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Tips from West Elm To Decorate A Small Apartment
For small space inspiration, see how this interior designer decorated a 600-sq-ft apartment using West Elm pieces. Of course, you may already know about some of these alternatives to West Elm where you can save some time by shopping online or save some coins because they're more affordable, but we'll list in case one or two or new to you.
Affordable alternatives to West Elm
Jet is an online store that carries mid-century modern looks and quite a few pieces that remind you of West Elm.
Minted.com is a favorite with those of us who like unusual home decor items.
Target Their Project 62 line offers furniture and furnishings that are West Elm inspired and priced better.
On the OfferUP app, you can find lots of modern furnishings and secondhand West Elm priced really well.
Ikea makes everyone's list for functional furniture priced well. Check the As-Is section before you go to the register.
Bed Bath and Beyond is another must-stop for bargains with their 20% coupons that never expire.
Kirkland's styles are a little more rustic, but you can find a lot of home decor items that go with all styles, even modern. They have online shopping and may have store locations near you.
Overstock.com has been stepping up their game lately and carrying better and better quality furniture and more of it.
Lexmod also carries sleek mid-century modern and contemporary styles. Bonus: they're affordable and offer weekly deals.
Fab is another online source for unique products and as the name suggests, they have a modern sensibility.
Etsy is a great place to find vintage looking clocks like this one to give mass produced mid-century looks and rooms a more authentic vibe.
AllModern is another great alternative to West Elm both in terms of price and the variety of products you can find all in one place.
Article has become one of my favorite places to find well-made sofas. They are a new direct-to-consumer furniture shop priced so well you can find sofas for around $1,000 that West Elm often prices 50-100% higher.
Christine is a lifestyle coach living in Los Angeles. She believes the way we live predicts our future health and motivation. Email firstname.lastname@example.com to find out about working with Christine.


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Fresh Fruit Trifle
Fruit Compote:
- 1 quart Strawberries sliced
- 1 pint Blueberries
- 1 pint blackberries
- 1 pint Raspberries
- 1 Orange zested
- 1/2 cup granulated white sugar
White Cake:
- 3/4 cup Butter softened
- 1-1/2 cups Sugar
- 3/4 tsp Salt
- 3/4 cup Milk
- 3 Eggs
- 5/6 cup all-purpose flour divided
- 1 cup plus 2 tbsp Cake flour
- 1-1/2 tsp Baking Powder
Fruit Compote:
White Cake:
Fruit Compote:
- Toss berries together with sugar and orange zest. Heat a sauté pan until hot, put berries in pan and quickly sauté for 2 minutes using a spatula to move the berries around. Reduce heat to medium and cook for 1–2 minutes more, remove from heat and cool.
White Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Sift together dry ingredients. In a separate mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, scraping down bowl. Add the flour mixture alternating with the milk.
- Pour into greased, parchment lined 9-inch round pan and bake for 50 minutes or until a tester comes out clean.
Simple Syrup:
- Boil the sugar and water together in a saucepan for 1 minute. Remove from heat and add the fruit juice. Cool.
Plating the Dish:
- Cut cake into cubes. Line the bottom of a bowl or trifle dish with 1/3 of the cake cubes. Brush with the simple sugar and spoon 1/3 of the fruit over the cake cubes. Prepare two more layers the same as the first. There will be 3 layers. Chill overnight. Serve by scooping into a bowl and topping with crème fraiche or whipped cream.
Recipe Notes
This recipe is courtesy of the Red Pheasant Inn at 905 Route 6A in Dennis and also appeared in the July 2013 issue of Cape Cod LIFE.
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Quality Coal Resources & Reserves
Further Exploration
HRCM is continuing with its extended drilling programs in 2017 and 2018. Drilling is now being focused on confirming mine design with the Mining Lease and developing a JORC Compliant Resource in the new Mt Punter Licence.
Mine Development
HRCM received Environmental Permit from the Environmental Protection Authority Tasmania on 28 August 2012 and its Development Approval (DA) from the Break O'Day Council on 17 September 2012. Mine development will commence once Mining Lease and Company approvals are in place.
HRCM will initially be mining the well-researched Duncan coal "F" seam present in the Fingal Valley. The Mine will be a Bord and Pillar operation with an approved 1 million tonne per annum output. Steady state operations are expected to be reached in 2020.
Surface Construction
Surface construction will occur in three phases:
- Road Infrastructure
- Water Treatment & Storage
- Building Infrastructure
- Mine Site Services – Power
Stage 1 Surface Contruction is 95% complete with a complete environmental footprint having been established together with circuit roads, water hydraulics, and portals exposed for development.
Stage 2 Surface works will commence on initiation of underground development. This will estblish loading and haulage logistics.
Mine Construction
Concurrently with surface construction mine development will occur initially with 1200m of roadway to be driven by a roadheader in a mixture of coal & soft rock. This process is expected to take 12 months.
Equipment to be used:
- Road Header
- Continuous Miners
- Development /Miner/Bolters
- Pillar Extraction
- Front end Loaders
- Employee Transports
- Conveyor System
Mine Location
Valley Road, Fingal, Tasmania, Australia


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We are pleased to announce that ScotCen Social Research have been commissioned to undertake another round of face to face interviews with our 'Birth Cohort 1'. These interviews will begin in early 2017, when the young people are in their first year of secondary school.
To help identify the topics for this S1 'sweep' of data collection, the Scottish Government are hosting a questionnaire development workshop on the morning of Monday 11th April at Victoria Quay in Edinburgh. This will also be an opportunity consider topics for a possible sweep in S3 that would begin in 2019 and to hear about long-term strategic plans for the study.
Places at the event will be limited. Our priority is to involve those who would like to make an active contribution to the design of the study. To register your interest in attending please e-mail David Dey at firstname.lastname@example.com under the title 'GUS questionnaire workshop'. Please include a sentence about how you envisage using GUS data from these future sweeps and which organisation or interest you'll be representing. The closing date for registering an interest is Friday 26th February. Places will be confirmed by Friday 11th March.


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Often, people simply hire a person down the street with a chainsaw to take care of their trees.
Who does not like to save money, anyway? The problem is, cheap tree pruning services could ruin
trees' appearance and usually leave them vulnerable to diseases, storm damage, and even death. The
following are common tree pruning mistakes to avoid:
Topping is the most obvious and ugliest of tree pruning mistakes people make. It involves
chopping off a huge portion of the top of tree's crown, or all of the braches with leaves across
the tree's top half. What's left after this process is a deformed, ugly structure with extremely
weakened branches.
There are good and bad times to prune trees. The timing depends on the condition and species of a
tree. For example, oak trees in certain places shouldn't be trimmed from the month of February
through June. This is because during this period, they're vulnerable to oak wilt disease.
If a tree's already experiencing stress, it shouldn't be pruned heavily. Always have your tree
checked by a professional arborist before allowing anyone touches it, unless it's alright with you
to absolutely lose your tree.
Also, pruning away branches that face West is not a good idea in summer time. When you get rid of
big branches that provides shade to your tree, you could cause sun scald on maples, red oaks, and
other vulnerable species. Sun scald leads to damages and wounds to the bark of the trunk, which
can cause severe damage to a tree.
Cutting branches off too close to the main trunk of the tree is a very common pruning mistake. If
you do so, you are removing the branch collar which is an area of tissue with cells that assist in
healing the wounds of trees. It is recognized as a small bump or swelling where the branch
connects with the main trunk.
The callous which the cells of the branch collar makes will hamper disease from entering the main
trunk. If you cut that branch too close to the main trunk, you are making an open wound that could
let pests and diseases in, putting the tree towards an early death.
Bark tears can occur when the proper steps are not taken when removing large branches. If you
make the wrong cut in the wrong order, you can end up with a large branch falling and tearing or
splitting your main trunk.
You should prune off not greater than 15 to 20 per cent of the foliage of a mature tree at a
time. In fact, 5 to 10 per cent is often enough. When you trim off too much, you will leave your
tree incapable of producing sufficient amount of food for itself, support its structure, and
transfer nutrients.
People usually over prune to let the grass beneath their trees to properly grow (which occurs
rarely). If you have several trees in a certain area where you'd rather grow grass, it's better to
rather remove some trees to allow more sunlight in, and do structural trimming on your remaining
trees so you could have both healthy grass and trees.
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Chief Medical Officer alert - Wuhan novel coronavirus
24 January 2020
There have been reported cases in China of respiratory infections caused by a novel coronavirus (WN-CoV). Governments and public health officials in all UK nations are monitoring the situation. This page provides links to resources from statutory bodies.
We award a programme providing neurodevelopmental services to infants in Ghana
10 December 2019
We're delighted to announce this year's winner of the RCPCH Global Programme Development Grant. Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH)'s one-year programme is identifying gaps in the quality of post-discharge care and how to make improvements and scale up, despite limited resources.
Prominent speakers announced for the 2020 RCPCH Conference and exhibition
25 October 2019
Next year's RCPCH Conference will play host to a diverse line-up of prominent speakers who will take to the main stage over the three-day event.
Surveillance of neonatal herpes simplex virus starts this month
31 July 2019
This British Paediatrics Surveillance Unit study will assess the current disease burden of herpes simplex virus (HSV), and help to inform future practice on detection, prevention and management of this dangerous disease.
Improvements made but more work to be done, says Britain's largest evaluation of NHS maternity and neonatal services
11 July 2019
RCPCH President responds to latest National Maternity and Perinatal Audit and says whilst the expansion of perinatal mental health support is particularly welcome, support services are under immense pressure. He urges an immediate moratorium on any further cuts so "pregnant women and their children ...
No time to carry out child health research? Complete our short survey
29 June 2019
We believe that child health research should be embedded as part of every paediatrician's training, and throughout their careers. From June 2019 to 10 January 2020, we invited paediatricians working as consultants, SAS doctors and/or CCT holders to complete 2019 Participation in Child Health Researc...
A key part of the President's role? It's talking to members
26 June 2019
Getting around the country (and away from the 'Westminster bubble') is one of Russell's top priorities, and gives him a chance to meet "some of the amazing paediatricians working across the UK".
Infant mortality rates "extremely worrying"
17 June 2019
According to figures published today by the Office for National Statistics, infant mortality rates in England and Wales have risen for the third year running. RCPCH responds.
Rising optimism - reflections from #RCPCH19
28 May 2019
Russell looks back at a fantastic Conference and exhibition where he was pleased to announce three projects that get to the "heart of what our College is about... and your concerns about working life in the NHS".
Harassment and bullying in the NHS
4 April 2019
"Respect should underpin all working relationships" says RCPCH, as the GMC launches a pilot programme that will give doctors training in tackling unprofessional behaviours from colleagues.


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With a toddler and an infant at home, a cold feels like an entire month of being stuck in the house, miserable, and sleepless, as the germs get passed around and we each take our turn being sick. In addition to eating a relatively healthy plant based diet, taking our vitamins and supplements, exercising and sleeping (when we can)…we try to incorporate little tricks to boost our immune systems and prevent getting sick. One of our favorite remedies is Elderberry Syrup! I have been making elderberry syrup during the winters for a couple years now and I have definitely found it to prevent and reduce duration of colds in our household (and I think the recipe is pretty good, if I do say so myself).
Elderberries have been used for centuries for numerous ailments, but more recently studies have been alluding to prevention and reduction of duration and severity of the cold and flu. Although nothing is confirmed, it is a low risk addition to your health routine. Similar to blueberries, goji, and blackberries… elderberries are even higher in the potent antioxidant, flavonoids. Additionally, the berries have natural anti-inflammatory properties and high in vitamin A and C. Together these components make the elderberry an immunity powerhouse. On its own, elderberries are not so tasty, my syrup uses ingredients with added health benefits and create a tasty concoction.
I often would share some elderberry syrup with friends or family and started getting requests for more after a recent post on Facebook…I decided to go for it and start making our elderberry syrup and bottling it for sale. Fortunately, we have a commercial kitchen (our restaurant, The Clean Plate Kitchen) and I am a holistic dietitian and an aspiring chef (starting school May 2019), and we are in the process of relaunching Nourish to Heal – creating products, test batches, logo and website reconstruction, creating our virtual and physical store, etc. But rather than holding off and waiting until everything was perfect, we are just going for it and starting with our first product under Nourish to Heal as Elderberry Syrup. We are excited and proud to offer a high quality product, at a very reasonable value.
Only the Good Stuff…
We have created a product using organic ingredients, produced in small batches with additional ingredients to get the biggest bang for your buck in a swig of our elderberry syrup. First and foremost, the elderberries that we use are dried and boiled for at least an hour to optimize usage of the berries. We also include cinnamon, cloves, fresh ginger and turmeric root, a couple turns of black pepper (see my previous post for increasing bioavailability of turmeric), lemon zest and juice. Raw, local (to Central New Jersey) honey and essential oils are added once the elderberry brew has cooled. The honey is added later to maintain the heat unstable enzyme and antioxidant properties. The essential oils that I use are pure food grade and my secret blend for the added wow factor.
Get In My Belly…
Although we can not give you a protocol, I can share with you what I do and how I use elderberry syrup. Usually, I start making and taking the syrup in November (usually after we get one of those never ending colds and I remember that I need to start brewing) and continue mostly taking through April (depending on the weather and the health of those around us). One of the first things in the morning, I take a swig, about 1-2 oz, as I open the refrigerator to get my kombucha. I take it regularly, unless I feel a cold coming on and I will increase to 3-4 times per day until symptoms subside. The jars we make are sealed, but need to be refrigerated. It should last a good month unopened and should be consumed within 2 weeks once its opened (these are loose suggestions and recommend using your judgement).
Other notes…
Elderberry syrup is generally considered safe. Excess consumption (like an entire bottle) could cause digestive upset. The syrup is not intended to babies under the age of 1 year, as it does contain raw syrup. The use of elderberry syrup is to boost your natural immune response, individuals with autoimmune conditions should use their discretion in taking this elderberry syrup, if activation of the immune system is a concern.
At this time, we are selling Nourish to Heal Elderberry Syrup online or at The Clean Plate Kitchen, 49 Main Street, Clinton, NJ 08809. At this time, we are unable to ship and orders are available for pick-up during restaurant business hours. Wednesday – Monday, 11am-3pm and 5pm-9pm, closing at 8pm on Sunday and Monday evenings. Check out www.cleanplateclinton.com for business information. Our, Nourish to Heal storefront is coming soon to the location of The Clean Plate Kitchen.


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A student is catching up on some sleep in her classroom since his dorm mates keep him up to fuck him. He seems to be having myfirstsextescher a problem and tells her he'll easily score an A. Lisa Ann pays her student a visit to ask him to change the negative evaluation myfirstsextescher.
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Lisa has a new student drop by the gym, she's supposed to help loosen him up for track. She starts to tease him with them myfirstsextescher.
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Wombwell Rainbow Interviews
I am honoured and privileged that the following writers local, national and international have agreed to be interviewed by me. I gave the writers two options: an emailed list of questions or a more fluid interview via messenger.
The usual ground is covered about motivation, daily routines and work ethic, but some surprises too. Some of these poets you may know, others may be new to you. I hope you enjoy the experience as much as I do.
Mendes Biondo
is an Italian journalist and author. His works appeared on Visual Verse, I Am Not A Silent Poet, Literary Yard, Angela Topping Hygge Feature, Indigent A La Carte, The BeZine, Scrittura Magazine, The Song Is, Poetry Pasta and other magazines. He is one of the editors of The Ramingo's Porch along with Marc Pietrzykowski and Catfish McDaris. His book of poems "Spaghetti & Meatballs – Poems for Hot Organs" was published by Pski's Porch Publishing.
Blog: https://ramingoblog.com/
Publishing House: http://www.pskisporch.com/
Magazines: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks-intl-ship&field-keywords=The+Ramingo%27s+Porch
The Interview
First of all thank you Paul and to your rockin' readers for having me!
- What inspired you to write poetry?
I started writing poetry in Italian during high school, as I believe most of us did. I needed a fast way to shot out my bad and good vibes, my blues and my joy. Anyhow, the real motivation that led me to write poetry is that, at the time, I was courting a girl and it worked, you know? This year Elena and I are celebrating ten years together. Ten years of love, words and travels here and there.
- Who introduced you to poetry?
High School introduced me to Italian poetry, and it was both a trauma and a wonderful discovery, while I had a great poet as godmother for English poetry: Deborah Alma, the Emergency Poet. I will never stop thanking her for the help she gave me. She pushed me to write and read more in English language. I'm still writing typos and other kind of silly things but I suppose it's part of the game, isn't it?
- How aware were you of the dominating presence of older poets?
Consider I live in Virgil hometown and near to me there are cities where Catullo and Ovid lived. Then there are all the other big masters of poetry from Dante Alighieri to Giuseppe Ungaretti. They are two-faced masters: on the one hand they are a great resource, but on the other they are a burden that is difficult to remove from shoulders
- What is your daily writing routine?
Working as a freelance journalist permits me to write everyday with method. Poems, generally, comes in the depth of night while I'm going to sleep. So I have to jump down from the bed and write them as fast as I can. Sometimes slumber is so heavy that they are lost in my mind.
- What motivates you to write?
As I said in another interview, there are two elements that move me to write: fun and other people happiness. I think poets should be catalysts and give to the reader a sort of balsamic feeling of well-being. You feel down because you're not able to find a job and a poem helps you to find new energy? That's what I mean. You feel happy because you've had sex with your partner and a poem remembers you that moment? That's what I mean.
- What is your work ethic?
Stay true, also if it hurts you to write those words, or if it could hurt people you know. As a great artist of the past once said: "The flesh, my son, you have to show the flesh of the world".
- How do the writers you read when you were young influence you today?
Every book I read influenced me. I'm a sponge for ideas and thoughts. Probably they gave me method in working and thinking.
- Who of today's writers do you admire the most and why?
Check my friends on Facebook and you'll find a long list of talented authors – poets and writers – I admire. They are living voices and they are strong. The only names I'll do without taking away honours to others are Catfish McDaris and Marc Pietrzykowski. They are my fellows "musketeers" at The Ramingo's Porch, but, first of all, they are Pals of mine.
- Why do you write?
Because I'm out of tune, I'm not able to play an instrument, I'm not good at drawing, I'm not able to sculpt and so on…
- What would you say to someone who asked you "How do you become a writer?"
Good question! I'm still looking for an answer. Ha.
- Tell me about the writing projects you have on at the moment.
Phew, this question is easier than the last one. I'm very happy and proud to say my book "Spaghetti&Meatballs – Poems for Hot Organs" is out. The rockin' Pski's Porch Publishing believed in my words and decided to publish it. Soon will be available the fourth issue of The Ramingo's Porch magazine and it will be a good occasion to celebrate talented voices coming from all over the world. Then I'm always open for collaborations and new projects. Let's rock all together Brothers and Sisters!
Link to the book: https://www.amazon.com/Spaghetti-Meatballs-Poems-Hot-Organs/dp/1948920107


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I was thrilled when I first learned how to make a flag book. Then about five years ago I saw an image of a double flag book and I was really intrigued. I started experimenting with this form and I found it so exciting that the book opened up in an explosion of shapes and textures. I thought this structure was perfect to convey the Mardi Gras theme of a carnival celebration with pulsing energy and a riot of colors. The paste papers in vibrant colors and patterns bring zest and vivacity to this piece.
Winner: Library Choice Award. Congratulations, Charlene!
Additional Information
|Mardi Gras
|Charlene Asato
|Artist's Nationality
|United States
|Place of Publication
|Mountain View, Hawaii
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|Double flag book
|Medium/ Materials
|Paste paper, binder board, foamcore
|Paper Stock
|Canson Mi-Teintes, Canson Ingres, Canson watercolor papers
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|920 flags
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The Magnus Hirschfeld Centre for Human Rights, founded in 1986, is a non-governmental organization engaged in political advocacy on behalf of and providing legal representation to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered persons, their allies and their communities, and to others whose human rights - guaranteed by international law - have been threatened or violated.
Calling attention to wEST vIEW (an out of control Autocratic municipality) and their attempt to circumvent property, civil and constitutional rights.
POWER is an organization for families and friends fighting false allegations of child abuse. The system has torn apart thousands of families that should never have been forced to say goodbye. The pain must stop!


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White Roof in Black Ink
This February, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer's Community Liaison to the Lower East Side, sent White Roof Project a note asking for a presentation to the BP's staff and LES environmental stakeholders about the benefits of white roofs. Armed with our standard presentation, I braved the winter cold to plunge white roof into an experimental partnership. A few meetings and a lot of environmental jargon later the "model block" was born.Read more
Fiver Children's Foundation Helps with the Model Block!
One of the many organizations that joined us on August 22 was the Fiver Children's Foundation a comprehensive 10 year mentoring program for children in New York City. Chris Chavez from Fiver and several of their program participants had a great time helping organize the volunteers and paint the roof!Read more
Model Block Happy Hour
We're getting ready for our Model Block weekend and every penny counts! Help support the White Roof Project by joining us at the Village Pourhouse in midtown (366 West 46th Street) from 7:30 – 10:30! We'll be on the top floor in the VIP section! $20 gets you a wristband for open bar from 7:30Read more
Standing on the Roof of Antiquity
Robert Martin volunteered to paint the Bowery Mission, and this is what he wrote about the event.Read more


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January 13, 2015
Testimony Before the New York State Assembly
Committee on Health on Single Payer Legislation
by Cessie Alfonso, Citizen Action of New York
Chairman Gottfried and other members of the Assembly Committee on Health: My name is Cessie Alfonso. I live in Troy in Rensselaer County and am a member of the board of directors of the Capital District Chapter of Citizen Action of New York, an organization that advocates for social, racial, economic and environmental justice with thousands of members in affiliates throughout New York State, including here in the Capital District. I'd like to thank you for holding these hearings around the state.
As you know, Citizen Action has advocated for quality, affordable health coverage for decades, and has played a significant role in numerous health care reforms, including the creation of Child Health Plus and legislation re-instituting the regulation of rates for health insurance premiums on the state level and the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on the federal level.
Citizen Action supports A.5389A/S.2078A, which would establish a "single-payer" system of health coverage in New York through a plan funded by the state called "New York Health." Many of the arguments for single-payer are similar to the reasons that motivated many of us to fight for the Affordable Care Act, the 2010 landmark federal reform law. Before the ACA was passed, there were close to 50 million people without health insurance in the United States, including well over two and a half million New Yorkers. If a family wasn't covered under employer-provided health insurance, it was difficult or impossible for most low or moderate income families to afford buying quality health insurance on their own.
And before the ACA, many others were "underinsured": they had health coverage, but it simply wasn't adequate. Often health plans were riddled with exclusions, high out-of-pocket costs and provisions like lifetime and annual caps on coverage. As a result of this substandard coverage, many New Yorkers and other Americans who were insured experienced financial disaster when if someone in their family got really sick or into an accident. Because of the costs of health insurance and health care itself, 3 of 5 bankruptcies in America were related to medical bills. Many of those filing bankruptcy had health coverage.
There's no doubt that the ACA is beginning to address these and other fundamental problems with health care in the United States and therefore is a significant step forward for consumers: especially in New York State, which is effectively implementing the federal law. As you know, as of the end of the first year of open enrollment, roughly one million New Yorkers had enrolled in NY State of Health, our state's health benefits exchange, and hundreds of thousands have enrolled since then, significantly cutting into the number of uninsured. Health insurance premiums from New Yorkers have been significantly kept in check, in particular for people on the "direct pay" market: consumers who have to pay for their coverage out of their own pockets. These consumers are paying on average over 50% less than they would have had to pay for comparable plans before the law was implemented in New York.
Although the ACA was an major step forward, it did not comprehensively address several fundamental long term issues faced by health care consumers, including: high cost-sharing; the excessive and unnecessary costs to the health care system that have resulted from our current insurer-based system; and certain bad insurer practices, such as arbitrary denials of care; and coverage for undocumented immigrants. We will join with our partners in Health Care for All New York in finding solutions — legislative and administrative — for these and other problems like narrow networks. At this same time, we urge the Legislature to address the remaining problems with our current insurer-based system in a more comprehensive way through the passage of single payer legislation. I'd like to briefly touch on a few ways the ACA has fallen short, including one item that even the single payer bill does not seem to satisfactorily address in its current form: coverage for the undocumented.
High Cost-Sharing: While the ACA has important limits on cost-sharing, and even provides subsidies to keep cost-sharing down, it's still unfortunately still true that consumers can incur high costs for deductibles and co-payments under health coverage they purchase through NY State of Health. For example, consumers who choose bronze plans through NY State of Health may face thousands of dollars of deductibles in a single year. The ban in the New York Health bill on charging any amount for premiums, deductibles or co-pays would eliminate this problem, ending the all too common situation of consumers becoming financially strapped or even insolvent due to high medical bills.
Excessive Costs: Ultimately, we must address the high administrative costs in the American health care system, which place a huge unnecessary burden on those who purchase health coverage directly or indirectly, including employers, consumers and small businesses. The New England Journal of Medicine calculated in a 2003 article that administrative costs, including such items as medical billing, then consumed 31% of U.S. health care spending. Health insurer overhead and profit has been estimated at between 12% and 14% nationally. A single-payer system will make a significant dent in these unnecessary costs that are passed onto ratepayers, such as executive salaries and insurer advertising due to the need of each health plan to promote its products on the private market. The inconsistent billing systems of multiple health insurers, which place enormous burdens on doctors, hospitals and other health providers, is another example. Single-payer has the enormous potential to lower many of these unnecessary and wasteful costs.
Bad Insurer Practices: Before the passage of the ACA, massive evidence was uncovered of bad faith health insurer practices such as arbitrary denials of coverage when consumers got sick or insured. The ACA has partially addressed this problem through, for example, improvements in the process under which consumers can appeal denials of coverage. However, I believe that a single payer system would provide a much more comprehensive solution. Under New York Health, where the state would be the predominant provider of health coverage in the state, there would far few instances of arbitrary coverage denials than under the current system, in which profit-seeking health insurers have strong financial incentives to reject claims.
Coverage for Immigrants: One of the major failures of the ACA is its discriminatory and unjust exclusion of undocumented immigrants from the protections under the law. The undocumented are excluded from receiving the subsidies in the law intended to assist financially qualified consumers to purchase health insurance. Even more unjust, people who are undocumented are totally excluded from participation in state exchanges, including NY State of Health, even if they are able and willing to completely pay for the cost of coverage out of their own pockets. I was happy to see that the New York Health bill seems to permit participation by the large number of undocumented consumers who live in our state, but this is not absolutely clear from our reading of the bill. We therefore urge you to make the bill language more explicit on this point so that thousands of tax-paying New Yorkers are not inadvertently left out of New York Health and have to forgo health care or rely on poor alternatives for their care, like emergency rooms.
In closing, we must remember that quality health care and quality health coverage are basic human rights. It is the basic responsibility of government to provide every resident with quality health care. The Legislature should take the next logical step to ensure this promise becomes a reality in our state while working in the short term to improve the ACA.
Thank you.


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Every author extends an invitation to their readers. They beckon to us from from shelves in bookstores or, perhaps more often today, from online listings with titles and cover art that promise adventure, discovery of truths, and a new understanding of the world around us. The promises are always there, but only the best follow through completely. Such is the case with Anne Rice's newest novel Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis.
When last we left Rice's singular hero, Lestat had taken the spirit Amel, the very core and life force of the vampiric tribe, into his being and was proclaimed the Prince of Vampires. Amel has been one of the central mysteries of the author's Vampire Chronicles.since we first learned of him in the fantastic Queen of the Damned. This powerful spirit once sought the favor of Maharet and Mekare, the powerful witches brought to Queen Akasha's court when she learned of their abilities.
The twin witches offend Akasha and she orders her husband King Enkil to have them punished. He instructs his steward to rape the women in front of the entire court to prove that they have no real power and banish them from court. As they wander the desert toward home, Maharet discovers she is pregnant and Mekare, in a fit of rage, instructs Amel to fly back to the court to torment the King and Queen and he takes to the task with relish.
A group of conspirators corner and repeatedly stab Enkil and Akasha until they lie dying in pools of their own blood. Only then does Amel make his ultimate move. He fuses himself to the blood and flesh of King Enkil and Queen Akasha creating the very first vampires in all the world. From that moment on, whatever happens to the vampire who holds the core, can affect the entire tribe.
Now, you're probably asking yourselves why I'm spending so much time talking about Amel, and the answer couldn't be more simple. After 40 years of novels and a sprawling dynasty of vampires, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis is ultimately Amel's story.
And it is a story for the ages. Rice offers her readers a bombshell wrapped in splendor that we never saw coming, and perhaps never even knew we wanted.
Everything that we have known of the vampires and of Amel up to this point, no matter how beautifully crafted and solidly formed, gives way to depths that this reader never thought possible. In fact, in Rice's capable hands, I was almost left with the feeling that I should have thought of this before myself. The story grows organically from the themes Rice has infused in the Chronicles from the beginning.
Companionship, family, longing, crushing loneliness, a desperate need for love, a search for meaning in the chaos of the Savage Garden. In short, the things that we all search for are the very same that her vampires desire, and as it turns out, they are the things that Amel once sought himself.
As I promised in the title, there will be no spoilers here. What I will tell you is that as a longtime fan of Anne Rice's vampires, witches, taltos, castrati, djinn, mummies,spirits, and even more recently werewolves, I was not let down in the least by this book. Rice is at her storytelling best when she allows her characters to reveal their origins in their own voices, and that's exactly what we get in this book.
With each twist and turn in the story, a new truth is revealed about Rice's beautiful world, a new layer is peeled back to reveal a new answer that immediately asks another question. In one swift movement in the last thirty pages of the novel, the world and undead life the vampires have known for millenia is completely and irrevocably changed. And the final question is simple.
"What now?"
The author is a tireless researcher and she delves deeply into the lore and legend of Atlantis in a way that expands the mythology of her vampires while honoring Plato and others who first wrote of the island that fell into the sea.
Rice has done what few writers could successfully pull off in Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis. After 40 years and fifteen novels, she completely changed the immortal game, and I, for one, am waiting to see just where the next game piece lands. I was exhausted in the best possible way as I closed the cover and sat back to ponder this powerful journey.
You can order Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or head to your local bookstore on November 29. You don't want to miss this amazing story.


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Rurifuu replied to Badnik Mechanic's topic in Green Grove ZoneIf anyone is after tickets we've had a few last minute cancellations for the regular tickets. Either give me a buzz on here or email me at email@example.com We're hoping it will be another fun event. We've got some of our regular artists and traders returning. One of the new artists has promised something really exciting, so it might be worth keeping your eyes peeled for that! We will also be bringing back the Cosplay competition, Art competition and Speed Run competition. Hopefully we should be receiving some awesome rewards from Sega Europe for those. We're currently watching the front door for their arrival! Our Speed Run this year is Crisis City Act 2 from Sonic Generations, which will be running most of the day. So you'll have lots of chances to try and beat the best time! We also have a few events happening around the event. The Sonic Show are putting on an event on stage (I've been left in the dark about what it is, but it should be good!), as well as a Q&A with Tom Fry and Kieran Gates about Sonic Mania. Later on they will also be hosting an informal art workshop in our art area, so any budding artists can ask them questions on how to draw certain things or just enjoy drawing with the pros! We'll also have the appearance of not one, but two Super Sonic mascots! We found some of the younger fans have been terrified of Fleetway Super Sonic, so we also now have a regular Modern Super Sonic. Both will be wandering about during the day. And of course, there will be cake!
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I bet a lot of people on here have forgotten Weston Super Sonic is happening... and in just a couple of days!!! Myself and JonoD are planning a little pre-convention meetup at the CEX cafe on Friday 15th at 2:30pm. A more relaxed environment where we can have coffee and cake, play some video games and have a chat with those of you in the area! We've also got a small handful of goodies we've love to give out to those of you that can make it! For those of you that can't make it to the pre-convention meetup, we hope to see you on Saturday! We've got an exciting line up for the day, with workshops from Duncan Gutteridge, Ferran Rodriguez and a chat with SonicpoX about his work! We've also got a mystery reveal from First 4 Figures again, as well as a live Ask Uncle Poxxy, hosted by The Sonic Show. We've got a huge number of exhibitors this year compared to last year, ranging from general Sonic Merchandise to artwork made by very talented artists, as well as one of our exhibitors making some amazing sonic head cushions! We may have even more in store! Hope to see you there!
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We're delighted to announce that Weston Super Sonic 2016 free ticket registration is now live! http://westonsupersonic.wix.com/weston-super-sonic#!registration/c19io But you'll need to hurry, we don't have as many tickets available as last year! Also we're delighted to announce that Duncan Gutteridge will be returning to WSS! For those of you who didn't get the chance to stop by his table last year, Duncan is a talented artist who was responsible for several incredible pieces of classic Sonic the Hedgehog artwork throughout Sonic's early years, which made its way to several pieces of merchandise and even the official Sonic the Hedgehog Calendar in 1993! Duncan will be back to share his fantastic work with everyone once again, and is set to give a very exciting demonstration of his skills… Stick with us for all the details!
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We have less than 24 hours until this year's WSS Kickstarter funding ends! We're just £66 away from our £1600 goody bag stretch goal! Can you help us help every backer get goody bags?! We still have plenty of rewards left, including t-shirts, pin badges, tickets and a few of last year's goody bags! Meanwhile we've been chatting with our special guests, so expect an update on that soon! We're working with them on trying to set up something quite special.
Out of nowhere, moving at Super Sonic speed! The Weston Super Sonic 2016 Kickstarter has officially launched! Weston Super Sonic Kickstarter
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Rurifuu replied to Badnik Mechanic's topic in Green Grove ZoneI have to say I'm not all that surprised either. When I ran WSS last time I decided to do a little bit of research and see how many men and how many women had registered for tickets. More women by quite a few had registered. it something like a 3:2 ratio. But despite these sort of findings, I wouldn't want them to alter the series to market it to more women and girls. I think it would lose a lot of its charm. Unlike a lot of video games, the Sonic series has already done a lot to target the female audience in a positive way. The Mario series keeps going about the idea of most of their female characters being princesses, whilst the Sonic series has a wide mixture of different female roles, from the typical stereotypes of innocent and sweet (Cream) to the powerful and able to stand on their own two feet (Blaze). I think Sega realises there are a lot of female fans, otherwise I don't think a lot of these female characters would even exist. I'm pretty sure they would have made Sticks a male character if they felt it should only be targeted towards boys. I also agree the popularity is likely down to the design style. Most boys would likely start looking at first person shooters, sports and horror games for realism and potentially role models, but the cuter styles tend to stick with girls, even into adulthood. Although the whole boys and MLP thing still baffles me to this day. I guess even typical behaviour of genders can be flipped on its head!
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Rurifuu posted a topic in Green Grove ZoneLadies and Gentlemen, we're heading towards that time of year again! Weston Super Sonic is back! This January we'll be celebrating our 3rd year hosting the event in Weston Super Mare. We had a super successful event last year. For this year to celebrate the start of Sonic's 25th anniversary, we're looking to make the event bigger and better! Weston Super Sonic is an event that was originally created back in January of 2014. It's hard to believe that from beginnings as humble as this, we were able to move on to such bigger and better things. 2015 proved to be the biggest show that the pair of us had ever done, with nearly 200 people coming through the doors on the day to take part in our tournaments, watch our panels, and meet a wide range of industry guests. Now we're back, and we want to put on another great show for Sonic Fans to get involved with. In January of 2016, we're hoping to return to The Grand Pier's regency suite. 2015 demonstrated to us that it was an excellent venue for WSS, providing plenty of space for a stage, exhibitors, and most importantly lots of attendees. It's also perfectly equipped for an event of this type, especially when you have one of the largest arcades in the country just downstairs. After working on and subsequently putting on the 2015 show, we know exactly what works, and what doesn't for this kind of event, meaning that we're more than ready and prepared for the event ahead. In addition, we're familiar with our venue, and they're familiar with us, meaning that there's very little that can stand in the way from an organisation standpoint. Our ticket distribution is working differently this year, as we are hosting a Kickstarter to fund the event. This of course begs the question: If we were able to do all that last year without a kickstarter, why do we need one for 2016? To begin with, we are an unofficial event. We're not backed by any major sponsors like SEGA. Last year, we were very fortunate to do exceptionally well with two fundraising auctions and some very generous donations which ended up providing an enormous chunk of the funds we needed, and allowed us to create some truly great extras and invite a load of brilliant guests. Unfortunately, due to the nature of what we were auctioning last year, we can't take that approach this time, which is why we're asking you guys directly to help us. More details will be posted once the Kickstarter goes live in a couple of weeks! We've already have interest from several special guests who wish to attend, as well as a good number of exhibitors ready to help us make this the biggest WSS yet! We hope you'll stay tuned for developments, as well as help us celebrate our 3rd anniversary in style!
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It's a real shame that you weren't able to raise the funds, but the important thing is that you tried. The $3,500 you were looking for was a lot to raise for a first convention, but I'm disappointed there wasn't at least a little more in the way of donations. My advice to anyone would be to test out the waters first. Weston Super Sonic was literally a gamble. I'm not a massive personality in the Sonic community, I only belong to these forums and most of my Sonic fan friends are based in the US. I knew I wanted to do something around my birthday. After exhibiting at a wide variety of conventions to gain experience, I decided to try and host a my own mini event. I hired out a community hall for £70, sorted out a few pieces of gear for the games tournament, got some paper and pencils, made a mountain of cupcakes and invited some of my friends along. I sent out the invite to everyone else to see if a convention could happen. It was a lovely surprise that people I had never met before actually turned up for a little convention, despite the bad weather before the event. The feedback was amazing as well, which spread around the community. Next thing I know, I have an excellent co-host to throw ideas off of and we have a crazy dream to host at the Grand Pier in the near future... what we didn't expect was the support of the community we got to actually make it happen this year! The advantage of starting off with a small convention, is that even if the only people who turn up are your friends, at least you could still have a fun time. The larger convention is something to aim for, but it may take some time to build up to it. My first event cost me about £200, most of that going towards the hall and the projector.
Weston Super Sonic Update! Guest Announcement! For those who missed the Facebook announcement, we're delighted to announce we have another guest for our January meetup! Mike Pollock! Unfortunately costs and distance we cannot have our favourite Dr Eggman voice actor at the event itself, but he has kindly agreed to a live Skype chat with us on the day. He'll be answering a selection of fan submitted questions (which we will ask for closer to the date). We're super excited he has agreed to join us for the event, even if it's only through Skype. We have lots more exciting news to announce over the next few weeks! We have another confirmed guest, as well as a look at something exciting that everyone will receive on the day! We hope you stay tuned!
Weston Super Sonic would like to make an important and very exciting announcement! We can confirm we have our first two guests! Richard Elson (STC Artist) Nigel Kitching (STC Writer) For those unfamiliar with the Sonic The Comic series back in the 90's and early 00's, Richard Elson was the main artist for STC and brought alive most of the major plot points in the series, as well as drawing a huge number of covers for the comics, even when the comics were reprinted. Nigel Kitching was one of the main writers in the STC series and worked often with Richard, writing some of the most epic stories in the series. The legendary pair have kindly agreed to join us for WSS 2015!
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Although our initial idea was to contact Sega Europe, we are currently keeping that on hold. Although we'd love to get them involved, we currently have secret reasons for not doing so. We're going to play it by ear for now. We're also in the middle of arranging a merchandise seller and artists for the convention. At the Bristol Comic Expo we had a couple very interested in being a part of the event and we are just waiting for confirmation to add them to our list. We are still interested in anyone wanting to submit animations or even if there's any bands that want to play at the event. As per usual, all enquiries should be directed to our email at email@example.com


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Background and study aims
Antivenoms (AVs) are the only specific treatment for preventing or reversing most of the snakebite envenomings (poisonous) effects. Bothrops, Lachesis and Crotalus are the most common types of snakebites in Brazil. In tropical areas, a major concern in snakebites treatment effectiveness is due to the failure in liquid AV distribution, because of the lack of an facilities being able to keep the AV cold. To minimize this problem, a freeze-drying process was suggested to improve AV stability. This study compares the safety and efficacy of a trivalent freeze-dried trivalent antivenom (FDTA), and the liquid available standard of care AV provided by the MoH (MoH AV), to treat Bothrops, Lachesis and Crotalus snakebites in the Brazilian Amazon.
Who can participate?
Adults aged 12 to 70 who have Bothrops, Lachesis and Crotalus snakebites.
What does the study involve?
After admission to hospital and examination of the snakebites, participants are randomly allocated to one of two groups. Those in the first group receive the freeze-dried AV therapy. Those in the second group receive the standard level of care AV therapy. After AV therapy, patients are admitted to the hospital ward for close monitoring during 24 hours. Participants are asked to attend the hospital seven and fifteen days after discharge. At follow-up visits, clinical examination was carried out and the s to investigate the venom and assess if there are any late adverse (harmful) reactions to AV therapy.
What are the possible benefits and risks of participating?
There are no notable benefits with participating. There is a risk of reactions after AV therapy such as urticaria (hives), asthma, laryngeal (the area of the throat where voice comes from) edema (swelling), shock, and other complications.
Where is the study run from?
1. Tropical Medicine Foundation Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado (FMT-HVD) (Brazil)
2. Hospital Geral de Roraima (Brazil)
3. Unidade Mista de Borba (Brazil)
When is the study starting and how long is it expected to run for?
June 2003 to December 2008
Who is funding the study?
Brazilian Army (Brazil)
Who is the main contact?
1. Professor Jacqueline Sachett
2. Professor Wuelton Monteiro
Trial website
Contact information
Primary contact
Prof Jacqueline Sachett
Contact details
Fundação de Medicina Tropical Doutor Heitor Vieira Dourado (FMT-HVD)
Avenida Pedro Teixeira
Dom Pedro
+55 92 98151 8086
Additional contact
Prof Wuelton Monteiro
Contact details
Fundação de Medicina Tropical Doutor Heitor Vieira Dourado (FMT-HVD)
Avenida Pedro Teixeira
Dom Pedro
+55 92 99165 2486
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
Study information
Scientific title
Safety and efficacy of freeze-dried trivalent antivenom for snakebites in the Brazilian Amazon: An open randomized controlled phase IIb clinical trial
Study hypothesis
There is safety and efficacy of a freeze-dried trivalent antivenom, and the available AV provided by the MoH, to treat Bothrops, Lachesis and Crotalus snakebites in the Brazilian Amazon.
Ethics approval
Research Ethics Committee of the Instituto de Biologia do Exército (IBEx), 18/09/2003
Study design
Prospective randomized open phase IIb trial
Primary study design
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Trial type
Patient information sheet
No participant information sheet available
After snakebite envenoming diagnosis, participants are randomly assigned to one of two arms with allocation ratio 1:1. The randomisation list is computer-generated. When a patient is considered to meet the inclusion criteria and had given her/his informed consent, the patient was formally recruited, and the patient's unique ID number was allocated in the Case Report Form (CRF). After admission, a CRF is filled with the patient's unique ID number, gender, area of occurrence of the snakebite (rural or urban), age (in years), ethnicity, education (in years), anatomical region of the bite, and time from bite to medical assistance (in hours). Clinical examination includes the observation of local and systemic manifestations. For Bothrops snakebites, laboratorial characterisation includes clotting time, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, International Normalized Ratio (INR), hemoglobin, leucocyte and platelet counts and plasma levels of fibrinogen, creatinine, urea, lactate dehydrogenase, aspartate transaminase, alanine transaminase and creatine phosphokinase in the plasma. For Lachesis and Crotalus snakebites, laboratory characterization included clotting time, INR and plasma levels of fibrinogen, creatinine, urea, and activities of aspartate transaminase, alanine transaminase and creatine phosphokinase in the plasma.
Twenty minutes after pre-medication with IV hydrocortisone (500 mg), IV cimetidine (300 mg) and oral dexchlorpheniramine (5 mg) (standardized according to local guidelines), AV therapy is given to participants from both arms in a dosage corresponding to mild or moderate envenomation based on the group they are in. Before administration, dissolution was observed visually as the FDTA vials were gently agitated by hand during one minute. AV therapy is given based on randomisation.
Group 1:
Participants in this group receive the freeze-dried trivalent antivenom (FDTA), produced under GMP conditions by Butantan Institute (São Paulo, Brazil) in partnership with Instituto de Biologia do Exército (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
Group 2:
Participants receive the standard level of care AV available Bothrops, Bothrops-Lachesis and Bothrops-Crotalus AVs provided by the MoH (MoH AV).
In Brazil, snake AV production is standardised and all the AV production from the three national laboratories (Butantan Institute, Ezequiel Dias Foundation and Vital Brazil Institute) is acquired by the MoH for national distribution free of charge.
Analgesic drugs are given on demand for pain, the bitten limb is nursed in the most comfortable position, blisters were aspirated, necrotic tissue are surgically debrided, abscesses are drained, and antibiotic treatment is given accordingly.
After AV therapy, patients are admitted to the hospital ward for close monitoring during 24 hours. The same laboratorial tests referred above were repeated four hours, 12 hours and 24 hours after AV therapy. Patients are asked to attend the hospital seven and fifteen days after discharge. At follow-up visits, clinical examination is carried out and the and the laboratory tests are repeated, in order to investigate clinical evolution of the envenomations and occurrence of late adverse reaction to AV therapy. If the patient does not present for the follow-up visits, the investigator plans a domiciliary visit at the next day. Patients who do not present to hospital visits and are not found at domiciliary visits are considered lost to follow-up.
Intervention type
Phase II
Drug names
Freeze-dried trivalent antivenom
Primary outcome measure
Early adverse reactions of AV therapy is measured using the clinical examinations for urticaria, asthma-like crisis, laryngeal edema and shock in the first 24 hours after treatment.
Secondary outcome measures
Presence of late adverse events are measured using clinical examinations (fever, urticarial, arthralgia, adenomegaly, neurological and renal complications at 24 hours until 15 days after treatment.
Overall trial start date
Overall trial end date
Reason abandoned (if study stopped)
Participant inclusion criteria
1. Male and female subjects
2. Aged between 12 and 70 years old
3. Bothrops, Lachesis and Crotalus snakebites are diagnosed using clinical, epidemiological and laboratorial evaluation
Participant type
Age group
Target number of participants
Participant exclusion criteria
1. Pregnancy or breastfeeding
2. Previous hematological disorders
3. Known immunodeficiencies (HIV, malignancies, chemotherapy or other immunosuppressive treatments)
4. Previous treatment with snake AVs and history of any moderate/severe allergic reaction in the past
5. Presenting with severe snake envenomings, defined for Bothrops and Lachesis as life-threatening snakebites with severe bleeding, hypotension, shock and acute renal failure, and for Crotalus as intense rhabdomyolisis and severe acute renal failure were not included
Recruitment start date
Recruitment end date
Countries of recruitment
Trial participating centre
Tropical Medicine Foundation Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado (FMT-HVD)
Av. Pedro Teixeira, 25 - Dom Pedro
Trial participating centre
Hospital Geral de Roraima
Boa Vista
Trial participating centre
Unidade Mista de Borba
Sponsor information
Army Institute of Biology
Sponsor details
R. Francisco Manuel
Rio de Janeiro
+55 21 3860-1738
Sponsor type
Tropical Medicine Foundation Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado
Sponsor details
Av. Pedro Teixeira
Dom Pedro
Manaus - AM
+55 92 2127-3555
Sponsor type
Funder type
Funder name
Brazilian Army
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Planned submission to Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases, as an Original Article.
IPD sharing statement:
The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are/will be available upon request from the Corresponding Investigator: Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro at email@example.com
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Available on request
Basic results (scientific)
Publication list
2017 Results in: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29176824


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Home features shutters, front-face metal roof, covered front-entry and balcony with doors from upstairs bedrooms. French Doors open from Formal Living room and Formal Dining room into interior paved Courtyard; Dining room, with tray ceilings with beam work, open up to create a beautiful area to entertain. Opposite side of Dining features a Gallery with tray ceiling, and additional French doors leading out onto back with extended Lanai and Optional Outdoor Kitchen, providing easy flow for entertaining.
Large Family room featuring beam work with rounded picture-window to enjoy the view. Kitchen has an over-sized island with sink, upgraded stainless appliances. Master bedroom features tray ceiling, his/hers closets, double sinks, free-standing tub with separate shower. Passage-way from her closet leads directly into laundry room and kitchen. Four bedrooms, and bonus room up-stairs with three large windows opposite winding stair-case to allow in lots of light. Buyer may choose all finishes including paint colors, flooring, cabinets and counter-tops from our Design Center with consultation from our Professional Interior Designers, depending on time-line of construction.


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My podcast with Joe Duffy (From the 14th minute).
Let's hope Joe can help!! I was just on his show!!!!!!!!!!
Just raised the issue about how disappointing it is; despite being four years since I was placed in my current accommodation upon my discharge from the NRH after enduring a spinal cord injury, I am still living in a congregated setting. Despite seeking help from councillors, TD's, the national advocacy service, the HSE confidential recipient, independent living agencys and making a formal complaint through the outlined HSE process, unfortunately to date the HSE and social housing have failed to secure alternative accommodation and services for me.
The myriad initiatives designed to lift people out of isolation and segregation are failing the people and not allowing them free choice to integrate adequately in to communities.
Set backs like this can really test someones faith in those who she should be able to depend on for support. This is incredibly disheartening to fight for something that so many of us take for granted!


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More and more often our clients want their woodwork to match their staircase or balustrade finish and this is another quality service we offer.
I am delighted with the high quality of my new balustrade you recently fitted and the finished result is excellent. I would especially like to mention the installation team who were very professional, carried out the work with minimum disruption and left everything clean and tidy. I have already recommended you to a neighbour.
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OTONEWS - American automakers, Ford has made some refreshment on the hatchback, Fiesta. Fiesta now comes with a more beautiful and more efficient engines Fuel (BBM).
For the ECOnetic variant of the 1.5-liter diesel engine capable of producing the fuel consumption of 3.2 liters / 100 km (73.5 mpg) with 82 g CO2 / km. This result is an increase of 16 grams / km from 2008 model year.
For Fiesta Red and Black version with 1.0-liter EcoBoost engine capable of producing 125 PS (92 kW) and 1.5 liter TDCi capable of producing 95 PS (70kW).
As for the Titanium and Sport models get a change in the exterior like chrome grill and made lower and using 16-inch rims. Not only that, the headlights were also equipped with integrated LEDs.
Color choices are also more varied, including Magnetic, Candy Red and Silver Silk. For the Sport models available colors Frozen White, Panther Black, Race Red and Candy Blue.
The interior is getting a new seat and steering wheel and handbrake are already coated with leather.


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People can realize that non-Christians as well as Christians are saved if they know what constitutes heaven in us; for heaven is within us, and people who have heaven within them come into heaven. The heaven within us is our acknowledgment of the Divine and our being led by the Divine. The beginning and foundation of every religion is its acknowledgment of the Divine Being; a religion that does not acknowledge the Divine Being is not a religion at all. The precepts of every religion focus on worship, that is, on how the Divine is to be honored so that we will be acceptable in its sight; and when this fully occupies the mind (or, to the extent that we intend this or love this) we are being led by the Lord.
It is recognized that non-Christians live lives that are just as moral as the lives of Christians—many of them, in fact, live more moral lives. A moral life may be lived either to satisfy the Divine or to satisfy people in this world. A moral life that is lived to satisfy the Divine is a spiritual life. The two look alike in outward form, but inwardly they are totally different. One saves us, the other does not. This is because if we live a moral life to satisfy the Divine we are being led by the Divine; while if we live a moral life to satisfy people in this world, we are being led by ourselves.
This may be illustrated by an example. If we do not do harm to our neighbor because that is against our religion and therefore against the Divine, our refraining from evil stems from a spiritual source. But if we refrain from doing harm to others simply because we are afraid of the law or of losing our reputation or respect or profit—for the sake of self and the world, that is—then this stems from a natural source and we are being led by ourselves. This latter life is natural, while the former is spiritual. If our moral life is spiritual, we have heaven within ourselves; but if our moral life is merely natural, we do not have heaven within ourselves. This is because heaven flows in from above, opens our deeper natures, and flows through those deeper natures into our more outward natures; while the world flows in from below and opens our more outward natures but not our deeper natures. No inflow occurs from the natural world into the spiritual, only from the spiritual world into the natural; so if heaven is not accepted at the same time, the deeper levels are closed. We can see from this who accept heaven into themselves and who do not.
However, the heaven in one individual is not the same as the heaven in another. It differs in each according to the affection for what is good and true. If people are absorbed in an affection for what is good for the sake of the Divine, they love divine truth because the good and the true love each other and want to be united. Consequently, non-Christian people who have not had access to genuine truths in the world still accept them in the other life because of their love.
from Heaven and Hell, Section 319
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Are you considering a trip to Iceland and unsure what to see and do besides chase the northern lights? This workshop will give you the know-how and insight to help you have the experience of a lifetime in the country of fire and ice.
Webinar Topics:
- Iceland Travel Overview
- Itineraries and Activities
- Tours or Car Rental?
- Driving the Ring Road
- Hotels and Camping
- Food & Drink
- Northern Lights
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"Acacia was very knowledgeable about traveling through Iceland. She even tailored her talk to highlight things we were interested in doing. I would recommend this webinar to anyone that is traveling to Iceland. I find that it is always easier to talk to someone about traveling than just reading a book. Happy Travels." -Patty B.
Speaker: Acacia has traveled to numerous countries across four continents, including multiple trips to Iceland. Her Icelandic adventures include snorkeling between the N. American and Eurasian tectonic plates, photographing humpback whales, and sleeping on a sheep farm. She has chased the northern lights across multiple regions of the world and her northern lights photography is currently featured in one of the top northern lights tracking aps. Acacia is an enthusiastic speaker who is excited to help you have the trip of a lifetime. Learn more about Acacia on our About page.


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My name is Kasey Evans. I became a personal trainer because I gained so much confidence through my own weight loss/fitness journey that I started when I was 15 years of age. Before fitness I was at a point in my life where my mental health became a barrier for all the things a young girl should be enjoying in life and I couldn't leave the house. Since living an active and healthy lifestyle it has helped me achieve confidence in myself. Fitness has given me a different outlook on life, happiness and gave me motivation to continue further education.
I chose to study to become a personal trainer so I can help others who are in a similar situation to what I was in through fitness and to help my clients find the body confidence we all deserve.
The current qualifications I hold are:
- Certificate 3 & 4 in Fitness
- Female Specific Trainer
- Active Kids Trainer
- Boxing for Fitness
- Advanced Nutrition 1
- Advanced Nutrition 2
- Mental Health First Aid
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Graphic design is the basic of all design. Either exhibition or marketing strategy cannot work without it. In the past several years, FIZZAN have setup a very strong graphic design team. We can provide a lot of ideas and innovation to support customers to win the market.
There is nothing, but innovation.


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The hotel is a new building recently opened in February 2007, located in the heart of Málaga, not far from Calle Larios, a popular shopping street in the city.
It has 50 rooms including standard rooms, executive rooms, attics and suites. There is also a bar-restaurant and a private garage.
This hotel has its own personality and has been decorated by the interior designer, Lorenzo Castillo paying tribute to the summer hotels on the East Coast of the United States using flat, unconventional colours. Rooms with contemporary and 1950s furniture. Decorated with mirrors and decorative paintwork. Equipped with the latest technology, free WIFI Internet connection, flat screen TV, mini-bar, air conditioning with individual control, safe, etc .
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While visiting Malaga dont miss the cathedral, the Alcazaba (Arab fortress), the Arab Baths, the Roman Theatre, and the newly opened Picasso Museum: the famous artist was born in Malaga. Interesting day trips include Ronda where the oldest bullring in Spain can be found: the villages of Minas and Marcella: and the town of Antequera famous for its enormous dolmens and distinctive old quarter.
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House Window Installation: Why You Need to Hire an Expert
There are various reasons as to why you do window replacement for your home. Some of the reasons could be that you wish to raise your home's value of your house or s you need just to make it appear much better to allow you to enjoy it even more and drive your neighbors green with envy. Or maybe you are trying to lower your utility bills or increase your energy efficiency. You could also be thinking of remodelling so as to repair warped or some broken windows.
Regardless of your motive for replacing the windows, it's a great idea to hire a professional to do the installation. It is possible to do the job yourself, but the majority of individuals don't have everything that they need for installation of windows. And though it may seem to be less expensive to do it on your own instead of employing an expert, you need to remember that in the event you make an error, you'll need to employ them to repair it. You might wind up paying a whole lot more than you had intended.
A specialist window installation service has years of expertise. They have seen virtually every issue that could occur during window installation. There are usually problems that need to be dealt with prior to the installation, and if you are not aware of these problems, you could have problems installing your windows. Another problem an expert can easily deal with is the fact that most houses don't have square window openings. When a home settles, that could change the shape of the window openings. Shims should be installed in the right way to keep off the components in addition to making them look lovely and operate well.
A window installation service owns all the necessary tools for the work. Majority of the homeowners do not have these tools. Some windows need specific tools, and you might spend more than you are paying for the window so as to purchase the tools you need. You might end up having difficulties with transportation of the windows or even paying for delivery services. You might also need a hand because windows are clumsy and based on the type of window you have chosen and you may require lots of strength to put it.
A window installation service provider will offer you a guarantee for their products and their solutions too. If you install the windows on your own, you don't have that guarantee, and if something does not work out, you don't have anyone to call to repair it. Nearly all issues which happen with replacement windows are issues brought by faulty installation.
You can see why it seems sensible to use an expert window installation support. In case you still want to do it yourself, you can, but keep in mind you might need some help.
If You Think You Understand Services, Then This Might Change Your Mind
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I'm lucky to have a job that gets me out of the office, and that's where you'll find me every day - reporting on a wide variety of topics around the Northwest.
I'm a "multi-skilled journalist (MSJ)," which means I shoot, write and edit my own stories. In my career, I've had the chance to travel around the country covering stories from Niagara Falls to the U.S.-Mexico border.
I joined the KING 5 team in April 2018. Before that, I was an investigative reporter/MSJ at WBIR in Knoxville, Tennessee. I'm originally from Iowa, and had my first job in TV there at KWWL in Waterloo.
I love hiking, and getting outside with my girlfriend and dog. I'm also an avid landscape photographer.
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Welcome to Sako-Beretta Nordic Retriever Championships 2018!
We are happy to announce that Sako-Beretta Nordic Retriever Championships 2018 will be arranged in Finland as two separate international CACIT field trials. In our opinion this is the only acceptable way to test and rank the créme de la créme of our retrievers.
Our superb grounds are located 90 km north of Helsinki. We are expecting a variety of game, both driven and walked up, and retrieves from both land and water. We are allowed to use these grounds by courtesy of Mr Georg Ehrnrooth. We are extremely thankful for his fantastic contribution.
And the icing on the cake is co-operation with Sako-Beretta, Europe's foremost gun manufacturer, who will provide exciting prizes for our competition.
We invite retriever friends from around Europe to join and follow our event from Facebook and www- pages. We will update these pages constantly. During the competition we will provide up-to-date information, news and situation updates with photos and videos.
See you on the 27th and 28th of October - online or on location!
Petteri Hirvonen
Chairman of the Organizing Committee
Latest Updates
Please see the competing numbers for Saturday's Team Competition.
We are delighted to introduce participants of Sako-Beretta Nordic Retriever Championship 2018.
Sako-Beretta donates great prizes
Our main partner Sako-Beretta has donated very beautiful prizes to the best dogs of the competition.
We welcome Mr. Hedman and Mr. Veel!


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2015 is a year with a multitude of anniversaries including the 50th anniversary of Churchill's death, the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, with Waterloo, Agincourt and various World War one events to come.
We will also have the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the first significant hydrocarbons in the North Sea, in what is now the West Sole field. This is a significant milestone for the industry and we should celebrate the growth of the UK oil and gas industry.
But while we celebrate its progress, there is a darker event to remember. 2015 is also the 50th anniversary of the first offshore tragedy with multiple deaths. While celebrating the beginnings, we should also remember the cost of that exploitation. Since 1965, there have been 334 deaths offshore and another 115 in helicopter incidents.
The Sea Gem oil rig, a barge converted for use as a drilling rig and operated by BP, drilled the well, which located that first gas. On 27th December 1965, the rig capsized off the coast of Lincolnshire, killing thirteen of the thirty-two crew members. There were no safety regulations at the time, only a code of recommendations produced by the Institute of Petroleum.
The public inquiry (also a first for the industry) which followed criticised the code and made recommendations to improve safety. These were based on regulations used to control onshore workplaces and mines. The legislation gave us the OIM and the standby safety vessel, but no one recognised the need for the industry, operating in the harshest and most difficult of environments, to have its own bespoke regulatory requirements.
In the mid-eighties, Aberdeen, experienced its first global oil price collapse, very similar to the one we are going through at the moment. The industry response was to introduce massive cost cutting in every area including the routine maintenance of platforms and facilities.
On 6 July 1988, a series of explosions destroyed the Piper Alpha and killed 167 men. The worst oil and gas incident anywhere in the world. Lord Cullen's public inquiry followed. The Cullen report spelled out clearly the failings of the operator in its health and safety system.
No one has ever questioned the thoroughness of the inquiry and the importance of Lord Cullen's report. It changed the safety culture, not only in the North Sea, but in the oil and gas industry around the world. Among the 106 recommendations, was the transfer of responsibility for health and safety away from the Energy Department to the Health and Safety Executive.
Since Piper Alpha, there has been a real improvement in safety offshore. Injury and death rates have fallen and the industry continues to invest significant sums of money and other resources in safety. However, the lessons of the past are that we can never become complacent.
From time to time, there have been signs of slippage. In 2003, two workers were killed in a gas leak on the Brent Bravo platform, the first "process" deaths since Piper Alpha.
Following these deaths, The HSE carried out an asset integrity programme involving targeted inspections of around 100 installations. The Key Performance (KP3) report, had some worrying things to tell us about the lack of maintenance of platforms, particularly when they were affected by commercial considerations, and on work force morale.
The KP3 report has forced offshore operators to be more vigilant Lord Cullen's decision to transfer safety to the HSE has been fully vindicated. The industry needs a proactive regulator and one where there is no conflict of interests.
Despite that, there are still serious incidents. For example, the 2012 "gas leak" on the Elgin platform which later became described by the HSE as a "blowout" which "had the potential for a major fire and explosion resulting in serious injury or loss of life".
Thankfully, in this case, the emergency procedures were put into place and personnel were evacuated safely. The platform was built with post-Piper design features and the coordinated response of the offshore and onshore emergency response teams was exemplary. The Elgin incident shows how far we have travelled since Piper Alpha, but also highlights that the risks remain.
Risks are at their highest when the industry is under pressure. We are now going through a very difficult economic period which will have a serious impact on everyone who has involved. The pressures are considerable.
There have been at least three serious downturns in oil price in the life of the UK oil and gas industry. The worst and most damaging was the downturn in the mid-1980s. An estimated 20,000 jobs were lost in Scotland, most of them in Aberdeen and the North East. 50,000 jobs were lost over the whole UK. The fact that the job losses were higher in the rest of the UK than in Scotland reflects the fact that while the industry is centred in Aberdeen, the supply chain and the workforce is spread throughout the UK.
There is a risk that this year's downturn could be on the same level of seriousness as the 1980's events. But the industry has changed substantially and the profile is now quite different from the early days. The North Sea is now a mature province with a different company demographic, attitudes and regulation. With the right focussed support from government and the industry it is possible that this very difficult time will not develop into the tragedies we saw in the 1980s.
Significant numbers of redundancies have already take place with more to come. Most of these have been onshore jobs. Offshore unions and management are negotiating staffing levels, longer offshore cycles and pay cuts.
Since the collapse in the oil price, industry representatives and others have insisted there need to be a tax cut. Oil companies are still angry about the increase in the supplementary charge which was made in 2011 budget and they would like to see it removed completely. The Chancellor has met them a small part of the way by introducing tax reliefs for brown field sites, for high temperature and high pressure fields, and reducing the supplementary tax by 2%.
The Chancellor also announced last year that the offshore tax regime would be reviewed. The review was started before the fall in prices and, to a certain extent, has been overtaken by the price collapse.
The final budget of this Parliament is just a few days away and tax reliefs for the industry are likely to be very high up the agenda. It seems fairly certain that we will see a new investment allowance. This will replace the collection of reliefs which make the tax regime so complex. The issue for the industry will be the level at which the reliefs are set.
There is also a strong possibility of a new scheme to encourage exploration and appraisal in areas which it is thought that there are exploitable reserves of hydrocarbons, but which have not yet been properly explored. This would involve some government funding.
The focus of the budget will be to support the industry through difficult times. It is unlikely to figure in the budget speech, but health and safety must remain a priority. The Government must ensure that regulators are able, through powers and resources, to be proactive in ensuring that despite the economic situation, safety levels remain at the highest level. A specific targeted relief should be considered by the Government to support continuing maintenance of infrastructure and improvement of health and safety systems and equipment. The consequences of the 1980's downturn was not just job losses. All projects which were in progress were stopped. The platforms which were producing oil and gas carried on producing, but many costs were cut to the bone. In particular areas vital to safety, such as fire safety equipment, deluge systems and others received little or no maintenance.
The possible outcomes from this approach were not immediately apparent, but, on the night of 6th July 1988, when the Piper Alpha was destroyed, they were there for the whole world to see. If there is slippage in maintenance through this downturn, the dangers for offshore workers will be significantly increased, not immediately, but at some time in the future.
The lessons from the Sea Gem, Piper Alpha and Elgin show that we need to be ever vigilant and aware of the serious consequences of poor health and safety. Disasters not only kill but they are extremely expensive in every other respect for all of those involved.
Everyone, industry and Government – UK and Scottish – needs to be focused on maintaining employment, jobs and skills. The economic climate will change and it is important that the oil and gas industry is capable of getting into gear as quickly and safely as possible when that happens.
Frank Doran is Labour MP for Aberdeen North. He has been heavily involved in offshore safety for many years.


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When unauthorised fly-posting is reported, we will ask the person responsible to remove the signs. If this is not done, we will remove the material ourselves and can recover any costs in doing so.
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The always-dependable movie team of Mark Wahlberg and director Peter Berg ("Lone Survivor," "Deepwater Horizon" and "Patriots Day") get back to pure action filmmaking with "Mile 22," a CIA thriller that's not based on a true event.
The movie's story is by Marine veteran Graham Roland, who also happens to be the showrunner and creator of Amazon's excellent new "Jack Ryan" series.
Wahlberg stars as James Silva, an operative for Overwatch, based on a CIA special ops unit called Ground Branch that kicks as much tactical ass as their military brethren do. There's an asset with some stuff that can't fall into enemy hands and Silva's team must retrieve the stuff with time running out. A story like that is all about the execution and these guys have a consistent track record of delivering the goods on this kind of story.
In a visceral modern thriller from the director of Lone Survivor, Mark Wahlberg stars as James Silva, an operative of the CIA's most highly-prized and least-understood unit. Aided by a top-secret tactical command team, Silva must retrieve and transport an asset who holds life-threatening information to Mile 22 for extraction before the enemy closes in.
The movie also stars Lauren Cohan ("The Walking Dead") and features former UFC champ Ronda Rousey in her biggest movie role to date.
We've got a clip that gives some background on the Ground Branch unit. Check out "Mile 22" in theaters on August 17th.