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Native American Students Surviving in Traditional American Schools
Have you ever wondered if school is harder for someone of a different ethnic group? Well this project proved to me that it is. For this ethnography I gathered information from online sources, interviews, and fieldsite notes to support that it is harder for someone of a different ethnic group to attend a traditional American school.
Native American students learning in traditional American schools is like an French student trying to learn in a German school, the culture and traditional customs are very different therefore it’s harder for the students to learn growing up in a school that’s different from their native background. Studies have shown that many Native American students are having trouble learning in an American classroom because there’s such a cultural difference. Teachers should become educated about these multicultural differences and use a range of different learning methods to increase the graduating rate of Native American students. Growing up as a child we’ve learned the stereotypes of Native Americans. In movies and stories the Natives were the people who dressed up in costumes, lived in tents without electricity, and were the people who always ended up getting chased by the cowboys. But throughout this project I’ve learned that the Native American people are so much more than that. They have a whole different culture, outlook on life, and are truly great people.
For the past few months I’ve been working on field-site with East Carolina’s Native American Organization. ECNAO is an on campus, multicultural organization, established in 1970. The main goal of this organization is to serve as a cultural resource for all and to provide the community with programs that will expose them to the riches of the Native American contribution to American’s history and culture. When attending the group meetings the students in the organization weren’t all that different from myself. Most of them were tan, had dark hair, and had very strong southern accents. Everyone was friendly and the meetings were very informal and laid back. They had a president like most organizations but with ECNAO the decisions made were more of a group effort. Everyone came up with ideas and everyone contributed; it was like a big family atmosphere. Luckily I was able to attend the big Pow-Wow that the Native American Organization puts on every year. The Pow-Wow is a large Native American gathering open up to anyone who wants to come. Many Native Americans were wearing bright, colorful costumes that had bells attached and made noises when they danced. When attending the Pow-Wow the drums played a very dominant role, the drum was also the item I chose for my artifact. I learned that it was the center of the Native lifestyle; it was a way to talk to the dead, and the Greatest Spirits. The drums were very powerful and loud making them the center of the Pow-Wow. Also at the Pow-Wow there were booths set up with different cultural items on display and for sale. There were dancers at the Pow-wow of all ages, and the whole event was very family oriented.
When working on field-site it seemed like the Native American students were just like me and so I thought that they would have just as easy as a time in school as I did, but when doing online research and completing my interview with Aleshia Hunt I found that to be completely false. Aleshia Hunt is the Co-Advisor of ECNAO, and is a Lumbee Native American. She is tan female, with dark short hair, and has a very strong southern accent. In my interview Aleshia told me that tradition and family was a big part of the Native American lifestyle. She started traditional dancing at the age of three, she learned from her ancestors how to bead and make necklaces and she was taught how to make traditional Native food, because in her Native lifestyle a lot of their gatherings are centered around food. To lean more about the difficulties of being a Native American student in a traditional American school I asked Aleshia to tell me about her hardships with school and some of her encounters. When Aleshia was a freshman in the dorms many people thought she was just mixed with another race, but when she told them that she was Native American she would get crazy questions such as; Do you live on a reservation? Do you have electricity at home and running water? When she got asked questions like that she said it was bothersome because like I said earlier those aren’t true at all, they’re just stereotypes that us American students have grown up learning from movies and books. Aleshia said that sometimes it was harder to adjust to school because Native Americans don’t have the representation of staff and students on campus like most populations do. She felt like the teachers didn’t understand much about her as a Native student and how she needs to learn being in a different environment.
When doing online research about Native Americans in traditional classrooms, I learned a great deal of information I would have never thought would help contribute to someone’s learning process. Native American students are becoming an academic concern across the world. Research suggests the Native American students have a low self-image and the highest drop out rate of all ethnic groups. Native students view the world based on their cultural values. In the Native community they value humility and harmony; therefore Native students will underachieve to avoid appearing superior so that they don’t violate their cultures traditional norms. Parents of Native students strongly emphasize on performing an activity correctly; therefore that student may not attempt to answer a question if they don’t know the exact answer because they’re scared of not performing well. Teacher’s who don’t understand these values will just think that the student is lazy and doesn’t care which in reality the student is just following their cultural norms. Native American students are very visual and learn best from observing and demonstrating. They do well in classes that are visual like math class because it offers a variety of visual learning opportunities. They also prefer to work in groups rather than alone and they always look to authority for guidance because that’s their cultural norm.
Teachers play a big role in helping Native American students adjust in traditional American schools. Teachers should talk to their students and understand their preferred ways of learning so that each student can reach their fullest potential. When teaching a new task teachers should teach slowly to give students time to familiarize themselves with what is being taught. One aspect in the school curriculum that allows for all students regardless of cultural customs to achieve in is physical education. For hundreds of years as part of the Native American culture they have participated in a variety of athletic games, physical activities, and outdoor challenges. In their culture theses types of activities were very important for daily living. The activities were designed to improve endurance, strength, speed, fitness, and courage. P.E. teachers should educate themselves about the cultural similarities relating to their Native American students. They should also incorporate multicultural themes relating to the Native background. Physical Education plays a great deal in the development of multicultural education. The students who participate in P.E. class will have a rewarding experience, which will open up their learning environment.
My positionality on the topic of Native American students learning in traditional American classrooms has changed since I started this project. At first I didn’t think Native American students should be taught any differently. I thought that since they spoke the same language, and they were from America that they shouldn’t have any difficultly learning. After learning Aleshia’s point of view, and after reading my secondary sources I found out just how hard it is for someone with a different cultural background to adjust to a traditional American school like ECU regardless if they’re from America and speak english. Schools and instructors need to become leaders in educating themselves, and students about multiculturalism. By educating themselves and others about Native American lifestyles and culture the Native students will better adjust when learning in a traditional American school.
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Morgan, H. (2010). Teaching Native American Students: WHAT EVERY TEACHER SHOULD KNOW.Education Digest, 75(6), 44-47. Retrieved from EBSCOhost.


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Nov. 3rd 2018 / Goff Tours / Laguna Beach, California.
Sup Tour in Laguna Beach took place at Divers Cove. First of all, these are four women Kristen, Stephanie, Katie and Anna visiting from New York. They were attending their friends wedding and decided to have a little fun on the side. I noticed these four women sun bathing down by the waves and told them there are fun things to do in Laguna. I chatted with Kristen briefly and explained that paddle boarding in Laguna is the best this time of year. So they decided to take a Tour.
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NORWALK, Conn. Sometimes, Jason Altmeter feels like he is risking his life just to visit to the dentist. Altmeter, a Newtown resident, works in a Norwalk commercial complex on Main Avenue and patronizes a dentist across the street but walking over there isn't fun. "Crossing this road, you're taking your life in your hands," he said.
His co-workers agreed. "It's like crossing I-95," one said. Another said, "There's no cross walk, and that light is scary as hell because nobody pays attention."
They work at Merritt 7. The six-building complex is touted as "Norwalk's premier Class A office complex" on its website , but a Norwalk blogger thinks the area around it needs improvement. "It's time to connect Merritt 7 with the world around it," David Marcus wrote Friday on Liveable Norwalk . "Every day thousands of people commute to jobs in the office complex, and yet they are trapped. If they want to walk to lunch they have to cross Main Avenue, with its speeding traffic and lack of crosswalks."
The Merritt train station is "literally a stone's throw" from the buildings, Marcus adds, but it's a long walk to work because a chain-link fence and a high wall block entry to Merritt 7.
Mark Benda, a Danbury resident who works at Factset at 601 Merritt 7, agreed about the bad situation for pedestrians. "It's terrible," he said. "There is no crosswalks, and you push that little button, and there is no way to indicate walkers can walk."
Altmeter used to take the train, but he stopped because he had to walk all the way around. "An overpass from this complex over to the train stop over there would be a huge win," he said.
One is on the way, but it's going to take a while, according to state Sen. Bob Duff, who announced in June that Gov. Dannel Malloy's administration had approved $5 million for station improvements. Duff, a Norwalk Democrat who is vice chairman of the legislature's Transportation Committee, said the train station's platform will be raised so commuters will be able to take a level step onto the train and the overpass is being planned, although it's complicated.
Duff said that he, the owners of Merritt 7 and Connecticut Department of Transportation officials met recently at the site to discuss possibilities. "Everybody was very willing to do that. It's just a matter of where do you actually put that, and how best to do it, and then how best to do it for pedestrians on the deck of the Merritt 7 buildings," he said. One issue was where the overpass would enter the complex, a decision that has parking and traffic considerations.
"It's in the design phase," Duff said. "Maybe next summer there will be some activity there, but it's going to be a while. I think there's a lot of preliminary work to do."
He didn't remember any talk about the need for crosswalks on the other side of Merritt 7, where motorists speed down Main Avenue. "It's something to explore," Duff said, adding that the expense and spacing of crosswalks would need to be examined.
"I do think the state can do more from the standpoint of livability and walkability and keeping pedestrians safe," Duff said. "They've done so much to make things wider and straighter for cars and trucks. But we've done that at the expense of pedestrians. But I think policy is shifting over at the DOT, and government in general, to do more for pedestrians, bicyclists, and others, to make things safer. Because people will walk if they feel safe. They're not going to walk if they don't feel safe. They're going to get in their cars and go across the street."
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Joseph Strutt (27 October 1749 – 16 October 1802) was an English engraver, artist, antiquary, and writer. He is today most significant as the earliest and “most important single figure in the investigation of the costume of the past”, making him “an influential but totally neglected figure in the history of art in Britain”, according to Sir
An engraving by Joseph Strutt, made from a 14th-Century manuscript at the Royal Library The art of wrestling, which in the present day is chiefly confined to the lower classes of the people, was, however, highly esteemed by the ancients, and made a …
Joseph Holden Strutt (21 November 1758 – 11/18 February 1845), was a British soldier and long-standing Member of Parliament. He served in the Army and achieved the rank of Colonel, and also sat as Member of Parliament for Maldon from 1790 to 1826 and for Okehampton from 1826 to 1830.
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Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802: The sports and pastimes of the people of England : Including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time / By Joseph Strutt…
Joseph Strutt (1749–1802) was an English engraver, artist, antiquary and writer.
Joseph Douglas Strutt was born on month day 1794, at birth place, to Joseph Strutt and Isabella Strutt (born Douglas). Joseph was born in 1765, in Derbyshire. Isabella was born on September 2 1768, in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire.

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The inspiration: Creating my food blog, Feeling Hungry, was an easy choice because I have always loved being in the kitchen and helping out with cooking meals. It wasn’t until the beginning of the COVID pandemic lockdown that I challenged myself to keep my days productive. Cooking and baking for my family were one of the ways I kept busy. When Junior Workshop rolled around, I wanted to create something that I would be passionate about and that also made me step out of my comfort zone. Therefore, a food blog would allow me to do something that I love but also allow me to learn many new skill sets along the way.
The process: I was already aware and familiar with the countless food blogs out there that I used and loved. My first goal was to create a blog that was different from the rest of them. Feeling Hungry does this by categorizing recipes by one’s mood. For example, I created sections named: feeling cozy, feeling light, and feeling vegan, among others.
To create this blog I had to learn how to craft my own original recipes, as I have never tackled doing so before this project. While doing this, I learned so much more about how ingredients work together and I began to trust myself more as a chef. I also had to learn the nuances of adapting recipes that already exist.
I also had to learn graphic design, how to create a blog, food styling, food photography, marketing, social media presence, and even fundraising skills! I learned so much doing this project, and the best part is, that I now have a platform where I can share delicious recipes with others.
What I learned: I learned that creating a food blog and every little component of it requires so much time, patience, and dedication. I am so grateful that Calhoun gave me this opportunity to create Feeling Hungry. This experience was valuable for me because I loved the challenge and specificity of creating recipes, starting from scratch with skill sets that I had never used before, and learning how to put all of the components together into a working blog.
Perhaps what ended up being an unexpected and valuable part of this experience, was that while I was buying food and making recipes over and over again, I couldn’t help but stop and think about how there are so many people worldwide that live with hunger and don’t have access to homecooked meals. So, I did some research and came across World Central Kitchen, a non-profit organization, founded by Chef José Andrés, with the goal to provide meals to communities worldwide in the wake of natural disasters. To date, WCK has provided 70 million freshly cooked meals across the globe. Therefore, I created a Feeling Generous page on my blog where people can learn about WCK and donate to my fundraising page for it.
What's next: Although Junior Workshop is now over, I still spend lots of time in the kitchen cooking and creating recipes that I am sharing on a weekly basis with Feeling Hungry subscribers. I am also working hard to spread the word about WCK to get as many people to donate as possible. I imagine that I’ll keep this blog up and running for a long time. I will always appreciate what I learned from Junior Workshop, as it helped bring out my inner chef and love for making and sharing recipes.

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“Call Me Maybe” is one of the biggest songs ever. The million-dollar question: Will Carly Rae Jepsen become a one mega-hit wonder? Maybe. Does this possibility take away from Jepsen’s radio, chart, and internet dominance in the first three-quarters of 2012? Definitely not.
Carly Rae Jepsen was first seen kissing a dog and singing an original song called “Sweet Talker” at her audition for the fifth season of Canadian Idol in 2008.
That song made it onto Jepsen’s debut album Tug Of War, which she released shortly after placing 3rd on Idol.
Cut to three years later. On September 20, 2011, she releases “Call Me Maybe.”
Then this happened:
Call me maybe by Carly Rae Jepson is possibly the catchiest song I’ve ever heard lol
— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) December 30, 2011
Her fellow Candian’s 22 million followers obeyed their master and made the song a hit. (It is pretty catchy, Justin.)
So, she didn’t get the guy, but she was not left empty-handed. She immediately signed with Schoolboy Records (established by Justin’s manager/bro Scooter Braun) and introduced herself to the world on Ellen.
Not only did “Call Me Maybe” spend a 2012-high of ten weeks at the zenith of the Billboard chart, but it has since sparked somewhat of a cultural revolution.
This also happened:
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That isn’t even close to the full throttle of internet “Call Me Maybe”-ing. We’ll save you the search time.
Amidst all of this, we got to hang out with Carly while she regaled us with stories of nickname fiascoes and sang a song she wrote when she was 7.
And can she sing it live? Rather beautifully.
Owl City thought it’d be a fine idea to capitalize on Jepsen’s Midas touch.
The fun and summery “Good Times” peaked at #13 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It didn’t fuel a litany of lip dubs and covers, but, then again, will there be another single that enjoys a “Call Me Maybe” effect?
Which brings us to that million dollar question. We threw our wish in a well that her sophomore effort, Kiss, would yield another smash. It’s too early to tell—and her first-week sales were less than staggering—but “This Kiss” just might be that song. Anything even close to “Call Me Maybe” and Our Girl Carly Rae Jepsen’s name will float around the charts for at least four more years. Right?
9 weeks at #1 on Billboard. Insane. Feeling high as a kite. Thank you! m.billboard.com
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Down on the west coast, up on the iTunes chart...
"Trust me, I hate this and I hate hospitals," she says.
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Captain Hughes was struck by a tree at the Ferguson Fire
The U.S. Fire Administration has announced the official on-duty death of Captain Brian Hughes, 33, of Sequioa and Kings Canyon National Parks on July 29, 2018.
Captain Brian Hughes and his crew were engaged in tactical fire operations on the east side of the Ferguson Fire in Mariposa County, California, when he was struck by a tree. Hughes was treated on scene, but passed away from the injuries he sustained before he could be transported to a hospital.
Tribute is being paid to Captain Hughes at http://apps.usfa.fema.gov/firefighter-fatalities/
To date, 56 firefighter fatalities have been reported to USFA in 2018. Year-to-date and annual USFA firefighter fatality reports are posted online at https://www.usfa.fema.gov/data/statistics/ff_fatality_reports.html
Fatality status is provisional and may change as USFA contacts State Fire Marshals to verify fatality incident information.


NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of Luby's Inc. fell more than 5 percent on Thursday as its second-quarter profit slid 81 percent on rising food costs and expenses as consumers tightened their discretionary spending. The company also cut its full-year earnings forecast.
THE SPARK: Luby's, which runs Luby's Cafeteria, Fuddruckers and other brands, reported late Wednesday that its fiscal second-quarter net income declined to $203,000, or 1 cent per share, from $1.1 million, or 4 cents per share, a year earlier.
Revenue for the period ended Feb. 13 rose 10 percent to $87.5 million from $79.4 million. Revenue in locations open at least 18 months fell 0.6 percent. The metric is a key indicator of a company's health because it removes the impact of locations that have recently opened or closed.
Luby's now anticipates full-year earnings between 21 cents and 25 cents per share. The Houston company's prior guidance called for earnings in a range of 27 cents to 30 cents per share. In its fiscal 2012, Luby's earned 24 cents per share.
It also expects sales in restaurants open at least 18 months to be flat to down 1 percent. Previously it expected growth of up to 1.5 percent.
SHARE ACTION: Luby's stock dropped 48 cents, or 5.6 percent, to $8.04 in afternoon trading. The stock has traded in a 52-week range of $4.98 to $8.63.


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Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are a pharmaceutical method of reducing the inflammatory symptoms of endometriosis. Much of the pain from endometriosis, specifically menstrual pain, is caused by an excessive production of prostaglandins. Prostaglandins have beneficial effects including enhancing immune function, blocking inflammation, relaxing muscles, etc, however they also have their fair share of detrimental effects, which include the production of inflammation. NSAIDs work to block the production of these prostaglandins and with a generally low cost, accessibility, and minimal side-effects, it is the primary recommendation for the treatment of menstrual cramping. Because the tissue associated with endometriosis is responsive to hormonal cycles, contraceptive hormonal therapy is often paired with NSAIDs to reduce pain.
NSAIDs come in several different brands and levels of accessibility, whether it be over-the-counter or prescription-based. Therefore, it can be difficult to predict the proper NSAID for you, and thus proper medical surveillance and follow-up is necessary to ensure the most optimal maintenance. For women who wish for conception, NSAIDs can be used without the pairing of contraceptive hormonal therapy. NSAIDs can often be used ineffectively due to brand diversity and lack in knowledge of how they work to block pain, so you may have found unsatisfactory results in the past.
For women who are willing to also take contraceptive therapy for treatment, options can expand from estrogen-progestin contraceptives, progestins (for women who prefer to avoid the previous), gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists, and GnRH antagonists. Danazol, while effective at treating endometriosis-related pain, comes with its own series of androgenic side effects, including acne, muscle cramps, weight gain, etc, so it is not commonly used.
Aromatase inhibitors are also reserved for women with severe pain due to their side effects of bone loss and ovarian follicular cyst development with prolonged use. Because of this, it is often paired with GnRH agonist or an oral estrogen-progestin contraceptive to reduce follicular development.
At NY Robotic Gynecology, we will ensure a thorough explanation and the pros and cons of each product before prescription. Based on the severity of your pain, the degree of development in your endometriosis, and your personal preferences to treatment direction, we will make sure to take everything into account before making any decisions. Together, with our team, you may access the risks and benefits of each option to assure an individualized treatment pattern designed just for you.

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Fashion lovers rejoice! Dutch designer duo, Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren are returning to the world of haute couture after a whopping 13 years. Viktor & Rolf, renowned for their theatrical designs and avant-garde runway shows, will be showing their high fashion collection this July in Paris as part of the Fall 2013 Couture shows.
For Viktor & Rolf fans, it’s been a long-awaited comeback to see them grace the runway with their crazy, innovative designs once again. Celebrating 20 years this year, the return could not have been more timely.
Past couture shows by the duo have been breathtakingly spectacular, with particular note taken of their incredible Fall 1999 “Russian Doll” couture collection involving a model being dressed layer after layer by each look from the stunning collection.
Whilst their hiatus from couture has been long and lengthy, Viktor and Rolf have continued to show their Ready-To-Wear collections each year with signature high fashion pieces present in each which have yet to disappoint.
“Returning to couture now, on our 20th anniversary, feels like coming full circle,” Viktor Horsting told Women’s Wear Daily. The duo feel ready to conquer the couture world once again, going back to where they started. The theatrics, the drama and the clothes will no doubt inspire, invigorate and awaken their thirst for fashion.
“The shows are, let’s say, a little bit more real. It’s just a little bit more about ready-to-wear, but next to that, for us, fashion is so much more than that…So we thought it was a great opportunity to start doing couture again to express the other side of fashion, you know: fashion as a laboratory.”‘
We are already counting down the days.

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text: Hermes has been on the cutting edge of couture dating back all the way to 1837 when the company planted its roots. For over a century, the French fashion house has been notorious for creating refined luxurious lifestyle collections. No detail is too small for these perfectionists. Each piece is intrinsically unique and precisely crafted. Metallic and colorful leather bands fit comfortably on the wrist, while each dial has distinct differences that are ready to be embraced by the ideal owner. For Hermes, a watch isn’t just a worn daily accessory; it’s an extension of a statement proclaiming exquisite taste.

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“One for the Ten Best lists. This is the boxing
movie to lick all others, with Ryan impeccable as the ageing fighter gearing up for a bout he’s expected to lose; Audrey Totter leaving him because she can’t stand the mental and physical battering of the fight business, wandering the streets amid snatches of ringside radio commentary; and an invading sense of desolation the result. Great blue moments in black-and-white from a director whose early work is still outstanding: the film burns with the humanity that Raging Bull never quite achieves, an expression of masochism mixed with futile pride that is the essence of boxing as a movie myth.” (TimeOut)
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NFL's First Woman Official: 'I'm Just Out Doing A Job' — Sarah Thomas Wants To Be Known For Being A Great Referee, Not Just A Woman! Watch The Interview HERE!
Sarah Thomas made headlines last week when she was announced to be the first woman hired by the NFL as a full time official!
The mother-of-three said she was "almost speechless" when she heard the news that she was one of the nine new referees promoted by the league.
While Thomas is honored for the recognition of infiltrating the NFL ref boys club, she makes it clear that she wants to be known for being a great referee! The 41-year-old had this to say in an interview:
Former NFL Player For The New Orleans Saints Sells Superbowl Ring On Craigslist! Find Out How Much He's Asking For It HERE!
Life certainly has its ups and downs.
It's been reported that a former NFL player for the New Orleans Saints is trying to sell his Super Bowl ring from their 2009 season!
A user on Craigslist.com from the Atlanta region claiming to be a "former Saints player" listed the ring for an asking price of $45,000. The ring has 103 round-cut diamonds and totals 2.2 carats!
The same user also asked for $3,500 for a helmet with signatures from players Drew Brees, Jeremy Shockey, Darren Sharper and Reggie Bush — the helmet had the No. 29 on the back.
So, who is the unidentified player?
The NFL has announced that they've hired their first full time woman official to work some of next year's regular season's games!
Unsurprisingly the person they picked was a no-brainer as they chose Sarah Thomas, who has been working for a long time in the college football ranks and who also was the first woman to officiate a NCAA game back in 2007!
She's also spent a lot of time in the NFL's developmental program for officials so you know she's going to be ready once the opening kickoff game happens!
And it isn't just us that's excited!
Oh Say Did You See Mötley Crüe Frontman Vince Neil's Strange Rendition Of The National Anthem?! Watch HERE!
Oh say did you see this yet?
Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil performed the National Anthem at the United States Football League's Las Vegas Outlaws game on Tuesday, and it was… let's say "a little pitchy, dawg."
But while the singing was a bit off, the experience was unforgettable!!
Despite the fact that Vince's Star-Spangled Banner veers off-key quite a lot — and we're not sure all the words were there — this version is still pretty entertaining. And it's all thanks to the vet rocker's showmanship!
Check out the video (below) and fast forward to around the 5:00 mark to get the anthem party started!!
We've been expecting some bogus news stories in celebration of April Fools' Day, but some people are taking it too far!!
For instance, NFL player Bruce Irvin.
The Seattle Seahawk thought that joking about the subject of drunk driving would deliver a ton of LOLz. In an attempt to fool the online community, the athlete tweeted:
That is a huge milestone for the concussion-causing, overly macho sport.
But Sam isn't the only one, according to him! He said:
"I am not the only gay person in the NFL. I'm just saying there is a lot of us. I respect the players that did reach out to me and had the courage to tell me that they were also gay, but they do not have the same courage as I do to come out before I even played a down in the NFL.
Was it a risky move? Yes. But at that moment, the reason why I came out is I thought it wasn't going to be a big deal. Maybe I was naive. Maybe I thought it was 2014, and people will understand that there's gay NFL players. There's gay athletes everywhere. But I was clearly wrong. It was a huge deal.
The players who have reached out to me and told me about their sexual orientation, it just means a lot. But I will never say anything about who they are, what teams they are [on]. I'm just saying there's some famous people, and I'm not the only one."
It'd make sense to assume that obviously there'd be a percentage of gay men playing in the NFL but "some famous" players??
Sam makes it seem like even he was shocked at how many players reached out to him.
We hope others can follow his example. It's time to swing wide the closet doors in professional sports and let the fab out!!
It's 2015 people. The time for equality for all is now. Thank goodness for people like Michael, who are willing to take that first, crucial step!
We were wondering why Miley was so nonchalant about those scandalous photos, but we guess that's because she actually knows the girl that Pat was drinking with!
Apparently, shortly after Miley and Patrick started dating, she went with a group of his friends to a USC game, and Natalie just so happened to be part of their group.

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Special Effects Illustrator: Water Dews on leaf background
In thcan be tutorial, I'll show you how to create a green design concept in Adobe Illustrator. You learn interesting methods how to use various tools symbolcan bem, Warp Tool, along wthe itemh a large Mesh Tool, to achieve a unique design. So, let's see how the item's done!
1. Open a fresh document along wthe itemh set the size of the mounting area of 700 x 420px. Let's create a clod of dirt inside the first place. Take the Ellipse Tool (L) by the toolbar along wthe itemh create an ellipse, as shown inside the figure below. Open the Gradient along wthe itemh fill wthe itemh a linear gradient as follows : Brown (R = 138, G = 66, B = 26) along wthe itemh dark brown (R = 56, G = 20, B = 0). Draw as many forms as you want, until you possess the desired result.
2. For further ralong wthe itemhom piece of dirt, we can actually change the shape along wthe itemh size of each element individually ground. Simply press along wthe itemh hold the Width tool to view a drop down menu of the seven Liquify tool. Then release the mouse cursor on the tool you want to use. Or just use the keyboard shortcut Shift + R, to open the main tool Warp ,. To open the "Settings" along wthe itemh change the settings for the Warp Tool at any time, simply double-click the icon. Enter the values shown inside the figure below, along wthe itemh then click OK. To dcan betort the region, click along wthe itemh drag the Warp Tool brush over the selected objects. Tool Warp dcan betorts, if used too much, so be careful not to overdo things.
3. Let's create the grass along wthe itemh place the item on top of the dirt pile. Take the Pen Tool (P) along wthe itemh create a curved line as shown below. Make sure the path can be still selected along wthe itemh Stroke panel, select the "section width of 4 'to apply the specified style inside the line. When you're done, apply the gradient inside the stroke by pressing the first yetton inside the panel Gradient along wthe itemh fill the resulting shape wthe itemh the linear gradient: light green (R = 184, G = 242, B = 56), along wthe itemh medium green (R = 95 G = 159, B = 0). Using the same method, you can simply create a lawn grass. To make the item more interesting, you can set different angles of gradient for each blade of grass.
4. Then, select both turf grass along wthe itemh dirt pile along wthe itemh group them (Ctrl + G). Turn on the panel of symbols along wthe itemh click on the New Symbol. When the parameters Symbol appears, give the character a name, in thcan be case, "the grass along wthe itemh dirt heap." Select the type of character as "Graphics" along wthe itemh confirm wthe itemh OK. Grab the Symbol Sprayer Tool (Shift + S), along wthe itemh select the freshly create a symbol. Just click along wthe itemh drag, release the mouse yetton when you think in which there are enough examples of the symbol. Do not worry about placing them directly yet, just make them tight. The symbol appears in a set of cases, the bounding box (refer to the image). You can use the symbol Shifter Tool to move the characters around, along wthe itemh put them in place until you are satcan befied. When thcan be can be done, you should get something like the image below.
5. It's time to create a few leaves at the base. Using the Ellipse Tool (L) create a perfect circle (hold Shift, to maintainside the aspect ratio). Select the left along wthe itemh right anchor point along wthe itemh move them down a bthe item. Then, select the top anchor inside the ellipse along wthe itemh drag the item to almost double the items original size. Choose segment Tool () along wthe itemh draw a straight vertical line, which starts at the tip of the leaf along wthe itemh ends inside the middle of the bottom of the sheet. After selecting the line along wthe itemh shape of the leaves, click the Divide yetton inside the panel Pathfinder, so we get two separated surfaces.
6. While the objects are grouped more, go to Effect> appears Warp> Arc, along wthe itemh the dialog box. After in which, make sure the option "Vertical" can be checked. -X Bent 'slider swthe itemch should be set to 21%. In the dcan betortion to keep the "horizontal" along wthe itemh "vertical" at their default values. Now choose Object> Expalong wthe itemh Appearance, to expalong wthe itemh the facilthe itemy. Ungroup objects (Shift + Ctrl + G), click the Gradient Panel along wthe itemh fill the selected sheet mold half wthe itemh a linear gradient as follows: light green (R = 184, G = 242, B = 56), along wthe itemh medium green (R = 95, G = 159, B = 0). Do the item again for the some other half of the sheet. Select the Pen Tool (P) by the toolbar along wthe itemh create a web form. Send the item behind a sheet form by a sent back commalong wthe itemh (Ctrl + [)
7. To complete the lcan bet, take the Pen Tool (P) by the toolbar along wthe itemh create a curved line, as shown inside the figure below. Keep the path selected inside the Stroke panel, select the "Width Profile 1" to change the variable width profile of the line. Open the Gradient again along wthe itemh set the following stroke coloration: light yellow (R = 240, G = 255, B = 191) along wthe itemh the average Green (R = 95, G = 159, B = 0). In the Stroke panel to set the stroke to 6pt. Make several copies of the sheet along wthe itemh the elements along wthe itemh arrange the item all on turf grass. If you want, you can turn the sheet horizontally along wthe itemh scale the item up a bthe item down. In addthe itemion, you can only turn the leaves, leaving the stems intact. Repeat thcan be step repeatedly until you are satcan befied.
8. Let's create water droplets today time. Select the Pen Tool (P) along wthe itemh draw a basic shape of a drop of water. After in which, fill the resulting shape wthe itemh light green (R = 208, G = 242, B = 154). We will need to set up some basic colorations for our facilthe itemy. Select Mesh Tool (U) along wthe itemh add a line to the grid by clicking on the form. If you decide to go into more details, you can add as many rows of the grid as you want. Take the Lasso Tool (Q) along wthe itemh drag all grid points in which you want to select, along wthe itemh then apply the coloration. Do the same for the rest of the grid points. If you want, you can easily make adjustments by pulling some of the control halong wthe itemhle.
9. While the object can be still selected, go to Effect> Stylize> Drop Shadow along wthe itemh enter the values shown. Take the Pencil Tool (N) along wthe itemh draw two different dimensions of irregular shapes along wthe itemh place them on top of our main subject. It will be the highlights of a drop of water. When the item looks good, open the Gradient Panel along wthe itemh apply linear gradients highlights as follows: whthe iteme (R = 251, G = 255, B = 239) along wthe itemh light green (R = 198, G = 255, B = 14) . Now a team of all the elements of a drop of water, copy, scale, along wthe itemh place them on some other forms of leaves. When you're fincan behed, you should end up wthe itemh something similar to the image below.
10. Let's create a simple ladybug. Create the body of the ladybug using Ellipse Tool (L). Then, using the same tool, create ansome other object along wthe itemh place the item on top of the body. Finally, create two lthe itemtle circles for eyes. Select all of the objects inside the Pathfinder Panel, click on the Divide yetton to divide surfaces. Now ungroup objects (Shift + Ctrl + G) along wthe itemh get rid of the part we do not need (refer to the image). Select the Pen Tool (P) along wthe itemh create a shape on the left side of the body.
Make a copy of the previous object, flip the item horizontally along wthe itemh place the item on the right side of the body. To splthe item the ladybug's body into three parts, select the itemems one by one addthe itemion, along wthe itemh go to Object> Path> Divide the following subjects. Select the freshly created objects (except the middle), along wthe itemh go to Object> Compound Path> Make, so we get 1 form. Open Gradient panel along wthe itemh fill the selected object wthe itemh radial gradients, as shown below: light orange (R = 232, G = 143, B = 33), dark red (R = 158, G = 44, B = 6) along wthe itemh the light Orange (R = 232, G = 143, B = 33). Select the middle part along wthe itemh fill the item wthe itemh a radial gradient as follows: light orange (R = 215, G = 107, B = 17), along wthe itemh dark red (R = 158, G = 44, B = 6). To fincan beh a ladybug, ladybug spots along wthe itemh create some antenna. Make several copies of a ladybug along wthe itemh arrange them in a ralong wthe itemhom order. Thcan be can be the item. I wish you enjoyed thcan be tutorial.
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Provost and Dean of Faculty Patricia Stranahan had a book chapter published recently. Titled “The Chinese Communist Party during the Third Period, 1927-1934,” the chapter appeared “In Search of Revolution: International Communist Parties in the Third Period,” edited by Matthew Worley (London: I.B. Tauris, 2004). It is a collection of essays by a group of international scholars that focus on the development of communism worldwide during a pivotal period.
The collection of essays in the book are written by an international group of scholars on communism. It is a broad range of case studies of individual countries from which comparisons and information can be drawn to understand the complexity of a critical period.
Stranahan's chapter looks at China from 1928-1034. For China, this appears on the surface to be a disastrous period. Stalin's policies were not practical in a country with a small and repressed working class, a young, fragmented communist party, and an increasingly powerful national government. Nevertheless, the urban-based Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership implemented the line. In the late 1920s/early 1930s, the young CCP focused primarily on implementing a proletarian revolution in urban areas. As it did elsewhere, Stalin's policy failed in China and, as he did elsewhere, he blamed the Secretary-General of the CCP and replaced him with a group under his direct control. It was a period of terror for the urban CCP and by 1933 what was left of the urban party went underground. Party leaders retreated to the countryside where isolated CCP army units (the largest of which was under Mao Zedong) were expanding party-controlled territories and implementing social and economic reforms. It is from these rural bases that Mao Zedong built his power. During these years CCP leaders stopped blindly following Moscow's policies and began to adapt to local environments and embrace issues that mattered to local populations. The CCP began to develop the pragmatic ideology that served it well in the decade to come and eventually led to its takeover of China in 1949.
The “Third Period” (1928-1934) is a part of what the Communist International (the Moscow-based group under Stalin that directed communist parties around the world) recognized as periods of “historical phases of development” that the international labor movement passed through after WWI. Each phase represented a different stage in what was believed to be an ongoing crisis in the capitalist system. The “Third Period” was proclaimed in 1928 because the Communist International (based in Moscow under Stalin) believed that there were contradictions in capitalism that would lead to a world crisis. They foresaw giant class battles carried out by the working classes and led by young communist parties that were growing up in countries around the world. The policy was a disaster. It was supposed to herald the final crisis of capitalism and the rise of proletarian revolution but what the world saw instead was the rise of Nazism and a depression in capitalist countries that severely weakened the working classes. In addition, this was a period when Stalin consolidated the world communist movement forcing many nationalist communist parties to go underground.
Stranahan is also the author of “Underground: The Shanghai Communist Party and the Politics of Survival, 1927-1927” (Rowman and Littlefield, 1998).


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The study marks a dramatic jump from just a few months ago – at the start of the year, less than one quarter of participants were showing antibodies, according to the last national serological survey.
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PREVENCIÓN DEL RIESGO DE TSUNAMIS Y SISTEMAS DE ALERTA.
Reducing Tsunami Risk through Early Warning System,
Preparedness and Awareness
Information Workshop on North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and
connected seas Tsunami Warning System
Escuela Nacional de Protección Civil
Rivas-Vaciamadrid (Madrid), 25 y 26 de septiembre del 2017
The Instituto Español de Oceanografía, the Protección Civil y Emergencias in Spain, the Instituto Geográfico Nacional and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO are organizing an information workshop in Madrid, Spain, 25-26 September 2017 on the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (NEAMTWS), the planned Tsunami Wave Exercise - NEAMWave17 (October 2017) and the World Tsunami Awareness Day (5 November 2017).
Through IOC Assembly Resolution XXIII.14. UNESCO-IOC was mandated by its Member States to facilitate the expansion of global coverage of Tsunami Warning and Mitigation Systems (TWS) and to co-ordinate the establishment of a TWS for the North-eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Connected Seas (NEAMTWS). The need to develop NEAMTWS has also been recognized in the European Council Conclusions of 6 December 2007 (15473/07) and 16 June 2008 (7562/08). ICG/NEAMTWS is composed of 39 Member States of both Mediterranean, North-eastern Atlantic and Black Sea regions.
NEAMTWS (Tsunami Service Providers)
Four Tsunami Service Providers (TSPs) are presently operating on a 24/7 basis (in France, Greece, Italy and Turkey). The four providers were accredited at the thirteenth session of the ICG/NEAMTWS (Bucharest, Romania 26–28 September 2016). These centers provide a tsunami service to those NEAMTWS Member States wishing to subscribe to it.
The first tsunami exercise, NEAMWave12, was undertaken in October 2012 involving 18 NEAMTWS Member States including some Civil Protection Authorities. A second tsunami excercise (NEAMWave14) was organised and conducted in October 2014. These exercises simulate realistic tsunami events that enable different parts of the region to work out and test their responses in a meaningful way.
World Tsunami Awareness Day
Tsunamis are rare, but they can be extremely deadly. In the past 100 years, more than 260,000 people have perished in 58 separate tsunamis world wide. At an average of 4,600 deaths per disaster, the toll has surpassed any other natural hazard. Such a stark impact is not inevitable, however. Early warning systems can save lives. Equally important is community and individual understanding about how and where to evacuate before a wave strikes. Tsunamis know no borders, making international cooperation key for deeper political and public understanding of risk reduction measures. As a result, the UN General Assembly has designated 5 November the World Tsunami Awareness Day. The theme for this year is focused on Target (b) of the Sendai Framework which is to: Substantially reduce the number of affected people globally by 2030, aiming to lower the average global figure per 100,000 in the decade 2020–2030 compared to the period 2005–2015. (http://www.unisdr.org/files/43291_sendaiframeworkfordrren.pdf)
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||2017 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
||Advanced High-Strength Steels
||F-5: Controlling Springback in Dual-Phase Steels
||Milan Agnani, Peter van Liempt, Jilt Sietsma, Zaloa Arechabaleta
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Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS) are extremely suitable for lightweight automotive applications. AHSS forming is, however, a challenge for the car companies, which cannot predict springback –strain relaxation after release of the forming stresses- accurately. Besides the elastic part, there is an additional component of the total relaxed strain, which significantly contributes to the springback magnitude. This additional strain component is the so-called anelastic strain and is caused by limited reverse glide of dislocations during load removal. The higher the dislocation density, the larger the anelastic contribution, but adequate quantitative prediction is at the moment not feasible. Moreover, multiphase AHSS will show specific anelastic dislocation behaviour in each constituent. The present work aims to understand the dislocation behaviour in ferrite and martensite when both phases are present in different volume fractions. A physically-based model is coupled with mechanical and nano-indentation experiments to describe the dislocation behaviour, both qualitatively and quantitatively.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WHO: Ray Hein, vice president of product strategy at Agile Software Corporation (NASDAQ: AGIL), a leading provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, will be participating in a panel titled "Driving Advanced Functions in PLM" at the Collaborative Products Development Associates (CPDA) PLM Road Map Conference. In addition, Wolfgang Ortmayr, quality manager and engineering systems manager of MAGNA STEYR North America, Rudolf Wedenig, system analyst of MAGNA STEYR AG, and Mathias Zagel, director of product strategy and management at Agile will present "From Concept to Configured Product." WHAT: PLM Road Map 2005 is a strategic conference focused on the critical tradeoffs that shape product development. At PLM Road Map 2005, attendees will have the opportunity to hear first hand which issues are currently confronting end users. Presentations will cover collaboration across the enterprise, knowledge capture and reuse, the business benefits of PLM integration, PLM interoperability, the tradeoffs of open CAD and tight integration, product development platforms to meet the needs of commonality and variety, up-front simulation, up-front manufacturing process constraints, SOA reuse of software modules as Web services, and more. In the joint MAGNA STEYR-Agile presentation, attendees will learn how PLM supports the innovation process and how MAGNA STEYR successfully manages product variants and the corresponding complexity with the PLM solution. In the panel "Driving Advanced Functions in PLM," CPDA analyst Michel Vrinat will review constructive actions that can drive results in PLM. WHEN/WHERE: CPDA's PLM Road Map 2005 is taking place September 28-29, 2005 at the Dearborn Inn, located at 20301 Oakwood Boulevard in Dearborn, Michigan. For more information on the conference, go to www.cpd-associates.com. About Agile Software Corporation
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Belinda Jo Carlisle Net Worth:Belinda Jo Carlisle (born August 17, 1958) is an American singer who gained worldwide fame as the lead vocalist of the Go-Go's, one of the most successful all-female bands of all time. The group sold more than seven million albums in just three years and she later went on to have a successful solo career with hits such as "Mad About You", "I Get Weak", "Circle in the Sand", "Leave a Light On" and "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" among others, which were major successes in the United States and the United Kingdom as well as internationally.Her autobiography, Lips Unsealed, published in June 2010, was a New York Times Best Seller and received favorable reviews. On August 11, 2011, she received, as a member of the Go-Go's, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
|Birth date:||August 17, 1958|
|Birth place:||Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.|
|Education:||Newbury Park High School|
|Children:||James Duke Mason|
|Parents:||Harold Carlisle, Joanne Carlisle|
|Music groups:||The Go-Go's, Germs, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, Heaven Is a Place on Earth, Luna, Mad About You|
|Nominations:||Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Brit Award for International Breakthrough Act, American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Video, Independent Music Award for Best Song - Pop, American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Video Artist, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, Heaven Is a Place on Earth, Luna, Mad About You|
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Okay so the other day I was taking the trash out and my nail caught on a spider egg sac!
Unfortunately it split open and all the little eggs came tumbling out and luckily landed in a box.
After getting them all in a glass, I was left with several questions, no answers and guilt! But I asked in a few spider groups and got a tutorial on making a spider incubator!
Sooo! We went through a few different stages of mini Orbeez
And by mini I mean REALLY mini!
But finally we started seeing development!
See the little white dot?! That’s a wee lil baby!
Then more started showing up!
Then the day came!! Little legs started showing up!!
Today I just went to look and!!
MY BABIES ARE HATCHING!
They’re perfect in every way and I love my dumb spider babies.
This is Joseph. He’s learning to walk properly.
He’s not very good at it yet though.
He try his best.
Holy heck!? Hello everyone!!
Oh my word I’m so happy you all love these babies as much as I do! Yes, I have my photos of all the babies that weren’t included here, they can be found on my failed phid project spider page here! The spiders, to answer a common question, are a species of “
“ Or grass spiders and are harmless if you’re not a mosquito or other tiny bug! Thank you all for so much love and support. Sorry for tacking on more to this photoset, but I thought you all would appreciate more photos!!
Fetal moths. Vine Sphinx eggs in the microscope today. They had started changing colors so I know I needed a closer look. Good thing I did!
Both were green striped this morning. By afternoon, one had turned yellow (the color of the developing caterpillar!), and the one that was still green had developed a visible heartbeat. The yellow one tested out his chompers!!! These caterpillars are the ones with the tails (aka “hornworms”), and you can see the yellow baby’s little tail curled up by his face.
By evening, the yellow one had hatched. So precious!

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It may be time for GI practices to step out of the procedure-heavy comfort zone to prepare for value-based reimbursement and an aging population.
This article first appeared in the June 2015 issue of HealthLeaders magazine.
When Katie Couric underwent a colonoscopy on live television in 2000 as host of the Today show, she not only heightened awareness of the important role colonoscopies play in detecting colon cancer, but she actually boosted the rate of colonoscopies among men and women. Jay Monahan, Couric's husband, died from colon cancer at age 42, and the experience led to Couric's efforts to raise awareness about screening for the disease. The strategy worked and subsequently ushered in a boon to GI practices.
While there are other less-invasive screening tests available for colon cancer, such as the fecal occult blood test (FOBT) or fecal immunochemical test (FIT), which can be done at home annually, colonoscopies are regarded as the gold standard and are the most commonly used screening test to detect polyps that can turn into colon cancer.
"Gastroenterology started gaining traction because of the volumes from the 'Couric effect,' " says Yousif A-Rahim, MD, PhD, chief medical officer for Nashville-based Covenant Surgical Partners, owner and operator of 28 ambulatory surgical centers, most of which are GI-focused, across the country. "We've enjoyed a relatively sanguine era since 2000."
Insurance coverage for colonoscopies, from private payers and Medicare, also helped improve colonoscopy volumes at GI practices. A-Rahim says that at the GI ASCs that Covenant runs, colonoscopies and endoscopies are the "bread and butter" of its revenue streams. Still, technological advances, a mature market—after all, Couric's TV colonoscopy was 15 years ago—and reimbursement reductions are pressures that all GI practices are
Some providers, such as Covenant, remain focused on the procedural mainstays of their specialty, but other gastroenterology providers are preparing for a fee-for-value transition by partnering with insurance companies and focusing on specific populations to improve readmission rates.
Success key No. 1: Optimize efficiency
As CMO at Covenant Surgical Partners, A-Rahim has a broad view of the landscape that GI practices are operating in today. He is part of the executive team that is involved in acquiring new practices, but it was only seven years ago that he was on the other side of the negotiating table with Covenant. In 2013, A-Rahim sold the majority of shares of his GI practice, Pacific Endoscopy in Oahu, Hawaii, to the firm.
Specialists, such as GI physicians, have not been immune to the economic realities of running a private practice. There has been a greater focus on primary care physicians leaving private practice for hospital-based employment, but specialists are also looking for some economic cover, which corporate partners such as Covenant and Nashville-based AMSURG can provide.
"With Covenant coming on board, we were able to expand," says A-Rahim. "Pacific Endoscopy now is three different entities, with a fourth center that is under agreement."
Among the primary benefits of becoming a Covenant partner, says A-Rahim, is the standardization of back-end office tasks that take a physician away from seeing patients. HR, payroll, collections, dealing with insurance companies, and recruiting new physicians are all tasks taken over by Covenant's professional arm.
"The majority of doctors are not entrepreneurs," says A-Rahim. "I was a clinician, and the CEO and cofounder of Pacific Endoscopy, and I took on the business development, but suddenly, I don't have to do that anymore. I have someone who is highly specialized and that's all they do."
Each practice that's acquired sells a majority share to Covenant and it, in addition to the practical matters it offloads from physician and staff, also provides pathology laboratory management and anesthesia services.
But prior to partnering with Covenant, Pacific Endoscopy was already optimizing its efficiency to keep patient visits under two hours, which is "tremendous," according to A-Rahim.
"There is a lot of work that goes into it," he says. "We are completely paperless, and before a patient is admitted, we have their history, insurance is verified, and they are registered."
A-Rahim says risk stratifying patients is another way Pacific Endoscopy optimizes its throughput. If a patient is advanced in age, then that person will likely be scheduled for a colonoscopy in the morning so he or she isn't fasting through the afternoon. He estimates that of the 13,000 patients Pacific Endoscopy sees annually, 70% are there for colonoscopies and 30% for endoscopies.
"It's also based on their comorbidities," says A-Rahim. "Before a patient is admitted, we have their history and we can tell if the procedure is likely to be complicated, so we can set aside the amount of time a physician would need with that patient."
Covenant's anesthesia services are the real "magic" that improved efficiency at Pacific Endoscopy, according to A-Rahim. That's because Covenant uses propofol for moderate or conscious sedation of patients who are getting a colonoscopy or endoscopy. A-Rahim says patients are easily arousable because propofol leaves their system quicker, impacting their recovery time.
"Traditionally, we could only do two procedures an hour; now we can actually do three, sometimes four," says A-Rahim, who estimates that the use of propofol has also improved Pacific Endoscopy's overall practice efficiency by 30% because it eliminated the use of nurses who were in the exam room to monitor patients under conscious sedation.
"At Pacific Endoscopy, we had two RNs in the room who were paid between $85,000 and $90,000 a year, and those RNs are used somewhere else; they're not in the room anymore," he says.
The two RNs have been replaced with one certified registered nurse anesthetist, who administers propofol and monitors the patient. The CRNA's salary is about $200,000. A-Rahim says there is partial reimbursement for the CRNA's services, which helps offset the cost, though it's the increase in volume that makes up for the increased expense of using propofol. He also says patients prefer it.
"Our patients love it," says A-Rahim. "You feel great, you're not nauseous, you're not throwing up. When we used conscious sedation, it took 30 minutes to two hours for patients to be semi-recovered to walk; with propofol it's 15 minutes. That's huge because we can take more patients."
Success key No. 2: Value-based care
While the outlook for colonoscopies remains stable, some GI practices are looking to other nonprocedural endeavors that will prepare them for a future under value-based care.
For example, Illinois Gastroenterology Group, an independent group with 45 GI physicians, 16 offices, and seven ASCs serving the Chicago suburbs, recently partnered with BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois to pilot a care model for patients with inflammatory bowel disease, which includes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
"It was clear to me that we needed to move our gastroenterological community away from a fee-for-service type [of] arrangement … and begin a value-based initiative," says Lawrence Kosinski, MD, MBA, FACG, AGAF managing partner at IGG. "Over half the money that GI physicians receive and live off of emanates from the performance of colonoscopies for colorectal cancer screening and surveillance, so we looked to the next big category of care provided by GI physicians, and that is patients that have inflammatory bowel disease."
BCBSIL announced that it was piloting its specialty intensive medical home with IGG in October 2014. The name of the care model sounds similar to the NCQA's patient-centered medical home initiative but is not part of NCQA, though Walter Hollinger, MD, medical director of strategic operations at BCBSIL, says the aim is similar—to coordinate care for patients, but at a specialty group practice.
"We realized that for Crohn's patients, they, for the most part, have a primary care-like relationship with their gastroenterologist, so it seemed reasonable to take what we had developed for the intensive medical home and apply it."
"The reason we call it intensive is that patients enrolled in the program have had a significant level of medical complexity, severity of illness, and likelihood of having a significant medical event in the near future," says Hollinger.
BCBSIL has three years of experience with its intensive medical home model. It was first rolled out to large primary care groups across Illinois. The partnership with IGG is the insurer's first foray into seeing if it will work for specialists, too.
"We realized that for Crohn's patients, they, for the most part, have a primary care-like relationship with their gastroenterologist, so it seemed reasonable to take what we had developed for the intensive medical home and apply it," Hollinger says.
The partnership between IGG and BCBSIL was a natural fit, according to Kosinski, who says 70% of IGG's patients either have Medicare or BCBSIL.
"It made absolutely the best sense to me that BCBSIL was the best place to go."
"[Payers] are not the evil empire. They never were the evil empire; it's just that we didn't have any communication with them. But I see a lot of positives moving forward."
The two sides acknowledge the inherent tension that exists between providers and payers, but the economic climate in healthcare has changed the dynamic.
"They are not the evil empire," quips Kosinski, referring to the historically frosty relationship that doctors and insurance companies have. "They never were the evil empire; it's just that we didn't have any communication with them. But I see a lot of positives moving forward."
For BCBSIL, the strategy to partner with specialists, particularly large groups that are key providers, keeps the risk environment competitive. Some hospitals and health systems are considering developing their own health plans in order to capitalize on the move toward value-based care. If patients are insured by the hospital they're staying in, then controlling costs, or at least knowing the cost of care, becomes, theoretically, easier.
Traditional payer-developed care models tailored for its providers could be a win-win situation, explains Hollinger.
"These arrangements would allow primary care physicians and specialists who don't want to be affiliated with a very large local hospital system to maintain their independence and provide the care in the way they feel is most appropriate for their patients," says Hollinger.
The reason that BCBSIL decided to experiment with gastroenterology first has more to do with Kosinski's goal of reducing the cost of care and improving patient outcomes. He is the one who approached BCBSIL back in 2012. He says he was looking for data on the total cost of care for his patients with Crohn's disease.
"It was mind-blowing to me," says Kosinski. "Over half the money the payer spent was going to the treatment of complications of this illness. GI physicians were only receiving three-and-one-half cents on the dollar of what the payer was spending, yet we are the experts that are supposed to be managing this illness."
Crohn's disease complications are serious and often require hospitalization. Patients often become so used to dealing with the illness that they don't realize they are deteriorating, and so try to fix the issue on their own. "The complications are fistulas, bowel obstructions, abscesses, serious infections—and there is no easy way to handle those once they occur," says Kosinski.
By combing through the patient data IGG received from BCBSIL, he says he found that only one-third of the Crohn's disease patients who went to the hospital for complications had seen a provider 30 days prior to that admission. It pointed to a lack of patient engagement, says Kosinski, who then developed a Web-based app that pings Crohn's disease patients in between visits. In his initial study group of 50 patients, their hospitalizations went from 17% to 5%. The data convinced BCBSIL that Kosinski was onto something, and now there are 185 Crohn's disease patients enrolled in the specialty intensive medical home. The goal is to enroll 500.
Hollinger says based on the experience BCBSIL has had with its primary care intensive medical homes, he expects the cost of care to also decrease.
"We were able to demonstrate fairly consistently that for our initial very large primary care practices, we did see an improvement in the per member per month in overall medical costs with a reduction of about 7%," says Hollinger.
In real dollars, Hollinger says BCBSIL was able to reduce the total per member per month cost by $95.
BCBSIL contracts with and pays nurse care managers, who are key players in its specialty intensive medical home model. At a practice as large as IGG's, with multiple locations, Kosinski says BCBSIL's financial contribution to support a nurse care manager doesn't cover all the patients, but he believes it's a first step to getting "boats rowing in the same direction."
"We have six part-time nurse care managers and a chief nurse care manager," says Kosinski. So even though we are being paid for one full-time nurse care manager from BCBSIL, we are incurring significant expense, but that's okay. We appreciate the fact that we have our major payer to help us build the appropriate infrastructure for value-based care."
Success key No. 3: Prepare for population health
Other GI practices are focusing on nonprocedural services, too, but instead of looking at patient populations with a common disease they are looking at an age demographic. At the University of Michigan Health System, an integrated academic health system with three hospitals, 40 outpatient locations, more than 120 clinics, and a $3.3 billion operating budget, that population is seniors.
The Geriatrics Center is a multi-specialty geriatric facility that is designed to be a one-stop shop, of sorts, for seniors. Gastroenterology was added to the roster of specialties, which include rheumatology, neurology, endocrinology, nephrology, hepatology, palliative care, and psychiatry.
"Going to a regular GI clinic, the physicians just looked at swallowing without noticing social issues or geriatric syndromes. We were trying to get those patients in to balance GI treatment with other comorbidities."
"If you talk to an 80- or 85-year-old patient, they often have more than one health problem, and they're seeing many different specialists," says Jeffrey Halter, MD, director of the Geriatrics Center at UMHS. "As we developed the clinic, it seemed we could make it easier on patients and families to have a more coordinated approach to care."
The GI clinic is provided twice a week, on Monday and Thursday afternoons. Karen Hall, MD, PhD, who started the GI clinic but has since moved on to serve as director for the Acute Care for Elders unit, a joint operation between UMHS and St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor, says the clinic helped identify underlying issues that are inherent in older patients, but that traditional GI doctors may miss.
"Going to a regular GI clinic, the physicians just looked at swallowing without noticing social issues or geriatric syndromes," says Hall. "We were trying to get those patients in to balance GI treatment with other comorbidities."
Demand for the GI clinic grew, says Hall. The clinic started out as just a half day with one provider, but within a year, there was enough need to expand the clinic to an additional half day and grow by two providers.
Jocelyn Wiggins, BM, BCh, associate division chief for the division of geriatric and palliative medicine at UMHS, and medical director for the Geriatrics Center Clinics, says the current three-month wait for an appointment at the center's GI clinic shows how much need exists in the geriatric population.
"There are a lot of things about gastroenterology disease that becomes common with age," says Wiggins, "for example, chronic constipation, diverticulitis, impaction—and managing these early prevents complications later."
Though Hall is no longer seeing patients at the half-day GI clinic, she still does the follow-up appointments for patients discharged from the hospital, and Wiggins says the rate of 30-day readmission for the population is remarkably lower.
"The national readmission rate is 20%, our institution is 19%, [and] for people who get seen in our clinic, it is 11%. Care coordination is key."
Jacqueline Fellows is a contributing writer at HealthLeaders Media.


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Ankara (The Times Groupe)- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson discussed bilateral relations and regional issues on Tuesday.
The directorate said Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Boris Johnson discussed defense cooperation and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.
President Erdogan said a solution must be found for the export of grain from Ukraine amid a global food crisis.
Ukrainian grain remains shut in due to the military conflict, causing global shortages and price increases. Western sanctions are to blame for food shortages, according to Russia, which is accused of using food as a weapon.
Erdogan told UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday that Turkish efforts continue to ensure the export of Ukrainian grain via the Black Sea, which would “go far toward averting a global food crisis.”

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The zoology of Australia and Tasmania presents a very conspicuous point of difference from that of other regions of the globe, in the prevalence of non-placental mammalia.
Putting aside the exotic vegetation of the north and east coast-line, the Australian bush gains its peculiar character from the prevalence of the so-called gum-trees (Eucalyptus) and the acacias, of which last there are 300 species, but the eucalypts above all are everywhere.
It was the great work of Descartes to exclude rigorously from science all explanations which were not scientifically verifiable; and the prevalence of materialism at certain epochs, as in the enlightenment of the 18th century and in the German philosophy of the middle, 9th, were occasioned by special need to vindicate the scientific position, in the former case against the Church, in the latter case against the pseudo-science of the Hegelian dialectic. The chief definite periods of materialism are the pre-Socratic and the post-Aristotelian in Greece, the 18th century in France, and in Germany the, 9th century from about 1850 to 1880.
The weight of the iron sheath varies greatly according to the depth of the water, the nature of the sea bottom, the prevalence of currents, and so on.
The industrial and commercial progress of Cartagena was much hindered, during the first half of the 19th century, by the prevalence of epidemic diseases, the abandonment of the arsenal, and rivalry with the neighbouring port of Alicante.

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Deutsche Bank notes that following the recent ~25% pullback, shares of Applied Biosystems (NYSE:ABI) look significantly undervalued vs. strong core fundamentals.
Given the company's market leading position in its three core technology platforms, an increased focus on the applied markets and emerging geographies, and its robust new product pipeline, the firm thinks that ABI is poised for significant future growth and appreciation. They reiterate Buy rating and $42 price target and would look to add shares at these depressed price levels.
ABI remains the market leader in its 3 core platforms: mass spec, sequencing, and real-time PCR. Given the company's leverage to pharmacogenomics, proteomics, molecular diagnostics and DNA forensics, the firm anticipates that ABI's LT organic growth rate, margin structure and cash flow should be at the forefront of the Life Science Tools peer group. Additionally, the upcoming debut of its new next-gen sequencer (from Agencourt) is a prime example of the company's ability to innovate internally as well as via strategic acquisitions.
The crux of DB's upgrade of ABI shares in Sep. was the company's success in the applied markets, and that fundamental view remains unchanged.
On the valuation side, the company's forward EBITDA multiple is at 9x, well below its historical average and that of the comp group (11.4x). Additionally, the company has a forward operating cash flow yield of 7.6%, well above the previous 2 years and significantly above the comp group average of 2-3% (with a free cash flow yield of 6.3%). Given the strength in fundamental valuation vs. current trading levels, the firm thinks that now is an opportune time to add shares of ABI.
Notablecalls: Given the schmeissing this stock has experienced over the last week, I'd keep it on my radar for a possible bounce over the next couple of days.

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Telling the story of Neo, a programmer who becomes a cyberspace messiah, The Matrix combines a cyberpunk setting, dystopian philosophy, and hyper-fast cinematic action. The Matrix also featured cutting edge computer-generated visual effects, and popularized 'bullet-time' - a multi-camera technique where the camera appears to move at normal speed while the action filmed appears slowed. The Matrix was added to the U.S. National Film Registry in 2012.
IBM releases the Microdrive in 170 MB and 340 MB capacities. At the time of their introduction, they were the smallest hard drives in the world. Like all hard drives, Microdrives were mechanical and contained small, spinning disk platters, and were more prone to physical damage from temperature fluctuations and physical shock than other storage media. Hitachi purchased IBM's hard disk division in 2002, which included the Microdrive. For several years, Microdrives had more data capacity than CompactFlash cards, but were soon overtaken by the these and by USB flash drives. Many handheld, mobile devices contained embedded Microdrives for data storage.
Video applications for personal computers drive demand for increased graphical performance. A new approach, one based on a processor specially designed to manipulate graphics, was initiated and the resulting product was known as a “Graphics Processing Unit,” or “GPU.” The GeForce 256 is often thought of as the first consumer GPU, and while expensive, it sold extremely well. The GeForce 256 was designed to relieve the pressure on the central processing unit (CPU) by handling graphics calculations, while the CPU processed non-graphics intensive tasks.
The Sony AIBO, the $2,000 “Artificial Intelligence RoBOt” was a robotic pet dog designed to “learn” by interacting with its environment, its owners and other AIBOs. It responded to more than 100 voice commands and talked back in a tonal language. It was even programmed to occasionally ignore commands like its biological four-legged counterparts.
Japanese mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo creates the i-mode networking standard for mobile data in 1999. By 2002, over 34 million subscribers are using it on their phones for web access, e-mail, mobile payments, streaming video, and many other features that the rest of the world won't see for nearly another decade. The i-mode protocols, a simplified version of the standard HTML web language, are designed to work well with devices having small screens, limited buttons, and no keyboard. Related systems like WAP (Wireless Access Protocol) have fewer customers, but all of them contribute to bringing mobile browsing to a mass market.
In 1999, the growing IEEE 802.11b short-range radio networking standard is rebranded “Wi-Fi” by the Wi-Fi Alliance. This is the same year Apple releases its "Airport" Wi-Fi router and builds Wi-Fi connectivity into new Macs. These and other consumer products help popularize cable-free connections at work, in cafes, and at home.


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