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Ixion Saga DT will start on Sunday, October 7th at 10am PDT worldwide except Japan for premium members. Free members have access in the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden.
The protagonist, Hokaze Kon, is sent to another world called Mira, the home of a mysterious energy known as Alma. Kon appears just as Princess Ecarlate is being attacked by enemies and saves her, later accompanying her party in this new world he knows nothing about. As it turns out, the princess was on her way to the capital to be married, but as the marriage was political, she has been targeted by enemies who oppose the wedding.
Since the division of the continent into the nations of Jugglaburk and Regalt, the empire of St. Piria has monopolized the power of Alma energy, and the shadow of war looms over the world. In order to avoid war between St. Piria and those who oppose it, the emperor of St. Piria planned to wed his daughter, the 36th imperial princess, Ecarlate, to the lord of the opposing nation of Jugglaburk.
Ecarlate departed for the wedding in secret, but many of her companions were killed in the enemy attack. Only a guardian knight and a maid survived, saved along with the princess by the arrival of Kon. Later, Kon is told that he might find a way back to his own world if he goes to the capital, so he accompanies the princess and her party there. Can they make it to the capital safely?
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9/27 - Gintama'
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9/30 - Ixion Saga
10/1 - My Little Monster
10/1 - Blast of Tempest
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I still waiting for Kamisama Kiss
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worldwide except Japan for premium members
Those magic words.
At least! Yes! A interesting series for worldwide! 2/7 Season saved
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Wow, an anime based on a game Capcom made that has never made it to outside Japan. I would have preferred that Capcom make a Monster Hunter anime, as that is their biggest Franchise in Japan and it actually has some visibility in the United States and Europe.
From the preview this anime seems ok but not amazing. A good anime to take the Sunday Timeslot from Oda Nobuna. I hope this is more enjoyable than that series.
Worldwide except Japan for premium members is great indeed. Good availability to the free members too.
AH! That explains why CR hadn't posted this earlier. They were getting the regions locked in. Had me worried there for a second. Looks interesting enough so I'll check it out.
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EJHicks wrote: AH! That explains why CR hadn't posted this earlier. They were getting the regions locked in. Had me worried there for a second. Looks interesting enough so I'll check it out.
Yeah, this looks like it was a direct license, so it could well be that they were able to lock in the streaming license, but the licensor had to go back to the production committee to approve the worldwide streaming for premium members. That would explain the news of the license coming out a few days before they were ready to open up the series page.
8 years as a premium member, but no more
Still no Kamisama Kiss
Doesn't seem that interesting a series (I'm not familiar with the game it's based off of, and the PV doesn't really grab me), but I'll give it the ole 3-episode view before making up my mind
wait, so available worldwide for Premium? but not worldwide for Free members?
I didn't think there was that big a difference, at least licensing-wise.
Its time for Site-wide HTTPS and dropping flash in the Manga Section.
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wait, so available worldwide for Premium? but not worldwide for Free members?
I didn't think there was that big a difference, at least licensing-wise.
It certainly makes a difference in areas where Crunchyroll wants to promote more paying members since ad-streaming would not support the cost of the license for that area. And as Japanese licensors see that the premium members in some regions are giving them a decent amount of royalties, I would expect that availability for those areas would be increased.
Crunchyroll being as worldwide with more series means good things for Crunchyroll, those countries that don't get anime streaming otherwise and for the anime industry as a whole.
great. i was looking forward to watching this show (since i'm a sucker for old style anime), and it makes me happy to see it here :D. not to mention the worldwide access.
"Memento Mori. When the nineth lion ate the sun."
Oh cool.
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Picking Up the Pieces
How James Frey flunked rehab, and why his fakery matters.
About a third of the way into A Million Little Pieces, James Frey describes a scene that supposedly occurred at Hazelden, the Minnesota rehab where much of the book's action takes place:
A Man walks out on stage and Everyone starts clapping. I recognize the Man as a famous Rock Star who was once a Patient here. He holds up his arms in triumph and he smiles and he bows and his black leather is shining and his long, greasy black hair is hanging and his patterned silk shirt is flowing …
The Rock Star, Frey writes, describes how his meteoric success eventually led him to a dissolute life of drugs and booze:
He claims that at the height of his use he would do five thousand dollars of cocaine and heroin a day mixed with four to five fifths of booze a night and up to 40 pills of valium to sleep. He says this with complete sincerity and with the utmost seriousness. … Were I in my normal frame of mind, I would stand up, point my finger, scream Fraud, and chase this Chump Motherfucker down and give him a beating. Were I in my normal frame of mind, after I gave him his beating, I would make him come back here and apologize to everyone for wasting their precious time. After the apology, I would tell him that if I ever heard of him spewing his bullshit fantasies in Public again, I would cut off his precious hair, scar his precious lips, and take all of his goddamn gold records and shove them straight up his ass.
Both of these stock characters—the narcissistic, pretty-boy rock star suffering from a laughable lack of self-awareness and the world-weary anti-hero who is choking on the crap society is shoving down his throat—are typical of the kind of cliché-ridden portraits that populate Frey's book. There's Frey's one true love, a woman who was, naturally, "tall and thin and long and blond like the thickest silk her eyes blue eyes Arctic eyes." There are the small-minded, small-town cops, "fat stupid Assholes with mustaches and beer guts and badges." There's the book-smart, life-dumb drug counselor, a "grown-up version of a kid who spent his childhood sitting behind a computer hiding from bullies." If a novelist wrote a book run through with these kind of straight-from-Central-Casting chestnuts, he'd be politely told to try again … as Frey says he was, by 17 different publishers, before, Frey says, Doubleday's Nan Talese said she'd publish his novel if he recast it as a memoir.
But as just about everyone in America knows by now, courtesy of a careful investigation of his supposed grim exploits conducted by the Smoking Gun, Frey's book turns out to be just that, fiction. Or as Frey himself might put it, A Million Little Pieces is a compendium of "bullshit fantasies" about a life few of its readers have experienced, one redolent with crack binges, alcohol-fueled rages, violent outbursts, self-mutilation, multiple arrests, and several deaths. In Frey's telling, all of this culminates with the author's eventual self-willed recovery, which is presented as a hard-boiled inspiration for others. Frey's hardcover publisher, Doubleday, is still standing by a book that Oprah helped catapult to mega-bestsellerdom, proclaiming that "recent accusations against [Frey] notwithstanding, the power of the overall reading experience is such that the book remains a deeply inspiring and redemptive story for millions of readers." But by Frey's own calculus, those readers are in fact owed an apology—or at least an explanation.
Since one doesn't seem to be immediately forthcoming—last night on CNN's Larry King Live, Frey said he "stands by the book as being the essential truth of my life"—I'll take a crack at it. Late in Pieces, Frey writes about crippling ear infections he suffered from as a child (a claim the Smoking Gun has not contested). Improperly diagnosed, Frey writes that he spent the first years of his life in pain, literally screaming, until at age 2, a new doctor realized what was wrong, thereby beginning a round of operations that eventually fixed the problem. As a Hazelden counselor tells Frey, "If those screams went unheeded, whether consciously or unconsciously, they might have ignited a fairly profound sense of rage within you."
Frey, who by this point in his narrative is well-established as a stubborn iconoclast who insists on dealing with life on his own, Cool Hand Luke-like terms, won't bite. "I just won't let myself be a victim," he writes.
People in here, people everywhere, they all want to take their own problems, usually created by themselves, and try to pass them off on someone or something else. … I'm a victim of nothing but myself, just as I believe that most people with this so-called disease aren't victims of anything other than themselves. … I call it being responsible. I call it the acceptance of my own problems and my own weaknesses with honor and dignity. I call it getting better.
It is sentiments like this that have made Frey into a folk hero and Pieces into one of Winfrey's most popular book-club selections ever. He even boiled down his philosophy into a pithy, two-word motto—"Hold on"—which his acolytes have made into T-shirts and had tattooed on their bodies. (It's catchier than the motivational abbreviation * Frey has tattooed on his own arm: FTBSITTTD, for "Fuck the bullshit, it's time to throw down.")
Based on all the evidence, it seems Frey's weird, macho fear of seeing himself as a "victim" led him to fabricate a life that was painful and extreme enough so as to explain the sadness and despair he felt. Instead of a crack-binging street fighter, ostracized by both his peers and society, the Smoking Gun investigation indicates Frey was more likely a lonely, confused boy who may or may not have needed ear surgery as a child and felt distant from his parents and alienated from his peers. He drank too much, did some drugs, got nailed for a couple of DUIs and ended up, at age 23, in one of the country's most prestigious drug-and-alcohol treatment centers. When Frey writes that, after one of his fictitious arrests, he hated himself, saw no future, and wanted to die, I believe him. I grew up in a well-off suburban household with loving parents and no clear traumas in my past. I was popular enough in high school, I joined the newspaper and acted in plays, and I got into a good college. I was also miserably, sometimes almost suicidally, depressed, and, from the age of 15, I was taking drugs and drinking almost every day. Frey must have felt that his real, very scary, and very lonely feelings would have seemed weak if it was only preceded by standard-issue suburban teenage angst.
This isn't unusual. In rehab—I attended somewhere between a half-dozen and a dozen in-patient facilities—it's fairly standard for new patients to begin their stays by boasting of their fearlessness, their criminal bona fides, their extreme debauchery. I used to brag of my own rap sheet. I'd elide over the fact that my two arrests resulted in no convictions. And I certainly didn't offer up that my first arrest occurred after a remarkably inept attempt to break into a high-school classmate's house was foiled when his mother returned home and found my car parked out front (I referred to that as a "b&e with intent to commit a felony"), or that the second arrest was the result of my pilfering underwear and some light bulbs from my college's bookstore.
For most people, the insecurity and fear that lead to these type of exaggerations needs to fade away before they can really start trying to figure out how to go about fixing what went wrong with their lives. One counselor at an in-patient facility I attended used to publicly humiliate new patients on their first day in the program by first making them tell the group what brought them there and then quizzing them on the specifics—how many CC's does a standard syringe hold?—until they crumbled and started telling the truth.
But why should we care that Frey seems incapable of this? Beyond being slightly infuriating—Frey has made millions of dollars off of Pieces—what's the real-world impact of Frey's fakery? Oprah might feel a bit foolish, and presumably at least some of the 3 million-plus people who bought Frey's book will feel ripped off, but that in itself is not cause for any serious outcry.
Unfortunately, because A Million Little Pieces—one of the best-selling books about drug addiction ever written—has been trumpeted as an unflinching, real-life look into the world of a drug addict, it has helped to shape people's notions about drug abuse. Ironically, the very abundance of its clichés has likely helped make it a runaway best seller: People, after all, like having their suspicions confirmed. For nonaddicts, Pieces reinforces the still dangerously prevalent notion that it's easy to spot a drug addict or an alcoholic—they're the ones bleeding from holes in their cheeks or getting beaten down by the police or doing hard time with killers and rapists. For those struggling with their own substance-abuse issues, Pieces sends the message that unless you've reached the depths Frey describes, you don't have anything to worry about—you're a Fraud. And if you do have a problem, you don't need to necessarily get treatment or look to others for support; all you need to do is "hold on." In building up a false bogeyman—the American recovery movement's supposed reliance on the notion of "victimhood"—Frey has set himself up as the one, truth-telling savior. In fact, it seems clear that Frey would have been well-served by taking the kind of unflinchingly honest look at his own life that most recovery programs demand.


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FRANKFORT — Republican Ken Upchurch of Monticello won a special election Tuesday night to return to his former state House seat from south-central Kentucky.
Upchurch, who represented the House's 52nd District from 1999 to 2011, defeated Democrat Harvey Shearer of Monticello in the special election to fill the unexpired state House term of Republican Sara Beth Gregory.
Unofficial results in the district were 1,666 for Upchurch and 1,153 for Shearer, who works in construction and was making his first bid for public office.
"We're very pleased and honored. It's good to be going back," Upchurch said.
Shearer could not be reached for comment.
The House's 52nd District includes Wayne and McCreary counties and a part of Pulaski County. Party officials in the district selected the nominees.
Gregory, of Monticello, won a special election in December to fill the 16th Senate District seat left vacant by the resignation of Republican David Williams to become a circuit judge.
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None of these are 'set in stone' ideas on my part.
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John DiStaso's Granite Status: Sans dice, how will Hassan roll now?By JOHN DiSTASO
Senior Political Reporter
May 25. 2013 11:55PM
WHAT NOW, GOVERNOR, LAWMAKERS? It's unclear what Gov. Maggie Hassan has in mind to raise revenue or cut spending now that her top revenue priority, casino gambling, is dead. But there's one place she surely won't turn.
If any lawmakers who opposed gambling and its promised state money bonanza were secretly hoping Hassan would flinch on her promise to veto an income or sales tax, they can forget about it.
It is simply not going to happen, her spokesman and a top Democratic Party official said Friday.
Hassan pledged to veto a broad-based tax during her successful campaign for governor, and "absolutely nothing has changed in her opinion on that," said spokesman Marc Goldberg.
"She believes a sales or income tax would be wrong for New Hampshire, that our economy has worked well without them. She continues to oppose them and would veto either if it came to her desk," he said.
There's nothing vague about that. But does the governor have any specific proposals to deal with the loss of the revenue not only from casino gambling but also from the gasoline tax hike, which also died last week?
She did not specifically back the gas tax hike bill, but was open to it. It was killed by the state Senate in a lopsided 18-6 bipartisan vote on Thursday, the day after the House killed the casino bill, 199-164.
Does she now have a "Plan B" to meet her priorities of additional funding for higher education and services for the mentally ill, among other things?
"Right now," said Goldberg, "the state Senate is working through its budget process. We will continue to work with members of both parties, from both chambers, to reach a balanced budget. That's the governor's priority."
With the House and Senate clearly at odds, "We're going to have to come together to determine how to move forward with a balanced budget because at the end of the day, we're going to have a balanced budget," he said.
The governor had included in her proposed budget $80 million in revenue from application fees for a license to open a single casino in southern New Hampshire.
Separately, she proposed a 20 cent hike in the cigarette tax, on top of a 10 cent hike that is slated to take effect automatically on July 1, for a total of $30 million in new revenue. The House cut the proposed hike to a total of 20 cents, for $20 million. The Senate killed that on Thursday, too.
The Senate's stake in the heart of the gas tax hike was an apparent retribution for the House action on gambling.
While some senators may have been thinking "payback," Sen. Andy Sanborn, R-Bedford, who made the motion to have the Senate indefinitely postpone the tax hike, told us Friday that for him, it was "certainly not retribution."
How could it be, he said, when he was among the eight senators who opposed casino gambling in March?
He said his aim was to clearly stake out the Senate's position as the two bodies move toward a committee of conference next month on the budget.
"I want to make sure we're not raising taxes and fees on the people of New Hampshire," he said. "Now a gas tax is off the table once we go to conference."
The House-passed plan, comprising three years of 4 cent increases (and six years of 2 cent hikes for diesel fuel) would have raised for the state highway fund about $29 million in fiscal 2014, about $58 million in 2015, and about a half-billion over the next decade.
WHO'S TO BLAME? It's true, as Goldberg said, that the budget is now in the hands of the state Senate. The governor offered her budget plan way back in February and then it was on to the House, which removed the $80 million from casino licensing. That's the way the process works.
Officially, it's out of her hands until a final budget eventually is approved by the House and Senate and comes back to her desk.
But some say that before putting $80 million in her budget from a casino that had not yet been authorized by the Legislature and that she had to know would face an uphill battle in the House, Hassan should have had an alternative approach ready.
And maybe she does have a secret plan that she will discuss privately with lawmakers.
But Republican Party Chair Jennifer Horn, says the Democratic governor should now go public with her back-up ideas, if she has any.
Noting that the House is controlled by Hassan's party, the Republican Party said she should not "remove herself from the budget process" and should, said Horn, "submit a new proposal that will balance the state's books without raising taxes.
"Granite Staters can't afford to have their governor sit on the sidelines for the reminder of the budget process and refuse to perform the job that she was elected to do," Horn said.
SOME DEMS "MORALLY OPPOSED" TO GAMING. Kathy Sullivan, the Democratic National Committeewoman and former state party chair, said that although broad-based taxes have long been off of the New Hampshire political radar screen, there are still Democrats who hold out hope for one.
She said many Democrats remain "morally opposed to gambling and a number of those people, a good percentage, also support a broad-based income tax.
"It's kind of a coincidence, but it's just a fact," she said.
"But what amazed me is the lack of willingness (by opponents of both parties) to recognize the amount of gambling we already have in New Hampshire, with all of the under-regulated charitable gaming, and it continues to grow and grow," Sullivan said.
"It's as if they don't see it, but it's there."
BREAKING IT DOWN. The 400-member House has three vacancies, 218 Democrats and 179 Republicans.
A total of 363 of the 397 members participated in the key vote Wednesday.
Ninety-two Democrats joined 107 Republicans in voting to kill the bill, while 112 Democrats and 52 Republicans voted to keep the bill alive and open for debate on 15 amendments that were waiting in the wings but never saw the light of day.
Each party now points to the other as being responsible.
"There is no question the Republicans were trying to kill the bill for political reasons," said Sullivan, noting the GOP's 2-1 ratio against. "Why would they gift-wrap a victory for the governor?
"They wanted to hurt the governor even if it meant going against sentiment in their own communities."
Republicans counter that their margin should not be a surprise because Republicans have long opposed gambling in lopsided numbers.
They say the Democrats killed it by not following the Democratic governor in large enough numbers.
They say Hassan showed a lack of leadership by failing to win over about half of the Democrats, including 10 Democratic committee chairs, such as Finance Chair Mary Jane Wallner and Ways and Means Chair Susan Almy.
Speaker Terie Norelli insisted last week after the vote that she was not just publicly neutral, but truly neutral.
But Majority Leader Steve Shurtleff, Deputy Speaker Naida Kaen, Majority Floor Leader Gary Richardson and Assistant Majority Leaders Beth Arsenault, Mary Cooney, Suzanne Gottling and Robert Perry were all opposed.
Leadership members who voted to keep the bill alive included Melanie Levesque, Deanna Rollo and Stephen Spratt.
Sullivan said Hassan has made her budget proposal and, contrary to what the GOP contends, now it's up to the lawmakers of both parties to find revenue "to meet priorities and repair the infrastructure.''
"They made this decision in contradiction to a very popular governor, who won making it clear in the campaign that this (gambling) was an important part of her platform."
Sullivan also noted that organized labor, such as the AFL-CIO, the New Hampshire Building Trades Council and the Professional Fire Fighters of New Hampshire, backed gambling, but there are "some Democrats in the House who apparently don't care about what labor wants."
ABOUT THOSE ROADS. House Public Works and Highways Chairman David Campbell, D-Nashua, championed the gas tax hike and also supported gambling.
He said he "never heard a word" about broad-based taxes motivating some opponents to the casino, and besides, he said, such taxes are "out of the realm of possibility."
As for the gas tax, he said he had initially been told by Senate Republicans that it would be tabled or re-referred to committee, which would have left the door open for consideration later this session.
"But after the gambling vote, I was told indirectly there was a change and it would be indefinitely postponed.
"How the Senate and House are going to handle each other on the budget is cause for concern," he said.
But the gas tax hike death "really means devastation for the highway fund and for our roads and bridges going forward. And there is no money to finish Interstate 93 now.
"It used to be there was a gambling bill and a gas tax — choose one," Campbell said. "Now we have neither, and the gas tax is off the table for this session. We have a $250 million shortfall which will not be funded, and therefore I-93 will not be done."
Campbell will ask Transportation Commissioner Chris Clement to tell his committee in the next few weeks "what this means in terms of how the I-93 project will come to a halt. There are certain contracts out that have a certain life span, and when they end, instead of rolling into the next part of the project, they're going to stop."
In addition, he said, a "huge deficit" in the DOT budget will slow its attempt to address deteriorating roads and red-listed bridges and force layoffs.
"And they're going to have to at least look at the possibility of cutting back municipal aid," he said.
But Republican Sanborn said the state is spending $600 million a year on roads and bridges, 20 percent more than in 2008.
"And some of us remain concerned we are still diverting 37 percent of what we raise for roads to other projects," he said. "It makes it difficult to tell people that we need to raise their taxes to fix roads when we're not using all the money to fix roads.
While all of the money from Campbell's proposed 12 cent tax increase would have been used for roads and bridges, some money from the current 18 cent tax is used elsewhere.
"I believe you'll see a bill next year to deal with that problem," Sanborn said. "We all recognize that a basic obligation of government is to maintain and fix our roads and keep people safe."
John DiStaso is senior political reporter of the New Hampshire Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News. He has been writing the Granite Status political column since 1982 and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Twitter: @jdistaso.


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Incident: I am an owner of two Hyundai Sonatas, one is a 2006, the second a 2009. We bought it for value, looks, and the terrific warranty--or so we thought. We took in our 06 Hyundai Sonata July 17 2010 to Global Auto Mall Plainfield NJ--where we purchased the vehicle--because of engine noise issues, and to have the vehicle serviced at @98,000 miles. Vehicle has 100,000 mi warranty. From the time of purchase there were issues with the engine which wobbled in the morning cold creating acceleration issues; going from second to third was a problem when the car was cold, and we took it to Global for service under warranty from the beginning.
Issue improved but was never quite resolved. The engine noise came back repeatedly and was serviced throughout life of the car all under warranty, including a full service at Towne Hyundai where they indicated the engine "was running hot". Most recent service was at Global Auto Mall fall of 2009 again for engine noise/acceleration issues. This time when we took the car in on July 17th 2010, they initially indicated they had a loaner (that was arranged by **, Service agent) but when my husband got there he was sent to Enterprise Car Rental in Greenbrook for a rental costing $40/day.
** indicated they would reimburse for the rental. ** called us about the Sonata 6-7 days later indicating the car needed a whole new engine. They needed also all of our service records--up to 31,000 they were done at Global, after that we serviced near our home where it was more convenient. We sent all the records we had--we were missing two or three oil change paper work--our service guy moved and he could not locate those records. GLOBAL AUTO MALL told us they would not do the car under warranty, and we should call Hyundai Consumer Affairs, which we did.
They indicate it is up to the dealership, while the dealer says it's up to Hyundai to repair under warranty--classic case of consumer ping-pong, where I am the ball. We faxed in the last of the documents we found on oil changes to Hyundai Consumer Affairs 26th, and it was indicated there would be three days needed for resolution. That would be today, August 30th.
When I called today, they didn't have fax attached to our files, so after managing to get the representative to attach it to our files, we were told it would be yet another three-four days for resolution. I indicated that was unacceptable and I wanted a resolution today--I asked that our case be prioritized AFTER SIX WEEKS OF NONSENSE! Incidentally Global Auto Mall does not intend to reimburse us for the rental amount, because they state they are not working on our car--it is just sitting there!
Unacceptable! This has caused extraordinary problems for my family at home, since my daughter intended on taking the 06 Hyundai to college last week--she is now delayed, and will have to be off campus housing without her car until this resolved. We will make added trips and incur added expense to drop her off at school 4 hours away and then have her train down when car is repaired. I never had an issue with Mercedes Benz, or Audi, or for that matter Chevy Suburban or GMC Yukon regarding warranty work, or customer service. A warranty is only as good as the brand behind it and customer service is only as good as your dealer's personnel!
Clearly Hyundai and the dealers need to understand the impact of an unhappy customer, because I will let everyone know my experience and no longer promote the brand. I will not buy another Hyundai. Incidentally I intend to see this resolved, as well as the fees back with respect to the rental car. After this, I will buy strictly German or American vehicles--this round with Hyundai was the experience of a lifetime, not just for myself, but for my two college children who will be making their own vehicle purchases in the next year.
I heard an extremely loud sound while driving my 1999 Hyundai Sonata GLS coming from the front passenger side of the vehicle and all of a sudden the front of the vehicle dropped significantly. I immediately stopped the vehicle and got out to see if I had hit something or to see exactly what had happened. Upon inspection the front passenger side A-Frame had completely rusted out of the sub frame of the vehicle causing it to break completely off. Thankfully I was travelling at a low rate of speed or it could have caused a major accident or even further damage to the vehicle.
Upon research it was discovered that there is a NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID Number: 09V124000 that addresses this same issue prompting Hyundai to issue a recall 089, however, when I contacted the dealership they stated there was no recall for this vehicle. The factory recall campaign covers vehicles in the "salt belt" and this vehicle was originally titled in Missouri and we owned it in Illinois which are both considered part of the "salt belt" as salt is used to melt ice on the roads during the winter months.
Hyundai consumer affairs was absolutely no help and they did nothing but contact the dealership... which in turn looked up the VIN and told them it's not covered under the recall. I told consumer affairs that I need someone in Hyundai to explain to me why this particular vehicle is not covered and they told me to look in my owner's manual under "Alternative Dispute Resolution" which is absolutely garbage because that tells you to contact a third party for dispute resolution... why can't Hyundai answer my question, it's their vehicle and THEIR RECALL!!! I'm absolutely disgusted with Hyundai consumer affairs and I am appalled that they won't honor a SAFETY RECALL!
AUBURN, MASSACHUSETTS -- I took my Sonata to Herb Chambers Hyundai in Auburn, Ma. For a check engine malfunction. Told them that my mechanic had put it on a diagnostic machine and it showed a problem with the transmission. The car was still under the extended warranty so I took it to Herb Chambers to be serviced. I was told that it might not be covered by the warranty. I, at the time of buying the vehicle brand new, I purchased the extended warranty and was told that I had 10 years, 100,00 drive train and 100,000 miles bumper to bumper whichever came first. The service representative checked on the warranty and it was indeed still protected by the warranty.
The problem with the check engine light was taken care of but the mechanic came to me and told me that I needed brakes really bad, especially the rear brakes that I had no pad left and the rotors were being grooved. I found this to be grossly false as 2 days prior I had taken my vehicle for an oil change and to have the brakes checked. I was right there when the mechanic checked them and was shown that my brakes were still good for at least 5,000 or more miles. Is Herb Chambers so greedy for money he has their mechanics solicit unnecessary repairs?
While at Herb Chambers, I also had them to tighten the driver side windshield wiper as it was loose. He did tighten it but imagine my shock when I was told I had to pay $49.50 for tightening 2 bolts which took all of maybe 3 minutes tops. Where is professional courtesy I see advertised on TV? My main question is why doesn't Hyundai reveal all the problems with the frame rusting or brake problems and in general with the whole car before you purchase one this way at least you know what to expect.
In conclusion, I just want to say that I am very disappointed in Hyundai's don't ask, don't tell policy and with the service practices. In this day where money is so short for a lot of people I would think dealerships would be more honorable and not tell customers they need a service that is really not needed. I would really like to hear what Herb Chambers and Hyundai has to say about these complaints.
I only clicked "like" on your Facebook page so I could access the wall. NOT A HYUNDAI FAN AT ALL, anymore. Bought a new 06 Sonata in 06. Loved the car, probably sold 2 dozen additional vehicles by referring friends and family members. Then my car hits the 60,000 mile barrier. I might as well have slammed it into a real barrier. It now sits in my drive-way with 62,080 miles broken down. I know all car companies warranty their cars for the amount of time they assume their components will hold-up for, but Hyundai must really know their cars last... 60k miles.
I knew going with the Hyundai would come back and bite me in the butt. Stick with the Japanese cars folks. The extra investment up-front will be well worth it. The thing that kills me the most is I really WANTED to be a Hyundai driver.
ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA -- I bought this car on the promise of the ten year or 100,000 mile guarantee. However the timing belt failed at 61,000 miles. I had it towed in for service on the timing belt which they said it was only covered four 60,000 miles which I was not informed of. So I had the work performed at a reputable shop. First I performed a leak down test which turned good.
They gave me a quote for 300 dollars including parts, Hyundai would not even give me a quote. However they told me there was a recall on the sub frame so I returned the car to have the work done. Which was supposed to include the sub frame, both axles, trans. oil change and both battery terminals replaced. They called and told me the car was finished. After picking the car up I could not even keep it on the road. I checked the car out and the front end alignment was not done trans oil & filter, not done & battery terminals were not changed, and only half the subframe was changed.
I took the car back and reported that the car was only half finished. Then they told me it was finished again. But all they did was align the front end, and the steering wheel was not straight. I received a letter that they gave me the wrong engine so they increased my warranty to 12 years or 120,000 miles. Now there is a recall on the air bags. I'm afraid to take it back because they don't know what they're doing. Oh did I mention I was a mechanic for 40 years?
We purchased a '06 Sonata, V6 in April of 2008. It had 32,000 miles on it and seemed to be a good car. The gas mileage was good - 27 mpg and it isn't too bad of a car except we've had all 4 struts replaced and 3 of the strut mounts. And the engine makes a lot of noise when it's cold. The cruise control switch also had to be replaced. The dealer could not find the problem on the noise and we're now near the end of our warranty at 60,000 miles.
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK -- I have had issues since day one with my car electrical problems and so forth and every time I brought it in for repair they would tell me that sorry that is not covered. Here is your $800 bill for changing some brake pads and some other crap and so forth. My car has been a lemon since day one. I have 44,000 miles on it and so far I have the engine seal broken the radiator fried the water pump broken 3 times, the ac and heater broken, all electrical systems broken and this is just a small part of the problems.
With my extended 100k miles warranty no matter what, nothing is ever covered. Everyone I speak to cannot help, they say dealers do not have to do service and the customer care says that the dealers cannot be forced to do the work. For some reason I get the picture that they pay very little if it goes on warranty.
SOUTHFIELD, MICHIGAN -- I recently purchased a 2006 Hyundai Sonata LX. It is a beautiful car inside and out but it had an annoying rattle in the front and rear windshield (the dealer calls this an "itch" and said a number of the cars have been returned for this problem). I took it to the dealer and he had both windshields removed and new urethane put around the perimeter of the glass. The front noise has disappeared but the rear noise continues.
Sometimes I can go miles with no noise, then it returns. It seems to be worse as the temperature drops into the low 50's and gets slightly better after sitting in a hot parking lot all day as if the windshields contract or expand with the temperature. I suppose I'll have to return it to the dealer for a 2nd time to see if they can get rid of the noise but I find it bothersome to hear the rattle as I drive. I guess I was naive to hope for a new car with no problems.
NEWPORT, VIRGINIA -- I bought a 2002 Sonata, my upper motor mount went bad. My motor is a 2.7 and my mount checks in as a 2001 2.5. My mount would be $359.00 from the dealer but $122.00 at the auto parts store! WOW BUT THERE'S MORE!! Being I have the 2001 mount it would be at the very LOW cost of $222.00 or off the internet at $183... What a big rip-off!!! Next time I'm buying American!!!


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Growin' up, stretchin' out and livin' large
About this time every summer, when I see kids at the beach and in the parks where they swim, fish, play and have fun, I can't help but reminisce about my childhood.
Growing up was a fantastic experience. It was a real adventure.
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The next milestone is joining a soccer league, followed by martial arts lessons and a plethora of other after-school and extracurricular activities designed to accelerate the maturing process to warp speed.
Watching kids grow up today just wears me out.
When I was a kid, the milestones were different. The first one was no longer having to wear a diaper. That was a big deal. Then, it was riding a bicycle without training wheels. That was a rite of passage to being a bona fide "big kid."
Then, the true test of a wellrounded, totally developed kid was when we could dive into the deep end of a swimming pool without supervision or worry about drowning. That was the day when a kid overcame the last fear.
From that moment on, it was time to stretch out and let the adventure begin.
My first adventure was when I was 12. My friend, Brian, and I went on a camping trip to a local state park that was about four miles from our neighborhood. We went fishing there, but we had never stayed overnight.
This was special. Brian and I were going to camp for four days. We would be unsupervised, on our own, with nobody to tell us what to do and when to do it.
We felt as if we were released from prison. There would be no grass to cut or garbage to take out. We didn't have to help with the dishes, make our beds or put away laundry.
For the first time in our lives, we were real people, and life was good.
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Brian and I needed camping gear. We went to the Army/Navy surplus store, where they sold leftover equipment from WWII at prices we could afford.
We bought knapsacks, haversacks, shelter halves, mess gear and sleeping bags for just a few dollars. Hauling it all home on our bicycles was a chore.
After we filled our packs with all the stuff we thought we'd need, they were so heavy, we could barely lift them.
There was no way we were going to put all that gear on bicycles and pedal them for four miles. Fortunately, Brian's dad came to our rescue.
He threw our gear, as well as our bicycles, into the back of his pickup truck and gave us a ride to the campground.
We set up our tent and for the next four days, we gathered wood, made fires, hung our wet bathing suits and towels on makeshift clotheslines, washed our mess gear and clothes by hand, hauled garbage and burned our food.
Not fun.
Life was much easier at home.
When Brian's mom and dad came to visit us after two days to see how we were doing, we were ready to admit defeat.
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The Dallas Cowboys have become the first American sports franchise worth more than $2 billion, according to Forbes magazine.
The NFL's most valuable team for the sixth consecutive year, the Cowboys saw their overall worth increase 14 percent to $2.1 billion. That's about $1 billion higher than the average NFL team value, $1.11 billion, up 7 percent.
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What's happening in food and dining around South Florida.
Ceviche Tapas Bar & Restaurant
116 NE Sixth Ave., Delray Beach, 561-894-8599, Ceviche.com
This cozy 1925 historic home offers a retreat from lively Atlantic Avenue only a block north in the former The Falcon House — the sixth location of a statewide chain.
Seventy-five traditional Spanish tapas, plus ceviche, paella and salads, are the stars here. But the lively bar, intimate dining room accented with Moroccan-style lanterns and Spanish tiles, wraparound courtyard festooned with white string lights and heaters, and weekend flamenco band top off the evening.
"The flavor profile is something not being represented in Delray, even on Atlantic Avenue," general manager John Brewer says. "The tapas lend a more social atmosphere."
The lengthy dinner menu served Tuesday through Saturday can be overwhelming, so servers guide the way with explanations and recommendations.
"It's Spanish soul food," Brewer says. "You can eat light or heavy."
Yes, light such as octopus slow-cooked for two hours ($7.95 or $14.95), grilled mahi-mahi azafran with saffron and leeks ($9.95) and sauteed spinach with figs, honey and garlic ($6.95). Or heavy, such as super-creamy croquetas with chicken, ham and bechamel ($7.95 or $14.95), artichoke bottoms stuffed with ham and shrimp ($9.95 or $18.95) and sea scallops with manchego and sherry cream sauce ($11.95).
Sangria made table side and Spanish/Portugal wines organized by region compliment the tapas crafted from ingredients imported from Spain and served quickly.
Racks Fish House + Oyster Bar
5 SE Second Ave., Delray Beach, 561-450-6718, RacksDelray.com
From the parents of Boca Raton siblings Racks and Table 42 comes another progeny in the 1948 former VFW building amid the Atlantic Avenue bustle overlooking pretty Worthing Park.
While a few dishes are the same or renditions of the first Racks, such as an artichoke appetizer with remoulade ($10) and Idaho trout almondine ($22), the lineup diverges to showcase seafood with New England and Cajun influences, served daily for lunch and dinner with weekend brunch launching in February.
"We wanted to offer the locals something different when dining out, to avoid being your typical restaurant," says founder Gary Rack. "After traveling up the East Coast through New England, it was apparent these kinds of restaurants with an approachable cuisine are few and far between in South Florida."
The menu spotlights the raw bar and kettle specialties, such as the oyster stew ($12) or the spicier pan roast version with melt-in-your-mouth oysters ($13). The chefs thankfully don't shy away from using spice, particularly in dishes such as the Creole-style calamari ($11), oyster po'boy ($18) and enticing New Orleans steak & shrimp with voodoo sauce and Creole beans and rice ($36), lastly of which general manager Brian Sassen says is "made with pretty much everything in the kitchen."
The restored space incorporates a sit-down bar curving around steam kettles inspired by Grand Central Oyster Bar in New York City, and earth tones pervade an open-kitchen design with booth and banquette seating, a muted seafaring mural and nautical ropes woven on the ceiling. An indoor/outdoor bar trimmed in pressed tin bridges the open air to orange booths on the sidewalk.
The Tipsy Boar
1906 Harrison St., Hollywood, 954-920-2627, TheTipsyBoar.com
Restaurateur Fulvio Sardelli has added a third concept — a gastropub — to his literal row downtown.
"It's a nice little collaboration with wine and cheese at Vino on one side and Fulvio's 1900 fine Italian dining on the other side," says general manager Adam Russell.
A long bar dispensing 40 draft beers anchors the room, which is framed by porch seating on three sides. Cocktails, wine, bar snacks and heartier fare are served for lunch and dinner daily amid brick and stone walls, stone pillars, a giant chalkboard list of beers, a brick-oven pizza and upbeat music. Weekend brunch and a late-night lineup also are offered.
The priciest item is the roasted beer-can chicken for $19, and best-sellers are beef short rib croquettes ($7), four kinds of burgers ($12 to $14) including a Thanksgiving-inspired habanero turkey one, and pizzas ($10 to $13) including a rendition with duck confit, brie, mascarpone and caramelized onions.
"It's bringing Fulvio Sardelli's fine quality and product to a neighborhood price range," Russell says.
Giraffas Brazilian Steaks & Burgers
151 N. Hiatus Road, Suite 312, Pembroke Pines, 954-703-2884, Giraffas.com
This fast-casual Brazilian eatery will soon open its first Broward County branch in Pembroke Lakes Square in a quest for a statewide expansion following success at its Miami locations. Giraffas is one of the largest chains in Brazil.
"We appeal to a population that meets certain socio-economic characteristics, regardless of ethnicity," U.S. marketing director Carlos Vanegas says. "But we understand that Brazilian cuisine, although not Hispanic, is from South America, and therefore has some similar traits to other cuisines from the region. So, of course, our Hispanic fans find some familiarities in our menu."
The menu encompasses American-type standards such as burgers, steaks, chicken, shrimp and pasta dishes with twists such as picanha and maminha cuts of meat, Brazilian-spiced sauces and stroganoff sauce with pastas. Dishes such as $2 sides of quinoa and farofa anchor the traditional presence.
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I don't believe we have written anything about the terrorist attack on the Algerian gas plant at Ain Amenas. News accounts have generally been sketchy, but with the siege now over, more details have emerged. The Associated Press reports:
Algerian bomb squads scouring a gas plant where Islamist militants took dozens of foreign workers hostage found 25 more bodies on Sunday as they searched for explosive traps left behind by the attackers, a security official said, a day after a bloody raid ended the four-day siege of the remote desert refinery. …
He said the militants came from six countries and were armed to cause maximum destruction. Sonatrach, the Algerian state oil company running the Ain Amenas site along with BP and Norway's Statoil, said the entire refinery had been mined.
"They had decided to succeed in the operation as planned, to blow up the gas complex and kill all the hostages," said Communications Minister Mohamed Said, speaking on a state radio interview.
It is noteworthy that the terrorists came from six countries; also significant is the fact that when the terrorists first seized the refinery, they let hundreds of Algerian workers go and kept foreign workers from a number of countries as hostages. News accounts often emphasize that Algeria has been fighting Islamic terrorism since the 1990s, which is true, but this most recent attack appears to be a different phenomenon with a more international focus, notwithstanding the terrorists' demands (see below).
Some have criticized the Algerian government for using force to retake the refinery rather than negotiating with the terrorists:
Algeria's response to the crisis was typical of its history in confronting terrorists, favoring military action over negotiation, which caused an international outcry from countries worried about their citizens. Algerian military forces twice assaulted the two areas where the hostages were being held with minimal apparent mediation — first on Thursday, then on Saturday.
"Mediation?" Seriously?
An audio recording of Algerian security forces speaking with the head of the kidnappers, Abdel Rahman al-Nigiri, indicates that the hostage-takers were trying to organize a prisoner swap with authorities.
"You see our demands are so easy, so easy if you want to negotiate with us," al-Nigiri said in the recording broadcast by Algerian television. "We want the prisoners you have, the comrades who were arrested and imprisoned 15 years ago. We want 100 of them."
This is a typical terrorist demand, and one that should never be acceded to. While I can't address the specific tactics used by the Algerian government, their refusal to negotiate with the terrorists and their determination to bring the siege to a reasonably quick resolution are the right approach. Terrorists thrive on notoriety and usually want to prolong hostage dramas as much as possible (Cf. the Americans held in Tehran for more than a year). In general, the quicker the terrorists are killed, the better. Where it is possible to save hostages, efforts should be made to do so. But the cold reality is that terrorists generally have the ability to kill hostages if they so choose, and that result, if it occurs, should be blamed on no one but the perpetrators.
This comment by Obama adviser David Plouffe strikes me as myopic:
David Plouffe, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama, said Sunday that al-Qaida and al-Qaida-affiliated groups remain a threat in northern Africa and other parts of the world, and that the U.S. is determined to help other countries destroy these networks. Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," Plouffe said the tragedy in Algeria shows once again "that all across the globe countries are threatened by terrorists who will use civilians to try and advance their twisted and sick agenda."
You can call it a "twisted and sick agenda," but in fact, the extension of the Ummah and the establishment of sharia are mainstream goals shared by millions of Muslims. Islamic terrorists in general are not crazy; they are religious zealots whose interpretation of the Koran is a plausible one. In many instances, they are intelligent and well-educated. It would be helpful if responsible officials, rather than denouncing the terrorists' agenda as "twisted and sick," had a more realistic appreciation of what that agenda really is.
Finally, with the locus of Islamic terrorism shifting, at least for the moment, from the Middle East to Africa, it is worth noting–again–that Islamic terrorism has absolutely nothing to do with Israel. The Obama administration, mired in the past as usual, seems not to have outgrown the delusion that if the United States distances itself from Israel, a frequent but hardly exclusive target of Islamic terrorism, it will somehow palliate the terrorists. The futility of this policy is impossible to overstate.


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Employment Legislation and Standards
The information provided here does not constitute legal advice. If you require legal advice, please consult a lawyer.
Employment standards are the minimum standards of employment for workplaces required by law. Employment standards cover many aspects of employment including, but not limited to, the following topic areas:
Any HR policies that you develop around the above topics, and any others covered by employment standards, must not provide less than what is offered in the legislation and/ or regulations. The employment standards legislation offers minimum standards; employers are free to develop policies or practices that enhance (provide better standards) than what is allowed for in the law.
Jurisdiction: Practically all nonprofits organizations in Canada fall under provincial/territorial jurisdiction. Below are links to provincial/territorial departments dealing with employment standards.
Alberta Human Resources and Employment - Employment Standards
This site includes in depth information about several topics right on the home page. There are many useful resources in the publications section, including a printable guide to the standards and facts sheets.
British Columbia
BC Ministry of Skills Development and Labour - Employment Standards Branch
This is a comprehensive website that includes a guide to employment standards, fact sheets (including some translated into several languages) and frequently asked questions. Some of the fact sheets have been translated into French.
Manitoba Labour and Immigration - Employment Standards Division
This bilingual website has a printable guide to the Employment Standards as well as several fact sheets on different topics.
New Brunswick
This bilingual website includes general information about Employment Standards and several helpful fact sheets on specific topics covered by the standards.
Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador Labour Relations Agency - Labour Standards Division
This site has a useful frequently asked questions section organized by different topics and there is a sample statement of employment to use with new employees. There is also contact information if you have questions about any subjects not covered on the site.
Northwest Territories
Northwest Territories Department of Justice - Labour Standards
This site contains little information about the Labour Standards themselves, but it does provide contact information for the Labour Services office - we encourage you to be in touch with them if you have any questions about labour standards in your organization.
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia - Labour & Workforce Development
This site has a useful guide to the Labour Standards, a frequently asked questions section organized by topic area and a special section on minimum wage.
Government of Nunavut - Department of Justice
There is little information on the government of Nunavut site regarding the Labour Standards Act of Nunavut. You can contact the Labour Services Officer in the Department of Justice with any questions you have regarding Labour Standards.
Labour Services Officer
Phone - 867-975-7293
Fax - 867-975-7294
Ontario Ministry of Labour - Employment Standards Program
This is a comprehensive website that includes a frequently asked section. Under the Employment Standards section, you'll find details on Employment Standards, fact sheets on several topics, bulletins and information on filing a claim.
Prince Edward Island
Ministry of Community and Cultural Affairs, Labour and Industrial Relations Division - Employment Standards
This site contains general information about Employment Standards. In the "YOU CAN ASK US ABOUT" section, you'll find a useful guide to the Employment Standards, fact sheets on several topics and frequently asked questions.
Commission des normes du travail - Labour Standards in Québec
This extensive site contains quick links to many topics, including psychological harassment in keeping with the recently passed law. There is also a frequently asked questions section and in the employers section you'll find information about training on labour standards.
Saskatchewan Department of Labour - Labour Standards
This site has many useful fact sheets organized by topic area as well as a frequently asked questions section.
Department of Community Services - Labour Services
This site has some basic frequently asked questions as well as a PDF document of the Employment Standards Act. There is also contact information for any questions you have about the employment standards.
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Tampa Bay Rays OF Cody Rogers was suspended 50 games without pay Monday, Dec. 17, after refusing to take an offseason drug test, which is a violation of the minor league drug and prevention program. Rogers was on the Triple-A Durham roster.
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The St. Petersburg Times reports the Tampa Bay Rays are bringing 22 of their most promising prospects, including P Jeremy Hellickson and OF Desmond Jennings, to St. Petersburg next week for a four-day winter development program. Players will work out at Tropicana Field, and also undergo media training, make community relations appearances and attend a Lightning game. The invited players are C Luke Bailey, P Nick Barnese, SS Tim Beckham, P Alex Colome, P Joseph Cruz, P Devin Fuller, OF Todd Glaesmann, Hellickson, P Kevin James, C Jake Jefferies, Jennings, P Kyle Lobstein, P Jake McGee, P Matthew Moore, P David Newmann, 1B Jeff Malm, SS Juniel Querecuto, OF Cody Rogers, P Scott Shuman, 3B Matthew Sweeney, P Albert Suarez, and P Alexander Torres.
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Clutch get heavy again on 'Earth Rocker'
Clutch, "Earth Rocker" (Weathermaker Music)
Clutch, the hard-touring Maryland band with an endless supply of guitar riffs, is back on the righteous path of heavy rock after an ill-advised foray into bluesy territory. Singer Neil Fallon's growl is ho-hum when it croons over a Hammond B3. But it sounds just right when he's howling at the moon, as on the new demented party anthem, "The Wolf Man Kindly Requests ..."
"Earth Rocker" is Clutch's hardest-hitting album in a while, and it's full of Fallon's occasionally inscrutable, fantastical sci-fi themes. There are references to Guttenberg, the Large Hadron Collider and the medieval weapon the halberd -- and that's just in one song ("Unto the Breach").
"The Face" imagines a post-apocalyptic pop culture landscape where rock is dead and electric guitars have been cast into the sea. On "Cyborg Bette," our rock-star narrator falls for a robot, his "latest model." A welcome return to form.


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The Facts
Dementia is a gradual decline of mental ability that affects your intellectual and social skills to the point where daily life becomes difficult. Dementia can affect your memory and your decision-making ability, can impair your judgment and make you feel disoriented, and it may also affect your personality.
Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia and affects about 5% of people over age 65. It occurs more often with advancing age, affecting 20% to 25% of people over the age of 80. About 5% to 10% of dementia is vascular dementia, also known as dementia caused by stroke. At least 10% of cases of dementia are due to a combination of Alzheimer's disease and multiple strokes.
Dementia isn't an acute condition that suddenly appears, and it usually does not require emergency treatment.
Dementia may be caused by a number of factors, such as:
- alcoholism
- brain injury
- drug abuse
- side effects to certain medications
- thyroid function abnormalities
- vitamin B12 deficiency
In some cases of dementia, it may be reversible or improved once the underlying cause has been treated.
Aging and a family history of dementia are risk factors for developing dementia. The following factors can also add to the risk of developing dementia:
- high blood pressure
- high cholesterol
- diabetes
- smoking
Unfortunately, when dementia is caused by conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, brain injury, or blood vessel changes, the changes that occur are irreversible.
Research into the cause and treatment of Alzheimer's disease is shedding new light and more hope every day. Several possible causes have been identified, including genetic factors, exposure to toxins, abnormal protein production, viruses, and difficulties in blood flow to the brain. Aging and heredity (genetic factors) are considered the greatest factors involved in the development of Alzheimer's disease.
Vascular dementia is caused by a series of strokes that leave areas of dead cells in the brain. This disorder may result in sudden, stepwise decline or a more gradual loss of mental ability. Short-term memory is usually affected first.
Symptoms and Complications
Many of us often experience forgetfulness. We may forget where we put the car keys or repeat the same story to a friend or family member. These behaviours are usually caused by the information overload of our busy, stressful lives - it doesn't mean that we're developing dementia. As people age, they may experience memory changes such as slowing of information processing. This type of change is normal. By contrast, dementia is progressive and disabling and not a normal part of aging.
The true symptoms of dementia are a progressive loss of memory and other mental abilities. Dementia results in impairment of a person's ability to perform usual tasks in everyday life. There may also be changes in behaviour or personality.
Symptoms of Alzheimer's disease include:
- gradual loss of memory of recent events and lack of ability to learn new things
- increasing tendency to repeat oneself, misplace objects, become confused
- slow disintegration of personality, judgment, and social ability
- increasing irritability, anxiety, depression, confusion, and restlessness
Symptoms of vascular dementia include:
- sudden loss of memory or other mental functions
- stroke symptoms such as paralysis, difficulty with language, loss of vision
- changes in walking patterns (gait)
- early loss of bowel or bladder control
- sudden laughing or crying without reason
Making the Diagnosis
Dementia is diagnosed by the history of symptoms and physical examination. Your doctor may ask you a series of questions to assess cognition, which involves functions of the brain related to memory, recall, decision-making, language, recognition of objects used on a daily basis, and following directions.
Brain scans can show changes in brain structure. Brain scans such as CT (computerized tomography) or MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) may be used to help identify other conditions (e.g., stroke) that can cause dementia.
Absolute confirmation of the diagnosis can only be made by examination of brain tissue after a biopsy or an autopsy after death. If there's a family history of dementia, you may want to consult a doctor.
Treatment and Prevention
Treatment of Alzheimer's disease usually involves treating the declining memory and gradually worsening behavioural symptoms with a range of medications, including:
- cognitive enhancing agents
- tranquilizers
- antidepressants
- antianxiety medications
- anticonvulsants
Medications such as donepezil*, rivastigmine, and galantamine may also be used to slow down memory loss. There is no medication that can halt or reverse the brain damage caused by Alzheimer's disease. However, there are medications that can relieve symptoms, and researchers are discovering many promising new medications that can delay symptoms of the disease.
Recent evidence has shown that strokes are a major contributor to the progression of Alzheimer's disease; therefore, preventing a stroke is important.
Prevention of stroke is the only potentially effective treatment for vascular dementia. If you have high blood pressure, transient ischemic attacks (TIAs), or have had a stroke, you should seek continued treatment for these conditions to minimize their recurrence.
The key to caring for and helping people with dementia is to focus on the many activities the person can still do. Encourage a person with dementia to continue daily routines and maintain social relationships as much as possible. Help them maintain a healthy lifestyle through exercise, proper nutrition, and fluid intake. Special diets and supplements are generally unnecessary.
If you are caring for someone with dementia, the following may be helpful:
- reminders: Provide written lists of things to do including times, places, and phone numbers to help the person complete the task.
- structure and stability: Minimize undue noise and disturbances to reduce anxiety.
- establish routines: Daily and bedtime routines can reduce disorientation and anxiety.
- speaking slowly and calmly: Present one thought or instruction at a time.
- information card: Reduce the risk of wandering and getting lost by providing a pocket card with the person's name, address, and phone number.
- safety: Make your home environment as safe as possible by keeping furniture in the same place, removing clutter, installing locks on medicine cabinets, and setting the water heater at a low temperature to avoid scalding.
- driving: Don't allow someone with dementia to drive a vehicle. Drive them or arrange for rides wherever they need to go.
Caring for someone with dementia can be difficult. It requires understanding, patience, and compassion. Joining an Alzheimer's disease caregiver's support group in your community may be helpful.
Be prepared for the eventuality that your loved one's condition will deteriorate over time and additional full-time personal care may be needed. In some situations, placement in a nursing home is in the best interests of the individual and their family.
*All medications have both common (generic) and brand names. The brand name is what a specific manufacturer calls the product (e.g., Tylenol®). The common name is the medical name for the medication (e.g., acetaminophen). A medication may have many brand names, but only one common name. This article lists medications by their common names. For information on a given medication, check our Drug Information database. For more information on brand names, speak with your doctor or pharmacist.
All material copyright MediResource Inc. 1996 – 2018. Terms and conditions of use. The contents herein are for informational purposes only. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Source: www.medbroadcast.com/condition/getcondition/Dementia


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Madeleine Albright to Speak at Augustana Nov. 4
The Center for Western Studies at Augustana College today announced that former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has been named the speaker for the 2010 Boe Forum on Public Affairs.
Albright's address, entitled "Geopolitics and the Implications for Doing Business and Investing Around the World," will begin at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 4, in the Elmen Center, located at 2505 S. Grange Ave on the Augustana campus.
Tickets will be available at www.augietickets.com beginning Monday, Sept. 27. Beginning Monday, Oct. 25, any remaining tickets may be obtained from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, at the Center for Western Studies, 2121 S. Summit Ave.
"Dr. Albright is among the most iconic and revered figures in American politics and we are simply thrilled to welcome her to campus during a year that marks both Augustana's Sesquicentennial and the 40th anniversary of the Center for Western Studies," said Dr. Harry Thompson, CWS executive director. "In addition to her public presentation, Dr. Albright is also taking time to participate in a group discussion with our students – an experience they will be sure to treasure for years to come."
Albright is the chair of Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategy firm, and chair of Albright Capital Management LLC, an investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets.
In 1997, she was named the first female Secretary of State and became, at that time, the highest ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government. As Secretary of State, Albright reinforced America's alliances, advocated democracy and human rights and promoted American trade and business, labor and environmental standards abroad.
From 1993 to 1997, Albright served as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and as a member of the President's Cabinet. She is a professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. She chairs both the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the Pew Global Attitudes Project and serves as president of the Truman Scholarship Foundation. Albright serves on the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Board of Trustees for the Aspen Institute. In 2009, Albright was asked by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen to chair a group of experts focused on developing NATO's New Strategic Concept.
Through the Boe Forum on Public Affairs, the Center for Western Studies at Augustana has hosted many of the world's most influential leaders, including: Gen. Colin Powell (1995), President George H. W. Bush (1995), Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1999), Jordan's Queen Noor (2001), Vice President Al Gore (2007), Former President of Mexico Vicente Fox (2007), and Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (2008).
Albright is the author of four New York Times best-sellers: her autobiography, Madam Secretary: A Memoir, (2003); The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs, (2006); Memo to the President: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership, (2008) and Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat's Jewel Box, (2009).
Her next book, While I Was Growing Up, is slated for release in 2012. It tells the story of Albright's experiences and those of her family during and immediately after World War II, thus providing a fresh lens through which to view some of the modern era's most tumultuous years.
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Premise: Humanity explores an empty universe and eventually withers.
Unintelligent alien life
Religious fanaticism
Period of prosperity following exploration but preceding civil war
The end takes place in 1-2 years, tops
Has some persistent Characters
Bloody, violent war for an irrelevant reason that is a catalyst for the end.
Bittersweet or somewhat upbeat ending
Intelligent alien life
Extinct alien civilizations
Downer ending
Glamorizing the giant conflict
1. Starmetals (Arkbrik)
2. Expansion/exploration (mgb519)
Thanes (Silverdream)
Period: The Reaching
Humanity reaches the first new worlds and star systems. [LIGHT]
Event: The first FTL Hyperdrive is tested successfully. [LIGHT]
Period: The Starmetal Age
People discover the potenial of various minerals and other substances found in outer space, and an era of population growth, scientific breakthrough, and cultural prosperity follows. [LIGHT]
Event: The Martel family lands on the uninhabited world of Scade I and starts prospecting operations. [LIGHT]
Scene: Who was the first victim of the Niordium sickness? [LIGHT]
Characters: Peter Martel, the youngest, 13-year-old, son of the Martel family (Arkbrik). Harris Martel, his grandfather (mgb519). Neil Martel, Peter's uncle (Silverdream).
Setting: The home of the Martel family. Everyone is dying of Niordium sickness in their beds, except the youngest son, Peter Martel.
Harris says that Peter can trust his friends, Harmon and Elaine. Peter brightens up. He didn't think of them before! They are hardly older than him, but he's sure they'll help him. Neil says that the greatest thing a Martel can have is his brain. Peter is a good boy. He's the future of this family. Peter says that he won't disappoint them. He can do this. Harris has no doubts that Peter will make a fine leader. Neil says goodbye to Peter. Peter turns to him and grabs his hand, desperately. Neil stops breathing.
Answer: Neil Martel was the first to die.
Period: Euginidian Era
The Euginides Dynasty unites all worlds in a Monarchial Meritocracy, causing peace and prosperity. [LIGHT]
Event: Thane Kelsey Montague conquers the Harkhand system and destroys the ruling democratic republic, on behalf of King Constantine I. [DARK]
Period: The Quantum Conquest
The Church of the Quantum Mechanic conquers dozens of worlds to spread their worship of the all-powerful Uncertainty. [DARK]
Period: The End
The ravaged humanity slowly dies. [DARK]
Event: The Niordium mines on Scade I are exhausted. [DARK]
Scene: Why was Thane Leonid Nemirovsky so obsessed with attaining the Niordium? [LIGHT]
Characters: Thane Leonid Nemirovsky (Arkbrik). Gordan Price, his right hand man (mgb519). Dunya Martel, head of the Niordium mining corporation (Silverdream).
Setting: Thane Nemirovsky's command ship, the Gypsy.
Nemirovsky explains further that as an official contractor of the Church they'll get other benefits as well - a State Moderator of the Church will visit them every year to see if they have any problems or need anything. Dunya sighs and says that she guesses that she has no choice. She signs the contract. Nemirovsky allows himself a deep, satisified sigh. With this much Niordium under his control, he can finally get the Niordium Mafia off his back...
Answer: Thane Nemirovsky needed the Niordium to get the Niordium Mafia off his back.
Scene: Why was the population of Scade I doomed when they could not produce more Niordium? [DARK]
Characters: Dunya Martel, head of the Niordium mining corporation (Arkbrik). Alai Martel, her husband (Silverdream). Ron Anders (mgb519), shady guy.
Setting: The evening of the day when the Niordium exhaustion has become public. A quiet restaurant in the capital of Scade I. Dunya, Alai, and the State Moderator sent by the Quantum Church to inspect the Niordium mining corps are having dinner together. Ron is sitting at a table nearby.
While Dunya and Alai are going home, they are stopped by Ron. He tells Dunya that "Helen told you every step of the way, and you wrote her off every time." He asks if the name Helen means anything to her. Dunya recognizes the name as the crazy environmentalist woman, with her insane forecasts of the planet's collapse if they kept mining Niordium... but doesn't let Ron know that she knows.
Answer: The planet depended on the Niordium - when it was gone, it became unstable and collapsed.
Scene: How can Helen's Niordium sickness be treated? [DARK]
Characters: Dunya Martel, head of the Niordium mining corporation on Scade I (Silverdream). Ron Anders, shady guy (mgb519). Helen, sick environmentalist, Ron's girlfriend (Arkbrik).
Setting: Right as the last scene ended.
Meanwhile, Helen is in her and Ron's apartment, anxiously waiting for him. There is a larger tremor in the ground. She decides that she can't stay there anymore, and runs out to look for him, putting up her hood to conceal her diseased face. She passes by a group of mine workers, who seem agitated and angry at the Martels.
Dunya and Ron feels the tremor as well. Dunya is ready to draw her MF-4, a collapsible gun. Three quick snaps and you had a semiautomatic. Ron reveals who he is. Dunya is shocked, she hoped that she would never have to hear that name again. Ron asks if she remembers the messages his company sent her, about alternatives to unsustainable and dangerous Niordium mining. Dunya says that Thane Nemirovsky would never let her do that.
Helen spots Ron, shouts to him and runs up to him. She asks what he's doing, the planet is coming down! She begins to ask him something, but stops when remembers Dunya. Ron tells Helen that she was right, he couldn't do it after all.
*Snap* *Click* *Snap*
Dunya pulls out her MF-4 and turns it into a semiautomatic. She knows that there is only one cure for Niordium sickness - Death. She fires at Helen. Ron instantly fires a hidden gun at Dunya. Both Helen and Dunya are hit and fall to the ground. Helen's hood falls off, revealing her diseased, oozing face. Her sores feel less painful as the world goes darker...
Ron stands unscathed. "No. NO!!!!"
Answer: Death is the only cure.
The rulebook wrote:Microscope works differently from some other role-playing games you might have played, so let's abandon some preconceptions:
You won't have your own character.
You won't play the game in chronological order. You may know all about the future, but be surprised by the past.
You'll build the story from the outside in. You'll decide the big picture, the grand scheme of history, and then burrow down and carve out the details.
It's fractal gaming.
So think big: you have a massive chunk of history to play around in.
All right people, let's play Microscope: the game of epic histories. Histories that you create piece by piece. You create a grand Premise that sums up your whole history, then take turns to create one history unit; either a Period, an Event, or a Scene.
The history in Microscope is layered. First you have the Periods; big chunks of time defined by a wide theme. Eg. "The age of dwarf and elf wars" or "Humanity's colonization of space".
Each Period can contain a number of Events. These are specific things that happen at a particular time and place. Eg. "The burning of the elven home-tree" or "Settlers on Omega-7 awaken a cosmic horror".
Zooming in further, each Event can contain a number of Scenes. These are roleplayed, and show exactly what happens at a specific time and place, with specific people. All players take part in roleplaying them. A Scene is created as a question, and you play until the question has been answered. Eg. "Why did the dwarves spare the Elvenking's life?" or "Did any settlers escape the cosmic horror?"
Those are the basics of the rules. You can read more about the game at its site, where you can also buy it (but you don't need to - I have the rules and I'll explain as we go).
Microscope is played without a GM; all the players have equal power. I'll be the facilitator, meaning that I explain the rules, keep the OP updated with the full history, and generally keep things running, but I don't have more game power than anyone else.
There's three player spots (including me). A small number of players makes everything easier. When you sign up, you can suggest a Premise for the history as well. The Premise sums up the whole history; eg. "The rise and fall of the Dwarven Empire" or "Humanity spreads to the stars and forges a galactic civilization". The premise doesn't have to be super cool or original; the game will take care of that.
1. Arkbrik
2. mgb519
3. Silverdream
Final words: If you are still not convinced that Microscope is awesome, read this.