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Ray, thank you for that kind introduction and for your leadership as the Disabled American Veterans' (DAVs) National Commander. I'm honored to be back with the DAV. We were last together in Snowmass, Colorado. Thank you, once again, for partnering with us at a premier winter sports clinic.
Having said this, you and I share some things in common: we've had to rebuild our lives after a life-altering event; we've had to work hard to regain the use of our bodies; and we've had to adjust our thinking to embrace our capabilities, transforming ourselves both mentally and physically to carry on in life. But we haven't had to do it alone. We've all had help, and there's no shame in that.
For nearly 90 years, disabled Veterans have been helping each other through the DAV. Through your National Service Officers and Transition Service Officers, through your national transportation network, through your generous donation of time in volunteering, and through your own courageous example, you have enabled the Nation's most deserving Veterans to rise above their disabilities and live meaningful, rewarding lives.
I'm proud to be a lifetime member of the DAV, and I'm honored to be serving as Secretary of Veterans Affairs. It's a calling that offers me an opportunity to give back to those who have served with and for me, and to the heroes of World War II and Korea, on whose shoulders I stood as I grew up in the profession of arms.
Over the past seven months, I've visited VA facilities—large and small, urban and rural, complex and simple—all across the country. I've spoken with leaders, staffs, and Veterans. I also invited each of our 21 Veterans Integrated System Network (VISNs) directors to share with me their requirements; their priorities; their measurements for performance, quality, and safety; and their need for resources--people, money, and time. I took the final, 4-hour VISN presentation last Friday. This was time well-invested—an invaluable learning experience.
Every day, 288,000 people come to work at VA to serve Veterans. We have only one mission—to care for our Nation's Veterans, wherever they live, by providing them the highest-quality benefits and services possible. We must do this faster, better, and more equitably.
VA's legacy of service is an unwavering pursuit of President Lincoln's charge "to care for [those] . . . who have borne the battle." These words are as compelling for us today as when they were first delivered during Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address in 1865.
The Veterans I've met in my travels have been uplifting. Many struggle with conditions inevitable with old age; others live with uncertain consequences from exposures to environmental threats and chemicals; still others have recently returned from Afghanistan and Iraq bearing the fresh wounds of war—visible and invisible.
Out of my encounters with Veterans, three concerns kept coming through—access, the backlog, and homeless Veterans.
Access: Of the 23.4 million Veterans in this country, roughly eight million are enrolled in VA. Five and a half million have used our medical services at least once; three and a half million visit our medical facilities regularly. Why have over 15 million Veterans never enrolled with us? Whatever the reasons, VA will continue reaching out to them to explain our benefits, services, and the quality of our healthcare system.
A major initiative which will expand access is the president's decision to welcome back some 500,000 priority group 8 Veterans, who lost their entitlements in 2003. We began registering them in July, and we expect 266,000 enrollments this first year, through 2010.
Another initiative to expand and improve access is the evolution of our healthcare delivery system. VA's 153 medical centers are the flagships of our Nation-wide integrated healthcare enterprise. About a decade ago, VA brilliantly, in my opinion, decided to move away from the concept of "here are our flagships; come visit us" to one that endeavors to deliver healthcare to Veterans wherever they live.
To do that, we have created a system of 768 Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs), 232 Veterans Centers, outreach and mobile clinics, and when necessary, contracted specialized healthcare locally.
Our next major leap in healthcare delivery will be to routinely connect flagship medical centers to distant community-based outpatient clinics and their even more distant mobile counterparts via an information technology (IT) backbone that places specialized healthcare professionals in direct contact with patients via telehealth and telemedicine hook-ups.
Today, we are even piloting connectivity from medical centers to the homes of the chronically ill to provide better monitoring and the prevention of avoidable acute episodes. This means that Veterans will drive less to receive routine healthcare, but they will have better access day-to-day. It will be higher quality and more convenient, especially for Veterans challenged by long distances; and, prevention will mean healthier lives.
The backlog: Even though less than 50% of the Veteran population receives care or benefits from VA, we have a backlog in disability claims. The total number of claims in our inventory today is around 400,000, and backlogged claims that have been in the system for longer than 125 days total roughly 145,000 cases. In July, we closed out 85,000 claims—and received another 89,000 new ones. Regardless of how we parse the numbers, there is a backlog; it is too big; and Veterans are waiting too long for their checks.
In April, President Obama charged Defense Secretary Gates and me to build a fully interoperable electronic records system that will provide each member of our armed forces a virtual lifetime electronic record that will track them from the day they put on the uniform, through their time as Veterans, until the day they are laid to rest.
VA is already a leader in the development and use of electronic health records. So is the Department of Defense. Between us, DoD and VA have an opportunity to drive the improvement of healthcare through a fully interoperable electronic health record. Our achievements here may go beyond Veterans and service members and could help the Nation, as a whole.
We are working with the president's Chief Performance, Chief Technology, and Chief Information Officers to harness the powers of innovation and technology. For VA, it will revolutionize our claims process—faster processing, higher quality decisions, no lost records, fewer errors. I am personally committed to reducing the processing times of disability claims. We have work to do here, and we have moved out.
Homelessness: Veterans lead the Nation in homelessness, depression, substance abuse, suicides, and they rank up there in joblessness, as well. Here again, this is an accumulation of neglect. We estimate that 131,000 Veterans live on the streets of this wealthiest and most powerful Nation in the world—men and women, young and old, fully functioning and disabled, from every war generation, even the current operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some of them will sleep on the streets here in Denver tonight.
Six years ago, that number was 195,000, so we think we have the right partners, the right plans, and the right programs in place. We are moving in the right direction to remove this blot on all our consciences.
President Obama and I are committed to ending homelessness among Veterans. We are going to take those 131,000 homeless Veterans off the streets over the next five years. No one, who has served this Nation, as we have, should ever find themselves living without care—and without hope. I know that there are never any absolutes in life, but unless we set an ambitious target, we would not be giving this our very best efforts. To do this well, we will have to attack the entire downward spiral that ends in homelessness; we must offer education, jobs, treat depression, fight substance abuse, and offer safe housing. We have to do it all—no missed opportunities in going from 131,000 to zero and keeping it there—education, jobs, mental health, substance abuse, housing.
Education: The President and Senators Jim Webb and John Warner just kicked off our post 9/11 new GI Bill program on 3 August. We expect roughly 150,000 Veterans to take part in this fully-funded, degree producing program at a state college or university of their choice this year. An additional 1,100 private institutions have elected to participate in a special arrangement called the Yellow Ribbon Program. This investment in America's future will go on for decades to come.
The first time we did this in 1944, after World War II, our country ended up being richer by 450,000 trained engineers, 240,000 accountants, 238,000 teachers, 91,000 scientists, 67,000 doctors, 22,000 dentists, and a million other college-educated veterans. They went on to provide the leadership that catapulted our economy to world's largest and our nation to leader of the free world and victor in the cold war. Lightning is about to strike twice for those, who have answered our nation's call.
jobs: I recently addressed over 1,700 Veteran small business owners at the 5th Annual Small Business Symposium on 21 July. I reminded them that Veterans hire Veterans because they know what they're getting. Customers and partners value their skills, knowledge, and attributes and are eager to work with them. Just last fall, in a survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management, over 90 percent of employers said they valued Veterans' skills, in particular, their strong sense of responsibility and teamwork.
VA puts Veterans first in our contracting awards because we recognize the on-time, on-budget, quality solutions they bring to our contracting needs. In fiscal year 2008, our unique "Veterans First" buying program resulted in VA's spending more than $2 billion on Veteran-owned small businesses. That represented 15 percent of our procurement dollars, up five percent from the previous year. During that time, we also doubled our support to service-disabled Veteran-owned businesses. That means 12 percent of our procurement dollars, $1.6 billion of $2 billion expended, was invested here.
At VA, our experience is that Veteran-owned small businesses have a high likelihood for creating new jobs, developing new products and services, and building prosperity. As I said earlier, Veterans hire Veterans. So, increasing opportunities for Veteran-owned small businesses is an effective way to help address many needs during this economic downturn.
Homeless Healthcare: We will spend $3.2 billion next year to prevent and reduce homelessness among Veterans—$2.7 billion on medical services and $500 million on specific homeless programs. With 85% of homelessness funding going to healthcare, it means that homelessness is primarily a healthcare issue, heavily burdened with depression and substance abuse. The psychological consequences of combat affect every generation of Veterans. VA now employs 18,000 mental health professionals to address our mental health needs. We know if we diagnose and treat, people usually get better. If we don't, they won't, and sometimes their problems become debilitating. We understand the stigma issue, but we are not going to be dissuaded. We are not giving up on any of our Veterans with mental health challenges, and definitely, not the homeless.
Homeless Housing: We have approximately 500 partners in nearly every major town and city across the country helping us get homeless Veterans off the streets. With 20,000 HUD-VASH vouchers from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and our $500 million to invest in 2010 to cover safe housing and rehabilitation for Veterans we have been able to coax off the streets, we are going to reduce the number of homeless Veterans next year, and each year thereafter, for the next five.
So, education, jobs, healthcare, and housing: We have work to do here; but we have momentum, and we know where we are headed.
President Obama has charged me with transforming VA into a high-performing 21st century organization. It will be a different organization from the one that exists today. Five years from now, we intend to be the provider of choice for more of that larger population of 23.4 million Veterans in insurance, in healthcare, in education, in home loans, in counseling, and in employment.
To achieve this kind of status with Veterans, we must make it easier for them to understand their entitlements and then make it much simpler for them to access their benefits and health care services.
Beyond the five years, we're looking for new ways of thinking and acting. We are asking why, 40 years after agent orange was last used in Vietnam, this secretary is still adjudicating claims for service-connected disabilities related to it. And why, 20 years after Desert Storm, we are still debating the debilitating effects of whatever causes Gulf War Illness. Left to our present processes, 20 or 40 years from now, some future secretary could be adjudicating service-connected disabilities from our ongoing conflicts. We must do better, and we will.
If you haven't already heard, the Institute of Medicine recently released a new study on a possible link between Agent Orange and heart disease and Parkinson's. We have this study under review now, and I assure you—we will get this right.
My remarks this morning comprise a seven-month progress report on the state of your department. I intend to do this again next year. Much more remains to be done. We need the continued support and assistance of DAV, if we are to become the provider of choice. My mission is to serve Veterans by increasing their access to our benefits and services, to provide them the highest quality of health care available, and to control costs to the best of my abilities. Doing so will make VA a model of good governance. Doing so will also keep faith with President Lincoln's charge to care for those who have borne the battle and grant them the dignity and respect they deserve until they are laid to rest. That is my mission.
I look forward to a continued, productive partnership with the DAV as we move to the future.
God bless our men and women, who serve the cause of peace. God bless our Veterans, and God bless our wonderful country.
Thank you.


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I am only interested in Theravada Buddhism, so what would be some good books to get me started ? I have 'Buddhism Plain and Simple' by Steve Hagen, but I think this is Zen... and I also have 'Start where you are' by Pema Chodron, but she is not Theravada either. I'm sure these books have great things to offer, but being a beginner I'm not sure if they will be benificial to me wanting to learn Theravada. ( or am I wrong ? )
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Flags of the world: Japan
Flags of the world are often taught to our children in middle primary school. They learn briefly about the history of the country and what the flag and its colours represent. Learn a little bit about Japan and its flag with this colouring printable flag for kids.
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Became official: 1999
Description: Japan is known as "the land of the rising sun"and the flag's red circle is said to represent the sun.
The flag was made official in 1870, but only as a merchant flag - flown only on ships but was finally formally recognised as the national flag of Japan in 1999.
Print your own Japanese flag to colour in. See the colours you need to use below.
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Thanks (again) for all the great work here. Now I'm off to the DGR store to see if there's something I "need."


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Chipotle refueled the fire last week with a new video and game discouraging "factory farming," but an agricultural alliance aims to educate consumers on the polarizing topic with a panel discussion.
The Chipotle video, accompanied by Fiona Apple's cover of "Pure Imagination," reinforces all the negative perceptions associated with large-scale farming operations. The U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance (USFRA) is using the marketing campaign as a discussion point in its panel discussion Farm Size: Does It Really Matter? on Oct. 24 in Boston.
The panel of farmers, ranchers and food pundits will explore farm size and ownership and will address recent attacks on industrial agriculture and food production. According to a release, questions raised during the event, which will stream live online at www.fooddialogues.com, include:
- What is a factory farm? Is it fair to call any farm or ranch a factory farm?
- How do standards and regulations differ on small or big farms and ranches?
- Who runs big farms?
- Are family farms still thriving in America?
- Are entertainment and creative advertising attacks on large-scale, production agriculture a new take on marketing smaller, niche brands and companies?
Farm size is just the latest aspect of farming consumers are considering when making purchasing decisions and opinions are often influenced by marketing without knowing more information about the topic.
The USFRA has invited farmers and ranchers from large and small operations, advocates and consumer brands, including Chipotle, to the conversation.
For more information on this event, including how to register, visit www.fooddialogues.com/boston. Follow USFRA on Twitter @USFRA using #FoodD or on its Facebook page, www.facebook.com/usfarmersandranchers. Content from previous panel discussions can be found at fooddialogues.com.


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I am enjoying your contest! It has been a tantalizing taste party every time I create a new burger and match it up with your amazing varieties of wine!
Today's the day! Our 2013 Build a Better Burger® Contest is now open and we're excited to see all of your delicious recipes! So, gather your ingredients, perfect your burger recipe, host a few tasting sessions, and make sure you enter by September 2nd, 2013.
Want a leg up on the competition? Here are some tips for creating a winning recipe:
Keep Your Recipe Current: Read the latest food magazines and browse Pinterest and see if you can discover a new take on what's hot. But remember, great taste trumps innovation – creative uses of traditional burger ingredients often work best!
Make Your Recipe Easy to Read: List your ingredients in order of use and include step-by-step preparation directions.
Use Fresh Ingredients: Consider that fresh often tastes the best when choosing ingredients.
Toast or Heat Your Buns: It's unusual for our judges to go for a tasty burger on a cold bun.
Spend Time on the Name: What's in a name? Everything! You want your burger recipe to stand out of all the submissions we receive! Just make sure the recipe lives up to the name.
Don't Repeat a Past Entry: Check out our Burgerbase! While these burger recipes can help give you inspiration, you don't want yours to be too similar!
Read the Official Rules: We don't want you to Build a Better Burger to only be disqualified by not following the rules!
Have you followed all these tips and are ready to submit your recipe? Enter online here or mail in your entry (see mailing rules & requirements) by September 2, 2013 and keep a look out for the announcement of our finalists! Stay up to date on everything burger-related on our Facebook page or Twitter.
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I am enjoying your contest! It has been a tantalizing taste party every time I create a new burger and match it up with your amazing varieties of wine!
Hi Roberta,
That sounds like an amazing time! Do you have a favorite wine & burger combo yet?
I have been following this contest and have picked up some great burger recipes from this site. I decided to give it a shot and throw my 'burger in the ring.' After grilling it a few times and sharing with friends, the creation paired with my favorite Cabernet Sauvignon was a hit. I entered it yesterday and it said the submission was accepted. My questions are... when and how do I view my entry and I did not see anywhere to upload my picture. Did I miss something regarding the upload process? Thanks ever so much.
I am enjoying this site. So many great ideas. I entered a burger recipe last week and wonder where it is. Also, I wonder how to upload my picture. Thank you...
Hi Katherine - The photos and receipes that are on the site currently are those finalists and winners for our 2012 Build a Better Burger contest. If you entered last week you entered our 2013 Build a Better Burger contest. Stay tuned here on our site, and on our Facebook for updates on this year's competition!
I just submitted my recipe and did not receive any confirmation. Is this normal or should I re-submit?
I resubmitted my recipe and discovered that the original had not taken. Just FYI to anyone who runs into the same issue I did. You are given the option to review your recipe - making changes as necessary. You do receive a confirmation message that your recipe has been submitted. Thanks and good luck!
i hope that my receipe makes it in .
This is my favorite contest, because burgers are a family favorite! I never have trouble finding tasters for my burger creations...thanks or hosting such an exciting event!!!
To be honest it is difficult for me to select just one burger from the 100 original burgers I entered in your contest. The variety of wines you make provides a delicious and balanced combination to each and every one burgers uniqueness! A complex burger pairing Sutter Home's Chenin Blanc along with Sa vadista Lotus Rootlets Indian Lamb Burger or a simple but over the top in flavor Patriotic Police Burger paired with Sauvignon Blanc may just be enough to make your guests come back time and time again. The Happy Dragon Eggroll Burger combined with sweet White Zinfandel Wine by Sutter Home chilled well will be a perfect pairing too!


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A senior detective from Essex Police has tonight warned people heading to V Festival not to bring drugs to the site.
So far 16 members of the public have been arrested on suspicion of possession of a controlled drug. A number of those are teenagers.
They are being dealt with by officers at Hylands Park and will not be allowed entry into the site.
Detective Chief Inspector Paul Maleary said: "The people we have arrested are mostly under the age of 18. They were arrested as part of the routine stop checks and searches that officers are carrying out at the entrance sites. My message to anyone thinking of taking drugs to the event is a simple one – don't! You will be caught. You won't be allowed into the festival and you will face police action."
Anyone who experiences crime at the festival can report it to Essex Police at the mobile police station or by calling 101 or 999.
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Pitch correction, harmony generation with presets, reverb, stutter effects, ring mod, and more for the iPad. This App called ImproVox makes me want a proper audio interface for the iPad. It would be fun manipulating my voice during a live show in real time via the touch screen. Of course it all depends if it sounds good… I'll try this guy over the weekend and report back!
"Changing the sound of your voice is as easy as moving your fingers across the screen, and you don't need to know any music theory. Because effect and harmony characteristics can be changed while you sing, the sonic possibilities are endless. Create reverberant rock hits and cavernous choral compositions, or just speak into the mic and transform your voice using abstract effects." – museami.com
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Benson got ejected after 2 Ts.Back in 1976, the Fledgling Basketball Jesus enrolled at Indiana University and left after a few unhappy weeks, eventually settling down at Indiana State two years later. During his brief I.U. stage, Bird felt that some of the veteran players on the team, including Benson, hadn't been very nice to him. So when he made the NBA, he went out of his way to embarrass Benson -- a mediocre big man for the Pistons -- at every opportunity. This culminated in Kevin McHale's 56-point game in 1985, when Bird kept feeding McHale on the low post because Benson couldn't handle him. The lesson, as always: Don't mess with Larry Bird.
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IU women now at 14-0 after knocking off #22 Iowa in their Big Ten opener. The team starts three freshmen. Unreal job by Curt Miller. Think he could coach the men's team too?
So if we lose Vonleh, our bigs that are left are Perea and Jurkin..... Please don't leave Vonleh!
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Still need to confirm but I'm told very likely Cody Latimer/WR/Indiana will enter the draft..
=(..... Please stay Cody!! But if he leaves Coleman needs 25 carries a game.. minimum, and we really need Booth now
Friendly tip: Slow the pace down, Hoosiers. Just a tad. Every single player on this team is careless with the ball, and Crean seems to be fine with it. Value possessions.
This team sucks. Hello, NIT.
Yogi and Vonleh are the only people who can score.... If we can get those two to stay and add James Blackmon Jr. and Robert Johnson we could be set
Except for The Crean Problem.
defense is horrid
Please start Stanford Robinson for Hollowell from now on, at least Robinson can score, what does Hollowell give us?
I don't care if we start 3 freshmen, its our best line-up
Apparently Crean doesn't want to give his younger players some experience in a lost game. I doubt he believes they can come back from 18 down with less than a minute left.
Oh absolutely not. He's not going anywhere.
This is the danger zone for Crean and IU... When the reality that he's not a very good X and O coach settles in solidly it will hurt his real bread and butter- His energy and salesmanship. Those things work for recruiting and they work to get a collection of athletes to get charged up and go out on the floor and 'do it'. But the other side of the coin is the 'it' doesn't have much substance. The questions and murmurs will grow louder. The potential recruit pool will shrink with players deciding that he might be fun to play for but the team isn't going to be much of an NCAA threat except when they can just out-talent someone and not be out-coached. Recruits that do come will be quick to consider transferring. Distractions will grow. All of this will simply hurt the team more because it'll be harder and harder to sell the system when they can't recruit enough athletes to even successfully win just by out-talenting opponents and suddenly even the creampuff games on the schedule will become potential nail biters.
I think he's had his run. I don't know that there is an 'up' from here. Personally, I think people should've seen some of this even sooner because I think he did a fairly poor job during those first few years of actually eeking out some wins with just coaching. But he rode the excuse that the team was decimated (it was) and he'd need time to recruit 'his' players. I don't disagree with that to a point but I still thought there should be feel good upsets along the way and there wasn't really. But still, he had his excuse, and he had his energy. The excuse was legit and he did start getting talent to consider Bloomington again. But that NCAA dismantling by Syracuse confirmed a lot of murmurs and growing concerns for a lot of people. That wasn't an off night, that was a team ill-prepared to play their opponent.
I think you can go ahead and start the clock on the end of Crean era. Sure, there might be a light at the end of the tunnel... but it's a train. I think he'll be back next year but I wouldn't put any money on the following year.
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
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The problem is Crean's contract. His contract was originally supposed to end in 2018, but we extended to it 2020 in 2012 after we made the Sweet 16. I get that we were excited about the Sweet 16 season and victory over UK, but why in the hell would you extend a contract that still had six freaking years left? That's just reckless and completely unnecessary.
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Why in the world is IU playing Michigan State and Illinois twice so early in the conference schedule?
So far IU has won the games they're supposed to win and lost the games they're supposed to lose, so they're consistent if nothing else.
Yeah, you're probably right. But it's just a bit ridiculous when you have to turn to alumns because your athletic directors are foolish with the contracts they give out. Giving Crean a 10 year deal in 2008 was too much to begin with, though I guess I kind of understand it because we had to tempt him since program was completely in the gutter. But giving him a 2 year extension in 2012 when he still had 6 years left? That's just the silliest thing I've ever heard. What would we have done if we made the Final Four last year? Give him 10 more years?
I doubt Vonleh comes back but that is just my opinion on his NBA game.
Good. Vonleh leaves, IU sucks again next year, misses the tourney two years in a row, Crean enters the next season with his seat on fire, he self combusts, gets fired at year end. Brad Stevens has had enough of the NBA experience and the rebuild in Boston, sees an opportunity to return to the heartland, takes the IU job and we actually get a coach who can, you know, coach.
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ATLANTA -- Marlins pitching prospect Tyler Kolek, the No. 2 overall pick in the 2014 First-Year Player Draft, is on a no-throw status for about a week due to lower back discomfort.
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The 18-year-old from Shephard, Texas, was making his fifth start since joining the Gulf Coast League team. He is 0-2 with a 4.50 ERA, with 10 strikeouts in 10 innings.
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BentElbow11 wrote:UncleBrother2001 wrote:Just updated the Bag. And With the Help of dgdave I am now the owner of a Icon Patriot. Just got to wait for it to get here. When he said it flew like a CE Leopard I was sold.
Hey JR,since you enjoy Beasts a lot have you by chance tried a Blizzard Beast,if so what is your thoughts on them?
It's the Pinnacle version that resembles old CE plastic though, kind of a milky champ plastic. I've seen a few, and the white and salmon colored ones are the most CE-like. Icon is like Star.
I think JR's busy snoring in Finland about now. Unless he's a real early riser.
I really wanted the Pinnacle Version,but really wanted to see how the Icon was like. I have my Rival in Pinnacle and it feels great and flies great,so I wanted to test out the Icon in the Patriot.
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I read:
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to purity. -- Dhp 279
There is also:
"'I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that will I fall heir.' ... AN 5.57
"Now, what is impermanent, unsatisfactory, subject to change, is it proper to regard it as: 'This is mine, this I am, this is my self'?" -- SN 22.59
Now I know the last excerpt is specifically talking about the five aggregates of clinging. But one of those aggregates is mental formations. Kamma is directly related to mental formations. So it would seem to be saying that Kamma is (also) not self.
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SEATTLE -- Emergency room doctors at Seattle Children's Hospital fear the legalization of marijuana could mean an increase of young patients suffering from overdose.
They worry there will be more emergency room visits as toddlers are exposed to food and drinks containing marijuana.
"There's no child safety packaging on any of it," said Dr. Susan Mazor, a pediatric emergency medicine physician and medical toxicologist at Seattle Children's Hospital. "(The packaging) is usually really colorful and it looks really enticing to a kid."
Mazor said two toddlers were treated at Seattle Children's recently after accidentally eating marijuana. She said ingesting pot makes kids lethargic and may make their breathing so difficult they have to be put on a ventilator.
"When we see patients - toddlers - who look like that, with no known exposure, then we're going to do a lot of testing," said Mazor. "We're going to admit the child to the Intensive Care Unit. We're going to do CT scans and imaging and spinal taps - things that are expensive and sometimes painful and really unnecessary because we're not suspecting; because we haven't seen very much exposure in toddlers before."
According to the Washington Poison Center,15 toddlers in our state were treated last year at local hospitals after adverse exposure to marijuana. Doctors say it's only going to get worse with legalization of recreational use.
A Colorado study, published last year by JAMA Pediatrics, found more children accidentally ingested marijuana after it was legalized and de-criminalized. Fourteen children were treated at a children's hospital in Colorado during a two-year period; compared to zero in year's past.
"One of the things that we always caution patients about is the importance of treating their medicine as medicine," said Dawn Darington of Choice Wellness Center, who sells medical marijuana with warnings on the labels to keep away from children.
"It's something we certainly need to be concerned about. We need to pay attention to - but we do not want to sort of 'throw the baby out with the bath water' in terms of not allowing this kind of medication," said Darington.
Dr. Mazor said it's too early to know what the long term effects of marijuana ingestion can be on toddlers but noted any amount consumed can cause symptoms.
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Downtown Arts District resident John Burton follows the issues facing Angelenos, such as the rising price of street parking or loss of affordable housing in his neighborhood.
Despite that interest in local topics, the 40-something Burton admits a lack of enthusiasm for L.A.'s biggest political event of 2013 - the mayor's race.
"We just got past the presidential election," said Burton, sitting outside on a recent Thursday at Novel Cafe, a popular coffee shop in the Arts District. "It's like, `Oh no, here's another one."'
Voter apathy may be the biggest hurdle for candidates vying to replace Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who is termed out on June 30.
Without a high-profile name in the race or controversial issues dividing candidates, some pundits aren't predicting a heavy turnout in the March 5 primary.
Already, Angelenos tend to shrug off elections. In the last truly competitive mayor's race - in 2005, when Villaraigosa challenged incumbent James Hahn - about 28 percent of registered voters cast ballots.
Four years later, only 17 percent of voters came out to choose between Villaraigosa and challenger Walter Moore.
The current Democratic frontrunners - City Controller Wendy Greuel, City Council members Eric Garcetti and Jan Perry - all have similar viewpoints and stances, making it harder for voters to discern their differences, believes Joel Kotkin, a fellow at Chapman University in Orange.
With the exception of former prosecutor Kevin James, a Republican, the frontrunners don't offer much choice to voters, believes Kotkin, who predicts weak voter turnout.
"You could look at this group and think, `What's the point of voting?"' Kotkin said.
Naturally, campaign consultants disagree with the idea that the candidates are similar.
And low voter turnout may be unavoidable given historically low numbers when it comes to March elections, they say, but that just means candidates will have to campaign harder for votes.
For instance, James is trying to tap into the long-neglected, simmering Republican base, while also trying to appeal to "pitchfork voters," or those fed up with City Hall.
Garcetti wants to turn out voters who've never cast ballots before in mayoral primaries, be they younger people or minorities. His recent bid to designate "Peru Village" in Hollywood, as a nod to the local Peruvian community, typifies that strategy.
Seeking to make history as the first woman mayor of Los Angeles, Greuel, who touts her work as a fiscal watchdog, hopes both male and female voters help her reach that goal.
Also hoping to be the first woman mayor, Perry has cast herself as the most tough-nosed politician, not afraid to challenge other council members on issues like redistricting or Department of Water and Power rate hikes, for instance.
Richard Close, president of the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association, agrees Angelenos are generally "bored with elections" but says there is enough disenchantment with city government to draw out voters.
"Those who will come out will be those who want change," Close said. "Those who are tired of the status quo, those who are tired of cuts to city services."
It's not necessarily the candidates' fault when voters stay home, said Raphael Sonenshein, executive director of the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at Cal State L.A.
Voter turnout was low when Villaraigosa ran in 2005, and "he's a figure that attracted a lot of attention."
Still, the political climate isn't nearly as intense as 1969, when 76 percent of the voters came out for the runoff between incumbent Mayor Sam Yorty and challenger Tom Bradley.
Kotkin believes there's a growing detachment from politics, with residents looking for involvement with their churches or schools, but not with City Hall.
Additionally, without a strong GOP, L.A. is essentially a one-party city, which also may keep voters less interested.
To date, an energizing or divisive topic has yet to dominate the race. The issue of city employee pension costs could have taken the spotlight, but the topic faded from discussion when former Mayor Richard Riordan canceled plans for a ballot measure to overhaul the city's pension system.
But in the months ahead, election topics will emerge, Sonenshein predicts, with candidates refining their stances on the budget, the city's economy, and land use.
Adrian Acosta, a Wilmington resident, would like the next mayor to focus on land use: He wants more bike lanes, better park amenities and more street maintenance in his neighborhood.
"It's hard to ride bikes in Wilmington, there's a lot of glass on the roads," he said. "There's a lot more people I see now on bikes, especially with gas prices as high as they are."
Moji Nikou, 53, a small-business owner who runs Helping Hand, a thrift store in Little Ethiopia, said she's been too busy to focus on the election.
But like others, Nikou is pessimistic about the election, unsure whether a new administration will bring less traffic or better city services.
"Really, what can they do to change things?" Nikou asked.
Donna Littlejohn and Kristin Agostoni contributed to this report.


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Reprinted from The Jewish Religion: A Companion, published by Oxford University Press.
Abraham Geiger was a Reform rabbi and scholar (1810-74). Geiger, born in Frankfurt, received the traditional Talmudic education of his day and later studied at various German universities and was thus well equipped to become one of the pioneers of the Jüdische Wissenschaft movement, in which the historical-critical method was employed to uncover the sources of Judaism and the way in which the religion developed.
After occupying various Rabbinic positions (serving in Breslau as an Orthodox rabbi where he met with determined opposition on the part of the Orthodox), Geiger became the Director of the Hochschüle in Berlin, a position he occupied until his death. Geiger's two major works are: Was hat Mohammed aus dem Judenthum aufgenommen? (showing the influence of Judaism on Islam and the Koran) and Urschrift und Übersetzungen der Bibel (in which the text and contents of the Bible were examined in the spirit of modern biblical criticism, then in its infancy).
For all his scholarly eminence, Geiger was not content to live and work in an academic ivory-tower but believed his researches and those of his colleagues demonstrated that the Reform movement followed in the tradition of Judaism as a developing religion and this impelled him to struggle for the recognition of Reform as the tendency demanded once Jews had become members of Western society. As Geiger saw it, the nationalistic and particularistic aspects of Judaism reflected no more than stages in Judaism's progress towards, universalism.
He advocated, therefore, the substitution of German for the Hebrew of many prayers and the rejection of the idea of a return to Zion and the rebuilding of the Temple, in favor of the idea that Jews have a mission to all mankind; although he did believe in a version of the Chosen People idea according to which Jews had been especially gifted with the powerful religious sense that resulted in the emergence of ethical monotheism.
Geiger was strongly opposed to the neo-Orthodoxy of S. R. Hirsch, a friend of his youth, and to the conservative philosophy of Zechariah Frankel, but he was less radical in his Reform stance than S. Holdheim, whose ideas seemed to Geiger to destroy continuity with the Jewish past. Unlike Holdheim, Geiger steadfastly refused to countenance the transfer of the Sabbath to Sunday. Such a step would imply that Judaism was moving closer to Christianity. Any move in this direction was vehemently opposed by Geiger.
For the same reason Geiger refused to countenance any attempt to abolish circumcision, despite the fact that, in a private letter, he once described it as a "barbaric act." Orthodox Jews to this day consider Geiger to be an archheretic, though there is often to be observed, even among the Orthodox, a grudging admiration for his great learning.


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Trial record 15 of 1010 for: "Ear Diseases"
Caroverin and Inner Ear Diseases
This study has suspended participant recruitment.
(due to less patient the study was suspended)
Phafag AG
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First received: August 2, 2010
Last updated: August 4, 2015
Last verified: August 2015
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This trial is a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled study on patients suffering from inner ear diseases with tinnitus as a principal symptom.
The study will investigate the transtympanic treatment with a 1,5 % caroverine solution.
Each patient will undergo treatment for 2 cycles of 48 hours each.
|Drug: Caroverin
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Double Blind, Placebo-controlled, Randomized Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of a Transtympanic Treatment of Tinnitus With Caroverine
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Ear Disorders TinnitusU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Phafag AG:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- to investigate the efficacy of Caroverin in transtympanic treatment of patients with tinnitus measured by a visual analogue scale. [ Time Frame: treatment takes 5 days, follow up examination 4 weeks after ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- to investigate the time from the start of treatment to an improvement in tinnitus [ Time Frame: treatment takes 5 days, follow up examination 4 weeks after ]
- to investigate the efficacy of Caroverin depending the origin of tinnitus [ Time Frame: treatment takes 5 days, follow up examination 4 weeks after ]
- to investigate the safety of Caroverin treatment [ Time Frame: treatment takes 5 days, follow up examination 4 weeks after ]
- to investigate the impact of Caroverin treatment of quality of life [ Time Frame: treatment takes 5 days, follow up examination 4 weeks after ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|January 2011
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|August 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: Caroverin
Drug: Caroverin
treatment with eardrops 2 times for 48 hours
|Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Drug: Caroverin
treatment with eardrops 2 times for 48 hours
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Men or women aged at least eighteen
- Written consent to take part in the study after receiving information from the trial physician
One of the following illnesses:
- Decompensated tinnitus
- Sudden hearing loss
- Morbus Menière
- Blast injury
- Presbyacusis with Tinnitus
- Chron. Otitis media
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients who are not able to give their consent (e.g. dementia, coma, mental disability,…)
- Women of childbearing age who are not using adequate contraception or who are (or plan to become) pregnant (a pregnancy test must be carried out by a doctor once a month in Austria) or are lactating
- If there are solid reasons to doubt that the patient would be willing and able to cooperate
- Known intolerance of/hypersensitivity to caroverine
- Subjects who have taken part in another clinical trial within the 30 days preceding the start of this study or during this study
- Pulse-synchronous tinnitus
- Tinnitus caused by malposition of the jaw bone (bruxism)
- Eardrum perforation
- Subjects who have previously had a barotraumas, diving accidents or decompression sickness
- Retrocochlear hearing disorder
- Patients who have previously had a fracture of the petrous bone
- Subjects suffering from acute or chronic accompanying conditions which severely impede their general health (NYHA stage IV, cancer, HIV etc.)
- Accompanying conditions that according to the current state of scientific knowledge could affect the parameters used in this study to such an extent as to make it impossible to perform an objective assessment of those parameters, particularly ear conditions, including any conditions affecting the other ear or conditions like HI NYHA stage IV, cancer, HIV, Wallenberg Syndrome, massive Hypotension, Glaucoma.)
- Accompanying medication that according to the current state of scientific knowledge are likely to affect the measurement techniques used in this study or the results obtained (cytostatics, aminoglycoside antibiotics, loop diuretics (furosemide, etacrynic acid), psycho pharmaceuticals, muscle relaxants, benzodiazepines, salicylates, quinine, cortisone and/or caroverine within the three days preceding the start of the study)
- Drug treatment for tinnitus or sudden hearing loss (i.v. and oral) within seven days preceding the start of the study where the total duration of the course is less than four weeks
- Diseases or conditions that may be associated with an altered perception or processing of stimuli, e.g. mental illness
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01174979
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01174979
|Landeskrankenhaus Feldkirch
|Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, Austria, 6800
Sponsors and Collaborators
Phafag AG
|Principal Investigator:
|Wolfgang Elsaesser, Dr.
|Landeskrankenhaus Feldkirch
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|Phafag AG
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01174979 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
2009-018046-38 ( EudraCT Number )
|Study First Received:
|August 2, 2010
|Last Updated:
|August 4, 2015
Keywords provided by Phafag AG:
Morbus Meniere
Sudden hearing loss
Blast injury
Chron. Otitis Media
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hearing Disorders
Ear Diseases
Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases
Sensation Disorders
Neurologic Manifestations
Nervous System Diseases
Signs and Symptoms
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Film producers with roots in the state have been shaken by a bill introduced in Raleigh.
Film producers with roots in the state have already been shaken by the introduction of a bill supported by two local lawmakers that could gut the film industry even though that bill appears to be dead on arrival, said one member of the N.C. Film Council, which met Tuesday afternoon.
Vice Chairman E.A Tod Thorne read an email from a Facebook account of a film producer who planned to shoot in Charlotte but was considering switching to Georgia because of the uncertain climate for film production in North Carolina.
"He's very sad about leaving North Carolina," Thorne said. "He's very sad about not being in his home state and his home town and that his producer has made the decision to go to Atlanta."
Thorne blamed the uncertainty that has stirred the film industry on the introduction of House Bill 994, which doesn't kill the film industry but effectively guts it, detractors say.
The bill is supported by two local lawmakers, Reps. Rick Catlin and Chris Millis, who say they want to shed some light on how the film incentive works – and how it's different from other tax incentives. Catlin likened it to a "grant" rather than an incentive, allowing film industries to walk away with millions in taxpayer dollars for very little loyalty to the state of North Carolina.
But those who oppose the measure say the bill's sponsors don't understand the unique nature of the industry – the jobs and tourists it attracts – and the hubbub over the bill may have already hurt business.
"It's hard to put the genie back in the bottle once somebody puts out a bad idea," said John Merritt, a lobbyist who represents the film industry.
Members of the council, meeting in Raleigh, discussed ways they could dispel concerns, such as through studies spread via social media.
Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker drew applause when she announced her unwavering support for the film industry and the jobs it brings to the state. Decker said the state has to be smart about tax reform and create a more competitive business environment. But on the film incentive, she said, "we have to have them to play the game."
Decker encouraged council members to tell an accurate and compelling story about how the film industry has grown jobs and opportunity.
Other council members said they would continue to lobby legislators about the negative effects of the bill even though House Speaker Thom Tillis has suggested it won't move from the House rules committee, where many measures go to die. But film council Chairman Bob Seligson pointed out that a bill is not dead until it's dead, dead, dead.
"It's great to hear the bill's dead, but it's not dead until the final gavel comes down on the legislative process," Seligson said.
Under state law, film production companies can claim a 25 percent tax credit – up to $20 million – on productions spending more than $250,000 in qualifying expenses. If passed, House bill 994 would eliminate that credit and, instead, waive any tax liability the company accrues over the next five years up to an equivalent amount.
Because only companies based in North Carolina pay the taxes that would be waived, only a fraction of the films that do business in the state would reap any benefit under the law, according to Wilmington Regional Film Commission Director Johnny Griffin.
But despite widespread criticism, Catlin is standing behind his opposition to the state's film tax credit as written. He didn't attend a rally that drew hundreds to Wilmington this weekend opposing his support for the measure though the rest of the delegation, minus Millis, showed.
Despite the criticism, Catlin said his measure could end up being the savior of the film industry in North Carolina as legislators consider doing away with all incentives, including film incentives.
"Ultimately I'm against taking taxpayer money and picking and choosing which company gets incentives and which ones don't," said Catlin, R-New Hanover. "This bill, however, could provide some assistance to the film industry if incentives are sunset across the board."
Asked if he was worried about backlash in the next election for such an unpopular move in the Wilmington region, Catlin responded: "I do what I think is right."
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Brian Owens to Play Three NYC Shows, 2/16-19
Brian Ownes will play three upcoming shows in NYC, on February 16 at Rockwood Music Hall at 8pm, on February 17 at DROM at 7pm, and on February 19 at Norwood Club at 8pm.
Owens first major release, Moods & Messages is a self-proclaimed soundtrack to his Journey as a soul artist. With the backing of St. Louis-based Destin 2b1 Records and distribution through New York-based BDG/RED, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment, Owens says:
"Moods & Messages is about balancing out how we feel and what we give out to the world in terms of feelings. These feelings often conflict, but you have to choose what your life will say, despite how you feel ... It's about making choices."
The album displays Brian's personal choices - serving in the military, becoming a husband and father, and performing - as they constantly shape his music into messages that are encouraging, thought-provoking, and touching. From Social awareness to loving tributes to family, Brian masters the art of effortless lyrics and melodies to deliver messages that are powerfully relevant.


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'The hardball stance is all about holding players accountable, which is why nobody should feel comfortable. Ruff has no plans to back off, either. He's scouring his lineup more than ever. He's scrutinizing every performance. He's challenging players. He believes 20 plumbers can win most nights, and he wants to know who will be with him come April. Anybody short on effort should expect fewer shifts.'
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Mark Tisdel to perform benefit show
Renowned local singer Mark Tisdel will perform a benefit concert to those in need at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8 at the First Congregational Church, 1315 Pine St., Rochester. The benefit will support the ongoing programs and services of Rochester Area Neighborhood House, a non-profit dedicated to helping struggling families move toward self-sufficiency. Tickets for "Tisdel in Concert" are available at Janet Varner's on Main Street in Rochester, at both Sharon's Hallmark locations, and at the Neighborhood House offices, 1234 Inglewood, Rochester. Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 at the door. For more information, contact Rochester Area Neighborhood House at 248-651-5836.


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Michelle "Bombshell" McGee -- the tattoo artist who blabbed to the tabloid In Touch that she had an 11-month fling with biker Jesse James -- reportedly earned big bucks for opening her mouth.
According to Technorati.com, she was paid close to $30,000 for her story. (In Touch has not commented on the report.)
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Contrary to McGee's claims, she was fully aware that James, 40, was still with Bullock, 45, when they had their alleged fling, the site also claims. The site reports that she thought the affair would be her ticket to "mainstream celebrity."
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Bullock, 45, has yet to comment on the affair report, but has reportedly moved out of the Southern California home she shares with James and his three children. The Oscar winner also canceled her appearance at the London premiere of The Blind Side next week.
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SANTA CRUZ -- The body arrived in a cooler, packed on blue ice.
The sea otter had washed up on Pismo Beach the day before, with shark bites sunk deep into its hips and back legs -- and scratches on its bones.
Melissa Miller, a veterinarian and wildlife pathologist, knew what killed the animal just by looking at it: Bacteria had infected its wounds, so it drowned. But she has found that otters often keep secrets, hiding serious diseases beneath the surface. So a postmortem exam was in order.
Miller runs something similar to an otter CSI at the Marine Wildlife Veterinary Care and Research Center. She mounts thin slices of brains and livers onto slides and peers into the microscope, looking for signatures of various maladies. And having worked 15 years at UC Santa Cruz's Long Marine Laboratory, she has found plenty.
"Fifty percent of the animals that are found dead have died of disease," said Steve Shimek, director of the Otter Project, an environmental nonprofit based in Monterey.
A high death toll keeps otters from rebounding back to historic levels.
Between 15,000 and 18,000 otters swam off California's coast before 18th- and 19th-century fur traders hunted the animals almost to extinction. Today, their numbers are closer to 2,800.
"That's fewer otters than kids in a big high school," despite their listing as threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act in 1977, Shimek said.
Since then, their numbers have mysteriously bobbed up and down. Miller's work has shown that otters are dying from a wide range of things, including unexpected threats that come from land.
Toxins from algal blooms in lakes, as well as microscopic organisms living in the feces of animals like cats and opossums, have begun to stream into the ocean with stormwater, poisoning otters and breeding disease.
Miller's small team of biologists and technicians catalog every dead otter that surfaces on California's beaches. In 2011, Miller's team recorded 300 otter deaths. In 2012, that number jumped about 10 percent, according to Brian Hatfield, a biologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park.
Detailed postmortem exams that look for the cause of death -- called necropsies -- are reserved for otters older than a year, which are dying in the greatest numbers.
The team used to slice open every dead animal, but declines in state funding have limited exams, Miller said. Now, every teenage or adult otter is placed on the metal operating table, no matter how it died.
"If he comes in with a knife sticking out of him, we're still going to do a necropsy" because some hidden disease could be at the root of the animal's death, Miller said.
Even if they don't kill outright, diseases can make otters more vulnerable to collisions with boats or attacks by sharks or humans. "Picture a person who is walking around on the street drunk," said Miller, comparing it to illnesses that can impair an otter's ability to find food or defend itself. "Doesn't it make sense that their risk of getting into some kind of trouble and trauma might be a little bit higher?"
Each exam takes two to three hours. Miller snaps full-body X-rays and records the length and weight of the animal. She pulls out brains, lungs and kidneys, placing them in plastic containers full of preservatives. The organs hold important clues.
Binders labeled "Dead Otter Fact Sheets" fill the shelves of Miller's lab -- one for every year she's been collecting information.
The otter found on Pismo Beach was No. 6,631, another in a long string of otters that have been tracked by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife since 1968.
Three large metal freezers, set to 80 degrees below zero, hummed in a nearby room. Inside was Miller's "cryo-zoo," a frozen array of otter parts: vials containing bits of brain, plastic bags full of pieces of liver and slices of heart tissue.
Studying these samples, Miller discovered new threats pouring in from land.
In 2007, 12 bright yellow dead otters arrived at the lab. Miller opened them up and found their livers swollen and bleeding. "The liver would just fall apart in my hand," she said.
All the symptoms pointed to a toxin called microsystin, which poisons the liver, brain and kidneys.
The toxin found its way inside otters through food. Otters eat creatures like mussels and clams, which filter pollutants from the water and stockpile them in their meat. Otters need to eat a quarter of their body weight in food every day and can gobble up a lot of these dangerous meals.
But the toxin is released by algae found in freshwater lakes and streams. It shouldn't have been in the ocean, nor was it known to affect otters. Miller didn't know if she was on the right track.
"I went back to previous years before 2007 and said, 'Anyone who has liver in the diagnosis, we'll pull the liver, scrape up the money, and we'll test them for microsystin,'" Miller recalled.
Thirty-one otters tested positive -- a dramatic number given the few otters that remain.
"That's like having 35 million Americans die,'' said Robert Ketley, water quality program manager in Watsonville.
Algal blooms often explode in spring and fall at Watsonville's Pinto Lake, carpeting the lake with green scum. "It's like the snot you'd get out of the Incredible Hulk," Ketley said.
Wetlands and dense vegetation used to act as a natural filtration system between the land and sea, removing pollutants. But over time those natural areas have been bulldozed and wetlands filled in. Stormwater may be driving toxins straight to the ocean.
Many agencies are working to manage stormwater runoff and keep toxins like microsystin out of the ocean, said Karen Worcester of the Central Coast Regional Quality Water Control Board. But pollutants still make it to the ocean, breeding a collection of mysterious diseases in otters.
Back at the lab, Miller stared at the heart of otter No. 6,631 under a microscope. Speckled orange and white, it showed the beginnings of heart failure, possibly triggered by pollution. It's something Miller wouldn't expect to see in otters in the prime of their lives, but it's common.
Now if she could only figure out what's causing it.
Contact Ryder Diaz at 408-920-5064. Follow him at Twitter.com/ryderkdiaz.


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Hobbled Saunders confident in making next start
ST. PETERSBURG -- Rangers pitcher Joe Saunders was still hobbling a little bit on Saturday, one day after getting hit in the left ankle by a line drive. But Saunders was able to play catch on the field and is still hopeful he can make his next start.
"It's a little swollen," Saunders said. "Not a lot, but a little bit. We've got some color in there. I think it's just bruised. It's not great, but it's OK."
Saunders' next start would be Friday against the Astros in Arlington. That's also one day after the Rangers have to make a decision whether to add pitcher Colby Lewis to the active roster. Lewis is scheduled to pitch on Sunday for Triple-A Round Rock against Oklahoma City. Lewis can take his free agency if not on the active roster by April 10.
"We'll see how he does tomorrow," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "Let him pitch his game and then make a decision. Right now, I'm thinking how to get [Saturday starter] Nick Martinez through his game. I can't give you an answer because it's not something I have been thinking about."
Martinez started on Saturday, and the Rangers are activating Yu Darvish off the disabled list to pitch on Sunday. Tanner Scheppers, Martin Perez and Robbie Ross Jr are scheduled to start in the three-game series against the Red Sox, and the Rangers are off on Thursday. That gives Saunders two extra days to recover from getting hit by Evan Longoria's fourth-inning line drive on Friday.
"I'll be ready to pitch on Wednesday on my normal four days' rest," Saunders said.
T.R. Sullivan is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Postcards from Elysian Fields, and follow him on Twitter @Sullivan_Ranger. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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This old brooch belonged to my grandmother, I inherited a number of years ago. I think it is Art Deco. The rhinestones are very clear, without any discoloration. The bottom pearl has some green tarnish from I believe aging. Ive never worn it, I just look at it from time to time, and keep it as part of my brooch collection. It is unsigned. The back of the brooch is like new. I dont remember my grandmother wearing this brooch however I do remember her wearing several other pieces of jewelry that I inherited. I will be posting several other pieces that are my favorite. Please let me know your thoughts on this piece.