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Via Medica strongly recommends journal editors to adhere to the principles of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), particularly to deal with acts of ethical misconduct. For more information Authors, Readers and Editors may visit the COPE website: http://publicationethics.org/.
'Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy' is the official journal of the Polish Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, and has been published since 1969.
'Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy' is published five times a year and is addressed chiefly to anaesthesiologists. However, due to the wide range of subjects it tackles (i.e. issues associated with anaesthesia, intensive therapy, resuscitation, pain research and management, emergency medical care, and perioperative medicine) and the interdisciplinary character of its articles, it is also aimed at physicians with other specialisms.
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On the basis of the Declaration of Helsinki, Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy requires that all manuscripts reporting clinical research state in the first paragraph of the Methods section that:
1. The study was approved by the appropriate Ethical Review Board (with full name of this committee);
2. Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects, a legal surrogate, or the parents or legal guardians for under age subjects, or that the requirement for written informed consent was waived by the ethics committee.
Lack of such statements may result in the rejection of a manuscript without review process.
Authors should avoid the use of any data that might lead to the identification of patients, or violate their rights or doctor/patient confidentiality. In the case of animal studies, their design is additionally assessed by the editorial board, which reserves the right to reject a paper if a study has involved the infliction of unnecessary suffering on animals or has led to their permanent disability.
Potential conflict of interests. Authors should submit statements of their potential connections with the medical or pharmaceutical industries and any possible conflict of interests concerning the paper's subject matter. Such information is confidential and its potential disclosure is agreed with authors prior to the article's publication. Papers sponsored by companies directly interested in publication should be clearly marked.
Ghostwriting and guest-authorship are forbidden. When we detect ghost written manuscripts, action will be taken against both the submitting authors and other participants.
Statements. Each manuscript should be accompanied by the following documents: a) approval of hospital or departmental authorities where the study was conducted; and b) an author's statement that the paper has not been published in whole or in part in any other journal. Such a statement means that copyright becomes vested in the Polish Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, and permission to republish must be obtained from the Society. Tables and figures taken from other publications require additional consent for reproduction from their authors and/or publishers.
Rules for acceptance of papers for publication
The Journal accepts for publication papers in Polish and English. Submitted articles are reviewed by experts in the field of anaesthesiology and intensive therapy, and, if necessary, in other specialisms. Papers are reviewed following a preliminary assessment carried out by the Editor concerning their compliance with the above-mentioned standards. If there are any reservations, papers are returned to the authors with suggestions as to final corrections. Papers accepted for publication are published in the following sections:
1. Editorials
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4. Miscellanea
5. Correspondence.
One printed hard copy of the manuscript should be submitted, together with a disc (MS Word Editor) containing the whole of the material to be published. Our preferred font is Times New Roman, 12 point. Guidelines concerning the text's formatting should be indicated on the margin of the printout. Papers may also be submitted via e-mail and appropriate statements by the traditional postal system. Articles should not exceed: 12 pages (original and clinical articles), or 16 pages (review articles). Text should be double-spaced with margins (approx. 1,800 characters per page).
Vocabulary. Neologisms of English origin should be avoided. All foreign language words (including explanations of abbreviations) should be italicised. Jargon expressions should be replaced with commonly understood phrases. Letters of the Greek alphabet should be used in the original form.
Papers that do not comply with the aforesaid requirements will be returned to the contributors without revision. The Editor reserves the right to correct mistakes in style and medical nomenclature and to shorten the text without consulting the author.
Title page. There should be a separate title page, including the title of the paper, the name(s) of the author(s), the name of the institution where the study was carried out, short running title and address(es) for correspondence. The title of the paper in Polish should be a concise description of the study. Below there should be a translation of the title into English. In subsequent paragraphs there should appear the names and surnames of authors (without titles), followed by the name of the institution where the paper was prepared. When authors come from different institutions, this should be marked with appropriate notes in Arabic numerals appearing in the text in superscript. The name of the institution where the work was carried out should not be excessively elaborate and should not include the name of its patron, if it has one. The short running title should be limited to 2–3 words. Key words, of 1-5 sets, should be laid out in two stages, i.e.: main issue followed by detailed reference (acc. to Green NM: Key words in anaesthesiology, Elsevier, 1988).
Desflurane for obstetric anaesthesia
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2Department of Clinical Pharmacology in Y
Key words: anaesthesia, obstetric; volatile anaesthetics, desflurane
Short running title: Desflurane in obstetricsAddress for correspondence should include name and surname of the author to whom the correspondence is to be addressed, exact postal address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address.
Abstract. Abstracts should be in English and divided into: Background, Methods, Results, Conclusion (for original and clinical articles), whereas for review articles should have a descriptive character. The abstract should be brief (250 words) and refer to the content of the paper. It is to be published unchanged in the MEDLINE Bibliographic Database.
Introduction. Introduction does not require subtitle and includes work assumptions against the background of existing knowledge. In the case of continuation of earlier studies, it is recommended that authors` previous publications be quoted. Its final part should clearly specify the aim of the study.
Methods. Methods should be described in such a way as to allow verification and possible repetition of the study. When previously published methods are used, their description is necessary only if they were considerably modified, otherwise an appropriate citation is sufficient. Detailed discussion of such commonly known methods as epidural analgesia or basic haemodynamic measurements is not necessary. In cases when medical equipment and devices are not used as research tools, or when their usage has not significantly influenced the obtained results, there is no need for their detailed description; otherwise, their names should be given followed by the manufacturer's name and the country of origin in brackets, e.g.: 'patients` lungs were ventilated with the Evita respirator (Drager, Germany)'. Proper names of medicines and agents should be given in their pharmacopeial and not proprietary form, using terminology included in the publication: Podlewski JK, Chwalibogowska Podlewska A: Leki współczesnej terapii, PZWL, Warsaw, latest edition.
In cases of comparative evaluation of medicines, or if their use may affect the study's final results, its trade name, manufacturer and country of origin should be specified in brackets, for example: propofol (Diprivan, AstraZeneca, USA). Proprietary names should be given without the registered trademark symbol. This part should also contain information concerning the statistical analysis of the findings that was employed and the assumed confidence interval. Please do not use the phrase: 'analysis was carried out using the Statistica programme' or such like. The decision concerning the type of analysis should have been made already during the preparation stage. Wrong choice of the type of analysis will result in the paper's rejection.
Results. Results should be presented in a clear and understandable manner, and should not go beyond the scope set out in the methods. Data from tables and figures should not be repeated unnecessarily in the text, but only described, e.g.: 'blood pressure decreased considerably after nitroglycerine (Tab. 3)'. Results should be accompanied by credible mathematical analysis, annotated with appropriate statistical symbols.
Discussion. Discussion should interpret the obtained results (and not repeat them) against the background of existing knowledge, taken from cited references. It should not assume the character of a review article, i.e. comment on references without relating to the author's findings. Cited references concerning an individual issue, should not exceed the four most important items. Names of authors of other publications should not be cited too often; it is the achievements that are of real importance. An exception to this rule is made for outstanding, innovative papers of considerable significance. Numbers of references should appear in the text in square brackets at the end of a sentence. Citing the name of an author of another publication entails placing the reference item number immediately after the name.
Conclusions. Conclusions should concern the aim of the study, and should directly relate to the study results. They should be presented in the form of single, simple sentences, revealing a concrete thought. This part should generalise the presented results and not repeat them.
Acknowledgement relating to this article. The acknowledgements section should obtain the following distincts statements in separate paragraphs:
1. Assistance with the article. Acknowledgements should be made only to those who have made a substantial contribution to the study. Authors are responsible for obtaining written permission from people acknowledged by name in case readers infer their endorsement of data and conclusions. If there was no assistance state: none.
2. Financial support and sponsorship. You must make reference to all relevant sources of funding concerning this article. If there were no sources of funding please state: none.
3. Conflicts of interest. You must make reference to all relevant conflicts of interest concerning this article. If there are no conflicts of interest please state: none.
4. Presentation (for original articles only). Presentations of preliminary data at, for example, international meetings should be acknowledged separately. If preliminary data was not previously presented please state: none.
Acknowledgements relating to this article: We would like to thank Dr. Ewa Nowak for her assistance with the study.
Financial support and sponsorship: This work was supported by the Department of Anaesthesiology, London Hospital, London, UK.
Conflicts of interest: A has received honoraria from Company Z. B is currently receiving a grant (#12345) from Organisation Y, and C is on the speaker's bureau for Organisation X. For the remaining authors none were declared.
Presentation: Preliminary data for this study were presented as a poster presentation at the International Congress of the Polish Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Wisla 14-18 September 2014.
References. References should not exceed 20 items in the case of original and clinical articles, and 50 items for review articles. The recommended style for references is of Index Medicus/NLM:(http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/policy/cit_format.html). Reference items should be put in a list according to the order in which they are cited in the text. Each item should contain the following: a) surnames and first letters of names (without a dot) of all the authors; b) full title of the paper in original (capital letters should not be used at the beginning of each word, only the first word should begin with a capital letter); c) abbreviated name of the journal in which the paper was printed in the form specified by Index Medicus; and d) year of publication, volume, full numbers of the first and last pages of the cited passage; e.g.:
Comber X, Dhonneur G, McElwain J, Malik MA, Laffey JG. Difficult tracheal intubation. Br J Anaesth 2010, 104: 260–261.
With respect to book publications, the following should be specified: a) surname and the first letter of the author's name (in the case of joint publications, only the name of the three authors should be given and followed by 'and colleagues'); b) title of the book; c) publisher; d) place of publication; and e) year of publication and full numbers of the first and last pages of the cited passage. When citation concerns a book chapter, the following should be included: a) surname and the first letter of the author's name; b) chapter's title, preceded by 'in:'; c) book's title (in brackets); d) Ed: book editor's surname; the rest as in the case of a book publication, e.g.:
Brunkhorst FM: Avoiding harm in metabolic management. In: Chiche J-D, Moreno R, Rhodes A (ed.): Patient safety and quality of care in intensive care medicine. Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 2009: 341–348.
Internet papers from acknowledged and reviewed websites are also admissible. These should contain the following: a) surname and first letter of the author's name; b) paper's title; and c) URL address, e.g.: Shanahan D: Anatomy for anaesthetists. The virtual anaesthesia textbook, http://www.virtual-anaesthesia-textbook.com. Numbered items of references should begin with a new paragraph. Spelling mistakes should be avoided and attention should be paid to proper punctuation, as shown in the above examples. The Editor reserves the right to delete not credible and wrongly cited references, as well as their context.
Note: In literature references, authors are obliged to present the DOI numbering for the articles with the numbers.
Units. Units should be given in accordance with the International System of Units (SI). In the cases of measurements of airway pressure, gasometric analyses, and others in which mm Hg or cm H2O are used, both units should be included, e.g.: airway pressure was 20 cmH2O (0.2 kPa). This does not apply to the value of blood pressure, which is given only in mm Hg. In all other cases (and this concerns particularly the results of biochemical and haemodynamic studies) SI is the only acceptable system.
Symbols and abbreviations. Symbols and abbreviations should be explained in brackets in their full form the first time they appear in the text. This rule does not apply to well-known and commonly used words and phrases such as: FRC, SIMV, IPPV, EKG, INR, HR, SAP/DAP, SpO2, FIO2, EtCO2, EEG, VAS, TISS, CT, RTG, DIC, AST, ASA, Hb, Ht, N2O, O2, Ca2+,or K+. It is obligatory to explain acronyms which are not well known, e.g.: 'ILV, Independent Lung Ventilation'.
Figures. All figures should be submitted in one copy printed on separate sheets as well as on disc, as an original file, together with the name of the program used for their preparation. The recommended format for figures is: tif, cdr, jpeg. Low resolution materials as well as figures in MS Word editor are not accepted. Moreover, the Editor will admit scanned materials provided that their quality is satisfactory. It is recommended that the figures are of the same size, clear, numerated (Arabic numbers) and described in detail; in the case of photographs — on the reverse. The photographs cannot in any way allow identification of a patient or breach his or her rights in any other way; otherwise, a written consent for publication is required. A separate sheet should contain a list of all figure titles, with an explanation of any symbols used.
Tables. All tables should be prepared and submitted similarly to figures. They should not be placed in the text. The table's number (Arabic) and title should be given above, whereas explanations of symbols and abbreviations should follow the table. If possible, inside the table no lines dividing columns and rows should be used. Names of tested parameters should be accompanied by units in which the results are presented, e.g.: creatinine (umol L-1). The Editor reserves the right to edit tables or remove parts of data from them. Should the same data be presented in both figures and tables, the Editor will choose only one of these.
All collaborators who have made significant and substantial contributions to a study are considered to be coauthors. The nature and level of contribution of all authors of accepted manuscripts must be indicated, i.e. conception, design, execution and interpretation of the data being published, and who has written the paper. An author may list more than one contribution, and more than one author may have contributed to the same aspect of the work. Other contributions to the work, such as providing reagents or analytic tools, should be listed in the Acknowledgements. Ghostwriting and guest-authorship are forbidden. When we detect ghost written manuscripts, action will be taken against both the submitting authors and other participants.
The opinions and information published in 'Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy' do not necessarily represent the views of the Editor or the Publisher, who cannot be held responsible for any consequences of their publication. Promotional materials are printed in the journal at the request of sponsors, and should not be perceived as representing the Editor's or the Publisher's opinions with respect to its contents.
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The drug known as "Special K" that causes dream-like effects and hallucinations can add another side-effect to its disclaimer list: depression treatment.
According to NPR's Health Blog, ketamin is being used experimentally to fight depression by the NeuroPsychiatric Center at the Ben Taub hospital in Houston.
Unlike traditional anti-depressants — which look to boost serotonin levels and/or creating new neurons — ketamin has been shown to "increase the communication among existing neurons by creating new connections."
The effect of the drug on patients has been "distinct and powerful," according to doctors taking place in the experimental study. Unlike drugs like Prozac, which can take months to balance chemicals in the brain, imbibing Special K gives the user instant relief from depression
Ketamine is on a growing list of illegal drugs that can be used positively for medicinal purposes. Psychedelic mushrooms have also been shown to combat depression, and marijuana has increased the lung capacity of long-time users over the years.


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Oddly, the top international cyclist – Lance Armstrong – and the top international retailer –Wal-Mart – revealed last week that they have much in common.
No, not doping.
It's their dopey concept of the atonement process.
Armstrong, already punished for misdeeds he'd denied, took to television on Thursday to finally confess. But he didn't apologize. He didn't follow the redemption steps: admission and regret; a pledge to reform and a plea for forgiveness, then penance. Wal-Mart didn't follow those steps either. Its CEO made national news last week when he announced the retail giant would hire 100,000 veterans over the next five years and buy $50 billion more in American-made products over the next 10. But Wal-Mart has never admitted wrongdoing or expressed remorse.
More American manufacturing and more jobs are always good. Thank you, Wal-Mart.
But, like Armstrong's admission, Wal-Mart's announcement was met with skepticism because the retailer skipped atonement steps. Meaningless to the economy, The Atlantic wrote of the Wal-Mart promise. A public relations stunt, Time wrote.
Wal-Mart has much for which to atone. There is, for example, its leadership in blocking an effort to improve safety at factories in Bangladesh, where 112 workers would later die in a fire; its serial bribing of Mexican officials to circumvent regulations, and its snubbing of American warehouse laborers who are seeking better working conditions.
Let's start in Bangladesh. There, Wal-Mart buys more than $1 billion in garments each year. The lure is the lowest garment factory wages in the world — $37 a month. But that's not enough. Wal-Mart – and other garment purchasers – demand such low prices from Bangladesh factories that managers cut costs in ways that endanger workers.
After two Bangladesh factory fires in 2010 killed 50 workers, labor leaders, manufacturers, government officials and retailers like Wal-Mart met in the Bangladesh capital. A New York Times investigation found that Wal-Mart was instrumental in blocking a plan proposed at that April 2011 meeting for Western retailers to finance fire safety improvements.
Just a little over 18 months later, 112 garment workers died in a horrific fire at the Tazreen factory in Bangladesh, where inspections repeatedly had revealed serious fire hazards. The New York Times found that during those 18 months, six Wal-Mart suppliers had used the Tazreen factory. In fact, in the two months before the fire, the Times found that 55 percent of Tazreen factory production was devoted to Wal-Mart suppliers.
A month after the fatal fire, a Wal-Mart executive promised the company would not buy garments from unsafe factories, but the giant retailer hasn't offered any solution for improving conditions in Bangladesh factory fire traps, and a Wal-Mart executive has admitted the industry's safety monitoring system is seriously flawed.
Now, let's go to Mexico. There, Wal-Mart executives routinely bribed government officials to get what the retailer wanted – mostly permits to locate Wal-Mart stores, according to a massive New York Times investigation that involved gathering tens of thousands of documents regarding Wal-Mart permits. Times reporters David Barstow and Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab wrote last December:
"Wal-Mart de Mexico was an aggressive and creative corrupter, offering large payoffs to get what the law otherwise prohibited. It used bribes to subvert democratic governance . . .It used bribes to circumvent regulatory safeguards that protect Mexican citizens from unsafe construction. It used bribes to outflank rivals."
After being informed of the bribes by someone involved, Wal-Mart briefly investigated but then squelched that inquiry. Now Wal-Mart is under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission.
Here in the United States, workers at warehouses contracted by Wal-Mart in Southern California and Joliet, Ill., walked off the job last year protesting low pay, lack of benefits, unsafe working conditions and faulty equipment. Wal-Mart indicated it might discuss solutions with the workers, but last week, the retail giant rebuffed them.
Wal-Mart's promise of 100,000 jobs for veterans is a good thing. Even if some of those jobs will be part-time. Even if the average Wal-Mart wage is $8.81 an hour – $15,576 a year – hardly enough for a veteran – or anyone else – to live on. Even if Wal-Mart will pay less than half those wages because the federal government will give companies that hire veterans tax credits of up to $9,600 a year for each veteran they employ.
Wal-Mart's promise to buy an additional $5 billion a year in American-made products is a good thing. Even if $5 billion is a tiny number to Wal-Mart, which sold $444 billion worth of stuff last year. Even if Wal-Mart's demand for ever decreasing prices from suppliers is the reason many say they moved factories overseas where laborers are overworked, underpaid and endangered and where environmental are fire safety laws are ignored. Even if Wal-Mart is buying more American not out of patriotism but because it makes sense financially with both foreign wages and transportation costs rising.
More American manufacturing and more jobs are always good. Thank you, Wal-Mart.
But Wal-Mart and Armstrong shouldn't be surprised if their schemes don't win them reconciliation with the American people. Armstrong's failure to apologize reinforced the sense that he fessed up now only to secure the reprieve he wants from his punishment, from his banishment from certain sports. And Wal-Mart's failure to even acknowledge that it has not been a perfect yellow smiley face of a corporation only evokes cynicism about its motives. No remorse, no redemption.


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"THE problem with American hot dogs is that they're American," said Tania Murillo, standing beneath a pink and blue bunny-shaped piñata, as she rang up an order of tortillas at Alejandro's Tortilla Factory.
"A ketchup-and-mustard hot dog is boring," continued Ms. Murillo, a high school senior. "They're not colorful enough. You've got to make them colorful, and pile on the stuff. The best hot dogs come from Sonora," the Mexican state immediately to the south. "Everybody knows that."
In Tucson more than 100 vendors, known as hotdogueros, peddle Sonoran-style hot dogs — candy cane-wrapped in bacon, griddled until dog and bacon fuse, garnished with a kitchen sink of taco truck condiments and stuffed into split-top rolls that owe a debt to both Mexican bolillo loaves and grocery store hot dog buns.
Many, like Ruiz Hot-Dogs on Sixth Avenue, work step-side carts with two-item menus of Sonoran hot dogs and soft drinks. Set in dirt and gravel parking lots, beneath makeshift shelters, under mesquite tree arbors, these peripatetic vendors serve fast food for day laborers, craftsmen and policemen, the typical patrons of traditional hot dog stands in any town.
Other champions of the Sonoran style, like El Güero Canelo, with two Tucson outlets, have evolved from carts into full-scale restaurants. (At the Twelfth Avenue location, two of the three spaces where burritos, tacos and hot dogs are cooked and assembled remain on wheels, but the prospect of mobility is now far-fetched.)
One Sunday afternoon, as a mariachi band played, an after-church crowd, half Anglo and half Hispanic, thronged El Güero's outdoor dining pavilion. Babies cried. Teenagers table-hopped. And parents argued that, rather than order a second hot dog, children should fill up at the salsa bar at the back of the pavilion, stocked with peeled cucumbers, sliced radishes and chunky guacamole. Front and center on every third table was a Sonoran hot dog.Continue reading the main story
For at least the last 40 years, likely longer, borderland vendors, in Tucson and elsewhere, have been refashioning the hot dog with a cloak of bacon, a clump of beans and a chop of tomatoes and onions, followed by squirts of mayonnaise, mustard and salsa verde. (Ketchup and other condiments show up, too. More recently, some vendors have begun offering a topping of crumbled potato chips.)
In a dozen or more cities across the United States, these Mexican takes on the American hot dog are ascendant — from Chicago to Denver to Los Angeles, where illegal street vendors selling so-called danger dogs to late-night crowds play hide-and-seek with the local health department.
Only in Tucson, however, do locals like Ms. Murillo cede hot dog provenance to Mexico. In Tucson, bacon-wrapped, Mexican-dressed hot dogs are not ascendant. They're dominant.
A Mexican-American take on the hot dog aesthetic was relatively late to arrive. In 1940s Arizona, tamales were known, at least among speakers of colloquial English, as Mexican hot dogs. By the 1950s, true tamales were gaining mainstream status stateside, and American hot dogs had, more than likely, jumped the gate into Sonora and Baja and elsewhere.
The date at which bacon-wrapped hot dogs became known as Mexican hot dogs is unclear. The mystery deepens when you factor in that Sonora, one of the states most often cited as ground zero for bacon-wrapped hot dogs, is a locus for cattle ranching, not pig farming.
From the southern side of the border, numerous Mexico City origin tales emanate, some tied to feeding crowds at wrestling matches in the 1950s, others to feeding skyscraper construction workers during the same decade. (Daniel Contreras, owner of El Güero Canelo, cites a similar time frame, and tells just as plausible a story, but sets the action in his home state of Sonora, where a man he knew as Don Pancho worked the streets.)
As is the case with most folk dishes, its true crucible may never be pinpointed, but folkloric suppositions aside, the answer may be a simple matter of salesmanship:
By 1953, Oscar Mayer was running print ads, selling American consumers on the virtues of bacon-wrapped hot dogs. Perhaps Mexican consumers, inspired to emulate American dietary habits, took Oscar Mayer at its word, wrapping American-made hot dogs in American-made bacon, and claiming the resulting construction as their own.
One recent afternoon, at one of the two Oop's hot dog stands he operates on Tucson's south side, Martin Lizarraga sat beneath a tent-draped ramada anchored on one end by a flattop-equipped hot dog cart, and on the other end by a minivan painted with a hip hop-inspired, anthropomorphic hot dog character.
As a tripod-mounted speaker blared norteño music into the street, and toritos — mozzarella-stuffed, bacon-wrapped güerito chiles — browned and then blistered on the flattop, Mr. Lizarraga talked of the days when he worked as a liquor salesman in the Sonoran capital city of Hermosillo, frequenting the "table dancing club" for which he named his two hot dog stands.
With his 14-year-old daughter, Abigail Lizarraga, by his side, he spoke, with great enthusiasm, of Hermosillo, where "every corner has a hot dog stand" and "the health department is not so strict," and vendors have the freedom to garnish a dog with everything from cucumbers in sour cream to crumbled chorizo.
Pressed to define the Sonoran hot dog, as served in Tucson, Mr. Lizarraga talked of the importance of the roll into which the dog is stuffed. (He buys his from Alejandro's, where they bake a roll that is both soft and pleasantly pliant.) And he talked of the squeeze bottles of guacamole purée, with which he stocks both carts.
But Mr. Lizarraga did not mention the wrap of bacon, for that, in the world of the hotdoguero, is understood.Continue reading the main story


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VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- If the increased use of biomass to produce alternative fuels is to become a reality, more attention needs to be paid to logistics - how, for example, biomass raw materials are shipped from farm to refinery, as well as the development of better ways of preparing the products for shipping.
This is a subject being tackled by Michigan State University's Bruce Dale, a professor of chemical engineering and materials science, and is the topic of a symposium at this year's annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Feb. 16-20 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Dale is suggesting a new model for getting the plant material to the biofuel production facility, or the biorefinery. The new model uses something called regional biomass processing depots - strategically located facilities that will process the biofuel feedstocks before they are shipped to a refinery.
"The question has become how are we going to get together thousands of tons of plant material to convert to fuels," he said. "That's a logistical issue which is increasingly being recognized as a key barrier."
Presently there are only five large-scale refineries in the United States that are either under construction or near completion. Eventually, Dale said, there could be as many as several hundred of them scattered about the country, each processing as much as 5,000 tons of feedstock a day.
"The depots we're suggesting be built would process 100 to 200 tons of feedstock per day," Dale said. "Once processed, we could ship it much longer distances to the large-scale refineries."
Another plus to Dale's plan: Farmers could get a piece of the action.
"There could be some economic benefit to the farmers," he said. "They could own part of the depot and then share in some of the income from it."
Because biomass materials are bulky and have a tendency to decompose, preparation of the materials for shipping also is an issue to be addressed.
One potential solution is a process developed by Dale known as ammonia fiber expansion, or AFEX. This involves taking the material and treating it with hot, concentrated ammonia.
"You simply remove the ammonia, run the treated material through a briquette maker, similar to briquettes for your charcoal grill, and when you're done you have a dense, stable, storable material, that's easy to ship and convert to biofuel," he said.
"The ultimate goal is that the depots would help create a better way to ship the biomass and cut down on the distance they have to be shipped."
Dale's research is funded in part by MSU AgBioResearch.


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CHESHIRE, Conn., June 15 (UPI) -- Beverly Mitchell, 66, was found dead in the basement of her Cheshire, Conn., home on Saturday, after the first floor collapsed beneath the weight of her belongings.
Connecticut Police Sgt. Kevin O'Donnell told The Cheshire Citizen that Mitchell was a known "hoarder" and "recluse," who had long refused help from police and social services.
"This was an accidental death caused by disrepair," he said.
A postal worker first contacted authorities when he noticed that no one had been collecting mail for the home for more than a week.
In a similar incident last March, a Texas man was found dead behind a "10-foot wall of trash." Rescue crews spent two days trying to recover his body.


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Alternative rock will be presented with a jazz flair when the Holland Jazz Orchestra and the Hope College Jazz Arts Collective combine to present "The Radiohead Project" on Tuesday, Dec. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The two ensembles will perform jazz arrangements of multiple Radiohead tunes developed through the international "Radiohead Jazz Project," which was established in 2010 and co-commissioned by the Frankfurt Radio Bigband (hr-Bigband) and the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music. The initiative to adapt the works to the large jazz ensemble format followed the interpretation and recording of Radiohead songs by many jazz solo artists and small ensembles. Featuring arrangements by an international team of jazz artists, the project to extend the repertoire to large ensembles resulted in 12 titles released this summer as the "Radiohead Jazz Series."
The concert at Hope will feature several selections from the series. The Holland Jazz Orchestra will perform "Idioteque," "Bodysnatchers," "Kid A," "Knives Out," "All I Need" and "There, There." The Hope College Jazz Arts Collective will perform "Everything in its Right Place," "High and Dry," "Paranoid Android" and "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushed Tin Box."
The English alternative rock band Radiohead was formed in 1985, releasing its first single in 1992 and first album in 1993. The cutting-edge, five-piece group achieved notoriety in the U.K. by the mid-1990s and international recognition before the turn of the century. In 2005, the band was ranked 73rd on "Rolling Stone's" list of "The Greatest Artists of All Time."
The Hope College Jazz Arts Collective is the premier large jazz ensemble at Hope College. Directed by Brian Coyle, who is a professor of music and director of jazz studies at Hope, the collective places a creative focus on ensemble communication and improvisation. Comprised of a rhythm section and flexible wind instrumentation, this select group performs compositions and arrangements from across the full spectrum of music.
The Holland Jazz Orchestra is an ensemble dedicated to the performance of the great Jazz Ensemble repertoire both historic and contemporary. The group is made up of professional, semi-professional and community members alike. Coyle is the music director and the manager is Paul Wesselink, who is a trombonist with the Holland Symphony Orchestra and a professional recording engineer.
The music will continue after the concert with the Fusion, Standards and Mainstream Jazz Ensembles at Butch's in downtown Holland immediately following the concert.
Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Ave., on College Avenue at 12th Street. Butch's is located at 44 E. Eighth St.


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The first week of nominations for Hoch Publishing Company's donation of $1,000 to one or more local charities, families, or individuals generated eight nominations. I was a bit surprised that most of the nominations were for individuals and families, rather than charity organizations, but all of the nominations were for very good reasons.
Four readers — Kerry Maag, Dawn Chizek, Deborah Bowman, and an anonymous reader — nominated families who are trying to make the best of things in difficult circumstances. Chizek nominated a family that was cut to a single meager paycheck because of cuts at one spouse's place of employment.
"I want those kids to have an amazing Christmas and mom and dad to feel some relief and peace and actually enjoy the holiday with a happy heart," Chizek wrote. "They do so much and give so freely to their community, they deserve some given back to really know how it feels when they feel the love returned back to them. Pay it forward, right?"
Maag nominated a family whose income has been cut to a single earner because of health problems. The anonymous reader also nominated a family that has lost a wage-earner, but to injury rather than illness. The other spouse is working three jobs and studying full-time to try to improve their lives, the anonymous reader wrote on the nomination form.
Bowman nominated a family that has been reduced to a single earner, although she didn't mention the circumstances how that happened.
"They could use help to pay bills and get toys for the boys," Bowman wrote. "All their money goes for bills."
Amber Hancock nominated a mother-daughter pair, Debbie and Bethany Regier, both because of hardship in their lives and in recognition of their work in childcare.
"Not only did Debbie push for a day-care facility in Marion, she is very active in the rules and regulations for all day-care providers," Hancock wrote.
Multiple people nominated Marion County Emergency Food Bank, citing it as a way to help many people in need. Nikki Reid of Marion nominated Marion Community Christmas.
"They give to so many needy families to help bring joy to children," Reid wrote. "I myself have used the program, and I don't know what I would have done for my children had that program not been available."
A common theme among the nominations were that these are people or organizations that make other people's lives brighter, and the people making the nominations expressed that they wanted to return the favor. There are still three weeks to nominate someone or an organization that makes your life brighter, and on Dec. 21, the newspaper will announce whom a selection panel chooses to receive the $1,000 donation, which could be divided among multiple nominees.
On a related note, Hancock's nomination of the Regiers was selected in a weekly random drawing to receive a $25 gift certificate.


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Texans' latest developments mean top pick to be QB
By signing quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick and trading Matt Schaub to Oakland, the Texans have given another indication they plan to use their first-round pick on a quarterback.
Teddy Bridgewater, Blake Bortles and Johnny Manziel are candidates to be the first overall pick in the May 8 draft.
If the Texans like more than one of them equally - doubtful, by the way - it's conceivable they could trade down two or three spots and get one they covet.
We'd be naïve to think general manager Rick Smith signed Fitzpatrick, 31, to a two-year, $7.5 million contract to be the full-time starter next season. They signed him to keep the seat warm until coach Bill O'Brien and quarterbacks coach George Godsey believe the rookie is ready.
Whether that's the opening game or midway through the season, a quarterback drafted first overall won't play until he's ready. He has to compete with veterans and earn the job. There will be no rushing the rookie because O'Brien has a five-year contract and a patient owner in Bob McNair.
One reason the Texans wanted Fitzpatrick, a Harvard graduate entering his 10th NFL season, was his reputation for being a terrific team guy and his willingness to work with younger quarterbacks like Tennessee's Jake Locker last season.
"My role was to come in as a mentor for Jake, and, unfortunately, Jake went down with an injury, but we established a real good relationship early," Fitzpatrick (6-2, 221 pounds) said during a conference call with Houston reporters Friday. "I felt like I added a lot to him, just in terms of trying to put some of the experience that I had when I played and give him little nuggets here (and) there (and) try to (help) him a little bit (on) how to study and how to attack film on a Tuesday or Wednesday."
Free-agent safety signed
In interviews Thursday night and again during the conference call, Fitzpatrick was careful not to disclose anything he had learned from O'Brien about his status.
"I haven't been given a defined role," he said. "I think my role is I'm going to be competitive and bring all the positive things with my work ethic and personality that help the team win.
"Whatever that takes, whatever my role is and however it will be defined in the future, I want to win games. I think that's the most important thing."
Smith, O'Brien and Godsey attended pro days for Bridgewater and Bortles this week. They had long meetings with both quarterbacks. They'll also attend Manziel's personal pro day Thursday and meet with him afterward.
Before the draft, the Texans can have private workouts at the prospects' colleges and bring them to Houston for meetings. McNair wants to size up the player who's going to be his franchise quarterback.
Don't expect the Schaub trade Friday to be the last move O'Brien makes with his quarterbacks. He has three - Fitzpatrick, T.J. Yates and Case Keeum - with starting experience.
A rookie makes four, and that's one too many when it comes to the final roster.
Trading Schaub has favorable implications on the Texans' salary cap. They cleared an additional $3.93 million that put them $10.23 million under the cap. That's plenty of room to sign some veterans - lunch-pail types who are unselfish, do the dirty work and cost little.
A good example is former Kansas City free safety Kendrick Lewis. He signed a one-year contract for $795,000, including $100,000 guaranteed.
After the Lewis deal Friday, the Texans have $9.43 million of salary-cap room.
Raiders ease burden
When Texans defensive coordinator Romeo Crennel was the coach at Kansas City in 2010, he drafted Lewis in the fifth round. He started 50 of 53 games with the Chiefs but wasn't invited back after last season.
Expect the Texans to bolster the roster through free agency, including the depleted defensive line.
Roster bonuses Schaub earned last season boosted his base salary this year from $10 million to $10.93 million. That's erased from the Texans' books and absorbed by the Raiders, who entered free agency with a record $65 million available to spend.
Since free agency began March 11, the Texans have re-signed tight end Garrett Graham; signed Fitzpatrick, Lewis and nose tackle Jerrell Powe; traded Schaub; and allowed seven veteran free agents to sign elsewhere.


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Yet another death row inmate, AHM Biplob, has been granted clemency by the president. This is not the first time though. In 2010, 20 death row inmates convicted in the controversial Gama killing case were pardoned by the president.
There is an official explanation — according to article 49 of the Bangladesh constitution President Zillur Rahman has the absolute power to offer mercy to any convicted person. The prime minister also defended the president's action arguing that the case against Biplob was false and politically motivated.
Before we try to make sense of this clemency decision, let's revisit two other events of punishment and clemency that took place during the same time in two different parts of the world.
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On 18 July, few students, aged between 16 and 22, went to Aminbazar — allegedly to look for drugs. Little did they know, the local villagers were fed up with the ever growing robberies and extortions in the area. When the students were roaming around Keblarchar in the middle of the night, the villagers mistook them for robbers and soon they found themselves in the middle of an angry mob.
Within hours, six students were beaten to death by hundreds of villagers in medieval execution style.
The students sought their innocence, but their requests fell on deaf ears. Their plea for clemency, for crimes they did not commit in the first place, was denied by the merciless mob.
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The other event took place in America. After the 9/11 terror attack, a vindictive Texan man named Mark Stronman went on a shooting spree targeting people of Arab descent. Before he was arrested by the police, two of his victims died. A Bangladeshi immigrant, Rais Bhuiyan, survived with shot in the face and was left blind in his right eye. When Stronman was convicted of the attack and was sentenced to death, Bhuiyan launched an extraordinary campaign called 'World without Hate' to save his attacker's life. In a desperate attempt, Bhuiyan appealed and then filed suit against the state of Texas and its governor to stop Stronman's execution on grounds of clemency.
In the last moment telephone conversation, Stronman thanked Bhuiyan for his campaign. In his final moments, Stronman said, "hate is going on in this world and it has to stop."
On 20 July, Stronman was executed by the state of Texas. Bhuiyan's plea for clemency was denied.
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Lynching by mob is nothing new in this part of the world. Every month some criminals or innocent suspects are getting beaten to death by angry mobs in one district or the other. Other than simply saying that we are too angry a nation, one possible reason for such behaviour would be the lack of justice in our society. When rise in criminal activities is not matched with exemplary punishments, people tend to take the law into own hands.
From that perspective, frequent clemency by the president may not be a good thing for us.
But what if the president is just being kind? When we applaud Rais Bhuiyan for his anti-death sentence campaign, can we really criticise the president for sparing one's life? Well, the debate could be very difficult if it was for and against death penalty. After all, how many of us would really support death penalty if the killer is our brother? Or, how many will really oppose death penalty if the victim is our father? Well, don't answer that since this is not such a debate. At least the president has not taken a public stance against death penalty by granting clemency for the killer of his wife. Our president is not Rais Bhuiyan.
Besides, for such a stance to be materialised, the nation will have to abolish death penalty altogether. But that's another debate. Here, it seems that the president picked and chose the clemency cases. Constitutionally, however, the president can do that. But we can also expect better judgement from him. When only members of ruling political party get wholesale clemency, general people lose hope in the system.
But what if the convict is actually a victim of a biased political system, as the prime minister has argued? After all, we have seen how the legal system gets influenced by the successive political regimes. We still remember how an innocent slum dweller George Miah was forced to make confessional statement on August 21 grenade attack during the past BNP regime. Over the past decades, we have also heard several incidents of innocent victims serving prison times. It is in this setting that the ruling party has argued that both Gama and Nurul Islam murder cases were pursued hurriedly in Speedy Trial Tribunals and the convicts were wrongly accused.
For argument's sake, let's ponder on this position and explore the Gama killing case. When the nephew of former BNP deputy minister Ruhul Quddus Talukdar Dulu was murdered, the political cadres of the then ruling party BNP wreak havoc in the area for months. The Speedy Trial Tribunal of Dhaka sentenced 21 persons to death for the killing, of which 13 members were from a single family. Since AL came to power in 2009, they had a long time to find out the real killers and expose the perpetrators of the kangaroo court. But they didn't.
If the biased political system is to blame for the verdict, then why didn't the current government let the law take its own course during its own tenure? When the case was pending before the High Court, why didn't the government allow the issue to be settled in the court of law? Why the president had to order clemency to save them? Does this mean that the court is unreliable under the current regime as well?
When the younger son of the current opposition leader was convicted in a money-laundering case, the general secretary of the ruling party, Syed Ashraful Islam, said that "the judgment proves we have to suffer dire consequences if we fail to make our children good human beings". But the way the presidential clemency is being exercised, people may think that such dire consequence is true only for the opposition, not for the children of ruling political leaders.
I beg your pardon Mr President, but only something wicked this way comes.
Syeed Ahamed is a public policy analyst and a member of Drishtipat Writers' Collective.