text: Events May 19, 2016 19 May 2016 7th Annual Maine Conference Making Connections for Improved Care Coordination APS is pleased to be offering a free training opportunity for the stakeholders in our provider community. The 7th Annual Conference will feature a conversation about Making Connections for Improved Care Coordination. KEYNOTE: Chris Echterling, MD – Medical Director of Vulnerable Populations – Wellspan Health SPEAKERS: Kelly Bickmore, Program Director – APS Healthcare Patricia A. Kimball, LADC, CCS – Wellspring, Inc. Stacey Sukoff Rizzo, PhD & LuAnne Ballesteros – The Jackson Laboratory Detective Rich Cutliffe – Brunswick Police Department Joanie Klayman, Director of Social Work – Preble Street Sue Mackey Andrews – Maine Resilience Building Network Christine McKenzie, M.Ed., CRC – Director – Department of Vocational Services Maine Medical Center Karen Evans, Stephanie Crystal and Kandie Cleaves – APS Healthcare Member Advisory Council Colin O'Neill, LCSW, Associate Commissioner – The Maine Department of Corrections James Martin, James Leonard, Sheldon Wheeler and Karen Mason – DHHS Plenary Panel Please scroll down for information regarding each session. Earn 6.5 Contact Hours! (Certificates will be distributed after 3 p.m. at the conference) Register Today! Online registration is required and there is no charge for this conference. Click Here to Register! 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Thank you for the invitation to discuss the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) research and development program, and specifically its work on Gulf War Veterans' Illness. I appreciate the opportunity to discuss the vital role VA research has in ensuring the health and well-being of our Nation's Veterans.
My testimony will provide an overview of VA's research programs, describe our process for allocating funding based on scientific merit, report on our current allocation of funds for Gulf War Veterans' Illness research, and describe some of the current challenges and considerations associated with the science involved in this field of study.
Overview of VA Research
For more than 80 years, VA's Office of Research and Development (ORD) has been improving the lives of Veterans and all Americans through health care discovery and innovation. Because more than 70 percent of VA researchers are also clinicians who provide direct patient care, VA is uniquely positioned to move scientific discovery from investigators' laboratories to patient care. In turn, VA clinician-investigators identify new research questions for the laboratory at the patient's bedside, making the research program one of VA's most effective tools to improve the care of Veterans. Our fundamental goals are to address the needs of the entire Veteran population from the young recruit who returns from combat with injuries to the aging Veteran, and to use research findings proactively to benefit the future Veteran. Data generated by VA researchers are used not only in current projects but also form the foundation for future projects as well.
VA research is an intramural program that is also fully integrated with the larger biomedical research community through VA's academic affiliations and collaborations with other organizations. VA scientists partner with colleagues and foster dynamic collaborations with other Federal agencies, academic medical centers, nonprofit organizations and private industry nationwide, further expanding the reach and scope of VA research. This is often a channel for new and emerging technologies to be introduced into VA; as devices or equipment are approved by the Food and Drug Administration, VA researchers are among the first to bring them into the mainstream clinical environment, while teaching others how to use them.
While VA research is principally focused on benefiting current and future Veterans, it also impacts Veteran families and caregivers, VA health care providers, Veterans Service Organizations, other components of the Federal research establishment, academic health centers, and practitioners of health care across the country. VA research is a valuable investment with remarkable and lasting returns.
Merit Review Process
VA ensures the best research programs receive funding and support through its merit review process. A VA Office of Research and Development (ORD) program manager with specific subject matter expertise in the proposal's field reviews each submission and refers it to a Peer Review Committee for evaluation. This Committee is composed of highly qualified and senior scientists with extensive backgrounds without conflicts of interest with the proposals they review. Each member critiques and scores the proposal; funding selections are made based upon this review. If a research proposal is not selected, the Committee's critique is provided to the researcher so that he or she can develop a better proposal for the future.
Additionally, VA's Cooperative Studies Program (CSP) within ORD supports research that will be ongoing for several years and involve multiple VA medical centers and patients. To apply for CSP support, study proponents develop a letter of intent; if this letter describes a proposal with strong scientific and clinical significance, the letter is then reviewed by a CSP Study planning group and the five Coordinating Centers that would participate in the research. This group and the Coordinating Centers work with the study proponent to further refine the project and address logistical and scientific issues. A separate reviewing body then considers the proposal to ensure all potential concerns are fully addressed before the study begins.
All studies funded by ORD that involve patients receive the highest level of scrutiny to ensure the safety of the patient and the most certainty that the study will contribute to better health care for Veterans.
Current Allocation of Funds for Gulf War Veterans' Illness Research
During Fiscal Year (FY) 2008, VA allocated more than $20 million for research related to Gulf War Veteran's illnesses. This research supports a range of programs and clinical areas, including research into the prevalence of brain cancer among Gulf War Veterans, the prevalence of multiple sclerosis in Gulf War Veterans, and a $15 million per year contract involving the Dallas VA Medical Center and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) to support Gulf War research. The UTSW research is investigating multi-symptom illnesses among Gulf War Veterans and the contract is renewable at VA's discretion on a year-to-year basis until September 30, 2011.
VA-funded epidemiological studies have proven instrumental in identifying the range of chronic symptoms and health problems reported by Gulf War Veterans. This research has found that these symptoms occurred at rates that exceed non-deployed era Veterans and that these symptoms persist. The most common symptoms include impaired cognition, attention, and memory; persistent headaches; diarrhea and gastrointestinal problems; skin rashes; extreme muscle weakness and fatigue; joint pain; and sleep disturbances. VA continues to monitor this population of Veterans for changes in mortality rates and incidence of cancers. In addition to these studies of unexplained symptoms, VA has funded investigations to assess the prevalence of other diseases, such as cancer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and multiple sclerosis in Gulf War Veterans, since there is some evidence that these diseases may also occur at elevated rates in this population.
In October 2002, April 2004, and March 2005, VA issued a Request for Applications (RFA) to solicit new research projects focused on the long-term health effects of deployment in the Gulf War, the health effects of specific military occupational and environmental exposures, improvements in evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of Gulf War Veterans' illnesses, prevalence of neurological disorders such as ALS and multiple sclerosis in Gulf War Veterans, and changes in the autonomic nervous system or immune system that may be associated with, or involved in the persistence of, unexplained symptoms or illnesses reported by Gulf War Veterans. VA recently announced a fourth RFA in May 2009 to specifically solicit proposals to study new treatments for ill Gulf War Veterans, including testing treatments that have previously been used for chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia, two conditions in the VA and general populations with similarities to Gulf War Veterans' illnesses.
VA continues to support Gulf War Veterans research more broadly, and over the last 15 years, VA has spent almost $130 million on research directly related to Gulf War Veterans. These funds do not include the VA-funded research that may be related to health care concerns of Gulf War Veterans (i.e., ALS, multiple sclerosis, or cancer) but are not solely focused on the Gulf War Veteran population. The Departments of Defense and Health and Human Services have spent more than $235 million over the same time period, for a total of almost $365 million from the Federal government. VA is committed to building on what we have spent and to expand the foundation of available data to find relief for current illnesses while planning for the future. For example, VA is directing research into genomic studies, using state-of-the-art imaging techniques and correlation of tests of brain function, delineation of biomarkers, treatment trials and determinations of autonomic and motor function.
Scientific Challenges and Considerations
VA recognizes there are challenges to establishing scientific bases for clinical determinations about medical conditions associated with military combat. Necessary data are sometimes unavailable, control groups can be difficult to establish, participants may not be easily identified, and the sheer number of potential factors or variables renders a definitive conclusion elusive. However, our charge is to learn as much as we possibly can about those conditions, no matter the obstacles.
Another challenge is a perception by some Veterans that research data will be used to make determinations regarding VA benefits. As an assurance to Veterans, research data from participants has not been used by VA to affect benefits and ORD supports and enforces that policy. Similarly, VA researchers must also consider protections established by law, regulation and policy concerning patient confidentiality. Patient confidentiality is of utmost importance to VA and we take extraordinary steps to protect our Veterans. The Privacy Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) restrict how research data may be used. Patients understand that information they provide to a researcher is personal and potentially identifiable, and VA researchers are required to clearly explain this to research participants.
Even very personal information, such as a research participant's genetic structure, can be protected, and Veterans are often enthusiastic about participating in this type of research. For example, VA research into genomic medicine has included questions asking participants about their feelings about this type of investigation. More than 70 percent of Veterans surveyed reported they would participate in genomic research; more than 80 percent of Veterans reported believing that participation in this research would help other Veterans; and more than 85 percent reported being curious about the influence of their genes on their health. This support for VA's research program provides VA with critical data and insight, and in turn holds great potential for supporting the care and well-being of all Veterans, including Gulf War Veterans.
In conclusion, VA remains committed to funding scientifically meritorious research projects that improve our understanding of Gulf War Veterans illnesses and enhance our ability to diagnose and treat ill Gulf War Veterans. Moreover, the knowledge we gain from these efforts may improve our ability to prevent and treat illnesses affecting participants of current and future deployments. Your support of VA's research programs is greatly appreciated and I look forward to your questions.
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I also put in a link "back" to my index page. I find this little script
handy if your following a tree through all the myriad pages. There are
thirty-eight data pages, all cross linked, as well as twenty-six name list
pages and one pages of just surnames. If there is a handy "Back Where You
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The index page link and the back script are placed between each person on
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Help! need buying advice, have read other posts
Summary: Relax. You do not have the option to make a big mistake with the cameras you are considering. I am highly impressed with the D7 relative to cameras I have owned and the Nikon 990 a friend owns. (The 995 is a 990 with the design mistakes corrected.) Based on (a lot of) reading discussion threads, I am more impressed with Minolta as a company than the others, especially Sony.
If you want to know why I believe this:
I have owned a couple of early Sony's, a Casio QV 3000 EX and have just acquired a Dimage 7. As noted earlier, each camera has its strengths and weaknesses.
Personally, I will never own another Sony. This is because they would lock me into accessories that limit what I can do relative to open market choices (taking TIF images on a 707 would require changing memory sticks evey 7 or 8 exposures) and offer generally poor value.
The second issue I have with Sony is illustrated by the response they issued with their blue flash problem: To wit, no firmware upgrade would be forthcoming. If you want the camera you paid for, then give it up for a few weeks while we correct our defect! Contrast that with the recent Minolta release of a firmware upgrade that apparently addresses many of the issues raised by early users. I feel much more comportable that I am not paying a lot of money to be a beta test site and will then be stuck with a product that is crippled relative to newer versions with my Minolta. I believe Sony will take deliberate actions to make my purchase obsolete, whereas Minolta seem to take a more supportive view of their customers.
The Casio QV 3000 has the same lens and CCD as the G1. I took a lot of pictures ( 20,000) with these and can give both a solid recommendation for performance in their class. I did find it necessary to purchase a wide angle and teleconverter and rig a mount to cover my needs. These are basically included in the price of the Dimage 7.
I have read a lot about Minolta focusing problems in low light at high telephoto settings. This is a load of malarkey. Of course, it is more difficult to 'contrast' focus with a higher magnification lens. That does not reflect a deficiency in the camera with the longer telephoto lens, however! I have taken picutes with the Casio using a 2x teleconverter to give the same 200 mm focal length as the D7. The D7 focuses under conditions where the Casio does not.
My limited personal experience confirms the D7's needs for batteries. Using a 1G microdrive and storing only RAW format pictures, I got about 60 frames in ~ 1 hour on a set of 1600 mAh Sunpak batteries. It took these batteries over an hour to finish discharging when I conditioned them prior to recharging. That is, my camera does not fully discharge the batteries when it shuts down. This would make the apparent battery life a strong function of the resistance of the contacts, etc. I believe this effect is a major contributor to the wide variability of experience amoung users.
My approach to battery life is to clean the contacts regularly and use an external battery for those occasions when I plan to take a lot of pictures. I have just purchased a Radio Shack battery which attaches nicely to my monopod using heavy duty velcro. It should have the life of ~ 2.5 sets of NiMH batteries.
The Dimage is not a point and shoot camera. It does have a point and shoot mode. It's real strength lies in the close approximation it gives you to a top end 35 mm SLR. I really like the telephoto adjustment system much better than any other digital camera I have used. The manual focus ring is comfortable for an old 35 mm user and the option to magnify the image 4x for focusing is adequate, although not a split ring by any stretch of the imagination.
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Students from Chalmette High School Brass Band played live in the WWOZ Studio on Wednesday, October 9.
For over 30 years WWOZ has put New Orleans music, past and present, on the airwaves. Now we are looking to the future by showcasing Nola's newest crop of young musicians. Together with Coventry Health Care of Louisiana, WWOZ is thrilled to present Cuttin' Class - a series of live in-studio performances by middle and high school age students from the Greater New Orleans area.
Each Cuttin' Class presentation brings young Nola musicians to the studio to give them the chance to perform on live radio. Our show hosts sit down with the band leaders to talk about the band, what it's like to be young musician, and about the music education opportunities in New Orleans. The future is in our hands, and we want to give it all the encouragement and support we can. The schools and organizations bringing bands to Cuttin' Class are doing just that: making sure that New Orleans music is a passed on down through the generations.
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I like some Pantera... and I like probably 3 to 5 of the live songs on here. They pretty much threw their popular songs on this one and let it sit worthlessly on the shelf. I'm pretty sure this album was overdubbed and thrown together from several different soundboard recordings from shows. The crowd doesn't sound natural in some parts... it just seems like it's all copy and pasted together. They decide "Hey let's do a live album." Maybe they should've picked the songs where Phil doesn't sound like he forgot the vocal pattern mid verse. Well, maybe these were the good picks? That wouldn't be a shocker. The two new songs aren't all that bad... but nowhere near as good as the material on The Great Southern Trendkill. The song choice is "what you'd hear on the radio" and Suicide Note Part 2. They played F'ing Hostile? What a surprise. So did the local radio station every damn day.
Phil Anselmo manages to record just how terrible he was live in the mid-late 90s. I can't imagine seeing them doing this version of Strength Beyond Strength live... he sounds like vomitting from having too much whiskey is flowing out of his mouth during this song. Oh, and the mumbled verses on This Love were also a nice touch. Dimebag's riffing is pretty good and tight. Some of the solos sound completely messy while some others are dead on. As a fellow guitar player... I think he used way too much gain. Rex has some nice bass work too... Hey i'm glad I can actually hear the bass. Vinnie Paul sounds like he always does - bland, mediocre drumming with a complete lack of variation.
Overall I think this album is just a stack of crap to make some money. The studio songs were pretty well done, considering the rest of the album. They should've just done an EP or something.
Songs I think they should've done instead: Slaughtered, Floods, Shedding Skin, and The Great Southern Trendkill.
Songs on here I actually enjoyed: Dom/Hollow, I'm Broken, Sandblasted Skin, and Suicide Note Part II, Where You Come From


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London Olympics 2012 - 470 girls 'rise to the occasion'
by Matt Carter on 10 Aug 2012
Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark (GBR) competing in the Women's Two Person Dinghy (470) event in The London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition. onEdition ©
London 2012 Olympic Sailing Competition 470 Women's Medal Race is to be held on Friday 10th August. Double Olympic silver medallist Joe Glanfield, coach to 470 Women sailors Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark, believes the girls have really 'risen to the occasion' as they prepare to go for London 2012 gold at Weymouth and Portland tomorrow.
Mills and Clark, who weren't even sailing together until 18 months ago, have definitely secured a medal and, because of the way points are calculated, are guaranteed at least silver if they can simply sail a clean race and not get disqualified.
However, tied neck-and-neck on 33 points with New Zealand going into tomorrow's double points' medal race gold is the target for Mills and Clark, the 2012 470 Women's World Champions.
Three-time Olympian Glanfield won Olympic 470 Men's silver medals with Nick Rogers at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008. Now he believes the girls are ready to add the Olympic crown to their World title.
Glanfield said: 'The girls have been very consistent and really risen to the occasion of the Olympics. All their preparation has paid off. They started to show at the Worlds how consistent they can be and they just carried that on event after event.
'They sail the boat well and they manage to do that while they are in tight situations with other boats. But what they have also really developed is they stay in logical mode. They don't panic and get emotional so they still spot the opportunities.
'They will be delighted to be in this situation, they will love the opportunity to race the Kiwis and try to get that gold medal. I think you always have to be realistic. It's one 30 minute race; the Kiwis have sailed brilliantly so it could go either way. But they are certainly ready for this situation, we have prepared for it, and I think they can feel they can give a good representation of themselves.'
The winner takes all scenario on the Nothe spectator course at Weymouth and Portland potentially lends itself to the Kiwi and British boats sailing their own race within a race and ignoring the rest of the fleet. But Joe believes that will not necessarily be the case.
He added: 'They will obviously have their eyes on the Kiwis but because it can be so shifty [on that course] you always have to know what's going on with the wind and know when you've just got to race your own race.
'I think they are delighted to have a medal, I could see relief in their faces. That is why it's quite good to have a day in between yesterday and the medal race because it just gives them the chance to get over the first hurdle and then really concentrate on winning gold, which is what we all want.'
The 470 Women's medal race is scheduled for 1pm tomorrow (Friday 10 August). The Olympic Sailing Regatta runs from Sunday 29 July – Saturday 11 August.
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British sailor and four-time Olympic gold medalist Ben Ainslie has capped a triumphant year of sailing with a Knighthood in the New Year Honours list. British Sailing has more cause for celebration, with honours also going to Paralympic gold medallist Helena Lucas, and to Ainslie's coach David Howlett, who were both named as Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).
Posted on 29 Dec 2012
2012 Paralympic Games a winner in global TV ratings
The London 2012 Paralympic Games were a TV ratings winner with pictures shown in more countries than ever before.
The London 2012 Paralympic Games were a TV ratings winner with pictures shown in more countries than ever before and attracted their biggest ever international audience according to new figures published by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
Posted on 28 Nov 2012
London Paralympic Games debrief to start in Rio
Paralympic Games committee will share their knowledge and experiences of London 2012 with future organising committees.
The organising committee of what International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Sir Philip Craven defined as the best ever Paralympic Games, will share their knowledge and experiences of London 2012 with future organising committees and the 2020 candidate cities this week in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Posted on 21 Nov 2012
2012 Olympics- The Medalists thoughts on Kites and Windsurfers
The new Olympic Medalists were asked their thoughts on the decision to change the event from Windsurfing to Kiteboarding
At the Medal Winners Media Conference held after the Medal Ceremony for the Mens and Womens Windsurfing Event at the 2012 Olympics, the new Olympic Medalists were asked their thoughts on the decision to change the event from Windsurfing to Kiteboarding the 2016 Olympics.
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Nov. 18, 2013
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The Nevada Wolf Pack cross country team roared back from a frustrating finish at the Mountain West Conference Championship to record its highest finish in school history at the NCAA Mountain Regional Championship. With a superbly executed race plan that left several Mountain West Conference teams in their wake, the Wolf Pack left the scenic 6000 meter course set on Ogden, Utah's Schneiter's Riverside Golf Course with the very sweet taste of satisfaction.
Laying to rest a season of frustration with a performance that surprised several of their conference foes, Nevada finished ninth in the region, eclipsing the school's previous best finish of tenth, set in 2007. Two weeks prior to the NCAA Regional, at the MW Championship, the Wolf Pack struggled to a seventh place finish as most of the squad had been out of training due to illness for extended periods in the six weeks leading into the conference championship. Finally healthy, the Wolf Pack put in two weeks of unusually intense, late season training (a time when most teams are resting), to regain the fitness lost during the period of illness. With renewed confidence from their two weeks of good training, the Pack finished six places higher than they were seeded at the Mountain Regional. Nevada handily took down three of the teams that had finished in front of them at the MW Championship; Colorado State (3rd two weeks ago), Utah St (5th), and Wyoming (6th).
Junior Demerey Kirsch, who has improved dramatically over the past two years, led the charge for the Wolf Pack, putting herself at the rear of the dense lead pack of thirty five at the kilometer mark. Patiently waiting her time as others gradually fell off the pace, the steady junior found herself in 21st with 400 to go. Never known for her ability to kick, Kirsch, who would usually lose a few places in the final 400, displayed some new wheels, taking down 4 more competitors by the time she crossed the finish line, setting the school 6000m record in the process.
Senior Sam Diaz, closing out her storied career with a brilliant, come-from-behind race, moved from around 60th at the kilometer to 24th by the finish. Hardest hit by illness of all the team, the savvy, tenacious Diaz used the last two weeks to her advantage, rallying from a disappointing performance at the conference meet to record her best Regional finish, and the second best time of her career.
In spite of running at altitude, five of the seven members of the squad notched PRs (personal records). Notably, junior Caitlin Devitt-Payne lopped a stunning 69 seconds off her previous best, with a courageous effort following three successive races where she required medical attention.
Having wrapped up their cross country season at the NCAA Regional, the Wolf Pack will begin preparations for the indoor season after taking a couple of low key weeks to recover. Nevada opens its indoor track and field season January 24-25th at Boise State.
Colorado 29, New Mexico 64, BYU 109, Weber St 160, Air Force 185, Northern Arizona 188, Montana St 209, Utah 214, NEVADA 253, Colorado St 302, Utah St 318, Southern Utah 326, Wyoming 338, Texas Tech 354, Montana 397, Idaho St 432, Northern Colorado 447, Utah Valley 453, New Mexico St 484, UTEP 640
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17 Demerey Kirsch JR 21:04.6, SCHOOL RECORD, 42 second PR!
24 Sam Diaz SR 21:14.6
54 Emily Myers SO 21:51.8, 18 second PR
77 Caitlin Devitt-Payne JR 22:13.2, 69 second PR!!!
81 Julie Pedersen SR 22:18.9
86 Erika Root SO 22:25.2, 17 second PR
105 Laura Palacios FR 22:47.8, 49 second PR
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Teach kids about sustainable agriculture by visiting a local farm. Local Harvest lets you search for dairy farms, farmer's markets and more using their online directory. Many farm workers are more than eager to share their business with school groups and families, letting kids get up close to friendly animals, milk a cow, participate in harvesting processes and see how organic vegetables are canned. Children will get a first-hand look at how farms impact communities and the local economy, and they'll also leave knowing where many of their favorite foods and flavors come from.
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Kim Wears Kanye Inspired Jewelry: The New Tattoo Tribute
Kanye West liked it, so he put some earrings on it.
Kim Kardashian doesn't exactly have the best track record when it comes to relationships, but it seems her rapper beau is making her more than willing to give love yet another (painful) shot. The 31-year-old star was seen sporting a pair of gold and diamond earrings with West's initials on them, while making her way through LAX airport on April 22.
And while it's not uncommon for celebrities to publicly flaunt their relationships in some form or another, it is a rather unique way to go about it. And I can't help but wonder — what does it really mean?
Normally, Hollywood protocol dictates that celebs show affection toward their loved ones in a much more permanent way — with ink. Johnny Depp took it upon himself to get the words "Winona Forever" tattooed across his arm while dating Winona Ryder. (He later changed the lettering to read "Wino Forever").
Angelina Jolie also likes to ink herself with representations of her leading men. She had a tattoo on her left arm that read "Billy Bob" which was removed shortly after her divorce to Billy Bob Thorton. She now has her husband-to-be Brad Pitt's birthplace coordinates tattooed on her upper left arm.
And who could forget Kat Von D's tacky bold idea to tattoo a replication of Jessie James' fifth grade school picture underneath her left armpit.
It's not the most conventional way to show someone you care, but it's become a bit of a staple among the celeb community. So what does it mean when Kim Kardashian — the ultimate Queen of the Overstatement — chooses to display her affections with a mere piece of jewelry? It's not a permanent gesture like so many of the other stars chose to do, but then again, most of those relationships met an unfortunate end regardless.
In fact, the more I think about it, the more I think this is one of the first times a Kardashian has decided to opt for subtlety (two words I never thought would appear in the same sentence together). Perhaps these two are actually the smart ones, residing not to make any rash decisions regarding commitment before either of them is ready. Granted, accessories with initials on them is a little too middle school for my taste, but it's a much more logical step than tattoos or 20.5-carat engagement rings.
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I agree with you that XCom is not an RPG, but I still think experience levels are an RPG element. Chess had a progression element, and experience levels are a progression element. However, experience is a very specific kind of progression element, which has just happened to become completely dominant. I mean, monopoly has a progression element (money), but that doesn't mean I think it introduced experience levels. If you can find a pre-D&D wargame where rookies become veterans by way of combat, I'll withdraw my argument. I'm legitimately interested in this, as, like I said, I literally was looking into this a few weeks back to make your exact argument.
As for the "wargame" you're referencing, let me put it this way: This wargame that introduced experience levels and other RPG elements.. what was it called? You know, after it was standardized and written down? What was it called again?
Keep in mind, Chainmail did -not- have these elements. These experience levels were introduced on-the-fly in an attempt to make the experience more personal and dynamic. He then standardized these rules and released it as -something-, alongside the talent behind Chainmail (Gygax). What was it again?
Edit: To spin it yet another way: You're emphasizing that experience levels were introduced in wargames. However, the "wargame" you're referencing was basically the exact transition point between wargames and RPGs. It's when they took wargame mechanics (Chainmail) and introduced brand new RPG mechanics (experience levels, etc.). Then.. they released it. As the first RPG.
I mean, it was exactly the introduction of these mechanics that -made- D&D the first RPG rather than a straight wargame. Unless you're claiming that D&D is actually a wargame, and all pen and paper RPGs are wargames..? If not, how is D&D any more of an RPG and any less of a wargame than this "pre-D&D wargame" you're referencing?
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Metals and metalloids are electropositive elements that occur in all ecosystems, although natural concentrations vary according to local geology. Land disturbance in metals-enriched areas can increase erosion and mobilize metals into streams. Human activities redistribute and concentrate metals in areas that are not naturally metals-enriched. These metals can reach water bodies when they are released into the air, water, and soil. Unlike sediment and nutrient impairments, there is often no visible evidence of metals contamination (Figure 1).
While some metals are essential as nutrients, all metals can be toxic at some level and some metals are toxic in minute amounts. Impairments result when metals are biologically available at toxic concentrations affecting the survival, reproduction, and behavior of aquatic organisms.
Checklist of sources, site evidence and biological effects
This module addresses water column contamination by metals and metalloids that commonly cause toxic effects. These include arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, inorganic mercury, nickel, selenium, and zinc. Organic mercury and tributyl tins are special forms of metals that are beyond the scope of this module. Salts of abundant and relatively nontoxic metals are discussed in the Ionic Strength module, and metals in complex toxic mixtures are discussed in Unspecified Toxics module on toxic substances in the water column.
Metals should be included as a candidate cause when potential human sources and activities, site observations, or observed biological effects support portions of the source-to-impairment pathways in the conceptual diagram for metals (Figure 2). This diagram and some of the other information also may be useful in Step 3: Evaluate Data from the Case. The checklist below will help you identify key data and information useful for determining whether to include metals among your candidate causes. The list is intended to guide you in collecting evidence to support, weaken, or eliminate metals as a candidate cause. For more information on specific sources and activities, site evidence, and biological effects listed in the checklist, click on checklist headings or go to the When to List tab of this module.
Consider listing metals as a candidate cause when the following sources and activities, site evidence, and biological effects are present:
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In reponse to the accusation that Obama orchestrated the shooting, Carli Richards says, 'Everybody is emotional at this time and needs to blame somebody I guess.'
Dave Mustaine comes under fire due to his statement that claimed President Barack Obama was the mastermind behind the mass shooting in an Aurora theater last July. The Megadeth singer is slammed by one of the victims of "The Dark Knight Rises" massacre.
"Some people think the President is a good scapegoat but he didn't shoot me," Carli Richards tells TMZ. "It's obviously kind of absurd and people who make up conspiracies just want attention." She's one of the people who got multiple gunshot wounds in the tragic incident.
"Everybody is emotional at this time and needs to blame somebody I guess. I don't think they realize the consequences of not being responsible for your own actions and James Holmes needs to be held accountable for his, to whatever way the justice system deems fit," she continues.
Mustaine caused a buzz on the web when he accused Obama of staging Aurora shooting. "He's trying to pass a gun ban, so he's staging all of these murders, like the 'Fast And Furious' thing down at the border; Aurora, Colorado, all the people that were killed there," the rocker told the crowd in the band's concert in Singapore.
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The mountain ranges of the North American Cordillera are made up of dozens of distinct crustal blocks. A new study clarifies their mode of origin and identifies a previously unknown oceanic plate that contributed to their assembly.
The extensive area of elevated topography that dominates the Western reaches of North America is exceptionally broad, encompassing the coastal ranges, the Rocky Mountains and the high plateaus in between.
In fact, this mountain belt consists of dozens of crustal blocks of varying age and origin, which have been welded onto the American continent over the past 200 million years.
"How these blocks arrived in North America has long been a puzzle," says LMU geophysicist Karin Sigloch, who has now taken a closer look at the problem, in collaboration with the Canadian geologist Mitchell Mihalynuk.
Collisions and continental growth
However, this scenario is at variance with several geological findings, and does not explain why the same phenomenon is not observed on the west coast of South America, the classical case of subduction of oceanic crust beneath a continental plate.
The precise source of the crustal blocks themselves has also remained enigmatic, although geological studies suggest that they derive from several groups of volcanic islands.
"The geological strata in North America have been highly deformed over the course of time, and are extremely difficult to interpret, so these findings have not been followed up," says Sigloch.
Sigloch and Mihalynuk have now succeeded in assembling a comprehensive picture of the accretion process by incorporating geophysical findings obtained by seismic tomography.
This technique makes it possible to probe the geophysical structure of the Earth's interior down to the level of the lower mantle by analyzing the propagation velocities of seismic waves. The method can image the remnants of ancient tectonic plates at great depths, ocean floor that subducted, i.e., disappeared from the surface and sank back into the mantle, long time ago.
Intra-oceanic subduction of the Farallon Plate
Instead it collided with, and subducted under, an intervening and previously unrecognized oceanic plate. Sigloch and Mihalynuk were able to locate the remnants of several deep-sea trenches that mark subduction sites at which oceanic plates plunge at a steep angle into the mantle and are drawn almost vertically into its depths.
"The volcanic activity that accompanies the subduction process will have generated lots of new crustal material, which emerged in the form of island arcs along the line of the trenches, and provided the material for the crustal blocks," Sigloch explains.
As these events were going on, the American Plate was advancing steadily westwards, as indicated by striped patterns of magnetized seafloor in the North Atlantic.
The first to get consumed was the previously unknown oceanic plate, which can be detected seismologically beneath today's east coast of North America. Only then did the continent begin to encounter the Farallon plate. On its westward journey, North America overrode one intervening island arc after another - annexing ever more of them for the construction of its wide mountains of the West.
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Au Rendez-Vous des Pecheurs Restaurant Review: Chef Christophe Cosme cooks up culinary delights here. The décor and service are softly stated, creating the perfect backdrop for the power of Cosme's cooking. Try dishes like fresh Erquy scallops cassolette, nuts roasted in butter with artichoke soup, gilthead bream roast in its skin with scampi and pork cheek simmered with vegetables, and vanilla mille-feuille and caramel ice cream. The cellar is strong in Loire wines. Watch out, though: à la carte prices are steep at this fashionable bistro.
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Bolton has ended Arsenal's perfect start to the English Premier League season, twice coming from behind to earn a 2-2 draw at Highbury on Saturday.
The defending champion was denied a sixth consecutive win by a battling performance that underlined why Bolton had already beaten Liverpool and drawn with Manchester United.
Arsenal was never quite at its best but still looked set to claim all three points until substitute Henrik Pedersen fired in Bolton's second equaliser five minutes from time.
Earlier, Tunisian Radhi Jaidi had scored his first goal in English football with a bullet header to cancel out Thierry Henry's first-half strike. Robert Pires then restored Arsenal's lead.
Said Bolton manager Sam Allardyce: "It's been five years of hard graft and the fruition of that is the squad we have put together . . . the way they are playing now is exciting me."
Arsenal's slip means Chelsea can draw level with it on points if it beats Tottenham at Stamford Bridge today, Melbourne time.
In Saturday's other action, Manchester City eased the pressure on manager Kevin Keegan with a 2-1 win at Crystal Palace. The build-up to the match had been dominated by speculation that the former England boss would be sacked if City lost to the Premier League newcomer.
Nicolas Anelka ensured that did not happen, following up his 55th-minute goal by converting a penalty nine minutes later.
Nwankwo Kanu cancelled out Andy Cole's goal for Fulham to rescue a point for West Bromwich Albion, after Robert Earnshaw had missed a first-half penalty for Gary Megson's promoted side.
Fulham finished the game with nine men. Cole followed Papa Diop to an early shower for his involvement in a fracas that also led to West Brom's Neil Clement being red-carded.
Norwich's 0-0 draw with Aston Villa means the three promoted teams have still to win a match and occupy the three relegation spots.
Blackburn celebrated Mark Hughes' first match in charge with its first win of the season. Matt Jansen's stunning second-half strike was enough to secure a 1-0 win over Portsmouth.
In Spain, David Beckham and Raul were dropped by Real Madrid but the Spanish giant's season still spiralled into crisis with a 1-0 defeat by Espanyol, just three days after it was thrashed by Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League.
- agencies


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Minister dancing on the head of a pin
Police Spokesperson
14 December 2012 MEDIA STATEMENT
Minister dancing on the head of a pin – and it's not a good look
South Island communities will not be impressed with the jig the Government is attempting on the head of a pin in trying to deny that plans are afoot to substantially lower the number of Police positions in the Mainland, Labour's police spokesman Kris Faafoi said today.
"The Government says no staff will be shifting. This is not about shifting staff it is about shifting positions and jobs," Kris Faafoi said.
"We understand that as positions become vacant in the South Island they will not be filled and those positions will be shifted North.
"So when a spokesman says police are 'assessing their resourcing needs in each district and any changes required will be achieved through attrition and strategic recruitment', in plain English that means when people leave we won't be replacing them in the location they were in.
"We have been told that 200-300 positions in the South Island are planned to be shifted from the South Island to the North Island. We have also been told this will mean no new Police recruits will be sent South after they graduate.
"Anne Tolley has not yet denied these specific points.
"South Islanders deserve to know
if the Police resourcing in the Mainland is going to be
seriously diminished. Anne Tolley's dancing on the head of
a pin is not a good look. And it's not straight answer for
them either."


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Koen is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Saint Louis University. He is currently working on a study of the Avesnes dynasty in Hainaut which grew from a minor aristocratic family in the eleventh century to become rulers of several major counties in the Low Countries and northern France in the thirteenth century. By examining their political interactions, marriage alliances, crusades participation, pious giving and other religious policies, it will help us understand the influence of crusader pedigree as well as the process and methods of dynastic image building in relation to the family's growing power and influence.
Besides the Low Countries and Crusades Koen's other topics and areas of interest include the Islamic and pre-Islamic Middle East, feuds and private wars, and Flemish communities in the British Isles. Originally from Belgium and raised in France and California, Koen is fully fluent in both Flemish and French. Prior to attending Saint Louis University, Koen received a B.A. in History from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2003.


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President Obama's latest television ad is designed to appeal to an important demographic: Women.
Entitled "first law," the commercial emphasizes the first bill Obama signed as president, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
"President Obama knows that women being paid 77 cents on the dollar for doing the same work as men isn't just unfair, it hurts families," the ad says.
The Obama campaign described the spot as "the first in a series of television advertisements that highlight President Obama's commitment to issues important to women and their families."
Polls give Obama big leads over Republican Mitt Romney among female voters, and they could make the difference in key states.
The new ad is airing in some of the more closely contested states: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, Nevada, Ohio and Virginia.
The commercial also spotlight's Obama's background as the son of a single mother, and as a husband with two daughters.
"President Obama knows that fairness for women means a stronger middle class for America," the ad says.
David's journalism career spans three decades, including coverage of five presidential elections, the Oklahoma City bombing, the 2000 Florida presidential recount and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has covered the White House for USA TODAY since 2005. His interests include history, politics, books, movies and college football -- not necessarily in that order. More about David
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March 2, 2013
Blue Jays monitoring Bautista's plate passion
By KEN FIDLIN, QMI Agency
John Gibbons has already noted that, on occasion, Jose Bautista can be a bit too demonstrative with umpires when a call doesn't go his way. The manager, while seeking to minimize the problem, clearly doesn't want his team labelled as whiners.
"It's not like it's a pressing issue but we'll talk about those things," Gibbons said Saturday. "It's a competitive business and (Bautista) is a passionate guy. What can happen if you do it too much, they can stick it to you. We don't want that. And I don't blame (the umps). He's intense. That's what makes him good. But you don't want to do that all the time.


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This March performs as Food Network's highest-rated March ever posting a .6, performing 20% above 2010 and ranked #7 among ad-supported cable networks in prime. The success is due primarily to the stellar performance of Sunday night tentpole program, Chopped All-Stars which has been watched by 20.5 million P2+ viewers and a 1.6 A25-54, according to Nielsen Media Research.
March Ratings Roar For Food Network!
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Reavers vs. The Gremlins. Who will win?
Reavers win, hands-down, since the Gremlins are aptly named: more mischievous than truly malicious though they do kill people. Reavers are chemically-altered, irradiated and (high odds) infectious - Pax? Mutated bacteria or viruses from irradiation and immune system responses? Who knows :S - humans who kill, rape and mutilate their victims.
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Milan (Bud) Shepherd, 81, of John Street, Kingston, died on Thursday evening at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital.
He was a son of the late Milan and Lillian Miller Shepherd. He graduated from Kingston High School, class of 1945. Milan served in the U.S. Army during World War II in the Persian Gulf and North Africa. He was a life member of the Anthracite VFW Post 283 and a lifelong member of the Kingston Fire Department. He was a fire truck driver from 1949 to 1958. Until his retirement in 1989, he worked for Power Engineering. He was a member of the Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Union 524. He was a 50 years-plus member of King David Lodge 763 F &AM, Caldwell Consistory, Bloomsburg, and Irem Temple A.A.O.N.M.S. He was past director of the Director Staff of Irem Temple and a member of the Greater Wilkes-Barre Shrine Club, where he was on the Board of Governors. Milan was a member of Dorranceton United Methodist Church, Kingston.
He was preceded in death by sisters Alice Shepherd, Edith LaBarre, Alma Hughes and Lillian Marks Brown.
Surviving is his wife, the former Lois Williamson. They would have celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary on April 22, 2008. He is also survived by his children, Debra Grilly, Sayre, Pa., Linda and Bruce Kiefer, Holden Mass., and Milan Jr. and Jean Shepherd, Ashburn, Va.; grandchildren, Christopher and Devan Grilly, Josh and Dr. Lisa Grilly, Aaron Grilly, Jennifer Grilly, Emily Kiefer, Megan Kiefer, Lauren Kiefer, and Barbara and Patricia Shepherd; sister, Mildred VanAuken, and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral on Monday at 11 a.m. at the Hugh B. Hughes & Son, Inc., Funeral Home, 1044 Wyoming Avenue, Forty Fort, with his pastor, the Rev. Beth Jones, officiating. The interment will be in Denison Cemetery, Swoyersville. Friends may call on Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. A Masonic service will be conducted on Sunday at 8 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to Dorranceton United Methodist Church, 549 Wyoming Ave., Kingston, Pa. 18704, or to Temple "Shepherds Unit," P.O. Box 307, Dallas, Pa. 18612.


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Anyone who so much as scratches the surface of Tower Hamlets politics swiftly learns that it's a snakepit: coil within coil of shifting alliances, arcane motives and endless assertions of foul play. That said, the recurrent media focus on allegations of electoral irregularities and other bad things in the borough too often resembles journalism's unholy trinity: over-simplification; selective omission; speculative exaggeration.
Every recent election has seen reporting of claims about electoral fraud of one kind or another in the borough: the 2010 general election; the 2011 Labour party selection process for its local mayoral candidate; and most recently in advance of the 2012 London mayoral contest and in the aftermath of a recent council by-election.
Such claims have emanated from a variety of political parties and news sources, and typically refer to postal votes being cast by people who don't actually live at the addresses claimed or indeed exist at all.
Sometimes, this reporting is characterised by carefully writ-proofed suggestions that the alleged fraud has been organised by sinister Muslim plotters. But what is rarely reported is that official investigations into these allegations have a habit of failing to find proof that the law has been broken or that any willful wrong-doing has occurred.
For some, this failure is an indictment of the authorities. Maybe they are right. But maybe there are more mundane reasons for unusually large numbers of adults being registered as voters as certain addresses.
In Tower Hamlets, where overcrowding is a big problem, unusually large numbers of adults sometimes actually do live at some addresses. Furthermore, the borough sees a great deal of population churn, making the electoral register difficult to keep up to date.
This phenomenon also occurs in other London boroughs. Why don't these boroughs attract close media attention? Is it because they fail to provide the excitement of a "scary Muslim" angle?
The BBC London report from February below explores the important but, in media herd terms, not terribly titillating reasons why problems with electoral registers and postal voting can occur.
Much negative press coverage is directed at the Tower Hamlets executive mayor Lutfur Rahman, who won the post as an independent after Labour rejected him. The legitimacy of his big win is questioned because turn-out was very low, but the questioners either don't know or just ignore the fact that the turnout for every previous inaugural election for a executive borough mayor in London was similarly low.
The hostile dossier about him supplied to Labour's national executive committee which provided grounds for it to replace him didn't even spell his name right and contained claims about him that none other than the local borough police commander was moved to dispute. A Labour Party investigation into its own mayoral candidate selection ballot concluded that his easy victory was not won by a bank of fake voters.
He's been accused of seeking to outlaw a local gay strip night with homophobic motives - an accusation strongly disputed - yet he's shared a stage with a drag queen in support of gay rights.
Rahman wouldn't have got my vote for mayor - after interviewing both, I was more impressed by the candidate Labour installed as his replacement - but it seems rather remiss that the above facts about him are almost never reported.
I don't doubt for a moment that undesirable forces are at work in Tower Hamlets, including illiberal religious activism, questionable political practices, single issue obsessiveness and much personal unpleasantness. But the real story of the borough's political engagement is enormously complex, growing out of a distinctive and often fraught history of poverty, exclusion from the mainstream, grassroots community struggles, local power rivalries and the divisive impact of the Iraq war.
None of the above fit with the prevailing, narrow media narrative about Tower Hamlets, which comes in so handy at election times - which is, I fear, why they go mostly ignored.