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MARCOPHILES: Tai chi masters coming
Going the extra mile, well, 7,500 miles, to bring tai chi to Marco Island
Two serious experts in the increasingly popular world of Asian meditation and exercise will be on Marco later this month to teach Islanders how to do it. They are coming thanks to a group of island women who practice tai chi and gigong. They went to China in April to meet Master Shawn Cartwright and Dr. Yinong Chong. They invited them to come here and they will, for training Feb. 25-27 at the Beach Club of Marco, 901 S. Collier Blvd.
Sessions in tai chi and meditation include such enticing names as, Energy of a Youth, Wisdom of a Sage; Qigong for Joyful Living; Activate Your Hidden Power, Science and Arts of Qigong Healing and more.
Jane Kiester, who teaches tai chi at the Y and at St. Mark's church, and Jan Silver are organizers of the project and can give you more information. Jane's phone is 394-1612.
The Beach Club of Marco will provide overnight accommodations at special rates for workshop participants. Call (239) 394-9951.
Says Jane in a news release, "Qigong is the ancient Chinese art and science of cultivating the vital energy ["qi" pronounced "chee"] which exists in all living things. Participants will learn how qigong can bring peace and harmony to body, mind and spirit.
"Master Cartwright is from Washington DC and there he was, in China, this great big, tall, obviously American, teaching some young Chinese people karate, kung fu, etc. But a master is a master."
Cartwright and his wife, Dr. Yinong Chong, are founders of the Traditional Chinese Culture Institute International, with offices in Washington and Beijing.
Jane says another excursion is planned for this coming August for people who love tai chi and would like to study in China with a 90-year-old "grand master."
Good stuff and goodies aplenty at upcoming St. Mark's Flea Market
Organizers call it Marco's largest garage sale. Others fondly look forward every year to a fun flea market. Call it what you like, you and many Islanders will like what they see when the big event begins at 8 a.m., Feb. 24 at St. Mark's Episcopal Church.
Congregants and others can be a part of the fun, volunteering to help get it together and pull it off successfully. If you want to volunteer, phone Cynthia Jackson at (239) 417-0815.
"This event has been going on for 40 years," Cynthia says. "We raised more than $25,000 last year for our outreach to various Marco charities."
Bargains on a barrage of donated items and one-of-a-kind "treasures" have drawn huge crowds in past years and organizers expect a good turnout again next week.
Possible property homestead exemption for seniors
Here's information that could mean money in your pocket.
On the chance that some people have not heard about the "Senior Citizen Exemption" regarding homesteading residences, we checked with Collier County Property Appraiser Abe Skinner's office and the expert there, Director of Exemptions Annabel Ybaceta.
As she explains it, "You have to be 65 as of January 1st of the year for which you're making your application. So for this year, 2011, you would have to have been 65 as of Jan. 1, 2011. Your adjusted gross household income would have to be below $26,203."
So, how much might the exemption be? It's a bit complicated and can vary widely, but Director Ybaceta says, " As a ballpark figure it might be anywhere from $100 to $250."
Applications for this seniors' exemption must be in by March 1.
Other exemptions exist for some widows and widowers and disabled veterans. For details phone the Collier County Property Appraiser's office, (239) 252-8141 or checkout the website, www.collierappraiser.com.
Reminder: Get educated about Marco's youth
A lot of people who care about youngsters in Marco Island are joining forces to help parents know "What's really going on with our kids."
It's an event tomorrow evening (Thursday) at the Marco Police Department Community Room,51 Bald Eagle. The one-hour session at 6:30 p.m. will cover such touchy and timely topics as: Marijuana – do you know what Spice or K2 is? Tobacco – did you know it now comes candy-flavored? Alcohol – did you know giving alcohol to minors in your home is illegal?
The authorities with the vital information include representatives from the Marco Island Police, Drug-Free Collier and the Collier County School Board. Their tips will include how to spot warning signs of teens in trouble and where parents can go for help.
For more information, phone 239-377-0535 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Notorius BTTV hang with NForce2 mobo
I have an ugly system lockup with BTTV on Pinnacle PCTV Rave (bttv 878) + Abit NF7 mobo (nforce2).
I tried everything:
* removing all cards but the tv-tuner, than moving the card into all of the PCI slots.
* configuring irqs,so it wont share irq with nothing (using biosirq, not acpi)
* newest 0.7, 0.9 bttv driver
* kernel 2.4.21
* using -noxv param in XawTV
* using zapping tv viewer
* using nvidia's driver newest, or older drivers.
* using simple nv driver provided with X
Nothing helped. It hangs and hangs and hangs!!! Sh*t! :)
Any ideas what to do? Experience? Almost anything is welcome.
The problem with bttv cards is typically pci latency. The card needs a high pci latency value (the amount of time it is allowed to transfer data over the bus, this allows to transfer a lot of data in one cycle). You'll probably soon find out that other cards (especially audio) like the value to be low (they like to transfer a small amount of data, very often). The trick is to find the right value in the middle that keeps all the hardware happy. PCI latency can be adjusted on some motherboards in the bios. For the rest there is powertweak.
Tip: pci latency is an 8-bit value (0-255), but the lower 3 bits are ignored. You can save a lot of time when experimenting by adjusting the latency in steps of 8.
thank you for your reply. i have read about somethin like that before, but didnt know where to set it. I found BTTV module has a parameter latency.
Can I set the latency for each of the devices separately, or is it a common property of the PCI devices?
I see a setting in my bios, i will try to modify it. But what about the latency settings of the other cards?
What happens if I set it too high, or too low?
Thanks, again!
I tried to set different latecies in BIOS, and for the BTTV module (latency parm). It did not help.
Under Windows the audio driver and the video driver of the card is using different interrupts. (audio 11, video 18) But under linux it uses the same irq (11). Under windows ACPI is enabled.
How can I enable it under Linux? I have ACPI module in kernel 2.4.21 compiled. But it doesnt affects IRQs, when I load it.
How can I use it? Will it help?
What other latencies should I try to modifiy to prevent bttv from freeze? Some hints, please!
hi all.
My problem is solved, though I dont know exactly what it was. Latency did not matter.
What mattered is that I recompiled Kernel without APIC support.
When system boots it no longer writes message "Spurious Interrupt 8259A interrupt 7" (It did before)
It is a message generated in a kernel source named /arch/i386/kernel/i8259.c.
It generally should indicate HW error or something. But it hangs my machine when I am using BTTV and this spurious interrupt message happens.
I removed APIC support, no "spurious interrupt" message anymore, and now it doesnt hang at all! (Although this message indicates HW problem, it still does no problem for my pc)
thank u all,
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This book explores issues of cultural tension that affect Muslim and Christian interaction within the Central Asian context. It looks at the ways that Christians have interacted with Central Asian Muslims in the past, and discusses what might need to be done to improve Muslim-Christian relations in...
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The terrorist attacks in the United States on 9/11 and the U.S.-led military campaign against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan have intensified scrutiny of radical Islamic groups across Central Asia. This books offers one of the first comprehensive studies of the activities of one of the most...
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Party System Formation in Kazakhstan
Between Formal and Informal Politics
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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Central Asian states have developed liberal-constitutional formal institutions. However, at the same time, political phenomena in Central Asia are shaped by informal political behaviour and relations. This relationship is now a critical issue affecting...
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Conflict Transformation in Central Asia
Irrigation disputes in the Ferghana Valley
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This book provides the first systematic analysis of peace-building in Central Asia for inter-ethnic conflicts over water and land in the Ferghana Valley based on concrete, in-depth and on-site investigation. The core analysis centres on peace-building projects in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and...
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Post-Soviet, post-conflict Tajikistan is an under-studied and poorly understood case in conflict studies literature. Since 2000, this Central Asian state has seen major political violence end, countrywide order emerge and the peace agreement between the parties of the 1990s civil war hold....
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Peebles Island State Park is at the confluence of the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers. It offers spectacular river and rapids views for walkers and joggers who take advantage of the miles of paths through the gently rolling and wooded landscape. Picnickers and fishermen come to relax and winter visitors use the facilities to cross-country ski, hike and snowshoe.
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It's not every day that a big name free agent signs with the Islanders. So when Jaroslav Halak agreed to a 4-year deal worth $18Mil fans far and wide were singing his praises.
Projected lineups: Halak-Halak-Halak Halak-Halak-Halak Halak-Halak-Halak Halak-Halak-Halak And that's my contribution for the day.— Chris Triantafilis (@christriants) July 21, 2014
But with great money, comes great responsibility... or something like that.
With what seems to have been a revolving door in net for the Islanders, since Rick DiPietro's career went off the deep-end, Halak has been the first goalie to step in and immediately be looked at as the goalie, and not just another stop-gap.
As refreshing as that may sound, Halak has a lot to live up to, as Islander fans have been known to grow impatient with lackluster performances in net [See Poulin, Kevin].
Though Halak is in many, if not all, Islander fan's good graces for signing a medium-length deal for relatively cheap, the 29-year old still has a lot to prove in my eyes.
A career S% of .918, spanning a total of 272 games, is nothing to pout about, as the only currently active goaltenders to have better save percentages are Tukka Rask (.928 in 196G), Henrik Lunqvist (.920 in 574G), Roberto Luongo (.919 in 317G) and Pekka Rinne (.918 in 317G). Off those four, three of them have been named Vezina finalists, two of them went on to win it (Rask and Hank).
Not too shabby right?
The question presented to Halak isn't "Can you provide at the NHL level?" because he obviously has proven he can. The question now is "Can you continue to do so, behind a slightly below average defense?"
We saw a, hate to say, mediocre team get dragged into the playoffs by Evgeni Nabakov back in 2013, who had .910S% and 2.50GAA, as he played 41 of a 48 game season.
Though getting the Islanders to their first playoff berth in 7 years [with help from a shortened season] Nabby's disastrous performance against Pittsburgh in the first round led to many fans giving up on the goalie that gave his all while donning the orange and blue.
Fast forward to this summer, with notable upgrades on offense, and slight improvements on defense; if Halak can provide similar numbers to Nabby's 12-13 year [though I am confident he can do better than Nabby's numbers that year] and do so for 50-60 games, he can be the catalyst for the Islanders 2nd playoff berth in 3 years.
Or 2nd in 8 years, if you want to be that guy.
But, god forbid, Halak sees regression in his level of play?
There is no saying just how well Halak will play this coming season, but many fans would not be surprised to see Garth work his magic and bring in a borderline elite goalie, just to see his talents regress and fall down the dark rabbit hole that is a stint with the New York Islanders.
Here's to a good season in net for Jaro,
As always, let me know what you think about Halak and the Islanders goalie situation in the comment section below.


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Walker River Baseball and the Walker River Juvenile Probation Department, local organizations receiving IBEW Chapter "community funds", had representatives at the August meting. Both organizations were presented a $250 check.
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Joan Rivers on life support
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JOAN Rivers' family has confirmed that the comedian is on life support after going into cardiac arrest last week during a procedure at a doctor's office.
HER daughter, Melissa Rivers, said in a statement on Tuesday that her mother is on life support "at this time."Melissa said the family is extremely grateful for the public support. Rivers was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan last Thursday. The 81-year-old comic and red carpet commentator has maintained a busy career as host of Fashion Police on the E! network and co-star of the WEtv reality show, Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best? Melissa said that she knows that her mother would be overwhelmed by the continuing outpouring of kindness.


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We were at the Comedy Central autism benefit the other night — pardon us, the "Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Benefit for Autism Research," which raised more than $2 million — minding our own reportorial business on the red carpet, when Will "Gob Bluth" Arnett, came bounding over to talk to us. Why? Because it seems he's an Approval Matrix fan. "I'm just trying to stay on the highbrow-brilliant side of things," he told us. "Although maybe asking to get on the Matrix is considered lowbrow-despicable. I'll let the people decide. I don't mind being despicable. All I care is that I'm highbrow, either way."
We'd actually say asking to be on the Matrix is more lowbrow than despicable, but, still, Arnett will always be highbrow to us. With his inspiration, a quasi-Matrixy look at the event.
• Host Jon Stewart falling to the floor laughing during a satellite interview with Will Ferrell as Robert Goulet and still managing to compose himself by the time the camera returned to him,
• Steve Carell's appeal to a neglected group of donors: cats who have been left large fortunes by eccentric old ladies, delivered in meows and hisses with subtitles like, "It's as easy as licking your own groin." Even better: when they translated it into cat Spanish and cat sign language.
• Ben Stiller's impression of David Blaine trying to eat pizza and do card tricks while living in a tiny Lucite cube for charity.
• Amy Sedaris was announced; TV director showed Amy Poehler.
• The music was so loud none of the celebrities sitting onstage and manning the telephone banks could have possibly actually been answering phones.
• Jerry Seinfeld's circa-1998 stand-up. "E-mail is the lowest form of communication. E-mail is 'I don't want to hear your voice. I don't want to see your face.'"
• Jack Black's opening song, which advised other charities to take the night off. "Lance Armstrong, put away your yellow bracelet and tuck in your one ball."
• Energetic Jimmy Fallon leading the crowd in the wave during the lulls. "Top mezzanine, go!"
• Triumph the Insult Comic Dog's song with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, which featured the line, "Where have you gone, Marion Barry? You smoked crack in plain view, but after six years of Bush, I might still prefer you."
• Triumph the Insult Comic Dog's song with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, filled with rather mean gay jokes about Moby, who'd just spent the entire night leading the terrific house band.
• Adam Sandler's lame running joke about playing catch with a miniature pony
• An interminable bit in which David Cross pretended not to know Bob Odenkirk until he figured out they'd been in the same gang-bang porn shoot.
• Leo Allen, a Comedy Central writer, who blew us off mid-sentence at the after-party at the Mandarin Oriental. "Oh, look! There's Will Forte!" Will Forte?
• Will Forte takes off shirt and makes out with Fred Armisen for charity. Good effort, but more than we needed to see.
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Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 05/09/2013
The aim of this cross–sectional, population–based study was to investigate whether prevalent fractures, occurring from birth to young adulthood, were related to HR–pQCT derived trabecular and cortical microstructure, and bone strength estimated by finite element (FEA) analysis of the radius and tibia, in 833 young adult men around the time of peak bone mass (23–25 yrs). Prevalent fractures in young adult men were associated with impaired trabecular BV/TV at the radius, independently of aBMD and cortical thickness, indicating that primarily trabecular bone deficits are of greatest importance for prevalent fracture in this population.
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Happy Canada Day!TeeEye7 33 Minutes Ago
Not sure if the DJD is going after the Scavengers. IIRC, the solicit just said the Scavengers were back.
I've been rereading some of the
Saw that the other day with Baby Chux. He didn't want to go in (desperately in need of a nap at the time), but came out wanting to buy the blu-ray onEl Chuxter 1 Hour Ago
Women's World Cup 2015 final game will be in Vancouver this Sunday, and will include... Los Estados Unidos!
And either Japan or England.
Almost a week? I'll still put them in grayscale below, if I can remember what I was going to say.
This could be the final episode,
Made in Japan
Got the date on my calendar.
I've heard rumors that there is a Force Awakens ornament that's coming out this fall.
I'm in the same boat—I had hoped to go, but can't really make it work this year. I'm sure the TFA reveals will be cool, but there's no way I'dMr. JabbaJohnL 16 Hours Ago
We have our final list to send to Hasbro!
1. Gamorrean Guard
2. Lando Calrissian (Cloud City)
3. Snowtrooper
4. AT-AT Driver
I'll post the final results soon, but here's my own list:
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2. Gamorrean Guard
3. Lando Calrissian (ESB)
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Corpus Christi police: Father, son arrested during drug raid Friday
CORPUS CHRISTI - Narcotics officers raided a home Friday morning, seizing guns and cash before arresting a father and son.
Officers served a search warrant about 9 a.m. in the 300 block of Osage Street near Morgan Avenue following an undercover investigation, police said.
Inside the house, narcotics officers found 13.5 pounds of marijuana, a shotgun, two handguns and $24,000 in cash.
A 59-year-old man and his 21-year-old son both were arrested on suspicion of possession of marijuana and being a felon in possession of a handgun, police said. Both are third-degree felonies.
Julian Casias, 21, was being held Friday at the Nueces County Jail on $30,000 bail.
Bail had not yet been set by a Magistrate for the 59-year-old Friday afternoon, jail officials said.
Casias has two prior convictions for possession of marijuana charges, according to Nueces County court records. He also was placed on differed adjudication probation for 90 days in 2009 for a possession of marijuana charge to avoid a conviction and was later released from probation.
His 59-year-old father was sentenced to six years probation in 2007 for a possession of marijuana charge, according to court records.
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I will get some more recent pics up soon. Maybe some half naked muscle shots or something around those lines. Har Har. Well I guess I will keep things short. From a young age I have always wanted to work in film, hence me moving from Chicago to LA. I just got here first week of February and I have found this place to be a proverbial land of Milk and Honey. Given my laid back but hard working demeanor, making business contacts and partners has been easy. Thing is, these are people you deal business with. I am just trying to rebuild my social circle. I am of the mentality to enjoy life, and with that said I don't mean ending it early. If you catch my drift. I am always up for long winded discussions to opportunistic adventures. I would be lying if I said I didn't miss the midwest, but now that I am here I am trying to make this a fantastic chapter in my life. I have high hopes for my professional career. And I am determined to achieve these goals. However I don't want to become so entrenched in this road to success mentality, that I miss out on my younger years. I understand that success can be important, but I guess I need someone to enjoy the simpler things with. At the moment I am visiting different comedy clubs, but I am a concert junky at heart. I have yet to attend a live show, but that will change very soon. I have to say that I am loving the weather out here, and as a result I took up running again, and I feel ALIVE! I guess my guilty pleasures are watching "Maury" and hitting up the Eagle Rock Bakery whenever I want to do some delicious damage to myself. I proudly sport a beard, and will more than likely not be getting of it anytime soon. Well, maybe. And one last detail, I am in Love with Janelle Monae (especially after Archandroid, if you don't know, LOOK IT UP). As for anything else I may have left out, well just ask!
Camping , Coffee and conversation , Business networking , Cooking , Dining out , Hobbies and crafts , Movies/Videos , Museums and art , Music and concerts , Exploring new areas , Nightclubs/Dancing , Performing arts , Playing cards , Political interests , Religion/Spiritual , Travel/Sightseeing , Video games , Wine tasting
Aerobics, Auto racing / Motorcross, Billiards / Pool, Cycling, Dancing, Martial arts, Other types of exercise, Running, Soccer, Walking / Hiking, Weights / Machines, Yoga
I exercise 1-2 times per week.
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Right now I have frequented Starbucks (Or Fivebucks as I like to call it) to get some good outdoor time and leech off the free internet. I haven't been to the beaches yet, so hopefully I can make that my new relaxing area.
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
I love my car. My Yaris is a fantastic little trooper. I am also a slave for Maury. A guilty pleasure of mine. As for food, my favorite are these tacos I used to get back in Indiana.
Ha, ever since I moved out here there hasn't been much free time. Whenever I have a free second, I usually spend it taking care of my baby cousin. But mostly I have been learning the area. On a free day I'll go to a theatre.
Aside from the service manual for my car, I would have to say that the last thing I read and enjoyed was World War Z. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was another fine read. About ready to start Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.
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Right now I am working at a production company that specializes in Documentaries. My long term goal is to make my way to Executive Producer and create media that people can cherish.
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So the funny thing about being half Chilean is that no one knows where it is, well that is until the whole miner thing.
|Christian / Catholic
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My faith is really important to me. I consider myself to be a social chameleon, as to say that I can adapt to any surrounding. That said, I need some balance in my spiritual and social life. Otherwise I might end up in God knows where.
|English, Spanish
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|Bachelors degree
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Just a few classes left and I'll be sittin' pretty with my two diplomas. Not sure whether I want to pursue a Masters Degree.


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The current population of Kittitas County is 42,142 with the median age of 33. Kittitas County's median household income is $42,611, and the average household net worth is $392,578. 22% of Kittitas County's population are long term residents having lived in their homes for more than 5 years, while 29% of Kittitas County's population have moved in the last year.
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Age distribution represents the distribution of the population in Kittitas County by age group. In Kittitas County, the male-to-female ratio is 21,418:20,724, which is 4% higher than the ratio of Washington, which is 3,464,153:3,490,094. Age demographic data is sourced from census, 2015.
Crime rate index represents the average crime rate for a local area in comparison to nearby areas and the national average. A crime index of 100 represents the national average. Kittitas County, has 20% less property crime than Washington, and is 7% above the nation's average. Kittitas County, has 54% less personal crime than Washington and when compared to that of United States, Kittitas County is 66% below the national average.
Marital status represents the percent of residents in Kittitas County that are single, married, widowed and divorced. In Kittitas County, 80% of people are married and 20% of people are single. The percent of people married is 4% higher than the ratio of Washington, which is 76%. Marital data is sourced from census, 2015.
Household income distribution represents the distribution of Kittitas County income brackets at the household level. Overall, the median household income for Kittitas County is $42,611, which is 29% lower than that of Washington ($59,635). Income data for Kittitas County is sourced from census, 2015.
Education data represents the highest level of education attained by residents in Kittitas County. In Kittitas County, 9% of residents 18 and over graduated from high school and 32% completed a Bachelor's degree or higher, which is 1% higher than that of Washington. Education statistics is sourced from census, 2015.


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|Table of Contents
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Issue release date: March 2004
|Section title: Original Paper
A Framework for Controlling False Discovery Rates and Minimizing the Amount of Genotyping in the Search for Disease Mutationsvan den Oord E.J.C.G. · Sullivan P.F.
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va., USA
Received: 3/3/2003
Accepted: 8/4/2003
Published online: 3/25/2004
Issue release date: March 2004
Number of Print Pages: 12
Number of Figures: 2
Number of Tables: 5
ISSN: 0001-5652 (Print)
eISSN: 1423-0062 (Online)
For additional information: http://www.karger.com/HHE
Objectives: To develop a method for designing studies to find disease mutations that can achieve a set of goals with respect to proportions of false and true discoveries with the minimum amount of genotyping. Methods: Derivation of an analytical framework supplemented with simulation techniques. The approach is illustrated for a fine mapping study and a whole-genome linkage disequilibrium scan. Results: The use of multiple stages where earlier stages are characterized by very high false discovery rates (FDR) followed by an abrupt change to the required FDR in the final stage results in a 50–75% reduction in genotyping. The proportion of true discoveries is a much more important determinant of the genotyping burden than the FDR. Neither sample size nor controlling the false discoveries will present major problems in whole-genome LD scans but the amount of genotyping will be extremely large even if the study is completely designed to minimize genotyping. Conclusions: The proposed statistical framework presents a simple and flexible approach to determine the design parameters (e.g. sample size, p values at which tests need to be performed at each stage) that minimize the genotyping burden given a set of goals for the percentage of true and false discoveries.
© 2003 S. Karger AG, Basel
Received: March 3, 2003
Accepted after revision: August 4, 2003
Number of Print Pages : 12
Number of Figures : 2, Number of Tables : 5, Number of References : 28
Human Heredity (International Journal of Human and Medical Genetics)
Founded 1950 as Acta Genetica et Statistica Medica by Gunnar Dahlberg; Continued by M. Hauge (1965–1983)
Vol. 56, No. 4, Year 2003 (Cover Date: Released March 2004)
Journal Editor: J. Ott, New York, N.Y.
ISSN: 0001–5652 (print), 1423–0062 (Online)
For additional information: http://www.karger.ch/journals/hhe
Received: 3/3/2003
Accepted: 8/4/2003
Published online: 3/25/2004
Issue release date: March 2004
Number of Print Pages: 12
Number of Figures: 2
Number of Tables: 5
ISSN: 0001-5652 (Print)
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WILMINGTON | Popular Wilmington pizzeria Slice of Life fires up the ovens for lunch service at 11:30 a.m. today in its new downtown location at 125 Market St.
Owner Ray Worrell has significantly renovated the former Rhino Club space, allowing expanded seating over his previous spot across the road at 122 Market St. Chicken wings and desserts from Nye's Cream Sandwiches have joined the menu.
In Worrell's old property, food truck owner James Smith has parked his popular Patty Wagon in favor of a brick-and-mortar operation. His Fork n' Cork is slated to open later this spring.
Turkish flavors come to Leland
Brunswick County | Diners passing through the Waterford Village section of Leland have a new option with the opening of Gusto Grille this week.
Owners Yavuz and Emmy Dogan serve a menu of Turkish staples that should be familiar to fans of Mediterranean fare.
Doner, Turkey's take on the gyro, are served on house-made pitas, and joined on the menu by kebabs and a flatbread dish called "pide" that's similar in spirit to pizza but seasoned with flavors pointing farther east.
Gusto Grille, at 2013 Old Regent Way in the plaza anchored by Harris Teeter, is open 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Saturday, closing at 8 p.m. Sundays.
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Jose Abreu was on the field doing baseball things Monday, a good sign for the slugging first baseman who is eligible to come off the disabled list next Monday.
Abreu looked fine taking about 25 ground balls at first base and playing catch for about 10 minutes before disappearing to the cages to hit off a tee before the Sox opened a three-game series against the Cleveland Indians at U.S. Cellular Field. The eyes of manager Robin Ventura, conditioning coordinator Allen Thomas, coaches Joe McEwing and Mark Parent and manager of cultural development Lino Diaz were on Abreu as he took the ground balls.
Diaz, who serves as the team's translator, relayed afterward that Abreu said he "felt great."
Abreu has posterior tibial tendinitis and been on the disabled list since May 18 with inflammation in his left ankle. His left foot is no longer in a boot, but he is using orthotics, which Ventura "he's not real happy wearing."
"It's progressing, it's getting better," Ventura said. "I know he's not happy sitting on the bench. Even if he was in a cast, he wouldn't be happy or out of it. It's getting better though. The timeline right now is still the same."
The Sox official word on a timeline is that there is none. A brief rehab stint before he comes back would seem to be likely.
The Sox are 4-4 since Abreu went on the DL. A return next Monday would come in time for the start of a six-game road trip against the Dodgers and Angels, which precedes a homestand against the Tigers, Royals and Giants.
Abreu ranks among major-league leaders in homers (second with 15), extra-base hits (tied for third with 27) and RBI (tied for third with 42).


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Green Beans With Blue Cheese And Roasted Red Peppers
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|Frozen cut green beans
|20 Ounce (1 Bag)
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|3 Ounce, drained and silvered (1/2 Jar)
|1⁄8 Teaspoon
|Ground white pepper
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|Cream cheese
|4 Ounce
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Blue cheese
|2 Ounce, crumbled (3/4 Cup)
|Italian style bread crumbs
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|1 Tablespoon, melted
|Yellow bell pepper
|To Taste
PREHEAT oven to 350°F.
Spray 2-quart oval casserole with nonstick cooking spray.
COMBINE green beans, red pepper strips, salt and white pepper in prepared dish.
PLACE cream cheese and milk in small saucepan; heat over low heat, stirring until melted.
Add blue cheese; stir only until combined.
Pour cheese mixture over green bean mixture and stir until green beans are coated.
COMBINE bread crumbs and margarine in small bowl; sprinkle evenly over casserole.
BAKE, uncovered, 20 minutes or until hot and bubbly.
Garnish with bell peppers and Italian parsley, if desired.
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Trouble begins in a small Newfoundland fishing outport when a new magistrate arrives from England. A pompous and arrogant man, he expects deference without doing anything to earn it. The magistrate's attitude is contrasted sharply with that of John, a young man with Downs Syndrome, who measures people by their behaviour, not reputation. It takes a near tragedy at sea to show the magistrate who holds the better set of values.
Geoff Butler grew up in Newfoundland as his minister father travelled the province. He is one of the best known artists in the Atlantic provinces. His work depicts his respect for the hard lives of the people who live there,… More about Geoff Butler
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A documentary featuring Vikram Gandhi, Purva Bedi and Kristin Calgaro.
Growing up in New Jersey, Vikram Gandhi was a typical American kid who resented the way his family tried to enforce Hindu beliefs and practices. He found it ironic that Americans began to popularize gurus and yoga just at the time he was growing away from such things. On a trip to India, he says, he found that "real" gurus were no more real than the American frauds who copied them.
That led him into the deliberate deception that he filmed in "Kumare." He grew a long beard and a pony-tail, exchanged his shoes for sandals, switched his slacks and suits to flowing orange robes, and started carrying an ornate walking stick. Then he moved to Arizona, hired an expert to teach him yoga and a PR woman to promote him as a guru, and began to attract followers in meetings at shopping malls, community centers and around the swimming pools of his affluent clients. His accent was modeled on the way his grandmother spoke English. His teachings were deliberate gibberish: talk of inner blue lights, "finding the guru within," and chants of fabricated mantras.
At this point in the film, it takes an odd turn. Kumare's followers believe him without question. They share their deepest secrets with him and visibly appear to benefit from him. These people are not dummies. Mostly middle-aged, they take their health seriously, are somewhat skilled at yoga and follow schedules of meditation. "Kumare" seems to establish that a guru can be a complete fraud and nevertheless do a certain amount of good, because what matters is not the sincerity of the guru but that of his followers.
Gandhi seems typecast for the role of Kumare. Tall, thin, bending forward to listen better, he speaks warmly and encouragingly, and makes deep eye contact. He smiles easily. He never pushes too far. He seems as real as any guru and more real than some. His teaching of yoga seems within the ability of his followers to accomplish. He narrates the documentary (in an ordinary American voice), introduces us to followers he's grown close to, and begins to believe he may have started something that was out of his control.
He tells his followers the time has come for him to leave them. Now they are on their own. He returns to New Jersey, cuts his hair, shaves his beard, and begins to practice a speech in the mirror: "I am not who you think I am." Whether he ever says this, and how the movie ends, I will leave for you to discover.
It seems to me that "Kumare" reflects a truth that is often expressed in three words: "Act as if." If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true. It doesn't matter if a teacher's spiritual teachings have any basis. It doesn't matter if the supernatural even exists (Gandhi believes it does not). His followers benefit by acting "as if."
When I first heard this film described, I assumed it would be a satirical, snarky comedy like Sacha Baron Cohen's "Borat." Not so. Gandhi seems to be essentially a good man, and he learns things of value to himself in his experiment. In a sense, the deception he practices on his followers is contemptible, but in another sense, they're all in it together. The film's implication seems to be: It doesn't matter if a religion's teachings are true. What matters is if you think they are.
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With anticipation building for the Gator football team's 2014 opener next Saturday at 7 p.m. at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium against Idaho, the University Athletic Association wants to notify fans of several new initiatives in place for the upcoming season that include, but are not limited to, an increased Distributed Antenna System to enhance cell service, national TV games on the videoboard when they enter the stadium, new and enhanced stat display on the videoboards, more in-game music, streamlined on-field presentations and fireworks for select games.
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A new comic recently surfaced on the Planetside website, this time with a new character that has a strange resemblance to the Inspector Gadget villain of Dr. Claw. The comic hints at dropping Nanite levels, urging soldiers to do their part to conserve Nanite consumption. While this doesn't give a solid indication of what to expect we do now at least know that it is the first part of some (evil?) master plan.


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WASHINGTON -- Imagine a raccoon with a teddy bear face that is so cute it's hard to resist, let alone overlook. But somehow science did — until now.
Researchers announced Thursday a rare discovery of a new species of mammal called the olinguito. It belongs to a grouping of large creatures that include dogs, cats and bears.
The raccoon-sized critter leaps through the trees of mountainous forests of Ecuador and Colombia at night, according to a Smithsonian researcher who has spent the past decade tracking them.
But the adorable olinguito (pronounced oh-lihn-GEE'-toe) shouldn't have been too hard to find. One of them lived in the Smithsonian-run National Zoo in the Washington for a year in a case of mistaken identity.
"It's been kind of hiding in plain sight for a long time" despite its extraordinary beauty, said Kristofer Helgen, the Smithsonian's curator of mammals.
The zoo's little critter, named Ringerl, was mistaken for a sister species, the olingo. Ringerl was shipped from zoo to zoo from 1967 to 1976: Louisville, Ky., Tucson, Ariz., Salt Lake City, Washington and New York City to try to get it to breed with other olingos.
It wouldn't.
"It turns out she wasn't fussy," Helgen said. "She wasn't the right species."
The discovery is described in a study in the journal ZooKey.
Helgen first figured olinguitos were different from olingos when he was looking at pelts and skeletons in a museum. He later led a team to South America in 2006.
"When we went to the field we found it in the very first night," said study co-author Roland Kays of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. "It was almost like it was waiting for us."
It's hard to figure how olingos and onlinguitos were confused for each other.
"How is it different? In almost every way that you can look at it," Helgen said.
Olinguitos are smaller, have shorter tails, a rounder face, tinier ears and darker bushier fur, he said.
"It looks kind of like a fuzzball ... kind of like a cross between a teddy bear and a house cat," Helgen said.
It eats fruit, weighs about 2 pounds and has one baby at a time. Helgen figures there are thousands of olinguitos in the mountainous forest, traveling through the trees at night so they are hard to see.
While new species are found regularly, usually they are tiny and not mammals, the warm-blooded advanced class of animals that have hair, live births and mammary glands in females.
Outside experts said this is not merely renaming something, but a genuine new species and a significant find, the type that hasn't happened for about 35 years.
"Most people believe there are no new species to discover, particularly of relatively large charismatic animals," said Case Western Reserve University anatomy professor Darin Croft. "This study demonstrates that this is clearly not the case."
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Liquid Waste Technology (LWT) specializes in the design and manufacture of custom dredging system solutions for the dredging industry. LWT builds high quality computer and remote controlled portable dredges uniquely equipped for a variety of applications including: Dewatering Projects, Wastewater Lagoon Dredging, Water Treatment Plant Maintenance, Mine Tailings, Canal ...
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Struvite Removal has been manufacturing and distributing struvite removal and struvite prevention products for years to both wastewater treatment plants as well as CAFO operations to solve the scale problems they encounter. We offer free product samples to test on your scale, and consultation throughout the process to ensure 100% struvite removal and struvite prevention ...
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A Travel Junkie Field Trip
If you were always on the road and seemed to live on airplanes, would you spend your vacation visiting airlines?
More than 200 vagabond business travelers, peripatetic frequent-flier-mile addicts and aviation enthusiasts did just that last week. Over four days, they traveled from the U.S. to Germany, Norway and France to meet with executives, pilots and mechanics at four airlines—plus representatives of aircraft manufacturer Airbus. The event, organized by members of FlyerTalk.com, a Web site that caters to frequent fliers, even included chartering a Boeing 757-300 to zip from airline hangar to airline hangar.
The trip showcased the passion still ignited by airlines and travel, even when service cuts, delays and layers of fees make travel anything but romantic these days. Some in the group fly more than 300,000 miles a year and tell people their residence is Boeing or Airbus. And yet they still want to fly more for fun.
The adventure also showed how hungry airlines are for frequent fliers during the economic downturn and underscored the power of social media and Internet networks to organize and rally a group of powerful customers.
FlyerTalk is an online forum for people who travel for business or pleasure, many of them mileage junkies, to share strategies to score tickets, upgrades, lounge access and other perks. It is also full of forums devoted to individual airlines, and no detail or disservice is too small to attract attention.
FlyerTalk members are vocal when airlines change policies, cut the value of miles, or run sloppy operations. FlyerTalk has pressured some airlines to rescind cuts, and bad reviews posted on the site—with 220,000 members representing lots of ticket-buying—can hurt business. So some airlines have taken to occasionally wining and dining them and monitoring FlyerTalk, Twitter and blogs, responding directly to customers who post problems and coddling online communities with special sales and, in extreme cases, CEO dinners and backstage access at airports. Indeed, last week's trip was organized with help from airlines—including Lufthansa, Continental and United—in the Star Alliance, one of the three major airline groupings that market seats and services together.
"This is the first time in the last 10 years I fear I am speaking to a group that knows more about my product than me," Thierry Antinori, Lufthansa AG executive vice president of sales and marketing, told the group.
Hear Scott McCartney and WSJ This Morning's Gordon Deal discuss the trip.
Participants on the trip—dubbed the "Star Alliance Mega DO" (as in, a really big "do")—ranged in age from 20-year-old Will Steele, who lives with his mother in Auckland, New Zealand, works as an Internet communications consultant and flies around the world at the drop of a cheap fare or frequent-flier ticket, to Patricia Hansen of San Diego, 69 years old, who loves to travel though her husband does not. So Ms. Hansen travels with other FlyerTalkers, taking advantage of the group's organized trips or just looking up other members in far-flung cities around the world.
"Wherever you go, you have friends," she said. "If you're not a good conversationalist, you can always talk about miles."
Quirky Rituals
Beyond miles, FlyerTalkers know the best seats on each plane and the rules and restrictions of different fare classes. They have their own quirky rituals, like leaving notes to each other in airline magazines or putting codes to free Internet access in airport lounges on the bottom of fruit bowls for their compadres. In short, they take all the enormous complexity airlines can create and find ways to maximize value, comfort and fun.
Brutal Feedback
Continental Airlines Inc., whose chief executive, Larry Kellner, has hosted FlyerTalk events for as many as 500, sent an executive from its frequent-flier program to ride along the Mega DO. Lufthansa unveiled a new mobile application that lets members share information about destinations or even share cabs to groups of FlyerTalkers when the trip reached Frankfurt. Their feedback was a bit brutal: They thought it too elementary and really turned up their noses when airline developers said they eventually planned to charge for the service.
"These people are extremely active. We can pick up information and learn from them," said Lufthansa Chief Executive Wolfgang Mayrhuber.
The Mega DO—which started in Chicago—gave the road warriors an education in how airlines work. At each stop, airline executives greeted them with singers and dancers, mechanics and pilots, ample food and drink and tours of engine shops, training facilities, airplanes and hangars.
Like kids on a school field trip, they filed through crew briefing rooms at UAL Corp.'s United Airlines in Chicago, quizzed maintenance experts at Continental's engine shop in Newark, practiced flight-attendant skills at Lufthansa's training center in Frankfurt and were photographed sitting in various aircraft cockpits opened for them at hangars.
They asked airline workers about snow plows at O'Hare, bird-strikes in engines, access to airport clubs and the environmental impact of deicing fluid. They learned how airlines cycle engines and airplanes through scheduled maintenance, how company workers assign gates and direct aircraft movement around terminals, how pilots prepare for long journeys and how Airbus puts together its giant double-deck plane.
They picked up news along the way—United is planning to implement a three-hour limit on keeping people stuck on long-delayed flights; Lufthansa is planning to fly its first Airbus A380 super-jumbo between New York and Frankfurt.
Participants flew commercial (some used miles, of course) between the U.S. stops and to Europe. Then, their charter flight, which cost each passenger either about $697 (465 €) coach or $1,138 (760 €) business class, took them from Frankfurt to Oslo, Norway, to visit Scandinavian Airlines System, a unit of SAS AB, then Toulouse, France, for a tour of assembly buildings for the Airbus A380 and back to Frankfurt.
Consultants, corporate executives, graduate students and retirees maniacally played with flight-attendant call buttons, enjoyed an open door to the cockpit and squealed with delight when their Condor Airways pilot made a low pass 50 feet above the runway at Toulouse, and then circled back to land.
Playing Flight Attendant
Participants said they gained a new-found respect for airlines and employees—especially flight attendants, since several of the FlyerTalk forum moderators who organized the trip actually trained for a few hours to be flight attendants, then worked the charter flight in conjunction with a real crew. The volunteers prepared meals in a galley, served them from carts, poured drinks, and handled safety briefings and demonstrations.
"One benefit of this trip is that I'll probably complain less when things are delayed," said Ivan Tasic, a PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP tax expert based in Dallas. "You see how many details there are that you never think about."
Boosting Ticket Sales
Organizers of the trip said they wanted to give something back to airlines by stimulating ticket sales, at least on the few flights they took during their trip. "People lose jobs; airlines struggle. And so we thought, we've got to do something positive, something bigger," said Tommy Danielsen, director of sales in North America for an Asian telecommunications company and one of three volunteers who organized the event.
For people who travel frequently, airlines trigger visceral reactions unlike other consumer businesses. Road warriors are typically locked into one carrier or another, by reward program or by corporate contract. They spend more time with the airline, sometimes, than they do with friends and relatives.
Darren Mak, a self-employed Web-site designer, loves flying so much he looks for far-flung itineraries instead of direct flights to plump up mileage balances.
He left Winnipeg, Canada, to join the Mega DO in Chicago, but instead of a $400 one-way ticket nonstop, he found a $400 ticket from Winnipeg to Chicago, then Dallas, then Los Angeles and back to Chicago. On the way home, he flew from Frankfurt to San Francisco, then on to Sydney, Australia, where he hoped to use an eight-hour layover to Christmas-shop. Then home to Winnipeg through Los Angeles.
"I just told my wife I was taking the long way home," he said.
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On her way back to civilization in the spring of 1821 she fell and suffered severe bruising.
American civilization, broadly defined, will benefit from the fact that Stevens will depart under a liberal president.
No poverty, no crises and no clashes of civilization or religion.
1704, "law which makes a criminal process civil," from civilize + -ation. Sense of "civilized condition" first recorded 1772, probably from French civilisation, to be an opposite to barbarity and a distinct word from civility. Sense of a particular human society in a civilized condition, considered as a whole over time, is from 1857. Related: Civilizational.


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Peter was simply the best. It is a shock he is gone, he will be greatly missed.
Peter was simply the best. It is a shock he is gone, he will be greatly missed.
I'd prefer Charlie Gibson.Originally Posted by Unassisted
Go Gators!
I know this sounds cold. And I guess it is. But we are using this high profile death as a learning tool with our son as to why smoking isn't the brightest thing in the world to do.
Will trade this space for a #1 starter.
Same with me. I show it and was kind of shocked, but I guess it was known that he had cancer.Originally Posted by cincinnati chili
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sad to see peter jennings had passed saw it last nite around 12 or 12:30 with the big three of brokaw jennings and rather gone neither nba,abc or cbs has a permanent replacement yet
Not cold at all. I'd do the same thing for my daughters--when they're old enough to make sense of it. Life is learning from mistakes.Originally Posted by creek14
The one lasting memory I will take from Peter Jennings is something very late in his career: his refusal (and, by extension ABC World News Tonight's refusal) to carry and coverage of the Lacey Peterson story.
While the advent of 24 hour cable news television has opened some of the broadest fronts in information, it has also brought about levels of sensational journalism previously unheard of. Every event is now spun out of control until one can scarcely remember why it became such a big deal in the first place. In this environment, Jennings took a stand and said, firmly: "No, this is not news, and if you want to find out about it, you can look someplace else."
I was impressed.
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I think that's what he would want you to do. I was watching the news last night when they reran some of his broadcasts and when they got to his last one in which he announced he had cancer, he said, yes I smoked for 20 years, or something like that. The way he said it was a way that I think he wanted people to know the dangers of it. That's just the impression I got.Originally Posted by creek14
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Wrap It Up: 7 People Who Need To Start Wearing Condoms ASAP
Wrap It Up: 7 People Who Need To Start Wearing Condoms ASAP
Wrap It Up: 7 People Who Need To Start Wearing Condoms ASAP
Since the 15th century, and even further back depending on what historian or archaeologist you believe, condoms have been in existence. They may not have always been the slick little wonders that stealthily fit in your wallet or clutch as they do today, but they've always been as a means to prevent unwanted pregnancy and the spread of disease.
But despite this, despite the fact that it takes less than a minute to put one on and you can pretty much pick them up by the handful at any clinic, people still aren't using them. What do you guys think they're for? Balloon animals? Some sort of bizarre storage bag for your snacks?
While, as a whole, we may be getting better at practicing safe sex, there are still some of those people out there who are messing everything up by not playing along. Whether it's lack of education and awareness, apathy, or just straight-up not giving a damn, here are the people who REALLY need to get it together when it comes to using condoms.
1. Teenagers in New Mexico.
Although teen pregnancy rates have dropped, and continue to do so, New Mexico has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the country. Not far behind are Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana, with New Hampshire getting the crown for the least number of teen pregnancies.
2. The over-60 crowd.
I know! I know! Life isn't over just because menopause has hit! (And don't forget it!) Studies have found that "Baby Boomers," that group of men and women who are now in their 60s, have seen an 8.2 percent increase of STIs in their age group. The problem is this group, whether because of divorce or the death of spouse, are now back on the market, but having grown up during the 60s when the Pill was invented and before things like HIV were even a concern, they just don't bother to use a condom. Some of them have never used condoms! Looks like it might be time for you to sit down and tell your recently divorced mom or dad how things have changed since Woodstock.
3. Louisiana and Mississippi Residents.
I'm not really sure what's going on in the South, but it's definitely not condom use. Not only does the South take the cake when it comes to teen pregnancy numbers, but according to the CDC when it comes to chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama are the top four states for these monsters.
4. Men in their early 20's.
Although it's easy to cure, if caught in time, chlamydia isn't just the most common STD out there, but it's also the most common among men between the ages of 20 and 24. The disease has become such an epidemic amongst young people that in 2010, Sweden launched National Chlamydia Day to bring awareness to the disease and just how important condom use is. KEEP READING ...
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Fanning has signed on to play rocker Cherie Currie in the
No word yet on who will play Ford or fellow Runaways Sandy West, Micki Steele or Jackie Fox.
Fanning, 15, voiced the title character in "Coraline." In the "Twilight" sequel "New Moon," she'll play Jane, one of the guards of the Volturi, and ancient coven of Italian vampires. Jane may look young, but she's coldly evil, having the gift to cause others pain with her mind.