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Admittedly, this has been a long absence. However, it's been with good reason. We've been hard at work putting together something new and exciting. As of today, we 'published' our first Glossi. (If you haven't heard of Glossi, it's basically an online magazine.) Fun right!?
We started with a small sample of our Design Team and the theme 'Rings & Bling' and took off from there. Check it out for all the details. Included in this issue are those designs, some humor, a fun fish pendant tutorial, Fall palettes, and lots of inspiration. We're calling it "Creative Spark."
Leave a comment on the Creative Spark Glossi itself or here on the to let us know what you think. As well, feel free to share it with your friends as we'd like lots of feedback!
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Introducing Creative Spark
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Awesome job putting this together, Hope! It was fun to be included as one of the designers. So many fabulous designers and designs in this issue! Here's to many more challenges and many more magazines!ReplyDeleteReplies
Lisa, You're too sweet! Thank you :)Delete
This is great. Loved all the articles and spotlight on some of the design team. Great job putting everything together and getting it published. Can't wait to see more.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Kay! We're so pleased that you like it! :)Delete
Nicely done Hope! you have been busyReplyDeleteReplies
Cynthia, thank you!! Busy yes, but the learning process was a lot of fun too. We appreciate you taking a look!Delete
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Not a significant birthday, but a treat nonetheless. Reception staff, wonderfully welcoming, spotted the date from my passport and we were treated to a bottle of extremely good Cava next day. The restaurant was stylishly unostentatious and the food as impressive as the attentive, but not at all intrusive, service. Eating tapas on the terrace was also a delightful experience.
The room was comfortable and clean. Fresh fruit, chocolate treats, free mini bar of soft drinks all added to the feeling of luxury. And then there was the bathroom; beautifully fitted out and equipped with luxurious toiletries.
The jewel in the crown, though, was the staff. Nothing seemed too much trouble and there were always smiles. It is a wonderful place in a brilliant location and we will certainly be returning.
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- In the heart of Barcelona, in one of the most historic squares in the city, the Hotel DO: Placa Reial is a unique gastronomic boutique hotel. Located in a historic building that dates from 1856 and was completely renovated in 2011, this 5-star hotel has a total of 18 luxury rooms, most of them with views over the Plaza Real.The Hotel DO: Placa Reial has a swimming pool, solarium, spa and a carefully selected gastronomic menu based on the concept of local produce and on the authenticity of what is local, presented in its three restaurants: La Cuina, La Terrassa and El Terrat.True to its surroundings, the Hotel DO: Placa Reial is close to the main tourist attractions in the centre of Barcelona such as the Ramblas, the Liceo, the Boqueria market, the Palacio de la Musica concert hall, the Cathedral, the Palau Guell, Santa Maria del Mar, the Picasso Museum and the Port of Barcelona, among others. ... more less
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A b&b in the centre of Brussels, well not quite in the centre but very close as bus and metro can bring you anywhere fast. It's for me the nicest part of Brussels in architectural terms.
The rooms are clean and spacious, breakfast is copious, and the family is very friendly. Equally good for business trips - you avoid the ridiculously high rates of some hotels as for family vacation. I will go back!
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Discussion in 'Jewlag' started by Johnson, Sep 10, 2013.
Will FEMA give Appy free wireless internet?
Don't forget http://thebeerbarrel.net/threads/hitler-vs-apster.9091/
Apster, foremost anti-Semite, hence Christian, will surely be sainted, and go directly to heaven, not having to pass through purgatory, indubitably, never forget, suckers, ho ho ho ho hoh oho hoo ho hoh ho
2 Thessalonians 3:10
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you: that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
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But blutoid the kike, didn't I explain to u already, I'm not IN w. kikes like u are, who has house, tv, car, clock-radio, etc. Poor me I not like kike like u, eh? Ho ho hoo ho ho
But don't worry kike: when US Dollar collapses, soon, soon--THEN we gentiles are gonna drink ur kikes' blood, eh? Ho ho ho ho ho--do u doubt it? Ho ho ho ho ho
Dat is God's Word, Stinky.
& clock-radios is good.
No excrement, Sherlock the kike: matter of fact, EVERYTHING is God's word, isn't it, God being the creator of all, eh? Ho ho hooo ho ho ho
You a Quaker now, stinky?
No, Johnson, stinky is still a homeless faggot.
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My aim for 2011 is to embrace change and provide opportunities. June is fast approaching so I thought now a good time to check progress with some of the changes/opportunities experienced to date:
- There are changes with our house; some small, some not so small.
- Changes with our homeschooling , ie enrolment in online courses
- Attending Chapman College to mix with other homeschoolers on a Friday.
- At last the children have joined a club (St John)
- At last the children have joined a sport (Taekwondo)
- Furthering my own education.
The situation with the house inches closer to finality. Whichever way the balance of scales dictates, I can hardly wait for it to be done and dusted. In the meantime fix-it jobs are being worked on and with each little job being marked off, I know it's one task closer to a completed house.
I feel like I've gone slightly mad with registering the children with online classes!!! Why, only last week in fact, I registered the children for two more classes. At this stage they are tentative upon a minimum quota, so until we get the official nod that they're proceeding, I'll keep schtum.
The three older children are thoroughly enjoying their Friday activities with other homeschoolers at Chapman.
Does it sound odd if I say I feel as though whaiāipo and I are better parents for finally being in a position to afford for the children to be a part of after-school activities? I refer in particular to St John and Taekwondo... for years we've been on the bones of our backsides, and although we're far from comfortable, we can at least provide opportunities now which were completely ruled out until this year. What a good feeling.
As for the last bullet point. My own education. Well, the verdict's still out on how I'm coping with Classical Studies. I'm so behind it's not funny.
My latest kick is trying my hand at:
I have learned how to say, "Shalom, ani Maree," and a few other lines. It's scary, and I'm not even sure if I can do it, but I won't know unless I try nē rā? Considering I didn't pick up the book at all and simply followed everyone else's lead, I reckon I didn't do too bad for a first attempt. AT&T is an excellent online class system too. I can now add that one to my repertoire of online class systems!!! I especially like the way the teacher can click on my name and there's no delay or hideous sound feedback when we take turns to speak. Very cool.
(Tama 1 stayed up with me throughout my entire class!! The crazy thing was, I had managed to get everyone to bed, but because he decided to stay up and watch The Blind Side with me, he ended up staying awake right after midnight because my class got underway. I hadn't intended for him to be awake so late, but it actually felt neat to share something like this with him. Within minutes of laying his head on his pillow he was fast asleep .... and yet he was up with the rest of the family by 6.30am would you believe?)
Oh heck, I've just looked at the time and I better get cracking with prepping kai before the children head off to:
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Fun with Numbers: Minor leagues, Delany? Every third top recruit gone
Jim Delany says go ahead, NFL, make a minor league. Well, we did some legwork for the Big Ten commish -- and Roger Goodell.
From the desk of Roger Goodell…
Hey Jim. Your recent comments on pay-for-play got us thinking. Maybe we should start a minor-league system for players. Yes, we enjoy the free system college football provides. But since we saved a good half-billion from what we should have paid the plaintiffs in the concussion lawsuit, we can use that money to low-ball your recruits out of high school before their value increases. Then, we don't have to draft them and can churn them through the NFL machine. But we have great work benefits, though.
Anyway, below is a hastily thrown-together percentage index of players we might be able to corral based on drafts in MLB and the NBA. Most of your student-athlete football base will be intact, but we plan to poach more than a third of your top-100 guys. Golf's on me next time I'm in the Chi.
Go #B1G or go home.
This week's "Fun with Numbers" is Goodell's fake plan, taking a theorhetical look at how the collegiate talent pool might shake out with an NFL minor league system. Bask in the fakeness.
35.3: Percentage of top-100 recruits who sign with the NFL minor-league system annually based on the trend of high schoolers signing in the first three rounds of the 2013 MLB Draft and this year's NBA Draft one-and-dones vs. the rest of the draft base.
Young football talent is difficult to project. Many five-stars don't pan out, many two-stars do.
But for projected top talent, perhaps you can forecast intent in broad terms. Most top-100 players in any sport are aiming for the pros, which is why we're dealing with high-end real estate that, in theory, would have had a difficult choice to make because the pros had obvious interest and signing bonuses to validate that interest.
Since baseball percentages are much higher than basketball, perhaps football would fall somewhere in the middle.
Consider ...
43.4: Percentage of high schoolers selected in the first three rounds of the MLB Draft in June (43 out of 106). MLB signing bonuses in the first three rounds are good enough to entice most high schoolers.
17.0: Percentage of NBA one-and-dones selected in the first two rounds (8 of 47 -- excluding international players). Maybe a few of these players would have gone to college, but most were valued by the NBA and had an attractive option.
Who stays, who goes
There's no way to know which current college players would have opted for the minors instead of college. They never had that choice. They are in school.
But let's pretend, for the sake of the projections above, roughly 35 percent of the top 100 class from 2011 rankings from 247Sports.com opted to skip school.
The 247Sports numbers show that 10 schools signed at least five recruits in the national top 100 that year. In this exercise, we try to project which players from those schools would have gone pro if they had the option. This is fairly arbitrary, though some selections seem obvious enough (Clemson's Sammy Watkins and Notre Dame's Stephon Tuitt are pros -- so, they're gone here). Players who left are in italics. Remember, the 2011 class is simply for gauging the process. Some of these players are no longer with their original school.
Texas (10): Steve Edmond (15), Sedrick Flowers (22), Malcolm Brown (24), Jaxon Shipley (30), DeAnthony Arnett (37), Quandre Diggs (48), Josh Turner (78), Desmond Jackson (80), Sheroid Evans (92), Mykkele Thompson (94)
Florida State (9): Timmy Jernigan (4), Karlos Williams (7), Nick O'Leary (16), James Wilder (27), Nick Waisome (44), Devonta Freeman (52), Jordan Prestwood (71), Kelvin Benjamin (90), Derrick Mitchell (98)
Alabama (8): Cyrus Kouandjio (2), Ha Ha Clinton-Dix (19), Trey DePriest (23), Marvin Shinn (57), Xzavier Dickson (62), Dee Hart (70), D.J. Pettway (82), Brent Calloway (91)
Notre Dame (7): Aaron Lynch (6), Stephon Tuitt (38), Ishaq Williams (45), DaVaris Daniels (64), Ben Koyack (67), Matt Hegarty (84), Ben Councell (97)
LSU (6): La'El Collins (3), Anthony Johnson (8), Jarvis Landry (17), Odell Beckham Jr. (55), Jermauria Rasco (58), David Jenkins (74)
Georgia (6): Isaiah Crowell (14), Malcolm Mitchell (36), Ray Drew (41), Jay Rome (47), Damian Swann (65), Christian LeMay (93)
Ohio State (6): Braxton Miller (20), Curtis Grant (43), Michael Bennett (63), Doran Grant (68), Steve Miller (88), Kenny Hayes (96)
Clemson (5): Sammy Watkins (9), Stephone Anthony (10), Tony Steward (12), Charone Peake (50), Mike Bellamy (73)
Southern California (5): George Farmer (11), Greg Townsend Jr. (33), Marqise Lee (59), Amir Carlisle (66), Christian Heyward (83)
Auburn (5): Christian Westerman (26), Reese Dismukes (53), Quan Bray (77), Kris Frost (85), Jonathan Rose (89)
Speaking of incoming freshmen ...
Several freshmen are putting in work in 2013, such as Virginia Tech running back Trey Edmunds, one of 23 freshmen or redshirt freshmen getting playing time for Virginia Tech as the Hokies enter Thursday night's game with Georgia Tech.
2: Freshman in national top 25 in tackles (Wyoming LB Lucas Wacha, Ball State LB Zack Ryan)
5: Freshmen with at least two interceptions (Va. Tech DB Brandon Facyson, UTEP's Dashone Smith, Florida's Vernon Hargreaves III, Wisconsin's Sojourn Shelton, Army's Josh Jenkins)
2: Freshmen in national top 30 rushing yardage (Arkansas' Alex Collins, Va. Tech's Trey Edmunds)
3: Freshmen in national top 30 passing (Cal's Jared Goff, Texas Tech's Baker Mayfield, Central Michigan's Cooper Rush)
1: Freshman in national top 30 receiving yards per game (Pitt's Tyler Boyd)
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text: The Speed of Sound: Evaluating Volume Status with Ultrasound of the IVCButts, Christine MDEmergency Medicine News: August 2013 - Volume 35 - Issue 8 - p 8 doi: 10.1097/01.EEM.0000433399.08668.6c The Speed of Sound Author Information Article Outline Dr. Butts is the director of the division of emergency ultrasound and a clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine at Louisiana State University at New Orleans. FastLinks Questions? We Have Answers Image 1 No caption available Image 2 Image 3 Estimating the volume status of a patient can be challenging. Many of the classically taught physical exam findings, such as skin turgor or jugular venous pressure, can be difficult to assess. Evaluation of volume status takes on particular importance in critically ill and hypotensive patients. Ultrasound can be used quickly at the bedside to evaluate several findings that may yield clues to a patient's volume status. Ultrasound of the inferior vena cava (IVC) has shown great promise in determining a patient's volume status, although it has not been without controversy. Ultrasound of the size and change in size with respiration in the spontaneously breathing patient has been shown to accurately correlate with central venous pressure (CVP). Controversy arises when interpreting this information. If the ultrasound evaluation of the IVC points toward a low CVP, for instance, does that mean that the patient's hemodynamic status will improve when intravenous fluids are given? Fortunately, there's little controversy about how to perform the study. It can be performed with any type of low-frequency transducer, although the curvilinear transducer may offer the clearest image. The IVC can be imaged in short axis, but long axis offers the advantage of seeing the vessel in its full length. The transducer is placed just inferior to the xiphoid process in the midline to obtain this image. (The indicator should be pointing toward the patient's head.) The transducer is then slowly moved toward the patient's right until the IVC is visualized. (Image 1.) The IVC is distinguished by its respiratory variability, its close proximity to the liver, and its termination into the right atrium. The IVC should be evaluated for size and amount of collapse with respiration, just distal to the junction of the hepatic veins. Most studies have used a size of 2 cm as a midpoint in assessing CVP. An IVC with a diameter of less than 2 cm with a greater than 50% collapse during inspiration correlates with a lower CVP (0-5 mm Hg). Conversely, an IVC with a diameter of greater than 2 cm with a collapse of less than 50% during inspiration correlates with a higher CVP (10-20 mm Hg). The CVP can be helpful, but the question that most clinicians have when evaluating a patient is whether to administer fluids. Controversy arises when attempting to determine fluid responsiveness based solely on evaluation of the IVC. A recent article by Lanspa et al addresses this issue head-on, and although it is only a pilot study, it appears to conclude that a few tweaks to our IVC measurements can reliably predict the responsiveness of the patient. (Shock 2013;39[2]:117.) This study utilizes the IVC collapsibility index, which uses M-mode to calculate the formula ([IVC diameter in expiration IVC diameter in inspiration] / IVC diameter in expiration] 100%. (Images 2, 3.) The greater the percentage, the more likely the patient is to respond to a fluid challenge. BONUS!Want to know more about M-mode? Read Dr. Butts' straightforward explanation in the August issue of the EMN iPad app on Aug. 7 and on our website athttp://bit.ly/EMNBreakingNews on Aug. 13. Click and Connect! Access the links in EMN by reading this issue on our website or in our iPad app, both available onwww.EM-News.com. 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Race starts Friday in Ensenada, Mexico 2009 SCORE Desert Series point titles on line in 30 Pro, Six Sportsman classes at 42nd Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 Pre-race festivities start Wednesday for over 350 entries From 39 States, 14, countries in ...
Race starts Friday in Ensenada, Mexico
2009 SCORE Desert Series point titles on line in 30 Pro, Six Sportsman classes at 42nd Tecate SCORE Baja 1000
Pre-race festivities start Wednesday for over 350 entries From 39 States, 14, countries in internationally-televised desert race; Live internet coverage available on www.BFGoodrichTires.com and www.DirtNewz.com
ENSENADA, Mexico--Colorful pre-race festivities begin Wednesday for the 42nd Anniversary celebration of the legendary Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 race, but when the green flag drops on Friday morning in Ensenada, Baja California, the racing will be as intense as it gets with 2009 SCORE Desert Series season point championships on the line.
With racers competing in 30 Pro and 6 Sportsman classes for cars, trucks, motorcycles and ATVs, the legendary race will be held Wednesday through Sunday in Ensenada, Mexico. Sal Fish's SCORE International is completing its 36th year as the World's foremost desert racing sanctioning body and the event is the finale of the five-race 2009 SCORE Desert Series. To date, 338 adventurers and the world's best desert racers have come from 39 U.S. States and 14 countries to gather on the majestic Baja California peninsula. Among the entries are 24 class winners from last year's race. Late entries will be accepted up until race morning.
This year's 672.85-mile race will start for the 35th time and finish for the 20th time in Ensenada. The motorcycle and ATV classes will start their journey at 6:30 a.m. PST next Friday, with the car and truck classes starting at approximately 10:30 a.m., or three hours after the last ATV leaves the line. Vehicles will leave in 30-second intervals in the elapsed-time race and while the fastest finishers are expected to complete the course in approximately 14 hours. All vehicles will have a 31-hour time limit to become official finishers in the legendary adventure.
The race will start and finish on Boulevard Costero adjacent to the picturesque Bahia de Todos Santos in front of the historical Riviera del Pacifico Cultural Center in the heart of Ensenada.
It's the oldest and most well known of all desert races, and it remains as the single most appealing accomplishment to a racer. Since 1967, the Granddaddy of all desert races has been run over the mysterious Baja California peninsula. This year's course will be run totally in the Northern part of the peninsula.
While all the rugged regulars in the world's foremost desert racing series are headed to Mexico, the lure of this amazing race also attracts crossover racers as well as adventurers from all walks of life.
The talented field of desert-racing veterans includes 92 racers who have combined for 295 class wins in this race. In that group are 10 racers who have combined for a total of 31 overall 4-wheel vehicle wins and eight more riders who have combined for a total of 28 overall motorcycle victories. Included in the past overall winner's group are the last five 4-Wheel winners and the last seven motorcycle winners.
Pre-race festivities on Thursday, for the Tecate SCORE Baja 1000, including the vastly popular tech and contingency of all vehicles and the SCORE Manufacturer's Midway will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Boulevard Costero in front of the Riviera del Pacifico Cultural Center with more than 50,000 spectators anticipated to be on hand. The pre-race mandatory driver/rider briefing will be held Thursday, at 7 p.m. in the Cathedral Room at the Riviera del Pacifico Cultural Center. Racer and media registration will be held at the San Nicolas Resort Hotel from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, and from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Thursday.
The post-race Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 Award's Celebration will be held poolside at the San Nicolas Resort Hotel at 10 a.m. on Sunday.
One of the special entries this year is three-time SCORE Baja 1000 overall champion Ivan Stewart who will drive the final 175 miles to the finish line to help debut the fifth generation Toyota 4Runner in the Stock Mini class. Stewart has a total of 22 career class wins in the three SCORE Baja races.
Among the other entries venerable Hall, Reno, Nev., the only individual who has raced in all 41 previous Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 races.
The legendary Hall has a race-record 19 career class wins in this event and is the only driver to have competed every year (all in a car or truck class). Hall, who will turn 72 on Nov. 22, will be looking for two class wins this year as he is entered as the second driver for his sons Josh and Chad Hall in Hummer H3 vehicles in both the Stock Mini and Stock Full classes. As a family, the Halls of 30 class wins in this race as Chad has seven and Josh has won his class four times.
Enjoying his full-time return to desert racing in between his 'day job' as a NASCAR Cup team owner/driver, Robby Gordon has increased his point lead in the 2009 SCORE Desert Series point standings following his second win of the year at September's 14th SCORE Terrible's Primm 300.
With 292 points, Gordon, 40, who returns to his desert racing roots as often as his NASCAR schedule allows which is every race this year, is the SCORE Overall point leader and he additionally leads the marquee SCORE Trophy-Truck class for high-tech, 800-horsepower, unlimited production trucks in his No. 77 Team Gordon Chevy CK1500. Gordon is pulling double duty this week driving also driving in the NASCAR Cup season finale in Homestead, Florida on Sunday.
While assuming a big lead in the 2009 SCORE Desert Series point standings, Gordon, who lives in Charlotte, N.C., has earned his eighth and ninth career SCORE Trophy-Truck race wins this year along with one second and one seventh in the four races held so far this season.
After Gordon's big lead of 24 points over second place in the SCORE Overall point standings (he also has an even larger 48-point lead in SCORE Trophy-Truck), only 16 points separate the rest of the top 10 in the 2009 SCORE Overall point standings.
After winning Class 10 in San Felipe, Ensenada and Primm in his Lothringer-VW, Mike Lawrence, Banning Calif., is leading the class he won the season championship in last year and stands second in SCORE overall points with 268.
Wilson Motorsports of Long Beach, Calif., currently leads two classes as well as being tied for third and 11th in SCORE overall points after four races.
With two Class 1 open-wheel desert race cars and two Class 1-2/1600 open-wheel cars with 1600cc VW engines, Randy Wilson, 50, the middle of three racing Wilson brothers, leads Class 1 and is 11th in overall points with 241. Ronny Wilson, 47, the youngest of the brothers, is fifth in Class 1 with 175 points while tied for the lead Class 1-2/1600 and tied for third in overall points with 265 is Brian Wilson, 24, Randy and Ronny's nephew and son of Rick Wilson, 53, the oldest of the three Wilson brothers.
Tied with Brian Wilson for the lead in Class 1-2/1600 and tied for third with him in SCORE Overall points is Justin Smith, Capistrano Beach, Calif., who has two class wins this year in his Fraley-VW.
Eric Duran, Tecate, Calif., is driver of record for his family team and is fifth overall and third in Class 1-2/1600 in with 260 points in a Neth-VW.
SCORE points are based on starting and finishing as well as the number of starters in each class and placement position in every race. All class titles will go down to the Tecate SCORE Baja 1000.
The car and truck classes with the most entries to date in the Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 are SCORE Trophy-Truck (32), Class 1 (23), Class 1-2/1600 (16), SCORE Lite (15) and Class 10 (10).
Among the motorcycle and ATV classes, the open motorcycle Class 22 has the most entries to date with 19 followed by Class 30, riders 30 years old and over, which has 14.
Leading the six Sportsman classes in the race is Sportsman Motorcycle over 250cc which has 36 entries and Sportsman Motorcycle under 250cc which has 16 entries to date.
Arizona's journeyman driver Pete Sohren received the first starting position during the Oct. 10 computerized drawing for the race. While the grizzled veteran Sohren will pilot his No. 2 Ford F-150 SCORE Trophy-Truck, starting first among the motorcycle and ATV classes will be the team led by promising newcomer Adam Thissen of Reno, Nev. on a KTM 550XC-W motorcycle.
Starting first in the ATV classes is the team led by Patrick Christensen, Pleasant Prairie, Wisc., who will ride a Yamaha Raptor in Class 25.
Sohren finished fourth in June's race, tying his best career SCORE Trophy-Truck race finish.
Drawing the second start in SCORE Trophy-Truck was Rick D. Johnson, Barstow, Calif., this year's Tecate SCORE Baja 500 winner, who drives the No. 71 Ford F-150. Last year's overall and SCORE Trophy-Truck winners in the Tecate SCORE Baja 1000, Roger Norman, Reno, Nev./Larry Roeseler, El Cajon, Calif., drew the 10th starting spot in the No. 8 Norman Motorsports Ford F-150.
This race also features the prestigious Sal Fish SCORE IronRider awards presented to each motorcycle or ATV rider who completes the course within the time limit while riding solo. To date, 33 individuals have officially declared that they will be attempting to complete the course riding solo.
With massive crowds reaching nearly 250,000 anticipated to again be spread out along the rugged course that travels from Ensenada to Ojos Negros, east down Laguna Salada to San Felipe, down through the legendary Matomi Wash, around Mike's Sky Ranch, through both Rancho Las Truchas and Rancho El Coyote, down the infamous Simpson's Hill and back to the Pacific Coast below San Vicente and up through Santo Tomas, Uruapan and back to Ojos Negros, covering much of the northern half of the majestic Baja California peninsula to and from Ensenada.
In addition to season point class point championships, drivers in the Pro car and truck classes are also racing to earn prestigious SCORE Toyota Milestone Awards given to all drivers who complete every required mile of the five-race season. Being presented by Toyota Motorsports for the 24th consecutive year, a total of 16 drivers remain eligible after Round 4 of the 2009 SCORE Desert Series.
Under the sponsorship of BFGoodrich Tires, live tracking will be available through www.BFGoodrichTires.com and BFG Relay and live audio and video steaming updates starting out on course on Monday, contingency, from the start/finish line and other locations around the course will be available at www.DirtNewz.com. The tracking of all vehicles in the race is provided by International Racing Consultants, the official provider of tracking devices for all participants in SCORE International races.
Many teams use this event as a fund-raiser for various charities.JAmong the groups and racers this year are:
-Locos Mocos Pit Team: Taco Stand at race mile 205/395 to benefit Mexican children with cancer through the Castro-Limon Cancer Foundation. www.fundacioncastrolimon.org
-Anna Cody Racing, No. 150x (Class 20): for team racer Roger Hurd who is living with Young Onset Parkinson's Disease. www.150xrockenracers.com/donatenow.htm
-Joe Bacal, No. 878 (Stock Full): Bacal, a cancer survivor, is driving to benefit the Cancer Treatment Centers of America.
-Robby Bell, No. 1x (Class 22): Blue C Wahoo's Penhall Racing team is donating 1000 cans of food and supplies to people of Baja through the Acts of Kindness organization. www.AOKnick.org
-Jim Graham, No. 1104 (Class 11): racing for the International Diabetes Foundation. www.idf.org
This year's Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 desert race will be televised on a delayed basis as a one-hour NBC Sports special, in association with SCORE and Aura360, for the sixth consecutive year. It is scheduled to air on NBC at 2 p.m. (EST) on Sunday, Dec. 19 on the NBC Television Network. It will also air on a delayed basis outside of the U.S. on ESPN International.
Current SCORE official annual sponsors are: BFGoodrich Tires-official tire, Volkswagen of America-official vehicle, Sunoco Race Fuels -official fuel supplier, Bilstein-official shock, Instant Mexico Auto Insurance-official Mexican auto insurance, Slime-official tire sealant and Red Bull--official energy drink. Associate sponsors are: Tecate Beer, Coca-Cola of Mexico, Las Vegas Events, Terrible Herbst Inc., Blue C Enthusiast Advertising, SignPros, P.C.I. Race Radios, McKenzie's Performance Products and Advanced Color Graphics.
Additional associate sponsors for the 2009 Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 are Proturismo de Ensenada and the State Tourism Department of Baja California.
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BRATISLAVA, May 24 (Reuters) - China's Shandong Linglong Tyre is close to deciding on the site of an expected 500 million euro ($558.70 million) tire plant in central Europe, a partner of the company said on Wednesday.
The company has shortlisted Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland and will make a decision in the coming months, said Radek Grill, owner of Czech online tire seller nejlevnejsipneu.cz, for which Linglong produces tires.
Linglong has been looking to build another site outside of China after opening a $700 million plant in Thailand in 2015.
It widened its search in central Europe to the Czech Republic after talks with Grill, Linglong's president, Wang Feng, said in an interview with Czech daily Mlada Fronta Dnes on Monday. He said Linglong would choose a site within three months.
The plant, expected to employ 1,500, would supply Linglong's European markets, Grill told Reuters.
The car sector is important to central Europe's economies although worries are starting to bubble over a labour shortage in several markets that is pushing up wages.
Hungary already hosts Hankook Tire and Apollo Tyres while Nexen is expected to launch a plant in the Czech Republic next year. (Reporting by Tatiana Jancarikova; editing by Jason Neely)


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The South India Small Spinners' Association has welcomed Union Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran's announcement that efforts will be taken to ensure that cotton prices do not affect the farmers or the textile mills. In a release, association president G. Soundararajan said that the Minister had said that such efforts would benefit the industry. The Indian Spinning Mill Owners' Association said the Ministry should ensure that cotton farmers had access to quality seeds. Cotton trade should be regulated so that mills and farmers in the country were not hit.
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Eric Woolson, owner of The Concept Works, is featured in the latest issue of Politics Magazine.
Woolson, who managed former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's victorious campaign in the 2008 Iowa caucuses, joined former McCain campaign Iowa state chairman David Roederer and key Mitt Romney adviser David Kochel in a roundtable conversation about last year's campaign and the 2012 caucuses.
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AN: Hi guys! This is my first The Great Gatsby story. Basically, my teacher made my class do a project on the book, and I kinda liked how this and one of my other papers came out, so they're going to live here now! :D Thanks for reading, and any suggestions or comments are accepted and loved.
Disclaimer: I do not own The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald does.
To my dearest Jay,
I am afraid that, by the time this letter reaches you, you will have already left to fight those strange men in those strange lands, leaving me for far away places I can scarcely imagine. I must make it clear now that I tried to make it for New York, that the train I had selected would have arrive a few hours before your boat had been set to leave, giving us one last chance to see each other. Mother found out though, and forced me to remain her in Louisville, uncaring of just how much it breaks my heart to be separated from you.
Oh Jay. This past week since you left I have had no other thought then of that night at the beginning of fall, when with the mother moon herself our only witness, you kissed me. Although I have bestowed a few of my favored suitors with a kiss on the cheek before, and so in turn have received them, I had never been kissed a man like that, in such a way that it turned my head and flipped my heart. The heart that, very now, longs for your return.
My dearest Jay, there are two favors, two boons, that I am hoping you'll agree to grant me. The first, my love, is that you'll write as often as you can, keeping me informed as to your whereabouts and health as much as you can. I am most sure that, if I got for more then a few weeks without hearing from you, my mind will turn and I will go mad with worry. The second action I request of you is that you return home as soon as you are able. At eighteen, I can already feel the weight of the world pressing down upon me, claiming that I need a proper beau to court me.
Jay, I am afraid that I do not know what I would do if you stayed away to long, fighting in this silly war over a few silly little countries. Some of the women that Mother keeps company with were telling the most horrid stories about the men who fight, telling me how, if they weren't jailed for looting and destruction of property, then they were blown to pieces by some enemy weapon. You must promise me that you will be neither of these things Jay, that you will fight with honor and return back to me as soon as the war has ended.
Oh my beloved Jay. This past summer has seem far to short for two who are in love, yet at the same time, it has been long enough that I am sure that love is why my heart is pounding against my ribs, trying to break out of my chest to find you. I still remember the first time I ever saw you, accompanied by one of your friends to come visit me. I remember how dashing and handsome you looked in your uniform, yet you also seemed horrible cold and distant. You were polite enough, yet you never seemed able to look me directly in the eyes. That soon changed though, and you became the man that I have fallen in love with, the man I spent the whole summer with. I am glad you changed Jay, for if you had not, then I would have gone the rest of my life living in a twilight world I did not know was dark.
Come home soon Jay.
I am afraid that this is where I must leave this letter, for Jordan has informed me of a quaint little party that we were invited too, and so we must go get new outfits and our hair done so we may be properly dressed. I await for your next letter, and shall reply in kind the moment it is in my hands. I also await your return with the baited breath of a lover seeking her beloved. Good-bye my own beloved. I'll be waiting.
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tomorrow i'm having my fabulous friends over for brunch. i've come up with quite the menu:
eggs scrambled with onion and scallion cream cheese (it's fresh, not the philadelphia brand of course)
homemade herb wheat bread (fresh rosemary, basil and oregano)
new mixed potatoes roasted with scallions and garlic
blueberry, blackberry, apple cobbler (see photos)
(taste test, of course)
tonight i also concocted a delicious soup. i had a hankering for parsnips (which, if you do not know, are a root vegetable similar to carrots. they are white and less sweet and have a bit of a bite). parsnips grow throughout the winter in maine and are picked in the late winter/early spring. i haven't had them since last year and i desperately wanted some.
ask, and you shall receive, because i found some at whole foods! i bought 2lbs without any idea of what i actually wanted to make with them (they are amazing roasted with maple syrup, which is the way my dad always makes them. my parents grow them every year, but because they live in a mountainous part of the state they still have about 2 feet of snow on the ground).
the other day i saw a recipe for a vegan parsnip mushroom soup on a vegan cooking blog i follow, and i thought... parsnip soup! delicious!
soooo, i looked at my pantry and decided to wing it. this is what i came up with, and a recipe follows:
about 2 lbs parsnips, peeled and cubed (about 6 large parsnips)
1 good size sweet potato, peeled and cubed
3 large cloves of garlic, diced
olive oil
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
3 tbs maple syrup
about 8 cups of vegetable broth
preheat oven to 450. cube parsnips and sweet potato, dice garlic. put in a baking dish with olive oil, salt, pepper and cayenne pepper. mix well. roast for about 30-35 minutes, or until vegetables are tender (make sure they do not get burnt, you just want them to be soft and sweet).
in a large pot, add roasted vegetables and broth. add maple syrup. broth should cover vegetables by about 2 inches (you can add more or less broth depending on your desired soup thickness).
bring to a boil, then simmer for about 20 minutes. blend with immersion blender.
vegetables roasted and ready to have broth added
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broth should cover veggies by about 2 inches
after simmering for about 20 minutes, i used my immersion blender to get it nice and creamy. at this point you could add cream if you desired... i like it vegan though, keeps it healthy and tastes delicious.
i added no salt after the initial roasting, because the broth already is salted and i like to keep the sodium down. just a dash of pepper on top (with my grilled cheese sammich).
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The eighth season of The Biggest Loser kicked off last night with 15 new contestants and one familiar face vowing to lose weight and gain a second chance at life. Unfortunately for college student Alexandra White, her time at the ranch was short-lived despite managing to lose 13lbs in her first week. The 20-year-old was booted off the show after landing in the bottom two with partner Julio Gomez at the final weigh-in. We caught up with Alexandra to chat about the experience.
Why do you think the other contestants picked you over Julio to go home? Did you feel that they were already playing the game?
"I absolutely did feel there was a little bit of a gameplan. I know I really did push myself that first week and I do feel as though some people may have been intimidated by that and of course they want to play the game and eliminate me."
Do you think they were right in saying that you would do a better job of getting healthy at home than Julio would have done?
"I'm not really sure but I know one thing that the other contestants did see was that I do have a lot of drive and determination as an individual and I really think that they saw that would carry over to me going home, which obviously it did because I'm continuing to push on."
What did you make of your partnership with Julio? You suggested that maybe he didn't push himself hard enough...
"Our partnership was an excellent one. He really has a great spirit and is very funny. When I did mention that he didn't push hard enough it was in the moment, but looking back on it I feel like he did push hard but maybe he could have pushed a little harder."
Do you think the first challenge of completing The Biggest Loser mile was too difficult for people of your size?
"It was a little challenging but it really was an eye-opener that we were all very out of shape, very unhealthy and really needed to change our lives. I feel that it was one of the best ways to show us how unhealthy we were. To complete that mile was an amazing feeling because I was very out of shape and I wasn't even sure that I could do it. I was very happy that I accomplished that."
What were you thinking when they airlifted Tracey off the beach?
"I was very, very scared for her. It was scary to see one of my fellow castmates was already hurt right at the beginning. I wished her all the best and wished for her to have a safe recovery."
You were only at the ranch for one week - do you think you had the time you needed to learn the skills for getting healthy?
"I feel I learned a lot for the amount of time and the most important tools that I took away - and now incorporate in my daily life - are portion control, counting my calories and really pushing myself with workouts. Before, I would work out but never pushed myself therefore I never lost weight. Throughout this process and during that short week on the ranch I realised I really did have to make it uncomfortable by working out to get the results I wanted."
Has your new healthy regime affected your college life?
"I have to be very careful what I put in my mouth. One of the most important things I did was contact the food provider at my school for a listing of all the calories so I know exactly what I'm putting in my body. I'm making smarter choices, staying away from fried food, alcohol - all the things typical college students do fall into. I'm also learning to develop my own healthy recipes to help me stay away from the bad food that is on campus."
How much weight have you lost since leaving the ranch? Is your goal to be the at-home winner?
"I've lost 70lbs and I think that I'm doing very well. I just started school so I've mapped out a schedule where I can exercise four to six hours, still study and live my life. My personal goal is to be below 200lbs because I haven't been there since elementary school and I just want to work hard."
Last night you indicated that you had a crush on another contestant...
"I recently started dating Antoine and things are going great for us. Our dating process has been wonderful because we're both conscious of the healthy choices that we need to make and we are really focussed on making a healthy lifestyle. It's not just up to the finale. And it's really fun because he understands what four and six hour workouts are and that when we go out we need to know how many calories are in each dish."
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The question of why isn't virtual reality technology spread around the world the way it could have been spread is a tricky one. On one hand, the potential of virtual reality is limitless, and though in minds of most people this concept is tightly connected with games, there are countless real life aspects where application of virtual reality could be extremely useful. On the other hand, there are definite problems with virtual reality as gaming product and the threat of the "immersion gone wrong" still worries both inventors and consumers.
Virtual reality technology earned its well-deserved place in many industries. It is used in healthcare for cognitive behavior therapy – to simulate particular situations for patients with social anxieties and phobias. VR can also be used in order to let people with amputations cope with phantom limb pain. Virtual reality technology is used for military trainings (let's remember Dismounted Soldier Training System, for example) and in automotive industries (for presenting new models, their interior and exterior). And it's hard to describe how many possibilities would be discovered when one actively embeds virtual reality tools in education – the training could go to the new level for all college students, from surgeons to architects. That is not to mention how exciting the studying process could be for elementary middle school students with all the immersive games.
However, for one or another reason virtual reality just doesn't get enough credit. Why? Two main reasons: the danger of a deep immersion and the price.
The danger of deep immersion is mostly connected with games. We all know the key of success in games industries – the more involved one becomes with the game, the better it is considered to be. And what way to immerse more could there be but virtual reality technology? However, its bulkiness and expensiveness prevented it from gaining popularity it would have got otherwise. Now Playstation VR and Oculus Rift are working on creating new gaming equipment – apparently, a cheaper and lighter version.
The thing about virtual reality, however, is the fact that it provides spatial immersion – a feeling of perceptually convincing simulated world around the user. And while the usage of virtual reality in journalism experiments, like Inside Syria VR by ABC (where viewers can watch archaeologists' work under circumstances of time pressure and war), doesn't bring people nothing but a deeper narrative experience, same level of immersion when it comes to games can definitely do harm.
Analyzing the causes of VR failure in games industry two decades ago, Forbes mentioned poor graphics and the inability of personal VR sets to track all movements of the player that made complete immersion impossible. Now that the technology became more advanced there is nothing easier than to effectively trick one's conscience with a qualitative illusion. And on one hand – what more could gamers wish for? At the same time, as if there were not enough players addicted to video games now. With virtual reality option there might exist a risk of so-called escapism epidemic all around the world.
However, the progress cannot stop because of certain collateral danger. With the help of Oculus Rift headset it became possible for NASA to manage and control robots on Mars, due to the other piece of technology from this company it became possible to explore the human brain from inside. Virtual reality provides way too many opportunities to miss. Besides, though it looks like VR technologies are about to become a trend, it still doesn't change the fact that the necessary personal equipment is pretty expensive, so it looks like virtual reality is to develop faster in other kinds of industries than games production.
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ICD-10 Diagnosis Code R57
Shock, not elsewhere classified
Diagnosis Code R57
Short Description: Shock, not elsewhere classified
Long Description: Shock, not elsewhere classified
This is the 2018 version of the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code R57
Not Valid for Submission
The code R57 is a "header" and not valid for submission for HIPAA-covered transactions.
Code Classification
Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00–R99)
General symptoms and signs (R50-R69)
- Shock, not elsewhere classified (R57)
- General symptoms and signs (R50-R69)
Information for Medical Professionals
Index of Diseases and Injuries
References found for the code R57 in the Index of Diseases and Injuries:
- Type 1 Excludes Notes: Type 1 Excludes Notes
A type 1 Excludes note is a pure excludes note. It means "NOT CODED HERE!" An Excludes1 note indicates that the code excluded should never be used at the same time as the code above the Excludes1 note. An Excludes1 is used when two conditions cannot occur together, such as a congenital form versus an acquired form of the same condition.
- anaphylactic shock NOS (T78.2)
- anaphylactic reaction or shock due to adverse food reaction (T78.0-)
- anaphylactic shock due to adverse effect of correct drug or medicament properly administered (T88.6)
- anaphylactic shock due to serum (T80.5-)
- anesthetic shock (T88.3)
- electric shock (T75.4)
- obstetric shock (O75.1)
- postprocedural shock (T81.1-)
- psychic shock (F43.0)
- shock complicating or following ectopic or molar pregnancy (O00-O07, O08.3)
- shock due to lightning (T75.01)
- traumatic shock (T79.4)
- toxic shock syndrome (A48.3)
Information for Patients
Shock happens when not enough blood and oxygen can get to your organs and tissues. It causes very low blood pressure and may be life threatening. It often happens along with a serious injury.
There are several kinds of shock. Hypovolemic shock happens when you lose a lot of blood or fluids. Causes include internal or external bleeding, dehydration, burns, and severe vomiting and/or diarrhea. Septic shock is caused by infections in the bloodstream. A severe allergic reaction can cause anaphylactic shock. An insect bite or sting might cause it. Cardiogenic shock happens when the heart cannot pump blood effectively. This may happen after a heart attack. Neurogenic shock is caused by damage to the nervous system.
Symptoms of shock include
- Confusion or lack of alertness
- Loss of consciousness
- Sudden and ongoing rapid heartbeat
- Sweating
- Pale skin
- A weak pulse
- Rapid breathing
- Decreased or no urine output
- Cool hands and feet
Shock is a life-threatening medical emergency and it is important to get help right away. Treatment of shock depends on the cause.
NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- Anaphylaxis (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Cardiogenic shock (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Hypovolemic shock (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Septic shock (Medical Encyclopedia)
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September 2017: Diana on the Grow Big Always podcastDiana was honored to be a guest on the Grow Big Always podcast with Sam Lawrence:
"This heart-melting lawyer will make you rethink non-traditional love
We're excited about how this interview turned out! Listen to the full episode here!
August 2017: Diana on the Multiamory podcast
Diana was a guest on the Multiamory podcast to discuss Legal Protections for Polyamorous Families.
June 2017: Diana Interviewed in the New York Times
Diana was interviewed by the NYT for a June 20, 2017 article on Same-Sex Parenting: Same-Sex Parents Still Face Legal Complications
"The Supreme Court has ruled that an adoption in one state must be honored in another, so even if a nonbiological parent is on the birth certificate — a right that stems from a recognition of the couple's marriage — L.G.B.T.Q. family law experts strongly recommend an adoption, or some kind of judicial decree as the strongest protection.
"It seems both insulting and ridiculous," said Ms. Sommer of Lambda Legal. "But sadly, the reality is, if you can manage it, you should do it."
After all, what if something happens to the biological parent, and their family members want custody of the child? While traveling internationally, parental rights that stem from a judicial order are more likely to be respected than rights that come from being married if a country does not recognize your marriage. And if a couple breaks up, lawyers say that without an adoption, the nonbiological parent may have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in court to establish the right to custody.
"We don't know which policies will continue on," said Diana M. Adams, who owns an L.G.B.T.Q. family-law firm in New York City. "You'll always be safer in more-conservative states and more-conservative countries if parentage is reliant on an adoption rather than on same-sex marriage."
Full article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/us/gay-pride-lgbtq-same-sex-parents.html
May 2017: Diana Interviewed in Psychology Today
Diana was interviewed by Psychology Today as part of an installment regarding Child Custody and Polyamorous Families:
Diana Adams, a lawyer serving New York's LGBTQ+ families for the past 10 years, sees a significant cultural divide between red and blue states when it comes to the legal treatment of polyamorous families. "One of the greatest challenges I see facing poly parents in these cases is the incredible subjectivity of the 'best interest of the child' standard." When litigants are not able to reach a settlement, a family judge at the county level attempts to discern "which party is telling the truth, exercising good parenting judgment, and grounded in a household that is healthy for a child." Inevitably, these judges are influenced by their religious and personal values, as well as their previous exposure to non-monogamy (consensual or not). Because conservative and rural areas are more likely to have conservative judges, Adams has found that polyamorous families are often at greater risk in those areas: "I have litigated throughout New York State, but I win south of Westchester in the progressive New York City region, and lose much more often in northern rural counties. I consult on these cases nationwide, and a search of zip code to discover whether a county is predominantly Republican or Democrat is unfortunately a good predictor of the difficulty the poly parents will face. As cultural divides in the US deepen, so does the gulf between conservative rural judges and open-minded judges in blue counties. The progress we are seeing for poly parents in custody cases are not shared equally nationwide."Read the whole informative article here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-polyamorists-next-door/201705/child-custody-in-polyamorous-families-part-5
February 2017: Radio New ZealandDiana was a guest on Radio New Zealand, where she answered questions about LGBTQ law and nontraditional families in the U.S. You can listen to the full live interview here: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/nights/audio/201832339/diana-adams-family-law-for-nontraditional-families
January 2017: UCLA Law SchoolOn Monday, January 23, 2017 Diana presented at the University of California, Los Angeles Law School on "How to Protect LGBTQ & Nontraditional Families Under Threat." She discussed current LGBTQ and nontraditional family law issues, predicted what to expect under the Trump administration, and gave suggestions on how both lawyers and non-lawyers can support the community over the next four years. It has been well-received online internationally as a resource for activists and lawyers. You can view the full recorded guest lecture here:
December 2016: Bloomberg.com interview with Diana AdamsDiana was interviewed for a piece in Bloomberg Businessweek, speaking on how triads (or configurations of more than 2) can plan finances, and legally protect themselves beyond the traditional couple:
How Couples Do Money (Bloomberg.com)
"...We talk about how the new partner may not have access to health insurance or immigration benefits, tax benefits. Some people are interested in the creation of an LLC to create the relationship under a corporate structure that would allow people to share property. Sometimes that original couple will decide to get a divorce so that they won't have that privileged status over the third person…"
Full article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-12-01/how-couples-do-money
November 2016: VICE interview with Diana AdamsDiana was interviewed by VICE about her work representing poly/kinky/trans parents in custody cases & the bias they face. Notice the illustration at the top of the article, which may perpetuate the very stereotypes we try to combat.
How Kinky and Non-Traditional Parents are Punished by Family Courts (VICE.com)
Though most states now prohibit judges from using sexual orientation as a factor in family court rulings, judges are still free to cite a parent's polyamorous or kinky proclivities—or even a willingness to have non-marital sex—as an explicit reason for handing down rulings. In any case, family court judges are often not explicit about the exact factors that lead to their rulings. Adams recounted one case in which a family court removed a child from the custody of a transgender client, ostensibly because her client's cat was sick the day a child services worker visited and vomit was seen on the floor. But Adams said that "a white cisgender professional mother like me would never lose custody of her child because a sick cat made a mess."
Full article: http://www.vice.com/read/how-kinky-and-non-traditional-parents-are-punished-by-family-courts
October 2016: "After Marriage" Conference video with Andy Izenson
Andy presented at the "After Marriage Conference: The Future of LGBTQ Politics and Scholarship" at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in NYC as part of panel on "Where Do We Go From Here? A Roundtable Discussion on Future Fronts in the Battles for Family Diversity." Watch the video here or below:
May 2016: Woodhull Freedom Foundation Guest Blog Post by Andy Izenson
"As an attorney-mediator working in the field of non-traditional family law, the medium of my work is human connection. There are dozens of types of ways that humans can be interconnected in the legal realm: romantically, sexually, financially, and many others. We can live together, raise children together, own property together. We can give each other power over our healthcare decisions or our estates, and we can even share our citizenship with each other. These connections are the practical manifestations of the intimacies and commitments that we build through our relationships throughout our lives; they're the way we demonstrate that we intend to be there for one another.
Marriage is made of these connections. Specifically, it is made of a gigantic lump of these connections, attached inseparably together, and all connected to one person simultaneously. It is over one thousand rights, benefits, and connections, and the assumption that you want to have every single one of those with the same person. This assumption is based on the narrative of a heterosexual, monogamous, dyadic pair who meet all of one another's needs, who co-parent children who are biologically related to both of them, who are economically stable and operate as a nuclear unit.
People doing direct services and advocacy work in the field of nontraditional family law work with and support families that don't look like that. We help provide benefits and protections for relationships that are illegible to the law and, often, to society. In this direct services and advocacy work, we value those thousands of connections highly, but we value them as discrete choices to be made individually and with intention. We value and validate the diverse and creative family structures that our clients and communities have which allow them to desire these connections with various people, instead of just one.
This is what families actually look like; less than half of adults in the United States today live in a nuclear family with a spouse, and yet all the legal tools that exist are set up to support that configuration alone. We work with existing and creative tools to provide legal stability and intentionality to people who live in other configurations – configurations that tend to correlate with deviation from whiteness, from heterosexuality, and from cisness, and often tend to correlate as well with lower economic stability."
Read the rest: http://www.woodhullfoundation.org/2016/sex-and-politics/blogging-lgbt-families-day/
April 2016: NPR interview with Diana Adams
For Couples Skipping The Ring, It Pays To Plot Out Finances
"Diana Adams, an attorney in New York specializing in nontraditional family law, says it's common for couples to feel uncomfortable talking about finances. "People often shy away from having these conversations about money in a really frank way," Adams says. "People often don't have that conversation and end up feeling disappointed or hurt down the line."
It's best, she says, to be honest and clear. "It's part of intimacy to have conversations that can feel awkward," she says. Adams suggests broaching it this way: Now that we are moving in together, I think we should talk about how we should divide up finances, to make sure we're on the same page. Is this a good time to talk about that, or would you like to set a time aside next week?
"I would suggest if that's not easy, people seek out the support of a compassionate professional such as a family mediator or lawyer to help broker that conversation," Adams says.
Full article: http://www.npr.org/2016/04/17/473498335/for-couples-skipping-the-ring-it-pays-to-plot-out-finances
April 2016: Sex for Smart People podcast interview with Andy Izenson
Associate Attorney Andy Izenson was interviewed by Stephanie Ryan Johnstone for the Sex for Smart People podcast:
Get Rid of the Idea That Sex Can Be Easy
Healing from trauma, holding compassion and rage at the same time, transformative + restorative justice in response to sexual assault, the just world fallacy, the sexiness of holding nuance and complexity, noticing who we can communicate with based on our positionality, ways of holding safe space for a person who has experienced trauma, the beauty of leading with vulnerability, welcoming loved one's whole selves (including their wounds), moving away from default scripts about bodies + gender + sex acts, listening each other into fullness, fuck the Valentine's Day Industrial Complex, fuck the idea that love can or should be contained in any way, and fuck the idea that love is a finite resource. We are oh so honored and grateful that Andy Izenson (activist, attorney, consent + alternative justice models educator) joined us in this doozy of a conversation, full of much darkness and much love and much light.
Listen here! http://sexforsmartpeople.com/podcast/episode-27-get-rid-of-the-idea-that-sex-can-be-easy/
February 2016: Washington Post interview with Diana Adams
A therapist, a lawyer, and a sex educator answer our questions about polyamory
"When it comes to custody of kids, U.S. legal policy is structured around the two-person nuclear family and isn't well-suited to protecting polyamorous families with three or four adults in children's lives.
Still, Diana Adams, managing partner of Diana Adams Law & Mediation in New York, works with polyamorous individuals to come up with creative prenuptial, co-parenting and co-habitation agreements to give them "as much financial and legal stability as possible in a legal system that does not recognize their family form," she says.
"I've seen many poly families create stable co-parenting relationships," Adams notes. "It's critical they don't rush into that situation without professionals."
The problems, she says, arise in such situations as when a couple with a child might have a girlfriend move in and it's unclear: Is she a third parent or just a cohabiting friend? "Those kinds of muddled relationships are where the real problems lie," Adams says, "both in co-parenting situations as well in sperm-donor agreements."
Since polyamorous families don't necessarily have legal rights, "you may be up against the proclivities of a specific judge" in a co-parenting or custody dispute, Adams notes. She tries to create contracts that a court would enforce, "but ultimately the judge would be looking at the best interest of the child as well as whatever agreement came before."
Read the full article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/soloish/wp/2016/02/12/a-therapist-a-lawyer-and-a-sex-educator-answer-our-questions-about-polyamory/
November 2015: Vice Magazine Interview with Diana Adams
Death Is Way More Complicated When You're Polyamorous
"There's not a lot of research into how poly families cope with death—probably because there's not a lot of research about how poly families choose to live. By rough estimates, there are several million poly people in the United States. And while polyamory can bring people tremendous benefits in life and in death, our social and legal systems weren't designed to deal with people with more than one romantic partner—so when one person dies, it can usher in a slew of complicating legal and emotional problems.
"Whether people realize it or not, the partner to whom they are married will have more benefits and rights once a death happens," explained Diana Adams…"
Full article: http://www.vice.com/read/death-is-way-more-complicated-when-youre-polyamorous-511
July 2015: Huffington Post interview with Associate Attorney Andy Izenson
Polyamorous Attorney Agrees SCOTUS Decision Could Lead to Group Marriage
"One of the conservative right's favorite arguments against legalized same-sex marriage nationwide is that it's a slippery slope that could lead to polygamy — and if you're Justice Anthony Scalia or Ben Carson, it could even lead to bestiality. Others argue that drawing a connection between gay marriage and plural marriage is both an irrelevant and unfounded argument. However, one attorney argued on HuffPost Live on earlier this week that polygamy could have legal precedent.
Andy Izenson, an attorney with Diana Adams Law and Mediation who also identifies as polyamorous, explained to host Nancy Redd that the same legal reasoning to protect same-sex marriage under the 14th Amendment "could plausibly" be extended to protect group marriages, presuming it's consensual.
"The idea that a three-person or four-person union between consenting adults is not fundamentally different from a two-person union between consenting adults is absolutely legit," Izenson said.
But he added that the conservative "slippery slope" rhetoric that somehow leads to "bestiality and then people marrying their toasters" is baseless because it negates the need for consent. Izenson said Scalia invokes these presumptions as a means of scaring people because he's perturbed by the country's current socio-political climate.
"He's just trying to scare people. It's not actually a thing to be concerned about. It discounts the fact that as individuals, and as a society, we actually have the capacity to make rational reasoned choices about what we do," he said, later adding, "But as long as you've got a consensual union between adults who know what they're doing, then I think the logic is sound."
Read the full article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/04/same-sex-marriage-polygamy_n_7705744.html
June 2015: Reason Magazine article by Diana Adams
Hacking Marriage: Polyamory, creative prenups, platonic co-parenting, open marriage, and the power of contracts
"The United States government really wants you to get hitched. Married couples enjoy over 1,000 specific rights and responsibilities under the law, from tax credits to immigration to health insurance. Here's the problem: Over 50 percent of American adults are unmarried, yet many of those people are nonetheless part of families or relationships that could and should benefit tremendously from official status.
As same-sex marriages gradually win legal and social status, it's becoming harder to make the case that these other relationships shouldn't be similarly recognized. Luckily, thanks to the powerful tool of private contracts, families of all kinds can and do figure out ways to protect their love and family relationships with the people they choose."
Continue reading: http://reason.com/archives/2015/04/30/hacking-marriage
March 2015: Harvard Law School Lambda: Bisexuality and the Law
Professor Nancy Marcus, Assistant Professor at Indiana Tech Law School; Andy Izenson and Diana Adams of Diana Adams Law & Mediation, PLLC. Watch the lecture video here.
September 2014: Harvard Journal of Law and Gender-Lambda Colloquium: Frontiers of Sexuality
Polyamory and the Law – Screening of media depictions of polyamorous relationships followed by a discussion with Professor Hadar Aviram (UC Hastings College of Law) and Diana Adams (legal activist for sexual civil rights and nontraditional families). Watch the lecture video here.
Adultery and the Law – Professor Brenda Cossman (University of Toronto Faculty of Law) and Diana Adams. Watch the lecture video here.
March 2014: Special Arrangements: The Changing Face of the 21st Century Relationship
Diana Adams participated as an expert on polyamory and non-monogamy in a panel discussion on "Special Arrangements: The Changing Face of the 21st Century Relationship" with Sunny Bates (moderator), Reid Mihalko of ReidAboutSex.com, and Esther Perel of www.EstherPerel.com.
The talk gives a great overview of consensual non-monogamy, and we are delighted to see that it has 45k views on YouTube and has reached many people beyond that great room.
Full link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iDluKrMvYw
February 2014: The Life of the Law interview with Diana Adams
"When you love and trust people, a family is an easy thing to organize," Howard says. "It's the same for two people as it is for three people, anyone who's in a really functional marriage understands. You love and respect and trust each other. It's straightforward in that sense."
But while things are straightforward within the home, outside of it, things aren't so easy.
"The reactions from our immediate families were…in my case, the reactions were quite negative," Callie says. "The reaction in Howard's case the reaction was also quite negative."
Sometimes, the negative reactions sometimes have legal implications. One of the most public cases was in 1998. April Divilbiss and her two partners came out as polyamorous on an MTV documentary show. Soon after, Divilbiss received an emergency protective custody order telling her that daughter was now in the custody of her paternal grandparents.
The charge the grandparents brought was against the family was "moral degradation." There were no other allegations of child abuse or anything of the like. Polyamorous people often have their rights as parents challenged, the same way many same sex couples do.
Diana Adams is an attorney and mediator in New York City. She has built her law practice representing what she calls non-traditional families: polyamorous triads; couples, straight and gay, who might want to choose not to get married; people who want to co-parenting who aren't in a romantic relationship, such as two single mothers or sisters who decide that they want to co-parent children and share a household.
The problem that these families face, Adams says, is that the only way to be recognized as a family unit is to be married. To get married, in most states, you have to be a man and a woman unrelated by blood, of legal age, and embarking on a sexual relationship. You pay about 50 dollars for a marriage license, and there you have it: in the eyes of the law, you are considered to be a unit.
When you don't meet these criteria, but you're trying to live as a unit, raise kids, or share a household, the legal system doesn't have a lot to offer you in terms of short cuts, Adams says.
"I think we would benefit from other options besides marriage. It would be a useful thing for our government to get out of the business of deciding whether a sexual relationship merits being in a marriage that gives you tax benefits. Marriage should be something that we can do in your church your mosque your hippie festival," she says.
Adams is rooting for more general legal recognition of alternative families structures: Breaking away from the two-people-in-love-forever model and generating more options.
Changing legislation is a lifetime goal for Adams. In the meantime, she is working in the legal system as it currently exists, figuring out creative solutions for those navigating the uncharted terrain of family law for families that aren't married…"
Full article: http://www.lifeofthelaw.org/tag/polyamorous/
August 2012: Making Sense of Sex
Interview of Dr. Carol Queen by Diana Adams, discussing the golden rule, as applied to sexuality. This video is a collaboration between Sex Crimes Cabaret and Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance.
Full link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhqZYCG6ME8
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Garwood takes it up a notch to turn a bike with one fast attitude into a ride fit for a feminine rider.
You can't go to Busa Fest on a bone stock Suzuki Hayabusa, especially if you're the founder of the event. A strong African American female entrepreneur CJ a.k.a. "Da Busa Girl" showing up on an un-modified Busa is like Madonna showing up to her own concert and performing in a kitchen frock. Just like Madonna needs a wardrobe to compliment her die hard burlesque image, CJ needed a ride that reflected the bad ass she is, while staying true to femininity.
Initially, CJ took her bike to a painter who didn't quite capture the vision she was going for. After her bike sat idle for months with no results, CJ decided to take matters into her own hands. "I wanted a unique custom look to capture my personality," said CJ. While perusing the display booths at IMS (International Motorcycle Show), CJ met Steve from Garwood Custom Cycles and he was more than willing to make sure her Busa would be transformed into the bike of her dreams. "I was amazed at their work," CJ said. "I told them the story of my bike not being completed and they stepped in right away and offered to help." With a little interview, Garwood got to know CJ and created a design for her that would turn her Busa into her ideal custom, which they later revealed to her at Busa Fest 2012 in North Carolina.
Garwood began CJ's project Busa with the paint work, laying out a series of simple yet elegant fades of black into pink that blend into each other with stars and diamonds air brushed in as accents. With any custom Busa, you can't call it quits with only a pretty paint job. You need the finishing touches. "She wanted a bike that would reflect her personality – feminine but with an edge," said Steve. So they installed a 240 wide tire kit to make CJ's Busa "cool but functional" with a ten-inch stretch. It was something to stop an admirer in their tracks without going "over the top."
They also painted the frame and powder coated the foot pegs to blend with the bike and enhance the styling. To complete the montage, Garwood added some flashy, classy wheels and bright pink brake rotors to add sparkle to the custom wheels.
Basically, this glamorous road-bound rocket will have you saying "Damn!" when CJ rides by.
CJ is a North Carolina native with a passion for motorcycles. Her father taught her how to ride dirt bikes by the tender age of 10 and she also learned the basics of safety. She rode her first street bike when she was 15. These days, CJ is a full-time corporate office employee, a writer, a plus size model and event promoter. She is planning to release a line of custom motorcycle riding jackets and motorcycle accessories, so keep an eye on CJ, as this line of gear will launch soon.
As the founder of Busa Fest, CJ has created an event that celebrates the Hayabusa motorcycle but welcomes all brands of motorcycles. Busa Fest is a huge gathering of bikes that includes competitive bike shows for all brands of motorcycles, including the Title Belt class for the "Best in Show Hayabusa" and the honor of being named the "King (or Queen) of Busa Fest." The event also features drag racing and enables world-class custom motorcycle builders to showcase their work. During Busa Fest, attendees can win awesome giveaways and enjoy outdoor concerts. Busa Fest is going to be held at Rockingham Dragway in Rockingham, NC this year on Sept 20-22, so make sure to check it out!
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Make/model: 2006 Suzuki Hayabusa
Bike name: Celebrity Glam
Owner: Cj (BusaGirl)
Paint & Body by: Garwood Custom Cycles
Chassis & Swingarm: 240 swingarm by C&S Customs
Wheels & Tires: Custom rims by FTD Customs, tires by Shinko
Exhaust: Dual Alien Head slip-on exhaust mufflers by Brock's Performance
Parts & Accessories: Black scale-cut, billet parts by PPM Customs, black, glossy fairing grilles by 2 Wheel Grilles, pink LED light kit by Tricked Out Custom Cycles, custom pink turn signals and integrated smoke tail light by Garwood Custom Cycles, custom pink LED seats
Rachael has been riding motorcycles for 13 years. She is a former road racer, MSF Instructor and Kawasaki Technical Services Coordinator. She is also a graduate of MMI and a certified motorcycle technician. She has been writing for motorcycle publications since 2003 and is an avid lover of two wheels. Check out more articles by Rachael on motoinked.com.