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I went to a plastic surgeon in Norwalk, CT and after the second surgery, I am still unhappy with one side of my nose which dips in. Do you think it is smart to go to an ENT for clinical opinion on what to do next with my nose?
Should I Go to an ENT Doctor for Rhinoplasty Revision Advice?
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It might be a place to start
ENT doctors or otolaryngologists are usually well trained in nasal anatomy, and cosmetic and functional nasal surgery. They might be better in your case than general plastic surgeons who usually concentrate on cosmetic surgery of the body. However, since you had a couple of surgeries already, and each time it is usually more difficult to achieve the desired result, I would recommend you consult with a facial plastic surgeon. Facial plastic surgeons are ENT doctors who undergo additional training in aesthetic and reconstructive surgery of the face. You should find one with an extensive experience in revision rhinoplasty.
Revision rhinoplasty specialist is best for third-time redo.
Whether the surgeon has ENT training, plastic surgical training, or both, an experienced board-certified plastic surgeon, facial plastic surgeon, or ENT who has a busy practice in revision rhinoplasty is the specialist you should seek.
Mark Constantian, MD in Nashua, NH is a nationally-respected revision rhinoplasty expert in your area. He is not only skilled, but honest and ethical. You would be well-served to see him for a consultation. Best wishes.
Revision Rhinoplasty With An ENT
When seeking a revision rhinoplasty, a surgeon with experience in revision rhinoplasty is the best choice. Both facial plastic surgeons and general plastic surgeons may be qualified to perform this operation depending on their experience, pedigree, and consistency in results.
Web reference: http://www.shahfacialplastics.com/revison%20rhinoplasty.html
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Choosing the Best Rhinoplasty Surgeon
Rhinoplasty is said to be the most difficult operation in cosmetic surgery. Whether your potential surgeon is ENT-trained or Plastic Surgery-trained is less important than the physcian's experience.
Choose an surgeon who specializes in nasal surgery. Not all ENTs or Plastic Surgeons routinely perform rhinoplasty. It is important to find one who does. Rhinoplasty takes considerable experience to get predictable results. Revision rhinoplasty requires even more experience and expertise.
Finally, look for a qualified surgeon who is Board Certified in either Otolaryngology (ENT) or Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery and who has experience in correcting both the functional and the cosmetic aspects of rhinoplasty.
You want a rhinoplasty expert
As mentioned by the other doctors, you need a doctor now who is a rhinoplasty expert, not just someone who does an occasional rhinoplasty. Revisionary rhinoplasty is more difficult than the first time around so you need someone, even if you need to travel to another city, who qualifies as an expert. There are Plastic Surgeons and Facial Plastic Surgeons (ENT) who fit the bill. So don't choose based on basic training, choose on expertise and experience.
You need to see a physician experienced in doing rhinoplasties.
It sounds as if you are not satisfied after two rhinoplasties. You need to see a physician who is experienced in doing these difficult procedures. Also, you must allow total healing after the second surgery , which can be as long as two years. The speciality of the surgeon is less important that their experience. If an ENT guy does not do nose jobs then they are worthless, it's the same as going to see a plastic surgeon who only does breasts. Search out an experienced Rhinoplastic surgeon and talk to them. But to get the best answers, have photos of yourself before both surgeries and a copy of the operative reports.
Revision Rhinoplasty
Hi Vintage,
After two rhinoplasty procedures you should seek an expert in revision rhinoplasty. Whether the surgeon is an ENT, Facial Plastic, or General Plastic surgeon, the surgeon you choose should have experience with revision surgery. There are excellent nasal surgeons in all three specialties.
You will likely benefit from an external approach (open) rhinoplasty where cartilage grafts are used to balance the asymmetry. Good luck and be well.
Dr. P
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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The other day, I received a request from a writer working on a story about how to lower cholesterol "naturally". His questions are reprinted below, together with my reply.
Q. What are your thoughts on taking supplements as part of a cholesterol-lowering plan?
Q. Which ones do you like, and why?
Q. Are they safe? What are the risks?
Q. How do supplements fit in with traditional cholesterol-lowering methods like statin drugs, diet, and exercise?
Sounds reasonable, right?
Here's my answer:
Dear Writer,
I'm delighted to help you with your story, which is clearly about using supplements and foods to lower cholesterol.
But here's the problem…
I am a firm believer that lowering cholesterol is the least important thing you can do for heart health.
In fact, I am the author of a book called, "The Great Cholesterol Myth: Why Lowering Cholesterol Won't Prevent Heart Disease and the Statin-Free Plan that Will".
So I wonder if I'm the right person to be interviewed about how to lower your cholesterol since I'm on a mission to correct the impression that lowering cholesterol matters a whit.
As I said on the Dr. Oz show, trying to prevent heart disease by lowering cholesterol is like trying to reduce calories by taking the lettuce off your whopper.
If you want to talk about supplements for heart health, I'm your man. If you want to talk about strategies to prevent heart disease, I'm your man.
But if you want to talk about how to lower your cholesterol, or what supplements to use as part of a "cholesterol-lowering plan", I'm probably not your guy.
To me, that's like asking a general in the armed forces, "What's the best way to invade Portugal so we can stop Al-Qaeda?"
Al-Qaeda isn't in Portugal. And cholesterol doesn't cause heart disease.
Jonny Bowden
The writer replied: Let me rethink my slant on the article. I'll get back to you on that.
Well, at least that's some progress!
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I'm visting your website to find info on familial hypercholesterolemia. I wish you had a search feature. Can you comment whether this is a real problem or not?
Thanks for your excellent blog and writing, as a person who has worked in the medical and pharmaceutical industries for 20 years I'm very familiar with the difficulty in changing the established "gold standards" of medicine, even in the face of real clinical studies refuting it.
I'm currently reading the Cholesterol Myth and it's is excellent.
Question: my HDL cholesterol has been hovering around 38 -45 mg/dl for years, I've been eating nuts everyday for snacks, avocado's and using Olive oil when possible, exercising 3X a week. Any other suggestions for pushing up that all important HDL?
Thanks and keep going – we need more real- fact based- information in the health world.
Dave McMahon
Hi David
You might try citrus bergamont (BergaMet) which i have linked to on my home page. Also, wax-matrix niacin (sold as Endura-Cin) might be helpful for moving HDL up.
High cholesterol itself does not cause any symptoms; so many people are unaware that their cholesterol levels are too high. Therefore, it is important to find out what your cholesterol numbers are because lowering cholesterol levels that are too high lessens the risk for developing heart disease and reduces the chance of a heart attack or dying of heart disease, even if you already have it.
Heart disease is the #1 killer. However, traditional heart disease protocols–with their emphasis on lowering cholesterol–have it all wrong. Emerging science is showing that cholesterol levels are a poor predictor of heart disease and that standard prescriptions for lowering it, such as ineffective low-fat/high-carb diets and serious, side-effect-causing statin drugs, obscure the real causes of heart disease. Even doctors at leading institutions have been misled for years based on creative reporting of research results from pharmaceutical companies intent on supporting the $31-billion-a-year cholesterol-lowering drug industry.
amen to that. You just summarized our book!

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Been looking forward to The Walking Dead: Season Two on PlayStation Vita? We have dates - it's coming NEXT WEEK!
Episodes 1 and 2 will be available for download in North America on Tuesday, April 22; and in Europe on Wednesday, April 23. Remember, the Season Pass will save you 20% over purchasing each of the episodes individually! We're only partway through the season, so Vita players will have a chance to catch up before the upcoming Episode 3 - In Harm's Way.
The Game of the Year award-winning first season is also now available on new platforms. The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season, which includes all 5 episodes in Season One plus the 400 Days DLC, is now available for Android-based devices via Google Play, NVIDIA Shield via TegraZone, and Amazon Fire TV and Amazon Kindle HDX via Amazon. The first episode in the series, A New Day, is currently available FREE on all of these platforms.
We're also planning to bring The Walking Dead: Season Two to these platforms in the near future. Stay tuned right here and to Telltale Games on Twitter and Facebook for updates!


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Today Microsoft was having the first Microsoft Student Festival in my university. The festival is actually a small exposition by some sponsors, followed by a presentation about Microsoft and the future of computers and finally a draw takes place and one student wins a lot of prices! And in USJ that student was me!!! I won!!! :D
In addition to the prizes I won, another student got a free training courses and we all received a bag from Microsoft containing a T-Shirt a Dunkin-Donuts free coffe coupon and a VB.NET 2008 Express CD.
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Mabrook Man!
But I smell stink! I think making you win is a Microsoft conspiracy to get free promotion on eliedh.com :p
hehe, thanks man!
u only showed the common gift for all.
real big mabrouk for the others!
here are my gifts:
* 1 Fujitsu Siemens Laptop Computer from Aptec Lebanon
* 1 Pre-Loaded with 250$ Debit Card from Bank Audi
* 1 Year Free ADSL + Setup from IDM
* 1 Weekend in a SMART CAR from SMART
* 1 Year of Free Donuts & Coffee from Dunkin Donuts
* 1 Valuable Multimedia Prize from Abed Tahan
* 1 Full Microsoft Track from New Horizons
* 1 Full Microsoft Track from Formatech
* 1 Full Microsoft Track from ACT
* 2,500$ Voucher from ACT College for Any MCP Track
* Dinner for 2 at Rotana Cafe – Beirut
Eliedh, you blog a lot and a short time after I've come and left a comment on some post, you would have 3 or 4 new posts already on your blog. Point is: I missed this post. Message is: congrats!
Thanks poshlemon :)
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There's a classic response when organisations or conference organisers are criticised for having few or no women in their senior ranks or as speakers: "We couldn't find any women."
This is wearing thin as a defence because the evidence simply doesn't stack up. But if that's the impression that senior decision makers have then it needs addressing.
It takes some creative thinking and an unblinkered approach to identify good talent to achieve greater gender equity. The first step to rectifying the imbalance is to decide it actually matters. This is not a given – many organisations still regard gender equity as irrelevant or a "nice" thing to do rather than a business priority.
Let's assume the equity case has been made, and assume there's a desire to source women for promotions, recruitment and on conference or expert panels. Most larger organisations have their own women's networks or their female employees may be members of sector bodies that can be a useful place to start investigating.
Women in Finance, Women Lawyers, Women in Mining, Women in Technology, Women on Boards, Chief Executive Women, to name just a few, are all established networking groups with helpful information.
In terms of recruitment, a rising number of organisations require that all candidate lists – internal or from recruiting firms – include at least one woman. Woolworths, Telstra and most of the big banks have this requirement in place.
And in an interesting exercise,
The program rather neatly circumvents some of the barriers that may exist internally for women candidates. And it is transforming the approach to hiring, business banking head Joseph Healy says.
"It allows us to access women who wouldn't normally find their way through into the bank. Then we have a pool of women who know us and it reduces the costs and risks associated with hiring and could make a significant impact on gender diversity," he says.
"Businesses screen out certain people and we never solve this problem through normal channels.
"Half my leadership team are women. And we have had a program of hiring 200 bankers this year. We've set ourselves a goal of 50-50 women and there's no shortage of women."
NAB expects 500 to 600 women to go through the seminars each year throughout Australia, and is finding many attendees are highly educated but underemployed.
However, recruiting the women is one thing, supporting them is another. That's more of a challenge, but Healy says progress on gender equity is now woven into the performance management process.
"For general managers and above it's in their diversity score card. You can't get a score of four or above if you have not demonstrated personal leadership on gender diversity. A lot of men said 'OK, but how do we do this?' I feel that the resistance was almost a cultural one of 'we don't know how to make this work'.
"Change agents are working throughout the organisation with senior managers on different approaches. And the business bank has also mandated that recruitment panels have to have at least one woman on the candidate short list."
There's no question that this kind of effort does require some time and investment. However, something new is needed to boost the number of women in top jobs and tap into the pools of talent that already exist but don't seem to make it onto the radar.
This is not only because it's nice or fair, but because it's a more efficient and productive way to run a firstname.lastname@example.com
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For your weekend reading pleasure, the articles listed below contain some of the best dividend and value investing insights found on the web. They were written by various members of the Dividend Investing and Value Network over the past week:
Articles From DIV-Net Members
- 7 Stocks Meeting The Goal Of Increased Dividends
- TJX Companies (TJX) Dividend Stock Analysis
- Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) Dividend Stock Analysis
- Finding the Right Stock in The Current Market
- Bonds Performed Poorly Leading Up To Release of Fed Minutes
- Caterpillar – The Right Timing to Buy Tonkas
- Dividend Portfolio Update
- A Year Isn't A Year
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- OPEC Struggling To Keep Up The Pace In Oil Price War
- A few recent buys
- Three Stocks I'm Avoiding
- Invest for their own children
- Recent Buy: Macquarie Infrastructure Company
- Heard at the dentist... about being successful
- Bert's Recent Purchase – NSC
- 5 Steps to Growing Your Wealth
- The Spending Freeze Failure
There are some really good articles here, please take time and read a few of them.
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Weekend Reading Links - May 24, 2015
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If you've got a child of upper elementary or middle school age who enjoys reading and likes spooky stories, you'll definitely want to check out Ghosts of Rockville: Search for fhe Dominion Glass, a new book by Justin Heimberg. It's the first book in the Ghosts of Rockville series, and it has not only a great story but also a very unique twist on involving your young reader in the investigation. And at 275 pages, it's got plenty of twists, turns, and mysteries that will entertain your young reader and have them anxiously awaiting the June 2012 release of Book 2.
The story takes place in the town of Rockville, a town full of oddities known as the Seven Unnatural Wonders that includes crop circles, a spooky forest, the Cave of Shadows, and an ominous location called the Cliffs of Death. Readers will follow the adventures of four young supernatural investigators as they take on an assignment to locate the famed Dominion Glass, a relic that apparently allows the user to talk to and control spirits.
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So a group of firefighters let a house burn down in a county in Tennessee. Horrible, right? Yes, but not necessarily for the obvious reasons. In this case, the firefighters let the house burn down because the the home owner had not paid the protection fee. Why was he expected to pay a fee rather than jsut get the service as a taxpayer? Because the county has refused to staff a fire department. As a result, the little towns in the county provide fire service to the rural county, for a small fee. The problem is that approximately 75% of the fire calls to those services are in the county. And when the fire department tries to collect for the costs of going to put out fires, they are stiffed more than fifty percent of the time. So the citizens of the cities are paying for fire protection for people who refuse to contribute the common good. So, inevitably, they were forced to make a choice: enforce the penalty for opting out of the community or continue to pay higher and higher costs to protect those who refuse to be fully paid up members of society.
Fire fighting — like all government services — costs money. Firetrucks need to be purchased. 911 systems need to be staffed. Alarm systems need to be maintained. Firefighters need to be clothed, housed and fed while on duty. None of that can exist without money — money that the residents of the county have refused to supply as a community and only sporadically as individuals. So the choice is clear: let people freeload on the taxpayers of the municipalities that do support fire departments and eventually ruin their budgets or let houses burn to the ground. It is, in other words, the perfect libertarian world.
Letting houses burn to the ground is the only result acceptable to a libertarian. If you do not let the house burn to the ground, then you encourage free loading, which eventually bankrupts the fire department or the people who are willing to support the fire department. And when we replace the notion of community and collective action for the good of the community, then we are left with the libertarian schemes that require firefighters to stand by and watch homes burn.
Some of you may think that is just fine, that the man got what he deserved. I would argue that that is immoral — that putting out fires is a community responsibility best shared by the community. In this scheme, a person who is poor or down on their luck might lose everything because they could not pay the flat fee for the protection. Someone just might forget, or have the paperwork lost. It is not just to allow someone to lose their home or life to that kind of mistake if the damage from that mistake can be reasonable mitigated.
If morality doesn't sway you, then remember that the fire was eventually put out when it spread to the lawn of a neighbor, a neighbor who had paid for the fire protection. So the man's mistake did damage to his neighbors and the community at large. The only libertarian response is to have the neighbor sue the man. And I am sure that the neighbor will be able to recoup the damages from a person whose house has just been burned to the ground. The destitute are well known for honoring civil judgments.
This fire is a the result of libertarian land. In libertarian land, collective action is forbidden so taxes cannot pay for fire departments. Without taxes, you must rely on the voluntary subscription to services (or after the fact fees, but for something like firefighting that requires a large and constant maintenance cost, after the fact fees aren't going to be enough to keep a fire department active). If you must rely on a voluntary subscription service, then you must discourage free loaders. If you must discourage free loaders, then you must let the homes of the poor, or unlucky or plan stupid burn to the ground. And if you must let the homes of the poor, the unlucky and the plain stupid burn down, inevitably you will have situations where the fire spreads and damages the property of other people, people who wont be able to recover their damages because their neighbor has probably just watched their largest asset go up in smoke. Damage to the innocent — even in the horrible way that libertarians define innocent — is the inevitable result of libertarian policies.
When you think of the future that Rand Paul and Sharon Angle and Paul Ryan want, think of fire fighters watching houses burn to the ground and fires spreading to the homes of the innocent. Forever.


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2009-2015 Cadillac CTS-V General Discussion Discussion, Upgrade Navigation Software? in Cadillac CTS-V Series Forum - 2009-2015; My V coupe ended up at the dealer for week having the entire clutch pedal assembly replaced (manufacturers Defect). In ...
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Upgrade Navigation Software?
My V coupe ended up at the dealer for week having the entire clutch pedal assembly replaced (manufacturers
Defect). In the meantime I was give. A 2012 SRX, which was fully loaded and was not bad at all! The navigation was 100 times better. The entire software was much more streamline and easier to use! I was wondering if GM would do an update if I asked local dealer? It has to be the same hardware!
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Nope, I searched it on here a while ago, and the only thing we can do is get an updated nav disc.
Re: Upgrade Navigation Software?
I am sorry your vehicle was at the dealership for a week but I am glad the issue was fixed. In order to update your system, there is a navigation disc. If you provide me with your VIN, I can check and look into this for you.
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[QUOTE=Cadillac Cust Svc;3451521]Hello triks86,
I am sorry your vehicle was at the dealership for a week but I am glad the issue was fixed. In order to update your system, there is a navigation disc. If you provide me with your VIN, I can check and look into this for you.
So this disc will update the syatem as well as the database?
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Hi khoeysr,
I was stating that there is a disc to perform an update, but what it consists of is a map update. If you would like to discuss anything further or have additional questions or concerns, I can be reached via private message.
Laura M.
Cadillac Customer Service
Map update is not an issue for me, it's the interface that is outdated. I was implying that if the 2012 SRX works off the same hardware is there a way to update the V to run that program.
I feel with a little experimenting it could work. The system and buttons are essentially the same...so in theory you could just pull the unit out of the srx and place it in the cts. It may just work lol. If someone has both, it may be something to toy with. I imagine Vin# issues and needing a tech tool to unlock etc.
But of course, if it were that easy someone would have already went that route. I had a 2005 Silverado brand new with a 6 disc changer and wanted factory nav like the avalanche, tahoes and hummers had. The dealer told me it couldn't be done. Well after a little research it was obvious the unit would fit and the wiring was the same. Found a unit on eBay from a hummer, bought it, installed it (wiring harness plugged right up), took it by the dealer to have them unlock it and boom! Factory touch screen nav in a Silverado truck...impossible even to the service guy using the tech2 tool to unlock it! Lol
So, where there's a will, there's a way. Just need a guinea pig :-)
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I don't think it is even this hard. My BMW got a firmware update halfway through the time I had it. All it took was a USB stick and 30 minutes of their time. I am sure this could be done, but think of how much money this would cost GM. It's not a recall issue or anything like that. I would be willing to pay $200 for this upgrade myself, but definitely not for their meager map update. Who needs that anyway? I rarely use the POI database because I have google maps on my phone.
I agree 200 bucks would be well worth it because it is such a Terrible interface! Hell 500 would be worth it. It's def easy bc Audi upgraded there software in my car after a couple of years and changed the interfaces around. Like a refresher.
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LOL. Go test drive another SRX and bring it back 30 minutes later after making a Nav swap. At least it would be worth trying to see if it worked.


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Hi! I'm Soetkin, I5 years old and I live in Belgium( that's why you probably haven't heard my name before) my friends say that I have an unhealthy obsession with Taylor but I don't mind :)
I went to her concert when she was in Belgium and it was the most enchanting, sparkling, exciting, awesome night ever!!! I went with my best friend and we still get all excited if someone mentions something about it :)
I love TC because I can talk about Taylor as much as I want and no one gets annoyed by it, and because everyone is so nice here!
I love Pretty Little Liars!! I love how I've seen the scary parts so many times and I still scream every time :) I'm always way behind everyone cause I have to wait till the DVD get's out, and I'm always so frustrated by that!:)
I am a Taylor Swift rare song collector!! I'm totally against leaking those songs, so I'll never post them on youtube or something, so please no hate :) If you're searching for a song that you really want, you can always ask me, I love helping people out! I have almost all the songs (except the really rare ones) so feel free to ask :)
My hobbies are gymnastics, horseback riding and I play the piano, but what I like most is to play my guitar and write my own songs.
I wrote my first three songs when I was 8, but I only started doing it frequently since last year. I love writing about everything in my live, it helps to clear my head :) I always tell myself that someday I'll share my songs with the world, but that's probably never gonna happen :)
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I understand what you mean, I was also sad to see the Speak Now era end, but we have the Red era to look forward to! Which, her album is wonderful! Yeah, at first you gotta get used to the new style of Taylor, but it's definitely amazing! I don't really have a favorite yet because they are all so good. :) I think I Almost Do is very relatable though. I love that! I also love Treacherous! The songs I enjoy dancing around to are Stay, Stay, Stay & 22. :) What about you? Sadly, no she isn't coming to my city. I wanted to cry. :( I really hope she adds more tour dates because she did come here during Speak Now, I don't see why she wouldn't for Red. I can only hope!! I'm sure she will come back to Belgium! She is more than likely going to other countries the second half of the year & in 2014 too. :) Haha, well you are Taylor's opposite! :)
Yeah, it's weird to think that Speak Now was already 2 years ago. Seems like it wasn't too long ago! But, I agree it's definitely time for some new music. :) Yeah, at first I thought State of Grace was going to be a slower song when I first read the title of it. It kinda surprised me after I heard it! But, I really do like it a lot. :) I'm sorry you have to wait until Friday to buy it. I really don't understand why international releases are always different days! It should be the same. Aw, well thank you for saying I look like Taylor. It means the world to me. :) Even though you might not look like her, I bet you're still beautiful! :)
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Deadly Stabbing at North Florida Regional Medical Center
A manhunt for a killer has come to an end.
Investigators say a man lay in wait for for his wife and stabbed her death in a parking garage near North Florida Regional Medical Center.
A daylong search for the killer ended when he was found dead by his own hand.
The incident has some visitors to the complex feeling uneasy about their place of healing.
Gainesville Police say 37-year-old Casey Renee Wilsey was stabbed in the chest by her husband this morning in the parking garage of a health care center.
And that disturbs patients there even more.
"It's very shocking," said Frank Abraeu, NFRMC Patient.
Security guards at North Florida Regional Medical Center made a startling discovery around 9 a.m. this morning.
Investigators say Casey Renee Wilsey was stabbed to death by her husband Walker Gage Wilsey in a car on the third floor of the North Florida Women's Center parking garage.
"Actually, I was going to park in the garage and I found a handicap spot on the outside of the garage. And to come back and find out that somebody has been fatally stabbed and they're dead, that's just crazy," said Remather Berry, family member of NFRMC patient.
The culprit had fled and police began canvassing the area by helicopter and car.
Gainesville police believed that Wilsey had children in Joyce Bullock Elementary and Williston Elementary that he might try to pick up from school.
"We've made sure the suspect in that particular case that they have ongoing was not on the campus, was not attempting to retrieve those children from the schools and we've increased the number of personnel that we have on campus," said Lt. Scott Tummond, Levy County Sheriff's Office.
As part of the increased security, cars coming into at Williston Elementary were searched by police.
But police stopped by one of Wilsey's residences in Daytona Beach and found that he had committed suicide.
Although it appears this case is closed, North Florida patients have mixed emotions about their safety.
"Do you feel safe here?" said Lauren Lettelier, TV20 News.
"Oh yes, I'll continue to come here," said Abraeu.
"I don't feel safe here. No I don't. We got here at quarter to daybreak. Who's to say it could have been us?," said Berry.
There was speculation that Casey Wilsey worked at North Florida as a nurse but that information is false.
She worked elsewhere in the complex at a pediatric center.
Walker Gage Wilsey was a registered sex offender and had been arrested twice for battery.
Daytona police say Wilsey slit his wrist and throat to end his life.
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GLENS FALLS, N.Y. Thursday—Six months or more ago Senator Herbert H. Lehman read into the appendix of the record in Congress a statement about "the celebration of the hundredth anniversary of an interesting, wholesome, and completely American activity, the Jewish Community Center Movement." He explained that last autumn would inaugurate the six months' observance of this movement and he pointed out that today there are more than 350 centers and more than half a million members. He said, "through the World Federation of Y.W.H.A.'s and Jewish Community Centers the movement is spreading its beneficent influence through the rest of the democratic world." He explained that the movement was "a vigorous force for democracy. A center gives the American Jew those enriching experiences which help make him a better Jew and a better citizen and therefore a happier and more interesting person."
This movement is one which all our citizens should appreciate and I am happy that a little later on I shall be able to speak in New York at the 92nd Street Y.M.H.A. which has such a varied program that it meets the needs of young and old alike.
I left New York on Monday night for Montreal. We arrived on a gloomy rainy morning. The snow was rapidly melting and it was quite warm weather. I suppose we will have another change before I get back to New York and I will find it very cold. I like Montreal, the city, and I wish it had been pleasant weather so that we could have walked about a little and seen it.
When we spent our summers in Campobello Island, I used to shop in Montreal and I still remember the names of some of the old shops. The grocer was Fraser Vigee. My mother-in-law would get the boys imported little English, short blue trousers and sailor tops, and sometimes a whole outfit of dark blue blanket coat with red flannel lining and a sash.
They were wonderfully warm and comfortable winter outfits but I am told there is a new kind of winter coat now that all the children wear and I would have liked to look about in the shops even though I no longer spend my summers on Campobello Island with a large and hungry family to feed and clothe.
I made my speech at a women's lunch in the Sheraton Mount Royal Hotel. Later we attended a cocktail party where I drank tea and finally I dined with the Consul General of Israel. I was happy to see Mrs. Camay and to learn that her husband is now the Minister to Canada from Israel. I hope that next summer something may bring them down to New York State so they can spend a little time with me, for he was so kind when I travelled round Israel.
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AMES, Iowa — When the Friendly Four Corners 4-H Club donated $500 to ship care packages to the 656th Transportation Company in Afghanistan, they were doing what they always do — serving their community. The Van Buren County 4-H'ers made an impact, supporting the troops far away, as well as their families here at home.
When the club learned that a former member whose husband was part of the 656th needed donations for postage, "the kids got talking and thought it was worthwhile," said club leader Michelle Wenke. So they contributed money from recent fundraisers — cutting firewood and serving lunch at local auctions.
The need for such community-minded action was reinforced in January, when the White House announced a wide initiative to address the challenges facing military families. "Strengthening the Military Family: Meeting America's Commitment" identifies four priorities:
The initiative highlights commitments from various government agencies, including USDA's continuing partnership with the Department of Defense and the Cooperative Extension Service nationally on family and youth development programs.
In Iowa that commitment includes Operation: Military Kids (OMK). OMK helps communities develop locally based networks to support military kids and their families before, during and after deployment, said Chris Gleason, OMK project director with Iowa State University Extension 4-H Youth Development.
"We want kids to thrive, not just survive, during deployment. It takes many caring adults in their lives to make this happen," Gleason added.
OMK provides free training and resources for communities as well as school districts, Gleason said. Topics include understanding how the deployment cycle affects children, identifying stress reactions and intervention strategies designed to lessen psychosocial stress caused by deployment, and how to access and use resources to build community-based support networks.
OMK also provides training for ISU Extension staff members so they are better prepared to support military families.
According to Gleason, "Iowa soldiers are serving their country and their families are sacrificing as well. Soldiers can focus on their mission more effectively when they know that their children are safe and supported in their schools and communities."
Nationally, the 4-H Youth Development Program is engaging youth living on military bases throughout the world. More than 20,000 youth participate in 4-H club programs on military bases and installations around the globe.
Operation: Military Kids is funded by the U.S. Army's Child, Youth and School Services in partnership with USDA/4-H National Headquarters and the land-grant universities. National and state partners also include the American Legion, Military Child Education Coalition, Boys and Girls Clubs of America, the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, Iowa State University Extension, Iowa Army/Air National Guard, Reserves – Army, Navy, Air, Marine, Coast Guard, Iowa School Counselors Association, Operation Give a Hug and the Iowa National Guard Officers Auxiliary. Information is available online at http://www.operationmilitarykids.org/ or www.extension.iastate.edu/4H/omk/.
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This Fashionista is channeling one of my favorite go-to looks: stripes with denim. The classic American laid back coolness of some great denim paired with chic French-inspired striped tops makes for an effortless but put together look. This Fashionista takes denim a step further with the summer's favorite comeback trend—overalls. She looks both current and classic. Both denim and striped shirts should be staples in your wardrobe as neither ever go out of style. They look appropriate for almost any occasion depending on how you accessorize and the wash and cut of the denim you go with.
While stripes and denim a classic pairing, it can be made trendy and current with different styles and shapes. A baggy striped shirt like this one tucked into a pair of distressed boyfriend jeans like these always looks good; this look can be dressed up with heels and dressed down with sneakers or Birkenstocks. A more streamlined and sophisticated look would be a fitted striped T-shirt with skinny-leg jeans and black pumps.
How To: A striped T-shirt looks chic but laid back under overalls. A cropped T-shirt underneath overalls looks sexy and cute. Stripes are so versatile, too. This Fashionista is wearing yellow and purple stripes, but red and white, black and white or blue and brown all look cool and classic. For celebrity inspiration, look to Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin for their classic 1960s aesthetics and Alexa Chung for her modern take on the trend.


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Rated E- Nintendo. This is a very generalized don't hate because there's a higher than E rating game on wii-u. JS
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It'll be Sony for me until Sega gets back into the console game. Just the idea of Steve Ballmer screaming and turning purple while watching your Kinect feed gives me the willies. Also, I always preferred the PS lineup to that of the Xbox(stupid way to judge a console, I know).
& RE: motion controls, a gamepad is actually the worst way to play fps. Motion controls can be fun if they're not gimmicky!
I hate motion controls.
Mouse and Keyboard is the best way above anything to play an FPS.
I agree that motion controls suck most of the time. I would love to see a martial arts or boxing game that gets it right.
I would rather have a controler for FPS. Mouse and keyboard shine on RTS games like Starcraft 2.
Naughty Dog used the motion in the DS3 quite well in the Last of Us. When your Flashlight started blinking, you shook the controller a bit like a real flashlight to get the light to go steady again. Kilzone used it well too when you planted mines. There are subtle ways to do it and then there is downright going overboard with it...
I just turned the flashlight off.
It was annoying me
Worst parts of Heavy Rain make you move the pad around too.. That game was mostly spoiled by that.
Still epic story.
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Whatever happened to 1GB for OS? Please don't even start with that. Sony fanboys have been poking fun at the X1 OS's heavy demand of RAM. Now you're all happy about it?
The rumors floating around about memory allocation on PS4 is just that.... RUMORS..... there is no concrete evidence that suggests anything of the like.
And like Sony's typical policies about Rumor and Speculation.... they don't comment on it.
Besides..... even PC games hardly use 5GB of RAM, unless you start stuffing them to the brim with mods.
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Sony did comment on the ram issue. I'm on phone right, so I can't provide the source. Da1writer has linked it in a few threads.
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I'm not about to get in this argument with Sony fanboys. Bye.
If you don't want to get in a argument then get out of here with that BS, we don't care what you get **bleep** xbox 1!
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LOL I love the fact that people keep using Sony's explanation of Flex memory and Direct memory as a confirmation of devs only having access to 4.5GB of RAM.
SONY HAS NOT CONFIRMED OR DENIED the size of the OS footprint!!
This should not even be considered a reason to buy or not buy a PS4!!!
"2000-2016 still in the year 2000 i didnt know we was in the year 3000"
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We would like to clear up a misunderstanding regarding our "direct" and "flexible" memory systems. The article states that "flexible" memory is borrowed from the OS, and must be returned when requested – that's not actually the case.
The actual true distinction is that:
"Direct Memory" is memory allocated under the traditional video game model, so the game controls all aspects of its allocation "Flexible Memory" is memory managed by the PS4 OS on the game's behalf, and allows games to use some very nice FreeBSD virtual memory functionality. However this memory is 100 per cent the game's memory, and is never used by the OS, and as it is the game's memory it should be easy for every developer to use it.
We have no comment to make on the amount of memory reserved by the system or what it is used for
So it looks as if it wont take much to run the OS as we thought
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Closing arguments in murder trial set for Friday
BEND, Ore. - A Bend man, Luke Wirkkala, has waited more than a year to find out if he'll go to prison for shooting and killing his house guest, 31-year-old David Ryder of Bend, last February.
Now the state's case against Wirkkala is in the home stretch. On Friday, attorneys will present closing arguments, and then his fate will be in the hands of the jury.
Wirkkala's murder trial focuses on a fateful night in February 2013, when he gunned down Ryder with a shotgun blast.
Wirkkala claims he was attacked and sexually assaulted by Ryder after a night of Super Bowl partying.
On Thursday, the defense team finished calling its character witnesses. They hoped to prove Ryder was both physically and verbally aggressive when drinking. Specifically, the lawyers want to prove Ryder was sexually interested in men.
Several of Ryder's former co-workers at G-5, a digital marketing company, testified Ryder would make homosexual references to them when drinking.
"He would be pushing me to see if I was homosexual," one G-5 employee testified. "Asking me kind of loaded questions, to see if I was homosexual."
Another of Ryder's coworkers said, "He would come up behind people and kind of hump them. He had actually done it to me once."
On Friday, jurors will get instructions on whether they'll have the option to convict Wirkkala of a lesser charge.
NewsChannel 21 will be in the courtroom for the final day of the trial and have a full report. Follow @KandraKTVZ for the latest.


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Sega Fun Packs are a series of compilation games. One Fun Pack was released for each of four consoles (PlayStation 2, PSP, Nintendo DS and Wii), as follows:
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Jewel's Food Market in Baxter, Minn. Jewel's will start selling products exclusively online next month.
When Amy Hansmann's brother was diagnosed with Celiac disease in 2004, she and her mother would spend hours trolling the grocery store, reading labels, looking for food he could eat.
Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease in which eating gluten causes damage to the small intestine. Gluten is found in flour, but also in barley, malt, rye, spelt and in ingredients like modified food starch."
Because it was not easy to find products that were completely gluten-free in 2004, Hansmann and her mother considered driving nearly 500 miles from their home in Baxter, Minn. to a store in Milwaukee that sold them.
The hunt for these foods led Hansmann to open up Jewel's Food Market, a store catering to those with Celiac and food allergies, in 2008.
With Celiac disease becoming more common and gluten-free diets gaining popularity, there are more gluten-free products available than ever before. In 2004, when Amy's brother was diagnosed, the gluten-free market was worth $580 million. By 2012, it's expected to be worth $2.6 billion. It's not just small companies anymore either; Anheuser Busch has released a gluten-free beer and General Mills has gluten-free Bisquick and cake mixes.
This growth, however, doesn't translate to more business for Amy Hansmann. Customers can now go the local Cub Foods and buy many gluten-free products, often for less than what Amy can sell them for.
"People have come to expect Wal-Mart prices all the time," Hansmann said. "But they don't understand why the prices are so low."
A small store like hers can't buy from General Mills since the company requires a minimum order of $3,000 worth of merchandise per week. So Hansmann sells products from smaller companies that have higher wholesale prices.
At the end of this month, Hansmann is closing her storefront in Baxter and moving her business exclusively to her company's website. She also plans to focus marketing efforts on small town clientele across the country who don't have access to big grocery stores, but whose food allergies make shopping difficult.
Hansmann will move her inventory to a space in a shared warehouse and will no longer have to pay $2000 a month in rent.
We'll check in with her in a few months to see how the transition is going and whether she's able to tap into the expanding gluten-free market.
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Phil Hogan, Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government.
Irish Rural Link is hosting a series of information evenings in Westmeath to help bring clarity to and facilitate a better understanding of waste water and the septic tank issue:
Tuesday March 13 Streete Sports Complex 8-9.30pm
Wednesday March 14 Rosemount GAA Sports complex 8.30-10pm
Thursday March 15 Tang Community Centre 8-9.30pm
The objective of the information evenings is to bring some clarity to the debate on waste water/environment and to assist with understanding the details in the recently released draft standards.
The draft standards just released by Minister Hogan, Dept of Environment, sets out in full the details of what his department proposes to include in standards for the operation and maintenance of septic tanks and other waste water treatment systems.
The document was drafted in consultation with officials from the Environmental Protection Agency and local authorities and the Minister as part of the consultation process promised, is now inviting submissions from the public for a one month period up to and including Friday, 30 March 2012.
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Sprocket the shaggy mutt
Yer lucky, Ralph, y'know that? I mean, sure it's sad that yer family left you 'n all, but... at least you had a family for a while. You grew up eatin' good. You got more meat on you now than I ever had on me. An' more energy.
Yer a good asset to us, Ralph. Max and me, we can't run fer long, so we can't catch food. We lived off trash and already dead food, fer the longest time. Then we found Daisy, an' she was young, well-fed, spry... At first she could catch live food... rabbits, rats, stuff like that. But it didn't last long. She's still young now but not strong like she was. She can run and fish fer a while, but she only gets one good burst of energy for the day. But now we got you, Ralph... yer stronger than she was even when we first found her! So big and tall, and healthy. Maybe if you and Daisy work together, we can start catching more live food, and we can all eat better!
See Ralph, not all of us dogs had families. The earliest thing I remember, the thing I called home for a long time, was a nook behind a dumpster in an alleyway. I had a mother, and a brother. There was usually a puddle by the dumpster where we drank. People would always come out of the building with big black trash bags to put in the dumpster, and it smelled sooo goood. Sometimes food would come out of it, and my brother and me would sneak around an' eat it. It was 'nuff, for a while. But we got bigger an' bigger, and hungrier. Our mother always left us for days at a time, an' eventually she never came back.
My brother and me, we knew that there was food inside the building. That's where all the food came out of. But we didn't even need to know that... the smell made it clear 'nuff. Under the crack in the door... and when they opened the door... ohhh.
We were both scared o' goin' in, cause we'd never been anywhere but our little nook and around the dumpster. But our momma was gone and we were so hungry... we decided the next time someone opened the door, one of us would go in, just behind the door, an' scout it out. Then he'd come right back out and together we'd decide if it was safe to go all the way in. Well it happened... someone came out with more trash, and my brother slipped in while the door was open. He never came back out t'see me though...
I dunno what happened t'him. At first I was sure that he was gone for good. But I was just a pup then... all I knew was here or gone. Our momma was here, and then she was gone. My brother was here, and now he was gone. I was even scareder to go in there now, so I left the dumpster, and the alley... an' I started learnin' about the world. I found better dumpsters that spilled food more often, and I found trash cans left outside without dumpsters at all, and some trash cans don' even have lids! I figured it all out eventually, and I made my way.
Now that I'm older, an' I've met more dogs here an' there, I know all about families. Humans taking care of dogs for whatever reason... an' now I tell myself that's what happened to my brother. He went in to that building and one of those humans who brought out trash noticed him, and wanted to be his family. I hope that's what happened.
Sometimes I wish I'd followed him in there, maybe someone would have wanted to be my family too. But it's too late now... People don't like full grown dogs like they like puppies. Once yer grown it's too late for a family. I learned that th' hard way.
But now listen 'ere, Ralph, and remember this next time you think about yer family. The most 'mportant thing I learned in my years is not t' get too down 'bout anything. If yer mind is down, so's yer body, and that's not good fer yer health. If yer happy, you got more energy, and the more energy you got, the better you do in life.


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A bright red barn along Highway 206 west of Heppner stands in contrast to the springtime shades of green on the rolling hills. Homesteading brought rapid growth to farming and ranching in the Heppner area in the late 1800s, but now growth is concentrated more along the Columbia River with industry and shipping. (Oregon State Archives)
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Running Fred from Dedalord Games
Proud to be the 1st to present you the game RUNNING FRED for Android devices on YouTube
(refering to my 1st upload from the 20th Feb, had to delete it & reuppd' it on the 22nd of FEB)
Running Fred for Android, released on the 19th FEB 2012, is also available for iOS (iPhone / iPad)
Once again Dedalord Games has produced a fine nice piece of art after publishing sweet games like Falling Fred & Psychoban!
In RUNNING FRED you step into the role of Fred and as the title of this game already includes, you need to run away from the death and avoid dangerous, well death bringing obsticals like swinging axes, deadly pits, spikes and much much more!
But that's not all, you can customize your charachter (avater) by giving him more power to jump better, rubber bones, run easier on to walls or choose one of the many looks from Baseball Player to Ninja or Cyborg & few more by using ingame coins!
You aswell can run as long as you can in survival or run threw many diffrent levels + more coming up what still seems to be in developement.
Best of all this game is for FREE!!!
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A 4.4 magnitude earthquake has struck near Melbourne, Australia, authorities have reported.
Geoscience Australia said it was centered near Korumburra, Victoria and struck at 1.32pm New Zealand time.
Residents turned to Twitter to share their experience of the jolt.
"Earthquake here in Melbourne, very short and sharp..minor tremblor," Andrew Moss wrote.
"My office mate and I both just felt our building on Queen St, Melbourne shake a little bit..." Matt Cowgill said.
Professor Ian Cartwright, of the School of Geoscience at Monash University, told Melbourne's Herald Sun faults which can cause earthquakes do lie under Victoria, but it is unusual for tremors to be felt across several suburbs.
"Even though we don't have major faults in Australia, there's always a little bit of movement on these faults and when they move we get small earthquakes," he said.
"Most of the earthquakes in Australia tend to be 2, 3, maybe magnitude 4."
He said it will take seismologists a "few hours" to determine exactly where the quake was located and how strong it was.


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This post comes at such a good time for me. I am SWAMPED with the new house and blogging is getting to be a little harder to manage. I really need to just follow the example of Heidi from the Crock-Pot Ladies and use that time-saving appliance to its fullest. She is amazing, making delicious main dishes and fantastic desserts.
Hi there everyone, I am Heidi Kennedy from over at Crock-Pot Ladies and I am just thrilled and honored to be featured today here on Frugal Antics of a Harried Homemaker! I am a work-at-home mother to 5 children (ages 21, 15, 9 and 7 year old twins) and I love cooking in my crock-pot and sharing recipes for easy and sometimes adventurous meals and dishes you can make in your crock-pot. There are four us of ladies who share our cooking adventures and we really are having fun (shout out to Tara, Sarah and Katie!) I have really enjoyed participating in the Improv Challenges here at Frugal Antics but have been taking a break from them the past few months because with the kids home during the summer I just haven't had as much time as I would like…plus I think they suck all the creative juices out of me!
I think so far my most favorite recipe I have done for the Improv Challenge was the Crock-Pot Carrot Cake I did for the carrots and ginger challenge. While a carrot cake does not sound very inventive (like some of the other improvisers) but the challenge for me was baking in the crock-pot, which you can do quite nicely I think!
Today however I wanted to share this really tasty recipe for Crock-Pot Chicken Cordon Bleu…such a oh-la-la sounding dish for dinner but SUPER easy to make and it is great for family meals or even something more fancy…plus it is actually a pretty frugal dish too, it just sounds fancy!
Crock-Pot Chicken Cordon Bleu
- 4 large boneless/skinless chicken breasts (or 6 smaller ones..the ones I used were HUGE!)
- 1 (10.75 oz.) can Cream of Chicken soup
- 1 cup milk
- 4 oz sliced ham
- 4 oz sliced Swiss cheese
- 1 6 oz pkg of herb or chicken flavored stuffing mix (such as Stove Top)
- ¼ cup butter, melted
- ¼ cup water
- In a small bowl mix together the cream of chicken soup and milk and whisk to combine.
- Pour half of the soup & milk mixture in the bottom of a 6-7 quart oval crock-pot.
- Layer the chicken breasts over the sauce.
- Cover the chicken with a layer of ham and then a layer of Swiss cheese.
- Pour the remaining soup mixture over the chicken.
- Sprinkle the chicken with the dry stuffing mix and then drizzle the top with the melted butter and ¼ cup of water.
- Cover and cook on low for 4-6 hours or on high for 2-3 hours.
- Serve and enjoy!


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Brain Trauma Surge Among Youth Athletes Raises CDC AlarmSamuel Adams
A surge in sports-related brain injuries among the youth is pushing U.S. health officials to call for public policy changes after similar safety efforts helped reduce head-trauma deaths from motor vehicle accidents.
A 40 percent drop since 1980 in traumatic brain injury deaths from car crashes can serve as an example for initiatives that target contact sports such as football, according to a report today from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Traumatic brain injuries suffered by people under age 19 from sports and recreation activities rose 60 percent from 2001 to 2009, the CDC said, citing data released earlier.
Lawsuits against the National Football League and the suicides of former professional athletes have created scrutiny of the long-term effects of head injuries suffered on the field. The Institute of Medicine, an advisory panel to U.S. policy makers, began an investigation this year into sports concussions for players from elementary school age through young adulthood.
"We're only beginning to scratch the surface of the concussion issue," said Christopher Nowinski, a former Harvard University football player and professional wrestler who is now the executive director of the Sports Legacy Institute, a nonprofit group devoted to head injury awareness. "It was ignored for so long that we have a lot to catch up on."
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While deaths from brain trauma among those ages 15 to 19 have been cut in half from 1999 to 2010, emergency room trips for athletic injuries by those teenagers have greatly increased, the CDC said in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The Atlanta-based agency has begun collaborating with the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the NFL and other sports groups to educate coaches and players about how to treat potential on-field trauma or prevent it altogether.
"Based on what we know now, I'd be shocked to find out that there aren't more negative consequences to brain trauma than we understand even today," said Nowinski, who was performing for World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. as "Chris Harvard" when he suffered a concussion in 2003.
Traumatic brain injuries are caused by collisions or jolts to the head that disrupt normal brain function. Concussions, a mild form of traumatic brain injuries that constitute three quarters of diagnoses, are common within contact sports such as football and lacrosse.
NFL Lawsuits
More than 3,000 former players and their families have sued the NFL seeking damages for head injuries, as well as for allegedly concealing data about the long-term dangers of repeated concussions. The family of linebacker Junior Seau, who committed suicide in May 2012, also sued the league on the contention that brain damage sustained during his 20 seasons drove him to his death.
Including all causes, such as falls and assaults, at least 2.4 million emergency department visits, hospitalizations, or deaths were related to a traumatic brain injury in 2009, the CDC said. Brain trauma cost an estimated $76.5 billion in direct U.S. medical expenditures and indirect costs such as lost wages and productivity.
Among the general population, falls cause more than 35 percent of traumatic brain injury, though children under 14 and adults over 65 are more susceptible to accidents in this way. Motor vehicle crashes and blunt impact each contribute 17 percent.


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I finally got to the Jacksonville Farmer's Market. It was the middle of March and a lot of the "seasons" were coming to an end. I bought three flats of strawberries along with a bunch of other produce. I got home and literally stuffed every nook and cranny of my refrigerator with fruits and vegetables. Then I turned around and there were all of those strawberries, still sitting on the counters. I had thought that I had a couple of boxes of pectin in my cupboards, so I wasn't worried about the berries. After tearing apart my kitchen, my pantry and every other part of my house, I realized that I only had one box. By then, I was getting a little tired and those berries were still sitting on my counters, mocking my efforts. I grabbed my Ball Blue Book (ad) and found a no-pectin recipe for canned jam that I had used before. It only took a little while to make and soon I had four cute little pint jars full of jam….and two and a half flats of berries left.I chopped up more berries and made up the freezer jam recipe on the pectin. It was No Sugar added pectin, which meant that I didn't have to add more sugar than berries like the normal pectin requires.. I used my Cuisinart Mini Prep (ad) to chop up many of the berries into jam-ready 4 cup bags. We ate half a flat and I sliced the rest up for smoothies and pies and whatever else
It occurred to me as I made the jam that everyone might not know how to make jam. Freezer jam is simply a matter of following the directions included with the box of pectin you buy. I am not going to share that here. But I will tell you that I made my freezer jam with pure maple syrup and apple juice. It was really good.
And just fyi, those biscuits are gluten free, made from the gf Pancake/Biscuit mix I published on Friday. I took the pictures with freezer jam that had just come out of the freezer, so I had to scrape a spoonful for the photo. There were some ice crystals in the container, which now look like crumbs. Perhaps I should have photo shopped them out, but, I didn't. Just know that no crumbs entered the bowl of jam in the taking of these photos.
- 4 cups strawberries, crushed
- 4 cups sugar
- Mix strawberries and sugar in a Dutch oven.
- Stir until sugar is dissolved over medium high heat.
- Bring to a boil and continue boiling, stirring occasionally to prevent burning until it reaches 220 degrees (use a candy thermometer).
- Keep it at 220 for 15 minutes and the jam thickens, stirring carefully to avoid being burned.
- Ladle into clean pint jars, leaving 1 inch head space, affix softened lids and rings and process in a boiling bath 10 minutes (add 1 minute for every 1000 feet above sea level)
- Remove from water and let cool, undisturbed on the counter.
- Check to make sure lid is sealed by pressing on the middle - if it pushes in and out, it isn't sealed and should be stored in the refrigerator.


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I've said it before but it really does pay to have sisters. This coat came to me because my sister didn't wear it very often. I love statement coats. They are especially great when you live in a crazy cold climate where it's all people see of your outfit half the time.


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According to this site It seems that Yes!
The Linux Project Mono was recently converted to the iPhone platform. Pay close attention that this is only the start but it seem that the day when we will see .NET applications running on iPhones is not far away… The question is will the iPhone still be around :).
Anyhow I think that the Mono project will get a big boost out of this.
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Said on April 9, 2008 :
This is not a completely accurate post and I want people to understand that. What you see running there is a jailbroken iPhone. This means that the phone has been hacked to run 3rd party software. If this was being shown to be run using the iPhone SDK using legitimate means, this would be a bigger story. As it stands, it is not possible at this point to develop a framework runtime using the SDK (I've been using the iPhone SDK and have read almost all of the documentation).
Said on April 9, 2008 :
Its not accurate for regular users, but for those advanced users. Its a nice improvement.
Said on May 2, 2009 :
What about Unity3D. It's a 3D Game engine but it uses the Mono framework running on the iPhone doesn't it?
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Currently it sounds like Expression Engine is the best blogging platform available right now.
(from what I've read) Is that what you're using on your blog?
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A teenager and a 20-year-old died in an after-party crash caused by the unlicensed driver reaching 145km/h while racing his overloaded vehicle, a coroner has found.
Bailey Kinita, 14, and Louise Reichenbach, 20, suffered fatal head injuries in the crash at Foxton on February 20, 2011.
The pair had been at a 21st birthday party at a house in rural Himatangi, near Palmerston North.
The party at Charles Hadley's house was organised by his son Levi who advertised it on his Facebook page - a decision described by Coroner Tim Scott as "unwise" as it had the potential to spiral out of control.
About 150 people attended, some of whom, including Bailey did not know the family, and had learned about the party from word of mouth.
The host offered food and water, did not supply alcohol but allowed people to drink alcohol they had brought. There were no obvious signs of drunkenness, said the finding.
In the early hours however, fights started between some of the partygoers, and everyone was told to leave.
Mr Hadley and his partner drove some of the partygoers to other destinations - an option Bailey planned to take up but when he asked, there was no room in the last carload for more passengers.
The outcome would have been very different had he got a ride from Mr Hadley's partner, "but that is not a reflection in any way upon Charles' partner or the way the party was managed," said Coroner Scott.
Bailey decided to get a ride with another partygoer William Nicholson-Kuiti, 19, an unlicensed driver. Ms Reichenbach was also in the overloaded car. She was sitting on the floor and Bailey was on someone's knee. Neither of them were wearing seatbelts.
The driver started to "rark it up", reaching an estimated speed of 145km/h while racing another car, said the finding.
"He (another passenger) said that he told William to slow down and so did Tia. At some point Louise said 'I am going to die'," said the finding.
The driver failed to slow down and as the car approached a left turn it continued straight ahead. He tried to correct it but the car rolled, fatally injuring the two passengers, who died at the scene.
The driver was seriously injured and found to have 108mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood. People aged under 20 are cannot legally drive with any alcohol in their system.
"Bailey and Louise made bad choices when they decided to accept a ride in the Reichenbach car, driven overloaded by William," said Coroner Scott.
But it was William Nicholson-Kuiti who failed to protect them and caused the deaths, he said.
"He drove at least alcohol impaired, probably while drunk. He drove badly at first and then dangerously and did not slow or stop when requested on more than one occasion by more than one passenger to do so."
He acknowledged Mr Nicholson-Kuiti's remorse and the apologies he made to the families.


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Raymond Barlow, 67, walked out of his modest row house on the 500 block of Poplar Street, squinting as he surveyed the heavy equipment lining three active construction sites just a stone's throw from his front door.
A longtime resident in Northern Liberties, a gentrifying area where new homes are being built at a rapid clip, Barlow is facing a steep increase in his property taxes under the Nutter administration's Actual Value Initiative (AVI). Both he and his wife, Barbara, are senior citizens on fixed incomes, and their home, which the city assessed at $52,100 last year, has a new market assessment of $275,000. At a property tax rate of 1.25 percent, the Barlows' taxes will more than double in 2014 – going from $1629.02 to $3445, an increase that Barlow said could push them out of the home they purchased 37 years ago.
And he's not alone. The citywide reassessment means that senior citizens on fixed incomes who live in gentrifying areas all over the city face the prospect of drastic property tax increases.
While a possible homestead exemption that City Council will consider could offer some help to property owners who live in their homes, and the Office of Property Assessment is offering homeowners the chance to appeal their assessments, there is no concrete plan in place to help seniors whose property values have drastically increased. Some City Council members are working with the Nutter administration to address the issue, but Barlow, who has watched his community change drastically over the past decade, does not believe help is forthcoming.
"I think there won't be any help at all," he said. "I think the mayor's full of crap. We filled that [Homestead Exemption] form out about keeping your taxes down. It's a bunch of bull. It's crap. They don't care about us. They're about money. And it's a shame that people down here have been down here 40-something years—some of them have been around here 50-something years. They live on fixed incomes now. And they're forcing you out. You're used to living down here. Where are you going to go? And I think it's unfair."
City Controller Alan Butkovitz, who released a report last week warning that gentrifying areas like Point Breeze and the Graduate Hospital area would see big property tax increases under AVI, agreed that longtime residents in those areas would suffer under the new property tax assessments.
"It's going to hurt them terribly," Butkovitz said. "They're going to be taxed as if they had the money to move into those neighborhoods right now, when clearly they don't" have the money.
Butkovitz said that as the data around the new assessments is examined and "severe unfairnesses" are discovered, protections should be put in place in order to help vulnerable property owners like the Barlows, but that putting in such protections could put more pressure on other taxpayers by raising tax rates.
"It's like a Chinese finger puzzle," Butkovitz said of the property tax system. "The more you pull it out the more strain you put on it."
There is also the problem of state law, which does not allow local tax laws to benefit specific groups. Councilman Mark Squilla, whose First District encompasses Point Breeze and other areas that will be hard hit by AVI increases, said Council will have to figure out ways to help seniors and other vulnerable property owners in spite of those restrictions.
"I think we need to look at what state law will allow us to do," Squilla said. "Something maybe age or need based. But we've got to be careful about how much safeguard we put in place, because the bigger the safeguard, the higher the tax rate gets."
Councilwoman Cindy Bass, one of the freshman members planning hearings around the issue of tax fairness, said it will take innovative thinking in order to help such homeowners, especially those who, like the Barlows, have been in their homes for decades and aren't interested in moving. Bass said she and Councilwoman Marian Tasco, who both represent areas in the city's Northwest, spoke with the Nutter administration last week.
"One of the things we talked about is, how do we make sure that we protect those homeowners who really don't care about the increased value in their homes?" Bass said. "This is their home and they want to stay there. They bought the home at $50,000 and now it's worth $300,000, but they don't care. They don't want to sell.
"There may be some legislation that we can propose that says, 'Maybe you can put the brakes on the tax increase until the house is transferred or sold,'" Bass said. "The city can collect the difference out of the transaction. So for instance if you're currently paying $500 in property taxes and your bill is going to go up to $3,000 with the new rate, you continue to pay that $500 until you [die] or decide to sell. When the house is sold for that $300,000, the City would collect the difference in the tax rate from the sale proceeds. The seller would have to pay it."
For now, though, that's just an idea, and Bass acknowledges that it is only one part of the larger debate around property taxes.
Barlow, meanwhile, is frustrated—angry, even. And despite the ideas being discussed at City Hall to help soften the blow for homeowners like himself, Barlow is convinced that he is being forced out of his home.
"It's a shame because everybody down here, they've been here for years, they're on a fixed income," he said. "What you're doing is you're forcing us out. And you're doing it the backdoor way. If we can't get you out one way we're getting you out tax-wise. We're paying a lot of taxes already, and if the taxes double, that's a mortgage, almost."


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Thanks to the fine folks at Porters Tahoe I've got myself a little HD Go Pro camera good guy. It's so awesome! Here's a little edit of my first run with it at Red Mtn BC. Hope you enjoy, cowabunga!
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Could Over The Bridge … ?
Dear Editor,
As we celebrate Governor Cuomo's proposal to eliminate the Cross Bay Bridge toll for Rockaway and Broad Channel residents, we must ask some questions.
The Governor's proposal appears as a one year appropriation to reimburse the MTA for the rebate. Budget items put in one year can be removed in future years. We need legislation forbidding the MTA or any state agency from imposing discriminatory tolls on any community.
Andrew Cuomo is a masterful politician. For every reward he gives, there is a cost. Will our community get the state support we need to keep our hospitals open and performing at a level at which residents will use them as a first choice? Will our schools provide the education and atmosphere to permit our children to move ahead?
Will we enable our public service workers to live in dignity during their working and retired years? Will the state support the reopening of the Rockaway Beach line of the LIRR so local commuters and visitors to the casino and convention center at Aqueduct get to midtown Manhattan in one half an hour?
The 2012-13 Executive Budget and Reform Plan is on the Internet. Those who are concerned must become familiar with it and, with the help of their organizations and local officials, make sure that all of our needs are met.


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An impending sale may affect 49 non-union jobs at the Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort & Spa on Hawaii island.
The hotel employs 315 people, 266 of whom are represented by UNITE HERE Local 5. Their jobs would transfer to any new management company under the current collective bargaining agreement.
Forty-nine employees are not covered by the union contract, according to a notice filed by the hotel management company with the state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations Monday evening.
The ownership change may take effect as early as May 3, but as late as May 17, according to the notice.