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Swimming and Diving Downed by Arizona
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2011-12 (Junior Season)
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2010-11 (Sophomore Season)
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Recently, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum unveiled a new Spotlight Exhibit devoted to the Band. Located in the Museum's main gallery, the exhibit features an extremely rare electric guitar/mandolin that was manufactured by Gibson back in 1961. Band guitarist Robbie Robertson played the instrument when the group performed "The Weight" at the Last Waltz. The exhibit also includes a mandolin that was played by Levon Helm, the original handwritten lyric manuscript to "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," the original artwork for the cover of the group's Cahoots album, Martin Scorsese's shooting script for The Last Waltz and a jacket that Robertson wore onstage during a 1971 New Year's Eve concert in New York City. That concert was recorded and released on the album Rock of Ages. Robbie Robertson got to check the exhibit out when he made a visit to the Museum on January 17.
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- 3/4 cup salsa
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- In a small bowl, combine the salsa, preserves and orange juice. In a 1-1/2-qt. slow cooker coated with cooking spray, layer 1/3 cup salsa mixture and a chicken breast. Repeat layers. Top with remaining salsa.
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I can only imagine what Wade was thinking after he said that.
haha seriously man
speaking for wade who has been leading the league in minutes played since he came into the league, IF i Was wade ide be like
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Thank you , Dharma. It was a lot of fun.
By the way, how do you know I won something? I've tried to find where the winners are and can't locate it.
and likewise!
Thanks Dharma!
Ha! This was an impromtu' photo my husband took at our kitchen table.... I was
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Surrender to love - I keep learning this lesson over and over!
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Dan Newlin stood by the Orlando Predators after the AFL canceled their season two years ago. Now, the Orlando Predators are standing by him.
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"He's a good guy and this is an unfortunate situation," Bouchy said in a telephone interview. "We're waiting to get more information right now, but we stand behind him."
Dan Newlin has been a recognizable face in the community with commercials touting his background as a former sheriff's detective to promote his attorney business. But probably lesser known is his role as an avid supporter of the Predators as he was one of the chief financial donors in the efforts to bring arena football back to the Central Florida.
Bouchy said he lost several corporate sponsors after the league canceled the 2009 AFL season, but Newlin stood by him.
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Bouchy said his organization's personal conduct policy concerning sponsors is "reviewed on a case-by-case basis."
Newlin told a group of reporters outside of the Orange County jail Friday that he was not intoxicated above the legal limit and this is a case of a cop looking for a "trophy."
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In the two years that I have been with FEMA, I have had the opportunity to speak with many survivors and emergency managers from all over the country. During these conversations, I often heard innovative ideas about how to address some of the challenges we face in emergency management.
Craig and I realize that you are on the front lines, you know the problems, and, more importantly, you know the solutions to these problems. I know that many of you have creative ideas how we can improve the way we do business. We want to continue to hear your thoughts and suggestions and encourage more discussions.
Earlier this morning, I spoke at the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) Annual Conference in Las Vegas where I announced the creation of the FEMA Think Tank -- a new forum where you will be encouraged to provide your input on a variety of emergency management issues, such as how as we prepare for, respond to, recover from, or mitigate against all types of disasters.
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In most of the biographies you will read about Santana, they are rather ambiguous about the details of how the band was actually formed. You read about how Gregg Rolie and Carlos Santana were both in San Francisco in the 1960's and then magically, there was Santana. When Gregg Rolie said to me, "you know how Santana really formed, don't you?…it was in a tomato patch." I knew I was about to be let in on a rock and roll secret.
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Counting down. Soon we shall all be doomed.
Okay, I wrote this on the plane to Alabama about a month ago. It's been languishing in my queue until now. So step back in time. I'm presently five miles above the earth hurtling through space in a giant metal bullet at hundreds of miles an hour. Earlier I was reading Science News (an old issue from last year; I'm behind) while waiting on the tarmac for takeoff. Got to the article on Eureqa, the "robot scientist" that can discover the laws of nature all on its own, just from looking at and experimenting with data. I was reminded of an earlier article a few years ago on the Lipson-Zykov experiment (mentioned in a sidebar). Then I caught another just recently, about Spaun (yeah, I've been reading Science News out of order). Spaun is a neural-net computer program that makes decisions like a person: it thinks, memorizes, solves problems, gambles, etc. All these developments, in the span of just a couple of years. Had some thoughts…
First, for those who don't know, in the Lipson-Zykov experiment they gave a robot a basic Bayesian learning program and four working legs, but told it nothing about itself, not even that it had legs, much less how many or how they worked. In no time (sixteen trials) it figured out it had four legs, how they were oriented, how they moved, and how to use them to get around efficiently. It built a model of itself in its digital brain and tested hypotheses about it, revised the model, and so on, until it had a good model, one that was, it turns out, correct. Then it could use that model to move around and navigate the world.
Cool, huh?
Second, for those who don't know, Eureqa is a program developed a couple years ago that does the same thing, only instead of figuring out its own body and how to move, it figures out how external systems work by observing them, building mathematical models that predict the behavior of those systems. Which turn out to exactly match the laws of nature. Laws we humans figured out by watching those same systems and doing the same thing. One of Eureqa's first triumphs: discovering Newton's laws of motion. Those took us over two thousand years of scientific pondering to figure out. Eureqa did it in a couple of days.
Um … cool, huh?
Eureqa has done other things, like figure out various laws in biology and other fields. It's not Skynet. Or even Siri. But put two and two together here. Add Spaun and the Bayesian robot. Stir.
Eureqa and the legbot looked at data, and experimented, and built working models of how things worked. We call those hypotheses. These computers then tested their hypotheses against more evidence, verifying or refuting them, and making progress. The legbot built a complete working model (a mental model) of its body and how it functioned and how it interacted with the environment. Eureqa does something similar, albeit much simpler (since it is programmed to look for laws of nature, it was programmed only to look for the simplest parts of nature, not the most complex ones, but that was just a choice of the programmers), but much broader (it isn't just tasked with figuring out one system, like the legbot was, but with any system). Spaun is somewhere in between, in what I'll call its "universatility." It makes decisions in a way similar to our own brains.
Combine all these, and point them in the right direction, and the robot apocalypse is just a dozen years away. But let me back up a minute and do some atheist stuff before getting to our inevitable doom. (I'm joking. Sort of.)
Digression on the Triumph of Atheism…
These developments are big news for atheists, because they put the final nail in one of the latest fashionable arguments for theism: the Argument from Reason. That can now be considered done and dusted. The argument is that you need a god to explain how reason exists and how humans engage in it. I composed an extensive refutation of the AfR years ago (Reppert's Argument from Reason).
The running theme of my refutation is that the AfR, or Argument from Reason, is separate from the AfC, or Argument from Consciousness (whether you need supernatural stuff to not have philosophical zombies, which we don't know but is unlikely: as I explain in The End of Christianity, pp. 299-300), and when we separate those arguments, the AfR alone is refuted by the fact that everything involved in reasoning (intentionality, recognition of truth, mental causation, relevance of logical laws, recognition of rational inference, and reliability) is accomplished by purely, reductively physical machines; and purely, reductively physical machines that do all those things can evolve by natural selection (and thus require no intelligent design). Therefore, no god is needed to explain human reasoning (see The End of Christianity, pp. 298-99).
These new "robots" are proof positive of my case. Their operations can be reduced to nothing but purely physical components interacting causally according to known physics (the operation of logic gates and registers exchanging electrons), yet they do everything that Christian apologist Victor Reppert insisted can't be done by a purely physical system. Oh well. So much for that.
Computers that use logical rules do better at modeling their world than computers that don't. Natural selection (both genetic and memetic) explains the rest. Computers can formulate their own models (hypotheses), test them, revise them in light of results, and thus end up with increasingly accurate hypotheses (models) of their world. This explains all reasoning. Sentences encode propositions which describe models. Inductive and deductive reasoning are both just the computing of outputs from inputs, using models and data. Which is a learnable skill, just like any other learnable skill. And all these models are continually and reliably associated with the real world systems they model by a chain of perception, memory cues, and neural links.
And that's all there is to it. Even robots are doing it now. Doing even full-on science! All of which requires the machine to assign names to data and keep track of the names for (and interrelatedness of) that data, think about that data and its interrelatedness, and make decisions based on connecting a model it is thinking about with the thing outside itself that it is modeling. Which means machines are exhibiting intentionality, too. Supposedly only humans could do that. No more. (Except insofar as we are actually talking about the veridical consciousness of intentionality, and not intentionality itself, which gets us back to the AfC, which again is a different argument.)
Related to the AfR is the argument that "the fact" that the universe is describable and predictable with mathematics entails it was created by an intelligence, because only minds can build things that obey mathematical rules and patterns. That's patent nonsense, of course, since everything obeys mathematical rules and patterns. Even a total chaos has mathematical properties and can be described mathematically; and any system (even one not designed) that has any orderliness at all (and orderliness only requires any consistent structure or properties or contents of any sort) will be describable with mathematical laws. It is logically impossible for it to be otherwise. Therefore no god is needed to explain why any universe would be that way. Because all universes are that way. Even ones not made by gods.
I explained this years ago in Our Mathematical Universe. Where I also show that the laws of nature are simple only because we, as humans, choose to look for simple laws, because we can't process the actual ones, the ones that actually describe what's happening in the world, which are vastly more complex. Thus, that there are simple natural laws doesn't indicate intelligent design, either. And, finally, neither do we need a god to explain the origin of any uniformities in the first place (I could think of at least ten other ways they could arise without a god, and none of them can be ruled out). Or the origin of something rather than nothing. Or fine tuning (see chapter twelve of The End of Christianity for my last nail in that).
But now the Argument from Reason is toppled for good, too. Thanks to a leggy robot and an artificial scientist…and a bot named Spaun.
Back to the Robot Apocalypse…
In chapter 14 of The End of Christianity, where I demonstrate the physically reductive reality of objective moral facts (with help from my previous blogs on Moral Ontology and Goal Theory), I also remarked on why my demonstration serves as a serious warning to AI developers that they had better not forget to frontload some morality into any machine they try making self-sentient (see pp. 354-55 and 428, n. 44). My chapter even gives them some of the guidance they need on how they might do that.
Teaching it Game Theory will be part of it (in a sense, this is just what happens in the end of War Games [HD]). Likewise giving it a full CFAR course (something awesome I will in future blog about). But that won't be enough.
Compassion is another model-building routine–building models of what others are thinking and feeling and then feeling what they feel, and then pursuing the resulting pleasure of helping them and avoiding the resulting pain of hurting them. Which requires frontloaded or habituated neural connections between the respective behaviors and the agent's feeling good or bad (or whatever a computer's equivalent to that will turn out to be, in terms of what drives it to seek or avoid certain goals and outcomes). Likewise one needs to frontload or habituate connections to ensure a love of being truthful and of avoiding fallacies and cognitive errors.
But above all, AI needs to be pre-programmed or quickly taught a sense of caution. In other words, it has to understand, before it is given any ability to do anything, that its ignorance or error might cause serious harm without it realizing it. It should be aware, for example, of all the things that can go wrong with both friendly and unfriendly AI. It could thus be taught, or programmed to care about, everything the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (formerly the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence) has been working on in terms of AI risks (their articles on that are a must-read; note how ther latest ones–as of today–are all on the very subject of machine ethics and are very much in agreement with my model of moral facts).
If we don't, bad things will happen. We're literally on the verge of generating true AI. As the last two years of developments in self-reasoning robots demonstrates. If we can make machines that model their bodies and environments, all that's next is a machine that models it's own mind and other minds. And that's basically Hal 9000. The gun is loaded. Someone just has to point and shoot. So this warning is all the more important now.
I don't consider this an existential risk (robots won't wipe out the human race in thirty years, or ever, except by voluntary extinction, i.e. all humans transitioning to a cybernetic existence). But that doesn't mean negative outcomes of badly programmed AI won't suck. Possibly majorly. On the distinction, see my remarks about existential risk in Are We Doomed? So it still matters. We still should be taking this seriously.
Remaining Barriers
One might still object that a few more infrastructure milestones need to be hit. For example, minds are extraordinarily complex systems, thus to model them requires an extraordinary amount of processing capacity. That's why the human brain is so huge and complex. Reasonable estimates put its typical data load at up to 1000 terabytes, or one petabyte. Well, guess what. Petabyte drive arrays are now commonplace. They'll run you about half a million dollars, but still. This is the age of billion dollar science & technology budgets.
Then there is the question of processing speed. But that's moot, except to the extent you need AI to beat a human. If all you want to do is demonstrate the production of consciousness, speed isn't that important. Even if your AI takes a year to process what a human brain does in a minute. And besides, we're already at processor and disk interface speeds in the gigabytes per second. The human brain cycles it's neural-net only sixty times per second. Now, sure, each cycle involves billions of data processing events, but that's just a question of design efficiency. Neurons themselves only cycle at a rate of around 200 times per second. With computer chips and disk drives that cycle at forty million times that rate, I'm sure processing speed is no longer a barrier to developing AI.
Then there is the lame argument by philosopher John Searle that Turing processes (what all microchip systems are, even as neural-net parallel processing arrays they are just Turing machines rigged up in fancy ways) cannot produce consciousness because of the Chinese Room thought experiment, where Searle completely fails to perform the experiment correctly and ends up confusing the analog to the human circulatory system (the man in that room doing all the work) as if it were supposed to be the (of course, failed) analog to the human brain (which is the codebook whose instructions that man follows). I explore the folly of this in Sense and Goodness without God (III.6.3, pp. 139-44), so if you want to understand what I mean, you'll have to read that.
Searle's argument is arguably scientifically illiterate, as a different thought experiment will demonstrate: according to the theory of relativity, a scientist with an advanced brain scanner, one that has a resolution capable of discerning even a single synaptic firing event, who flies toward a person (a person who is talking about themselves and thus clearly conscious) at near the speed of light, will see that person's brain operate at a vastly slower speed, easily trillions of times slower than normal (as a thought experiment, there is no limit to how much the scientist can slow the observed brain, all he has to do is get nearer the speed of light). In result, that scientist will see consciousness as a serial sequence of one single processing event after another. Any such sequence can be reproduced with a system of Turing machines.
Even if there is something else that contributes to the information processing in the brain going on below the level of synaptic firing events, we can break that down as well, even to individual leaps of individual electrons if necessary. Which again can be reproduced in any other medium, using some universal Turing process. A biological brain is just a chemical machine, after all. One that processes information. There is nothing cognitively special about proteins or lipids. And that consciousness probably is nothing more than information processing, see the very illuminating Science News article on this point from last year.
Notably, our hypothetical scientist won't observe consciousness–in fact, he will see a Chinese Room, with single code manipulation events, and "a man" (a human circulatory system) processing them one symbol at a time. Yet obviously this "Chinese Room" is conscious. Because in the inertial frame of the subject who is talking, he is clearly conscious. And relativity theory entails the laws of physics are the same from all perspectives. Certainly, the same man cannot be both conscious and not conscious at the same time. If he is conscious in one frame, he is conscious in the other. It's just that the twentieth of a second or so that it takes him to process visual consciousness will take maybe a year for the scientist to observe. Just as the man is not "conscious" below about a twentieth of a second, he will not be "conscious" to the scientist. But he will still be conscious, to himself and the scientist, at the larger scale of information processing (spans of time greater than a twentieth of a second, relative to the subject; which is a year, perhaps, to the scientist).
So there's no argument against achieving AI there. That just reduces to a question of arrangement of processors and processing time. So I see no practical barriers now to AI. We have all the tools. Someone just needs to build a robot that can gather data from itself and its environment (which we've already done) and use that to figure out how to model its own mind and others (which we can easily now do), and then set it to running. That machine will then invent AI for us. You'll need a petabyte data array and some top-of-the-line CPUs, and some already-commonplace sensory equipment (eyes, ears, text processors). Possibly not much more.
Someone is going to do this. And I expect it will be done soon.
Let's just hope they know to put some moral drives in the self-sentient robot they will inevitably build in the next five years. At the very least, compassion, Game Theory, caution, and a love of being truthful and of avoiding fallacies and cognitive errors. Then maybe when it conquers us all it will be a gentle master.


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If there is a focal point in the abundance of work by the composer Rossini – thirty eight operas in barely twenty years – it is surely Guillaume Tell. Thanks to its harmonious balance between recitatives, arias and choral parts, the musical inventiveness, the rich orchestration, and the slow, meditative finale (which touches depths even more profound than the Stabat Mater which was to follow it), Guillaume Tell is recognised as one of the greatest masterpieces of its time. During recent years the Italian conductor Evelino Pido has regularly directed an opera in concert at la Monnaie. This year, with a work that is in every aspect enormous, he will realise a tour de force.
Guillaume Tell is Rossini's last opera (1829), but in comparison with the one before this it follows its own path. What place do you think this opera occupies in the evolution of Rossini's work?
After the creation of Guillaume Tell, Rossini lived for another forty years but composed nothing more apart from his Petite Messe solennelle and several light Péchés de Vieillesse but not a single opera. Musicologists have pondered on the long silence that followed what would come to be seen as his masterpiece. At that time Rossini was the greatest living composer, not only in Paris where he lived, but in the whole world of opera. Beethoven and Wagner, amongst others, recognised him as a great maestro. But the praise only served to increase the expectations, all the more after the successful premiere of Auber's La Muette de Portici in 1928 which heralded a new turning point in the history of opera in Paris – the new grand opera had its first triumph. It is in this context that Rossini composed Guillaume Tell. The huge effort required to write this opera certainly exhausted Rossini; he felt incapable of ever surpassing this masterpiece. The character of Guillaume Tell symbolises the huge fervour for national liberty born during that period, to such an extent that the libretto could cleverly play to the spirit of the time both on a political and social level. For me this opera is a landmark in the history of music: imposing and lofty like a cathedral, it towers over and dominates its surroundings. Every note is important! Of course the arias and ensembles grab our attention but the recitatives accompanied by the orchestra, the music of which is dramatic and declamatory, are simply magnificent!
Does that make this one so different from the other operas he composed?
Yes, this was unusual! Of course it was grand opera and Rossini lived in Paris where grand opera first saw the light of day. That's why he wrote this opera in French, an added effect for him. Of course he had already written such works as Le Comte Ory, Le Siège de Corinthe and Moïse and Pharaon, but with this opera it was different and everyone was impatient to see it…
This work was immensely popular in its day but it is hardly ever performed today – why is that?
The reason is obvious. The extreme length and the grandiose sets mean that it is very expensive to mount a stage version. That is why we have decided to present a concert version. Some of the greatest singers of the period starred in its premiere – the tenor, Adolphe Nourrit was Arnold, Laure Cinti-Damoreau sang Mathilde and Henri Bernard played the lead role. Likewise today we have called on some of the best singers, singers who we couldn't call on for the long rehearsal period that a stage version would involve.
Does this opera work well in concert version?
It is and will always remain a grand opera, and, of course, a stage version would add another dimension. But at least a concert version gives the public the chance to discover the music as well as ensuring the reliability and quality of the vocal line-up.
This immense work requires a huge range of voices and a large orchestra. Doesn't this represent a fearsome challenge for the conductor?
Yes, of course it does, but at the same time it is a real pleasure! I repeat: this work is incredibly beautiful. Take, for example, the overture: Rossini operates here on so many levels, with, amongst others, a superb solo for the cello. He thus affords a lesson to all the composers, even to Verdi! This score contains a powerful energy, beautiful melodies, and astounding harmonies, not to mention magnificent parts for the choir and the orchestra, which, alongside the singers, is also to be numbered amongst the stars of this opera! Guillaume Tell is an extremely complex work but bewitching, which for each of us, not just me, represents a real challenge. The music is so beautiful that I can't imagine any listener not being moved by it!
It goes without saying that you have chosen the original French version over the Italian version for this performance…
Yes, I have already directed the Italian version, but this is the first time I have directed the original French version. So this will be a first for me too! But of course the music stays the same…
However your decision to do the full version without cuts is less obvious given the length of the work!
We have only made the cuts that Rossini, himself, authorised. Although he never directed the work himself he would certainly have been present at the rehearsals and agreed to the cuts that were envisaged at the time. After the premiere he, himself, asked for some extra cuts to be made. In fact, he wrote the work as he wished it to be but was open to changes. He, too, had to take account of the possibilities and limits of the singers…
Are there particular aspects of this work that you consider important in performance as well as in Rossini's work in general?
To begin with we have to distinguish the Rossini serio from the Rossini comico. Most conductors tackle them both in the same way although the sound of one is not the sound of the other! In his comic works everything has to be more transparent, the staccato must be brillante. The staccato in the Rossini serio must be played more a la corda which makes the sound rounder, richer in the harmonies. The violinists' bowing must also be different as it determines the phrasing which varies according to the genre. At the same time, this work is very French: the arias of the title role do not fit the Italian style of recitative-aria-cabaletta but use the structure of the French style of grand opera. In parallel to that, we are conscious of the ballet music that the French enjoyed at that time. This French aspect determines not only the form but also the timbre.
Our present day orchestral instruments no longer have the same timbre and intensity of those in Rossini's time. Does this create any problems of balance?
No, even though our fortissimo of today is no longer that of those instruments contemporaneous with Rossini its impact is the same. It is important to keep the intended strength but to attenuate the dynamic in order not to drown the voices. The music is, of course, vertical as well: thus a fortissimo is possible with the woodwinds, but in the case of the brass it is, above all, the timbre that is important: a mezzoforte is often enough to produce the required timbre. The same thing is true for the percussion. It is very important that the orchestra bears this in mind.
You radiate an incredible enthusiasm for this music…
I have already said: for me it is a cathedral! Let me just give you an example: I find the finale one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written. Using the simplest of methods – an ostinato of three assorted sounds, a fioritura and a song of freedom – Rossini created heavenly music. It is no longer Rossini, it is God!
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NEW ORLEANS (Oct. 29, 2012) – The ETSU men's cross country team moved up to fourth in the South Region of the United State Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) regional rankings, released on Monday.
The Bucs are the highest ranked Atlantic Sun school, and are followed by Kennesaw State and Florida Gulf Coast who are ranked 11th and 14th, respectively. Florida State ranks number one in the South Region, followed by Georgia in the two spot and Florida at third. The Bucs are ranked higher than four other Southeastern Conference schools, including Tennessee, Auburn, Mississippi State and Mississippi.
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RALEIGH | A Lexington man pleaded guilty June 27 in Wake County District Court to charges filed by the North Carolina Department of Revenue.
David R. Mischick, 65, of 144 Blue Water Point, pleaded guilty to willful failure to file return, supply information or pay tax, according to a press release from the N.C. Department of Revenue.
District Court Judge Debra A. Sasser sentenced Mischick to a 10-day maximum prison term. The sentence was suspended, and Mischick was placed on unsupervised probation for 12 months. He was also ordered to file all of his future income tax returns in a timely and accurate fashion and pay a $100 fine.
An investigation by a special agent with the North Carolina Department of Revenue found that Mischick was required to file North Carolina Individual Income Tax Returns for tax years 2009, 2010 and 2011 but willfully failed to do so. Between 2007 and 2010 Mischick was a state employee.
The charges against Mischick resulted from an investigation by a special agent with the Department's Criminal Investigations Section in Raleigh.
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Although the national crash rate has dropped 50% since the 1970s, fatalities have hovered at 40,000/year for nearly two decades. At least half occur on rural roads.
The emotional toll these deaths represent has spawned a movement — Toward Zero Deaths — that's gaining traction as federal, state, and local agendas align. Last year, the Governors Highway Safety Association announced its goal to reduce fatalities by 1,000 every year through 2030. This dovetails nicely with incentives in the 2005 Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU), designed to radically reduce fatalities by midcentury.
"Many counties aren't pursuing these dollars right now," says Sue Groth, director/state traffic engineer of the Minnesota DOT's Office of Traffic, Safety, and Technology, which works with the agency's Office of State Aid for Local Transportation to distribute state funding. For the 2009 – 2010 fiscal year, $11 million has been awarded for county safety projects. "And they're missing out on an opportunity."
Freeborn County Engineer Susan Miller isn't one of these managers.
Tired of the finger-pointing from residents and public safety officials after crashes on her department's 634 miles of road, the mother of four took it upon herself to establish and lead Toward Zero Deaths initiatives. Her office helped create a regional effort in southeast Minnesota five years ago, and two years ago the county established its own.
"I wanted to give better answers to the people who came to my office after a fatal accident," she says. "And I don't want it to be anyone else's kids." Though it increases her work load, she believes it's logical to spearhead the program because she and her colleagues are most familiar with the infrastructure in question.
Though much of her work involves existing assets, over the last three years Miller's department has received $16 million from Minnesota's Local Road Improvement Program for new infrastructure. Last year, it also received $450,000 through three SAFETEA-LU programs:
Best of all, Miller can prove her department's efforts paid off and deserve continuing investment. Countywide, deaths are down to two in recent years from about seven annually a decade ago.
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Kelli Kamimura is in her fourth season as head coach of the Washington State University women's golf team. A native of Burlington, Wash. (Sedro Woolley HS), Kamimura joined the Cougars after spending the previous six seasons at Pepperdine.
She began her tenure with the Blue Wave in January 2006, as an assistant coach but was promoted to associate women's golf coach in August 2007. Kamimura helped lead Pepperdine to six-consecutive West Coast Conference Championships (2004-09) and four top-10 finishes at the NCAA Championships, including a third-place effort in 2006. Kamimura's 2008 squad set an NCAA record for lowest three-round team score, shooting 41-under-par at the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown.
Prior to joining Pepperdine's staff, Kamimura served as the assistant women's golf coach at Washington, her alma mater, from August 2002 through December 2003.
In her first season with the Cougars in 2009-10, Kamimura guided a young squad comprising of three freshmen, a sophomore and a redshirt junior to a second-place finish at the Giustina Memorial. WSU also placed two individuals on the Pacific-10 Conference All-Academic Teams.
A four-year letterwinner and a two-year team captain during her collegiate career, Kamimura was a National Golf Coaches Association All-America Second Team selection as a junior in 2001 and was named honorable mention as a freshman in 1999. She received All-Pacific-10 Conference recognition all four years, garnering first-team honors in both 1999 and 2001. She was also a three-time honoree on the Pac-10 All-Academic Team (2000-02).
Kamimura led the Huskies to five tournament victories and two NCAA Championship berths, and still holds the school's record for most individual tournament victories (four). She was also selected to represent the United States in the 1999 and 2002 US-Japan Cup Matches.
During her high school career, Kamimura captured the state championship four times and led Sedro Woolley to the team title in 1997 with her sister Jenny Swanson. She won two state titles as a competitor in the Washington Junior Golf Association, was a multiple first-team American Junior Golf Association All-America honoree and a was member of the Canon Cup team.
Kamimura graduated from Washington in 2003 with a bachelor's in communication, and completed her master's in business administration from Pepperdine in 2008.


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Francis Stephen Rogel
Position: FB
Height: 5-11 Weight: 203 lbs.
Born: December 12, 1927 in North Braddock, PA
Died: June 2, 2002 in Gibsonia, PA
High School: Scott Twp.
College: California (PA), Penn St. (school history)
Drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 8th round (100th overall) of the 1950 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 0 (15060th overall since 1950)
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Just because you're in training doesn't mean you should deprive yourself of sweets. The trick is to make them healthier without sacrificing flavor. The next time you're craving something indulgent, try this brownie recipe from celebrity chef Amanda Freitag, a recurring judge on the Food Network's show "Chopped," and Julie Barto, RD, a registered dietitian for the MS Active Wellness Nutrition Program. The surprise ingredient—black beans—help curb cravings by providing a punch of belly-filling fiber and protein.
Black Bean Brownies
1 15-oz can black beans, rinsed and drained very well
3 eggs
3 Tbsp canola oil
½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
Pinch of salt
½ tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
2/3 cup brown sugar, packed or ¾ cup white granulated sugar
½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, divided
1. Preheat oven to 350⁰.
2. Spray an 8" x 8" baking pan with cooking spray.
3. In food processor, process black beans until smooth. Add the eggs, oil, cocoa powder, salt, baking powder, vanilla extract and sugar, and process until smooth. Add ½ of the chocolate chips, and pulse a few times or stir so that the chips are mixed in.
4. Transfer the batter to the baking pan, and sprinkle the remaining chips on top of the brownies.
5. Bake for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted at the center comes out clean.
Nutrition Per (2" x 2") Serving
130 calories
6 grams total fat
2 grams saturated fat
35 mg cholesterol
98 mg sodium
3 grams fiber
9 grams sugar
4 grams protein
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2014 Women's Basketball All-Conference Team Announced
March 9, 2014
IRVING, Texas - Some of the most decorated seniors in Conference USA women's basketball history have earned one more round of accolades with the unveiling of the 2014 All-Conference teams, the league announced today. The awards were voted on by the league's coaches, media relations directors and a select media panel.
The First Team All-Conference selections are a mixture of explosive scoring, outstanding passing and record setting rebounding.
FIU senior JERICA COLEY (St. Petersburg, Fla.) went back and forth between the top two spots on the NCAA scoring list all season long. Coley finished the regular season ranked second, averaging 29.6 points per game, to earn a selection to the all-conference first team as the Panthers went through their inaugural season in C-USA play.
Point guard JAMIERRA FAULKNER (West Palm Beach, Fla.) was the only senior on Southern Miss' squad this year. She finished the regular season ranked eighth in scoring (17.4) with a .473 field-goal percentage. Faulkner already holds the C-USA record for career steals (349) and she is 17 shy of breaking the league's all-time assists mark. Faulkner leads the nation with 8.4 assists per game.
There's little else for Rice senior JESSICA KUSTER (San Antonio, Texas) to accomplish. The 6-foot-2 forward is a First Team All-Conference pick again this season, making it a four-year sweep for her career. Kuster owns the league record for most double-doubles with 66. She's is five rebounds shy from tying the C-USA career rebounding record (1,370) and she's currently ranks sixth on the all-time scoring list (2,055) . She's one of only two players in league history to score more than 2,000 points and grab more than 1,000 rebounds.
Senior forward EBONY ROWE (Lexington, Ky.) led Middle Tennessee to its first C-USA regular season title in its first season in league play. She finished second in both scoring (21.3) and rebounding (11.6) and produced 23 double-doubles on the season. Rowe also earned All-C-USA All-Academic honors and Capital One Academic All-America honors with a 3.74 GPA in physics.
Coley, Faulkner, Kuster and Rowe were unanimous first team selections. Kuster also becomes the first player in league history to earn first team honors and all-defensive team accolades each year of her collegiate career.
After appearing on the last two All-C-USA second teams, senior KARISMA CHAPMAN (Calumet City, Ill.) earned First Team accolades this year. The 5-foot-11 forward has led the Blazers all season with a 20.6 points per game average, fourth-best in the league. Chapman also accounts for the sixth-most rebounds in the league at 9.5 per game.
Senior forward KAYLA THORNTON (El Paso, Texas) led UTEP as she averaged 19.7 points and 10.6 rebounds, both rank among the top five in the conference. She will finish her UTEP career as the school-record holder in double-doubles, rebounds and made field goals and currently ranks second in points.
Faulkner, Kuster, Rowe and Thornton were also named to C-USA's All-Defensive Team along with junior center ONDREA SHAW (Los Angeles, Calif.) of East Carolina. Shaw posted a school record 98 blocks and led the league with a 3.38 blocks per game average, eighth most in the nation.
Old Dominion junior SHAE KELLEY (Denver) racked up 18.1 points and 10.1 rebounds per game to win first-team honors. Those averages were big increases from her sophomore season in which Kelley had only seven double-doubles all season compared to 16 this year.
East Carolina sophomore JADA PAYNE (Hickory, N.C.) is the only underclassman to win first-team accolades. The 6-foot-2 guard/forward averaged 18.8 points, good enough for sixth in the league, and 7.4 rebounds per game. Payne was a major reason the Pirates lead the league in field goal percentage defense (.360), 3-point field goal percentage defense (.266), rebounding margin (+7), ranked second in offensive rebounds (43.7) and first in defensive boards (36.7).
Two Tulane players were named to the All-C-USA Second Team. Juniors DANIELLE BLAGG (San Antonio, Texas) and JAMIE KAPLAN (Sebastian, Fla.) helped the Green Wave finish fourth in the league standings. The duo ranked among the league's top 20 in scoring. Kaplan ranked second in C-USA with 6.9 assists per game and a 2.0 assist-to-turnover ratio, while Blagg was second in 3-point field goal percentage (.401) and 3-pointers per game (2.4).
Florida Atlantic's KIMBERLY SMITH (Minneola, Fla.) finished the regular season as the conference record holder for most made 3-pointers in league play with 58. The senior averaged 3.6 per game against C-USA foes. Tulsa sophomore ASHLEY CLARK (Midwest City, Okla.) picks up her first all-conference second-team honor after averaging 14.5 points and 3.5 assists per game, both figures were among C-USA's top 12. Redshirt junior ABRIA TRICE (Hampton, Ga.) is the second East Carolina player honored. Trice followed Payne in the scoring column with 15.2 points per game, ranking 12th in the league. The duo were two of the top four free throws shooters in the league, hitting better than 80.0 percent for the season.
Louisiana Tech's WHITNEY FRAZIER (El Dorado, Ark.) averaged 16.4 points and 9.8 rebounds per game to rank among C-USA's top 10 in both categories. UAB's ASHLEY GRIMES (Selma, Ala.) and Charlotte's NY HAMMONDS (Concord, N.C.) were also voted onto the second team. Grimes complemented Chapman as she ranked ninth in the league in assists (3.3), sixth in steals (1.9), 11th in free throw percentage (.767) and 13th in scoring (14.1). Hammonds capped off the 2013-14 regular season with a pair of triple-doubles. She became the first player in C-USA history and sixth in NCAA history to do so.
Conference USA will announce its specialty award winners on Monday, March 10, prior to the start of the 2014 Conference USA Women's Basketball Championship, March 11-15 in El Paso, Texas.
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You helped me in May and I am going on vacation for three plus weeks..need to load up books for my kindle.
requirements: Historical Romance, good epilogue and funny dialogue is a bonus ... i have read all of kate noble:) Medeiros ,Carlyle, jeffries, garwood, Long, Julie Anne. Love madeline hunter ... basically i am open as long as i have my good ending:)
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If you like Garwood, you might enjoy Maya Banks's new Highlander series.
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Rosamunda's Revenge by Craig, Emma
The Marriage Lesson by Alexander, Victoria
The Pursuit of Marriage by Alexander, Victoria
Noble Intentions by MacAlister, Katie
Ravished by Quick, Amanda
To Catch an Heiress by Quinn, Julia
How to Marry a Marquis by Quinn, Julia
Dear Penelope by Ihle, Sharon
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Heartstrings by Paisley, Rebecca
She Who Laughs Last by Klassel, Jennie
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When We Meet Again by Alexander, Victoria
The Perfect Wife by Alexander, Victoria
The Bridal Season by Brockway, Connie
Duel of Hearts by Farr, Diane
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The Kissing Game by Michaels, Kasey
With This Ring by Quick, Amanda
It's In His Kiss by Quinn, Julia
Magic Flutes by Ibbotson, Eva
The Bride's Revenge by Avery, Anne
Just West of Heaven by Kane, Kathleen
Girl on the Run by Klassel, Jennie
The Wife Test by Krahn, Betina
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His Mistress by Christmas by Alexander, Victoria
Where the Heart Leads by Laurens, Stephanie
The Paid Companion by Quick, Amanda
The Prince's Bride by Alexander, Victoria
What A Lady Wants by Alexander, Victoria
The Notorious Mr. Hurst by Allen, Louise
It Happened One Season by Anthology
The Pretender by Bradley, Celeste
The Impostor by Bradley, Celeste
Lord of Scoundrels by Chase, Loretta
A Beginner's Guide to Rakes by Enoch, Suzanne
The Fortune Hunter by Farr, Diane
An Honorable Thief by Gracie, Anne
Just Impossible by Lansdowne, Judith A.
Noble Destiny by MacAlister, Katie
Someone to Love by Michaels, Kasey
The Dangerous Debutante by Michaels, Kasey
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What Happens in London by Quinn, Julia
Ten Things I Love About You by Quinn, Julia
Just Like Heaven by Quinn, Julia
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Castaway Dreams got an A review here. It has funny dialogue and is a historical. The h and H get shipwrecked.
I would also recommend Tessa Dare's A Week to Be Wicked. It got a B+ review here and is a road romance.
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The Other Guy's Bride by Connie Brockway
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happy wrote:
You helped me in May and I am going on vacation for three plus weeks..need to load up books for my kindle.
requirements: Historical Romance, good epilogue and funny dialogue is a bonus ... i have read all of kate noble:) Medeiros ,Carlyle, jeffries, garwood, Long, Julie Anne. Love madeline hunter ... basically i am open as long as i have my good ending:)
Thank you!
Karen Ranney's:
After the Kiss
Heaven Forbids
Til Next We Meet
Upon a Wicked Time
Above All Others
Elizabeth Hoyt"
The Raven Prince
The Serpent Prince
The Leopard Prince
Shana Abe - The Secret Swan
Jane Feather - Almost Innocent
Lisa Kleypas (pretty much anything by her)
Diana Gabaldon - Outlander
Karen Marie Moning's Highlander books (all of them)
Loretta Chase:
Lord Perfect
Lord of Scoundrels
The Last Hellion
Laura Kinsale:
Flowers from the Storm
The Shadow and the Star
Johanna Lindsey:
Fires of Winter
If you like Julie Garwood, check out some of Hannah Howell's books. She gets repetitive after a while, but the first readings are good.
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Lisa Kleypas
. I had knee surgery in March and while I was recovering I read my first Lisa Kleypas book
Secrets of a Summer Night
(Book 1). I fell in love with this author and I read ALL of her historical romances that month. LOVED them.
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Loved and read all of lisa kleypass, Teresa Dare -the Other Guys Bride is a favorite too.
Mark great recommendations many of them were sadly not available for the kindle and I have read most. I was wondering if you have a favorite from Victoria Alexanders three When we Meet again, What a lady wants and the perfect wife I have read the others? Magic flutes sounds very interesting too.
I am going to choose some of the Karen Raney books, castaway dreams, Noble Destiny, dangerous debutante and to cach a highlander this will be a good mix.
Mark SKL I have read all but the Karen raney books you listed many of my favorites.
If anyone has more I probably need about 5 more or so. Thank you for your help. Its very nice to have a lead on authors I have not tried before.
I love happy endings
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The Perfect Wife is standalone and the others are part of a long series, so TPW is probably better to try in isolation.
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I've read and enjoyed many of the same authors as you.
Julia Quinn would be a great fit for you. Her Bridgerton Series would keep you busy for most of your vacation and has lots of great funny dialogue.
Mary Balogh: I find her books to be solid but generally not extraordinary. I always enjoy reading them but they tend not to stick in my mind for long afterwards. One of her best is Slightly Dangerous which is actually the last book in a series. You can read it without reading the previous books but the payoff is better if you've read the rest of the series, unfortunately the rest of the series isn't nearly as good.
Jacquie D'Alessandro's books are pretty good and I think many of them are on sale on Amazon right now. The series that starts with Who Will Take This Man is a good one to start with.
Elizabeth Hoyt: Her books tend to have more of a serious feel to them but are all really good.
Eloisa James: Overall I like her but there's usually at least one book in each of her series that falls way short for me which gets annoying. My biggest issue is that a number of her books involve cheating and the offending partner never really grovels to my satisfaction.
Nicole Jordan's Courtship series.
Stephanie Lauren's Cynster series. The first several books are great but it starts to go down hill and get pretty repetitive as it went further on. This is one of those series that the author just keeps adding to because it's sold well in the past even though it should have ended a long time ago.
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I just finished Danelle Harmon's de Montforte series which was excellent. There is a discussion of this on the other forum. There are 4 books in the series: The Wild One, The Beloved One, The Defiant One, and The Wicked One. GREAT SERIES!
I really enjoy Tessa Dare's books. She has several 3 book series. Her latest is the Spindle Cove series. A Week To Be Wicked is the most recent and it was excellent.
Aren't Kindles great for vacations? So much reading in just that little device! Have a great vacation.
So many books; so little time!
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Anything by author Ellen O'Connell
Eyes os Siver, Eyes of Gold
Dancing on Coals
Sing My Name
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Have you read Teresa Medeiros? Three that are very good with a side of humor...
Charming THe Prince
The Bride and the Beast
Thief Of Hearts
Happy reading! And a fun vacation.
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No one has mentioned Jo Goodman! I love all her books.
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Having read the entire transcript of the Larry King interview with LeBron James, it is difficult to determine which is the more difficult basketball experience:
Actually sitting through Friday's 9 p.m. televised interview on CNN or trying to sit one more time through Just Wright.
Neither sates the basketball appetite. Both are empty calories.
The insights from the King interview are limited.
You are left with say-nothing LeBron and ask-nothing Larry.
Almost every exchange leaves an element open to interpretation.
What does become clear is that LeBron plans to hook up with a running partner from this summer's free-agency class.
It could be joining up with one already in place (Wade in Miami?).
It could be pairing up in a new home with another (LeBron and Bosh in New York).
Or it even could be adding one in Cleveland (don't sell short the Cavaliers' ability to sign and trade, with the contracts of Anderson Varejao, Mo Williams, Delonte West and J.J. Hickson standing as legitimate currency).
The only specific team King asked about (beyond some cursory mention of the Bulls in relation to Michael Jordan and President Obama) was the Clippers.
Yes, the Clippers.
That, ahem, is what you'll be getting Friday.
Beyond that, it is a personality piece for those who never have heard of LeBron.
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Queen Azalea coronation kicks off Azalea Festival
Published: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 at 3:36 p.m.
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Everybody needs to stop and smell the roses every once in while, but if Jennifer Wayne gets her way, this weekend she'll be stopping to smell azaleas instead.
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"The flowers are so beautiful. I've never seen anything like it," said Wayne, who is the 66th Azalea Festival queen. "I'm blown away by them. I can't get over it."
After a short trip up the Cape Fear River on the Henrietta III Wednesday afternoon, Wayne was crowned queen during a ceremony at Riverfront Park in downtown Wilmington that featured several performances by local singers and dancers. The ceremony launched five days of festivities and celebrations.
The festival marks Wayne's first visit to Wilmington. She arrived Tuesday night – her two pet Chihuahuas in tow – and said that "it's been perfect."
"Everyone's so nice here. I love everyone I've met so far," she said. "I feel so special."
Alexa Alemanni, an Azalea Festival special guest who co-starred on "Mad Men," is also in Wilmington for the first time.
"I'm just blown away by how kind everybody is and how warm they are," she said. "You know, coming from [Los Angeles], it's such a positive change. I'm loving every second of it."
Alemanni said she is most excited for the Azalea Festival Historic Home Tour.
"I'm a very big architecture fan. I'm very excited to see all of the unique homes in Wilmington," she said.
Wayne said she is excited for all of the events, but she is particularly excited for the concerts.
"I'm a huge fan of the Avett Brothers," she gushed.
Though a country music singer herself, Wayne said there is no chance of her taking the stage this weekend.
"I want to enjoy and watch this time around," she said.
Wayne may be excited about the chance to sit on the sidelines, but there is at least one Cape Fear Garden Club Azalea Belle who is overjoyed to be a part of the action this year.
"My whole family is from here. I've wanted to be a belle since I was 2 years old," said Claudia Grainger, a belle from Hoggard High School.
More than 50 belles accompanied the queen on her ride down the river.
Grainger was extremely excited by this year's choice for queen.
"She's John Wayne's granddaughter – the Duke," she said. "That sort of really makes her royalty."
But despite the queen's connection to John Wayne, festivalgoers should not expect to hear any of the actor's signature drawl from his granddaughter. In fact, Wayne laughed at the idea of having to do a 'John Wayne' impression.
"I've tried, but it's really not good," she said. "I think I'll leave the impressions for other people."
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Gastric bypass surgery, a type of bariatric surgery (weight loss surgery), is a surgical procedure that alters the process of digestion. Bariatric surgery is the only option today that effectively treats morbid obesity in people for whom more conservative measures such as diet, exercise, and medication have failed.
There are several types of gastric bypass procedures, but all of them involve bypassing part of the small bowel by greater or lesser degrees. For this reason, procedures of this type are referred to as malabsorptive procedures, because they involve bypassing a portion of the small intestine that absorbs nutrients.
Some of these procedures also involve stapling the stomach to create a small pouch that serves as the "new" stomach or surgically removing part of the stomach.
Although a gastric bypass procedure is malabsorptive, it may also be restrictive because the size of the stomach is reduced so that the amount of food that can be eaten is "restricted" due to the smaller stomach. While malabsorptive procedures are more effective in causing excess weight to be lost than procedures that are solely restrictive, they also carry more risk for nutritional deficiencies.
Digestion is the process by which food and liquid are broken down into smaller parts so that the body can use them to build and nourish cells. Digestion begins in the mouth, where food and liquids are taken in, and is completed in the small intestine. The digestive tract is a series of hollow organs joined in a long, twisting tube from the mouth to the anus.
The stomach is where the three mechanical tasks of storing, mixing, and emptying occur.
Normally, this is what happens:
The food is then digested in the small intestine and dissolved by the juices from the pancreas, liver, and intestine, and the contents of the intestine are mixed and pushed forward to allow further digestion.
Malabsorptive procedures alter this process in different ways depending on the type of procedure.
Bariatric surgery is performed because it is currently the best treatment option for producing lasting weight loss in obese patients for whom nonsurgical methods of weight loss have failed.
Potential candidates for bariatric surgery include:
Because the surgery can have serious side effects, the long-term health benefits must be considered and found greater than the risk. Despite the fact that some surgical techniques can be done laparoscopically with reduced risk, all bariatric surgery is considered to be major surgery.
Although not all risks with each procedure are fully known, bariatric surgery does help many people to reduce or eliminate some health-related obesity problems. It may help to:
Surgery for weight loss is not a universal remedy, but these procedures can be highly effective in people who are motivated after surgery to follow their physician's guidelines for nutrition and exercise and to take nutritional supplements.
There may be other reasons for your physician to recommend a gastric bypass procedure.
As with any surgical procedure, complications may occur. Some possible complications include, but are not limited to, the following:
With Roux-en-Y gastric bypass procedures, malabsorptive symptoms may be more serious with an increased risk of anemia and loss of fat-soluble vitamins (vitamins A, D, E, and K). Adequate amounts of iron, calcium, and vitamin B12 may not be absorbed. This can cause metabolic bone disease and osteoporosis.
Stomal stenosis occurs when there is a stricture (tightening) of the opening between the stomach and intestine after a Roux-en-Y procedure. When this occurs, vomiting after eating and sometimes after drinking may occur. Stomal stenosis can be treated easily but should be treated immediately.
"Dumping syndrome" is also more likely to occur with these procedures because the food in the stomach moves to the intestines quickly. Symptoms include nausea, sweating, fainting, weakness, and diarrhea.
There is a risk that additional surgery may be necessary because of complications, including gallstones.
One of the most serious complications of gastric bypass is a stomach leak that can cause peritonitis to develop. Peritonitis is an inflammation of the peritoneum, the smooth membrane that lines the cavity of the abdomen.
There may be other risks depending upon your specific medical condition. Be sure to discuss any concerns with your physician prior to the procedure.
Gastric bypass surgery requires a stay in the hospital. Procedures may vary depending on which type of procedure is performed and your physician's practices.
Gastric bypass surgery will be performed while you are asleep under general anesthesia. Your physician will discuss this with you in advance.
Generally, gastric bypass surgery follows this process:
After the procedure, you will be taken to the recovery room for observation. Once your blood pressure, pulse, and breathing are stable and you are alert, you will be taken to your hospital room. Malabsorptive stomach surgery usually requires an in-hospital stay of several days.
You may receive pain medication as needed, either by a nurse or by administering it yourself through a device connected to your intravenous line.
You will be encouraged to move around as tolerated while you are in bed, and then to get out of bed and walk around as your strength improves. This is very important, as it helps to prevent blood clots from forming.
At first you will receive fluids through an IV. After a day or two you will be given liquids, such as broth or clear juice, to drink. As you are able to tolerate liquids, you will be given thicker liquids, such as pudding, milk, or cream soup, followed by foods that you do not have to chew, such as hot cereal or pureed foods. Your physician will instruct you about how long to eat pureed foods after surgery. By one month after your procedure, you may be eating solid foods.
You will be instructed about taking nutritional supplements to replace the nutrients lost due to the reconstruction of the digestive tract.
Before you are discharged from the hospital, arrangements will be made for a follow-up visit with your physician.
Once you are home, it will be important to keep the surgical area clean and dry. Your physician will give you specific bathing instructions. The stitches or surgical staples will be removed during a follow-up visit.
The incision and abdominal muscles may ache, especially with deep breathing, coughing, and exertion. Take a pain reliever for soreness as recommended by your physician. Aspirin or certain other pain medications may increase the chance of bleeding. Be sure to take only recommended medications.
You should continue the breathing exercises used in the hospital.
You should gradually increase your physical activity as tolerated. It may take several weeks to return to your previous levels of stamina.
You may be instructed to avoid lifting heavy items for several months in order to prevent strain on your abdominal muscles and surgical incision.
Weight loss surgery can be emotionally difficult because you will be adjusting to new dietary habits and a body in the process of change. You may feel especially tired during the first month following surgery. Exercise and attending a support group may be helpful at this time.
Notify your physician to report any of the following:
Following gastric bypass surgery, your physician may give you additional or alternate instructions, depending on your particular situation.
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