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The hip is made of a bowl shape socket on the pelvis and a ball at the top of the leg bone. A hip osteotomy is a surgery to cut and reposition the bones of the pelvis or legs.
Hip osteotomy is done when the hip bones do not fit together well. Poorly fitting hip bones can cause pain and make it difficult to move. Over a long period of time the improper fit can lead to problems like arthritis.
The surgery is most often done in children. It may be done because of:
Complications are rare. But no procedure is completely free of risk. If your child is having an osteotomy, the doctor will review a list of possible complications, including:
Discuss these risks with your doctor before surgery.
Your doctor will order imaging tests to help plan the surgery. Images of the hip bones and other structures may be taken with:
In the days leading up to the surgery, the doctor will talk about the medicines you or your child is taking. Some medicines may need to be stopped before the surgery.
You may be saked to stop eating or drinking after midnight the night before surgery.
General anesthesia
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you or
your child asleep through the surgery.
Several incisions will be made to around the hip joint. The specific bones that are altered will depend on your specific condition. The leg and/or pelvic bones will need to be cut. A wedge of bone may be removed. This wedge may be attached to a new area and held in place with plates and screws. The cuts and wedge will let the doctor reposition the bones into a better place.
The incision area will be closed with stitches.
Vital signs will be monitored in a recovery room.
2-5 hours depending on the type of surgery
Anesthesia prevents pain during surgery. Medication will also be given after surgery to help manage pain.
Hospital stay may last for 4-5 days. Complications will lead to a longer stay.
Recovery in the hospital may include:
To help ensure a smooth recovery at home:
A physical therapist can help you with balance, range-of-motion, and strength training.
Your doctor will want to check on your progress. Full recovery can take 3-6 months.
After your child leaves the hospital, contact the doctor if your child has:
In case of an emergency, call for medical help right away.
American College of Rheumatology
The Arthritis Foundation
The Arthritis Society
Health Canada
Dega osteotomy. Nemours, Alfred I DuPont Hospital for Children website. Available at:
http://gait.aidi.udel.edu/procedures/dega_osteotomy.pdf. Accessed April 10, 2013.
Femoral derotational osteotomy. Nemours, Alfred I DuPont Hospital for Children website. Available at:
http://gait.aidi.udel.edu/procedures/femoral_osteotomy.pdf. Accessed April 10, 2013.
Periacetabular osteotomy. Duke Orthopaedics website. Available at:
http://www.dukehealth.org/orthopaedics/services/hip-treatments/treatments/periacetabular-osteotomy. Accessed April 10, 2013.
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(NBC News) The flu is here and it is deadly.
Reports of flu-related hospitalizations and deaths are increasing throughout the country and this year more young adults are falling ill.
From Florida to Michigan, the Northeast to Northwest, people are rolling up their sleeves as fear of catching the flu is spreading almost faster than the virus itself.
There has been a spike in cases with twenty-five states now reporting widespread flu activity.
Medical experts say the germ swap that typically occurs after winter break could contribute to even more flu.
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H1N1, which primarily targets young and middle-age adults has dominated this flu season.
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AMSOIL Great American CT Tour - Wenatchee and South Sound SpeedwaysWritten by on January 19, 2014 We Visit Wenatchee and South Sound Speedways In Washington State
We are firmly entrenched in Washington State and visit two of three asphalt tracks we will be reporting on in this beautiful state. It was a long and winding road getting here, but we've made it. Now it's all downhill so to speak from this point on as we traverse the West Coast.
Our trip from Stateline Speedway down to Wenatchee Valley Super Oval was indeed downhill as we ran the gauntlet through high desert mountain passes and encountered high winds that drove the motorhome sideways at times. We stayed in Ellensburg the week before, just south of Wenatchee, and visited Mount Rainier during the week.
These next two tracks are stand-alone tracks unlike many that we will visit later on that are a part of a county fairgrounds and as such are leased and not owned privately. There is a story to tell in all of the tracks one way or another and our first story does just that.
Wenatchee Valley Super Oval
Wenatchee, billed as the Northwest's fastest quarter-mile track, is somewhat unique in that it is now to be owned and operated by a racer. The Dells was another track like that in Wisconsin that was a part of our 2012 Tour. It was purchased and operated in 2012 by Wayne Lensing, owner of Lefthander Race Cars.
There is something special about a racer owning a racetrack. In his long and widespread career, Garrett Evans has raced all over the country. He has seen a lot of racetracks and I see where he has incorporated the best of what he's seen and experienced into WSO. It was just a year ago that Garrett was leasing the track from the owner.
At the end of the season, no agreement could be reached on the terms of the lease and so Garrett decided to walk away from the track. Faced with finding someone else to lease the facility, the owner and Garrett worked out a deal for him to purchase the track. While the negotiations are still underway, we will soon have another racer owned and run track. And that is a good thing.
Garrett just this year wisely chose a race director to manage the race day operations and his name is Dave Tolliver. Dave lived and worked for years back in North Carolina for the NASCAR race teams, tracks, and various sponsors and has accumulated a considerable level of knowledge about managing a racing operation.
Another new addition, Jeremy Anders assumes the role of Marketing Director for the track for 2013. His goal is to "get WVSO back to the roots of racing and family affordable entertainment." With these two additions, Garrett has greatly improved his odds for making this track a huge success in the years to come.
Wenatchee Valley Super Oval is at the geographical center of Washington State and is owned and operated by Garrett Evans, one of the most well known and liked racers
Garrett is still active in his racing as well as managing the racing programs for his son Jan (named after famed Sprint Car driver Jan Opperman) and daughter Stephanie. When he is at the track, his attention is with those family members while his wife, Shannon, and Dave and Jeremy take care of the track business. Smartly, Garrett does not get involved with official decisions on race day.
As for the track, it is one of the most well kept racetracks we've been to on the entire Tour. It reminds me again of the Dells. It has a separate family section, a nice, large kids playground right behind the family section of the grandstands and a large bus that the kids can hop into and ride around the track before the races get going.
On this day, the West Coast Street Stock Series was visiting the track and they put on a great show. What I did notice was that several of the cars had the muscle car noses installed. That tells me that the interest in these new, modern body styles is growing and moving west and that the series has allowed them to compete.
This interesting series also runs at State Line, Yakima, Spokane, Evergreen, South Sound and Hermiston Speedways. It gives the low buck racer a chance to travel and become familiar with other racetracks that are configured differently and where a driver can accumulate the skills needed later on should they move up to a Super Late Model traveling series.
All in all, the event at Wenatchee was very well run, there was a large crowd of spectators and the races were managed professionally. If I remember correctly, the racing was over somewhat early at around 10, so that the parents in attendance could get to see the entire show and still get the kids home and to bed at a decent hour.
Our hats are off to Garrett, Shannon, Dave, Jeremy and the entire crew at Wenatchee Valley Super Oval. As they move forward with further improvements with the confidence of ownership, this track can only get better. If you decide to travel out west to Washington, you can't do better than to race here like my east coast friend Jay Fogleman did recently.
South Sound Speedway
Located in Rochester, Washington, this track is another non-fairgrounds facility that is owned by Butch Behn and run by Nick Behn. Nick also runs the racing parts business located on the grounds of the speedway. It is billed as the fastest 3/8-mile track on the West Coast.
We have been staying in the town of Port Angeles on the Olympic Peninsula right on the Strait of Juan De Fuca. This is a wonderful area to see and has exceptional weather year round. It was just a short trip south to this stop and soon we will be heading north to visit racetracks above Seattle.
On our way down, we stopped in Olympia to get our mascot Yorkie, Xena, serviced at PetSmart and also have lunch at Fish Tales, a "dive" we had seen featured on the Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives tv show. It was all it was cracked up to be with a great brunch offered up on this Saturday morning. Hey, why not? We devote four months of our lives to this Tour, we've gotta have a little R&R, right?
For our visit, we happened to pick a night when the Rolling Thunder Big Rig racing series were running at South Sound. These converted semi tractors attract quite a following. When we arrived in the early afternoon on July 20, we parked our Tour bus at a convenient place at the far side of the large parking area in full view of anyone coming in.
As race time approached, I noticed that the entire area was being filled to capacity and the fans were still coming in. By the time the heat races were over, there was little room for any more cars and our bus was surrounded.
Sometimes, a racetrack has to have these types of special shows that will draw spectators who don't normally think of going to the races. This is just that kind of event. And who knows, some of these first timers might just return to the regular Saturday night shows that follow after being introduced to circle track racing action.
Word got out that we were coming and I was approached by several CT readers who wanted to talk racing tech. One guy had traveled 150 miles just to visit with me and discuss racing in general.
The other divisions that made up the show for our visit include the Mini-Stocks, Hobby Stocks, and the Bumble Bees, which are just what they sound like. All of the classes put on a good show, but I was surprised that the trucks don't just ride around, they really raced hard and fought for position.
South Sound also hosts Pro 4 Trucks, Pro Nationals (formerly Baby Grands), Stinger 8s, Outlaw Compacts, Legends cars, Super Late Models, the WMRA (midget racing), Vintage Modifieds, and the West Coast Street Stock Series that we saw last week at Wenatchee.
This is another track that is obviously well run and cared for. The grandstands were clean, the numerous food concessions were great and it seemed that the entire crowd was very much enjoying themselves.
I got the feeling that a large percentage of the crowd were regulars. We would have preferred to attend a normal Saturday night show, but our schedule does not necessarily allow us to pick and choose. We have to make due and keep moving in a logical progression through the West Coast states. Later on we will run into this situation again with big Sprint Car shows.
Our next stops are, as I stated, at three tracks near and north of Seattle. And after that, it's off to Oregon for more racetracks and a visit to the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area where we were allowed to roam free in a rented Razr along a 50-mile stretch of dunes reaching heights of 100 feet or more. Hey, it's all part of the job.
Don't forget to check out the rest of our series on The 2013 AMSOIL Great American CT Tour!
Atomic Motor And Rocky Mountain Raceways
Meridian And Stateline Speedways
Wenatchee and South Sound Speedways
Skagit and Deming Speedways
Evergreen, Douglas County, and Coos Bay Speedways
Southern Oregon, Calistoga, and Silver Dollar Speedways
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It speaks volumes about how a track takes care of its spectators when the kids are provided their own separate entertainment. Not only was this very large and modern play area available at Wenatchee, the track maintains a large school bus used to transport a busload of kids around the track before the nights events get started.Here we see Garrett, on the right, speaking with the track photographer while working on his son, Jan's, car. In the background is Stephanie's Late Model, also a Garrett offspring. Garrett continues to run a number of events around the northwest as well as the upper Midwest. His involvement in stock car racing is legendary. And you won't find a nicer guy to represent our sport than Garrett Evans.The track management at WVSO created a special spectator section where smoking and the drinking of alcohol is not allowed. It is located right in front of the kids playground. This allows families to come and bring the kids without having to worry about them overhearing foul language or seeing rude behavior, not that a race fan would do such things.We like to see women in racing and this gal knows her way around a toe plate. In our travels, we see more and more participation by girls in all divisions. I will have more on that later in our coverage of Sprint Car racing in California where we also saw some very talented female drivers.The Big Rigs were actual race vehicles complete with enhanced right front camber. They really got honking around this medium banked track. And there was plenty of side-by-side racing action.South Sound Speedway hosted a very large crowd to see the Rolling Thunder Big Rigs that were converted semi tractors. These guys put on quite a good show. I was surprised at how competitive they were and there were many fights for position during the entire show.The technical inspection team at South Sound was very thorough. They went car to car and did a complete safety and technical inspection. I think it is the hallmark of a respected track when they can put together a qualified and conscientious team of tech officials who enforce all of the rules fairly and consistently.Here is what a Big Rig looks like. The engines are modified, some of them have wings and aero body panels, and the right front tire is set with a lot of negative camber. These rigs are heavy, but they do get going relatively fast. Several trucks did long running burnouts to the applause of the crowd. Hey, it's a great way to fill the grandstands and bring in new blood that may just keep coming.


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The Block magazine in Canada has a great shoot featuring Nicole Richie on newsstands across the country now. LOVE this image of her in Burberry Prorsum. I also want that green Prada dress. Elianna Lev was the writer. I like this part of the interview: While researching Nicole Richie as a designer, I asked my friends in the fashion industry, ranging from stylists to editors to shopkeepers, to tell me what they'd want to know from her first hand. Full Story
Pre-Oscar sweats & more workouts
After a working family holiday in Barbados, Gwyneth Paltrow is back in New York, was photographed in sweats today, clearly getting in a few last minute workouts before her performance on Sunday at the Oscars. On this occasion, for this crowd, looking good is definitely just as important as sounding good. Full Story
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Luxurious Old Town Apartment (59)
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Größe81 m²
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The entrance is on the 1st floor of the building, where you'll find the living room, kitchen and one of the bathrooms. The living room is decorated in elegant tones, with modern furniture and classical wooden flooring. It has a large flatscreen TV with cable channels, a DVD player, and a USB stick to provide the broadband Internet connection.
Seating is provided by a 2-seater sofa, which also pulls out to form a double bed, a comfortable armchair and the chairs placed around the extendible dining table. 2 wide windows provide plenty of natural light, and the furnishings include a spacious cupboard, coffee table and other small tables.
Also on this floor, there is a fully-equipped modern independent kitchen, with everything you need to make your self-catering stay a relaxing one. The equipment includes cutlery and crockery, fridge-freezer, oven with hob, extractor, microwave, kettle, coffee-maker, blender, dishwasher, washing-machine and a small kitchen table with chairs, as well as plenty of storage cupboards. Finally on this upper floor, there is a full bathroom with bathtub, bidet, WC and wash-basin
Downstairs, on the ground floor of the building, we find the two bedrooms and main bathroom. The master bedroom is elegantly furnished and the modern decor provides a homely sleeping space. The double bed sits just below the window and has reading lamps on each side. There is a desktop and chair, and a wall-mounted electrical radiator for heating
Next door we find the second bedroom with its wall of mirrors which makes for a very special ambience. The bed pulls out to provide adequate sleeping space (160cm x 200cm) for 2 guests, and there is a chest of drawers for storing clothes. The bathroom suite on this floor is spacious and includes a bidet and stand-up shower unit with a hydromassage column. The owners promise a superior service and dedicated attention to all guests.
This apartment is located in the traditional Old Town district of Alfama and very close to several emblematic sights such as the famous flea market at Campo de Santa Clara or the National Pantheon. You can enjoy a trip on the Nº 28 Tram which stops just 1 minute away from the property, or stroll along the narrow cobbled streets, discovering the small local shops, view points with magnificent views of the river or traditional taverns and restaurants.
Alfama is the oldest and one of the most traditional districts of Lisbon. The best way to get to know it is to get lost on the narrow cobblestone alleyways, and explore the patios linked by countless stairs going from the hill of the St. George Castle to the River Tagus. Here you can find small grocery stores, flowered patios, Fado restaurants and taverns and a local populace that sit outside in the the summer with tables and chairs and grill sardines in the streets.
Lisbon International Airport is just 20 minutes away by car and the nearest Metro station (Blue Line) and Rail station is Santa Apolónia just 700 metres away. Enjoy your stay.
Please note that from the 1st of January 2016, Lisbon City Council will be charging a city tax of EUR 1 per person per night which is not included in the total price and should be paid during check-in. This tax is charged to guests aged 13 and older. It is subject to a maximum amount of EUR 7 per guest.
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Ein wirklich schönes und geräumiges Apartment mit zwei gut ausgestatteten Badezimmern. Sehr schöne Lage mit Bars, Restaurants, kleinen Läden und Anschluss an die öffentlichen Verkehrsmittel in fußläufiger Entfernung. Der Gastgeber Rui ist äußerst freundlich und zuvorkommend, erklärt anhand einer selbstgefertigten Karte die Umgebung, hatte einen Präsentkorb mit Wein u.a bereit gestellt und hat uns am Tag der Abreise zum Flughafen gefahren; ein Trinkgeld hierfür lehnte er ab. Alles sehr gut organisiert, ich kann Wohnung und Gastgeber nur weiter empfehlen.
Bellissimo appartamento attrezzato di tutto silenzioso posizione centrale è vicino ai mezzi pubblici e metro nonché' grande pargheggio. Disponibilita' del proprietario, chiarezza di informazioni gentilezza e puntualità'. Che desiderare di più'? Direi perfetto e consigliatissimo
Sehr grosse, geräumige und mit schönen alten Möbeln ausgestattete Wohnung.
Liegt ideal an der Tram-Linie 28 und ist somit ein idealer Ausgangspunkt für alle Besichtigungen . Sehr netter und flexibler Gastgeber ( Alexandre ), der uns sogar zum Supermarkt gefahren hat.
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Muy simpatico y amable
Very nice & clean locatioan near the airport.
"Casa do Sol" have charm in a best place of Lisbon, Alfama. The flat have eveeything to be good and is located in a silence neighbourhood and good transport conection. Bruno is a Perfect contact and he've a lot of tips from Lisbon. VinhoVerde...simply Perfect!!!
The appartment is located in a pleasant neighbourhood of Lisbon. It a spacious appartment with enough room for 4 people and a nice little garden. The equipment in the kitchen, expected for a longer stay, is limited. The appartment is located in an older building, which on one hand creates a nice environment, but it can be noisy depending on the activity of the neighbours. And as we experienced in other appartments in Lisbon the beds are of a relative poor quality, good enough for a few days but less appropriate if you stay longer.
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A man who was once homeless and relied on the Drop Inn Center in Over-the-Rhine for shelter will return there later this month to sign copies of his recently released autobiography.
Donald Whitehead Jr. will sign copies of his book, Most Unlikely to Succeed, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. July 29 at the shelter. The Drop Inn is located at 217 W. 12th St.
A state lawmaker will host two sessions later this month designed to give advice to small business owners on obtaining loans to start or expand a business.
State Sen. Eric Kearney (D-9th District) is sponsoring the Small Business Credit Access Forum on July 28. The sessions will be held at the TechSolve Business Park, located at 6705 Stegner Drive in Carthage.
Across the nation, commemorations of Gay Pride Month have just wrapped up. In Cincinnati, where things often seem a little behind the times, they haven't even begun yet.
Cincinnati Pride Equinox 2011 is scheduled for July 7-10 in the Queen City. To kick off the festivities, a multi-faith worship service will be held at St. John's Unitarian Universalist Church at 7 p.m. July 7.
As part of a realignment of its facilities in the urban core, the YMCA of Greater Cincinnati will close the Williams branch in East Walnut Hills in August. Also, although the YMCA will continue some programs at the Melrose branch in Walnut Hills, it also will end general membership services there.
Both changes are effective Aug. 22, YMCA officials said.
Almost a full decade after Cincinnati voters passed a charter amendment that changed the way police chiefs are selected, it's being used for the first time.
City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. announced this morning that he's selected a candidate from outside the current police ranks to head the Cincinnati Police Department. James E. Craig, who currently is the chief in Portland, Maine, will take the top spot here beginning in about a month, a city spokeswoman said.
To help kickoff the long Fourth of July holiday weekend, a local anti-poverty group will hold a vigil to commemorate human rights.
The Contact Center will hold the vigil beginning at 11:45 a.m. July 1 in front of downtown's Federal Building, located at 550 Main St. The site is next to the Government Square bus depot and one block east of Fountain Square.
Organizers of a local anti-gang and violence reduction program will hold an open house Thursday so the community can become reacquainted with its street advocate team.
The Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV) is holding the open house and resource fair from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at its offices. The location is 19 W. Elder St. in Over-the-Rhine.
A longtime Cincinnati councilwoman who also was the city's first female mayor recently was inducted into the Ohio Senior Citizens Hall of Fame.
Bobbie Sterne, 91, who served for a quarter-century on City Council, was given the honor during a ceremony May 26 at the Capitol Theatre in Columbus. She joins more than 350 people inducted into the Hall of Fame since its creation in 1977.
Local and national leaders working to advance equal rights for LGBT people will gather tonight in Covington to unveil a national award in honor of the late Nancy Minson.
The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force and the Cincinnati Women's Political Caucus is co-sponsoring "Light of One, Power of Many: A Night to Honor Nancy Minson." The event will be held at The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center in Covington, and begins with a reception at 6 p.m.
A local appellate court judge who is a neighborhood activist and a one-time Cincinnati City Council candidate recently was elected as president of the Ohio State Bar Association.
Patrick F. Fischer was elected Friday during the Bar Association's annual convention in Columbus.


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North Cliff Hotel, Mendocino Coast
- Free hot/cold buffet breakfast, free WiFi, and free parking
Main amenities
- 39 guestrooms
- Near the beach
- 24-hour front desk
- Coffee/tea in the lobby
- Daily housekeeping
- Lobby fireplace
- Gift shops/newsstands
- Free newspapers in the lobby
- Lobby TV
What's around
- Heart of Fort Bragg
- Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens (1.4 mi / 2.3 km)
- Glass Beach (1.8 mi / 2.8 km)
- MacKerricher State Park (6.5 mi / 10.4 km)
- Russian Gulch State Park (6.9 mi / 11.1 km)
- Point Cabrillo Lighthouse (7.5 mi / 12.1 km)
North Cliff Hotel, Mendocino Coast
Hotel Info: 866-266-9798from $247 CAD
- King Suite with Jetted Tub (Ocean View)
- Double Room, 2 Queen Beds, Accessible, Ocean View
- Single Room, 1 King Bed, Accessible, Ocean View
- Double Room, 2 Queen Beds Without Tub, Ocean View, Pet Friendly
- Top Floor King Without Tub, Ocean View
- King Suite with Jetted Tub (Ocean View) Pet Friendly
- Double Room, Ocean View (Without Tub)
- Superior Suite, 1 King Bed, Ocean View
- Standard Room, Ocean View (Without Tub)
- Deluxe Double Room (Top Floor) 2 Queen Beds Without Tub, Ocean View
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- This hotel has 39 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 3 floors
- Check-in time 3 PM-9 PM
- Check-out time is 11 AM
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- Minimum check-in age is 18
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- Pets allowed *
- Specific rooms only, restrictions apply *
- 2 per room
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Free self parking (limited)
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- Free hot/cold buffet breakfast daily
- Coffee/tea in the lobby
- 24-hour front desk
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Designated smoking areas
- Fireplace in lobby
- Television in common areas
- In-room accessibility
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- Coffee/tea maker
- Bathrobes
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- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Fireplace
- Balcony
- Private bathroom
- Designer toiletries
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- 42-inch flat-screen TV
- Premium TV channels
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'Montana is Calling' a beautiful poem about missing Montana
Of all the emails, letters and phone calls we get about Montana Magazine each day, some always stand out. They're the notes about the allure of Montana and the want of so many to come here, live here one day, or for the natives who've moved away, to come back one day.
These notes are always great to read, and many are beautiful and poetic too.
So we thought we'd start sharing some these notes, poems and stories in a section on MontanaMagazine.com called "Love Letters to Montana" (it's under the More of Montana tab on the home page.)
We've put several love letters up and will add more soon.
One of my favorites came from Janet Fulkerson, who found writings by her mother Imogene Z. Hansen after Imogene passed away in 2013.
Imogene lived and raised a family in Helena before poor health forced her to move to Indiana to live with Janet. The photo with this post is of Imogene and her husband Bruce Hansen, and Janet's sister, Susan Marie.
Her poem, "Montana is Calling," was written in 2012. The full poem is here and a snipped is listed below. It's worth a read.
Montana Is Calling
By Imogene Hansen
September 17, 2012
My heart's in Montana; my heart is not here.
It's in Big Sky Country so high, wide, and clear.
From the mountains and prairies that I loved to roam
Montana is calling, and I want to go home.
I miss Montana which is far, far from here
where the earth is too flat and the sky seldom clear.
– Jenna


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Update: I added three new layers in an attempt to make water. The water layer is just a selected area filled with blue at normal and 75% opacity. I know water isn't "blue," its translucent and reflects whatever is above it, but... I didn't know what else to do there.
The top layer is just a 50-px brush around the edge, then a gaussian blur with a radius of 100 px.
The bottom later is the floor texture copied, then blurred by a radius of 5 px.
It just looks kinda... surreal. Not really like water, I don't think. Reducing the opacity of the blue makes it more translucent, but not really closer to water.
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Cyclones Down Panthers 83-55
AMES, Iowa – The 20th-ranked Iowa State women's basketball team (7-0, 0-0 Big 12) defeated the UNI Panthers (2-6, 0-0 Missouri Valley) 83-55 Wednesday evening, extending Iowa State's nonconference home win streak to 73 consecutive games.
How it Happened:
The Cyclones used a 16-0 run to halt the Panthers in the first half, catapulting to a 17-point halftime lead, 43-26. Senior Hallie Christofferson led all scorers with 13 first-half points in just 12 minutes, while freshman Seanna Johnson nabbed eight points and nine rebounds to close the first.
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Game Ball Goes To...
Seanna Johnson. Johnson recorded her second career double-double with 14 points and a career-high 13 rebounds. Johnson has now scored in double-figures the last five games and has recorded 10 or more rebounds on two occasions.
Honorable mention: Hallie Christofferson. Christofferson recorded 22 points in 22 minutes, while tacking on 5 rebounds and five assists. Christofferson headed to the bench to a standing ovation from the Cyclone faithful.
Cyclone Quick Hits
*Iowa State extended its NCAA-record three-point streak to 588 games.
*ISU is 34-8 all-time against UNI and 17-0 at Hilton Coliseum.
*ISU's 7-0 start is the fourth-best in school history.
*ISU has led at halftime in all seven games this season.
*ISU has also outrebounded all seven opponents this season.
*ISU has had at least three players score in double figures in six of seven games this season.
*Christofferson netted her 65th career game in double figures.
*Johnson nabbed her fifth consecutive game in double figures and second career double-double.
Fan Tweet of the Game
Vegas was fun with @CycloneWBB but it's good to be back at Home Sweet Hilton #cyclONEnation
— Robert Alden (@seminole94) December 5, 2013
After each game, one tweet will be chose as the "Fan Tweet of the Game". Fans are encouraged to tweet @CycloneWBB during the match, and visit cyclones.com after each match to see if their tweet was chosen as "Fan Tweet of the Match".
Next Up:
Iowa State returns continues its home stand with a game against Cal State Fullerton on Sunday, Dec. 8 at 2 p.m. The game will be broadcast on Cyclones.tv.


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Grilled Merguez Sandwiches with Caramelized Onions, Manchego, and Harissa Mayonnaise Recipe
Fire up your grill and get ready for some serious smoke.
- Yield:Serves 4
- Active time:25 minutes
- Total time:25 minutes
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About the author: Joshua Bousel brings you new, tasty condiment each Wednesday and a recipe for weekend grilling every Friday. He also writes about grilling and barbecue on his blog The Meatwave whenever he can be pulled away from his grill.
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- 1/3 cup mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon harissa
- 8 links merguez
- 1 French baguette
- 1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/2 cup caramelized onions
- 1/3 pound manchego cheese, grated
- 1 bunch fresh cilantro
- Type of fire: two-zone indirect
- Grill heat: medium-high
Mix mayonnaise and harissa together in a small bowl. Set aside.
Light one chimney full of charcoal. When all the charcoal is lit and covered with gray ash, pour out and arrange coals on one side of the charcoal grate. Set cooking grate in place, cover grill and allow to preheat for 5 minutes. Clean and oil the grilling grate. Grill merguez over hot side of grill until browned all over and cooked through, 4 to 6 minutes total. Transfer to plate.
Slice baguette into four 6-inch portions and halve each portion lengthwise. Brush cut side of each baguette with oil. Grill baguette over hot side of grill, cut side down, until lightly browned, about 1 minute. Remove to plate.
Top bottom half of baguette with 2 merguez links, about 2 tablespoons of caramelized onions, manchego cheese, and a few sprigs of cilantro. Spread harissa mayo on top half of baguettes and place on top of each sandwich.
Place sandwiches on cool side of grill, cover, and cook until cheese has melted, about 5 minutes. Transfer to a plate or tray and serve immediately.


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South Shore Rising
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New York, NY (Sports Network) - Marian Gaborik had two goals and two assists
to lead the New York Rangers in a 5-2 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on
Marc Staal and Brad Richards each posted a goal and an assist for the Rangers,
who won for just the second time in five games this season. Henrik Lundqvist
made 15 saves in the win.
James van Riemsdyk and Mikhail Grabovski each had a goal for the Maple Leafs,
who have lost three of their last four. James Reimer gave up four goals
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Rear Guard
In Las Vegas, the National Guard salutes. In New York, CBS plays with audience trust. At DNC headquarters, Kerry supporters are mum. But finding who's behind the discredited Killian memos could shift this page-turner into full-blown scandal
LAS VEGAS - It could have been, in the words of Las Vegas showmen, a very tough room. In the midst of an ugly controversy over his service in the National Guard, George W. Bush strode into a sweltering Las Vegas Convention Center on Sept. 14 to face some 2,000 officers gathered for the annual meeting of the National Guard Association of the United States (NGAUS). Everyone in the room must have known about the latest charges of Bush family favoritism and political pressure dating back 30 years. What the White House wanted to know was: Had the latest allegations hurt the image of the commander in chief?
Though Mr. Bush denies pulling strings to get into the Texas Air National Guard, he did exercise some executive privilege to get into the Guard convention. His last-minute acceptance of a longstanding invitation-shortly after a 60 Minutes segment questioning his service-sent NGAUS officials scrambling to juggle their schedule. White House speechwriters chucked the standard stump speech and schedulers cleared 30 minutes for a major foreign policy address. The cavernous hall, already filled to seating capacity, was reconfigured to accommodate the hordes of national media smelling political blood. Even Karen Hughes, the president's semi-retired political guru, was on hand to monitor the event.
With so much at stake, Mr. Bush wasted no time getting to the point. "Nineteen individuals have served both in the Guard and as president of the United States," he said in his opening comments, "and I'm proud to be one of them."
The raucous standing ovation that followed-one of five that stretched the speech beyond the 30-minute mark-swept away any doubts about Mr. Bush's reputation among men and women in uniform. Despite charges by John Kerry that the president's activation of some 185,000 National Guard troops is the equivalent of a "back-door draft," those most affected by such a policy appeared overwhelmingly supportive.
"I like Bush because you know where he's going to stand," Nathan Bruck said after the speech. "He's plain-spoken, and he won't let political pressures push him to change his mind."
The veteran member of the California Air National Guard said this year's race has energized military voters more than those in the past. "It's surprising to hear military people talk about politics," he said. "There's not usually much said about it. We're professionals: Whoever wins, they're our commander in chief. But this year everyone's saying, 'I don't know what we'll do if Kerry gets in.' We don't know what our mission will be with a new president. And who will be in charge? I don't want to wear a [United Nations] blue hat somewhere."
Outside the hall, others had a different message. About 200 protesters marched in front of the convention center with signs that questioned ("Why Halliburton? Why Iraq?") or taunted the president ("Bush Finally Shows Up for the National Guard"). A few yards away, an anti-war group called Military Families Speak Out was holding a press conference decrying the president's "headstrong rush toward war."
Dante Zappala, whose brother Sherwood was killed in Iraq, told reporters that his family spent the Christmas holidays searching for a GPS unit to send to Iraq with Sherwood because the military refused to supply them. "We would've spent anything to help him do his mission and come home safely," Mr. Zappala said. Assigned to the search for weapons of mass destruction, Sherwood's unit came under attack on April 26.
"My brother died trying to make an honest man of George Bush," Mr. Zappala charged, though few were there to hear him. Despite the media circus next door, only a half-dozen reporters attended the anti-war press conference-a sign, perhaps, of just how completely the controversy over Mr. Bush's military service had dominated the political debate.
On Sept. 8, CBS broadcast a scathing attack on President Bush. CBS cited four memos purportedly written by Lt. Colonel Jerry Killian in 1972 and 1973 to prove then-Lt. Bush received preferential treatment to get into the 111th Fighter Interceptor Squadron of the Texas Air National Guard. During the broadcast, CBS invoked handwriting expert Marcel Matley to authenticate the documents. CBS also used former guard officers Bobby Hodges and Robert Strong to provide backup on the memos. Mr. Killian died in 1984.
But bloggers and soon the mainstream media began to find problems with the documents:
• Superscript: In referring to Mr. Bush's 147th Fighter Interceptor Group, the CBS memos twice exhibited a superscript, though such characters were nearly impossible to produce with typewriters at the time. To create a true superscript, a typewriter technician would have had to solder on a new character. Larry Fulwider of McGaheysville, Va., used to customize typewriters and is a typewriter enthusiast: "It would take a typewriter genius" to create a superscript with an old IBM Selectric. Microsoft Word automatically uses superscripts.
• Proportional spacing: The memos used a process of spacing common on modern word processors, but uncommon on 1970s-era typewriters. In proportional spacing, an "I" takes up less horizontal space than an "M." Most typewriters in the early 1970s used monospacing.
• Apostrophes: The memos used curled apostrophes, rather than the straight apostrophes found on most typewriters at the time. Again, a typewriter technician would likely have to solder on a special character to duplicate the CBS memo.
• Kerning: In typesetting, certain letter combinations are allowed to infringe upon another's personal space. In the word AWARE, the "A" tucks along the diagonal stroke of the "W." Kerning was impossible with typewriters because the machines could not know what key would be struck next. The CBS memos use a kind of kerning perfectly consistent with Microsoft Word.
• Centering: In the CBS memos, a three-line address atop two of the documents appears perfectly centered even when using proportional spacing. A typist would likely have needed a pen and pad (or slide rule) to work the math of centering three lines of proportionally spaced words.
After the initial, mechanical concerns, other problems with the memos soon began to appear. First, Mr. Killian's son and former wife stepped forward saying the colonel didn't type and never felt that way about Lt. Bush. Then Mr. Hodges said he'd never actually seen the memos CBS asked him to authenticate. He subsequently said he believed the documents to be forged. Another CBS expert, Marcel Matley, claimed he never told the network he believed the documents to be valid.
By the weekend, CBS still clung tightly to its last source, Robert Strong, who told the network that he "didn't see anything [in the memos] that was inconsistent with how we did business." But in an interview with WORLD, Mr. Strong clarified his statement, saying he merely meant the documents reflected the supercharged political nature of the Guard at the time. Mr. Strong said he neither vouched for the memos to CBS, nor had a personal opinion as to their validity.
Eventually the mainstream media began to take a hard look at the CBS report. ABC News tracked down two document experts who said CBS approached them to verify the four memos. Both experts said they told CBS they considered the documents to be likely forgeries. Linda James, a document expert from Plano, Texas, whom CBS contacted, told The Washington Post she questioned "whether they were produced on a computer." When asked if the network took her concerns seriously, she replied, "Evidently not."
Even Mr. Killian's former secretary pronounced the documents to be forgeries. "These are not real," Marian Carr Knox, the colonel's assistant in the early 1970s, told the Dallas Morning News after examining copies of the memos. "They're not what I typed, and I would have typed them for him." Ms. Knox noted numerous style errors in the documents, from abbreviations used to which side of the paper the signature fell on.
Despite the mounting evidence, CBS initially did not budge. A week after airing the memos, Andrew Heyward, the president of CBS News, simply asked the public to trust the organization's reporting: "We established to our satisfaction that the memos were accurate or we would not have put them on television. There was a great deal of coroborating [sic] evidence from people in a position to know." But on Sept. 15 Dan Rather acknowledged to The Washington Post, "If the documents are not what we were led to believe, I'd like to break that story." (Since Powerline and other blogs had broken the story a week earlier, he was a little late.)
The Post's Howard Kurtz stated that Mr. Rather acknowledged "that there are serious questions about the authenticity of the documents." Mr. Kurtz reported ominously, "Some friends of Rather, whose contract runs until the end of 2006, are discussing whether he might be forced to make an early exit from CBS."
Back in Las Vegas, few seemed inclined to believe CBS-including those who know the system best. Though no one would speak on the record, a half-dozen members of the Texas National Guard told WORLD the whole situation sounded wrong.
"If you're not in the Guard it sounds like a stupid little thing, but we always use the same abbreviations," said one member of the Army National Guard. "You can look through hundreds of my memos, and you'll never find me changing abbreviations."
Then there's the issue of where the Killian memos have been all this time. "Sure we sometimes write CYA memos," said one officer. "The Guard can be just as political as anywhere else. But what am I going to do with those memos when I leave the Guard-just leave them lying around my office? If I've kept them locked up in my desk all these years, why am I going to leave them floating around when I retire?
"If they're saying someone found these things still at the base in the late '90s, I don't buy it. No one's going to be 'scrubbing' my personal memos after I'm gone. I'll have taken care of that already."
For his part, President Bush sidestepped the memo controversy entirely during his speech in Las Vegas, focusing instead on the need for an aggressive, global war on terror. "You're fighting America's enemies around the globe so that we do not have to face them here at home," he told the officers to thunderous applause. "Our country is stronger, our freedom is more secure, because each of you have volunteered to serve."
With CBS increasingly isolated and under attack, Mr. Bush can afford to take the high road by ignoring the controversy. As evidence mounts against the memos' authenticity, the focus will shift from questions of "if" to questions of "who."
Rep. Christopher Cox (R-Calif.) has called for an investigation, but Joe Barton (R-Texas), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, said media and viewers should take action. Forty congressional Republicans joined House Majority Whip Roy Blunt in a letter asking CBS to retract the story.
Even without proof of Democratic dirty tricks, however, the ongoing scandal is creating a headache for the Kerry campaign. Every day the political press focuses on the memos is one more day Mr. Kerry's own message is muted. With little more than a month and a half until the election, those days are a resource he can't afford to waste.
-with reporting by John Dawson


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I have partial DI. after MANY tests over about 2 years this was then my diagnosis. for MY problems i have found that a low dose of 1 am & pm Ddavp suits me great. controls my thirst so therefore intake of fluid. downside is that i do tend to get headaches and I DO have many problems even with doctors let alone nurses who are unaware of DI condition and presume i have sugar diabetes so have to explain yet again. easy to use once you can peel them out of foil, hands must be dry as they start to dissolve quickly. I have been on these for about 2 years now,
We started this drug with my 10 year old when spending the night with friends became a huge issue. It has worked great for him. We keep his fluid intake down as much as we can before bed. No side effects noted yet, and he has been on it for 2 1/2 months now.
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Vincent van Gogh (artist)
Dutch, 1853 - 1890
La Mousmé, 1888
oil on canvas
overall: 73.3 x 60.3 cm (28 7/8 x 23 3/4 in.) framed: 99 x 86.3 x 10.1 cm (39 x 34 x 4 in.)
Chester Dale Collection
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The sensational aspects of Van Gogh's life and suicide often cloud the intention and deliberation behind his highly charged and expressive style. In a letter to his brother Theo he described how this painting consumed his attention: "It took me a whole week...but I had to reserve my mental energy to do the mousmé well." This name, he explained, came from a character in a popular novel set in Japan. "A mousmé is a Japanese girl—Provençal in this case—twelve to fourteen years old."
The girl's costume is a contrast of patterns and complementary shades of blue and orange. The paint in these bold stripes and irregular dots stands out against the pale green lattice of vertical and horizontal brushstrokes in the background. The vigorous patterns express Van Gogh's sympathetic response to his young sitter, whose face is carefully modeled and finished to a greater degree than other parts of his picture. Compare her hands, for example, which are more sketchily painted.
La Mousmé is one of a series of portraits that Van Gogh painted while living in Arles. They were, he wrote, "the only thing in painting that excites me to the depths of my soul, and which made me feel the infinite more than anything else." The flowering branch the girl holds is probably related to Van Gogh's pantheistic faith in the power of nature's cycles of life and renewal.
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Editor's Summary
SIG/ED sponsored a panel at the 2012 ASIS&T Annual Meeting to review the Societys web educational efforts and explore promising future options. By late 2012 ASIS&T had presented nearly 40 webinars. A Webinar Task Force studied using web conferencing to raise the associations visibility and found the format to be popular and worth expanding. Considering other modalities, the Online Education Task Force concluded that ASIS&T should develop a unified online platform to support a variety of web-based events and communication forums. During the panel session, trends in online education were discussed, including the use of Learning Management Systems that support webinars as well as blogs, social networks, discussion boards and other interaction channels for an online learning community. Panel attendees offered numerous additional suggestions including member preference surveys, collaborating with other organizations and repackaging webinar content. A follow-up task force will take a holistic look at the associations web presence, and members are invited to submit their ideas.
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2012 Annual Meeting Coverage
ASIS&T Online Education Initiatives: Driving the Future
by Diane M. Rasmussen and Linda C. Smith
At the ASIS&T 2012 Annual Meeting, SIG/Education for Information Science (SIG/ED) sponsored a panel session entitled ASIS&T Online Education Initiatives: Driving the Future. The panelists included Diane M. Rasmussen, Linda C. Smith, Jacob A. Ratliff and Julia Khanova. They updated panel attendees on the activities of the Webinar Task Force (2011) as well as the Online Education Task Force (2011-2012) and led discussion about the future of ASIS&Ts online education offerings. Unfortunately, Diane and Jacob could not attend the panel session due to hurricane Sandy, but Linda and Julia graciously presented on their behalf. This article presents a summary of the panel and related discussion.
Background and Context
One of Linda Smiths goals during her term as ASIS&T president in 2010-2011 was to develop a program of online education offerings in order to further the roles of SIGs and chapters as well as to reach a broader scope of members. ASIS&T encourages and supports personal and professional growth through opportunities for members to extend their knowledge and skills, develop and use professional networks, pursue career development goals and assume leadership roles in the Society and in the information community (www.asis.org/about.html). Linda believed that webinars, defined as live online educational presentations during which participating viewers can submit questions and comments, (from web+ seminar) (www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/webinar), were one way to further develop this purpose of the Society.
Speakers present ASIS&Ts webinars using software called GoToWebinar. The Headquarters office has a contract with the vendor, Citrix Online, LLC, and the software is free for members use. Headquarters also supports the promotion, registration and technical aspects of the webinar program. Webinars are presented live, but archives of all past presentations are available for members to access anytime at www.asis.org/conferences/webinars.
Are Webinars a Good Idea?
In early 2011 Linda appointed Diane Rasmussen, then co-chair of the Information Science Education Committee, to serve as chair of the Webinar Task Force. Other task force members included Education Committee co-chair June Abbas, SIG representative Daniel Alemneh, Chapter Assembly deputy director Remlee Green and New Leaders Award winner Alex Garnett. Linda charged the group with exploring how to develop a beneficial webinar program that would raise ASIS&Ts profile.
The task force utilized a number of data sources, including web statistics, competitive intelligence scans and surveys distributed to ASIS&T members as well as to members of other organizations. The group found that webinars in their current form (short, one-time presentations) are a preferred format of online education, their main audience is practitioners and that the developing ASIS&T webinar program was generally well received. At the 2011 Annual Meeting the task force recommended to the Board of Directors that the webinar program continue to develop in current and additional directions. The Webinar Task Forces final report can be viewed at www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/TaskForceOnWebinars.pdf.
Since the Webinar Task Force determined that many SIG and chapter leaders were interested in presenting their own webinars but hesitated due to unfamiliarity with the organizing process and the technology, Diane presented a meta-webinar called The ASIS&T Webinar on Webinars: How to Propose, Organize and Present a Webinar in January 2012. It is available at www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/2012/webinar-on-webinars.php.
Webinars Are a Good Idea, But Whats Next?
Also at the 2011 Annual Meeting, incoming president Diane Sonnenwald formed the Online Education Task Force. This task force was charged with making additional policy and implementation recommendations, as well as with exploring other potential modalities for presenting online education and membership networking offerings. Members included chair Diane Rasmussen, immediate past president Linda Smith, Education Committee co-chair Kathleen Burnett, New Leaders Award winner Jacob Ratliff, immediate past SIG/Cabinet director KT Vaughan and student member Ian Burke. Discussions explored how the future of ASIS&Ts online education program should unfold.
Ultimately, the groups recommendations to the Board included that ASIS&T develop a unified online platform for all things ASIS&T: webinars and related discussions, Annual Meeting session topics, informal chat spaces for members, links to events and so on. The Online Education Task Forces final report can be accessed at www.asis.org/Online_Education_Task_Force_Report_final.pdf. The task force may have ended with more questions than answers; the most effective way to develop this needed platform is still under consideration, but the opportunities signal an optimistic future.
At the panel session, Julia Khanova reviewed current online education trends that provided ideas for potential directions. Trends include a constant change in technology tools, an emphasis on collaborative learning and knowledge creation and the development of learning communities. Most online education programs utilize learning management systems such as Blackboard and Sakai that tend to exist in a closed, static environment unless other elements are introduced in conjunction with them. These additional tools might include blogs, discussion boards, web conference tools such as GoToWebinar, videos created with screen capture tools such as Jing, social networks like Facebook or LinkedIn, presentation software such as Prezi and collaborative content creation tools like the office productivity software offered through Google Drive. Julia suggested that ASIS&Ts online learning could further engage members by including formal offerings such as webinars in conjunction with a new learning community that could utilize the above-mentioned tools together.
If Online Unification Is Next, How Can It Be Realized?
Suggestions from audience members at the panel session included the following:
- Offer online education opportunities in collaboration with related organizations.
- Add text-based chat opportunities for Webinar attendees.
- Determine how to maintain the activity level of online spaces.
- Consider what tools ASIS&T members would prefer the most before they are developed.
- Further utilize post-webinar evaluation surveys. Perhaps ASIS&T could ask webinar attendees about their preferred tools for continued communication on the webinar topic.
- Determine the best platform option for ASIS&Ts needs through additional discusssion. It is important to remain mindful that technologies evolve, and that online presences require resources to maintain them.
- Explore how to repackage the one-hour webinars might increase ASIS&Ts visibility, such as placing microcontent from them on YouTube or Vimeo. ASIS&T could consider whether to publish learning objects for information science.
- Continue to consider formats other than webinars to support professional development.
At the Board of Directors meeting that took place after the 2012 Annual Meeting, the Board discussed the Online Education Task Forces recommendations. Given the discussion that ensued at the panel session as well as the points raised at the Societys annual business meeting in Baltimore, incoming president Andrew Dillon suggested the need for another task force to explore ASIS&Ts web presence holistically and how it can present content, services and resources in a more centralized manner. Diane will again chair the task force, Linda will continue to serve as a member and other members will be recruited.
Your Thoughts Are Essential to This Project!
As of December 2012, ASIS&T had almost 40 successful and informative webinars archived on its website, but much more content can be offered. The efforts of the task forces discussed in this article as well as the conversations among the membership about the Societys online future suggest that tremendous potential exists for the creation of a vibrant online community of information science practitioners, researchers, teachers and students. The vision for and realization of this unified presence has complete support from Headquarters and the leadership, but it cannot be accomplished without participation from current and future members. Please send your thoughts and questions on this initiative to Diane at firstname.lastname@example.com, and she will incorporate them into the planning of ASIS&Ts online future. The Board looks forward to your contributions.
Diane M. Rasmussen (formerly Neal) is an assistant professor at the University of Western Ontario and ASIS&T director-at-large. She can be reached at infogirl99<at>gmail.com or dneal2<at>uwo.ca.
Linda C. Smith is professor and associate dean at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a past president of ASIS&T. She can be reached at lcsmith<at>illinois.edu.
Articles in this Issue
Third ASIS&T Student Design Competition: The "Truthiness Challenge"
ASIS&T Online Education Initiatives: Driving the Future
James Cretsos Leadership Award: What ASIS&T Means to Me
SIG/SI 8th Annual Research Symposium a Success!
The 23rd Annual SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop: A Report
The History of ASIS&T and Information Science and Technology
Evolving and Emerging Research Methods: 2012 ASIS&T SIG/USE Symposium
From Vision to Reality: The Emerging Information Professional
Edward Chang: Mobile Opportunities
Award of Merit Acceptance Speech
A Career in Information Retrieval Research
IA: Slip-Sliding Away: Real World Challenges Await Us
RDAP Review: Looking Out For the Little Guy: Small Data Curation


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I knew islands were cannibals! Nice work on the colours
So, made this map in one sitting this after noon. Did it entirely in Photoshop. The challenge was for PART of the map to be submerged, and arguably not very much of this map is submerged beyond the rocks and the shipwreck. The entire bay is all about 30 feet deep though. So, it's technically submerged. I hope it qualifies. So, I cooked up a little back story to go with it.
It's a remote island, not very big, and it hasn't been charted on many maps. If you stumble upon it, the only prominent feature is the sunken ship wreck in the middle of the shallow bay. Head into the woods and you'll find very little wildlife, mostly just birds. The plant life is thriving, however, with all manner of flora growing everywhere. Perhaps if you searched long enough, you might find the hidden "X" that marks the spot
Now here's a bit of the creation process. I've never made such a close up map before. Generally I'm doing whole regions or continents. Fine details still elude me. So this was a bit of a challenge. I couldn't use my tried and tested methods of making a map (though they did play a part in it). First, I drew the whole map in black and white. White would become water, while black would eventually become land. I selected the black, made a new layer out of it, and added the layer effects. Then I did the same to the white area, turning it blue and into water. Then I spent the next 2 hours fiddling and testing and experimenting... and the result is this. It's meant to be photo-realistic, as if you were viewing it from a precise top down point of view (aside from the borders and the title, of course ) I even added a sparse cloud layer. Hope you like it
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I like the basic look, though I am not a fan of the clouds. I know from an airplane or satellite view clouds might be seen, but a map shouldn't be a satellite photo. I would spend more time putting details in the subsurface terrain beneath the waves, rather than playing with the sky.
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What kind of texture would you recommend for beneath the waves? I played around a with a few just barely but nothing looked right. As for the clouds... Somehow, I feel that they tie the whole thing together. Without them, the map seems a little... bare. Granted, an underwater texture would help fill that void, but only if I can do it right... and I'm still a learning haha. Would it be kind of the texture you'd see on the bottom of a swimming pool from the way the light hits the waves and scatters the light?
As for clouds, to me, that is something between the viewers eye and the map area - it blocks the view, so why would you want to include it?Afterall a map is not supposed to be a photograph of the ground, not literally anyway. It's supposed to be a representation of a given piece of geography, don't block the view, if you don't have to.
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America, at one time, had the finest media in the world. Now our media is extremely biased, censored and worthless. Our media carries the "story of the day" and that is it. There are never any follow-up articles to really inform the public as to what is actually happening.
Here are just a few of the stories that have died, or are being buried alive: Cyprus, the banking and economic crisis; Spain, its economic crisis; Greece, its economic crisis; Egypt, its revolution between two terrorist organizations; Syria, the chemical weapons issue and the war between an oppressive regime and many terrorist organizations; Russia, our run-away intelligence leaker and Russia's refusal to return him; Unemployment in our own country; the actual rate of inflation and state of our economy. Also, there are the numerous scandals in the Obama administration: IRS, NSA, Fast and Furious, the use of drones on American citizens on American soil; Benghazi.
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The Democrats ran a superior campaign, and played it perfectly. They portrayed Romney as a zealot who only cared about rich white people while being anti-woman, anti-immigration and anti-middle-class.
Overall, they portrayed the Republican Party as the catalyst for class warfare.
It didn't help that two of our Senate candidates made outrageous comments about abortion. Those are two Senate seats the Republicans should have won, but deserved to lose. I've always been pro-life, and when I ran for office, people were aware of my position, but it didn't dominate my campaign. There are issues that go beyond abortion.
The Republican Party faces deep challenges. What defines the party? What does it stand for? Who does it include?
The Hispanic population is growing rapidly, and has been ignored by Republicans. According to the U.S. Census, between 2000 and 2010, the Hispanic population grew by 43 percent, and accounted for more than half of the U.S. population increase during that time.
Hispanics vote, and they are increasingly voting against the Republican Party. This election, Hispanics voted Democratic by a margin of 3 to 1. Over the next decade, Hispanics will become the largest ethnic population in the country.
We have some promising young Hispanic stars in our party, like Ted Cruz, senator-elect from Texas, and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, but they aren't enough.
Wake up, Republicans! We will be able to win another presidential election only if we win 75 percent of the white vote, and that will never happen!
What are the first steps we must take to change our party? Ronald Reagan, who the religious right cites all the time, would disagree with much that the Tea Party represents. "Republican" has become synonymous with intolerance, exclusivity, meanness and religious extremism.
We must take on the right wing. The Republican Party should focus on being more libertarian on both fiscal and social issues. We still are, and should be, the party of opportunity and growth, free markets, and liberty.
We have four years to go, but it's not too late to start working on these changes. We should support less government intervention and stay out of people's bedrooms!
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This is an imaging test that uses a special contrast material to view the spinal cord. The contrast material used in the
x-ray can help your doctor clearly outline the space containing the spinal cord and nerves.
This is used to detect problems in and around the spinal cord, such as:
Complications are rare, but no procedure is completely free of risk. If you are planning to have myelography, your doctor will review a list of possible complications, which may include:
Your doctor may do the following:
Leading up to your procedure:
There is usually no anesthesia with this procedure. Your doctor may give you a mild sedative. You may have local anesthetic to reduce the pain of the needle.
You will lie on your side or face down. Or, you may sit on the edge of a table, leaning forward. You may be given a local anesthetic injection in your back.
Your doctor will insert a needle into the space between your vertebrae. A small amount of fluid will be removed from the spinal canal. Next, the contrast will be injected through the needle. Your doctor will use an imaging procedure called fluoroscopy. This combines an x-ray unit with a camera and a screen.
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You will have some pressure or pain when the needle is inserted.
After you leave the hospital, contact your doctor if any of the following occurs:
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Chinese Chicken Salad
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1 ounce bottle sesame seeds
1 small package sliced almonds
2 packages Ramen noodles, crushed (save the flavor packets)
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1/2 cup oil
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2 pks. of Ramen seasoning mix (I like the oriental flavor)
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