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This guide will assume you are familiar with the Mercs previous to the set Silver Dawn it does not mean you can't ask questions about their extensive back catalogue.
Please feel free to post your own files, questions hints and tips etc.
Unlike the Barbarians I was able to field a half decent file straight off the bat. I feel Mercs have really come of age with set 13 and are well worth a try.
Still the pain of ranking up so the first soul is an obvious choice.
I found Rozly a great scare card and only used one, but with the action skill Impact Strike well worth fielding more.
Often I didn't need to use Horseman,and saved him for later in case my sphere lev was reduced.
Next I got Field Commander on as quickly as possible, followed by just about any of the other units bar Dual Gunslinger.
I found Halmira worked best in say slot 5 with Field Commander beside her. This may seem odd, but trust me it really worked.
The grims are typical of Gowen, but you may feel ambush needs replacing with fire ball or another fire arrow.
Delrare's soul is top, well until Merc files become more popular anyway.
Here's me knocking seven shades out of a bunch of watery, low down Mermaids
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Rapidshot Gunner
Fast, damaging, good range and almost free to use if the Field Commander gives back the 1sp Action cost. Then If say, Revolver Blademan gets his action in you will find a few opportunities where the Commander disengages a unit. Making for game breaking chances. An Extremely good card that should be in every Merc file.
I must admit i never tried this chap, but his large damage potential and reasonable HP make him quite attractive. Low Agi may be a concern? Coupled with the new Shield Coat he may suit your play style, but for me he loses out to Rapidshot.
Sword Sucessor / Rozly
As you may imagine there is a lot of hate for this card, but I found that players panicked (Especially Falkow followers)
For me at least It made for an interesting start, but it was usually totaled by the first SS and I only really needed it to trigger my rank up.
With it's engaging action you could invest more in it, but I found it more advantageous to build a field and let my opponent flounder, and waste grims.
It does throw players Soul Skills off nicely, and worked well against a shade opening.
New Shield Coat / Halmira
This card really does anchor the whole field. It should be at the heart of every Merc file. In the past Mercs have been notoriously tough to set up. This card makes them a joy to play. Preventing those by her side from attack until she dies, and buffing both attack and def when she herself is struck.
Sworn Avenger / Henrietta
Couldn't really get to grips with this card and found it a little tough to get on it being level 4, but I could certainly see potential in it. She takes a while to get going, but there are cards to help her focus and if you put the time into her she may well pay off dividends. Halmira could certainly help her out and I think I passed her by in favour of less tricky cards to set up.
So in conclusion. As I have said, with Silver Dawn the Mercs finally come of age. I was a little frightened at first that I would find them too powerful, but as I got the swing of things games became close and win or lose the experience was pleasurable I believe for both my opponent and myself. The choice now with this tribe makes it possible for plenty of experimentation. So there really is no excuse to not give em a bash! They give Gowen a much needed tactical approach as there is not much from the sphere that requires more than just raining down large amounts of damage.
I really hope this thread will encourage and maybe even inspire a few out there


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Thieves stealing copper from construction sites, homes, even churches has been an ongoing problem in eastern Carolina. Scrap metal recycling centers give quick cash for the copper, but starting Monday, a new law goes into effect aiming to stop the flow of cash to copper thieves.
The law says recyclers have to pay people with checks, not cash. The goal is try and keep a paper trail of what's going on. Owner of Joco Inc. Robert Joyner says he's had copper stolen many times from his construction site. He says he had $25,000 worth of copper stolen in one incident. He thinks this law is another weapon for law enforcement, but Beth Glisson-Baker has a different opinion. She owns a scrap metal recycling center in Pitt County.
"I think until the economy as a whole improves we are not going to see that this law changes anything. As far as copper theft, your thieves, for the most part, will remain thieves. They will just find other avenues to sell the materials," said Glisson-Baker.
Glisson-Baker's business currently keeps copies of photo ID's for anyone that sells to them. Under the new law recyclers are also required to take photographs of sellers with the metals that they are selling and record additional information about it.
Glisson-Baker says she has concerns that check fraud and check altering may occur.
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Commercial fishing regulators have approved massive cuts to the New England Shrimp fishery. Members of a key panel of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission met in Portland today to discuss the issue. The northern shrimp season gets underway late next month and catch limits have been set at 625 metrics - that's about 1.4 million pounds - which is less than a third of last season's. The drastic meaure was brought about by a recent assessment of the shrimp population by the ASMFC's Technical Committee, which had recommended a complete moratorium on shrimp fishing this winter in the Gulf of Maine. Tom Porter has more.
Maggie Hunter is a scientist at the Maine Department of Marine Resources. "Nothern shrimp in the Gulf off Maine are in the sourthern most part of their range, they're considered an arctic, subarctic species, and you don't find them south of Cape Cod," Hunter says. "So here in the Gulf they're very susceptible to any changes in temperatures, and we are seeing the Gulf of Maine warming recently."
"I didn't support it. I can't go there, it's still too low," says Maine Marine Resources Commissioner Patrick Keliher. "I think environmental factors are having a much bigger impact than whatever mortality levels we set."
Keliher was one of the 3-member Maine delegation meeting Monday as part of the Northern Shrimp Section of the ASMFC.
Maine was outvoted 2-1 on the proposal to cut the catch limit. Keliher had earlier put forward a motion to have the slightly higher limit of 700 metric tons - although, he admitted that either way, it's bad news for the industry this season.
"We're tilting at windmills here now," says fisherman Gary Libby, who was hoping for a limit of just over 800 metric tons. "That would have been better for the industry, but I understand what they're trying to do - preserve the shrimp for the future."
Libby is a commercial fishermen from Port Clyde and another Maine member of the Northern Shrimp section. The other two delegations represent New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Libby says it seems unfair that Maine can be out-voted on shrimp issues when it's Maine fishermen who catch 90 percent of the landings in New England.
"That's how we feel. New Hampshire and Mass don't feel that way," Libby says.
Shrimp provide a small, but valuable, fishery for fishermen. Libby says many lobstermen here rely on shrimping to get through the cold months when they're not hauling lobster traps.
The reaction of industry representatives was dismay. For many of them, a limit of 625 metric tons is just too low. "Six-twenty-five is effectively no season, it's a nightmare," say seafood dealer Angelo Ciocca, of Nova Seafood in Portland. Ciocca says the committee might just as well have approved the moratorium that scientists had been recommending.
"If the shrimp are as bad as science tells us, and as bad as New Hampshire and Massachusetts seem to think, that probably would have been the smartest thing to do," Ciocca says.
The ASFMC's Technical Committee had also recommended delaying the start of the shrimp season until about mid-February - by that time, scientists estimate at least half of Gulf of Maine northern shrimp will have hatched their eggs.
In any event, the regulators approved a slightly earlier start, with shrimp trawlers able to go out from Jan. 22, 2013, and trappers getting to work on Feb. 5.


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In other cases, Summon yielded less results than Google Scholar with the exact same search statement but at a big decrease in recall.
Attempts to use the more advanced search features in Summon to include wildcards and longer search statements not possible in Google Scholar, actually exploded the search even further.
Even though I am not a medical librarian, I have read with interest the recent paper "Google Scholar as replacement for systematic literature searches: good relative recall and precision are not enough" by Martin Boeker, Werner Vach and Edith Motschall.
The paper
- translated search strategies used to find relevant papers in past systematic reviews into Google Scholar equivalent search statements (as close as possible anyway)
- Checked how many relevant papers were found (the papers found in the original systematic review is the "gold standard" of what is considered relevant)
- Calculated the recall and precision of using Google Scholar as compared to traditional systematic review methods of searching multiple databases (typically Medline, Web of Science, Cochraine Library etc)
The results aren't particularly surprising, as argued by many other papers and blog posts , despite Google Scholar's large nearly comprehensive coverage of studies that allows it to pick up the papers using just one source (93% recall in this paper), Google Scholar has many weaknesses making it unsuitable for use in systematic reviews alone. In particular the lack of precision due to lack of advanced search features is a big one.
As I read through the paper, which is the most comprehensive one I have seen detailing the various weaknesses of Google Scholar for systematic reviews, I couldn't help but think how many of the critiques in there would parallel that for Summon.
In the past, I have blogged about how How Google is different from traditional databases and later I mused about How library web scale discovery services in particular Summon are closer to Google and Google Scholar , but not quite there yet.
On one-hand Summon has many of the same characteristics as Google Scholar. With breath unmatched by traditional databases, it was designed also to maximise recall at the cost of precision with features like auto-stemming which makes it feel google like.
But on the hand Summon does have more advanced search features (though a bit well hidden) and stability of results and more transparent sources.
So how does Summon stack up? Let me go through the critiques against Google Scholar and see if they apply to Summon.
Here's a short summary of some issues in Google Scholar.
- Maximum 1,000 results, 20 results per page - Summon same limitations, 50 results per page
- No bulk export - Summon same limitation, Zotero allows export of results by page for both
- Lack of search history - Summon same limitation.
- Limited advanced search interface - Summon 1.0 same, Summon 2.0 is better
- Lack of truncation and advanced field searches - Summon is better
- Inability to nest logical operators more than one level - Summon is better
- Limited query length to 256 characters - Summon does not have this limitation
- Autostemming leads to lack of control - Summon has same limitation
- Reliability and stability of index - Summon is better with more transparent listing of sources.
Overall : Reasons to believe one could better translate traditional complicated search strategies to Summon which might result in better recall and precision (assuming the full index of Summon is comparable to Google Scholar), but need an actual study to confirm, which will take a bit of expertise to translate search strategies and even more time to look through the results.
But similar to Google Scholar, limitations like maximum 1,000 results, lack of bulk export might make this moot anyway.
For more detail, read on!
Let's start with graphical interface features.
Quotes below are from provisional PDF of "Google Scholar as replacement for systematic literature searches: good relative recall and precision are not enough" by Martin Boeker, Werner Vach and Edith Motschall allowed under BioMed Central Open Access license agreement.
"Not more than 1000 results of the complete result set can be displayed in steps of
maximum 20 results per page."
Google Scholar can show 20 results per page
At 20 results per page, Google Scholar stops at page 50 = 1,000 results
Many people are surprised to know that regardless of the number of results Google Scholar finds, you can see at best 1,000 results and it won't show more results. (Google is similar though it's variable in terms of where it stops showing results).
In Summon 1.0, one can increase maximum number of results to 50 per page compared to 20 per page for Google Scholar. But you can't get more than 1,000 results.
At 50 results per page, Summon 1.0 stops at page 20, click "next" and you get an error.
Error when you go past 1,000 results in Summon 1.0
In Summon 2.0, there is no concept of pages, with the so called "infinite scroll" feature, I can't tell if this limits to 1,000 but might be moot (see below)
Frankly if there is any one reason not to use Google Scholar, this one alone would be sufficient, since many searches done would have >1,000 results. Still, let's press on.
"No bulk export of results is available. Results can only be exported into reference management software (e.g. ZOTERO)"
Yet another killer, since you need to mass export results you get, ideally all results with one export.
With Google Scholar, you can go export item by item, for mass export the only option is to pair it with Zotero so you can bulk upload page by page of results. Unfortunately with Google Scholar you can see only a maximum of 20 per page so it may take a while to export everything. (Wild idea use Publish or Perish software to get everything in one shot? Though limited to 1,000 results plus search limitations?)
Using Zotero with Google Scholar to mass export all the results on one page at a time
Summon 1.0 is exactly the same with no bulk export. You can use it with Zotero, exactly as in Google Scholar, so you can bulk export all the results in one page. Here it works slightly better than with Google Scholar, since you can set the page to display up to 50 results per page as mentioned.
Using Zotero with Summon 1.0 to mass export all the results on one page (50) at a time
Summon 2.0 has mentioned has "infinite scroll". I think this feature pretty much kills the possibility of quick bulk export. Or would I research, keep scrolling down...until the end, and then exports by bulk with Zotero?
Kinda moot now cos zotero does not work with 2.0 currently.
Lack of "a history function which temporarily stores retrieval results for incremental refinement of search strategies"
"It is not achievable to construct all possible expressions in the advanced search interface
due to the limited number of available entry fields. Only one field for each type of
expression (conjunction, disjunction and conjunction of phrases) is available"
Google Scholar advanced search screen
Assuming I understand this objection properly, Summon 1.0 is even worse, you can't even do that in advanced search since all the fields are an AND function.
Summon 1.0 advanced search screen
Summon 1.0 advanced search screen
In Summon 2.0, the advanced search is much improved, with a pull-down menu covering
- abstract
- title
- publication title
- author
- date
- full-text
- subject term etc
It also allows you to add additional boxes if necessary connected by logical operators.
Some fields of the advanced search interface are not available in a search expression as a
keyword or field indicator. Whereas authors can be specifically searched for with the field
indicator 'author' in an expression like 'author:"author name", the date is not accessible by
a field indicator.
This refers I think to the oddity where you can use advanced search in Google scholar to restrict by date or publication title, there is no equalvant way of getting to it by keyword syntax.
Summon doesn't have this oddity, though in Summon 1.0, the advanced search only gives you limited fields to search with
- title
- author
- publication title
- isbn/issn
- date
All of them can be done using by search syntax alone in basic search.
In fact, many other fields can be searches via if you know the syntax, so like for Google Scholar, to get the best use of it you had to construct the long complicated search on a text editor than transferred it to the basic search.
In Summon 2.0, the advanced search is much improved, with a pull-down menu covering
- abstract
- full-text
- subject term
- doi
- etc
It also allows you to add additional boxes if necessary.
The paper mentions that the lack of a search expression builder and search history is desirable though can be tolerated by advanced power users.
So let's start looking at other issues.
"Search expressions were limited to a length of 230 characters due to the restriction of a
total of 256 characters"
This is a barrier to creating complicated search strategies in Google Scholar as it has a character limit for length of search queries. This is a big deal because many search strategies needed for systematic reviews are extremely long and complicated.
The paper notes the median length of the Medline searches are 777.5 characters. But because of the character limit in Google Scholar, they had to simplify searches and in the study the median length of the "translated" Google Scholar ones had a median length of only 187.5!
This is a big limitation of course.
As far as I can tell by some testing, Summon does not have the same limitation as Google Scholar. If the query is long enough, browser limitations on processing long URLs (typically >2000 characters) will start to come into play, but this isn't a limitation of Summon per se.
"Terms in Google Scholar are complete single words (truncation is not possible)"
Based on support files, Summon allows truncation (but not within quotes) and proximity operators (without taking into account order).
"Google Scholar applies automatic stemming to terms where the stem is recognizable for Google Scholar. However, this mechanism might not be reliable for domain specific language (e.g. the medical language)."
Summon does autostemming too. My understanding is adding quotes around terms in Summon gives a higher relevancy boost to items with the exact terms in quotes but does not remove autostemming per se. So here it is similar to Google Scholar and may not be as precise as you may want.
"Logical operators can be used, though only without nesting of logical subexpressions
deeper than one level."
The paper also warns that "correct interpretation of logical connectors" still needs to be improved, with Google Scholar often giving illogical number of results.
As far as I can test, for Summon, you can nest boolean operators to more than one level. Still, there are indications in the support files that imply complicated nested boolean searches might sometimes give odd results and to report them if seen.
A well known example was where adding quotes would occasionally give MORE results, as reported in this article. So for example
sheep dip flies
would give you less results than
"sheep dip" flies
My understanding of the issue was that Summon by default would do an implied proximity matching (within 200 words) for three or more searches terms if they were found in full text in an attempt to filter out totally irrelevant results where words were extremely far apart in the full-text, but would switch this off when quotes were used.
In any case in the latest versions, this issue is resolved.
"The currency of Google Scholar may not be very high for some resources. The update
period for certain resources is up to nine months. Although research results indicate
very high coverage of Google Scholar, the exact coverage is not known. Google itself
states that it does not index journals, only articles, and does not claim to be exhaustive."
I am not aware of any study to measure how current Summon is with indexing (though no doubts libraries evaluating Summon and rivals would have done some testing). That said, Serialssolutions claims to index periodically, appropriate to the type of material (e.g if the journal is monthly, it will be indexed monthly).
Also Summon claims to index at the journal issue level, so this differs with Google Scholar, and one would expect more consistency here.
Reliability and stability of search results over time and place is not sufficient
A somewhat related critique of Google Scholar for systematic review searches is how unstable the results are. Due to way Google scholar works by crawling the web (including sites allowed by publishers, institutional repositories and even normal author personal homepages), articles may drop out of the index suddenly when the page becomes unavailable from crawl to crawl.
"GS' changing content, unknown updating practices and poor reliability make it an inappropriate sole choice for systematic reviewers. As searchers, we were often uncertain that results found one day in GS had not changed a day later"
Summon and most web scale discovery services would presumably be less prone to this since they don't trawl the web for articles (except for Institutional Respositories using OAI-PMH).
Also while Summon isn't 100% transparent on what is covered in their index as some would wish, they do produce a list that covers by journal title, the coverage and level of indexing (metatdata only or full text).
Difficulty of translation of standard search strategies from Medline to Google Scholar syntax
This pretty much drives the conclusion (see next point)
Google Scholar is extremely limited in terms of what can be done for searches, this results in extremely imprecise searches compared to what can be done in Medline (whether via Ovid or pubmed), Web of Science etc.
In this aspect, Summon seems to lie in between Google Scholar and other databases
Unlike Google Scholar, Summon can handle
- Truncation
- Proximity
- Multiple level of nesting
- Search queries >256 characters
- More fields for searching including subject terms, abstract (Summon 2.0)
- Filtering by content types (eg journal articles), discipline (Medical, Economics etc)
But it's still limited compared to the search syntax you can do in Medline, if say you want to use the MESH headings, theasuri etc, Summon doesn't have controlled vocabulary at all for focusing, exploding etc.
On the other hand as noted in an earlier paper critiquing Google Scholar, lack of a Google Scholar "search filtering option to limit the scope of search results 'by discipline' such as 'health and medicine'" can leads to explosion of results.
Summon does have a discipline facet for medicine, biology etc, though it's unclear how accurate it is to use.
As I am not a medical librarian, I can't tell if Summon's search feature is sufficient, though looking at the discussion in the paper of examples where the translated Google Scholar strategy fails, the main issue seems to be
- Lack of truncation support in Google Scholar
- Google Scholar's limited query length restriction
So it's likely Summon's search features might in fact be sufficient since both do not apply to Summon.
Google scholar has good recall but much worse precision
The meat of the whole paper is this. The results show that as expected that recall is good and 93% of relevant results are retrieved, but due to the lack of precision in searches allows by Google Scholar (see above), this can lead to a lot more effort wading through the results to pick them up. (In fact, the same limitations prevent 100% recall).
"Our investigation suggests that due to the low precision of Google Scholar searches a user
has to check about 20 times more references on relevance compared to the standard approach
using multiple searches in traditional literature databases. In the majority of cases this implies
for checking 10,000 or more references."
I got into a twitter discussion on how even this statement is misleading or at least impractical because Google Scholar cannot currently get to more than 1,000 results. That's a very good point though in defense of the paper it does recognize this calculation as "completely hypothetical".
I feel the paper does make a interesting point here, that is easily missed due to the title.
The title is "Google Scholar as replacement for systematic literature searches: good relative recall and precision are not enough" and yet it states the following point
The low precision of Google Scholar is not necessarily the main argument to avoid using it for systematic reviews!
Why? While you might need to check 20x more references when using Google Scholar alone, compared to traditional systematic review techniques, you save on time in other ways.
For example, traditional methods require that you query multiple databases and translate the same search to different databases. You need to spend time to dedupe results from these different sources etc. All this is additional time, that might off-set the 20x lack of precision.
Using this argument, like Google Scholar, Summon might also still be worth using even if is less precise than traditional methods, it all depends on the numbers.
But how would the recall and precision figures for Summon stack up compared to Google Scholar?
There is in fact reason to suspect, the precision might be better due to the ability to craft more controlled searches, but again without doing a formal study this is not definite. It may be possible, that in fact Google Scholar's better relevancy ranking can offset this, so if one is restricted to only the top 1,000 results (which is in fact true), Summon might be worse.
Also, is there reason to suspect if Summon would yield as high a recall as Google Scholar? Sure the ability to create long comprehensive search syntax would allow one to pick up more papers (eg long list of drug names) but is the index coverage of Summon as good as Google Scholar's?
This is unclear to me, presumably in Summon you would use "add results beyond your library collection" to use the full Summon index and perhaps exclude content types that are not relevant. Combine that with a login to your institution to get in as much A&I content (mostly Web of Science plus proquest A&Is, don't think Scopus results are in yet despite this announcement) and maybe use the discipline facet to further refine down.
But even that would be relatively small index compared to Google Scholar.
I am also unsure if Summon index includes the whole Medline or even Pubmed index or cochrane library etc.
But again, we need a formal study.
All in all, the results are not surprising, despite lacking many of the Google Scholar flaws, Summon isn't good enough to use alone for systematic reviews though there are reasons to suspect it might allow more precise searches due to Summon's superiority over Google Scholar in terms of the ability to do truncation, nested searches and much longer queries.
The degree to which this is true and/or the degree it will help precision is hard to tell without actually trying to redo the study with Summon as Summon still lacks some features like rich metadata and controlled vocabulary and related advanced search features for focusing/exploding subject terms.
Still, the following lack in features which mirrors Google Scholar, makes it almost totally unusable even if true that Summon has much better precision and similar recall as Google Scholar.
- Maximum 1,000 results in Summon 1.0 (infinite scroll in 2.0?)
- No Search History
- No bulk export
It is unclear if Summon will add such features though they don't seem particularly hard to do, since like Google, Summon isn't seen as a typical poweruser database, and such features might not be appropriate.
The interesting thing is, while web scale discovery services are typically similar enough to discuss in a broad brush, in this case, what I discuss for Summon does not necessarily apply to other discovery services like EDS or Primo Central.
For instance EDS does include search history, does not seem limited to the 1,000 result limit and of course has a totally different set of facets and search filters and may have important medicine sources like Medline, Cochrane library databases included.
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- Feb 11:
- Frei: Football recruiting gets more attention than it deserves
- Feb 8:
- Mike MacIntyre's football IQ quickly to be tested in talented Pac-12
- Feb 7:
- Football recruiting's star rankings might not reflect CU Buffs' future
- CU Buffs go heavy on defense in Mike MacIntyre's first recruiting class
- Tight end picks Air Force after "Colorado State pulled my scholarship"
- Northern Colorado adds 19 signees to five who already have enrolled
- CSU Rams bolster receiving corps with four big incoming freshmen
- Feb 6:
- Colorado State University football recruiting class
- Feb 7:
- Analyzing the Mountain West recruiting classes
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- Feb 7:
- Where Colorado's top 10 football recruits are going
- Analyzing the Pac-12 recruiting classes
- Christian McCaffrey clearly Colorado's top recruit in Class of 2014
It was a high school basketball referee a year ago who initially got the ear of the Colorado State football staff and mentioned the name Trae Moxley.
Or something like that.
Moxley, a senior tight end from Roaring Fork, signed with the Rams on Wednesday. He isn't sure if the story's true. He just knows that the CSU staff called his high school football coach out of the blue one day last spring and asked for a highlight tape. His coach, Tory Jensen, quickly put one together and posted it to YouTube. In short order, CSU offered the 6-foot-5, 270-pound Moxley a scholarship, and jokingly asked him to remove the tape from YouTube, just so that no one else would recruit him.
"He jumps off the film," Jensen said. "I mean, I've looked at a lot of film of a lot of kids ... and he's a different kid on film than what you see around here. He's a kid that can dominate a game. He changed everything. He was able to — on both sides of the ball — just take over a football game."
Moxley is something of a small-school wonder, a prime example of CSU coach Jim McElwain's pledge to recruit Colorado's nooks and crannies. Roaring Fork, a Class 1A school, went 2-7 last season, but Moxley had close to 700 receiving yards.
Moxley has a competitive fire in him, Jensen said, that needed some cooling in practice.
"It's tough because, in a small-school environment, we don't have a lot of kids that can go work him in practice to give him the best looks all the time," Jensen said. "It's hard to control him. He gets fired up, and all of a sudden he's working on a kid, and you're like, 'Whoa, whoa, slow down, Trae. You're going to scare this kid away from ever playing football.'
"I wouldn't say he's confused by it, but he's just like, 'C'mon, I've got to be able to do that,' " Jensen said. "I'm like, 'I get it, but you're going have to wait 'til Friday and take it out on some other poor kid. Leave ours healthy, please.' "
Moxley is also a standout basketball player and plays baseball. He had NCAA Division II offers to continue playing basketball in college, but Division I was always the goal. As Moxley started to decide which sport to play at the next level, he realized that there aren't many 6-5 post players roaming around major-college basketball.
"In basketball, I would be more of a shooting guard, I suppose, rather than a post, which I am now," Moxley said. "So it would be a really hard transition to have to become a shooter and be able to dribble the ball really well."
Moxley committed to CSU's football team last May, shortly after he got the scholarship offer.
"I thought I'd have to do a lot more extensive stuff — like go down there to camps, showcase my abilities, I guess," Moxley said. "More than them just looking at my highlight film and saying, 'We'd like to offer you a scholarship.' "
Moxley is a likely redshirt candidate for the Rams as he makes the adjustment physically to Division I football. College-type workouts, though, are the norm for him. The senior worked with a personal trainer for the past 2½ years to, as he put it, "try to get me to be a little less clumsy."
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Still en route to Olivine City Ash and co. meet two scientists (who are really Team Rocket) and volunteer to be experiments for a Poke Pod. Little did they know the scientists were really Team Rocket. The pod was used to keep Pikachu in and it was indestructible. There was only one key to open it and Wobbuffet has it. After giving chase, Ash gets the Poke Pod back but no key. Can Ash and co find Wobbuffet before the air in the pod runs out?
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The Eight Gates are eight specific points on a person's Chakra Pathway System. They limit the overall flow of chakra within a person's body. The basis for the idea of the chakra gates comes from the body's limits on the functions within it. This makes the body much weaker, but it keeps the body from expiring too soon. By undergoing intense training, one can learn how to open these gates allowing the user to surpass their own physical limits at the cost of extreme damage to their own body.
Rock Lee has demonstrated the ability to open at least the first five gates. Might Guy, who taught Lee the skill, is able to open all eight. Kakashi can open at least one gate, as shown during Kakashi's one-handed rock climbing where a shot of his brain shows the relevant point activating,[1] as well as in his usage of the Front Lotus in the anime.[2][3] Opening the gates is a difficult feat even for the most talented ninja, and Kakashi was surprised to find out that at that time, a 13-years old Lee could open as many as five of them.[4]
The state of having all Eight Gates open is known as "Eight Gates Released Formation" (八門遁甲の陣, Hachimon Tonkō no Jin, English TV: Eight Inner Gates Formation). Any shinobi who activates this state will temporarily gain powers greater than a Kage, but they will die because of the damage done to their body. Due to the immense amount of chakra flooding the body all at once, drastic changes can occur upon the user's body. The most common of these changes are the darkening of the skin, eruption of veins around the temples, the eyes turning completely white. The aura surrounding the user could be easily mistaken as chakra as in Kisame's case when fighting Guy. Guy corrected this misconception explaining that the blue substance surrounding him is his sweat evaporating at a rapid rate, due to the intense rise in body temperature of the user.[5]
- The Gate of Opening (開門, Kaimon), located in the brain. This gate removes the restraints of the brain on the muscles so 100% of their strength can be used whereas normally, a person can only use 20% of their muscles' strength to keep them from disintegrating. Unlocking this gate allows the user to use the Front Lotus.
- The Gate of Healing (休門, Kyūmon, English TV: The Gate of Rest), located in the brain. Forcibly increases one's physical strength and temporarily re-energises the body.
- The Gate of Life (生門, Seimon), located on the spinal cord. Allows the user to use the Reverse Lotus. The increased blood flow turns the skin red.
- The Gate of Pain (傷門, Shōmon), located on the spinal cord. Increases the user's speed and power. May cause muscle tissue to tear on use.
- The Gate of Limit (杜門, Tomon, English TV: The Gate of Closing), located in the abdomen. Increases the user's speed and power.
- The Gate of View (景門 , Keimon, English TV: The Gate of Joy), located in the stomach. Increases the user's speed and power. Allows the user to perform the Morning Peacock. Opening of this gate releases such enormous amounts of chakra that it can cause nearby water bodies to form a vortex around the user.
- The Gate of Wonder (驚門, Kyōmon, English TV: The Gate of Shock), located below the stomach. Further increases the user's speed and power. Allows the user to perform the Daytime Tiger. Those who open this gate will pour glowing green sweat from every inch of their body, blue in the anime, which immediately evaporates from their own heat energy, creating an aura which people would mistake as a chakra coating. Unfortunately, the side effects of opening the gate are that the user's muscle fibres are ripped to shreds, causing intense pain if anything or anyone touches them.
- The Gate of Death (死門, Shimon), located at the heart. Releasing this gate uses up all of the body's energy. It makes the heart pump at maximum power and exceeds the power of every other gate. Opening this gate gives the user power that is even beyond the five Kage, but comes at the expense of the user's life shortly after.
See Also
- In Naruto Shippūden 2: Bonds, Shinnō managed to use a technique that allowed him to open all eight gates without any drawbacks.
- In Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2 and Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3, Neji Hyūga uses a technique called Last Resort: Eight Gates Bombardment to specifically block access to the Eight Gates.
- In Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2, when Might Guy activates his awakening, he mistakenly says "Eighth Gate of Joy!", instead of "Sixth Gate of Joy!"
- In several video games, Rock Lee can unlock the sixth and seventh gates, despite the fact that in the manga and anime he can only unlock the first five gates.


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To treat mitral valve regurgitation surgically, the options are to repair or replace the mitral valve.
Repair of the heart valve usually is the preferred surgery instead of replacement of the valve.
Valve replacement may be recommended if your mitral valve is seriously damaged and cannot be repaired.
The decision about whether to repair or replace a valve is based on many things, including your general health, the condition of the damaged valve, the presence of other health conditions, and the expected benefits of surgery. In some cases, the decision clearly may be in favor of repair or in favor of replacement.
When is valve repair recommended?
Repair is typically preferred over replacement. Repair for mitral valve regurgitation:1
- May lead to better long-term survival.
- Does not need long-term anticoagulants after surgery.
- Leads to better function of the left ventricle.
- Has less risk of serious bleeding.
Repair is more successful if there is not a lot of damage to certain areas of the mitral valve flaps (leaflets) or to the tough fibers that control movement of the mitral valve leaflets (chordae tendineae).
Mitral valve repair is usually preferred if your valve is suitable for reconstruction and the surgeon has the appropriate level of experience and surgical skill.
The advantages of mitral valve repair include the following:
- It preserves your natural valve and its support (chordae tendineae). In general, the more of the natural valve that can be preserved during a mitral valve replacement, the better the results of the procedure.
- It prevents the need for lifelong blood-thinning therapy (anticoagulation), which is required to prevent the clotting that typically occurs when an artificial valve is put in the heart.
- It reduces the need for repeat valve surgery later in life.
- It may lead to fewer complications and better results after surgery than with mitral valve replacement.
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- Severe hardening (calcification) of the valve.
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Replacement surgery is usually preferred if you have a hard, calcified mitral valve ring (annulus) or widespread damage to the valve and surrounding tissue.
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- An artificial valve will need to be replaced after a certain number of years.
- If you have a mechanical valve, you will take anticoagulant medicine for the rest of your life to prevent blood clots.
If you choose mitral valve replacement, your surgeon will preserve as much of the valve as possible. Doing so provides a greater chance of success after surgery. Keeping the valve's base intact reduces the amount of foreign structures to which the heart must grow accustomed after replacement surgery.
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He is a gamer and its great to see this type of production especially going into next year. Lets finish this one off get West Virginia and get to the Holiday bowl. At least we won't have to go into next season wondering what we are going to do for a quarterback. Great to be a Cyclone!!!
P.s. I call president, wow what a game!
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We might not have another QB controversy for quite a while folks. Granted this is just one game, but he's doing things I haven't seen an ISU QB do in quite a while out there. Throws a great ball, makes good decisions, and he is even effective at running it too.
Very encouraging. I'm going to wait a couple games before we crown him the QB for the next four years though.
It's one game against what looks like a horrible defense.
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I have a high BMI, should I try to lose weight now I'm pregnant?No, pregnancy is definitely not the time to go on a diet. Restricting how much food you eat could be harmful to you and your developing baby. Some diets can leave you low on nutrients such as iron, folic acid and other important vitamins and minerals.
It is true that having a high BMI can increase your chances of developing health problems, such as high blood pressure or pre-eclampsia (CKS 2010). However, if you had a high BMI at the start of your pregnancy, restricting your diet now won't make you or your baby healthier.
You may lose some weight without even trying to, despite the extra weight you're carrying from your growing baby. In the first trimester, pregnancy nausea can diminish your appetite, and vomiting can cause you to lose calories. Also, adopting a different lifestyle during pregnancy, such as taking more exercise or eating more healthily could mean you burn more calories.
Your baby will still get all the energy he needs, though. You have an extra reserve of calories in stored fat. So as your baby grows it's fine for you to maintain the same weight or even lose a little.
Instead of thinking about dieting, look on these nine months as part of a larger story. You probably put on your extra weight during the years before you got pregnant.
So rather than worrying about losing weight now, use this time to develop the good eating habits that will carry you through the rest of your life. This will help you lose the weight after your baby is born.
How much weight should I gain during pregnancy?Looking at the whole of your pregnancy, you are probably going to put on some weight. By the time you come to give birth, you'll be carrying quite a cargo!
Most of this weight should come from your growing baby and the changes that are happening to your body during pregnancy. Do your best to limit how much body fat you put on.
There are no official guidelines for weight gain in pregnancy in the UK. There is advice from the US Institute of Medicine that you can go by. Depending on your BMI, they suggest you aim for the following weight gain by the end of your pregnancy:
- If you have a BMI of more than 30, you should gain between 5kg and 9kg.
- If you have a BMI of between 25 and 20.9, you should gain between 7kg and 11kg. (IOM 2009)
Also get a more personalised weight gain plan with our pregnancy weight gain estimator.
How can I eat healthily?A healthy balanced diet is easier than you might think. The first thing to bear in mind is that you don't need to eat for two!
You're recommended to have about 2,000 calories a day (NHS 2010). You don't need any more than that until the last three months of your pregnancy, when you'll need an extra 200 calories a day. You can get the extra 200 calories from, for example, a slice of toast with baked beans or a bowl of wholegrain cereal with semi-skimmed milk (NHS 2011).
To eat healthily, try to have good balance of the following foods each day:
- Bread, pasta, potatoes, rice and cereals (carbohydrates). Go for wholegrain varieties, such as brown rice and pasta, and wholemeal bread. These have a low glycaemic index, which means they break down more slowly and release energy more gradually compared to white varieties. Try to ensure that these starchy foods make up a third of what you eat daily.
- Fruit and vegetables, at least five portions a day. These should make up another third of what you eat daily.
- Proteins, such as meat (but not liver), fish, eggs and pulses.
- Dairy products, such as milk, yoghurt and cheese. You could go for low-fat versions.
It may help to see a registered dietitian or another health professional who has experience of working with overweight pregnant women. They can help you to find out how to make the best of your nutrient intake without loading up on calories.
Also try our pregnancy meal planners for each trimester of your pregnancy to give you some ideas for easy, healthy recipes.
Can exercise help me manage my weight?Yes, taking some exercise can help you to stay a healthy weight (Artal et al 2010). It will also improve your physical fitness ready for labour (Kramer and McDonald 2006).
In fact, taking exercise alongside a healthy diet will help you manage your weight better than just having a eating well (Artal et al 2007). Exercise may also mean you're less likely to have large baby (Artal et al 2007).
If you're a relative newcomer to exercise, start with low-impact exercise such as brisk walking, swimming or aerobics (NICE 2010).
You could begin with walking, as it's convenient and is free to do. A reasonable goal to set yourself would be to walk for up to 15 minutes a day, three times a week. Then gradually build this up to 30 or 40 minutes a day (NICE 2010).
You could also try to build in a swim once a week. Set yourself targets of, say, 10 lengths in the first week then 15 the next week, and so on.
Or sign up for an antenatal yoga or pilates classes in your area. This gives you a set time every week when you know you'll be exercising.
If you're not used to exercise, talk to your GP or midwife before you begin. Also see our tips for a safe workout.
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GonFreeces31 wrote:I reread through this thread. It took over 200 posts and Demongod to specifically point to the Jewel + Mediator SS as the EXACT problem. Prior complaints were about Tidal and Faytis, which I still claim are poor arguments because you can use Tidal and Faytis independently of Jewel.
So I was not out of line asking you guys to clarify the argument, actually.
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The Power of Independent Thinking
The Secret to Making Poor Nations Rich
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For decades, efforts to end world poverty have focused on redistributing wealth, rather than creating it. This approach, however, has done little to foster long-term economic progress in Africa.
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Tense moments in a popular department store overnight, as an armed man holed up inside told authorities he was not afraid to get into a shootout.
Police say the scene began 20 minutes before midnight Sunday when the suspect broke into a car in the Walmart parking lot on Jackson Creek Parkway in Monument. When the man saw police arrive at the scene, he took off running for the nearby Kohl's.
The suspect, carrying a rifle and handgun, slipped into the store through the back door and hunkered down, refusing officer commands to surrender.
Employees, who were still at the store due to Kohl's extended holiday hours, were immediately escorted out as the entire store was put on lockdown. Monument police called for backup from the Palmer Lake Police Department, State Patrol and the El Paso County Sheriff's Office. EPSO provided a SWAT team and a crisis negotiations team.
For more than an hour, authorities and the suspect were locked in a standoff, with the suspect declaring he'd rather get in a shootout than go back to jail. Eventually, the suspect's mother got to the scene and provided officers with information that proved valuable for negotiating. The suspect eventually gave up and turned himself in, dropping his weapons before doing so.
The suspect has been identified as 29-year-old Gregory Brunton of Gleneagle. He was booked into the CJC on charges of first-degree criminal trespass, felony menacing, criminal possession of a financial device, prohibited use of weapons, theft and obstruction.
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(a) The Secretary (subject to section 1710 (a)(4) of this title) shall provide nursing home care which the Secretary determines is needed
(2) to any veteran who is in need of such care and who has a service-connected disability rated at 70 percent or more.
(1) The Secretary shall ensure that a veteran described in subsection (a) who continues to need nursing home care is not, after placement in a Department nursing home, transferred from the facility without the consent of the veteran, or, in the event the veteran cannot provide informed consent, the representative of the veteran.
(c) The Secretary shall ensure that nursing home care provided under subsection (a) is provided in an age-appropriate manner.
Source(Added Pub. L. 106–117, title I, § 101(a)(1),Nov. 30, 1999, 113 Stat. 1547; amended Pub. L. 106–419, title II, § 224(a),Nov. 1, 2000, 114 Stat. 1846; Pub. L. 108–170, title I, § 106(b),Dec. 6, 2003, 117 Stat. 2046; Pub. L. 110–181, div. A, title XVII, § 1706(b),Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 493; Pub. L. 110–387, title VIII, § 805,Oct. 10, 2008, 122 Stat. 4141; Pub. L. 113–59, § 8,Dec. 20, 2013, 127 Stat. 662; Pub. L. 113–175, title I, § 101,Sept. 26, 2014, 128 Stat. 1902.)
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The date of the enactment of this section, referred to in subsec. (b)(2), is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 106–117, which was approved Nov. 30, 1999.
2014—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 113–175substituted "December 31, 2015" for "December 31, 2014".
2013—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 113–59substituted "December 31, 2014" for "December 31, 2013".
2008—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 110–181added subsec. (c). Former subsec. (c) redesignated (d).
Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 110–387substituted "December 31, 2013" for "December 31, 2008".
Pub. L. 110–181redesignated former subsec. (c) as (d).
2003—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 108–170substituted "December 31, 2008" for "December 31, 2003".
2000—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106–419inserted "(subject to section 1710 (a)(4) of this title)" after "The Secretary".
Finding Related to Age-Appropriate Nursing Home Care
Pub. L. 110–181, div. A, title XVII, § 1706(a),Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 493, provided that: "Congress finds that young veterans who are injured or disabled through military service and require long-term care should have access to age-appropriate nursing home care."
Report to Congressional Committees
Pub. L. 106–117, title I, § 101(i),Nov. 30, 1999, 113 Stat. 1550, required the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to submit to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives a report on the operation of section 101 ofPub. L. 106–117not later than January 1, 2003.
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I am working hard to finish up the photos for my upcoming book and thought this might be a great day to take some photos. If you know anyone who would be a great subject for Advanced Style bring them by MAD on Saturday July 23rd. We will be having fun and taking pictures all day, so please stop on by and say hello.Keep track of all Advanced Style happenings on Facebook HERE.
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May 6, 2016
As many as 40 firefighters were fighting a fire inside a grain dryer at Jones County Grain on Thursday morning.
Jones County Fire Marshall Tim Pike tells WITN the fire was contained to the dryer. However, it took a lot of water to extinguish the smoldering grain, which is why so many firefighters were on scene.
Jones County Grain is located at 2852 Highway 58 North, at Phillips Crossroads.
No other property is in danger, Pike said.
Dispatchers say the mill is located at 2852 Highway 58 North. We're told several crews are on the scene.
We will keep you posted as we get more information.
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WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) - "It takes a village to raise a child."
The famous African proverb describes the philosophy of Jubilee Housing.
The faith-based, low-income housing program creates a supportive community for its family tenants like Karen Salmeron.
Salmeron, 18, will attend Villanova University on a scholarship this fall. She has achieved this feat with the help of Jubilee Housing, a place she has called home since she was 5 years old.
Jubliee Housing provides subsidized housing with eight apartment buildings in Adams Morgan. The non-profit organization has 280 filled apartment units. Many more families are signed up on a long wait list.
"I do recall my mother talking about how hard it was to afford housing...Now that we live in Jubilee, I can see that she works hard and can afford to provide for us at the same time," Salmeron said.
She lives at The Ritz apartment building with her mom and three sisters.
"I have a lot of friends who are happy about my babies, and they really help me a lot," Salmeron's mother, Maria Reyes, said about the caring nature of the Jubilee Housing staff.
Salmeron's three sisters attend after-school programs located right inside the apartment buildings.
"The after-school program they have for us and the neighborhood kids is a good way where I can get my homework done and get tutoring at least once a week," Salmeron said.
Executive Director Jim Knight says the goal is to provide opportunities for a better life.
"The things that we try to provide along with the housing are things that help people build on their
own natural gifts and become the people that they were created to be," Knight said.
Salmeron was Salutatorian of her class at Don Bosco Cristo Rey High School. She gives big praise to her Jubilee after-school tutor.
"He was a huge help when it came to applications. We would work on that or other homework.
He was a huge help in just planning and making sure everything was done for college."
All the planning paid off.
"I'm the first in my family to attend college. And it'll be a big step in my life."
NOTE: The Gannett Foundation has given a donation to Jubilee Housing.
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May 5, 2016
A Greenville man spent the night in jail after being arrested on charges he had cocaine near a school.
Jailers at the Pitt County Detention Center say 46-year-old Alton Freeman of Greenville was arrested by police around 9:40 p.m. Tuesday.
Freeman is now facing three drug charges: possession with intent to sell or deliver cocaine, having that cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Freeman's bond was set at $100,000 ahead of his first court appearance, scheduled for Wednesday morning.
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Publications Library
Topic: Esophageal Disorders
Fact Sheet: Report from IFFGD Research Award Winner: Adult Neurogenic Dysphagia -- Disorders and Conditions that Disrupt Swallowing544
By: Shaheen Hamdy, MB, ChB, PhD
Dysphagia is a disorder characterized by difficulty swallowing. Swallowing involves more than transporting material from the mouth to the stomach for digestion. It also involves protection of the airway, rejection of harmful ingested substances, and the preparation of foods for digestion. When swallowing is disrupted, the consequences can be devastating. This article provides an overview of causes, medical assessment, complications, and management of neurogenic dysphagia.
Fact Sheet: Another Complication of Reflux: Laryngeal Pharyngeal Reflux (LPR)546
Many patients with throat discomfort are surprised when they are told that they have laryngeal pharyngeal reflux (LPR). Gastric acid can cause significant inflammation when it falls on the vocal cords. If this happens repeatedly, a person can be left with a number of bothersome throat problems, such as hoarseness, frequent throat clearing, coughing, or the sensation that there is something stuck in their throat. Many patients with LPR do not have any of the typical GERD symptoms. This has lead to some controversies and misunderstandings about LPR.Topics: Esophageal Disorders, GER, GERD, Heartburn, Swallowing
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Patients with Barrett's esophagus are often confused about dietary recommendations. This Clinical Corner article outlines our current understanding of how certain foods may affect those who suffer from reflux, GERD, or Barrett's esophagus; and gives some general guidelines for eating patterns that may prevent worsening symptoms.Topics: Clinical Corner, Diet, Foods, Esophageal Disorders, GER, GERD, Heartburn
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This Clinical Corner article explains the current guidelines for how often an endoscopy should be performed in patients with GERD or Barrett's Esophagus.Topics: Clinical Corner, Esophageal Disorders, GER, GERD, Tests, upper GI tract, Working with your healthcare provider
Fact Sheet: 7-Day Diary7DD
By: International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders IFFGD
For reflux disease (GERD) or chronic heartburn, a one week daily diary to help you get the most out of your next doctor visit.
DHM: Digestive Health Matters 16.01 - Spring 2007 - ELECTRONIC PDF699
By: International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders IFFGD
In this issue:
- April is IBS Awareness Month
- What Patients Know and Would Like to Know About IBS
- Relationships and Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Bowel Incontinence and Aging
- Distal Esophageal Spasm (formerly Diffuse Esophageal Spasm)
- Clinical Corner
- Capitol Hill Minute
- Announcements: Celebrity Support for Digestive Health; IFFGD Research Awards
- Books of Interest
- Gastroesophageal Reflux in Infants
- Report from IFFGD Research Award Winner: Understanding Intestinal Gas
- Profiles from the IFFGD Community
Remember, Digestive Health Matters is FREE to Members.Topics: DHM Magazines, Esophageal Disorders, GER, GERD, GER, GERD, Incontinence, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Research
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The YLS has teamed up with Walk a Mile in Her Shoes® to organize a unique walk for men through Chicago's Loop. Men are invited to literally walk one mile through Chicago's Loop in women's high-heeled shoes (women are invited to participate and support the male walkers). The event aims to raise awareness about the cause and effects of sexualized violence and will be a fun way to get people talking about a very difficult subject.
Bring your friends, bring your colleagues!
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5:30-5:40 p.m. -- Between Friends, our cosponsor of the event is a nonprofit agency dedicated to breaking the cycle of domestic violence and building a community free of abuse. A representative from Between Friends will address the crowd and get the walk underway.
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COLUMBUS -- Although Ohio is currently experiencing less flu-like illnesses compared to what is being seen in other parts of the country, state officials are pushing for more people to get vaccinated.
"The flu virus will be less likely to spread if more people are vaccinated," said Ohio Department of Health Director, Dr. Ted Wymyslo. "Immunization has proven to be the safest and most effective way to fight the flu so I encourage all Ohioans to get vaccinated. Moreover, it takes two weeks to build up immunity after receiving the vaccine, which is another reason to get immunized as soon as possible."
So far this flu season, 338 influenza-associated hospitalizations have been reported to ODH, primarily in northeast Ohio.
Symptoms of influenza can include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue.
Health officials say that influenza should not be taken lightly. Although most people fully recover from the flu, a small portion of people do experience severe illness (like pneumonia and respiratory failure), and sometimes the flu can be fatal.
Anyone who becomes ill with the flu and is pregnant, has an underlying medical condition or experiences a particularly severe form of the illness should contact their healthcare provider immediately.
In Ohio, as in the rest of the country, most of the flu circulating now is H1N1, which disproportionately affects young and middle-aged adults. However, seasonal flu viruses may become more prominent as the season continues.
This year's vaccine contains both H1N1 and seasonal flu strains so those who become immunized will have an increased degree of protection against multiple kinds of flu.
While pandemic H1N1 flu has an unusually strong impact on teenagers and young adults, those at highest risk for complications from seasonal flu -- including children 6 months and younger, pregnant women, people with chronic medical conditions and the elderly -- should also remember the importance of protecting themselves. Health care workers and caretakers of young children and the elderly are also encouraged to get vaccinated.
While vaccine provides the greatest protection against the flu, other effective measures include: washing hands frequently, or using alcohol-based hand sanitizer; covering coughs and sneezes with tissues, or coughing or sneezing into elbows; avoiding touching eyes, nose and mouth; and staying home when sick and until fever-free for 24 hours without using fever-reducing medication.
The flu vaccine is available at most healthcare providers' offices, local health departments and retail pharmacy chains.
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