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We Need to Talk About Genetic Engineering
Sleepwalking toward a revolution.
The most important news of the week was buried underneath an avalanche of dispatches involving palace intrigue in the White House and the Republican Party's effort to deconstruct the Affordable Care Act. A team of scientists at the Oregon Health and Science University had, according to the MIT Technology Review, used a relatively new gene-editing technique to alter the DNA of a single-cell human embryo.
"Although none of the embryos were allowed to develop for more than a few days—and there was never any intention of implanting them into a womb—the experiments are a milestone on what may prove to be an inevitable journey toward the birth of the first genetically modified humans," the report read. This represents the first known (emphasis on known) effort to genetically modify a human embryo, and it won't be the last.
The speed with which this scientific milestone was reached has outpaced society's ability to process it. Already, the outlines of a conflict over the nature of this practice—its ethicality, its utility, and its displacing effects on the American workforce—are visible, but no one seems prepared to talk about them. What was once science fiction is perfectly thinkable today. It's time to do some thinking.
First, it is incumbent upon Americans of all political stripes—not just conservatives or the faithful—to consider the moral implications of embryonic genetic engineering. In April of 2015, National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins issued a statement pledging that "NIH will not fund any use of gene-editing technologies in human embryos," but this prohibition does not apply to private endeavors. Public ethos guides private industry, but what is public philosophy regarding the interference with genetic destiny?
Are we obliged to eradicate genetic disorders? Is it unethical not to intervene in the development of an embryo if we have the capacity to alleviate future suffering and hardship? Is it morally questionable to select for various cosmetic traits that prospective parents might find desirable? Do we engage in this process of upending the natural order without knowing the long-term effects of genetic manipulation? Is a modified population a form of eugenics?
This leads us to ponder the public-policy implications of a world in which genetic modification is a fact of life. NIH guidelines will constrain some in the United States from overreaching, but every nation will have its own standards, and genetic medical tourism is undoubtedly the industry of the future. Should Congress seek to limit or even prohibit the practice of elective embryonic genetic engineering? Is such a notion constitutional, to say nothing of economically and socially advantageous?
The American right is guaranteed to be suspicious of an activity that intervenes in the spheres of natural life previously exclusive to the divine. "I don't trust 'the scientists' to regulate themselves," wrote National Review's Wesley Smith. "Mr. President: We need a presidential bioethics/biotechnology commission now!" A commission is fine, but one with an eye toward restricting technological advance is swimming against the tide. Scientific achievement cannot be prevented—Pandora's Box cannot be un-opened, and it is far better that the person doing the opening is someone subject to laws and mores than someone beyond those constraints. Smith's fear is, however, valid. It's reminiscent of the way in which automation crashed over the American economy like a tsunami.
Simple robots have been stealing away from Americans the ability to be paid for the completion of rote tasks for over a generation, but it was the onset of artificial intelligence that truly upended the economy. Only in the last few years were occupations previously thought immune to the effects of technology imperiled; office administration, sales and service jobs, and transportation may all headed for the chopping block. In February of 2016, Citibank in coordination with the University of Oxford predicted that automation will threaten 47 percent of existing U.S. jobs.
The effect of this radically disruptive technological revolution on American politics is only just beginning to be felt. What seemed like science fiction only a few years ago—for example, increasingly ubiquitous self-piloted commercial and military vehicles and self-service kiosks at food and retail outlets—are a reality today. And they will create an army of otherwise unemployable low-skilled workers who demand some legislative remedy for their condition. Is the prospect of a stratified, dystopian society envisioned in films like "Gattaca" so hard to envision? If not, how can it be prevented before those class structures become intractable? Is genetic modification at birth a privilege reserved for the nation's wealthiest, or should all Americans have access to a potentially life-saving therapy?
These all seem like far-fetched questions today, but they might be standard in only five or ten years. Society's capacity to cope with technological advance is not infrequently outpaced by the speed of those advances, and genetic modification will surely not buck that trend. It is, however, incumbent upon us to think about the consequences of that civilization-shaping breakthrough; what could go wrong, how it will benefit mankind, and how best to guide its development. The American right has as many modern Ned Ludds as do their progressive counterparts. There will be those who rage against technological advance as though it could be stopped, but it cannot. Therefore, it's time to ask a number of uncomfortable questions. They'll be answered one way or another, with us or without.
A Man With a Plan?
Podcast: Is it a purge or a plan? Or both!
On the second of this week's podcasts, I get into it with Noah Rothman on whether the president's behavior toward his attorney general and the new White House communications director's conduct toward the White House chief of staff constitute a "plan" of action or whether we are just living through nihilistic chaos. Where does Abe Greenwald come out? You'll have to give a listen.
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Playing Transgender Politics
Posturing, not policy.
On Wednesday morning, at 8:55 a.m., President Trump tweeted: "After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow…" Many in the Pentagon wondered if he was announcing military action against North Korea, which, according to new intelligence estimates, is set to field a nuclear-tipped ICBM as early as next year. Not until nine minutes later was the suspense lifted with another presidential tweet: "…Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military."
Alarm in defense circles soon turned to befuddlement: Why was Trump making this announcement? And why now? There was no immediate indication that the president had consulted with Defense Secretary James Mattis, who is on vacation, or notified other senior military leaders. The Pentagon referred all inquiries to the White House. When pressed for details, the White House had none. "That's something the Department of Defense and the White House will have to work out," a spokesman told reporters.
So the president is tweeting first and then leaving it to someone else to work out the actual policy he just announced.
This is all the odder because Mattis had committed to a comprehensive, six-month study, not due to be finished until December, of whether the military should accept new transgender recruits. Several GOP congress members, meanwhile, had introduced legislation to prevent the military's health insurance plan from paying for gender reassignment surgery (which costs ten times less than what the military spends annually on erectile dysfunction medications—$84 million). What Trump announced is far broader—a ban not only on new transgendered recruits or on future gender reassignment surgeries but also a ban on existing transgendered personnel.
The only comprehensive study on transgendered service personnel, conducted by Rand last year, found that roughly 2,450 are currently serving and that they have a "minimal impact on readiness and health care costs." "The limited research on the effects of foreign military policies indicates little or no impact on unit cohesion, operational effectiveness, or readiness," Rand reported. "Commanders noted that the policies had benefits for all service members by creating a more inclusive and diverse force."
The leadership of the Defense Department is certainly not agitating to boot out transgendered personnel who serve honorably and bravely. In fact, they'd rather not deal with this issue at all. Sen. John McCain, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, spoke for many, especially younger military personnel, when he said, "Any American who meets current medical and readiness standards should be allowed to continue serving. There is no reason to force service members who are able to fight, train, and deploy to leave the military—regardless of their gender identity."
So why would President Trump, out of the blue, issue a momentous policy pronouncement for which there is no pressing need and no preparation? It is hard to explain this other than to suggest that it is Trump's way of distracting attention from the multiple crises besetting his presidency—from his bizarre feud with Attorney General Jeff Sessions to his inability, so far, to pass health-care legislation through a Republican-controlled Congress. Trump's attacks on Sessions, a favorite of his nationalist-conservative base, have been especially costly, leading even longtime allies such as Newt Gingrich to criticize him.
The transgender ban is a symbolic way to try to stay in the good graces of the religious right and to simply change the subject. Indeed, Zeke Miller of Time tweeted: "White House official tells me admin[istration] is thrilled media is focusing on transgender service member issue."
This may be good politics, but it's bad policy. If Trump really cares about enhancing military effectiveness, rather than simply grandstanding for his populist rooting section, he would focus on repealing the sequestration act that, as Sen. Tom Cotton noted, makes defense budgeting arbitrary and unpredictable. Trump also needs to work with Congress to simply increase the defense budget to make up for years of neglect. But that would require the kind of heavy legislative-lifting in which the president has shown no interest.
A Secularist vs. the Progressive Faith
A double standard is, in fact, a standard. Just an immoral one.
Really it should come as no surprise that the scientist and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins is the latest public figure to have fallen victim to a disinviting mania. After all, if a darling of the left feminist like Germaine Greer can face a campaign to silence her over her views on transgenderism or a woman of color like Ayaan Hirsi Ali can face similar attempts to have her free speech on campus canceled, why should Dawkins be spared?
The English geneticist was slated to give a talk in Berkeley, California in August on his new book Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist. Over the weekend, however, the organizers (the local community radio station KPFA) announced that they are canceling the event because, apparently, it had been discovered that Dawkins is, in fact, an Islamophobe. They explained that, while their station "emphatically supports serious free speech," that nevertheless KPFA "does not endorse hurtful speech."
Disappointingly, the statement from KPFA Radio doesn't elaborate on what constitutes serious free speech. Nor does it define where the bounds of hurtful speech lie. Of course, it should go without saying that those who wish to do away with all speech that might ever be deemed hurtful to someone don't actually take the value of free speech that seriously at all.
For what little good it will do him, Dawkins has hit back by insisting that his criticism of the "appalling misogyny and homophobia of Islam" has been made in defense of the rights of Muslims. As he put it in an open letter to the radio: "far from attacking Muslims, I understand–as perhaps you do not–that Muslims themselves are the prime victims of the oppressive cruelties of Islamism, especially Muslim women."
Given Richard Dawkins's pretty damning view on religious belief in general, you would have thought the event organizers might have anticipated that this arch-secularist wouldn't have anything very complimentary to say about Islam either. Yet there is something rather troubling in KFPA's statement on their discovery of Dawkins's "hurtful speech." As the radio station explained: "We had booked this event based entirely on his excellent new book on science, when we didn't know he had offended and hurt–in his tweets and other comments on Islam, so many people."
This leaves a question. If Dawkins's incriminating tweets on Islam eventually came to the organizer's attention, what about all of his other pronouncements on religion? As in, the many writings and speeches that deal with insulting all the other religions. Are KPFA Radio still yet to stumble upon Dawkins's international best-selling The God Delusion? Imagine their sense of horror when they learn of all those hurt Jewish and Christian feelings. After all, Dawkins has had some pretty fiery things to say on the "God of the Old Testament".
Unless, of course, the organizers already knew all about Dawkins's past comments on the other religions, but it only became a problem for them when they found out that Dawkins had been saying similar things about Islam. Had Dawkins been silent on Islam and only derided Christianity and Judaism, would he then have still been welcome at the Berkeley event? It rather sounds like it.
Presumably, few would claim that because of his views on the Hebrew Bible, Richard Dawkins is an anti-Semite? Yet these days it seems that it is rather easier for militant secularists to fall foul of the Islamophobia charge. Dawkins has himself spoken out against the Islamic practice of serving apostates with the death penalty. Would calling such things barbaric cross the line into Islamophobia?
And what of atheists more generally, who presumably believe that without exception, all the prophets of the world's great religions were either wildly self-deluded, or otherwise shamelessly and knowingly fabricated their various holy texts? Would making such a claim about the founder of Islam be classed as insulting the prophet? Judging by previous cases, making such a claim would steer one dangerously close to the borders of Islamophobia, or worse.
Canceling an event with an internationally renowned atheist on the grounds that he has offended the feelings of religious people is, of course, absurd.
That KPFA Radio in Berkeley feel they would like to impose something akin to blasphemy laws now is no less bizarre. Acting in defense of the hurt feelings of one religion is a far more concerning development.
Hopefully, whoever's job it is at Berkeley to safeguard equal opportunities for religious and ethnic groups will be taking this matter in hand.
Unmasking Is Not a Distraction
Democrats will regret treating this as a partisan issue.
Whenever a former Obama administration official's name comes up in the process of investigating the Trump campaign's alleged links to Russian sources, Democrats take the position that the right's penchant for "whataboutism" neutralizes the implication of wrongdoing. The Democratic objective is to shame those who are committed to crafting a full and unbiased portrait of the events of 2016 into ignoring inconvenient facts, but the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee remains unintimidated.
This month, the committee has met with a variety of senior Obama officials behind closed doors amid its probe of the Russia affair, including former Chief-of-Staff Denis McDonough, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and National Security Advisor Susan Rice. The committee will meet with former United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power on Friday.
These interviews are apparently being conducted in the effort to get to the bottom of why incoming Trump administration officials who were inadvertently captured in intelligence intercepts of foreign targets were conspicuously "unmasked" with their names and the details of their conversations leaked to the press. Trump administration opponents call the issue a distraction, but it's a matter of grave national importance.
Those who are disinclined to look too deeply into the issue of "unmasking" have latched onto a comment from Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr like flotsam in a shipwreck. "The unmasking thing was all created by Devin Nunes," Burr said of the House Intelligence Committee chairman whose reckless conduct compelled him to recuse himself from the investigation into the Trump campaign's conduct. "I'll wait to go through our full evaluation to see if there was anything improper that happened," he added. Fewer have, however, paid much attention to Burr's full quote. "Clearly," he added, "there were individuals unmasked. Some of that became public which it's not supposed to, and our business is to understand that, and explain it."
Indeed, there is a lot to explain. Only weeks into the new Trump administration, unnamed former Obama administration officials began telling reporters to expect to see details involving the surveillance of administration officials and Trump associates' communications with their Russian counterparts. The New York Times, for example, revealed how these Obama officials left a "trail" of evidence of these contacts for investigators to uncover.
A month earlier, the Washington Post disclosed that former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn had privately discussed U.S. sanctions with Russia's ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, in phone calls prior to the inauguration. The transcript of those intercepted communications was related to reporters, despite its highly classified nature. This revelation contradicted the transition team's repeated denials that any such conversations between Flynn and Kislyak took place and it served as just cause for Flynn's termination.
Flynn was a liability and should never have been placed in such a sensitive role. His dismissal was a relief, but the methods by which he was discredited established a dangerous precedent. If a private citizen swept up in routine intercepts of communications with foreign agents can be "unmasked" to achieve a political purpose, even if that purpose is defensible, it won't be long before that precedent is applied toward more ambiguous ends.
Now, Attorney General Jeff Sessions appears to have been the target of a politically motivated intelligence reveal. As reported by, again, the Washington Post, the attorney general apparently misled U.S. officials and members of Congress with regard to the nature of his contacts with Russian officials. According to communications intercepted by "U.S. spy agencies," Kislyak related the details of two conversations he apparently had with then-campaign advisor Sessions to his superiors in Moscow. Sessions was not personally swept up in those intercepts, but Kislyak mentioned his name and the substance of those intercepts was related to Post reporters.
The outlet stressed that it could not confirm the authenticity of the intercepts as they could in Flynn's case, but President Trump went ahead and did that for them. "A new INTELLIGENCE LEAK from the Amazon Washington Post, this time against A.G. Jeff Sessions," the president declared on Twitter. "These illegal leaks, like [former FBI Director James] Comey's, must stop!"
This particular leak was widely viewed within the context of the ongoing public feud between the president and his attorney general, but it should not be so quickly dismissed. In cryptic testimony before Congress, Comey revealed that Sessions's recusal from the investigation into the Trump campaign's links to Russia had nothing to do with Justice Department rules. He said he knew that recusal would be forthcoming, but he could not say why in an unclassified setting. Comey's disclosure and this leak may not be unrelated.
Trump administration opponents who celebrate these unprecedented disclosures because they damage the administration are being extraordinarily parochial. This is an assault on the American social compact. The precedent being established now erodes the prohibitions on using intelligence gathering as a tool to discredit your political enemies. Democrats can bet that this practice will be deployed against them in the foreseeable future. In the process, political actors will render intelligence products suspect, weakening their utility for policymakers and, thus, making America less safe.
It is a tragedy that Democrats have not followed the lead of Senator Burr and other Republicans who are treating the issue of "unmasking" as seriously as they are the unprecedented efforts by Moscow to shape the course of American political affairs in 2016. Like the hacks of Democratic targets, this is not a partisan issue. The "unmaskers" will one day come for Democrats, and they will regret their silence in this pivotal hour.


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Hi everyone new here and love security!
I'm very strict on doing updates immediately on startup and with a brand new OS. I have Back|Track 5 R1 installed on a flash drive, but it does not save updates when I reboot or power down. Is there a way I can do this? Would also like to install additional software and have them stored on the flash drive. I've tried the Universal USB Installer from pendrivelinux, but after reboot it does not load and get errors. Also tried Unibootin, but doesn't look like an option is available.
Please take the time to search the wiki.
What your asking for sounds like "persistent changes".
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Sorry I wasn't sure where to look really. I ended up getting it working through pendrivelinux it just took a couple installs to get it right. The guide under How To's stated that Back|Track 5 R1 is available in the latest version of the USB Universal Installer by pendrivelinux, but it has not yet been added. It did work using Back|Track 5 configuration.

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We've been working on an Ubuntu RightImage for a while now, and it's now available as `RightImage Ubuntu7.04V1_14_2` with AMI ID ami-f3cc299a and location `rightscale_images/Ubuntu7.04_V1_14_2`.
This is our first Ubuntu public image, so we hope we covered all bases, but we're eager to hear whether everything works as expected. As always the script to create the image is also available. To run the script, launch an Ubuntu image with working bundling code and run through the steps.
A little background on RightImages for those of you not familiar with what we're doing: To configure servers we use a base image and install software at boot time using our server templates and RightScripts. This is way more modular and maintainable than baking entire servers into AMIs. Please see our blog post on the rationale behind this. As a result, we produce base images that are small yet have all the software utilities one needs in EC2 already installed, from the Amazon EC2 tools to traceroute, curl, wget, etc. The second innovation we made with our images is that they are fully scripted, and we publish the script. You can launch Amazon's FC4 or FC6 image (well, for the Ubuntu RightImage you need to start with some Ubuntu instance), run our script, and out pops a clone of our RightImage. So if you want to see what we install or make some changes you can go right ahead.
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James Hi, I just used your image, made some changes, installed some more packages and bundled it. Somehow after initializing the image I cant connect through SSH. Its weird because yours comes with SSH bundled and started. Why cant I connect to my image then? thanks in advance.
Thorsten James, I'm pretty sure we tested rebundling the image, but I'll double-check. Are you sure you have port 22 open and that you're using the right SSH key? There is a boot script that installs the SSH key, so be sure you didn't somehow disable that.
James Hi. I keep stuck in the same issue. Well, I'll describe my process: I ran your instance, made some package and gem installs, copied my pk and cert to /mnt, issued the following command: ec2-bundle-vol -d /mnt -k /mnt/pk-2JSD7JYO2MTK3C3H5ATIM356KE4VYKOU.pem -c /mnt/cert-2JSD7JYO2MTK3C3H5ATIM356KE4VYKOU.pem -u 782731552053 -s 1536 -r i386 uploaded it to s3: ec2-upload-bundle -b ubuntu_final -m /mnt/image.manifest.xml -a -s registered it: ec2-register ubuntu_final/image.manifest.xml run it: ec2-run-instances ami-ccd633a5 -k test-keypair … and after that the instance is online with their public and internal hostname. I cant ssh to it nor get a ping reply, so I checked with: ec2-get-console-output i-809662e9 and I got some strange output: http://pastie.caboo.se/121164 Thank you
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BURBANK - For newlyweds Jeff Zarrillo and Paul Katami, the last week has been the most exciting and important of their lives.
As victorious plaintiffs in the federal challenge against California's gay marriage ban Proposition 8, the couple of more than 12 years fulfilled their dream of legally marrying last week and witnessed many others do the same.
"It was just such an amazing week because our lives changed in such a profound way, as well as thousands of others," said Zarrillo, who was sitting next to Katami on their living room sofa Wednesday night as their two bulldogs, Gracie and Gordon, ran around excitedly.
"You've seen (same-sex) wedding after wedding on TV and in the newspaper; we saw a lot in person when we were in San Francisco this weekend. Just seeing how their lives are changing because of our lawsuit has been really profound and frankly, a little heavy to take in at times."
Zarrillo and Katami, along with a lesbian couple from Berkeley, had been involved with the American Foundation for Equal Rights' federal challenge of Proposition 8 for more than four years. But the couple's desire to marry preceded their involvement with the long and often challenging legal battle.
As soon as they were pronounced spouses for life on June 28 in a brief Los Angeles City Hall ceremony, Katami said he immediately felt a weight being lifted off him.
"I felt taller, I felt lighter. I felt like I could breathe a little easier and I couldn't wait to call him husband," he said. "We fought for so long to be able to use that language that defines who we are privately and also associates us publicly...It makes a huge difference."
It was also an honor, Zarrillo said, to marry on June 28, the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, in which gay patrons at a New York City bar reacted to police harassment in 1969. The events are credited with sparking the modern gay-rights movement.
"Now we share our anniversary with those brave men and women who just said enough is enough and fought back," Zarrillo said.
But Zarrillo and Katami are themselves being hailed as "heroes of the gay rights movement" who subjected themselves to public scrutiny and sacrificed a great deal of privacy over the last four years in their struggle for marriage equality, said Adam Umhoefer, executive director of the American Foundation for Equal Rights.
"They weren't just plaintiffs in the case; they were also some of the most eloquent spokespeople you could ask for," Umhoefer, who has been friends with the couple since 2005, said. "Their story is so compelling and convincing, it would be really hard to believe that someone would sit down to have dinner with them, hear their story and still be against the idea of them getting married."
Yet the couple's joy has also been tempered by the knowledge that gay marriage is still not allowed in many U.S. states. Zarrillo and Katami said they were particularly struck by the sorrow of a lesbian woman who had traveled from Arizona with her partner to San Francisco to celebrate the Supreme Court decision.
After she congratulated them and gave them a hug, she started weeping, explaining that she and her partner would be returning to a state where they could not legally wed.
"I'll never forget the look on her face when we let go of the hug and she was crying," Zarrillo said. "I started crying and it stuck with me ever since. I can't get that out of my head, nor should I."
While the two -- who are both keeping their original last names and refer to one another as JZ and PK -- look forward to resuming a normal life without the disruptions of court dates, hearings and media interviews, Katami said they also are happy to lend their support and experience to the cause in the future. They are natural spokespeople for the cause, he said, "because the voice we lent to our case was a voice that is heard across the country."
Katami's sister Maria McGuire of San Jose, who watched her brother get married on television, said she is impressed at how he has handled the stress of the case. Having their private life scrutinized and becoming public figures in the struggle for marriage equality was not initially what the couple had envisioned, she said.
"I think both he and Jeff went into this with very strong convictions and for the right reasons, a very sincere and genuine belief that they felt something was very wrong," she said. "Because of that, they've been able to stay very steadfast, and steady and determined and motivated and driven to see it to the end."
Zarrillo's parents Dominick and Linda Zarrillo of Toms River, New Jersey, said they were elated that their son was happily married.
"We feel like Paul is one of our sons," Linda Zarrillo said of her new son-in-law. "I've said it many times; if we had to pick someone for Jeff, it would be Paul. They complement each other."
Dominick Zarrillo agreed, adding that the two have their disputes like all couples do.
"It's like (any) married couple; now they can do it legally whereas before it was illegal," he said.
The newly married couple said they also learned something about one another in their Prop. 8 fight. Katami said he was struck by how resilient and motivational Zarrillo was even as he and their relationship was thrown in the spotlight.
"And being able to hold onto that without any ego, just being who he was, that resilient, and that ability to always see the forest for the trees, to be in the moment but understand the bigger picture was something very profound for me," Katami said.
For Jeff Zarrillo, the process taught them how much their relationship and their desire to marry really meant for them.
"Our relationship has actually deepened," he said. "Our love for each other has actually grown over the last four years. That's something to me as important as it was to get the ring."
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With over 30 years' experience as a psychologist, I have developed the tools to successfully deal with a wide range of psychological issues. Whether you suffer from depression, anxiety, panic attacks, low self-esteem or other challenges, we work together to design a program that fits your needs, empowering you to create a life of greater peace and contentment.
Janet Edgette, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist
412 Newcomen Road, Exton, Pennsylvania
As a psychologist, I am qualified to offer clients a broad range of assessment, diagnostic, and therapeutic services. I am well-versed in mental health issues across the lifespan as well as in the treatment of most psychopathologies, mood disorders, behavioral and adjustment issues, and personality disorders. The problems and symptoms that children and teenagers experience are often complex, opaque, and enigmatic, requiring therapists to navigate conversations with discernment and deft. This is a topic that I have spent considerable time thinking, writing, and speaking about. I like to think I have a good handle on it, but what really matters is what you think, and how influential I am with you and your kid(s).
19564 is a zip code located in Berks County and part of Virginville, Pennsylvania. It has a land area of 0.206 square miles.  The population of 19564 is 90 people.


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The man's a true gent and quality fighter, have a read
The man's a true gent and quality fighter, have a read
Owner of @LOVE2FIGHTmag, student of BKK Fighters & PR for WFS: Warrior Fight Series
reminds me of james doolan. just glad im on right side of em haha
Paul Taylor will be my guest tomorrow on the MMA Mental Podcast.
Spoke with Paul a good few times and I arranged the fight for Monson and cornered him in the fight, Paul gave a good account of himself and actually fought off the Monson Choke (north south) and escaped a Kimura attempt.
If y'all want a rematch, just holla, I'm sure we can sort it out
Some monsters training at ASW these days
of course he will beat almost everyone over here.... no flipping brainer !! He's a adcc champion he beat braulio estima by controlling his game....he also doesn't get knocked out...............only way someone here can beat him is having great TDD and good boxing/reach. Unfortunately how many hws could stop monson from getting them down at least once......hes not quite old enough to be getting beat up by our heavyweights..... International to UK fighters is a massive gap lets face it.


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Swett Named to National Architectural Selection and Review Team
April 24, 2001
Contact: Viki Reath (202) 501-1231
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Richard N. Swett, U.S. Ambassador to Denmark, has been appointed by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to its National Register of Peer Professionals for a two-year term. Peers on the National Register help GSA select architects for Federal design commissions and review the design quality of all GSA construction projects.
"We are honored to be able to benefit from Ambassador Swett's extensive design knowledge and experience," said Paul Chistolini, Acting Commissioner of the GSA Public Buildings Service.
Ambassador Swett emphasized the cultural importance of public buildings.
"Our public buildings are a part of our nation's legacy," said Swett. "The GSA has recognized that public buildings are more than simply mortar and steel. They're integral parts of our communities. I look forward to working with my colleagues to ensure the highest standards of design are met for our public structures."
Swett was one of 90 U.S. design experts chosen as peers, based on their expertise in design for the particular type of architectural project under consideration. The goal of the National Register is to find the right architects for GSA commissions and help critique the design to ensure the highest quality public buildings in communities across the United States.
Trained as an architect, and active in the American Institute of Architects, Swett is an expert on public policies guiding federal design and construction. A native of Bow, New Hampshire, he was appointed by President Clinton to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Denmark in 1998. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1991 to 1995, representing New Hampshire's Second Congressional District.


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Kenny Chesney suing over logo use
Listen to Kenny Chesney on iHeartRadio
Kenny Chesney wants a company to stop using his logo to sell their merchandise, and he's going to court to do it.
Nashville's "Tennessean" says the country star has been at odds with T&M Enterprises. Chesney claims the company has been selling a number of clothing items using his trademarked guitar and palm tree image without permission.
Chesney's spokesman says the singer thought they had "an equitable settlement in place" last January, which required T&M to stop producing the items but allowed the company to sell the remainder of its stock. But the rep says they eventually realized that T&M "had no intention of honoring the agreement," so they were "forced into taking further legal action."
In his suit Chesney is asking a judge to force T&M to discontinue production of merchandise and to award him damages.
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January 2010
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 -- Library cutting back on purchasing materials
I've heard that the library is no longer purchasing books and journals (paper or electronic) due to budget problems, and that the librarians had around $50,000 taken away from them to buy materials. Is this true? If so, how am I supposed to support my students with library resources?
From James Huesmann, Dean of Libraries
Yes, it is true that we have essentially frozen library materials purchases for the remainder of the fiscal year. This means that we will not be buying any new books or videos for the remainder of the fiscal year. Current journal and database subscriptions are not affected, because we pay for those a year at a time. New requests are going into a wish-list file until June when the new fiscal year starts.
For years, UAF received an inflationary adjustment of about 3-4 percent annually from the Alaska Legislature for purchasing library materials. Books and journals lately averaged increases of about 8 percent a year. While past inflationary adjustments did not keep up with increased cost of materials, we managed to selectively cut less-used items and concentrate our purchases on more heavily-used titles, as well as purchasing items among consortia and a variety of other cost-saving measures. For the last two years, the library hasn't received an inflationary adjustment. Thus, this year's budget for books, journals, electronic databases, and videos remained the same as last year's, which meant buying fewer items.
The focus over the past few years on responding to student and faculty needs has resulted in UAF acquiring the most heavily used materials, particularly in science, engineering and technology. This means that spending the same amount of money is resulting in more use of library materials – in short, more bang for the buck.
If there are library materials that you need to support your students with in the next few months, the libraries will be happy to get them via Interlibrary Loan and work with you to put them on reserves, either in paper form or on Electronic Reserves.
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 -- Life sciences and greenhouse relocation plans
What will become of the West Ridge Greenhouse on North Koyukuk Drive if the Life Sciences Facility is built?
From Cameron Wohlford, Facilities Services
The West Ridge Greenhouse currently provides space for natural resource management classes on plant science through the School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences. Due to the approved site of the new Life Sciences Facliity, the greenhouse will be dismantled as part of the construction project.
Sufficient funding is identified in the funding request for Life Sciences Classroom and Lab Facility project to cover the cost to construct a modern and appropriately sized replacement building. UAF has selected a site south of the Arctic Health Research Building. We anticipate the project, if funded through the Life Sciences request, will move forward in 2010 with the goal of a summer or early fall completion. The university may need to use other greenhouse space on campus for a month or two before the new one is completed.
- The UAF Master Planning Committee has approved the future site for the greenhouse.
- A user group from the School of Natural Resources has been identified and up to the beginning of the year, was active in working on the design. The group will get back together as soon as funding is available.
- Currently, within the renovation of the old Animal Quarters at AHRB, UAF has begun constructing the head house, greenhouse manager's office, soil preparation room, seed-sorting room, soil storage room and a chemical storage room. This construction represents about a $1 million value. This space will be completed by June 2010.
- The current renovation project has also upgraded the heating system in the building and electrical system in support of the future greenhouse.
- A full design has been completed for a new road that will serve the head house and greenhouse
- A design-build contract will be issued as soon as funding is available to procure and install the greenhouse. It's expected that the design-build model, will allow UAF to get the most greenhouse, with the appropriate controls, ventilation, lighting, etc, for the lowest price and in the shortest schedule.
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010 -- Soft closure savings
How much money did the university actually save from the soft closure held prior to the holiday closure?
UAF saved more than $80,000 for the soft closure, which included approximately $7,500 in energy savings and $76,000 in leave without pay. Employees also took about $243,000 more annual leave this year than they did last year during the same time period. We won't know for sure what the annual leave savings are until the end of the fiscal year. Throughout the year, UAF pays into a bank at statewide for annual leave. When an employee takes annual leave, that money comes out of those funds, rather than the department's budget. In that way, when UAF employees take annual leave, it helps the budget at the department level. There may also be some savings as a result of student and temporary employees' reduced hours.
In addition to salary savings, the university saves money on benefits expenses when employees take leave. The initial estimate for soft closure savings was in excess of $500,000. We will have to wait until the end of the fiscal year to know for sure, but if people end up using annual leave at their usual rate for the rest of the fiscal year, that total may be realized.
Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010 -- Parking Office move
Why is parking moving from Eielson down to the facilities building? It doesn't seem like a very student friendly move and goes completely against the one stop model we've been trying to develop over here. The rumor is that HAZMAT is going into it's place. Can some explain the logic?
It's true that the Parking office now located in the Eielson Building will be moving to the Facilities Services Building. The reason is that it's much more efficient for Parking Services to operate out of one location. However, the move also represents a move to an online system. The new system allows permits to be purchased online, tickets can be appealed or paid online. Users can also see their history, update their vehicle information, and be added to a list for gold lots. This change allows students to take care of their parking permits when it's convenient for them.
Parking services has also added online chat service so students, staff and faculty can instantly chat with parking services personnel during business hours.
During fee payment there will be Parking Services personnel on hand in the PolarExpress office as demand warrants. We also expect to use PolarExpress and the Tanana Valley Campus Center as alternative permit pick-up points. Students also have the option under the new online system to choose to receive their permits in the mail, which wasn't the case before.
We realize that people won't make the change instantly to the online system, but feel that in the long run this change will be more convenient for students.
Please feel free to e-mail Parking Services at firstname.lastname@example.com or submit your question via chat online.
Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010 -- The future of the Discovery Lab
I heard that the Discovery Lab may be shut down because the university will not fund it (or help to fund it).
a) Is this true?
b) If it is true, I'll be disappointed. The Discovery Lab offers cutting edge technology. It is a melting pot for cross-disciplines (e.g. art, theater, entomology, computing), and it's a popular tourist attraction.
I know money is tight, but the Discovery Lab is an important and exciting part of campus. It would be a shame for it to close.
Yes, it is true that the Discovery Lab may be shutting down. It has proven to be a popular venue for educational and public outreach tours, as well as collaborative dance, theatre and music performances, however, the priorities for the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center are being realigned to support the academic computational and storage systems needed by university researchers, particularly in the area of climate change. Given the costs of keeping the Discovery Lab fully functional while supporting the ongoing operation of academic supercomputing, tough decisions on how best to use limited dollars will have to be made."
Input from the UAF community and the public is welcome and timely as options for the future of the Discovery Laboratory are just beginning to be explored. Please send comments to Frank Williams, ARSC director.
Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010 -- Single room availability for students
How hard is it to get a single student room at the UAF dorms? And if it is, how would one go about the process to get one?
Single rooms are limited on campus, comprising only 20 percent of more than 900 rooms available for single students. In addition to the rooms on campus designed for only one student, we use some double rooms as singles when the demand for beds permits us to do so.
Single rooms outside of the freshmen halls are generally assigned during the room selection process in April each year. This is the process by which existing residents select their rooms for the following year. Residents make their choices in order of seniority, making it difficult for new residents to get a single space. When a single room is unavailable then the student can be placed on a wait list until one becomes available.
The freshmen single rooms are awarded on a first come, first served basis making early application important to the process.


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Move-In Day has become a tradition
Move-in Day turns what could be a tiring chore into an opportunity for faculty, staff, and students and their parents to get to know each other and celebrate the beginning of a new academic year.
This long-standing Carolina tradition doesn't lower August temperatures, and it doesn't lessen the amount of stuff students bring to campus. But it does put a smile on everyone's face.
This year, more than 500 students moved into the University's newest residence hall -- the Honors College Residence Hall. See a video preview of this facility, above.
Students and their parents were helped by people wearing bright yellow Move-in Crew T-shirts. As in years past, the people sporting these shirts are Carolina faculty and staff members who eagerly help carry suitcases or televisions or fluffy rugs into nearby residence halls. University President Harris Pastides and Carolina's First Lady Patricia Moore-Pastides also wear the special T-shirts as they moved boxes and books with the best of them.
Move-in Crew shirt logo
A central location iss provided for parents on Move-in Day -- in front of the Russell House University Union on Greene Street. In addition to campus maps, water, sodas, and the very popular misting fan, parents can speak with staff from the Department of Student Life to learn more about the programs and services available to their students. Brochures and display boards are available, and registration information for fraternity and sorority recruitment also is provided.
Move-in Day is about meeting new people and becoming a part of the Carolina family.
Go Gamecocks!


text: In 2012, the Service for Advance Decisions (SAD) issued 550 advance tax decisions (also referred to as "rulings"), including 97 on transfer pricing (TP). On average, these advance tax decisions took only 67 days from formal filing to decision. The stable volume of decisions demonstrates the success of the Belgian rulings practice as a powerful instrument for tax risk management, especially considering the recent and constant increase in in-depth TP audits.


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Let me start by saying that neither I, nor my husband have epilepsy. neither of us had ever had a seizure before 2days ago, so I apologize if I am posting in the wrong place, but I need help. 2 days ago, my husband had a bad reaction to the prescription drug, tramadol. he had a tonic-clonic seizure right next to me in our bed while we were watching tv. it was absolutely the most terrifying thing I've ever seen in my entire life. I can't still hear the noises he made. the images of his body seizing and his eyes rolling in the back of his head will not leave my mind. Within 20 minutes after having the seizure, he was 100% back to normal, besides being a little stunned by what I explained to him had happened. and since then, he's been totally fine, back to normal. no headaches. no cloudy, fatigued feeling. no muscle aches. nothing! but I have been a hot mess to say the least. I'm driving him crazy because I've been following him around like a puppy dog, afraid to ever leave him alone because I'm scared that he'll have another one when he's standing and I want to catch him if he does. I even made him let me stay in the bathroom while he took a shower last night. he doesn't understand what I witnessed, because he doesn't remember it. I'm constantly crying. I can't eat. I can't sleep. I constantly feel like I'm on the verge of a panic attack. I feel incredibly paranoid, not just about his seizure but about everything. I just have General, intense feeling of impending doom. I don't know how to get over this. he's no longer taking the tramadol, so intellectually I know that he's not gonna have another one, but that isn't stopping me from feeling this way. Will I ever be ok? will I ever recover? will I ever be normal and carefree again? I don't know how long I can live like this, in constant fear and panic. I just feel so lost. does anybody have any advice as to how I can pull myself out of this? or at least any encouragement that is will subside eventually?? I'm desperate...
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There are many medications that can cause a seizure. I am sure that is the case here and he will be ok. I think that you are completely over reacting here. I am sorry if I am being harsh here but you need to calm down and get over it and be thankful that neither of you do have epilepsy. There are many people like myself on this website that have this happen to on a regular basis and can't live normal lives. I'm sorry that you had to witness you husband have such a horrible seizure but now you have witnessed something that many people unfortunately go through on a regular basis that people do not even take the time to understand and epilepsy is not the only one.
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There's a good possibility that the seizure was non-epileptic. In other words, not generated from the brain. This can be caused from a severe allergic reaction (from food or medication), or maybe from a severe emotional response (maybe lightning or witnessing a murder). You can actually have 2 or more seizures without them being epileptic.
You should still inform the doctor that prescribed the medication. It'll be on your file for the future.
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I understand what happened to your husband. I also understand that uou are really stressed out because you seem to think he might have another seizure even though he isn'r going to use that medication again.
Now understand that many of us know what it is like to have saizures and that some are ugly. No what you need to do is relaxe and be thankful that he doesn't have seizures like some of us do. . Understand that there are meny different types of seizures.
If you do a little research you would find that many different things can and do cause seizures. Over the counter medicines for one. People with diabeties can also have seizures. Their sugar level can do it. I have a friend that has seizures from time to time but his are less than the tonic clonic but his can also be cause by his heart medication.
intellectually I know that he's not gonna have another one. Then use a little common sense and relax kick back and watch a few movies eat some popcorn or go cook a great mean. He is the lucky one because he knows what happened. He may not know what his seizure looked like but then there are places he can go to and see what you saw.
Again relax. You are being stressed over something that happened that may nevere happen again.
You are over reacting because of what your saw. I don't want to be harsh in any way but calm down and get over his seizure be thankful that neither of you has epilepsy. Many people in here on this site have seizures of all kinds and we would love to be without seizures of any kind. What you witnessed when you saw your husband I had 4-5 times a month. That was not counting the other seizures I had. I am greatful for the seizures I have today compared to the ones I had years ago.
What you witnessed many people in here have on a regular basis. Now you might see why some of us want to get other people to understand what we have been going thru. We do have walks to raise money like they do for breast cancer and heart disease. But we never have gotten the people that those two get. We have the color purple which is to be worn on the 26th of this month. Do you think people will be wearing purple??? Why is it stores push for breast cancer but not epilepsy? Understand that there are probably more people with epiepsy than have breast cancer. You probably do not know but even in the 1960's people with epilepsy were still being put in homes away from the public. Some states were not giving marriage liscenses to people with epilepsy in the 1970's. We have come a long ways and technology has helped.
So relax have a good meal and a gew glasses of a good wine. I say that because you are actually stressing yourself out and that doesn't help him.
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Thank you Joe for your comment. I will be wearing purple on the 26! And I will run in D.C. next year, I believe the walk is in April. You are right, epilepsy doesn't get the support that it should. Luckily, there has been more and more awareness and less shame lately, perhaps due to celebrities and politicians having them this year. It had definitely put the talk out there instead of hiding it.
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Cool I will be watching. As for the walk they are in different towns on different days. I will be contacting My sister in law and asking her if they will be sponsers since they do back Breast cancer alot My neices run marathons.
You might have heard anout her She and My brother started "Walter Anderson Plumbing" and they were one of the largest plumbers in So Cal.
If you want to check and see if there is a walk near you go to the EFA and enter your zip code. I know we have one here in Dallas and there are walks in San Antonio and Lubbock but other towns may have them. I know before the EFA we had walks here because we had the DEA Dallas Epilepsy Association
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It really meant a lot to read your post. I am sorry that you had to watch your husband go through a seizure belive me I know they are not fun. I hope you never have to witness something like that again. I am glad that this has brought you epilepsy awareness. Many people do not understand anything about epilepsy. I will be wearing purple with you on the 26th!!
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I'm not offended. I understand you're scared and it feels like you wrote this during a very big moment of panic. But breathe. The worst thing you can do for him is to freak out. He probably doesn't have epilepsy at all. It was probably a reaction to the medication. Any number of things can cause a seizure to occur. I'm glad you're reading up on it, but please let him speak to a doctor before you scare yourself, or him, more. Don't make the diagnosis yourself. It's good to be prepared with some questions, but don't make assumptions.
I wish you and your husband the best. Thank you for sharing.
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Hi WellsMegan,
Tonic-clonic seizures at times can be a relief, esp. with a combined quick physical recovery (which becomes more rare over decades), either from the effects of amnesia erasing the memory of surrounding unpleasant sensations, or from the effects similar to those reported in some reports on electro-convulsive therapy.
Sometimes the loud, strange noise of a seizure in epilepsy is called "the epileptic scream". When my partial seizures go into secondary tonic-clonics, the "Epileptic Scream" happens at times. Which particular stage in the tonic-clonic a particular type of scream occurs is difficult to determine, but from reports, the one right near the start is the loudest, with any following loud forced vocal sounds more similar to "Valsalva maneuver" and "Petechial Hemorrage" associated phenomena. Some epileptic histories cite the Epileptic Scream as being louder than any voluntary or fright reflex screams. Animals often have the Epileptic Scream also.
In humans, it's sometimes called "Epileptic Cry" (Page 3, first column, 4th paragraph): "With a severe and generalized tonic contraction at the onset, air is forcibly exhaled through closed vocal cords, giving the "epileptic cry" of peculiar and piercing quality." From: http://www.clinchem.org/cgi/reprint/25/6/889
In rabbits, (Page 16, first column, first paragraph):
"At 10 mm after the third hour, the rabbit let out a typical epileptic scream (see part I, this issue) and extended his front and hind paws, throwing his head back and arching his body in a typical opisthotonus position. After about 2 mm, the animal went into generalized convulsions and died within about 1 mm." From: http://www.clinchem.org/cgi/reprint/25/6/898
Dostoevsky also made the epileptic scream part of a great work of literature.
The epileptic scream often has the result of being a major disqualification for all major life activities through the trauma effects on others. Concern for these effects outweigh the concerns for accommodation under the ADAAA.
Before I was officially labeled with epilepsy, I had many adverse reactions to various medications, and what not, that often happened to coincide with my seizures. The adverse reactions were making my seizures more intense, but not, per se, causing the initiation of the epileptic seizures.
The fine line between percipitants and intensifiers is somewhat irrelevant, as both indicate an increased propensity of the presence of a more fundamental disorder.
In my case, one of the more fundamental disorders is temporal lobe epilepsy, and over the decades of my life, the results of long term epileptic "kindling". Other disorders include bouts of hypoglycemia, LQTS, and likely neurocutaneous disorders (with hypoglycemia and LQTS being both very responsive to percipitants and intensifiers, much like close calls with SUDEP (sudden unexpected death in epilepsy) and LQTS 2 drop-dead strenuous sports events & inverse LQTS 3 sleep/wake near-death/recovery seizures).
"Dose-independent occurrence of seizure with tramadol"
Re: tramadol & epileptic kindling (The data demonstrate that kindling enhances the susceptibility of rats to convulsant adverse effects of tramadol and its enantiomers, indicating that a preexisting lowered seizure threshold increases the risk of tramadol-induced seizures):
"Anticonvulsant and proconvulsant effects of tramadol, its enantiomers and its M1 metabolite in the rat kindling model of epilepsy"
Re: QT (Neither morphine nor tramadol doses are associated with the QT interval length.((But,) The tramadol treated group is small which might conceal a QT-prolonging effect.)):
"Oxycodone is associated with dose-dependent QTc prolongation in patients and low-affinity inhibiting of hERG activity in vitro"
It is advisable that tramadol should not be used in epileptic patients.:
"Tramadol induced seizure: A 3-year study"
Severe hypoglycemia induced by tramadol: two new cases of an unlisted side effect. Rev Med Interne. 2011;32((11)):703–705. [PubMed] "Severe hypoglycemia induced by tramadol: two new cases of an unlisted side effect"
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Seizures are different with each person that has them some get head aches others are really tired. Most of my convulsive seizures I was fully awake and I could see hear and understand what was going on. At school I was geberally taken to the nurses office and she watched me for a pariod of time. We even sat and talked. But yes many people can go thru seizures and come out of them and we are back without any problems. As for the bitingof ones tongue what many have found out is that when falling your body hitting the ground causes your head to jar and when that happens watch out cause your tongue between you teeth and the teeth slamming shut during tha fall is what causes the bite. I was normal within that time frame.
Like I said I have seizures that look like grande mal which the person losses conciousness. My focal motor seizures can and have been just as bad as a grande mall but in mine I see hear and understand what is going on and yes I have seen the fear and worry on peoples faces. I have even heard friends say UWWWWWWWWWWW I don' want to be around him anymore. So yes I have no problems once I have recovered from the seizure and back to normal I could do my school work or any chores I had to do. They were tiring but I had things to do and people to see. Understand too that I started having seizures over 50 years ago.
You and your husband will get your lives back it may take a little time for you but you will get back to doing what you did. I know that because most of my family members did.
Now I do want to get some coffee you should get some too or a cup of tea. Dependiing on the time a nice glass of iced tea with a lemon twist in it is always good. Down here in Texas we do like our tea sweet too.
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Conroe is nice I lived in Bay City for a while.
I have family out in Ca. Mom's in San Diego alnog with one brother. Another brother in in Ramona. We also have another brother up in Sabastapol(spelling amy be off). I lived in Edgemont when I was diagnosed with epilepsy. I went to Moreno Valley High School. I know that Edgemont, Sunneymead and another little community merged and created Moreno Valley but that was years after I left. I have heard that the M is still on the mountain which I am happy about considering it was my class that put it up there, Things are deffinately different now Denison and Ft Worth are not bad but he will deffinately have to get used to traffic and the highways are different now.
It was a pleasure and I come on here to help people. Yours was different but I do know what it is like from both sides. Like I said I have seen what people go thru when they see me in a convulsive seizure, I have also helped people in them.
If yall are in the wine country or like wines from there we have several wineries here in Texas and the wine I get and use for drining and cooking is LLano which is right outside of Lubbock. Their wines have been up against Ca and NY wines in contests and yes Llano ahs won many blue ribbons.
Take care and go xreate a good and drink a glass of wine then for a movie you both like kick back watch the movie. Pop some pop corn
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You might read the Wikipedia educational article on Tramadol; the article may provide insights into some of your questions (a medicine possibly causing a seizure). Best wishes.
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It is been said that you have to have at least two unprovoked seizures to be considered epileptic and start medication.
Many people have just one seizure and does not mean they have a seizure disorder. yes, prescription and street drugs can cause seizures.
Yes, it is also common that family members and care takers get PTSD after witnessing a seizure on their loved one. It is a disconnected feeling, fear and the paranoia that follows.
The good news is that it goes away. You do not have to spend the rest of your life waiting for the next seizure to come. That is no way of living. It is what it is.
Now, he may or may not have a seizure disorder and only time will tell, whether or not he has another one. And yes, people can snap back to normal after having a seizure.
Yes, your post offended me a little, but life is too short to be mad or offended, so no worries. Perhaps this experience will give you a sense of compassion, understanding and consideration for those that have to suffer this condition forever. I would like to add that epilepsy can appear at any age and most of the time is NOT inherited and it can happen to anyone.
I wish you the very best and to your husband a prompt recovery and that he never have a seizure again. Best wishes.
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You were not offensive. You were inquisitive!
Ask anyone that if they thought they could get useful information on their condition, would they inquire others for some information?
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I just read your post. I can understand all the questions you have and how you are feeling scared that your husband will have another seizure. But like one poster said, when a person has one seizure that does not mean they have a seizure disorder or epilepsy. It most likely was caused by the medication your husband was taking. There are many medications that cause seizures as a side effect.
I first started to have grand mal seizures only in my sleep starting 5 years ago in 2009. I was sleeping on the couch and woke up around 6am in the morning to feed our dog and cat. My boyfriend wanted me to go back to bed in the bedroom, but something told me to stay sleeping on the couch. I believe that was my first aura. Later my boyfriend was on the computer and apparently our dog was trying to get his attention. He told her to lay down. She witnessed my seizure and cuz I was her mama, she went to her daddy to let him know something was wrong with me. Then a few minutes later he heard a "ghostly" sound. He said, "Babe did you hear that?" and looked over at me on the couch and saw I was having a grand mal seizure. He called his stepmom and told his parents I was having a seizure and his stepmom came right over. They called the ambulance. I was taken to the hospital. I had a CT scan done, it came back normal and nothing was really done. The dr. never told me why I had a seizure and I was sent home. 2 months later I had another grand mal seizure in my sleep. The ambulance was called again, but because of the cost of being taken to the hospital in one ($900 ambulance ride) my boyfriend drove me to the hospital. Again the dr. did not tell me why I had a seizure or what type they were. We went home against the hospital wanting me to stay. It was 2am in the morning and I had to go to work that day. We went back to bed. Two hours later, I had another grand mal seizure in my sleep. We went back to the hospital. I was given a liquid anti seizure med intravenously, and was put on Dilantin 100 mg 3xaday. I was told to follow up with my primary care dr. within a few days. One thing should be known, I have something wrong with my stomach. I have stomach nausea and feel like I have a stomach flu everyday at least 5-20 times a month. When I started taking the Dilantin 3xaday, it was not good. It made my stomach nausea even worse. So I called my dr. and told him and he told me to take it 2xaday. I took the Dilantin for a while then it was changed to Phenytoin 100 mg 2xaday. Then a year later it was changed to Tegretol. I took the seizure med. for a year and a half. The grand mal seizures I had only in my sleep stopped. With in that time my primary care dr. gave me an EEG and MRI. Both tests came back normal showing no seizure activity. I found out that the EEG should have been given when I was sleeping. My seizures only happen while I am asleep, so seizure activity would only show during sleep. Then I started to notice I was losing my memory. I could not remember things like my aunt's last name or my cell phone number. I found out a side effect of seiz. meds is memory loss. Also all seizure meds are not good and some can cause even worse medical problems like bone loss and liver problems. So I decided to wean myself off the seizure med. I slowly decreased my seiz. med and finally in 2011 I did not take anymore seiz. meds to control my seizures.
Right now I have 1 maybe 2 grand mal seizures a month only in my sleep. I have a lot of the side effects of grand mal seizures. My boyfriend sees me having one and says my face and lips are blue and I stop breathing. He says my eyes are open wide and blinking rapidly like I am being electrocuted. My body is stiff as a board he tells me cuz I guess he lifted my leg and it was stiff and did not bend. When I come out of the seizure I am confused. It takes me 30 min. to an hour to fully come out the seizure. I have a terrible headache after one, the right side of my tongue is bitten, I have peed my pants, my legs are sore, and I have bad stomach nausea. For the rest of the day I am tired and rest. My brain does not feel right and sometimes stray thoughts come to me and I wonder who am I or what am I doing? I also have auras and at least 4 or 5 auras I had have led to seizures while I was sleeping.
One thing that is a blesssing for me is that I only have my seizures while I am sleeping. I am thankful for that because if I ever had them while I was awake, I don't think I would have been able to cope with them as well as I have been able to. I have a lot of admiration for the people who have seizures every day all day while they are awake. They are strong.
Having seizures is a scary thing for the people having them and for the people who witness them.
I still don't know what type of seizures I have or what is causing me to have seizures. My boyfriend and I think I have Nocturnal Seizure Disorder. These are when someone has grand mal seizures only while sleeping and that is exactly what I have and how my seizures are.
Well that is it. Hope this helped you. Take care.


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Final Fantasy X HD may be out soon according to unconfirmed reports.
On par graphics wise with XIII? Highly doubtful. That would require a massive undertaking and we all know how SE is these days.
"Graphics On Par With FFXIII"
Sorry. I just had to.
"Out in June"
"Graphics on Par With FFXIII"
Even the haters should admit that even though its the best in the series... like most Square Enix games, FF13 at least looks GORGEOUS.
Brilliant thing about FF games is there is no best in the series and it boils down to nostagia and personal experience and connection to each story.
E.G my personal favorite is 8 but that doesnt mean to say anyone elses thoughts for their fav ff is wrong.
On topic: it wont be as good looking but clearly will be a step up: Blitzball in HD = count me in can't wait to get ROPP in the dome again
I feel dumb... i meant to put "even though it MAY NOT BE the best in the series..." (my personal favorite was 9)
Someone start tallying the count.
I'm a fan of FF VI and FF Tactics.
FF13 is one of the best, if not the best looking game this gen on consoles. Absolutely incredible. Shame that it did not win any awards for the graphics category in 2010.
The best FF for adults: FFVI, VII, IX, XII. Of course the best of them all is Final Fantasy Tactics.
Playing FFT, Vagrant Story and FFXII in that order gave me a big Yasumi Matsuno orgasm of adult storytelling through interesting political plot filled with paganism, animism and all sorts of philosophies on top of romance that didn't hold your hand and give you the "happy ending".
However, if one wants deep plots one should play Xeno-games. Ohhh but don't start me with those :D
FFX had it's own magic, and I think I will respect Sagaguchi (although he probably doesn't get the money) by buying this. Especially if it has more bonus stuff than ever before, I don't care about the graphics, I just want some meaningful side quests etc!
what is more gorgeous is it coming on vita,so i hope the cut scenes will be HD
Lol, plus didn't we already see the character models in that Japanese Vita conference? They look HD and much better than the SD versions, but come on... They don't look PS3 quality or anything. This is obviously fake.
I agree. In order for X to look like XIII, they would have to re-due the entire game (a true remake). They already claimed it would take 10+ years to remake FF VII. . . Can you imagine how long it would take them to remake X?
it would only take them 10 years because they've become lazy.
100% agree. Even if what the guy said were true, there is no guarantee that it will look the and play the same as what he saw at the event. Let's not forget this is "Square Enix" we are talking about here. They have the "potential" to blow things up and show things that they "wish" they could make it in the final product. I've lost my trust in what SE says after what the Versus incident.
I can't wait to play this again, was hands down one of my personal favorites
That's possible but it will consume most of the time from other teams just make it I mean they will going to finish Final Fantasy 14 online and Lighting Returns:Final Fantasy 13 this year so which team are doing it that's the question plus kingdom hearts coming too.
but....but...but....but how about the versus?
You think Square Enix deliberately delayed VERSUS, because they knew the PS4 would be out this year and wanted to port it to the PS4?
This is just not possible. I don't think these guys know how FFXIII looked like on the PS3.
Pure nonsense, unless the spend an exorbatant amount of time and money to rebuild the game from scratch it won't be that good, not even close.
I pray it does come out in June. As for being on par with FFXIII graphics that's highly doubtful if it's just a remaster.
The rumor also stated that X-2 might be getting the HD treatment as well. Might as well do both and put them in a collection.
I too hope it comes out as soon as June. As for X-2 getting an HD version I'd actually love that. I may be one of the few that enjoyed that game. Yes, it was quite J-pop and sappy, but something about the dressphere system was really addictive for me.
Sappy and J-pop don't bother me... It was the HORRIBLE dialogue that game had that killed it. I still played it through and beat it, the game had a wonderful combat system and job-class (sort-of) system with the dress spheres, but it was really hard to take it seriously when they use a word like "disasteriffic"... Makes me cringe just typing it up.
Did you go down the dungeon to floor 200(I think) to beat this old guy for an item? Those things boost up my stats soo much for the start new game plus.
Does he mean June 2014?
June 2015,
Just before another single "photo" of Versus is released.
On par with FF13? I'll believe it when i see it.
I'm waiting for the Wii U version with gamepad features
Didn't we already see what a lot of the models look like? not bad, but certainly not at that level.
maybe they are talking about the background cause yeah the character models just looked HD after all the game was announced sept of 2011
They already leaked ps vita vid of ffx and it looked like hd ffx. Nothing special.
on par with ff 13 x360 version maybe lol. It cant touch the ps3 version graphics though.
Ok maybe june but not on par graphics wise with ffxiii... But the again its squeenix squenix so not holding my breath
No xbox? Shit mehn. I loved ff10 ps2 days
How about ff-VII-2 graphics on par with the next gen final fantasy 15 and for the ps4 lol
i cant beleive its been this long and we are still having to speculate about this game's graphics and its release date
square enix is the most incompetent, out of touch studio on the planet. its like they have disdain for their fans
The graphics should be on par with it considering it's just as linear.
Again, pay close attention to what Donte is doing in your profile pic.
You should really change your name to My_Name_BTW_Is_Donte
Best game ever! with better graphics, regardless how better they are this game will still be the best some of the greatest visuals on the PS2
Erm No!!, is just a regular HDified version not on par with 13 at all graphically
As much as I'd love it to be true, I really doubt it. Tidied up, sure, but reworking the entire game would take a lot of work.
Would I be over the moon? Yes. WILL I be over the moon? Probably not.
I don't think it is true, BUT, should they pull it off, it could be Square's redeeming move this generation. This and ARR.
The game will probably be out this year. It WON'T be as good looking as XIII, though. I'm hoping it's a cross buy, so I don't have to buy a copy for Vita and PS3 separately.
"Graphics On Par With FFXIII"
Umm... did they not see the screenshots of the game? It looks like shit when compared to FFXIII. No matter how much you clean up the textures, and even if you add some fancy lighting, you can't remaster a PS2 game to like FFXIII. It's just not possible.
I found FFXIII okay and the graphics were nice, but I didn't find it to my liking though. Something irked me about it's style and textures and whatnot.
on par with ff13 graphics?? that's highly doubtful besides there were early screenshots of ffx hd on ps vita that we all saw already and it's not an ff13 graphics, for sure the console release would be on that level as well.
How? The fact that the game has to be ported into that the FF13 engine to even look remotely like FF13. It's already been shown what the game is going to look like, which is just another HD game like every other PS3 game has gotten the HD make over.
Besides, June release is a very rare release date for games to come out. They usually go with March, April, May, August or September releases.
Doubtful, but possible. Square Enix seems to be trying to redeem itself and show that it's still a great company. With the third expanision of FF13 : Lightning Returns coming out this year, and the re-release of FF14, maybe FFX will have the same great graphics that the newer stories of the Final Fantasy Series has.
won't be graphically better than playing the game using PCSX2 no matter what , they just want to rise their stock prices by trying to spread positive news as always , this is square enix after all. a simple 480 to 544 resolution won't be enough for me to justify a purchase , we want better models, textures ,spell effects , shadows , lightning , animation and more content along with a dual voice option that's if they wanna try to change their horrible , greedy reputation.
The graphics are on par with PS2. Except it's in native 1080p or 720p. So better color, cleaner picture, etc. Graphics on par with FF13 though. Does your ass hurt after pulling the bs out of it?
LOL Even if what the guy said were true, there is no guarantee that it will look the and play the same as what he saw at the event. Let's not forget this is "Square Enix" we are talking about here. They have the "potential" to blow things up and show things that they "wish" they could make it in the final product. I've lost my trust in what SE says after what the Versus incident.
I love 10, but a fully remastered title is unneeded...it is fine just as a port for a download, What i really want to see, is a remastered Chrono Cross, and final Fantasy 9!


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I'm not sure, but one that can operate underwater.
I guess a sensor that beams a light ray out in any direction and as it hits oil it will send a beam back at the sensor to confirm the substance is oil. The thing is it would have to be programed to only beam back oil which seems extremely complicated to do since there will be other object in the water.
Now this one sounds crazy, or a video camera that live streams to see a spot that looks like oil, approaches it and takes a sample to confim its oil.
Or we can do with out a sensor and a video camera and just send it in the wilderness just to consume water and oil simultaneously but in the process seperate the oil from the salt or fresh water.
The thing is I dont know how to create robots. I'm sure I will be a millionaire if I can create a prototype. I need to know how to create a robot that can swim like one of the underwater scooters except on their own without a host. Any ideas?


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Three prominent leaders have been added to the Council of Overseers for the Jones Graduate School of Business. The organization acts in an advisory role to the dean. Michael Linn is executive chairman of Linn Energy, LLC; Robert Potter, Rice '73, is executive vice president, energy systems, at FMC Technologies, Inc.; and Anne Taylor is vice chairman and regional managing partner, Mid-America at Deloitte LLP. Each is serving his/her first term. "We are extremely excited to add these three members to the council," said chairman T. Jay Collins. "Their business expertise and commitment to business education will be of great value to the Jones School and the Rice community." Dean Bill Glick added, "The Jones School is fortunate to have the support of a stellar group of leaders. Each one is committed to our mission of developing principled, innovative thought leaders in global communities and shares an enthusiasm for business education."Linn is the executive chairman of LINN Energy, LLC (Nasdaq: LINE), which he founded in 2003. Prior to that he was president of Allegheny Interests, Inc. and served as president and CEO of Meridian Exploration Corporation. Mr. Linn serves on the National Petroleum Council and American Exploration and Production Council. Additionally,, he serves on the boards of American's Natural Gas Alliance and the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA), is chairman of the IPAA Political Action Committee and the past chairman of IPAA. A Texas Representative for the Legal and Regulatory Affairs Committee of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, Mr. Linn previously served as chairman of the National Gas Council and Director of the Natural Gas Supply Association, and as president of the Independent Oil and Gas Associations of New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.Mr. Linn regularly represents the oil and natural gas industry before state and federal agencies, the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate and in the media. He has also published numerous articles in oil and natural gas trade publications and newspapers.Robust civic affiliations include serving on the boards of Houston Children's Charity — which recently honored him for his philanthropic works — the Texas Heart Institute, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas Children's Hospital, Visitors Board of the MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston Police Foundation, and chairman of the Texas Children's Hospital Corporate Committee Capital Campaign. Mr. Linn graduated cum laude from Villanova University with a BA in Political Science and cum laude from the University of Baltimore School of Law. Following graduation, he practiced law for the law firm of Ecker, Ecker, Zofer and Rome until 1980, when he joined Meridian Exploration as General Counsel.Potter is the executive vice president of Energy Systems. Prior to assuming this role, he served as senior vice president of Energy Processing and Global Surface Wellhead at FMC Technologies, Inc. Potter joined FMC as a sales representative for the Wellhead Equipment Division and held several sales management positions over the years.A graduate of Rice University with a bachelor's degree in commerce, he serves on the executive committee for the Petroleum Equipment Suppliers Association, is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Ocean Industries Association and is a member of the American Petroleum Institute. 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