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Density, height concerns delay NL vote on apartments
Michelle Mullins | 10/28/2014, 9:06 a.m.
Citing concerns about traffic, density and building materials, New Lenox officials on Monday postponed a vote on a new apartment complex proposed for U.S. 30 and Prairie Street.
PPK Architects is designing the Lincoln Station Apartments – four six-story buildings with 312 apartments geared for commuters. The complex, which is being built in a campus-like setting, is being touted as high-end luxury living and comes with a clubhouse, pool, fitness area, movie-screening room, coffee bar, a jogging path and other amenities.
Rent would be about $1,610 per month for a one-bedroom unit that features granite counters, stainless steel appliances, hardwood floors and nine-foot ceilings. It is being marketed toward Metra commuters, young professionals, empty nesters and employees at the nearby Silver Cross Hospital.
Despite the amenities, New Lenox officials wanted to ensure that the buildings and the apartment units were constructed with the best materials with plenty of fire protections.
Trustee Ray Tuminello was concerned that the plans did not have any commercial aspect to them and were only residential. Since the project is being designed as a transit-orientated development, Tuminello said he believed some retail shops would be a good fit for the complex.
Trustee Annette Bowden agreed, saying that the apartments' residents would still need a car and leave the campus in order to buy necessities. She said she is concerned with the increased traffic that would come by adding more than 300 cars to the site.
Trustee Nancy Dye said she doesn't want the tall buildings to stick out and is concerned the density would create a bottleneck of traffic.
About 70 percent of the apartment units would have one bedroom with 30 percent containing two bedrooms.
Village officials plan to work with the architects to get some of the issues worked out before bringing the plan for a vote.
If approved, the Lincoln Station Apartments would add $950,000 to the tax rolls yearly.


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According to Jordan Raanan, the Giants are signing FB Elijhaa Penny off of the Cardinals' practice squad on Tuesday.
Raanan mentions that this move comes after Shane Smith struggled badly during Week 2's game against the Cowboys.
Penny, 25, wound up signing on with the Cardinals as an undrafted free agent out of Idaho back in 2016. He spent his rookie year on Arizona's practice squad before returning to the team on a futures contract.
The Cardinals signed Penny to a one-year, exclusive rights contract this past April, but he was once again waived coming out of the preseason and later signed to their practice squad.
In 2017, Penny appeared in all 16 games for the Cardinals and rushed for 124 yards on 31 carries (4 YPC) to go along with four receptions for 38 yards receiving and two total touchdowns.

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From: NASA HQ
Posted: Friday, January 26, 2007
Synopsis - Jan 25, 2007
General Information
Solicitation Number: NNH07ZDA001N
Posted Date: Jan 25, 2007
FedBizOpps Posted Date: Jan 25, 2007
FedGrants Posted Date: Jan 25, 2007
Application Due Date Explanation: Proposal due dates are scheduled starting on May 1, 2007, and continue through April 11, 2008. Electronically submitted Notices of Intent to propose are requested for all program elements, with the first such due date being March 15, 2007.
Classification Code: A -- Research and Development
NAICS Code: 541710 - Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
Grant Specific Information
Funding Instrument Type: Grant
Funding Instrument Type: Cooperative Agreement
Funding Instrument Type: Procurement Contract
CFDA Number: 00.000
Cost Sharing or Matching Required: No
Estimated Total Program Funding: not available
Expected Number of Awards: not available
Ceiling Amount: none
Floor Amount: none
Funding Activity: Science and Technology and other Research and Development (ST)
Eligible Applicants: 99 - Unrestricted
Link to Full Announcement: http://nspires.nasaprs.com
Contracting Office Address
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Headquarters Acquisition Branch, Code 210.H, Greenbelt, MD 20771
NNH07ZDA001N, entitled "Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences - 2007 (ROSES-2007)," will be available on or about February 16, 2007, by opening the NASA Research Opportunities homepage at http://nspires.nasaprs.com/ and then linking through the menu listings "Solicitations" to "Open Solicitations." This NASA Research Announcement (NRA) solicits proposals for supporting basic and applied research and technology across a broad range of Earth and space science program elements relevant to one or more of the following NASA Research Programs: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Planetary Science, and Astrophysics. Proposal due dates are scheduled starting on May 1, 2007, and continue through April 11, 2008. Electronically submitted Notices of Intent to propose are requested for all program elements, with the first such due date being March 15, 2007. Electronic submission of proposals is required by the respective due dates for each program element, and must be submitted by an authorized official of the proposing organization. Participation is open to all categories of organizations, foreign and domestic, including educational institutions, industry, nonprofit organizations, NASA centers, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and other Government agencies.
Electronic proposals may be submitted via the NASA proposal data system NSPIRES or via Grants.gov. Every organization that intends to submit a proposal in response to this NRA must be registered with NSPIRES, and organizations that intend to submit proposals via Grants.gov must be registered with Grants.gov. Such registration must identify the authorized organizational representative(s) who will submit the electronic proposal. All principal investigators and other participants (e.g. co-investigators) must be registered in NSPIRES. Potential proposers and proposing organizations are urged to access the system(s) well in advance of the proposal due date(s) of interest to familiarize themselves with its structure and enter the requested information.
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Honoring Indigenous Land Defenders in Guatemala
The Guatemalan Human Rights Commission – GHRC/USA – announces that the 2018 recipient of the Alice Zachmann Human Rights Defender's Award is the Bufete para Pueblos Indígenas, and will be accepted on behalf of Maya k'iche' lawyer Jovita Tzul Tzul on December 4.
Ms. Tzul has spent her life working to defend and promote the rights of indigenous communities and a plurinational state. As co-litigator for the Indigenous Peoples' Legal Clinic, she represents people and communities that face serious threats of to their lives and livelihoods due to the imposition of extractive projects in their territory. She also works closely with plurinational feminist organization Tzununija and the Human Rights Legal Clinic.
Jovita's areas of expertise are criminalization/malicious prosecution, land, territory, rights of indigenous women and forced displacement of indigenous communities, among others. In addition to litigating, Jovita has taught courses and presented at numerous forums nationally and internationally.
Jovita has worked as part of the strategic litigation team on such emblematic cases as those of indigenous rights defenders Abelino Chub Caal, Maria Choc and indigenous communities affected by the imposition of hydroelectric companies.
Since 2012, the Guatemala Human Rights Commission has presented the annual the Alice Zachmann Human Rights Award to human rights defenders in Guatemala. The Alice Zachmann Human Rights Award recognizes commitment to promoting respect for human rights, even when confronted by threats and violence.
This award aims to protect human rights defenders at risk of suffering acts of violence and other attacks, and honors the legacy of Sister Alice Zachmann who founded GHRC in 1982, and directed the organization tirelessly over 20 years.
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Early March 18, VIIRS Nightfire has detections near reported location from SNPP and NOAA-20
Detection result from the two VIIRS instruments 50 minutes apart
More details about detections from the two VIIRS instruments
In 2012, the Earth Observation Group developed the VIIRS Nightfire (VNF) data product. VNF is the only daily global fire product with temperature, source size and radiant heat calculations from physical laws. These calculations are made possible by taking a multispectral approach, with detections possible in the near-infrared (NIR), shortwave infrared (SWIR) and mid-wave infrared (MWIR). With detections spanning three spectral ranges, VNF uses Planck curve fitting to define the radiance profile of sub-pixel IR emitters. The wavelength with peak radiance sets the temperature using Wien's Displacement Law. The source size is calculated based of the gray body emissivity multiplied by the pixel footprint. The radiant heat is calculated with the Stefan-Boltzmann Law.
In this example we look at VNF detection of a massive petrochemical blaze at the Intercontinental Terminals Company, outside of Houston, Texas. The blaze started during on March 17, 2019 and continued into through the night. The blaze was detected by both the VIIRS instruments collecting currently, from the SNPP and NOAA-20 satellites.
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Stepping away: Councilmember Rob Johnson has chosen not to seek reelection in 2019 ($).
Blueburbs: The suburbs helped deliver a progressive victory for the United States House of Representatives to Democrats.
New fast ferry: Kitsap Transit will launch a new passenger-only fast ferry from Kingston to Seattle ($) after Thanksgiving.
Safer streets: More pedestrian safety improvements are on the way for Capitol Hill.
More Thurston transit: Thurston County voters have chosen to pass a tax increase to expand Intercity Transit service.
Missing Middle Commercial: Strong Towns says that there is a missing middle for commercial spaces, too.
Rejecting safe streets: Bainbridge Island voters rejected a safe streets tax package.
Redlining Cleveland: Brazen redlining is underway in Cleveland.
Poaching riders: Uber and Lyft are carrying more riders in Seattle than light rail.
MAX extension approved: Portland has approved a new light rail extension project.
Now cars, too: Lime will bring mini-electric cars to Seattle but not e-scooters.
An inconvenient problem: The carbon fee initiative fell short of the votes necessary to be enacted.
The ed levy: Seattle voters passed a sweeping education levy tax package to be administered by the city.
Parking e-scooters: Santa Monica is trialing e-scooter parking corrals.
Winning transportation: Transportation measures faired pretty well across America on election night.
Solidly blue governance: Democrats in Washington state will expand their majorities greatly in the state legislature.
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Copycat Claws did a similar manicure using a white stamp over a metallic brushstroke manicure. Such a pretty use of negative space - I had to try it out! The stamp on my ring finger is Messy Mansion MM19 and my other fingers are stamped with MoYou London's plate, Suki 04.
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The inspiration here is threefold:
I wanted a puppet that didn't require additional hardware, and that assembled without a lot of fuss.
I tried variations of both Zomboe's snake http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4743 and Landru's springamathing http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:12053 as a replacement for traditional cloth hinges. At this point, the pieces I've prototyped on my thing-o-matic don't have nearly enough movement to serve as a marionette, and thinner renditions have been too fragile. But, I have a start of something interesting. I'm not sure if I'll continue to spend time on an all-plastic solution, or look for ways to make tyvek cloth hinges with plastic connectors. This figure has merit of his own, so I'm sharing it in the meantime.
Print one copy of each plate - they are formatted for a 225 x 145 build platform. Pop the pins into the appropriate holes. Enjoy!
Our springy friend stands about 16.5" tall, or 415mm.
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Testing Lepton Universality using B(tau->mu nu nu)
Laura Kormos
University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Date: Monday, April 14, 2003
Time: 10:30 AM
Location: Stirling 201
Measuring the branching ratios is intrinsically interesting simply because it allows us better to understand the particle, but, in addition, an elegant test of the Standard Model prediction of lepton universality can be conducted using only the branching ratios of the to leptons. I will describe the latest OPAL measurement of the branching ratio B(tau->mu nu nu), which is used to test lepton universality, and discuss other methods of testing this prediction. In addition, this branching ratio result has been used to augment some of the constraints on physics beyond the Standard Model. These results will also be presented.


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Despite the steady downward trend in active fees, passive investment funds have cut fees much more aggressively, with average fees being cut by 28% over the same time period.
Despite active managed equity funds seeing their fees fall by around 20% over the past five years, they have failed to keep pace with the rate of the fall in passive investment fund fees: with index funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) cutting their charges by 28%.
According to research by Morningstar, in a paper titled 'The Effects of the Retail Distribution Review on Fund Fees in the UK', since 2013 fees for active equity funds were cut by an average of 18%, on an asset-weighted basis.
Driving this fall in active fees, says Morningstar, was the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), introduced in 2013.
By requiring investment funds to provide greater disclosure on fund fees, the full cost in fees paid by investors has become clearer. The increased transparency stoked some competition between fund providers and greater price discrimination from investors.
As Morningstar notes: "There is no doubt that the RDR has influenced the marketplace, in a good way. There is greater transparency of fees for the investor, and this has brought to the fore the issue of the assessment of value at a fund level."
Investors in large-cap equity funds saw some of the greatest savings, with both the US and UK large-cap equity categories have seen an average 20% reduction in fees since the RDR. As a general rule of thumb equity funds, regardless of size or style, tend to display an ongoing charge figure ranging between 0.85 per cent and 1 per cent.
However, despite the steady downward trend in active fees, passive investment funds (ETFs and index tracking funds) have cut fees much more aggressively, with average fees being cut by 28% over the same time period.
Passive investment has seen intense competition on fees, with Fidelity recently taking the lead by offering investors on its US platform access to two index trackers with zero fees.
At the same time, large-cap funds, despite seeing the largest fee reductions among active funds, also failed to keep pace with fee reduction for passive large-cap strategies. UK large-cap passive funds cut fees by an average of 30%, while US large-cap cap passive funds slashed fees by a whopping 50%. As Morningstar notes: "Clearly, cheap can get cheaper."
However, when it came to fixed-income funds, fees for active have fallen faster. The average fee for actively managed bond funds fell by 10%. In contrast, the average passive bond fund fee has only come down by 4%.


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Center for Native American Youth's Champion for Change Application Due on Monday, Jan. 6
WASHINGTON — The Center for Native American Youth, based at the Aspen Institute in Washington, D.C., is looking for a new class of Champions for Change.
Center for Native American Youth created the Champions for Change program as an effort to shine a spotlight on inspirational stories and promote hope in Indian country.
The Champions for Change program is a means to recognize and encourage Native youth who are taking the lead in tackling community challenges and inspiring whole tribal communities. The Center for Native American Youth is determined to share positive stories about efforts in Indian country.
Applications for Champions for Change are now open until Monday, January 6, 2014 (an extended deadline).
If you know of a deserving Native youth, please take time to fill out the application.
Visit the links below for more information about the Champions for Change program and encourage those youth leaders (age 14 to 22) to apply.
- Extended Application Deadline: January 6, 2014
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The Center for Native American Youth was launched in February 2011 by former U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-North Dakota), who contributed one million dollars from his campaign funds to bring greater national attention to the issues facing Native American youth, and to foster solutions, with special emphasis on youth suicide prevention.


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Gamification is the eleventh episode of Gatchaman Crowds. It first aired on September 20th, 2013.
The episode begins with each member of the G-crew reflecting on how Hajime has changed their lives. (In the form of a clipshow recap)
The second half of the episode deals with the team fighting the rouge CROWDS as well as relaying evacuation orders of Tachikawa via GALAX. Earlier, Hajime convinced the Prime Minister to speak with the people on Gatchannel about using GALAX and handing out free smartphones to citizens to coordinate with police, recuse crews and firefighters on the evacuation on the social site. After regaining control of X, Rui asks him to assist in the evacuation procedures.
When Berg gets locked out of the system, he plots the end of Tachikawa by digitally hijacking the webcast of the Prime Minister's evacuation speech. He impersonates him and convinces the citizens to use the power of the CROWDS to protect their city, in a ploy to get them to kill each other. Rui watches in horror as thousands of CROWDS start appearing in the city, ready for battle.


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Colegio San Patricio obtains the 'Seal of Healthy Living' awarded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports
Colegio San Patricio has obtained the 'Seal of Healthy Living' for educational centers granted by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports for its center in El Soto.
This seal, created in the year 2015, supposes a public recognition of the educational centers --public, state-assisted and private-- that promotes learning of health in the educational scope, as well as the assumption of practices of healthy living and a physical education that allows the adequate personal and social development throughout the schooling of students.
This recognition was part of the Healthy Habits Plan, approved by the Council of Ministers, to emphasize the need to educate students, from early stages, on the importance of healthy habits to improve their quality of life when they reach adulthood.
To obtain the Seal of Healthy Living, San Patricio's center in El Soto had to present a technical report, in which the actions carried out related to the recognition and the summary of the life of the center were identified.
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Keeping your child's mouth healthy is very important as they grow. Tooth decay (cavities) is the most common preventable childhood disease, and can have long-term effects on the growth of your child's teeth. In addition, healthy dental hygiene habits need to be encouraged in your children from a young age. Dr. Buechele at Clermont Family Dentistry & Dentures is an experienced preventive dentist for children in Clermont.
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#52FilmsByWomen: THE INTERVENTION
I was having a conversation with a friend of mine, saying that I was a little creatively frustrated. Being an actor is such a weird thing, because you have to rely on so many other people to get to the place where you are able to express yourself creatively. We were talking about just making stuff on our own, but then it's hard, you need financing and things are expensive. I had written this other script that I really liked, but it would have been too pricey. No one was going to give five million dollars to make a movie. So I had this really simple idea and I told to him the idea for this movie, the premise of friends who do a relationship intervention, and he thought it was a funny idea. He encouraged me to go home and write it, and I just wrote it.
~Clea Duvall
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A weekend getaway for four couples takes a sharp turn when one of the couples discovers the entire trip was orchestrated to host an intervention on their marriage.
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Learn about making health food choices through activities and programs such as hands-on cooking classes, supermarket tours, menu planning, cooking demonstrations, label reading and edible gardens.
A free state-wide program supporting vulnerable and disadvantaged adults and their children to improve health and wellbeing by increasing their knowledge of nutrition and a healthy diet.
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Most of us will go on at least one trip in our lifetime where a hotel stay is necessary. A key to making the trip a success is ensuring your safety while at the hotel. Unfortunately, more travelers than most people would expect have experienced some type of assault or danger while staying at a hotel. With the Superbowl coming to Atlanta in the next few weeks, the local hotels will no doubt need to take extra security measures to ensure the safety of all of their guests.
Factors such as negligent security, inadequate lighting and negligent maintenance can contribute to occurrences of assaults at hotels. It's hard to say exactly how many assaults are reported at hotels and resorts across the US every year. Not all assaults are reported to police, and a hotel's TripAdvisor page will hardly feature a summary of the number of assaults and suspected attacks the hotel has been involved in over the past few years. Likewise, a hotel will not make known the number of personal injury lawsuits filed against them for negligence.
Solo female travelers need to take strong steps to safeguard their own security. It's important to not be lulled into a false sense of safety when you are walking around in the quiet hallways and guest areas of a hotel. Even with the state–of-the-art check- in systems and seemingly foolproof door lock systems many hotels use these days, it is not, unfortunately, a complete safeguard against crime. Therefore, all travelers, and especially females, must be on their guard at all times.


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The Virginia Wing Drill and Ceremonies School is held twice a year.
2020 dates to be announced.
It will be held in-conjunction with the Cadet NCO Academy.
The activity announcement can be found in the attachment section at the bottom of this page.
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Drill and Ceremonies School is to bring the perfection, discipline, and FUN of drill to cadets. In CAP today it is easy to forget the experience and value that drill and ceremony should bring to the Cadet Program. At DCS students will learn proper technique, terminology, common mistakes to avoid, the fun of a well-called jody, the art of innovative drill, as well as a love and appreciation for drill. They will be trained on the mastery of the skill and method of instruction of these techniques in order to return to their squadrons to be Drill and Ceremonies Instructor assets. In this manner the Wing becomes standardized in Drill and Ceremonies per CAPP 60-20.
Highlights include:
- Focus on giving commands, properly drilling a flight, and teaching drill
- Learn to be a better staffer at your home squadron or prepare to be on staff at encampment and other activities
- Space is limited to 40 students
- Must be C/Amn or higher - officers may apply!
The director for the school is Lt Col John Payne, CAP.
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Witches, demons, horror, love, hate and death linger in these pages. Only turn the cover on this book if you're sure you're ready for this journey...
Delacorte Press and Edelweiss allowed me to download a copy of this ebook for review (thank you). This book will be on sale August 28th.
This an eclectic group of stories written by fourteen different authors. The taste of each story is different. In some cases, I rushed right into the next story to get rid of the taste of the last story. Horror or bad endings will do that to me. I did pick some favorites to highlight. This is small list and by no means the only stories I liked. It's just a bit to tantalize you and perhaps let you see some of the contents in advance.
Gentlemen Send Phantoms is a gentle tale of sweet love with a touch of paranormal. Laini Taylor does nice job of blending fear and superstition into a quest for love.
The Chosen One by Saundra Mitchell was wonderful. The story is filled with action and ends on a high note. It's true that love is blind.
Fate by Simone Elkeles also caught my eye and my interest. This is tale of love in unexpected places.
None of these tales will bore you. Most will intrigue you. Why don't you read the book and tell me which tales you liked best? I'd love to see if our interests are the same.
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Meet Lena - SYA China 2017
How did you come to the decision to attend SYA?
It was a long process actually because my parents were completely opposed at first. I dropped it for a while, came back a little while later after having gone on the website, and had 20 times more excitement and finally they decided that we could talk about it. For me personally, I knew that it was what I had to do if I wanted to learn a new language in the most effective, most amazing way. For a little bit of background, I was studying French prior to going to China. I wanted to experience a language that was completely different. So, no more Romance Languages for me! I was like, time to do something that was nothing like I had ever studied before. For me, that decision came about through trying to find the best way that I could have this experience that would hurl me outside my comfort zone. In the end, it came down to expressing that passion to my family and they saw how important it was to me and decided to support that.
What did you learn in your year abroad that surprised you?
People in other countries are just people who speak other languages and I think the language barrier is more of a divide than we think. I was surprised to find out that people who we categorize as foreigners are exactly the same as us. Having the opportunity to communicate with Chinese people was eye opening. More specifically to living in China, in terms of living in a Communist country, I found that I didn't feel it the way that you might think from reading an American newspaper. It doesn't feel like living in oppression. So that was surprising to me to look and be able to talk with my host family about the Chinese government system and how it affects their day to day life without the American view of it, which I think can be heavily stereotyped in one direction.
Do you have a particularly special host family moment?
The last night before I left was very special to me because my family took me out to a dim sum restaurant for our last hurrah as a family. That was really when it hit home for me that they had become my family because we were so natural with each other, going to dinner and making fun of each other and just laughing and chatting. I had to come to terms with the fact that "tomorrow I am leaving these people and I'm not going to live with them anymore" and having to wrap my mind around how weird that was. It was really moving to realize how much I had become a part of the family.
How was your education at SYA different than at your high school?
I went to a very very structured high school so SYA by contrast felt a lot freer. Even though we didn't have a lot of choice in the classes we took because, you know it's high school, it felt more laid back because there was such an emphasis on learning, not just in the classroom but how much was going on outside. I think our teachers kept that in mind, the fact that we were dealing not just with our homework load and extracurriculars but also this daily process of trying to survive in a new country. So the education, I think was different but was exactly what needed to happen for the situation we were in. And I came back my senior year perfectly prepared.
What advice would you give to someone who considering SYA?
Just do it! Oh no that's Nike, isn't it? Please do it. It's so good and I feel like it's just a question of pushing over that edge of fear. I think that this is something that someone said to me when I was making up my mind. Just push past that fear and do it because you won't regret it and it's the most amazing thing you can do for yourself.
How did your year abroad change you?
It opens your mind so much and I would say it expanded my world. I mean I thought that I was "worldly" before going but living in another country is really what it takes to begin to understand it. And so I think my world is expanded now to two countries. And it just inspires you to keep wanting to grow and to keep exploring and keep meeting new people. And so I think it's changed my goals some how.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614557605058304746.post2804430074727870304..comments2020-07-01T05:01:17.360-04:00Comments on Vanilla & Spice: Roasted Veggie Spaghetti with Balsamic & BasilGenevievehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614557605058304746.post-62447374750490087632014-06-04T11:34:48.918-04:002014-06-04T11:34:48.918-04:00Thanks! That's a good idea - I wasn't sure...Thanks! That's a good idea - I wasn't sure where to buy additional oven racks, but I'll have to do some research online! Genevievehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614557605058304746.post-845591553840887192014-06-02T12:05:05.893-04:002014-06-02T12:05:05.893-04:00I'm always lookinf for ways to pair pasta and ...I'm always lookinf for ways to pair pasta and balsamic, so great recipe!

You need to get a new stove, but in the meantime you can just get oven racks and use the other levels available? The bottom one should be too bad to deal with.

~AndrésAurora Importinghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614557605058304746.post-63126279799222573822014-05-30T15:42:22.973-04:002014-05-30T15:42:22.973-04:00YUM! This is the perfect summer dinner, I absolute...YUM! This is the perfect summer dinner, I absolutely adore fresh basil :)smbphttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614557605058304746.post-69885576776662092742014-05-30T10:51:29.580-04:002014-05-30T10:51:29.580-04:00Thanks so much! I agree that this would be a light...Thanks so much! I agree that this would be a light meal on its own - it would be a good idea to serve it with a side salad and bread, or you could serve it with a main protein like grilled chicken maybe! Genevievehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614557605058304746.post-31173146667726655352014-05-30T10:50:18.479-04:002014-05-30T10:50:18.479-04:00Thanks Courtney! I love these flavours in the summ...Thanks Courtney! I love these flavours in the summertime too. My new place is still just a rental, but I like it so far as a temporary home :)Genevievehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614557605058304746.post-67856732359976854792014-05-30T09:23:03.745-04:002014-05-30T09:23:03.745-04:00This sounds wonderful. Given that we are not vege...This sounds wonderful. Given that we are not vegetarians and need significantly more protein than is in this dish, I would serve it as a side dish. I definitely want to try it. Hope your new kitchen works out well and that you can get the oven to work well for firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-2614557605058304746.post-90655261603719629802014-05-30T00:31:05.855-04:002014-05-30T00:31:05.855-04:00Beautiful plate of pasta. Love all of the fresh ve...Beautiful plate of pasta. Love all of the fresh veggies!!! And basil and balsamic. My fav pasta flavours :)

Happy housewarming :) Hope you enjoy your new home and new kitchen.Courtney @ The Fig Treehttp://email@example.com


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Everyone once and while, you will stumble across a story that is so amazingly inspirational that you count your blessings, look back on great memories, and truly appreciate the positive impact that a sport can have on life. A story like this makes you so grateful to go to practice or to your match with nothing more to worry about than the next drill or next point. Because as hard as volleyball can be – especially after running a pyramid on the sand courts or playing two full tournament days in a row – life presents challenges that effect you both on and off the court.
So when I found this story featured on Yahoo! Sports online, I had to pass it on…completely worth the few minutes it takes to read it!
Inspiring one-armed volleyball player passes away, but not until after one final fight and promise
By Cameron Smith, Prep Rally
A wildly inspiring New York boys volleyball player passed away after a long fight with lung cancer on Tuesday, bringing an end to the touching saga of one teen's determination to continue playing the sport he loved even as his body was ravaged by disease.
As reported by the New York Post, 18-year-old one-armed Brooklyn (N.Y.) Fort Hamilton High senior Eddie Nogay was pronounced dead at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He had celebrated his 18th and final birthday just a day before, touchingly following through on a promise he made to his mother and brother, Victor, that he would not die before his 18th birthday and then that he wouldn't die on his birthday itself.
Nogay's official time of death made that final promise to live through his birthday his last success: He passed away at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday.
"We always expected this," Victor Nogay told the Post. "We had hope, but that was more like praying for a miracle. Eddie knew it. He was prepared for it. … He was preparing us all week.''
Nogay gained national attention in April, when he began competing on the Fort Hamilton boys volleyball team with only his left arm. His right arm had been amputated below the shoulder after a sarcoma was found in his right elbow in fall 2012, but he refused to stop competing in volleyball, and persisted through the entire 2013 season despite two collapsed lungs, even returning from a forced medical respite to score the first point of Fort Hamilton's city playoff opener and eventually lead the team to the city quarterfinals.
The entire season was a fitting testament to Nogay as an athlete and a fighter. That fight continued all the way to his final day, when his family had planned to have a birthday party in the hospital. Instead, the 50-odd classmates and friends who showed up to celebrate with Nogay found themselves giving final goodbyes to a teen who seemed to have inspired everyone he came across after his initial diagnosis.
"Eddie left an impact on people," Victor Nogay told the Post. "There isn't anything I can say he hasn't already done himself."
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A group I am involved with in Denver (Rocky Mountain Overland) is running the Kokopelli Grand Loop over Memorial weekend.
We are meeting in Fruita, CO at noon on Thursday the 21st at the Rabbit Valley Campground. There are at least five trucks (not Pinzgauers) leaving from Denver Thursday morning. I will be the only pinz making this trip. Others will be joining at RVC and several more joining in Moab for the return loop. Also not Pinzgauers.
First part of the trail will end in Moab on Saturday and meet for lunch at Pantele's. We will then return on the loop to approximately the beginning to then return to Denver.
I have not taken this adventure before so I cannot comment on trail details at this time, except today that the Delores River is currently running at approx. 8.5 feet, so the river crossing is out and an alternate will be used.
This is just a comment on the upcoming trip and if there are any pinnzies in the area that might want to join in, I think you would be welcome...at least from my point of view.
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Unlike the civil divisions of the IRS, an offer to pay the tax owed will not deter a special agent's investigation. The IRS Criminal Investigation Division and their special agents frequently utilize certain tactics to collect more information about a target, which include:
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Teacher fights racist student, receives $30K in donations days later (video)
A steadily declining respect for teachers in public schools is one of the many challenges facing today's educators. But for one abused teacher at Maywood Academy High School in Maywood, California, a fight with an bullying, disrespectful student has led to his arrest and now more than $30,000 in donations from supporters.
Marston Riley, 64, has been a music and band director at Maywood Academy High School for many years. During that time, according to KTLA, Riley has won accolades from students, parents and administrators for his dedication to his work. Despite this dedication, he was the victim of an unprovoked violent beating by a group of students in the 2017-2018 school year. But he still continued to teach at the high school.
That may all change now because of an incident that occurred last Friday, Nov. 1, 2018, that has led to his arrest. Cell phone footage shot by students show Riley being confronted by a highly disrespectful student. During the encounter, the unidentified White student called Riley the N-word and even threw a basketball at his teacher in the band room.
After Riley repeatedly tells the student to leave his class, the student gets in the teacher's face and continues his taunting. Suddenly Riley punches the student in the face sending him reeling and continues to deliver an epic beatdown as other students watch. Eventually, school staff members arrive and pull the student away from Riley.
Police arrived and Riley was taken into custody and charged with suspicion of child abuse and causing great bodily injury on a child. The student was taken to a local hospital and treated for his injuries and released. Now Riley is facing termination and a possible jail time. However, many in the school system, including parents, teachers and some students, are coming to his defense.
A GoFundMe campaign named "For Mr. Riley/Teachers Deserve Respect," has so far raised $30,259 to help with his defense.
Riley's case has been turned over to the Special Victims Unit of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and an investigation has been launched.
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VISITORS to a popular beauty spot in Alderley are outraged by fees introduced at the nearby car park.
Runners and dog walkers are fuming about paying for parking each time they visit The Edge, off Macclesfield Road.
For years residents could leave cash at home before venturing out for a daily walk in the woods.
There has been a backlash against the £1 pay and display fee imposed by the National Trust.
"It's the same old story," said retired Brian Bridgemen, 67. "As usual they're hitting the motorists' pockets. It angers me."
Four times a week, Jan Wood, 43, jogs through the countryside with Red Setter puppy, Dylan.
Mrs Wood said: "My view is it should be free for the first half hour or so.
"I think a £1 for how ever long you stay here is a little steep.
"Fortunately I am a National Trust member so after I have paid the £30-plus annual fee, I can come here as often as I like."
Mrs Wood said she had noticed fellow visitors choosing to park at the nearby quarry to avoid the costs.
She added she had not noticed extra facilities, such as dog bins, to justify the charges.
Ray Bradbury, 56, who regularly walks on The Edge said: "I'm very angry about it. I think it is a disgrace to charge people for parking.
"This area was left as an amenity for relaxation and enjoyment of people and I think the National Trust has a cheek to impose a charge."
Roger Nixon, 60, often meets John Harrison, 59, at The Edge and they both enjoy taking their dogs for walks.
Mr Nixon, who has two Border Collies, said: "The fees are unnecessary, I don't think they should charge anything."
Mr Harrison, added: "The reason they have put the charges in is because they are employing a lot more staff now.
"There's a fairly new warden and two or three assistants.
"I think the charges may have put some people off parking here, having an ice cream and then going for a nice stroll.
"Some people are parking on the road where it's free and causing a bit of a traffic hazard."
Paul Rutter, National Trust property manager based at Foresters Lodge, Alderley Edge, was unavailable at the time of writing.


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Yellow & Black is another colour combination I don't use that often here around the island, yet every time I've had it in the water I've caught fish with it. The feathers are yellow and black grizzly schlappen followed by an inch of black raccoon zonker palmered around the hook shank followed by a few strands of yellow krinkle flash topped off with some yellow raccoon zonker. Total length 160mm.
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Sure, Dec 25th has come and gone and your family celebrations along with it. However, many of you who work with companies which schedule their 'Holiday' parties early in the New Year, still have evenings of fizz and fun ahead. Here are some of our favourite celebration wines from 2014 for the drawn-out party season.
Fort Berens Estate Winery 2013 Late Harvest Riesling - $20
Many late harvest wines are as sweet as their more expensive ice wine cousins, but the Fort Berens version, though bursting with intense, candied lychee and ripe peach flavours, does not overwhelm the palate with unctuous, syrupy fruit.
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Backyard Vineyards N/V Blanc De Noir Brut - $23
Backyard Vineyards' Blanc De Noir is a traditional example of a sparkling wine made from 100% Pinot Noir offering a light, yellow-gold hue and fat, persistent bubbles. On the nose you'll find an array of aromas ranging from sweet citrus fruit to fresh brioche with light nutty notes and a touch of brine.
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Chateau Des Charmes N/V Brut Sparkling Wine - $23
There's a nice balance on the palate of this pale-gold, finely-beaded bubbly, between tangy citrus and sweet peach fruit flavours, which in turn, balance the classic, yeasty-brioche and creamy-texture, making it approachable and crowd-pleasing; you'll be hard-pressed to find someone who'll turn-down a second glass. Enjoy on its own or serve with light appetizers.
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Graham's N/V Six Grapes Reserve Port - $24
Sourced from multiple estates in the Douro and compiled of the four noble Douro grapes, Touriga Franca, Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz and Tinta Barroc, plus small parts of other native grapes, the 'Six Grapes' offers intense red fruit, plum and licorice aromas supported by notes of mint, flowers and Ferrero Rocher confections.
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Quails' Gate Estate Winery 2012 Fortified Vintage Foch - $25
Marechal Foch makes a natural fit as the base for a fortified, Port-style wine like this tasty, after-dinner treat from Quails' Gate. Foch's unique combination of berry fruit and homey, camp fire aromas and flavours makes a solid foundation for the extended barrel ageing and Brandy fortification which imparts added layers of blue fruit, oak characters and exotic citrus fruit to the intense nose and sweet palate.
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This beautifully constructed, dense Vidal ice wine smells and tastes of a bowl of apricot and honeydew-infused custard adorned with shavings of candied lime peel. The unctuous, honeyed fruit is balanced nicely with lemon/lime acidity through to an everlasting finish.
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Engine management: Past and future
I have long accepted that nothing stands still for long in this industry. Just when you think you have a grasp of the subject something is sure to upset it. Nothing illustrates this more than powertrain diagnostics. Initially this was called fuel injection, and later became engine management. Now I'm afraid it's even more complex.
I find myself fortunate to have been there at the beginning; Bosch l Jetronic, a 25 pin ECU with if I recall correctly, only 13 pins occupied. No serial diagnostics, no specific tools. So why was I fortunate? Consider my reflection on diagnostics back in the late 1970s and see if they are still applicable today.
Firstly, you had to understand what the system had to achieve, what components it had at its disposal, what role they played and how they interacted within that system.
The next challenge was measurement values; what to expect under a variety of conditions, and what equipment was required to access this information. This all seems so straightforward now, but in those days it was a little like Columbus sailing across the ocean. He knew it was wet, he needed a boat, he knew which way west was, despite this being blasphemy in the eyes of the Pope, and so set off without a clue as to what was out there.
Hardly a logical diagnostic process, however I was writing the rule book and did understand the meaning of the words test don't guess. So, what's changed that undermines these basic principles?
With even the most basic of vehicles now relying on a level of technology that makes accessibility almost impossible, OE manufacturers totally forbid any intrusion within the wiring loom and I am sure this explains the why design and manufacture precludes access as a high priority. However, we are brave, and have the Starship Enterprise at our disposal for our journey of discovery.
The problem is one of integration. Systems don't function in isolation any more, and Columbus now has to map the Americas and Australia at the same time. In order to conduct an accurate assessment of a function it must be in its natural environment and be observed when functioning normally.
This is not restricted to a physical state. It also includes software, algorithms, and predictive response, correction or adaptive action. Systems now change their mode of operation based on environmental influences, affected by a very wide range of changing influences. Cylinder select or dynamic stability comes to mind. The driver selects an option from a long list of choices, engine, transmission, and chassis. I used to say that for a function to occur it must have a command followed by response. In today's world, the command may be a software decision followed by a constantly changing response, stratified and homogenous fuelling, infinitely changing camshaft timing and variable valve lift to name a few.
Test options
Manufacturers are driven by non-intrusive process dictated by guided diagnostics. Pre-determined test plans more often or not end with a pass or fail result, foregoing any data reveal. Is this due to a control of process and cost, or a mistrust in their techs? Actual evaluation of circuits, voltage, current or complex profile is getting ever more difficult. Attachment of gauges in order to measure pressure and flow is often restricted by sealed transit hoses or internal ducting within castings. Serial data has become so much, more powerful and trustworthy, however it does not and will not replace the functions available from an oscilloscope. Specialist mechanical tools and assembly techniques prohibit casual examination, due to cost or the ever more common single fitment parts.
Data extraction
This may lie in a multitude of directions; Physical extraction, camshaft timing, fuel quantity per stroke via the serial port or fuel pressure rise time via the scope. We are forced to monitor not just a physical value, but not how the PCM is adjusting or adapting a value. How do we know the parameters of operation when VMs are removing more and more data in favour of the pass-fail flags from a software automated test profile?
Rieve gauche, no not a walk along the Left Bank, but a completely new protocol for data and diagnostic transmission. SENT has been developed specifically for automotive applications, rather than being a black-market hooky copy from other engineering developments. SENT stands for single edge nibble transmission, and is a uni-directional out-only data line to the PCM. SENT is essentially a serial interface, used predominantly with throttle position, air mass and temperatures. The basic unit of time is the tick, with a minimum data unit nibble. 0Data transmission speeds over fast or slow channels, where bitrate can also vary: 1xtick= 3us. In essence it is very similar to a single channel can transmission, where the function includes synchronisation, calibration, CRC and checksum.
How am I to challenge the authenticity of data? For example, sensor error may come from power or ground discrepancies, range error, environment influences, calibration error or simply a genuine condition fault. Its design is of course intended to provide an autonomous diagnostic platform via the serial port, excluding any assessment by the techs.
Full circle
What does this mean for the industry? I suspect it will go full circle back to the 1970s, when part swapping was the norm for Christopher Columbus frauds.


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February 4, 2019
Even before I arrived at PIU in the role of sitting in the President's chair I knew that the people who work here at PIU are a remarkable bunch. In the two years I have been here, my esteem for them has grown exponentially.
I have to leave the timing of this to God's sovereignty—and I don't say that lightly. After the dust settled, and I began to be a little less uncomfortable in this chair, I realized that a huge task loomed before us. Our accreditation with TRACS (Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools) has to be renewed every ten years. That cycle was upon us…my education began.
I soon learned that the first big order of business in this process is the preparation of a Self-Study Report. This is a comprehensive examination of every aspect of PIU—Academics, Infrastructure—Student life, Staff, Finances, and Curriculum. Last fall, when I attended the TRACS Conference in Dallas, I learned that, for several reasons, it is advantageous for the TRACS visiting team to come to Guam in the Spring of 2019 (March 25th). That meant that the Self-Study would be due February 11, six weeks prior to the visit. In order to give our TRACS representative, Dr. Tanmay Pramanik, opportunity to review our document before its official submission, I established a target date of January 31st for completing our work.
I told the three Vice Presidents (Niño Pate, Dot Houde, and Alex Tavarez) that the four of us would be the main authors of this study. Of the four of us, only Niño had ever participated in an accreditation review. With some valuable input and assistance from Department Chairs Iotaka Choram (Biblical) and Paul Drake (Liberal Studies), and Distance Education Director Hartmut Scherer, I am glad to say that we essentially finished on time. REMARKABLE! The document itself is about 100 pages. The supporting documentation, amounts to about 2,000 pages!
The process isn't over. As I mentioned, a visiting team, consisting of Dr. Pramanik and four Peer Reviewers will be here March 25th. Here is how we would ask you to partner with us. Niño and I estimate that it will cost us about $3,500/per member to host this team. Doing the math, that comes out to $17,500. The PIU Administrative Team has done a remarkable job in closing out the first step. Will you partner with us in financing and praying for this second big step?
The LORD's great provision overwhelmed us at the end of 2018. We are grateful for those that have "sent help for [our] need more than once." While we are in need once again, we know "[our] God shall supply all [our] need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus." For any way you would be interested to help, it would be appreciated.
By His Grace,
Howard Merrell, MA.R
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The Witch Doctor has a friend whose young sister became severely brain damaged as a result of measles encephalitis. She survived, but was severely mentally handicapped and died tragically many years later as a consequence of this handicap. The aftermath of this one case of measles in an infant resounded throughout the family during this child's life and for years after her death.
This was a tragedy due to lack of immunisation (measles vaccine was not available at that time.)
Many, many years ago, The Witch Doctor spent a short time as a GP. To this day she can remember a lot of the patients she saw and the conditions and illnesses they had. However, it is one Monday morning she remembers most. The practice nurse who worked in this, one of the first health centres in the UK, phoned in sick. The reason? Her niece, an otherwise healthy toddler, died of generalised vaccinia, a well known complication of smallpox vaccination. The family were devastated.
This tragedy was due to immunisation. It occured in the days smallpox vaccination was given routinely.
Immunisation is confusing, so it is no wonder that there is debate over it and it is no wonder that some parents decide not to have their children immunised. It is all the more understandable since few people today have the memory of death, handicap and grief that these completely preventable infections can cause.
But smallpox and measles are very different types of infection.
Smallpox is (or was) a devastating disease which has a very high mortality rate. You can see photos of children with smallpox here and here. The immunisation given to protect against this particular virus carried with it much more risk than would be acceptable for a disease such as measles or any other of the childhood infectious diseases. Nevertheless, because of the mortality associated with the wild virus, the balance of risk meant that huge numbers of lives could be saved and the ultimate goal could be reached – the eradication of smallpox from the globe. The Witch Doctor remembers well the day that proclamation was made. It was one of medicine's greatest success stories but it took a long time to achieve.
Measles, on the other hand did not carry a high mortality rate even when it was rife. Commonly, though, it was a very miserable illness for the child, worrying for parents, and on occasion could lead to permanent and serious complications. Almost every medicine, and almost every immunisation has a downside. The downside of measles immunisation, backed by scientific evidence, is considered to be so low that it is a risk well worth taking. The risk of serious side effects is probably many, many times lower than the risk of a child being killed travelling in a car with a safety belt on.
So, because of this, most parents decide to have their children immunised against measles. GPs are happy to discuss the balance of risks with anxious parents and almost all GP's who have children of their own will have had them immunised.
Sometimes parents may still refuse. Nevertheless, the numbers of patients refusing any routine vaccination are generally very low after reasonable discussion over their concerns with their GP and on almost every occasion everything goes smoothly. There may be the occasional parent who still does not want to go ahead for one reason or another or there may be some children who, for medical reasons, should not be given the vaccine. As long as these numbers are very low, no harm will be done, because if a high percentage of the population is immunised, this particular virus will not get a hold and the number of cases of measles will still remain very low. So, these small number of dissenting parents can still feel a sense of freedom in their decision making and the risk is low too for their children contracting measles.
After all, we live in a free society, and most doctors do understand these worries.
So it is good to be able to choose.
Enter the anti-vaccination brigade.
The alternative brigade who think they know better and knowingly or unknowingly have a way with them of influencing large numbers of the population. This is particularly easy if you have an assertive disposition, and carry a microphone in one hand as you speak into the radio-waves of the country's largest city.
This changes the balance of the worriers against those who can understand the reasons for doing it the way we do. Immunisation rates fall and more children are left non-immune. As a consequence, all un-immunised children are no longer safe, and those who are immune deficient for example due to chemotherapy for childhood leukaemia are at particular risk when measles rears its head again with its potentially devastating and totally avoidable consequences.
Bear in mind also that if you have a government who relentlessly savages GPs and destroys patient confidence in them for their own political agenda, parents may even start to trust an articulate, rude, radio clown who lacks scientific knowledge of the issue more than a GP who might by nature be less forceful or articulate.
It should also be said, that some of the hype of the anti-measles brigade came about because single vaccines were not made freely available to parents. There were good reasons for preferring the combined MMR vaccine. However, government action limiting access to single vaccines could generate and escalate negative feelings about all vaccines. A wise government would have had a hands-off approach and left it up to GPs to decide whether a child should have single vaccines if the parents felt very strongly about it. Given that much fewer injections are involved with MMR, most patients would have decided upon using MMR but they would have felt more involved in the decision making.
So The Witch Doctor has a strong message for HMG.
There are many reasons for the reappearance of measles in the UK and unknowingly, the government is fanning the fire. Now is the time to stop undermining the medical profession. In particular, stop undermining GPs – they have a far more difficult job than any of you will ever know – give them the time and space to do it well. Give them time to spend face to face with their patients so they can discuss and explain. Advise GP's by all means, issue guidelines, give them good scientific information, and the time to read it – and then keep your hands off.
At a time of great demographic change and financial uncertainty the last thing this country needs is a measles epidemic.
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The cause of dental pain is not always obvious during an exam. Its source may not show up in X-rays, and sometimes not even the patient can pinpoint it. To complicate matters further, tooth pain can stem from myriad conditions, ranging from endodontic issues and sinusitis to bruxism and caries. For this reason, dentists should know about the latest in dental screening and detection devices to help find the culprit and areas of concern.
Trouble brewing may be signaled by sudden, sharp or dull, throbbing, lingering pain. Triggers can include exposure to hot and/or cold, sweets, pressure and percussion. On the other hand, a tooth may become compromised, but lack any real pain. There is also the possibility that pain is being transferred from one area to another.
With so many possible sources of dental discomfort, you don't need to be a member of Mensa to see the challenges involved in the tooth pain detection game. But, armed with seasoned know-how, and the latest in digital screening and detection devices, clinicians have a better shot than ever at solving these kinds of dental whodunits.
D1/D2; E2/D1 lesions: The American Dental Association Caries Classification System's designation of a mild to moderate cavitation involving dentin; and the designation of the earliest detectable lesion with mild demineralization involving enamel and dentin.
Incipient decay: Early-stage carious lesions.
Interproximal: Surfaces between teeth.
Periodontium: Supporting tissues that surround a tooth.
Sjögren syndrome: An autoimmune disease that can cause dry mouth.
So what are the best strategies to determine the cause of tooth pain when there is no clear etiology? "When someone has tooth pain we go back to diagnostic basics to determine the cause," explains Hewlett, New York-based practitioner and educator Ron Kaminer, DDS. "Listening to the patients' chief complaint is always the initial step, typically followed by a radiograph. Palpating and percussing the area of concern can determine if there is an endodontic problem. Temperature testing, using heat and cold, can also help give us some indication of where and what kind of pain the patient is in."
Albany, Oregon-based practitioner V. Kim Kutsch, DMD, a recognized expert in caries prevention and minimally invasive dentistry, adds, "I think we too often look for the usual cause of tooth pain, get focused on that and don't really hear what our patients are telling us. Is the pain part of the normal dentin-pulp complex or periodontium, or is it caused by localized nondental-related factors such as maxillary sinusitis, or related to systemic factors like diabetic nerve pain, or angina? Can it be caused by medications, dry mouth or Sjögren syndrome? There are many nonobvious causes of tooth pain. These can each be tested individually and ruled out, but nothing replaces a good interview about the symptoms. An experienced clinician years ago told me that if I listened carefully enough to my patients they would tell me what is wrong with them. That's been really great advice."
Marty Jablow, DMD, who practices general dentistry in Woodbridge, New Jersey, lectures and writes prolifically about dental technologies agrees with his colleagues that clinicians can't simply rely on technology. "But," he advises, "you need to use everything at your disposal, including radiography, white light with magnification and transillumination with and without fluorescence."
Of the various types of radiographies available, cone beam computed tomography (CBCT), basically a smaller version of the CT scan, offers perhaps the most comprehensive view of dental structures in that images are rendered in three dimension (3D). Many clinicians say that their diagnostic efforts have been enhanced by the use of CBCT.
"When we talk about detection and diagnostics what we are really talking about is seeing better," says Kaminer. "When we can see better, we can diagnose quicker, earlier and easier. CBCTs allow the dentist to see issues such as endodontic problems in 3D, allowing for better diagnostics."
In addition to CBCT, other kinds of radiography, and the obvious benefits of using good lighting and magnification, transillumination allows clinicians to actually see inside a tooth — without radiation. In fact, Jablow notes that the ability to actually see caries with transillumination may lead to more accurate detection and diagnosis of incipient interproximal caries lesions than the use of radiography.
Transillumination involves the shining of a light through the tooth. The light will travel through healthy dental structure until it encounters a variation such as a crack or carious tissue. At that point those tissues will appear darker as they don't transmit as much light as healthy tissue.
The Oral Cancer Foundation estimates that nearly 50,000 Americans will receive their first diagnosis of oral or oropharyngeal cancer this year, with just 57% surviving five years.2 The alarming death rate associated with these cancers is said to be high due to late diagnosis. Though it is not particularly difficult to discover and diagnose in a screening, oral cancer is frequently symptomless until it is in advanced stages.2
Dentists are typically on the front lines of screening for oral/oropharyngeal cancer, and routine screenings have become the standard of care in American dental offices.
But while emphasis was placed on the use of several detection aids a few years ago, including light-based fluorescence and reflective technologies, toluidine blue staining, and brush cytology, inconclusive evidence on their efficacy and the risk of false positives have led clinicians to emphasize the traditional gathering of patient history along with visual and tactile inspection of the head and neck, and facial and oral structures.3
And while clinicians seem to be in agreement on the importance of using traditional methods, many, nonetheless, continue to value, as adjuncts, the use of anything that ups the odds of finding anything that might be suspicious.
"Nothing substitutes for clinical knowledge and the ability to see,'' says Ron Kaminer, DDS, who practices in Hewlett, New York. "But oral cancer detection devices assist us in our diagnostics by using fluorescence to help illuminate potential areas of concern.''
Kaminer notes that newer testing, using salivary markers may also be in process, and that brush biopsy and smear cytology may be helpful as well. He stresses, however, that adjuncts should be used as extra measures, not for definitive diagnostics.
Marty Jablow, DMD, who practices in Woodbridge, New Jersey, concurs. "You still need to do a good white light exam, but fluorescence adds another degree of looking a second time,'' he says, predicting that genetic testing will be the way of the future, though it needs to become more cost effective.
Likewise, Albany, Oregon-based practitioner V. Kim Kutsch, DMD, says that in addition to visual and tactile exams, he's been using a fluorescence-based device for years. Says Kutsch, "These new technologies should help us improve early diagnosis, which should provide better outcomes from treatment and survival rates.''
"In the end it is up to the knowledge and judgment of the examiner to decide whether to biopsy something or not,'' says Kaminer. "Early detection is critical because it can be the difference between someone surviving or not from oral cancer.''
A variety of transilluminators are commercially available. Some use fiber optic (FOTI) or digital fiber optic (DIFOTI) lights for transillumination, while others rely on infrared light or fluorescence. As an added bonus, digital devices are commonly paired with cameras, which allow real-time viewing of the process on a monitor. In fact, such combinations are being seen as potential revenue enhancers as they offer one device that does the work of two or more devices.
Says Kaminer, "Transillumination ultimately is another form of seeing better. If we can see better in between teeth we can diagnose better. We have technology out there today that acts as electronic transillumination, and we can snap images and store them in our patients' records. We can also do it the old fashioned way with a small transillumination light that we can shine in between teeth to see incipient decay."
But, while Kutsch agrees on the benefits of technologies such as transillumination, which, he says, is very good at identifying cracks in the enamel and activity beneath the enamel, particularly in interproximal sites, he cautions that because of its efficacy in identifying changes in hard tissue, the challenge then becomes deciding on when to treat.
For instance, Kutsch explains, "We now know that an interproximal lesion that demonstrates penetration radiographically as an E2/D1 lesion most of the time does not have surface cavitation. This means that it can be remineralized instead of restored. So the technologies may lead to some invasive overtreatment unless the dentist understands the science. Depending on the patient's individual caries risk assessment, a dentist should decide to restore the lesion somewhere between the D1/D2 stage, when there is cavitation and the lesion is still progressing after attempts at remineralization have failed."
- A number of adjunctive devices can help clinician arrive at accurate diagnoses after a patient history has been gathered.
- Cone beam computed tomography is seen as an important player in detection of oral disease, and as costs drop may become available to more dental offices.
- Electronic pulp testing devices can help to ascertain pulp sensibility, though other up and coming measures that measure things like blood flow and oxygen saturation may prove more reliable.
- Transillumination devices can help to secure accurate diagnoses without radiation, and are increasingly available in configurations that allow them to double as intraoral cameras, curing lights, oral cancer screening devices and more.
- Oral cancer screening devices, though strictly used as diagnostic adjuncts, are nonetheless still seen by many clinicians as important aids in oral cancer mitigation.
Other kinds of light-based technologies — some currently available and some still in the testing stages — offer avenues toward early diagnosis. With fluorescence technologies, tooth structure is exposed to certain wavelengths via blue LEDs or laser light. This will differentiate healthy tissue from carious tissue through fluorescence characteristics.
For evaluating pulp vitality, electronic pulp testers (EPT) can be used to check the sensibility of teeth via a mild electrical current. A nonpainful sensory response would indicate that the tooth is still vital. The problem with this is that an injured tooth may temporarily lack sensibility. So a lack of response to stimuli might lead to a misdiagnosis.
Because of this, other methods may prove more reliable. One, laser doppler flowmetry (LDF), measures blood flow noninvasively, using a diode laser light transmitted by a fiber optic probe. It has shown reliability in assessing both pulpal and gingival circulation. And its noninvasive nature would make it a boon to pediatric dentistry in particular. However, opinions are divided on the use of LDF in dental applications due to technique and environmental sensitivity.
Pulse oximetry is a noninvasive way of measuring oxygen saturation in blood. Widely used in medical settings, it is potentially useful in the field of endodontics for evaluating pulp vitality by measuring the vascular blood perfusion through the use of a diode laser that emits both red and infrared light. The problem is that to date, no suitable sensor has yet become commercially available for dental applications.
Radiologcially speaking, for viewing dental structures, it doesn't get much better than a 3D view. Yet, many practices have not been able to afford an in-house CBCT unit. But according to Kaminer, that is changing. "The reduced cost of CBCT machines have made them a staple in more offices," he notes.
But dropping price points are not the only thing clinicians can anticipate in the diagnostic field. Jablow adds, "The push now is for less radiation, so we are looking at devices that can assist our diagnosis without the potential harmful effects of radiation."
In fact, optical coherence tomography (OCT) that uses near-infrared light is becoming available in a hand-held scanner that produces radiological-type images sans radiation. Jablow further predicts that genetic screening may ultimately make many dental conditions easier to diagnose. But he admits this technology still has a way to go to.
Kaminer reports the pending release of a new type of dental mirror. "It will allow us to see better in an illuminated field while at the same time magnifying and wirelessly projecting an image onto a screen," he notes. "This will allow for better and clearer diagnostics in the areas of incipient decay, cracks and other problems that can be seen early on."
But Kutsch sees diagnostic advances from a different angle. "Technologies typically identify signs of disease once an event has already occurred," he says. "Our focus on technology perpetuates the paradigm of dental disease being tooth- or tooth-surface based, when in fact dental diseases are person-level diseases. So when I think about screening, detection and diagnosis, certainly the most significant development is CAMBRA, risk assessment-based diagnosis for dental caries."
CAMBRA, or Caries Management By Risk Assessment, is a methodology designed to identify individual risk factors for developing caries through gathering dental, medical and lifestyle histories. Its aim is to prevent and manage caries in its early stages.1
"Identifying the root cause of the disease gives us the opportunity to help patients mitigate their risk factors and achieve and maintain health," says Kutsch. "Dental professionals can then target the causes and coach the patient appropriately. This treats dental caries as a person-level disease, rather than a tooth-surface or tooth-level disease."
New inventions are always on the horizon in diagnostics and detection. Especially in today's climate of minimally invasive dentistry, the earlier trouble can be headed off, the better chance clinicians — and their patients — have at winning this high stakes game of hide and seek.
- University of California School of Dentistry. CAMBRA: Proven method for preventing and protecting teeth. Available at: dentistry.ucsf.edu/research/cambra. Accessed February 22, 2018.
- The Oral Cancer Foundation. Oral Cancer Facts: Rates of occurrence in the United States. Available at: oralcancerfoundation.org/facts/. Accessed February 22, 2018.
- American Dental Association. Oral health topics. Available at: ada.org/en/member-center/oral-health-topics/oral-cancer. Accessed February 22, 2018.
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