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Vote to Help NORD Empower Patients and Families

NORD is in this month's Pepsi Refresh Challenge Project and needs your help!  In this project, organizations win grants by receiving the most votes in their category.  NORD has proposed an idea that has been accepted by Pepsi for the $50,000 category.  It is based on the belief that knowledge is power, and that rare disease patients and their families need information to be their own best advocates.
Specifically, NORD's idea is to update and expand the Rare Disease Database, a unique online resource that provides reports in patient-friendly language on more than 1,200 rare diseases.
You can read about NORD's idea and sign up to vote on the Pepsi Refresh website.  Every individual is allowed to vote once a day.  During the month of January, please vote every day in support of NORD's idea.  Please also share this link with your email contacts and Facebook friends.  If you would like to receive daily or weekly reminders from NORD to vote, sign up here.
The rare disease reports provide information on symptoms, causes, treatments, and clinical trials, as well as links to patient organizations and other sources of help.  NORD offers the reports free to individual patients and families through its website or via a tollfree phone number.  Often, those seeking reports have just gotten a diagnosis so it's especially important for them to have access to accurate, up-to-date information in language they can understand.
At the end of the month, the 10 ideas receiving the most votes will each be awarded $50,000 grants.  This would allow NORD to add several of the most requested topics to its database, in addition to updating several of the most requested current reports.
Please vote daily through the month of January in support of this project to empower rare disease patients and families, and please share the link with your friends and colleagues.

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10 Rules to Being Human

Only in Idaho and Wyoming

Yep, it's just what you think it is.  Why?  I don't know.

A townie bike with telemark ski boots slung over the handle bars.  I don't know if I'm more impressed by the boots being hung on the bike or the tenacity of the guy riding a bike through Jackson, Wyoming in the winter.

This sign is at my new gym.  Do east coast gyms have to tell people not to chew in the gym?

At the same time, these guys were blocking the road and using the snow banks to get their snow machines in their trucks.  See below for a close up.

It's only December and there is enough snow DRIVE a snow mobile into the back of a full size pick up.

On a different day, same trail head, trucks as far as the eye can see with the snow machine trailers.

This truck with a horse buggy (bike tires on the buggy??) was parked at the High School.

I'm not sure if this car is Only In Idaho quality but it sure is unusual.

Beautiful Teton Valley sunset.  I named this one, "Sky on Fire"

A clear day with a perfect view of the Tetons.