mothboy88
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Hey, wouldn't it be great if the gov't could provide LTD insurance for all?
They do. Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). But you are not going to be living the high life on SSDI.
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I buy a comprehensive version of Lifewise for myself. I haven't used it much, but I have no complaints. I got it on the reccomendation of an insurance broker who has proven to be quite helpful with navigating health and life insurance issues. PM if you want his contact info.
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While the story is kinda funny, another digital manipulation of photo journalism is very disheartening.
Photo's have been "manipulated" as long as there has been photography.
And here I thought those old 1940 postcards with 4 foor tall apples labeled "Greetings from Washington" were real until now.
My perception is that there is a lot more overt changes being made to photos that appear in newspapers these days (a la the LA times photo a few years ago where they merged two photos together and some people appeared twice in the same shot). Most of them seem fairly harmless when uncovered, but I think its an incredibly slippery slope that "photo-journalists" and editors are tiptoeing down.
I did just find the link to the article about the topic: Potty Note Photo Story
Here is some text from the article:
"Once he saw what it said, Hershorn decided the note was interesting and worth publishing. The white parts of the picture were overexposed, so a Reuters processor used Photoshop to burn down the note. This is a standard practice for news photos, Hershorn says, and the picture was not manipulated in any other way."
That doesn't sound so bad upon reviewing it; I imagine that isn't that different from what a person might do in a darkroom. I was imagining someone going in and using photoshop to write the text.
Anyway, so much for my thread drift.
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This a headline on Drudge:
"REUTERS has acknowledged Bush 'Potty Note' photo was enhanced via Photoshop... "
But his link to the story is dead.
If he is right (there is always a big IF with Drudge) then it looks like the story is real but they had to mess with the writing to make it legible (and not tell anyone it was enhanced). While the story is kinda funny, another digital manipulation of photo journalism is very disheartening.
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I spoke to a reputable auto body repair shop today and asked the following question. If I pay out of pocket, does the VIN number go into a database and my insurance company finds out? He said absolutley not; they don't enter it into a database.
So my next question was how do Carfax or similar reports get off saying they provide a comprehensive collision histories for vehicles? The auto body guy said they have often wondered the same thing.
Thanks for the input. It appears its better to bite the bullet and pay out of pocket now than possibly cause more grief/cost later.
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Unfortuntley the company is USAA. They don't have local agents like other companies, just a big calling center that always demands an insurance number before questions are asked. In some of the info I have read in my searches, it is said that many insurance companies keep records of all damage inquiries even if they don't turn into claims. And this info will go into a profile that is shared with other insurance companies.
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That is the question.
Lets say two people who are tight get into a small fender bender with each other. Its a low speed affair. No airbag deployment, no injuries, no hard feelings. One of the cars gets a hole punched into the fiberglass bumper and the corner of the hood is bent a little.
Would you claim the damage if you knew the repair would cost way more than your deductable? Or would you pay out of pocket to keep an unsullied driving record clean and prevent your rates from going up?
If you do pay out of pocket, does the insurance company find out anyway?
I am having trouble finding answers to these questions through google. Perhaps there is a vast insurance conspiracy to suppress such knowledge. Perhaps I just didn't search hard enough. Either way, if anyone who reads this can shed some insight to the dilema, it would be appreciated.
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Thread Recap:<BR>1. Rumor stated<BR>2. Rumor supported by ranom speculation<BR>3. More speculation<BR>4. Rumor shown to be incorrect by informed source<BR>5. Informed source advised not to take board seriously - dude<BR>6. Detailed information offered in support of above speculation<BR>7. Detailed information shown to be way off<BR>8. Request by regulars for less boring topic such as chicks and conspiracies
as well. Do you mind doing a "nodder" synopsis? I just don't have the time to even begin reading that one, but I am curious... -
Check your PMs.
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I find it an interesting phenomenon that most of the time I read some back and forth rants about abortion, it's always between a bunch of men.....
I find it interesting phenomenon that most of the time I read back and forth rants on CC.Com, its almost always between a bunch of men....
It can't be news to any of you that this forum tends to trend a bit heavy on Y chromosomes.
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This is not, repeat not, an "access issue" in any real sense. Nor is nearby thread on proposed wilderness designation.
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You are obviously not a wheelchair user who would like to get to a campground.
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OK, so I am sold on skipping Cream Lake. My maps don't label Stephen Lake. I am assuming that is the lake that is a bit north west of Stephen Peak. Does that sound right?
Also, I wanted to seek some opinions. Lets say I entered in from the Soleduck and wanted to exit out the Elwah valley. If I went all the way down the traverse to Mount Barnes, would you suggest returning to Lake Mills via the Elwha snow finger and hiking the whole river, or backtracking a bit and exiting the range via Dodger Point?
Thanks for all the advice.
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It has been that price for many years.
then it must be the crack.
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Dude you are wrong. As I suggested it is more than the boat rental per day. A one way portage is $25, so $50 smackers total, see the link
http://www.rosslakeresort.com/info.html
Word though on checking in and reserving the campsites cause you do need an individual permit for each night for each campsite.
Wow, they must have jacked the price up since last summer. Or maybe I have been smoking crack.
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Greg,
I've been going to Crown Hill Vet Hospital for about 2.5 years with my Newfie, who has a little hip dysplasia and a genetic digestive disease. Had a bad experience at Phinney Ridge with a rather alarmist, arrogant person. I love the vets at Crown Hill for their reasonableness and willingness to give me all the options instead of just the one they think I should pursue. Phone is 206-782-6363, and they're open on weekends, too.
I have had really good experiences with Crown Hill also. They offer most services (including ACL repair for my lab mix)and can board your dog if needed. They are open after work too. My dog gets excited to go there even in spite of having had surgery there, so they must haver treated her well behind closed doors.
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I kayaked up there last summer. I think they charged $15 for the portage, one way. So it seems like it would be cheaper (if you had a free boat on loan) to paddle to the dam if you were gonna be out there multiple days. Plus, the paddle through the gorge of upper Diablo Lake is one of the best parts of the trip.
Word to the mosiquito repellant suggestion.
Also, (in case you don't already know) you have to pick your campsites for each night when you pick up your permit. So you might want to check out the map ahead of time so you aren't totally put on the spot. Course some campsites may be filled. The ranger station has pictures of the campsites if you are still deciding.
Have fun. Its a beautiful place.
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I think there were a couple bolted routes just below the lower dam on river left. I could very well be wrong. I asked some people about the lines there and they said the rock was crappy and it wasn't worth the time. But this is a pretty foggy memory from about 10 years back. I am sure there is better beta out there.
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This thread seems like it should be in the access forum, but more people will probably be alerted to the issue here.
The following link is to a page that describes the road project and has a questionairre. Go to the survey link and you can review the road proposals and tell them what you think.
This link below has an article from a group American Whitewater regarding the MF issue. Definately has a slant to boaters but has a pretty good synopsis of whats going on with the managment planning.
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I just read the article. I agree. I really find the text of National Geographic articles to be consistently uninspiring. There seems to be a cliched style that is a bit too vague and sterile. But, as is often said about other more scandalous magazines, I don't get it for the articles...
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I got the new National Geographic in the mail yesterday (July 2004 Edition) about the Olympic National Park. I haven't read the whole article yet but the author seemed pretty entranced. It opens up with some statment like the Olympics make for the best landscape in America or something like that.
The photos of many familiar scenes were great.
I have to admit that part of me wished that this kind of exposure didn't occur so we can try in vain to keep the Olympics a secret.
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Thanks for the info Gaboit and Erez. I unfortunatly have a finite window to do the trip in. I can start on a Sunday but have plane tickets to go to Alaska the following Friday evening. Maybe it would be best to save the Bailey Range for a time when I didn't have to worry about the time table too much.
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OK, this is a really long post below but it probably gives the best answer to the question.
The following is taken from the book Or They Will Perish by David J Peck,DO, pages 248-252.
Clark met a difficult and interesting case of "loss of uce of their limbs," an "extraordinary complaint" in which "a Chief of Considerable note.. .has been in the Situation I see him for 5 years, this man is incapable of moveing a single limb but lies like a corps in whatever position he is placed, yet he eats hartily, dejests his Food perfectly, enjoys his under standing, his pulse are good, and has retained his flesh almost perfectly; in Short were it not that he appears a little pale from having been So long in the Shade, he might well be taken for a man in good health," Clark later recorded that he prescribed cold baths, and left a few doses of cream of tartar and Rowers of sulphur as a cathartic, to be given every three days. Dr. Clark also recommended that the man eat more meat and fewer plants.On the 13th and 14th, the Corps moved to campsite near present-day Kamiah, Idaho, where they would stay for the third-longest time of the whole trek, until June 10. Seven weeks of travel time had not been sufficient to allow for spring to do her work: there was still too much snow on the peaks to pass over the Bitterroots back to the plains of the Missouri. The men passed time with various activities aside from the constant action of the hunters and cooks. Games played included foot races between the men of the Corps and the Nez Perce. Shooting matches were held, and Lewis baffled the Indians, whose bows and arrows had a range of probably thirty yards, with his marksmanship and the power or his flintlock and its range of more than two hundred yards. The Nez Perce displayed their fabulous talents at horsemanship. Team games, including one called Prison Base, an 1806 version of Capture the Flag, cut some of the layover's tedium, and provided the men with some run as well as the conditioning they would soon need to conquer the Bitter roots. Cruzatte played his fiddle on occasion and both the men or Corps as well as the Indians danced for each other's entertainment.
Dr. Clark continued to offer his clinic. Two weeks after the pararlytic chief came to the captains' attention, Private William Bratton was still suffering with his back problem that had hegun at Fort Clatsop. Lewis noted (hat "he eats heartily digests his food well, and his recovererd his flesh almost perfectly yet is so weak in the loins that he is scarcely able to walk four or five steps, nor can he set upwright but with the greatest pain." John Shields now came up with an idea. He had seen men with similar complaints cured by sweating in a hot house. Bratton was game for anything after months of pain and asked for the procedure. Shields dug a hole four feet deep and three feet in diameter. A large fire was built inside the hole and removed once the earth was heated. The patient was placed on a seat inside the hole and an awning of blankets over willow poles was erected to cover the pit. Bratton was stripped naked, given some water to sprinkle inside to produce "as much steam or vapor as he could possibly bear," and left inside for about twenty minutes. Then he was taken out of the hole and put into icy water not once, but twice. He was then returned to the sweat hole for another round of forty-five minutes. After that he was wrapped in blankets and allowed to cool gradually while drinking "copious draughts of a strong tea" of horse-nettle.
By the following day, Bratton was amazingly "walking about today and says he is nearly free from pain." As Gary E. Moulton notes, various explanations have been offered to account for Bratton's lengthy back problem.7 Some have suggested an abdominal infection but, given the history and remarkable recovery, I don't know what these theorists could be thinking about. Bratton simply didn't have any evidence that anything was wrong with his abdomen. The possibility of a herniated disc in his spine should be considered given the lengthy period of pain. Over the two-month period, it is possible that the disc material healed but some muscular spasms continued, which could have been relieved by the hot/cold treatments. From my personal experience with back pain, my vote goes to the possibility that Bratton never did rupture a disc, and simply was suffering from a bad case of degenerative disc disease and the arthritis that accompanied it. Or on a less likely note, he was malingering and simply decided that after the sweating it was time to stop faking his pain. Whatever the reason for Bratton's problem, he started feeling remarkably better after his treatments of frontier physical therapy.
That same day of Bratton's improvement, the Nez Perce arrived bearing the mysteriously paralyzed chief. Lewis observed that "this poor wretch thinks that he feels himself of somewhat better but to me there appears to be no visible alteration, we are at a loss what to do for this unfortunate man." So, they comforted him with a little laudanum—for who knows what reason—and some of the rancid portable soup.
By the- next day, Clark had an idea. If it worked for Bratlon, maybe it would work for the chief. On the 25th of May, they lowered the chief into the sweat hole. But the captains' inability to secure the chief led to the therapy's being cut short when the patient was unable to sit up. Two days later (after a day given to serious hunting and food-trading), the hole was enlarged and the man's father went in with him to support him during treatment. After the sweating, the chief was in considerable pain, a problem relieved with thirty drops of laudanum. On the 28th, Lewis noted an amazing discovery. "The sick Cheif was much better this morning he can use his hands and arms and sems much pleased with the prospect of recovering, he says he feels much better than he has for a great number of months." The following day the man "washed his face himself today which he has been unable to do previously for more than twelvemonths." On the 30th, after another treatment, the chief "could move one of his legs and thyes and work his toes pretty well, the other leg he can move a little; his fingers and arms seem to be almost entirely restored."
What could have accounted for this illness and its apparent remarkable recovery by nothing more than the sweating treatments? The possibility that there was something truly wrong with the man's bodily functions, that he was paralyzed or so weak he could not move, and yet responded so remarkably to the sweating treatments, in my mind is zero. Paralysis-producing diseases to consider in this case could include a ruptured disc in his neck, putting pressure on his spinal cord and resulting in a near-total body paralysis. If this were the case, he would need immediate spinal surgery to solve the problem and he would not have gotten well with sweating. Various other abnormalities of the brain or spinal cord could produce such pathology, but again would not respond to sweating. The mysterious Guillain-Barre syndrome can produce profound muscle weakness without a wasting of muscle mass in the involved limbs. This disease can be preceded by mild respiratory or gastrointestinal infection, followed by progressive bodily weakness. It can also be associated with infectious mononucleosis, hepatitis, or diphtheria. At times the syndrome can be fatal, but total recovery is seen in up to 75 percent of victims. The recovery usually occurs in a few weeks or month, but may take as long as six to eighteen months. Although some factors of the chief's illness may fit, the entire picture does not, and it does not make sense to diagnose the man with Guil-lain-Barre syndrome.
Another possible explanation goes down the path of psychiatry. It is possible that the chief was suffering a mental disorder manifesting itself in an apparent bodily disease. A person suffering from this problem may not have voluntary control over physical symptoms. In an illness termed Somatization Disorder, the victim has symptoms suggestive of physical illness without any known physiological cause. It is believed that psychological conflicts or unfulfilled needs may result in this problem. We can't do a physical exam and lab tests on the Nez Perce chief, but we do know that he recovered his functional health by way of a treatment that would not heal any known physical cause of his symptoms. We also can't conduct an interview with him to assess his mental state. Could there have been something in his psychological past that could have resulted in his problem? It seems more likely to assign his problem to this cause than any of the other organic problems we have discussed. His recovery after being treated by a white man who was believed to have great medical powers — and possessed such fantastic items as compasses, magnifying lenses, and magnets — may have been a psychological cure of a grand scale.
Showing his up-to-the-minute medical knowledge, Lewis had expressed his wish that he had some electricity available to treat the chief's problem. The study of medical applications of electricity in the early 1800s was in its infancy. As a result of the discovery by Galvani and Volta in the latter 1700s that nerve and muscle function was dependent on electrical principles, numerous electrical treatment fads had developed. One was Englishman James Graham's "Temple of Health," where patients underwent mild electrical stimulation while they watched dancing girls.9 Benjamin Franklin had experimented with electricity in treatment of some paralytics brought to him in hopes of a cure from their disease by being "electrised," in Franklin's term. Franklin was apparently able to temporarily help some of those he treated who had unclear neurologic/muscular problems, but did not achieve any permanent successes. Electricity, by the time of Lewis's 1803 training, had developed a following among the medical and scientific community in hopes that it might be a cure-all for many mysterious ailments.
to Dru. Looks like you made the best guess.I have worked with a few people with somatosization disorders. I consider myself a pretty patient guy, but I still have a part of me that just wants to shake the guy and say "Dude, snap the hell out of it." But that goes against all reccomended treatment protocols.
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This is a pretty old thread here but I wanted to resurrect it to ask this question of those :
How many days is does it reasonably take to do the Bailey traverse in August? I have heard 4 or 5 days.
Also - What alpine gear would you suggest having at that time of the year?
I am in the very initial stages of planning a trip out there and would appreciate feedback from those of you who have doen it. Thanks
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I have been working through Anna Karenina for the last couple weeks. My wife just informed me that its now the new Oprah Book Club selection. What the hell? Since when did Oprah try to get America to read Tolstoy? Now everyone is gonna give me crap about being a minion of Oprah.
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If anyone is up for a valiant but likely futile exercise, check out the comment section under one of the Seattle PI articles regarding the lost snowboarders at Crystal. Lots of people talkign about the cost of searches and how the families should be fined. Even one person announcing that its no longer a search but a recovery. Anyway, I figured it would be nice to get more comments from people who actually know what they are talking about.
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