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Interlibrary Loan Policy
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Borrowing libraries with questions, please see the Lending section.
Interlibrary loan is the process a library uses to borrow materials for customers that are not owned by that local branch library or by the library system that local branch is a part of. Materials borrowed from other libraries and library systems for local library customers do not fall under the same borrowing guidelines as locally owned materials would. Varying check-out durations, fees for borrowing materials and special handling may apply.
Library customers with a current Harris County Public Library card in good standing may place an interlibrary loan request after consultation with a librarian at their local branch library. This consultation will determine whether or not interlibrary loan service (ILL) is the best method to assist that customer with their need for information or materials.
Interlibrary loan requests cannot be placed using Harris County Public Library group cards, temporary cards or visitors' cards. Online ILL requests may be submitted under certain conditions. See "Borrowing: Can I submit interlibrary loan requests online?" section for further information on this service.
Who can check out my interlibrary-loan item?
Interlibrary Loan materials are non-transferable to another user's account. ILLs may only be checked out on the original requestor's library card. If someone else is picking up your ILL, he/she must present your card to check out the item.
What can be borrowed through interlibrary loan services?
The Harris County Public Library will place interlibrary loan requests for books, audio books (CD/cassette), DVDs, VHS tapes, music CDs, microform, and photocopies. However, it is entirely up to the lending library what they will lend, if they will charge a fee for lending the material, and/or if they are willing to make photocopies. Newly published materials that are not owned by Harris County Public Library System may only be requested through interlibrary loan if they are more than six months post-publication or post-release.
Customers who are interested in microfilm or microfiche interlibrary loan requests should check with their local branch library first to determine if the appropriate equipment to view these formats is available there. The following HCPL locations have equipment:
Microfilm - La Porte
Microfiche (Reader/Printer) - La Porte
Microfishe microviewer 15x magnification - Mobile
Lending libraries will generally only loan these formats for IN LIBRARY USE ONLY, and therefore, they do not check out for customers to view off-site. The Library may not be able to borrow these formats unless the customer is willing to travel to another HCPL to view them, where the equipment is available.
What materials cannot be borrowed?
Materials that are currently part of the collection of the Harris County Public Library System may not be requested through interlibrary loan services. The Library will not borrow software, downloadable content and electronic resources. The Library will not borrow materials from outside the United States.
Are there any limitations on the number of items I can borrow using interlibrary loan services or which branch library I may use to check these items in or out?
Customers are limited to ten (10) interlibrary loan requests/loans in process at any one given time. "In process" is defined as requests pending, items awaiting check-out by the customer and items currently checked out. As ILL items are returned by the customer, additional interlibrary loan requests may be placed.
Unlike HCPL-owned materials that may be sent to any branch in the library system the customer uses, interlibrary loan materials may only be sent, picked up and returned to one library location. Customers should consult with branch staff to insure that their patron record for branch location is the branch they wish to use for interlibrary loan services. If not, the branch staff can change their account to reflect which branch the customer is most comfortable using. Interlibrary loan materials must be picked up and returned to one library location only and not to any other branch library. Branches are unable to send interlibrary loan materials from one branch location to another.
In addition, microform (microfiche/microfilm) may only be borrowed from lending libraries for delivery to HCPL branch La Porte due to the availability of equipment at these locations to view and copy the material. Generally speaking, microform is made available for LIBRARY USE ONLY and may not be checked out of the library. Microfiche micro viewers that provide up to 15x magnification are available for use with microfiche requests at any branch. Customers with microform requests should discuss their options with an interlibrary loan branch staff member for further information.
How long can I check out something that has been borrowed through interlibrary loan?
The check-out duration for interlibrary loan materials is at the discretion of the lending library and when that item is due back to them. For this reason, ILL materials may have shorter check-out periods than traditional library materials OR may be checked out for longer periods of time. It will vary and is totally dependent upon the lending library.
HCPL puts a gold band around each ILL item to let the customer know when that item is due back to the branch library and that the item was borrowed through interlibrary loan. Customers must not remove this ILL identifying band under any circumstances. It provides the customer with important information about the material, and it also notifies library staff that this material requires special handling.
Failure to return interlibrary loan materials on time and to follow interlibrary guidelines can result in the loss of interlibrary loan borrowing privileges for the Library customer, as well as the loss of borrowing ability for Harris County Public Library System. For this reason, materials borrowed through interlibrary loan require special attention on the part of both the Library customer and the Library staff. Customer abuse of interlibrary loan due dates, accepted conditions on loans or damage to ILL materials will result in the suspension of a customer's interlibrary loan privileges.
Occasionally, a lending library may RECALL their material. If it is checked out to a Library customer, the Library will notify the customer that the material must be returned as soon as possible to the branch library where it was checked out.
Library customers may request a renewal on their interlibrary loan material should a longer checkout be required. Renewals must be requested before the item is due and are only granted at the discretion of the lending library. HCPL is unable to renew ILL materials past their due date without the permission of the lending library. If the lending library denies a renewal, HCPL library staff will be happy to re-request that item for the Library customer from another lender if available.
Is interlibrary loan service free?
Harris County Public Library makes every effort to borrow materials from other libraries free of charge. However, it is entirely up to the lending library whether or not they charge to borrow an item or to make photocopies of their materials. If the customer does not wish to pay any fee to borrow an item through interlibrary loan, the customer should let the branch staff member know this at the time the interlibrary loan request is placed.
Harris County Public Library will never continue with an interlibrary loan request with a fee unless the customer has given permission for the Library to do so. Customers are responsible for any fees they agree to pay for interlibrary loan materials. Once that item has been shipped by the lending library, the fees are still the responsibility of the Library customer even if the customer never picks up the material or tries to cancel the request. Library customers are also responsible for any overdue fines that may be incurred as well.
Refunds are not given for lost ILL items that are found and have been paid for. Customers should make every effort to return ILL items by their due date to avoid any late fines or payments for the non-return of the borrowed material.
How long will it take for my request to be filled?
The time varies depending upon the item requested and how many libraries own it. It also depends upon whether or not the lending libraries are willing to lend it or if it is currently in use by their customers. There are many variables, and it is very difficult to predict. Materials borrowed through the interlibrary loan network can take from 3 weeks to several months to arrive. ILL takes time and there are no RUSH requests. If a customer has a time restriction, they need to discuss that with a librarian at their local branch to decide whether or not ILL service is the best method to get that material for them. If a customer's ILL request has been cancelled by potential lending libraries, the Library customer will receive notification by email or regular mail.
What materials are the most difficult to get?
Most genealogy requests for specific titles are cancelled because genealogy materials are generally non-circulating. Customers are encouraged to submit surname information and/or specific pages for photocopying instead or ask for a photocopy of the index or table of contents from the material of interest.
Current editions of textbooks are difficult to borrow. Interlibrary loan use of textbooks for college classes is not recommended. These items are generally not loaned by the lending libraries. Customers may be able to get older editions of textbooks more easily, but must return them when they are due.
How am I notified that my item has arrived?
Once an interlibrary loan item has come in for a library customer, the Library will notify that customer that their material has arrived. Library customers with email accounts are encouraged to request email notification for interlibrary loan notices. This is the fastest method to receive notification. However, mailed notifications are also available to those customers without email notification preferences in their library accounts. Mailed notifications are sent out each business day (Monday-Friday). The Library has no control of the length of time it takes for a mailed notification to be received by a Library customer.
There are occasions when it is necessary for customers to be contacted by telephone when an item has arrived. Since the length of time an interlibrary loaned item can be borrowed by HCPL is set by the lending library, interlibrary loan materials should be picked up promptly. If the check-out period expires before the customer picks up the item, it will be returned to the lending library. Any borrowing fees agreed upon by the customer for the loan will not be waived if the customer does not pick up the item.
What happens if I return the material late or the item becomes lost or damaged?
The customer is responsible for all fees/fines which are incurred during check-out and if the item is lost or damaged. Unpaid fines and fees will go on a customer's library record and may result in losing library privileges if they are not resolved. There is no "claimed returned" status on ILL materials. Customers must take care to return all ILL materials on time and to the correct branch library, along with the gold-identifying band securely attached.
Interlibrary loan is special service that the Library is able to offer its customers. It does have its own, unique procedures and guidelines that Harris County Public Library and its customers must follow. If Library customers have any questions about this service, they are encouraged to contact their local branch library for additional information. Harris County Public Library branches are listed on the Library's website.
Can I submit interlibrary loan requests online?
Only Library customers with a current Harris County Public Library card in good standing and who have a valid e-mail address in their library account may place online interlibrary loan requests. Interlibrary loan requests cannot be placed using Harris County Public Library group cards, temporary cards or visitors' cards.
If your e-mail address on record is incorrect or you wish to add one to your record, please contact your local branch. You can also visit the My Account section of the HCPL website to make necessary e-mail address changes.
Whether submitting ILL requests in person at a branch library or online, customers are limited to ten (10) interlibrary loan requests/loans on their accounts at any one time. "In process" is defined as requests pending, items awaiting check-out by the customer and items currently checked out. As ILL items are returned by the customer, additional interlibrary loan requests may be placed.
Requests submitted that exceed this limit of TEN (10) interlibrary loan requests "in process", will be e-mailed back to the customer and not held by the branch library. Customers may resubmit requests as their account has space to process them.
Submit an Online Interlibrary Loan Request.
Harris County Public Library System will lend materials to other library systems for their customers as well. These requests come to HCPL through OCLC and then, ILLiad (interlibrary loan software) from other libraries across the country. American Library Association requests are also accepted and can be emailed to: email@example.com or sent through the mail to: Interlibrary Loan Department, Harris County Public Library Administrative Offices, 8080 El Rio Street, Houston, TX 77054-4195.
What materials can be loaned?
Harris County Public Library System will loan books, audio books, music CDs/cassettes, DVDs, VHS tapes that are available for checkout and have no holds or local customer requests.
What materials cannot be loaned?
The Library will not loan downloadable content, electronic resources, items on reserve/hold, reference materials or materials in the Instructional Media collection, oversized children's books and periodicals. The Library will not loan materials internationally.
What fees are charged for loans?
There are not any fees for borrowing our material. If an item is lost or damaged, we charge a replacement fee. There are no additional processing fees.
Do you give refunds for returned lost loans after they have been paid?
Refunds cannot be issued after payments have been processed.
For items that we do not loan, can we make photocopies?
Yes. We provide printed photocopies for items that cannot be loaned as long as a full citation is submitted with the request. The first 30 pages are free, and then, there is a 10 cents/page charge for 31 pages and over.
How long are items loaned?
The lending period is 6 weeks, and the renewal period is 2 weeks. More than one renewal is allowed only on a case-by-case basis.
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'Scottish Experience' winner of ESA's TEACH SPACE 2001 Award
Mrs Susan Burr from the Kyle Academy in Scotland wins the 'Most Inspiring TEACH SPACE 2001 Award'. The award was announced at TEACH SPACE 2001, the first International Space Station education conference, held at ESTEC, ESA's technical centre in The Netherlands, from 26 to 28 October 2001.
The winning project, 'Teaching Earth and Space: the Scottish Experience' combines scientific content with playful, hands-on lessons for pupils from 5-14 years of age. "My school was delighted with the award," said winner Susan Burr, "I have let them have the certificate, but the space station model is sitting in my lab." Her project was selected among 40 responses to an open call for teaching space projects. Details on this and all other projects presented at the conference can be found at http://www.esa.int/export/esaHS/education.html.
This innovative conference introduced teachers to ESA and the International Space Station programme, in particular planned and potential educational activities and ideas. Its purpose was to understand the needs of teachers from all over Europe, their interests, projects and requirements for space education and how ESA could help make Space a valuable tool for their teaching.
The conference also opened up to European teachers, ESA's wealth of educational information and offered a source of inspiration for all school curricula subjects.
TEACH SPACE 2001 was attended by 167 participants coming from 19 different countries including the 15 ESA member states. The visiting teachers were enthusiastic, positive and committed to using space as a tool for their teaching, despite limitations imposed by existing budgets and national curricula. The input gathered and the teachers' network established at the conference is a fundamental element for the growth of ESA's International Space Station team education activities.


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Chicken Meal, Ground Yellow Corn, Ground Brown Rice, Poultry Fat (preserved with natural mixed tocopherols, citric acid, rosemary extract and ascorbyl palmitate - a Vitamin C ester), Lamb Meal, Oatmeal, Full - Fat Soybeans, Natural Flavors, Dried Beet Pulp, Fish Meal, Ground Flax Seeds, Potassium Chloride, Salt, Dried Kelp, Choline Chloride, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Natural Antioxidants, Vitamin Supplements (E,A,B2,B12,D3), Niacin, Calcium Ascorbate, Calcium Pantothenate, Thiamine Mononitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Inositol, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (source of Vitamin K activity), Folic Acid, Biotin, Zinc Proteinate, Zinc Oxide, Ferrous Sulfate, Iron Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Copper Sulfate, Manganous Proteinate, Manganous Oxide, Cobalt Proteinate, Potassium Iodide, Sodium Selenite.
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First ingredient is a named meat product.
Use of corn, soy, fat of unidentifiable origin and controversial filler.
The first ingredient is a named meat product. There is a second meat product fifth on the ingredient list, and a third in 10th place. The latter is too far down the ingredient list to be considered a substantive portion of the food. It is fish meal, which the manufacturer does not state to be from ethoxyquin-free source (ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative commonly added to fish destined for meal, and is believed to be carcinogenic. It is not approved for human use).
The main grain in this food is corn. Corn is a problematic grain that is difficult for dogs to digest and thought to be the cause of a great many allergy and yeast infection problems. We prefer not to see it used in dog food. Rice is a decent quality ingredient.
Poultry fat is an ingredient of unidentified origin for which it is impossible to determine source or quality. Unidentified ingredients are usually very low quality. AAFCO define this as obtained from the tissues of poultry in the commercial processes of rendering or extracting. It consists predominantly of glyceride esters of fatty acids and contains no additions of free fatty acids. If an antioxidant is used, the common name or names must be indicated, followed by the words "used as a preservative"
We note the use of soy beans in the food. Soy is a poor quality source of protein in dog food, and a common cause of allergy problems. Some believe that it is the number 1 cause of food allergies in dogs (outstripping even wheat).
Beet pulp is filler and a controversial ingredient it is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
Note that this food uses citric acid as a preservative and should not be premoistened prior to feeding (a bloat risk factor for large breed dogs).
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On the Radar: Molior Superum
They may share the album title Into the Sun with Texan rockers Dixie Witch, but Gothenburg-based four-piece Molior Superum are nothing if not of their environment. The youngins have their hearts in the right place, though, blending the '70s grooves for which their native Sweden has developed such a consuming fetish of the last decade or so — to the benefit of all, I'd argue — with more straightforward stoner influences, both '90s-derived and the modern incarnation of desert-styled rhythm-making. In fact, the closest comparison I can make, particularly as regards the vocals, is to the British act Stubb, whose "Soul Mover" cadence seems to find reinterpretation on Into the Sun opening cut "Decibel Grand."
Self-released and with a vinyl issue reportedly forthcoming, Into the Sun follows last year's Towards the Haze digital single, and two of the songs on that release — namely "Towards the Haze" and the bluesy "Plainrider" — show up here as well on the recording helmed by guitarist Kalle Lilja of retro specialists Långfinger, alongside the lasting impressions left by the fuzz boogie of "Sad Man's Boogieland" or the Swedish language "Snygg och Stark," which deepens the call and response arrangement between guitarist Carl Isaksson, bassist Lars Sandström and drummer Jens Fuglede (or some combination of them, anyway), all of whom provide vocals throughout the course of the record.
Molior Superum is rounded out by guitarist Oskar Öberg, and though they're young, they seem to present a clear idea across Into the Sun of what they want to sound like, so unless they change their minds (always possible), they make a decent complement for bands like Mamont, Mud Walk, Deville, Skraeckoedlan, Snailking and others up and coming from Sweden's next generation of heavy rock-influenced acts. The entirety of Into the Sun is streaming now at Molior Superum's Bandcamp page (the band is also on Thee Facebooks here), from which I snagged the player below:
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Risks for Heart Valve Problems
Who is at risk for heart valve disease?
Although the population of people affected by heart valve disease is considerably smaller than the number of people who have the more common conditions, like high blood pressure and coronary artery disease, valvular disease has become an increasing problem in recent years due to the increase in life expectancy.
Valve disease and age
Heart valve disease is more common among older people. Today, thanks to improved quality of medical care and increased attention on prevention, people are living longer. As a result, heart valve disease has become a more common problem. As we age, our heart valves can become lined with calcium deposits that cause the valve flaps to thicken and become stiffer.
Valve disease and related health conditions
People who have had rheumatic fever (PDF)(link opens in new window) or a case of infective endocarditis are at greater risk for heart valve problems. Heart problems like a heart attack, heart failure, arrhythmia, or previous heart valve conditions from birth (called congenital heart defects) can also increase the likelihood for developing valve problems. Additionally, survivors of childhood cancer who had mediastinal radiation therapy (radiation to the chest) for their cancer have an increased prevalence of heart valve disease later in life.
Valve disease and health risks
Many people live long and healthy lives and never realize they have a mild valve problem. However, valve disease can seriously increase a person's risk for sudden death or cause rapid development of problems in and around the heart that can become fatal without treatment.
People who have been diagnosed with a heart murmur, a defect like a bicuspid aortic valve, mitral valve prolapse or a mild form of valve disease should maintain regular check-ins with a healthcare provider and should be aware of possible symptoms should they start or become worse.
If surgery is needed to repair or replace a valve, antibiotics might be needed before dental procedures to help protect against endocarditis. You should discuss your individual risk and the recommendations with your doctor.
Aging people should also be aware of changes that may come on very gradually. Not all declines in energy or stamina are related to "the normal problems of getting older." When the heart fails to pump enough oxygen-rich blood to the body, symptoms may appear. Problems like fatigue, shortness of breath, chest pain or discomfort and lightheadedness can indicate treatable problems related to the heart.
Do you notice that routine activities like walking faster or taking the stairs have become more difficult?
Have you stopped doing enjoyable activities that you used to do with relative ease?
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It is important to not just plan how your booth will look or what you will offer at the show but also how you are going to let others know you will be there. We have put together a few tips on how to have the best experience exhibiting with us. We hope you take the time to review this. If all of exhibitors put effort into marketing this event, we will all greatly benefit.
Thank You,
-Pet Event Professionals
Why Are You Exhibiting
- To enhance our image and visibility
- To establish a presence in the pet community
- To improve the effectiveness of our marketing efforts
- To reach a specific audience
- To practice self-promotion
- To introduce a new product or service
- To recruit volunteers
- To generate leads to adoptions or sales
- To add to our contact list
- To educate the public
Pre-Expo Planning
- Tell your clients & potential clients. Ask them to come and support and/or meet you. Do this via email or snail mail.
- If you have a website, put a banner on your home page with a link to the Pet Expo site. If you don't know how to do that contact the Expo webmaster.
- Do you have connections to local publications that might give you some press? It is a great opportunity to get a story published about your business and promote the Pet Expo at the same time.
Planning Your Booth
- Be clear on your intention for participating. What image do you want to project and what do you want the focal point to be?
- Grab the attention of attendees; there are 100+ exhibitors at this event, you need to find your niche of how to stand out amongst the crowd. Giveaways, drawings, raffles, freebies, interaction with pets and children are all ideas that will draw the public into your booth.
- Your space should reflect who you are and how you do business. If your space looks thrown together and you are giving out poorly copied materials…this sends a message…
- Get creative, have banners and colorful displays that will make your space inviting.
- Plan in advance what materials you want to give away during the Expo. You may want to save your glossy, full color marketing materials to give to those people you know are interested in your product or service and have your black and white copies available for everyone.
- Decide how to capture leads. Give attendees an opportunity to sign up for your mailing list or newsletter or give them an opportunity to enter a drawing. If you do a drawing make the prize applicable to your business. Otherwise you may get a lot of people on your mailing list who are not interested in what you offer. They just wanted to win a prize.
During The Event
- Stand as much as you can. If you have to sit, try and sit off to the side, not behind your table.
- Stay fully present to what is going on. This means no reading, doing crafts or having long conversations with your friends. This also means no eating, chewing gum or talking on your cell phone.
- Listen more than you talk. Don't give a lot of information until you know what they know. Find out where they are in their knowledge of your product or service. Then have a dialogue.
- Be generous. Be willing to help the other exhibitors have a successful show. Get to know the other exhibitors and what they are offering so you can be a resource to the attendees.
- Make sure your booth is staffed at all times.
- Be familiar with the layout of the Expo and the Speaker Schedule so you can act as a resource for the attendees.
- Do not start to break your booth down even 5 minutes early. There will be attendees there until the very end. It is not fair to them or to the exhibitors around you if you start packing up early. Also, packing up early will insure that you will not be asked back to the Expo next year.
After The Show
- Follow up with all of your new contacts within a week after the show. Contact people by email and thank them for coming by your booth and signing up for your email list.
- If people ordered product from you put your orders in right away.
- If you said you would send them something…do it. How you handle post Pet Expo interaction will tell them how you do business.


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PHILADELPHIA, May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The new prescription sleep aid Intermezzo (zolpidem tartrate) sublingual tablet CIV is the first and only prescription sleep aid approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of insomnia when a middle-of-the-night awakening is followed by difficulty returning to sleep, and the patient has at least four hours of bedtime remaining before the planned time of waking. Intermezzo has gender-specific dosing (1.75 mg for adult women and 3.5 mg for adult men) taken only once per night as needed if a middle-of-the-night awakening is followed by difficulty returning to sleep. Intermezzo 1.75 mg is also the recommended dose for men and women over 65 years of age, patients with hepatic impairment, or patients taking concomitant CNS depressants.
In the double-blind, placebo-controlled, cross-over pharmacokinetic study in healthy volunteers, Intermezzo doses of 1.0 mg, 1.75 mg, and 3.5 mg were administered on two consecutive days to 11 women and 13 men. At the same dose, the plasma levels of zolpidem tartrate in women were approximately 45 percent higher than in men. The study found that women taking a 3.5 mg dose cleared the drug at a slower rate than men taking 3.5 mg (2.7 ml/min/kg vs. 4.00 ml/min/kg, respectively).
"Given that women clear the active ingredient in Intermezzo at a lower rate than men, the results of the study support a recommended lower dosage of Intermezzo for women and a higher dosage for men," said study co-author Thomas Roth, Ph.D., Director of Sleep Medicine at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
Intermezzo was approved by the FDA in November 2011 and is available nationwide in spearmint-flavored sublingual tablets that are placed under the tongue and allowed to disintegrate completely before swallowing. Intermezzo contains a bicarbonate-carbonate buffer. On average, Intermezzo is rapidly absorbed in both genders, achieving peak mean plasma levels of zolpidem in about 35 to 75 minutes. For optimal effect, Intermezzo should not be administered with or immediately after a meal.
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Intermezzo is contraindicated in patients with known hypersensitivity to zolpidem. Observed reactions with zolpidem include anaphylaxis and angioedema.
Co-administration with Intermezzo and other CNS depressants increases the risk of CNS depression. Intermezzo should not be taken with alcohol. The use of Intermezzo with other sedative-hypnotics (including other zolpidem products) at bedtime or the middle of the night is not recommended.
The risk of next-day driving impairment (and psychomotor impairment) is increased if Intermezzo is taken with less than four hours of bedtime remaining; if a higher than recommended dose is taken; if co-administered with other CNS depressants; or co-administered with other drugs that increase the blood levels of zolpidem. A small negative effect on SDLP (standard deviation of lateral position, a measure of driving impairment) may remain in some patients four hours after the 1.75 mg dose in women, and after the 3.5 mg dose in men, such that a potential negative effect on driving cannot be completely excluded.
Additional Important Safety Information is presented below.
About Intermezzo Clinical Studies
The safety and efficacy of Intermezzo was evaluated in two randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies in patients with insomnia characterized by difficulty returning to sleep after a middle-of-the-night awakening. Patients met the diagnosis for primary insomnia as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) and had at least 3 prolonged middle-of-the-night awakenings per week of at least 30 minutes in duration.
In a four-week outpatient study in 295 adult patients aged 18 to 64 years (201 females, 94 males), Intermezzo 3.5 mg or placebo was taken on an as-needed basis following spontaneous awakenings when patients had difficulty returning to sleep after waking in the middle of the night, provided they had at least four hours remaining in bed. Subjective time to fall back to sleep after a middle-of-the-night awakening was significantly shorter for Intermezzo 3.5 mg (38 minutes) compared to placebo (56 minutes).The most commonly observed adverse reactions (>1% ) were headache (Intermezzo 3%, placebo 1%), nausea (1% for both patient groups), and fatigue (Intermezzo 1%, placebo 0%).(1)
In a sleep laboratory study, 82 adult patients aged 19 to 64 years (58 females, 24 males) were evaluated in a 3-period, 2-consecutive-night treatment period cross-over design. Patients were awakened four hours after bedtime, administered Intermezzo 3.5 mg, 1.75 mg, or placebo, were kept awake for 30 minutes before lights-out, and then allowed to return to sleep for four hours. As compared to placebo, patients taking Intermezzo had significantly shorter objective mean time to fall back asleep after the middle-of-the-night awakening (women taking 1.75 mg: 16 min vs. placebo: 28 min; men taking 3.5 mg: 13 min vs. placebo: 29 min).(1)
Use of Intermezzo in Elderly, in Hepatic Impairment, or with Concomitant CNS Depressants
Geriatric patients may be especially sensitive to the effects of zolpidem. The recommended dose for elderly men and women over 65 years old is 1.75 mg taken only once per night if needed. The recommended dose for men and women with hepatic impairment or those taking concomitant CNS depressants is 1.75 mg. Dose adjustment of concomitant CNS depressants may be necessary when co-administered with Intermezzo because of potentially additive effects. The use of Intermezzo with other sedative-hypnotics (including other zolpidem products) at bedtime or the middle of the night is not recommended.
How to Take Intermezzo
Intermezzo is to be taken in bed when a patient wakes in the middle of the night and has difficulty returning to sleep. Intermezzo should only be taken if the patient has at least four hours of bedtime remaining before the planned time of waking.
Intermezzo should be placed under the tongue and allowed to disintegrate completely before swallowing. The tablet should not be swallowed whole. For optimal effect, Intermezzo should not be administered with or immediately after a meal. The blister should be removed from the pouch just prior to dosing.
Each sublingual tablet is individually packaged in a foil blister inside a unit-dose pouch. Before going to bed, a single pouch should be placed by the bedside with a clock or watch nearby. All other unopened Intermezzo pouches should be stored with other medicines away from the bedside. Patients should open the Intermezzo pouch only when they are ready to use it.
Patients can either use the Dosing Time Chart or the Dosing Time Tool that comes with Intermezzo to find the latest time during the night they can take Intermezzo.
Dosing Time Tool: Patients turn a wheel to find the earliest time they must be awake, which corresponds with instructions to take Intermezzo before a specified time.
Dosing Time Chart: The chart helps patients locate the earliest time they need to be awake and match it to the latest time they can take Intermezzo.
When patients wake in the morning, they should make sure that at least four hours have passed since they took Intermezzo and they feel fully awake before driving or engaging in other activities requiring full mental alertness. Patients should not do dangerous activities until they know how Intermezzo affects them.
Additional Important Safety Information
The failure of insomnia to remit after 7 to 10 days of treatment may indicate the presence of a primary psychiatric and/or medical illness that should be evaluated.
Cases of angioedema involving the tongue, glottis, or larynx have been reported in patients after taking the first or subsequent doses of zolpidem. Some patients have had additional symptoms such as dyspnea, throat closing, or nausea and vomiting that suggest anaphylaxis. Some patients have required medical therapy in the emergency department. Angioedema and additional symptoms suggesting anaphylaxis may be fatal. Patients who develop angioedema or anaphylaxis should not be re-challenged.
Abnormal thinking and behavior changes have been reported in patients treated with a sedative-hypnotic, including zolpidem. Complex behaviors, including driving or eating while not fully awake, with amnesia for the event, as well as visual and auditory hallucinations and abnormal behaviors such as decreased inhibition, bizarre behavior, agitation, and depersonalization may occur. Although behaviors such as "sleep-driving" have occurred with zolpidem alone at therapeutic doses, the co-administration of zolpidem with alcohol and other CNS depressants increases the risk of such behaviors, as does the use of zolpidem at doses exceeding the maximum recommended dose. Discontinuation of Intermezzo should be strongly considered for patients reporting a "sleep-driving" episode.
In primarily depressed patients, worsening of depression, including suicidal thoughts and actions (including completed suicides) have been reported with the use of sedative-hypnotics. Intentional overdosage is more common in this group of patients; therefore, protective measures may be required. Prescribe the least amount of Intermezzo that is feasible in these patients.
Because persons with a history of addiction to or abuse of drugs or alcohol are at increased risk for misuse, abuse, and addiction of zolpidem, they should be monitored carefully when receiving Intermezzo. Zolpidem tartrate is a Schedule IV controlled substance. Post-marketing reports of abuse, dependence, and withdrawal resulting from use of oral zolpidem tartrate have been received. Zolpidem has produced withdrawal signs and symptoms following a rapid dose decrease or abrupt discontinuation.
For additional information, please read the Intermezzo Full Prescribing Information available at http://app.purduepharma.com/xmlpublishing/pi.aspx?id=i
About Purdue Pharma L.P.
Purdue Pharma and its associated U.S. companies are privately-held pharmaceutical companies known for pioneering research on persistent pain. Headquartered in Stamford, Conn., Purdue Pharma is engaged in the research, development, production, and distribution of both prescription and over-the-counter medicines and hospital products. Additional information about Purdue Pharma can be found at www.purduepharma.com.
(1) Data on File, Purdue Pharma LP.
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"Val-d'Or is a magical and magnificent place, eh! So, why not create your own city guide and keep a travel journal to help make your time there unforgettable, fun, and organized?" Cormac Younghusband
VAL-D'OR DIY CITY GUIDE AND TRAVEL JOURNAL: CITY NOTEBOOK FOR VAL-D'OR, QUEBEC is a city notebook purpose built for travelers, urban explorers and city locals alike! This notebook is a journal and do-it-yourself city guide that helps you keep all your important information about Val-d'Or organized and ready for when you need it and where you need it.
Use the pages of this CANADIAN CITY NOTEBOOK to document your adventures, experiences, thoughts, and memories. Have fun making lists of all the highlights and lowlights Val-d'Or has to offer. This is the perfect place to journal your time in Val-d'Or! This is the perfect place to DO-IT-YOURSELF and write down and organize everything you find fascinating about the city - which is why it's your diy city guide and journal.
DIY CITY GUIDE: Inside you will find creative DO-IT-YOURSELF sections like: Getting Started; City Confidential; City Folks; Places to Stay; See & Explore; Eat, Drink & Be Merry; Shopping; Sport, Health and Fitness; Entertaining Stuff To Do; Blacklist Must Miss; Special Lists; City Journal; Rating & Embetterment; and, Notes : Sketches : Maps. The notebook provides the city guide pages. You fill 'em up with your city info!
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"Aldous Huxley said 'For every traveler who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.'" To help with that, I created a line of DO-IT-YOURSELF City Guides and Travel Journals where YOU WRITE YOUR OWN city guide and JOURNAL all of your city adventures. ENJOY!" Cormac Younghusband
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Walker Books, 2013
Mallory knows the definition of isolation because she's living it right now. Her mother avoids her; Colleen, her best friend, is forbidden to see her; and Brian…..well, he's dead.
Mallory was the one that killed him, but she was never charged with murder. Although she's technically free, it doesn't seem like it. Brian's mother is constantly parked in front of their house waiting and watching. She can't help but bump into Dylan, Brian's younger brother and knowing he sees a murderer. The whole town looks at her differently, whispering behind her back. The best thing her parents can do is remove her from the situation.
On the day Mallory enters Monroe Prep, she knows her past has followed her, thanks to the dean's son, Jason. For her, it was dislike at first sight. For him, it was a new target. Then comes the dorm debacle, with her roommate moving out as soon as she hears about Mallory's past. No matter where she goes, the isolation follows. Krista and Taryn, part of the Monroe student elite, snubs her and makes sure everyone else follow suit. Herd mentality at its best.
But at night, Mallory knows she's not alone. Something or someone has followed her, getting into her room at night, whispering to her. She sees a car near campus, waiting just outside the gates…too much like home. So, she copes with all of this through sleeping meds, but she still hears the Boom Boom Boom of Brian's heart, still hears his voice, and sees his searing handprint on her shoulder. No one can help, not even Reid, the person Mallory allows closest into her private life.
And then the unthinkable happens and Mallory is once again center stage….
Megan Miranda has written a provocative psychological mystery that interweaves stories both known and unknown. In traditional format, the reader gets to see the viewpoints of all the major characters in the book, but it's the main character and her battle with the trauma she went through that will carry the readers into wanting to know what will ultimately happen to her and who exactly is involved. The reader will question which character they can trust, and which ones they find culpable. The cover is equally dynamic, also hinting at the mystery hidden within the pages. Is someone getting framed? If so, who and why?
Those looking for a thrilling read will be sure to enjoy this one.


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Tour de Flex is an application for exploring Flex capabilities and resources, including the core Flex components, Adobe AIR, data integration, and a variety of third-party components, effects, skins, and more.
Tour de Flex has two primary goals:
- Provide non-Flex developers with an overview of what is possible in Flex in a "look and see" environment
- Provide Flex developers with an illustrated reference tool
System requirements:
- Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux
The web version of Tour de Flex
Note: The web version of Tour de Flex has moved to the Apache Foundation. You can find it here.
About Tour de Flex
Tour de Flex, shown in Figure 1, includes over 200 running samples, each with source code, links to documentation, and other details. Topics include the Flex core components, Flex data access, AIR desktop capabilities, cloud APIs, data visualization, mapping, and a growing collection of custom components, effects, and skins.
Figure 1. The Tour de Flex component explorer
If you have suggestions for Tour de Flex or want to report a bug, please post to the Flex Forum.


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Latest News
Di Resta vindicates unusual Force India strategy
Paul Di Resta believes that the team's decision to sit out Q3, in addition to an unusual two-stop race strategy enabled him to claim his best career finish in the Bahrain GP. The Scot, who also briefly led the race, remarked, "It was an amazing job by the whole team in the combination of pitstops and strategy. At one point they said 'another 10 laps on these tyres', and I thought they were asking too much, but no."
23 April 2012 - Source
mschumi Michael Schumacher
Given all the sessions you skipped this weekend I'm surprised you bothered to finish the race di Resta.
diResta Paul di Resta
Given the trauma endured by some of our team members, I am just delighted for the team that I was the hero of a dark hour and was able to produce a stunning drive of composure and maturity to register our best finish of the year. In fact it feels like a win given the equipment at my disposal.
mschumi Michael Schumacher
Spoken like a man who hasn't a clue what an F1 victory feels like.
diResta Paul di Resta
The first of my many victories will materialise once my status as the hottest property in the pitlane is rewarded with a top drive. Until then I will just have to continue exhibiting all the traits that will in the future bring me multiple titles.
mschumi Michael Schumacher
I believe if you continue showing these traits it will at least lead to multiple fractures. Keep making outlandish promises, you'll never disappoint anyone that way.
diResta Paul di Resta
Actually Michael, if anything my career to date has been a tale of over-promising and then over-delivering, which is quite extraordinary. Motorsport historians will record the 2012 Bahrain GP as being particularly significant given it was the first of the many occasions that Paul di Resta led a GP.
fernando Fernando Alonso
I've got a feeling it might be remembered for something other than that you prat. Let's just hope Bernie has learned something from the whole PR disaster.
Bernie Bernie Ecclestone
What disaster was that Fernando? No such thing as bad publicity is there, anything that gets us on the news a bit more, the racing is hardly going to do it. The crown prince gave us the nod so it was all kosher. As far as I'm concerned we will be going back to Bahrain for GPs forever.
fernando Fernando Alonso
Great being on the news Bernie, the only problem being the accompanying pictures of riot police, tear gas, and rubber bullets. Here's a few ideas for next year, how about a few street races in Homs, Kabul, and Baghdad?
Bernie Bernie Ecclestone
It was a bit of a storm in a teacup really wasn't it Fernando, handbag stuff, I'm sure they'll sort out their little squabble by the time we're back next year. As for those new street races, as long as those governments are happy I'm all for it, provided they can pay me the race fee that is.
ForceVJ Vijay Mallya
Given the trauma my staff endured at this GP we would have to carefully consider any moves to unstable locations for future races.
fernando Fernando Alonso
Careful there Mallya, unless you want your cars to completely disappear from the TV coverage?
Bernie Bernie Ecclestone
Nobody gives a toss about who is coming 8th or whatever Fernando, if they had introduced my gold medal system we'd be better off. Anyway Force India had a bloody drinks logo on the car so that is why they weren't shown, common sense to take that off I'd say, like McLaren did.
rondennis Ron Dennis
Who took the Johnny Walker branding off the cars? Christ, if that jeopardises my free personal supply I'm going to nut someone.
nico Nico Rosberg
Speaking of vindications I am glad the stewards saw no reason to punish me for my perfectly reasonable defensive driving on Sunday.
fernando Fernando Alonso
A former touring car twat was the driver steward which says it all. I'm glad you think you got away with it Rosberg, I'll be administering some natural justice very soon.
hammy Lewis Hamilton
That's a total frickin' trip Nando, I almost got taken out by a Mercedes in the race too, it was way uncool what Michael did.
mschumi Michael Schumacher
Well Lewis, you did finish the race didn't you?
hammy Lewis Hamilton
Yeah Michael.
mschumi Michael Schumacher
Clearly wasn't me then. That's two in one race Britney, and you got off scot-free. You finally learned something from me. Just remember, you'll need 90 more victories and almost as many counts of dangerous driving before I'm impressed.


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Spotted This Morning's favorite moments of the midterms
It's Election Day and by now we've all heard all the talking points, arguments and counter-arguments we can stand.
Most of us already have voted, and those who haven't ought to get out there and score one for Democracy.
Seems like as good a time as any for a moment reflection, so here are my favorite moments of the cycle.
Mike Fallon: Young Gun
Don't get me wrong, I think Fallon's a great candidate. But given the safety of Congresswoman Diana DeGette's in Democratic Denver, I responded with smile at the Grand Old Party's attempt to promote the Denver doctor without actually giving him the money he needed to wage a prime-time campaign.
Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper's charitable giving
Who would've ever guessed that the mayor of a city so put upon by Recreate 68 was the co-founder of a foundation that contributed money to the protesters?
Tom Tancredo's calling for President Obama's impeachment
After the former congressman and immigration firebrand penned an op-ed in The Washington Times arguing that Obama was more a danger to the country than al-Qaeda, I suggested that the media just ignore him. Now how actually has a chance at becoming Colorado's next governor.


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Like Athos, I'm over de Winter.
The cold is bitter and the wind is bitterer and the wind makes the cold feel less like the 30s and more like 20s and there are flappers everywhere. My scarf sometimes flaps in the wind and that's always a good sign that my scarf has become untied, so I tie it and stuff in back into the front of my coat. I play a game of hide-and-seek with spring and thus far it remains elusive. It's probably behind a tree.
One of the ongoing sources of #CONFUSION for drivers is the traffic sign NO TURN ON RED and I can understand this because this sign is very confusing. Accordingly, I've deciphered its hidden meaning and will now offer my best guesses- which are invariably spot on- as what the sign might in fact be suggesting. This, hopefully, will allay the confusion much like one is a allayed when he arrives in Oahu.
NO TURN ON RED: This is the straightforward interpretation. It means that one cannot turn the ball towards the hoop thanks to the stifling defense of Red Auerbach's 1960s Celtics team. Why these signs grace the parkways and not the parquet is confusing, but it is apt, as Bill Russell was a dominating defensive presence and drivers oughtn't forget that.
NOT URN, ONR ED: This is short for the rallying cry for those who didn't want the Honorable Ed Koch to be cremated. I can totally see why this would need to be on traffic signs. "Not urn, onr. ed 4-ever" is tattooed on my inner thigh.
NOT U RN ON RED: This is a message for nurses, informing them that they shouldn't come to work on Code Red air quality days. They should stay home because maybe they have asthma or maybe their nursely whites could be besmogged by the dirty air. I believe this rule was established with Obamacare.
NO TURN ON RE: D- Simply put, the music of Tenacious D will not result in increased levels of amorousness.
NO TURN ON RED: It's just DERNON RUTON written backwards and Dernon Ruton sounds like the name of the character in a work of pretentious and inaccessible modern literature and the literati have infiltrated DDOT and are playing hilarious pranks on us all with their backwards writing, much as Dernon Ruton is he himself the embodiment of the "trickster" archetype in post-modern fiction.
I really can't think of anything else that these NO TURN ON RED signs are trying to convey, other than these extremely obvious and most likely, completely correct, interpretations.
East Capitol to Penn to 15th to R to Mass to work. It was cold, but you knew that already.


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Young Hearts
(1) Find Jack's love interest. (2) Ask Pearl for permission for Janet to enter Nellis. (3) Tell Jack Janet is interested in him. (4) Take the Boomer Outfit to Janet. (5) Speak to Alice McLafferty to behalf of Janet. (6) Let Janet know McLafferty agreed to pay her. (7) Meet Janet back at Nellis. (8) Return to Jack.
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Boomers Disguise.
Undertaking this particular side quest will require you to head to the heavily-armed location known as Nellis Air Force Base, which is the Boomer-occupied location at the far northeastern reaches of the Mojave Wasteland. Getting there can be complicated and outright dangerous; our Walkthrough will have more details on getting there , specifically outlined during the mission Wild Card: Side Bets. When you've safely arrived and have free reign to travel wherever you want around the base, you'll want to seek out a younger man named Jack. Chances are, you're going to find him at the base's large hangar.
Upon speaking to Jack, you'll learn that he has a crush on a female worker located at the Crimson Caravan Company. The Crimson Caravan Company's compound is located southwest of Nellis Air Force Base, and as one of their closest neighbors, the Boomers regularly spy on them. Jack located a woman with short red hair that he has a huge crush on, and his request to you is a little on the outrageous side. Basically, he wants you to head over there and tell Janet that he wants her. Strange, but true. With your instructions learned, go ahead and quick-travel over to the Crimson Caravan Company (or head over there on foot, if you must). You should find the woman with the short red hair tending to some livestock within the walls of the company's compound. Her name is Janet.
When you speak to Janet and tell her why you're here, she'll have some rather startling and outright strange news for you. It appears that the Crimson Caravan has been spying back on the people at Nellis, and she's taken a look at the young blond man named Jack, who happens to be the very man who sent you to her in the first place! Taken aback, Janet still wants to travel to Nellis to meet Jack, but knows that it won't be easy. Avoid lying to her, and instead tell her that you'll return to Nellis to speak to Pearl (the Boomers' leader) to see if you can get her safe passage. Quick-travel back to Nellis Air Force Base hereafter, and seek out Pearl in her home. Tell her about the situation and use your powers of persuasion, if you can, to convince her to let Janet come to Nellis. Then, whether you were successful or not with your pleas to Pearl, visit with Jack back at the hangar. Upon letting her know the situation, he'll offer up a disguise that will let the gunners at the front gate know not to shoot on her.
Things are going swimmingly here, but there are still some complications to deal with. When you return to tell Janet the good news, she'll take the outfit from you, and is otherwise excited to head to Nellis. But she's been working with the Crimson Caravan Company under contract, and fears that if she leaves now, before her contract is up, she won't be paid. Speak to the local proprietor of the Crimson Caravan Company in a nearby office. Named Alice McLafferty, this older woman is a tough-as-nails businessman. You'll need to use pretty significant powers of persuasion, whether Barter or Speech, to convince Alice to let Janet go and pay her monies owned. Fortunately, you should be able to wrap this side quest up without getting Janet's money, but it's still pretty important that you do right by Janet before heading back to Nellis Air Force Base to see the two lovebirds happy together.
With everything sorted out, Janet will leave her post at the Crimson Caravan Company and head over to Nellis. As long as she has her disguise and has been let go from her contract, this should happen with no problems. What's frustrating is that Janet doesn't seem to travel to Nellis automatically, so you'll have to wait for her to arrive at the hangar where Jack is stationed, which could take a little while. Nonetheless, when the two meet and begin to talk, you can eavesdrop on their conversation. But to wrap things up once and for all, you'll need to talk to Jack himself, who will thank you for your hard work. Thereafter, you can let these two lovebirds go about their business as you tend to other, more pressing matters.


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Those who learn about Peak Oil, climate change, and economic hard times show a series of short-lived symptoms of stress over several months, but these are normal and expected reactions to these stunning findings. Roughly 50-60% of adults in North America are exposed to traumatic events, but only 5% to 10% develop maladjusted PTSD and related problems. What sorts of beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors promote the development of longer-term traumatic reactions? Read on:
1. Mess with your sense of agency:
Put yourself into double-binds where you are either totally responsible for everything that happens to you or totally helpless to modify the course of events.
"I'm Totally Responsible!"
If you choose this route, you should entertain any and all thoughts that suggest your culpability and negligence or that will intensify your feelings of guilt and shame: "I should never have gotten into so much debt! What could I have been thinking?!? I am such a loser!"
Let others in on your asinine behavior, prepping them with lines such as "wasn't that really stupid of me?" Choose people (such as those who hate debt) who will be more than happy to assist you in believing that you are, indeed, a loser, lazy or stupid. Their help will reinforce your thinking, making this a particularly easy option to accomplish.
"I have no control!"
Or, if you prefer to be totally helpless, repeat "I have no control over anything," whenever you begin to feel a sense of direction, possibility, or purpose. This should be repeated like a mantra. "I have no control over anything. I have no control over my feelings or thoughts. I have no control over my actions. I have no control over (fill in the blank.)"
Focus on ignoring the basics that are most impactful to people right after a disaster, such as food, water, shelter, coordinating the reunification with loved ones, and health care supplies. Don't think out possible outcomes, alternatives, and the like. Remain as ignorant as possible to the areas of control you do have.
2. Perfect your paranoia:
Don't let down your guard! Be hyper-vigilant, ruminating, and brooding.
3. Focus on the personal "unfairness" of the situation:
Make yourself the victim:
"I'm a walking target!" "Other people have it better than I do. Why is my life so much worse than everybody else's?" "Why do I have to have problems other people don't have to have?" "What did I do to deserve this?" "Why me?" "Why now?"
Look at others whose situations appear better than yours and envy or blame them. "That jackass! He's an idiot! What did he do to deserve a doomer retreat in the hills and a Prius while here I am stuck in a crappy suburb driving a gas-guzzling SUV?"You have to be capable of lots of self-deception to do this one well; rationality is your enemy. If they have no retirement accounts, resent them that they've got nothing to lose if the market crashes. "Ya, sure. It is easy for them. They've never had anything to lose, so what do they care!"
If you have ever engaged in sports or watched them on TV, you will have incorporated the winners and losers mentality, the competitive drive, which will assist you in this endeavor. Just feel your "Inner Loser;" this will motivate you to feel victimized, because after all, we all want and deserve to be winners.
Believe nothing positive will result from the experience.
4. Assume you are worthless or incompetent:
Emphasize how incapable you are of dealing with the new reality and how you can't rely on yourself for anything. Reiterate over and over that you have no skills and couldn't, for example, grow a garden if your life depended on it (and when you realize your life does depend on it, go on to Number 5).
Believe that anything you do to try to mitigate the effect of hard times will be inadequate, wrong-headed, and counterproductive. See yourself as continually vulnerable and dwell on how your inability to cope will bring you and your family to the brink of utter destruction and beyond.
Reject any attempts at goal-setting as fruitless and if you do make a "Goal, Plan, Do, Check" approach, lose the list or don't follow through with it.
5. Engage in "head in the sand" behavior:
Persistently pine for the days when you were ignorant of what was coming and believe that this ignorance was bliss.
Better yet, refuse to believe any evidence of current financial, cultural, political, or environmental degradation or devolution. When you have to come up for air, be sure to keep your eyes and ears covered; after all, as long as you can't see or hear it, it is not a reality in your world. TV is safe to watch, even the nightly news.
6. Don't allow yourself to feel bad:
Instead, medicate stress
Drugs, alcohol, sleep, or lots of ice cream (or chocolate, if you prefer) and any other avoidant behaviors you can devise. Then, assume that you are overreacting to the stress that everyone else is effectively coping with better than you. Use more drugs, alcohol, sleep, and sweets to keep yourself from feeling bad about that. You will have bought into a perfect circle of feeling bad, self-medicating, feeling bad, self-medicating…
Ignore relaxation-based interventions such as controlled breathing techniques or mindfulness strategies that have proven to be effective. Ignore your 'body wisdom.'
7. Focus on what other people think of you:
Be preoccupied with their opinions of you and be sure to assume the worst.
If there are people in your life who think well of you, you must discount their opinions, cut them short, reject a complement, look down, and walk away with a scowl. It should be obvious they either don't know you very well or they aren't very bright. If they do know you well and they are bright, assume you have hidden the worst from them. Focus on the people in your life who you imagine think badly about you; hyper-focus on them. Then, be angry or rejecting toward them for what you imagine they must be thinking.
As you acquire more evidence for their negative opinions, obsess even more. And, finally, allow what you imagine they think of you to dictate your behavior, so that you are acting counter to your own intuitions and truths. This will help to divorce you from your internal beacon of what is right or wrong and will cause you to flounder about in indecision and confusion. It will cause you to distrust yourself. It will also help to deaden you emotionally.
8. Project future doom:
No matter how bad things get, always assume the worst is yet to come.
If you still have a job, imagine joblessness. If you still have family who love you, imagine their death or abandonment. If you are hungry, imagine starvation will soon kill you. If you are cold, assume you'll freeze to death.
This is the slippery slope option. Climb up and start on down. Make no distinction between "then and there" and "here and now." Overgeneralize. Assume an endless state of doom, a huge on-going collapse that will keep you in a permanent state of terror. See yourself as the father in the movie "The Road" who never reaches the coast.
Imagine not only what might happen, but how you will be particularly susceptible, vulnerable, AND helpless to impact it. Don't try to rein in your imaginings; really let yourself go. Share these flights of fantasy with your nearest and dearest, especially those with tender sensitivities. This will hasten your abandonment and bring you evidence that you are right. And it is always nice to be proven correct.
9. Convince yourself that you are on your own:
Assume no one is safe, predictable, or trustworthy, especially those closest to you.
Include your spouse, relatives, and best friends. Better yet, assume that everyone is acting against your best interests. Give no one the benefit of the doubt. Twist something you overheard into a damaging accusation of you. Be courageous in your convictions. If you can find no bad intentions or untrustworthiness, you can at least believe that everyone around you is stupid and/or ignorant and makes bad decisions, so that you would be unsafe if you followed their ideas or advice.
I mean, chances are excellent that those closest to you are incompetent and worthless, since they are associating with you, so that makes it doubly imperative that you rely on no one but yourself. And, I know there must be some people of your close acquaintance who are moody, volatile, changeable, and just flat out wacky. Assume you must come up with all the answers by yourself, must do all the work yourself, are all alone in the midst of a maelstrom with no anchor.
Ignore those who have survived hard times and don't listen to their accounts of how they felt and what they did to survive. Grieve and memorialize in private, assuming no one could possibly help you by engaging in social problem-solving or exploring meaning.
10. Be vigilant against change:
Believe nothing good will come from any attempt to improve any situation.
Counteract any thought that there could be positive benefits from making changes by projecting even worse outcomes for those actions. Be vigilant. Vigilance in this instance implies rigidity. Stand unbending; do not sway in the breeze like a tree. Rigidity means not just rigidity of posture; it means not just rigidity of action; it also means rigidity of thought.
Keep your same beliefs, your same opinions, your same values, your same routines, your same activities, your same skills, your same abilities regardless of what changes in your outer world. After all, those changes are always for the worst, aren't they? You've got plenty of evidence for that; just marshal your data and start spouting. It follows, does it not…that change is a bad idea in ALL instances? Rigidity is the way of the vigilant future warrior who makes war against the future.
11. Be guided by meaninglessness:
Believe that life has lost all meaning and value.
Most of us have some family or cultural history, and some have religious faith to bolster our self-confidence. Reject these as meaningless to the situation at hand. Assume your higher power has rejected you. Wallow in depressive "What's the use?" thoughts while lying on your bed and staring at the mottled ceiling. Count the cobwebs in the corners. When your loved ones try to roust you out of bed, tell them to leave you alone; fight with them; drive them away.
If you are of a studious inclination, read Nietzsche; embrace nihilism; throw out your moral principles; lose faith in everything. Or, alternatively, if you haven't got the energy to give up, watch TV. The twin goals of propaganda and distraction will dull you. Embrace shallowness, and allow meaninglessness to permeate your environment and your thinking.
12. Perfect the fine art of blame:
Whenever anything bad happens, don't waste your time trying to come up with solutions; instead, ask whose fault it is.
Blame others by actively targeting your anger. Whose fault is it? The government's fault? The oil companies'? The corporations'? Your employer's? Your in-laws'? Your spouse's fault? You can while away many happy hours in this pursuit. Surround yourself with other people who share your villain, so you can reinforce each other's beliefs. "Those g-damn mother-f-king sons a-itches! If it weren't for them, we'd still have a good life. We'd still have jobs; we'd still have houses; we wouldn't be living in this tent city waiting for the next measly food hand-out."
But, in the sad event that you can find no one else to blame, turn your hand around and point your finger at yourself; at least that way, you can feel guilt, shame, and humiliation and won't lose out entirely. Whatever you do, don't plan to take any action or cause any trouble. Just complain. It's easier and safer.
13. Shun social support:
When facing crises, deny to others that you are experiencing any negative feelings. Make up weird excuses as to why you are crying, kicking things, refusing to leave your room. If you get on a weirdness loop and stay on it, you will soon feel really crazy, and then you will act crazier, and then you will feel even crazier and, well, you get the picture. Or, alternatively, blurt out your feelings and thoughts without regard to the setting, picking the most unsupportive people to confide in, thus guaranteeing that they will fail to understand or empathize with you.
Cultivate an air of indifference, criticism, and "you're an idiot" reactions to others. When they act in like manner to you, use that as evidence that you were correct in your loner stance.
Don't tell your story about what happened to you and how you felt about it. Assume you have nothing to learn from others and nothing to offer them.
14. Control every emotion & thought or none of them:
Actively attempt to control all unwanted thoughts either by dissociation, suppression, by engaging in repetitive undoing behaviors, or through magical thinking. Alternatively, lose it emotionally.
Think positively no matter how negative the situation may seem. Let nothing less than perfect sunshine enter your consciousness. Use addictive substances, if necessary, to paint reality with a rosy glow; stick with your normal routine even though, by any objective standards, it has become irrelevant; continue to believe nothing bad can happen as long as you don't believe it can.
Assume you are going crazy if you are unable to dissociate, suppress, or otherwise keep at bay these unwanted thoughts. At all costs, refuse to think about the possibility of lack of abundance, discomfort, deprivation, insecurity, pain, disease, or the death of yourself or a loved one.
Refuse to come to terms with any aspect of reality; this might lead to living in the here and now and enjoying the time you have, which is certainly not maladaptive behavior and, therefore, cannot be allowed.
If you can't control all of your thoughts and emotions, try to control none of them. Model emotional dis-regulation. Laugh hysterically; then, cry pitifully. Demand attention for no real reason. Make a nuisance out of yourself by taxing everyone's patience and then crying out "Everybody's mad at me!"
Freak out under pressure, lose it over the slightest difficulty. ("We're all going to DIE!) Refuse to accept what is right in front of you and show little tolerance for things not being perfect. Focus on the past or the future, but don't focus on what is immediately in front of you. When things begin to calm down, stir them up again by doing dangerous or thrill-seeking or sensation-seeking actions because "nothing matters anyway…"
But if you aren't really into being miserable…
In a real crisis, survivors keep their heads while other people are losing theirs. They set important personal goals and take incremental, purposeful actions to achieve them. They not only offer help to other people, but they seek help themselves when they need it. They engage in acts of kindness, connect with others, and don't reject help. They tell themselves they can get through it, while acknowledging full well that they may not make it. They believe in themselves. They see all experience as offering them something they can learn from.
They aren't afraid to look at awful feelings, the worst in themselves, and still believe in the best they have to offer. They actively prepare themselves for what they can realistically do, and prepare to the best of their abilities, incrementally. They aren't afraid of change, because they accept that it it inevitable. They savor daily pleasures that they never knew were valuable before the disaster.
They see the disaster as having unexpected benefits like bringing people closer, accepting responsibility for other people, recognizing their personal limitations, and how things could have been worse than they turned out to be. What is important to them changes. They see new possibilities and goals to work on. They learn about strengths they never knew they had, and chose life instead of death. They don't see themselves as 'victims,' and they don't expect other people to rescue them.
They see their survival as having a purpose, and accept the responsibility to keep alive the memories and stories of those who did not make it. They don't see themselves as heroes or villains even when they did heroic or less than positive things. They can put to words or in some other form of expression what happened to them without minimizing or hiding important parts. They have learned how to be compassionate with themselves as well as others. Their religious beliefs have been strengthened, not weakened, and they appreciate their lives more than ever before.
Footnote: Donald Meichenbaum, professor at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, wrote a great article on resilience in children and adults facing traumatic situations. This post owes major credit from his section "A Constructive Narrative Perspective of Persistent PTSD."


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I recently got an email from Lizbeth Scordo of Yahoo Food, that web giant's site for all things culinary. She was polling various food types around the country about the best Caesar salads in their respective cities, including Chicago, San Francisco, New York City, Miami, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Boston.
Scordo's question to me: Who makes the top Caesar salad in Denver? It didn't take me long to come up with the answer. I've always been a fan of the ones chef Elise Wiggins turns out at Panzano in the Hotel Monaco.
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"Hotel restaurants can sometimes be mediocre, but Panzano, located in the Hotel Monaco in downtown Denver, is consistently outstanding. The restaurant has long offered two Caesars: a traditional version with hearts of romaine, anchovies, garlic, Parmesan, croutons and crispy capers, plus their Caesar Griglia, which features grilled hearts of romaine. To their credit, if they're not happy with that day's shipment of romaine lettuce, they 86 the dish until a proper batch arrives. That's attention to detail." ($9.50)
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- Provide an AJAX-like experience
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To achieve an AJAX-like experience we have to resort to a different strategy when uploading and sending form data. Instead of sending all form data in one go, we will upload the file separately (behind the scenes without user intervention).
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- User fills-in the form's text inputs, i.e owner and description
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- Behind the scene, the form uploads the file to the server. The server saves the file and returns the file details, i.e filename and file size
- User clicks on "Upload" button. The form does a POST action to send the form data. But it never sends the file itself. Instead it sends the filename that was saved by the server. The user is tricked into thinking that the file hasn't been uploaded yet.
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Greater dynasties, political or otherwise, rarely implode from one major blow.
Rather they deteriorate over time as they slowly lose energy, focus, commitment and eventually, their place in the sun.
So it was with California.
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Bit by bit, this state has been decomposing into a societal has-been.
The latest example is the state's new policy for community college students.
Last week, the Board of Governors, the state's governing agency for 112 public community colleges, voted to admit only students with clear academic or vocational goals. In other words: an individual unsure what he or she wants to pursue will be given the lowest priority for admission.
Given that the state's community colleges have slashed the number of students by 25 percent because of equally slashed budgets, the decision is all but a death knell for the wandering, yet curious student in search of his or her career. It rewards the "go getters" and punishes the unaware.
Historically, community colleges have been the lowest rung on the ladder of higher education. They have been available to those who simply graduate high school, and in some cases, those who don't. They are building blocks for those who decide to attend four-year colleges, helping them to prepare in ways they did not while attending high school.
They are also training centers for those in search of programs that will provide technical skill sets. Tuition has been low enough that anyone who has wanted to attend would attend.
Dropout rates are high because many students sort themselves when confronted by what it takes to go through a four-year program. But for those who stick it out, community colleges are links to a formal education and upward mobility that they never would have had.
Most of all, community colleges have served as information centers with college classes for those in search of their career path. A math class here, a psychology class there, perhaps a computer science course along the way -- that menu of academic hors d'oeuvres to whet an academic appetite -- has allowed the undisciplined and as yet unawakened student to find his or passion.
But a lack of funds fostered by public resistance to new taxes has now squeezed the life out of community college students in search of their futures. Those who come into community colleges with a vision won't miss a beat; those who come in search of vision will now miss the boat, and in all likelihood not even be allowed on the boat.
The new policy does what so many other policies in California do: it separates the haves from the have-nots, and it's another reason why the state is allowing so much potential to wane.


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Jürgen Klinsmann said he and the US Soccer Federation came to a verbal agreement for him to take the reins of the US National Team, but the deal fell through when the two sides couldn't put the same terms on paper.
The German legend was interviewed by the USSF for the top US coaching job for "about three or four weeks' period of time" after the World Cup to potentially lead the team to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, but Klinsman said the USSF was hesitant to sign a deal that gave him authority over the technical decisions involved with the organization.
Klinsmann made the comments during an interview with Kansas City Wizards color commentator and former MLS player Sasha Victorine.
"We had … very positive conversations, but we didn't get it to a positive ending because we couldn't put into writing what we agreed on verbally," Klinsmann said. "It was as simple as that. That was unfortunate, so it didn't happen at the end of the day, but that's the way it is."
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Klinsmann was also interviewed for the US position following the Americans' early exit at the 2006 World Cup in Germany, but the two sides reportedly struggled with similar authority issues then, leading to the eventual full-time hiring of Bob Bradley in May 2007.
Bradley led the team at this summer's World Cup in South Africa before he resigned a new four-year deal with the USSF last month.
"It's obviously always about authority," Klinsmann said. "When you have conversations with a club team or a national team, it's who has the last word in what issues, and that's what we couldn't get into the written terms.
"Verbally, we agreed that the technical side is my side, and I should have 100 percent control of it. In written terms, they couldn't commit to it.
"And at that point I said, 'Well, then I can't get the job done because I have to have the last say as a head coach for my entire staff, for all the players' issues, for everything that happens with the team,'" he added.
"And unfortunately, they couldn't commit to that, and that was basically the end of our talks, and then they agreed to continue with Bob as the head coach. And that's totally fine."
Although he praised the US team for reaching the knockout stage in South Africa, he reiterated that the team seemed ill-prepared before an eventual Round of 16 loss to Ghana.
READ: Klinsmann backs Bradley, Arena for Europe jobs
"I think they could have gone even further with that game against Ghana," Klinsmann said. "It didn't look like they were really well prepared for that game. They were maybe still dreaming a little bit about their last-minute winner against Algeria, instead of focusing right away on the game against Ghana.
"They had that big opportunity, they missed that opportunity, which was a pity," he added. "Soccer in the US in that moment, there was a hype around, and that was unfortunate. But overall, I think that was OK."
Klinsmann – who worked as a television analyst for ESPN during the World Cup – last managed Bayern Munich before he was let go by the club in April 2009.
He led the German National Team to the semifinals of the 2006 World Cup and had been linked with club jobs with Chelsea, Tottenham and the Los Angeles Galaxy before he took the reins with Bayern Munich in July 2008.