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Arthritis and musculoskeletal disorders in children are both relatively common, even if they seem rare from a primary care pediatrician's point of view. In addition, it can often take months before primary care pediatricians or even a child's parents recognize that the child has a problem. Pediatricians should listen carefully to parents who describe their child's symptoms to consider whether they should refer the patient to a pediatric rheumatologist. Children who are frequently stiff or sore when they wake up in the morning, or have pain in a knee or other joints, should be examined and tested.
Proper care is dependent on a collaborative relationship between the child, the parent, the pediatrician and the pediatric rheumatologist. The specialist and the general pediatrician each have information that the other need to make appropriate diagnoses and develop treatments. Open communication facilitates a trusting, supportive environment in which all risks, benefits, side effects, viewpoints and diagnoses are discussed in detail.
This article is adapted from a 2002 interview by HSS Physician in-chief emeritus, Dr. Stephen A. Paget with HSS pediatric rheumatologist Dr. Thomas J.A. Lehman.
Dr. Paget: What proportion of children develop arthritis or other types of musculoskeletal problems?
Dr. Lehman: Arthritis is actually relatively common in childhood. It is about 2 per 1000 in any given year. Musculoskeletal problems are extremely common – probably 10 to 20 children per 100 have some kind of significant musculoskeletal complaint over any given year. In most of them. it is minor injuries, minor over-use in athletics, and with gentle reassurance and appropriate education, the problem resolves. For children with arthritis, however, they need good care. Too many of the children who have arthritis are dismissed as simply having an overuse injury or muscular problem. Then they don't get the proper care.
In childhood, as the body is growing, if something like arthritis is allowed to go on undetected or improperly treated, it produces permanent problems that can last well into adulthood.
Dr. Paget: What are the typical symptoms or complaints that a child or parent may have as they go to their primary care pediatrician?
Dr. Lehman: Often, parents go to the doctor and say "He seems to be limping" or "He looks a little stiff when he wakes up in the morning." Because children with arthritis frequently have morning stiffness that resolves over a period of time, the pediatrician will examine the child quickly, not recognize the child's limitation in motion, and say "Everything looks fine to me – it must be growing pains". But children should never have growing pains during the day. Growing pains are a night-time phenomenon. Sometimes they may wake the child up in the middle of the night, but when that child wakes up in the morning, he should be fine. If he isn't fine when he wakes up in the morning, it's not growing pains.
Dr. Paget: What are the more typical types of medical problems and joint problems that a child would have, and are they differentiated with regard to age?
Dr. Lehman: Children with arthritis have a large variety of conditions. Although we used to talk about juvenile rheumatoid arthritis to refer to any child under the age of 16 with arthritis, we now know that there are 15 to 20 different conditions that cause arthritis in childhood. Some, like pauciarticular juvenile arthritis, frequently start in young children, little boys and little girls with a swollen knee, who often just seem too stiff or don't walk right when they first get up in the morning, but they are fine later. Often, it takes a number of months before the parents realize there is really a problem when someone points out their child's knee is swollen.
Other examples are the older children who often come in and they've been told previously that they are clumsy. Or they've had multiple sprained ankles or multiple injuries and they've been told it's just because they are bad athletes or they don't loosen up. But they have one of the spondyloarthropathies. When you recognize a diagnosis and give them the appropriate treatment, they feel much better and they do much better.
Throughout the whole spectrum of rheumatic disease, each age group has its most common presentations – its most common diseases – and each of those has a different outcome and a different best treatment.
Dr. Paget: What should primary care pediatricians do on a regular basis to make sure that they don't miss these problems?
Dr. Lehman: The most important advice for primary care pediatricians is "Listen to mothers." We don't expect the primary care pediatrician to understand all of the different diagnoses of childhood rheumatic disease, and we don't need them to know which one it is, but if the mother comes in and says "My child doesn't walk right in the morning," or "My child has a problem," the primary care pediatrician shouldn't be dismissing it as growing pains without a proper evaluation. If that mother comes in and mentions pain in the child's joints more than once, that child should be referred to a rheumatologist so that somebody can properly reassure the mother there isn't a problem or properly diagnose what is going on.
Dr. Paget: What are some of the danger signs that the mother and the pediatrician should keep in mind?
Dr. Lehman: I think pain and stiffness are the two biggest ones. Children don't normally complain of pain during the day. They don't complain of back pain and knee pain unless something is going on. Stiffness – there is no good reason a child should be stiff when he wakes up in the morning or walk funny when he wakes up in the morning unless he has an underlying condition. Physicians and parents need to be attentive to these kinds of problems and make sure that children with these problems are appropriately treated.
Dr. Paget: What about other symptoms, such as fever, weight loss, failure to thrive?
Dr. Lehman: When you see children, especially the older child, you have to be very concerned about what I call adolescent failure to thrive. The child is not doing well. The child has been losing weight. The child is losing interest in school, or has had rashes, fevers or night sweats. Those can be symptoms of many different chronic diseases. The rheumatic diseases, such as lupus, scleroderma, and dermatomyositis, all may start with those conditions. So can tuberculosis, leukemia, and Hodgkin's disease. A child who is failing to thrive, for whatever reason in that older age group, should be referred to an appropriate specialist for a complete diagnostic work-up.
Dr. Paget: Why is it important to make a diagnosis as early as possible?
Lehman: In every one of the childhood rheumatic diseases, it doesn't just go away. They don't just grow out of it. There is a small proportion of young children with pauciarticular JRA who do, in fact, get well. All the other rheumatic diseases progressively cause problems over time. The sooner you recognize the disease, the faster you can start appropriate therapy, put that fire out and prevent damage from being done and prevent continued problems from occurring.
Paget: Let's take a few specific disorders. What is your diagnostic, clinical and therapeutic approach to what is called juvenile rheumatoid arthritis?
Dr. Lehman: The first thing to understand is that a "juvenile rheumatoid arthritis" doesn't exist anymore. We now have "juvenile inflammatory arthritis or "juvenile idiopathic arthritis." The reason is that juvenile rheumatoid arthritis has nothing to do with rheumatoid arthritis in adults. It is not rheumatoid factor positive; it should be rheumatoid factor negative. So it's a different disease - it's JIA. Within that, there are a number of different conditions. If you take a young child who is stiff when she wakes up in the morning, has a sore knee, that child probably has typical pauciarticular JIA. With appropriate therapy, we can prevent her from having leg length discrepancies, which can come from uncontrolled inflammation. We can prevent her from developing contractures and get her back as a fully functional young adult or young child at that point.
More importantly, many of these children have painless and unsuspected eye disease. They may have eye disease picked up early when they were referred to an ophthalmologist and, when properly diagnosed, we can fix their vision. If that goes undiagnosed for a long period of time, these children can end up blind. We need to catch these children; we need to figure out what is going on, and we need to get them appropriately taken care of.
In the older child, I frequently see children with what I call sausage digit - one big swollen finger. People think "Well, she recurrently stubs her finger" or sometimes it's a toe. "She must recurrently stub her toe or maybe it's always basketball injury, they are chronically doing it." These children often have arthritis in multiple joints that everyone has been dismissing. This is a chronic form of arthritis that is going to cause significant disability in adult life if it is not detected.
Once you detect the disease, you can get the child on appropriate disease-modifying agents and, instead of having somebody who grows up to life-long complaints like "Yeah, I've always had back problems" or "Yeah, my knees are bad – I must have played too much football or I must have done something skiing," you restore them to good health. They get their strength back, and you can make sure they grow up to be good-function adults.
With proper care today, the vast majority of my patients will walk right past you on the street and you won't realize that they are children who have had arthritis. In the old days, you used to walk into the JRA clinic and there would be kids in wheelchairs. We don't have wheelchairs anymore. Proper care keeps these children mobile, productive members of society, out there working, having their own families. They are fully functional individuals that you don't see.
Dr. Paget: You mentioned the term "disease-modifying". Could you tell the website audience what that means?
Dr. Lehman: Sure, disease-modifying drugs are the drugs that will change how the outcome of the disease is going to be. One of the key concepts in rheumatic disease right now is that, with uncontrolled disease, the damage index continues to go up at a relatively constant slope over time. If you treat with a disease-modifying agent, you change the slope of that damage index so that, over time, instead of having increased damage and being an increasingly dependent member of society, the child can keep functioning at a higher, employable working level. And, when we actually look at what happens to the children now, they tend to come out above average. They do very well in their social and their economic outcome. They are a little bit more focused because they are not out there as much as the others, and they do very well.
Dr. Paget: What kind of medications are you talking about?
Dr. Lehman: Virtually every medicine that is used by the adult rheumatologist is used by the experienced pediatric rheumatologist. Long ago, we used to have worry that they hadn't been specifically tested in children. But if you held back until every drug that we used in adults had been specifically tested in children, you wouldn't be able to give them any of the latest therapy. And you would be depriving these children – who are growing and at the stage where their joints are the most vulnerable to most long-term deformity – of the best possible medicine.
So right now we go through everything that is available for adult rheumatology and, in the appropriate child, with very careful monitoring, we use those drugs. And we are getting excellent outcomes.
Dr. Paget: That includes what medications specifically?
Dr. Lehman: That includes all of the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. For severe arthritis, we use a lot of sulfasalazine. Methotrexate is routinely used in pediatric rheumatology. Enbrel, the new biologic modifier, is being used. Kineret is being used. All of these drugs now, especially with the new emphasis by the FDA on pediatric approvals, have been tested in children. Although we don't wait for the official results to be out, we wait until it has been proven safe for children, and we then can show that these are very effective drugs and that we can alter the outcome for these children.
Dr. Paget: Let's move to a different disorder – systemic lupus erythematosus. Do the children present in different ways than adults with that disorder, and how do you treat them?
Dr. Lehman: Children with systemic lupus are a very important sub-group. As you know, we have a big center for children with systemic lupus erythematosus here and tremendous experience with that disease. Sometimes they present explosively, but far more often, they present as that childhood or adolescent failure to thrive. We see a child who is just not doing well, seems to be withdrawing from school, isn't acting right, seems to be a little depressed, losing weight. Sometimes they are having rash, sometimes they are having fever, but often the family doesn't really recognize that rash and fever as coming from lupus. They don't know what they are coming from. Often the child has arthritis, but the family can't recognize it; the kid just hurts all over.
Once we see those children, they get started on an appropriate low dose of corticosteroids. Many of them get much better with just an appropriate low dose. When they don't, when it appears that they are going to require moderate or high doses of steroids for any period of time, we switch them over to immunosuppressive therapy with consistent use of systematic intravenous cyclophosphamide. We have a large number of children who have biopsy-proven diffuse glomerulonephritis who now look normal. They are off medications, they are productive young adults on no medicine at all, they are not Cushingoid, they don't have avascular necrosis. All of those long-term steroid side effects, that cause so much morbidity, we can avoid by getting them off the steroids and on appropriate immunosuppressive drugs.
We have been extremely successful in keeping those children. So instead of saying "I hated the doctor, the steroids gave me acne, the steroids made me fat, the steroids gave me stretch marks," they come to us when they are on the intravenous Cytoxan and say "I don't even remember that I have lupus except when I have to come to my doctor appointments".
Dr. Paget: How important is the partnership among the child, the parents, and the physician in defining a good outcome?
Dr. Lehman: It's crucial. You have to have the faith of the child and the family in the physician. A treating team of physician, parent and child working together is going to get a good outcome. If you have three poles, each pointing in a different direction, you can't go anywhere. Whenever you are working in pediatric rheumatology, one of our key issues is recognizing that we are dealing with children, who don't necessarily have the same attitude towards illness and responsibility as adults have. We are also dealing with parents, who may have conflicting opinions about what should be done for a child and an incomplete understanding of the importance of the medication. And, we are dealing with ourselves.
Pediatric rheumatologists are primarily educators. We have to educate that child to know what to expect and how to respond. We have to educate the parents so that they believe in the therapy that we are giving to their child. When the three of us work together then we can get an excellent outcome. If one part of the team is running off in another direction, it is never going to work out as well. One of the most important aspects of being a pediatric rheumatologist is knowing you have to be the coach, you have to nurture the team, and keep the team together. That is very different from being an adult rheumatologist, where it is just you and that patient. I have to keep dad in the picture, I have to keep mom in the picture, I have to keep the patient believing in what we are doing, and I have to worry about what grandma is saying at home.
Dr. Paget: Things have gotten so much better, but they clearly need to go further. What can people expect for the future with regard to progress?
Dr. Lehman: We have made tremendous progress in pediatric rheumatology over the past 20 years. I have been doing this for 25 years now and, having started off walking into clinics full of children in wheelchairs, we have virtually banished wheelchairs from this hospital. The biggest obstacle right now is that there aren't enough pediatric rheumatologists and there are too many children who aren't getting the care early enough in their disease. They are being dismissed as having growing pains, dismissed as having a minor injury from sports, and not getting to the physician soon enough to fix the problems.
If they get to us early, we can put out the small fires, and we can get excellent results. If they come to us after they have arthritis for 10 or 15 years, we are going to replace their joints and make them functional again. But we can't restore them the way we can if we got them the proper therapy early in the disease. Then we can make them perfectly functional adults.
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The month-long United Nations conference to draw up a global Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) failed to achieve consensus after the United States, Russia, and China requested more time to consider a draft treaty, according to the United Nations. The draft treaty, which would have required national gun registration, required unanimity among the nations assembled in order to advance.
"I am disappointed that the Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) concluded its four-week-long session without agreement on a treaty text that would have set common standards to regulate the international trade in conventional arms," UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. Ban termed the lack of agreement a "setback." Ban said that the UN's commitment to signing "a robust ATT is steadfast" and that the global body would continue to work toward what he termed "a noble goal."
Proponents of the global gun control measure argued that the ATT draft treaty would not have impacted private firearms ownership in the United States under the Second Amendment, as the treaty was nominally directed to international transfer of firearms. Of course, assurances that gun ownership will not be impacted by the UN treaty fell on deaf ears to the National Rifle Association and other supporters of the Second Amendment. While draft versions of the ATT did not explicitly call for the ban on privately held firearms, they did call for national gun registration and vague "control" measures that could be implied to include gun collection. From an administration that recently argued in court that not purchasing health insurance constituted interstate "commerce" that Congress can regulate under the Constitution, gun owners were not about to give the federal government a loophole that allowed for confiscation of firearms — even an improbable loophole.
Moreover, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sold the idea of a gun treaty to enhance the prestige and power of the United Nations. "A strong treaty would rid the world of the appalling human cost of the poorly regulated international arms trade," the Secretary-General said. "It would also enhance the ability of the United Nations to cope with the proliferation of arms."
The Obama administration had reversed a U.S. vote at the UN in 2006 (under the Bush administration) against an ATT on condition that the ATT be unanimously adopted. The Obama administration's ambassador even delivered a July 12 speech at the convention in support of the agreement, but after the draft treaty was released, the Obama administration asked for more time to consider the treaty, effectively killing the agreement.
Anti-gun organizations were crestfallen, and blamed the Obama administration for caving to domestic political pressure as the reason for the ATT conference failure. Scott Stedjan, senior policy advisor at Oxfam America said:
Today the United States did not grab the golden ring: an international arms treaty that would have bolstered our country's reputation as a leader on human rights. The White House's failure of courage to press this treaty to conclusion today and is a loss for hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians that die each year from armed violence fueled by the unregulated transfer of arms. Moving forward President Obama must show the political courage required to make a strong treaty that contains strong rules on human rights a reality. It was this courage that was missing from this week.


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It's kind of hard to believe that it's taken until now for Frigidaire to make a French-door refrigerator, which I learned about yesterday in training (aka Warners' Stellian University, no joke – that's what we call it).
They're pretty big, measuring standard depth, 36 inches across and a capacity of 28 cubic feet. We'll be getting counter-depth models in the winter, if you're holding your breath till then.
Both models have gliding shelves, a full-width drawer big enough for a sheet cake or — if you're like me — 35 beverage cans and another can dispenser on the door to boot.
The sticker price on the FGHN2844LF is $1,799, but you can also score a $100 Warners' Stellian rebate through Aug. 1.
For about $400, the FGHB2869 (in smooth white or black — pearl/ebony) you move up to an ice and water dispenser, slick showcase LED lighting, in-unit air filtration (i.e. no icky smell or ice taste) and a really sweet wine/2-liter/can caddy holder thing.
For another $300, the FGHB2869LF moves you up to stainless steel pictured above right.
Also — and this is totally aesthetic, I-want-you-to-envy-my-fridge feature — I had a slight oh-ah moment over the IQ-touch control panel on the inside of the left door, just like the Electrolux models.


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Logging into Facebook to check up on my old college roommate yesterday, I noticed there was a giant message telling me to use Facebook Mobile. Technically, Facebook has had basic mobile features for quite some time (looking at your profile, reading messages), but my friends and I never bothered to use them, specifically because of their lack of support for my carrier T-Mobile. What is new is their mobile tab, which gives you live previews of what different parts of the site will look like on your device. There's also a Fire feature that lets you "set fire" to one of your friends. This won't send them into friend purgatory, rather it sends them a neat status message. It's the equivalent of poking them, and is another useless but amusing Facebook feature for saying hi to people you know in a peculiar way.
I have a few buddies who will get a kick out of the new mobile tab and the firing feature, and I'm sure most twentysomethings with smart phones and corporate data plans will be taking advantage of the mobile interface now that Facebook is actually advertising it. That is, at least until everyone and their brother gets an Apple iPhone in June.


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Two of New Zealand's greatest scientists spent childhood years in Havelock and attended the same primary school, more than 30 years apart. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ernest Rutherford was the first to split the atom, and rocket scientist William Pickering oversaw many NASA missions to the moon.
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What does the orbit of the Moon around the Sun look like? Most people, even almost all mathematicians I've asked this question, tend to believe that it will have loops and look something like the picture below.
In fact it looks like this picture!
It is not a circle, but is close to a 12-gon with rounded corners. It is locally convex in the sense that it has no loops and the curvature never changes sign. (To be precise, it is more like a 13-gon, since we have to consider the sidereal month of 27.32 days instead of the synodic month of 29.54 days, and 365.25/27.32 = 13.37.)
There are several ways to see this. Since the eccentricities are small, we can assume that the orbits of the Earth around the Sun and the Moon around the Earth are both circles. The radius of the Earth's orbit is about 400 times the radius of the Moon's orbit. The Moon makes about 13 revolutions in the course of a year. The speed of the Earth around the Sun is about 30 times the speed of the Moon around the Earth. That means that the speed of the Moon around the Sun will vary between about 103% and 97% of the speed of the Earth around the Sun. In particular, the speed of the Moon around the Sun will never be negative, so the Moon will never loop backwards.
I like to visualize this as follows. Imagine you're driving on a circular race track. You overtake a car on the right, and immediately slow down and go into the left lane. When the other car passes you, you speed up and overtake on the right again. You will then be making circles around the other car, but when seen from above, both of you are driving forward all the time and your path will be convex.
Another approach is to compute the gravitational forces involved. It can be shown that the Sun's pull on the Moon is about twice the Earth's pull on the Moon. It follows that the Moon's orbit is primarily determined by the gravitation pull from the Sun, so the orbit of the Earth will always curve towards the Sun.
Here is a sketch of the details. (G MassSun MassMoon/Distance(Sun-Moon)^2)/(G MassEarth MassMoon/Distance(Earth-Moon)^2) = (MassSun/MassEarth) (Distance(Earth-Moon)/Distance(Sun-Moon))^2. But Distance(Sun-Moon) is close to Distance(Sun-Earth), and Distance(Earth-Moon)/Distance(Sun-Earth) is 1/390 while MassSun/MassEarth = 3.34X10^5, so we get 2.20.
You may also want to remember that it is the barycenter of the Earth-Moon system that moves in an ellipse around the Sun, and that the orbits of both the Earth and the Moon are perturbations of this ellipse.
If we assume that the ellipses are circles, the radius of the Moon's orbit is 1, the radius of the Earth's orbit is d, and that the Moon makes p revolutions while the Earth makes one, then we get curves of the form (d cos(t) + cos(p t), d sin(t) + sin(p t)). Above I used d=400 and p=13, but if we had changed the parameters, we could have gotten pictures like these.
It turns out that we loops when d < p, a wiggly path when p < d < p^2 and a convex path if p^2 < d. For details, see the article by Brannen.
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Eight new astronaut candidates arrived in Houston this week to begin two years of training. The candidates were selected from a pool of over 6,000 applicants.
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DETROIT - Marco Scutaro singled home the tiebreaking run in the 10th inning, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Detroit Tigers 4-3 on Sunday night to complete a four-game sweep and win their second World Series title in three years.
Ryan Theriot, who went hitless for St. Louis in Game 7 of last year's Series, singled softly into right field off Phil Coke opening the 10th.
Brandon Crawford sacrificed, nearly bunting the ball past Coke. Angel Pagan struck out and Scutaro singled into short centre field as Theriot slid home ahead of Austin Jackson's throw.


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There could be roundings involved and/or infinite decimal expansions that can lead to inaccurate representations or better say, losing of some precision off the number. Owing to that, even though you would expect a number to match a definite expansion that the calculation may have lead to, it may not.
An easy way to handle that is to choose a reasonable tolerance in the comparison. For example, we could choose a tolerance of 0.0000001 when comparing two doubles for equality such that the absolute value of their difference if less than this value then, you could consider them to be equal or better say, 'close enough' for most reasonable cases. This tolerance can, however, be insufficient if:
1) The numbers are very large or if the numbers are very small in value for the tolerance to be able to compare to their difference.
2) If there have been multiple arithematic operations performed that could lead to compounded incorrectness (owing to multiple roundings/loss of precision involved) in the result.
In C++, there is a value std::numeric_limits
There could more factors than that mentioned in 2) that can cause the rounding error. Apart from arithematic operations, it could be type promotions or binary conversions that can cause more than epsilon() rounding error. So, combination of 2 arithematic operations could lead to more than 2*epsilon. I don't know how quantifiable that is, but by a safer choice of N (number of arithematic operations involved), we hope to be able to overcome the problem in most practical cases. :-)
For the short-coming mentioned in 1), we would need to bring the epsilon to the degree of large-ness or small-ness of the numbers involved. Considering this, you might have something like:
template<typename T>
bool fequal(T x, T y, int N)
T diff = std::abs(x-y);
T tolerance = N*std::numeric_limits
return (diff <= tolerance*std::abs(x) && diff <= tolerance*std::abs(y)); //caters to 1)
where x and y are the input numbers being compared for near equality and N is the approximate number of rounding errors you are expecting.
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Hundreds of thousands of people are flooding into Washington this weekend for the Inauguration.
But some are getting out of town.
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As Democrats get ready to revel in their November victory, many Republicans are hitting the road to destinations near and far — a Washington tradition among the political class on the losing side of a presidential election.
( PHOTOS: Past presidential inaugurations)
"At the swearing-in hour, I will be at hole No. 5 of Desert Forest Golf Club in Carefree, Ariz.," Republican consultant Charlie Black said.
It's not the first time the veteran Republican operative has opted to stay away from the inaugural hoopla. He's reprising the same trip from four years ago.
"Frankly, there's nothing you can do business-wise Monday or Tuesday," Black said of his decision to decamp in Arizona. "I have nothing to go to."
The flight seems particularly noticeable this year. No former GOP presidents, vice presidents or Senate leaders are coming, POLITICO has learned. And Newt Gingrich is the only former GOP speaker who has RSVP'd "yes" just days before the event.
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Even many current lawmakers, like Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), are skipping the festivities. Paul is slated to be in South Carolina on Monday for a meeting of conservatives hosted by political analyst Mallory Factor.
Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss is leading a group of Republicans to Florida for the weekend to raise money for his Republican Majority Fund. Cost to get out of town: a $1,500 personal check or $3,000 for political action committees. Chambliss is expected to be in Washington on Inauguration Day.
Conservatives are going near and far — from a long weekend in Philadelphia to jetting off across the pond; there are few Republicans who plan on taking part in the festivities.
For some, it's an opportunity to do some business. Kevin Madden, former Mitt Romney spokesman, is in Charleston, S.C., for his firm JDA Frontline's annual retreat.
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1. Summary
Violence against the press has swept the nation and destroyed Mexicans' right to freedom of expression. This national crisis demands a full-scale federal response.
The Committee to Protect Journalists prepared this report to highlight the alarming problem of impunity in attacks on the press in Mexico. CPJ's analysis points to systemic failures that if left unaddressed will further erode freedom of expression and the rule of law. Vital national and international interests are at stake.
Attacks on journalists endanger the nation
Twenty-two journalists have been murdered since President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa took office in December 2006, at least eight in direct reprisal for reporting on crime and corruption. Three media support workers have been slain and at least seven other journalists have gone missing during this period. In addition, dozens of journalists have been attacked, kidnapped, or forced into exile.
impunity has taken root at the state and local levels where most anti-press
crimes are investigated. The criminal justice system has failed to successfully
prosecute more than 90 percent of press-related crimes over the last decade,
CPJ research shows.
In case after case, CPJ has found negligent work by state prosecutors and police. Authorities have used unlawful methods, including coercion of witnesses and fabrication of evidence, on several occasions. Complicity between police and criminals is so common that many people interviewed by CPJ see the justice system as being controlled by the criminals. Pervasive self-censorship is a debilitating product of this lawlessness. News outlets, fearful of reprisals, are abandoning not only investigative reporting but basic daily coverage of crime and corruption.
The federal government has only intermittently recognized anti-press violence as a national problem. In 2006, under the presidency of Vicente Fox, the government created a federal special prosecutor's office to investigate crimes against the press. Although the office was initially considered a step forward in combating impunity, it has proved ineffective.
believes the federal government must intervene directly to guarantee the right
of free expression enshrined in the Mexican Constitution. Journalists
themselves must contribute more to this effort. Reporters and editors have been
corrupted by the same drug cartels that have infiltrated nearly every sector of
society. And
Case study: Murder goes unexamined, unpunished
in two vehicles intercepted reporter Bladimir Antuna García's SUV as he was
driving on a main street in the northwestern city of
was considered the top crime reporter in
Antuna reported the threats and attack to the state attorney general's office, but no agents ever contacted him directly, he told fellow journalists. The state attorney general said Antuna never signed a complaint so the office could take no action. But the claim appears to be contradicted by records on file at the attorney general's office. Those records include an official complaint signed by Antuna.
State authorities took little action after Antuna was murdered. A state prosecutor told CPJ that detectives conducted only cursory interviews with witnesses and the victim's wife. Virtually no other investigative work was done. Many local journalists have concluded that authorities don't want to solve the murder. Because the killers have gone unpunished, journalists said, in-depth crime reporting has essentially stopped in Durango.
Case study: Ceding information to the cartels
The Gulf cartel controls much of the local government in the eastern city of Reynosa, from law enforcement down to street vendor permitting, journalists and residents told CPJ. That story has not been reported in the local news media, however, because the cartel also controls the press.
Drug traffickers enforce censorship in Reynosa with threats, attacks, and payoffs. Many reporters take bribes from the cartel to slant or withhold coverage, journalists told CPJ. Some types of coverage are strictly prohibited. Reporters know, for example, to ignore kidnappings and extortion.
Journalists also know the grave consequences of defying the traffickers. Said one editor: "They will abduct you; they will torture you for hours; they will kill you, and then dismember you." In a chilling illustration of the traffickers' enforcement methods, three Reynosa journalists disappeared in March 2010 and are feared dead.
Events in 2010 illustrate how deeply censorship has taken hold. In February 2010, gunfights erupted in the streets as the Gulf cartel and the Zetas warred over control of the area. Reports in the U.S. press put deaths among gangsters in the dozens, but the local press provided virtually no coverage. In April 2010, in a brazen assault on the army, gangsters drove a convoy of SUVs to the front of a Reynosa military base and attacked with assault rifles and hand grenades. The military issued a press release, but there was virtually no independent reporting on the assault.
A national crisis is a federal responsibility
Four years after launching a national offensive against organized crime, the federal government has failed to take responsibility for widespread attacks on free expression. Corrupt state and local authorities remain largely in charge of fighting crimes against the press. Federal authorities take jurisdiction only if they conclude an offense is linked to organized crime or if military firearms are involved.
But the federal government has national and international responsibilities. Articles 6 and 7 of the Mexican Constitution guarantee individual rights to freedom of expression and freedom of the press. As a signatory to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Mexico has an obligation to uphold the right to free expression enshrined in that document.
CPJ and other press advocates support sweeping reforms that would add crimes against free expression to the federal penal code, and make federal authorities responsible for investigating and prosecuting attacks on the press. Other steps should be taken as well. A stronger and more autonomous federal special prosecutor for crimes against the press is vital. The creation of a government committee to provide direct protection for at-risk journalists would help as well.
Since 2008, the executive branch and Congress have moved haltingly to federalize anti-press crimes. Meeting with a CPJ delegation in June 2008, President Calderón declared support for a constitutional amendment to federalize crimes against freedom of expression. His proposal has failed to advance, however, as have other measures introduced in the legislature. Gridlock in Congress and opposition in the states are dimming prospects for reform. With many state-level politicians in league with criminal gangs, corrupt officials have much to fear from federalization.
Federalization will not end violence caused by drug trafficking and other criminal activities. CPJ has found numerous instances in which corrupt or lax federal authorities have failed to respond to anti-press violence. But federalization would send an important message that national leaders recognize the gravity of the situation. The more Mexico allows the news to be controlled by criminals, the more it erodes its status as a reliable global partner. Federal authorities are better trained, subject to greater scrutiny, and have greater resources than their local counterparts. They must be given responsibility to address this national crisis.Go to Chapter 2 >>
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Eastman Fire Ruled Accidental | News
A fire that destroyed two Eastman businesses Wednesday afternoon was ruled accidental.
Fire officials say the fire apparently broke out in the attic of Soo's Fashion Shop on 3rd Street and Main Street around noon and spread to a nearby diner -- the Lunch Box Club at Roy's.
There was a firewall between the Lunch Box and a third business, which officials say was able to help them stop it before it spread to the entire street.
A third business, Jonathan's Salon, suffered smoke and water damage. Other businesses may also have suffered some damage.
Glen Allen, spokesman for the state Insurance and Fire Commissioner, says the fire was electrical in nature.
RELATED | Eyewitness Describes the Eastman Fire
One person, who was not a firefighter, suffered a sprained ankle. Fire officials could not describe how that person was injured. No one else was hurt, they say.
Velisa Williams worked as a waitress at the Lunch Box and says everyone was able to escape safely, but is now concerned about how the loss of the buildings will affect Eastman.
"People count on them," she said about downtown businesses. "We all support each other, and this is awful for all of us."
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With blueberries, the possibilities seem endless. From a slice of pie to a breakfast treat to a dinner entre, there�s plenty of ways to enjoy them.
With blueberries, the possibilities seem endless. From a slice of pie to a breakfast treat to a dinner entre, there�s plenty of ways to enjoy them. It�s no wonder that the U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council calls them �little blue dynamos.� We pulled these three recipes from the council�s website, with an eye on breakfast, dinner and a great dessert to serve up. To find more, check out www.blueberrycouncil.org. And you can find even more great ideas at the North Carolina Blueberry Council website at northcarolinablueberries.com.
1 package (8 ounces) Mascarpone or light cream cheese, softened
� cup confectioners� sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
� cup frozen or fresh blueberries
8 (7-inch) flour tortillas
2 Tbs. butter, divided
Blueberry Sauce (recipe below)
In a mixing bowl, beat cheese with confectioners� sugar and vanilla until smooth. Spread each tortilla with 2 tablespoons of the cheese mixture. Place 6 blueberries down the center of each tortilla; roll jelly-roll style.
In a skillet, over medium heat, melt 1 tablespoon of the butter; place 4 of the wraps seam-side down in skillet and cook, turning occasionally, until evenly browned, about 3 minutes.
Repeat with remaining butter and wraps.
Serve topped with warm Blueberry Sauce.
Blueberry Sauce: In a small saucepan, stir together 3 tablespoons sugar and 1 � tsp. cornstarch; stir in � cup orange juice and 1 cup frozen or fresh blueberries. Cook and stir over medium heat until sauce is thickened and blueberries just begin to burst, about 5 minutes.
� to 1 pound pork tenderloin
2 Tbs. butter, divided
2 medium onions, sliced
� tsp. salt
� tsp. ground black pepper
2 Tbs. sugar
� cup port wine or sweet sherry
2 Tbs. balsamic vinegar
1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries
1 cup chopped cherry tomatoes
Preheat broiler and broil pork, turning occasionally, until cooked through, about 20 minutes. Remove to a platter and cover to keep warm
Meanwhile, in a large skillet over medium-high heat, melt 2 tablespoons of the butter. Add onions, salt and pepper. Cook until onions are golden, about 10 minutes. Add sugar. Cook until onions are caramelized, 3 minutes longer. Add port, balsamic, blueberries and tomatoes. Bring to a boil. Remove from heat.
Thinly slice pork and serve with sauce.
1 frozen or homemade pie shell (9 inch)
1 jar (10 ounces) blueberry jam or fruit spread
�-tsp. ground cinnamon
4 cups fresh blueberries
Sweetened whipped cream or vanilla ice cream (as needed)
Following package or recipe directions, prebake pie shell. Cool
In a microwaveable dish, combine blueberry jam and cinnamon. Microwave on high until mixture liquefies, about 1 minute. Stir in fresh blueberries
Spoon blueberry mixture into prepared shell. Chill
Serve with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.


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If you didn't know, the Dalai Lama is a Mac user. He also happens to be an advocate for an ethnic Turkish group spread throughout Eastern and Central Asia who are embroiled in a human rights battle with the Chinese government. The combination of these two factors have security firm Kaspersky Labs believing that a new backdoor exploit found on Macs is targeted specifically towards his high holiness and Uyghur people he's advocating for.
According to Kaspersky, the origin of this new malware comes from Chinese hackers, arriving in the form of a Zip file. Inside that file is an image and a piece of executable code, delivered with a message to encourage recipients (presumably political dissidents) to install the attachment. Once installed, the computer connects to a command and control server, and the malware creators are able to run commands on the hijacked machine. Obviously the internet has become a fertile breeding ground for protest, but whoever thought the Dalai Lama would be the focus of a high-tech attack? [SecureList via Ubergizmo]


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I decided to give my brick wall (Lizzie Smith) search a glam new name, so SmithQuest it is.
For a while I'll be giving SmithQuest a rest, since trying to ferret out information on Smiths in Tennessee has become a little bit wearisome, even though I've made some progress on this front.
However, before I take a break to work on other families, there are some things I need to do to get set up for more searching in the future:
1. Get in touch with the people who have Ancestry trees on the Smith families that I have identified as good candidates or who have posted on these families in various message boards.
2. Put inquiries in the Smith, Bonner, and relevant geographic location message boards on these families. This may take a while to produce results, but hey, I've got time.
3. Compile as complete a timeline as possible for Lizzie's whereabouts, starting with her marriage to Hiram in December 1891 (her first documented location with a specific date).
4. Survey all the online newspaper archives I can find to see if there are any that cover any of the places where Lizzie Smith lived and subscribe to any that cover the relevant areas (this is where the timeline comes in handy).
Hoping to get a good block of time to work on these items this weekend.
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The Phils are done in again by the bullpen as they lose to the Twins, 12-5.
The bullpen allows 11 runs to score, doing in the Phils as they lose their third spring training game, dropping this one to the Twins, 12-5.
The Phils took the lead in the first as, with two men on, and with one man out, Ryan Howard hits an RBI single, knocking in Ben Revere, who had started the game off with a single, then stole second base, giving the Phils a 1-0 lead, while sending Dom Brown, who had just walked, on to third base. One batter later, the Phils took a 2-0 lead as Carlos Ruiz hits a sacrifice fly, scoring Brown. The Twins got a run back in the second as, with runners on the corners, and with two men out, Aaron Hicks hits an RBI single to third, knocking in Chris Parmelee, who had earlier singled, had moved up to second base on Chris Colabello's walk, then stopped at third base on Pedro Florimon's force out, 5-4, wiping out Colabello at second base, cutting the Phils' lead to 2-1. The Phils would get a run back in the third as, with two men on, and with one man out, Ruiz hits an RBI single, knocking in Brown, who had reached base on first baseman Colbello's fielding error, then moved up to second base on Howard's walk, giving the Phils a 3-1 lead, while sending Howard, who had just walked, up to second base. The Twins cut the Phils' lead down to 3-2 in the fourth as, with a man on third, via a three base fielding error by right fielder John Mayberry, Jr. and with nobody out, Hicks hits an RBI double, knocking in Florimon, who had gone to third on Mayberry's error. Four batters later, with men on the corners, as Hicks stopped at third base on Josh Willingham's single, and with two men out, the Twins took the lead as Ryan Doumit hits a three-run home run, his first home run of the spring, knocking in both Hicks and Doumit, giving the Twins a 6-3 lead. The Phils got a run back in the fifth as, with one man on, and with one man out, Brown hits an RBI double, knocking in Revere, who had started the inning off by reaching first base on second baseman Ray Olmedo's fielding error, making it a 6-4 Twins' lead. The Phils then made it a 6-5 Twins' lead two batters later as, with Brown now on third base, via a Howard's ground out, 3-unassisted, and wth two men out, Ruiz hits an RBI single, scoring Brown. The Twins increased their lead in the sixth as, with two men on, via a double by Wilkin Ramirez and a walk by pinch hitter Joe Benson, and with one man out, Drew Butera hits an RBI single, knocking in Ramirez, giving the Twins a 7-5 lead, while sending Benson all the way to third base. The Twins then took an 8-5 lead as Mark Sobolewski hits an RBI single, scoring Benson, while moving Butera up to second base. Two batters later, with runners still on first and second, and now with two men out, Jeff Clement hits an RBI single, knocking in Butera, making it a 9-5 Twins' lead, while sending Sobolewski on to third base, before going up to second base on the late throw to third. The Twins increased their lead again in the seventh as, with runners on second and third, and with nobody out, Ramirez hits an RBI infield single, scoring Brandon Boggs, who had started the inning off with a walk, then stopped at third base on Olmedo's double, giving the Twins a 10-5 lead, while sending Olmedo, who had just doubled, over to third. Three batters later, after Benson had walked to load up the bases, and Butera had hit into a 5-2 force out for the inning's first out, as catcher Sebastian Valle touched home plate in front of Olmedo, while Ramirez and Benson both moved up a base, leaving the bases loaded, and now with one man out, Sobolewski hits a two-run infeld single to short, scoring both Ramirez and Benson, giving the Twins a 12-5 lead, while sending Butera on to second base. That would be the final score as Caleb Thielbar pitched a 1-2-3 ninth, striking out the side.
John Lannan received a no-decision as he pitched two innings, giving up a run on four hits and a walk, while striking out a batter. Adam Morgan blew his first save attempt of the spring, before taking the lost (0-1, 5.40) as he pitched one and two-thirds innings, giving up four runs on five hits , while striking out four. Kyle Simon pitched a third of an inning, giving up a run on a hit. Antonio Bastardo pitched a 1-2-3 inning. Justin De Fratus pitched a third of an inning, giving up three runs on four hits and a walk. B.J. Rosenberg also pitched an inning, giving up three runs on three hits and two walks. Maurice Robles pitched a 1-2-3 inning. Kevin Correia also received a no-decision as he pitched two and a third innings, giving up three runs, two of which were earned, on five hits and two walks, as he struck out two. Brian Duensing (1-0, 10.13) got the win as he pitched one and two-thirds scoreless innings, striking out a batter. Jared Burton recorded his first hold of the spring as he pitched two-thirds of an inning, giving up two runs on three hits. Glen Perkins recorded his first hold of the spring as he went an inning and a third, giving up a hit, while striking out a batter. P.J. Walters, Andrew Albers and Caleb Thielbar would combine for three scoreless innings, giving up a hit (Albers) and a walk (Walters) between them, while striking out six batters (Walters (1), Albers (2), Thielbar (3)).
The Phils had ten hits in the game, with Ben Revere (Singles), Carlos Ruiz (Singles, 3 RBIs) and Kevin Frandsen (Singles) all leading the team with two hits each. Dom Brown (Double, RBI), Ryan Howard (Single, RBI), John Mayberry, Jr. (Double) and Pete Orr (Single) had the other four Phils hits. The Phils also had two stolen bases (Revere (2), Orr (1)) and three walks (Brown (2), Howard (1)) in the game, along with a sacrifice fly (Ruiz).
The Phils (1-3-1) next game will be played at home at Bright House Field against the Braves (3-3) tomorrow afternoon. The game is to start at 1.05 pm EDT. The Phils starter will be Cole Hamels (0-0, 0.00), who'd pitched a couple of scoreless innings in his start against the Astros on February 23, in the Phils' 8-3 lost. He will be trying to continue his strong showing on the mound. The Braves will send to the mound Paul Maholm (0-0, 0.00), who is also coming off a strong start on February 23, throwing a pair of 1-2-3 innings, in the Braves' 8-3 lost to the Yankees. He will be trying to add to his previous start. The Phils will be trying to put a second win under their belts.


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ACLU plaintiffs from East Bakersfield High School
When student journalists at East Bakersfield High School's award-winning newspaper, The Kernal, planned a series of articles about the struggles of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students at their school, they were extremely careful to make sure they had the full consent and support of not only the youth they interviewed, but their parents as well. But school officials blocked publication of the articles, claiming unsubstantiated threats against LGBT students who were interviewed for the articles.
The ACLU of Southern California and the ACLU Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Project sued the school on behalf of the newspaper staff and the students who had been interviewed, arguing that the school must deal with potential disruption by punishing those making any threats, not by squelching the free speech rights of the students who are being threatened.
Status: Victory! Settlement reached. School enacted a free speech policy and paid attorneys' fees to the ACLU.


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What is an industrial mech?
An industrial mech is a mecha that is designed for non-military applications and is made of non-military grade materials. Unlike traditional battlemechs, industrial mechs seldom if ever use fusion engine for power. Most use either internal combustion engines running on locally produced fuels, or hydrogen fuel cells. This type of power system is more bulky, heavier, and gives the industrial mech a limited operation time. In more advanced settings, a Generator Truck can provide umbilical power supplies for industrial mecha to reduce the usage of fuel. A Generator Truck is little more than a self propelled large fusion engine with power hook ups. Industrial mechs do not have armor in the same context of battlemechs. Those not involved in potentially dangerous occupations have commercial plating that can range from thick plastic panelling, to cast iron panels. Those involved in dangerous occupations are more expensive and have enviromental sealing, and roll hardened metal plating. This is generally to protect the machine and operator from accidents.
Force multiplier versus Cattlemasters
The CattleMaster is a canon industrial mech that is used for cattle ranching. I found this as ridiculous as the Harvester Ant, a combine with legs that looks like an ant. I found this concept ridiculous because the image of a mech chasing cattle is as silly as spending millions of dollars on a mech that is useful one or two weeks per year. The role of the battlemech is to project firepower onto the battle field, and engage and destroy the enemy. Also, by sheer size, the mech exists to intimidate the enemy and deter him from attacking. To this end, battlemechs are large, powerful, and sometimes inefficient in their operation. The industrial mech exists as a Force multiplier. Industrial equipment is intended to be effective and efficient in operation, so where a need for a combine exists, there will be conditions for a traditional wheeled combine and there is no need for a more expensive and complex mech. The mech is no more effective at harvesting wheat than its wheeled counterpart. For a mech to be used to do a job, it will need to be the most efficient method of completing a task. If a simpler machine, a less expensive machine, can do the same task just as well, a mech isnt going to be used.
Battletech has released some industrial mechs in the Technical Read-out series. I have issues with many of them, as almost every one of them has been put into combat roles. In many instances it was obvious to me that the mechs were intended to be second class and have junk weapons bolted to them. The industrial mech is no more a war machine than a bulldozer is a tank without a turret.
Why is this a single submission?
It would be possible to write up each and every one of the entrants below as a submission, but they are more a class. There are not going to be famous industrial mechs, or notable industrial mech pilots any more than there are iconic delivery trucks, or world famous fork-lift drivers. In a futuristic setting, these machines are going to be common, as easily overlooked at farm tractors, and road construction equipment is today.
Various programs such as Swamp Loggers, Ax-Men, and things like Modern Marvels, Mining equipment, and Heavy Metal equipment. The biggest inspiration besides wanting to do better than canon material are the original industral mechs, the Constructicons!
1. SCR-1 'Scrapper'
The Scrapper is a very common type of industrial mech. It's primary function is that of a walking front end loader. Unlike the vehicle, the Scrapper is able to operate in smaller areas, and due to it's height and more nimble controls, it can do things with a bucket of loose material that a regular front end loader can only dream of. Most Scrappers work out of pre-established work yards such as massive concrete production facilities, or goods holding areas. Those that work in the field are usually involved in surface or strip mining, or in major construction plans. There are few things that a Scrapper operator cannot either push out of the way or dig up with its big bucket.
2. SCR-1L Woodchuck
A variant of the traditional Scrapper, the Woodchuck is used in handling large cylindrical objects, replacing the bucket with a pair of large gripper claws. These claws are good for handling things such as cut trees, construction materials like culverts, girders, poles and the like. Woodchucks are drastically less common the Scrappers. There are advanced model Scrappers that have quick release systems that allow them to swap the bucket assembly for gripper claws.
3. HK-100 'Hook'
The Hook is a walking crane. Most mecha will attempt to manhandle objects with their large cumbersome hand actuators, which can lead to dents, scratches, and all sorts of unintentional damage. The Hook has an over the shoulder hoist type crane that uses a large hook to lift heavy objects. When the hoist is deployed, the mech is generally immobilized to maintain stability. When the term 'loadermech' is tossed about, it is usually in regards to machines like the Hook and it's kin.
4. HK-2000 'Hook II'
Three times the size of the traditional Hook mech, the Hook II has a telescopic crane as well as a traditional hoist crane. These mechs are used in major construction or recovery operations as their lifting power is significantly more than the traditional Hook. The Hook II and mecha like it can be found in wartime situations where its lifting potential makes it valuable as a battlemech recovery vehicle. These military Hook IIs are generally sporting a pair of defensive machine guns, mostly for the benefit of the operator's morale.
5. HK-3000 'Hermit Crab'
The Hermit Crab is a quad industrial mech, standing on four legs instead of two. The mech sacrifices the finer control of having assisting arms for the greater stability of four legs. The biggest of the 'loadermech' family, the Hermit Crab has multiple hoists for complex and delicate lifts, as well as a single large Level Luffing Crane. The design of this type of crane allows the operator better perspective of what he is doing while moving some impressive loads. Most Hermit Crabs are employed in shipyards where they put their lifting power to working on dropships and other large craft.
6. BNC-1R 'Bonecrusher'
The Bonecrusher is an imtimidating looking machine for something never intended to wade into combat. It is of heavy build and unlike the other mecha thus far, sports industrial grade plating rather than consmetic body paneling. The main implement of the Bonecrusher mech is a large metal blade. Like a bulldozer, the Bonecrusher uses this thick metal blade to push things into piles. Unlike a bulldozer, the Bonecrusher can turn the blade in interesting positions, using it to pry rocks apart, swing it to hack through trees and debris, or simply batter things down with it. This is the source of the mech's name, riding in it is a bonecrushing experience. The mech is armored so that it stands a better chance of surviving if the operator does something stupid with the blade. Many Bonecrusher pilots think they can take their mechs into combat, a premise that usually leaves the Bonecrusher a smoldering wreck. Industrial grade armor and a big metal bar are not a match for conventional mech armor and even basic weaponry.
7. BNC-2R 'Ripper'
Frequently used by stubborn agriculturalists and terraformers, the Ripper is a modified Bonecrusher that has a slightly reduced blade and a multi-pronged tool called a ripper. With ferro-carbine teeth, the ripper is a giant metal 'rake' that can be used to break up volcanic rock, and other obstinate materials. Terraformers use it to render terrain ready to receive seeding. Rippers can also be used for demolition and removal of things like abandoned roads, concrete tarmacs and other materials tha benefit from being broken up and pushed into piles before being removed. A single Ripper, a Scrapper, and a group of heavy load dump trucks can dig a hole like a man couldnt believe.
8. SVR-99 'Scavenger'
The Scavenger is a hybrid between the Scrapper and the Hook. The mech has a large boom type arm assembly which terminates in a large bucket. Scavengers are primarily employed in mining in difficult locations, such as on small bodies in space, or areas where a traditional tread style excavator cannot feasibly be deployed. Scavengers can can also be used for river dredging, as well as in digging holes for construction or fortifications. The Scavenger is an impressively large mech and in the right hands can out dig a squad of excavators. The Scavenger is often times used as a recovery vehicle, but this is rare as the mech is slow moving even by industrial mech standards.
9. LGH-7L 'Long Haul'
An uncommon industrial mech, the Long Haul is a quad mech that is little more than a storage bin with legs. The Long Haul's job is usually done (better) by conventional dump trucks. In places where wheeled or tracked vehicles arent able to go, Long Haul type mechs are used to deliver materials, or remove them as the case may be. Variants of the Long Haul are common, and include so called 'Tour bus' models with passenger capacity, to specialized container vehicles, to armored ammunition transports. These ammo carriers are sometimes refered to coffins with legs. Aside from space operations, the most common use of this mech is in underwater operations.
10. MXM-4500 'Mixmaster'
Concrete has been known since the time of the Roman Empire. The Mixmaster is the culmination of millenia of concrete handling and technology. The Mixmaster can carry as much as 40 tons of concrete to de deployed trough either a pumping system or via a gravity chute. Unlike traditional vehicle mixers, the Mixmaster can be deployed with its concrete still dry, the water or alternate liquid agent held in a secondary tank. The mech no longer has to run against a timer to deploy its cargo before it solidifies inside the drum. The most impressive use of a MixMaster involved urban fighting, where a Mixmaster pilot engaged an enemy 'Stalker' type assault mech in close combat. While the Stalker was dealing with overheating issues, the MixMaster was able to cover the enemy mech with liquid concrete. This fouled the sensor systems as well as clogging a heat sink array. While the MixMaster suffered what would later be catastrophic damage, it walked away while the Stalker would be removed weeks later with explosives and Bonecrushers.
11. UCV-1 Urban Construction Vehicle
The UCV is a non-specialized industrial mech. Functionally it is an unarmed mech that has manipulative hands and little else. The UCV can use a variety of mech sized hand tools, and specialized attachments. A UCV with a blade is going to be less effective than a fully equiped Bonecrusher, however. UCVs are used commonly for search and rescue operations, and disaster relief efforts. A UCV can remove rubble, rescue trapped people, or use its hands to build levees to stop floods and other other operations of the like. Modified UCVs are used for hazardous materials handling, or paired with responder vehicles. It can do many jobs, but it does not excel at many of them. This is a very common design.
12. VLN-2 Vulcan
This mech bears no resemblance to the urban combat mech of the same name. This Vulcan was designed to work in the hellish environment of an industrial foundry. With thick armor plating and a robust cooling system, the Vulcan can all but wade through liquid steel. The mech is designed to handle the laddles of liquid metal, load melt vessels and service equipment in temperatures that would quickly harm an unprotected person. Vulcans are squat machines with broad claw like hand actuators and large cooling stacks on the rear of the machine.
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The Curie is a modified Vulcan whose shielding is designed primarily to protect from radiation. It is designed for cleanup of irradiated areas or handling of radioactive materials. Often provided with remote operation capabilities. This variant uses a hydrogen fuel cell for power. The entire outer surface of the mech can be jettisoned, as the shielding invariably becomes somewhat radioactive itself after extended use.
14. HLW-2 Hullwalker
Based on the UCV-1, this mech has been built for operations outside of larger spacecraft, performing repairs and renovations. Equipment modifications include a thruster pack, electromagnetic feet and high quality life support system.
15. LSM-40 Longshoreman
Where the Scrapper is a walking front-end-loader, the LSM-40 is a walking forklift. Each arm ends in actuators which can handle pallet-sized loads. Both arms together function to lift standard cargo containers up to 4 high.
These mechs typically are equipped with either battery or fuelcell powersupplies, as ICE engines in the confined areas they commonly work are quite dangerous.
The Seacrab is a rare industrial use mach, seen only on water type worlds. The hulking mech moves with a series of small support legs and almost comically, a pair of propellers. One of the main uses of water type worlds is large scale aquaculture, growing edible seaweeds and such. The seacrab is an underwater tractor mech used for the planting, maintenance and harvesting of this food material
The Seacrab's big brother, the Neptune is a compact mech with articulated arms that can mount a variety of tools, powerful spotlights and unconventionally strong armor for a civilian mech.
Being able to withstand pressures found in sea trenches, the Neptune is used for deep-sea construction, tasks on heavy-G pressure-cooker worlds and scientific exploration. A larger variant holds a crew compartment and/or a small lab in its torso.
The combat use of the Neptune is limited, but its plating has been found to be highly resistant to non-energy weapons; this is compensated by its impractical weight and the mech's sluggish speed.


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The things some parents name their children, it's almost like they want to cripple their formative years. Some are just plain unfortunate.
Brock Kiely ('brocolli') - not so shaming, just hilarious that his parents didn't notice it.
Nicole Mack - an atypically tall and burly girl at my school - in Canada, extremely large lorries are called "Mack Trucks"
Leonard Poo - found him in the phonebook, used to prank call him all the time til he took his name out
Robert Gotobed (someone from my mum's childhood, also I discovered, shares the name with someone in the band Wire)
Richard Holder - that's right folks, Dick Holder
There was a kid on my brothers hockey team whose last name was Bonar, which is a shame because that is what appears blown up in capital letters on the back of his jersey. Even worse, he was the goalie, so people stare at his back the whole time while he lets in goals.
What might take the cake though: I was watching a movie the other day and in the credits I saw someone with the surname Cumstien.
I also cringe when I see women with the name Trollope. You know they pronounce it "Troh-lope" to everyone though.
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Congrats to Billy Reid! Less than a year after winning GQ's Menswear Designer of the Year award, he's also swept the CFDA Fashion Fund. Prabal Gurung and Eddie Borgo were named runners up. {Fashionista}
Looking for a new rain coat? This claims to be perfect. {Clutch22}
Girl Talk's released a new album. You can download All Day for free! {NPR}
And so the Nutcracker season begins. New York alone will see three different companies produce the ballet this winter. {NYTimes}
We're not positive this counts as a DIY, but it does look very easy. {WhatIWore}


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Genetic testing for FAP
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
My family has familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) on my mom's side. My mom has an ostomy & my brother had colon cancer 3 or 4 yrs ago. When he found out he had cancer, all of his siblings got a scope done. I had a colonoscopy done 2 yrs ago which came back normal, but my doctor wants to do genetic testing.
I guess my question is how many people actually consider genetic testing? I have never had to make such a tough decision. There are pros & cons to both sides, but after thinking about it for 2 yrs I am leaning on getting it done. What is involved in having it done? Is it just taking blood or what?
Carolyn Vachani RN, MSN, AOCN, OncoLink's Medical Correspondent, responds:
This is a very difficult decision to make. I am not sure if you have already done so, but anyone considering genetic testing should meet with a genetic counselor. Counselors are trained to present the pros and cons in an unbiased manner and follow through with the patient once the results are available.
One advantage to knowing your genetic testing results is that it can help guide your doctor's recommendations regarding what screening tests (scopes) you need and how often you need them. Without the results, your doctor may act very cautiously and advise you to have a colonoscopy every 2-3 years. However, if your physician knew that you did not have the gene that causes FAP, you may be able to have screening every 5-10 years, similar to the general public. Some researchers are concerned that if you find out that you do not have the gene, you may not be as motivated to have regular screening tests. You should understand that even if you do not have the FAP gene, you would still need to have colonoscopies, but just not as often. In addition, your results may have some effects on your other siblings or any children you have.
As you have realized, this is a difficult decision. I hope you can seek out the help of a genetic counselor in your area.
To find a counselor in your area, visit this link:
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Assistant Professor of Architecture
Andrew Bernheimer is a Brooklyn-based architect and the Principal of Bernheimer Architecture. Bernheimer was a founding partner of the award-winning firm Della Valle Bernheimer and is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Master of Architecture program at Parsons, the New School for Design. His work has been the subject of over fifty articles and publications. In 2009 "Think/Make", a monograph on the first decade of his practice at Della Valle Bernheimer, was published by Princeton Architectural Press. His diverse portfolio of public, institutional, non-profit, and private work with wide-ranging contexts and diverse client personalities has elicited a welcome variety of thought and response. Bernheimer Architecture focuses on New York's urban landscape through research and built work and their portfolio includes research, civic, private residential and affordable housing projects. Bernheimer's work has won numerous awards, including those from the AIANYC, AIANY, and AIA Los Angeles, amongst others. Bernheimer is a licensed Architect in New York State and Rhode Island and a member of NCARB. He is a member of the AIA (American Institute of Architects), a Fellow at the Institute for Urban Design and a member of the Architectural League of New York.
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