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Comparing The Cyberlink Control System to the Manual Letter Board for Communication Purposes in the ALS Patient Population
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New technologies are giving people with motor disabilities alternative communication and control channels. The investigators are interested in using the Cyberlink Control System as a hands free means to access a computer for people with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). The goal of this project is to determine whether this device is a practical and realistic means for ALS patients to communicate with only the use of facial muscle, brainwave, and eye movements.
The benefit of this study may be of substantial value to many people with severe motor impairment. Additionally, it is hoped that some of the study subjects may benefit by incorporating hands-free computer use into their daily lives.
This study is intended to evaluate the effectiveness of the cyberlink as a tool for daily communication compared to the standard manual letter board.
|Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Neurodegenerative Disease Motor Neuron Disease
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Case-Only
Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional
|Official Title:
|Comparing The Cyberlink Control System to the Manual Letter Board for Communication Purposes in the ALS Patient Population
- Time Taken to Complete a Sentence [ Time Frame: 1 session ]
|Study Start Date:
|August 2007
|Study Completion Date:
|May 2012
|Primary Completion Date:
|May 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Subjects having either definite or probable ALS by El Escorial Criteria.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 89 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- Diagnosis of definite or possible ALS by the El Escorial Criteria
- Between ages of 18 to 89 years.
- Scored two or less in the ALS FRS category 1 (Speech)
- Scored two or less in the ALS FRS category 4 (Handwriting)
- Cognitively intact with no other neurological diseases
- No unstable medical problems
Exclusion Criteria:
- Any subject not meeting the inclusion criteria
- Patients unable to give informed consent either themselves or via a legally authorized personnel.
- Patients diagnosed with neurological problems other than ALS (upon examination by the principal investigator)
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00718497
|United States, Pennsylvania
|MDA/ALS Center of Hope
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19107
|Principal Investigator:
|Terry Heiman-Patterson, MD
|MDA/ALS Center of Hope
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|Drexel University College of Medicine
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00718497 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|July 14, 2008
|Last Updated:
|March 1, 2013
Keywords provided by Drexel University ( Drexel University College of Medicine ):
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Cerebrospinal Fluid
Neurodegenerative Disease
Motor Neuron Disease
Autonomic Nervous System
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Movement Disorders
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Motor Neuron Disease
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Neuromuscular Diseases
Spinal Cord Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Metabolic Diseases
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Pathologic Processes
TDP-43 Proteinopathies
Proteostasis Deficiencies
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Naugatuck Valley Community College has grown from a fledgling college into a vibrant resource for more than 25 towns in western Connecticut. The college thrives on community partnerships that are too numerous to list and explain. Did you know that NVCC:
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Christian apologetics
Sometimes, those involved in the process do not even bother to make sure their apologetic arguments are consistent with each other--they engage in a shotgun approach of throwing out whatever arguments they can come up with to reach the desired conclusion.
Examples of this may be found at Tom Wanchick's "Christian Fighter" blog. In a discussion of an essay by agnostic Paul Draper, Wanchick notes that "Draper goes through the arguments for theism and naturalism and finds the cases for both worldviews equally compelling. Neither has a clear advantage." But then, Wanchick notes:
But Draper makes an interesting statement at the end of his contribution. He notes that this situation with the ambiguous evidence appears almost intentional, as if humans have been given enough evidence to find God, but not enough to give them utter certainty regarding His reality.In other words, the fact of the ambiguity is itself evidence for theism. But Wanchick goes on to say:
I disagree with Draper in that I think the evidence for theism is far greater than any purported evidence for naturalism. Thus, theism is the clearcut winner. But even granting his point, the Christian position comes out on the winning end.Wanchick's has thus argued that (a) there is an ambiguity, which is evidence for theism, and (b) there is no ambiguity, theism is the clearcut winner. He clearly favors (b), which is inconsistent with (a), but he seemingly still wants to advocate (a), since it leads to a conclusion he favors, as he writes that "the apparent ambiguity seems intentional," implying that he thinks the ambiguity exists. (Thanks to Einzige for pointing out this last point--Wanchick really does seem to advocate both contradictory positions.)


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For us, the heart of Colombian coffee sits always in the mountains of Nariño. Here coffee grows at elevations as high as 7545 feet, where warm tropical days and cool nights let the beans develop slowly. Complex and elegant, medium-bodied with a juicy acidity, herbal notes and a walnut-like finish, this single-origin coffee is a unique collection of flavours. And one found only in this special place. It is the reason we have built relationships here for more than three decades.
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Nariño coffee is grown at altitudes as high as 2300 m (7545 ft) amid climate conditions that make it possible to cultivate exceptional coffee: more than 70 inches of rain per year, plenty of sun, and soil with a high percentage of organic material.
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Recipe for great coffee
- Grind beans just before brewing for the freshest taste. Coarse for coffee press, medium for automatic drip.
- Use 10 g (2 tbsp) ground coffee for every 180 ml (6 fl oz) of cold, filtered water.
- To ensure freshness, brew within a week of opening and keep sealed tight in a cabinet (not the refrigerator).
Each coffee requires slightly different amounts of time and temperature during the roasting process to create a cup at its peak of aroma, acidity, body and flavour. We classify our coffees in three roast profiles so you can easily find your desired flavour and intensity.
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Giavotella to start season at Triple-A
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- If Omar Infante isn't ready to start the season with the Royals, it won't be Johnny Giavotella in his place at second base.
Giavotella was optioned to Triple-A Omaha just before Tuesday night's game against the Mariners.
That leaves Danny Valencia, Pedro Ciriaco and Jason Donald as the possibilities to take over for Infante, who has been battling an aching right elbow. Manager Ned Yost, however, said earlier Tuesday that he's optimistic that Infante will be ready for Opening Day.
Giavotella had a productive Cactus League season, with a .341 average (14-for-41) in 21 games. He had a home run, two triples and three doubles with seven RBIs.
Once considered Kansas City's second baseman of the future, Giavotella's Minor League success did not transition well to the Majors in his callups in 2011, '12 and '13. In those three seasons, he played a total of 113 games and hit just .240.
In six Minor League seasons, Giavotella had a .303 average, 45 homers and 332 RBIs in 634 games. He was a second-round pick in the 2008 First-Year Player Draft.
The move leaves the Royals with 29 active players in camp.
Dick Kaegel is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Iwakuma nearing return, first rehab start
SEATTLE -- Mariners right-handed pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma is scheduled to make his first rehab start Sunday for Triple-A Tacoma in Las Vegas after a rainout at Cheney Stadium earlier this week forced him to throw a simulated game at Safeco Field.
Iwakuma, who missed all of Spring Training with a strained finger tendon on his throwing hand, is scheduled to throw five innings and max out at 80-85 pitches, according to manager Lloyd McClendon. Assuming there are no setbacks, he'll be ready to stretch his pitch count to 90-95 and go "six or seven" in his next start, McClendon said.
It remains to be seen if that will take place with the Mariners on their 10-game, three-city road trip, or if the club will hold him back for another start in the Minors.
"We'll see how he does," McClendon said. "I'm not ready to say whether or not he'll be with us. I just want him to have a good outing, a healthy outing and then we'll evaluate after that."
Adam Lewis is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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One of America's biggest western events is riding into Glendale's Sahuaro Ranch Historic Park, and adding an "Old Time Country Fair" to the roundup of family entertainment.
On Oct. 14, 15 and 16, all 17 acres of the park will be transformed into a Wild West Renaissance Festival.
Guests can enjoy comedy, gunfight and stunt shows, trick roping, gun spinning and trick horse performances by world champions, live music, cowboy historians, buffalo soldiers and Native American tribal dancers.
Mingle with stars such as stuntman Neil Summers, Mike "Desperado" Moroff, James "F-Troop" Hampton, Peter "Tombstone" Sherayko, Helene Udy and William Shockly from "Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman." On Oct. 15 only, attendees can meet Noel Neill, Superman's original Lois Lane. Celebrity panel discussions will be hosted by the "Chronicle of the Old West's" Dakota Livesay.
Enter an old fashioned pie-eating contest, tug of war, sack race or one of the many other free, blue ribbon-winning country fair contests. The Kids Korral will have bounce houses, a zip line, face painting, train and pony rides, plus exotic animals from the Wildlife World Zoo. Learn about the history of the American cowboy and listen to cowboy singers.
Oct. 15 events include a steampunk costume contest, and on Oct. 16, bring out your critters for the "Best Dressed Wild West Pet" costume contest. Artisans and crafters will display and sell an array of items, and food vendors will be on hand.
The Single Action Shooting Society will give guests the opportunity to see what it's like to handle an Old West "shoot'n iron" at their Wax Bullet Shooting Arena, or head over to the Arizona Gunslingers' Cowboy Fast Draw Association booth. Visit the Chuck Wagon Camp for a taste of dutch oven cooking, and see who wins "top cookie" in the Chuck Wagon Cook-Off. There also will be blacksmith demonstrations.
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Arizona Chapter, is the beneficiary of this year's event.
Hours for the festival are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Tickets are $10 for adults, $9 for seniors, $6 for military with ID, $5 for ages 5-12 and free for ages 4 younger. All shows are included with admission. Sahuaro Ranch Park is at 5802 N. 59th Ave. in Glendale.
For details, discount coupons, and multi-day ticket specials, visit www.wildwesternfestival.com, or call 623-882-9428 or 623 521-3856.


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'I murdered someone, but you're going to have to find him'
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) The woman suspected of killing a fellow patient at Eastern State Hospital pleaded not guilty on Wednesday in Spokane County District Court and was ordered held on $1 million bail.
Court documents show that patient Amber Roberts, 30, led a staff member to the man's body by playing a game of "hot and cold." Authorities claimed she approached the worker early Tuesday morning and said: "I murdered someone, but you're going to have to find him."
According to documents, the staff member searched room to room, with Roberts following and saying: "You're getting warmer."
As the staff member approached the room of 56-year-old Duane E. Charley, Roberts said: "You're hot."
The staff member looked inside and found Charley's body. Roberts said she had strangled him with an electrical cord, the documents show.
The Spokane County Medical Examiner identified Charley, of Grant County, as the man found dead at Eastern State, which is located in the suburb of Medical Lake. He died of strangulation, the medical examiner concluded.
The slaying occurred in the hospital's 31-bed forensics unit, a co-ed ward where criminally insane patients are housed. Roberts has been institutionalized since 2004, after a judge declared her legally insane for attacking a 72-year-old Yakima woman and stealing the woman's car in 2003.
Charley came to the hospital in 1994, after he was acquitted by reason of insanity of taking indecent liberties in a Grant County case.
According to court documents, Roberts entered Charley's room and strangled him, then told Charley's roommate: "Don't say anything or you'll be next."
John Wiley, a spokesman for the state Department of Social and Health Services, said staff who have worked there for three decades cannot recall another homicide at Eastern State. The department operates the hospital.
Roberts appeared in court via video feed from the Spokane County Jail. She wore handcuffs with her hands behind her back. She pleaded not guilty to a charge of first-degree murder.


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Our good friends at organic food delivery company Abel & Cole have come up with a tasty seasonal recipe for February; why not give it a try this weekend?
Kale, Butterbean and Orange Soup with Almonds
Kale, Butterbean & Orange Soup with Almonds
Prep: 15 minutes
Cook: 25 minutes
Feeds: 2-4 people
Greens, beans and citrus: a knock-your-socks-off soup.
A few splashes of olive oil
1 large onion, finely chopped
1 potato, peeled and finely diced
1 carrot, peeled and finely diced
3 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
½ red chilli, finely chopped (more or less, to taste)
1 sprig of rosemary, finely chopped
A pinch of ground cinnamon
The juice and zest of 1 orange
1 litre vegetable stock, warmed
2 x 400g tins of butter beans, drained and rinsed
4 large handfuls of kale, leaves removed from woody stalks and finely chopped
A large handful of almonds, chopped
A pinch of chilli powder
A drizzle of honey
Step by step
- Heat a large saucepan. Add a splash of oil. Once hot, add the onion, potato and carrot.
- Cook over a low heat until the onions are glossy and tender. Stir in the garlic, chilli, rosemary, cinnamon and orange juice and zest. Cook until the orange juice reduces to a sticky glaze. Add half the stock and the beans. Let it gently bubble until the potatoes and carrots are tender.
- Add the kale. Mix. Cook for a moment, until it is a lush bright green.
- Whizz the soup in a food processor or blender until smooth, or serve chunky, adding stock as needed to reach the desired consistency.
- Season to taste. Add more orange or chilli if needed.
- Fry the chopped nuts in a little olive oil over a medium heat until just golden. Add a pinch of salt, a hint of chilli powder and a trickle of honey, just enough to coat.
- Once the honey has formed a sticky glaze, remove from the pan. Scatter nuts over each bowl of soup.


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The updated and expanded 2nd edition of Every Child Ready To Read incorporates simple practices, based on research, to help parents and other caregivers develop early literacy skills in children from birth to age five.
Every Child Ready to Read® @ your library® (ECRR) is a parent education initiative. It stresses early literacy begins with the primary adults in a child's life. The ECRR toolkit empowers public libraries to assume an essential role in supporting early literacy within a community.
The 2nd Edition of Every Child Ready to Read® @ your library®, released in 2011, builds on the 1st Edition, first introduced in 2004. The 2nd Edition incorporates recommendations that evolved out of an in-depth evaluation of the original initiative and an extensive literature review.


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Many of you may have already heard that Subway is now serving breakfast! This makes me so incredibly happy because as someone who is pretty much always watching my weight–I really need healthy low calorie fast food options. Healthy and low calorie are not words usually associated with fast food, but Subway has always been one of the few healthy options available for lunch and dinner–no breakfast options were available though. Until now!
Their new breakfast lineup includes the following sandwiches:
Egg & Cheese
Steak, Egg & Cheese
Double Bacon, Egg & Cheese
Black Forest Ham, Egg & Cheese
Western Egg & Cheese
You can get these breakfast sandwiches built how you like them so if you want low calorie–have yours made with egg whites only and have your sandwich served on a light wheat english muffin. If you're not worried about calories, then by all means go all out! Thanks to Subway, I got the chance to try the Western Egg & Cheese sandwich, which I have to say is pretty good considering it is very low calorie! It is made with egg whites, Black Forest Ham, green pepper and onion, with melted cheese on a light wheat English muffin. The best part? It only has 4 grams of fat and is under 200 calories! Pair that with fresh apple slices and a hot cup of joe and you've got yourself a healthy and yummy low calorie breakfast!
I was provided a $10 gift card to Subway so that I could check out the new breakfast sandwiches. All opinions expressed in this review are my own and not influenced in any way by anyone. Please refer to this site's Terms of Use for more information.


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Officers cleared in Sheraton Hotel shootout
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) Bakersfield police on Thursday announced a review board ruling made more than two weeks ago regarding the officer-involved shooting at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel on California Avenue.
Justin Harger and Jorge Ramirez were killed in the September shootout.
Police got information that 32-year-old Harger, a parolee wanted by local law enforcement and the U.S. Marshals Service, would be at the hotel. Officers conducted surveillance in the area, saw Harger's vehicle arrive in the hotel parking lot, and officers conducted a traffic stop. Harger and his passenger, 34-year-old Ramirez, "immediately exited their vehicle and Harger opened fire on the officers and officers returned fire," police said at the time via a news release.
Thursday, police said a department review board determined Dec. 23 that all shots fired by officers that night were within department policy and state and federal guidelines. All of the officers have been returned to duty.
Ramirez was working as a police informant, assisting police in arresting Harger. Police Chief Greg Williamson said in October that Ramirez didn't give officers the information they needed the night of the shooting.
Ramirez didn't tell the officers who was driving, he didn't tell officers Harger was armed, and he didn't tell officers Harger was in disguise, according to the police chief.
Ramirez's family has filed claims against the city. Each of the claims say police violated Ramirez's "constitutional rights and liberties" and used "unnecessary force" during the shooting.
Mark Geragos, attorney for the Ramirez Family, issued the following response Friday to the police ruling on the shooting: "This is an outrage. This was not even a remotely independent investigation. The uncontroverted evidence has been ignored or covered up."


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We also offer Saturday hours at our South Broadway clinic from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sundays, noon – 5 .pm. A primary care physician will be available to treat patients who have an established relationship with any of our ETMC First Physicians. The address is 6210 South Broadway, right next to our 24-hour emergency center. Walk-ins are welcome.
The clinic is an in-network provider for Medicaid, Medicare and most private insurance plans.
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Mixed response to Torfaen leisure price hike
6:42am Thursday 20th February 2014
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TORFAEN Leisure Trust has announced it will be increasing customer prices — and the news has received a mixed response from residents and leisure centre users.
A hike of three per cent is set to be introduced from April 1 to "ensure leisure services in Torfaen are sustainable in the long term", a trust spokeswoman said last week.
It will see junior lesson prices increase from £3.89 to £4.00, and peak fitness suite prices at Pontypool Active Living centre and Cwmbran Stadium go from £5 to £5.15.
But the rise will not affect the direct debit fitness membership fee, while residents who meet the existing leisure concessionary scheme criteria will continue to be eligible for the discounted rates.
Alun Williams, chair of Torfaen Leisure Trust, said: "All Torfaen Leisure Trust leisure centres will remain excellent value for money and still be far less expensive than many facilities managed by neighbouring councils or by private organisations. It will still be possible to use our facilities for less than a pound a day."
Leisure centre user Nicky Malson said facilities had "to be affordable, or government initiatives for health and fitness are pointless".
John Beavan, chair of the Blaenavon Swimming and Leisure Trust, said he worried it would deter some users: "Speaking for people from Blaenavon, by the time you pay for bus journeys to and from the centre, as well as the entry fee, you have paid a fortune."
But Pontypool Paralympian John Harris called it a "necessary evil". "Such facilities are too important to lose, and if prices have to go up a bit so that doesn't happen I think it's a small price to pay."
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Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Sleep Disorders
Realistic Nightmares and Unusual Events
Hi, my nightmares vary from real-like physical pain, to endless riddles, to being violent towords people I don`t know, endless `waking up` in dream into another dream. Sometimes I wake up paralyzed and with taste of sesame in my mouth. When I was a child, things like this happend only around full moon, bit now they have no order. In mornings I feel very tired and I radiate incredible wormth for about an hour. My boyfriend is worried because I constently shake upper part of my body violently for hours. I can also talk and walk without knowing. Few times I looked at him with totaly black eyes. I will be very gratefull for your opinion, because I`m getting quite worried, thank you for your time.
Throughout history, dreams were considered as a communication from higher powers or a window to the future. At the turn of the century, dream interpretation and analysis was considered to provide an understanding of the individual personality and tendencies. While none of these notions have been proven experimentally, dreams and dream recall continue to be an intriguing experience that we try to explain and make sense of.
Dreaming mainly occurs in a stage of sleep called Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep. This stage of sleep recurs several times in a night of normal sleep. Therefore, dreaming likely occurs every night. What is less common is our dream recall. A common cause of dream recall is awakening at a time of sleep that is close to the time of the dream. However, it is not mandatory that one awakens during the night for dream recall to occur. Many individuals report vivid recall of their dreams in the morning without much sleep disturbance. It is worth noting that a relatively long period of REM sleep occurs normally towards the end of the night's sleep. Therefore, we often awaken for the day coming out of a REM period and may be more likely to recall the dreams that occurred in it. When vivid dreams are associated with discomfort, unpleasant emotion, or fear they may be classified as "nightmare disorder". The recurrence of the vivid dream, the context of the dream, along with the concern the patient feels are all factors that make a recurrent vivid dream more of a nightmare. Again, it is not mandatory that one awakens from sleep for the dream to become a nightmare. However, awakening from sleep with recall of the dreams occurs frequently.
Some individuals have "habitual dreams" that develop over a long period of time in which they begin to expect the same dream. Likewise, being concerned about the meaning and context of dreams results in obsessing over dreams and can increase their recurrence, creating a cycle of recurrent dreams. The effect of lack of sleep due to work or insufficient sleep hygiene can cause our bodies to try to make up for lost REM sleep on the nights we allow ourselves to sleep longer. This may have the effect of having more dreams on these nights of make up sleep. This may be why many individuals associate a "good night sleep" with having dreams that they recall.
Conditions that may cause excessive dream recall include sleep disruption, effects of certain medications and drugs, mood disorders, and medical conditions. Antidepressants and a variety of medications can promote dreams and nightmares by changing the architecture of sleep and increasing the duration of the dreaming stage (REM sleep). Post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety disorders can have similar effects. Additionally, alcohol, and recreational drugs can promote nightmares via different mechanisms. Sleep disorders may cause excessive dream recall or nightmares by disrupting the architecture of sleep and promoting frequent arousals. These disorders include obstructive sleep apnea and periodic limb movement of sleep. Medical disorders that can cause disruption of sleep include gastro esophageal reflux and arthritic pain. Hormonal changes in women are also important factors in dream occurrence due to the hormonal effect on REM sleep. Absent any other identifiable causes of nightmares, the patient is considered as having a "nightmare disorder".
You also describe sleep walking and talking. These are not uncommon, especially in younger individuals and they sometimes decrease with age. However, sleep waking in particular, can pose some risk to the patient who tends to wander out of the sleeping environment and may be exposed to physical barriers. Some patients may be at risk for falling down stairs or walking outside into cold weather. In these cases, a careful review of the sleeping arrangement with the doctor may be very helpful. In more extreme cases, treatment with medication that alter the sleep architecture can be used.
You further describe shaking movements that can last for hours. Seizures are the most concerning movement disorder of sleep. However, shaking "for hours" would be highly unusual for a seizure disorder. Therefore, it is not very likely that you are having nightly seizure activity. The condition I mentioned earlier, periodic limb movement disorder of sleep (PLMD), may also affect the upper body as well as the legs.
Finally, I will comment on the "sesame taste". This may be due to gastro esophageal reflux disorder (GERD, also known as heartburn), which can occur at certain time of the night. GERD can further disrupt sleep and cause arousals. Sleep apnea may be associated with a similar symptom due to the abrupt chest and throat muscle contractions.
I suggest that you follow these general sleep hygiene recommendations:
- Assure comfortable, quiet, cool, and dark sleep environment
- Keep a regular sleep schedule and ensure adequate sleep duration of 8-9 hours per night.
- Avoid alcohol, caffeine, and tobacco use close to sleep time
- Avoid using sleep aids
- Consider using some relaxation methods such as meditation before bedtime
As you can see, there are a number of possibilities for the symptoms you are experiencing and this can be complex - a number of factors need to be considered. I recommend you discuss your problems further with your primary care doctor and ask for a referral to a Sleep Specialist for further evaluation. It is likely that your situation can be significantly improved once the diagnosis has been made and treatment initiated.
Rami N Khayat, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care & Sleep
College of Medicine
The Ohio State University


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Luke gets reunited with two long-lost friends...
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Old school Star Wars fans can rejoice as Hasbro has whipped up a great new comic pack NOT with Expanded Universe characters, but with characters who were cut out from the original 1977 film. Camie Marstrap and Laze "Fixer" Loneozner are two of Luke's friends who ended up on the editing room floor along with scenes involving Biggs Darklighter. Hasbro has already released the deleted scenes Biggs Darklighter figure years ago but finally you can reunite them all.
Released for Celebration V, the official Star Wars convention, this exclusive 2-pack will not be found at your retail stores. You can however pick this up over at www.hasbrotoyshop.com for $14.99 if you were unable to go to the convention. I'm not certain what the edition size is on this set, so I'd recommend picking it up sooner than later.
The packaging for this comic pack is quite attractive but at the same time a bit excessive (but we all like excessive here). At its core, the comic pack is the same style comic packaging you'll find at the retail outlets which is a large size card and bubble pack. The outer box that Hasbro created keeps this set in pristine condition and allowing clear views of the toy within. The front of the box features the comic cover art in full while the sides feature some comic panels which is a rather nice touch.
Hasbro has come a really long way in sculpting their figures and though these two figures are based on real actors, they've managed to do a great job with them. And with the number of figures already made, you would think that such minor characters would get the kit-bash treatment, but from what I can gather, these are brand new molds.
Paint is generally pretty good throughout but with only minor instances of slop. Camie's face upon closer inspection shows some extra spray from her hair dusted about. Sometimes with Star Wars figures, the whites of the eyes are left off but I believe I can see a hint of that in these two figures.
Articulation has been pretty great for Star Wars figures and I'm loving the super-articulation treatment on all figures, not just the main characters. Ball joints are a plenty and can be found on the shoulders, elbows, and knees. There's also joints on the neck, waist, wrists, hips, and in the case of Fixer, his heels as well. Legs are slightly hindered by the skirts but not by much.
These figures don't come with much but they have it where it counts. As deleted scene figures, I couldn't imagine what they should come with. Fixer comes with a blaster, I suppose because everyone has one in that part of Tatooine. Camie comes with a pet of some kind. Hasbro calls it a dog and it does resemble a shaved poodle so we'll call it a dog too. The dog has no articulation and is sculpted to be held, not a great piece on its own. And of course there's the comic book since this is a "comic" pack.
In conclusion, $15 for two brand new figures never released that flesh out the original trilogy is fine by me. They're great figures on their own but the only unfortunate aspect is that they're as visually boring as most humans are on Tatooine. Thus kids may not be as interested in them, hence why they're exclusive! It all makes sense now.
I'm stoked that Hasbrotoyshop.com is doing a much better job at putting their exclusives up for sale so get them while you can!
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Tomorrow my dad goes for his 3rd paracentesis in a month. The first one 12/8, they took off 11 liters of fluid, then on 12/29 they removed 9.5 liters of fluid and we go tomorrow for the third. With the fluid building up this quickly in his abdomen, does this mean we are close to the end? Just wondered if anyone has dealt with this before.
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I've been trying to create a sine wave between 0 and 10 volts on an NI 5412. I've encountered 2 problems and I have one question:
1) I can't generate a waveform with offset, even when using NI examples.
2) The amount of offset I can set the device to is +/- 25% amplitude range. Do I have to create an arbitrary waveform myself?
3) In the brochure it says I can get 12v peak to peak. Does that mean it's between -6 and 6, or is it between 0 and 12?
I would appreciate it if I could see an example.
Thanks alot.
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Hi sdavoudi,
Did you check to make sure that the osciliscope you are using is not set to AC coupled? This device can have a DC offsett of 1.5 V which is 25% of 6 V. So the best you will be able to do is -4.5 to 7.5 V. The peak to peak means -6 to 6 V. I hope this helps!
Josh Brown
Hi sdavoudi,
I need to make one correction to my previous post. The offset is +/- 25% of the range. However the max output of the card is 6 V. So, the signal I mentioned in my previous post would actually be cut off at 6 V and would result in a signal from -4.5 V to 6 V. This topic is discussed in page three of the following manual.
The examples related to this device can be found by opening the NI Example Finder and going to Hardware Input and Output>Modular Instruments>NI-FGEN. For your application the Fgen Fucntion Generator.vi under Demos would be a good starting point. Let me know if you need additional help with this topic.
Josh Brown
Hi, several notes:
1) The peak to peak voltage is 12V. For example, it can operate between 0-12V.
2) The 25% offset limit is for a given wave. That means assuming it is creating a wave, it can only offset it 25% of the range. The solution is to create an arbitrary wave (for example a sine wave between 0 and 10 V) and have the function generator create that instead of trying to offset a sine wave.
Thanks for the help though.
Hi sdavoudi,
You are correct that the 5412 has a peak to peak voltage of 12 volts. Peak to peak values are specified based on the amplitude of the waveform. This is different than the maximum voltage the device can output relative to the ground source it is referencing. The maximum voltage that the device can output relative to the ground the device is referencing is +6 Volts. If your application simply requires a sine wave with a peak to peak voltage of 10 Volts than creating a custom waveform as you described would work. However, the maximum DC offset you would be able to use would be 1 Volt. If you use more than 1 Volt with a 10 Volt peak to peak sine wave than some of the wave would be cut off. To demonstrate this I set up a 5422 Arbitrary Waveform Generator that has the same maximum voltage value as the 5412. I configured the 5422 to output a 10 Volt peak to peak waveform. I then moved the DC offset to +1 Volts. I acquired the outputted sine wave on 5152 Digitizer. Attached is the signal that was acquired from the 5152. You can see that the signal is cut off around +6 Volts. Please let me know if this was a useful demonstration or if you have any more questions.
Josh Brown


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A new report from Purdue University researchers and Farm Foundation, NFP shows emerging trends that make this year's dramatic increase in food and commodity prices different from the increases seen in 2008. But like in 2008, there is no single or simple cause, with numerous domestic and international factors contributing.
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EUGENE, Ore. - A man found dead after a house fire suffered external injuries before the house was intenionally set ablaze, sheriff's office investigators said Friday.
Investigators also said the victim and his accused killer both had children by the same woman, who days early was arrested after a domestic dispute with the man found dead in the home.
"When the fire department personnel first got on the scene and removed the body from the house, they could tell there were some injuries that weren't consistent simply related to the fire," said Sergeant Cliff Harrold.
The woman, Shawna Schmidt, rented the River Road home and lived there with Moji Silas Tholl, 51, with whom she had a child.
Tholl was found dead after firefighters responded to a fire at the home Tuesday afternoon.
Deputies arrested Robert Charles Baimbridge, 41, of Springfield on charges of murder and arson, accusing him of killing Tholl and setting the house on fire.
Baimbridge also had a child with Schmidt, the sheriff's office said.
Schmidt had been arrested on charges of fourth degree assault, menacing and strangulation after a domestic altercation at the home between her and Tholl on Sept. 28, according to the sheriff's office.
"Mr. Tholl was residing at that residence with Shawna Schmidt when the arrest happened on September 28th. He continued to reside there. She was taken to jail, and released, and not allowed to go back there," said Sgt. Harrold.
She was out of jail on electronic monitoring with a GPS bracelet at the time of the fire, the sheriff's office told KVAL News, and was barred from being at the house.
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Though nothing spectacular in the sculpts, Hasbro put the effort there, nowadays we get garbage like an Ep1 KiAdi Mundi with a new arm and paintjob and wa-la its an Ep2 KiAdi or a repainted Ep1 Yoda.
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Hi Everyone,
I change my body font px to %.
font: normal 85%/140% "trebuchet ms", tahoma, sans-serif;
my question is that how to covert this 85% font size to em? is there any formula?
If doing that, perhaps set the font to 100% on the body first.
deathshadow suggested me to use the 85% body font..
I want to know the conversion of formula to covert my 85% to em and px..
Effect of Font Metrics on Common Sizes
thanks raplh
Fair enough. to each his/her own.
I want to know the conversion of formula to covert my 85% to em and px.. :)
Well, converting from % to em just involves converting from % to decimal, e.g. 85% = 0.85em. No more formula needed there.
Pixels are trickier only in that you don't know what the initial font size is, as you don't know what size the user's computer displays fonts at. People often say that 100% = 16px, and I find that a useful guide, but it's a guide only, as you don't really know for user. (For some users, 100% might be 24px, for all you know, depending on how they have set up their computer to display fonts.)
But if you assume that 16px = 100% = 1em, then the mathematics are pretty simple.
85% = 0.85 em = 0.85 x 16 = 13.6px (so each browser will have to round that up or down).
I prefer to assume that 16px = 1em (ok, kick me if you want to) and then use ems as follows:
14px = 0.875em (14/16 = 0.875)12px = 0.75em (12/16 = 0.75)10px = 0.625em (10/16 = 0.625)
And so on.
But it gets messy if you then have an elements within elements with set font sizes, so be careful.
ok thanks for your reply. so you mean it is better to use 100% body font size? than 85%?
Ok.. this all good advice but what you really need is the PRINCIPLE behind this. so keep these points in mind in the following order:
1) all browsers begin with a default px size, but this size varies from browser to browser and even user to user.
2) As far a FONT-SIZE is concerned there is no real difference from ems to % ( other than multiplying x100)
3)Body-100% or 1em means you don't change the default size of the that browser font at all!
4) the "em" value in pixels represents a cascade, font-size:1em=100% of the size of the CONTAINING ELEMENT. ( and the containing element of all elements is the HTML/BODY tags.. thus what DS was mentioned)
5)What you really need to keep in mind is the CASCADE.
... it gets messy if you then have an elements within elements with set font sizes, so be careful.lets say , fore the sake of example , the default font-size of a browser is 20px. you have nested the following elements in the body:

and set the following rules:body {.9em)p{font-size:.7em}.story{font-size:.5em}.main{font-size:.8em}
when you test thsi out on that browser your paragraph is text: about 5px!!! "But I set my P rule to .7em that should be 14px" , you say!?!
what happen is the body is set at 18px (.9em x 20=18px)
but then the next rule bases it self on thet 18px size, so .main=.8em x18px= 14.4pxand .story does the same based on .main... 14.4px x .5em =7.7px... finally your rule for P applies 7.7px X .7= 5.39px
so in fact when you work with ems, you need to cascade size rules.
lets assume you intend for all Ps to have a size of 14px FOR that BROSWER with ( for the sake of example) the rules described above...
you would need to create these additional rules:body {.9em)p{font-size:.77778em}/*this general a rule should be removed actually, as it would only work on a direct child of he DODY element, maybe it should be body >p for this example*/.story{font-size:.5em}.main{font-size:.8em} /* if you removed the rules above you would need to recalculate everything , BTW*/.story p{font-size:1.94446em}.main p{font-size:.972223em}
This is not meant as example of efficient code, just a demonstration of how font size is cascaded when using ems or %s you need to think in proportions when you design an an not px, at that point it will make sense to set the body to 1em as a base unit... of that proportion.
No, it's just a choice you make. Neither is better or worse. To me, 100% makes more sense, but ds60 knows his stuff, so I would never cross him in matters of this sort.
very well said dresden_phoenix.. thanks
@ralph.. ahh ok.. =)


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On Sunday, the Fighting Irish (11-0) ascended to the top spot in the latest BCS standings. It is the program's first No. 1 ranking in 19 years.
"It's like being selected for the playoffs," Irish coach Brian Kelly said. "Now you know you're in if you take care of business, and you've got to win each week. I think it's more about just the feeling that you're included now in the race for a championship."
The adulation isn't limited to simply football victories for Kelly's program. With Sunday's ranking, it marks the first time in the history of the BCS and the NCAA Graduation Success Rate rankings that any team has ranked No. 1 both in the current BCS standings and in the current NCAA GSR ratings.
"I took the Notre Dame job wanting to really get an opportunity to play for a national championship and have high graduation rates," Kelly said. "That's really why I took the job here. And I think we're going to validate that this year with the No.1 graduation rates that you can do both, and they don't have to be mutually exclusive in college football."
The accomplishment took place just 48 hours after Tennessee had its probation extended by the NCAA for violations that occurred within the program of then Volunteer coach Lane Kiffin in 2009. Kiffin is the current USC coach, and the Trojans also have been reprimanded by the NCAA in recent years.
''We will finally close the chapter on the prior actions of members of a previous coaching staff,'' Tennessee athletic director Dave Hart said in a statement.
Many cynics have said that success in intercollegiate athletics is difficult to achieve on the field and in the classroom, but Kelly has never shared in that belief and he particularly doesn't feel that way about his current university.
"I have not seen anything here in my time that will not allow us to continue to have the highest graduation rates and compete for a National Championship," Kelly said. "I've been doing it 22 years. So I think I know what it looks like if you couldn't do it."If USC (7-4) hopes to knock off the Irish it will have to do so without its All-American quarterback.
Trojan senior Matt Barkley was injured in a loss at UCLA on Saturday and USC announced on Sunday that he would not start against the Irish.
"I feel bad for him and his family," Kiffin said. "This is obviously not how you want it to be."
Barkley was injured late in the game when sacked and left the Rose Bowl with his arm in a sling. USC did not disclose the nature of the injury or whether Barkley might be able to return for a bowl game.
"They have great weapons," Kelly said. "(Marqise) Lee and (Robert) Woods and the running back situation, they've got two great backs. So it's- we're going to have to defend all of those players, not just one.
"If (Matt) Barkley is playing, which we'll prepare for him like he is playing, the offense is still going to be about getting the ball to their play makers. So it really won't change much in terms of what we do."
The Trojans will have to rely on freshman Max Wittek, who will make his first career start. Wittek has played a limited role in six games this season and has completed 8-of-9 passes for 95 yards and a touchdown.


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In this year of the summer Olympics, it is only fitting that NASA scored a gold medal when it "stuck the landing" on its Curiosity rover, the most ambitious lander ever sent to another planet. In the wee hours of Monday morning, space geeks (most wear that label proudly) celebrated the news that Curiosity had survived the so-called "seven minutes of terror." Information sent to and from Curiosity when it arrived at the Red Planet took seven minutes to travel the same 354 million miles that the craft had spent more than eight months traversing, so Curiosity was left to accomplish the touchdown on its own. By the time its NASA handlers could have identified and reacted to any possible hiccups during the descent, Curiosity would already have joined the ranks of failed missions. Sixty percent of exploration missions to the planet have failed to complete their objectives, and if Curiosity's automatic landing had not worked perfectly, Mars would have gained a new crater.
Because the craft has outgrown the airbag-clad "bounce like a beachball until stopping" delivery approach of previous smaller missions, NASA's engineers were forced to think outside the box for the bulky Curiosity and develop a new method to deliver the Ford Pinto-sized robot to the surface survivably. The $2.5 billion spacecraft would have to slow from 13,000 miles to zero using a system that had never been operationally tested until the mission itself. It simply had to work right the first time, and it did.
From its entry into the Martian atmosphere, until it touched down firmly, the craft had no fewer than six configurations. The lander's streak through the thin atmosphere was blunted by a heat shield that slowed the initial descent to approximately 900 mph—enough to deploy a supersonic parachute, images of which were captured in a fly-by overhead photo by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (keeping with the Olympic theme, NASA earned extra style points for that). Once the speed slowed to 190 mph, a "rocket backpack" landing stage attached to the rover fired and eventually brought the craft into a hover above the surface. The backpack then unspooled cords, lowering Curiosity to the ground like the claw reaching for a stuffed animal in an arcade game, protecting its delicate instruments from the dust storm that the retro-rockets closer to the surface would have kicked up. Once the rover was safe, it cut the cords connecting it to the flight stage, now useless, which flew off several thousand feet and crashed in a planned maneuver out of harm's way. As an added bonus, the thrust from the rockets blew away the thick dust in several patches near the lander, unveiling bedrock for Curiosity to study and sample eventually.
Since touchdown we have been treated to many new pictures of the Martian landscape as Curiosity slowly awakens, stretches its limbs and reports system checks back to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Image manipulators have been having a field day with purported "first images" on the Internet showing the beast from Aliens and, even more apropos, Marvin the Martian peeking into the camera's field of view. In a high-resolution panorama just released, the Martian surface looks a bit like Arizona, minus the cacti, an observation sure to get the conspiracy theorists whispering.
The path to Mars has rarely been smooth or carefree. Pinned to a bulletin board in my office is a pack of Hot Wheels toys—a souvenir from a story assignment long ago—containing miniature replicas of the Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO) and Mars Polar Lander (MPL). Both 1998 missions managed to reach the planet but were lost before they could accumulate any data. MCO miscalculated its orbit due to a programming glitch and burned up when it accidentally entered the atmosphere, while MPL suffered a suspected landing thruster shutdown and supposedly dashed itself against the Martian surface. The underlying cause of both failures was eventually attributed to engineers trying to accomplish too much with limited funding.
Curiosity, the third-generation rover to land on the fourth planet from the sun following Sojourner in 1997 and the twins Spirit and Opportunity (the latter is still functioning, 30 times past its design lifespan) in 2004, is about to embark on a two-year mission that will eventually find it climbing a mountain searching not for life itself, but for clues of whether our planetary neighbor could have ever sustained life as we know it. At a time when NASA as been eviscerated by budget cuts and loss of prestige from the retirement of its long serving space shuttle fleet, the unorthodox but successful landing on Mars by its most capable scientific rover yet was just the ticket for the agency to show it still has that same can-do attitude, as well as the same know-how, that put men on the moon less than 70 years after the first powered flight.


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Graduating Senior Enters the Business of Show Jumping
For Kaitlin Campbell, BS '13, getting to campus means more than a ten-minute walk up Massasschusetts Ave. from an apartment; it means a two-hour flight from West Palm Beach, Florida.
That's because Campbell, a professional show jumper, and her horse, Rocky W, are competing in a 12-week international event called the Winter Equestrian Festival. The show, which is taking place in Florida through March 31, hosts some of the best riders in the world.
Finding the Balance
Every Monday morning, Campbell flies into D.C. for a full day of classes, then flies back to Florida the next morning to train for competitions and do classwork for her two online courses.
Campbell has been balancing competition and school since she began riding at age six near her hometown in Pennsylvania. After competing throughout middle school, she enrolled in an "independent study" high school online so she could have the flexibility to travel.
"Once you get to high school, the teachers aren't so keen on you just disappearing for five months," she said, "so I did the independent study school and competed down here in Florida, and just all over the place."
When she came to American, Campbell expected the same story as high school and that she would need to give up her passion for riding.
"I applied to American thinking that I was going to maybe take a break and not ride as much," Campbell said. "That lasted about a week, and I was like 'I can't do that' so I found a way to make it happen."
From the Classroom to the Stables
Campbell began riding at ESP Farm in Brookeville, MD, about 45 minutes north of the city, and later got an internship at a downtown nonprofit called Washington International Horse Show (WIHS) doing financial accounting, effectively applying some of the skills she had been learning at Kogod.
2011 was a flawless year for Campbell, she won 1st place in every show she entered. After one of her victories, a representative from Ariat International, an equestrian apparel brand, offered her a sponsorship, making Campbell a professional rider.
Campbell is now in her final semester at AU, and since her freshman year has won a total of seven grand prix titles and placed in ten more competitions in states all along the east coast. All told, she has won more than $260,000 in prize money in the past four years alone.
"All the professors I've had have been super willing to work with me and my changing schedules," Campbell said. "I'll say, 'I'll be in Kentucky this week,' and they'll say 'no problem, good luck.' They've just been really great working with me."
What's Next
Campbell hopes to begin competing on an international level after graduation in May, and plans to use her degree to continue to work with horses at a place like WIHS.
"I think a lot of people go to college thinking, 'I've done this all my life and now I'm going to have to give it up' but I didn't have to and I'm really thankful."


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I have a fixed width layout (based on a grid structure) but I have one pop out element that I want to protrude from the right side.
This works fine, but it means that there is a horizontal scrollbar at 1024 resolutions - the pop out element makes the page too wide.
(see the attached picture for a better idea - Green is the 960 wide page, Red is the pop out element, and the dotted line is the browser window)
With my design it doesn't actually matter if the popout is off the right of the screen, in fact it works better.
But I can't think of any way of getting rid of the horizontal scroll bar (short of just turning it off, which i don't want to do for accessibility reasons). There's no way to make a browser ignore an element, right?
Also, there's no way to have a div's background extend beyond the borders of the div, right? (at least not in most browsers).
Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?
If you set the popout to position: absolute, it won't cause scroll bars. Make sure also to set the grid to position: relative;
Right. But you can have bg image on parent elements that create the illusion of this. For example, you could have a bg image on the body element that would look like a background on the wrapper.
EDIT:O, but the way, welcome to SitePoint!
I was thinking about absolutes, but I've always avoided them so it's not something I'm familiar with. I'll start looking into them.
I already have a repeating background on the body element, so I don't think there's any way to use another element's background in that way - except using absolutes (as the parent element would also push the page width out). But using absolutes would probably make it unnecessary anyway.
Thanks for the advice. If anyone else has any other ideas then they'd also be appreciated.
I rarely use absolutes also, but this is the perfect occasion for one. Having things sticking out is a good use for them. Perhaps you could also try a large negative right margin, but I don't know if that would blow out the design or not.
For the bg image, you could have another wrapper div 100% wide (or any width, really) just for that if you wanted.
You will still get a scrollbar even if you place the element absolutely I'm afraid.you may be able to use the techniques that were shown in a recent quiz for a banner that didn't invoke scrollbars.
Be darned! Sorry for my ignorance. I thought I'd seen that before, but was quite wrong.
You can only get away with absolutes and no scrolling when you pull them to the left (and maybe the top, never tried that one).
You can do something like this that works in ie8 and equivalent but is not really usable in the real sense.
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Report: Election machines retrofit would cost $17M
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - An audit of the state Elections Commission shows it would cost more than $17 million to retrofit South Carolina's existing electronic voting machines to produce a paper trail.
Much of the report released Wednesday by the Legislative Audit Council deals with the system's inability to produce an auditable paper trail to verify votes.
Executive director Marci Andino says such a system wasn't available when the machines were bought in 2004. According to the report, agency officials don't believe it's cost effective to retrofit machines that should be replaced within a few years.
The House budget proposal for 2012-13 includes Andino's request for $5 million to begin saving for a new system after 2016.
The report says the last purchase of 11,400 machines cost $35 million.Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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By Bruce M. Cross, firstname.lastname@example.com
In the holiday rush, it's easy to overlook wage-hour issues. This article discusses common ones to which retailers should be alerted, including: temporary workers and independent contractors; unpaid interns and trainees; "off-the-clock" work, meal and rest breaks; seating requirements; cost of uniforms; workplace safety; and overtime exemptions.
Temporary workers
Many employers obtain temporary workers from staffing agencies. That's perfectly okay, so long as the agency is properly compensating them, paying payroll taxes and withholding FICA and federal income taxes from their wages. If the agency does not do that, the receiving employer may be held responsible. The same is true for overtime compensation because the receiving employer is likely a "joint employer" with the staffing agency. Therefore retailers should review the agreements they have with staffing agencies and be sure that the agencies are handling payroll matters properly.
Employers using agency workers should also check the language of their benefit plans to be sure that agency workers are not covered. Even if the employer does not regard agency workers to be employees, if the eligibility language of the formal plan documents is not precise, the workers may legally be entitled to those benefits.
Independent contractors
Just calling a worker an "independent contractor" does not make it so. Many so-called independent contractors are really employees, entitled to protection under a variety of employment laws, such as minimum wage and overtime compensation laws, nondiscrimination laws and labor laws — not to mention payroll taxes and withholding.
Although the legal definitions for independent contractors vary from one law to another, the basic idea is that if an employer controls the manner and means by which the work is done, as opposed simply to the end result, the worker is likely an employee, no matter what characterization the parties use. Also, some workers who in fact meet the IRS test of independent contractors are still considered employees for state unemployment and worker compensation payroll taxes.
State and federal tax authorities routinely audit employers for compliance, assessing back taxes and penalties for noncompliance. In addition, if an independent contractor is injured on the premises, the employer may be liable for the injuries, whereas most employee injuries are covered by worker's compensation. Therefore it pays to be sure that workers treated as independent contractors really are.
Unpaid interns and trainees
Well publicized lawsuits are being filed by unpaid interns claiming protection under the wage and hour laws as employees. As a matter of fact, it is very difficult for a private-sector employer to legally have unpaid workers, whether they are called interns or trainees, although many employers do not understand this. The U.S. Department of Labor has very stringent requirements for unpaid interns/trainees. The result is that if a person is doing work for a private employer, he or she is probably an employee who must be paid at least minimum wage and overtime pay and who may also be entitled to participate in the employer's benefit plans.
Off-the-clock work
Employees must be paid for all time worked, even if it is before they clock in or after they clock out. Common types of off-the-clock work include:
- Call center employees logging into their computers, getting ready to answer calls;
- New hire orientation and training;
- Changing into and out of work clothes or uniforms;
- Standing by for work; and
- Tidying up after closing.
Depending on the circumstances each of these activities may constitute work that must be paid for, perhaps at overtime rates.
Employees must be paid for overtime work even if they did not get permission to work it, so long as the employer knew of the work or was on "notice" of it. The fact that the employee violated instructions not to work overtime may not be a defense.
Finally, if employees are working off-the-clock, the employer has an additional problem: it's not complying with its record keeping obligations. The absence of accurate records makes it much easier for employees to pursue wage claims.
Meal and rest breaks
Many states have stringent requirements for meal and rest breaks. Some have penalties for noncompliance; others simply require additional pay if the breaks are not taken. When employees are scheduled to work full time, the pay for missed breaks may be at overtime rates.
Seating requirements
Some states require employers to provide suitable seating for employees. In those states, additional seating may be required for the holidays due to increased staffing.
Costs of uniforms
If employees are required to wear special clothing, there are at least two potential ramifications. Under federal law, if employees are required to pay for and maintain special clothing, the cost may be considered a reduction of their wages — which may result in minimum wage violations. Some states make employers pay for and maintain special clothing at no cost to the employee.
Workplace safety
Workplace safety laws protect all employees. Some state laws require safety orientation and training before newly hired employees are assigned to work. Failing to do that exposes the employer to citations and penalties — especially if a new employee is injured due to lack of training. All employees are protected by safety and health laws dealing with exposure to hazardous chemicals, and these laws apply even to ordinary household chemicals if the employee has a greater exposure to them than he or she would have at home.
Overtime exemptions
Misclassifying employees as exempt from overtime pay is a widespread problem due, in large part, to common misconceptions. For example, just because someone is paid a salary does not mean that he or she is exempt. Also, outside sales people may be exempt from overtime requirements, but merchandisers typically are not. Similarly, although some retail commissioned sales people may be exempt, most inside sales employees are not.
The wage-hour laws of some states are far more demanding than federal laws. For example, in California store managers and assistant store managers are not exempt if they spend more than 50% of their time on non-exempt work. During the holiday season, it's pretty easy to exceed that threshold.
The bottom line
The wage-hour laws are not suspended during the holiday season. If an employer has any questions about them, it's good to ask for advice — in advance.
Bruce M. Cross is a partner in the Labor & Employment practice of law firm Perkins Coie LLP, in the Seattle office. He has extensive experience representing companies throughout the country, including those in the retail sector, on a variety of labor and employment issues. Cross can be reached at email@example.com.


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Keep kids learning
Worried your kid forgets everything they've learnt when not at school? Here's how to keep their brain sharp. more
Somewhere between 3% and 7% of school-age children - or one child in every classroom - have ADHD, according to various reports.
While every child will at times be inattentive, hyperactive or impulsive, the difference with kids who have ADHD is that these symptoms will be overabundant, happen in all settings and be severe enough and persistent enough to interfere with their learning and relationships.
Some signs that may indicate ADHD could be the reason for your child's behaviour include:
Here is a very simple checklist of symptoms associated with ADHD. Does your child:
This article was written by Fiona Baker for Kidspot, Australia's best family health resource . Sources include Michele Toner, Living with ADHD, Raising Children Network and the National Health and Medical Research Council.
Last revised: Saturday, 17 July 2010
This article contains general information only and is not intended to replace advice from a qualified health professional.


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While there was little doubt it wouldn't happen, it is now official: Gearbox has announced that Borderlands 2 will see release in 2012. The sequel to 2009's popular shoot-and-loot video game, Borderlands 2 will feature all new characters, skills, environments, enemies, weapons and equipment. Players will reveal secrets, and escalate mysteries of the Borderlands universe as they adventure across the unexplored new areas of Pandora.
As fans of the game are fully aware of, NECA will be releasing an action figure of Claptrap later this month (you can pre-order him HERE). The hilarious robot will stand 4" tall and will feature full articlaution and a display base. To find out if NECA will be producing more figures based on Borderlands 2, we went to NECA's Head of Product Development Randy Falk who replied with the exciting news:
More details as we receive them.Our good friends at Gearbox shared this news with us a few weeks ago at Comic-Con. I am on a plane tomorrow to visit them in Texas and to see what is in store for Borderlands 2. Expect a full range of figures, weapons and more. We can't wait to start working on this!!
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YORKSHIRE'S new signing Aaron Finch says his spell as the overseas pro with Clifton Alliance in 2009 was the most fun he has ever had playing cricket.
The powerful Australian batsman, rated the world's number one T20 batsman, has arrived at Headingley ahead of his debut in Friday's NatWest T20 Blast clash with Derbyshire. He will then make his LV= County Championship bow in Saturday's clash with Northamptonshire at Wantage Road.
The 27-year-old Victorian is effectively a replacement overseas for New Zealander Kane Williamson, who is on international duty from the end of this week until early July. But both could play together in the T20 Blast when Williamson returns.
Finch also confirmed that he turned down approaches from other counties to play T20 cricket alone in favour of signing for Yorkshire, who offered him the opportunity to play four-day cricket because his main career goal is to play Test cricket for Australia.
"I played over in York for Clifton Alliance, and it was my only club experience over here, although I've been on a few month-long tours where I've travelled around," he said.
"But that was the most fun I've ever had playing cricket.
It was quality. I was about 21 at the time, and that was a stepping stone for my career. On the back of that, I went back to Australia and broke into the Victoria side and played quite well in all forms on the back of that."
Finch admitted his "excitement" ahead of his stay with Yorkshire, a move influenced by former White Rose star and current Australia coach Darren Lehmann.
"I've been excited about this for quite a while now," he said, having just spent time in India at the IPL. "The opportunity to play in these conditions and for such a prestigious county is going to be fantastic.
"Knowing the area and the history and the passion that Yorkshire have for cricket, and having such a long history with Australians, is a good thing for me.
"When you've got someone like Boof (Lehmann) who has played here for such a long time as well.
He still claims to be the most famous person in Yorkshire."
Finch is likely to bat in the middle order against Northants on Saturday as he looks to improve a first-class record which stands at 27.47 from 39 first-class matches and make a late bid for next summer's Ashes series.
"I want to play Test cricket, and that's my number one goal," he added.
"When you grow up, you don't grow up wanting to be a one-day cricketer for Australia. I grew up dreaming of becoming a Test cricketer, and this stint can only help that.
"It's going to be a good learning curve, and hopefully the young guys here I can learn a lot from. There are some seriously good players, very experienced players as well, so I'll be doing my best to learn as much as I can."


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shel wrote: There's over four decades worth of documentation, from various witnesses. It would be idiotic to discount that evidence and see for myself.
However, even his harshest critics say he's the real McCoy as far as realization and teaching Zen. To me, that only speaks to what realization and Zen means today, which is to say that it is rather meaningless.
4 decades and never jailed? Perfect! sounds as if the USA is a lawless country. As for zen being meaningless, well your posts show it clearly, then why are you so concerned? Specially if you keep theravada view? If so all zen right from its beginning should be meaningless for you.


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Look around the NBA and you'll see one common trait shared among elite guards—speed.
In a matchup between two of the league's faster guards, John Wall faced off with Russell Westbrook Wednesday night. Westbrook won the battle in Oklahoma City's 103-80 win over Washington, using his blinding speed as an asset, but Wall said he could win a foot race.
Asked if Westbrook was the NBA's fastest player, Wall quickly offered a rebuttal.
"No, I'm going to say myself," Wall said, according to The Oklahoman.
Wall made it clear he is at the top of the conversation, but he did recognize the crop of quick guards in today's game.
"It's tough man," said Wall. "There's a couple fast guys in this league. He (Westbrook) is up there, Derrick (Rose) is up there, when he's healthy. Mike Conley's pretty quick. There's a couple guys. Ty Lawson's quick. So there's a lot of guys, but I put myself first."
Fresh off a game with 47 points Monday against Memphis, Wall struggled to combat the Thunder's team defense, as six of his teammates were out for the game. Westbrook, on the other hand, scored an efficient 21 points on only eight shots.
"We're both young, athletic, fast point guards and that's very rare that you see that in this league," Wall said. "I'm trying to take the same steps as he's taken, being an All-Star, making the playoffs and that type of thing, so that's what I'm trying to do. Give a lot of credit to how he's working and how he's helping this team."