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By MELANIE STEELESun Advocate reporter
Several high risk groups for the flu, including senior citizens, pregnant mothers and infants, waited in heavy rains for nearly two hours for the Community Nursing flu shot clinic on Oct. 21.
But Linda Beal, area manager for Community Nursing, said that the long lines and lack of flu vaccination are characteristic of what the entire nation is experiencing right now.
"We're trying to provide a scarce resource to a high risk group, not make everyone sick from standing in the rain," she pointed out.
According to Beal, when the rains started falling during the clinic, employees suggested that the clinic be moved to an indoor location that could accommodate the large crowd. However, those waiting in line were so concerned about losing their position, all attempts to move the clinic were refused.
In the end, over 200 patients received the vaccination despite the fact that Community Nursing was expecting to only administer around 50 shots.
Although the crowds were frustrated with the long wait and stormy conditions, several groups had the foresight to bring tarps and umbrellas to keep themselves partially protected. Employees of Big Moes also tried to help ease the overload, giving out free hot chocolate and sheltering as many waiting people as possible.
Beal said that Community Nursing has focused on the objective of getting as much vaccine as possible to Carbon County.
"We're doing the best we can," she commented. "As long as we have vaccine, we'll keep giving it."
Vaccine shortages throughout the nation have made access to the shots limited to only high risk groups.
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the vaccine shortage came as a result of bacterial contamination found in limited batches of Chiron flu vaccine doses.
Chiron, a major supplier of flu vaccination, was performing routine tests when the bacterial contamination was discovered. Although the contamination was limited to 4.5 million doses, all of Chiron's flu vaccine (approximately 46 million doses) was quarantined pending further investigation.
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"Although Chiron's retesting of the unaffected lots of vaccine has been negative for contamination, FDA has determined that it cannot adequately assure the sterility of these lots to our safety standards," stated the FDA in a press release.
The FDA said it ordered several million additional flu vaccination from supplier Aventis Pasteur for a stockpile to be used later this year. Since the Chiron contamination was not discovered until August, replacement of the 46 million doses was impossible for the fall season.
"It would not have been possible in August to add significantly more to flu vaccine production because it takes over six months to prepare," commented the FDA.
As a result, vaccination has been limited to only high risk groups.
The Southeastern Utah District Health Department considers the following as having high-risk priority:
Children six months to 23 months of age.
Adults 65 years of age and older.
Persons two years to 64 years with chronic medical conditions (list of specific conditions available at the health department.)
All women who will be pregnant during the influenza season.
Residents of nursing homes and long-term care facilities.
Children six months to 18 years on long-term aspirin therapy.
Health care workers with direct patient care.
Out-of-home caregivers and household contacts of children less than six months of age.
The health district and Community Nursing will each be offering a high-risk clinic this week for those meeting established criteria. The health district clinic will take place Wednesday, Oct. 27 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. or until the vaccine supply is gone. Community Nursing will host a clinic on Thursday, Oct. 28 beginning at 3 p.m.
For those who do not meet high-risk criteria, the health department recommends several measures to help prevent the spread of the flu or like respiratory illnesses.
Avoid close contact with people who are sick and avoid others when sick.
Wash hands often. Use warm running water with soapy lather and rub for at least 20 seconds. Wash the front and back of hands, as well as between fingers and under nails. Dry hands thoroughly with clean towel.
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When it's cold outside, spend the majority of the time inside.
Open windows at least once a day to let germs out and fresh air in.
Follow a good housekeeping schedule and disinfect in the proper way. Disinfect food preparation surfaces and eating surfaces.


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The Price American Legion baseball team spend the weekend playing some good ball teams in the Helper Tournament but struggled at the end of each and were unable to pick up a win over the weekend.
They faced off with Highland to open things up on Thursday and dropped a 20-4 loss and then lost 19-4 to Pocatello on Friday morning. Friday night they took on Helper and lost 9-2. On Saturday they finished with a 19-6 defeat to Kearns. On Monday they were defeated 6-4 and 22-8 double header at home with Green River, Wyo.
In the first game at Helper tournament, Helper jumped out with a four run first inning and were able to keep Highland off the bases in the first inning. Then in the second, a few errors and hits put Price in a hole. The team was unable to recover and took a big loss. Tyson Damron started on the mound for Price.
The early game on Friday with Pocatello followed a lot of the same pattern as Price was able to hang in the game in the first few innings, but then struggles on defense gave Pocatello the openings they needed to put the game away.
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The Jaguar XE, a new and hugely significant car for the British brand, has been revealed. The XE's arrival fires Jaguar back into the fray in the hugely competitive compact executive car market where the likes of the BMW 3 Series, Audi A4 and Mercedes C-Class traditionally hold sway.
The Jaguar XE's public debut came at the 2014 Paris Motor Show in October. It's on sale now at prices startig from £26,995 with the first deliveries due in May 2015.
The public unveiling of the XE came off the back of a star-studded launch event in London which Jaguar trailed by flying the car over the city by helicopter at sunset. No expense has been spared in making sure the new XE arrived with a bang and Jaguar is expecting big things from its newcomer in terms of sales impact.
The Jaguar XE is a result of around £2bn worth of investment in a new factory on Land Rover's home turf in Solihull, W Mids. The car's mostly aluminium bodyshell is constructed here and the plant will also assemble the XE. A new engine plant in Wolverhampton has also been built to produce the car's efficient new Ingenium engines.
The XE has created more than 3,000 new jobs in the UK and will significantly boost Jaguar sales, which, in this country at least, lag behind Land Rover three to one. So is the new car up to it?
• Jaguar XE in-depth review
• Jaguar XE 2.0d R-Sport review
• Jaguar XE S review
The Jaguar XE, which has been unveiled publically at the Paris Motor Show, will be priced from £26,995 for the base six-speed manual 2.0-litre petrol SE, and rise to £44,870 for the supercharged 3.0-litre S. Trim levels will run from SE, through Prestige and R-Sport to the performance S model. The 2.0-litre diesel will range from £29,775 to £35,425, depending on power output and trim.
This makes the Jaguar XE ever so slightly more expensive than its main rival, the BMW 3 Series. The 320i SE, closest to the XE's base model petrol in terms of spec and engine, is just over £400 cheaper. That price differential rises with the diesel, expected to be the most popular model, as the equivalent 320d is £1,000 cheaper than the base 2.0 litre XE.
The four trim levels offered accross the new XE range, with the hot 'S' grade only available on the fastest petrol. Official detailed specs haven't been released yet, but we expect the base SE to be on a par with the SE-spec of the 3 Series.
Prestige and R-Sport are the mid-range trims, with the former emphasising extra luxury, and the latter adding sportier styling tweaks and firmer suspension. Expect top-spec Portfolio models to be very generously equipped.
The flagship performance 'S', reserved at the moment for the supercharged petrol, offers a racier interior style, and exterior revisions that will subtly hint at the performance potential.
Jaguar's design team, led by the mercurial Ian Callum, has created a sleek, sporty, yet slightly conservative looking saloon. With so much resting on this car's success, this wasn't a time to reinvent the sector – it's hoped the way the car drives will do that.
Callum explained to us how Jaguar still has something of an identity crisis in some markets around the world, if not in the UK. That's highlighted by the leaper on the bootlid now with the word Jaguar underneath – a new addition to all Jags for the 2015 model year.
"We decided to stick with the Jaguar design philosophy," Callum said. "People have started to get used to Jaguar and what they look like. "The XE is a sports saloon with a long bonnet, great wheel to dash proportions, the cabin set backwards and a coupe profile. But we've still got great packaging inside."
The bold grille is more upright than we've seen before, with some delicate creases that run along the shoulder line of the car to accentuate the wheelarches, and further lines that start to the back of the front wheels and fade away as they head rearwards, to give the car its sporty stance.
The window line is very Jaguar, too, while the rear end is very short, with light graphics similar to the F-Type's and influenced by the E-Type. They'll be seen on every new Jaguar from now on.
The benefit of the all-new car was that Callum and his team were able to influence the new platform architecture and how the car sat on the chassis. And using Jaguar's expertise in aluminium – it's been building cars from aluminium since the 2003 XJ – the XE features plenty of the lightweight material in its platform, bodyshell and components.
The new car is 20 per cent stiffer than the bigger XF, giving engineers more freedom to create the ideal ride and handling balance using double wishbone suspension at the front, with a clever integral link rear suspension system, plus adaptive dampers.
Jaguar says the XE has XFR levels of stiffness from the front suspension for a "connected steering feel" that's similar to Jaguar's most sporting saloon. The steering itself is electrically powered for the first time in a Jag, better enabling engineers to fine tune the system, and with settings that can be tweaked using Jaguar Driver Control – with Dynamic, Normal, Eco and Winter modes.
Another first for Jaguar for a long time is a manual box – an all-new six-speed unit – while a revised version of the eight-speed ZF auto used elsewhere in the Jaguar range will also feature.
Until four-wheel-drive models arrive in 2016 (coinciding with the car's debut in the important US market), the XE comes with All Surface Programme Control. This system is developed from Land Rover's Terrain Response set-up, and controls the engine output, brakes and differential to enable the car to negotiate slippery surfaces, delivering winter tyre levels of grip from all-season rubber.
A choice of five engines are offered in the XE at first, starting with the 161bhp 2.0-litre diesel that's part of the new, modular Ingenium engine family. Low levels of internal friction (17 per cent less than in Jaguar's current 2.2-litre diesel) help towards a tax-friendly 99g/km CO2 figure and a claimed 75mpg.
This is likely to be the mainstay of the range, but with 380Nm of torque from just 1,750rpm, it'll be no slouch. Jaguar has also worked hard to eliminate clatter and smooth out the natural acceleration noises in the diesels, aiming for the Jaguar engine characteristic of "mellow growl to edgy snarl".
There'll be a more powerful version of the same diesel, plus two petrol 2.0-litre Ingenium engines with different outputs. At the top of the range will be the XE S, with the 336bhp 3.0-litre supercharged V6 from the F-Type; in the new saloon it should give 0-60mph in just 4.9 seconds.
With an eye on fleets and company car users, Jag's gone to great lengths to trim running costs. XE service intervals are set at 21,000 miles, replacement parts are easy to fit, engineers have reduced tyre wear and non-asbestos organic brake pads will reduce brake dust build-up.
The suspension even features slipping fixings that act like a fuse to limit damage if the driver hits a kerb, while standard autonomous emergency braking – vital for the full five-star Euro NCAP crash test rating – means insurance is two groups lower than it would otherwise be.
Auto Express was first to jump inside the car at its unveiling on the Solihull production line. Jaguar says it's given careful consideration to the H-point (the hip positioning) in the car and the door openings for easy access, and both front and rear doors open surprisingly wide.
You sit low in the XE, though – not quite as low as in an F-Type, but it feels lower than rivals (and is lower than an XF), partly due to the cocooning cabin design.
The door cappings sweep around to the front of the car below the windscreen, XJ style, with a simple, twin-pod, hooded instrument binnacle ahead of the driver. There are bold, analogue dials with sporty graphics, all influenced by the F-Type, while the driving position feels spot-on. The design has a real simplicity, but it lacks the luxury detailing you'll find inside the superb new Mercedes C-Class, even though the early XE we sat in was some way from production quality.
While the upper dash looks minimalist, there are still many buttons under the touchscreen for the climate control, and around the rising, rotary gear selector to select the driving modes. The interior isn't as stylish or exciting as the exterior.
What it does offer, though, is decent space – more akin to a C-Class than a 3 Series. A six-foot passenger can comfortably sit behind a driver of similar height. There's plenty of space for feet under the front seats, while headroom is okay, even with the panoramic glass roof option.
Three adults across the back might find it a bit tight, and children won't like the rising windowline. But the boot is five litres bigger than a 3 Series', at 485 litres, there are 40:20:40 split folding rear seats plus a powered boot door option.
As you'd expect, there's plenty more safety tech, with a stereo forward-facing camera for traffic sign recognition (that checks what it sees with info from the sat-nav), lane departure warning, blind spot monitoring, self-parking and adaptive cruise control. The head-up display uses lasers for a crisper image than an LED system and shows speed, safety warnings and sat-nav directions.
Connectivity is key in this sector, and the XE gets an eight-inch touchscreen, instead of rivals' control wheels. Jaguar InControl apps for Apple or Android phones give access to Internet radio, traffic information, news and navigation, although full Apple CarPlay and Android Auto connectivity is some way off yet.
InControl can also be used to pre-heat or cool the car and unlock or lock the doors, plus it will alert the driver and a call centre if the car is stolen.
You can spec on-board WiFi that can connect to up to eight devices, while the standard 250W six-speaker stereo is developed by Harman Kardon. There's also a 380W, 10-speaker premium option from British hi-fi specialist Meridian.
Tell us what you think of the new Jaguar XE in the comments section below. Will the new baby Jag have what it takes to challenge the compact executive elite?
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I hope there's something to compete with the e335d - there isn't much around that can match the performance/economy in that size range.
no price.
no specs - except promises of sub-100g/km CO2 and 300 km/h Vmax - all that can be done already with the known specs of the 2014 Mercedes C-Class - C180 to C63 AMG and 2015 MY BMW 3-series - plugin hybrid and F80/2 M3/M4, plus new Audi A4 in early 2015 with similar sub 100g/km emissions and expected RS4 model.
no release date - first showing - "probably this year"; "in showrooms next year".
More lickspittle reporting from British press of non-happenings at their beloved Indian owned JLR.
'CallmeDave' must be getting desperate for his 2015 election year, and got together with the 'Chipping Norton dinner party set', including Clarkson, Murdoch and Freud, to engender more 'feelgood factor' by showing 'Britain bouncing back' with the in the headlines every day 'good news story' of JLR's rise and rise, except it's all BS, like the '3 series killer Baby Jag', Britain's rotten elite, and modern Britain and its people generally.
oh go back to your flood and drown
You sad person if you haven't got anything better do than moan and groan please go and live somewhere else and we will be shot of you.
No friends? It's probably your own fault.
It's called the 'Excess'? Really? Not a great name for a fat cat car is it? Still, I am looking forward to Britain's first 'proper' rival to a 3 series. I hope they get the styling spot on - it will need to be near perfect to out do the Beemer.
I thought the title says more than the article revealed. The face of modern journalism? Cry wolf too often and it will stop people coming in the longer term.
It will have to be a very good car to succeed, which it may prove to be. I hope it is for Jaguar's sake.
JLR made profits of £842m in the last quarter of 2013 which was up from £404m for the same quarter in 2012, on revenues of £5.3bn.
JLR built 425,006 vehicles in 2013, up from 357,773 in 2012.
And next year they will be manufacturing the new Jaguar XS, which will be a high volume vehicle followed by the C-X17 SUV.
This is hardly BS.
Had a bad day dear?
Well the JLR team really put some thought into this didn't they, not!! Lets make an XF but smaller, job done. Probably saved millions on design costs though.
JLR, please, we have heard it all before, stop telling us what you are planning on doing and then coming up short, actually get on with doing it for a change. I really am waiting for a small Jaguar, but I am getting bored now and my wallet is getting twitchy, and I dont want a German repmobile.
All X Type petrol engines were 6 cylinder, because 6 cylinder is the executive, upmarket solution. I hope there'll be a 6 cylinder that isn't stratospherically fast, but is manually geared, on this.
If there's a 3.0 V6 petrol coupe with a manual gearbox and rear wheel drive, I might just think about owning one.
Somerset Leveller? You sound more like someone with an insistent problem that will not go away because its inside you. Its people like you that killed the one time great British automobile industry built by William Morris and Herbert Austin in the 60s and 70s.
JLR are doing an extremely great job here in Britain - that is fact - in extremly difficult and unpredictable economic global times and putting their money where their mouths are instead of just yapping like a lot here in Britain! Many others just rant on but do nothing positive and are not part of our productivity and just wait for things to get better by buying in Germany or elsewhere n the meantime etc.
Germany is certainly not heaven, neither are its manufacturers. Otherwise board members and heads of production and other key personel would not have left to join JLR. Life is not a pony farm!
Many major German manufacturers shirk their social resonsibilities and pay virtually zero taxes by devious and just legal tax avoidence means with offices and mini operations in the Caribean and Asia and similar havens.Example - corporate aircraft are owned by Cayman Island companies belonging to themselves! Look at the aircraft registrations! One major in Wolfsburg has about 390 foreign offices and companies to arrange all this!
Most major German manufacturers are already outsourcing in eastern Europe and Asia on a major scale in a massive attempt to reduce costs. As well as this low cost foreign labour exploited and used through contract work agencies to try and reduce responsibility, cost and give flexibility in production dips.
Thank you Jaguar Land Rover for all you are doing and your faith in Britain and British workers!
You really have a problem! But the problem lies not with Britain or Jaguar Land Rover - its in your head!
You are a very poor person and presumably not responding to treatment.
Try immigrating to Germany - at the moment they are not particular and take nearly anything.
"I hope they get the styling spot on - it will need to be near perfect to out do the Beemer."
In that case then, to 'out do the beemer (3 series)', all they'd need to do is photocopy the X type and put slightly different lights on?
Please don't do a beemer, Jag, come up with a gorgeous, distinctive design that isn't boring or derivative like the German brands.
Should either way be one of the most anticipated launches in 2015! I remember the euphoria that surrounded the X-Types release (only to have it quashed by compromised design and poor quality!) but I truely believe an architecture independent Jaguar will get it right this time. I have no concerns for quality as Jaguar Land Rover has surpassed itself in recent consumer sentiment awards. It's also good to see consideration given to low CO2 engines as in some markets tax is based on carbon dioxide output. My only grip is that Jaguar Land Rover still hasn't given a launch date/comittment to the X-17 SUV or the Defender replacement....my anticipation for both is killing me!!
So much skepticism about this car and Jaguar.. The car will be getting a state of the art alloy chassis and new engines from it's brand new engine plant... it's not like the xtype with it's hand me down mondeo chassis and bits borrowed from the ford range.. jag can tune the new chassis to deliver the ride and handling worthy of a Jaguar and cut the weight, only a fool doubts Jaguars ability to do that
Ok JLR is a small company in comparison to the German brands but the profits it is now generating are huge and give it real ability to not just compete but lead, sales up just 20% but the one the matters profit up a huge 50% that's down to quality of sales not quantity.. For a small company like JLR to invest 1.5 billion in a chassis is unbelievable considering half a billion gets you a huge state of the art brand new engine plant...
The fact JLR has pumped so much money and effort into the chassis tells me all i need to know about this cats agility and ride quality... with a new small but powerful turbo charged hot fire engine giving it a great power to weight ratio and economy figures in the 60mpg's .... if only Jag can get it's colabiration with intel up and running in time it will really be a complete packaged car
Rome wasn't built in a day.
What about a V6??? like they had on the type.
I really hope JLR succeed with this, I want to replace my Volvo S80, and will not buy into the "German superiority" because they are not, however with a new range of wonderful engines already out, a great new design direction and replacements for aging Volvos, also using a brand new platform just around the corner, I think Jaguar need to be looking at Volvo as competition not just the Germans. I also dont always believe the JLR hype, they harp on about extensive use of lightweight materials, but end up being heavier than their competition through use of heavyluminium. JLR also need a decent manual gearbox, they cant just rely on automatics.
There will be.
...which is effectively what I said. To out do BMW, the car needs to be a strong performer in all areas from styling, engines, quality, and refinement, to efficiency, comfort, technology, and desirability. I've been looking forward to this very car for nigh on 10 years. The X type was a real let down - this one will hopefully be 500% better in every department.
""most ... refined premium sports saloon ever..."
"range of four-cylinder petrol and diesel engines"
Oh dear. It's like trimming the interior with PVC and marketing it as premium.
True - Rome took a while. But cars are not cities. And the X-Type ceased production in 2009! If they has been wise, senior management would have planned a replacement years before the X-Type ran out. So the replacement is now around 7 years late!
That is incompetent management - 7 years lost profit and market place positioning to your rivals is incompetent. The new Jag really needs to be superb to claw back those lost 7 years. I agree with Shaun - I would love the new Jag to out do BMW and I would like to swap the last 7 years of BMW ownership to a fab British alternative. Many of us are holding our collective breaths ...
you talk of the Mondeo hand me down chassis, there was nothing wrong with the Mondeo chassis it was an excellent starting point, where jag went wrong was to use far to many interior parts from the Ford parts bin, the X-type was a good car but suffered from badge snobbery, admittedly it was never going to worry BMW or Audi et al but as a base point it served well as a tutorial of what stick in the mud Jaguar customers want.
I can't believe that in this day and age people are slagging off 4 cylinder engines which nowadays run just as smoothly and far more economically than V8's or V6's (although being honest when I have owned v6's in the past I did enjoy them but they don't fit in to today's environmentally conscious world)
When Tata bought JLR, they were considering closing down one of the factories. They introduced new models which were already in the pipeline and funded.
That's not incompetence. That's called logic and commonsense.
Open your eyes - 7 years waiting for a replacement IS incompetent planning on the part of the previous management, which ever way you look at it or try to spin it. Can you imagine BMW not replacing its 3 series for 7 years? Neither can I.
But JLR are now in better hands and they need to claw back that lost opportunity by stunning the motoring world with a genuine leading performer. This is what a lot of us who are Brits but run 3 series / A4's / Cl classes want.
BMW is a very successful company with billions available for development. JLR was not in that position when Tata bought the company. You need to look at the state of the company a few years ago, when they were asking for loans from the Labour government.
Having come from a manufacturing/engineering background, I understand what they were going through.
It will be a refined premium sports saloon and designed and manufactured in Britain!
This in itself marks it as something better and different to the run of the mill Euromobiles assembled out of OEM Bitsa Bins from eastern Europe and further.
No one is trimming anything concerned with it with PVC - it will be a premium and very desirable automobile!
BMWs are not perfect- thats why they have a varying length warranties in certain countries. And a limited dealer backed warranty in certain others to hold down repair claims in other countries to hold factory costs down.
Congratulations, you've completely missed the point.
yes of course, by following the same principle that has seen BMW, Audi and Mercedes sell so many cars for so much profit. Jaguar/Land Rover know exactly what they're doing which is why the XF/Evoque and new RangRover are selling so well and most importantly generating massive profits for re-investment - which is exactly what JLR are doing, re-investing huge capital into their UK plants and workforce.
The XF and XJ are very different cars that share a slightly familiar face. I struggle to tell the difference between a 3 & 5 Series and when they are debadged, it's virtually impossible. So too the A3/4/5/6/7/8 which are like Russian Dolls.
They all do it - Audi, Ford, Peugeot, BMW, etc.
Hang on a minute - Auto Express were telling us this was definitely going to be called the Jaguar 'XS' only 25 days ago!!!! I said something called a Jaguar 'Excess' wasn't a clever call. But it turns out that Auto Express got it wrong - and they even re-edited this article to hide their error!
Never mind, the name XE is better. Thank goodness Jaguar don't listen to journalists.
you dont know much do you ?
The reason the X-Type was stopped when it was, is, and listen, you will learn something here, FORD failed to invest in the car from 2001 until 2008, there were no significant updates, or changes.
When TATA took over, it was seen as an old model that would have needed a vast sum to update and ultimately change the chassis set up, which was Ford IP, it was not viable, this is ALL down to FORD, not TATA or Jaguar.
With vast sums already being spent by Ford on the S-Type replacement (XF) and XJ, and TATA not wanting to change anything of major importance, it was deemed necessary to cancel XT, and carry on investment in XF and XJ, followed by XK, as well as the various investments in Land Rover.
TATA has committed BILLIONS of pounds to JLR since and this has meant new plants in Wolverhampton, Brazil, India, China and Saudi Arabia, it has also meant that Jaguar can free itself from paying Ford an IP fee on each and every car sold that has Ford IP in, once teh next XF has a new Chassis set up and the Freelander 2 is replaced, they will be fully free.
The XE and its three derivatives will give volume to Jaguar, and a better place to gain better discounts on mass ordering of components, it means that cars like teh F-Type, Evoque and new Defender can be developed into a number of niche products, and it means that many thousands of UK residents have good jobs in a great company, ALL because of one man, Ratan Tata and his aim of giving JLR free reign to do what it wants, and it has paid him back handsomely.
So, for all the naysayers and trolls, get your facts right, stop telling lies, and making up things, you dont know what your talking about, so go away and troll the Mattel Barbie forums (are there such things ?) because thats where you are better suited
AUTOEXPRESS - your report is stupid, the title says "Jaguar XE: price, pictures, specs & release date of the new baby Jag"
1) Price - you dont know, the dealers are not aware, and Jaguar has not revealed ANY details on price, so you FAIL there.
2) Specs - Again you have no idea, Jaguar are still at the final stages of detailing each model range, there is no info available to be gained with regards to Specification - another FAIL
3) Pictures, yes they are nice, but the same as every other magazine has, and as there was only 5 released, and only one of the finalised car, not really a draw is it ?
4) release date, well I can get one up on you I know the release date, mid June 2015, thats the date first customers will take delivery (I know i have placed my deposit already)
So when you so these reports on spec, dates, etc etc, at least get some facts first, dont place a headline that you cant follow up on, it is very sloppy journalism, and makes AE look even more unreadable.
What an arrogant clown you are. You sound exactly like the Angry Little Troll you condemn. You are patently unable to enter into an adult debate about 'cars' without resorting to asinine and childish comments and insults. It is clearly pointless even beginning a debate with you. You have serious arrogance issues. I am a keen supporter of British car manufacturers having worked for one of them in the past but ... no .. there is no point continuing this ... you'll never understand a proper adult conversation anyway.
What is arrogant about posting the truth, if you fail to understand my points above against your inaccuracies, well then your the one at fault.
I have no problems with the post I put , yet you feel it necessary to abuse, and make wild and rude comments, so I am not the troll, YOU plainly are, as you have done EXACTLY what a troll does, and thats abuse and cause issues.
Now you can live with that, and this will be my last post on this subject, because as far as I am concerned, you are the one with the problem, and I will leave you to your devices to consider how rude and abusive you really are...
have a very good day.
not to mention the dire BMW reliability issues that effect most models, a quick google will show you loads of engine, electrical and wheel issues.
One of the latest, cars catching fire in the steering column even when the car is NOT being used.
OK, so why is acceptable for the German brands to do that and not Jaguar.
I await your reply with interest.
Who said it's ok for the German brands to do it? Not me.
I understand why they do it, of course, but the fact is it's lazy and I'm sure there's plenty of designers in these companies who could come up with something a bit different but still to brand.
I'm disappointed with JLR because I think this is the first time they've succumbed to it as far as I'm aware.
So ignorant you don't even read your own posts. I said "JLR are now in better hands". You ignored that fact and started abuse with childish comments like "you will learn something here". Who is the troll? It is clearly not worth having any reasoned debate with you as you are an angry little man. I've seen your profile and other posts. Take a chill pill.
your the one that needs to take a chill pill, cant you let it go, just take a deep breath and breathe, as for Angry------------ YOU ARE JUST SO FUNNY
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I too am looking forward to seeing the XE in the flesh and hope it doesn't look too much like the XF and more like a Jag.
If it's going to succeed it will need 4 wheel drive at all levels from day one linked to an auto box and diesel power plants (not offering 4 wheel drive in the diesel X type was it's undoing).
JLR also need to ditch the cheap top hung throttle pedal for a proper floor mounted job and sort their satnavs out for something that works properly as per BMW's excellent idrive.
Fixed priced servicing is also crucial in this segment (anything more than £400 for 60k miles will kill it stone dead).
JLR please task note of the above if you want to tempt us away from the German brands...
Oh dear…. dated styling with huge Vauxhall-like chrome slab on the rear,dated chrome grill surround, boring rear "bumper" treatment (this shape has been on other cars for years!) Dull rear light cluster . Are they trying to be a luxury car or the new "blingmobile"???
@ Shaun34
Patience is a virtue. Wait and you will be rewarded.
@ Gandalf
Don't forget that Ford were considering selling Jaguar some years ago. Such uncertainty naturally leads to a degree of inertia.
Also, money for investment was in short supply. Jag invested heavily in its first alluminium platform for the previous model XJ, a move which is beginning to bear fruit. The fact that that previous model did not sell as well as hoped was I read down to demand in the US for a traditional, generic design. The Yanks then didn't buy it in sufficient numbers.
It takes years to plan and finance and build a car. I think that 7 year gap is down, for the most part at least, to the reasons I give.
And as someone else said, Tata (who deserve thanks and praise) have invested massively, brought in new management and been relatively hands-off in allowing the designers and engineers at Jag to do what they do best.
I share people's frustration in the delay but I think we will see things start to move a little more rapidly in future. Let's face it, Jaguar is a relative minnow in comparison to some of its giant competitors. But it is still Jaguar. A bit different from the rest. My main hope os that those who can afford it will, when new models become available, put their money where their mouths are and do what the German do in vast numbers - that is to say, support their own brands. So if you can, buy a Jag next time folks!
@ Jon Mower
Well said Jon, you seem to know what you're talking about. The only point I would add is that Ford did invest in Jaguar (from what I read) but obviously not to such an extent (given its wide portfolio of brands and its own financial problems) such that Jaguar could really fly. I agree, Ratan Tata has (a) got a bargain for a 'cool billion' and invested massively. The fruits of all that will start to show soon enough.
@ chris_xxxx
Rightly said.
@ Kirk
The article states the XE will get the V6 from the F-Type in additon to the new 'Hotfire' 2.0 litre petrol and diesel units.
Have a look at Jags from the 50s and 60s and tell me there were no striking similarities between models.
I empathise with what you are saying, but while it has got boring to the Nth degree with some manufacturers it's not actually something new.
I'd say Jag has been less derivative than most. Bottom line is though, they need to sell cars in decent numbers. If their research suggests a recognisable family line is required (why wouldn't it be?) then it makes sense, as does the fact that at some level costs must be kept in check. For all that though, Tata have invested massively in JLR and I think the results are beginning to show. More to come for sure.
I spoke to a chap some years ago who had a Merc C-Class which he'd had to put in for a service.
He was given a Mondeo as a courtesy car and told me he thought it was every bit as good to drive as the Merc.
Not sure myself then why the X-Type should have been so slated (though I never liked the 'squeezed' headlights) but I guess as you say Jag probably had to rely too heavily on the Ford parts bin, and perhaps there were reliability issues.
That said, X-Type owners still seem to like their cars and give it good scores in driver surveys, as indeed is the case with the Rover 75.


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Just trying to gauge the interest in folks wanting to have a sewing buddy or pen pal. We would exchange projects, work on projects together (virtually) and compete in contests, all while making a new sewing friend. Let me know your thoughts and if this would be something that would interest you! No solid framework has been set up so I'm also open to any suggestions you may have!
My name is Karen and I think you have a great idea. Making friends, sharing ideas and getting ideas from others would really help me. And although I have been sewing since I was a child, there are things I have forgotten and I am sure some new methods available!
What a great idea, I have been trying to set up a sewing buddy get together for ages in my local area and am just getting my fuzzy brain into the world of blogs so i can keep in touch with friends and fellow sewing nuts.
What a fantastic idea!
Hi, what a great idea. I live in rural Canada, so don't have many sewing friends, well none actually . so I'm in! I love the idea.
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I hope you all keep me posted on how this goes. I see a story brewing!
Hi Heidi,
This is great to me because I don't have others that have a passion for sewing like I do and this would help me learn more even though I've been sewing for years, plus get to communicate with new friends.Good Luck. Pearl
I would love this. I read about fabrics and block swaps, but didn't ever know how to join. This will be fun. Thanks for bringing this up!
I just made these, any comments or FAIR criticism!
They are adorable,especially for the Easter season.
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that sounds like fun, when do we begin?
Hello- I like this,too- I deal with a brain differece that the computor hides and sewing is my real connection to life-- I am a single om to 2 fur buddies and after beinghealed- a miracle- from when my car was hit by a propane truck I am making angel dolls- and making friends here is a great idea-- Katie
This is a great idea. Keep me posted on it's progress and what's needed to join.
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NORTHFIELD, Vt. A strong defensive effort led the St. Lawrence University football team to a 14-3 win over Norwich in a nonconference game Saturday afternoon.
The Saints (2-0 overall) held the Cadets to 114 yards of offense and Norwich (0-2) averaged only 2.0 yards-per play.
SLU also forced five turnovers, picking off four passes and recovering one fumble.
Freshman linebacker Jayson Leigh was a standout again for SLU with an interception and two tackles for lost yardage. Leigh intercepted two passes in the season-opener last weekend against Coast Guard.
Alec Dietsch, who also intercepted a pass, led the Saints with seven tackles. Sean Gretz also had seven tackles.
Otis Handy and James Holley-Grisham also intercepted passes for the Saints and Obi Nwaigwe recovered a fumble.
The Saints had a few chances to score early in the game but came up empty, but took a 7-0 lead with 10 minutes, 37 seconds left in the first half when Zane Fish connected with Colby Johnson on a 26-yard pass.
Norwich cut the Saints lead to 7-3 at halftime on a 35-yard field goal from Wesley Medeiros.
SLUs second touchdown was set up by punter Brodie Corless, who pinned the Cadets on their own 1-yard line with a punt early in the second half.
As a result of the poor field position, SLU was able to take over on the Norwich 38 after a Cadets punt and took a 14-3 lead when Mike Lefflbine threw a 15-yard touchdown pass to Mike Tateosian with 9:19 left in the third quarter.
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Open Call for Transmission Art Web Projects
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Hello, Please submit to Open Call! See below, and at: http://rhizome.org/info/32.new.php for details. -Lauren
Rhizome and free103point9 Open Call for Transmission Art Web Projects
free103point9 and Rhizome are pleased to announce a collaborative call for web-based works that explore transmission as a medium for creative expression. Projects should practically and/or conceptually incorporate transmission themes and tools. Applicants are encouraged to visit free103point9's online Study Center resource for historical, technical, and cultural reference materials on Transmission Art.
Projects should have been completed within the last year of the opening of the exhibition: January 7, 2006. Projects that are in-development at the time of submission will be considered as long as their completion date seems to fit realistically with the exhibition timeline. A modest artist fee will be provided in support of selected projects. We welcome a wide range of interpretations and ideas.
Selected projects will be included in an online exhibition featured by both free103point9 and Rhizome websites January -- March 2006. A live performance and/or presentation event will also take place during the duration of the exhibition.
Open Call October 1, 2005
Submission Deadline October 31, 2005
Notification November 14, 2005
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Presentation/Performance March 2006
Please include the following items in your application materials. Proposals should be emailed to firstname.lastname@example.com no later than midnight October 31, 2005.
Questions regarding your proposal should be directed to Lauren Cornell and Galen Joseph-Hunter.
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Please outline your development strategy in order to meet a launch date of January 1st.
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People Who End With Fish, Part Two
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The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium of UC Berkeley's Center for New Media Presents:
Ephemeral Gumboots: Dancing the Rhythm of Change
Cobi van Tonder, Artist and Musician, Johannesburg
*Wed*, 28 Sept, 7:30-9pm: UC Berkeley, 160 Kroeber Hall All ATC Lectures are free and open to the public.
The history of Gumboot dance illustrates the potential of culture for transforming social aggression. Cobi will present Ephemeral Gumboots, a hybrid media artwork/musical instrument that takes South African Gumboot dance and extends it as an interface into an electronic music-making system. How does the music of Ephemeral Gumboots reflect the media age in South Africa? How has the artist or facilitator, responded (or succumbed) to the politics and hegemony of technology?
For Deleuze and Guattari, music "both simulates space and creates it literally, on the dance floor, in headphones, on the Internet" (Andrew Murphy, 2000). The refrains of dance music provide territories for the body and mind to move and travel. Cobi will reflect on the contemporary impact of technology and her personal experience of it as she presents her project from a socio and political perspective. She will also invite composers and dancers to use her system for further creative exploration.
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This site includes a Google hack that combines Google Maps with hurricane tracking data, for a comprehensive view of Rita's activities: Link
Houston TV Station KHOU is reporting Rita updates on a blog which may become their primary distribution means if things get rough. Includes MP3 audio and text story summaries. Link
Boing Boing reader oboreruhito says,
The newspaper I work for in Lake Charles, La., in the path of Hurricane Rita, has shifted operations to blogspot, since everyone who can update our usual site has evacuated. They will be updating as news occurs and as long as they have power. Lake Charles, located about 15-20 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico, is expecting to see quite a bit of flooding from the storm surge, and more from the rains; everything south of I-10 will experience flooding, and areas 8 feet above sea level and lower are expected to be underwater for at least some time. The waterways around here feed into the gulf, and the storm surge alone will cause most of them to crest. I know the focus is on the Texas coast, but we're expecting to get quite a bit of damage and 100+ mph winds ourselves.
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disturb.the.peace "angry women" - open call
Jess Loseby:
disturb.the.peace "angry women" - open call
"Whoa! Why does this word carry so much weight, and why do these women want to
distance themselves so far from this word?" Once I had received a similar response from
three other women, as though anger was un-cool, or un-sexy, I started thinking of the
"Angry Young Men" of the fifties and sixties-the amorphous James Dean types whose
anger was sexy, because anger is one of the sanctioned responses that men have, and
women don't. No man would protest being featured in a book called Angry Young Men,
do you think?
[Interview with Andrea Juno, Ed of "angry women" (Juno Books, 1992)]
Disturb.the.Peace [angry woman] will be aimed at creating a collaborative net-based
installation with the core concept of the visual portrait of feminine anger. The net offers a
canvas for self-portraiture and self-documentary, which both men and woman users and
artists have used to explore the many eclectic thematics that make up contemporary
net.art. However, anger - that non P.C, emotional serpent - still remains visually elusive.
Emails are full of bile, blogs map outpourings of rage and disgust, newsgroups simmer
over with adversary and cutting one-liners but not, apparently, visual artworks...? Can
anger be beautiful? Can rage be aesthetic? In popular culture there are a range of angry
babes to pick: from girl-power to the Powerpuff girls but
"...their popularity may not reflect a dramatic shift in our society's view of gender roles,
but rather our inability to stomach female anger unless it's sugar-coated in cuteness and
scored with a pervasively chirpy, non-threatening tone."
[Powerpuff Girls to the Rescue: Heather Havrilesky, Salon. Posted July 5, 2002]
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CANTON When it comes to the complicated formula thats used to dole out state money to public schools, the devil is in the details, according to Thomas R. Burns, superintendent of the St. Lawrence-Lewis Board of Cooperative Educational Services.
Thats why hes taking a cautious approach to forming an opinion on separate legislation proposals by Assemblywoman Addie J. Russell, D-Theresa, and state Sen. Patricia A. Ritchie, R-Heuvelton.
Both lawmakers are fighting to have more funding diverted to low-wealth school districts like those in Northern New York, but they disagree on the best way to change the state aid formula to make that happen. With several area schools predicting bankruptcy unless something changes, lobbying for more school funding has moved into high gear.
Mr. Burns said education officials are analyzing how the different proposals would affect public schools on a district-by-district basis.
We need to make sure we get it right, Mr. Burns said. You really have to do sample state-aid runs to see how they impact our districts.
Among those studying possible formula changes is Richard G. Timbs, executive director of the Statewide School Finance Consortium.
Other organizations following the situation and analyzing the aid formula proposals include the New York State Council of School Superintendents and the Rural Schools Association, he said.
Mrs. Russell said she plans to reintroduce a bill she proposed last year to overhaul the states school aid formula. Her legislation failed to gain a co-sponsor last year in the Senate, with both Mrs. Ritchie and Sen. Joseph A. Griffo, R-Rome, declining to support it.
Besides funneling more money to poor rural schools, Mrs. Russell said, her plan would bring more dollars to poor city school districts, which may increase the chances of her bill getting passed.
Calling the funding situation faced by many public schools deplorable, Mrs. Russell said rural districts need to team up with poor urban areas, including the states big five city school districts, in supporting the provisions in her legislation.
Its essential that all poor school district communities band together and work to reform the school aid formula in this years budget process, and they can use this bill as the model language, Mrs. Russell said in an emailed statement. The inequity in the states school aid funding is pushing our school districts over their own fiscal cliff.
But her legislation has been faulted by Mrs. Ritchie and others who said the Assembly bill would steer an even larger share of state aid to New York City.
Mrs. Ritchie has a different bill thats also designed to bring more funding to poor rural schools by changing the formula used in state education law.
Her proposal also eliminates a provision that requires all school districts, even wealthy ones, to receive a minimum of $500 in state aid per student.
Ending the minimum aid allocation increases the amount of aid available for those districts that need it the most, she said.
Mr. Burns said he cant support any formula change that sends more state aid to wealthy school districts.
We have to send every dime to the neediest districts. We are at that point, Mr. Burns said. We cant accept any formula that sends additional aid to districts that are three to 10 times wealthier than our communities, he said.
Mrs. Ritchie said shes concerned the formula changes proposed by Mrs. Russell will be rejected by the governor because theyd require a massive increase in state funding and the money isnt available.
There is not a huge pot of money to go around, she said. My focus was to try to help rural schools. I took a narrower focus.
However, Mrs. Ritchie said Monday that she is willing to try to reach a compromise with Mrs. Russell because they share the goal of helping struggling north country public schools.
Im certainly open to having conversations with her, she said.
Sarah V. Compo, a spokeswoman for Mrs. Ritchie, said the senator developed her bill with input from local school leaders and reform advocates.
Both bills would allow districts to calculate aid based on data from the past five years, which would assist schools with declining student enrollment, such as several north country districts.
Mrs. Russell said Gov. Andrew M. Cuomos 2013 state budget needs to include funding changes for public schools.
Even though much of the state is being shortchanged by problems in the formula, she said, school aid funding reform is one of the most divisive issues facing the state Legislature.
There is ongoing advocacy across the state, Mrs. Russell said. The governor is in the process of preparing his budget. The time is right for advocacy.
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The 2015-16 year is the 24th as head coach of the Dartmouth women's track team for Sandra Ford-Centonze. Ford-Centonze's position was endowed thanks to the generosity of Herbert and Marge Chase. Herb, a member of the Class of 1930, was manager of the team and then a track and field official at Dartmouth meets for many years. The Chase endowment is the first for any athletic program at Dartmouth. This very special support will add to the prestige of a program that has been in existence at the College for over a century.
In 2014, Ford-Centonze led the Dartmouth women to all new heights. The Big Green finished tied for seventh at the NCAA Indoor National Championship, a new program best for Dartmouth and the highest finish ever by an Ivy League team on either the men's or women's side.
During the course of three seasons of competition in 2013-14, Ford-Centonze guided five inidividuals to All-America status, earning 11 seperate honors in that time (2 in XC, 7 indoor, 2 outdoor). During indoor season, the women's DMR finished eighth, while Megan Krumpoch claimed sixth in the 800m. At the outdoor meet, Krumpoch moved on one spot, taking fifth in a program-record 2:03.42 at Oregon's Hayward Field.
In addition, Abbey D'Agostino became the first Ivy Leaguer male or female to win the NCAA Cross Country individual Championship in 2013 at Indiana State's home course in Terre Haute. She would go on to win two more national titles during indoor season to finish her career with seven, the most by any Ivy League student-athlete in the history of the conference.
Capping off the successful stretch of 2013-14, the Big Green under Ford-Centonze's guidance finished fourth in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) final standings for the Terry Crawford Division I Women's Program of the Year Award, the best placement ever by an Ivy League school.
In 2012, the Dartmouth women's DMR team earned All-American honors after taking third at the NCAA Championships in Boise. Also during that year, Ford-Centonze was a part of of coaching Abbey D'Agostino to three track All-American honors, including the program's first ever individual national championship as D'Agostino claimed the top prize in the 5,000 meters.
In the year that followed, D'Agostino won three more titles and the Dartmouth women set numerous sprints, hurdles and relay program records during the 2013 track seasons. Some of the records that were broken had stood for more than two decades, including the 100m, 200m, 4x100m, 4x400m.
She has led the Big Green to unprecedented heights in the ECAC and Heptagonal championships in the past sixteen years. During the 2002 outdoor season Ford-Centonze saw her first All-American Heptathlete when Shaina Damm placed eighth at the NCAA championships. The 2003 outdoor season was the start of the the NCAA Regional competition, and the Big Green women have had qualifiers for the meet each year. Since 2003, the Big Green women have been named as one of the nation's top All-Academic Team by the US Track & Field Coaches Association. The 2006 season was a record breaking year for Coach Sandy's sprint/hurdle crew. In all they saw five records fall, with Fatih Stanley '06 making history at the outdoor Heptagonal Championships by being the first athlete to win both the 100m and 200m, and the first Dartmouth athlete to take home the 200m crown. The women's team brought home the third place 2007 New England trophy with a total of 18 women.
The women's records continued to fall during the 2007-09 campaigns. In 2008 the 4 x 400m relay broke a six year old record with a time of 3:49.78, and again in 2010 with a time of 3:48.41. Natalie Todd-Zebell '09 continued to rewrite the pole vault records each of her four years. Emily Daly ''09, broke both the 20lb wt. and hammer records during the 2009 season.The twenty-two year old 400im record fell as Alexandra Tanner '11 posted a time of 59.04 on her way to qualifying for the NCAA regional meet.
Coach Sandy has seen her women's team be named All-Academic Team by the United States Track and Field Coaches Association since 2003. During the 2008 season, they were ranked ninth out of 117 honored teams in the country.
Ford-Centonze came to Hanover from the University of Vermont, where she spent six years as head coach for track. Under her guidance, the Catamounts captured three straight New England outdoor championships, from 1987-89. Vermont also finished second in 1988 and third in 1989 at the New England indoor championships. She was named New England Coach of the Year for outdoor track in 1988 and 1989 and the North Atlantic Conference Coach of the Year in 1992.
Within the coaching profession, Ford-Centonze has served on the ECAC technical committee, the ECAC running jury and the New England Women's Intercollegiate Cross Country and Track and Field Association standards committee, as well as the NCAA protest committee. She is a past president for the ECAC Track and Field Association. At the beginning of the 2000 track and field season, Sandra was chosen by her peers to be the District I NCAA Representative for Women's Track and Field. Ford-Centonze has been an instructor at the Stowe (Vt.) Summer Sports Festival since 1991 and during the summer of 1996 she directed a speed development camp for a group of 30 Japanese football players who came to the United States for training. In 2000 she added Dry Land Ski training to her camp duties. She has been a member of the Bates Track and Field Camp since 1997, coaching both sprints and hurdles. During the summer of 2003, Sandy started a track and field day camp for the town of Lebanon. The summer of 2005 saw Coach Ford-Centonze make a move to the Dick Fosbury Track Camp at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.
Coach Ford-Centonze stays active with Girls and Youth in sport, having been a past clinician for the NCAA Youth Education Through Sport(YES), as well as a panelist at the Patrina Foundation Leadership Conference at The Ethel Walker School. During the summer of 1999, Coach Ford-Centonze was an instructor and panelist at the Girls Scouts of the USA National Sports Event.
Ford-Centonze started her coaching career at her alma mater, Appalachian State University, where she was assistant track coach from 1984-86. She also holds a master's degree in Athletic Administration from Appalachian State. As an undergraduate, she captained the 1981-82 and 1982-83 Mountaineer track squads and was chosen Appalachian State's Most Valuable Performer as a junior when she went undefeated in the 400 in just her second year of track competition.
She and her family live in Lebanon, NH. She is the proud mother of Christian and Antonio.
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Asthma: Over-the-Counter Treatment
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Dr. Schiffman received his B.S. degree with High Honors in biology from Hobart College in 1976. He then moved to Chicago where he studied biochemistry at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle. He attended Rush Medical College where he received his M.D. degree in 1982 and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. He completed his Internal Medicine internship and residency at the University of California, Irvine.
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Dr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.
Asthma is a disease in which there is a brief, temporary narrowing of the airways in the lungs, referred to as bronchospasm. This narrowing prevents air from moving in and out of the lungs easily. As a result, an asthmatic patient has episodes when breathing is difficult. An asthmatic episode can resolve spontaneously or may require treatment.
Asthmatic patients and their physicians may select from a wide variety of prescription medications. This is not true for over-the-counter (OTC) medicines, which are limited to epinephrine (adrenaline) and ephedrine. In addition, many asthmatic patients should not use epinephrine or ephedrine because of their relatively weak effectiveness or side effects.
To decide whether or not an OTC epinephrine or ephedrine product may be useful, viewers should understand
The advantages of using OTC medications for asthma include their affordability and accessibility (lack of need for a prescription and/or health-insurance approval). Unfortunately, these medications are less effective at controlling asthma and sometimes can be more dangerous.
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The cause of asthma is unknown. More is known about the abnormal conditions that occur in asthma. These conditions include:
All of these conditions narrow the airways and make breathing difficult. Symptoms of asthma include wheezing (the hallmark of asthma), coughing, difficulty breathing, and tightness of the chest. Asthma is diagnosed by the presence of wheezing, but it can be confirmed by breathing tests (spirometry) that evaluate the movement of air into and out of the lungs.
What medications are used to treat asthma?
Epinephrine and ephedrine once were the only effective medications for treating asthma. Beginning in the 1980s, newer medications were introduced that target more of the abnormal conditions in asthma and do so more effectively than epinephrine or ephedrine. For example, prescription-inhaler forms of beta2-agonists (albuterol and metaproterenol [Proventil and Alupent]), corticosteroids (beclomethasone and flunisolide [Beclovent and Aerobid]), anticholinergics (ipratropium bromide [Atrovent]), and other medicines are now widely used because of their greater effectiveness and fewer side effects. The use of inhaled antiinflammatory medications that include steroid agents such as fluticasone, budesonide, beclomethasone, and flunisolide have become the mainstay of initial asthma therapy. Unfortunately, none of these medications are available without a prescription.
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After carefully analyzing your travel patterns, budget and a host of other factors, you've concluded that you need an aircraft. Now comes a decision that can be at least as tough: Should you buy new or used?
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June 1, 2008
Increasing inventory amid a backdrop of economic uncertainty is never welcome in the used aircraft sales arena, but this time around at least we're just witnessing the continuation of a predictable cycle. In fact, many buyers believe the market is making its long-awaited return to normal levels.
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What you'll pay for air charter varies not only by aircraft type and model but also by region. Here are the average per-hour rates for popular aircraft nationally and in the South Central U.S., now and a year ago. Look for price data for other parts of the country in future issues.
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The continuing low-interest-rate environment coupled with a weak U.S. dollar against many international currencies and long backlogs of orders for new jets continue to buoy the used-aircraft market.
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Bonus depreciation was introduced in the so-called Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002 in response to the economic malaise following 9/11. Under that act, if you contracted to purchase a factory-new aircraft on or after 9/11 and satisfied certain other requirements, you could start your tax depreciation with a 30-percent "bonus" amount in year one.
April 1, 2008
After BJT quoted Long Island, N.Y. businessman Michael Pascucci's claim that his flights on his three aircraft are "free" based on the offset revenue he earns from their charter, we received feedback from readers questioning whether this is truly possible.
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February 1, 2008
Uncertainty about aircraft values in the current market poses a major challenge for the companies that finance their purchase. For many new aircraft, the wait for outfitted delivery is as long as five or six years. This backlog puts a lot of pressure on the pre-owned market, where inventories for some models are at all-time lows.
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In the first quarter of 2006, phones weren't ringing for used-jet sellers. Last year, the situation was the opposite, as activity out of the gate was head-spinning and never slowed. It's anybody's guess how '08 will unfold, but one thing seems clear: no longer does the market's health depend solely on the U.S.
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With an ability to provide solutions for both general information processing and clinical patient care, Canon's comprehensive technology portfolio can help healthcare customers streamline their business operations while enhancing information management.
Canon's booth will feature the demonstration of technology in real-world environments including:
Whether used individually or in combination, the wide array of Canon technologies focused on the healthcare industry can have a significant impact on improving business operations and facilitating delivery of patient care. Demonstrations of key Canon offerings outlined above will help attendees understand many of the use cases for Canon technology and how Canon systems can help healthcare customers.
Canon U.S.A., Inc., is a leading provider of consumer, business-to-business, and industrial digital imaging solutions. With approximately $40 billion in global revenue, its parent company, Canon Inc. (NYSE:CAJ), ranks third overall in U.S. patents registered in 2012† and is one of Fortune Magazine's World's Most Admired Companies in 2012. In 2012, Canon U.S.A. has received the PCMag.com Readers' Choice Award for Service and Reliability in the digital camera and printer categories for the ninth consecutive year, and for camcorders for the past two years. Canon U.S.A. is committed to the highest level of customer satisfaction and loyalty, providing 100 percent U.S.-based consumer service and support for all of the products it distributes. Canon U.S.A. is dedicated to its Kyosei philosophy of social and environmental responsibility. To keep apprised of the latest news from Canon U.S.A., sign up for the Company's RSS news feed by visiting www.usa.canon.com/rss.
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Mandy Moore
In addition to the many requests we received about Miss Moore's recent attire, we were shamefully excited that the lovely outfit she wore in LA earlier this month gave us an excuse to say "Mandy Moore in Mayle" out loud. The reason for this statement, of course, is because Moore's charcoal Celia Dress ($455) and Mariachi Sun Bag ($675) origin from said expert designer. Moore further upped her ensemble's cuteness factor by adding Devotte's Shirley Tuxedo Two-Tone Sandals ($338) and Emilio Pucci's Black Angular Sunglasses ($350) for a finishing touch.
Rachel Bilson
A constant style muse to us all, Rachel Bilson looked oh-so sweet while shopping with her sister in Los Angeles last week. Bilson tucked Monrow's Navajo Tank ($90) into a high-waisted black skirt and slipped on a pair of Coach's Siennah Sandals ($198) in sunflower yellow. For similar skirt options, we recommend Jenni Kayne's Two Way Zip High-Waisted Mini ($495) or Theory's
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Last weekend, Whitney Port greeted the Memorial Day sunshine with a casually cute outfit. Spotted shopping in Manhattan, Port's black See by Chloe dress served as the perfect base for her colorful accessories. On that note, Port selected Chanel's* Neon Pink Stretch Spirit Flats ($675), a Michael Kors Skinny Trapeze Waist Belt ($275), and Ray-Ban Classic Wayfarers ($139) in tortoise to add interest to her simple frock. She also carried a highly coveted bag from Prada's Fall 07 Collection. Sadly, Port's dress is no longer available, but we suggest the Samantha One Shoulder Dress ($268) by Ella Moss as an alternative.
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These days, it seems like power usage meters for home and office are popping up everywhere. And why shouldn't they be? Not only are they green (they tell you how much electricity different electrial appliances consume while running), they're also big money-savers (they help you make smart utility-bill-reducing decisions on which power-guzzlers to get rid of or use less). The only catch is that you have to actually be present to use them. That's fine for an average home-bodyish chick like me, but what about the environmentally-conscious jet-setters out there? How do they keep tabs on how much energy their homes and businesses are using, and more importantly, how much that power consumption is costing them?
I just found out. They use the Watts UP? .Net Electricity Watt Meter. While it works just like the other power usage meters out there (you plug it into a wall outlet, then plug an appliance into the meter, and the meter tells you how much power the device consumes), it has an extra high-tech feature that lets you control it and get readings even when you're far, far away: a built-in web server. Whether you're down the road or overseas, you can access your power usage data, and even switch the device attached to the .Net on and off, all via the Internet.
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Having Fun on the Robotics Playing Field
We've long had a fascination with robots, and interactive toys keep this fascination alive. Robots already are doing everything from cleaning floors to building cars -- but robots with such a practical bent are typically not what people imagine when they think of robots. The toy industry, however, remains committed to creating the kind of fun, humanoid, and relation-based robots the public craves.
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From programmable robots to robotic family pets, toy robots are pushing the limits of interactive technologies.
"Robotics is definitely influencing toys, and there are plenty of robots to talk about," The Toy Insider's Laurie Schacht told TechNewsWorld.
Smart and Silly
With its Mindstorms robot sets, LEGO is one of the leaders in the toy robotics industry. Users can design and program their own robots, and the soon-to-be-released Mindstorms EV3 promises a more advanced platform and more complex design possibilities.
"Kids create these intricate robots, program them, and finally get to play," said Schacht. "It's fun and learning combined."
Other robotic toys, such as Spin Master's pet robot Zoomer, are somewhat simpler and geared toward even younger children who might not be able to design and program a robot.
Zoomer obeys certain voice commands, learns new tricks, and senses when his belly is being scratched.
"This is a silly, cute, interactive dog with all of the fun and none of the responsibility," said Schacht, "and he actually listens and learns."
The WowWee Factor
WowWee's robots, including its popular Robosapien, are also at the forefront of interactive toys. Robosapien was one of the first toys based on the science of biomorphic robotics -- meaning it imitates the mechanics, systems and sensors of a real body.
The company's remote-controlled robots have dynamic motion capabilities and interactive sensors that make them seem alive, which is an important illusion in the world of robotic toys.
"We're trying to develop synthetic systems that mimic the structure and outputs of biological systems," Peter Yanofsky, founder and president of WowWee, told TechNewsWorld. "We want everyone to enjoy robots."
The company's new RoboMe is designed to be used with an iPhone, which allows it to interact with users, recognize faces, and be programmed to respond to certain keywords and phrases.
"Once you put the iPhone in its head, you can customize it," explained Yanofsky. "It has full telepresence and full customization of triggers."
RobotMe, in essence, becomes an extension of the person using it.
"You can customize anything it says, so it becomes you -- it becomes your alter ego," said Yanofsky. "It's very fun."
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Perhaps the most important factor influencing the availability and success of toy robots is pricing. After all, parents need to be able to afford robots for their kids to have access to them.
"The critical point for the toy industry is the ability to deliver cool functionality at an attractive retail price," toy consultant Steven Reece told TechNewsWorld. "For a high-end feature toy, (US)$50 would be a great price, [but] more than that becomes a risk, as the purchase has to stack up against video game consoles, tablet devices and other aspiration tech."
The integration of technology with toys is nothing new, but the kinds of technologies being incorporated into toys of all kinds, including robots, is evolving.
"Tech is part of our kids' lives -- part of school, part of trips to the supermarket, part of how we travel -- so it's no wonder that it will continue to develop more fully into our kids' playthings," said Schacht. "The integration of tech and toys is still a young market, but each year there are a few more things that are magical, even to a grown up like me."
Ultimately, robots are -- perhaps more than any other toy -- an indication of how we think about humanity.
"Robots are perceived as statements about our possible evolution as a species and about our future," said Yanofsky. "As we make them smarter and more capable, we allow people to put their own functions into their robots. They're a reflection of our own capabilities. Our goal is to create super toys."


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KVEO - When walking into Irma Ramirez's office, it's hard to tell how Ramirez is different from most people.
That is until you see the head of a golden retriever pop around her desk.
Kira is Ramirez's guide dog.
Ramirez is blind and has been for the last 17 years.
"The reason I made the decision is because I felt more independent, more freedom for me instead of a cane," she explains.
But that freedom is often hindered by people who don't understand what a guide dog like Kira does.
"If I go to the mall and I am working with her, people distract her by touching her while she is doing her work. That is hard for me because that can put me in danger because she is not focusing anymore directly on her work," says Ramirez.
It's Kira's responsibility to guide Ramirez where ever she goes.
By law, guide dogs are legally allowed to go into any public location.
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