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Computed Tomography (CT) - Chest
Computed tomography (CT) of the chest uses special x-ray equipment to examine abnormalities found in other imaging tests and to help diagnose the cause of unexplained cough, shortness of breath, chest pain, fever and other chest symptoms. CT scanning is fast, painless, noninvasive and accurate. Because it is able to detect very small nodules in the lung, chest CT is especially effective for diagnosing lung cancer at its earliest, most curable stage.
Tell your doctor if there is a possibility you are pregnant and discuss any recent illnesses, medical conditions, medications you are taking, and allergies. You will be instructed not to eat or drink anything for a few hours beforehand. If you have a known allergy to contrast material, your doctor may prescribe medications to reduce the risk of an allergic reaction. These medications must be taken beginning 12 hours prior to your exam. Leave jewelry at home and wear loose, comfortable clothing. You may be asked to wear a gown.
- What is CT Scanning of the Chest?
- What are some common uses of the procedure?
- How should I prepare?
- What does the equipment look like?
- How does the procedure work?
- How is the procedure performed?
- What will I experience during and after the procedure?
- Who interprets the results and how do I get them?
- What are the benefits vs. risks?
- What are the limitations of CT Scanning of the Chest?
What is CT Scanning of the Chest?
Computed tomography, more commonly known as a CT or CAT scan, is a diagnostic medical test that, like traditional x-rays, produces multiple images or pictures of the inside of the body.
The cross-sectional images generated during a CT scan can be reformatted in multiple planes, and can even generate three-dimensional images. These images can be viewed on a computer monitor, printed on film or by a 3D printer, or transferred to a CD or DVD.
CT images of internal organs, bones, soft tissue and blood vessels provide greater detail than traditional x-rays, particularly of soft tissues and blood vessels.
Using a variety of techniques, including adjusting the radiation dose based on patient size and new software technology, the amount of radiation needed to perform a chest CT scan can be significantly reduced. A low-dose chest CT produces images of sufficient quality to detect many lung diseases and abnormalities using much less radiation than a conventional chest CT scan—in some cases lowering the dose by 65 percent or more. Low dose chest CT is routinely used for evaluation of acquired and congenital lung abnormalities, such as pneumonia, interstitial lung disease or tumor evaluation. There is ongoing research to lower radiation doses even further. Your radiologist will decide the proper settings to be used for your scan depending on your medical problems and what information is needed from the CT scan. If your child is to have a CT scan, the proper low-dose pediatric settings should be used.
What are some common uses of the procedure?
Chest CT is used to:
- examine abnormalities found on conventional chest x-rays.
- help diagnose the causes of clinical signs or symptoms of disease of the chest, such as cough, shortness of breath, chest pain, or fever.
- detect and evaluate the extent of tumors that arise in the chest, or tumors that have spread there from other parts of the body.
- assess whether tumors are responding to treatment.
- help plan radiation therapy.
- evaluate injury to the chest, including the heart, blood vessels, lungs, ribs and spine.
- evaluate abnormalities of the chest found on fetal ultrasound examinations.
Chest CT can demonstrate various lung disorders, such as:
- benign and malignant tumors.
- pneumonia.
- tuberculosis.
- bronchiectasis, cystic fibrosis.
- inflammation or other diseases of the pleura (the covering of the lungs).
- interstitial and chronic lung disease.
- congenital abnormalities.
CT scanning has recently been approved for screening asymptomatic people who have smoked a significant amount of cigarettes by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. See the Lung Cancer Screening page for more information.
A CT angiogram (CTA) may be performed to evaluate the blood vessels (arteries and veins) in the chest. This involves the rapid injection of an iodine-containing fluid (contrast material) into a vein while obtaining CT images. See the CT Angiography (CTA) page for more information.
How should I prepare?
You should wear comfortable, loose-fitting clothing to your exam. You may be given a gown to wear during the procedure.
Metal objects, including jewelry, eyeglasses, dentures and hairpins, may affect the CT images and should be left at home or removed prior to your exam. You may also be asked to remove hearing aids and removable dental work. Women will be asked to remove bras containing metal underwire. You may be asked to remove any piercings, if possible.
You will be asked not to eat or drink anything for a few hours beforehand, if contrast material will be used in your exam. You should inform your physician of all medications you are taking and if you have any allergies. If you have a known allergy to contrast material, your doctor may prescribe medications (usually a steroid) to reduce the risk of an allergic reaction. To avoid unnecessary delays, contact your doctor before the exact time of your exam.
Also inform your doctor of any recent illnesses or other medical conditions and whether you have a history of heart disease, asthma, diabetes, kidney disease or thyroid problems. Any of these conditions may increase the risk of an unusual adverse effect.
Women should always inform their physician and the CT technologist if there is any possibility that they may be pregnant. See the Safety page for more information about pregnancy and x-rays.
What does the equipment look like?
The CT scanner is typically a large, box-like machine with a hole, or short tunnel, in the center. You will lie on a narrow examination table that slides into and out of this tunnel. Rotating around you, the x-ray tube and electronic x-ray detectors are located opposite each other in a ring, called a gantry. The computer workstation that processes the imaging information is located in a separate control room, where the technologist operates the scanner and monitors your examination in direct visual contact and usually with the ability to hear and talk to you with the use of a speaker and microphone.
How does the procedure work?
In many ways CT scanning works very much like other x-ray examinations. Different body parts absorb the x-rays in varying degrees. It is this crucial difference in absorption that allows the body parts to be distinguished from one another on an x-ray film or CT electronic image.
In a conventional x-ray exam, a small amount of radiation is aimed at and passes through the part of the body being examined, recording an image on a special electronic image recording plate. Bones appear white on the x-ray; soft tissue, such as organs like the heart or liver, shows up in shades of gray, and air appears black.
With CT scanning, numerous x-ray beams and a set of electronic x-ray detectors rotate around you, measuring the amount of radiation being absorbed throughout your body. Sometimes, the examination table will move during the scan, so that the x-ray beam follows a spiral path. A special computer program processes this large volume of data to create two-dimensional cross-sectional images of your body, which are then displayed on a monitor. CT imaging is sometimes compared to looking into a loaf of bread by cutting the loaf into thin slices. When the image slices are reassembled by computer software, the result is a very detailed multidimensional view of the body's interior.
Refinements in detector technology allow nearly all CT scanners to obtain multiple slices in a single rotation. These scanners, called multislice CT or multidetector CT, allow thinner slices to be obtained in a shorter period of time, resulting in more detail and additional view capabilities.
Modern CT scanners are so fast that they can scan through large sections of the body in just a few seconds, and even faster in small children. Such speed is beneficial for all patients but especially children, the elderly and critically ill, all of whom may have difficulty in remaining still, even for the brief time necessary to obtain images.
For children, the CT scanner technique will be adjusted to their size and the area of interest to reduce the radiation dose.
To produce high-quality scans at a lower radiation dose, low-dose CT scanning uses a variety of techniques, including:
- dose modulation, in which radiation dosage is continuously adjusted to the patient's size at each location as the patient moves through the scanner
- "noise management" software to filter out unnecessary data
- the use of shields (this method depends on the type of CT scanner being used)
- external shields made out of bismuth may be placed on the patient
- the x-ray tube may be turned off during part of its rotation
- lower peak voltage settings
Your radiologist will select the appropriate dose reduction method(s) to accomplish the lowest possible dose necessary to answer the clinical question at hand.
How is the procedure performed?
The technologist begins by positioning you on the CT examination table, usually lying flat on your back. Straps and pillows may be used to help you maintain the correct position and to help you remain still during the exam.
Many scanners are fast enough that children can be scanned without sedation. In special cases, sedation may be needed for children who cannot hold still. Motion will cause blurring of the images and degrade the quality of the examination the same way that it affects photographs.
If a contrast material is used, it will be injected into a vein shortly before scanning begins.
Next, the table will move quickly through the scanner to determine the correct starting position for the scans. Then, the table will move slowly through the machine as the actual CT scanning is performed. Depending on the type of CT scan, the machine may make several passes.
You may be asked to hold your breath during the scanning. Any motion, whether breathing or body movements, can lead to artifacts on the images. This loss of image quality can resemble the blurring seen on a photograph taken of a moving object.
When the examination is completed, you will be asked to wait until the technologist verifies that the images are of high enough quality for accurate interpretation.
The actual CT scanning takes less than 30 seconds and the entire process, including exam preparation, is usually completed within 30 minutes.
What will I experience during and after the procedure?
CT exams are generally painless, fast and easy. With multidetector CT, the amount of time that the patient needs to lie still is reduced.
Though the scanning itself causes no pain, there may be some discomfort from having to remain still for several minutes and with placement of an IV. If you have a hard time staying still, are very nervous or anxious or have chronic pain, you may find a CT exam to be stressful. The technologist or nurse, under the direction of a physician, may offer you some medication to help you tolerate the CT scanning procedure.
For exams (excluding head and neck) your head will remain outside the hole in the center of the scanner. The scanner is approximately 24 inches wide, therefore, your entire body will be "inside" the scanner at one time such as with MRI.
If an intravenous contrast material is used, you will feel a pin prick when the needle is inserted into your vein. You will likely have a warm, flushed sensation during the injection of the contrast materials and a metallic taste in your mouth that lasts for at most a minute or two. You may experience a sensation like you have to urinate; however, this is actually a contrast effect and subsides quickly.
When you enter the CT scanner, special light lines may be seen projected onto your body, and are used to ensure that you are properly positioned. With modern CT scanners, you will hear only slight buzzing, clicking and whirring sounds as the CT scanner's internal parts, not usually visible to you, revolve around you during the imaging process.
You will be alone in the exam room during the CT scan, unless there are special circumstances. For example, sometimes a parent wearing a lead shield may stay in the room with their child. However, the technologist will always be able to see, hear and speak with you through a built-in intercom system.
After a CT exam, the intravenous line used to inject the contrast material will be removed by the technologist, and the tiny hole made by the needle will be covered with a small dressing. You can return to your normal activities.
Who interprets the results and how do I get them?
A radiologist, who is a physician with special skills and expertise in supervising and interpreting radiology examinations, will analyze the images and send an official report to your primary care physician or physician who referred you for the exam, who will discuss the results with you.
Follow-up examinations may be necessary. Your doctor will explain the exact reason why another exam is requested. Sometimes a follow-up exam is done because a potential abnormality needs further evaluation with additional views or a special imaging technique. A follow-up examination may also be necessary so that any change in a known abnormality can be monitored over time. Follow-up examinations are sometimes the best way to see if treatment is working or if a finding is stable or changed over time.
What are the benefits vs. risks?
- CT is fast, which is important for patients who have trouble holding their breath.
- CT is widely available.
- CT scanning is painless, noninvasive and accurate.
- A major advantage of CT is its ability to image bone, soft tissue and blood vessels all at the same time.
- Unlike conventional x-rays, CT scanning provides very detailed images of many types of tissue as well as the lungs, bones, and blood vessels.
- CT examinations are fast and simple; in emergency cases, they can reveal internal injuries and bleeding quickly enough to help save lives.
- CT has been shown to be a cost-effective imaging tool for a wide range of clinical problems.
- CT is less sensitive to patient movement than MRI.
- CT can be performed if you have an implanted medical device of any kind, unlike MRI.
- CT imaging provides real-time imaging, making it a good tool for guiding minimally invasive procedures such as needle biopsies and needle aspirations of many areas of the body, particularly the lungs, abdomen, pelvis and bones.
- A diagnosis determined by CT scanning may eliminate the need for exploratory surgery and surgical biopsy.
- No radiation remains in a patient's body after a CT examination.
- X-rays used in CT scans should have no immediate side effects.
- Low-dose CT scans of the chest use a lower dose of radiation than conventional chest CT.
- There is always a slight chance of cancer from excessive exposure to radiation. However, the benefit of an accurate diagnosis far outweighs the risk.
- The effective radiation dose for this procedure varies. See the Safety page for more information about radiation dose.
- Women should always inform their physician and x-ray or CT technologist if there is any possibility that they are pregnant. See the Safety page for more information about pregnancy and x-rays.
- CT scanning is, in general, not recommended for pregnant women unless medically necessary because of potential risk to the fetus in the womb.
- The risk of serious allergic reaction to contrast materials that contain iodine is extremely rare, and radiology departments are well-equipped to deal with them.
- In some patients with reduced kidney function, the dye used in CT scanning may worsen kidney function.
- Because children are more sensitive to radiation, they should have a CT exam only if it is essential for making a diagnosis and should not have repeated CT exams unless absolutely necessary. CT scans in children should always be done with low-dose technique.
What are the limitations of CT Scanning of the Chest?
A person who is very large may not fit into the opening of a conventional CT scanner or may be over the weight limit—usually 450 pounds—for the moving table.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may be better than CT for showing some types of soft-tissue abnormalities.
Even though the CT exam is very fast, motion from breathing or body movement during the exam may result in blurring of the images.
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This page was reviewed on February 14, 2018


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Footballer Nile Ranger has been cleared of raping a woman in a hotel.
The 22-year-old former Newcastle United striker denied the accusation and said they had consensual sex after going out drinking together.
He told Newcastle crown court he had never engaged in sexual activity with a woman against her will and the jury returned the not-guilty verdict after the week-long trial.
Ranger and the woman had met in a city centre bar and gone on to different clubs before eventually booking into the Carlton Hotel, in Jesmond, Newcastle.
Giving evidence, the woman said that she had no memory of the night after the first bar they were in until she woke up naked next to Ranger in bed.
Ranger told her she should take the morning after pill. She left and they continued to swap messages that day, the court heard.
She then visited her GP, was checked at hospital and made a rape allegation to police.
But after being arrested Ranger, now playing for Swindon Town, told the police they had had sex more than once and that she had engaged "wholeheartedly" and "enthusiastically".
The court heard that the pair had been messaging for a year before the incident, with Ranger often trying to meet up with her. He was cleared by a jury on Tuesday.


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ONR providing SEALs with new glasses that change lens color on the fly
The Office of Naval Research's (ONR) TechSolutions department is set to deliver to Navy Special Warfare Command personnel later this year new protective eyewear that will eliminate the need for warfighters to stop to change out colored lenses to accommodate differences in light levels.
The Fast-Tint Protective Eyewear (FTPE) changes color quicker than transitional lenses commonly found at an optometrist's office. "Transition time is less than 0.5 seconds," said Stephanie Everett, ONR's TechSolutions program manager.
"Currently, warfighters are using a set of interchangeable lenses that require them to stop and manually switch lenses to adjust the goggles to a particular light environment," Everett said. "But they can't take the time to stop and remove and replace the lenses."
Instead, they often simply remove their sunglasses when moving inside, leaving their eyes unprotected. The FTPE was designed to enable them to maintain ballistic protection under all lighting conditions, without interrupting their operational tempo.
Liquid crystal solutions within the lenses contain customized dyes that transition to amber, blue, dark gray or clear when an electric charge is applied. Lenses can change color automatically as wearers move in and out of varying environments, or lens colors can be altered manually by pushing a small button on the side of the glasses. Additionally, the lenses meet the American National Standards Institute's ballistic impact safety requirements.
The request for new eyewear came to TechSolutions from warfighters in July 2009, and the project is almost complete. The initial delivery was for 30 pairs of the new eyewear, which have already gone out for evaluation with warfighters who will use them in training. "They will provide structured feedback on the glasses," said ONR's Command Master Chief Petty Officer Charles Ziervogel, who oversees the TechSolutions department.
After this evaluation, Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is expected to take delivery of the FTPE glasses. "SOCOM is buying 100 units based on the initial assessment and seeing the results from the current evaluation," Ziervogel said.
Last August, an earlier prototype was assessed, which led to design changes, which are incorporated in the current eyewear. "The user feedback made this prototype even better," Everett said.
Results from this round of assessments are expected in April, and the feedback will be forwarded to Ohio-based AlphaMicron. The company, along with Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane, Ind., was selected to develop FTPE.
"We expect additional minor design changes based on the results of the current assessment," Everett said. AlphaMicron will incorporate any changes into what will be close to a final product.
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Girl Scout Dedication Troop 1017 Bridging and Award Ceremony
On Saturday, November 1st, Girl Scout troop 1017 held a bridging and award ceremony in the Japanese Gardens at Birmingham Botanical Gardens. A Girl Scout bridging ceremony celebrates the advancement of Girl Scouts from one level to the next. The beautiful red bridge over the coy pond was the perfect setting as Girl Scouts Emma, Georgia and Perry received Cadette awards, including the Silver Award pin, and then walked across the bridge to receive their bridge to Senior badge and their Senior awards.
A new addition to the troop, Alex, bridged from Junior to Cadette and was welcomed by her new Girl Scout sisters. Brownie Delilah awaited the girls on the other side where she gave them each the yellow rose of friendship before receiving her own Brownie awards. The troop is comprised of some very accomplished girls who earned pins in community service, leadership and service to Girl Scouts. Over the summer, the three older girls earned their Silver Award by creating a pollinator habitat near Birmingham Botanical Gardens Apiary. The day's ceremony concluded with a photo shoot of Emma, Georgia, and Perry in front of the pollinator habitat.


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Cheney, Washington, Receives Boost In 3G Wireless Coverage With New Cell Site From Verizon Wireless
BELLEVUE, WA — Residents, businesses and visitors to Cheney are enjoying improved wireless service thanks to a new Verizon Wireless cell site. The cell site is located east of Cheney, extending coverage in residential areas and also for drivers along Cheney-Spokane Road. The new cell site expands America's largest and most reliable 3G wireless network in Spokane County, enabling voice calls, access to the Web, e-mail, text and picture messaging, plus music and video.
This network enhancement is part of Verizon Wireless' consistent, aggressive multi-billion dollar network investment each year to stay ahead of the growing demand for the company's voice and data services. Verizon Wireless spent $106 million to enhance services and coverage in Washington during 2008.
Nationally, the company has invested more than $50 billion since it was formed in 2000. The result is the nation's largest, most reliable 3G network that powers services such as Mobile Broadband and Mobile Email. Businesses of any size can tap into the power of Mobile Broadband, enabling users to connect to the Internet wirelessly while on the go to download music over-the-air and access e-mail or corporate data. For example, customers can download a 1 megabyte e-mail attachment - the equivalent of a small PowerPoint® presentation or a large PDF file - in about eight seconds and upload the same-sized file in less than 13 seconds.
Small business owners interested in Mobile Broadband, and other wireless solutions, can visit http://smallbusiness.vzw.com where they will find:
- An online forum to share experiences and connect with other business owners
- Access to Small Business Specialists in each Verizon Wireless store
- Discounts and promotions to help businesses stretch their budgets
- Summaries of mobile solutions like e-mail, wireless Internet and Push to Talk service
- 24/7 tech support
Verizon Wireless tests its network and those of its competitors to ensure the Verizon Wireless network remains the nation's most reliable. Nationally, Verizon Wireless' real-life test men and women drive more than 90 specially equipped vehicles almost 1,000,000 miles annually on Interstate, U.S. and state highways, as well as major roads and surface streets in high-population areas, based upon U.S. Census counts, to determine if voice calls and data connections are successful on the first attempt and stay connected. Vehicles are equipped with computers that automatically make more than three million voice call attempts and more than 16 million data tests annually on Verizon Wireless' network and the networks of other carriers.
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About Verizon Wireless Verizon Wireless operates the nation's most reliable and largest wireless voice and data network, serving 87.7 million customers. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with more than 87,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) and Vodafone (NYSE and LSE: VOD). For more information, visit www.verizonwireless.com. To preview and request broadcast-quality video footage and high-resolution stills of Verizon Wireless operations, log on to the Verizon Wireless Multimedia Library at www.verizonwireless.com/multimedia.


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Paul Pate and the Crimson will face seven ranked teams during the 2012 season (Gil Talbot).
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preseason national poll, the publication announced this
week. The Crimson is one of five Ivy League schools to appear
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Harvard, which reached as high as No. 17 in the nation during last season, opens its 2011 campaign by hosting Vermont at the Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium Saturday, Feb. 25 at noon. The Crimson returns 34 players from last year's team, which finished 10-6 overall and went 3-3 in Ivy League contests. Under Chris Wojcik, The Frisbie Family Head Coach for Harvard Men's Lacrosse, the Crimson earned a spot in the Ivy League tournament final last season.
The Crimson will face seven teams ranked in the Inside Lacrosse preseason poll this spring, including No. 2 Duke on the road (March 12), No. 3 Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y., (April 7) and No. 11 Hofstra at the Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium (March 3). Harvard will also visit No. 12 Massachusetts (March 27), face No. 13 Yale in New Haven, Conn., (April 28), travel to play No. 14 Penn (April 14) and welcome No. 16 Princeton to Harvard Stadium (April 21).


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The rough-and-tumble Big Ten can put up gaudy score lines, too.
Ohio State scored 63 points last weekend, Michigan 44. After a paltry start, Penn State is pouring it on with 34 points or more in three of its last four games. Nebraska has yet to dip below the 30-point mark. As the season approaches its midway point, half of the teams in the conference so gritty the colors of its logo are black and blue are averaging 30 points or more.
``I think that's where college football is today,'' Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald said Tuesday. ``Just to watch the way everybody is in a spread mentality, is playing with tempo, it's just a matter of time until teams score when you've got the defense out there as long as you are.''
Scoring has been on the rise across the nation, thanks largely to the proliferation of spread and pro-style offenses and the introduction of the running 40-second clock. Three years after Boise State and Houston were the only two teams to average more than 40 points a game, at 42.2 each, 17 schools are scoring 40 or more. Five teams are scoring in the 50s, led by Oklahoma State with 55.8 points per game.
It's not only the traditionally prolific schools piling up the points, either. Texas A&M, better known for its ``Wrecking Crew'' defense, is averaging almost 45 points a game, eighth most in the country.
``Football is a trendy sport, by nature,'' Penn State coach Bill O'Brien said.
Yes, but trendy and Big Ten don't usually go together.
Scan the yearly list of the Big Ten's leader in scoring offense, and you'll see a lot of numbers in the 20s and 30s. Oh, sure, a 40 would show up every once in a while (40.0 by Ohio State in 1969 or 48.1 by Penn State in 1994). Most years, however, reflected the conference and its grind-it-out nature.
Then, in 1997, Joe Tiller arrived at Purdue, bringing his ``basketball on grass'' offense - and a kid named Drew Brees - with him. Pretty soon, that old notion that pro-style, pass-happy offenses couldn't work in the snow and cold of the Midwest had been turned on its head. Same for the idea that the only good football game was a 9-6 slugfest.
Wisconsin led the league with 43 points per conference game last year, and 45.2 the year before that. It was the first time ever the league's scoring average leader had topped 40 in back-to-back years. And it could be three in a row, with Nebraska currently averaging almost 44 points a game, 10th highest in the country.
``With the rise in talent level offensively and the things people are doing conceptually, it's been a big positive,'' Michigan State coach Mark D'Antonio said. ``The defense is working in those same realms. But ... since I was a defensive coordinator back in `02, 03, the game has changed dramatically.''
Now, not every Big Ten team looks like a WAC wannabe. Wisconsin's offense is still built around the ground game, and probably always will be. Yes, the Badgers had Russell Wilson last year, but that was an oddity. The year before, when Wisconsin was scoring in bunches, it was thanks to a behemoth offensive line that bulldozed such big holes the Badgers almost couldn't help but score.
But the league is no longer running different own versions of the same offense, either. Look at Ohio State. The school that produced Eddie George and Archie Griffin has opened things up under Urban Meyer, and is scoring 30 or more points in all but two games this year with its spread offense.
Nebraska runs a lot of option out of the shotgun. Illinois' aim is to run the spread. Michigan State and Iowa are more traditional.
And then there's Michigan, which changes from week to week depending on the kind of game Denard Robinson is having.
That variety, rather than the offenses themselves, are what has the most impact, D'Antonio said.
``It's not that one particular philosophy is good, bad or indifferent. It's that every week in college football, offenses change dramatically,'' he said. ``You only have three, four days max to prepare for that offense, and what you're seeing is people not executing on the defensive side of ball as well due to the complexities and changes. ... It's tough for a young player to (adapt).''
In the end, though, good football will always trump glitzy schemes. Just look at last year's Big Ten title game, which featured Wisconsin and Michigan State, two of the conference's most traditional offenses.
``If you can control the football and play good defense, play great on special teams, good things are going to happen for you,'' D'Antonio said. ``There are all different ways of getting to the top. It's just a matter of, philosophically, what direction you're going to take. In the end, it's about how you execute and your ability to adapt.''


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Since Tunisians overthrew their dictator in January, sparking protests across the Middle East, Arab regimes have been seeking to shut down the demonstrators before they, too, are shown the exit. Among the most popular formulas: fueling longstanding social or religious divisions.
In a region notorious for such schisms, many of the protest movements were, at first, remarkably united across sectarian lines for political and economic change. But as wary leaders began framing the protests as a matter of identity or religion rather than reform, citizens turned on protesters – significantly weakening their movements.
"Authoritarianism thrives and supports itself on dividing and ruling," says Joshua Landis, director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma. "It will use whatever the best methods are for dividing a society, whether it's national questions, ethnic questions, sectarian questions.... [Regimes] keep the people from uniting against them by playing on these types of insecurity."
Genuine reform or a Sunni-Shiite struggle?
A prime example is Bahrain, where a Sunni elite has long suppressed a Shiite majority. When protests broke out in February, Bahrain's ruling family and its Gulf allies were quick to reframe them as an Iran-backed Shiite takeover – rather than a genuine push for reform.
"The protesters aren't talking about Shiism or Sunnism ... their political language is about social justice ... democratic rights, and reform," says Toby Jones, a Middle East history professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey. "The way [the regime is] justifying a crackdown on these public protests ... is to say that this is a foreign plot."
That approach plays on the Saudi-Iranian struggle for regional dominance that pits the rich Sunni kingdom against Iran's Shiite theocracy. Since the 1979 Iranian revolution, it has played out in everything from Iraq's civil war to Lebanese tensions between Sunni politicians and the militant Shiite Hezbollah group.
On March 14, Saudi troops entered Bahrain at its request to help put down the protest movement. Two days later, security forces cleared the main encampment in the capital. Since then, Shiites have been targeted by security forces at checkpoints and many have described being arrested, subjected to anti-Shiite slurs, and beaten.
It's all an effort by Bahrain's rulers to "build hatred" between Shiite and Sunni citizens, says Khalil Ebrahim al-Marzooq, a leader of the Al Wafaq Shiite political bloc. "They're willing to destroy the community just to put off real reform."
To a certain extent, it's working. Bahrain's protest movement has struggled, and the West has not harshly criticized the government's crackdown It, too, fears Iran's influence. Saudi Arabia, whose Shiite community is small but shares similar frustrations to Bahraini Shiites, is also concerned about Iran – and knows it can play the sectarian card to rally support in a regional crisis.
"They know they can rally Sunni communities across ... the Middle East against Iran," says Professor Jones. "Now, with the intervention in Bahrain, it seems like they've played the card.... Now they're saying, 'The battle is a sectarian one, and we can't have another Shiite power on our doorstep.' "
The "threat" of foreign agitators
In Jordan, the division exploited was not religion, but national identity. The country is divided between "pure" Jordanians, as they often call themselves, and those of Palestinian origin. Protesters have come from both groups, united in their calls for reform. But the government and its supporters have dismissed the protesters as "Islamists" – a code word for Palestinians. They have implied that the protesters' desire for an elected government is a scheme to establish a Palestinian homeland, thus spurring a violent backlash in the streets, says Nasseem Tarawnah, one of the few journalists to interview the thuggish counterprotesters.
"Every time reform is mentioned, the issue of national identity isn't far behind," says Mr. Tarawnah, a local blogger. "It's a nation that, on a social level, seems not entirely at peace with itself, and that makes the reform process a lot more difficult."
In Syria, the regime has consistently attributed demonstrations to foreign agitators or Islamic extremists – playing on the bad memories of 1982, when the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood tried to take over Syria.
Today's protesters, overwhelmingly Sunni, now chant anti-Shiite slogans – veiled references to President Assad and his Alawite faith, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
"The protesters bent over backwards at first to shape their message to be nonsectarian," Mr. Landis says. "But when things get tough, the sectarian aspects come out."
But the strategy could backfire in the long run because such tactics have already raised tensions between Iran and other nations in the region.
Joost Hiltermann, deputy Middle East director for the International Crisis Group, says that using identity tensions to put off reform may only delay – and fuel – popular uprisings.
"That's when you get ethnic conflicts, sectarian conflicts, any kind of other identity-based conflict," Mr. Hiltermann says. "It leads to civil wars. This is playing with fire."
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The Herald endorses Steve Rhoads, a Republican from Bellmore, for Nassau County legislator in the 19th District. Rhoads was elected two years ago in a special election against Rita Kestenbaum, a Democrat from Bellmore. The election was called after Rhoads's predecessor, David Denenberg, a Democrat from Merrick, pleaded guilty to scamming a private law client out of $2.3 million and resigned from office. District 19 includes Wantagh, Seaford, Bellmore, Merrick and Freeport.
After two years in a law-making position, it is clear that Rhoads has proven that he is up to the job. He is affable and approachable. He is, as one Herald editorial board member described him, the kind of guy you'd like to have lunch with. That, we believe, is perhaps the most important quality a county legislator can possess. One of his or her key responsibilities, after all, is constituent services. Legislators must be open to hearing residents' concerns. By all accounts, Rhoads is.
He first got involved in politics at age 12, when he volunteered for then-State Assemblyman Fred Parola to earn extra points for a school assignment. That led to a lifetime interest and involvement in government.
Before becoming a legislator, Rhoads was a Nassau County attorney for five years, and then went into private practice. He has served on the county's Open Space and Parks Advisory Committee, helping to map out the best use of Nassau's parks, preserves and dwindling open spaces. He is a longtime Wantagh Fire Department volunteer, a former department captain and currently serves on the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District Heroin Prevention Task Force.
We like his opponent, Jeff Gold, also of Bellmore. He has been an attorney in private practice for nearly 30 years, and is a former commissioner of the Nassau County Civil Service Commission. He is very involved in his community, serving on various civic associations and residing in Bellmore for 24 years. He is particularly concerned with crafting legislation to make American Water tax-free. Gold did not give us reason enough to favor him over an increasingly popular legislator who is doing his job and is visible in the community.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Dillard's, Inc., a major department store chain, will pay $50,000 and furnish other relief to settle an age discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged in its lawsuit that Dillard's discriminated against a manager when it discharged her because of her age, 61.
According to the EEOC's complaint, Dillard's terminated Virginia Keene from her position as an area sales manager at the Cary, N.C., store in November 2008 and replaced her with a 24-year-old employee who only had four months of experience as an area sales manager. Keene, on the other hand, had successfully worked as an area sales manager for over four years. At the time of her termination, Keene ranked second out of six area sales managers at the Cary store in terms of sales, the EEOC said.
Keene had also received positive reviews in her two most recent performance appraisals and had twice been recommended for promotion. Throughout the course of her employment with Dillard's, Keene's managers made repeated references to her age, telling her she was "too old" for a sales job and that it might be time for her to "let the younger [managers] take over."
Such alleged conduct violates the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), which prohibits employers from discharging individuals because of their age. The EEOC filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Western Division (EEOC v. Dillard's, Inc., Civil Action No. 5:10-CV-00398), after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement out of court.
"Older workers have experience and skills that are too often overlooked," said Lynette A. Barnes, regional attorney for the EEOC's Charlotte District Office. "It is illegal to make employment decisions based on age. The EEOC is committed to using all available means, including litigation, to combat age discrimination."
According to company information, Little Rock, Ark.-based Dillard's has 330 stores in 29 states.
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The demo only has episode 1, so no unlock.
Just the small price you have to pay for using the free version.
In Higurashi's case, the demo didn't even have the character portraits, so you're actually pretty lucky.
...But because I'm such a nice guy, here is a version that will give you a fresh state, give you chapter select from the start, and won't go crazy on the title screen when you complete it, I think. Just replace the nscript.dat in your English folder with this one.
And this should only be used on the demo version.
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Where is this chapter select thing? I did that, but don't see it.
And the demo version of Higurashi has portraits.O_o
I'm going crazy here. I even played through the whole thing all over again, but when it got to the start of day 2, everything was still in Japanese...
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Did you REMOVE the old patch?
I cannot put more emphasis on it: using the full patch force you to remove any of the old one. do NOT overwrite the old patch with the new one.
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Huh wait... I'm sorry, but I don't think using bold for all new instructions is required considering that it is clear and put right after the links. It is not like it is hidden in the paragraph. Just read the post completely instead of rushing to the update file... (especially that you seem to be the only person who didn't see the V1 special instruction).
That will be even more true with episode 2 patches when they will come out, though you will need eisode 2 or 3 game anyway.
that matter aside, currently using talk page for wikipedia article. I dunno what Jyuhachi is doing, but he put quite critical spoilers from Ep3 without much pertinence in there (because if you do that, I just can't understand why episode 1-2 events are not put as well. Talk about random).
EDIT: looks like I was a bit slow and it has been edited already this morning. Good, now the characters descriptions are no longer spoilerish I would say.
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Given the importance of that step, putting it in bold seems like a good idea.
I got it to work and noticed a word missing near the beginning of the second day, when they curtains are being opened. It says, "If the curtains remained closed, the inside of the mansion still be dim". I think "would" or something was supposed to be in there.
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By the way I think your avatar is kawaii .
I'd like to help with the insertion too if you still need people.
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wow. finally. A chance to actually get seriously into this new world. I have been looking forward to this...
(and I cant believe I didnt see this untill AFTER the weekend when I could have spent so much effort playing it)
might have to put together an installer like I do for the Sonozaki sisters effort on Higurashi, looking at the people having issues installing and everything...
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Don't get nervous, reskinning a door is actually one of the easier tasks in the autobody realm. It ranks right up there with removing and replacing a fender. Well, OK, it might be a little more involved than that-but it's nothing that a moderately experienced car guy should be terrified to try. The following images and captions (thanks to Orlando for letting me look over his shoulder) should help you get a grasp of how to tackle a job like this, and though this is an early Chevy II door assembly, the same procedures hold true for nearly all steel doors. So take a look and decide if this is a chore you may consider doing yourself. Hey, it very well may save you a bundle of cash on your next resto.


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A traditional apple pie is packed with flavor and nostalgia.
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Her holiday treat features a praline-like topping. You�ll be introduced to more Taste of Home recipes at the Newspapers in Educations� Taste of Cooking Show on Sept. 27.
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STANFORD, Calif. - The Oklahoma men's gymnastics team claimed the 2008 NCAA Championship with a 363.200-362.750 victory over event host and top-seeded Stanford Friday night. Once again the title came down to the final event as OU finished strong on rings (61.700) to overcome the Cardinal's 63.750 on vault and snare the program's eighth national championship in front of a partisan crowd inside Maples Pavilion on the Stanford campus
"We're thrilled," said OU head coach Mark Williams. "Stanford had a great crowd. They took us down to the very last event, made us have to earn it and really take our performance to another level. We just had kind of a special feeling this week."
It was an ending that couldn't have been scripted any better. Facing a deficit of almost two points with its final two competitors left to go on rings, the Sooners looked to senior co-captains Taqiy Abdullah-Simmons and Jonathan Horton to make one final charge at the title.
Despite an uncharacteristically rocky performance through the first five events, Abdullah-Simmons set OU up with a chance to win with a clutch rings performance that netted a score of 15.400.
Needing a score of at least 15.700 to win the title, Horton came through with a career-high score of 16.100, sticking his dismount and securing his third NCAA team championship as a Sooner.
"That was the first rings routine I think I've ever done where at the end I wasn't tired at all because I had so much adrenaline going," Horton said. "It was just so much fun to be up there in that handstand before my dismount just thinking, `I'm going to stick this. I'm going to give our team a shot.' I know Taqiy was thinking the same thing. We all had to do our jobs. Everybody was clutch tonight and came through when we needed them."
Horton finished second in the all-around (90.950) to Penn State's Casey Sandy (91.350), his second consecutive runner-up finish after winning the 2006 all-around title.
"I'm very proud of my team," Horton said. "A lot of times I tend to put pressure on myself to come through and I had some mistakes tonight, but my team was incredible. They backed us up in everything. A lot of guys came through tonight. It was an incredible performance. I couldn't have asked for anything better."
The Sooners have now won five of the last seven NCAA crowns, all under Williams. With eight national championships, the men's gymnastics team now owns the most titles of any OU athletics program, breaking a tie with the football and wrestling squads (seven).
"I probably still would have been happy with this team, win or lose," Williams said. "We've worked very hard to be national champions, but sometimes it's just about going out there and having fun and we were having a great time."
For the second straight night, Oklahoma started on vault where it was ranked No. 1 in the country. The Sooners burst out of the gate, recording a team score of 64.150 led by freshman Steven Legendre's career-high 16.400. Junior Chris Brooks scored a 15.950 from the sixth position, while classmate Russell Czeschin and freshman Bobby Shortle added matching 15.900s.
OU followed with a steady performance on the parallel bars highlighted by a 15.200 from Horton and a 14.950 from Brooks. Legendre added a 14.700 and junior Kyle McNamara scored a season-high 14.800 to round out Oklahoma's team score of 59.650 and give the Sooners a 123.800-122.700 advantage over Michigan through two rotations.
The Sooners turned in a solid performance on the high bar, turning in a team score of 58.900, just 0.050 points off the program record. OU got season high scores of 14.650 and 14.900 for McNamara and Legendre, as well as a 14.850 from Brooks. From the anchor position, Horton earned a 14.500 despite a fall.


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If you thought Detroit was big, double your expectations for the Geneva Motor Show.
It's going to be a petrol head's wet dream, with more than 130 world firsts to be shown.
Chief among these are new face-bending hypercars from McLaren, Ferrari and Lamborghini.
There will be normal cars too, as well as out-of-this-world concept designs.
Don't forget to tune into Wheelsmag.com.au for all the news as it happens, or log on to our Facebook page for updates from our journos on the ground.
Until then though, here are the cars we're most looking forward to from Geneva.


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From the Kitchen of One Perfect Bite...No holiday here on the hill would be complete without warm dinner rolls. We have a lot going on this year, so I've fallen back on a very simple recipe I found in Gourmet magazine over a decade ago. I love the rich color of these buns and because they can be reheated without sacrificing quality, they are a great make-ahead candidate for the holiday table. The recipe is straight forward and can be made entirely by hand. If you feel more comfortable using your mixer, by all means do so. The rolls have a lovely crust that I know you will enjoy. If your menu is not yet set in stone, you might want to give this recipe a try. Speaking of menus, I promised some of you that I'd post our holiday menu today. Recipes for these dishes will be featured over the course of the next few weeks. Here's what is happening at our house tomorrow.
Thanksgiving Menu
Andean Corn Chowder
Apple and Escarole Salad with Oregon Blue Cheese and Hazelnuts
Roasted Double Rack of Pork with Morel Mushroom Pan Sauce
Bacon, Leek and Mushroom Dressing
Gratin Dauphinois
Braised Brussels Sprouts with Bacon and Golden Raisins
Creamed Corn
Cloverleaf Rolls
Apple and Apricot Tart
Sweet Potato Pie
Maple-Walnut Tart
Cloverleaf Rolls...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite courtesy of Gourmet magazine
3 tablespoons warm water
1 (1/4-ounce) package active dry yeast (2-1/2 teaspoons)
3 tablespoons sugar, divided use
1 stick (8 tablespoons) unsalted butter, divided use
1 cup whole milk
2 cups bread flour
1-1/2 teaspoons salt
1-1/2 to 2 cups all-purpose flour
1 large egg, lightly beaten with 2 teaspoons water
1 tablespoon poppy seeds and/or toasted sesame seeds for sprinkling
1) Stir together warm water, yeast, and 1 tablespoon sugar in a small bowl until yeast is dissolved. Let stand until foamy, about 5 minutes.
2) Melt 6 tablespoons butter in a small saucepan, then add milk and heat to lukewarm. Stir together yeast mixture, remaining 2 tablespoons sugar, butter mixture, bread flour, and salt in a bowl with a wooden spoon until combined well, then stir in 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour, or enough to make a slightly sticky dough.
3) Butter a large bowl. Knead dough on a lightly floured surface, kneading in more all-purpose flour as needed to keep dough from sticking, until smooth and elastic, about 10 minutes (dough will still be slightly sticky). Form dough into a ball. Grease a large bowl and place dough in it, turning to coat. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let dough rise in a warm place until doubled in bulk, about 1 hour.
4) Butter 18 muffin cups with remaining 2 tablespoons butter. Turn out dough onto a lightly floured surface and divide into thirds. Working with 1 piece at a time (keep remaining portions covered with plastic wrap), cut off tablespoon pieces of dough and form pieces into balls. Put 3 balls into each buttered muffin cup. Let rolls rise, loosely covered with a kitchen towel (not terry cloth), in a warm place until almost doubled in bulk, 30 to 40 minutes.
5) Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Brush rolls lightly with egg wash and sprinkle with seeds. Bake until golden, 15 to 20 minutes. Serve warm. Yield: 18 rolls.
Cooks' note: Rolls can be baked 1 day ahead and cooled completely, then kept, wrapped well in foil, at room temperature. Reheat in foil in a preheated 350 degrees F oven for 15 to 20 minutes.
One Year Ago Today: Frozen Maple-Mousse Cake with Candied Cranberries
Two Years Ago Today: Quick and Creamy Pumpkin Pudding
Three Years Ago Today: Pot Roast with Potatoes and Carrots


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You'll never be a badass bartender without the proper equipment. If you want to mix a perfect martini and impress your friends at your next party, you probably need a decent bartending kit.
This one is stainless steel, costs you $37, and comes with 10 pieces. Whatever the order may be—a Manhattan, a Tom Collins, or maybe an Old Fashioned—you'll be prepared. It's got a shaker, strainer, stirrer, tongs, and pretty much all the things you'd need in your barkeep's arsenal. And it all fits into a handy little storage stand. Unfortunately all that top shelf booze you'll want to use (and consume) is not included. [Amazon]


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Lately I've been wanting a film that comes out punching, that doesn't dally, that just drops the audience into the middle of intense action and lets us swim for our ever-loving lives. I'm talking about a movie that knows how to open a movie. The last one was The Dark Knight. Finally, I get my wish with J.J. Abrams's re-booted Star Trek.
A tentacled spaceship with overwhelming firepower. A Star Fleet vessel limping and crumbling to pieces. Dozens of evacuating shuttles. And a baby being born. It's the Odessa Steps at warp speed. And we instantly know that this one is set for stun.
And that's just the beginning, because what we get is an exhilarating string of these things. What Abrams accomplishes is to rival Steven Spielberg's capacity to stage wide-canvas action scenes, dotting the screen with multiple thrillers taking place in multiple locations simultaneously. We shift among them with swiftness, smoothness and ferocity.
So we go from a starship to high-speed parachuting, to a swordfight on top of a mile-high drilling platform. We move from a single cockpit to a starship bridge, to watching the battle in slow motion from a million miles away with spacecraft and torpedoes slowly charging across the eternal night. It's awe-inspiring. I can't say enough.
Let's shower Abrams with praise. After an overhyped transition to the big screen, the Lost impresario finally delivers, re-charging what appeared to be a dead franchise. Returning us to the iconic characters, times, and spirit of the original television series of the '60s, the film invigorates the earliest adventure of Captain James T. Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock, Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy, and the rest of the crew of the Starship Enterprise.
The geek favorites meet at Star Fleet Academy, but their friendships begin as petty rivalries. As cadets, they are dispatched on a humanitarian mission to Vulcan aboard the newly minted Enterprise. The humanitarian mission becomes a military emergency when they meet a heavily armed Romulan mining ship that has traveled from the future through, yes, a temporal anomaly (which happen to be ideal for re-booting). It has come with a nasty captain (Eric Bana) and a destructive plan. As the crew loses its veteran captain (the always steady Bruce Greenwood), the Enterprise bridge dissolves into back-and-forth mutiny as the young officers squabble over what to do.
We can watch the generations roll by through Star Trek. The original series operated with the Silent Generation's enlightened bureaucracy. In the spiritually sensitive Boomer era, the crew saved whales and sought peace, while the Next Generation provided an oligarchy run by Up With People and the idea that humans are evolving into gods.
It took a while to dip into '90s-style sci-fi paranoia, ala Babylon 5 or The X-Files. It didn't connect with Star Trek's historically earnest outlook. Star Trek really isn't Star Trek with Star Fleet officers hiding dark conspiracies and evil motives. The series had becomes moor-less and passé.
Rebooted and reloaded, we now have a Star Trek updated to modern action conventions -– a crew of orphaned rebel-heroes whose wounded pasts shadow their idealism. In this version, Kirk is the talented but unorthodox son of a dead space hero. Chris Pine, with the toughest measure-up as the embryonic Captain Kirk, cruises with the cocky hamminess inherent in the role…or inherent in William Shatner. Take your pick.
To call the performers unknown is an understatement. The only really famous person is Winona Ryder, in a small part. But for once, Abrams's don't-hate-me-because-I'm-beautiful casting doesn't betray him. Only Karl Urban's portrayal of Bones flips disturbingly between imitation and parody. Scotty is a parody deftly steered into comic relief by Simon Pegg, who steals all of his scenes. Zoe Soldana gets to play Uhura as saucy, savvy and semi-relevant.
The bravest risk and the greatest reward comes from the nearly unthinkable decision to put the film's emotional center on the legendarily emotionless character. What started as a one-episode gag 40 years ago –- that Spock is half-human –- fully fleshes to its completion. This Spock is prideful, ambitious, shy, vulnerable, orderly, rebellious…an enigma to both of his worlds. The Spock we are given here is a human wanting to be a Vulcan. Wholly and admirably, Zachary Quinto rebuilds the Vulcan from the inside out. Is it too early to say Quinto is a better Spock than Leonard Nimoy?
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Perhaps slightly too early if only because of Leonard Nimoy's own appearance in the film - he's very much a part of this re-imagining and is still bringing new things to the role himself; but I agree with you about Zachary, his performance is extraordinary and by far the best thing about the film.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Healthcare workers assisting people to sign up for insurance on the HealthCare.gov marketplace on Monday told Reuters they had noticed improvement in the problem-plagued website.
Seven organizations funded through the health reform law that assist applicants, from Kansas to Pennsylvania, said that they'd seen successes enrolling people from start to finish in recent days.
Another group of the workers, often called navigators, said problems persisted unchanged. None offered numbers.
"Saturday was the first day that I was actually able to get someone through the entire process on the website. That was pretty exciting. And I know on Saturday that wasn't the case for everyone on my team, but more and more consistently we're having success with it," said Rachel Udow, program director for MHP, a community-based organization focused on migrant issues in Weslaco, Texas.
The Obama administration has pledged that the websites would be working smoothly by the end of November, just two weeks before the December 15 deadline to purchase health insurance that starts on Jan 1.
"We've had more completed online enrollments in the last week or so than probably all the weeks before combined, and we're pretty excited about that," said Laura Line, corporate assistant director of healthcare at the Philadelphia-based Resources for Human Development.
Others were more muted, but still encouraged by the improvements. Debbie Berndsen, navigator project director at the Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved, said that two of the group's navigators were able to fully enroll applicants Monday morning.
"It just gives me the sense that things are going in the right direction," Berndsen said.
(Reporting By Curtis Skinner; Editing by Bernard Orr)


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Excel are a Japanese brand that do cheap looking but very nice products, this eyeshadow duo included. I have only own one previously, but I found the two shades to be pigmented and soft, especially the darker complimentary shade in the set.
It is now $40 HK dollars at Adambeauty, worked out about £3 to me here in the UK. Yes, I added them all to basket!
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Singer Brandy has ended her engagement to Ryan Press.
"The Boy Is Mine" singer became engaged to Press in 2012 and claimed the relationship had restored her faith in men, but it has now been revealed the pair has parted ways.
A representative for Brandy tells Usmagazine.com, "They are no longer together. The engagement is off, but the friendship is still on. They decided to take a step back and reevaluate the relationship. … Brandy has a daughter and she still wants to be married and have more kids but she is working on so many other things right now. They haven't ended things on a bad note and they still speak all the time."


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There have been some assertions by patient-activists trying to distance themselves from the disparaging CFS label that "there is no fatigue in ME". However, those activists with medical training who have reviewed the older pre-CFS medical literature assure us that "fatigue" was regularly mentioned in descriptions of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, and was often described as being just as overwhelming as it is in CFS.
The primary problem seems to be the nebulous and competing definitions of "what is CFS?"
Originally, CFS was applied to the Incline Village epidemic of a disease which was compatible with the descriptions of prior ME. As detailed in Osler's Web, government scientists' own words make it clear that they did not want to acknowledge the severe and contagious nature of the epidemic, and brushed off any attempts by independent researchers to enlighten them that this was ME (which appears to be a variant of polio), not laziness or depression.
Various groups with ulterior motives, including a cadre of psychiatrists who saw lifetime employment for themselves in the reclassification to a psychiatric paradigm, have expanded the definition of CFS until some of those definitions now can be applied to any case of fatigue from any source. The requirement of "post-exertional malaise" and symptoms made worse by exercise has entirely disappeared from some definitions of CFS, so talking about that brand of "CFS" versus the original "CFS" is comparing apples and oranges. In fact, originally, a history of depression was supposed to preclude a CFS diagnosis, not, as some would prefer, CFS being a less-stigmatizing name for depression.
The Real Thing, which was known as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or Post Viral Syndrome prior to the 1988 CDC-mandated name change, is precipitated by an infectious event. Although many doctors would like to disregard my 105 fever and try to relate my symptoms to an emotional reaction, those who knew me both before and after February 1987 support my version that I was happy and healthy and having no unusual stress; then one day I developed a high fever and flu-like illness and was never the same after that. It has nothing to do with some imagined emotional fragility due to my gender or my marital status, just as AIDS was eventually proven to have nothing to do with the original theory of "being depressed because you're gay". Those of us who got the diagnosis before special-interest groups started playing games with it all tell the same story, which sounds a lot more like a contagious disease than a mental illness.
Now we have people with CFS diagnoses who have no symptoms other than fatigue, who cannot imagine that what us old-timers are describing is the same thing they have. But the problem with that is not with the patients ... it's with the medical professionals who don't know that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is not the same thing as chronic fatigue, and who ignore such little inconveniences as patients whose total symptom package doesn't match the criteria for CFS because they didn't have the viral onset required for the original CFS which was really ME.
CFS expert David Bell, M.D., considers the word "fatigue" inappropriate since it is defined as a response to exertion that is relieved by rest, whereas CFS "fatigue" may result from little or no exertion and is not substantially relieved by rest. However, CDC has staunchly refused to change the name back to ME (in fact, it is almost impossible to get an ME diagnosis in the US). After agreeing to "consider" a name change, CDC later announced that the adoption of a new name would be premature. In a catch-22, the present name trivializes the illness, thereby discouraging the research funding needed to uncover the pathophysiology of the disorder, but without a definitive pathophysiology, CDC refuses to change the name. This little game has been going on for 20 years, and the patients are the losers.
If they'd put the efforts into solving CFS that were put into AIDS, a million more Americans would be fully employed and contributing to the economy, instead of begging for disability benefits which are denied because CDC ensured that early public opinion was formed on the notion of fakery, and has never done the remedial PR to educate the populace that innumerable objective abnormalities have been documented since 1984. While there is no specific CFS test, there are plenty of blood tests and neurological tests that can prove the existence of "something very wrong", but if the tests aren't done, or the judges don't understand that this how CFS is proven, benefits will continue to be denied to deserving people who, if they had any other diagnosis, would be deemed unable to work. Costs to the economy of this epidemic are variously estimated at $9B-$25B a year; wouldn't it be better for the country to find an effective treatment and get us back to work?
Neurologists have described the fatigue of CFS/ME as "central fatigue", something very different from common tiredness. It's caused by a dysfunction of the Central Nervous System. This notion is acceptable to doctors in other neurological diseases, but somehow is deemed impossible or "doesn't make sense" in CFS. I have often noted that people with Multiple Sclerosis are fawned over and pitied when they tell people their diagnosis, but when I describe the same symptoms and same level of disability, I get verbal abuse. If I were a different sort of person, I would take the easy way out and just tell people that I, too, have MS. I'd rather educate people that CFS is closer to MS than to depression in both symptoms and pathology; in fact, some early patients were given the mistaken diagnosis of "atypical MS". There's no MS-specific blood test, either; it's diagnosed in the same way as CFS. The only real difference is that MS (which affects less than half as many people) has a higher profile and more acceptance as a valid neurological condition, and people would be embarrassed to question the diagnosis or attack a patient suffering such a debilitating illness.
The truth is, a CFS patient who does not exceed her limits probably won't experience overwhelming fatigue. I was utterly exhausted after a few days of trying to work half-time. Once I identified my limits, and made an effort to stay within them, I was only plagued by excessive fatigue when I could point to a specific cause, such as a sleepless night or a concerted effort to do housework beyond my known limits or the aerobic exercise forbidden by Dr. Cheney. More severely affected patients might have limits so low that they are utterly exhausted by walking 10 feet to the bathroom; less affected patients (such as me for a dozen years mostly in remission) might have limits so high that they can work full-time without being overly fatigued (but doing something active over the weekend instead of getting adequate rest is the straw that breaks the camel's back and brings on a relapse). At whatever end of the spectrum, the key to your best health is the same: don't overdo.
The internationally-accepted Consensus definition at http://www.mefmaction.net/documents/me_overview.pdf describes CFS in terms compatible with the historic ME definition (a disease essentially eradicated in the US not by vaccine but by CDC fiat in mandating it be renamed CFS, and very few doctors being activist enough to use its correct name in making the diagnosis). Before disparaging CFS as laziness or mental illness or unprovable fakery, it would behoove you to read this document written by doctors and researchers who actually know what they're talking about. It is a lot more informative than the limited information CDC wants you to know. The information is out there for those open-minded enough to consider all the facts.
Dr. Bell has completed his latest book, which he describes as "not for rookies": "It describes a theory that fibromyalgia and ME/CFS are parts of a spectrum of illnesses, called here Neuro-Immune Fatigue, and that the common end pathway of these illnesses is a dysregulation of cellular metabolism leading to the inability of the cell's mitochondria to utilize oxygen." To get your copy of this compilation and summation of the newest research by one of the top US experts on CFS, send $25 to David Bell, M.D., 1276 Waterport Road, Waterport, NY 14571. In about six months, he hopes to have available "a very short book entitled Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia: A Short Treatment Guide for the Primary Care Provider. This book is short (around 50 pages) and reader friendly, designed to be given to a primary care provider respectfully by a patient with ME/CFS or fibromyalgia in order to communicate in a simple and direct way some of the treatment approaches that experienced clinicians have put in place for some years now." I can assure you, after reading Dr. Bell's writings, only the most stubborn iconoclast could still cling to the idea that there's "no proof" that CFS is a valid physical illness with objective markers. If you have questions or comments, visit www.DavidSBell.com.
But, yes, I know, there will always be those who don't want to know the truth, either because it's more fun to verbally abuse people they perceive as powerless or because they are unable to accept any opinion but their own.
For those people I offer the opinion of noted researcher, Dr. Yunus, who voices what patients have complained of for years:
It is not the patients who are disturbed, it is the physicians who are psychologically disturbed because they ignore the data, and whatever data there is, they manipulate it to say what they want it to say. -- Muhammed B. Yunus, M.D.
I have had doctors completely rewrite my life history in order to "manipulate the data" to "say what they want it to say". Years of my career and repeated expert diagnoses disappeared in the attempt to document what was necessary to support the doctor's misogynistic prejudices that divorcees don't like being back in the work force. And, unfortunately, this fiction is the version the SSDI judge chooses to rely on, despite proof from other sources that I was never a stay-at-home wife and got my diagnosis more than a decade before I was forced to apply for benefits. To his mind, the one doctor who refuses to accept the virologist's diagnosis -- the only doctor who says what the judge wants to hear -- is the only one who is telling the truth and all the others are lying.


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A National Death Penalty Archive Event
A National Death Penalty Archive Event
Friday, October 12, 2012
Standish Room, Science Library, University at Albany
Lecture and Reception at 4:00 pm
The University at Albany's School of Criminal Justice and the University Libraries are proud to host former Dean and Professor Emeritus Victor Streib, of the Ohio Northern University College of Law, who will offer remarks in connection with the announcement of the addition of his papers to the National Death Penalty Archive (NDPA). Dean Streib is recognized as the country's foremost authority on the capital punishment of juveniles and women. His work has been cited extensively by the United States Supreme Court in its cases addressing the constitutionality of the death penalty for juvenile offenders. His remarks will address "Death to the Women and Children," and will analyze national and international trends regarding the capital punishment of these different populations. Discussion, an opportunity for questions, and a reception will follow. Portions of the materials that Dean Streib has donated to the NDPA will be on display. The program is free and open to the public. For a copy of the latest edition of Dean Streib's research report, Death Penalty for Female Offenders, visit: http://deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/FemDeathDec2011.pdf


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