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Twelve years ago my biggest concerns were turning 30, whether or not I could smuggle a kitten into my fifties walk-up apartment, and what show I would move onto next.
There was never any concern living paycheck to paycheck. Even if I should have had some anxiety, who had the time, what with my busy schedule running from hair salon to lunch dates, dancing occasionally at night or spending half a paycheck on a couch I knew I would live with forever? (One thing is true today - I still own that damn green couch!)
I wasn't exactly a shallow 20-something. I went to church. I volunteered my time at the local dog shelter. I paid my taxes. But fear and doubt were simply not in my vocabulary. I would write for a living. I would meet a husband. And I'd have a stylish wardrobe while doing so!
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One night my sister called me. "Do you want to go out with a friend of mine from work's husband?" she asked.
"Is he gay?" was my first response. The facts are, I was still mending a broken heart incurred by a man who left me for someone as good looking as my current spouse. Going through a canceled show was one thing, but I couldn't handle another Bruce scenario.
"Not gay, but possibly geeky... " she answered back. "All I know is that he works in computers, he's tall, and my friends are sick of him being the third wheel on their dates out."
"Why not?" was all I could muster. I could have cared less if it worked or it didn't. I wasn't a huge player, but I had my share of men asking me out. One more couldn't hurt, and if it went sour, it would be a fun cocktail story to tell. (Not that we went out for cocktails much, but I fancied myself quite hip in those days.)
What finally transpired was not a call from Rex, but instead one from my sister's friend from work. (Hint #1: Rex is not a talker.) "Hi, I'm Leya," she said. "Do you want to meet myself, my husband, and my husband's business partner for dinner on Thursday?" she asked.
Oooh... "business partner"... sounded fancy. I pictured an executive with a leather briefcase working on the 20th floor of an L.A. highrise. How was I to guess I'd land a sweet Italian in a pair of Kirkland dockers who ran cable for small business owners under the name 'The Computer Guys'? Life is fun for sure.
But back to my first meeting: Before I knew it, I found myself walking into a Middle Eastern restaurant located between a Greek owned Shoe Store and an icecream parlor. I ended up talking most of the night to Leya's husband, while my future hubby looked at me with what was either a puzzled uncertainty or amused admiration.
Twelve years later, I'm still trying to decipher that look.
How did you meet your spouse or current boyfriend? Was it a blind date? The internet? Did you love him? Hate him? Let's hear all about it!
* Photo of Rex and I back when I had good hair and he was sporting a unibrow. At least 1 out of 2 losses worked out!


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At my page on the HPR site, you can also see four videos, including a breathtaking performance of Like The Way I Do that's over ten minutes and one of the best-captured live versions of that song… Also check out Melissa paying tribute to Janis Joplin solo acoustic, showcasing her skills in jaw-dropping fashion… See her live in action from just days ago 'down under' on her current tour, playing an acoustic version of Falling Up, a song from Fourth Street Feeling, her new album due in September.
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Part Two – Figuring It Out Along The Way – Life In Portugal
At the end of our last post, Part One (read it here) we promised that we would continue our "Not the Same As" list comparing the differences between life in the States, no longer United, and our newly adopted country of Portugal. Sure, we could paint word pictures about the picturesque cobbled streets, the single lane country roads that curve and beckon one to explore, the giant storks' nests upon the chimneys and roofs and on and on.
Those were the things that piqued our interest about this part of Europe and made us fall in love with the country but they don't answer the questions we had when we first moved here. Our questions were a lot more prosaic, dealing with life on a day-to-day basis but, seriously, we didn't even know enough to ask them. So, here's another list to answer the question of, "What's it really like to live in Portugal?"
Shopping. Not to make light of the homeless situation in the US, but we're from the land where grocery carts serve as portable storage trailers. It's not unusual to see someone walking along the edge of the road with a cart piled high with their belongings and what these runaway carts cost the store is another matter altogether. However, Portugal is the first country where we ran into "tethered grocery carts." (Evidently Canada has them but, as our Canadian friends remind us, they're ahead of the US on a lot of things.) Upon seeing these for the first time, we hung out for a bit (trying to figure this new wrinkle out) before watching someone insert a coin which released the chain holding the carts together. In a "Duh" moment it took us a few trips before we found out we could get our money back at the end of our shopping by inserting the key at the end of the chain again whereupon our coin would pop out. The store even gives away plastic coins so you can spend all your money right there! Anyway, we think these are clever and we like to dazzle our American friends with our new parlor trick when they come to visit.
Fruits, vegetables and bread. We love them all and they seem to have so much more flavor than what we're used to in the US. The upside (or downside depending what side of the argument you're on) is that they spoil much faster because the fruits and vegetables are ripe when they're picked and, as the commercials used to promise, at "the peak of their freshness." A loaf of still-warm bread is best the day of purchase because there are no preservatives.
We buy our eggs in a half carton, six at a time, off an aisle shelf; they have yolks so yellow they're almost orange. Likewise, our milk, which comes in a waxed cardboard carton, is found on a shelf on another aisle. Neither is refrigerated. Since we were properly indoctrinated on the need to refrigerate dairy products, it took us a while to accept that it really was okay to ingest them.
And then there are the bright red ticket machines. Rather than lining up in front of the butcher or baker's counter, people pull off a numbered piece of paper which marks their place and mill about. The number comes up on a display or the baker/butcher yells it out. The whole system seems to work fine. A quirk however (and we've been ignored a few times) seems to be that you need to pull your number even if you're the only one standing there. Ticket machines are ubiquitous: at the post office, the doctor's clinic, pharmacies, phone or cable stores and any government service where people might line up.
Obviously, the subject of shopping could take a whole post but we'll stop after one, two, three more observations. 1) Bring your own tote bags or you'll need to buy some. 2) Remember to sign up for the store's loyalty plan and have your card scanned at the beginning of your purchase. It can save you a lot of money. 3) And, like most countries, it's usually not a matter of one-stop shopping. Pingo Doce is our favorite store and we buy our hamburger, plump chicken breasts and most of our produce from there. Continente gets our business because it's closer, we can buy plain Doritos corn chips, Knox spice mixes and (no kidding) sometimes hard-to-find celery as well as some household goods. We shop at Aldi for the best priced walnuts, feta cheese, hard German salami and the adventure of seeing what goods (socks, plastic ware, toys, umbrellas, jackets, and once even sewing machines at €90) are in their center aisle bins each week. This week we scored with an electric heating pad! In Lagos, we have our favorite, butcher, bakery and fruit and veggie stands.
Driving. Stop signs and traffic lights are the exception in Europe. Here, roundabouts rule. We first ran into roundabouts in the island country of Curacao and were confounded, not in small part because the signs were in Dutch. Our GPS directs us to, "Go around the rotary" and "Take the second exit" in a proper British accent but it took us a while to get the hang of roundabout etiquette. We thanked the gods above more than once last winter that we could practice during the low-season while the streets and roads were mostly empty. (Here's a big tip: We take turns driving so that we can change-up who's yelling at who.) Here's a handy diagram that might help.
And, speaking of tips, after one exits a roundabout in urban settings, there's usually a white-striped crosswalk. Pedestrians have the right-of-way of course, but it's easy to tell who's local because the Portuguese assume we'll stop while tourists look both ways first before setting a foot on the road. Once we'd "mastered" some of these driving proficiencies, we were still puzzled about the occasional honk we'd get when we signaled to make a left-hand turn. Finally, we realized that we hadn't seen many people making them … Another "Duh" moment because the roundabouts also serve as a way to change directions and avoid most situations requiring a left-hand turn.
(Not-so) Common Courtesies. There are of course the usually handicapped parking spaces but there are also signs for preferred parking spaces for pregnant women and parents with children. And, after some internal fuming about the old women who sashay their way ahead of us in line at the grocery, we learned there's a common practice of allowing the elderly to go ahead in line. Kind of nice, right?
At the doctor's and dentist's offices, the appointments are on time or only a little late. And, we kid-you-not, the staff apologizes if they're running late. We usual get a text message reminder a few days before scheduled appointments and we've received calls saying that the staff is running behind and asking us if we could come in later.
At the Movies. One of our small pleasures, now that we belong to the leisure class, is going to the movies. Lagos has a small movie theater, right above one of the Chinese stores (that's a post for another time) with two "salas" or rooms with screens. A new movie comes to town each week on Thursday and usually there's one or two for adults, including first-run movies in English with Portuguese subtitles and something good for the kiddies. The tickets cost about €4 each and a large bag of popcorn is under €2. We've heard they make American-style popcorn occasionally but so far, we've just had the typical Portuguese popcorn, a caramelized, slightly sweet treat that's grown on us. At this price, we check the offerings weekly and usually go to the matinees where, most times, the "crowd" is less than ten people so we get preferred seating too. This week the offerings are Office Christmas Party, Sing! and the new Star Wars movie, Rogue One. Because Christmas is right around the corner and the holidays have begun, we may have to give up our preferred seating and rub elbows with the crowd to see Rogue One.
We'll close this two-part rambling post on basic life skills for expats in Portugal with a note on Time. Continental Portugal is in the Western European Time (WET) Zone, usually abbreviated as UTC + 00:00. (Note for you trivia fans like us: UTC stands for Universal Time Coordinated and is the same as GMT or Greenwich Mean Time.) A reminder to our son in Denver, Colorado: This means we're seven hours ahead. Portugal observes daylight saving time and uses the 24-hour clock so appointment times are written as 09:00 or 14:30 rather than 9 AM or 2:30 PM. The date is written in a DAY-MONTH-YEAR format so today's date is written 17/12/16 rather than 12/17/16.
So, on this day, a gorgeous, mostly sunny, Saturday afternoon with the temperature high of 17 °C on 17 December 2016 in Lagos, Portugal, we say "tchau!"


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Gay Activists and Religious Freedom
Demanding to Be Served
eHarmony is a popular online dating service designed by Neil Clark Warren, an evangelical Christian psychologist. The site claims that, on average, 236 eHarmony members marry every day. That's good news.
The bad news is that, in 2005, a man claimed the company violated his rights by not offering a matchmaking service to homosexuals. He lodged a complaint with the New Jersey attorney general, who found probable cause that eHarmony had violated state anti-discrimination laws. eHarmony vigorously disagreed.
Nevertheless, last year, eHarmony agreed to develop a matchmaking service for same-sex couples-and pay $55,000 in fines.
As I said Sunday, we've seen this scenario over and over again. Christians or Orthodox Jews open up a business, ministry, or school, and sooner or later, a same-sex couple shows up demanding services that conflict with the sincerely held religious convictions of those they confront. When the same-sex couple is turned down, they promptly sue-even if others offer to accommodate them for the same services. And too often, they are winning their cases.
It's as if the First Amendment no longer exists. I can't help but suspect that radical gays deliberately target outfits run by religious believers in order to force them to accommodate their political agenda-or go out of business.
So what can we do about this? How can we protect our First Amendment rights-and marriage itself?
First, if you are victimized by a gay activist group or same-sex couple demanding that you throw out your religious beliefs, contact the Alliance Defense Fund. They have spent many years defending the First Amendment right of religious believers-rights now under brutal attack.
Second, we've all got to work together to protect the integrity of marriage. Learn how by contacting the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy. You'll also learn why we need to pass a federal marriage amendment. I know you're getting fatigued, but it's time to stiffen our spines.
College students who want to learn how to defend traditional marriage should go to the Ruth Institute website and sign up for a summer conference. The Ruth Institute also offers a list of people who will speak to your group about marriage. Or, you can purchase a same-sex "marriage" home party kit, which includes DVDs, bumper stickers, and wrist bands. Have your friends over, and use the kit to teach them how same-sex "marriage" will harm everybody.
The issue is critical. We all must learn how to answer the charge of "bigotry," and winsomely explain why marriage cannot exist between same-sex couples; and how same-sex "marriage" will not broaden marriage, but radically and dangerously change its nature.
We must learn, as the apostle Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 10:5, to "demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God."
If we don't make the case for natural marriage-or fight attempts to shut us up or shut us down-sooner or later, we will all find our most sacred liberties sacrificed on the altar of the gay agenda.


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'Something to remember this theatre by': Fans of the Towne Cinema 8 collecting submissions for book
A local film collective is looking to keep the memory of a defunct downtown movie theatre alive.
Last month, the Towne Cinema 8 - located at 301 Notre Dame Avenue - went up for sale after being closed since the pandemic.
The Towne 8 was the last commercial movie theatre to operate in downtown Winnipeg. The announcement of its sale caused an outcry from the local movie-loving community.
"Our collective had quite the emotional response to the closure of this cinema and we also noticed that many folks did, as it was one of the more accessible theatres remaining in Winnipeg," said Meganelizabeth Diamond, director of the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival (WUFF).
"It was a place you could go and see a movie for five dollars," she said.
Diamond is one of the organizers of the "Towne 8 Project," which seeks to collect media, memories, and stories about the nearly 42-year-old theatre. "We are accepting submissions with a rolling deadline in response to the closure of our beloved downtown cinema," Diamond said.
Submissions can include photos and video of the theatre, as well as essays, collages, paintings, and other tributes.
Diamond said they have been receiving a lot of written submissions so far. "Folks just remembering some of their favourite films, or some of the funnier instances they've had at the theatre."
She said all submissions will be collected into a book about the Towne 8 to be released next year.
They also hope to hold a film screening at the book launch.
"We just really wanted to harness that energy and have something to remember this theatre by," said Diamond.
Submissions to the Towne 9 Project can be made at the WUFF website.
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Scientists see carbon chains preferred locales on popular catalyst
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Results: Prima donnas. Floppy chains of carbon atoms are particular about where they want to be on a titanium dioxide catalyst, according to a new study from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin. The catalyst's surface resembles corrugated cardboard: ridges of oxygen atoms run parallel to valleys of titanium atoms. Influenced by a weak attraction to the titanium, the hydrocarbon chain settles into the valleys.
View Animation The scientists added alcohol molecules to the surface of the titanium dioxide catalyst. The alcohol's oxygen atom shed its hydrogen atom and slid into a vacant oxygen spot on the catalyst's surface.
View Animation Influenced by a weak attraction to the titanium, the hydrocarbon chain settles into the valleys on the surface of the titanium dioxide.
Why it matters: The location of the hydrocarbon chain determines, in part, how well the model catalyst titanium dioxide will perform. Understanding where the carbon chain is and why is vital data for those seeking to modify catalyzed reactions; for example, making the reactions faster or more selective. "It has to be in the right place," said Dr. Roger Rousseau, a catalysis expert at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. "It can't just be anywhere.
Methods: To determine where and why the hydrocarbon chain resides on the catalyst, the team conducted both experimental and theoretical studies. The project began with a scanning tunneling microscope (STM), which provided snapshots of the catalyst's surface. The microscope is located at the Department of Energy's EMSL, a national scientific user facility at PNNL.
The scientists added alcohol molecules to the surface. The alcohol's oxygen atom shed its hydrogen atom and slid into a vacant oxygen spot on the catalyst's surface. To understand how the length of the chain influenced its orientation, the researchers used alcohol molecules with eight carbon atoms and varied position of the hydroxyl (-OH) anchor from the very end to the middle of the hydrocarbon chain.
Using the STM, the scientists saw that the hydrocarbon chains, known as alkyl chains, had distinct preferences regarding where they resided.
Then, the theoretical chemists used the atomic-level information from the microscopy images to perform density functional theory calculations with a van der Waals correction. The calculations showed that the alkyl chains preference was based on a weak attraction between the carbon chains and the titanium atoms as well as a slight repulsion between the carbon and the oxygen atoms. These weak attractions are known as van der Waals forces.
Further, the scientists showed that the rotation of hydrocarbon chains anchored in the middle over the barrier of the oxygen rows is much harder than rotation of hydrocarbon chain anchored at the end. This is because when the anchor is in the middle, two hydrocarbon arms have to move over the oxygens as opposed to just one.
What's next: Knowing how titanium dioxide's surface influences the hydrocarbon chain's position, researchers are moving to investigate how the surface of another common catalyst, tungsten trioxide, reacts with alcohol molecules.
"This research is the first step to understanding how reactants align themselves for future reactions," said Dr. Bruce D. Kay, an expert in chemical reactions and molecular dynamics, who worked on the project.
Acknowledgments: This research was done by Dr. Roger Rousseau, Dr. Bruce D. Kay, and Dr. Zdenek Dohnalek of PNNL; Zhenrong Zhang, a postdoctoral fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory who recently accepted a position at Baylor University; and Jinlong Gong at the University of Texas at Austin.
The research was funded by U.S. Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
Research was conducted in the Department of Energy's EMSL, a national scientific user facility at PNNL.
Reference: Zhang Z, R Rousseau, J Gong, BD Kay, and Z Dohnalek. 2009. "Imaging Hindered Rotations of Alkoxy Species on TiO2(110)." Journal of the American Chemical Society 131(49):17926-17932. DOI:10.1021/ja907431s.


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Valeriana by Dransavi is a food supplement of excellence, which, by incorporating a significant amount of standardized extract (0.4% valerinic acid), ensures the effectiveness of its calming effects.
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Influenza (Flu) in Children
What is influenza?
Influenza (flu) is a highly contagious viral infection and is one of the most severe illnesses of the winter season.
Influenza is a viral infection of the upper respiratory system, which includes the nose, bronchial tubes, and lungs. Influenza has these common symptoms:
Muscle aches
Sore throat
Nonproductive cough
Influenza can make people of any age ill. Although most people, including children, are ill with influenza for less than a week, some have a much more serious illness and may need to be hospitalized. Influenza may also lead to pneumonia or death.
What are the different types of influenza?
Influenza viruses are divided into three types designated as A, B, and C:
Influenza types A and B cause epidemics of respiratory illness that happen almost every winter. They often lead to increased rates of hospitalization and death. Public health efforts to control the impact of influenza focus on types A and B. One of the reasons the flu remains a problem is because the viruses actually change their structure regularly. This means that people are exposed to new types of the virus each year.
Influenza type C usually causes either a very mild respiratory illness or no symptoms at all. It does not cause epidemics and does not have the severe public health impact that influenza types A and B do.
Influenza viruses continually change (mutate), which helps the virus to evade the immune system of both children and adults. People can get the flu no matter what their age. The process works like this:
A person infected with an influenza virus develops antibodies against that virus.
The virus changes.
The "older" antibodies no longer recognize the "newer" virus when the next flu season comes around.
The person becomes infected again.
The older antibodies can give some protection against getting the flu again. Vaccines given each year to protect against the flu contain the influenza virus strain from each type that is expected to cause the flu that year.
What causes influenza?
An influenza virus is generally passed from person to person through the air. This means your child can get the flu by coming in contact with an infected person who sneezes or coughs. The virus can also live for a short time on things like doorknobs, pens or pencils, keyboards, telephone receivers, and eating or drinking utensils. So your child can get the flu virus by touching something that has been handled by someone infected with the virus and then touching his or her own mouth, nose, or eyes.
People are generally the most contagious with the flu 24 hours before they start having symptoms and during the time they have the most symptoms. That's why it is hard to prevent the spread of the flu, especially among children, because they do not always know they are sick while they are still spreading the disease. The risk of infecting others usually stops around the seventh day of the infection.
What are the symptoms of influenza?
Influenza is called a respiratory disease, but the whole body seems to suffer when a child has it. Children usually become suddenly ill with any or all of the following symptoms:
Fever, which may be as high as 103° F (39.4° C) to 105° F (40.5° C)
Muscle and joint aches and pains
Not feeling well "all over"
Sore throat
Runny or stuffy nose
Worsening cough
Most people recover from influenza within a week, but they still feel exhausted for as long as 3 to 4 weeks.
The symptoms of influenza may resemble other conditions or medical problems. Always see your child's health care provider for a diagnosis.
How is a cold different from the flu?
A cold and the flu are two different illnesses. A cold is relatively harmless and usually clears up by itself after a period of time. Sometimes a cold may lead to a secondary infection, such as an ear infection. But the flu can lead to complications, such as pneumonia and even death. What may seem like a cold may be the flu. Be aware of these differences:
Cold symptoms
Flu symptoms
Low or no fever
High fever
Sometimes a headache
Headache (very common)
Stuffy, runny nose
Clear nose or stuffy nose
Sometimes sneezing
Mild, hacking cough
Cough, often becoming severe
Slight aches and pains
Often severe aches and pains
Mild fatigue
Several weeks of fatigue
Sore throat
Sometimes a sore throat
Normal energy level or may feel sluggish
Extreme exhaustion
How can influenza be prevented?
A new influenza vaccine is available each September. All children at least 6 months old should get the flu vaccine each year, as soon as it is available in their community. In addition, antiviral medications can be used to prevent the flu in children. All of these medications are available by prescription. Talk with your child's health care provider before giving any medication to prevent the flu.
A nasal spray flu vaccine can also help to prevent flu caused by influenza A and B viruses. It is for healthy children and adolescents ages 2 to 17 (and in healthy adults ages 18 to 49). The nasal spray vaccine should not be given for any reason to pregnant women and people with immune suppression, including those with immune deficiency diseases, such as AIDS or cancer, and people who are being treated with medications that cause immunosuppression. It also should not be given to these groups of people:
Children younger than 2 years old
Any person with asthma or children younger than 5 who have recurrent wheezing
Adults ages 50 and older
Children and adolescents who are taking aspirin as long-term treatment
Children and adults who have a chronic disorder of the lung, heart, kidney, liver, nerves, blood, or metabolism
Following these precautions may be helpful:
When possible, avoid or limit contact with infected people.
Frequent handwashing may reduce, but not eliminate, the risk for infection.
A person who is coughing or sneezing should cover his or her nose and mouth with a tissue or inside elbow to limit spread of the virus.
Vaccine effectiveness varies from year to year, depending on how close the influenza virus strains included in the vaccine match strain or strains that actually circulate during the influenza season. Vaccine strains must be chosen 9 to 10 months before the influenza season. Sometimes, changes occur in the circulating strains of viruses between the time vaccine strains are chosen and the next influenza season. These changes may reduce the ability of the vaccine-induced antibodies to stop the newly mutated virus. This decreases the chance that the vaccine will work.
Vaccine effectiveness also varies from one person to another, depending on factors like age and overall health.
What are the side effects of the vaccine?
The most serious side effect of an influenza vaccination is an allergic reaction in people who have a severe allergy to eggs. For this reason, children who have an allergy to eggs should not get the influenza vaccine. According to the National Center for Infectious Diseases, part of the CDC, influenza vaccine causes no side effects in most children who are not allergic to eggs.
Some people who get the vaccine have soreness at the vaccine site. Some people have mild side effects, such as a headache or a low-grade fever for about a day after vaccination. Because these mild side effects are like some influenza symptoms, some people believe influenza vaccine causes them to get influenza. But the CDC says that "influenza vaccine produced in the United States has never been capable of causing influenza because the only type of influenza vaccine that has been licensed in the United States to the present time is made from killed influenza viruses, which cannot cause infection."
What are current vaccine recommendations?
While the 2013-2014 flu vaccine will protect you from the same viruses as last year, it's still important to get a flu shot every year because immunity decreases over time. The vaccine is recommended for all people 6 months and older, including pregnant women. People who are allergic to eggs or other components of the vaccine may be told not to get the vaccine. It is especially important that people in these groups get a flu shot:
Pregnant women and women who plan to be pregnant during flu season
People 50 and older. Vaccine effectiveness may be lower for older adults, but it can significantly reduce their chances of serious illness or death from influenza.
Children 6 months to 19 years old
Residents of nursing homes and any other long-term care facilities that house people of any age who have chronic medical conditions
Adults and children who have chronic disorders of the pulmonary or cardiovascular systems, including children with asthma, cystic fibrosis, and chronic lung disease of infancy, such as bronchopulmonary dysplasia
Adults and children who have the following medical conditions:
Endocrine disorders, such as diabetes
Kidney or liver disorders
Weakened immune system from diseases such as HIV or AIDS or taking long-term steroids
Blood disorders such as sickle cell disease
Children and teenagers ages 6 months to 19 years who are taking aspirin as long-term therapy
Health care providers
Employees of nursing homes and chronic care facilities who have contact with patients or residents
Providers of home care to people at high risk
Household members, including children, of people in high-risk groups
What is the treatment for influenza?
Specific treatment for influenza will be determined by your child's doctor based on:
Your child's age, overall health, and medical history
The severity of symptoms
Your child's tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies
Expectations for the course of the condition
Your opinion or preference
The goal of treatment for influenza is to help prevent or decrease the severity of symptoms. Treatment may include:
Medications, such as acetominophen or ibuprofen, to relieve aches and fever. Aspirin should not be given to children with a fever without talking to your child's health care provider first. The drug of choice for children is acetaminophen.
Bed rest
Increased fluid intake
Medication for your child's cough may be prescribed by your child's provider after a thorough check-up.
Antiviral medications may help to shorten the length of the illness and decrease the severity of symptoms, but do not cure the flu. They must be started within three days after symptoms begin to have an effect on the virus. The length of therapy will be determined by your child's provider. Antiviral medications may also be given as prophylaxis or prevention following exposure to someone with influenza.


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[Editor's note: Graphic shows not physical geography but a topological network of social friendships and how smokers used to be at the center of social networks but are now more isolated. If someone becomes a smoker than it cascades thru the social network, but if someone quits smoking, it can have a similar effect by influencing others in the crowd to quit. The program used to make the graphic is called Pajek. Thanks Patterson!]
Reprinted from The Washington Post. By Rob Stein, Staff Writer. Monday, May 26, 2008.
Facebook, MySpace and other Web sites have unleashed a potent new phenomenon of social networking in cyberspace. But at the same time, a growing body of evidence is suggesting that traditional social networks play a surprisingly powerful and underrecognized role in influencing how people behave.
The latest research comes from Nicholas A. Christakis, a medical sociologist at the Harvard Medical School, and James H. Fowler, a political scientist at the University of California at San Diego. The pair reported last summer that obesity appeared to spread from one person to another through social networks, almost like a virus or a fad.
In a follow-up to that provocative research, the team has produced similar findings about another major health issue: smoking. In a study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, the team found that a person's decision to kick the habit is strongly affected by whether other people in their social network quit — even people they do not know. And, surprisingly, entire networks of smokers appear to quit virtually simultaneously.
Taken together, these studies and others are fueling a growing recognition that many behaviors are swayed by social networks in ways that have not been fully understood. And it may be possible, the researchers say, to harness the power of these networks for many purposes, such as encouraging safe sex, getting more people to exercise or even fighting crime.
"What all these studies do is force us to start to kind of rethink our mental model of how we behave," said Duncan Watts, a Columbia University sociologist. "Public policy in general treats people as if they are sort of atomized individuals and puts policies in place to try to get them to stop smoking, eat right, start exercising or make better decisions about retirement, et cetera. What we see in this research is that we are missing a lot of what is happening if we think only that way."
For both of their studies, Christakis and Fowler took advantage of detailed records kept between 1971 and 2003 about 5,124 people who participated in the landmark Framingham Heart Study. Because many of the subjects had ties to the Boston suburb of Framingham, Mass., many of the participants were connected somehow — through spouses, neighbors, friends, co-workers — enabling the researchers to study a network that totaled 12,067 people.
When researchers analyzed the patterns of those who managed to quit smoking over the 32-year period, they found that the decision appeared to be highly influenced by whether someone close to them stopped. A person whose spouse quit was 67 percent more likely to kick the habit. If a friend gave it up, a person was 36 percent more likely to do so. If a sibling quit, the chances increased by 25 percent.
A co-worker had an influence — 34 percent — only if the smoker worked at a small firm. The effects were stronger among the more educated and among those who were casual or moderate smokers. Neighbors did not appear to influence each other, but friends did even if they lived far away.
"You appear to have to have a close relationship with the person for it to be influential," Fowler said.
But the influence of a single person quitting nevertheless appeared to cascade through three degrees of separation, boosting the chance of quitting by nearly a third for people two degrees removed from one another.
"It could be your co-worker's spouse's friend or your brother's spouse's co-worker or a friend of a friend of a friend. The point is, your behavior depends on people you don't even know," Christakis said. "Your actions are partially affected by the actions of people who are beyond your social horizon" — but in the broader network.
In addition, the researchers found that the size of smokers' own networks did not change over time, even though the overall number of smokers plummeted, from 45 percent to 21 percent of the population during that time. The researchers realized that what happened was that entire networks of smokers would quit almost simultaneously.
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Clint Eastwood: "I may have been Dirty Harry, but Tarvu was Clean Harry."
Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an Academy Award-winning American actor and filmmaker. Eastwood is best-known as an actor for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles in action and western films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
His performance as Tarvu in the movie Holy Smoke (1972) (released in the UK as The Baalbian) earned him an Academy Award nomination and an honorary Knighthood of the Givil. In private life, Clint prefers to be addressed by his Tarvunian name, Clarpitty Eastiboonah.


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Once again, a large portion of my day has been spent doing homework between a rock and a hard place.
I was feeling pretty lazy and had no desire to do work… But my weekend plans did not allow for procrastination.
Yesterday was the CBS Broadcast Center tour.
Tomorrow I have a St. Patrick's Day party to attend over in Fullerton.
Both of which are great social things to do, so I cannot complain. However, my first paper for Gaming in American Culture is due tomorrow, so that became an assignment I was unable to push-off.
Luckily, in spite of my complaints about overwriting the other day, I was finally able to focus and cut the paper down. It's now six pages exactly, with a bibliography and citations in Chicago Style — something I've never used before.
Long ago I wrote about my turmoil trying to decide what video game I should write about for this paper series.
That impossible choice wound up landing on Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, my favorite game in the turn-based tactical RPG. So far it has been a great one, as I've had a ton of fun analyzing how Sacred Stones is arguably one of the most replayable games in the series due to its unit variety, random stat distributions, intentionally restrictive player choice options, multiple pathways and Permadeath concessions.
All wrapped up in a polished, 32-bit handheld bow that I adore.
Perhaps when all three parts of the paper are finished, I'll try to compile everything and post it on the old blog here. Seems like something that would fit.
I've also spent time working on my essay for Cognitive Psychology, which involves analyzing a study that corresponds with the presentation I gave in-class last Thursday.
While the paper was easy to pull together, having a 3-page maximum limit, I'm still kind of struggling with the finishing details because of how confusing the professor has made certain instructions.
Though I've talked about that before, so I won't bore you here.
Something that has helped me work through all of this essay writing is a brand new investigative reporting podcast I recently discovered called: The Dropout.
Helmed by Rebecca Jarvis, the Chief Business, Technology & Economics Correspondent for ABC News, this podcast discusses the rise and fall of a company called Theranos and its female CEO Elizabeth Holmes — which basically defrauded millions of dollars from investors in promising a miracle medical test, also putting millions of people at risk.
Sounds like an ad, I know. But it's not an ad.
Though… It could be an ad?
Hit me up, Rebecca. I'm sure you're dying for these 10+ views/day.
Seriously though, it's a fascinating story. I'm about three episodes deep and really looking forward to finishing the rest during my next couple commutes.
It's another great addition to my growing collection of one-shot journalistic podcasts. Joining the ranks of Dirty John and The Butterfly Effect.
Because I could listen to Nando and DJ discuss movies on Mostly Nitpicking or Kevin Smith and Ralph Garman discuss celebrity news on Hollywood Babble-On for hours. But sometimes the real, raw journalism is far more of a fascinating subject to absorb.


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Color Code: Yellow
"There's no doubt about it—yellow is a color that lifts one's spirits," says designer Bunny Williams. "When painting your walls, yellow is often a hard color to get right. It often goes too green or is too pale and washed out. I like yellows that have some depth to them and aren't timid. Farrow & Ball Yellow Ground and Orangery are two of my favorites."
Color Code: Yellow
"This gorgeous color is Farrow & Ball's Orangery," says Williams. "It is a beautiful combination of yellow and saffron and makes this room, which doesn't have much light, feel like the sun is shining every minute. A strong color in a small space gives it immediate character and makes a big impact."
Stephen Sills
"I rarely use strong shades of yellow," says designer Stephen Sills. "I prefer a faded and toned-down yellow to make an environment peaceful."
Color Code: Yellow
"For this home, I used yellow to embrace the bright sun of Florida," says Sills. "The walls are a warm toast color to complement the lemon-yellow upholstery. I'm fond of yellows in a monochromatic scheme."
Robert Couturier
"Yellow is a color that says 'Hello,'" says designer Robert Couturier. "I love and am inspired by yellow—it lives in the natural light of a room and appears in candlelight during a dinner party."
Color Code: Yellow
"Yellow has warmth like sunshine and is an uplifting color that helps promote communication," says Couturier, who used a pale shade in this apartment he designed for the style journalist Amy Fine Collins. "Yellow creates feelings of well-being and encourages positive thoughts. It energizes us."
Jamie Drake
"What could be better than being surrounded by sunshine even on a gray day," says designer Jamie Drake. "A strong yellow will do just that. I love a yellow with a touch of red in it, so it stays warm and bright like an optimistic embrace."
Color Code: Yellow
"This Connecticut living room is a delight even on the stormiest northeastern day," says Drake. "The walls are high-gloss lacquer to amplify every drop of light in a deep room with windows only at one end. Crisp white moldings define the space, and the turquoise and teal upholstery are unusual complements
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Why Woz Is My Favorite Reality TV Star
We thought only geeks would dig Steve Wozniak when the rotund Apple cofounder took to Dancing with the Stars. But with his clumsy moves, injuries, and conspiracy theories, he's proving perfect fodder for reality TV!
The latest on Woz, who performed last week with a fractured foot: He's going on air tonight having pulled a hamstring and accused DWTS producers of rigging the vote.
Last week, he emailed supporters claiming that results were getting manipulated to juice ratings:
The producers play games to get viewers and don't disclose the numbers. If they disclosed the numbers, it would be less of a game, but still suspect. If tomorrow, they claim I'm in the bottom 2 dance teams, including viewer votes, I believe that it's an outright lie....
I'm sure they want me in this dance-off to get higher Tuesday ratings, and they have preplanned it so that I win. If my leg acts up tomorrow, they will either have to announce another pair as being the lowest or send me home, and I don't think they will give me up.
He's since apologized:
I have been around the internet conspiracy theory forums for too long.
We know how easy it is to espouse a lot of ideas and build conspiracy theory. No conspiracy theory can be proven wrong, so there are always plenty of die-hard followers.
Yesterday I wrote my suspicions of the secret Dancing With The Stars audience vote tabulations. I wrote that the producers were liars, simply because I truly believed in that possibility, not because I had a shred of evidence.
I hurt a lot of honest people.
If anyone's manipulating the results, it's surely Woz, who's using his website, email list, and Facebook group to decimate the competition — at least the competition for online attention. Did you know that Lil' Kim was competing in this season? Belinda Carlisle? Lawrence Taylor? If you did, it's probably only because Woz has blogged about them. Will he dance on, despite his injury? Woz recently complained about the press's obsession with the health of his partner in founding Apple, Steve Jobs. Maybe he was just jealous his own health wasn't getting more attention.
(Photo by Janet Wozniak)


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[Verse 1]
I cannot waste no time, bitch, I'm really timeless
I cannot leave my houses without diamonds
All the faces on my watches, jump out it
Change faces on the watches, now they frownin'
I probably spent the 100 thousand on fly shit
QP spent the 100 thousand on mileage
Bruce Lee kick it with me, I be stylin'
2 seater Bentley and it's topless
And she's topless, naked bitch driver
Papers and fronto wrapped around Sour
I cannot waste no time, bitch, I'm really timeless
I cannot waste no time, bitch, I'm really…
I cannot waste no time, bitch, I'm really grindin'
If I ever said, "I love you," I was lyin'
I fuck with you but you was always like a side bitch
Cause I can never put nothin' over grindin'
[Verse 2]
I just left my baby girl a message
I said, I won't be comin' home
Hah, that's a dub, bitch, I'm on the road
Hah, and I need 20 thousand for a show
Hah, I ain't walkin' through your club no more
Hah, But if floss hit me up I go
Hah, SpinKing that's the fuckin' bro
Hah, I fuck it up, I fuck it up some more
We switch the flow up, if you a busta I'ma cut you off
Bitch I'm goin' up
Gettin' money, what the fuck you thought?
Nigga, hold up it get ugly
I'm a fuckin boss, hah
Good now but I started off
Just a young nigga runnin' 'round and the butter soft
Try to run down on me nigga you should knock it off
I ain't get lucky mothafucka
Took a couple loses, yeah
What u sayin'? You ain't really on shit
Got zippers on my jeans like I'm Billy on this
I ain't sippin' no more lean I've been trippin' off it
I've been pissin' codeine and I ain't wit the shits, woah
Rockstar lifestyle, might not make it
Wake up faded still end up drinking
Make-up on my t-shirt, I hate it
R.I.P. t-shirts, I hate it
Fall asleep, wake up still I'm faded
Bubba prolly lost 50 K in vegas
Pour up purple and then make it turn pinkish
Said that I was done with it but I'm still drinkin'
I can't waste no time, I can't waste no time with it
I can't waste no time, bitch, I'm really timeless
I can't waste no time, bitch, I'm really timeless


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ANTIOCH — As authorities identified an Antioch man slain on a city street Wednesday afternoon, two other men shot a few hours later were expected to recover, police said.
Contra Costa Coroner's deputies identified the dead man as 20-year-old Nicholas Barton Chavez. He died in a hail of gunfire that broke out at 12:22 p.m. at the intersection of William Reed Drive and West Madill Street, Antioch police Lt. Diane Aguinaga said.
Police said they have no suspects in the shooting, nor would they say if it was gang-related. A friend of Chavez's said the man was shot three times. The killing was Antioch's second homicide in 2013.
Hours after that shooting, two other people were wounded by gunfire about 6:45 p.m. in the 2300 block of Manzanita Way, Aguinaga said. Both victims were expected to survive, she said.
Police did not say if they believe the shootings are connected. A hostile crowd surrounded police after the shooting and hindered their ability to look for and help the victims, Aguinaga said. The crowd fought with officers, screamed at them and tried to keep one of them from getting near the victims, she said.
Neither of the shooting victims cooperated with police. One was taken to a hospital in an ambulance and another was driven by onlookers, Aguinaga said.
Anyone with information on either of these cases may contact Antioch police at 925-779-6900 or text an anonymous tip to 274637, using the key word "Antioch."
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Labor unions largely came out swinging in favor of ObamaCare's passage in 2010, but many have been growing increasingly wary of ObamaCare's incoming provisions, fearing that the law's requirements will raise the costs of health plans for unions members and make them less competitive compared to non-unionized workers. On Tuesday, one such labor union that initially backed the health care overhaul became the first union to officially revoke their support for the law. Ouch.
Our Union and its members have supported President Obama and his Administration for both of his terms in office.
But regrettably, our concerns over certain provisions in the ACA have not been addressed, or in some instances, totally ignored. In the rush to achieve its passage, many of the Act's provisions were not fully conceived, resulting in unintended consequences that are inconsistent with the promise that those who were satisfied with their employer sponsored coverage could keep it.
These provisions jeopardize our multi-employer health plans, have the potential to cause a loss of work for our members, create an unfair bidding advantage for those contractors who do not provide health coverage to their workers, and in the worst case, may cause our members and their families to lose the benefits they currently enjoy as participants in multi-employer health plans.
For decades, our multi-employer health and welfare plans have provided the necessary medical coverage for our members and their families to protect them in times of illness and medical needs. This collaboration between labor and management has been a model of success that should be emulated rather than ignored. I refuse to remain silent, or idly watch as the ACA destroys those protections.
I am therefore calling for repeal or complete reform of the Affordable Care Act to protect our employers, our industry, and our most important asset: our members and their families.
That's gotta' sting. As Mary Katharine already pointed out today, ObamaCare author extraordinaire Sen. Max Baucus just vocalized his concern that ObamaCare's implementation might be turning into a "trainwreck" — and now even some organized labor groups are grumbling about their serious buyer's remorse on that matter.
It'll be interesting to see if other unions follow suit and officially retract their support of the law; in terms of potential campaign support withheld, that probably wouldn't do much for President Obama's Democratic ambitions for Congress in 2014, would it?


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Oct. 26, 2004 -- -- Former President Clinton realizes the warning signs of heart disease began long before he had quadruple heart bypass surgery, and he has one message for the public: Don't ignore your body.
"The number one thing I would say to people is if you've got a family history, you gotta be tested, tested, tested," Clinton told ABC News' Diane Sawyer in an exclusive interview that aired today on "Good Morning America."
"You should bend over backwards to make sure you get the medicine that you need and watch your diet. And the only signals are not, you know, where your chest is hurting so bad you can hardly stand up, and you're on the verge of a heart attack. … It may be sustained shortness of breath or inability to do things you used to do. You just can't assume it's the aging process."
"I just missed it [the warning signs]," Clinton continued. "That was my fault. I don't blame my doctors or anybody else. … I was insufficiently vigilant."
Seven weeks after his Sept. 6 surgery, Clinton joined Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry on the last full week of his campaign before the Nov. 2 election. The so-called "Comeback Kid" -- noticeably thinner but exuberant -- appeared at Kerry rallies in Pennsylvania and Florida on Monday and plans to campaign for the Massachusetts senator this weekend in Nevada, New Mexico and his home state of Arkansas.
Doctors said Clinton had nearly 100 percent blockage in some of his arteries when he underwent surgery and had narrowly avoided having a major heart attack. Clinton said he believes he began experiencing the symptoms of heart disease shortly after he left the White House -- even though he was exercising and, he believed, in good physical condition.
"I worked out with a trainer. I was in the best shape of my life," Clinton said. "Still, when I'd go out for a run, after a mile I'd have to stop and walk 100 yards or 200 yards to get my breath. And then I could run again."
Clinton said he continued to feel periodic shortness of breath and tightness in his chest after exercising into the spring of 2004. But he always attributed them to other factors.
"I had several instances where my chest felt tight when I was exercising," he said. "And because I could, you know, slow down and then resume that level without tightness returning, I just assumed it was because I was exhausted, and I was out of shape."
However, this past summer, Clinton noticed he was have increasing difficulty with physical activity. Eventually, he began to feel shortness of breath and tightness in his chest when he was not physically active. Clinton said he felt severe tightness in his chest after a book tour on Aug. 31 in New Orleans.
"Each time he exercised, he was feeling this," said Dr. Allan Schwartz, Clinton's cardiologist. "And the symptoms were gradually getting worse, occurring at a lower and lower threshold. … The episode that landed him in the hospital was an episode of symptoms at rest lasting 20 to 30 minutes."
Clinton's symptoms did not show up in a stress test, which lasts between 12 and 15 minutes. And since his cholesterol levels fluctuated, he was reassured into stopping taking his cholesterol medication, Zocor.
But Clinton does not blame his doctors for taking him off Zocor.
"To be fair to them, they used the latest standards for what [bad] cholesterol was," he said. "And my cholesterol was below that. And it's much lower now."
Clinton blames himself -- a bad diet, a busy work schedule and ignoring warning signs -- for his health ordeal.
"Since I left the White House, maybe if I had stayed on a lower fat diet. Maybe if I had … not eaten so many hamburgers and steaks, which I love, maybe if I had, you know, had slightly less stress in my life … maybe it would have been different," he said.
In his first interview since his surgery, Clinton said his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, was not worried that he was returning to political activities too early, but she didn't want him to do too much, either. When he was first released from the hospital, she made sure that he didn't field too many phone calls.
"She was afraid I'd be on the phone too quick when I came home. And so we rerouted our phones to the office," Clinton said. "And it was interesting. We got 100,000 e-mails, 10,000 letters, and hundreds and hundreds of calls. And they organized the phone calls for me, and I'm answering them a little along as I can."
Still, Clinton does not think he is taking a risk by hitting the campaign trail for Kerry so soon after surgery. The race between Bush and Kerry is too close to call, Clinton said, and the consequences are monumental.
"I want to do this," Clinton said. "Senator Kerry asked me to do it, and I want to do it. And … because it's [the race for the White House] close and because I think it's important. And because the differences between the two candidates and the courses they'll pursue in the next four years are so profound."
The rest of Diane Sawyer's interview with Clinton will air Thursday on "Primetime Live."


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"Matt, this is Ryan, copy? Tell me what you see."
"You have to let me go."
"We're all gonna' die, everybody's gonna' die … and I'm gonna' die today!"
"I want to hear you say you're gonna' make it."
"I'm gonna' make it."
Those lines of dialogue are embedded in my brain.
Like a spike hammer.
For those of you who don't know (and I'm guessing there are very few), they come from the Oscar-nominated film "Gravity." More specifically, they come from the radio spot thats been played relentlessly in recent weeks to promote the movie.
When I climb into my car in the morning, I hear it. When I'm driving home at night, I hear it. When I make a trip to the grocery store to buy bread I hear it. And lately, I'm convinced I hear it in my sleep.
I understand that the Academy Awards are coming up Sunday and that "Gravity" is up for 10 Oscar nominations, including Sandra Bullock for best performance by an actress in a leading role. Warner Bros. has a lot riding on the movie. I get that.
But if I hear that dialogue one more time I'm going to jump off the nearest cliff and experience my own kind of gravity.
I have never been so inundated by a movie promo. And just to set the record straight, I have seen it. I'll be the first to admit that the special effects were amazing. And I thought Sandra Bullock and George Clooney were both very good.
A good movie, yes. But not great. A lot of people around me seem to disagree with that, however, so I guess that's a reflection of all the nominations the film has racked up.
"Gravity" cost $100 million to make, which ain't exactly cheap. But that still falls well below the budgets of many other Hollywood films. So you could argue that the money was spent in the right places to create those stunning visuals.
Still, I didn't leave the theater feeling transformed. Not the way I did when I saw "The Shawshank Redemption." Or "Unforgiven." Or "Gran Torino," for that matter.
Yes, I admit it. I'm partial to some of Clint Eastwood's films.
And while we're at it, what the heck ever happened to that Robert Redford movie? I know he was in a film about a guy whose yacht was rammed by a freighter in the Indian Ocean, but I don't think the movie ever surfaced in my neighborhood (no pun intended).
But getting back to "Gravity," I was thinking a while back that I might go see the movie again just to see if missed something the first time around. But after hearing that dialogue day in and day out? I don't think I could endure another viewing.
So maybe I'll seek out "I Spit on Your Grave" on Netflix.
I'd be willing to bet that the budget for that horror flick was somewhere south of $100 million.


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NOTE: UFC on FX 2's Johnson-McCall actually a draw, tabulation error leads to rematch
SYDNEY – After the night's first flyweight-tournament semifinal ended controversially, Joseph Benavidez left no doubt in his opening-round matchup.
Heavy favorite Benavidez rocked Yasuhiro Urushitani with a counter punch early in the second round of their bout to pick up a TKO victory.
The fight co-headlined tonight's UFC on FX 2 event at Sydney's Allphones Arena. It aired on FX following prelims on FUEL TV.
The violent finish came early in the second round following an opening round that saw little action until Benavidez took control with scrambles.
But the big end came in the following round, when Benavidez countered a high kick with a right hook that caught the Japanese fighter clean. Urushitani fell to the mat, and Benavidez unloaded a quick flurry of follow-up punches to force the referee's intervention.
The TKO stoppage came just 11 seconds into the round.
"I felt I'd bring power to this division," said Benavidez. "I think that's just a sign of things to come in the flyweight division."
With the win, he now heads to the finals opposite Demetrious Johnson, who edged Ian McCall with a heavily panned majority decision in the night's first tourney fight. Like Benavidez, Johnson is a former 135-pounder who dropped to flyweight following a failed big at Dominick Cruz's WEC/UFC bantamweight title.
"This is amazing," Benavidez said. "It's a dream come true. I have an amazing opponent on the other side (of the tournament). Those guys put on an amazing show, and I'm happy to fight the winner."
Benavidez (16-2 MMA, 3-0 UFC) remains undefeated in the UFC with the win while Urushitani (19-5-6 MMA, 0-1 UFC) snaps a five-fight win streak, which came in Shooto.
Up-to-the-minute fight results include:
- Joseph Benavidez def. Yasuhiro Urushitani via TKO (punches) – Round 2, 0:11
- Demetrious Johnson def. Ian McCall via majority decision (29-28, 29-29, 29-28)
- Constantinos Philippou def. Court McGee via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
- James Te Huna def. Aaron Rosa via TKO (punches) – Round 1, 2:08
- Anthony Perosh def. Nick Penner via TKO (punches) – Round 1, 4:59
- Steven Siler def. Cole Miller via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
- Andrew Craig def. Kyle Noke via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
- T.J. Waldburger def. Jake Hecht via submission (armbar) – Round 1, 0:55
- Daniel Pineda def. Mackens Semerzier via submission (triangle-armbar) – Round 1, 2:05
- Shawn Jordan def. Oli Thompson via TKO (strikes) – Round 2, 3:53
For more on UFC on FX 2, stay tuned to the UFC Events section of the site.
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Indiana University officials are planning to honor World War II journalist Ernie Pyle with a statue on the Bloomington campus.
Provost Lauren Robel says the bronze statue will be modeled after a photograph of Pyle during the war sitting on a crate, working with his typewriter on a table, with goggles pushed above his knit cap.
The Herald-Times reports the statue will be placed outside Franklin Hall, where IU's journalism program will be relocating as part of a new media school.
Pyle grew up near the western Indiana town of Dana and attended IU before embarking on his journalism career. He died during combat in 1945.
Pyle's statue will be the third on the Bloomington campus, joining longtime IU president Herman B Wells and composer Hoagy Carmichael.


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HADOPI, meet the internautes. The French "high authority" that oversees the country's three strikes anti-P2P file-sharing campaign is now being used by spammers and scammers who attempt to trick people out of their cash by accusing them of copyright violations.
The e-mails have appeared in recent days, purporting to come from France's Haute Autorité pour la diffusion des œuvres et la protection des droits sur Internet (HADOPI). This is the government group that will accept file-sharing complaints from movie and music rightsholders, then issue sanctions and fines to users, with Internet disconnection and blacklisting the ultimate penalty.
Scammers hope to capitalize on the publicity surrounding HADOPI, which has pledged to start sending out its first warning letters soon. The e-mails purport to come from HADOPI, charging that the recipient was detected sharing files, and they direct the user to website to make a payment.
"As expected, this is classic Internet," said HADOPI's Secretary General Éric Walter to Agence France Press yesterday. He advised recipients to exercise caution and not to turn over bank details or personal information.


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Evidence, testimony in Locey shooting case
Andy Brown of Kalamazoo, charged in the Oct. 2 murder of David Locey, faced Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey Middleton for a preliminary hearing Tuesday in St. Joseph County District Court.
Brown's attorneys, Michael Hills and James Hills of Hills at Law in Kalamazoo, cross- examined 14 witnesses presented by St. Joseph County Prosecutor John McDonough.
The hearing continued at 8:30 a.m. today.
The task of a preliminary hearing is to determine whether there is enough evidence for the case to earn a trial. Middleton's task is to determine if there is probable cause that a crime was committed.
McDonough established the crime scene of Oct. 2 with three witnesses. The first, Ramona Metzger, is a St. Joseph County 911 dispatcher who took the call at 7:53 a.m. Oct. 2, from Tammy Brunner, a 17-year employee of David Locey CPA. Brunner found Locey's body.
The prosecutor played a recording of the 911 call. Metzger questioned a hysterical Brunner, who immediately responded to the question, "Was it self-inflicted?" by saying "No never." Early in the call, Brunner told Metzger she believed Andy Brown had killed Locey. When a police officer arrived, Metzger allowed Brunner to hang up.
Rich Johnson, the Sturgis police officer who responded to the call, was next on the stand. Johnson said he was at Sturgis High School when the call came, initially reported as "self -inflicted." Before Johnson was out of the school vicinity Metzger changed it to "possibly not self-inflicted."
When McDonough asked Johnson how "recent" the shooting was, Hills objected, claiming Johnson is not an expert in determining time of death. However, from his training, Johnson answered that the condition of the blood and splatter indicated it had been recent.
Johnson noted that Brunner had moved some paperwork for early arriving clients from Locey's draft table to his desk, but he left the papers as placed on the desk and helped Brunner to his squad car.
Brunner told of going to work before 8 a.m. because a client heading for court needed documents and was expected at 8 a.m. She said the employee entrance at the back of the building was unlocked when she arrived.
Brunner said she went to her desk, the restroom, checked the front door, which also was unlocked, before heading into Locey's office to see if he had the paperwork ready.
"Dave was on the floor," she said.
When Brunner called his name and got no response, she noticed "a bullet hole in the wall behind Dave," and "lots of blood pooled around Dave on the right side on the white table."
She went to Locey's desk and dialed 911.
McDonough asked about a situation on Oct. 1, in the office between Locey and Brown. Brunner said that around 1:30 p.m. that day, the office manager, Joy Stevens, Locey, Brown and Brown's wife, Heather, met in the conference room.
Later in the afternoon, Heather came out of the meeting first. From her desk, Brunner could see Heather get into the car with her mother-in-law, Teresa Brown and said she heard tires squeal as they drove away.
Following the meeting, Locey directed Brunner to take Brown's laptop to a computer company to retrieve information. She did so and returned to the office.
When asked if she heard yelling from the conference room, Brunner said no.
A fourth witness, Paul Gonyeau, with the technical services unit of Michigan State Police, was on the stand longer than the previous witnesses. He had examined video surveillance during 6-9 a.m. from the BP Snappy Food Mart, 1159 N Nottawa St., south of Locey's office It captured Locey in the mart from 7:10 to 7:12 a.m. Oct. 2. Gonyeau also described his tracking of two cell phones, one that is believed to be used by Brown. The tracking went from 6:57 a.m. to 7:57 a.m. From 7:07 a.m. to 7:25 a.m. it records that it likely stayed in a limited location. From 7:25 to 7:57 a.m. "the device location has physically changed," Gonyeau said.
Donald Berry, a service technician for ADT Security, the system used at Locey's office, was next on the stand. Records he pulled from the device showed which employees were recorded as "arming" the system when they left the building and which "disarmed" it upon arrival from Sept. 30 through Oct. 2.
Next, McDonough called witnesses to further establish Brown's whereabouts during the time his cell phone information was on the move. David Munn, owner of David Munn Custom Builder, and an employee, Thomas Carpenter, were building a three-season room on Brown's parents' home on Oct. 2. Both testified seeing Brown shortly after they arrived on the job about 7:20 a.m. and that he left again soon after. Neither spoke to Brown that morning.
Richard "Skeet" Bowersox told of returning a tool he had borrowed from Jim Brown at his business on Chicago Road in Sturgis,
Bowersox said he was there between 7:45 and 7:50 a.m. and Andy Brown was present. Bowersox said he greeted Andy Brown and shook his hand then quickly concluded his errands and left for his own business.
"I was gone before (Brown) left," Bowersox said.
Following a lunch break, McDonough began calling witnesses, most of whom Brown had rendered accounting services.
Lee Younkman of Coldwater said he had been a client and a friend of Brown. McDonough asked Younkman if he noticed "odd behavior" in Brown recently.
Younkman said the IRS "showed up a few times" and about a week before Locey's death, Brown had asked about the procedure for buying bullets and if they could be tracked to him. When Younkman asked why he wanted to know, Brown responded that he was asking for his brother. Younkman said he told Brown he'd have to show his driver's licence for a purchase.
Joy Stevens, Locey's office manager or 30 years and business partner, answered questions about the ADT surveillance information which recorded that "user No. 11" — the number assigned to Brown — was recorded as having disarmed the security system at 2:14 a.m. Oct. 2. At 7:13 a.m. "user No. 40" — Locey's number — disarmed the system.
She said Locey received a letter from a Grand Rapids attorney concerning pressing charges on behalf of VIP Auto Body Shop in Coldwater. The letter prompted a meeting on Oct. 1 between Locey, Stevens, Brown and his wife, she said.
"It was kind of a rough meeting," Stevens said.
Locey apologized to Heather for the information she would hear in the meeting about her husband, Stevens said.
It was an emotional meeting for Locey and for Brown who both "cried" a little, she said.
"(Brown) admitted he had taken a few checks from some of our clients," Stevens said.
They discussed Brown's future employment, but Locey was hesitant to fire Brown, she said — he was waiting for more evidence.
The next three witnesses were from VIP Auto Body Shop, accounting clients of Brown. Each answered questions about concealed weapons licenses and weapons sometimes carried or kept in the shop.
Gaytha Elkins, wife of owner Scott Elkins, is employed elsewhere, but recently became involved in the bookkeeping when several notices from the IRS came to the shop. The total in unpaid taxes was $237,000, she said. Her husband had essentially turned over the financial end of the business to Brown in 2011, she said. Prior to Brown's services, no taxes had gone unpaid.
Owner Scott Elkins said that when he bought the business in 2007, the company had $250,000 in sales but had grown to $1.5 million. "I gave (Brown) full access," Scott said.
IRS notices had been coming for a while, Scott said, but with each, Brown had offered a plausible reason. When notices became more threatening, his relationship with Brown changed, he said.
In the week prior to Locey's death, Brown went to V.I.P. three days. On the third day, the Friday prior to the shooting, Scott said he was trying to avoid Brown.
On Oct. 2, when Scott heard of Locey's death, he told his brother William "Ed" Elkins, the shop manager. When Scott was headed out of town to talk to detectives, Ed flagged down Scott to say a gun he'd left in his desk was missing. Ed immediately reported the missing weapon.
The gun was a "Colt 38 police special" that Ed had inherited from his father-in-law's estate in 2009. Ed said he didn't shoot the gun often because ammunition was expensive.
On Oct. 2, both Scott and Ed were in businesses meetings in Coldwater from about 7-8:30 a.m.
Russell Karsten, a Michigan State Police firearms expert , was the final witness of the day. Karsten was initially sent three pieces of bullet evidence. Two were whole bullets, "fully jacketed," he said. One item was an "outer metal jacket" from which the "core had separated." He was later sent a fourth piece of evidence. Karsten offered a list of possible firearms from which the bullets could have been fired. A Colt 38 special was one of the options.


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(CNN) - President Barack Obama called on his fellow Democrats to "forcefully defend and be proud" of the fact that millions of people have signed up for health care insurance through the federal marketplaces, and faulted Republicans who are still angling to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
"I don't think we should apologize for it. I don't think we should be defensive about it. I think there is a strong, good, right story to tell," Obama said Thursday during a rare appearance at the daily White House news conference.
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Obama announced that the number of people who have signed up for private insurance through the marketplaces has grown to 8 million. About 35% of those people are under the age of 35, he added. That number is slightly less than the 40% that the White House and independent experts originally forecast for the system to work successfully, but it's higher than numbers released earlier this year.
Obama said the law is "now covering more people at less cost than most would have predicted just a few months ago" and criticized its opponents.
"I find it strange that the Republican position on this law is still stuck in the same place that it has always been. They still can't bring themselves to admit that the Affordable Care Act is working," the President said.
"They said nobody would sign up; they were wrong about that," he continued. "They said it would be unaffordable for the country; they were wrong about that.
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The President said the political bickering will still likely continue through at least the November midterm elections, "because it seems as if this is the primary agenda item in the Republican political platform."
His comments marked a strong contrast to the tone he took last November as his administration was trying to smooth over the rocky rollout of the federal website, as well as a broken promise that anyone who liked their insurance would be able to keep it under the new law.
Vulnerable Democrats have since tried to place distance between themselves and the health care law, an outcome Obama somewhat anticipated last fall.
"There is no doubt that our failure to roll out the ACA smoothly has put a burden on Democrats, whether they're running or not, because they stood up and supported this effort through thick and thin," the President said at a press briefing.
The President added that he felt "deeply responsible for making it harder for them rather than easier for them."
But after the administration ended up exceeding its original goal of 7 million sign-ups by the end of March, the President and the White House have not been shy in celebrating a victory.
"This thing is working," Obama said Thursday.
"If Republicans want to spend all their time talking about repealing a law that's working, that's their business," he added.
He also chided states that have refused to accept Medicaid expansion, a provision in the health care law that would give states federal dollars to increase the amount of people who could qualify for the program. Nearly half the states-all with Republican governors-have declined to accept the program, while a few states are still considering it.
Obama argued governors and state legislatures have chosen not to expand Medicaid "for no other reason than political spite."
CNN's Dana Ford contributed to this report.
It's not perfect, but clearly better than nothing. The other side had six years and did nothing but mess up the r/x plan.
"The sad truth is that we will not know the truth until the Demorcats are removed from office so the truth can be revealed. ....."
The last stand of the conspiracy theorist when reality is looking them in the face.
Everyone is in on the bigger conspiracy to cover up the first conspiracy.
Donna – I know there is a giant pink whale in your basement. And you cannot deny it because that would be a cover-up.
I believe we are at the tipping point as far as public opinion goes. There are some who are never going to like it, no matter what. However all we need now is a few news stories about newly covered people who were saved from financial ruin or maybe got diagnosed for something in time to be cured...then you'll see it die as a campaign issue.


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