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This is a discussion on 3rd Annual Japanese Imports Poker Run for Camp Shawnigan within the Meetings and Events forums, part of the Canada category; Links to Past Poker Runs: 2010 2011 You may need to scroll through the pages to find the pictures but ...
What is a Poker Run? Since I have been asked I thought I would basically explain a Poker run and how it works.
A Poker run is a rally that doesn't have anything to do with speed. Everyone starts from the same location and either travels as a group or single and heads to a common ending point (in our case Mt Washington Resort in the Comox Valley). Along the route there are checkpoints that each vehicle must get to. You are supplied with a detailed map but none of the locations are hard to find. For those that know the island they can take off as a single or as a group and head whatever way they wish. Those that don't know the island and want to have more of the scenic tour can go with another group that will have some local owners and we will take the ocean routes to the checkpoints.
At each checkpoint will be a deck of cards. Each car selects a card. If you don't like the card you get, you can pre-purchase "mulligan" tickets which allow you to exchange the card at the checkpoint and return the card you first selected. Mulligan tickets are purchased at the start of the event and you can only purchase 3 tickets. Of course you "draw" a card you don't get to see what it is until after you have it in your hand.
Once you get to the finish you should have 7 cards. From those cards you make the best Poker hand you can and submit it to the event people. We have a nice sit down dinner at Mt Washington Resort (last year was Carved Roast Beef and Chicken Cordon Bleu with a great selection of salads and other nice things). During the dinner you are encouraged to purchase tickets for the silent auction items with all proceeds going to Camp Shawnigan. After dinner we award the silent auction items and we then award prize money to the 1st, and 2nd, and 3rd place card hands.
After that we have the bar and the facilities until midnight.
Most of the participants will stay on the Mountain in various accommodations that are available. Participants of the Poker Run do get a special rate on the Mountain. It is also possible to attend the festivities and still make it down to Nanaimo to catch the ferry to the mainland, should staying overnight not be an option. The next day we normally cruise back to Victoria as a group stopping someplace for lunch. This year it is proposed that we may include a further 'sight seeing' tour further up the island, before making our way back.
Any questions, don't hesitate to PM me or fire me an email at email@example.com
Thanks and I hope you can make it out to this worthwhile event.
OK all the checkpoints have been confirmed:
Starting Point ==> BC Systems building on corner of Seymor Place and Cloverdale (9:30 start).
ChkPnt #1 ==> Campus Honda (Victoria)
ChkPnt #2 ==> Discovery Honda (Duncan)
ChkPnt #3 ==> Nanaimo Honda (Nanaimo)
ChkPnt #4 ==> Sunrise Ridge Waterfront Resort (Parksville)
ChkPnt #5 ==> French Creek House Resort (Parksville)
ChkPnt #6 ==> Arrowsmith Golf and Country Club (Quallicum Beach)
ChkPnt #7 ==> Island Honda (Courtney)
Finish Point ==> Mt Washington Resort (Alpine Villiage, Comox Valley)
Thanks to all the businesses donating their time to help out with the event.
What is Camp Shawnigan? I have been asked by a few interested people, what is Camp Shawnigan.
Camp Shawnigan is the recipient of all proceeds from the Japanese Import Poker Run. I selected Camp Shawnigan for two reasons
1) The kids
2) The kids parents.
But what is Camp Shawnigan? Well the camp is run by The British Columbia Lions Society under the Easter Seals program. It is one of a few specialized overnight camps for children with Disabilities. Not only does this camp provide some form of normality for the kids that go there, but it also offers the parents a well deserved break. Allowing a disabled child to attend summer camp and putting a smile on the face of that child is what the Poker Run is all about.
On average it takes $2,300.00 to send a disable child to camp for one week. The camp has specialized staff that can address the needs of each child on an individual basis. They schedule activates that are challenging and fun. They allow the kids to be kids and for a brief week in the child's life, they help make that child smile and make that child experience what so many of us take for advantage.
Find below a link to the Camp Shawnigan web site and read about all the wonderful work that they do. If we can get together and have some fun and raise money for the great cause, then we all win.
Thanks for helping me to help the Kids! If you can attend, please do, it truly is a wonderful, fun event with an excellent cruise, great prizes and raffle items, fantastic dinner in a wonderful mountain resort, and some truly great people. I hope to see you there.
Importmeet.com has been helping to sponsor the event and has offered hosting of a registration form for this event. That form will be open on April 14th, for participants to register for the event. I will announce when the form is ready.
Have a great day !
The registration form is complete and is being hosted with Importmeet.com. They are sponsors of the event and have agreed to host the registration form. Importmeet.com has nothing to do with hosting the event itself or are they part of the organization team, they are just helping out the import meet community by offering me a space to host the registration form,although they will be attending the event this year. Big thanks to Matt at Importmeet.com for all his help.
You can find the registration form here:
Japanese Imports Poker Run Registration Form
Please sign up early ...,
One of the NSX crew that lives up in Courtney has offered his 5 acres of grassy land up to anyone that wished to bring a tent. Most of us stay up on the Mountain on the Saturday night. We do get a deal on the rooms, last year it was between $89.99 and $119.00 depending on the room type. Paris from NSXPrime lives at the bottom of the mountain and as such this is a perfect way to save some cash.
I realize that with a ferry and the event costs that can get expensive, so Paris has offered up his property to anyone that wants to tent it to try and save some money. He also said anyone that wants to bring up a trailer or something like that is welcome to as well. Just thought I would pass that on..., and a big thanks to Paris from NSXPrime.
Contact me and I will put you in touch with Paris.
Last edited by DDonovan; 04-23-2012 at 11:25 AM.
We have started to firm up some details for the Poker Run this year. All checkpoints have been set (see above posting). We also now have some of the sponsorship items coming in. The Honda Way in Abbotsford has donated a week in Whistler trip. Discovery Honda in Duncan will once again be providing us with a BBQ. Mt Washington will again be providing us with ski and tubeing passes.
I have also contacted Mt Washington administration, and they have once again graciously offered us a discount on accomodations.
Lodge room in Deer for $99 + taxes
Range is $99-$189 (3 bedroom)
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250-338-4383 or toll free 1-877-845-4499, and please ask them to be
consistent with who they say they are with - I think last year we had a
few different names floating around. Poker Run participant?"
Our discount code is "POKER".
Many sponsors have signed on but have not provided a list of what they are going to supply. They include Saunders Subaru, Island Honda, Nanaimo Honda, French Creek Resort, Sunrise Ridge Resort, Arrowsmith Golf and Country, WindRestrictor, and some others.
The Registration is going very well. Would like to see more local people signing up and thanks to those of you that have to take a ferry to get here. I realize that certainly adds to the cost and I am doing everything I can to keep costs as low as possible for you.
Last edited by DDonovan; 04-27-2012 at 02:48 PM.
Cool stuff. No wrx's on there??
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Missed that one! It's pretty far, otherwise I'd contemplate joining!
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May 11th Update:
Lordco is now offering us some sponsorship by donating some gift certificates for us to raffle off. As well Island Honda is providing some Tom Tom GPS units and some Honda Apparel. Arrowsmith Golf and Country club have donated 18 holes of golf for four including carts. Discovery Honda in Duncan is once again supplying us with a BBQ at the checkpoint. For those of you coming over on the Friday night, we have been given some gift certificates for The Swiftsure Lounge, so we may just go for a small cruise and end up down in the inner harbor for some drinks.
I am continuing to receive donation offers from sponsors, which means again this year we are going to end up with a lot of stuff..., Never a bad thing.
Last years prize money for the highest hand was $500.00 won by nightzone who borrowed mecton2003's S2000 while he was off in Libia for 6 months. Nightzone graciously donated $200 back to the charity. Second place won $300.00, and that prize went to Murray, an S2000 owner from Peachville. Third prize went to ssthrd from Parksville. That was a nice $200.00 and again went to an S2000 owner from our very own S2Ki. I expect that the prizes will be in the same denomination this year (depending of course on participation numbers).
I hope to have the menu posted soon, we are still working out the details around that.
Register Here: 2012 Vancouver Island Poker Run | Import Meet
Last edited by DDonovan; 05-22-2012 at 03:45 PM.
May 22nd Update
The schedule for the Poker Run is as follows:
Friday August 17th - Meet at the Poker Run Starting location (4000 Seymour Place) around 7:30pm. We will get together and I can hand out the maps and paper work to those that are here on the island already. After that perhaps a small cruise and we have been invited down to the Swiftsure Lounge afterwards, which is right in the inner harbour. We can have some appies and drinks.
Saturday August 18th - Arrive at the starting location for 9:00, Please don't be any later so I can get any paperwork off and we can have any announcements that need to happen. I want to send out the first crew no later than 9:30 and the second crew about 15 minutes later, again depending on how many participants we have by then. The event will last all day with a dinner and awards evening. We have the chalet until midnight so you are welcome to sit with us or you can go out and enjoy the Mountain. Dinner is normally around 7:00pm and is always excellent fair.
Sunday August 19th - Gather at chalet for 11:00. Last year one group continued on up island to Gold River, while the others headed back on a slow cruise back to Victoria stopping at one of the checkpoints for lunch.
If you are coming over from the mainland you can indeed make it back on the Saturday night. The Nanaimo last ferry leaves at 11:45 giving you time for dinner without a problem.
Last edited by DDonovan; 06-03-2012 at 08:35 PM.
June 3rd Update
The menu is set. I have been working with the caterers up at Mt Washington resort to come up with a menu for the Poker Run and I think we have something that everyone is going to love.
Chef Attended Carved Roast Beef Au Jus
Breaded Alpine Schnitzel - tender breaded pork cutlets with hunter mushroom sauce
Garden Greens & Dressings
Spicy Thai Noodle Salad
Asian Sesame Ginger Slaw
Rosemary Roasted Potatoes
Wild Rice Pilaf
Steamed Seasonal Vegetables
Assorted Desserts
I also want to re-iterate that this event started out as a Honda/Acura event. Last year we invited out all Japanese Imports, this year the event is open to any car enthusiasts out there, exotics, European Imports, and tuner cars. You don't have to have a super modified car either. There will be some cars there that are completely stock.
Also if you can't attend but would like to donate in any way, please contact me. Lastly if you can't make the Poker Run but can come up for dinner with us, you can do that as well. The price would be $50.00 per person which includes a $22.00 donation to the charity.
Thanks to those that have registered for the event! I can't do this without you.
Last edited by DDonovan; 06-18-2012 at 04:43 PM.
June 10th Update:
The top three donated items that will be up for raffle this year so far are:
1) One week in Whistler - donated by The Honda Way in Abbotsford.
2) One evening stay free at the Sunrise Ridge Resort on Vancouver Island (value $175.00).
3) Round of golf for 4 including carts - donated by Arrowsmith Golf and Country Club.
This is only 3 items, we have many, many more.
Monkey Nutz racing in Vancouver has also added sponsorship in the form of a donation of 2 motul 300v gift certificates worth approximately 200 each. Mt Washington has offered up some free Ski passes and Tubing passed for the upcoming season. Items continue to come in. Saunders Subaru will also be donating items again this year. We have also been offered as a donated raffle item, a gift certificate worth $50,000 yen towards a JDM imported car from Pacific Coast JDM in Japan.
Just a reminder that you MUST per-register for this event. I need to have rough numbers for ordering food, letting sponsors know about how many freebie items to provide, as well as to align arrival and departure times at each checkpoint so we can finish up in time for dinner at Mt Washington. When registering you have the option to select if you are 100%, more than 50%, or less than 50% committed to attending. Please if you are seriously thinking of attending, register early to help me out.
Register here:
There is only 2 months left and I have to cut off registration two weeks before the event so food orders can be put in. I will only be able to allow a handful of entries beyond that date. Payments will be required two weeks before the event as well.
Thanks in advance.
Registrations continue to trickle in, thanks to everyone that has registered, and to those that have already paid. We need to have 60 people attend the event to break even on the dinners. To get the deal that we do on dinners we have to commit to 60 people and we have hit that this week, assuming everyone on the list below attends. We just hit 34 cars which is great two months out. I am hoping to hit 40 cars this year but 50 would be very nice.
I am continuing to receive raffle items and adding to our sponsorship list. Closer to the date I will post up all of the raffle items that we have received so you have a good idea what will be offered.
I have started to compile the maps for this year as well. There are a few changes but all positive ones. Again I am making every effort to stay off the highways where we can, so we can enjoy the coast and it's abundance of twisties. Being as we have added two new CheckPoints, obviously there will be changes. It is challenging coming up with the map routes and keeping in mind the time it takes to do the route..., I can only say it will be BETTER than last year (as hard as that was to beat).
Please if anyone knows of anyone that might be interested in taking part in the event, or in helping out with some sponsorship, either get them in contact with me or you contact me and I will contact them. The event again is open to all Sports, Exotics, Tuner, and Import vehicles this year, either stock or not. For those that might be interested in sponsorship, we are looking for nice items to raffle off, some freebie stuff for participation gifts, or, of course, cash donations. I can offer a tax receipt for any cash donations if you request one. Sponsors are also welcome to put in a car as a participant. I only advertise this event on car forums so please help me get the word out. Q-FM will be doing a bit of advertising for the event for us and Saunders will be posting it up on their business sign shortly.
Thanks again everyone for helping me to make this an ongoing success!!!
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To be a Jew : a guide to Jewish observance in contemporary life : selected… (edition 1991)
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To Be A Jew: A Guide To Jewish Observance In Contemporary Life by Hayim H. Donin
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Well it is very Orthodox. Makes a lot of sense though if truth be told. Maybe I am much more Orthodox than I thought.
NO OF PAGES: 338 SUB CAT I: Jewish Customs SUB CAT II: Jewish Life SUB CAT III: Jewish Law DESCRIPTION: This book provides practical information on Judaism-Jewish attitudes, Jewish philosophy, and Jewish law.NOTES: SUBTITLE: A Guide to Jewish Observance in Contemporary Life
This book is full of practical information that is the classic heritage of judaism, jewish attitudes, philosophy and law.
This is a wonderful reference for those interested in returning to an observant Jewish lifestyle (Baal Teshuva), or someone considering a halachic Orthodox conversion. Rabbi Donin covers all the major topics and issues. Donin's 'To pray as a Jew" book, is a great book to use along side this one.
A nice, cover-all-the-bases type book about Juadaism. It doesn't get into anything terribly deep, but it breaks down a lot of essentials, like what exactly you are and aren't supposed to do on the Sabbath, what Purim is, etc. I wanted a very basic introduction, and so I was very pleased with this. If Donin had gone into more detail, I think I would've been annoyed since he doesn't seem to be ok with things like inter-marriage and female rabbis and homosexuality.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0465086322, Paperback)To Be a Jew, Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin's classic guide to Jewish life, philosophy, and law has guided generations of Americans, Europeans, and Israelis to discover the treasures of their own religious traditions. First published in 1972, the book still stands as a reliable, practical and versatile resource for everyone from young girls preparing for bat mitzvah to old men returning to their spiritual roots. The book begins with an overview of Judaism's basic credo (including chapters on Israel's people, land, God, and Torah), moves on to describe the laws governing Jews' daily lives, the Jewish calendar, and "The Special Occasions of Life" from birth to death and mourning. One great strength of To Be a Jew is its blending of folk wisdom and scholarly learning. Rabbi Donin not only describes what right belief and righteous action look like but provides a rationale for these observances that engages and embraces the basic conditions of modern life. --Michael Joseph Gross
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This summer my family is moving to Chapel Hill for a few years, and having never lived there, we don't know where to begin to search for housing. We are a young, interracial, progressive family who will be living on student loans for a time. Do you know of any neighborhoods that are inexpensive (less than 800 dollars a month) yet close to services like groceries, cafes, bookstores, corner stores and that have charming rentals and a family vibe to them? Do you know of any websites that have searchable rental listings for the area? I'm looking for a lot of general advice on the area, and if you have the time and info to share, I'd love it if you could e-mail me. milkmilk
Hi -- I lived in Chapel Hill for three years when I attended law school. It's a great area, and the nice thing is that there are lots of places nearby where you can live that aren't so expensive (living in the Chapel Hill city limits is by far your most expensive option because of all the students attending UNC). I recommend Carrboro, which is an adjacent town. Depending on where you get a place, you can walk to an organic grocery store, restaurants, used books stores and the like. It's much less expensive than Chapel Hill, but very close to everything. It also has bike lanes, which is nice for getting around. Durham is about 8 miles away from Chapel Hill and is also much less expensive. If you want to get away from the students, Durham is a good bet. The only problem is that you would have to drive from Durham to Chapel Hill every day, which can take a surprisingly long time because of the amount of congestion in the area. There are also small towns all over the area that are about a 20-minute drive but are much less expensive (I'm thinking in particular of Hillsborough and Pittsboro). The drive would be on quiet country roads, not on freeways like around here. One thing I don't know about is the quality of the schools in these areas. I know Chapel Hill schools have a good reputation, but I don't know about Durham and the others. Another very slight warning: Chapel Hill and the surrounding areas are great by North Carolina standards, but if you are looking for a walking neighborhood like Albany or Piedmont Avenue, you might be disappointed. There's a lot more walking and biking in Chapel Hill than in the rest of the South, but nothing like our urban environment. That being said, it's as progressive and diverse as you are going to get in that part of the country. Feel free to email if you want more information. Good luck! amyd
We nearly moved to NC for graduate school at Chapel Hill, but decided against it. Good friends of ours did move for job opportunities. Things we liked: Less expensive, slower pace of life, great money for fellowships, very beautiful.Things we liked less: real racial stratification, not much diversity culturally, very church based social life, lots and lots of tobacco smoke everywhere you went, not very good food for vegiterreans Our friends who did move were reasonably happy for a couple of years, but have moved to New York. They missed diversity, houses with character (lots of McMansions) and their friends. They liked real school choice for their G kids, the amount of physical space they were able to buy with their dollar and the great job opportunities. They were in telecom, so the job opps are not true now, but perhaps for other areas. Linda


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Cornell head coach Jeff Tambroni talked with the University of Maryland last week in regard to its open head coaching job for men's lacrosse, but has decided not to pursue an interview, the Ithaca Journal reported on Monday afternoon.
Sources told Inside Lacrosse over the weekend that Tambroni was at the top of UM's list. He spoke to Maryland officials late last week and decided ultimately that his situation at Cornell is good enough that he is going to remain in Ithaca.
"It's a great tradition down there, a great package with the compensation and coaching an extremely talented group of kids," Tambroni told the Journal. "When it came to Maryland versus Cornell, and this is no disrespect to Maryland, I think I'm in a good place here. There's lots to be said for employee satisfaction. Our administration does a great job of taking care of our program. For me personally and my family, I think Maryland versus Cornell was made a little bit easier on our enjoyment of Ithaca and the people at Cornell."
Albany's Scott Marr would be the next candidate on UM's short list, sources tell IL. Stevenson's Paul Cantabene and Syracuse's Lelan Rogers are also in the mix, though neither had been contacted by Maryland as of Monday morning.
Marr had not been contacted by UM officials as of Saturday afternoon but told IL's Terry Foy that he has had positive conversations with Terp alums and would be interested in Maryland, where he was an assistant under Hall of Fame coach Dick Edell for six seasons.
"I've always said when I was at Maryland, it was a great environment and tradition for me to be in," Marr said Saturday. "It was a great experience to work alongside Coach [Dick] Edell, and my six years there we went to three national championship games."
"I've always said it's the one place, if I were to leave Albany, I'd want to go. I have great connections there and I know it's a good fit. Right now, "Are they interested in me?" is the big question from me. I'm interested in it, but I'm not saying it'd be automatic that I'd go there. At this point, I'd have to consider how good the opportunity is, especially for my family to move them there."
Marr just finished his 10th season at Albany, after spending six as an assistant at Maryland to Hall of Fame coach Dick Edell. He made big news in November when he signed Top 5 Senior Myles Thompson and got a verbal from No. 1 Junior Lyle Thompson from LaFayette High near Syracuse, N.Y.
Cantabene spent two seasons at Maryland as an assistant to Dave Cottle, who was forced to step down last month after the Terps fell in the NCAA Quarterfinals. The Loyola grad has also worked at Hopkins and Towson, before turning DIII Stevenson into a national power over the last few seasons.
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They have evocative names like Little Wonder, Butterleaf and Black Bulga and on a map they look like scores of tiny smudges, scattered at random like confetti up and down north-east NSW.
Labelled forest icons by conservationists, they are last stands of pristine rainforest and ancient old growth forest in the midst of timber and logging country.
When they are added up they cover 65,000 hectares, and yesterday they were earmarked for permanent protection as the Premier, Bob Carr, launched Labor's pitch for the environment vote.
Standing on a sky walk high above Dorrigo National Park, Mr Carr said a moratorium on the "icon" areas of the north-east forests had now been put in place by the Labor Government.
He said if Labor was re-elected the 65,000 hectares would be declared as 15 new national parks, state conservation areas and state forest reserves.
"This is about this generation having a conversation with the future ... it is about preserving for our children and their grandchildren the old flavour of this continent," he said.
The new additions have been shown to contain 500 different bird and animal species, including a prime koala habitat area around Pine Creek.
More than 4000 plant species have been identified in the proposed new parks and conservation areas.
Little Wonder, which covers 2543 hectares near Nambucca Heads, contains an important corridor in the New England Wilderness area and the Dungirr National Park. It is made up of old growth and rare rainforest habitat for threatened species including the powerful owl, the tiger quoll and giant barred frog.
Butterleaf is just 712 hectares, and is entirely old growth forest and is home to a population of common wombat.
The decision, welcomed yesterday by environment groups including the Wilderness Society and the Total Environment Centre, required a complex round of negotiations with the timber industry, including Boral, the area's largest miller.
The timber industry will effectively be allowed to log in what are known as buffer-on-buffer zones, using logging machines which allow removal of timber in some areas with minimal disruption and which do not affect water quality or threatened species.
Allowing access to these specified but highly restrictive areas would provide up to 50,000 cubic metres of additional timber a year.
A statement from Boral yesterday said that it welcomed increased certainty of supply and it would invest in extra capital infrastructure to cater for changing timber resources.
Mr Carr said that if all other timber companies in the region agreed, the Government could bring forward a review of timber supply levels, which had been scheduled for attention in 2006.
For the industry, the Government will also extend the timber transport subsidy for a further two years until the end of 2005.
Fire management and feral animal and weed control would be developed for the new parks and reserves in consultation with the local community.
Mr Carr said that $17.5 million had been allocated in recurrent expenditure and $7.5 million capital over the next four years to manage the new parks.
However, the National Party MP for Ballina, Don Page, said yesterday that many other local millers had not made an agreement and that the Government was sacrificing regional jobs in a last-minute pitch for green votes.
Greens MP Ian Cohen welcomed the move: "The Carr Government has stepped up and made a considerable contribution towards conservation and deserves credit for that."
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Area residents attending a presentation on Medicare and the Affordable Care Act Monday evening well-represented the cross section of views on the new law across the U.S., according to presenter Erin Ninehouser.
"Medicare and the Affordable Care Act: Fact vs. Fiction," drew about 50 from around the area to the Indiana Aging Services Center at 1055 Oak St. Most attendees were in their mid-50s and older.
When asked early in the presentation for a show of hands indicating views on the new health care law, about half raised their hands in favor and about half did when asked if they were opposed. A small number were unsure.
"I thought it was interesting, the participants in the room were a perfect representation of how people across the country feel," she said after the program.
Ninehouser, education and outreach director with the Pennsylvania Health Access Network, was invited to present by The League of Women Voters of Indiana County. Topics ranged from how to find help signing up for health insurance under the new law to how the law affects Medicare.
Regardless of varying opinions, Ninehouser said, it's important for people to know as much as possible about the Affordable Care Act, particularly from credible sources.
"Those who will benefit most believe it's bad or doesn't exist," she said.
The law went into effect about three years ago, Ninehouser said.
Her organization is working to "fill in some of the gaps" left when funding available for information dissemination and application assistance went to regions where there were more uninsured residents.
Rural areas like Indiana County had lower numbers of uninsured, she said.
Among areas her presentation touched upon were who and what is covered, how the new health care law improves Medicare and how local resources can help seniors choose a plan through the APPRISE program.
Medicare, the federal health insurance program for those 65 and older and younger people with certain disabilities, was signed into law in 1965. It also can cover those with end-stage renal failure and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
There are four parts to Medicare. Part A covers hospital, home health and skilled nursing care; Part B includes doctor's visits and medical equipment, as well as preventative and outpatient care; Part C — Medicare Advantage is offered through private insurance and Part D takes care of prescription drug coverage.
The Affordable Care Act, according to Ninehouser, strengthens Medicare in a number of ways. She told program participants the law will:
• Provide more affordable preventative care to seniors
• Offer relief from rising drug costs for individuals who face a coverage gap with Medicare Part D
• Protect Medicare's financial future
• Offer "coordinated, patient-centered and effective" care
• Through Medicare Advantage, offer quality and affordable choices that don't impact the program's long-term finances
• Offer a large network of doctors and providers
There are local resources that offer assistance with Medicare and also the Affordable Care Act, Ninehouser told the audience. She shared several options, such as the APPRISE health care counseling program, which is available in Indiana Borough at the Aging Services Center. At Medicare's website, site visitors can enter their zip code and compare health care plans in their area.
She also mentioned PACE and PACENET are programs offering prescriptions for low-income seniors in Pennsylvania.
After the program, Dreama VanCise, of Indiana, a nurse and League of Women Voters member, said she thought it was good to hear the facts about the health care law.
The American Nursing Association, of which she is a member, asks nurses to stay informed about the law to better serve patients.
"It puts patients on edge, the unknown," she said.
She said she believes the Affordable Health Care Act is a "law in the right direction."
Indiana eye surgeon Tom Trevorrow thinks otherwise.
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"I'm afraid it's going to break both the government budget and the health care system," he said.
Though he thought the discussion on accessing services was fine, Trevorrow said, he had been hoping to see more of a panel discussion format, rather than "an advocate for one side."
According to Sherene Hess, a White Township resident and president of The League of Women Voters of Indiana County, the program's goal was to provide information to seniors and others with questions about health care.
"The league is a nonpartisan organization," she said. "We do a lot of work helping people to become informed on issues."
"What our speaker talked about was the facts of the law. I think people have some questions because there is some complexity."
PHOTO: Erin Ninehouser of the PA Health Access network spoke Monday at Aging Services Inc. about the Affordable Care Act. (Teri Enciso/Gazette photo)
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Brian Herschel Tucci, 36, of Fairview Heights, IL, born January 11, 1971, at Scott Air Force Base, IL, died Thursday, July 26, 2007, at Memorial Hospital, Belleville, IL. Brian had the sweetest smile and was loved by everyone who met him.He was preceded in death by a brother, Andrew Ryan Tucci; his paternal grandfather, Angelo Tucci; and his maternal grandparents, Herschel L. and Lillian A. Walsh.He is survived by his parents, James E. and Sharon K., nee Walsh, Tucci of Fairview Heights, IL;a sister, Jennifer E. Tucci and her fiance, Nathan Tebbe, of Fishers, IN;and numerous great-aunts and great-uncles. Memorials may be made to Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital, St. Louis, MO, or to the charity of the donor's choice. Condolences may be expressed to the family online at www.rennerfh.com. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday, July 29, 2007, at George Renner & Sons Funeral Home, Belleville, IL. Funeral procession will leave at 9:40 a.m. Monday, July 30, 2007, from George Renner & Sons Funeral Home, Belleville, IL, for a 10 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Belleville, IL. Burial will be at Lake View Memorial Gardens, Fairview Heights, IL.
I hope that you remember me from Sunday church services at 8 a.m. I pretty much quit going to chuch when our son became paralyzed. I also used to teach at Whiteside School. I was so sorry to read of your son's death. We lost our son, John, two years ago. I'm sure that Brian's passing has left a void in your lives as well as your hearts. Please accept our condolances. Sincerely, Joyce and Frank Eiserle
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South African author (and Apex Book of World SF 2 contributor) Lauren Beukes's hotly-anticipated new novel, The Shining Girls, is now out!
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We were at Stones, playing pool, drinking, goofing around, maybe hoping to score a little sugar, when Kendra arrived, all moffied up and gloaming like an Aito/329. "Ahoy, Special K, where you been, girl, so juiced to kill?" Tendeka asked while he racked up the balls, all click-clack in their white plastic triangle. Old school this pool bar was. But Kendra didn't answer. Girl just grinned, reached into her back pocket for her phone, hung skate-rat style off a silver chain connected to her belt, and infra'd five Rand to the table to get tata machance on the next game.
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The South African Mail & Guardian reports on the recent science fiction and fantasy in the city panel from the M&G literary festival in Johannesburg:
South African writers who dare to venture into the fantastical are accused of writing "untruths", said Gwen Ansell, chairing "Science Fiction and Fantasy in the City" at the M&G Literary Festival.
Ansell and panellists Tom Learmont, Lauren Beukes, Louis Greenberg and Sarah Lotz put the spotlight on "speculative fiction": an umbrella genre encompassing science fiction, horror, fantasy, the supernatural, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction. South African Neill Blomkamp's blockbuster movie, District 9, is a cinematic version.
Ansell suggested that such fiction could instil a sense of "wonder and hope" in young readers because it explored a world of endless possibilities. She called on local publishers to promote the genre because "children need to stop reading Charles Dickens".
Lotz, author of Dead Lands (a young-adult horror novel about a zombie apocalypse in the mountainous suburbs of Cape Town) said South African fantasy is rooted in an awareness of sociopolitical issues. Not necessarily an attractive combination for those who read only "to escape".
Greenberg agreed with Ansell that the most successful stories juxtapose fantasy and horror with familiar settings. "You don't have to make up environments. There's enough in South African cities to scare us," he said.
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Greenberg and Lotz co-authored the horror novel, The Mall, under the pseudonym SL Grey. "We took an existing city [Johannesburg] and created a new one beneath it, one that feeds off it like a tick," said Lotz.
Beukes, author of Zoo City, which won the world's premier science fiction prize — the 2011 Arthur C Clarke Award — said overseas recognition was not enough. She called for greater local support for science fiction — not only from publishers, but from literary scholars, parents and readers.
Beukes celebrated the "subversive nature" of urban fantasy in South African literature. "It allows writers to critique and educate about the human condition in an interesting and creative way," she said. Beukes compared this with other countries, where the genre tends to be more "conservative", and full of "castles, kings and princesses" — references that are "removed" from South African children.
Ansell and her panel's vigorous presentation of the merits of the genre proved to be a pre-emptive riposte to a later festival session in which literary scholar Leon de Kock derided speculative fiction as "a cute and fuzzy thing".
Ansell hailed the influence of social media in making books more accessible to local readers. The new technology, she said, should challenge publishers to reduce the prices of books in stores.
Angry Robot 99p Summer Promotion
Angry Robot Books have teamed up with Amazon UK to offer a range of their e-books for just 99p over the summer, including several of their international titles! The promotion runs throughout July and August.
Titles available:
Moxyland by Lauren Beukes (South Africa)
The Bookman by Lavie Tidhar (Israel/South Africa)
Servant of the Underworld by Aliette de Bodard (France)
Slights by Kaaron Warren and Walking the Tree by Kaaron Warren (Australia)
Short Story Highlight: "Unathi Battles The Black Hairballs" by Lauren Beukes
South African author, winner of the recent Clarke Award, Lauren Beukes' new story, "Unathi Battles The Black Hairballs" (originally published in South African anthology Home Away in 2010) is now available to read online at SFX Magazine:
Unathi was singing karaoke when the creature attacked Tokyo. Or rather, she was about to sing karaoke. Was, in fact, about to be the very first person in Shibuya's Big Echo to break in the newly uploaded Britney come-back hip-hop remix of the Spice Girls' classic 'Tell Me What You Want (What You Really Really Want)'.
It was, admittedly, early in the day to be breaking out the microphone, but Unathi was on shore leave, and the truth was that she and the rest of Saiko Squadron weren't up early so much as they were still going from last night, lubricated on a slick of sake that ran from here to Tokohama.
Unathi stepped up onto the table in their private booth, briefly giving her madoda a flash of white briefs under her pleated miniskirt. When she was on duty as Flight Sergeant of the squadron, she kept strictly to her maroon and grey flightsuit or the casual comfort of her military-issue tracksuit.
In her private life, however, Unathi tended to be outrageous. Back in Johannesburg, before she'd been recruited to the most elite mecha squadron on the planet, she hung out at 44 Stanley and Newtown, where she'd been amakipkip to the max. Named for the cheap multicoloured popcorn, the neo-pantsula gangster-punk aesthetic had her pairing purple skin-tight jeans with eye-bleeding oranges and greens, and a pair of leopard-print heels, together with her Mohawk, added five inches to her petite frame.
In her newly adopted home, she tended towards Punk Lolita. And not some Gwen Stefani Harajuku-wannabe Lolipunk either. In civvies, she wore a schoolgirl skirt cut from an antique kimono that had survived the bombing of Hiroshima according to the garment dealer's providence and she'd grown her hair out into little twists that were more combat-friendly than her Mohawk. But the highlight of her look was a pair of knee-high white patent combat boots made from the penis leather of a whale she had slaughtered herself. – continue reading!
The Guardian is "Putting South African science fiction on the map"
Over at the Guardian, a nice article on South African science fiction:
As you might expect, a lot of South African writing is informed by the country's own recent history – how could it fail to be? Apartheid rears its head in one form or another both in Zoo City, where the animalled are segregated, and in The Mall, where the "browns" find their way from our world to the book's nightmarish mirror-world. And that, perhaps, is part of the attraction: speculative fiction works best when it refracts real life through a fantastical lens, and magnifies, and perhaps tries to make sense of, the mundane. South Africa has had a lot of real life in the past few decades.
Beukes is certainly doing her bit to put South African SF on the map. With SL Grey coming up next and their fellow authors grabbing a lot of attention, it might well be that South African spec fiction is going to be this year's Scandinavian crime novel scene for British readers. – read the full article.
SF Signal interviews Lauren Beukes
SF Signal interviews Lauren Beukes, who recently won the Arthur C. Clarke award. Here's an excerpt:
SFS: Why do you not address race directly in your books?
LB: I do. It's there in every situation. It's implicit, and that's my experience of it, and that's my friends' experience. You know, it's not something that always comes out in ordinary conversation. It's just there. It's omnipresent in society. No-one would ask a British novelist, why didn't you bring in the council estates? Why didn't you deal with the immigration issue? It's because it's part of the background texture. It's always interesting to me when people worry about that, because it is there.
Guest Blog: Lauren Beukes on Writing the Other
Editor's Note: Congrats to Lauren Beukes for winning the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award.
Writing The Other is a sensitive topic. It should be. Not least because it's so often been done so very, very, badly.
But the truth is that unless you're writing autobiography, any character you write is going to be The Other.
I am not a serial killer. (Unless my multiple personalities are hiding something from me.) I am also not a 50s housewife, a parking attendant, a car-jacking reality TV star, a Ugandan email scammer, a Tokyo mecha pilot, or a future-world stubborn-as-heck gay anti-corporate activist. And even though my novelist friends Thando Mgqolozana and Zukiswa Wanner like to joke that I'm a black girl trapped in a white girl's skin, I'm not Zoo City's hip, fast-talking, ex-journo, ex-junkie black Joburg girl protagonist, Zinzi.
I don't have a lot of patience for authors who say they'd be too scared to write a character outside their cultural experience. Because we do that all the time. It's called using your imagination.
The other people I don't have a lot of patience for are the ones too lazy to do any research. I heard a radio interview recently with a poet who had written a whole book of verse about the sex workers in Amsterdam's red light district and the incredible empathy she had for these women and how she tried to climb inside their heads to really expose the painful reality of their experiences.
Number of sex workers she interviewed or even tried to engage in a casual chat to get that in-depth insight into the painful reality of their experiences?
Sometimes imagination isn't enough on its own. People are people. We love. We hate. We bleed. We itch. We succumb to Mazlow's hierarchy of needs and traffic makes us pissy. But culture and race and sexuality and even language are all lenses that shape our experiences of the world and who we are in it.
The only way to climb into that experience is to research it, through books or blogs or documentaries or journalism or, most importantly and obviously, talking to people.
I was lucky to have good friends like Lindiwe Nkutha, Nechama Brodie, Verashni Pillay and Zukiswa Wanner who were all willing to take me round Johannesburg AND read the manuscript afterwards to make sure that I got the cultural details of the people – and the city – right.
I read books on Hillbrow, like Kgebetli Moele's Room 207, watched documentaries and movies and turned to Twitter to get expert first-hand info on city details like storm drain entrances and good places to dump a body (!).
I chatted to music producers and journalists to understand the South African music industry and interviewed refugees like Jamala Safari to get insight into what he'd been through (and referred him to my publisher when he mentioned he'd written a novel about his journey from the DRC to Cape Town).
I visited the Central Methodist Church where 4000 refugees were sheltering in the worst conditions that were the best possible option for them in that moment, got bounced from The Rand Club, paid for a consultation with a sangoma (who diagnosed a dark shadow over my life and recommended I sacrifice a black chicken) and did follow-up interviews with other traditional healers to make sure I was on track on the details before I twisted them to my fictional purposes. And I spent a week just walking round Hillbrow and talking to people.
As my official "culture editor", Zukiswa Wanner busted me a couple of times on inaccuracies – almost all of them on inner city living details, like Zinzi stopping to buy a single Stuyvesant cigarette from a street vendor. "No ways, dude, I'm sorry, it would be a Remington Gold. That's the cheap generic," or providing the correct slang for the ubiquitous plastic woven rattan suitcases used by refugees: "amashangaan"
"But is Zinzi black enough?" I asked her, after going through all the notes in her commissioned reader's report which hadn't addressed the point even once.
Zukiswa laughed at me. It hadn't occurred to her.
"Oh Zinz is hip and black enough," she said, "Fuck anyone who questions that. What does that even mean? Don't worry about it. I too am going to be catching flak. I write purely from the male perspective in Men of the South so you'll have company."
No-one (yet) has given me flak for being a white South African writing a black South African. And Zukiswa's Men of the South was just short-listed for the Herman Charles Bosman prize. She says she only gets flak from people who assume she's a man and that Zukiswa is a pseudonym.
In the end, I think my question should never have been "Is Zinzi black enough?" but "is she Zinzi enough"? Because it's not about creating one-trick ponies that reflect some quintessential property of what we think being Other is about. It's about creating complex, deep, rich characters driven by their own motivations and shaped by their experiences.
People are different. There are things we don't get about each other. Usually it's because we haven't asked.
So ask.
And then write.
Lauren Beukes nominated for Clarke Award!
Congratulations are in order to South African author – and contributor to the forthcoming The Apex Book of World SF 2 – Lauren Beukes, who is nominated for the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award for her novel, Zoo City! Locus report the full list of nominees.
Short Story Highlight: "Ghost Girl" by Lauren Beukes
Our first story highlight for the year! You can click on the Short Story Highlight tag to see previous posts, where we highlight various stories by international writers.
Fantasy Magazine starts off the season, with South African writer Lauren Beukes' story, Ghost Girl:
You think of a city as a map, all knotted up in the bondage of grid lines imposed by town planners. But really, it's a language—alive, untidy, ungrammatical. The meaning of things rearranges. The scramble of the docks turns hipster cool and the inner city's faded glamour gives way to tenement blocks rotting from the inside. It develops its own accent, its own slang.
Sometimes it drops a sentence. Sometimes the sentence finds you. And won't shut up.
I'm walking through the gardens on my way to an exhibition on Pancho Guedes, the crazy post-modern Mozambican-Portuguese architect, because that's my major if you hadn't guessed (only 3 ½ years to go). A voice drifts down out of a tree and says, "Hey, cute student guy, wait up…"
A girl drops down from the branches where she's been perching like some tree frog in black. She starts strolling along behind me, imitating my walk like a bad mime.
I turn, irritated. "What are you doing?"
"Attaching," she says. "It's what the dead do when they get lonely." – continue reading!
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Bing & Fox News Launch Real-Time Comments Feed For State Of The Union
'Bing Pulse' will gain real-time feedback from Americans every 5 seconds about their reactions to the President's speech.
Bing and Fox News are launching a live online poll for the State of the Union address. Mark Penn, corporate vice president at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post that a recent Bing survey found nearly 75% of Americans identified themselves as active participants or observers in online political discussions.
An interactive State of the Union site has been created to meet the growing need for up-to-the-minute political info and second-screen experiences. The site will feature 'Bing Pulse', which will enable Americans to give real-time feedback on the President's speech.
It allows people to join the conversation through online polls generated every five seconds by sharing their positive, negative or neutral reactions to what they hear. Real-time results of the Bing Pulse, which Penn believes will be the largest live online poll in history, will appear on the site and the Fox News Channel.
Bing will also track social sentiment on Twitter during the speech with the 'Bing Beat'. This will analyze issues associated with the State of the Union such as immigration, gun control, and the fiscal cliff.


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We've got a lot of runners on staff at SELF, from Running Virgins to Ironwomen. So it's no wonder we flipped when we heard about Stridebox, in a sign-me-up, why-didn't-I-think-of-this, where-have-you-been-all-my-life kinda way. I mean, what endurance athlete (or mere running slash gear enthusiast) wouldn't want cute lil' boxes of fitness-related goodies delivered to her door on the cheap? It's like getting a really loaded race-day goodie bag every month, without having to sign up for the race. Score.
Stridebox works similarly to the wildly successful beauty sample service Birchbox. (Sidenote: Have you seen our #NailArt Pinterest board we collaborated with 'em now?) Every month you're billed $15, and in return you get a curated box of individual-sized treats: In this case, it's sports nutrition gels and gummies, accessories like socks and wrist wallets, and coupons for bigger-ticket items, like shoes and apparel.
We love it for several reasons: One, it's always fun to test out new flavors and textures of running fuel, especially if you don't have to pay full price or commit to buying a whole pack. Two, it's already helped us discover some cool new products — like Win laundry detergent (specially formulated for your technical workout gear) and Click espresso protein drink, both in Stridebox's March package, pictured above. Plus, it's like giving yourself a surprise present every month. And it's GOOD. FOR. YOU.
Stridebox just launched in February and it's picking up steam fast; its full-size April boxes are already sold out, but you can sign up now for May and still get a mini-box next month for $5. And you know what's going to be in that box? A kick in the pants. Because, really, you're not gonna eat those Gu's while just sitting on the couch … are you?
Love Stridebox as much as we do? Let us know! Tweet us at @amandaemac and @SELFmagazine.
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Cocoa~Latte Almond Milk Steamer
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|Patriots Look Poised For Another Super Bowl Run
|Bruins Trade For Drew Stafford
|Black and Gold Bruins Turn Yellow On Parade Day
|Inconsistency Will Continue For Bruins Unless A Change Is Made
When the Boston Red Sox brought Adrian Gonzalez from cavernous Petco Park in San Diego to the cozy confines of Fenway Park, the team had visions of record-setting performances from their new slugger.
Just not the record he set on Sunday.
Just when it seemed Gonzalez had perhaps turned a corner with a pair of three-hit games against the Baltimore Orioles, he set the record for Red Sox futility out of the clean-up spot with an 0-for-8 showing that included a three-pitch strikeout against Orioles first baseman Chris Davis. He represented the tying run.
With two more multi-hit games and a three-run double in Kansas City, giving him 11 hits in his last 32 at-bats, maybe Gonzalez has finally figured it out. Maybe I can stop worrying whether Will Middlebrooks can replace the production of Kevin Youkilis and Gonzalez. Maybe I can stop crying over Gonzalez's failure to contribute to my fantasy team. But the question still stands (and hopefully I'm correct in putting it in the past tense): what was wrong with Adrian Gonzalez?
Every time I look up during one of Gonzalez's at-bats, there already seems to be two strikes against him. Needless to say, that is not a position a hitter wants to be in if he wants to do any damage at the plate (unless it is the "self-inflicted" variety).
Of course, with his recent surge, Gonzalez is batting a mildly respectable .279, but with a noticeable lack of power. Through almost a fifth of the season, he has just 10 extra base hits, and only two home runs (merely one more than the famously floundering Albert Pujols). His slugging percentage is over .100 points lower than his career average (.393 compared to .510). His struggles are particularly puzzling considering Gonzalez is now healthy, having fully recovered from shoulder surgery which he has admitted affected his swing and power in 2011.
The power problem might originate with Gonzalez's plate discipline. Looking into ESPN's splits breaking down Gonzalez's at-bats by count, two-strike counts account for nearly half of Gonzalez's total at-bats (53 of 118), with just eight hits to show for it. On top of that, he's only worked the count to three balls on 26 occasions. That includes five (hitless) at-bats with a 3-1 count; a small sample size, yes, but that's exactly part of the problem.
According the advanced stats at FanGraphs, Gonzalez consistently swings at a higher percentage of pitches than the average major leaguer (51.6% vs. 45.1%). The discrepancy is about the same on pitches out of the zone (35% vs. 29.3% league average), and it probably isn't a coincidence he's on pace for his lowest walk rate since 2007.
Now, swinging at a higher percentage of pitches out of the strike zone isn't necessarily a bad thing. Josh Hamilton is among the league leaders in that category, and he just swatted four home runs in a single game. But Gonzalez makes much more frequent contact with such pitches, connecting on 77.3% of pitches he swings at off the plate (compared to just 54.3% for Hamilton). At the same time, Gonzalez is swinging at 75.5% of pitches in the zone, which suggests he isn't being selective looking for good pitches to hit, in turn leading to more weak ground outs and shallow fly-outs.
Between swinging at blatant balls and borderline strikes, Gonzalez is unsurprisingly struggling to drive the ball with any authority. Gonzalez only has home runs on 5.3% of his fly balls, not only drastically below his career average of 16.7%, but lower even than his rookie stint with the Texas Rangers in 2004. He is also hitting line drives – only the best way to get a hit, mind you – at his lowest rate in four years.
As mentioned, Gonzalez is starting to hit the ball a little better recently. In an excellent piece by the Boston Globe's Peter Abraham, Gonzalez was adamant this is merely an early season phase he will swing himself out of (hopefully not literally, considering his plate discipline seems to be at least part of the problem). He admitted to "forcing it a little bit" now that he feels truly healthy and able to drive the ball, but insisted that his numbers would be right where he and Red Sox Nation expect them to be.
"The only thing I can say is that when the last day of the season comes, [his slugging percentage] is going to be over .500 and the on-base is going to around .400. You may not see it right now because it's May 7. But I promise you when the season is over, the slugging will be over .500 and the on-base will be around .400. It is every year."
We certainly hope so. But words are wind, and unless that wind is blowing out, there's only one way to set the record straight.
Tags: Adrian Gonzalez, Albert Pujols, FanGraphs, Kevin Youkilis, Peter Abraham, Will Middlebrooks


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Hill Receives AHA Fellowship
Michael Hill, a post-doctoral researcher working for ICES Professor Michael Sacks, has been awarded a two-year American Heart Association (AHA) fellowship. He will receive an annual stipend of approximately $42,000 along with a $4,000 support package to help defray his training-related expenses, such as travel to scientific meetings, publications, supplies, and equipment.
The fellowship will support Hill's development of a computational growth and remodeling model of hypertrophy, or enlargement, of the heart's right ventricle (RV). Hypertrophy is a response to high blood pressure in the pulmonary arteries that supply blood to the lungs, a condition known as pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Increased pressure on the RV from PAH makes the right side of the heart work harder than normal. Over time, this causes the RV wall to become thicker, due to the growth and remodeling response, eventually leading to right ventricle failure. Currently there are limited treatment options for PAH. The clinical goal is to use the model to help develop and evaluate promising new treatment methods.
Hill will conduct his research through the ICES Center for Cardiovascular Simulation (CCS), which he joined in March 2012 after earning his Ph.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh in December 2011.
The fellowship was made possible through the Southwest Affiliate of the American Heart Association.
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Hong Kong Wedding Photographers
If you choose one of our WPJA Hong Kong wedding photojournalists as your wedding photographer, please let them know you found them through the Wedding Photojournalist Association.
The WPJA at a glance: The Wedding Photojournalist Association puts the best Hong Kong wedding photographers at your fingertips, by granting membership only to the most talented professional wedding photographers in the world--photographers who focus solely on using their documentary photography skills to capture 'the moments' of your wedding day.
An Ant Capture: Rico TsuiCauseway Bay, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
inHim Photography Ltd: Zoe HoHong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
Zoe was once a full time designer and interested in pinhole photography. She thinks that camera is only a tool but the soul of the photo is the concept and interaction. Her photography style is based on the above belief. The only way to capture the...
John LeeMa On Shan, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
Johnleegraphy is found in 2009, and over the past 7 years I becoming the active member of WPJA, AGWPJA, BOWP, and FEARLESS. I specialize in wedding photography with a distinctive photojournalistic style in Hong Kong. My many satisfied clients...
Jamie OusbyMid Levels, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
Hi I'm Jamie! I'm a British Destination Wedding Photographer based in Hong Kong serving Asia and the world. I am a member of WPJA, a Fearless Photographer and have been featured in publications such as Hong Kong Tatler and Time Out Hong Kong among...
Patrick Photography: Patrick LawHong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
History Studio: Wai KongMong Kok, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
I am Kong Wai (江威), currently based in Hong Kong and available for inbound and outbound travel tasks. I love photography, art directing, design, song writing, playing music, traveling and Jesus. I have been a graphic / advertising designer for...
Tanarak Photography: Tanarak Visessonchoke, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
I'm Tanarak, a Hong Kong wedding photographer. Originally from Thailand, Tanarak has lived and worked in Singapore, Paris, and Hong Kong and is inspired by different wedding cultures and traditions. He aims to make photos fresh and unique,...
The.M.Photo: Mizuki FanHong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
Wilson TamHong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
Van WongKwun Tong, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
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I am Sunny, based Hong Kong photographer.I started my shooting when I was young,and I have be a wedding photographer 4 years .I like travel so much. I like photogrpahy, I believed each couples must have their own stories. I have ,you have. All...
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Johnson is an experienced photographer based in Hong Kong/Shenzhen. He is specialised in capturing your natural emotions and inner beauty when you are in a most relaxed status. Photojournalism is his way of work. Instead of the traditional "...
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Malaysia & Singapore Wedding Photographer. I just love capturing the images and memory which uncovers emotions, love, eternity and colours that is timeless and priceless. Back years, the decision to change from engineer turn wedding photographer...
Pam LauhachaiChatuchak in Bangkok, Thailand
Pam Lauhachai is a destination wedding photographer based in Bangkok. She was ranked 11th in Top Wedding Photographers for 2010 by WPJA. Her works cover an intimate wedding on the beach to luxurious exclusive weddings.
Jerome GohSingapore, Singapore
I am a Professional Wedding photographer and my style of wedding photography is Journalistic and documentary, I capture "Moments" during the wedding day, little moments that no knows happened. At the same time I will document the biggest day of your...
Supanit RiansrivilaiJatujak in Bangkok, Thailand
Supanit's passion for photography emerged since a young age and flourished during her years in Paris where she pursued her Master of Arts in Professional Photography. Supanit sees the world through her lens and speaks her words through her images...
Liam CollardPhuket in Phuket, Thailand
Liam Collard's innovative photojournalistic style combined with his creative lighting expertise and enthusiasm to work closely with "to be" bride and grooms, offers the perfect combination for couples looking for extraordinary wedding photography...
Getting Married in Hong Kong
Known for being a region where east meets west, Hong Kong is certainly a fast-paced city with breathtaking sites and a variety of cultural experiences that will add uniqueness, excitement and beauty to a wedding celebration. Hong Kong is primarily comprised of Hong Kong Island, Lantau Island, the Kowloon Peninsula and the New Territories. In total, there are 262 islands and peninsulas in the South China Sea to enjoy that are a part of Hong Kong. Lantau is the largest island while Hong Kong Island, home to the capital city of Victoria, is the second largest, and the most populated.
Couples who celebrate their wedding day in Hong Kong will be able to embrace the modern culture and historical Chinese traditions together. Often times red, a symbolic color of prosperity is used for the brides wedding banquet dress and for the envelopes that guests place gifts of money into, called laisee. The colors of Hong Kong weddings are dynamic and will be creatively captured by your own wedding photographer. Hong Kong is known for being the busiest deepwater port in the world, so capturing incredible views is a priceless opportunity, especially from the top of Victoria Peakwhich will give you the proper placement to observe the whole city and even have special wedding photos taken. Beaches are in plenty in Hong Kong, especially in the outlying islands that are uninhabited; where you can explore the mountains or have your wedding photojournalist capture you surrounded with the seascape of breathtaking Hong Kong.
WPJA Hong Kong Photographers will travel to:
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You are a talented and accommodating photographer. Booking you and your team was very simple and throughout the lead-up to our wedding...
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Huge hugs and thanks Tanarak and your team for capturing all the sweet and unforgettable moments of our wedding on Christmas Eve in...
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.....I got the giant box of goodies from Cal yesterday! WOW.....such AMAZING work and detail!
As with everyone...the helmet is gonna need some work to make it fit but it's soooooo beautiful I can hardly wait to start working on it! The gauntlets are amazing and the shins, chest armor and the rest are all fantastic!
Thanks Cal!
Now I have to go back and re-read all the tips and hints on how to make this all look like Zam!


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The Chargers clutched their second win at home in as many televised blackouts thanks to juggernaut performances from Philip Rivers, Mike Tolbert, Antonio Gates and Shaun Phillips, who combined to facilitate an early lead, posting a 21-point advantage by halftime.
Phillips successfully kicked the Cardinals when they were down. The Cardinals used QBs Derek Anderson and Max Hall; Phillips had no problem reaching either one. Philips added insult to injury with a pick-six, marking his first interception since 2007. Phillips' four-sack game was a first for the seven-year pro.
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Ryan Mathews joined the party in the second half. Mathews successfully hung on to the ball on all nine carries, his first complete game without a fumble. He also had another first against the Cardinals, scoring his first career touchdown from 15 yards out in the third quarter.
Nate Kaeding contributed to the final score with a pair of field goals. He hit from 48 and 47 yards after an earlier miss from 38.
The Chargers easily stopped the Cardinals on Arizona's offensive outings. The Cardinals well-documented quarterback snafus have changed the Cardinals from a pass-happy football team to one that relies more on its ground game.
The Chargers took both approaches out of the equation.
Despite the return of Beanie Wells, the Chargers held the Cardinals to 47 yards on the ground. The Cardinals were without WRs Early Doucet and Steve Breaston, but the Chargers kept Larry Fitzgerald to only 56 yards, with the rest of the group combining for less than 100 yards.
Ron Rivera's unit was unrelenting with five defenders adding sacks to the box score: Phillips, Jyles Tucker, Kevin Burnett (two), Travis Johnson and Antonio Garay.
Arizona's Greg Toler was the only player wearing red to reach Rivers. The second-year, small-school corner not only earned the first sack of his career, but also forced a fumble on Darren Sproles, which Kerry Rhodes got his hands on and returned 42 yards for the Cardinals' only touchdown.
Hall's most successful drive, with a combo of short passes and short runs, put the Cardinals into field-goal position late in the fourth quarter. But Jay Feely's kick only cut San Diego's lead to 31.
Chargers take it, 41-10.
What are Chargers fans saying about Sunday's win? See in the message boards.
Amberly Dressler is a long-time contributor to the Scout.com network. She has worked as a reporter for SDBoltReport.com and as the publisher for the network's Arizona Cardinals site, AZRedReport.com.