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For this study, the authors analyzed the publically available methodology statements and clinical guidelines produced by the 30 largest US physician societies between 2008 and 2012. The authors examined "whether costs are considered in clinical guidance development, mechanism of cost consideration, and the way that cost issues were used in support of specific clinical practice recommendations."
Among the 30 societies examined, 17 (57%) explicitly integrated cost considerations, 4 (13%) implicitly considered costs, 3 (10%) intentionally excluded costs, and 6 (20%) did not discuss costs, concluded study authors. Additionally, among the 17 societies that explicitly integrated cost considerations, 8 (47%) did not do so consistently nor did they discuss specific cost consideration mechanisms.
The authors indicated that the findings are significant for health care providers because recommendations for these societies could play a role in the reimbursement policies of organizations such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Last year, APTA hosted a workshop for sections on developing clinical practice guidelines, where both costs of implementing recommendations and cost savings from following the guidelines were discussed. A similar workshop is scheduled for July this year.
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ST. GEORGE – On the heels of the program's first NCAA West Regional appearance, the Dixie State College baseball team will see new leadership in the dugout for the 2013 season. On Saturday, DSC Athletic Director Jason Boothe named Chris Pfatenhauer as head baseball coach.
"The committee and myself were totally flattered by the level of interest in this job and the exceptional qualifications presented by all applicants," Boothe said. "Chris, however, stood out among the best and we are very excited to have him join the Red Storm family. He brings a great mixture of experience from all levels of intercollegiate baseball including intricate experience recruiting in the West region. We expect the team to not miss a beat under Pfatenhauer's leadership and continue its march towards a College World Series appearance and an eventual National Championship. Dixie State baseball will continue to be known for producing highly competitive teams on a national level with student-athletes that the southern Utah community will be proud to support."
The Las Vegas native and, most recently, assistant coach at the University of Nevada, Reno, assumes the vacancy left by Mike Littlewood upon his departure to coach at Brigham Young University.
"I would like to thank Jason Boothe and his entire staff for the opportunity to lead the Dixie State College Baseball program," Pfatenhauerteful said. "I am grateful for and I would also like to thank President Nadauld and Vice-President Stan Plewe for their commitment to athletics and the development of our student-athletes. The search process was a very positive experience and truly shows the commitment and the schools passion for the student-athlete experience and to compete at the highest level nationally."
Pfatenhauer brings an extensive background in various levels of baseball, as well as teaching. For the last three years, he has worked as the first assistant for the Wolfpack under longtime head coach Gary Powers. His duties included base coaching, working primarily with the infielders, and serving as the program's recruiting coordinator. In addition, Pfatenhauer worked as an adjunct professor and liaison for the UNR School of Medicine and Sports Medicine program. The coach brings knowledge of the Division-II ranks after spending two years at Chico State (Calif.) where he worked with the Wildcat hitters, infielders and taught base running. In addition, he was the recruiting coordinator and assisted in all aspects of the baseball program. During his tenure, the team posted a 77-38 record and were ranked as high as second nationally. Defensively the `Cats finished in the top 15 both years, and the 2009 club ranked first in 15 offensive categories. Each of the last two seasons a Wildcat infielder was named to the National Rawlings Gold Glove team.
Prior to his time at Chico State, Pfatenhauer spent three seasons at the College of the Ozarks (Missouri), the last two as the head coach. In three years, the Bobcats posted a record of 88-74. The 2005 team made the school's first playoff appearances in 20 years, and the 2006 club reached a national ranking of 17th, the highest in the program's history.
From 2001-04, he was the head baseball coach and taught physical education at Faith Lutheran High School in Las Vegas where he led the Crusaders to a 97-23 record. He coached the squad to a pair of state titles and three Southern Nevada Championships while sending 12 players to play collegiate baseball. In 2003 and 2004, he was named AA State Baseball Coach of the Year and garnered AA Southern Nevada Coach of the Year honors three times. During this time, Pfatenhauer also coached the Las Vegas Metro Stars, a scout team for the best players in Sin City. One player during Pfatenhauer's tenure for the Metro Stars was Aaron Friend, who played for Dixie State College from 2008-2010.
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At the SEMpdx monthly event for October, the topic was "Location, location, location" and the presenter was David Mihm. Local search is a topic that didn't exist just a few years ago, but now 20% of all Google queries are local searches, and that percentage doesn't even include smartphone searches, which are local by default.
According to Wikipedia, "Local search is the use of specialized Internet search engines that allow users to submit geographically constrained searches against a structured database of local business listings." In plain English, local search is simply search relevant to the user based on where they are located. Here in Portland, if I search for Chinese restaurants, I most likely am looking for some takeout that is relevant to me, and the top search result (perhaps the most famous Chinese restaurant in New York City or San Francisco's Chinatown) would not matter to me. This is where local search comes in.
Even those with no knowledge of search marketing have probably noticed the local results next to a map on Google when you search for a restaurant, chiropractor or plumber near your area. These are local search results, and they are driven by a unique algorithm in comparison to regular search results. Regular search results depend more on topic keywords about your business, while local search results depend more on a business's location. Since the local results are now shown at the top of a Google search query page, the traditional results barely show. Mihm says we are starting to see the beginning of a trend in which local results are replacing regular/organic search results.
"Younger populations steadily rely on search engines, dismissing print directories when researching local businesses," according to SEMpdx. The primary source of local business information for someone age 18-24 is 45% likely to be a search engine and only 9% likely to be a print Yellow Pages or White Pages directory. In comparison, someone 65+ is 43% likely to consult a print resource and only 22% likely to search online for their information.
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Published: December 28, 1997
'I never thought I was funny,'' Ben Stiller is saying to Janeane Garofalo. ''You think you're funny?''
It's noon on a fall Saturday, and Stiller and Garofalo are discussing the fact that Entertainment Weekly has anointed them Nos. 44 and 39, respectively, of the ''50 Funniest People Alive,'' thanks to their work together (''The Ben Stiller Show,'' ''Reality Bites'') and apart (he in ''Flirting With Disaster,'' she in ''The Larry Sanders Show'' and ''The Truth About Cats and Dogs'').
''I'm definitely not funny,'' Garofalo says seriously. ''I know what's not funny, I know what a hack is, and I laugh at all the right things, but you'd never characterize me as a 'funny person.'''
''I don't understand those lists,'' Stiller says. ''I find it kind of embarrassing to be on it with people like Alan King, who has a whole lifetime of work.'' It may also be a little embarrassing to win such mainstream acceptance. If they really don't think they're funny, why does Garofalo do stand-up? And why, in 1992, did the two of them decide to work on ''The Ben Stiller Show,'' a sketch-comedy series? The show was canceled after only 12 episodes (proof to them that it was funny?) and won a posthumous Emmy for writing (a sign that maybe it wasn't?).
Their protests aside, Stiller and Garofalo are funny -- in a quirky, deadpan, sometimes self-righteous, often self-loathing sort of way. So are many of the friends they struggled along with in the early 90's. Together, they constitute a clique that represents today's version of comedy's smart set. Five years after its demise, ''The Ben Stiller Show'' is proving to be the kind of incubator for performers and writers that ''Your Show of Shows'' was in the 50's and ''Saturday Night Live'' and ''SCTV'' were in the 70's and 80's. A third cast member, Andy Dick, is now stealing scenes on the NBC sitcom ''News Radio.'' The fourth cast member, Bob Odenkirk, and a writer on the show, David Cross, have their own cultish HBO sketch series, ''Mr. Show With Bob and David.''
'' 'Mr. Show' -- I stand in awe sometimes,'' Garofalo says. She's wearing sweat pants and a leather jacket, Stiller is in a sleek dark polo shirt and jeans and they're reconvening for the first time in weeks at a Manhattan restaurant. ''Did you see the cop-show musical, when David was singing 'Y'all Are Brutalizing Me'?'' Garofalo says. ''It was unbelievably good.'' Cross, playing a white-trash criminal, crooned: ''Can't a man not drink his beer in silence? Can't a man not control his bitch with violence?''
The sensibility of this group -- who sometimes call themselves the Posse (sarcastically, of course) -- is somewhat tricky to define, because they're all different. Their onstage styles derive directly from what they're like offstage, whether it's Garofalo's eggheady observations about pop culture and her life experiences, Kathy Griffin's foul-mouthed litany of her own bawdy behavior or Andy Dick's over-the-edge freakishness. (Dick was recently booted out of a club in La Jolla, Calif., after doing a show in which a man claiming to be his A.A. sponsor came onstage drunk and vomited on him.)
What they share is that they all began their careers determined to avoid the faceless, shticky punch-line stand-up that had dominated the cable-fed comedy boom. And having grown up with TV and come of age with MTV, they're avid pop-culture consumers -- snobs about what they like but often equally mesmerized by what they hate, and able to make fun of both in a way that's likely to confuse anyone who's not already a fan. (Ben's father, the comedian Jerry Stiller, says of his son and his friends: ''I don't know what they're talking about! I don't understand their train of thought.'') They aren't really even comics, says Beth Lapides, founder of the improvisational Un-Cabaret in Los Angeles, as much as ''writer-performers with funny points of view.'' When club owners (and Letterman's bookers) didn't get their humor, the clique took to performing in bookstores and coffee shops, for audiences consisting mostly of one another.
''It wasn't an explosion like punk was in London in 1976,'' says Dana Gould, a ''Stiller Show'' alum who took part in stand-up shows that Garofalo staged at Big & Tall Books in L.A. ''It was a gradual, subtle, social thing. What we had in common was we all thought Albert Brooks was the funniest person on the planet. We all wanted to become him, to write and direct and act in really harshly funny movies.''
The Posse members haven't achieved Brooks's stature yet -- only Stiller has directed films (''Reality Bites,'' ''The Cable Guy''), and he didn't write them -- but they have been working steadily, in TV shows, rock videos and movies, not all of them comedies. Cross was in ''Men in Black,'' Margaret Cho in ''Face/Off,'' Garofalo in ''Cop Land.'' ''It's kind of cool,'' Stiller says, ''to turn on a TV and see Kathy Griffin in some sitcom'' -- ''Suddenly Susan,'' on which she is a regular -- ''being funny, being herself, reaching a lot of people. Or to see Janeane on a billboard on Sunset Boulevard. There's this feeling like, hey, we're doing our thing; the people we've been working with are getting to become grown-ups.''


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Battleground Pacific is filled with indelible moments that begin with his childhood growing up in Queens, New York, and his run-in with the law that eventually led to his enlistment. But this is ultimately a combat tale—as violent and harrowing as any that has come before. From fighting through the fiery hell that was Peleliu to the deadly battleground of Okinawa, Mace traces his path from the fear of combat to understanding that killing another human comes just as easily as staying alive. He learns that bravery often equates to stupidity, leading to the death of close friends, but also that life goes on, with death on its heels.
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Barnstead man said to have choked girlfriend in bathtub
CIRCUIT COURT — A South Barnstead Road man is free on $3,000 personal recognizance bail after he allegedly pushed and choked his girlfriend at their home during an argument on December 18.
Michael Bliss, 29, is said to have been drinking when he pushed his girlfriend into a bathtub and then choked her.
On the night of the alleged altercation, Bliss was charged by police with one count of simple assault, one count of second degree assault and one count of criminal threatening. He was released on $800 personal recognizance bail and told to stay away from his home.
Bliss told responding officers that one of the reasons the two were arguing was that the night before, his girlfriend has allegedly allowed their toddler to drink an entire bottle of amoxicillin.
Bliss filed a motion without the assistance of counsel in the 4th Circuit Court, Laconia Division asking the judge to allow him to return home.
During that hearing, Bliss was formerly arraigned on the three charges — one of which is a felony — and Judge Jim Carroll asked a public defender to work with him before he began talking in open court.
After reviewing the affidavits, Carroll determined that Bliss's personal recognizance bail should go from $800 to $3,000 but said that he could contact his girlfriend via text and telephone in matters regarding his son.
Carroll did no allow Bliss to return home and he is still not to go within 100 feet of where his girlfriend is.
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Gilmanton voters will have chance on Monday to hear 2015 town & school budgets explained
GILMANTON — After shaving off a few more thousand more dollars from the proposed 2015 annual budget Tuesday night, selectmen will be presenting a $3,498,074 spending plan to the Budget Committee for its public hearing on January 5.
The budget, which included all of the proposed warrant articles, is $270,000 less than the 2014 bottom line number of $3,768,526.
The default budget is $3,698,583.
At their meeting Tuesday, selectmen voted against spending $25,000 to do some repair work in the rear parking lot of the Life Safety Building and decided to wait until next year to purchase a 6-wheel dump truck for the Public Works Department.
Selectmen agreed that with 80,000 miles and the shape its in, the truck wouldn't loose much value from this year to next on a trade in and the town could easily get an additional year of use out of it.
The 6-wheeler was estimated to cost about $300,000 — $150,000 of which is already in the Capital Reserve Highway Equipment Fund.
Selectmen also had a lengthy discussion about whether or not to lower the amount of money budget for fuel and gas for 2015 in light of recently falling global oil prices.
While selectman Brett Currier was in favor of lowering the amounts, members Stephen McCormack and Don Guarino as well as Town Administrator Arthur Capello said they didn't like the idea.
The three argued that should fuel prices spike in 2015, the town could come up short. Capello also said that if they were to lower the amount for 2015, that amount would be locked in to the 2016 default budget and the town could run short then as well.
Currier conceded and the fuel amounts budgeted stayed the same.
The budget number also includes a 1.5-percent pay raise for all employee. Selectmen unanimously agreed a raise was appropriate that was consistent with the 1.6 cost-of-living or inflation index.
The 2015 budget also includes money for a new police cruiser — using $2,300 in the Police Cruiser Capital Replacement Fund and raiding the $32,600 balance from taxation.
Although the bottom line includes the petitioned warrant article appropriation of $45,975 for Gilmanton-Year-Round Library operating expenses, all three selectmen voted unanimously not to recommend its passage. The library, though open to the public, is privately owned and town support for the institution has been a continuous issue in the community for nearly a decade.
The Gilmanton School District public budget hearing begins at 6 p.m. in the Gilmanton Academy on January 5 and the town's public hearing begins when the School District hearing ends.
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Concord man extrdicted from Arkansas to face Opechee Point lewdness charge
LACONIA — The man who allegedly exposed himself to a group of minors at Opechee Park Point on September 1 was arrested recently in Arkansas and transported to N.H by the United States Marshall's Service.
Daniel King, 53, whose address is listed as homeless in Concord, was arraigned on one felony charge of indecent exposure and lewdness Wednesday morning at the 4th Circuit Court, Laconia Division.
He is being held in the Belknap County Jail on $50,000 cash-only bail.
According to affidavits from the court, Laconia Police said they received a report that an adult male was exposing himself in front of young children but that he had left the area.
Police reviewed video footage obtained from the Laconia Middle School located at the edge of the park and saw a subject fitting the description given by the children driving a green Ford Explorer that he parked by the loading ramp.
The subject walked down the path behind the school toward Opechee Point and is seen several minutes later exiting the path. The video shows the green Ford leaving the school grounds.
While examining the video, police were able to get a license plate number and matched it to King, who is the owner of the car.
On September 19, police met with King at the Concord Police Department. In that meeting, he initially denied being in Laconia within the past few months. Once he was shown several photos of him and his car at the Middle School, he remembered passing through Laconia while en route to the Belknap Mall.
On September 1, he remembered eating dinner with a friend at a Union Avenue restaurant and said he was with here the entire day. He continued to deny being on Opechee Point or in that general area.
On September 24, police monitored a interview with an 11-year-old female gave a very good description of King and told police he was manipulating his genitals with one hand while exposing them with the other.
After the interview, she was given a photo line up of eight men and picked King out of it after looking for only a very short time. When asked how sure she was based on a scale of 1 to 10, she said 8.
Later that day, police also got a call from the woman with whom King professed to have spent the entirely of September 1. The woman told police initially she spend the whole day with him.
When police told her about the videos obtained from the school and told her that he had been convicted of of sex offenses involving children as young a 6-years-old, she said she was unaware of that and told police she needed some time to thing about it.
The next day she said she had severed all ties with King but wouldn't fill out a written statement about September 1.
Affidavits said King is a Tier III registered sex offender who is required to report for sex offenses against a 6-year-old following a 1991 conviction. His record also shows convictions for disorderly conduct in 1988 and three count of indecent exposure and lewdness in 2006.
A warrant was issued for his arrest and he was located by police in Garland County, Arkansas.
King has a probable cause hearing scheduled for January 15.
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Police say man survided drug OD
LACONIA — Police are investigating a non-fatal drug over dose that occurred Tuesday afternoon on Lafayette Street.
The 30-year-old man was taken to Lakes Region General Hospital by ambulance.
Police have not identified the type of drug the man is believed to have been using.
If anyone has any information please call the Laconia Police at 524-5252 or the Greater Laconia Crime Line at 524-1717.
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First-year nursing students at Sheridan College are sponsoring a 5 or 10-K walk or run Saturday. Laura Lunt, a certified nursing assistant at the hospital and nursing student, explains how the students chose why to sponsor the event.
Sheridan County legislator Jon Botton announced via a media release that he is not seeking reelection to the Wyoming House of Representatives House District 30 seat.
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - An attorney for a Sheridan teenager serving a sentence of life without parole for a 2009 home invasion killing urged the Wyoming Supreme Court to find the teen's sentence unconstitutional.
Sheridan County received three bids for the 2012 County Road Improvement Project. All three of those bids came in over the engineer's estimate of $1.1 million with the lowest bid still being 20 percent over the estimate.
The City of Sheridan Public Works Department has had to make significant cuts to balance the budget to compensate for the City's projected low sales and use tax revenues. City Public Works Director Nic Bateson explains how they've been able to cut back.
The Wyoming Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in the appeal of a Sheridan teenager convicted of murder in a 2009 home invasion killing.
The court on Wednesday will hear the appeal of Dharminder Vir Sen. He is serving a life sentence in the killing of Sheridan businessman Robert Ernst.
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I just thought I'd mention something in case there was anybody out there as semi computer illiterate as me. I was never really very fond of the fact that the chat opened it's own window up at about 2 thirds the screen size with no way to expand it. I just realized if I go to chat through the store link it opens up in a new tab at full screen. Maybe I'm not telling anyone anything they don't already know, but I just thought I'd mention it just in case anyone had the same problem. I don't know if it matters, but I'll mention I'm using Windows 7/IE9.
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- Toy Story 3 is a comical new adventure that lands the toys in a room full of untamed tots who can't wait to get their sticky little fingers on these "new" toys.
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#249 - ivoryhammer (05/03/2013) [-]
I've got a phobia of large bodies of water, just because of how massive things can be down there, like that giant whale thing in WoW: Cataclysm in the new underwater zone always freaked me out
#252 to #249 - kickboxingbanana (05/03/2013) [-]
i ******* raided that whale it took long but it was fun! :) people may not like cataclysm but i sure did.
#259 to #252 - ivoryhammer (05/03/2013) [-]
It had good things about it and bad things.
#260 to #259 - kickboxingbanana (05/03/2013) [-]
indeed, i think nothing could recreate the feeling of burning crusade.
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Yeah I really miss BC, Karazhan and Outland were so fun


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Cold War Walking Tour of Berlin
- 4-hour walking tour of Berlin's Cold War sites
- See the Berlin Wall, the Palace of Tears (Traenenpalast), the Soviet Embassy and hidden areas of the Death Strip
- Learn about the military tension between the United States and its NATO allies and the Soviet Union and its allies
- Hear about the CIA, KGB and Stasi surveillance techniques
- Get to know how life was for Berlin's citizens during the Cold War
- Great for history buffs!
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Your expert guide will describe the duties of the border guards, the Soviet and Allied forces and the Stasi, as well as the CIA during the Cold War. Find out what happened to the German Democratic Republic (GDR) leadership, including Erich Honecker, Walter Ulbricht and Wilhelm Pieck. See and touch the remains of the Berlin Wall, which divided East and West Berlin for about 30 years, find out how life was like in the Eastern Bloc's most Stalinist state and hear stories about successful and failed escapes from the GDR.
As you walk from site to site, hear about the military tension between the United States and its NATO allies and the Soviet Union and its allies. See hidden areas of the Death Strip, and learn about how the MI6 and the CIA tunneled the Berlin Wall and Soviet Zone and tapped the Red Army's secret communications.
See the monumental former Soviet Embassy (today the Russian Embassy), located on the grand boulevard 'Unter den Linden' - in the heart of the enemy. See how it reflects the Stalinist architecture and stands out from those of the other structures on the boulevard. Discover intelligence points of the CIA, KGB and Stasi, and learn about their surveillance techniques and equipment. Hear about former eastern Germans in present society, from former Stasi agents to every-day citizens -- what do they miss about the GDR?
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Tarek was our guide and gave an excellent tour - it was very interesting to visit many areas relating to the cold war and to hear more about what really happened here at that time. Checkpoint Charley was not included in the tour - but we visited it the day before on our other tour.


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Myriad Pictures has acquired the rights to combine three previously published short stories by George into a single film. — "The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr," — "In the Lost Lands," — "Bitterblooms." "Laren Dorr" was published in 1976, "Bitterblooms" … Read More
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Watchtower, Grand Canyon
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The Watchtower built in 1932 and designed by Mary Colter. It is located 25 Miles east of Grand Canyon Village on the East Rim Drive, the Watchtower was built to replicate an ancient pueblo tower. Climb to the top of the tower for 360-degree views. The walls of the tower feature murals by Hopi artist Fred Kabotie. The "Kiva" gift store features Native American handicrafts, jewelry and books. On the list of U.S. National Register of Historic Places and U.S. National Historic Landmark.
Open daily year-round, 9am to 5pm, additional open hours vary seasonally
For more information:
Grand Canyon Chamber of Commerce
or the National Park Service web page.
The National Park Service collects a $25 per vehicle entrance fee that is good for seven days on both the South and North Rims.
On our way of the Park from the South Rim towards the East gate the Watchtower provides an interesting viewpoint of the canyon from many different angles. Interesting Hopi wall paintings adorn the inside. Good views of the river and with the help of binoculars we were able to see rafters heading down the river.
The Watchtower sits at the end of Desert View Drive at a beautiful canyonside site. It was designed by architect, Mary Colter, and constructed by the Fred Harvey Company and the Santa Fe Railroad.
Colter wanted to recreate the peculiar towers discovered throughout the Southwest, which were thought to be from prehistoric Indians. In order to do this, she researched the project for three years before actually tackling the construction.
It's likely that ancient towers were used to store food or protect the clan in times of war. An inside ladder could be removed and it would become a virtual citadel.
Hopi artist, Fred Kabotie, did the pictographs on the wall (picture 3). They represent Indian ceremonial paintings and designs passed down through the generations. You can still see this type of design preserved in some of the ancient ruins in the Southwest today.
Take time to climb to the top of the tower (picture 2) and notice the artwork on each level (picture 4). The top is meant to be an observatory and is 7,522 feet above sea level--the highest point on the South Rim (picture 5).
Top quality Native American crafts are available at the gift shop, which is located on the lower level.
On the eastern approach to the canyon at Desert View, the Watchtower was specially designed and built to fit with it's surroundings. We climbed 4 floors (I think it was 4) to the top stopping to view the canyon from each level. Inside you will find various exhibits and information about its history.
This wins hands down as one of my favorite things of the Grand Canyon. I chose to shoot in in black and white, to capture the mood, as the sky was clouding over.
This tower was designed by Mary Colter (as were many buildings in the Grand Canyon Village) and built in 1932 as a rest stop for tourists. Again, inspired by Pueblo Indian watchtowers, this 70-foot tower has a gift shop on the main floor, then climbs up to different levels, all decorated with native designs.
The top floor is the highest lookout on the South Rim (7522 feet) and you can see the Painted Desert and Navajo Reserve in the distance.
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A bedside table having a safety top that is free to rise from any prior set level when upward pressure is applied. The table has a gear driven lead screw for setting the height of the table relative to a patient bed. If, for any reason, the patient bed should rise, the table top will safely rise with the bed regardless of the height to which it has previously been set.
1. An overbed table having a safety table top comprising:
a table top capable of extending horizontally over a bed;
a frame for supporting said table top;
a drive mechanism resting on said frame for controllably moving said table top upwardly and downwardly relative to said frame;
said table top being free to move upwardly relative to said frame, while being maintained in its horizontal orientation by said frame, upon the application of an upward force directly to said table top regardless of the position of said table top determined by said drive mechanism.
2. An overbed table as set forth in claim 1 wherein said drive mechanism rests on said frame and is not connected to said frame.
3. An overbed table as set forth in claim 1 wherein said drive mechanism comprises:
a pair of interconnected bevel gears with their axes of rotation set at right angles to one another;
a hand crank for rotating one of said bevel gears;
a lead screw connected to the other of said bevel gears, said lead screw being caused to rotate by said hand crank;
an upstanding tube supported by said frame;
a nut supported in said upstanding tube, said lead screw being journaled for rotation in said nut, whereby rotation of said hand crank will cause said lead screw to rotate in said nut causing said table top to move upwardly or downwardly depending on the direction of rotation of said hand crank.
4. An overbed table as set forth in claim 1 wherein said table top and said drive mechanism can be raised upwardly off said frame upon the application of an upward force to said table top.
5. An overbed table having a safety table top comprising:
a supporting frame;
a threaded support for a lead screw resting on said frame;
a lead screw journaled in said support;
a gear box for rotating said lead screw;
a table top on said gear box for movement upwardly or downwardly in accordance with the rotation of said lead screw;
said table top, gear box, lead screw and threaded support for said lead screw being severable from said supporting frame on the application of an upward force to said table top.
6. An overbed table comprising:
a supporting frame;
a first upstanding tube fastened to said supporting frame;
a second upstanding tube mounted in said first upstanding tube for movement in a first direction out of said tube and in a second direction into said tube;
a third upstanding tube positioned within said first and second upstanding tubes;
a gear box attached to the end of said second upstanding tube;
a pair of cooperating bevel gears in said gear box;
a hand crank connected to one of said bevel gears;
a lead screw mounted for rotation in a nut supported by said third upstanding tube and connected to said other bevel gear;
a table top attached to said gear box and enabled to be raised and lowered by rotation of said hand crank, said table top being free to move upwardly relative to said supporting frame and said first tube upon the application of an upward force regardless of the position of the table top determined by said hand crank.
7. An overbed table as set forth in claim 6 including:
a first spacer mounted on said second tube near the lower edge thereof;
a second spacer mounted on an inner surface of said first tube near the top edge thereof;
said first and second spacers cooperating to guide the movement of said second tube in said first tube and limiting the upward movement of said second tube.
8. An overbed table as set forth in claim 7 wherein said first and second spacers are made of an organic polymeric material.
9. An overbed table as set forth in claim 7 wherein said first and second spacers limit the movement of said second tube and said table top to a safe position above a bed.
10. An overbed table as set forth in claim 6 including:
a horizontally disposed channel-shaped member joined to the top of said second tube and extending over a portion of said supporting frame with the sides of said channel-shaped members extending upwardly;
said gear box being disposed in said channel-shaped member above said second tube;
said table top being disposed on said channel-shaped member and said gear box.
11. An overbed table as set forth in claim 10 including:
a pair of angle members having a first side and a second side at a right angle to said first side;
one of said angle members being fastened to each side of said channel-shaped member, said first side of each angle member being fastened at the upper edge of each side of said channel-shaped member, said second side of said angle member being fastened to said table top.
The typical overbed table has a pair of telescopically mounted, vertical, rectangular tubes supported on a movable frame. A table top is mounted on one of the vertical tubes and it is then movable up and down relative to the other vertical tube and the ground support or floor support frame. A flat steel spring is fastened to the movable tube and then extends downwardly to the bottom of the second tube where it is tightly coiled. The spring is held by a latch which prevents the spring from drawing in the portion of the spring attached to the table top. When the table top is to be moved, the latch releases the coil spring and the table top is lifted against the pull of the spring. When it is desired to lower the table top, the latch is again released and the inherent tendency of the spring to coil pulls the table top downward. The table top and frame are fastened together and, while the table top is movable, it is biased or continually drawn downward by the spring.
If a patient is in bed and the table top described above is extended over the bed, and the bed is inadvertently caused to rise, either by a nurse or by the patient, the patient will be pushed upwardly against the bottom of the overbed table and possibly injured, depending on the existing condition of the patient. Also, if someone rushes to the aid of the patient and releases the latch on the overbed table, the table will tend to descend further rather than rise away from the patient.
In accordance with the present invention, an overbed table is provided which has a table top which can be raised or lowered by means of a hand crank. In the event the table top is extended over a patient and the patient, or another person, inadvertently raises the bed so that the patient is pressed against the bottom of the table top, the table top will rise protecting the patient from possible injury.
In accordance with the present invention, an overbed table is provided having a safety top. The table top is capable of extending over a bed. A frame supports the table top on the floor. A drive mechanism is supported by the frame and can be used for controllably moving the table top upwardly or downwardly relative to the frame. The table top is free to move upwardly on the application of an upward force regardless of the position of the table top determined by the drive mechanism.
FIG. 1 is an elevational view of the overbed table of the present invention, partially broken away, showing the drive mechanism normally concealed within the decorative frame.
Referring to FIG. 1, the overbed table is shown and indicated generally by the number 10. The overbed table has a floor contacting frame 11 which can be of any convenient shape. For example, the frame 11 can be of a rectangular box-like configuration to provide stability for the frame. It can also be an open "I" configuration having an elongated central member capped off at either end by centrally positioned orthogonal members. The frame 11 is supported by spaced wheels 13 which are mounted on vertical supporting shafts 15 which are in turn inserted into suitable sockets 17 at the extremities of the frame.
In the description to follow, terms such as "up," "down," "left," "right," "top" and "bottom" will be in relation to FIG. 1. A first vertical column 19 has a bottom plate 21 which is preferably welded to the column for increased strength. The vertical column 19 is bolted to the frame 11 by a pair of threaded bolts 23 which pass through a reinforcing plate 25 and are then threaded into threaded apertures in the plate 21. A second vertical tube 27 is mounted within the first vertical tube 19 and can move upwardly and downwardly in the first vertical tube. The vertical tubes 19 and 27 are preferably made of rectangular steel tubing which provides strength and also limits the horizontal rotation of the table top relative to the frame 11. Round tubing can also be used in the construction of the overbed table. If round tubing were used, it would be preferred to have the inner tube keyed to the outer tube to again limit the horizontal rotation. The overbed table of the present invention can also be made with the movable tube, the inner tube as shown, outside of the first vertical tube and movable up and down on the outer surface. All of the aforementioned constructions are within the scope of the present invention.
A plastic spacer 29 is fastened to the lower outer surface of tube 27. A second spacer 31 is fastened to the inside of vertical tube 19, near the top thereof, by a pair of spaced bolts 33. The spacers 29 and 31 are preferably made of an organic polymeric material such as Teflon or nylon which has a natural lubricating feel to it. The spacer 29 stabilizes the bottom of tube 27 and also functions as a limit stop for movement of the tube 27 in an upward direction. Attached to the top of tube 27 is a horizontally mounted channel-shaped member 35 which is preferably welded at 37 to form a solid weld assembly between the channel member 35 and the vertically movable tube 27. Extending left and right along each side of the upper edge of channel member 35 are a pair of angle members 39, only one of which is shown in FIG. 1. The vertical side of the angle member 39 is fastened along the upper edge of the channel member 3 by suitable fasteners 41. The horizontal side of the angle member 39 is fastened to the table top 43 by suitable fasteners 45. The angle member 39 could be welded to channel member 39; however, for ease of maintenance of the table, it is preferred to use fasteners to hold the angle member in place. Suitable fasteners are threaded screws, bolts and nuts, etc. The top 43 is preferably made of a pressed material such as masonite. It could also be made of plywood or particle board. In view of the nature of the top 43, the fasteners 45 can be screws which can be threaded into the bottom surface of the top 43.
Within the channel-shaped member 35, and above that portion where it is welded to vertical tube 37, is mounted a gear box 47 which contains a pair of interconnected bevel gears 49 and 51, respectively, which are mounted with their axes at right angles. Bevel gear 49 is fastened to crank shaft 53 which passes through an aperture in end wall 55 of the gear box 47 and continues and passes through an in-line similar aperture in the end wall of the gear box 47 (not shown). The remainder of shaft 53 has two right angle bends to shape it as a crank and has a ball hand grip 57 rotatably mounted thereon.
A third vertical tube 59 is mounted within vertical tubes 19 and 27 and rests upon the upper surface of plate 21. A lead screw 61 is journaled in a nut 63 which is fixed in the top of the tube 59 and fastened in place by a fastener 65. The tube 59 is preferably of a square configuration; however, as previously discussed, it can also have a rectangular or circular configuration. The lead screw 61 is approximately 20 inches long and 1/2-inch in diameter. The lead screw has an Acme thread of 5 turns per inch. This number of turns per inch has been found preferable in providing upward and downward movement of table top 43 without undue exertion in the movement of crank 53. A nut stop 67 is fastened to the bottom of lead screw 61 by a pin 69 to prevent the lead screw from being totally removed from threaded nut 63. Lead screw 61 acts upon a thrust collar 71 which is separated from the bottom of the gear box 47 by a nylon bushing 73. The lead screw 61 is fastened to bevel gear 51 by a pin (not shown) which passes through the lead screw and the collar of the bevel gear to firmly secure them in place.
In the operation of the overbed table, the table can be rolled into place next to a bed and the top 43 can be adjusted by turning the crank 53 which, in turn, causes lead screw 61 to exert pressure against thrust collar 71 and bushing 73 to push welded assemblies 27 and 35 upwardly when the table is raised. Likewise, when the table is to be lowered, the crank 53 can be turned which causes the lead screw to rotate in the opposite direction threading itself downwardly in nut 63 into nut retainer tube 59. If the overbed table 10 is in position over a hospital bed or a patient bed, and the bed is inadvertently raised, the bed will rise and contact the lower surface of table 43 causing it to rise regardless of the position of the crank 53 and lead screw 61 since the entire assembly merely rests upon plate 21 at the bottom of tube 19. The nut retainer tube 59 is not fastened to plate 21 but merely rests upon this surface allowing the entire assembly to rise until plastic spacer 29 contacts spacer 31 which would be in an extremely extended position beyond the height which a bed could reach, including a bed with a patient therein.
If the overbed table were extended over a patient and the bed caused to inadvertently rise, the body of the patient would contact the lower surface of table top 43 and would cause the entire assembly, as described above, to rise without injuring the patient.
It can be seen from the above description that an extremely safe overbed table has been invented for use in patient care. With this table the patient need never worry about being caught between the bed and the overbed table if the bed is raised either by the patient or by another person. Also, the vertical portion of the table top is controlled by a simple hand crank. There is no latch to release, and no springs tending to pull the table top downward when released.
Though the invention has been described with respect to a specific preferred embodiment thereof, many variations and modifications will become apparent to those skilled in the art. It is therefore the intention that the appended claims be interpreted as broadly as possible in view of the prior art to include all such variations and modifications.
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ACTIVE TIME: 20 min
TOTAL TIME: 35 min (not including thawing phyllo)
Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 375°F.
Whisk together five-spice powder and 2 tablespoons granulated sugar in a small bowl.
Cover phyllo with overlapping sheets of plastic wrap and a dampened kitchen towel. Arrange 1 phyllo sheet on a large baking sheet, then brush with some butter and sprinkle with one third of spiced sugar. Make 2 more layers in same manner. Top with remaining phyllo sheet and brush with remaining butter. (For a corrugated look, invert a large rectangular cooling rack and place it on top of phyllo.)
Bake until golden, 12 to 15 minutes. Carefully remove cooling rack (if using) and transfer phyllo (in 1 piece) with 2 metal spatulas to another rack to cool.
While phyllo cools, blend together cream cheese, lemon juice, vanilla, 2 tablespoons reserved orange syrup (discard remainder), and remaining 2 tablespoons granulated sugar in a food processor until smooth. Transfer to a bowl and fold in oranges.
Break phyllo with your hands or cut with a serrated knife into 12 pieces. Arrange 1 piece of phyllo on a plate and top with a dollop of orange cream. Repeat layering and top with another piece of phyllo. Make 3 more napoleons in same manner. Dust with confectioners sugar.


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Hunter S. Thompson had this ability; his words cut the most powerful men in America to the bone.
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Never Enough! (Paperback)
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Publish Date: 8/13/2012
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|Beatrice Beetle has everything a little beetle girl could ever want; she has the prettiest bows and dresses and shoes and toys. For her, there is Never Enough! But one day when her mom says no to another toy, she throws a tantrum that scares even the grasshoppers! Beatrice is sent straight to bed, and in her dreams, she meets a giant fire ant who teaches her a valuable lesson that can''t be bought. Pari White lives with her husband, four children, three cats, and a dogwho are always enough for herin Louisiana.