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For brain injuries, a treatment gap
The first two doctors who examined Scott Hamilton 's fractured skull told his wife that he wouldn't make it through the night. A third believed he could save Hamilton's life.
On Oct. 26, 2005, Hamilton was tossed from his Vespa motor scooter on Market Street in San Francisco during his 2-mile ride to work. He was going 25 mph when his tire skidded on a trolley track, and his helmeted head struck the pavement.
Geoffrey Manley, director of brain trauma at the University of California-San Francisco, said keeping Hamilton alive would be just the start of the road to recovery. To increase his chances of returning to a normal life, Hamilton would need the type of intensive rehabilitation care now being provided to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head in Tucson on Jan. 8.
Unlike Giffords, however, Hamilton couldn't count on getting into a state-of-the-art rehabilitation center.
Although Medicare, Medicaid and most insurers cover the brain surgery and intensive care necessary to save the lives of patients with such traumatic brain injuries, Manley says, most insurers scrimp on benefits for rehab programs, costly brain-injury "boot camps" that challenge patients to relearn skills and abilities destroyed by brain trauma. Such programs may cost anywhere from $600 to $8,000 a day, depending on the range of services they provide, says Susan Connors, president of the Brain Injury Association of America.
RECOVERY: Giffords can converse, knows song lyrics
A '3-pound universe'
The brain is the most complicated organ in the body. It regulates every aspect of human behavior. Different regions of the brain perform different tasks. Damage to a region can result in the loss of functions inherent to that region's tasks. A short guide to the brain and its functions:
Source: The Brain Injury Resource Center
By Frank Pompa, USA TODAY
The lack of coverage means that thousands of patients are discharged each year from hospitals to nursing homes or to languish in their beds during the critical early months when their brains are most receptive to healing, according to data from the National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research. At least two-thirds of patients discharged from rehabilitation hospitals after a typical stay of 16 days get no further treatment, the studies indicate.
Without intensive therapy, Manley says, brain-trauma patients may never regain full use of their limbs, their ability to use language, their emotional balance or their power to think clearly.
Only Texas requires major insurers to cover comprehensive brain-injury rehab, a mandate championed by a legislator who discovered after her husband's stroke that their insurance plan did not cover needed rehabilitation services. The state pays for those who lack adequate insurance for up to six months, a program now facing a 75% budget cut because of the state's fiscal crisis, says Jane Boutte, president of the Brain Injury Association of Texas.
Giffords, as a federal worker who was injured on the job, likely will have her rehab covered by the Federal Employees' Compensation Act for as long as she needs it. Her injury, and her battle to return to the life she nearly lost, has riveted the nation's attention on the quality and intensity of the care she is receiving.
She's one of the lucky ones, health specialists say.
"We have a terrible time getting patients into rehab," Manley says.
At least 1.7 million people in the USA suffer brain trauma each year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. Most of the injuries occur in motor vehicle crashes, strokes, assaults, falls, gunshot wounds and sports-related incidents. Each year, about 50,000 brain-trauma patients die, 230,000 are hospitalized and up to 90,000 survive with long-term disabilities.
At least 3 million people in the USA live with disabilities because of traumatic brain injuries, the CDC says. Brain injuries take a huge financial toll: Americans spend roughly $60 billion a year — $10 billion for medical care and $50 billion for lost productivity — the agency says.
Yet many patients and their families don't realize rehabilitation services are available.
"Patients have no idea," says Brent Masel, director of the non-profit Transitional Learning Center in Galveston, Texas. "Insurance companies don't want people to know that there's another step after they leave the hospital."
The issue of how insurers cover brain-injury rehab made national headlines in December, when news reports disclosed that the Department of Defense 's insurance carrier, Tricare, refused to pay for cognitive therapy — a collection of intensive exercises that improve cognitive function — calling it experimental. The reports of injured troops being denied access to such therapy provoked a national outcry, a study by the Institute of Medicine and a series of angry letters from Congress.
"The fact is, a lot of people are not getting into rehab," says Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-N.J., co-chairman of the Congressional Brain Injury Task Force. Like Tricare, many insurance firms have based their refusals to provide coverage on an absence of evidence that the programs work. Even true believers concede that the case for cognitive rehabilitation rests on a shaky scientific foundation, in part because of the difficulty of studying the brain and a lack of funding for research.
"The evidence doesn't exist to definitively say that this has an impact. The studies are equivocal at best," says Allan Korn, chief medical officer of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, which makes recommendations that member companies typically follow. "Blue Cross, Blue Shield doesn't run a science fair. We run a business that has to cover tragic cases like the congresswoman's."
"People who work in the field believe that rehab works," says Manley, who has been pushing for research. "We see the results. Where we have fallen short is by not studying this and providing objective evidence that rehabilitation changes the brain."
Because many of those who do not receive extended rehab typically withdraw into nursing homes, extended-care centers or their rooms at home, patients also vanish from public view.
"When I had this accident, I became the only person I knew who had a brain injury," Hamilton says. "Then I learned that I was one of a million and a half people a year with (traumatic brain injuries). How can something this big go unnoticed?"
After Hamilton's fall, Manley put a drain in his skull and treated him with drugs to reduce swelling. And though Manley felt sure that Hamilton would survive the procedure, he stopped short of predicting anything else.
"I'm not God," Stacey Boyd, Hamilton's wife, recalls Manley telling her when her husband was in a coma. "I don't know what's going to happen here. I'm not going to tell you I do."
The mysteries of the brain
The brain is the body's most mysterious organ. Made up of 100 billion nerve cells, it lies in a dark vault, processing trillions of bits of information streaming in on nerve and sensory pathways.
It governs heartbeat, breathing, intellect, memory, balance, personality and language, not to mention the social skills necessary to make friends and the reflexes needed to serve a tennis ball or drive a car. A person with brain damage may not only suffer from disability, experts say, he or she may become a different person, with an altered sense of self or personality.
"The brain is the most complicated organ we've got, and brain trauma's the most complicated disease," says David Hovda, director of UCLA Brain Injury Research Center. "Traumatic brain injury isn't an event that you recover from. It's an event that you live with for the rest of your life," raising a person's risk of dementia, Parkinson's and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig 's disease).
Just as no two brains are alike, no two injuries affect brains in the same way.
Cindy Daniel, of Springfield, Va., national disability coordinator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA ), was injured during the 2008 floods in Iowa, when her team's car was struck by an SUV. Daniel suffered multiple fractures and a concussion. She didn't realize her brain was damaged until days later, when her vision blurred and voices began sounding oddly high pitched. Then vertigo set in. Her doctors discovered that her eyes were no longer tracking together. Today, she says, she's still plagued by these problems — and by gaps in funding for therapy. She went to Richmond on Brain Awareness Day, Feb. 2, to fight a 5% cutback in the state budget that would cut services for brain injury.
Ruben Cabot, 56, of Bronx, N.Y., was assaulted with a baseball bat in 1990. Once a heavy machinery operator, he hasn't worked since the assault. He suffers from grand mal seizures. His speech is halting, and his memories are often inaccessible to him. "You know how ironic it is that you have the information, and it's stuck in the back of your head? It's not easy having a traumatic brain injury, man."
Science has yet to yield a treatment that will speed or promote recovery, Hovda says. "There's no pill, no procedure. Hyperbaric oxygen doesn't work. There's nothing we can do to actually fix people. We think rehabilitation is important, because it can retrain the brain."
Neurosurgeon Dong Kim of Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston, where Giffords is undergoing therapy, says, "There's no question we have documented evidence that an area of the brain that wasn't doing something, like speech, can learn to do it." Younger brains have more of this capability, called plasticity, than older brains, he says.
Giffords' program involves a constellation of therapists working together to help her, says Gerard Francisco, head of her rehab team at TIRR Memorial Hermann, a 119-bed rehabilitation facility at the medical center. Physical therapists are working to get her on her feet, preserve the range of motion in her legs and fix abnormal movement patterns. Occupational therapists are working to strengthen her arms and help her regain fine motor control. Speech pathologists are challenging her with cognitive tasks and helping her to speak and understand speech.
Sometimes, if a patient can't regain fine motor control, therapists will fashion a special splint or redesign a fork to help patients eat, Francisco says. "If they do not recover fine motor control," he says. "They won't be able to do things like press a button accurately, use a keyboard or dial a telephone." There's even something called neurologic music therapy, he says, which exploits dance to help people walk.
Such services aren't cheap.
A U.S. government study of 17 federally funded "model" traumatic-brain-injury research and treatment centers pegged the average daily cost of acute inpatient brain-trauma care at $8,034 and inpatient rehabilitation at $2,227. On average, the total cost per patient is $162,194 for initial brain-trauma care and $59,862 for inpatient rehabilitation, which lasts about two weeks.
Outpatient rehabilitation may last for weeks, months or years, and the costs range from $600 to $1,000 a day, says Connors, of the Brain Injury Association of America. Giffords' care is covered by the Federal Employees Compensation Act, which provides full coverage for brain-trauma rehabilitation for as long as necessary.
Medicare and Medicaid have no national policy for brain-trauma rehabilitation, Connors says. Private insurers' coverage varies considerably. Most say they cover cognitive therapy and other brain-injury services, but each policy carries limitations. Aetna 's policy for people who are directly insured by the company covers 30 days of cognitive therapy or 30 visits per injury, but those limits may differ for people with employer-based plans that are managed by Aetna, says Tammy Arnold, a company spokeswoman.
The only way to know your coverage limits is to read your policy's fine print, Arnold says.
Rehabilitation specialists say such limits would be unthinkable if applied to other ailments.
"It's like you have cancer and you get 10 visits for chemotherapy and that's it," says Mark Ashley, CEO of the Centre for Neuro Skills, a chain of rehab centers based in Bakersfield, Calif.
United Healthcare's policy document states that it covers cognitive therapy, but doesn't spell out coverage limitations, which vary depending on a person's policy. Until mid-2010, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association regarded cognitive therapy as experimental, and some of its 39 independent member companies refused to cover it.
Korn says the association changed its stance after a 2009 study yielded a "hint, just a hint" that cognitive therapy might help trauma patients.
Hovda, a leading brain-injury researcher, blames the absence of data on a lack of funding. That began to change in 2007 when Congress gave the Defense Department $150 million for brain-trauma research to benefit injured troops, an amount that now totals $500 million.
Last year, the National Institutes of Health funded research studies totaling $71 million. "One and a half million Americans a year have head injuries, costing $60 billion a year, and ( NIH ) spends about $57 per patient on research," he says.
A treatment solution
Stacey Boyd was stunned to learn that Blue Shield of California refused to pay for her husband's rehab. She believed he was covered.
Manley says Blue Shield called him on vacation and in the operating room to press him for more details on Hamilton's case. In desperation, Boyd sought help from a family friend, Chris Lehane, former vice president Al Gore 's press secretary. During the Clinton administration, Lehane had worked with Tom Epstein, now vice president of communications for Blue Shield of California. Lehane says he called Epstein and asked him to look into the case.
Epstein says he did what he usually does when he gets calls such as Lehane's: He passed the query to a colleague empowered to make coverage decisions. Blue Shield of California agreed to pay for Hamilton's care. He was admitted to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, one of the model centers recognized by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. Hamilton still has no memory of the Vespa crash or its aftermath. His wife has to fill in the blanks.
Boyd says that when her husband awoke from his coma after two weeks, he was "minimally responsive," raising a finger, answering in monosyllables. When he first got out of bed at San Francisco General Hospital, three people had to prop him up, because he had no control of his trunk or head. When he reached the rehab center a few days later, he still couldn't sit. But within weeks, Hamilton was sitting up and talking in sentences. By the third week, much sooner than expected, he was walking stairs.
"One of the first things we noticed," Boyd says, "was that his gait was really off. It was much different than before the accident. Physical therapists had very specific strategies for helping him, not just to put one foot in front of the other but to have a normal gait, so that he can hike with us and do everything you and I do."
It was a struggle, says Hamilton, now managing partner of Seton Education Partners and father of Grace, 6, and Rowan, 3. "I had to learn to walk, and shave, and go to the bathroom at the age of 40 like it was the first time. One of the strangest things is how patient you have to be. It takes a long time."
Boyd says watching her husband, now 45, battle back from the accident was a revelation.
"In a weird way, it's a really beautiful process," she says. "I was able to watch my husband be reborn before my eyes and relearn all these things that weren't part of our shared history."
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I believe it's appalling that Obama's administration is even trying to get this passed. If you don't think this is a bad idea, read here:
HR 3200 is 1017 pages long. You can print it and study it if you like. Link to the bill itself is:
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: States that if you have insurance at the time of the bill becoming law and you change, you will be required to take a similar plan. If that is not available, you will be required to take the gov option.
. Page 22
: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure.
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: Admission: your health care will be rationed.
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: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process).
. Page 42
: The "Health Choices Commissioner" will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.
. Page 50
: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.
. Page 58
: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.
. Page 59
: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.
. Page 65
: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN).
Page 72
: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.
. Page 84
: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)
. Page 91
: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services; translation: illegal aliens.
. Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and AmeriCorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.
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: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.
Page 124
: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No "judicial review" is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.
. Page 127
: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.
. Page 145
: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.
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: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.
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: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll.
Page 150
: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll.
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: Any individual who doesn't have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.
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: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes (Americans will pay for them).
. Page 195
: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial, medical, and personal records.
. Page 203
: "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax." Yes, it really says that.
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: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected."
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: Doctors: no matter what specialty you have, you'll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)
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: Government sets value of doctors' time, their professional judgment, etc.
. Page 265
: Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcare industries.
Page 268
: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.
. Page 272
: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!
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: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.
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: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government.
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: Doctors: you are now prohibited from owning and investing in healthcare companies.
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: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.
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: Hospital expansion hinges on "community" input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.
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: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.
. Page 341
: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc.
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: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.
. Page 379
: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone).
. Page 425
: More bureaucracy: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, encourages assisted suicide (euthanasia?)
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: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time.
. Page 425
: Government provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.
ON PAGE 425 OF OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE BILL, the Federal Government will require EVERYONE who is on Social Security to undergo a mandatory counseling session every 5 years with the objective being that they will explain to them just how to end their own life earlier. Yes…They are going to push assisted SUICIDE to cut Medicare and healthcare spending! Health care will be denied based on age. $500
$500 Billion will be cut from Seniors healthcare. The only way for that to happen is to drastically cut health care, the old people will be cut first. Paying for your own care will not be an option…it will not be allowed.
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Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.
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: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient's health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.
. Page 430
: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.
. Page 469
: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.
. Page 472
: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.
. Page 489
: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage.
. Page 494
: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.
Check it out in the original based on the page numbers. Then call your representative and tell them to vote NO!!
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THEY just kept running into each other, or at least that's what Brooke Dunn thought. Actually, Erik Parker had made a point of arranging to run into Ms. Dunn.
The two met during a summer heat wave in 1999 at Black Betty, a bar in the neighborhood they shared, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Mr. Parker, 32, is a painter. Ms. Dunn, 31, is a filmmaker who works as the executive assistant to the executive producer of the Manhattan office of Ridley Scott & Associates, a company run by the director of films like ''Gladiator.''
They first spoke as both were in line waiting for the bathroom at Black Betty. They exchanged numbers, but Mr. Parker said he did not want to seem overeager by calling right away.
Instead, he made sure to be where she was -- on the platform at her subway stop, in front of her stoop. ''I call it friendly stalking,'' he said.Continue reading the main story
Then one time they rode the train together and Mr. Parker kissed her, smack in the middle of the morning commute. For Ms. Dunn, that clinched it. ''It was almost a mythological moment,'' she said. ''None of my friends had ever had an experience like that. I was gleaming all day long.''
What made Ms. Dunn really sure of Mr. Parker, though, was the way he was with his daughter, Hailey, 8, from a previous relationship. ''He's the best father I've ever seen,'' Ms. Dunn said.
Mr. Parker, an Army brat, born in Stuttgart, Germany, and reared in Texas, is represented by the Leo Koenig Gallery in Manhattan and has a show now in Milan. His work explores music and history with words and images. Ms. Dunn, who has short curly brown hair (straightened for the wedding) and a rich, almost gravely voice, grew up in Eastchester, N.Y., and recently completed a documentary.
When it came time to propose, Mr. Parker couldn't quite get the words out. He tried on several occasions. ''Nerves took over,'' he said. ''I just couldn't say it. But she could see me trying. Then she'd get frustrated with me and I'd get frustrated and we'd end up in a bad argument.''
Mr. Parker's first attempt was at his apartment and studio, where they moved in together after a year of dating. ''I think I spent that night sleeping on the studio floor,'' Mr. Parker said. ''It's concrete.''
The next time was at an Italian restaurant. ''Nothing,'' he said.
This was followed by a carriage ride. ''Choke,'' he said.
Ms. Dunn's favorite was what they now call, the Apology Proposal: ''I'm sorry, will you marry me?''
Although they are a downtown couple, they decided to head uptown for their wedding. On May 19, they were married at Tavern on the Green, with about 180 people in attendance, many of them artists. All the tables were named after artists: A Matisse table, a Picasso table, an Erik Parker table. The clothing palette ranged from blood red to faded lavender, and cigarette smoke swirled continuously during the cocktail hour.
Mr. Parker's eyes filled as Ms. Dunn came down the aisle, twinkling in a fitted gown. Ms. Dunn wept throughout the ceremony. And the couple kissed several times before they were supposed to.
The couple's traditional Jewish wedding contract was created by Mr. Parker's friend Sergio Palacios. It featured words from the couple's vows written in a spiral with a background of fiery red and outer space blue.
Friends say that while Mr. Parker may be more reserved than Ms. Dunn, they both share a combustible, charismatic intensity. ''She's the only woman I know who can outtalk him,'' said Bill Saylor, an artist. ''There's a great energy about the two of them that could become explosive. Illegal.''
At the same time, friends say each half of the couple keeps the couple on the ground. ''She's had a real stabilizing effect on Erik,'' said Elizabeth Peyton, the artist. ''He's a very wild boy. He's also very moral. She's the one he calmed down for, and he really watches himself for her.''Continue reading the main story


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BEIJING – A Communist official has issued a "high-profile warning" about ideological problems at China's top think tank, domestic media said Monday in a sign that the party leadership is exerting its authority over state-run institutions.
Experts at the state-affiliated Chinese Academy of Social Sciences are spreading false ideas online and allowing foreign "infiltration" in its work, warned Zhang Yingwei, a senior anti-corruption official with the ruling Communist Party, the Global Times reported.
Zhang also accused the think tank — which makes policy recommendations to the government — of using academic research as a disguise for other purposes and fabricating false theories using the Internet, the newspaper reported.
He urged staff at CASS to "remain highly alert to political sensitive issues with no one making exceptions," and to "strengthen ideology construction," it said.
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The Global Times linked Zhang's warning to "sweeping anti-graft campaigns targeting government officials and state-owned enterprises" launched by the party leadership that took power under Xi Jinping in late 2012.
The campaign — which has been widely touted by President Xi — has netted a number of high- and low-ranking officials, but in the absence of systemic reforms, analysts say it serves more to exert political control than to eliminate corruption.
Since taking charge, Xi has also presided over the arrests of dozens of rights activists, as well as a crackdown on popular bloggers and the spread of "rumors" through social media.
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Sofia Vergara's Spanish-style yell at her on-screen husband Ed O'Neill has landed her in hot water. The Wednesday, October 27 episode of "Modern Family" saw Vergara's Gloria fighting with O'Neill's Jay about how Andean nation is full of backward, violent people. So fed up was Gloria that she compared Colombia to Peru in a degrading manner for the latter.
Jay began his argument with, "Now, maybe in Colombia ...," before he was cut by Gloria saying "Ah, here we go. Because, in Colombia, we trip over goats and we kill people in the street. Do you know how offensive that is? Like we're Peruvians!"
This quickly became a topic of discussion online, mainly by angry Peruvians. "It's incredible that in a country where everything is politically correct, ABC would have a line of this sort," said Milagros Lizarraga, founder of Peru USA Southern Ca, an online community that communicates through social media.
"Many Peruvians think this is no coincidence, that she knew what she was saying, because an actress has the power to say, 'No, I can't say this because it would hurt my image,'" Lizarraga said as quoted by AP. "Unless she agrees with what she said."
Head of Peru's People's Defender's Office is also demanding an explanation from the show and plans to talk to the U.S. ambassador about the episode. ABC is yet to response to the situation but Vergara, who is said to have the power to change her line, has made clear of her position. Writing in Spanish, she replied a bitter tweet follower, "Get a life!!!!".
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Please share,I think the chairlift data is the most important , it will show the shape of the mountain. The route down and speed don't really matter.
Another stat I love is vertical meters / total distance. Garmin doesn't work this out for you, but you can quickly divide it yourself. When somebody says "Sunshine is all cat tracks and flats" I can show them with GPS data whether this is actually true or not. More vertical per horizontal means the hill in general has less flats.
So far GPS has told me that I get by far the highest average speeds at Nakiska. All the lifts are high speed, there's rarely a lift line, and the grooming is really good so I'm able to blast off laps. I also tend to set my highest vertical / distance numbers there, as I tend to ride the "gold" chair which is pretty much up hill on a 20 degree angle or so the whole time, very little flat at the top and bottom.
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Poutanen, I would share my tracks, but I think you will find tracks from Mt. St. Louis Moonstone less than thrilling.
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Poutanen, I would share my tracks, but I think you will find tracks from Mt. St. Louis Moonstone less than thrilling.
You using trekbuddy to tracklog, or another app? I used to use trekbuddy on a Nokia, and my GF uses it on her Android based phone. I always had some crazy max speed listed on garmin connect (one time I was doing 815 km/h!!!) even though the graph would usually peak in the 60-80 km/h range.
So far I find the Garmin watch to be far more accurate, it actually seems to capture some of my carves instead of just following a nearly direct line down the slopes.
At the end of the day accuracy doesn't matter that much, as I think most GPS users are just using it to sort of compete against themselves.
Any device that can export a GPX file can upload to Garmin Connect. Often a device will prompt what type of file format you want to use when you save it on your device. Select GPX.
Right now I'm using a Samsung Android phone running My Tracks. I save the file in a GPX format, come home, load it onto my computer and then upload it to Garmin Connect. The only issue I am having is my Max Speed on the phone vs. Max Speed under Details on Garmin Connect. On My Tracks on my phone my Max Speed is usually around 60 km/hr. When I dump it over to Garmin, it shows a Max Speed of 206 km/hr. ( in my dreams ) even though nothing close to that speed is displayed on the Garmin Speed Chart. Going to email Garmin about that.
Poutanen, I would share my tracks, but I think you will find tracks from Mt. St. Louis Moonstone less than thrilling.
|Sorry, I have a Motorola Motoactv, and don't know how to export the data. I just came back from Jackson Hole and Grand Targhee and I used the GPS workout tracker the whole time, plus monitored heart rate. I did hit 163 bpm, but that was when I got to 47 mph, which for me was flying apart at the seems.
I GPS track every day I'm on the hill, give myself total distance goals for the year, for each day, etc! It's a fun way to push yourself... Here's a recent day of mine at Fernie. you might be able to browse my other days from there.
Day 11 - Fernie Virus POWDER!!! by apoutanen at Garmin Connect - Details
My goals for this year:
- 1500 km on the snow (remove about 1/3 of that for lifts if you want to get technical)
- a 100 km+ day, my previous best is 82 km or so
- a 10,000 vertical meter day, previous best is around 8000
edit: one thing you can see if you look back to when I was using a phone, is how much more accurate the Forerunner watch is compared to any phone I used as a tracklogger. It also looks like the bike computer cuts corners a lot, I got my watch on sale as so far so good!
Share your Garmin Data Please
I would like to know what other resorts are look like. Other than Snow and Trees, and had lots of fun, it is really hard to compare one place to another. I think the easiest way would be to actually look at the chairlift times, and elevation and temperature so I can plan my next trip. Everyone is going to ride at different speeds and style, but the lifts follow the mountain. Flat maps and routes don't do much for me or am I the only dork that tried carrying my bike computer while snowboarding. The temperature in my inside pocket of my shell.
Here is 1/19/2013. It got a little crowded at 2:00 so I left.
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I'm glad things worked out. Great job ending it. I'll never for the life of me understand why these gas stations allow people to loiter on their premises. I won't buy gas at places with guys just hanging around outside.
This is a discussion on trip to gas station got ugly fast! within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I'm impressed that you had the presence of mind to delay the draw and execute plan B in cold- cocking him. I'm sure this all ...
I'm impressed that you had the presence of mind to delay the draw and execute plan B in cold- cocking him. I'm sure this all took place in a blink or two of an eye. I only hope that if I am ever confronted with a self defense situation, that I could be as clear thinking as you. Training, training, training. Glad you and the kids are safe.
I'm glad things worked out. Great job ending it. I'll never for the life of me understand why these gas stations allow people to loiter on their premises. I won't buy gas at places with guys just hanging around outside.
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Lol I can truly say you are correct... however I filled up that day before
This goes to show how things can turn on a dime, and how being prepared and ready to act can afford you more options.
Had the situation with the clerk coming out and distracting him, not occurred, I would have shot him. I believe you had the same intentions.
However, the events changed in an instant which afforded you the opportunity for a different outcome. It worked. As it turned out, it was the best course of action.
People just need to know, each situation is unique unto each individual experiencing the event. You are 6'1" @ 245 lbs. A person who is 5'5" and tipping the scales at 140 lbs may not have gotten the same results as you did being faced with the exact same series of events.
A lethal force response was definitely justified at the point the knife came out. Due to his close proximity to you at the time, the fact that he was distracted by the clerk (and averted his attention) does not lessen the lethal threat. Had you continued with your original response and shot him, you would have still been justified.
However, because of your size and physical build, coupled with having confidence in your abilities allowed a different successful outcome. Good Job! You cleaned his clock, ended the threat, and became a hero in the eyes of your kids. You certainly can't argue with that! Congrats!
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I truly did have the intention on shooting him and indeed I would have, the thoughts I've had laying here like what if he did get the upper hand and drove off with my kids??? I'm truly blessed to have my family safe. Looking back I still feel my choice was correct for the moment.
Thank you all btw for the support
How did you handle the cops when they showed up? I don't think I would have disarmed till the BG was in handcuffs. So did they cuff him first or start asking questions first? Inquiring minds need to know. Thanks first for being prepared, and second for being here to tell your side of the story. DR
Glad for you, VERY glad for the kids. Glad for scummy, too. Clearly not functioning properly and may now get the help he so desperately needs. A 2nd chance he had all but screwed himself out of.
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined." -Obligatory Founding Father Quote
The police where very laid back they arrived and called amr they question myself the clerk and a couple people in the parking lot. One of the office looked right at me and said "surprised you didn't shoot him I would have" other than that very easy process
Sounds like you handled the situation very well. I'm all for a non lethal approach, as long as it's possible.
Great job from a fellow Coloradoan!
For curiousity, which part of Pueblo did this happen?
Just as easily could have been me based on some of my recent encounters...
All I know is I grew up in pueblo I love it here and it's killing me to watch my home town slowly go down the toilet
good job! i'm glad that you and your family are safe and sound.
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Had about the same thing happen , when stopped at a burger joint I and my grandkids like to go to. About the same, really...... he got angry.... told me "you are going to give me YOUR MONEY" , as he went with his hand into his pocket for what was the clear outline of a knife. It had just turned into a robbery. Demand for money with a threat and going for a weapon.
My grandkids did exactly what they were told to do in such a circumstance. Both of them took cover on the other side of the car, and granddaughter had her cell phone out with 911 dialed.
In my situation .... I was not in a distance to clock him (10 ft), and he was facing me. So, my solution was different. I took a stance, put my hand on my gun under my shirt...... and explained very loudly and clearly...... "that hand better not leave your pocket or you are going to have the worse day of your life"....... at which point we were staring eye to eye with each other as he sized me up to decide if he thought I meant it.
Me : "I'm not giving you anything, now ...... keep your hand in your pocket and back away .... slooooooowly" .
He did and backed away ... while cussing and calling me every name he could think of....... (boy was he mad) , but he kept that hand in that pocket and knew it was wise not to pull it out with a knife in his hand.
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Saturday was Gilman's annual Gilman Days Parade and I was fortunate enough to be allowed to co-emcee it. I wasn't sure what to expect, but what I found was a great community event that was fun for the whole family and some entries into the parade that you wouldn't normally see.I was told by someone at Breakfast On The Farm a few weeks back that I HAD to be at Gilman Days for the parade. This lady told me it was unlike any parade I would ever see. I inquired as to what made it so special and she proceeded to tell me about the Gilman Hillbillies, the epic water battle between the Hillbillies and the Fire Department and then told me there would be farm animals marched down the street.
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Re "Avoiding the cliff: Utah's delegates don't get it" (Our View, Nov. 18)
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... [I]n ''Elephant Breakdown,'' a 2005 essay in the journal Nature, Bradshaw and several colleagues argued that today's elephant populations are suffering from a form of chronic stress, a kind of species-wide trauma. Decades of poaching and culling and habitat loss, they claim, have so disrupted the intricate web of familial and societal relations by which young elephants have traditionally been raised in the wild, and by which established elephant herds are governed, that what we are now witnessing is nothing less than a precipitous collapse of elephant culture.
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Perfectly BalancedA brilliant menthol e-liquid. It's hard hitting enough to satiate the palate of ex-menthol smokers without devolving into artificial overpowering mint. It taste smooth and natural, but still has an icy kick. This is the best menthol e-juice I've tried, hands down
Flawless and excellentExcellent product, service, delivery. Flavor is great and totally consistent from one bottle to the next. Buy with confidence.
Not a Salem, But...I smoked Salem 100's for 30 years and while this is not a Salem, for me I found it to be the preferred of all the menthol's offered here and am very satisfied! Mild menthol - not over powering or minty. The vape is phenomenal! If you favor a lot of mint, this one is not for you - but if you enjoy a mild menthol, this is great!
my favorite menthol so far!Smoked menthol lights for years and haven't touched them in three months thanks to this!
My favorite!I have tried many different menthol drops and this one is my favorite. Strong flavor and cool throat hit. If you like menthol try this flavor
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Question about pulling.
Ok so winter is just about here. Now i have tow hooks in the front, and the tow package on the back. If i need to pull somone out of a snowbank or something. Should i use my tow hooks and throw it in reverse and pull the other car that way. Or hook em up to my tow package and throw it in drive and pull like that?
Re: Question about pulling.
i would say tow with the hitch but let others chime in as well
Re: Question about pulling.
Hitch is the strongest...
Depends on situation though how you go about pulling them out...Just becareful what you hook to on their vehicle as you can rip their vehicle apart if you hook to the wrong thing!
Re: Question about pulling.
HITCH!!!!! What do you have and I6 or V8?
Re: Question about pulling.
Ok, this is VERY important!
NEVER EVER throw a strap over the actual tow ball ok. They break suprisingly easily and become a 2 pound lethal projectile.
Whenever I need to pull something out that stuck hard, I always try to use my hitch. Remove the hitch tongue that has the ball attached to it, and locate the strap using the pin and P clip. That is by far the safest and strongest method.
So, remove the tongue and ball;
Here's the pin;
Put the eye of the strap through this pin;
NEVER put a strap over a hitch ball like this;
Re: Question about pulling.
never pull in reverse i saw alot of drive shafts rip off from people doing that..the ball can be ok, but its best not to do that...you could get a hitch with no ball, and use a d-ring to attach to it. by running a pin through the ball's hole.
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Just for interest, I've seen with my own two eyes a ball snap and go through the windshield, through the truck, and out the back window. Very scary!
what john said is right, you can use a large shackle through the tongue without a ball in it, but I personally always keep my balls on my tongue. lol
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On a side note, do you guys prefer normal non-stretch straps or snatch-straps for recovery?
In Australia we all use snatch straps, where on most US youtube vids I see the septics use normal non-stretching straps mostly.
Snatch strap demo;
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i only ever had snatch straps, my ARB one lasted for forever. then when it finally gave on an almost impossible pull, i got a procomp. snatching is awesome, if you know how to do it right.
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Indeed it is! I once had a suzuki sierra (little jeep-alike thing, i think you call them samurai?) SO bogged it needed 4 straps and a 15 tonne 4wd tractor to snatch it out. the tractor wheel-standed! it was unbelievable, I thought I'd lost the little suzuki for a while there. LOL
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thats awesome... we used to do all kinds of dumb things in the mud..i miss it..lol
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that was actually in sand on Fraser Island, the surf had undermined the beach and just swallowed the thing, right up over the door sills.
It was my girlfriend's car, she shat! lol
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With the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 23 arson that scorched the Taproot Theatre Company and destroyed four other business approaching, Taproot's leadership, board and staff are renewing their commitment to Greenwood and commemorating those affected and devastated by the string of arsons in 2009.
"We planted our roots solidly in Greenwood when we bought the early-1900s theatre 22 years," Scott Nolte, Taproot artistic director, said in a Taproot press release. "We love the vibrancy and creativity that surround us everywhere. We want the neighborhood to know that we're here to stay, that this is where we want to be."
Production manager Mark Lund echoed Nolte's sentiment.
"Taproot seems as much a part of Greenwood as Greenwood seems a part of Taproot," he said in the press release. "I've spent the past 19 years of my career working at Taproot and can say with confidence that the positive changes I've witnessed here in Greenwood over the years are at least partly due to Taproot's presence in the neighborhood."
Ghost Light Theatricals has chosen "Ch-Ch-Changes" as the theme for its 2010-2011 season, its eighth as a company but its first full season in The Ballard Underground at 2220 N.W. Market St.
While settling into their new home, adding a show to their season and shifting from nomads into Ballard's only theater company, the upcoming season represents a transformed Ghost Light still tackling the classics they love, according to a Ghost Light Theatricals press release.
The eighth season begins with William Shakespeare's classic tale of confusion, love, fantasy and transformation, "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Directed by R.A. Bergquist, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" runs from Nov. 5 through Nov. 21.
January starts with a bang as Wilder Nutting-Heath directs "Metamorphosis." A co-winner of 2010's "Battle of the Bards IV," this new adaptation of Franz Kafka's seminal work features humans and shadow puppets in a story about a man who turns into a bug and the changes that it brings with it. "Metamorphosis" runs Jan. 14 through Jan. 30.
The bumbershoots came out Sept. 6 as the rain set in for the final day of the 2010 Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival.
The wet weather couldn't dampen enthusiasm as festival-goers kept dry inside the Experience Music Project for local acts like BOAT and People Eating People or bounced up and down under a canopy of umbrellas for Bomba Estéreo.
This slideshow from day three of Bumbershoot 2010 features:
- Japandroids
- The Moondoggies
- The Whigs
- JEFF The Brotherhood
- Trampled By Turtles
- People Eating People
- Victor Shade
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The 2010 Bumbershoot Arts and Music Festival rolled on Sept. 5 with a surprise appearance from the sun bringing out droves of festival-goers.
This slideshow from day two of Bumbershoot 2010 features:
- The Physics
- Dolorean
- Fences
- The Bouncing Souls
- David Bazan
- Georgia Anne Muldrow
- The Crash Kings
- The Lonely H
- Fresh Espresso
- Horse Feathers
- Eldridge Gravy and The Court Supreme
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The 40th annual Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival got underway Sept. 4 with local talent like Great Waves and Visqueen, legends like Bob Dylan and Solomon Burke, and even a few Ballardites sprinkled in.
This slideshow from day one of Bumbershoot 2010 features:
- Solomon Burke
- The Cute Lepers
- Balkan Beat Box
- Jamie Lidell
- Atlas Sound
- Wheedle's Groove
- Zo Muth & The Lost High Rollers
- Star Anna & The Laughing Dogs
- Idiot Pilot
- Great Waves
- Grynch
- Becki Sue & Her Big Rockin' Daddies!
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When "American "Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert played Seattle in July, Ballard resident Mark Saltzman's friend was desperate to meet him, and Saltzman knew just how to do it. Make a puppet.
When Adam Lambert the singer took the stage, Adam Lambert the puppet, complete with top hat, makeup and rippling felt abs, was in the front row performing along.
Afterward, Puppet Adam Lambert made it back stage and was played with by Lambert's brother and signed by Lambert himself. Mission accomplished.
Saltzman is the founder of Kiwuppet Studios, currently being run out of his East Ballard garage. He has made more than 75 puppets and is working to expand and share his love of the art form with children and adults alike.
As an actor in the early 2000s, was a human actor alongside puppet costars in "Bear in the Big Blue House". Watching expert puppeteers every night rekindled a childhood love of puppets.
Twelfth Night Productions (TNP) is excited to celebrate our fifteenth year producing theater with How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying. In addition to producing high quality, community theater and providing an artistic outlet for residents of the Puget Sound, each summer TNP has partnered with a local charitable non-profit organization. Donating a portion of the proceeds from each summer show, TNP has helped such organizations as the Delridge Neighborhood Development Association, the All City Band and the White Center Food Bank among others. This year we are proud to partner with FareStart, a culinary job training and placement program for homeless and disadvantaged individuals.
Residents of West Seattle's Admiral District (and the whole area) were treated to the first of many summer concerts at Hyawatha Park Thursday July 29.
The first band of the summer series was Seattle's "The Starlings". A fun mix of folk and country pop. The Starlings had the crowd of three to four hundred parents and children bopping and jumping to catchy upbeat melodies in the warm evening sun.
PCC provided tasty things to snack on from their mobile goody truck. For more on the summer series see our story with the complete schedule.
The Starlings are: Lead singer Joy Mills, Harmonica/guitarist Tom Parker, Drummer Aimee Zoe Tubbs, and Bassist Moe Provencher.
You can learn more about the band and hear their music at their site http://www.starlingsmusic.com/
The Five Angels Benefit Concert, featuring performances by Ian McFeron, Kris Orlowski, Massy Ferguson and Big Sur, in support of the surviving victims of the fatal June 12 fire in Fremont will take place Aug. 10 at the Showbox SoDo.
The apartment fire, which was started by a foam mattress leaning against a light bulb, claimed five young lives. The victims of the fire were siblings Yaseen Shamam (5), Nisreen Shamam (6) and Joseph Gebregiorgis (13), as well as cousin Nyella Smith (7) and aunt Eyerusalem Gebregiorgis (22).
It was the most deadly fire in Seattle since 1971, according to a press release for the benefit concert.
The victims are remembered by family members who lost not only their loved ones, but also their home and most of their belongings, according to the press release.
To provide support to the family, a portion of the profits from the benefit concert will be provided to the surviving mothers to fund the family's immediate needs with the remaining profits being placed in a college trust fund for the one surviving child of the family, Samarah Smith, according to the press release.
For Lori Ann Reinhall and Jim Nelson, Scandinavian culture is an integral part of who they are. Despite growing up thousands of miles away from each other, these grandchildren of Scandinavian immigrants share a love of that culture's music that reconnected them after a quarter of a century.
"It's sort of in our blood, so to speak," Reinhall said.
Growing up in Seattle, Reinhall heard Swedish spoken around the house and studied music, including the old Scandinavian-American cliche – the accordion.
Nelson grew up in Wisconsin. He learned to speak Norwegian at 6 and became a professional musician when he was 14.
When he was young, Nelson's father would take him to the river and teach him how to make willow flutes. He now plays more than a dozen folk instruments, and said it is in his nature to learn instruments and play music.
"The driving force for me has been the phrase, 'Know Thyself,'" Nelson said. "For me, it would be denying myself part of who I am [to not play music]."