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QUOTE (fathom @ Oct 5, 2014 -> 03:10 PM) Yep, hard to win with such a bad defense and special teams. This offense should be producing much more than it is.

this team is bad

naturalnews is always good for absolute crazy

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 3, 2014 -> 02:43 PM) Our efforts to build a series of isolation units/field hospitals in the hardest hit countries are currently going very poorly as well. That needs reinforced. I think the Gates Foundation has donated more than any single country has to this point.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 3, 2014 -> 03:23 PM) I've seen a couple Sox minor leaguers tweet links to articles talking about the conspiracy idea that this was created by the US for that purpose. They seem to believe it. It's amazing what some people believe, in contradiction to all things factual. Using a vaccination clinic as part of the CIA efforts to gather information on OBL in Pakistan didn't help.

To help with isolation and care efforts. I thought I heard that a bulk of the people heading over are from the Army Corps of Engineers, so they'd be helping build facilities. Similar reasons to why we sent our military in after the earthquakes in Haiti.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 3, 2014 -> 01:16 PM) Indiana Dunes is great for that, depending on the kind of terrain you are looking for. Really just anything for the experience of actually hiking a few miles with 30-50 lbs of gear and then camping for a night or two. I'll keep that in mind for the spring.

The IOC Demands That Helped Push Norway Out of Winter Olympic Bidding Are Hilarious It is now down to Almaty, Kazakhstan and Beijing.

NSS or anyone else, is there anywhere within a few hours drive from Chicago to get into some backpacking? I did some when I was in scouts, and my wife likes the idea of it, but we've never done it together yet. I'd like to be able to try it out with some small-scale hikes over a weekend without having to dedicate a trip to it.

I don't remember seeing anything about her being involved. I can't seem to find if she had health insurance through her work or not that she would have lost through being fired. There was also the case of the AOL CEO blaming several employees who had premature babies for the company's financial woes and 401(k) cutbacks

Try looking at independent stores, not just the ones in the mall.

Glacier is incredible. I will definitely be back there at some point. Yosemite is crowed on the valley floor, but like most other NP's, the crowds thin out pretty well once you get 1-2 miles in and hit some elevation changes. The Tuolumne Meadows area was less crowded and had some great hiking. We also did a little hiking at Hetch Hetchy on our way out, and that place was deserted. Zion was really nice, but there were some good crowds there as well. Angel's Landing trail was very busy. We didn't make it all the way to the top, so we ended up doing Observation Point the next day. That was a great hike as long as you started early so you weren't baking on exposed trail in the sun. The Narrows is the most unique hike I've ever done. It was the most tired I've ever been, slogging through ankle-to-waist deep water for 12 miles, but it was worth it. Depending on your driving route, I'd definitely recommend stopping at Cedar Breaks National Monument for an hour or two. If you'd be heading up to SLC or over to Bryce/Capitol Reef/Canyonlands/Arches, it's not much of a detour. We didn't a chance to check out the Kolob Canyons area, but it looked really nice from the pictures we've seen and it's definitely less crowded. I don't know how I missed the Tetons in my list. My in-laws just got back from there and Yellowstone. I'm still not sure why we live in Illinois. edit: oh and we're going to Shenandoah for a couple of days next weekend. That'll make 6 NP's and one NM this year.

I was lucky in that I had a family stone I could use for free, so I spent more on a nice setting and ended up with a ring that's appraised for 5-6x what I paid.

Specific trails: Half Dome, Yosemite Summit Rainier (got up to the Muir Snowfield in August on a day hike) The Muir Trail from Yosemite to Mt. Whitney Inca Trail to Macchu Picchu The Narrows at Zion, top to bottom (did the dayhike portion up to the first campsite in June) Kalalau Trail on the Na Pali Coast on Kauai, possibly doing this next summer if my wife and I talk ourselves into it Grand Canyon, Kaibob to Bright Angel River of No Return Wilderness rafting trip Wonderland Trail, or at least the northern portion of it Glacier NP, Swiftcurrent pass to the Granite Park chalet General places: Patagonia Acadia NP Banff Denali NP Rocky Mountain NP Alps One of the guys at my work is leaving today for a week walking Scotland and staying in bothies.

Ice caves at Mt. Rainier There are some incredible pictures

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 3, 2014 -> 09:54 AM) Just don't feel like you have to spend a certain amount on a ring just because a ring company tells you that is right. Go with what feels right. Yeah.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 3, 2014 -> 08:43 AM) New nominee for worst executive/human of the year, Michael Quinlan. Related: Layoff Letter [From Doctor] To Cancer Stricken Employee Sparks Outrage

Finally a good game from lacey

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 2, 2014 -> 10:30 AM) No. I DVR'd it. The last day on Comcast ON Demand is today. They already took the full videos down off of PBS's website. Yeah, I was really annoyed to find that out two nights ago. They pulled it off of the PBS Roku app as well. Pirate Bay here I come!

So why is our infant mortality so bad?

Ebola Patient Thomas Eric Duncan's Nephew: I Had to Call CDC "I called CDC to get some actions taken, because I was concerned for his life and he wasn't getting the appropriate care," Duncan's nephew, Josephus Weeks, told NBC News on Wednesday night. "I feared other people might also get infected if he wasn't taken care of, and so I called them to ask them why is it a patient that might be suspected of this disease was not getting appropriate care?"

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 2, 2014 -> 01:32 PM) I should also add, if "testing people who just flew from Africa for ebola who have symptoms similar to those of the flu" takes some time, quarantine them and test them for the flu. If that comes back positive, maybe you worry less. That is the protocol under the Ebola Virus Disease Algorithm for Returned Traveler that I linked earlier: http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/pdf/ebola-algorithm.pdf If they present with 101.5 degree fever or higher and have been to Ebola-infected areas within 21 days, the first steps are to isolate, increase disease spread precautions, and immediately notify the health department. It seems like there were major chain of communication problems with the hospital, regardless of whether the CDC algorithm would ultimately have indicated that testing was necessary.

I actually mixed up Conte's pick and Fuller's second pick. That second throw to Fuller was a bad throw by Kapernick, but Fuller still had to make a good play on the ball. Conte's pick was a great athletic play. Fuller's first pick was him hiding in the coverage and making a great play on the ball. Yeah, a perfect throw doesn't get picked there, but it was still a decent throw.

To answer one of greg's questions in the op, yes this is a very big deal in Africa. Current projections are that the spread won't peak until January, and by that point 1.4 million people will have been infected. Last I read, the mortality rates for this particular strain of EBV were 50-60% reported but thought to be higher due to under-reporting in many areas. Frontline had an episode on the outbreak a few weeks back.

The procedure is specifically for EBV outbreaks and includes branching paths based on potential EBV exposure. I don't know how many people fly from Sierra Leone, Liberia or Nigeria to the US and then go to the hospital for one reason or another within three weeks, but if it's a decent amount of people*, you need to find a way to screen out who actually should be tested. *I don't know what sort of resources are available for EBV testing and what would count as enough people that testing all of them would overwhelm the system and create a backlog where more likely cases don't get tested quickly enough.