text: Two take Vows entering the Priesthood with Society of St. Edmund, Saint Michael's founding order of priests News Home 07.31.13 By: Buff Lindau Two men take Vows toward entering the Priesthood with the Society of St. Edmund, the order of priests and brothers that founded Saint Michael's College. Brother Lino Oropeza from Caracas, Venezuela will take his Final Vows and Br. Michael Carter (right) from South Burlington, VT will take his First Vows at the 11:15 a.m. Mass on August 15th at Saint Anne's Shrine in Isle La Motte, Vermont. This celebration of the Mass will bring together all members of the Society of St. Edmund, including those in Vermont and those in the Edmundite southern missions in Selma, AL. Vows are taken after Postulancy and a year and a day of Novitiate, a spiritual education leading toward becoming a member in the Society of St. Edmund, which is the order of priests and brothers who founded Saint Michael's College in 1904. Members of the Society of St. Edmund continue to direct the college's Edmundite Campus Ministry program, teach at the college and serve on the college's Board of Trustees. Brother Lino Oropeza, a native of Venezuela, was baptized by Edmundite priests and grew up knowing the Edmundite missionaries in his home region. Brother Michael Carter is a 2012 graduate of Saint Michael's College, earning his degree in Religious Studies. Both men taking Vows spent their Novitiate studying and focusing on discernment and spiritual development in the Edmundite Formation House in South Burlington guided by the Rev. Marcel Rainville, SSE, Director of Formation. Brother Lino is the first Edmundite priesthood candidate to come from the SSE mission in Caracas, Venezuela. He had been in a seminary in Venezuela before coming to the U.S., and "would have joined the Edmundites sooner, had the program been set up," Father Rainville told a reporter for the Saint Michael's College Magazine. Father Rainville previously served in the Edmundite's Caracas mission. As a student, Brother Michael was active with Edmundite Campus Ministry at Saint Michael's College.


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Rebecca Ferguson describes Zayn Malik relationship as a "breakdown"
Rebecca Ferguson has admitted that dating Zayn Malik was a 'blip'.
But it seems that his ex-girlfriend Rebecca Ferguson has less than fond memories of her relationship with the One Direction star.
We're not ENTIRELY sure what happened between the pair, but Beck has opened up about the short-lived romance - describing it as a 'blip.' Harsh.
Speaking to Heat radio about Zayn, the 27-year-old said: ''It's a bit like, wow that's a little blip in my life, what was I doing?
''I have a lot of respect for him and a lot of respect for the band, but that to me is a moment in my life that I just think, what was going on? You were having a breakdown.''
Rebecca, who dated Zayn for just three months, admitted that the pair are no longer in contact since the split. Obviously.
When discussing Zayn's tattoo of current girlfriend Perrie Edwards, Rebecca admitted that he'd never mentioned getting one of her. She said: ''I don't think so, no. We were only together for 3 months that would have freaked me right out. I would call for help!"
Speaking about the age gap between them, Rebecca recently told The Independent: ''I was 23, he was 18. Of course, if it was a 23-year-old guy dating an 18-year-old girl, no one would have batted an eyelid, but this way around was a big deal, apparently.''
She added: ''I didn't realise that. I was just a hippy, free-loving person, but that's not a good thing to be in this industry. You can't just follow your heart."
The global superstar has recently proposed to the Little Mix star and is gearing up for a major wedding next year.
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Just as good as the others!
A half star actually. The worst of the worst. None of them sing. Just a weak weak scriot and bad all around. Some soso moments with the big girl doing a scene from SPY that salute to Melissa McCarthy was well done. Other than that.......
Those girls are always funny.
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Girl power
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Best one!! Hope they do another one.
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text: here). None of this is really news—in fact, the prospect of a president born outside US borders was treated mostly with yawns in the 1880s. The more interesting question is whether the laws signed by a non natural-born president would have to be voided? A lot of modern-day birthers think they would. If that's true, then we might have to overturn the Edmunds Act, signed by president Chester Arthur. The Act prevents bigamists and polygamists from voting. Good grief, imagine roving bands of polygamists casting ballots willy-nilly! Then there's the international time agreement Arthur instigated. Overturn that one, and all our clocks will be wrong! It goes on and on. My solution to the chaos is this: a new amendment that says that as long as you are born in a country that ends in the letter "A" you can become president. That solves Chester Arthur's problem... and Barack Obama's. (Then again, my amendment adds about 2 billion people to the list of who could be come president. Check a world map and you'll see what I mean)


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My favorite part in the story is when the babysitter is on the chair floating down a stream which was in the house. I liked it because the author described the part very well so I was able to draw a picture in my mind. This book is unique because the Cat in the Hat has machines that nobody else ever had. An example of this was the S.L.O.W. machine, which was the Super Luxurious Omnidirectional Whatchamajigger! This story reminded me of a time in my life when I was at home with my friend and we kept hearing weird noises. In this book the two kids, Sally and Conrad, kept hearing weird noises.
I recommend this book to kids from the end of 2nd grade to the beginning of 5th grade because it is a little challenging, but it is also hilarious for older kids to read. I recommend this book because you can't stop laughing while you read it. It is very descriptive. What will interest readers most in this story is the Cat in the Hat and all his crazy machines and toys.


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At Porter Hospital, in late July, a young boy demonstrated a very simple act of kindness. He walked up to a volunteer in the front lobby and handed him a baggie filled with change — $6.19 to be exact — as a donation. He did not leave his name, how he had raised so much, or why he was donating the money. He turned and walked away.
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MIDDLEBURY — With a donation of more than $1,000 to the Tot Time program with the Middlebury Recreation Department, National Bank of Middlebury President Ken Perine put the shoe on the other foot by giving to others on the 25th anniversary of his date of hire at the bank.
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That is the given topic:
Nowadays, food has become easier to prepare. Has this change improved the way people live? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
It is easy. Just remove the lid and put it in the microwave. 5 minutes later your meal is ready to eat. Do those ready-to-eat meals improve our way of life? I do strongly believe that they do not!
First, for me cooking is a tradition and part of my culture.. I still remember the Sundays when all my family members came over to enjoy a meal together. But not only the meal, we also did prepare and cook together. That has been great fun and it was nice doing something together as a big family. Only if you cook what you eat you learn to value your meal. I do think that it is of great importance to be aware what you eat. My sister for example does like to eat meat; however she would never prepare it on her own. That is because she thinks raw meat is disgusting. That shows that some people dont want to know where their food comes from.
Second, I do believe all the fast food and ready-to-eat meals are a danger to our health. Although it is much more convenient to just put the ready meal for a few minutes in the microwave, most of them are not good for our body. An example is my colleague Lisa; every day at lunch break she just heats her instant meal and eats it. For me this is understandable, mainly because we have a nice large kitchen in the office, where everyone can cook or even bake in the oven. Moreover there is enough time for lunch, as our boss likes to cook himself a fresh meal every day. Lisa often is tired in the afternoon or just doesnt feel that good also she is gaining weight constantly. In my opinion this is the effect of the improvement of easier to prepare food, like fast food.
To sum up, based upon the argument above, Im of the opinion that the fact that food has become easier to prepare didnt improve our ways of living.
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Ever since I saw the reveal of Trina's dining room, I have been thinking about the pretty table runner on her dining table. After googling, I didn't come up with any tutorials for fringed runners, but did find a table runner for around $60. Knowing how little burlap costs, I couldn't justify paying that much. So I decided to try making it myself.
Both of our tables are pretty long, so I purchased 3 yards of fabric. The care instructions said to wash by hand, but I took the risk and washed the fabric on gentle in the washing machine. Burlap is m.e.s.s.y so after it washed, I took it outside a gave it a good shake then left it to dry in the sun.
As you can see in the picture above, I cut the fabric in half length wise a began to turn under the edges and pin in place.
Stitch both sides leaving room at each end to unravel. I wanted 8" fringe, so I stopped stitching 8 1/2" from the bottom. Learn from my mistakes - the first time I stitched all the way to the end. Not good. :(
The next step is to unravel each end. How long do you want your fringe to be? Take that and add about 1/2" for the knot.
I simply had to see what it would look like all prettied up, so in about 5 minutes, and when I should have been doing something much more important, I grabbed some props and put together a little place setting. The rush job might explain why the utensils are on the wrong sides of the plate. Sorry Mom. Don't laugh.
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An uneasy truce prevailed in the state penitentiary today as state police and national guardmen began a "search and shakedown" of the entire institution. Inmates have been assigned to clean up the debris in the damaged section of the prison.
People in the know suspect that the "super-criminal element" haven't gotten all the ones they want to get yet. An example of their venomous feeling was in the gruesome way they destroyed black convict Willie Hale who reportedly had been a servant in the warden's residence and at times the warden's chauffeur. They cut off his head, butchered the body up and then propped the body up in his cell with an aspirin bottle in his hand.
It was reported that a guard had tried to get him to leave the area during the uprising but that he stayed in his cell to assure his colleagues that he was not a "stool-pigeon."
To protect still other convicts who fear for their lives, four others were taken to the county jail yesterday.
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The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday voted overwhelmingly in favor of recognizing a new sovereign nation that has never before existed in the annals of history: Palestine.
The Palestinian Authority's motion to upgrade its status at the UN to that of a non-member observer state passed by a vote of 138-9. Those voting against the resolution were: Israel, the United States, Canada, the Czech Republic, Panama, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru and Palau.
The motion is largely symbolic, as General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding. However, that symbolism is enough to change the face of the Middle East conflict. And those involved knew full well what they were doing, and tried to make the event resemble as closely as possible a similar vote 65 years earlier that gave brought about the establishment of the State of Israel.
Most importantly in the short term is the fact that "Palestine" can now obtain membership at the International Criminal Court, where is it certain to file regular lawsuits against Israel. The Palestinians' new status will also greatly complicate Israel's ability to act against terrorism emanating from Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip.
Despite these complications, and the symbolism of the motion, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor declared from the General Assembly podium that nothing can negate the Jewish people's 4,000-year-old bond with its ancestral and biblical homeland.
In the Palestinian-controlled territories, there was a mixture of responses. Many rejoiced, and saw the vote as the "birth of Palestine." But others noted that only political activists were joined the celebrations, and that the bulk of the public will not be happy until "Palestine" replaces Israel on the map.
"We don't want [the] '67" borders, a Palestinian university student told The Times of Israel. "We want all of Palestine [sic]."
Others said that as long as the move "annoyed the Jews" then is was positive, and a good first step toward one day taking all of the land.
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text: Angela Marie Wallis and Alexander Eugene Erzen, both of Seattle, Wash., were married July 29 at Mt. Hood Organic Farms, in Mt. Hood. Sybil Nance, of Sukha Yoga Retreats, officiated. Attendants were Gregory Clarke, brother of the bride, and Tanya Erzen, sister of the groom. Tilda Erzen Quigley, niece of the groom, was flower girl. The wedding celebrated local resources and sustainability, including flowers and food sourced entirely from within the state of Oregon, and wine from Hood River. The newlyweds honeymooned in Aruba and Curacao, and will continue to live in Seattle. The bride is the daughter of Nancy and Keith Clarke, of Hood River, and Mike Wallis, of Sandy, Ore. She is a 1998 graduate of Hood River Valley High School and received her bachelor's degree from Dickenson College in 2002 and her MPA from the University of Washington in 2007. She currently works for King County Housing Authority in Seattle as a resource conservation manager. The groom is the son of Bob and Sue Erzen, of Sequim, Wash. He earned his Master of Marine Affairs degree from the University of Washington in 2010 and works as waste reduction program manager for King County Solid Waste Division in Seattle.


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I already mentioned my love for Miffy and Yuskin collaborating and here are the goodies;
Cute! Cute! Yet more boxes to hoard.
The main thing I have noticed is that the cream and lotion are both fairly liquid and the tradition gel like yellowy texture of Yuskin is NOT present with this range. Both the cream and lotion are white and sink in easily. If you want a heavy duty cream like the original Yuskin is, then neither of these products will do the job. But as a general medicated cream, a daily use one that is very gentle, then this can work for you.
It also smells light and just like…well cream. The original Yuksin is thick and stinky – you will smell like a medicine cabinet using it.
CUTEEEEEEE!!!! This stuff isn't LE although Kelly from Ichibankao says it's hard to get hold of. I was considering back ups but…well have you ever finished a back up? (what do you mean yes? Well then your weird).


text: >Simonova at bcserv.wustl.edu >remote via >troianovsk_s at wums.wustl.edu *************To whom it may concern**************** Maria L. Simonova PERSONAL DATA Date of Birth : March 21,1960. Moscow, Russia. Marital Status unmarried,female Citizenship : Russia Address : home work : 4530 West Pine,#101 Department of Biochemistry St.Louis, MO, 63108. and Molecular Biophysics tel. (314) 367-7209 Washington University School of Medicine 660 Euclid Ave. P.O.8231 tel.(314) 362-3350 Fax:(314) 362-7183 e-mail:Simonova at bcserv.wustl.edu EDUCATION: 9/77-3/83 Faculty of Organic Chemistry, Department of Microbiology, , Mendeleev Moscow Chemico-Technological Institute, Moscow, USSR. 2/83 Diploma Mc.Sc. in Microbiology. 4/90 Diploma of Ph.D. in Molecular Biology. Engelgardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Acad.Sci.USSR, Moscow, USSR. Ph.D.thesis: "Cloning and expression of the 3'-terminal cistrons of potato virus X genome". HONORS AND AWARDS 1983 Medal award for the best scientific student work , The Yearly All-Soviet Union Contest. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES : 1994-Present Washington University School of Medicine, St.Louis, MO. Research Associate in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Department. Research on methods and applications of plant and human genome analysis using long and accurate PCR. 1992-1994 Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Acad.Sci., Moscow, Russia. Senior researcher in Department of Plant Molecular Genetics. Analysis of transgenic tobacco plants with expressed bacterial nah C gene from Pseudomonas putida, which encodes 1,2 digydroxinaphtalene dioxigenase. 1990-1992 Moscow Agriculture Academy, Moscow, Russia. Senior researcher in Department of Biotechnology. Creation of transgenic potato plants possess high-level resistance against herbicide glyphosate. 1982-1990 Engelgardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Acad.Sci. of USSR , Moscow, USSR. 1982-1985 Research Assistant, Laboratory of Genetic Engineering of plants. Research on 1) Cloning and expression of potato virus X coat protein in E.coli cells. 2) Cloning and analysis of primary structure of Bacilus subtilis riboflavin biosynthesis genes. 1985-1988 Ph.D. program ( joint project with Department of Virology, Moscow State University). Cloning and expression (in cell-free system) of two open reading frames encoding putative 12K and 8K membrane-spanning proteins of potato virus X. 1988-1990 Researcher, (joint project with laboratory of Immunochemistry and High Hybridome Technology, All-Union Research Center of Molecular Diagnostics and Therapy, Moscow, Russia.) Research on expression of a putative potato virus X membrane-spanning 12K protein fused with Staphilococcus protein A in E.coli cells. TEACHING ACTIVITIES : Supervised 4 undergraduate students in laboratory work (1991-1994) and 3 postgraduate students (1993-Present). Topics of the projects: 1. Creation of potato transgenic plants expressed high level of mutant E.coli aro A gene. 2. Creation of transgenic potato plant with improved viral tolerance using bacterial Pseudomonas putida nah C gene. 3. Molecular biological and biochemical analysis of hormonal balance in the cytokinine transgenic potato plants. MEMBERSHIP: Russian Agriculture Academy Society for biotechnology, physiology and biochemistry of agricultural plants. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE : Bacterial, plant and human nucleic acids isolation and analysis; Southern and Northern blotting techniques; DNA cloning and sequencing; agrobacterial transformation of plant (tobacco and potato leaf disc infection); long and accurate polymerase chain reaction (PCR); protein analyses: protein isolation and electrophoretic analysis, immuno-enzyme assay (ELISA); affinity chromatography; NPT-II assays (radioactive in situ assay for selective marker neomycin phosphotransferase II enzyme). MAJOR RESEARCH INTEREST : 1. Molecular cloning in bacterial vectors. 2. Analysis of foreign gene expression in E.coli cells. 3. Viral gene expression. 4. Plant molecular biology. 5. Analysis of foreign gene expression of transgenic plants. 6. Immunoassay and diagnostics. REFERENCES Eleonora S. Piruzian (Professor) Head of Department of Plant Molecular Genetics Institute of Molecular Genetics Kurchatova pl.46, 123182 Moscow, FAX 7 095 196 02 21 Tel.7 095 196 85 01 e-mail:IMG at glas.apc.org. Sergey Yu. Morozov ( Dr.Sci.) Department of Virology, Moscow State University Leninskye gory , Moscow 117432, Russia. FAX 7 095 939 03 38 TEL.7 095 939 53 67 Irina N. Bespalova ( Ph.D.) Institute of Immunology of Russian Ministry of Health. Current adress: The University of Michigan Mental Health Research Institute 205 Lina Pitcher Place, Ann Arbor, USA, MI 48109-0720 FAX 001 313 747 41 30 TEL 001 313 747 21 86 Dr. Igor V. Karpychev Mount Sinai Medical Centre One Gustave L. Levey place New York, NY, 10029 Tel.: (212) 241-0982 Fax : (212) 860-1174 e-mail : ikar at msvax.mssm.edu PUBLICATIONS 1. Rosanov M.N., Simonova M.L., Pozmogova G.E. and Aprikyan P.G.,1988, Potex-virus genome: The complete sequence of potato virus X, IV International Workshop of Genetic, Albena (Bulgaria),Abstr. 2. Krayev A.S.,Morozov S.Yu.,Lukashova L.I.,Rosanov M.N.,Chernov B.K., Simonova M.L.,Golova Yu.B.,Pozmogova G.E.,Belzelarskaya S.N. and Skryabin K.G.,1988, Primary structure and model of organization of potato virus X genome. Dokl. Acad. Nauk USSR,v.300,n.3,pp.711-716. 3. Mironov V.N.,Krayev A.S.,Ulianov A.V.,Golova Yu.B.,SimonovaM.L., Pozmogova G.E.,Gordeev V.K.,Skryabin K.G. and Stepanov A.S.,1989 Bacillus subtilis riboflavin biosynthesis genes: The complete primary structure and model of organisation., Dokl. Acad. Nauk USSR, v.305, n.2, pp.482-486. 4. Miroshnichenko N.A.,Simonova M.L.,Zelenina D.A.,Fedorkin O.N. and Morozov S.Yu.,1990,In Vitro membrane binding of the translation products of two potato virus X small genes. VIII International congress of Virology, Berlin,p.376. 5. Lukashova L.I., Simonova M.L., Soloviev A.G., FedorkinO.N., Chernov B.K. and Morozov S.Yu. 1990. Constraction of translational vectors, containing cloning hydrophobic protein genes of X and M potato virus. All-Union conference for Microbiological and Biotechtnological Approches for Intencification of Crop-production and Animal Feed-production , Alma-Ata(USSR),p. 63. 6. Simonova M.L., Sveshnikov P.G.,Bespalova I.N. and Skryabin K.G., 1992, Evidence for expression of a putative membrane-spanning 12K protein of potato virus X in Esherichia coli cells., Dokl. Acad. Nauk, Russia, v.322,n.5, pp.985-988. 7. Simonova M.L., Cabral-Escalante B., Mett V.L., Kobets N.S. and Piruzian E.S., Expression of a bacterial glyphosate-tolerance gene in potato plants.,1994, 8th IUPAC Congress of Pesticide Chemistry, Washington, Abstr.,p.430. 8. Simonova M.L., Cabral-Escalante B., Mett V.L., Kobets N.S. and Piruzian E.S., New mutaton in E. coli EPSP-synthase gene results high level of glyphosate-tolerance of transgenic tobacco and potato plants, is presented in Plant Molecular Biology. 9. Mett V.L.,Kobets N.S., Simonova M.L., and Piruzian E.S., Trangenic tobacco plants with expressed bacterial nah C gene from Pseudomonas putida. is presented in Genetica (Russia).


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Eventually, the 145-minute runtime of "In Darkness" starts to feel long. Then you remember that you're watching a story about Jews forced to spend 14 months hiding in a sewer to avoid being killed by the Nazis during WWII, and you realize you can last another 30 minutes in the theater.
Troubling and powerful, the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nominee is based on the true story of Polish sewer worker Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz), who initially helps people he calls "vermin" because they're paying him but grows conflicted about where his sympathies lie. He's not the only one who sees Jews as a financial opportunity; Socha's old Ukrainian friend from prison (Michal Zurawski), who's now a Nazi commander, constantly nudges Socha to keep his eye out for anyone who can be turned in for a reward.
I must note that "In Darkness" features more sexuality than I can recall seeing in a movie about the Holocaust. Perhaps writer David F. Shamoon and director Agnieszka Holland, working from Robert Marshall's book "In the Sewers of Lvov," aim to depict the desperation and desire to maintain humanity in an inhumane situation. But a late-movie sex scene in trickling water that serves as a shower tips the movie's heat from "appropriately shocking" to "a little much."
Not every character receives ample depth, but "In Darkness" horrifies honestly, whether a Nazi pulls off part of a Jew's beard or a man nearly dies because he does not have a cap. What saves him? He looks healthy, so the man next to him is shot, leaving a cap now in need of a head.
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Friday, January 15, 2010
Interview With A HoseMaster, Part IV
In this edition of "Interview with a Hosemaster" I answer questions submitted by loyal HoseMaster of Wine readers. If you have any questions for the HoseMaster, please be sure and include them in your comments and you may be included in the next edition! If your question is selected you may receive two tickets to the next Wine Bloggers Conference, or their equivalent cash value of Not One Thin Dime.
What does it feel like to have one of the least successful blogs in America?
I don't know, ask TheWineWhore.
How does one measure success in wine blogging? That's a bar that's set lower than a midget teabagging Glenn Beck. Put all the readers of all the wine blogs on any given day together and what would you have? The lowest percentile of the SAT's. Factor in the reality that 75% of every blog's readers are other bloggers, and, basically, the whole wine blog world is like the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, a whole bunch of loudmouths trying to shout over each other, only less dressy. Which brings up another thing--I know it's hard to think about, but, basically, when you're reading any blogger's words, whether it's the HoseMaster or Steve Heimoff or Tom Wark, you have to imagine that they wrote those posts in their underwear, which would explain the stains. My point is, we are all little fish in a little puddle, the kind your poodle makes on the kitchen floor when he's happy, and the notion that one can measure success on that scale is a little like trying to measure the atomic weight of farts. In more ways than one.
And who starts a wine blog thinking about success? Every wine blogger knows there's no monetary reward in blogging. You'd make more cash standing by a freeway exit with a sign that says, "Homeless Wine Blogger--Any Attention Welcome!" Most bloggers just seek praise, and lots of it. Praise for their discerning palate, praise for their agility with words, praise for their originality of thought. And a lot of that is forthcoming. From other bloggers who expect it in return. The wine blog world is one big praise orgy--you stick it in another blog while one is being slipped into yours and everybody leaves with that wonderful feeling of having just been screwed. Which further explains the stains.
But to answer the original question, I love having an unsuccessful wine blog. The successful ones mostly suck.
What are your least favorite wine appellations?
As I do with people, I try to find the best in every wine. And every appellation produces the occasional interesting wine just like every blue moon there's an original thought on WannabeWino. But since you asked...
Temecula is the poster city for the Save Our Pierce's Disease Foundation. Who the hell buys these wines? Drunk Millienials out wine tasting on the weekend, I imagine. Temecula isn't a wine growing region, it's an amusement park for the brain damaged. Has any wine publication ever done an article like "Temecula: Wine's Best Kept Secret," or "Temecula: Tuscany Without the Scores?" Is there a restaurant north of San Diego County with a Temecula section on its wine list? That wants to sell wine? There are more than 50 wineries there now! Fifty! Man, it's like Yankee Stadium urinals. Tasting room in Temecula
I go to ZAP every year. I love Zinfandel, and I'm always on the lookout for producers new to me. I search the ZAP program for names I'm not familiar with and when I find one, the next thing I check is its appellation. If it's Lodi I avoid it like hot oil wrestling on "The Biggest Loser." Yeah, I know, there are lots of old vines in Lodi! I know, I've seen them, they all have court-ordered Do Not Resuscitate affidavits. Palm Springs has lots of old people, Scottsdale has lots of old people, Miami Beach has lots of old people--old living things go where it's too goddamned hot for healthy, vigorous things. Lodi Zins are more baked than a Humboldt State College reunion.
OK, I'm ignorant, but it's like I just ate asparagus and peed into a Riesling bottle.
What do you do with all the free wine samples?
In 18 months of doing two incarnations of HoseMaster of Wine I have received a total of four bottles. I take this as flattery. Wineries send samples to professional reviewers whose scores may affect their sales in a positive manner. To counteract any lukewarm reviews, they send samples to bloggers they know have little experience, proven sycophantic behavior, and the vanity to feel flattered at gifts of free plonk. It doesn't matter what the blogger says about the wine, no one cares, especially if you know something about wine. Wineries just want to be mentioned, to be ubiquitous, to see their name mentioned as often as Paris Hilton or Angelina Jolie or Jesus H. Christ. They call this marketing. Wineries pay marketing people obscene amounts of money to come up with lists of the dullest and most pathetic wine bloggers, and then they send them each a couple of bottles of wine, watch their Google Alerts fill their Inbox, and then sit back and watch sales inch downward. Hell, the wine isn't selling anyway, might as well give it away, then convince yourself you're marketing your brand. The music industry ruined payola for everybody, there are hardly any wine critics on the take, unless you count free trips, helicopter rides, lavish dinners, fake friendship and free balloon animals as payola (pish-tosh, it simply has to be that way), so what road is left to wineries but seeking reviews from unqualified and inexperienced reviewers? Make better wines? Nah. Too much like work.
Remember, if you have a question for the HoseMaster, aside from questions of taste, please submit them in a comment. Perhaps you'll be featured in another edition of "Interview With A HoseMaster!"
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I think some marketing genius asked the enologists to blend some juice from Lodi and Temecula and the resulting blend has, appropriately enough, been dubbed Cuvee Pish Tosh. The same misguided marketing guru was out trying to sell the wine as one of the few California blends worthy of having a Government Warning on the label.
I suspect Puff Daddy would not call this a "Bordeaux"-styled blend, but, more accurately, a "DeMeritage."
- January 15, 2010 at 5:41 PM
- Lar said...
In wine and other matters, is length all that important? I've also read that the more phallic a wine bottle appears, the more sales it generates to straight men. Any truth to this?
- January 16, 2010 at 5:54 AM
- Puff Daddy said...
Dear Hoser--
I don't get your disdain for Lodi Zin. There is a big demand for chocolate these days. Indeed, some people are positively addicted to it.
I am not one of them, but I did make a visit out to Lodi last year, and found that there is chocolate and then there is chocolate and that a handful of producers make better chocolate than others.
So, when producers like the Phillips Brothers, Mettler, Klinker Brick manage to get a full measure of fruit in their very rich wines, people are buying those offerings by the bushel basketful.
OK, they are not my favorites, but have you ever tried pouring one over your ice cream?
- January 16, 2010 at 8:09 AM
- El Jefe said...
I have a question: what does the "H" stand for in Jesus H Christ? I'm assuming it's not "HoseMaster"...
- January 16, 2010 at 12:26 PM
- Ron Washam said...
Good questions! I may get to them in the next edition of IWH. Lots to think about. Not sure how a wine bottle can be more phallic, unless, in my case, it's the ones they use on airplanes.
Puff Daddy,
I think I avoid Lodi Zin because I was told as a teenager it was a major cause of zits.
You've tasted many more Lodi Zins than I have, for which I am supremely sorry. But wasn't Klinker Brick in charge of the prison camp on Hogan's Heroes?
El Jefe,
I think it's like the S in Harry S Truman. Like me, it doesn't stand for anything.
- January 17, 2010 at 9:12 AM
- Samantha Dugan said...
I gots me some junk I wanna know!
1) How does one go about getting certified as a Master of Hose?
2) What's a Hogan?
3) Who's your Daddy?
4) I've been looking for a, "Private Dick" any suggestions….
5) Who would you take in a fight; Hardy Wallace or Steve Heimoff?
- January 17, 2010 at 1:19 PM
- Puff Daddy said...
Ron has apparently decided to ignore you, and I am stepping in temporarily.
1--How do you get certified as Master of Hose?
Have you not been reading the MS Conspiracy? Its all about getting hosed by the folks who are Masters. In order to join their little fraternity, you have to pass their tests. And, in order to pass their tests, you have to take their courses. And in order to take their courses, you have to give them a lot of money. So, you see, certification is easy if you have deep pockets or an abiding need to have initials after your name.
2--What's a Hogan?
He is a guy who is in the clink. And this particular clink is run by Colonel Klink, who is a prince of a fellow and failed in life as an opera singer so he took to comedy.
3--Who's your Daddy?
I am.
4--Your looking for Private Dick. It is usually not all that hard to find, but you get what you pay for.
5--Hardly Wallace or Steve The Alter Boy Heimoff? These two would wind up throwing grapes at each other from twenty paces. Some fights are just not worth watching just as some Certificates are not worth pursuing.
- January 17, 2010 at 6:32 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
My Gorgeous Samantha,
No matter what Charlie says, I would never ignore you. I was otherwise occupied watching a cage match between Heimoff and Wallace, the winner to take on reigning champion Lou Foppiano.
Your questions were well-conceived and probing, two of my favorite activities. Thanks for asking, and I'll PM you with the answers...
I adore you!
Hey Charlie,
You hit the MS answer on the head, though you left out the part where you are also expected to spend a small fortune on wine in order to be given the privilege of giving the MS clowns your money to take their tests and maybe, only maybe, then they'll grace your name with two, count 'em, two letters of the alphabet. Frankly, most folks would be better off spending their cash on breast implants or penile enlargement schemes.
You're my Daddy!? Can I borrow the car?
- January 18, 2010 at 8:48 AM
Once again, just laughing like an idiot, with nothing witty to say or ask of the HMW.
<3 (that's love, but looks like a butt)
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Records retrieved from National Cardiovascular Data Registry CathPCI version 3.04. PCI indicates percutaneous coronary intervention.
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Marso SP, Amin AP, House JA, et al. Association Between Use of Bleeding Avoidance Strategies and Risk of Periprocedural Bleeding Among Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. JAMA. 2010;303(21):2156–2164. doi:10.1001/jama.2010.708
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Context Bleeding complications with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are associated with adverse patient outcomes. The association between the use of bleeding avoidance strategies and post-PCI bleeding as a function of a patient's preprocedural risk of bleeding is unknown.
Objective To describe the use of 2 bleeding avoidance strategies, vascular closure devices and bivalirudin, and associated post-PCI bleeding rates in a nationally representative PCI population.
Design, Setting, and Patients Analysis of data from 1 522 935 patients undergoing PCI procedures performed at 955 US hospitals participating in the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) CathPCI Registry from January 1, 2004, through September 30, 2008.
Main Outcome Measure Periprocedural bleeding.
Results Bleeding occurred in 30 654 patients (2%). Manual compression, vascular closure devices, bivalirudin, or vascular closure devices plus bivalirudin were used in 35%, 24%, 23%, and 18% of patients, respectively. Bleeding events were reported in 2.8% of patients who received manual compression, compared with 2.1%, 1.6%, and 0.9% of patients receiving vascular closure devices, bivalirudin, and both strategies, respectively (P < .001). Bleeding rates differed by preprocedural risk assessed with the NCDR bleeding risk model (low risk, 0.72%; intermediate risk, 1.73%; high risk, 4.69%). In high-risk patients, use of both strategies was associated with lower bleeding rates (manual compression, 6.1%; vascular closure devices, 4.6%; bivalirudin, 3.8%; vascular closure devices plus bivalirudin, 2.3%; P < .001). This association persisted following adjustment using a propensity-matched and site-controlled model. Use of both strategies was used least often in high-risk patients (14.4% vs 21.0% in low-risk patients, P < .001).
Conclusions In a large national PCI registry, vascular closure devices and bivalirudin were associated with significantly lower bleeding rates, particularly among patients at greatest risk for bleeding. However, these strategies were less often used among higher-risk patients.
Improving hospital safety is a recognized health care priority in the United States.1 There is an important opportunity to improve the safety of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), a treatment performed approximately 1 million times a year in the United States alone.2 Periprocedural bleeding is the most common noncardiac complication of PCI and is associated with risk of early mortality3,4 as well as higher costs of care.5 Moreover, the rate of periprocedural bleeding varies substantially across institutions and is modifiable through the use of bleeding avoidance strategies such as vascular closure devices, bivalirudin, and radial access. Underscoring the importance of bleeding complications and the opportunity for improvement, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has identified bleeding and hematoma after cardiovascular procedures to be quality indicators among centers participating in its Acute Care Episode demonstration.6
To assist clinicians in identifying patients' risks for periprocedural bleeding, a risk model was previously developed and validated using the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) CathPCI Registry.7 This model uses preprocedural variables to predict risk of bleeding events after PCI. To date, however, whether this model is useful in identifying patients with greater potential to benefit from bleeding avoidance strategies is unknown. It is also unknown whether clinicians treat the highest-risk patients preferentially. Failure to treat the highest-risk patients with bleeding avoidance strategies would demonstrate the potential for risk-stratifying patients at the time of PCI to direct therapy.
To address these gaps in knowledge, we described peri-PCI bleeding rates associated with the use of manual compression, vascular closure devices, bivalirudin, or both strategies (vascular closure devices plus bivalirudin) in patients across a spectrum of preprocedural bleeding risk; we also examined current patterns of the use of these strategies as a function of bleeding risk.
The NCDR CathPCI Registry is a voluntary nationwide reporting system for diagnostic cardiac catheterization and PCI procedures jointly sponsored by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions. Descriptions of the NCDR have been published.8,9 Demographic, clinical, procedural, and institutional data elements from diagnostic catheterization and PCI procedures are collected at more than 1100 participating centers. Data are entered via either a secure Web-based platform or software provided by ACC-certified vendors into a secure, centralized database (CathPCI version 3.04) stored at the ACC Heart House in Washington, DC. Data quality assurance includes automatic system validation and reporting of data completeness, random on-site auditing of participating centers, and education and training for site data managers.10 A comprehensive description of NCDR data elements and definitions is available at http://www.ncdr.com/WebNCDR/ELEMENTS.ASPX.
All data elements and definitions were prospectively defined by a committee of the ACC. Race/ethnicity data were reported by patients or family and recorded in the medical record. Trained chart abstractors recorded race/ethnicity on the standard NCDR CathPCI case report form. The options were white, black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, and other. Glomerular filtration rate was calculated using admission serum creatinine values and the abbreviated Modification of Diet in Renal Disease formula.11
This study was approved by the Saint Luke's Health System institutional review board and was determined to meet the definition of research not requiring informed consent.
Only patients who underwent PCI via the femoral artery approach were included in this analysis. Exclusion criteria consisted of patients with more than 1 PCI procedure during a hospitalization (since bleeding events could not reliably be attributed to a specific procedure), incomplete data for calculation of expected bleeding rates, PCI through access of a nonfemoral artery (ie, radial, brachial), cardiogenic shock, missing device data, death in the catheterization laboratory, or unknown data on bleeding events.
Candidate bleeding avoidance strategies consisted of vascular closure devices (Angio-Seal [St Jude Medical, St Paul, Minnesota], Perclose A-T [Abbott Vascular, Abbott Park, Illinois], or other) without bivalirudin; bivalirudin (Angiomax [The Medicines Company, Parsippany, New Jersey]) without vascular closure devices; or both strategies (vascular closure devices plus bivalirudin). Patients receiving manual compression did not receive vascular closure devices or bivalirudin and thus served as the reference group.
Bleeding rates were determined for all patients and within 3 clinically important subgroups, based on patients' pre-PCI bleeding risk scores derived using the NCDR CathPCI bleeding risk model.7 Risk scores were generated for each patient in this study based on the inverse logarithmic sum of the β coefficients for each of the following pre-PCI variables: ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (MI), non–ST-segment elevation MI, female sex, previous congestive heart failure, no previous PCI, New York Heart Association/Canadian Cardiovascular Society Class IV heart failure, peripheral vascular disease, age, and estimated glomerular filtration rate.
In-hospital bleeding complications following PCI were ascertained and voluntarily reported by centers. The primary outcome for this study was periprocedural bleeding, which, as defined by the NCDR CathPCI data definition, required a blood transfusion or a prolonged hospital stay for management or was associated with a decrease (>3 g/dL) in hemoglobin level.
Demographic data were described across treatment groups as mean (SD) for continuous variables and number (%) for categorical variables. Patients with attempted use of vascular closure devices were included with the vascular closure devices group. Based on individual risk scores calculated using the NCDR CathPCI bleeding risk model,7 patients were categorized into 3 groups of risk for post-PCI bleeding events occurring during hospitalization: low (<1%), intermediate (1%-3%), and high (>3%).
To minimize confounding, a propensity score match analysis was implemented. Scores for each bleeding avoidance strategy (manual compression, vascular closure devices, bivalirudin, or vascular closure devices plus bivalirudin) were derived using a multinomial regression model.12-16 Variables used to derive these propensity scores were demographics (age, sex, race/ethnicity); clinical characteristics (body mass index, New York Heart Association heart failure classification); coronary artery disease risk factors (diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, smoking, family history of coronary artery disease); coronary artery disease history (PCI, coronary artery bypass graft surgery, MI); other cardiovascular disease history (congestive heart failure, cerebrovascular disease, peripheral vascular disease, valve surgery, cardiac transplantation); other disease history (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, renal failure); and presenting syndrome (no symptoms, atypical chest pain, stable angina, unstable angina, ST-segment elevation MI, and non–ST-segment elevation MI).
Matching was performed simultaneously on all strategy propensity scores within the bleeding risk groups using nearest-neighbor matching without replacement, with a caliper width of 0.5%.12 Absolute standardized differences were computed to evaluate matching effectiveness and displayed graphically17-19; values less than 10% and closer to zero demonstrate a more balanced cohort.17 Hierarchical modeling was then performed on the matched cohort to account for hospital characteristics. From this model, odds ratios were obtained to estimate the number of patients needed to treat to prevent 1 bleeding event for each strategy compared with manual compression.20-22
Statistical significance was defined as P < .05. All statistical analyses were performed by the Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute Department of Biostatistics using SAS version 9.2 (SAS Institute, Cary, North Carolina).
From January 1, 2004, to September 30, 2008, 1 759 408 patients underwent PCI. After exclusions (Figure), there were 1 522 935 eligible patients at 955 centers. Patient demographics, clinical characteristics, risk factors, disease history, admission presentation, and selected hospital characteristics for the entire population and for subgroups according to bleeding avoidance strategy are shown in Table 1 and Table 2.
Overall, bleeding occurred in 30 429 patients (2%). Bleeding rates by candidate strategy for the overall study population are shown in Table 3 and eFigure 1). Manual compression was used in 35% of patients, vascular closure devices in 24%, bivalirudin in 23%, and vascular closure devices plus bivalirudin in 18%. Bleeding events were reported in 2.8% of patients who received manual compression, compared with 2.1% receiving vascular closure devices, 1.6% receiving bivalirudin, and 0.9% receiving both strategies (P < .001) (Table 3 and eFigure 1).
According to the NCDR CathPCI bleeding risk model, bleeding risk was classified as low (<1%) in 475 152 patients (31%), intermediate (1%-3%) in 746 727 (49%), and high (>3%) in 301 056 (20%). Observed rates of bleeding in these categories were 0.72%, 1.73%, and 4.69%, respectively. Bleeding rates associated with candidate strategies stratified by preprocedural risk category are shown in Table 3 and eFigure 1. In the low-risk group, manual compression was associated with a bleeding rate of 0.9%, vascular closure devices with a rate of 0.9%, bivalirudin with a rate of 0.6%, and vascular closure devices plus bivalirudin with a rate of 0.4% (P < .001). As preprocedural risk of bleeding increased, differences in actual bleeding rates between strategies became more pronounced. In the intermediate-risk group, manual compression was associated with a bleeding rate of 2.3%, vascular closure devices with a rate of 1.9%, bivalirudin with a rate of 1.4%, and vascular closure devices plus bivalirudin with a rate of 0.8% (P < .001); in the high-risk group, the corresponding rates were 6.1%, 4.6%, 3.8%, and 2.3%, respectively (P < .001).
In the overall group, 508 455 of 529 247 eligible patients receiving manual compression (96%) were propensity matched using multinomial regression modeling to patients who received bleeding avoidance strategies. Corresponding values were 144 594 of 146 557 (99%) in the low-risk group, 252 898 of 261 363 (97%) in the intermediate-risk group, and 110 963 of 121 327 (91%) in the high-risk group. The effectiveness of propensity matching in the total cohort is demonstrated in eFigure 2, which is a standardized difference plot for variables used in the propensity model. After matching, the absolute standardized difference between patients who received bleeding avoidance strategies and controls for each covariable was 0% to 1%.
Table 4 shows in-hospital bleeding events, odds ratios, the estimated number needed to treat to prevent 1 bleeding event, and the estimated reduction in bleeding events per 1000 patients treated with each strategy relative to manual compression in the matched, site-adjusted cohort. Data are displayed for the overall population and by preprocedural bleeding risk group. Independent of preprocedural risk, the use of vascular closure devices, bivalirudin, and vascular closure devices plus bivalirudin were associated with fewer bleeding events per 1000 patients treated (6.7 [95% confidence interval {CI}, 5.7-7.7], 8.5 [95% CI, 7.6-9.3], and 14.2 [95% CI, 13.5-14.8] events, respectively). In patients receiving both strategies, the high-risk group had fewer bleeding events per 1000 patients treated compared with the intermediate- and low-risk groups (30.5 [95% CI, 27.9-32.8] vs 12.5 [95% CI, 11.6-13.3] and 5.3 [95% CI, 4.5-6.0] events, respectively).
The frequency of use of bleeding avoidance strategies according to estimated pre-PCI risk of bleeding is shown in Table 5. Manual compression was used most often in the highest-risk patients and least often in the intermediate- and lowest-risk cohorts (40.3% vs 35.0% and 30.8%, respectively; P < .001), while the use of vascular closure devices plus bivalirudin was highest in low-risk patients (21.0%) and lower in intermediate-risk (17.8%) and high-risk (14.4%) patients (P < .001).
Using data from more than 1.5 million patients in the NCDR CathPCI Registry, we compared bleeding rates among patients undergoing PCI and receiving strategies to mitigate bleeding across a spectrum of preprocedural risk for bleeding. Among high-risk patients, the use of vascular closure devices plus bivalirudin was associated with an absolute 3.8% lower bleeding rate, which translates into an estimated number needed to treat of 33 to prevent 1 bleeding event as compared with manual compression. Lower rates of bleeding associated with this treatment strategy were proportionately less in intermediate- and low-risk patients. Despite the association between the use of vascular closure devices plus bivalirudin and lower bleeding rates among the highest-risk patients, these patients were the least likely to receive both strategies and most likely to receive manual compression. This apparent risk-treatment paradox highlights an opportunity for routine preprocedural risk stratification as a means to identify patients ideally suited for individualized bleeding avoidance strategies with the goal of increasing the safety of PCI.
Targeting bleeding complications as a quality-improvement goal holds great potential for improving the safety and cost-effectiveness of PCI. Among the more than 1 million PCIs performed annually in US hospitals, bleeding is a morbid and costly complication, occurring in 2% to 6% of patients,23-27 with wide variability across institutions. Major bleeding events result in an average 4- to 6-day increase in length of stay28,29 and, on average, increase hospital costs by $6000 to $8000.5 In addition to its association with nonfatal MI28,30 and stroke,30 periprocedural bleeding is also strongly associated with early3,4 and late3 mortality. Bleeding also exposes many patients to the added risk of blood transfusions.23 According the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, 50% of patients experiencing bleeding following PCI receive a blood transfusion, which is associated with greater median length of stay (2 vs 6 days) and greater mean hospital charges ($48 000 vs $85 000).31
The current study found that higher-risk patients—those with the greatest potential to benefit from bleeding avoidance strategies—were the least likely to be treated with such strategies in contemporary clinical practice. Conversely, the lowest-risk patients were the most likely to receive bleeding avoidance strategies, supporting the presence of a risk-treatment paradox.32-35 This phenomenon has been demonstrated in a variety of medical treatment scenarios, including lower rates of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor or β-blocker use in patients with severe heart failure,32 lower use of angiography after acute MI,36-38 and lower use of statins in higher-risk patients with angiographically confirmed coronary disease.39
Several factors may contribute to the higher use of bleeding avoidance strategies in lower-risk patients found in this study. First, assessing the risk for bleeding in clinical practice is neither inherently intuitive nor commonly used. Second, physicians have more experience using bivalirudin in lower-risk patients, since it was first studied in patients undergoing elective PCI and only recently in higher-risk patients (ie, those with ST-segment elevation MI).40 Lastly, the prior published data for bleeding mitigation with vascular closure devices has been limited.41-43
The results of this study suggest the need for additional research to better understand why higher-risk patients are least likely to receive bleeding avoidance strategies but also suggest the need to test interventions to overcome the risk-treatment paradox, such as enabling physicians to purposefully direct bleeding avoidance strategies to patients by providing preprocedural estimates of post-PCI bleeding. Translation of the findings in this study into clinical practice to optimally guide the use of such strategies will be challenging. Incorporating risk models into everyday care, which requires capturing risk factors, estimating individual risk, and presenting information in a clear and understandable manner at the point of care for physicians, is currently not feasible for many clinical environments. However, with the current national investment in health information technology, increasing literature on clinical decision support, increasing focus by regulatory and other agencies on the documentation of patient risk to guide care, and the development of quality-of-care tools by entities such as the ACC and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, the health care environment is increasingly capable of supporting the implementation of point-of-care interventions to help guide effective and safe care.
It should be noted that there are more supporting data on the efficacy of bivalirudin than on that of vascular closure devices with regard to bleeding avoidance. In randomized trials including patients with broad indications for PCI (elective or acute coronary syndromes), bivalirudin has been demonstrated to reduce major bleeding following PCI to an extent comparable with the findings in this observational study.24,44-46 Randomized controlled trials demonstrating reductions in bleeding associated with the use of vascular closure devices were designed to assess ambulation time rather than bleeding. A meta-analysis of 30 clinical studies, including 4000 patients, showed a trend for reduced vascular complications associated with the Angio-Seal device (odds ratio, 0.46; 95% CI, 0.20-1.04; P = .06).42 A recent analysis from the Acute Catheterization and Urgent Intervention Triage Strategy (ACUITY) trial also suggests that a significant reduction in major bleeding is associated not only with the use of bivalirudin but also with vascular closure devices in patients undergoing PCI in the setting of unstable angina or non–ST-segment elevation MI.43 Similar to our study, the greatest reduction in bleeding was seen in patients receiving both a vascular closure device and bivalirudin.
Given the findings of our observational study and that previous data linking vascular closure devices to bleeding are both limited and from nonrandomized studies, an adequately powered randomized trial of vascular closure devices evaluating post-PCI bleeding end points is needed. It is also important to note that data on vascular closure devices and bivalirudin were published during a period overlapping with data collection in the present study, and bivalirudin was not included in PCI guidelines47 until 2006. Thus, there may be important temporal trends for rates of strategies not investigated in this study.
Several aspects of this work should be considered when interpreting our results and in translating these findings to clinical practice. First, this was not a randomized trial; thus, a causal relationship between bleeding avoidance and evaluated strategies cannot be concluded. Second, potential unmeasured confounding is a limitation of all observational studies. We sought to minimize confounding through the use of a center-adjusted, multinomial propensity-matched analysis, which successfully balanced the observable patient and treatment characteristics; nevertheless, some unmeasured confounding may have been present. The NCDR CathPCI Registry also does not currently collect data on complications related to vascular closure devices. However, the reported frequency of such complications is low.48
Third, activated clotting time is not available in the NCDR CathPCI Registry, which limited our ability to assess the relationship between heparin dosing, level of anticoagulation, and bleeding, which could have further informed the observed variability in bleeding among the cohort receiving manual compression.
Fourth, some patients are not suited to receive bleeding avoidance strategies. For example, bivalirudin is not recommended in the setting of therapeutic anticoagulation with prior agents, including unfractionated or low-molecular-weight heparin with or without a glycoprotein IIb/IIIa agent. Bivalirudin is also not currently recommended in patients undergoing PCI for a chronic total occlusion.49 Furthermore, mitigation of bleeding risk may be neutralized with the concomitant use of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors and in the setting of renal failure. Vascular closure devices are also not recommended for use given several anatomical limitations, such as puncture at the site of an anatomical arterial bifurcation, presence of severe calcification, or presence of severe obstructive peripheral artery disease; the reasons for not using a vascular closure device for a given patient are not collected in the CathPCI Registry. To the extent that some of these examples cluster more frequently in patients at intermediate or high risk for bleeding, there will be a reduction in potential to offset the apparent risk-treatment paradox observed in this study.
In a large, national PCI registry, the use of vascular closure devices and bivalirudin was associated with significantly lower rates of periprocedural bleeding. However, there was an apparent risk-treatment paradox, whereby patients at greatest risk of bleeding were least likely to receive a bleeding avoidance strategy. These findings emphasize the opportunity to improve the safety of PCI and to further explore cost efficacy by directing such strategies to those patients most likely to benefit from them.
Corresponding Author: Steven P. Marso, MD, Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, University of Missouri Kansas City, 4401 Wornall Rd, Kansas City, MO 64111 (email@example.com).
Author Contributions: Drs Marso and Rumsfeld had full access to all of the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.
Study concept and design: Marso, House, Kennedy, Spertus, Rumsfeld.
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Financial Disclosures: Dr Marso reported receiving research support from the American Diabetes Association, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Boston Scientific, The Medicines Company, Volcano Corporation, and Terumo Corporation and serving as a consultant for Abbott Vascular, NovoNordisk, Volcano Corporation, and The Medicines Company. Mr House reported receiving consulting fees from Volcano Corporation. Dr Spertus reported receiving research funding from the National Institutes of Health, American College of Cardiology Foundation, American Heart Association, Amgen, Lilly, Bristol-Myers Squibb/Sanofi-Aventis, EvaHeart, and Cordis Corporation; receiving in-kind research support from Atherotech and Roche Diagnostics; serving as a consultant for United Healthcare, St Jude Medical, and Amgen; serving as a copyright holder of the Seattle Angina Questionnaire, the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire, and the Peripheral Artery Questionnaire; having equity ownership in Health Outcomes Sciences; and holding a patent on the PRISM technology, which executes multivariable models at the point of clinical care. Dr Rao reported receiving research support from Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Portola Pharmaceuticals, and Cordis Corporation and serving as a consultant for Bristol-Myers Squibb, Sanofi-Aventis, The Medicines Company, AstraZeneca, and Terumo Corporation. Dr Cohen reported receiving research support from The Medicines Company, Schering-Plough, Eli Lilly, and Daichi Sankyo; serving as a consultant for Schering-Plough and Eli Lilly; and receiving speaking honoraria from The Medicines Company, Eli Lilly, and St Jude Medical. Dr Messenger reported receiving research support from Pfizer, Medtronic, and Sanofi-Aventis. Dr Rumsfeld reported receiving salary support for the position of chief science officer for the NCDR. No other authors reported financial disclosures.
Funding/Support: This was an investigator-initiated study. The analytical work was performed at the Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, an NCDR analytical center. There was no other additional financial or material support.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article represent those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the American College of Cardiology Foundation or the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions, which cosponsor the National Cardiovascular Data Registry.
Additional Contributions: We thank Jose Aceituno, MS, for preparation of graphics and Joseph Murphy, MBA, for editorial assistance and publication coordination. Both are employees of Saint Luke's Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri. Neither received additional compensation for their contributions.
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i went with jeremy fish to zurich and germany earlier this year but before i get started i wanted to let all'z yall'z know that he has a show opening this friday (dec. 1st) at lineage gallery in philadelphia and another on dec. 9th at art prostitue which i believe is in dallas, texas. go.
the trip was scheduled for the release of his nike sb classic shoe. unfortunetely, the shoe was recalled a week before the trip because of design issues and would be released later but it was too late to cancel the journey. he invited me along as his 'personal photographer and body guard' since i have a camera and i'm really tough, but really i went along to assist him (in consuming beer and making holocaust jokes). we went to zurich, switzerland; stuttgart, mainz, duesseldorf, and berlin.
zurich, switzerland was first. zurich is a wealthy city because a lot of head german dewdz that liked to kill jews during WW2 (including hitler) kept their cash here. after the war was over, a bunch of those dooshbags couldn't come back to get their 'earnings' so the blood money stayed (i could be wrong about this).
the best thing about zurich is that lozza lives there.
he's a super geezer and owns grand gallery where the first show was. he put out a book a while ago called natureofsnowboarding featuring a collection of his portraits of a variety of professional snowboarders, photographers, team managers and the rest.
the other thing i liked is that billboard advertisments are illegal. the city feels a lot more natural when yer cruising around town and everyone's aware that you can just ask around if you need to know where to buy a cool car or a proper alphorn without having to see a bunch of half naked chicks next to a toaster or sports drink on yer way to work. although, i did come across this flyer below at one point and nearly came in my trousers.
it was small so it didn't fuck up the beautiful scenery of zurich and you could take it home and rub one out to the thought of both these broads blowing your alphorn.
we cruised around a bit when we got there to see some zurich .
i bought fish the watch on the left to show my appreciation for inviting me on the trip. it was priced at $45,550 in swiss francs but i talked them down to 2 beej's and an hj for each employee.
the swiss don't take lightly to dachshunds. it turns out that dachshund actually means badgerdog (def. #5) in german. i guess i should've kept my mouth shut when i was in new york cause some cabby is taking credit for my slango.
fish nearly killed this giant white bird when he fed it the rest of his wurst. we could see the sausage outline in its throat like it was straight out of a scooby doo cartoon.
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We had this on the 2nd day of Chinese New Year for lunch. And this dish is a must during this festive season. "Xuan Pan" ( 算盘) means abacus, the more you eat the more you can calculate the $$..haha! Well, well lets see how much I can get this year...LOL!!
The photo belows showed how the dough looks like after kneading (Oh, that's my mother's hands, not mine...haha! I just can't stand the "hot"!!) Anyway I did help for moulding the beads.
Recipe for the yam dough:
200g Yam / Taro
100g Tapioca flour
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp five spice powder
~ Slice yam into 1" thick, place in the pot fill with water (water level just to cover the yams)
~ Cook for about 15 minutes or until soft
~ Mashed yam together with the water, then add in remaining ingredients and knead into a soft dough. (may add alittle warm water if dough is dry)
~ Keep kneading the dough until smooth but not sticky.
~ Take a small piece of dough and mould into small abacus beads.
~ Bring to boil a pot of water and cook the beads for about 10-15 minutes. They're cook once floated.
~ Drain and transfer into a bowl. Add 1 tbsp cookingl and mix well. This to prevent the beads from sticking each other.
Ingredients for the accompaniment (for 1/2 portion of the abacus beads):
4-5 tbsps cooking oil
100g minced meat (usually its pork)
3-4 black fungus (shredded)
30g dried shrimps (diced) 5 chinese mushrooms (soaked & shredded)
3 pieces dried beancurd (shredded)
10 shallots (diced)
a little garlic (diced)
2 tbsps oyster sauce
a little salt
50ml water
** some coriander for garnishing
~ Heat up oil, panfry shallots and grlic until fragnant.
~ Add in minced meat, stirfry until almost cook then add in remaining ingredients.
~ Add in half portion of the cooked abacus beads then follow with the seasoning. Continue stirfry until almost dry.
~ Garnish with some coriander and serve.
Texture was so chewy and the taste was just right to our bud. Hope you like this wonderful recipe from my mum...:)
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Abacus Beads (算盘子)
We had this on the 2nd day of Chinese New Year for lunch. And this dish is a must during this festive season. "Xuan Pan" ( 算盘) means abacus, the more you eat the more you can calculate the $$..haha! Well, well lets see how much I can get this year...LOL!!
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Even though I am not Hakka but I love this dish. It is difficult to find this kind of authentic dish anymore. Glad that you still keep the tradition of making this.ReplyDelete
haha this is the one that your mum made and u took the pictures ah... i like to eat this too!ReplyDelete
Wahh! I love this dish also! You must also teach me your mum's recipe when I see you yah? Don't think I have tough hands also, lol! So what happens if we don't knead it while it's hot? The texture won't be as chewy, bouncy and nice? Thanks for sharing this, yum!ReplyDelete
~ Gertrude, ya it's true, even if we found one outside it may not taste nice too.ReplyDelete
~ Swee San, ya lo...haha! But I still help abit la..lol.
~ Bee Bee, sure no problem. I'll try to make for you in March...want? Yes, you are right, according to my mum, if we knead when its cold, the texture will not be chewy even if we keep kneading like bread.