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The modern world is not necessarily a runner's world. Many other physical variables affect our ability to stay healthy. We detrain our glutes and tighten our hamstrings sitting at our desks for hours, grow tight in the shoulders from stress, and eat genetically modified foods with consequences we don't yet fully understand. The variables are as different as the circumstances of our lives, with one thing in common: They all hamper the body's ability to deal with the forces of running.
To understand those circumstances better, Wharton conducts lengthy patient intakes, seeing how someone's "energy pie" is divided among various tasks. He educates his clients on the role pollution and industrialization play in creating oxidative stress, how they can optimize their diet for performance and long-term health, and stresses the importance of truly recovering. "Even if they think they're resting, they've got their iPad out and they're just going crazy with the computers," Wharton adds. "In Chinese medicine, we'd say they're chasing the tiger. They're always out there stressing, which is really hard on the adrenal system and the hormones, so everything is out of balance." Dena Dey Evans, a 2:57 marathoner and coach in Redwood City, Calif., has seen this firsthand: "When I am too busy, on the computer until the early hours, I don't sleep," she says. "And when I don't sleep, my Achilles almost always flares up."
Rea focuses his balance in another direction: finding ideal training surfaces for his runners to use. He hopes that by mixing the various surface densities, he's able to engage the running muscles in many ways and keep his runners physically healthy, while also offering them the serenity that training high in the Blue Ridge Mountains affords. To do so, Rea follows the running adage of the late British coach Harry Wilson: Every surface, every speed, every week. "I don't know if we touch every speed," Rea says, "but we definitely touch every surface. We run on grass, we run on dirt, and we run on pavement."
Some experts will undoubtedly question whether mixing surfaces matters (several recent studies found no correlation between running surface and injury rates), just as they've questioned the use of orthotics, medial posting and lowered heels. Finding your way to optimal health requires finding what keeps you healthy. "You look at shoes, you look at orthotics, you look at strengthening programs – it all comes down to either reducing the force or strengthening the body," Larson says. "You can pick your favorite way of dealing with that. I think all the arguing is kind of pointless because we're all really arguing the same thing and trying to get at the same thing."
With so many variables affecting our ability to withstand the forces of running, how can we increase our chances of staying healthy? While no universal cure exists, one of the best ways is through prehab.
The opposite of rehabilitation, prehabing an injury means recognizing potential trouble and addressing it before it sidelines you from running. In many ways, prehab is similar to practicing mindfulness. To address a trouble spot, we must first be conscious of what's ailing us, and perhaps more important, be willing to accept what the trouble spot is communicating. This starts with believing the idea that health is a continuum. Going to a doctor before they feel injured can take some work for runners who are used to acknowledging only broken bones and torn ligaments.
To give one example, many runners notice a tightness or soreness along the outside of their leg weeks before getting a full-blown case of IT band syndrome. Instead of waiting until there's severe pain and restricted movement, a prehab program would begin treating the potential injury the moment symptoms presented. This might include using a foam roller to break up adhesions in the IT band, icing sore points, stretching, and under the guidance of a physical therapist, strengthening the upper leg muscles in isolation to prevent future injury.
Prehab can take any number of forms, from performing static stretching at night to getting a monthly sports massage. Yoder Begley had her longest string of healthy seasons while working closely with a chiropractor who specializes in active release therapy. She also strongly recommends all runners get checked by a physical therapist for muscle imbalances. "I think people would stay healthier and have longer careers if they would do that," she says. "It's worth the time and energy and money. I think it can save a lot of injuries down the road."
Simpler measures can pay big dividends, too. At the initial onset of an overuse injury (like IT band syndrome), Brolinson recommends reducing mileage by 10 to 20 percent, going to a trusted sports medicine specialist for a comprehensive musculoskeletal examination, and incorporating cross-training to maintain cardiovascular fitness. This offers you the best chance to keep training for the races that matter most. "Look, I'm a sports medicine physician, not a coach," says Brolinson. "But here's what I know about coaching. If you're able to train consistently, no matter what training program you utilize, [you'll get better]. If you're injured, you can't train consistently. The athletes that have the poorest performance over time, be it over a season or a career, are those that are recurrently injured."
Despite our best intentions, the vast majority of us will get hurt sometime in our careers. If an injury is serious enough to sideline you, getting an accurate diagnosis from a licensed professional is critical, as rehabilitation protocols vary greatly from injury to injury. When first consulting a medical provider, Yoder Begley recommends asking three questions: What is it? How do we fix it? And how do I make sure I never get it again? "I've gotten to the point with doctors where if they can't answer those three questions for me, I need to find someone else," she says.
In the meantime, Rea believes that keeping runners engaged in cross-training activities and focused on their long-term goals is vital. "When athletes have been injured here, it's similar to when they're healthy," he says. "We'll sit down and map out a training plan as it relates to their goals. We definitely don't put the goals out of their mind. If anything, we try to keep it at the forefront."
Most of us can continue to cross-train in the pool through even the worst running injuries. Cycling, cross-country skiing, and riding an elliptical also offer alternative ways to keep the cardiovascular system primed during this period of forced rest. This helps keep us in a healthy routine and speeds up our transition time to normal running once we're cleared for activity.
There are instances where an injury may prove to be too devastating – emotionally or physically – to train through. "It's at those points where I'm at my very, very end, that I just say, 'I'm stepping away from things,'" Yoder Begley says. "Sometimes it's for a few days, sometimes it's a week. And in that week, I'm just a normal person. I don't worry about trying to get the exercises in, I don't worry about trying to get the workouts in. I just leave it alone. A lot of times leaving it alone is the best thing. Usually when I come back, things are a lot better. You're in a better place mentally and physically."
And that, if we've learned anything, is the key to better health.
Unknown Quantity
Pinning down reliable numbers on injuries is a notoriously difficult task.
Perhaps you've seen this statistic floating around: 70 percent of runners will get hurt in a given year. That sounds damning, but where did the figure come from? The answer: Who the heck knows? Various studies from the last decade have pegged the annual injury rate at anywhere between 20 and 80 percent. Because these injuries are all self-reported, and the definition of a runner varies greatly in each of them, it's hard to discern any statistical significance from these numbers. More revealing has been the change in the top-reported injury site, from the Achilles tendon in the early 1970s to the knee since the end of that decade. Whether that's caused by footwear changes or a more diverse running population has never been fully settled.
Going to Prehab
Why don't more runners seek help before devastating injuries strike? That's not the way our health care system is set up. Most doctors are trained in healing injuries, not preventing them, which is why the first question is, "So, why are you here?" Runners are equally culpable; they seek help only when they're hurting, not when they're healthy.
Now, however, clinics across the country are trying to turn that notion on its head by bringing runners in for guidance before they have to miss weeks of training due to injury. At these clinics, trained sports therapists and doctors watch you while you run, evaluate your form and put you through a battery of flexibility and strength tests. They'll tell you where you have muscle imbalances that could cause injury and how to strengthen the areas that most need attention. See "Going to Prehab" for more on the types of services such clinics provide and where you can find them.


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O'Donnell to Deliver Speech in D.C. Tomorrow
O'Donnell will speak at the annual Values Voter Summit, which gets fully underway Friday at the Omni Shoreham hotel in Northwest D.C. The Family Research Council, which hosts the convention, added O'Donnell to its list of speakers this morning.
"After she won her race, we invited her to come and speak," said FRC spokesman J.P. Duffy. The group's political arm had endorsed O'Donnell earlier this summer.
The speech will be O'Donnell's first to a broader conservative audience since she won her primary on Tuesday night, achieving one of the biggest upsets of the election season as she defeated Congressman Mike Castle for the Republican Senate nomination in Delaware.
It puts her in the company of Mitt Romney, Reps. Michele Bachmann and Mike Pence, Sean Hannity, and other social conservative leaders who will also speak at the summit.
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The four Pillars of our democracy are: 1) Legislature 2) Executive 3) Judiciary 4) Press. 5th Pillar is "WE THE PEOPLE" i.e. all of us who want a corrupt free India. It is the democracy supported by these 4 pillars. It is only when all of these pillars function cohesively that democracy runs successfully. In the current scenario, corruption is so ubiquitous that it hampers the proper functioning of these pillars. We believe that the situation cannot be fixed by merely complaining and continuing the status quo, but rather all the citizens of our country must come together, take a stand against corruption, unite, and become the 5th Pillar of democracy so as to ensure proper governance. Mobilising people power and making it 'Social Capital' through 5th Pillar's coalition of citizens to fight corruption thereby strengthening the four pillars of democracy is the eventual goal.
Means and methodology adopted in achieving the objective:
1. Distributing "Zero Rupee Notes" amongst public to motivate them to say "I will neither accept nor give bribe".
2. Conducting free RTI training programmes in training members and general public on effective usage of RTI Act to bring about a larger good to the society – ensuring completion of public projects, stopping scandals from happening.
3. Conducting awareness campaigns on "FREEDOM FROM CORRUPTION" in schools and colleges and reach out to the parents through the children.
4. Helping citizens to approach the Vigilance Department and CBI's Anti-Corruption Bureau and file complaints against corrupt officials who demand bribe.
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Homelessness and the Obliteration of Personhood
Emily Topper, writing for The Gargoyle at Flagler College, examined the process of obtaining an I.D. in Florida, and found a system rigged against people experiencing homelessness
This rigged system is repeated in many localities throughout the U.S. Topper spoke with Mark Samson, a Community Resource Officer, who said:
In order to get a Social Security card, they need to have some type of ID card. But in order to get that, they must have the Social Security card.
This is a classic Catch-22 situation, and the damage it does can not be overstated. There may be scattered exceptions, but in most places a person needs I.D. to open a bank account, cash a check, apply for a job, or rent a Post Office box. The laws have even been tightened to prevent someone with no proof of a permanent physical address from using a private mailbox facility. Is the insanity of that sinking in? The person who most needs it, because of having no place to actually live, cannot obtain a mailing address.
The days of anonymous Greyhound Bus journeys are over, because a photo I.D. must be presented even if the ticket is paid for in cash. Without I.D., a person can't rent a hotel or motel room (or even, as a recent widely publicized case demonstrated, occupy a room paid for by kind strangers.)
A person in need of any kind of government assistance, whether it be food stamps, medical treatment, or disability benefits, is ineligible without I.D. And good luck getting into a temporary shelter. Sure, whoever runs the shelter needs to protect guests from violent criminals and sexual predators. But the policy, as it stands, also puts vulnerable people at risk by leaving them on the streets with the violent criminals and sexual predators.
A Typical Story
Topper relates the story of Vincent Youngberg of St. Augustine. During a recent incarceration, his vehicle registration had expired and a ticket went unpaid, so the car was impounded. After being released from prison, Youngberg learned that getting the car back would require I.D., which in turn would require a Social Security card, birth certificate, and two proofs of residency. And money for the towing and storage fees, of course. Before he could get any of this together, the impoundment contractor sold the car along with its contents—including the birth certificate that Youngberg needed to prove his existence.
Requesting a replacement birth certificate is a red-tape-intensive job that involves the ability to fill out forms, a payment to the bureaucracy, a usable mailing address, and a long, long wait while the state in question takes weeks or months to process the application. It amounts to such a grueling ordeal that some specialist agency workers and volunteers do nothing but help people acquire the paperwork to validate their lives. Homeless advocates in St. Augustine work with a couple of substitutes which, though inadequate, are "better than nothing." Beth Kuhn, a caseworker at the St. Francis House, told the reporter:
If [the homeless] were treated at Flagler Hospital, they can ask for a face-sheet from the records office there. This sheet is accepted at the Social Security office, and they will give you a printout… valid enough to get a real state ID. Once you have that, you can go back and get a real Social Security card.
Not exactly a miracle of accommodation, but better than the alternative. Topper says a person leaving prison receives a practically useless paper with a picture and booking information, and quotes Vincent Youngberg:
It never expires, but no one except law enforcement accepts it. I don't understand it. I was fingerprinted when I was released from prison. Why can't they use those fingerprints? Why can't they just give me a photo I.D.? Even if it was a temporary one for 90 days, just so I could get something.
Is the irony sufficiently glaring? The fingerprints of former inmates are in the system, along with their complete histories, their facial biometrics, and probably their DNA. The government was sufficiently convinced of their identities, letting them serve the sentences. Shouldn't they at least come out of prison with viable identification?
Source: "Homeless struggle to obtain IDs, Social Security cards in Florida," Flagler.edu, 10/25/13
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Austin's Protect and Serve Survey
One of the traditions of House the Homeless (founded in 1989) is the survey through which people experiencing homelessness in Austin, Texas, can go on record about various matters that affect their lives. The questions were composed by the organization's president and founder, Richard R. Troxell, who is also Director of Legal Aid for the Homeless.
This year's topic, presented at the annual Thermal Underwear Distribution Party, was "Protect and Serve," and concerned interactions with the police. One word instantly springs to mind when describing the results: appalling.
277 participants, averaging 45 years of age, answered the questions, with about four times as many males as females responding. A lot of mistreatment is the petty kind of stuff that housed people rarely encounter, like being told to "move along" when in a public place. Then, there is another tier of harassment, revealed in answer to the question, "Did you ever get a ticket, go to court, then be told your ticket is not in the system yet and you would have to return?"
The Community Court system is supposed to be an improvement on the old way of handling minor crime, but in far too many cases, as Richard notes, it "actually hinders their ability to change their condition of being homeless." Here is how he puts it:
We have been told that people have often had to return to the court multiple times before a ticket is reported to the court. If a person is unable to coordinate their response with the submittal of the ticket, then it will "go to warrant." This will result in the arrest of the individual for what was otherwise only a class C ticket, equivalent to a parking ticket.
When you don't have a car or a telephone or a computer; when there is no secure place to store your belongings; when you don't have the right clothes or accessories to protect yourself from the weather; when you don't know where your next meal will come from or where you will sleep that night; when you are physically disabled or suffering from mental illness— EVERYTHING is enormously difficult.
So, what does the system do? Too often, it responds by demanding that you show up somewhere that is hard to get to, dragging everything you own along because there is no safe place to leave it. You have to walk a long way, or wait for transportation that you might be unable to pay for—and don't even think about trying to break the law against hitch-hiking. You have to get there on time, regardless of how hot or cold it is outside, or how much pain you may be having.
It Gets Worse
And then, too often, the system says you have to come back because, through no fault of your own, the system isn't ready for you. Or it punishes you for not knowing you were supposed to show up, or insists on your attendance at some place far from the nearest food source and at the wrong time of day to make it back in time to eat or even worse, to sign up for a bed. And if you have one or more children to worry about, everything is exponentially more demanding.
It's as if the system is deliberately and maliciously designed to crush the spirit and drain the last ounce of energy and hope from a person—and Austin is a model city, better than a lot of other American cities by many orders of magnitude. Imagine what hellish places some of them must be! Austin's No Sit/No Lie ordinance is shining example of compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act—and yet, even that hard-won, monumental victory has not succeeded in compelling the police to always do the right thing.
The Protect and Serve Survey results were sent, along with a cover letter written by Richard R. Troxell, to Austin's City Manager, Police Chief, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, City Council members, Public Safety commissioners, Human Rights commissioners, and to the National Coalition for the Homeless— and future posts will have more to say about it.
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When Veteran Rescue Does Not Go According to Plan
Every now and then, a news story appears that promises this or that kind of housing for a certain number of homeless veterans in a certain place. The project is announced with great fanfare, but the inevitable snags and push-backs get less publicity. Sometimes, the public is lulled by reports that action will be taken on an issue, and forgets to follow up to see if anything actually got done.
In St. Louis, Missouri, in January, the local point-in-time count identified 1,328 people experiencing homelessness, of whom 151 were military veterans. Among them, 100 were already in transitional housing. In July, the remaining 51 moved into apartments thanks to Operation:Reveille. A contemporary news report said,
Based on the veteran's needs, he or she will receive services that include housing assistance, employment opportunities, intense case management, substance abuse treatment, health and mental health treatment, transportation, food, financial counseling and related social services.
Each vet would have a list of community resources, a bus pass, a peer-support member, and a case manager to tie it all together. It all sounds great, right? St. Louis congratulated itself in glowing terms:
The City's Department of Human Services will develop a system of service that ensures a veteran never again sleeps on the streets in the City of St. Louis or in an emergency shelter….The City of St. Louis is positioned to become the first city in the country to end homelessness among military veterans.
A few months later, in October, Jesse Bogan reported for Stripes on the outcome of the program. The veterans had moved in to their new apartments believing that all their needs would be met for up to a year, if necessary. The ultimate goal, of course, was self-sufficiency, and by this time 13 residents had jobs and others were interviewing with prospective employers.
The Letdown
But there were problems. The power was turned off in three vets' apartments, and five more had received final warnings of imminent disconnection. They were under the impression that the nonprofit agency providing case management, Gateway 180, would pay the electricity bills, but this turned out not to be so. Gateway 180 said it passed the bills along to the city, which was supposed to pay out of the federal funding. According to the city government website,
Operation:Reveille is funded primarily with $750,000 of existing Emergency Solutions Grants Program funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Additional funds from other local, private and federal sources will also be used.
But somehow the bills were not paid. Operation:Reveille lists 21 partner organizations, which is almost one organization for every 2 individuals receiving help. Maybe the broth was spoiled by the multiplicity of chefs in the kitchen, but apparently the city reneged on its financial responsibility agreements and, in the words of Gateway 180's executive director Kathleen Heinz Beach, the collaboration became "a contractual nightmare." Bogan reported:
Gateway wasn't responsible to pay bills for the veterans, rather provide mental health assessments and case management. But the first month's rent wasn't being paid. Landlords were getting antsy, Beach said, so Gateway 180 finally stepped in to pay it. She said the city later reimbursed her agency for August and September rent.
One particular Operation:Reveille tenant had moved in already owing the electric company $500 from non-payment of services in the past, and the rule for such a contingency was either non-existent or misunderstood by the case workers. Why wasn't the protocol for this and many other situations clearly spelled out? And why, right from the start, did the city drag its feet on meeting its obligations?
Gateway 180 said it would continue to pay some bills, but that doing so would reduce the total benefit for each vet, so its financial duty to the program would run out before year's end.
The Odd Man Out
Only one of the 51 Operation:Reveille veterans had actually seen combat, and he was being ejected from the program for falling asleep with food on the stove and starting a fire. Yes, this antisocial behavior endangers others. But isn't the totally out-of-touch, incompetent individual exactly the person who needs help most? There is no word on whether he returned to the street or was placed in some institution with more supervision.
There is, however, news of a 44-unit apartment building involved in Operation:Reveille, which is currently on the real estate market. Would it be too cynical to wonder if it was it bought as an investment and fixed up with taxpayers' money? The notice says:
Great Apartment Complex that has been completely renovated… The owner has begun bringing in a lot of Veterans through multiple subsidized programs, such as VASH, Operation Reveille, St Patrick's Center, & US Vets. Property is being SOLD "As Is."
Source: "Operation: Reveille," stlouis-mo.gov,July 31, 2014
Source: "Highly publicized homeless veterans housing program hits snags," Stripes.com, October 2, 2014
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Another Look at Washington, D.C.
Each city has its own particular culture and problems, and it's instructive to pick one out for a closer look. Part of the uniqueness of the homelessness picture in Washington, D.C., is that it is America's capital. To some observers this implies that whatever the government does ought to happen there more efficiently, more sanely, and more humanely than anywhere else. Otherwise, how can it claim to be a "capital"? The word comes from Latin, and relates to the head. If the head is sick, how can any other part of the body be well?
Kathryn Baer provides a really stunning breakdown of all the latest numbers, and none of them are good. She mentions the most recent one-night count of people experiencing homelessness in the District of Columbia:
On a night late last January, 1,231 families in the District were in an emergency shelter or transitional housing. This represents a one-year increase of about 25.2% — and a mind-boggling increase of 109.7% over 2008.
At this one point in time, 2,236 children were homeless and with parents or other caretakers.
Washington, D.C., is surrounded by the six of the 10 richest counties in the the nation — for instance, Fairfax County. There, the count found 1,534 homeless individuals, one-third of them children. Young students from Capitol Hill Montessori participated in a program, run by a government agency and the National Geographic Society, designed to "use geographic information systems and local data to bring light to social causes." Using data from the education department, they created a map illustrating how many homeless students are enrolled in each D.C.-area school.
At the beginning of this year, Washington recreation centers were repurposed as family shelters, but few parents feel safe in them, and fears over children's safety have sparked rebellious attitudes. Azmat Khan wrote:
Seventy-nine homeless families are currently suing the city over the makeshift conditions, and on Monday, a D.C. Superior Court Judge ordered the city to immediately provide more private rooms for families as the class-action lawsuit plays out.
After a series of welfare motels and horrible apartments from which they were frequently evicted, 8-year-old Relisha Rudd lived with her mother and brothers in the shelter that used to be D.C.'s General Hospital. Shamika Young allowed her daughter to leave the premises with a trusted family friend, and it was probably a fatal decision. Relisha's fate is still unknown, but the margin for hope is between slim and nonexistent.
Her disappearance can't be blamed on the shelter administration. It's not a prison, and those who suggest that the authorities perform bed checks, or take other intrusive measures, are misguided. Even homeless parents are entitled to some dignity, and the degree of surveillance necessary to prevent a similar occurrence would be unconscionable.
On the other hand
However… there is absolutely no doubt that Relisha hated the shelter, described as a "grim place with bedbugs and no playground." A Washington Post piece by Theresa Vargas, Emma Brown, Lynh Bui and Peter Hermann paints a sordid picture and gives a definite impression that the repulsiveness of the venue was as much a factor as anything else in Relisha's disappearance. Relatives said she would pretend to have asthma attacks in order to spend time at their homes. Teachers and staff described her reluctance to leave at the end of the school day.
Why didn't some family member step up? For one thing, if a family receiving housing assistance wants to take in a relative, they have to negotiate forbidding and complicated Section 8 red tape. And maybe Relisha's mother would not have agreed anyway. One Post commenter wrote:
I've seen first-hand my own parents' hands tied by "the system" when trying to take care of a family member child whose parent(s) effectively abdicate responsibility via abuse/neglect. There's virtually nothing you can do until that parent legally releases them to your care or until the children are forcibly removed by the overworked, overburdened, underpaid, understaffed 'system.'
The article also points to the self-perpetuating nature of such an unstable existence:
Shamika Young … also lived in shelters as a child. She was 6 years old when she entered Virginia's foster-care system, where she bounced between homes until the age of 18, relatives said. About a year later, she had Relisha.
Critics can't help asking why an unmarried teen in such a precarious situation would have a baby. There are many answers, including the decreasing availability of abortion. People with more empathy understand that maybe the father promised a home and stability. Maybe the young woman just wanted somebody in her life to love her — and a baby is the one person guaranteed to do that, instinctively and automatically. Personal issues aside, it is crystal clear that allowing so many kids to grow up in shelters and foster homes is beneficial to no one, and certainly not to society as a whole.
Source: "Over 25 Percent Increase in Homeless DC Families, Annual Count Finds," PovertyAndPolicy.wordpress.com, 05/15/14
Source: "More Than 1500 Reported Homeless in Fairfax County" greateralexandria.patch.com, 05/23/12
Source: "Where do DC homeless students go to school? These tween hackers can show you!" MiddleChildInDC.wordpress.com, 05/04/14
Source: "Are We Doing Enough to Protect Homeless Children?" AlJazeera.com, 03/27/14
Source: "Before Relisha Rudd went missing, the 8-year-old longed to escape DC's homeless shelter," WashingtonPost.com, 04/05/14
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Head Trauma, Homelessness, and Crazy
Scientists studied men from a homeless shelter in Toronto to discover each person's history of head injuries. They interviewed the participants (ages 27 to 81) using the standardized Brain Injury Screening Questionnaire. The team's own report said:
Demographic information and detailed histories of brain injuries were obtained. Participants with positive and negative screening results were compared…. A positive screening result was significantly associated with a lifetime history of arrest or mental illness and a parental history of substance abuse.
Almost half of the participants had suffered traumatic brain injury (TBI), which can even lead to seizures. Among them, these numbers relating to the precipitating incident were recorded:
— assault, 66%
— sports or recreation, 44%
— vehicle accident, 42%
— fall, 42%
Since those percentages add up to well over 100%, obviously many individuals have fallen prey to more than one head injury. Usually, the first time was in childhood, possibly as a result of being raised by parents who were substance abusers, which showed up as a positive correlation. In men who were under 40, the most prevalent cause of neurotrauma was falling because of alcohol or drug blackouts. For those over 40, sadly, assault was the most common cause. The researchers also found that 87% of the injuries happened before the participants became homeless.
That research team was led by Jane Topolovec-Vranic, Ph.D., a clinical researcher in the Neuroscience Research Program of St. Michael's Hospital. Meanwhile, another research project was in progress — the Health and Housing in Transition Study, conducted by Dr. Stephen Hwang of the Centre for Research on Inner City Health. Dr. Hwang collected data not only in Toronto but in Vancouver and Ottawa as well. Among his subjects, the incidence of TBI was seven times higher than in the general population.
An attorney who represents accident victims wrote:
[T]he victims of traumatic brain injuries so often have the potential to suffer longer than almost any other group. TBI victims frequently experience problems such as loss of memory, loss of cognitive function, physical impairment and personality changes or disorders. In simple terms, a person who suffers a traumatic brain injury may never be the same after the accident…. While a TBI may result in serious problems, the problems are almost always made worse if the victim cannot afford good medical care.
In Austin, Texas, House the Homeless conducted a health survey of 501 participants, which revealed that 83 had suffered a brain injury; 45 had experienced at least one seizure; 70 had a history of panic attacks; 175 reported themselves as mentally ill; and 330 said they sometimes need to stop and rest before they can continue walking to a destination.
Richard R. Troxell fought for years to exempt disabled people, including those with TBI, from being charged a $500 fine under Austin's No Sit/No Lie ordinance. With disability credentials, a homeless person is allowed to sit for 30 minutes to recover strength, and in extreme weather (over 100 degrees) any homeless person is permitted the grace of being able to sit or lie for a while. House the Homeless got the new rules written into the Police Procedures Manual and published small laminated versions of the rules for distribution to people experiencing homelessness.
This may sound like a trivial issue, but think again, and answer the Bonus Question: Which is more crazy — a homeless person with TBI, or a city that has spent over a quarter of a million dollars to prosecute one individual for violating a No Sit/No Lie ordinance? From Los Angeles comes the ludicrous story of how 59-year-old Ann Moody has been arrested 59 times and spent a total of 15 months in jail, mostly for sitting. The Los Angeles Times quoted Moody: "We're human beings, not to be pushed around like cattle. We have a right to be stationary."
Source: "Traumatic brain injury among men in an urban homeless shelter: observational study of rates and mechanisms of injury," CMAJOpen.ca, 04/25/14
Source: "Almost half of homeless men had traumatic brain injury in their lifetime," ScienceDaily.com, 04/25/14
Source: "Homeless Men Have High TBI Rates," May 2014
Source: "Homeless Grandmother Arrested 59 Times for Sitting on Sidewalk," DemocraticUnderground.com, 05/02/14
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What Else Is Salt Lake City Doing for the Homeless?
Last time, House the Homeless looked at how things are working out in Salt Lake City, Utah. Getting every military veteran off the street is a big priority there, as both the city and the state want to continue to lead the way toward the Veterans Administration's goal of eliminating veteran homelessness by next year.
Freedom Landing is owned and administered by the municipal Housing Authority. The 110-unit transitional housing facility provides not only a roof but several case managers to help individuals focus on stability and re-entry into both the job market and society in general. At any given time, close to half the residents are already employed and preparing to launch out on their own.
The veterans who live in the repurposed hotel contribute to their rent, and the VA pays part of it. It appears that meals are catered in, but up until a year ago, the only way for a resident to prepare food was to keep an electric skillet or rice-cooker in his or her room. Last March, an underutilized TV room was remodeled into the Freedom Diner and stocked with food donated by the Mormon Church.
Two stoves were installed, one of them wheelchair-accessible, as are some of the tables and counters. People who like to cook are welcome to, not only for themselves but for sharing as well. The idea is to reduce isolation, provide a hangout for morning coffee drinking, and generally foster a sense of camaraderie.
Just two months ago, the Fourth Street Clinic announced its expansion plans, including a dental care center for the homeless, which hopefully will be fully functional by the end of 2015. The Salt Lake Tribune reported:
Dental care has been a major service gap for uninsured Utahns, as decayed or missing teeth erode self-confidence, contribute to unemployment and perpetuate homelessness…. Oral health care will be fully integrated into Fourth Street Clinic's primary care services and delivered by a combination of paid staff, students, and volunteers. Fourth Street Clinic is currently engaged in a broad-based community fundraising campaign to raise the $450,000 needed to annually operate the dental clinic.
LGBT Youth
Salt Lake Tribune reporter Peggy Fletcher Stack wrote earlier this week about the Family Acceptance Project, designed to alleviate the isolation and despair experienced by teens and young adults who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender.
Research led by Caitlin Ryan of San Francisco State University has shown that in any given year more than 5,000 young people experience homelessness in Utah. About 40% of them are LGBT, mostly from homes characterized as socially and religiously conservative. The Mormon Church is collaborating with other churches and organizations to prevent homelessness among young people by educating families and urging them not to react judgmentally to the news that a teenager is gay, bisexual, or transgender.
'Support Salt Lake Street News Vendors, Not Panhandlers'
The slogan quoted above refers to the Salt Lake City Mission's newspaper vending program which was launched last fall to help hundreds of people experiencing homelessness to make honest money as independent marketing agents of the Street Newspaper. The available information is confusing. Reader comments to the Salt Lake Tribune story about the program included this one: "I thought I'd get writing and news from the local homeless population but instead I read nationally syndicated opinions."
Apparently this was not a true launch but a revival of an earlier version of the publication. The Mission's website includes issues dated from May/June 2010 up until February 2012, with no indication of what happened between then and last October. But back in the early days, there was plenty of local material. Volume 1 Number 1 contained such stories as "Life of a Katrina Evacuee" and "Dying Boy's Last Wish is to Help Homeless," and the rest of the pages were all pretty much about street life. Sadly, less than two years later, almost every page included a "your ad could be here" type of space filler. May the newest incarnation of the Street Newspaper prove more successful for all involved.
Source: "New 'diner' will help Utah's homeless veterans share a meal," SLTrib.com, 03/04/13
Source: "Clinic opening to fill dental-care gaps for homeless," SLTrib.com, 01/18/14
Source: "New program aims to prevent suicide, homelessness in LGBT Mormon youth," SLTrib.com, 03/14/14
Source: "Homeless sell "Street Newspaper" rather than panhandling," SLTrib.com, 10/02/13
Source: "Salt Lake Street News," SaltLakeCityMission.org
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Dollars and Sense in Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City, Utah, has boarded the Housing First train in a very promising way. To calculate how economical the solution is, the founders contrasted the cost of housing people in apartments with the cost of incarcerating them and the cost of emergency room treatment for all the various illnesses and injuries that can befall a person who lives on the streets. Cory Doctorow writes:
The "Housing First" program's goal was to end chronic homelessness in Utah within 10 years. Through 2012, it had helped reduce the 2,000 people in that category when it began by 74 percent. Lloyd Pendleton, director of Utah's Homeless Task Force, said the state is on track to meet its goal by 2015, and become the first state in the nation to do so.
2015! That's next year! Salt Lake's commitment to the Housing First ideal began to flower back in 2005, when research showed that the state spent $16,670 a year on jailing and/or providing emergency medical services for each chronically homeless individual. These were people who had experienced homelessness for an average of 25 years.
On the other hand, it would cost the taxpayers only $11,000 per capita and per annum to provide not only an apartment but the attention of a caseworker. We couldn't find a suitable graphic for Salt Lake City, but the chart on this page illustrates the same type of comparison for Los Angeles in a 2008 study. The revolutionary part of the Housing First plan is to attach no strings. People are offered the resources and encouragement to make positive changes, but the deal is unconditional.
Mayor Ralph Becker announced in January that Salt Lake City had "ended veterans' homelessness" except for eight individuals who did not want homes but who were still being contacted by social workers in hopes that they would change their minds.
There may be some confusion, however. Not all homeless vets are in the "chronic homeless" category, which is defined as experiencing homelessness for at least a year or four times within three years while coping with a disability. Indeed, some online comments reacting to an MSNBC story indicate that either miscommunication or misunderstanding is in effect.
One commenter's veteran son ended up living in a truck because he did not receive the help he was entitled to, a situation the commenter blamed on caseworker incompetence. A cab driver wrote in to offer a specialized tour of the city to "anyone who wants to see the real situation." Another commenter served up a description that by no means resembles "no strings attached":
Salt Lake & Phoenix have thousands of homeless veterans on the streets; and the veterans they are calling 'HOUSED' are in prison-like & all-controlling insane asylum complexes, where the veterans are baby-sat 24/7 & threatened with being thrown to the streets if they have ONE BEER while watching a football game!
Still, there is no doubt that many, many people experiencing homelessness have been helped. But despite all the good news, conditions are not idyllic in Utah's capital city.
Only a few weeks before the mayor's speech, Marjorie Cortez, writing for Deseret News, reported that in the previous year only five new units of permanent supportive housing had been added, and no transitional housing units. She interviewed Matt Minkevitch, who serves as executive director of private nonprofit social service agency The Road Home, about food insecurity and learned that during that year emergency food requests had increased by 15%.
In December, the city bureaucracy flexed its muscles and reminded distributors of food to the homeless of the necessity for papers, including a "free expression" permit, a waste management permit, and a food-safety temporary event permit from the Health Department, which must be in hand at least a couple weeks before the event. On the surface, they seem easy enough to get and not outlandishly expensive. Yet this has created big problems for The Road Home. After interviewing the organization's community relations director, Celeste Eggert, journalist Amy McDonald reported:
A bill that passed the House and awaits final action in the Senate would exempt volunteers from the requirement to have a food handler's permit to dish out meals to the homeless…. When the homeless shelter and aid organization learned of the health rules and informed volunteer groups, it lost 39 volunteer groups. As a result, the organization missed out on an estimated 5,850 donated meals…. Eggert says the organization's winter-overflow shelter in Midvale received no donated meals in January and February.
The ironic thing is, 30 years of volunteer food preparation have not resulted in one instance of food poisoning or the finding of foreign objects in any meals.
Source: "Fighting homelessness by giving homeless people houses," BoingBoing.net, 01/22/14
Source: "Second American City Ends Chronic Homelessness Among Veterans," ThinkProgress.org, 01/06/14
Source: "Salt Lake City joins Phoenix in ending veteran homelessness," MSNBC.com, 01/06/14
Source: "Report: Salt Lake City's homelessness efforts making gains but food needs still unmet," DeseretNews.com, 12/12/13
Source: "SLC city officials: Must have a permit to hand out food to the homeless," 4Utah.com, 12/24/2013
Source: "Food safety rules block thousands of meals to homeless in SLC," SLTrib.com, 03/11/14
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A Viewpoint of Austin
These posts often focus on Austin for two reasons, the more obvious of which is that House the Homeless is located there. The other is that Austin's display of leadership is always worth watching. Now it's time to catch up again, because a lot has happened in the capital city of Texas, including the distribution of a white paper titled "Prevent Homelessness at Its Core: 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness, Restore Human Dignity and Save Business and Taxpayers $ Millions!"
This document was sent to 1,424 mayors of American cities, along with a Resolution they are urged to sign and send to the U.S. Congress. According to the trim tab metaphor, the application of just a little bit of leverage can have an enormous effect. For those who like their information in e-book form, please follow the link to Livable Incomes: Real Solutions That Stimulate the Economy. The plan just might be the trim tab that nudges the rudder that turns the whole ship onto a new course. It calls for changes to the Federal Minimum Wage and the Supplemental Security Income stipend.
Two things
One adjustment would affect the lowest level of employees, potentially preventing millions of people from falling into homelessness, and allowing millions more to escape the homeless condition. For Americans who can work, businesses need to take responsibility for paying them enough that a person working a 40-hour week can afford a place to live (i.e., an efficiency apartment), utilities, food, and the other necessities of life. What a lot of people don't realize is that many homeless people do work. How can you hold a well-paying job when there's no place to iron a shirt or get a good night's sleep? Housed people are much more effective workers.
For those who can't work due to disability, the rest of us need to continue to help them with shelter, food, clothing, etc. The issue has nothing to do with political party affiliation — Democrat-vs.-Republican doesn't enter into it. This is about getting America back on its feet, dusted off, and back in the role of the greatest country in the world.
The local scene
In January, Richard R. Troxell of House the Homeless presented Hill Country Middle School with the Curtis Ray Wilson Compassion Award. The school raised just over $6,000 to donate to the Thermal Underwear Drive and New Year's Day lunch, warming and feeding a lot of people experiencing homelessness.
The Austin American-Statesman is incredibly fortunate to have Andrea Ball on staff, a reporter who has written knowledgeably about homeless issues for years. Recently she reported on the homeless count, which officially has decreased for the fourth consecutive year. Starting from 2011, the numbers show a 16% decrease, and House the Homeless has already extensively discussed the problems with obtaining accuracy in these counts. Ball writes:
Regardless of whether the count captures the true number of people living on the streets, most can agree that the city has made strides in increasing the number of housing units for homeless and low-income people funded with federal, city and private money….
Over the past six years, the city's supply of permanent supported housing units — low-rent homes that include support services such as job training or mental health care — has jumped from 374 in 2008 to 1,035 in 2013…. The city is likely to have more than 1,300 permanent supportive housing units by the end of the year.
Texas is particularly fond of its veterans, and in Austin federally funded housing vouchers currently make housed life possible for 355 veterans. Ball also mentions Walter Moreau, executive director of Foundation Communities, which has been responsible for developing 3,400 low-income housing units over the past half-decade or so. (Richard calls Moreau a "great guy.") Austin, keep on being a dynamic, fair-minded, sane and compassionate place, a great example, and a beacon of hope.
Source: "House the Homeless Nonprofit Releases 10-Year Plan to End and Prevent Economic Homelessness," Yahoo.com, 01/30/14
Source: "The Power of Trim Tabs – How Small Changes Create Big Results," ThoughtMedicine.com, July 2010
Source: "Subject: Hill Country raises over $6,000 for homeless," Statesman.com, 01/22/14
Source: "Austin's homeless population is down 16 percent since 2011," Foundcom.org, 02/16/14
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The Cost of Prosecuting Homelessness
Sometimes people have the most inane knee-jerk reactions to ideas. For instance, the idea of housing the homeless elicits howls of resistance — "Think how much money that would cost! It would be so expensive!" Well, O.K., let's start by thinking about how much money goes into doing things the way they are currently done. This enlightening quote is from Elizabeth Dillard, executive director of the Homeless Resource Network in Columbus, Ohio:
Homelessness is about what happens in our emergency rooms. It's about what happens in our jails, what happens with our fire and rescue, what happens when a building burns down because a person built a fire because he was cold.
Homelessness is about what happens in our libraries. A disgruntled San Franciscan recently warned his fellow citizens that since the Internet has made public libraries less relevant, the bureaucrats "scrambled around" to figure out what to do with libraries and decided to turn them into homeless outreach centers.
We live in a society that levies fines on people who obviously have no money, for the crime of having nowhere to live, and punishes them by providing a place to "live" that's temporary, dangerous, and locked. Then we punish them further by putting marks on their record to guarantee they will never become employed, productive members of the community. Could anything be more absurd than the street-jail-street merry-go-round?
It's worse than bad, it's useless
Upon learning how Eureka, Calif., spent $13,000 to prosecute one person for sleeping in public, Arnie Klein, a retired deputy district attorney, called the judicial system a travesty. He elaborates:
The maximum penalty of six months in county jail or a $1,000 fine is a farce…. In no way will this prosecution prevent homeless people from camping on our public lands. Having 40 years' experience on both sides of the table in the arena of criminal law, I would have recommended a more humane and cost-saving solution.
I do know for a fact … that money was expended to pay the judge, the bailiff, the court reporter, the jury, the defense attorney, and the prosecutor, as well as for the use of the courtroom, to pursue this fool's errand.
On the other side of the country, in Orlando, Fla., public defender Bob Wesley had this to say:
Any time you have a court case, you're going to have judge with a graduate degree, two lawyers there, bailiffs in the courtroom, court reporters — you've got to have a court, all to solve the problem.
From just south of Orlando, in Osceola County, Scott Keyes reported that, over the past 10 years, a grand total of $5 million has been spent on 37 individuals. Did this $5 million buy them houses fitted out with all the mod cons, and perhaps a swimming pool and a couple of servants? No, all it paid for was to put them in jail a bunch of times.
The charges were what are called "quality-of-life" offenses, which basically means it bums everybody out and ruins their day to see people snoring on the sidewalk. Never mind how the people experiencing homelessness feel about it — their lives don't have any quality, and aren't supposed to, because they screwed up by taking a wrong turn in life's journey.
Some of the "bad choices" that have rendered people homeless include joining the military and coming back with a head injury; needing to escape from a spouse who turned abusive; working for a company that fires loyal employees the day before their pensions kick in; and accruing ruinous medical bills from being hit by an uninsured driver. Babies make the stupid choice of being born to homeless parents!
It's worse than useless, it's bad, and it's costly!
Those 37 Osceola County homeless people piled up 1,230 arrests, resulting in 61,896 jail days at $80 per day, resulting in a cumulative price tag of $5,081,680. Keyes weighs the costs:
A far cheaper option than criminalizing and jailing the homeless is to provide them with permanent supportive housing. An average permanent supportive housing unit in Osceola County costs $9,602 per year, which includes $8,244 for rent and utility subsidies and $1,358 for a case manager (with a case load of 30 clients). In other words, each supported housing unit costs the county 40 percent less than what they're currently paying to put homeless residents in jail.
For more on this question of costs, please see Richard R. Troxell's Looking Up at the Bottom Line, pages 102 and 131.
Source: "Homelessness organizations look to house 100,000 by July," Ledger-Enquirer.com, 01/12/14
Source: "Surprise! San Francisco Public Library Now a Homeless Shelter," DailyPundit.com, 01/17/14
Source: "Hauling homeless into court a waste," Times-Standard.com, 01/08/14
Source: "Arresting homeless people for sleeping outside costs taxpayers," WFTV.com, 12/25/13
Source: "One County Spent Over $5 Million Jailing Homeless People Instead Of Giving
Them Homes," ThinkProgress.org, 02/05/14
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Counting the Homeless Not So Simple
In the realm of homelessness, there is always more than plenty of regrettable news to talk about. For instance, the newest fad is people thinking it's cute to take a "selfie" photo with somebody in the background sleeping on the sidewalk. Let's just dismiss that trend as beneath contempt and get back to the count of people experiencing homelessness in America. House the Homeless has looked at several different aspects of it.
Confusion arises from the fact that there are really two different counts. Responsible for both is the local Continuum of Care, comprising the state and local governments and other government agencies concerned with housing, as well as private nonprofits and community mental health associations (i.e., public nonprofits). From them, every year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development demands an annual Point-in-Time count
of everybody in emergency shelters, transitional housing and Safe Havens on a single night.
In addition, every other (odd-numbered) year, the Continuum of Care in each place is responsible for counting the unsheltered. Confusion arises over who is sheltered and who is not. Ivy Farguheson, reporting on the situation in Indiana, puts it like this:
The count defines homelessness in a different manner than school corporations or social service agencies. That definition also changes from time to time. In the past, those sleeping on couches or staying temporarily in rooms of friends and family members could be counted as homeless and still are by Indiana's school corporations and almost all local nonprofits. Now, those individuals and families are not counted as homeless under the HUD definition. Those court-ordered to substance abuse programs such as some men at the Muncie Mission or others paying small fees for housing, including many women at the YWCA of Muncie, can no longer be included in the numbers.
It seems like this could cause a lot of logistical problems. For instance, the CoC administrators also have to report to the appropriate federal agencies how many rooms or beds their facilities contain, so the government knows what resources there already are in a geographical area that's asking for more money. So the bed has to be reported as existing. And the person occupying it is counted as "sheltered" even though it's meant to be the most temporary of accommodations. Meanwhile, that person is not being counted amount the unsheltered, or true homeless. Depending on how the numbers are presented, it can look like more beds are available than actually are, or it can look like fewer people are totally unsheltered than actually are.
So much depends on this job being done accurately and conscientiously. Taking a census is, after all, the vital first step toward directing federal funds to the right places. But social policy reporter Mikel Livingston brings to light something most people have probably never thought about:
The number of homeless as determined by the count is not directly related to the federal dollars an agency or community receives. In other words, it's nothing like public school funding, in which a certain number of students translates into a certain number of dollars. Instead, the count is one of many requirements for those entities to be eligible to apply for funding.
Livingston writes about Tippecanoe County, also coincidentally in Indiana, and about federal policy, which results in the homeless being "severely" undercounted. He mentions some of the many glaring contradictions. In his own state, the 2013 homeless total was down slightly from the 2012 number. But he gives examples to show that "the number of homeless clients who went through just one local shelter hints at a much larger population," concluding:
There are several things the Point-in-Time survey is good for…. But judging the overall size of Tippecanoe County's homeless population isn't one of them.
…[I]n Indianapolis and surrounding Marion County, 1,599 homeless people were identified during the 2013 Point-in-Time survey. But an accompanying study from the Indiana University Policy Institute and the Coalition for Homelessness Intervention & Prevention estimated that between 4,800 and 8,000 people experienced homelessness during the year.
The sad fact is that House the Homeless could fill its pages with anomalies and discrepancies related to the Point-in-Time count until the next one rolls around. We remember the great advocate Mitch Snyder, who once made the suggestion that the homeless could be counted just fine, once they had been brought inside. What a great solution! Meanwhile we look forward to the day when the phrase "homeless count" causes people to scratch their heads with incomprehension, because there will be no people experiencing homelessness.
Source: " 'Counting' the homeless: Official numbers don't tell the story," TheStarPress.com, 01/30/14
Source: "Homeless 'Point-In-Time' snapshot falls short," jconline.com, 02/02/14
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Fisher Students Compete in PricewaterhouseCoopers Tax Competition
On Friday, November 9, 45 St. John Fisher College accounting students competed in the annual PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) tax competition, sponsored by PwC. Fisher is one of only 30 colleges from around the country selected to participate.
There were a total of nine Fisher teams competing, and each team had a faculty coach assigned to them. PwC gave the teams a real-life case that they would receive working in an accounting firm, and they had two weeks to work as a group to develop a solution and a presentation. The presentations were to be 12 minutes in length, and were made to a panel of judges from the local office of PwC.
The teams included:
Team 1
Jen Riekstins
Jimmy Burgasser
Daniel Kelly
Joel Castellini
Shannon Bamann
Team 2
Chris Cumella
Emily O'Neil
Katie Pasier
Allison Mooney
Kelli Bossert
Team 3
Katie Joslyn
Brian Johnson
Charles Fine
Morgan Christiansen
Edith Linares
Team 4
Jason Wilson
Chris Sacheli
Kyle Ingalls
Mark Kazmierski
Jadon O'Donnell
Team 5
Greg Church
Austin Zaprowski
Dan Tydings
Victoria DiGuiseppe
Amber Lennington
Team 6
Eric Williams
Sean McKenna
Jacquelyn Cowley
Thomas Whelehan
Rob Riggio
Team 7
Jacob Skeval
Ryan Andrew
Kyle VanThof
Andrea Eckert
Kyle Stich
Team 8
Mike Vacanti
Asheligh Mallory
Cody Simmons
AJ Magee
Danny Yancone
Team 9
Elisabeth Tayrien
RJ Lostumbo
Tim McMahon
Michele Accorso
Michelle Jennejohn
After hours of competition, the panel announced that the winning team was Team 5 (Greg Church, Austin Zaprowski, Dan Tydings, Victoria DiGuiseppe, and Amber Lennington). The faculty team mentors were Dr. Karyl Mammano and Art Hintz. As the winners, the students received a $1,000 cash prize from PwC. In addition, a video of their presentation will be submitted to PwC's national headquarters in Washington, D.C. for the opportunity to compete in round two. Five presentations are chosen for the third and final round, and those teams will win a $10,000 cash prize and the chance to present at PwC in Washington.
A team presents to the panel of PwC judges.
The winning team!
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It squeals usually every time I turn the wheel all the way in either direction (left and right). Seems to be getting worse as time goes by. Power steering fluid level was actually a little too high. Could too much fluid cause noise? What else could it be?
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Have you checked condition of/changed the belt? Change your belt if you have cracks on the inside or outside of belt, look for vertical and horizontal cracks, change belt if you find either. And yes, too much fluid can be as bad as too little fluid. You can get a "snot bulb for babies"(think its called an aspirator) at $ tree to suck excess fluid out of reservoir but you can't use it on babies after that! Does it need changed? If it smells bad or foul and is brown or black, yes change it. It should be a rich cranberry red color, it will never smell good, but you will know the difference when it smells bad. Hope this helps.
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2015 Santa Cruz X01 AM 27.5" Nomad Carbon Bike
"Amazing!! Wouldnt buy anything else ever!!!!"
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Yes it was incredibly nimble and easy to control (I had the XL!!)
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Idaho Falls Chamber President Resigning
(IDAHO FALLS, ID) – Idaho Falls Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Robb Chiles is stepping down. Chamber members confirmed Wednesday that Chiles had announced his resignation, though the reasoning behind the move was not immediately disclosed. Chiles is reportedly pursuing other options elsewhere. Board member Jim Hammon says he hopes to have a replacement named as soon as possible.
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Best Fertilizer
I have a small mineola tree planted in the ground in Florida (South West, near Sarasota), and it's looking a bit sickly. No new growth and the leaves that stayed on all winter are mostly yellowy, and sparse. It did flower this spring and I pulled off maybe a handful of tiny fruits (the little things left after the flowers fell off) so I could spare it a little energy.
In Feb, I gave it a dose of Palm fertilizer, and drenched it about a month ago with citrus foiler spray. I have also used Citrustone organic fertilizer, but none seem to perk it up at all.
Our soil here is apparently very alkaline, and citrus like acid...so what should I use next? I read on here the Foilage Pro liquid is a good thing for citrus (in the ground too?) and maybe some vinnegar in the water?
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"informative, but really long winded"
There are a lot of useful concepts and ideas, but why say it in 5 minutes when you can take 50? Unfortunately I couldn't hang in there and keep my attention on it, and finally gave up about half way through. Maybe an abridged version would work better?
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I seem to have found a very specific Firefox bug, an wondering if anyone can help.
I have an ASP.NET 3.5 web site that uses Windows Authentication.
In most browsers it works fine, but when viewed with Firefox (v10.0.1) the css background images are not loaded. That is, css like this stop working:
background: url(images/something.png) no-repeat top left;
It seems to be something specific to do with Windows Authentication, because when I use the same markup/css/background images without Windows Authentication, it works OK in Firefox.
(I would post an example page but thats hard to do because the bug only occurs with Windows Authentication)
Any ideas?