoolchildren (ages 5–9 years) are most often struck as they enter the roadway at midblock, particularly if cars parked along the side of the road shield them from the view of drivers. According to some, they are at higher risk because their knowledge and key perceptual skills concerning traffic are not yet fully developed.9, 10 As a child's age increases, he becomes more mobile, has less supervision, and travels further from home independently. Play may divert his focus from traffic. As children mature into preadolescents and young adolescents (ages 10–14 years), they acquire more experience in traffic. A disproportionately greater number of such youth are injured on relatively busy streets, further from home.11 Some key risk factors are known. Parents of elementary schoolchildren often have unrealistic expectations of the street crossing ability of their children.12 Other risk factors include the time when school ends, the proximity of school to home, family income, highest parental educational level achieved, employment status, crowding, ethnicity, family stress, and the child's road environment. Among these, high traffic volume, lower income, and younger age are most strongly related to child pedestrian injury.13 Driver based risk factors include inattention, speed, risky driving habits, and the use of alcohol and illegal drugs.14–16 However, because the focus of this conference was on child pedestrian behaviors and the environment, rather than driver related behaviors, these aspects were not explored in detail. Surveillance systems
that are crash based differ notably
from those that are injury based, particularly with
respect to case ascertainment and the environmental
circumstances of a crash. Crash based
surveillance systems of fatal and non-fatal injuries
are reported to the United States Department of
Transportation by the Fatal Analysis Reporting
System and the General Estimates System,
respectively. Unfortunately, neither of these
two datasets captures children killed in non-traffic
areas, such as driveways and parking lots,which
account for many such injuries among toddlers
and preschoolers. On the other hand, injury
based surveillance systems (such as the vital
statistics system of the National Center for Health
Statistics and the National Electronic Injury
Surveillance System) do tally the number of
children killed or injured in both non-traffic as well
as traffic areas. However, these systems do not
capture many details concerning the cause or nature
of the crash event. No surveillance system currently
reports enough details of the crash or environment
to suggest road engineering improvements at
crash sites. Surveillance information is
sorely needed that describes for each child
injured the precise location and circumstances of
the crash; the volume, complexity, speed,
or density of traffic at the time, and the crossing distance
attempted. Such information could substantially influence
decisions concerning local road improvements and traffic
control measures. Sociological Factors A social paradigm exists in which pedestrian injuries result from social factors interacting together in a dangerous environment. The role of sociology is to define these social risk factors related to the family and peer groups at day care centers and schools. The family is the primary social group, through which the child is first introduced to social mores, norms, and conventions. It helps the child develop necessary coping skills, including safety. Several key factors define the family. These include socioeconomic status, a family based characteristic determined in large part by the parents' income and the highest educational level attained. Family income often determines the neighborhood of residence, type of housing unit, degree of dependence on walking for transportation, existence of fenced-in yards, characteristics of apartment complex play areas and its internal roads, and amount of supervision available to the child during play. Highest level of education achieved by a parent, perhaps at least as important as income, is a primary determinant of life style,which in turn determines many health related behaviors of the family. Some argue that better educated families, even more so than high income families, view the occurrence of injuries in a less fatalistic manner, and may more readily adopt positive safety practices. Race/ethnicity also may be important, even if only as a proxy for household income, since white children have lower rates of pedestrian injury than children of minority groups. Many personal characteristics may have a social, rather than a biologic, basis for influencing the risk of pedestrian injury. Rather than being biologically predisposed to injury, boys may have a higher risk because they are given messages that they don't need to be as careful as girls, or because they are supervised less closely. This is important, because issues of social construction are theoretically amenable to educational and social change, whereas biologic differences are immutable. Even so, many social factors, especially income and educational level, do not change quickly. Direct approaches to enhance social cohesion in families or reduce stress are not easily available nor readily tolerated by families. Attempts to identify high risk behavior groups may be difficult, since behavioral problems among children may not be significantly associated with the occurrence of pedestrian injuries.17 18 Useful solutions originate in several realms, including public health, medicine, education, environmental planning and engineering, and regulation. The complexity of the pedestrian injury problem and themultitude of interactions among social and other factors suggest that prevention measures that emphasize parent education and supervision alone may be insufficient. It is unrealistic to expect a single working parent to walk her child to school every day. Instead, improving roadway and neighborhood design, modifying driver behavior, and instituting crossing guards at busy intersections should be considered. Both small and large scale changes are needed. The former includes educating and modifying school policies; the latter includes redesigning our cities to make them safer for pedestrians. Such major changes will require that many specialists in the fields of traffic safety, education, and public health work together effectively with government and community groups. From an anthropologist's perspective, walking was an important evolutionary step in the development of the species. It occurred over millions of years, unlike man's adaptation to the dangers of motorized vehicles, which has occurred over the past century. An anthropologic or social approach considers the varying parental expectations of boys and girls, methods of child supervision across socioeconomic classes, and ways that communities could support busy families whose children are relatively less well supervised. Extending this further, one might consider that roadways and neighborhoods do not exclusively belong to adults or drivers, but also to the children who live there. Adopting this approach would shift the focus from the child and parent to the community environment. Instead of protecting children by restricting the type of range of children's physical activities, some believe that we should remodel our communities to make them more conducive for children to walk. Biopsychosocial attributes of the child, including gross motor, cognitive, perceptual, emotional, judgmental, and social skills, independently affect his or her ability to respond effectively to traffic. Physical attributes, including height, weight, and agility, affect the child's ability to see traffic and the driver's ability to see the child.19 These consequently affect the relative degree of safety invoked by child strategies of crossing the road. An individual's experience in traffic of a certain intensity affects his or her later decisions in a similar environment. Demographic characteristics of the child are the most consistent and powerful predictors of pedestrian injury. These include age, sex, race/ethnicity, social status, and community of residence.20 The latter affects pedestrian risk by influencing the degree of neighborhood crowding, availability of parking and traffic controls, and degree of traffic law enforcement. Individual behaviors are also shaped by the child's emotional state at the time, in turn predicated on events of the immediate past (for example, a recent argument or fight), the anticipated situation in the immediate future, feelings towards any peers or supervisor walking alongside, and attitude towards the specific traffic situation at hand. After controlling for differences in demographic variables, some physical, personality and behavioral traits are not associated with increased risk. Exceptional physical agility appears to increase risk, while physical limitations reduce it.21 Cognitive developmental level determines the child's ability to focus attention, interpret traffic signs, and remember simple rules. Perceptual development determines the child's ability to locate sounds, judge the speed of an oncoming car, and attend to objects in peripheral visual fields. Counterintuitively, personality and behavioral traits, including hyperactivity and impulsivity, do not appear to influence pedestrian injury risk, yet other individual level factors powerfully affect risk, especially age and developmental level.17 21 22 Emotional instability also appears to be a causal factor in some cases. Individual factors of the adult driver may influence risk, including the degree to which an adult driver understands normal child development, pertinent physical attributes of the driver (especially peripheral vision and response times), personality and habitual behavior patterns, past experience with child pedestrians in traffic, and ability to pay sufficient attention to children and traffic. Parents often do not accurately know their child's abilities and vulnerabilities in traffic. The overall style of adult supervision affects the risk of pedestrian injury.23 24 We do not sufficiently understand how well children at each developmental level can learn about traffic safety. While it is sensible and potentially important to tailor safety messages to a child's developmental level, does the resulting training reliably limit injury risk? Should we expect all children of a defined age range to respond in the same way to preventive measures? Could a program broadly aimed at teaching or training an entire population make traffic more risky for some children, such as those with severe impulsive disorders? Do children with accentuated levels of an individual factor, or the presence of several factors, have the same benefit (or detriment) from a given program? Theoretically, a program could put a child at increased risk during street crossing if he becomes less supervised than before. And, if fewer children are injured now because they are walking less than in past decades, what will happen to injury rates if their mode of transportation shifts to favor walking? What is the proper role of the adult in supervising the child pedestrian? What are the key determinants of supervision, what patterns of supervising exist, and how these can be altered to increase pedestrian safety? Strategies need to be developed to teach adults the normal expected capabilities and vulnerabilities of children in different demographic groups. Norms for child conduct and adult supervision in different traffic environments need to be prescribed. Countermeasures concerning the environment or better supervision have strong merit. Programs need to target subgroups at greatest risk, to enhance program efficiency and minimize undesirable effects on other groups. Special individual factors (for example, short stature) need to be considered. Even so, strategies designed around the "average" child will not address those with special needs. Children with severe vulnerabilities, such as blindness or combinations of cognitive and physical disabilities, require an individual approach. Parents of children with special needs should learn the risks of walking for their children and how to reduce them through appropriate supervision and effective management of the child's conduct. This suggests a two level prevention strategy, one level aimed at high risk groups of normal children, the other aimed at individuals with special needs. According to some, environmental modifications may have some benefit in reducing injuries.20 However, these cannot set aside the need for supervision. And yet, even some important aspects of adult supervision are not well understood. For example, we do not know for how long and under what circumstances a child may be left without an adult, nor how or when parents should teach and train their children concerning road safety. Several issues need to be considered, including the value of physical activity in our society and the reality that multiple adults supervise a child, either directly or indirectly, during a day. Any subsequent guilt on the part of the supervisor that may arise as an unintended consequence after a child's injury needs to be minimized. Many existing engineering policies and practices are potentially detrimental to pedestrians, albeit inadvertently. In response to increasing motor vehicle demands, transportation agencies have emphasized designing and building roads. The result is the existence ofmultilane roadways that are designed to move heavy volumes of traffic, often at high speeds, between city centers and their suburbs. Such roadways, whether located in commercial or residential areas, may lack sidewalks or walkways, adequate shoulders, and medians or refuge islands. Their pedestrian crosswalks may be spaced one half mile apart, which encourages jaywalking. It may be difficult to retrofit a road built without sufficient considerations for pedestrian travel. For example, a safety problem created by building an intersection too wide for a child to cross in time cannot necessarily be remedied by painting a crosswalk or posting a pedestrian warning sign afterwards. Intersections of arterial roads are commonly designed to accommodate high traffic volumes and allow large tractortrailers to make right or left turns. To allow these large trucks to stay upright on the road without overriding the curb, a large turning radius is needed, particularly at speeds conducive to allow traffic to flow well. However, such geometry has the unintended consequence of substantially increasing the length of a crosswalk. To compound the problem, a right-turnon-red (RTOR) is now allowed in all 50 states, with a few local exceptions. Although RTOR motorists are legally required to make a complete stop and then yield to pedestrians and cross street traffic, drivers may not stop completely. Further, while looking for gaps in traffic coming from their left, drivers turning right may not see pedestrians crossing in front of them from their right.25 Current timing of crossing signals may paradoxically increase some risks to pedestrians.26 Virtually all pedestrian signals in the United States are timed to allow vehicles to turn right or left on a green light when the crosswalk light facing the same direction indicates WALK. This allows vehicles to drive through the pedestrian crosswalk at the precise time a pedestrian may be crossing there. Children walking to school face special problems. The roads they use may be designed more for cars than pedestrians. Busy arterial streets often lack sidewalks. The route may require a child to cross a multilane, undivided road that lacks adequate traffic control devices or refuge islands. Adult crossing guards may be needed yet not provided. Bus stops may be improperly located, directing children to wait for the school bus on a busy street or intersection, rather than midblock or on a quiet residential street nearby. Parents driving their children to school may create excess traffic congestion at the school drop-off point, or make unsafe traffic maneuvers in that area. Although children commonly play in their own neighborhood, many residential neighborhoods have been built strictly with cars in mind. Residential streets are commonly wide, straight, and provide for parking on both sides. This design encourages cars to drive at high speeds on local streets (including as drag races among teenage drivers), and can obstruct a motorist's view of children entering the street from between parked cars. Other engineering problems that reduce pedestrian safety include the existence of work zones that encroach on sidewalks without providing adequate safe passage; poorly maintained sidewalks, walkways, and other pedestrian facilities that can result in falls; signal WALK time or green phase too brief to allow young children to cross the road; and lack of a shoulder or other provision for pedestrians along rural roadways. Many good, specific engineering solutions exist. These include
Some engineering barriers presently thwart success. Any single type of road improvement does not fit all situations. Further, engineers and planners in one locale may not have used, or even be aware of, successful types of pedestrian facilities elsewhere. A huge network of roads has already been built in America without sufficient consideration of pedestrian needs, so that a great deal of retrofitting construction needs to take place. And, guidelines for engineering and design of roads to meet pedestrian needs has only recently been created. Some institutional barriers compound this problem. These include a lack of coordination between local and state engineers and planners, educators, law enforcement officials, and citizens to provide for child pedestrian safety; inadequate funding allocated for pedestrian improvements and safety research; and the low priority that elected officials place on walking as a mode of transportation. Given these barriers, some general engineering recommendations include:
City and county
transportation engineers and planners tend to
identify the most practical problems. To them, these problems
include the poor selection of sites for elementary schools
which make them unconducive to walking, the ambiguous
meaning of the flashing "WALK" and "DON'T WALK"
signals, the high costs of
redesigning a street once built, and remedying
the problem of cut-through traffic on neighborhood streets. Educational Factors The key question concerning child pedestrian safety education is whether any existing educational program has substantially improved the street crossing behavior of children. Studies of the effectiveness of pedestrian education programs for children have been largely, although not universally, disappointing.28 29 Most such education has taken place in the classroom, with the aim of increasing children's knowledge about traffic and their attitudes towards safety. The assumption is that, by building their knowledge of managing traffic and encouraging appropriate attitudes towards safety, children will be able to generalize what they learn in the classroom to real life traffic situations. Since knowledge alone is not sufficient to result in road safety, other strategies, both educational and environmental, need to be developed. Road safety education programs should promote the development of skills and their application in a variety of traffic contexts. Unlike knowledge based methods which may (at best) change a child's attitude or ability to correctly answer questions about road safety, practical skills training methods lead to measurable changes in children's behavior in traffic. They improve judgment, increase their ability to cross at parked cars and intersections, help them learn to time crossings better and to plan safer routes, and reduce their roadside impulsivity. Although children's road crossing ability has historically been viewed within the Piaget construct of maturational readiness, this may not be the only useful paradigm. The fact that very young children can be trained in specific critical skills to cross residential streets as competently as older children indicates that maturationally readiness may not be the only important determinant. Parent participation is an important element of such training. Although most safety training and education in the United States occurs at school, programs that involve parents in training or reinforcing such lessons may be even more successful in changing behaviors.30 However, parents may not know what to teach, or may overestimate a young child's ability to negotiate traffic.12 Driver education that addresses pedestrian issues is needed, particularly concerning the importance of yielding the right-of-way to pedestrians. Programs that combine public and school based education, improved signage at crosswalks, and police enforcement result in substantially more drivers yielding to pedestrians in targeted crosswalks and fewer pedestrians struck there.31 What is still needed? Parents and other caregivers need to better understand the developmental and behavioral characteristics that put young children at increased risk for pedestrian injuries. Before encouraging parents to take a leading role in road safety education, we need to assess their degree of proficiency in this area by asking key questions. How do parents currently prepare their children to deal with traffic safely? What materials and preparation might increase their effectiveness as a trainer? Are certain traffic skills better taught by professionals? What vulnerabilities do parents perceive their children to have? As with other topics, educational programs in traffic safety must be evaluated. What should be done next? The classic view that, for maturational reasons, children cannot be expected to cope with anything but the most simple traffic environments, and cannot coordinate several variables at once, needs to be reviewed. A more comprehensive taxonomy of the skills and competencies children need to interact safely with traffic should be developed. Research should be conducted to identify skills that are trainable, their optimal training conditions, and target groups. Training objectives should be established on a scientific basis, considering the elemental components of each model behavior, how an experienced pedestrian might solve such problems, and the underlying skills needed. Approaches to activating parents, such as those used by the National SAFE KIDS Campaign and its many local coalitions, should be systematically evaluated. The manner in which parents teach and model behaviors needs to be understood better, so that experts can prepare information they need. Road safety education programs that incorporate traffic simulations need more rigorous evaluation. Little is known about parents' understanding of children in traffic and the methods they use to supervise them in traffic. A broad, multifaceted approach could help adult supervisors function more effectively. The relative value of educating drivers needs to be considered in tandem. Some experts attending the conference noted that we still do not yet have a clear understanding of the causal sequence linking poverty with pedestrian injuries. Some key associations between risk factors and pedestrian injuries have been demonstrated, including poverty, lack of adequate play space, residence near high speed and high volume roads, and less adult supervision. But precisely how poverty leads to pedestrian injuries is uncertain,whether it is due to poor adult supervision or some psychological state of the child. However, other experts have pointed out that, given sparse resources,we know enough about individual risk factors, yet do not know what type of intervention actually works well in most circumstances. For example, concerning education and training, proper program evaluation is needed to determine effectiveness and cost effectiveness of various educational and skills training programs at different ages. Whenever feasible, randomized controlled trials (RCT) should be used to measure the degree of effectiveness. This study design is the gold standard for health care research and reduces the likelihood of bias. Using RCT methodology, two groups of people or two groups of existing roadways are created by random assignment. The groups are similar in many ways, and have an approximately equal chance of experiencing the outcome of interest (pedestrian injury, in this case). The intervention is provided to only one group, after which the outcome of interest is measured and compared with the other (control) group. A wide range of environmental initiatives could be evaluated in this manner, and can take into account differences between the two groups in levels of walking, traffic noise, social networking, resident satisfaction, and perceptions of safety.A major challenge is to determine how to fund, coordinate, and conduct such research. Study designs other than the randomized controlled trial may be at times more practical and less expensive to evaluate the effectiveness of some community programs. Although epidemiologic
research clearly identifies a decline in
child pedestrian deaths in the United States and Great Britain,
this may be the result of less walking, rather than safer
walking with fewer collisions or better health care of those
injured.3 Health benefits of walking are only one reason,
and perhaps not the most important one, that this trend
should be reversed. Walking reflects other aspects of societal
health, and has direct implications concerning the degree
of community coherence, social support, local crime and
violence, and global environmental health. Thus, efforts should
be made to promote safe walking for reasons other than
just injury prevention. Advocating walking to improve the
quality of life, community coherence and urban aesthetics is
likely to be more appealing to a wide public audience than
reasons that focus solely on prevention of injuries. Designing
our cities and neighborhoods to match the needs of
pedestrians, not just motorists, is a critically important long
term goal. Epilogue The point of greatest dispute in the lively discussions of this conference was the relative value of education and training versus environmental modification in reducing pedestrian injuries to children. During the conference, spokespersons for each position acknowledged that neither education and training nor environmental modification was a sufficient solution by itself. Those favoring environmental change were concerned that educational programs had produced relatively small impact on behavior or outcome. Proponents of education countered that, in the past, education had been provided without skills training, an essential component. Even so, such proponents recognized that even the best education and skills training could not teach children to cope with all types of streets and intersections. Proponents of education and training noted several other benefits of that course of action. Suppose that a particular child's neighborhood environment was made relatively pedestrian friendly and safe. Since those changes could never be accomplished quickly throughout the nation, that child would be at risk if he or she traveled to another neighborhood where such environmental modifications had not been made. To be safe, that child would need to have learned and mastered appropriate road safety skills. A second benefit concerns teaching children to properly use pedestrian road treatments. And before they become adults, children at some point need to be taught these skills, because without them, they are not likely to spontaneously understand traffic and know how to proceed safely. We believe that the argument rests on two crucial issues. First, when a motor vehicle and a child collide, the margin of safety for the child is very small. Even though most child pedestrians who are struck are not fatally injured, a much worse outcome could have occurred with only a small change in crash circumstances or timing. Given this premise, an intervention to protect children from pedestrian injury needs to yield a high likelihood of success of protecting the child from being struck in the first place. Since child pedestrian behavior around traffic is frequently risky, any educational program or environmental modification needs to have a substantial benefit by preventing the collision. It should work the first and each subsequent time a child independently deals with a traffic threat. These are indeed stiff measures of effectiveness. They call for evaluation of what works in the field, followed by promotion of those interventions found to succeed by those criteria. In the end, it is
likely that a combination of educational and environmental
measures will be needed, but the specific programs with
the right mix to effectively reduce the risk to children may
exist only as a prototype, if it exists at all. Much work
remains to be done to protect child pedestrians, especially
in light of the increasing complexity of traffic and roadways,
other demands on driver behavior, and the active lives
of today's children. The following paper lists the recommendations
developed at this conference and begins to provide
the necessary detail. Authors' Affiliations R A Schieber, US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control M E Vegega, US Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Traffic Injury Control Programs
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Reconciliation or Rihanna? New pictures surfaced on Oct. 8 of Karrueche arriving at Chris Brown's house in Hollywood. Do YOU think they are getting back together?
Chris Brown broke up with Karrueche Tran last week, but he's reportedly been texting and calling her, hoping to get back together. She was just spotted at his house — are they trying to work it out or is she moving out?
Karrueche was reportedly humiliated after Chris tweeted a video confessing his love for two women — Karrueche and his ex-girlfriend Rihanna.
Chris posted a picture on Oct 7. of a packed duffle bag — was he telling Rihanna that Karrueche was on the way out? He later deleted the photo.
So is this new visit to Chris' house for a chat or just to pick up her stuff?
What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Should Chris and Karrueche get back together?
— Dory Larrabee
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Posted at 1:16 AM on October 15, 2012
I'm not so sure any of you have been following this story closely enough to really have the right answers. Sorry, but fo you mystery, Chris made a public statement which he sent to CNN, which stated clearly, "he was breaking up with Karrueche because he didn't want the friendship he had with Ri Ri to hurt her. This happened the night after he was caught (PHOTOgraphed) coming out of Ri Ri's NY hotel, while Karrueche was in NY in another hotel. That same morning, a video of Karrueche and Chris was taken getting out of a Black SUV where Chris was reported to have broken things off with Karraueche or She with him. Do, anyone here remember RiRi's birthday party earlier this year, where Chris was photographed whispering in Ri Ri's ear, shortly after they had just cut two songs together, one from her album, and another from his. Also, the Cruise…Please, although we didn't see any photo's of them together…Common since would tell you they were hanging out with the same people, do you think Magic Johnson would get caught in photo's with them on different days witht he same clothes on…Remember, he's rich…He can probably afford to change clothes everyday and be photographed in a different outfit. I think, Chris and Ri Ri have been seeing each other secretely on and off since they split 3-years ago. I believe they may have slowed down when he got into the different relationships, like with Draya and then Karrueche…Draya reportedly 9 months and Kaurrueche just over a year…And Ri Ri with her lil side thing for less than a year…Please, they have never stopped loving each other, but was forced to obey the court and that probably frustrated them…The court and the industry. I don't feel bad for Karrueche…she's young, she cute and Chris did her a favor. Now, other guys from the industry will go after her since she's gotten so much media attention for the last year from her widely reported relationship with C.B. and not to mention her party life. She'll be fine, and Chris and Ri Ri should have a second chance, they are only human.
Posted at 1:41 PM on October 11, 2012
this happens everyday on this earth . nothing out of the ordinary . media needs to stay out of it and let them be , if they want to be together who's business is that ?! if Rihanna and him wanna be together, again who's business is that ? NO ONE ! half of the girls cant talk cause they either had a man who either cheated or laid a hand on her and they got em back so please . this is ridiculous . anyone ever thought maybe this is just for publicity for all three . All 3 of them probably laid up in a bed laughing at the whole world
Posted at 12:44 AM on October 10, 2012
This whole story just doesn't add up. There's either something missing or something that's not supposed to be there. If you think about it you can see that Karrueche was his first real serious relationship after him and Rihanna broke up. I saw most—if not all—of the pictures and videos of them together from the start to finish of them as a couple. They always looked genuinely happy together at first—before people started saying Rihanna's pursuing him again. I don't believe any of the supposed sightings of them together except the VMA kiss. There's no real, solid, undeniable proof of anything but that. Plus, in a previous article—I didn't take this sight's word for it—experts were saying that Chris isn't getting back with Rihanna because he either feels that all these people are probably right when they say he'll hit her again or because he fears that she is pursuing him just to prove she can have him and then dump him, which she already basically proved when she dropped the restraining order to get back with him briefly before dumping him. Wheather or not it was because of this or what everyone else was saying about her being a bad influence to girls who's partners aren't like Chris and won't try to help themselves doesn't matter. When it comes to things like this no one else's opinion matters and there's a clear difference, so. . . I really don't think Chris would be in a rush to get back with Rihanna or dump Karrueche. Not with what I have. Even so, this stuff about him and Karrueche breaking up and then her showing up at his house—wheather or not she was getting her stuff—the fact that he's supposedly constantly calling up Karrueche or Rihanna and always meeting up with Rihanna, and the fact that he still has that tattoo on his arm? It doesn't make sense, not with Rihanna as part of the problem.
Posted at 2:50 PM on October 11, 2012
that's up to kaurreche if she want to get back with him that her Choice other then that They May not be getting back together @ this piont of time cause someone had said that she is moving out of his house & they remain friend just in case if RihRih flip out on him again maybe they could get back together which in a few month but who know. I bet she came to get her stuff out of that Damn house & keep it moving for her
Posted at 3:30 PM on October 9, 2012
Posted at 3:15 PM on October 9, 2012
Posted at 2:01 PM on October 9, 2012
ok now this is pissing me off already! it's like do u wanna b with rihanna or karruche cuz u can't have both u can't have ur cake and eat it 2! i mean u saying that u not trying 2 b a dog but ur proving urself wrong! my only advice 4 rihanna is if he's gunna keep doing that i feel u shud just do u 2! but i really like dem 2gether so i hope nutthin but the best
Posted at 7:30 PM on October 9, 2012
Agree. Rihanna needs to be treated better if he is constantly going back and forth after all that Rihanna has gone through in the incident and now gone on TV and said and also supported him with prayers. Then Rihanna should just leave this guy. I'm sure Rihanna has absolutley no problem in getting a guy ever. Chris treat Rihanna like the only girl in the world or go away
Posted at 12:04 PM on October 9, 2012
she came and got her ish thats all. She will never win. Rihanna is a hardworking mega sucessfully person and rihanna and chris has a great connection and bond. Its histoRIH.lol.Kae might as well bow out gracefully cause even if u go back to him he still gonna mess with Rihanna. Rihanna is the love of his life hunny.
Posted at 12:00 AM on October 11, 2012
Karrueche is WINNING! She is somebody whether people want acknowledge it or not. Now she can get her self back & start to live again. I do believe that Chris honestly loves Karrueche & still does. Some people can be hinderances in your life if you want to be realistic about it. I don't like MESSY PEOPLE.
Posted at 11:23 AM on October 9, 2012
He probably never stopped texting and calling Karrueche because he has no desire to give her up. I think she is much more beautiful than RiRi and more innocent looking. If he marries he will marry someone like her as opposed to RiRi. Mark my words, he will not give Karrueche up.
Posted at 11:06 AM on October 9, 2012
She look like she might smell. Chris probably made her bring his car back after her guy friend was talking smack about Chris on twitter yesterday and she was laughing about it. They say Chris was out buying new furniture it was probably a new bed, when you get a new woman you must get a new bed. They are just settling things thats all. Chris is not gonna ever leave Rihanna so she is history and might as well move on because he has already let her know that she is not more important then Rihanna. At this point he just feels sorry for her…
Posted at 10:06 AM on October 23, 2012
Posted at 10:51 AM on October 9, 2012
If Chris mucks it up with Rihanna–ugh!!! I hope she doesn't take his arse back this time. Who in their right mind would want Karate over rihanna? Also, I hope he is only leasing that car for Karate and wasn't stupid enough to buy it for her. His butt had better watch out cause this chick is gonna try and get pregnant to hold on to him—he has been warned!!!!
Posted at 10:43 AM on October 9, 2012
Posted at 10:30 AM on October 9, 2012
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Posted at 7:43 PM on October 9, 2012
Sorry I had to say this but Karrueche did say she prefer men not boys. Maybe she needed to make an exception and say she also prefers boys who are CELEBS with CASH. Why is she still driving Chris's car and haging around Chris house ?.
Because she was ok with him previously till the begining of this month till that time he was a man so suddenly he became a boy.
She must have missed all the money and celeb status -that was quick wasnt it ?. She is foolish if she takes him back though after all that has happened as then we will all know she has no self respect and he will forever remain in the d bag category if he does that to Rihanna now.
Posted at 10:16 AM on October 9, 2012
Posted at 10:16 AM on October 9, 2012
This is what happened:
CB was in NY and Karate was in LA. Word got out that he and Rihanna were hooking up and without CB knowing, Karate came to NY to confront him. CB wasn't expecting that becasue usually she lets him just do his own thing—i.e. hear no evil see no evil. When she confronted him he was probably angry and said forget it and put out the statement that he broke up with her. Of course he wasn't ready to make a choice between her and Rihanna and mad becasue she put him on the spot.
Fast forward a week later:
Now, things have calmed down he is back in LA and of course there is unfinished business between him and Karate hence the reason for her being at his house and she did live there so I am sure she needs to get her stuff but for sure they are gonna be having a looong talk…and the saga continues…
Posted at 11:52 AM on October 9, 2012
Posted at 12:20 PM on October 9, 2012
how do you explain the documentary then? Because it seems like Chris had the whole breakout thing planned out. you can tell from the footage of He and Rihanna vs Chris and Karate from the week before…its seems like he knew all along he was going to break up with her. a bit humiliating the way it happened
Posted at 3:01 PM on October 9, 2012
Posted at 10:07 AM on October 9, 2012
Girl you are grossing me out right now. Im like…ok he made a choice between two beautiful women. He chose the one he has a history with, he asked you to move out and yuk yuk yuk…you're back!! You aint got no one to pick up your stuff!!! Jeez!!!! Ewwwwwwwwwww!!!!! Im ashamed of this broad!!!
Posted at 10:18 AM on October 9, 2012
Posted at 9:08 PM on October 9, 2012
I'm Just Saying...
Posted at 10:06 AM on October 9, 2012
And just as I stated earlier things are getting weird…there's the blue car…if these pictures were from yesterday morning..that means she never changed her clothes from Sunday (early Monday)? wasn't she out with her friends at Greystone wearing that same outfit?…Maybe she never moved out…and the Soap Opera Continues. I think if all this is true,Chris should just work on himself becasue he seems confused.
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BOSTON, Jan. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- STAG Industrial, Inc. (the "Company") (NYSE: STAG), a company focused on the acquisition, ownership and management of single-tenant industrial properties throughout the United States, today announced its acquisition and leasing results for the fourth quarter of 2012.
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The Company announces December acquisition activity of six industrial buildings acquired in six individual transactions containing a total of 1.4 million square feet for approximately $55 million. The acquired properties consist of one light manufacturing facility and five warehouse and distribution facilities and the locations include two properties in Georgia, two properties in Illinois, one property in Ohio and one property in Missouri. The properties are all 100% leased with an average remaining lease term of over five years. In total, the Company acquired 40 industrial facilities consisting of approximately 6.5 million square feet in the fourth quarter. On a square foot basis, these acquisitions increase the Company's asset base by almost 30%. These properties were purchased at an average cap rate of 9+% based on in-place income for a total cost of approximately $213 million. The fourth quarter acquisitions bring the Company's total acquisition volume for 2012 to approximately $427 million. Since its IPO in April 2011, the Company's total acquisition volume is approximately $553 million, increasing the Company's asset base by 125% on a square foot basis. The Company has entered into contracts to acquire two additional properties for a combined purchase price of approximately $11 million. These contracts are subject to various closing conditions which have not yet been satisfied, so there can be no assurance that these transactions will be consummated. Leasing The Company also announced that it has signed leases totaling 856,167 square feet in the fourth quarter of 2012. This leasing activity consists of approximately 184,814 square feet of new or expansion leases and 671,353 square feet of renewal leases. The tenant retention rate for the leases expiring in the fourth quarter of 2012 was 72% resulting in a tenant retention rate for the full year of 84%. The Company's occupancy rate for the fourth quarter decreased to 95.1% from 96.3% at the end of the third quarter of 2012. A major factor in this decrease was the acquisition of 401,147 square feet of vacant space that was included with the portfolio purchase that closed early in the quarter.Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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A simile is an easy way to compare two things, so examples of simile poems include any poem that makes comparisons using the words "like," "as," or "than." As long as you compare one thing to another, whether or not the two things you are comparing are actually alike or not, you can consider it a simile poem.
Here is an example of a simile poem written by Denise Rogers:
Your teeth are like stars;
They come out at night.
They come back at dawn
When they're ready to bite.
Simile poems can be about anything, from love to hate. For instance, here is an example of a silly simile poem by Denise Rodgers:
"Your feet smell so bad
Just like limburger cheese
That I'm holding my nose tight
Between my two knees."
Simile poems are not just about emotions either. For example, an unknown author wrote this devotional simile to chocolate cake:
"Friends are like chocolate cake
You can never have too many.
Chocolate cake is like heaven -
Always amazing you with each taste or feeling.
Chocolate cake is like life with so many different pieces.
Chocolate cake is like happiness, you can never get enough of it."
A simile is defined as a figure of speech comparing two unlike things. Similes often have the words "like", "as", or "than."
A simile is a lot like a metaphor, since they are both forms of comparison, but a simile allows the two ideas to remain distinct, while a metaphor suggests that one thing is the other.
In the former, Chris was just a runner, but in the later, he was a speeding bullet.
A simile poem uses this concept, making comparisons between two things; but, it does so in poetry form.
A simile poem that everyone may know is Twinkle Twinkle:
"Twinkle, twinkle little star,
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky."
Even great writers such as Shakespeare have used similes and examples of simile poems can be found among their work. For example, in his famous literary work, Romeo and Juliet in act 4 of the play, Capulet says "Death lies on her like an untimely frost."
Robert Burns too used similes. For example:
"O my Luve's like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June;
O my Luve's like the melodie
That's sweetly played in tune."
Similes can depict many emotions and love is one of the most common. As there is love, there is also hate, Poems must depict all emotions. Here is a poem called Greater Than That,
"Peering through the drape
Of my synthetic cell,
How I long to escape
This manufactured hell.
Like a bruised, little bird
Too confused to fly,
I'm trapped, in a word,
So confined am I.
A captive, collared lion
Alone in its pen,
I'm pacin' and dyin'
In a manmade den.
For an eagle was not meant
To be locked in a cage,
Its life to be spent
Like a picture on a page.
And when a mighty lion,
In truth, is but a cat,
It will spend its time tryin'
To be greater than that."
If you are looking for more examples of simile poems, you can do an Internet search for similes or check your local library for poetry books. There are numerous examples everywhere, so just look for poems that make comparisons using those three magic words: like, as or than.


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[Dwight] Howard traveled to India to help promote the NBA and the game of basketball. League officials regard India's population of nearly 1.2 billion people as a vast untapped market, and they hope Howard's star power and megawatt smile will help generate interest in the sport.
Two summers ago, the NBA held its first event in India, a Basketball Without Borders instructional camp. Last December, the league launched NBA.com/India, a website with some content in Hindi. In April, the NBA started its first community basketball league in the country. […]
Howard will spend a few more days in India, then travel to China for the second time this summer.
Bryan Meyer, a trainer based in Altamonte Springs, accompanied Howard on the trip.
Howard said he worked out for 2 1/2 hours Thursday. He did conditioning work with Meyer and practiced on a basketball court, performing the drills he worked on earlier this summer with former Houston Rockets all-star Hakeem Olajuwon.
Once in a while, someone will criticize Dwight Howard for spending too much time on extracurricular activities and not devoting enough attention on improving himself as a basketball player. However, despite the fact that Howard is halfway around the globe, he's working on his game.
The criticism for Howard will never end, it seems like. For years, many people — not only Magic fans — hoped and prayed that Howard would work with Hakeem Olajuwon to improve his low post game. But now that Howard is doing just that, working with Olajuwon and trying to get better on the low block, it's not good enough for everyone.
Go figure.
Nevertheless, next season is going to be an important one for Howard.
After breaking through against Kendrick Perkins and Rasheed Wallace (now retired) in the 2010 NBA Eastern Conference Finals versus the Boston Celtics, the table is set for Howard to wreak havoc on the rest of the league. Especially with Perkins sidelined indefinitely and Yao Ming's health in question — two players that have had the most success defensively against Howard in the past.
There's no one that can stop Howard except himself. Howard is putting in the work during the off-season, and soon the public will see the fruits of his labor.


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Kiev, 15 April – Deloitte has audited the financial statements of Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP), which completed the issuance of 7-year Eurobonds in late March. This is one of the most successful Eurobond issuances in the Ukrainian market in the past few years. The Eurobonds, worth a total of USD 750 million at 8.25% per annum, are due in 2020. International rating agency Fitch Ratings has assigned a 'B' rating to the Ukrainian company's issuance.
"We started working with MHP about 10 years ago. We completed an IPO on the London Stock Exchange together, which was one of the first IPOs carried out by a Ukrainian company," stated Andriy Bulakh, Deloitte Partner. He continued, "we are glad to see MHP becoming better and stronger with each passing day. This is also true for the quality of the company's financial statements, its performance and investor relations."
The funds raised by the transaction were partially used to refinance Eurobonds worth USD 386 million, issued in 2010, including early redemption costs.
Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP) is a vertically-integrated company and one of the largest poultry producers in Ukraine (represented on the Ukrainian market by the Nasha Riaba and Lehko! trademarks). The agricultural holding company also produces grain, sunflower oil, and other food products. According to the results of 2012, the company earned a net profit of USD 311 million, a 20% increase on 2011. The company also increased its revenues by 15%, up to USD 1.408 billion. In late 2012, the company's land bank in Ukraine exceeded 285,000 ha. Around 66% of MHP's shares are owned by Yurii Kosiuk (trough WTI Trading Limited), and the remaining 34% of shares are in free float on the London Stock Exchange.


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Morzine is one of the main hub towns in the Portes du Soleil. The sheer size of this area becomes apparent when you look at the numbers - twelve resorts in two countries, 650km of pistes and a whopping 80 chairlifts. That said, it is likely that (unless you're very intrepid indeed), you'll spend most of your time in Avoriaz (via the Super Morzine lift) and the Pleney side, over towards Les Gets. Although Super Morzine accesses a larger area, there can be large queues so Pleney is a welcome, easy alternative during busy times.
Two obvious options are to take the Super Morzine lift and then spend the day lapping the east blues accessed via the Zore, Baron and Seraussaix lifts. Or take the Pleney lift and explore the blues from the Belvedera chair. Complete beginners will probably find it best to stick to the nursery slopes in Morzine.
You'll want to spend most of your time in Avoriaz. If Super Morzine is too busy, it might be worth taking the bus to Prodains and getting the big lift up to Avoriaz. From there, you have many options. The Grandes Combes, Lac Intrets, Prolays and Lindarets all offer varied reds that should keep most skiers occupied for the season, let alone the week. You might also want to explore Les Lindarets if Avoriaz is too crowded. Get the bus from Morzine to Ardent and take the lift from there.
You've probably already heard of the infamous 'Wall' run, which links Avoriaz to Switzerland. Head to the Chavanette area if you want to test yourself on this most famous of Alpine runs. Elsewhere, there area a number of blacks coming off the Grandes Combes chair, and a renowned black off the top of the Chamossiere chair.
Morzine is a 'Family +' resort. I means there is a program of special events and activities for families with young children - check the morzine.com website for more information. Children under the age of 5 get a free ski pass; remember to bring proof of age.
Did you know?
Morzine has long been a stage finish on the Tour de France, but locals care more about the junior football teams competing in the highly-prized annual French Mountain Villages Football Tournament, held in Morzine every year.
Resort Stats:
Town altitude 1600 m
Town altitude 1000 m
Distance to the airport 70 km/Geneva Airport
Highest lift/vertical drop 2466 m/ 1466 m
Km of pistes 650 km
Nursery Areas 2
Beginner Runs 146
Intermediate Runs 104
Expert Runs 28
Funicular/cable cars 0/4
Gondolas/chairs 9/80
Drags 102
Night riding Yes
Parks 9
Summer areas 0
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Resort website: www.morzine-avoriaz.com
Tourist Office phone number: +33 (0) 450 747272
Medical Centre: +33 (0) 450 75 99 17
Pisteurs/Ski Patrol: +33 (0) 450 73 32 54
Local Taxi Number: +33 (0) 620 71 98 44
Local Radio Station: Radio Morzine 97.9 FM
What the Papers Say About Morzine...
- Guardian - http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/nov/07/skiing-beginners-course-morzine-france
- Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/snowandski/france/morzine/
- The Daily Mail - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2066271/Swoosh-action-The-Portes-du-Soleil-area-France-skiing-ability.html
- The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/skiing/morzine-discover-a-heightened-sense-of-adventure-2218897.html
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Last Modified: November 1, 2001
Authors: Rosie O'Donnell and Deborah Axelrod, MD, FACS, with Tracy Chutorian Semler
Publisher: Warner Books, Inc., New York, 1999 ISBN: 0-446-67620-9
Rosie O'Donnell's mother died of breast cancer when she was just 10 years old, and many of her close friends have experienced it as well. These experiences inspired O'Donnell to write this book; she hopes to educate women about their breasts, both about health issues and breast cancer. Arming women with knowledge will enable them to live in health, while recognizing a problem when it arises. O'Donnell uses humor to alleviate fear, and uses interviews with doctors, patients and survivors to provide facts and encouragement.
The book begins by providing some facts about breast cancer, and about healthy breast anatomy and function. It then covers breast screening, what it is like and who should do it. Risk factors are discussed, such as family history, childbirth, birth control, diet, and so forth.
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There is a chapter on life after breast cancer, mentioning such issues as how to deal with side effects from treatments, helpful diet hints, exercise, support groups, and much more. The final chapter covers the future of breast cancer treatment.
This book is very well written; it contains a great deal of helpful information. It is set up in a very easy-to-read question and answer format. The terrific thing about this breast cancer guide is that, while it provides valuable and useful information, it is often hysterically funny and entertaining. The book weaves jokes, puzzles, and songs into the thread of an important work. The authors also provide a list of additional resources that the reader can look up, and the names of cancer organizations. All proceeds go to breast cancer charities.
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TV on the Radio "Million Miles"
For some reason I didn't really notice that TV on the Radio actually released a couple singles last year – I thought that blogs were just posting live videos of unfinished songs and I generally ignore that kind of thing. But no, "Million Miles" came out for real last summer, and it's one of the best songs they've ever done. It's a ballad that mourns the ending of a once lovely relationship, which is a topic they've touched on before in Tunde Adebimpe's "You." But whereas that song expresses confusion as to how and why it happened, Kyp Mallone's perspective is both far more sentimental and hugely pessimistic. By the end of the song he's so defeated by realizing that all love eventually fades away that he's swearing it off forever – "Don't you let love break your heart / Givin' all your power to a flame that falls apart." But in context, you can sense that his words are very hollow, and he'd easily fall in love all over again without hesitation.
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- Release Date: Sep 16, 2002
- ESRB: Everyone
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Hi..Will any of you Diorama Builders be at the N.S.R.A. Scale Model Contest Tampa, Florida. Oct.13-14 , by the Good Guys Club . I will be there with a few of my crazy dioramas and other model builder friends from IPMS Orlando....hope to see you there......................Barbo
N.S.R.A. Scale Model Contest, Tampa, Florida
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Posted 09 August 2007 - 04:46 PM
hi barbo...i will be there...last year was my 1st time there since i moved to fla in june 06...meet the guys from MAGS...looking foward to it maybe see u there....neal
Posted 11 August 2007 - 12:46 PM
Hi......Outlaw035....this is my first time at this event . I will be at Orlando for that week and will drive to Tampa....see you there ............Barbo.


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Stopera is actually a generic word referring to an 'opera house' and comes from the Dutch word 'stadhuis', meaning city hall, and the word opera. When someone refers to 'the Stopera' in Amsterdam however they are obviously referring to the building complex located in city center between the Waterlooplein and the Zwanenburgwal which houses both the city hall of Amsterdam and the Opera. The Stopera opened in 1986, and built in what was originally the old Jewish quarter. The design by Cees Dam and Wilhelm Holzbauer is striking, and is in fact a draw for many students and fans of architecture. The Stopera is heavily subsidized by the government, but is very popular – tickets often sell out far in advance so if you plan on visiting purchase early!
The history of the Stopera is interesting as well – postponed and moved several times before its final location due to much controversy and land deal problems the opera house bid was run by the Wagner Consortium as a contest. The original winner was a J.F. Staal with a proposal for a structure on the Museumsquare, near the Concertgebouw. The city council turned this proposition down however, and in 1979 the decision was made to combine the city hall and Opera building and Bijvoet was awarded the bid for the opera house portion. This too was ill fated however, since in December of that year Bijvoet died and the bid was awarded to Cees Dam. Finally completed in 1986 it has remained the premier opera house in Amsterdam every since.
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NEAR ASHLAND, Ore. — A $6,500 reward is offered in the investigation into dead livestock near Ashland. Oregon State Police Fish and Wildlife troopers need the public's help to find the person who killed three cows and two calves.
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NEW YORK (The Deal) -- As doctors increasingly try to reduce their costs, leading to interest in healthcare information companies, Physicians Interactive, backed by the venture capital arm of Merck (MRK - Get Report) has plans to pursue acquisitions to expand its geographic reach and its product offerings with an eye towards completing a deal by the end of this year, according to the CEO and founder.
"The acquisition strategy right now is two-fold," said Donato Tramuto, the CEO of Physicians Interactive, a technology company linking physicians, patients and pharmaceutical companies through mobile and online healthcare applications, by phone. "We want to continue to expand the physician database domestically but I also want to go global. We also want to figure out and smoke out more of these small startup companies that have great innovation but may not have the scale to gain the users they want."
Based in Reading, Mass., with offices in Libertyville Ill., Mumbai, Paris and San Francisco, Physicians Interactive said June 25 that it had acquired MedHelp, an online health community and health application site, for undisclosed terms. Following the acquisition, Physicians Interactive's employee base will increase to 400 or so from about 300 people now across its various offices.
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Eating By Color: Green
by Toby Amidor in Healthy Recipes, Healthy Tips, March 15, 2011When you eat the rainbow, you get a rainbow of nutrients, so each month, we're offering up 10 ways to eat foods of a different color. With both St. Patty's Day and spring just around the corner, what better color to focus on than green? March is also National Nutrition Month and this year the focus is eating a variety of colors, so be sure to check out some yummy orange and red-colored foods, too.
What Green Foods Have To Offer
Chlorophyll, a green pigment found in the leaves of plants, gives foods their green hue. Green colored fruits and veggies contain a wide variety of vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals — plant compounds that help fight disease. Make these 10 a part of your healthy diet.
This ancient symbol of fertility is packed with vitamin C, folate and potassium. According to the USDA's top 100 antioxidant-filled foods, cooked artichokes ranked seventh!
Recipe: Stuffed Artichokes
This green veggie is an excellent source folate and thiamin and a good source of fiber, iron, vitamin C and beta-carotene . It also contains the plant compound asparagine which has a diuretic effect and causes that funky odor in urine after you eat asparagus.
Recipe: Smoked Turkey-Wrapped Asparagus
This fruit is packed with heart-loving monounsaturated fat. It also contains a plethora of other healthy stuff including vitamin C, vitamin K, folate, potassium and the antioxidant lutein. Keep calories under control by limiting serving size to about one-fifth of an avocado, or about 50 calories.
Recipe: Crab and Avocado Salad
This veggie is part of the cruciferous (cabbage) family and a close relative to cauliflower, cabbage, kale, collard greens and Brussels sprouts. Veggies from this family contain plant compounds that have been shown to help fight cancer.
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Also part of the cruciferous vegetable family, this veggie is a great source of vitamins A and C and has a fair amount of iron.
Recipe: Roasted Brussels Sprouts
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This sweet and juicy melon is perfect in smoothies, soups and salads. It's a good source of the antioxidant vitamin C, which helps with healthy skin and hair.
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Also part of the cabbage family, kale is one of our favorite winter veggies here at Healthy Eats. It's packed with vitamins A and C along with folic acid, iron and calcium and can be substituted for spinach in practically any recipe.
Recipe: Potato-Kale Soup
Also known as the Chinese gooseberry, this bright green gem contains more vitamin C than any other fruit. They're also high in fiber, potassium and vitamin E and various phytochemical such as lutein and anthocyanin. (links)
Recipe: Radiance Fruit Salad
More acidic and tart than lemons, these babies are packed with antioxidants including flavonol glycosides shown to help prevent hardening of the arteries and help fight cancer.
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Good things come in small packages—especially when you're talking about green peas. A quarter-cup of cooked peas contains 130 calories, 10 grams of fiber and 8 grams of protein. They contain some iron and zinc and are a good source of heart healthy potassium and folate.
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Oh my goodness, this past weekend's performances of Coppélia were completely overwhelming — in the best of ways. Putting the experience into words is so difficult. Of course things didn't go perfectly. The last night, when I finally got all the fouetté turns at the end of the ballet, I almost ate it on the pull in. It's never perfect.
But while I am not satisfied with the performances (if I were satisfied, I don't think I would be trying to produce art), I am overjoyed and overwhelmed and (though sad it is over) still riding on an incredible high. It might not be perfect, but oh my goodness, it's so much fun.
Class on Monday was painful for sure! When the adrenaline from performing was gone, the fatigue/soreness it masked definitely remained. The life of a dancer… We are busy preparing for dance finals. Academic classes are winding down too in a flurry of projects and tests and papers. This is the last final season I will have at Butler.
Somehow everything seems less real for a few days after we leave the theater. I'm getting ready for finals, of course, but part of me is still on that stage, smiling or crying or clenching my fists or falling in love or prancing around, full of mischief. Dancing Swanhilda was a tremendous blessing, and I know I will miss it so much. The only remedy? On to the next performance!
I know I'm dancing in the Spotlight gala at Clowes and then in Carbondale for the Southern Illinois Music Festival… and then who knows what adventures wait for me in Tulsa? It's scary and exciting, and I feel much more prepared to meet that challenge after the whirlwind that was Coppélia.


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2 So much wasted potential....ColdyD | 26/10/2011 | See all ColdyD's reviews (15)I waited a long time for Heroes 6 and I was very keen to play it. Unfortunately the game is for me a total let-down.Don't get me wrong, the game has potential and underneath all the bugs, glitches and poor design decision is a decent game. But to get to that game you need to overlook a lot of issues.Campaign wise the story is like a jigsaw puzzle. The campaigns for each faction are non-linear which means you can start with anyone of them, problem is I don't understand when the events are happening or what's the chronological order....it's a hassle to try and piece everything together, the story does not unfold properly...The game also has dynasty weapons which you can use during the campaigns. Unfortunately if you want to access these benefits you must be online at all times! Going through Uplay (read DRM) is a hassle. :(Two key factions are missing the elves and the wizards, instead you get sanctuary (Japanese nagas) which are a nice addition with some nice and interesting units. Other than that you get the standard heaven/necro/demons/orcs. The other two factions will probably be introduced in an expansion.A new and welcomed addition is the revised skill system. It's no longer random, you can now choose the exact path for your hero. It adds a bit more RPG to to it which is a good thing.Another thing to remember is that your spells are now regarded as skills. There are no more mage guilds, if you have a mage your skills points will probably go into spells and stuff.The Graphics for the game look ok, animations are ok as well, but the problem is that the requirements are very HIGH! For a simple TBS this game requires minimum 512 VRAM so check your specs before buying. It basically has the same minimum requirements as Crysis 2. Furthermore there are a lot of graphical bugs and glitches, the game needs to be polished a lot more. Also please note that Heroes 6 does not support Laptop Graphics! So if you want to play this game on a laptop it might be a gamble.The Soundtrack on the other hand is brilliant, some great remixes there from old heroes games and might and magic games. As always voice acting is atrocious :(And finally the most important aspect... the Gameplay....It has been really dumbed down:1. You can convert towns, no need to worry about troop morale or abilities you might get from other units, plain simple conversions (for a fee) of captured towns to your own kind.2. Global recruitment pool, no need for caravans, you can just recruit all your units from your town/fort. No need to think about how long it will take for the troops to arrive, just plain and simple.3. Town portal for everyone. Now it's a building in your town for every faction. No need to complicate yourself getting expert earth magic and wisdom and then build mage guild lvl 4 or 5. Plain and simple4. Even the AI has been dumbed down, it can't really do much, it cheats like hell even on the lowest difficulty. It won't bother building stuff in their towns it will just magically get heroes with hordes of units at the beginning of each week.5. No more town screens, you now get a simple town window UI. It's a shame because in Heroes 5 you had these wonderful town screens each with their own amazing presentation and music. Now you just get a bland window with just the basics. You no longer see the stuff you build, no real sense of progression :(While I do understand they want to make this game more accessible to newcomers, this is certainly not the right way! Dumbing down a game is not good idea because it dilutes the game play and makes it shallow!This is a TBS, at the end of the day you need to use your brain to play!
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