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Maryland mom Jessica McFadden has a pretty good laundry routine going with her family of five — until the new school year, with its additional gym and activity clothes, begins. McFadden, who writes the blog A Parent in Silver Spring, has one child who brings dirty clothes to the laundry room, one who folds the clean clothes and delivers them to each bedroom, and one who is a master sock sorter. But once school starts, the laundry routine gets retooled to accommodate the increased volume of sweaty tap class outfits, damp swim team uniforms and smelly taekwondo clothes.
"I go bonkers each fall," McFadden says. "I have to get the kids into the routine of emptying activity bags and gym bags in the laundry room." It's a challenge to collect everything and keep it moving through the system, she says.
In September, after the lazy days of summer, the McFaddens and many other households reevaluate how they do chores. Now might be a good time to go over how laundry is done in your home. Is one person (maybe you) doing too much? Are kids participating enough and are you educating them about the process? Do your clothes look super clean or might you do better with a different detergent? Could your laundry room be better organized? Are you getting the odors out of your workout clothes?
Many of us are in a rut, doing laundry the same way for years. It may be the same way our parents did it. But our cleaning needs — and options — have evolved.
Decades ago, having one official laundry day a week was a popular routine. But today people own greater quantities of clothes; do more, smaller loads; and take fewer things to the dry cleaners. New buildings are increasingly installing washers and dryers in each apartment as an amenity. If renters don't have to schlep dirty clothes to a communal washer in a dusty basement or laundromat, they will probably do laundry more frequently, tossing in a load before work or bedtime.
"Modern lifestyles have gotten more hectic, so people are doing laundry more often," says Brian Sansoni, a vice president at the American Cleaning Institute, a trade association for the cleaning products industry. "It's not just for Saturdays and Sundays anymore."
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Although cotton was the most common fabric in the laundry basket years ago, now there are many different materials, such as athletic-wear fabrics that can be tricky to clean and keep odor-free.
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Organized and attractive laundry rooms can make the process more enjoyable, according to Leslie Yazel, editor in chief of Real Simple magazine. Yazel says fall is a good time to clean out your laundry room and remove everything that isn't related to clothing care so it doesn't become "a giant junk drawer." When she lived in a rowhouse with a dedicated laundry room, she used a lemonade-style dispenser for liquid laundry detergent and poured it directly into a measuring cup. Other organizing tips from Yazel include keeping a Mason jar on a shelf to hold loose change that comes out of pants pockets and installing a trash can with a cover so dryer lint doesn't blow around the room. If you have been hanging your air-dry clothing all over your bathroom, install a telescoping valet rod for that purpose. (Your family will thank you.) More tips for laundry rooms are included in the new book "The Real Simple Method to Organizing Every Room."
You should also consider changing how you transport piles of dirty and clean clothes around your home. About 86 percent of households sort laundry before washing, according to statistics from Henkel, a manufacturer of laundry and home-care products. Women (90 percent) are also more likely to do so than men (75 percent). Yazel and her husband keep two hampers going at the same time: one for whites and one for colors. That way sorting is done in advance.
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The Academy Awards ceremony will stay at the Hollywood and Highland Center for 20 more years as part of an agreement announced Tuesday by the Academy and the venue owner.
The former Kodak Theatre will be renamed the Dolby Theatre, according to the agreement. There was speculation that the ceremony might relocate to the LA Live complex in downtown LA.
"The Academy's Board of Governors believes that the home for our awards is in Hollywood," said Tom Sherak, Academy president. "It is where the Academy and the motion picture industry are rooted."
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Polished Bliss is a leading supplier of high-end car care products & services.
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Appliance House is a new retailer of kitchen appliances & equipment. We were asked to create the business's logo & branding before producing a sophisticated e-commerce website.
The site needed to give shoppers confidence in the quality of the Appliance House brand and its products.
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We created the new site with Actinic's e-commerce software at its heart.
There's a particular focus on the presentation of products themselves - extending Actinic's database to hold a huge number of product specification variables, and writing code to display them in the most helpful way to customers.
The kitchen appliance market is extremely price-competitive, so we created many features which showcase Appliance House's value for money.
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Our brief was to show DSA as a modern, forward-thinking charity, and to make DSA's vast range of information resources much more easily available.
The new site had to be particularly accessible to those who find reading difficult.
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DSA's website has a huge amount of content and its users are very diverse, so the project needed a very disciplined structure.
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We implemented an innovative "talking text" facility to help those users who find reading difficult.
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The Transport Trust asked us to create a comprehensive public database to commemorate Britain's legacy in the development of transport.
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Our client Eteaket is passionate about tea, so it's important that the website lets their enthusiasm shine out.
Eteaket particularly wanted us to show how enjoyable & sophisticated tea can be.
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Axiom Films needed to make its entire catalogue available to film enthusiasts.
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JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT (The Aerospace Players)
- Date: 07/21/2019 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
- Location: James R. Armstrong Theatre
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The Aerospace Players presents JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT in the James Armstrong Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive.
Tickets are $24/$22. Call the Theatre Box Office at 310.781.7171. For more information access www.aeaclubs.org.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, an irresistible family musical, follows Jacob's favorite son, Joseph. After he is sold into slavery by his brothers and imprisoned in Egypt, Joseph discovers his ability to interpret dreams and soon finds himself in front of the hilariously Elvis-like Pharaoh. Joseph's solution to Egypt's famine elevates him to Pharaoh's second in command and reunited him with his family. This magical musical if full of catchy songs, spanning from country-western and calypso to bubble-gum, and rock and roll. A musical comedy to be enjoyed by all ages.


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Anne Laplantine, "Spring won't find us" (2009)
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Ms. Laplantine is a French musician and video artist who lives and works in Paris. While her previous 11 releases mine the sound-art vein of experimental electronica this release debuts her dreamy vocals, layered into thirteen minutes of soul warming future folk. These haunting voals fused with earth-toned landscapes create the compelling musical language this album. She claims that this is her last release, after 9 years of music crafting, to focus on board games and Facebook.
Constrobuz, "Glorious Nippon" (2010)
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Chris Papp of Raleigh, North Carolina has been dishing out beat tapes to the web like hot cakes since he was 16. Strictly Beats mention rates Bleep Blorp Remixes as "one of the best tapes ever... on the net." Now he's 19 years old and his followers are hypnotized by his sound. His atypical producing strategies have warped the online hip hop scene.
Glorious Nippon boasts a wirey synth melody, lots of lush, spacey compression, and immaculate drum placement (a Constrobuz signature). This track is based on a sample from the 70's prog rock band CMU.
Lil B, "I'm God" (2010)
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Lil B is sensibly retarded. He has a fairly large cult of people who idolize him (his YouTube tracks can sport a quarter million views or more). His lyrics are hilarious, vulgar, psychedelic and unexplainable delivered with a deadpan, lewd-emcee crackhead manner. He claims his name 'Lil B' stands for Lil Boss, but then goes by 'Lil Based.' Either way, half the time he goes by "Based God." At one point he had around 122 myspace pages for his music, each one with a different name.
This track, from the "6 Kiss" album, starts off with a sample from Imogen Heap's "Just For Now" --her dreamlike vocals serenading on the beat. He goes on rapping about absolute nonsense. Or maybe there's meaning. Who knows? Some people think Lil B is dragging this ego along to become the next Lil Wayne. Some think he's the new Wesley Willis. Regardless, I think he needs to keep doing what he's doing. Because he's working and producing thousands plus me are hooked.
(ED's note: Lil B is defininitely a strange phenomenon. Check out his 'positive' track "Age of Information" plus tracks like "Wonton Soup," "I'm a Fag I'm a Lesbian" & "Like a Martian" for a better scope of this peculiar voice in hip hop.)


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The "velvet" in the title alludes to the chicken's texture after it emerges from the pot. While some poached chicken recipes can come out stringy and tough, this one is cooked in a liquid that's barely simmering for 15 minutes. After that things get interesting. Instead of removing the chicken from the pot, it gets left in the liquid with the heat off for 45 minutes. The result is perfectly cooked chicken that's beautifully tender and aromatic thanks to a particularly flavorful cooking liquid.
The cooking liquid can do no wrong. It's made from soy sauce, ginger, scallion, clove, star anise, red chile, and Sichuan peppercorns, just to name a few of the ingredients. It's rich, aromatic, and lovingly seeps into every pore of the chicken over the course of its long bath.
But it's also good enough for all kinds of other uses. I tossed some cheap ramen in it for a side dish and used it to boil rice for lunch the next day. Think of this as a relative of Hainanese Chicken Rice. It's a chicken dish that keeps on giving.
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- 1 3-pound chicken, rinsed and dried
- 3 1/2 cups chicken broth (low sodium)
- 1 cup soy sauce
- 1 cup dark soy sauce
- 1 cup Chinese rice wine (preferably Shaoxing), can substitute medium-dry Sherry
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 bunch scallion, cut into 3-inch pieces
- 1 1/2 inches ginger, peeled and sliced 1/4-inch thick
- 4 strips of orange zest
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 2 whole cloves
- 2 whole star anise
- 1 dried red chile
- 1/2 teaspoon Sichuan peppercorns
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Charlie Sheen's tumultuous 2011 seemed to be settling down as the year drew to a close, but his troubled ex-wife has now stirred the pot again.
Brooke Mueller was arrested in Aspen, Colo. this weekend after allegedly assaulting a woman in a bar. Police also found cocaine in her possession.
Mueller was booked for assault and possession with intent to distribute and released on $11,000 bail.
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The 34-year-old mother of Sheen's twins Bob and Max was taken into custody after an unidentified woman told police Mueller had assaulted her, although the cause of the alleged incident has not been elaborated upon.
Her attorney, Yale Galanter, had no comment.
Mueller has reportedly entered rehab for cocaine. Per the terms of their divorce (filed last February), both Sheen and Mueller are required to pass drug tests as part of their custody agreement.
Police have not revealed who had custody of Sheen and Mueller's sons at the time of her arrest.
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Another piece of the puzzle
In my search for stat tools to analyze healing, one of the things for which I was searching was a 'mana management' tool. I found a decent (though it has weaknesses) tool. Even better, I can tie it to Ego's Recent post on that perennially favorite topic: spirit v mp5.
The tool is RegenFu. It's technically a standalone, though you will need either fubar or Titan for it to display properly. It tracks mana and health use and regeneration. Though not perfect, it contains the seeds of some very useful information right there. However, the big deal – the one that puts it on my Every Healer Must Get list – is that it tracks FSR time.
One of the Major Accomplishments of the healer's theorycraft is the Regeneration Model. Basically, it's the formulas and tables to determine how much spirit you need to match what you get for mana-per-5 seconds. That is, given a choice between X spirit and Y mp5, which will do you better for regenerating mana. The Big Unknown Variable is "p" – that is, the percent of time spent in the FSR (regenerating less mana).
Now, the reality is that things are way too hot and heavy in an instance for anyone to track all the little details – especially something that's not blasting data to read, like "you gained xxx mana." Or more specifically, "you are out of the FSR." Hey, if the DPS crews can't see the whole without review of data tables, what makes you think you can succeed with this more difficult to obtain data? It may feel like you're casting heel and toe, but…
You're going to need one more – well, two more combined – tools. Pencil and paper. What you need to do is AT A MINIMUM write down your FSR% after every battle and then reset. (This is one of the things I'd like to see expanded in the tool, but…) Every type of battle is going to be different, and you'll help yourself if you'll note at least whether it was trash or boss, and better yet if you've got the instance and the party composition (and more details about the trash and bosses – like WHICH). But JUST recording boss and trash percentages will give you solid info about which you used to guess. That is:
What is your FSR rate? What is the typical amount of time you spend IFSR and OFSR for trash? For Bosses? Got them? Good, because now we can REALLY start digging.
Specifically – as with all stats work (and the reason WHY theorycrafting) we're going to dig into what IS, and what COULD BE.
'What is' is first. You have your frame rate. By referencing the table or formula linked above you can determine your OPTIMAL breakeven point for spirit vs mp5 (for regen only – yes, I keep saying that, but there are other potential benefits of spirit). Example: Right now I run about 70% (+/-5%) for all but one Kara boss – and the Moroes fight with all those shackles and heals gets me about 85%. Trash runs closer to 55%. I COULD plan based upon Moroes, but I'm managing, and think I'm better served using the more general number of 70% for my base. (Caveat as warning – I'm not the only healer in any of my kara groups. This MATTERS. But I'm going to ignore it for now to keep this example from going nuts in recursives.) Anyway, at 70% (with 3/3 med) my trade0ff is 3.95 Spirit = 1 mp5. What this means is that given a choice, if there is more than 4 spirit to the available mp5, I should probably take the spirit. (And a personal digression… I have IDS. This gives me additional healing for my spirit. I'll not go into the math for weighting, but suffice it to say that my actual trade point is closer to 3 than to 4.)
And then there's 'what can be' . Once you KNOW what your 5 second waltz is giving you, you can try different things to see if you can make it better. Remember that the magic phrase is "nobody dies", but other than that… what works? Not opinions, but FACTS – what makes your FSR rate better while keeping everyone alive?
Likewise in the 'can be' category – right now we're just examining spirit and mp5. But the reality is that we have both. Consider this… I know what my paperdoll (and raid-buffed because I wrote it down) OFSR and IFSR regen rates are, which in combination with knowing the speed of my waltz (my FSR rate) means I have a rough idea of my true regeneration rate (mana per second). Now, I can use another couple of tools – WWS for one example – to see what spells I'm casting and how many times I'm casting them over the time of the engagement. Which means (with a little math) I can determine about what my mana burn rate is. That is, I can determine I burn roughly X mana per second.
And given my burn rate and my regen rate AND my known mana pool I can estimate how long a fight I can endure. Yes, tossing in the runes and the shards and the pots and the fiend will adjust this time – but I can CALCULATE it. But that's not the best thing (IMO).
I can establish a goal for mana regen that gives me 'indefinite' healing. Look up there again at all I've written. If I can make the burn rate less than or equal to the regen rate, I'm golden MOST of the time. (I am never going to be able to chain-cast GH to infinity. Fortunately, I should never HAVE to do that.) I can reduce the burn rate and/or increase the regen rate (not just by adding SPI or mp5, but by reducing the speed of the waltz). And short of that goal, I can ALSO set a goal of fight time. What's a long fight for me – five minutes? ten minutes? 20? Whatever it is, given net burn and total mana pool I can decide if I'm ready or if I need to do some improvements – and quite probably WHAT improvements I need to make.
I want to take a brief moment to talk to the readers who've not read my posts on what stats matter and why. Yes, the most important heal statistic is whether anyone died. But stopping there is like saying the only thing that matters for dps is that the mobs died. "Enough" for where you are may be "not enough" for higher levels. And while trial and error works, figuring out WHAT works and WHY it works and WHAT YOU CAN DO to be better means your learning period is a lot shorter. For healers, the underlying tricks to the trade are anticipation and mana management. What I'm doing here is helping us figure out how to test and improve mana management.
So with all this said, let me recap.
I have found a statistical tool that helps me with mana management, specifically identifying FSR and mana use and regen rates. With this tool, mana pool, and knowledge of (generally) what spells I'm casting in what proportion over time, I can:
- Decide what my personal spirit:mp5 exchange rate is (How much SPI to equal mp5 on gear);
- Know what changes to playstyle actually improve (reduce) my FSR rate (increasing mana regen);
- Have more certain awareness of how long I can last in battle;
- Be able to plan for 'more' healing more effectively – knowing the effect of (and what's needed for) changing the burn rate (speed of the waltz, increased mp5/spirit) and size of my mana pool.
Stats aren't the answer. They're a filtered flashlight – won't show you anything except what you're pointing it at, and even then will miss things that are the wrong color, but it darn well beats flailing in the dark.
Have a flashlight.
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If I were to write a post on this topic, this is what it would look like. Well done.
I'll be looking for that addon tonight. I've often wondered how much time I spend in the 5SR, especially in boss fights. I have a feeling that it's less than than what you've said you do. I think having something to gauge this would not only help to create stat goals but also to allow you to make adjustments to your play. If I'm in the 5SR 95% of the Moroes fight that may be why I'm running so close to oom by its end.


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Celebrating John Lawrence and Robyn Mooney
On October 3rd, Brinkman and Associates celebrated the careers and contributions of our departing OH&S Administrator Robyn Mooney and long-time COO John Lawrence, with a shared retirement party at VanDusen Gardens. John and Robyn joined Brinkman's reforestation operations in the mid-1980s, with John quickly demonstrating his leadership skills and advancing through the ranks to Ontario Regional Manager and across the continent to his long-held position as COO at the New Westminster head office. Over the last 16 years as COO, John stewarded the company through a period of extraordinary growth that spanned the company's diverse divisions. Robyn's work in the past decade both managing the office through her front desk role and supporting the OH&S department in the field made her a vital part of the core team. As Dirk said in his farewell speech, "We all know we would not be here – with all we have accomplished – without your contributions. And for that we thank you." All of us at Brinkman will miss John and Robyn for their warmth and humor and wealth of experience, and wish them well on their next adventures.


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Asian stocks rose Friday following an upbeat employment report in the U.S.
Japan's Nikkei 225
A thinly traded session ahead of the U.S. Independence Day holiday kept price gains in check. More action was seen in the region's currency markets, with the Malaysian ringgit jumping to its highest this year following a strong exports report.
The currency climbed as much as 0.4% to touch 3.1790 against the dollar, its strongest since Nov. 20. It was trading at 3.1850 late in the Asian day.
Data released Thursday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed U.S. employers added 288,000 jobs in June, exceeding the 215,000 economists expected. The unemployment rate also unexpectedly fell to 6.1% in June from 6.3% a month earlier.
The rosy report sent U.S. stocks to another record high for the year, lifting the Dow Jones Industrial Average
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Monday, September 7, 2009
The top climate science advisor to the German government has proposed that everyone on the planet should have a personal CO2 budget and be forced to pay a tax if they exceed it, adding that westerners have already exceeded their allocations and should pay climate reparations to poorer countries.
This is not just another tax being rammed through using the phony pretext of global warming, it's the entrée for complete government tracking and control over your personal life. This is the "inventory" that Nancy Pelosi called for during her visit to China in May.
On May 28, the Associated Press reported that Pelosi told a Chinese student that in order to cut back on CO2 emissions, "Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory."
German climate scientist Joachim Schellnhuber is pushing for the same thing – the nanny state on steroids.
How will a personal CO2 budget be enforced? Every plane ticket you buy, every time you fill up at the station, every mile of every journey you make will be fed into a centralized government database, creating a leviathan matrix system to catalogue every aspect of your personal behavior. Exceed your personal carbon budget and you'll be hit with a hefty fine, with the majority of the proceeds no doubt going straight to the huge international banking interests that own the carbon trading market, mainly N M Rothschild & Sons, as well as people like Maurice Strong and Al Gore.
This CO2 tax will bankroll the very same globalist interests, specifically groups like the Club of Rome, that resolved decades ago to invent hysteria surrounding climate change in order to advance their agenda for global government.
"Schellnhuber is proposing the creation of a CO2 budget for every person on the planet, regardless whether they live in Berlin or Beijing," reports Der Spiegel, a "breathtaking" idea according to Czech physicist Dr. Lubos Motl, who said Schellnhuber's proposal helped him "to understand how crazy political movements such as the Nazis or communists could have so easily taken over a nation that is as sensible as Germany."
Schellnhuber goes further, claiming that westerners have already exceeded their CO2 allocations and will need to pay climate reparations to poorer countries amounting to no less than $142 billion dollars a year, every year.
"Humankind has to limit itself to emit only fixed amount of carbon into the atmosphere until 2050. […] Because the industrialized nations have already exceeded their quotas if you take into account past emissions. […] With the current output you see that Germany, the US and other industrialized nations have either already used up their permissible quota, or will do so within the next few years. […] The industrialized nations are facing CO2 insolvency. This means that they have to notch up their efforts to reduce climate change, otherwise they will use up the CO2 budget actually designated to poorer countries and future generations," he told Der Spiegel.
The proposal mirrors similar measures called for by MP's in Britain, which would force every adult to use a "carbon ration card' when they pay for petrol, airline tickets or household energy."
The next step has also already been floated. Should you become a serial carbon offender, no doubt your thermostat will be forcibly turned down by the government via remote control. Sound too far fetched? According to a January 2008 New York Times report, "State regulators are likely to have the emergency power to control individual thermostats, sending temperatures up or down through a radio-controlled device that will be required in new or substantially modified houses and buildings to manage electricity shortages."
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One highlight of ESPN's spiked LeBron story was the surreal moment of Celtics forward Glen Davis chancing upon the festivities and dismissing the scene. We thought it was because he didn't approve, but his dancing skills may be the true reason.
At one point in the piece, Davis walks by LeBron's party and "looks at the scene up and down several times like a painting in a museum" before continuing on his merry way. Later, LeBron and Lamar Odom engage in a "dance off" to "Teach Me How To Dougie." Now, video has surfaced of Glen Davis dancing to the same very song.
Does Davis take too much pride in his dancing? Is "Teach Me How To Dougie" the "Don't Stop Believin'" of Tao? Did Davis know that song was coming up and that's the real reason he decided to split? I am going to go out on a limb and say unequivocally: yes.
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Asthma medicines often not prescribed as national guidelines recommend
More than a decade after national guidelines were issued for asthma treatment, some patients still don't receive prescriptions for the inhalers that experts say offer the safest and most effective long-term control of the disease, a new study suggests.
Physicians' prescribing practices based on expert recommendations improved between 1998 and 2002 overall. But the study showed the use of the medications that are considered most effective in controlling the condition began to decline after 2003, leading researchers to suspect doctors might be too cautious in their prescribing practices.
Treatment disparities based on age and race were also evident. The elderly and minorities tended to be less likely to be prescribed the long-acting controller medications called for in the guidelines, according to Ohio State University research examining prescribing trends over a seven-year period.
Patients also were still being prescribed short-term symptom relief medications that "are so outdated, they hardly even deserve to be prescribed anymore," said senior study author Rajesh Balkrishnan, the Merrell Dow professor of pharmacy at Ohio State. "The guidelines stress that patients who are asthmatic need to be on some type of controller medications. Just using symptomatic relief medications is not enough."
The guidelines, issued by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) in 1997, recommend using long-term controller medications for patients with persistent asthma and short-term reliever medications for acute symptoms only.
Physician training could affect prescribing practices, Balkrishnan said. Only a third of the patients in the survey were treated by lung or allergy specialists. That suggests most asthma patients are treated by generalists who might need to be further educated about asthma and other specialty medical conditions to prescribe the most effective treatments.
"Just putting out these guidelines may not be enough. I think physicians need to be educated about the importance of properly medicating asthma patients, and patients need to be educated about the treatment alternatives available to them," Balkrishnan said. "The fact that readily available medicines to control asthmatic symptoms are still being underused in spite of the existence of national guidelines is of concern."
The research is published in the current issue of the journal Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.
Balkrishnan and colleagues examined data from more than 800 million asthma-related visits to doctors' offices between 1998 and 2004 taken from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, which tracks Americans' annual outpatient medical visits.
More than 22 million people in the United States have asthma, including 6.5 million children, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Asthma is a chronic disease that causes soreness and swelling in the airways carrying air into and out of the lungs. Common symptoms are wheezing, coughing, chest tightness and trouble breathing. An estimated 4,000 people die of asthma attacks each year.
The national guidelines are called the Expert Panel 2 Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma, or EPR-2 guidelines. In addition to recommending the use of long-term controller medications, they emphasize that environmental controls to relieve symptoms and patient education should supplement medication therapy for asthma patients. EPR-3 guidelines were issued in 2007 with similar, but updated, recommendations.
The 1997 EPR-2 guidelines specified that anti-inflammatory medications, such as inhaled corticosteroids (which reduce inflammation and affect the immune system), leukotriene modifiers (which target inflammation in the airway linings) and mast cell stabilizers (which fight effects of allergens), should be doctors' first choices to treat underlying chronic inflammatory processes in asthma.
Inhaled corticosteroids are considered the most effective long-term asthma control for all age groups. Reliever medications that should be used for only acute symptoms include short-acting beta-agonists that relax muscles in the airways, anticholinergic agents that inhibit nerve impulses, and systemic corticosteroids.
The study looked at trends and comparisons among different kinds of patients and different kinds of physicians. The researchers could not accurately estimate the number of patients who received specific types of medications because they had information for just one visit per patient, rather than entire prescribing histories for patients, based on the survey nature of the data.
The trend analysis showed that asthma patients overall had 3.3 times higher odds of being prescribed controller medications in 2002 than did asthma patients visiting doctors in 1998. But over the course of the time period analyzed, patients over age 65 had 54 percent lower odds of receiving controller medication compared with patients between the ages of 35 and 64. And patients listed in the "other" race category in the survey, potentially patients of Asian or Hispanic background, were only 40 percent as likely to receive controller medications as were white patients. Such disparities were not evident when prescriptions for African-American and white asthma patients were compared.
Changes in the treatment landscape could be a complicating factor in physicians' ability to stay up to date on preferred treatments, the researchers noted. During the time period analyzed, a new kind of controller medication – a long-acting beta agonist – was federally approved for asthma treatment. Within just a few years, however, this agent came under scrutiny because of its apparent cardiovascular risks to some patients after long-term use.
Balkrishnan noted that costs should not have a significant influence on which medication is prescribed, because even the most expensive of the commonly prescribed controller medications are covered by private and public insurance, such as Medicare and Medicaid. Of the patients in the study, 89 percent were covered by some type of insurance.
Because there is no known prevention or cure of the disease, Balkrishnan said, the principal concern is that the treatment that many asthma patients receive doesn't match what national experts recommend to keep the condition under control.
"There has been no systematic attempt made to actually ensure that these guidelines are adhered to," he said. "Concerted education efforts are needed because these guidelines don't seem to be influencing physician behavior as a whole in the United States."
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Consider a two tape universal Turing machine with a one-way-infinite, read-only program tape with a head that can only move right, as well as a work tape. The work tape is initialized to all zeros and the program tape is initialized randomly, with each cell being filled from a uniform distribution over the possible symbols. What are the possibilities for the probability that the head on the program tape will move infinitely far to the right in the limit?
Obviously, this will depend on the specifics of the Turing machine, but it must always be in the range $[0,1-\Omega)$, where $\Omega$ is Chaitin's constant for the TM. Since this TM is universal, $\Omega$ must be in the range $(0,1)$, so the probability must always be in $[0,1)$. Is this entire range, or at least a set dense in this range and including zero, possible?


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Popes, meteors and what we thought we knew
I knew nothing, and so did you.
I knew popes don't quit. I knew meteors stay in the sky. I knew cruise ships are so gargantuan and stable, nothing can possibly go wrong.
There was evidence, solid evidence, for all of this. No pope had said "I'm outta here" since the 1400s. Meteors fly around the heavens all the time and hardly ever crash to Earth. As for the cruise ships -- well, we hear from time to time about the occasional unpleasantness. But all you had to do was take a ride on one of those floating metroplexes. You could barely even tell you were out at sea.
So what is going on now? Don't we know anything at all?
Out of the blue, Pope Benedict decided he'd had enough poping. A meteorite slammed into central Russia, injuring 1,100 very surprised central Russians. And the Carnival Triumph turned out to be neither of those. The ship was more like a floating Port-O-Let.
It doesn't stop there, of course. It never does. Expectations and assumptions mean nothing anymore. Who knows? The weathercaster might turn out to be right.
At least we know that Marco Rubio is the future of the Republican Party. We can drink to that. Or he can. We know that Oscar Pistorius, South African "Blade Runner" para-athlete and now accused girlfriend-killer, was a true inspiration at the 2012 Olympics -- was. And just as I was contemplating that -- whoosh! -- a 150-foot asteroid brushed by Earth.
That doesn't happen, right? Never that I recall. Just like hurricanes don't hit Long Island and last week the winter was pretty much done.
1. Cameras need film.
2. First-class costs just a little more.
3. The polls are wrong.
4. Beyonce sang the National Anthem.
5. The Senate is the greatest deliberative body on earth.
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What kind of character would let me see the most unusual stuff that can only be found in Eberron?


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Gilbert Gottfried is apparently not quite ready to move on from his recent comedy disaster.
The annoyingly voiced, irreverent comic ignited controversy this month after tweeting a couple tasteless jokes mocking the turmoil in Japan ("Japan is really advanced. They don't go to the beach. The beach comes to them."). He promptly lost his gig as Aflac's grating spokesduck, and offered what appeared to be a sincere apology.
But the mea culpa wasn't the end. In a bold move, Gottfried posted a video on Funny or Die Sunday in which he lampoons himself – and our own sensitivities – as he looks, in his decidedly unsubtle fashion, at the comedy of tragedy.
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In the short, called "Too Soon Gilbert Gottfried" (note the lack of question mark in the title), the comic makes fun of disasters through history, riffing on the extinction of the dinosaurs, the fall of the Roman Empire, the Plague, the sinking of the Titanic and the Hindenburg explosion, among other events. Gottfried appears in historically appropriate dress as he fires off one-liners like "Lincoln was a great thinker – I wonder what the last thing to go through his head was?"
That some of the punch lines are as old as the tragedies themselves might be part of the point – time and timing, after all, are key to comedy. Still, the cringe factor grows as Gottfried edges up the timeline, joking about the Kennedy assassination, the Challenger disaster and the death of Princess Diana. He doesn't dare tackle 9/11, thankfully.
Gottfried's video comes amid reports that German television executives plan to scrub episodes of "The Simpsons" of any references to woe at Mr. Burns' nuclear plant, raising some fascinating questions about the role of comedy.
Will it ever be possible to watch to Homer Simpson screwing up at work again without thinking of the ongoing disaster in Japan, or our own potential vulnerability? Will the show, which debuted as a series three years after Chernobyl and a decade after Three Mile Island, continue to be our comical pop cultural reference point to nuclear energy, serving as a means of laughing away fear that's become more real in recent days?
Gallows humor can be a way of dealing with things that seem to be out of our control. But as Gottfried learned, jokes that might never work, even with the distance of time, move incredibly quickly – and publicly – in the world of the Web.
Check out Gottfried's own online rebuttal to himself and his question of sorts to us in the (not-quite NSFW) video below and judge for yourself whether it's too soon laugh at his latest antics:
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ZCCM-IH asks Lusaka high court to hear fraud case
by Tebuho Sakala
11th May 2017
ZCCM-IH Plc has opposed submissions by First Quantum Minerals directors that the Lusaka High Court dismisses its fraud case against the mining giant for irregularity.
In the matter, ZCCM-IH sued First Quantum Minerals Limited, its chairman and chief executive officer Philip Pascall, directors Arthur Pascall, Clive Newall, Martin Rowley and Kansanshi Mining Plc for fraud of over US $2.3 billion.
ZCCM-IH which holds the countryâs stake in foreign-owned privatised mines, sued FQM in the Lusaka High Court in November last year and simultaneously filed a Notice of Arbitration in London claiming the Vancouver-based company cheated Zambia of US$2.3 billion.
ZCCM-IH accused FQM of defrauding it by using money from its Kansanshi Mining Plc as cheap financing for its other operations without the state investment companyâs consent.
But FQM wanted the High Court to dismiss the claims by ZCCM-IH as they were âinflammatory, vexatious and untrueâ and that the loans were at fair market rate.
FQM also argued that ZCCM-IH chief executive Pius Kasolo could not sue because by November 2016, the ZCCM- IH board which could have given consent had been dissolved and that the action was statute barred.
Lusaka High Court judge Winnie Mwenda on Tuesday adjourned the case to June 1 for hearing of various applications.
ZCCM-IH has maintained that the case against FQM and its directors was genuine and should stand.
In an affidavit, ZCCM-IH opposed the applications by Newall, Pascall and Rowley that the action be set aside for irregularities because it was statute barred.ZCCM-IH general counsel Yadika Mkandawire submitted that had FQM group and its directors concealed the use of the money from Kansanshi Mining Plc. Mkandawire submitted that ZCCM-IH only discovered about the alleged fraud in 2015 which prompted the legal action.
In the absence of further information from the defendants, I am unable to state precisely what use was made of the money and what benefit accrued to the First Quantum Group by reason of its access to such monies,
Mkandawire said.
She opined that it was only in the affidavits in support of the application to set aside the matter that FQM Group and its directors revealed that part of the money from Kansanshi Mining Plc was used in part by the FQM Finance who has been sued as second defendant.
Mkandawire stated that it was wrong for Philip Pascall and Newall to claim as far back as 2007, ZCCM-IH was aware of the transfer of Kansanshi Mining Plc profits to FQM Finance.
âThey were not. Specifically, it was not known that the FQM Group was using the monies to develop its own business interests to the prejudice of the seventh defendant and the plaintiff,â Mkandawire added. âThe criminal actions of the defendants are pleaded as an essential ingredient of the tort of conspiracy to cause injury or damage by unlawful means, the unlawfulness being the contravention of the Penal Code of Zambia among other matters.â
He explained that the FQM directors caused money to be remitted from Kansanshi Mining Plc to FQM Finance from 2007 to 2014. She also stated that FQM directors repeatedly told the ZCCM-IH both orally and in writing that Kansanshi Mining Plc money was placed in a deposit account with FQM Finance and would be available to meet the working capital for Kansanshi Mining Plc.
Mkandawire stated that FQM Group also told ZCCM-IH that it was because the money was available for immediate use by Kansanshi Mining Plc at an interest charge at the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR).
That while that was the declared use and the declared benefit accruing by such use of the seventh defendantâs money [Kansanshi Mining Plc], in fact the monies were diverted from the deposit account for the benefit of the FQM Group of Companies of which the majority shareholder is a member and to which the third [Philip Pascal] and fifth defendants [Newall] are inextricably,
she submitted.
Mkandawire added that at no time was ZCCM-IH informed that Kansanshi Mining Plc money was being applied to and for the betterment of the FQM Group.
And Mkandawire also submitted that in December 2014, the plaintiff became aware of a demand served on December 7, 2016 by the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) for payment of penalties in the sum of US $1. 155 million for non-compliance with the income tax Act 1996 and a further tax demand of US $182, 000 to be levied on Kansanshi Mining Plc on the basis that the advances were not made at armâs length.
Meanwhile, when the matter came up for hearing on Tuesday, lawyers for ZCCM-IH led by Bonaventure Mutale submitted that the plaintiff was concerned by the false story that appeared in the Daily Nation of April 10 under the heading, âZCCM-IH sues FQM for US$1.8 billionâ.
He said the newspaper reported that Pascall appeared in court in person and made submissions during the April 4 hearing when he never did.
âThe story therefore is not only false but is calculated at misleading the nation as to the developments in this case,â Mutale said.
He added that the plaintiff could have opted to have Daily Nation censored by way of contempt proceedings but it was not desirous of doing so as those proceedings would only delay an expeditious conclusion of the case.
And judge Mwenda said she had heard the concerns by ZCCM-IH lawyers and that they would be addressed by the court.


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It wasn't planned. Originally, when I was thinking about the roadtrip, I envisioned a rolling herf. A sedan with a perpetual haze and rich smell of tobacco permanently infused into the vehicle's upholstery. Well, that's not quite the way things worked out.
It may have been our lack of luck in finding decent tobacconists in our travels. (Google maps, it seems, is unable to distinguish between convenience stores and cigar shops.) Or it could be that my co-pilot, Mr. "Monkey Poo" Harris didn't like to smoke while he was driving. Either way, the air was a lot less hazy in that cabin than I expected. That isn't to say we didn't smoke some good cigars. We definitely did. But what stole the show was the brew pubs and their small scale microbrews.
It started out by accident. We pulled over in Hood River, OR to stop for lunch, and noticed a sign for the Full Sail Brewing Company and decided to stop in to have some good pub food and a beer. Once we were in there, we decided, what the heck, why not do a sampler? And then it happened again in Salt Lake City, UT. After that it became a mission. And then after a few more, we started keeping score. By the end of the trip, we had done samplers at seven different brewpubs in seven different states, and had ranked them from best to worst after several lengthy discussions.
So here's where we went, what we drank and what we thought of it, beginning with the pub we liked the least, and working up to our favorite. Enjoy!
#7 Sqatters Pub Brewery
Salt Lake City, UT
In spite of the great atmosphere and funny drink names ("Poligamy Porter") the brews just didn't cut the mustard. But it's not entirely their fault, unless you blame them for opening up shop in a city (or state?) that doesn't allow draught beer to have a higher alcohol content than 3.2%. So as you might expect, these initially promising beers had a very watery, unsatisfying finish. The beers we had here quickly became a yardstick by which we compared other breweries offerings.
#6 5 Seasons Brewing
Atlanta, GA
It pains me that a local Atlanta brewpub ranked so low in our esteem. Between the ill-prepared, overpriced food (Four bucks for a small plate of cold edamame? C'mon! And those crutons were very stale!), poor service (our waiter was clearly hating his job) and uninspired beer, we had no choice to put this almost at the end of the list. Almost the end. The beer here, while nothing to get excited about, at least it wasn't like drinking colored water. There is hope for this place, the two beers they were out of when we visited may be fantastic. And maybe that waiter will wake up and realize his calling isn't food service.
#5 Bluegrass Brewing Company
Louisville, KY
The funny thing about this brew pub is that the best beers they make weren't available in the sampler! We had several great ones at an Irish pub next door, including a tasty stout that didn't appear on the menu and isn't listed on the website. Overall, these beers were kind of hit and miss. Aside from the tasty Bourbon Barrel Smoked Porter and the stout with the long name I've forgotten, the most memorable was the Dort which tasted very much like bananas. Very much. Mr. "Monkey Poo" Harris also was very keen on the Drunkelweizen.
#4 Granite City Brewery
Sioux Falls,
This pub was another complete surprise. By the time we rolled into Sioux Falls, we were dead tired, and would have settled for any place to get a burger before hitting the sack. We walked in, and hot damn, it was a brewery. It was around this time that we realized that our calling on this trip was to sample and review as many beers as possible.
We were a little conflicted about putting this on the list, though. It wasn't that the beer wasn't good. In fact, it was all very tasty. The thing is that the establishment isn't a pure microbrewery. It's part of a chain. And in an effort to maintain a consistent quality in their beers, their wort/unfinished-pre-beer is shipped in, and the final stages of the process takes place locally. Mr. Monkey Poo is a bit of a purist, but I'm a bit of a slacker. And since I'm the one writing the blog, I'm gonna let 'em slide on this technicality. They were very nice (the manager came out and talked with us at length about the beer and the business) and the beer was good. That's enough for me.
I'd say more about the beers specifically, but I can't seem to get to their beer list on the website! I can say that I don't recall disliking a single one.
#3 Full Sail Brewing Company
Hood River, OR
I'm probably a bit biased, as an Oregon native from Portland, but there's plenty of Portland beer available, so there's no need to artificially inflate the ratings of an single Oregon beer. As with Granite City's brews, the entire Full Sail line was very enjoyable, but there was clearly a star of the show. Since I've been away, a beer called Session seems to have become a very, very popular brew in the area. And I can see why. I tasted it and was immediately in love. Light, flavorful, crisp and refreshing. An excellent summer beer. I liked it so much, I bought a case of the little grenade-shaped bottles it comes in and drove it all the way out to Atlanta. And that's saying something. There were only three beers I brought back with me, and the other two were Golden Valley's Red Thistle Ale and New Belgium's Fat Tire. That's very good company to be in. (To be fair, Bridgeport is available out here, otherwise I would have brought that out here too. Though the porter isn't, and I couldn't find any… 😦 )
Funny thing about the "grenade" shape. One of those babies went off between Kentucky and Tennessee! My trunk still smells like beer!
#2 Yazoo Brewing Company
Nashville, TN
This taster almost didn't happen. When Google maps lead us to an old warehouse with no signage in a sketchy part of Nashville (complete with bridges and rough looking vagrants hanging out under those bridges), we nearly left. When we walked in and there was no seating, we nearly left. When we discovered that they didn't sell food, we nearly left. Fortunately, less sober heads prevailed and we worked out way up to the bar and snagged a table at the same time.
As you can probably tell from the picture above, the "samplers" we ordered were less like samples and more like a round of drinks for a sales department lunch. Immediately we had a warm fuzzy for the place, and it wasn't too long before warm and fuzzy was all we had going on.
It's hard to say a beer stood out here, they were all excellent. I know I really enjoyed their "Hop Project" super-duper experimental IPA (I forget the exact name), as well as the ESB and the porter. Heck, I just love that they make a porter. I don't see a lot of those anymore, and it's a tasty beer.
So there's good news and bad news about this place. The bad news is that it looks like you can only get their beer in Tennessee. The good news (for me that is), is that it's close enough for me that I'd consider a quick weekend trip up there to pick up a Growler or two.
If you happen to be passing through the area, don't miss this gem!
#1 CooperSmith's Pub & Brewing
Fort Collins, CO
As soon as I saw they had chili beer on menu, I knew I'd found a special place. That's right, chili beer. As in hot chilis. I know that probably sounds weird, but believe me it's good. It's good enough that it's on their menu year round! It's more of a distinct jalapeño flavor in the aftertaste than a noticeable flavor during the drink. Think of it like drinking alcoholic nachos. No, on second thought, don't. Oh yeah, and I forgot about the Cherry ale!
As was the case with Yazoo, the sampler came out looking like the drink order for a group of Irish salesmen. (Kiss me, I'm Irish!) To be honest, I don't think any of us remember a lot about this evening, other than loving the beer, and the staggeringly large list of available brews. According to the website, there are 14 different beers on tap; several of those being variations on the Pale Ale. That's what I'm talkin' about! I really wish more brewpubs did that. Why have one Pale Ale, when you can have three?
In addition to having one of the largest lists of beers we saw the whole trip, it had a great atmosphere and very accomodating staff. We sat al fresco even though the seating area was closed, drinking our many beers, watching college-aged skateboarders falling down stairways and tripping over their baggy crack-pants in the surrounding pedestrian mall. Good times. And to think we probably would never have gone there if New Belgium had been open when we rolled into town!
And with that we're done. I'll leave you the way my esteemed friend "Monkey Poo" Harris left us most evenings. Abruptly out cold. Cheers!
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