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A Celebration of his life will be at 2 p.m. Friday Sept. 5, 2014, at the Presbyterian Church of the Big Wood in Ketchum.
Friends are invited to visit www.woodriverchapel.com to share memories, photos and light a candle.
Behind the Christmas folktale, there's a grain of truth.
See how Hugo tracked a moose mother and her calf through 4000 square miles of wilderness.
Why Do Moose Enjoy Licking Cars?
Winter brings icy road conditions and a surprise treat for moose.
For moose, swimming is an important survival skill.
A parasite normally found in deer is wreaking havoc in moose brains.
Joe Hutto is included in a profound moment of reunion among a mule deer herd.
Joe Hutto won full acceptance from the herd of wild mule deer.
A profound moment of bonding occurs for Hutto when mule deer Rag Tag begins to groom him.
For Joe Hutto, there is no such thing as conducting a typical research project.
A behind-the-scenes look at filming whitetailed deer for the PBS Nature film.
Whitetailed deer are expert jumpers, clearing fences over 8 feet without a running start.
The rare ghost deer are whitetailed deer, colored completely white.
An abandoned fawn is taken in by a Great Dane.
Huge herds of caribou play an integral role in shaping the Arctic landscape.
U.S. Representative Beto O'Rourke and U.S. Senator Ted Cruz will debate tonight in Dallas.
Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and his Democratic challenger Beto O'Rourke will square off tonight in the first of three debates.
The series opener takes place at 6 p.m. at Southern Methodist University, with the next two are scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 30 in Houston and Tuesday, Oct. 16, in San Antonio.
But don't worry if you can't make the jaunt up I-35.
Alamo City residents can livestream tonight's debate via the website of KXAS-TV, the Dallas NBC affiliate; the Dallas Morning News website; and the Texas Tribune. San Antonio's Texas Public Radio will carry it on air.
For those who like watching with a partisan support group, the O'Rourke campaign has organized a San Antonio watch party at Burleson Beer Garden, and there's also one sponsored by the Bexar County Democratic Party. We couldn't find a local Cruz-sponsored event (but please let us know if you're aware of one).
Nonpartisan-and-boozy also looks to be an option. El Luchador is holding an unofficial watch party, as is the Alamo Drafhouse in New Braunfels.
NORWALK >> Norwalk police say they have arrested a high school student after discovering she created a “hit list” of 29 other students.
Authorities disclosed Thursday the girl was charged Monday with 29 counts of misdemeanor breach of peace. Her name was not released because of juvenile offender laws.
Lt. Terrence Blake says Norwalk police began investigating Saturday after someone found a letter the girl wrote in January that listed the 29 other Norwalk High School students and threatened to harm them.
Blake says it was a “veiled” threat and authorities don’t believe the girl had access to weapons. He says it’s not clear why she was upset at other students.
School officials say they contacted parents of students mentioned in the letter Sunday night.
At 2560 x 1600 we're just 2 FPS away from that 60 FPS average we want to see with the overclocked HD 5830 from HIS. A small detail drop would get us that extra few FPS, though. As for the other resolutions, we see a nice little bump in performance.
MRI may be an effective way to diagnose mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder, according to experts from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. In a landmark study using advanced techniques, the researchers were able to correctly distinguish bipolar patients from healthy individuals based on their brain scans alone. The data are published in the journal Psychological Medicine.
Currently, most mental illnesses are diagnosed based on symptoms only, creating an urgent need for new approaches to diagnosis. In bipolar disorder, there may be a significant delay in diagnosis due to the complex clinical presentation of the illness. In this study, Sophia Frangou, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Chief of the Psychosis Research Program at the Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai teamed up with Andy Simmons, MD, of the Kings College London and Janaina Mourao-Miranda, MD, of University College London, to explore whether brain imaging could help correctly identify patients with bipolar disorder.
"Bipolar disorder affects patients' ability to regulate their emotions successfully, which puts them at great disadvantage in their lives," said Dr. Frangou. "The situation is made worse by unacceptably long delays, sometimes of up to 10 years, in making the correct diagnosis. Bipolar disorder may be easily misdiagnosed for other disorders, such as depression or schizophrenia. This is why bipolar disorder ranks among the top ten disorders causing significant disability worldwide."
Dr. Frangou and her team used MRI to scan the brains of people with bipolar disorder and of healthy individuals. Using advanced computational models, they were successful in correctly separating people with bipolar disorder from healthy individuals with 73 percent accuracy using their brain imaging scans alone. They replicated their finding in a separate group of patients and healthy individuals and found a 72 percent accuracy rate.
Dr. Simmons added, "The level of accuracy we achieved is comparable to that of many other tests used in medicine. Additionally, brain scanning is very acceptable to patients as most people consider it a routine diagnostic test."
"This approach does not undermine the importance of rigorous clinical assessment and the importance of building relationships with patients but provides biological justification for the type of diagnosis made," said Dr. Frangou. "However, diagnostic imaging for psychiatry is still under investigation and not ready for widespread use. Nonetheless, our results together with those from other labs are a harbinger of a major shift in the way we approach diagnosis in psychiatry."
Dr. Frangou recently joined Mount Sinai as Chief of the Psychosis Research Program in the Division of Psychiatric Genomics in the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai. A leading authority on neuroimaging in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Dr. Frangou was recruited to Mount Sinai to establish a clinical and translational psychosis program. By building on Mount Sinai's strengths in clinical investigation, the program aims to translate research in genetics, neuroimaging, and neurobiology into clinical trials and clinical care.
The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of M. "Pioneering Study Demonstrates Benefit Of Imaging Technique In Identifying Bipolar Disorder." Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 10 Jun. 2013. Web.
It is about time Stagecoach did something about the poor service it runs on longer distance routes.
Over the years it has amalgamated different routes into one so one has to go ‘all around the houses’ to get anywhere. In the last three weeks during my bus travels two 98 and two 51 buses have not turned up. If travelling towards Eastbourne at least one has the chance of something eventually turning up, but what about people who only have these particular buses to rely on?
Stagecoach also seems to use its most run-down buses on the longer routes whereas their newer stock stays within the town area. This morning the 98 due out of Eastbourne about 8.40am got as far as just off the dual carriageway into Hailsham when it came to a halt. The driver got off with a mobile and stood outside. She then started the bus only to get off again onto her mobile.
We just sat there while she stayed outside. After some while she got back on again but said nothing. Someone then called out “what is going on?” and she said the bus had overheated and she was waiting for an engineer to come either from Eastbourne or Hastings. Some passengers got off, but too far for me to walk into Hailsham so I asked if she could trundle the bus a bit closer to the town, but she said no.
As no more information was forthcoming (she could see I was on a walking stick) I got off and waited hoping I could flag a bus down coming into Hailsham thinking that she could have found out this information and assisted, but obviously public relations is not part of their training!
I had to abort my journey as I would have been too late arriving in Bexhill, got into Hailsham on the next bus and came home. It’s a pity there is not a compensation system like the air and train services, but I guess Stagecoach would be overwhelmed! No wonder people are not leaving their cars to use public transport.
Parliament must “seriously consider” levying a tax on meat to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help to render the farming industry carbon neutral, the Green party MP, Caroline Lucas, is urging.
She will say on Friday that a meat tax in the UK could be offset for more sustainable meat producers, such as organic livestock farmers, through more money for sustainable agriculture schemes.
Lucas will tell the Oxford Farming Conference, an annual gathering of farmers from across the UK, that the country must prioritise “more humane and human-scale methods of livestock farming, together with support for farmers to transition to less livestock”.
“If the world’s diet doesn’t change, we simply can’t avoid the worst effects of climate change,” Lucas will say, in a stark warning timed to coincide with the push for people to adopt a vegan diet for a month, the “Veganuary” movement.
She said that it would take “more than motivated consumers to bring about sustainability” in agriculture. Globally, livestock rearing is estimated to be responsible for about 15% of greenhouse gas emissions.
Lucas has tabled a parliamentary motion to require farming to be net zero in emissions as quickly as possible, which would involve ways to reduce fertiliser use and increase the amount of organic matter in the nation’s soils, both issues that Michael Gove, the environment secretary, also espouses.
But the notion of Veganuary has come under attack from some at the conference, with the National Sheep Association (NSA) claiming the movement, which encourages people to give up animal products for the month and consider permanent changes to their diet for health and environmental reasons, was part of a “campaign against livestock farming”.
Phil Stocker, chief executive of the NSA, defended British sheep farming as working to improve the environment rather than causing damage to it. “Our concern is that our unique, grass-based method of sheep production in Britain is hidden within more global and general statistics,” he said.
He contrasted the UK’s sheep farming, which includes many upland areas unsuitable for other forms of agriculture and is one of the least intensive forms of livestock farming, with the megafarms and feedlots that characterise beef, pork and poultry production in many parts of the world, chiefly the US but increasingly being brought to the UK.
“We are seeing criticisms from welfare campaigners, rewilders, climate change campaigners and health campaigners – but all these are connected and ignore the fact that UK sheep farming works very much in harmony with our environment, our landscapes and our human ecology, creating a countryside the majority of the public love and producing a food product that is healthy and nutritious within a balanced diet,” he said.
Stocker said he opposed a meat tax: “The right meat, consumed sensibly, should be incentivised and not taxed. Sheep production is not damaging to the environment or to health – sheep mainly eat grass and grass is part of a complex and natural cycling of carbon, with soil storing carbon in organic matter.
Earlier Gove told the conference that advances in synthetic biology meant that in the future we would be able to create traditional farming products such as meat, milk or eggs in laboratories, adding that “the potential for Britain to lead in this revolution is huge”.
Published: Dec. 27, 2017 at 01:08 p.m.
Updated: April 5, 2018 at 07:16 p.m.
For the third time, Greg Olsen is the Carolina Panthers' nominee for the esteemed Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award.
"It's tremendously humbling," the standout tight end told NFL.com. "This is the third time to be nominated by the Panthers -- a organization that has a lot of other well-deserving players that they could have chosen from that are not only good players but also do a lot in the community. To be chosen three years in a row -- and last year to be a finalist -- has been truly humbling and something I'm proud and appreciative of. It's not something that I take lightly."
For Olsen, personal experiences inspired him to give back to his community.
"When I was a junior in high school, my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer," Olsen said. "To see her struggle and go through chemo, radiation and surgery, and all those things made a huge impact on us as a family. ... That was something we always said if we were able to make a difference, we would try to do so."
In 2009, Olsen created Receptions for Research: The Greg Olsen Foundation. The foundation's Receiving Hope program focuses on cancer research and education programming. The program has distributed over $524,000 to six hospitals and foundations nationwide, with fundraising events led by Olsen.
When adversity struck the Olsen family again, the tight end saw it as another way to broaden the foundation’s objectives.
"In 2012, I had a son born with very severe congenital heart defect that was life-threatening and required him to go through a series of open-heart surgeries, as young as two days old, and subsequent other procedures," Olsen said. "[This experience] opened our eyes to these families out there. From that point forward, we went full speed ahead on growing our foundation and growing our platform with this new cause that is very near and dear to our heart. In the last five years, to see how far it's grown and the amount of money we've brought in and the amount of the families we've been able to help has been one of the biggest things in our life."
Olsen traveled to Raleigh, North Carolina, in February 2013 to lobby the North Carolina House of Representatives for legislation that would require mandatory heart disease screenings for newborns. The bill was ratified in July 2014.
Additionally, Olsen and his wife Kara founded The HEARTest Yard Fund in 2013.
"Our main efforts for our foundation is our HEARTest Yard program that we run here in Charlotte at Levine Children's Hospital," Olsen said. "We just launched a couple weeks ago -- my wife and I and our foundation are funding the first of its kind in our region -- a cardiovascular and neurodevelopment center that we're going to open here in the next six to 12 months. This clinic will be a huge game-changer for families of our region -- the cardiac families that we support. Through our HEARTest Yard program we've given millions of dollars to the hospital.
"We provide a service of free in-home health care: doctors, nurses, therapists, tailor-made to each individual family upon discharge following their first open-heart procedure. It kind of carries them through the next four to six months of transitioning. ... We've been contacted by other centers throughout the country to take our model and take our template and take it to those cities. Right now, our main goal is to completely fund, service the hospital that we have here in Charlotte before we move onto other areas."
On the field, 2017 has been less than ideal for Olsen, who battled a foot injury that sidelined him for most of the regular season. Though the Panthers were without their top tight end, they remained competitive and are heading to the NFC playoffs.
"It's been a tough year, personally, just dealing with injury and struggling with that for the first time in my career," Olsen said. "... We're right in the hunt, the guys have done a great job all year ... and controlling our own fate has been a great position to be in."
The Panthers clinched a playoff berth last week and square off against the Atlanta Falcons in their final regular-season tilt on Sunday.
To further celebrate the 32 team nominees, Nationwide, the presenting sponsor of the award, is promoting the third annual Charity Challenge. Fans are encouraged to post #WPMOYChallenge and their favorite nominee's last name on social media through Sunday, Jan. 7. The nominee who receives the most hashtag mentions will receive an additional $25,000 donation to his charity of choice from Nationwide. The runner-up will receive $10,000 and third place will receive $5,000.
Insider Media Limited is one of the UK’s fastest growing, regional, B2B multimedia companies and is looking for a new recruit to join our market-leading online team.
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Digital is a fast growing division within Insider Media and has enormous potential. The company strategy is to develop In Print, In Person and On Line. These are done through regional centres in Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Birmingham, Bristol and Cardiff. The digital news team is based in our head office in Manchester. Insider as a media brand produces monthly magazines read by more than 200,000 company directors and business owners, and will stage 185 events in the next 12 months. Insider’s online newsletter subscriber base is above 120,000 across the UK and continues to grow in every region.
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Rene A. Henry has authored 10 books and his career includes more than 50 years internationally in public relations and sports marketing and five decades in sports at the Olympic, international, collegiate, professional and recreational level. As a volunteer he and his firm directed the international media campaign that led to the selection of Los Angeles as the site for the 1984 Olympic Games. Many of his articles are posted on his website at www.renehenry.com.
I spent a good portion of one of my mornings last week in a meeting. That part is not unusual. What was unusual was the topic: I'm on a committee that has the unenviable task of evaluating my employer's health care coverage and sorting out competing offers from insurance companies who say, very earnestly, that they want our business but don't seem to be all that interested in giving it to us at a price any of us can afford. This week we'll double our pleasure (maybe even quadruple it) when four separate insurance companies come to town to pitch their products to us. They say they'll be serving lunch that day, but I'm hoping for something stronger.
Sitting through the meeting last week I couldn't help but flash at times to thoughts about our education system and where it may be headed. It seems reasonable to me to think that the health care "industry," as we call it, offers a cautionary tale for those of us concerned about the future of public education. Let me see if I can explain what I mean.
We all probably know the outlines of the problem where health care is concerned: health care costs have been accelerating at an unsustainable pace, and finding a way to ensure that everyone has affordable coverage is becoming more and more difficult. (Astute observers will note that this is a problem across a number of different areas of our economy, from housing to higher education; if you're really astute, you'll notice that the trend is not confined to a single industry but is, instead, a symptom of something larger—which should, if you're really really astute, lead you to the conclusion that it's not individual industries like health care or the housing market or colleges and universities that are irrevocably broken but something else that might be causing the distress. But we'll come back to that in a minute.) Some years ago we made a political commitment (well, some of us did) to addressing a few of the shortcomings in our health care system—a lack of coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, insurers that kicked children off their parents' plans, people simply forgoing insurance altogether—via the Affordable Care Act (ACA). I think it's safe to say that we're in a better place, collectively, than we were six years ago.
What hasn't worked, of course, is that ACA ("Obamacare") was layered on top of an existing health care delivery system that pulls in a very different direction than ACA does. Where the Affordable Care Act is designed to push us closer to the goal of universal health coverage as a fundamental right, the system we have for making sure that happens is a private, profit-driven one motivated by an entirely different set of concerns. In other words, we took a top public priority and asked the private sector to manage its implementation. The results, to my eye, have been pretty predictable. They have been messy, expensive, and unsatisfying.
The system is messy, expensive, and unsatisfying because private insurers are necessarily driven by the need to make their businesses profitable. To do that they offer us choices—lots and lots of choices. Because it's very difficult to get hundreds (or even thousands) of people to agree on what they want, insurance companies offer us customized plans in an effort to please everybody. Some have higher deductibles. Some require higher co-pays for office visits or emergency room trips. Some increase the limit of out-of-pocket costs in a given year. All encourage us to make risky decisions about our health coverage and finances by offering up a slew of different options that essentially boil down to a simple choice: do you want to pay more now and protect yourself from a possible financial catastrophe later, or do you want to roll the dice and pay less up front, hoping that the catastrophe never comes?
What bothers me about this is not only that it forces people to make excruciatingly difficult decisions for themselves (and their families) without having all the information laid out in front of them, but that it also, by giving us the illusion of choice, leads us to think that ultimately we're responsible for how things turn out. So you chose that plan with low deductible and the much higher out-of-pocket costs? Well, you shouldn't have gotten sick then. We all get sick eventually. Why didn't you plan ahead?
In the process we forget the fact that maybe we shouldn't have had to make that decision in the first place. I know that sounds naive—if everybody gets a Cadillac health plan, we're told, we'll all just give up on trying to be healthy and take advantage of the system and costs will spiral out of control—but just because we're told that doesn't make it true. Remember: the folks making that argument are the ones ultimately paying the bill, after your premium is accounted for, and they need to make their investment in this market profitable. They have an incentive to make an argument like that. We could, if we wanted to, build a system that substituted security for choice, a system based on the principle that protecting your health, and the health of your loved ones, is more important than having the right to make a choice. We could focus our resources on that, instead of trying to negotiate our needs through a middleman.
Of course we can't have that system as long as insurance companies have to find a way to finagle a profit out of us in the process. And this is where we circle back to the education system. Why would we trade a system that ensures that every single child has access to education for one resembling our health care system? Choice is all the rage in education circles right now. We seem to believe, against almost all available evidence, that simply giving parents a choice about where their kids go to school will inevitably make our system better. We're even willing to let for-profit players enter the space. If parents get to choose then schools will have to compete for students, we're told. That competition will make them better. Is that how it's working where your health insurance company is concerned?
Okay, then, we're told. At least we have to admit that the system has failed too many kids for too long. Breaking up the "government school monopoly" will bring much-needed innovation to the education sector and give those kids who have been left behind a fighting chance at a good life. But the idea that public schools are a government-run monopoly is simply a fantasy. Our tradition of local control ensures that the people running our schools at different levels of government—many of them popularly-elected members of school boards—are as different from each other as the day is long.
The truth is that our ongoing national experiment with school choice has simply reinforced the idea that not all schools are the same—I like to think we knew that already—and that the people running them are really the variables that determine their effectiveness. The only thing school choice has definitively proven is that giving people more options doesn't, by itself, improve the system. Maybe, in fact, the people running individual schools—and the people responsible for providing them with adequate resources—are where we should focus our energy. Maybe structural change, in the form of more choices, isn't what we need. Maybe we need to place more emphasis on making sure that every kid attends a school with adequate resources and is taught by teachers who have been professionally trained and are compensated like professionals too. Addressing these fundamentals would be a better use of time and resources than experimenting with an approach that can't be harnessed, let alone controlled, because it introduces unnecessary complexity into the system.
To me the only choice we need to make is this one: we need to commit to public education for everybody, not just for those lucky enough to win an enrollment lottery or lucky enough to have parents who live in the right zip code. The illusion of choice, as it exists now, simply helps redirect resources away from the places where they're needed most. The only people who really have choices—and this is true both in health care in in education—are the ones who already have the most resources to begin with. In the end, it's not a "government monopoly" that's crippling our potential; it's power exercised in cruel, unreasonable, and arbitrary ways to ensure that some people get advatanges others can only dream of. If that's not the definition of tyranny I don't know what is.