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Definition of crook in English:
- Every year more and more shepherds hang up their crooks.
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- I started getting patches of it in the crook of my elbows, on my neck and around my eyes.
- Early in the 18th century, horns began to be made on which separate coils of tubing of different lengths, called crooks, could be inserted at the mouthpipe to give the horn a different key.
- Further notes became available when added lengths of tube, known as crooks or shanks, could be fitted.
- Bernie's team work hard to catch thieves, whether car crooks or shoplifters.
- The majority of prisoners are crooks, thugs, murderers and rapists, who took the lives of people and did irreparable damage to women and young girls.
- The sport, if that's what it is, has seen way more than its fair share of gangsters and con men and other crooks.
verb[with object]
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- Caroline stopped walking and turned to her husband, crooking her finger.
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- So laughter is the answer to all the crook things that happen.
- This is about units in the normal market, which are regarded by many as a crook investment at the best of times.
- We had a bad phone call at about 1.30 in the morning and after that have had a couple of crook letters.
- Michael came to Britain when his frail crook father returned and gave himself up in May, after 35 years on the run.
- 'I'm not a doctor but if blokes are crook they should stay home,' he said.
- And despite battling a weak heart and a crook knee, Donald can't see himself giving away his volunteer work anytime soon.
- For the most part, this is true; nobody really needs a third party to inform them that their boss is a crook bastard.
be crook on
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- I was crook on them, but fortunately with time you learn to give it up.
- 'What a relief, I'd have been crook on myself if I'd have mucked up then, '.
go crook
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- And if that happens, you don't tend to go crook at your partner, and if you do go crook at your partner, well then you have little chance of being a good doubles players I think.
- He invited me in just in case Bev went crook.
crookery noun
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- When we each get up to our particular bit of crookery and deviousness we don't say, 'I'm stealing or cheating' we say 'I'm beating the system.'
- Our adult children now all do their banking on the internet and are happy to take their chances with electronic crookery, but I am of the old school who likes to see the whites of a teller's eyes when making a deposit.
Middle English (in the sense 'hooked tool or weapon'): from Old Norse krókr 'hook'. A noun sense 'deceit, guile, trickery' (compare with crooked) was recorded in Middle English but was obsolete by the 17th century The Australian senses are abbreviations of crooked.
A crook was originally a hooked tool or weapon. The source is Old Norse krokr 'hook'. The word used to mean 'dishonest trick, guile' in medieval English, and although this sense had fallen from use by the 17th century it gave rise to villains being known as crooks in late 19th-century America. In Australia and New Zealand crook has meant 'bad, unpleasant', 'dishonest, unscrupulous', and 'ill, unwell' since the late 1890s. These uses might come from the old British thieves' slang sense 'stolen'.
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Investments in disease prevention — a core principle of President Obama's health-care overhaul legislation — would face a setback under his budget proposal for next year.
Obama's fiscal 2013 budget would scale back the Prevention and Public Health Fund, established as part of the health law, by over $4 billion by fiscal 2022 — leaving that much less money for public-health prevention programs meant to thwart outbreaks or cut down on rates of diabetes, heart disease, and other chronic conditions that account for 75% of U.S. health-care costs.
The law originally called for $21 billion between fiscal 2010 and 2022, a substantial boost in public-health funding. Now it calls for about $16.75 billion over that period.
That's still a lot of money. But so far, the prevention fund has been used heavily to compensate for cuts to the regular budget of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rather than for its originally intended use — new disease prevention-related programs.
A $664 million, or 11%, cut to the CDC's proposed budget, is the largest proposed for all the government's health agencies and would amount to a $1.4 billion erosion in the agency's discretionary budget since fiscal 2010. Cuts would come in immunization and public-health preparedness as well as the elimination of an $80 million pot of money awarded to health departments for preventive services.
Of $1.25 billion in prevention fund money proposed for fiscal 2013, the bulk — $903 million — is directed to the CDC to fill in funding gaps and pay for some new activities, such as surveillance for health-care-associated infections and improving the efficiency of overloaded state laboratories.
About $107 million of the prevention fund dollars would fund programs related to birth defects and developmental disabilities. Another $261 million would be targeted at a breast and cervical cancer program and $72 million would be used for immunization activities.
"If you don't take full advantage of the prevention fund, it will come back several times over in health-care costs down the road," Jeff Levi, executive director of the Trust for America's Health, which advocates for spending on prevention, said in reaction to the budget proposal. "Backfilling wasn't the intent of the prevention fund."
Such cuts reflect "difficult choices" the administration had to make in a time of budget pressures, Bill Corr, deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, said at a briefing Monday. "We have to set priorities. We have to make difficult tradeoffs."
Given tight budgets, he said, the administration will focus on the most innovative preventive-health programs. The administration also proposed consolidating funding at the CDC for chronic diseases with common risk factors into one comprehensive program to save money and improve outcomes.
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More mitochondrial dysfunction than expected?
This Science post is by Staff blogger, Leanne Chukoskie, Ph.D.
Like most parents, the Jensens had little information about the factors that might help explain their son's autism other than it was compounded by severe and frequent seizures. When their son was tested, however, they learned that Levi's cells harbored a mutation that affected the way his cells produced energy. The Jensens now had valuable information to help treat their son. For individuals with his particular type of mitochondrial dysfunction, certain seizure medications can cause serious side effects.
In a way, Levi Jensen was lucky. He lived near a large research center that specializes in mitochondrial disorders which is funded by Autism Speaks to investigate the role mitochondria play in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The diagnosis of mitochondrial disorder or dysfunction is difficult. Multiple tests, often including an invasive muscle biopsy, are required. How many other individuals with autism might benefit from a deeper understanding of how their cells use energy?
A new study released today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reveals that children with autism may have more trouble fueling the energy demands of their cells due to dysfunctional mitochondria. In this new Autism Speaks-funded study from UC Davis, blood samples from 10 children between the ages 2 and 5 years old and diagnosed with autism were compared with matched control samples from typically developing children. The investigators found evidence of "breaks" in the cascade of enzymes that mitochondria use to create energy in 8 of 10 autism samples, but no control samples. They found evidence of a mutation in a gene that supports mitochondrial function, also only in the autism samples. Lastly, in most of the autism samples, there were extra copies of mitochondria. The over-proliferation of mitochondria may also be a sign that individually the mitochondria are not working optimally, and are compensating for reduced function from each mitochondrion by producing more mitochondria overall.
Previous studies have shown that breaks in mitochondrial function can lead to a host of disorders, and the energy-demanding brain can be particularly affected. However, none of the previous autism studies has shown as high a proportion of impaired mitochondrial function as the current study. Cecilia Giulivi, Ph.D., the lead researcher on the study and a professor of Molecular Biosciences in the School of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis, was drawn to research abnormal energy metabolism in autism because several symptoms of ASD overlap with mitochondrial diseases.
"We wanted to test the hypothesis in a direct way: is there a mitochondrial dysfunction in material readily available from children with full autism syndrome?" says Giulivi. The research team chose to look at white blood cells—lymphocytes—because they are a type of cell that has significant quantities of mitochondria. Drawing blood is much less invasive than obtaining a muscle biopsy, but traditionally mitochondrial function has been difficult to assess in blood because there are relatively few mitochondria in blood, compared with other body tissues. In fact, red blood cells have no mitochondria at all.
While these results are an exciting new development for both this area of research and for families, it is important to remember that this is still the edge of science and not yet a clinically-useful set of tests. However, if replicated, these tests could make screening for mitochondrial dysfunction much more accessible.
Dr. Giulivi and colleagues are already taking the next steps to follow up this research. They are studying the families of children with autism to try to understand the mechanism that causes the mitochondrial deficiency. The samples are part of a larger study (CHARGE; Childhood Autism Risks from Genetics and the Environment) in which the investigators are already measuring both genetic and environmental influences on autism risk. Adding mitochondria to that mix will be especially helpful. Dr. Giulivi was also quick to add a note of deep appreciation for all the families that participated in the study, saying "Without their participation, we couldn't have done it!"
Indeed the enthusiasm for research participation often works both ways. The seizure medication Levi had been taking—Depakote—seemed to make Levi very drowsy. At three years old, Levi was sleeping and napping for 16 hours of the day. His mitochondrial specialist switched medication right away due to concern of an underlying mitochondrial disorder for which Depakote produced severe side effects.
The Jensens are thrilled to report that Levi now has more energy than ever, has regained words that he lost prior to the medication change, and is generally functioning at a much higher level. For Levi's parents, Curtis and Alaina Jensen, learning about Levi's mitochondrial disease helped them gain an understanding of metabolic functions and sparked creative ways to make special considerations for the remaining challenges Levi faced. Alaina says, "We have found that exercise has been a big key for Levi to feel good and increase his energy and stamina. It took a long time for him to build up the endurance to play, but it has been worth all the effort. With a combination of the right seizure medication, supplements, exercise and diet, we now have a very happy boy."
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November 30, 2010 at 9:02 pm
Beautifully explained.
My understanding is that "full autism" is severe, medically involved ASD w/ significant loss of function via regression. I may be wrong, I am just guessing.
My son has mito disorder as well and was prescribed Depakote- also a nightmare and so difficult to wean him off. I like this study because these scientists are working on the causes of the symptoms and viewing ASD as dynamic and treatable w/ right biomedical intervention rather than old paradigm as genetic and inevitable.
December 1, 2010 at 3:10 am
That is great guys, good job! : )
December 1, 2010 at 8:14 am
AWESOME!!!! Happy, happy tears.
December 1, 2010 at 10:34 pm
One of the critical factors on mitochondrial dysfunction is screen for it in children. As many may know, one of the primary tests done to look for mito issues is a very invasive and painful process of muscle biopsie, As Geraldine Dawson pointed out on this study:
"It is remarkable that evidence of mitochondrial dysfunction and changes in mitochondrial DNA were detected in the blood of these young children with autism…One of the challenges has been that it has been difficult to diagnose mitochondrial dysfunction because it usually requires a muscle biopsy. If we could screen for these metabolic problems with a blood test, it would be a big step forward."
Recently, a company called Medomics developed a blood test for many mitochondrial DNA issues:
We NEED more screenings for potential mitochondrial issues in kids diagnosed on the spectrum. With the ability to screen for mito issues through a painless, non invasive blood test, there is NO reason why most children diagnosed on the spectrum should not be screened. I am not a sales rep, I am a parent of two autistic children who sees the potential and wants change in the way the mainstream medical community deals with its autistic patients…
December 2, 2010 at 3:46 pm
Bill I agree but it is much easier to just prevent the problem.
The VAST majority of people w/ mito disorders are asymptomatic. In 90% of cases isn't UNTIL an environmental exposure triggers them that problems begin.
My son's mito disorder is documented- just like Hannah Poling- but the damage is done- we only have the ability to manage the aftermath. The mitochrondria is extremely sensitive to toxins – yet there is no rational, feasible way we can pre screen every American baby – we must make our vaccines safer, with fewer toxic adjuvants
December 3, 2010 at 8:29 am
Same here. In fact, it was the Hannah Poling case that had me look at mito. When I saw that my son's medical problems fit the profile and we had an expert right here in Houston, I took him in to see what the doc had to say. He was ultimately diagnosed with significant mito dysfunction. One of the most interesting questions the doctor asked on the first appt was "Did your son lose speech after the MMR?". I had to say yes. I had not brought up the subject of vaccines, not knowing how this doctor would react. Biomedical treatment and targeted nutritional supplementation has had a tremendous positive effect on my child's health and functioning.
It is good to see Autism Speaks finally acknowledging a physical correlation for autism. The brain is a huge energy organ and if the mito are unable to power it, you are going to have autism symptoms.
December 3, 2010 at 1:51 pm
Hi Katie,
You mentioned nutrional supplements for yur child having a positive benefit on their health and functioning. Could you kindly share which nutritional supplements you found helpful.
December 2, 2010 at 6:19 pm
"Bill I agree but it is much easier to just prevent the problem."
Is it though? I'm not going to pretend to know much of anything about mitochondrial issues other than what have learned on the 'virtual' street, but I would count in as environmental triggers things like a spiked fever, lack of sleep, exposure to a plethora of household chemicals, food additives, general stress, ANY type of anesthesia and probably a dozen other issues along with vaccinations and loads per visit. You are also obviously painfully aware of the socio-economic factors involved in revamping a system and process that is a cornerstone of worldwide governmental health initiatives. Much easier to prevent the problem? While it is a wonderful sentiment, the practicalities of it are years away: both scientifically and socially.
In the meantime, we have children who could benefit from knowing what medical issues are going on. Our medical community is almost invariably giving the diagnosis of autism, then moving on with no investigation of potential medical issues that our children may have. Again, I am no expert on mitochondrial issues, but from what I've read, from 2 to 5% of autistics MAY have mitochondrial issues…at a BARE MINIMUM! What other disease that affects 1 in 20 people is NOT screened for? One of the red flags that doctors are supposed to use as a guideline to suspect mitochondrial dysfunction is regression or developmental delay. NOT ONE of the doctors we have seen for my 8 year old daughter, who clearly regressed, recommended we pursue it.
One of the reasons I feel this was not brought up, is the painful and invasive process of muscle biopsy. With tests like the one I mentioned, we can take that concern off the table, and get doctors to CONTINUE to diagnose and investigate, instead of stopping at the word autism and leaving parents with the idea that most anything that is 'wrong' with their child can be attributed to autism.
As with most of us parents of autistic children, I could go on for pages with the injustices we suffer from the mainstream medical/insurance establishment. But screening autistics for mitochondrial dysfunction, especially those who regress, is one area that we could get almost universal acceptance within our autism community, irrespective of causation beliefs or vaccine reform. We need to move medical treatment of autistics forward, and screening for mitochondrial dysfunction in autism is one area that should be mandatory and universally accepted…
December 3, 2010 at 9:30 am
Our daughter with autism, now 20, surely had mitochondial disease. None of her drs at Kennedy Krieger, DUKE or MUSC have ever discussed this with us. Where do we go for help? It's not fair to her.
December 3, 2010 at 10:02 am
It seems we are gettting closer and closer to finding the basis of Autism or rather the combo of issues that causes Autism I think we can all agree that if there is an overload of physical, enviornmental, stressors to our children it has a definite lasting effect. Its funny, my son lost his speaking ability after getting a high fever from an MMR shot……and now to this may be contributed to mitochondrial issues.
December 5, 2010 at 3:43 am
My son at 18 months of age, lost his speaking and social abilities as well, after receiving the MMR.
December 3, 2010 at 10:06 am
It is mentioned that the Jensens switched medixation from Depokate to another seizure medication. Can that be shared so we know which other seizure medication helped.
December 3, 2010 at 12:25 pm
Our son is 25 yrs. old and we have discovered this year that our family has the MTFHR gene defect that is involved with B vitamins inparticular at the mitochodiral level. This is definately helping us understand his health, with his particular sensitivites to medications, etc. This was discovered with a simple genetic test – bloodwork only. A geneticist can help council which is the next step for our family.
Does anyone know what medication the Jensens used successfully for seizures? My son is currently having some serious issues with Depakote.
December 3, 2010 at 1:06 pm
my son is 19 1/2 year , he would qualify as severly autistic but he is sick, cant eliminate toxins. we intentionally harm this group when we treat thier symptoms as behaviors. autism treatment center should be understanding why these symptoms exist, find solutions. We should recognize the sick are collateral damage , we have done them harm, whenever a autism organization treats thier symptoms like behaviors.
December 3, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Bring a copy of this article to your neurologist and they should be able to answer your questions about mitochondrial dysfunction and Depakote or at least be able to find someone who does know.
December 3, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Do the supplements replace the missing mito enzymes? And if so what are they? Also, how does the dietary program work?
December 3, 2010 at 1:24 pm
December 3, 2010 at 1:30 pm
Shon :
It seems we are gettting closer and closer to finding the basis of Autism or rather the combo of issues that causes Autism I think we can all agree that if there is an overload of physical, enviornmental, stressors to our children it has a definite lasting effect. Its funny, my son lost his speaking ability after getting a high fever from an MMR shot……and now to this may be contributed to mitochondrial issues.
I don't think that's the case at all. You have to prove why it's happening and also why it's not happening in others to draw a conclusion. It's interesting, but this is a very small sample and hopefully the initial finding will lead to a larger study. To run out and put your child on medication for something they may not have is irresponsible.
Our children may all share the same diagnosis but I find the symptoms, conditions, histories and behaviors to all be vastly different. My son exhibits all the classic behaviors of Autism but he didn't suffer regression, or react to vaccines, or suffer seizures, or environmental reactions. It makes me wonder sometimes if we are all talking about the same thing. Or maybe Autism is so complicated that we are actually looking at a dozen different disorders that share SOME common traits and possibly all have DIFFERENT causes.
December 5, 2010 at 3:42 am
My son lost his speaking and social abilities along with other abilities, 1 to 2 weeks after receiving the MMR vaccine.
December 3, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Hi Folks,
Recently, a friend of mine who has a child with autism shared with me about a formulation that he had come across on a website (www.n-met.com). Apparently, the website introduces a formulation called N-MET invented by a former professor from Cornell and his colleague. The professor discusses how the formulation provides supplements that would increase energy production in mitochondria. After reading this article and looking at the website, I have a better appreciation of the cause of autism. The formulation now makes intuitive sense. My friend told me that his child has noticeably improved (better focus and calmness) since taking the formulation.
December 3, 2010 at 4:18 pm
My friend sent me a link to this article. I have a 7yr old diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, as well as two younger children who we know have an unknown metabolic disorder more than likely caused by a mitochondrial disorder. It is something that has never been seen before, and they still can't figure out where the problem is. Their Geneticist/Metabolics Dr has been wondering for the last year if our oldest may also be suffering from a mitochondrial disorder. I will definitly be forwarding this on to their Dr, but I'm very anxious to see more information on this.
December 3, 2010 at 10:01 pm
Thank you for this as it is timely for my family. We just got the diagnosis yesterday as Mitochondrial disorder. We have had Autism as her working diagnosis for 7 yrs but our Neurologist knew that it didn't add up. It spanned 7 months from the onset of the first consult in which mitochondrial was presented as a possibility,to the final muscle biopsy. It was along process but Moms and Dads you must persevere. We now have a definitive answer. The problem remains that this disorder is complicated for all involved to understand. If there are any studies that we could participate in, please let me know at email@example.com.
December 4, 2010 at 8:42 am
SOme peopel are wondering about alternatives to depakote. I'm not a doctor, and I have no idea what the Jensens switched to. However, I am an adult Aspie with seizure issues – I get them from fevers, stress, meds, etc. I have been on a rather high dose of Neurontin (gabapentin) for over a decade now and it's done wonders. I function! In addition, my doc found that taking most or all of the dose at night still controls the seizures and helps me be alert in the day.
December 5, 2010 at 12:44 pm
We went through a few to find what worked for him. First we tried Zarontin which gave him hives. Next we tried Keppra (a good choice for children…but sometimes affects ASD kids negativly), but he cried almost non-stop for 3 weeks. It had been such a difficult transition going through the medications, we tried no medication to see what would happen. Over the course of 4 weeks, the seizure activity returned and increased so much that he was having his more severe behaviors return…Biting, Hitting, Pushing, Tantrums, Severe Rocking, Chewing, Head Banging, etc. Last we tried Trileptal. It greatly decreased the seizures, he was much happier, more energy and much more engaging….however since it wasn't fully controlling the seizure activity (show by EEG) we decided to add Lamictal. Lamictal can have serious side effects and so we increased the dosage very slowly. He has now been on the full dose for about 6 weeks and is doing very well. We have not yet had a follow-up EEG to confirm complete control, however he is doing the best he's ever done. For the future the plan is to slowly remove the Trileptal from his protocol and just stay with the Lamictal.
December 5, 2010 at 2:39 pm
My 16 year old son w/autism has been on Lamictal for over a year and half. At 14, he started having seizures and typically occuring within an hour of him waking. We did have to increase the dosage gradually over months to ensure he was at the correct dosage. In fact, we went 7 months with no seizures and thought we were smooth sailing. They have returned at once a month, again within an hour of him waking. Recently, his doctor moved his night time dosage to bedtime, and 50mg more than his morning dosage. We are now 2 months with no seizures. Hoping we can get to the correct dosage and timing to go seizure-free. Next stop, check into Mitochondrial disorder.
December 8, 2010 at 3:46 pm
My daughter is 20 years old. She has developmental delays and pdd. Over the past month she has not done well at her internship at the hospital cafeteria. She complained she wasn't feeling well, sat down, and refused to work. She started a new internship today that is in a quieter setting. She also does a lot of complaining at home. She is slower to get up in the morning, and complains of all sorts of ailments since she wants to stay home from school. When she exercises at the gym, she complains that her legs and arms hurt. I took her to her psychopharmacologist who increased her Prozac. I took her to her internist who removed some wax from her ears. Could she have mitochondrial disorder? I heard there is a blood test for this at Children's Hospital in Boston. Is there any treatment for mitochondrial disorder?
December 13, 2010 at 2:34 pm
Linda: I was drawn to this blog by a story on MSNBC regarding the UC study on Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Autism. As your daughter is an adult I can confidently share with you significant research by some brilliant and committed scientists which might lead you to an solution for your daughter's complaints. There has been research on mitochondrial energy production and also on cellular inflammation which is caused by oxidative stress. Please contact me at: firstname.lastname@example.com if you would like me to share this research. I truly believe it would be worth your time or I wouldn't have taken the time to reply to your post.
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December 13, 2010 at 2:24 pm
There is a lot of work being done in the field of oxidative stress and energy production in the mitochondria. What I've learned through my two years of research is that adults as well as children need two critical elements in order for the enzymatic reaction to occur in the mitochondria which creates ATP (energy) as well as glutathione to protect the cell from the resulting oxidative reaction. Those are Ribose and Cysteine. If there is not enough ATP or Glutathione the intracellular enzymatic activity in the mitochondria will be diminished. Read the work of Dr. Herbert Nagasawa, who has spent the last 25 years studying glutathione and has 18 peer reviewed articles (over 100 in his illustrious career) and 25 patents on Riboceine, which allows the cell to increase it's own natural ATP and Glutathione production. I'm not a doctor, just a Baby Boomer who is curious about the optimum ways to stay healthy without drugs and passionate about helping those with Autism Spectrum Disorders and their parents. If you would like to learn more I can provide Dr. Nagasawa's research and recommendations along with work that's been done with supplements that have increased cellular performance (energy) in children and adults with ASD by increasing ATP and Glutathione levels.
December 27, 2010 at 11:39 pm
Where can I find Dr. Nagasawa's research and recommendations, as I have just begun the journey into mito dysfunction and oxidative stress to help my son who is 9 and inherited a dup15q11-13 chromosome abnormality from me, which has been identified as a mitochondrial energy deficient phenotype associated w/ autism. No surprise as my family history presents with many associated illnesses and disease. Would love any info you have…thank you in advance.
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December 14, 2010 at 10:58 am
What was the seizure medicine that replaced the Depakote ? I am a high school nurse and would love more info .
December 22, 2010 at 8:55 am
Iam an adult with Aspergers and Fibromyalgia. For years I have wondered if there was a connection with Autism and physical complaints such as Fibromyalgia. Could Mitochondrial Dysfunction be the cause of my physical problems?
December 22, 2010 at 9:52 am
To Martha – I have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia as well and have come to learn that the muscle pain and fatigue was the result of medications that I was taking. Once off the meds I have improved dramatically.
December 22, 2010 at 9:53 am
It is my understanding that Lamictal was the replacement medication.
December 22, 2010 at 12:50 pm
What type of medications were you taking? I am on a lot of medication, but had all the fatigue before medication.
December 28, 2010 at 6:01 am
I was wondering if anyone knew if the Mitochondrial Dysfunction could also lead to a problem with too much energy. I have two daughters with Autism one who is 10 and one 7. The 7 year old is hyper beyond your wildest dreams. We have found very few medicines for hyper-activity that have worked, and the ones that have worked made her scream and cry all day. I was just wondering if there have been any studies showing the opposite to also be true.
April 16, 2011 at 7:48 am
I have a 10 year old son on the spectrum. He also has adhd, central auditory processing disorder and asthma. We have had him on many different meds through the years. He was on heavy duty anti-psych meds like Risperadol and later abilify. Each worked great for about a year. When he had a growth spurt we tried to increase meds and he started having tics. This happened on each med. Our Neurologist said the meds wouldn't do that…but we increased meds tics increased…got off meds tics…went away. We tried Ritalin one day and got the same reaction as your daugther. He screamed and cried all night. I never gave it to him again. We now take him to a child psychiatrist. She put him on a blend of meds rather than one heavy duty medication. He is now doing great on Prozac for the mood swings and Strattera for the adhd. I am sure that doesn't answer your question but just wanted to let you know that my little guy also deals with adhd. He does get tired out after a little strenuous excercise though. I am sure that is from the asthma. But otherwise he used to bounce around all day long. Climbing on everything. Even though he is much more calm he still has his fidgety moments. He knocked a tooth out the other day swinging between his bed and dresser.
March 1, 2011 at 1:00 am
Joan :Hi Katie,
You mentioned nutrional supplements for yur child having a positive benefit on their health and functioning. Could you kindly share which nutritional supplements you found helpful.
March 6, 2011 at 1:10 pm
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Hi Katie,
You mentioned nutrional supplements for yur child having a positive benefit on their health and functioning. Could you kindly share which nutritional supplements you found helpful.
For Levi's Mitochondrial Disease, we have found 3 supplements very helpful with Mood,, energy and stamina. They are Ubiquinol (more readily absorbed form of CO Q10), B-100 (high dose multi B vitamin), Acetyl-L Carnitine (this has also been very important with his epilepsy and seizure medication). We have tried periods without the supplements, all at once and one at a time, but they all have a noticeable and significant effect.
July 7, 2011 at 12:38 pm
"The Jensens are thrilled to report that Levi now has more energy than ever, has regained words that he lost prior to the medication change, and is generally functioning at a much higher level. For Levi's parents, Curtis and Alaina Jensen, learning about Levi's mitochondrial disease helped them gain an understanding of metabolic functions and sparked creative ways to make special considerations for the remaining challenges Levi faced."
How exciting are these developments in the area of research for autism? I hope more clinical tests can be done to make screening for mitochondrial dysfunction more accessible for parents of children with autism spectrum disorders.
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Just went to the rec center and did a bar workout
Still people leave their McDonalds Breakfust Muffin packages all over the exercise room and don't put their weights back. No respect for the gym. Oh well, I'm fussy. But I felt hella butch and tuff.
Now I'm going to the Castro to get tix for the Milk biopic and some coffee for the week. Really going to avoid running this week as to give myself a time to recover.
So Rec Center, first thing, early before a run? Yes. Prison Daddy wasn't there or neither was Nate whom I met at the Powerhouse that same day, the last time I worked out at the Rec Center. It was grey in the morning, but by the time I left the rec center it was totally raining. I went down to the Flower Market and bought 5 unbloomed orchids and on the way home I thought to myself, "**** it. I'm not going to the mountain today. I have nothing to prove to nobody."
So after I potted the orchids, I went to 24 Hour Nautilus at the Portrero Center. I printed out a 30 day pass last night when I was trolling the internet for trail running sites. I was taken aback a little that they didn't have locks for the guests and you have to pay for a towel, but the Membership Director, Zan, saw me flummoxed and let me borrow a lock. I'll just say it right here that I would never be a member of a gym that didn't have towels and locks for the guests.
So I took a little tour through the gym by myself, saw where the weights were situated and the lay of the cardio machine and got into my running gear and grabbed a machine in front of a window so as to best pretend that I was outside.
I set the machine for a 51 minute workout on medium intensity and random inclines. I pretty much ran it at 6.2 but would blow it up to 7 and rest and recover to drink water around a 2.6 (these numbers are miles per hour). All told at the end I did just over 5 something miles then wanted to step up the intensity by doing 1 minute sprints. For this I increased the speed for 4 sets: 8.5, 9, 9.5 and 10 (max). The machine takes about 30 seconds to get up to speed and the rest is all out. Then ¥øu get a minute to recover.
While I was working out, I took off my tank top and the manager told me I had to work out with it on, so I tucked it up and pretty much did my routine in what looked like a sports bra.
Well I got that done, but it doesn't come close to the trail. I still don't like the gym, and like nasty food, its a good thing to try it out every now and then to make sure ya still hate it.
But at least at the gym you get to go naked. Went to the co-ed wet area and jumped into the hot tub. Not bad. Then I got hard cruised by this guy who went into the steam room. I gave it a respectable minute then went inside. He had been in there too long, I could tell. I went out and when I came back he was gone. So I found him in the shower, of course, in the very last stall, of course of course, and he showered at me in my direction and I showered right back with all the indifference I could muster. Hot cruisy naked little flirt me!
So out and over, so not impressed by the gym and I went to go get my ID back, but Zan was in a meeting with that dick manager who told me to put my shirt back on and I waited for 15 minutes severely bonking with hunger and on edge cos I still had to finish my Thanksgiving shopping. And then they were surprised that I had a 30 day pass from active.com instead of the usual 7 day pass they dole out to suckers. Zan told me that she would note my account. Its not my fault that they don't understand their own online promos.
So at Safeway, no shopping carts and no cheese cloth. At the dollar store, no cheese cloth, no dolphin wind chimes but a roasting pan for my Macaroni and Cheese and a white cotton tank top that I can cut up into a half shirt (sports bra) the next time I have to work out at that gym. At Walgreens, no cheese cloth and I decided against buying film but I did pick up a bag of chips an Odwalla Bar and a cold Starbucks Coffee in a can. Finally Foodsco to save the day. Cheese cloth. Now we can do the Martha Stewart turkey where you soak the cheese cloth in a stick of butter and a bottle of wine and roast that ***** all day.
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Hey guys, the title of my thread gives away my question. What's a comfortable pace I should try to maintain while running 10-13 miles? Sometime I get too anxious to go faster to watch the mileage go up but sometimes I know that's not right. I am still learning how to match my distance with a pace. Any suggestions?
Not sure how to answer this question but I'm going to suggest that you find the pace that works for you.
I'm not a very fast runner but I'm good at endurance. I average around a 10 min/mile pace during training and a 9 min/mile pace on race day (on a good day). So, for me, 10:30 min/mile would be comfortable for that kind of mileage. But I also haven't done much speed work lately either (planning to start soon). The more speedwork you do, the better your pace will be. But again, it depends on you. I know there are plenty of regulars on the board who would run circles around me at that distance but that's what's comfortable for them.
Speedwork helps to increase speed, but pace is something that has to be practiced over time to allow your body to adjust to it at that mileage.
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Rock and Roll USA Half Marathon, 02:54:26 (1st run POST injury)
Cherry Blossom 10-Miler, 01:49:00
Upcoming Races 2012:
IronGirl Half Marathon, 4/29/12
Frederick Half Marathon, 5/6/12
Atlantic City International Sprint Tri, 09/17/12
Rock and Roll Philly Half Marathon, 09/18/12
Baltimore Half Marathon, 10/13/12
Marine Corps Marathon, 10/28/12
ING NYC Marathon, 11/4/12
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Teach, Learn, Play 5k, 10/02/11 00:26:57 (PR)
Marine Corps Marathon 10k, 10/30/11 01:05:38 (PR)
Baltimore Half Marathon, 10/15/11, 02:24:15 (PR)
You have not given enough information to answer the question! You should look at a running Calculator, a good one is Mcmillan Running Calculator. You put in a race time and it will give you just about any time you are looking for: Endurance Workout: easy/long/recovery, Stamina Workouts Steady-State runs/Tempo runs/Temo Intervals, and speed stuff 400/800/1200/1600. ect. Good luck
Your question doesn't include enough information to give an answer. Obviously the pace for running 10-13 miles isn't the same for everyone. What is the right pace for me or for an Olympic athlete are two different things. So there is no way anyone can tell you, based on your general question, what pace is right for YOU.
Your best way to find out the right pace for YOU, would be to look at a training pace calculator which takes into account your current race paces and translates that into training paces for different distances - and also for speedwork. The one I've used is http://www.mcmillanrunning.com/mcmillanrunningcalculator.htm Bookmark that link because you'll refer to it a lot as a runner!
(In other words, +1 to BOSNPM's answer above!)
Well, because I am new at this, I don't know what information I should divulge. I am 5'2", 113 lbs. I don't know if that matters! I have shorter strides than a tall person I suppose. I like long distance versus shorter distance. I don't think I am that good with bursts of speed to ever be a sprinter. I LOVE long distance and I love challenging my endurance abilities. I can comfortably keep a 5.7-6.5 pace for 12 miles. (I just logged 12 this morning!) I don't know if this is a decent pace etc...I'm looking for suggestions. I typically begin with my first 6 miles averaging 5.7 to 6mph pace. Then I increase it to 6.1 then 6.2 until I reach 6.5. The only thing that hurts me are my knees sometimes but nothing else. The pain subsides within hours and with streching. My question I suppose is, I am never truly entirely worn out and I believe that's a good thing because they all say you train to race, not race to train. So, with that said, what do you all suggest? What are little milestones that I should celebrate in regard to pace. When should I try to increase my pace? I want to ensure I am injury free but that I am also pushing myself to the max.
Are you running on a treadmill? From the way you describe your pace in mph that's what it sounds like.
There is still no one answer to what is a "good" pace except what is good for you and your abilities. If you are training to place in races and you need to know how you compare to others in your age group, then you can look up race results from some recent local races and see where you fall.
The McMillan training pace calculator that we mentioned before will calculate your training paces based on the speeds you are running now. If you run a 10K in 52 minutes, for example, then the suggested "long run" pace is 9:49-10:49 (Most runners, BTW, speak of their pace in minutes per mile rather than miles per hour.) The distance of a "long run" is open to interpretation - for some runners 12 miles is a long run, to a marathoner it would be more like 18-20 miles. But there is a range to work with in the suggested paces.
You talk about being new to running - you talk about being a distance runner - you talk about increasing your pace - you talk about pushing yourself to the max. And then you talk about not wanting to get injured. So keeping those first four things in mind, you need to decide what your specific goals are. Do you want to run a faster 5K or do you want to conquer new distances? Because your training will reflect your goals and especially as a newer runner you need to focus on those goals one at a time, not try to do everything all at once. THAT is how you will avoid injury!
Definitely check out a training calculator. If you haven't run a race yet, then you can estimate race times by perceived effort. In other words, if you do say a 5K in 30 minutes and you are beathing hard ( breathe in for 1 step, out for 2), then that is a race pace. Another way to judge pace for a long, slow run is to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. If you can do that withought breaking rhythm or gasping for breath in the pauses, that's a good slow pace.
I run my long, slow runs at a breath pace of inhale on left, right, left, exhale on righ, left, right foot, or a three x three step pace. Tempo runs I do at 2 x 2, and races (5K or 10K) at 1x2 or 2x1.
Well.. its a quite open question. The answer is very simple: the pace you feel comfortable. Me I know that I am very comfortable with a pace of around 7 minutes and 30 seconds per mile for a half marathon. It really depends on you. A little advice, I would suggest you not to bother too much about it. Just train, take notes of all your trainings distances and times and just see your progress. That's where your focus should be if you are relatively new.
Thanks to everyone for giving me some information about my pace. I think it is a far too subjective questions because though your answers have been insightful, I'm still unaware how hard I should push myself. Currently, I am running on a treadmill because it's too darn hot in Phoenix, AZ. The training calculators you have provided me are great because they tell me where I should be in terms of a 1/2 marathon if I can run a 5k/10k at a specific pace. But my real question is, without overdoing it, what are your suggestions on how to comfortably increase speed without injury. On my easy days of running, I run 3-6 miles. I incorporate speed intervals as well.
@Marykb- I am new to running in regard to the fact that I am actually trying to be accountable for my running and I have running goals. You mentioned I may have too many goals. Probably! I have never pushed myself like I am today and I guess I am far too eager to get going. After thinking long and hard about what I am trying to accomplish, I have narrowed it down. My specific goal is training for a 1/2 marathon. I will sign up for a few 5ks to keep the competitive edge etc plus I think they are great for training purposes and adding to my weekly distance.
@PaquetRunning-WOW! A half marathon at 7min 30 sec pace. Holy guacamole that is Phenomenal!!! Thank you for your advice. I do take notes. I write down how I was feeling and I determine when and where during my run could I have picked up the speed etc. I write down the foods I eat and I try to make connections to my energy levels and endurance abilities. Thank you for telling me not to bother too much about the pace but rather just focus on continuing to take notes to see my progress. I know I have been making progress from Day 1 to Day 123. It's just hard to see the progress day by day. I will continue to keep notes and journal.
@Everyone-You are all so insightful. Thank you for your wisdom and words of encouragement. I am truly excited to read more of your threads and feedback. Have a wonderful Monday!
Its not that fast if you consider that my partner of training went under 1h20 . Its a good 16 minutes faster. heh
Anyway, if you want a nice tool to have a visual follow up of your trainings and progress, check out www.mapmyrun.com
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Circle April 29 as the newest most important day in Aldon Smith's life and career.
A real-life day, when he won't be excused instantly and his messier actions won't be rationalized just because he can rush the quarterback.
April 29 could be the day Smith's relative immunity finally runs out and the moment the 49ers realize -- too late -- that they let this go on for far too long.
That's when the troubled linebacker is scheduled to appear before a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge on DUI and weapons charges.
This is apparently scheduled as a procedural hearing to move the Smith cases along the docket.
Maybe nothing newsworthy will happen. That's always possible, because the legal process always has its own calendar.
But, in the wake of Smith's detainment at LAX on Sunday on suspicion of making a false bomb claim, the April 29 hearing might take on a larger significance, I'm told.
Why would the judge and prosecutors feel the need to extend Smith any further leniency if he continues to get himself into so much deep trouble?
They might believe that this is finally the time for the opposite of leniency in all relevant Smith judgments.
Further along, Smith could be suspended by the NFL for the series of incidents, which may or may not ever end.
And all of that also could push this toward a larger reckoning for the 49ers franchise, as a whole.
In fact, I believe 49ers CEO Jed York and general manager Trent Baalke are reaching a tipping point after the flood of arrests and investigations involving their players in recent months.
They either take action to weed out their most embarrassing characters, or they do nothing and let it all spin further out of control.
By the way, that second option isn't really an option for sane executives and franchises that care about their roles in communities.
That doesn't mean the 49ers won't keep supporting their players; I would expect York, Baalke and coach Jim Harbaugh to remain steadfastly behind quarterback Colin Kaepernick through the Miami police investigation of the confusing "suspicious incident" earlier this month.
49ers management might even give another chance to cornerback Chris Culliver, who is facing felony and misdemeanor charges after an alleged hit-and-run.
They're in this to win games, and sometimes you have to work on the margins in order to match up the strongest against the Seattle Seahawks.
But at some point, York and Baalke have to prove they understand that true leaders draw the line, and that should've started with Smith long ago.
They're the ones who let Smith play against Indianapolis last season, only two days after his DUI arrest, and a few days before he entered a treatment center.
They're the ones who rushed him back into the lineup almost immediately after he left the rehab center and told themselves that the best thing for Smith was to let him get what he wanted.
Which was to play.
They're the ones who decided that they desperately wanted Smith to keep playing and then figured out how they were going to get to that point.
So Baalke and York doubled and tripled their bet on Smith last year, and for a while it paid off.
The 49ers were 5-0 without Smith last season, but that was against some weaker competition, and he was at All-Pro form heading into the playoffs.
Harbaugh even held Smith up as an example back in January.
"I mean, all of us who tend to point the finger at somebody else and say, 'Look where they took a misstep,' " Harbaugh told me, comparing Smith's DUI to Harbaugh's own DUI arrest in 2005.
"We think of ourselves as very smart, but how did we get to that point? Because we learned from our mistakes. We all get smart by learning from our mistakes."
Then, a few months later, another huge mistake by Smith, it seems.
But Harbaugh isn't the moral and ethical leader of the 49ers, he's the head coach, paid to win football games, period, and let management deal with everything else.
York and Baalke are the franchise's leaders and the ones who have let this situation go on to this point.
Now is the reckoning, it seems, for their headlong pursuit of victory and their rationalizations and excuses. They will have to make a call, eventually, and I think York and Baalke know it.
They've reached that point, not voluntarily, but they should've seen it coming back in September, really.
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Would that work for the Gunzerker ability cheevo too?
Would that work for the Gunzerker ability cheevo too?
Oh my God if it does I'm playing Borderlands tonight for sure.
I sort of doubt it, or else Edd wouldn't be missing that Achievement.
Maybe no one thought to try it?
This is the Internet. Everything has been tried by at least one person.
I'll await news from someone who has attempted it.
EDIT: Jewgle confirms it doesn't work for Salvador. But, some people couldn't get it to work for Zero either so I don't know how hard anyone tried with Salvador. You should test it ZP.
If not I'll just find thst class mod that let's him do it in half the time.
Most achievement guides to do the game in the quickest way all suggest to do Salvador as your main as it's the only class that needs the spec to do it's specified achievement. Following up with zer0 if you do it without abusing the Bandit Technical.
From doing zer0's achievement that way, deception ends after the first seat change, which only adds a couple of seconds, the climbing in the car from the side adds roughly 3-4 so with the full time of deception itself used gets you over the time for the achievement. Gunzerker only lasts 42 seconds without killing enemies and having the Yippe Ki Yay skill, so the jumping in the car and skipping the seat once will never get you to the required 90 seconds.
Apparently GearBox misinterpreted us when we asked for more uses for Eridium because their solution in the next bit of DLC is to introduce raid bosses that take more than 4 pieces of Eridium to fight.
Come on Gearbox just give us more backpack space. I don't see how that could be game breaking in any way whatsoever.
Anywho, started TVHM with my Mechromancer and I really do plan on doing absolutely no side missions (Except maybe the one or two that either have no reward or a skin/head I've already unlocked as a reward) until I hit level 50 and kill the Warrior.
They could use it to fuel some kind of buff. Could be fun, you never know.
Sadly my TVHM run screwed me. I tried not to do any side quests involving blue items, next day I booted up and it decided to accept some of those quests for me. I hadn't pressed the skip ahead quests because you've done them elsewhere option so I have no idea what happened with the save.
Hopefully with the rumour of a third play through because of the level cap rise they will finally fix this and allow us to reset the side quests if we want to get the named item at the cap level. Not that I have any room after all the drops that already bloat my main character.
More space and ability to reset quests would be handy. I'd ask for no glitches but that's never going to happen.
Yeah trying to level up in TVHM with doing as few side quests as possible is a pain.
Been playing all morning trying to get from lvl 32 to 33 and my experience bar isn't even half full.
And now I know to stay away from co-op. Host activated a some quest I wanted to avoid.
This is just proving to be too needlessly complicated. Think I'm just going to make a list of quests that give unique items and avoid those instead of of avoiding reward quests altogether.
Salvador is crazy fun, I don't know why you guys give him so much shit. I mean, I understand table acting like that because Salvador's brown and all, but the rest of you people? Shameful.
Jews and stuff. You know. You people.
Me being circumcised is just a coincidence, honest!
You commie.
You hate us browns, I just know it.
My Gunzerker is fun, now that he's around level 25 and gunzerking isn't such a detriment. Near the beginning of the game, the only use I really found in gunzerking was to refill my health and get my ammo regeneration on. The impaired vision and bad accuracy weren't really that great!


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'The Good Wife' Recap, Season 5, Episode 11, 'Goliath and David'
The last time we ran into "The Good Wife," ethics girl Marilyn announced that she's naming her baby Peter, and it's after the father but she swears it's not the governor. Eli asks Kalinda to look into it.
Tonight, we're still at the Florrick/Agos newbie partnership's Christmas party, which apparently carried on past New Year's. A couple of singers come up to Alicia and Cary and want representation because their cover song was covered in a tv show.
FYI, does anyone remember a couple weeks ago when the judge called Alicia? What happened with that?
Back at Diane and Will's, they are still talking about New York and Will now wants to take on a client in Los Angeles. But Diane gets in his way. Will offers to go up against Alicia in her copyright infringement case. Luckily, Alicia kind of knows the original artist. Alicia wants to settle but then Will shows up. Will decides to sue Alicia for $800,000 for their clients covering the original song.
Will is driving Alicia crazy on purpose. Luckily Cary steps up and gives Alicia some help and a pep talk. So she changes into a very short skirt, to throw Will off his game. Turns out, its the suit she wore when they first got together. It works, he's completely distracted. The defense says it's two artists covering the same song in the same way. The prosecutor says it's theft of a song.
The judge says that it was theft but it was legal because the first cover didn't have the correct copyright. Alicia and Cary says they aren't going to let them win. They present the cover song as satire which means an automatic copyright applies. The experts fight back and forth. No one can agree.
The original rapper, Rebel King, gets on the stage to say that his original song was a cliche. So it's a satire of a satire?
Kalinda is trying to track down Marilyn. Her policewoman lover, Jenna, shows up because she's following Kalinda. Kalinda finds out that Marilyn left her reunion to meet a "Peter" at the Sheraton. The digital photos from that day are gone. Coincidence?
Eli confronts Marilyn directly. She says it's not Peter the governor but still won't name the father.
The new partner, Damian, is all chummy with Will. He promises he can get Will the votes to get his LA pass. Diane fights back by taking Will's quorum. Diane goes to talk to Will and he promises that all his crazy is not about Alicia. He says he wants a chance to lead. She says she'll do whatever Will wants with LA.
Back to the court case, new investigator Robyn catches a glitch in the Drama Camp version that comes right from the cover band's version. They did steal the song! The Drama Camp people put the stolen version up on Swedish iTunes at first.
Kalinda says she wants to cool it with the policewoman (Jenna) because she's too close to Damian.
Then a news reporter calls Eli and tells Eli she has a video. She shows Eli video of doctored vote machines and wants to know if he has a comment. Right at that time, Marilyn says the director Peter Bogdanovich is the father, and the actual Bogdanovich actually shows up.
Next week: What will happen to the election? Are you getting annoyed with Damian?


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It may seem crass to put a pricetag on a human life. But you never know when a brand-name blogger like Matt Drudge or Perez Hilton might be tragically killed. Luckily, 24/7 Wall Street has calculated the economic loss.
Of course, 24/7 Wall Street has the advantage of being able to conjure made-up estimates out of thin air; that's how the site put a price tag on various blog networks back in February (PerezHilton.com: $32 million (ha); Gawker Media: $170 million (HA!)). Now the site's taken those made-up estimates and combined them with additional made-up estimates of how much each blog network would be worth without its iconic founder. In other words, it's estimating the economic worth of each blogging boss — not to be confused with their actual wealth.
Here are the numbers. Spoiler: Drudge is king, even in hypothetical death.
(Correction: This post originally said 24/7 Wall Street was an AOL property. It is in fact independent.)
Gawker Media's Nick Denton: $26 million. Sure, that sounds like a lot, but it's only 15 percent of his company's hypothetical net worth, since Denton doesn't do much writing or editing. "Gawker would miss the guiding hand, but presumably the company could get another skilled CEO." (Pic: Eliot Shepard via mednut on Flickr)
Huffington Post's Arianna Huffington: $23 million. Huffington is the face of her company, 24/7 correctly notes, lending it valuable "star power and relationships." But the site overestimates the extent to which Huffington has delegated control to "highly skilled editorial staff:" although she's made some promising recent hires from the likes of the Washington Post, Huffington has stocked the wide-ranging site with nepotistic hires willing to abide her detailed (headlines, story placement, story assignments) and wide-ranging orders. As such, she's probably at least twice as essential to the organization as 24/7 estimates (25 percent of HuffPo's $90 million net worth). (Pic: JD Lasica)
Drudge Report's Matt Drudge: $43 million. That's 90 percent of his site's estimated $48 million value. Sure, Drudge has in the past received help from swell guys like Andrew Breitbart (no longer working for him), but they hardly had the skill to open email messages containing Republican talking points and newsroom leaks: "Drudge obviously has editors working for him to gather the hundreds of links from other media but the scoops that run on the sites are almost certainly his."
PerezHilton.com's Mario "Perez Hilton" Lavandeira: $30 million. The jizz-doodling celebrity gossip blogger is obviously an irreplaceable genius i 24/7's eyes: Without him, says the website, "the $32 million value of PerezHilton.com would go to under $2 million." Right, except for the fact that Lavandeira's got his sister and probably others actually writing/doodling the damned thing on his behalf. And since 1> Perez Hilton isn't anyone's real name to begin with and 2> his sister doesn't go around calling people "fags" like Lavandeira does, she might actually be able to make the site more popular.
TechCrunch's Mike Arrington: $12.5 million. Sure, TechCrunch's flagship tech business blog has "more than 20 senior writers, editor and business staff," but Arrington is "a controversial and polarizing figure," so he's worth half the company's total imaginary valuation of $50 million. (Pic: Robert Scoble)
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Do you have to actually register for an event to save it or what? I would like to save all of the events I am interested in--you know, in one place...like I think the page is designed for. I can't (for the life of me!!!) figure it out, grrrrr....
Help please
Bumping this message because I'd like to know the answer too.
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Just spoke w/customer support, and they said that feature doesn't work right now (apparently it used to?) and the technical team is trying to fix it. For the time being only events we've registered for will show up in our profiles, and they're under the "Transactions" tab.
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Yep, this feature used to work until about a year ago, and it is still not up and running!!!! It was the most important feature to me so i could save races that I might not do this year but would want to do next year. They need to get it back!!!
Anthony L. Boerio
Well, I am new to the site and I am not able to save my events!!!! If it has been fixed, please, anyone, let me know how to save my events..
Team Daly
any action on this? I used to use it quite a bit and I'm trying to plan my 2011.
"On every world, wherever people are, in the deepest part of the winter, at the exact mid-point, everybody stops and turns and hugs. As if to say, "Well done, well done, everyone! We're halfway out of the dark." Doctor Who
It's almost mid-April now, has this been fixed yet?
The "save event" feature is still not working? This seems crazy to me if it's truly been over a year or two?? I feel like I'll get lost or forget my races/walks I'm thinking of doing or am participating in. Wish there was an update or fix!
I really prefer Athlinks website for keeping your event history (and up coming races) all in one place. Check it out! I was pleasantly surprised to see that once I registered on the site (it's free too) that my name/results were already there. All I had to do was "claim" them and they were instantly stored on my page. The way they categorize them is pretty cool too.
Looking forward to this: http://www.hotchocolate15k.com/sandiego/
Anthony L. Boerio
Is there still no "save" feature? But yet in your "my active" stuff it says you can save articles, events, etc. So how do we do this??
I think the android app lets you do this. As far as I can tell, the website still doesn't. That's why I dropped my Active Advantage membership.
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The Unbeatable Lightness of Seeing! (ハルカVSシュウ!ライバルよ永遠に May vs Drew! Rivals Forever) is the 42nd episode of Pokémon: Battle Frontier.
Episode Plot
Max asks when is he going to start his training, but Ash does not know - he shouldn't wait too long or too soon. May's Skitty and Beautifly try to cheer May up, but with no effect. Still, she turns to them and begins to practice. Brock and Scott see her and know she is feeling sad because of her loss at the Grand Festival. Scott tells the more the person is experienced, the more obstacles it must evade. Skitty uses Blizzard and Beautifly Psychic, controlling the attack. Ash and Max come and see Beautifly and Skitty. May tells Beautifly learned to use Psychic. She asks Ash how is his training going, but he does not know what to do. Max has an idea - they should battle each other as a practice. May disagrees, as she thinks Ash is too powerful for her.
Prof. Oak comes and everyone recognizes him. Prof. Oak brought a bag - the Pokémon at the lab heard of Ash's loss and they made something - a large plaquette, which has colors of the marks of every Pokémon Ash has at the lab. Also, Oak gives him lunch from his mom, a fishing lure from Misty and, lastly, a postcard from Gary, who is traveling in a region north of Kanto, Sinnoh. Ash has a vision of him and Gary - Gary tells he will not waste his time on someone who will give up, so Ash tells he will not waste more time and re-gains his confidence. Oak meets Scott and tells Ash needs them all. Oak tells his newest poem and Nurse Joy spots him, being dazzled and wants an autograph, one that Oak gives to her.
May sees Ash so confident and thinks they are lucky. She spots Roselia and Drew and Nurse Joy wants an autograph from him as well. May tells she was thinking of him and there he was. May tells she was fine after the loss at the Grand Festival, while Drew responds he was taking care of his own Pokémon. Drew knows May is still sad from the loss (despite her words) and tells her she does not know what to do next. To make her feel better, Drew proposes May a battle. May is unsure, though Ash, Brock and Max tell her to go for it. May is convinced, so the heroes go to ask Oak and Joy to be judges, but Raoul Contesta, Mr. Sukizo and Nurse Joy (Jessie, James and Meowth in disguise) appear.
May suspects something wrong, and Harley appears, with his Cacturne using Bullet Seed on Team Rocket. Team Rocket's disguises fall down and Harley clarifies he is the only one to mess with May - he came here to make her cry. They run away, but Cacturne stops them, as Harley tells he does not want them away... yet. He wants Jessie to fight alongside him. Max demands how will they know if Harley will not do something, so Harley promises everything to be clean. Nurse Joy, Scott and Oak came and Joy also asks for Harley's autograph, to which he gives it to her. Later, many people came and Drew and May will have a Double Battle. May sends Beautifly and Combusken, while Drew his Roselia and Butterfree.
Combusken starts with Fire Spin and Beautifly Psychic, empowering Fire Spin. Roselia counters with Petal Dance. Beautifly uses Psychic, using the flames Roselia deflected to attack, though Roselia uses Magical Leaf. Combusken charges and Butterfree uses Gust, damaging Combusken with the leaves that were put on fire with Magical Leaf and Combusken is knocked out on Beautifly. They both stand up and go to attack Butterfree. Butterfree uses Psybeam, but Combusken dodges and uses Sky Uppercut on it. Roselia uses Petal Dance, so Beautifly goes to counter with Silver Wind, but the Petal Dance merges with Silver Wind and hurts Combusken and Beautifly. Combusken uses Overheat, but Butterfree uses Protect. So, Roselia uses SolarBeam and Butterfree Psybeam, defeating Combusken and Beautifly.
May is a bit sad, but now knows what she has to do and tells Beautifly and Combusken they gave their best. Later, May confesses she was overconfident and needs to find her own battle style. Drew tells to May he will go to Johto and thinks Solidad will be there to compete in the Contests. Harley hears that last part and tells he will be in Johto as well. Harley asks Jessie if she will be there, but Jessie tells she has business in Team Rocket. Harley is angered, telling she wants to be a loser. Jessie is angered and goes to send a Pokémon, but too late - Harley's Cacturne used Bullet Seed on her, Meowth and James, blasting them off. Harley proposes to Drew and May they could go together, but they don't feel like it, resulting in Harley running.
Ash, Max, Brock and Oak come, as they heard an explosion. May explains Harley blasted Team Rocket off. Drew tells he needs to go as well and wants the next time he sees May to see the new battle style. May tells to Ash, Brock and Max Drew went to Johto region. Brock suspects as Drew and Harley came to help May. May tells that she and Ash need to work on their own battle styles, as the Battle Frontier needs to be completed.
- This is the first episode in the main series to mention Gary since his rivalry with Ash was resolved in Gotta Catch Ya Later!.
- This episode marks the first mention of Sinnoh in the anime.
- An instrumental version of Advance Adventure, background music from Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, an instrumental version of 小さきもの A Small Thing are used as background music.
- The next episode preview is narrated by Brock.
- This episode's dub title may be a reference to the book The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
- This episode marks the final appearances of Drew and Harley as recurring characters in the show.
- Professor Oak's eyebrows, which are actually brown/black, are painted gray in a few scenes.
- The color of Harley's hair when he first appears in the episode is duller than normal.
- In the sunset scene at the end, the right side of Ash's hair was white against Professor Oak's jacket.
Dub differences
In the English dub Drew tells Butterfree to use Gust, but in the Japanese version, Drew tells Butterfree to use Confusion, then Gust.
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Winning the Southern Cascade League title seemed like a pretty bold goal this spring considering the recent history of the Cascade Christian...
COQUILLE — Tyson Morris scored three rushing touchdowns and Phoenix held Coquille to 31 yards — including minus-23 rushing — in a 41-0 nonconference football romp Friday.
The Pirates (2-0) scored 30 second-half points.
"In the first half, we had quite a few penalties that stopped our drives," said Phoenix head coach Toby Walker. "It was interesting, to say the least. I'm proud of the way the kids battled through some early adversity. They came out in the second half and believed in what we were doing and stuck to it."
Morris led Phoenix on the ground with 81 yards on 13 carries. His scoring runs were 4, 15 and 5 yards. Running back Aaron Pankowski had a solid game as well, rushing for 76 yards on 12 carries and scoring from 6 yards out.
Quarterback Justin McCreadie was a threat passing and running. He completed 11 of 19 passes for 140 yards and a 7-yard TD to Jose Deras, who caught seven balls for 89 yards. McCreadie added 57 yards rushing as the Pirates pounded out 247 yards on the ground.
"Our offensive and defensive lines played great," said Walker. "The defense was lights out. Kids flew around."
Nose guard Mao Masalosalo, a 350-pound junior, anchored the defense.
"They had a tough time dealing with him," said Walker.
Phoenix 3 8 16 14 — 41
Coquille 0 0 0 0 — 0
P — FG Bazan 28
P — Morris 4 run (Morris run)
P — Deras 7 pass from McCreadie (Bazan kick)
P — Safety
P — Morris 15 run (Bazan kick)
P — Morris 5 run (Bonilla kick)
P — Pankowski 6 run (Bonilla kick)
NORTH VALLEY 40, SOUTH UMPQUA 20 — At Merlin, North Valley sophomore quarterback Gary Jantzer went off for 244 rushing yards, 108 passing yards and four touchdowns to lead the Knights in nonleague action.
Jantzer had 24 carries for three scores and he completed 11 of his 17 passing attempts for another TD with an interception. His scoring runs were of 35, 24 and 4 yards. He found Austin Jackson for a 24-yard strike.
Kyler Smith rushed for 58 yards on 13 carries with a 13-yard TD run for North Valley (2-0), which led 22-6 at halftime.
Dakota Senger ran for all three of South Umpqua's scores.
South Umpqua 0 6 6 8 — 20
North Valley 8 14 13 5 — 40
NV — Jantzer 24 run (DeCourcey run)
NV — Smith 13 run (Jackson kick)
SU — Senger 51 run (kick blocked)
NV — Jackson 24 pass from Jantzer (Jackson kick)
NV — Jantzer 35 run (Jackson kick)
NV — Jantzer 4 run (kick failed)
SU — Senger 20 run (run failed)
SU — Senger 20 run (Senger run)
NV — FG Jackson 23
NV — Safety
HIDDEN VALLEY 21, BROOKINGS-HARBOR 12 — At Murphy, Mike Hults played a part in all three touchdowns for Hidden Valley which nearly let Brookings-Harbor sneak back in the game after posting a shutout for the first three quarters.
Hults threw a touchdown in the first quarter and ran for another in the third. Hidden Valley (1-1) also scored in the second quarter after Hults fumbled at the 2-yard line and the Mustangs recovered the ball in the end zone.
Trailing the Mustangs 21-0 to start the fourth quarter, Bruins quarterback Izak Ehlers responded with two touchdown passes to trim the margin to 21-12 with under three minutes to play.
Jackson Howard led the Mustangs with 83 yards on 19 carries.
Brookings-Harbor 0 0 0 12 — 12
Hidden Valley 6 8 7 0 — 21
HV — Campbell 7 pass from Hults (kick failed)
HV — Fumble recovery in end zone (Hults run)
HV — Hults 8 run (Hain kick)
BH — Darger 32 pass from Ehlers (run failed)
BH — Hooper 10 pass from Ehlers (run failed)
SIUSLAW 28, ILLINOIS VALLEY 13 — At Cave Junction, C.J. Manning threw two touchdown passes for Illinois Valley in the nonconference loss.
Siuslaw built a 21-7 halftime lead over the Cougars (1-1).
For Illinois Valley, James Thompson had 141 yards rushing on 22 carries, and Manning completed 13 of 29 passes for 166 yards. He was intercepted twice.
The Cougars' Dakota Fortney caught a 33-yard TD strike and Logan Miller a 19-yarder. T.J. Hughey had five catches for 51 yards.
Defensively, IV's John Britt had 10 tackles, one interception and one sack.
Siuslaw 7 14 7 0 — 28
Illinois Valley 7 0 0 6 — 13
IV — Fortney 33 pass from Manning (Lewin kick)
S — Dotson 1 run (Thrall kick)
S — Johnson 55 pass from Dotson (Thrall kick)
S — Tupua 3 run (Thrall kick)
S — Dotson 1 run (Thrall kick)
IV — Miller 19 pass from Manning (kick failed)
CRESWELL 55, ROGUE RIVER 12 — At Creswell, Shawn Kounovsky ran for two touchdowns and caught another touchdown to lead Creswell in nonleague action.
Austin Jones tossed two touchdown passes for the Bulldogs (2-0), including one to Cameron Davis, and Trevor Meyer rushed for a pair of touchdowns.
Rogue River dropped to 0-2.
POWERS 54, PROSPECT 18 — At Powers, quarterback Darren Stillwagon had a big day for Prospect, but it wasn't enough against Powers in District 2 action.
Stillwagon was 18-for-30 passing for 199 yards and two touchdowns and ran 27 times for 196 yards and a TD.
The Cougars (1-1, 0-1 Dist. 2) also got 10 catches for 133 yards and a touchdown from Will Hatley. He also had an interception on defense.
For Powers (1-0), Clayton Stallard recorded three touchdown runs and had a team-best 15 tackles.
Prospect 6 0 6 6 — 18
Powers 20 12 16 6 — 54
Pow — C. Stallard 73 run (run failed)
Pow — MacKensen 1 run (MacKensen from Jackson)
Pow — J. Stallard 10 pass from Jackson (pass failed)
Pro — Stillwagon 72 run (pass failed)
Pow — J. Stallard 28 run (pass failed)
Pow — MacKensen 45 run (pass failed)
Pow — C. Stallard 1 run (J. Stallard run)
Pro — Driskell 15 pass from Stillwagon (run failed)
Pow — C. Stallard 54 run (J. Stallard run)
Pow — Pedrick 10 pass from J. Stallard (run failed)
Pro — Hatley 29 pass from Stillwagon (run failed)
DAYS CREEK 50, BUTTE FALLS 0 — At Days Creek, the Wolves had 160 yards rushing and 105 passing in the nonleague game.
Butte Falls (0-2) had 148 yards rushing and 78 passing.
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President Obama is on the campaign trail this week as Republicans gather in Tampa, Fla.
Tuesday, the president addressed about 13,000 people at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, just as students returning to class for the fall semester.
During his speech, Obama said the Romney campaign described the younger voters as being a lost generation, and he urged them not to give up hope.
The president also criticized Mitt Romney's health care plan, saying it would be called "Romney doesn't care" when compared to his own "Obamacare" plan.
"This is what is called the 'Romney doesn't care' plan. Kick seven million young people off their parents plan. Raise prescription drug costs for seniors. Tell folks with pre-existing conditions you're out of luck again. I do care. And I think all of us care, because at some point in our lives might need," said Obama.
The Colorado Romney campaign came to the presidential candidate's defense.
In a statement, Ryan Williams, Romney's campaign spokesman, called Obama's campaign "more frustrated and flailing than usual:"
"The President's desperate attacks tonight stand in stark contrast to the Romney-Ryan plan that will get our country back on track and create 12 million new jobs and more take-home pay for middle-class Americans," said Williams.
Polls suggest the president is leading Romney with college-aged voters in this year's race.
Air Force One will depart from the Fort Collins-Loveland Airport at 9:40 Wednesday morning. Obama will be back in Colorado to visit Boulder on Sunday.


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