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New to The Chantilly Academy this year, the Pharmacy Technician course has proven a huge success. All 51 students in three classes had internships with pharmacies and, at the end of their studies, they became licensed pharmacy technicians.
"IT'S AN AMAZING opportunity," said teacher Jenny Majeske, shortly before the end of the school year. "All my students blow me out of the water on a daily basis with their knowledge of the world around them and their understanding of life and how medications affect them and their peers."
"They're all very driven to do well in this class and they all chose to be here," she continued. "So there's a big difference in the way they react to the information I present them; there's definitely an interest."
Majeske, 28, has been a pharmacy technician, herself, for eight years and also works in that field at Inova Alexandria Hospital, so she could share firsthand knowledge with her students. And the students obtained further experience during their own internships at local pharmacies — 48 were at CVS and three were already employed elsewhere.
Junior Emma Rixmann took the class because she plans a career in the medical field and knew this course would be a good place to start. "A lot of the medical professions don't get a lot of pharmacology," she said. "And we've also learned a lot about the laws and rules of pharmacies – which I've really been able to apply in my clinical internship."
For example, she learned about the pseudo ephedrine law. "Because all the cold and cough products are behind the counter now, you have to check the patient's ID," she explained. "They must be over 18. You also note how much they're buying, and they have to sign a log because of some people using ephedrine to make [crystal] meth. I also learned that narcotics have to be dispensed by a pharmacist."
Rixmann said pharmacy technicians have to read "scripts" (prescriptions) "really carefully" and have to learn all the doctors' symbols and abbreviations for things such as the time of day a medicine is to be administered, the quantity and how it should be given (i.e. with meals or on an empty stomach).
"WE ALSO learned about hospital pharmacies and inpatients," she said. "[Those pharmacists] deal a lot more with intravenous and intramuscular medicines and long-term medications, rather than short-term. Infants, teens and elderly patients receive different dosages, and those pharmacists [must also consider] drug interactions because people there are very sick."
Rixmann found it interesting because, since April 2006, she's worked for Virginia Surgery Associates in Fair Oaks, assisting with clerical work and phones and helping the nursing office with patient records. Her pharmacy internship began in May and was with the CVS on Centreville Road in Chantilly. Students worked two-hour sessions, eight times each.
"I work in the production area, counting and labeling medications for the pharmacist to check," she said. "Everything that goes out of the pharmacy is verified and checked by her." Rixmann also worked the cash register in the customer-pickup area. "I'd give them their prescriptions and ask their first and last names, date of birth and address," she said. "Then I'd verify it on the prescription bag and ask if they had any questions for the pharmacist."
Usually, customers would ask how their new medication would interact with other drugs they're taking, so Rixmann would consult the pharmacist. Then she'd peel off the label from the bag, place it on a special, pickup log and have the customer sign his or her name next to it, acknowledging who'd picked it up. Rixmann enjoyed her work and said things especially got busy between 5:30-7:30 p.m., during the after-work rush.
She said the hardest thing was juggling many different things at once, but "You have to be calm and multi-task and make sure you do your job. And if they eventually hire me, it'll be a job I can do at another CVS when I go away to college." She said CVS pharmacists Ellen Councelman and Heather Nguyen were "really nice and helpful," even if they were busy.
Eyeing a bachelor's in EMS (emergency medical services) and a career as a paramedic, Rixmann said her Pharmacy Technician class is valuable for anyone considering entering the medical profession.
"SOME PEOPLE think there's lots of math and science, but we don't focus on that because we're not studying to be pharmacists, but pharmacists' assistants — technicians," she said. "It's more practical things."
Junior Eric Vuong took the class to see if he might like it for a career. "I learned what medicine is and does, how it affects different parts of your body and how it's both good and bad," he said. "And knowing abbreviations is good — I can read prescriptions now."
He worked at the same CVS as Rixmann, usually Thursdays and Saturdays. "It really shows you the role of a pharmacist and how it's busy, hectic and hard sometimes," he said. "So I can see why they really need people there; it's a good learning experience."
Vuong counted pills and tablets, measured liquids and put them into bottles. He also typed labels and placed them on the bottles. "Finding them is hard," he said. "They're arranged alphabetically according to drug name, with the generic drug — which has a different name — beside it. And the shelves are organized vertically, instead of horizontally."
He said many of the medicines have similar names, "so you have to be careful to get the right one. Vuong said the toughest part was deciphering the handwriting of some of the doctors so he could correctly type the directions for the prescription bottles. The best part was "being there and seeing how a pharmacy works. I'd like to do something related, like maybe sell pharmaceuticals for a drug company."
Junior Jenni Hall took the class because she thought it would be interesting, and her parents want her to go into the medical field. And, she added, "My mom takes a lot of medications, and I can help her understand her prescriptions. And from the class, I've gotten a deeper understanding of pharmacies and what drugs do.
She was one of six students with internships at the Greenbriar CVS and usually worked Saturday afternoons. "It's a very friendly pharmacy," said Hall, who hoped to work there this summer, as well. "The people understand you're new and are willing to give you time to adjust, and they explain things thoroughly."
EVENTUALLY, she'd like to attend a medical or pre-pharmacy school — although she's also interested in both creative writing and fashion design. And she said her class at The Chantilly Academy helped her a great deal during her orientation at CVS. And now, she said, "Whenever my parents have a question about their medications, they can ask me and I can either tell them or ask someone. There's also a 'Physicians' Desk Reference' in class — the A-Z on all medications."
Hall said she'd recommend the Pharmacy Technician class to anyone interested in learning about drugs, the pharmaceutical field or the medical profession.
Joan Ozdogan, career-experience specialist with The Chantilly Academy, said all the young, pharmacy-tech interns received rave reviews from their employers. Said Ozdogan: "They all received outstanding ratings from the pharmacists who supervised them and were recommended them for hire."
Calling the program a "fabulous opportunity," she said there are 6,200 CVS pharmacies in the U.S., so qualified students can find one to work in, wherever they are. And once they completed the final exam for the class — which is the Virginia State Pharmacy Technician Registration Exam — they became licensed, pharmacy technicians able to work in retail pharmacies, hospitals or HMOs.
Since the academy has a formal partnership with CVS to accept its student interns, students could choose to work in the CVS closest to their homes. "We could not have had a better partner," said Ozdogan. "They've been so patient with our students and encouraged them to obtain further education to become pharmacists. And in exchange, they gained great talent from here."
Teacher Majeske, herself, will attend pharmacy school this fall at Idaho State University, and she said her experience teaching at Chantilly "definitely launched my desire to finish and get my degree. They didn't have anything like this when I was in high school; these kids are an inspiration to me."
"When they came back excited about what they learned and did on the job, it made me proud of what I've taught them and proud of them," continued Majeske. "I could see the light in their eyes and their pride in themselves and what they could do."


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RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina House Republicans say their proposal requiring voters to show photo identification to cast ballots takes into account the needs of older adults, the disabled and the poor.
GOP legislators at a news conference unveiled details of a bill they said would be introduced Thursday.
The lawmakers say the measure would require nearly all people who show up at a voting precinct to show some kind of photo identification, starting with 2016 elections. Until then there would be a voter outreach effort letting people know how to obtain an ID and get one for free if needed.
Older adults and others would be able to use expired licenses, while people with disabilities would be exempt.
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Title text: Mrs. Roberts would have gotten up sooner, of course, but she was busy piping find ~ and find ~nomad into xargs shred, just in case.
Jon Lech Johansen, also known as DVD Jon, is famous for DeCSS a DVD decryption program that removes the copy protection from commercial DVDs. The Motion Picture Association of America, also known as the MPAA, was not amused. Both the MPAA and the RIAA use the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, shortened to DMCA, as a kind of brute club to silence "infringements" on their copyright. In a perfect world, the DMCA provides safe harbor protection to websites and consumers to make fair use of copyrighted content while also affording copyright owners the ability to protect their works from being pirated. In this world, this means that any content protection system, no matter how weak and poorly executed, cannot be circumvented and discussion of circumvention is illegal as well.
Of course, Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and stalwart defender of freedom and copyleft, cannot stand for this kind of repression of freedom.
The title text is talking about a Linux-ism. In Linux (and all Unix derivatives) ~ is a symbol for a user's home directory (usually
xargs shred is an application that recursively walks a filesystem and securely erases every file it finds with pseudorandom data. This is different from simply deleting a file, which merely removes the pointer in the filesystem's record tables to the file's location on the hard disk. The latter can usually be recovered from, secure delete however requires physically taking apart a disk and reading individual bits for remaining magnetic charge to attempt to reconstruct what was there.
As time passed, Elaine intensified her hacking work, anonymously publishing exploit after exploit.
[Elaine is sitting under tree, typing on a laptop.]
To crack open proprietary hardware, she teamed up with one of the top experts in signal processing and data transferring protocols.
[Elaine, wearing a backpack, is walking up to a door where a woman is greeting her]
Elaine: Hi, mom.
Mrs. Roberts (Elaine's mom): Hello, dear. Did you have fun?
They were an unstoppable team.
[Elaine is on the floor with her laptop and Mrs. Roberts is on her computer at a table]
Elaine: I finished the CSS decryptor.
Mrs. Roberts: Good, dear. I'll send it along to Jon.
And were eventually noticed.
[Two men in black hats arrive. One holds a briefcase that reads RIAA and the other holds a briefcase which reads MPAA]
RIAA man: Game's over.
MPAA man: You're coming with us.
[Elaine stands up]
Elaine: Oh, are we?
[Mrs. Roberts is still sitting at her computer, typing]
Mrs. Roberts: Now now, Elaine -
<<shink>> [Elaine pulls a knife out]
<<shing>> <<shing>> [The two men each pull a katana out of their briefcase.]
Mrs. Roberts: Don't let them provoke you, dear.
Men: We don't want to hurt you, Ma'am.
Mrs. Roberts: Don't by silly. Record company employees can't just go into houses and slice people up.
RIAA Man: Ah, so you haven't read the DMCA.
MPAA Man: Title IV, Section 408: Authorization of Deadly Force.
[Voice comes from off-panel]: Hark!
[Everyone looks surprised. Mrs. Roberts stands.]
[Bearded man enters, bearing two katanas.]
Bearded man: Cease this affront to freedom, or stand and defend yourselves!
MPAA Man: Stallman!
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It's the piping of "find ~" (all files in Mom's current login's home directory) and "find ~nomad" (all files in the home directory of user "nomad", presumably that's Elaine's account also on Mom's machine, having recently been on a 'life journey' of self-discovery and learning) through the shred command that is doing the directory recursion, as part of the "find" command's default behaviour (IIRC). I've never used the shredding command myself, but I'd say that it's operating on the list given it by the "find", rather than doing the directory-burrowing itself, for which I'd expect parameters of a "~/* ~/.* -r" (or "-R" or "-s") type of variant to activate the "all files, in all directories from here" inspection... ICBW. Best to check the man pages, though... (Also Mom's obviously got maximum rights for herself, or is drilling through su, as I'd expect.) 18.104.22.168 08:30, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
- "find" is passed a variety of arguments - an argument that is not part of an optional parameter (i.e. -name \*.php would specify all files ending with ".php" - the backslash is used to prevent bash or another shell from expanding the parameter into a full list of .php files) is treated as a file or directory to begin searching. So "find ~" would begin searching in the user's own home directory; "find ~nomad" would begin the search in the home directory of the user "nomad". All file and directory names are sent to stdout (standard output).
- Piping the result requires the use of the | symbol (shift-backslash). It's used to pipe data from stdout to stdin (standard input).
- "xargs" is a Linux command that constructs command lines by reading a list of files from stdin and treating each with a command (and optional arguments) specified after "xargs".
- "shred" is a program that takes a filename as a parameter and overwrites the file repeatedly to keep the original contents, which can be discerned using increasingly-expensive hardware solutions, from being pieced together.
- With this in mind:
- find ~ | xargs shred
- 1) finds all files (and directories) in the hierarchy of the user's home directory, and sends the list to stdout;
- 2) the list gets piped to "xargs", which
- 3) passes each file to "shred" for shredding.
- Issues regarding symbolic links, filtering directory names from the operation, and modifying the operating parameters of "shred" will be left to the aspiring sysadmin to discover for theirself. Thokling (talk) 13:42, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
It should be noted that if you want to have a file system that can shred data reliably you will need to use a file system without journaling or it is possible some of your data can be stored in the journal(The journal describes the nature of a write and its prior state before writing to it in order to safeguard the file system against unexpected shutdown).
What is more a lot of modern hard drive detect bad sectors and move data elsewhere, leaving the old data in a sector marked as "do not use". This data will not be securely deleted from these sectors and can be manually accessed by forensics later.
The commonly accepted solution is to use block device level encryption to prevent sensitive data from ever being written.
In short the shred command can give someone an unrealistic sense of security. I don't think this is relevant to the comic but I just wanted to share what I knew on the subject. 18.104.22.168 08:52, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
"Title IV, Section 408: Authorization of deadly force." Does that make any sense in the real world? I don't see an explanation about this remark. Daniel Carrero (talk) 09:48, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
Someone should put in that Stallman was given a Katana.184.108.40.206 00:29, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
- And also that katana-wielding Stallman comes from 225: Open Source. 184.108.40.206 22:29, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
find can take multiple path arguments so she could just used find ~ ~nomad. 126.96.36.199 02:19, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
Were people still using the Creative Nomad range of MP3 players at this point? Because the linux driver for the Nomad ran under a user account named "nomad", and the fact that it's the RIAA coming after them implies that MP3s are what they're interested in. 184.108.40.206 05:32, 16 September 2015 (UTC)


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Abraham Cruzvillegas (b. 1968) had his works featured in a major project in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern in 2015 –16 and in extensive solo shows in the US, France and Germany. The Kunsthaus Zürich now presents the first exhibition in Switzerland by the Mexican artist. In his sculptures and space-filling installations, Cruzvillegas investigates architecture as the expression of social conditions. Cruzvillegas grew up in Ajusco, a volcanic landscape south of the Mexican capital. In the wake of a rural exodus in the 1960s, it became a centre of makeshift, self-built housing constructed from materials found nearby, without foundations or construction plans. The entire community of family members and neighbours was involved in building them.
Drawing on this experience, Cruzvillegas sees the sculptural form as a process of transformation, action and solidarity. His works are imbued with a sense of constant becoming. Improvisation, working with found materials and collaborating with others play a key role.
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There is Surely Ease With Every Difficulty
God has created the world to test mankind. As an inherent feature of
this examination, He tests man sometimes with blessings and at other times
with hardships. People who do not evaluate events in the light of the
Qur'an, fail to give the appropriate interpretation to events, and become
downhearted and fall into hopelessness. However, God reveals an important
secret in the Qur'an, which only true and submissive believers can perceive.
This secret is revealed as follows:
For truly with hardship comes ease; truly with hardship comes ease. (Surat
al-Inshirah: 5-6)
As God informs us in these verses, no matter what sort of adversity a
person experiences or how a situation is overcome, God creates a path
that will lead to a way out and gives relief to believers. Indeed, a believer
will witness that God grants ease along with all hardships if he remains
steadfast in his patience. In other verses, God has given the good news
of guidance and blessings to His servants who have fear for Him:
... Whoever has fear of God - He will give him a way out and provide
for him from where he does not expect. Whoever puts his trust in God -
He will be enough for him... (Surat at-Talaq: 2-3)
God does not place a burden greater than one can bear
God, the Merciful, Compassionate and Just, creates ease in everything
and tests people within the limits of their strength. Forms of prayers
God commands man to perform, difficulties He creates to test him, responsibilities
that He charges man with are all in proportion to his individual capabilities.
This is a good news and comfort to believers, and a manifestation of God's
mercy and grace. God relates this secret in verses as follows:
And that you do not go near the property of orphans
before they reach maturity - except in a good way; that you give full
measure and full weight with justice - We impose on no one any more than
they can bear; that you are equitable when you speak - even if a near
relative is concerned; and that you fulfil God's covenant. That is what
He instructs you to do, so that hopefully you will pay heed. (Surat al-An'am:
As for those who believe and do righteous deeds
- We impose on no one any more than they can bear - they are the Companions
of the Garden, remaining in it forever. (Surat al-A'raf: 42)
We do not impose on any one any more than they
can stand. With Us there is a Book, which speaks the truth. They will
not be wronged. (Surat al-Muminun: 62)
A great majority of people think that religion will make their lives
difficult and impose on them hard obligations. This is a delusion that
Satan whispers to man to lead him astray. As mentioned earlier, religion
is easy. God states that He wills ease for believing people after difficulties.
Besides this, the fundamentals of religion such as putting trust in God
and having an understanding of fate, removes all burdens, difficulties
and causes of distress or sorrow. For a person who lives by God's religion,
there is no distress, sorrow or despair. In many verses, God promises
to support those who submit themselves to Him and who help His religion,
and to give them a good life both in this world and in the hereafter.
Our Lord, Who never breaks His word, states as follows:
When those who have fear of God are asked, 'What has your Lord sent down?'
their reply is, 'Good!' There is good in the world for those who do good,
and the abode of the hereafter is even better. How wonderful is the abode
of those who have fear of God. (Surat an-Nahl: 30)
God gives the good news to believers that He will render those who comply
with His religion successful:
As for him who gives (in charity) and has fear of God and confirms the
good, We will pave his way to ease. (Surat al-Layl: 5-7)
As these secrets reveal, one who sincerely turns towards God's religion
has chosen right from the beginning, a path of ease that will bring success
and benefit both in this world and in the hereafter. To disbelievers,
on the other hand, just the opposite applies. Disbelievers already have
a life filled with sorrow, sadness and loss both in this world and in
the hereafter. At the moment they decided on disbelief, they lose both
the world and the hereafter. This is related in verses as follows:
But as for him who is stingy and thinks he is self-sufficient, and denies
the good, We will pave his way to difficulty. (Surat al-Layl: 8-10)
God is the Possessor and Creator of everything. It is surely above and
over any power or support for a person to earn God's friendship, aid and
support. The one who takes God as his friend and submits fully to Him
will live, both in the world and in the hereafter, in bounty and blessings,
and no hurt will come to him from any source. This is an immutable fact.
Since this is the case, every man of wisdom and conscience should comprehend
these secrets revealed in the Qur'an and choose the wise and correct path.
That disbelievers cannot understand these clear facts is another secret
by itself. No matter how intelligent or well-educated they are, they do
not use their reason so they are unable to understand and see these facts.
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GIANTS: New York ends two-game slide with rout of Packers
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- So much for that tired arm for Eli Manning, and that offensive slump for the New York Giants. They got it fixed in their bye week, then routed the Green Bay Packers 38-10 Sunday night.
The Packers certainly can attest to New York's turnaround following a week off. The showcase game was decided early as the Giants outscored the Packers 31-10 in the opening half. Manning reached 200 career TD passes by throwing for three scores as New York (7-4) snapped a two-game slide, ended Green Bay's five-game winning streak, and opened a two-game lead in the NFC East.
"Play like world champions," coach Tom Coughlin said. "That was the theme of our meetings this week and Saturday."
The Packers (7-4) were missing such key starters as linebacker Clay Matthews, defensive back Charles Woodson and receiver Greg Jennings, and it showed as they fell one game behind NFC North leader Chicago. After being manhandled in last season's playoffs by the Giants, who went on to win the Super Bowl, the Packers weren't much more competitive this time. Aaron Rodgers was sacked five times, including twice by Mathias Kiwanuka, who spent much of the game at defensive tackle rather than in his usual linebacker spot.
New York's balanced attack was guided by Manning, who had his first strong game in a month with 249 yards passing.
"There was no doubt he was going to come back and play well," Coughlin said. "I think the rest really helped him. ... Eli said he felt as if he was coming back for the start of the season. I was very confident he would come back and be Eli."
Ahmad Bradshaw gained a combined 119 yards and scored a touchdown. He had the first big play of the night to begin the offensive onslaught.
New York struck early with a brilliantly conceived screen pass to Bradshaw off a fake reverse to Victor Cruz. Bradshaw sped down the field before being caught at the Green Bay 2, a 59-yard pickup that led to Andre Brown's scoring run.
Brown later broke his leg; Coughlin did not say which leg after the game.
Green Bay didn't flinch, with Jordy Nelson getting behind Corey Webster in single coverage down the right sideline for a 61-yard TD reception from Rodgers.
The scoring flurry went back in the Giants' favor -- and pretty much stayed there -- when Manning hit Rueben Randle in the back of the end zone for a 16-yard TD. It was the first score for the rookie and Manning's first touchdown throw in four games, and he set it up with, of all things, a scramble in which he laid his shoulder into Packers cornerback Tramon Williams for a 13-yard gain.
"It sparked our sideline," Coughlin said. "It would not be the recommended way. To see him do that kind of sent the message to the rest of our team: Whatever you have to do to succeed, do it."
Webster's interception led to Lawrence Tynes' 43-yard field goal late in the first quarter for a 17-7 lead, and the Giants weren't nearly done. Manning's 9-yard connection with Cruz tied him for the club record with 199 career TD passes, and after Osi Umenyiora's strip-sack of Rodgers was recovered by Jason Pierre-Paul at the Green Bay 23, Bradshaw scored from the 13.
The 31 points were the most New York scored in a half all season and nearly equaled the 33 it scored in its two losses before the bye.
And the Giants had more offense in them. Manning threw his 200th TD pass to move ahead of Phil Simms, a 13-yarder over the middle to Hakeem Nicks, who stretched the ball over the goal line as he was tackled.
The Giants lost safety Kenny Phillips with a knee injury in the third quarter. He was making his first appearance since Week 4, when he was sidelined with a knee problem. Right tackle David Diehl sustained a stinger in the first half.


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WASHINGTON — A critical safety net for babies — that heelprick of blood taken from every newborn in the U.S. — is facing an ethics attack.
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After those tiny blood spots are tested for a list of devastating diseases, some states are storing them for years. Scientists consider the leftover samples a treasure, both to improve newborn screening and to study bigger questions, like which environmental toxins can harm a fetus' developing heart or which genes trigger childhood cancers.
But seldom are parents asked to consent to such research — most probably do not know it occurs — raising privacy concerns that are shaking up one of public health's most successful programs. Texas is poised to throw away blood samples from more than 5 million babies to settle a lawsuit from parents angry at what they call secret DNA warehousing. A judge recently dismissed a similar lawsuit in Minnesota.
Michigan just moved 4 million leftover blood spots into a new "BioTrust for Health," planning a public education campaign about the research potential and how families can opt out.
Advisers to the U.S. government hope to have national recommendations by in two months on how to assure all babies still get their newborn tests while allowing parents more say in what happens next.
"It's a critical thing that we take action," says advisory board member Sharon Terry of the nonprofit Genetic Alliance. She says distrust over the leftover blood spots threatens public confidence in newborn screening itself.
"The sunshine on the information — educating parents — is the way lesser threat. Done well and done right, there will be an enormous benefit overall to the system," she says.
Test screens for 29 rare illnesses
Newborn screening is not new. It began in the 1960s, and today every baby is supposed to be tested for at least 29 rare genetic diseases in hopes of catching the fraction who need early treatment to help avoid brain damage or death. Now being added to the list: Bubble-boy disease, formally known as SCID for severe combined immune deficiency.
The program catches about 5,000 babies a year in need of treatment.
Because newborn screening is mandatory, only a handful of states provide much upfront parent education. Leftover spots mainly are used for double-checking that newborn tests are accurate. Sometimes, families ask geneticists to study them after a child's death from a disease doctors can't immediately diagnose.
But as scientists sought to use the leftovers for broader research, suddenly the informing of parents — especially about long-stored spots — became an issue. While blood spots are stripped of identifying information before being handed over to scientists, people generally need to consent to participate in research.
"My kid is not a lab rat. You have to ask before you can use him in an experiment, before you can use his blood, his tissues, his DNA, whatever," says Andrea Beleno, one of the Texas parents who sued. Among their worries: that genetic information about the children could fall into the wrong hands.
Had she only been asked, Beleno adds, she probably would have let her son's blood spot be stored.
To scientists who pore through dusty warehouses in search of blood samples stored by health department ID codes — not the babies' names — privacy concerns are exaggerated.
"There's a gap between the name and the DNA. ... There's no way one could just put one's hands on these blood spots and know anything about that person," says Dr. Christopher Loffredo of Georgetown University, who needed families' permission to cull about 1,200 blood spots stored in Maryland for a study that linked a pregnant woman's smoking or exposure to certain chemical solvents to fetal heart defects.
Still, Dr. Jennifer Puck of the University of California, San Francisco, who created the new SCID test using leftover blood spots, understands parents' concerns.
"DNA is your personal signature, and it uniquely identifies us," Puck says. "We all have to become more careful and more specific in terms of what we're going to do with the blood spots."
Bioethicist Aaron Goldenberg of Case Western Reserve University studied parent attitudes, and found three-quarters would be willing to have their baby's leftover blood spot used for research if they were asked first. But they generally oppose that research without consent.
The balancing act for states, he says, is separating the two issues — lifesaving newborn screening and other use of the leftover blood — in the little time available to educate parents.
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Cole County Sees a Big Increase in Flu Cases This Year
COLE COUNTY - Officials from the Cole County Health Department said so far, there are about 300 reported cases of influenza B, which is a less severe form of the flu. However, that number is way above earlier counts -- 28 last year and 88 from 2010 to 2011.
Most victims are from five to 14 years old.
Influenza viruses are the cause of the illness. Signs and symptoms include fever, cough, runny nose and more. People with the flu cough, sneeze, or speak will spread the flu to others.
Officials say vaccination with the seasonal flu vaccine is the best way to prevent the flu. And it's especially important for certain groups, like children.
Jefferson City resident Jackie Thompson, a grandmother, said her grandchild comes for vaccination every year.
"I'm worried about it because it's a danger and I've heard many children that have had the flu." Thompson said.
In addition to vaccination, other measures people can use to prevent the spread include: washing hands with soap and water after coughing or sneezing, covering nose and mouth with a tissue when coughing or sneezing, trying to avoid close contact with sick people, limiting contact with others while sick, and keeping children at home from daycare or school until they are completely well and fever-free for at least 24 hours.


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New legislation aims to strengthen regulations, close Internet
Breed-specific Prohibited or Restricted Ordinances
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This week, the world tuned in to security camera footage Vivian Gomez posted to her Facebook page. The video shows Gomez's driveway as a shadow appears followed by what looks like an elf, very similar to the Harry Potter character "Dobby," walking away from the house. She captioned the clip, "So I woke up Sunday morning and saw this on my camera and am trying to figure out … what the heck?? First I saw the shadow walking from my front door then I saw this thing. … has anyone else seen this on their cameras??"
It's since been viewed over 11 million times, and it seems everyone who watched it has a theory of what it is. Well the mythbusters over at Snopes have taken a stab to get to the bottom of the footage and released their results.
The sad news for Harry Potter fans is the creature is not "Dobby," a pretty easy assessment since the house elf is a fictional creature.
So what is it? Without needing to dive too deep in investigative work, Snopes pointed to Gomez's son, who can be seen in many of her Facebook photos. He seems to be about eight years old and likely put something on his head, left the house and did a silly dance as he made his way down the driveway.
It's a theory some of Vivian's friends even suggested when she first posted the video, with comments like, "Viv, I think it's Bobby! Too much Fortnite! I heard your front door open and see the shadow," and "Is Bobby sleep walking? I can see his little chicken walk."
They are probably right. If you watch the video closely, you can see what looks like the shadow of a door opening on the right side of the screen. Also, it is the simplest solution, which often is the right one.
However, there are others out there who think it truly is "Dobby," just an augmented reality version of him. Snopes doesn't think that is the case, but did point out that on June 7, the day after the video was uploaded, a trailer dropped for the location-based augmented reality game Harry Potter: Wizards Unite - an app that lets players interact with creatures from Harry Potter in the real world.
However, it doesn't seem like it is part of a marketing campaign for the game, so while there is no confirmation, the "Dobby" figure is almost definitely a little boy being goofy.
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Electric Hypercar launched in London
A new €1 million 1073 bhp sports car will make its debut at the Salon Privé supercar show from September 5 to 7 at Syon Park in west London. The Rimac Concept_One has two claims to fame. Firstly, it is powered by four electric motors, one for each wheel. In principle, that should give amazing handling as each motor will be able to vary its torque hundreds of times a second to maximise grip.
Secondly, it is the first supercar to come out of Croatia, the dream of 24–year-old entrepreneur Mate Rimac, who started by converting his old 1980s BMW 3 Series to electric power, and just kept on tinkering.
He says he is most proud of the torque vectoring of the electric motors. Torque vectoring is already used on some high performance cars like the new Ford Focus ST – the idea is to modulate the amount of torque going to each driving wheel. However, doing it with four separate motors should give far more sophisticated results than an electro-mechanical system on just two wheels.
The claimed performance figures for the new car are mainstream supercar: 0-62mph in 2.8sec, a top speed of 190mph and a range of 375 miles. Presumably that range is not calculated when doing high-speed runs: even the most advanced batteries drain very quickly at over 120 mph, as the current draw is huge.
Rimac says he is not primarily attracted by the environmental credentials of electric cars. Only 88 examples of the Concept_One are planned, and as Rimac says, it can make no difference to the environment. He wants to show that an electric supercar is simply better to drive than a conventionally-powered one.


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Due to current health and safety measures, all wineries are accepting visitors by appointment only
Merryvale Vineyards is a family-owned Napa Valley winery producing small production lots from select vineyard sources. For over 30 years Merryvale has been turning exceptional Napa Valley grapes into world class wine. Merryvale is world renowned for rich, powerful Cabernet Sauvignons and Chardonnays, and their iconic Bordeaux-style red blend, Profile. Merryvale's historic building was the first winery built in the Napa Valley after the Repeal of Prohibition in 1933, and has become a favorite destination for visitors to the valley.
Merryvale is committed to protecting and preserving the environment through conservation, renewable energy and sustainable farming practices. Merryvale has received Napa Green Vineyard, Napa Green Winery and Bay Area Green Business certifications.
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Guests enter Merryvale through classically landscaped gardens, accented by a beautiful fountain. The Tasting Cellar is located in the heart of our working winery offering views of carefully stacked French oak barrels, our historic Cask Room, and our small, but well-stocked Wine Library.
Guests can taste at the u-shaped tasting bar or in one of our more private tasting areas, including our 22,000 gallon redwood Tank Room or our inviting club member area. Tasting selections include five Current Releases for $30 per person.
A variety of wine experiences are offered. Guests can make reservations online at merryvale.com/reservations. Private tastings in the Wine Library are by appointment only.
The winery is open for wine tasting daily from 10:30am to 5:30pm. Please join us for one of our entertaining wine experiences by calling 707-963-7777 or by sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Wine clubs are a great way to stay connected to your favorite wineries.
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You are invited to join the Merryvale Family and share our passion and dedication to exceptional Napa Valley wines.
Merryvale Vineyards, a landmark, family-owned Napa Valley winery, employs thoughtful farming practices and superior standards in the winery to ensure that the wines live up to their full potential. Merryvale's unparalleled Cabernet-focused portfolio boasts complex, balanced and classic wines that are truly reflective of the region's terroir.
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Enjoy the convenience of having Merryvale wines delivered to your doorstep each season. Receive six bottles of red wine or a combination of red and white wine in February, May, September and November.
Prior to each release, you will receive email notification of the upcoming shipment, allowing you to customize your wine selections.
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The offer listed below is valid for all Napa Valley residents age 21 and over.
Enjoy a 10% Discount on wine purchases. During the special two-day Napa Neighbor event (January 11 - 12) we will offer our full Wine Club benefits to Napa Neighbor visitors. This includes complimentary Signature Tastings and 15% savings on all Merryvale and Starmont wines.
The Napa Green program is supported by a wide variety of groups including the Sierra Club, the Audubon Society, and the University of California. The Napa Valley Vintners, along with Fish Friendly Farming, the Napa Valley Grapegrowers, the Napa County Farm Bureau and others developed the Napa Green program. Learn more about the program at napagreen.org.
Merryvale Vineyards is certified under the Napa Green Winery Program by the Napa County Department of Environmental Management (DEM) and the Association of Bay Area Government's (ABAG) Green Business Program and completed all the regulatory components needed for environmental sustainability. These components included developing water and energy conservation methods, preventing pollution, and reducing solid waste. In addition to developing sustainable winery practices, this program is set to become the standard for the state of California.
Merryvale Vineyards is certified under the Napa Green Certified Land Program. Merryvale Vineyards has created and implemented a customized farm plan with measured results that addressed all aspects of its property, vineyard land as well as non-farmed land, including practicing soil conservation, water conservation, stable drainage, riparian corridor enhancement, fisheries and wildlife habitat enhancement and long-term improvement and sustainability.
Certification - certification is granted by the Napa County Agricultural Commissioners Office of Pesticide Regulation, the Regional Water Quality Control board, the California Department of Fish and Game, and the National Marine Fisheries Service.
Once a year the rarest new Napa Valley wines become available under one roof at Premiere Napa Valley. Wineries throughout the Napa Valley are given one task to participate: create a one-of-a-kind wine for this event to be purchased by one lucky bidder. This event is only open to select members of the wine trade and the successful bidder is the sole owner of this unique wine.
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Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon
Vintage: 2018
Release Date: October - 2020
Appellation: St. Helena
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Nintendo's best-selling portable DS game machine is loved the world over by gamers of all ages.
And this holiday, if you're hoping to buy a top-notch game for the Nintendo DS owner in your life, you'll certainly find there are a great many to choose from.
But sifting through all the options can be a bit overwhelming. So here, we've compiled this list of some of the best-of-the-best to help you get started.
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future
Rated E 10+
The Professor Layton series of games continues to awe and inspire us. Just like "The Curious Village" and "The Diabolical Box" before it, "The Unwound Future" presents players with the colorful world of puzzle-solving Professor Layton and his boy-sidekick Luke as they (and you) try to solve a series of brain-bending puzzles. The art work, as always, is lovely and the brainteasers are a treat to set your mind against. Meanwhile, the time-travel-themed story is especially well done. This game makes a great gift for puzzle lovers and thinkers of all ages.
Super Scribblenauts
Rated E 10+
This delightful game of word creation and puzzling should be part of every DS owner's library. This is a game that tosses all kinds of challenges and puzzles in your way and then tasks you with creating the items you need to overcome what stands in your way. That is, you write the word for an object and, poof, that object appears in your game. Yes, write "enormous fire-breathing pink kangaroo" and you will have an enormous fire-breathing pink kangaroo right there in your game. "Super Scribblenauts" is creative and thought-provoking fun of the best kind. (For my complete review, follow this link.)
Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies
Rated E 10+
This ninth installment in the beloved "Dragon Quest" series delivers another enormous role-playing experience in the Japanese tradition. Here gamers create their own angelic hero to play — a hero who winds up among the mere mortals. What follows is a rich experience full of fantastical adventuring, epic quests and lots of turn-based combat. Meanwhile, a multiplayer option lets gamers play with up to three friends. It's certainly a great experience to share during the holidays together.
Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem
Rated: E
Remember when Donkey Kong was the kind of ape who liked to kidnap fair maidens? Well, DK is at his old shenanigans again in this latest "Mario vs. Donkey Kong" game. And it's up to Mario — and his legion of miniature mechanical Marios — to save the girl. In this absolutely adorable puzzle game, you must guide miniature Marios as well as other Nintendo characters through a variety of amusement-park-themed levels as you try to rescue DK's hostage Pauline. Gamers of all ages will enjoy the sharp graphics and highly creative levels. Meanwhile, players are also given the chance to let their creativity flow as they design their own levels.
WarioWare D.I.Y.
Rated: E
For moreholiday video game ideas, be sure to read:
Five great Wii games for the holidays
Five great PS3 games for the holidays
Five great Xbox 360 games for the holidays
Game the holidays with these gadgets and gifts
Sing, dance, rock the holidays with music games
Game away those holiday pounds
Winda Benedetti writes about games for msnbc.com. You can follow her tweets about games and other things right here on Twitter.
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Adult Disposable Clothes Protector with Adhesive Fastening and Reversible Pocket
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Adult Disposable Clothes Protector with Adhesive Fastening and Reversible Pocket
Disposable Clothes Protectors are Abena branded and designed to provide hygienic protection which gives the best protection against fluids and food spillage.
Size 37x70cm
Units Per Pack: 100
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£4.80 Delivery Charge (Free Delivery on all orders over £25)
- Orders placed before 1pm (Monday - Friday) will be dispatched the next working day for express delivery, please note that this is stock dependent and subject to change during peak times e.g. Christmas and Bank Holidays. Orders to Scotland (Highlands and Islands), Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands will be dispatched the same day but may take longer to deliver.
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- Delivery is carrier dependent and may face delays outside the control of Abena
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Every care has been taken to ensure that the descriptions in this catalogue and on our website are accurate. If for any reason an item is not acceptable, it may be returned unopened, unused, unwashed and in the original packaging, within 14 days and a full refund or replacement will be given. However, the cost of returning the product is not subject to a refund. This does not affect your statutory rights. When returning any item we recommend that you obtain a proof of postage.
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DIY mood board
Recently Jennifer posted this piece of plywood art from Scandinavian Deko, and I have seen plywood being used in a couple of different ways and love the rawness of the material and how simple it can work within an interior. After seeing this on Trendenser I thought it would a great way to use the piece of plywood that I have sitting about to decorate, and make a collage of images with cut outs, a clever way of creating a mood board! Of course with two small boys around, this was only placed to take photographs and has now been put out of reach of exploring hands!
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AWR Corp. announced that Microwave Office® high frequency design software now includes full support for S-functions, which are nonlinear behavioral models developed by NMDG NV of Belgium. AWR will be demonstrating S-functions within the Microwave Office design environment in booth 84 at the European Microwave Week Conference in Paris, France, from September 28 - 30.
S-functions are an extension of S-parameters from which all microwave components, circuits, and systems are created and characterized. They extend these functions to nonlinear devices such as transistors, amplifiers, prescalers, and mixers that must be characterized under large-signal conditions to be accurately characterized under various signal and matching conditions. S-function can be used with vector network analyzers (VNA) and oscilloscopes, and in particular, are closely integrated with the VNAs from Rohde & Schwarz. When imported into AWR's Microwave Office software they can be used to speed the design and increase the accuracy of larger circuits using actual measured data.
With this announcement of NMDG S-function support, Microwave Office software now supports multiple, emerging, nonlinear behavioral models like Agilent's X-parameters® and Mesuro's Cardiff model.
In addition to in-booth demonstrations of S-functions and other nonlinear models in Microwave Office software, AWR, NMDG, Focus Microwaves and Rohde & Schwarz are hosting a free workshop Wednesday afternoon on the topic of S-functions, their role in nonlinear modeling, fast nonlinear device characterization of power amplifier designs using VNAs, device measurements in a non-50-ohm environment using multiple harmonics, as well as the use of "extended VNAs" to provide real-time access to dynamic IV at multiple harmonics.


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Passenger Missed Connection to Doomed Continental Flight 3407 That Killed 50
Crash killed everyone on board, but a delayed connection saved one man's life.
Feb. 14, 2009 -- Paul Twaragowski was initially annoyed when his flight from New Orleans, La., to Newark, N.J., was delayed -- it meant he would not be able to make his connecting flight home to Buffalo, N.Y.
But when he arrived in Newark, the 23-year-old was surprised to see a deluge of missed phone calls and text messages on his phone. Some of the text messages simply read, "Paul?"
When he called a friend back, he got news that, he said, changed his life.
"He said, 'Paul, are you OK?' and I'm like, 'Yes, I'm at Newark, I'll be home in the morning. What's going on?'" Twaragowski recounted to ABC News. "He's like, 'We've all been worried sick about you. The flight... it crashed in Clarence. We thought it was your flight."
It was the flight Twaragowski was supposed to be on. All 49 people on board, people he would have been sharing arm rests with and bumping into on the way to the bathroom, were dead. The crash also claimed the life of one man on the ground.
"I was in complete shock. I couldn't believe it happened," Twaragowski told ABC News. "Everything was just kind of going through my mind like crazy. More than anything, I just wanted to go home."
He immediately called his mother, who luckily had not seen the news.
"She had been sleeping. There was no satellite on the TV, so she had not known anything about that," he said.
For Twaragowski, his extraordinary serendipitous survival was a sign of fate.
"I am a complete believer in fate, so I am lookin' at it in a positive view, because I am a positive person," he said. "I believe for whatever reason, my name was on that ticket and that ticket number, 3407, was on that boarding pass, but for whatever reason, I wasn't meant to be on there. And I am just thankful and happy to be here."
Relatives, Strangers Mourn Plane Crash Victims
That happiness, though, is tempered by thoughts of those who suffered such great loss.
"I just wanted to say again my deepest sympathies and sorry for those involved in the tragedy, especially the family of those that were victims of the plane and everyone involved," he said.
Like many of the relatives of the victims, Twaragowski said he's been overwhelmed by the outpouring of support and good wishes he's received.
"I want to say how proud I am to be a citizen of Buffalo, [a] caring community, and how everyone comes together in good times and bad," he said.


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Eve Ensler on Ted.com
I gotta admit, Eve Ensler is one of my greatest inspirations. This woman is the epitome of empowered femininity; she's got ovaries of steel and a heart of gold.She recently gave a TED talk in which she shared some heart-wrenching stories of girls who have overcome terrible oppression and violence. I absolutely love TED.com and have really enjoyed many of the videos I've watched, but I was so inspired this talk I had to share. Even though it's entitled "Embrace Your Inner Girl", Eve Ensler is not just talking about gender... she's speaking about compassion. I think her message needs to be heard by every man, woman, boy, girl, other(?) on this planet... so I figured what better place to start than with VegWeb? ;)
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You know the Florida Legislature is gearing up for another session when you see lawmakers lining up to warn of the unsustainability of entitlement programs.
Only this time, the legislators aren't talking about Medicaid.
They're talking about their own entitlements, such as the Committees of Continuous Existence.
Whenever a state rep starts feeling a little blue about the low pay of government service, all he has to do is open a CCE. Special interests pour tens of thousands of dollars into the fund, skirting the usual campaign finance rules and the ban against giving gifts.
The legislator can use the money practically at will, which, as one can imagine, has led to considerable abuse.
Collectively, it has created the perception that lawmakers, who are supposed to work for the people, are instead beholden to whomever has the money and willingness to underwrite their slush funds.
Little wonder that an opinion poll in December found that only 35 percent of Florida's voters approve of the Legislature's performance.
Maybe another round of ethics reforms will help. Sen. President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, and House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, are working on them.
The pair led an impressive redistricting effort that held gerrymandering to a minimum, so there is hope.
Bills under consideration would eliminate CCEs for legislators, strengthen the two-year prohibition on lobbying once lawmakers leave office; ban legislators from taking other jobs in the public sector as a result of their positions; and allow for the collection of fines when elected officeholders do not disclose their personal finances as required.
Any of these would probably improve conditions as well as perceptions.
But let's not expect a miracle.
Here's one reason. According to The Associated Press, about 37,000 city, county and state officials are required to file yearly reports detailing their personal assets, debts and income.
About 800, or 2 percent, do not file the reports. And many of them do not pay the fines that the state Commission on Ethics levies in answer to their refusal. The state ends up writing off the debts because it has no legal teeth to collect them.
These transgressors are not run-of-the-mill citizens. They are the so-called cream of our society, empowered to generate, administer and enforce the laws that govern us.
It's bad enough that they don't do what's right, even worse that the law can't make them. Maybe that's because they, or their peers, have established the enforcement provisions of the law.
It seems that in the political world, there's always a loophole. Even when corruption comes to a head every once in a while, prompting a new appreciation of ethics, the chance of meaningful change remains slim.
One of the interesting byproducts of the legislative examination of the rules is a move to get rid of any caps to political contributions. Florida requires that contributors limit their donations to $500 for the primary, $500 for the general election per candidate.
Of course, the CCEs, donations to political parties and other avenues have made a mockery of the limit. Of the $306 million spent in Florida during the 2011-12 election cycle, $230 million went to political parties and committees that did not have to adhere to the limit, the Miami Herald reported on Jan. 15.
"There is no evidence that caps on contributions are effective. The money is going to find its way into the system. It is broken in every way," Dan Krassner, executive director of Integrity Florida, told the newspaper.
Integrity Florida, along with the House speaker, would like to forgo the contribution limits. That sounds pretty cynical, ceding any election to whomever has the most to spend on it, even if stricter reporting requirements let us know who it is quicker.
Taking a cue from the financial disclosure enforcement, the legislators should talk less about what rules to establish and more about what happens when those rules aren't followed.
Eric Ernst's column runs Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com or (941) 486-3073.
Don't expect ethics miracle in Capitol
You know the Florida Legislature is gearing up for another session when you see lawmakers lining up to warn of the unsustainability of entitlement programs.


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PEORIA — The patient was admitted to the hospital with life-threatening levels of potassium, apparently connected to his end-stage kidney disease and dialysis.
Doctors immediately put him on dialysis, which was supposed to lower the level of potassium in his bloodstream. Instead, his potassium level soared.
"This is a very rare phenomenon," said Dr. Karthik Ragunathan, an internal medicine resident at OSF St. Francis Medical Center. He stood in front of a poster presentation describing a near-fatal mystery in the clinical terms of medicine, "Arteriovenous Fistula Recirculation — A Rare Etiology of Persistent Severe Hyperkalemia in an ESRD Patient."
About 45 doctors, nurses, and pharmacists stood in front of posterboard versions of research projects with arcane-sounding titles during a research symposium Tuesday at Jump Trading Simulation and Education Center. Organized by OSF St. Francis Medical Center and University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, the day-long annual symposium is part professional science fair, part continuing education seminar.
The symposium is an opportunity to highlight the importance of research to improve care at St. Francis and its sister hospitals, according to Dr. Stephen Hippler, senior vice president of performance excellence at OSF Healthcare. It's also a glimpse into the real-life rare cases healthcare professionals see and the problems they're trying to solve.
Other presentations included promising research on reducing bed sores, which will be piloted in St. Francis' cardiovascular intensive care unit; new information on the caloric and nutritional content of human milk at different stages of a baby's life; and an assumption-changing outcome in research on how sonographers estimate baby weight in pregnant women with diabetes.
Ragunathan's partner on the research project was Dr. Alexander Alonso. The two ruled out eight other causes until they finally figured out the problem was not in the man but in the machinery of dialysis. The AVF, or arteriovenous fistula, kept recycling cleansed blood through the dialysis system instead of into his body, causing the abnormally high levels of potassium. They repaired the blocked vessel.
If the case study is published, it would be the first time such a case appeared in medical literature, according to Ragunathan. It's a case other doctors should consider, he added, if they see a patient on dialysis with abnormally high levels of potassium.
"This guy almost died and we brought him back to life," Ragunathan said.
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PEORIA — The patient was admitted to the hospital with life-threatening levels of potassium, apparently connected to his end-stage kidney disease and dialysis.


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In SharePoint 2007, creating a custom Web Service was not so easy. However, asp.net web services are obsolete in SharePoint 2010. Rather new and recommended approach is to develop WCF Service. So the question comes up, "How much difficult it is to create a custom WCF service in SharePoint 2010?". I'm going to answer the question just right in this blog.
Install CKS development tools edition
For showing how easily you can develop your own Custom WCF Service in SharePoint 2010, I'm going to use a open source Visual Studio 2010 extension know as Community Kit for SharePoint: Development Tools Edition. This tool will make the WCF service development much easier. It'll automate tasks that you would have to do manually. There are two version of the extensions: One for SharePoint Foundation and another one is for SharePoint Server. Download the appropriate version and install.
Create WCF Service
Once you installed the CKSDev Visual Studio extension, you can open a SharePoint Project. In the SharePoint Project, right click on the project and try to add a new item. In the "Add New Item" dialog, you will find some new items added by CKSDev Visual Studio extension. Please select the option "WCF Service (CKSDev)" for new item as shown below:
Figure 1: 'Add New WCF Service' option 'add new item' dialog
Once you add the WCF Service, two files will be added by the dialog. One is the service interface and another is the Service itself.
Modify Service Types
As defined in MSDN, there are three different service types. Most of the time you need SOAP service. But if you need REST or ADO.NET Data service you can modify the service types by modifying the service factory as sown in the figure 2. The following table shows the three service types and their service factory name.
Service Type
Service Factory
SOAP service
Basic HTTP binding must be used, which creates endpoints for a service based on the basic HTTP binding.
REST Service
The service factory creates endpoints with Web bindings.
ADO.NET Data Service
A data service host factory can be used.
When you create service with CKSDev tool, the default service generated is SOAP service. If you want to change the service type, please modify the factory in .svc file as shown below:
Figure 2: Service Factory defined in SVC file.
Deploy the Service
Once you are done with the service development, you are ready to deploy. But where you want to deploy the service? By default SharePoint service are kept in ISAPI directory. However, CKSDev deploy the service in ISAPI\ProjectNameSpace path as shown below:
Figure 3: Service deployment location
Once you define the service deployment location as shown in the figure 3, you can deploy the solution.
Access the Custom WCF Service
After Service deploy, you need to use the service in another projects. First try to access the service in browser. But remember you need to access the MEX endpoint either you will not get the service accessible in browser. To access the MEX endpoint, you should add "/MEX" at the end of the service name as shown below:
Figure 4: Access WCF Service MEX endpoint.
Finally try to add the service reference in a project using Visual Studio's 'Add Service Reference' dialog as shown below:
Figure 5: Add Service Reference
So the steps described in this post are pretty simple:
- Make sure you have downloaded and installed CKSDev Visual Studio extension.
- Create a WCF Service (CKSDev) in the project. And if necessary, modify the service type
- Deploy the solution and if necessary, change the deployment path.
- Access the service MEX endpoint.
You are done. Pretty simple, I think.


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Reading the Market
Metalworking companies need to pay attention to signals about the trends influencing their customers and the buying patterns of their competitors.
This month's cover story represents a bit of a departure for Modern Machine Shop. It reflects the growing importance of market research in decisions about what machine tools and related equipment to buy. It also shows our intent to provide more content based on this research.
Traditionally, our primary editorial focus has been on technology—how users are applying developments in metalworking processes and products to their advantage. Secondarily, we've complemented coverage of revealing applications with articles about shop management issues that impact how machining operations and the shopfloor workforce are organized. Less frequently, we've reported on "business intelligence" or "market research" about global machine tool production, the manufacturing industry in general and the overall U.S. economy.
The prominence of this article by Steven Kline is significant. Featuring this article as a cover story indicates that this kind of information is increasingly valuable to users (and suppliers) of metalworking equipment. We're aware that the most successful metalworking companies not only meet the needs of their customers consistently, but also they anticipate those needs by staying prepared to provide new and timely capabilities. The best shops stay ahead of their customers' part production requirements.
One of the messages we are sending by putting this article on the cover is "Pay attention to this kind of marketing insight." As Steven says early in his article, an informed buyer makes better decisions. Every purchase has a tactical implication (how it helps the shop's operations) and a strategic one (how it helps the shop's business). Investments in new technology require both technical and marketing savvy.
Another message is that we will be devoting increased attention to market research such as spending forecasts and business trends. One goal is to offer more in-depth articles that provide useful insights, analysis and predictions to help you spot growth opportunities. A second goal is to use the market research internally to fine-tune our traditional coverage of technology. For example, based on trends that Steven identifies about machining center preferences, you can expect the value of horizontal machining centers to be a topic for feature articles, case histories and other editorial items in the months ahead.
Steven's article also reflects the preeminence of Gardner Business Media (publisher of MMS) as a source of expert, authoritative research into the metalworking and manufacturing equipment marketplace. By growing this side of our business, we're committed to a higher level of service to both buyers and sellers of manufacturing equipment. Our corporate identity and business branding will increasingly reflect this emphasis.
Finally, let's not miss the most important message in Steven's words. U.S. manufacturing is strong and growing stronger. The case for an optimistic outlook in 2013 is strong. We all have to be strong in our resolve to move forward.


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Awesome news. I submitted a presentation for SQLSat 83 in Johannesburg South Africa for May 7, 2011. I saw that they were opening up the presentation schedule a little bit to allow for remote presenters and I decided to give it a try.
I got an email notification yesterday that my presentation has been accepted and I will be presenting – woohoo. If you are interested, you can see the presentation schedule here. My presentation will be similar to the last time I presented at SQLSaturday in Salt Lake City – but with some refinements and hopefully a better overall presentation. I will be sharing some of the tools/scripts I use to help learn more about an environment as I inherit a database.
Here's the fun part – I will be presenting from my home in Utah which is 8 hours behind Johannesburg. At the time of my presentation (12:15 PM there) it will be 4:15AM local for me. That should make for an interesting presentation if I am groggy. 😉
If you are in the area at the time of the event (in Johannesburg), I highly recommend you make it out to some sessions. From looking at the lineup, there appears to be some really good stuff to be presented. As we get closer to May 7th, I will post more information. For now, I need to go clean up my slidedeck and get it submitted.
Parting note: I am glad I was selected for this SQLSaturday. If you read my SQLPeople interview (here), you may recall that I lived in the area for a couple of years. I only passed through Johannesburg when returning home but have always wanted to go back and visit. It has been quite some time and I have yet to make it back. At least now I can do it virtually!


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Pick and Dig 2
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Pick and Dig is back, and there's loads more to do in this side-scrolling action puzzle, you have to pick through rock walls and dig through the earth to complete each stage. Grab ladders to climb over spaces. Every item you have can only be used once, so use your resources (and your environment) carefully! You'll really have to think ahead and use everything you can to your advantage if you want to get out of all the mazes!
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PORTSMOUTH — The city has started the process of transitioning from the iPark in-vehicle parking meter system to EasyPark.
EasyPark provides a convenient way for customers to purchase parking in Portsmouth and Dover with more communities to follow in the future. Customers pay only for the time they actually park, and avoid having to search for change or stand in line at pay and display terminals.
As part of that process, Portsmouth owners of the iPark devices may exchange their units for the EasyPark devices at the Portsmouth Department of Public Works through Friday, Jan. 18. Customers were notified via email last week and have been switching their units since Monday at the city's public works department located at 680 Peverly Hill Road in Portsmouth. Those who did not receive notification of the transition may exchange their devices through the end of the week. After that time, units may be exchanged at the parking clerk's office in the Portsmouth City Hall located at 1 Junkins Ave. in Portsmouth. Details related to the exchange process, and downloadable exchange forms, are available online at www.cityofportsmouth.com/transportation/news-ipark.htm.
Starting Feb. 1, iPark units will no longer be honored as the access required to update the devices for the new parking rates and time limits is no longer available. Those who choose not to move to the EasyPark system may apply to receive refunds for the balance of funds displayed on their devices. Contact Tom Cocchiaro, parking operations supervisor, at (603) 766-1440 or email firstname.lastname@example.com for details.
Those first-time customers who'd like to purchase an EasyPark unit may do so online by going to www.easyparkusa.com/portsmouth. Cost for the devices is $19.95 plus shipping. To help new customers get started right away, the city is providing EasyPark units ordered before July 1 with a $10 pre-loaded credit. The city is also working to set up procedures that will allow new customers to purchase the EasyPark devices locally.
For more background on EasyPark and procedures for existing and new customers, please visit www.easyparkusa.com/portsmouth.