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April 12, 2010, 07:59:40 AM »
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Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In Again
By JOHN TIERNEY
As a retired clinical psychologist, Clark Martin was well acquainted with traditional treatments for depression, but his own case seemed untreatable as he struggled through chemotherapy and other grueling regimens for kidney cancer. Counseling seemed futile to him. So did the antidepressant pills he tried.
It was a whole personality shift for me. I wasnt any longer attached to my performance and trying to control things. I could see that the really good things in life will happen if you just show up and share your natural enthusiasms with people. CLARK MARTIN, a retired psychologist, on his participation in an experiment with a hallucinogen
Nothing had any lasting effect until, at the age of 65, he had his first psychedelic experience. He left his home in Vancouver, Wash., to take part in an experiment at Johns Hopkins medical school involving psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient found in certain mushrooms.
Scientists are taking a new look at hallucinogens, which became taboo among regulators after enthusiasts like Timothy Leary promoted them in the 1960s with the slogan Turn on, tune in, drop out. Now, using rigorous protocols and safeguards, scientists have won permission to study once again the drugs potential for treating mental problems and illuminating the nature of consciousness.
After taking the hallucinogen, Dr. Martin put on an eye mask and headphones, and lay on a couch listening to classical music as he contemplated the universe.
All of a sudden, everything familiar started evaporating, he recalled. Imagine you fall off a boat out in the open ocean, and you turn around, and the boat is gone. And then the waters gone. And then youre gone.
Today, more than a year later, Dr. Martin credits that six-hour experience with helping him overcome his depression and profoundly transforming his relationships with his daughter and friends. He ranks it among the most meaningful events of his life, which makes him a fairly typical member of a growing club of experimental subjects.
Researchers from around the world are gathering this week in San Jose, Calif., for the largest conference on psychedelic science held in the United States in four decades. They plan to discuss studies of psilocybin and other psychedelics for treating depression in cancer patients, obsessive-compulsive disorder, end-of-life anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction to drugs or alcohol.
The results so far are encouraging but also preliminary, and researchers caution against reading too much into these small-scale studies. They do not want to repeat the mistakes of the 1960s, when some scientists-turned-evangelists exaggerated their understanding of the drugs risks and benefits.
Because reactions to hallucinogens can vary so much depending on the setting, experimenters and review boards have developed guidelines to set up a comfortable environment with expert monitors in the room to deal with adverse reactions. They have established standard protocols so that the drugs effects can be gauged more accurately, and they have also directly observed the drugs effects by scanning the brains of people under the influence of hallucinogens.
Scientists are especially intrigued by the similarities between hallucinogenic experiences and the life-changing revelations reported throughout history by religious mystics and those who meditate. These similarities have been identified in neural imaging studies conducted by Swiss researchers and in experiments led by Roland Griffiths, a professor of behavioral biology at Johns Hopkins.
In one of Dr. Griffithss first studies, involving 36 people with no serious physical or emotional problems, he and colleagues found that psilocybin could induce what the experimental subjects described as a profound spiritual experience with lasting positive effects for most of them. None had had any previous experience with hallucinogens, and none were even sure what drug was being administered.
To make the experiment double-blind, neither the subjects nor the two experts monitoring them knew whether the subjects were receiving a placebo, psilocybin or another drug like Ritalin, nicotine, caffeine or an amphetamine. Although veterans of the 60s psychedelic culture may have a hard time believing it, Dr. Griffiths said that even the monitors sometimes could not tell from the reactions whether the person had taken psilocybin or Ritalin.
The monitors sometimes had to console people through periods of anxiety, Dr. Griffiths said, but these were generally short-lived, and none of the people reported any serious negative effects. In a survey conducted two months later, the people who received psilocybin reported significantly more improvements in their general feelings and behavior than did the members of the control group.
The findings were repeated in another follow-up survey, taken 14 months after the experiment. At that point most of the psilocybin subjects once again expressed more satisfaction with their lives and rated the experience as one of the five most meaningful events of their lives.
Since that study, which was published in 2008, Dr. Griffiths and his colleagues have gone on to give psilocybin to people dealing with cancer and depression, like Dr. Martin, the retired psychologist from Vancouver. Dr. Martins experience is fairly typical, Dr. Griffiths said: an improved outlook on life after an experience in which the boundaries between the self and others disappear.
In interviews, Dr. Martin and other subjects described their egos and bodies vanishing as they felt part of some larger state of consciousness in which their personal worries and insecurities vanished. They found themselves reviewing past relationships with lovers and relatives with a new sense of empathy.
It was a whole personality shift for me, Dr. Martin said. I wasnt any longer attached to my performance and trying to control things. I could see that the really good things in life will happen if you just show up and share your natural enthusiasms with people. You have a feeling of attunement with other people.
The subjects reports mirrored so closely the accounts of religious mystical experiences, Dr. Griffiths said, that it seems likely the human brain is wired to undergo these unitive experiences, perhaps because of some evolutionary advantage.
This feeling that were all in it together may have benefited communities by encouraging reciprocal generosity, Dr. Griffiths said. On the other hand, universal love isnt always adaptive, either.
Although federal regulators have resumed granting approval for controlled experiments with psychedelics, there has been little public money granted for the research, which is being conducted at Hopkins, the University of Arizona; Harvard; New York University; the University of California, Los Angeles; and other places.
The work has been supported by nonprofit groups like the Heffter Research Institute and MAPS, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.
Theres this coming together of science and spirituality, said Rick Doblin, the executive director of MAPS. Were hoping that the mainstream and the psychedelic community can meet in the middle and avoid another culture war. Thanks to changes over the last 40 years in the social acceptance of the hospice movement and yoga and meditation, our culture is much more receptive now, and were showing that these drugs can provide benefits that current treatments cant.
Researchers are reporting preliminary success in using psilocybin to ease the anxiety of patients with terminal illnesses. Dr. Charles S. Grob, a psychiatrist who is involved in an experiment at U.C.L.A., describes it as existential medicine that helps dying people overcome fear, panic and depression.
Under the influences of hallucinogens, Dr. Grob writes, individuals transcend their primary identification with their bodies and experience ego-free states before the time of their actual physical demise, and return with a new perspective and profound acceptance of the life constant: change.
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Read a book every day. Books are concentrated sources of wisdom. The more books you read, the more wisdom you expose yourself to. What are some books you can start reading to enrich yourself? Some books Ive read and found useful are Think and Grow Rich, Who Moved My Cheese, 7 Habits, The Science of Getting Rich and Living the 80/20 Way.
Learn a new language. Learning a language is a whole new skill altogether and the process of acquainting with a new language and culture is a totally a mind-opening experience.
Pick up a new hobby. Beyond just your usual favorite hobbies, is there something new you can pick up? Any new sport you can learn? Examples are fencing, golf, rock climbing, football, canoeing, or ice skating. Your new hobby can also be a recreational hobby; for example, pottery, Italian cooking, dancing, wine appreciation, web design, etc. Learning something new requires you to stretch yourself in different aspects, whether physically, mentally or emotionally.
Take up a new course. Is there any new course you can join? Courses are a great way to gain new knowledge and skills. It doesnt have to be a long-term course seminars or workshops serve their purpose too. Ive been to a few workshops and they have helped me gain new insights which I had not considered before.
Create an inspirational room. Your environment sets the mood and tone for you. If you are living in an inspirational environment, you are going to be inspired every day.
Overcome your fears. All of us have fears. Fear of uncertainty, fear of public speaking, fear of risk All our fears keep us in the same position and prevent us from growing. Recognize that your fears reflect areas where you can grow. I always think of fears as the compass for growth. If I have a fear about something, it represents something Ive yet to address, and addressing it helps me to grow.
Level up your skills. If you have played video games especially RPGs, youll know the concept of leveling up gaining experience so you can be better and stronger. As a blogger, Im constantly leveling up my writing skills. As a speaker, Im constantly leveling up my public engagement abilities. What skills can you level up?
Wake up early. Waking up early (say, 5-6am) has been acknowledged by many (Anthony Robbins, Robin Sharma, among other self-help gurus) to improve your productivity and your quality of life. I feel its because when you wake up early, your mindset is already set to continue the momentum and proactively live out the day.
Have a weekly exercise routine. A better you starts with being in better physical shape. I personally make it a point to jog at least 3 times a week, at least 30 minutes each time. You may want to mix it up with jogging, gym lessons, and swimming for variation.
Start your life handbook. A life handbook is an idea I started 3 years ago. Basically, its a book which contains the essentials on how you can live your life to the fullest, such as your purpose, your values and goals. Sort of like your manual for your life. I started my life handbook since 2007 and its been a crucial enabler in my progress.
Write a letter to your future self. What do you see yourself as 5 years from now? Will you be the same? Different? What kind of person will you be? Write a letter to your future self 1 year from now will be a good start and seal it. Make a date in your calendar to open it 1 year from now. Then start working to become the person you want to open that letter.
Get out of your comfort zone. Real growth comes with hard work and sweat. Being too comfortable doesnt help us grow it makes us stagnate. What is your comfort zone? Do you stay in most of the time? Do you keep to your own space when out with other people? Shake your routine up. Do something different. By exposing yourself to a new context, youre literally growing as you learn to act in new circumstances.
Put someone up to a challenge. Competition is one of the best ways to grow. Set a challenge (weight loss, exercise, financial challenge, etc) and compete with an interested friend to see who achieves the target first. Through the process, both of you will gain more than if you were to set off on the target alone.
Identify your blind spots. Scientifically, blind spots refer to areas our eyes are not capable of seeing. In personal development terms, blind spots are things about ourselves we are unaware of. Discovering our blind spots help us discover our areas of improvement. One exercise I use to discover my blind spots is to identify all the things/events/people that trigger me in a day trigger meaning making me feel annoyed/weird/affected. These represent my blind spots.
Ask for feedback. As much as we try to improve, we will always have blind spots. Asking for feedback gives us an additional perspective. Some people to approach will be friends, family, colleagues, boss, or even acquaintances, since they will have no preset bias and can give their feedback objectively.
Stay focused with to-do lists. I start my day with a list of tasks I want to complete and this helps make me stay focused. In comparison, the days when I dont do this end up being extremely unproductive. Since my work requires me to use my computer all the time, I use Free Sticky Notes to manage my to-do lists. Its really simple to use and its a freeware.
Set Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs). Im a big fan of setting BHAGs. BHAGs stretch you beyond your normal capacity since they are big and audacious you wouldnt think of attempting them normally. What are BHAGs you can embark on, which youll feel absolutely on top of the world once you complete them? Set them and start working on them.
Acknowledge your flaws. Everyone has flaws. Whats most important is to understand them, acknowledge them, and address them. What do you think are your flaws? What are the flaws you can work on now? How do you want to address them?
Get into action. The best way to learn and improve is to take action. What is something you have been meaning to do? How can you take action on it immediately? Waiting doesnt get anything done. Taking action gives you immediate results to learn from.
Learn from people who inspire you. Think about people you admire. People who inspire you. These people reflect certain qualities you want to have for yourself too. What are the qualities in them you want to have for yourself? How can you acquire these qualities?
Quit a bad habit. Are there any bad habits you can lose? Oversleeping? Not exercising? Being late? Slouching? Nail biting? Smoking? Heres some help on how you can quit a bad habit.
Cultivate a new habit. Some good new habits to cultivate include reading books (#1), waking up early (#8), exercising (#9), reading a new personal development article a day (#40) and meditating. Is there any other new habit you can cultivate to improve yourself?
Avoid negative people. As Jim Rohn says, You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with. Wherever we go, there are bound to be negative people. Dont spend too much of your time around them if you feel they drag you down.
Learn to deal with difficult people. There are times when there are difficult people you cant avoid, such as at your workplace, or when the person is part of your inner circle of contacts. Learn how to deal with them. These people management skills will go a long way in working with people in the future.
Learn from your friends. Everyone has amazing qualities in them. Its up to how we want to tap into them. With all the friends who surround you, they are going to have things you can learn from. Try thinking of a good friend right now. Think about just one quality they have which you want to adopt. How can you learn from them and adopt this skill for yourself? Speak to them if you need to for sure, they will be more than happy to help!
Start a journal. Journaling is a great way to gain better self-awareness. Its a self-reflection process. As you write, clarify your thought process and read what you wrote from a third persons perspective, you gain more insights about yourself. Your journal can be private or an online blog.
Start a blog about personal development. To help others grow, you need to first be walking the talk. There are expectations of you, both from yourself and from others, which you have to uphold.
Get a mentor or coach. Theres no faster way to improve than to have someone work with you on your goals. Many of my clients approach me to coach them in their goals and they achieve significantly more results than if they had worked alone.
Reduce the time you spend on chat programs. I realized having chat programs open at default result in a lot of wasted time. This time can be much better spent on other activities. The days when I dont get on chat, I get a lot more done. I usually disable the auto start-up option in the chat programs and launch them when I do want to chat and really have the time for it.
Learn chess (or any strategy game). I found chess to be a terrific game to learn strategy and hone your brainpower. Not only do you have fun, you also get to exercise your analytical skills. You can also learn strategy from other board games or computer games, such as Othello, Chinese Chess, WarCraft, and so on.
Stop watching TV. Ive not been watching TV for pretty much 4 years and its been a very liberating experience. I realized most of the programs and advertisements on mainstream TV are usually of a lower consciousness and not very empowering. In return, the time Ive freed up from not watching TV is now constructively used for other purposes, such as connecting with close friends, doing work I enjoy, exercising, etc.
Start a 30-day challenge. Set a goal and give yourself 30 days to achieve this. Your goal can be to stick with a new habit or something youve always wanted to do but have not. 30 days is just enough time to strategize, plan, get into action, review and nail the goal.
Meditate. Meditation helps to calm you and be more conscious. I also realized that during the nights when I meditate (before I sleep), I need lesser sleep. The clutter clearing process is very liberating.
Join Toastmasters (Learn public speaking). Interestingly, public speaking is the #1 fear in the world, with #2 being death. After I started public speaking as a personal development speaker/trainer, Ive learned a lot about how to communicate better, present myself, and engage people. Toastmasters is an international organization that trains people in public speaking. Check out the Toastmaster clubs nearest to you here.
Befriend top people in their fields. These people have achieved their results because they have the right attitudes, skill sets, and know-how. How better to learn than from the people who have been there and done that? Gain new insights from them on how you can improve and achieve the same results for yourself.
Let go of the past. Is there any grievance or unhappiness from the past which you have been holding on? If so, its time to let it go. Holding on to them prevents you from moving on and becoming a better person. Break away from the past, forgive yourself, and move on.
Start a business venture. Is there anything you have an interest in? Why not turn it into a venture and make money while learning at the same time? Starting a new venture requires you to be learn business management skills, develop business acumen, and have a competitive edge. The process equips you with many skills, such as self-discipline, leadership, organization, and management.
Show kindness to people around you. You can never be too kind to someone. In fact, most of us dont show enough kindness to people around us. Being kind helps us to cultivate other qualities such as compassion, patience, and love. Start exuding more kindness to the people around you, and see how they react. Not only that, notice how you feel as you behave kindly to others. Chances are, you will feel even better than yourself.
Reach out to the people who hate you. If you ever stand for something, you are going to get haters. Its easy to hate the people who hate us. Its much more challenging to love them back. Being able to forgive, let go, and show love to these people requires magnanimity and an open heart. Is there anyone who dislikes or hates you in your life? If so, reach out to them. Show them love. Seek a resolution and get closure on past grievances. Even if they refuses to reciprocate, love them all the same. Its much more liberating than to hate them back.
Take a break. Have you been working too hard? Self-improvement is also about recognizing our need to take a break to walk the longer mile ahead. Take some time off for yourself every week. Relax, rejuvenate and charge yourself up for whats up ahead.
Read at least 1 personal development article a day. Some of my readers make it a point to read at least one personal development article every day, which I think is a great habit.
Commit to your personal growth. Make the decision to commit to your personal growth and embrace yourself to a life-long journey of growth and change. Kick off your growth by picking a few of the steps above and working on them. The results might not be immediate, but I promise you that as long as you keep to it, youll start seeing positive changes in yourself and your life.
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Magazines are in the backpack of goodies for whenever I gotta wait on something. Not hollywood fanzine type fluff either, Popular Mechanics, Discover, Wireed, and Forbes are on the list. The extra weigh adds to excersise too
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Meditation in Chicago
I'm Gina Caruso and belong to the Shambhala Meditation Center of Chicago, which is housed in a vintage estate along Sheridan Road not too far from Lake Michigan. Chicago is known as "the City in the Garden," or Urbs in Horto. Gardening, it turns out, cultivates more than the plants around our building; it's a magnetizing force that attracts people to the Shambhala Center.
Most summers I would garden in the front of the building and several people would stop and ask me about meditation. Inevitably they would ask what we do, or mention how they walk past the Center and always wanted to stop in. People have a natural curiosity and motivation to find ways to work with what arises in their lives. Sometimes it just takes that simple human connection to help them explore the Shambhala Center. It becomes less a building on the corner and more of a place to explore their humanness. I'd be surprised and heartened by people's immediate candor once they knew what we do: I'd hear stories of stress at work, challenges caring for aging parents, and the general release of what's on their mind.
Along the Shambhala Buddhist path, there have been many teachers who plowed the hard ground before us and allowed Shambhala teachings about Basic Goodness and kindness to grow. I can't help but be reminded of this as I turn over the ground to Black-eyed Susans, sharing with passers-by how meditation can help them in their daily lives.
When I welcome newcomers to the Center, I offer them different ways of doing sitting practice, such as the traditional cushions – zafu, zabuton and gomden – but also using a stool or just a chair. It's helpful to let people know they have options for meditating so they can stay engaged with the practice.
The Chicago Shambhala Center – like many other Shambhala centers – has a great balance of fluidity and structure. Fluidity in that someone can come and go as they please without expectations, and structure in that if someone wants to relate more deeply to building community and to their practice, we have forms and structure to support that. It's inspiring to know people from the first day they come in for meditation instruction, to coordinating events, taking Buddhist refuge vows, and becoming an integral part of the community.
Chicago is a city of neighborhoods and we're branching out into satellite centers south and west in the City. Not only can people take meditation classes convenient to where they live, but they will have the main center on the north side for larger programs. Also, we are pretty close to Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin so our sense of a "center" is really more regional.
I remember my first time going to the Shambhala Center and how instantly I felt at home. Looking back, I think it had to do with the people there feeling at home at the Center, and I wanted to know and experience what it felt like to be a part of that community.
Twelve years later, as Chair of the Governing Council at the Center at a time when the world has so many challenges and as people have a real desire to feel a sense of belonging, that sense of community is even more needed.
It's helpful to ask ourselves "What will support awake mind and benefit society in this moment?" And asking others what they do to support awake mind, especially in the container of a Shambhala Center, makes the journey that much more workable and inspired, much like how amazing it is when those Black-Eyed Susans come up every year.

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Qatar Airways announce that, in order to meet demand, it will be increasing its frequencies by adding new routes to Muscat, Tehran and Islamabad.
The airline has added an additional four flights to Tehran, bringing its weekly total to 19, a further two flights to Islamabad, with a total of nine weekly connections, whereas Doha-Muscat will be served 35 times a week, an increase of four flights.
The airline's CEO, Akbar Al Baker, explains that the move was a result of "people from all over the world becoming more and more interested in discovering this part of the world. With such rich histories and stunning, undiscovered landscapes, these destinations are hidden gems that are slowly coming into their own."
Qatar Airways' decision to expand is the third in a series of regional airline expansions this week.
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Likewise, Etihad's recent 49 per cent acquisition of Italy's national carrier, Alitalia, has come with news that three new destinations will be introduced, connecting Abu Dhabi with the Italian cities of Venice, Catania and Bologna. This will come on top of six new routes planned for early 2015 to Edinburgh, Madrid, Calcutta, Entebbe (Uganda), Hong Kong and Algiers.
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A Nablus military tribunal was told today that the discovery of an E1 Fatah terrorist cell in Tulkarem on the West Bank averted possible death or injuries to many Israelis from letter-bombs According to testimony, the cell's leader, Jamal All Ahmed, personally prepared letter-bombs from specially made explosives that he apparently obtained while visiting Lebanon seeking recruits for E1 Fatah. Ahmed was arrested before the lethal letters were mailed. He and his associates were active during the Yom Kippur War trying to prevent West Bank Arabs from working in Israel.


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Our front yard is a troubling area for me. So much of my attention has been focused on our backyard oasis that the front yard has become an after thought. We have two currants, two flowering quince, a fruiting dogwood, an aronia, a cornelian cherry and an herb spiral all planted in the front yard. These are still only a year or two old though, so all I see when I pull up to the house is a barren wasteland.
I was playing around in a very basic image program the other day and did a sample remodel of our front porch. I added in a railing leading up to the stairs and around the porch. I also added two trellises to either column on the porch and created an accent along the top which could also act as a trellis. All of this fun daydreaming made me realize a little work could make me cringe a lot less when I pull up to our house. Let the work begin!
Although it's not a good time to add the railing and such, I did bite the bullet and buy two simple trellises for the columns. They were painted the same green as the accent color on our house and took about 15 minutes to nail into place. The one of the right will support the already-planted trumpet vine, which should sping back into life in the next few weeks. The left trellis will support a newly-planted jasmine. An evergreen clematis was really calling my name at the nursery, but I just couldn't part with $30 smackers for it – so jasmine it is.
When I was visiting my grandmother recently, she had spent that morning digging up excess iris tubers. They were laying in a neat pile next to the composter – their death close at hand. Desperate for anything low-maintenance and pretty, I scooped up a huge box full and took them home. She threw in some hydrangea cuttings to boot! I now have two varieties of iris planted in the front yard and can't wait to see their pretty blooms in about a month.
The front yard does look a little nicer with the trellises in place. I am also doing some early spring weeding while the earth is soft. Getting those under control now means more time sipping cold beer this summer. I think a month from now I will really notice the difference with the plantings. The iris will be in bloom. The lambs ear and corsica mint I divided last fall and planted in the front will be thriving. It's all coming together and it's not taking too big a bite from the pocket book.


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From the July 17, 2008 issue
One of the most important ways to prevent medication errors is to learn about problems that have occurred in other organizations and use that information to prevent similar problems at your practice site. To promote such a process, the following selected agenda items have been prepared for your senior leaders and an interdisciplinary committee to stimulate discussion and action to reduce the risk of medication errors. These agenda items appeared in the ISMP Medication Safety Alert! between April and June 2008. Each item includes a brief description of the medication safety problem, recommendations to reduce the risk of errors, and the issue number in parentheses to locate additional information as desired. Look for our high-alert medication icon under the issue number if the agenda item involves one or more medications on the ISMP List of High-Alert Medications. Many product-related problems can be viewed in the ISMP Medication Safety Alert! section of our website. The Action Agenda is also available for download in a Word format (www.ismp.org/Newsletters/acutecare/articles/ActionAgenda0803.doc) that allows expansion of the columns in the table designated for organizational documentation of an assessment, actions required, and assignments for each agenda item. Continuing education credit is available for nurses at: www.ismp.org/Newsletters/acutecare/actionagendas.asp.
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Medication errors associated with CEREBYX (fosphenytoin) (7)
Problem: In 1999, label changes were made to highlight the total amount of drug available in Cerebyx vials after fatalities resulted from confusing the per mL concentration as the total dose in the vial. Despite label changes, FDA has identified seven more fatalities of children who received 10-fold overdoses of Cerebyx. In four cases, the drug was obtained from an automated dispensing cabinet (ADC). In two cases, the per mL concentration (50 mg PE/mL) was listed on the ADC screen, not the total drug in the vial (500 mg PE/10 mL).
Recommendation: ADC screens, shelf labels, and printed requisitions should display the total drug content per container instead of the concentration per mL. Ensure all written information is consistent with the manufacturer's label (100 mg PE/ 2 mL, or 500 mg PE/10 mL). Pediatric facilities should consider stocking only 100 mg PE/2 mL vials of Cerebyx in the emergency department. The need to retrieve many vials in order to prepare a single dose (i.e., ten 2 mL vials would be needed to prepare a 1,000 mg PE dose versus just two 10 mL vials) may serve to alert practitioners to a possible dosing error.
Recall of heparin leads to use of unfamiliar concentrations (10)
Problem:The current situation with heparin products and back-orders means that hospitals may be receiving heparin in quantities, strengths, and packaging that are unfamiliar to staff. The possibility of significant dosing errors increases when unfamiliar products are stocked.
Recommendation: Barcode scanning is the best defense against mix-ups arising from unfamiliar products. Use auxiliary labels to call attention to unusual strengths—even circling the concentration on vial labels with a pen. Vials of heparin flush solutions should be separated from vials containing therapeutic concentrations.
Mix-ups with propylthiouracil and PURINETHOL (mercaptopurine) (10,12)
Problem: A fatal error occurred when a pregnant woman was given a prescription for propylthiouracil, abbreviated as "PTU," early in her pregnancy but received Purinethol when the prescription was filled. A second patient experienced liver toxicity when a prescription for propylthiouracil, also written as "PTU," was dispensed as Purinethol.
Recommendation: The dangerous abbreviation "PTU" should not be used. Physicians should be encouraged to list brand and generic names on orders for Purinethol, and to include the purpose when prescribing either drug. Computer order entry system warnings should be installed for both drugs. Do not store Purinethol and propylthiouracil near each other. Consider placing warning labels on product containers.
Caution regarding color-coded eye meds (8)
Problem: The American Academy of Ophthalmology has long endorsed a voluntary color-code scheme for ophthalmic products based on therapeutic class. But the color schemes are too similar to differentiate between classes of eye medications, and numerous product mix-ups, both between and within each class, have been reported.
Recommendation: Color-coding ophthalmic products according to therapeutic class does not decrease medication mix-ups in hospitals, as it might in a patient's home. To prevent look-alike problems, pharmacy purchasers should avoid awarding contracts to one vendor for an entire product line and should consider purchasing drugs within a class from different manufacturers.
Strength misread as total dose on mannitol IV bags (B. Braun) (8)
Problem:The labeling on 250 mL bags of IV mannitol 20% states, "Each 100 mL contains: Mannitol USP 20 g in Water for Injection USP." A physician prescribed three bags for a patient, believing each one delivered just 20 g. Each 250 mL bag actually contains 50 g.
Recommendation: Consider affixing alert stickers to mannitol to inform staff about the total amount of drug in each bag. Review other medication labels for potential errors, and affix warning stickers or other visual cues to communicate the total content of medication in each container.
Safety issues with insulin pens used in hospitals (9)
Problem: Errors arising from the adoption of insulin pen devices in healthcare organizations are emerging: needlestick injuries to healthcare workers; sharing pens among different patients; withdrawing medication from pens, which results in air pockets that can interfere with dosing accuracy; inadvertent product mix-ups; and erroneous dosing due to improper drug administration techniques.
Recommendation: Although insulin pens offer many advantages over insulin vials, safe use requires anticipating and reducing potential risks before implementation and close monitoring during the first few months of implementation when unanticipated failures and workarounds are most likely to occur. Conducting a failure mode and effects analysis before use, limiting the variety of pens in use, educating staff before use, and establishing written guidelines for reference are important risk reduction strategies.
Avoid confusion with TORISEL (temsirolimus) dose preparation (9)
Problem: Torisel injection is distributed in a kit that contains a vial of active drug along with a vial of diluent. Following dilution, the pre-printed strength on the vial is no longer accurate. A 20% overfill (that is not explicitly stated on the label) adds complexity and increases the potential for dosing errors.
Recommendation: Pharmacists should keep the package insert, with full instructions for dilution, with both the active drug and diluent vials. Use pharmacy computer alerts during order entry and/or warning stickers on packaging to notify staff about the change in concentration when preparing the final dilution. For more information, visit: www.ismp.org/sc?k=pbm.
Remove insulin vials from cartons (9)
Problem: Inadvertently storing one insulin product inside of the external carton of another type of insulin can lead to serious wrong-drug errors.
Recommendation: External cartons for insulin products should be discarded prior to dispensing the vials or at the time of receipt on the nursing unit.
Sumatriptan (IMITREX) confused with sitagliptin (JANUVIA) (9)
Problem: Sumatriptan 25 mg tablets were placed into a matrix drawer intended for sitagliptin 25 mg tablets in an automated dispensing cabinet (ADC). Both medications are manufactured in 25, 50, and 100 mg tablets, and the generic names are similar when read and pronounced.
Recommendation: Be alert for potential mix-ups with this look-alike, sound-alike pair. Use of a bar-coding system when replenishing ADC stock diminishes the risk of inadvertent drug mix-ups. Add a redundancy to manual checking processes by having stocking personnel match both the generic and brand names (if available) when refilling matrix drawers.
Managing visits from pharmaceutical sales representatives (10)
Problem: Hospitals may not manage the process by which pharmaceutical products, devices, and related education are brought into their organizations to maximize safety. Unexpected pharmaceutical products (including samples) and changes in drug storage have given rise to serious, preventable errors.
Recommendation: If you allow onsite visits by pharmaceutical representatives, require them to schedule visits with the pharmacy, wear an identification badge, sign an agreement to abide by hospital rules—including no sample distribution, and be escorted to their destination. For details, visit: www.ismp.org/Newsletters/acutecare/articles/20080522.asp
Red rules in healthcare (10,12)
Problem: In highly reliable industries, "red rules" are limited to just a few rules that must always be followed to prevent serious harm to employees, customers, or the product line. In healthcare, red rules should not be confused with policies or standard operating procedures—even crucial ones like handwashing that call for strict adherence. While compliance with policies and procedures is always expected, there will inevitably be circumstances when practitioners cannot abide by the rules, or circumstances where violating a rule may be the best course of action.
Recommendation: Red rules should be limited to a few, well understood and memorable rules that are possible and desirable for everyone to follow under all circumstances. Anyone who notices that a red rule has been breached should have the authority to stop the process. Examples of red rules in healthcare might include a time out before an invasive procedure and reconciliation of a sponge count before closing a surgical incision. Following the "5 rights" of medication use and full compliance with barcode scanning technology are not appropriate red rules in healthcare, as both rules are often broken for reasons rooted in inadequate system support for following the rule.
Restricted character space and truncated drug listings are a set-up for medication errors (11)
Problem: Truncated information appeared on a medication administration record (MAR) as "NOVOLOG FLEXPEN 70" rather than "NOVOLOG FLEXPEN 70/30." This led a nurse to administer 70 units of NOVOLOG (insulin aspart) instead of NOVOLOG 70/30 (insulin aspart protamine, insulin aspart).
Recommendation: Review how drug information appears on MARs and pharmacy labels. If problems are found, work with the pharmacy computer system vendor to prevent truncated data from appearing on MARs and labels. Including "Mix" with NOVO-LOG MIX 70/30 (which is the actual brand name) can help differentiate the drug from NovoLog.
Identify home medications (11)
Problem: A patient filled prescriptions for ISENTRESS (raltegravir) 400 mg, one tablet BID, and PREZISTA (darunavir) 300 mg, two tablets twice daily. The labels on the prescription bottles were reversed, so he took incorrect doses for a month. He was admitted to the hospital where the error persisted because his home medications were administered according to the misplaced labels.
Recommendation: The original medication error was a causative factor in the need for inpatient care, and his condition continued to worsen until the error was discovered and rectified. Pharmacists must identify—very early on—any medication brought from home by patients, especially if it's necessary to use the patient's home medication supply until the hospital pharmacy can obtain the drug(s).
Prevent dangerous drug-device interaction causing falsely elevated glucose levels (12)
Problem: When patients receive EXTRANEAL (icodextrin) peritoneal dialysis solution, blood glucose values obtained using some point-of-care (POC) glucose meters may be falsely elevated. Deaths have been reported due to severe hypoglycemia after prescribing insulin based on the falsely elevated glucose levels. Maltose-containing IV immunoglobulin (IVIG) products may cause similar falsely elevated glucose values with glucose meters.
Recommendation: Hospitals should consider using only POC blood glucose meters that rely on glucose oxidase, glucose hexokinase, glucose dehydrogenase nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (GDH-NAD), or flavin adenine dinucleotide glucose dehydrogenase (FAD-GDH), which are accurate even in the presence of interfering products including maltose. If other POC meters are used, screen patients for interfering products and, if they are prescribed, obtain glucose levels using hospital laboratory methods only.
Look-alike glass bottles of sodium chloride and nitroglycerin (12)
Problem: Sodium chloride 0.9% injection was administered instead of IV nitroglycerin when similarly appearing glass bottles were stored beside one another in a busy ED.
Recommendation: Evaluate and correct storage practices that can lead to errors. Determine if at-risk behaviors (such as "grab and go" when selecting products) are occurring on busy units. Practice habits—such as meticulous reading of labels and consistent use of barcode technology—should be operational norms that are periodically monitored.
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With the Beauty Killer Gretchen Lowell locked away behind bars once again, Archie Sheridan—a Portland police detective and nearly one of her victims—can finally rest a little easier. Meanwhile, the rest of the city of Portland is in crisis. Heavy rains have flooded the Willamette River, and several people have drowned in the quickly rising waters. Or at least that's what they thought until the medical examiner discovers that the latest victim didn't drown: She was poisoned before she went into the water.
Soon after, three of those drownings are also proven to be murders. Portland has a new serial killer on its hands, and Archie and his task force have a new case.
Reporter Susan Ward is chasing this story of a new serial killer with gusto, but she's also got another lead to follow for an entirely separate mystery: The flooding has unearthed a skeleton, a man who might have died more than 60 years ago, the last time Portland flooded this badly, when the water washed away an entire neighborhood and killed at least fifteen people. With Archie following the bizarre trail of evidence and evil deeds to catch a killer and possibly regain his life, and Susan Ward close behind, Chelsea Cain—one of today's most talented suspense writers—launches the next installment of her best-selling series with an electric thriller.
©2011 Verite Inc. (P)2011 Audio Renaissance
"Good. Not great but good."
There is no Gretchen in this book. And to those who have read the first 3 that will be disappointing. But most disappointing is that they changed narrators and I personally didn't love the new one. I am looking forward to the next installment and hope that she writes Gretchen in to the story line. Still worth listening to though!
"Book 4 Archie Sheridan"
Following the Archie Sheridan storyline has been a roller-coaster ride. This hiatus from the Gretchen Lowell aspect has been a nice change, and I really enjoyed the suspense build up from a weather catastrophe perspective rather than serial killer spree (although, of course, there is that).
My one criticism of this audiobook is that at an (ahem) ebb in the story telling, the narrator quietens her voice so much that I had a hard time hearing what was going on. I understand there needs to be nuance and modulation of speech, but it did irritate me.
Otherwise, enjoyed the story and narration. Looking forward to the next step in Gretchen's storyline.
I am not sure where the author went with this story. Other than a few mentions of the Beauty Killer and a brief appearance by Gretchen in the final chapter, this book doesn't really follow the series. Yes it has Archie, Susan and Henry (well barely Henry) but Gretchen didn't even fit into this book at all. Maybe something will tie it in once I read the next book. As for the narrator, yeesh she sounded bored reading the book. What the heck happened to Carolyn McCormick? She was great. This narrator's voice was monotone through much of the story and her characterizations of the people in the stories was not as good as McCormick. Hope the next story is better.
"Not that great"
Just wasn't the same narrator as the 1st 3 books so made it hard to believe characters.....story line was weak
"Poor narration - stopped halfway through"
I couldn't even finish listening. The reader read with such a monotone that I kept losing interest. I'm pretty sure it isn't the story since I've loved Chelsea Cain's other books.
Not with same narrator.
This is a solid addition to the series. Overall, the characters were interesting, but there was somewhat less humor in this book than in the ones that preceded it.
The only complaint I have is that one scene was completely ridiculous. There are some things that a person can do in a flooded River, and there are some things that they can't. This one went over the edge. Even so, it did not detract from the book, and instead was one of the better scenes when the emotional content was considered.
I have thoroughly enjoyed this series and am looking forward to the next. Only wish is that it was longer than 8 hours.
"not as good as the first three"
I liked this book but I liked the first three in the series better. on to the next one
I have listened to this series so many times and it still shocks me how my heart pounds with each twisted story. This particular book always makes me want to vomit because of the details .
"Enjoyed it"
I actually enjoyed this series. It was pretty fast pace and great characters made it enjoyable.
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Investors in a future Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville Café on Broadway downtown may have to tweak parts of their building design to comply with the area's historic zoning overlay.
Nashville's much-anticipated Margaritaville Café, a beach-themed chain restaurant named after the famous gulf-and-western entertainer, is slated to go inside an 18,000-square-foot structure built in 1860 that previously housed Global Café and Planet Hollywood.
The structure, situated in the heart of the city's honky-tonk district, falls within the Broadway Historic Preservation overlay, which was created in 2007 as a compromise to historic preservationists for stomaching a proposal for a Westin hotel that was never built.
Needing clearance for construction, the restaurant team took their design schemes last week to the Metro Historic Zoning Commission where the applicants deferred their plan one meeting after the commission's staff recommended changes to comply with the overlay. The proposal will go back before the commission next month.
The staff cited the need to alter specifications for the restaurant's proposed signs –– height reductions and the removal of moving and lights, for example –– and to scrap plans to replace the existing storefront with what's known as a nanawall. Basically, the nanawall would act as a sliding windowed-wall, which would be kept open during warm weather.
Mark Bloom, a partner at Corner Partnership and co-owner of the building, called the sign changes "workable," but said he and others "feel pretty strongly" about the need for the nanawall to make the restaurant more accessible to patrons.
"That's a big one for us," Bloom said of the nanawall. "There's not many $10 million investments on Lower Broadway. This is a major investment ... It needs to be done right.
"If we come to an agreement, then everything will move forward, but nothing's a given," he added. "I think that there's probably a way to meet in the middle to get it done."
Tim Walker, executive director of the historic zoning commission, called the Margaritaville Café team "great to work with," but pointed out the proposed nanawall would not mimic the original storefront and therefore would not comply with the historic overlay.
"We're there to protect the character of the building," Walker said.
Bloom and others had originally sought to begin construction on Nashville's Margaritaville in April, and to open the restaurant by the end of the year.
BEOWULF: Keep the historic storefront. Americans have little respect for anything historic or traditional. Mr. Buffet should make this restaurant a tribute to the city that helped him get where he is today.
Preserve the storefront, but see if there is anywhere else the nanawall can be attached to the building. That's a great option to have for nice days, and the other M'villes have it.
The Historic Zoning Commission needs to be reasonable in their restrictions but at the end of the day, remain true to their mission statement.
They should not be allowed to violate the historic zoning regulations and destroy the storefront. If they are allowed to, in a couple of years when they fail, we'll have an empty building in a historic district that's been ruined and doesn't fit in. Nobody thought Planet Hollywood would fail either. Lot's of businesses have come and gone in that building since 1860.
Who didn't see this confrontation coming when the restaurant was announced? There is not any chance that both the old building folks and the MDHA will both get out of the way of any large private investment in downtown.
I particularly find tragic humor in the last posting where business failure is assumed and that the added costs of appeasing the old building nuts had nothing to do with it.
Keeping the historic storefront didn't help Planet Hollywood or Global Cafe stay in business. The storefront design itself is rather blah. I pass there everyday and couldn't tell you what is special about it.
As a tourist, I've enjoyed the nano-wall concept in New Orleans, Savanah, and Pensacola (non-Margaritaville) restaurants and the many sidewalk cafe opportunities in Asheville and Orlando. Note: I may live here but I spend my tourist dollars elsewhere.
As far as clinging to the maudlin historical architecture, there is probably a faux-facade compromise that would give the place the look of the historical when closed but still be able to slide open to the street when weather permits.
My family has been in the South since the 1630s. We are not overly sentimental about material things.
Jimmy Buffett should pull out of the deal, and let Downtown Nashville struggle to find anyone else who would go into that spot.
Good luck on that one, Historic Zoning Commission.
I've been to Margaritaville in Key West. (So has Alan Jackson...)
It was great-! My friend & I had a lot of fun there-!
It's been quite awhile since Global Cafe closed, hasn't it-?
(I never went there.)
I did go to see some friends play @ Planet Hollywood, when it was @ that location.
Bad food, and service to match.
Downtown Nashville should work like crazy to get Margaritaville in that spot-! Get real-! There's Help, and there's Hinder. What are they thinking-?!?! TRY HELPING-!
I couldn't agree more skeptic 1 and shef2. We should be lucky that they want to take over that space. It didn't do well as Planet Hollywood or Global Cafe. I think this restaurant/venue will be great for Music City. The Historic Zoning Commission sounds like a bunch of sticks in the mud... I vote Margaritaville all the way!
The nit-wits and bozos who want to "tweek" Buffet's restaurant/ bar better get with it and soon. They don't want "windows that OPEN" and will probably demand guns are allowed, especially past midnight. The developers should take their $10 million and head out of town. Who needs Nashville's inane nonsense?
Hey, a beachfront-themed liquor bar in landlocked Tennessee seems like a natural fit....fake palm trees, trucked-in beach sand, tropical-looking thatch roofed tables....."Yellow Bird" quietly streaming in the background, as pistol-packing, cowboy-hat-wearing, tea-bagger-types elbow up to the bar......perfect!
What on earth could the wussy preservationists be concerned about?


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Patient Education
- Mediastinal and Pleural Disorders
- Mediastinal Masses
- Mediastinitis
- Pleural Effusion
- Pleural Fibrosis and Calcification
- Pneumomediastinum
- Pneumothorax
- Viral Pleuritis
Mediastinitis is inflammation of the mediastinum. Acute mediastinitis usually results from esophageal perforation or median sternotomy. Symptoms include severe chest pain, dyspnea, and fever. The diagnosis is confirmed by chest x-ray or CT. Treatment is with antibiotics (eg, clindamycin plus ceftriaxone) and sometimes surgery.
The 2 most common causes of acute mediastinitis are
Esophageal perforation
Esophageal perforation may complicate esophagoscopy or insertion of a Sengstaken-Blakemore or Minnesota tube (for esophageal variceal bleeding). Rarely, it results from forceful vomiting (Boerhaave syndrome). Another possible cause is swallowing caustic substances (eg, lye, certain button batteries). Certain pills or esophageal ulcers (eg, in AIDS patients with esophagitis) can contribute.
Patients with esophageal perforation become acutely ill within hours, with severe chest pain and dyspnea due to mediastinal inflammation.
Diagnosis is usually obvious from clinical presentation and a history of instrumentation or of another risk factor. The diagnosis should also be considered in patients who are very ill, have chest pain, and may have a risk factor that they cannot describe (eg, in intoxicated patients who may have vomited forcefully but do not remember and in preverbal children who may have ingested a button battery). The diagnosis is confirmed by chest x-ray or CT showing air in the mediastinum.
Treatment is with parenteral antibiotics selected to be effective against oral and GI flora (eg, clindamycin 450 mg IV q 6 h plus ceftriaxone 2 g once/day, for at least 2 wk). Patients who have severe mediastinitis with pleural effusion or pneumothorax require emergency surgical exploration of the mediastinum with primary repair of the esophageal tear and drainage of the pleural space and mediastinum.
Median sternotomy
This procedure is complicated by mediastinitis in about 1% of cases. Patients most commonly present with wound drainage or sepsis. Diagnosis is based on finding infected fluid obtained by a needle aspiration through the sternum. Treatment consists of immediate surgical drainage, debridement, and parenteral broad-spectrum antibiotics. Mortality approaches 50% in some series.
Chronic fibrosing mediastinitis
This condition usually is due to TB or histoplasmosis but can be due to sarcoidosis, silicosis, or other fungal diseases. An intense fibrotic process develops, leading to compression of mediastinal structures that can cause the superior vena cava syndrome, tracheal narrowing, or obstruction of the pulmonary arteries or veins.
Diagnosis is based on CT. If the cause is TB, anti-TB therapy is indicated. Otherwise, no known treatment is beneficial, but insertion of vascular or airway stents can be considered.
Drugs Mentioned In This Article
Drug NameSelect Trade
- Mediastinal and Pleural Disorders
- Mediastinal Masses
- Mediastinitis
- Pleural Effusion
- Pleural Fibrosis and Calcification
- Pneumomediastinum
- Pneumothorax
- Viral Pleuritis


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Hmmm. These aren't the Rabbits I've heard of. The Rabbits I've heard of do not insert into glasses, and in fact deal in the complete opposite of making things cold. I guess Rabbits are multi-faceted.
These Rabbits are of the Jumbo Chilling Stone variety. Stick them in the freezer for a few hours and then add to any beverage or cocktail you want to keep chilled without diluting. Stones are made of stainless steel and designed in size Jumbo to avert accidental swallowing. Accidental tooth bashing: still a risk. They are sold in pairs, with each Rabbit big and cold enough to chill a drink on its own.


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When I was in my early teens I had a Saturday ritual of watching The Mary Tyler Moore Show with my best friend Alice. Even after Alice moved away, I continued to watch because Mary Richards was so inspiring! I wanted to be like her. She played a 30-year old, single, working woman in a Minneapolis newsroom. Although she was warm and full of smiles, she was also strong, capable, and independent, with a winning character. In 2002, in a CNN interview about whether her character Mary on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" was a feminist, Moore responded: "She wasn't aggressive about it, but she surely was … the writers never forgot that. They had her in situations where she had to deal with it."
Not to mention the fact that it was the 70s and Mary's fashion style was of-the-moment and in-the-groove. I loved it all: Mary, her friends and colleagues, the story lines, the fashion. It was heady stuff for a teenage girl and each week I kept coming back for more.
It was with great sadness that I heard of Mary Tyler Moore's passing – I felt like I did all those years ago when the show went off the air – like I had lost a great friend. A strong urge came over me to watch an episode of the show and see Mary again. One of my favorites, "Put on a Happy Face," aired early in the show's history. In an unlikely moment for Mary, she is having a series of bad days, just before the television award ceremony called 'The Teddy's,' where she has been nominated for an award. Her hair gets puffy and things get worse from there. Rest in Peace Mary Tyler Moore, and thank you for showing me the way to be a woman in the world – all these years later.


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We all want leads right? Leads can lead to customer which can lead to money. Don't get me wrong. Don't look at your customers like dollar bills. They should be treated like human beings who seek value for the time they are investing in your wonderful services that you spent so much time making and delivering. But money is always a good thing too, right? Getting leads is always one of the million dollar questions that every businessman and marketer asks. Webinars serve as a great way for many teleconference companies such as ourselves to gain leads. So here is a list of 10 tips of why YOU should be using a webinar to gain leads for YOUR business.
Tip #1 – Creating interest
If someone finds out about your webinar through someone else or accidently discovers it and is interested in it, that's a good thing. It means they have trust in you, your company, and the services you offer. Do not lose their interest!
Tip #2 – Create a connection
Reading something online is one thing. Listening to someone talk is something else. When you hear someone's voice, it creates an emotional reactionf rom the person who is hearing it. Why? It's a REAL HUMAN VOICE giving out some VALUABLE information about something that the listener finds interesting. Take advantage of that.
Tip #3 – Make it free!
Webinars can sometimes be free. Yes, that's right….free. Some are paid while others are free. When people see free stuff. they tend to not ignore it, specially if it's learning material they want to gain access to.
Tip #4 – Having a partner is great
Just like in our 10 Tips To Prepare for a Webinar article, having a co-host or partner is great. Webinars are great opportunities for partnership because you can partner up with someone else and team up. This can lead to more traffic and more leads because your partner might have their own following. And when people find out that your partner is working with your service, word will spread.
Tip #5 – Go beyond your reach
Webinars are limitless. You post them online and they can be watched anywhere at anytime. TONS of potential for leads coming in any direction. The reach you will get is beyond any other lead generation tool.
Tip #6 – Leverage social media
Webinars allow you to use social media signals to boost and enhance how awesome your webinar actually is. 3,000 views? I gotta see this! Put social media view counters and share buttons on your webinar. When people see other people lined up to see something, human curiosity takes over.
Tip #7 – Make people come
Create urgency. Putting a limited number of seats available for the webinar in your announcements will make people want to come because they don't want to miss out on what you are offering. Instead of your leads waiting until the last minute and possibly forgetting, they will come right away and you can guarantee they will be there.
Tip #8 – Keep the leads coming
Put a notification somewhere on your webinar that previews what your next webinar will be like. Ever seen tv shows that previews what the next episode will be like and you start thinking "I CANNOT MISS THAT EPISODE!" and you start making space in your schedule for next week just for that episode? Yea, you get my point. Hype your leads up for new upcoming content to retain them and keep them in.
Tip #9 – MORE free stuff
Ok this is turning into a "How Webinars Can Get You Leads" article…. but anyways, another feature you can add to your webinar: free stuff. Yes, just like Tip #3, add MORE free stuff to your webinar. Whether it is a free trial or something, people will want to come and get it.
Tip #10 – Keep them coming!
And finally, make sure you retain all the people who came to see your webinar. Request for feedback, tell them about your next webinar, tell them to follow you and add you on facebook, twitter, and Google+. Tell them to subscribe to your email list. Just make sure you have them on your "list". Your list will grow in due time.
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The West Falmouth Library manages two scholarship funds, the Arthur F. Hennessey Jr. memorial fund and the Colonial Scholarship fund. A selection committee meets annually to review applications for these two scholarships and awards the scholarships at the annual meeting.
We welcome gifts made to the Arthur F. Hennessey Jr. memorial scholarship fund. Please make your check payable to: the West Falmouth Library with a note indicating it is for the Hennessey Scholarship Fund.
Arthur F. Hennessey, Jr. Scholarship
The Arthur F. Hennessey, Jr. Scholarship Award was established over forty years ago in memory of this West Falmouth citizen who gave his life in Vietnam on April 19, 1965. Funds were donated in his memory and added to over the years by individuals interested in providing financial aid to deserving students seeking higher education. Due to Arthur F. Hennessey, Jr. family's history in West Falmouth, applicants must reside in West Falmouth or have strong ties to the community of West Falmouth and attend a high school in the town of Falmouth. This scholarship may be awarded to one or two students.
Colonial Scholarship
When the Massachusetts Bay Chapter of the Colonial Dames of the 17th Century disbanded in 2006, the chapter asked the West Falmouth Library to assume stewardship of their scholarship and to award this annual scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to a Falmouth High School senior who exhibits academic excellence, participates in school and community activities, and is in financial need.
Applications for the Arthur F. Hennessey, Jr. and the Colonial Scholarship are available in February of each year at the Guidance Offices at Falmouth High Schools or at the Library. Eligible students must reside in Falmouth, be a senior in high school and attend a high school in the town of Falmouth.
Deadline for applications is April 1st each year.


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Lesbian Twin Sisters
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CORVALLIS - Oregon State University students from McMinnville and St. Paul have earned four-year scholarships totaling more than $40,000.
Annette Buyserie, of St. Paul, and James Kirby Jr., of McMinnville, will each receive Wal-Mart Stores Competitive Edge Scholarships of more than $20,000.
Pre-engineering majors, they start their freshmen terms at OSU this fall. The awards are an effort between OSU and Wal-Mart to boost America's edge in science and technology.
Buyserie is active in academic, athletic and community groups including Future Farmers of America, track, basketball, and as a volunteer in both youth and elder care. Her parents are Douglas and Margaret Buyserie of St. Paul.
Kirby excels academically and is active in cross-country running. In high school, he operated a student-run desktop publishing business and prepared building plans for the city hall in Elgin, Ore., which is under construction. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Kirby Sr. of McMinnville.
Wal-Mart's Competitive Edge Scholarships are awarded to OSU students with top academic standing and community involvement. Funded in part by contributions from Wal-Mart vendors, the fund has grown into one of the nation's largest science and technology scholarship programs.
For information, contact: Elona Bell, University Projects, OSU Development Office, 517 Snell Hall, Corvallis OR 97331-1650.
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In a blender, add 2 cups coarsely chopped ice cubes and 6 ripe medium tomatoes, about 2 pounds, cored and cut into quarters.
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We don't normally (or ever) post basic salad recipes on Rampant Cuisine because salads are pretty self explanatory. However, the Cobb salad, when done well, is salad perfection and a complete meal. I could, quite honestly, eat it every single day for the rest of my life. It has everything you could want on a salad…chicken, bacon, egg, avocado (one of my top 5 favorite foods), blue cheese, and tomato piled on crisp romaine lettuce…swoon. However, Cobb salad in some restaurants can be pretty mediocre and either lack key components or use poor substitutes (deli meat, iceberg lettuce, etc.) We made our cobb salad using fresh oven roasted chicken, thick cut bacon, and creamy homemade blue cheese dressing. The combination of flavors and textures is sensational and the presentation is bursting with color and variety. If you've been disappointed in restaurant Cobb salads in the past do yourself a favor and make your own at home!
Katryn's Wine Pairing: Undurraga 2013 Chardonnay-Riesling
Rating: 9.0 out of 10.0
This was a winner! I was intrigued by the blend of Chardonnay and Riesling and it was the perfect blend of brightness to cut through the rich cheese and dressing but also smooth and creamy to complement and contrast the salad. It was slightly sweet and fruity with notes of pear and apricot and had just a hint of oakiness. Very good!
Nathan's Beer Pairing: Harpoon Summer Beer
Rating: 8.0 out of 10.0
This was a pretty nice summer beer and did the job well when paired with the cobb salad. The blue cheese dressing is pretty potent so we wanted a beer that could cut through the dressing but not overpower the other flavors in the salad. The minimal citrus and pine aromas and flavors in the beer helped to do this while not being so strong that they ruined any of the other flavors. The light malt body and crisp finish helped to wash everything down and keep it refreshing.
Classic Cobb Salad
Adapted from this recipe
Serves 4–6
Salad Ingredients
1 head romaine lettuce, chopped
2 oz. blue cheese, preferably Roquefort, crumbled
6 strips cooked bacon, roughly chopped
3-4 hard-boiled eggs, peeled and cut into ½" cubes
1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
1 boneless skinless chicken breast, (Roast chicken recipe follows)
1 avocado, peeled, pitted, and cut into ½" cubes
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
Dressing Ingredients
Adapted from this recipe
1/2 cup mayonnaise (we used Hellman's Olive Oil mayonnaise)
1/4 cup whole milk
1/4 cup light sour cream
2 tablespoons lemon juice
Dash of Worcestershire sauce
1/2 cup blue cheese crumbles
Salt and pepper
Salad Directions
1. Make the dressing: To a bowl add the mayo, milk, sour cream, lemon juice and Worcestershire, and stir until combined. Stir in the blue cheese and add salt and pepper to taste.
2. Make the salad: Place the Romaine lettuce on a large platter. Arrange the blue cheese, bacon, eggs, tomatoes, chicken, and avocado on top of the greens in neat rows. To serve, drizzle salad with dressing and season with salt and pepper.
Roasted Chicken Recipe
Adapted from this recipe
1 (5 to 6 pound) roasting chicken
Kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper
1 lemon, halved
1 large yellow onion, thickly sliced
2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) butter, melted
Olive oil
1. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
2. Remove the chicken giblets. Rinse the chicken inside and out. Remove any excess fat and leftover pin feathers and pat the outside dry. Liberally salt and pepper the inside of the chicken. Stuff the cavity with both halves of lemon and the onion. Brush the outside of the chicken with the butter and sprinkle again with salt and pepper. Tie the legs together with kitchen string and tuck the wing tips under the body of the chicken.
3. Roast the chicken for 1 1/2 hours, or until the juices run clear when you cut between a leg and thigh. Remove the chicken and vegetables to a platter and cover with aluminum foil for about 20 minutes. Slice the chicken onto a platter.


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While I wait for the recipes to add up, (Comment on my last post to submit a recipe!) I want to give you this recipe I have been very excited about the past few days.
Remember when I said I was going to go gluten-free for a while? Well, I have one-upped that, and have made a bread that is totally grain-free.
No spelt, no rice flour, no coconut flour, no peanut flour, no crazy substitute flours at all! Yet, it still tastes like bread-Pumpkin Spice Bread, that is 🙂
First, I started by making a butternut squash bread. I threw some things together into a couple mini-loaf pans, and the result was extremely good, but I knew I could do better. Thus I created the Grain-Free Pumpkin Spice Bread!
Finally I have a pumpkin recipe published! After seeing all of the other bloggers' delectable –looking pumpkin recipes, I wanted to make my own!
~This recipe is gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, and sugar-free!
- 1 cup of pumpkin puree
- 1/2 cup almond butter
- 3 eggs
- 3 Tablespoons Ground flax
- 3 Tablespoons Chia Gel (For each tablespoon of chia, mix 2-3 tablespoons of water and let sit for 15-20 minutes. The chia seeds will puff into a gel)
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves, 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg (or 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
- 1/4 cup water
- Mix together the ingredients.
- Pour into a lightly-greased bread pan.
- Bake for 1 hour at 350*. The bread will rise while in the oven, but will sink when taken out.
- Let the bread cool for fifteen minutes in the pan (this is necessary for the bread to set since it has no flour in it), and then plop it onto a plate or cutting board.
Before baking…
I may or may not have licked the mixing bowl clean…
Bake for 1 hour at 350*. The bread will rise while in the oven….
But it will sink a little bit when it is taken out…
Let the bread cool for fifteen minutes in the pan (this is necessary for the bread to set since it has no flour in it), and then plop it onto a plate or cutting board.
It is extremely moist, and no-one will ever guess that it is sugar-free or that it doesn't have flour in it!
This bread will be perfect for Halloween or Thanksgiving!
Thought-provoking, mind-prodding question of the day:
What is your favorite way to eat pumpkin? Or do you even like pumpkin?
I used to LOVE pumpkin pie when I ate sugar! Seriously, I would eat it all day long if I could! The way it melts in your mouth as the crust crumbles and the custard-y filling squishes…oh man it is heavenly. I'm going to have to make a sugar-free pumpkin pie recipe!


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My comments in the off topic forum are not visible to anyone. What the hell is this?
I'm a co author to a blog (Hamza). Itspak was stuck in a problem with her blog. Her comments were not visible too. And I saw my comments are not visible but in off topic only.
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It looks like a few were marked as spam. I have recovered the ones I could fine.
Everything seems to be right now. Thanks Macmanx and Evarlese
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Video: South Boston Street Festival
(Patrick D. Rosso/Boston.com/2012)
South Boston merchants welcomed residents to East Broadway on Saturday for the annual South Boston Street Festival.
Complete with food vendors, artists, local shops and organizations the festival gave newcomers, tourists, and locals a chance to sample everything South Boston has to offer.
Put on by the South Boston Chamber of Commerce and in its 13th year, the afternoon festival hosted such groups as Southie Trees, South Boston's very own tree advocacy non-profit, and restaurants like East Broadway's newest addition, The Paramount.
In the end more than a hundred vendors and groups turned out to show off their stuff and catch up with neighbors and customers.
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Our latest post (the David Sedaris interview) went a little bit viral yesterday... by afternoon, it had been shared 7k+ times on Facebook.
Today, the counter appears to have zeroed out and started over. (It's now in the 500s and climbing again.)
Having an accurate number there helps us in a business sense, because it's how we prove to publishers the reach of these interviews (which enables us to book future interviews). So it's a big bummer that the count suddenly dropped / went away. Any idea how to fix or get that accurate count back?
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Insanely Cool AKIRA Poster Art
Check out this badass new poster art for the classic 1988 Katsuhiro Otomo-directed anime film Akira! It was awesomely created by artist Alexander Iaccarino, and the poster sold out before it even got on our radar. I wish I would have found this sooner. It's just such a cool design, and I would have loved to get my hands on one. What do you think of the poster?
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A prescription of literary tonics. From cocktails from the classics to poetic panaceas, it's just what the doctor ordered.
Celebrating the Life and Work of Helen Dunmore
Booksellers quickly learn that most authors come and go but there are a rare number who become part of the fabric of the bookshop, the ones who feel like friends. Helen Dunmore was one such author. Dunmore, who died in 2017, left behind a rich literary legacy; writing of great breadth, sensitivity and deep understanding of the human condition. As we celebrate her life and work, authors John Boyne, Louise Doughty, Helen Taylor and Fanny Blake offer their own tributes to a generous and influential writer and friend.
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First 3 years of eating influence children's long-term tastes: study
Parents' involvement during the first three years of life is crucial to fostering lifelong healthy eating habits, according to the findings of the HabEat project. (BlueOrange Studio/Shutterstock.com)
Published Saturday, April 5, 2014 12:43PM EDT
Faced with a nine-month-old who makes faces at anything green, or a toddler who throws a tantrum at the sight of a carrot, many parents are tempted to give up on getting their kids to enjoy veggies.
But the findings of the HabEat project -- a multidisciplinary Pan-European study of how food behaviours are formed in infants and children -- give parents plenty of reasons to persevere.
At the final symposium of the project -- held in Dijon, France on March 31 and April 1 -- the research teams presented practical recommendations for improving children's intake of fruit and vegetables.
Initiated in January 2010 by 11 partner organizations from five European countries, the HabEat project followed the eating habits of several cohorts of children (aged six months to six years) over a four-year period. The goal was to understand how eating habits are formed and sometimes broken during the first years of life.
Using various psychological, epidemiological, behavioural and nutritional analyses, the project sought to identify the key mechanisms in the development of children's taste or distaste for certain foods.
At the end of the project, researchers' recommendations all centre around one essential point: children must be taught to enjoy fruits and vegetables at the earliest age possible.
The project's findings also emphasize the importance of diversity in the diet, suggesting that children should be introduced to a wide variety of fruits and vegetables early on.
For better chances of success, researchers advise introducing only one new fruit or vegetable per meal, without combining them. Parents should act as role models during the process, encouraging their child to appreciate fruits and vegetables without forcing them.
In fact, coercive techniques and reward-based motivations, such as "Eat your sprouts and you'll get cake", can be counterproductive, as they alter a child's natural ability to gauge hunger and satiety, leading to a risk of compulsive eating and obesity later in life.
The research suggests it is better to trust the child's appetite, however fickle it may be. Sometimes, the same vegetable may be offered and rejected 8 to 10 times over the course of a few weeks before a child finally takes a liking to it.
For older children, being involved in the cooking process can lead to more willingness to try new foods, especially if parents and caretakers bring them along to farmer's markets to help pick out fruits and vegetables.
Finally, the HabEat project concludes that breastfeeding plays a vital role in the development of healthy eating habits. Researchers found a positive correlation between the number of months an infant was breastfed and the quantity of fruit and vegetables he or she consumed during later childhood.