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In addition to announcing the nine metro New Orleans nonprofits receiving the last $2.2 million of a fund dedicated to help local communities affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Greater New Orleans Foundation today announced about $400,000 in grants from its environmental initiative, Coastal 5+1. Coastal 5+1 serves the five coastal parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, lower Jefferson, Terrebonne and Lafourche and the coastal-dependent parish of Orleans.
The Environmental Defense Fund is being awarded a grant for $100,000 to aid in its efforts to reconnect the Mississippi River with its delta, revitalize its ecosystem, reduce coastal land loss, all in ways to benefit the industries and people who depend upon it. Brian Jackson, the Environmental Defense Fund's associate director for stakeholder projects, said the goal is to bring scientists, engineers and residents together to "ensure we're rebuilding the coast in the most sustainable, least disruptive way for already stressed communities."
The Greater New Orleans Foundation also awarded the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana a grant for $205,000 to fund its Next Gen Public Outreach program that promotes building consensus around specific projects within the state's coastal protection and restoration master plan.
A third, $91,000 grant will fund a documentary to further broaden awareness of coastal issues.
"We're going to document the challenges people face and how they are adapting to the crisis," said Bruno Steiner, producer of the weekly television series Category 5 Wetlands Watch. Steiner in part plans to film University of New Orleans' Center for Hazards Response and Technology's outreach meetings.


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Construction on what will be called the Steve Brand Field began Wednesday with a groundbreaking ceremony and the presentation of a $40,000 check to the campaign from the Portland Timbers, Adidas and Portland Parks & Recreation.
"It's going to be a great spot for the community, a great spot for the kids," said Timbers owner Merritt Paulson. "It's a real tangible sign of something that we've done, giving back. It's really the mantra of community support."
In April, a group of Chapman parents and teachers and members of the Hillside Soccer Club decided to put together the campaign and name it after Steve Brand, a fifth-grade teacher at Chapman for 12 years and lifelong soccer player. He died of lymphoma on Christmas Eve 2010 at the age of 45.
The field has been a constant source of frustration for Chapman students, who are forced to have recess inside, and the Portland Youth Soccer Association often cancels its games because of the muddy state of the field.
Loy said fundraising efforts have reached beyond the quarter-million dollar mark and will be used for maintenance for the turf field. Construction is slated to last until September and be available for use by students in the fall.
-- Molly Hottle; Twitter: @nwpdxreporter

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The Hunter Serotonin Toxicity Criteria: simple and accurate diagnostic decision rules for serotonin toxicity
Background: There are difficulties with the diagnosis of serotonin toxicity, particularly with the use of Sternbach's criteria.
Aim: To improve the criteria for diagnosing clinically significant serotonin toxicity.
Design: Retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data
Methods: We studied all patients admitted to the Hunter Area Toxicology Service (HATS) following an overdose of a serotonergic drug from January 1987 to November 2002 (n = 2222). Main outcomes were: diagnosis of serotonin toxicity by a clinical toxicologist, fulfilment of Sternbach's criteria and treatment with a serotonin receptor (5-HT2A) antagonist. A learning dataset of 473 selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI)-alone overdoses was used to determine individual clinical features predictive of serotonin toxicity by univariate analysis. Decision rules using CART analysis were developed, and tested on the dataset of all serotonergic overdose admissions.
Results: Numerous clinical features were associated with serotonin toxicity, but only clonus (inducible, spontaneous or ocular), agitation, diaphoresis, tremor and hyperreflexia were needed for accurate prediction of serotonin toxicity as diagnosed by a clinical toxicologist. Although the learning dataset did not include patients with life-threatening serotonin toxicity, hypertonicity and maximum temperature > 38°C were universal in such patients; these features were therefore added. Using these seven clinical features, decision rules (the Hunter Serotonin Toxicity Criteria) were developed. These new criteria were simpler, more sensitive (84% vs. 75%) and more specific (97% vs. 96%) than Sternbach's criteria.
Discussion: These redefined criteria for serotonin toxicity should be more sensitive to serotonin toxicity and less likely to yield false positives.
Serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine or 5-HT) is a neurotransmitter, discovered in 1948,1 and thought to have a major role in multiple states including aggression, pain, sleep, appetite, anxiety, depression, migraine, and emesis.2,,3 Serotonin in the body is derived from dietary tryptophan, which is converted by a number of enzymes to 5-HT. It is then transported into cells by a specific transport system and is degraded mainly by monoamine oxidase (MAO) both within the cell and after release. The MAO-A isoenzyme is more important than the MAO-B isoenzyme in the degradation of serotonin. The breakdown products are excreted in the urine as 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid (5-HIAA).
Central nervous system (CNS) serotonin excess as a clinical problem in humans was first noted by Oates and Sjostrand.4 They reported patients who developed symptoms after receiving tryptophan while on therapy with a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI). Insel described two further cases in patients receiving a MAOI and a tricyclic antidepressant.5 In 1991, Sternbach reviewed 38 cases from 10 case reports and two case series published in the literature, from which he derived diagnostic criteria for what was termed the serotonin syndrome.3 This was defined as the presence of three or more of the 10 most common clinical features in these case reports (Figure 1), coincident with the addition of or increase in a known serotonergic agent.3 Other aetiologies needed to have been ruled out and a neuroleptic agent should not have been given.
A significant problem with Sternbach's criteria is the inclusion of four criteria that relate to mental status, which weights the definition towards patients with an abnormal mental state. Sternbach's criteria include confusion, hypomania, restlessness and ataxia (incoordination). Because only three are required to occur for the diagnosis of serotonin syndrome to be made, someone with an anticholinergic delirium would meet the clinical criteria. Ataxia or incoordination is also a problematic feature, since serotonin toxicity does not appear to cause cerebellar features, and any patient who is agitated and confused may appear to be ataxic.
Sternbach recognized the likelihood of reporting bias inherent in reviewing disparate case reports and series.3 His diagnostic criteria were based upon the categorical presence of symptoms and signs described in published cases, and therefore were unable to include clinical features that may have been present but not recognized by the original authors as related to serotonin toxicity. Despite these concerns, there are increasing numbers of case reports and case series of serotonin syndrome, which are generally based on Sternbach's criteria but may also include other symptoms and signs.
Serotonin excess is best thought of as a spectrum of toxicity, rather than a defined clinical entity (syndrome) with clear prognostic importance.6 To reflect this, we will henceforth refer to the toxic effects of serotonin excess as serotonin toxicity rather than serotonin syndrome. Serotonin toxicity results from an increase in the intrasynaptic concentration of 5-HT in the CNS. Thus it is a concentration-dependent toxicity that can develop in any individual, rather than an idiosyncratic reaction to a drug such as the neuroleptic malignant syndrome7 or dystonic reactions. Serotonin toxicity can be thought of as a triad of clinical features consisting of: (i) autonomic signs, (ii) neuromuscular changes and (iii) altered mental status.8,,9 Omitting any of these parts in the assessment of the patient may lead to an inaccurate diagnosis of serotonin toxicity and false assumptions about the most useful diagnostic symptoms. This has resulted in increasing confusion about which medications can cause serotonin toxicity, with misleading case reports that misattribute serotonin toxicity to a number of unlikely drugs.6,10,,11 In some cases this has led to reports of serotonin toxicity for drugs that, from well-defined receptor binding studies,12 are unlikely to cause increased levels of CNS 5-HT. Important examples include the 5-HT2A receptor antagonist olanzapine11,13,,14 and the 5-HT receptor antagonist mirtazapine.10,15,,16
In addition, the currently ill-defined features of serotonin toxicity have misled many authors into suggesting that it is similar to neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) and should be a differential diagnosis for it. A careful assessment of the clinical features of these two reveal this is clearly not the case, with both the time course and particularly the clinical features of NMS differing significantly from those of serotonin toxicity.6,,17 That such confusion arises suggests that serotonin toxicity is currently too incompletely defined to be a prognostically useful clinical diagnosis. Describing serotonin toxicity as a syndrome maintains these potentially unhelpful assumptions and has led us to prefer the term serotonin toxicity.
Others have had concerns about the Sternbach criteria, and several attempts have been made to amend the original criteria. Two such attempts were conducted with the purpose of developing a severity grading. Hegerl et al. developed and validated a serotonin toxicity scale for side-effects in depressed patients treated with paroxetine.18 Their scale was based on a grouping of symptoms with some grading of severity. Their score was positively correlated with paroxetine concentration, and inversely correlated with auditory evoked potential (an indirect measure of serotonergic activity). While this work has limitations in its applicability to patients with self-poisoning, the correlation of drug concentration with serotonergic symptoms is encouraging. A second paper by Randomski, covering the period between 1991 and 1995, conducted a further review of 24 cases since Sternbach's paper.19 This paper divided cases into: (i) a mild state of serotonin-related problems; (ii) serotonin syndrome; and (iii) toxic states.
Many cases of serotonin toxicity occur in patients who have ingested drug combinations that synergistically increase synaptic 5-HT. The most important is the interaction between MAOIs and drugs with serotonin reuptake inhibiting activity, such as the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), which can cause life-threatening serotonin toxicity.20,,21 Serotonin toxicity has been reported following ingestion of a single agent22 and occurs in 16% of patients ingesting SSRIs in overdose.23 Thus in developing criteria to diagnose serotonin toxicity, it is important to review both pure serotonergic drug effects (e.g. SSRI-alone overdoses) and drug interactions involving excess serotonin.
We have developed criteria for the diagnosis of clinically significant serotonin toxicity using decision rules, based on consecutive patients admitted to the Hunter Area Toxicology Service (HATS). We determined the clinical features that were significantly associated with patients diagnosed by a clinical toxicologist to have serotonin toxicity, and analysed these using a 'decision tree' algorithm to develop decision rules. To reduce the confounding effects of co-ingested drugs with other than serotonergic actions, the initial dataset was of overdoses of a single SSRI. This was done to obtain features arising from a purely serotonergic drug. To determine the accuracy of these decision rules, a further dataset was used, including any overdose with a serotonergic agent (no exclusions), to test the sensitivity and specificity of the new criteria. The second dataset included the original dataset, and is representative of the spectrum of serotonergic drug overdose presenting to a toxicology treatment unit. The dataset was also searched for life-threatening cases to determine which features were associated with severe serotonin toxicity.
The HATS is a regional toxicology unit situated at the Newcastle Mater Misericordiae Hospital that serves a population of about 350 000 people and is a tertiary referral centre for a further 150 000 people.24 All presentations and admissions to HATS with drug overdose are prospectively entered into a clinical database.25 A preformatted admission sheet is used by medical staff to collect data on admission,26 and this together with additional information from the medical record is entered into the database by two independent trained personnel who are blinded to any hypotheses being tested at the time.
Detailed demographic and clinical information is recorded. From this dataset, all cases of serotonergic poisoning admissions from 13 January 1987 to 22 November 2002 were identified, and the following information was obtained: details of overdose, clinical effects (temperature, heart rate [HR], blood pressure [BP], Glasgow Coma Score [GCS], akathisia, nystagmus, skin colour, oculogyric crisis, mydriasis, confusion, bowel sounds, ataxia, hallucination, clonus, seizures, myoclonus, diarrhoea, delirium, diaphoresis, reflexes, lacrimation, muscle tone, rhabdomyolysis, shivering, agitation, tremor) and evidence of serotonin toxicity using three different definitions (clinical assessment by the admitting clinical toxicologist, Sternbach's criteria,3 and use of a 5-HT2A antagonist to treat serotonin toxicity).
Two different datasets were extracted from the HATS database, all containing the same information as above.
Derivation dataset: SSRI-alone overdose
Consecutive SSRI-alone poisoning admissions were extracted from the HATS database between 13 January 1987 and 22 November 2002, based on a history of an SSRI alone being ingested. All admissions where a TCA, MAOI, venlafaxine, nefazodone, or lithium were coingested were excluded, as well as cases where two SSRIs were coingested. In addition, any cases where anti-serotonergic drugs were coingested were also excluded, including cyproheptadine, chlorpromazine, pericyazine, clozapine, olanzapine, quetiapine, risperidone, droperidol, flupenthixol, fluphenazine, pimozide, tetrabenazine, thiethylperazine, thioridazine, trifluoperazine, and zuclopenthixol.
Test dataset: All serotonergic drug overdoses
A dataset of overdoses with any serotonergic drug was obtained from the HATS dataset for the same time period. This included the patients in the above derivation dataset. No exclusions were applied to this dataset.
Life-threatening cases
Life-threatening cases were defined as those requiring endotracheal intubation and assisted ventilation for the management of serotonin toxicity. A review of these patients was undertaken and the clinical features were recorded.
Statistical analysis
Univariate analyses for the outcome variable (based on the diagnosis of serotonin toxicity by a clinical toxicologist) against the predictor variables was conducted using a χ2 test (or Fisher's exact test where appropriate) for categorical predictor variables or a t-test for the continuous variable. All univariate analyses were conducted using the statistical software SAS version 8.2.27
Because of the size of the data set and the large number of predictor variables, it was not possible to use logistic regression to build a multivariate model for each of the outcome variables. As an alternative to logistic regression, the data was analysed using the software package CART (Classification And Regression Trees).28 CART is a 'decision tree' algorithm that creates a tree-like structure, using statistics rather than experience, to describe a dataset. The decision tree is created by recursively partitioning the dataset into subsets, where the distribution of the outcome variable is successively more homogeneous. This procedure is continued on each subgroup until some minimum subgroup size (default is five) is reached. From the fully-grown tree, a sequence of simpler trees is then constructed by combining subgroups relatively similar to one another. To assess the performance of each tree in this sequence, CART uses cross-validation. The final tree presented is the one that minimizes the overall cross-validated relative error estimate that most accurately predicts data excluded from forming the tree.
One way of interpreting the final decision tree is through a series of 'if-then' decision rules. We consider that presenting the CART results in such a manner is preferable (to a decision tree) because the solutions are more intuitive.
Note that both univariate and multivariate analyses were conducted on the data set containing SSRI overdoses only. However, testing of the decision rules was conducted on the complete data set.
There were 9960 admissions to HATS in the study period. Of these, there were 2222 where at least one serotonergic drug was ingested in overdose.
SSRI-alone overdoses
After excluding nine admissions where two SSRIs were coingested, there were 473 admissions for a single-agent SSRI (SSRI-alone overdose) that also met the criteria discussed in Methods. Of these 473, 73 (15.4%, 95%CI 12.3–19.0) had a diagnosis of serotonin toxicity made by a clinical toxicologist, 70 (14.8%, 95%CI 11.7–18.4) met Sternbach's criteria and 44 (9.3%, 95%CI 6.8–12.3) were treated with a 5-HT2A antagonist.
Univariate analysis of SSRI-alone overdoses
The following categorical variables had a statistically significant association with the diagnosis of serotonin toxicity made by a clinical toxicologist (5% level of significance): hypertension on admission (p = 0.007), tachycardia on admission (p < &!thinsp;0.001), maximum temperature >38°C (p = 0.026), seizure (p = 0.004), agitation (p < 0.001), akathisia (p = 0.033), ataxia (p = 0.025), delirium (p < 0.001), diaphoresis (p < 0.001), diarrhoea (p < 0.001), hyperreflexia (p < 0.001), inducible clonus (p < 0.001), mydriasis (p < 0.001), myoclonus (p < 0.001), nystagmus (p = 0.009), ocular clonus (p < 0.001), shivering (p < 0.001), spontaneous clonus (p < &!thinsp;0.001), tremor (p < 0.001), bowel sounds (p < 0.001), skin appearance (p = 0.003), and peripheral hypertonicity (p < 0.001). The continuous variable age (p = 0.004) also had a statistically significant association with the diagnosis of serotonin toxicity.
Decision rules
The decision rules, shown in Figure 2, reveal that only the following variables were required for accurately predicting serotonin toxicity: spontaneous clonus, inducible clonus, ocular clonus, agitation, diaphoresis, tremor and hyperreflexia. Rule 5 was added to make sure that the decision rules included patients with severe and life-threatening serotonin toxicity, characterized by high temperature (> 38°C) and hypertonicity/rigidity (see results below). The otherwise highly discriminating neuromuscular features of clonus and hyperreflexia are often not demonstrable in patients with severe rigidity; therefore rule 5 was added despite the fact it was not determined by CART. These life-threatening cases were not included in the learning dataset of SSRI-alone overdoses, because they occur with combinations of serotonergic agents.
Univariate analyses (not shown for Sternbach's criteria and use of 5-HT2A antagonist) confirmed that all of these variables are statistically significant predictors (at the 5% level of significance) of the three outcome variables, the only exception being that maximum temperature was not a statistically significant predictor for use of 5-HT2A antagonist. This is an expected result because high temperature is associated with severe toxicity, which was uncommon in the learning dataset that consisted of SSRI-alone overdoses.
The decision rules were applied to the complete dataset, and were compared to the three outcomes (diagnosis of serotonin toxicity by a clinical toxicologist, fulfilment of Sternbach's criteria for serotonin toxicity, treatment with a 5-HT2A antagonist). The resulting sensitivity and specificity values were 84% and 97%, 69% and 97%, and 78% and 94%, respectively (Table 1). To compare the new Hunter serotonin toxicity criteria with Sternbach's criteria, Sternbach's criteria was applied to the complete dataset and compared to the outcome of diagnosis by a clinical toxicologist. The resulting sensitivity and specificity values were 75% and 96% (Table 2).
|a) Diagnosis of serotonin toxicity by a clinical toxicologist
|Sensitivity 84%
|Specificity 97%
|b) Fulfilment of Sternbach's criteria for serotonin toxicity
|Sensitivity 69%
|Specificity 97%
|c) Treatment with a 5-HT2A antagonist (chlorpromazine or cyproheptadine)
|Sensitivity 78%
|Specificity 94%
|Predicted (by Sternbach's criteria)
|Sensitivity 75%
|Specificity 96%
Life-threatening serotonin toxicity
A review of all patients who took an overdose of a serotonergic drug and who required endotracheal intubation and assisted ventilation was conducted. Those patients who were intubated purely for worsening serotonin toxicity were distinguished from those that required intubation for decontamination or other reasons by reviewing the medical records. In these patients, hypertonicity and rigidity and high-grade fever (> 38.5°C) were prominent features. Forty-two patients were intubated for either a decreased GCS or the need for decontamination. Six patients were intubated solely for worsening serotonin toxicity. All of these patients had a high fever and multiple features of serotonin toxicity. Review of these life-threatening cases showed that progressive rigidity compromising respiratory function was the precipitating event for intervention in these patients. The preceding signs were a high fever (> 38.5°C) and increasing (particularly truncal) rigidity and peripheral hypertonicity.20
We evaluated the clinical features of a large consecutive series of patients overdosing on serotonergic drugs, in an attempt to define criteria that would help identify patients with serotonin toxicity warranting observation and clinical intervention. The arbitrary approach taken was mandated by the lack of a gold standard for defining clinically significant serotonin toxicity, and the fact that it is not a discrete syndrome, but rather a spectrum of toxicity.29 Thus we have used the diagnosis of serotonin toxicity by a clinical toxicologist as the standard, and compared this to both Sternbach's criteria and the use of treatment. Decision tree analysis of a large set of patients produced a simple set of decision rules (the Hunter Serotonin Toxicity Criteria) for diagnosing serotonin toxicity, which are more sensitive and specific than Sternbach's criteria. We thus propose the use of these new criteria, based on the fact that they are simple, both sensitive and specific, and involve the use of only a few well-defined clinical features (clonus, agitation, diaphoresis, tremor, hyperreflexia, hypertonia and temperature).
Clonus (spontaneous, inducible and ocular) is the most important sign in the Hunter Serotonin Toxicity Criteria. This neuromuscular feature has been strongly associated with serotonin toxicity.4,6,7,30,,31 All types of clonus were common and significantly associated with all three outcomes in the SSRI-alone overdoses (data not shown).
Our analysis has resulted in a reduction in the number of mental status criteria used to determine serotonin toxicity, making the criteria more sensitive to features of serotonin toxicity. This should also reduce the number of other conditions such as anticholinergic and other drug-induced deliriums reaching the diagnostic criteria for serotonin toxicity.
Rigidity did not occur in any of the patients in the original SSRI dataset, but this was recognized in a previous study of SSRI poisoning.23 Its inclusion was not based on the analysis of the SSRI dataset, but rather its frequent occurrence in cases of life-threatening serotonin toxicity in the literature20,,21 and in six life-threateningly poisoned patients in the full dataset. Because of its clinical importance, hypertonicity/rigidity was felt to be a mandatory inclusion in the final decision rule (decision rule 5).
Although mydriasis occurred commonly (31.6% of patients), it also occurs frequently with anticholinergic drugs, so is unlikely to be a good discriminator of serotonergic excess from other toxidromes. Similarly, tachycardia was frequent (40% of patients), but is a common finding in drug overdose in general, including other toxidromes, such as anticholinergic and sympathomimetic toxicity. However, although tachycardia may not be useful as a diagnostic sign, it may be useful in patients who are already diagnosed with serotonin toxicity (Hunter Serotonin Toxicity Criteria) in determining improvement and response to treatment, as demonstrated previously.32
We acknowledge the arbitrary nature of certain decisions in the development of the Hunter Serotonin Toxicity Criteria, and realize this has its limitations. However, we feel the development of this simpler and more accurate set of criteria for serotonin toxicity will aid clinical practice in diagnosing and treating clinically significant serotonin toxicity.
In our clinical practice, a 'yes' decision on any of the decision rules indicates definite or significant serotonin toxicity of sufficient clinical significance to require consideration of treatment with specific 5-HT2A antagonists. Such patients require admission and observation for signs of worsening serotonin toxicity. We also found that the presence of a temperature ≥ 38.5°C and/or marked hypertonia or rigidity (particularly truncal) indicated severe serotonin toxicity with a high risk of progression to respiratory compromise, requiring urgent active intervention. This included active measures to reduce fever as well as consideration of elective neuromuscular paralysis, endotracheal intubation and assisted ventilation. In this context, the presence of a rising pCO2 indicated a medical emergency requiring urgent respiratory support.
The decision rules will need to be validated in other settings, including other toxicology treatment centres, emergency departments and psychiatric units. Prospective studies of the usefulness of the decision rules in predicting treatment required and outcomes in patients taking both toxic and therapeutic amounts of serotonergic drugs will be needed.
We would like to thank Debbie Whyte and Tony Nash for data entry. We also thank Stuart Allen for data extraction.
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Endicott, NY (WBNG Binghamton) A man was arrested for a felony DWI after a traffic stop early Tuesday morning.
A deputy with the Broome County Sheriff's Office spotted James Kurtz, 35, of Johnson City, driving erratically.
Kurtz was pulled over on Glendale Drive shortly after midnight.
Kurtz admitted to drinking alcoholic beverages earlier in the night, according to the Sheriff's Office. A further roadside investigation revealed that Kurtz was intoxicated, and had a small amount of marijuana on him.
A check of Kurtz's driver's license showed that it was suspended.
He was arrested and transported to the Broome County Sheriff's Office for further processing. Kurtz's B.A.C. was measured to be 0.20%.
Kurtz was issued tickets to appear in Town of Union court at a later date to answer to the charges.
-Driving while intoxicated with a prior DWI conviction in the past 10 years, a class E felony
-Aggravated driving while intoxicated with a B.A.C. .18% or greater, with a prior DWI conviction in past 10 years, a class E felony
-Aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the 3rd degree, an unclassified misdemeanor
-Unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation
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Rand Paul, now on Snapchat. Pete Marovich/Bloomberg
The UpTake: Sorry kids, the olds are getting wise to Snapchat, including Republican Senator Rand Paul.
President Barack Obama may just be getting wise to Snapchat, but it looks like the other side has already beat him to it: Republican Senator Rand Paul just joined the disappearing message service.
The libertarian favorite from Kentucky actually has a fairly canny social media presence. Here he is tweeting the "airing of grievances" during Festivus. Whether or not Rand snaps will endear him to Snapchat's youthful user base I'll leave to you. The Wire is not impressed.
Paul used one of his first snaps to "moon" the NSA. With a picture of the Moon! Har. har.
He isn't the only Tea Party favorite sending snaps. Former Representative Michele Bachmann is apparently a user. She's said to use it to exchange messages with her kids.
CEO Evan Spiegel might want think about nipping this in the bud. Next thing you know, everybody's Mom, Dad and U.S. senator will be on Snapchat. We all know what that's done for Facebook's cool-kid status.
The next thing you know, companies will be using Snapchat to send branded snaps. Oh wait...
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In 1971, the Milwaukee Bucks had megastars Oscar Robertson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, two athletes who were well-known nationwide.
At the same time, many of the Packers greats of the Lombardi era had moved on or were in the twilight of their careers.
Meanwhile, 1971 was a time of rebirth for a fledgling baseball franchise in a once-baseball-crazy town. Nobody in the national audience cared about the Brewers, as has been the case for most of its 40 year history until now (the exception being 1981-82).
Why do I raise this historical parallel?
Because today we're experience a rare convergence of legitimate, national stars in all three of Wisconsin's professional sports teams.
As Bucks fans in the Bradley Center last night witnessed Aaron Rodgers take a front-row seat and playfully do his title-belt dance for the crowd, Brandon Jennings scored 33 points and 7 assists. While watching, I realized the Bucks fate as a franchise may rest on whether they can keep Jennings.
This article takes a look at the many ways marketability and performance of Wisconsin's key stars may impact the ability of the Milwaukee Bucks to stay afloat, while the other two franchises are in many ways at the peak of their respective stability.
As the state's biggest city and the nation's smallest professional sports market, Milwaukee is very fortunate to have three local professional sports teams. Perhaps star power will only aid in keeping the 40+ year run going.


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Thursday, January 5, 2012
Devils fail to measure up against the Stanley Cup champs
The Devils saw tonight's game against the Boston Bruins as a chance to measure themselves against the NHL's best team.
After taking a 6-1 beating on home ice, they now know they've got a lot of ground to cover.
"Hey, that's the Stanley Cup champion," Devils coach Pete DeBoer said. "They're healthy. They're well rested. That's the bar and that was a good lesson on how high the bar is and what we've got to do to get there."
Other than the shots on goal -- the Devils held a misleading 31-27 advantage -- the Bruins dominated in every phase of the game.
"We got our butts kicked out there," goaltender Martin Brodeur said. "You can't really sugarcoat it any other way. They really dictated the game, the way it was going to be played, and it didn't look like we had any answer for them both offensively and defensively."
"I think that's the worst game we played all year," Ilya Kovalchuk said.
The Devils actually got off to a good start. They got a power-play goal from David Clarkson 4:24 into the game to grab a 1-0 lead, but after Boston tied it on a Gregory Campbell goal – Andrew Ference's left point shot deflected in off his right skate – it snowballed from there.
The Bruins scored six unanswered goals.
"I liked the first 10 minutes," DeBoer said. "We had our feet moving. We were getting pucks to the net. We created some shots and then first bad thing of the night happened with the puck off a skate and we didn't handle that well. It was downhill from there. I don't know why, but have to show a little more mental toughness."
"We got a goal early and they picked up the pace and we never matched it," Dainius Zubrus said. "That's as weak of a game as we've had."
What was disturbing was that the Devils prepared for this game looking as it a challenge to see how they would match up against a Bruins team that is now 22-3-1 in its last 26 games. They did not answer the bell.
"I guess it was a little wakeup call," captain Zach Parise said. "Beforehand we knew that we would have to work and win pucks all over the ice and I think a lot of times we got beat. At different times, two of our guys got beat by one guy. When we're playing well, that doesn't happen. It's not as if we weren't prepared. We knew what we were getting into. It's the best team in the league, the best team in hockey right now. So, we knew what we were getting into and if you make some mistakes against a team like that they've got so many different guys that can score and they capitalized."
The question is was this just a bad game against the NHL's best team or an accurate measurement of how far apart the two teams are?
"I think it was a little bit of both," Parise said. "It definitely wasn't our best game. I'm not saying they're going to beat us 6-1 every time we play them. We didn't play our best game. That was a big difference. We weren't sharp in a lot of different areas."
"We're going to look at what we did wrong against that team, but it's not the end of the world," Brodeur said. "It's one match-up. We wanted to measure ourselves to the top team and we failed, so we've got to get back at work and try to build it up. We have a tough couple of games coming up this weekend. We've just got to come through here and forget about this one. There's no sense being down. We'll take it. I'm sure we'll think about it tonight and tomorrow we'll get back to work. That's what hockey is.
"In the regular season, you always have a next day and we've got to get prepared for that."
The next day for the Devils will include their usual pre-practice meeting on Thursday, in which they'll review the video of tonight's game, and then a practice to prepare for Friday's home game against the Florida Panthers.
"It's really frustrating," Kovalchuk said. "It's a good thing we've got a game on Friday. We're going to have a meeting tomorrow (before practice), we'll see what we did wrong and we've got to be ready for Friday."
The Devils saw the depth of a superior opponent that got goals from three of its four lines. They were outhit 23-19, had 17 turnovers to the Bruins' 7 and won just 12 of 42 faceoffs.
"They played really good tonight," Kovalchuk said. "I don't know if it's the best team in the league, but they played really well. They're moving the puck real and created a lot of chances and a lot of shots on net. They had three or four tip-ins, so we've got to learn from other teams what to do in front of the net."
"They go to the net and you know what? They scored six, (but) they missed about three backdoor plays that guys had a good chance at it," said Brodeur, who allowed six goals on 27 shots. "That's just the kind offense they have. And it comes from all the lines. Even though they want to put their fourth line out there, they still outmuscled everybody in our zone, especially on that sixth goal. They made a good play."
In another game, Brodeur might have been pulled. He really wasn't to blame for the blowout, but had no problem staying in there for the full 60 minutes.
"For sure, if that sixth goal would have came in the middle of the second it would have been a different ballgame," he said. "But, especially the way the pucks were going in, it was kind of hard to pinpoint anything and you've just got to battle through that."
DeBoer said the Devils called up center Steven Zalewski today because they had no extra healthy players on the roster in case someone was injured in warm-ups.
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After three rounds of thrilling NHL playoff action, hockey fans have a Stanley Cup Final worth salivating over. The Chicago Blackhawks and Boston Bruins take center stage in a title showdown between proud and historic franchises.
These Original Six squads swiftly dismantled opponents in conference semifinal action, setting up a highly anticipated matchup. Boston swept away top-seeded Pittsburgh in the Eastern Conference Final, while Chicago eliminated defending champion Los Angeles in five games.
This series has everything you look for in a title bout. Superstars, emerging playmakers and exceptional execution fueled each team through three intense postseason series.
Now that four wins separate one squad from eternal greatness, let's examine the elements that should ultimately decide the outcome.


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Where did our middle class go? It wasn't long ago our society was strong and surging. Then the Great Recession came and nearly ruined our great country. Wall Street failed, the banking industry was failing, the real estate industry almost vanished. Now most insiders and government officials believe the worst is behind us and we've finally turned the corner.
I have news for them. We're about to lose the one, key, important part of the equation. The middle class. How can that be? I've heard nothing good said about unions lately on all the radio talk shows and the televisions news programs. I'm partial to unions. I've been a member of the UAW for over 30 years and a MEA/NEA member for two years now. I'm president of the Meridian Educational Support Personnel Association.
I would be a fool to sit here and write that the union is the do-all and be-all. However, I'm going to say that without the unions in our great country we would have no middle class. It was our unions that negotiated fair day's pay for a fair day's work. It was our unions that saw fit to protect the American workers against unsafe working conditions. It was our unions that fought to make sure every race and creed was treated equally and fairly in the work place. You get the picture.
As time evolved, so did wages and benefits. Most of the doctors, lawyers, dentists and so on can thank the union worker. Not only having the careers they have but also the foresight of the union to negotiate the wages that their parents were able to make, to be able to send them to college, medical school, dental school and so on, so that they could earn their degrees.
Because of unions, a lot of nonunion service industry jobs have the wages they have today, because to keep good workers you have to have competitive wages. Without unions and collective bargaining, we don't have a middle class, and some day we'll be asking the question, "Where did our middle class go?


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Just wanted people to know that the federal government is busing illegal immigrant kids to Michigan. These kids are murders, and drug dealers, that's facts from their own mouths.
They're saying that this wont cost the tax payers anything, that the feds will pick up the tab.
That's crap, all money including fed money is from me the tax payer...This is Illegal against our constitution, federal and state. The Town of Vassar, Michigan in the lower has been having meetings to stop this, but they (our government) has smuggled them in there and have them hid in a campground...Do you want these kids going to school with yours?
There will be all kinds of ramafacitions from murders to drugs, home invasions all across our country.
These people are Illegals, law breakers from the start.
If I break the law I go to prison,they get free food lodging, free education..And we foot the bill.
Our tax dollars. The feds plan to steal money from social security once again.
We must stop this invasion NOW....Get a hold of me for more info....
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The City of New Orleans has reopened eight playgrounds with high lead levels after taking measures to limit children's exposure to contaminated soil and lead paint used on playground equipment.
They include Annunciation, Taylor, Comiskey, Lemann II, Burke, Easton, Hunter's Field, and Van McMurray playgrounds. All are ready for summer recreational programs.
The city decided this spring to test 13 play areas after they discovered that soil at Markey Park in Bywater had elevated lead levels. Eleven were found to have elevated levels.
The contamination is the result of the frequent sanding of lead-based paint off older homes, as well as lead deposits in soil during the decades when lead was used in gasoline.
Young children are most likely to be exposed to lead by inhaling contaminated dust or ingesting it off dusty hands. Their neurological systems are also most susceptible to its effects, which include decreased learning ability, delayed development and aggressive behavior in teenage years.
The city has referred to the 13 parks as being in the "first round" of parks targeted for cleanup because of their location in older areas of the city determined to have lead in soils in tests led by toxicologist Howard Mielke with the Tulane-Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research. There are 118 parks and playgrounds in the city.
A variety of remediation methods were used, including placing geotextile fabric over areas of elevated lead levels, then covering those areas with clean soil and grass sod, with gravel and clean soil, or gravel and mulch. Some areas received clean soil and sod only, or clean soil only.
Where lead-based paint was a problem, some items were replaced, while others had paint removed and replaced.
Three playgrounds are still undergoing work, including Stallings, which is pending an archaeological investigation by FEMA, and Treme, which is undergoing a sewer construction project. Remediation at Danneel Playspot on St. Charles is awaiting plans from the Friends of Danneel Park, Inc.


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When Ryan C. Lowe was shot in Slidell on the last day of his junior year at Northshore High School, he learned just how fragile life is. Lowe had gone to an area near the Eden Isles subdivision marina to celebrate the arrival of summer with several other young people that day in May 1992. But soon a fight broke out; two teens involved left the party and returned toting shotguns, authorities said at the time.
The boys each fired toward a crowd of more than 20 people. Buckshots from a 12-gauge struck Lowe in the arm and shoulder. He did not know the shooters nor the people they had fought with, and he was the only person wounded by the gunfire.
Lowe spent the rest of that night hospitalized. The near-death experience taught him that "we're not here long on earth," he said. "We might as well try to do something with it."
Eventually, Lowe, now 36, went on to start a company that failed. To simply make a living, he needed to find an entry-level job and rent a pal's spare room. But the wisdom he learned from being shot as a schoolboy inspired him to overcome those blows to his personal life by reinventing himself as a motivational speaker, spreading a message that has struck a chord with — among others — Super Bowl champions.
Lowe, who grew up working at his parents' antiques store, pursued a degree in marketing from Southeastern Louisiana University, and always dreamed about owning a business. An associate offered him that chance in 2007.
Become a partner with my new insurance company, the associate told Lowe, and be its vice president of sales.
Lowe, by then, already had been another company's vice president. He had promoted motivational speakers and trained sales teams for a group based out of Dallas. But this was an opportunity to make part of a group his own, so he accepted the offer.
However, the nation's economic recession devastated Lowe's outfit. It collapsed in the summer of 2009, and he had to move back to Louisiana.
He paid for a space at his friend's place in Baton Rouge. He landed a gig in sales at a telecommunications firm to support himself, but it was a beginner's position for which he knew he was overqualified.
Anxiety and shame kept Lowe up at night. When he did sleep, he often awoke in panic.
"I was broke, financially and mentally," he said.
A couple of months later, however, Lowe conceded that feeling sorry for himself and his failed business would not change what had happened.
"Get off your attitude," he repeated to himself at 4 o'clock one morning. "Get off your attitude."
That phrase flooded Lowe's mind with clarity. He remembered that he had been attracted by the work of the motivational speakers he promoted, and here was a message he could build a motivational movement around.
Lowe also recalled the lesson he learned at shotgun-point, and launching a second career as a motivator was a meaningful way to spend his time.
Lowe spent the next 18 months writing a book urging readers to not live their lives with "a victim's mentality." He worked on it after his daytime job until he quit to focus on his motivational projects full time. He also wrote on weekends and even on vacations. The book was published in August with endorsements from numerous authors and business people.
"Children react to life," he writes in the first chapter of "Get Off Your Attitude," which draws from the demise of his professional life. "Adults respond to it. ... Want to change your luck? Change your attitude."
Lowe, who now lives in Mandeville, has since spoken at gyms about staying mentally and physically healthy as well as fostering positive relationships. Charity organizers have invited him to participate in a winning-mentalities seminar alongside Darren Sharper, the NFL safety who helped the Saints win Super Bowl XLIV.
Among motivational merchandise Lowe designed to spread his book's and presentations' message are black bracelets with red letters reading, "Get off your attitude." He sells them on his website, but he also distributes them to his audience members and fellow speakers.
Lowe proudly displays photos of Sharper wearing one of the wristbands. Sharper's Super Bowl XLIV teammate Roman Harper donned one during a home game, photos show.
Julio Melara, a Baton Rouge businessman who wrote the foreword to Lowe's book, says Lowe's listeners "learn how to let go of the past, get rid of negative voices in (their heads) and grow to (their) full potential."
Lowe will be the featured speaker at the Sept. 21 Second Wednesday luncheon hosted by the East St. Tammany Chamber of Commerce. The meeting will begin at noon, with doors opening at 11:30 a.m., at the Northshore Harbor Center near Slidell. For reservation details, call the Chamber at 985.643.5678.
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A dinner was held by the farm to school program; the program made up of middle school and high school student working to involve the community with connections to locally grown products and including more local foods in the school cafeteria.
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Delicious fast food at home is made all the better with tasty tomato additions.
We all know that takeouts have their place in our busy lives, but it is also good to have recipes up our sleeve that can quickly satisfy those takeout cravings without having to jump in the car and fork out lots of cash.
These recipes are also great to turn to when people are coming over for a few drinks or a lazy night in watching a movie - which is often the time when takeout food is called for.
Samosas, empanadas and good fries are some of my favourites and all need delicious sauces to make them taste great; good old tomato sauce doesn't always cut it. I have based these recipes on tomato sauces which have all been given a bit of a rev up. Tomatoes are coming down in price and up in quality so are perfect to start using now.
The samosas are paired with a spicy Indian tomato sauce called kassundi - made with plenty of spices, garlic and ginger and left to simmer for an hour or so. It is a tasty sauce which can be kept in the fridge and used with bread and dips or with cheese or on sandwiches.
Though traditionally samosas are fried, they can be baked with an equally good result.
Empanadas are small pockets of pastry filled with tasty fillings. Popular in South America and Southern Europe, where people make them with chicken, seafood, chorizo - or with beef and jalapeno, black olive and boiled egg as I have done today - they are oh-so tasty when paired with a tomato salsa.
I have used tinned sweetcorn in the salsa, but before long fresh corn will be in abundance and will be far superior. Add plenty of coriander and a good splosh of sherry vinegar to finish it off.
Good fries are an indulgence but with a pretty high guilt factor, especially if dunked in aioli so I have oven-baked a range of vegetables today and made a tasty tomato sauce with fresh basil. Choosing vegetables with a lot of starch means the fries with be crunchy and will bake without falling apart. Use the red kumara over the orange, taro makes a perfect chip and parsnip are sweet, nutty and chewy in the middle. Though you do need to use a reasonably generous amount of oil at least it is up to you how much, and you can choose a healthy option and know they haven't been deep-fried.
Chef's tip
While fresh tomatoes taste better, both the tomato sauces here can be made successfully with good quality tinned tomatoes that have been canned at their peak. A little longer cooking may be needed though for more flavour to develop.


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MOBILE, Alabama -- Providence Hospital Senior Center will hold its annual Holiday Flea Market from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20, in the DePaul Center and breezeway of Providence Hospital.
Proceeds support the Senior Center activities. There will be baked goods, garage sale items, jewelry, furniture and other items. The event will have door prizes and a 50/50 drawing.
The public is welcome to attend the market and also to participate. Spaces are available for a $20 rental fee. For more information, please call Peggy or Stephenie at 251-544-4480, 251-689-5151 or 251-643-5319.
The Providence Senior Center is located at 35 N. Cody Road (Boys & Girls Club building) in West Mobile and welcomes all seniors 60 years and older. Lunch is served Monday-Friday for a suggested donation of $1.50. Weekly activities include exercise classes, Mahjong and bingo.


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Free outside film screenings will continue tonight at 8 p.m. in Pier A Park, First Street and Frank Sinatra Drive in Hoboken, part of the city's Movies Under the Stars program in the Department of Cultural Affairs.
Tonight's movie will be director "True Grit," starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Josh Brolin. The film was directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.
In the 2010 remake, a young woman seeks help to find the man who murdered her father. She looks to Bridges's character to guide her.
The film was nominated for several awards, including 10 Oscar nominations
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After watching her team take care of the Fredonia Lady Hillbillies earlier in the season, Dunkirk coach Sarah Bogardus knows anything can happen tonight when her Dunkirk Lady Marauders travel to Fredonia for a CCAA Division 1 girls high school basketball game.
Despite the fact Dunkirk has the senior leadership edge over a young Fredonia team, and the Lady Marauders cruised to a 55-35 victory over the Lady Hillbillies the first time they met, that game was early in the season when both teams were trying to find their identity.
"It seems like we have always played a few league games in the past before we play Fredonia," Bogardus said. "By that time, we are able to have more of a feel of who we are. In the first meeting, it was so early, that we were still trying to figure out who we were as a team and find our individual leaders."
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Dunkirk's Khee Nance, left, and Fredonia's Kirsta Wheelock, right, will look to lead their team's to victory tonight, as the Lady Marauders will travel to take on the Lady Hillbillies.
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Fredonia's Morgan Genovese (2) will look to help the Lady Hillbillies avenge their early-season loss to the Lady Marauders.
A key to Dunkirk's season has been the luxury of having different players step up on any given night. With Khee Nance and Lacey Clark being the main threats for the Lady Marauders, they have also received big performances from DiMary Maisonet, Joyce Bomasuto and Selena Ruiz.
The Lady Hillbillies stormed out to a strong meeting in the first game as they scored 18 points in the first eight minutes. However, Fredonia only scored 17 points over the final 24 minutes.
"I am looking for us to play with intensity and try to put together 32 minutes of the best basketball we are capable of playing," Fredonia coach Carol Zirkle said. "We play very, very well at times and then we fall apart at times. We are looking to stay focused and stick to the game plan."
While Morgan Genovese has been the driving force for Fredonia this season, in order for the Lady Hillbillies to be successful tonight, she will need help from players such as Bre Dahn, Kirsta Wheelock and Alicia Deering.
"We can't have one player step up and have a good game," Zirkle continued. "We need 10 players to step up and play to the best of their ability. We can't count on one player. One player can't beat Dunkirk. Everyone has to step up."
"Morgan Genovese is obviously a great outside shooter," Bogardus added. "We have to make sure we don't leave her open and we contest her shots. They have a balanced attack. Olivia Pucciarelli has had some nice games. Dahn has had some nice games as well. Anyone can step up in a game like this."
For Dunkirk, it will be the last Dunkirk vs. Fredonia game for Clark, Nance, Bomasuto and Maisonet.
"I expect the four of them to be leaders," Bogardus said. "Everything goes out the window in this game because anything can happen."


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High school, middle school orchestra pops concert rescheduled
The Mukwonago High School and Park View Middle School Orchestra Spaghetti Dinner and Pops Concert has been rescheduled for March 3 at Park View Middle School.
Postponed by snow on the original date, the spaghetti dinner will be held in the Park View cafeteria from 5 to 7 p.m. and will feature raffle items donated by more than 25 area businesses as well as orchestra families. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the large gym at Park View and will feature both orchestras as well as the Park View Voices choir.
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Burkholderia cepacia in Healthcare Settings
General Information about B. cepacia
Burkholderia cepacia [burk-hōld–er–ee-uh si–pay–shee–uh] (also called B. cepacia) is the name for a group or "complex" of bacteria that can be found in soil and water. B. cepacia bacteria are often resistant to common antibiotics.
Populations susceptible to B. cepacia infection
B. cepacia poses little medical risk to healthy people. However, people who have certain health problems like weakened immune systems or chronic lung diseases, particularly cystic fibrosis, may be more susceptible to infections with B. cepacia. B cepacia is a known cause of infections in hospitalized patients.
Symptoms of B. cepacia infection
The effects of B. cepacia on people vary widely, ranging from no symptoms at all to serious respiratory infections, especially in patients with cystic fibrosis.
Transmission of B. cepacia infection
Transmission of B. cepacia from contaminated medicines and devices has been reported.
In 2005, CDC was notified by several states of clusters of pneumonia and other infections caused by B. cepacia and associated with contaminated mouthwash.
In 2004, CDC was notified of a voluntary recall of over-the-counter nasal spray due to contamination with B. cepacia complex. For more information see the MMWR article.
Also in 2004, B. cepacia was linked to nosocomial infections among intensive care unit patients and associated with exposure to sublingual probes. For more information see the MMWR article.
B. cepacia can also be spread to susceptible persons by:
- Person-to-person contact
- Contact with contaminated surfaces
- Exposure to B. cepacia in the environment.
Treatment of B. cepacia infection
B. cepacia can be resistant to many common antibiotics. Decisions on the treatment of infections with B. cepacia should be made on a case-by-case basis.
Recommendations and Guidelines
Careful attention to infection control procedures like hand hygiene can help reduce the risk of transmission of this organism. For more information on hand hygiene and infection control practices see:
- Rutala WA, Weber DJ, the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC). Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities, 2008
- Siegel JD, Rhinehart E, Jackson M, et al. the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC). Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings, 2007
- Siegel JD, Rhinehart E, Jackson M, et al. The Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC). Management of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms In Healthcare Settings, 2006
- Guideline for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities, 2003 [PDF - 1.4 MB]
- CDC. Boyce JM, Pittet D. the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC). Guidelines for Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings, 2002
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Of course I'm talking about inner strength, not physical ability (although physical health is important for leaders). What are some of the types of strength that leaders should possess to be effective?
Character Strengths
When I think about character, I draw on Aristotle's cardinal virtues: Fortitude, Prudence, Temperance, and Justice. How do these virtues represent the character strengths of a leader?
Fortitude, or Courage, is an easy one. A leader needs courage to lead effectively -- the courage to stand by his or her convictions, the courage to take calculated risks, and the courage to do the right thing. Followers also need courage – the courage to stand up FOR and support their leaders when they are doing the right things, and the courage to stand up TO their leaders when they are wrong or doing the wrong thing.
Prudence, or Wisdom, is another cardinal virtue. The character strength associated with Prudence involves questioning the validity of your personal perspective, or your preferred way of doing things. Instead, the prudent leader listens to and considers others' input. It takes strength to say, "I was wrong, and she is right," when you are in a leadership position.
Temperance is strength through self-control – the ability to control your passions. Too many leaders have gotten into trouble because of inability to control monetary or sexual "greed," or emotions such as anger and hostility.
The virtue of Justice comes into play when a leader displays the strength to fight against systems or people who are unfair.
The Strength to Develop, Sacrifice, and Succeed
An effective leader also shows inner strength when he or she admits to shortcomings and seeks to rectify these and to develop more fully as a leader. Leaders also display inner strength when they sacrifice for the good of the team and the organization, and when they fight hard to overcome obstacles to success.
Virtues aren't something we're born with. The good news, however, is that virtues can be developed and strengthened. We have to work hard to be virtuous, whether we are in a leadership position or not.
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This wasn't supposed to happen. At least it wasn't planned this way. They're in the middle of the Entertainment Gathering conference in the Hollywood hills on Friday, having decided on the spur of the moment to exchange public vows in between speeches by the likes of architect Frank Gehry and filmmaker Jeffrey Katzenberg.
The three-day event's organizer, Richard Saul Wurman, is overseeing the ceremony with an ecstatic smile bordering on tearful. The audience in the crowded Skirball Center auditorium--technologists, artists and businesspeople, for the most part--clap enthusiastically as the couple exchanges a ring and a watch. ("A traditional exchange of timepieces," Nye quips beforehand, explaining that they hadn't planned this).
"I can't even believe that just happened," Wurman says, and then turns away to introduce his next guest.
Unexpected, yes. But Nye's impromptu wedding was wholly in the spirit of the unconventional, boundary-ignoring discussion that characterized Wurman's gathering, the successor to his long-running series of Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conferences.
Wurman, a 70-year-old architect, author and conference organizer is an impresario who creates events akin to the salons of Gertrude Stein on a larger--and at $4,000 a head, far more expensive--scale. They are peopled with creative, thoughtful people, many of them Wurman's own friends, given free rein to talk about their intellectual passions of the moment, whatever those may be.
All sessions are presided over by Wurman himself, sitting comfortably on stage in a padded red executive office chair, a thick scarf wound always around his neck, never more than a moment away from interrupting speakers or tearing up at the memory of some shared experience.
This gathering's ostensible theme was entertainment and the drive to "make entertainment informative." In practice, it was a demonstration of how modern specializations--3D animation, world-class concert music, evolutionary biology, architecture and blogging--reveal their underlying similarities in the light of the information age.
Many of the attendees were technologists showing off cutting-edge research or products, often aimed at changing the way people interact with their computers and with information itself.
G-Speak founder John Underkoffler showed off his company's data gloves, an interface to a computer like the gloves Tom Cruise wore in the movie "Minority Report" (on which Underkoffler served as a technology adviser.) With a flick of his wrist, he flew through a picture of Los Angeles projected on a computer screen above him, manipulating data with both hands at once.
The founders of Applied Minds, a top engineering and design firm that works closely with government agencies, showed off a coffee-table-like computer screen that people could stand around, manipulating data via touch. Their latest version includes a morphing, flexible screen that can distort into the three-dimensional surface of a mountainous topographical map, a movie's dreamlike special effect brought to life.
The designers asserted that people need better ways to work more directly with data, as reliance on computer analysis (or even Google searches) become a part of our thought processes.
"We're getting to the point in science where we can't just think with our minds anymore; we have to have this visualization," said Danny Hillis, an Applied Minds co-founder who earlier helped pioneer the idea of parallel computing. "The thoughts of the future are not so much going to be human thoughts, but symbiotic thoughts of this technology combined with people."


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Who spreads the word about what's tasty to a significant number of Crescent City diners? This month, we're seeking the amateur who simply eats and drinks and tweets like it's a job that he or she loves. This is your chance to determine who we feature on NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune!
So when it comes to New Orleans dining, whose opinion matters most? Which of your friends do you turn to before making weekend plans? So far, Kim Este and Triskell Young have been nominated. Here's just one of many food-grams we discovered on Este's Instagram account, taken at Wayfare:
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SAGINAW, MI — Saginaw School District leaders have formed a committee to explore ways the district can improve its learning environment, and they are sharing those ideas with the community.
At 11 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, Superintendent Carlton Jenkins and other administrators and teachers will discuss the ideas about making the district a high-performance learning environment.
The meeting is at the Staff Development Center, 1505 Ottawa in Saginaw.
Jenkins will give a 10- to 15-minute overview of the work, which comprises of 12 reform ideas while looking at current resources as variables and constraints.
Some of the ideas include blended online and classroom learning, flexible schedules with varied start times for secondary students, extended time, flipped classrooms, multi-level classrooms K-5 and more project based learning.
There are two Academic Task Force sessions remaining from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 10 and Monday, Jan. 14 at Thompson Middle School, 3021 Court.
The district is inviting community members and parents to be involved in the process.


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The Philadelphia 76ers made Doug Collins their top choice for a second time.
Collins was hired Friday by the Sixers, charged with reviving a franchise that went 27-55 last season and has the No. 2 overall pick in next month's draft.
New Orleans Hornets management had recently contacted Collins to gauge his interest in the Hornets' head coaching vacancy. He was considered a serious contender for the position before agreeing to terms with Philadelphia.
A person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Thursday that Collins agreed to a four-year deal.
Collins was selected among seven candidates, the second time the organization chose him above all others. The Sixers made him the No. 1 overall pick in the 1973 draft.
This is Collins' fourth stint as an NBA coach. He's worked as an analyst for TNT since leaving the Washington Wizards in 2003.
"We are excited to hire a head coach with the level of experience, knowledge and passion for the game that Doug Collins has, " team president Ed Stefanski. "He has been around basketball his entire life, has experienced success at every step throughout his career and we are confident in his ability to lead our team."


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Photo History: The Fashions Of Women Of Color
In the past hundred years, trendy American women have worn everything from flapper dresses to bobby socks to bell-bottom jeans. But when we're talking about the history of fashion, Minh-Ha T. Pham, a visual arts and fashion scholar at Cornell University, says there's something — or someone — we often leave out: women of color.
Hide captionA North Carolina woman waits for a ride to church. "The date of the photograph is 1940, but the tilt of that hat is forever," blog curator Minh-Ha T. Pham writes.Photos via "Of Another Fashion"
Hide captionA group of Mexican-American flappers stand in a Southern California park in 1925.Photos via "Of Another Fashion"
Hide captionThis 1966 photo is of Pham's mom when she lived in Vietnam. "In her red cigarette pants, black ballet flats, and her Vuarnet cat-eye sunglasses, she looks every bit like a glamorous starlet on holiday," Pham writes. The clothing came from her mother's sister, who was studying abroad in the U.S. at the time. Pham says she hopes to focus in her blog on women whose stories don't often get told — women like her mom.Photos via "Of Another Fashion"
Hide captionThis photograph is from a 1977 fashion show by students in the Traditional Techniques course at the Institute of American Indian Arts. The dress that the girl is wearing is a modern adaptation inspired by woodlands Indian floral beadwork.IAIA Archives/Photos via "Of Another Fashion"
Hide captionThis photograph was taken by Ansel Adams at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California, where Japanese-Americans were interned during World War II. A woman identified as Riye Yoshizawa is in a dressmaking class. According to "Of Another Fashion," she later helped open the Modern School of Fashion in Southern California.Photos via "Of Another Fashion"
Hide captionThis photo of Gibson Girl Bessie Henderson was likely taken in 1908 or 1909, according to her great-granddaughter, who submitted the photo. The submitter said Henderson's arms are darkened from working in the sun, but she would have shielded her face with a bonnet or straw hat.Photos via "Of Another Fashion"
Hide captionSix Howard University students watch a football game in the 1920s.Photos via "Of Another Fashion"
Hide captionChicagoans wait for a ride to church in their Sunday best, 1941.Photos via "Of Another Fashion"
Hide captionAnother Ansel Adams photo shows girls in biology class at the Manzanar internment camp.Photos via "Of Another Fashion"
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Enter Pham's blog, "Of Another Fashion." There, Pham features old photographs of African-American, Native-American, Asian-American and Latin-American women — and the clothes they wore. Many of the pictures are submitted by readers and include stories about the women in them.
"In general, I'm trying to put together a collection of photos and stories that ... will illustrate the rich and complex texture of ... women of color — who have been both shaped by and shape American fashion in different ways," she says over email.
Pham got the inspiration for her blog after reading a Washington Post article featuring Lois Alexander Lane, who founded the Black Fashion Museum in the 1970s.
"As an academic, I've read a good amount of fashion histories and yet never encountered anything about Lane or her legacy," Pham says. And neither had Pham's friends, many of whom studied fashion. It inspired her to delve into the fashion histories of minorities in America.
The scope of Pham's blog is broad: It includes pictures of women of color throughout the 20th century in high fashion, mass-market items and hand-me-downs alike. She also features women abroad, including her mom, whose personal style is influenced by American movies and magazines.
But the photo that has gotten the most attention on her site isn't of some midcentury fashionista: It's a picture of a Mexican-American woman wearing pants, a button-down shirt, a tie — and holding a pistol. This, during the 1920s, the era of the flapper.
"This woman's decision to dress not in the flapper style but in pants in the 1920s is not only a fashion choice but a very brave choice because it bucks gender norms and expectations," she says.
Pham adds, "For me, this makes her all the more fashionable."


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Cursed seal of heaven
Watch Naruto shippuden episode 137. The second time Itachi goes after sasuke's eye, he activates the cursed seal. While he is doing it it is focusing on his eye. then they show Itachi. then they go back to Sasuke's eye and the middle (his pupil) is dilated!! (Aze617 (talk) 22:14, December 15, 2009 (UTC))
How do you know so much about naruto! Do you read all the books myself I read all naruto books at least once a month and have 22 books.Italic text'Italic text—This unsigned comment was made by Nolan280 (talk • contribs) .
Please help me find the flaw in this query {{#ask:[[Category:Jutsu]][[Name::Protection of the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms]][[Jutsu media::Game]][[Jutsu media::!Anime]]|format=list}}. It should return no results. I just can't help but think that the ! operator is disabled on narutopedia, but Dantman said otherwise. Simant (talk) 22:07, November 7, 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks anyways for trying, as you can see User:Simant/Sandbox 2, which pretty much tells me ! operator is disabled, Removing the game parameter would be nice, since all jutsu pretty much that appear in game appear in manga/anime... but i think it would better to get ! reactivated. Simant (talk) 00:04, November 9, 2009 (UTC)
- In that case.. it is probably something in here Help:Configuration, I'll read entirely though that page... Simant (talk) 00:23, November 9, 2009 (UTC)
This is the one you want to block: 184.108.40.206. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 23:57, November 8, 2009 (UTC)
18.104.22.168, 184.108.40.206, 184.108.40.206, 188.8.131.52 (block a range of IPs, 18.104.22.168-220. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 14:57, November 10, 2009 (UTC)
- If you're a sysop, you can, I think I remember seeing Jacce doing it once. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 20:00, November 10, 2009 (UTC)
188.8.131.52, 22.214.171.124. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 23:03, November 13, 2009 (UTC)
- Both are backsliding IPs. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 23:46, November 13, 2009 (UTC)
Yamanaka Clan Telepathy
Can you tell me when this jutsu is used? --Blaublau94 (talk) 19:23, November 26, 2009 (UTC)
- Don't you think that it's katsuyu's technique ? --Blaublau94 (talk) 19:33, November 26, 2009 (UTC)
- I'm not saying that katsuyu is talking, I'm saying that she could be something like a communication channel between the people that she's with, and you can see that katsuyu climbs him first and then he talk --Blaublau94 (talk) 20:24, November 26, 2009 (UTC)
Re: Wiserline
Snapper, I've been waiting for this greenlight for a long, long time. It would be an honor.--TheUltimate3 (talk) 05:14, November 27, 2009 (UTC)
Did you even look at my uploaded photo? It was as bright and as clear as I could dare make it on Photoshop. It could've served as a replacement, and then you delete it so arbitrarily? I'm at a loss here. --Reikson (talk) 06:15, November 27, 2009 (UTC)
Lava Jutsu
That person was right it was chapter 466. Proof right here, http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/466/02/Saimaroimaru (talk) 04:49, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
Nevermind I saw that she used it in 465.Saimaroimaru (talk) 04:58, November 28, 2009 (UTC)
- It's used on chapter 465. Proof right here, http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/465/16/
I know that about inboxes Kunoichi101 (talk) 04:57, November 29, 2009 (UTC)Kunoichi101Kunoichi101 (talk) 04:57, November 29, 2009 (UTC)
- About the there-be-a-problem-plz thingies, what exactly are they for? I've only responded to that kind of problems that I feel should have been in the talk page. (Also, where is the button that takes you to the there-be-a-problem-plz-page? Me can't spot it.) ~Hakinu (talk | contribs) 19:51, November 30, 2009 (UTC)
Gaara is no longer a Jinchūriki and the idea is that all help make this the most complete site with information of naruto, so I'll put that Naruto and Bee are the only living Jinchūrikis, and please do not remove it. —This unsigned comment was made by Mava v17 (talk • contribs) .
Can you tell me which are tolerable height and width of the pictures? Ttogafer (talk) 20:35, December 5, 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for the width, and what is tolerable height? Ttogafer (talk) 18:39, December 6, 2009 (UTC)
Thanks again. Ttogafer (talk) 19:11, December 6, 2009 (UTC)
Russian scripts
Added that one to the global title blacklist. If those show up just poke someone to add them to w:MediaWiki:Blacklist title list so they can be globally blacklisted. ~NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Dec 6, 2009 @ 06:12 (UTC)
Hey you seem like a nice guy. I´m new to this site so i don´t really know how to create an article Properly so could you please help me out. Thanks for reading :D
Hey again
Excuse me, But why can´t i "Edit this page" on Torunes page and many others??? —This unsigned comment was made by Torune (talk • contribs) .
hi!!!! little question!
Hi Snapper!!!! How r u?! Well, i just have one little question... you just reedit Naruto's page and say that it couldn't be two images... but how is more relevant Naruto's caught in a genjutsu image that a fight with Tobi? ^^' i just wanna know that xD --Kiba91 (talk) 03:32, December 11, 2009 (UTC)
- well, guess you are right!!! But about the quality, i could fixe it when in the internet i found a higher resolution video ^^... but well! thanks for answering me :) --Kiba91 (talk) 03:41, December 11, 2009 (UTC)
Why does the transformation justu not work on Iruka's page? He used it in the first chapter when posing for Naruto to fool Mizuki, and, in the anime, posed as a Rain Ninja to test Team 7 (episode 21).
Also on the subject of Iruka's jutsu, he also used the substituion jutsu in the anime when he was testing team 7 (when he escaped from the net in episode 21)
ShieldmaidenI live by honor and die like a warrior 13:40, December 11, 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for welcoming me to this site. I am willing to help you with flaws you might stumble upon in this wiki. Please tell me if there is anything i can do to help you. I am a huge naruto fan! BELIEVE IT!! I am collecting the manga as we speak. What is your favorite jutsu in this wiki? Write back as soon as you can.
Chidori drill.
Character: Occupation
Why do some characters have an occupation of "Traveler." Simant (talk) 19:01, December 13, 2009 (UTC)
List of Volumes/Episodes
What do you think the % widths should be set at for each of the contents? Simant (talk) 21:13, December 5, 2009 (UTC)
- Well, they are wide enough so there is no line break... just the title isn't long enough so there is no line, break. I could remove the linebreak.. but that would mean removing the translation (or making it smaller font?) Simant (talk) 19:13, December 13, 2009 (UTC)
SSJ2AJB Hello, Snapper2, my name is SSJ2AJB. As you might know, I've made some contributions to this wiki since the end of May 2009 but I never really talked to anyone here, but I figured that you were one of the administrators and I wanted to ask you something. I've seen the different image policy and I was confused on how to upload an image. Can you tell me how to upload an image?
Also, if we upload images, can they be allowed from a website called, "myfavoritegames.com?" I've looked at the wiki images and saw that the name is very close to describing what is happening in the picture. When I went to myfavoritegames.com for Naruto screenshots, I saw they only have the Naruto name and episode number as their name. Are we allowed to upload images like that or no?
Asuma's Fire Symbol
A sash goes from shoulder to waist, while a breechcloth hangs from the beltline. —This unsigned comment was made by WhiteArmor (talk • contribs) .
- Thanks, didn't know that —This unsigned comment was made by WhiteArmor (talk • contribs) .
why did you erase my input?--cobra (talk) 18:18, December 25, 2009 (UTC)
madara has a special intrest in naruto personally tho so my interpretation is a plausible one.--cobra (talk) 18:26, December 25, 2009 (UTC)
fair enough--cobra (talk) 18:37, December 25, 2009 (UTC)
You were closest :3
You wrote Rex's welcome message, so therefore I address this to you :3 His talk page is full of warnings and deletions of images that doesn't follow the image policy. Now he replaced Mister Sasuke's papa (Fugusomething)'s picture. Mind using your whacking plank of sysopness to make him behave? ~Hakinu (talk | contribs) 00:33, December 26, 2009 (UTC)
- Ooh, whadyaknow, I already gave him a whacking with my own plank:
- <quote>I am adding this as a last warning. If you do not start doing as I did in this edit, I can assure you I will advise a sysop to block you. ~Hakinu (talk | contribs) 22:26, 31 July 2009 (UTC)</quote> ~Hakinu (talk | contribs) 00:36, December 26, 2009 (UTC)
about Karashi
I didn't make that partner edit i was just undoing bad edit (someone wrote he was a Jōnin) Ttogafer (talk) 18:21, December 27, 2009 (UTC)
Re:You could have done that yourself.
I could have but, I can't suppress redirects, so i would have had to put up a delete tag anyways. Simant (talk) 20:06, December 30, 2009 (UTC)
thanks for editing all those pages for naruto do u watch he show or read the manga or both—This unsigned comment was made by RBrooks10 (talk • contribs) .
Hay well sorry
Sorry I forgot to log in this has been from Zamonblue222
Unnamed Anbu Captain
I have a hard time believing that the animators would have the gaul to kill a manga character without him dying in the manga. Could you tell me where you saw him die in the three tails/hidan kakuza arc? Thanks. Simant (talk) 22:21, January 5, 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for putting that edit I made on Sora's page into the right spot. I wasn't sure where it should go. >.<
--HimeSakura (talk) 04:16, January 8, 2010 (UTC) HimeSakura
Does the databook list Abiru's age as he appeared in the flashback, or as in part I? Simant (talk) 20:36, January 8, 2010 (UTC)
I think i saw a character with jonin promotion age listed, and if not, I can remove it. Simant (talk) 22:43, January 8, 2010 (UTC)
New Infobox
I haven't really gotten approval from dantman yet... so i wasn't planning on a mass conversion until then, though using <!-- would probably be fine until then. Simant (talk) 19:26, January 9, 2010 (UTC)
- Yah, it doesn't work for gaara's family -.-, (I blame Kisimoto for giving both parents and multiple siblings, I need to erase duplicates siblings from his family list). Also, in other names field, template {{translation}} is not really the right thing to be putting there, because it won't enter into semantic properties properly, (i made a minor workaround so that it shows, but it may not be entered into the names:: property if it has that template). Simant (talk) 19:32, January 9, 2010 (UTC)
- I guess thats fine then. Also, (unfortunately) like in the {{Characters in image}} template it requires two consecutive edits to get the family using semantics to show since the properties need to be set on the first edit. Simant (talk) 19:44, January 9, 2010 (UTC)
- I was thinking it might be possible for dantman to get the form to submit twice. Though it probably would be better without it, since only about 10 families would really benefit from using semantics. Simant (talk) 19:55, January 9, 2010 (UTC)
- Infobox:Shibi_Aburame, Children, are automatically added if the child's page lists them as a parent, [[Parent::whatever| ]], as well as [[Name::{{PAGENAME}}| ]] Simant (talk) 23:32, January 10, 2010 (UTC)
- As i said above, it takes 2 edits to get the parents and children working, since 1 edit is required to set the properties, and the second edit it does a check to update. Simant (talk) 23:36, January 10, 2010 (UTC)
- Btw, if you didn't notice already, i made a cheat sheet. Template:Infobox/Naruto/Character/Doc. Simant (talk) 23:45, January 10, 2010 (UTC)
- Null edits should work fine to set it, no need to make edits that show. Simant (talk) 23:49, January 10, 2010 (UTC)
- Sorry about that, i forgot to add a condition to show the children if no other relationship. Personally I wouldn't mind getting rid of the semantic search for relations... Simant (talk) 23:59, January 10, 2010 (UTC)
- This, may make transition a little bit easier. Simant (talk) 17:25, January 15, 2010 (UTC)
- I fixed the family tree so that it updates mostly after 1 edit, by directly inputting parent names. Though if parents don't have gender and name properties, then they will show up without relationship information. Simant (talk) 19:50, January 19, 2010 (UTC)
- No, it set to the {{PAGENAME}}, because I wasn't sure how to use it as query without setting it to a property. Simant (talk) 20:12, January 19, 2010 (UTC)
What's the problem with the Sakura Personility?
Hi, I'm Mangekyo22, and I would like to ask you why do you always change the Sakura's personility and Five Kage Summit Arc place while the informations are correct (I even made refferences too!), and I always reading the manga in every language (even japanese), and the informations that I wrote are corrects (even in the manga everyone says that Sakura still loves Sasuke and that the confession was just an attempt). If you change it because you are a NaruSaku or what fan, then sorry. But I'm not changing it because I would be a pairing fan (I can't even tell how can I hate them - nyanyanya IchiOrihime + LuffyPuffy, KagoSango... bleeeeh), but because it's true! —This unsigned comment was made by Mangekyo22 (talk • contribs) .
Um, Snapper?
Where can I find an administrator whos willing to post and edit articles on Narutopedia with spoilers from issue 478? Its the new issue scanned by Mangastream and its out on mangaspoiler.info. Here's proof of the link: http://manga-and-anime.info/naruto/index.php/naruto-478-scans
superlogan7437 (talk) 20:39, January 13, 2010 (UTC)
Bath house, was that in the databook? Simant (talk) 20:03, January 20, 2010 (UTC)
- Eh, it was a river/pond, i believe you could see the waterfall behind them in at least one of the scenes, though they may have moved... Simant (talk) 00:24, January 21, 2010 (UTC)
You blocked the article Ultimate Ninja Storm 2? I appreciate if you answer me. —This unsigned comment was made by Vinidamatta2 (talk • contribs) .
- If you had signed your message, it would have been easier for Snapper to come back to you. It's pretty simple. Either click the third button from the right on top of the page, or simply add four tidles (~~~~ to the end of your message. ~Hakinu (talk | contribs) 22:00, January 21, 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the info. --Vinidamatta2 (talk) 23:34, January 21, 2010 (UTC)Vinidamatta2
Despite my agreeing with the edits not being official, leaving messages like THAT is not the best way to get answers if ur gonna threat, cuz i dont do that kinda stuff, so either be more polite and cut the sarcasm crap or go on answer-less! =D Good day! AMTNinja (talk) 04:14, January 22, 2010 (UTC)
obivously ur someone who doesnt let things go so ill make dis easy on you, i e-mailed a naruto game namco bandai worker that sometimes (not often but sometimes) producers or whatever they call it actually look on sites like this for jutsu names, saying that the fans have "enourmous imagination" and they sometimes use their title for jutsu. Whether or not if its actually happened from this site idk, but its possible AMTNinja (talk) 20:42, January 22, 2010 (UTC)
u know, normally i wud, but actually i once posted Sai's Super Beast Imitation Picture as Beast Scroll Replicas as to which it was named in UN5, before the game even came out in europe AMTNinja (talk) 23:31, January 22, 2010 (UTC)
You know, ur very pig-headed and u jump to conclusions, when i said before it came out in europe i meant i knew it was gonna be named that before it came out, smart guy AMTNinja (talk) 00:09, January 23, 2010 (UTC)
As I have too. So tell ya what ill work on with English translations and u work on not jumping to conclusions? K? Everybody wins! Nice talkin to you =D AMTNinja (talk) 00:23, January 23, 2010 (UTC)
Yo, I'm naming the jutsu with the correct english tv jutsu names! Go watch the Naruto Shippuden english dub for once! And the crunchyroll, hulu, and viz subbed episodes are the exact same thing!
SOME MAY NOT BE UR FAULT! Here are some examples
Lightning Release: Flying Thunder God - the incorrect english tv name is Lightning Style: Channel Rod, but the correct one is Lightning Style: Electric Needle Spark. I don't care if it doesnt translate, watch the episode in crunchyroll!
Water Release: Snake's Mouth - incorrect english tv name that was used - Water Style: Snake's Mouth, the correct one is Water Style: Mouth of the Serpent
Wind Release: Falling Petal Dance - why are you deleting the english tv name? It was correct! Wind Style: Scattering Petal Dance!
Water Release: Stormy Blockade - Again! You deleted it! It's Water Style: Storm Upheaval
Earth Release: Rock Pillars Rising - Again! The correct english tv name is Earth Style: Stone Column Spear!
Earth Release: Mud Indulgence - Wow, you even deleted this one! That's 4 in a row! Correct english tv name - Earth Style: Mud Silhouette
Earth Release: Rising Stone Spear - Tsk, tsk, tsk. Again! Correct name - Earth Style: Falling Stone Spears (i don't get the translation either but its the english tv name!)
Earth Release: Wheel of Fortune - COME ON! Even this obvious one? Correct english tv name - Earth Style: Impermanence
Earth Release Resurrection Technique: Corpse Soil - not even a real jutsu! Furido only explained another form of Earth Release: Wheel of Fortune
Earth Release: Earth Pillar Prison - Earth Style: Stone Pillar Prison
Earth Release: Bedrock Coffin - Earth Style: Stone Plate Coffin
Barrier Gate Five Seals Technique: Castle Closing Eight Gates - Barrier Defense Seal Jutsu: Eight Gates Lock-Up
Earth Release: Rock Staff - Earth Style: Spears of Stone
Watch the episodes for proof!
My information is helpful!
I'll work on the english tv names, K?—This unsigned comment was made by Icanhelp500 (talk • contribs) .
Academy Grad. Age
I was thinking about changing Academy Grad. Age (in the infobox), to Genin promotion age to match with chunin and jonin, would that still be proper? Simant (talk) 22:26, January 28, 2010 (UTC)
"Not a forum"?
hey you deleted "Forum:Jiraiya really dead?" and cited that the reason was "not a forum" do you not see the word "forum" right at the beginning of the title, it was posted in the forum, undelete it please. soon please or I'll just repost it. Loki29 (talk) 12:14, February 1, 2010 (UTC)
I can fix this. Jacce | Talk 14:57, February 1, 2010 (UTC)
Why did you delete my picture of Gaara in his Kazekage robes?? Tottaly unfair!


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A code enforcement sweep conducted Wednesday in a section of northwest Metairie yielded 18 violations for high grass, trash and junked vehicles, according to parish officials.
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