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Dear friends,Do we have any consensus yet on which way to go between the NeoAir and ProLite Plus? (Putting price aside.)Best,Aaron
Yep! POE Ether Thermo 6. Starting to see a surprising number of NeoAir's show up in the gear swap on multiple forums. Surprising, considering how it was give cult status befoer it was even released.
Edited by skinewmexico on 10/09/2009 09:23:09 MDT.
They are different pads. I don't you find 100% agreement. Between the two I would pick the neoair... but I would like to be sure the quality control issues are completely resolved before I plop down $140.--mark
Edited by verber on 10/09/2009 09:25:34 MDT.
What's the lightest of the ether thermos? I may give the Montbell UL 90 a try before going to the NeoAir.
I don't know what the lightest is, but REI is closing out the Eco Thermo 6 for $40.
They are all gone now I think.
AaronI have used both, although the Neo Air is fairly new, so less than a dozen night on it.To me the Thermarest ratings are pretty accurate, I was still warm at 39f and so were my two mates with the same mat. So I do expect the Neo to work down to 43f but of course the Plus works below that temperature.Above that the Neo is (to me) much more comfortable and it packs a lot smaller so no reason for me to use the Plus (it's a Prolite 4 in my case...) for fair weather. Below freesing I will provably use the Exped Downmat 7 but I am considering getting some thin Evazote.Franco
Thanks, Franco. What about the issue of its not being self-inflating? Does that not become a pain in the butt, or how does that balance out with the pros/cons?Assume I have room for the ProLite Plus; so the extra bulkiness is not a huge issue.Thanks a lot.Best,Aaron
Why are you comparing theses two mats? Would it not be a more fair compilation to compare the NeoAir to the Prolite? The NeoAir is much lighter than the Prolite Plus, the Prolite Plus is much warmer than the NeoAir. Also, if you go with the Prolite Plus, I would get the Women's version which is much warmer.
Edited by Mocs123 on 10/09/2009 16:24:58 MDT.
Aaron, you're comparing two pretty different pads, as people have noted. That begs the question, then, what are you looking for in a pad? The NeoAir is going to be cushier, more comfy, smaller, and lighter. The P.Plus (agree w/other Brad, get the Women's for greater R-value) would be warmer.I seem to be the lone dissenting voice on warmth of the NeoAir, but I don't find it warm enough in the high 30s/40-ish. The R-2.5 of the Neo goes against the R-4.5 of the womens p.plus. So. Are you looking for lightest, cushiest, warmest, or something else?If I were facing temps in the 40s and up I'd take a NeoAir. If I were going cooler I'd probably just grab a DownMat, but I might go for a womens trail pro or p.plus.
I think the NeoAir would be warm enough, and of course I'd like any extra comfort and lower weight and space.My main concerns include(a) having to inflate it (I don't know how much of a pain that would be - but it's nice at the end of the day just to be able to put the pad down and close it off and crash); (b) durability (my TorsoLite seems fine - but all the old Therm-a-rests I had back in the day seemed to go flat by just looking at them!);(c) the width issue (I'm 6'1/2", 180-195 lbs.).So I just don't know whether the pros outweigh the cons or vice versa.Thoughts? :)Best,Aaron
Ok, so:a) inflating... ahhh, who cares? Not sure if you've seen the thread, but also as regarding yourc) I wanted a wider pad, so got the large NeoAir. Felt the length was unnecessary, so cut it shorter and re-sealed it. Works great. Otherwise, if you're comparing a regular size NeoAir vs regular Prolite, widths are equivalent and non-issue. Nice thing about the shorter wide pad is I don't have to blow it up as much (as the full length). I've discovered that people have different tolerance levels for things, though. I'll gladly take the time to blow it up for the added comfort and reduced weight.and backwards to (b) and durability. I have some ancient thermarests that still don't have holes in them. If you use them reasonably, you won't get holes. Don't use them next to campfires. Don't use them on sharp pointy rocks. Common sense stuff. If you're going to be around a bunch of cactus, you might want to bring a thin closed-cell pad for underneath? But I've used my NeoAir on dirt, rough-ish wood floors and in tents with no issues.
Today's Thermarests still claim to be self-inflating, but with all the aggressive die cutting they do to the foam, they are nothing like the older versions, which inflated fully within a minute or two; you only had to put a puff or two in them to make them rock-solid. With the new Prolite and Prolite Plus Thermarests, you still have to blow the things up - just like you did with last year's Prolite 3 and 4.The only real difference between the same size Neoair and Prolite, as far as inflation goes, is the amount of time it takes you to blow up a pad that's one inch thick (Prolite) vs. 1.5 inches thick (Prolite Plus) vs. 2.5 inches thick (Neoair).
Edited by wandering_bob on 10/09/2009 17:42:19 MDT.
I used a NeoAir for three weeks over the summer, switching from a ProLite Plus. I too was initially concerned about durability and the potential P-I-T-A of having to blow it up every night. I had no problems with durability issues and gradually gained more confidence in it. Surprisingly, inflation wasn't that big of a deal. As others have noted, you have to blow up the ProLite too and deflating and rolling the NeoAir in the morning is easier than with the ProLite. The width was adequate for me. I used it down to upper-30s and never felt cold. I haven't gotten rid of my ProLite yet (and probably won't) but generally reach for the NeoAir nowadays because it is lighter, more compact, and I find it more comfortable for my aging bones.
I don't need to completely inflate the NeoAir - I'm more comfy when it doesn't resemble a trampoline. Last outing was a car camp at Mono Hot Springs, the weekend everything got snowy, windy and cold - I was surprised to find that I was warm enough to actually sleep (when not being kept awake by the roar of wind shaking the sugar pines) and in the morning the digital thermometer said lowest temp was around 25F. I think that I was not really what you would call toasty, but on the lower edge of acceptable. Did not have my foam pad with me. I was never comfortable on the 1.5" Thermarest 'self inflatable' mattresses. Most of my time is spent in a hammock with an underquilt these days. The NeoAir is part of a long range plan to go alpine....
I recently, for the first time, found myself snow camping on Mt. Hood (Oregon), not really thinking that I would run into that much snow at one of my favorite sites. 15 inches.The weather was gorgeous, clear with temps in the 50-60 range and in the mid 30s at night. I was therefore sleeping on top of 15 inches of snow, on my Thermarest NeoAir "shorty". That's basically sleeping on ice! I use my pack under my legs. This was a first for me.It took me a while to figure why, heavily clothed in my Western Mountaineering Summerlite, I was still chilly.My butt was especially cold and I did have some 1/8" closed cell padding along. Not really figuring it out at 3 in the morning, I slid the doubled up pad (now 1/4" thick)under my backside. Wow! Instant warmth! I've read about this issue and really got a lesson in the practical aspect of sleeping on snow and ice.The point is that the 2.5 inch NeoAir, having lost some of its inflation pressure, probably only had about a 1/2 inch loft under my butt. It seems to loose inflation as it chills in contact with the ground/snow. I inflate it hard long before bedtime so it can cool down and then again just before hitting the rack. Just as a point of information, I weigh 160 pounds.I will be taking a torso length, closed-cell pad with me on the next trip out. The "experiment", I think, will lead to a more comfortable, warmer and better sleep for me.
Edited by ftm1776 on 10/09/2009 21:22:58 MDT.
I think the biggest issue is comfort. If the NeoAir is as comfortable (or more comfortable) to you, then I would get it. It is much lighter. However, comfort is a personal thing. I really like the NeoAir, but my wife doesn't. I switched from a closed cell foam system to the NeoAir, while she switched from the old ProLite to the newest one. For me, it is the first time in a very long time that I added weight to my pack, but I think it is worth it.
Thanks, everyone. So there doesn't seem to be a "width" issue, then? I thought there were a couple issues there - (a) that, since the sides were less stable, the width is not really effectively 20 in; and (b) that the height means that, if you drape over, it is much more problematic than when on a 1.5" in....
I love the NeoAir. Compared to the Prolite (which is more fair comparison), it's more comfortable, lighter, warmer and packs way smaller. The NeoAir wins in all the important catagories, except for price. Having to inflate the NeoAir isn't an issue for me. I was previously using another 3.5" thick self inflate-able mattress, so the NeoAir seems easy compared to that. Also, you make back most of the time you spend blowing it up when you deflate it because it's much easier that trying to squeeze air out of self inflating foam.Compared to the Prolite Plus, I would still pick the NeoAir and just add a thin closed cell pad underneath to boost the total R-value. This setup would be at least as light and more comfortable.I don't find the width of the NeoAir to be a problem.
The width if the NeoAir can be an issue if you sleep on your back. Most people don't notice if their arms drop an inch to the ground at their sides such as with a Prolite, but a 2.5 inch drop is just a tad awkward IMHO. I would go with a Large NeoAir if that's a consideration (and I would shorten it and just use my pack under my legs), but comfort wise, the NeoAir wins hands down for me.
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Celebrate Mother Earth with music and a little golf in Abilene
What: Play Faire Park's "Umpteenth Earth Day Celebration"
When: Begins at 7 p.m. today, with events through Monday; park hours are 3-10 p.m. today, 3-11:30 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Saturday, and 1-11:30 p.m. Sunday
Where: Play Faire Park, 2300 N. Second St.
Admission: $5 for ages 12 and up; $4 for ages 6-11, 5 and younger get in free; includes two rounds of golf.
Contact: 672-2977
April showers bring May flowers, but April also brings us Earth Day, the day chosen to celebrate this blue planet we call home.
Abilene's own Play Faire Park, the oldest continuously operating miniature golf course in Texas, starts its five-day celebration tonight with a tie-dye clinic to put everyone in the mood.
The 7 p.m. clinic is included in the cost of admission, and folks are asked to bring something to tie dye.
"If they know how to do it, it keeps the mess here," said Chris "Doc" England, Play Faire's owner and resident "hippie." "If they don't know how, we'll teach them."
The "Umpteenth Annual Earth Day Celebration" has been a highlight at the venue for years. England said he doesn't remember exactly how many years he's hosted the event.
"Plus, it's much more fun to say 'umpteenth,'" he said.
Friday's schedule features local musicians Phil Brown and Tony Barker, who will perform beginning at 7:45 p.m. At 10 p.m., the park will present "The Grateful Dead Movie."
The "Umpteenth Annual Tree-Huggers Ball" will begin at 8 p.m. Saturday to the music of local band 'Fraid Knot. Before the ball, at 7:45 p.m., Doug and Shannon Roysden will perform and say a blessing to kick things off.
On Sunday, Play Faire will join forces with Relay For Life, which is hosting a fundraiser at the park from 2-6 p.m. to coincide with the Earth Day events. Supporters can participate in a miniature golf tournament and karaoke and play in an air castle. Additional admission fees will be charged for the Relay for Life event.
The celebration will wrap up with a tree planting and prayer service Monday, the actual Earth Day. The time for this service will be announced at the park over the weekend.
England said he is hopeful about the weather forecasts for the weekend, which call for sunny weather and temperatures ranging from the high 60s to the low 80s. A possibility of rain today is the only dark cloud on the horizon.
"The only time it's been poorly attended has been because of the weather," England said. "I guess as it's Earth Day, it's its prerogative."
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Business Has Not Trounced the Trial Lawyers Just Yet
March 12, 2007
Walter Olson
America's litigation fever is cooling off, or so one hears. Merck & Co is doing reasonably well defending suits over its painkiller Vioxx, while actions blaming food makers for obesity have sputtered. Doctors' malpracticesuit payouts are said to be flat (at what by other countries' standards are still unthinkably high levels). Last month, the Supreme Court ruled on a punitive damage case in favor of tobacco giant Philip Morris, which has become a Wall Street favorite after wrestling down its perceived legal risks. Nearly every American politician claims to be on board with reform, even the nation's most famous plaintiff's-lawyer-made-good: "We do have too many lawsuits", said John Edwards during the 2004 Presidential debates. A recent Business Week cover sums it up: "How Business Trounced the Trial Lawyers".
And yet one wonders whether a contest is being called prematurely. In New Orleans last week, claimants lined up for blocks as a deadline approached for suing the federal Government over the Katrina levee breaks; until a recent court ruling, it had been widely assumed that the Government was not open to suit over the calamity at all. The sums demanded soon mounted to fabulous levels, including $77 billion for losses to the municipal Government alone: the city "just kind of piled it on," conceded Mayor Ray Nagin. "We got some advice from some attorneys to be aggressive with the number, and we'll see what happens." In nearby Mississippi, meanwhile, insurers besieged by the state's politico-legal tag teams are offering billions to settle Katrina flood damage claims, notwithstanding clear flood exclusions in their policies.
As for the recent high court decision on punitive damages, Justice Breyer's majority opinion set forth a standard that most legal observers saw as confusing and not terribly helpful to defendants. (It seems juries are supposed to ignore harm done to non-parties in assessing a punitive damage sum, but are free to consider such harm in assessing the badness of conduct, which in turn feeds into the scope of punitives). And it was noted that the Court majority keen on protecting business from excessive awards has slipped from 6-3 to 5-4, with liberal justice Stevens crossing to the minority side.
What of the supposedly favorable courtroom outlook for tobacco companies? Three rulings in recent weeks confirm that the industry's legal woes have not gone away. In one, the California Supreme Court took a liberal view of the statute of limitations, inviting more residents to sue over nicotine habits formed in the Eisenhower era. A Massachusetts judge green-lighted a suit blaming addiction on the giving away of cigarettes as free samples. And a Louisiana appeals court pared by more than half a $1 billion award on behalf of smokers in that state, but still left enough of the award's reasoning intact that plaintiffs with some plausibility claimed victory.
There's no doubt that there are parts of the country where you can find the advertised litigation implosion. Business Week could have made its headline more accurate (at the cost of national newsstand appeal) by amending it to read "How Business Trounced the Trial Lawyers in Texas". In the President's home state, once the nation's most litigation-mad, a Republican-run High Court and legislature have cracked down hard enough that injury law firms have in fact laid off staffers en masse.
Note, however, that when one state draws a firm line opportunistic suit-filing usually just moves elsewhere. Asbestos lawsuits on behalf of workers in faraway states were once brought to wide-open Texas and Alabama; now they're shipped to unreformed Illinois instead. Michigan enacted a pioneering law limiting suits against prescription drug makers, but it's had scant impact since lawyers representing Detroit pill-takers can still head for, say, New Jersey, to sue over claimed side effects.
Back in 1986, Business Week rather spoiled its reputation for trend-spotting on this topic by proclaiming in a confident headline that "The explosion of liability lawsuits is nothing but a myth". In retrospect that was just around the time the levees were bursting, so to speak, to usher in the modern era of mass tort litigation. To call a high-water mark is going to require more evidence than we've seen so far.
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There is a small transit hotel at Johannesburg O.R. Tambo International Airport; the 5-star Intercontinental Johannesburg O.R. Tambo Airport hotel is situated opposite the terminals. A number of other options can be found nearby.
Protea Hotel Transit
Located within the terminal complex at O.R. Tambo International Airport, this four-star hotel is available for international transit passengers, who can make use of the airport's numerous shopping and dining options.
O.R. Tambo International Airport, Terminal A
Johannesburg, South Africa
Tel: (011) 977 2600.
Southern Sun Garden Court
Boasting its own restaurant and pub, Southern Sun Garden Court offers a complimentary 24-hour shuttle service to O.R. Tambo International Airport. The hotel caters to both business and leisure guests with a business center, gym, spa, and swimming pool on site.
O.R. Tambo International Airport, Jones Road
Kempton Park, South Africa
Tel: (011) 977 3600.
Intercontinental Johannesburg O.R. Tambo Airport
This luxury option is mere footsteps from the terminal complex and houses a gym and health club as well as a business center. The hotel's Quill Restaurant specializes in local dishes, such as African game.
O.R. Tambo International Airport
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Take a walk on the wild side with new KTM
Posted: April 18, 2013|
EVER been on your R1 and wished you could ride comfortably for hours on end? Ever been on your big traillie and wished you could race with the best of them? Then KTM's all-new 1190 Adventure could be the bike for you. And you. And everyone, in fact. It's what you might call an adventure sportsbike – and it truly is an awe- inspiring bit of kit.
The new Adventure is something of a dichotomy. Climb on, blip the throttle and pull away and you feel instantly at home. It feels intuitive, like a good smartphone. It's comfy, it's civilised and its road manners are impeccable as I wind my way out of Fowlers' car park and head for the countryside around Bristol.
But glance down and you'll spot the 'LC8' moniker stamped on the dash, and that can only mean one thing. Phenomenal V-twin power, Austrian- style.
To be honest, I'd forgotten what a demon of a motor KTM's 148bhp LC8 is, and all wrapped up in the 1190 Adventure's tubular chassis, it's right at home. Give it some beans and the acceleration is rampant. The motor is strong throughout the range but the real grunt comes between peak torque and peak power, from 7,000 to 10,000 rpm. With shorter gearing than the 990 Adventure it replaces, the orange express will charge from 30mph to 90mph in the blink of an eye and continue pulling hard, were it legal, all the way to 155mph. It doesn't just overtake rows of cars, it decimates them. You almost expect a sonic boom to follow.
Given that KTM are essentially using the same engine as they put in their RC8R, the Adventure has to handle well – and it does, thanks to some top quality WP suspension. The upright riding position means you swing into corners rather than hang off the bike, but again, it's an organic feeling. The big Adventure corners naturally, feeling every bit as sweet as Honda's benchmark CBF1000, and the change to a 120/70-19 on the front and 170/60-17 rear puts it in line with BMW's big GS. What the Adventure has in spades is character. It's eager to please and enjoys surging forward, forks extending to the max as the big triangular exhaust growls. Even loaded up, the KTM remains remarkably settled, thanks in no small part to its clever electronics...
... and those electronics come in the form of ABS and traction control as standard, as well as four riding modes – Off-road, Rain, Street and Sport – each stepping up the degree of power and throttle response available through the twist grip.
On top of this, an Electronic Package is available for an extra £500, which brings easy-to-use electronic suspension adjustment (Comfort, Street and Sport) and the latest craze, a tyre pressure monitoring system.
Seat height can be altered, as can the positioning of the pegs and the handlebars, for personal preference, and the 1190 Adventure comes with pannier mounting points and rear rack as standard. A choice of luggage is available at £370 a box, or a full set of proper-job aluminium luggage can be added for £1,030.
I particularly like the daytime running lights which feature a U-shaped row of 12 bright LEDs round the bottom and sides of the main headlights, which in turn switch on automatically as natural daylight fades.
In true KTM style, an 'R' model is also available for an extra £600 which has larger wheels front and rear and an additional 30mm of suspension travel. It also has a shorter screen, engine crash bars, and comes in the übercool white and black paint scheme.
While off-road ability has clearly been moved down the list in the importance stakes, KTM are keen to stress that the 1190 Adventure is still a force to be reckoned with when the going gets rough. Spoked wheels are far stronger than their cast counterparts and KTM reckon the ones used here will stand up to virtually any treatment. There are other touches too that seek to cement its off-road heritage, such as a serrated brake pedal and removable rubbers on the serrated footpegs. But for my money, this is one pretty bike. It looks beautiful, it handles beautifully and it's beautifully put together.
If you're looking for a ballistic adventure bike that can commute from Monday to Friday, scratch with the sports riders on Saturday, pop to Cornwall and back on Sunday, then take you round the Himalayas on your summer holidays, then the new KTM 1190 Adventure has to be it. At £12,595 it's not cheap, but it really is an awful lot of bike for the money. Where do I sign?
■ Call Fowlers on 0117 977 0466 to arrange your test ride.


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Blind Adults that willing to participate in the study will be tested with well-established measuring techniques of Balance control using force plate in the movement and Rehabilitation Laboratory at Ben-Gurion University. An automated algorithm will be used to extract standardized stabilogram-diffusion parameters from each of the COP data sets collected during quiet standing. These parameters include diffusion coefficients, critical displacement, critical time and scaling exponents for both lateral and anterior-posterior sway directions (Collins & De Luca, 1993). the subjects will be tested in 3 task conditions (eyes blindfolded, eyes blindfolded holding stick, eyes blindfolded holding a dog). Participants will be required to stand on the platform 10 times for 30 s For each trial, they will be instructed to sway as little as possible.
Visual Impairment
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Case Control
Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional
|Official Title:
|The Effect of Somatosensory Cue on Postural Stability in Blinded Persons
- SDF parameters [ Time Frame: baseline ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
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|January 2008
|Study Completion Date:
|June 2010
|Primary Completion Date:
|March 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|20 Years to 70 Years
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- Blind persons
- Able to stand safely for 30 seconds
- Able to walk independently
- Hip OA prior THA
Exclusion Criteria:
- Stroke or other neurological diseases
- Orthopedic surgery at the past year
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00650676
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|Beer-Sheva, Israel
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|Itshak Melzer, PhD
|Ben-gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
|Study Chair:
|Ronit Yagev, MD
|Soroka University Medical Centar
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|Itshak Melzer PhD, PT, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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|NCT00650676 History of Changes
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|sor464308ctil, MY4643
|Study First Received:
|March 30, 2008
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|September 19, 2010
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Sub Focus show why Reading Festival needs a dance tent
Thousands of fans turn up for drum n bass show
Photographer: Al De PerezDaniel Fahey on 29 August 2010
The drum n bass DJ managed to fill the Dance Stage tent before he even took to the decks at 7.25pm.
In a 50 minute performance, Sub Focus, real name Nick Douwna, played plenty of crowd favourites like a remix of Rusko's 'Hold On' and his own 'Splash'.
Tensnake's 'Coma Cat' gets the crowd bouncing but it's 'Could Be Real' that sums up the power of the show in one floating mass of bobbing heads and raised fists.


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UTIS are caused by bacteria. The bacteria enter the bladder by traveling up the urethra. Usually, the urethra is protected, but if the opening of the urethra (or the vulva in girls) is irritated, bacteria can grow. Common irritants are bubble bath, shampoo, or fecal soiling. A rare cause of UTIS (1% in girls and 5% in boys) is blockage of the urinary tract that might cause incomplete emptying of the bladder.
What will help at home?
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If the medicine is liquid, store it in the refrigerator and shake the bottle well before measuring each dose. Use a measuring spoon to be sure that you give the right dose.
Try not to forget any of the doses. If your child goes to school or a babysitter, arrange for someone to give any doses needed. Give the antibiotic doses until the pills are gone or the bottle is empty. Even though your child will feel better in a few days, give the antibiotic for the full length of time that you doctor has prescribed to keep the UTI from flaring up.
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Your physician may want to recheck your child's urine at a later date. Be sure to contact the office for an appointment. If you are told to bring in a urine sample, try to collect the first one in the morning. The doctor's office , or lab can give you a sterile container to collect the specimen in.
Wash off the genital area several times with cotton balls and warm water. Have your child then sit on the toilet seat with her legs spread widely so that the labia (skin folds of the vagina) don't touch. Have her start to urinate into the toilet, and then place the sterile container directly in line with the urine stream. Remove it after you have collected a few ounces, but before she stops. The first or last ounce that comes out of the bladder may be contaminated.
Keep the urine in the refrigerator until you take it into the office. Bring it in chilled (put the jar in a plastic bag with ice around the jar).
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Wash the genital area with water, not soap.
Don't put bubble baths, shampoo, or other soaps into the bath water. Don't let a bar of soap float around in the tub.
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People were lined up for blocks outside a Microsoft retail store that opened its doors for the first time Friday morning at the St. Johns Town Center, Local 6 news partner News4Jax.com reported.
The first customers will receive prizes and free tickets to see Macklemore & Ryan Lewis in concert Saturday. The special performance will take place in the south parking lot of St. Johns Town Center near Dick's Sporting Goods.
Please note that Macklemore & Ryan Lewis will not make an appearance at the store during the grand opening ceremony on Friday and will just perform at St. Johns Town Center on Saturday in celebration of the grand opening of the new Microsoft retail store.
The new store will also be selling the newly released Xbox One at its store.
As a part of the Microsoft retail store's commitment to the local community, the Microsoft retail store will be making software donations to organizations during the ribbon-cutting ceremony.


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How Blowholes Work
When the winds are coming from the South East then waves enter the mouth of the Blowhole & compress the air within the inner cavity. Contrary to popular belief the tides do not have any bearing on the performance of the blowhole.
The escaping air causes the loud "oomph", which accompanies the water spout. Over many years the Blowhole will become less vigorous, as the underground cavity erodes due to the pounding waves.As the retreating water leaves, it is forced upward by the compressed air, as the mouth is still blocked by the receding wave.
Blowhole History
The main Kiama Blowhole was discovered by George Bass on his voyage of coastal exploration on December 6, 1797, after anchoring his whaleboat in the sheltered bay which became Kiama Harbour.
The shore Bass wrote, showed evidence of considerable volcanic fire and on the point he found: "The earth for a considerable distance round in the form approaching a circle seemed to have given way; it was now a green slope.....Towards the centre was a deep ragged hole of about 25 to 30 feet in diameter and on one side of it the sea washed in through a subterraneous passage...with a most tremendous noise..."
Bass was not, in fact, the first to discover the Kiama Blowhole, as local Aboriginals had for generations referred to it as Khanterintee.
In January 1889 a performer by the name of Charles Jackson attracted large crowds to see his crossings of the mouth of the Blowhole on a tightrope.
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Guides lead parties of 10 or fewer on expeditions through the hotel, featured on the Travel Channel's Most Terrifying Places in America. Past visitors have reported unexplainable shadows, unsettling noises, and cold spots as they move throughout the 33 rooms—and some guests have even reported being touched by ethereal hands. While no one can predict the level of activity from day to day, the hotel's caretaker attests that those guests who enter in good spirits tend to have the best experience.
 Participants should bring flashlights and water, and are encouraged to take photographs and video at will. Tours can typically be scheduled at 6 p.m., 8 p.m., 10 p.m., or midnight. Guests may camp the rest of the night on the grounds; they may not return to the hotel property after their tour has ended.

Morse Mill Hotel
Originally built as a one-room house in 1816, the Morse Mill Hotel grew to 5,300 square feet under the watchful eye of engineer John Morse, a former Confederate officer and suspected warlock. In its present state, the hotel may house ghostly figures who once took up residence in one of its 33 rooms. Jesse James and company signed their marks in the guest register, and a famous female serial killer, Bertha Gifford, was kept in the hotel's employ; a nearby gravesite marks her resting place. A burial ground for Confederate soldiers, relics of Al Capone's old brothel, and a dungeon also add to the sinister air. An expert paranormal guide leads amateur ghost gumshoes through the 33-room, four-story Morse manse, providing advice on where to find the friendliest long-term residents. If they dare, guests are encouraged to snap photos to document their occult encounters with phantoms, specters, or eerily expensive minibars.
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Walk past any Broadway theater and you'll see a larger-than-life poster advertising the production playing inside. Prominently displayed are the names of every cast member, the creative team, an eye-catching logo and colorful production photos.
Above the show's title is a list of individuals and companies that made the production possible. Except to Broadway insiders, those names are largely unfamiliar. But without their financial contributions, which collectively can range from $5 million to $15 million, new plays and musicals would never be produced.
Two Tulsa residents recently joined that club of Broadway's elite. Through their production company, Square 1 Theatrics, Jay Krottinger and Ryan Tanner signed on as co-producers of the Broadway revival of "Pippin." On June 9, they and their fellow producers walked away with the Tony Award for Best Musical Revival.
"The Tony Awards were everything you would expect them to be," Tanner said. "It's easy to get caught up in the whole star aspect of the production. You wait for every category (in which your show is nominated).
"Everyone was thinking 'Pippin' would do well, but nothing was a guarantee. We knew people who had produced 30 shows and were nominated 10 times but never won. Here's our first show, we're nominated and then we won. It was just wonderful."
In addition to the Tony for Best Musical Revival, "Pippin" took awards for Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Andrea Martin), Best Actress in a Musical (Patina Miller) and Best Direction (Diane Paulus).
Krottinger and Tanner made their first professional foray into producing with "Flipside: The Patti Page Story." Written by Greg White, director of musical theater at the University of Central Oklahoma, "Flipside" traced Page's rise to fame as a small-town country girl to one of the best-selling artists of all time.
Interwoven throughout the narrative were two dozen hits Page recorded. Premiered at UCO in April 2011, "Flipside" has had several subsequent Oklahoma performances, and in December 2012, the musical revue played a two-week run at 59 E 59, an off-Broadway theater.
"Through that process, I hired an attorney just to protect myself," Krottinger said. "When we first met, he asked if we might be interested in 'Pippin.' I almost said no because we were trying to raise $100,000 for 'Flipside.'
"He invited us to a rehearsal of 'Pippin' and the cast was working on the 'Magic to Do' number. Seeing all the layers of that number come together was really outstanding. An hour and a half later, we were hooked. That rehearsal sealed the deal for us."
Becoming co-producers of "Pippin" proved to be a "trial-by-fire" initiation. Krottinger and Tanner had three months to raise $250,000. Fortunately the two business partners had previous fundraising experience as co-founders of IQ Surgical, a Tulsa-based company that designs and distributes orthopedic and plastic reconstructive surgery devices.
"When it came time to ask people for money for something we believed in, we had some credibility," said Tanner, who earned a degree in political science from Illinois College. "Our plan was to find 10 investors. We thought that being a part of something like 'Pippin' would enhance their lives. And 'Pippin' has done that. People have never seemed so excited about giving us $25,000."
In addition to studies in marketing and business management, Krottinger brought to the partnership a decade's worth of experience as a performer. A UCO music theater graduate, Krottinger performed on cruise ships and in regional theater.
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Fred Miller, CAO
Fred Miller is the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) for the City of Portland and the Director of the Office of Management and Finance (OMF). Fred comes to the City with decades of public and private sector executive and management level experience. As CAO, Miller reports directly to the Mayor and City Council.
As the Director of OMF, Fred's role is to oversee the bureaus of Human Resources, Internal Business Services, Revenue, and Technology Services. He also oversees the divisions of Accounting, Business Operations, Enterprise Business Solutions, Public Finance & Treasury, and the OMF Policy Team. He provides leadership, oversight and support for a variety of Citywide projects, including the Public Safety Systems Revitalization Program. Fred also provides strategic leadership to OMF managers who perform an array of financial management, policy development, and project management services for City Council and bureaus.
Fred's previous experiences include leadership positions under fourOregongovernors from 1976 until 1992. He served as Director of the Oregon Executive Department – now the Department of Administrative Services, which is very similar in function to that of OMF. He also ran the state departments of Transportation and Energy.
Fred left state government in 1992 and joined Portland General Electric, where he eventually retired as an executive vice president.
Fred is a Portland native. He grew up in Southwest Portland and attended Wilson High School. He received his masters and doctoral degrees in economics from Michigan State University. He has also taught economics at Oregon State University. Miller enjoys traveling and is the father of two teenage children and two older children who work at Mercy Corps and Friends of Children.


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Thickening in these narrows to some height and speed ...
A Winter Night after Transtromer
September 11, 2006
The storm puts its mouth to the house and blows to get a tone. I toss and turn, my closed eyes reading the storm's text. The child's eyes grow wide in the dark and the storm howls for him. Both love the swinging lamps; both are halfway towards speech. The storm has the hands and wings of a child. Far away, travellers run for cover. The house feels its own constellation of nails holding the walls together. The night is calm in our rooms, where the echoes of all footsteps rest like sunken leaves in a pond, but the night outside is wild.


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Handsome victories over Scotland and Italy have swept Ireland to the top of the 6 Nations table and many pundits have been impressed by their potent mixture of forward strength and three-quarter finishing power.
But Saturday will be the first real test of Eddie O'Sullivan's side as they look to prove they can mix it with Europe's big-guns England and France.
Victory will put Ireland on course for a mouth watering Grand Slam showdown with the English on March 30 while a French triumph will keep Les Bleus' slim championship hopes alive.
France's pack would expect to have the edge on neutral ground but the vocal crowd at Lansdowne Road is a great leveller so don't expect either side to enjoy any real advantage up-front.
Number eight Imanol Harinordoquy is the stand-out player in either set of forwards and the French powerhouse will be determined to follow-up his heroics against Scotland with another eye-catching performance.
His fellow back-row operators Serge Betsen and Olivier Magne are also world-class performers and France are certainly stronger in that area of the game.
Les Bleus boast their usual flair in the backs but Ireland also field an exciting set of strike runners led by skipper Brian O'Driscoll, the most dangerous centre in the world.
O'Driscoll will feature heavily in the match and if he hits top form there is no reason why Ireland can not remain on course for a Grand Slam.


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Active Questions
|Sex & Intimacy / 12:22 AM - Tuesday July 21, 2009
Do any girls like tit fucking?
Just wondering, because the girl doesn't really get any pleasure out of it right? Does she just go along with it to please the guy?
- Asked by someguy0101, A Mr. Nice Guy, Male, 26-28, Chicago, Student
I don't like, crave it......but it's part of visual foreplay....so it is necessary if you "like to watch" lmao.
- Response by sharonpeters, A Thinker, Female, 29-35, Other Profession
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Some acts are just sexy/or puts people in the mood just by the sheer act or it. Not meaning they want to do it everytime, but just to change something up could be fun.
- Response by A Sportif, Female, 29-35, Student
Personally, I don't mind it. Sure, it doesn't do anything for me, but it's not hurting me either. And it's kinda hot.
- Response by A Player, Female, 22-25, Student
It is like anything else. Different people like different things. Some girls really like it and others don't. If you like it then you need to find a girl that does.
- Response by dreamdancer, A Creative, Female, 36-45, Houston, Other Profession
depends on the woman... its actually a creative way to give oral. it's all about likes and dislikes.
- Response by phenomenal1woman, A Thinker, Female, 46-55, Chicago
this is something girls "just do" because they guys like it. It's very visually stimulating but i think it just looks dumb if you don't have big enough ones. Guys like to incorporate everything they can so why not wrap some beautiful breasts around it and have it poke her in the face all at the same time! lol
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Military Dependent Students:
Better Oversight Needed to Improve Services for Children with Special Needs
GAO-12-680: Published: Sep 10, 2012. Publicly Released: Sep 10, 2012.
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What GAO Found
The Department of Defense (DOD) provides special education services through a complex system that varies by location. Domestically, DOD provides special education mainly within DOD schools. In contrast, DOD schools overseas vary in the types and levels of disabilities they are readily equipped to serve. For example, DOD schools in Ramstein, Germany, are equipped to serve children with severe disabilities of any type, whereas schools in some other overseas installations have no pre-established special education programs of any kind.
Overseas assignment of servicemembers with children with special educational needs requires coordination between the military branches through their Exceptional Family Member (EFM) programs and the DOD Education Activity--the office that oversees education of military dependent children in DOD schools. Each branch implements its own processes for screening military families and assigning servicemembers to locations where there are school services that can meet their families' needs. However, impediments to effective placements may strain school resources. More specifically, ineffective screenings may result in families being placed in locations where schools are not readily equipped to serve certain needs. For example, we found one case in which a school that only had programs in place for students with mild disabilities received a student with severe needs who had not been educationally screened.
Families in many of GAO's focus groups were generally satisfied with the services DOD provided their children with special needs once they received them, but they felt that the limited availability of special education and medical specialists overseas presented challenges. Some parents were concerned their children were not receiving all the services they needed, partly due to difficulties DOD schools encounter hiring and retaining special education staff, especially overseas. While the military branches provide family support services, parents in our focus groups also indicated they lacked information about obtaining special education and related medical services. DOD is taking some steps to provide better information to families, but the extent to which these efforts are helping them is unclear.
DOD's recently established Office of Special Needs (OSN) is responsible for enhancing and monitoring support for military families with special needs. OSN and the military branches have initiated efforts to improve screening and overseas assignment of military families with special needs. However, it is unclear when some of these efforts will be completed. Moreover, while OSN was established in part to enhance and monitor the military branches' support for families with special needs, it has limited enforcement authority and oversight over the branches' EFM programs. Specifically, it is limited in the extent to which it can compel the branches to comply with DOD or service-level program requirements, and it has no direct means by which to hold them accountable if they fail to do so. In addition, DOD currently lacks agencywide benchmarks and performance goals for all components of the EFM program. As a result, it cannot assess the effectiveness of the branches' EFM programs and ensure that improvements are made when needed. Without overall performance information to proactively identify emerging problem areas, some of the branches have had to conduct investigations to address problems after they have arisen.
Why GAO Did This Study
DOD operates a worldwide school system to meet the educational needs of military dependents. Questions have arisen about whether DOD is meeting the special needs of some of these children, such as those with learning disabilities. In response to a mandate in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011, GAO reviewed (1) how DOD provides special education services; (2) how DOD entities coordinate to assign families overseas and how schools might be affected; (3) what challenges, if any, families face in accessing DOD services for their children with special educational needs and obtaining related information; and (4) what steps, if any, DOD is taking to enhance screening and overseas assignment for families with children with special educational needs. GAO reviewed relevant federal laws and regulations, analyzed DOD documents and data, and conducted interviews with officials from multiple DOD entities, including schools. GAO also held 22 focus groups with parents of children with special needs during site visits and phone interviews at eight military installations worldwide.
What GAO Recommends
GAO recommends that the Secretary of Defense (1) ensure the military branches medically and educationally screen all school-age children before relocation overseas; (2) direct OSN to establish benchmarks and performance goals for the EFM program; and (3) direct OSN to develop and implement a process for ensuring the branches' compliance with EFM program requirements. DOD generally agreed with the recommendations.
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Recommendations for Executive Action
Status: Open
Comments: DOD officials indicated that DOD is in the process of conducting a functional analysis of the military services Exceptional Family Member (EFM) Programs. As part of this analysis, new streamlined overseas medical and educational screening processes have been developed, along with standardized screening forms that will be used by all the military services prior to families' overseas relocations. DOD officials noted that these efforts will be piloted in the fall of 2013, but they were unable to provide a timeline for full implementation.
Recommendation: To ensure that military families are assigned to overseas installations that can readily meet their children's special educational and medical needs, the Secretary of Defense should direct the secretaries of each branch to ensure that all military dependent children of school age are medically and educationally screened in accordance with each branch's policies and that all required educational screening forms are forwarded to DODEA for educational assignment recommendations prior to families' relocations.
Agency Affected: Department of Defense
Status: Open
Comments: DOD officials noted they are developing a single electronic system to collect uniform data from all three components of the four services EFM programs. According to DOD, this is the first step in developing standardized performance metrics for all components of the program. Officials noted, however, that full implementation of these metrics will take three to five years.
Recommendation: To improve oversight of the military branches' programs for families with special needs, the Secretary of Defense should direct OSN to establish uniform benchmarks and performance goals for the identification/enrollment and assignment coordination components of the military branches' EFM programs. These goals can be used to determine whether EFM programs are achieving desired outcomes across DOD and identify areas for improvement. For example, such performance goals could include specific targets and benchmarks for reducing screening failures over time and reassigning families who have been sent to locations that are unable to meet their children's educational or medical needs.
Agency Affected: Department of Defense
Status: Open
Comments: DOD has revised its DOD-level EFM program guidance to assign responsibility for ensuring that the services comply with the guidance to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness and Force Management. According to officials, the guidance is currently undergoing review and the estimated completion date is April of 2014.
Recommendation: To strengthen OSN's oversight over the military branches' EFM programs, the Secretary of Defense should direct OSN to develop and implement a process to assess the branches' compliance with DOD-level EFM program policies and requirements, and to identify and report any issues related to noncompliance to senior leadership for corrective action. For example, OSN could consider conducting periodic, unannounced site visits to select military installations on a periodic basis to monitor implementation of their EFM programs.
Agency Affected: Department of Defense
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CARTHAGE, Miss. — A Mississippi officer died Thursday, a week after collapsing from a heart attack while interviewing a shoplifting suspect.
Corporal Van Perry collapsed suddenly shortly after arresting someone for shoplifting, prompting the suspect to call for help, according to ODMP.
Perry was flown to the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where he passed away eight days later.
The 15-year veteran was a father of three, whose own father had also died in the line of duty in 2001 when he was struck by a vehicle at a roadside checkpoint.
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