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Tiny Brain Area Implicated in Late-Onset Alzheimer’s
A new review of scientific studies suggests a small area of the brain may be the first place affected by late onset Alzheimer’s disease. The region, known as the locus coeruleus, may also be important for maintaining cognitive function in later life.
Investigators explain that stimulation of this brain region through mental games or other cognitively engaging activities may help to maintain cognitive reserve.
The locus coeruleus is a small, bluish part of the brainstem that releases norepinephrine, a neurotransmitter involved for regulating heart rate, attention, memory, and cognition.
Its cells, or neurons, send branch-like axons throughout much of the brain and help regulate blood vessel activity.
This high interconnectedness may make it more susceptible to the effects of toxins and infections compared to other brain regions, said Dr. Mara Mather, professor of gerontology and psychology at the University of Southern California.
Her research suggests the locus coeruleus is the first brain region to show tau pathology — the slow-spreading tangles of protein that can later become telltale signs of Alzheimer’s disease.
Although not everyone will contract Alzheimer’s, autopsy results indicate that most people have some initial indications of tau pathology in the locus coeruleus by early adulthood, explains Mather.
The norepinephrine released from the locus coeruleus may contribute to preventing Alzheimer’s symptoms. Studies conducted with rats and mice have shown that norepinephrine helps protect neurons from factors that kill the cells and accelerate Alzheimer’s disease, such as inflammation and excessive stimulation from other neurotransmitters.
Norepinephrine is released when someone is engaged in or mentally challenged by an activity, whether it’s solving problems in the workplace, completing a word puzzle, or playing a difficult piece of music.
“Education and engaging careers produce late-life ‘cognitive reserve,’ or effective brain performance, despite encroaching pathology,” Mather said.
“Activation of the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system by novelty and mental challenge throughout one’s life may contribute to cognitive reserve.”
Nauert PhD, R. (2018). Tiny Brain Area Implicated in Late-Onset Alzheimer’s. Psych Central. Retrieved on October 27, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/news/2016/02/17/mouse-study-suggests-tiny-area-of-brain-implicated-in-late-onset-alzheimers/99256.html

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Postmen and women in Staffordshire are being put at risk of catching coronavirus from people taking home tests and putting them in the wrong post boxes.
The key workers do not collect the home tests kits, where people have taken the swaps at home and send them back. These test kits are meant to be left in the 'priority' postboxes not ordinary ones.
The postal staff who work out of the Biddulph sorting office are not expected to collect from the 'priority' postboxes, this is the job of the Royal Mail employees based in the Stoke on Trent office.
But some of the home test kits are ending up in the wrong postboxes, reports Stoke on Trent Live.
Now Royal Mail's Biddulph manager has issued a plea to residents to make sure they use the designated postboxes to protect his staff.
He said: "We all know Covid-19 is on the rise and we are seeing a lot more home testing kits in our postboxes.
"The problem we're facing in Biddulph at the moment is that not everyone is using the labelled 'priority postboxes' for the tests to be posted in to.
Find out how many positive coronavirus cases there have been in your area by typing in you postcode here:
"This is exposing my staff to increased risk when emptying them as the personal protection equipment is not always present and they are not expected to handle these items as there are set duties at Royal Mail Stoke who empty those priority boxes.
"We're doing our best for you during this pandemic with reduced staffing levels so my plea to you is that you keep my postmen and women safe so that they can continue to deliver to you as often as we can.
"Stay safe all and thank you."


The Ultimate Car Computer
It is quite an experience to be cruising in your J33p (that’s Jeep in L33t for the uninitiated out there) with the windows down (car windows not the OS) knowing two things with absolute confidence. First, you have a car that James Bond would be envious of, ok well maybe not James Bond but Frank Drebin from Naked Gun for sure. Second, the song that you happen to be blasting (White and Nerdy by Weird All) let’s all the homeys know that you are truly l33t.
This J33p has a lot more horse power than just the 210hp engine. With a Core2 Duo, 2 gigs of ram, GPS, a 250Gig hard drive for files and a screaming ram drive for the OS, it is a pretty sw33t ride. Ok I promise to stop writing in l33t now. It is pretty cool to be able to say “Jeep play artist Wierd All” and have it respond. Of course that sounds like what you can get with Sync in the Fords on the market. However, you couldn’t tell a Ford “play DVD”, or “Open GPS” or dictate notes while you drive.
We worked through Logic Supply for this project. They offer a lot of hard to find products that are ideal for geeking out your ride. We installed this system into a 2003 Jeep Liberty. This article will have four sections. 1. Parts, 2. Assembly, 3. Installation 4. Final Summary.
2003 Jeep Liberty. Yeah we made a pretty fun car really awesome in this project. You can find one of these at your local car dealership.
VoomPC-2 Automotive Mini-ITX Case. This case, is built from anodized heavy-duty machined aluminum. It is heavy enough to keep it from jostling around, and the case itself works almost as an extended heat sink. The case has room for a slimline CD/DVD drive. It also has front USB2.0 and audio jacks. This is a case that can handle the harsh vibrations and varying temperatures you will find in a car. You could also easily bolt it to the floor of your car with self-tapping screws to deter theft.
MSI Industrial GM965 Core 2 Duo Mobile Mini-ITX Mainboard. With optical out and socket P for sound, you can get great sound quality from this motherboard. It supports the latest Core2 Duo mobile processors and has fuzzy logic systems to keep the system healthy in a wide variety of conditions.
The Solid State Boot Media:
Emphase Industrial 2.5″ ATA Flash Disk 8GB. Clocking in at 4000x, this flash medium is extremely fast and extraordinarily rugged. No moving parts means that you can go four wheeling and jostle the snot out of the thing with no worries. Your OS will boot very quickly and reliably with this drive.
Kingston 1Gb 200-Pin DDR2. We bought 2 sticks to put the total up to 2 GB. 2 GB of ram is the minimum we felt we could put into this systemto get the performance we want out of Vista. Vista is known to be a performance hog, but the improvements made to its media center made Vista the right choice.
Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8GHz. With this 64bit processor you have a workhorse that can do anything you need. It would be easy to find yourself having too much fun hacking and wardriving with this kind of processing power. Of course you didn’t hear that from us. The Core2 Duo 1.8 is a nice cool running CPU. With a lower air-flow case, we wanted to have a cooler CPU to keep fan noise down.
The Mass Storage:
Samsung Spinpoint M Series 250Gig HDD. This will give you enough storage to archive DVDS, and keep quite a music selection on there. You may find yourself looking for excuses to go on a road trip. With your GPS system, you could keep a national database of all the open networks you found in your coast-to coast wardriving spree. How much would a database like that be worth? Google probably would love to add it to their street-view maps… creepy.
The touch screen functionality keeps you from having to deal with a mouse in your car. Being 12 volt, it natively works with your car’s power. The monitor has better visibility in high-brightness conditions than you will find in most LCDs.
Slimline DVD Drive. The drive we chose can handle every imaginable format of discs short of blue ray and HDDVD. Its 2 meg buffer isn’t huge, but you could certainly burn music for your passengers while you drive. Not that we endorse driving distracted or burning music for your friends.
Pharos pB010 USB iGPS Receiver. This GPS has been quite accurate on the road. It acquires immediately and keeps up well when you are driving around. Combine it with map point, and you can get turn-by-turn directions, travel speed, and even find restaurants on the move. You could even tie it into Google Earth if you want.
Zonet 802.11b Usb Wireless. This little thing finds lots of networks that are in the area. I pulled into my garage and had a list of about 50 networks it found on my commute home. I realized right away how much fun you can have with this kind of thing. You will have to download an update to the drivers to make it compatible with Net Stumbler or use a community approved wardriving set up.
The Power Supply:
Automotive 160W DC-DC Power Supply. A specialized power supply is set up to safely shut the computer down when the main power source is cut off. If you wire it with two hot lines and a switch on your primary line, you can run it off the battery. If you wire it with the primary power coming from the accessory, and a hot for the secondary you will have the computer on whenever your car is running. Wiring it through the accessory is nice, though I do wish I could leave the computer on when I make a quick run into a convenience store or something. The dual hot wiring configuration would let you do that without leaving your keys in the ignition.
The Drive Adapter:
Slimline CD to 42pin IDE Adapter. We needed this adapter to get our DVD drive to hook up to our motherboard. The adapter resulted in some tight spacing with the CPU fan requiring a slight relocation of the fan.
One note on power tools: use them at your own risk. Be sure to read and understand any and all documentation on the tools you use. No amount of documentation can make up for experience, but there are many people with serious eye injuries from the school of hard knocks. If you don’t know what you are doing, don’t do it, and find someone that can help.
The assembly for this computer is not for the novice. If you are familiar with computer components you will do fine. There is a lot of tight spacing, but the online documentation is very helpful. The adapter on our DVD drive provided the main challenge. We had to mod the fan by cutting off a corner and moving it slightly on the heat sync to get everything to play nicely together. The case was good to work with, providing a slide out tray for all the assembling needs.
Once you get the computer assembled, we recommend you install Windows Vista Premium. Vista is critical if you want to use One Voice for your voice commands. One voice happens to be incompatible with Windows Media Center(XP). Vista has some extra features with Media Center that can be nice to have. In addition, we installed Map Point and Microsoft Office.
You will want to pick up a USB blue tooth transmitter and headset for your voice commands. If you can find one that just acts as a microphone you can avoid any possible difficulties with the head set’s audio taking over for the audio output. Once you get all that up and running you can spend some time talking to your new computer and setting up the voice commands you want to use. If you choose to set up a USB camera as a backup camera, or a usb remote control, setting it up now can be save you some potential aggravation.
For the final assembly, we added a momentary switch to the case and hooked it up to a manual override plug on the power supply. This is nice because the power supply doesn’t always shut down if there is an unsaved document open etc. Being able to manually shut down or power the computer up takes care of those rare occasions when those rare occasions when the power supply doesn’t catch it.
One Voice is a pretty sweet program. It is recommended you use a headset microphone to get the best voice recognition performance out of it. It would also be a good idea to spend some time with another person driving while you go through the training scripts. That would let you train the system to ignore the background road and engine noise in the car. You will probably want to do most of the set up at the comfort of a desk, and just fine tune it once it is in the car.
It can be a great boost to your confidence to have your car greet you in a self-affirming way. With your new-found confidence, meeting girls online will be easy. Think how impressed she will be when you tell her that you are chatting with her while using her unsecured wireless network! If that doesn’t win the girl over, her hearing your car’s unctuous, slightly mechanical voice greet you by saying: “Hello Danny thank you for turning me on” will certainly do the trick. Then again with a sweet computer that can talk to you like that, who needs to go on dates right?
A good installation job for a set up like this is really critical to the ultimate cool factor. Don’t be afraid to remove panels, and fish wires under the carpet. The goal is to keep all your wiring as invisible as possible. In the Jeep we worked on, we had a fuse box under a removable panel on the driver side of the dash. We found an inline fuse that allowed us to insert a new 5 amp fuse inline with an existing fuse location. That gave us the power to our computer tied into the accessory circuit. The power supply is intelligent enough to boot the computer when we turn the key. When you shut down the car, the power supply will shut down safely after 30 seconds without its regular power. From there, the trick was wiring that power to our desired location under the passenger side chair.
You can run either do a lengthy run under the carpet to keep the wiring completely hidden, or you could do a shorter run that would have a few exposed wires at the very end. The short run goes underneath the driver-side dash with a piece of paneling that removes with just two screws. That gets you into the stereo location on the dash where you could run under the passenger side of the console and pull the wire out right by the passenger side seat. If you are working with a Jeep or other Chrysler/Dodge SUV, there is a good chance you can do a similar run.
Once you get it back there, you will want to work out the ground for your electrical power. We used a self tapping screw and drilled it into the passenger side frame in a place that will be covered once the panels are back in place. Connect a wire to that screw and then tighten it with a power drill. Run the last wiring from there under the carpet and out an incision under the passenger seat. The power supply also needs a permanent hot line that will give it the power it uses to shut the computer down when the car is shut down. We tapped into the cigarette lighter on our dash. Do a splice on that wire then run it under the passenger side of the console and out. We actually didn’t do that bit of wiring until the next day and did our first power up without that feature. You are now ready to do the final wire splicing for the connection into the automotive power supply.
To secure the computer under the seat, you will want to put a few strips of Velcro on the bottom of the case. This should work for most vehicles. It turns out that the factory carpet for the Jeep is not typical for automotive carpet and has no closed loops. So the Velcro was ineffective for the Liberty.
It proved not to be an issue because the arrangement with the moldings under the seat worked out to keep the computer from going anywhere just fine. We chose to place the computer with the face of the computer facing out the back. This worked out to give us a shorter run for our hook ups out the back of the computer to the important areas in the dash, and made for easier access to the dvd drive.
Once you get it to this point you are finally ready for the first power up with the computer. After a long night in the dark, fighting off the shivers from a cold front that moved in, it really felt great to turn the key in the car and watch the computer boot. Never mind the fact that we still haven’t mounted the monitor or even run the wiring for its permanent location.
Mounting Your Monitor:
The first order of business for mounting the monitor is deciding where you want it. We decided to put it on the dash right in the middle. This may or may not be legal depending on the cop you talk too, so you will probably want to look into what is or is not allowed in your local area. There are always a lot of creative options for mounting the screen. Depending on the car, you may even be able to go with an in-dash solution, but we went with the location we chose for the simplicity of the install.
You will need to open up the dash to get access to the space where you will run the video and monitor power. You can run the power to the monitor from the accessory by tapping into the wiring you already ran to the computer. Run that up the same path you took the hot wire for the power supply up to the dash. We drilled two holes into the dash with a 3/4″ drill bit. One for power, and one for the video connection. The mount allows you to quickly remove the monitor for when you are out of the car. Being able to quickly hide the monitor means you have an unassuming mount visible, nothing to invite a would-be thief to break in. We went with the two cable locations to make connecting and disconnecting the monitor as easy as possible.
Once you have the wires run and the holes cut for in the dash, you will need some thick grommets to finish the job. The Dash’s plastic is a thicker material so you will need a grommet that matches. Lowes had a good selection of Grommets. Home Depot had only one type, and it turned out to be way too thin to work with the dash. You will need to make a trip to Radio Shack and get a few items. You will want a Coaxial Power Jack, and DC Power Plug (both size N). You will use these to extend the power plug, and have 12 volt power from the accessory line. A few wire splices and crimping and soldering jobs will have you ready to finish things up. If you find you need to keep the wires in place while you make the trip you can always improvise something to keep things from falling through the holes like we did.
To mount the monitor we placed screws in the gap where two panels meet. They augment the double-sided sticky material that came on the mount to keep the monitor securely in place without any rattling.
The first item of business is to place the GPS and the wireless networking. The GPS we bought had a long enough connection that we could run it up the passenger side flooring and place it right in the front corner of the windshield. You can run the wiring in the paneling much like we did to run power down the side paneling on the driver side. Use a piece of double sided tape to secure the sensor in place. We like the place we found for it, but feel free to find any place you want to put the GPS. Just make sure it has a straight shot at the open sky. Glass is not a problem, but sheet metal may impede your signal strength.
You don’t have to be as picky with the wireless adapter, unless you are looking for special extended range needs. Maybe your garage is 500 feet away from your house, or your neighbor’s house or the places you should get caught connecting too. We just placed it under the back passenger seat. Again, it is easy to hide the wiring in the panels. That kind of thing should be pretty routine by this point in the set up.
This would be a good time to see if you want to be creative and set up a back up camera. We didn’t bother, but that doesn’t mean it is not an option. We did use a plantronics blue tooth headset with a usb blue tooth receiver. You may also be interested in USB remote controls, tv tuners, electric guitar hookups, usb cassette tape players, game controllers, external hard drives, or just extending a usb hub for quick thumb drive access.
If you are like me, one of the big reasons for doing this is to have that ultimate music collection available to you as you drive, so audio quality is quite important. Unfortunately, the factory cd player in the 2003 Liberty doesn’t have any kind of accessory input available. This leaves you with two options. You can either get one of those fm broadcasters, or you can get a new stereo. We tried the fm broadcaster first and found the first one we bought to be less than ideal. It struggled with the high power output coming from the computer as compared to an ipod or mp3 player. The audio would cut out with any kind of bass, and had lots of static. It left us with the option of buying and trying another broadcaster or looking at getting a stereo. We did a bit of shopping around and found some broadcasters that looked like they would be better quality, but they also turned out to be $15 cheaper than getting a stereo that had the input we needed. So we are not ruling out the radio broadcast solution, but we opted to get a new stereo.
Of course, that initial sticker price on a stereo can be deceptive. After getting the dash kit and wiring harnesses, it turned out to be much more than another fm broadcaster, but we do think that it was worth the price for the higher audio quality. Make sure that the stereo you get has accessory inputs in the back of the stereo rather than the front. That is kind of unusual, but you should be able to find one for a reasonable price. Of course all of that doesn’t matter if the stereo you already have is equipped with the inputs you need.
You may find that the space behind the stereo is a bit tight for you to use standard audio inputs. You can find some 90 degree connectors at Radio Shack. They have a low enough profile that you shouldn’t have any problems making everything fit from there. The last thing you may need is a ground loop isolator. The electrical system on a car isn’t grounded like most systems. This means that electrical devices like the alternator can introduce noise into your audio. It is a funny buzzing noise that gets higher and louder as you rev the engine, not exactly something that accentuates your music, unless of course it happens to be Neil Diamond or Michael Bolton. A ground loop isolator will take care of that problem for you. Again, Radio Shack has one that is already put inline on your audio cable. With all of that hooked up you are ready to close up your dash for the last time. That can be a really good feeling.
Summary / End Results:
With the right parts available through logic supply, some manual labor, and a power drill you can make your car into something unlike anything else on the road. It is quite a fun experience to have your entire music library, an archive of movies, and gps all at your voice command. Some people brag up the spinning rims on their car. Others however can take pride in the fact that their “rims don’t spin. To the contrary they’re quite stationary.” This project just goes to show that no spinning rims are necessary to make your car the coolest one on the road. So go ahead, sit down in your car and say it with pride: “Jeep play song White and Nerdy.”


We talked a little about the movie Game Change and the psychology behind it last time. At Breitbart’s site they listed ten lies in the movie
Lie #8: “Game Change” depicts Palin as unwilling to go on stage with Jeb Bradley because he is pro-choice. At the 92 minute mark of the film, Palin tells a staffer:
There’s no way I’m going on stage with anyone who’s pro-choice.
When HBO sends out statements telling people that they “ensure” the “historical accuracy” of the research they conduct, they’re lying. If this woman refused to go on stage with anyone because they’re pro-choice, why did she attend rallies with Joe Lieberman in Pennsylvania and Florida during the campaign? Why did she also allow the L.A. President of NOW to introduce her at yet another rally during the campaign in question? Palin doesn’t ostracize people for having a different opinion than she does. Frankly, that’s more in line with behavior I have come to expect from the left. :
Note that they list the “top ten lies” implying there are more. John Podhoretz notes that how Palin is treated in the film is another.
In this respect, Game Change handles Sarah Palin (Julianne Moore, blah) more charitably than you might expect. She is shown as a loving and caring mother with some kind of raw genius as a politician who is placed under almost unimaginable pressure at a moment’s notice when she is clearly unprepared for it. But in doing so, Strong and director Jay Roach exhibit not understanding but rather an almost excruciating condescension.
It’s much like when people would say Willie Mays is a “great natural ballplayer” implied a Black man couldn’t be a serious strategic student of the game. It’s not possible that a non-ivy league person might be tactically more brilliant than they are thus it has to be “raw genius”. It’s why they keep playing the “quitter” nonsense, as if her resignation wasn’t one of the single most brilliant political moves she made.
I think the democrats would have loved her to be tied down in Alaska still serving a term unavailable to be on TV every day or campaigning all over the country for all kinds of candidates.
Nicole Wallace is another story. Stacy McCain found Podhoretz line about her the most telling:
Podhoretz makes an excellent point, and one which might have been extended to book length to address the Culture of Backstabbing that so dominates the Republican Party nowadays.
My limited experience with political operatives suggests that an awful lot of this kind of thing takes place. Operatives are much more concerned with their next paycheck then actual success. And when one can no longer make a living as a GOP political operative, you can always make a living on MSNBC bashing Republicans.
Ask Ms. Wallace.
As they said at the Crawdad Hole
Sarah Didn’t like her, Sarah didn’t trust her, Sarah has good instincts
Or maybe she was just, you know smarter than the people who employed her.
Watched a bit of Reliable Sources Sunday, the makers of the film were on the show defending it. Generally filmmakers are very relaxed doing interviews. It is the most common part of promoting a film so they are old hands and this kind of stuff.
That being said i’ve never seen filmmakers less at ease then when I saw those two guys taking questions from Howard Kurtz on Game Change.
I wonder why? (I really don’t you know).
Speaking of filmmakers for my Saturday Diners feature at my own blog I went to a place in West Boylston called The country Kettle Cafe
I interviewed the owner who by an odd coincidence is a godson of Milton Berle
Funny the different directions life takes you.
A little more television there is a new show on ABC that is call GCB (short for Good Christian Bitches). As you might guess any Christian characters are not treated with Christian charity but on the trail Newt Gingrich raised a very good question concerning the show:
“Here’s to show you the biases of the elite media, look at the new show that’s on that has the word ‘Christian’ in it and I want you to take the exact name, drop out Christian and put in Muslim,” Gingrich said. “And ask yourself, is there any network that would have dared to run a show like that and you know the answer is not a one because anti-Christian bigotry is just fine in the entertainment industry but they have to be very protective of Islam.”
Well you can’t blame them for being protective of Islam, if they hit Christians they are unlikely to get their heads sawed off.
Gingrich made a good point in that case, but he hasn’t done all that well otherwise, Santorum destroyed all comers in Kansas, Romney took the American Islands and the 2nd round in Wisconsin, Newt didn’t finish better than 3rd in any of those contests.
I really don’t see how Gingrich gets back in this race but that’s why you have elections.
Oh Santorum’s daughter headed for Hawaii to do some campaigning prior to Tuesday’s caucus.
It’s a tough job but somebody’s gotta do it!
In the Florida 7th Race Alan Grayson managed to crash his Mercedes into a public transport bus. As Mediate said the optics are pretty bad but I’m actually surprised this doesn’t happen to more pols. I have a vivid memory of chasing Scott Brown’s vehicle with Robert Stacy McCain at my side as he headed to a press conference while we tried to keep up with him.
I’m glad nobody was hurt. I think Grayson’s an ass but that’s no reason to wish him physical harm.
Anyway head over to Mark Oxner’s site and kick in a few bucks.
You may or may not know but I’m a big fan of the Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes movies. A prime example of them is Sherlock Holmes and the secret weapon:
My son has been on my case to watch the modern version on BBC TV called Sherlock set in modern times. Sunday I finally managed a peek at it.
After seeing it is very obvious that the same writer for this series writes Dr. Who. Every habit of the character screamed 11th doctor but it was still worthwhile.
For those who don’t like the idea of Holmes taken out of his time, remember all but the first two of the 13 Rathbone Holmes movies took place in World War 2 rather than the Victorian Era of the books.
In Afghanistan a horrible direction has been taken as it appears a soldier simply cracked and took whatever grievance he had out on Afghan civilians, then turned himself in.
I wonder if this will generate the same outrage as the Koran stuff? I know the slaughters in Syria haven’t among Muslims.
I’m not a big fan of the death penalty, but assuming the facts of the case are true, this man is going to have to be tried, and executed under military law and more importantly the world has to see us do it.
Finally lets close with three more stories from the Limbaugh wars:
Story #1: Some boycotts are more effective that others
The Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner consisting of a lot of the people who have been dying for Rush’s scalp booked comedian Louis CK who is rather famous for his misogynistic rants against Sarah Palin. Greta Van Susteren declared she was not going and the publicity from that was enough for Mr. CK to make himself scarce proving that the outrage of these people is rather flexible. The real comedy from all this comes from this reaction at Gawker calling for a boycott of Greta:
Before we jump off into a hellish debate about conservative and liberal media bias, let’s all just remember one thing: Louis C.K. is a hilarious genius. And Greta Van Susteren has stopped him from entertaining us.
Did she? She simply said she wasn’t going and said why and that prompted him to cut and run. They say sunlight is the best disinfectant and I suspect this is going to get worse for allies of the left before it gets better.
Story #2. Some liberals learn to count:
The dust up over Sleep Train, along with the blowback suffered by Carbonite over that company’s public denunciation of Limbaugh, demonstrates that the iconic radio talk show host is dealing from a position of strength in the campaign to deprive him of advertisers. One tends to prosper when one advertises on Limbaugh’s show. But cross him, and one will suffer.
The one overwhelming fact is that Limbaugh commands many millions of listeners. There is no evidence that any of them have stopped listening because of the kerfuffle with Sandra Fluke. Indeed, one suspects that Limbaugh has gained listeners, curious about what the fuss is all about. As long as the show maintains its listener base, it does not matter if any advertisers bail on Limbaugh for political reasons. There will always be others who will want to take their place, because it is good business to advertise on the most listened to radio talk show on the planet.
That now larger audience is not going anywhere and in fact people who have never or would never listen to Rush before are now being exposed to his opinions and wit. The backfire is astounding. Talk about the law of large numbers.
Story #3 The Bishops would approve
In light of the recent war on women, we are calling for a nationwide sex strike from April 28th to May 5th. All women should withhold from having sex with their partners.
This will help people understand that contraception is for women and men, because men enjoy the benefit of women making their own choices about when and if they want to get pregnant.
Once congress and insurance agencies agree to cover contraception, we will then resume having sex. Until then men will have to be content with their left hand.
Am I to understand that the end result of Sandra Fluke’s attempt to force a Catholic College to provide birth control is a decision by those women to refuse to have sex until they do? Boy that’s really going to upset Catholic colleges all over the nation.
If that’s not proof there is a God I’d like to know what is?
See you later


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In the January issue of Psychic News magazine we welcome in 2019 with a bang!
Crystal expert and author of over 45 books, JUDY HALL, makes crystals crystal clear for us all, and we have an exclusive interview with DR RAYMOND MOODY, of Life After Life fame, who has investigated near-death experiences for decades.
BARBARA WHITE says that “Exciting times lie ahead for every single one of us!” in her feature “New Year new you”, and medium ROBERT BROWN comments on personal responsibility, whilst BILLY ROBERTS tells how hundreds of thousands of people were put to death after being accused of witchcraft in “Burned at the stake”.
STEPHEN O’BRIEN explains the vital differences between psychic and mediumistic messages as he tries to raise the standards of mediumship.
We take a look at the Greater World Association in the feature titled “Guide named Zodiac has heavenly message”, and JOHN WEST shares the spine-tingling tale of the haunting of Rattlesden Rectory.
In news, we have an exciting story about the restoration of the FOX SISTERS’ school as it becomes a Temple of Peace for Spiritualism.
“Separated triplet senses he had unknown brother” tells how astonishing similarities emerge between three brothers who were separated at birth in a secret nature versus nurture study, and ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK reveals his healing side.
The editor’s interview is with medium BRENDA LAWRENCE, and Turkish-born inspirational artist SERVET OZEN shares his spiritual art.
All this and much more.

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What is an advanced practice provider?
When you visit your doctor’s office, an urgent care clinic or the hospital, the health care provider who examines you could be a certified nurse practitioner or physician assistant instead of a physician.
Certified nurse practitioners and physician assistants are among a group of health care professionals referred to as advanced practice providers, or APPs.
You might wonder why a physician isn’t seeing you – after all, don’t they have the most expertise? But health care is a team effort, and these skilled APPs work hand-in-hand with physicians to ensure patients get care when they need it without compromising quality.
What are advanced practice providers?
Advanced practice providers (APPs) are part of a broad health care team that supports physicians. There are several types of APPs, each with different credentials.
- Physician assistant (PA)
- Certified nurse practitioner (CNP), sometimes referred to as nurse practitioner (NP)
- Clinical nurse specialist (CNS)
- Certified nurse midwife (CNM)
- Certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA)
- Certified anesthesiologist assistant (CAA)
For a doctor visit, you’ll most likely have the option of meeting with a PA, CNP or CNS instead of a physician. These APPs work collaboratively with your physician and are trained and experienced with the skill sets to independently conduct thorough patient visits.
What are the differences among physicians, CNPs, PAs and CNSs?
Typically, a physician (medical doctor or doctor of osteopathic medicine — MD or DO) is the leader of a patient’s health care team and has the final word among providers in the most complex treatment decisions. A physician attends at least four years of medical school after college, then performs three to 10 years of residencies and fellowships before being permitted to practice medicine independently.
Certified nurse practitioners
Certified nurse practitioners typically begin their careers as registered nurses (RNs) before going back to school for an advanced practice nursing (APN) degree. All CNPs have master’s degrees, and some may complete doctorate degree programs. Each must pass a national certification exam to practice.
In Ohio, nurse practitioners are qualified to treat patients independently, in conjunction with a collaborating physician available for consultation. They can perform physical exams, prescribe medications and order lab and radiology tests. Those with more advanced training are able to perform routine procedures as well.
PAs graduate from accredited, master’s level PA programs and must pass a national certification exam. They practice under a physician who is on site and can be called in when medical situations require even more advanced training.
In Ohio, PAs can perform physical exams, interpret lab test results, diagnose illnesses, assist in surgeries, formulate treatment and preventive health plans, and write prescriptions.
Clinical nurse specialists
Clinical nurse specialists typically begin their careers as registered nurses (RNs) before going back for an advanced practice nursing degree. All CNSs have a master’s degree, and some may complete a doctorate degree. They must pass a certification exam to practice.
In Ohio, CNSs can work under a collaborative agreement with a physician. They’re experts in the nursing plan of care. They don’t typically diagnose and treat conditions; however, they can help prescribe nursing management and self-care. Their care is typically population-specific, such as in geriatrics or pediatrics.
Further, Ohio State offers a year-long “transition to care” fellowship program for new APPs, which provides extra specialization in oncology, critical care or primary care, above and beyond what’s learn in school. The program is accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, meaning certain standards and outcomes are met.
Why should I choose to see an APP?
The U.S. is facing a shortage of physicians in primary care and in many specialties. High-quality, cost-effective, patient-centered care is increasingly being delivered by a team of individuals that includes not just physicians, but also advanced practice providers — along with pharmacists, dietitians and many others.
The addition of advanced practice providers to the patient care team can expand access to care and extend coverage for patients. We often have more open schedules and are able to spend more time with patients. So, if you're having an issue and just need to be seen, you’ll be able to get in the door and get treated a little bit faster, as opposed to perhaps waiting months to see a physician.
Many patients even choose to see a certified nurse practitioner as their primary care provider, based on their relationship with that individual or because the CNP is able to provide specialized care due to a particular educational background. While physicians are trained on a medical model, which is more disease- or condition-focused, nurse practitioners are trained under a nursing model, which often uses a more holistic approach and different communication structure.
Why would an APP be chosen for me?
At The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and many other hospitals, the most appropriate provider often is chosen through formal and informal processes that identify excellent providers, based on their training and experience, for each circumstance.
At large organizations like the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center, which contains multiple levels of expertise throughout the institution, you won’t encounter a provider who’s not properly trained for the situation.
If you’re coming in for routine follow-up after surgery, you might see a certified nurse practitioner. If they recognize that something’s not going well, they’ll pull in their collaborating physician to further evaluate.
It’s all about streamlining high-quality care to patients and making the patient’s experience timely, efficient and safe.
When is it important to make sure I visit my physician?
You’ll need to see your physician for complex decision-making, such as what chemotherapy to use for the treatment of cancer.
You’ll also need to see your physician for any surgeries. The team approach allows a surgeon to focus mainly on what’s happening in the operating room, while an APP is able to pay additional attention to guiding care, answering questions and helping with symptoms during outpatient visits.
It’s ultimately the collaboration between the physician and APP that allows for efficient well-rounded care for each patient.

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Mental Health Support
Helping Families who have Experienced Medical Trauma (Counseling Resources Below)
How to help your anxious/depressed child
Imagine being young and taking on a big battle, such as cancer. Can you imagine all the emotions that come with that? Children fighting childhood cancer have to be more adult than most and yet have emotions of a child/adolescent (sometimes even younger). Big emotions are expected but sometimes as parents its hard to know how to help
What to do when experiencing and anxiety attack?
Anxiety attacks happen to all, but especially those with medically fragile children and/or special needs children. Being in tune with ones body will help one know how to calm surroundings before anxiety takes over


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"Thanks, Steve and John, for telling us to take a minute, shut off the 'autopilot,' and think about how to live the second half. If more men would do what the book says, the midlife crises would change to the midlife corrections and the second half could be much better than the first!" --Dr. Henry Cloud, psychologist and author
"Finally there's help for men at that dangerous midlife crossroad in life. Steve Arterburn and John Shore outline for us how a man can make a smooth transition through midlife and avoid the midlife crisis that ruins so many men." --Dave Stoop, PhD, psychologist and author "Steve and I have shared many hours together laughing and sharing and reaching out to others. This midlife manual is full of great wisdom and will be a real help to men who want to soar through midlife rather than crash in a crisis. " --Josh D. McDowell, author and speaker
"The middle years can often be a bewildering and even disappointing time for men. However it doesn't have to be that way. With Steve Arterburn's sound and clear guidance, these can be our best years. Steve combines years of experience in helping others with is own personal authenticity and a solid biblical base. You will be a better person for reading this book." --Dr. John Townsend, psychologist, author, and speaker
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Steve Arterburn and John Shore write in an entertaining, engaging style that leads readers through the roles of manhood and toward hope and significance. Readers working the exercises at each chapter's end will benefit the most because the work helps focus readers both toward who they are and who God wants them to be.
For example, under "Son" the first "Things to Do" exercise is to write a brutally-honest letter to your father. This forced me to confront some of my late father's traits I didn't want to recognize, traits that he passed on to me. I wanted to remember him as a hero. The next exercise let me - it is to write a letter telling your father how much you love him and why. The authors say you can mail the second letter. Then the exercises go on to one asking how being your father's son "affected one's ideas or experiences relative to being a child of our Lord."
Such exercises join the reading to leave you with the feeling that no matter what you've done wrong so far in your life there's a lot you've done right as well. I saw there's hope for a more fulfilling life in the future and how to let God lead me to that life.
Shore's example of one Mr. Williams and his amazing mid-life art career stands out as a highlight of the book to me. I will not spoil the example with details - just describe it as an excellent example of how God speaks His will to every man in midlife.
I believe the manual has helped draw me closer toward God's goal of using me for His will during my life's remaining days, despite what at times seemed irrelevant passages due to my own life experiences. For almost all, the book should prove most entertaining and effective.
It's written in a very openly honest and conversational manner and although some of the jokes are corny it's been a good read.
Whether or not an individual man is struggling with the stereotypical midlife issues, this text will be earmarked for years to come. Men will discover commonalities with one another on such themes as being a middle-aged male, harboring a he-man of the universe mentality, being a son, a husband, a provider and a father, and facing forward into the future with courage and confidence.
Arterburn opens the book with an admission. His marriage of 17 years had ended; he was 46 years old and, in his words, "...as miserable as he'd ever been in his life." He writes that he was without hope and tells of being stripped of everything, including pretense and superficiality. It was just him and Jesus "fellowshipping in suffering." Fast forward six years later. Remarried and the father of a one-year-old son, Arterburn offers perspective and wise counsel for facing hard times, looking at himself accurately, and moving ahead with faith and integrity.
As Arterburn and Shore point out, midlife isn't what it used to be. In the year 1800, the life expectancy for an American man was 35 years; today it's 76. The sheer increase in time factor leaves more for men to "reflect upon, adjust, or change our lives." The authors cite some characteristic "symptoms" of midlife transitioning...or midlife "crisis-ing." Men might experience depression, feel acute irritability, engage in too much "partying," unwise or extravagant spending, have an obsession with sex, or have an affair.
In their He-Man of the Universe chapter, Arterburn and Shore afford readers a comical yet all-too-accurate portrayal of the "he-man" mentality, to which most men battle against succumbing. Referring to these not-so-healthy-attitudes, they list some "good riddances" with both clarity and comical asides.
* Getting rid of unceasing expectation of oneself
* Finishing off a crippling sense of entitlement
* Making peace with emotions by not suppressing them
* Casting off the lone ranger mentality of not needing anyone
On the positive flip side, they suggest the following "he-man pure gold" recommendations to be adopted in place of the above.
* Understanding the proper use of power
* Understanding how important responsibility is
* Understanding how to grow bit by bit toward maturity
* Understanding how challenges and bravery fit in this world
With keen wit and fun-loving personal tale-telling admissions, Arterburn and Shore offer their readers both helpful information and practical tips for coping with life's uncertainties and unexpected happenings. Readers --- males and the females who love them --- will appreciate this filled-to-the-brim manual for midlife.
--- Reviewed by Michele Howe

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Additive layer-by-layer fabrication of a fully screen printed monolithic supercapacitor exhibiting performance comparable with supercapacitors prepared using lamination is reported by researchers from Tampere University in Finland in article published by Journal of Applied Electrochemistry.
A novel separator material improves the performance of the monolithic supercapacitor, is easily applicable using scalable processes such as screen and stencil printing, and is based on sustainable biomaterials. The additive monolithic manufacturing offers advantages for system integration and avoids the need of an additional alignment step as needed in the fabrication of laminated supercapacitors.
Previously, the monolithically fabricated supercapacitors showed higher equivalent series resistance (ESR) and leakage current than the laminated ones. By using microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) and chitosan as separator materials ESR and leakage current were decreased. These disposable and non-toxic aqueous electrolyte supercapacitors are optimized for autonomous sensor systems, for example in Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, with capacitance of 200–300 mF and ESR of about 10 Ω. The new composite separator material consisting of MFC and chitosan has good adhesion on the electrodes and the substrate, is easy to apply using printing and coating processes, and does not diffuse into the porous electrode.
In the near future, it is expected that there will be billions of devices which should all integrate and connect smoothly with the “Internet of Things” (IoT) in different services, for example smart homes, healthcare and industry automation. IoT devices and sensor networks need non-toxic and inexpensive ways to store energy. Supercapacitors are in many cases a better choice than batteries for managing the energy storage due to their safety, disposability and higher cycle life.
Supercapacitors store energy into the electrochemical double-layer at a highly porous electrode surface. The key elements of a supercapacitor are current collectors, electrodes, separator and electrolyte. Printed supercapacitors are usually manufactured by applying two electrodes on the current collectors separately, laminating the electrodes face-to-face while sandwiching the separator between them and applying the electrolyte before encapsulation.
We report here the monolithic fabrication of supercapacitors, by applying the films layer by layer on top of each other on the substrate. Monolithic fabrication can have advantages over the conventional lamination approach, both for system integration and for fabrication of series connected modules when higher voltage is needed. Previously reported monolithically fabricated aqueous supercapacitors showed higher equivalent series resistance (ESR) and higher leakage current to capacitance ratio than laminated ones. We have improved the performance by using a novel, bio-derived composite material as a separator, consisting of microfibrillated cellulose (MFC), also known as nanocellulose, and the polysaccharide chitosan.
The use of MFC in supercapacitors has been reported previously. However, most of these reports are concerned with the use of MFC-based conductive materials for electrodes and current collectors. Other reports on MFC materials do not describe their application in supercapacitors but instead report the chemical properties of the material. MFC-based cellulose papers have also been used as separators in supercapacitors, but these devices were assembled using lamination. A monolithically fabricated supercapacitor has also been reported previously, although the size and the materials of the supercapacitors were different from the ones reported here.
The separator of the supercapacitors must be thin and electrochemically stable. It must have high ionic conductivity. On the other hand, the separator must prevent short circuit between the electrodes. The use of MFC as a separator material was previously reported by Tuukkanen et al.. This work is motivated by the previous work and extends it to easier and more consistent manufacturing and performance by forming a composite with the biopolymer chitosan.
Achievements and Conclusions
Monolithic supercapacitors have potential advantages for manufacturing and system integration, but have previously showed higher ESR and leakage current per capacitance than laminated devices. A novel bio-derived composite material made from chitosan and MFC was used as a printable separator in monolithic aqueous supercapacitors and was found to improve the electrical performance of the devices to a level comparable with laminated supercapacitors.
The ESR s is the same as measured for laminated components and the leakage current per capacitance is improved. The new material, CM5050, is easier to apply than chitosan and is thus advantageous from a manufacturing point of view. The correlation between leakage current and capacitance of the monolithic supercapacitors follows trends generally observed in supercapacitors.
We also fabricated a supercapacitor in which both electrodes and current collectors were manufactured by screen printing to further enhance the possibility of potential industrial fabrication.


The Black Cat roundabout in Bedfordshire fills many people with dread. Linking the A1, A428 and A421, the notorious junction currently carries more than 24,000 vehicles every day - so it's common to spend hours in queues on the roundabout.
And if all that congestion wasn't enough, there are often collisions there. A black cat sculpture sits in the middle of the roundabout - and given all the traffic and incidents, you could be forgiven for thinking that it is cursed!
But in reality, the roundabout is named after a garage which used to be situated at the junction. Read on for more information.
The Black Cat's history
The roundabout's name comes from a garage and car repair workshop. The Black Cat Garage was located at the site in the 1920s when it was just a simple crossroads junction.
The garage was eventually turned into a nightclub and then a restaurant before becoming derelict for many years. A black metal cat sign sat on the garage's clock tower.
In 2004, a similar sign was installed on the roundabout. It remains a well-known landmark in Bedfordshire - but sadly it has been vandalised over the years.
The Black Cat's future
The roundabout is due to become a "modern, free-flowing junction" under proposals unveiled by National Highways. However, the future of the black cat sculpture is not currently known.
Under the plans, the Black Cat roundabout and the A428 Caxton Gibbet roundabout in Cambridgeshire will both be upgraded into junctions. A new 10-mile dual carriageway will be built linking the two roundabouts, replacing the only remaining section of single carriageway between Milton Keynes and Cambridge.
As reported by BedfordshireLive earlier this year, the proposals moved a step closer after the Examining Authority, appointed by the Planning Inspectorate, formally closed its examination into the project. The Examining Authority, which scrutinised the planned scheme during its formal public examination, is currently carefully considering all evidence heard, including the many questions and representations from the public, local authorities and interested parties.
The Examining Authority will make a recommendation to the Transport Secretary as to whether to grant formal planning permission – a development consent order – for construction to begin. Following receipt of the Examining Authority's recommendation report, the Transport Secretary has a further three months to make a final decision on whether to grant or refuse development consent.
Lee Galloway, A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvements project director, said: "Our proposals for the A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvements will make a real difference to people's lives, helping them to save up to an hour-and-a-half on their journeys every week. The upgrade will also help connect local communities, reduce rat running on local roads, and provide a better economic link between Milton Keynes and Cambridge.
"People's input has been essential in getting us to this stage, and the team has been working hard to answer all the questions raised in the examination period. We look forward to moving on to the next stage of the project and eagerly await the outcome of the Secretary of State's decision later this year."


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ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 344
In this 344th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Fairy Tale "THE WISHBONE”.
ONCE upon a time, long, long ago and far, far away, in a kitchen, the utensils were waking up….
The stove lifter lay upon his iron side and looked across the top of the shelf which stood above the stove. "Who is he?" he asked of the box of matches lying near him. The box of matches looked at the strange new object standing upon two thin white legs and leaning against the wall near the coffee pot.
"I do not know!" the match box answered.
Then they asked a number of other objects lying about if they knew who the newcomer was, but none of them had ever seen anything like him before.
So just who was the stranger in the kitchen and what was he doing there? The instruments grew restless with anxiety. How long will they be made to wait to find out? One wondered would they ever find out who the spindly legged stranger was?
Did they ever find out you ask…? Well, to find the answers to these questions, and others you may have, you will have to download and read this story to find out!
Baba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as "Father of Stories".
Each issue also has a "WHERE IN THE WORLD - LOOK IT UP" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story. HINT - use Google maps.
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Roch. office included in Wells Fargo closings
A Wells Fargo Financial office in Rochester is one of the 638 that the banking institution is closing nationwide as part of a corporate restructuring.
However, Wells Fargo spokeswoman Diana Rodriguez cannot say yet how many employees will lose their jobs.
"…Because we are working closely with our community banking division to place as many team members as possible, we do not have a specific number yet…," she said Friday.
Beside the Rochester office in the 940 37th St. Northwest branch, 12 other Minnesota offices are slated to close in 60 days. It is estimated that up to 80 Minnesota employees are in danger of losing their jobs.
Wells Fargo Financial is the arm of Wells Fargo & Co. known for handling sub-prime loans.
The changes won't impact Wells Fargo and Wachovia community banks across the country, the bank said.

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Intuitive Healing is a unique, individually-tailored, healing treatment utilising a combination of gentle, intuitive touch, energy healing and cranio-sacral therapy or zen shiatsu, as appropriate for your needs. Intuitive Healing is a method of working which evolved naturally out of Silvie’s many years of practice as a cranio-sacral therapy, shiatsu and reiki practitioner.
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Intuitive Healing treatments help to release tension, pain, holding patterns or emotions that have become ‘stored’ in the body’s cellular memory, and to re-establish a healthy flow of energy throughout the body – improving health and wellbeing on whatever levels are needed.
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DISGRACED solicitor Phil Shiner’s tank-chasing law firm has finally been shut down by a court.
Shiner’s company made millions of pounds bringing scores of unfounded cases against soldiers alleging mistreatment of locals in the Iraq War.
But he was found guilty of dishonesty and lack of integrity for his campaign against Our Boys and Girls.
Now bankrupt Shiner’s company, Public Interest Lawyers in Birmingham, has been forced into liquidation and wound up by the High Court.
AMBO ARREST Jobless woman, 26, charged over ‘move now’ ambulance note - and she has no car
'she's a NIGHTMAre' Neighbour slams woman who left vile note on ambulance treating ill wife
‘I DON’T CARE IF STREET COLLAPSES’ Woman's rude note after ambulance parked in her spot
'I've paid a high price' Tesco romp teen says office sex 'was just a moment of madness'
monster mum Mum sobs as she admits murdering baby son after putting pills in his milk
LOTTO JOY RAF vet, 87, weeps over £18m jackpot as he promises daughters 'stress-free lives'
AMBO SHAME The Stoke neighbour from hell who told paramedics to move ambulance on 999 call
Do you know her? Girl found wandering streets five days ago & cops have no idea who she is
HAPPY VALLEY Cool £1.4m pad with infinity pool overlooks palm tree beach - but where is it?
FEUD TUBE Commuter pulls emergency alarm on Tube after furious row with fellow passenger
SAS hero Andy McNab said: “This day couldn’t have come soon enough.
“Hopefully this signals the end of those trying to get rich on slurring soldiers whose only crime is defending this nation.”
Shiner, 60, was struck off in February. The Solicitors Regulation Authority said his antics were of a “criminal standard”.
Sergeant Brian Wood speaks for the first time on lies spun about troops in Iraq by Phil Shiner


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Dallas Teen Driver Accident Lawyer
Distracted teen driving is a common fact pattern we see it’s an epidemic across the country. Teens are more susceptible to having crashes due to distracted driving simply because they don’t have the experience that drivers that have been driving a longer period of time has.
In Dallas, a person eligible to start driving at age sixteen. Teens may be able to start driving if they have passed the test both the written and driving portion, including a driver’s education course with the requisite number of hours completed of Driver’s Education, and they could drive at 16. Teens can start a driver’s education course as soon as they turn 14 years old and 15 years old to obtain a learner’s permit. If a teen driver gets into an accident, there could be many consequences. For example, parents can be held responsible for the actions of a minor, which would be those drivers under 18.
Accidents involving teens or minors occur often due to many different reasons. If you were in a collision with a novice driver, you should seek help from a Dallas teen driver accident lawyer as soon as possible. A knowledgeable car accident attorney could help you seek compensation for your damages.
Requirements for Teen Drivers
Teens 16 to 18 that have held an instructional permit for at least six months are eligible to apply for a provisional license, and they have to have completed 30 hours of supervised driving, 10 of which has to be at nighttime, certify completion of seven hours of driving instruction by an instructor, certify completion of seven hours of observation instruction by an authorized instructor, passed the behind the wheel driving test and have no traffic infractions or violations within the prior six months.
Insurance Coverage For Teenage Drivers
For the most part, if the teen driver has a driver’s license and the parents have properly added the kid to their car insurance, and there is an adequate policy limits in place, it will not matter because there will be coverage, at least from a financial perspective, it is because the insurance company will pay out damages resulting from the crash.
What Should a Parent Tell Their Teenage Child To Do After An Accident?
One of the best ways to encourage good behavior is to model appropriate behavior and that’s particularly important with driving because their children will probably mimic a lot of their driving habits, it means that if they wear seatbelts, their child is more likely to do the same.
Alternatively, if they speed and engage in risky behaviors, their teenager is more likely to adopt those dangerous behaviors. When they make safe maneuvers, and their teenager is in a car with them, explain what they are doing and why, this will help show them why it is a good idea to follow their example. Set strong rules on driving such as no passengers and no distracted driving, that will help prepare them and to avoid an accident.
If a teen is in an accident, the first thing they need to do is call 911 and seek medical attention if necessary. If there’s nobody severely injured on the scene, then make sure to get information from the other party including their name, contact, and insurance as well as take pictures and video of the scene.
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A Dallas teen driver accident lawyer could help ensure that the injured party receives compensation that covers the full value of their case. This is going to include financial losses, as well as covering medical expenses or lifelong treatment, which is incurred as a direct result of the crash and the negligence of the driver. Schedule a consultation to get started on your case.

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UVA Geriatric Medicine Fellowship: Program Features
Geriatric medicine residents are given the opportunity to provide both primary care and consultation for patients in acute, ambulatory, community, and long-term care settings in order to understand the interaction of natural aging and disease as well as the techniques of assessment, therapy, and management.
The program provides a well-supervised experience at a sufficient level for the resident to acquire all of the competencies of a physician with qualifications in the field of Geriatric Medicine. The program is conducted by an accredited residency program in Internal Medicine.
Inpatient and Outpatient Services
Clinical experience includes opportunities to manage elderly patients with a wide variety of medical problems on an inpatient and outpatient basis.
Additionally, residents are given the opportunity to care for persons who are generally healthy and require primarily preventive health care measures.
The program includes an emphasis on:
- the physiology of aging
- the pathophysiology that commonly occurs in older persons
- atypical presentations of illnesses
- functional assessment
- cognitive status and affective assessment
- concepts of treatment and management in both acute and long-term care settings, as well as in the community and in the home
Attention is also directed to the behavioral aspects of illness, socioeconomic factors, and ethical and legal considerations that may impinge on medical management. Practice-based learning and systems-based practice are highly emphasized.
Although the emphasis of the program centers on the care of older persons, geriatric medicine residents are expected to maintain their basic primary skills during the course of this training. To facilitate this, fellows spend at least one-half day per week in a continuity of care experience in the resident’s primary discipline.


On February 2014, 14-year-old James told his mother he was going to the river to fish, and that he would be back shortly. But as night fell and James did not return his mother, Nyayam Koang, and she knew that something was terribly wrong.
Concerned, but unable to search for him, she had no choice but to wait. Little did she know that James was abducted by government soldiers and fighting for his life in South Sudan’s brutal civil war—a civil war which pitted government forces against his own tribe.
James was abducted one day as he was fishing.
While South Sudan has put laws in place making the use of child soldiers illegal since 2008, forcing children to serve in the army is still a big problem for the struggling nation. With the country in a constant state of warfare since its independence in 2011, local warlords and even government forces found it difficult to resist using children as new recruits.
So, in spite of legislation preventing the use of child soldiers, government recruiters often scoured James’s village in search of young “volunteers.” To make matters worse, James and his family were part of the Nuer tribe, which had been one of the first groups to take up arms against the government.
Still, James was able to dodge the recruiters for months; every time they came to the village, he would hide in the bushes. However, one day in February 2014, his luck ran out. James was kidnapped while he was out by the river looking for food for his disabled mother and young sister.
James’s abduction was particularly dreadful. After he was captured, his hands were bound behind his back, and the soldiers who took him shouted “we’ll finish the opposition!” From the beginning James was confronted with the terrifying possibility that he would be pitted against his own neighbors and forced to kill them.
But there was no time to think about that. Almost immediately, he was thrown in a flatbed truck where he was taken to a military base. After he was stripped down to his underwear, where an officer beat them with a rubber wire before he gave them a choice: Join the army, or die.
With screams all around him, he made his choice to join the army.
He was forced to serve the army at the age of 14.
Still, even though he was part of the army, his “comrades” never trusted him; every night they locked him up with the prisoners. As time passed, however, he was forced into a front-line combat unit.
His unit was made up of fellow children, some of whom were younger than himself, and for eight months, James, who had never before held a gun fought with them. Many of whom he would watch die to gunfire.
Compounding this trauma was the ever-present fear that James’s “enemy” were really his old friends from the village. He was scared, alone, and missed his mother and home—he did not want to kill, much less kill his people he knew since he was a child.
It all became too much for James. During one battle, he planned his escape. His place was to move silently to the edge of his side’s battle line, and then to make break for the forest. Though bravely executed the attempt failed, though, and he was caught. And James, sure they would kill him if he attempted another escape, never tried again.
But James still held out hope of returning home and one day he got his chance.
During a particularly intense firefight, James took a gunshot wound to the leg.
Crawling under the gunfire, he made his way to a dying man and hid beside his body.
“[The dying man] calls to me,” James said according to ABC News. “He reaches out his arm and says, ‘Come here.’”
It was almost like a scene from an action movie, though for James, the experience was horrific and one that still haunts him to this day.
He was later discovered by soldiers who took him to a refugee camp.
His wound bled profusely, and James could not stem the bleeding. Still, determined to survive, he spent the next several days subsisting on okra leaves.
Until he was found by soldiers. Though, they were not from his old unit, or the enemy. Instead, they wore the insignia of the UN. Rescued at last, they treated his wounds and transported him to a camp in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, for further treatment.
Though medical staff saved his leg, he was unable to walk without the assistance of a cane.
Still, lucky to be alive, he tried to be productive at the camp and focused his attention to his studies. He even participated in the local debate team. Yet, he still felt a deep calling to return to his family.
As the weeks rolled by, though, James started to lose hope that he would ever return to his family. That was until he was approached by a stranger who had recognized him. The stranger claimed he could connect James with his mother, who believed James to be dead. In fact, she moved with her young daughter to a refugee camp in another part of the country.
With the help of UNICEF, James was then put on a plane and transported to his mother’s camp in December of 2015.
James was reunited with his mother and sister a year after he was taken—they had both thought he had died of his wounds.
At their first meeting, the two were overcome with emotion, and did not say a word.
“I wanted to cry,” Koang told CGTN Africa. “As an adult, if I were to cry then the kids would cry, so I had to control myself.”
But James did not have the self-control of his mother, and he broke down.
“I never thought I’d be here,” James said according to ABC News. “I thought I’d die. Now I’m just grateful to be with my family and to be alive.”


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The Samoyed is a very distinctive dog that has a big, fluffy white coat that is a joy to stroke! They are also generally very personable and friendly, and really enjoy the attention. As one of the most ancient of recorded dog breeds, the Samoyed is recognised across the world by all of the major Kennel Club registries, and are popular as pets in a great many countries, including the UK.
Gentle in temperament, hardy, energetic and full of personality, the Samoyed can be an excellent family pet for experienced owners, and certainly one that is worthy of consideration if you are thinking of buying a dog. Read on for a little more information about the Samoyed dog breed.
The Samoyed dog as we know it today descends from the Nenets Herding Laika dog, a Spitz-type dog that hails from Siberia. Originally, the breed was used as a sled dog to traverse Siberia’s frozen wastelands, and for herding, guarding, and cuddling up to at night!
DNA analysis of the genes of the breed reveal that the Samoyed is one of the fourteen most ancient dog breeds, along with the Chow Chow, Siberian Husky and Alaskan Malamute. The Samoyed has a recorded history of working alongside of people going back for at least 3,000 years.
The coat of the Samoyed dog is very thick, and consists of two distinct layers. The topcoat is long and relatively coarse, with thick, straight guard hairs. The undercoat is made from very dense, soft fluffy fur, which provides insulation and keeps the dog warm.
Like many dogs from within the Spitz grouping, the Samoyed is renowned for being a heavy shedder, and will usually fully blow their coats once or twice a year. The coat is most commonly pure white in colour, but can also come in a light biscuit shade, or a mixture of white and biscuit.
The Samoyed fur can also be used for knitting, in place of wool! It has a very soft texture that is similar to angora, and is hypoallergenic and very warm!
The Samoyed can weigh up to 30kg, and stand up to around 22” tall at the shoulder. They have a typical Spitz-dog appearance, with a full length muzzle, bright, alert eyes, pointy ears and a distinctive curled tail that will often curve right over to touch the dog’s back.
The Samoyed is an incredibly friendly dog that really enjoys the company of both other dogs and people, and almost always gets on well with children. They are not particularly territorial, and make for terrible guard dogs as they are equally happy to meet strangers as well as people that they know well! However, they can prove effective watchdogs, and will bark to alert you when someone is approaching the house.
They are relatively lively and active dogs that enjoy plenty of time out of doors and long family walks, and they tend to remain fit and active well into old age. They do have a propensity to become easily bored, and also have something of a tendency to enjoy digging! They like to pull, and can easily be trained to pull a cart or a sled, but unfortunately they also have a rather marked tendency to pull on the lead too! They have reasonably strong herding instincts, so care must be taken when out walking around farm animals. They may even attempt to herd children or the family cat if permitted to as well!
The average lifespan of the Samoyed dog is 12-13 years, putting them around the middle of the age range for purebred dogs of a similar size. As the breed is so well established and comes from a wide and diverse gene pool, the Samoyed is generally a healthy and fit dog that is not likely to succumb to a wide range of minor ills.
They do, however, have a slightly elevated genetic predisposition to a few health conditions, including Samoyed hereditary glomerulopathy, which is a renal condition that most commonly affects males of the breed, and can lead to renal failure. Females can be carriers for the condition and may also be affected by it, although to a much lesser degree than males.
Diabetes, progressive retinal atrophy, pulmonic stenosis and hip dysplasia are some other inherited conditions that can affect the Samoyed as well.
The Samoyed makes for an excellent family dog, and one that gets on well with other pets and also children. They enjoy family life and being involved in everything, and need plenty of stimulation and exercise. As an intelligent dog, the Samoyed does require an experienced trainer to keep up with the dog’s sharp mind, but when correctly trained, they can retain a wide range of complex and high level training commands, making them eminently suitable for a wide range of canine sports too.