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He plays with passion. Shooting hoops. Making baskets. Evan Terrell is not just something special on the court. Evan Terrell is nothing short of a medical miracle.
"Most people would never know he had spina bifida. Nothing slows him down," said Kristie Terrell.
Doctors first diagnosed him in the womb. His tiny spinal cord stuck out of his back. The defect often leads to difficulty walking and brain damage.
"We never, at that point, expected the running or the jumping or the kicking or the sprinting or any of the other wonderful things that he's able to do."
But because of surgery done before Evan was even born when his mom was just 24 weeks pregnant, he can do all that and more.
"You make a small incision in the uterus. We don't take the baby out of the uterus. We just position the baby, so we can see what's important to us and fix it."
Results of the seven-year trial show fetal surgery significantly reduces the risk of water on the brain and paralysis. Doctor Noel Tulipan pioneered the surgery at Vanderbilt University.
"One of the beauties of a fetus is that they heal much better than even a baby, and before a certain age, they can actually heal without a scar," said Noel Tulipan, M.D., Professor and Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Another benefit? 90% of babies born with spina bifida will need a shunt to relieve fluid buildup in the brain. Prenatal surgery cuts that risk in half. Giving kids like Evan the chance to do what boys do.
"It always makes me nervous to see him jump, but I always let him jump cause I never thought I would see it," said Brian Terrell.
Another score… for medicine.
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BACKGROUND: Spina bifida is a common birth defect of the spine. In Latin, the term literally means "split or open spine." It occurs when the two sides of the embryo's spine fail to join together, leaving an open area. Myelomeningocele is the most severe form of spina bifida, and about one in 3,000 babies is born with this type. When the bone around the spine doesn't form properly, it causes part of the spinal cord to stick out of the baby's back. Sometimes, other membranes may push through this opening in the back. About 10 percent of these babies die after birth.
One common problem for children with spina bifida is hindbrain herniation. That's where part of the brain and brainstem slips into the spinal column. Nearly 90 percent of babies born with Myelomeningocele have a buildup of fluid on the brain, which is known as hydrocephalus. The exact cause of spina bifida is unknown.
(SOURCE: Kishealth.org)
TREATMENT: While spina bifida can be treated, there is no cure. Affected newborns have to undergo an operation just a few days after birth, so the spinal cord can be pushed back into the spinal column. The only way to alleviate the pressure of hydrocephalus is to insert a tube or shunt to drain it. The first in-utero spinal cord repair surgery was done at Vanderbilt University in 1997. In this procedure, mothers are given anesthesia, which also sedates the fetus. The mother's abdomen and uterus are opened so as not to bother the placenta, which nourishes the fetus. The fetus is not removed from the womb.
CLINICAL TRIAL: A New England Journal of Medicine study found that the most serious complications from the defect can be lessened through prenatal repair surgery. During the clinical trial, 158 women found that brain malformations were reversed in one-third of the fetuses. The trial was conducted at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of California, San Francisco. It was stopped early because of overwhelmingly positive results. Half the mothers had the surgery between their 19th and 25th weeks of pregnancy. The rest carried their babies to term, and the surgery was performed a few days later. After one year, researchers found only 40 percent of babies in the prenatal surgery group had to get shunts compared with 82 percent who had surgery after birth. Researchers also found that after 2½ years, children who had their spinal surgery in-utero had better leg function. Forty-two percent of the children who had been operated on in the womb could walk without crutches compared to only half that amount in the postnatal surgery group. Dr. Noel Tulipan, from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, says the earlier the surgery is performed, the better because the longer the spinal cord is exposed to amniotic fluid, the more it can be damaged.
(SOURCE: New England Journal of Medicine)
RISKS: Eighty percent of the babies in the prenatal surgery group were born somewhat premature and their mothers had a higher risk of experiencing a ruptured uterus. Pregnant women who have the surgery will have to deliver their future babies by C-section. (Source: Vanderbilt University)
Craig Boerner
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN
Noel Tulipan, M.D., Professor and Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery Vanderbilt University Medical Center, discusses a way to operate on babies before they're even born!
There are some very exciting results from this study?
Dr. Noel Tulipan: Yes. The study has been going on for seven or eight years so it took a long time to finish. It's really the culmination of work we started way back in the early 90's, a project we've been working on for almost 20 years now. It's very gratifying to see that the results came out so well.
Can you tell me a little bit about spina bifida and some of the things the children who have it may have to worry about if they don't have the surgery prenatally?
Dr. Noel Tulipan: Spina Bifida is a congenital disease, which means it's something that you are born with. It's a defect of the spinal cord that actually occurs about four weeks after the baby is conceived. A lot of the time it happens even before a mom knows she is pregnant. What results is a little piece of spinal cord is exposed at the lower part of the spine. The result of that is that there is damage to that spinal cord and there can be varying degrees of damage. That lower part of the spinal cord really controls the leg function and also the bowel and bladder function. All of these kids have some degree of loss of bowel and bladder function as well as leg weakness. And then, in addition to that, they have a condition called hydrocephalus, water on the brain in 90% of the cases, so they also need a treatment for that as well. It can be a very devastating disease and, to me, the hydrocephalus is the worst part of the disease because it affects the brain Also the treatment for hydrocephalus is not perfect, so we often have to bring the patients back for multiple operations for that part of their disease
I spoke with a woman whose child was in the study and her biggest concern was with the hydrocephalus and the shunts they would have to put in.
Dr. Noel Tulipan: Right. Exactly. The device we put in to drain the fluid on the brain is called a shunt and the shunts, as I said, are very imperfect devices. They tend to fail unexpectedly. They have a pretty high rate of infection which requires replacement of the shunt and so patients tend to come back over and over again with problems with their shunt or even more than that false alarms for problems with their shunts. If they have bad headaches, let's say, or other symptoms of pressure in their head they end up in the emergency department many, many times during their childhood. So, it's really something that hangs over their heads for their entire lives.
Have you found that need has gone away by performing this surgery in the womb?
Dr. Noel Tulipan: It hasn't completely gone away, but it is greatly reduced by a significant amount, almost 50%. Our original studies that we did before the protocol was started and also the randomized trial, the MOMS trial, both showed there was about a 50% reduction in the need for shunting in kids with spina bifida if they have their backs repaired in the uterus.
What are some of the other advantages? I know when speaking with this particular woman, she said her child was still going to have bowel problems even with the surgery.
Dr. Noel Tulipan: It's not as though this procedure is a miracle cure. It doesn't totally cure the disease. Our original studies didn't even show much improvement in their leg function but, in fact, the recent study, the randomized study, does show an improvement in their ability to walk without crutches, walkers or canes and that kind of thing, so it does have a benefit as far as that goes as well. But, almost every one of these children is going to have some degree of bowel or bladder dysfunction. It varies among the different patients.
How many patients have you worked on?
Dr. Noel Tulipan: I've done well over 200 patients. There were only about thirty in the randomized protocol, but then we did an additional 170 plus patients prior to the randomized protocol.
Just so people can understand, how this is done? Can you walk us through a day in the operating room?
Dr. Noel Tulipan: Sure. Basically, the surgery is a combination between a cesarean section, which women have to deliver their babies, and my standard myelomeningocele repair, spina bifida repair. So, a woman would come to the operating room, be anesthetized, have an incision in the lower part of the abdomen, and we actually, what we call exteriorize the uterus. In other words, we pull it out of the abdomen, so it's sitting on top of the abdomen like a big red soccer ball. Then the obstetricians make an incision in the abdomen and through that we can see the baby's back. We don't actually, take the baby out of the uterus during the procedure. So, I'm looking at the baby's back where this defect is and I repair that much in the same way that I would after birth, which involves covering two layers of tissue over the spinal cord tissue. Then the uterus is closed back up, put back in the abdomen, the abdomen is closed up and that's the end of the procedure.
You basically, pull the uterus out?
Dr. Noel Tulipan: Right. The uterus is obviously still attached to the mom but we can lift it out of the abdomen so it's sitting on top of the abdominal wall. It's easy to access that way and we can, localize the baby with the little ultra sound machine so we know exactly where the baby is. We make a little cut in the uterus, just like they would if they were delivering a baby from a C-section.
Then the obstetrician can work outside the uterus and position the baby so that I can see the defect through that opening in the uterus. From then on, for me, it's a relatively straightforward repair process that is much the same as I would do in a baby after a normal delivery. Obviously, these fetuses are smaller than a term baby. They are like an extremely premature baby, basically. Technically, it's a little more difficult and the tissues are a little more delicate but the actual process of the repair and the layers that we repair are the same for the prenatal repairs as would be for postnatal repair.
How long does a surgery like that take?
Dr. Noel Tulipan: In general, it takes about an hour and a half to two hours if you add together all the anesthesia, the obstetricians' part, my part and then closing everything up again.
I know you said you have done over 200 surgeries but can you take us back to that first surgery because that must have been exciting.
Dr. Noel Tulipan: Yes, that was a very exciting experience obviously. There was a lot of publicity involved, a lot of excitement about the whole thing and it was a little scary because we didn't really know what the results were going to be. At first we were concerned that maybe the babies would deliver immediately after the surgery and then be very premature and then very sick, but as it turns out it worked out quite well and the babies did well. We gained more confidence after doing several procedures and then there was a lot of demand for it after that.
Obviously, you have to be pretty brilliant at what you do to be able to go into the womb.
Dr. Noel Tulipan: Prior to this, I have done many of these myelomeningocele repairs, the spina bifida repairs. I was very familiar with the disease, very familiar with the anatomy, so it was not like the first time I had ever done anything like this. I had fifteen years of experience before, taking care of patients in the conventional fashion.
Still though, it is pretty incredible that you were able to do this.
Dr. Noel Tulipan: It certainly was a great experience and I still get a thrill out of it. For me it is a fun surgery. Actually, for me, the real challenge going forward is trying to figure out even better ways of doing this surgery.
You said you have been doing this, or the study has been going on, for seven years. I can imagine you take that first patient you worked on here that kid is seven years later and you can see that kid running around and not in a wheel chair as they might have been. You see them living a somewhat normal life. What's that like for you?
Dr. Noel Tulipan: Once again, it's very gratifying. In our original group of patients before the randomized protocol, we used to have yearly reunions where lots of them would come back and get together every summer. We would rent out a big park, or find someone who had a big backyard, and have a barbeque and get everybody in town. So, I would see these patients and a lot of them did exceedingly well. Once again, this is not a miracle cure and not every single patient does great, but a lot of the patients do much better than we would have expected if we had just done it in the standard fashion.
I know you said they did better. In the study there were two babies that died?
Dr. Noel Tulipan: Yes. There were two babies in the prenatal group and two babies, actually, in the postnatal group. So, the actual mortality for the study was the same in both groups.
What are the implications for this? I would think if you're successful treating these babies in utero are there other diseases or other ailment that could be treated in utero that you are considering doing that may be better doing it there instead of waiting until the baby is born?
Dr. Noel Tulipan: Well, I think there are quite a few, it really depends a lot on how we can improve the procedure to reduce some of the complications. Part of this procedure is taking on an increase risk of premature delivery, preterm labor, and those kinds of things. If we could get those better, than say less devastating diseases might be able to be treated prenatally. Let's say we have a baby with cleft palate or some other congenital malformation, that would be amenable to surgery, one of the beauties of the fetus is that they heal much better than even a baby and before a certain age they can even heal without a scar. So, if you can consider doing surgeries like cleft palate or certain congenital heart defects and other defects like that, I think there are a lot of possibilities. For me, as a neurosurgeon this is certainly the most common congenital malformation that would be amenable to this kind of surgery. It's fairly easy to diagnose prenatally so, we can get these patients referred as early as 14 – 16 weeks with improved diagnostics. There's also an isolated disease of water on the brain without spina bifida. We have done four patients where we put shunts in prior to birth. I think that would be my other focus as a neurosurgeon, to try and improve that procedure. As it turns out, those patients didn't do all that well. They didn't do significantly better than patients who we treated postnatally, but I think if we learned how to pick the right patients I think that would be another procedure that we could easily do prenatally and it might help the patients out a great deal.
Is there an ideal candidate for this surgery? I noticed in the study that obese women were disqualified. What are the reasons behind who you choose?
Dr. Noel Tulipan: There are certain things that just make the surgery too risky compared to the benefits. Extreme obesity in the mother would be one. There are some babies with spina bifida that have very bad, devastating abnormalities of their spine when the elisions are very large or very high up on the spine. Those would probably not be good candidates because it would be very unlikely that we would be able to help them. Obviously, if the mother has other serious diseases, or if the fetus had other congenital malformations that's another thing that would probably argue against doing this surgery prenatally. I would say, the majority of patients we see probably would be reasonable candidates.
Anything I missed that you think we should touch on?
Dr. Noel Tulipan: Once again, my main focus at this point, now that this study is done, is really to move on to bigger and better things and to see if we can improve the outcomes of the surgery. So, I plan to be working in the next few years on ways of improving the surgery to reduce the complication rate. I'm thinking of doing the surgery perhaps through endoscopes, so you wouldn't have to make such a big hole in the uterus, or even doing it earlier on, say before 20 weeks gestation and maybe getting a better result from that, but I think there are a lot of things we can still do to even improve the results further.
You mentioned a picture.
Dr. Noel Tulipan: There are quite a few versions of that picture. One thing I think it is important to understand is that babies do not reach out of the uterus and try and grab you because they are all anesthetized at the time of surgery so I don't want anyone thinking that these babies are awake and moving around while we are operating on them. When we anesthetize the mom, the fetuses are also anesthetized at the same time and we give them extra anesthesia. That (picture) was just something that happened during one of the surgeries. That arm came out there and we got photos of it, but there are certain misconceptions about the surgery or about that photo at the time.
I know you said you perform this procedure at around 20 weeks, but do most then go full term?
Dr. Noel Tulipan: The average baby in the study and also in our previous series went to about 34 weeks gestation. Term is 30 – 40 weeks so a little bit premature, but not extremely premature. Neonatologist, these days have gotten superb at taking care of patients at the 30 – 39 week range. Most of those babies do extremely well and don't have many complications. It's really only the babies that are born before 30 weeks that still have serious problems.
Your procedure is done 20 weeks of development, what would happen if the baby were delivered then?
Dr. Noel Tulipan: 20 weeks is not viable, so if we did a surgery at 20 weeks and the fetus is delivered immediately that fetus would not survive. There is still a possibility that we could do the surgery even earlier than twenty weeks. There's no technical reason why that could not be done.


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I know this post is rather late in the day, but I think it's important to get the word out immediately about this amazing group of crafters.
Craft Hope is a crafts for charity site founded by Jade Sims. The idea is simple, using and sharing handmade crafts in order to help the less fortunate.
They really stepped up to the plate this week by creating a special "Craft Hope For Haiti" Etsy shop which benefits Doctors Without Borders. In just 24 hours they had over 150 sales raising nearly $4,000. When I last checked in, their sales were well above 200.
How can you help? Well first of all, spread the word! You can grab a copy of that button up there and place it on your blog. Twitter about it (you can simply click the retweet button above this post), tell your facebook friends, tell everyone!
Also, if you're a crafter, artist…if you make anything at all… please donate your items to help support the cause. The guidelines for donations can be found in this post.
And of course you can help by going to the Etsy shop and making a purchase. 100% of the proceeds go directly to charity.
The shop will be open as long as they have donations to keep it full so help spread the word!
It's new, it's exciting, it's "Appreciate a Photographer" week! It's been "officially" declared by the A Photo Student blog.
From the post:
As I'm sure most of you now know, a recent report
ranked being a photographer or photojournalist as two pretty crappy
jobs to have in its list of the 200 best and worst jobs of 2010:
#122 Vending Machine Repairer
#125 Waiter/Waitress
#126 Photographer
#131 Maid
#134 Undertaker
#156 Dishwasher
#189 Photojournalist
#190 Butcher
#195 Garbage Collector
With the hope of putting a little smile on the face of a miserable, cold, starving photographer, I am officially declaring this Appreciate A Photographer Week.
So here's your project for the week. Try to send a little message to a photographer you admire every day. A simple email will do and be sure to let them know it's "Appreciate a Photographer" week!
P.S. You can totally appreciate me all you want! Check out my photoblog! And you know what, while I'm at it, I'm going to offer up a 10% discount to the first 20 people who buy a print this week! Just choose from this selection, click the "Buy Print" link under the photo and when you're checking out, enter this coupon code: 58C324
Some people have the most incredible (and slightly ridiculous) talents out there in the world. This is definitely one of them. I was so blown away, I had to share. I wonder if she gives lessons?
Ok, ok, it's not really a person in that clock, but it's made to look that way! Designer Maarten Baas came up with this awesomeness and it's actually an LED screen on a continuous loop.
Go ahead, see for yourself…
"Add-Art is a free FireFox add-on which replaces advertising on websites
with curated art images. The art shows are updated every two weeks and
feature contemporary artists and curators."
Of course, you should just ooh and aah at it, because some of us bloggers need you to see them there ads. wink wink
I can't tell you how excited I've been getting for the Tim Burton exhibit at the MoMA. When I first saw an article about it a couple of weeks ago, I nearly fell out of my chair.
To see Tim Burton works virtually come to life…*drool*
So imagine my surprise and excitement when these photos of the install popped up on Flickr! Check it out…and don't forget it opens on November 22nd and runs through April 26th. Will you be there?

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Surgery Successful for 8-Limbed Girl
A four-armed, four-legged girl revered as a reincarnation of a Hindu goddess had successful surgery yesterday to remove the extra limbs and to help her lead a normal life, news organizations around the world reported today.
The 2-year-old, named Lakshmi, absorbed the body parts and organs of a conjoined "parasitic twin" that stopped developing while still in the womb. (Click on image at right for a fuller view.)
"It will be great to see our daughter have a normal body," her father Shambhu told the AP. Her parents reportedly had to keep Lakshmi in hiding after a circus asked to buy her.
We know this sort of item may be a little far afield for the Health Blog, but call us saps. We were riveted by the girl's story, which we first learned about on the Web site of the U.K.'s Daily Telegraph. The X-ray image there reveals the girl's unique skeleton, and it's remarkable.
The surgery, performed in Bangalore, India, took 24 hours and involved neurologists and orthopedic surgeons working together to identify which organs and structures were the girl's and removing those of the undeveloped twin. The operation, at an estimated cost $625,000, was provided free by doctors at Sparsh Hospital.


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Default Might Not Meet Apocalyptic Predictions—and That Could Be a Disaster
In British tabloid journalism, "reverse ferret" is what an editor yells in the newsroom to declare that the newspaper's position on an issue has changed. A lot of American experts may be forced to go into reverse ferret mode after Oct. 17 if the U.S. busts through the debt ceiling and, contrary to warnings, nothing much happens right away.
President Obama doubled down on his debt-ceiling warning at a press conference today, saying the U.S. economy risks a "very deep recession" if Congress doesn't raise the $16.7 trillion ceiling.
A default would without question be both harmful and stupid. But the sky would probably not fall the minute it happened. Roger Altman, chairman of New York-based investment bank Evercore Partners, told Bloomberg News' Yalman Onaran that a default would mean "higher interest costs over some considerable period of time for the U.S. and for U.S. taxpayers."
"If you missed an interest payment by two hours, the markets might look entirely beyond that and forgive you," Altman added. "If you miss an interest payment by two days, four days, six days, that's a different story. It's very difficult to be scientific about this."
In other words, how long it lasts is crucial. If the federal government defaults and the financial markets' initial reaction is muted, a lot of people who made over-the-top warnings about generation-long consequences will have to change their tunes—and the public will become even more cynical. Congress will cease to take the debt ceiling seriously and it will lose its value as what House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan calls a "forcing mechanism."
This is not by any means an optimistic scenario. A soft market response may be the worst possible outcome—even worse than a swift, scary market reaction that finally galvanizes Washington into action. Here's why: If a default doesn't cause chaos on Day One, Congress and the White House will be tempted to prolong their game of brinkmanship into Day Two, Three, or Four, just as they have allowed the partial government shutdown to drag on for more than a week so far.
Markets and rating agencies that treat, say, an hour-long default as a forgivable glitch will lose their forgiving mood if a default drags on. Treasury debt will gradually lose its reputation as a safe harbor for investors and there could be growing dislocations in parts of finance that use Treasuries, such as repo financing and money markets. The federal government could wind up like the mythical frog that jumps to safety if put in a pot of boiling water but dies if the temperature is raised gradually.
The bond market appears to be bracing for a possible default that doesn't last long. Evidence: Yields on one-month Treasury bills have jumped from zero in mid-September to 0.3 percent today, reflecting investors' worries that payments on them won't be made on time. Yields on six-month Treasury bills, which are usually higher, are now lower at 0.08 percent (although that's double where they were yesterday).
A default remains unlikely, of course. What's more likely is that the U.S. will reach Oct. 17 without a deal and the Treasury Department will be forced to prioritize payments on the national debt ahead of other expenses, such as bills to contractors. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew has said he can't and won't prioritize, but if push comes to shove, he may be forced to do so. Prioritization has the same pernicious effect: By dulling the impact of the debt ceiling, it allows Washington to carry on its brinkmanship dramatics even longer, causing harm to the economy that mounts over time.
When I interviewed Julian Jessop, the London-based chief global economist of Capital Economics, he dismissed the notion that any U.S. default, however short and small, would trigger a market meltdown like the one following the 2008 bankruptcy filing of Lehman Brothers. "There are lots of important differences, both in the scale of the problem and the world's ability to prepare for it," Jessop said. "Lehman came out of the blue. In the case of a U.S. default, everyone's talking about it. I would be surprised if there aren't plans in place at the various central banks and treasuries around the world to prepare for it." Governments will be quick to change any rules that threaten to cause a crisis by forcing holders of Treasuries to sell them en masse, Jessop said: "They're not going to sit there and watch the system fall apart around them."
Policymakers will do all they can to minimize the harm of a default. For example, to calm markets, the Federal Reserve might agree to accept defaulted Treasury securities as collateral for borrowing at its discount window, Goldman Sachs economists said last week.
In 2011, the last time the U.S. was seriously up against the debt ceiling, legendary investor Stanley Druckenmiller told the Wall Street Journal that a default is "not going to be catastrophic." As Druckenmiller, a former fund manager for George Soros, said at the time: "Excuse me? Russia had a real default, and two or three years later they had all-time low interest rates." He told the Journal he would prefer a brief default that resulted in a deal to get deficits under control over an agreement that raised the debt ceiling by papering over the deficit problem.
Unfortunately, Druckenmiller's either-or scenario doesn't cover all of the possibilities. Worst of all would be a default that isn't brief and doesn't produce a deal to get deficits under control. Then the debt ceiling becomes just another Maginot Line.
Chicken Little warnings about debt-ceiling disaster make sense when default looks like a remote likelihood. They keep people from getting too close to the edge. But they become counterproductive if they don't pan out. If you tell your daughter not to cross her eyes or they'll get stuck that way, and then they don't, she'll start crossing her eyes whenever she feels like it. Washington is kind of like your cross-eyed daughter.


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Series EE savings bonds are available for purchase at your financial institution, through TreasuryDirect or through a payroll deduction plan that your employer has set up. If you purchased your bond after May 1997 and before April 2005, your interest rate is based on the current market rates. For bonds that were purchased in May 2005 or after, the amount you earn is based on a fixed rate of return. You can calculate the value of your EE savings bond at any time throughout the 30-year term.
Step 1
Locate the Treasury Direct savings bond calculator at the TreasuryDirect.gov website. This calculator has up-to-date information on the interest rates and any changes that need to be taken into account when calculating the current value of your savings bond.
Step 2
Select "EE Bonds" as your series from the drop-down menu, then enter the rest of your information. You will need to enter the "Value as of" date to specify whether you want the value as of today or another date. You'll also need to enter the denomination of your bond, the issue date and the serial number, which is printed on the bond.
Step 3
Click "Calculate" to obtain the value information for your EE savings bond. The calculation screen will show you the total price that you paid for the bond, the total value of the bond as of the date you entered, the year-to-date interest and the total interest you've earned on the bond since the bond was issued. You're also given the next accrual date, the date of final maturity and the interest rate that this information is based on.
Step 4
Click "calculate another bond" if you have more than one bond that you wish to know that value of. This option lets you create a list with all of your EE savings bond information on one page, which you can print or save to your TreasuryDirect account.
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Kidd pleads guilty to snake charges
Published: Friday, February 24, 2012 at 11:40 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 24, 2012 at 11:40 a.m.
A Henderson County man arrested in August after authorities found dozens of venomous reptiles in his home pleaded guilty to multiple charges in District Court Friday morning.
Walter Clarence Kidd, 51, of 65 Doe Trail, Hendersonville, entered guilty pleas to 15 counts of possession of protected animals and 15 counts of failure to properly label the containers in which he was keeping venomous snakes.
Police seized the reptiles from the single-wide trailer on Aug. 5, after Kidd was bitten by an exotic venomous snake.
Kidd was originally accused of 46 violations of the North Carolina statute on ownership or use of poisonous reptiles. The violations involved 50 of the about 60 seized reptiles.
Kidd was also issued six North Carolina Uniform Citations involving 10 reptiles on the state's protected wild animal list, as well as one charge of possessing five or more native reptile species without a permit.
Judge Peter Knight sentenced Kidd to 45 days in the Henderson County jail, but suspended that sentence for 24 months of supervised probation.
Knight also ordered Kidd to pay $1,775 in restitution and fined him $200.
Kidd's snakes were taken to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh after authorities confiscated them.
Knight ruled that the nonvenomous reptiles could be returned to Kidd and ordered Kidd not to possess any new snakes during his probationary period.
All of Kidd's other charges were voluntarily dismissed by the District Attorney's Office.
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Cardiac Signs and Symptoms During Pregnancy
Symptoms may occur during pregnancies that are often associated with cardiac disease; however, these symptoms may be normal. These symptoms include fatigue, fainting, chest pain, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing while sleeping, and palpitations. Fainting may occur due to blood pressure and volume changes in pregnancy. Shortness of breath and difficulty breathing while lying down may be due to the mechanical effect of the enlarging uterus as pregnancy progresses. Palpitations, or an awareness of the heartbeat, may occur because the diaphragm shifts up in the chest during pregnancy, causing the heart to sit higher in the chest. Any of these symptoms occurring at rest may be serious and due to underlying significant heart disease and should be further evaluated.
Although a heart murmur (changes within the sounds of the heart) and ankle swelling may be associated with heart disease, these two symptoms also may occur during a normal pregnancy. Nearly 90 percent of pregnant women develop a heart murmur, which may be due to the increased volume of blood flowing through the heart during pregnancy. Pregnant women may develop underlying irregularities of the heartbeat that may be perfectly normal and can only be distinguished by specific cardiac testing. In addition, it is quite common that women develop swelling of their ankles and feet during pregnancy and this may not be due to underlying heart disease.
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Inspired by something that was said in a review of my book at Nepal about THIS interview with a Maoist Guerilla, I decided to conduct a series of interviews with people whose work I respect.
Subsequently a couple of writer/journalists, one comedian and one musician have answered already and there is more to come.
The questions will be an odd mix as the line I was inspired by in the review was that I asked "the one question that a truly professional journalist would never have asked." Therefore for the most part I will try to ask questions that wouldn't normally be asked. Some of them will be serious, others not so.
The first in the series is Edward Current.
Edward Current is probably the funniest thing I have seen on the internet. I found one of his videos with a random search and then sat and watched all of them in one sitting, and I obviously now check frequently for the latest ones.
With the number of people that have seen his videos now into the millions it appears I am not the only person who is doing this.
The videos parody some of the thinking of the religious right and takes the ideas to their 'logical' conclusion.
Not only are they hilarious but the reaction to the videos is almost equally funny as many people seem to be outraged by them because they don't realise he is joking. Even better, many of those who do realise he is joking are outraged too.
So I decided to email him and see if he would be the first in my series 'The Unprofessional Interviews'.
Thankfully he said yes and here is what he had to say for himself…
What was the 'genesis' of the character you play in most of your videos?
A few years ago, Huffingtonpost.com started a competition called the Contagious Festival, in which readers were invited to make videos and other Web presentations that would hopefully catch on and go viral. There were two cash awards each month — one for the video with the most viewers, and another selected by Arianna Huffington and a panel of judges. I won twice — first for a cartoon called "The Democrats Get Balls," in which I depicted Barack Obama being elected the next U.S. President — that was in March 2006. You can Google it; it's still on the site.
The second was for "The Atheist Delusion." I had just finished reading Sam Harris's "Letter to a Christian Nation" and thought I'd explore that area. On a message-board discussion somewhere, I saw a creationist calling a normal person "deluded" and concluding the comment with "checkmate!" The irony was so maddening to me, I worked it into the video.
After the Contagious Festival was discontinued, I put "The Atheist Delusion" on YouTube, where I had posted a couple of music videos. People liked my comedy a lot better, though. So I made a few more, using the same character, and started to build an audience. Now I'm kind of stuck with the character, but it looks like I kind of have a niche. And "checkmate!" has become my catch phrase.
Along with your videos the comments are quite funny too. From outraged Christians to outraged atheists a lot of people don't seem to get it. Why do so many people take what you are doing at face value?
It's "Poe's Law" — you can't make a parody of something that's already ridiculous without people believing that it's real. Plus, my technique is to take things that some Christians might actually say, but expose the ridiculousness of the statements merely by juxtaposing them or providing a certain context. So I'm not really exaggerating the other side's claims all that much, at least on some of my videos. It's more subtle than most satires.
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Why do you think there has been such an extraordinary growth in Christian fundamentalism in the USA?
I see it as a positive feedback loop. America has been getting dumber, less rigorous intellectually with a diminishing emphasis on critical thinking and debate. Meanwhile, as things get more decadent and socially liberal, those who are inclined against such trends want to push back harder. It's all about people wanting simple, quick, easy answers to the biggest questions. Americans today want to be spoon-fed. They don't want to bother thinking for themselves, so increasingly they just believe what they're told — in church every Sunday. It's the mentality of, "God said it, I believe it, that settles it."
What do you think is the scariest thing about these people?
Home-schooling and the loss of grounding in science. Even in public schools it's scary. Science and technology are our future. Without that foundation in our young people, without getting young people excited about science and innovation, the U.S. cannot continue to be competitive as a nation on the world stage in this century.
What contacts with these people have you had?
I've had a few conversations online, but I'm lucky not to live in an area where the first thing people ask is, "What church do you go to?" Along the way, though, I've picked up an idea of how they think and the arguments they use, which is useful to me. And of course I acknowledge that not all Christians, even fundamentalists, believe the things my character says — but some do, so those are the ones I'm going after.
What do you think about Obama professing his Christianity time and again during the campaign? And if there was an element of pragmatism to him doing that, what does that say about political processes in America?
He's a smart guy and I don't know what really goes on in his head, but I see it as largely pragmatic. At least I hope so. He's trying to be inclusive and bring people together. As much as I'd love for him to say, "Don't bother praying for the economy," that isn't going to get us anywhere, really. Of course, I was thrilled that he mentioned nonbelievers in his inaugural speech. That was a huge leap forward for my people — to actually be recognized. I think the last time a president talked about nonbelievers was when George Bush Sr. asserted that they shouldn't be considered U.S. citizens.
On "The Daily Show" recently, a guest was asked to order groups of people in terms of when a member would reach the White House — blacks, Hispanics, Jews, women, atheists, gays, the disabled. He put atheist last. We have a long way to go.
Who do you find funny?
My favorite comedian is Bill Maher. I've seen almost every episode of "Politically Incorrect" or "Real Time" since the mid-1990s. I can't think of a better way to spend an hour than watching his standup act. Stephen Colbert is another huge favorite; when I tape my videos I have to make a concerted effort not to copy his delivery. Demitiri Martin, who has a new show on Comedy Central, is hilarious. ("I don't think diving is a real sport. It's pretty much just showing off while you fall.") Other favorites include Jerry Seinfeld, Garry Shandling, Norm Macdonald, Chris Rock, David Cross, Louis C.K., and Dave Attell.
Have you ever played the character in public?
No. I don't know if I could pull it off, because I don't have any improv experience. My videos are heavily scripted. I do want to try my hand at standup comedy, but that won't be in character.
You occasionally have special effects and quite sophisticated editing. Is it all self-financed?
I've been self-employed since 2003, and one of my gigs is video production and animation for a major phone company. If you've been to a concert and seen videos promoting music-related phone features on monitors along the concourse, I might have produced them. I've gotten pretty good at Adobe After Effects, which certainly comes in handy for Edward Current the comedian.
For running this website I have had a lot of hate mail including one person who seems to think that a flying squirrel will one day murder me. Given the nature of what you do, do you get some bizarre emails? Any funny ones?
I don't know if this counts, but in a recent video I brought up alternative 9/11 conspiracy theories, and that got kind of interesting. There's a little bit of paranoia there. I learned that the more moderate "Truthers" (the ones who merely believe that the Twin Towers were brought down by explosives) think that the more radical ones (those who believe the jets were fake and/or remote-controlled) are crazy. Who'd have thought? The moderate ones think the radical ones are "agents provocateur" who are hired by the conspiring agencies to make the whole movement look crazy. It's crazy.
Aside from that, I don't get a lot of bizarre stuff. Typically it's just: "I'll pray for you," "Why are you so hateful," "You'll find out about Hell someday." Christians tend to be pretty polite, even if they're angered. Atheists — the ones who don't get the joke — can be extremely rude and abusive. I've gotten numerous (not serious) death threats from atheists, but maybe just one or two creepy messages from Christians. ("You *will* stop making your videos very soon, trust me.")
Looking from outside it often seems like the USA is a loony bin. Is it?
No, it's a bin with a diverse mixture of people. The loonies are only the ones you hear the loudest. Actually, I take that back. It's kind of a loony bin.
What question would you ask yourself?
One question I ask myself sometimes is, what's my motivation to make all these videos? Some people see me as obsessed — I have a fixation, I cannot let this topic go, why don't I explore some other areas for comedy, clearly I secretly believe in God and am going through all of this effort to make myself feel better. Well, maybe, but I don't think so. All my life as a musician I've been searching in vain for an audience. Suddenly I've found one — as a comedian. And I seem to have a "bit" that people enjoy. I tried a few political things before the election, but they weren't received as well, so I went back to religion. Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy have made great careers out of being one character, so maybe it's the way for me to go.
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Roger sweeps into semis
16.05.2008 | Tennis
Roger cruised into the semifinals of the Hamburg Masters by beating Fernando Verdasco of Spain 6-3, 6-3 today.
"I think I played well today," Roger said. "Fernando is one of those players you have to be always very careful of. He was a little bit more predictable today but made less unforced errors. That was his choice of tactics - I'm not sure if it was the right one."
Keeping up his good form on clay, and still to drop a set, Roger clearly showed the better performance against Verdasco. Their first encounter had been three years ago in Hamburg, where the Spaniard had his right foot taped after taking a 3-2 lead in the second set and didn't win another game.
Roger will face Nicolas Kiefer or Andres Seppi in the semi-finals.
Willson, hmmmn nay! u r not being fair in ur assessment, u r still leaning towards Djoker who lost woefully today, Nadal has asserted him self and kept him in his place. Like Roger said, all this players are beginning to believe that they can beat him, bu
Guys, thank you for the entertaining running commentary. Sorry I could not see the match live.
I've never doubted the Djoker's talent, just that his attitude pisses me off. It was indeed a great effort on the part of both players.
Rafa sent a s
I've never doubted the Djoker's talent, just that his attitude pisses me off. It was indeed a great effort on the part of both players.
Rafa sent a s
Hey, Rafa, you've done it! I respect your intensity, focus and concentration. You play every point as if it's match point.
'Djoko, you are still a kid!". Just like The Miami Herald wrote on Monday after 2007 US Open, "Roger said LOUD and CLEAR, 'you ar
'Djoko, you are still a kid!". Just like The Miami Herald wrote on Monday after 2007 US Open, "Roger said LOUD and CLEAR, 'you ar
Thanks for this utterly delightful piece of information! Yiihaa!!! I just wish they would at least show a good and comprehensive summary of this match on TV if they didn't feel like showing it. Congrats to these two fighters. Relax, Rafael, enough to make
No ha gañado ya? C'mon, Rafa, you can lose tomorrow; tonight, you've gotta win!!!
Boy, RAFA just defeated Djoker and maintained his no 2 status. Djoker fought with all the strength left in him but it wasn't good enough, still surprised he didn't retire. It took 3hrs and Nadal was at match point. Roger get ready for Nadal, he must be ti
Mitz, how are your fingernails? This sure is a nail-biter, isn't it?
Buena pregunta Silvana1. Por Rafa, ganar este partido es mas dificil que ha pensado.
Qué esta pasando en Hamburgo? Rafa!!?
Djoker has no stamina! He's still a boy not quite a man yet.


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FIRST LOOK: Savage Dragon #137, 4th Printing
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Date: 26 January 2009 Time: 04:13 PM ET
FIRST LOOK: Savage Dragon #137 - 4th
Savage Dragon #137, which in a way started all this "Obama in comics" shenanigans, was only on its third printing.
No more.
Image Comics has provided Newsarama with the first look at the fourth - and final - printing of Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon #137, featuring the Dragon endorsing Obama on the cover.
The issue will be in stores February 25th, to coincide with the release of Savage Dragon #145 - the relaunch of the series featuring Dragon's return to the Chicago police force and - yep - the second Obama cover and very first appearance in the pages of the comic..


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Hello, back running after a thirty year hiatus. Just ran in a 5k on April 20th that for which I wasn't properly prepared, in a pair of Five Fingers (KSO Treks). I sustained a heel injury (guessing it was due to tiredness at the end of the race and I may have regressed to a heel strike, but not absolutely sure). Anyway, my heel still hurts. I've started wearing crocs instead of the toe shoes, which seems to have helped some, but the pain still occurs (some days are better than others.) Any idea on the recovery time for this sort of injury? Also, is there any of physical therapy I can try?
You don't say anything about your recent running experience (30 years ago doesn't count), so it's hard to tell. When you started, how you built mileage, your current mileage, what shoes you have been wearing, all would have helped. Also a better description of your injury: where, when, under what conditions, exactly does it hurt. Regardless, I'll take a WAG that it is plantar fasciitis. That's the most likely thing assuming the pain is in the heel area on the bottom of the foot. You can google that and find a lot of information about causes and possible fixes. Good luck with it.
Thanks, Len, for your input.
Anthony, what you are experiencing may be plantar fasciitis, I hurt my foot 2 1/2 years ago, the pain was right in the middle of the heel and felt like some one was stabbing a knife in the heel. Turns out the because I am extremely flat footed and never had arch supports while running, the arch tedon is tearing way from the heel bone causing a build up of blood around the bone. This build up is what was causing the pain along with the tearing, if got so bad the the tedon started tearing legth wise also. I recently finally saw the right podiatrist and he told me that I should be wearing high arch supports any time I put weight on my foot, I even have a "boot" arch brace that I wear at night. I had 2 months of therapy because I was training for a half marathon. after the run I took 2 month off and my pain went from having to use crutches in the moring because that is when the pain was to worst, to running again with very little pain. So depending on how bad yours is it could take 2 weeks to 2 months with the proper supports and stretches. If you look up plantar fasciitis stretches you should find some good ones. always make sure you stretch your arches before and after every run. oh and I was told that flip flops and walking barefoot are not recommended for flat footed people. They do make flip flops with arch supports though, there are several kinds orthopeds and new balance are the ones I use. Now my pain is usually only after a hard run and that is only for awhile.
Good luck
Just take some medicines and take complete rest. Do not work hard.
Thank you, Amanda. It's been seven weeks since the injury and it seems to be be improving. Those stretches you recommended are helping.
Thanks, Ram, just swimming and biking for the time being.
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So in the last month, I've had several people mention Twitter to me and suggest opening an account related to my beer writing. As I've written before, I don't really get Twitter and think it's a pretty self-indulgent, self-absorbed thing. Now I've determined what might be at the core of why I dislike Twitter: Enter TwitterTasteLive and here. If the solitary act of beerblogging wasn't bad enough, you can add the anti-social element of drinking a beer with other people, while not actually with other people. That's right. You buy the beers, drink them alone in your basement closet, and then post your experiences on Twitter. Mine would look like this: "Closet is cold and dark…Think I'm still drinking beer…I wonder if the pub is still open…Later nerds." I'm all for people getting together to drink beer and even discuss it (although let's try and keep the latter to a minimum). All told, for my money, Twittering beer seems a pretty ridiculous endeavor and kind of the polar opposite from what makes beer great, namely the whole conviviality and bringing people together thing. Who knows, maybe Twitter is the future of human communication and soon we will all correspond only with choppy sentences from our handhelds. That will hopefully leave me a little extra room at the bar. So at 8 p.m. on Saturday night I won't be twittering, unless that's what you now call drinking pints at McNeill's with a bevy of new, non-virtual friends.
EDIT: I've already been informed by a slightly irate reader that the act of posting on Twitter is not called 'twittering' but instead 'tweeting.' I may never have been so happy not to know something in my life…I've also added the 'self-absorbed' line.
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Sweet, let's tweek off some beers!!!
And here I thought this was going to be about drinking and tweeting.
I still haven't made my mind up about it yet. I think it may have some utility. I'm still feeling my way.
Maybe you'll never like twitter, but I think the Beer Mapping Project's twitter maps are very cool. Here's mine.
The geekish lure of adding points to my map gets me out of my basement and into the pub.
For all the reasons I have seen people not liking twitter this seems pretty poor, but I understand your logic. But that said social media sites are based on a conversation, often times ones you can't have with that friend at the pub because of where you are, for example I moved this year and it allows me to stay in contact with many friends. Until they can cross my path again, I'll use social media and feel fine with it.
And I won't suggest you get an account.
Say what you will, but twitter has played a pretty prominent roll in our increased subscriber numbers over at Hoosier Beer Geek. So if you're a whore for traffic like I am, it's a pretty nice tool.
And it's no more self indulgent than writing a beer blog, really. I mean why should anyone care what any of us think? What's the difference if I'm writing paragraphs or two sentences? It's all just entertainment.
I figured once beeradvocate embraced twitter, all you guys would be on board and signing up.
In its original incarnation, where people just texted one another, I also didn't find it that useful. Although I wouldn't call it self-indulgent necessarily because the only people you're communicating with in Twitter are people who've signed up to "follow you" so presumably only friends, colleagues or customers who've asked to hear your missives. I've recently started tweeting when I post and many people have said they like being able to follow my blog using Twitter. I was talking with Stan about this earlier today and he, too, noticed that the uses of Twitter and the ways in which it's being used are all changing and increasing. Twitter is not the same as when it started.
The originally wine only website Twitter Taste Live (which is a separate company from Twitter; they just use its technology) wanted to try beer and asked me to participate. I'm keeping an open mind and figured I'd see how it worked. It doesn't seem that much different to me than the Burgundian Babble Belt tasting in real time online via their forum.
And as for keeping people apart, it is connecting with people virtually. I know that face to face is preferable — I certainly prefer it — but it isn't always possible, now is it? So I don't see the harm in connecting with people online from time to time. It allows people in remote areas to have some connection, perhaps not ideal, but still useful and potentially interesting. I don't see why there has to be only one acceptable way to share a beer.
And as for the tasting itself, I won't be alone, I'll be tasting with my wife and Sean Paxton and I can assure you won't be in a basement closet, nor I suspect will anyone. I've encouraged others to get together as well because I agree that's preferable. I've done NaNoWriMo several times and people get together for Write-Ins where they write in groups, taking an otherwise very solitary pursuit and doing en masse. I can't see why this will be that much different. But I also can't agree that drinking alone has to be inherently anti-social. It can be, sure, but I can think of several hypothetical situations where having a drink alone isn't a one-way ticket to AA.
I certainly don't believe Twitter or any other mode of communication will ever replace human contact, but mail, phones, faxes, e-mail and even Twitter are just tools. They facilitate communication. People made the same arguments against the telegraph, the phone and every advance since Bell called Watson from the other room. And still we talk to one another. Civilization hasn't ended and Twitter isn't bringing it down either. I know you didn't suggest that specifically, but that's where you seemed to be heading, at least in my addled mind.
I also don't understand your problem with the "solitary act of beerblogging [being] bad enough." Isn't all writing solitary, whether it's for a blog or a novel? My NaNoWriMo experiences notwithstanding, how often do people write publicly or in groups. Unless I'm co-writing a musical, I'm by myself. Aren't you?
Anyway, I'm willing to give Twitter, or indeed anything new, at least a passing chance. If it allows people to try something new in a new way, I say great. If not, I spent a pleasant afternoon with Chimay, Westmalle, my wife, a friend and the online community. I can think of worse ways to pass a few hours.
Andy, this is Chris from Twitter Taste Live and just wanted to put in my two cents not only as a longtime craft beer drinker, but someone who uses twitter in both my professional life (10 yr web developer) & personal life (beertweeter is my beer/tasting blog).
I would say give it it a shot before you disregard Twitter, you do have a blog (obviously)? What do you think it was like for the first Bloggers? People complained that their opinions are one sided…"They are just blabbing out their opinions on this digital rag?" "Who would want to read that?" Throw Beer into the mix…and really, "Who would want to read someon'e tasting notes on Rogue Brutal Bitter?" I remember hearing similar comments.
As for the "drinking the beer in your closet" that doesn't sound fun at all – the ideal Twitter Taste Live would include 4-6 people, a perfectly matched dinner party with the beers, and then you jump on Twitter and talk about the them:
Here is a photo from a Hugel Event: http://www.flickr.com/photos/anniemole/2785838648
If someone wants to log on and share a beer with some other folks and expand their craft beer network…that's cool too. Chances are you will meet these people in the flesh at a fest.
I'm not here to sway your thoughts about tasting through Twitter, but just want to inform you that what describe above is not really what the Online Tastings are about.
If you change your mind, let me know
Thanks – @beertweeter
One thing that I find twitter very useful for is connecting people with great beer they might not have otherwise heard about. When they mention they're enjoying a certain beer, and I suggest a beer similar to it by another brewery that they might like, they appreciate it, and I appreciate tips when I receive them too. Its like instant feedback and personalized recommendations, instead of static ratings.
I am not huge into twitter but the idea of being anti social is crazy. I currently live in Bakersfield,CA and there isn't much of a beer scene here and most of my friends drink the yellow fizzy stuff so I don't have a chance to have good beer discussions with knowledgeable beer people. So even though I am sitting at home, on my comfy couch not having to worry about how to get home, drinking a good beer with "friends" who can discuss a topic near and dear to me is a great thing. Just my thoughts!!


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PORTAGEVILLE -- A home was damaged in a fire Thursday evening in Portageville.
At 7:48 p.m. Portageville Fire Department responded to the home at 613 Foster St. in Portageville where a wood stove had caught on fire.
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Pioneers! O Pioneers!
by Walt Whitman
Pioneers! O Pioneers! Theme of Friendship
The pioneers of "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" are rugged, sure. And they keep themselves apart from the comforts of civilization. But they are not loners, no sir. Their bond to each other, including pioneers past and yet to come, is one of their defining characteristics. Their unity is reinforced over and over, as our speaker describes them repeatedly as moving in a single group or formation.
Questions About Friendship
- Why is friendship important to our speaker? Surely pioneers need to be rugged, need to be young and strong, able to break with the comforts of the past and blaze new trails. But why is their camaraderie an important part of their character?
- How does this idea of friendship connect with the sense of unity we get from the descriptions of the pioneers moving like a single unit or formation?
- How does the idea of friendship play into how our speaker sees America?
Chew on This
Try on an opinion or two, start a debate, or play the devil's advocate.
Pioneers are so bonded because the west wasn't won by individuals—it was won by cooperation.
These pioneers are individuals. The speaker just chooses to gloss over that fact, because pioneering is a national endeavor, not a personal one.


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Even if the Czech Republic's Olympic campaign kicked off with a loss, Tomas Plekanec was one of his team's most valuable players against the Swedes. The Czech captain led all forwards in the game with 22:04 in ice time. In fact, only Czech blueliner Marek Zidlicky logged more time on ice with his 26:56.
The pivot also obtained an assist on his team's first goal, scored by Jaromir Jagr. The other assist on the play went to former Hab Tomas Kaberle. Presenting an even plus-minus, Plekanec also added two shots on net in the game.
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Stolen bases a teamwide problem
Written by | Tom Krasovic | 10:40 a.m., Jun 20, 2008
For the second year in a row, the Padres are the worst team in the majors, by far, at both discouraging and apprehending opposing base-stealers.
No one player is the culprit.
At 6-foot-10, Padres right-hander Chris Young was an easy mark for opponents, who succeeded on 54 consecutive stolen-base attempts against him, including 12 of 13 this year. But there are several others who are allowing baserunners to get excellent jumps.
Base-stealers are 12-for-12 against Greg Maddux this season. They are 8-for-8 against rookie Josh Banks, who admitted after the Yankees hurt him with critical stolen bases Sunday that a slow leg kick is part of his game. Against relievers Cla Meredith and Heath Bell, base-stealers are 14-for-14 combined.
Manager Bud Black said he increased the emphasis on holding baserunners in spring training, but he said it was equally important, perhaps more important, that Padres pitchers upset the timing of baserunners without sacrificing pitch quality. So far, the staff is failing in that effort.
As for the team's catchers, the front office has yet to supply Black with a strong, all-around defender. The best of the group this season is rookie Luke Carlin, who wasn't even in major league camp but now might rank as the best defender among the four catchers to play for the Padres this season.
According to scouts' stopwatches, Carlin is throwing the best of any Padres catcher. He has nabbed 4-of-26 for a 15.4 percent throwout rate. Scouts rated Josh Bard as a below-average thrower. Before going onto the DL, he had thrown out 13 percent of base-stealers. Michael Barrett generally has been a better thrower than Bard, but he went on the DL because of a sprained throwing elbow in April and has struggled since his return. Base-stealers are 30-for-32 against Barrett this season.
The Padres have allowed the most stolen bases in the majors (98) and have the worst throwout rate (12 percent). No team is even close in either category. Second in the National League is Washington, with 59 stolen bases allowed and an 18 percent throwout rate.
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CAPE GIRARDEAU - Tillie Mae Pobst, 91, died at 5:30 a.m. April 8, 2002, at the Ratliff Care Center.
Born July 25, 1910, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of the late Lawrence and Effie Knight Pobst Sr., she had been a seamstress at Ely Walker and worked for Florsheim Shoe Company for 32 years before retiring in 1974. She was a member of St. Paul United Methodist Church in Commerce.
Survivors include: one brother, Marshall Pobst of Scott City; and three sisters, Florence Edmonds, Mary Frances Pickens and Pauline Kraft of Cape Girardeau.
One brother and three sisters preceded her in death.
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Facing a car repair is never welcomed - it's inconvenient and you hope the repair bill is reasonable. Your car is likely a major expense with regular payments, insurance and normal operating costs. You may expect the repair is covered by the vehicle warranty or a service contract, but what happens when there's a dispute over who pays?
Picking Up Repair Bills - Warranties and Service Contracts
Be aware of the differences between warranties and service contracts covering your vehicle. The Federal Trade Commission and other consumer organizations offer resources to help you understand the differences. Knowing the differences can be important if there's a problem with getting a repair covered.
Generally, warranties are promises by a maker or seller of a product regarding its quality, integrity and performance. Warranties include terms for repair or replacement if there's a problem.
An extended service contract may be called an extended warranty; it's not a true warranty but a contract where you buy the provider's services to cover listed repairs. These service contracts can be tailored to fit your needs and budget. Contracts may be backed by a dealer, manufacturer or third party. Depending on state law, some contracts are a form of insurance and are subject to insurance regulations.
Settling Warranty Disputes
If your vehicle is covered by the manufacturer's warranty, it probably requires repairs to be done by your dealer's service department. If you're told the repair isn't covered, start with the service manager and your sales person for help. If needed try talking to the dealer's owner or general manager.
The manufacturer's zone or local representative may have the power to authorize your repair. It's possible there are specific problems with your car model, and repairs could be covered, even if they fall outside warranty terms.
Service Contract Complications
It's important to know the terms of your service contract. When shopping, find out who provides payment, performs repairs, what's covered and how claims are handled. The answers affect how you'll resolve disputes.
Manufacturer-backed contracts. Vehicle makers offer service contracts, and if there's a dispute over repairs, working out a solution at the dealer or with the contract administrator is similar to solving warranty disputes.
Third-party service contracts. An independent provider may back your service contract; often it's an insurance company. There may be more flexibility in choosing a repair shop. You may be free to choose any mechanic, and you'll pay for repairs and submit a claim. The provider may also act as a claims administrator, and it's your dealer performing repair work. Either way, your first step is to contact the party behind the contract. Find out why the claim is being denied based on your contract terms. Be specific and discuss why a part or system repair isn't covered.
If the party behind your contract or the dealer goes out of business, once again, read your contract for solutions. If an administrator closes its doors, the dealer may still have to honor the contract. Your state's insurance regulation agency may be able to help if your contract is treated as insurance in your state and the company goes out of business.
Court and Government Agency Help
You may need to turn to a lawyer and the courts for help. Small claims court is available if the amount involved is relatively low, under $5,000, for example. A consumer law lawyer can help you determine if a federal law, the Magnuson-Moss Warranty-Federal Trade Commission Improvement Act, may offer relief. Check with your state's attorney's office to see if there are reported problems with a service contract provider.
Arbitration may be an option. Many local and regional automobile dealer associations offer alternative dispute resolution (ADR)programs. The Better Business Bureau is another source for finding ADR resources.
Questions for Your Attorney
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This document provides a detailed description of the flow statistics all command. The flow statistics all command was introduced in 4.01/27s to provide a more detailed table of statistics for the CS 800s individual Switch Fabric Processors (SFP).
There are no specific requirements for this document.
The information in this document is based on the software and hardware versions listed here:
All versions of the CS 800
The information presented in this document was created from devices in a specific lab environment. All of the devices used in this document started with a cleared (default) configuration. If your network is live, make sure that you understand the potential impact of any command before you use it.
For more information on document conventions, refer to the Cisco Technical Tips Conventions.
SCW-CS800-DM(debug)# flow statistics all Flow Manager Statistics - SFM Slot 6, Subslot 1: Cur High Avg UDP Flows per second 1 1 0 TCP Flows per second 57 87 52 Total Flows per second 58 87 52 Hits per second 44 63 44 Number of Allocated Flows (non-purged) 5604 Number of Free Flows 125468 Number of Flow Drops 0 Max Number of Flow Control Blocks 289207 Number of Flows with SynAckPending 56 Accumulated Port Flow Statistics: Current Number of Active Flows 5566 Total Flow Accounting Reports received 96791 Total Out of Sequence Packet Received 0 Total Spoof Queue Mis-Hits 0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Port CE Active Total Acct TCP UDP Rst FCBs ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #13/1 c001f00 2541 50781 48240 2534 7 0 27894 # ½ 401f00 0 0 0 0 0 0 31621 #11/4 8c01f00 3022 51516 48551 3022 0 0 26957 #12/3 a801f00 0 0 0 0 0 0 31600
The output fields are explained here:
Hits per second—the cumulative number of hits for all rules per second. Layer three and Layer four is one HIT per session, and Layer five is one per GET.
Number of Allocated Flows (non-purged)—the allocated flows for the flowmgr for this SFP. At boot time, the flowmgr carves the number of free flows. If it runs out, it can allocate up to the maximum number of Flow Control Blocks (FCB), and does so in chunks of 200. The initial free and maximum numbers are based on the amount of memory available, so this can vary from release to release. The allocated flows must roughly equal the cumulative number of active flows for each port on the SFP.
Number of Free Flows—the number of FCBs that the flowmgr carves out of the memory at initialization time. This is taken from the memory shown in the show system-resources memory command output.
Number of Flow Drops—this is a meaningless field. It is never incremented. The maximum number of FCBs equals the maximum number of FCBs the flowmgr can take. If it runs out of free flows, it allocates up to the maximum number of FCBSs in blocks of 200 FCBs at a time.
Number of Flows with SynAckPending—the number of flows that are awaiting the acknowledge (ACK) in response to a synchronize acknowledge (SYN/ACK). Also known as the third part of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) three-way handshake.
Current Number of Active Flows—the number of active flows per SFP for a CS 800 and total for a CS 150.
Total Flow Accounting Reports received—the number of accounting reports sent up from the fastpath (E/XPIF) to the SFP. An accounting report is generated for all flows that were torn down either through session close (FIN/RST) or garbage collection.
Total Out of Sequence Packet Received—when the flowmgr hands a packet to the Web Conversation and Control (WCC) module, and it returns WCC_DISCARD, it means that the flowmgr had no way to handle this packet. One of the most common causes are out of order TCP packets. In most cases, this counter is insignificant.
Total Spoof Queue Mis-Hit—when a flow is about to be reallocated, it is removed from the Spoof list (or internal cache). This counter indicates that the Cisco Content Service Switch could not find the flow even though it must be in the spoof queue. A low number is not significant. The table here provides more information on these counters:
|This is the ingress port for the active flows.
|Connection endpoint. This is how the port is represented to the Cisco Content Service Switch internally, in the code.
|The total number of active TCP and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) flows.
|A cumulative total of all flows since the last reboot.
|A cumulative total of all accounting reports since the last reboot.
|The current number of active TCP flows.
|The current number of active UDP flows.
|Reset (Rst)
|The number of E/XPIF resets. When the SFP cannot communicate to the E/XPIF, it resets to restart the communications. This is a serious error and does require investigation.
|The total number of available FCBs for this port's (E/XPIF) bank from the fastpath's point of view. These FCBs are available to the entire E/XPIF bank, typically in groups of four ports. Ports within the same bank share this pool and reports the same number within a few FCBs of each other. These FCBs are in the Synchronous Dynamic RAM (SDRAM) which is local to the ASIC. This is where the fast switching takes place. When the fastpath FCBs runs down to zero, then the flows are overflow mapped and forwarded up on the processor. If up on the processor the number of free flows goes to zero, you have to carve more FCBs in chunks of 200, up to the maximum number of FCBs. Once this memory has been carved out, it is permanently reserved and is not freed until a reboot. If the Cisco Content Service Switch reaches the maximum number of FCBs, there can be approximately 4MB of RAM left, per SFP, on a CS-800. This varies on a CS-50/100/150. If the show system-resources command output indicates low free memory, this may be the cause.


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SEBRING - Almost two months ago the local education community, Sebring High School in particular, was shaken when Sebring High Assistant Principal James "Jim" Howard was critically injured in a traffic accident. The two-vehicle accident occurred on the afternoon of April 19 on U.S. 27 just north of the Sebring city limits. The other driver, Victoria W. Grant, 61, died in the crash. After the accident, Howard, 66, was transported to Lakeland Regional Medical Center. He was transferred to Tampa General Hospital in May. Howard was in "good condition" Thursday at Tampa General Hospital, according to hospital Public Relations Manager Ellen Fiss.On April 22, the first day of school following the accident, Sebring High held a voluntary Prayer at the Pole gathering at the school's flagpole in support of Howard. The "Prayers for Jim Howard" Facebook page offered updates noting Howard's slow, but continuing progress. A May 20 posting on Howard's progress prompted 211 "likes." A June 3 posting stated, "Everyday progress. The family greatly appreciates all the prayers and kind words over the past several weeks." A posting soon after the accident stated that Howard was two months away from retiring, but Deputy Superintendent Rodney Hollinger said Thursday he believed Howard has a little more time before retirement. Superintendent Wally Cox's Administrative Roster for 2013-14, which is on the school board's June 18 agenda, shows Howard as assistant principal at Sebring High on leave of absence. With a student enrollment at more than 1,500, Sebring High has been staffed with three assistant principals. In addition to Howard, Cox's 2013-14 Administrative Roster shows three other assistant principals: Sandra Johnson, Ilene Eshelman and Michael Haley. Cox's administrative secretary Pat Kules said Johnson, who was an assistant principal at Avon Park High, has been transferred to Sebring High on an interim basis to fill in while Howard is on leave of absence.
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According to the British Crime Survey, the overall risk of being a victim of any crime in England and Wales has hit a historic low – despite fears that the severe economic downturn would create a "tidal wave of crime." The data mirrors U.S. crime stats that came out in December, which show a similar decline. (Press Association)
New York had fewer traffic fatalities in 2009 than it did at any time since 1910, when getting run over by a horse was commonplace. (New York Times)
Minnesota saw new HIV infections rise 13 percent in 2009, "the biggest increase in 17 years." (Star Tribune)
Labour party supporters in Britain are less supportive of economic policies which aim at redistributing income to the less-well off than they were 16 years ago, when Tony Blair took control of the Labour Party – 38 percent to 51 percent. (Daily Telegraph via British National Attitudes Survey)
2,423,995 people died in the U.S. in 2007, but there were almost twice as many babies were born. (Dr. Murray Feingold, Gatehouse News Service)
New Jersey is facing a doctor shortage: "The projected shortfall is 2,835 doctors – 1,006 which will be needed in primary care, and 1,829 specialists." (NJ.com)