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Amniocentesis is a procedure in which amniotic fluid is removed from the uterus for testing or treatment. Amniotic fluid is the fluid that surrounds and protects a baby during pregnancy. This fluid contains fetal cells and various chemicals produced by the baby.
Amniocentesis can be done for various reasons:
Although amniocentesis can provide valuable information about your baby's health, the decision to pursue invasive diagnostic testing is serious. It's important to understand the risks of amniocentesis — and be prepared for the results.
Amniocentesis is done for different reasons at different stages of pregnancy.
Genetic amniocentesis can provide information about your baby's genetic makeup. Generally, genetic amniocentesis is offered when the test results might have a significant impact on the management of the pregnancy — or your desire to continue the pregnancy. Typically, the value of this information can only be assessed by you and your partner.
Genetic amniocentesis is usually done after week 15 of pregnancy. Rarely, genetic amniocentesis might be done as early as week 11 of pregnancy.
You might consider genetic amniocentesis if:
Maturity amniocentesis can determine whether a baby's lungs are ready for birth. This type of amniocentesis is done only if early delivery — either through induction or C-section — is being considered to prevent pregnancy complications for the mother. It's usually done between 32 and 39 weeks of pregnancy. Earlier than 32 weeks, a baby's lungs are unlikely to be fully developed.
Occasionally amniocentesis is used to:
Your health care provider might caution against amniocentesis if you have:
Amniocentesis carries various risks, including:
Remember, genetic amniocentesis is typically offered when the test results might have a significant impact on management of the pregnancy. Ultimately, the decision to have genetic amniocentesis is up to you. Your health care provider or genetic counselor can help you weigh all the factors in the decision.
Maturity amniocentesis is often suggested when early delivery would be best for the mother. With minimal risks, maturity amniocentesis can offer assurance that the baby is ready for birth.
If you're having amniocentesis done before week 20 of pregnancy, your bladder must be full during the procedure. Drink plenty of fluids before your appointment. After 20 weeks of pregnancy, your bladder must be empty during amniocentesis.
Your health care provider might ask you to sign a consent form before the procedure begins. Consider asking someone to accompany you to the appointment for emotional support or to drive you home afterward.
Amniocentesis is usually done in an outpatient facility or the health care provider's office.
First, your health care provider will use ultrasound to determine the baby's exact location in your uterus. You'll lie on your back on an exam table and expose your abdomen. Your health care provider will apply a special gel to your abdomen and then use a small device known as an ultrasound transducer to show your baby's position on a monitor.
Next, your health care provider will clean your abdomen with an antiseptic. Generally, anesthetic isn't used. Most women report only mild discomfort during the procedure.
Guided by ultrasound, your health care provider will insert a thin, hollow needle through your abdominal wall and into the uterus. A small amount of amniotic fluid will be withdrawn into a syringe, and the needle will be removed. The specific amount of amniotic fluid withdrawn depends on the number of weeks the pregnancy has progressed.
You'll need to lie still while the needle is inserted and the amniotic fluid is withdrawn. You might notice a stinging sensation when the needle enters your skin, and you might feel cramping when the needle enters your uterus. The procedure usually takes about 20 to 30 minutes.
After the amniocentesis, your health care provider might use ultrasound to monitor your baby's heart rate. You might experience cramping or a small amount of vaginal bleeding immediately after the amniocentesis. Avoid strenuous physical activity for a day or two.
Meanwhile, the sample of amniotic fluid will be analyzed in a lab. Some results might be available within a few days. Other results might take up to four weeks.
Contact your health care provider if you have:
Your health care provider or a genetic counselor will help you understand your amniocentesis results.
For genetic amniocentesis, test results can reliably rule out or diagnose various genetic conditions, such as Down syndrome. Amniocentesis can't identify all birth defects, however.
If amniocentesis indicates that your baby has a chromosomal or genetic condition that can't be treated, you might face wrenching decisions — such as whether to continue the pregnancy. Seek support from your health care team and your loved ones during this difficult time.
For maturity amniocentesis, test results can reliably indicate a baby's lung maturity. If you need to deliver the baby early, this information offers reassurance that your baby is ready for birth.
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Three Bell Labs scientists have discovered a way to develop minuscule computer transistor chips that are roughly a million times smaller than a grain of sand.
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Many a Carbon resident has driven down Carbonville Road lately and seen the construction of a new railroad crossing at 760 West going in, but few imagined that a traffic light would appear there about the time the crossing was nearly done. It seemed a bit funny to some, at an intersection that doesn't get that much traffic.
But once in operation, that light will provide safety, particularly for school buses.
"Over the years there have been a couple of fatalities at that railroad crossing," said Carbon County Road Supervisor Brad McCourt on Thursday. "It was time something needed to be done and with some federal funding we were able to get this project going."
McCourt explained that the back ends long vehicles such as school buses extend over the tracks while they are stopped at the intersection. "They would stop at the stop sign and they would be parked on the tracks," he said. "We needed to fix that."
The change in the crossing will improve the grade as well as the fact that the intersection will now become a full four road intersection instead of just three as before. The control lights will halt traffic on Carbonville Road when a train is coming to make sure no traffic is backed up on the tracks.
While none of the fatalities at the crossing were the result of school buses in any way the safety of those vehicles were paramount in the planning of this project.
The crossing also gets a lot of traffic from residents as well as the Questar operations station that is located near the crossing as well.
While the crossing looks to be nearly done, however, a snafu has occurred that will delay it's opening a little longer.
"We had some power problems for the operations there," said McCourt. "Rocky Mountain Power is working with us to correct that situation."
McCourt said that they hope to have the entire operation up and running by the time school starts.
It will actually be the first traffic light that is on a county-owned road. All others in the county are on incorporated city streets or on state highways. Because of that McCourt says the county has an agreement with the Utah Department of Transportation that will take care of maintaining and repairing the stop lights as needed.


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North Carolina General Statute 20-173 requires that where traffic-control signals are not in place or in operation the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right of way, slowing down or stopping if need be to so yield, to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within any marked crosswalk or within any unmarked crosswalk at or near an intersection. Starting Monday, the Boone Police Department is will be stepping up crosswalk and pedestrian right of way enforcement. Motorist are reminded to be vigilant of pedestrian traffic and exercise patience when traveling.
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The recent events at Fort Hood, Texas — multiple killings on an army base at the hands of a soldier — have people asking many questions. How could this happen in a protected space, such as an army base? How could it happen at the hands of a soldier? And how could it happen at the hands of a soldier whose job it was to help others with their own psychological distress?
The experiences of war are traumatic for the soldiers and those living in war torn areas. The cumulative effects of combat stress can lead to such disorders as PTSD. But is there a similar cumulative effect of listening, repeatedly, to soldier's most traumatic experiences? Researchers have found that listening to traumatic stories from clients can cause psychological distress for the clinician. This phenomenon has been termed "vicarious traumatization" and, over time, it can lead to "compassion fatigue" in the therapist.
One study has shown that personal characteristics of the therapist, such as the extent to which they "practice what they preach" in terms of working through their own stress, is directly related to burnout and compassion fatigue. But as a recent NY Times article points out, in addition to the stress of listening to soldiers' harrowing tales of war, the military psychologists are also dealing with the prospect of their own deployment. Although there is a built in "checks and balances" system to monitor those providing care, the authors point out that for an officer at his rank, Maj. Hasan would have been expected to seek help on his own if he felt he needed it. However, this philosophy does not align with previous findings which show that therapists often feel expected to shoulder the burden of traumatic stories and that there is a sense of pride in maintaining client confidentiality and personal composure.
These findings, coupled with another study that shows the social function of "collective remembering" — in which the "social sharing" of emotions related to a traumatic event have long-term benefits in terms of post-traumatic growth and social integration — make salient the differences between sharing trauma at a collective vs. individual level. Collective sharing and processing of emotions can help a society and its citizens work through traumatic events. Therapists clearly have a role in sharing the experiences and facilitating positive coping processes, but their own experiences and stresses cannot be neglected in the process.
Does the war end when the shooting stops? The psychological toll of war. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, July 2006
Factors affecting burnout and compassion fatigue in psychotherapists treating torture survivors: Is the therapist's attitude to working through trauma relevant? Journal of Traumatic Stress, March 2007
Compassion fatigue: When listening Hurts. APA Monitor, September 1995
Painful stories take a toll on military therapists. NY Times, 11/7/09
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When rumors spread that Real Housewives of Atlanta's Nene Leakes' son Byrson was hospitalized after a bar fight NeNe was quick to shoot down the rumors. Too bad Bryson had already confirmed them.
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Pietrus had surgery previously on the same knee, but his recovery proved to be problematic, which was in part why the Phoenix Suns bought him out and thus allowed him to join with the Celtics. In his lone season in Boston, Pietrus became an instant hit with his teammates and Celtics Nation in part by correctly predicting the C's would eventually make a strong playoff run despite a less-than-stellar start to the season.
They did just that, advancing all the way to the Eastern Conference finals before being eliminated in seven games by the Heat.
Although Pietrus' energy and as Doc Rivers puts it, "great spirit" were positives for the ball club, his struggles physically with the knee limited his impact at both ends of the floor.
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Mika Salas, following the scientific method that she may have learned while she was a student at Helper Junior High School, is going to test a hypothesis.
Now that she's the school principal, she says she's curious to see if first period classes show an improvement in performance because of the light exercise many students are getting before school starts. They're walking.
School buses no longer drop the kids off at the school's door. The city's infrastructure rebuild in the neighborhood has torn up the streets where buses used to drive. Instead, the kids get off the bus on First West Street at the foot of Janet Street, cross the swinging bridge over the Price River, walk through an art gallery tunnel beneath Highway 6, ascend a flight of 76 steps to the top of the hill and then walk a hundred yards or so along the Harry S Truman walkway to get to the school.
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"It's enough to get their heart rates up but not enough to tire them out. They should be more awake and ready to learn," she explained Tuesday. "I'm going to keep track of it."
The students are taking the inconvenience in stride, so to speak. "They don't think it's a big deal," Salas said of the change in routine.
The reason for the distant drop-off is that a school bus, which weighs about 15 tons itself and carries a few more tons of close-packed humanity aboard, is tough to pull out of a trench. Kerry Jensen, who supervises the Carbon School District transportation system, said it was not an easy call to make. There's no way of telling what shape the roads will be in or where work will be happening on any given day, he explained. "The streets are narrow and they get slick when wet," he added.
"Nobody's to blame," Jensen said. "We're just trying to make the best of the situation."
Rams teams are also affected by the road situation. They have no home games while the roads are unpaved and parking near the school is problematic.
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The most talked about — and praised — first novel of 2007, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who, from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister, dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fuk — a curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA.
Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere — and risk it all — in the name of love.
Signature Review by Matthew Sharpe "A reader might at first be surprised by how many chapters of a book entitled The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao are devoted not to its sci fi — and — fantasy-gobbling nerd-hero but to his sister, his mother and his grandfather. However, Junot Diaz's dark and exuberant first novel makes a compelling case for the multiperspectival view of a life, wherein an individual cannot be known or understood in isolation from the history of his family and his nation.Oscar being a first-generation Dominican-American, the nation in question is really two nations. And Dominicans in this novel being explicitly of mixed Tano, African and Spanish descent, the very ideas of nationhood and nationality are thoughtfully, subtly complicated. The various nationalities and generations are subtended by the recurring motif of fuk, 'the Curse and Doom of the New World,' whose 'midwife and... victim' was a historical personage Diaz will only call the Admiral, in deference to the belief that uttering his name brings bad luck (hint: he arrived in the New World in 1492 and his initials are CC). By the prologue's end, it's clear that this story of one poor guy's cursed life will also be the story of how 500 years of historical and familial bad luck shape the destiny of its fat, sad, smart, lovable and short-lived protagonist. The book's pervasive sense of doom is offset by a rich and playful prose that embodies its theme of multiple nations, cultures and languages, often shifting in a single sentence from English to Spanish, from Victorian formality to 'Negropolitan' vernacular, from Homeric epithet to dirty bilingual insult. Even the presumed reader shape-shifts in the estimation of its in-your-face narrator, who addresses us variously as 'folks,' 'you folks,' 'conspiracy-minded-fools,' 'Negro,' 'Nigger' and 'plataneros.' So while Diaz assumes in his reader the same considerable degree of multicultural erudition he himself possesses — offering no gloss on his many un-italicized Spanish words and expressions (thus beautifully dramatizing how linguistic borders, like national ones, are porous), or on his plethora of genre and canonical literary allusions — he does helpfully footnote aspects of Dominican history, especially those concerning the bloody 30-year reign of President Rafael Lenidas Trujillo. The later Oscar chapters lack the linguistic brio of the others, and there are exposition-clogged passages that read like summaries of a longer narrative, but mostly this fierce, funny, tragic book is just what a reader would have hoped for in a novel by Junot Diaz." Matthew Sharpe is the author of the novels Jamestown and The Sleeping Father. He teaches at Wesleyan University. Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"Nowadays, there may be Hmong in Madison and Somalis in St. Paul, but some of us still have trouble keeping up with all the intense cultural mixing and melting going on amid our purple-mountained majesty. For example, mention the Dominicans among us to the average Tom, Dick or Andy Rooney, and he's liable to speak of a mythical Shortstop Island from which wing-footed infielders plot their takeover... Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review) of America's pastime. As for the Dominican Republic's history, imports, exports, that sort of thing? Well, its national baseball team is one of the best in the world, right? Or is that Venezuela? Junot Diaz has the cure for such woeful myopia. The Dominican Republic he portrays in 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao' is a wild, beautiful, dangerous and contradictory place, both hopelessly impoverished and impossibly rich. Not so different, perhaps, from anyone else's ancestral homeland, but Diaz's weirdly wonderful novel illustrates the island's uniquely powerful hold on Dominicans wherever they may wander — a borderless anxiety zone that James Baldwin would describe as 'the anguished diaspora.' Thus, that nation's bloody history, often detailed in Diaz's irreverent footnotes, intrudes periodically in 'Oscar Wao,' as if to remind Dominicans that tragedy is never far from one's doorstep. Or maybe it emerges simply to instruct the rest of us, because Diaz's characters are already painfully certain that they are destined for misfortune. Or, more precisely, cursed. Fuku americanus, Diaz explains, is 'generally a curse or a doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and the Doom of the New World.' It seems especially contagious and deadly in the Dominican Republic, where 'it is believed that the arrival of Europeans on Hispaniola unleashed the fuku on the world.' How exotic. How ominous-sounding. How very similar to the pet profanity of New Yorkers from Staten Island to the Bronx. But the tale begins in Santo Domingo, where 'a story is not a story unless it casts a supernatural shadow.' It revolves around several generations of one Dominican family, of which young Oscar de Leon, a depressed, overweight substitute teacher, is among the youngest descendants. The clan's patriarch, a brilliant doctor named Abelard Luis Cabral, came down with an ultimately fatal case of fuku back in 1946, having run afoul of the malady's high priest. That would be Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, the tyrannical sadist who bedeviled his fellow Dominicans for more than three blood-drenched decades. Naturally, his terror-mongering casts a large, threatening shadow over much of the novel's action. Abelard's fuku apparently becomes part of his family's DNA, traveling through time and blood cells to infect his grandson. ('Oscar Wao' is how one of the tormentors of his college years charmingly mutilated 'Oscar Wilde,' a derisive nickname young de Leon accepted without protest). In no rush to spill the details of his hero's short, star-crossed adventures, Diaz maneuvers his plot through various time shifts, settings and narrators. From Santo Domingo to Washington Heights, N.Y., to Paterson, N.J., various generations of de Leons wrestle with fate and lose. Along the way, Diaz liberally sprinkles his pages with allusions to authors, books and especially stories from the science-fiction and fantasy genres to which Oscar is devoted. So don't be surprised when a discussion of Caesar and Ovid morphs into the Fantastic Four versus Galactus, and Mario Vargas Llosa gets short shrift compared to Jack Kirby, the late, lamented genius of Marvel Comics' glory years. Adding to our reading pleasure, Diaz excels at making fun of despots. At the mercy of the author's machete-sharp wit, Trujillo becomes the Failed Cattle Thief, the Dictatingest Dictator who ever Dictated, the man who was Mobutu before Mobutu was Mobutu. Of Joaquin Balaguer, Trujillo's successor, he writes, 'Like most homunculi he did not marry and left no heirs.' And it's hard to resist his clever nickname for Francois 'Papa Doc' Duvalier, the madman whose pillaging made a wreck of Haiti: P. Daddy. Clearly a believer that membership has its privileges, Diaz makes cracks about Dominicans that the average Andy Rooney could never get away with. Reflecting on the ebony skin that keeps bubbling up in the de Leon bloodline, Diaz writes, 'That's the kind of culture I belong to: people took their child's black complexion as an ill omen.' Another character observes, 'That's white people for you. They lose a cat and it's an all-points bulletin, but we Dominicans, we lose a daughter and we might not even cancel our appointment at the salon.' There's also the distressing but all-too-credible spectacle of so many dark-skinned Dominicans spitting the word 'nigger' more often than Timbaland at a freestyle battle or Harriett Beecher Stowe at her abolitionist best. 'No one, alas, more oppressive than the oppressed,' Diaz explains. But enough about that. As Yunior (one of Diaz's narrators and a welcome holdover from 'Drown,' his acclaimed story collection) reminds us, 'This is supposed to be a true account of the Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.' Obese and socially awkward, Oscar is obsessed with food, girls, role-playing games, girls, anime, girls — you get the picture. Trouble is, female companions remain tantalizingly beyond his grasp, as do all other kinds of companions, who eventually abandon him to his habitual depression. Oscar couldn't find a pal on the Island of Lost Toys. 'You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto,' Diaz writes. 'Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.' Does Oscar ever overcome his ungainliness and find romance or a sense of belonging? The brevity of his tale prevents me from telling you much. Although I found the big guy totally sympathetic, he's often way too stubborn for his own good. In addition, it's not his fault that nearly every other character holds our interest just as easily — more of a reflection of Diaz's broad palette than Oscar's lack of dimension. But Oscar clearly is not intended to function as a hero in the classical sense. Is he meant primarily to symbolize the tangled significance of desire, exile and homecoming? Or is he a 307-lb. warning that only slim guys get the girls? Are we to wring from his ample flesh more of that anguished diaspora stuff? Could be, but I find sufficient meaning in the sheer joy of absorbing Diaz's sentences, each rolled out with all the nerdy, wordy flair of an audacious imagination and a vocabulary to match. It's easy to imagine Diaz smiling as he uncorked a description of a woman with 'breasts like sunsets trapped beneath her skin' or writing of Trujillo, 'Homeboy dominated Santo Domingo like it was his very own private Mordor.' Diaz pulls it off with the same kind of eggheaded urban eloquence found in the work of Paul Beatty ('The White Boy Shuffle'), Victor LaValle ('Slapboxing with Jesus'), Mat Johnson ('Drop') and his very own 'Drown.' Geek swagger, baby. Get used to it. Notwithstanding his neological dazzle, he's anything but longwinded. And he's patient — maddeningly so. Diaz made us wait 11 years for this first novel and boom! — it's over just like that. It's not a bad gambit, to always leave your audience wanting more. So brief and wondrous, this life of Oscar. Wow. Jabari Asim, former deputy editor of The Washington Post Book World, is editor-in-chief of the Crisis magazine." Reviewed by Jabari Asim, Washington Post Book World (Copyright 2006 Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group)
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"A rich, impassioned vision of the Dominican Republic and its diaspora, filtered through the destiny of a single family.... DÃaz's reverse family saga, crossed with withering political satire, makes for a compelling, sex-fueled, 21st-century tragi-comedy with a magical twist." Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"It's been 11 years since Junot Diaz published his acclaimed story collection, Drown, and he has spent the time well, honing the sharp, slangy voice that propels his terrific first novel....A joy to read, and every bit as exhilerating to reread. (Grade: A-)" Entertainment Weekly
"Writing in a combustible mix of slang and lyricism, Diaz loops back and forth in time and place, generating sly and lascivious humor in counterpoint to tyranny and sorrow." Booklist
"Told in blinkingly kinetic prose, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz's dazzling debut novel, fulfills the promise of this writer's short story collection (Drown) and fully reveals a powerful presence in moden American fiction." Cathleen Medwick, O: The Oprah Magazine
"A book so astoundingly great that in a fall crowded with heavyweights — Richard Russo, Philip Roth, Nick Hornby, Tom Perotta — Diaz is a good bet to run away with the field." Lev Grossman, Critical Mass
"[A] wondrous, not-so-brief first novel that is so original it can only be described as Mario Vargas Llosa meets 'Star Trek' meets David Foster Wallace meets Kanye West. It is funny, street-smart and keenly observed.... [Diaz has] written a book that decisively establishes him as one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive and irresistible new voices." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"[A] hell of a book." Los Angeles Times
"[A] colorful and complex portrait of mad love, old-world superstition, and the continual strivings of a diaspora." Christian Science Monitor
Rendering with warmth the endless human capacity to persevere, this Pulitzer Prize-winning work is the long-awaited first novel from the unmistakable voice behind the short story collection Drown.
Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who — from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister — dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú — a curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere — and risk it all — in the name of love.
About the Author
Junot Diaz's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Best American Short Stories. His debut story collection, Drown, was a publishing sensation of unprecedented acclaim, became a national bestseller, won numerous awards, and is now a landmark of contemporary literature. He was born and raised in the Dominican Republic, and now lives in New York City and Boston, where he teaches at MIT.
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By Christian Pelusi
It all started in 1992 for Robert Patrick. A self-proclaimed motorcycle enthusiast his entire life, he was able to buy his first Harley-Davidson after his career-making star turn as the Terminator-hunting Terminator in "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" in 1991. A few years later, Patrick met Oliver Shokouh, who first founded the motorcycle rally/fundraiser in Glendale, Calif. in 1984 called Love Ride. It is now the largest, one-day motorcycle event in the world.
"I was like a bad penny," said Patrick as he enjoyed a cigar at his home in Los Angeles. "I kept going back and going back."
Then, "somewhere in the mid-'90s," Patrick and Hollywood legend Peter Fonda became honorary grand marshals, joining "The Tonight Show" host Jay Leno, who has been grand marshal since 1985.
This year's ride on Sunday, Oct. 21 will benefit the USO, thanks in large part to Patrick. Patrick has been a supporter of the USO for many years and has traveled with other celebrities on USO tours to visit deployed servicemen and women, so Shokouh asked Patrick about his experiences at the start of the year. Patrick then reached out to his contacts at the USO and an agreement was reached in quick order.
Patrick has been a lifelong supporter of our nation's military and an active advocate for the USO. Growing up, his earliest memories are of his grandfather, an Army veteran of World War I, World War II and the Korean War and a Bronze Star recipient -- "The American flag, Fort Bragg, holding my grandfather's hand, seeing soldiers… ." His influence and family discipline gave him a deep respect for those who serve.
"I can't believe how young they are and their willingness to sacrifice," Patrick said. "And their commitment to serve. And their dedication to their job and their whole attitude. I get emotional thinking about it. It's just profound. I don't know if I'm selfless enough to give of myself like that."
Patrick's success as an actor has enabled him to take part in several USO tours to personally thank service members for their service and dedication to America. His belief in the mission of the USO, to lift the spirits of troops and their families, was the driving force behind him helping Shokouh to make the USO the beneficiary of this year's Love Ride.
"The USO's whole philosophy of bringing Main Street to the troops really works because I've seen it firsthand. I've met some of the finest men and women America has to offer, in foreign countries around the world that are serving us and putting their lives in danger. And I've seen the smiles we've brought to their faces and the screams and the elation they get when they see somebody they recognize from a TV show.
"You see the reaction and you get it."
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"And you meet all sorts of wonderful people. And I think that's the thing I've gotten from the Love Ride over the years. The passion, the heart, the genuine American spirit, the appreciation for the country. It takes a certain human being to straddle a piece of machinery and get out there and ride around and I've found that most of the people I meet that are motorcycle enthusiasts are really great people."
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After releasing a preliminary report recommending strengthening state regulation and the privatization of a downstate agency, the sole north country representative on a commission investigating utilities response to recent storms says their work has only begun.
Clarkson University President Anthony G. Collins said a commission, called by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo after complaints of slow response to Hurricane Sandy last fall, would spend time scrutinizing power companies response to storms throughout the state.
I think that it is a real advantage for the north country to have a representative on the commission so that our issues are brought forward, Mr. Collins said. Were unique. We have a rural setting; that brings unique problems to post-storm recovery. Having a regional rep, we can be certain that those issues will be looked at along with the downstate areas.
Mr. Collins said utility companies operate as monopolies in New York, operating with little oversight.
One of the really critical issues that has somehow slipped through the system is that the utilities essentially have franchises for lives. There are no conditions under which they can be revoked, he said. If you cant revoke the franchises, then there are no teeth to the regulations.
On Monday, the commission, which was convened under the Moreland Act, called for the privatization of the Long Island Power Authority.
There will be scrutiny of others, but they have certainly not had the same issues that LIPA has had, Mr. Collins said. It was clear from our interviews that the structure of the response was flawed. We have not heard anywhere near the same level of concern from other utilities.
Mr. Collins emphasized the commissions scope was not the power grids stability, but the response from utilities.
There is a question of how we react to those outages. That is really what were focused on, he said. As long as we have overhead power lines, were going to have branches coming down on them. It is a question of how we respond and communicate so the public is informed.
The commission also recommended the Public Service Commission, which audits utilities and can sanction them if they violate its orders, be strengthened. It criticized the PSC for failing to regularly review utility companies storm response plans, and suggested fines levied against utilities for violations be increased over their $100,000 maximum.
If utility companies repeat their violations, the commission recommended empowering the PSC to revoke their operating certificates.
They need the opportunity to revoke a franchise, and they need to be able to impose higher penalties, Mr. Collins said. Just having the Public Service Commission, if they dont have teeth, there is little they can do.
Finally, the commission recommended streamlining the Department of Public Service and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to eliminate redundancies between the agencies. Currently, both agencies oversee initiatives to encourage energy efficiency throughout the state.
They overlap. For example, if you want to apply for energy to make a facility more efficient in our region, both National Grid and NYSERDA have identical programs, Mr. Collins said. That is a redundancy that costs the ratepayer money.
The findings were released ahead of Mr. Cuomos State of the State address today.
The commission only started working a few weeks ago, commission spokesman David H. Neustadt said. They couldnt get to anything quite yet. This was a preliminary report to address some of the more immediate issues in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. There is a plan to continue the work and focus on the other areas of the state.
Going forward, the commissions scope includes the response to damage in the north country from a 2008 ice storm, which left some households without power for eight days. Mr. Collins said the commission would scrutinize National Grids response to the storm.
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Prosecutors also allege that Jha said he would take time off from full-time teaching at Morgan to work on the project.
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DEPEW, NY - U.S. Congressman-Elect Chris Collins is ready for his new challenge. The Republican defeated Democrat Kathy Hochul by a slim margin in the NY-27 Congressional district race. He met with reporters at his campaign headquarters on Transit Road in Depew.
Collins, sounding far less divisive, reacted to a question about working across party lines in Congress. "I'm going to do what is best for the country, I will compromise where it need be, but I won't compromise on the values or knowing what I know on how to create jobs in the small business world. Again, I think I can be a voice of reason because of my experience."
Collins is a former Erie County Executive. He served one term after he was defeated by Democrat Mark Poloncarz.
Collins ran unsuccessfully for Congress in the late 1990's. He was trying to unseat veteran John LaFalce.
When it comes to Obamacare, during the campaign, Collins often spoke about fighting to have it repealed. One day after he was elected, he told reporters, "Obamacare is what I said, it's a wet blanket on job creation, I believe the President will hopefully look at the disapproval ratings of Obamacare and that we can maybe clean that up in a way that we're not raiding medicare."
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José Lugo will begin his third season for the Big Green in 2013. Last year, Lugo guided the team a 2-22 mark, including 1-13 in conference play. He helped the team to a 16-9 mark overall and an 8-6 record in the Ivy League in 2011. His main responsibilities at Dartmouth include system coordination, opponent scouting, team travel and community relations. Lugo comes to Hanover after serving the past three years at Arizona State.
At Arizona State, Lugo was responsible for the internal operations of the program, which included community service, travel, marketing and promotions. Also working as a volunteer assistant coach for the Sun Devils, he helped ASU beat national runner-up California in the 2010 regular season. The Sun Devils also beat eventual Final Four participant USC.
During May of 2010, Lugo was the director of operations for the USA Volleyball Women's A2 National Teams. The squads took the gold and bronze medals at the 2010 USA Open National Tournament.
From 2006-2007, he was an assistant at South Mountain Community College where he helped turn the program from a last-place finish in their conference to a fifth-place finish, increasing their win total exponentially. Prior to his arrival at SMCC, Lugo coached at Desert Mountain High School, helping to lead the team to an Arizona State 5AA Championship.
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Emmanuel Sanders was forced from Pittsburgh's Week 15 game against the Cowboys with a rib injury, and is questionable to return.
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ESPN's Chris Mortensen reports Steve Smith's injury is non-surgical and he "will play sooner than later."
NFL Network's Rand Getlin reports the Dolphins would consider "shaking up" the coaching staff if the team loses Week 4 in London.
Drew Brees (shoulder) is listed as probable for Week 4 against Dallas.
Cardinals coach Bruce Arians said Chris Johnson will start at running back Sunday against the Rams.
Rams coach Jeff Fisher said after Friday's practice that he expects Todd Gurley to "play a lot more" in Week 4 at Arizona.
DeMarco Murray (hamstring) is listed as questionable for Week 4 after turning in another full practice on Friday.
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Views on climate change among the public and scientists
Whereas seven out of eight of scientists say that humans are causing global warming, only half of the public agrees, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.
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Whereas nearly all scientists say that humans and other living things have evolved over time, only two thirds of the public agrees, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.
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The petition to ask the Scottish government to ban the teaching of creationism in the public schools was revived when, at its January 27, 2015, meeting, the Public Petitions Committee of the Scottish parliament decided to forward the petition to the Education and Culture Committee for further action.
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Before Goddard Susan Moul was working as a business consultant and had just been certified to teach yoga. Her thesis, The mouth of the body, beginning with mine, was a collection of essays that cover the range of approaches to embodied self awareness she investigated during her semesters at Goddard. She is now a senior member of the Healthy Living Faculty at Kripalu, where she teaches workshops in yoga, meditation, and embodiment.
Susan: Initially I had taken yoga teacher training to support my personal yoga practice, but then I realized I wanted to take this new thing and open up my life with it. I found to my surprise that I actually did want to teach, and I wanted to reestablish my writing practice as well. I chose to do graduate work in order to be able to do what I wanted to do credibly and substantially.
Upon realizing I wanted to do an MA I knew I wanted to do it at Goddard. My whole life I'd had the sense that Goddard is where people go to become revolutionaries. And I knew I would learn what I needed to learn and it wouldn't be about just running all the bases to get the piece of paper. I knew I would be designing a course of study tailored specifically to the work I wanted to do.
I wanted to destabilize a lot of the conversation and questions that arise out of taking something called a 'mind' as separate from the body. My experience with yoga and with writing had led me to feel that the wrong questions were being asked. I didn't want to know or to teach 'how' a body 'works'; I wanted to know (and still want to know) what a body is. Graduate work helped me to get a basis for pursuing this question.
My work was highly interdisciplinary and the low residency MA in Individualized Studies Program's framework supported me in this; I drew not only on physiology and philosophy but also on neuroscience, physics, mathematics, poetry, and literary and art criticism. I was also able from the first semester and throughout the course of my studies to explore connections between theoretical investigation and writing. Based on much that I was encountering in attempting to understand cognitive structure, I including in my writing practice experiences such as self video, which let me investigate narrative pause. I continue to evolve the style of writing that emerged from this exploration.
Goddard's low residency MA in Individualized Studies Program was the perfect environment and natural midwife for my work on embodiment and embodied writing. There was aesthetic rigor in combination with nurturing, intelligent, close reading of my work. I received direction and guidance in combination with faith and support for finding my own way.
I now do curriculum development and program development for Kripalu, and design and teach my own workshops. No matter what I teach I'm still studying what I was studying at Goddard. I also apply the Goddard model in my teaching here: supporting students in choosing a path, discovering how to make it real, and seeing it through.
From convection / further notes on the body as a spiritual vehicle, a piece Susan wrote during her third semester in the program about a Gabrielle Roth dance workshop:
a day of body moving through seven hours of dance at one point well over an hour without leaving off even to take instruction or water
one hundred people
at some point an outside door is opened for half a minute and our bodies are revealed as great clouds of steam I feel/ a literal awe
what is ecstasy
in lyrical movement our bodies exceed the limits of faith the ends of belief the experience of experiencing motion/ evolves because nothing stops it that first exercise of walking now the basic tenet of self knowledge the room a steady pulsation of natural breath that has not known the spectrum of judgment that ranges from inhibition to uninhibited it/ is a free breath born in a free body a/ free land
You do not have to regard the watcher as a villain. Once you begin to understand that the purpose of meditation is not to get higher, but to be present here, then the watcher is not efficient enough to perform that function, and it automatically falls away.
the fifth rhythm is stillness / a rhythm whose living is in the breath
calling you into spaces between the beats, between your bones, between your moves. Your body shifts through many shapes, sometimes holding them, feeling their vibration, sometimes letting them go. Your attention is drawn to your inner dance, where everything is alive, awake, aware.
what I learned was if I wanted to hang on to my story I could and no one would stop me or want to stop me unless they were also hanging on to a story and then our energies would tangle up somehow we'd collide we could get fluid we couldn't find the space we made with our own movements but only the increasingly sharp edges of the stiffness the rigidity of the form/ I
found that I could go on insisting on this thing or that about myself it was not difficult to maintain the sense of being clumsy if I wanted that or the memory of violence if I couldn't bear to be without it
that somehow in struggling these issues I'd increased their strength I'd insisted on them / by wanting to stretch them and make some room for myself by finding ways to engage or improve the situation I had inadvertently or perhaps/ it occurred to me then/ deliberately/ made them stronger resilient to change all weather wear that
made my weaknesses and idiosyncrasies and neuroses color the experiences so that I came to see that solidity as the world and to see that as myself and that I lived in the concave convex flux between this diaphragmic self world boundary/ an
utterly nonexistent boundary that I created with my own body that I lived as a body and re inscribed with every movement
when the possibility existed every single moment of letting it go
The breath is strong the vitality intense. The time is now, the place here. Every gesture is total, measured, your body full of breath, your look direct.
a gasp an intake of air a freshening to life and a dance that sloughed off the accumulation of habit and
if I did these things/ danced for three days with total strangers stripping and stripping and letting go of stripping/ if I did this and did not accept that it could change everything then why was I doing it/ if I
did this practice this dance these rhythms this re patterning of every wave of my own energy and did not allow the reality within which I experienced them to acknowledge the character of their pervasive reality the truth then I could simply go home afterward and have had a good time/ something out of which to make a memory
eventually slow I/ find my self moving through broad and gently tapering circles of sacrum knees hands and shoulders rolling bones and gluts across the floor the relationship of hip to arm returning me at angles to standing the understanding of limbs and back muscles folding me again to the floor and after awhile each time I'm on the floor I find I stay a bit longer/ we
are all on the floor there is a long period of meditation and integration
coalescence arises/ writes patanjali in the yoga sutras/ and the body and the infinite universe are revealed as indivisible
He'd asked his father on his deathbed, "What was the most important thing in your life, the Torah?" And the old man had answered, "My body." "I was stunned," his son now told me. He stared past me in awkward silence and finally said, "I always thought my body was just a vehicle for my mind; feed it clothe it, send it to Harvard."
Trungpa, Chogyam. Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism. Boston, MA: Shambhala Publications, 1973.
Roth, Gabrielle. Maps to Ecstasy. Novato, CA: New World Library, 1998.


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Evaluation of HIV-Negative Patients With Low CD4+ T Lymphocyte Counts
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This study will evaluate HIV-negative patients with unusually low levels of CD4+ T lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell) to learn more about the clinical symptoms, cause, immunology, and biology of this problem. CD4+ T lymphocytes play an important role in immune function, and low counts may leave people susceptible to unusual infections. CD4+ T cell deficiencies are most often associated with HIV infection.
Patients 8 years of age and older with CD4+ T cell counts below 300 cells/mm3 who test negative for HIV infection by standard blood tests may be eligible for this study. Patients' family members and partners may also be enrolled to investigate the possible role of a genetic factor or exposure to some agent in this problem.
Patients will be evaluated at the NIH Clinical Center at least once, and generally two or more times. The evaluations, which may be done on an inpatient or outpatient basis, will include some or all of the following tests and procedures:
- Complete physical examination.
- Medical history, including questions about sexual contacts, intravenous drug use, travel, blood transfusions, previous illnesses, including sexually transmitted diseases, and health of family members.
- Urine test.
- Blood tests for routine and research purposes, including tests for HIV, hepatitis, syphilis and other infections, evaluation of immune function, and culture for viruses in the HIV family. No more than 1 pint of blood will be drawn every 6 weeks.
- Pregnancy test for women of childbearing potential.
- Skin tests for tuberculosis and immune function. These tests involve injecting a small amount of the substance to be tested just under the skin and looking for a raised area 1 to 2 days later.
- Apheresis. Whole blood is collected through an arm vein (similar to donating blood), and circulated through a cell separator machine, where it is spun to separate the components. The red cells are then returned to the patient either through the same needle or through a needle in the other arm, and the plasma and white cells are extracted for study. The procedure, which takes 1 to 2 hours, may be repeated up to 3 times.
Family members will have 60 cc (4 tablespoons) of blood drawn to determine CD4+ T cell counts.
CD4 Lymphocytopenia
Idiopathic CD4 Positive T Lymphocytopenia
|Study Type:
|Official Title:
|Evaluation of the Epidemiology, Clinical Manifestations, Etiologies, and Immunology of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Negative CD4 T Lymphocyte Deficient Patients
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|Study Start Date:
|September 1992
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|July 2003
Low CD4+ T-cells in the absence of known etiology has been called idiopathic CD4+ T lymphocytopenia, and a case definition was established by the CDC as a CD4 count less than 300 cells/mL on 2 consecutive samples in a patient uninfected by HIV and with no other disease or treatment that might provide a reasonable alternative explanation for CD4 lymphocytopenia. Early investigations centered on a search for a novel retrovirus, but we and others have not found evidence of such a retrovirus. The patients that we have seen are heterogeneous, and it appears likely that there will be multiple etiologies for this syndrome. We are currently continuing to follow subjects long term and to see new subjects in order to continue to characterize the clinical aspects of patients who meet the case definition; to determine the natural history of ICL, and to provide samples to researchers who are interested in investigations into the pathogenesis of ICL.
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Adults greater than or equal to 18 years of age.
CD4 count less than 300 cells/mmL on 2 consecutive samples.
Uninfected by HIV as determined by ELISA with confirmatory Western Blot
Absence of disease or treatment that might provide a reasonable alternative explanation for the CD4 cell count or might confound the evaluation. Examples of such diseases would be any acute, severe medical illness that had not resolved when CD4 cell counts were obtained; active tuberculosis; leukemia or lymphoma; or previously characterized immunodeficiency disorder. Treatment that that might provide a reasonable alternative explanation includes chemotherapy over a field that could affect bone marrow or supraphysiologic glucocorticoid therapy.
Capable of providing informed consent.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00001319
|United States, Maryland
|National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
|Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00001319 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|November 3, 1999
|Last Updated:
|March 3, 2008
|Health Authority:
|United States: Federal Government
Keywords provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC):
HIV Negative
CD4 Deficiency
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
HIV Infections
T-Lymphocytopenia, Idiopathic CD4-Positive
Hematologic Diseases
Immune System Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Lentivirus Infections
Leukocyte Disorders
RNA Virus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Slow Virus Diseases
Virus Diseases
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Not saying this in a way to spite, that's literally the reason I did this. Plus, it was funny.
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Celebrities are known for having huge egos, and sometimes they clash. Feuds broke out over break-ups, hair and yes, even over having the same type of car.
Twitter served as the battleground for many fights. Celebs brought their beef to the virtual world for everyone to see. Let's take a look at 2012's top 10 celebrity feuds:
1. Mariah Carey vs. Nicki Minaj
Dueling diva alert! The two new "American Idol" judges had a heated argument during auditions, where they cussed and yelled at each other. Soon after, Nicki Minaj took to Twitter to rant about the incident:
"All I do is compliment u. That's not enuff? Ur a legend, cheer up. U don't have to run down ur resume or feel intimidated. Shady McGrady"
2. Chris Brown vs. Drake
The two hip-hop stars have had a ongoing fight over Rihanna. In June, things boiled over at a New York club where Chris' entourage battled Drake's. Bottles were thrown and Chris left the club with a nasty gash on his chin.
Chris tweeted, "How u party wit rich n**** that hate? Lol... Throwing bottles like girls? #shameonya!" and "Ok! N****s stand behind security! Ok! U don't pay them enough."
3. Rihanna vs. Piers Morgan
Piers Morgan wasn't too fond of Rihanna's new do debut at the Paralympics this year. The tv host tweeted, "I think Rihanna needs to grow her hair back. FAST."
Rihanna replied, "Grow a d--k…fast."
Piers invited her on his show and she tweeted back that she was in for it ... but only if she talked about cosmetics.
4. Teresa Guidice vs. Jacqueline Laurita
It's been an ongoing fight between the Jersey housewives but true feelings came to surface on the Season 4 reunion. Jacqueline said their friendship ended because of Teresa's family drama. She called out Teresa for starting the rumor about her sister-in-law Melissa Gorge for being a stripper.
Jacqueline: "You were telling me what to say and making me uncomfortable. I had other s--t going on in my life and you didn't give a f--k! All you cared about was exposing them. You wanted me to call out that Melissa was a stripper…"
Teresa: "No I didn't. I never said she was a stripper."
Jacqueline: "You are a liar, you're sick -- you're going to Hell!"5. Sammi Giancola vs. Deena Cortese
Chris responded by posting, "Hate all you want because I got a grammy now! That's the ultimate f*** off."
Wrote Miranda: "I'm done for now. But not for good:) nite love bugs & remember…Be who you are an stand for what u believe in. NO MATTER WHAT! Oh and one more thing for all who are asking…I have a Grammy too:)"
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Well, looky here. Heels and Handguns just got mentioned in the media as a grrrrrrl pro-gun site. I love this, this article written by Andrea Bulfinch in the Foster's Daily Democrat:
Forget diamonds … is gun now a girl's best friend?
While a nationwide conversation about guns, gun violence and gun control is taking place bringing Second Amendment rights into the spotlight, a "gender revolution" has taken place with an increased number of women choosing to lock and load.
Numerous websites, blogs, and forums such as Heels and Handguns, Women Against Gun Control, Second Amendment Sistersand hundreds of other virtual groups have brought women from across the country together, sharing their knowledge and support of what some are calling a woman's "real right to choose.
Gender revolution = self-reliance. Like what Jessie Duff practices.


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By KEVIN SCANNELLSun Advocate reporter
A car trying to pass a truck was left totaled after it ran into another truck on a section of U.S. Highway 6 Thursday morning.
An 85 year old male who was not identified, from Moab, was driving a silver 2009 Pontiac G6 when he allegedly hit a semi-truck that was passing him. The driver was behind a Savage truck in the right lane heading westbound on U.S. 6 when he attempted to pass the truck in front of his car. The driver then hit the truck driving in the passing lane, which caused the Pontiac to swerve into the eastbound lanes before coming to a stop, according to Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Levi Oman.
The accident occurred around 10:35 a.m. near milepost 254.
According to Oman, the driver of the Pontiac said he accelerated to 75 miles per hour to try and pass the truck in front of him. He did not see the truck in the left lane trying to pass both vehicles and was hit from behind causing the Pontiac to come to a stop on the other side of the road.
Respondents to the scene included the Highway Patrol, Carbon County Sheriffs, Rescue 5 from Wellington and a Carbon County ambulance.
There were no injuries at the scene and both drivers did not request medical attention.
Failing to yield and speed were factors in the accident, according to Oman.