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*** 2 Year Warranty ***
Charges and Discharges 1-3 cell Lithium-Ion and Lithium Polymer packs
For LiPo packs that are wired for balancing, a LiPo Cell Balancer
such as Great Planes ElectriFly Equinox (GPMM3160) is compatible
with the Accu Cycle Elite
Peak Charges, Discharges and Cycles 1-10 cell NiCd or NiMH packs
Charges two batteries at once
Auto Smart Set automatically calculates safety time-out, Charge Rate,
TRICKLE Rate and Discharge Voltage cut-off based on battery type,
capacity, and voltage
Custom Charging and Discharging routines can be created for up to 10
packs and stored in memory
Prevents overcharging with Peak Detection for NiCd and NiMH packs and
CC/CV detection for Lithium-based packs
On-screen messages appear on large easy to see two line 16-character
LCD screen, messages feature less abbreviations, better
explanations and units of measurement with every number
AC/DC compatible for at home or on the field recharging
Optional Temperature Sensor (HCAP0281) functions w/ all battery types
Two Temperature Sensor ports
Two year warranty
One Accu-Cycle Elite cycler
One AC adapter/power supply (NOT AVAILABLE SEPARATELY)
Two (Red & Black) alligator clips w/banana jacks
One instruction booklet
One Main/Memory menu sheet
One NiCd, NiMH, and Lithium menu sheet
One Charge/Discharge chart w/blank memory chart
If needed, a 12V DC source, such as HCAP0800 & HCAP0200
If temperature sensor is needed, use HCAP0281
Connectors to go from the charger to the battery or radio:
HCAP0101....FUTABA J Tx/Rx LEADS ALL RADIOS EXCEPT 9VAP
FUTABA J Tx/Rx LEADS 9VAP ONLY
HCAP0105....JR Tx/Rx LEADS
HCAP0106....HITEC Tx/Rx LEADS
HCAP0110....Tx BATTERY WITH 9V CONNECTOR, FUTABA J Rx CHARGE LEAD
Input Voltage: 11-14.5V DC
AC Power Supply: 110V AC 60Hz input, 14.5V DC 2.5A output
Number of Output Ports: two
For BOTH Outputs:
Battery Types: Nickel-Cadmium (NiCd), Nickel-Metal Hydride (NiMH)
Lithium Polymer (LiPo), Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion)
Number Cells: 1-10 NiCd or NiMH (1.2-12V)
1-3 LiPo or Li-Ion (3.6-11.1V)
Fast Charge Current: * 50-2000mA
Fast Charge Termination:
NiCd/MH -"negative deltaV'" Peak Detection,
LiPo -"Constant-Current/Constant-Voltage" (4.2V/cell max.)
Li-Ion -"Constant-Current/Constant-Voltage" (4.lV/cell max.)
Peak Detection Sensitivity: 3-15mV per cell adjustable
Fast Chg Safety Timer: * automatically calculated
TRICKLE Charge Current: * 0-200mA
Peak Detection Delay: 3 minutes
Discharge Current: 50-2000mA
Discharge Cutoff Voltage:
* 0.8-1.2V per cell adjustable for NiCd & NiMH
3.7V per cell fixed for Li-Ion and LiPo
Cycle Count: 1 to 5 (NiCd and NiMH only)
Cycle Delay- Chg/Dsch: 10 minutes
Status Indicators: two tri -color LEDs (Red/Amber/Green)
Optional Temp. Cutoff: ** 60-130�F (15-54�C)
Output Connectors: banana jacks
Battery Memories: ten
Display Type: 2-line, 16 character LCD
Case Size: 3.7 x 6.1 x 1.2 in (94 x 30.5 x 155mm)
Weight: 13.23oz (375g, not including Power Supply)
Length: 6.1" (155mm)
Width: 3.7" (94mm)
Height: 1.2" (30.5mm)
* Auto Smart Set Feature, can be manually overridden except
for Fast Charge safety timer
** Requires optional Temperature Sensor HCAP0281
To achieve Elite's maximum potential when using a DC input the
power source must be capable of delivering at least 5A of current
while maintaining 12V DC
The alligator clips are the Insta-Gator Alligator Clips (TACP0111).
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on May 3, 2013 - 2:38 AM
Theresa Harris-Tigg thinks greater focus needs to be placed on the classroom.
An assistant professor of English education at SUNY Buffalo State, Harris-Tigg is the lone candidate to represent the Buffalo Board of Education's East District after incumbent Rosalyn L. Taylor failed to acquire enough valid petition signatures to get on Tuesday's ballot.
"I want to make a difference in the classroom in instruction and curriculum. I want to focus on the schools, making sure we have quality principals and teachers, and that they are supported well," Harris-Tigg said.
The 58-year-old educator is a product of the Buffalo Public Schools and a graduate of Bennett High School. She earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts from D'Youville College, a master's degree in education from Canisius College and a doctorate in education from the University at Buffalo.
Her three children attended Buffalo Public Schools before Harris-Tigg remarried and moved to Kenmore, where they graduated from Kenmore East High School. She has three grandchildren in Buffalo Public Schools.
Harris-Tigg said she believes Superintendent Pamela C. Brown is moving in the right direction, but she is yet to be sold on Say Yes Buffalo, the highly touted program that guarantees financial support to all graduating seniors so they can attend college.
Told that many see Say Yes as a potential game-changer in changing expectations for college, Harris-Tigg said, "That's what some people feel. I can see that. My goal is to get students to that place to graduate, because if you look at our graduation rate right now, kids are not going to benefit from that."
Harris-Tigg was reluctant to be pinned down on whether she favors increasing the number of Buffalo charter schools.
"I believe families and parents should have quality school choices no matter what it looks like," she said. "You have thousands of kids in Buffalo waiting for an opportunity for better schooling. What I'm thinking about this is, every school should be a quality school. But they're not at the moment, and some families will make their choice for charter schools, and I applaud them."
Still, Harris-Tigg said, she didn't want that to be construed as appearing that she favors more charter schools.
The candidate, a product of Schools 39 and 78, wants a return to neighborhood schools.
"They allow the community and the parents to be involved, and there aren't barriers like transportation and those kinds of things. But it has to be a quality school," Harris-Tigg added.
She was less certain about whether she supported changes made last year by the School Board to eliminate the teacher residency rule.
"Our children deserve the best teachers, and we don't want barriers that prevent us from recruiting the very best. I believe in choice. I'm not against the residency rule." But asked if that meant she was in favor of it, she said, "Not necessarily."
Harris-Tigg said she thinks it's important to bring different interest groups together when education is at stake.
"We need to be diverse in our thinking, because the bottom line is this is all about our children," she said.
She also advocated for a larger voice for parents.
"I think it's important to have strong parent community ties to the schools. I think parents' voices are important, and we have to learn to listen to them and not come off as if we know more than them," Harris-Tigg said.
Harris-Tigg said she is in a position to make a difference on the School Board.
"I see this position as a position of service. I want to serve my community, and I love Buffalo. I think what I would bring is to look at what is working for our students and what may not, and revisit those policies and see if they are even a barrier," Harris-Tigg said.
She has the support of the Unity Coalition political action group and had planned to spend $8,000 to $10,000 on her campaign before Taylor was forced to drop out.
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with Microsoft's vocal chief executive, Steve Ballmer, are always
entertaining. A recent chat with The
Seattle Times'
Sharon Pian Chan was no exception.In response to a question
about Google CEO Eric Schmidt saying Bing
was Google's chief competitor, and "a well-run, highly
competitive search engine", Mr. Ballmer enthuses, "Welcome
to our world, man. It's a competitive world out there. We're
competing, other guys are going to compete with them. We have good
competitors. Apple is a good competitor, Google is a good competitor,
Oracle is a good competitor, VMware is a good competitor. We partner
with Facebook, but we also compete in some dimensions with them. Hey,
it's OK, just get out there and work. ... We're his best competitor,
and we're a very good competitor and we're going to do a very good
job."While he might be excited to "welcome"
Google to "his" world of search/competition (two things Google seems pretty well acquainted with already), he also talked about a
more sober topic -- Kin. The Kin phone project was a massive
failure, with perhaps under 10,000 handsets sold after millions
in investment and engineering costs.In the interview Mr.
Ballmer admits that Kin was a mess, commenting, "The No. 1
message from Kin is a message of focus. You only get so many things
you can really talk about, communicate, work on with the consumer.
You've got to be bold, you've got to look forward and you've got to
stay focused. Kin was neither -- with 20-20 hindsight -- bold enough
relative to where the market's going, and it just defocused activity
from Windows Phone."While certainly a colorful
character, Mr. Ballmer seems to have a good feel about Microsoft's
most promising upcoming products at least. He states that
Phone 7 or Kinect or IE9
(Internet Explorer 9)" are some of Microsoft's most exciting
upcoming offerings."Mr. Ballmer is also eagerly awaiting
the launch of Windows slates to take on the iPad.When asked
about how long he would stay
with the company, he replies, "I don't know. I'm working
away doing the best job I know how to do. The company continues to
grow. Outside my family, this is my baby. I want to make sure that,
whenever I go, the baby's in great health. It's not a baby, it must
be at least a teenager by now, young adult. I want to make sure the
place is in very good shape."And apparently Mr. Ballmer
has a real Facebook (though there are numerous imposter Ballmer pages
-- 11 by his count). How often does he check his Facebook?
"Every day."
quote: Google was born from a highly competitive environment. They buried a dozen successful competitiors on the way to the top.Microsoft has never really competed on an open playing field. They were 'given' the OS monopoly when they cut a deal with IBM. They used that monopoly to undermine Lotus and wordperfect and force their office products on the masses since they integrated into Windows best. Do you really think it was magic that made Microsoft's office products function in the Windows environment better? Microsoft crushed Netscape by bundling Explorer. Novell was beaten by leveraging the desktop OS against the server environment. Microsoft is all about an 'unfair' playingfield. They fail in markets that they can't dominate with their default monopoly. They did fine with portable devices as long as they depended on syncing with the desktop. Once mobile devices freed themselves from the home computer their marketshare plummeted.Kin is just a great example of their arrogance. They wanted the market to buy what they liked, but the mobile market is not a hostage like the Windows market is. There were far better products available so nobody bought it. The same thing will happen with Phone 7, but probably not so rapidly. The only obvious benefits of the device are the attachments to old Microsoft monopolies - editing Office documents and X-box Live integration. Apple and Google are going to destroy them.
quote: The same thing will happen with Phone 7, but probably not so rapidly. The only obvious benefits of the device are the attachments to old Microsoft monopolies - editing Office documents and X-box Live integration. Apple and Google are going to destroy them.


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Hack Hack Hack, All Day Long,
Hack the phone while I sing this song,
Gonna hack TV too, gonna make it ring (bro?)
make it SMS & call, with Twilio
With these rhymes Andrew from Boxee tries to encourage developers to participate in "TV Meets Telephony" Hack challenge. Boxee has partnered with Twilio, a SF-based startup that has a very cool web-service API for telephony, to host a hackathon to see what kind of Boxee apps people can come up with using the telephone. The contest will culminate in a 29-hour Hack Day on April 10th and 11th in both SF & NYC.
More details here.
[update] And the winners are:
1st place: Bring the Popcorn (Drew Baumann and Brett Hazen)
2nd place: Find My Phone (Fuzz the Destroyer)


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Quality Education in the Benedictine Tradition
September 26, 2012
Dr. Dawn Edmiston, assistant professor of management and marketing at Saint Vincent College, has won the 2012 Middle Atlantic Association of Colleges of Business Administration (MAACBA) Innovation in Teaching Prize. She will receive the honor during the annual MAACBA conference in Pittsburgh on Oct. 16. Dr. Edmiston created a teaching concept titled, "Creating Competitive Advantage Through a Professional Online Presence." The concept involves a ten-step process that leverages social media and empowers students to creatively market themselves to achieve a distinct advantage in a competitive career environment. Dr. Edmiston is integrating this concept in various courses that she has developed, to include Essentials of Selling and Internet Marketing, and has made the process available online at www.dawnedmiston.com. Dr. Gary Quinlivan, dean of the Alex G. McKenna School of Business, Education, and Government at Saint Vincent College, commented, "Dr. Edmiston is an incredible marketing professor, faculty adviser, academic scholar and role model. I admire her natural ability to connect with our students while infusing them with meaningful knowledge that will impact their future careers." Dr. Edmiston was also the recipient of the 2011 Marketing Management Association Teaching Innovation Award. Dr. Edmiston has served as a member of the Saint Vincent College faculty since 2005. She previously taught at Howard University, Johns Hopkins University, Trinity College, University of Maryland, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown and West Virginia University. In addition to her teaching at Saint Vincent College, she serves as marketing consultant for the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children's Media.
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Students may indicate an area of interest for their practicum project in early fall. Students work in small groups under the supervision of the MSF program director to complete the project, earning practical experience and developing a strong relationship with corporations and potential employers.
The MSF program director and Finance Department faculty work with various finance-related organizations to design projects that are valuable to MSF students and benefit the sponsoring group. Projects are designed to be accomplished within the Practicum time frame and culminate in a written report and presentation of work to the sponsoring company and program faculty.
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Author Affiliations: Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota (Dr Ting); Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina (Ms Chen and Drs Roe, DeLong, and Peterson); Mid America Heart Institute of St Luke's Hospital and University of Missouri–Kansas City, Kansas City (Drs Chan and Spertus); VA Health Services Research and Development Center for Excellence, Department of Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor (Dr Nallamothu); Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle (Dr Sullivan); Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Yale University School of Medicine and Yale–New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, New Haven, Connecticut (Drs Bradley and Krumholz).
Secular trends and factors associated with delay time from symptom onset to hospital presentation are known for patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) but are less well-described for non-STEMI.
We studied 104 622 patients with non-STEMI enrolled at 568 hospitals participating in the Can Rapid Risk Stratification of Unstable Angina Patients Suppress Adverse Outcomes With Early Implementation of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Guidelines (CRUSADE) National Quality Improvement Initiative from January 1, 2001, to December 31, 2006. We examined secular trends and factors associated with delay time and the association of delay time with in-hospital mortality.
Median delay time from symptom onset to hospital presentation was 2.6 hours (interquartile range, 1.3-6.0) and has been stable from 2001 to 2006 (P value for trend, .16). After multivariable adjustment, factors associated with longer delay time included older age, female sex, nonwhite race, diabetes, and current smoking. In addition, compared with those who presented during weekday daytime (>8 AM to 4 PM), patients who presented during weekday and weekend nights (>12 AM to 8 AM) had a 24.7% and 24.3% shorter delay time, respectively (P < .001). After multivariable adjustment, the odds ratio of in-hospital mortality for patients with delay times of 0 to 1 hour or less, more than 1 to 2 hours, more than 2 to 3 hours, and more than 3 to 6 hours compared with the reference group (delay time >6 hours) were 1.19 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.08-1.30), 0.91 (95% CI, 0.83-1.00), 0.77 (95% CI, 0.69-0.88), and 0.90 (95% CI, 0.81-1.00), respectively.
Long delay times are common and have not changed over time for patients with non-STEMI. Because patients cannot differentiate whether symptoms are due to STEMI or non-STEMI, early presentation is desirable in both instances.
American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) guidelines recommend that patients who experience symptoms suggestive of acute coronary syndrome should call 9-1-1 if those symptoms are unimproved or worsening after 5 minutes (class I).1 Since patients typically cannot differentiate if their symptoms represent ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) or non-STEMI, immediate presentation to the hospital after symptom onset is critical in both instances. For patients with STEMI, studies have documented that the average delay time from symptom onset to hospital presentation is 2 hours and has not decreased substantially despite multiple public education campaigns.2- 9 Furthermore, longer delays are associated with higher in-hospital mortality in patients with STEMI.3
While delays from symptom onset to hospital presentation have been linked to worse outcomes in patients with STEMI, the impact of such delays in patients with non-STEMI is unknown. Secular trends and factors associated with delay time have also not been evaluated for a contemporary, nationally representative cohort of patients with non-STEMI. To address this, we undertook a study to evaluate delay time from the contemporary, community-based, national registry Can Rapid Risk Stratification of Unstable Angina Patients Suppress Adverse Outcomes With Early Implementation of the ACC/AHA Guidelines (CRUSADE) National Quality Improvement Initiative. We specifically examined (1) the overall distribution of delay time, (2) secular trends in delay time, (3) factors associated with longer delays time, and (4) the association of delay time with in-hospital mortality.
The details of the CRUSADE National Quality Improvement Initiative have been previously published.10- 12 Patients are eligible for the CRUSADE registry if they have ischemic symptoms lasting 10 or more minutes within 24 hours of hospital presentation in combination with high-risk features including ST-segment depression, transient ST-segment elevation, and/or elevated cardiac biomarkers (creatine kinase–MB or troponin I or T). Between January 1, 2001, and December 31, 2006, there were 168 191 patients enrolled in CRUSADE at 568 hospitals. The following patients were excluded sequentially: those who had received a diagnosis of unstable angina (n = 13 177), those who had an unknown date or time of symptom onset (n = 26 604), and those who were transferred in from another hospital (n = 23 788). Patients who were transferred out to another hospital were included in this analysis since the delay time from symptom onset to hospital presentation was available. The remaining 104 622 patients with non-STEMI comprised the study population for this analysis.
Hospitals participating in CRUSADE collected data on patient demographic and clinical information, physician and hospital characteristics, medical histories, immediate use of medications within 24 hours of presentation, use and timing of invasive cardiac procedures, in-hospital outcomes, and discharge medications. Each hospital's institutional review board reviews and approves participation in CRUSADE, and because data are collected anonymously and without unique patient identifiers, informed consent is not required. Delay from symptom onset to hospital presentation was calculated from the documented date and time of symptom onset to the documented date and time of hospital arrival and was expressed as median and interquartile range (hours). Candidate factors evaluated for association with longer delay times included age; sex; race/ethnicity (categorized as white, black, Hispanic, Asian, or other/unknown); payer type (categorized as private/health maintenance organization, Medicare, Medicaid, or self-pay/none); medical history (family history of coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes, current smoker, hyperlipidemia, prior myocardial infarction [MI], prior percutaneous coronary intervention [PCI], prior coronary artery bypass graft surgery [CABG], prior congestive heart failure [CHF], prior stroke, renal insufficiency, CHF at presentation); body mass index (BMI) (categorized as underweight <18.5, normal 18.5 to <25, overweight 25 to <30, obese 30 to <40, or extremely obese ≥40 [calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared]); heart rate and systolic blood pressure at presentation; electrocardiogram (ECG) findings (categorized as ST-segment depression, transient ST-segment elevation, both, or neither); time of day and day of week at presentation (weekdays were defined as Monday to Friday and included daytime from >8 AM to 4 PM, evening from >4 PM to 12 AM, and night from >12 AM to 8 AM; weekends were defined as Saturday and Sunday and included daytime from >8 AM to 4 PM, evening from >4 PM to 12 AM, and night from >12 AM to 8 AM); year of presentation; attending physician (categorized as cardiologist or noncardiologist); hospital region (West, South, Midwest, Northeast); type of hospital (no catheterization laboratory; catheterization laboratory only, no PCI; PCI only, no on-site surgery; or PCI with on-site surgery); teaching hospital; and number of hospital beds. Holidays were categorized as weekdays if they fell on Monday to Friday and weekends if they fell on Saturday or Sunday.
We plotted the distribution of the delay from symptom onset to hospital presentation for the study population and performed tests of linear trend of the median delay times from calendar year 2001 through 2006. Continuous variables were presented as medians and 25th and 75th percentiles, while categorical variables were presented as frequencies. We used the Wilcoxon rank sum (2-sample) or Kruskal-Wallis (comparing more than 2-sample) test for continuous variables.
To determine factors associated with longer delay from symptom onset to hospital presentation, continuous variables (such as age, BMI, and hospital beds) were investigated for nonlinear relationship with respect to delay time and indicated the use of categorical cut points. Because delay from symptom onset to hospital presentation is a skewed continuous variable, a log-transformation was applied to normalize the distribution. Plots of standardized residuals against predicted values of delay time demonstrated no evidence of heteroscedasticity. The estimated coefficients were transformed to their natural units to facilitate interpretation.13 In determining the factors associated with delay from symptom onset to hospital presentation, linear generalized estimating equations with exchangeable working correlation matrix were used to account for within-hospital clustering because patients at the same hospital are more likely to have similar responses relative to patients at other hospitals (ie, within-center correlation for responses). This method produces estimates similar to those from ordinary linear regression, but their variances are adjusted for the correlation of outcomes within a hospital.14
The association between delay time and in-hospital mortality was explored using the logistic generalized estimating equations method with exchangeable working correlation matrix to account for within-hospital clustering. The mortality model adjusted for age, sex, race/ethnicity (white vs nonwhite), family history of coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes, current smoker, hyperlipidemia, prior MI, prior PCI, prior CABG, prior CHF, prior stroke, renal insufficiency, CHF at presentation, BMI, heart rate and systolic blood pressure at presentation, electrocardiogram findings (categorized as ST-segment depression, transient ST-segment elevation, both, or neither), and home medications (aspirin, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor, statin, β-blocker, and clopidogrel). The relationship between delay times and in-hospital mortality was not linear; therefore, we categorized delay time into 5 categories (0 to ≤1 hour, >1 to 2 hours, >2 to 3 hours, >3 to 6 hours, and >6 hours) as clinically meaningful groupings. For modeling in-hospital mortality, patients who were transferred out were excluded since their survival status was not documented or available.
The average percentage of missing data was less than 2% for the baseline covariates. For modeling, missing values for categorical variables were imputed to the lower-risk group (for instance, if diabetes status was missing, it was imputed as no diabetes), and missing values for continuous variables were replaced with sex-specific medians of nonmissing data. Patients with missing variables for age, sex, race, hospital region, and teaching hospital were excluded from the models because the clinicians did not believe that these covariates were appropriate for imputation. The impact of these imputations is an anticonservative estimation of the standard errors of the covariates being estimated. With the size of this data set, we had adequate statistical power.
We performed 2 sensitivity analyses. First, to minimize confounding from patients who are transferred-in from another hospital (n = 23 788) as well as to determine the stability of our findings, we performed the analyses for the factors associated with delay time and the association of delay and outcomes by first excluding (main analysis) and then adding in patients who were transferred-in from another hospital. Second, we explored the impact of missing data imputation by carrying out a complete case analysis (n = 91 316). Essentially, the results of these sensitivity analyses were similar (eg, direction and magnitude of the effects) to the main analyses, thus the results were not reported. P < .05 was considered statistically significant for all tests, and all tests of statistical significance were 2-tailed. All analyses were performed using SAS software version 9.1 (SAS Institute Inc, Cary, North Carolina) by the Duke Clinical Research Institute.
The overall study population included 104 622 patients with non-STEMI presenting at 568 hospitals who participated in CRUSADE between January 2001 and December 2006. Table 1 provides the baseline demographic, clinical, and hospital characteristics of the study population as well as the unadjusted presentation delay times observed with these subgroups. Time of symptom onset was not available for 26 604 patients who were excluded from this analysis. The characteristics of the 26 604 excluded patients compared with the study population are given in Table 2. Excluded patients had a slightly higher prevalence for patients with older age, female sex, and diabetes. Furthermore, those excluded patients had a lower prevalence of prior MI, PCI, or CABG, and a lower rate of hospital presentation during weekday or weekend nights (>12 AM to 8 AM).
The median delay time for the study population was 2.6 hours with an interquartile range of 1.3 to 6.0 hours during the study period (Figure 1). Approximately 59% of patients had delay times from symptom onset to hospital presentation greater than 2 hours, and 11% of patients presented more than 12 hours after onset of symptoms. Secular trend in delay from symptom onset to hospital presentation is shown Figure 2. There was no significant change in delay times from 2001 to 2006 (P = .16).
Distribution of delay from symptom onset to hospital presentation in the study population.
Secular trends in delay (median value) from symptom onset to hospital.
Multivariable analysis of factors associated with delay times from symptom onset to hospital presentation is given in Table 3. Compared with patients younger than 55 years, adjusted delay times were 3.9%, 8.1%, and 7.8% longer in age groups 65 to 74 years, 75 to 84 years, and 85 years or older, respectively (P < .001). Men had 3.4% shorter delay times than women (P < .001) and white patients had 2.2% shorter delay times than nonwhite patients (P = .03). Patients who have had prior MI or prior PCI had 3.6% and 3.9% shorter adjusted delay times compared with respective reference groups (P < .001).
Patients who presented during weekday daytime (>8 AM to 4 PM) had the longest adjusted delay from symptom onset to hospital presentation. Compared with patients who presented during weekday daytime, those who presented during weekday evenings (>4 PM to 12 AM), weekday nights (>12 AM to 8 AM), weekend evenings (>4 PM to 12 AM), and weekend nights (>12 AM to 8 AM) had 10.9%, 24.7%, 15.8%, and 24.3% shorter delay times, respectively (P < .001).
After adjusting for covariates and compared with the reference group of patients with delay times of more than 6 hours, the in-hospital mortality odds ratio (OR) was 1.19 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.08-1.30) for delay times of 0 to 1 hour or less, 0.91 (95% CI, 0.83-1.00) for delay times of more than 1 to 2 hours, 0.77 (95% CI, 0.69-0.88) for delay times more than 2 to 3 hours, and 0.90 (95% CI, 0.81-1.00) for delay times more than 3 to 6 hours. The overall relationship between in-hospital mortality and delay time was not linear and generally not strong for patients with non-STEMI.
Patients who were taking the following home medications had lower adjusted in-hospital mortality rates: aspirin (OR, 0.91; 95% CI, 0.84-0.99), angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (OR, 0.87; 95% CI, 0.80-0.93), and statin (OR, 0.88; 95% CI, 0.80-0.96). However, home use of β-blockers (OR, 0.95; 95% CI, 0.88-1.03) or clopidogrel (OR, 1.01; 95% CI, 0.91-1.11) was not associated with lower in-hospital mortality.
In our study of 104 622 patients with non-STEMI, we found that median delay time from symptom onset to hospital presentation was 2.6 hours, and 59% of patients had delay times greater than 2 hours. More importantly, delay time has not changed significantly from 2001 to 2006 among a contemporary, nationally representative cohort of patients with non-STEMI. Factors associated with longer delay from symptom onset to hospital presentation included patients with older age, female sex, nonwhite race, diabetes, and current smoking. Patients who presented during weekday or weekend nights (defined as >12 AM to 8 AM) had delay times 25% shorter than those who presented during weekday daytime (defined as >8 AM to 4 PM). Thus, identifying novel strategies for improving patient responsiveness to seek care is important in all patients who develop symptoms suggestive of myocardial ischemia.
The factors associated with delay from symptom onset to hospital presentation have been well studied among patients with STEMI. Among a cohort of 482 327 patients with STEMI enrolled in the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction from 1995 to 2004, geometric mean for delay time was 114 minutes.2 Patient subgroups with a combination of risk factors (older age, women, Hispanic or black race, and/or diabetes) have particularly long delay times, which were 60 or more minutes longer than subgroups without those characteristics. Longer delay times were associated with a reduced likelihood of receiving any reperfusion therapy, and even among those treated, late presenters had significantly longer door-to-balloon and door-to-drug times.3
However, secular trends in delay time and impact of longer delays on mortality are less understood in patients with non-STEMI. Population-based studies that included all patients with acute MI (both STEMI and non-STEMI) found that longer delay from symptom onset to hospital presentation were more common among elderly patients, women, nonwhite patients, diabetic patients, and those with atypical symptoms.7,9,15,16 Two prior studies have specifically evaluated delay time among patients with non-STEMI. Goldberg and colleagues8 found that median delay time was 3.0 hours among 2935 patients with non-STEMI from the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) registry. Factors associated with shorter delay time were male sex, presence of diaphoresis, ambulance transport, and symptom onset from 6 AM to before 12 AM (compared with 12 AM to <6 AM). In a study of 1219 patients with non–ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome from the Canadian Acute Coronary Syndrome II registry, Elbarouni and colleagues17 found that early presenters were more likely to be older, have prior angina or stroke, and have Killip class 1 compared with late presenters (defined as >6 hours from symptom onset). No differences were observed in use of medications, PCI, CABG, and in-hospital or 1-year mortality between early presenters (defined ≤6 hours from symptom onset) vs late presenters (>6 hours from symptom onset).
Our study is the largest, contemporary, nationally representative cohort of patients with non-STEMI, and it advances the existing research in several respects. We found that delay time has not improved from 2001 to 2006 for patients with non-STEMI. We also found that older patients, female patients, nonwhite patients, diabetic patients, and those with current smoking had longer delay times; however, the magnitude of effect (<10%) on delay time from each factor was overshadowed by the overall duration of delay (median delay time, 2.6 hours). Therefore, interventions aimed at improving patient awareness of symptoms and responsiveness to seek care will likely need to target all patients at risk for MI, and not just those who have individual risk factors (age, sex, or diabetes) for longer delay time.18- 20 Our study also showed that patients with prior MI or PCI had modestly shorter delay times and those with prior CABG had similar delay times compared with respective reference groups. Efforts to improve patient responsiveness to seek care should target these subgroups with prior events or procedures. A potential educational intervention to improve delay time would be to routinely provide this during discharge planning or as a standard part of the office visit. The minimal reductions in delay times we observed suggest that current practice is failing to effectively educate and activate our patients.
In addition, we found that delay times were 25% shorter during weekday or weekend nights from after 12 AM to 8 AM compared with weekday daytime from after 8 AM to 4 PM. This finding differs from previous studies that showed longer delays during the night.8,15,21 While we cannot determine why patients decided to seek care more quickly at night, potential hypotheses include heightened fear during the night when patients may be alone at home, higher tolerance of symptoms during the daytime when a patient is active or at work, or a perception of shorter waiting times and less crowding in emergency departments during the night.22,23
We found that the relationship between delay time and in-hospital mortality for patients with non-STEMI was not linear and generally not strong. First, patients with the shortest delay time (0-1 hour) had a higher risk of in-hospital mortality compared with the reference group (delay time >6 hours), whereas patients with delay times of more than 1 to 2 hours, more than 2 to 3 hours, and more than 3 to 6 hours had similar or slightly lower mortality compared with the reference group. Although we adjusted for many clinical variables, patients with the shortest delay time likely had greater disease severity at presentation that we did not measure and could not adequately adjust for. Patients with greater disease severity are likely to seek care early24 and we have previously found that patients with STEMI with the shortest delay time also exhibited higher adjusted in-hospital mortality rate.2,3 Second, the overall relationship between delay times and in-hospital mortality was generally not strong for patients with non-STEMI. Patient presentation can vary and evolve from unstable angina, to transient occlusion, and to complete occlusion of a coronary artery. Furthermore, in the absence of ST-segment elevation, there is no therapy that can provide a large benefit such as immediate reperfusion with primary PCI or fibrinolytics. Interestingly, home use of medications including aspirin, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor, and statin were associated with lower adjusted in-hospital mortality.
This study calculated delay using the documented time from symptom onset to the time of hospital arrival. The time of symptom onset is subject to patient recall bias, language barriers, and socioeconomic status and relies on accurate documentation by each hospital participating in this registry. There is also the potential for survival bias because patients who died out-of-hospital and never presented are not included in this registry. Also, the type and nature of symptoms (continuous vs intermittent), socioeconomic status, marital status, and depression were not captured or included in the multivariable model. The mode of transport to the hospital (emergency medical services vs self-transport), number of hospitals per population density, distance to the nearest hospital, and traffic patterns were not included in the analysis because these variables were not collected in the CRUSADE registry. Patients who were transferred out were excluded from the in-hospital mortality model because their survival status was not available.
In conclusion, the median delay time from symptom onset to hospital presentation among patients with non-STEMI was 2.6 hours and has not changed significantly from 2001 to 2006. Time of day had the largest impact on delay time; patients who presented to the hospital during weekday or weekend nights (>12 AM to 8 AM) have 25% shorter delay times compared with those presenting during weekday daytime (>8 AM to 4 PM). Novel strategies to improve patient responsiveness to seek care are critical and important for both patients with STEMI or non-STEMI.
Correspondence: Henry H. Ting, MD, MBA, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905 (email@example.com).
Accepted for Publication: May 16, 2010.
Author Contributions:Study concept and design: Ting, Roe, and Spertus. Acquisition of data: Ting, Chen, Roe, and Peterson. Analysis and interpretation of data: Ting, Chen, Roe, Chan, Spertus, Nallamothu, Sullivan, DeLong, Bradley, Krumholz, and Peterson. Drafting of the manuscript: Ting. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Ting, Chen, Roe, Chan, Spertus, Nallamothu, Sullivan, DeLong, Bradley, Krumholz, and Peterson. Statistical analysis: Ting, Chen, and DeLong. Obtained funding: Roe. Administrative, technical, and material support: Ting. Study supervision: Ting and Roe.
Financial Disclosure: Dr Peterson has received research grants from Bristol-Myers Squibb/sanofi-aventis Pharmaceuticals Partnership, Merck/Schering, and Schering-Plough Corporation. Dr Roe was an investigator for BMS, Eli Lilly, Portola Pharmaceuticals, Schering-Plough, and sanofi-aventis and a consultant for Adolor, Astra Zeneca, BMS, Daiichi-Sankyo, Eli Lilly, Merck, Novartis, sanofi-aventis, and Schering-Plough.
Funding/Support: CRUSADE is a national quality-improvement initiative of the Duke Clinical Research Institute. CRUSADE is funded by the Schering-Plough Corporation. Bristol-Myers Squibb/sanofi-aventis Pharmaceutical Partnership provides additional funding support. Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc also provided funding for this work.
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CHARLESTON (AP) - Despite facing harsh criticism for a recent decision to dismiss the leader of West Virginia's public schools, the state Board of Education on Thursday affirmed its split vote to fire Jorea Marple as superintendent, citing a need to change direction after chronically poor student performance.
But the board held off on hiring a permanent replacement during a meeting that included a lengthy pair of closed-door executive sessions. Board President Wade Linger said it would resume the hiring discussion in December, citing calls to revamp the job's duties and search for a successor nationally. Chuck Heinlein, who was a deputy superintendent, will continue to head the department in the meantime, the board decided.
Two former board members, at least seven active or retired educators and leaders of groups representing teachers, principals and school workers were among the 19 speakers who on Thursday praised Marple, denounced her firing or called for her reinstatement.
"While it's your right to hire and fire at will, we are shocked at Dr. Marple's abrupt termination, and the manner in which it was conducted," said Jenny Santilli, a Harrison County foreign language teacher.
After a public comment period, the board met privately for about 90 minutes, and then President Wade Linger called for Thursday's vote. The board had scheduled the do-over amid concerns that its Nov. 15 actions violated the state open meetings law.
On Thursday, Lloyd Jackson joined the five fellow board members who had voted Nov. 15 to oust Marple. As they had on Nov. 15, board members Jenny Phillips and Priscilla Haden opposed Marple's firing.
Following a second, 75-minute executive session, the board decided to postpone any hiring decision. When Marple was initially fired, Linger had endorsed Randolph County schools chief James Phares for the job.
After affirming Marple's firing, the board adopted a statement from Linger that referred to how state students score below the national average on 21 of the 24 indicators of student performance as reported by the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
Education Week recently flunked West Virginia for K-12 student achievement, Linger also said, while one in four high school students fail to graduate on time if at all.
"We are not saying that Superintendent Marple is any more responsible than governors, legislators, educators or board members for these shortcomings. We are not here to affix the blame," Linger said. But he later added, "The board determined that in order to fix these problems, we need to head in a new direction with new leadership."
Amid these struggles, Linger also said that board members found no sense of urgency at the Department of Education. He alleged the department had stonewalled or offered excuses when pressed to change.
But several of the public speakers noted that Marple had carried out numerous recommendations from what state officials consider a roadmap for improving education: the recent audit of the public schools system.
Commissioned by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, the audit described a system with plenty of bureaucrats and ample funding but short on accountability and results. Its scores of recommendations seek to refocus staff, dollars and other resources to improve chronically lagging student performance.
The board endorsed all but a handful of the audit's proposals at a meeting last week, and presented its response to a House-Senate education subcommittee on Tuesday. That response lists more than 70 steps taken under Marple that responded to or mesh with the audit's recommendations.
After the vote to affirm Marple's firing, Haden noted how the public speakers had called her a dedicated educator, a visionary and an innovative problem-solver.
"Dr. Marple is and was an excellent superintendent," Haden said.
Both she and Phillips have said they'll resign at the end of the year over the firing.
The board's 5-2 dismissal of Marple came about 19 months after it unanimously selected her following a lengthy search process. As the topic had not appeared on the Nov. 15 meeting's agenda, a pending legal challenge by a pair of school parents asks the Supreme Court to void Marple's firing by alleging the board violated the open meetings law. A response from the board to that filing is due Friday.


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Time to break up with snow
Dear Snow:
It's over between us. I want you out!
It's the same thing every year. When you first come to town, I just melt.
You're so gorgeous, what with your sparkling, twinkling flakes dancing down and blanketing the ground.
Then, there are the snow angels and the cheery snowmen. I love going sledding and skiing and ice skating with you. And I especially love you for those snow days and the giant piles of excuses you provide for not getting out of bed to go to church.
But then you never fail to totally overstay your welcome. And suddenly, all the things I loved about you become, well, your downfall.
Like your temperature. Do you really have to freeze the nose off my face every single day?
Seriously, you sleigh me.
Furthermore, you're always underfoot. Every time I try to back my car out of the driveway in the morning, there you are -- in the way, making my wheels spin. And when I try to take the garbage out the side door, there you are, leaning up against it. You are such a blocker!
Oh, and stop being such a blamer. Every time you bombard me with more than I can handle, you always blame it on "lake effect."
Puh-leese. That's like me blaming my back fat on the Cheetos.
And it's not like I'm breaking up with you because you're so heavy, but seriously, I almost popped a vertebrae shoveling you off the driveway.
Another thing. You are so freaking slick. I think you actually like making me slip on the sidewalk and do an unintentional triple axle in the office parking lot just as my boss is walking by.
And then there's the unpredictability.
Really. Do you think you can just blow in and out of my life anytime you want? What a drifter! You don't even bother showing up for Christmas, but come Easter, I can't get rid of you. Seriously. Stop being such a flake!
This relationship blows. I'm done.
Frosty freaking schmosty.
I'll stop the world and not melt with you.
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6 Things Rich People Need to Stop Saying
All of a sudden, it's like you can't make huge amounts of money without people getting all pissed off about it. And it's only going to get worse -- with the election coming up and the weather getting warmer, this whole "Occupy" movement is probably going to come back strong. The 1 percent will feel even more besieged than before.
"What the hell?" you're probably thinking, if you're somehow both rich and reading an article with this title, "I didn't crash the economy!" You might even be tempted to take to a microphone, to defend yourself and your wealthy friends. But before you do, I want you to stop and ask yourself, "Will this make me sound like an out-of-touch douchebag?"
Note: This article has been read 4.4 million times since March of 2012. In that time, the super-rich and the banks they love have continued to infuriate those of us who still worry about things like "paying bills" and "getting arrested if we commit fraud." But in spite of all their victories and piles of gold, rich people continue to say dumb things -- like that criticism against their lavish lifestyles is equivalent to the Holocaust. -Cracked
#6. "Well, $500,000 a Year Might Sound Like a Lot, but I'm Hardly Rich."
"The amount that I have to reinvest in my business and feed my family is more like $600,000 ... and so by the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over ..."
Pictured here with his poverty.
"It is hard to ask more of households making $250,000 or $300,000 a year. In large parts of the country, that kind of income does not get you a big home or lots of vacations or anything else that is associated with wealth."
What They Think They're Saying:
"Come on, we're all in this together! It's not like I have infinite money."
What We Hear:
"When my family's Aruba vacation went over budget, that was exactly like you being unable to afford medication for your child's excruciating chronic illness!"
"Look at how tiny my yacht is!"
I'm going to try to only quote politicians and pundits and other public figures for this article, but don't take that to mean they're the only people saying this stupid shit. Regular rich folk aren't exactly reluctant to offer this as a defense (here's an article on why it's hard to get by on $500,000 a year in New York, and here's one on why $200,000 a year isn't rich in Toronto), and you can go to the comment section of any article that mentions taxes or welfare or income inequality (including this one!) and hear this same bullshit.
"It's gotten to where I can barely afford my daily cigar rolled in the tanned flesh of a forsaken child."
Hell, you've probably heard it in real life, from a boss or some guy sitting nearby at Starbucks. "I guess I'm considered rich now! Well, if I'm so 'rich,' why am I broke at the end of the month?!?" Uh, I think it's because your mortgage is $3,000 a month, since you live in a fucking palace. And because you took your family on that Disney cruise last summer. And because you pay for your kids' college, so that, unlike us, they won't be crushed under six figures of student loan debt at age 22. And because you eat all the best foods and drink the finest liquids.
Or, as Hamilton Nolan at Gawker put it, "'Sure, it's an objectively large sum of money,' they say. 'But it is far smaller after I spend it.'"
"Once I pay for the helicopter, the helicopter fuel, the townhouse and the Lexus, I barely have more spending money than your entire yearly salary."
For people who are grinding through overtime just to keep up with their bank's late fees, this induces an urge to storm a gated community with pitchforks and torches and make those people go spend a year in a trailer park or in a city apartment so small that when you flush the toilet, little droplets of piss splatter onto the bed.
But don't get too mad at the rich for saying this -- we shouldn't, as a rule, get as angry at people for being oblivious as we should when they're being intentionally evil. Besides, they can't help it -- that obliviousness is hard-wired, a product of evolution that, really, kind of explains all class tension in the world. The rich, along with all of us, are biologically programmed to not notice their advantages.
"This stuff? I guess I could use it to prop up the table."
This came up a while back in a previous Cracked article. Basically, your brain drains the pleasure from the current things you own and do in order to motivate you to keep hunting and gathering. And I don't care where you are on the economic ladder, you've experienced this yourself.
You remember that scene from Big, where the boy-in-an-adult-body Tom Hanks gets his first paycheck at his shitty data entry job and screams in celebration, "A HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SEVEN DOLLARS!" When you're a kid begging mom for 10 bucks at a time so you can buy some stickers for your Trapper Keeper (this is still 1984, right?), $200 seems like the kind of money that should come on a huge novelty lottery check. But then just a few years later, you get that first fast food job and watch your paycheck evaporate on just one car payment (the insurance takes the next one).
That leaves just enough extra money for a Netflix subscription and a bowl to cry into.
It is apparently entirely possible to stay in that mindset, ignoring each new asset, right up until you're sleeping on a platinum bed under covers made of fur from a cloned woolly mammoth. If someone tries to offer you a little perspective and remind you of the tremendous advantages you no longer even notice, you'll reply with something like ...
#5. "Hey, I Worked Hard to Get What I Have!"
"I became a self-made millionaire by the age of 30 by working grueling hours, being relentless and risking my own money. My success was earned with blood, sweat and tears."
"I used the tears as hair gel."
"Why, oh why, does the media bolster President Obama's rhetoric by using his term: 'the rich'? Would it not be more appropriate to say 'the successful,' or 'those who work harder?"
-- Letter to the Editor, Feb 21, 2012 Wall Street Journal
What They Think They're Saying:
"I'm not Paris Hilton! I work 70-hour weeks to make this salary!"
What We Hear:
"The only reason I have a hundred times more money than you is because I work a hundred times as hard!"
This will be the entry that prompts many a reader to skip right to the comment section after only reading the entry header ("I'm tired of these hippies saying the rich just got lucky and don't work hard!"). So let's get this out off the way right now, and make them look like assholes for not reading far enough:
Most high-income earners do put in a ton of hours. Bill Gates seemed to never sleep (an employee once said that putting in 81 hours in four days still couldn't keep up with Gates' schedule). So yes, it's unfair that we tend to think that "being rich" means "lounging by the pool while an albino tiger massages our feet with his tongue." So, "Hey, I work hard for what I have!" is perfectly true. It's also insulting.
"You guys just need to work hard in a lucrative field."
It's insulting for the exact same reason "Hey, I love my country!" is insulting: It implies that the listener doesn't. Otherwise there'd be no reason to say it.
It implies a bizarre alternate reality where society rewards you purely based on how much effort you exert, rather than according to how well your specific talents fit in with the needs of the marketplace in the particular era and part of the world in which you were born. It implies that the great investment banker makes 10 times more than a great nurse only because the banker works 10 times as hard.
He doesn't.
And he gets pooped on less than half as often.
And even stranger, it implies that money earned is a perfect indicator of a person's value to society -- if you're broke, it must mean you're a loser who contributes nothing to anyone's life. And that's downright bizarre when it comes from the same people who also go on and on about the importance of parenting and family values. Surely they've noticed that being a great stay-at-home parent makes you exactly zero dollars a year.
And volunteering to work at a shelter for battered women? Doesn't pay shit! Diving into a creek to save a toddler from drowning? It pays infinitely less than throwing a touchdown pass during the Super Bowl.
I mean, babies are important, but c'mon ...
So, mister rich person who clearly is not reading this, when we say you're "lucky," we're not saying you're lucky in the way that a lottery winner is lucky. We're saying that you're lucky if you were born in a time and place where the hard work you're good at (say, stock speculation) is valued over the hard work that other people are good at (say, landscaping, or poetry).
You can reply that if some other field paid more, you'd have just simply switched to it and been equally successful, due to your smarts and determination. You know, like how the smart and determined Michael Jordan was equally successful as a basketball player (six titles, $70 million a year) and baseball player (batted .202 in the minors) and team owner (his Charlotte Bobcats are currently 4-28).
Hmm ... wait a second. Man, it's almost like Michael's hard work and determination wouldn't have made him rich if he hadn't happened to have been born in the one place and one time in human history where a man could get rich throwing a rubber ball through a small metal hoop.
On the other hand, that sweater vest makes us think he has potential as the next face of Jell-O.
Now I'm starting to wonder if I would have ever heard of Shaquille O'Neal if he'd skipped basketball to go right into rap. If you think I'm just being mean to athletes, hell, let me use myself as an example. I failed at three different careers before I struck gold with list articles and dong horror. I suck at everything else -- take away the Internet and I'm a 37-year-old man doing data entry in a cubicle instead of promoting a brand new sequel about boner monsters. Or, if you don't believe me, let billionaire investor Warren Buffett tell you: "If you stick me down in the middle of Bangladesh or Peru or someplace, you find out how much this talent is going to produce in the wrong kind of soil ... I work in a market system that happens to reward what I do very well -- disproportionately well."
"And yet I do all my shopping at Goodwill."
So to sum it up: If you make good money, but have to work 80-hour weeks to get it, you're still lucky. Just swallow your pride and fucking acknowledge it.
#4. "If I Can Do It, So Can You!"
"We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots; we must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves."
-- Mitch Daniels, Governor of Indiana
"The road to wealth is paved with self-delusion."
What They Think They're Saying:
"This is the land of opportunity, where anyone can make it! Instead of complaining, just go out there and get rich!"
What We Hear:
"If everyone at my country club makes good money, it can't be that hard!"
This is such an impossibly strange idea that I'm not sure if the people saying it actually believe it.
At the best parties, the words "social mobility" are the only punchline you need.
But ... I guess our entire philosophy about money kind of revolves around this premise -- that there is no poor or working class, but only people who have chosen to not buckle down to the task of getting rich (and thus deserve whatever salary, insecurity or poor work conditions they get). So there should be no talk about improving the lives of the non-rich, since any of them can simply choose to elevate themselves out of that group, right?
Seriously, now. How much time do you really have to spend off your goddamned yacht to see that this isn't true? You don't even need to leave the dock -- there's a guy standing right there who you pay to fix your boat's engine. You know that 1) you absolutely need guys like him and 2) he will never get rich doing what he does. He could be great at his job, he might be the Michael Jordan of mechanics, he might work 100 hours a week -- it doesn't matter. Sure, if that one guy somehow also has the head for management and finance and the networking skills, he could maybe open his own chain of yacht repair shops. But they can't all do that.
This dress could have fed starving interns.
So "anyone can get rich" isn't just untrue, it's insultingly untrue. You can't have a society where everyone is an investment banker. And you can't have a society where you pay six figures to every good policeman, nurse, firefighter, schoolteacher, carpenter, electrician and all of the other ten thousand professions that civilization needs to survive (and that rich people need in order to stay rich).
It's like setting a jar of moonshine on the floor of a boxcar full of 10 hobos and saying, "Now fight for it!" Sure, in the bloody aftermath you can say to each of the losers, "Hey, you could have had it if you'd fought harder!" and that's true on an individual level. But not collectively -- you knew goddamned well that nine hobos weren't getting any hooch that night. So why are you acting like it's their fault that only one of them is drunk?
Or alive.
You're intentionally conflating "anyone can have the moonshine" with "everyone can have it." And you are doing it because you're hoping that we will all be too busy fighting each other to ask why there was only one jar.
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I had some leftover lip gloss containers from the last lip gloss we made and I made some brand new lip gloss labels if anyone wants them. I printed them on sticker paper and used my awesome 1″ paper punch to cut them out. Here is what the labels look like:
* some people who made the kool-aid lip gloss were having trouble getting the drink crystals to dissolve. It seems if the melted vaseline is too hot you'll have trouble dissolving. I took more pictures this time of the process and hopefully it helps!*
What you'll need
cocoa powder
microwave safe bowl
lip gloss containers
labels printed on sticker paper
1″ paper punch
1. put about 1 cup vaseline in a microwave safe bowl
3. stir in a couple spoonfuls of cocoa powder and a sprinkling of sugar for some sweetness. You don't need exact measurements here. Just put some cocoa powder in until you reach your desired colour. I used a couple small spoonfuls. Stir until it is all dissolved. This only took about 30 seconds. If it's not dissolving the vaseline may be too hot. Let it cool a bit.
5. pour into your lip gloss containers and leave to solidify – a couple hours
6. print out labels on sticker paper
7. using either a 1 inch punch, or scissors, cut out the circle labels and attach to your lip gloss container
If the lip gloss containers that I used above are sold out (as they sometimes tend to be), here are some other options you can use:


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And because every candy-loving grownup could use a kick in their treat, Giosia has created two drinks to spice up your Halloween: a Tootsie Roll shooter that takes you back to those trick-or-treating glory days in one delectable shot, and a caramel apple punch for your bitchin'est Halloween party.
Watch Nadia G. as she shows you how to make her super-simple Halloween cocktails and get the easy recipes below.
Tootsie Roll Shooter
It smells – and tastes – just like that standby Halloween sweet
1 oz. espresso vodka (recipe calls for Van Gogh Double Espresso Vodka)
1 oz. orange juice
0.5 oz. chocolate liqueur
Pour all the ingredients into an ice-filled cocktail shaker
Shake well
Strain into 2 shot glasses and serve.
Caramel Apple Punch
Like biting into your favorite candied fruit – without the mess!
2½ cups caramel vodka (recipe calls for Van Gogh Dutch Caramel Vodka)
3 cups old-fashioned apple juice
4 cinnamon sticks
1 750 ml bottle sparkling apple cider, chilled
2 apples, thinly sliced
Pour apple juice into a small saucepan with a cinnamon stick
Bring to a boil, then remove from the heat and let cool
Fill a large punch bowl with ice
Pour in caramel vodka and cooled apple juice
Add the remaining cinnamon sticks
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on January 7, 2013 - 5:32 PM
LOCKPORT – A grand jury will investigate charges against a Lockport man accused of trying to kill his girlfriend's 7-year-old daughter on Dec. 31.
David L. Alfonso, 28, of Monroe Street, has been charged with attempted second-degree murder, second-degree strangulation and second-degree assault and is currently being held on $1 million bail in the Niagara County Jail. Following a hearing Monday, which included a description of the child's injuries and testimony from a witness who described the girl's frantic calls for help, City Court Judge William Watson said the prosecution met the burden of proof needed to prove there was at least one felony and agreed to move the case to a grand jury in Niagara County Court.
Medical records, photos of the girl and her statements also were entered into evidence as part of the prosecution's case, being led by Deputy District Attorney Holly Sloma. Alfonso was represented by Public Defender Edward Zubulske.
Danielle Rubin, testifying for the prosecution, said she lived in a lower apartment on Church Street, one floor below an apartment occupied by the little girl's grandmother.
She said that she and the grandmother had just had breakfast with the child and had dropped her at her home on Monroe Street around 2 p.m. to take a shower, get some clothes and her favorite pillow.
The girl was expected to return to her grandmother's house later that day, but Rubin said the girl returned much sooner.
"It was not more than five minutes. She was banging on my door," Rubin said, describing the knocking as frantic. "When I opened the door she came barreling through. She was terrified. I've never seen a child more terrified in my life. She had no shoes, no jacket and her jaw was covered in blood."
"She kept saying, 'David's trying to kill me. David's trying to kill me,' " Rubin said .
According to police, the girl's mother told them Alfonso had been trying to kill her daughter. Police responding found the mother at an intersection near the Monroe street house. She was holding a butcher knife, which she said she had used to stab Alfonso to try and get him to stop. The mother was disarmed by Chief of Police Lawrence Eggert, but was not charged.
Alfonso was found bloody and was described as aggressive and hostile by police before he was taken into custody by force. He was treated and then released to police custody.
The little girl was treated in Women & Children's Hospital for injuries to her jaw, tongue and palate. She lost at least one baby tooth in the attack, according to Detective Lt. Scott D. Seekins.
He said Monday that the girl was released from the hospital late last week and is now home and in the custody of her mother.
Seekins said police are investigating claims that Alfonso was under the influence of drugs when the attack occurred, and that investigators have been speaking to both family members and to informants in the neighborhood.
He said Alfonso is well-known to police."He's had at least four arrests in 2012, in addition to these charges," Seekins said.
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It was a heck of a two days for area wrestlers in the Pennsylvania Junior Wrestling Championships at the Hersheypark Arena.
Area wrestlers went 4-for-5 in the championship finals, and the loss came in overtime. Seventeen wrestlers in all placed in the top eight.
Altoona's Cole Manley (82), Bedford's Jonathan Gabriel (87) won state titles in the 13-14 age group. Chestnut Ridge's Jared McGill (80) won a title in the 11-12 group, and Philipsburg-Osceola's Hunter Weitoish (70) captured a title in the 8-and-under group.
Huntingdon's Jacob Oliver (132) lost a 5-3 overtime tiebreaker to Cumberland Valley's Felix Belga in the finals. It was Oliver's second medal.
Manley is the most decorated of all the area wrestlers, having earned his fourth PJW state medal.
Manley, who finished second twice before taking fifth last year, defeated Pine Richland's Hunter Baxter, 4-0, to go 4-0 in the tournament. It's the second time in the last three years an Altoona wrestler has won a title. D.J. Hollingshead won two years ago.
Gabriel captured a 5-0 win over Connellsville's Tyler Kenney in the finals. Gabriel, who had finished third twice, outscored his four opponents 25-0, including a 2-0 overtime win in the semifinals.
McGill, a runner-up last year, earned his third state medal with a 2-1 win over Central Dauphin's Jake Cherry. McGill, who is the third Ridge wrestler in as many years to win a title, outscored his four opponents 28-1.
Weitoish took Johnsonburg's Dalton Stahli down in overtime to win, 8-6, and complete a 4-0 tournament performance.
Central's Jordan Quarello (117) finished third in the 13-14 group for his second state medal, and Huntingdon's Collin Glorioso (97) placed fourth.
Chestnut Ridge's Conner Buttry finished fifth, defeating Altoona's Trenton Kephart, 12-2, in an all-area matchup at 167.
Penn Cambria's Nolan Link (77) finished seventh for the second straight year.
Two wrestlers in the 11-12 group finished third in Bedford's Kaden Cassidy (75), who earned his second medal, and Ridge's Justin McCoy (90), who won a state title last year.
Moshannon Valley's Larry Brown (125) finished sixth, and Cambria Heights' Hunter Campbell (75) took eighth.
A couple Glendale kids placed in the 9-10 division in Brock McMillen (60), who took sixth for his second medal, and Nathaniel Simmers (150), who finished eighth.
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Mount Pleasant — Anchored in pluff mud, the 70-year-old aircraft carrier Yorktown poses no imminent environmental threats to the public or Charleston Harbor, a study released Wednesday shows.
Shaw Environmental took 71 samples to check for cancer-causing polychlorinated biphenyl compounds, or PCBs.Of those, 23 contained more than 50 parts per million of the toxins. Anything above that level has to be incinerated. Seventeen samples had less than that amount, meaning those can be treated and sent to a landfill.Any PCBs will have to be pumped or placed into small drums and removed, if possible. If they cannot be removed because of the ship's layout, Shaw recommends encapsulating them.The most likely sources of the PCBs were fire retardants sprayed throughout the Yorktown decades ago.
Shaw Environmental Inc. told Patriots Point's board of directors the World War II-era ship — moored as a museum ship since 1975 — will have to be cleaned extensively before structural repairs can take place. The estimated cost is $4.4 million and will take about six months.
By the numbers
Yorktown at Patriots Point:70 Years old38 Years at Patriots Point$4.4 million Estimated environmental cleanup cost509 Number of tanks surveyed129 Number of tanks contaminated160,000 Number of gallons of petroleum residue1.6 million Number of gallons of affected water$81 million Estimated overhaul cost of entire ship
Patriots Point officials plan to apply for federal funding to help with the cleanup, and they hailed the report as good news.
"There are no leaks, no threats to the harbor and the integrity of the vessel is in good shape," board Chairman Ray Chandler said. "All of these things bode well."
Board member Eddie Taylor pointed out that the report shows no emergency situation, giving Patriots Point time to secure funding and perform cleanup ahead of much- needed structural repairs.
"The great news is the people who visit or stay on the boat are in no danger," said Mac Burdette, Patriots Point executive director.
The Atlanta-based firm found 129 tanks with about 160,000 gallons of petroleum residue and 1.6 million gallons of onboard contaminated water.
Just two of 21 refrigeration units are charged, and all firefighting systems were found to be drained or air-gapped.
Shaw also found varying levels of cancer-causing polychlorinated biphenyl compounds, or PCBs, in 40 out of 71 samples it took around the ship.
Most hydraulic systems were found to be empty, and all radiological devices are low-level and pose no risk to anyone, the firm said in the report.
Any radiological devices could be put in containers and disposed of in a low-level facility.
To remove fluids, Kenyon recommended pumping and separating petroleum products and affected waters.
State-owned Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum is staring at an estimated $81 million price tag to upgrade the aging vessel that has served as the centerpiece attraction for tourists since it was decommissioned and brought to Charleston Harbor 38 years ago.
The environmental assessment of the ship comes before a structural analysis is conducted to determine the ship's overall condition.
It could take decades to refurbish the ship, since Patriots Point's annual income is about $9.5 million.
Reach Warren L. Wise at 937-5524 or twitter.com/warrenlancewise.
The newly released environmental study of the Yorktown at Patriots Point will be followed by a structural analysis to determine the 70-year-old aircraft carrier's overall condition. The rusting warship could require $81 million in upgrades.×
A worker with Shaw Environmental Inc. of Atlanta takes oils and water level measurements on the World War II-era aircraft carrier Yorktown at Patriots Point.×
Provided A worker with Shaw Environmental Inc. of Atlanta takes atmosphere readings on the former warship Yorktown at Patriots Point.×
The aircraft carrier Yorktown at Patriots Point will need to be cleaned up at a cost of about $4.4 million before it can be repaired, but it poses no imminent environmental threat. It could take decades to refurbish the World War II-era ship.×


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Spray gun analysis for tablet coating showing complex phenomena including droplet break-up and coalescence. The multiphase simulation was performed by Manesty.
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Available for both steady state and transient solutions, the Lagrangian multiphase model has a number of supplementary models to enhance the accuracy and realism of the simulation. These models include: drag relationships, coulomb forces, mass transfer, particle chemical reactions and radiation, droplet breakup and atomization, collision and coalescence. As a particle impacts a wall, the user has control over its resultant behaviour - this includes interaction models such as Bai-Gosman as well as the formation of fluid films.
Discrete Element Method (DEM)
DEM can be used to simulate the motion of a large number of interacting discrete objects (particles), such as the granular flow of aggregates, food particles, metal powders, tablets and capsules, and wheat or grass. STAR-CCM+ was the first commercial engineering simulation tool to include a DEM capability that is fully coupled with numerical flow simulation in a single software environment.
DEM differs from Lagrangian multiphase in that it resolves the contact physics between particles for arbitrary particle shapes.
STAR-CCM+ is able to model basic spherical particles, or arbitrary composite or clumped particles which can take any shape and are formed from a number of primitive spherical particles. Composite particles are rigid, whereas clumped particles are deformable and breakable with the bonds between individual spheres modeled.
There are tools available to automatically generate composite particles from input CAD, for example from the scanned definition of a rock or the CAD definition of a tablet.
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But Kardashian, 33, and West, 36, are never a couple to disappoint. Extravagant details have begun emerging about the duo's nearly week-long Parisian celebration and Saturday wedding at Forte di Belvedere in Florence, Italy.
After Friday's brunch at designer Valentino Garavani's 17th-century château, the rehearsal dinner and private tour of Versailles that followed just a few hours later was the icing on the Kardashian cake.
Six hundred guests, including the Kardashian clan, family friends Jonathan Cheban and Simon Huck, music bigwigs like Rick Rubin and Guy Oseary, personal trainers Gunnar Peterson and Harley Pasternak, and Lanvin designer Alber Elbaz (who dressed Kardashian for her Vogue cover and the Met Gala), began arriving at the famed chateau at 7 p.m. Friday evening via a convoy of 90 vehicles.
Once they passed through one checkpoint, they were driven uphill across a cobblestone courtyard to a second gilded gate where plumed horses and riders stood at attention.
Hundreds of fans who'd been waiting for hours broke away from behind barricades as the groom (wearing a beige suit with satin lapels) arrived at a side gate in a Porsche, and began surrounding cars and banging on car windows shouting "Johnny Depp!" and "Beyoncé!"
By 7:45 p.m., most of the guests had arrived, including the bride, who wore a white gown with a plunging neckline. The evening included a performance by Lana Del Rey and a seven-minute fireworks show.
Earlier this week a statement was released by the couple and officials at the Louis XIV estate. "Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have decided to let their guests discover the Château of Versailles during a private surprise tour on Friday, May 23, the eve of their wedding," it read. "In making this choice, they are contributing to a better understanding and maintaining the exceptional heritage of the castle of Versailles, which is classed a World Heritage site UNESCO."


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A woman gets quadruple-stuffed by four separate creeds: Black, Asian, White, and Mexican. Wait nine months. After the baby pops out, observe its color and distinctive features. Whichever guy is the father is proclaimed the winner and is exempt from alimony. The other three have to chip in.
"Hey, Henry, you've got an Asian friend, right? We need a fourth for the rainbow lottery tonight."
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