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For War's Gravely Injured, Challenge To Find Care
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Topic: For War's Gravely Injured, Challenge To Find Care
By Deborah Sontag and Lizette Alvarez
When Staff Sgt. Jarod Behee was asked to select a paint color for the customized wheelchair that was going to be his future, his young wife seethed. The government, Marissa Behee believed, was giving up on her husband just five months after he took a sniper's bullet to the head during his second tour of duty in Iraq.
Ms. Behee, a sunny Californian who was just completing a degree in interior design, possessed a keen faith in her husband's potential to be rehabilitated from a severe brain injury. She refused to accept what she perceived to be the more limited expectations of the Veterans Affairs hospital in Palo Alto, Calif.
"The hospital continually told me that Jarod was not making adequate progress and that the next step was a nursing home," Ms. Behee said. "I just felt that it was unfair for them to throw in the towel on him. I said, 'We're out of here.' "
Because Ms. Behee had successfully resisted the Army's efforts to retire her husband into the V.A. health care system, his military insurance policy, it turned out, covered private care. So she moved him to a community rehabilitation center, Casa Colina, near her parents' home in Southern California in late 2005.
Three months later, Sergeant Behee was walking unassisted and abandoned his government-provided wheelchair. Now 28, he works as a volunteer in the center's outpatient gym, wiping down equipment and handing out towels. It is not the police job that he aspired to; his cognitive impairments are serious. But it is not a nursing home, either.
Like the spouses of many other soldiers with severe brain injury, Ms. Behee, also 28, transformed herself into a kind of warrior wife to get her husband the care she thought he deserved. By now, there is a veritable battery of brain-injured-soldiers' relatives who have quit their jobs and, for some extended time, moved away from their homes to advocate for and care for these very wounded soldiers during long hospitalizations.
In the eyes of five such relatives interviewed, the military health care system, which is so advanced in its treatment of lost limbs, has been scrambling to deal with an unanticipated volume of traumatic brain-injury cases that it was ill equipped to handle. Largely because of the improvised explosive devices used by insurgents in Iraq, traumatic brain injury has become a signature wound of this war, with 1,882 cases treated to date, according to the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center.
In general, these caregivers said that their grievously wounded soldiers had either been written off prematurely or not given aggressive rehabilitation or options for care. From the beginning, they said, the government should have joined forces with civilian rehabilitation centers instead of trying to ramp up its limited brain-injury treatment program alone during a time of war. That way, soldiers would have had access to top-quality care at civilian institutions that were already operating at full throttle and might be closer to home.
In fact, many soldiers do have that access. But unlike Ms. Behee, many caregivers only belatedly come to understand how to negotiate the daunting military health care system.
Generally, after severely brain-injured soldiers are medically evacuated to the United States, they are treated first at Walter Reed Army Hospital or Bethesda Naval Hospital. Relatively quickly, the military, depending on the branch, initiates a medical retirement process that turns the soldiers' health care over to the V.A. If soldiers succeed in deferring retirement, they remain covered by a military insurance policy that, if pressed, pays for private care.
Still, the military hospitals tend to discharge seriously brain-injured soldiers to V.A. hospitals, regardless of their active or retired status. It is how the system works, and challenging it requires constant haggling, which often leaves the families of the severely wounded soldiers feeling abused, resentful and anxious for those soldiers without an advocate.
"We have been let down by a system that is so bungling and bureaucratic that it doesn't know what it can and cannot do and just says 'No' as a matter of course," said Debra Schulz of Friendswood, Tex., whose son, Lance Cpl. Steven Schulz of the Marines, 22, suffered a severe brain injury during his second tour in Iraq.
Offers of Help
Early on, at least two top-ranked nonprofit civilian centers, the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in New Jersey, made overtures to the government. Since the Vietnam War, their leaders said, while the V.A. has focused primarily on the chronic care of aging veterans, the civilian acute rehabilitation system has been dealing daily with brain-injured patients, fine-tuning their care.
Dr. Bruce M. Gans, chief medical officer of the Kessler Institute, contacted senior military and V.A. physicians. "I said, 'Please let us help. Please let us be used as a resource,' " Dr. Gans said. "Especially in the early days, they had no capacity to take care of these kids. There was either no response or a negative response. We just didn't understand."
Last week, Dr. Joanne C. Smith, chief executive officer of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, met in Washington with senior Pentagon officials and found far keener receptivity to the idea of extending civilian sector treatment to more soldiers, she said. After revelations by The Washington Post of problems with outpatient care at Walter Reed and Bob Woodruff's reporting on ABC about traumatic brain injury, the tenor of the conversations was "action-oriented," Dr. Smith said.
"There was a high degree of acceptance that there is a gap in the military system's current ability to take care of particularly the profoundly injured," she said.
V.A. officials, however, do not believe there is a problem or any need for rescue by the private sector.
The V.A. has centralized the care for severe traumatic brain injury at four hospitals that specialized in brain injury before the war. Those four, converted into "polytrauma centers" by Congress in 2005, have been gradually beefed up and the level of care has improved since Sergeant Behee arrived at Palo Alto in the summer of 2005, advocates for veterans say. But they still have a total of only 48 beds.
Some 425 soldiers have been treated for moderate and severe traumatic brain injury at the polytrauma centers in the past four years, according to the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center.
"At the moment we are handling the numbers," said Dr. Barbara Sigford, the V.A.'s national director for physical medicine and rehabilitation. "The trauma centers are running close to capacity, but there are always beds available."
Harriet Zeiner, the lead clinical neuropsychologist at the V.A.'s polytrauma center in Palo Alto, said care at the polytrauma centers was "tremendous." She and Dr. Sigford said the great majority of soldiers and their families had been satisfied. A few disgruntled families, they said, grew frustrated with the slow recovery process and directed their anger at the V.A.; many went "through the system early on while we were still building the blocks," Dr. Sigford said.
Susan H. Connors, president of the Brain Injury Association of America, said she was more concerned about follow-up care once soldiers returned to their communities, a concern of all advocates for these soldiers. The polytrauma centers, Ms. Connors said, are "pretty good."
Dr. Sigford of the V.A. said, "We really are able to take care of a high-acuity group."
But Dr. Smith of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago disagreed in the strongest terms.
"The V.A. has not been doing this for the last 35 years, and there is no way, with the complexity of this injury, that the V.A. system is prepared to get to parity with the civilian acute rehabilitation system overnight," she said. "They're dabbling in brain injury, and you can't dabble in brain injury."
A Growing Group
The severely brain-injured are among the most catastrophically wounded soldiers, and recovery can be painfully slow or, in some cases, entirely elusive. "There is no prosthetic for the brain," said Jeremy Chwat, vice president for program services at the Wounded Warrior Project, an advocacy organization.
The Wounded Warrior Project organized a meeting on traumatic brain injury in Washington attended by about three dozen caregivers last fall. One raised "a huge, sad ethical question," Mr. Chwat said, related to the advances in military trauma care that have saved so many lives: "Are we doing these young men and women a service by bringing them home alive?"
Mr. Chwat said the severely brain-injured soldiers were a relatively small, but growing, subset of the wounded whose needs were particularly acute. "Their families need to know that they have options," he said. "Our message to the V.A. is that the V.A. is still providing them care if they're paying for a private facility. But that's a cultural shift for the V.A., and, while their ears are now open, bureaucracies don't change on a dime."
That is a lesson Edgar Edmundson, 52, of New Bern, N. C., has been learning and relearning since his son, Sgt. Eric Edmundson, sustained serious blast injuries in northern Iraq in the fall of 2005.
Mr. Edmundson was aggressive, abandoning his job and home to care for his son, calling on his representatives in Washington for help, "saying no a lot." But even he did not come to understand his son's health care options quickly enough to ensure that his son was not "shortchanged" in the critical first year after his injury.
Two days before Sergeant Edmundson was wounded near the Syrian border, he visited with his father on the telephone. Mr. Edmundson urged his son, then 25 with a young wife and a baby daughter, to "stay safe."
In an interview last week, Mr. Edmundson's voice cracked as he recalled his son's response: "He said, 'Don't worry, because if anything happens, the Army will take care of me.' "
While awaiting transport to Germany after initial surgery, Sergeant Edmundson suffered a heart attack. As doctors worked to revive him, he lost oxygen to his brain for half an hour, with devastating consequences.
A couple of weeks later, at Walter Reed in Washington, on the very day that Sergeant Edmundson was stabilized medically and transferred into the brain injury unit, military officials initiated the process of retiring him.
"That threw up the red flag for me," Mr. Edmundson said. "If the Army was supposed to take care of him, why were they trying to discharge him from service the minute he gets out of intensive care?"
Mr. Edmundson fought the retirement on principle, winning a temporary reprieve. Still, he did not understand that his son's military insurance policy covered private care. When Walter Reed transferred Sergeant Edmundson to the polytrauma center in Richmond, Mr. Edmundson believed that he was, more or less, following orders.
Mr. Edmundson was disappointed by what he considered an unfocused, inconsistent rehabilitation regimen at what he saw as an understaffed, overburdened V.A. hospital filled with geriatric patients. His son's morale plummeted and he refused to participate in therapy. "Eric gave up his will," he said. In March 2006, the V.A. hospital sought to transfer Sergeant Edmundson to a nursing home.
Mr. Edmundson chose instead to care for his son himself, quitting his job at a ConAgra plant. For almost eight months, Sergeant Edmundson, who was awake but unable to walk, talk or control his body, received nothing but a few hours of maintenance therapy weekly at a local hospital.
One day, by chance, Mr. Edmundson encountered a military case manager who asked him why his son was not at a civilian rehabilitation hospital. That is when Mr. Edmundson learned that his son had options. He did some research and set his sights on the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
Sergeant Edmundson is now the only Iraq combat veteran being treated there.
The first step in his treatment in Chicago, Dr. Smith said, was to use drugs, technology and devices "to reverse the ill effects of not getting adequate care earlier, somewhere between Walter Reed and here."
For example, she said, Sergeant Edmundson's hips, knees and ankles are frozen "in the position of someone sitting in a hallway in a chair." They are working to straighten out his joints so that he can eventually stand, she said. They have taught him to express his basic needs using a communication board, and they hope to loosen his vocal cords so he can start speaking. He is also learning to chew and swallow.
"He has a profound cognitive disability," Dr. Smith said. "But he can communicate, albeit not verbally, and can express emotions, including humor and even sarcasm."
A couple of weeks ago, she said, when his family came to visit him, Dr. Smith asked Sergeant Edmundson if he was happy to see his daughter. He used his board to say yes. She asked him the same about his mother. He said yes. And then she asked him about his older sister, Anna Frese. He said no. She repeated the question twice more, wondering if he was pushing the wrong button, until, Dr. Smith said, "he looked up at me with a huge, wicked smile."
Searching for Options
In early 2006, Denise Mettie of Selah, Wash., signed away her son Evan's health care options without realizing it. She agreed to a medical retirement for her 23-year-old son only weeks after he was initially declared "killed in action" only to be saved. That left him dependent on the veterans' health care system, where, after a tumultuous journey through several hospitals, he now faces transfer from the "coma stimulation" program at Palo Alto to a nursing home.
"At the very beginning, there was a V.A. doctor who said, 'You know, he's not going to come any further, let's put him in a nursing facility and let you get on with life,' " Ms. Mettie said. "I was not ready to give up on him then and I'm not now. If there is a private rehab that will take him, I'm going to get him there and finagle the finances by hook or by crook."
Mr. Chwat of the Wounded Warrior Project said severely brain-injured soldiers should be offered a one-year moratorium on medical retirement so they can remain on active duty status with the insurance-covered privileges to seek private care if they want it. Dr. Smith and other civilian rehabilitation doctors suggest that the V.A., too, give the option of private care to soldiers who have been discharged or retired.
On the other hand, Dr. Alan H. Weintraub, medical director of the brain injury program at the private Craig Hospital in Denver, said wounded soldiers were probably better off in the military health care system, which he said offered open-ended care tailored to combat soldiers. Dr. Weintraub, a retired major in the Army Medical Corps, said private acute care was too expensive for the "funding stream" to cover.
Dr. Smith disagreed: "Are we accepting that these people are not going to amount to something anyway, so they're not entitled to the best acute care that the United States has to give — at the front end of their potential life?"
"Jarod Behee was headed for a nursing home," said Felice L. Loverso, the chief executive of Casa Colina in Pomona, Calif.
When Sergeant Behee arrived from the V.A. in Palo Alto, he was in severe condition, essentially nonresponsive, said Dr. Loverso, a speech pathologist. Casa Colina, which now has two other soldier patients and also provides their families housing, first worked to "wake him up," weaning him from medications he no longer needed. He quickly started getting therapy bedside, making relatively steady progress and then quite rapid progress after a cranioplasty that repaired his skull.
"Potentially the same good things could have happened to Jarod at the Palo Alto V.A.," said Dr. Loverso, a former V.A. employee himself. "I like to think it was due to our aggressive therapy."
Because of his impairment, Ms. Behee said, her husband, who still has his old Superman tattoo on his calf, does not agonize over his situation. "He wakes up every morning with a smile on his face," she said.
Lance Cpl. Steven Schulz, on the other hand, is just cognitively rehabilitated enough to experience anguish, his mother, Debra Schulz, said. Occasionally, Lance Corporal Schulz gets angry at his situation or feels guilty toward his mother, who describes herself as an "Old South yellow dog Democrat" who was not pleased when her son enlisted.
"He has told me that he needed to apologize to me for ever joining the Marines," Ms. Schulz said. "I say, 'Son, we can't look back.' "
Care For Injured British Troops Is Faulted
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Well 2016 is officially here. We are currently 15 days in, and rolling into this year has been quiet, uneventful, and a little bit dull. Maybe it is because I am a fan of odd number years more than even. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I feel a little stagnant at the moment.
2015 brought a lot of travel, quite a few craft shows, a large airstream project, and an overall feeling of being content and happy.
Heading into 2016, we have made little progress on the airstream trailer, but I believe that we are currently in a good headspace for moving forward. Just today the trailer is getting moved back into the middle of the pole barn so it can be worked on again. I feel like I am the only one feeling an urgency to get this project finished, so hopefully I can throw myself head first into it, and inspire the others to follow along at a quicker pace.
I don't have much in the way of travel lined up yet for 2016, especially compared to last year. In February I am planning on heading across country to visit my cousin who just had her baby boy. I'll plan on buying tickets on Tuesday, for hopefully a better deal than purchasing on a Saturday. Around July 4th I have my family reunion at my grandparents' house in Missouri, which will be really fun. No new destinations lined up yet though.
Last year I was really excited to be a part of Oregon City's Marketplace. I attended a few shows, and although the crowds weren't huge, I always made enough to make it worth my while to sell my jewelry and art. I showed up one weekend after being away on a trip, car loaded and excited to be back, only to show up to an empty parking lot and voicemails of everyone I tried to call. No email. No notice. No more weekly handmade craft show in Oregon City. I did a few more great shows towards the end of the year, but have nothing lined up yet for this year.
In writing this, I am left feeling a little complacent and lacking in motivation... I think it is about time to find some projects and travels to motivate and inspire me! Here we go 2016, together we will do great things, just you wait and see!


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Leah is a native of Kalamazoo. She graduated from Portage Northern High School in 1984. She attended Indiana University and graduated from the University of Illinois' physical therapy program in Chicago. Leah has been a physical therapist since 1989. She has extensive experience in neurologic rehabilitation and enjoys orthopedic treatment of all kinds. Her interests include tennis, cooking, philanthropy, and spending quality time with her family.
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Mary-Teresa (M.T.) is the clinic director at our Vicksburg clinic location. She was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She relocated to Kalamazoo after earning her Master's degree in Physical Therapy from Washington University in December 1998. Her clinical areas of interest include sports and orthopedic related injuries, and she enjoys clinical teaching. MT is married with two young daughters. She enjoys playing soccer, being outdoors, and spending quality time with her family and friends.
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Neal graduated with his Bachelor of Science from Grand Valley State University and his Master of Physical Therapy from East Carolina University. He has been practicing in outpatient orthopedics since 2004. His clinical interests include sports medicine, orthopedics, sports-specific performance training and manual therapy. Neal currently resides in Schoolcraft where he enjoys spending time with his wife and kids, outdoor sports, golfing and home brewing.
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Jordan is a native to the Kalamazoo area. He completed his Bachelor's degree in Biology at Kalamazoo College, where he also ran cross country. He then earned his Doctorate in Physical Therapy at Grand Valley State University. His clinical interests include orthopedic and sports rehab, as well as injury prevention. In his free time, Jordan enjoys running, working out, watching sports, and spending time with family and friends.
Shannon Kaplan, P.T., D.P.T., A.T.C.
Shannon grew up in Northern Virginia and lived in North Carolina for several years prior to relocating to Kalamazoo. She graduated with her B.S. in Athletic Training from West Chester University and became a licensed Athletic Trainer in 2012. She then went on to earn her Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Elon University in 2016. She is certified in Trigger Point Dry Needling and her clinical interests include orthopedics and sports rehab for both return-to-sport and injury prevention. Shannon enjoys spending time with her husband, traveling and being outdoors.
Dr. Kate Maurer, P.T., D.P.T.
Kate was born and raised in Frankenmuth, Michigan. She attended Saginaw Valley State University where she earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology. She then attended Central Michigan University and graduated in 2013 with her Doctorate in Physical Therapy. Kate is certified in Vestibular Rehabilitation through the American Institute of Balance. Her clinical interests include neurologic and orthopedic rehab. Kate enjoys spending time with her husband and family, as well as biking, spending time outdoors, and playing games of any kind.
Amy Marley-Kennedy M.P.T., T.D.P.T., CLT-LANA
Amy is now the clinic director of our Kalamazoo (Stadium Dr.) clinic. She has been a practicing therapist since graduating from Chatham University in 2002. Amy enjoys treating a wide variety of diagnoses and is dedicated to using the most effective and appropriate treatments to facilitate a full recovery. Amy is an accomplished manual therapist and has an in-depth understanding of the physical needs of patients undergoing cancer-related surgeries, reconstruction surgeries, lymphedema and those receiving radiation therapy. Additionally, Amy is trained in the Barcelona Schroth method for treating patients diagnosed with scoliosis. Her goal is to educate and empower her patients to manage their symptoms and alleviate pain to allow them to fill their role in society. Amy's background in figure skating and coaching allows for her appreciation for both the performing arts and sports. In her spare time Amy enjoys photography and travel with her family .
Carrie O'Donnell, P.T.
Carrie graduated from Northern Illinois University in 2002 and began working in outpatient orthopedics in Chicago. She recently moved to Portage with her husband and three children. Carrie enjoys playing beach volleyball, running, and exploring the outdoors of Michigan with her family.
Dr. Brenton Rozycki, D.P.T., C.O.M.T.
Brenton was born and raised in Boyne City, Michigan. He graduated from Michigan State University with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology then went on to University of Michigan-Flint to receive his Doctorate of Physical Therapy in 2011. His interests include orthopedic and sports rehab for both return-to-sport and injury prevention. Brenton and his wife enjoy the outdoors and visiting craft breweries and are proud parents of a boy and a girl along with 2 crazy boxers.
Michelle Van Oss, D.P.T.
Michelle grew up in Zeeland, Michigan. She graduated from Michigan State University with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology then received her Doctorate of Physical Therapy in 2009 from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. Michelle gained a wide range of clinical experience working as a traveling therapist before returning to Michigan. In her free time she enjoys being outdoors, camping, hiking, and horseback riding. She also enjoys cheering on the Spartans.
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Casie Parker was born and raised in Vicksburg, Michigan. She is a graduate of Kellogg Community College and is a licensed P.T.A. Casie loves spending time with her family, being outdoors, traveling and being adventurous.
Shad Spears, A.T.C./P.T.A.
Shad grew up in South Dakota and is a transplant to Michigan. He is a graduate of Arapahoe Community College where he received his P.T.A. degree. His clinical interests include orthopedic and sports injuries. Shad enjoys the outdoors, sports, and family time with wife, son and two daughters.
Beth Stratton, P.T.A.
Beth Stratton was born and raised in the Flint area. She is a graduate of Mott Community College where she earned her P.T.A. degree. Beth's clinical interests are sports injuries, orthopedic, and concussion care. She enjoys watching sporting events, traveling, reading, and spending time with her husband, Nick, and dog, Scooby.
Peregrine Joe McAllister(Burke), P.T.A.
Joe Burke was born and raised in Portage, MI. Graduated from Portage Northern in 2012 and KCC in 2020 as a licensed P.T.A. Burke was a competitive Powerlifter and coach for 6 years and enjoys applying experience as a competitive lifter to the clinical setting of orthopedic and sports injuries. In his free time Burke enjoys weightlifting, karate, working on cars, painting, and spending time with his wife, family, and friends.
Megan Carroll
Megan grew up locally in Portage. A graduate of Portage Public Schools, Megan is pursuing a degree at KVCC. She enjoys playing soccer and basketball, but most of all, spending quality time with her daughter and family.
Jody Duff
Jody is a Michigan native who graduated from Delton Kellogg High. She has over 30 years of customer service experience including eight years in healthcare. Jody enjoys spending time with her family, especially her granddaughter and spending time at the lake.
Bobbie Klawender- Front Office Manager
Bobbie comes from the east side of Michigan. She graduated from Oakland Community College with an extended associates degree in applied science and later graduating from a two year Dental Hygiene program earning her state license . In addition, Bobbie has held positions such as treatment coordinator, consultant and manager for a high volume cosmetic dental practice in Metro Detroit. Her family was transferred to West Michigan in 2009 where she has spent the past 10 years raising her four children. She enjoys playing tennis, kayaking and spending quality time with her family.
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Jennifer comes to us with over fifteen years of customer service experience with a background in the financial industry along with experience volunteering in the Portage Public Schools and local soccer organizations. Her enthusiasm for helping her community shows in the number of organizations she had volunteered with over the years.
Although Jennifer grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan she has called Portage her home for the past 25 years. She met her husband Mark, (also a Yooper) at Western Michigan University where they both graduated and loved the area enough to start their family here. Mark and Jennifer have two daughters and recently added a covid puppy named Cooper to their household.
In her spare time, Jennifer enjoys kayaking, sewing, baking and crafting, gotta love Pinterest! She enjoys working at PT1 because of all of the friendships she has with her co-workers and patients. Seeing returning patients and knowing that they trust and believe in our great work to return is a reward she loves to see.
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Paige is originally from Kalamazoo, MI and attended Portage Central High School. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Bachelor of Science in Biology, she spent time traveling and working as an au pair in Dublin, Ireland for the last year. She is pursuing a career in nursing and midwifery and in her free time enjoys spending time with friends, playing tennis, hiking, and exploring new places any chance she gets!
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It takes more than the occasional sharpening to keep a knife in top shape. With just a little time and attention, you can reap a much better performance from your blade for the long term, make sharpening more manageable and ensure it's safe to handle.
The Lansky Multi-Sharpener sharpens straight and serrated blades, plus fish hooks and other pointed objects. Here's how to use it.
One of the first questions people new to knife sharpening often have is: should I get a manual knife sharpener or an electric sharpener?
What's the Best Knife Sharpener for a Beginner?
When considering which grit to use when sharpening your knife, remember that the higher the grit number the finer. Lower grit numbers are coarser and more aggressive.
Lansky Turn Box Sharpeners can be used for either 1-stage or 2-stage sharpening. The grey Ceramic Rods are for sharpening, and the white Ceramic Rods are for polishing.
When you first enter the world of knife sharpening, it can seem like there's a whole new language to learn. In this post you'll find some of the most commonly used terms in sharpening.
Originally designed in 1979, the Lansky Controlled-Angle Sharpening System was created with one thought in mind; to make a knife sharpener anyone could use to obtain a razor-sharp edge.
The Blademedic® is an all-inclusive sharpener that was designed to be the first responder for field repairs on all types of knife blades.
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The trick to choosing the right sharpener depends on your personal needs, and also on your skill level. Let's look at some of the more common sharpeners and their features.
Should I Sharpen My Lawn Tools?
When most people think of what needs sharpening around the house, they think of their kitchen and hunting knives, cleavers or axes. That's a good start, but your ice skates also need to be sharp, your woodworking tools, and yes, even your lawn tools.


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The 2020–21 Utah Valley Wolverines men's basketball team represented Utah Valley University in the 2020–21 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Wolverines, led by second-year head coach Mark Madsen, played their home games at the UCCU Center in Orem, Utah as members of the Western Athletic Conference.

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The Wolverines finished the 2019–20 season 11–19, 5–10 in WAC play to finish in finish in eighth place. Due to irregularities in the WAC standings due to cancelled games, they were set to be the No. 6 seed in the WAC tournament, however, the tournament was cancelled amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The value of parental influence and involvement
The parenting style and driving habits of parents help shape the mold for a young driver's behaviours behind the wheel. Not only are parents often the primary driving teacher for young drivers, but their own driving style, viewed by their child since an early age, helps set the tone for what is acceptable on the road.
Children begin learning about driving as soon as they are placed in a forward-facing car seat. For instance, if a father always wears his seatbelt when his son is in the car, his son is much more likely to do the same, even when his father is not present.1 It has also been suggested that genetics plays a role in this influence and a parent's characteristics (e.g., temper, aggression) may be present in their young child on the road. For example, studies reveal that a parent's driving record can predict that of their child, meaning that when a parent has two or three crashes on their record it is much more likely their child will also be involved in a crash2.
The good news is that parents can help to reduce their child's crash risk in many different ways. Parents are the deciding factor in whether or not a teen has access to the family vehicle and under what conditions. They can help minimize the risks that their young driver is exposed to by managing whether and when they are able to have friends in the car, or can use the car on a highway3. Parents can weigh the positives and negatives of safety versus mobility by deciding how much freedom the young driver can have, under what conditions, and in what vehicle to help minimize risks and protect them from dangers on the roadway.
1 Durbin et al. 2007
2 Ferguson et al. 2001, Bianchi and Summala 2004
3 Bianchi and Summala 2004
Safety issues and driving behaviours unique to young drivers
There are many road safety issues to consider and parents are encouraged to familiarize themselves with how these issues are related to the driving behaviours of young drivers. An overview of how these issues are unique to young drivers is provided below.
Distracted driving occurs when a driver's attention is diverted away from driving because they are focused on something non-driving related. Examples of distractions include:
objects (cell-phones, CDs, food);
persons (spouses, friends, children); and,
events (answering a call, programming navigation system).
Distractions can be either inside the vehicle (e.g., passengers, food, cell phones) or outside the vehicle (e.g., billboards and road signs, scenery, vehicles stopped on roadside).
Young drivers make up a disproportionate number of distracted drivers involved in crashes. In the United States, young drivers make up only 6% of the licenced driver population but they account for 13% of the drivers involved in a distracted driving crash. About 985,000 drivers under the age of 21 were involved in a distracted driving-related crash within the last five years. Similarly, about 1.7 million drivers (23%) in their twenties have had a distraction-related crash5. This is likely because the younger the driver, the more likely they are to engage in distractions within their vehicle6.
Visit our Issues section on distracted driving and teens to learn more.
5 NHTSA 2010
6 Ranney 2008
Fatigued driving
There are two types of sleep-related driving impairments that can affect driving ability:
Fatigue is a disinclination (or unwillingness) to continue driving. This can occur as a result of repetitiveness of either the driving task or the driving environment, or can occur after driving for extended periods without a rest or break.
Drowsiness is a product of the human body's natural rhythm or 'sleep-wake' cycle. Most people feel sleepy twice a day – in the afternoon and at night7. Teenagers need at least nine to nine and a half hours of sleep a night8. Without the proper amount of sleep, drowsiness occurs and once a person is tired there is no cure for drowsiness other than sleep itself9. Driving can be affected by this natural cycle.
Young drivers and specifically young males are most likely to be driving late at night and to be sleep deprived because of their busy lifestyle (work, school, socializing). Drivers that are younger than 25 years of age are the most at risk for fatigue-related crashes. Of drivers ages 20 to 24, 35% reported nodding off while driving and 28% of 16 to 19 year olds reported the same. This is the largest proportion of all the driver age groups that are at risk for fatigue.
Visit our Issues section on fatigued driving and teens to learn more.
7 Robertson et al. 2009
8 ECMT 2006
9 NHSTA 2006
Alcohol and drug impaired driving
Several studies show that between 10% and 20% of young drivers self-report driving within an hour of having two or more drinks10 and a survey of Canadian high school students showed that 21% had driven at least once within an hour of using drugs. When asked if the students had been a passenger in a vehicle where the driver had used drugs 50% answered yes11. This means that almost one-fifth of young drivers have driven either drunk or high and a larger amount have driven with an impaired driver, increasing their already high chances of crashing.
The Federal Criminal Code of Canada (CCC) contains a law that makes it illegal for all drivers to operate a vehicle while impaired by alcohol or a drug, or a combination of both12. Young drivers in particular are also subject to graduated driver licensing (GDL) programs in all jurisdictions. This means that young drivers without full driving privileges, or is some jurisdictions (e.g., MB, ON, NB) up to the age of 21, cannot have any amount of alcohol in their system (0.0 BAC) and could lose their licence and face other penalties if caught driving with alcohol or drugs in their system.
Visit our Issues section on drinking and driving and teens to learn more.
Visit our Issues section on drugs, driving and teens to learn more.
10 Adlaf et al. 2003; Ialomiteanu et al. 2011; Paglia-Boak et al. 2009; Rothe and Kokotilo 2005
11 CCSA 2011
12 Department of Justice Canada 2012
Young drivers are at a high risk for fatal injury and death due to speed-related crashes and account for a disproportionate number of drivers involved in such crashes. Transport Canada reports that from 2002-2004, 40% of drivers in fatal crashes involving speeding were aged 16-2413. There is very strong evidence which shows that speed increases crash risk. For instance, a 1% increase in speed increases a driver's fatality risk by 4%-12%14. An increase in speed by 15 km/h on a road increases the fatality rate of drivers by 10%. Although all types of drivers have been known to speed, young drivers and male drivers are over-represented in speed-related crashes15. Young drivers do not necessarily perceive driving five to ten kilometres over the speed limit to be dangerous, but this actually significantly increases their risk of crashing.
Visit our Issues section on speeding and teens to learn more.
13 Transport Canada 2008
14 Evans 2006
15 NHTSA 2008
The younger the driver, the less likely it is they will wear their seatbelt: Young males and drivers aged 18-24 are the least likely groups of drivers to wear seatbelts16. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in the U.S. considers seatbelts to be the single most important protective mechanism available to adult vehicle occupants17 and found that belts reduce risk of serious injuries to the head, chest and extremities by 50%- 83%18.
Parents can set a good example by wearing their own seatbelts as well as buckling up any children in the vehicle. Drivers who do use seatbelts are more likely to buckle up their children. This is a crucial time to begin teaching the importance of seatbelts to young passengers – risky behaviours developed in childhood continue in adolescence and adulthood. If children are buckled up as soon as they are no longer using a car seat, the behaviour will become a habit and they will be much more likely to buckle up when they are older and no longer under parental supervision19.
Visit our Issues section on teens and seatbelts to learn more.
16 Strine et al. 2010
17 ICBC 2006
19 Durbin et al. 2007
The brain is not fully developed until about age 25. The last part of the brain to develop is the frontal lobe, which is in charge of executive functions such as, planning, impulse control, reasoning and integration of information. Because the frontal lobe is the last part of the brain to develop, adolescents will have more difficulty with mental tasks that involve thinking clearly, decision- making and controlling impulses - all abilities needed to safely operate a vehicle. The impulsive part of the brain, on the other hand, is almost fully developed during adolescence. This leads to the reckless behaviour that adolescents are commonly known for, such as thrill-seeking, irrational decisions and dangerous behaviours20, such as drinking and driving.
More about brain development, teens and driving will be available soon.
20 ECMT 2006
Here are more resources available to help facilitate a positive young driver-parent relationship:
www.teendriversource.org/for_parents#pages
lebronjamesfamilyfoundation.org
www.cdc.gov/ParentsAreTheKey/parents/index.html
changetheconversation.ca/about_the_program/home.php
Promoting Parent Involvement in Teen Driving
Drive It Home
Adlaf, E.M., Mann, R.E., Paglia, A. (2003). Drinking, cannabis use and driving among Ontario students. Research letter. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 168(5).
Bianchi, A., Summala, H. (2004). The 'genetics' of driving behavior: parents' driving style predicts their children's driving style. Accident Analysis and Prevention. 36(4), 655-659.
Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA). (2011). Cross Canada Report on Student Alcohol and Drug Use. Technical Report. Student Drug Use Surveys Working Group. Ottawa, Canada.
Department of Justice Canada. (2012). The Criminal Code of Canada. Retrieve from: http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/page-118.html#docCont.
Durbin, D.R., Smith, R., Kallan, M.J., Elliott, M.R., Winston, F.K. (2007) Seat belt use among 13-15 year olds in primary and secondary enforcement law states. Accident Analysis and Prevention. 39(3), 524-529.
European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT). (2006). Young Drivers: The Road to Safety. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Paris, France.
Evans, L. (2006) Traffic safety (2nd ed.). Bloomfield Hills, MI: Science Serving Society.
Ferguson, S.A., Williams, A.F., Chapline, J.F., Reinfurt, M.D., De Leonardis, D.M. (2001). Relationship of parent driving record to the driving records of their children. Accident Analysis and Prevention. 33(2), 229-234.
Ialomiteanu, A.R., Adlaf, E.M., Rehm, J. (2011). Addiction and Mental Health Indicators Among Ontario Adults, 1977-2009. CAMH Research Document Series No.31. Toronto, Ontario: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC). (2006). Seatbelts. Road Safety. Injury Research.
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Ranney, T.A. (2008). Driver Distraction: A Review of the Current State of Knowledge. Technical Report DOT HS 810 810 787. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. U.S. Department of Transportation. Washington D.C.
Robertson, R., Holmes, E., Vanlaar, W. (2009). The Facts About Fatigued Driving in Ontario: A guidebook for police. Traffic Injury Research Foundation. Ottawa, Canada.
Rothe, J.P., Kokotilo, T. (2005). Impaired driving as lifestyle for 18-29-year-old Alberta Drivers: Telephone Survey Findings. Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research. October 12, 2005.
Simons-Morton, B.G., Ouimet, M.C. (2008). Parenting and the Young Driver Problem. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 35(3), 294-303.
Strine, T.W., Beck, L.F., Bolen, J., Okoro, C., Dhingra, S., Balluz, L. (2010). Geographic and sociodemographic variation in self-reported seat-belt use in the United States. Accident Analysis and Prevention. 42(4), 1067-1071.
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Hazard Zones
by Keith Maillard
Published June 1996 by Harpercollins Canada .
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Mothers and sons,
The book discusses seismicity analysis and estimation of seismicity parameters of a region at both finer and broader levels using different methodologies. The delineation and characterization of regional seismic source zones which requires reasonable observation and engineering judgement is . Throughout recorded history people have engaged in hazardous activities, and governments have taken action to control some of those activities in the public interest. But in recent times the hazards of greatest concern, and knowledge about them, have changed in ways that make informed decisions harder to reach. Once the focus was simply on the presence or absence of danger. If a food was.
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As a native of Raysburg Island, West Virginia, a flood plain development on the Ohio River, he grew up on one; as a geography student who never finished his thesis on those same hazard zones, he became even more intimately acquainted with them; and now, in the throes of mid-life, Larry Cameron is about to face another hazard zone - the unfinished /5.
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Although the boy under consideration has been happily settled on the shores of middle age for some time before we meet him, it is obvious nevertheless that he is struggling with Author: Keith Maillard. Hazard zones: a novel. [Keith Maillard] -- On a visit to his hometown in Ohio to bury his mother, a man ponders the question which haunts many men, why has my life been a failure.
By the author of Light in the Company of Women. Explosives: More than 25kg (55 pounds) of a Divisionor material, or an amount of a Division material requiring a placard under Part Subpart F of 49 CFR.
Toxic by Inhalation Materials: Hazard Zone A: More that one liter ( quarts) per package of a "material poisonous by inhalation," as defined in of 49 CFR, that. § Assignment of packing group and hazard zones for Division materials. (a) The packing group of Division materials shall be as assigned in column 5 of the § table.
When the § table provides more than one packing group or hazard zone for a hazardous material, the packing group and hazard zone shall be. The purpose of this page is to define a flood map, a commonly used term in floodplain management.
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Many operators implement a conservative approach to sand management implementing a "Zero Sand Production" or "Maximum Sand Free Rate" Criteria. This is due to the potentially severe consequences associated with sand production i.e. erosion, and the fact that existing standards and guidelines /1/ do not provide sufficient practical advice on how to manage erosion issues during operations. These criteria generally put restrictions on the production rate (and revenue) to reduce sand production and decrease the risk of erosion leading to a loss of containment. These restrictions are in many cases unnecessary.
This paper describes the development of an alternative approach which improves the production and safety performance of fields that are capacity restrained due to sand problems. The development of the approach started with a project for Conoco 1996 - 2000 /2/ and was further refined on a pilot project for Statoil in 2001 /3/, where it received the Statoil prize for the most successful R&D project in 2001.
From an erosion perspective the amount of sand produced is only one of many factors that must be managed; equally important factors are sand particle velocity, impact angle and material grading. By gaining a better understanding of the specific erosion characteristics of a field through: well sand risk ranking, identification of erosion critical components and detailed erosion assessment including 3D computer modeling; a more sophisticated erosion management strategy can be implemented identifying specific asset operational criteria, erosion monitoring and inspection requirements.
Implementation of this erosion management approach has provided operators with enhanced production, reduced inspection and maintenance costs without compromising safety and environmental targets and increasing/enhancing business performance.
The mid / late 1990's saw a significant increase in unplanned hydrocarbon releases for Conoco in one of their UK North Sea operations. The releases occurred on manned installations and unmanned satellite installations with significant business and safety impact. The root cause of all incidents was an increase of solids production leading to accelerated erosion, see figure 1 for typical damage. The implemented solution of a revised Solids Management Strategy, the Maximum Allowable Solids Rate approach, has led to increased production, reductions in operating costs and enhanced safety performance.
Operations personnel had over a long period of time assumed that adoption of a 'solids free' production would minimise failures. In reality the measures adopted to achieve this aim led to an escalation in the number and severity of unplanned failures. A key challenge was education and confidence building amongst the workforce to achieve a 'sea change' in the mind set and an improved understanding of the key issues.
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The anonymous dreigtelefoontje in early december, came for the premiere of the documentary of the Surviving R. Kelly in New York, would come from a well-known r&b singer.
For the beginning were the organizers of the premiere the phone call within, which was threatened with a shooting, should the film still be shown.
Sources within the New York city police reported to TMZ that Donnel Russell is the person who called would have. He works regularly with R. Kelly.
He would, according to the police, one to multiple alleged victims of the singer would have been threatened because of their participation in the documentary. This was earlier this week. Russell is currently being questioned by the police.
After the threat was the screeningruimte of the premiere as a precaution evacuated. At the screening were several alleged victims of the singer.
In the docuserie Surviving R. Kelly tells a number of women to be the victim of physical, mental and sexual violence by Robert Kelly, as the singer's full name.
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The importance of life transitions can not be underestimated in order to cultivate, optimize and preserve overall health and wellness of mind, body and spirit. In the modern world, humans have become expert multitaskers, which is great for personal and vocational efficiency, but tends to make our lives into a gigantic blur of nonstop activity that offers no breaks in the furious action. Furthermore, people tend to have difficulty focusing their energies and concentration on just one thing, since their brain is so acclimated to being scattered and chaotic in its approach to doing everything at once. We can not even rest and relax without our brains drifting about to distract us from what we truly need at the moment.
Workers and their employers think that being capable of multitasking is ideal. However, is it really possible to do great work when you are doing 12 things at once? How can all the details of a project be performed to complete satisfaction when they are intermixed with the details of potentially hundreds of other seemingly unrelated ideas and tasks? Doing everything at once leads to sloppy results and a sloppy life. Your edges become blurry and you are not defined as an individual.
How can we derive enjoyment from the simple things in life when they are relegated to the background by all the clutter of activity in our minds and bodies? Is it even possible to be satisfied with a life filled with only the most surface, superficial details of the people, places, things and concepts which surround us? How can we even know ourselves and work towards good mindbody health if we can not remove the clutter from our brains and become truly introspective and present?
Vacation becomes work. Holidays become work. Family time becomes work. Even pleasure becomes work. We are intermingling the concepts of our lives so much and so often that psychological associations become confuscated and unclear. We are never sure exactly what we are doing or should be doing at any given moment in our efforts to do everything, feel everything, absorb everything and process everything all at once. It is overwhelming and counterproductive to success in any given objective. Worse yet, it is detrimental to our total good health.
We must all strive and succeed. Our world is fast-paced and requires coping skills that not everyone possesses organically. However, all people can benefit from taking time to focus more on the task at hand, while learning to minimize the external background noise of life, as well as the internal background noise of our minds. Focus on what you are doing, whatever it is. This includes your health. Make time to do things right. This includes improving your health. Remove distractions from your life and banish factors that are detrimental to your health. Learn to breathe both in and out. You can not just keep proverbially gasping for air day after day while furiously moving in place. You must learn to exhale, take it all in and focus on what is important in order to progress forward. This is the path to good health, increased life satisfaction and true proficiency in all things. When the job is done, take a rest. You deserve it and must claim it as your right.


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2010年高考英语真题
频道:外语学习 来源:家教网 点击:286 日期:2010-8-1
第二部分英语知识运用(共两节,满分35分)
第一节 语法和词汇知识(共15小题;每小题1分,满分15分)
从A.B.C.D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
21. ―Do you think you could do without help?
―______. This is not the first time for me.
A. Take care B. Hurry up
C. Not exactly D. Don't worry
22. If we sit near _______ front of the bus, we'll have _______ better view.
A. 不填;the B. 不填;a C. the; a D. the;the
23. I have a lot of readings _____ before the end of this term.
A. completing B. to complete
C. completed D. being completed
24. That's the new machine ______ parts are too small to be seen.
A. that B. which C. whose D. what
25. I_______ have watched that movie ―it'll give me horrible dreams.
A. shouldn't B. needn't C. couldn't D. mustn't
26. Before the sales start, I make a list of ______ my kids will need for the coming season.
A. why B. what C. how D. which
27. Sam _____ some knowledge of the computer just by watching others working on it.
A. brought up B. looked up C. picked up D. set up
28. The school rules state that no child shall be allowed out of the school during the day, ______ accompanied by an adult.
A. once B. when C. if D. unless
29. The living room is clean and tidy, with a dining table already ______ for a meal to be cooked.
A. laid B. laying C. to lay D. being laid
30. Up to now, the program ________ thousands of children who would otherwise have died.
A. would save B. saves
C. had saved D. has saved
31. Your house is always so neat―how do you ______ it with three children?
A. manage B. serve C. adapt D. construct
32. Helping others is a habit, _______ you can learn even at an early age.
A. it B. that C. what D. one
33. Those who suffer from headache will find they get ______ from this medicine.
A. relief B. safety C. defense D. shelter
34. ― Her father is very rich.
―________ She wouldn't accept his help even if it were offered.
A. What for? B. So what? C. No doubt. D. No wonder.
35. Mothers holding jobs outside the home should have _______ schedules to make it easier to care for their children.
A. heavy B. smooth C. flexible D. complex
第二节 完形填空 (共20小题;每小题1分,满分20分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并从答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
It was a cool October evening. Excitement and family members __36___ the hall. I was only a 7-year-old girl, but I was the center of __37___. Finally, after weeks of preparation, I would __38_ all my hard work in a dance of performance. Everything would be __39___ ―so I thought. I waited backstage all __40__ in my black tights with a golden belt. In a loud and clear voice, the master of ceremonies __41__ that my class was next.
My dance class was doing a routine on wooden boxes two feet by two feet, facing the __42___. All I had to do in the next move was put one foot on the box next to mine and keep my other foot on my box. I really was an __43__ move. I was concentrating so much __44___ the huge smile on my face and holding my head up that I did not look __45__ I was going. I missed my partner's box altogether and __46__. There I was standing on the stage floor when my classmates were on top of their boxes. I could hear giggles(咯咯笑) coming from the audience, and I felt the ___47___ rush to my face. I remembered my dance teacher had told us, "If you make a mistake, keep smiling so the audience will not ___48___." I did my best to follow her ___49___ as I continued with the routine.
When the curtain dropped, so did my __50___ for the evening. I ___51___ bitterly, tasting the salt from the tears that streamed down my face. I ran backstage, but no one could __52__ me down.
Recently I realized I had been a __53__ that night. I was ___54___, but I fought the urge to run off the stage. __55___, I finished the routine with a smile on my face. Now when friends and family laugh about the time I slipped during a dance performance, I can laugh too.
36. A. filled B. visited C. attended D. decorated
37. A. pressure B. impression C. debate D. attention
38. A. take over B. show off C. look after D. give up
39. A. reasonable B. suitable C. obvious D. perfect
40. A. dressed up B. folded up C. covered up D. mixed up
41. A. suggested B. explained C. announced D. predicted
42. A. music B. audience C. curtain D. stage
43. A. easy B. active C. adventurous D. extra
44. A. containing B. hiding C. sharing D. keeping
45. A. why B. whether C. where D. what
46. A. wandered B. slipped C. waved D. skipped
47. A. blood B. pleasure C. pride D. tear
48. A. leave B. cheer C. believe D. notice
49. A. gesture B. example C. advice D. plan
50. A. doubts B. hopes C. voice D. patience
51. A. argued B. shouted C. begged D. sobbed
52. A. turn B. calm C. let D. put
53. A. star B. pioneer C. loser D. fool
54. A. satisfied B. moved C. embarrassed D. confused
55. A. However B. Instead C. In total D. in return
第三部分 阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分,满分40分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Christopher Thomas, 27, was a writer by night and a teacher by day when he noticed he was always tired and was losing weight fast. Diagnosed with diabetes(糖尿病), Thomas would need to inject himself with insulin(胰岛素) three times a day for the rest of his life or risk nerve damage, blindness, and even death. And if that weren't bad enough, he had no health insurance.
After a month of feeling upset, Thomas decided he'd better find a way to fight back. He left Canton, Michigan for New York, got a job waiting tables, nicknamed himself the Diabetic Rockstar , and created diabeticrockstar.com, a free online community for diabetics and their loved ones―a place where over 1,100 people share personal stories, information, and resources.
Jason Swencki's son, Kody, was diagnosed with type diabetes at six. Father and son visit the online children's forums(论坛) together most evenings. "Kody gets so excited, writing to kids from all over," says Swencki, one of the site's volunteers. "They know what he's going through, so he doesn't feel alone."
Kody is anything but alone: Diabetes is now the seventh leading cause of death in the United States, with 24 million diagnosed cases. And more people are being diagnosed at younger ages.
These days, Thomas's main focus is his charity(慈善机构), Fight It, which provides medicines and supplies to people―225 to date―who can't afford a diabetic's huge expenses. Fight-it.org has raised about $23,000―in products and in cash. In May, Thomas will hold the first annual Diabetic Rockstar Festival in the Caribbean.
Even with a staff of 22 volunteers, Thomas often devotes up to 50 hours a week to his cause, while still doing his full-time job waiting tables. "Of the diabetes charities out there, most are putting money into finding a cure," says Bentley Gubar, one of Rockstar's original members. "But Christopher is the only person I know saying people need help now."
56. Which of the following is true of Christopher Thomas?
A. He needs to go to the doctor every day.
B. He studies the leading cause of diabetes
C. He has a positive attitude to this disease.
D. He encourages diabetics by writing articles.
57. Diabeitcrockstar.com was created for _________.
A. diabetics to communicate B. volunteers to find jobs
C. children to amuse themselves D. rock stars to share resources.
58. According to the text, Kody ______.
A. feel lonely because of his illness
B. benefits from diabeticrockstar.com
C. helps create the online kid's forums
D. writes children's stories online
59. What can we learn about Fight It?
A. It helps the diabetics in financial difficulties.
B. It organizes parties for volunteer once a year.
C. It offers less expensive medicine to diabetics.
D. It owns a well-known medical website.
60. The last paragraph suggests that Thomas ______.
A. works full-time in a diabetes charity B. employs 22 people for his website
C. helps diabetics in his own way D. ties to find a cure for diabetes
Ask someone what they have done to help the environment recently and they will almost certainly mention recycling. Recycling in the home is very important of course. However, being forced to recycle often means we already have more material than we need. We are dealing with the results of that over-consumption in the greenest way possible, but it would be far better if we did not need to bring so much material home in the first place.
The total amount of packaging increased by 12% between 1999 and 2005. It now makes up a third of a typical household's waste in the UK. In many supermarkets nowadays food items are packaged twice with plastic and cardboard.
Too much packaging is doing serious damage to the environment. The UK, for example, is running out of it for carrying this unnecessary waste. If such packaging is burnt, it gives off greenhouse gases which go on to cause the greenhouse effect. Recycling helps, but the process itself uses energy. The solution is not to produce such items in the first place. Food waste is a serious problem, too. Too many supermarkets encourage customers to buy more than they need. However, a few of them are coming round to the idea that this cannot continue, encouraging customers to reuse their plastic bags, for example.
But this is not just about supermarkets. It is about all of us. We have learned to associate packaging with quality. We have learned to think that something unpackaged is of poor quality. This is especially true of food. But is also applies to a wide range of consumer products, which often have far more packaging than necessary.
There are signs of hope. As more of us recycle, we are beginning to realise just how much unnecessary material are collecting. We need to face the wastefulness of our consumer culture, but we have a mountain to climb.
61. What does the underlined phrase "over-consumption" refer to?
A. Using too much packaging.
B. Recycling too many wastes.
C. Making more products than necessary.
D. Having more material than is needed.
62. The author uses figures in Paragraph 2 to show _______.
A. the tendency of cutting household waste
B. the increase of packaging recycling
C. the rapid growth of super markets
D. the fact of packaging overuse
63. According to the text, recycling ______.
A. helps control the greenhouse effect
B. means burning packaging for energy
C. is the solution to gas shortage
D. leads to a waste of land
64. What can be inferred from Paragraph 4?
A. Unpackaged products are of bad quality.
B. Supermarkets care more about packaging.
C. It is improper to judge quality by packaging.
D. Other products are better packaged than food.
65. What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A. Fighting wastefulness is difficult.
B. Needless material is mostly recycled.
C. People like collecting recyclable waste.
D. The author is proud of their consumer culture.
Rae Armantrout, who has been a poetry professor at the University of California San Diego(UCSD) for two decades, has won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in the poetry category for her most recent book, "Versed".
"I'm delighted and amazed at how much media recognition that the Pulitzer brings, as compared to even the National Book Critics Award, which I was also surprised and delighted to win," said Armantrout.
"For a long time, my writing has been just below the media radar, and to have this kind of attention, suddenly, with my 10th book, is really surprising."
Armantrout, a native Californian, received her bachelor's degree at UC Berkeley, where she studied with noted poet Denise Levertov, and her master's in creative writing from San Francisco State University. She is a founding member of Language Poets, a group in American poetry that analyzes the way language is used and raises questions to make the reader think.
In March, she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for "Versed."
"This book has gotten more attention," Armantrout said, "but I don't feel as if it's better."
The first half of "Versed" focuses on the dark forces taking hold of the United States as it fought the war against Iraq. The second half looks at the dark forces casting a shadow over her own life after Armantrout was diagnosed with cancer in 2006.
Armantrout was shocked to learn she had won the Pulitzer but many of her colleagues were not. "Rae Armantrout is a unique voice in American poetry," said Seth Lerer, head of Arts and Humanities at UCSD.
"Versed", published by the Wesleyan University Press, did appear in a larger printing than her earlier works, which is about 2,700 copies. The new edition is scheduled to appear in May.
66. According to Rae Armantrout, ____________.
A. her 10th book is much better
B. her winning the Pulitzer is unexpected
C. the media is surprised at her works
D. she likes being recognized by her readers
67. Which of the following is true of Rae Armantrout?
A. She published a poetry textbook.
B. She used to teach Denise Levertov.
C. She started a poets' group with others.
D. She taught creative writing at UC Berkeley.
68. What can we learn about "Versed"?
A. It consists of three parts.
B. It is mainly about the American army.
C. It is a book published two decades ago.
D. It partly concerns the poet's own life.
69. Rae Armantrout's colleagues think that she ____________.www.enmajor.com
A. should write more B. has a sweet voice
C. deserves the prize D. is a strange professor
70. What can we learn from the text?
A. About 2,700 copies of "Versed" will be printed.
B. Cancer made Armantrout stop writing.
C. Armantrout got her degrees at UCSD.
D. "Versed" has been awarded twice.
Batteries can power anything from small sensors to large systems. While scientists are finding ways to make them smaller but even more powerful, problems can arise when these batteries are much larger and heavier than the devices themselves. University of Missouri(MU) researchers are developing a nuclear energy source that is smaller, lighter and more efficient.
"To provide enough power, we need certain methods with high energy density(密度)",said Jae Kwon, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at MU. "The radioisotope(放射性同位素) battery can provide power density that is much higher than chemical batteries."
Kwon and his research team have been working on building a small nuclear battery, presently the size and thickness of a penny, intended to power various micro / nanoelectromechanical systems (M/NEMS). Although nuclear batteries can cause concerns, Kwon said they are safe.
"People hear the word 'nuclear' and think of something very dangerous," he said, "However, nuclear power sources have already been safely powering a variety of devices, such as pace-makers, space satellites and underwater systems."
His new idea is not only in the battery's size, but also in its semiconductor(半导体). Kwon's battery uses a liquid semiconductor rather than a solid semiconductor.
"The key part of using a radioactive battery is that when you harvest the energy, part of the radiation energy can damage the lattice structure(晶体结构) of the solid semiconductor," Kwon said, "By using a liquid semiconductor, we believe we can minimize that problem."
Together with J. David Robertson, chemistry professor and associate director of the MU Research Reactor, Kwon is working to build and test the battery. In the future, they hope to increase the battery's power, shrink its size and try with various other materials. Kwon said that battery could be thinner than the thickness of human hair.
71. Which of the following is true of Jae Kwon?
A. He teaches chemistry at MU.
B. He developed a chemical battery.
C. He is working on a nuclear energy source.
D. He made a breakthrough in computer engineering.
72. Jae Kwon gave examples in Paragraph 4_________.
A. to show chemical batteries are widely applied.
B. to introduce nuclear batteries can be safely used.
C. to describe a nuclear-powered system.
D. to introduce various energy sources.
73. Liquid semiconductor is used to _________.
A. get rid of the radioactive waste
B. test the power of nuclear batteries.
C. decrease the size of nuclear batteries
D. reduce the damage to lattice structure.
74. According to Jae Kwon, his nuclear battery _______.
A. uses a solid semiconductor
B. will soon replace the present ones.
C. could be extremely thin
D. has passed the final test.
75. The text is most probably a ________.
A. science news report B. book review
C. newspaper ad D. science fiction story
第II卷(共45分)
第四部分 书面表达
第一节 阅读表达(共5小题;每小题3分,满分15分)
阅读下面短文并回答问题,然后将答案写到答题卡相应的位置上(请注意问题后的字数要求)。
[1]One out of many important things for the whole family to do is to have dinner together. Researchers began reporting the benefits of family dinner about a decade ago, focusing mainly on how it affects children. Studies show that those families who eat dinner at least 3 or 4 times a week together, benefit in many ways.
[2]Eating together helps families achieve open communication and build stronger and healthier relationships. Children have better grades at school and are better adjusted as teens and adults, and the entire family enjoys healthier nutrition. For many families, eating dinner together proves to be a good and effective way to reduce the risk of youth rates of addiction, and helps to raise healthier children. It is also a great time to share the events of the day, discuss news and ideas and just be together and enjoy each other's company.
[3]During dinner time parents have better opportunity to show that they are the prior to their children. Sitting at the same table and sharing meals is where and when parents can find out more about their children's school performance, daily activities and attitudes toward life. When parents have all this information they can better direct their kids toward positive things in life. They also have better chance to reduce the possibility that children will get involved with alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs.
[4]However, family researchers say that the benefits of family dinner by no means can be considered as automatic. Parents can sit down to dinner with their kids every day and achieve nothing. ____________________ if there is too much arguing going on, if there is no meaningful conversation or, what is even worse, if there is just plain silence during gathering.
76. What is the main idea of the text? (no more than 8 words)
77. Which sentence in the text is closest in meaning to the following one?
By having dinner together family members can have free exchange of information and develop closer ties among them.
78. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with proper words. (no more than 8 words)
79. What information can parents probably get about their children at family dinner? (no more than 12 words)
80. Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 into Chinese.
第二节 写作(满分30分)
假设你是新华中学的学生李华,你和在上海上学的英国朋友Tom约好下周末去北京旅游,但你因故不能赴约。请根据以下要点用英语给他写一封电子邮件:
1. 表示歉意;
2. 解释原因;
3. 另约时间。
注意:1. 词数120~150;
2. 可适当增加细节。
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We have to understand that if there is one thing for certain in this world it is that energy is never lost it only changes form. And so with the people we once loved and cherished in this physical realm of existence, their energy is not lost, they have only changed form.
They too will still exist just we may not see them the way we once had. Their attachments to the physical world no longer exist or are needed and they merely retain their life on a different frequency than ours. Imagine you are listening to the radio and you listen to the same channel all the time until one day you decided to change that channel. Well the old radio frequency still exists you just decided to change channels. The same with the dead, they still exist and we can still speak to them just not the way we were accustomed to before.
They may come to us in dreams or thoughts and that is their confirmation to us that they still exist. So do not excuse these moments as they are true and are very real. These moments are when the dead fight hard to let us know their new lives have begun but we are not forgotten.
We may grieve of the physical loss and acceptance of their passing like a long lost friend moving to another state, but know that when you miss them you can reach out and they will hear you and they will listen. If you need help reaching your loved ones that have passed and want more information than what you have received on your own then consider consulting with a Psychic Medium to help facilitate the communication. You can ask questions, get their thoughts about life transitions, and have them acknowledge events they were present at after their passing.