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Dear Abby: I'm a 19-year-old hardworking woman, but I burn out of jobs quickly. I'll start a job and love it, but, within a year, I hate my job and put in my two-weeks notice.
Dear Abby: I�m a 19-year-old hardworking woman, but I burn out of jobs quickly. I�ll start a job and love it, but, within a year, I hate my job and put in my two-weeks notice.
I have recently considered enlisting in the Air Force. (My husband is on active duty.) I am thrilled about it, but I�m afraid I�ll start hating it and be stuck with it. How do I overcome this?
� Wants To Enlist
Dear Wants: Please stop and reread your letter. Are you aware that you�re talking about work the way a schoolgirl talks about romance � blind, grand passion until reality sets in, then on to the next one?
A job isn�t like that. There are good days and ones that are less so, co-workers who are a pleasure and some who are a challenge. Sometimes it�s stimulating, and sometimes it�s an effort.
Military life is rewarding, but it can also be demanding, frustrating and dangerous. It requires making a commitment and sticking with it even after the going gets tough. With your short attention span and low tolerance for frustration, I don�t recommend you take any job that requires a signed contract guaranteeing you won�t leave.
Dear Abby: My friend and I have a massage therapist, �Shelby,� whom we hire on a regular basis because she does an excellent job. However, it�s hard to get a completely relaxing massage because she likes to talk the whole time.
What�s the nicest and most polite way to inform Shelby that we prefer peace and quiet so we can enjoy the massage?
� Rubbed the Wrong Way
Dear Wrong Way: Shelby isn�t your buddy; she�s a professional who has been hired to perform a service. When you make your next appointment and she starts talking, say, �Shelby, when you talk during the massage, it makes it difficult for me to relax. Right now, I need to completely relax, and conversation is distracting.� If that doesn�t clearly � and politely � convey your message, then you need to find a massage therapist who is less verbal.
Dear Abby: I hired a pet sitter to stay in my home for two days to care for my dog. (I have used him in the past.) After 24 hours of no response to my texts or phone calls, I asked a neighbor to check on my dog. The sitter had never showed up. My dog had been left alone with no food or walks.
Should I alert his other clients about what happened? I have this person�s client email list.
� Angry Pet Owner in Houston
Dear Angry: Unless your sitter had a life-threatening emergency, by all means warn the other clients.
Write Dear Abby at Universal Press Syndicate, in care of The Columbus Dispatch, P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069; for a reply, enclose a self-
addressed, stamped envelope. Or visit www.dear abby.com.


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Sight is a beautiful sense to keep intact and healthy. It allows us to better appreciate our environment, and is very useful in day-to-day activities. Perfect eyesight is given to a good number of people, yet the rest of us have to deal with vision issues. The rise of technology, desk jobs and excessive phone and computer usage have led to the worldwide development of unhealthy lifestyles, eye strain and poor posture, and with it come more vision problems that could have been avoided. The use of contact lenses exposes the wearer to bacteria and infection, and glasses invite dependency. Here are 6 exercises designed to move the ocular muscles to restore good vision.
Doing the pencil push up
Fix your eyes at a marked point on a pencil held vertically in front of your face. Make sure it is your central line of vision. Move the pencil up and down while focusing on the mark ten times. Afterwards, rotate the pencil clockwise then counterclockwise, still keeping your eye on the mark. This exercise helps the ocular muscles achieve a faster reaction time and rate of movement, and can help conditions wherein there is difficulty focusing. A variation of the exercise you can do is to change the distance of the pencil from your face by moving it closer then farther away. This will stimulate the muscles that adjust to depth.
Sunning is an exercise that focuses on the contraction of the iris, which is the sphincter muscle that makes the pupils wider. It helps with light accommodation and reduces light sensitivity especially in those to tend to squint. This exercise is done with the eyes closed, and is done during the daytime due to the requirement of the sun. It involves moving the head from full right rotation to full left rotation, making sure that the eyes are not exposed to the sun during full rotation, yet is exposed to the sun during neutral rotation (or facing forward). This is done for 10 minutes and before the Palming exercise, which we will discuss next.
This method is simple and relaxing, and can be considered a form of mindfulness and meditation exercise that also benefits vision. This is most useful for those who have eyestrain, who suffer from headaches due to vision, and those who have dry eyes and blurry vision after a long day. The key to palming is to find a position comfortable to you. Keep your legs unfolded, and keep your body connected and in a state of relaxation, like you would do in meditation. Prop up your elbows, and put your palms over your closed eyes with one hand overlapping the other. Breathe slowly and deeply, and focus on positive things. You can do this several times a day for a few minutes depending on the time it takes you to relax.
Although it is natural for us to blink, staring too much at the television, computer screen and the displays of our mobile devices actually reduce the rate of our blinking, allowing the eyes to dry up and eventually making it prone to scratching, irritation, and vision problems. Blinking is an activity that will keep the eye lubricated and healthy, and is important especially when work involves staring at a computer screen all throughout the day. It is important to take breaks after 20 minutes, and blink a few times. Closing the eyes for a few additional seconds can also help.
Teaching the eyes to transfer focus from one point to another is called shifting. You literally just shift your focal point from one object to another. To start, pick two objects in the scenery you would like to focus on, for starters it would be nice if the two objects were at the same distance from you. Then, look at one object, then the other, then back to the first again. Keep on transferring focus for a few seconds. To add variation to this, and to add a little difficulty, try changing one focus to something farther or nearer than the other, to challenge your depth perception as well.
Visual Treat
One of the most relaxing things for the eye is the color green. This is the reason why a lot of offices have plants, or paintings with landscapes on them. These are not merely for decoration and aesthetics, but are also actually helpful for the eyes to calm down. It is also recommended to look at something green after staring at a computer screen for too long. Give your vision a treat by going to a place wherein there is abundance of green, or of nature to be exact. Fresh air does a body good, and fresh green landscape is what the eyes need after a long week of working.

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[JURIST] A document released to an Australian commission [Cole Commission official website] set up [JURIST report] to investigate alleged Australian connections to the oil-for-food scandal [JURIST news archive] Tuesday shows that Saddam Hussein personally assisted the Australian Wheat Board (AWB) [corporate website] in grain distribution in Iraq while it was supposedly paying his government kickbacks. The document, written by former AWB executive Dominic Hogan, describes a meeting between Saddam Hussein and Alia, a Jordanian transport company regarding delays of AWB shipments in Iraqi ports. AWB has denied knowing of any kickbacks, maintaining that they believed cash was paid to Alia, 49 percent of which was owned by the Iraqi government, to cover transport of the wheat inside Iraq.
The scandal dominated the Australian parliament's first meeting of the year Tuesday in which Prime Minister John Howard [official profile] denied the government's knowledge of any wrongdoing; he maintained it was the UN's role to oversee value and prices, not the Australian government. Late last week Howard publicly demanded an apology [JURIST report] from US Senator Norm Coleman for accusing the Australian government of participating in illegal bribes to Hussein's regime. Read an AWB statement [text] on the proceedings of the Australian Commission of Inquiry, which is scheduled to issue its report on March 31. AFP has more. The Australian has local coverage, plus a late report that according to another Commission document, Australian Deputy Prime Minister Mark Valle met with two executives linked to illegal kickbacks. Valle has insisted no such meeting took place.


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I love Twitter. I really do. I've met so many fascinating,
ratchet, interesting, out-of-pocket, classy, ignant, unforgettable people there. It is definitely a quick and painfree way to reach a lot people in a short amount of time. Twitter can open your world to people and ideas that you may not have been exposed to anywhere else.
With one glance through my columns on TweetDeck, I can know the weather worldwide. Sports scores, the latest Obama sighting, who said what in Congress, what's up on Wall Street and what celeb just did something regrettable. Who died, who got pregnant, who started dating, who just broke up - it's all there to see. I also know who is reading what, watching what, eating what. And I know what the latest soapbox issue of the day is as well as ongoing causes and campaigns.
Never was this more apparent than with the case of Troy Davis. I can tell you who is for and against the death penalty, who believes the justice system in America is fatally flawed and who is still an eternal optimist. I can tell you who had never heard of Troy Davis before Monday and who has been blogging and tweeting his cause for years.
Either way, it doesn't matter. We are able to (finally) get our issues heard by driving trending topics that news organizations pay attention to. Whether or not Twitter manipulated the trending lists to "shut down" the Troy Davis discussion will be hotly debated for months. What we do know is that by attempting to shut down a topic, they actually drew more attention to it. And that's great... though not good enough.
I need folks to understand something fundamental about activism... it still requires action. It's awesome to draw attention to the wrongs of the world by tweeting about them but at some point, you have to get up from behind your keyboard and stand up for what you believe in.
I say this right now with less than fourteen months to the 2012 elections. If no one else sees the direction this country is heading in, I'm happy to be the one to tell you - it's not good. Tweeting, Facebooking, and blogging are great vehicles to share opinions and disseminate information. But I'm going to need folks to do a bit more than rant in 140 characters or less.
Ranting in tweet after tweet about how the Supreme Court ain't sh*t does very little. Putting people in office who can shape the judicial system and fight for what you believe in? It's everything. Everything.
Quite simply, I ask this of you:
Vote. Take others to vote. Join a phone bank. Learn who your representatives are and how to contact them. Buy a t-shirt, write a check, support a candidate, go to a debate, get into it. No one is going to do this for you. Get yo' tweet on, find like minded individuals and mobilize. Your tweet is only as good as the action behind it. It's going to take more than keyboard bravery to get this country on the right track. Vote.
And before you ask, well what are you doing Ms. Michele? Don't worry about me. I'm all knee deep up in Organizing for America. Plus I've got some covert ops style ideas I'm running with. (If Rick Perry disappears, he may or may not be wrapped in purple satin and locked in the trunk of a German sedan while being forced to listen to R&B hits of the 90s. But you didn't hear it from me)
The revolution will not be tweeted, people. (You can count on somebody to shut that down) it will be in the streets and at the polls. See you there. Thoughts?


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RICHMOND Va. — After a dismal 2013 season, Robert Griffin III and the Washington Redskins are embracing a fresh start. And their new coach.
The star quarterback did not see much action in last year's training camp and wore a clunky knee brace for the entire season. This year he is brace-free and healthy. After feuding with former Redskins coach Mike Shanahan, RG3 now gladly wraps his arms in a bear hug around first-year head coach Jay Gruden.
"The stress is kind of off (Griffin). Worrying about reps, worrying about a head coach who you don't really know about — if he likes you or if he doesn't — things like that," cornerback DeAngelo Hall said Thursday. "From the jump, from the moment Jay came in here Robert knew that Jay wanted him. He wanted to coach him and he felt like he could be special."
Griffin's highly publicized spat with Shanahan culminated in the quarterback's benching for the final three games of last season before Shanahan was fired.
But Gruden has taken advantage of RG3's clean bill of health and put the quarterback through a rigorous offseason program dually focused on Griffin's mental processes after he threw 12 interceptions in just 13 games in 2013.
"That's something that has to be done with every quarterback in the NFL. He's no exception. The ones that have played for 15 and 20 years – some of the great ones of all time – they're working on their mental game every day," Gruden said. "That's never going to change from his third year, to his 10th year to his 15th year. He's got to challenge himself mentally every day in the offseason."
Griffin still has challenges to overcome.
"It's just a huge feel-out process, getting to know a new coach, getting to know a new offense and getting to know some of the new weapons we have," he said.
Washington should have no shortage of offensive firepower, pairing Griffin with newly acquired wide receiver DeSean Jackson, who caught a career-high 82 passes for 1,332 yards and nine touchdowns for the Philadelphia Eagles last season before his surprising release in March.
Adding Jackson to a receiving corps that features Pierre Garcon (who led the NFL with 113 receptions a year ago), veteran Santana Moss and Andre Roberts, another new acquisition who had consistent success with the Arizona Cardinals, and Griffin appears to be leading one of the league's most dangerous aerial attacks.
But the offense struggled in its first training camp practice Thursday. Even Griffin's picture-perfect deep ball slipped through the hands of speedy Jackson. The Redskins faithful on hand still applauded the play, knowing their team could have one of the NFL's most lethal quarterback-receiver tandems this season.
"He knows that if I miss him one time, I'm going to get him the next. And if he misses something, that he'll make that play for me," said Griffin of Jackson. "The chemistry is there. He's a dynamic football player, and we look forward to him making dynamic plays."
Hall said the quarterback's confidence has reached a level beyond where it was during his 2012 offensive rookie of the year campaign. His sophomore slump behind him, RG3 appears to have both the tools and the poise to take his game to new heights.
"He's becoming a pro," Hall said. "He's had highs, he's had lows, he's probably come in here and said the wrong thing a time or two — and he understands that. He's learned from those mistakes, and he'll be better about that. That's growing him into the person he is right now."
And Griffin's focus now seems soley set forward.
"It doesn't matter what happened last year," he said. "We won the division one year and didn't win it the next. This year we're looking forward to getting back on top."
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This is so great and we need way more of this type of journalism in Winnipeg. Check out this ultra-resilient, empowered Indigenous youth, Savvy Simon from the Mi'kmaq Nation on the east coast. Using her traditional language and culture she is spreading "positive vibes" to youth and non-native people about the power of land, culture and language. Thank you Savvy Simon for this great piece! As Wab Kinew says: Everything is Medicine.
Article from the The Coast website based in Halifax here.
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History didn't repeat itself for Laura Robson at the US Open but it continues to do so for defending champion Andy Murray who admitted to turning up when needed to advance to the third round.
Robson and Murray, who won Olympic mixed doubles silver together at London 2012, were both in singles action during Friday's schedule with the former set for a rematch of last year's US Open third-round clash with Li Na.
The Brit triumphed 6-4, 7-6, 6-2 on that occasion but was to fall 6-2, 7-5 this time around before Murray took to the court to face Leonardo Mayer of Argentina in the second round of the men's draw.
Murray defeated Mayer 7-5, 6-1, 3-6, 6-1 and will now face a German of the same name, Florian Mayer, in the last 32 and feels he is doing just enough as his title defence rolls on at Flushing Meadows.
"I didn't feel like I served as well as I did in the first match – different court, different conditions during the day," said Murray.
"I finished the match well. I played well when I needed to – that's a good sign. I want to keep improving as the tournament goes on.
"You don't want to play your best right at the beginning, so I hope I can get better.
"It's a court I haven't played my best tennis on, that's for sure. I'm happy to play on any court. It doesn't really make a huge, huge difference.
"We got a great crowd out there; it was a really good atmosphere from pretty much the first point through to the last.
"Whether or not I've played well on that court, it's always a really good atmosphere. It's normally packed and it was the same again."
Meanwhile Robson described her campaign in the women's singles draw at Flushing Meadows as ordinary following her defeat to Na.
"I didn't have a very good start and she came out firing and didn't give me a lot to go on in the rallies," said Robson.
"It was a tough match for me to get into but I thought she played really, really well, very solid on the serve and return, so it was a tough one.
"I'm still very disappointed. I could have played a lot better. Overall I would say it was an average week and I definitely was looking to do better."
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aw M needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 30 designs submitted by 8 freelance designers.
ANEXIA is an Austrian based Cloud Hosting company which is offering different kind of cloud services around the globe. We ar expanding worldwide and have a 100+% growth every year. At the moment we are developing our own control panel for our customers. We want to make it "sexy" step-by-step.
We already build our own version. It's not that bad but we need to make it beautiful.
Here is the login to our customers:
User: firstname.lastname@example.com
Password: anexia!panel$TEST
Here you see some of our modules we want to activate.
The login page is pretty that much what it should look like in future. Our website http://www.anexia-it.com is also already in the new layout we have.
We do not have a special panel we have right now. We share market with lots of Infrastructure as a Service companies, like Amazon, Microsoft, Rackspace, etc.
In the login area we provided you, you see all the existing modules we have right now.
That's the following:
This module provides the bandwidth usage of all servers with ANEXIA. They are divided in so called "traffic pools". This traffic pools could contain one server or we are able too pool lots of servers together to one pool. Every pool is the basement for the billing of the customer. You see it too: it could be: flatrate, 95 percentile module, per GB/TB pricing. If you click on "pool details" you are able to see the so called sensors, which are traffic sensors of servers, vlans, etc.
Power usage:
This module is pretty similar to the traffic module. Instead of traffic we measure the power usage of a customer's server-rack. Customers rent a server rack (http://www.datasix.at/en/ (one of our brands)) and need to see how much power they are using.
E-Mail module:
This is just a simple e-mail module. All the functionality is already there. You can try it. We are open for new features, but we did not implement it. We are open for creative ideas. How would your perfect e-mail management tool look like? Please tell us!
This is for managing the DNS records of a domain. It's hard to make this understandable to customers. Maybe we should have an "simple" and an "expert" area? But how to switch this? What have you ever thought abut that this should be in an dns panel? We are open for it!
Virtual Server:
This is a simple server overview with some statistics. We would like to have this more sexy. The next feature will be a start/stop/restart feature. This could be also implemented.
We do not have an dashboard right now. This dashboard could show technical information, it could show invoices (due status, last invoices, etc.). I am very open.
Please choose which module you want to design or/and what ideas you have for the different modules. up to three different pages (virtual server and/or dashboard /...) would be great. Choose that where you think that you would be able to convince us most.
We already using the right and new color scheme in the interface. we also have an "anexia" green as you see on our website.
We want to have a modern interface design. Feel free to change the menu by the way. We are not satisfied how it's looking at the moment. Change everything. We are open for ideas and very open.
We will steadily expand that webinterface. so there will be a lot of additional tasks waiting for you.


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The prefect commercial location along the shores of the Saranac River in the Coolest Small Town in New York State! Complex includes private 1500 sq. ft residence on the river, a full coin wash business, 3 other strip cnt rentals, a cash wash and another residential rental. On site parking for 30 cars, property runs along the Saranac River and is part of the Riverwalk system being expanded in 2017! New high capacity dryers in coin wash, new rest rooms, and office, propane boiler and hot water tank all new, Interior painted, new high efficiency windows in front of coin wash and all new moldings. Owner currently occupies the home but market value is $1000/month plus exp. Adjacent to trails.
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'We Bought a Zoo,' 'War Horse,' and Others Open Christmas Weekend
(NEW YORK) -- Three highly anticipated movies -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, and The Adventures of Tintin -- opened in wide release on Wednesday.
Of those films, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol had the best first-day performance, earning $6.6 million, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo earned $3.5 million on Wednesday, and The Adventures of Tintin grossed $2.3 million.
This weekend, three more movies join them at the box office nationwide. Here's a closer look at the latest holiday releases:
-- We Bought a Zoo (opening Friday): Matt Damon is a newspaper columnist and single father who quits his job and buys property that includes a zoo. He works with the zoo's staff, including a head zookeeper played by Scarlett Johansson, to care for the animals. Thomas Haden Church and Elle Fanning also star in the film, which was helmed by Jerry Maguire director Cameron Crowe. Rated PG. [Click here to read a review]
-- War Horse (opening Sunday): The Steven Spielberg-directed film, based on the stage production, is set in Europe and focuses on a horse's impact on soldiers and others in Europe during World War I. Jeremy Irvine and Emily Watson star. Rated PG-13.
-- The Darkest Hour (opening Sunday): The thriller focuses on five young people in Moscow who fight back against an alien invasion. Emile Hirsch and Olivia Thirlby star in the film, which is screening in 3D. Rated PG-13.
And opening in limited release on Sunday:
-- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close: An 11-year-old discovers a key left behind by his father -- who died in the 9/11 attacks -- and the child embarks on a mission to find the lock to which it belongs. Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock star. Rated PG-13.
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Whelp it looks like the Christmas Goat lost again this year. Maybe they can get the Duck Dingus guys or the Fox News folks to guard it next year.
One thought on "War On Christmas (Goat)"
I'm thinking that if it happens 27 times since 1966, burning the goat is just as much a tradition as the goat itself. Sort of a 50/50-ish chance.


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Call us today to schedule your Swimming Pool Inspection
A swimming pool is one of the most valuable assets in a home and it can be the place your family and friends share some of the best times of their lives.
Or it can be a headache that just won't go away.
Get our free guide on how to choose a contractor. You'll find helpful tips before you buy.
Get a Professional Pool Inspection. You'll want to buy your next home with your eyes wide open. But unless you're a pool expert yourself, you'll be wise to engage a professional pool service company, preferably a Certified Pool Builder to conduct a thorough inspection. You need one that's been around some time and has experience with a wide variety of pools – and the many problems that can happen with them over the years. You pay for the inspection, so get one you can rely on.
Mike McMillion - Owner
Phone (615) 568-3826
Don't Rely on a Home Inspector. Some buyers assume the home inspection covers the pool, but it's rare when it does. Even if they offer pool inspections, many home inspectors do not have the required expertise to properly conduct a swimming pool inspection. In fact, most home inspection reports include a disclaimer covering the pool.
Pools Have Complex Equipment. There are quite a number of moving parts to pools. Beyond the actual pool, which needs to be solid and leak-free, the pumps, heaters and filters need to be checked for proper operation. The electrical equipment needs to be inspected, as does the plumbing. Decking surfaces, safety covers and the hardware that secures them should be evaluated for condition and longevity.
Test the Pool by Running the Equipment. During a thorough inspection the overall operating condition of the pool and equipment is evaluated by turning the systems on to see if they run. Typically this is a visual inspection; keep in mind, you and the inspector have no right to take anything apart.
Get a Pressure Test for Leaks. If the company you hire doesn't know how to pressure test the plumbing for possible leaks, you may be setting yourself up for expensive problems down the road. Certainly, you don't want to have to schedule the pool for repairs before ever touching a toe in the water.
So before hiring a pool inspector, ask if the company performs water loss and leak testing and ( if necessary ) pressure testing of the pool plumbing. Main drain lines and some water feature lines cannot be easily pressure tested, and that should be noted in their report. Check to see if the report includes a written estimate for any needed repairs.
Check the Main Drains. Another important aspect of a swimming pool inspection—perhaps the most important aspect—is to make sure the pool is equipped with federally approved anti-entrapment covers on all suction outlets (drains) in the pool. Your pool inspector also needs to know applicable state laws regarding pools.
Use an Accepted Inspection Format. Depending on the company and the amount paid, pool inspection reports vary widely.
Check the Fence. All communities require fencing or other barriers around the pool to prevent children from wandering into an open pool area.
Specific requirements may vary from town to town, but all require functioning self-closing, self-latching gates. Your inspector should be very familiar with all aspects of safety pertaining to the pool and the surrounding area.
Settle the Pool Details, Then Close. When you buy a home with a swimming pool, you're buying it "as is." So before you sign the papers, know what you're getting into. If you need to make a price adjustment based upon any work that might be required to restore the pool to good operating condition, you'll be able to negotiate that before your real estate closing. Having money held in escrow to cover repair costs is an easy way to address any concerns that may have come up during the pool inspection.
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All positions available at Esthetics of Sewickley
At Esthetics, we are wholeheartedly committed to curating a complete & enjoyable experience for each of our guests, and they have certainly taken notice!
Due to our growth, we at Esthetics are looking to expand our Team effective immediately. We are currently seeking individuals who are passionate professionals, compelling communicators, and driven to develop their talent in the premier market for the Salon/Spa industry in the Greater Pittsburgh area.
Available positions include:
- Hair Stylist & Colorist
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All candidates must possess an active licence from the State Board of Cosmetology of Pennsylvania, and provide a resume chronicling work history & qualifications.
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Somalis crossing into Kenya running away from hunger not insecurity, says Kenya Prime Minister
Sunday July 17 2011
Prime Minister Raila Odinga wants the international community to establish refugee camps in Somalia to avoid inflow of more starving Somalis to Kenya.
Mr Odinga said the Somalis currently crossing into Kenya are running away from hunger, not insecurity and starting a feeding programme in Somalia would make a big difference.
The Prime Minister was speaking on Sunday when he held talks with British Minister for International Development Mr Andrew Mitchell who visited him at his Nairobi's Karen home.
There has been an out cry as living conditions deteriorate at refugee camps in the northern part of Kenya due to over crowding and insufficient food.
Kenya has been hesitant to open more refugee camps citing threat to internal insecurity by the many 'refugees' seeking a haven in Kenya.
Mr Odinga and Mitchell's talks on Sunday focussed on the refugee crisis in northern Kenya and the food and drought in the Horn of Africa.
During the talks, attended also by British High Commissioner to Kenya Mr Rob Mcaire, the PM renewed calls the international community to engage more meaningfully in the situation in northern Kenya.
The PM thanked the UK and US for their response to the crisis so far, and asked other nations to join the operation in the Horn of Africa.
On food, the PM asked the UK and other nations to help Kenya build it's food basket, acknowledging that the country is currently fire fighting.
He said the grand coalition government had embarked on restoring irrigation schemes that collapsed many years ago and is also building damms as a way of ensuring food security.
He said the restoration of the irrigation schemes have exposed the lack of capacity by the country to store it's harvest safely and called for support with the construction of storage facilities and expansion of irrigation schemes nationwide.
In response, Mr Mitchell said the UK is ready to support programs that would ensure food security in the country and asked the government to submit a proposal.
He said the UK has already set aside substantial amounts of money to help Kenya go through the current drought, but observed that the only sure security is for the country to be able to produce enough food, a programme he said Britain is ready to support.
He thanked the government of Kenya for agreeing to open the IFO II camp in Daadab saying it was an act of kindness for which the international community should support Kenya in appreciation.
The two leaders also discussed the continuing row over the Free Primary Education Funds, agreeing that the matter needs to be brought to a closure, with every shilling accounted for.
Turning to upcoming elections, the two leaders observed that with 2007 events still fresh in the minds of Kenyans and the international community, Kenya needed to put in place a team of credible people to manage the 2012 elections.
Mr Odinga said there is no shortage of credible people to manage elections, promising that the team the government puts together will be convincing and trustworthy.
On the date of elections, Mr Odinga said there are differences on interpretation of the law, but expressed hope that the Supreme Court will soon give directions on the matter.
Mr Mitchell said the date needs to be known in good time to enable the country and the international community prepare and support Kenya.
He said the international community is waiting for the next election with tremendous interest, given the experiences of 2007/2008.


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Dental body has complaint backlog16th January 2012
The General Dental Council - which investigates dangerous or incompetent dentists – is facing a backlog of serious complaints, it has emerged.
To help tackle the number of complaints, it has appointed a new chief executive and more investigatory and hearing staff.
The problems faced by the GDC were at their worst in 2010, when 72 serious complaints had still not been dealt with after nine months.
A report by the GDC's regulator, the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (CHRE), on how the body is being run has been drawn up after a government request last September.
That followed the resignation of former chair Alison Lockyer who was unhappy over the way internal disputes between executives and other staff in the GDC were dealt with, while the CHRE was also critical of the length of time it was taking to process the disciplinary cases of dentists and also problems with record-keeping.
CHRE Chief Executive Harry Cayton said: "The General Dental Council needs to refocus all its energy and attention on patient safety and the quality of dentistry.
"That is its job and that is what it needs to do and it needs to put the resources, the time and the attention necessary to do that."
A total of 1,400 complaints were made to the GDC in 2010.
Since the appointment of a new chief executive Evlynne Gilvarry in October 2010, the backlog of cases has fallen from 72 to 51.
She said: "We've put in a reform programme and 12 months on, we're in a much stronger position."
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Eco-sustainability will likely matter more 2015 than anytime in past; this is the year the US's biggest companies need to prove they are addressing climate change through sustainability, thanks to efforts of two presidents and the Pope.
Remember the green wave of 2007? Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth" won an Academy Award and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change made news worldwide with evidence of burning fossil fuels and global warming.
Consumers are researching brands' environmental information like no other time, leaving most companies scrambling to share their environmental story.
Many brands went too far in that direction, often making marketing claims that were basically greenwashing lackluster efforts. Companies started to color their logos green and put bears in their advertising. These marketing decisions slowed during the 2008 recession, which cut corporate spending on sustainability.
Heading into 2015, we will finally reach the tipping point where environmental sustainability gains a stronghold in global society.
President Barack Obama recently brokered a climate change agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping. After more than 20 years of climate inaction, the deal could lead to a global agreement to reduce pollution among 195 member countries at this December's United Nations climate change convention in Paris.
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NEW YORK, August 1, 2006 – Objectors to a copyright class action settlement for freelance authors today asked the Second Circuit Court of Appeals not to allow electronic database operators, newspaper and magazine publishers, 22 named plaintiffs and three writers' organizations to file "corrected" briefs omitting information that indicates they misled the courts, as well as the class of freelancers around the world, about a key aspect of the settlement.
In a "motion to strike," the objectors said that without appropriate action "there will be a miscarriage of justice" in consideration of their appeal of last year's approval in district court of a settlement that would total $10 million to $18 million (including attorneys' fees and the costs of mediation, class notice and claims administration).
Attorney Charles D. Chalmers filed the motion on behalf of Irvin Muchnick and nine other writers. The objectors' brief and supporting documentation are viewable at http://muchnick.net/StrikePart1.pdf, http://muchnick.net/StrikePart2.pdf, and http://muchnick.net/StrikeMisc.pdf. (The papers are divided into three files due to technical scanning problems. In the near future they will be combined into a single clean file and available for download at http://muchnick.net/MotionToStrike.pdf.)
The history and ongoing news of the objections are published at Muchnick's blog, http://freelancerights.blogspot.com.
The objectors challenge many aspects of the settlement, but the current motion focuses on an admission by the settlement parties that they were mistaken in telling the appellate court, in their original briefs, that "prima facie valid claims" in the case totaled $10.76 million. Due to a technical point of the claims administration process, which is explained in the Chalmers brief and accompanying declaration, that figure actually projects to be considerably higher and, indeed, is likely to be in excess of $11.8 million. If the total claims value does exceed $11.8 million, then a provision of the settlement will be triggered whereby the claim awards of holders of unregistered copyrights are reduced, possibly even to zero.
Both sides of the settlement have stated that unregistered copyrights constitute more than 99% of the potential claims in this case. Throughout the litigation of the objections, and in their original appellate briefs, the electronic and print publishers and the authors' groups (the Authors Guild, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the National Writers Union) had repeatedly dismissed the objectors' arguments about the possibility of such a reduction as "absurd." Now, in the absence of the striking of "corrected" briefs, undisputed evidence to the contrary would be suppressed.
"The facts, and the opposition's less-than-credible explanation of their error, demonstrate that the parties misled the district court, intentionally or mistakenly," Muchnick said. "These admissions should be considered on the appeal. They raise the specter of bad faith by the appellees, who refuse to dispel this cloud on the judicial process with a candid account."
Muchnick added: "On behalf of freelance authors everywhere – even the many who have a hard time understanding exactly what is going on – I want to thank attorney Charles Chalmers for his brilliant work. In desperate ad hominem attacks, the settlement parties have attempted to characterize Mr. Chalmers as an ethically challenged 'professional objector' who extorts fees. In light of their own malfeasance here, those smears are ironic. In fact, Mr. Chalmers represents a group of 'beneficial objectors' who are trying to undo, before it's too late, the worst sellout in the history of writers' rights."
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Not sure you want to do those five years in prison? How about 10 lashes, instead? That's the tradeoff a U.S. academic suggests in his subtly titled new book, In Defense of Flogging. Peter Moskos, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, argues that our prison system is not only overcrowded and violent, but that it is completely ineffective. "I can't think of another institution that has failed as mightily as the prison has," he writes. As an alternative, he says, the least dangerous convicts should be given a choice — jail time, or two lashes for every year of their sentence. Moskos predicts the prison population would see a massive decline, freeing up billions of dollars for more useful purposes. Others suggest government-sanctioned violence would do nothing to reduce crime, and might even increase criminals' violent tendencies. Is flogging really our best option?
This would be a huge step backward for society: Bringing back this "correctional quackery of the past" would be really unfortunate, says David Bornus at the Star Tribune. Yes, we have a prison problem, but Moskos assumes that prisons are just violent holding cells, a theory that "has been thoroughly discredited." Unlike the "judicial brutality" he proposes, correctional facilities "expend resources for 24/7 custody, care, rehabilitation and retraining" to help criminals come back to society. Flogging would only increase their violent, angry tendencies.
"Intervention, not retribution, for criminals"
But people might actually support it: This academic's argument is "a bit startling," says Adam Cohen at TIME, but it could win a "surprising amount of grass-roots support." In 1994, an American teenager was convicted of a crime in Singapore, and received four lashes as punishment. As Moskos points out, respondents in a newspaper poll in Dayton, Ohio, supported his punishment by a 2-1 margin.
"Should flogging be an alternative to prison?"
We're missing the point: Even if you don't agree with flogging, the "deeper argument is still compelling," says Josh Rothman at The Boston Globe. He really "puts today's prisons in historical perspective," noting that in the past, the conditions of imprisonment weren't as punishing as they are today. Now, prisons have become "state-run torture chambers." Moskos is right: If we're serious about "enumerating the horrors of prison," we have to ask "hard questions about the value and meaning of punishment."
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Making a difference in the workplace is more important than ever to today's emerging talent. In fact, one of the most common statements by today's recruit is that they want to work for an organization whose leaders understand that lives are improved by tapping the power of doing good for others and making them better at their job, all at the same time.
For today's employees, "doing good" is more than just a fun perk. It's a workplace imperative that drives business performance. But are the numbers showing it? According to the latest studies, the answer is a strong yes.
A social impact culture is a must.
Studies of the emerging workforce, including Deloitte's third annual Millennial Survey of nearly 7,800 Millennials from 28 countries, show that a clear majority of the younger talent base wants to work for companies that are committed to charitable giving, volunteering, and making a positive impact on the bottom line and beyond. For example, the 2014 Millennial Impact Study showed that 94% of people in this demographic want to use their talents for doing good.
Doing good drives performance.
Researchers at the University of Southampton found that workers' performance increased by an average of 13 percent when they were given social incentives, and companies with the highest levels of employee engagement report increases in business performance, improving an average of 19.2% in operating income.
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A strong culture of engagement can reduce staff turnover by 87%. That adds up to some serious cash, considering that it costs an average of 2 to 3 times a salary to replace a worker.
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Nguyen MT, Herrine SK, Laine CA, Ruth K, Weinberg DS. Description of a New Hepatitis C Risk Assessment Tool. Arch Intern Med. 2005;165(17):2013–2018. doi:10.1001/archinte.165.17.2013
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Because of the low prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in the general population, mass screening would be expensive and of low yield. Some researchers advocate targeted screening of persons at elevated HCV risk.
This cross-sectional study aimed to develop a patient-administered tool to assess HCV infection risk. Two hundred seven patients with unknown HCV status from a general medicine practice and 222 HCV-positive patients from a hepatology practice completed a 72-item survey about demographic, social, and clinical risk factors for HCV infection. General medicine patients also underwent HCV serologic testing.
Three (1.5%) of 207 general medicine patients had positive HCV antibody test results. These patients plus the 222 hepatology patients were significantly more likely than HCV-negative patients to report an array of factors. In a multivariable model, 7 factors remained significantly associated with HCV infection: sex with a prostitute or an injecting drug user, exposure to blood products, refusal as a blood donor or as a life insurance applicant, witnessing illicit drug use, and self-reported HBV infection. A simplified model that assigned 1 point for each factor present predicted HCV infection as well as a weighted model (based on χ2 testing and receiver operating characteristic curve comparison). In a population with a 2% prevalence of HCV infection, people who identified 2 risk factors had a 10% chance of HCV infection, whereas those with 4 or more risk factors had a 50% chance.
A self-administered 72-item questionnaire can stratify patients into HCV risk groups. If validated in other primary care populations, this instrument could help target HCV screening.
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, a leading cause of cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, and liver transplantation, is the most common cause of hepatic morbidity and mortality in the United States.1,2 Most infected persons are asymptomatic, and fewer than 25% of the estimated 4 million Americans with chronic HCV are aware of their status. A limited understanding of asymptomatic infection has led clinicians to underappreciate HCV as an explanation for chronic liver disease.3,4 Physicians may not ask patients about, or patients may hesitate to disclose, behaviors that increase risk of HCV. The incentive for case identification is further reduced by the perception that available treatments are often intolerable or ineffective. Although demonstrated benefit from the treatment of asymptomatic HCV infection is lacking, clinical outcomes seem to be improved when therapy is initiated in younger patients and at earlier stages of disease.5,6 A major public health challenge is more effective identification of patients with HCV before the development of important clinical sequelae. Previous case-finding efforts have concentrated on high-risk groups or volunteer blood donors.7-13 In community practice, few health care providers target screening toward healthy persons at higher risk for infection.14-16
Because of the relatively low prevalence (approximately 1.8%) of HCV in the general population,2 mass serologic screening for HCV infection would be prohibitively expensive. In 2004, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended against routine screening of adults without identified risk factors for HCV, citing the low prevalence of infection, the knowledge that most infected individuals will not develop serious HCV-related disease, and the current absence of evidence that screening improves outcomes.17 The USPSTF also found insufficient evidence to recommend either for or against routine screening of adults at high risk for infection. The systematic review18 that provides background for the USPSTF recommendations concluded that there have been no published efforts investigating the predictive accuracy of screening strategies applied to the general population.
Development of an acceptably sensitive risk assessment questionnaire might facilitate cost-effective screening for HCV. Herein, we describe the derivation process and preliminary performance characteristics of a patient self-administered HCV risk assessment tool.
Based on a literature review regarding HCV risk factors and expert opinion, we developed a 72-item survey that inquires about a range of demographic, social, and clinical factors potentially associated with HCV infection (the survey instrument is available on request). Information obtained from all the participants included age, race, sex, education and income levels, country of origin (United States vs other), and citizenship (United States vs other). Questionnaire domains exploring HCV risk associations included personal and family history of liver and other common diseases, overall health status, occupational history, and lifestyle and behavioral characteristics. The questionnaire also included well-described risk factors (eg, injecting drug use) identified previously. Because our goal was overall HCV risk assessment, we asked more general questions covering a range of potential risk factors, for example, "Have you ever been homeless?" and "Have you ever been imprisoned?" Most questions were posed in a yes/no format.
Before survey administration, we pilot tested the questionnaire with 10 patients with and 10 patients without known HCV infection who fulfilled the study's participation criteria. We made minor adjustments to improve wording clarity and item flow in response to these initial surveys. Pilot testing responses were excluded from subsequent analysis, and patients who participated were not eligible for later study participation.
After the Thomas Jefferson University institutional review board approved the study, 2 patient groups were approached for possible study enrollment. The first group comprised patients with known HCV infection who received ongoing hepatology care in the Thomas Jefferson University gastroenterology division. The second group was patients who received care in the general internal medicine division at Thomas Jefferson University, were free of clinically apparent liver disease, and had never been tested for HCV infection, to their or their physicians' knowledge. We excluded general medicine patients with known HCV status or clinically apparent liver disease because screening would not apply to such patients. Participants were required to be aged 18 to 60 years, able to provide consent, and able to complete the written, English-language survey instrument. Research personnel approached consecutive patients until predetermined sample size requirements were met.
On granting consent, each participant received a unique identification number and brief instructions about the written, self-administered survey. All questionnaires were completed on-site and were returned to clearly marked, opaque boxes in either clinic setting. To minimize the underreporting of illicit or embarrassing behavior for respondents who might be uncomfortable providing candid answers under normal circumstances, participant anonymity was maintained throughout the study. In no instance could treating physicians link questionnaire responses or HCV test results to individual study participants.
To ascertain infection status, all general internal medicine participants agreed to undergo HCV antibody testing. To further ensure anonymity, testing was performed at home using a commercially available kit (Home Access Health Corp, Hoffman Estates, Ill). This test system is accurate, with approximately 5% of users being unable to provide adequate samples for testing.19 Following the manufacturer's instructions, participants provided a small blood sample and mailed it to a central developing location. Participants were provided instructions to acquire a secure password and code to obtain their results anonymously by telephone. Patients with positive HCV test results were provided appropriate counseling about their test results. It was left to the participant's discretion whether to share test results with a health care provider. All HCV test results were also linked to the participants' study-specific identification numbers. Questionnaire responses from persons found to be HCV positive were ultimately included in the data analysis along with responses from participants who were HCV positive at study entry.
A computerized database was developed that included the study identification numbers, questionnaire responses, and HCV results for all the participants. Data were analyzed using statistical software (SAS; SAS Institute Inc, Cary, NC). Patients with missing questionnaire responses were excluded from the analyses of that specific item; most items had response rates of 95% or more, minimizing the impact of missing data.
Model development consisted of 2 steps. The first step was to determine the association between HCV status and each questionnaire item using the Fisher exact test, except for questions with ordered responses, where the Wilcoxon rank sum test was used. Only questions with significant differences in responses (P<.01) between HCV-positive and HCV-negative groups at the bivariate level were considered as possible predictors of HCV infection status. Using this set of potential predictors, stepwise logistic regression was performed to identify factors predictive of HCV status (positive or negative). We retained in the model only items associated with HCV status at P<.01 after adjusting for other items in the model. After item selection was complete, we reran the model including only selected items to reduce the number of records excluded for missing values.
In addition to deriving a regression model, in which the relative contribution of each predictor variable was weighted based on estimates of its associated odds ratio (OR), we also constructed a second model in which each variable was weighted equally. In this second model, the number of "higher-risk" responses to the predictor variables was simply totaled, with greater sums denoting greater risk for infection. The overall similarity between the 2 models was compared via a likelihood ratio test. For either model, ORs and associated 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for HCV carrier status were determined from the logistic regression coefficients. Finally, we constructed receiver operating characteristic curves to compare the predictive abilities of the 2 models (separate question weighting vs the total of higher-risk responses). The c statistic, which measures the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve and provides an estimate of predictive ability, was calculated for each model.
Although the sensitivity and specificity of any test depend on the data set used to construct the model, the positive predictive value, in this case, the proportion of persons predicted to be HCV positive (based on the model) who are actually positive, hinges on the population prevalence of the target illness. Therefore, in addition to assessing the model's test characteristics, we also calculated the positive predictive value using several different potential population prevalence rates for HCV infection.
Of 290 patients without previously identified HCV infection who completed the study questionnaire, 220 (75.9%) also completed HCV antibody testing. Participants who completed HCV testing were demographically similar to those who did not. Thirteen patients were excluded because their blood results were indeterminate or not testable. Three (1.5%) of the remaining 207 patients were HCV positive. Questionnaire results for these 3 individuals are included with the responses of the 222 known HCV-positive participants from the hepatology clinic at Thomas Jefferson University. All subsequent analyses used only data where questionnaire results and HCV status were known.
Table1 provides various characteristics of the study participants based on HCV infection status. Participants with HCV were more likely to be male than HCV-negative participants. Older age and lower terminal points of education were associated with infection. The HCV-positive population was less likely to characterize their general health status favorably compared with HCV-negative patients. Patients with HCV were also more likely than uninfected individuals to know of other family members with HCV infection. As would be predicted based on accepted risk factors, HCV-positive participants were more likely to have used injecting drugs, received a blood transfusion, been refused life insurance, and been refused as blood donors. Table 1 also demonstrates the frequencies of various medical illnesses reported by participants. Individuals with HCV were statistically more likely to be coinfected with hepatitis B virus (HBV), to have reported an episode of jaundice, to have undergone major surgery, and to require kidney dialysis.
A variety of personal behaviors or other factors were significantly associated with HCV infection. Except for having a tattoo, the remainder of the factors centered on illicit behaviors: a history of arrest or imprisonment, the exchange of money for sexual activity, the use or at least observation of illegal drug use, and sex with a person who used injecting drugs. These associations reflect a range of behaviors that might result in viral infection.
In the initial logistic regression model, a separate indicator variable was included for each of the 7 questionnaire items. A self-reported history of sex with a prostitute was the strongest risk factor (OR, 9.76; 95% CI, 2.50-38.13). Other predictors included a history of exposure to potentially infected blood during a transfusion (OR, 8.62; 95% CI, 4.71-15.80), rejection as a blood donor (OR, 2.57; 95% CI, 1.49-4.43), being refused life insurance (OR, 2.75; 95% CI, 1.05-7.25), witnessing the illicit use of injecting drugs (OR, 5.83; 95% CI, 2.93-11.58), having sexual intercourse with an injecting drug user (OR, 5.39; 95% CI, 2.01-14.42), and self-report of HBV infection (OR, 4.71; 95% CI, 1.49-14.83).
In comparison, Table 2 provides the results of the unweighted model. Using the same 7 items as in the previous paragraph, this model assigns 1 point for each factor present and 0 if a factor is not present. As a result, each participant could receive a total score of 0 to 7, with higher scores suggesting greater likelihood of infection. Risk elevations were similar when 4 or more risk factors were present (data not shown). Therefore, for further simplification, the model assigned any patient with 4 or more risk factors to a single group for analysis.
The predictive capacities of the weighted and unweighted models did not differ (likelihood ratio test χ26 = 9.32; P = .16). Receiver operating characteristic curves for the 2 models had similar high areas under the curve, with a possible range of 0.5 for no predictive ability to 1.0 for perfect predictive ability. Visually, the curves are almost totally superimposed (Figure).
Because the simplified model requires no mathematical calculation, clinicians would likely find it more appealing than the weighted model, so we based the calculations in Table 3 and Table 4 on the unweighted model. Table 3 describes the sensitivity and specificity of the unweighted model, whereas Table 4 displays the likelihood of HCV infection depending on the number of positive responses when the unweighted prediction model is used in populations with differing HCV prevalence. For example, when the population prevalence of HCV infection is 2%, a person who identifies 2 risk factors for infection has approximately a 10% chance of HCV infection, whereas someone with 4 or more risk factors has a likelihood of nearly 50%. In populations in which the prevalence of infection is estimated to be 1%, similar risk levels would generate a likelihood of infection of 5% and 33%, respectively.
We identified a small set of patient-reported factors that can be used to estimate risk of HCV infection. Our HCV prediction model may prove useful in efforts to target HCV screening toward higher-risk patients. More effective identification strategies will become important should ongoing studies find a benefit from the treatment of asymptomatic HCV.
Better treatment options might also affect some of the ongoing debate regarding widespread HCV screening.18,20 Previous attempts to increase the efficiency of screening have focused on the identification of high-risk groups. Unlike the USPSTF, the National Institutes of Health Consensus Panel and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advocate screening in selected populations, for example, injecting drug users, hemodialysis patients, and recipients of blood transfusions or organ transplants.21,22 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health Consensus Panel also recommend screening other various, nonoverlapping groups. The lack of unanimity underscores the difficulties in interpreting the research data on many potential factors associated with infection. This absence of consensus contributes to confusion about screening, especially in the primary care setting.
Perhaps reflecting these issues, the recent USPSTF clinical guidelines concluded that population-based screening is not currently warranted.18 The task force examined 4 large observational, population-based studies of HCV risk factors.23-26 None used a selective screening tool suitable for the prospective screening of asymptomatic populations.18 The task force pointed out the need for studies examining the usefulness of risk factor assessment for HCV infection.
Individuals in favor of routine screening for persons at higher infection risk argue that screening could allow more frequent and effective treatment of the virus,20 although, to our knowledge, no studies currently exist comparing the clinical outcomes of patients screened and not screened for HCV infection. Screening might allow monitoring and counseling of persons with synergistic cofactors, such as alcohol use or HBV infection. Identification of infected persons could also allow focused educational interventions to decrease viral transmission.27
In this article, we describe the derivation and initial testing of a quantitative screening tool that includes some of the known risk factors of HCV and selected behaviors or experiences that might increase infection risk. Like other studies, blood transfusion and sexual intercourse with an injecting drug user were significant risk factors for infection. The other components of the model associated with increased risk—HBV infection, inability to donate blood or to obtain life insurance, sexual contact with a prostitute, and witnessing injecting drug use—presumably capture, directly or indirectly, behavior and lifestyle factors that might result in HCV infection. Study participants provided all their answers anonymously, perhaps facilitating more candid responses to difficult or embarrassing questions.
By incorporating specific high-risk behaviors or credible proxies for higher risk, models such as this may allow for more targeted identification of infected persons. If used as a self-administered questionnaire, it is conceivable that respondents will answer more truthfully. However, the identification of a few questions that can be quickly posed may also facilitate case finding by primary care providers.
It was not the intent of this study to determine which probability threshold for HCV infection is appropriate for triggering screening. Instead, our primary goal was to identify whether risk could be stratified more accurately, especially in populations in which the overall prevalence of HCV infection was low. With a background prevalence of approximately 2% (as estimated for the US population), identification of 2 risk factors increases the likelihood of infection to 10%, whereas 4 or more risk factors raises the probability to approximately 50%.
Two variations of the same model, the first using weighted inputs for each variable and the other simply totaling the number of "positive" responses to assign a risk score, predict disease likelihood with similar accuracy. The latter version is potentially more clinically useful, whether self-administered by patients or used by providers as part of a health screen. Patients might be willing to answer such screens if they are not required to specify which items increased their risk, instead simply noting how many "positive" responses applied.
Several limitations of this study deserve mention. First, the study population may not be representative of other groups because it is possible that the HCV risk factors among infected patients under care in a hepatology practice may differ from those of patients in other settings. However, the prevalence of previously undiagnosed HCV cases in the primary care group (3/207 or 1.5%) approximately parallels the prevalence in the United States, suggesting that this group is similar to the general population with respect to HCV prevalence. Validation of the model in other populations that include only primary care patients with unknown HCV status is necessary. Given the low background prevalence of infection, a large population will be necessary for any validation studies. Second, research personnel closely safeguarded the anonymity of participants, perhaps allowing for more complete and candid answers. Patients may be reluctant to directly disclose to their physicians information about the items in the instrument. An appealing feature is that physicians need only know how many items were present. Third, one of the relevant factors was a positive response to the question, "Has a health care provider ever told you that you have hepatitis B infection?" We purposefully phrased the question to permit response without consulting medical records or providers. Because we did not validate the presence of HBV infection, we performed additional analyses that dropped this variable from the model (data not shown). Similar results, although with modestly reduced predictive accuracy, were seen. Finally, cost-effectiveness, like clinical effectiveness, is an important consideration for population-based screening. We have not addressed the questions of the cost per case of HCV detected or the cost-effectiveness of treatment for populations of patients with minimal liver disease.
We believe that the predictive instrument described herein, if validated, will be appealing to clinicians because it requires no calculation and could easily be placed on a pocket card or personal digital assistant. Physicians would need an estimate of infection prevalence in their patient population to estimate individual risk. Ultimately, patients could assess their own HCV risk. Self-identification, if widely practiced, could be an effective method of case ascertainment. Hepatitis C virus risk assessment instruments may be the first step in general population screening, with antibody testing applied only to individuals above a certain risk threshold.
Correspondence: David S. Weinberg, MD, MSc, Fox Chase Cancer Center, 333 Cottman Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19111 (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Accepted for Publication: May 11, 2005.
Financial Disclosure: None.
Funding/Support: This study was funded in part by Schering-Plough Corp, Kenilworth, NJ.
Role of the Sponsor: Neither Schering-Plough Corp nor its representatives had any role in the design or conduct of the study; in the collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; or in the preparation, review, or approval of this manuscript.
Acknowledgment: We are indebted to Christopher DiMaio, MD, Raymond Rubin, MD, and Michael Lucey, MD, for their thoughtful input.
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Can you believe it's the beginning of another month already? That means it's time for a new challenge at Scrap It Girl. The challenge for July is to use the colors red, navy, cream, and kraft. And since my birthday is just a few days away, I'm also hosting this month's challenge. So head on over to the Scrap It Girl page and see what it takes to get entered in the July challenge.
For this challenge I created a card fit for any male recipient in your life. So let's get going, and I'll show you how it was created.
I started with simply inking the edges of a piece of white cardstock.
Next, I layered the white cardstock onto a Kraft cardstock base. Then, I adhered a piece of burlap for a bit of texture.
Now, on to the embellishments. I wanted some bling, but I only had clear crystals. No problem though. I just inked them with alcohol based ink, and instantly I had blue crystals.
Next I heat embossed a chipboard hat with white embossing powder.
For the lat embellishments, I used Unique Laser Designs wood pieces and also inked them with alcohol ink.
Now to just pull everything together. I layered on a red die-cut, added my hat on top, then added a star and ribbon to the hat. I added the crystals to the top and bottom of the card, and lastly added the sentiment.
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Literature Review
The main thesis of this paper is to discuss the various treatment methods for this disease
The paper does this by acknowledging that it has no prevention and effective treatment method. However, this is subject to research work since no single scholar has come up with the best method to use in providing its treatment.
The paper carries out a review of different literatures written by various scholars who have carried out researches in this area. It also focuses on the researches which have been done in the past in the attempt to discover the most appropriate therapy for this disease (Grossberg, G. T., & Kamat, S. M., 2010). Some of proposals reported include the Debrah Carol's use of Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) and the use of inhibitors. Despite this, the paper still establishes that the only best thing to do is to conduct an extensive research to come up with the best alternative method of treatment. This is the only way through which people can be saved. Alzheimer has become one of the most expensive diseases in the contemporary society. While doing this, the paper found out that this disease also has no preventive measure since most of the writers argue that dementia has no proved prevention (Mittman B. et al., 2003).
The literature chosen can help in providing truth because it is valid
They are from reputable authorities in the field of medicine. Hence, if the hypothesis is confirmed, they will be reliable in providing all the necessary information about this topic. They are distinguished scholars whose work is based on scientific research. Their work is applicable and should be exploited because it is sound and valid.


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This month has been a month of "mores" for Little Man. Paul is 10 months old this week, still weighing in at just under 19 pounds.
First of all, Paul is sleeping more. Yay! I desperately started cornering moms at church one week asking for their best sleep advice. I didn't get much that was helpful, but what I did get was prayer. Thank you to you ladies who have been praying!
Normally Paul goes to bed at around 8:00 and gets up at around 8:30 in the morning. In between there I usually stay up a little later before bed and get up at 5:30 to make Dan coffee for work. So, I decided to make use of my already awake time and feed Paul. It's working! I wake Paul up before I go to bed and feed him, then I feed him again before or after I make Dan's coffee, and for now, that's enough to keep him satisfied through the night. Good job, Buddy!
Oh, and this is Paul's sleepy face. If you ever see him crawling around like this, it means he is in dire need of a nap. This is also his, "Mommy is holding me and I am content face". I love the two-finger sucking. Pacifier days are over; we'll deal with the finger-sucking later.
Paul is playing with his sisters more. Sometimes I'll send one or both upstairs to wake Paul up from a nap. They'll talk to him, try to tickle him through the side of his crib, and giggle together. Then, when Paul is not napping, they'll bring him toys, tickle him and talk to him. It's super cute.
Also, I have come to the sad conclusion that good family pictures for the Taylor family are pretty much a thing of the past. These kids…
Paul is also eating more. Now that he's figured out finger-foods (and there's no going back), we can hardly keep up with him. It'll be a relief when he gets more teeth and fine motor control so we don't have to tear or cut all his food into little pieces. Whoever is on Paul-duty can hardly get a bite in between refilling his tray or bowl. Two weeks in a row, we've practically run out of food because we're adjusting to the obscene amounts this boy can eat. You don't even want to know how many bananas we go through in a week!
Just for fun, here's a clip of Paul finishing off some of those bananas I was talking about.
Little Man is also crawling more. I haven't captured a good picture yet, but he's even getting up on all fours and rocking back and fourth. Neither of the girls did that, and neither of the girls were mobile until 11 months. Paul absolutely loves it when Dan gets down on the floor and army crawls around with him.
We're just loving these days with our little Rascal and the Munchkins. Paul is proving to be just as smiley as the girls, and, if you haven't picked up on it yet from the pictures, he looks very much like Abby. If this appetite of his keeps up, it won't be long before strangers are mistaking them for twins.


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CB 76 is a spacious, open and tranquil six bedroomed villa set in its own large garden, with idyllic swimming pool.
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