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The VA has many benefits, programs, and services related to different hazardous environmental exposures. The first step to getting these benefits and services is to know which exposures may have affected you. In this section, you will learn about common exposures and some of the health effects associated with them.
Presumptive conditions are health conditions that the VA has already decided are linked to a particular environmental hazard or a period of service where you would have been exposed to environmental hazards. This means that if you have qualifying military service and a presumptive condition, you don't have to prove your condition is service-connected to get VA disability compensation.
Agent Orange and Other Herbicides
"Agent Orange" is a catch-all term that represents a number of different herbicides the military sprayed, for tactical reasons, from 1962 to 1971, during Operation Ranch Hand. These herbicides were sprayed to kill trees and dense tropical foliage that provided cover for enemy forces during the Vietnam War. The name Agent Orange came from the orange stripe that was used on the containers in which it was stored.
Some diseases have been presumptively connected to exposure to Agent Orange. If you were in a specific location during a specific time, and you currently have one of those diseases, the VA will presume that it is the result of your exposure to Agent Orange.
For purposes of disability compensation, the VA presumes that you were exposed to Agent Orange or other herbicides if you served in Vietnam anytime between January 9, 1962, and May 7, 1975, including brief visits ashore or service aboard a ship that operated on the inland waterways of Vietnam. You will also be presumed to have been exposed if you were in or near the Korean demilitarized zone anytime between April 1, 1968, and August 31, 1971.
If you have a disability connected to your military service, then you are eligible for VA Health Care. Even if you don't have a disability connected to your service, but you served in Vietnam between January 9, 1962, and May 7, 1975, you are eligible for VA Health Care.
The VA's current list of diseases presumptively related to exposure to Agent Orange includes diabetes type II, ischemic heart disease, and prostate cancer. For a full list of current presumptive diseases, click here.
If you were in the country of Vietnam between July 1, 1965, and August 1, 1966, and you currently have diabetes type II, the VA will presume that your diabetes is related to your service in Vietnam and you will most likely be eligible for VA disability compensation.
If you have a disease or illness that has not been presumptively connected or you were not in the outlined locations during the prescribed time frames, you must show an actual connection between your disease and exposure to an herbicide during military service.
For more information on disability compensation, read the Vets101 article on VA Disability Compensation.
Children who have certain birth defects and are biological children of Vietnam veterans and born after their parent's qualifying service in Vietnam or Korea may be eligible for VA compensation, health care, and vocational training. To learn more about benefits for children with birth defects, click here.
Even if you don't meet any of these requirements, you may still be eligible for VA Health Care. For more information, read the VB 101 article on VA Health Care and Eligibility.
Agent Orange Registry Exam
The Agent Orange Registry exam is a free health exam that includes an exposure history, medical history, physical exam, and any tests that are needed. You can get additional registry exams if new problems develop. You do not have to be enrolled in the VA health care system to participate.
Burn Pits
Open-air burn pits have been used widely at military sites in Iraq and Afghanistan. Exposure to smoke from open-air burn pits, particularly from the burning of certain types of waste, may cause certain health effects. Types of waste that may have harmful effects when burned includes, but is not limited to, chemicals, paint, medical and human waste, metal/aluminum cans, munitions and other unexploded ordnance, petroleum and lubricant products, plastics and Styrofoam, rubber, wood, and discarded food. For more information, click here.
If you believe that you have an illness or disease related to exposure to burn pits, you may qualify for VA disability compensation. However, no diseases are currently presumed to be a result of exposure to smoke from burn pits.
Camp Lejeune Drinking Water
From the 1950s through the 1980s, people living or working at the U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, may have been exposed to drinking water that was contaminated with industrial solvents, benzene, and other chemicals. Veterans and family members who served on active duty or lived at Camp Lejeune for 30 days or more between January 1, 1957, and December 31, 1987, are eligible for VA Medical Care for 15 health conditions.
Health care for conditions related to Camp Lejeune drinking water is available for veterans who are enrolled in the VA health care system. If you are not enrolled, call 1-877-222-8387 for help.
Currently, Congress has authorized care for family members who were exposed, but has not provided any money to pay for their care. They will be able to get care if Congress provides money for their care in the future.
Gulf War Veterans' Medically Unexplained Illnesses
Popularly known as Gulf War Syndrome, some veterans of the first Gulf War suffer from a cluster of medically unexplained chronic symptoms. These symptoms can include fatigue, headaches, joint pain, indigestion, insomnia, dizziness, respiratory disorders, and memory problems.
For purposes of disability compensation, VA presumes that certain chronic, unexplained symptoms that last for six months or more are related to Gulf War service. That means that you don't have to show the link between your current illness and your military service if you meet all of the requirements. These illnesses must have appeared while you were on active duty in the Southwest Asia theater of military operations, or by December 31, 2016, and must be rated by the VA to be at least 10% disabling.
Infectious Diseases
If you served in the in Southwest Asia theater of operations during the first Gulf War starting August 2, 1990, through the conflict in Iraq, and on or after September 19, 2001, or in Afghanistan, you may have been exposed to endemic infectious diseases that may cause serious long-term health consequences. For more information about these diseases, click here.
For the purposes of disability compensation, veterans who currently have disabilities as a result of those diseases may be presumed to have those disabilities as a result of their military service. To benefit from these presumptions, you must meet all of the requirements for that disease.
For example, Shigella is a condition with symptoms such as fever, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. To benefit from the presumption, the disease must be at least 10% disabling within one year of the date of your separation from the military. If you don't meet those requirements, you can still get disability compensation, but you will need to prove that your disability is due to your military service — the connection will not be presumed.
Gulf War Registry Health Exam
If you served during the 1990 – 1991 Gulf War, Operation Desert Shield, Operation Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom, or Operation New Dawn, you can get a Gulf War Registry exam. The purpose of the exam is to look for possible long-term health problems that might be related to service in the Gulf. You don't have to be enrolled in the VA's health care system to get this free exam.
You can click here read reports from the Institute of Medicine, which were commissioned by the VA. Click here to read reports by the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses (RAC), which were requested by Congress.
The VA recognizes several types of radiation exposure, including radiation-risk activity related to atomic detonations (includes Atomic Veterans); military occupational exposure to radiation; and depleted uranium exposure (discussed in depth in the following section). For information about these types of exposure, and to learn how the VA decides that you've been exposed to radiation, click here.
For veterans who participated in radiation-risk activity during service, the VA assumes that certain cancers are related to their exposure. Veterans with these cancers don't have to prove a connection between their diseases and their service to be eligible for disability compensation.
If you were exposed to radiation during military service and develop any form of cancer, nonmalignant thyroid nodular disease, parathyroid adenoma, posterior subcapsular cataracts, or tumors of the brain and central nervous system and meet other requirements, you may be able to get disability compensation on a case-by-case basis. Your eligibility depends on how much radiation you received and other factors, such as the period of time between exposure to radiation and the development of the disease. The VA will also consider the possibility that other diseases not on this list were caused by radiation, if supported by medical or scientific evidence.
The VA provides special enrollment in the VA's health care system for veterans who were exposed to ionizing radiation during atmospheric testing or during the occupation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and have an other than dishonorable discharge.
Veterans who meet eligibility requirements are also able to get a health exam as part of the Ionizing Radiation Registry exam. These exams are free and enrollment in the VA health care system is not required.
You can learn about specific U.S. atmospheric nuclear tests from the Nuclear Test Personnel Review Program (NTPR) by clicking here. To learn about exposures to depleted uranium (DU), click here. You can also get more information from the National Association of Atomic Veterans (NAAV).
Depleted Uranium (DU)
If you served in the Gulf War, Bosnia, Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), or Operation New Dawn (OND) or after combat operations, you may have been exposed to depleted uranium (DU).
The U.S. military uses tank armor and some bullets made with DU, a by-product of the process used to enrich uranium. DU makes metals stronger and helps munitions to penetrate enemy armored vehicles. When a projectile made with DU penetrates a vehicle, small pieces of DU can scatter and become embedded in a person's muscle and soft tissue. In addition to DU in wounds, soldiers who are exposed to DU while in vehicles that are struck may inhale or swallow small airborne DU particles.
This exposure may have happened if you were on, in, or near vehicles hit with "friendly fire," if you entered or were near burning vehicles or other targets hit with DU munitions, if you were near fires involving DU munitions or involved in postfire cleanup, or if you salvaged vehicles or other targets hit with DU munitions. You may also have been exposed at Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, and other DU test sites.
DU exposure may be associated with long-term health problems. Click here for more information about how you might have been exposed, and possible health effects.
If you believe that you have an illness or disease related to exposure to DU, you may qualify for VA disability compensation. However, no diseases are currently presumed to be a result of exposure to DU. The VA and the Department of Defense (DoD) have started the Depleted Uranium Follow-Up Program to screen and monitor veterans for health problems associated with exposure to DU. To qualify for this program, you must have performed active duty service in any of the following:
- 1990 – 1991 Gulf War
- Bosnia
- Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)
- Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)
- Operation New Dawn (OND)
The DU Follow-Up Program is especially geared to veterans who were on, in, or near vehicles hit with "friendly fire;" rescuers entering burning vehicles and those near burning vehicles; salvaging damaged vehicles; or near fires involving DU munitions.
Toxic Embedded Fragments
An embedded fragment — often called shrapnel — is a piece of metal or other material, like plastic, that stays in the body after an injury. These fragments may be described as "toxic" because they are made of harmful materials. The VA recognizes that toxic embedded fragments may have long-term health effects. For more information, click here.
Project 112/Project Shad
The Department of Defense (DoD) conducted chemical and biological warfare tests on servicemembers during Project 112 and Project SHAD. These tests exposed troops to harmful chemicals and biological warfare agents.
The DoD has fact sheets for each test, which include information on test dates, location, agent/stimulant used, and whether DoD has given the VA the list of personnel involved. The VA also gives information on possible long-term health effects of participation in Project SHAD. For more information about the tests and the health effects, click here.
Thermal Injuries (Cold and Heat Injuries)
The VA now recognizes military service cold injuries and heat injuries and their associated long-term health cold injury problems and long-term heat injury health problems.
Servicemembers exposed to extreme cold are at risk of thermal injuries, such as frostbite and hypothermia. For more information about cold injuries, long-term health effects, and available benefits, click here.
Troops exposed to extreme heat are at risk of thermal injuries, such as heat stroke and heat exhaustion. For more information about heat injuries, long-term health effects, and available benefits, click here.
Occupational and Environmental Exposures
An unknown number of troops have been exposed to occupational and other environmental hazards in the course of service. Some of these hazards include asbestos in places such as Navy vessels, CARC paint on military vehicles, chromium, lead, and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Some troops in Operation Iraqi Freedom were exposed to hexavalent chromium at the Qarmat Ali Water Treatment Facility in Iraq, with possible health effects.
To learn more about Chemical Agent Resistant Coating (CARC), and its possible health effects, click here.
Physical Exposures
During military service, you may have been exposed to physical hazards, which can result in health problems. Two common hazards include noise exposure and vibration exposure. To learn more about vibration exposure in the Navy, click here. Other physical exposures include injuries that happen when the pressure in the body differs from the surrounding environment (hyperbaric and hypobaric environments) and injuries from blast overpressure, including traumatic brain injury (TBI).


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Under the 2010 budget proposed earlier this month by Gov. Chris Gregoire, 65,000 people will be kicked out of the state's Basic Health Care plan. The plan covers families who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but can't afford private insurance. Another 39,000 people in other state programs also may lose their health insurance. Will Obamacare come to their rescue?
Cantwell and her fellow senators are building a health care safety net. Unfortunately, it might not be ready in time.
Definitely--as long as they can hold out for another four years before getting sick.
According to the state Department of Social and Health Services, the health care bill Senators are likely to vote on (and expected to approve) this week will provide some kind of option for most of the people the state might kick out. Unfortunately, it will likely be more expensive and it won't happen until 2014.Roger Gantz, policy director for the state Department of Social and Health Services, says that if the bill currently before the Senate goes through, states would have more money for Medicaid. As a result, the threshold to qualify for Medicaid would go up to 133 percent of the poverty level (currently $22,050 for a family of four). More than two-thirds of the people currently on the state Basic Health plan fall within that range, Gantz estimates, so they would be eligible for Medicaid.
The other third of the people on Basic Health and anyone enrolled in other state plans will have the option of purchasing health insurance through a health insurance exchange. In an exchange, the feds negotiate insurance plan prices on behalf of all consumers, much like big corporations do. The idea is to get the price breaks big businesses get and make them available to everyone.
Gantz says that will make it easier for people to buy insurance for themselves. But, he adds, "I want to be clear, they would probably have to pay more."
This is all good news in that even if the legislature doesn't pass new taxes to stop the cuts in Gregoire's budget, a federal safety net is in the works. The only problem is that in the version of Obamacare Senators are considering this week, those other options won't be available for a few more years, Gantz says.


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I have two Sony VAIO computers and my VGN-FZ240E model's sound card no longer works for some reason. Is there a way I could take the sound card or motherboard from my VGN-NR498D model and transfer it?
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Does anyone know anything about a black Messenger? ....Cause according to BD I ordered one....
But it does exist? If so, I ordered the last one, just happened to be my size! But since then I've been goin nuts
Alright, for sure. Wasn't so obvious to me--thought maybe there had been a mistake, since I could not find a single picture anywhere and the only reference to it was from one expired post on bicyclebunker. Sweet!
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also fixed the bars and made them level. it's funny what you don't see until you take a picture.
Took some clear Ipotato pictures. Added front brake, new mount for my Garmin and STS cap.
Who needs a sig....oh wait.
yeah thats nice.
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got the frameset from a benefit ebay auction, Traitor had donated the frame for free to raise money for a guy's operation or something. got the frame pretty cheap, so i bought a fork directly from Traitor. Really cool guys, talked to dude on the phone for quite a while.
pretty decent steel frame, their newer models are even nicer (nicer welds, super nice seat tube opening whatever that is called). no im not a shill lol but i like the company anywho...
lots of leather, just like my pants...jk...all the walnut studios stuff were presents from the wife. a little much but whatever
and first set of wheels ive built. well, i took a coaster brake wheelset i had for a while, bought some purple nipples (lol) and unassembled then reassembled with a formula track rear hub.
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The track bike build thats never been to the track
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but we've been thinking of moving back to the bay area so then id be there most weekends. till then its the "too much bike for me" bike that I ride on the trails for exercise. definitely fun to ride though
i have drops for it but yah i dont feel like bending that far down. front brake because im not cool enough (can stop. do want to.) ps just saw premium rush last night finally lol...oh the pads are cork so dont seem to be messing up the sidewall. brake is more for emergency anyways so it dosn't get used too much...
reynolds track 66 deep wheels are LOL especially for me but whatever i payed a little over a 1/3rd of the msrp so neener neener
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text: Geng, Fazhan; Shen, Feng Solving a Volterra integral equation with weakly singular kernel in the reproducing kernel space. (English) Zbl 1215.65196 Math. Sci. Q. J. 4, No. 2, 159-170 (2010). The authors present a new method for solving a Volterra integral equation with weakly singular kernel in a reproducing kernel space. The given equation is transformed into a new equivalent equation, the exact solution of which is represented in a reproducing kernel space. Some numerical examples are given.Reviewer: Josef Kofroň (Praha) MSC:65R20Integral equations (numerical methods)45D05Volterra integral equations45E10Integral equations of the convolution type46E22Hilbert spaces with reproducing kernelsKeywords:weakly singular kernel; Volterra integral equation; reproducing kernel space; numerical examples BibTeX Full Text: Link


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Global investment bank Morgan Stanley (
) announced its positive performance figures for the last quarter
of 2012 Friday, January 18, leading its share prices to soar by
almost 8% over trading that day. ((
Q4 2012 Earnings
, Morgan Stanley Press Releases, Jan 18 2013)) The star performer
for the bank was undoubtedly its Wealth Management business, the
erstwhile Smith Barney unit in which Morgan Stanley increased its
stake to 65% last September (see
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Gives Way To Morgan Stanley Wealth
), beating expectations by far to churn out its best ever operating
margin of 17% for a pre-tax income of just under $600 million.
Equity trading figures also saw a considerable recovery over the
quarter - another positive for the bank which is keen on downsizing
its fixed-income trading business to free up capital, to comply
with stricter regulatory requirements.
In view of the better than expected performance of Morgan
Stanley's wealth management and institutional securities business
combined with the relaxation in Basel III capital requirements
announced earlier this month (see
Basel Committee Softens Stance, Allows More Asset Classes &
Relaxes Timeline
), we have updated our price estimate for Morgan Stanley's
stock from $19 to $24. We explain the main factors behind this
25% upward revision in the bank's stock below.
See our fu
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organ Stanley
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Breaks Out Of Its
Morgan Stanley has faced considerable difficulty in integrating
its legacy wealth management business with Smith Barney over the
recent years - something evident from the single-digit margin
figures for the unit represented in the chart above. Late last
year, Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman set a 'mid-teens' operating
margin target for the business by the end of 2013.
But it looks like the efforts that went into aligning the
brokerage with the company's overall business model paid off
earlier than expected with the unit achieving a 17% operating
margin for Q4 2012. In comparison, the margin figure was 7% for Q3
2012 and Q4 2011. A steady increase in revenues along with a steady
decline in expenses are responsible for the marked improvement with
pre-tax income jumping from between $300-$400 million for each
quarter over the last two years to $581 million for Q4 2012.
As there were no extraordinary factors that impacted the revenue
or expense figures for the period, it would be safe to say that the
wealth management business has put its much of problems behind it.
This led us to increase our forecast for the unit's operating
margins over the years to come.
The Announced Job Cuts Will Also Pump Up The Investment
Bank's Profits
Earlier this month, Morgan Stanley announced its decision to
slash as many as 1,600 jobs across its business with the ax falling
hardest on its fixed income operations (see Morgan Stanley's
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made it clear that most of the job cuts will target high-level
employees. As this move implies a reduction in positions that draw
considerable salaries and compensations, it will have a significant
impact on the bank's investment banking margins.
It must be mentioned here that the $4.4 billion accounting
charge for Morgan Stanley for 2012 is responsible for the
investment banking margin figure of -16%, shown in the chart above.
This is in comparison to a $3.7 billion accounting benefit for
2011, from a revaluation of its own debt.
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Dear Editor,I'm writing to express my concerns regarding the current debate spurred by the Downtown Streetscape ballot initiative. It troubles me greatly that this issue has torn a rift in our community and caused the fear and anger I've heard in both the discussion on the street as well as recent letters to the editor. Clearly, feelings are at a fever pitch, on both sides of the debate.I would like to suggest that we, as a community, take a collective deep breath and make an effort to return to the thoughtful, respectful dialog that we're used to in Ridgway. This is a complicated issue, one that has obviously struck a nerve. No matter which side of the debate you're on, I urge you to remain involved in the ongoing discussion, but with an open mind and a considerate ear for the opinions of those on the other side. I've always believed that what makes democracy work is a willingness to listen to all sides, then find common ground upon which to build consensus.
Dear Editor,Friends of Patty, Dale, Ryan and Ian: It has been almost a year since Patty passed away. September 16, 2012. worst day of our lives. How could anyone have so many wonderful freinds? Everyone pitching in to do whatever they could, that we all may say, "We shall not cry because it is passed, we shall raise our hearts because it happened." The kindness everyone showed. The condolences all expressed. The love that was everywhere. All this was so appreciated by Dale, Ryan, Ian, Patty's Mom and Dad, her Sister and Brother. She certainly had some wonderful friends.
Robert and Margie AmmonVersailles, Ky.
Dear Editor,A few individuals opposing the Streetscape initiative decided not to trust the democratic process of voting. Apparently they feared they would lose. So they resorted instead to threats, rage and a promise to tear the community apart if they didn't get their way. The Town Council, in order to avoid such a damaging scenario, agreed to take Streetscape off the ballot.That means Ridgway will not get the needed infrastructure improvements, we will not bring new jobs and businesses to town with an improved Clinton Street, and—most importantly—the people will not be allowed to vote on this initiative.The Streetscape committee spent over a year and hundreds of hours of volunteer time educating ourselves about this project, then held several public meetings airing every point of view—often heatedly, took surveys and talked one-on-one to scores of citizens (particularly business owners) to explain the project and to ascertain public opinion.
Dear Editor,
Dear Editor,I am opposed to any increase to the current Ouray County sales tax—especially without a sunset provision. Such increases should be addressed by a new vote every two to four years, just as our elected officials face. As a business owner in the City of Ouray, I feel such an increase will have a negative impact on the retail businesses in Ouray County. We already encounter a bit of "sticker shock" from some of our customers when they realize the tax rate on their purchases. Also, some of our fellow business owners make an attempt to assist the community by being open year round and provide local shopping for full-time residents of Ouray County. By increasing the sales tax rate, this would be another reason for the locals to shop outside the county.
Dear Editor,I live with chronic pain. I have for many years. I have tried quite possibly every prescription pain medicine on the market, which by the way, all of them have some side effects, from fairly minor to rather damaging. I have tried pain management clinics, physical therapy, yoga, dry needling, massage and so on.I have three grown children, two grown stepchildren and five grandchildren. I am extremely active in their lives. The last thing I want is to be high on marijuana, or any prescription drug. But I have no choice. If I want to have an active life, I need something to reduce the amount of pain I am in every day.
I don't attend a lot of Board of County Commissioners meetings but felt compelled to attend the meeting at which the interviews of candidates for appointment to the planning commission was to take place. It was an astounding experience.
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It's storytime with the LeapFrog character Violet. This interactive puppy comes with five board books that Scout reads aloud as kids follow along. Each book is color-coded and designed to help build different reading skills: pattern, narrative, concept, rhyming, and learn-about. Each book has parent tips on the back to help parents encourage further learning.
There are two modes of play. In Story Time Mode, kids choose what book they'd like Violet to read and press the book's number on Violet's collar. Violet will read the book out loud and prompt kids to pat her head when they are ready to turn the page. Violet might also ask kids questions throughout the story to help build comprehension skills. There are more than 70 comprehension questions.
Also in this mode, kids can pet one of Violet's five interactive spots for different reactions. Pet Violet's back or head, or give Violet's cheek a kiss to hear different phrases. Violet will talk some more when you press her left paw. Press Violet's right paw to hear happy learning songs.
In Sleepy Time mode, kids can choose a book for Violet to read them as a bedtime story. (Violet will not ask kids any questions or prompt them to pat her head to turn the page.) Once the story is done, press Violet's musical right paw to hear eight minutes of lullabies.
From reading books to petting and cuddling during playtime and bedtime, Read With Me Violet offers multiple ways for kids to interact with this soft toy dog. Reading the books and asking questions about the stories is a great way to expand a child's vocabulary and help them comprehend what they read and hear.
Read With Me Violet is for ages 2–5.
Three AA batteries are included for the in-store try-me purposes. LeapFrog recommends replacing them before you play for best results.
This toy is very sensitive to touch. If you are in the middle of reading a book and you pat Violet's head too hard or too much or if your child touches a different interactive spot, the story will be interrupted by one of Violet's responses. Violet will then start reading from where you left off.
There is a volume control button on the battery pack.
This toy is also available as Read With Me Scout.
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text: Alina Oxendine Associate Professor, Political ScienceCo-Director, Collaborative Research Biography Alina R. Oxendine is Associate Professor of Political Science at Hamline University and Co-Director of Hamline's Collaborative Research Program. Dr. Oxendine received her BA from Emory University in International Studies (1997), her MA from Emory University in Political Science (1997), and her PhD in Political Science from the University of Minnesota (2007). She has research interests in American politics, public policy, political psychology and community engagement. She is co-author of several articles dealing with information technology and social capital, which have been featured in Political Behavior, Journal of Social Issues, and American Behavioral Scientist. Dr. Oxendine received the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP)'s Best Dissertation Award in 2008 for her research on economic inequality and social capital. Her article "City Seclusion and Social Exclusion" appeared in Urban Social Capital: Civil Society and City Life (March 2012). Teaching Style Professor Oxendine teaches a wide variety of courses exploring contemporary, domestic political issues, including Politics of Urban and Metropolitan America, American Government and Politics, and Public Policy and Public Administration. As if American politics weren't already dynamic enough, Professor Oxendine enlivens discussions of political concepts and theories with innovative technologies and active, student-led learning. "In my experience, effective teaching is as much about imaginative instruction and experiential opportunities as it is about communicating literal knowledge. One of my central goals is to make the course material accessible and memorable. This creative challenge, coupled with the excitement of seeing how students will respond (to lectures, activities, or examples), is what I enjoy most about my job." -Alina Oxendine


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Hey detour12,
I found an article that looks like it applies to your situation:
Mac notebooks: Battery may not show a full charge in Mac OS X
It notes the following:
Some Mac notebooks (MacBook) may not show the battery as 100 percent charged in Mac OS X, even when the power adapter is connected. The battery may appear to stop charging between 93 percent and 99 percent.
This is normal. The batteries used in these computers are designed to avoid short discharge/charge cycles in order to prolong the overall life of the battery.
When setting the Mac OS X battery status menu bar icon to display charge state by percentage, you may notice that the reported charge stays between 93 or 95 percent and 99 percent.
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You have one final walkway leading to a gigantic door before taking on the Pokémon League Champion. Once you arrive there, you'll discover that the Pokémon League Champion is none other than Steven Stone himself!
After a brief discussion, the final battle will commence!
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Champion Steven11,800
|Skarmory ♂
Moves: Toxic, Aerial Ace, Spikes, Steel Wing
Weak to: Fire, Electric
|Lv. 57
Moves: Reflect, Light Screen, Extrasensory, Earth Power
Weak to: Water, Grass, Ice, Bug, Ghost, Dark
|Lv. 57
|Aggron ♂
Moves: Stone Edge, Earthquake, Iron Tail, Dragon Claw
Weak to: Fighting, Ground, Water
|Lv. 57
|Cradily ♀
Moves: Giga Drain, Ancient Power, Sludge Bomb, Confuse Ray
Weak to: Ice, Fighting, Bug, Steel
|Lv. 57
|Armaldo ♂
Moves: X-Scissor, Rock Blast, Metal Claw, Crush Claw
Weak to: Water, Rock, Steel
|Lv. 57
|Mega Metagross
Moves: Bullet Punch, Zen Headbutt, Meteor Mash, Giga Impact
Weak to: Fire, Ground, Ghost, Dark
|Lv. 59
Steven packs a full team of six Pokémon, and they don't share too many weaknesses. You'll need to adapt your lead Pokémon to match whatever he has out! Water-type moves are generally pretty affective against all of his Pokémon, though, which is great because half of his team is part Steel-type, meaning there are a lot of resistances you need to bust through.
He leads with his Skarmory, a Steel/Flying-type that has very high Defense. Physical attacks will leave you disappointed if you use them against Skarmory. It has Sturdy, so it will be able to survive at least one super strong move like Thunderbolt or Flamethrower that would take it out in a single hit. It's going to take at least two hits no matter what; since Steven can use up to three Full Restores in the battle, you might be better using a weaker move on Skarmory first. As far as what Skarmory can do, it likes to set up by using Spikes up to three times, with each layer of Spikes dealing damage to any of your grounded Pokémon whenever they switch in. If it pulls off Spikes three times, your Pokémon take 25% of their max HP in damage when they switch in, unless you have Rapid Spin or Defog to clear the Spikes away. Toxic can be very disruptive as well, badly poisoning your Pokémon. For attacking moves, it only has Aerial Ace and Steel Wing, and even though these moves get a boost from the Same Type Attack Bonus, they should be relatively manageable. Try to take Skarmory out as quickly as possible with Special-based moves; Electric- and Fire-type moves are best, but Water-, Ice-, Dark-, or Ghost-type moves also work pretty well against it so long as they are Special-based.
Depending on when he sends out his Claydol, you could be in for some trouble. If he sends it out earlier on, it's probably for the best, because this thing is very defensive and is capable of setting up both Light Screen and Reflect to raise the defensiveness of Steven's entire team for the next five turns. Using Taunt will shut it down right away, but otherwise you're going to want to give this Ground/Psychic-type everything you have to take it out before it can set up those moves, otherwise it's going to be a lot harder to take down Steven's remaining Pokémon. It has a lot of weaknesses, though, but its defensive stats make it tough to take down in one hit. In addition to Light Screen and Reflect, it also has Extrasensory and Earth Power, two strong Special-based moves for each of its types.
Aggron has a mountain of Defense and is a very sturdy Steel/Rock-type. It's literally sturdy, too, with its Sturdy ability, preventing it from being knocked out in a single hit so long as its HP is full. That's a problem, too, because even though it has a double weakness to both Fighting- and Ground-type moves, Sturdy will keep it around long enough to use a move afterwards. On top of that, Steven is likely to use a Full Restore afterwards. Aggron's Attack is also very high, and with powerful moves like Stone Edge, Iron Tail, and Earthquake at its disposal, you'll really feel the burn. It also packs Dragon Claw.
Cradily is a very defensive Pokémon, with a strange Rock/Grass-typing, in addition to good Defense and Special Defense. It doesn't focus on doing too much damage, but it will whittle away your HP and stick around to keep annoying you. It is weak to Ice-, Fighting-, Bug- and Steel-type moves, though it should be able to endure all but the strongest super effective ones. It has Confuse Ray to confuse your Pokémon, then it follows up with Giga Drain to do some solid damage and also heal itself by half of the damage it inflicted. Ancient Power can potentially raise all of its stats while doing some moderate Rock-type damage, but it's only a 10% chance of that happening, so most of the time it's not too bad. Lastly, it packs Sludge Bomb to do some decent Poison-type damage and possibly poison you.
His Armaldo has an unusual Rock/Bug-type, giving it just three weaknesses: Water, Rock, and Steel. It has X-Scissor and Rock Blast to worry about the most, both of which capable of doing strong damage, while it also packs both Metal Claw and even Crush Claw. The latter two are less of a problem, but Metal Claw could potentially raise its Attack while Crush Claw is likely to lower your own Defense after it hits.
Last up is his Metagross, which he will Mega Evolve into Mega Metagross on the first turn that it's in battle. Mega Metagross is an extremely strong Steel/Psychic-type threat with huge amounts of Attack and Defense, plus its Tough Claws ability raises the power of some of its moves even further. It packs Bullet Punch, which will strike first and strike hard thanks to Tough Claws, although if it doesn't opt for speed, it may opt for Meteor Mash, which hits even harder and has a chance of raising its Attack stat by one stage. Not good! Zen Headbutt gives it solid Psychic-type coverage while Giga Impact will do heavy damage, but cause it to recharge for a turn after it's used — a great chance to allow you to heal. If you can manage to burn it with Will-O-Wisp or Scald, you'll enjoy the reduced damage its attacks do. Otherwise, use your strongest Fire-, Ground-, Ghost-, or Dark-type moves, preferably Special-based moves, since its Defense is much higher.
After you've defeated Steven, you'll be crowned the new Pokémon League Champion. Hurray! However, just before you're officially crowned, either Brendan or May will show up with some "pro strats" on how to take down the Champion, only to find out that you've already done so. Professor Birch will show up for some reason, congratulating you on your victory.
Steven will then lead you into the Hall of Fame, where you'll register your team of Pokémon as champions.


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SAN ANTONIO - Missouri coach Gary Pinkel used the word "potential" six times in his opening statement about his team at Tuesday's Big 12 media day.
The Tigers went 8-5 in 2006, and with nine starters back for one of the nation's most powerful offenses, anything short of a trip to the league championship game will be a disappointment.
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Who: Evander "Ziggy" Hood, 6-foot-4, 295-pound junior defensive lineman
High School: Palo Duro, 2004 graduate
Notes: Named most improved defensive lineman during 2006 spring drills ... awarded 2006 Team Rigman Outstanding Underclassmen Leadership Award ... started seven of 10 games as a sophomore despite suffering a broken foot in third game of season ... career 59 tackles and 5.5 quarterback sacks.
Missouri coach Gary Pinkel: "(Ziggy) is a guy we feel like has a great future. He is going to be an impact player in the Big 12 without question."
Missouri has never won the Big 12 North and has only three winning seasons since 2000, so expectations this high are fairly rare around Columbia. Pinkel said it's vital for the Tigers to live up to them this year.
"Ultimately, to receive the respect you want to have, you have to win at a higher level than we've done," Pinkel said. "I think we have the potential to be pretty good. But we'll see."
Missouri had the nation's eighth-ranked offense in 2006, averaging 426 yards per game. Quarterback Chase Daniel, the top five rushers and top three receivers from last year are back.
Pinkel stopped short of saying the offense is unstoppable. The Tigers lost all four games last season when they were held to 20 points or fewer.
"I wish we could score against anybody anytime," Pinkel said. "That's not the case or we probably would've gone undefeated. The challenge is can we reach the potential on offense?"
Daniel threw for 3,527 yards and a school-record 28 touchdowns in 2006, his first full season as the starter. Pinkel expects an even better season from Daniel because he has more experienced targets this year.
"He's got a lot of people around him," Pinkel said. "A lot of people can make plays, most everybody we had a year ago."
The Tigers had the 58th-ranked rushing defense last year, and that cost them in losses to Texas A & M and Oklahoma. They lost five of their top seven tacklers, but Pinkel said that's deceiving.
"We have more experience than what might appear," he said. "We're young in some of our backup spots, but I think we've also got some talent. We run well. We've got some depth there."
The Tigers won their first six games last season, allowing 12 points per game. They lost five of their last seven, giving up 27 points per game in the losses.
Senior nose tackle Lorenzo Williams, who had six sacks last season, said facing one of the nation's best offenses in practice is already helping the defense improve.
"We do a pretty good job of stopping them," Williams said. "If we can keep them down, we can pretty much stick with any offense in the Big 12."
Daniel and Williams talked about the upcoming season - and the hype - during a recent round of golf. Missouri cracked the national rankings during their 6-0 start and the Tigers will draw on that to deal with it this year.
"Mentally, we got kind of strained, being 6-0, national spotlight. It got kind of tough keeping that same drive to keep winning," Williams said. "If anything, you've got to learn from that situation, I think this year, it'll be a little bit different.
"We've been through that situation now," he said. "We've seen the ups and the downs."
Williams is already counting down the practices to the Tigers' season opener against Illinois - 26. The defense can't wait to prove it's just as much of a team strength as the offense.
"If you play defense and you don't have a chip on your shoulder, you should play offense," Williams said. "I'm happy our offense can put up points against anybody. I would rather that be the case than them not being able to score any points.
"Now, with us being kind of young on defense, the first couple of games will be crucial," he said. "They've got to score a lot of points, so we can get into a rhythm and a chemistry. And then we'll go from there."
OK, so how will the offense live up to the hype? The Tigers averaged 31 points per game last season, but sputtered against the powerhouses on the schedule.
Much of that depends on Daniel, a junior who did not attend Tuesday's media day. But senior tight end Martin Rucker said Daniel and the offense, like the program, are ready to show they belong among the nation's elite.
"Everybody's maturing," Rucker said. "It comes with running these plays over and over. We only lost two people. We've got nine guys coming back who were starters and, on top of that, we've got a lot of backups coming back."
Pinkel will do what he can to keep his players focused on the daily grind, not the ultimate goals they're trying to reach.
"There are a lot of things to look at," Pinkel said. "What we'll do is focus on just trying to have the best football team you can, (and) see what happens."
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AppleInsider discoverd a growing thread at the Apple Support Communities website where users report issues after updating their Apple TVs (2nd and 3rd generation) to the latest Apple TV 5.1 software. It looks like many Apple TVs are getting bricked after running the update:
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Apple has just updated the second and third-generation Apple TV software to version 5.1 (build 10A406e). The biggest changes include support for Shared Photo Streams, the ability to switch between iTunes accounts and to send audio content from Apple TV to AirPlay-enabled speakers and devices. Apple TV 2 jailbreakers: as always – stay away from this update for now if you don't want to lose your jailbreak.
Apple has just released a minor software update for Apple TV 2 and Apple TV 3. Apple TV 5.0.1 (9B206f) adds HD previews for TV shows and movies in the iTunes store and brings fixes to Netflix, AirPlay and Home Sharing.
FireCore has released a new version of its Apple TV supercharger – aTV Flash (black). Version 1.4 brings support for M3U and PLS playlists, TrueHD audio, EyeTV folder detection and a bunch of improvements and bug fixes. Additinally, aTV Flash (black) is now available also in Finnish, German, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, and Swedish.
aTV Flash (black) is currently only compatible with AppleTV versions 4.2 – 4.4.4. FireCore has announced that they are already working on the new version that will be compatible with recently released Apple TV software version 5.0.
Released yesterday along with a new, third-generation Apple's set-top box, Apple TV software update 5.0 (9B179b) is now available worldwide for all Apple TV 2 users. The update brings new, redesigned, icon-based user interface, support for buying movies on Apple TV and playing back purchased movies from iCloud, new National Geographic photos built-in for screensaver and on-device sign up for content partners on Apple TV using your Apple ID (like Netflix).
As always, stay away from this update if you don't want to lose your jailbreak. Although @nitotv has already been able to jailbreak and restore the new firmware and he's working with FireCore on the new version of Seas0npass, there is a lot of work to be done until the untethered jailbreak for Apple TV 5.0 is released, so don't expect it soon.


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mmmm, wschodnia Europa. Ja bym chciała do Chorwacji, wiem, ze mało oryginalnie.
Wow! That sky is so clear and beautiful with the lights of the city! * O *
Aww you should come to Hungary too x3
The colors are so beautiful!
My lovely homeland...
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Very pretty!
Love this
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My beautiful homeland.....
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17-50 + 70-300. Good combo for D7000?
Im looking for a couple advices on my set of lenses.
Right now I have a 35mm, a 18-105 and a 70-300.
Im planning on getting a 17-50 sigma and leave it with the 70-300 as my 2 main lenses. 99% of the time I wont be able to take more than 2 lenses with me so that's why this is a tough decision for me.
Is the 17-50 + 70-300 a nice set for most cases? I cant tell if Ill be missing those 20mm in range really...
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Sometimes the very fact that we have so much makes it hard to be thankful.
I know I've shared this before but it seems a good time of year to share it again.
Our water here at the house has never been very good so for years we went to Mark's mom and dad's house and hauled our drinking water from the spring.
Good, clean spring water.
Years went by and we built the chicken houses which meant we dug a new well.
Now that water was good, it didn't smell and it had a good taste.
So we no longer had to drive to Pekin to get water, now we just had to walk down to the chicken houses.
I didn't even have to go get it.
That was one of the jobs the kids had, to keep water at the house.
That wasn't good enough for me though.
I clearly remember the day I went to the sink to get water and got mad because I wasn't like everybody else and able to simply turn on my faucet and get a drink.
Oh. I could turn on the sink to get water to wash the dishes or many other things but I couldn't drink it.
I was standing there being mad when all of a sudden I got a picture in my mind.
I know it was God getting my attention.
As I stood there at the sink I saw in my mind those pictures you see on TV of a mother walking five miles with a jug on her head to get dirty water to take home for her children and it will more than likely make them sick.
I saw God looking down at me and God looking down at her.
I felt awful.
We all know how it is to see an ungrateful person.
A complaining person.
I knew how God must feel when he had given me a clean well, just a couple hundred feet from the house, and since he had also given me four healthy strong children I didn't even have to go get the water.
We are such a nation of complainers and one of the reasons is we compare ourselves to each others massive wealth.
Yes, massive wealth.
If you live in America you have massive wealth.
If we could learn to see what we have in light of what the world has instead of what our neighbor has or the people in the big fancy subdivision have instead of complaining we would be completely humbled and awe struck at the magnitude of what we have.
If you go to the store today and you find yourself wanting to get angry at the long lines, imagine yourself in another country.
|Do you ever really look at the bounty on the store shelves or do we take it for granted?
Imagine if there was a store there were empty shelves \or full shelves but you had no money to buy anything.
Imagine that you had nothing and there was no Red Cross, no Salvation Army, no government programs, no churches to help you.
That is the reality of what most people live with everyday.
Purpose now that when you are in the line at the store you won't complain you will see it for what it really is and not let Satan steal your joy by making you think what is a good thing is really a bad thing.
The fact that you are standing in line is a testament to just how good we have it.
You drove a car to the store, you got out and walked in, you have a huge selection, you can afford to buy what you need and if you can't afford
it there are ways to get help.
When you run out of counter room or table room and you want to complain, stop and think about what you are really saying, listen to yourself.
What you are really saying, is "Oh God, you have given to much, this is just a lot of trouble, I'm not happy about all I have."
We don't think we're saying that but it's what we're saying.
Why not say, 'Wow our table overflows or cup really does run over.
When the house gets so crowded and you want to start thinking about you could use a bigger house look around at all of those faces and think Wow, so many people to love, my house is busting at the seems with love.
Keep people in other places ever present to your heart.
We're weak and we tend to be ungrateful and sometimes we need to clear our minds and wipe our eyes so we an see clearly.
So every time you feel yourself wanting to complaining, stop and ask God to show you the truth, ask him to open your eyes and you will find yourself giving thanks instead of complaining.
Oh and just to show you how good God is and how he was really just blessing me before my time I now see that I was just ahead of the game.
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N ext school year , the staff at Owens Community College will be smaller. It's part of the schools plan to fill a huge budget deficit.
O wens Community College has announced a projected budget deficit in excess of $7.5 million dollars for the 2013 - 2014 fiscal year which begins in July.
F acing that reality , the school says at least 30 people will be out of job. However, non of those people will include faculty.
A ccording to the college , those people are administrative staff which are non -union salaried workers. Their current contracts won't be renewed.
30 other staff members still employed will be reassigned to different positions and will have modified contracts.
F unding cuts is not exclusive to Owens. Bowling Green State University and 17 other state schools will also see reductions.
O wens Community College student Jeremy Mohler has seen those reductions, "there definitely is less staffing, they've closed computer labs on campus," says Mohler.
I n a statement school president Mike Bower said "we have worked to reduce expenses and manage this shortfall, but the deficit is significant and positions will be impacted. We are faced with very difficult decisions that are necessary to maintain the mission of the college, which is to serve our students," explains Bower.
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He's won national events in Top Fuel and Funny Car, been invited to test in the IROC series, driven a Busch stocker and a sprint car in the infamous Chili Bowl. And now, Ron Capps has not only made a major splash in another racing venue, he's taken the checkered flag in his rookie debut.
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