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CASTRO VALLEY -- One former resident of Valley Springs Manor is missing and about 14 others are moving from hospital rooms to skilled nursing homes as the Alameda County Sheriff's Office pursues a criminal investigation into whether elders were abused at the now-shut residential care facility.
"If you abandon people you're supposed to be caring for, if you're entrusted to care for someone who can't care for themselves, and you walk away, it's abandonment," Sheriff's Lt. Emmanuel Christy said. "That can be considered elder abuse."
Investigators revealed Wednesday that they have been unable to find one 65-year-old resident, Edmund Bascom. He wandered away from the Castro Valley home Friday, just a day before paramedics rescued the remaining residents after discovering the home was closed and finding no professional caregivers -- just a cook and janitor -- monitoring them.
Investigators are not blaming the skeleton crew staffing for the disappearance of Bascom, whose mental illness caused him to regularly walk away from homes where he lived, but they do suspect that the facility neglected more than a dozen long-term residents left there without adequate care over the weekend.
Investigators from an FBI health care fraud unit and the state Attorney General's office are convening with local law enforcement officials Thursday to discuss a probe that could last for months.
"These are all people who have reached out to us to inquire about what's going on," said Sheriff's Sgt. J.D. Nelson at a news conference Wednesday.
Owned and operated by San Leandro resident Hilda Manuel and her family members, the home had been battling with California's elder care oversight agency for months over the state's attempt to revoke their license over a host of unfixed violations at the Castro Valley home and another they run in Modesto. The Manuels' lawyer, Orrin Grover, disputes the sheriff's allegations and said Valley Springs was properly staffed over the weekend for the small number of mostly indigent residents still waiting to find a new place to live.
County officials are pointing fingers not just at the Manuels, but also state officials who "should have been coordinating the transition" of residents after the home's sudden closure, said Victoria Tolbert, who directs adult aging and Medi-Cal services for Alameda County.
A spokesman for the state Department of Social Services acknowledged late Tuesday there was a break in proper protocol that instructs its staff to work with the home and local agencies to ensure everyone is moved.
"While a few Valley Springs Manor staff agreed to continue to provide care to the remaining residents awaiting placement and transfer, this is not standard procedure and should not have occurred," Michael Weston said in a statement.
County officials applauded the two workers, Maurice Rowland and Miguel Alvarez, for staying on to help residents despite no pay and increasingly unsanitary conditions. But they also said neither those workers nor anyone else informed police and paramedics that the center was closed until after they had already made three routine visits, one to report that Bascom was missing and another for a resident's breathing problems Saturday morning.
The sheriff's department responded to the home 32 times this year, said Nelson, who added police calls from senior homes are not uncommon. What was unusual, Nelson said, was the mess emergency crews witnessed when they arrived late Saturday.
"It was just unkempt," he said.
On Oct. 18, he said some employees had stopped working after being told they would no longer be paid. State officials then gave 72-hours notice that they were ordering the home's closure last Thursday. About 19 residents were still living there Friday, down from 30 just days earlier.
Lori Pendleton, of Hayward, a caregiver at the facility, said she was surprised and upset when she saw a news report Sunday that residents had been there over the weekend. Pendleton said she had been told all residents would be moved out by Oct. 24 after state officials posted a closure notice. "I didn't know residents were still there," said Pendleton, whose last day was Oct. 23.
She described conditions at the home as having been deplorable for a long time.
Most of the residents shifting from hospital rooms to new homes are settling in skilled nursing facilities, which indicates the care they were getting at Valley Springs -- an assisted living home without nurses -- was probably not sufficient, said Tolbert, the county official.
"It looks like (the owner) was just taking anyone in who could pay for the beds, and not providing an appropriate level of care," Tolbert said.
Rebecca Parr contributed to this report. Matt O'Brien covers Alameda County government. Contact him at 510-208-6429.
Missing resident
Police say anyone who sees the missing Valley Springs Manor resident, 65-year-old Edmund Bascom, should call his social worker at 510-681-3990. He was last seen at the San Leandro BART station Friday afternoon wearing a Raiders shirt, blue pants, black boots and a fishing hat.


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WASHINGTON—Four victims of a deadly Alabama church bombing at the height of the civil rights movement are now just a presidential signature away from receiving Congress' highest civilian honor.
The Senate on Thursday approved by voice vote a measure that would posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Denise McNair.
The four girls were killed when a bomb planted by white supremacists exploded at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham in 1963.
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FREMONT -- A health textbook that talks about masturbation, foreplay and erotic touch, among other sexual education topics, will stay even though some parents are objecting to it on the grounds it's inappropriate for their ninth grade children.
The school board voted 3-2 on June 25 to purchase copies of "Your Health Today" for $204,600 after an extensive review process that included input from teachers and parents, said school board President Lara Calvert-York. It was chosen over six other books under consideration and the district has no plans to pull it from classrooms, she said.
But that approval process the book went through hasn't dulled the fury of parents who say the book's information on sex is way too advanced. A petition on the website Care2 has over 1,500 online signatures calling for the book's removal.
"There's a section that tells you how to talk to your prospective partners about your sexual history," said Asfia Ahmed, a parent and school district employee who said she may sue the district if it does not remove the book. "How does that relate to a 14-year-old kid? I don't see it at all."
Ahmed said the district is violating state education law mandating that instructional material be age appropriate, although she acknowledged the term age appropriate is open to interpretation.
Ahmed said she believes Fremont is "culturally a very conservative place" and that could account for a lot of the uproar over the book.
"But I am a very liberal person, and, in spite of that, I still find the book shocking," Ahmed said.
Calvert-York said Fremont needs to teach its kids about sex because, like it or not, many students already are sexually active in ninth grade.
"We know this from student surveys done in our own district," Calvert-York said. "Ninth grade is the last time when we have an opportunity to help educate our students on how to be physically and emotionally safe."
Fremont parent Becky Bruno said she almost signed the petition asking the district to ban the book after getting emails from other parents before she had a look at it. But after she saw the book, she changed her mind.
"I was expecting to see explicit pictures, expecting controversial information, and I didn't find that in the book," Bruno said. "Yes, there is a section on sexual health, but the pictures are drawings of anatomy and would be the same thing they were exposed to in elementary and middle school. I didn't see anything that would be categorized as pornography, and that's what some of the parents are saying."
Teri Topham, whose daughter is going into ninth grade in Fremont and who teaches high school at a Fremont charter school, said she would throw the book out.
"I flipped through it and saw sections that mentioned bondage with ropes and handcuffs," Topham said. "Not only does it have material that is too explicit and inappropriate, it doesn't meet their need for their ages. I am astounded the health teachers and school board said, 'yes, this is the best book we could find.'"
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When a cat named Oscar curls up next to an ailing patient at a nursing home in Rhode Island, staffers start calling next of kin. Seems the standoffish kitty gets friendly when he senses the end is near: In the two years since Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence adopted the finicky feline, more than 25 residents in the center's dementia unit died just hours after Oscar showered them with affection, Reuters reports. The New England Journal of Medicine let the cat out of the bag. (NEJM; Reuters)(The longer NEJM story is really quite touching.)
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Uh ... I hope there's not a causal relationship.ReplyDelete
This one seemed to strike a nerve in our culture - got syndicated everywhere, both mainstream and blogosphere. Wonder why. Maybe we're desperate for a dose of magical realism in this post-Reason age.ReplyDelete
You're right -- I hadn't heard about it before when I saw it as a blip on the Scientific American site, but then, having noticed it, I began noticing it everywhere. Somebody said it was the lead story on the CBS news or something like that, which seems bizarre. The story's one we could interpret in a variety of ways, but that's not what caught my attention so much as the tone and wording of the SA notice, which made me chuckle.ReplyDelete
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Hearing waived for Bat Cave murder suspect
Published: Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 9:09 a.m.
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A probable cause hearing was waived for Daniel Clay Moore Friday morning. Moore, charged with murder in the death of 42-year-old Walter Davis of Bat Cave, will appear next in Superior Court.
Assistant District Attorney Doug Pearson asked for the hearing to be waived and told Judge Mack Brittain that the state and defense had agreed on requesting a toxicology report on the deceased.
Moore is facing charges of first-degree murder, felony larceny and possession of stolen property.
If convicted, he could be sentenced to life in prison. Police said Moore bludgeoned Davis to death on Oct. 11 in Davis' Bat Cave home. Moore is being held in the Henderson County Detention Facility without bond.
He was appointed a public defender on Oct. 15, who asked Friday to be removed from the case.
Brittain said he would have to take his plea for removal up with the public defender's office, which appointed him.
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SAN JOSE -- The lawyer for two nurses accused of stealing drugs from Santa Clara County Jail says his clients acted negligently, not criminally, when authorities caught them with prescription medications meant for inmates.
Elmer Alegado, 50, of Lathrop, and Rodolfo Idian, 54, a San Jose resident, were arrested last week. Riccardo Ippolito, their San Jose-based attorney, noted their lack of criminal histories and said there is no evidence the narcotics were being trafficked or used by his clients.
"There's more negligence than criminal intent involved," he said. "They wouldn't do anything to jeopardize their careers."
Instead, Ippolito argued, his clients were adhering to an unspoken practice of keeping on hand a few unused pills -- from instances like when inmates refuse to take their meds -- to make up for marginal shortages when drug inventories are checked.
"It's an extra pill or two in case they come up short at counting time," Ippolito said. "In this case it happened to be a controlled substance, but it's like how a casino deals with chips. We're not looking at these guys as stealing drugs to resell or having a drug habit they're trying to fuel."
To the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office, which runs the jail and began investigating allegations of drug thefts by medical staff in late October, the explanation didn't pass muster. The agency said that when Alegado and Idian were arrested, they possessed prescription narcotics outside the scope of their duties. Officials were cryptic about the context, citing an ongoing investigation.
"Under normal working conditions, these were medications they would have access to. At the time of discovery, they were not authorized to have these medications," said Sgt. Jose Cardoza, a spokesman for the Sheriff's Office.
Typically, medication at the jail is stored in secure dispensers and any unused medication is supposed to be returned, according to sources. The harried pace of nursing shifts might sometimes lead to unused medication not being deposited back right away. But in the instance where an inmate declines to take his pills, the medication has already been recorded as dispensed, so there would be no immediate sign that anything's missing.
Both suspects are out of custody: Alegado posted bail and Idian was released on his own recognizance. Alegado's employment with the county ended on Oct. 31 while Idian was placed on administrative leave on Nov. 6. County officials would not comment on whether their status was a result of the investigation. Cardoza said it's unknown whether anyone else will be implicated.
During the investigation, the nursing staff at the jail had their lockers and personal belongings searched. The news of the arrests shook up the tight-knit group of nurses as they ponder additional fallout.
Ippolito insists his clients had no illicit intent.
"They're devastated," Ippolito said. "Their whole worlds are turned upside down because of this."
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Holocaust Denial on Trial, Trial Judgment: Electronic Edition, by Charles GrayTable of Contents
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13.136 After that brief digression to Moscow, I return to the central issue of Irving's historiography. As I have already held, the passages in Denying the Holocaust of which Irving complains include as an important part of their defamatory sting the meaning that he has deliberately falsified and distorted the historical evidence because he is an apologist for and a partisan of Hitler and on that account is intent on exonerating him.
13.137 Irving considers, rightly, that this is a grave imputation because it reflects on his integrity as an historian. It is an imputation which the Defendants have sought to justify. Because of the seriousness of the charge, the standard of proof required is, in accordance with the approach which I have outlined in paragraph 4.10 above, commensurately higher. It goes without saying that it is an issue which requires anxious consideration.
13.138 It is necessary to define clearly what is the issue which must be decided. In the earlier parts of this section of the judgement, I have made findings adverse to Irving in relation to his historiography and in relation to his account of Hitler's attitude towards the Jews including in particular Hitler's complicity in the policy of exterminating them. I have further made findings, also adverse to Irving, in relation to his claims about Auschwitz and in relation to his account of the bombing of Dresden. Irving sought to defend what he has written and said as being a fair and accurate account of the historical evidence available to him. In the respects already set out in detail in this judgement, I have in the main found against him. But the Defendants must, as they accept, go further if they are to succeed in their plea of justification: they must establish that the misrepresentation by Irving of the historical record was deliberate in the sense that Irving was motivated by a desire borne of his own ideological beliefs to present Hitler in a favourable light. Irving's case is that, if (which he denied but which I have found) he has misrepresented the evidence, such misrepresentation was innocent in the sense that it arose through simple mistake or misapprehension. He denied the charge of deliberate falsification or perversion of the evidence.The issue which I must decide is whether the Defendants have proved that denial to be false.
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First of all... this is one of the most interesting sites I've come across in regards to triathlon and swimming. Helpful and sensible advice to get in the forums etc.First impression is wow.
Sorry if this is lengthy, but maybe I can inspire someone else to just try..
After a couple of years of cycling, a friends performance in xtreme Ironman inspired me to try tri - and this summer it's going to happen. My first tri - olympic distance.
However, as a kid I had an accident that kept me out of the aquatic environment for almost ten years. As a teen I wanted to to learn windsurfing, so I had to battle my demons.
It was hard, but at least I had fun windsurfing. I never felt comfortable in the water though and windsurfing let me stay out of it.. most of the time
Last fall I decided that if I ever was going to survive an IM, I had to figure out if I could learn to swim with anything else than the duck-alike approach - breast stroke of course - head a mile above water.
I am pretty technically oriented as a person... I always loved physics, aerodynamics and anything related, and I like to think I can learn most things if I set my mind to it.
With a few youtube videos in mind, I hit the pool - determined like never before. After a few sessions I managed to submerge my head in the stroke - and after a few weeks I started to feel comfortable with it.
I've been at it for almost six months now, and the up/down head movement of the breast stroke is no problem at all now.
The problem, that I suspect is caused by my lack of swimming experience from young age, is that as soon as I turn my head sideways in the water - crawlstyle - my locking ability disappears.
I have been experimenting, but with no luck so far - and I would really like to get some advice for some "baby steps".
I know the best thing is to find a masters group, or get coaching - but I'm a pretty busy dad with 3 kids and a time consuming job.I can't make it to the open training sessions of the masters.
So... are there any secret tricks to learn to keep that pesky water out or is it just a matter of hours, days and weeks in the water?
This seasons tri will probably be performed with breast stroke anyway. At the moment I'm trying out this tri breast stroke as shown on the following youtube clip.
With this technique, or my attempts anyway, I can do a comfortable 1.5miles per hour - for an hour. I can go faster, but it feels inefficient.I can go further - but I'm not sure it's the best use of my time limited sessions.
At the moment I'm just swimming half and half intervals and endurance as much as possible to build swimming muscles and aerobic capacity.In a couple of months I'll probably get some coaching from afriend.
My goal is to finish this summers swim in about 35mins. Are there others out there who do breast stroke triathlon swims? If so - whats your best?
If you're still with me - thanks for reading .
water is coming in your nose? You could invest in a nose plug...I've seen a lot of people do that. Also, you should be breathing out while your face is in the water...inhaling when you turn to the side...I always inhale through my mouth and exhale through my nose.
does that make sense? Hopefully I provided a little help.
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I should probably have been more specific . I have tried a few times with nose clips - but I don't feel comfortable with them.Plugs/clips - are the same thing yes?
When moving vertically, I have no issue with creating that proper overpressure in the nose. When my head is rotating - I just lose control of this pressure.
This could be caused by insecurity. I can't say I am familiar with the crawl technique movements yet, so that can be a reason why this happens.
Maybe I should try to get used to the clips so I can learn the technique and at least find some "security" in that.
jsut my .02 but try the clips again and breathe w/ your mouth. exhale underwater and inhale as your body rotates and life your neck as little as possible (as a fan of aerodymanics you should check the book/video series total immersion by terry laughlin it's a very good book about the correct swim forma nd reducing drag - you might find some videos on youtube. but his swimming downhill theory is really interesting and seems to work for me)
breaststroke is ok for tri BUT the starts of tri swims are crowded spaces and the breastroke kick is very wide and will not make you very popular. If you go this route start towards the back and give yoruself plenty of room. good luck and ahve fun
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break 19minutes for 5k
break 2:42 for olympic triathlon probably Anthracite olympic
break 3:16 for marathon ( a long shot but it's fun putting yourself out there)
You may want to spend some time doing kick drills that allow you to concentrate more on breathing. Learning to swim is kind of like learning to ski or golf--it involves coordinated movements that are totally foreign to your everyday activities. Drills help you isolate and work on each of these movements individually. You can then put them together as you feel more comfortable with each one.
Try the side kick drill, where you lie on your side while you kick, with your head in the water looking straight down. Your arm closest to the bottom extended in front of you. Breath as necessary, and wear fins if you are not strong kicker. Active.com actually has a whole article on this type of drill, including a modified version, so do a search in the Swim section of the site. The drill will allow you concentrate on balance and breathing, which should get you a lot more comfortable in the water.
I haven't got around to check active.com yet, but just as you posted this yesterday - I found this on youtube:
I think it's basically illustrating what you're saying - and it seems very sensible and I'm going to spend some time with these drills.
Here is the Active article I was referring to:
Short and to the point. Hope it helps!
Breathe out, nose and mouth, the entire time that your nose is below the waterline, as you rotate up to breathe, just as your nose clears the water, blow out a bit and then breathe deep. I also find that positioning my tongue helps prevent accidental water breathing.
Good Luck,
The swimming without stress youtube video is helping me very much. Just the name of their concept is so to the point. It's what I need to get rid of the last remains of panic in my system
For the first time, I managed to swim 20 lengths in side kick position today. Last time I tried I kept getting my head under water and it all felt a bit impossible again.
At the moment, I'm using the side kick position, looking into the ceiling. I'm confident that knowing I can come back to a safe position will be very crucial for me during the coming months.
I'm thinking about bringing my fins for the next session, because my kick is a little weak and/or poor on technique.
Thanks for all the feedback. I have a long way to go, but at least I can see light in the end of the tunnel.
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Of Cameron, the EU and Cars
If U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron is still looking for evidence that the EU needs the U.K. more than the U.K. needs the EU ahead of the controversial speech on Europe that he'll deliver in the Netherlands on Friday, he need look no further than those figures from the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association warning that demand for new cars in the EU might shrink by around 5% in 2013 after falling 8.2% last year.
Those in favor of the U.K.'s membership of the EU argue that the U.K. needs the EU markets for its goods. But those against say it's better for exporters to concentrate on growing emerging markets rather than shrinking markets in Europe. And the data certainly back the latters' argument.
Just last week came news that Honda Motor is planning to cut 800 jobs at its Swindon plant in the U.K., saying that "sustained conditions of low demand in European markets make it necessary to re-align Honda's business structure."
Then, this week, we heard that Jaguar Land Rover is to create 800 jobs at its Solihull plant in the U.K. after a 30% leap in global sales last year. The group said China was now its biggest market and had seen a 70% jump in sales in 2012.
This says two things: that the U.K. might be well advised to concentrate on upmarket vehicles like Jaguars and Range Rovers rather than volume cars like Hondas. But also that a concentration on growing markets like China must be better than worrying about shrinking markets like the EU's.
By accident or design, the U.K. seems to have identified itself with its products more than almost any other nation. This now works to its advantage. A mid-range car can be made anywhere, but a Rolls-Royce must at the very least go through final assembly in the U.K. to make it a Rolls-Royce, even if we know it's really a BMW with a walnut dash. The same applies to all sorts of things. You can charge a fortune for a Burberry raincoat, for example, and the new rich will pay it, right across Asia, but only if it's made in the U.K.
Of course, the sharp fall in the value of the pound against other currencies that many analysts are now predicting would help the U.K.'s exporters all round.
But why focus on markets that are shrinking? The German government this week slashed its 2013 economic growth forecast to 0.4% from 1.0%. In several other euro-zone countries, forecasts for GDP growth are being cut from rates that are already negative. And the euro is strengthening to such an extent that Eurogroup President and Prime Minister of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker commented that the euro was reaching "dangerously high" levels.
By contrast, data due Friday are expected to show that China's GDP rose 7.8% from a year earlier in the fourth quarter of 2012, up from 7.4% growth in the third quarter. That would be the first increase in year-on-year growth since the fourth quarter of 2010, confirming that growth in the world's second-largest economy is rebounding after a prolonged slowdown.
Of course, membership of the EU isn't only about economics, it's about defense and diplomacy and much else. But it's the economic argument that's most often put forward by those who favor membership. And that's looking more threadbare by the day.


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Sony Corp. revealed quite a few details about its new PlayStation 4 on Wednesday in New York. (You can see what it said in our live blog and roundup. ) So, what are the remaining big questions surrounding the new game console, slated for release in "holiday 2013."
1) How much will it cost?
This is always a thorny issue with a new game machine. Price it too low and the company risks building a mountain of losses since many videogame hardware makers lose money, at least initially. Price it too high and you scare off consumers.
This is a particularly sensitive issue for Sony, which stunned consumers with the initial $500 and $600 price tag for the PlayStation 3. Even at those prices it was losing a lot of money. That price tag hurt the PS3's early adoption and gave an advantage to Microsoft and Nintendo's rival machines. Sony has managed to close that gap over time. Japan's Asahi Shimbun reported last week that the price will exceed ¥40,000, or $425.
Sony executives said they learned a lesson from the PS3 experience, which buried the games division in losses for four years. After the event, Andrew House, the head of Sony's PlayStation business, said the PS4 will have "a much more robust economic model behind it."
One thing is certain: Sony's financial struggles mean that it can't stomach big losses like it could in the past, especially from a division that Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai has identified as one of its three core businesses.
2) What does it look like?
Sony decided not to reveal what the PlayStation 4 console looked like at the event Wednesday. It is a strange decision to announce a new piece of hardware and not actually show it. This triggered an unsurprising snark-fest on Twitter.
But considering Sony revealed lots of detail on the machine's specs, does it really matter what the machine looks like right now? If Sony doesn't betray its traditionally strong history in product design with a hideous looking box, then how the machine looks probably won't sway people from buying or not buying the PS4.
Unlike with smartphones or other consumer gadgets, what a videogame machine looks like ranks below other factors such as the games that the console can play, its price, and what the device can do.
3) So what's going to happen with the PlayStation 3 games?
Sony said that PlayStation 3 games are not "natively" playable on the PlayStation 4 yet, but that Sony is exploring possibilities. It said that the Gaikai "cloud gaming" technology that it acquired last year is powerful enough to run PS3 games to any device.
But Sony stopped short of saying definitively that Gaikai will be used to solve the issue of backward compatibility–playing current titles on newer game machines–which The Wall Street Journal reported would be a feature of the new machine. Sony said there may be more news coming on this front.
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From the killer opener to the rocking encore of "Fire" this show just oozed energy. The crowd had a killer vibe to it and its seemed like the band fed off of it. Some of my personal highlights were bouncin (just a fun song and always cool to hear everyone sing along) and really the entire 2nd set. That was one of the best versions of Fluffhead I've ever heard. Then going from Harry to Suzy, to Coli was a killer trio and how about Paige lighting it up at the end of Coli and the rest of the band took their encore break.
I really just don't know what to even say about this show. It was just a great one. My buddies who I went with last night are their for tonight also....I hope they have a good show, but going to be tough to top this one!
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Capcom is really on the roll this year as they will be releasing two new Resident Evil games in the same year. We also have the little brother, Resident Evil: Revelations, which just came out with a bit of a spelling problem in its cover The positive feedback gained from Resident Evil: Revelations helps enure the expansion of this intense game series.
Before continuing, I want to clear up a common misunderstanding. Some people are mistaking Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City as Resident Evil 6. These are separate games. Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City is a standalone title. Although it was pointed out in the plot that the game is set during the events in Resident Evil 2 and 3, there is not much emphasis given on the storyline (the game is advertised as a fast-paced shooting game). Don't get me wrong, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City has a story, but plot is not its selling point. It's more of a "gunning down hordes of zombies" sort of thing. On the other hand, Resident Evil 6 is the direct sequel of Resident 5.
Now that I've cleared that up, just a little taste of what Resident Evil 6 will have to offer. The action takes place in the Antarctic Umbrella facility where the Wesker Children Project took place. The year is 2013, and the President is going to reveal what happened during the Raccoon City Destruction Incident. The game starts as you wake up in a hidden laboratory with complete amnesia. Even with no memory, you soon come to realize that a bio-hazard incident has occurred in the facility. No place is safe anymore thanks to good-for-nothing bio-terrorists. Dead Ones, Conkers, and Sentients try to take you down, and it's up to you to put a stop to their wrong doing and save the world and humanity. Just like Resident Evil 5 and Operation Raccoon City, Resident Evil 6 will be a horror-filled, fast-paced shooting game. Expect this game to be as scary as the previous Resident Evil titles, and look forward to a lot of interesting challenges, improved graphics, and kick-butt weapons.
There is not much detail about the game modes in Resident Evil 6, but the possibility of having online play and cooperative mode is very likely when you look at the offerings of Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. The game is set to release on November 20, 2012 for the PS3 and Xbox 360. Microsoft Windows will have to wait as there's no specific date mentioned yet.


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Criticism of Richmond County Schools Superintendent Dr. Larke has made its way into Augusta's federal court.
T.W. Josey High School teacher Lori Myles filed a lawsuit in federal court against Dr. Larke.
Myles says the superintendent made sexual advances toward her during a job-related conference in Jamaica.
Only on 12...News 12's Domonique Benn has been investigating and found Lori Myles has a disciplinary record.
Lori Myles has a paper trail leading back to her.
At least 10 disciplinary reports have been filed against her at the school level.
Things like not returning or maintaining equipment and not reporting absences.
One of the most shocking reports states that Myles trashed her own classroom in 2004 when she learned that an internal investigation two years ago focused on her.
According to Richmond County Board Public Information Officer Mechelle Jordan, Internal Affairs was called to Lori Myles' classroom in June of 2004.
They believe Myles trashed her own room after learning of an investigation into allegations she was selling grades.
Myles was cleared of selling grades.
However, at least ten other written requests have been filed on Myles, for things like not following the dress code and not maintaining paperwork for the DCT program.
Josey could have been cited for in a state department review for that paperwork lapse.
"You can tell by her file that she was informed about the things in her file," says Jordan.
On at least two occasions, Principal Quentin Motley wrote the assistant superintendent of administration asking that Lori Myles be transferred from his school.
Motley says Myles refused to leave his office after a conference, and he called Richmond County's Public Safety Department.
He says it happened again on another occasion after a conference in 2004.
Principal Motley says Lori Myles made statements against him and two other colleagues that were untrue and would only cause continued friction if she weren't removed.
Lori Myles says that Superintendent Dr. Charles Larke is standing in the way of her getting a promotion.
But if her recommendation made it past committee, some wonder if her file would stand in the way.
"Once the top two have been looked at, their supervisors, their principal, would be contacted for recommendation. At that time any incidences at the school level may come into play," Jordan says.
News 12 spoke with Lori Myles today before she knew we had her file.
She said she wasn't aware of anything in her file.
We tried to call her back after we went through this file, but she could not be reached. In fact, she is recommending any inquiries be made to her Atlanta-based attorney.
During the 2004 school year, Nanette Barnes, another Lori Myles supervisor, writes in a letter to the principal that after walking through her department it was brought to her attention that Myles was not in compliance in reference to her DCT program.
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On March 1, Allie Renberg was named to the first-ever Iowa Lakes Community College Athletics Hall of Fame for women's basketball at Estherville Iowa. She is a graduate of Sleepy Eye Public High School.
As a six-foot-one Lady Laker, Renberg was very effective. She earned Honorable Mention All American as a freshman, third team All American, Academic All Region as a sophomore, scored over 1,000 career points, and brought down over 500 career rebounds in a 63 game schedule.
After earning her elementary education degree as a Laker, she accepted a full scholarship to Emporia State University in Kansas where as a Lady Hornet she was named player of the week many times. She scored over 600 points and had more than 300 rebounds. She helped the team reach the NCAA Division II Sweet 16 and Elite 8 tournaments and graduated Summa Cum Laude.
Allie lives in Lawrence, Kans. and teaches fifth grade in Topeka, Kans.. She thanks her parents Brian and Mary and grandparents Pat and Loren for their support during her basketball playing career.
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The Warriors surely realize Dwight Howard may be the NBA's biggest drama prince, basically wrecking the Orlando Magic and then putting the mighty Los Angeles Lakers in an unusually precarious position.
CEO Joe Lacob and his partners in persuasion -- general manager Bob Myers, coach Mark Jackson -- understand adding Howard to their team is a high-risk move, if only for the threat it poses to team chemistry, which is their foundational bedrock.
Yet they are absolutely right to maintain their pursuit of Howard.
When the NBA's free agency bazaar opened for business Sunday night, Howard was surrounded by executives who had spent months and maybe years fantasizing about acquiring the muscular 6-foot-11 center.
He met with representatives from the Lakers early Monday, then with the Rockets. The Warriors also were at his feet, with Dallas and Atlanta to come. Howard will be a member of one of these five teams.
The Warriors are underdogs. Lacob, Myers and Jackson know this, yet they were in Los Angeles hoping to persuade Howard to come to the Bay Area. Point guard Stephen Curry also is making a recruiting pitch in person and over the phone.
It's a serious stalking, and I understand the fascination.
I also can't ignore the massive, potentially crippling, risk.
Most of sport is based on risk, though, so it's unavoidable. The Warriors currently live with the risk of having Andrew Bogut at starting center and David Lee as their power forward. There is risk in projecting Harrison Barnes' ceiling or Klay Thompson's development or relying on Curry's delicate ankles.
Howard, however, is the kind of risk any ambitious team must take. He's 27 and has marvelous attributes, including interior defense, solid post presence and big-bodied athleticism. These gifts complement the Warriors' up-tempo style.
Howard is not the most skilled center in the league, but he may be the best.
Moreover, his name is worthy of the marquee. Howard, a seven-time All-Star with a high global recognition, immediately raises the franchise profile.
And everything we've seen and learned of Lacob tells us his No. 1 priority is to build a brand.
If Howard wishes to leave Los Angeles and the Warriors and Lakers could strike a workable sign-and-trade deal -- Bogut, Barnes or Thompson, and the expiring contracts of Richard Jefferson and Andris Biedrins are among rumored parts -- Golden State could unveil some very impressive billboards.
And if the Warriors manage to keep both Barnes and Thompson, as two sources insist, they have also stacked the team photo.
For this to work on the basketball court and in the locker room, though, Howard would have to prove there is more to him than meets the eye. He'd have to show he is fully invested in the team and committed to setting a positive example, elements missing during his final two seasons in Orlando and still questioned after he joined the Lakers last August.
Howard has exhibited little aptitude for leadership and, more troubling, has very much earned a reputation for requiring considerable maintenance.
He compiled gaudy numbers with the Magic but eventually undermined coach Stan Van Gundy and ultimately fractured the franchise. In Los Angeles, Howard clashed with coach Mike D'Antoni and struggled to establish compatibility with Kobe Bryant, the team's unquestioned leader.
The Warriors don't take the court with an unquestioned leader. It's not the veteran Lee, who is available for the right trade. It's not veteran Jarrett Jack, who has some of the qualities but may not re-sign. Curry is the closest thing on the roster to a franchise player.
The team leader is Jackson, whose work over his first two seasons affirms this.
Jackson would have to make Howard his chief ally and lieutenant, and conceivably could. The coach reads people well, engages easily and is a natural captain. He's a minister, which should help him reach Howard, who professes to be a man of faith.
If Jackson and Howard could forge a harmonious and fruitful relationship, along the lines of Gregg Popovich and Tim Duncan in San Antonio, the Warriors would have a terrific nucleus for at least the next four years, the length of Curry's contract.
That's the biggest risk, and Jackson would embrace it. He surely believes that he can reach Howard, or anybody else. Lacob wants to give his coach that chance.
Odds are long. The Rockets have enlisted the help of Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler. Steve Nash and Jack Nicholson are assisting Kobe's sales push in Los Angeles. Atlanta is Howard's hometown. Mavericks owner Mark Cuban can make Dallas attractive.
But the Warriors are in the conversation. That alone is a small victory, even if they don't win this high-stakes game.
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Today's high ill reach 58 degrees with a 10 percent chance of rain in cloudy skies and South winds at 10 mph. Overnight lows will drop to 45. Friday will be mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain and a high of 55 with ENE winds at 7 mph. Overnight lows will drop to 38.
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Only a sophomore, Ty Currie has already had a major impact in his first year with the Yreka Miners varsity boys basketball team.
He already is one of the top scorers in the Northern Athletic League and in the Northern Section. Currie, a 6-foot 2-inch guard currently leads the Miners with 16.6 points per game, and leads the team in steals and assists. The Miners won only five games last year and the team already has six wins this season as they begin league play tonight at Corning.
Currie has already scored 20 or more points in six games this season. This included 26 points against Del Norte for the Miners first win of the season. He made two free throws at the end of the game to give Yreka the two-point win.
Currie is also an outstanding football player and earned NAL first-team honors this past fall. As a wide receiver he led the team in receiving yards with 389 and led the team in receiving touchdowns with five. As a defensive back Currie finished with three interceptions and 62 total tackles.His accomplishments makes him a perfect Siskiyou Sensation. His head basketball coach, Christian Birch, had this to say about his star sophomore."Ty sees the court well and has a great shot," Birch said. "He has the ability to score quickly with a very quick release. He is already one of the top five scorers in the North Section. He has great leadership skills as well and this has enabled him to fit into our team as a sophomore. He is a very confident athlete and a great kid. Ty has the potential to have a great basketball career here at Yreka."Below are Ty's responses to the Siskiyou Sensation questions.Name:Ty Currie.High School:Yreka High.Parents:Shannon and Shannon Currie.Head basketball coach:Christian Birch.Where I was born and raised:Born in Susanville, raised in Grenada.What do you enjoy the most about playing basketball?:The intensity and the competitive nature of the game.You were a key contributor to the football team this fall. Do you have a preference between the two sports or do you enjoy playing both?I enjoy both sports. I like the challenge of both, but also building strong relationships with all my teammates.What does it take to be a successful basketball player?:Dedication and hard work are the keys to success. And, also attending summer camps and many hours outside.What are you are your teammates expectations this year for the NAL season?:As a team we have decided that we are going to protect our house and not lose a home league game and then the rest will take care of itself.Why is sports an important part of your life?:Sports are important because you build great relationships with the other guys and you learn a lot of life skills, also it motivates me to do good in school.What team do you look the most forward to facing and why:I look forward to facing Corning the most because they are the best team so far and if we can beat them then we are set for the rest of league. And all real competitors always want to play in the big game.Hobbies/interests:Sports and spending time with friends.Favorite sports team:Pittsburgh Steelers.Favorite subject or teacher at school:History /Mr. Whitehouse...and biology with Birch isn't too bad. Hahahaha.What do you like about living in Siskiyou County:Everybody knows everybody and I like the small town setting.Favorite Song:Remember the Name.Who is your biggest hero, and why?:Hines Ward because he was undersized and wasn't the most skilled but always did his part and was a great competitor. I loved his passion for the game.Favorite food:Steak.What are your future plans after graduating from Yreka High in 2015?:After graduating I plan on moving up in basketball, where ever it may be, and going on from there.Ten years from now I'll be:A college graduate and a successful high school coach.Anything else you would like to add?:I would like to add that I sincerely appreciate all my teachers, coaches, family and friends that support me in my sports. I encourage all of you to come out and support the Yreka Miners basketball teams this season.
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A federal judge is slowing down the proposed $765 million settlement of NFL concussion claims, questioning if there's enough money to cover 20,000 retired players.
U.S. District Judge Anita B. Brody denied preliminary approval of the plan on Tuesday in Philadelphia because she's worried the money could run out sooner than expected. She also raised concerns that anyone who gets concussion damages from the NFL would be barred from suing the NCAA or other amateur football leagues.
"I am primarily concerned that not all retired NFL football players who ultimately receive a qualifying diagnosis or their (families) ... will be paid," the judge wrote.
The proposed settlement, negotiated over several months, is designed to last at least 65 years.
The awards would vary based on an ex-player's age and diagnosis. A younger retiree with Lou Gehrig's disease would get $5 million, those with serious dementia cases would get $3 million, and an 80-year-old with early dementia would get $25,000. Retirees without symptoms would get baseline screening and follow-up care if needed.
"Even if only 10 percent of retired NFL football players eventually receive a qualifying diagnosis," the judge wrote, "it is difficult to see how the Monetary Award Fund would have the funds available over its life span to pay all claimants at these significant award levels."
She asked for more raw financial data before scheduling a fairness hearing this year, when objectors can question the plan. The objectors could later decide to opt out of it.
Some critics said the NFL, with more than $9 billion in annual revenue, was getting away lightly. But the players' lawyers said they would face huge challenges just to get the case to trial. They would have to prove the injuries were linked to the players' NFL service and should not be handled through league arbitration. They could end up with nothing.
Sol Weiss, a lead lawyer for the ex-players, remained confident the class action settlement will ultimately be approved. He said he was confident "that there will be enough money to cover these claims for 65 years."
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said league officials were "confident that the settlement is fair and adequate and look forward to demonstrating that to the court."
More than 4,500 former players have filed suit, some accusing the league of fraud for its handling of concussions. They include former Dallas Cowboys running back Tony Dorsett and Super Bowl-winning Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon, who suffers from dementia.
Lions: Jim Caldwell was hired to replace the fired Jim Schwartz as head coach. Caldwell helped the Indianapolis Colts reach the Super Bowl after his first season as a head coach in 2009 but was fired two years later after a 2-14 season. He worked as quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens the past two seasons.
Giants: Green Bay Packers quarterbacks coach Ben McAdoo was hired as New York's offensive coordinator. McAdoo replaces Kevin Gilbride, who retired after the Giants' season.
Chargers: Quarterbacks coach Frank Reich was promoted to offensive coordinator. He replaces Ken Whisenhunt, who was hired Monday as coach of the Tennessee Titans.


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Canada Stocks to Watch: RIM, Transat, Premier Royalty and Canexus
By Judy McKinnon
Here are some of the stocks we'll be keeping an eye on in today's trading session.
Research In Motion is set to release third-quarter results Thursday. National Bank downgraded RIM to sector perform from outperform Tuesday, on worries that the recent run-up in the stock ahead of BB10 may take a breather while investors digest financial results.
Transat A.T. said it earned 43 Canadian cents a share in the fourth quarter, up from a loss of 19 Canadian cents a year earlier. Adjusted earnings climbed to 75 Canadian cents from 19 Canadian cents. It also restated results for fiscal 2011 after discovering a recurring accounting error starting in 2006 within its U.K. subsidiary, which was acquired that year.
Premier Royalty said it has agreed to sell 15 million shares at C$2 each to raise C$30 million.
Canexus said it's projecting a third consecutive year of record financial and operational performance in 2013.


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- He later pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer and was sentenced to one day in jail.
- He pleaded guilty to assaulting the sergeant on June 24.
- A teaching assistant has been cleared of assaulting a teenager who bombarded his house with snowballs.
- Subsequent reports indicated he probably died from friendly fire, although still while trying to heroically assault an enemy position.
- You have to assault an enemy position but also prevent bombs from going off or files from being destroyed.
- When the enemy attacked on 3 September, they assaulted his position with grenades.
- The thunder of footsteps assaulted her ears as she wrenched open the door, eyes flashing with ire.
- The wind picked up suddenly and the familiar beat of a helicopter assaulted her ears.
- Before I got very far, however, an unpleasant sight assaulted me.
- Less than three weeks later he was reported for a physical assault on a young boy.
- Physical assault on women by intimate partners is recognized widely as a leading cause of injury to women in the United States.
- Other recent violent attacks include an assault on a couple who asked two boys to switch off their mobile phones during a film.
- In that case the appellant had been convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm by harassing his female victim.
- The father was charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, but was acquitted.
- He has previous convictions for theft, robbery and assault causing actual bodily harm.
- On another occasion during his 11-month tour he led three assaults on an enemy position until it finally fell.
- He might have escaped when the boats first started the assault on the house.
- A military assault on the country cannot be ruled out - at least in the long term.
- Chris then waited four seconds before resuming his verbal assault on Patrick's frayed nerves.
- Reid nodded before continuing his verbal assault on the clerk.
- Beginning in the fall of 2002, university administrators began a verbal assault on students and faculty supporting divestment.
- After breakfast, and another sitting, I bundled up and attempted the assault on Marga Point.
- These are hectic days for him and the Irish Chamber Orchestra is now primed for a serious assault on the competitive world of concert performances.
assaulter noun
- Example sentences
- So I'm spending part of my time with the assaulters.
- Police are still searching for that assaulter.
- The incident was reported to police, and the girl received 'compensation' from her assaulters, as is common in Thailand.
Middle English: from Old French asaut (noun), assauter (verb), based on Latin ad- 'to' + saltare, frequentative of salire 'to leap'. Compare with assail.
salient from mid 16th century:
This was first used as a heraldic term meaning 'leaping'. It comes from Latin salire 'to leap'. The sense 'outstanding, significant' as in salient point is found from the mid 19th century. Salire is behind many other English words including assail and assault (Middle English) 'jumping on' people; exult (late 16th century) 'jump up'; insult; and result (Late Middle English) originally meaning 'to jump back'. Salacious (mid 17th century) 'undue interest in sexual matters' is based on Latin salax, from salire. Its basic sense is 'fond of leaping', but as the word was used of stud animals it came to mean 'lustful'. From the French form of salire come to sally out (mid 16th century) and sauté (early 19th century).
Words that rhyme with assaultBalt, exalt, fault, halt, malt, salt, smalt, vault
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Tickets go on sale today for R. Kelly concert at the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater
Published: Friday, August 30, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, August 29, 2013 at 8:54 p.m.
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. today for the R. Kelly concert at the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater.
Kelly, dubbed the "King of R&B," will perform at the amphitheater on Oct. 6. Doors will open at 7 p.m. and the show will begin at 8.
Seats, all reserved, will cost $49.50, $59.50 and $75. Tickets will be available at www.ticketmaster.com, the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater box office, 2710 Jack Warner Parkway, or by phone at 800-745-3000.
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LODI — State and county investigators are probing into a commercial and cargo vehicle theft operation after discovering hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stolen equipment from a rural property.
They are asking for the public's help after noticing an alarming trend in San Joaquin County.
"Since January, there has been an increase in storage and (cargo) container thefts," said Officer James Smith, spokesman for the California Highway Patrol.
CHP reported a search warrant was served May 1 on a rural property near Peltier Road north of Lodi, where the department recovered a number of large stolen commercial equipment.
Totaling several hundred thousand dollars, among the equipment was a 2008 GMC pickup, a 2011 International tractor truck, a 1987 Caterpillar loader, five large sea containers, five container chassis, a stolen handgun, and other items.
Investigators believe the individuals linked to the case had been selling the merchandise for as little as $800 throughout the state.
The search warrant was part of an ongoing investigation into commercial thefts and it involved the Delta Regional Auto Theft Team, the Cargo Theft Interdiction Program and San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office.
Smith said CHP is not releasing the identities of those detained during the raid, because the case is an active investigation.
The CHP is asking anyone with any information on the possible whereabouts of additional storage containers to contact Delta RATT, (209) 948-3790.
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I really like this painting on my wall. The only reason I did not return is because the colors look perfect with my dining room and I have a hard time find a painting that we like, me and my husband. My husband was not crazy about it because it is not a real painting but a printed canvas. I am sure if it was a real painting would be more expensive. But for a printed canvas I do think is pricey. Also, I think the surcharge for delivery is too much. I used a coupon for free shipping but still paid the regular price even though is on sale because of the delivery surcharge. But it is a beautiful canvas!


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TSA Screener Quits, Makes Terror Threat: Feds
Posted September 11th, 2013 @ 10:25am by Kevin Spak, Newser Staff
(NEWSER) – Federal authorities arrested an ex-TSA employee just before midnight last night, on suspicion that he'd made terrorist threats against Los Angeles International Airport. Nna Alpha Onuoha, 29, resigned his post as a screener yesterday, the LA Times reports. Federal authorities immediately took an interest, because he allegedly left behind a suspicious package addressed to another LAX employee. The bomb squad soon determined that the package was harmless, containing only an eight-page letter discussing his recent suspension and his problems with the US.


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Debra Wood, RN
The information provided here is meant to give you a general idea about some of the side effects associated with kidney cancer and its treatment. Only the most general side effects are included, so ask your doctor if you need to take any special precautions related to your specific treatment.
Side effects are common and you may experience different ones during your treatment. Medications and other therapies may help to either prevent or reduce side effects of treatment, or to manage certain side effects when they occur. You can develop side effects from the treatment and/or from the cancer itself. Tell your doctor when you notice a new symptom, and ask if any of these treatments are appropriate for you.
A loss of appetite is common during cancer treatment. Fatigue, discomfort, nausea, dry mouth, mouth sores, and loss of taste can play a part in reducing your desire to eat. To manage this common side effect, consider:
can cause nausea and vomiting. To treat this side effect, you may be prescribed an anti-nausea drug. Some patients also find hypnosis, guided imagery, relaxation techniques, and acupuncture helpful. Eat frequent, small meals; sip water throughout the day; and avoid fatty, spicy, or greasy foods. You may want to talk to a registered dietician about other ways you can reduce nausea and vomiting with diet.
You can develop a rash or your skin can become red and tender from your treatment. To treat skin irritations:
Fatigue is common in cancer patients. Medications, low red blood cell levels, emotional stress, pain medications, weight loss, and lack of appetite can all cause fatigue. Based on what is causing your fatigue, your doctor may recommend medications, a blood transfusion, a change in pain medications, talking to a therapist, exercise, and/or vitamins. Getting enough rest and listening to your body when you need to rest are also an important part of treating fatigue.
Chemotherapy can cause the mouth and/or lips to develop sores. To manage this side effect:
Going through treatment for cancer is stressful. You may benefit from a support group or talking to a therapist or clergy member. Your doctor or nurse can help you find the right type of emotional support for you.
Cancer drugs work by attacking cells that divide quickly. Not only do cancer cells divide quickly, so do blood cells. Depending upon your treatment, you may experience side effects that affect your blood cells, making you more prone to infection. Other side effects include bruising easily, fatigue, and bleeding easily.
Chemotherapy frequently causes hair loss. If your hair falls out, then wear a scarf or hat to protect the skin on your scalp. Consider wearing a wig.
Medications, especially pain medicines, can cause
constipation. Eat whole grain foods and drink plenty of fluids to avoid constipation. Staying active with exercise is also a good way to prevent this side effect.
can occur with certain cancer treatments. If you have diarrhea, then avoid caffeine, alcohol, spicy or fatty foods, and large meals. Replenish lost fluids with juice, broth, water, or a replacement fluid.
Opioid analgesics may be ordered to control pain or discomfort. They include the following drugs:
Opioid analgesics act on the central nervous system to relieve pain. These drugs can be effective. They may cause dependence, and patients will need increasing doses to obtain the same pain relief. If you are going to take one of these drugs for a long period of time, then your doctor will closely monitor you.
Percocet is a combination medication. An opioid analgesic and acetaminophen used together may provide better pain relief than either medicine used alone. In some cases, lower doses of each medicine are necessary to achieve pain relief.
The most common side effects of opioid analgesics include:
Use each of these medications as recommended by your doctor, or according to the instructions provided. If you have further questions about usage or side effects, contact your doctor.
Cancer related pain.
American Cancer Society website. Available at:
http://www.cancer.org/treatment/treatmentsandsideeffects/physicalsideeffects/pain/index. Accessed June 20, 2013.
Coping with cancer. National Cancer Institute website. Available at:
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/coping/physicaleffects. Accessed June 20, 2013.
What you should know about cancer treatment, eating well, and eating problems. National Cancer Institute website. Available at:
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/eatinghints/page2. Updated September 30, 2009. Accessed June 20, 2013.
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Data Show Stability Control Saved 2,200 Lives In Three Years
Stability control technology that helps prevent vehicles from skidding and rolling over saved more than 2,200 lives during the 2008-2010 period, according to a new federal study.
The study, released today by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, its estimates of lives saved on an analysis of fatal accident data for the three years. Federal researchers compared fatalities in vehicles with stability control as standard equipment to the deaths recorded for vehicles that didn't have standard stability control.
The government has required auto makers to equip light trucks with stability control starting in 2007, and all new cars and light trucks manufactured since September 2011 are required to have the technology. Many auto makers moved faster than required to offer the systems, which typically use a car's computer controlled brakes to stabilize and slow a vehicle when sensors detect a risk of sideways skidding or rollover.
The NHTSA study comes on the heels of a call earlier this month by the National Transportation Safety Board for a wider range of collision avoidance technologies to also be made mandatory on new vehicles.
In the case of stability controls, auto makers began moving to make the technology standard during the past decade in large part because of consumer demand for better rollover protection, particularly in sport utility vehicles.
In 2006, about 34% of light trucks and 20% of cars had standard stability control systems. By 2010, 87% of trucks and 76% of cars had the technology, according to the NHTSA study.
NHTSA researchers estimated that stability control saved 634 lives in 2008, 705 lives in 2009 and 863 lives in 2010, the agency said in a statement.
Even with the rapid adoption of stability control by the auto industy ahead of the regulatory deadlines, it will take 10 to 15 years before cars without stability control are a rarity on the road, NHTSA said.
The study cites some limitations with the statistical methods used, such as the decision to only use single-vehicle crashes as the basis for estimating stability control's effectiveness.


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A year and a half of debate over filtering pornography out of San Jose public library computers came to a head late Tuesday when the City Council rejected spending money on the technology.
After a lively debate that lasted hours, the council voted 7-3 to approve a proposal by the vice mayor and two councilmen that would remind computer users of existing policies to be courteous to others. Mayor Chuck Reed and council members Pete Constant, who led the push for the filters, and Pierluigi Oliverio were opposed, favoring filters in children's areas.
"There are a lot of different ways to protect our children," said Councilman Sam Liccardo who sponsored the approved proposal along with Vice Mayor Judy Chirco and Councilman Ash Kalra. The proposal argued the city should first find more money to expand library hours, school crossing guards and sex-crime detectives. Liccardo compared filtering to "fighting a global naval strategy by deploying all our ships to Lake Tahoe."
At Tuesday's meeting, dozens of residents lined up to speak, with advocates arguing filters will protect kids from easy access to porn in the libraries. Debbie Mendez said that on a visit to her local branch library last summer, a man seated next to her and her son and daughter was viewing pornography, and the librarian said there was not much she could do about it.
"I was blown away," Mendez said.
Critics argued filtering technology still is too costly and too crude to avoid blocking legitimate research, as it was when the council rejected filters as ineffective in 1997. They claim the problem is being exaggerated.
"The fear is not based on fact," said Tina Morrill. "We can use this money to keep our library hours longer."
Constant, who suggested porn filters in October 2007 after news surfaced that men were viewing sexually explicit images on city library computers, proposed along with Reed that the city adopt a policy similar to Santa Clara County libraries.
Under Constant's proposal, library computer users would have been told when they log in to be mindful that children may be present and to act responsibly. The city would have installed technology to filter Internet content on computers in children's areas at city branch libraries. Pending additional funding, the technology would have been installed on other computers in branch libraries, with users having the option to disengage it. The city also would have discussed computer policy with San Jose State University for the jointly run Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. main library downtown.
The head librarian said it would cost $90,000 to install filters in children's areas, although filtering advocates offered to raise $40,000 toward startup costs and Constant said ongoing annual cost would be about $5,000.
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Turn the junk in your trunk into your best asset by adding these butt workouts to your routine
• Switch feet and step up with your left foot 10 times.
• Want to challenge your abs while you do this? Interlace your hands behind your head.
Note: If you are collapsing into your back (meaning that your spine is curving) when you step up, the bench/step you're using is likely too high.
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These all work great. Get that butt firm for swimsuit season.
by Squidney Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at 02:51PM Report as inappropriate
I am trying this.
by Sari Monday, January 7, 2013 at 09:20PM Report as inappropriate
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by EricaF123 Tuesday, January 1, 2013 at 06:42AM Report as inappropriate
I agree with postpartumpunk! Lifting heavier gives you SO much better results. It disappoints me seeing women constantly led to believe that we have to do wimpy workouts just because we are the gentler sex. Start smaller with more reps and work up to larger weights with less reps. Trust me, you won't get a man body.
by caitandkate Sunday, December 30, 2012 at 08:01PM Report as inappropriate
My booty is my pride and joy! I love doing lunges, squats and bridging. Also the treadmill and elliptical machines are my bestfriends!
by MizzPink Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 07:14AM Report as inappropriate
These exercises look good. I am gonna try this..
by Pinky5 Friday, November 2, 2012 at 09:11AM Report as inappropriate
Hahaha, deadlifts with those tiny non-weights? give me a break. Show me a good booty and I'll show you a woman who can squat her bodyweight and deadlift twice as much.
by postpartumpunk Tuesday, September 25, 2012 at 05:01PM Report as inappropriate
Good stuff!!!
by robyne00 Friday, September 21, 2012 at 11:42AM Report as inappropriate
A great way to also tone your inner thighs while doing lunges is before going into the lunge after standing, take the leg that you're going to put behind you, and swing it forward and around to behind you and going into your lunge from there. While you're swinging your leg around, keep it as high as you can while keeping your leg straight. This will also help with your flexibility. I had been doing this without the pause in between and doubling it as a cardio work-out. The only thing with doing this, is you probably want to have something to hold on to (I use either a chair or my fridge door) with your opposite hand for balance.
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Alonzo George Wright 1873-1907
My name is Mary Pauline Edwards-Compton and my parents reside in Quitman, Texas on what was referred as Billy Goat Hill many years ago. I am trying to gather some research on my Great-Grand Father, Alonzo George Wright. He was married to Sarah Olga Wright. I cannot find much information about his family, for example of the names of his parents or any siblings. I would appreciate anything that could be of help. I live out of state, so it is hard for me to stop in at the library.
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Extracts your iTunes iPhone/iPod touch/iPad backups.
JuicePhone is the best way to turn your iPhone and iPod touch backups into a nutritious treat. While syncing your device, iTunes automatically backs up all of your data. JuicePhone is capable of extracting those backups so you can browse through your iPhone's data on your computer. This helps you save your notes and text messages, your downloaded songs from Tap Tap Revenge and other application-specific files - virtually all of your personal data. So go ahead and download JuicePhone: it's FREE and just as powerful as your kitchen juicer!
* Extract your iPhone / iPod touch backups and browse through your device's files.
* Mirror a backup's files instead of extracting them, which saves disk space and makes handling backups more convenient.
* Copy data from any specific application installed on your device.
* Find out information about your backed up devices, including their serial number and identifier.
* Easy-to-use and intuitive User Interface.
* 64-bit capable and optimized for multiple processor cores.
* Fully compatible with iOS 5 and Mac OS X Lion, while retaining backwards compatibility.
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Version 1.0.1 works perfectly for me in an Intel-based iMac (Dual Core, 2 GHz), running Mac OS X Leopard (10.5.5).
@ mfichtner: This has been fixed now in version 1.0.1 (pending review on iusethis right now). We couldn't try the app out in Leopard and figured it would "just run." It didn't, but now we talked to a few people and made it work...
Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work. The software reports success even though it hasn't extracted a single file into the target directory.


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Don't you just hate it when a terrible, nonsensical ending gets in the way of an otherwise solid motion picture experience? I know I do. It really doesn't matter how strong, competent, or well-crafted the rest of the movie is -- if the conclusion is weak, unsatisfying, or an unholy combination of the two, then the entire film is a wash. To some, this may sound like an extremely harsh opinion to hold, and in some ways, I suppose it is. Nevertheless, I simply cannot sing the praises of anything that fumbles the proverbial ball during the final reel.
Although other horror fanatics may not necessarily agree with me, I do hold the opinion, as unpopular as it may be, that Jake West's ultra-gory 2005 sci-fi farce "Evil Aliens" is one seriously bad-ass motion picture. All of the elements required for maximum cinematic enjoyment are presented and accounted for: over-the-top characters, an insane amount of violence, and a few incredibly messy anal probes, mixed and blended with the skill of someone who's spent a fair amount of time with the films distributed and/or produced by Troma. Needless to say, I've seen it quite a few times.


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Feb. 1, 2010
MILWAUKEE - The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee men's basketball team will face Niagara University in this season's BracketBuster matchup, the Horizon League announced today.
The Panthers and Purple Eagles will play Sat., Feb. 20, at 7 p.m. at the U.S. Cellular Arena.
The Panthers (13-10, 5-6 Horizon) are part of a large group of teams battling for position in the Horizon League behind unbeaten Butler. In fact, six teams have between four and six league losses, with UWM facing key road contests against three of those teams over the next two weeks.
Ricky Franklin leads the Milwaukee attack at 15.1 points per game, while James Eayrs pitches-in with 12.0 points per contest.
Milwaukee has been without all-league guard Tone Boyle all season. The senior is redshirting because of a back injury and will return in the 2010-11 campaign. This past weekend, UWM found itself even more shorthanded, as Deonte Roberts missed both games because of academic eligibility issues while Tony Meier did not play Sunday because of an ankle injury.
Niagara (12-12, 5-7) is a member of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and advanced to the title game of its league tournament a season ago, winning 26 games in the process. This year, the Purple Eagles have four players averaging in double figures and a fifth contributing 9.6 points per contest. They have gone 3-7 in the last 10 games after a strong 9-5 start.
This is the eighth year UWM is participating in the BracketBusters event. The BracketBusters event also includes a return game for the Panthers at Niagara. Previously, return games were guaranteed for the following season, but return games for this year's BracketBusters event can take place either next season or during the 2011-12 campaign.
UWM's BracketBusters History
2003 - Milwaukee lost at Southern Illinois (66-64) on ESPN2
2004 - Milwaukee lost at home to Manhattan (83-76) on ESPN
2005 - Milwaukee won at Hawai'i (87-81) on ESPN2
2006 - Milwaukee lost at home to Missouri State (72-63) on ESPN2
2007 - Milwaukee lost at Drake (84-76) in a non-televised game
2008 - Milwaukee lost at Bradley (84-72) on ESPN360
2009 - Milwaukee lost at home to North Dakota State (77-69) in a non-televised game