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It seems almost every year we in the library science field torture ourselves about the glut of graduates emerging from our programs and the shortage of jobs that exist within the profession. One thing I continually hear from people is that library schools should make admissions harder. The argument is that if we let less people in with higher qualification our degrees will matter more. Here I take umbrage.
I wouldn't be in a library program if the standards were extremely high. I had a bad GPA. I was a passable undergraduate; smart, but with a minor writing disability and no work ethic, which left my papers a mess. It took me three years of under employment at dead-end-bottom-of-the-economy jobs to find my calling in library science. It's not a background prestigious graduate programs look at. In short I wasn't the best candidate for admissions.
I've made up for that poor performance as an undergraduate by upping my game as a MLIS candidate. I've challenged myself and gone above and beyond what's expected in library school. Crossing over that bar, combined with my lack luster performance as an undergrad, and my lack of confidence still in my own productivity may be why I feel like more of a bench mark and less of a pinnacle. It leads me to make the following argument: Library schools should admit more people and graduate less of them.
Library school should be tough; it should be a rocky marriage between the theoretical and the practical. Something like art school where we learn the theory behind design and the skills to bring those designs to life. Internships and externships should be required. You should not be able to graduate with an MLIS in a year. I think we should have comprehensive exams as well as a marketable portfolio in order to graduate from library school. Graduate better people but don't discriminate on who we let in because there are great librarians out there that choosy programs didn't admit.
This sort of a paradigm shift would solve two problems. First, it would create a clear distinction between paras and librarians. Our degrees should mean something. We should have leadership, planning, creativity, and research skills when we graduate. These are the roles that are open; we can't expect to sit around and catalog books or work the same shift at the reference desk day in and day out. There is no reason why a Librarian needs to do that work. It makes sense to have them do that work to maximize labor efficiencies, but even high end research libraries have paraprofessionals and graduate students working the reference desk, cataloging, and other roles that fall into what we think typically constitutes "librarian work." Librarians need to be the makers of information systems. If our profession is to survive, it requires us to be more than just a friendly face at the reference desk or the cataloger shut in the back room; it requires us to be active in shaping our future. Otherwise the library will become a few tech guys, a couple paras, and a few managers working in a place with books and not a vibrant institution dedicated to the principle – Information for all.
Second, and this argument is brutally cynical, library schools cannot afford to decrease admissions in this economic climate. Library schools were already under intense threat before the financial crisis with several prominent schools going off line. Now, schools are being cut, merged, and moved increasingly towards a focus solely on commercial information systems. A library program dedicated to information access increasingly has to justify itself not in terms of providing a necessary good but in terms of revenue to the university. Cutting off the revenue source for these programs now seems both harming to the programs and something that's not likely to happen. Letting in someone to give them an opportunity doesn't devalue our degree. Why not let people in and give them a chance? Especially if it saves programs under threat.
In short, it's not letting too many in that is hurting our degree, it's letting people out who aren't qualified or simply lack the drive to do a good job. It's why we need to value our education, take advantage of the opportunities while in library school, and make sure that when we graduate, we have the skills we need not just to work in a library, but to lead in a library. Our programs should start by making sure we are ready to graduate and not by putting more requirements at the starting gates.
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Keep Old Man Winter at Bay
When the air turns crisp and the trees start to shed their leaves, you know winter is not too far around the corner. Before the temperatures start to drop, you may want to address commonly overlooked home winterization projects to ensure that you and your family stay warm and comfortable this season.
One of the most overlooked -- yet most essential -- items in your home is the furnace, and there are some simple steps you can take to avoid being left in the cold. According to Lori Boyce, manager of heating and indoor air quality products for Carrier's Residential Systems, it is important to perform a visual inspection of the furnace before it begins its heating cycle. Boyce recommends homeowners begin by inspecting the furnace exterior
and area around the unit. The surrounding area should be kept clear of clutter or debris.
Next, Boyce recommends checking to see if the air filter needs to be changed. It is recommended that you replace your filter quarterly or semi-annually. "A clean filter is important to keep your furnace operating efficiently," says Boyce. "A local Carrier dealer can provide you with a high-quality replacement filter, or you can clean reusable filters at home using cold water."
Set your thermostat to heat in order to confirm that the furnace cycles from start-up through shut-down normally. Check to make sure air is blowing from the small grates in each room.
If a furnace fails to start up during a system check, make sure the thermostat is set to "heat" and that the furnace door is properly in place. There is a safety switch on many furnace doors that "pops out" when the door is removed. If this is the case, properly close or position the door, and repeat the system check. If the furnace still fails to start-up, call your local heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) professional.
Even if you regularly check to make sure your HVAC equipment is operating efficiently, it is a good idea to schedule seasonal check-ups with an HVAC professional.
"A properly working furnace is essential for most people during colder months, but there are other steps homeowners should take to maximize the heat in their homes," added Boyce. "Installing storm windows, adding extra insulation in the attic or walls, and replacing weather stripping on windows and doors are all dependable ways to keep your family comfortable during the winter season."
For more seasonal tips throughout the year, visit www.carrier.com.


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Magic moment obscured by bushes and chips
If not for a small, black Converse high-topped foot tapping, my expectations would have been a complete bust. Let's say, for instance, my expectations were a window. Now picture the window shattered, with one shard of glass still dangling in the frame. That's the tapping Converse.
Recently, I performed with a local rock band for Cafe in the Park, an outdoor lunch event in downtown Galesburg. As the group's fill-in drummer, this was a rare chance to play at a venue where my 2 1/2-year-old son, Jay, could watch me.
From the time, months ago, I was asked to sit in with the group, I began imagining my son's excitement when he'd see me perform.
He'd seen me drum one other time, several months ago. I was playing my nephew's drum set in his garage, and my brother-in-law brought Jay in to watch. I was worried the drums would be too loud for his little ears because I bang them pretty hard.
I was wrong. His eyes widened when he saw me and he said.
"Jay help."
He wanted to play.
I come from a family of drummers. Both of my sisters play the drums, my mother played the drums, as did her father. It makes sense that my son would want a piece of that action.
So a couple months ago, I set up a drum in the house for him to play. The drum sticks are a little unwieldy for him, but he plays every so often.
All this was leading up to the moment when he'd see his dad rocking on stage with a band.
In my mind it would be awesome. I pictured it in slow motion, like a sappy '70s commercial, my son watching me and me watching him watch me. I'd smile and he'd smile back. I'd bash the drums, and he'd shake his head back and forth to my beat or even dance, the way he does at home. Spectators would turn their attention to this glowing father-son moment.
I'll admit, the whole thing is a little narcissistic, but this was the scene I'd created.
So, on Wednesday, my wife, Sharon, brought Jay and his 3-month-old brother, Finn, to Park Plaza over the lunch hour. It was a little hot and they had to climb the bleachers to find shade, but as I sat behind the drums, there they were. The stage was literally set for my father-son moment.
But as the band began to play, I could see trouble. Jay was actually crying.
My wife isn't sure if it was the volume or what.
Eventually, he calmed down, but he was paying little attention to the stage. I could see Sharon pointing me out to him, and he did make eye contact momentarily, but I could have been washing windows (now THAT would excite my wife) for all he cared.
My wife kept trying to get him interested.
"Do you see Daddy playing drums?"
"Uh huh," he'd say matter of factly. "I want more chips."
Besides the potato chips, he also expressed interest in the bushes behind him. The bushes were not performing.
More than anything, he wanted down from the tiered bleachers.
According to my wife, he declared this intent repeatedly.
"I want down. I want down. I want down. ..."
Thoughtfully, my wife even brought a little maraca for him to shake to the music. I saw him with a dour face shake the maraca momentarily with the enthusiasm of someone buying insurance. Then he chucked the maraca over people's heads. Luckily, it fell to the concrete without taking anyone out.
I did not see the chucking, but I could tell Sharon was struggling. Jay was unhappy. It was hot and Finn was probably uncomfortable, too. She couldn't enjoy lunch for having to keep Jay from diving off the bleachers.
I kept looking over at them and waving, but I was having no effect. Yet, as miserable as Jay was, I still caught him feeling the beat. An umbrella from a table below stood between us making it so I couldn't see his face or body, but through one small clearing I could see a single foot tapping. He was wearing black Converse, as was I - part of the prefabricated magic moment thing.
Seeing his foot tap helped negate the travesty of what had become of my expectations.
But I learned something other than if I want my son's attention I need to impersonate a potato chip or a bush. Magic moments can't be orchestrated.
Tom Martin is editor of The Register-Mail in Galesburg, Ill. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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GateHouse News Service New England Budget • June 28, 2007
Here are the top New England regional stories from GateHouse News Service.
Contact: Chris Biondi, (508) 626-4343, firstname.lastname@example.com
Note: We should know soon when the service is launching. In the meantime, I will post whatever I receive via e-mail onto the site. Requests? Just let me know. You may notice "add story" and "add photo" options under site services on the homepage. Please do not use them yet.
A variety of stories available now at: www.gatehousenewsservice.com
IMPACT IN BROCKTON – Brockton is one of the districts with voluntary desegregation plan -- getting their and experts' reaction to U.S. Supreme Court ruling that rejected school diversity plans that take account of students' race in two major public school districts but left the door open for using race in limited circumstances
Enterprise, Rebecca, 12-14 inches, 5 p.m. filing
IMPACT IN FRAMINGHAM – Framingham another district with voluntary race-based school placements.
MetroWest Daily News, Hilliard, 15 inches, 6 p.m.
MIDDLEBORO - Local business leaders meet with Mashpee Wampanoag tribe leader Glenn Marshall to talk about effect casino might have.
Enterprise, Alice Elwell, 12 inches, late filing
PRESIDENT BUSH IN R.I. – President Bush gives speech at Naval War College, honors R.I. volunteer, may meet with Rhode Island family of dead soldier.
Herald News, 15 inches, 6 p.m.
With photos
MARLBOROUGH FIRE – Three rescued, injured, six homeless.
MetroWest Daily News, Moore, 15 inches, 6 p.m. (early version on wire now)
With photos
COMPUTER GUYS - The Computer Guys Inc. of Natick merges with Tecniks Inc. to create larger information technology services firm.
MetroWest Daily News, Turner, 12 inches, 6 p.m.
File photo
EDITORIAL: What's the CIA up to? - The CIA's "family jewels" make interesting reading, but it's what the CIA is doing now that merits our attention.
MetroWest Daily News
Goes with Granlund cartoon
OLYMPIC SWIMMER - Feature on former Olympic swimmer Erik Vendt of Easton who is trying
to make a pool comeback.
Enterprise, Fenton, length/ETA not available
With photo
ROAD TRIP - To most, the words ``family road trip'' mean an endless car ride, museum after museum, and the dreaded words, ``Are we there yet?'' Joe Cali of Southborough has given traveling families the solution to their road trip woes with his new book ``The Ultimate Family Road Trip.''
MetroWest Daily News, Kate Olesin, 15 inches, 6 p.m.
With photos of author and book cover
SOAPBOX DERBY - Hopkinton kid is heading to national Soapbox Derby competition in Ohio for the second time. We find out his secrets to success.
MetroWest Daily News, Loetherman, 15 inches, 6 p.m.
With photos
OPIE & ANTHONY AT MOHEGAN - Gregg "Opie" Hughes and Anthony Cumia are taking their show on the road with the second annual Traveling Virus Tour. The tour will be making a stop Saturday night at Mohegan Sun Arena.
Norwich Bulletin, Savino, 15 inches, on wire now.
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A Desperate Move
I had my first full-time job. I was newly married and had a five-month-old son. I was 24. My life had seemed to be on track well enough.
I had my first full-time job. I was newly married and had a 5-month-old son. I was 24. My life had seemed to be on track well enough. I had just finished my last year of college and my last season of playing football. I thought I'd be like most of the athletes at my school retire from competitive sports, retire from physical activity. Hey, I'd spent most of my life training and pushing my body beyond its limits what's wrong with sitting back and letting the good old days become the glory days, spend my weekends in front of the TV? Maybe bust out some old videotapes of me blowing by everyone on my way to the end zone. Grab a daily sixer, throw on the elastic waist, and expand.
But once the hook of climbing set, I immediately regretted every ball I threw, every shot I scored, and every double I hit. What a waste of time! I could have been spending my youth learning how to lead routes and to boulder, developing sick tensile strength.
I blamed my father for all those hours at the batting cage, those father/son church softball games, and the countless hours playing horse in our driveway. How could he do that to me? I could be climbing 5.14 by now! Or something.
How about my college years? I could have been road tripping to all those destinations, saving up my pennies to dirtbag it in Bishop or Hueco. Going everywhere, spending months hanging from those heinous slopers in Font. Oh, how much more cultural climbers are than linemen!
It all started when a co-worker, Gerry, took me to a climbing gym, swarming with screaming birthday-party brats doing somersaults and cartwheels over big foam pads. Gerry took me to the bouldering cave, where I saw ridiculous clowns falling three feet to their backs. I laughed at them. I actually thought, at first, that they wanted me to laugh. I asked Gerry, You do this for fun?
After some time my eyes drifted up beyond the cave to an older man wearing green sweat pants leading his rope from clip to clip. I asked Gerry about that type of climbing. He took advantage of the opportunity and roped me up immediately. He tied my figure 8, which felt oddly intrusive, but as soon as my feet left the floor, terror and delight washed over me.
I bought a membership the next day.
Months later: It was a hot and humid night and the AC was broken. I was reading John Long's book How to Rock Climb, but couldn't focus on the words because of all those pictures and places that were so foreign to me, so out of the way, so wild. We lived on Long Island, New York, an area of the country as flat as any Midwestern cornfield, surrounded by ocean.
My wife was reading her Glamour and the baby was sleeping or swinging in his swing. I sat there and envisioned a possible (if exaggerated) self future: 20 years down the road, too fat for real movement, puttering around an empty house, sitting in that new La-Z-Boy that just replaced the old one.
So I went ahead and said it, Hun, we need to get out of here.
Her eyes met mine for a second, but just as fast they went back to her page.
When I said it a second time using an expletive for emphasis she graciously dropped the mag and listened.
Where to? she said.
I listed several choices.
You need a job.
Well, yes, of course we need to survive. We can work that out, right?
You need a job with benefits.
Of course, benefits and money. We have a child. I get it.
We should visit first.
No time, we need to move now, get up and go.
I quit my job two months later, in May. We rented a U-Haul and made our plans. One week before we were to be out of our apartment, the job I thought I had wasn't there, as if a position can suddenly blow up.
We still had to take off my old boss had hired someone else. But first we needed to say goodbye to my parents. I remember the day, cloudy as always, and sticky like waking up with barbecue sauce thinly coated on your skin.
I have logical parents. People who raised three children to make well-thought-out decisions like go to college, get a decent job, support your family, and understand that no one makes homemade ravioli like your mother.
My father asked if he could speak to me alone, on the porch. I shuddered and followed him.
He asked, What are you doing?
I told him I was moving across the country. The decision was made.
His eyes penetrated the deepest part of my soul. You are a husband and a father. You need to provide for your family.
Did he believe I hadn't thought about what was best for my wife and child? Didn't he know how scared I was? This could be the biggest mistake of my life! We could go completely broke and come crawling back, asking to stay in their house.
Can you tell me how you are going to make this work in Utah?
I remember shaking in trepidation truthfully, I had no idea how. This was totally stupid. Why would I risk so much just to climb up real rocks? Family is much more important than a pastime only a small percentage care about. My father was completely right.
After that conversation I went for a lonely walk and saw the next few months of my life: traveling out west, finding no jobs, losing all our money, loading up another U-Haul and trekking back to my parents with our heads hung low, my child screaming, my wife losing all respect for her husband. The final scene was me hanging up my Muiras for life.
I came back dejected and my wife was waiting for me. I was convinced we would fail and told her so. She sat me down on the steps of my parents' house and told me we might fail but we had to try. She reminded me that we were both in this together and she wanted this adventure just as much as I did. She told me to toughen up and that we needed to follow our hearts. Life is fleeting and if we never take risks in this life then who will we be? It could have been a speech given by a great football coach before the big game and it sent me back to our original mission.
The next morning we three were off to a place we had only seen on a postcard. Salt Lake City. The only things that we, from that far away, knew about the state were its high concentration of quality rock and its dominant religious presence. We figured that rock so close to a city meant jobs and a reasonably priced apartment. The first night we arrived we were silent before a mountain range that rose from the bowels of a city, endless, and I remember not believing it was real. How could mountains be this accessible?
We found a humble apartment, and for the next two weeks I called and appeared for interviews from positions with salaries and benefits to simple retail jobs. Nothing happened and we made tentative plans to move back East. Money was getting strangled out of our savings account security deposit, first month's rent, last month's rent, gas, food. Then came the call: I had a job, with salary and benefits, and could begin immediately. Again I couldn't quite believe it. We were going to be all right.
So, what does this all mean?
You've heard people say, Climbing changed my life. For me it is the truth.
If it wasn't for climbing I'd be spending my time this very day, not writing about climbing or thinking about when I can climb next (I might sneak out on my lunch break in five minutes), but eating a lot of good bagels and obsessing about that possible promotion. Sitting most evenings in a big chair in front of the television with a beer in the cup holder. Asking myself, why do the Mets always blow it in the fall? And when are the Buffalo Bills moving to Canada? If I never was introduced to Gerry and climbing at that gym, then well, I'd be doing all of the above, daily, hourly.
Ever since that day, climbing has been an integral part of my life. I spend some mornings before work not hitting the snooze but taking my crash pad and running through a bouldering circuit. I get out on my lunch break from time to time when the conditions are just right and give a few goes on my project. In the summer when the afternoons are too hot I wake up early and climb routes, with a choice of three different rock types. I prefer granite.
It's been five years, and my wife and I are proud of our risk taking. It's a great memory and one we bring up often.
However, I recently took out an old picture of me when I played quarterback for my high school team. I was on one knee on the sideline waiting for our defense to stop the other team so I could get out there and show everyone what I could do. I was filthy and had a cut under my right eye. It wasn't much of a picture but it was enough for me to go outside and throw a few Wiffle balls to my now 5-year-old son, who, by the way, can sock em pretty good.
I may have changed my whole future, but no one can rid himself of the past, either.
J.P. Vallieres lives in Salt Lake City with his wife and three sons. He has passed on to his boys the great sport of climbing and a hopeless passion for the Buffalo Bills.


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Health, Safety, and the House as a SystemIt's become fashionable to talk about the house as a system. Is this just another expression that impresses customers and helps building performance experts sell their services? As many of the articles in this Health and Safety special issue show, the whole-house approach doesn't just save energy (or sell services)--treating the house as a system is essential for identifying and rectifying potentially expensive and dangerous construction flaws.
Thomas H. Greiner's article on carbon monoxide (CO) detection illustrates the subtle and quirky art of diagnosing CO problems--caused by anything from inadequately maintained and installed furnaces to intermittent pressurization forces. Greiner graphically describes sobering situations in Iowa homes, with consequences ranging from chronic headaches to death from high levels of CO exposure. Because they lacked the training needed to understand pressurization systems and combustion appliance monitoring, contractors who had inspected these houses couldn't find the sources of the problems.
And while bad indoor air is clearly a problem, knee-jerk solutions are no help. Dave Brook explores proper ventilation in his article on kitchen exhaust systems. Ventilation fans are playing an increasing role in maintaining air quality, but too many are being sized and installed incorrectly, resulting in insufficient air movement--or worse, backdrafting.
Ventilation also plays an important role in Scott Finley's article on the construction flaws and indoor air quality problems encountered in the mold-infested climate of the fungus capital of the world (a.k.a. Seattle). In addition to tales of rotten and moldy structures, Finley anecdotally demonstrates the connection between construction defects and health problems.
Construction flaws cost money--big money--in the form of construction defect litigation claims. In Energy-Conscious Construction: Litigation Insurance? Stan Luhr describes how the issues that cause health and safety problems can lead to litigation.
But lawyers can't fix broken houses, so expect increasing demand for experts who understand that headaches can be caused by a malfunctioning furnace, or that a faulty air-distribution system may be responsible for condensation and mold. The construction trade will require experts who can fix the problems and help builders avoid making mistakes in the first place--experts who understand that the house is indeed a system, and that the symptoms may be only subtly connected to the cause.
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Radiant Barrier UpdateWhen Home Energy last covered radiant barriers (May/June '89 and Nov/Dec '89), the level of confusion and outright misstatements associated with radiant barriers were at an all-time high. Some of the misinformation came from manufacturers who extrapolated limited test information to validate erroneous claims. The research by that point was too scanty to support any claims to speak of. Major funding by the radiant barrier industry for an independent study evaporated shortly afterward.
To this day, much less is known about the effectiveness of radiant barriers-the thin sheets or coatings of reflective materials that virtually stop transfer of infrared energy-than about any other type of insulation. But since 1989, the U.S. Department of Energy has sponsored more research into some of the nagging questions about dust accumulation and moisture, and has finally released the long- awaited Radiant Barrier Fact Sheet to help consumers and contractors understand the knowledge accumulated to date. Still, no simple ratings (such as R-values for conventional insulation) have yet been developed to aid the public in decision-making about radiant barriers.
Until recently, part of the problem with studying dust and moisture has been that most radiant barrier testing has been field testing. Now, controlled environments such as the Large Scale Climate Simulator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (see Convective Loss in Loose-Fill Attic Insulation, HE, May/June '92, p. 27-30) are available and are being effectively used to analyze the complex nature of building systems and thermal envelopes.
When the radiant barrier is placed on the attic floor, dust does become a problem. As dust builds up, insulating value is reduced by as much as half, over a period of one to ten years. For reflective barriers attached to rafters-shiny side down-dust appears to be little problem. These findings are integrated into the Fact Sheet in the form of tables distinguishing attic floor and rafter installations. In cold climates, vapor can become a significant problem when radiant barriers are placed over conventional insulation, on an attic floor. In this case, the foil must be perforated to allow for ventilation. When a radiant barrier is attached to the rafters, it may increase the roofing temperatures by 2 degrees F to 10 degrees F; and it is not presently known if the lifetime of the roof is affected.
Through computer modeling and confirmation by field checks, researchers devised formulas for predicting possible energy savings for many locations in the country. Cost-effectiveness calculations, called present value savings, using these formulas were put into tables in the Radiant Barrier Fact Sheet. They take into account many variables, including local weather, energy costs, efficiencies of equipment, building configuration, and factors that affect differences in future and present values, such as inflation, fuel price increases, etc.
To exemplify how the tables work, three cities have been selected from the Fact Sheet (See Table 1). In order to use the tables, one must know the cost of installing the radiant barrier. If the figure given for present value savings for the whole ceiling is greater than the cost of the attic radiant barrier, then the radiant barrier will be cost-effective. The calculations are based on a 25-year life of material, normal inflation, and 7% depreciation. (Both installations assume that the radiant barrier has an emissivity of 0.5 or less when clean.)
According to the Reflective Insulation Manufacturers Assoc., the range of costs for contractor-installed radiant barriers in 1991 was 12-45¢/ft2 (range is for new versus existing construction, rafter versus attic floor installations and local variations). If one assumes the cost to install radiant barrier is 20¢/ft2, the only installations that would be cost-effective are:
Rafter installation Attic floor installation ______________________________________________________________________________ Bismark, N.D. R-11 insulation Only one possibility. with central air conditioning Miami, Fla. R-11 insulation R-19 insulation Three possibilities. with central air R-11 insulation conditioning with central air conditioning Topeka, Kans. R-11 insulation Only one possibility. ______________________________________________________________________________ These three examples, in three distinct climate locations, clearly show that radiant barriers are not especially cost-effective. In fact, in the three cities selected, only five of the 48 possible insulating systems were cost-effective. Obviously, very careful evaluation is required before deciding whether or not to install a radiant barrier. For contractors and retrofitters, though, the evaluation is made easier by the Fact Sheet.
Reference Radiant Barrier Fact Sheet, Department of Energy, June 1991, in cooperation with the Electric Power Research Institute, the National Assoc. of Home Builders' National Research Center, and the Reflective Insulation Manufacturers Assoc. (For more tables, formulas, and work sheets write: DOE, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, P. O. Box 62 Oak Ridge, TN 37830.)
Table 1. Present Value Savings of Radiant Barriers (cents/ft2) used with different levels of conventional attic floor insulation. Radiant Barrier Attached to Rafter Bottoms* R-11 R-19 R-30 R-38 _____________________________ Bismark, N.D. 18-20 9-10 5-6 4-5 Miami, Fla. 28-36 15-20 9-13 7-10 Topeka, Kan. 22-26 11-13 7-9 5-7 Dusty Radiant Barrier on Attic Floor* R-11 R-19 R-30 R-38 _____________________________ Bismark, N.D. 5-14 2-6 1-4 1-3 Miami, Fla. 6-23 3-12 2-7 1-6 Topeka, Kan. 5-17 2-9 2-5 1-4 ________________________________________________________________________________ * The first number represents potential savings for radiant barrier attic installation without central air-conditioning ducts in attic. The second number is for attics with central air-conditioning ducts in attic. With rafter installations, radiant barriers must also be installed at the gables.
-David W. Conover
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Police in southern Oregon held an unlikely suspect overnight: an adorable black bear cub.
Myrtle Creek Police Chief Don Brown says a teen boy and his parents dropped off the cub in a large plastic storage bin at the police station Monday. The teen found the small animal whimpering in the bushes outside his house on the outskirts of town.
He told police the bear's mother was nowhere in sight.
Still, Brown said it was dangerous for the teen to pick up the cub, because the mother bear could have spotted him and attacked. Adult female black bears can weigh up to 300 pounds.
The 12-pound cub was "very well behaved" while spending the night at the station, Brown said.
Police and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife officials looked for the cub's mother the next day using a device that mimics a cub distress call, but couldn't find her.
The orphaned cub is now at the University of Oregon receiving a veterinary checkup. Fish and Wildlife officials said the cub is a female and is in generally good health, other than being underweight.
They said the cub will be placed at a zoo, but they didn't yet know which one.
Oregon is home to 25,000 to 30,000 black bears. Myrtle Creek, 90 miles south of Eugene, has an abundance of wildlife, the police chief said. Residents often call authorities about bear and cougar sightings.
"We've had two baby rattlesnakes brought into the station, but nobody has brought in a bear in the last nine years I've been here," Brown said.
Wildlife officials say they do not know what happened to the cub's mother. Spring bear hunting season kicked off April 1 in Oregon, but it's illegal to kill sows with cubs that are less than a year old.
Officials say no dead bear has been found in the area, no hunter has reported killing one, and there have been no reports of a bear being hit by a car.
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When we first researched keeping chickens, my only hesitation was the idea of having to clean a coop weekly. I used to have a parakeet, and I hated changing his newspaper tray, and I hated cleaning my hamster's cage too. I was dreading having to clean a coop. I envisioned this, happening weekly (by the way, she was cleaning a coop inherited when she moved to the property for the first time). Then, I ran across something describing the deep litter method, and I knew I had found the solution.
We clean our chicken coop (specifically the hen-house) twice a year. And no more.
And the coop does not smell. In fact, when we participated in the Denver Botanic Gardens/Denver Urban Homesteading Chicken Coop tour, everyone remarked on how our coop did not smell. I didn't clean it before the tour, because I wanted to show what the method off and let people see what it looked like to have chickens in real life.
What we learned was that we were, at that time, the only chicken keepers on the tour using this method. Every other owner had told the tourists that they cleaned their coops weekly. We were surprised by this and actually started making a joke of it, calling ourselves the lazy chicken owners on the tour. People laughed and that's how I actually came to the name, the Lazy Homesteader. 😉
Here is how the method works in case you are like me; allergic to hard work involving poop.
Clean your coop one fall day and then put down a layer of dried leaves or pine shavings or some other kind of litter (not straw – it'll stink to high heaven). Then you let the chickens poop on it. Then when it's thoroughly covered over in poop…
Put down more shavings or leaves. I just throw it in – I don't spread it nicely or anything. I'm not touching that crap. 😉 The chickens will dig through it and spread it around anyway.
Repeat until spring comes. Note that I mainly just put litter down right under the roosts. If it's very rainy or snowy, we put their food and water inside the house (usually we keep them in the run) and we don't want them to throw litter in the food and water.
Finally, on a nice day, when you feel like doing it, bring the wheel barrow over to the coop, scrape it all out, and dump the decomposed poop/leaves/shavings mixture into your compost bin. It'll be mostly all composted anyway. Then clean out the coop and put down a fresh layer of shavings or leaves (if you have any more).
You are basically composting in the bottom of the hen-house. And as you learned a couple weeks ago, compost generates heat, perfect for helping your flock stay warm during the winter.
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The bipartisan super committee tasked with cutting the deficit was unsuccessful after promising they wouldn't fail.
Post by: Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Filed under: Keeping Them Honest • Raw Politics
Mr. Cooper,
Did you really think the 12(known as the, "super committee") was going to to solve the 1.2 trillion dollar National Embarassment? You seem like an intelligent person. And I realize you get more money by making a big deal out ot nothing. But to act surprised when they admitted defeat. Has America lost it"s pride and you, whatever is left of it. REALLY MR. COOPER
I have a solution on how to deal with this super committee. If this was a business and a committee was formed and given specific instructions and came out saying we couldn't make a decisions but we decided all weekend how to tell you. The business would have fired those on the committee for non-preformance. Maybe we need to start firing people in our goverment for not preforming!
The super committee performed as children. They should have been sequestered to their room until solution was agreed upon.
I think we should start cutting the deficit with the Super Committee Members wages along with ALL of Congress Wages. They obviously are not working for the American Taxpayers, "Failure has become the Reality".
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The X Factor: Final Four Compete for the Finals
It's all up to the audience now.
The final four contestants on The X Factor sang their hearts out Wednesday night for a spot in next week's final, and audience votes alone will determine which act gets eliminated on Thursday night and which three will advance - with no sing-off or judges' votes to decide. Additionally, the show isn't going to reveal the rankings of the Top 3, meaning that viewers won't know who the frontrunner is heading into the finals.
Who is the best TV actor of 2012?
For the second week in a row, the acts each performed two songs - one of their choosing and one selected by them and their mentor (though Demi Lovato is the one judge with no contestants remaining). Here's a breakdown of each performance.
For his pick, the last man standing from L.A. Reid's Over 25s went full redneck with a boot-stompin', old-school country throwback rendition of Craig Morgan's "Bonfire," complete with pyrotechnics onstage. By this point, Stevens knows it's his country shtick that differentiates him from the rest of the field and it's clear he's going to milk it for all it's worth (as is Reid, who donned a cowboy hat for the performance). Not a bad move. Reid, Simon Cowelland Lovato said it was Stevens' best performance to date. Britney Spears was the only dissenter, but her lukewarm feedback drew boos from the crowd and a loud, high-pitched gasp from Reid.
Stevens' second number was "Fall" by Clay Walker, which he dedicated to his wife (again). Another traditional country song, it was a more subdued performance than his first outing, but no less commendable. Spears called it a "direct hit," and Cowell put it even more bluntly. "There is about as much chance of you going back to your old job as me flying to the moon tomorrow night," he told Stevens. "Let's be clear. You've made your mark here. I think you've done enough to get into the final, and you thoroughly deserve it." Do you agree?
The 13-year-old sensation from Britney Spears' Teens chose Elton John's "Your Song" for, um, her song and offered an expectedly polished take on the classic. Lovato called the choice of an adult contemporary ballad "predictable," but said she loved the performance anyway, and Reid also praised Sonenclar's "risky" decision. Cowell said it wasn't Sonenclar's best performance in the competition but said she'd likely redeem herself in her second outing of the night.
Who was the best actress of 2012?
For that, Spears selected John Lennon's "Imagine," and had Sonenclar both sing and play the piano for the introduction. It was a ... let's say "interesting" arrangement of the classic, one that attempted to give Sonenclar numerous opportunities to belt out notes on a song that doesn't really call for much belting. Reid and Lovato praised the rendition, but Simon had problems with it, calling the arrangement and staging (with Sonenclar leaving and then returning to the piano) "overcomplicated."
Paying particular attention to Lovato's criticism that they were getting predictable and not working the stage enough in their performances, the first of Simon Cowell's two Groups made a point of spreading out and high-fiving members of the audience during Peter Frampton's "Baby, I Love Your Way." The strategy worked - with both Lovato and Cowell saying that the performance reminded them of the group's original audition, when they first showed the judges that they had something special. Reid called it the trio's "big 5 million dollar moment," and Spears told them, "It would be unfair to call you a boy band, because you're way more than that."
On their second number, the guys paid tribute to the original boy band, taking on The Beatles' "Hey Jude," which, let's face it, could have been a disaster of a performance. But Emblem 3 pulled it off with aplomb, seriously working the crowd during the song's "na-na-na-na" outro. All of the judges had nothing but good things to say, even frequent criticizer Lovato. "I was prepared to just rip you to shreds, because doing a Beatles song is very presumptuous," Reid told them afterwards. "That was risky business ... but you did a great job."
Trying to show that they could both harmonize and perform a choreographed dance number, the second of Cowell's Groups first tackled Ellie Goulding's "Anything Could Happen." While their stage show was unconvincing at best, the girls again reinforced their individual and collective vocal talents. In fact, Reid told them it was "the very best vocal performance you've ever done." But will that be enough to keep them in the competition? Cowell seems to think so. Acknowledging the quintet had come into the semifinals as "underdogs" due to their fourth place ranking, he said after the song, "To get into the final is going to take a miracle ... but after that performance, like the lyric of that song just said, anything now can happen."
The group next opted for Shontelle's "Impossible," which they previously performed during the judges' homes round, and decided to incorporate Spanish lyrics into the song to gain some more votes. (Somebody paid attention to post-presidential election analysis!) Reid called the song selection "lazy" since they had already done it once, and all the judges (except for Simon) agreed that the performance was good but not great. "I would be really surprised if you guys are here next week," Spears said flatly. "I'm a little worried too," Lovato agreed. But remember - the judges don't get a say in this week's elimination.
So, who do you think will make it to the finals and who will be sent home Thursday? Weigh in below!
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Freetown selectmen fill committee seat
FREETOWN — Selectmen filled a vacancy on the Finance Committee and accepted the resignation of a longtime Zoning Board of Appeals member at their meeting Tuesday.
In a letter read by Selectman and Personnel Board Chairman Paul Sadeck, Appeals Board member Gary Guinen said he is resigning effective May 31.
"I have no regrets, but I do feel that it's time to leave," Sadeck said, reading from the letter.
Sadeck praised Guinen's decades of service to the town.
"He's served us for 20 years and he's been a great member of the Board of Appeals," he said.
The board voted unanimously to accept the resignation; no potential replacements for Guinen were discussed.
In other business, selectmen voted unanimously to appoint Conservation Commission member Christopher Mather to fill a vacancy on the Finance Committee.
The seat had been vacant for two years and, commenting after the meeting, Finance Committee Chairman Bradford Paiva said the committee had been trying to fill the seat ever since it became open.
He expressed confidence that Mather would be a welcome addition to the committee.
"We've got a gentleman with a lot of good qualifications," he said.
Prior to his appointment, Mather sat in on a joint session between the selectmen and the Finance Committee, who reviewed several town departments' proposed budgets in advance of the June 2 Town Meeting.
Selectmen Chairwoman Lisa Pacheco expressed concern about the amount of money several departments had budgeted for leasing vehicles.
She said that leases are long-term financial commitments that could not be easily cut if a budget has to be reduced in a later year, forcing the department to make cuts in other areas.
"You're going to be cutting people," she said.
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The Looney Tunes Show Gets in the Holiday Spirit
The Looney Tunes Show puts the "merry" in Merrie Melodies Tuesday with a jovial new holiday special. The episode includes a musical number featuring a veritable Merrie Melodies hall of fame - and a little bit of offbeat humor: Where else will you find an appearance by a Christmas wraith (rather than wreath)?
Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck - stars of the Cartoon Network comedy - get in the holiday spirit, singing "Christmas Rules" along with Lola Bunny, Porky Pig, Pepe Le Pew, Yosemite Sam, Chip and Dale, Foghorn Leghorn, the Tasmanian Devil and more.
The Looney Tunes Show airs Tuesdays at 7:30/6:30c on Cartoon Network. Check out this clip from "A Christmas Carol.
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Irish Famine Orphan, Bridget Gollagher or Gallagher, is my husband's ancestor. She arrived in Port Philip on the barque Lady Kennaway in December 1848. McClaughlin's book Barefoot and Pregnant indicates that Victorian records show she came from Donegal although the NSW Agent's lists give her place of origin as Galway. She was hired out to Mr Edward Curr[i] at St Hilliers (actually St Helier's)[ii] for £14 for six months[iii]. The book also has information, which we believed to be a type-setting problem and related to Ellen Gollagher who appears next on the passenger list. So, how to resolve some of these ambiguities?
My first port of call was the Victorian historical indexes to check three things:
- Confirm the marriage listed in Barefoot and Pregnant and on the Famine Orphan website relates to Ellen Gollagher not to Bridget or Biddy, as she appears on the list.
- Confirm Bridget/Biddy's marriage based on earlier family research.
- Determine Bridget's county of origin and hopefully a townland[iv].
- Gallagher/Gollagher marriage to McCahery
I checked this by obtaining an 1867 birth certificate for one of the children, hoping to get more details on the parents that way. It confirmed that it was Ellen Gallagher/Gollagher who married John McCahery, and according to their daughter's birth certificate they married in Melbourne in November 1851. On this document Ellen states her age as 33, so a YOB of 1834, and born in Donegal. This fits with her being the orphan on the Lady Kennaway apart from the age difference. A YOB of 1834 would make her barely 14 on arrival in Melbourne in 1848 as opposed to the stated 18 (YOB 1830). Both ages fit within the preferred range for the orphans. Ellen and her husband lived in the Kilmore area and she is reported to have died in 1872. Is she Bridget's sister or relation or just someone with the same surname? As yet this is unknown, and may remain so.
2. Marriage Gollagher/Gallagher and McKenna
Biddy Gallagher married William McKenna at St Francis's RC church in Melbourne on 5 May 1850. Unfortunately the record is a basic one providing no supplementary details on the couple.[v] The witnesses were Mary Boyle and James McKenna. It's quite possible (likely?) that this Mary Boyle was the Famine Orphan who had also travelled on the Lady Kennaway, aged 17 and from Donegal. Various attempts to obtain more information on the Gallagher-McKenna marriage have as yet been unsuccessful. At the time of Bridget's marriage, Melbourne was again in a flurry of condemnation or defence of these poor Irish girls. Those who'd arrived on the Lady Kennaway seemed to have taken a particular verbal battering in the press. They must have felt more than a little persecuted with a threatened sense of their self-worth.
My concern in relation to this marriage was whether the correct couple had been "chosen" since some of this research had been "inherited". However working backwards from the known to the unknown via BDM documents we were able to confirm that this was the correct couple.
Next question: Was this the same Biddy/Bridget Gollagher/Gallagher who was the Famine Orphan?
3. Children's certificates
Foolishly I obtained James' and Elvia's (Elizabeth) from 1851 and 1853 respectively. These were church baptisms and had no supplementary parent information but did give witnesses: Robert Hogan and Sarah McKenna for James, and Patrick McGrath and Mary McKenna for Elizabeth. Did Bridget no longer have any friends to sponsor her children or did William's relations take precedence? On James's registration, Bridget's maiden name is still shown as Gollagher. Afterwards it becomes the more common Gallagher. Interestingly the baptisms were a month or more after the births, which while within church regulations suggests they either didn't have the fee to pay, or were not so compliant in their observances.
A further certificate, for daughter Bridget in 1862, had the informant as a friend, Charlotte Harward of Emerald Hill. While some of the information was accurate, a new place of origin was introduced for Bridget as she was stated to come from Fermanagh, and William from Monaghan. At the time the family was living in Sutton Lane, off Little Burke Street and William was a storeman.
So now as options for Bridget's place of birth we had Galway, Donegal and Fermanagh, but wait, there's more to come!
Next certificate was that for son Patrick b 1865. This time Bridget was the informant and she mercifully gave her place of birth as Donegal and William's as Fermanagh. They were still living in Sutton Lane and her age is fairly consistent throughout to give a YOB of 1833/1834.
Without buying every possible certificate this reassured me (1) that she was almost certainly the Famine Orphan and (2) her home place was Donegal.
On the 1865 certificate Bridget lists four children who had died. The online indexes do not show all of the named surviving children as stated on certificates, even using the broadest search parameters and wildcards.
4. Death of Bridget McKenna nee Gallagher
We had inherited this certificate from my husband's father and it tells a sad story. Bridget died in the Immigrants' Home in Melbourne on 12 December 1882, almost to the day 34 years earlier when she had been admitted to the immigrants' depot. The cause of death was alcoholism and while she was stated to be married, there were no details available. She had been 31 years in Victoria (an error of three years) and came from Limerick! So now we have Limerick, Galway, Fermanagh and Donegal as potential places of origin!
At this point I became concerned that we also had the wrong death. A search of the indexes from 1870 to 1930, using Bri* not Bridget, gave only two possible options. I checked the alternate death and that was of a young woman born in Victoria so the 1882 death appears to be the correct one. . From the scarcity of the data on her death certificate it appears she had been alienated from, or ostracised by, her family. Another small anomaly is the age on her certificate: she is shown as 51 so YOB of 1831.
Does her alcoholism explain her children's deaths or was it the other way round? Were the infant deaths attributable to her poor health from the Famine years: it's possible as two of them were within a few years of her arrival, but likely? I'm not sure.
As Bridget had died of alcoholism it seemed likely she had been in trouble with the law so I searched the PROV online index to female prisoners. There are two entries for her, from which in due course we will need to obtain copies. With a little (lot?) of luck it may even give us a description of her. I also did a search of Trove hoping to find her in the court records for drunkenness, but could find only one reference in 1863 when she was fined 5 shillings. As yet she appears not to have fallen into the category of habitual drunkard, as those received a gaol sentence of three months. At this point she was still bearing children.
Bridget's husband, William Peter McKenna, died in Melbourne in 1910. He is confirmed as the husband of Bridget Gallagher but this time his place of birth is Monaghan. Other family trees on Ancestry give a different date and place of death for Bridget's husband but I think the official record is unambiguous.
This is a brief summary of the rather sad life of a Famine Orphan. There are still avenues to explore which may bring forward more evidence. It's likely we'll only know the shadows of her life – perhaps the light is the existence of many descendants.
[i] Reportedly known as the "Father of Separation" for his role in gaining Victoria's separation from NSW. He was a staunch Catholic and had been a member of the first Legislative Council of Tasmania. He was also a member of the committee responsible for the welfare of the emigrant orphans on arrival in Melbourne.
[ii] Crown allotments 77 and 64 on the Yarra River at Abbotsford…In the late 1850s, Curr's house was shown on a map of the Collingwood. The St Helier house garden featured a geometric layout, with pathways leading south to what was possibly an orchard on the river frontage. When Curr died in 1850, his trustees had leased the St Helier property in two parts. The house and house garden comprised one part, while the lower garden and riverbank paddock formed the other. In 1865, Curr's widow, Elizabeth, sold the estate to the Right Rev. James A Goold for £4,000
Images of the house are at http://www.picturevictoria.vic.gov.au/site/yarra_melbourne/Collingwood/9464.html
[iii] Biddy was one of only three young women to receive such a high wage. One assumes that if Curr employed her, and paid her such a generous sum, he thought she was competent not inexperienced.
[iv] While in Donegal in 2006 we tried without success to find any records for these workhouse orphans and Board of Guardian registers. Perhaps another attempt is merited, even from afar.
[v] My Queensland research has shown me that sometimes there's another set of information which reveals far more detail. Approaches to the diocesan archives a few years ago have been unsuccessful so it's time to revisit that.


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An introduction to the Atmel AVR family of microcontrollers by Jeff and Mitch.
The curriculum has not been determined, yet, but will include:
- basic electronics
- intro to microcontrollers
- build your own AVR programmer
- how to set up your computer to develop your microcontroller projects
- build a bunch of simple, fun projects, each of which will teach a fundamental microcontroller concept
Microcontrollers are very cheap (as little as $0.50 for the simplest ones), and very powerful! With them you can do an amazingly diverse range of projects, anywhere from turning TVs off in public places, to playing computer games, to making robots move or see, to creating beautiful (or obnoxious) music, to anything your imagination can come up with! And anyone can learn to make their own projects with them, given a little background.
The Atmel AVR family microcontrollers are very easy-to-use, and easy-to-learn. There are lots of free, open-source tools available for it, and lots of open-source projects that have all documentation free for the download online. There is also a user forum called AVRfreaks.org, full of geeks all over the world, 24/7, just waiting to answer your questions about your AVR microcontroller project. For these reasons, and more, it is a very popular family of microcontrollers for the DIY (Do It Yourself) crowd, which is why we've chosen to use it for this set of classes.
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Donaldson inked a one year deal with the Braves which allows the Braves to further evaluate their now number one prospect, Austin Riley, as their future 3rd baseman. Riley who is only 21 years old has shown the propensity for big power and has steadily improved his defense since his being drafted 41st over all in 2015 by the Braves. There is no way to know if Riley will indeed ever play in the majors as a Brave or if he will be included as part of a package for a number one starter or possibly for Marlins catcher J T Realmuto.
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The Nationals made a major acquisition in signing free agent pitcher Patrick Corbin who will be slotted as the number three starter in their solid starting pitching staff and the Mets made a major trade to acquire shut down closer Edwin Diaz and aging 2nd baseman Robinson Cano from the Seattle Mariners. There should be no question that both moves have made the NL East a much stronger division. To be sure, the path to winning the divisional pennant will be a tough one foe every team.
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The muscles and nerves of the urinary system work together to hold urine in the bladder and then release it at the appropriate time. Nerves carry messages from the bladder to the spinal cord and brain and from the collections of nerves in the peripheral nervous system to the muscles of the bladder telling them either to tighten or release. In a neurogenic bladder, the nerves that are supposed to carry these messages do not work properly.
What are the complications of a neurogenic bladder?
The following problems are often associated with a neurogenic bladder:
Urine leakage. Urine leakage often occurs when the muscles holding urine in do not get the right message.
Urine retention. Urine retention often happens if the muscles holding urine in do not get the message that it is time to let go.
Damage to the tiny blood vessels in the kidney. Damage to the tiny blood vessels in the kidney often happens if the bladder becomes too full and urine backs up into the kidneys, causing extra pressure. This can result in blood in the urine.
Infection of the bladder or ureters. Infection of the bladder or ureters often results from urine that is held too long before being eliminated.
What causes neurogenic bladder?
The following are possible causes of neurogenic bladder:
Acute infections
Accidents that cause trauma to the brain or spinal cord
Genetic nerve problems
Heavy metal poisoning
What are the symptoms of neurogenic bladder?
The following are the most common symptoms of neurogenic bladder. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
Urinary tract infection
Kidney stones (These may be difficult to determine because you may not be able to feel pain associated with kidney stones if you have spinal cord abnormalities.) Symptoms of kidney stones include:
Urinary incontinence
Small urine volume during voiding
Urinary frequency and urgency
Dribbling urine
Loss of sensation of bladder fullness
The symptoms of neurogenic bladder may resemble other conditions and medical problems. Always consult your physician for a diagnosis.
How is neurogenic bladder diagnosed?
When neurogenic bladder is suspected, both the nervous system (including the brain) and the bladder itself are examined. In addition to a complete medical history and physical examination, diagnostic procedures for neurogenic bladder may include the following:
X-rays of the skull and spine. This diagnostic test uses invisible electromagnetic energy beams to produce images of internal tissues, bones, and organs onto film.
Electroencephalogram (EEG). This procedure records the brain's continuous, electrical activity by means of electrodes attached to the scalp.
Imaging tests of the bladder and ureters.
Tests that involve filling the bladder. These tests show how much the bladder can hold and check to see if the bladder empties completely.
What is the treatment for neurogenic bladder?
Specific treatment for neurogenic bladder will be determined by your physician based on:
Your age, overall health, and medical history
Severity of symptoms
Cause of the nerve damage
Type of voiding dysfunction
Your tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies
Expectations for the course of the condition
Your opinion or preference
Treatment may include:
Insertion of a catheter or hollow tube (to empty the bladder at regular intervals)
Prophylactic (preventive) antibiotic therapy (to reduce the incidence of infection)
Placement of an artificial sphincter (A procedure that involves placing an artificial cuff around the neck of the bladder that can be inflated to prevent urinary incontinence and deflated when it is time to empty the bladder. You will still require intermittent catheterization to completely empty the bladder.)


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"No, no, please, no, no," Beatriz Cintora-Silva, 25, said just before a gunshot is heard during her desperate 911 call for help at 4 a.m.
Weld County deputies found four bodies at a home at 11464 Hot Springs in the LongView subdivision east of Longmont early Tuesday.
Weld County Sheriff John Cooke confirmed Tuesday that Sanchez, 31, shot and killed his ex-girlfriend, Beatriz Cintora-Silva, 25, who had been staying with her sister and brother-in-law after she left Sanchez on Thanksgiving after a physical fight. Sanchez also shot and killed Maria Cintora-Silva, 22, and Max Aguirre Ojeda, 32.
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