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What is a Hospitalist?
Hospitalists are physicians who are responsible for a patient's care and treatment during their stay in the hospital. They begin caring for the patient at hospital admission and continue that care all the way to discharge. Throughout their patient's stay, they coordinate communication between all of the physicians involved in your care, including your primary care physician and your specialists. They order tests and procedures and are committed to doing their best to provide a consistently high level of care during your hospital stay. All of Banner Health's hospitalist physicians are board certified or board eligible in their respective specialties, such as Internal Medicine, Family Medicine or Geriatrics. Once a patient is discharged, the care of the patient returns to his/her primary care (regular) doctor.
What benefits do hospitalists offer patients?
Hospitalists are dedicated exclusively to the care of hospitalized patients. What that means for patients is that a hospitalist is always close by. They are available seven days a week, 24-hours a day, and will see a patient more than once a day, if needed. By being readily available, hospitalists are able to review the progress of a patient's care more frequently and make decisions to ensure treatment is not delayed. Additionally, because our hospitalists practice medicine within the halls of the hospital, they know the specialists and departments available to assist patients through a smooth and speedy recovery process. They can also follow up on tests and adjust treatment throughout the day based on test results or changes in condition or progress.
Patient communication — personal interaction
Hospitalists, because they are in the hospital all day, look for opportunities to speak with patients and family members face-to-face whenever possible. Hospitalizations are stressful and hospitalists provide honest and caring answers to patients' questions. Hospitalists understand that good communication about care and treatment options is essential.
Where does my primary care doctor fit in?
Primary care doctors refer patients to a hospitalist when a patient can no longer be cared for in an outpatient setting and that patient requires inpatient hospitalization. Following discharge from the hospital, each patient will return to the care of his/her regular, primary care physician.
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Panama City - With gas prices still high and the economy still struggling, many families are trying to trim spending wherever they can. How would you like to save 50 to 90 percent on your grocery bill every month? One local woman is doing just that, and it's not just her family who benefits.
Ashley Carter didn't take a special class or pay for a kit. She says all it takes to save your family hundreds of dollars a month is some research and a lot of organization. Now she is turning her savings into blessings for military members serving overseas, and those in need right here in our community.
A married, working mom, Ashley Carter became an avid couponer after seeing just one episode of "Extreme Couponers." "Right after the show went off I went online and I researched how to coupon, couponing 101," said Ashley. After just three months of following blogs like krazycouponlady.com, downloading apps on her phone, and clipping coupons, Ashley started seeing savings of 50 percent on food and 90 to 100 percent on toiletries. "We barely pay for any toiletry stuff, deodorant, toothpaste. If we do pay for shampoo it's very little, like 30 cents or something."
By combining coupons with sales, rebates and different rewards systems, sometimes Ashley even makes money on a deal. "This is $7.79 so I will use my $3 coupon so that is $4.79 and I'll get $7 back so I'll make money buying this," explained Ashley, while picking out some makeup at a CVS store. "Like with this one you spend $8.99 and then you get $8.99 Extra Bucks back so it ends up being free," she explained. And in yet another example, she bought several bottles of shampoo to get another payout: "I will send in the mail in rebate and get a ten dollar gas card."
At the check out her original amount due is $31.33, after applying all her coupons the subtotal is just 54 cents. "To see that total drop does make you feel good," said Ashley. Not only is Ashley able to save her family hundreds of dollars every month, she leads a small group of couponers, they together collected enough items to send 20 care packages to military serving overseas. And her couponing skills are helping those close to home as well. She is stockpiling extra toiletries for the Bethel Village women's shelter. "It's a way to give back without have to spend a lot of extra money," said Ashley.
Of course there is a learning curve that goes along with couponing. Every store has different rewards systems to learn as well as different rules and policies regarding coupons. If you want to get started today, here are Ashley's five steps to start couponing.
1. Get something to organize your coupons in. Ashley has 2 binders, one for store coupons, one for manufacturer's coupons
2. Start accumulating coupons from the Sunday paper inserts and online
3. Learn coupon lingo
4. Know coupon policies: sometimes they differ from store to store
5. Tap into resources like krazycouponlady.com and afullcup.com

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Students are prepared for the teaching profession in a way that is reflective of Franciscan service to others - an ideal that is central to the mission of St. Bonaventure University.
Elementary education majors prepare for New York teacher certification in Childhood Education (grades 1-6). Our graduates work in school districts all over the country, and should you want to teach outside of New York, our certification office will advise you on obtaining certificates in other states.
Teachers are best prepared when they learn how to teach in real classrooms, so our program involves students in extensive field experiences beginning freshman year. While you develop knowledge about teaching, you will spend a significant amount of time interning and teaching in actual classrooms.
Within a curriculum focusing on developmental learning theories, pedagogy, principles of classroom management, and sound educational research, SBU education majors are encouraged to be active participants as they create their own knowledge and develop as teachers.
For the two semesters before student teaching, you will be involved in a Professional Development School program where you and about 15 other SBU students (along with two faculty members) spend two days a week at a local elementary school. You will develop the skills needed to create supportive learning environments for children.
You will learn to adapt curriculum so that you can meet the learning and developmental needs of all children. By the end of your four-year program, you will be ready for your own classroom where you will be able to construct learning opportunities supportive of the intellectual, social, emotional and physical needs of a diverse student population. You will be a caring, professional educator.
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Smothered in a mouthwatering barbecue sauce, these meaty ribs are a popular entree wherever I serve them. The recipe is great for a busy cook - after everything is combined, the slow cooker does all the work.—Pam Halfhill, Medina, Ohio
- 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 4 to 4-1/2 pounds boneless beef short ribs
- 1/4 to 1/3 cup butter
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1-1/2 cups beef broth
- 3/4 cup red wine vinegar
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup chili sauce
- 1/3 cup ketchup
- 1/3 cup Worcestershire sauce
- 5 garlic cloves, minced
- 1-1/2 teaspoons chili powder
- In a large resealable plastic bag, combine the flour, salt and pepper. Add ribs in batches and shake to coat. In a large skillet over medium heat, brown ribs in butter.
- Transfer to a 6-qt. slow cooker. In the same skillet, combine the remaining ingredients. Cook and stir until mixture comes to a boil; pour over ribs.
- Cover and cook on low for 9-10 hours or until meat is tender. Yield: 12 servings.
Originally published as Slow-Cooked Short Ribs in Taste of Home June/July 2000, p33
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"Delicious, the meat was so mouthwatering tender!"
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"Did not care for them when we ate them and then the aftertaste was extremely unpleasant."
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"Absolutely excellent meal! Made it with beef and pork before, both were excellent. Has anyone made it with chicken before?"
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"My Husband already wants me to make this again - BIG hit!"
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If you have lost your pet and didn't see him/her in my photos (SEE THE LINK ABOVE):
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A dark and sweeping adventure, Dreamcatcher is set in the haunted city of Derry - the site of Stephen King's It and Insomnia. In it, four young boys stand together and do a brave, good thing, an act that changes them in ways that they hardly understand.
A quarter-century later, as grown men who have gone their separate ways, these friends come together once a year to hunt in the woods of Maine. This particular year, a stranger stumbles into their campsite, and before long, the friends are plunged into the most remarkable adventure of their lives. They wind up in a life and death struggle, their only hope for survival locked in their shared past... and in the dreamcatcher.
©2001 Stephen King, All Rights Reserved. (P)2001 Simon & Schuster, Inc.
"May be the best alien invasion story since War of the Worlds." (Booklist)
"A thriller that shows [King] remains a force in fiction." (Internet Bookwatch)
"The X-Files comes to Maine." (AudioFile)
"Captures the mind and heart."
Mr. King brought this story from imagination to artful reality. The narration is wonderful...my ears were chaffed by the end of the story!
"King Fans Will Love Dreamcatcher"
This book follows the typical King strategy. He tells an incredible story in series of small steps, and before you know it you are believing something that a few hours earlier would have been laughable. I think it is the perfection of this technique that has made him one of my favorite contemporary authors.
The audio production is very good, but without "taking over" the story. I can't wait to see the movie, and hope that King had enough involvement in the film to maintain the integrity of his story.
If you like to sit back and be carried along on a bizarre adventure, don't wait any longer, get this audio.
"The Master's Best Work"
Well done. Jeffrey DeMunn does an terrific job performing this, the masters best work. The character developement by Stephen King makes each person so real that I not only knew them, I understood them and their imperfections, and I couldn't help but love them. I'd like to hang out with these guys. I just loved this book. I hope you do too.
"Great story can't wait for the movie"
This was my first King book and I found it difficult to turn off. Since I listen to books while driving, I found myself consistenly below the speed limit just to get more of the book in.
"Great Alien Story"
Stephen King artfully beckons you into the lives of four boyhood friends destined for a three way collision with an extra terestrial inteligence and a government cover-up headed by a cruel and vengeful subversive. An interstellar massacre of aliens begging earth for help, a galactic plague the aliens may carry, and a man with a dual personality and maniacle ambitions are all connected in a spiritual network of intrigue transending time and space and centering around a young retarded boy with a special gift. This story is innovative, facinating, and connects the dots between all the modern E.T. mythology. A must read for the die-hard sci-fi fan.
"Makes the commute fly by"
Like a previous reviewer, this was my introduction to Steven King.
I've long considered myself king of the cynics... especially concerning anything metaphysical, enchanted, or ghostly. I've avoided Steven King books for years. If you are of the same state of mind, don't be put off by this book. It's a true gift for a story-teller to be able to create a tale with "regular guys" and have you pulled along, accepting the unbelievable things that are happening to them.
My only complaint would be the rapid "conclusion" of the book. After listening to almost 20 hours of a book, it was disappointing to have the loose ends tied together in one brief chapter. From reading other reviews of Steven King, I understand that this might be typical: really strong for the first three-quarters, and then kind of trails off.
I think that the stronget compliment that I can give an author is to say that I've purchased more books since. I'm now listening to "Bag of Bones"... and am enjoying it every bit as much.
"Brilliant Work, A Masterful Narration"
As with each Stephen King book, the premise or impending horror will try it's best to be unique. In this case, it is in the very different take on alien-invasion. Not all will like it, but it is what it is, very clever and very different. And all couched in a story of a childhood friendship so deep, so authentic that it adds to the emotional strain drawn upon our priciple characters. Jeffrey DeMunn does an outstanding job, one of the best I've ever heard, delivering a New England accept to absolute perfection. Those troubled by heavy language are either unfamiliar with Stephen King or the honest jargon of modern culture. Unless you've grown up in a vacuum or religiously conservative isolation, course language-like it or not, is part of common American culture. In the case of this book, it is intrinsic to the culture of our protagonists. This is very well-written and delivered audio-book.
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This was a great book, well narrated and enthralling. Highly recommend! It's what I love about Stephen King. Fantastic writing, sci-fi and a good dose of creep factor!
"Thrilling all the way"
Fantastic characters, story, structure and fundamental idea.
I think this book is better for listening than reading. Excellent narration.
Thank you for a great story!
"Stick with It: A Great Ride"
I find that there are two types of Stephen King books: the really innovative and creative ones where he stretches your imagination, and then the kind of so-so ones that fill the gaps between the entries into the first group. He's SO good when he's good, and Dreamcatcher is definitely a quality entry.
One of the reviews noted that it was too slow in the beginning and that there was too much toilet humor. Well, I'm not a fan of toilet humor either, personally, but the CHARACTERS are real types of boys because of those sorts of little quips. Not all boys/men talk like that, certainly, but these guys do (or did, as much of it happened in childhood and you experience it in flashbacks or you hear them smiling back at the old, silly expressions they used to use). And as for being slow in the beginning, it's fairly painstaking character development. But it is your interest in this group of friends that is paramount to your continuing interest in the story, so it is necessary. And more than that, for those of us that like character-driven fiction (although there's plenty of plot here for the plot-driven fiction folks, too, although you need to get an hour or two in), it's enjoyable as well.
This was my first audiobook and I'm worried that I've been spoiled! A good way to start.
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In their pastoral plan for pro-life activities, the Catholic bishops of the United States have asked that at every mass a prayer be offered for the defense of human life.
To help parishes fulfill this request, Priests for Life prepares an entire set of Prayers of the Faithful for each Sunday of the year, based on the readings for that Sunday.
Among these petitions each week is a prayer for an end to abortion and other forms of violence, and for the growth of a Culture of Life.
We also provide homily hints and bulletin inserts for each Sunday.
You can find these resources at priestsforlife.org, and we also provide them weekly via email.
Help your pastor today by bringing him these weekly pro-life resources for the liturgy. Visit www.priestsforlife.org for information.
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text: SOS! The venue is turning out to be far more expensive than planned and they don't have the funds to cover it. The event might even be canceled. They still want to keep it free for those who have nothing to spare. But those of us who do have something to spare: donate what you can, even if just ten bucks (Ed Brayton sent them a hundred). Biodork explains it best here. Donate here. And if you're going, hopefully I'll see you there!


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If you are preparing to be a teacher, and looking for real answers about safety strategies in the event of a school trauma, please join us for a panel discussion about school safety. Hear from school professionals from around the area about their tips and suggestions for being prepared in the face of a school related trauma. This is the first discussion in a two part series for pre-service teachers intended to provide answers about school safety and supporting students who have experienced trauma. Come with questions for our panelists. Light refreshments will be served.


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i don't get a thing: how come houston makes the lineup for the bucks game? i hope it was just an error
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Change in the Mormon Church is glacial. So the slightest hint of softening from South Temple on the issue of homosexuality and cock-eyed optimists sense a seismic shift.
Turns out, it was more like a sneeze.
Several events of the last few weeks clarified the limits of the Church's pre-Scientific Awakening doctrines and 1950s policies on homosexuality:
More than 300 Mormons marched in Salt Lake City's Gay Pride Parade. Josh Weed became an unofficial mascot for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' "good" gays when he came out June 7 on his blog. And a former church leader from California is offering an unapproved pamphlet for Mormon parents struggling to come to terms with their children's sexual orientation.
Mormons Building Bridges kicked things off with an unorthodox call on Facebook for volunteers to march with their "LGBT brothers and sisters" in the Utah Pride Parade. "Each step we take will be an outward demonstration of our commitment to loving our neighbors." There were tears all around the day of the event, but reaction to The Salt Lake Tribune's story showed many Utahns weren't quite ready for such a show of acceptance.
Then, Weed made his announcement. It wouldn't have been news, except: He also happens to be married, father to three beautiful girls and gay. In that order, apparently. Instantly, Weed, a marriage and family counselor from Seattle, and his wife, Lolly, offered themselves up as the embodiment of modern-day Mormon homosexuality for a worldwide audience. Like seeing the Elephant Man, or, as Weed puts it, a unicorn.
The response was overwhelming. "The highs and lows of this experience are stunning," Josh Weed wrote on his blog Sunday. "It's still difficult for us at times. Sometimes the comments are very biting. Sometimes my sweet Lolly cries at things people say and it breaks my heart. Sometimes it feels frustrating to have things said about you that are patently untrue. But these were all risks we knew we were taking in being more open. (We just didn't realize the magnitude to which it would occur.)"
Technically, Josh Weed is following all of South Temple's rules. By overcoming his same-sex attraction, marrying a girl he met in high school and procreating the conventional way, he's a model young priesthood holder. And his efforts to conform are heartbreaking.
Finally, former LDS bishop Robert Rees drafted a self-help booklet for parents with a San Francisco State University researcher. Given the chance, a Church spokesman certainly couldn't endorse the Family Acceptance Project's common-sense guidelines for loving your children. Instead, he repeated the same-old noncommittal platitudes about "treating all of God's children with love and respect."
All of which goes to show: As much as things have changed in Mormondom, South Temple and many of the faithful still cling to the old ways…


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It is amazing how simple it is, once you KNOW how it works.
I think the Russian PKM has a "some what" similar set-up.
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It is amazing how simple it is, once you KNOW how it works.
I think the Russian PKM has a "some what" similar set-up.
Hey CNCTrailrider!
Any developments on the gas operated belt fed 7.62x25? I was following along on the progress when "other" things came up in the thread. I can see how you would be distracted by that H&K toy. But hey! the x25 is cheaper to feed.
No, I set it aside for awhile. Will have to re-mill another BC. Will be a chore since the rail slots on the first one were opened up, and the rails were positioned just for that one, with no play. But it's not a dead project by any means
Good to hear that Steve. If you decide you need a little more gas boost with that project I have a flash hider I made similar to the "Noveske" that I would be glad to donate to the cause. It is made from carbon steel and was pressed and pinned together so it won't come apart. I made it to boost the operation of my x25 gas operated pistol. It helped, but in the end I liked the FAL flash hider better. You are welcome to it.
No photoes of the flash hider but here is the pistol project I am finishing up.
For some reason, I wasn't getting any updates on this thread (subscription failed). Thanks for the link to your gas-op x25 pistol - VERY IMPRESSIVE! I believe yours is the first. I appreciate your offer on the flash hider, but my BC is what's holding things up. It may be awhile as I've been busy with various other (cheap/mostly repair) projects and reloading
Very interseting. You have a gift.
Scott E.
All of your build pictures were hosted at something called "webshots.com", and they're now all 404. The only things left are a handful of things you uploaded directly to gunco, mostly pictures of the finished gun.
If you get a chance, could you go back through and update the thread? It sounds like there was a lot of good information, but "to make the frammis fit, I had to cut .010 off the wotzit, right here as shown in the picture" with no picture doesn't provide quite as much information as the original...
two words... Absolutely awesome!!!
Great job!!!


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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic inflammatory lung disease that causes obstructed airflow from the lungs. Symptoms include breathing difficulty, cough, sputum production and wheezing. It's caused by long-term exposure to irritating gases or particulate matter, most often from cigarette smoke. People with COPD are at increased risk of developing heart disease, lung cancer and a variety of other conditions.
Emphysema and chronic bronchitis are the two most common conditions that contribute to COPD. Chronic bronchitis is inflammation of the lining of the bronchial tubes, which carry air to and from the air sacs (alveoli) of the lungs. It is characterized by daily cough and sputum production. Emphysema is a condition in which the air sacs (alveoli) at the end of the smallest air passages (bronchioles) of the lungs are destroyed as a result of damaging exposure.
COPD is treatable. With proper management, most people with COPD can achieve good symptom control and quality of life, as well as reduced risk of other associated conditions.
Symptoms of COPD often don't appear until significant lung damage has occurred, and they usually worsen over time, particularly if smoking exposure continues. For chronic bronchitis, the main symptom is a daily cough and sputum production at least three months a year for two consecutive years.
Other signs and symptoms of COPD include:
People with COPD are also likely to experience episodes called exacerbations, during which their symptoms become worse than usual day-to-day variation and persist for at least several days.
The main cause of COPD in developed countries is tobacco smoking. In the developing world, COPD often occurs in people exposed to fumes from burning fuel for cooking and heating in poorly ventilated homes.
Only about 25 percent of chronic smokers develop clinically apparent COPD, although up to half have subtle evidence of COPD. Some smokers develop less common lung conditions. They may be misdiagnosed as having COPD until a more thorough evaluation is performed.
Air travels down your windpipe (trachea) and into your lungs through two large tubes (bronchi). Inside your lungs, these tubes divide many times — like the branches of a tree — into many smaller tubes (bronchioles) that end in clusters of tiny air sacs (alveoli). The air sacs have very thin walls full of tiny blood vessels (capillaries). The oxygen in the air you inhale passes into these blood vessels and enters your bloodstream. At the same time, carbon dioxide — a gas that is a waste product of metabolism — is exhaled.
Your lungs rely on the natural elasticity of the bronchial tubes and air sacs to force air out of your body. COPD causes them to lose their elasticity and overexpand, which leaves some air trapped in your lungs when you exhale.
In the vast majority of cases, the lung damage that leads to COPD is caused by long-term cigarette smoking. But there are likely other factors at play in the development of COPD, such as a genetic susceptibility to the disease, because only about 25 percent of smokers develop COPD.
Other irritants can cause COPD, including cigar smoke, secondhand smoke, pipe smoke, air pollution and workplace exposure to dust, smoke or fumes.
In about 1 percent of people with COPD, the disease results from a genetic disorder that causes low levels of a protein called alpha-1 antitrypsin. Alpha-1-antitrypsin (AAt) is made in the liver and secreted into the bloodstream to help protect the lungs. Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency can affect the liver as well as the lungs. Damage to the liver can occur in infants and children, not just adults with long smoking histories.
For adults with COPD related to AAt deficiency, treatment options include those used for people with more common types of COPD. In addition, some people can be treated by replacing the missing AAt protein, which may prevent further damage to the lungs.
Risk factors for COPD include:
Complications of COPD include:
If your primary care doctor suspects that you have COPD, you'll likely be referred to a pulmonologist, a doctor who specializes in lung disorders.
Before your appointment, you might want to write a list of answers to the following questions:
You might want to have a friend or family member accompany you to your appointment. Often, two sets of ears are better than one when you're learning about a complicated medical problem, such as COPD. Take notes if this helps.
Your doctor may ask some of the following questions:
COPD is commonly misdiagnosed — former smokers are often told they have COPD when in reality they have simple deconditioning or another less common lung condition. Likewise, many people who truly do have COPD aren't diagnosed until the disease is far advanced and interventions are less effective.
If you have symptoms of COPD and a history of exposure to lung irritants — especially cigarette smoke — your doctor may recommend these tests:
A diagnosis of COPD is not the end of the world. Most people have mild forms of the disease for which little therapy is needed other than smoking cessation. Even for more advanced stages of disease, effective therapy is available that can control symptoms, reduce your risk of complications and exacerbations, and improve your ability to lead an active life.
The most essential step in any treatment plan for COPD is to stop all smoking. It's the only way to keep COPD from getting worse — which can eventually reduce your ability to breathe. But quitting smoking isn't easy. And this task may seem particularly daunting if you've tried to quit and have been unsuccessful.
Talk to your doctor about nicotine replacement products and medications that might help, as well as how to handle relapses. It's also a good idea to avoid secondhand smoke exposure whenever possible.
Doctors use several kinds of medications to treat the symptoms and complications of COPD. You may take some medications on a regular basis and others as needed.
These medications — which usually come in an inhaler — relax the muscles around your airways. This can help relieve coughing and shortness of breath and make breathing easier. Depending on the severity of your disease, you may need a short-acting bronchodilator before activities, a long-acting bronchodilator that you use every day, or both.
Short-acting bronchodilators include albuterol (ProAir HFA, Ventolin HFA, others), levalbuterol (Xopenex), and ipratropium (Atrovent). The long-acting bronchodilators include tiotropium (Spiriva), salmeterol (Serevent), formoterol (Foradil, Perforomist), arformoterol (Brovana), indacaterol (Arcapta) and aclidinium (Tudorza).
Inhaled corticosteroid medications can reduce airway inflammation and help prevent exacerbations. Side effects may include bruising, oral infections and hoarseness. These medications are useful for people with frequent exacerbations of COPD. Fluticasone (Flovent) and budesonide (Pulmicort) are examples of inhaled steroids.
Some medications combine bronchodilators and inhaled steroids. Salmeterol and fluticasone (Advair) and formoterol and budesonide (Symbicort) are examples of combination inhalers.
For people who have a moderate or severe acute exacerbation, short courses (for example, 5 days) of oral corticosteroids prevent further worsening of COPD. However, long-term use of these medications can have serious side effects, such as weight gain, diabetes, osteoporosis, cataracts and an increased risk of infection as well as increased mortality associated with COPD.
A new type of medication approved for people with severe COPD and symptoms of chronic bronchitis is roflumilast (Daliresp), a phosphodiesterase-4 inhibitor. This drug decreases airway inflammation and relaxes the airways. Common side effects include diarrhea and weight loss.
This very inexpensive medication helps improve breathing and prevents exacerbations. Side effects may include nausea, headache, fast heartbeat and tremor. Side effects are dose related, and low doses are recommended.
Respiratory infections, such as acute bronchitis, pneumonia and influenza, can aggravate COPD symptoms. Antibiotics help treat acute exacerbations, but are not generally recommended for prevention. However, a recent study shows that the antibiotic azithromycin prevents exacerbations, but it isn't clear whether this is due to its antibiotic effect or its anti-inflammatory properties.
Doctors often use these additional therapies for people with moderate or severe COPD:
Even with ongoing treatment, you may experience times when symptoms become worse for days or weeks. This is called an acute exacerbation, and it may lead to lung failure if you don't receive prompt treatment.
Exacerbations may be caused by a respiratory infection, air pollution or other triggers of inflammation. Whatever the cause, it's important to seek prompt medical help if you notice a sustained increase in coughing, a change in your mucus or if you have a harder time breathing.
When exacerbations occur, you may need additional medications (such as antibiotics or steroids or both), supplemental oxygen or treatment in the hospital. Once symptoms improve, your doctor will talk with you about measures to prevent future exacerbations, such as quitting smoking, taking inhaled steroids, long-acting bronchodilators or other medications, getting your annual flu vaccine, and avoiding air pollution whenever possible.
Surgery is an option for some people with some forms of severe emphysema who aren't helped sufficiently by medications alone:
If you have COPD, you can take steps to feel better and slow the damage to your lungs:
Living with COPD can be a challenge — especially as it becomes harder to catch your breath. You may have to give up some activities you previously enjoyed. Your family and friends may have difficulty adjusting to some of the changes.
It can help to share your fears and feelings with your family, friends and doctor. You may also want to consider joining a support group for people with COPD. And you may benefit from counseling or medication if you feel depressed or overwhelmed.
Unlike some diseases, COPD has a clear cause and a clear path of prevention. The vast majority of cases are directly related to cigarette smoking, and the best way to prevent COPD is to never smoke — or to stop smoking now.
If you're a longtime smoker, these simple statements may not seem so simple, especially if you've tried quitting — once, twice or many times before. But keep trying. It's critical to find a tobacco cessation program that can help you quit for good. It's your best chance for preventing damage to your lungs.
Occupational exposure to chemical fumes and dust is another risk factor for COPD. If you work with this type of lung irritant, talk to your supervisor about the best ways to protect yourself, such as using respiratory protective equipment.
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Whats up Aussie CYCOS Lorenzo here!
We're back home from Australia since few days but no rest for the wicked!
Mike's already down and working on the new CYCO MIKO record and putting all his efforts planning the new Australian tour for IG and CM!
As for you Aussies CYCO maniacs, we have some interesting news on merch as we ran out at most of the shows and since we're getting lots of emails about getting more merch....we're releasing the leftover merch just for you! All items are in limited quantities and once they're gone they're gone!
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ZF-1328: Support Zend_Db_Select objects in quote(), quoteInto(), and quoteIdentifier()
I would like to be able to interpolate a Zend_Db_Select object into a query and have it be rendered as a string, and wrapped in parentheses so it can be a subquery:
$select = $db->select()
->from( $db->select()->from('subqueryTable') );
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FROM (SELECT * FROM "subqueryTable")
$db->quoteInto('WHERE foo IN ?', $db->select()->from('subqueryTable'));
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WHERE foo IN (SELECT * FROM "subqueryTable")
So we need that the quote() method and the quoteIdentifier() method check for an object of type Zend_Db_Select, and turn it into:
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IOM to Offer Guide for Managing Medical Conflicts of Interest
A new committee of the prestigious Institute of Medicine will begin meeting next month to develop guidelines for managing conflicts of interest in medical research, education and practice. The IOM's tentative appointments to the 15-member panel include three members granted conflict-of-interest waivers because of their ongoing ties to drug and medical device companies, and at least one other with recent ties to industry that were neither waived nor revealed on the IOM website. "Our policies on what constitutes a conflict of interest for which a waiver might be requested focus on current financial relationships rather than on past relationships," said Marilyn Field, the IOM staffer coordinating the panel.
The proposed members of the committee who have current conflicts of interest include James Childress, a professor of ethics at the University of Virginia, who consults for Roche and Johnson & Johnson; Peter B. Corr, who recently retired from a top science position at Pfizer, Inc., where he still owns stock; and Todd Dorman, director of continuing medical education at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, who owns stock in and consults for medical device firms. His medical education program also receives funding from medical product companies. Another proposed panel member, Deborah Grady, a professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, revealed in articles she wrote last year that she had recently received fees for serving on the safety monitoring boards of Organon and Intarcia Therapeutics, received grants from Berlex, Bionovo, Eli Lilly, and Pfizer, and received salary support from Merck and Wyeth-Ayerst Research. Those relationships were not considered conflicts by the IOM.
A 2006 report by the Center for Science in the Public Interest exposed loopholes in the conflict-of-interest disclosure policy at the National Academies, which includes the IOM. The report recommended that instead of using a standard that says a conflict must be current to warrant disclosure and waivers, the IOM should move to a policy more in line with the Journal of the American Medical Association, which requires that any conflicts within the past five years be disclosed, or the New England Journal of Medicine, which uses a two-year look back period. "Hopefully, this new panel will include a thorough review of the IOM's own policies," said Merrill Goozner, director of the Integrity in Science project at CSPI, in a letter sent today to the agency's leadership. The letter also noted the proposed committee's failure to include prominent researchers in the field, some of whom have been critical of excessive industry ties to the medical profession. The absence of experts like Jerome Kassirer, former editor of NEJM, Sheldon Krimsky of Tufts University, Lisa Bero of UCSF, or Eric Campbell of Massachusetts General Hospital "detracts from the purported balance of a committee that has been asked to come up with a consensus," the letter stated.
Comments on the IOM's proposed committee are due October 31 and can be filed on its website.
Med School-Industry Ties Exposed; Influence Denied
A majority of department leaders at the nation's 125 medical schools and 15 large teaching hospitals have significant ties to health care companies, according to a new survey published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association (subscription required). Among the 459 department chairs responding to the 2006 survey, 27 percent worked as consultants for individual companies or served on advisory boards; 14 percent received cash from speakers' bureaus; and 11 percent served on corporate boards of directors. In all, about sixty perecent of department heads had some ties to industry.
The academic leaders were also asked to evaluate the impact that corporate grants and research funding had on their departments' ability to deliver unbiased education. Only 20 percent thought that small restricted grants (less than $10,000) negatively influenced training for faculty and medical students. That number rose to 42 percent if the grants were up to $100,000, and over 50 percent if greater than $100,000. But if the grants were unrestricted, just 21 percent thought it biased the education experience, even if the grant was up to $100,000. "These findings illustrate the common misconceptions that small gifts are less influential than larger gifts and that unrestricted gifts are less influential than restricted gifts," wrote Eric Campbell of the Institute of Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital and colleagues. The research was financed by the Greenwall Foundation.
Scientists Accuse DuPont of Distorting Study Results
Emails made public in federal court in West Virginia reveal that Dupont misrepresented the findings of its Epidemiology Review Board, a team of independent experts who had looked at the health effects of the chemical C8 or perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). The company has used PFOA for more than 50 years at its Washington Works plant south of Parkersburg, primarily in the manufacture of Teflon. Following the conclusion of a study of workers at the plant, the company announced "that there are no human health effects known to be caused by PFOA," and said that the study had been reviewed by the independent panel. E-mails released as part of a lawsuit over PFOA pollution in drinking water near the plant show that members of the expert team called Dupont's statements "somewhere between misleading and disingenuous," and said that members of the team "were unanimous in believing that the results do show a health effect."
Effort in Congress to Void Medical Decision Decried
A coalition of consumer groups led by Consumers Union last week opposed a House resolution that would override a medical decision by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service to cut off payment for overuse of drugs that raise red blood cell counts in cancer patients. The Food and Drug Administration last spring issued a black box warning against overusing the drugs after clinical trials showed too high red blood cell counts spurred tumor growth and increased mortality in some patients. The new CMS payment restrictions soon followed. Last week, the FDA wrote a letter to Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) and Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) indicating that CMS's new payment policy was in line with the new label.
The move prompted a lobbying campaign in Congress to overturn the CMS decision by the companies that sell the drugs, Amgen and Johnson & Johnson. They were joined by the American Society of Clinical Oncologists, which represents cancer physicians whose earnings come in part from sale of the drugs. ASCO also released a new clinical practice guideline today to support its claim that the CMS payment policy goes beyond the FDA black box warning. Five of 13 members of the guideline-writing committee, including ASCO co-chair Alan E. Lichtin, have financial ties to either Amgen or J&J.
Lobbying Congress "is not the proper venue for their objections," noted the consumer groups' letter. "In late September, CMS invited ASCO to submit evidence to support the agency reopening its coverage decision. It is altogether fitting and proper that physicians in community practice and physicians at CMS who determine payment policy adjudicate their differences in this manner, rather than through Congressional intervention."
Tobacco Giants Sullied Secondhand Smoke Studies
A new study in Circulation shows that the tobacco industry has systematically suppressed and distorted the results of research showing links between heart disease and second-hand smoke. The study, by Eliza Tong of the University of California at Davis and longtime U.C. San Francisco tobacco researcher Stanton Glantz, shows that the tobacco industry discontinued funding researchers who found secondhand smoke contributed to clogged arteries, failed to publish results of other studies showing health effects from exposure, and presented studies showing no harmful effects as "peer-reviewed" when in fact they were reviewed by industry employees. The study documents how the tobacco industry's current research priorities focus on promoting so-called "reduced harm" smokeless tobacco products, without implicating secondhand smoke as having serious health consequences. The study is the result of the researchers' examination of over 5,000 internal tobacco industry memos, letters, and scientific reports that were made public as a result of legal settlements in recent years and are archived in UC San Francisco's Legacy Tobacco Document Library
EPA Ignored Scientists, Suit Charges
Fourteen U.S. states and three environmental groups last week filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to heed the advice of its own experts on particulate matter air pollution. The plaintiffs argue that the agency, in failing to tighten the national standard from 15 to 13-14 micrograms per cubic meter as recommended by its Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC), behaved in a manner that was "arbitrary and capricious" under Clean Air Act requirements that the agency set a standard that protects human health and the environment. The agency's decision last year was widely criticized, including by one member of CASAC who commented that EPA may have "illegally made an important regulatory decision without obtaining advice as to its scientific soundness from its congressionally-mandated scientific advisers." The states announced their intention to sue last year, after the agency refused to tighten the PM standard despite the agency's own impact analysis revealing that doing so could save thousands of lives annually.
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, ignoring pressure from the National Rifle Association, signed legislation that will outlaw lead ammunition within the range of the California Condor, which scientists believe is a major cause of the species' decline. . . Psychiatrist John E. Simon of Minnesota will resign from a panel that makes drug recommendations for the state Medicaid program after the Minnesota Psychiatric Society expressed discomfort with his having received over $350,000 in speaking and consulting fees from pharmaceutical firms, the New York Times reports. . . ABC News reports that Tachi Yamada, the current head of the Gates Foundation's global health initiative who previously worked with SmithKline Beecham, was involved in efforts to suppress findings of a link between heart disease and the drug Avandia. E-mails recently released by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) show that Yamada participated in discussions at SmithKline Beecham about lawsuits, publicity campaigns, and other means of silencing researcher John Buse, whose findings of Avandia's dangerous side effects were later replicated in the New England Journal of Medicine. . . The Office of Research Integrity in the US Department of Health and Human Services has discovered that Norwegian dental researcher Jon Sudbo, who practices dentistry in Seljord, Norway, falsified data on the preventive effects of ibuprofen on oral cancer in his grant application to the National Cancer Institute, in his PhD thesis and in papers published in the New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet . . . Responding to shipping industry pressure, the White House through the Office of Science and Technology Policy continues to raise scientific objections to a new National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration rule protecting right whales by slowing shipping traffic, the Washington Post reported. Responded NOAA's Greg Silber: "We did our homework. Our mandate is to recover an endangered species, and that's what we're trying to do."
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Tomorrow, March 10, pro-abortion activists observe the annual National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers. They want to make into heroes the people who get paid for killing babies.
Former abortionist Dr. Tony Levatino provided this comment on today's observance: "Eight years of performing abortions affirming a woman's "right to choose". Over 1200 innocent children in five years of private practice shredded in suction machines and dismembered in late-term abortions. Hundreds of dead little faces staring back at me. Dozens of women who chose abortion assuming that they would be able to become pregnant at some later date who found out differently as the years rolled by. A National Day of Appreciation for what I did? No thank you."
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America's Got Talent Season 7 Full Episode Streaming
I'm told that many of those people not on the west coast got America's Got Talent interrupted by the Republican National Convention. Since, that's the case, I decided to share with Pure AGT readers a link to last night's full stream of America's Got Talent Semifinals and also videos of each of the acts in case you just want to watch the AGT semifinal acts that you missed.
For those that missed it, it was a really amazing night of quality entertainment.
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Fan favorite Andrew De Leon performs, hoping to move one step closer to the AGT finals.
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Ventriloquist Todd Oliver and his dog Irving take the stage to prove that they have what it takes to make it to the finals.
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(Sept. 3, 2008) - With the official start of the NCAA basketball season just a little over a month away, head ETSU women's basketball coach Karen Kemp has decided to give Lady Buccaneer fans a closer look into the 2008-09 season.
ETSU fans see what is taking place inside women's basketball, as coach Kemp posts monthly journal entries, which will run as a segment called "Kemp's Corner". Coach Kemp's first entry went live on Wednesday afternoon, and fans can access each journal listing by visiting the women's basketball homepage or by clicking the link above.
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The sixth edition of the gunshot-fire scorched mix series from Glasgow's Hudson Mohawke (who signed to Kanye's G.O.O.D. Music as a producer a month ago) is as glorious and emotion-drenched as his previous installments. No tracklist is provided, but we doubt that's what's on your mind while you're knockin boots to this.
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Garth Hudson, keyboardist, horn player and all-around multi-instrumentalist with the Band, is born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Levon Helm, drummer and vocalist with the Band, is born in Marvell, Arkansas.
Richard Manuel, keyboardist and vocalist with the Band, is born in Stratford, Ontario, Canada.
Rick Danko, bassist and vocalist with the Band, is born in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada.
Robbie Robertson, guitarist and main songwriter for the Band, is born in Toronto, Canada.
Garth Hudson joins Levon Helm, Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko and Richard Manuel in the Hawks, who serve as Arkansas rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins' backup band.
Bob Dylan, backed by the Hawks (better known as The Band), perform in Stockholm, Sweden. Six more weeks of dates follow across Europe in what will come to be regarded as one of rock's most historic tours.
Bob Dylan and the Hawks (a.k.a. The Band) perform at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England. Dylan is booed by folk purists who object to his appearing with an electric band. This widely bootlegged concert, often misidentified as having been performed at London's Royal Albert Hall, is officially released 22 years later as 'Live 1966.'
A tribute concert to folksinger Woody Guthrie is held at New York's Carnegie Hall. Featured artists include Bob Dylan, The Band, Judy Collins and Richie Havens.
'Music from Big Pink,' the Band's evocative debut album, is released. It charts no higher than #30 but sells steadily and becomes an acknowledged classic.
The Band makes its live debut at the Winterland in San Francisco.
The Band appear at the British Isle of Wight Festival, performing a set of their own before backing up Bob Dylan.
The Band's masterful self-titled second album - which contains such classics as "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)" – enters Billboard's album chart. It reaches #9 and eventually goes platinum (1 million copies sold).
The Band appear on the cover of Time magazine beneath the headline "The New Sound of Country Rock."
The Band's third album, 'Stage Fright,' enters the Billboard album chart. Reaching #5, it is the highest-charting album of their career.
Joan Baez hits #3 with the Band song "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down."
The Band perform a New Year's Eve show at New York's Academy of Music with a full horn section. The show is released in September 1972 as the live double album 'Rock of Ages.'
The Band, the Grateful Dead, and the Allman Brothers Band perform for a crowd of 600,000 (larger by half than Woodstock!) in upstate New York at the Watkins Glen "Summer Jam."
Bob Dylan's 'Planet Waves,' which reunites him with The Band as his backing group, is released. Dylan and The Band undertake a six-week, 40-date tour together.
'Before the Flood,' a live double album by Bob Dylan and The Band, is released.
The Band bows out with "The Last Waltz," a grand farewell concert at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. A film documentary, directed by Martin Scorsese, and three-record set of musical highlights follow.
'Islands,' the final album by The Band's original lineup, is released. Having met their contractual obligation to Capitol Records, they are free to disband – which they do.
Richard Manuel of The Band hangs himself at a motel room in Winter Park, Florida.
Seventeen years after their last live performance, the reunited Band – minus Robbie Robertson and the late Richard Manual – release a new album, 'Jericho.'
The Band is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the ninth annual induction dinner. Eric Clapton is their presenter.
Allen Toussaint is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the thirteenth annual induction dinner. Robbie Robertson is his presenter.
The Band's tenth and final studio album, 'Jubilation,' is released on the River North label. Original members Levon Helm, Rick Danko and Garth Hudson are joined by such friends as Eric Clapton and John Hiatt.
Rick Danko of the Band dies of heart failure at his home outside Woodstock, New York.
Levon Helm of the Band passes away after a battle with throat cancer. He was 71.


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The Ski Jumping team's Join the Journey benefit will be held at a luxurious, $10 million home in Glenwild, Park City on July 15.
Go for gourmet food and drink from local restaurants and a live and silent auction, music by Elodie Tomlinson and Michael Wollery and to meet the US Women Ski Jumpers. You also might also end up in our magazine. We're getting photos from the event for our People pages.
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TEMPE, Ariz. - Former Arizona State baseball stars Andrew Romine and Jason Kipnis will play in the Arizona Fall League's annual Rising Stars Game on Saturday at Surprise Stadium. Romine, who is playing for the Mesa Solar Sox, will suit up for the East Division, while Kipnis, a member of the Peoria Javelinas, will play for the West Division.
Romine starred at ASU from 2005 to 2007 before being drafted by the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Romine made his Major League debut for the Angels in September after spending the entire Minor League season with the AA Arkansas Travelers.
Kipnis spent two seasons at ASU winning Pac-10 Newcomer of the year in 2008 and Pac-10 Player of the Year in 2009. He was a second round pick of the Cleveland Indians and spent the majority of the 2010 season with the AA Akron Aeros. He was called up to the AAA Columbus Clippers for the postseason, helping lead the Clippers to the AAA championship. He hit for the cycle in the International League title game, then fell a single short of the cycle in the AAA Title Game.
The fifth annual Rising Stars Game will take place on Saturday, November 6 from Surprise Stadium. First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m. and the game will be televised on MLB Network and on MLB.com.
Travis Buck, Jeff Larish, Brett Wallace, Ike Davis and Mike Leake are all former Sun Devils who played in the AFL's Rising Stars Game and went on to play Major League Baseball.


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CLEVELAND (May 19, 2009) –The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum welcomes music critic and SIRIUS XM Radio Host Dave Marsh for the Museum's FREE monthly program From Songwriters to Soundmen: The People Behind the Hits on Wednesday, June 3 at 7 p.m. in the Museum's 4th Floor Theater.
Marsh will be interviewed by Dr. Lauren Onkey, the Vice President of Education at the Rock Hall. Questions will be taken from the audience at the end of the interview. Please email email@example.com or call (216) 515-8426 to RSVP.
Dave Marsh is a noted rock critic, historian, anticensorship activist and talk show host. Marsh co-founded and for four years edited Creem, the legendary rock and roll magazine that helped launch heavy metal, glam and punk, and spent five years as an associate and contributing editor of Rolling Stone, where he was chief music critic, columnist and feature writer.
Additionally, he has written more than 20 books about rock and popular music. Marsh's first book, Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story (Doubleday) was published in 1979. It made the New York Times best-seller list. Glory Days: Bruce Springsteen in the 1980s, a sequel to Born to Run, appeared in 1987, and became a national hardcover bestseller. (In 2003, Routledge published Born to Run and Glory Days in a single volume with an epilogue, titled Two Hearts.) In 2005, he wrote the 40,000 word text for Bruce Springsteen On Tour. He has also written books on Michael Jackson, the Who, Elvis Presley, and the Beatles.
In 2004, Marsh began hosting Kick Out the Jams, a weekly two hour radio talk show about music and social and political issues on the Sirius Satellite Network. In 2008, he began hosting Live from the Land of Hopes and Dreams, a politically based call-in show on Sirius. The following year, he added Live from E Street Nation, a weekly live dialogue with Springsteen fans.
This event is part of the series From Songwriters to Soundmen: The People Behind the Hits, a groundbreaking Rock Hall program that shines the spotlight on the people whose contributions to the rock and roll art form are often as powerful as those of the artists themselves.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum has FREE educational offerings year round. Additional adult education programs include Teachers Rock, which shows educators how to bring rock and roll music into their classrooms and Rock and Roll Night School, which gives interested adults the opportunity to expand their rock and roll-related knowledge.
For more information about these and other Rock Hall educational programs, visit http://www.rockhall.com.
About From Asbury Park to the Promised Land: The Life and Music of Bruce Springsteen
From Asbury Park to the Promised Land is a comprehensive look at Springsteen's music, from such early bands as Child, the Castiles and Steel Mill through his work with the E Street Band and as a solo artist. The exhibit includes several of Springsteen's guitars, including the Fender Esquire that is on the cover of Born to Run. It also includes the outfit he wore on the cover of Born in the U.S.A., as well as numerous handwritten lyric manuscripts, posters and handbills from all phases of his career, and various awards and honors. In addition, the exhibit includes Springsteen's 1960 Chevrolet Corvette, which he purchased after the success of Born to Run. The exhibit will run until Spring 2010.
Bruce Springsteen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999.
About the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is the nonprofit organization that exists to educate visitors, fans and scholars from around the world about the history and continuing significance of rock and roll music. It carries out this mission both through its operation of a world-class museum that collects, preserves, exhibits and interprets this art form and through its library and archives as well as its educational programs.
The Museum is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. On Wednesdays, the Museum is open until 9 p.m. Museum admission is $22 for adults, $18 for adult residents of Greater Cleveland, $17 for seniors (65+), $13 for youth (9-12), children under 8 and Museum Members are always free, for information or to join the membership program call 216.515.1939. For general inquiries, please call 216.781.ROCK or visit http://www.rockhall.com. The Museum is generously funded by Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.


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Marital troubles dented the public images of Orlando residents Tiger Woods and Shaquille O'Neal. But it certainly hasn't ruined their reign among the world's most powerful athletes.
Both ranked among the top 10 most powerful athletes in the world according to Business Week's Power 100 2011 list. Results were gathered by using polls, market research and estimated endorsement dollars according to the company.
Tiger Woods, who was No. 1 in 2010, slid just a few spots to No. 3 behind Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning and Olympian Shaun White (none of which were considered cool by GQ magazine btw). Woods also ranked one spot above PGA golf competitor Phil Mickelson. According to the article, Woods brought home an estimated $71.3 million in part from his endorsement earning from Nike, EA Sports and Tag Heuer despite his personal life turmoil.
Shaquille O'Neal ranked No. 7 on the list with Li-Ning, Oreo and Comcast listed as key sponsors. Interestingly enough, O'Neal finished one spot ahead of another controversial figure, cyclist Lance Armstrong.
LeBron James, who was ranked No. 2 last year behind Tiger Woods, slid to the No. 11 spot thanks in large part to "The Decision."
And for the most powerful female in sport…..Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn, who ranked No. 13 — one spot above Los Angeles Lakers guard and five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant.
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Solitude, pre-powder, is still pretty great. Photo Courtesy of Solitude Mountain Resort.
Hiking, biking, fishing and lift rides are all great ways to experience fall, but getting outside doesn't require being in the middle of nowhere. There's plenty of autumn air in our resort towns to go around, so breathe deep at some of these open-air venues and enjoy.
Park City Farmers Market:
June 5–0ct. 9. Wednesdays, 11a.m.–6 p.m.
Local. Fresh. Organic. If these buzzwords don't get you excited for Park City Farmers Market, hosted at Canyons Resort, then the live music, art, crafts and homemade bread won't either.
Park Silly Sunday Market:
June 9–Sept. 11, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
The autumnal equinox is your last chance to enjoy Park City's weekly open-air market. This bizarre bazaar sprawls down historic Main Street offering live music, local wares and dozens of dining opportunities.
Snowbird Oktoberfest:
Aug.17–0ct. 13. Saturdays and Sundays, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Currently luring over 60,000 visitors a season, Snowbird's first Oktoberfest began in 1973 with two leather-clad Germans playing accordions. Today the festival includes a more distinguished blend of national German bands, yodelers and (of course) a slew of Bavarian brews.
The pro
Despite a lifetime in the outdoors, Steve Duke never planned on being "the god of snow and dirt." as a Facebook fan worshipfully dubbed him. In fact, before he became the terra-sculpting deity of Transitions terrain park every winter and the Bike Park each summer, Duke was majoring in business.
Now his board meetings consist of hitting the slopes beneath Super Condor or updating his favorite trails in the Bike Park—an amenity at Canyons he sees as his greatest professional achievement.
When asked which changes he's particularly proud of this year, Duke settles on Insurgent, a hard-charging expert trail that's been transformed "into more of a downhill, race-style singletrack. It's going to be fun!"
When he's not perfecting his magnum opus [or shredding its jumps, drops, and berms to pieces], Duke rides Wasatch classics like the Little Cottonwood Canyon downhill and Canyon Hollow to Rush—each trail reflecting his downhill addiction. As an unabashed gravity geek, Duke has only one piece of advice for the Bike Park's newcomers: "Lower your seat."
Thus saith The Duke.
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What Are some of the bars lupe has said that was just Crazy!!!!!
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What Are some of the bars lupe has said that was just Crazy!!!!!
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I love the Lord, But sometimes it's like that I love me more I love the peace And I love the war I love the seas and I love the shore No love for no beach baby, that's law But she doesn't see, therefore I spoil I trip, I fall run up and raw. I love her, with all my heart Every vein, every vessel, every bullet lodged With every flower that I ever took apart She said - that she would give me greatness, status, placement above the others My face would grace covers of the magazines of the hustlers Paper, the likes of which that I had never seen Her eyes glow green with the logo of our dreams The purpose of our scene, The obscene obsession for the bling She would be my queen, I could be her king Together, she would make me cool and we would both rule, forever, And I would never feel pain and never be without pleasure, ever, again And if the rain stops, And everything's dry she would cry Just so I can drink the tears from her eyes She'll teach me how to fly Even cushion my fall If my engines ever stall and I plummet from the sky But she will keep me high And if I ever die She would comission my image on her bosom To him Or maybe she'd retire as well A match made in Heaven set the fires in Hell and I'll be... The coolest niggah... what :The Coolest
"Just imagine an American biased Christian organization planning to poison water supplies to bring the second coming quicker"American Terrorist... Do yall understand the knowledge this man attains? Lu has potential to be the greatest...when ever he feels like breaking the wall down...
"So I'm forced to keep the gun up in the drawers/ and a... vest tight like a woman with some balls/ Pause. Never..."
" tell you that dimes fly baby girls a fine price all I see is money when I look inside this dimes eye lifes a b-tch Ill be rich if I make her cry tears of tissue turns to money if you let it dry increase my worth if she get hurt Ill make a fortune if she dies " (( this goeees : Oh Yeah . Diggy simmons ft Lupe and Pharrell ))
"Momma said beware of what the Devil do tell'em that your soul's not for sale like the W's So go ahead and pirate the highest cannons make you leak like pirating my sh*t It's not shhh, it's just shhh like quiet..." -Pressure They said my future was dark, you see me now? Just look around, I'm beamin' (We are lasers) They used to talk when I wasn't around You see me now? I'm beamin' (We're not losers) I get my energy from my inner G I be in outer space, but I got inner peace So tell my enemies that they can't injure me I know that irritates, you have my sympathies Well, you should protest, yeah, you should picket me I'm on a losing strike, I'm on a winning streak I'm out in left field, I'm speaking mentally But that's a better places than where the benches be -Im Beamin' Nigga wake up, don't join the army Kill your own peoples, but fear Illuminatis and they ain't even real, or are they? But you ain't even know, cuz you partay too fuckin much, if you start to doubt they already in yo mind, and comin' out yo mouth Its not a trick, nigga, it's a trap Survival of the fit, is what they aiming at And niggas aint fit, fat as hell! Fat in mind, body fat aswell Who use most the drugs? Americans! Whats in Afghanistan? heroin! You think thats by mistake? They cant stop dat? Don't think you safe though, because you not black Greed is colorblind, so I'm colorblind They gon' fuck with yours soon as they done with mine -Building Minds Faster Some of the truest verses he said.
My man said life aint easy when niggas gotta eat thats when shit get greasy Streets be all like feed me feed me when niggas gotta eat thats when shit get greasy My man said life aint easy when niggas gotta eat thats when shit get greasy **** Hey he had a whole lotta cheese plus he was a mac had a whole lotta seeds Made alot of niggas fat gave a whole lotta G's, grams man he had a whole lotta dese **** -"Gotta Eat" in The Cool You gotta lot of money, I ain't tryna be funny But they say where you goin, you ain't even gon need it -"The Die" in The Cool He just sits, and listens to the people in the boxes Everything he hears he absorbs and adopts it "The Instrumental" in Food and Liquor ...And most of the other bars mentioned by the others.
get my energy from my inner G I be in outer space, but I got inner peace- am beaming Childhood destroyed, devoid of all childish ways, Can't write their own names or read the words on their own graves Think you gangster popped a few rounds, These kids will come through and murder a whole town, Then sit back and smoke and watch it burn down, The grave gets deeper the further we go down - little weapon clear the project runway coz this is were my rocket lands - say something if am from a hood were the good die young hun then we all might live forever - proceed "I want you to be a father He's your little boy and you don't even bother Like "brother" without the R And he's starting to harbor Cool and food for thought But for you he's a starver - he say she say Angels remix
"...see the most important parts are the ones that are unseen, the wings dont make you fly and the? crown dont make you king..." Gold Watch
Switch. You you you, yes let the words woo you till you woozy. Let the lyrics subdue you, massage and sooth you, move you till conscience lose you. Lu now rules you, you do what Lu do and you'll do beautiful. Switch. I'm the meanest. You the meanest? I'm the meanest and I mean this. now I don't mean this to sound fiendish, but I'm a genious. You a genious? And the cleanest. Never seen this as clean as my cleanest. From on top, from underneath, from behind or in between. the whole switch free style his best rhymes so far
"I do my dirt like Kwame (earth from captain planet), until that same soil being pushed into my grave, but i'm so ahead of my time the next day they might strike oil where i've been laid homie i'm so crude Texas Tea haters is so screwed, but i can't feel it like a flathead in a philiips don't get it twisted n**** i'm no tool" -Lupe the killer on the Fahrenheit 1st and 15th II: Revenge of the Nerds (in my view his best song)
"Big bang flow, spitting out uni-verses" -Unkle feat Lupe Fiasco, (forgot the name of the song)- "I blackout like DOS" -Lupe Fiasco, Dead Presidents Freestyle- "Drop lines like Enter" -Lupe Fiasco, 1st and 15th- "N***** tryna take me off my paper like erasers, let me put you onto something, all I got is the other end for them..." -Lupe Fiasco, 1st and 15th-
"Leave you crying in pain, What I gotta scream for(FORE), holds 9 IRONS while I'm DRIVING THE RANGE, You talk like I fold or something, Like I don't flip BIRDIES(drugs) hold EAGLES(desert eagle) and wont put a HOLE IN ONE." -Lupe Fiasco, Diddy Freestyle- "You don't stand a chance, matter fact you don't have half the stance to stand if you stood half the chance, like C-H-A..." -Lupe Fiasco, 8 mile Freestyle- "No Longer G now you can see(C) me, But your letters(lettuce) still under my sea like seaweed," -Lupe Fiasco, Say Something Freestyle- "I'm far from an actor homes, like a star map..." -Lupe Fiasco, Game Time- "Twice the MC like MC sqaured" -Lupe Fiasco, The Champ is here- "I was about as uncool as a niece's mother's biggest brother" -Lupe Fiasco, Fire- -The whole of "Failure". -His whole verse in Kanye West's "Touch the sky".
"I donate to the campus and my name's on the arenas, and you cant bring it to my court not even with subpoenas"- national anthem "shadow flow, colder than punxsutawney phil is. my mind's on dope, my brain's on skillets"- so ghetto
i be on my green like irish spring, and i coast fudge wit it get a mouth full of soap...-sunshine i reign/rain supreme... turn ur umbrellas upside down... did u even catch the change in theme?- failure "be clear in not the heir/air, im the water, fire and the earth... that means im doin dirt, spittin flames, and quenchin thirst." polular demand ... and i just looked at the say somethin lryics online cuz i couldnt remember this one line i heard in my car... and ummm... my minds blown thats all i gotta say... shit is fuckingggg rawwww lupes the king
Catch me at the ball with a Cinderella waltzing not wonders, Scott Summers so don't make me take off my stunnas now your just him no longer the trend they dress in you wonderin were all the press went you no longer impress them get arrested paparazzi will press then even scuba Steve will find it hard to breathe around these leagues my snorkel is a tuba, Lu the ruler around these seas
See, I couldn't walk the walk, couldn't really talk the talk Had to get my talk to properly explain my walk 'Cause this lack in talk had my walk looking off Now I'm over the limp Watch how they mugs drop when they see my Verbal's able -->Lupe Faisco, Failure
"Man I really miss my pops, hope that God watches over him and that he's on top, that there is no more disease and that he's alright, that he's one of the general's inside the army of the light...I know we'll meet again so its never me against the world." --> Lupe Fiasco, Fighters "I hope that God forgive us, all of us sinners turn us back into beginners, put us up where the winners go, Holy apartments in the gardens in which the rivers flow, thank you for all your blessings and all of your miracles." --> Lupe Fiasco, Fighters "And babygirl what does it matter where ya purse from, your hair done, your nails did, your ass phat, but your dumb." --> Lupe Fiasco, I'm Beamin "Well I'm like 10 11 been fighting since I was like 6 or 7." --> Lupe Fiasco, Little Weapon "Woken up by the horn of an SUV I said "see, too beautiful to let you sleep" --> Lupe Fiasco, Sunshine "And in my flyness, I've become the hero and the sidekick, The rider and the nigga that I arrive with." --> Lupe Fiasco, High Definition "I'm trying to go public so I can get to private, then send Busy to go and get the pirates Then hit Africa and try to fix the Virus...Dressed in something so fresh and wonderful F-N-F and S-N double O-P" --> Lupe Fiasco, High Definition "I turn to see my dream Love supreme queen, meanest thing on the scene, cry." --> Lupe Fiasco, Paris, Tokyo "David Blaine, make it rain, make a boat, I make a plane, then, I pull the plug and I make it drain Until I feel like flowing and filling it up again.." --> Lupe Fiasco, Dumb it down " Bishop G, they told me I should come down cousin, but I flatly refuse I ain't dumb down nothin." --> Lupe Fiasco, Dumb it down
EXPOSINGTHEWICKED refrain from using retarded to mean stupid please. but i guess we just have different beliefs man
all u haters with ur hands iur ears its okay cuz later it will sneak up on u like its metal gear put u in a choke hold and then unconciously you'll care
See, while you Valentines, I'm thinking Christmas trees And that's how this would be, even at Mickey D's Semicolon, close parentheses- im beamin im made from the best of earth like snapple tea leaves.......im mac standing round a bunch of pcs...-say something remix I Could Be Working At Jewels, Chain Snatching, Jerking Ya Jewels, Homeless, Working For Food, I Might Be Cleaning Ya Pool, Teaching Ya School, Preaching To Fools, Leaching, Smoking Weed To Be Cool At DMV's Holding Lines Up, A Whine Duck In Line Ups, Who Times Up Full Of Holes In A Whole In A Fine Tux, Out On Parole, Out Of Control, Holden Ya Dime Up I Could Be Lazy Sitting On Your Couch Or I Could Be Crazy Cussin Pidgeons -- coulda been Catch me I'm balling, catch me I'm balling Catch me like Spalding, catch me like Rawlings If he indeed the MC Invite him in/vitamin like GNC Can't see me like BIG on CMT Did a little bit of time on BMG But this right here homie, this all me Can you be down? Nah, nigga C.M.B. That's cold, that ain't nice G So what though? Little homie remind me of Ice-T By the way we share the same birthday The word play is work but pimping- a bathing harry
His reason for not voting may have something to do with his Islamic upbringing and the treatment of muslims in this country today.. noppe... he does not belive in the politics... becouse their ruled by illuminati ecty
I stack my paper and throw off my cents This is top flo', better look out below Pennies from heaven is the same as a semi from the second And I reign supreme Turn your umbrellas upside down Did you even catch the change in theme? -FAILURE- I would put it down but i cant due to the glue that i use the fuse everything together well i spilled some on my hands and God Damn i might have to carry this forever Well im crazy to the game till they bury me insane -MEAN AND VICIOUS- And if the rain stops, And everything's dry she would cry Just so I can drink the tears from her eyes She'll teach me how to fly Even cushion my fall If my engines ever stall and I plummet from the sky -THE COOLEST-
"I told her, Fire-breathing dragon, he best not harm me, or he'll be sorry when he meets my one man army." -Sunshinee "Never met her before. But i think i like her like a metaphor. Shes hard to get." -Sunshinee "Woken up by the horn of an SUV I said "see, too beautiful to let you sleep" -Sunshinee "Momma said beware of what the devil do Tell 'em that your soul's not for sale like the W's" -Presuree "And in my flyness I've become the hero and the sidekick The rider and the nigga that I ride with" -Hi-Definition "Once caught her changing her batteries in her halo, Receipt for her wings and everything that she paid for, And the address to the factory where they made those" -Streets On Fire "As gas fills the room and rockets destroy everything around him, He stands to find himself surround by thousands of soldiers that his once trained to never miss their targets.Heartless" - Hello/Goodbye "How Old? Well im like 10 - 11. Been fightin' since i was like 6 or 7" - Little Weapon "With AK-47's that they shootin' into heave like they're tryin to kill the Jetsons" - Little Weapon "So they pulled out and robbed him with the same gun they shot him with. Put it to his head and said "You scared ain't ya?" He said: "Hustler for death. No heaven for a gangsta." -The Cool "Better believe most of us wanna leave, the furthest we went was outta our minds. But we still here" -Coming From Where I'm From "The older brother of the drug game. The give of fame, the take-awayer of lame" -Conflict Diamonds "How you going to school me when I grew up with your teachers" - The National Anthem "I ain't the hottest nigga out. I got that fire though, you gone have to send you hottest nigga out" -Pop Pop "A trained German Shepard that barks when it's angered to watch my possessions and look out for the strangers." -US Placers The Whole Song: Hurt Me Soul The Instrumental He Say She Say DayDreamin' Hip-Hop Saved My Life Put You On Game Streets Fire Fighters Angels


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Maybe you blame your parents for your lack of height, your inability to carry a tune or your uneven teeth. Now you can blame them for your poor eating habits, too.
Two new studies in genetics have found that your diet can alter your DNA, so it's possible to pass on your love for potato chips, LiveScience reports. Sorry, kiddos. Mama couldn't help taking down all that Dairy Queen.
In one of the studies, researchers found that an adult's diet "induces changes in all cells—even sperm and egg cells—and that these changes can be passed on to offspring," according to the website.
On the positive side, the second study found that parents who eat well can affect their babies, too, LiveScience adds.
"It is possible that eating more omega-3 fatty acids, choline, betaine, folic acid and vitamin B12, by mothers and fathers, possibly can alter chromatin state and mutations, as well as have beneficial effects . . . leading to birth of a 'super baby' with a long life and a [lower risk] of diabetes and metabolic syndrome," researcher Ram B. Singh tells the website. "This is just a possibility, to be proven by more experiments."
We'll remember this next time the kids refuse to eat their vegetables.
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You may not know it, but Utah's premier (read: only) gay publication is on the ropes.
Q Salt Lake has been covering the gay/bi/lesbian/transgender and (so important in Utah) /gay-curious scenes since Michael Aaron bet his second mortgage on it in the dark old days of anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment drives.
Now it's time to pay the piper. But at risk isn't just Aaron's little house in the Gayborhood, but a cohesive—and better yet, edgy— force in gay and progressive politics in general.
Case in point: It was a Q story that christened the Marmalade District as the "Gayborhood" and triggered a debate on whether or not a gay ghetto actually exists in Salt Lake City. (Probably not—gays live everywhere.) What was important was that a discussion acknowledging the economic and culture importance of the LGBT community had reached the level of a mayoral debate!
Then came the Prop 8 kiss-ins, meetings with Mormon Church officials (albeit low-level officials) and ever grander Pride Day parades—with a Mormon support contingent. (Next year: Gayle Ruzicka as grand marshal!) Q was there.
In a state that boasts a LGBT community nationally recognized for its vibrance in the face of its Legislature's 14th Century mentality, is nothing short of amazing. That that same community would not have its own voice, would be equally amazing—and sad.


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