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Looking to provide the best shopping experience for mobile applications, Microsoft is engaging developers in a phased approach with its upcoming Windows Phone Marketplace relaunch.
The online application marketplace will enable users to buy applications for Windows Phone 7 units. Windows Phone 7, Microsoft's next-generation smartphone platform, will be formally launched on Oct. 11 with the phones themselves due to hit the market by the upcoming holiday season.
[ Also on InfoWorld: A Microsoft official last week expressed confidence over Windows Phone 7's chances. | Keep up on key mobile developments and insights with the Mobile Edge blog and Mobilize newsletter. ]
In a blog post Monday, Microsoft's Todd Brix, senior director of Windows Phone Marketplace, emphasized Microsoft's intentions to boost the developer experience in the marketplace and to offer the top shopping experience.
"We've given Marketplace an overhaul so that the quality of the developer experience in distributing apps and games matches our commitment to the customer experience on our new phone," Brix said. "The fair and transparent policies that we use to govern app certification remain intact, and we still strive to offer the industry's best shopping experience for finding full-featured apps and games that meet or exceed customer expectations."
The game plan for Windows Phone Marketplace during the next eight days is as follows:
- Oct. 4 - Registered developers have been contacted and invited to request early submission to the Marketplace certification process.
- Oct. 6 - Deadline for registered developers to respond to the invitation. An initial group of about 2,000 developers will be accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis to receive guidance for early access and to the application submission and certification process.
- Oct. 11 - Participants in the early certification program will get instructions on submitted xap files, enabling applications to be published in the Marketplace.
- Oct. 12 - Microsoft will continue processing submissions and prioritizing requests based on order received until the self-serve submission process is broadly enabled.
"We expect to make Windows Phone Marketplace fully available to all developers in November, giving end-users and developers alike the kind of quality experience that we hope will establish a rewarding long term relationship with Windows Phone. Test and near final apps and games are already showing up on pre-production devices," Brix said.
After phones become available, the Marketplace will provide developers with insights on application performance within the app store, Microsoft said. The company is partnering with vendors such as AT&T and LG to bring these phones to market.
Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, however, must compete in a fiercely competitive market where rivals such as Google and Apple already have been fighting it out, while Microsoft has remained largely on the sidelines.
Windows Phone Developer Tools have been downloaded more than 500,000 times in 200 countries, Brix said.
This article, "Microsoft ramps up Windows Phone app store," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments in business technology news and get a digest of the key stories each day in the InfoWorld Daily newsletter.


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Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1904.
|Margin Notes
|Sec. 6
|LAnse and Vieux de Sert bands of Chippewa to be credited semi annually with interest, etc.
[21 Stat., 131.]
See note to 1889, ch. 24, post, p. 301.
18 Stat., 140.
{Page 178}
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, semi-annually, to place to the credit of the LAnse and Vieux de Sert bands of Chippewas, of Lake Superior, under the provisions of the act entitled An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to deposit certain funds in the United States Treasury in lieu of investment, approved April first, eighteen hundred and eighty, interest upon twenty thousand dollars, being the unexpended balance of money belonging to the said Indians appropriated under the provisions of the act entitled An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the government for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three and eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and for other purposes, approved June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and now to their credit on the books of the Treasury, said unexpended balance and interest thereon to be applied as provided in said act.
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The product retains its solubility in water for a short period.
For the solubility at higher temperatures, see Tilden and Shenstone, Phil.
A number of circumstances affect the solubility of a gas in a liquid.
As can be seen, the solubility increases with the temperature.
The change is in solubility and form, and not in amount of nutrients available.
Conversely, if it is known that a change takes place in the solid phase, a break in the solubility curve can be predicted.
Practically, the only tests were melting point, ash and solubility.
The solubility of the trihydrate increases very rapidly with rise of temperature, and has been determined up to 26.1.
Well adapted to subcutaneous injection, on account of solubility.
solubility sol·u·bil·i·ty (sŏl'yə-bĭl'ĭ-tē)
The quality or condition of being soluble.
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by Staff Writers
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) May 09, 2014
A University of Utah-led team discovered a "hypervelocity star" that is the closest, second-brightest and among the largest of 20 found so far. Speeding at more than 1 million mph, the star may provide clues about the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way and the halo of mysterious "dark matter" surrounding the galaxy, astronomers say.
"The hypervelocity star tells us a lot about our galaxy - especially its center and the dark matter halo," says Zheng Zheng, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy and lead author of the study published recently in Astrophysical Journal Letters by a team of U.S. and Chinese astronomers.
"We can't see the dark matter halo, but its gravity acts on the star," Zheng says. "We gain insight from the star's trajectory and velocity, which are affected by gravity from different parts of our galaxy."
In the past decade, astronomers have found about 20 of these odd stars. Hypervelocity stars appear to be remaining pairs of binary stars that once orbited each other and got too close to the supermassive black hole at the galaxy's center. Intense gravity from the black hole - which has the mass of 4 million stars like our sun - captures one star so it orbits the hole closely, and slingshots the other on a trajectory headed beyond the galaxy.
Zheng and his colleagues discovered the new hypervelocity star while conducting other research into stars with the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope, or LAMOST, located at the Xinglong Observing Station of the National Astronomical Observatories of China, about 110 miles northeast of Beijing. LAMOST boasts a 13.1-foot-wide aperture and houses 4,000 optical fibers, which capture "spectra" or light-wavelength readings from as many as 4,000 stars at once. A star's spectrum reveals information about its velocity, temperature, luminosity and size.
LAMOST's main purpose is to study the distribution of stars in the Milky Way, and thus the galaxy's structure. The new hypervelocity star - named LAMOST-HVS1 - stood out because its speed is almost three times the usual star's 500,000-mph pace through space: 1.4 million mph relative to our solar system. Its speed is about 1.1 million mph relative to the speed of the center of the Milky Way.
Despite being the closest hypervelocity star, it nonetheless is 249 quadrillion miles from Earth. (In U.S. usage, a quadrillion is 1,000,000,000,000,000 miles or 10 to the 15th power, or 1 million billion).
"If you're looking at a herd of cows, and one starts going 60 mph, that's telling you something important," says Ben Bromley, a University of Utah physics and astronomy professor who was not involved with Zheng's study. "You may not know at first what that is. But for hypervelocity stars, one of their mysteries is where they come from - and the massive black hole in our galaxy is implicated."
The Down-Low on a Fast and Loose Star
The diameter of the visible part of our spiral-shaped galaxy is at least 100,000 light years, or 588 quadrillion miles. Zheng says that when the halo of dark matter is added, the estimated diameter is roughly 1 million light years, or 5,880 quadrillion miles.
Scientists know dark matter halos surround galaxies because the way their gravity affects the motion of a galaxy's visible stars and gas clouds. Researchers say only about 5 percent of the universe is made of visible matter, 27 percent is invisible and yet-unidentified dark matter and 68 percent is even more mysterious dark energy, responsible for accelerating the expansion of the universe. By traveling through the dark matter halo, the new hypervelocity star's speed and trajectory can reveal something about the mysterious halo.
Our solar system is roughly 26,000 light years or 153 quadrillion miles from the center of the galaxy - more than halfway out from the center of the visible disk.
By comparison, the new hypervelocity star is about 62,000 light years or 364 quadrillion miles from the galactic center, beyond as well as above the galaxy's visible disk. It is about 42,400 light years from Earth, or about 249 quadrillion miles away.
As far as that is - the star has a magnitude of about 13, or 630 times fainter than stars that barely can be seen with the naked eye - it nevertheless "is the nearest, second-brightest, and one of the three most massive hypervelocity stars discovered so far," Zheng says.
It is nine times more massive than our sun, which makes it very similar to another hypervelocity star known as HE 0437-5439, discovered in 2005, and both are smaller than HD 271791, which was discovered in 2008 and is 11 times more massive than the sun. As seen from Earth, only HD 271791 is brighter than LAMOST-HVS1, Zheng says.
The newly discovered hypervelocity star also outshines our own sun: It is four times hotter and about 3,400 times brighter (if viewed from the same distance). But compared with our 4.6-billion-year-old sun, the newly discovered LAMOST-HVS1 is a youngster born only 32 million years ago, based on its speed and position, Zheng says.
Is there any chance that the supermassive black hole might hurl a hypervelocity star in Earth's direction one day? Not really, Zheng says. First, astrophysicists estimate only one hypervelocity star is launched every 100,000 years. Second, possible trajectories of stars near the supermassive black hole don't forebode any danger, should any of them become a hypervelocity star in the future.
Zheng conducted the study with researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y.; National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, Ariz.; National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing and Nanjing; Spitzer Science Center, Pasadena, Calif.; University of California Observatories-Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz; Georgia State University, Atlanta; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Ill.; and University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei.
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Here's the algorithm for the idea i sketched in Using Strongs Numbers for Reducing Lexical Ambiguity. There are three sources of information:
- The Greek original of a verse, which relates a set of Greek words to a unique index (the verse reference). This also provides Strongs numbers for them, which has the additional benefit of getting you past the morphology.
- An English translation of the same verse, which in turn relates a set of English words to the same unique index. The verse index provides coarse-grained, many-to-many alignment, and limits the search space significantly to only a dozen or so possible translations. In practice only the subset of these words that bear significant content are likely to be of interest (not function words).
- The Strongs reference itself, which provides English translations for the Greek words.
The version of Strongs available from Crosswire (which distributes a great Windows Bible program, by the way) has 5624 entries, like this word (#1561) generally translated as "expectation":
1561 ekdoche ek-dokh-ay'
from 1551; expectation:--looking foreign
Crosswalk's version has something more complete, but i haven't found the sources yet (maybe they're not publically available):
ekdoche: the act or manner of receiving from
- reception
- succession
- interpretation
- expectation, waiting
The approach is to go through a English translation of a verse and identify the content terms (call these TE). Then find the Strongs definitions for all the words in the same verse (TS). Using (insert magic algorithm here), choose the element of TS that best matches the definition. In the simplest case, the English word itself will occur in only one definition for TS. If it occurs in multiple definitions, i'll need a voting scheme (if it matches more than once in some definition, it's more likely to be that one), or weight the Strongs definitions by their a priori probability. This wouldn't work at all without constraints (for example, how do you rule out paradoxos, meaning "contrary to expectation"), but the verse reference gives you that. You don't have to compare against all of Strongs, only the dozen or so entries for that specific verse.
This all looks good on paper, but The Proof Is In The Programming (i should trademark that!).
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Brian Moench's "Spray at your own risk" (Opinion, May 5) troubled me. Pesticides harm humans and other animals, but our state government does little.
I used to believe Utah was a family-friendly state; no longer. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is family-friendly; the state of Utah isn't.
We won't pay for universal pre-school, not even for lower-income families, although research shows that makes a huge difference in a child's entire life. That should be no surprise, since of any state, Utah spends the least per student to educate its children.
We talk families out the wazoo, but we don't act vigorously to protect them from polluted air. No heathen, hedonistic, satanic California does that. So it should also be no surprise that we're not vigorously protecting families from pesticides.
Utahns believe we're family friendly, but when it comes down to money (where values hit the road), we choose lower taxes over our children, and being pro-business to the point of being anti-family.
The LDS Church won't (and shouldn't) get involved in political debates, but a little more focused teaching of applying correct principle and priorities would help.
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Gangsters.......by Wensley Clarkson
There is an interesting new book just been published and is being serialised in the Sunday People called 'Gangsters'.
It claims to to lift the lid on Britains £10billion crime Industry.
The book goes on to detail the new breed of criminal who are more dangerous and vicious than the Krays or Richardsons ever were.
One story relates to two Islington crime families, the Reillys and the infamous Adams family.
Georgie Reilly an armed robber had been insulted in front of his wife by one of the Adamses henchmen...he ran home, armed himself with a gun and went looking for him.
Patsy Adams heard about the incident and decided that Georgie wasn't going to get away with such open disregard for the family that 'made the Krays look like muggers'.
Patsy Adams strolled into the Prince Alfred pub owned by the Reillys knowing full well that the Reillys would turn up mob handed.
Soon a red BMW pulled in to Huntingdon street ready to take out Patsy Adams.
Patsy, however was not alone. Concealed at a junction close to the pub were two car loads of armed nutters.
A gang battle ensued. Residents were running for cover as bullets bounced off walls and pavements.
The bullet ridden BMW reversed shotguns blazing from the windows and sped off.
Amazingly no one was hurt.
The BMW was traced back to club owner Johnny Reilly who received 30 months for violent conduct.
This gun battle was not about territory it was about pride...and pride can be a dangerous thing.
For more stories on modern day criminals get Gangsters by Wensley Clarkson.


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Manoa Faculty Senate Agenda January 21, 2009
The next Senate meeting is Wednesday January 21 in the Architecture Auditorium at 3:00p.m. Here is the agenda.
1. Approval of minutes of December 12, 2008, Senate Meeting
2. Chair's report
2.1. David Chin, Senate Parliamentarian
2.2. Budget Working Group
2.3. Status of PBRC report
2.4. VCAA search
2.5. Presidential search
2.6. Senate elections
3. Old business
3.1. Resolution on Director Search for the Cancer Research Center Of Hawaii
3.2. Resolution to Establish a Standing Committee of the Faculty Senate: Committee on Assessment
3.3. Resolution to Include Student Learning Outcomes onUHM-1 & UHM-2 Forms
3.4. Update on Process Committee
4. New business
4.1. Resolution to Approve a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Media
4.2. Faculty Senate response to the report of the Chancellor's Process Committee
4.3. Approve meeting of Congress on February 18
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Manoa Faculty Senate Chair
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Horror Planet
Investigating a distant planet, a group of interstellar explorers stumbles across a bizarre alien with breeding on its mind. To that end, it assaults team member Sandy (Judy Geeson), leaving her pregnant. Now, driven by the voracious needs of her unborn "child," Sandy develops an insatiable craving for her colleagues' flesh. With a ferocity only a mother protecting her young could muster, Sandy cannibalizes her crew with bloody abandon.


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There are hundreds of these little touches, from simple single actions to more complex procedures. You can throw the switch on one of the hub city's shuttle trains for example, changing destination or putting it into 'express' mode and flooring all of the passengers. Watering Cactaurs makes them grow, throwing balloons or balls to children sends them crazy with adoration - tiny hearts popping above their heads as the game's Sim-like emotion indication system shows you just how happy you've made them.
But I'm spoiling it. The fun is finding these things, ambling around and manipulating each and every object and hot-spot you find. There's no point, really, apart from the completism of getting every medal, but it's fun finding them - a lesson which so many lazy 360 achievements could learn a great deal from.
It's not all pick up and play, though. Interspersed with the sandbox roaming and experimentation are borderline minigames, short pieces of storytelling portrayed through one-off events. The first you'll encounter is actually the very beginning of the game, throwing Layle straight into a light-gun shooting gallery game as he fends off a number of wheeling aerial monsters from that most Square-ish of transports - the airship.
There are chases too, and fishing and grape-picking and train-fare evading. There's also a slightly uncomfortable arse-wrestling scene between two bikini clad adolescents which swerves incongruously into semi-DOA territory. These games are simple but solid, although replay on demand would have been nice for all of them rather than the current few.
The one concession to Final Fantasy's RPG roots in all of this action adventure shenanigans is the material collection and item creation system. Initially it's a predictable case of monsters dropping things which can then be made into accessories, but a bit of extra depth is added once you realise that the order in which objects are mixed affects the outcome - sometimes producing an especially stat-beneficial piece rather than what was advertised.
The game is easy enough that these stats are largely ignorable if you're just here for the core story progression, but they're really there to make the day-to-day tasks and exploration easier and quicker. All shops are run by Moogles, who also deliver the post, and are therefore justified completely before they've even served a purpose.
Technical deficiencies let the side down a bit, with the camera problems inherent to so many 3D sandbox worlds rearing (and looming, and spinning) their ugly heads reasonably often. There's a fair bit of slowdown too, often at curiously calm moments, where Layle will suddenly adopt a treacle-paced walk. Areas are generally large and well connected though, so this is likely a backround loading symptom which is preferable to more level segmentation.
The map is the real chore, being a largely undetailed affair of the most rudimentary value, especially when there's so much running back and forth to be done. You'll become more familiar with areas and their connections as play progresses and areas open up or are revisited, but it's certainly confusing enough to warrant an objective pointer or compass. Oddly, given the prettiness of the environments and cutscenes, Layle is a jagged little man, his patchy animation sundered further by his blocky frame. Having him centre stage the whole time is a bit of a visual blemish.
I have to admit I didn't 'get' Crystal Chronicles at first. I dismissed it as simplistic and unchallenging, a hollow game of point and click. It needs to be played with to get the most from it - doing otherwise is like buying an awesome LEGO castle, assembling it once and then gluing it together to sit on your shelf forever - something only the most imagination-poor children would ever consider.
Don't buy this expecting an epic RPG, and consider keeping someone under the age of 12 at hand to help you justify the twee nature of the game as a whole. But there's something here which is notably absent in any number of lushly produced and scintillatingly scripted games: a real sense of fun and discovery.
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San Francisco 49ers All-Pro linebacker Aldon Smith and his former teammate are named in a lawsuit filed Tuesday by a man who was shot at a party the NFL star hosted last year.
Ronndale Esporlas filed the lawsuit in Santa Clara County.
The lawsuit claims Smith and former 49ers' tight end Delanie Walker repeatedly and illegally fired weapons on numerous occasions during the June 2012 party
Smith and his friends also charged $10 per person to enter the party, according to one of the victims.
Smith was stabbed at the party held in the East San Jose foothills.
The lawsuit also claims Smith and Walker consumed significant quantities of alcohol and were legally intoxicated. It also said the players knew the handguns were illegally possessed.
Smith and Walker appeared on the balcony of Smith's home to try and end the party and began to fire shots into the air, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit claims Walker then made his way to the driveway where he allegedly fired more shots into the air and
toward others attending the party.
Smith's attorney was contacted Tuesday by NBC Bay Area but declined comment citing pending litigation.
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Not worried at all. As much as Walker does for the community with drunk driving, he's certainly not a worrisome player. Over a year ago? Nothing will come of this.
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Yeah, I'm skeptical anything will come of this.
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Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 6:40 am
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Good god the title scared me
Me too. At least Billy could put the title in quotes so we knew it was only an allegation, not established fact.
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Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 11:10 am
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Show me the cell phone footage.
In this day and age, if this happened at a NFL player's home and the player and his fellow NFL teammate are firing shots off the balcony and in the driveway the cell phone footage would have been on TMZ.com within hours of the event. If I recall correctly it was several days before it came out that Smith was actually stabbed and I don't recall Walker's name being mentioned at all.
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Move on, nothing to see here....
Good lord hope this isn't true. Article could be a bit more clear as well. Was the guy shot, or shot at (in his direction)? Will be interesting to see what happens. If they settle out of court could see a suspension from Goodell for both Smith & Walker.
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I don't believe it and I won't believe it. Delanie Walker is a high character guy, and the fact that they didn't file the lawsuit until a year later makes me immediately question this entire accusation. My Adopt-A-Titan would never do this, and it's a shame that this story tries to put Delanie in a negative light.
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Update and it doesn't look good:
SAN JOSE -- Only days before the start of the NFL season, the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office is leaning toward prosecuting San Francisco 49ers star linebacker Aldon Smith on charges of possessing illegal assault rifles -- charges that carry a range of possible punishments, from probation to three years in jail
Smith bought the weapons in Arizona where they are legal, but allegedly failed to modify them to comply with California's stricter gun laws, sources familiar with the case said. The three guns were discovered by Santa Clara County sheriff's deputies after a house party hosted by Smith and his roommate last summer, during which the linebacker was stabbed and two partygoers were shot by gang members who crashed the party.
Ballistics tests indicate that Esporlas and another man were not shot by Walker or Smith. Deputies have yet to identify the shooters in the ongoing investigation. But alleged gang member Steven Barda, 27, is in custody on charges of stabbing Smith, who sustained only minor wounds.
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Looks good for Delanie, bad for Aldon Smith.
The rifles were not Walker's and ballistic tests proved that he couldn't have shot the 2 guys that were wounded.
Worst case scenario he gets in trouble for firing the gun I imagine. Though at this point I'm not sure there is any proof of that happening.
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Worst case scenario he gets in trouble for firing the gun I imagine. Though at this point I'm not sure there is any proof of that happening.
I think his punishment would come from Goodell at most... and we all know Roger doesn't need actual proof to suspend someone.
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Worst case scenario he gets in trouble for firing the gun I imagine. Though at this point I'm not sure there is any proof of that happening.
I think his punishment would come from Goodell at most... and we all know Roger doesn't need actual proof to suspend someone.
True. Seems like this whole situation is more Aldon than Delanie though. And Delanie is seen as a high character guy around the league and that plays a role in Goodell suspensions imo.
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My thing is, where are the police reports?
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Jennifer Lawrence looks absolutely lovely inside the pages of Elle magazine's December issue.
Although Lawrence has found herself cast into the blockbuster arena with her involvement in the "Hunger Games," she remains a down-to-earth girl at heart. She endearingly shared a pre-Oscars story with Elle last year about prepping for the major awards show. She said that she walked the runway with a Philly cheesesteak in tow. "If you can get a salad, get a salad. I said, `I'm getting a Philly cheesesteak.' I'm sure there's proof on a hotel bill somewhere."
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The United States will become the world's top producer of oil within five years, a net exporter of the fuel around 2030 and nearly self-sufficient in energy by 2035, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency.
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Recently, however, an "energy renaissance" in the United States has caused a boost in oil, shale gas and bio-energy production thanks to new technologies such as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Fuel efficiency has improved in the transportation sector. The clean energy industry has seen an influx of solar and wind efforts.
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That progression, however, "hinges critically on continued subsidies" for wind, solar and biofuel technologies, which last year amounted to some $88 billion and needs to reach $4.8 trillion through 2035, according to IEA.
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Pete Wentz and Nicole Richie, walking around arm-in-arm in public in full view of the paps? Does Pete's wife Ashlee Simpson know about this?
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Pam is a 36-year old woman who lives in a large urban area in the Midwest. Until recently she was employed as a computer programmer; she was let go because of layoffs at the business and because of some of the complications she experiences due to cerebral palsy (spastic type) that affected her work performance. Over the past several years, her ability to efficiently operate an adapted computer keyboard and use her wheelchair have declined due to the loss of muscle flexibility. She also has an increasingly difficult time independently completing many activities of daily living including dressing, making meals for herself and eating, and getting safely from place to place in the community. The muscle tightness has also made it difficult for Pam to sleep well and it causes her a great deal of pain. She has become susceptible to upper respiratory tract infections, which at times have resulted in pneumonia.
For many years, Pam attempted to navigate the health care and social service systems on her own with limited success. She had several different primary care physicians, none of whom appeared to take very seriously her pain and increasing mobility limitations. The professionals who provided "support" would neither prescribe the medications needed for pain relief nor seriously consider alternative methods of treating her decreased flexibility in a manner that improved her functional abilities and lessened discomfort. In addition, with her increasingly limited mobility and independence she has had to seek assistance with a number of daily tasks. She tried to find assistance on her own, but did not know where to look. Her research led to organizations that promised to address one or two of her multiple concerns, but she could not find one resource to address all of her medical and other support issues.
Two years ago, Pam finally found someone who could help her navigate these complex systems. She joined an agency that provides care coordination for all of her health care and social service needs. Through her care coordinator, Pam found a primary care physician who not only understands her disability, but is a resource for assisting her to effectively deal with her other medical needs. Her care coordinator has assisted Pam in obtaining an appropriate wheelchair that meets her unique needs, wrist braces, adaptive equipment for her computer, a personal care attendant (PCA), and a variety of other supports. Pam was also introduced to a support group that specializes in her disability, providing a means for emotional support and information sharing. In addition, her care coordinator makes sure that she has transportation for clinic visits and provides telephone triage of health concerns before they become major issues that might result in hospitalization or the need for long-term treatment. If she does not get the answers she needs from health care and other service providers, Pam's care coordinator is available to serve as her advocate with the goal of assisting Pam to more effectively advocate for herself. Today, Pam is receiving the health care and other supports she needs to reduce her pain and increase her functional abilities and independence. She has just begun exploring additional assistive technology that will enable her to be employed again.
Pam is a composite of a number of individuals we have met, and her story is typical of their need to navigate the health care system along with other supports and systems in a way that addresses complex, ongoing medical needs in the context of a whole life. One strategy that is holding out promise for making the navigation process easier and more effective is care coordination.
From Case Management to Care Coordination
What is care coordination and where has the idea come from? Case management has been used in the disciplines of nursing, social work, and public health since the early 1900s. The evolution of managed care organizations in the 1990s, however, precipitated the widespread use of this approach throughout health care, insurance, and social service settings. Across the years, case management has been characterized by supervision or oversight of care or supports, monitoring of the utilization of high-cost/high-use consumers of services, and employment of a medical model for coordinating authorized services within a single organization that delivers care. Although case management appears to meet the needs of many individuals with acute, episodic conditions, this approach is not necessarily promising as a strategy for persons with multiple and chronic conditions.
New paradigms are needed that more effectively address the needs of persons with disabilities and/or chronic illness and the effects of multiple health-related conditions on their lives. In addition, the necessity of close coordination between primary care physicians, medical specialists, and other human service supports (e.g., housing, transportation, childcare, vocational supports) needed by this segment of the population must be considered. The Chronic Care Model developed by Dr. Ed Wagner (ICIC, 2004) supports the need for care coordination, rather than case management, for individuals with multiple and chronic conditions. Proponents of the model believe that persons with complex, chronic conditions are best served when support systems consider all essential elements critical to persons leading a high quality of life. But what exactly does care coordination involve?
Description of Care Coordination
The specifics of this approach to coordinating supports for persons with complex health care and other needs must differ depending upon the unique needs of each individual. Generally, however, it is the responsibility of the care coordinator to ensure effective communication and information exchange within and between organizations including health care providers, social service providers, and state and county government agencies, resulting in high quality care and support for the individual with complex health care and other needs. Care coordinators must therefore have knowledge of and be able to work within a variety of different systems, bringing them together to create a seamless set of supports. Individuals serving in this role, for example, may assist persons with disabilities and/or chronic illness to find appropriate housing, gain access to reliable transportation, and locate primary care physicians who understand their unique health care needs. The role of a care coordinator also extends to ensuring that the individuals they serve are attentive to their own health care and other support needs, and use available supports in a cost-effective manner. For example, a care coordination agency may offer 24-hour phone contact for use by those it supports when they need immediate evaluation of health concerns to ensure that illnesses and other conditions are attended to promptly and appropriately, reducing the need for emergency room care or hospitalization.
Care coordinators may work within an organization specifically established to provide care coordination, or they may be employed within a health care, disability service, or social service agency. They are often social workers or nurses by training. That professional training, however, often does not adequately prepare them for their roles as coordinators. Most learn how to effectively serve in the care coordinator role through "on-the-job" training. One of the inherent challenges of the care coordination role is that, in order to be most effective, coordinators must view themselves not as advocates for the system within which they may work, but rather, for the persons with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses whom they support. A care coordinator for example, may need to assist a person with a disability to document the need for durable medical equipment and then help ensure that the person receives the funding to purchase the equipment. Serving in such a role, of course, has the potential to create conflict between the care coordinator, the organization that employs him or her, and the agencies that provide direct supports to the person. Such situations can present care coordinators with significant challenges that can be best resolved only if those serving in this position keep first and foremost in mind their primary responsibility to serve and support the persons with disabilities for whom they work.Another aspect of the coordinator role that may be challenging is to advocate only when necessary. Coordinators are to support persons with disabilities to develop and refine their own personal advocacy skills so that they experience greater self-determination and independence and, over time, require less support from their care coordinator.
In Hawai'i, we are aware of the health disparity issue and are actively seeking resources to begin to answer the questions posed above. One of the areas we're addressing is ensuring that the data gathered through the Healthy Hawai'i 2010 project includes data on persons with disabilities across cultural groups. The questions and issues raised in this article are not relevant just to Hawai'i. There are individuals like Millie everywhere. There is a need to find ways everywhere to gather the data that will illuminate the relative roles of disability and culture, separately and in interaction, in health disparities that exist in this country, and then to shift health care practices accordingly.
Care Coordination Outcomes
The critical outcomes of care coordination include the following:
Research documenting the achievement of these outcomes through care coordination practices is in its early stages. Preliminary studies conducted by the National Rehabilitation Hospital, however, show promising results (Palsbo et al., 2004). For the past two years, data has been collected from adults with physical disabilities who are Medicaid eligible and receiving services through a managed care organization that provides care coordination. Preliminary analysis of the data reveals that hospitalizations have been reduced by 50%, reducing health care costs and disruption to individuals' lives. In addition, 89% of members reported higher levels of satisfaction with their health care services in the year after enrollment compared to the year prior to enrollment, and 94% reported they were involved as much as they wanted to be in their own health care decision-making.
Improving Chronic Illness Care (ICIC). (2004). The chronic care model elements. Retrieved 4/29/04 from www.improvingchroniccare.org/change/model/components.html.Palsbo, S., Beatty, P., Parker, P., & Duff, C. (2004). Minnesota Disability Health Options: Expanding coverage for adults with physical disabilities. Princeton, NJ: Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.
Brian Abery is Project Director, Rhonda Cady is Project Coordinator, and Erin Simunds is Project Staff, all with the Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. They may be reached at 612/625-5592 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Retrieved from the Web site of the Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota (http://ici.umn.edu). Citation: Gaylord, V., Abery, B., Cady, R., Simunds, E., & Palsbo, S. (Eds.) (2005). Impact: Feature Issue on Enhancing Quality and Coordination of Health Care for Persons with Chronic Illness and/or Disabilities 18(1). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, Institute on Community Integration. Available at http://ici.umn.edu/products/impact/181/default.html.
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On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Amedee Van Gasse <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28-02-10 14:38, Knapp wrote: > >> Yes, we have no bananas but what the heck is that thing that happens >> every 30 reboots? What is it doing? What is it called. > > It is a file system property that can be viewed and set with tune2fs. > > Type 'man tune2fs' (without quotes) at the console to get all the > documentation you need and more, or search for 'tune2fs' on the web with > a search engine like Google: http://google.com/ > > FYI: ALL Linux distributions check their disks after X reboots (or > mounts). Fedora does it, Mandriva does it, OpenSuse does it,... > 30 seems to be a common value for the forced check. That man page really does not answer my questions but it is a good step in the right direction. -- Douglas E Knapp Open Source Sci-Fi mmoRPG Game project. http://sf-journey-creations.wikispot.org/Front_Page http://code.google.com/p/perspectiveproject/ -- ubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
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There are two kinds of limit switches on your furnace.
The first is the Main Limit Switch. It cost about $40
The second is a Manual Reset Rollout Limit Switch. It cost about $25
It takes 10 min. to change either one of them.
I have no information on which Bryant Furnace is the most reliable.
10 min?
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how complex is repair, please
Very easy. Not complex at all.
Just remove 2 screws and pull the limit switch out and put the new one in and replace the two screws.
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I have called authorized Bryant distributor, who wants to charge $200 flat fee for the part and to replace
That is typically what any technician will charge to replace it.
That price is competitive unfortunately.
You just said 10 min
I know.
And Bryant said hour and half
They exagerated.
One more question - if I press 'accept' and my credit card is charged
what is the charge going to be shown as - what name/vendor?
$9 Just Answer
Do you have any advice as to how to bargain for the labor of 1 1/2 hours for actual 10 min work?
Also it does take a little time to verify that the Limit Switch is the problem.
Offer him $150
He may go for it.
I have paid $98 to know what is wrong
just to come in and check the furnace was $98
Did the technician show you where the limit is located?
yes - he did
Why don't you replace it yourself?
i would rather not replace on my own - for safety
Save your self $150
You can get the limit switch here at www.AmericanHVACparts.com
Just have model number and serial number of furnace ready when ordering.
Can we ask any HVAC technician to replace it then?
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What will be regulated will depend on what receiver you have. If you have a pre-ban receiver, you won't- or at least SHOULDN'T- theoretically have any restrictions. If you have a post-ban receiver, you will not be allowed to have a flash hider, collapsible buttstock, bayonet lug, pistol grip or thumbhole stock, or a quick magazine release button (to include bullet buttons).
This is supposing they get everything they want.
Now, this is stupid for several reasons:
-Flash hiders will be banned, but compensators and brakes would not. They do damn near the same thing.
(this is actually why Paul Buffoni had the BCM Gunfighter comp classified as a comp and not a flash hider)
-the number of bayonet deaths in the US is still at zero last I checked
-collapsible AR stocks quickly reduce or increase length of pull. So do most modern bolt action rifle chassis like CADEX Strike-33 (used in the XM2010/MSR and Mk15 rifles) and the AI AX AICS chassis. The chassis are not illegal though.
-Thumbhole stocks would be illegal, but a vertical grip angle on a Manners or McMillan bolt action stock is more of a pistol grip design than a thumbhole. Thumbhole stocks are actually slower too.
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Collateral damage: 'F*** America': Boston 'bomber' scrawled 'confession' on side of boat revealing he would not mourn 'martyr' brother because he was 'in paradise.' Dzhokhar Tsarnaev found a pen inside the boat he was using to hide out. He couldn't find paper so he wrote a confession on the interior wall. It said he wouldn't miss his brother Tamerlan because he was a 'martyr' who was in 'paradise' and Dzhokhar expected to join him soon. In his note, Dzhokhar said that the victims of the April 15 bombing were like the innocent Muslims who had been killed in American wars abroad.
"The [Boston] bombings were in retribution for the U.S. crimes in places like Iraq and Afghanistan [and] that the victims of the Boston bombing were collateral damage, in the same way innocent victims have been collateral damage in U.S. wars around the world. Summing up, that when you attack one Muslim you attack all Muslims."
CIA ex-analyst Ray McGovern reasons that after analysing the contents of the writing on the wall, he thinks exactly along the lines what a 2004 unclassified study by the Pentagon-appointed U.S. Defense Science Board deducted. The report directly contradicted what President George W. Bush was saying at the time, the board concluded:
"Muslims do not 'hate our freedom,' but rather, they hate our policies. The overwhelming majority voice their objections to what they see as one-sided support in favour of Israel and against Palestinian rights, and the long-standing, even increasing support for what Muslims collectively see as tyrannies, most notably Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Pakistan, and the Gulf States."
I disagree 'Freedom of mind is antitheses of political Islam.' CIA analyst Ray McGovern conclusions are wrong. This mindset of Boston 'bomber' is the result of the rage of impotence. The yearning to widen Islam's global reach and rebuild a global Islamic caliphate under Muslim rule helps to explain this 'salifist mindset.' From Cole to 9/11 to Boston, the 'air within nations of Islam' is heavy with loud lamentations urging the faithful that why they forgotten that they are the 'power brokers' and vicegerent of 'Allah' on earth. The license should kill should not get expired.
Contrary to what 'Awlaki infected Dzhokhar Tsarnaev scrawled inside the boat, the chief ideologue of this whole concept of zero tolerance of infidels has been recanted by the one who Theodosius it as Islamic Allah's license to kill. Let me refer to a 'Sayyid Imam al-Sharif,' aka Dr Fadl, the person helped bin Laden create al-Qaeda. Fadl is reported to be one of the first members of Al Qaeda's top council. Sharif, a surgeon who is still known by his underground name of "Dr Fadl", is famous as the author of the Salafi jihadists' "bible" - Foundations of Preparation for Holy War.
Twenty years ago, Dr Fadl became al-Qaeda's intellectual figurehead with a crucial book setting out the rationale for global jihad against the West. He is said to be "one of Ayman Al-Zawahiri's oldest associates, and his book Al-'Unda fi I'dad Al-'Udda ("The Essentials of Making Ready [for Jihad]"), was used as a jihad manual in Al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan. It was like what Das Kapital was to the Marxists. Sharif's book 'The Compendium,' which was used by Al Qa'eda as its scriptural license to kill in the name of Allah.
This book written by Sharif validated concept of Takfir; the extreme version of Islam, that called for 'zero tolerance' for any supporter or leader in a country that did not strictly follow Shari'ah law. His recantation and damning indictment of the underling jurisprudence that legitimised war of al Qa'eda is in its admonition is no less that a denunciation of Marx by Friedrich Engels."
Now the chief ideologue says that : "Every drop of blood that was shed or is being shed in Afghanistan and Iraq is the responsibility of bin Laden and Zawahiri and their followers," writes Dr Fadl. He thinks 9/11 "a catastrophe for Muslims," because Al Qaeda's actions "caused the death of tens of thousands of Muslims—Arabs, Afghans, Pakistanis and others."
'From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less important, of imperialist dreams.'' There is a reason why even the most liberal will be the most hardened ideologue. Silent majority doesn't mind supremacy of Islam and regaining of the paradise lost of the Caliphate where Islam reigned supreme.
The quote above from Professor Karsh's book is very significant, it rejects the customary hypothesis that Western Colonialism created the grave plague of Islamic fanaticism stretching from Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Indonesia. The author writes that the principal origin of Islamic radicalism is not merely a reaction to the Western prying in their nations affairs but rather a profound and ingrained craving in the predetermined Islamic belief to expand Islamic authority throughout the world.
Karsh says that "Arabs and Muslims unabashedly dream for the restoration of Spain" under Muslim control even though Spain has been lost to the Islamic world for centuries since the Fall of Granada in 1492. Osama bin Laden himself lamentably referred to "the tragedy of Andalusia" after the September 11, 2001 attacks as if to suggest that Muslims were still the legitimate and equitable owners of Spain rather than measly invading occupiers. Same is the feeling of Lashker-e- Tyaaba and TTP vis a vis Hindustan in Pakistan. The desire of unfurling the Mughal flag on the Red Fort never dies.
The wish to repair Islam's past medieval regal glories and convert the world permeate the approach of a substantial portion/segment of the Muslims. Muhammad himself shaped the contemporary political Islam when he said "to strive for a new universal order in which the whole of humanity would embrace Islam or live under its domination." Muhammad's dream was realised after his death with the growth of Islamic power from Arabia into North Africa, Turkey, Spain and Central Asia under ensuing Caliphs of Umayyads, the Abbasids and the Ottomans.
This yearning to widen Islam's global reach and rebuild a global Islamic caliphate under Muslim rule helps to explain 9/11. September 11 was a reaction to the essential veracity that America's place as a great power essentially suspend all " Islamic aspirations of global supremacy.'' Muslims are vigorous contestants on the large-scale stage not as toothless foot soldiers, rather one strain run common in all Islamic fundamentalist movements from Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda and TTP; the wish to fashion a broad based Muslim caliphate. Conventional Muslim beliefs and perceptions are underlying cause of an underlying anger and rage, rage of inability to control vast swathes of the lands of infidels.
''There is, and was, no sympathy towards Western philosophy, according to the extremists. Islam promises its one billion plus faithful the rule of the world, and what they have discovered is that they are at the bottom most wrung of the ladder as a result of their own failure. The rage of impotence combined with blind craving to manage the human race through the 'will of Allah' is what propels hatred within the fringe elements.
It is dreams of rediscovering the history of Islam's golden age and the re-conquest of the world, like old Spain, that propels many lunatics to impose the 'will of Allah' on the unwilling. This is not about terror, rather this is about imposing a way of life through a 'regime of terror'. Appeasement only makes their work easier.''
(Waiting for Allah- Iqbal Latif, Defeatism in the Islamic World has become a currency and self-inflicted pain has become pleasure November 28, 2003 - The Iranian)
The Muslim world's deep rooted yearning for the glories of the old Islamic Empires make their societies vulnerable to the control of a dictators or autocrats. Most of the Islamic dictators relentlessly summon the idea of a restoration of past Islamic prominence. The idea of the entire 'Ummah' have a Muslim world's political sway. Muslims unfalteringly need to turn their sponsorship of pan-Islamic global hallucination and turn 'religion' a matter of individual belief rather than a tool of global domination. Unless this happens they will certainly not prosper in the contemporary world or be charitable to other philosophies.


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I am from India and most drs in Houston TX probably have experience working on Caucasian noses. Every ethnicity has diff nose and diff general face structure. I am just worried that they will try to fix my nose just like a Caucasian nose. I have seen 3 drs until now. I have narrowed down to 2, due to their experience in facial plastic surgery and ENT background which will help with the medical part. I am just not sure about the Rhino part and also how to communicate what exactly I need. Any suggestions?
I Wanted to Get a Septo-rhinoplasty Done to Improve my Breathing, Sinus and Also Appearance of my Nose?
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Ethnic rhinoplasty concerns
You are correct there are significant cultural factors which influence aesthetics and these aesthetics can very between ethnic groups. Being in NYC many of my patients have your same concerns. It is also important to visit a surgeon who can improve your functional nasal concerns as well. In Houston two great facial plastic surgeons are Drs Yalamanchili and Kridel.
Effective communication between surgeon and patient regarding goals of rhinoplasty
One tool that works very effectively to align the vision and aesthetic goals of the patient and the surgeon is computer morphing. Especially when done by the surgeon, the images can serve as a sort of reference to gauge the aesthetic sense of the doctor by the patient, and vice versa. If your surgeon thinks a "white" nose will look good on you, then you'll very quickly pick this up from the computer rendering he/she does. Communicate your goals clearly during your consultation, and use computer morphing to serve as a measure of how clearly you are understood.
Improved breathing through the nose
Dear SVP,
- You can have the surgeon morph a new nose for you
- From there you can tell if you and he have the same aesthetic goals
- It can all be done at the same time
Best regards,
Nima Shemirani
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Getting septo-rhinoplasty to improve appearance and function
I find that preoperative digital morphing is a great way to communicate what changes you are interested in seeing in your nose. It also allows your surgeon to relay what level of changes is possible.
Check out my web reference link below to learn more about digital morphing in rhinoplasty.
Learn more: http://www.rhinoplastyinseattle.com/rhinoplasty-stages/computer-simulation
Rhino, Septo, Sinus Surgery
A facial plastic surgeon with a background in ENT/Head and Neck surgery would be a wise choice so that all of your concerns could be addressed in one surgery. To communicate your desires for the rhinoplasty part, please seek a board certified specialist who can spend time with you in consultation and also morph your photo to show you what he/she thinks. This morphing on the computer can serve as a way for you to communicate what your desire as you will be able to get a good idea of what to expect.
Learn more: http://www.kimberlyleemd.com/about-us
Ethnic cosmetic rhinoplasty done with septum and sinus surgery
A truly experienced rhinoplasty surgeon is sensitive to the anatomic and facial differences among patient's varying ethnicities. I would suggest finding an ENT/facial plastic surgeon that is comfortable and knowledgeable performing Endoscopic Sinus Surgery along with septorhinoplasty. Before and after pictures of patients of southwestern Asian descent would be desirable for you to review. I would ask what features of your nose you wish to keep or have slightly altered so that your ethnicity is retained. Nevertheless, most Indian noses are technically within the Caucasian racial (not geographic) type that also includes Semitic and Persian noses. These frequently have a hump, low radix and ptotic tip. With these principles in mind, I have no doubt you'll find the right surgeon.
Rhinoplasty for refinement of the nose.
Choose the doctor who does noses that you like it's best to see a life patient before having the surgery who has a nose similar to yours.
Ethnic Septorhinoplasty
Every gene pool has it's own differences in surgical needs for septorhinoplasty. During the consultation phase I always take into consideration everything about my patients including their ethnic background. These cultural genetics play an important part in providing the patient with a symmetrical and aesthetically balanced look to the entire face. I am ENT trained and Facial plastic surgery so whenever needed I always address both the function and the aesthetics of the nose. I also use a digital imaging computer during the consulting phase which allows me to show the patient the proposed surgical result. This may be helpful for you to open the discussion of what your expectations are and what the surgeons proposed aesthetics are. I have a large practice in ethnic rhinoplasty and it is important to address the differences in surgery. Best regards, Michael V. Elam, M.D.
Learn more: http://www.michaelelammd.com
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.