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Attending the PRSA 2010 International Conference? If you're not from "inside the Beltway" you'll surely find Washington, DC a fun-place for this year's annual convention.
Sure, we're all here to learn, but try to find some time to experience Washington after hours by taking a self-guided tour at night of the national monuments that line the National Mall and environs. Beyond the Lincoln Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington Monument and The White House, check out some of the newer and equally interesting moments including The WWII Memorial, The FDR Memorial, and the Korean War Memorial.
Not far from the Washington Hilton Hotel is the Adams Morgan neighborhood, which hosts some interesting ethnic and standard-fare restaurants in an area that's so "un-Washington" — from Ethiopian to Mexican and more. You can also visit Ben's Chili Bowl (a favorite of President Obama) that's open into the wee hours.
South of the hotel is the Dupont Circle neighborhood, home to lots of interesting architecture, shops and several foreign embassies and missions housed in historic buildings.
Getting around in DC is easy: The Dupont Circle Metro Stop is just a few blocks from the hotel, where the Red Line can take you to Metro Center for a quick walk to the National Mall, or to catch trains to other parts of the city.
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If you want to do away with the set screw to make the flange mounting stress free and permanent you could J-B weld it on the carb spigot if the two fit reasonably close.Don't laugh. J-B weld is completely fuel proof. The float bowl on my Iron barrel is coated with the stuff inside and out.
I would also recheck that "O" ring on the carburetor flange. It comes out really easy when mounting the carb and if it's out, just a little bit, you'll get an air leak and the engine will run poorly just like you described.
The breather hose that goes to the carb, disconnect it and just cap off the carb spigot.
Hmm, the only hose that goes into my carb is the fuel line.
Have you checked and cleaned your bike's breather hoses and catch can? If they are clogged your engine will not run good at all. Just a thought. Cheers,Bill
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I am working on a fast math application "Dino Math". It's my daughter's idea and targeted at K-3rd graders. The child has 5 seconds to answer each question, and has to answer 70 questions total. The faster and more accurate they are able to answer the questions, the more points they earn. As the child is able to excel through the questions, they become gradually more difficult and a history of the games is recorded (and graphed) so they can visually track their progress.
The more points they earn the more dinosaurs they begin to uncover. What I picture in my head is a fantasy style map that has various earthly elements such as; mountains, water, ice, forests, maybe a dessert area. Each section of the map gets unlocked and turns to color as they progress through. I have begun Game Center and iCloud integration. Game Center achievements are going to be paleontologist tools (hammer, chisel, pick, brush, etc). I considered multi-player games but think I will leave it out for now given the age range of the target audience.
I have spent most of my time working on the functional aspects, so I have not spent a ton of time on the look and feel yet. But you'll see in the pictures I'm trying to go with a notebook/handwriting style. The view transition is a page curl animation and if you pull down the red ribbon (bookmark) on the main menu, it will take you to your map (yet to be created). I created a hand drawn 5 second pie timer in the top left of the question page.
I have tried creating my own map but the quality isn't what I'm looking for (attached). Since it is for an iPhone game and fit within my notebook frame.
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http://www.cartographersguild.com/feature/glorMap.jpg (great example, but with color)
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The Ron Burgundy publicity blitz that was scheduled to continue today has been canceled, according to a post on ESPN's "SportsCenter" Facebook page.
Will Ferrell was expected to host the popular sports news program alongside David Koechner. The actors were going to appear as their popular "Anchorman" characters Ron Burgundy and Champ Kind.
The network posted a message earlier saying, "Ron Burgundy's 'SportsCenter' appearance Thursday has been canceled in light of breaking news out of Florida State regarding Jameis Winston."
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That is North Carolina�s rank among the 50 states for teacher pay. In an ironic statement on the N.C. website of public schools mission statement, part of the mission is to prepare high school graduates to be competitive in the 21stt century workforce. The emphasis on being a competitive employer, however, is not.
Our elected state officials and superintendents have placed a huge emphasis on the new Common Core standards to ensure N.C. is on pace with other states in providing continuity across the country with what our children are learning. There are also grants and other resources that have been utilized to bring cutting edge technology to classrooms. It�s the equivalent of building a new aircraft carrier but not wanting to pay a captain to run it. If the desire is to create a great school system don�t you want to pay to keep the teachers with talent and attract new teachers?
In a recent informational video I saw about the school system it said, �When our educators flourish so do our students.� Unfortunately, words aren�t the solution to this problem, a pay raise is.
Any elected official that has touted an educational agenda in the past six years has arguably failed the most important asset in this equation, our teachers. In 2007, the N.C. teacher starting salary was $29,750 and pay for a teacher with six years of experience was $36,200. In 2013, the starting salary is $30,800 and pay for a teacher with six years of experience is $31,220.
So, if you started teaching and had continued throughout the past six years you would have received a raise of .008 percent year, yes, less than 1 percent. On the current pay scale a teacher with five years of experience is still making $30,800, the same as a first year teacher in 2013. If that�s not motivating enough, N.C. decided to stop awarding a 10 percent increase in pay to teachers that have gone the extra mile and attained a Master�s Degree.
Welcome to North Carolina, where we appreciate your hard work. I realize teaching is not an occupation for those who want make a six-figure income but unfortunately teachers still have to pay a mortgage to keep a roof over their head, drive a car to go to work and eat food to live. My opinion may be wrong but my guess is that teacher morale and longevity would improve if they could quit the additional jobs they have in order to pursue their dream of inspiring tomorrow�s leaders.
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COLUMBUS -- The Ohio Auditor has released his investigation into school district attendance irregularities, and some districts are taking issue with the findings.
Auditor Dave Yost identified 9 school districts as "scrubbing" attendance data or improperly withdrawing students who perform poorly in school.
The Cleveland School District and the Canton City Schools are named in the report.
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Cleveland CEO Eric Gordon has said that the district has put more checks and balances in place and updated record-keeping procedures in the schools.
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We also received a statement from Canton City Superintendent Adrian E. Allison saying, "It is unfortunate that with such a complex data reporting system known as EMIS and the unique circumstances of these schools (the schools in the report are at-risk, collaborative schools that include students from 5 districts), our district is being reported as a 'data scrubber' to improve the results on the Report Card. While we know that there are opportunities to ensure that the data is as accurate as possible, we are certain that there was no data 'scrubbing' in the Canton City School District."
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Are you constantly drenched in your own sweat day and night? If so, I have the perfect remedy that can help you stop excessive sweating. Excessive sweating is also known as hyperhidrosis and refers to the abnormal production of sweat in the body. Perspiration is another term for sweating, hence the products antiperspirants.
Whenever our body is overwhelmed we start to produce sweat to help us cool down. That is why we often see professional soccer players, tennis players drenched in sweat, it is because playing a sport for over an hour at maximum performance requires a lot of stamina and energy. If we don't produce sweat, it will take our body loner to cool down thus it is necessary and is completely normal to sweat.
However a small percentage, close to 8 % of Americans suffer from hyperhidrosis which is when the body produces an abnormal amount of sweat, sweat can be produced even if they are idle or not doing anything that requires great amount of energy. Hyperhidrosis is not only embarrassing but can have serious effects on an individual's self-esteem. Nobody likes to see a sweaty armpit or sweat patches because it is just not a nice view.
If you are suffering from either hyperhidrosis or can't control your perspiration in your daily needs, or even if you are going out for a run and don't want to be drenched in sweat afterwards consider using some short term remedies including antiperspirants.
Nowadays there are various antiperspirants available on the market suited for men and women, some common brands we may be likely to encounter are lynx, dove, etc. There also come in various forms, such as sprays, perfume, roll-ons, etc.
If you are looking for a more long term remedy consider trying out some natural remedies, there are also hundreds of various remedies that you can do it yourself at home or those that can be purchased from your local supermarket. Some common natural remedies that I recommend you try out are
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There are also a range of other therapy treatments including surgery, although surgery is not recommended people still opt for this option. Surgery can involve injecting Botox into the skin which stops the sweat glands from producing sweat, there are mixed results on the internet and injecting Botox has a range of side effects including blurred vision, headaches, etc.
Other factors such as stress, eating the wrong foods such as hot and spicy foods can also contribute to excessive sweating. If you want to learn how to sweat less then I would recommend that you do research first on why you are sweating in the first place.
Here are some tips that you can follow if you are suffering from excessive sweating, drink more water, contrary to popular belief drinking more water has more beneficial factors than negative. Drinking water hydrates the body which allows the body to feel cool. Avoid eating hot and spicy foods and stay far away from anything that has caffeine in it , this includes coffee, your favorite soft drinks. Caffeine is proven to bring blood pressure levels up causing your body to sweat more.
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Gross Cakes- A Round of Cakes You'd Never Want to EatWednesday, April 28th, 2010
I don't know when it specifically became my job to look up gross cakes on the internet but let me tell you, the whole thing makes me wildly uncomfortable. First off, I am still confused who the people are who eat these cakes or if it is just an online fetish for people to make the most disgusting cakes. Honestly. when did we stop wanting red velvet cake and instead crave a rat shaped cake? Yes, here I am on my soap box.
Do you want to know my secret theory? I'm telling you anyway. I think there is one person somewhere in the US who just sits in his basement and dreams up gross cakes and then floods the internet with these photos. If there is, I'd like to meet him.
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I heard it made the front page of a paper don't know whick one.
I suspect that your hunter density may be somewhat more that what we have here.
If it is that bad where you're at I'd wear body armor.
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I heard it made the front page of a paper don't know whick one.
Can you handle the challenge.... hunt hard but safe!!
good gosh! yeah i think ill be sticking with the back country pack hunts for now on. wow
If the smokepolers want to have a larger season, even though they can hunt during other season fine by me, but dont abreviate mine for someone else shortcomings.
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Not to drag this up from the depths (Haha, who am I kidding). A hunter was killed this weekend in Missouri. He was not wearing orange. Perhaps an orange vest and hat would have saved his life?


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|Dragons fall one point short to Wiggins
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Three weeks earlier, Holyoke was celebrating a one-point victory over Resurrection Christian. Last Friday night, Oct. 19 it again was a one-point final score, but the Dragon football team was on the wrong side of a 33-34 final.
It was parents night and the final home game of the regular season last Friday as Holyoke welcomed the Wiggins Tigers to Max Bernard Field.
After building up a 33-21 lead after three quarters, the energy was high on the home sideline and stands.
It was the fourth quarter that took the wind out of the Dragon sails. Wiggins scored two touchdowns to tie the game at 33 with 5:31 left. All they needed was a PAT to give them the lead.
Corey Ritchey, who was 1-3 on the night, lined up the kick and knocked it through.
With 5:31 left, Holyoke had plenty of time to try to score, but the drive stalled and they turned the ball over on downs. Wiggins ran the clock down and ended the game by taking two knees.
Coach John Zilla was not pleased with the play on the defensive side of the ball. He said they didn't read and fill holes. He also said there was a lot of head-down tackling.
"Any time you score 30 some points, you should win a game. And you have a running back run over 200 yards, you should win a ball game. We just made too many mistakes," Zilla said.
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Wiggins won the toss and elected to receive. Their first drive was snuffed out as the Dragon defense held them to a three and out.
Holyoke's first drive of the game showed some promise as they moved into Wiggins' territory. However, Wiggins held and forced a punt. The snap sailed over the head of punter Wyatt Powell who gathered it up and attempted a pass that Wiggins picked off and returned for a touchdown. The PAT was good, giving the Tigers a 7-0 lead.
Both teams were forced to punt on their next drive. Holyoke got the ball back with just under two minutes left in the opening period.
Dylan Kotch got the drive started with a three-yard gain up the middle. On second down, Brett Cumming took the handoff and bolted 88 yards down the field for the score. The PAT from Saul Ramos barely made it over the cross bar to tie the game.
Holyoke's tough defense had Wiggins' offense figured out and stopped them on a three and out.
The second quarter began with Holyoke at their own 47 yard line. The running attack moved the ball clear down to Wiggins' one yard line. From there, Brett Cumming punched it in. The PAT was no good.
On the ensuing kickoff, Andrew Kent sent a squib down the middle of the field and the Tigers had trouble getting on top of it. Kent stayed focused and tracked the ball down at the Tiger 45. On first down, TJ Gertner rolled around the right side and sold the run which drew the defenders off a wide open Bradley Cumming. Gertner hit Cumming who scampered 45 yards for the second score in 16 seconds. On the two-point conversion, Brett Cumming ran around the right side and dove towards the pylon but couldn't get the ball across the goal line.
The next Wiggins' possession ended when Bradley Cumming intercepted a pass deep in Dragon territory.
Jesus Hermosillo, with the help of other Dragons, sacks Wiggins'
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Holyoke couldn't get anything going on the next drive and was forced to punt. Wiggins managed to block the punt, setting them up at the Dragon 21 yard line with 36 seconds left in the half. Four plays later on fourth and seven, Sauter hit Terran Freauff in the end zone for a touchdown pass. Logan Tharp blocked the PAT which kept the Dragon lead at 19-13.
Holyoke took the ball to begin the second half and drove right down the field. Brett Cumming punched in his third touchdown from five yards out and Gertner kept the two-point conversion ball and ran to the right side to cross the goal line.
Holyoke looked to tack on another score after Brett Cumming tipped a pass and intercepted Wiggins down in Dragon territory. The Wiggins defense stiffened up and forced a Holyoke three and out.
With the ball back, Wiggins moved down the field and scored another touchdown. After the two-point conversion, Wiggins only trailed by six, 21-27.
After recovering an onside kick, Holyoke was set up at their own 45. On first down, Brett Cumming busted loose again and rambled down the field 55 yards for the score with one minute left in the third. The answering touchdown came just 15 seconds after Wiggins' last score.
The two point conversion was no good, which proved costly.
The Tigers' first score of the final period came with 10:13 left. Sauter ran in from eight yards out. The Dragons were flagged for being offside on the PAT so Wiggins tried for two, but the attempt was unsuccessful.
Holyoke went three and out on the next drive, which set Wiggins up for the go-ahead touchdown. The Tigers moved down to the four yard line and from there, Sauter took it in.
Stats recorded
The Dragons racked up 338 yards of total offense. Gertner was one for four with his only completion going to Bradley Cumming for a 45-yard touchdown.
On the ground, Brett Cumming led all rushers with 226 yards on 19 carries and four touchdowns. His long was the 88 yard touchdown run in the first quarter. Bradley Cumming finished with 70 yards on 13 carries. Dylan Kotch had 20 yards on 6 attempts.
On defense, Logan Tharp led the team with 21 tackles. Jesus Hermosillo was the only other player in double digits with 17. Fifteen Holyoke players recorded at least one tackle last Friday night.
Bradley Cumming and Brett Cumming each had one interception. Tharp recorded one PAT block and Andrew Kent had a fumble recovery.
Senior captains walk out to mid field prior to kickoff Friday night, Oct. 19. Pictured from left are
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A lot riding on Friday's game
The Dragons will travel to Wray Friday, Oct. 26 for the final game of the regular season. Kickoff is slated for 6:30 p.m. The Eagles are 7-1 and 5-0 in conference play.
If Holyoke (4-4, 4-1) beats Wray, they will secure a spot in the state playoffs. A loss will mean they still have a shot but won't know until Sunday afternoon, Oct. 28.
Should Holyoke beat Wray by 14 or more points, they will lock up the conference championship. A win by 14 or less will give Holyoke the runner- up spot and a loss would leave them in third place behind Wray and Wiggins.
"They have to start believing in each other and themselves," Zilla said of the team heading into this week's important game.
Other North Central action reported
Other North Central Conference teams played last week. Wray beat Resurrection Christian 55-27, Highland lost to Byers 14-47 and Yuma beat Cornerstone Christian Academy 34-28.
JV scores reported
Holyoke's junior varsity team has had its schedule shifted around this season.
They have only managed to get in four games to this point in the season.
Monday, Oct. 22 they hosted a circus with Wray and Yuma.
Holyoke played two quarters against each team. They beat Yuma 7-0 and lost in an overtime period to Wray 6-12. The Dragons and Eagles were tied at six after two quarters of play and decided to fight it out in an overtime session.
Earlier this season, the Dragon JV squad fell to St. Francis, Kan. 20-26; beat Perkins County, Neb. 19-13; and fell to Chase County, Neb. 6-28.
Games with Yuma and Limon were canceled. Monday's circus with the Eagles and Indians was the final game for the junior varsity team this season.
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In just a few weeks, the College of Central Florida's Brain Bowl team will be in uncharted territory: competing in Chicago for the first time in the national intercollegiate championship.
CF will compete on April 13 in the Division II tournament — for freshmen/sophomore teams only — against powerhouses Harvard, Yale and MIT. The events are known as National Academic Quiz Tournaments, or NAQT.
There's a separate intercollegiate tournament on the same day for Division I, which is for teams with juniors, seniors and grad students.
The CF team, known as the "red" team, advanced by finishing in the top six at the national community college tournament in St. Louis.
Darrell Riley, a history professor who coaches the team along with humanities professor Jim Meier, said competitions require team members to answer questions quickly on their feet.
A moderator reads an equal number of questions in four subject areas: humanities, mathematics, natural science and social sciences.
A buzzer system is used to identify the player who buzzes in first. After 44 questions, the team with the most points wins.
The Red Team members are Bernard Domeisen, Brittney Burleson, Stetson Cooper, Sean Fitzpatrick and Zachary Cooper. Riley said most expenses for the trip are covered by CF activity fees. He said team members get performance grants, very similar to scholarships, for competing.
Two CF teams qualified for the national community college tournament by placing high in a sectional event called the NAQT South Florida Sectional Tournament. It was held in January in Bradenton. The Red Team tied for first, and CF's White Team finished fourth.
Riley said while the team is in Chicago he hopes the members will get a chance to visit a few of the city's landmarks and taste its cuisine.
"I hope to take them for a deep-dish pizza," said Riley, who thanked the CF administration and Marjorie McGee, the school's director of student life, for supporting the team.
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1: Stop calling a 10ft x 7ft pool of water a "lake". OK, that was a cheap shot, but I couldn't resist. The 2 problems are that it is to bright a blue color, and a pool that size would only have whitecaps if there were an earthquake. Try a water texture with ripples in a darker color.
Here is a nice little pond and some water pieces that might work better
2: The trees look great, but you can create more illusion of height by using a bit more shadow under them.
3: The flowers are probably to big. At the current scale each flower is about 14-16 inches across.
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Melissa Izumida hurled a six-hitter and pitched her third shutout of the season as the Pasadena City College softball team turned back El Camino College, 2-0, Feb. 21 in a South Coast Conference game at Robinson Park. The Lancers are 8-8 overall, 2-2 in conference and a sparkling 7-1 at home.
Izumida pitched out of two bases loaded jams, one in the fourth inning with no outs, and stranded nine El Camino runners on base. Third baseman Katelynn Thordarson (2-for-3) provided the offense with a line shot off the left-center field fence in the first inning that resulted in a single and two RBI that gave PCC a 2-0 lead.
Izumida, a redshirt freshman from Gabrielino High, struck out seven batters and walked three to improve her pitching record to 4-3. Rightfielder Vanessa Contreras and designated player Sara Quintero each batted 2-for-3.
The Lancers play at Long Beach City College today in a 3 p.m. conference game.
[Photo--Melissa Izumida makes a throw to first during her shutout performance in PCC's 2-0 win over El Camino played Thursday at Robinson Park, image by Richard Quinton, sports information photographer.]
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Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (cont.)
Roxanne Dryden-Edwards, MD
Dr. Roxanne Dryden-Edwards is an adult, child, and adolescent psychiatrist. She is a former Chair of the Committee on Developmental Disabilities for the American Psychiatric Association, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and Medical Director of the National Center for Children and Families in Bethesda, Maryland.
William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
Dr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.
In this Article
- Munchausen syndrome by proxy facts
- What is Munchausen syndrome by proxy?
- What are Munchausen syndrome by proxy causes and risk factors?
- What are Munchausen syndrome by proxy symptoms and signs?
- How is Munchausen syndrome by proxy diagnosed?
- What is the treatment for Munchausen syndrome by proxy?
- What are the complications of Munchausen syndrome by proxy?
- Where can one get more information on Munchausen syndrome by proxy?
- Find a local Psychiatrist in your town
What is Munchausen syndrome by proxy?
Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSBP) features a caretaker covertly abusing a child by faking or causing symptoms in the child victim. MSBP is also called Munchausen by proxy (MBP), factitious disorder that is imposed by one individual on another, induced illness, or fabricated illness and is a mental disorder that belongs to the group of mental illnesses called somatic symptom and related disorders. It is characterized by a feigning or intentional production of physical or mental-health symptoms in another person for the sole purpose of placing the other person in the sick role. While the reported frequency with which it occurs seems low at one to three in 100,000, it is likely that the actual number of undiscovered MSBP cases is much higher. MSBP tends to affect males as victims as often as females. Affected individuals are usually 4 years old or younger and mothers are the perpetrators most of the time. The tendency toward maternal perpetrators may be more a result of women continuing to be the primary caregiver than any gender-based predisposition to the disorder. MSBP can take two years or more from the beginning or onset of symptoms to when it is diagnosed. Victims of MSBP are ominously found to have a sibling who is either deceased or to have had medical problems very similar to the current victim of the disorder.
This disorder was named for Baron Karl Friedrich von Munchausen. Baron von Munchausen lived from 1720-1797, was born in Germany, joined the Russian military, and was known to tell fantastic tales about the battles he participated in against the Ottoman Turks. For example, he apparently told stories about riding cannonballs and traveling to the moon. As opposed to MSBP (factitious disorder imposed on another person), factitious disorder imposed on self is a mental illness in which what are initially thought to be symptoms of illness in the sufferer are in reality a fabrication of the illness by the sufferer rather than fabrication of illness by a third person. The motivation for factitious disorder imposed on self also tends to be an attempt by the sufferer to be seen as sick (assuming the sick or patient role). Emotional problems that tend to co-occur in people with MSBP include depression, anxiety, and some personality disorders like borderline personality disorder and sociopathy.
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The 2012 AMSOIL Great American CT TourWritten by on October 4, 2013 Our Last Three RaceTracks Are All Full Of Dirt
As we head back to the east from Albuquerque, we make a run up through Kansas to our last three stops on the 2012 Tour. It's been a long, long journey so far and we are ready to conclude our road trip for this third year. But first, we wanted to take in three of the coolest dirt tracks we've seen to date.
The trip takes us up I-25 once again to I-70 east and on to our RV base camp at Topeka KOA where we will spend the next two weeks before heading home. From here we will travel to Lakeside Speedway just outside Kansas City, Heartland Park's BriggAuto.com Speedway near us in Topeka, and then to our final stop at Salina Speedway, a recently reopened track that had a huge show going on.
Kansas Auto Racing Museum
On the way to Salina, we made a stop in Chapman, Kansas, at the Kansas Auto Racing Museum and visited with the founder and curator, Doug Thompson and his brother, Roger. Doug also produces a weekly racing radio show from the museum. He is a racer himself and toured with the NASCAR Goody's Dash Series in the '90s as the Covenant Racing team.
Inside the museum are some great examples of cars that raced in Kansas including the very first ever Mini-Stock. The name actually came from Doug's description to a fan when he asked what this miniature stock car was called. If you are out that way, call Doug and make an appointment to visit.
I took a side trip to locate Lakeside Speedway after dropping Karen off at the Kansas City airport on a Thursday before the weekend races. I found the speedway sign and was amazed at how small the track was. A large sign said welcome to Lakeside Speedway and just beyond the fence was this tiny dirt track. After driving around the corner, I realized that this was not the stock car track, but a kart track instead. Whew! Turns out, just down the road about a quarter-mile was the "real" track.
Lakeside Speedway
This fast half-mile dirt track is owned by Marc and Page Olson and has quite a following. We arrived for the Friday portion of this two-day event to find a large gathering of campers. We would only be attending one day in order to visit another track in the same weekend.
In talking to the campers, some who were racers also, I came to understand how this track was special. In June 2011, it had flooded as the Mississippi River had overflowed its banks. One of the buildings showed a high water line some 4 feet above ground level and the entire infield of the track and the racing surface was covered by water.
The flood wiped out the entire season. But they came back from that disaster to clean everything up and resume racing for 2012. This $5,000-to-win, two-day event was the McCarthy Auto Group Jayhawk Modified Classic and it paid $1,000 to start the feature.
The track has a high-banked groove that is best to run when it gets slick. It was well prepared in advance, as were all of the facilities. There is a large grandstand with suites and the pits are located outside the track so that the fans can have an unobstructed view of the action.
The racing on this day included all of the qualifying and heat races leading up to the final night's main events, but we were able to see the quality of teams and drivers who were in attendance. Modified racing is huge in the Midwest, more so than we see elsewhere.
Maybe it is because there are a lot of people whose job it is to work with the dirt on the many farms that cover most of Kansas and bordering states. It just seems more natural to these racers and the thought of an asphalt racetrack really does make most of them cringe. We camped out in our motorhome and left early the next morning for Topeka.
Heartland Park Speedway
We arrived at the dirt track at Heartland Park, which is named the BriggsAuto.com Speedway, for the Super Saturday Showdown. The Park has many different types of racing going on at various times. This 750-acre facility was founded in 1989 and cost $30 million to build. It has attracted many events and national television coverage since that time and is truly one of the premier racing facilities in the U.S.
There is a dragstrip, a 2.5-mile road course for cars and motorcycles, and this dirt track. The park is a large facility that can accommodate a lot of people. When we were there the weekend of the September 22, there were Modifieds, stock class, Late Models, and vintage race cars.
I have spoken before about the older cars, but seeing them race takes us back to the roots of stock car racing when many tracks were dirt. I did a research project on the history of circle track racing once and the early tracks were, in fact, mostly wood. That didn't last long since that medium is so hard to maintain for any length of time.
Located just to the south side of Topeka, Heartland Park draws from not only this large city but from the metropolis of Kansas City, only an hour away. And we saw a good number of spectators who enjoyed plenty of racing action.
One rare thing about this dirt track was that it had paved pits. There was no dust flying around the cars and it just seemed pleasantly strange. The only other dirt track I remember seeing with paved pits was at the Texas Motor Speedway dirt track.
We were able to see some incredible racing action and a good many races due to the many classes running. The track is wide and offers several grooves and that makes the racing more competitive and offers more opportunities for passing and racing side by side.
Salina Speedway
Our last weekend race of the 2012 Tour was a fantastic one at this rejuvenated dirt track. The Fall Fling brought a huge number of racers, estimated at upwards of 150 cars.
Tommy Hendrickson took over as promoter of this once closed facility two years ago as an act of passion. He just liked the racing here and was determined to make it work. He did a great job and took time to tell me all about it.
There was a lot of work to do. I had heard similar stories before about trees growing in the track infield and pit areas that had to be cleared away, a lot of painting and rebuilding, maintenance of the grandstands, replacement of the fencing, infrastructure repairs, and more. It's a serious undertaking and a promoter needs to be dedicated and in it for the long haul. I think that best describes Tommy, he's definitely in it looking for a long relationship.
The speedway lies just outside Salina, Kansas (imagine that), and draws from the many farm communities surrounding that area. Tommy has made many structural improvements to the track including rebuilding the food stands, installing new fencing, and modern lighting including the caution lights that look just like those we see at NASCAR's big-time tracks. And he has just the right heavy equipment for preparing the track itself.
The show went along right on schedule with each heat followed closely behind by the next one. One thing we noticed that is important with racetracks is that the program needs to move along and end at a reasonable time. This helps the families where there are kids who grow tired and want to go home.
If the show ends at around 10 p.m., then everyone will get a chance to see all of the races and the kids can get to bed at a decent hour. Then there are issues with curfews and noise statutes where tracks must be finished by 11 p.m. If the races were over an hour earlier, the neighbors would be happier and the communities would better support the racetracks. As we headed out toward St. Louis on our long ride home, we looked back on the many friends we have made this year, the incredible racetracks we have visited, and the great amount and quality of information we have accumulated. As I write this story, it is only a month till we are on the road again for year four of the AMSOIL Great American CT Tour that will take in the western portion of the U.S.
I have my schedule completed, all of my KOA campground reservations made and we are looking forward to meeting new friends and seeing how things are done toward the left coast. We'll take in Utah, Idaho, Washington State, Oregon, California, Nevada, and Arizona on this final year. Stay tuned, there's a lot more to come.
As we headed out toward St. Louis on our long ride home, we looked back on the many friends we have made this year, the incredible racetracks we have visited, and the great amount and quality of information we have accumulated. As I write this story, it is only a month till we are on the road again for year four of the AMSOIL Great American CT Tour that will take in the western portion of the U.S.
I have my schedule completed, all of my KOA campground reservations made and we are looking forward to meeting new friends and seeing how things are done toward the left coast. We'll take in Utah, Idaho, Washington State, Oregon, California, Nevada, and Arizona on this final year. Stay tuned, there's a lot more to come.
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The fan prices are very reasonable and we saw many campers who came for the two day event. We attended the first day on Friday and headed out to Heartland Park the next morning.We usually don't see this level of safety equipment at dirt tracks, but this shows the quality of management at Lakeside. Having a well-equipped fire truck standing ready to roll is the right thing to do.It was a huge Modified event at Lakeside where the least you would take home from the feature event was $1,000. First place was $5,000. This purse brought many of the top teams from around the Midwest to compete. This is a great wing isn't it?Where have we seen this before? Oh yeah, at Norway Speedway. Maybe somebody needs to start a business converting these used school buses into race car transporters. It's probably a lot cheaper than a 24-foot trailer and a diesel dualie by far.We like to see the open trailers and here are a bunch of them. They are easy to tow, easy to load, and you can just drive through a car wash and clean up before heading home. I wonder if anyone ever tried the automated car washes?The track surface at Heartland Park was wide and fast. It held moisture well and we saw very little dust for most of the night. And, there were several grooves whereby side-by-side racing took place.We were welcomed with open arms at Salina and our Tour bus was situated inside the grandstand area and right next to the huge pit area. The main attraction was Modifieds and there were a slew of them.The track was well prepped at Salina as were all of the facilities. Note the lack of walls that would cause much bending and tearing of suspension parts. A few cars did go over the top, but came right back into the action with no damage whatsoever. I wished more tracks could do away with outside walls on dirt tracks. Even some asphalt tracks don't have outside walls and it works very well. Smokey Yunick advocated a design of racetrack that did not have outside walls.Improvements to the track after re-opening included new front stretch fencing and these ultramodern Whelen caution lights. This re-do and reawakening of a dead track should be a model for other "doomed" tracks and provide the proof that yes, you can revise a racing facility that has gone under in certain situations.


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Two-Faced Kitten Born in Oregon: See This Amazing Cat! (VIDEO)
Sometimes, things happen that seem like signs of some sort. On Tuesday, an extremely rare event occurred when a kitten was born with two faces.
Stephanie Durkee, owner of both the female kitten and the kitten's mother, told the Guardian that when the cat was born, she immediately took it to the vet. She reports that the little feline is in good health, and that she "meows loudly from both mouths."
The kitten has been named "Duecy" (awww!) and Durkee told Portland's KGW-TV that sadly, the kitten has been rejected by her mother. Durkee is doing her best to fill in by feeding Duecy warmed-up kitten formula from a syringe.
Durkee said, "The kids... came in and said, 'Mom there's a kitty with two heads. And I said, 'I think you guys are just tired, you're crazy, that doesn't happen.'"
It is rare, but two-faced cats are not completely unheard of. These cats are referred to as Janus cats, after the Roman god with two faces (and the month of January). In 2012, a Port Charlotte, Florida, couple's cat gave birth to a two-faced male kitten. Sadly, he died after two days.
Durkee says Deucy was born under the Gemini (twins) astrological sign on 6/11 at 6:11 p.m. She says she "can't help but wonder at the 'double' coincidences surrounding Deucy's birth.
Durkee says that she plans to keep Deucy, and we wish her the best of luck with her special new kitty!
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Where are the pics? Congrats too.
Good job looks like a good one
Looks like a good one to me also. Congrats!
Fine looking lope ! Congrats !
Nice goat! I think Wyoming is "speed goat capital USA"
-NRA Life Member
Any ideas on score? I didn't measure him before dropping him off at the taxidermist because I was short on time. When I shot him I guessed him in the 75-77" range.
From the pics given im going to have to go low 70, 75 is a push.regardless for a 2 hour hunt hes a shooter! Congrats.
I would put him in the low 70's. Looks like he has pretty good lower mass but is lacking in the upper mas and prong length. Still I would also say he's a shooter for a two hour hunt.


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Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - Blake Griffin and Chris Paul paced seven
teammates in double figures with 19 points apiece as the Los Angeles Clippers
downed the Minnesota Timberwolves, 111-95, at Staples Center.
Paul also dished out 11 assists for the Clippers, who have already clinched
their first-ever Pacific Division crown and remain two games back of Denver
for the third seed in the Western Conference. Willie Green connected on all
three of his 3-point attempts for 15 points, while Matt Barnes (14 points),
Jamal Crawford (11 points) and Lamar Odom (13 rebounds) were impressive off
the bench.
DeAndre Jordan and Caron Butler each netted 10 points for the hosts.
Nikola Pekovic led all scorers with 20 points for Minnesota, which has lost
back-to-back games. Derrick Williams tallied a double-double with 13 points
and 10 rebounds, Alexey Shved and J.J. Barea poured in 12 points apiece, and
Luke Ridnour chipped in 11 points in the losing effort.
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January 2012 Belgrade Book Club Choice
The Belgrade R.E.A.D. (Read, Eat and Discuss) book club will meet at the Myrtle Mabee Library in Belgrade on Jan. 20, 2012 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. to discuss The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. It's January 1949 and London is emerging from the shadow of World War II. Writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation and of a society as interesting as its name.
The Belgrade book club meets the third Friday of every month from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the library. For a copy of the book of the month or for more information come to the library! We welcome new members!


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|Tastefully brilliant melodrama has audience eating out of their hands
|Written by Darci Tomky
Phillips County Players had the audience eating out of their hands in the hilarious and tasty "Someone Save My Baby, Ruth! Or... Foil That Villain!"
The melodrama, directed by Penny Dockins, was a sweet treat presented at the Peerless Theatre Sunday, Nov. 4.
Villain and villainess Sidney Swindle and Ada Sourball (Maury Kramer and Karen Swan) were dramatically brilliant as they tried to take over Praline Candy's (Ashley Sullivan) Boston candy store.
Melodrama villains played by Maury Kramer and Karen Swan plot out their evil tactics before their plans can be foiled ... literally. —Enterprise photo
Penny Candy and Officer Ernest Noble (Andrea McCallum and Eric Conklin) took drama to a whole new level, all while batting eye lashes, falling in love and catching the kidnapper of little Baby Ruth.
It is a sweet, sweet love story between Ernest Noble and Penny Candy, played by Eric Conklin and Andrea McCallum, who milk the melodrama for all it's worth in "Someone Save My Baby, Ruth! Or... Foil That Villain!"
Hilarious Hubert and Tom (Jerry Brandt and Jacob Vasa) were always throwing kisses at candy shop girls Taffy and Toffee (Shanda Willmon and Kellee Salyers), while quarrelsome cooks Farron Heit and Cindy Grade (Bob Brandt and Brenda Brandt) were throwing a bit of fudge around to see whose was the best.
Jacob Vasa and Jerry Brandt add to the drama of last Sunday's stage performace at the Peerless Theatre.
Other cast members keeping the audience involved with cheers, boos and awws were Dolly Smith, Dani Brandt, Anastasia Conklin, Shianne Willmon, Zander Salyers, Penny Dockins and piano player Marcia Dalton.
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An unmanned aircraft system consists of an unmanned aircraft, its mission payloads, launch and recovery equipment, ground control station, and control and data links. The Coast Guard is preparing to employ UAS to augment the services land- and cutter-based aircraft, and expand the surveillance range of surface assets, such as the national security cutter.
Why this program?
The Coast Guard is interested in UAS that can remain on station for extended periods, expand maritime domain awareness, and disseminate actionable intelligence on maritime hazards and threats. By leveraging developmental work completed by other uniformed services and federal government agencies, the Coast Guard is considering cost-effective UAS solutions that meet cutter-based and land-based requirements.
How is the UAS being acquired?
The Coast Guard's land- and cutter-based UAS acquisition projects are focused on technologically mature systems, commonality with Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense programs, and leveraging other agencies' UAS experience.
Land-based UAS: The Coast Guard has validated a mission need for land-based UAS to significantly enhance ocean surveillance in support of the service's operations. The Coast Guard is developing the land-based UAS concept of operations and is investigating opportunities to leverage UAS technology to gain efficiencies for the maritime patrol capabilities. Coast Guard land-based UAS flight crews are jointly operating maritime-variant Predator UAS (Guardian) on maritime missions with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to enhance the Coast Guard's understanding of potential land-based UAS solutions and support the development of a land-based UAS requirements package.
Cutter-based UAS: Cutter-based UAS are considered part of the total 'force package' for the service's major cutters, including the national security cutter and planned offshore patrol cutter. The Coast Guard has validated a mission need for cutter-based UAS to significantly expand the field of regard for cutters at sea. The Coast Guard has developed a concept of operations and requirements for small UAS to be deployed on the NSC class. The sUAS for NSC project is in the process of developing project plans and analyzing potential candidates. To support these activities, the Coast Guard Research and Development Center has conducted several demonstrations both from land at onboard NSCs using a ScanEagle UAS. The RDC plans to conduct an additional demonstration early next year to investigate small UAS payloads for maritime missions.


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9News' Peggy Fox will have an update on the powerful story of 13-year-old Will Thomas soon. He will receive a SEAL Unsung Hero Award in November for his Operation Hawkeye work at the Second Annual Seal Legacy Foundation Benefit & Gala. businessman and philanthropist T. Boone Pickens will also receive an award at the gala: the 2012 SEAL Legacy Award.
We thought you might like to see CBS News' interview with Thomas from August while you wait:
McLEAN, Va. (CBS NEWS) - Thirteen-year-old Will Thomas is chasing a dream very different from that of most hoops-crazy kids his age.


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Phoenix Hostel
At the Phoenix hostel we have endeavored to provide you with a laid back, friendly, fun, clean, and safe place to stay during your trip to London.
We provide a selection of rooms (10 in total with 60 beds) including single private double & mixed dormitories with shared bathroom facilities.
There's a Bar & Lounge area downstairs, where guests receive a discount at the bar. There's a microwave and fridge for guests to use.
Availability & RatesTo view availability and prices please select dates and click 'Update Dates'
Hostel Facilities & Policies
- 24 Hour Reception
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The London Tube is the best way to travel to the Phoenix. It operates between the hours of 05:00 and 24:00. Alternatively if you are traveling at night, buses run 24/7.
Direction from Kings Cross St Pancras (Eurostar):
Take the tube, Circle line (East Bound) to Edgware Road Station*
Directions from Heathrow Airport:
Take the London Tube Picadilly line to Hammersmith and then change to the Circle line to Edgware Road Station.*
Directions from Luton, Stansted & Gatwick Aiports:
Take a coach from Victoria Station and then take London Tube circle line to Edgware Road Station.*
*Directions From Edgware Road Station:
Walk up Chapel Street and turn right on Edgware Road walk aprox 2 mins and then turn right onto Bell St. The Phoenix is located on Daventry Street which is the 3rd street on the right. (The journey should take no longer than 5 mins)
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'Madame Tussauds' (5 Minute Walk)
The tourist attraction for celebrity wax figures in London.
'Sherlock Holmes Museum' (6 Minute Walk)
The world's most famous address and the official home of Sherlock Holmes!
'Regents Park & London Zoo' (7 Minute Walk)
The Regent's Park is the largest grass area for sports in Central London and offers a wide variety of activities, as well as an Open Air Theatre, the London Zoo and many cafes and restaurants.
'Abbey Road (Beatles)' (10 Minute Walk)
Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by English rock band The Beatles.
'Hyde Park & Marble Arch' (10 Minute Walk)
Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in central London, England and one of the Royal Parks of London, famous for its Speakers' Corner.
'Oxford Street & Regents Street' (12 Minute Walk)
There are 548 shops in Oxford Street and it is Europe's busiest shopping street.
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Nelson and Grove-McDonough Garner Regional Honors
NEW ORLEANS – Iowa State women's cross country held the spotlight this morning, as Crystal Nelson and head coach Andrea Grove-McDonough each garner postseason awards from the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA). Nelson was named Women's Midwest Regional Athlete of the Year and Grove-McDonough earned Midwest Women's Coach of the Year honors, as were voted by the region's coaches.
Nelson has been the Cyclones' front-runner in the 2013 campaign, finishing in the top-10 in every race and winning the individual title at last Friday's Midwest Regional. The Winchester, Va., native finished the 6-kilometer regional race 8 seconds ahead of the next runner and led the women to their fourth regional title in as many years. The sophomore runner has also notched three top-3 finishes on the season, including a runner-up finish at the Big 12 Championships.
In Grove-McDonough's first season at the helm, she has led the program to a No. 7 national ranking outside of the top-25 to a No. 7 national ranking. The Cyclones have been ranked in the top-10 in the coaches' association's three latest polls.
Under Grove-McDonough's tutelage, the Cyclones had five student-athletes earn All-Big 12 recognition in Nelson, Bethanie Brown, Katy Moen, Perez Rotich and Samantha Bluske. Brown, a freshman, was also named the Big 12 Women's Newcomer of the Year, as the first newcomer to cross the line at the Big 12 Championships.
The women's team has not finished outside of the top-five in any of their six races and have defeated 16 nationally ranked programs on year.
To view the complete USTFCCCA release, click here.
The Cyclones are set to compete at the NCAA Championships Saturday. Mohamed Hrezi qualified as an individual and will compete in the men's race at 11:00 a.m. CT. The Iowa State women's team will run for the team-title approximately at 12:15 p.m. CT.


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The mining industry faces a confidence crisis. Low confidence in cost controls, return on capital and commodity prices are keeping industry leaders awake at night. To add to these concerns, the mining industry has recently stopped outperforming the broader equity markets—mining stocks fell nearly 20% in the first four months of 2013.
In response, miners are trying to rebuild the market's confidence. Capital expenditures have been scaled back, hurdle rates are being increased and non-core assets are being disposed. There's a shift from maximizing value by increasing production volumes to maximising returns from existing operations from improved productivity and efficiencies.
Regaining investor confidence depends on how the industry responds to its rising costs, increasingly volatile commodity prices and other challenges such as resource nationalism. Now is the time to show that the industry can deliver in good times and bad, and remain a good industry to operate in for many years to come.


text: We watched this buck most of the summer and of course he was no where to be found during the season. These photos were taken August 4th and he may have gotten a little bigger by the Fall. I took these photos by just holding my camera up to my spotting scope. I thought what the heck? I'll give a shot...not the best but you can make the buck out. I was at least a half a mile away. We watched him for about an hour just as the sun was coming up.


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IBM Watson not only succeeded in subjugating its human opponents on Jeopardy but Watson might someday be the motivator for Sonny and the re-programmed robots (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot_%28film%29) to move from Chicago, USA to Toronto, CA :-)
All kidding aside, industry pundits have been seriously speculating about alternate uses for IBM Watson. While dramatic extrapolations to HAL9000, SkyNet, and I, Robot abound, less has been said about Watson's immediate usefulness. Rather than to dwell on the Jeopardy "version" of Watson with its ninety IBM POWER7 servers (http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/advantages/watson/) clustered together with an aggregate memory size of 15TB, it may be more useful to look at non-game show "versions" . We generally know what Watson had to accomplish within the three second (see previous blog) Jeopardy response time rule. What may be more interesting is to consider classes of problems where response time demands are in the order of minutes, where a 15TB data set is not required, or if a Watson-like construct can aid in narrowing down solutions to sets of possibilities, rather than a single exact response – and let humans decide and execute on a critical choice. Versions of IBM Watson/DeepQA can be architected and have its data digested as a function of the problem being addressed. Alternate, larger data set versions or versions requiring a response in less than a second can be designed. Let's look at some examples from a 50,000 foot level.
Medical and Health Services
A researcher is confronted with a set of patient symptoms never learned in school; some symptoms look familiar to seasoned colleagues, but not all of them at the same time. Is this a new disease, a mutation, something that may have always existed but never categorized in a way that was recognized? Traditional hospital databases can be scanned, results correlated as best can be, but still nothing definite. This is what might take place today, assuming these databases where constructed for more than just billing purposes. A Watson-like derivative could be designed to ingest patient data with specific annotations allowing correlations that would greatly enhance the chance of narrowing down the knowledge required to identify and eventually treat what appears at first be an uncategorized disease. This capability may be vital for health services located in rural areas where a Watson-like system has the proven knowledge of millions of medical experts and studies. Imagine making a query on a surgical procedure and finding out that a technique abandoned twenty years ago has a better chance of being successful than what is used today because of an heretofore unsuspected interaction from combinations of patient symptoms or new hormonal balances resulting from subsets of prescribed modern medicines. Replace bacterial, microbial or ontological diseases, etc., with determining patterns between psychiatric symptoms and effectiveness of classes of past treatments – this is an another variant of a Watson solution. Would Watson completely replace a doctor, probably not, but it can start off as a trusted advisor and the role of a doctor may be changed forever.
Financial and Economic Analysis
Pumping through piles of financial and economic data looking for patterns, uncovering relationships between seemingly related events already consumes vast amounts of computing power in such places as Wall St, London, and Kong Kong. The ability to act on distilled, structured information is generally left to analysts – except for programmed trading. Programmed trading systems react faster than humans to prevailing conditions, but lack the capability to respond to exogenous events outside of its rule-based model. It acts more like a chess program than Watson on Jeopardy. The experts on Wall St cannot possibly program all the rules of the particular game with the hope that combinations of dynamic market and economic data will hit one of them. A system designed to dynamically digest unstructured data (examples including libraries of texts on economics, university lecture notes, radio and TV programs, blogs, etc) create relationships with static data, and purposely distribute this information across processing nodes to minimize redundancy and maximize processing is much more capable of efficiently ascertaining risk than having a rule for every possible combination of known financial and economic data. Having a machine with near instantaneous access to machine learned data from world's leading economists and financial analysts might make a nice companion on the trading floor, considering it appears reluctant to bet the house if it is not confident of a position. Investors Business Daily has an interesting take on Watson-like capabilities (http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=562978).
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Tech Support and Help Desks
IBM Watson could cannibalize most forms of current consumer technical support. It could it be worse than what goes for telephone-based tech support today.
Law, Patent and Trademarks
Not only could a Watson-like capability minimize filing through existing databases on laws, prior cases, rulings, hearings, opinions, it could also be used as a method of testing witness questions. or suggest a series of inquiries and questions for litigation. It could be used to simulate certain judges, prosecution and defense lawyers, based on prior cases.
A Watson-like system could generate questions for a prospective patent claim based on it's ingestion of the entire patent and trademark database.
National Defense Planning and Intelligence
The amount of structured data and especially dynamic unstructured data that can be associated with military and defense planning is enormous and expanding rapidly. Military decision support systems augmented by a system that has data on all previous military campaigns, past and current international relationships, archives of all international military school generated data including books, theses, lectures, military doctrines, etc. Continuous ingestion of real-time data is added expanding existing relationships. An inquiry that might be forwarded to such a system might include, "What would Sun Tzu do given the immediate crisis?"
Taking just the US. Internal Revenue Service – the most serious problem at the IRS for taxpayers is getting somebody at the agency to answer telephone calls, http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/top-service-problem-at-irs-not-picking-up-the-phone/ Judging from Watson's ability to address very nuanced Jeopardy questions, it could address this problem now.
Other areas include manufacturing, homeland security, local law enforcement agencies, etc
A clear pattern is emerging here. Tasks that traditionally involve humans remembering, making intelligent guesses and informed estimates, even if backed up by filing through mountains of data, could be greatly enhanced or even replaced by Watson and its derivatives.
As with most new technologies, something is gained but something is lost. Most people reading this used to remember important telephone numbers. Today, with perhaps hundreds stored in cell phone, the ability to recall telephone numbers is almost a lost talent. However, nobody seems to be complaining!


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