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The Signs of Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) Second Coming
Signs of Jesus' (pbuh) Second Coming
The Signs from the Islamic Resources 5
44. The Global Pervasiveness of Chaos and Conflict
At a time when the world will be in harj [utter confusion and disorder], fitna will appear, people will be attacked, the old will not have mercy on the young, and the young will not show respect to the old, God will send someone to eradicate hostility and conquer the castles of perversion, uphold faith in the End Times just as I upheld it formerly, someone who will fill this Earth with justice where violence prevailed before. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi `Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman, p. 12)
The Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace) said: "Fitna will spread after me. Terror and war will rage. Then, there will be greater fitnas. When people will say that the fitna has ended, new rebellions will appear. Until someone from my lineage [the Mahdi] emerges, there will be no home in Arabia into which fitna will not enter and a Muslim to whom fitna will not reach. (Fera Idu Fevaidi'l Fiqr Fi'l Imam al-Mahdi al-Muntadhar, p. 147)
As these hadiths reveal, such chaos will spread around the world. Indeed, many countries have been ruined, either wholly or in part, by chaos, war, murder, and terrorism. Every day, hundreds of people are exiled or murdered for no reason. (For further information, see Harun Yahya, Signs of the Last Day [Global Publishing: 2003].)
45. The Occurrence of Great and Astonishing Events
So many appalling incidents will occur in his time. (Imam Rabbani, Letters of Rabbani, vol. 2, p. 258)
Great phenomena will happen in his time. (Ibn Hajar Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi `Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntazar, p. 27)
"… earthquakes, sorrows, and great events are near. That day, Doomsday, is closer than this hand is to your head," he [The Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace] said. (Sunan Abu Dawud)
The signs of his emergence resemble those preparatory signs that earlier gave an indication of our Rasulullah. (Imam Rabbani, Letters of Rabbani, vol, 2, p. 258)
Great and extraordinary events preceded Prophet Mohammed's (may God bless him and grant him peace) birth. For example, a new star rose on that night, 14 towers of the Iranian Emperor's Palace collapsed, the Magians' (fire worshippers') fire that had burned for 1,000 years in Iran went out, the Semavi Valley was flooded, and the Save Lake dried up.
As indicated in the hadiths above, the Mahdi's emergence will resemble that of our Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace). Great and miraculous phenomena will also take place when he emerges.
Some of the remarkable phenomena that took place during the last century are as follows:
- The Ka`bah was raided, and many Muslims were killed
- The 2,500-year Iranian monarchy collapsed and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi died
- A gas leak in a Bombay factory killed 20,000 people
- War broke out between two Muslim nations: Iran and Iraq
- The Soviet Union occupied Afghanistan
- On September 19, 1985, Mexico City was devastated by an earthquake
- The Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupted, wiping the town of Armero off the map and killing 25,000 people
- Floods in Bangladesh killed 25,000 people
- Rome, the heart of the Catholic Church, was flooded
- The worst forest fire in history broke out in China
- Indian Prime Minister Gandhi, President Anwar al-Sadat of Egypt, and Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme were assassinated
- Pope John Paul II was shot
- The AIDS virus, identified in 1980, has so far killed tens of thousands of people and is known as the "Plague of the Age"
- The Challenger space shuttle exploded after take-off in 1986
- The worst nuclear accident in history occurred when the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor, located in the Soviet Union, exploded on April 26 1986 and affected many European countries by the released radiation
- A hole was discovered in the ozone layer
- The Soviet Union collapsed, thanks to Gorbachev, and the newly independent states of Central Asia emerged
- The Gulf War broke out, Iraq annexed and then fled Kuwait, and was finally occupied by America and Britain in 2003.
- An earthquake in Armenia reduced cities to rubble, causing 500,000 people to leave their homes and more than 40,000 people to lose their lives.
- The Chinese government sent its tanks into Tienanmen Square during 1989 to crush a student movement demanding greater freedom; 2,000 students died
- The Berlin Wall, which for 28 years had symbolized the cold war, was torn down
- More than 1,400 pilgrims were killed in a stampede at a tunnel in the Ka`bah in 1990
- Approximately 139,000 people died from flooding in Bangladesh in 1991, and ten million were left homeless
- Hundreds of thousands of Muslims were killed in the atrocities in Bosnia and Kosovo, and hundreds of thousands more were exiled
- The Ebola virus led to the deaths of tens of thousands
- The hurricanes, tornadoes, whirlwinds, and floods caused by El Niño led to the deaths of thousands of people, to millions fleeing their homes, and to billions of dollars worth of damage
- The London Stock Exchange collapsed on October 19, 1987, and the ensuing panic resulted in a value loss of 50 billion Pounds.
- 168 people were killed in a bomb attack on a federal building in Oklahoma City April 19, 1995.
-In 1997, the Hale-Bopp Comet passed so close to Earth that it could be seen with the naked eye
- 1,500 people died in an earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale in Iran on May 10, 1997
-5,000 people died in an earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale in Afghanistan on February 1998
- 1,171 people were killed in an earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale in Columbia on January 25, 1999
- More than 2,100 people died in an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale in Taiwan on September 21, 1999
- The biggest-ever terrorist attack on America took place on September 11, 2001. Two passenger airplanes crushed into the World Trade Center in New York within 18 minutes of each other. Another plane crushed into the Pentagon. Over 5,000 people died.
- An earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale struck India, killing thousands of people
- Many European countries have experienced heat waves that have killed many people
- Mars was closer to Earth in August 2003 than at any other time in the past 60,000 years
In November 2003, 12 people lost their lives in a flood in Makkah, which is one of the driest regions in the world.
46. The Situation of Some Muslims
He said: "I swear by God, Who holds my soul in His hands, that when that time of fitna comes, you will turn into snakes rising to twist each others' necks." (Mukhtasar Tazkirah al-Qurtubi, p. 386, no. 672)
In this hadith, our Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace) calls attention to the disagreement among some Muslims. It indicates that in the End Times, some Muslims having status, rank, and power will show hostility to each other instead of joining forces. In other hadiths, our Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace) also draws attention to such threats as jealousy, envy, and hostility – all of which will be prevalent among Muslims.
.... Fitna will appear from right there, from the place where Satan's two horns will rise. Yet you still strike one another's neck. (Mukhtasar Tazkirah al-Qurtubi, p. 369, no. 675)
... if you start competing with one another, feeling jealous of one another, turning your backs or separating and becoming enemies of one another. (Sahih Muslim)
A time will come when my people will envy one another, just as goats do. (al-Hatim)
47. The Current Situation of the Islamic World
I swear to God, Who endowed me with justice, that after me there will be a period of gap among my people. At that time, everyone will ask for possessions without considering whether they are halal [lawful], blood will shed, and poems will be held as dear as the Qur'an. (ad-Daylami)
In the past, the Islamic world built one of the greatest and most glorious civilizations in history. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War had great impact on the Islamic world, for it damaged Muslim unity. Right now, unresolved problems and disagreements are pervasive in many parts of the Islamic world. This aside, nearly all Muslim countries are far behind when it comes to any type of progress associated with science, technology, and economic development. The "period of gap" may refer to this deplorable situation.
We need to remember that, as in the past, it is very easy for the Islamic world to establish a glorious civilization that once again will set an example for the entire world with its moral excellence, peace, security, and abundance. But this will not happen until Muslims once again strive to live according to the morality of the Qur'an and the Sunnah of our Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace) and to establish the Union of Islam that this morality envisages.
48. Wars between Muslims
Doomsday will not come until the two great Islamic armies get into war with one another… (Mukhtasar Tazkirah al-Qurtubi, p. 454, no. 831)
Muslims who fail to get along well with one another in those days cannot avoid being the target of the Dajjal. (al-Hakim, Mustadrak, vol. 4, pp. 529-30)
Abu Hurayra reported that God's Messenger narrated: "The Last Hour will not come until the two parties [of Muslim] confront each other and there is a large-scale massacre amongst them and the chain of both of them is the same." (Sahih Muslim)
In these hadiths, our Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace) called attention to some events that would take in our day. Indeed, as these hadiths reveal, at the beginning of the year 1400 of the Islamic era, Iraq and Iran were fighting each other, and Iraq would later invade Kuwait.
49. Muslims Are Subjected to Severe Troubles
At the end of time, their rulers will cause My people severe trouble in such a way that there will be no comfort for Muslims anywhere. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi `Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman, p. 12)
Woe to this community because of those tyrannical rulers. These cruel ones frighten even the silent and submissive, apart from those who obey them. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi `Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman, p. 13)
The cruelty of leaders … is one of the portents of Doomsday. (Muhammad ibn `Abd al-Rasul Barzanji, Al-Isha`ah li Ashrat as-Sa`ah, p. 143)
... There will be no home into which strife does not enter, and no Muslim who is untouched by it. This will continue until a rajul [a man of gnosis and illumination] from my lineage appears. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi `Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman, p. 25)
[One portent of Doomsday is] sinners raising their voices in the mosques and having victory and dominion over devout believers in place of the religion's commandments. (Mukhtasar Tazkirah al-Qurtubi, p. 450)
I swear that [great] misfortunes will befall the people, and one will not find any refuge from cruelty and tyranny. At such a troublesome time, God will send someone from my lineage. (Mukhtasar Tazkirah al-Qurtubi, p. 437)
This hadith points out that before the Mahdi comes, those who lack religious morals and have a cruel and merciless character will come to power in some Muslim countries. This is one of the signs indicating that the coming of the Mahdi and Prophet Jesus (pbuh) is drawing nigh.
In another hadith, our Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace) tells us that due to all of this oppression at the End Times, sincere Muslims may be forced to hide their belief and worship in secret:
Just as the hypocrites lead their lives in secret among you today, a time will come when believers will try hard to lead their religious lives among others. (Ibn Sunni)
As we all know, some contemporary Muslim rulers oppress Muslims and crush their people and prevent Muslims from living by their religion and performing their acts of worship. Meanwhile, economic conditions have made life harder. In other countries, people are subjected to trouble because their rulers are unqualified to rule.
Some examples of these incidents are as follows:
In Iraq, which lost about one million people during its war against Iran, the Ba`thist dictator Saddam Hussein subjected all Iraqis to unbearable tortures and atrocities.
Instability and turmoil have ruled in Afghanistan ever since the Soviet occupation in 1979. Some Afghanistan authorities (viz., the Taliban), which never represented real Islam, established a very oppressive, ruthless, and intolerant system.
Syrian Muslims suffered a myriad of atrocities during Hafez Assad's 30-year rule. Some cities were entirely destroyed during the massacres, which also led to raping women and a wide-ranging torturing of men.
Djibouti, a tiny African country, has been ruled by a harsh regime that, during 1977-91, killed about 2,000 Muslims, arrested 7,000 people, and tortured many more without any justification.
In Somalia, an oppressive regime led by Major General Mohammed Siad Barre, which targeted Muslims directly, was in power from 1969-91.
Tunisia, ruled by the dictator Habib Bourgiba for 31 years, suffered great oppression during the rule of this self-proclaimed "President for Life."
It is also worthwhile to say that this situation is prevalent in some Muslim countries due to a lack of knowledge about Islamic morality. One of the common features of such regimes is their repressive and cruel power-based ideologies. This is surely incompatible with religion's morality. Therefore, believers need to carry out intellectual struggles against these ideologies, for an ideology that is defeated on intellectual grounds can hardly survive. Muslims must expose these ideologies' errors and deviances and call their adherents to the right path by telling them about religion's true morality. Through this method, which complies with the Qur'anic morality and the Prophet's (may God bless him and grant him peace) Sunnah, all of these cruelties will end, by God's permission, and the Muslim world will attain a celebratory future.
50. The Killing of the Innocent
The Mahdi will not emerge until innocent people are massacred, and he will appear when those on Earth and up in the sky can no longer put up with such massacres ... (Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-Mukhtasar fi `Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntazar, p. 37)
The Mahdi will not appear until seven out of nine [people] are killed. The killing of the innocent will be among them. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi `Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman, p. 35)
The Mahdi will not emerge until innocent people are killed. When those who are without sin are killed, the people of Earth and sky [will] detest the killers. (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi `Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman, p. 35)
While the hadiths about the Mahdi's emergence mention such massacres as commonplace, they also emphasize that such massacres will target innocent people. As we discussed earlier, almost all of the wars today target civilians. So, civilians and such innocent people as children, the elderly, and women are slaughtered. Targeting these defenseless people in particular has resulted in more comprehensive massacres, while the number of people dying as a result continues to climb.
In addition to such massacres, acts of terror, particularly in recent years, have resulted in the mass annihilation of people. Since terror seeks to spread fear and horror, the very group that such attacks often target are innocent civilians.
Many people continue to lose their lives in different countries as a result of terrorists targeting shopping malls, restaurants, and schools frequented by defenseless women, youths, and children.
51. People Killed for No Reason
Abu Hurayra relates: "Our Prophet said that: 'People will see such days that the killer will not know why he kills, nor the innocent why they are slain.' He was asked: 'How will this be?' He replied: 'It is haraj [killing]. Both killer and killed are in the flames.'" (Sahih Muslim)
The increase in murders is one of the signs of the End Times. In newspapers, the stories of those who commit murder because of a minor dispute often appear. Similarly, an unwanted reaction of the other party, the displeasure incurred by the music one plays, or even a small amount of money may well be the reason for such murders.
52. Corruption that Causes Conflict Everywhere
Fitnas will follow one another in the near future. Then, there will be other fitnas and the ones following them. (Mukhtasar Tazkirah al-Qurtubi, p. 374, no. 684)
... Then there will be misfortunes, fitna, and many evil things that you will not like. Such misfortunes will occur that the latter, often much greater, will make the preceding one appear insignificant. (Mukhtasar Tazkirah al-Qurtubi, pp. 394-95, no. 733)
The hadiths above mention a steadily expanding fitna that continues for extended periods of time. The term fitna also means "war, disorder, quarrel, dispute," as mentioned earlier. As we know, these events often spread far beyond the points where they begin, as expressed by the narrated hadith. This was especially true of the twentieth century, which is remembered as "the century of wars." As for the twenty-first century, it again started off with war and terror, both of which remain common features all over the world.
About 180 million people lost their lives during the wars of the twentieth century. This is certainly a record in the annals of human history. According to historians, 165 wars and confrontations took place, each causing the death of a minimum 6,000 people.30
When we analyze the places where wars of all kinds have taken place in just the last 25 years, we can see that such instances of corruption end in one place but then reemerge in another. For example, consider the following partial list of areas so affected: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Albania, Bulgaria, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Palestine, Israel, North Korea, Cambodia, Eastern Turkestan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Yemen, Uganda, Algeria, Rwanda, Mozambique, Angola, Congo, Liberia, Burundi, Sudan, Lebanon, Argentina, Northern Ireland, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.
World history is full of war, but the wars, terrorist acts, and massacres that took place in the twentieth century and in the beginning of twenty-first century differ from all previous ones in many respects. As mentioned earlier, their death tolls were much higher than the total of all previous wars. In addition, wars used to remain regional and contained, as opposed to spreading from one place to another, and sometimes even becoming global in nature. However, by the beginning of the twentieth century, we saw the first truly global war. Virtually no country or region escaped war, confrontation, or an act of terror during the twentieth century.
Another distinguishing feature is the power of the weaponry used: tanks, heavy cannons, and aircraft are all death machines that appeared in the twentieth century. On the other hand, far more terrible massacres were carried out through the use of nuclear and chemical weapons, especially with the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Immense damage was inflicted not only upon those generations caught up in these wars, but also the one or more new generations that followed.
Presently, biological warfare is seen as one of the most serious dangers. The anthrax bacteria mailed during October 2001, immediately after 9/11 in America, is one example of this. This mailing infected ten people with anthrax; two of them died.31
As a result, it is highly probable that the specific incidence of corruption (fitna) referred to in the hadith as spreading to many places relates to the war, confrontation, disorder, and acts of terror, all of which multiplied in the twentieth century and continue even in this new century. All of this may just be yet another sign of the approaching Golden Age that will be established by the Mahdi and Prophet Jesus (pbuh), and that we are living at the end of time.
53. Loss of Hope in the Mahdi
God Almighty will send the Mahdi after despair has reached the point that people will say: "There is no Mahdi." (Narrated by Nu`aym ibn Hammad)
This hadith informs us that one sign of the End Times is the people's despair of the Mahdi's coming. The prevalence of this despair is also a sign of Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) second coming.
People who struggle with war, starvation, injustice, epidemics, and all forms of depravity lose their hope that such disasters will ever end. Many Muslims, on the other hand, start to despair that Islamic morality will never prevail and believe that evil will spread even further.
Indeed in our day, we frequently see examples of this spirit. Despite the existence of countless hadiths about the Mahdi's coming, Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) return, and the Golden Age characterized by great blessings, many people believe that such a period will never come. This assumption is also a sign of the End Times. In a time of despair, people will enjoy the benefits of the prevailing Qur'anic morality, thanks to God's mercy. By God's Will, Prophet Jesus (pbuh) will return and religion's genuine morality will prevail all over the world. Just as the world was filled with violence and injustice, after Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) return, by our Lord's Will, it will abound with justice, peace, security, and blessings.
30. "Wars, Massacres, and Atrocities of the Twentieth Century," November 1999. Online at: http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/war-1900.htm.
31. Bilim ve Teknik (Science and Technology Magazine) (December 2001), 34.


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crazy idea on my part, maybe you could vaccum codeplex and download a bunch of projects from there and do a compilation to see if there is a diffrence between 3.5 and 4.0 tools might be able to catch all compilation errors though..
but maybe you could lookup tests [in the codeplex projects] and run the tests and see if you get diffrent results from 3.5 and 4.0 a tool to do that automatically would make a really awsome intern project
WF is radically different how do you guys address that?
I actually used to work for a company that, after spending months trying and failing to solve compatibility and deployment issues, eventually gave up and started shipping their software only in the form of entire preconfigured desktop computers.
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One thing that I would love if Microsoft did is create an APIs in .NET that enabled you to CRUD Excel, Word, or PowerPoint documents without the need for PIA. A managed and thread-safe library, that would be amazing! There are a few libraries which do that, but to have that brough into the fold would be nice.
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DELAND, Fla. – Led by a half dozen goals off the stick of freshman Ana Baranowski, the Stetson University lacrosse team cruised to its second win of the season, 18-8 vs. Howard, Sunday afternoon at the Athletic Training Center.
Baranowski's six scores were a season high and goalie Caili Guilday made 10 stops as Stetson improved to 2-3 in the A-Sun and 2-15 overall, securing a spot in next week's A-Sun Championship. The Hatters technically clinched a spot in the conference tournament, Saturday with Kennesaw State's loss to Detroit, but wanted to earn a berth on their own terms, and did just that, putting forth their second highest offensive output all season.
The scoring frenzy began four minutes into the contest with an unassisted score from Danielle Horgan and continued with nine more Stetson scores in the first half to Howard's pair of goals, to make it 10-2 at halftime.
Baranowski accumulated half of her six scores in the game's first 30 minutes and then continued her offensive onslaught with three more in a seven minute stretch early in the second half.
"It was all about the game plan and we executed it so perfectly," Baranowski said following the season finale. "The energy was amazing coming into the game and even at half time as well as during all of our time outs."
Also scoring multiple times for Stetson on Sunday were Christina Loya (4), Horgan (2) and Mary Kate O'Sullivan (2). The quartet of players accounted for 14 of the Hatters' 18 goals vs. a Bison team which finished the season winless in the A-Sun (0-5) and 1-14 overall.
Guilday's 10 saves in the contest pushed her nation leading total to 197 and marked the 13th time this season she reached double-digit save totals.
"I saw the ball, made the saves and cleared it out right away so we could take it down the field and score," Guilday said. "I am really proud that we played together as a team and we are going to carry this (momentum) forward to the A-Sun Championship."
The Hatters edged Howard in almost every offensive and defensive category, outshooting them 36-25, and making more saves, 12-8. Stetson also had more ground balls (30-17), as well as successful clear attempts (8-3), but the Bison claimed the draw control advantage, with their 17 to the Hatters' 11.
Baranowski not only had the most goals (6) on Sunday for Stetson, but also took the most shots (7). Horgan, O'Sullivan and Maylis Broderick each led the way with a pair of assists, while Lindsay Summers and O'Sullivan had the second most ground balls (4), to Guilday's team leading nine. Baranowski and Summers won the most draw controls with three apiece.
Stetson has now defeated Howard two times in a row, and ironically enough both Hatter wins in 2013 and 2014 have come against Kennesaw State and the same Bison team.
Also for the second straight season Stetson will be making an appearance in the Atlantic Sun Championship, with semifinals action to be taking place May 2nd in Jacksonville. Pairings as well as team seedings will be announced by the conference office early next week.
--Stetson has now outscored Howard 36-21 in two meetings, netting 18 goals apiece in each contest.
--The 18 goals scored by the Hatters on Sunday were second only to the 23 the put in the net at Kennesaw State (Apr. 5).


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Talk about an old score.
The debate about who was the greatest band, The Beatles or the Rolling Stones has been going on for a half-century. (The answer is revealed at the end of this story.)
A pair of tribute bands - Abbey Road and Jumping Jack Flash - will air their differences Saturday from amplifiers upon the South Shore Room stage at Harrah's Lake Tahoe. The show will consist of five sets before both bands perform together in an encore performance.
The pseudo superstars talked trash before the show.
"We got our Sgt. Pepper jackets made a little long so the Stones would have no problem riding our coattails," taunted Abbey Road's Ringo, Axel Clarke.
Keith Richards, aka, Young Hutchison, retorted: "The Stones rocked the stage, and worked as hard as the bluesmen they modeled their stage show after, generating the smoldering sexuality that came to be a hallmark of great rock 'n' roll acts. The Beatles? Well, they were cute! The Stones were the original punks, outsiders at best. Beatles took tea with the bloody Queen - how rock 'n' roll is that?"
While the Stones have been around more than 50 years, The Beatles heyday lasted less than a decade, however, Abbey Road will change wardrobes and pay homage to three eras of the Fab Four.
The Beatles were formed in Liverpool in 1960 and the Stones from the suburbs of London two years later. The bands never played on the same bill, but in 1963 Lennon and McCartney penned and gave the song "I Wanna Be Your Man" to the Stones, and it became the group's most successful hit at that stage of their career. According to an interview with Lennon in Rolling Stone magazine, Jagger and Richards were so amazed by how quickly Lennon and McCartney wrote the song, they decided to become a songwriting duo as well.
When the Beatles appeared on the "Ed Sullivan Show" in early 1964, conservative America was shocked by their hair, which didn't cover their ears but still was considered long. Several months later, the Stones came on the show and further stunned the nation - Mick Jagger didn't even wear a tie.
While the Stones were rockers, the Beatles played more of a pop style. The Beatles were optimists and balladeers. The Stones were more dark about contemporary events, and they were sexually suggestive. "All You Need Is Love," was a Beatles tune. The Stones answered with "You Can't Always Get What You Want."
The rivalry became more open just before Lennon left the Beatles, whose band members were spending time with the Maharishi guru smoking marijuana and seeking peace. Meanwhile, most of the Stones were busted for more serious drugs and Richards wrote "Sympathy for the Devil."
(Answer: The Beatles are the only band listed in the dictionary with a captial "T." Therefore, The Beatles are not only greater than the Stones, they are the greatest band of all time. You can look it up.)


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Gilles and ice dance partner Paul Poirier hope to crack Canadas team for Sochi Olympics.
Gilles and ice dance partner Paul Poirier hope to crack Canadas team for Sochi Olympics.
She should not do this. A skating career lasts a hot minute. Citizenship is a lifetime commitment. (Not that she asked me. )
But can't she hold dual citizenship with Canada and the U.S.? I don't think she has to give up her U.S. citizenship to achieve Canadian citizenship.
Canada definitely allows dual citizenship. We are not Japan.
I'm not familiar with American rules but I know people that hold both American and Canadian citizenship so it's really not a big deal. She should go for it.
The USA also allows dual citizenship. Piper can keep her US citizenship and take Canadian citizenship as well, if she wants.
One of my neighbors has dual USA / Canada citizenship.
Skating's hard on the body; so many wind up with a prior existing condition of one sort or another. Even if Piper doesn't skate for Canada, the possibility of obtaining Canadian health insurance is such a plus that she should go for it.
But I do wonder in these cases how they keep people from voting in both countries.
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I assume once you have citizenship, you are expected to obey rules as if you were born in that country. ie. if you are called for jury duty, military draft (that is probably among the biggest risks of dual citizenship), etc. Fortunately, Canada isn't currently drafting anyone for military duty. Payment of income tax is another issue requiring special consideration.
P.S... I wonder what happens if you are called for military duty within two countries simultaneously?
re military duty, that could have happened back in WW2 days; I wonder whether it ever did?
Canada and the US didn't allow dual citizenship in them thar days. My mother had to choose when she turned 21.
Still...when you apply to become a citizen of a country, don't they ask you why you want to become a citizen? "So I can ice skate with a Canadian boy?"


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6 Design Flaws That Annoy You Every Day (And Why They Exist)
#3. Waiting for the Cable Guy
I'll pick on cable companies here, but this really applies to any utility or service that requires a technician to visit your home to install something. A process that usually involves them making an "appointment" to be at your house sometime between 9 a.m. And 4 p.m. An appointment rather inconvenient for you, seeing as you have things like a job or crops to tend and maybe can't afford spending an entire day waiting around for them.
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Unless you work from home that is.
So why can't they set a real appointment? How can a company that controls the very flow of information not have mastered calendar technology?
The Reason: Maximizing Work, Minimizing Employees
The central problem here is that these service calls take highly variable lengths of time to complete. Depending on how simple your install is, or how much time you spend trying to seduce him, your cable guy can spend anywhere from 10 minutes to two hours in your home. More importantly, it's really hard to predict which it will be in advance. They can calculate average install times, of course, and those will be accurate enough to at least predict roughly how many calls per day a cable guy could handle.
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"No time for foreplay today, ma'am. I'm on break in eight minutes."
But this system only works if the installers go to each house in turn, one after the other. If they have to book and set specific appointments, they'll either be missing a large fraction of appointments, or setting each appointment block to the longest plausible amount. That means less calls handled per day and ultimately more cable guys to hire. And seeing as this practice inconveniences customer one time, which they soon forget about, cable companies haven't had much incentive to change their ways.
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Even if it did leave more time for cable laying.
#2. Ketchup Packets
Among terrible stand-up comedians, ketchup packets take a lot of abuse, probably more than they deserve. Yes, they're kind of wasteful, and they have a habit of spraying ketchup everywhere but where food actually is.
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No, that's a napkin, you idiot.
But honestly? They're not that hard to open. Let's put on our big boy pants, here. Yes, they could be better. But in the grand scheme of things, this isn't that hard ... wait, what? They could be better?
Yes, in fact, they've already made better ketchup packets. Here's one:
Squeezable and Dippable? This. This right here is what science was meant for.
These things exist? Where are they? Why aren't they everywhere? And why are we still dealing with the stupid shitty ones? WHY ARE WE STILL TALKING ABOUT THIS?
The Reason: The People Who Pay for Them Aren't the Ones Using Them
Ketchup packets aren't bought by consumers. They're bought by fast food companies. And because the better ketchup packets cost more to produce and about hree times the cost to restaurants to buy, that's a big problem. While an extra few cents might be the kind of price you would be willing to pay to keep ketchup off your good driving pants, that's not the kind of price a Wendy's accountant is going to pay.
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"If I was a fun, sauce-enjoying person, do you think I'd have gotten into accounting?"
#1. Always Online Video Games
SimCity is the latest entry in the classic series of city-building games where players are given the tools to build up cities from nothing, and then throw Godzillas at them.
Because some men want to watch the wee little world burn.
These games have always been single player, because it turns out that sitting alone in a room clicking roads for several hours is an obscenely unsocial thing to do. And, being single player, there was no reason to play them online at all. A situation that changed with the release of the latest SimCity, which requires players be connected to the Internet and the publisher's servers at all times. This is a seemingly odd requirement for what is an essentially single-player game and was made a mind-bendingly frustrating one when these servers were completely unusable during the first few weeks after the game launched.
So why would a company cripple its product with an unnecessary feature that everyone hates?
The Reason: They Make More Money (Probably)
This is admittedly a relatively new business model these publishers are exploring, so whether it ultimately does make more money is still a little open to debate. But here, at least, are the reasons they're going this way.
The first and most obvious is that an always-online game drastically limits the ability of people to pirate the game. The publishers essentially switch from selling easily copied software, to selling licenses, which are much more difficult, if not impossible to duplicate. Although it's debatable how much piracy has affected video game sales, it's reasonable to say that it's had at least some impact, and it's entirely predictable that publishing executives would do something to limit it, even if it meant people saying mean things about them on the Internet.
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"A buttchugger? Is that a good thing or is ... nope. Not a good thing."
The second reason is that by requiring players to always be online, publishers can begin to generate revenue other ways, either by selling subscriptions to play the game, or by selling bonus content to players. This aspect feels a little less offensive to players, in that at least it appears to be improving the product, even if that does cost them more money. Not that that doesn't also stop them from shrieking about it.
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"I've just realized that I actively hate every single one of our customers."
If you find it frustrating that the industry is now making obviously worse products, remember that the point of these businesses wasn't to make the best possible products. It was to make money. It was always to make money. As it happens, making excellent products is usually the best way to make money, a happy coincidence for consumers. But thanks to changes in technology and business models, it looks like the business of making offline, single-player video games is becoming less and less profitable. We can weep for it, and we can call people buttchuggers on the Internet, but there likely isn't much we can actually do about it.
Aside from stop buying their video games, of course. Oh? We weren't putting that on the table? Then yeah. Nothing we can do about it.
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Neuroleptics (antipsychotics)
In 1973, psychiatrist George Crane gained the attention of the medical community by disclosing that many, and perhaps most, long-term neuroleptic patients were developing a largely irreversible, untreatable neurological disorder, tardive dyskinesia. The disease, even its mild forms, is often disfiguring, with involuntary movements of the face, mouth or tongue. Frequently, the patients grimace in a manner that makes them look "crazy", undermining their credibility with other people. In more severe cases, patients become disabled by twitches, spasms, and other abnormal movements of any muscle groups, including those of the neck, shoulders, back, arms and legs, and hands and feet. The muscles of respiration and speech can also be impaired. In the worst cases, patients thrash about continually.
Growing evidence indicates that these drugs also produce tardive psychoses that are irreversible and more severe than the patients' prior problems. In children, permanent behavioral or mental disorders frequently develop as a result of the drugs. Furthermore, drug withdrawal often causes a rebound of the anticholinergic neurotransmitter system, resulting in a flu-like syndrome that includes emotional upset, insomnia, nausea and vomiting. Many patients find themselves unable to stop taking the drugs, suggesting that we should consider them as addictive.
Articles on neuroleptics and their side effects
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Just two weeks following his last appearance in Macomb Republican candidate for state governor Bruce Rauner will visit McDonough County once again.
According to a Rauner downstate campaign representative, the upstate businessman will appear at 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 30, at the local Republican headquarters, 129 S. Randolph St. The event, like his Aug. 15 campaign stop, will be a meet and greet and open to the public.
News of the encore visit initially cropped up late last week in at least one local residents' personal Facebook status, but Casey Constant, a deputy downstate campaign director for Rauner, confirmed the news Tuesday, adding the candidate didn't have any other stops in the immediate region the same day.
Constant estimated the 4 p.m. event Saturday will last approximately until 4:45 p.m.
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not tweakin, yet not quite trippin.
dude 1: bro you ok?
dude 2: yea man, im only tippin.
dude 2: yea man, im only tippin.
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i would liek to correct everyone who ha written a definition for tippin. Tippin is when one side of ur car is lowered so it tips to one side. Hence the name tippin. You guys are thinkin of swangin. THats when you swerve from side to side to show off ur car.
Still Tippin on 4 4's- Slim Thug
by ScottM January 20, 2006
Short for the phrase "tippin' on my dick". Used when a male or female is being heavily & often overly aggresively pursued, usually for sexual desires, by the opposite sex. 'Tippin' is mainly used when someone is desperately flirting with another person and it is annoying or hilariously obvious that that person is wanting some!
In Example: "Damn, today Daniel was tippin hard"; "Girl needs to stop tippin, she's lookin desperate"; "I think Jamie is tippin, what a slut!"
by shhlothieee May 26, 2010
Besides driving term, also used in reference of drinking (Detroit). Used this way because in order to "drink" something, you need to tip it back..
Mike to his boys: Ya'll niggaz finish them 40s yet? We gon be late to the club.
His Boys: Naw we still tippin, we almost there..
His Boys: Naw we still tippin, we almost there..
by Im2gdup July 05, 2009
when a hot girl walks by and you "tip" your subglasses at her. Then she gets gigglely. It also can be used to describe sunglasses
by Gizmodo7 January 19, 2014
serving or selling drugs usually doing well at it
Man Dog that spot on Woodlawn be tippin'. OR I know em',them niggas be tippin' on the West End
by Mrs.H October 17, 2008
In Queens in the 1970's tippin' signified leaving.
Are you sticking around? Nah, I'm tippin' soon, my old lady's waiting on me at home.
by brooklyn peach February 01, 2010
A children's TV character-like person, loving hugs at every moment in the day and always telling children how great they are.
They are great working with young and often old (bingo) people.
They are great working with young and often old (bingo) people.
Man, he is such a Tippins, he really knows how to treat kids.
He is such a Tippins, those old people love him.
He is such a Tippins, those old people love him.
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The act of a buyer negotiating a lower price for goods or services from a seller.
The car dealer wanted me to pay sticker price for my new car, but I successfully Jewed him down to a lower price.
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In video games, most commonly Gears Of War, to kill or down someone in a cheap way.
"I am going to Jew him down with an active reload sniper."
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On her 57th birthday, Lily's mother suddenly loses all memory beyond the age of twelve. Lily knows her mother was attacked by something more than magic. More . . . and darker.
When Lily and Rule discover that others suffered the same, mysterious loss—at the same time on the same night—their investigation into the darkness begins. Joining them is someone Lily never thought she'd see again: Al Drummond, who once tried to destroy her. He also happens to be dead. But the mysterious attacks were caused by a power strong enough to affect matters beyond the world of the living.
With some victims losing years of memory and others their lives, Lily must discover what on earth—or beyond—connects them.
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"Eileen Wilks writes what I like to read."—Linda Howard, New York Times bestselling author
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Maybe you and I have met, either in person or online. Maybe not. Not everyone hangs out on Facebook or fires off an email after reading a book. But even if you and I have never had any personal contact, I know two things about you: if you read my books, you and I like the same kind of stories; and you either have or have had a mother.
Mothers are an inescapable fact of life. We all spent time in someone's womb, and there begins one of the most intimate, tangled, and powerful relationships we'll ever know. Mothers have been revered and reviled, blamed for everything from bed-wetting to serial killers, honored by a day that keeps Hallmark in business, propped up on pedestals, and pitched to by countless advertising agencies.
And always, always, mothers are remembered. Even if the woman who bore you didn't raise you, she left behind her hair or her nose, a quick temper or an aptitude at math. . . and maybe an open spot filled with questions. No matter what blend of blessing and bane, of intimacy or void, makes up the web tying you to your mother, you will not forget her.
In Ritual Magic, Lily Yu has an opportunity the rest of us never will; she gets to know her mother when Julia was a twelve-year-old girl. As with many things connected with mothers and mothering, this doesn't seem like a blessing at the time. It certainly isn't intended to be one. Lily has an enemy—ancient, undying, but unable to enter this realm. However, her enemy's acolyte, Robert Friar, is very much present and actively seeking to do her harm.
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I suggest people go back and listen again to what Patrick said. He didn't say he LET Hanyu win this one - he said it was OKAY for Hanyu to win this one. BIG difference people. And yes I would agree that the dance competition is going to be fierce but don't think Schlanger was out of line....the last 2 times the teams have met, D&W have won. Doesn't matter if its a landslide or a tenth of a point. They won and certainly deserve to be considered the favorites going into the Olys. I think the Free Dance at the Olys is going to be the most exciting competition of the whole season.
I guess you can take it as him accepting Yuzuru's win. However, many folks took it differently, including the NBC Olympic Reporters who were tweeting during the coverage:
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#Hanyu beats Chan in the free skate winning the #GPF13. "I'll let Yuzuru win this one and I'll win at the Olympics," Chan says #fightinwords
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His colleague however didn't mind the comment:
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@NickMcCarvel No way, say it to the media! Figure skating (all Olympic sports, really) need more candid stars!
Yep, it's 'I let him'. He said the exact same thing in yesterday's CBC coverage.
yes, did he miss the fact that Yuzuru beat him by 13 points? It wasn't exactly close, Patrick!
Don't athletes in sports other than figure skating say this kind of stuff all the time -- without the perception of being dismissive of or condescending toward their rivals?
Mao Asada was in a class by herself.
I did find it to be an arrogant quote, but I think people underestimate the amount of mental toughness it takes to deliver medal worthy programs under this kind of pressure. I don't think a lot of these athletes could do what they do without really believing that they are the best. The attitude of okay, I let him have this one, but *I'm* winning the next one is possibly a necessary attitude for Chan to keep positive and stay confident. Maybe he shouldn't have said that to the media, but on some level censoring that kind of attitude to the media is an acknowledgement that it might be unfounded, so... I mean, yeah it's kind of an annoying way to phrase it but I think it's just an athlete in the zone gearing up for the most important competition of his life.
That said, Hanyu completely deserved the win and I was so happy for him. I also think Mao deserved the win over Julia. Julia placed 4th in the short program, and Mao's skate was exquisite there. Julia's jumps seem very small to me, too. That said, I am glad to see her PCS rising because I think she interprets the piece of music beautifully, and I was happy NBC chose on one of her amazing spins as the gold medal moment or whatever that little moment of zen-esque clip at the end of these recaps is called.
And ah, I can't believe they mentioned pairs! It's nice to see them actually show Meryl and Charlie's FD too, since they didn't even mention their results (or the Shib's!) at NHK.
Sorry - I guess I heard what I wanted to. But I think people are overreacting. If you aren't proud of yourself, if you don't have self-assurance, if you don't lay down a gauntlet, if you don't have a winning attitude, then you end up like Jeremy Abbott. All talent but doesn't compete very well. (and I do like Jeremy, don't get me wrong) It seems like some hang on every word out of Patrick's mouth and turn it into a negative. But other skaters can crow about themselves and they're given a pass....a younger Plushenko comes to mind! He got beat today. He wasn't blaming it on anybody or making any excuses. And in a way he did "let" Hanyu win by not skating his best. I seriously doubt it was purposeful. I'm still picking him to win the OGM - and I'm not even Canadian.
The best man is going to win regardless of what they say prior to the competition....it's going to be a good competition.


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There is no situation so chaotic that God cannot from that situation, create something that is surpassingly good. He did it at the creation. He did it at the cross. He is doing it today.—Bishop MouleRomans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
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Someone asked Juan'ya Green, Niagara's dynamic sophomore guard, if he was named after Boyz II Men lead singer Wanya Morris. A frown covered his face.
"Yeah man," he said, shaking his head. "I don't know what my mother was thinking."
It's actually not hard to figure out. The R&B group was formed in Philadelphia, Green's hometown, and around the time he was born their album "II" was No. 1 in the country. So Green, who has a sister named Yolanda and a brother Dwayne, was named after Morris. Different spelling, same pronunciation.
"She was kind of obsessed with them and she wanted to name me that," Green said. "I really don't like the name but I'll go with it. It's uncommon and a lot of people get it wrong and it gets on my nerves sometimes."
His mother, Octavia Green, didn't get a crooner out of the deal.
"Noooooo," Green said. "Singing is not my thing."
Basketball certainly is and Green is the leader of a Niagara (14-10, 10-3) team meting out frustration to its more experienced competitors in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, while trying to return to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in six years. It's been a dramatic elevation of a program that finished 23-42 in the two previous seasons.
While Green can't carry a tune, he's quite the conductor. The 2012 MAAC Freshman of the Year averages 16.3 points, second on the team to Antoine Mason, and is second in the MAAC behind Canisius College's Billy Baron in assists at a clip of 5.2 a game. It is Green who provides an eye-popping array of floaters and high-arcing jump shots while always remembering to locate open teammates.
"Sometimes he forgets that he can do both," Niagara coach Joe Mihalich said about Green's ability to score and distribute. "You get caught up in the shooting and you get caught up in passing too much.
"If there's anything where you want to criticize Juan'ya it is that he's too nice a guy. Has to be a little nastier out there."
During the final seconds of Niagara's win two weeks ago over Canisius (15-9, 8-5), it was Green who alertly found Marvin Jordan on the opposite wing before the double team set. Jordan hit the shot that gave the Purple Eagles a 66-65 victory.
"I just knew to be shot ready and I trusted him to trust me," Jordan said.
Green will lead the Purple Eagles in the rematch set for Sunday in the Gallagher Center.
"At the beginning of the year, we weren't clicking together but as the season went on everybody just matured," Green said. "Everybody just stepped up and filled their role. It's not just one vocal leader on the team. If somebody is doing something wrong somebody is going to step up and say something."
Niagara's turning point came after a 77-67 loss at the University at Buffalo when the Purple Eagles were in the midst of a slump of four losses in five games. In the 15 games since, Niagara has gone 11-4 as Green continues his steady play.
"That kind of gave us a wake-up call," Green said. "We needed to get it together and have a great season."
Green, one of five Philly natives on the Purple Eagles' roster, honed his game at Panapi Park in North Philadelphia. As a sixth grader he met Ameen Tanksley at a local AAU camp.
"We were on the same team and we didn't like each other at first because we were both taking the most shots," Green said.
"We were trying to outdo each other but after the camp was over, we just kind of clicked together."
The next year Green and Tanksley made a pact to play college basketball together. They both visited Niagara in September 2010, and committed days later. The only other school to make offers to both players was VCU.
"We probably didn't show it as much when we were on the visit, but when me and my brother got back to the hotel room we were so excited," Tanksley said at the time.
Said Green: "I knew I wanted to come to school with Ameen. We both made that decision in seventh grade that we wanted to go to school together and when we took the visit here we liked everything about it."
The next few weeks bring a deeper challenge. The Purple Eagles have dropped back-to-back games, which means the MAAC race is wide open. The losses may be a mere hiccup as Niagara seems to understand the delicate balance of chemistry. Green is more of a facilitator this season while Mason is the primary scorer.
Yet somehow, when the game is on the line, the ball finds its way to Green, Niagara's lead vocalist.
"We have to stay mentally focused," Green said. "We have to keep picking each other up when we're down. I know last year a lot of games where we lost, a lot of people's heads were down, no one was stepping up and saying anything about it. I think this year we matured a lot."
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And would have made a long term commitment to a player who was not only a one year rental, but who had issues scoring in the playoffs (something that Chicago didn't have to worry about in 2010) and would not only missed half the 2010 season due to rehab, but would also be a potential risk due to other injuries.
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Well, as people continue to rank up tanks and choppers, there will be more laser spotting. The environment will slowly get littered with laser targeting. And unmanned SOFLAMs can be a nucance as well.
That's what I was hoping for, but it doesn't appear to have happened.
How would it happen? The game makes zero effort to tell you what SOFLAM even does, or its connection to the Javelin.


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Introduction to toxic synovitis:
Whenever children develop a limp they should be checked to be sure that the cause is not something that needs emergency treatment, such as septic arthritis. When the results come back, parents will often hear that the diagnosis is toxic synovitis. This sounds like bad news, but it is good news.
What is toxic synovitis?
Toxic synovitis of the hip is the most common form of arthritis in children. It appears suddenly, disappears suddenly, and causes no lasting problems. Thus, it is often called transient synovitis.
It typically follows viral infections, and may be caused by the body's immune response to the virus. For this reason, it is often called postinfectious arthritis. Many viruses can lead to some type of postinfectious arthritis — including adenovirus, chickenpox, CMV, coxsackievirus, EBV, hepatitis B, herpes, mumps, parvovirus, rubella, and smallpox.
Who gets toxic synovitis?
Toxic synovitis can happen in any child, but it is most common in boys between the ages of 3 and 10, after an upper respiratory tract infection.
What are the symptoms?
Boys usually complain of pain in the hip, thigh, or knee. They suddenly develop a noticeable limp. There is usually no fever, redness, or swelling of the joint.
Is it contagious?
No. The viral infections that lead to toxic synovitis are often contagious.
How long does toxic synovitis last?
Toxic synovitis usually disappears completely within a few days.
How is toxic synovitis diagnosed?
Children with a new limp need to be examined, and some may need to have blood tests and an imaging study to be sure there is not a condition that needs emergency treatment. In toxic synovitis, the blood tests are usually normal.
How is toxic synovitis treated?
Toxic synovitis needs no treatment other than pain relief.
How can toxic synovitis be prevented?
Usually toxic synovitis is not preventable, except by avoiding the viral infections that can trigger it.
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With the support of family and friends, a grief-stricken father is struggling to make sense of a tragic accident that claimed the life of his 4-year-old son on Sunday afternoon.
"The first thing I could think of was to try to get him to the hospital as fast as I could," Gardnerville Ranchos resident Robert Geist said Monday. "I think when I picked him up, he was already gone. There was too much damage done."
Mason Geist, 4, was pronounced dead at Carson Valley Medical Center after being transported from 980 Cavelti Road near Spring Valley, where the accident occurred around 3:45 p.m.
According to relatives who witnessed the incident, Mason was in the cab of a U-Haul truck stopped in the driveway of "uncle" Chad Lathrop, who was moving that day with the help of Robert, his cousin, and the young boy. Witnesses said the truck was placed in park, but at some point, it began rolling down the sloped driveway. Mason was ejected and struck by the vehicle.
Robert, 31, remembers his boy as the ultimate sidekick.
"He was a pretty easygoing kid. He always helped me working on cars, whatever I was doing," he said. "I felt like I probably was a bad dad, but everyone said I was a good dad. I was always spending time with him and doing stuff. Like going to the playground, riding his quad, watching Batman movies over and over."
Robert said his son was intelligent but had a hearing disability that he'd been fighting his whole life. He said Mason lived with his mother at Lake Tahoe during the week and with him in Gardnerville on the weekends. The young boy attended a Kingsbury Grade preschool and was starting an early intervention program at Zephyr Cove Elementary.
"He could hear a man's voice, but not a woman's voice," Robert said.
Reflecting upon the accident, he expressed guilt.
"I'm in shock about the whole thing," he said. "The police came and impounded the U-Haul to see if it's faulty... I just felt I never should have left him in the U-Haul by himself and with it running."
Robert's family, however, many who witnessed the incident, have jumped to his defense.
"They were helping us," Lathrop said Monday. "Robert is feeling so bad. He feels he needs to be punished. But he didn't do anything wrong. It should have never gone into gear like that."
Lathrop said Robert was backing up the truck to his house, when he put the vehicle in park and jumped out to check the clearance. Lathrop said Mason was still in the cab when Robert exited, leaving the driver-side door open. He described a terrible scene as the truck started rolling down the driveway.
"Robert didn't want Mason outside when they were backing up," Lathrop said. "He jumped out for a second, and all of a sudden the U-Haul took off."
Lathrop said they all were chasing the truck down the hill trying to reach Mason.
"The U-Haul hit a bump," he said, referring to the moment Mason fell out of the vehicle. "My son tried grabbing him, but at that time the wheel ran him over."
Lathrop maintains that the U-Haul's automatic transmission gearshift was defective and should not have engaged without pressure on the brake.
"Mason must have bumped the gearshift. It took off," he said. "But he was so little, there was no way he could have hit the brake."
On Monday, the family released video they'd taken of the U-Haul before it was impounded by police. The video shows a man shifting the gear lever up and down without applying pressure to the brake.
In a press release issued the same day, Douglas County Undersheriff Paul Howell said the investigation into the incident is ongoing and that further details couldn't be released.
In an email to The Record-Courier, U-Haul Company of East Sacramento President Aaron Anderson said the company is cooperating with the investigation.
"First and foremost, U-Haul expresses our heartfelt condolences to the Geist Family," Anderson said. "U-Haul is cooperating fully with those investigating this tragedy. Accordingly, until the appropriate experts have had an opportunity to examine the facts and determine findings, any comment from U-Haul would be premature and not helpful."
But Lathrop and other family members don't want Robert Geist to blame himself.
"It was a horrible accident, but it wasn't neglect on Robert's part," Lathrop said. "That kid was his life."
Anyone wishing to assist the family can make donations to the Mason Allen Geist account at any El Dorado Savings Bank branch. The account No. is 5000423.